Hey Babydoll, How's It Hanging?
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Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. This is Bill Nye at Ill-Advised by Bill Nye. And I'm here to answer your questions, or at least pretend to, without actually making things worse. It's a refuge here for the clumsy and the awkward. And if you're socially adept and enjoy healthy relationships, there's nothing for you here. This is a podcast for people who shave on tiptoe to avoid looking in their eyes. I actually have a mirror at home, which it never occurred to me. I placed it on the wall where I thought it would look good. But when people come around, you'd have to be six foot seven to use it as a mirror. But it never, ever occurred to me. It's only when people come around, they say, why do you put a mirror so high?
You can't look into it. And I didn't think of it as a mirror. It was just like an object that looked, it was oval-shaped, it was dark brown, and it looked kind of good. It just makes me laugh that, you know. But if you jump, you can see. If you jump up for a billionth of a second, you can just about see. You don't look very good because you've just jumped, but you can actually use it. Thank you for all of your questions. Here goes.
Hi Bill, this is Max here from Essex. I'm getting in touch because I'm currently struggling to ask a girl out or tell if a girl likes me who works in the same office as me. We have a similar group of friends but I'm a bit of a scaredy cat about approaching people in the office so we don't get to hang out a lot. I don't know if you have many cases of office romance or anything like that but I don't have much luck in any walk of life so how do you manage to ask a girl out? Any advice would be Positively useful. Thank you so much. I'm loving the pod.
Max, this is the hardest question in the history of questions. And the idea that I would know the answer is you should ask any of the girls who I tried to ask out how they feel about me doing that. But now, of course, when it's too late, I have all kinds of ideas. I think you should probably say something like, do you want to get a soya frappuccino? Trust me, it works every time. I don't know why. Maybe it's the soya thing. No, I'm kidding. It probably doesn't work at all. You could say, I wondered if you would like to have, you know, breakfast with me in Paris. If you've got any money, I don't know how much money you've got max, or you could say, uh, I feel really, really stupid, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Can I take you out? I think the thing is not to pretend you're not nervous unless you want to turn what they call pro and you really don't want to turn pro max. Cause that's a deeply unattractive status. Um, so. like yeah you can see i'm struggling too maybe i should ask her out on your behalf because then it would be fine tell her to call ill-advised on bill nye and i'll ask her out on your behalf only in like print but you know i could say you could tell me her name and i would say you know i understand that max wants to ask you out and i'm doing it on his behalf could do that could work Other than that, you know, office romance. I've never worked in an office, so I don't know. But I've worked in, you know, companies where is it a good idea?
We don't know. Is it a good idea to be romantically involved? But then, as you say, where else are you going to, you know, have contact, substantial contact? You can hear I'm really struggling here. I'm about… i wouldn't be able to ask her out so therefore i should just come clean i have no idea what you should do max except just walk straight up to her the next time you see her and say anything just say as long as you get the words can i take you out and just see i bet the sky won't fall but then of course if she says no and then you've got the rest of your life in the office with her and then she gets married to some other bloke in the office and they have many children and they live happily and you're just a lonely guy who never really found the right girl.
I mean, it could go really badly.
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