Lookout ladies!

Wow, what a day. I spent the whole day wandering around Prague thinking I might eventually find the train station, only to find out that the 2 maps that I had were not to proportion at all (the transit one doesn't even have the river path on it correctly) and most of the roads are not on the maps. This kinda makes things hard but I did manage to find my favourite intersection. I sat and read at it for a while (in the round-about area) and then had coffee at a place at one of the 5 parts of the intersection, I also had a chocolate croissant. Mmmmm. Thank you Beth for introducing those to me.

I still haven't managed to get to the meat of the post. So here we go. All day I've kind been searching for places Ravi, Josh and I were at last time I was here so I can kinda get my bearings but I couldn't seem to find any. Then I found one, or two but they were the big sites and those are really hard to miss so I kept looking. Around supper time I found this place that I distinctly remember we felt lost at, so I ate there. I sat down by these 3 guys, one of them clearly speaking a dialect of north american english I like to call "normal", possibly "plain" english. Right off the bat I notice that the one dude (normal guy lets call him, Norm for short) is standing up and kinda giving these other 2 dudes a speach. First I thought they may have been getting ready for a business meeting, maybe they had to give a presentation for a class they were taking or something but no, in fact the other two dudes must have been paying this guy to teach them how to be "players."

Now, I'm going to skip ahead here to prove Norms "playerness" so you believe me. At one point he said, and I roughly quote, "about a year and a half ago I looked at the list of girls phone numbers I'd gotten, did that math and realized I'd only slept with about 1 in 30 of them. Now, after using the techniques I'm teching you, I'm at about 1 in 2 1/2. I go out 4 nights a week, get at least 1 number a night so I'm pretty much guaranteed every weekend." Norm, you're a stand up guy, thanks for being you. Oooh, he also mentioned that any , I think he called it "play", you make in the afternoon has a far higher chance of leading to booty than one in the evening.

I walked in well into the talk and it seems they'd been doing this for a couple of days already so this is only a small amount of what must be the "bastards handbook" but I'd like to share.

When I walked in they were just covering what you need to be like when you're talking to a girl you've just approached. The answer is? High energy, especially when you're in a club/high energy type area. If you're in a pub or somewhere else where the energy is lower, you have lower energy also, but it must be above the average of the place. The idea is to get her energy going also. Energy is kinda loosely used here. Oh man, I'm forgetting so much of what this dude said which may or may not be fortunate for me (cough). Now at this point you're supposed to be playing games with her, this must have been covered earlier because that's all that was really said. He said something about trying to make her feel like it was her fault that you were talking to her. "Why you gotta be so hot tonight? I just wanna throw you over my shoulder and take you home you're so hot", a lot of that kinda talk, making her feel like this is her problem.

Then he covered kissing, meaning how to initiate it, I'm going to skip that, I can't share all my secrets :). Then he wrote down some graphs which were energy level and you're chances of getting a second date / getting laid. He used these two interchangeably. Once you have the girl excited and into you, "you're building her interest in you up" I think he said, you have to transition from a physical excitement to an emotional one or things will go like "this" then he drew the graphs, I couldn't see them but we can assume the graph looked like something limp (I'm imagining the opposite of the picture jacky treehorn drew in the big labowski). She'll give you a sign that she's interested, tilt her head and look up at you, maybe touch you in a certain way, hrm, there was one other thing, that's when you change gears and try and make the emotional connection. "You want to make her feel like she's winning you" were Norms words. In order to start this off you need to change you're tone, lower energy, calmer, more laid back I guess. Then you go from skimming over topics to getting deeper into some to make it feel like you're getting to know each other more personally. Getting her to tell you about something that you're interested is one way to get her to feel like she's winning you, fitting into you're puzzle. "I really enjoy impressionist art, do you have any favourite artists?" (That was close to what he said but not quite there), he really said he didn't like doing it that way though. "I was recently in Berlin and I really connected with the city, I can't explain it, have you ever felt that way?" He had a couple other examples. Getting her to dish something really deep to herself seemed to be important and when he was talking he took this with all seriousness, this was something sacred to him that you don't joke about.

He also covered the "close". Give a complement and then just pop a question was generally the way it went. His complements kinda sucked though and were mostly about how "hot" the girl was but he did pull out a couple of good ones which, of course, I managed to forget. The close was actually discussed before the switching to the emotional part so I kinda forget most of it. The two guys listening wont' though because they had notebooks and were feverishly writing. Norm also mentioned that after he figured these things out he wrote in depth articles on some website, I thought it was RMS web but I looked that up and it's wrong, then, during my search I discovered that this is a pretty hot topic on the web, who knew?

There was also a question and answer period, I didn't catch the question but the answer went something like,

You have to treat it like the prisoners dilemma he said, if she is into you, you're attitude must be "she's into me" and if she's not into you, you're attitude must be "she's into me" because the only way you win is if she's into you, so you have to act that way. I was sorta surprised he pulled out the prisoners dilemma for this one, and he is right here, the prisoners dilemma does have the prisoner doing the same thing no matter what the situation, you're chances of winner are better that way.

SO that's about it. I just couldn't get over this guy and needed to laugh, and then write about it so here we are.


Also, about the PDA post, I meant to mention that we should start a new extreme sport: Extreme PDA. Let's make a new show on that extreme sports channel. Who's with me?

mark.