Ignore the awkward translation. This article shows the quintessentially Norwegian fascination with social science through a lens of tabloid-style adolescence.
from the blog Eye Candy Solutions
(originally published in Aftenposten's weekend magazine)
Saturday, Oslo centrum:
To summer dressed girls strolls toward Grensen. A dark haired guy at 165 cm stands at a few meters distance and scouts behind dark sun glasses. He catches a glimpse of the blondes and doesn’t hesitate. With steady steps he follows them. When he reaches the side of the blondest one of the girls, he touches her arm gently and says: “I saw you from across the street, and you were so gorgeous that I just had to come over and talk to you. Hi, I’m Jim!” He reaches out his hand. She takes it and giggles somewhat shy. After five minutes of dialogue, laughter and heavy eyeballing her number is saved on Jim Stark’s phone. What really happened?
“I don’t really understand it myself”, Sigrid Meland (18) says. “He seemed so confident and nice at the same time. I simply got a bit charmed. It’s not every day you experience something like that in Oslo. Norwegian boys are so shy”, she adds. Meland has just been exposed to one of the world’s best professional pickup-artist. 27 year old Australian Jim Stark, or Mr. M as he’s better known as within the pickup community, has demonstrated what he calls “daygaming” and “number-close” to A-Magasinet. This means to pick up girls during the daytime with the goal of getting a phone number and a date later on. The former lawyer is so good at this and other pickup techniques that American company Love Systems pay him over a million a year to travel around the world and teach his seduction techniques to other men. He was recently in Norway for the third time. Also in this country there are more and more men who want to learn pickup through science and tested methods.
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