Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
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.
KontrollerX said:Iqqi should be banned instead as should Tacky Taco.
"Looking around, it seems that alot of ppl are getting the ban hammer. I'm curious of the violation though."
There were no real violations.
Just favoritism or selective enforcement as is the case on other horribly run message boards.
I'm reeeally hoping you are wrong, but sadly my own speculation concurs.KontrollerX said:Iqqi should be banned instead as should Tacky Taco.
"Looking around, it seems that alot of ppl are getting the ban hammer. I'm curious of the violation though."
There were no real violations.
Just favoritism or selective enforcement as is the case on other horribly run message boards.
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.
The other racist in that thread who called keto "an ignorant ass redneck" was not banned as well so again its poor and biased moderation here all around.Kupid Diggs said:Probably because he is a racist idiot... Not that I care one way or the other... Just stating the obvious and what I've seen out of most of his posts..
Now now, KX, where's the love, brother?KontrollerX said:Iqqi should be banned instead as should Tacky Taco.
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.
Redneck is not a racist term. It describes a certain type of mindset. It's not something that applies to whites across the board, so therefore it's not racist.KontrollerX said:The other racist in that thread who called keto "an ignorant ass redneck" was not banned as well so again its poor and biased moderation here all around.
Speakeasy should be gone as well if keto has to be banned for racism.
Not that I have a problem with Speakeasy but fair is fair.
If racism was the reason for keto's ban it= selective enforcement of the rules which is to say garbage moderating as Speakeasy was being just as racist.
There's a difference between freedom of speech and freedom to troll.Son of anarchy said:Freedom of speech...
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.