"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.
how i met your mother
- Thread starter sosilky
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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.
Why is it always the same type of people who start calling everyone 'KBJs!'
Anyway I think How I Met Your Mother is a good show and is fairly similar to life, just exagerated for comedy, but if it wasn't similar it wouldn't be funny. Kind of irrelevant in any case.
I'll reiterate: i'm not gonna take offense to anything people say to me in here because for the most part i see them as lab rats. (at least the ones that take things so personaly on an anonymous forum with names like oh tits) which is most on here and the reason why Pook told me he left. and if you want to use the word irrelevent your quote is irrelevent because, if the show was funny or not was not the question.SinJester said:
LeComteDeMonteCristo
Don Juan
"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.
LeComteDeMonteCristo
Don Juan
Rules schmules. This thread is garbage and you know it.sosilky said:
MacAvoy
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taiyuu_otoko
Master Don Juan
Kangaroo Bl0w J0b.MacAvoy said:
don't knock it till you tried it. You sort of have to get used to all that jumping up and down....
"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.
MacAvoy
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MacAvoy
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SilverSonnet
Senior Don Juan
sosilky said:
Lmao! I dont care. You need to start staying on-topic. Site for dating women, and Self-Improvement. Dont start random threads like this, and in all honesty, I dont give a crap whether your offended or not. I'm just trying to keep the quality of the posts up.
I'm not having a go, and you'd know if I was, because there'd be endless stars in here, I'm just asking you to stop posting crap, and put some good mind-boggling questions.
Give us a run for our money, bro.
Cheers man
Ben
"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.
Killer Six Pac
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I don't care.
All I know is Barney Stinson is AWESOME.