Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

Post by jonny_noog » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:28 AM UTC

froo wrote: post #42

dwwoelfel wrote: post #6

This probably only works if you're Richard Feynman.

I know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm. I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line. He said: "I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, introducing myself as Ed, I then say to them this line" "Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you" He told me that the secret to…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:28 AM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #55

jbyers wrote: post #52

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[deleted] I should have just down-voted the affiliate link and left it at that. Something's changed in the tenor of comments here on HN, and my reaction to it isn't productive. For the foreseeable future, I think I'm going to bite my tongue and read in silence.

How is that principled?? You hate when others benefit even if it's at no detriment to you?? SCARCITY THINKING :_( Okay, if you like reading text on your screen, you can also read it for free here: http://www.gorgorat.com

Post by araneae » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:34 AM UTC

jerf wrote: post #44

foldr wrote: post #26

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Unfortunately, judging from the context, that wasn't even a joke.

Are you upset because a man said it? "Math is too male and we need to come up with more female ways of teaching it" is a pretty standard feminist idea. In fact, replace "math" with a wide variety of things. Recall he's not working under modern PC strictures, not that he necessarily would have subjected himself to them anyhow. He gets to say it directly, not cloak it in endless verbiage. That said, I actually disagree…

Post by foldr » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:34 AM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #60

foldr wrote: post #48

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No, I'm "upset" because the rest of the article makes it clear that Feynman really did think that women were inherently useless as math -- and even "rational thought" in general: >Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that the male and female are equally capable of rational thought may have something. This is a bit rich for my tastes (but it will no doubt…

The "obvious evidence to the contrary" was the math gender gap, which was very real at the time. If you actually read the story, it's quite clear that Feynman is telling the story at his own expense (showing how wrong he had been about girls + math). There's no question he was sexist, but see _debug_ and blackguardx's tandem quote to see that he regarded them as equals mentally: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11…

Post by araneae » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 3:46 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #37

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #12

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Not in the slightest. At the risk of destroying my chances of ever getting into YC (hi JL, PG, RTM et al!) I had astonishingly great luck with asking attractive women if they wanted to make out with me last Spring. Seriously: "hey, let's make out!" or "would it unduly offend you if I asked you to make out with me?" You're probably better off asking this sort of thing after conversing with them for a bit so you don't…

Eh, if anything it'll help you. It shows that you're not a wimp and that you're willing to experiment, both good things. And they're all human, you know. They realize that people do sexual things, even successful startup founders. And PG and JL have a baby. I'll let you draw your own conclusions based on that.