"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.
What brand was your first computer?
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"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.
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!
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
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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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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
Bible_Belt
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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 Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
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:
"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.