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    #32
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    lufties wrote: »
    Nope, Ice queens who can barely crack a smile.
    Maybe they're spoken for too. People don't really go to yoga for getting dates.


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    #33
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Maybe they're spoken for too. People don't really go to yoga for getting dates.

    yes so ive learned...although smiling is just being friendly.


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    #34
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    I pick up women in the supermarket,bored housewives


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    #35
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    lufties wrote: »
    yes so ive learned
    Would you not have known that anyway?
    although smiling is just being friendly.
    True, but maybe it doesn't feel comfortable to them - yoga-class isn't like a bar where you're dressed up and in mode for chatting up. I wouldn't agree with anyone being rude to you though.


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    #36
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Would you not have known that anyway?

    True, but maybe it doesn't feel comfortable to them - yoga-class isn't like a bar where you're dressed up and in mode for chatting up. I wouldn't agree with anyone being rude to you though.

    smiling isn't threatening, or intimidating...The yoga I go to is in a posh part of london so perhaps thats something to do with it.


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    #37
    Big Black Bilbo
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Big Black Bilbo


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Does the yoga place provide a locker for you to keep your balls while you're doing the yoga?

    Lol, exercise, what a fag, right?


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    #38
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    lufties wrote: »
    smiling isn't threatening, or intimidating...The yoga I go to is in a posh part of london so perhaps thats something to do with it.
    I don't mean smiling by itself - and I didn't say anything about threatening or intimidating.
    Just choose the right environment. A lot of people want to just do their exercise and keep to themselves. I'd be the same. I'd never be rude to anyone though, I'm not defending that.


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    #39
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    lufties wrote: »
    :D

    Anyone know where to go where there are less men than women?

    I think I'm done with pubs, went to a singles night last night and it was awful ****e. I don't have much luck on tinder, or dating websites. It seems i'm **** out of luck.

    I do yoga but the women are mostly stuck up or don't want to be chatted up.

    might try dancing classes :o

    Do you want to have more female friends and female interactions or looking for a gf/ons type friend?

    Ballroom dance; samba; fitness classes; toastmasters; volunteer at the dog pound; an evening class. It's a bit much to do any of these just to meet a woman (instead of doing them for their own sake) but the potential is increased.

    We hear so much talk about how social the Irish are but if the pub-trade were to close tomorrow, we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves.


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    #40
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just avoid the German markets they like their sausages they do.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #41
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I'm confused, is the OP a guy or a woman?


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    #42
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    I don't mean smiling by itself - and I didn't say anything about threatening or intimidating.
    Just choose the right environment. A lot of people want to just do their exercise and keep to themselves. I'd be the same. I'd never be rude to anyone though, I'm not defending that.

    I'm actually there to exercise too. In fairness if a woman started chatting to me I would respond and I think most men would. It must be just women. I guess there is a shortage of women in comparison to men, I reckon its supply and demand, for every attractive female there is 5 or 6 men fighting for her affections, hence women can be picky.


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    #43
    Satriale
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    Forget yoga, go to this class...




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    #44
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    lufties wrote: »
    I'm actually there to exercise too. In fairness if a woman started chatting to me I would respond...

    Even to an ugly, Irish Feminist?


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    #45
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Even to an ugly, Irish Feminist?


    Why only limit it to Irish?


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    #46
    syklops
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    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    I don't mean smiling by itself - and I didn't say anything about threatening or intimidating.
    Just choose the right environment. A lot of people want to just do their exercise and keep to themselves. I'd be the same. I'd never be rude to anyone though, I'm not defending that.

    Girls may have tried to hit on me or flirt in the gym, but I wouldnt know, because when Im there, I'm looking elsewhere, trying to concentrate on what im doing, and tbh hoping no-one sees me. I wouldnt try to flirt with a girl there for the same reason. Same for yoga when I did it. The yoga class I did was 95% female, but I was very much aware that a wayward comment could make me persona non grata instantly.

    OP, what about a cookery class? Sure to be female dominant, but you all won't be in yoga pants, doing awkward poses or feeling self-concious.


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    #47
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,704 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Chatting people up at yoga is quite creepy.


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    #48
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    lufties wrote: »
    guess there is a shortage of women in comparison to men, I reckon its supply and demand, for every attractive female there is 5 or 6 men fighting for her affections, hence women can be picky.
    If you're gonna go all economics on it, the rational response is to move down the attractiveness curve until you find your point of equilibrium.


    In other words, either lower your standards and see how that goes or focus instead on developing your hobbies/interests/etc in a way which increase your chances of meeting new people you might like (not just for relationships, mind) and that'll ideally boost your chances of meeting someone you like while actually enjoying yourself.


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    #49
    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    Fair play OP, your putting in the effort!
    I procrastinate, its easier.

    I hope someday, you nail the posh girl from the yoga class....

    I found some inspiration for you...



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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    086lavey wrote: »
    Is house in a estate ? Could be street lighting , seen this done many times when I was carrying out inspection reports ,

    Wha'?


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    #51
    GalwayGuitar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 194 ✭✭GalwayGuitar


    Standman wrote: »
    I've heard gay bars are a good place to meet straight women, due to a lot of them going there with their gay friends. They are generally more off guard and approachable apparently.

    Lol op tries that approach and ends up getting raped.


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    #52
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Try sauna/bikram yoga instead, much better chance there.


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    #53
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Did you get that whole Bugs Bunny thing sorted out yet?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2djHEIxPVs


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    #54
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    http://www.businessinsider.com/ways-women-can-be-more-attractive-2014-10


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    #55
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    braddun wrote: »
    http://www.businessinsider.com/ways-women-can-be-more-attractive-2014-10


    Whoever coded that site/video player for mobile should be sacked. When I click 'skip ad' it pauses the video and pops up the ad. When I exit the ad and go back to the screen and click 'skip ad' again it does the exact same thing. Over and over.


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    #56
    Candy_Girl
    Registered Users Posts: 474 ✭✭Candy_Girl


    lufties wrote: »
    Nope, Ice queens who can barely crack a smile.


    If you're looking to chat women up the gym isn't the place for it, give online dating a second shot at least everyone is there for the same reason.


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    #57
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Or take a beauty therapy course

    I agree, very manly.Chicks dig that ****....


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    #58
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Candy_Girl wrote: »
    If you're looking to chat women up the gym isn't the place for it, give online dating a second shot at least everyone is there for the same reason.


    Lots of dates and relationships happen because of conversations/"chatting up" done at the gym. If two people are there then it's obviously a common interest and hobby and who better for a fitness enthusiast to date than another fitness enthusiast?


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    #59
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    Salsa or bachata dance classes. Anytime I've gone, the women outnumber the guys.


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    #60
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    The Strawman Argument wrote: »
    If you're gonna go all economics on it, the rational response is to move down the attractiveness curve until you find your point of equilibrium.


    In other words, either lower your standards and see how that goes or focus instead on developing your hobbies/interests/etc in a way which increase your chances of meeting new people you might like (not just for relationships, mind) and that'll ideally boost your chances of meeting someone you like while actually enjoying yourself.

    Ok well I'm always open to talking to women. What do you mean by lowering standards? Someone less attractive looking? Well to be honest if your talking about looks I am above average, I've always been popular with women generally but nowadays for some reason even women who are not really attractive dont give me a look in. I honestly don't see why I should lower my standards in that sense. Otherwise I'm well educated and am decent.

    I think its a mixture of not getting exposure and probably a lack of what they call 'game'


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    #61
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    I am going to go out in a limb here and say the problem is your personality...


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