I do pretty well with my negs, evry now and then they go over the top but it's no biggie.

Anyway most of my buddies have awful game and I try to teach some of them. I say that a neg should be in the same tone as a roast joke. If you have ever seen a roast you know the tone I am talking about. now obviously it should not be as harsh as some roast jokes. but say it as if you were roasting her and her friends were your audience.

all your thoughts and comments are appreciated.

I have to admit that I'm guilty of using negs possibly a little more than necessary. In my experience it's something that ideally you shouldn't be doing - negs adversely affect your relationship with others, rather, sometimes you have to do it to take that hot blonde down a few notches so you can actually make some kind of impression.
It's really important to think about the consequences of what you're doing - some girls will take negs really seriously, maybe they'll go home, think about it loads and feel really bad for a week.
If I neg, I always try to make it silly and fun rather than hurtful - e.g. the other week I met a girl with really small hands so I said "Let me see your hand again. that's pretty special, I could take a picture of this and stick it in my baby album and no one would ever know!"

right. the response is suppose to be laughter and she should know it is a joke. maybe i neg with more severity than you do. im not criticizing you by saying that i just think that we probably have different styles of game.

Just neg like you didn't even notice you did it then move along. Always smile. You are the life of the party not an ass.

I rarely bother with "negs" in the sense of negative comments directed at some aspect of a girl's appearance, demeanor, fashion, or any aspect of her self that is relatively enduring.

I think that the idea of "bringing her down a notch" is less than useful. Negs do work, but it's almost by accident. What you are doing with a neg is not so much "bringing her down" as demonstrating that you are not intimidated. There are many ways of doing this without using "negs"...

Except... I do sometimes use something similar to a neg, except the context in which I use it is never immediately following an opening. (In fact, I don't bother with cold openings unless I'm entertaining myself. I typically only open to girls from whom I've already had, or forced, one or more IOIs, so when I approach I know she is fairly well primed). In any case, what I will do at times is make a comment about something a girl did NOT in fact do. For example: "Step on my foot again, sweetheart, and you'll be about due for a spanking." "Keep undressing me with your eyes and we're going to end up in a torrid affair."

I pretty much only use these if there is an audience of her friends and the response I'm looking for is embarrassment. I won't do this if I think the girl is shy, but if I think she's got some play in her, then I will.

Very occasionally, if a girl makes a really bitchy comment and yet I still see something potentially interesting, I might "go nuclear" on her, and say something along the lines of "You know, you are a dead ringer for my ex-wife. She was a raving bitch too, but good in bed."

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