Pierce Manhammer
Moderator
Florida COVID-19 update: 13,774 cases added. Percentage of hospital, ICU patients sliding
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.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
There's no list, but if you peruse the wall postings you will see the mentions, in a couple of minutes I tallied at least 6 before I stopped.
It's there in black and white for those who have the interest to find it. In the end, your opinion of me means absolutely nothing to me bro. So spout away, I will continue this thread as I have.
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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.
lmao get a life dude.
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.
What you're saying is about people not masking is absolutely true, at least in the Tampa/Sarasota area.I just got back from a week and a half in Ft. Lauderdale. I asked some of the staff at a variety of bars, restaurants, and the hotel I was staying at about some of the 'news' that 'Pierce' has been promulgating. Clearly, they are not panicking down there about Covid. Very few people are 'masking up' indoors, and I don't recall seeing anyone wearing masks on the beach. Seems like some news outlets might be sensationalizing things a bit.
It is all bullsh..."For the 11th straight day, Florida hospitals set records for the number of COVID patients they are treating, and on Wednesday the state set a new high for daily cases.
On Wednesday, Florida hospitals had 15,449 patients a significant jump from just two days earlier when admissions surpassed 14,000 to set a record. The high count reached Wednesday occurred with only 230 of 261 hospitals reporting their COVID patients to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The state also tallied 24,753 new COVID cases for a single day on Wednesday, surpassing the last record high of 23,958 on Aug. 6"
Me: *try to enter medical facility*What you did not do was tour the medical facilities.
Where are you getting your information from? Are you a medical professional or work at a medical facility?Hospitals furloughed thousands of employees dues to lack of anything for them to do during Covid. Then they try to run the facilities on a skeleton crew. They claim a shortage of ICU beds, but there is no shortage,...they just can't "staff" them due to a skeleton crew and leave a bunch of them unused,...then claim there is a shortage because the ones they do staff and have in use isn't enough.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Someone would only ask me that to see if they can poke holes in my "authority" to say what I say. There is nothing I said that is not widespread information that is easy to find with a little effort. But someone (not saying it is you or anyone in particular) who only consumes the main stream media and believes only the government and their proxies,... Well, I'm sure this would be new information to them and they would not believe it and certainly would not want to see if it is true because they don't want it to be true. It would be like finding out that something they have been believeing for nearly 2 years isn't the gospel they thought it was,...not an easy revelation to absorb.Where are you getting your information from? Are you a medical professional or work at a medical facility?
Remember, both the CDC and NIH get their funding from the US government and are basically 'agents' thereof.......So, it is not unreasonable to believe that their data and viewpoints are somewhat 'influenced' by Congress and the White House.My personal experience in the industry and data published by the NIH and CDC, contradicts your assertions. Given that all the posters on this thread are earnest in their beliefs I’m curious as to your sources because I cannot find one study peer reviewed or otherwise that agrees with your assessment of the situation. Hence my request.
I believe that it is totally unreasonable and irrational thinking to believe that a government entity is lying to the public without factual confirmation of such activity.Remember, both the CDC and NIH get their funding from the US government and are basically 'agents' thereof.......So, it is not unreasonable to believe that their data and viewpoints are somewhat 'influenced' by Congress and the White House.
I am picking up your sarcasmI believe that it is totally unreasonable and irrational thinking to believe that a government entity is lying to the public without factual confirmation of such activity.
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.