Picking up chicks...

[marinermichael]

College is a pretty good place to meet someone.

[TheRogue]

Originally Posted by Tormod

Let's not be so narrow minded.

You can meet a quick fling anywhere. Real life or online.

thats the one things i've never been able to grasp in understanding. "what goes into picking up the quick flings started in all places outside of the bar and club scene?
such as work, grocery, even campus.

i've seen people who can do it on a regular basis, and few who brag too much.

[∞8∞]

Bars and clubs are fine. I met my better-half at a club and we've been together for 5+ years.

Multi-sex sports leagues, especially more laid back ones like softball, kickball, bowling, frisbee, and frisbee-golf are great places to meet people. Another fantastic way to meet gals/guys are at art or technical classes (pottery/computer/etc.) at a local community center or even a place like Michaels. If you have a dog, dog parks are awesome too, and so are coffee houses. Another method is to volunteer at a soup kitchen, library, school, etc. But if you do that, you should genuinely care about the volunteering as well.

Basically wherever the same people gather more than once is a good place to meet a potential mate.

[Symphonic]

I think the topic is still important, so I'm going to post my opinion.

Bars, clubs, discos and so on are ok, but you just can't compare them to day-possibilities. Imo it's totally different. But it's not true at all that girls in bars aren't looking for relationships, they are exactly as much as girls you meet during the day. I know quite some girls in my age (~20) who go out mainly for this reason, cuz they hope to meet some potential lovers or even boyfriends, and they aren't only "partygirls".
The point about clubs is you have to behave in another way. You have to hang your man out, appear cool and selfconfident, be more the alphatype.
It's the only thing about it (next to the fact that physical language is much more important cuz of all the noise and music, and that you often have to get the allowance of a whole group to try it with a certain girl because there aren't many people going out alone).

Me and some of my friends are having slight difficulties with that, and it's the reason why it's a bit easier for us to hook up during the day. During the day you can just be you, you know. There is no room for approach anxiety or anything similar, but otherwise just be yourself.
And as some people already mentioned, you should only talk to girls because you like talking to girls or other people in general and never because you are looking for a relationship. It's just the attitude that makes the whole difference here.

And I for myself, somehow I always get to know some nice girls at airports. There always are lots of people whithout company, there is lots of waiting time, you got lots of stuff to talk about, and many people feel nervous when travelling and don't know what to expect at their place of arrival and it just makes everyone feel better to have someone to talk with

Edit: And concerning onlinedating, I tried it once when looking for a longterm-relationship, but didn't have any real success with it (maybe because I didn't want to spend any money on some silly premium accounts, who knows). I had the impression that the good-looking girls (as far as you can tell it just from some probably photoshopped pictures) are all turning into complete divas because of all the men showing interest in them and most of them are completely unbearable and unfriendly (because you see, if you don't like it, they still have enough other men waiting to get a try). One would probably have success with a below average looking girl, and she may have a wonderful character and all, but imo if you don't find her cute, you shouldn't force yourself to try it. Maybe I just had bad luck and it's probably depending on the website as well but I probably wouldn't try it anymore...

So, 'nuff said.