For many girls, when guys try to win you over and get your attention using chat up lines, it results in nothing other than hysterics. It is so difficult to take someone seriously when they approach you with these cheesy lines, even more so when they are being so serious! I think it’s safe to say we’ve all been a victim of one of these awkward situations and here is a list of the top 10 worst chat up lines that I have heard, to date.
1) I like your dress – but it would look better on my bedroom floor
2) I’m looking for treasure – can I have a look around your chest
3) Your eyes are like spanners – every time I look at them my nuts tighten
4) Are you Jamaican? Because you’re Jamaican me crazy…
5) Is your father a thief? Because he must have stolen your eyes from heaven
6) You look like a parking ticket – because you’ve got fine written all over you
7) Did it hurt – falling from heaven?
8) If I could rewrite the alphabet I would put ‘u’ and ‘I’ together
9) Are you tired? Because you’ve been running round my mind all night
10) Have a feel of this shirt – do you know what that feels like? Boyfriend material
CRINGE
Some of these are just horrific! What’s wrong with a simple compliment or just a general conversation as a way of introducing yourself to someone? I think it is slightly more concerning to think about how these were even discovered in the first place. Someone has got to have come up with these cringe chat up lines and it would be so satisfying to know who that person is and whether they have actually got anywhere with them!
So guys, take note of what NOT to say if you’re wanting to hit on someone the next time you’re out and take a slightly more sophisticated approach.
Since being at Uni, online dating is something that has become more known in day-to-day life- but is it right?
Match.com, Tinder, Plenty of Fish (POF), eHarmony, we’ve all heard of at least one or two and each day, they are becoming more and more popular amongst students. In particular, Tinder and POF, as they are styled as more of a game than an official dating website. So I guess this raises the question, is it a game? Is finding love a game? For those of you that are less educated on this area of expertise, the art of Tinder is to swipe right if you like what you see, and if they’re a definite no-go, you swipe left and never have to see their sorry little face again. If you’re fortunate enough to get a match, then its your lucky day and you’re all set to live happily ever after. Simple right? For some maybe it is, but a fair few Tinder members have no serious intentions. So to put it bluntly, you’re playing a game with someone before you’re even in a relationship with them – there has to be something wrong here.
Is it just a game?
For some people, online dating is just a “numbers game” – the more matches you can get, the better you are. No, it’s more a case of the more your ego grows and the more single you become, because let’s face it, nobody wants to be with someone who’s overly arrogant and self-confident. What happened to quality over quantity? Have some dignity, you’re not going to get very far in the dating world if all you’re interested in is getting your points up.
Nevertheless, Tinder, along with a few other dating sites/apps are seen as a laugh to some people and argue that if you go in with no intentions, then nobody will get hurt and nothing will ever come of any ‘matches’. For students and other young people, less serious dating sites and apps are seen as a way of meeting new people and making new friends. In this instance, there is no harm in making new friends and wanting to meet people within the area that you live in. Thinking from another perspective, there is only so much that Tinder or Match.com can do, it’s also about your actions away from the screen and whether you are actually able to string a conversation together or whether actually you are the ultimate keyboard warrior of your era. Being aware of your own safety is a given but I won’t go into that (you come to Uni to get away from your parents, not to be constantly reminded to be safe and not talk to strangers!)
It’s free, so why not? Why pay for a site such as Match.com when you can amuse yourself on Tinder for free? Well, this in itself raises another imposing question. Why put a price on love? Why should you pay for some sites and not for others? Among students, being on a budget as it is, paying for online dating is a completely unheard of. Adults, however, are more inclined to pay for online dating as they believe they are ‘too old’ to find love ‘naturally’ (NOT my opinion). It is for this reason that I believe Tinder and POF are more common in the student lifestyle and not so much the others.
So, I know there will be a number of you reading this, shaking your head in disagreement with the underlying negativity that trails through this post, BUT this is definitely not the case. Being someone that, in the scheme of things, can be seen as fairly uneducated when it comes to online dating, I feel that it is a concept that poses many controversial questions that could be impossible to answer, but nevertheless, are interesting to pose in the first place.
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