"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Having the wrong mix of looks and education can hurt you in the job market

BackInTheGame78

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This is pretty wild...

Cambridge University has discovered that a pretty face can actually prevent people from gaining a job interview if it is not complemented by a good education.

Likewise, more visually-challenged candidates could end up struggling to be hired if they went to a good university.

Experts at Judge Business School, Cambridge believe the phenomenon occurs because hirers become confused by candidates who do not fit into normal expectations.

Attractive people are generally expected to be better educated, and more successful while the opposite is true for unattractive people. When applicants do not follow the pattern, recruiters assume they will be a bad fit for both high and low status positions.



It's over for HotDumbCels and UglySmartCels.

Guess now we see why those rich people were trying to get their good looking kids into quality schools by paying off the admissions offices.
 

"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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This is emotional intelligence 101 something I learned early on in the pickup community good looks and average intelligence will always trump ugly looks and a low IQ that's just the way people operate.
 

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I think might more be the case that since society makes it extraordinarily easy for The Beautiful People, from a stochastic POV, there is a higher chance that an Ugly One, that has achieved the same as a Beautiful One, is a higher achiever.

EDIT: Yes, I know that anyone using the term "stochastic" does not get laid. :rolleyes:
 

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EDIT: Yes, I know that anyone using the term "stochastic" does not get laid. :rolleyes:
I have learned multiple words from you. Stochastic, epicenic, and harridan are 3 words I didn't know prior to SoSuave and @MatureDJ .

I also learned the Pigeonhole Principle from @MatureDJ .

I do not ever plan to mention any of this to a woman in a seduction setting.
 

"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.

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