Let’s get to my second gripe with a lot of PUAs’ storytelling: Stories lack any subtly and are no better than blatant bragging/lying.
Someone mentioned “Easter Egg Theory” in the last post as a way to embed subtly in DHV stories. I’ve never heard that, but I like it. It’s a lesson any good fiction writer knows: Generate interest obliquely. Think about a book like “A Clockwork Orange”. The novel doesn’t begin explaining the social structure of this futuristic society and about how all the characters speak in this strange slang. Burgess just starts narrating in slang and sucks you into that world.
How does he accomplish that? With BUZZWORDS. By speaking in the idiolect of a subculture, you demonstrate you understand and inhabit that subculture.
A perfect example of this is PUA. Imagine if two people came up to you, claiming they were PUAs: The first guy said: “I get into a mixed 2-set with an opinion opener, stacked with DHV routine, did a take away, and isolated the target”.
The second guy goes: “I saw this super hot chick, used a pick up line to initiate a chat with her, started telling her about how I slammed her ex-boyfriend against a wall and threatened to kill him, then pulled her away from her friends and talked to her alone.” (Would the real PUA please stand up….)
Therefore, if you want to demonstrate the reality that you live in the world of hot models, you have to prove you’re on a first-name basis with that world. If you’re lying about having a model girlfriend, you better research some industry buzzwords. If you actually have/had model girlfriends, listen to them when they talk about shit. Instead of saying something like “My ex gf was living and working as a model in Japan”, say “My ex-girlfriend’s agency relocated her to Japan.”
Even better, I’ll give you guys an example of a DHV story I use. My last AFC girlfriend was a somewhat-famous TV actress in Poland. (Side note: While it’s cool to DHV about having had dated super hot chicks like actresses and models, my second to last AFC girlfriend was a Rhodes Scholar…to me, that’s also a DHV (dating smart people) and I don’t think guys should just try to come off sounding like their ‘pimps’ for dating sHBs…)
But I particularly find DHVing about my Polish ex useful because I can also talk about how I traveled through Europe. Here’s how I do it:(…after I’ve opened and DHV’d with 2 or 3 stacked stories that show I’m a fun/funny/articulate guy and I’ve hit the social hook point…)
The Judge: I really like this bar. The lighting/dance floor/black lights remind me of clubs in Europe.
HB on Trial: fjjfdsfksslfjklgkldj ge kl gkljgwerkljerlg gglek (whatever)
The Judge: Well, not so much Western or Central Europe. More like the bars in Eastern Europe. I’m especially thinking of bars in Poland.
HB on Trial: sdjsdjfds sdf gjjfklds kldjkjdldslkfsl
The Judge: Polish bars and clubs are so funny. You only have two extremes: Absolute dives or complete upscale raves. I remember this one bar I went with my ex-girlfriend to celebrate postproduction with her cast. It was insane… (stack to story about something that happened in Poland)
Also, I usually splice in traveler facts about Poland (i.e. the weird currency exchange, their funny/scary reception of Americans, how the equivalent of a lemonade stand for a Polish kid is a “Vodka-stand”, etc.) Usually by using words like “post-production” and “cast”, I don’t come right out and scream: “HEY MY EX-GIRLFRIEND IS A SMOKING-HOT ACTRESS SO YOU SHOULD THINK I’M A COOL GUY FOR DATING HOT CHICKS.” Instead, it usually baits HB to ask me, “What did your ex-girlfriend do?” Now, because she asked, it seems like SHE wanted to know.
Additionally, I don’t say “actress” like a big shot. Rather, I say something like, “OMG, she played this HIL-ARIOUS psycho on a soap opera. She was like this deranged artist who poisoned all these beefcake men. I told her not to get any ideas….but…sometimes…she stayed in character when we’d hang out so I had to hire a food taster to make sure I wasn’t getting poisoned by the crazy Polish artist!!!” Instead of coming off like I’m bragging, it seems like I’m this fun guy who’s more interested in the bars in Poland or how funny my ex-girlfriend’s part was than some guy who’s just telling her things to DHV. Get it?
Someone mentioned “Easter Egg Theory” in the last post as a way to embed subtly in DHV stories. I’ve never heard that, but I like it. It’s a lesson any good fiction writer knows: Generate interest obliquely. Think about a book like “A Clockwork Orange”. The novel doesn’t begin explaining the social structure of this futuristic society and about how all the characters speak in this strange slang. Burgess just starts narrating in slang and sucks you into that world.
How does he accomplish that? With BUZZWORDS. By speaking in the idiolect of a subculture, you demonstrate you understand and inhabit that subculture.
A perfect example of this is PUA. Imagine if two people came up to you, claiming they were PUAs: The first guy said: “I get into a mixed 2-set with an opinion opener, stacked with DHV routine, did a take away, and isolated the target”.
The second guy goes: “I saw this super hot chick, used a pick up line to initiate a chat with her, started telling her about how I slammed her ex-boyfriend against a wall and threatened to kill him, then pulled her away from her friends and talked to her alone.” (Would the real PUA please stand up….)
Therefore, if you want to demonstrate the reality that you live in the world of hot models, you have to prove you’re on a first-name basis with that world. If you’re lying about having a model girlfriend, you better research some industry buzzwords. If you actually have/had model girlfriends, listen to them when they talk about shit. Instead of saying something like “My ex gf was living and working as a model in Japan”, say “My ex-girlfriend’s agency relocated her to Japan.”
Even better, I’ll give you guys an example of a DHV story I use. My last AFC girlfriend was a somewhat-famous TV actress in Poland. (Side note: While it’s cool to DHV about having had dated super hot chicks like actresses and models, my second to last AFC girlfriend was a Rhodes Scholar…to me, that’s also a DHV (dating smart people) and I don’t think guys should just try to come off sounding like their ‘pimps’ for dating sHBs…)
But I particularly find DHVing about my Polish ex useful because I can also talk about how I traveled through Europe. Here’s how I do it:(…after I’ve opened and DHV’d with 2 or 3 stacked stories that show I’m a fun/funny/articulate guy and I’ve hit the social hook point…)
The Judge: I really like this bar. The lighting/dance floor/black lights remind me of clubs in Europe.
HB on Trial: fjjfdsfksslfjklgkldj ge kl gkljgwerkljerlg gglek (whatever)
The Judge: Well, not so much Western or Central Europe. More like the bars in Eastern Europe. I’m especially thinking of bars in Poland.
HB on Trial: sdjsdjfds sdf gjjfklds kldjkjdldslkfsl
The Judge: Polish bars and clubs are so funny. You only have two extremes: Absolute dives or complete upscale raves. I remember this one bar I went with my ex-girlfriend to celebrate postproduction with her cast. It was insane… (stack to story about something that happened in Poland)
Also, I usually splice in traveler facts about Poland (i.e. the weird currency exchange, their funny/scary reception of Americans, how the equivalent of a lemonade stand for a Polish kid is a “Vodka-stand”, etc.) Usually by using words like “post-production” and “cast”, I don’t come right out and scream: “HEY MY EX-GIRLFRIEND IS A SMOKING-HOT ACTRESS SO YOU SHOULD THINK I’M A COOL GUY FOR DATING HOT CHICKS.” Instead, it usually baits HB to ask me, “What did your ex-girlfriend do?” Now, because she asked, it seems like SHE wanted to know.
Additionally, I don’t say “actress” like a big shot. Rather, I say something like, “OMG, she played this HIL-ARIOUS psycho on a soap opera. She was like this deranged artist who poisoned all these beefcake men. I told her not to get any ideas….but…sometimes…she stayed in character when we’d hang out so I had to hire a food taster to make sure I wasn’t getting poisoned by the crazy Polish artist!!!” Instead of coming off like I’m bragging, it seems like I’m this fun guy who’s more interested in the bars in Poland or how funny my ex-girlfriend’s part was than some guy who’s just telling her things to DHV. Get it?
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