For a while in 2020 the only available flirting was done at a distance, and people got inventive. This is our collection of quarantine and self-isolation pick up lines, ranked by reader votes — social distancing, video calls, lockdown haircuts and being stuck indoors with far too much time. They are a genuine time capsule now. Some still work as jokes about staying in, and a few are funnier with hindsight than they were at the time. Mostly they are here as a record of what everyone was reduced to.