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.
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.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
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.
He is a genetic freak and does ridiculous amounts of training so it's very hard to compare anything in there to our own lives.Looks like he has a zero fiber diet and eats virtually nothing nutritious. But I guess whatever he's doing is working, he's got 11 gold medals and he's cut.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
They say a diet high in fat/meat and low in fiber is a great contributer to colon cancer. So he might be cut and all, but that garbage he's eating can't be good for his insides.SinJester said:He is a genetic freak and does ridiculous amounts of training so it's very hard to compare anything in there to our own lives.
Having a low body fat is just burning more calories than you it. It doesn't matter what you eat. You can eat burgers all day if you burn it off. Doesn't necessarily mean it's the healthiest thing to do. Maybe if you do burn it off it doesn't have any bad effects. Interesting.
Phelps just couldn't eat vegies all day because there aren't nearly enough calories.
"They say" it is -- but there is no reliable scientific evidence. See G. Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" (cited often by Mr. Ruckus). There's also no reliable scientific evidence that it isn't.speakeasy said:They say a diet high in fat/meat and low in fiber is a great contributer to colon cancer.