(September 1, 2017 at 5:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 1, 2017 at 5:14 pm)Alex K Wrote: I never gave my now wife a compliment as a pickup line, poor woman. First thing I said to her was "wanna go get some coffee?". Sounds like a bad cliché, but we were both studying for physics finals and I was actually headed to the cafeteria next door. So sometimes coffee is really just coffee. I'm just saying that compliments are not the only thing to break the ice. It's not obvious that flattery is the way to go at all to find someone you like and vice versa.
I'd rather be plain-spoken than ingratiating.
Yes! Because who do you want in a partner in the end (assuming that you're not working on picking up someone for a quick superficial fling), someone who first and foremost notices you because of some nice (real or pretend) feature of yours, or someone interesting you can talk to like a normal person.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
