Doctor Europeo
Moderator
Ok guys, whose turn is it to take one for the team?
"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.
Fun posting ridiculous OLD profile screenshots
- Thread starter Pierce Manhammer
- Start date
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
The Duke
Master Don Juan
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74yo with fake t!ts, lol its like putting lipstick on a pig.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Wb If I was 80+
BillyPilgrim
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Yes there is, you've found one with a decent rack
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Narcissism levels in this profile are off the charts.
You just know she made this profile purely for validation fuel from all the simps "omg you're beautiful and so smart!!!" I bet you $100 probably hasn't even been on a date from it.
You just know she made this profile purely for validation fuel from all the simps "omg you're beautiful and so smart!!!" I bet you $100 probably hasn't even been on a date from it.
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BPH
Master Don Juan
Judging by the roses only, that means this girl is in your area's standouts, so she IS "popular".
You know she's had plenty of matches and dates based solely on that 2nd pic.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
What's interesting about roses is I've never gotten a single date from sending one, often not even a response. Sending a rose is extremely obnoxious since it displaces all the other likes, forcing the receiver to either respond halfheartedly or swipe left (latter is easier). When a girl sends me a rose, unless she's 7+, I always swipe left or just send a BS reply just to get her off the queue of likes sent to me, otherwise I can never see any new likes I get.
Funny enough, I often end up seeing the same girls in the normal feed later on anyway. I think in their mind, any guy who sends a rose must be a tier below their normal match pool, even though people within your normal match pool can send them too. It's yet another reason why paying for Hinge+ would probably be counter productive, unless you're an absolute gigachad who gets 50+ likes from woman per week and can't sort through them all, none of the perks are useful.
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BPH
Master Don Juan
I got a match with the one I most recently gave a rose...but I also made a post about her "give me a week to think about it" response...so I don't know if I would call that a win.
I just throw it at the hottest one in my standouts in case things go well, because otherwise they'll never appear in my normal feed.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
BPH
Master Don Juan
Yeah, but we're men.
The reason OUR matches don't turn into dates is because our girl picked somebody else.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
BPH
Master Don Juan
Point is that for us not getting a date, it's because we didn't "win out".
A woman not going on a date, if she's even mildly attractive, is entirely because she chose not to.
Pierce Manhammer
Moderator
Oh boy.
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.