1) His jokes are funny, even when they're not funny, they're funny.
2) You enjoy taking the time to talk and flirt with him, but if he disappeared, it wouldn't be a big loss for you. Cultivate an air of nonchalance.
3) When he askes you about yourself, give short, cute and vague answers. He thinks he wants to know about you, but he doesn't. He wants to talk about himself, encourage this.
4) Once you're both relaxed, casually touch him. Like brush your fingers against his upper arm when you laugh, pick lint off his shirt, straighten his tie, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a very light, subtle touch. It should be outwardly innocuous and ambiguous. If you two are connecting, he'll know what it means.
5) Ask him about his interests, better yet, ask him what he's passionate about. (I know, it sounds stupid and corny, but it works.) Once he answers, there are two acceptable responses: a) it's something you also love and know a lot about - talk shop, and play the "we have something in common" card. b) it's something you know nothing about, or something you have a reasonable knowledge of, but not in depth - feign ignorance. "No way! You know, I've always been curious about X, but I don't know anything about it!" Let him feel like a stud by letting him be the expert and tell you all about it.
Basicly, it all comes down to: You are charming, desirable, and just a little bit unavailable. He feels like a stud for overcoming that feigned unavailableness. He has to feel like he has charmed you or intelectually impressed you, dazzled you with his razor-sharp wit, or in some other way "proven" his desirableness. All of this needs to happen in a lighthearted way, so that both of you know that deep down it's all a game of ego-stroking.
Wow, this got long-winded fast... and it's not even an exhaustive guide. I could keep this up for pages and pages. yikes.
1) did I say fake laughter? Part of the mindset of flirting is that his jokes are genuinely funny to you, even when they're not. It's all in the hed, when you get it right, it's not forced laughter. It's hard to explain.
2) a short, to the point and very general category-type description of what I do is enough. No guy has ever, when first flirting with him been actually interested in what I do. I save that stuff for the first actual date. Maybe it's my own personal experience, since my job both looks boring from the outside, and seems to come off as intimidating. (I work for a consulting firm, doing actuarial analysis of health insurance premiums and reserves. Saying anything more detailed than "I'm a consultant" goes over like a lead zeppelin.)
3) In California hippy-dippy land (heh) this is a perfectly normal question. ;-) I've both asked it and had it asked of me. I'd never say it in a breathy hyper-flirtatious 40's movie star voice, but in a casual, "What make's you tick, what are you passionate about?" way. This has, recently, gotten responses like, "I write music and I'm putting a band togethr," and, "I love skiing and mountain climbing." It's never failed at getting a shy guy to come out of his shell.
Hrm. Maybe it's regional, maybe it's a delivery thing.
1) If they're not funny, they're not funny. finding a way to make them funny would work but really isn't necessary.
2) nonchalance can easily be mapped into rejection. Mae West: A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than a nice pair of legs.
3) What an utter and complete turn-off. Next! If I can't find out about you and what you like, then you are either a) too shallow to care about or b) not really interested and wondering how you can get away.
4) straighten his tie? That's assuming a *lot* of intimacy. Brushing the arm, keeping eye contact, casually resting your hand on his arm work though.
5) The first part of this works. One of my favorite questions that I ask when I feel a rapport building is "What motivates you? What gets you going?" But I need to know this about you as well as expressing my own.
It's a game of give and take. Otherwise it's just a modified form of "Oh, you're so big and strong!". *shudder*
The greatest gift that you can give is attention. While flirting concentrate on him. As he shares of himself, share of yourself to the degree you are comfortable. Aloofness, vague anawers, and unwillingness to share of yourself as I share of myself are the best ways for me to move onto the next person.
3) My answer to "so, what do you do?" is: "I'm a consultant, I work for one of the big four accounting firms," Not, "I do actuarial analysis of health plan premiums and reserves." There is definately a place for short, fairly vague answers. That doesn't mean I won't interact, but you're not getting my life story or, for that matter, too many identifying details in a bar. Too many psychos out there.
4) I'll be the first to admit, I'm a very physical flirt, I get into a guy's personal space pretty much as soon as his body language signifies he won't mind. I'm a big fan of the flirtatious lint pick/tie straighten, this works best when the tie isn't actually crooked or there is no actual lint.
I always give a guy plenty of hooks to get talking. The key from my perspective is not to make him do all of the work, but to guide the conversation so that he has a lot to say. And that takes a lot of subtlety, but the key at all times, like I said in my first comment, is to genuinely make the guy feel like he's really impressing me, and that I find what he has to say interesting. I can hardly do that with, "uh uh, whatever"-type responses.
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Date: 2003-01-24 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 10:32 am (UTC)0) Smile. A lot.
1) His jokes are funny, even when they're not funny, they're funny.
2) You enjoy taking the time to talk and flirt with him, but if he disappeared, it wouldn't be a big loss for you. Cultivate an air of nonchalance.
3) When he askes you about yourself, give short, cute and vague answers. He thinks he wants to know about you, but he doesn't. He wants to talk about himself, encourage this.
4) Once you're both relaxed, casually touch him. Like brush your fingers against his upper arm when you laugh, pick lint off his shirt, straighten his tie, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a very light, subtle touch. It should be outwardly innocuous and ambiguous. If you two are connecting, he'll know what it means.
5) Ask him about his interests, better yet, ask him what he's passionate about. (I know, it sounds stupid and corny, but it works.) Once he answers, there are two acceptable responses: a) it's something you also love and know a lot about - talk shop, and play the "we have something in common" card. b) it's something you know nothing about, or something you have a reasonable knowledge of, but not in depth - feign ignorance. "No way! You know, I've always been curious about X, but I don't know anything about it!" Let him feel like a stud by letting him be the expert and tell you all about it.
Basicly, it all comes down to: You are charming, desirable, and just a little bit unavailable. He feels like a stud for overcoming that feigned unavailableness. He has to feel like he has charmed you or intelectually impressed you, dazzled you with his razor-sharp wit, or in some other way "proven" his desirableness. All of this needs to happen in a lighthearted way, so that both of you know that deep down it's all a game of ego-stroking.
Wow, this got long-winded fast... and it's not even an exhaustive guide. I could keep this up for pages and pages. yikes.
Re: Speaking as a male.
Date: 2003-01-24 12:15 pm (UTC)2) a short, to the point and very general category-type description of what I do is enough. No guy has ever, when first flirting with him been actually interested in what I do. I save that stuff for the first actual date. Maybe it's my own personal experience, since my job both looks boring from the outside, and seems to come off as intimidating. (I work for a consulting firm, doing actuarial analysis of health insurance premiums and reserves. Saying anything more detailed than "I'm a consultant" goes over like a lead zeppelin.)
3) In California hippy-dippy land (heh) this is a perfectly normal question. ;-) I've both asked it and had it asked of me. I'd never say it in a breathy hyper-flirtatious 40's movie star voice, but in a casual, "What make's you tick, what are you passionate about?" way. This has, recently, gotten responses like, "I write music and I'm putting a band togethr," and, "I love skiing and mountain climbing." It's never failed at getting a shy guy to come out of his shell.
Hrm. Maybe it's regional, maybe it's a delivery thing.
Viewpoints from the other camp
Date: 2003-01-24 03:37 pm (UTC)1) If they're not funny, they're not funny. finding a way to make them funny would work but really isn't necessary.
2) nonchalance can easily be mapped into rejection. Mae West: A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than a nice pair of legs.
3) What an utter and complete turn-off. Next! If I can't find out about you and what you like, then you are either a) too shallow to care about or b) not really interested and wondering how you can get away.
4) straighten his tie? That's assuming a *lot* of intimacy. Brushing the arm, keeping eye contact, casually resting your hand on his arm work though.
5) The first part of this works. One of my favorite questions that I ask when I feel a rapport building is "What motivates you? What gets you going?" But I need to know this about you as well as expressing my own.
It's a game of give and take. Otherwise it's just a modified form of "Oh, you're so big and strong!". *shudder*
The greatest gift that you can give is attention. While flirting concentrate on him. As he shares of himself, share of yourself to the degree you are comfortable. Aloofness, vague anawers, and unwillingness to share of yourself as I share of myself are the best ways for me to move onto the next person.
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Date: 2003-01-24 07:53 pm (UTC)4) I'll be the first to admit, I'm a very physical flirt, I get into a guy's personal space pretty much as soon as his body language signifies he won't mind. I'm a big fan of the flirtatious lint pick/tie straighten, this works best when the tie isn't actually crooked or there is no actual lint.
I always give a guy plenty of hooks to get talking. The key from my perspective is not to make him do all of the work, but to guide the conversation so that he has a lot to say. And that takes a lot of subtlety, but the key at all times, like I said in my first comment, is to genuinely make the guy feel like he's really impressing me, and that I find what he has to say interesting. I can hardly do that with, "uh uh, whatever"-type responses.