"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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My ground beef has 1.5 grams of transfat, WTF

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My trader joes 20/80 ground beef has 1.5 grams of transfat, out of 22 grams of total fat. WTF, I thought transfats only existed in processed foods with vegetable oil.
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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all ruminants' meat & milk contains traces of vaccenic acid, which is a naturally occuring fat and an isomer of oleic acid (the predominant fatty acid in olive oil).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccenic_acid

it is converted by humans into CLA, which is a good thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugated_linoleic_acid

incidentally, the saturated isomer of oleic acid is stearic acid, another 'good fat'...

The 'bad fats' are other fats with trans bonds rather than cis bonds that do not occur anywhere in nature. Humans have been consuming the milk & more importantly, meat, of ruminants since the very first deer or woolly mammoth hunter. The trans fats of concern, resulting from the partial hydrogenation of soybean and other oils, were never consumed by humans in any quantity until the commercialization of Crisco one hundred years ago.

the jury is still out as to whether or not the stearic acid that results from full hydrogenation is as good for you as natural stearic acid or as bad for you as other artificial trans fats.

[edit: Guinness screws with my ability to punctuate properly]
 

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lots of cows get some grass, few get all grass, even 'grass-fed' beef can be 'finished' (final fattening) with corn.
 

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Throttle said:
lots of cows get some grass, few get all grass, even 'grass-fed' beef can be 'finished' (final fattening) with corn.
Corn??? But, but, but, we're trying to fatten the cows, not make them lose weight. Why not just feed them saturated fats??? /sarcasm

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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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you'd think people would make the connection, but no.

pass the corn oil.
 
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