"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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What do you watch on T.V?

Abbott

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Television rots your brain.

50% are ads, and 49% isn't worth watching.

I leave 1% because sometimes there's something good.

I don't watch television, and I haven't had cable in years (not since 1991). If I see it in some hotel room or at a friend's place I always think "People actually watch this stuff??"

If I could pick and choose, so I could get just what I want and nothing else, I might consider subscribing. Until then, I don't think so.


Ben
 

"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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I think I mentioned a while ago that I caught The Simpsons and decided to sit down and watch it. What the hell happened to that show? It turned into absolute nonsense! It just reminded me of why I've never made a phone call to the cable company.
 

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Ironically many of the best programs (especially documentaries) are on the government channel. And even more ironically, the govt channel is also the best news channel. Screw democratic media, the govt newscasters knows their sh*t! Heh.

By the way, for the guys who never watch TV, do you play any computer games? Use the internet for entertainment purposes? That stuff rots your brain :)
 

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History channel, King Of Queens, Family guy, Simpsons, King of the hill and especially Smallville.
 

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I don't watch TV anymore. It's too depressing; nothing but greed, pain, violence, and death ... and that's without including the news.
 

"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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Like Abbott said, TV rots your brain. IMO the 1% that's good would be comedy. Not like Simpsons or Family guy, but stand up comedy performances because you can actually gain somehing from it.
 

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i hardly watch tv - maybe only a few hours a week - i guess i have other things to do.
 

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I was waiting for Rollo Tomassi to jump in here and proclaim:

"T.V. is for women"

He hasn't, so I just did. It's not worth sitting through the man-bashing commercials to get to the man-bashing programming, at least, not for any man with a shred of self-respect left.

I used to watch the History Channel and Military Channel a lot, but turning on the T.V. and paying for cable just doesn't seem worth it, not when I could be doing 50,000 other things with that time and money.
 

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Women's tennis or anything else featuring women in short skirts grunting.
 

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Vulpine said:
I was waiting for Rollo Tomassi to jump in here and proclaim:

"T.V. is for women"

He hasn't, so I just did. It's not worth sitting through the man-bashing commercials to get to the man-bashing programming, at least, not for any man with a shred of self-respect left.

I used to watch the History Channel and Military Channel a lot, but turning on the T.V. and paying for cable just doesn't seem worth it, not when I could be doing 50,000 other things with that time and money.
I second that.

TV IS PURE CRAP! It's basically misinformation AND advertising. They might as well pay me to watch it, at least it would be fair to the amounts of money they get brainwashing people.
 

“The 22 Rules That Turned Me From Invisible to Irresistible With Women… Starting Tonight”

You can skip the expensive cars, the fancy clothes, and the endless gym selfies. Completely unnecessary.

I used to freeze the second a beautiful woman looked my way. Frustrated. Awkward. Watching other guys walk away with the girl while I stood there tongue-tied.

Then I discovered 22 simple rules that rewired my entire dating life. The anxiety vanished. Conversations flowed effortlessly. Women started chasing me for a change.

These rules trigger a woman's subconscious attraction switches. And you can start using them tonight.

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Rollo Tomassi

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Heheh,..

The NFL and NHL are the only thing not for women on TV.
 

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24 and Prison Break.....Unbeatable drama!

Simpsons for the best comedy

Like to watch WSOP too. I play alot of poker


24 and prison break are the only shows that keep me from going out or if i do MUST be on sky+.
 

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Stand-Up, Daily Show and Colbert Raport, and Family Guy. Of course I tivo it and skip the comercials. Maybe 3 -4 hours a week during summer and 2 hours a week the rest of the year.
 

"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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The only shows I watch regularly are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. And occasionaly I would catch an episode of Jeopardy or Seinfeld.
 

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Don't really watch TV at all, and they all sit powered off most of the time, which is the way I like it. I agree it rots your brain.

Our TVs are mostly for movies (and the kids). We have a dedicated movie room. The TV shows that I like we either have on DVD, or the DVR records the whole season and I watch them at the end as one big marathon.
 

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It's pretty sad to watch tv, especially most shows are reality shows - I feel a pathetic when I'm watching tv. I usually download series. Having said that:

Conan O'brien
Masterminds - show about great theives
 

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I like House, Numbers, 24, and Prison Break... though the latter are too often stretching the improbability of the plot twists too far into deus ex machina fantasy land to suit me as of late. That, some cartoons (Family Guy, KIng of the Hill, etc.), and a few sports events. Not a religious follower of any of them.
 

"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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