"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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Dwyane Wade is definitely a DJ.

NBA Finals, anyone?
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Wade is a effin badass. Heat better win...or else...
 

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Wade is one of the best players in the NBA right now, but I don't want the Heat to win. The traitor doesn't deserve another ring.
 

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Dwayne Wade is SICK!!! Go Miami!
 

"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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brucevangeorge said:
Who cares?
Ok, dude.

What are you doing here? You've been a member for almost a year now; what have you accomplished in that time?
 
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doctoroxygen said:
Ok, dude.

What are you doing here? You've been a member for almost a year now; what have you accomplished in that time?
I've gained at least 15lbs of muscle mass. I've gotten way more comfortable with public speaking as I am now a tour guide (job). I have gotten over my oneitis from highschool. Very, very far away.

I am now more attractive to the girls and I have bagged one in the past few months and I am now working on two others.

I have managed to say "**** YOU" to everyone who tells me to do things, gives me advice for no reason, or plains just tries to **** with me. Yes, my own family also. They also respect me more and I have better relations with my mother and father. I am not as nice as I was before.

And so on and so forth......
 
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So you know for a fact that when I say WHO GIVES A ****. It means something.

And really. No one gives a **** about some basketball player. Just cause he's your idol and you drool at the sight of his sweaty body moving around in scantily clad clothing playing basketball DON'T MEAN JACK ****.

So he's a DJ. So WHAT?

Are you?

No. You are not.

Hell, neither am I. But as I am closer than ever before (and alot closer than you) I can say; STOP WASTING TIME ON THIS CRAP.



Watching a game is okay. Fantasizing about one of the players is not.
 

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brucevangeorge said:
STOP WASTING TIME ON THIS CRAP.



Watching a game is okay. Fantasizing about one of the players is not.
Thanks for the unsolicited advice.

Here's some from me: Try to eradicate the MASSIVE QUALIFYING, and you'll be set.
 

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Bruce you're a jackass. Just because YOU don't care about basketball, doesn't mean other people don't. Stop being a troll and grow up.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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With 36 points in Thursday night's victory, Dwyane Wade has now scored 129 points in this series. That's the second-most points ever scored by an NBA player in his first four career games in the Finals. The top four: Allen Iverson (141), Wade (129), Willis Reed (127) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (127).


Guy never stops amazing me. Hopefully he'll bring me home a championship cuz lord knows the only other one of my teams that can is the Marlins.
 

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doctoroxygen said:
Thanks for the unsolicited advice.

Here's some from me: Try to eradicate the MASSIVE QUALIFYING, and you'll be set.
HAHA
 

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doctoroxygen said:
Dolphins!
Wasn't around in 1972 & 3... :cry:

Marlins are good every couple of years. Actually now that I think about it, the Devils won a 3 years ago? and the Seminoles just can't win anything anymore. Jeez.. Better than a lot of fans, I guess.
 

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Culpepper should be good for you, though. I love Miami teams, despite my location as far from Miami as is possible in the contiguous United States.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

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.

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doctoroxygen said:
Culpepper should be good for you, though. I love Miami teams, despite my location as far from Miami as is possible in the contiguous United States.

Hopefully... I'm hoping that now that he can't run like he use to, that causes him to work on an arm that was second in the league behind Manning's record setting 49? in 2004-05. I also hope he's not the 05-06 Culpepper. Should be interesting. Maybe even Harrington resurrecting his career if Culpepper can't step in week 1 vs... get this, Ben Roethlisbeger's team.
 

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Basketball is cool, go heat. Who cares if Wade is a DJ? How about you all stop attacking each other. Shut up, drink a beer and do something productive.
 

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So who bribed the refs for game 5? Whenever the Mavs BREATHE on Wade they call a foul.
 

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doctoroxygen said:
Here's some from me: Try to eradicate the MASSIVE QUALIFYING, and you'll be set.
I was just thinking that.

anyway, I hate Dwyane Wade purely on principle. his first name bothers me.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

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.

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