Dude on Tinder uses inappropriate shark pickup line and ends up getting schooled in the best way

He should know to never look for sharks unless he wants to get bitten.
Dude on Tinder uses inappropriate shark pickup line and ends up getting schooled in the best way
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When matching with someone on Tinder, be prepared to receive all sorts of different pick-up lines. Some are funny, some are straight to the point, and some are just inappropriate resulting in fails. This is a story of the latter.

Redditor bovinespecies used a mediocre shark pickup line as his icebreaker with Natalie, his Tinder match.

Natalie replied with nothing but facts―literally.

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She schooled him on shark attacks, "There's a 1 in 3,700,000 chance of getting killed by a shark." Now, I'm no shark expert but that sounds pretty convincing. And even if it's not, her technical approach deserves some praise because let's be real, he has no chance after that.

My advice to anyone receiving this sort of approach is, just keep swimming. There's more fish in the sea, or uh sharks.

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