"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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Anybody Pawn Stuff?

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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taiyuu_otoko

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I've never pawned anything, have only been into a pawn shop once or twice (only because I was in the neighborhood). Based on TV shows, people only pawn things when they are desperate for cash. All those prices are pretty low, wonder what kind of a markup they add?
 

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The price is low, because it is a loan. You get your item back if you return the money within a certain period of time. A lot of people never pay, so the store gets to keep the pawned item. They probably loan less than half of what something is worth.
 

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I've never pawned anything. I wouldn't mind selling something at a pawn shop, but I've never thought I would be able to get a good price. Those prices listed are not bad IMO. Who the heck wants a used Apple watch? They've got to make a profit, so you have to figure that in. The key to that list is that they are popular items, I guess. I wouldn't expect to get top dollar at a pawn shop.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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One time i pawned a bunch of chrome books donated to my ex gfs kindagrten class for drugs and alcohol. She was pissed. But she still bailed me out of jail (unrelated to he chromebooks).

This post is satire.
 

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I've never pawned anything. I wouldn't mind selling something at a pawn shop, but I've never thought I would be able to get a good price. Those prices listed are not bad IMO. Who the heck wants a used Apple watch? They've got to make a profit, so you have to figure that in. The key to that list is that they are popular items, I guess. I wouldn't expect to get top dollar at a pawn shop.
Pawn shops will even take used power tools. Almost anything.
 

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Never. Rather just sell on Craigslist or eBay. My parents did decades ago and they got fleeced on some gold and silver they inherited from family. Small metals, nothing really worth much. But, they got much less than spot. This was before the advent of the Internet, so all the pawns in our area seemed to be pricing the same. Speak about collusion.
 

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Where I live, the only things easier to sell than tools are guns.
I have a friend who fell on hard times and sold a fair number of tools to a pawn shop. I don't know what he got for them exactly, but he did say it was much less than they were worth. I suppose they can tell when someone is desperate.

It almost seems to me that if you wanted to sell, you'd be better off going in and trying to pawn your stuff, and then just never paying it back. You might get a better price, because they want the interest from you? Is there any sort of drawback to not paying off a pawn loan?
 

"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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Pawn places give you crap for money around here. Only people who do not know better go to these places. I do much better on Craigslist.
 
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