'Is your father a terrorist? Because you look bomb': People from around the world reveal the most bizarre, cringe-worthy pick-up lines used in their home countries

  • Cut.com asked people from around the world to recount the most memorable pick up line they had ever heard
  • While many were run-of-the-mill cheesy comments like 'you have beautiful eyes', others were vulgar, offensive and downright strange 

By Valerie Siebert For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:44 EST, 1 October 2015 | Updated: 21:24 EST, 1 October 2015

As it turns out: pick-up lines are awful, no matter where you are from.

The latest installment of Cut.com's Around the World series sees interviewees from all over the globe recount the most memorable pick up lines they have encountered or even used - and the results are cringe-worthy to say the least.

The video kicks off with a girl from Columbia, retelling the most 'traumatizing' pick-up line she had ever heard.  

All around bad: A new video by Cut.com sees people from all over the globe repeat the most memorable pick-up lines they have heard or used

All around bad: A new video by Cut.com sees people from all over the globe repeat the most memorable pick-up lines they have heard or used

A bit much: This man from New Delhi told the filmmakers about a pick up line used by him and his friends that was in particularly bad taste
A bit much: This man from New Delhi told the filmmakers about a pick up line used by him and his friends that was in particularly bad taste

A bit much: This man from New Delhi tells the filmmakers about a pick-up line used by him and his friends that was in particularly bad taste

'Hey Mami, look at you all dressed up in red. I'll be your bullfighter even if that's too much meat for my sabre,' she quotes. 

Laughing, she advises any girl hearing that vulgar line to 'run for her life.' 

A bespectacled man in New Delhi tells Cut.com of a particularly tasteless line that he claims he and his friends have been known to use on occasion.

'We go to a girl and ask: "Is your father a terrorist?"' he explains. 'She asks why. "Because you look bomb."'

Out east: Some of the lines are on the cheesy side of the spectrum, such as this Bangkok woman's best-remembered line where a man asked her for change to call his mom and 'tell her that I found my match'

Out east: Some of the lines are on the cheesy side of the spectrum, such as this Bangkok woman's best-remembered line where a man asked her for change to call his mom and 'tell her that I found my match'

Coming on strong: Some of the lines seem to cross all cultures, such as this pick-up attempt on a pretty blonde girl in Berlin

Coming on strong: Some of the lines seem to cross all cultures, such as this pick-up attempt on a pretty blonde girl in Berlin

Playing the game: For the American segment, a man in Seattle uses a mix of pop culture references and wordplay for his pick up attempt
Playing the game: For the American segment, a man in Seattle uses a mix of pop culture references and wordplay for his pick up attempt

Playing the game: For the American segment, a man in Seattle uses a mix of pop culture references and wordplay for his pick-up attempt

Jumping over to Bangkok, a pretty young woman smiles as she repeats one of the cheesier lines she's encountered from local men, where they ask her if she has a coin because 'I need to call my mom and tell her that I found my match'.

For one blonde beauty in Berlin, the pick-up lines were of the more globally standard variety, including: 'Do you believe in love at first sight or do I have to walk by again?'

It's a mix of pop culture references and a play on words for the American segment, showing a man from Seattle asking: 'Is that a Pokemon in your pocket?' before adding: 'Because I want to "Pikachu".'

Lady-hunting guys from Bogota are apparently also creative with their vulgarity, according to a young woman who remembers being instructed by a man to 'get my cement to harden so I can sculpt a monument out of you.'

Keep it clean: Some of the lines veer into vulgarity, such as the line once heard by this young lady in Bogota

Keep it clean: Some of the lines veer into vulgarity, such as the line once heard by this young lady in Bogota

Contempt: This girl from Rome pities the men who have attempted to toss cheesy lines her way as she walked down the street
Contempt: This girl from Rome pities the men who have attempted to toss cheesy lines her way as she walked down the street

Contempt: This girl from Rome pities the men who have attempted to toss cheesy lines her way as she walked down the street

A scathing review: A Parisian girl dismisses all pick-up lines as 'ridiculous' before musing that, 'there is no real phrase to approach a girl. It's just about the art of conversation'

A scathing review: A Parisian girl dismisses all pick-up lines as 'ridiculous' before musing that, 'there is no real phrase to approach a girl. It's just about the art of conversation'

For several of the women interviewed, pick-up lines were not only something to cringe over, but also made them feel pity for the men who utter them - calling them 'pathetic'.

'Poor little boy,' waves off an Italian woman in Rome as she remembers men driving up next to her to shout: 'Hi there pretty, you want a ride?'

The most scathing account of the art of the pick-up line comes from a girl in Paris, who says she has heard that she was 'charming' and has 'beautiful eyes', but thinks that the comments are 'ridiculous and pathetic and not even nice to hear for a girl. Because we know they say that to every girl.'.

She adds: 'There is no real phrase to approach a girl. It's just about the art of conversation.'

Pick-Up Lines Around the World is just the latest in a series of videos by the producers at Cut.com. They have previously tackled the global views of America and kissing around the globe.

 

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