An entrepreneur (also known as unemployed).what do you call someone who works harder without getting more for his hard work? (aside from "a salaried employee")
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
An entrepreneur (also known as unemployed).what do you call someone who works harder without getting more for his hard work? (aside from "a salaried employee")
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.
Any time a man expresses that he is fearful of something with a woman, he increases the odds of that happening (self fulfilling prophecy).Guys can be so paranoid about a woman exploiting them that they forget to be generous.
Always operate from your own frame, and assume the best in people until you have reason to think otherwise.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Perhaps, but then we always ask if money is well-spent or not. Acts of generosity fall into the category of money well-spent in my opinion.In my opinion we ALL pay for sex.
A prostitute is direct and up front about being paid for sex. A girl that's invited out expects free drinks, food, and gifts in exchange for sex.
Exactly! This is what Matthew Fitzgerald said was the case in his 1999 book Sexploytation. There he writes of "the false feminist propaganda about equal rights".In my opinion we ALL pay for sex.
A prostitute is direct and up front about being paid for sex. A girl that's invited out expects free drinks, food, and gifts in exchange for sex.
Sure, imagine looking 37 but actually being 46 (the prime years for a man are considered 35-55 in terms of productivity), being in perfect health, dating a gorgeous 21 year old bikini model for 6 months who loves you to death, eating 100% organic, getting to sleep any hours you want, getting to work from any hotel or location off a laptop, having no boss, having $10,000 deposited into your bank account each week and getting to deduct all travel expenses including hotels, meals and airfare?If I was well over 40 with no wife or kids, living out of a suitcase in a hotel, with no fixed address and a tendency to fall in love with strippers I'd probably pay for all my dates too. No dig at bigneil, but that is not the lifestyle I aspire to.
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 mean, it's all about mindset. if you go into it thinking you're going to give away $20 to feed the needy or whatever, it won't be a problem. if you go into it thinking that your $20 will be put to good use prepare for disappointment, if you go into it thinking that you won't waste more than you have to then you're not going to want to spend $20 you don't have to.Subtitled: How many of you are so broke you want to debate with your date over $20? (Answer: most SS members).
Real talk, nobody believes it's possible to make that much moneyWhen I was making $3200 a week I could have been stingy. Instead I got a second contract and was making $6600 a week. Then I could have been satisfied with that and even still been stingy, but I got a third contract and was making $10,000 a week.
You are saying my income is simply unbelievable? So you do in fact aspire to be like me? Wow, that's the greatest compliment I've ever received here.Real talk, nobody believes it's possible to make that much money
Dear ladies! Now, every time you have sex with BeTheChange, he'll offer you a Happy Meal on him! He'll ask you to go dutch of course, but if you twist his arm a little, he'll cover you. That's the kind of man he is.I do not think paying for dates with chicks you haven't even slept with yet is a good strategy.
Wait a second... BPD girlfriend.... huge income.... you're Johnny Depp!?!You are saying my income is simply unbelievable? So you do in fact aspire to be like me? Wow, that's the greatest compliment I've ever received here.
But wait, you believed me when I said my girlfriend had a ONS in December right? And that she has BPD?
For the astute reader: ($80 * 40 hours) + ($85 * 40 hours) + ($85 * 40 hours) = $10,000.
But sir, I'm actually in a higher income bracket than you relative to our age group. I made six figures in dollar terms by the time I was 26 due to starting my own business while working full time, but tell me again how much better you are than everyone else here?Sure, imagine looking 37 but actually being 46 (the prime years for a man are considered 35-55 in terms of productivity), being in perfect health, dating a gorgeous 21 year old bikini model for 6 months who loves you to death, eating 100% organic, getting to sleep any hours you want, getting to work from any hotel or location off a laptop, having no boss, having $10,000 deposited into your bank account each week and getting to deduct all travel expenses including hotels, meals and airfare?
It's awful, I tell you. You should aspire to much better.
No, you stay in that dorm and keep that $20 you got by selling your EBT card. You keep your 9-5 job as a custodian. Don't you dare get a better job or work harder to buy a girl dinner.
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.
I see. So you are saying A) I'm bragging, and B) I'm lying?bigneil .. it isn't my style to comment on posters over posts .. but it has become close to impossible to read a thread without you boasting about your income and all of the 8/9/10 twenty-year olds you are supposedly banging .. when you state these things over and over it hints at some deep level of insecurity in your life.
if this is how you come off to anonymous strangers on an online forum, i can only imagine how much you must be embarrassing yourself among all the 20 year olds you claim to be banging