Adnan Farooqui

These are the essentials of flirting. Must read.

"Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?," asked Shakespeare. Now, women of the world have replied: "No, just tell me I have beautiful lips."

A new survey of online flirting by dating website Badoo.com has found that the best Internet chat-up line for men to use is: "You have beautiful lips."

"We have found the Holy Grail of flirting," said Badoo Director of Marketing Lloyd Price.

The site, which boasts 87 million registered users worldwide, analysed the success rates of opening lines from nearly 200,000 online flirtations in 11 languages over the course of one month to come up with a "Compliment Success Index."

Site users were invited to use one of 12 different chat-up lines. Each complimented an aspect of a woman's body or appearance. Researchers measured the success rate of each line in two ways: first, their success at prompting any response at all; second, their success at launching a longer conversation -- one going back and forth at least four times.

Complimenting a woman's lips was the most successful overall, but other lines worked best in particular countries.

American, French, Italian or Brazilian women were more responsive to "You dress beautifully." Brits preferred praise for their legs, Spaniards responded to compliments about their hair, while Germans and Canadians preferred skin praise. Dutch and Portuguese women liked: "You have beautiful ears."

Jo Hemmings, a British behavioural psychologist said women responded best to compliments about their lips because it's a bold approach that seems more personal.

"What many women want is for men to take the initiative and not be wishy-washy," Hemmings said in a statement accompanying the survey. "A lot of men on dating sites send a sort of generic message and women recognize something that hasn't been customised for them."

David Givens, American author of the book, "Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship" said the results made sense because women focus a lot of attention on their lips.

"From adolescence onwards, they cosmetically adorn their lips, applying lipstick and colours. They have been doing so since ancient Egypt."

Source: http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE6BD3DC20101214
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I can totally related to this. Whenever somebody says this word in front of me, I just flip out and get my ninja on to kick some ass!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it's actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

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Well, here I am again, in the departure lounge of the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. Its the same procedures, the same security checks, the same formalities etc etc... However sometimes there are incidents which make these highly boring trips, one to remember.

Someone tweeted me this pic while we were hving discussions about not studying and wasting time on Twitter even when we've an exam due tomorrow. It goes without saying, this picture is truly hilarious and its not just me, i know most of you will definitely be able to relate to this picture.

So without further ado, here it is!

 

See what i mean? :p

 

Adnan.

 

Photo courtesy of Haris Nadeem.

What a drastically dramatic, chaotic, hectic and rather irritating two days it has been. Its a story of confused, infatuated university students, who seek my advise in matters relating to their hearts.

So what exactly is the story here?

A Case study on wedding Decisions (Average 30 yrs)

COST:

200,000 Marriage Expenses

15,000 Monthly expenditure

3,000 Wife's monthly maintenance

RETURNS: SEX

First 5yrs Weekly 3 Times

Next 5 yrs Weekly 1 Time

Next 10yrs Once in 15 days

Next 10yrs Once in a month

Meaning

1400 times sex in 30years for an estimated expenditure of a whooping 6,680,000 + Opportunity cost of 200,000 spent on wedding at 7% for 30 years as per current Post -tax Fixed Deposit Interest rate 2,984,890

=9,964,890

CALCULATIONS

A Man spends 7120 for each time he has sex with his Wife

CONCLUSION:

Outsourcing is cheaper! :p
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