MatureDJ
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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.
RIP Meatloaf, the fatcel that made it in showbiz
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
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.
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Yea, it's a shame. His weight and diabetes seemed to have exacerbate the situation. I believe that is one of the reasons why he was a vegetarian a few decades ago.. To lose the weight and get control of his health. He tried again a few years ago prior to COVID. A shame, he was a legend.
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Yea, but remember Rock and Roll Dreams come through? Certainly an interesting concept...
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I'm too young to have seen meat loaf in his rock days, but his performance in fight club was very entertaining.
Honestly, this movie played a very important role in my life. I'm very glad to have been able to see it when I did.
His name was Robert Paulson.
Honestly, this movie played a very important role in my life. I'm very glad to have been able to see it when I did.
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Absolutely! I can remember a bunch of albums where right in the middle of a song there would be the KERPLUNK of the track moving.
Or maybe there would be a fade out to the KERPLUNK and then a fade in. Fortunately, I was a little too young to have purchased any 8-tracks; instead I purchased cassettes with all the HISS that went with it. I got my eventual revenge by torrenting digital format music. "Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
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I always got the feeling that the men that were in the Fight Club were frustrated incels, which is why they were always fighting instead of macking (OK, the Brad Pitt character was doing the English chick).