"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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Telos

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This post is directed to each and every one of you pitiful internet-age high functioning autistic smartasses who worship logic and methodically plan every step of your life because you're fundamentally afraid to make dangerous moves.

All of you doomed losers who are obsessed with order, argue endlessly about grammar, hide your inadequacies behind idealism, choke at the first sight of any logical inconsistency, and somehow remain absolutely mystified when you can't attain love or sex... I'm talking to you.

I'm talking to every last one of you apathetic robots that cling to your comfortable rationality-dominated world of ones and zeros while desperately gasping for air because you can't handle the chaos of reality. All of you who hide behind intelligence because you're terrified of pain and escape into complexity because you don't understand simplicity.

There is no hope for you, unless you stop playing games that you know you can win and start living outside of systems that you know you can control. You are doomed to a loveless, lonely, empty life unless you learn to embrace the chaos of reality and come to terms with that which is unpredictable.

Accept flaws and defects as what they are. Realize the fact that you are HUMAN. Shred your militant idealism and come back down to reality.

STOP ESCAPING.
 

"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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I don't think your target audience will be able to grasp your message.
 

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Telos, we already knew women are emotional and somewhat random. This is nothing new. It just seems like you are sterotyping everyone on here.
 

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ketostix said:
Telos, we already knew women are emotional and somewhat random. This is nothing new. It just seems like you are sterotyping everyone on here.
I'm not stereotyping everyone, I'm describing a very specific group of people... specifically the rising nihilist, robotic, obsessive-compulsive youth of todays internet culture that annoy the living sh*t out of me:

"I'm going to analyze everything I can, discover every possible reason for failure, create a detailed plan for changing my life, maintain my image on a forum as someone who really has their sh*t together, and then due to the fact I really don't have to hold myself accountable for anything I say and I can't delay gratification at all... I am going to play World of Warcraft, look at ridiculous amounts of internet porn, and watch manga until 7am. Following, I'm going to complain how stupid girls are and insult some people on a website, maybe spend some time fruitlessly arguing with pedantic idiots about irrelevant BS while shoving my face with processed carbs until I can't physically stay awake any more. By the way I'm really lonely."

I don't doubt there are some down to earth genuine people around here, but I sure as hell have a hard time believing it.
 

"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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Telos

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Incog said:
I don't think your target audience will be able to grasp your message.
Oh they will. They just won't listen.
 

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ketostix said:
Telos, we already knew women are emotional and somewhat random. This is nothing new. It just seems like you are sterotyping everyone on here.
He's actually talking about a certain selection of people, who dont use ACTION and philosphise(I cant spell this word:D) over every little detail of getting women. They make it harder than it has to be, and wonder why the idiots and @$$holes get the girls.
 

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In the UK this is not really a problem, we have more pressing issues with "chavs" etc. to deal with. Did you know that one of them won the national lottery last year?
 
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