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Don Juan
- Joined
- May 4, 2007
- Messages
- 130
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Is it just me or is it natural?
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.
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.
Master Bates said:Why couldn't we have evolved to keep our nuts on the inside? They're just annoying.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
Quiksilver said:It's the Coriolis effect. The spinning of the earth causes a centrifugal force to occur and pull one nut away from the other. In the southern hemisphere, your right nut would hang lower, just like your toilet spins one way in the lower hemisphere and the other way in the northern. The closer you get to the equator, the more even your nuts are.
On a more serious note, as long as you can see them you should be happy.
In all fairness there's no reason it has to be that way, it's just a sort of unfortunate anatomical fact. If your liver had to be drooping out in a air cooled sac to function correctly it would be another sort of silly feature.Aboleo said:Because internal body heat would cause sterility.
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.
I agree, would be so much easier if our nuts were internal. Then don't have to worry about getting kicked.Master Bates said:Why couldn't we have evolved to keep our nuts on the inside? They're just annoying.