"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.

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Am I FaT

"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.

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Duo

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I'm 5'11" and 230 lbs, and I don't consider myself fat. (BMI says I'm obese, but it LIES!)

So in other words, no. You're not fat. You're just not that muscular.
 

Julian

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you are whats called skinny fat.

skinny dude with high bf %.

Start lifting.
 

"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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Warboss Alex

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Originally posted by hungry_american
How long would it take with dedication to look some what toned I look fat gahh
Seven years, two months, three weeks, four days, ten hours, eleven minutes and fifty-one seconds precisely, provided of course that you were born under the star sign of either Leo or Taurus, haven't got two left feet, are not gay, own a blue mini cooper, listen to Robert Palmer and practice occult rituals involving black candles, brimstone pepsi and dessicated parrot, at the dead of night every second Tuesday of the month, if and only if you isolate quadrant 234234 of the bicep by raising your left eyebrow 10% of your height in centimetres while doing concentration curls, whilst whistling Old Suzanna and wearing a pink tutu with "SPANK ME HARD" printed on the back.
 
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manuva

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I agree with Warboss, although I should point out that the candle don't have to be black necessarily, I would suggest navy equally effective, provided it's girth remains inversely proportionate to it's height x pi.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Originally posted by Duo
I'm 5'11" and 230 lbs, and I don't consider myself fat. (BMI says I'm obese, but it LIES!)

So in other words, no. You're not fat. You're just not that muscular.
BMI isn't perfect but unless you are a bodybuilder with a insanely low bodyfat% a BMI of 30+ may not be accurate but it does bring up concern.
 

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At 18, if you're 138 and 5'10" that's generally considered scrawny - not fat. The fact that you have a belly indicates a very unhealthy diet - the which is what you'll need to change (along with exercise) in order to get "normal". There's a wealth of information on here which can help you out if you'll put in the time and effort required.
 

"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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