"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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Richard Sherman Incident

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This could go in the anything else section but there is some good lessons to be learned here.

I disagree with the amount of flak Sherman has been receiving from the media for his rant after the NFC Championship game this weekend.

He was in the moment and his testosterone was flowing.

Apparently that is not allowed!

Mohammed Ali said the same sort of things years ago. Never once did he ever get chastised to this extent.

Regardless if you think Sherman is a fool or not, he had the right to show his emotions.

Another example of how society and media is trying to emasculate men.

Apparently, he should have been a good little boy and kept his mouth shut!
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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There's nothing wrong with it. It's heat of the moment--there's obviously something personal going on between him and Crabtree and he just came out on top moments before. It's good TV, too; the raw emotion is something real, not like the prepared coach- and player-speak we usually get. And people are making a bigger deal out of it than it is because it's sports and it's the NFL and people always have to find something to talk about.
 

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First I think he immature and an idiot to pay so much attention to being called mediocre receiver. If he were really a man he would not let crap like that get to him and make a fool out of himself on national tv.
That said...the media is even worse for going on and on about it several days later. Don't they have anything else to talk about? Abe
 

"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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Those who complain don't watch football, RS has always talked trash. They don't even know what LOB stands for.
 

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He looked like an idiot. Who cares? He's not losing any money over it and he's about to play in the Super Bowl. I don't give two sh*ts.
 

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Yes, you can show emotions in the moment. But he was overdoing it. He was acting like an a$$hole pr!ck. How would you like to be smacked in the ass after you lost a tough NFC Championship game by him? Would you like to have him laugh in your face after you lost the game? What about him holding his throat saying "you choked"? If you were a member of the 49ers would you like that? Media my ass, it's a news story that should be reported. Even other athletes from different sports called him a d!ck. He was taunting players and being a d!ck. As a former player I think that is bvllsh!t. Taunting another team after a loss. Taking away from his team's trip to the Super Bowl. He wanted the attention on him, not the team. You can't compare Mohammed Ali to him.

CHICAGO27 said:
He was in the moment and his testosterone was flowing.
Apparently that is not allowed!
So, someone can do whatever he wants just because his testosterone is flowing? O.J. can use that one for his next attempt at an appeal :crackup:
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Besides being one of the best corners in the league, he made part of the play that got them into the Superbowl. He can say whatever he wants.
 
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I agree he looked bad. I am happy he did it, now I get to root against him in the super bowl. If he loses then he looks like a fool.

Look what a jerk he is in this video:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/richard-sherman-is-better-at-life-than-you/283192/
Did you know that Skip Bayless is the biggest troll in sports entertainment? Don't mistaken Sherman's arrogance for strategy.

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This guy Sherman is a trash talking b!tch! Look how Sherman got punched in the face by the Redskins and did nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4ViIwy7KA&feature=player_embedded
Sh!t talking is part of the game. It fuels you to another level that NOW you have more incentive to perform. He gets inside the head of Quarterbacks and Receivers. They are afraid to target him and when they do, his interception ratio wins by a landslide.

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/01/17/target-richard-sherman-at-your-own-risk/

And.......the moment we've been waiting for: What he said to Crabtree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psH6WWgrEz4

Sounds pretty sincere to me. Should we put Crabtree on CNN and label him a thug? Let the man live his life, he may have made a mistake, like throwing to a M-E-D-I-O-C-R-E WR covered by THE BEST CB IN THE GAME DON'T YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE BEST.
 

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CHICAGO27 said:
I disagree with the amount of flak Sherman has been receiving from the media for his rant after the NFC Championship game this weekend.
I don't think he's gotten much flak from the media. From Twitter sure, they said plenty of ignorant things but that's what they do.

But the media coverage of Sherman has been overwhelmingly positive. Every article mentions that he was salutitorian of his high school class and that he graduated from Standford. Every article I read says nothing new and seems to agree that he didn't do anything wrong. Which he didn't. According to the articles I read the only person wrong in this fiasco is, predictably, white people.

The media is overblowing a dumb twitter reaction.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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BeDJ said:
Did you know that Skip Bayless is the biggest troll in sports entertainment? Don't mistaken Sherman's arrogance for strategy.



Sh!t talking is part of the game. It fuels you to another level that NOW you have more incentive to perform. He gets inside the head of Quarterbacks and Receivers. They are afraid to target him and when they do, his interception ratio wins by a landslide.

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/01/17/target-richard-sherman-at-your-own-risk/

And.......the moment we've been waiting for: What he said to Crabtree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psH6WWgrEz4

Sounds pretty sincere to me. Should we put Crabtree on CNN and label him a thug? Let the man live his life, he may have made a mistake, like throwing to a M-E-D-I-O-C-R-E WR covered by THE BEST CB IN THE GAME DON'T YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE BEST.

Who cares what Sherman said after the game? He talks trash and hurls insults all throughout the game while it is still going on. By the end, the other players want to beat him. He said the same thing to the Redskins guy and he still punched him.
 

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Richard Sherman is not the one that got caught using PEDs, and then tried to cheat on his urine test, and then got suspended for 6 games because of it. That was Von Miller, and he plays for the Broncos. And there is nothing classy about what Von Miller did.

I demand that all sports celebrities be bland and boring like Tebow and go around praising Jayzuz all the time. Nice and safe, so I don't feel threatened!
 

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It's poor sportsmanship to belittle your opponent after defeating him on the field of battle. Sportsmanship involves winning gracefully, it's not just about avoiding being a sore loser.

That said, the media circus is blowing it out of proportion. And there also seems to be some prior history going on between these two that hasn't really come out.
 

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The NFL sucks now anyway. I quit watching it. This isn't the same game that men like **** Butkus and Walter Payton played. It's 90 minutes of commercials and stoppages and 12 minutes of actual game play. The refs now determine the winners.
 

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Dust 2 Dust said:
The NFL sucks now anyway.
All bread & circuses suck now that societal decay is in full swing. I'm all for jock sniffing white beta male proles having an escape, I understand (I used to be one). I just think their priorities are a little skewiff. Rally behind a team that matters.
 

"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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