"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Where did the term "flake" come from?

"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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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flake

Origin:1350–1400; (noun) Middle English; akin to Old English flac- in flacox flying (said of arrows), Old Norse flakka to rove, wander, Middle Dutch vlacken to flutter;

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:flake

there is a Norwegian word flak which means torn piece

...the word flectus( curved) is a cognate of flake.


I think a lot of very old words started out in an onomatopoetic sense - the word sounds like what it describes. An arrow flying through the air makes a 'ffffffff' sound. The "lak" is probably the arrow hitting something.

I'm also guessing all of this is also the origin of the last name of Baltimore's NFL quarterback: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Flacco
 

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Bible_Belt said:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flake

Origin:1350–1400; (noun) Middle English; akin to Old English flac- in flacox flying (said of arrows), Old Norse flakka to rove, wander, Middle Dutch vlacken to flutter;

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:flake

there is a Norwegian word flak which means torn piece

...the word flectus( curved) is a cognate of flake.


I think a lot of very old words started out in an onomatopoetic sense - the word sounds like what it describes. An arrow flying through the air makes a 'ffffffff' sound. The "lak" is probably the arrow hitting something.

I'm also guessing all of this is also the origin of the last name of Baltimore's NFL quarterback: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Flacco
Sorry man, I meant the DJ term for "flake", as in to blow off or stand up.
 

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I always thought it was dandruff—just kidding.

I think what BPH was asking is who took the already existing word and applied it to dating, thus inventing a new usage of terminology. PUA terms originated from Usenet newsgroup discussions during the mid to late 1990's, so the origins were probably somewhere in there. Before then, there was no cultural terminology of “flaking” because there was no Internet for meta-game discussions—people were simply “stood up” or “cancelled.”
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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probably regional slang. like "that's fresh" or saying pop instead of soda
 

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I remember it being used in movies during the early '90s, seemed to just be another word for "unreliable" then.
 
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