| Ok, I've been working on these:
JAPANESE OPENERS
1. Are the Japanese who come to live in London [wherever] different in some way from the Japanese who stay in Japan?
2. Do you ever feel like a gaijin in London?
3. Which Western country feels most like Japan? [I can then expand on how UK and Japan are both islands and how it affects mentality, both inward-looking and leery of the continent, both drive on the same side of the road, had huge relationship in early 1900s etc]
4. Which one of SMAP is the cutest? I thought Shingo is the coolest, especially in his Monkey TV show, but my friend reckons its Nakai (a boy band who have now grown up and become actors / TV talents - wiki and youtube them them if you wanna use it)
5. [To a girl playing Sudoku] Is sudoko really Japanese? I mean, that's how they market it here with all the geisha and samurai on the book covers, but when I was in Japan I didn't see anyone playing it at all.
I field tested 1, 2, 4 and 5 to get into A2 successfully. For number 1 the girl I field tested really took the bait in explaining how the Japanese who come to London [i.e. people like her] are more interesting and outgoing. Number 2 let me drop in that I lived in Japan to seed further questions. Haven't field tested 3. Number 4 opened but wasn't sure how to expand - perhaps try the NLP on how she feels if she's attracted to the guy she names as her favourite. The sudoku one is really hard to expand so I quickly stacked into a second opener.
OTHER OPENERS
6. Do girls feel more, or less, self-conscious when they're on holiday? [stack with the deleted pictures opinion opener]
7. Do you believe subtle things about how you dress reveal secrets about your personality [stack with a quick observation game about her friend or a stranger across the room]
8. How can you tell, early on, if a woman has a love-hate relationship with ..... chocolate [root / expand with how your previous girl used to slow down as she walked past cake shops and just look through the window, drooling at the chocolate cakes and eating them with her eyes. She was in great shape, as a dancer, but something about chocolate shops it was worse than trying to walk past a shoe shop etc]
Opinions / refinements appreciated.
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