u/Correct_Ad4351

I'm 24 and male. I have never been on a date once in my life and never did a talking stage with a female in my life. I did 4 years of military which I think was a big hit to my dating life and I'm out now. I was wondering now how do I know if a female is giving signals. I never used dating apps either because those are a waste of time as a man. I feel like I got better at telling as I got older but still am not sure. I remember this one time, I was at the mall and I was on the whole other side of the mall and these 2 girls were walking on the other side (60-70ft away from me). I ended up looking back behind me after walking past them and one of them was already looking at me (she was looking behind her) and she smiled at me. I feel like this is a signal but I can't tell. Is it really just eye contact and smiling? I have had situations like this happen to me a lot and I don't really do anything with them since I can't never really tell because sometimes, I think they're being nice.

So I recently left the gym and I learned from someone on Reddit that the gym I was at followed some of the Lloyd Irvin blueprint. They did this:

1. No pricing on the website or even when called (front desk people won't tell you the price of membership), no schedule on the website and can't ask for one except you have a gym membership.

2. Make you do a trial class then put you in a room where you go over pricing and schedule. They have 3 numbers for the way to pay for membership but the first time you sign up, it's a foundations membership where you can only go twice a week. If you decide to leave to think about it and come back, they charge extra because you didn't make your decision on the spot. You end up getting a foundations program shirt with it.

3. Weird ass stripe gates for rolling from standup. I was paying full price for a gym membership that I couldn't fully use due to not having enough stripes although I had previous experience for a year before leaving my first gym due to military.

4. After graduating foundations, you have to get a whole new membership to access other classes which is more expensive than the foundations membership. You also get a shirt but it looks different than the foundations program shirt.

So this is what the last gym did that aligned with Lloyd Irvin and I thankfully left that gym because it was a shit hole. My last gym was a SBG gym. So avoid SBG gyms as much as you can. You can go to Google ai mode to learn more or read reddit comments because I'm sure people know about him well and his way to sell gym memberships.

Hello,

growing up I was always told that I was a quarter Hawaiian and recently, I did some research on my family history. So, I am definitely Hawaiian with all of the records I have collected through family search and I noticed that there was one name that looked more Samoan than hawaiian. I found this one ancestor back in 1840 with the name Pili. I did some research on this and apparently, when a child gets named, they usually avoid giving names that suggest royalty (high chief pili). I also found another last name called "Kekoanui" which I did some research on and found this one family tree where I was able to direct it to high chief Pili. I'm not really sure if I should really claim Samoan because I feel like I identify more with the issues of being Hawaiian which I have never been to Hawaii or any of the islands. I do understand that Samoans and Hawaiians don't care about percentages. What do you guys think?