MatureDJ
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"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.
Playboy article: Pick--up Lines That Have Actually Worked
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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
Serenity
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Amusing.
When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
zekko
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I always thought that whoever came up with the "You're my girlfriend for the next five minutes" line was pretty clever, I've always thought that was a good line. Sets up a non-platonic frame without being crude or serious. But I would NEVER use it, it's such a CLICHE now, straight from the Mystery playbook and sounds like it. If it wasn't so well known I would.
Huffman
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Well, was she?
I think you can use such lines to great success if you adapt them to the situation, but not cold & out of the blue.
Serenity
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She's still my girlfriend, so yes very interesting.
"I just moved here from Florida."
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.