>>81662503
>I was cringing really hard and cannot imagine that a guy with that type of charisma could successfully pull off that creepy finger up the arm thing these days
By the time he runs his finger up her arm he's already established a very friendly rapport with this woman, she's already given him her number and agreed to go out on a date with him. This isn't "a thing that wouldn't work nowadays". It's exactly like how Ross explains it to Louis as he stands there in disbelief, "It doesn't match your experience of what's possible for you, so you're not believing it even though it's happening right in front of your face."

>>81662675
>Personally, I've read pickup things when I was a teen and they never worked for me.
That might be because you were reading retarded shit like "Where a ridiculous hat and call it peacocking, and insult the woman right away (negging) so she's not too full of herself." Or it might be because you were an awkward teenage boy (we've all been there) and you didn't have the finesse to pull it off. But as Henry Ford said "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."