Wingman

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by CutsieMarie89, Aug 24, 2009.

  1. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    I keep hearing about this "wingman" thing men do to pick up women. Does anyone know what this wingman practice entails?
     
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  3. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I think wingmen talk up the other guy so that he looks more appealing to you. He will also buy your friend(s) a drink and chat her/them up so the main guy gets time alone with you.
     
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  5. Varda The Bug Lady Valued Senior Member

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    The wingman is the guy who talks to your uglier girl friend so that his friend can chat you up.
     
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  7. KernNeart Registered Senior Member

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    whats is this like a job?. do you get paid to do this?. or is it let me guess, a free good deed?. talk to the uglier one. bah.
     
  8. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    Wow. Some guys must be pretty pathetic to need that.
     
  9. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I think us girls are raised with wingwomen. We never seem to go to the bathroom by ourselves, so...:shrug:
    I've asked a guy's friend to dance so my friend could sit and chat with him.
     
  10. chris4355 Registered Senior Member

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    it just another word for saying to another guy, hey lets go to a club and pick up chicks.

    just like girls sometimes go to bars together instead of sitting there alone bored. guys have their wingmens, just friends they go hit on girls with.
     
  11. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    as orleander said, who cares. Women always travel in groups so what difference does it make if men do to?

    Or is the complaint that both men arnt giving you the chance to play one off the other?

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    its stupid to make a name for it though
     
  12. Varda The Bug Lady Valued Senior Member

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    Not really, the harpy hanging out with the chick you want to date can be a serious cockblock, just to make everyone miserable because she's so ugly and never gets any. So it's a pretty honorable thing to do, to be a wingman.
     
  13. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    Oh, I heard some other guy tell me, that a wingman was the guy who made their friend look better by comparison. or something. I didn't get it so I asked.
     
  14. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    It's just a strategy - its not like a job. There's actually a wikipedia entry on it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingman_(social)

    One man "takes one for the team" as it were while the other gets the "pretty girl". It's equally as lame as using a line on someone.
     
  15. superstring01 Moderator

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    It's just a colloquialism for a friend who goes out with a guy to pick up chicks. It may involve, but is not limited to: driving him home if drunk, going home alone if he picks up some strange, hitting on the strange's friend to help him out in getting laid, talking him up, pretending to be his gay friend, laughing at stupid jokes, ect.

    ~String
     
  16. Search & Destroy Take one bite at a time Moderator

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    Wingmaning is a universal tactic involving the bringing of additional men into the cockpit in order to help the plane find a landing strip. A wingman's duties pretty much include spotting wild geese, and other obstacles like maintaining stability and making sure the plane has enough room to maneuver safely.

    Wingmaning is usually much safer than autopilot.
     
  17. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    Those people are best left at home with their cats, unless you don't want cock in which case bring them all along.
     
  18. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I think women cockblockers are usually prettier and more interesting than their friends. They are getting it, therefore blocking their friends from getting it.
     
  19. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    See, I can understand driving them home, hanging out with them, going home alone parts, because most friends would do that for each other. It's the talking to the friend/pretending to be gay etc bits I don't get. Why does anyone need that? :shrug:
     
  20. superstring01 Moderator

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    LOL. So true. So true. I've been a wingman a number of times. Gay men are like puppies when it comes to attracting chicks (or so my friend Mike says). I especially love when they are on to the game and and outsmart the fox.

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  21. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    That's a different way of looking at it. My experience would tell me that usually ugly people have better personalities, as they rely on it more. So I guess it depends what you're trying to pick up. :shrug:
     
  22. superstring01 Moderator

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    Well, historically, sex is a predator game. Point and counter-point. An arms race, so to speak.

    Each gender usually developing and employing new techniques as they come along. Men pursue, women parry.

    For the top 20% of men, "wingmen" aren't needed to pick up strange; it's just more fun to have company. But for the other 80%, getting laid takes finesse and strategy. It's not so much that it's needed, just that it makes it easier.

    Any advantage a man can get in distributing his seed is usually pursued with great vigor. Wingmen help in this endeavor. "Gay" (real or acted) wingmen increase the odds for the man considerably (assumption being: straight men who have gay friends are more metro, sensitive, modern, etc.) The days of clubbing a woman over the head are--for the most part--dead. So now it takes tactical planning. But much like the lion and the gazelle, the prey usually gets away unscathed.

    ~String
     
  23. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    You could just adopt the British strategy. Get so drunk you don't care what they look like, a mouth's a mouth as they say.

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    I think I'll stick to being a confident but primitive person. Now, where's my club......
     

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