"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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"Wedding Crashers" -- They AFCed the ending

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I wait for movies to hit the cheapo theatres (there's barely a movie worth paying full price for anymore unless it's independent or foreign), so I just saw "Wedding Crashers" last night, four months after most people have seen it.

Funny movie, Vince Vaughan had some epic lines and cracked me up. I was hoping they would "Animal House" it, i.e., just stay with the theme the whole way and not apologize for it.

Sadly, they apologized for the theme and turned AFC 3/4's of the way through. Yeah, they tried to redeem themselves with Will Farrell, but even he was a pathetic character.

Best part of the movie was the start, where these guys were at the top of their games and dishing out the one-liners.

The worst part was when Owen Wilson turns AFC and reads books about killing himself, and then going to crash weddings but being Mr. Downer ... all over an engaged gal. Of course in Hollywood fashion, the AFCs win out in the end ...

So close to being a great movie, but it settled in at being just good.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Why do you think every movie has a fairy tale ending? Because women want to see a love story with a happy ending. It makes them feel special and loved. Plus it makes the producers a hell of alot more money. How bad would a movie be if it ended in a break-up? The movie would suck.
 

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Alternative plot line

A funnier premise would've been for the two wedding crashers to get played by two women wedding crashers. I would've been rolling, but Hollywood execs don't think like this, and neither does the public. Yeah, Vaughan kind of got played by the nympho, but it would've been hilarious to see the tables turned.

* Hollywood cliches in the movie: The homosexual theme with the weird brother, the African American butler who helps out our AFC in need, the embarrassing wedding ceremony at the end where the jerk guy gets thumped in the end.

A lot more they could've done with the movie. I vote for playing out the raunchy theme the entire way through with a few obstacles for the wedding crashers.
 

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red-head nympho

i thought vince vaughn's girl in that movie was pretty hot. wonder if she's in anything else?
 

"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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Or maybe because they went through that cycle of their lives, where they had a lot of genuine fun dating many many girls, but had got over it. Realised it was time to settle down for a while and enjoy the benefits of a relationship. Once the relationships are over, they would perhaps continue back into their old cycles.

I know I have been through the cycle twice now.

The partying went on for years and years, then I settled down for a year and a half, enjoyed partying again for a year or so, settled down for about another year and a half..........future? Unknown, probably a repeat of the cycle (minus the getting drunk from the partying).
 
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