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.
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.
I tried my best to watch that tv series but could not stand the endless talking and drama...the only series about outlaw criminals who spend more time doing introspection and assuring women than doing criminal stuff.Die Hard said:Mad Men and Don Draper? I'll take Sons of Anarchy and Jax Teller, thank you...
loveshogun said:Really? I kinda saw men - specifically white men - as always being on top of every other group (especially women) on TV.
That might just be me. But if you made a list of times men are debased on TV, I could probably come up with 2 examples of minorities and women being debased for your 1.
I don't usually disagree with you much, Arcbound, but on this one, I don't think we'll see eye to eye.
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This quote raises a spectre in me, that I get seriously irritated by. Fair play to all masculinity, but I really do believe that the liberal media promote only positive/masculine images of minority male groups, certainly here in England.
Its like because we have such race problems, white males have to bend over backwards to be "gentlemen" and accepting and not brutish, or cant ever be patriotic because thats "not on". WELL FUKK THOSE FUKKIN CUUNTZ. It just disturbs me at seeing the pussification of men; very disturbing indeed as I come from a line of soldiers/ warriors who would turn in their graves at seeing their descendants completely wacked out with spin/bull****/manipulating policies from goverments/thinktanks/big business/ "educators".....
How did it get to this.....
How do we get our pride back......
Cry about imaginary disadvantages some more?TonyBaloney said:How do we get our pride back......
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.