"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.

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"I love you"

Is "I Love You" a new fad term?

  • Yes, I've heard it randomly and frequently lately.

    Votes: 5 71.4%
  • No, it means what it always did: that you have a job and no Duck Dynasty Beard.

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • Total voters
    7

bigneil

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Is "I love you" becoming a new fad term?

I'm hearing it thrown around a lot more casually, like during the first conversation with girls I meet.

Curious if you guys are hearing it more frequently too.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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just as much as always, which is a lot

the only rare thing about "I love you" is the actual love-love "I love you"
 

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I think that while it is more common... people like to look back on "the old days" and think that people were classier or nicer or more honest or whatever...it's like this idyllic view we have of 50's americana suburbia, but watch something like Mad Men and you realize that people have always been cheating on each other and stuff
 

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my friend's ex said that to him and she dumped him the next day lol. it really doesn't mean anything anymore
 

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bigneil said:
Is "I love you" becoming a new fad term?

I'm hearing it thrown around a lot more casually, like during the first conversation with girls I meet.

Curious if you guys are hearing it more frequently too.
Yes. During my Freshman, and Sophomore year of high-school that term was loosely thrown around as more of a "friendly meaning." This did actually kill the true meaning behind it as I would loosely say it toward girls I was interested in or with. I still hear it thrown around loosely in a more playful-friendly sense, but sometimes I wonder if that person is actually serious or not.
 

"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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TheMonkeyKing

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Just another symptom of the over-stimulation of and resultant under-appreciation by the hipster youth. Other such examples of overused adjectives include:

-Amazing
-Awesome
-Hilarious
-Insane
-Mind-blowing
-Awesome
-Innovative
-Epic
-Stunning
-Cutting edge
-Game-changing

None of these descriptions can ever really be objectively applied to any facet of modern popular culture in almost any respect.

For those in need of a bit of light entertainment on the subject, this:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Be_a_hipster
 

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I had a female customer tell me this recently after I finished a project early. I was like uuuuuuh...ok.
 
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