| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 6:25:01 PM | I never actually asked someone how one of these dating sites worked. It seemed pretty self explanatory. You post a picture. Write some dribble that might impress someone but, doesn't even come close to partially explaining who you are. Then you ask someone who seems intresting some random thing.... you being a complete stranger and all, this works really well!
I think alot of men depend on catchy opening lines. For me personally I relize to find quality I have to produce quantity. As in if I ask 10 girls out only 1 is going to say yes. If I read what all the girls wrote "I would go insane". Don't get me wrong I read, and read, and read. But, at some point, I give up and just use a plain catchy line.
Amazingly, no matter how much reading I do, no matter how personalized my first email is most of those girls ignore me????
However, if I use this stupid (I personally find it offensive) pick up line I get a 90% return response.
I get why all these poor, desperate, and lonely women are on here. My question is how is a poor, desperate and lonely girl that's actually CUTE... like you end up on here?
If some woman could please explain how this line does something for you I'd be curious to hear it? | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 7:18:20 PM | | Lets see, from my experience most women don't know what they want. They go for the guy that can make them laugh, is assertive to the point of being to obnoxious most other guys looking on. The women on here may say they are looking for substance but that is just not the case, a guy on here has much better chances acting like a complete dumb ass and being funny. I changed my profile after have a sincere profile up, all of sudden I get much better responses. | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 7:29:49 PM | Although I get the cuteness and intent of your line, I don't think I would like it (how is a poor, desperate and lonely girl that's actually CUTE... like you end up on here?) as it implies that online sites attract only the homely gals. In reality - it's a godsend to all the shy gals who aren't into the night life scene. Or the career gals who just don't have the wherewithal to invest more hours into finding Mr. Right. I guess the site just cuts through all those awkward first dates where you are just trying to find a common ground.
In fact, why don't you use a line that drew you to the person in the first place? Was it appearance, or did you read the profile and come across a common bond? That's always an icebreaker... "I read that you love Judge Judy - gee so do I. There's nothing like trailer trash talk to get the mind humming..." Y'know?
Come to think of it - that's why you get responses - because gals like me defend their reasons to use online. Good going! | |
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Posted: 5/20/2007 7:35:25 PM | I fall for the sappy profiles.....everytime.....
However, I'm learning the sappy profile are typically a ruse to get into my pants....
Laughter is a good quality, it helps when you're getting to know someone. Unfortunately the guy saying he wants to meet his soulmate.....puts alot of pressure on you......the guy using the funny approach, appears more lighthearted and someone you don't mind meeting, because there's less pressure if it doesn't work out.
But deep down I want the sappy guy, I just want to ease into it.
But after looking at your picture...I'm all for saving the horse and riding the cowboy  | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 7:37:22 PM | Listen.... women want first and foremost a physical chemistry. If that does not exist... in most instances it either never will, or you will have to somehow build it up over time, if the opportunities exist to do thus (and they don't always). Sure, women want to have fun and laugh... we all do, but you have to show some leg to get in the door (usually).
This is neither a good nor a bad thing, it simply is the way it is and nothing short of an aberration will change that.
If being funny was all it was really about... well, in all honesty, I would have much better luck than I've been having.
I can literally be in any environment, whether it be public or private and get people laughing with my balls to the walls shenanigans. So, either I am hideously deformed (man boobies) or I've got the personality of a dry lumpy dump... with like... I don't know... a piece of corn in it or something.
You can make someone laugh all day long, but there is always more to attraction than simply humor. You have to have other qualities that make a woman desire you...
the giggleparts - Late last night I found the meaning of life... it was my cat sitting on my face. | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 7:41:42 PM | Good questions.Im on here cause I dont pick up men when Im out and they dont hit on me even if they are interested. Just another venue for meeting people tho it does get boring at times.Except for the forums.
Its a good way to get to know people in the comfort of my own home before attemping to meet them in person. | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/20/2007 7:49:43 PM | Read, From a fellow man's POV, I'm glad that you've figured this whole on-line befriending and dating thing out for me. I've tried ...w/some interesting success on other pay-for personals sites, but this is far more socially appealing to me.
Do you like to fish? I didn't till I found this site ...and it's not due to my not having to deal w/ worms or the fishy smell (Let's not go there, OK?), but because I believe that some women actually like "catchy lines". After all, who the hell wants to grow old w/ a 'stick in the mud' thinker when wit and humor have their way of invigorating our perspectives ...and sometimes our souls. | |
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Posted: 5/20/2007 8:36:58 PM | Lonestar, I here what your saying.
My first two relationships off this site were with older women. They went straight from the hellos to the "Goodnight", if you know what I mean. I was with those women for a few months and realized there wasn't the substance I needed. I ended it the right way and as quickly as possible to save their feelings. I think, I'm still friends with them???
I eventually met a good girl. I realized that things didn't work out when I took a girl home on the first date. I wanted substance with this girl and well I put off sleeping with her. I actually gave my cowboy hat to her and promised I'd come get it She still talked to me afterward but, no more dates.... Funny, she still has my cowboy hat, maybe I should go get it? | |
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Posted: 5/21/2007 6:09:00 AM | This one I used with moderate success.
"I was looking through all these profiles here on (INSERT SITE), thinking to myself look at all the poor, desperate, lonely women... and then I saw yours and
thought to myself "Hey, here's a poor, desperate, lonely woman that's actually CUTE..."
so I thought I'd write and see if you're as interesting on the inside as you are in this picture... ;)" | |
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Posted: 5/21/2007 2:52:17 PM | You mention 90% response but you don't mention what type of response, lol
Catchy lines are great if they're half way believable, I get some that are quite funny and we both know it's bull, but cute.
But I don't think poor, lonely, desperate but cute would send me in paroxysms of joy, more the opposite. | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/21/2007 3:56:46 PM | Any woman that falls for that dumb assed stupid line deserves you---in all your glory!
If you're taking advantage of women you discover are vulnerable or not savvy enough to determine you're not well intentioned then you're a bigger jackarse than you appear in this post. Maybe that's an ego stroke for you or perhaps you lack a conscience but whatever drives this sort of behavior certainly is a curiosity.
If a woman ignores any message you send that would tell a normal well adjusted man she's not interested. If she replies in response to an insult or some sort of baiting you've done that's hardly success as measured by most people. I'm sure people like yourself are why the "delete" button was initially created.
I think you're lacking in the quality you supposedly seek but are full up on the quantity of BS you sling. | |
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Posted: 5/21/2007 5:36:44 PM | JWA, I can teach you to read if you need help. 
I think my exact sentiment was the line was stupid. I really didn't use it all that often except in trying to figure out a way to go about this that works for me. Isn't that what we are all trying to do. I mean find something that works?
Does anyone here really feel that a paragraph of two is a clear indication of who you are? Well, I'm sorry if you are that shallow, but, I like to think I'm a fairly deep person. Therefore, I depend on the intial email to make it clear what my intentions as portrayed by my profile are. | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/21/2007 9:50:42 PM | What about trying a catchy subject line and combine that with a paragraph or two about what you saw on their profile?
And by a catchy subject line I don't mean something like "Al Gore hates you because you are a big cause of global warming because yer so damn hawt!"
Don't ask me for a catchy line, if I had one, I wouldn't know what to do with it anyways...
Cheers! | |
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| Catchy lines/ice breakers/ dating websites?
Posted: 5/21/2007 10:34:17 PM |
I get why all these poor, desperate, and lonely women are on here. My question is how is a poor, desperate and lonely girl that's actually CUTE... like you end up on here?
Ummm...why are you here? I'm sorry, but if your messages come across as arrogantly as your posts have I'm not surprised you don't get a great response. There are a myriad of reasons to being here--as someone said, unsociable work hours, shyness, not enjoying meeting drunks in bars and pubs, not wanting to use church as a matchmaking service...take your pick. To call them poor, desperate and lonely is extremely insulting.
To the topic at hand...someone who can string a few words together without using text speak is off to a good start. They have to be able to say something nice...something that gets your attention. When we put messages out to people it's a gamble--we don't know what they like and we don't know how they're going to respond--you can only gauge it by their profile and hope for the best. I have some days a really funny line gets me and others when something more serious does...many variables unfortunately. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2007 5:20:53 PM |
Ummm...why are you here? I'm sorry, but if your messages come across as arrogantly as your posts have I'm not surprised you don't get a great response. There are a myriad of reasons to being here--as someone said, unsociable work hours, shyness, not enjoying meeting drunks in bars and pubs, not wanting to use church as a matchmaking service...take your pick. To call them poor, desperate and lonely is extremely insulting.
To the topic at hand...someone who can string a few words together without using text speak is off to a good start. They have to be able to say something nice...something that gets your attention. When we put messages out to people it's a gamble--we don't know what they like and we don't know how they're going to respond--you can only gauge it by their profile and hope for the best. I have some days a really funny line gets me and others when something more serious does...many variables unfortunately.
To clarify first and foremost. That is not my pick up line! I got it from an email sent by an author of a set of dvds who advertises on this very site. I tested it and unfortunately, it works :(
As far as me being arrogant.... maybe? I've never really thought about it.
But, I will!
dictionary.com (via American Heritage Dictionary) defines arrogance as having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
Well, I am a self confidentant man, I may at times be overbearing (comes with the USMC I think???). If my threads come off that way I'm sorry. I tend to be very direct and emotionally unattached. Hence the reason my profiles reads "I only have two types of responses comical and logical".
I hope you are enjoying this thread though. I worked hard to come up with it! As Eminem would say "we need a little controversy". | |
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