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The real trick is to ooze so much sexiness and swag that you don’t need intros, and everyone comes up to you and loves you instantly, and you’re smart and funny enough to instantly be amazing at life changing cheeky banter and discovery of play in conversation, and all this advice is moot — but only if you’re good enough, and you have to be born into it, and you can never fake your way into it because everyone

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Can tell when you’re a pretender and will make fun of you behind your back. Just a thought

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Some common folk wisdom in the nba is that 10% of players would excel in any system (lebron, curry, etc.) and 10% no matter what system they will suck (Josh Jackson). But 80% is entirely system dependent….i see shades of this line of thinking in what you’re saying here

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foiled again....

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I die every time my nephew and his dad address each other as BRO. An abbreviated and breathy "Bro, can you pass me the pepper?"

Gonna gas up my two friends Pirooz and Jen with whom I share a very fun and spicy ongoing group chat. They both keep me up to date with the coolest threads, what stocks to buy (in theory), good memes, the best hotels, and everything that is cool and on the cutting edge. I am richer in all the ways because of them. Now I share them with the Good Hang fam.

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my dad HATES when I call him bro but i dont think I could even stop If I wanted to at this point.....

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sounds like they should start a substack....................

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We are conditioned to think about etiquette as high effort, but in most situations, it's less effort. It removes the guesswork, is standardized, and makes it easier for the other person to reciprocate.

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