"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Funny how the tables have turned

Desdinova

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I have a friend on facebook who was one of the guys who tried to run with all the "cool" guys in high school. Nevertheless, I wasn't really friends with him nor the people he hung out with. He's one of those guys who talks big and you'd swear he would have a GF on his arm quite frequently. I added him because I kept running into him in my adult life. Things are quite different now.

Today on facebook...

Him: I hate this loneliness and emptyness

High school wh0re: Why so lonely?

Gee, I wonder why? He's always putting women on a pedestal in his facebook posts, and then he bytches that he's lonely. And then there's me who's been constantly getting laid for the past 16 years; the guy who was the loser in high school, and the guy who got snubbed by the high school wh0re.

I kinda feel bad for the guy, but I know trying to help out guys like that is pretty damn useless.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Who Dares Win

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I used to feel this way but in hindsight I would rather have peaked in the old pre-OLD market than this new SJW/OLD market. 2010-2014 or so we're pretty great though.
It was good till early 10s, it was great till late 00s.
 

Smartone84

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I'd say the absolute biggest difference between the early 2010's and now is that even the higher value(looks aside) women have extreme entitlement and combativeness due to the normalization of: misandrist version of feminism, OLD, and Gen Z social media addiction. They are just not that pleasant to date. When you met someone you cliqued with, there was more of a sense of calm and letting your guard down because you were both going to try to make something happen.
Spot the f-ck on.
 
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I have a friend on facebook who was one of the guys who tried to run with all the "cool" guys in high school. Nevertheless, I wasn't really friends with him nor the people he hung out with. He's one of those guys who talks big and you'd swear he would have a GF on his arm quite frequently. I added him because I kept running into him in my adult life. Things are quite different now.

Today on facebook...

Him: I hate this loneliness and emptyness

High school wh0re: Why so lonely?

Gee, I wonder why? He's always putting women on a pedestal in his facebook posts, and then he bytches that he's lonely. And then there's me who's been constantly getting laid for the past 16 years; the guy who was the loser in high school, and the guy who got snubbed by the high school wh0re.

I kinda feel bad for the guy, but I know trying to help out guys like that is pretty damn useless.
Don’t feel pity for this guy. He’s a participate in f@cking up the world. He can’t be trusted.
Now there’s a lot in that of course.
Anyone not red pilled is an enemy to you and the declining social structure.
The guys who are red pilled are the smarter of the lot. They found the red pill because they knew there was something wrong with the world and kept looking.
Look at metrosexual or socialism supporters or others that surrendered their man card in a deceitful way to find a back door avenue to p@ssy.
Those are the sleaziest of all. Stay away from them.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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