"The Kiss of Death Mistake"
You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What brand was your first computer?
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"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.
Teflon_Mcgee
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amoka said:
My family's first computer was almost a Packard Bell but we ended up buying from some local builder.
4 MB of RAM was standard but we paid the extra $160 to get 8 MB. Yes, RAM cost $40 per megabyte.
Thats $40,000 per gigabyte. WOW!
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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synergy1 said:
The c64 costs $100 and that giant disk drive was $200, but you had to have it if you wanted to play more than the crappy cartridge games. And you could cut a V-shaped notch out of the side of the disk if you wanted to use both sides.
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"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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Rogue said:
The Trash 80! When I was in elementary school, they would pull the smart kids out of class and let them play games on the Trash 80. They called this program "gifted." You had to be gifted to see what the hell was supposed to be going on in those games, which had graphics of about 4 pixels per square inch and involved maneuvering little rectangles around the screen while using a lot of imagination.
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now I'm trying to be more social, so I have a quad core 3ghz I havent even plugged in after painting my room 4 months ago, and a dell mini9 I just use to surf a bit here and there.
The 2nd computer I had which was a hewlett packard it lasted me for almost 10 years. I highly recommend HP they put out quality stuff. Then I got a dell which still works but it has crashed a bunch of times I don't think my HP ever did.
"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.
Quantumlink was essentially a bulletin board though.We still use it. 192 MB ram..
Firefox opens up in about 10 minutes.
General start up takes around 40 minutes.
Of course we dont use it daily i already have my own computer and i cant complain!
Your computer is overloaded for some reason. Start up shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. You can solve this by putting XP or Windows 2000 on it and turning off the memory draining services and applications. The less your computer has to do the faster it is.dra901 said:
"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.