Actually on second glance I think the setting is a train or subway. (there are people sitting in a line around them, and they're holding a pole like in the middle of public transit vehicles.)
I mean, yes. A super weird thing to say to a stranger.
Buuut…there are just some people with the kind of—I believe the kids are calling it “rizz”—to get away with and win people over with things no one should ever say. I’m sure it’s a mixture of looks, confidence, the elusive “charm,” and also, yes, probably plenty of people taking offense still.
But, there are definitely people with the right mix of all that, plus a kindness about their aura/perception that can and definitely do say this kind of shit.
One of my buddies, for example. He’s over 50. But whatever it is, when we’re working, he does say shit like this to women passing on the street and the reaction is not at all unlike the one in the comic. I do not understand it. But ive seen it firsthand.
Dude is a chain smoker and is missing I think more teeth than he has left. I would love to possess this kind of natural ease people receive you with—hell, I’d settle for not being unapproachable. But hey, the cards you’re dealt, right?
I expect the delivery comes off as he isn't actually trying/wanting to sleep with any of them; it's nonthreatening, so people may be more receptive to his comments.
Yeah I had an alcoholic, overweight, uncle in a leg brace who was like this. He’d try to “help” me get girls by suggesting I do things like this.
“Hey, look, that girl is cute, go ask all her friends to dance with you at once, then you can increase your odds because she thinks she has competition”
Yeah bro no. They’re clearly having a nice girls night out and I don’t want to ruin it
“Just say they look like donuts because they are all curves and sugar”
…. Yeah that’s a double hard no
sigh “you just gotta have confidence. Watch this.”
Then he’d wobble over, joke around, make some catcally comments on their looks, and they’d all be blushing and laughing before heading out with him to the dance floor. It was fucking wild.