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.
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.
That's a interesting point!I would have been against any of that untill couple of years ago, right now I would fully support it in Europe.
People think that you have freedom on a side and security on the other, yet no one acknowledge the importance of trust and justice and right now our society and legal system benefits scum much more than honest ones.
I dont find anything wrong to prevent a drug addicts on welfare from being "free" to rent a public bike given that there is a good chance he will break it or steal it given he has nothing to lose.
What we read there is an extreme as much as its an extreme here the fact that public healthcare collects money from everybody and spends most of it on people responsabile of their conditions."I have read the report about your patient. The Commissariat considers Mr. Rosenberg's religion to be unacceptably heterodox, and you should know that people who pose such a destabilizing threat to our nation's morals do not deserve everything this hospital has to offer. Dr. Schwarz, I will tell you this only once: Medical care of that level will NOT be allocated to heathens. I do hope that you understand what this means for you if you ever think that your great erudition somehow entitles you to try anything radical."
"Records of Ms. Ragnarson's cellphone use indicate that she has not been spending enough time studying our great nation, and she seemed unreasonably muted while the others cheered as the High King's motorcade arrived. If she's not so certain that this land is her land, then no person shall be permitted to sell, transfer, or herit land to her, and anyone who tries to do so, or issues a mortgage loan to that self-hating treacherous slag will have a lot of time on their hands to rethink their actions."
"Be it resolved that no STD medications may be sold or transferred to Tinder users. In choosing a risky lifestyle they have chosen to amplify the dangers to the rest of the population. Let them suffer the wages of their sins."
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.
There's pros and cons.
That's interesting, where did you get those quotes?"I have read the report about your patient. The Commissariat considers Mr. Rosenberg's religion to be unacceptably heterodox, and you should know that people who pose such a destabilizing threat to our nation's morals do not deserve everything this hospital has to offer. Dr. Schwarz, I will tell you this only once: Medical care of that level will NOT be allocated to heathens. I do hope that you understand what this means for you if you ever think that your great erudition somehow entitles you to try anything radical."
"Records of Ms. Ragnarson's cellphone use indicate that she has not been spending enough time studying our great nation, and she seemed unreasonably muted while the others cheered as the High King's motorcade arrived. If she's not so certain that this land is her land, then no person shall be permitted to sell, transfer, or herit land to her, and anyone who tries to do so, or issues a mortgage loan to that self-hating treacherous slag will have a lot of time on their hands to rethink their actions."
"Be it resolved that no STD medications may be sold or transferred to Tinder users. In choosing a risky lifestyle they have chosen to amplify the dangers to the rest of the population. Let them suffer the wages of their sins."
I've been watching those US and China tension... Idk if it will become a war, but there still a high risk for that. I think China have some big plans in the World and this will create a lot of problems.You don't need to be worried about what your govts are going to do. Rather just pray in secret about your govt leaders to have a change of mind about God (Jesus Christ) and what he did for them and everyone else. There is talk of war between the US and china right now and there is action backing that up in the asian region.
Agree.There's pros and cons.
On one hand it keeps the safety and on the other its an invasion of privacy.
I'd rather have my privacy but I do understand China's wish to have such technology.
My answers in bold.The denial of mortgage purchases was not a hypothetical "extreme" example at all; such is in fact barred from those Chinese with low social-credit scores.
If you have a low social credit score its cause you failed to pay your debts or be productive, if you get a mortgage and fail to pay you undermind the stability of the bank granting it...if enough people does it, well remember 2008?
But what I was trying to get at was:
* What can a European government not do? (Or what should it not be able or permitted to do?)
A euro gov should not be able to force a citizen to withstand the conseguences of other people bad behaviours, which is happening now
* Is a state's determination of what behaviors are "good" or "bad", and its authority to use force on anyone and everyone, absolute?
It clearly needs to be discussed with the population before implementing any kind of measure
* Do you truly want to live in such a society?
No, I dont but I realized that not all europe has the same people of norway or switzerland therefore a system that dries the producers that keep society alive to feed the parasytes that plague it is not sustainable.
That's actually an interesting point though (and actually one quite relevant to my society too, so I'm curious here too): What do you consider to be good ways to make the average citizen not be a sheep?
Mandatory instruction and exams in terms of politics, economics and history and harsh punishments on teacher or journalist who manipulate and spread lies, I spent my youth at school being told that socialism is great cause it helps people yet none of my teachers mentioned the soviet union, cuba or romania.
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.
I think doing anything including this is a waste of life unless you believe in God and have a relationship with Jesus Christ.what do you think of this?