You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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.
Not hating on you mpimpin, you just doin your job, but that is a lame excuse.mpimpin said:i didn't delete it but probably due to political reasons. Its not a political forum
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.
Dont know why your thread was deleted but not the zeitgeist.ricorico said:I noticed my post on 9/11 rabbit hole is gone. Can anyone tell me why?
speakeasy said:Dont know why your thread was deleted but not the zeitgeist.
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.
This is the most mind blowing post I've ever read. I can't believe how brainwashed I was.Quiksilver said:The mods are slowly taking away your freedoms and liberties. Very soon we will be issuing all SoSuave members with implanted RFID chips that will monitor your every movement. If an unauthorized thread is started, your chip will blow up.
Also, all posts made now cost $1, with an attached debt of $0.05. All payments must be made by April 15 of each year. If a payment is missed, the mods will come to your house and freeze all of your assets until Accounts Received is satisfied.
But yeah, if you want the thread back, start a thread asking for it back. Questioning how this forum is run isn't the best compromise for either party.
hope7 said:This is the most mind blowing post I've ever read. I can't believe how brainwashed I was.
I think the rabbit hole thread was deleted because the Zeitgeist was discussing the same EXACT topic. Why did you[ricorico] make that thread in the first place. I remember you posting in it, you knew the same exact discussion was happening in that thread.
I don't think there is a lot of name calling in the Zeitgeist thread. Other than LMS calling people a fascist because they want to silence his opinion. And then there is the occasional poster who surfaces that are so set in their ways that they call anyone who questions who was behind 911 un-American and sick.Also, they say no political threads, but Zeitgeist thread is allowed to stay and is 11 pages long even with name calling. WHY???? Because the mods agree with the original posts?
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
I agree 100%. This has been the tradition among intelligent men going all the way back to ancient Greece.Falcon said:It is men's nature to talk about things like politics, human nature, and the world around us, we naturally have that curiosity. Why suppress it in a forum where one of the main goals is self-improvement?
Well, the Zeitgeist thread was still active at the time you made your thread. The orginal topic of the Zeitgeist thread was the events surrounding 9/11 and the federal reserve. More like an interpretation of history. It was made polital by name calling. Your thread right off the bat went into name calling.ricorico said:I made the Rabbit hole thread because I wanted to seperate it from the Zeigleist thread.So threads aren't made on the same subject? If there was a problem, why not combine it with Zeitgeist thread.
Also, they say no political threads, but Zeitgeist thread is allowed to stay and is 11 pages long even with name calling. WHY???? Because the mods agree with the original posts?