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.
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.
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.
There's no methane gas bubble down there. Methane, at that depth under the sea, is not in a gas form. It is what is called methane hydrates, it's in a frozen liquid form.f283000 said:
interestingly a release of all this frozen methane (in an instant in geographical timescales) was part of the "Permian–Triassic extinction event" (251.4 million years ago) the methane rasied the temparature of the earth by 5 degrees C, which completely fu.cks all the eco-sytems up!Mr.Positive said:
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.
Plinco, watch the coasties though. (US Coast Guard). A friend of mine, who returned from florida is saying the coasties are turning away cleanup vessels, for BS reasons. Such as expired fire extinguishers, expired PFD's, and such. Who cares about that in such a needed situation?Plinco said:
Mr.Positive said:
See, Bible_Belt..it doesn't matter anymore, is my point. It doesn't matter how much we've fvcked the planet.Bible_Belt said:
Yes, there is the feedback loop cycle of the drying wetlands, for instance, producing more methane which causes temperatures to rise. However, in terms of control, there is one aspect which you have failed to mention. Most (source) methane emissions are from human activity, namely the herds of cattle, rice production, waste landfills, coal mining, and leaks in natural gas pipelines. According to MIT (source), there is uncertainty what is causing the current increase in methane levels, whether it is increased methane emissions or decreased hydroxyl free radical concentrations. Aside from reducing anthropogenic emissions, I suppose the feedback loop cycle could be reversed if hydroxyl free radicals were pumped into the atmosphere, but that is merely my layman speculation, as I don't know if that's even hypothetically possible, feasible, or prudent.Mr.Positive said:
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.
Interglacial period.Mr.Positive said:
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.