"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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Who are your favorite Artists/bands/singers/musicians?

Warboss Alex

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Nah, he never did a 'Dio' album either, must be a Greatest Hits or something.

A quality track in either case! :)

For the record, my favourites'd be mostly be hard/rock and metal:

Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Saxon (most underrated metal band ever), Judas Priest, Dio, Iron Maiden, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Edguy/Avantasia, Iron Saviour, Krokus, Savatage, early Queensryche, Motorhead, Bruce D_ickinson and Rob Halford's solo material, Accept, Manowar, Ozzy, Stratovarius, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, some Lacuna Coil, some Kamelot, The Transformers Movie soundtrack. This is what I usually listen to.

I can tolerate stuff like Scorpions and AC/DC though not in large doses.

When not rocking out I like Radiohead (OK Computer and earlier), early Blur, Whitesnake, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Mavericks, some Sting, Cream, Bad Company, The Who and even some country stuff (when I'm feeling really sappy).

Though my absolute favourite non-metal band are Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo stuff. It is truly beautiful, brilliant soft rock music that you can't help but love. I'd recommend them to anyone.
 

"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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Originally posted by WhitePimp
What did you think of Finch's Say Hello Tu Sunshine?
Awful, not nearly as good as What it is to burn.
 

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Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
Johnny Cash
Damien Rice
Old Crow Medicine Show
Counting Crows
The Wallflowers
Sigur Rós
 
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- Cannibal Corpse
- Six Feet Under
- Dying Fetus
- Emperor
- Old school Snoop Dogg
- Eminem (The Slim Shady LP - The Marshal Mathers LP era)
- System of A Down
- Slayer
- Opeth
- Rage Against The Machine
- God Dethroned
 

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AC/DC
Iron Maiden
Prodigy
Crystal Method some songs.
Otis redding
Wierd al Yankovic
u2
The who
oasis
pink floyd
black sabbath
even some aerosmith.
 

"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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The Rolling Stones.

50 years of sheer genius and genuine class. They stand head and shoulders above anyone else for me.
 
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