Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Help meeeeee!!!!!!!!! I'm on a runaway thread and I wanna get offffffff!!!!!!!!!!
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.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
*Reclines on towels.* Geez Pen, these are really soft...What detergent do you use?Originally posted by penkitten
hahahahaha
i thought i seen you hiding in the linen closet...
*Jumps off towels and run to Tenn. to get comforted by my girl.* I feel unclean...Originally posted by penkitten
a l l .. the stain lifter thats all ...
hey dangit that commercial is stuck in my head...Originally posted by Eternal
*Jumps off towels and run to Tenn. to get comforted by my girl.* I feel unclean...
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.
I remember that commercial.Originally posted by penkitten
hey dangit that commercial is stuck in my head...
and thats the jingle...
mr benjamin guy sings it
you remember that show in the 80s about the english butler and the bad kid named wesley? anyhow the butler mr benjamin does the voice over for the all commercial.
Originally posted by penkitten, corrected by Eternal
Get your head in Gio!!!
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.
He was accused of videotaping some sexoring with an underaged girl.Originally posted by penkitten
come to think of it, i think i was about nine or so during the rob lowe crap and they made him leave the show and pretend he went to college because thats when rob lowe became bad..
but i dont remember wtf he did ... except madonna..
I thought that was R. Kelly? Let's not get into that anyway.Originally posted by Giovanni Casanova
He was accused of videotaping some sexoring with an underaged girl.
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.
Rob was blazing a trail. It was the late 80s.Originally posted by Eternal
I thought that was R. Kelly? Let's not get into that anyway.
I'm sure that's not the only thing he was blazing...Originally posted by Giovanni Casanova
Rob was blazing a trail. It was the late 80s.
Someone told you this thread was funny? I am not responsible for this dishonest advertising.Originally posted by Sexy_Malibu
When I'm directed to read a funny thread that **** better be REALLY FUNNY.
Disappointed.
< did nothingOriginally posted by Giovanni Casanova
Someone told you this thread was funny? I am not responsible for this dishonest advertising.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.