"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.
¡ʇǝuɹǝʇuı ǝɥʇ ǝʞoɹq ı
- Thread starter Jariel
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"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.
comic_relief
Master Don Juan
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:
"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.
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
"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.
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
"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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He invented the internet after all!Interceptor said:
Can't keep his kid off the nose candy though . . .