Anything to do with the mind can be taught. Playing an instrument, a foreign language and of course picking up women. Weirdly though there’s a view – even in the community – that being funny is something you are born with or “just have”. Considering these are forums teaching you how to be good with women, you gotta love the irony.

Yes, you can be learn to be funny, I’m proof of this. I used to boring and unfunny, now I bring tears of laughter and joy to millions of children everywhere.

I’ve got a little something planned down the line that’ll completely cover this whole area of humour, for now though we’re gonna cover some principles you can apply straight away to become a funny guy, refine it, and develop your own humour.

Never try to make people laugh, instead make them think in new ways

This is an awesomely simple, yet simply awesome principle. You all know guys who try too hard to be funny and just come off as awkward, like they’re trying to make you laugh. Then you get guys who are naturally funny and have a charisma about them, they say one funny thing effortlessly after the other.

Don’t try to make people laugh. Don’t look for a reaction or to check your joke’s hit, don’t worry about how you’re going to make people like you through being funny.

Being funny is none of the above. It’s about offering a unique perspective, sharing your view on the world.

Take a show like Harry Hill’s TV Burp (watch it if you don’t already, it’s awesome), it illustrates this brilliantly. The reason it’s funny is because Harry notices things that people miss, and shares it with you. He isn’t necessarily trying to make you laugh, just giving you an insight into his world.

And because we all have unique insights, anyone can be funny.

So next time don’t try to make people laugh, make them think in new ways. What unique view or perspective can you offer?

Fun beats fact

Emotion beats logic when it comes to humour. I’m not necessarily talking technical stuff (you should hear my jokes about programming), more cold hard facts. When you’re sacrificing having fun and focusing on being logical, correct or “right”.

Incidentally, this is why even though I’m writing about how to be funny, there aren’t that many jokes. I’m being factual and logical, getting a point across. If I were to write a post for shits and giggles that was just entertaining, I’d leave nearly anything logical out.

This is typical pickup stuff. How many guys blast girls with interview style questions instead of having fun:

“What do you do?”
“Where do you work?”
“What’s that like?”

This is being factual instead of having fun. Why not ask a nurse if she can win a wheelchair race in the hospital, or a policewoman how she gets away with all those robberies.

Half of comedy is just in having fun and playing round with what you’re told. Don’t go for a boring answer, make it fun. Tying it in with the first point:

“I’m a nurse”
“Okay, so let’s say a…friend gets carried away with a sex toy and it end up, I dunno…in his ass. What the best excuse I…I mean he can use when they those awkward questions. Because erm, the last 2 times were really embarrassing”

Beats fact right?

90% of anything funny involves the setup of a story and how it’s played out

When I realised this, it all clicked. Think of anything funny said, whether it’s a one-liner, a rant, a sketch from a comedy show, anything. It involves setting up some story or scenario and then how you play it out. Take this gem from Frankie Boyle:

“I was watching the footage the other day of Saddam Hussein being executed and it made me think…It made me think, ‘is there nothing I won’t masturbate to?’ “

As a side note this shows how things like unpredictability can make something funny. Notice though that he sets up a scenario and plays it out. This is where things like exaggeration come in.

In fact exaggeration and sarcasm are two things I love playing round with. You’re taking this idea of setting up some scenario, then playing it out more and more, adding layers, building up the story as you go.

“Wow you look dodgy…been on the crack again?..Told you before not to try your own goods…..you’ll have nothing to sell”

Again I set up a scenario (the person being a druggie), play on this a little, then exaggerate to make them a fill blown dealer. I could expand on this further, make a joke about them selling drugs to kids, or the 12 kids they have to support etc. You can have a ton of fun with this.

Another point to notice, what you start with doesn’t have to be relevant or even make sense, you can literally pull something out of thin air and run with it. One girl I know is quiet, small and shy, and I have a running joke that she’s the ‘Tony Soprano’ of the town. It started from some random comment I made ages ago that came from literally nowhere.

So those are the basic principles. Go watch some funny videos on YouTube or wherever, see how these principles apply (mainly the first and third). Also, pay attention to how things like unpredictability, delivery and brevity (keeping it short and simple) affect how funny a joke is.

Delivery especially. On paper some of the stuff I say in clubs sounds shit, but the delivery carries it.

There’s a ton of little points like this. Don’t get too bogged down in them (the 3 basic principles are enough), but do be aware of them.

Author Bio-
Having been a professional bitch of 19 years, Ty discovered the community in 2006. When not drunkenly sleeping with girls from his work, his interests include computer games, movies and colouring-in books. Ty prefers a more natural style of game, with a strong emphasis on fun and a healthy dose of cocky-funny.

Remember when you were a kid and it was Christmas Eve, and you were waiting for that big, fat, sexy present? You’d make it out to be the coolest thing ever and couldn’t wait to get it. You’d think about it over and over, how you were gonna show it off to your friends, all the cool shit it could do, the hours of fun you were gonna get out of it.

It was basically the shit. Expect you couldn’t say it was the shit because you were like 12 and your mum didn’t approve of swearing, and would beat “the shit” out of you. It was damn cool though, and “damn” was allowed.

It was all you’d think about.

It’s amazing how much power what we think and say has. You’ll all be familiar with this via NLP, affirmations and positive talk. If you’ve no idea what I mean then you’re not a proper PUA, you’re cheating and can get out. You’re not allowed back until you research the power of words in openers, specifically “What date is it…..WHAT YEAR?!?!”

When you think about something you give it a certain status in your mind. If you think about it now and then, it stays as casual or “not a big deal” in your mind. You only think about tidying your room now and then because it isn’t a big deal.

If you don’t think it any longer, it becomes insignificant or “I don’t give a shit” in your head. To most community guys, this would be rejection on a night out.

However, if you think about something more, you give it a bigger status in your mind. The more you think about it, the bigger the status it has. If you talk about something if gives it a bigger status, and the more you talk about it the more status you give it. Your mind marks it as “well this is quite important”.

Anything you do that involves thinking about it, the more of it you do the bigger the status you give it. If you try to solve or work out something, you’re automatically giving it a bigger status in your mind. You’re turning it into “this is quite a big fucking deal”.

So you have guys with one-itis and/or they think they’re in love. They meet the girl and think she’s amazing. So they think about how they’re going to win her over, what could go wrong, the best way to do X/Y/Z, what she likes, how much chance they’ve got etc. They think over all these possibilities and permutations.

Here’s the problem. Although their intensions are good (as guys we like to work shit out), by thinking about this girl over and over – it doesn’t matter why or if it’s a good or bad reason – they’re making the girl out to be a “big fucking deal”.

So their mind plays along and thinks “okay, she’s a big deal….shit, I need to win her over now because she’s important”

Throw in some rationalisations and the guy’s convinced that he’s in love with her.

Think of this as a warning (or to some of you, answers). You might not get one-itis but all the thinking, working her out and deciding what tactics to use is still gonna make that girl into a big deal. At the very least, it’ll make you needy. All your tactics won’t mean shit because it’s coming from a needy frame.

So what’s the best way of balancing all this? Moderation of course, balance is always the answer.

There’s nothing wrong in throwing in some tactics, getting advice from a mate, or working out the best way to move forwards with a particular girl. I do this myself (as Clipper well knows…). It’s when you do it too much it becomes a problem, when you’re brain goes from “she’s not that big a deal” to “holy shit she’s the one, watch me turn needy”.

Instead, work out what you need to, get a nice idea of what you’re doing next, then drop it.

Leave it.

Don’t talk about it anymore, until you absolutely have to.

Don’t then try to work out every possibility or keep banging on about it. Get it worked out so you’ve a solid idea of what you now need to do, then drop it and don’t even think about it until either the time comes for action or there’s some major change.

How do I know this? Because I’m fucking guilty of this all the time. I go from being a pimp in the girl’s eyes (and having her wrapped round my finger) to being some weird chodey little dude. And 90% of the time it’s simply because I tried to work that girl out too much.

Of course there’s the flip side. Girls I haven’t cared about and have put little to no thought into ‘working out’ I don’t get needy over, they’re marked as “not a big deal”. These girls also love me.

Because when a guy gets one-itis, it’s basically the same thing as that kid on Christmas Eve…

Author Bio-
Having been a professional bitch of 19 years, Ty discovered the community in 2006. When not drunkenly sleeping with girls from his work, his interests include computer games, movies and colouring-in books. Ty prefers a more natural style of game, with a strong emphasis on fun and a healthy dose of cocky-funny.

Eating a bowl of Shreddies.  Been awake since 0200.  I promise no more weed for a week after tonight.  Stomach hurts.

This book is like Indiana Jones meets that fucked up kid from The Wasp Factory.  I spent over 20 minutes just starting at a picture of some really ugly Jewsh guy before spending a further 9 hours reading about how he fucked a bunch of hot women and some chick from a band.  Google images should be banned.  Can’t stop touching myself now.  Guitar chick is hot.

Realised in picture Jewish guy now looks like the Satan guy.  I think he knows I am watching him.  Laptop.  Wardrobe.  Hiding.

Looking at flights now.  America is in budget.  Ugly guy screws hot rock chick == Fraggle spooning Britney by the weekend.

Choices.  £897 of books from Amazon?  Flight + Spooning Ms Spears?  More weed?  Books look good.  Have space in bookshelf.  Always wanted to levitate and hypnotise the shit out of people.  Fuck thats nailed it.  Buy books.  Learn magic.  Fly America.  Spoon Spears.  Perform in Vegas.  I am rockstar.

Here’s the deal:

1) Women like being turned on.

2) Women are turned on by us doing certain types of sexual things to them.

3) We (as men) are turned on by the thought of doing those same certain sexual things to women.

I.O.W….!!!!!!!!!

Your horniness is your guide to turning her on.

So you’re with a chick… you think of something you could do right now to her… oh god that would feel so good to do to her… (ie: grab her hair, pull her head back, push your knee into her pussy, etc.)

Guess what….?

You should do that… NOW! Because it will feel just as good/better for her.

Your fantasy is not just bullshit… what makes you horny is your evolved horny circuit which has been preened from generations and centuries of reproductive success!!!

Simple as that. Do what your dick tells you to do and she will respond positively (or at least her pussy will… which actually doesn’t guaranty her logical mind will).

Only way this won’t work is if you’re too hesitant/indeterminate in your actions – but that’s a whole other can of worms.

RagsToRich

Pretty much the entirety of this post stemed from the guidance of TheCostOfSuccess who is currently writing a book on seduction. His book about teaching people how to create more moments of pleasurable sexual energy/seduction in their lives (rather than how to lay girls)… it’s going to be great, I’ve read some of the drafts - I’m going to get it… and I’ll plug it for sure when he releases it.

The rules are different here… watch out for that American crap because it doesn’t apply to most of our girls. Our girls have ASD x 10 in even minor instances.

It’s funny that girls are often complaining that it’s the English men who are not confident/out-going/expressive enough… well they are probably right… but it’s pot calling the kettle black too.

EC from an English chick

If you actually catch a girl looking at you here, specifically looking at your arse, dick, arms, neck, or sexual/trancey EC… it’s a massive IOI. If a girl looks you over or pings you (makes EC) then it’s an uber-massive IOI… notice how few girls do it over here. Most of them actually ASD even about shit like this, so when one does it she is fighting her social anxiety to give you a signal.

Only thing I would say is that sometimes an incidental look is an incidental look… which is why sometimes you approach a chick who you thought just pinged you and she’s like “What? What do you want?”

Mini-opener! THE BULLSHIT OPENER!

This is for when you get proximity or an eye-fuck and then can’t think of an opener…

Works great in loud environments… I even open on the dancefloor with this sometimes when I don’t feel hot enough to just grab the chick…. tap a girl on her side or shoulder or just touch her wrist and leave your hand there and say a half-comprehensible sentence… something like…

Rags: “Hey…youthinkthisworksformeorwhat??”

Just babble some crap before she even turns and trail off, make sure it’s directed at her ear so she realises you’re actually saying it to her.

If she rejects or bats you away… no big… in fact… go to the technique below. If she 180s and goes “Huh??” with a big smile on her face …

…(happens all the time) then you can just go into whatever…. such as…

Rags: “Nothing I just thought you seemed kinda awesome.”

Re-approaching a rejection

This is an interesting one… if a chick bats you off/ignores you.. here’s the general rules to follow:

1) Go more playful/happy – cut sexual completely for now.
2) Come from a NEW ANGLE! (credit: The Cost Of Success)

So in my example above say you are leaning on the bar, you open some two-set who give you proxi and she’s like… “Huh… we’re talking… whatever.” and doesn’t turn so she’s still got her back to you.

Give in a few seconds… and walk around them so you’re coming from the other side… and then step right into them and open again with a big dumb party/playful smile.

I don’t know what it is about the “new angle” thing that works… but it just does. There’s NLP-type explanations for it… but without going into the why… just try it.

This is especially effective on the dancefloor where after having a chick bat off your hand when you try to grab her and pull her in to spin you can dance around her and try something else from the other side such as:

1) Pokemon impression…
2) Sing song lyrics to girl (they love this)…
3) High-five or something like that…

I’m totally OT now so wrapping it up…

RagsToRich

Today’s an important one, this separates the men from the boys, and the cool kids from the not-so-cool kids. This was hands down one of the most important things I realised in all this.

People do things for all kinds of reasons, they talk for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it’s nice and fluffy; friends sharing experiences, pissing around together, having a laugh about something. When your down the pub with your mates and it’s just awesome, yeah those kinds of times.

It’s not always so pure though. More often people talk to indulge their egos, boast about how cool they are for whatever reason, get some point across or have some kind of agenda.

Yes it’s the dreaded “E” word the community has such a hard-on for these days. I’m not gonna go too deep down this route, it’s best left to German sounding people and other guys who’s names start with “Ty….”.

Motive is what separates cool and fuckable guys from guys who aren’t, the reasons for what they say and do.

Today’s important lesson (remember this, it’s important):

“Talk for the fun of talking itself. Not to prove a point or get some kind of agenda across”

Or:

“Talk for the sake of talking”

The best conversations are agenda free, there’s no real point to them other than letting off some steam and joking around. Think back to the last time you had an awesome time with your boys, there wasn’t an agenda, no point to prove. You were all just talking about nothing.

Here’s where a lot of guys go wrong, they have something they want to force in the conversation. They want you to know about something awesome they did recently, how they pulled the other night, some kind of point they want to get across. These are negative motivations for talking, they’re an agenda. Not only are they not fun, but they take over a conversation.

Typically a guy thinks of something awesome he wants to say and waits for a break in the conversation to drop it in. Problem is he misses everything that’s said (and the point of the conversation), and with no sense of timing just throws it out there. He then ruins a decent conversation.

Very bad news.

Now there’s nothing wrong with this kind of conversation in itself, everything had a time and place. Maybe you just bought a new car and have to tell someone, that’s cool. Maybe your mate asked you if you pulled last night, that’s cool. These things themselves are fine.

The problem is when you get into a habit of doing it, when it takes over conversations.

A conversation should be about fun, nothing else. If you need a motive, make it having the most fun you can have right now.

Lose the agenda when you talk, have your mind blank. The whole “being in the now” comes in handy here, in a conversation you should be focused on what’s happening right there and then, nothing on your mind you’re trying to force in.

You’ll find this brings out your better, funnier and more social side. People will enjoy being around you a lot more.

Usually it’s when you have some kind of negative agenda that things go wrong. I find that when I use stupid openers, if they’re to make me laugh 9 times out 10 they’ll hook. If it’s to somehow impress the girl I’m talking to or I feel it’s a “magic” opener, it starts to fuck up and that’s where I see shit tests.

Motive is everything.

And let’s not get confused, fucking a girl, talking to her, having a laugh with her, bantering with her, winding her up because you find it funny; these are all good motives. You don’t need to be ‘pure’. What you want to avoid is anything ego related, having some sinister reason for whatever it is you’re doing.

So remember:

Talk for the sake of talking

Author Bio-
Having been a professional bitch of 19 years, Ty discovered the community in 2006. When not drunkenly sleeping with girls from his work, his interests include computer games, movies and colouring-in books. Ty prefers a more natural style of game, with a strong emphasis on fun and a healthy dose of cocky-funny.

ASD – A girl’s strong desire to protect herself from being a “slut” or “easy”. Sometimes she only cares what others think of her, so you can seduce her in private. Other times she wants to believe herself that she is not a slut, and you have to overcome her barriers within herself.

Girls experience this feeling in the form of social anxiety. They get nervous, a tight feeling in their chest, they feel stifled, sometimes they want to run from the situation.

It’s the same as your escalation/approach anxiety … in fact escalation anxiety can be re-framed as “MALE ASD”… and her ASD is in fact exactly the same kind of anxiety barrier getting in the way of her getting sex from you as AA is a barrier to you laying her.

It’s the same SHIT!

What’s the real reframe here?

How many times have you been in set and ejected early? I used to do it tons.

That’s almost exactly the same as a chick spazzing out because of ASD.

Did it mean I didn’t want to fuck the chick when I ejected? No.

Does it mean she doesn’t want to fuck you when she ASDs?

No.

Side Question: Why do chicks drink alcohol?

Answer: To overcome ASD.

Help her overcome her social anxiety.

Bust through her ASD!

* Persist - she wants you
* Understand it could be her anxiety making her want to run, it’s not the choice she wants to make.
* Just like you can use weird ways of getting around your AA – tricking yourself, reframing, etc – you can use the same techniques on her.
* IE: Try changing things… her surroundings… her friends… even cooler and more subtle… just try literally facing her from a different angle (Genius!)
* Take responsibility… take total control of her and move her to grind/kiss… make it 100% your “fault”.

RagsToRich

by Guitar_Whizz

One thing I’ve noticed from recent friday & saturday night sarges in the town where I live is this – because of the binge drinking culture of the UK, after about midnight, literally EVERY girl is drunk as a skunk, therefore if you want to pull them you don’t really need all the tight game you’d usually use on a sober girl.

Here are some simple tactics for pulling these girls:-

TACTIC 1

At this time of night, and especially in loud bars, simply go up to a girl on or near the dancefloor, look her in the eyes, grab her hand and start dancing with her. Do this with TOTAL belief that you will succeed. Oh sure, some girls will brush you off but just move onto the next one if that happens. This technique is known as ‘cavemaning’.

Once you get dancing with a girl, you can start making out with her within a few minutes by going into heavy kino with the dancing and then moving your faces closer together until you are tongueing her down.

Move her to another part of the club and have a conversation, and then say you’re going to another bar and get her to come with you. Once you’re in the next bar, amplify the attraction and then try to get her back to your place by saying ‘we’re going to the monkey bar, come along’. (the monkey bar is your place). If she asks what the monkey bar is, say ‘it’s a private party that only a privaledged few are invited to’. You then get her into a taxi with you and go back to your place.

TACTIC 2

Instead of cavemaning, try this tactic instead. Outside on the street(s) where all the bars & clubs are is your GOLDEN opportunity to pull. When on a night out, don’t think that inside the bar or club is the only place to pull. The street outside the venues will be packed full of chicks walking to and from each bar or club. All you need to do is stop them and ask an opinion, flirting a bit, and then say you’re off to a certain bar and get them to come with you.

Once you’ve got them in the bar, follow the instructions as in TACTIC 1 and get them back to your place.

Both these tactics have been field tested by myself and Lucky Phil, and they work, so give them a try!

-Guitar_Whizz

Avoid Mental Masturbation

“For every 1 hour reading material, spend at least 2 hours in field.”
Brad P

If you’re not doing this, from this day you do it. Even if it’s 2 hours walking around a shopping mall doing “eye contact” experiments. Be strict, at least 2 hours for every 1 reading/watching.

Why?

Because otherwise all this shit is just entertainment to you… nothing more.

You cannot progress by reading and watching… there is a saying in Buddhism that the mastery is in the practice.

You must participate, you must act… there is no other way to learn properly. Things like kino, calibration, eye contact, vibing… these things can NOT be learning through watching and reading. You must practice… a lot.

Split it down even further…

Practice what you want to Improve

“When a noob is learning to become a carpenter in the workshop, the first thing they do is give him a plank of wood and a box of nails and ask him to keep nailing the nails into the plank until there is no visible wood left.

The next day the apprentice has a good feel for the hammer, the weight of the strike, how to correct nails which have entered the wood at a bad angle, etc.”
Mankite

This principle is identical in PU. If you need to learn how to tell jokes – tell a joke in every set. With analysis your progress will be faster still, but even with no analysis at all your emotional circuitry will auto-correct and you will get better at it just through the process.

Try learning how to be amazing joke-teller without telling any jokes in the process…

Not possible, no matter how many books you read.

Practice doesn’t have to be in field!

Although infield practice is crucial… not all practice has to be in field.

Here’s five examples of practice which can be done out of field:

1) Meditation
2) Practicing facial expressions in mirror
3) Practicing dance moves
4) Practicing massage
5) Voice exercises

What’s the moral?

Become more pragmatic!

RagsToRiches

This is an area I have a sick fascination with… in-fact I have been obsessed with the feeling of horniness my whole life.

There’s something incredibly appealing about walking around the city centre in the hot sun in a total haze of raging horniness – completely unable to think of anything but sexual thoughts.

Whether this is good for your game or not is debately. Personally I say yes, it’s awesome for your game. But I can understand why people may argue otherwise.

Regardless of the game benefits there are definite other benefits. Here’s two:

1) It feels totally amazing

2) It makes you think about sexual stuff all day

Here’s a run-down of the methods I’ve used to increase horniness and what I think about them.

Heavy lifting/physical fitness

Basically heavy-lifting to build muscle – max of 9 reps, if you can do more than 9 reps then it’s not heavy lifting and you need more weight.

Also separately – cardio which breaks through your second wind.

Has had a definite noticeable effect – particularly in the intensity of the wildness of my horniness, not necessarily the positive feeling itself.

Effectiveness – 6/10

Zinc, Magnesium, and Vit D

Take regularly just over RDA of all these things – supposedly maximises testosterone and minimises cortisol.

Honestly I’ve never been able to measure the effect of this, so no idea if these supplements are effective. I take them anyway.

Effectiveness – ?

Forcing Sexual Thoughts

Just start thinking about the shit that turns you on, but do it like once an hour. Set an hour-by-hour alarm on your phone/watch and every time it pings think about super-horny shit.

This method is particularly effective when combined with goat-weed or abstention style horniness rages.

Effectiveness – 7/10

Oysters and muscles

Tried on several occasions – unimpressed. No noticable effects – it’s a myth IMO. Any effect is placebo or just from sensation of eating slipery food.

Effectiveness - 2/10 

High-strength Garlic Pills – 5,000 mg

Forget odourless they are useless – you need to take odoured.

Take one or two when you know you do not need to smell nice, because the garlic will come out in your sweat for the next 12 hours.

Effects are basically increased occurrence and strength of erections – but actually horniness feeling/sensation does not feel better.

I tend to take them when I’m not going out, just to clear up the blood vessels.

Effectiveness – 6/10

Abstention from Masturbation

This is totally wild – only problem for me is I am a sucker for orgasms. But after 3-4 days things start to get insane in terms of horniness levels: feeling/sensations get totally maxed out, erections increase, etc.

Basically the most effective option.

Effectiveness – 10/10

Abstention from Orgasm

Masturbating is allowed – but no orgasms. For me this is not as effective as the above, I have a friend who claims it is MORE effective. I think where I go wrong is perhaps getting a little TOO CLOSE to the point of no return, which costs me in horniness gain.

Still – it’s still a lot better than banging one out three times a day.

Effectiveness – 7/10

Horny Goat Weed and Ginko

This stuff is truly amazing. Forget the 1-2 pills a day they recommend, you won’t really notice it, take 7-10 pills, the effect is outstanding. Complete horny obsession for 2-3 hours, rushing blood, and very strong feeling of wildness. I was really impressed with this “ancient Chinese herb” and I recommend any horniness fans give it a go.

I recommend simply supplements (google it) if you want to get this stuff, it’s cheap and effective. Just don’t over-do it – special occasions only.

Effectiveness – 9/10

Alright! PARTY time!!!!!!!!

RagsToRich