"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
¡ʇǝuɹǝʇuı ǝɥʇ ǝʞoɹq ı
- Thread starter Jariel
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"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.
comic_relief
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hows the leg?
comic_relief
~attrACTION~
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¡d1ǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos ¡¡¡snɹıʌ ɐ sɐɥ pɐǝɹɥʇ sıɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı '1nɟǝɹɐɔ ǝq.ʇɹɐʇsǝɹ ı uǝɥʍ pǝxıɟ ʇǝb 11ıʍ ʇı ʞuıɥʇ ı '11ǝʍ ɥo
¡ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ ɥʇɹnoɟ ʎddɐɥ 'ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ ʎq
:rockon:
"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.
backbreaker
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Create Reality
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Desdinova
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Don't bother. Win2k is cool. I scrubbed Vista in favor of Win2k dual booting with Ubuntu. Vista made this computer a fvcking turtle. If I wanted that Aero Glass 5hit, I'd have to get a new video card. Ubuntu does transparency fine with the onboard.
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
"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.
Interceptor
Master Don Juan
Call AL Gore!
Al will save us!!!!!!!!
Desdinova
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Yeah, it's before you they introduced Windows Genuine Advantage and that DRM crap. I keep Win2k Pro for compatibility. For anything modern, I'm going Linux. Speaking of which, I'll probably be switching Linux over to 64 bit in the very near future.
The unfortunate downside is not a lot of game developers develop for the mac market, but they exist.
However for anything windows, there is an equal or better mac counterpart of the program!
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
2.) mac
3) windows
once you go redhat, you never go back
"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.
cant think of a user name
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He invented the internet after all!Interceptor said:
Can't keep his kid off the nose candy though . . .