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.
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.
Feminists have being saying this nonsensical shyt for 40 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jay Jay said:Don't you realise that a woman suffered pain you cannot even imagine to give you life.JJ
no LMS, it's true.Last Man Standing said:Feminists have being saying this nonsensical shyt for 40 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD!!!! You are a woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally figured out why you had such a warped angle on men's issues!!!
JJ, you don't have to imagine that kind of pain, do you? Because you are of the female persuasion!!!
Only a ho-mo would say such!!!Raikojo17 said:no LMS, it's true.
a woman, a hor if u will, went through a pain like u could never in ur life go through to give birth to u. so u could be here today spouting about how women are all hors (like her).
It's rare, but we both agree on this.Last Man Standing said:Only a ho-mo would say such!!!
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.
Oh, you do not understand what me and "feminists" have to say about the pain of childbirth?Last Man Standing said:Feminists have being saying this nonsensical shyt for 40 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD!!!! You are a woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally figured out why you had such a warped angle on men's issues!!!
JJ, you don't have to imagine that kind of pain, do you? Because you are of the female persuasion!!!
Haha, good one kid, that was a good slight against me - touche!!Jay Jay said:When a man is born, it comes out of this thing called a "virgina." Don't worry about this virgina thing, I am quite certain that your birth was, and will be, the only time you ever come in contact one of these things.
Last Man Standing said:Haha, good one kid, that was a good slight against me - touche!!
It is a "vagina" not a "virgina".
Motherhood is a beautiful thing and should be respected and honored to the fullest!!! No argument here!!!
Damn! That spelling mistake really ruined a well constructed burn didn't it! I'm good at doing everything with em but spelling it!
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Well as long as you're not calling my mum a hor...
JJ
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.
Hors "sleep" around - women sleep with their husband! Women are not hors until they hor - differentiate!!Oxide said:Just ask your mom how many abortions she's had.
WOMEN SLEEP AROUND. HOLY CRAP we've just discovered a parellel universe!
Whoa, such words!!! "LTR, Engaged, to be Married - wow, this emphasizes my point - she is being pimped and it is not her husband!!!Oxide said:Biitch please... so a girl in LTR engaged to be married is what?
lemme ask you, do you sleep with hors?
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
These are words of wisdom. Yes it takes time and patience and yes for a certain period of your life, you will have one-night stands and boring dates with women that you don't want spend the rest of your life with. You will go through all this, you'll enjoy the ride for many years. It will be a blast but eventually it will leave you a bit lonely and jaded but you will have learnt something valuable: how to interact with women, what you want and what you do not want in a woman and so forth.You have to be very picky, patient, and smart when deciding to say, "This is my girlfriend."
DJF or John said:...I mean, skip to the lou made a thread everyday, but at least it wasn't this whining bullshyt.
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.