"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.

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A couple more of my "Far out" pics

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Felt like sharing a couple other photos I took of the night sky a while back:

First one is of the small open cluster, M45:

http://home.comcast.net/~slitherjef/m45done.jpg

And the 2nd pic is of M31, which is due to slam into the milkyway (our galaxy) in about 2 billion years. Our sun is set to burn out in 5 billion years, so you figure M31 is headed for us at a quick pace, its currantly 2.9 million lightyears away...

http://home.comcast.net/~slitherjef/m31done8.jpg

I shot both with my camera and lens mounted on a telescope riding "piggy back" in my back yard

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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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So M31 is gonna slam into the universe in 2 billion years and you say its headed at a quick pace? Well anyways nice pics, i never see this many stars at night
 
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Since space/time/light bends in on its self due to the mass of the universe(according to Hawking if you fly in a straight line you end up where you started). It would be so cool if you could get a telescope powerful enough to see our own earth. It would be trillions of light years away (maybe) so we would be looking into the past.

Actually earth will not have been created yet. oh well, we will have to wait a few billion years then.

We could watch the creation of earth if we knew where and when to look.
 
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wolf116 said:
We could watch the creation of earth if we knew where and when to look.
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On the other hand you could stumble across God, Saddam, and Jesus playing poker.


Jer, what kind of pictures can you take of the moon? You ever taken pictures of moon spots/flashes? Take us picture of the moon man, and also one of that closest star, 40 light years away.
 
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HandyAndy said:
So M31 is gonna slam into the universe in 2 billion years and you say its headed at a quick pace?
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The universe is pretty ****in big.
 

"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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Mr. Wolf said:
On the other hand you could stumble across God, Saddam, and Jesus playing poker.


Jer, what kind of pictures can you take of the moon? You ever taken pictures of moon spots/flashes? Take us picture of the moon man, and also one of that closest star, 40 light years away.
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No flashes or anything like that. I have a couple moon shots laying around some place, I will see if I can dig them up.

The closest star is actualy the sun, at 93 million miles away, a bit hard to photograph because you need special filters because of the brightness. But I think you where talking about Proxima Centauri located 4 and a quarter light years from the sun, or about 26 trillion miles. But photographing it I can't do since its in the Southern Hemisphere and Im in the northern.

Promixa Centauri is part of the Alpha Centauri star system
 
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Sun is not a star. Because you can only see stars at night, you can't see Sun at night, can you? :)
 
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wow someone didnt know the sun is a star. ok basically its the only star we can see during the day due to the sunlight that blocks our vision... it is the only star in our universe but there are billions of "suns" out there in other galaxies.
 

"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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yeah great pics love astronomy a ton we are so small
 
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jlr12584 said:
... it is the only star in our universe but there are billions of "suns" out there in other galaxies.
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there are about 200 billion stars (suns) in the Milky Way alone, which is an average sized galaxy. there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. so the number of stars in the "known" universe would be at least

200 sextillion...

200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

give or take a hundredish sextillion.
 

"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.

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Mr. Wolf said:
Sun is not a star. Because you can only see stars at night, you can't see Sun at night, can you? :)
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I guess you think you can't see the moon during the day too, eh!?
Well the sun IS a star. A regular ol run-of-the-mill-yellow dwarf-star. And you can see the moon in during the day.. if you know where to look :trouble:

:)

Thanks for the comments all
 
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