What’s your best icebreaker at a dinner party?

‘I just use my smile’


Have you ever been to one of those sober dinner parties? Or seen a girl you like at the bar, but just stood staring at her because you don’t have any banter to loosen the mood?

Well here’s some of Durham students best ice breakers to get any awkward situation running smoothly.

Emma Fullerton, Trevs, fourth year

“You’re ugly but you intrigue me.”

Benedicte Sampson, Chads, second year

“Let them come to you.”

Keith, Aidens, third year

“I play chess.”

James Bayne, Collingwood, first year

“If you were an enzyme, I’d be a DNA Helicase so I could unzip your genes.”

Ben Evans, Castle, second year

“I wish you were my little toe because I’d bang you against all the household furniture.”

Isabel Davies, Chads, first year

“When I panic I make up dirty jokes, I once told my deputy to head to fuck himself in the knee in German (it’s a well known German idiom…)”

StJohn Featherby, Castle, third year

“Do you know what kind of bees make milk? Boobies.”

Jack Stileman, Hatfield, third year

“I’m really sorry I’ve lost my number, can I have yours?”

Noah Lipschitz, Chads, first year

“I don’t use lines, lines are superficial. I just use my smile.”

These icebreakers are questionable – but well done Durham, you’ve tried.