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

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

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Post by froo »

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 it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world.

As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth.

It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar.

Strange huh?

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

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Post by froo »

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 it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world.

As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth.

It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar.

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

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Post by chaosmachine »

vaksel wrote: post #38

"I bought her $1.10 worth of sandwiches," how old is this story?

"When I was first at Cornell I corresponded with a girl I had met in New Mexico while I was working on the bomb."

Considering the first sentence in the story, I'd say 65 years.

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

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Post by jerf »

foldr wrote: post #26
araneae wrote: post #20

This is one of my favorite quotes from him: "The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it." – Richard Feynman http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/310content/nature/feynman.html

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. Math is what it is and everybody regardless of gender must bend their brain to the subject and not the other way around. I think its fundamental inhumanity is dominant. But you seem to me to be casually implying that his statement is un-PC, and I think it's actually rather shockingly PC, just also very blunt.

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

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Post by philwelch »

winter_blue wrote: post #27

This seems to have happened in the late 1930s or the early 1940s (he says "while I was working on the bomb".) From what I've heard, the US was very conservative at that time; girls & women in general did not have sex before marriage. And additionally was contraception widely available at that time? The sexual revolution happened in the 60s and 70s. So, this does not make any sense. Can someone enlighten me?

The Manhattan Project was 1942-1945, well into the war, when condoms were fairly widely available. They only became more available after that, of course.

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

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Post by powauth »

joeyo wrote: post #4
powauth wrote: post #3

Just out of curiosity: Is Feynman using 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex? I'm guessing that, this story being written in the 1940s/50s, pre-sexual revolution, that it is more referring to sleeping with a some low level of intimacy.

Unless I am horribly behind the times, people in the US still use 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex.

This post teaches us all a valuable lesson: always frame the question before, not after, asking it. People stop reading after the '?'

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

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Post by foldr »

jerf wrote: post #44
foldr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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 go down very well on this forum). I just don't see why it would be someone's favorite quote, unless they liked making fun of women's intellectual abilities.

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

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Post by derefr »

timr wrote: post #5

Classy title. I can't understand why women don't feel comfortable in our industry....

And I can't understand how this advice (at least as phrased in the title) is specific to one gender.

(And if that's not your problem—why should women be more uncomfortable than men around sexual statements in general? That's almost the opposite of feminism.)

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

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Post by powauth »

philwelch wrote: post #45
winter_blue wrote: post #27

This seems to have happened in the late 1930s or the early 1940s (he says "while I was working on the bomb".) From what I've heard, the US was very conservative at that time; girls & women in general did not have sex before marriage. And additionally was contraception widely available at that time? The sexual revolution happened in the 60s and 70s. So, this does not make any sense. Can someone enlighten me?

The Manhattan Project was 1942-1945, well into the war, when condoms were fairly widely available. They only became more available after that, of course.

He was married during that entire time (until 1945). This also doesn't take place until after he was at Cornell. Probably around 1946 or 1947.
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