"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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They did pat themselves pretty hard on the back for doing what our revolutionary, civil war, first Great War , and other predecessors did, it is an interesting point.
To be fair, it was Tom Brokaw and a handful of pundits who fell out of the womb with oak trees lodged intractably in their rectums who dubbed these folks TGG, not WWII veterans themselves. And in one sense, those vets were extremely fortunate: They were among the few in human history to participate in a conflict which, on the surface, had all the trappings of a Tolkien-esque clash between good and evil

Most wars before and since lack that sort of PR
 

"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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To be fair, it was Tom Brokaw and a handful of pundits who fell out of the womb with oak trees lodged intractably in their rectums who dubbed these folks TGG, not WWII veterans themselves. And in one sense, those vets were extremely fortunate: They were among the few in human history to participate in a conflict which, on the surface, had all the trappings of a Tolkien-esque clash between good and evil

Most wars before and since lack that sort of PR
Winning!
 

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Don't misunderstand: I admire many folks who lived during that era. The record demonstrates that they were no less flawed and f-cked up than anyone who before or since though https://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/192882612/wwii-deserters-stories-of-men-who-left-the-front-lines

And the vast majority of them DID NOT go toe to toe with Nazis on the shores of Normandy, or tangle with the forces of Hirohito in the jungles of Burma. Same way the vast majority of the enlisted in every war since WWII didn't/still don't go into combat
 

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but also its easier to get a new job .Remote gig and other as well.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

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I was SUS of Gen Z then I learned that they like Chilis and Rainforest Cafe...Fvck Gen Z
Yeah fvck you too bro haha
I guess you could call me a Zoomer, I'm on this forum cuz I've struggled a lot with the honeys for sure, and I was never that good at finding jobs either outside of dreary fast food work, hopefully 2025 is my year tho
 

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What do you guys have to say for yourselves? :). The same story plays out right here on SS. Women don't want you and employers don't either. Tough world.

In fairness, if a similar survey was conducted 50 years ago, the results would have likely been quite similar. Don't tell me you've never heard your own parents or grandparents complain about "kids these day" lol.
 

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moving up the corporate ladder, being a successful entrepreneur, and purchasing a home in a ritzy neighborhood was no longer seen as "normie stuff" anymore
Being a high-level corporate executive or successful entrepreneur and buying a home in a "ritzy neighborhood" was never "normie stuff".
 

"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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Being a high-level corporate executive or successful entrepreneur and buying a home in a "ritzy neighborhood" was never "normie stuff".
Read what I wrote in it's entirety:

"Today's teens and early adolescents are similar to folks of that age, immediately after The Summer Of Love.... Not quite sure if they were boys or girls, and very tough to hire. We're going to have to undergo a cultural shift similar to the one we went through in The 1980s, when moving up the corporate ladder, being a successful entrepreneur, and purchasing a home in a ritzy neighborhood was no longer seen as "normie stuff" anymore

Yes, this had it's problems also, namely the lionization of consumerism. What we're doing today though is leaving lots of folks on the bottom rung of the socioecomic ladder, and ravaging our economy, in an era where we're facing unprecedented overseas competition from overseas markets"
 

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As opposed to wasting your time in the office with pointless chit chat, sipping coffee, taking 30 minute shvts, and pretending to look busy all day? No one actually works all day, except hard laborers.
And even then they take breaks in there even if it's just slowing down the pace significantly.
 

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Each time we hear predictions that so-called "Gen Z" will be a hell of a lot more robust than "Millenials", headlines like the following https://www.facebook.com/share/15yWe9wdGs/ https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1 surface. Are we surprised?


They're the descendants of folks who-in the 2000s-called on French Fries to be renamed Freedom Fries(Lest they be triggered by hearing the former term), and a latter wave of equally censorius prigs in The 10s, who went out of their way to turn everything from university campuses to comedy clubs into Safe Spaces
 
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