Welcome to the Culture-Vultures Courting
Speed Courting and Speed-debating can be a great and easy way of meeting people, learning new things and having a wicked night out. The Culture-Vultures tean have complied a few do'd and don't so that you make the most of your evening:
Culture Vulture: Speed-courting, Do's:
- Use your flirting techniques - if you’re interested let them know! Eye contact, the occasional friendly touch and using the date’s name often are useful tools. Unless you really want them probably best to stay clear of licking your lips suggestively! However full on snogging lunges are not very cool.
- Have a number of witty questions ready for the go. Dont be too cheesy but don't be too boring either. For speed-debating, knowing a fact or two will make you look cool. Knowing too many facts will make you look like a geek.
- Dress well. Dress to kill. Culture Vultures tends to attract the fashionable and well groomed, the quirky and extravagant.
- Observe basic safety guidelines when meeting someone you like. Meet in a public place, tell a friend where you are going, don’t give out your home address to easily. In other words, USE YOUR COMMON SENSE!
- Use the break and “after dating” times to chat and meet. If you fluffed your lines during your scheduled courtship, don’t be scared to make an approach later for a second chance. Be brave if you like someone - ask for their number. But dont stalk people, be cool but confident and let everyone enjoy the evening, meet each other etc. It is quite natural to ask people for their email or telephone number so go ahead and do so. If someone whom you are not interested in asks for your number then do the pollite thing - give them the wrong number. They will get the message.
Culture-Vulture: Speed-courting, Do nots:
- Tell lies and talk nonsense! Might seem like a good idea at the time, but how long could you pretend to be a brain surgeon/dolphin trainer/ballerina for if you met again? Might be a bit of fun at the time - but we all klnow a blageer gets himself nowhere ion the end.
- Have unrealistic expectations. Speed courting can be a great way of meeting available people in a short space of time but it may be unrealistic to expect a string of dates on the back of the evening.
- Use excessive swearing. This is often a big turn off for both sexes. Be cultured, intelligent and fun - not coarse and crude.
- Talk overtly on controversial topics. Of course you don’t want to be completely bland, but think about it- would you really like to listen to your rant on Bush/Blairs conduct in Iraq ? We will aim to keep the speed-debating issues light and airy. So ingratiate your light and airy nature and dont stary to early into copntroversial areas.
- Get blind drunk. Have a tipple or two, enjoy some fine wine and have a knees up. Just dont make a fool of yourself daning on the bar with your trousers around your ankles.
The Culture Vulture Team
At last someone has taken that swear word 'Sp**d - dating' and made it cool! I had a great time and will be back next week. Rob Drury, Crouch End
Thanks very much, what a laugh. I have no idea which city is greater New York or London but I sure had a great time debating it. Becky Davison, London
I hope you will have more venues soon - I am certainly starting to develop my debating skills. Last time I came I met a lovely man but I will come back again and again anyway Astrid Lloyd, Beckenham
What the world has been waiting for. Brilliant. James Tomkinson, Battersea
I am a fully fledged Culture Vulture. As sweet as a nut. Richard Holmes, Reading
Definitely worth my hard earned money. I met loads of interesting people and had a wicked night. Matt Phillips, London Bridge
