"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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Kerensky

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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.

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good idea
 

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Have people become THAT dumb?:confused: Is it not enough that there is a line saying "
====================New Here?====================
We suggest checking out The DJ Bible before posting
" at the top of your screen? ... If you feel that you need to have a link to the DJ Bible in your signiture then go ahead and put it there, but I dont think that it should be mandatory to do so.
 

Kerensky

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Originally posted by ~ªêQµïTª$~
Have people become THAT dumb?:confused: Is it not enough that there is a line saying "" at the top of your screen? ... If you feel that you need to have a link to the DJ Bible in your signiture then go ahead and put it there, but I dont think that it should be mandatory to do so.
Dude your signature is already long as hell, just add another line to it! Is it so hard? And yes, obviously people HAVE become that stupid because we still have to go around and say "READ THE BIBLE." You know it. Just add it to your sig....have people become that lazy?
 

"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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Originally posted by Kerensky
We should make it mandatory for all people to put a link to the DJ Bible in their signatures.
I respectfully and strongly disagree. It would be categorically unethical to as a matter of policy append to a poster's message that which they did not intend to include therein, no matter how universally accepted the content of the appended portion may be.

-PDX
 
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