THIAGO BRAZIL
Master Don Juan
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scent of a woman
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what else?
scent of a woman
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what else?
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.
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.
Shocking?? It is pure entertainment!Originally posted by SheepSter
One movie called "battle royal" a japanese production, I wouldn't consider very good. But it's the most shocking I have seen in years. I really enjoyed watching it.
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 found the scene were one student kept talking while the instructor was instructing, and was shut up by the instructor, who threw a knife in the head of that particular student pretty shocking. But indeed most of the movie I was laughing. I hear there is a 2nd part.Originally posted by Hot Ice
Shocking?? It is pure entertainment!
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.
We've had more like over 10 threads like these...Originally posted by Spike_the_Dragon
We had a thread just like this one a while back and I listed a bunch of stuff there. Anyways, I just checked out the movie "Hero" starring Jet Li last night. I loved it. "Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi" was also a great movie.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Originally posted by Metaphysikal_Lover
Enter the Dragon
Originally posted by Bonhomme
Seven Samurai