Russell Brand posed a question to humanity that I believe may be able to solve many problems: hunger, epidemics, poverty, legislative judges being appointed to the Supreme Court, Apocalypses, recessions, genocide, et cetera. He asks: How long do you have to pretend to be interested after you find out that the person you’re talking to has a boy/girlfriend.
Eleven seconds.
I agree. Eleven seconds doesn’t have you waste your time acting like you care when really you either (a) want to move on down the line to the next person you could get with or (b) want to get a snack.
At the same time, you don’t turn directly away as to show that you have become so appalled at the fact that they’re getting down and deep with someone else that you can’t bear to look at them, let alone speak with them for another moment.
Three seconds is just way to short… they might catch on. Ten seconds is long enough to play a game of rock-paper-scissors and thus to distract them as to your true motives for walking away and letting them sip a drink in their novel solitude.
Have you ever had this scenario: you’re at a party, you’re chatting up some cutie, probably a blonde or something, and they mention something along the lines of “Haha (or another form of onomatopoetic laughter), yeah my boyfriend/girlfriend is into that too!”
… and you all of a sudden JUST ran out of things to say.
True story, happens to all of us.
What do you do?
Well you have 11 seconds to make that decision. Now, these next few seconds are the crunch… oh yeah, its game time.
Within the next 11 seconds you need to do two things so quickly that you’re neurons may actually singe themselves together like magic shell after all the ice cream melts.
You need to get them to mention the significant other again, but not immediately, you must allow for a 3 second delay.
Trust me on this. If they mention them again and they’ve demoted the person who was previously the “love of their life” to the status of “my friend” then you needent give up the chase just yet.
This is because they’ve noticed your reaction where right after they mentioned their significant other you immediately checked out the three people who are WAY more interesting now that are standing right behind him/her, and now they’re playing catch up because they actually are interested in you.
You need to have an IMMEDIATE assessment of morals. Are you, an upright, moral, model citizen who would never compromise your morals and try to get with someone who has already been spoken for, be it through mutual understanding and compromise or betrothal?
Now you may not want to try your luck with this. The deadline of 11 seconds is usually pretty quick. The male brain actually can’t figure out anything in under 13.2 seconds, so if someone with a penis pulls this off, its instinct not conscious functioning.
Also, females are of much higher moral standing on average and few will prey on another woman’s man. However, you will from time to time find that girl. You know of whom I speak, the girl who is only at this social gathering because its been 3 months since her last encounter with someone, and 3 months and 1 week since she last broke up with her boyfriend.
Starting to see how the timing of this event gets harder and harder to work out?
Now, another detail: everyone should go and look at the “Can I Have Your Number” video. This is because if they have a boyfriend, and he here, and he hefty, and he comin’ back, you may want to consider steppin’ up out dat situation… yo.
Now, at the same time, some people are worth it. Sometimes there is someone who for previous relationship reasons, be it because of their status relationship-wise, socially, politically, or whatever, they’re off limits.
Forbidden Fruit is oftentimes the best (beware side effects may include pain during pregnancy, realization of nudity, shin splints, hallucinations of talking snakes, knowledge of good and evil, nausea, headaches, and pissing off God).
At the same time, you have to go with your gut, and if your gut says “take a chance on the hot one that you can’t have” listen to it. It will work out somehow if the signals are saying go.
Not to mention, your gut works faster than your head. Trust me, if you get kicked in the gut you scream immediately, if you get kicked in the head you just fall down.
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