Social Falsification

So, in the depths of the mASF forums, a challenge was issued, to all PUAs brave enough to pick up the gauntlet: To sarge a woman, and get a #-close, using nothing but song. Now, the original details allowed full use of kino and a short explanation before hand. In taking up this gauntlet, however, I added my own stipulations: I would not make eye contact (to prevent this, I wore reflective wrap-around sunglasses), I would not engage in any kino, beyond a single touch to the shoulder, and, just to make it near impossible, all the songs would be homecrafted (i.e. steal the beat from other songs at times, but keep it marginally original). The actual mASF post can be found here

Now, before I go on to give my FR, let me just stop for a minute to give NashvillePlayboy some major kudos. Sometimes, the game can start to lose its glamor, and you forget what its really about: fun. Posts and challenges like this one are what get the blood flowing…and are even safe for people like me, who are out of the game itself, but just looking to get back that old confidence boost. NashvillePlayboy, be proud: You’ve been mentioned in an obscure blog with maybe 10 readers.
Anyway, on to the FR:
Being far too busy to go out sarging for any considerable length of time, I picked up AFCWingJM, and began to walk around campus looking for a good approach. I was doing some minor peacocking in my black felt cowboy hat and safety-style reflective sunglasses (worn more to adhere to my own stipulations for the game…i.e. no eye contact), but was mostly just my normal, all black, semi-serious self. We attempted to videotape a few of the approaches, but it didn’t work out well. Apparently, people get very, VERY defensive when a videocamera is openly involved, and will demand that you delete footage, or just walk away from you. Following are the highlights:

Approach 1: HB7Snob was sitting up across from the Dean’s Office, listening to her Ipod and working on papers. I came in with a variant on ‘If you’re happy and you know it’, in which I went through quite a few verses before attempting the close. AFCWingJM helped me by clapping where appropriate for himself. Annotated are which ones the target clapped for:

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands. (no clap.)
If you’re annoyed and you know it clap your hands (1 clap)
If you’ve got a rat up your ass clap your hands (giggling, laughing, no clap)
If you’re amused and you know it, clap your hands (clapping)
If you wanna be distracted clap your hands (clapping)
If you think I’m kinda cute, clap your hands (clapping)
If you wanna sit with me, clap your hands (clapping, moves to sit)
If you wanna be my friend, give a number to my phone and clap your hands (gives phone, number put in)
(lines continue for a while, distracting her and amusing me)
So, you’d think this meant I got it right on the first try, right?  Wrong. Unfortunately, here in the tristate, we have a number that I’ve used myself on quite a few people. Its called the rejection hot line, and can be reached at: 201-808-6011. Basically, I think I moved in too fast after building attraction, here. I did manage to make this approach work, but it wasn’t until after some deep thought.

Approach 4: (Post-Departure of AFCWingJM)  HB9Goth was in the Arts and Science building, attempting to work on an art project. By this point, I was getting kind of distressed by the lack of closes. I’d built a lot of attraction to the women, and had gotten them all to engage (except one person, who slapped me and left when I started with my home-crafted ‘Orgy’ song, but…yeah), but no actual number closes. So…I ditched my restriction on the home-made song part, and opened her with ‘You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling’ …pretty much a straight out Top Gun mimic. I got a look like I was mad, but, she moved over, and I gained entrance to the couch. From there, I noticed that she was working on a celtic-knot-type design, so I switched gears and went semi-original, working with irish folk music. She tried to steal my cowboy hat after a while, and so, in song, I informed her that the person with the hat had to sing. In the end, I got a number without asking for it.

Approach 5:  Still singing with HB9Goth, I noticed that other people in the lounge were looking at us like we were nuts. Since I still had time to kill until AFCWingJM got back from his class, I decided to try to turn a single #-close into a multiple #-close. Placing the cowboy hat on her head, I waited until she got back into the swing of singing again…And then began to lead her about the room, picking out women (mostly through pointing, and letting her decide if they got dragged up). In the end, we had about twelve people giggling and sharing my cowboy hat like a 10 cent whore. AFCWingJM returned during this, and at the end, we all traded numbers and departed for class. I ended up with 5 numbers out of the group. AFCWingJM got 2.

Approach 8: If you’re happy and you know it finally worked. I was solo for this run, and used part of the singing switch I developed in Approach 4 to make HB7Lioness (picture long, curling blond hair, framing a thin face) continue the song. In the end, I didn’t get a #-close, but I did get an AIM close (without asking for either), so I still count it as a success.

Finally, approach 10: This was my last approach of Weds. It…really, really didn’t go well. Apparently, some of the girls had been going around talking about the singing man who was collecting numbers, and it had reached the ears of HB8Nosenseofhumor. Her reaction was to slap me in the face, and walk off, on the opening bars of a home made irish tune. HB9Goth was there to watch it, and was giggling. She said the girl tended to be a bitch, and, since it wasn’t part of the game anymore, I agreed in normal speech.

That kinda ended my day of partial PU. I noticed it was a lot harder to get back into the swing of things after each class, and, as noted…Video Cameras make people edgy as hell when they think they’re being flirted with. That or I just really, really had bad luck with who I picked. But…all in all, I’d say the day was a decent success, if not a booming one. Do you know how hard it is to keep your sunglasses on, when everyone’s looking to take them off?

Thanks, Nashvilleplayboy, for coming up with round one of this game. And trust me, there’ll be other rounds.

This ends my little off-topic tangent. Join us next time as we discuss ‘Practicing The Poker Face’. For now, as always, I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another instillation of ‘Social Falsification: Tales from the Liar’s Underground’.

There is nothing so universally necessicary as the poker face. No matter what form of lying you practice, or what type of social manipulation you’re working (they’re both the same thing, really. Pick whichever one your conscience prefers), the poker face is always, always, ALWAYS needed.

Now, there are some misconceptions about the poker face, to be sure. In the minds of some, its a cold, clear tactic, devoid of any and all expression. To others, its any directly misleading face, that stops the true nature of a person’s intent from being visible. Everyone agrees, however, that a poker face, however you define it, is key to keeping your mark/target/HB11 from realizing exactly what you’re up to.

Pick Up Artists: Your poker face is the face of your persona. When you walk out there, exuding confidence, a poker player’s poker face isn’t going to help you much. But making your visible emotions and reactions match that personality you’ve worked so hard to obtain: priceless.

C-Artists: Your poker face may be emotionally charged, and really varies depending on what you’re selling. If your clients see you as being anything other than what they want to see you as, you’re toast.

Cheaters: Yours is the original, the basic poker face. No emotion: Stone Cold. You don’t want anyone to know what you’re up to, or know that you have any part in the roulette wheel stopping at 7 red every round. You just jumped on it and got lucky. That hand of 7 aces? Yeah. Gotta keep your hand up, your eyes narrow, and your voice silent.

I’m your host Lodinkinni, and this has been another presentation of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground.’ Our next few posts will be something of a departure from the norm, but once they’ve been completed, we’ll resume with ‘Practicing the Poker Face.’

Cheaters are pretty far from being the big fish of the Liar’s Underground. In fact, although some make lucrative livings swindling people, the majority of them don’t gain a lot from their art..or at least, not much more than a person making a nine to five living makes from their own. I won’t be dealing too much with them and their ilk on here, but a few of the techniques that I bring up for their more advanced peers are also useful for them. Also..some of the most important advancements for the other areas of the Underground come from their arts, and are adapted to fit the rest of our happy little underworld.

Sorry guys…you don’t get as much writing time as the rest of the underworld…at least, not unless I find some really worthy topics for your school of art. Have some suggestions, or think I’m downplaying you too much? Please, leave comments, tell me where the art in cheating surpasses my evaluation of it. I’d like to think that I’m wrong, and that every art has equal merits…but I just haven’t seen it yet.

That having been said, I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another post of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground.’ I’ll be seeing you next time, when we’ll discuss ‘The Importance Of The Poster Face’.

Recommended Websites:
Card Cheaters.com: http://www.cardcheaters.com/
Pokerology.com: http://www.pokerology.com/articles/cardcheating.htm

Recommended Readings:
Phantoms Of The Card Table by David Britland

On the web, you can find anything. Well, almost anything. C-Artistry is one of the few darker arts that still holds some of its mystery. Only a few scattered sites about the net are visible to the public eye, and most of those are made by amateurs, unconnected to actual communities. Indeed, even Google, the hailed premiere of search engines, only brings up slightly more than a million matches (small, by google standards), most of which lead to either unrelated websites and topics, crime library links and pages that offer help identifying and thwarting insurance fraud. One of the most premiere website links on Google’s page leads to a ‘Rulebook’ for con artists, that further leads to a radical christian website whenever you click on any of its links!

But why is C-Artistry so hard to find online? Well, the major reason is simple: While PU may be considered sleazy by some, and disrespectful to women, its practices are still legal. C-Artistry, on the other hand, falls extremely far on the other side of the bright red line, and, unlike piracy, can lead to a jail sentence pretty quickly. Despite this, there are a good number of books on the subject, and some of them do illuminate the theory pretty well (as I said…I’m a bibliophile, I can’t help it…).

Despite what wealth of books exist, the art and practice of C-Artistry is still something of a huge grey area, and its pretty hard to define a lot of it. You can, however, break C-Artists into two distinct categories, depending on the type of con they specialize in:

Dirt Salesmen: These guys are the tame version of the C-Artist. Actually, they’re also the most honorable, if you can believe it. The main feature of Dirt Salesmanship is that they sell you something, no matter how shitty it is. They’ll dupe you, yes…and you’ll be pissed as hell…but you’ll have something to show for the exuberant amount of cash that you’ve put out. These are the guys that sell you Limex watches, claiming them to be the original, or who’ll sell you a ‘land rich in oil’ …only for you to find that you purchased a garbage dump on the lower east side.

Air Salesmen: These guys, on the other hand, are the type of con artist that you see movies about. They’re the guys who take nothing but their words, or a fictional service, and weave so much hype about it that you’ll just plain give your cash away. Those lottery deals, in other countries, that just need you to set up a bank account, and put 100 dollars into it? Yeah, those guys.

I don’t think I need to say why these people are a part of the Liar’s Underground. They’ve earned their place there, fair and square. This has been my basic introduction to C-Artistry. Trust me, despite how basic this introduction is, it will be one of the most fleshed out areas of this blog

I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another post of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground.’ I’ll be seeing you next time, when we discuss ‘Cheating: The Dregs Of The Underground.’

Recommended Websites:
NONE: I have yet to find a web community of con artists that meet my approval.

Recommended Reading:
Crimes Of Persuasion By Les Henderson
How To Become A Professional Con Artist By Dennis M. Marlock
How To Cheat At Everything By Simon Lovell

Pick Up Artists. You may have seen their ilk in movies like The Hitch, Swingers, or Cruel Intentions. The truth of the matter is that such people, those who train themselves to seduce and tame women, do, indeed, exist beyond the silver screen. They’ve popped up repeatedly throughout history in guises like the Marqius de Sade, who managed to seduce many women (and men) into indulging in his ‘depraved’ expressions of art and ecstasy, or like Don Juan, who’s romantic exploits were legendary, and perhaps even real, despite the fictional nature of the character. But…what about the PUAs of today? How do they compare to their mythical and historical counterparts?

Being a PUA myself, my opinion here is both weighted and biased. PUAs, as you’ll learn in the course of this blog, come from many walks of life, and gather, with a single goal in mind: Self-Improvement. Some of these men started as geeks, far more pathetic than you’d even guess at, seeing their current states. Others started out pretty much the same as they are now…just with a lot less confidence. As for myself, well…lets just say that I started as a bookworm, and leave it as that.

But, regardless the reason, thousands, if not millions, have flocked to the idea that, through study, one can mold themselves into a person that they could never have been on their own. They have all become what most men wished they were: Self-Made Men.

Now, all of this has the ring of legitimacy to it, so quite a few may question the PUA’s place in the Liar’s Underground, but I assure you, not only do they hold a place there, but they hold one of the highest: Though liars, scoundrels, and thieves may abound, it takes a lot of work to hold up a liar’s practice as honorable, especially when that practice lies in reinventing the self, completely, and passing it off as the original. As we progress further down the road of ruin that this blog will unerringly follow, we’ll examine this in much more detail.

I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another post of ‘Social Falsification: Tales from the Liar’s Underground.’ I’ll be seeing you next time when we discuss ‘C-Artistry: A Brief Overview Of The Art’.

Reccomended Websites:
mAsf: www.fastseduction.com
Charisma Arts: http://www.charismaarts.com/

Reccomended Reading:
The Game, By Neil Strauss

So, those of you that have been to the old social falsification blog, or have heard my talks in the mASF chatrooms and elsewhere (ages ago, I know) know what the theory of Social Falsification is. For those of you that don’t, its an overarching theory of social interaction, aimed at the enhancement of the arts of the Liar’s Underground. This blog will not solely cover social falsification itself, but will explore the entirety of the Liar’s Underground, from the forming communities devoted to the various Liar’s Arts, to the actual techniques employed in each field. Some of the topics will be original work, backed only by real life experience and psychological theory, while others will be the widely tested tried and true of the field. I invite my readers to comment away, and turn each post into a full-blow dialog, so that these ideas may continue to grow and evolve.

Some of you may be wondering at this point, ‘What exactly is the Liar’s Underground, or the Liar’s Arts?’ Simply put, the Liar’s Underground is my term to group the societies that stand to benefit from Social Falsification into a single faction. Generally, I uphold the idea that the Liar’s Underground consists of all communities and individuals who bend their minds to making personal advancement through the deception of others. PUAs, C-Artists, Card Cheaters, Advertisers, Public Speakers, Lobbyists, Televengelists, Cult-Leaders, Writers…all of these fall within the bounds of the Liar’s Underground, and each of these could find or adapt teachings herein to their particular trade or craft. To begin with, we’ll start with the PUAs, the C-Artists, and the Cheaters, and as this blog progresses, we’ll flesh our way out from there.
For those of you looking for the blog, ‘Oh Look! A Squirrel!‘, it has taken third seat to this blog, and a class-made blog, and can be found at http://titania.stockton.edu/lodinkinni3

I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been the first official post of ‘Social Falsification: Tales from the Liar’s Underground.’ I’ll be seeing you next time when we discuss ‘PUAs: An Introductory Post’.

So, todays feature is the hit informative podcast, What You Ought To Know. Now, all of you (and by all of you, yes, I mean all 5 of you, even the spic) who read this horrid concoction of a blog know that I am a big proponent of mental masturbation…the guys who do this show, they’re masters at it. I mean, they give their mind a wank /at least/ once a week, usually more.

Their last post was on a lack of viewers, and on how other crappy, crappy things get more airtime than them, and more hits.

That having been said, lets give them their due:

This Week’s Link(s):
The Chuck Norris Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjnVEsXtNIU
What You Ought To Know: http://www.whatyououghttoknow.com/