"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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Be a real man - live with chivalry

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Live with chivalry

I'm not talking about putting girls on a pedastal. No way, no how.

I'm talking about living with class and honor. Why? Because you are a man of self-respect.

There are things that *boys* do, that you refuse to do.

There are low standards of behavior that *low quality girls* have, yet you simply refuse to stoop down to their level.

You are better than that.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Yzx06RLUo

Ignore product placement at the end
 

"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.

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Proselytiser said:
This just sounds like a variation on the old 'I'm not like the other guys' tactic.

Edit: no real man ignores Chivas Regal
Of course. You have to be *not like other guys* though in a good way of course. After all, the average guy is a chump.
 

"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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I think your risking a move to the wrong side of the mean, Trader

The invisible man he talks to says its okay to be a few standard deviations from the mean just as long as he can recruit more people to his cause.
 

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you lost me at "be a real man" which is a term that grinds my gears. I only hear this from women trying to get you to do what they want, and manginas complaining that you aren't being a pvssy boy like them.

As for living with Honor, that's part of being a man, but not everyone deserves your honor. It's only for family , friends and those who have proven themselves as valuable team mates. Everyone else deserves polite indifference at best and total destruction at worst.
 

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Proselytiser said:
This just sounds like a variation on the old 'I'm not like the other guys' tactic.

Edit: no real man ignores Chivas Regal
Ha ha. :crackup:
 
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