"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.

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1). Tex Mex Cuisine- A lot of it here is price gauged and it is just a bunch of mediocre quality meat smothered in cheese, beans, and carbs.

2). Weddings- Expensive, planning the wedding sucks, and it is all for one night.

3). 5-star Hotels- Overpriced and always trying to rob you for any nickel & dime, and I don't vacation to spend most of my time in the hotel

4). Spinning plates- The novelty goes away after you realize that you can get laid

5). Just buying a house to say you are a homeowner and to gloat...Hell, doing anything to brag to your friends or the internet about.

6). Travelling for work- People seem to think that work travel is just a work paid vacation when it is actually more work, prolonged forced contact with your coworkers, crappy happy hours & food, and trapped in a hotel.
 

"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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Weddings, home ownership, and travelling for work are all overrated. You've accurately described all of those.

I'll add pet ownership and pickleball as overrated. The pickleball fad is a joke to me. I am a long time tennis player. Tennis players and pickeball players do not like each other.

Spectator sports are also overrated.
 

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"WOMEN" I love them for the most part. They can be fun and yummy, but again Women!
Whitething/formally known as Jimwho..
 

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1). Tex Mex Cuisine- A lot of it here is price gauged and it is just a bunch of mediocre quality meat smothered in cheese, beans, and carbs.
Tex Mex and Mexican food are somewhat different. Tex Mex can be carb heavy.

I have had some good Tex Mex in Texas.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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1). Tex Mex Cuisine- A lot of it here is price gauged and it is just a bunch of mediocre quality meat smothered in cheese, beans, and carbs.
The worst Mexican meal I had was at a "Mexican" restaurant in Disneyland Paris. If you want Mexican food that lives up to the hype you gotta go to Puebla, Puebla. Try some Mole Poblano or some Chiles En Nogada.
 

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Heath Ledger´s Joker has to be the most overrated Joker performance in history.
 

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1). Tex Mex Cuisine- A lot of it here is price gauged and it is just a bunch of mediocre quality meat smothered in cheese, beans, and carbs.

2). Weddings- Expensive, planning the wedding sucks, and it is all for one night.

3). 5-star Hotels- Overpriced and always trying to rob you for any nickel & dime, and I don't vacation to spend most of my time in the hotel

4). Spinning plates- The novelty goes away after you realize that you can get laid

5). Just buying a house to say you are a homeowner and to gloat...Hell, doing anything to brag to your friends or the internet about.

6). Travelling for work- People seem to think that work travel is just a work paid vacation when it is actually more work, prolonged forced contact with your coworkers, crappy happy hours & food, and trapped in a hotel.
Your first one Tex-Mex I find that applies to most if not all fast food restaurants
 

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Clubs/Bars-You realize very quickly that yes hot women tend to go there but personality wise they are toxic or trash, no real respectful person would waste their time there after 35

Asmr-Underrated, use to sleep on this

Strippers-never understood the hype of banging women that most likely are low key prostitutes I always thought College chicks or models were better
 

"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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Overrated

1. Marriage
2. Education - more than a Bachelor's degree
3. Travelling
4. Having alot of friends
5. Sleeping with women over 35

Underrated

1. Health
2. Education - up to Bachelor's degree
3. Having a girlfriend who often initiates contact
4. Height +Hair
5. Money
 

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Live music at a bar. It's almost always awful and obnoxiously loud. Yet drunk morons flock to it.
Morning coffees at "name this way too expensive place", dining out regularly
Agree with both. Coffee and meals at home are less expensive. I also like my bars to be quieter so that I am able to talk to other people there.

Clubs/Bars-You realize very quickly that yes hot women tend to go there but personality wise they are toxic or trash, no real respectful person would waste their time there after 35
In my late 20s, I transitioned to become more of a daygame type approacher.

Strippers-never understood the hype of banging women that most likely are low key prostitutes I always thought College chicks or models were better
Strip clubs seem to be less popular than they were 10 or 20 years ago.
 

"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.

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Buying a house/being a homeowner
All suburbs in North America
Lawncare
All restaurants
Faggy, customized coffee drinks
Karaoke
Fishing/hunting (for sport)
Long distance running
Watching sports (especially on TV)
Golf
All news platforms and legacy media
All talk shows (except Conan)
Most popular stand up comedians (such as Kevin Hart, Bert Kreischer, Bo Burnham)
Modern art museums and modern art in general + postmodern attitudes (especially irony/satire and the opposition to objective beauty)
All board games/card games (except poker)
All music that plays on the radio or in public places and most music in general (especially overplayed stuff like classic rock or anything from the 90s/00s)
Almost all TV shows
Every comic book movie from the last 10 years
Every Star Wars movie/show since Disney took over
Most pop-horror movies like the Conjuring
RPG and open world video games
Self improvement (would need to explain this one in detail)
Reading books (especially nonfiction books - most people only read one time half-assedly, just to say they read it and don't internalize anything)
College/Universities
Sexual relationships and marriage, or starting a family in general
Visiting anywhere in the UK, France, or Germany
Taking photos when travelling (in moderation it can be okay)
Alcohol
Therapy/therapists/modern psychology
Dieticians/nutritionists/personal trainers and "advisors" in general
Smartphones (especially as a replacement for computers)
Reddit, 4chan, all social media (especially tiktok)
Laptops (unless you frequently use them for travel, desktops are objectively better)
Keeping a well stocked fridge (most of the food goes to waste and you end up hoarding)
Waking up early
Consumerism
Pop science, especially scientism (not the scientific method and scientific process which I adore, but science as understood by the masses)
True crime podcasts/documentaries
Planning/prepping (eg budgeting or list making or meal prep)
Porn (not just because it's poison to the mind, but most of it is just boring or ****ty)
All streaming platforms (HBO is probably the best but it's still bad)
Almost all jobs
Bodybuilding (with roids and sarms and stuff)
Rice, potatoes, and corn
Breakfast and breakfast foods (especially pancakes and childrens cereals)
Cake and all other baked desserts except cookies
Astrology, horoscopes, and Myers-Briggs personality test
 
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Buying a house/being a homeowner
All suburbs in North America
All restaurants
Faggy, customized coffee drinks
All board games/card games (except poker)
All music that plays on the radio or in public places and most music in general (especially overplayed stuff like classic rock or anything from the 90s/00s)
Almost all TV shows
Every comic book movie from the last 10 years
Every Star Wars movie/show since Disney took over
Most pop-horror movies like the Conjuring
RPG and open world video games
Self improvement (would need to explain this one in detail)
Reading books (especially nonfiction books - most people only read one time half-assedly, just to say they read it and don't internalize anything)
College/Universities
Sexual relationships and marriage, or starting a family in general
Visiting anywhere in the UK, France, or Germany
Alcohol
Therapy
Dieticians/nutritionists/personal trainers
Smartphones (especially as a replacement for computers)
Laptops (unless you frequently use them for travel, desktops are objectively better)
Keeping a well stocked fridge (most of the food goes to waste and you end up hoarding)
Waking up early
Consumerism



That's just off the top of my head in 5 minutes. I could probably add 100 more things to this if I gave it more thought.
Just admit you hate everything lmao
 

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Just admit you hate everything lmao
Nah, I just have specific and esoteric interests, i'm not a straight up hater or contrarian by default. I actually have quite a few hobbies/interests and am trying to develop more. There are plenty of popular things I like that could otherwise make me look like an NPC at face value.

I do admit it can hard for me to have fun or relate with most people, though luckily I do share a fair bit in common with my main friend group.
 
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Tex Mex and Mexican food are somewhat different. Tex Mex can be carb heavy.

I have had some good Tex Mex in Texas.
"When a place thinks they have the lock on a specific cuisine, it inexorably turns to ****."

This applies to Tex Mex in Texas lol.
 

"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.

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