SeymourCake
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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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
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.
Is that supposed to be a commercial for the Mercedes CLS? I can't make out a single word he's saying.SeymourCake said:
[AZ]Bokanovsky said:Is that supposed to be a commercial for the Mercedes CLS? I can't make out a single word he's saying.
Obviously you don't understand if you think these lyrics are indecipherable gibberish. You should question your own eloquence.Bokanovsky said:Seymourcake, I don't see anything don juan about that song (or any other songs posted in this thread so far). A true DJ is supposed to be eloquent. Eloquence is one of the main indicators of intelligence in a man. A guy mumbling some indecipherable gibberish is the opposite of eloquent.
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.
-Gripz- said:AZ has always been dope. Do or Die is a classic.
I think this track of his fits Don Juan pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM4N5svMcII