"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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Syria -- excellent war footage

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You guys most likely don't know about this youtube channel, because their videos are in Russian. It is newsanna. By the day war reporting from Syria, embedded with troops.

1st video you should watch is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d50nNW1Elg <------- this is war

This is the link to the channel, enjoy http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna/videos

Syria is fighting against US supported mercenaries, Al Qaida basically, US supported Al Qaida terrorists, which kill civilians, genocide whole towns. It is as if Al Qaida come to your American town and tried to in-place islamic halifat, and your army fought with them. Their ideas are not what muslims are about, this just a perverted version that the CIA is using to recruit mercenaries. Well, your idea of the truth might be different, but it's ok.

Have a look at this news channel. Wonderful reporting!
 

"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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War is never a beautiful thing, and it doesn't matter who is doing what on which side. Sadly, however, it has been a constant part of human history. Few people realize what the realities of war are, and there is a glamorized idea of what it means to fight in combat. America is going to be involved in any conflict in that part of the world because they are focused on gaining more control. The Americans have been in that part of the world fighting the war on terrorism for more than a decade now. Regardless, those videos are a great example of what war is like instead of a glamorized movie version of the ordeal.
 

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There is this movie, white tiger 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFm6Um9xYz4

In it, at the end, after the war is lost, after Berlin is taken, Hitler justifies the war to presumably black pope:


"We know each other too long and too well. Too much connects us for me to hide my thoughts from you. The war has been lost. I know it. Not just lost. Europe has been destroyed. But can you imagine what will happen tomorrow? Miserable Germany. It will be blamed for all the deadly sins. The German people will be to blame for everything. Thousands of books will be written. Thousands of ugly documents will be found. Hundreds of memoirs invented. And we, Germany and I, we will stand before the world as the sole source of evil of all mankind, as the personification of Hell. And we simply found the courage to do that what all Europe had fantasized about. We said, "if you are thinking about it, let's finally do it." It's like a surgical operation. First there is pain, but then the body heals. Have we not realized the secret dream of every European inhabitant? Was that not the cause of all our victories? Everyone knew that, about which they were afraid to tell even their wives, we had declared clearly and openly, as befits a powerful and united nation. They had always disliked Jews. They always feared that dark and gloomy country in the east. That centaur who is savage and foreign for Europe, Russia. I said, "Let's simply solve these two problems." Solve them once and for all. Did we invent something new? No. We simply brought clarity to all the matters for which Europe wanted clarity and that is all. Ever since the Earth rotates around the sun... While there exist heat and cold, storms and sunlight... So long will exist the struggle, including struggle between people and nations. If people had remained in paradise, they would had rotted. Humanity has become what it is, thanks to the struggle. War is a natural, normal thing. War is going on always and everywhere. It has no beginning and no end. War is life itself. War is the starting point."
 

"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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