How often you use your flirting skills to get away with things?

[KirillMazur]

Glad to know Im not the only one, I was already worried about being a potential sociopath about an hour after of this event.

People who want to flirt and want (sometimes) to prolong further communication are immediately visible. When I was younger, I collected a noticeable number of phones from different women in this way. It's a pity that this was never really useful to me, just a sporting interest.
Learn to read non-verbal signals.

[tropicalslavic]

To each his own but I personally find that behavior manipulative and immoral and wouldn't do it myself. I also intentionally don't present myself in a way where it would work.

[HectorOfTroy]

To each his own but I personally find that behavior manipulative and immoral and wouldn't do it myself. I also intentionally don't present myself in a way where it would work.

Agreed its gross. I would never flirt with anyone that I didn't atleast think they were attractive

[BakersfieldChimp]

I grew up kind of flirty as part of learning how to socially interact. I have been with my wife since 2002. From that point, I kind of changed my behavior because of her.
I do notice that I turn on "charm" at times. Which has some elements common to flirting but doesn't cross any uncomfortable lines. The last thing I want to come off as is "the creepy old dude" type. The world has too many of those as it is.

[KirillMazur]

I grew up kind of flirty as part of learning how to socially interact. I have been with my wife since 2002. From that point, I kind of changed my behavior because of her.
I do notice that I turn on "charm" at times. Which has some elements common to flirting but doesn't cross any uncomfortable lines. The last thing I want to come off as is "the creepy old dude" type. The world has too many of those as it is.

Yes, knowing a sense of proportion and being able to stop on time is very important.
I'm surprised that many in this thread lived like robots, not living people, even in their youth. The influence of the Terminator franchise, no less.

[tropicalslavic]

Yes, knowing a sense of proportion and being able to stop on time is very important.
I'm surprised that many in this thread lived like robots, not living people, even in their youth. The influence of the Terminator franchise, no less.

I don't think it's necessarily "living like robots". I can be flirty in the right context but I'm a huge tomboy naturally and also quite different at nearly 30 than I was in my teens, where that kind of behavior came more naturally (but still wasn't very common).

I also think that usually the regular users of online forums are not a great example of average people. Not that there is anything wrong with us, it's just usually the less outgoing and more introverted types will end up posting here. Super extroverted outgoing flirty people are at the club collecting phone numbers right now. Lol

[Rogan]

What skills ?

[Incal]

I wouldn’t call it flirting but I can usually charm my way in or out of things.

Same.

[Anglo-Celtic]

I flirted with young girls to get special treatment in restaurants and stores when I was in college and high school. If girls can do it, boys can too.

[KirillMazur]

I also think that usually the regular users of online forums are not a great example of average people. Not that there is anything wrong with us, it's just usually the less outgoing and more introverted types will end up posting here. Super extroverted outgoing flirty people are at the club collecting phone numbers right now. Lol

I am an absolutely ordinary and typical person of my generation (although not a Muscovite, but a provincial southerner). An extrovert in adolescence and youth, hyperactive, getting acquainted and flirting with everything that moves, and managing to study and work at the same time.
After marriage (at 23), I slowly drifted towards an introvert, and now (at 37) I prefer a small circle of relatives and the Internet to everything else.
You shouldn’t sell extroversion and the ability to flirt for some unrealistic achievements - this is the real mainstream in my time; rather, being an anxious social phobe is a modern deviation.
I don’t like that some users consider the local contingent as a whole to be some kind of inadequate people. And they question the opinion due to the inadequacy of the local poster a priori.
Show me a forum where the contingent is 100% adequate. Otherwise the point of posting here is lost for me.