I agree with what Ben said.

About social skills and being able to keep up a conversation or ask a girl out, these things you can learn. I couldn't do it a few years ago, I can now. Just don't fret so much over it and eventually you'll do fine.

Sure, I was scared like hell when I phoned this one girl to ask her out and even more terrified when she actually said yes (at which point I had no idea what to take her out to so we agreed I'd get back to her on that, which I did). She didn't want to be more than friends when I told her I liked her some time later, but I still feel glad for having asked her out and told her. Oh, and we get along wonderfully (which is sometimes a bit of a pity too, but generally it's great).

Anyway, good luck to BAF

Austin Powers reference, for those who've never seen it.

Evert: I'm getting better at it It just takes some substance abuse.....

There might be some confusion here. "To ask a girl out" generally means to ask if she'll be your girlfriend. If you just want to go somewhere with her, you could maybe say "ask her out somewhere".

As for me, I seem to scare them off before I get anywhere near the asking out stage. And that's when I'm not even after romance. All I want is Japanese conversation partners.

... What?

Asking girls out is like a lottery - for a small prize you can win the jackpot. Only the chances are usually higher...

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Ah!
The Dutch phrase "uitgaan met iemand" translates literally to "to go out with someone", but without the implied meaning of dating someone.

What does it mean 'to go Dutch'?

I had a French penpal once. I wrote her a French letter.

Actually, I found that, heh ... I still don't get it. The alternative would be to expect the girl to pay one's expenses ... ?

No, you're not too slow. mEmO's too fast. Thanks for the proper explanation

did that story go something like this: "No we didnt break up."?

On a date, that'd be rude. I agree.

But when it comes to spending the night and alcohol, that's the name of the game in this country. As a rule of thumb, everybody goes dutch.

I'm an exception, of course, since quite a lot of people owe me minor favours which they return quite happily as buying. Now that my license is still suspended for another two weeks (including one weekend) I can easily collect all that free booze and get hammered real cheap. All i need to do is stroll around the local club and wave at all the people i know and sit somewhere and watch the free booze come.

I did that last saturday and me and my friends (who had to go dutch, of course, since nobody owed them booze), we were so hammered that NOTHING stayed put when we left the club at closing time and walked home.

Lets count the amount of "unbreakups" shall we people?

So far I'm pretending that the amount of "unbreakups" is around 874, and Zidane won't admit it.

me too

i didnt think it was that funny