"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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How do you make cuts heal faster?

Fatality

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Is there any kind of medicine I can put on cuts to make them heal faster?
 

"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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CapiCrimini

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Anti-Biotics ike Neosporin.

That should be all you really need to put on a cut. Don't pick at it and it should heal fine. Neosporin or whatever you get should work perfectly and help keep it from scaring or getting infected.
 

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The cleaner the cut, the faster it will heal. I don't mean, like, "The less fecal matter you have in your cut," I mean the difference between the footprints of an errant hacksaw and a papercut: the more even the two sides of your wound are, the easier they'll squish back together.

I've cut myself a lot in the last few months, sitting in my closet with black metal turned up full blast, hating my parents and my stupid brothers and—er, at work! Each time I did it, I'd squeeze the bastard closed as hard as I could for as long as it took for the bleeding to stop, and then I'd keep as much pressure on it for as long as possible, which usually ended up being something like 3-4 hours. (Don't keep a rubberband around it, just pull the bandage tight enough that you can feel it pull, but not so tight that an extremity starts to tingle.)

Pressure, cleanliness, and lack of picking and fussing with your new cut should have you back in the game in 2-4 days, depending, of course, on how knarly your laceration is.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Get some vitamin E pills, crush them up, and dissolve the powder in water. Apply the water to the cut. Vitamin E is the one that heals cuts. Also put some neosporin on it.
 

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Take a live aloe plant(not the gel) and rub the inside of it to a cut. It will heal faster than using anything else.
 

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Yeah, what was said about Vit E and Aloe is good. Also you can take Vit E internally if you do not already. I take a capsule about every three days because it is fat-soluble, and the dose is 700% RDA. I think it's Vit E that fights free-radicals in the blood? Does anyone know about this?

Neosporin or another Antibiotic is great for cuts. They will prevent infection.
 

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If you really wanna be alpha, heat up your bayonet and sear the flesh closed like Rambo
 

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Get some vitamin E pills, crush them up, and dissolve the powder in water. Apply the water to the cut. Vitamin E is the one that heals cuts. Also put some neosporin on it.
You can get vitamin E in a bottled oil form.
 

"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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Bactroban works about 10x better than Neosporin. However, it's prescription only. I'm with Mind - heat up a knife and seal it shut. You'll have a scar for the rest of your life, but the cut will be history.
 

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Originally posted by Alpine
Fatality, is this a cry for help or are you just clumsy? :D
little bit of both:D

Thanks for the replies:)
 
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