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.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
They are both in brics now. The middle eastern countries want military security guarantees, because they hate each other. That's why they use the dollar. The US is the only country who can offer such guarantees.I'm sure Iran will suddenly come into great resources and weapons along with a vigor to go after Saudi Arabia.
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.
True about hating eachother.They are both in brics now. The middle eastern countries want military security guarantees, because they hate each other. That's why they use the dollar. The US is the only country who can offer such guarantees.
I'm not sure about that. Being tied down to BRICS could force real commitment to the cause.This is a nothingburger. These folks don't trust each other, so they'll never get along.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Highly unlikely. It's far too ingrained and all of the systems the financial institutions in the world use are linked to the US Dollar along with how they finalize transactions between banks via SWIFT.This will likely begin to pave the way from US dollar to Gold Standard, anytime this has had a chance to happen, the US have gone to war and prevented it. I'm sure Iran will suddenly come into great resources and weapons along with a vigor to go after Saudi Arabia.
It's already happening. China has been stockpiling gold for a long time, SA is considering taking Chinese currency over US.Highly unlikely. It's far too ingrained and all of the systems the financial institutions in the world use are linked to the US Dollar along with how they finalize transactions between banks via SWIFT.
You have no idea what you are suggesting or the scope or massiveness of the undertaking this would be and how many systems would need to be changed/designed and made to retroactively work together. Let's just say it would be a monumental undertaking akin to building all of the interstates in the US starting from scratch times 50.
Would be far too costly and far require far too much effort to do so and even at that it would be a very small subset of countries that did it with very few following suit.
I worked for one of the largest global banks in the world, trust me when I tell you it's not happening. At least not in any of our lifetimes.
Even with the inflation that's happened the last year or so, the US Dollar by comparison is one of the most stable currencies and realistically the only one that could serve as a common denominator throughout the world. Even the countries that are trying to switch begrudgingly would be forced to agree with this if you held a match to their foot.
Not to mention that several countries official currency is the US dollar.
Also, what's going to happen when those huge gold reserves found in Africa start flooding the market? The price of gold will drop like a rock. Imagine your dollar being pegged to that once it happens with no way of switching back. Would be a doomsday scenario for those countries that would result in countries turning into third world countries overnight.
If you think crypto is done it's laughable. It's just getting started. Financial institutions didn't just spend billions collectively to start these divisions, create an asset class out of it and then just walk away.It's already happening. China has been stockpiling gold for a long time, SA is considering taking Chinese currency over US.
Why have they been stockpiling gold? In efforts to avoid sanctions, same reason Russia has.
Look at what the USD is backed by, trillions dollars of debt, it doesn't take a genius to see faith is waning on a global scale, but don't take my word for it, listen to this guy who is an economic expert and has been for a long time, who actually has established credentials outside of "I'm this and that".
Also, I find it amusing your claiming to know economics, yet your crypto guru posts have all but dissipated, you know what has not dissipated? GOLD.
Give me a break guy.