Since a lot of these stories start with "I'm not good at flirting..."
...does anyone know anyone who actually is? It seems like a ritual constructed to create as many humiliating events as possible.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 20:09, 3 replies)

I'm crap at it as well
however it's all (if you're a man) about having the cojones to take the risk.

There are those men who are seemingly armed with egos made of brass who can go up to a woman, try it on, fail, not care, move onto the next one...eventually they will succeed.

There are then the rest of us who rarely pluck up courage to try, if we do try, fail, then go home and play Smiths songs for the next 4 years.
( I_Was_Mordred, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 20:37, closed)

without trying to blow my own trumpet too much...
b3ta.com/questions/chattingup/post589745
(Kip, Fri 19 Feb 2010, 14:31, closed)

I guess it's not so much flirting as a process of elimination....
when I first turned 18 I'd do ok, mostly by working my way around a club til I found someone who'd let me eat their face. Then I had a GF for a few years, and during that period I aquired something called 'shame', which renders my previous *ahem* technique useless.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Mon 22 Feb 2010, 15:17, closed)