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Foolproof: The Birds and the Balance Boards

by Shawn White (2008-03-02)


Foolproof Usage 3: Handyman is Handy

One cannot deny the rugged mechanic's appeal amongst the female population. After all, handymen represent the greatest cause of extramarital affairs right after alcohol and Christmas bonuses. In dealing with single women, though, handyman is arguably the most effective moniker a desperate gamer can adopt.


He steals your women, and cliched video game quotes!

Here's the plan: first, casually introduce the apple of your eye to your Wii and Balance Board. Then, explain in a sensual, yet sophisticated tone how this state-of-the-art technology interprets an array of bodily movements through dual receptors embedded in an impressive conglomeration of semiconductors and unicorn droppings. Finally, tell her how Wii Fit measures copious components of one's constitution and complexion, but that the contingency commands a critical concern.

Now if your mix of technical jargon and excessive alliteration doesn't have her lunging at you in wild passion, boot up Wii Fit, but act like the Balance Board needs fixing first. Apply your handyman skills (i.e. pretend to tinker with the board while you really just replace the batteries), say, "Thank goodness my dear father bequeathed his amazing mechanical skills to me before passing from this Earthly realm," and enjoy rounding second base. Make sure she's not married!

Foolproof Usage 4: Combating Contradictions

Women, it seems, took celebrated American poet Walt Whitman too literally when he said in Leaves of Grass, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself." One can hear the woman bemoaning the lack of sensitivity in men these days, just before she remarks about the "hawt" factor inherent to the muscular meatbag who just winked at her. This is a real problem - at least until the Balance Board comes along.


How can anyone compete with this guy? Honestly?

Rather than wonder if you possess desirable qualities, the Balance Board can act as a convenient symbol of both your sensitivity and mojo. Firstly, carve your favorite line of poetry into the device (may I suggest Walt Whitman?), and when the potential for mating arises, flaunt it with ritualistic abandon.

Follow up your show of strength and grace by explaining how the poetry is an extension of your sensitive soul; the board, a physical manifestation of your expression, not to mention a metaphor for the beauty in all things - including plastic. Can't top that, meatbags!

Note: carving poetry into your Balance Board may void your warranty. Stealing thunder from meatbags may void your life.

Foolproof Usage 5: All for Brawl

So maybe you're not interested in a serious relationship right now; maybe you would settle for bearing witness to the eighth wonder of the world: a woman playing video games. Of course most reading this will hibernate until sometime around May following the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl next week, and lose all care for humanity as a result, but Brawl and the Balance Board could be key to joining man's two greatest motivations (video games and women, for those who aren't following).

Two months of straight playing should be enough to leave most gamers sick of 4-player matches with 13-year-olds and their fascination with 'Net speak, and all of the back-logged testosterone should create a yearning for the opposite gender. But because two months of straight playing will only cover about 17% of what Brawl has to offer, one can't exactly step away.


Zelda may not be too happy with you leaving...

Solution? Hook your lady friends on Wii Fit and the Balance Board, convince them that the device can be used for Brawl, slyly set them as computer characters, and then take great satisfaction in their fruitless gyrations. Let them win once or twice to ease the fact that you're a terrible and manipulative person.

Despite the foolproof-ness of these techniques, I take no blame should they not work for you or result in painful kicks to your man-bits. After all, some people simply are not meant to reproduce, which is why we have video games featuring well-endowed women in the first place.

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