"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Reruns of the mentalist/homeland/billions/power what are you guys doing during this crisis
 

"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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Handmaid's Tale, Cardinal, The Outsiders, Crown, Homeland, Big Little Lies, Transplant, Murdoch Mystery, Homecoming, Men on High Castle, The 100, Lost In Space, to name a few.
 

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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.

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I'm on my 5th watch-though of the 1972 series called M.A.S.H. The jokes are so funny, and I miss so many, because I'm too busy laughing.
That's a lot of laughing for a dramedy.
I never liked this show when it was originally on, I thought it was a little too pretentious. But I later became obsessed with it and binge watched it several times over. But that was many years ago.
 

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I do remember the last episode airing when I was a kid - it was a huge deal and was the most watched show for decades, up until a few years ago when a Super Bowl finally broke the record.
That was the episode that got me started watching it. I had seen a few episodes, but I never liked the show. Then they had the last episode when they finally got to home, and like you say it was an event, so I watched it. There weren't that many channels back then either. It got me more curious about the show, and I started watching it regularly, because it was on a lot in reruns.

It was actually Winchester's storyline that turned me around it, which is odd because he isn't one of the better liked characters, but I liked him. He was teaching some Korean POWs to play Mozart, and then they ended up getting killed.

Lol, Alan Alda was a huge feminist symbol back in the day. He was seen as sort of a sex symbol, but women held him up as the example for the new "sensitive man", who was pro-feminist and in touch with his feelings. That was about the first time I had heard of that sort of thing, it was in association with Alan Alda. His Hawkeye character was a big reason I never liked the show initially, I thought he was too preachy and self righteous. An early virtue signaler.

I do think the series was better than the movie.
 

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Then for some reason she later mindlessly cheerleads the 4077th in their football game with the 8063rd...it makes no sense.

The football scene was pretty well directed though.
Probably because she was a ho at heart. By the end of the series, they had pretty much turned her character around 180 degrees. The football game seemed to be what most people remembered about the movie, at least back then. I remember hearing about it long before I saw it.

When I first saw Winchester in the finale, I didn't realize he was supposed to be a villain. Like you say, he replaced Frank, who was not likable at all. Winchester was a more nuanced villain.
 

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I just finished watching The Last Kingdom season 4.

Now I'm checking out Britannia on Amazon Prime.... Some of the women in that show are stunning....
 

"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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That's a lot of laughing for a dramedy.


The first 4 seasons, was mainly comedy . After that, it became more dramedy, as you say.

There's a M.A.S.H. documentary somewhere. IIRC
 

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It wasn't really a good show. It shoved a lot of degeneracy down America's throat.
 

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The first 4 seasons, was mainly comedy . After that, it became more dramedy, as you say.
Which brings up the question, which do you prefer, early MASH or later MASH. I tend to prefer later MASH, not because of the heavier tone, but just because I prefer Potter/BJ/Winchester to Henry/Trapper/Burns. I'm sure some would consider that sacrilege lol.
 

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Which brings up the question, which do you prefer, early MASH or later MASH. I tend to prefer later MASH, not because of the heavier tone, but just because I prefer Potter/BJ/Winchester to Henry/Trapper/Burns. I'm sure some would consider that sacrilege lol.


I like Potter and Trapper the best...Burns's/Winchester's prideful arrogance is a 'love to hate' type deal.

So the answer is...I like 'both'... early and later. :)
 
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I confess I was so into MASH at the time, I even watched AfterMASH, which is considered one of the worst TV shows ever.
Odd thing, my recollection was that it ran for six episodes and was cancelled. But I looked it up and there were actually two seasons of it, with a total of 32 episodes.

By the way, speaking of series that were better than the movie, I watched Snowpiercer on TNT earlier this year. I thought it was better than the movie, but that's not saying much.
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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Reruns of Archer/How I met your mother/Friends.
And some German Netflix show called Dark that's really weird. And possibly dangerous if you're susceptible to science-fiction bullsh1t.
 

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Almost nothing because 99.99% of all tv shows ever made are garbage. There are a half dozen shows I rewatch in a rotation but that's about it.

I've recently started watching the survivalist show Alone but I'm already starting to hate it too.
 
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I cut the cord after the mentalist and elementary loved both shows:)
 

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"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.

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