Seriously. Can you deliver your pre-contemplated lines everytime with the same warmness and unawkwardness? Don't get me wrong, they are an excellent weapon to have. Maybe it's just me, but I sometimes feel corny delivering a line I have already given to another woman, especially in the same night. I like to bring up things that are in-the now so to speak. For example, I'd comment on her phone, or her appearance (not negging right away), or a funny thing she just said, and then approach her as I would a guy. No homo. We can all make guy friends pretty easily at any place at any time. It's especially good when a set is with some guys. I am given the opportunity to become the center of attention while totally ignoring my target. Anyway, back to my point. It's not always good, in my opinion, to set out each night with a list of openers. I think it hinders our ability to be open minded, and let these women fall into our lap. Sometimes.

Mmm no matter what you think of it anything you do to get the attention of the target/group is your opener. That's kind of like saying its going to feel corny by saying "Hey whats up?" to every approach you pull in the same club. The scripted openers are just things that should be practiced for the hell of it just for fun and luckily there's a bunch to try its probably not a good idea to keep using the same one repetitively.

the practiced/textbook openers are also good for newbs to have a crutch or something to fall back on when they freeze up i beleive

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I totally agree, i purely use "canned openers" when i am doing Warmups. i don't know i just feel awkward doing them. i guess its not my style. And i do them warming up, then naturally i can use funny situational openers.