Doctor Europeo
Moderator
Ok guys, whose turn is it to take one for the team?
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
Fun posting ridiculous OLD profile screenshots
- Thread starter Pierce Manhammer
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"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.
The Duke
Master Don Juan
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74yo with fake t!ts, lol its like putting lipstick on a pig.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Wb If I was 80+
BillyPilgrim
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Yes there is, you've found one with a decent rack
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Narcissism levels in this profile are off the charts.
You just know she made this profile purely for validation fuel from all the simps "omg you're beautiful and so smart!!!" I bet you $100 probably hasn't even been on a date from it.
You just know she made this profile purely for validation fuel from all the simps "omg you're beautiful and so smart!!!" I bet you $100 probably hasn't even been on a date from it.
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BPH
Master Don Juan
Judging by the roses only, that means this girl is in your area's standouts, so she IS "popular".
You know she's had plenty of matches and dates based solely on that 2nd pic.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
What's interesting about roses is I've never gotten a single date from sending one, often not even a response. Sending a rose is extremely obnoxious since it displaces all the other likes, forcing the receiver to either respond halfheartedly or swipe left (latter is easier). When a girl sends me a rose, unless she's 7+, I always swipe left or just send a BS reply just to get her off the queue of likes sent to me, otherwise I can never see any new likes I get.
Funny enough, I often end up seeing the same girls in the normal feed later on anyway. I think in their mind, any guy who sends a rose must be a tier below their normal match pool, even though people within your normal match pool can send them too. It's yet another reason why paying for Hinge+ would probably be counter productive, unless you're an absolute gigachad who gets 50+ likes from woman per week and can't sort through them all, none of the perks are useful.
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BPH
Master Don Juan
I got a match with the one I most recently gave a rose...but I also made a post about her "give me a week to think about it" response...so I don't know if I would call that a win.
I just throw it at the hottest one in my standouts in case things go well, because otherwise they'll never appear in my normal feed.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
"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.
BPH
Master Don Juan
Yeah, but we're men.
The reason OUR matches don't turn into dates is because our girl picked somebody else.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
BPH
Master Don Juan
Point is that for us not getting a date, it's because we didn't "win out".
A woman not going on a date, if she's even mildly attractive, is entirely because she chose not to.
Pierce Manhammer
Moderator
Oh boy.
"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.