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Hmmmmmmmm I have a nice 2nd hand Cashmere Brioni, and I do want a Tweed (hang on a minute!) - but the whole Chap thing does seem pretty twee to me, though I can see that it may have not always been so. I'm more of a Jaeger man really. Once I know a bit more about what I like and I feel my...

I had to be in Islington for a few weekends this year. I paid £2 for an artisan cinnamon bun; it wasn't very good. Another time (early September I think), two young boys actually had a pop up cupcake shop. Their prices were reasonable, so I bought some - but in hindsight I shouldn't have been...

Yes, or at least to the extent that one is escaping the problems with one's 'basically safe, comfortable life' rather than belittling the problems illustrated by the 'gritty urban music'. I'll take Michael Bolton from Office Space over these twee t**ts. It's one thing to attempt to escape your...

I purchased a couple of coffees from Tapped and Packed in Fitzrovia on Saturday. Fuckin' hell, I swear it took the barista about 10 minutes of stirring, prodding and careful rounded pouring before we got our coffee - worth it though; bloody lovely. No idea what we had, I just let the guy pick...

I spent 9 days in Eindhoven during New Year 2007/8 and I revisited it for a couple of days in 2009. First time I stayed with a lady friend, 2nd time in a (very nice) hotel. I've also spent a little bit of time in Nijmegen, which is a university town and quite nice too. When I ate at the...

It's true that a lot of people who live in London do not explicitly take advantage of what's really available to them; if you live outside of TFL Zone 3 and don't work in Central London then your lifestyle probably won't differ that much from somebody who lives in Stevenage. There's perhaps a...

Ask them who Jackin' Jill be. They don't listen to that stuff in London. They be listening to some bullshit down in London.

Heh Heh, just teasing - there are actually classes most days in Berlin too.

Er, it can be....I don't know Geash but I know a lady called Lucie who teaches 5Rhythms to children in Thailand and Cambodia. Another friend Emma has used the 5Rhythms in prisons and currently as part of drug rehabiliation. There are 5Rhythms classes every day in London and New York and they're...

I don't really disagree. I think sometimes the bullshit attached is what enables men to make the approaches, and does give them a map to help them chart progress and enable iterative 'progress'. The map is not the territory of course, and some of the maps are pretty retarded - which obviously...

You misunderstand. Some men, quite a lot of men, could approach hundreds upon thousands and barely get a positive response. There is more to it than that. Those guys in that video may well suck, but that video does not really tell you that much given the circumstances. It's entertaining for sure.

This is by no means the case for all men, or even half. And anyway, there's a big difference between a positive response and actually taking the woman home or getting to date her.

Well yes, intimacy is great (and I've had a 9 year relationship). But I've had intimate sex with women I hadn't known for long, and a bit of banter in the first few minutes of interaction did not prevent said intimacy from occurring. Some 'PUA schools' actively encourage emotional vulnerability...

*shrug* I don't really accept the paradigm you're putting forward, but I think it would depend on the PUA. I would say that, generally speaking, it's not exactly ideal if a woman wakes up and regrets having a one night stand with you. That probably does not answer your question though.

Well yes, a lot of people generally do struggle to form positive interdependent mutually beneficial relationships. I don't accept for one minute that this is a problem that is particular to or even significantly more pronounced in the pick-up community. "Real relationships" still (imho) require...

Chris Rock pointed out that on a first date you don't get to meet the person, you get to meet 'their representative'. So I find these questions about whether 'PUAs' are capable of having a relationship to be pretty silly. Some are, some not so much. Quite a few 'community gurus' recommended that...

I think this is a ludicrous sleight of hand, predicated on the idea that women have to be tricked into giving up something. A lot of women rather like sex, including casual sex, and love *to be seduced* - a good 'PUA' will manage expectations regarding what's going to happen after the sex, that...

I don't accept that 'The Rules' is the female equivalent of 'The Game' - it's not really a case of most women being conniving or tricksy as such. Women frequently test men for alpha traits, usually the reasoning will be a subconscious. But the drink test is win-win for them - they either get a...

Haha, it's not the first time I've been accused of being a sock-puppet. I am real real and hyperreal!

Casual yet passive-aggressive you say? Pffffffffftttttttt