"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Classical Music

Colin O'Brien

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We got any classical music fans up in here? I don't just mean classical in the "classical" sense but also baroque, romantic, 20th century, opera, etc.. basically western art music. I'm the only person I've ever met who's ipod is > %50 classical.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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Wow! Pretty sweet if you ask me. I am open to all that great stuff. I live in a place now where you can hear live performances for almost nothing (as compared to the West). Would you consider the composers from the old Soviet Union to be Western art music?

BTW, I would recommend everyone to give Opera a chance.
 

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Does Metallicas S&M concert count?
 

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Absolutely.

I'm not as much of a connasseur as I'd like to be, but classical music is really something.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Falcon

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I'm one. Big on Mozart and Chopin. And yes, if I owned an ipod, it would consist of probably around 65% classical music :)
 

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I'm a big fan of Philip Glass, I guess that would be modern classical.
 

Eccentric

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Adagio For Strings is my favorite classical song.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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I am only somewhat familiar with classical music,a fan,but not aficionado. If anything, My favorite piece of classical music is the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Oddysey. Which is also one of my favorite films. I highly recomend both.
 

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Yah, I'm into a lot of classical stuff, too. I love the old Ludwig Van (esp. his intense 7th Symphony), Orff's Carmina Burana, Stravinsy's Rite of Spring, in particular.
 

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I like composers from the Romantic era the most, particularly piano music. Chopin, Debussy, etc. Very beautiful music.
 

Colin O'Brien

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meitenesrigas said:
Wow! Pretty sweet if you ask me. I am open to all that great stuff. I live in a place now where you can hear live performances for almost nothing (as compared to the West). Would you consider the composers from the old Soviet Union to be Western art music?

BTW, I would recommend everyone to give Opera a chance.

Oh hell yeah, Soviet music is awesome. Shostakovitch is probably my favorite composer, I love his 5th symphony so much, plus his first cello concerto is awesome too. Where I am now, performances are an expensive rarity, and I'm moving to New York City next year so they'll turn into just "expensive". I recommend everyone give classical music and opera a chance.
 
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