"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.
know the diff between stopping power and lethality?
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"She's Out of Your League"
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.
Bible_Belt
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But the answer you're looking for is something like big bullets versus small caliber rounds. Poking small holes in people, at least one at a time unlike a shotgun, won't knock people down. It's lethal because they'll bleed out and die eventually, but that can take a little while.
Quiksilver
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People argue the stopping power/lethality of 5.56x45 and 7.62x39 all day.
What is generally recognized is 5.56 is more accurate but US troops have always been reporting that even if they hit a target with a 5.56 round, he tends to get up and walk away (how far he gets is a different matter).
7.62 within effective range tends to just blow a hole right through the target, delivering more kinetic energy per square inch through the torso, than 5.56 which tends to go into an axis spin and fragment upon entering the body.
Stopping power, in this discussion, can be defined as the kinetic energy delivered to the REAR of the target, just before the round exits the body. 5.56 on average tends to deliver less kinetic energy to the rear of the target than 7.62.
As I said at the top, thats all irrelevant when you get hit by either.
Without immediate medical treatment, a shot to the abdomen by a 7.62 or 5.56 (or .22LR) will kill you within 4 days once your intestinal tract is punctured.
This stopping power crap can be debated all day in the ivory towers of the internet forums, but the dimensions of the bullet are irrelevant when they are flying past your face.
edit: I rarely go hunting but when I do, I find the animal (deer, hog) is only flattened when using .30-06 or .308. We have used .270s and the animals tended to get shocked to the ground then immediately get up and flee. It didnt get very far but it still got up after it was hit. For hunters, you probably know that the animal fleeing isn't good, since the fleeing results in lactic acid spreading through the meat and making it less tasty.
user43770
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No, the diff between stopping power and lethality is the TIME frame involved. I can "cause your death" by injecting you with AIDS blood, but it might take years for your heart to finally stop from the disease. I can stop you instantly with a ball bat applied across your gut, but normally, anyway, you will be ok in a couple of days.
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
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Bible_Belt
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If the belief is reasonable, then yes you do. Although in a few states such as NY/NJ, there is a 'duty to retreat,' which means you have to try to run away first, unless you are in your own home when attacked. Generally speaking, the more liberal the state you live in, the less self-defense rights that you have. Shoot a mugger in Texas and you're a hero. Do it in NYC and they'll put you in jail with the mugger.
Atom Smasher
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user43770
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My state has a 'stand your ground' law. Here, even criminals can get off by claiming self-defense.Bible_Belt said:
SamTheHobit
Master Don Juan
lmfao xDAtom Smasher said:
"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.
backseatjuan
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Stopping power refers to how quickly a guy fvcking drops after you shoot him. Like when a round hits him and he drops vs like 5 rounds hit him and he still moving, perhaps trying to find his gun and fire back at you.
Lethality refers to statistics on how many survive a wound vs how many die. Russian military 5.54 cartridge for example is more lethal than NATO military 5.56, but NATO round has more stopping power.