Two main tips:
1) Go out.
2) If you're not meeting or talking to anyone at the place you're going out to after a few times of going there, go somewhere else.
Okay maybe 3 tips:
3) Don't totally write off someone who isn't hot. Or female for that matter. Make friends! You never know when the friendly, chunky, unattractive lady trying to talk to you about the band that's playing turns out to be bffs with the guitarist, who turns out to be single and is sick of chads and keeps coming over to chat in between sets.
Basically stop trying to "pick up girls" and start trying to "meet some people". And every location tends to have its own culture and type of people who go there so if one place doesn't work, try another.
My favorite bar is an absolute dead zone for meeting people. Love the bar, love the atmosphere, love the food but everyone goes there with friends and never chats outside their group. Been going there 10+ years and can count without running out of fingers the number of conversations I've had with people who are not the bartender. I still go, but not to meet people.
Another bar I like a lot less has about 50-50 odds of striking up a good conversation. People go there to chat, pretty much, and it's a much friendlier crowd in general. You just gotta switch up your locations if one isn't working out after 3-4 tries.
>>10364572Mostly agree with this too. I have the worst luck when looking. I have the best luck when saying "ah fuck it, I'll just go to this place, at least there's a decent band playing".
