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Is this good or bad advice?

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  • VaBeachDawgVaBeachDawg Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Bad

    @Acrum21 said:
    Lets get the opinion of our in house lady dawgs on this. But I'd say that's kinda creepy. Doesn't seem very organic.

    This feels like a good game plan if you are trying to score right away with a very impressionable young lady. Anything even remotely serious will see through this fairly quickly.

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,246 mod
    Good

    Wait I voted before I realized this was for a first date. This reads like a manual for socially awkward individuals

  • FirePlugDawgFirePlugDawg Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited January 2019
    Bad

    "...ask her if she's ever seen the State House at night. Don't wait for an answer just take her hand and walk her over. Taking your time walk her around the entire building ...."

    How a "date" becomes an "abduction". 😂

    Edit:
    Also, it depends on circumstances and what the guy's longer term intentions are. It could be asking the girl to have coffee is enough. That is not much of a "date", but if the guy is at the stage of wanting a serious relationship, it could be more than enough.

    True confessions: I did something similar, but not as calculated, with a young lady, and none of it made any difference. I knew the chances were slim there would be any connection, but I tried that approach. Learned a lesson. Someone said that a woman knows within seconds if she will sleep with you. Sleeping with you might not be your immediate goal and "flips" can happen, but a fancy meal is not likely to make a diff.

  • JimWallaceJimWallace Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited January 2019
    Good

    I voted good because it was so over the top and phony romantic and st u pid sounding, but also because it sounded sweet and wonderful in a life-is-a-movie way.

    In real life, be truthful and real and try to be as thoughtful and considerate as you are capable of. The goal is to find out if you like her and to let her find out if she likes you (the real her and the real you) and to show her you're trying to be the kind of man you hope she's looking for, a good man.

    Unless of course you're just being a player.

    Go, Dawgs!

  • jay_kubzzjay_kubzz Posts: 658 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Sounds like a psycho

  • levanderlevander Posts: 4,481 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Bad

    @Kasey said:
    Wait I voted before I realized this was for a first date. This reads like a manual for socially awkward individuals

    If a socially awkward individual tried to follow an in-depth detailed script like that on something that can be as awkward as a first date, they’d get home and want to kill themselves because of how many times they screwed the script up. Just trying to memorize the script alone would put enough pressure on the whole thing to kill any fun that could be had.

    Only advice I liked was eating something light before going. That’s happened to me before where I’m starving, the food smells awesome, but I’m not wanting to eat too much because the girl has ordered a salad.

    The advice also picked up on that weird thing girls like to do where they like to share the dessert. But it was explaned weird.

  • allywallyw Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Ok so as one of the forum females, here’s my opinion:

    There’s nothing wrong with putting some effort into planning a date, but keep it simple. Women will know if you’re trying to be someone you’re not. And the whole goal is to get to know someone better. If you’re pretending to be someone you’re not, that goal is not achieved.

    Also, I saw one gentleman above mention to keep things organic. That’s good advice. A date should be driven by good conversation and a fun night out. Don’t overthink it, but don’t be afraid to put forth a little bit of effort.

  • Dawg1419Dawg1419 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    My first date with my wife was to Walmart. She didn’t have a truck to go get a grill. That was 22yrs ago. Second date was to franklin’s gun shop in Athens then to the hunting camp. I don’t fake it. I live it.

  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Bad

    @FirePlugDawg said:
    Someone said that a woman knows within seconds if she will sleep with you

    That’s probably close to the truth. I always assumed she was okay with the idea once she agreed to go out. From there it was just my job not to prove her first instinct wrong. Don’t go looking for a wife or else you’ll find one you might regret.

  • umoonerumooner Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    This is terrible advice and anyone that purposively votes “good” should be ashamed. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t think of one girl I’ve dated or wanted to date that thought creme brûlée was some exotic dessert or that the Civil War monument was some great first date joke lol.

    Also, I’m fairly certain that the entire post was a really well done troll post.

  • Bulldawg1982Bulldawg1982 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Bad

    This is good advice if you're about to propose to her but for a 1st date, that's WAY over the top. Just do something simple like take her to eat at a steak house then go bowling or something like that. Be sure to pay for everything, open the doors for her and eye contact when talking to her. AND BE VERY INTERESTED IN EVERTHING SHE SAYS.

  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited January 2019

    @Bulldawg1982 said:
    This is good advice if you're about to propose to her but for a 1st date, that's WAY over the top. Just do something simple like take her to eat at a steak house then go bowling or something like that. Be sure to pay for everything, open the doors for her and eye contact when talking to her. AND BE VERY INTERESTED IN EVERTHING SHE SAYS.

    This times 100. The best dates I've been on have been doing something simple like dinner and then an activity. I think a lot of people miss the activity part. Nothing cuts down on awkward small talk and breaks the ice like bowling, shooting pool, mini golf, or just taking a walk somewhere. Sounds boring but anyone who has only done dinner and a movie will be very pleasantly surprised.

    Save the over the top stuff for once you know y'all are even compatible. Most women will be plenty impressed by a guy who is a gentleman and fun to hang out with on a first date. They've probably been on plenty of bad ones.

  • dawgitimafandawgitimafan Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Good grief I thought this was the 21st century, just keep swiping until somebody pops up wearin a bulldog sweatshirt and says she likes BBQ ribs. Everything else will take care of itself.

  • christopheruleschristopherules Posts: 15,786 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    Bad

    @dawgitimafan said:
    Good grief I thought this was the 21st century, just keep swiping until somebody pops up wearin a bulldog sweatshirt and says she likes BBQ ribs. Everything else will take care of itself.

    @dawgitimafan amen.

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