How To Flirt
Face-to-face flirting can feel a bit like dial-up internet – there are faster, more efficient technologies to get your point across (without anyone else listening in and sniggering). Yet here’s the kicker: only 13% of Tinder-born relationships make it past a month. Which means your in-person seduction skills still count. But are they as sharp as Thierry Henry in a cardigan? Consider this a refresher course in chat. Refresher course? You obviously haven’t heard me down the pub Yeah, thing is, mate, the line between friendly banter and flirtatious banter is like tennis pre-Hawk-Eye – the call could go either way. When the University of Kansas got 104 strangers to chat, only 28% could correctly identify whether their partner had been flirting with them. So, while you know you’re sweet-talking, in almost three quarters of cases the other person will not. But "Can I buy you a drink?" is a sure-fire winner, right? Psychologist Chris Kleinke compared 100 opening lines a...