"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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What's the deal with POEMS?

SamePendo

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Is it only me, or do poems suck?

I find no artistic merit to them. I mean, yeah, some even rhyme and whatnot, but... come on! I mean, it's like... "geesh! I have the afternoon off, I'm going to the library to read poems" :crazy:

Poems: :down:
 

"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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I like walt whitman even though he was gay and wrote homeerotic poems... leaves of grass is so classic, and I was lucky to have a professor that was so into literature and poetry that it rubbed off on her students... I have a 2000 page literature book that I plan on finishing this year or sometime in my lifetime....
 

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Poems do seem a bit cliché nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I love a creative mind but poems seem a bit corny nowadays.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Brian20o2

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Poems do seem a bit cliché nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I love a creative mind but poems seem a bit corny nowadays.
99.9% of the new stuff sucks but the classics are still great.
 

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I dont like modern day "white" poetry, but spoken word is hot.

I think that alot of quality poetry should come from our generation...
 

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Brian20o2 said:
99.9% of the new stuff sucks but the classics are still great.
Yeah, I was going to say that the classic stuff is still good. It helps you appreciate the lifestyle and the time period of the poet. Contemporary poetry lacks the artistry of the classics.
 

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Lol, the title of this thread reminds me of a lame comedian. You know, they're like "What's the deal with airplane food?". Funny.

Anyway, poems are meh. Some are good, most are boring.
 

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I agree, poems are just pretentious nonsense to me. Don't get me wrong I can appreciate good literature and prose but if you have something worth saying, why not come out and say it as clearly as possible? Surely if it's important, you want people to understand it, so why put it into some obscure riddle, make it rhyme and adhere to patterns and restrictions and all that crap?!

I feel the same about song lyrics too. I personally enjoy music for the sound that it makes and nothing more. If I want meaning and words, I'll read a book.
 

"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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