"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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This is my rifle, this is my gun

MatureDJ

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For the umpteenth time, I was watching clips from the movie "Full Metal Jacket." There is a scene in which the drill instructor, Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, leads the recruits in a ritualistic exercise of learning the difference between a Marine's rifle and his "gun". This got me thinking.

There are many conceptual similarities between the rifle and the penis. Both are basically long tubes with a propelling mechanism that ejects material that is meant to reach its target to achieve success (military or sexual.) And similarly, the soldier is simply an expendable pawn in the greater battle, much like the sperm cell is procreation.

This duality of ultimate expression of maleness - to kill and to fûck - was seen most glaringly in the sad story of the nerd that killed the women in the sports club. His inability to achieve conquest with women drove him to achieve conquest in killing. And the same psychology underlies the high level of militancy in the Moslem world, in which highly frustrated males (because of the polygyny of that culture) are eager to be a soldier for jihad (especially when they think they will get those sexy 72 virgins.)

In other mammalian species, it is common for males to fight to achieve the alpha status and have access to the females. Obviously this duality is well ingrained in the psyche.

What do you think?
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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The Rifle shoots love

penetrates from far above

hate never does win

[/fukked up haiku]
 

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This is food for bioevolutional thought. We haven't been out of the woods that long, I've been known to say.

Indeed, a Marine refering to his rifle as a "gun" is a mistake made only once.
 
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