"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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Your Favorite Cartoons - Discuss

Tenacity

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How about a little light-hearted conversation around here for once lol?

So I think a lot of you guys grew up in the 80's and 90's like myself, do you care to answer the following questions?

- What were your top five favorite cartoon shows growing up?

- What were your top five favorite cartoon characters growing up?

For me, it goes like this:

- What were your top five favorite cartoon shows growing up?
1.) Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers
2.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3.) A Pup Named Scooby Doo
4.) Ren and Stimpy
5.) Beavis and Butt-Head

- What were your top five favorite cartoon characters growing up?
1.) Alvin from Alvin and The Chipmunks
2.) Roger Rabbit
3.) Darkwing Duck
4.) He-Man
5.) Johnny Bravo
 

"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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piranha45

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mmm early-mid 90s... Rugrats, Xmen, The Tick, Tiny Toons, Batman the animated series


Raphael, The Joker, Duckman, Daffy Duck, Taz
 

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I don't think they even play the old Warner Brothers cartoons any more. I think they are considered too violent for children. Political correctness started creeping in through the 90s. I remember watching GI Joe at a friend's house and making fun of the fact that they were always fighting a war, but no one ever died.

I liked a late 80s cartoon on CBS called 'Dungeons and Dragons.' I also thought the Muppet Babies was pretty well done.

What happened to the return of Beavis & Butthead a year or two ago? They made like three episodes and quit.
 

Who Dares Win

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Surely transformers, optimus prime has been a great father figure for many kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GeisRaias

I'm afraid that cartoon is more violent than the movies they did recently, in the end of the clip they even harm each other.

I also liked GI joes but they disappeared out of nowhere in the early 90s, same regarding rambo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eliQEStzhu4
Surely showing knifes in a kid cartoon didnt help.

Finally conan came but didnt last much for the same reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3cl4GJIDs

I really enjoyed all the action cartoons, never liked those with drama or with characters I didnt want myself to be.

Anyway lucky us to have to privilege to watch such stuff, kids nowadays only see censored senseless crap, thank god for the cold war which bread a more manly oriented media.
 

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Watching that transformers clip reminded me about Starscream! That guy was AWESOME lol, always backstabbing scheming undermining megatron, yet still formidable himself. Definitely one of my favorite cartoon characters. In the next scene he booted megatron off the bus. Great times.
 

"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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x-men
dragon ball z
batman animated series
doug
ninja turtles
 

LiveFreeX

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Kids Shows:

The Get Along Gang
Wuzzles
Muppet Babies
Smurfs
Snorks
Gummi Bears
Mech Warrior
1. Droids
Ewoks
Pee Wee Herman
Mad Balls
Carebears
Mr. Robot
GI Joe
2. The Archies
The Flinstones
The Flinstone Kids
Captain Caveman and Son
Yogi Bear
The Laffolympics
Maya the Bee
David the gnome
Rocket Robinhood
Scooby Doo
The Jetsons
Jeremy The Bear
Paddington The Bear
Woody Wood Pecker
George of the jungle
Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats
3. Eeek The Cat and The Thunderlizards
5. Bucky O Hare
Teddy Ruxpin
Inspector Gadget
Duck Tales
Tail Spin
He-Man
Alvin and the chipmunks
ThunderCats
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Hercules and Newton
The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo Power Hour)
Voltron
Captain Power
4. Captain N
Hey Arnold

Kids Shows:
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Blizzard Island, Eureka's Castle, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock (Not technically cartoons)
The new adventures of Hercules (Kevin Sorbo)
Saved By The Bell (Saturday Mornings)
You Cant Do That On Television
Dinosaurs
Fun House, Double Dare
Reboot


DOUG IS A FEMINIST CARTOON.. So is Pepper Ann, Rug Rats and Kim Possible... never let your children watch these.

sorry tenacity, didn't see the (top 5).

Top 5 Characters:
1) Butter Bear - The Wuzzles
2) Enzo - Reboot (Enzo after he transforms)
3) Eeek The Cat
4) Gonzo - The Muppet Babies, tied Veronica/Archie - The Archies
5) Teddy Ruxpin tied Dead Eye Duck - Bucky O'hare
 

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X men
Beavis and Butthead
Anamanatics
Ninja Turtles
David the Gnome
 

"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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