Things not to do when you want to sucessfully pick up men:
If you can not do these things, then you’ll probably pull.
Here’s an interesting article for you all:
“The number one thing that correlates with a region’s high-tech success is the concentration of gay people living there.”
[E-Village People from Washingtonpost.com via Metafilter]
Excerpts from a Subterranean Diary:
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Nick H. recently. We went out boozing on Friday night where I (kind of) pulled this air steward bloke, and then I spoke to him on the phone a lot over the weekend about the various things he’d got up to on Saturday night. And then we went out last night to see Bring It On (which was a bloody good film). I might be meeting him after the blogmeet on Friday as well to do the Popstarz experience up in King’s Cross.
My flatmates leave for holiday tomorrow, which leaves me with the flat to myself for a full five or six days. It’s going to be both lovely and slightly disturbing, as I’m in a bit of an isolationist space at the moment. On the one hand I will be able to relax and not have to deal with anyone at all, but on the other hand without someone to force me to talk to people, it is entirely possible that I’ll curl up in my room and not talk to anyone outside work at all. This does not seem to me to be an ideal situation.
Ridiculous quote of the day:
“Hello! You might be eligible to be featured in amiHOTorNOT’s newsletter of the hottest men and women! If you are interested in being featured, please do the following…”
Of course this might have something to do with my personal rating suddenly becoming 9.9 (after a considerable period at a respectable 5), which is so ridiculously improbable (unless there’s some HEAVY weighting going on behind the scenes) that I can only assume that they’ve buggered up their whole site to an absurd degree. Nevertheless, I now know the vague sense of embarrassment that people who really are godly in the sex appeal department must deal with every day…