Quote: (12-08-2011 12:58 PM)ElJefe Wrote:
Ha, he looks like a huge hipster. Dude, I wonder if you're not easily intimidated?
I've got my own trip planned to Iceland - I'm going to aim for that festival you were talking about. Sounds like a good party.
Another thing I'm worried about is being designated a sex-tourist now that the cat is out of the bag on Iceland. I can get around it easy enough, but the general suspicion towards foreigners is probably going to go up?
1) I am DEFINITELY easily intimidated. Probably the main reason I've worked on learning game. I've learned over the years to face my limitations. I'm really smart, highly artistic and musical, but the bad side of that double edged sword is intense dislike of conflict.
But as far as my assessment of Iceland guys as kind of cold and circumspect, like slightly mistrustful military guys, I stand by that. It's not like they're considering violence against you, more like they don't take you seriously as a person until you proved yourself.
As I mentioned, I worked in prison with all the most intimidating mofos you could imagine; so my judgments are based on real experience.
The worst, scariest, coldest and most cynical of all were the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members. They are very violent ( and proud of it) white supremacist creeps. Just writing down the name makes me feel some fear.
Now I don't want to exaggerate, I'm not saying Icelandic guys, or the one I had the serious conversation with, are hateful and violence prone or evil. I just brought up the comparison because I got the feeling you'd have to win their trust, and they were slightly contemptuous. It's like those gang guys are the degenerate strain of real Viking types.
Icelanders are a warlike adventurous race and it's reasonable to assume it would show.
2) As far as being sex-tourist tagged, I saw some guys there that looked like it, but the 8+ chicks seem just SO hard I can't see it competing with EE/FSU at ALL; which will keep the tourist numbers limited.
Out of 6 guys who looked like American brothers to me two were with Icelandic chicks that it looked like they were fucking. That doesn't seem like too bad odds since those 4 lost guys probably were just tourists who had heard the chicks were hot and were kind of on a dream mission.
In general, Most guys with any game can get 6's in the USA/England so why bother with Iceland?
I'm into it because it's a sort of a throwback to a relatively pagan European culture that doesn't exist anymore.
One thing I noticed after I was talking to Viking Alpha was the Barista ~6 chick was way more open and openly IOI'ing me. There is something seriously Middle-Ages about that place, like if you're in with the "warrior class" the chicks will now approve of you.
The whole time I was there, I don't think I got eye contact from one 8+.
3) Dude, if you're going to that Metal/Rock fest, we should team up if I can get my wimpy metrosexual band members to go ( Actually they're all right, they're from the Midwest.) The festival is at the extreme other end of the island from Reykjavik.It's ben getting bigger and bigger and last year there were about 1500 people there, this year who knows? I think you'd be accepted as a bro at that place if you go to the length of going that deep into Iceland and its culture. Like you say, it will probably be a wild fucking party. Renting a car is like $150-200 per day for a good one, but once you're at the site I think you can camp which really cuts your costs. I just priced a ticket from San Francisco to Reykhavik on Iceland Air for next July and it's only about $700 round trip.
That fest sounds really fun, but you do know metal attracts more guys than chicks. It's not like a John Mayer concert, haha.