I have to agree with Stein here, wading through the depths of shite that is the daily mail in order to build a collection of possible connection points is compromising your own standards as a human being since you are pretending to be somebody you're not. And that there is what makes it a bit of a dick move I'm afraid. Whilst you're probably right in that you might be able to spark up more of a conversation from more common conversational topics, the quality of conversation you've got there is fairly lackluster. And to me, nothing is more of a turn off that talking to a girl that's clearly got nothing between the ears.

That being said, I respect the fact that you've posted an opinion on you're experience and taken the criticism with an intellectual argument, something which is oddly counter intuitive to your post (he he he).

I don't agree with what you said sir, but damn shall I fight to the death your right to say it.