From your buddies to your mom to your best female friend, everyone and their dog thinks they have great dating advice for you. And some people actually do. But perhaps more important than getting quality advice is identifying bad advice—and rejecting it before you get slapped, dumped or worse. The following ideas, no matter how cleverly phrased, can only lead you down a dark path. If you want your love life to be more George Clooney, less Kris Humphries, turn a deaf ear.
1. “Catch Her Off Guard”
No. Don’t. She doesn’t want a challenge. Not yet. She wants pursuit. It’s true that “Do you come here often?” makes for a really crap-tastic pickup line. What’s not true is that you need some kind of exotic icebreaker to get her interested. Just ask something that engages her, like what she thinks the beer from that goose-shaped tap tastes like, or whether the bartender’s handlebar moustache is ironic or sincere. The harder you try to be “witty” or “edgy” the more you’re just going to come off as weird or a douche.
Good advice as allways bro