PrettyBoyAJ
Master Don Juan
Don't do it. I've been there done that. Threw thousands of dollars in the trash.
"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.
The Truth About Diamonds
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Don't do it. I've been there done that. Threw thousands of dollars in the trash.
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
speed dawg
Master Don Juan
I don't think it hurts to buy an engagement ring. But we need to get away from the huge expensive diamond part. In our culture today though, how do you do this? Let's move past the problem, and start finding the solution.
Tictac
Banned
The value of diamonds is set by the near complete control of every fact of extraction to sale by one company.
Outside of the price they charge, of what value is a diamond?
Outside of the price they charge, of what value is a diamond?
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Synthetic diamonds are interesting. They are valued at what they can get someone to pay. So the smallest stones are about a grand, but a giant one is like two grand.
At one point, fake diamonds were indistinguishable from real ones, after they figured out to include a few flacks of carbon so that it was not too perfect. Then DeBeers instituted a microscopic coding program for all diamonds. Every stone now has the equivalent of a serial number. That's the only way to tell a real one from a fake.
At one point, fake diamonds were indistinguishable from real ones, after they figured out to include a few flacks of carbon so that it was not too perfect. Then DeBeers instituted a microscopic coding program for all diamonds. Every stone now has the equivalent of a serial number. That's the only way to tell a real one from a fake.