"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.
Do you think all the obesity Rx on the market has reduced demand for french fries?
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
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I was stunned to see that almost every other restaurant I saw was some sort of Burger and Fry restaurant.
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Not sure, I wanted to try the local food not eat stuff I could get back home...never understood why people go to a country then want to eat the same food they could get back home except worse.
I was eating the Croquettes and BitterBallen in the Netherlands and Escargot in France, etc...
Even tried some traditional Welsh food in Lille because that's part of their culture there and almost every restaurant serves multiple Welsh items.
Have to admit I couldn't get down with the pickled herring that seemed to be everywhere in the Netherlands tho...I don't do raw fish at all...no sushi, no pickled herring, no caviar, etc
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And yet like almost every man at SS, you've chowed down on your share of Raw Kitty, with perhaps even some of it being Medium Rare at the time, even this ain't exactly what you ordered. Uncooked seafood is pretty banal, by comparison
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
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The best cuisines in the Netherlands are Indonesian & kebab.
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Agree.
Plus with advancements in technology, machines are doing more work in the production process which is faster and cheaper to maintain than paying wages to employees. So when they cut back on the workforce, this circles right back to more poor people struggling and buying a bag of potatoes at the grocery store and coming home to make them at home instead of stopping by McDonald's.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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Exactly. The way things are going with the economy is unsustainable because a rich person can only buy so many things for himself, and then save and invest their money. But they are not going to go McDonalds and buy fries until their belly pops out. That's why concentrating too much wealth in the hands of too few people will inevitably lead to a state of a Depression. It's mainly the masses of people who keep things running. If they can only afford bare necessities (even if they can go that far), then who is going to buy everything else? Obviously, as more people leave or are booted from the workforce, or have low-paying wage-slavery jobs, then it becomes counter-productive for corporations to continue to cut salaries or workers since their own business will eventually take a hit.