I n our years of playing the

dating game, we’ve

realised that boys just

don’t make sense and that

sometimes it’s best to get

advice straight from the

horse’s mouth. So we

trotted over to the McFly stables,

thinking they could teach us a

thing or two about the

workings of the male mind

and what to do in diffi cult

dating situations. After all,

they’re all pretty settled.

Half of them are married,

so they must know what

they’re doing, right? Turns

out we were wrong – oh, so

wrong – and they’re now

the last people we’ll turn to

for any form of guidance.

We should also let you

know that our magazine

would get shut down if we

printed most of what they

said, so this is the very-

much censored version

(maybe apply for work

experience, then bribe us

with crisps to hear the bits

we had to cut out…).

What do we do if we really fancy a guy at a party, but can’t work out if he’s gay? Dougie “Talk about football.”Harry “No, gay men like football.”Danny “Put on Born This Way and see if he dances!”Tom “Put YMCA on!”

We met a boy at a party and are about to see him for the fi rst time since then, but we can’t remember what he looks like! What do we do?Harry “Do you know his name?”

Yes.Harry “Just shout his name, just shout, just keep shouting it.”Dougie [Shouting] “Alan! Alan! Alan!”Harry “And then he’ll look round.”Tom “Go to the customer services bit in the cinema or wherever and put a call out for Alan. ‘Bing-bong, Alan, please

PULLING A GUY WITH McFLY

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