"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.
Awesome post by the Hollywood elite.
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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Number 5 on that list(J. Depp)decided to "be who he wanted to be", no matter what... End result was becoming a now sixtysomething dope fiend who's brain is irreparably fried, and who damned near lost his ass, after wifing up a nut job he had a fling with on the set of a highly forgettable film
Paraphrase Chris Rock, albeit in a different context: Keeping it real is often REAL F-CK-NG dumb"
Great point but I will always think he was the crash test dummy for the me too movement
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MeToo had been going on for a minute, when he and Heard's melodrama was resurrected, via that WaPo op-ed ghost written on AH's behalf. It certainly exacerbated Depp's plight, nonetheless thus could've happened at anytime. Just consider the details:
A swarthy-ish older guy, who'd spent decades advertising himself as aberrant from "the norm", accused by a then very young blonde, fair skinned All-American looking gal of beating her during their marriage
The prospects of a fella like this NOT being pilloried afterwards are more dismal than Leslie Jones being mistaken for a couth, classy lady any time soon
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At the end of the day...these guys are all owned as fvck by the people in the background they secretly talk to. You can't trust Mel Gibson lol
"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.