After I've seen some of those Finnish movies I am even more amazed with those people. Lines are short and simple (ne b' ja tu prev'še kenjo) as if they read each other's minds. Why waste words if you can just make eye connectione? No small talk, if you want to say something, there's no beating about the bush. We think that they are shy. I wouldn't say that, for them it's normal to be calm because everyone around them is like that. Not showing emozione. Odd, but understandable. We're all different. I never shut up, but I can see the beauty of peace and quiet sometimes. Finnish peace and quiet stops after a certain amount of alcohol. Not shy any more. Not rude or arrogant eather, just more self esteem.
There was a scene in one movie that I saw recently and it went something like this: woman and man are eating romantic dinner in a restaurant (the film was made in 1986). He is a garbageman and she works in a supermarket but she just got kicked out. It is their second date. On the 1st one he took her to play bingo with few other senior citizens. She left. So now he asked her again. She came. They are not talking at all. Just looking at each other across the table and somking one cigarette after another. There was a moment when he made a facial move that could maybe become a smile in a near future, but it didn't. Clearly he was seducing her! Then she said something like: „What do you want from me, really?“ He was quiet. She looked at him as she was waiting for an answer. He was quiet for a moment and then he said something like: „I am Nikander, I do not want anything from anybody....I have rotten teeth and wither liver...“ Of course, this is not an authentic scene, it is just the way I remembered it. But imagine, it was actually a pickup line if we exclude the circumstances those two poor souls were under. Why would he make himself look better in her eyes? He did not say what he wants but he said what he has/hasn't to offer. So, from the start she knew where she was standing. That's honesty for ya!
I did not hear many pick up lines. I do not know if that means that I'm that bad or? Still, I do not think that guys nowdays use that, or at least not the guys I know. Still, my bearded friend loses his bounds when he comes to a foreign land and then flirts like crazy. Alcohol, what can I tell you!? Not only that, he offers translation of his lame pickup lines. He actually learned some Finnish ones which he succesfully used with an unexpectedly affirmative feedback even though he was not planning on getting any. See? Maybe pickup lines are lame and stupid but one never knows...
Here I some pretty lame pickup lines for you:
When God said, "Let there be woman," he created you.
Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.
You sure have a great looking tooth. (this one is made for me!)
Falling for you would be a very short trip.
Your daddy must be a thief, because he stole the sparkle of the stars and put it in your eyes.
Do your legs hurt from running through my dreams all night?
You are the only reason why I came in here alone.
I found one simple that I liked the most: "Hi. You'll do."
Post je objavljen 08.05.2007. u 16:01 sati.