Irritating guys to go along with on group dates
AdvertisementOne traditional form of finding a member of the opposite sex is the group dating party thing, or the 合コン, go-kon in Japanese, where a group of usually three of four guys and girls go out and things may or may not develop. goo Ranking took a look at what sort of activities from fellow guys at go-kons irritate them. Hopefully there will later be the femal equivalent survey.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 24th of July 2009 1,026 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 48.2% of the sample were male, 8.0% in their teens, 14.6% in their twenties, 28.8% in their thirties, 26.0% in their forties, 12.5% in their fifties, and 10.1% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I’ve been to a go-kon exactly once, organised by a colleague from the guys side and a female friend of his from another division of the company. Six of us went out for a meal, and absolutely nothing happened, mostly because the other five were just as socially inept as me.
Note that as suggested by answer 15, people in relationships, even some married people, go along to these parties for innocent reasons such as making up the numbers.
Ranking results
Q: What behaviour from other men at a go-kon irritates you? (Sample size=495, male)
Rank Score 1 Droning on and on about samurai and ninja 100 2 Not getting into the swing of things 80.5 3 Groping the girls 62.1 4 Trying to drink the girls under the table 58.6 5 Telling dirty jokes 54.0 6 Raving on about his obsession 51.7 7 Getting drunk too quickly 44.8 8 Not thinking about the seating arrangements 43.7 9= Getting over-excited 42.5 9= Getting lost in conversation with one girl 42.5 9= Not going along the the second party 42.5 12 Spilling his drink 41.4 13 Not worrying about the last train home 39.1 14 Drinking solidly 36.8 15 Pretending he doesn’t have a girlfriend 32.2 16 Not paying for the girls 31.0 17 Playing with his fringe all night 28.7 18 Getting all soppy with the girls 27.6 19= Not setting up jokes as the funny man/straight man 26.4 19= Starting by handing out his business cards 26.4
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That first one didn’t make much sense till I looked up the Japanese… 武勇伝 would be more like tales heralding their own bravery, or more than likely just talking about them bragging and tooting their own horn a little too much.