Youtube comments of Tête Dur (@tetedur377).
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I learned in middle school, and it was severely reinforced in high school, that the opposite sex had zero interest in me. I was in the Navy during and immediately after the end of Vietnam, and if you guessed that women my age had hang-ups about men in the service, you'd be correct. I went in the the Army Reserve after the Navy, and it didn't get any better.
I was in my mid-20s - for the sake of simplicity, I'll say 27 - before I realized that I simply had no market value, despite earning a pretty good blue collar income. That was 40 years ago.
If not for the internet, I would have never met my bride of 20 years. She came with a fair amount of baggage, as well as 2 adult children, but she added almost no drama to my life. She wasn't a lot of help, financially, and in fact, I became her care-giver probably 15 years into the marriage.
Still, I figured it was the best I could get, so I embraced it as well as I could.
I'd never do it again, however. Some people are just meant to be alone, but too many of them are too stupid to figure that out.
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If you understand that what women THINK they want, what they SAY they want, and what they RESPOND TO are three different things with almost no overlap, things will make a lot more sense.
If you understand that men say what they THINK (within reason), while women say what they FEEL (regardless of what their logic and reason might otherwise dictate), things will make a lot more sense.
Men are hard-wired to express love for those he cares about. Love is an action word for men, and it's how we derive happiness.
Women think love is owed them; that people, places, things, and experiences provide them happiness. That is because women are only capable of loving themselves. It's just the way they're wired; it's survival for them.
I don't know why it is the way it is, but it explains why they are situational with respect to honor, integrity, decency, and loyalty, whereas we are hard-coded to value those virtues above everything else.
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One of my father's favorite expressions was "the world doesn't owe you a living." He was a shit father, but that doesn't mean he was wrong about everything.
WOMEN learn from the moment they slide down the chute that the world, one man at a time, owes them a living (and happiness, and stuff). Nobody talks about it, and mothers certainly don't say that part out loud in mixed company, but even early on, there is a disparity in how boy children are treated verses how girl children are treated.
The little c-words grow up believing that Prince Charming will come along, sweep them off their feet, and that they'll live in a palace even grander and more opulent than what they can imagine. With servants. And horses.
Instead of adjusting their expectations when the only single guys are named Earl (Goodbye, Earl), they live bitter lives full of unhappiness, disappointment, and despair, and it's all men's fault for not being Prince Charming.
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Speaking of solipsism, I saw prime examples of that in the military, decades before the interwebz. Yeah, I'm that old.
It took the form of women married to military guys and demanding to be accorded the same respect that their husbands received. It was particularly prevalent in lower ranked officers' wives, but it did occur in, let's call it mid grade enlisted. Basically, enlisted 5 (E-5 or sergeant) through E-6 (staff sergeant). We used to, and they still do, refer to it as "a dependent 'wearing the husband's rank.'"
Occasionally, you would see kids (late pre-teens and young teens) try it ("my dad's a Captain"), but most cases were wives demanding special treatment because their husbands were an O-3 (Lieutenant) or similar rank.
Usually by the time the enlisted guy or young officer had reached a certain rank in the military, they had been clued in on how a military wife is expected to act.
But yeah, those are the earliest examples of women's self-centeredness in the form of "don't you know who I am [based only on their husband's status]?"
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As a former, repeat patient (heart) at Washington Hospital Center in Evil DC, I can tell you that those annoying alarms in the remote patient monitor stations - those in the passageways amongst the patient rooms, and away from the actual nurses stations - can and are routinely safely ignored, particularly in the middle of the night.
I was lucky enough to have said remote patient monitor station outside my room on more than one occasion.
As are the supply "robots" bringing all manner of stuff between the wards and where ever it is they go to get and return that stuff. They routinely get stuck, and in theory, they can work their ways out of being stuck, and back on track to their destinations. When they cannot, they start beeping, sending out a signal that they need help and require human intervention. It's not that the alarms are so strident, the way the patient alarms are, it's that they are so persistent - like an itch you can't scratch.
My opinion is that most people who die in the hospital do so because they cannot get any sleep. If, perchance, one does fall asleep, an alarm goes off to let the staff know so they can wake you up to make sure you're okay.
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I didn't get married until I was in my 40s - 44 to be exact. She was 54. It wasn't a terrible marriage, but here's the thing: I was the retirement plan. She was too old and too tired, had too many medical issues to monkey branch, or help me build a life. She was mostly along for the ride.
I started investing in 2010, so 10 years into my white collar career. In 9 years, with my financial advisor leading the charge, I managed to save and invest nearly a half million. Think how much I could have put aside for retirement if I would have had a help mate, instead of a room mate who spent my money.
Even though she left me in debt when she passed, I paid that off, and am essentially debt free, except for the house. I spend about half of my annual income, so yeah, I'm comfortable. And single. I'm alone, but not lonely. Ain't no man got time for that.
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I'm the 65th thumbs up at 68 years of age. Women could be pretty abrasive back in the '70s when I was learning how to shoot my shot, but those were exceptions, mostly.
It's safer and better for your overall health, well-being, and financial status to stay the hell away from them.
Even a "good" woman such as my late wife shared a lot of the traits that today's women have. It's just that it was much more diminished in her. She came from a generation that, on some level, knew that marriage was/is transactional (all relationships are), but a) we don't talk about it, and more importantly, b) she knew that she had to bring value to the table. There was no talk of "I am the table" crap these modern women spout.
The main example is that it wasn't until she passed that I discovered that I was about $15,000 in debt. So yeah, similar qualities.
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If you watch drivers here in the People's Republic of Maryland (and you better!), they are chronic serial traffic offender. You can watch someone speed in the right turn only lane, cut across 3 lanes of traffic (Three Notch Road), only to make an illegal u-turn from the outside lane of the left turn, AGAINST a red light, drive to the next intersection and change lanes in the middle of the intersection, having entered it on a yellow light. While talking on the phone and watching TV.
I saw all that not long after I arrived in Maryland for work, and thought "what the h*ll have I got myself into!?"
Oh, and shoulders, paved or not: those are passing lanes.
Work friend said his girlfriend was mad at someone for driving the speed limit - in the right lane down 2/4! In fact, that stretch of 2/4 that runs between Solomons Island, which is an island by a mere technicality, and Prince Fredrick is where they shot that one cop show..."Speeders," I think it was.
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The 90% of men, those of us that the vast majority of women do not see, okay, are hyper picky for one reason: We are/were the simps. We bow and scrape and do everything for the women we are attracted to - basically, we provide everything that boyfriends and/or husbands do, except conjugal visits.
We are/were the guys in the friend zones. Our female "friends" only want us for what we can do for them, including being an emotional tampon. In some respects, we're slaves to these women, except we nearly always live separately.
We think that somehow, if we're good enough, kind enough, do enough for these women, that eventually, they'll have an "Aha!" moment in the middle of getting their back blown out by Chad and say, "Damn, that Hard Head is a really good guy! He's always there for me, he does lots of things for me, he takes me out, listens to me when I cry about Chad, why am I not with Hard Head?"
And it never happens, even though our friends all thing that there's something more to our relationship than there really is.
Our hyper-pickiness is our way of saying that the woman in our lives wasn't enough for us because we'd never admit that we are/were a simp who provides LTR partnership benefits who her with no reciprocity.
Thankfully, channels like this exist. It's too little, too late for me, since 70 is just over the horizon, but it allows me to see what a simp I was and why, and it allows me to pass on a little of what I've learned in the last few years. It's information I could have used, say 40 years ago.
Well, maybe the next lifetime, if there is such a thing. Who knows? Not me, nor do I care.
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I'm 67; I stopped dating in my 20s - 24, I think. Before that, I didn't date, though I did have a few hookups that were heavily fueled by alcohol. I met my wife online when I was 44. After a year of that, she flew out to where I was. We decided we could do worse, so we got married, with the agreement that we'd reassess at the end of a year.
We got along well enough that we stayed together for 20 years until she passed. It was a very good marriage, in most ways, though she left me in fairly significant debt, and it didn't take long for me to figure out that I was the retirement program.
The point is: stop dating, and especially stop getting married. The juice, as the old saying goes, ain't worth the squeeze.
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Men are very communicative - unless some wah-man has beaten us down, which means we're a simp.
But overall, men tend to say what they mean and mean what they say. Unlike wah-men and their morse code-like hints they say they keep dropping.
One of the best bosses I ever had, and one of the best women I ever worked for was extremely feminine. As I used to tell her, "Commander, you're very chick like."
LOL But she was very direct. Her style was to go to whomever she was tasking and say "Here's what I need, here's when I need it, and here is the format I need it in." Then she would provide samples, points of contact, and so, and leave the assignee the hell alone. She fully expected that you would perform as expected, and come to her if there were any issues. Commander S. didn't drop hints.
I loved her, and we're still friends today.
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I've done both; in fact, I've done all three. I went into the military at 17. I worked as a blue collar guy for about half my adult life. Anything from washing dishes, unloading box cars, stuffing printed circuit boards, factory work, auto mechanic. The second half, after attending a Big Ten University, I worked in the white collar world. Honestly, that's the order I'm the most proud of; military, blue collar, white collar.
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@meddlingmage23 Naw; it's because we all go through a simp period. We get bad gouge from our mothers, and our fathers don't contradict them, because presumably, they still hope to get a shot of leg.
Teachers (who are mostly women) treat us like dysfunctional girls, and the military, for those of us who went in before women ruined it, only had our drunken leaders and horn-dog peers to look to for guidance.
By that time, we're in our late 20s, and in my case, 24, when we said "fuggit" to trying to date. And I didn't for almost 20 years.
I dated a couple of single moms in my life, because at least they were willing to talk to me. The last one was in 1982, I think.
I wish to god this information had been around 40+ years ago.
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I'm 67, and tip pooling has been going on since probably before I worked in restaurants in my early teens (prior to going into the military) and my mid- to late-20s, after getting out of the military.
As a matter of fact, those were the places I made THE most money, hands down, even though I was not a server. In 1979, I worked as a busboy at a place in San Diego called The Chicken Pie shop, and I never brought home less than $20.00 a night - again, as a busboy.
Another place I worked at was Montana Mining Company in Tulsa; again, tip sharing. I started out as a dishwasher, became a line cook, and, as before, I took home a decent night's pay, in addition to my hourly (less than minimum) wage.
Hell, I worked at Anthony's by the Sea in San Diego, where the wait staff was bringing home $200.00 a night in the mid-70s. Again, tip sharing.
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I asked my sisters about a topic similar to "does anyone know when you get past the falling assh*les phase." That happens, or begins to happen when a woman starts that change in life that begins in her mid-life, according to them. The constant state of hyper-emotionalism begins to fade away, and the logic and reason they've always been capable of, but seldom apply, begin to assert themselves.
The problem is that most women at that stage are so burned out, bitter, and angry at the treatment they've set themselves up for at the hands of Chad Thunderstroke and his merry band of "hit-and-quit-it" brothers that no man wants to be with them. No man who's not an irredeemable simp, that is. And of course none of them is the common denominator in any of it.
One of the smarter women I know who's been through all that with the Chads and the Tyrones and the Ray-Rays, et al; one of the most business-minded, logical, reasonable, conservative women in my life is triggered and turns into a raging feminazi when any discussion revolves around how women do this to themselves. It's kind of scary, actually, and it's almost a Jekyll-Hyde transformation.
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As a mid-Boomer myself, I would like to point out that, as small as my parents' generation comparatively is, ALL OF THEM HAVE NOT GONE AWAY.
Some of my parents generation STILL hold the reigns of power in academia, in industry, and in government. STILL!
I'm 68 years of age, and I'm retired. Members of MY PARENTS' generation still move in the circles of power in this world. Not many of them, granted, but they're still holding on. Just how much power do you think we Boomers had to change anything in those arenas when we did not control those arenas?
We did a lot to change the world, we Boomers, but not much in those areas.
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The younger generations have somehow acquired unrealistic expectations that we Boomers were never inculcated with by our parents.
I went to college late in life (in my 40s), and even then, Gen X had expectations of compensation packages that we simply did not have.
Here's what the Bust Generation that went through WWII and Korea told us the world owed us: "nothing."
Here is what especially the Millennials and younger generations somehow came to expect from the world: "everything." Not only that, but they expected it just out of high school or college.
I'm like "no, kids; it doesn't work that way." I don't know what their parents, my children and grandchildren have told them/are telling them, but they're telling them wrong.
I was 26 when I bought my first brand new vehicle. I wasn't prepared, and when massive layoffs in the aircraft industry came, I had no emergency fund to allow me to continue payments or pay it off.
My next new car came after my wife of 20 years passed in 2016. From 1980 to 2016 is a pretty long time. I was 50 years old, but I had an emergency fund, and I made sure I could pay it off.
My first new house was a manufactured home, and it came a couple of years after I graduated college. The house I live in; that I've been in for 18 years, and it costs me $1,100 a month. That's less than half of what the renters across the street are paying for the house they're in. I was 49 when I bought it. Oh, and we bought in 2005, at the top of the market. It's the first stick house I've ever owned - that is, it doesn't have wheels - and may be the last house I'll ever buy, since I'm 67.
The younger generations see my home ownership and my now 4-year old Tundra, and the other accoutrements that come with being able to AFFORD (not finance) such things, and they want all that NOW, NOW, NOW. They blame us because they can't afford all the things. I've got news for them: in 1980, I was making just under $11.00 an hour in the Midwest, and we were living under the Bidenomics-like conditions of the Carter administration. My first vehicle was 21% interest. My first new vehicle was 19% interest.
I washed a lot of dishes in restaurants, I picked up beer cans (before it became a thing) and I worked day labor and gave blood in order to get by. I wasn't smart with money, which is a legit thing to blame my parents' generation (you don't talk about money, politics or religion - and look where we are because of that), but I could make it. I did make it, obviously.
Basically, Gen Z's anger at their grandparents' generation (us Boomers) is misplaced. Oh, and my parents' generation still prowls the halls of power in this country. Nancy Pelosi is my mother's age. Joe Biden is technically old enough to have been my father. He would have been 16, but still...not unheard of in those days. Warren Buffet is still a force to be reckoned with, and he's how old?
My generation began to take their place in those halls of power when our parents began to die off....and the f*chers would. not. die. Think about that. I'm retired at 67, and people my parent's age and older STILL WIELD POWER in this world.
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I had a similar situation, back in about 1980.
Cindy was driving the kids (2 daughters) to school, and me to automotive training school, which is where I met her. She asked me a question that I felt really uncomfortable discussing in front of young children, but before I could say anything, the older of the 2 said "don't just sit there, answer my mommy!"
Well, I'd already had the go-around with Cindy over that same brat taking a running jump toward my abdomen while sitting on the couch. You know the discussion:
"Don't talk to my daughter like that! You tell me and I'll talk to her!"
"When, Cindy? After she's hurt me? You talking to her isn't going to do me any good if she does serious damage."
You know, like breaking a rib. It doesn't take a lot of force, and the kid was certainly big enough.
I said "Cindy, stop the truck." No other words were exchanged, that I recall.
She stops the truck, and I got out. I walked back the house, got in my GTO and left. I don't remember ever seeing or talking to her again.
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Part of the problem is the Government. Okay, most of the problem is the Government.
It's a vicious cycle that I noticed when I got out of the military and went to college on the old Montgomery G.I. Bill.
Government would give us a COLA for schooling; schools would raise their tuition. At first, I could pay tuition, fees, books, and have a little left over. By the time my G.I. Bill ran out, that was no longer the case. Not only did I have to work to pay rent and bills, but also to cover the part of the tuition, fees, and books that the G.I. Bill couldn't cover.
Between the Government, and private industry, they've manage to convince everyone that they NEED a college education to make it in life, when apprenticeship programs - many of which can also lead to a 2-year degree (I have 2 of those as well) - would better serve people in this world.
Basically, higher education is a money-making racket - just not for the people in the trenches, such as my sisters, who actually stand in the classrooms.
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I had a friend, many years ago, who was licensed to practice in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
She never practiced law. Not as a lawyer. She did work at a law firm, but she pretty much did research.
I didn't understand why you'd go through law school, take the bar exam, and be licensed in 3 (or more) states, and not practice law.
Well, my daughter is a qualified fire-fighter, EMT, Paramedic...who doesn't work as a first responder. Her reasoning was one I could relate to, which is I don't want to be responsible for someone else's life. I can dig it.
But Debbie never gave that as an answer. In fact, she was pretty vague about why she didn't practice law.
I'm reminded of Bluto's line from "Animal House:" "7 years of college, down the drain."
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My first computer was an 8088. I've had a 286, a 386, a 486, and a true Pentium 100 that should not have been able to run the programs that it ran. All of those except the 8088 were home built.
I did conclude quite a while back that MS thinks that they own your media; specifically, the xbox (in all its interations) and your PC, no matter what brand it happens to be.
When I worked for the Department of Defense, Depart of the the Navy, those were enterprise computers and computer networks. They were all interchangeable as far as the PC or laptops, the firmware and software.
Everyone got the same upgrades and the same programs. There were exceptions, mainly on a case-by-case basis, and each exception had to be elevated to higher levels to provide for exceptions.
Different competencies were allowed to have programs that other competencies were not. For example, Science and Technology users had programs available to them that Logisticians were not, and so on throughout the entire enterprise.
All that was what led me to believe that the money I spent on my xboxes and on my PCs were merely the cost of entry into the Microsoft world-wide enterprise.
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As a fellow widower, my advice is to get some kind of in-home gym equipment. I have a Gazelle, but mainly because it was near new condition on FB marketplace, and it's good for inclement weather. Mostly I walk, up to 5 miles, 3 times a week, but I also have a Total Gym, which I also use about 3, sometimes 4 times a week.
I'm 68, so getting up there, and some of that had to do with being married, among other factors.
I'm determined to not go quietly into that good night, plus, I've suffered from depression all of my life. A good round of exercise can beat that depression back, consistently. Highly recommend.
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I spent a lot of time in restaurants as a bus boy, a dishwasher - my first jobs before going into the Navy were dishwashing jobs - waiter, line cook, prep cook. Really pretty girls didn't work in restaurants. Guess what my first "job" was in boot camp? If you guessed "dishwasher," give yourself an adult beverage.
The really pretty girls constantly had offers from male customers who were business owners for a variety of jobs. Restaurant work was at best, temporary for the really pretty girls.
To be sure, the very upscale restaurants where, even in the '80s, girls could take home $200 or more a night, only hired pretty girls. And they stayed on long term if they were really good and liked their jobs. I worked for a guy whose mom worked at one of those restaurants in San Diego. In the late '70s, she was bringing home a minimum of $200 a night, which is how I know. I was probably 19 or 20, so she had to be around 40. Still an attractive woman, but not a "pretty girl," though I have no doubt she once was.
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You know, I'm old...too late to start again, and given today's modern woman and how they are (as told by them), I wouldn't want to.
The best thing I ever did was to work on myself, after my wife of 20 years passed away.
Don't get me wrong: as far as these things go, it was a good marriage. I think I got incredibly lucky, compared to a lot of men out there who get married.
I also, thanks to the RP/MGTOW movement, learned a lot about both myself, and about women.
I was the retirement plan.
I was also a grade A, number one draft pick, Hall of Fame simp.
Nobody told you these things, back in the day. Men suffered in silence and misery, often "checking out," because of what women have done, and continue to do to men.
There was no real social network, past work or the local bar. Men couldn't share this stuff if they wanted to.
Here's something I learned yesterday, as a matter of fact: 56% of all marriages in this country (US) end in divorce. This is the part that I didn't know: estimates are that 20 more percent of marriages that should probably end in divorce don't, "for the sake of the children." Women have always claimed that they were the ones to make that sacrifice to show what martyrs they were. I don't know the exact statistics, but this guy feels like most of those are men trying to hold a marriage where the woman has checked out together for his children.
Did you know that children of single fathers; that is, where the father has custody, do almost as well as children of two parent households. Single mothers produce criminals. 75% of incarcerated individuals in this country are products of single mother households. Interestingly, there is a 75% recidivism rate in this country; 3 out of 4 convicts re-offend, sometimes within hours of being release. Roughly 75% of women vote Democrat/pro-daddy Government to take care of them.
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We know that women say one thing, think another, but respond in a completely different way. Why is it that women, as mothers, tell their sons what they think they want in a man, and not how to really get a woman?
In other words, my mother told me to go make friends with women. Her theory, as a Silent Generation woman, was that a guy had to do all the old fashioned things for a woman, get to know them, become friends with them, and then, and ONLY then, would he have a chance to marry "his best friend (or some bullsh*t)."
Her reasoning was also that "if things don't work out with you as far as marriage, you'll always have a female friend," for whatever that's worth.
Now my a*hole father (lot of people were glad when he died) presumably wanted to get laid, so he went along with that "how to get a relationship" advice my mother handed out, and I kind of sort of understand it - okay, not really, but it makes a tiny little bit of sense.
But I can't understand her dispensing that kind of advice to her son(s), and gods know what she told my sisters.
I never dated through age 17, when I dropped out of high school and joined the military. The only women I could con into giving it up were hookers overseas.
I quit even trying to date at age 24 after many failures, and now, at age 67+, I'm only now beginning to understand that maybe I was not the whole of the problem.
So now, my attitude at my age, is the same as at age 24: ALL women are 304s. They have the slot-C, we men want the slot-C, and we'll trade our souls for it. Unless/until we say "no f*ckin' way," and we go decades without it, but don't seem to be any worse the wear for the lack-o-nooky.
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@halfsourlizard9319 It wasn't all that long ago that in the US, people only bathed once a week, typically.
You may not have seen it, but there is a Three Stooges episode where Curly (with the close-cropped hair) says, after getting soaked, "I just had a bath, and it's not even Saturday!"
That wasn't unusual in the part of the country I come from, where water had to be pumped and hauled to where it was needed. My grandmother's house had no indoor plumbing, although even most rural houses did, many farms did not. We lived on a farm with no indoor plumbing, an outhouse (always fun in the middle of the night, in the dead of winter in the Midwest), no heat other than a wood-burning stove, and no electricity.
As my father used to say "It built character."
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@moda78z Roughly 30% to the Fed every year, and no, I don't get a lot of that back.
Then there's the state one lives in, and in some places, local taxes, including an "occupational privilege tax," which I paid in Montgomery county, just outside Philly.
Basically, there are taxes on money we make, money we spend, money we save, and money we leave behind when we die.
Hell, here in Maryland, they tried to implement an asphalt tax. I forget what name they gave it, but basically, they judge the square footage of the areas on your property that are paved that prevent rain from falling on the earth, and tax you on that amount. There was such a hew-and-cry over that bit of crap that they backed off for now. Democrats especially never met a tax they didn't like, as long as they don't have to pay it.
Many states are losing money in tax revenue due to EVs. Politicians don't like losing money. You'd think they were corporate stock holders or something.
Anyway, that actually started decades ago with the advent and rise of hybrid vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius. States have proposed, often with little success, road use taxes, such as the ones they levy on over-the-road truckers.
We get taxed plenty here in the States; it's just not one big lump sum like it is in many European countries. I would call it nickle-diming us to death on the taxes we pay.
I mean, we Americans are often shocked when we find out Europeans pay up to 60% of your income in taxes, but what most people don't realize is that we pay just as much; just not all to the same place.
It's like that Beatles song "Tax Man." If our politicians can find a way to tax us and get away with it, they will. And spend it like drunken garden tools when the Fleet is in port.
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@CloudStrifexxx I know this is going to be difficult for you to wrap your head around, but not everyone believes in the same god you do, or in any god, for that matter. Bonus: you can't make them, no matter how "for their own good" you feel like your belief system is.
Marriage is a contract. By nature, contracts are legal entities. Individuals do not have oversight over legal matters. It is for the protection of BOTH individuals entering into a contract with one another; to ensure that the rights of each individual are protected, and that each is treated fairly before, during, and at the end of the contract period of performance.
Too many people treat a contract like that too cavalierly, if, in fact, they recognize it as such in the first place. With no fault divorce, women are not only encouraged to do so, but rewarded for breaking that contract, not only with no ramifications, but actual incentives to do so.
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@x_x714 "At some point, for some reason, we started listening to the complaining."
We had no choice in the matter. Enough simps in the media, in education, in the legal world, and in the government began passing laws. The first thing they did was to pass laws to ensure that men had no safe spaces all to their own. From the locker room to the board room, to private clubs, to gyms, men were not allowed to exclude women.
Me, personally: I believe that women get pissed off somewhere down in their dark little souls at the idea of men being happy without women being around, and by gawd, they're not gonna stand for that.
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@airheadusmc3821 I had to laugh, shipmate, because I saw that "married twice, done with marriage, 38," and my first thought was this guy must have been in the military. Then I notice your screen name. That's when I started laughing.
Appreciate your service. Navy, '73-'78; Army, '78-'82.
BTW, I was only married once, for 20 years from 44-64. I'm 30 years older than you, and also done with marriage. Although at my age, there aren't a lot of options. Russian mail order brides, maybe.
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I figured out decades ago that, among other things, women work on a point system.
You see this modality in action between women a lot. They're friends, they're friends, they're friends - sometimes for years, even decades - and all of a sudden, they're not friends, "and I never want to even hear that beotch's name, ever again."
They don't realize they're keeping score, but on a subliminal level, they are. Nancy and Jane exchange points for years, decades, without ever realizing that's what they're doing. Nancy buys Jane presents, Jane has a shoulder to cry on, and so on and so forth, until Nancy finds out Jane got drunk, made a pass at Nancy's man, and even if Jane is leagues ahead on points, that one thing just wiped out all those years of "friendship" points, and they never speak to one another for the rest of their lives.
If I were king, women would be banned from ever using the word "friend" again until eternity. They don't understand the word. They think anyone they like is their friend; that if a person is their friend, they are as pure as the driven snow, and one massive points-killing event can turn a life-long friend into an enemy.
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Guys: never, ever expose your vulnerabilities. Certainly not your deep ones, anyway. That's terrible advice. Women say they want emotionally available men, but they actually despise that in a man. They can and WILL use that sh*t against you at the worst possible time, which is when you are, in fact, emotionally vulnerable.
Never expose any emotion that will be used against you. They'll ghost you most riky-tik. If you're married, it becomes part of the buildup women will use to hurt you and leave you, taking cash and prizes (as well as the house, the car, the kids, the dog, and the color TV). They will get the gold mine, and you'll get the shaft.
If you want to share, do so with close male friends, or get a dog. It is so dangerous to your continued mental health to share emotions with a woman.
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Life itself is pretty meaningless. There is no reason for humans to be here in the first place. None of us asked to be here. Why are we being asked to endure pain, suffering, and tedium - and that's a relatively normal life - with only death being the goal, and no knowledge or even inkling of what's to come after this f'ed up experiment that is the human experience?
Also, asking men to give up the only pleasurable thing available to them. I mean, you have to be a stud to get the women that you want to be intimate with. And have you seen modern women with their demands? Personal intimacy is so not worth it. I mean, my body count over a 60+ year span is less than an ugly 11 year old, these days. And my god! The baggage women in their mid- to late-40s through their 60s is unbelievable.
They're all into "personal work," but what that really means is seeking validation for their feelings, not stripping away the baggage, taking personal accountability or responsibility for their behavior that got them to the point they're at.
Yeah, I'll pass. I'm old, I've survived this long; I don't have that far to go, whether I live to the end of the year, 10 years or whatever.
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@esoislife9961 "College isn't for everyone especially the lower classes"
Honestly, college shouldn't be for everyone. And I'm saying that as a college graduate with 2 associates, a baccalaureate, and an MBA.
The G.I. Bill WOULD have helped with part of one of my associates, but honestly, I was older, and had frittered it away, and there's an upper limit, time-wise as to how long it's available. So, I paid for the first 3, and my employer paid for the MBA.
And, oh, by the way, I went to vo-tech for automotive repair when I was younger. It's mainly what enabled me to pay for my 1st 3 degrees.
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@gracegrace2107 I absolutely agree that government should not be involved to that level of individual lives. However, marriage is a contract, which is a legal entity. For the protection (at least in theory) an outside agency needs to have purview over that legal entity, and sadly, that means the government is and has to be involved.
What needs to happen is that men and women need to be educated as to roles and responsibilities, as well as reasonable expectations within the framework of marriage.
Additionally, we need to stop incentivizing women to break those contracts because they came into marriages with all the fantasy and none of the realism, and when realism impinges on their fantasy, they want out, and they want to punish their men for not being the fantasy; the handsome prince who doesn't snore, who farts in his sleep, who doesn't pick up his socks, and all the things.
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It's appalling how ignorant so many cops are, especially in this day and age.
Given the mentality of the general population, it's not surprising.
Here's the thing: cops, generally speaking, have this hyper-machismo thing going on. Coupled with the need to always be right, and a quasi-military culture that constantly reinforces the us vs. them dynamic - to the point where cops (again, generally speaking) view anyone not a cop (and even some cops) as the enemy. Beyond that, they tend to TREAT anyone they encounter who is not a part of their in-group as the enemy.
Officer Friendly has left the building, got into a squad car with a partner, where they are isolated (and, for the most part) insulated from the people they are supposed to serve - now that they have no duty to protect. Which begs the question: who protects the citizens from the cops?
Further, Officer Friendly, who's no longer so friendly, has been militarized by equipment, training, and cop culture - bearing in mind how many cops are prior military.
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Matt is the gold standard (maybe) for hoarding old equipment. Just last night, I was watching Low Buck Garage, and he said somebody compared him to Matt as far as having a huge pile of...stuff.
Don't let other people make New Year's resolutions for you. Especially wives. We love them, but they typically don't make good financial decisions. They're the ones whose neurosynapses go crazy to where they go "It's so cuuuuute," and they buy the most useless, gawd-awful crap, and then they tell us what we should and shouldn't buy. I tell you, if that DT-5 was a color she liked, she'd buy it herself.
Oh, Guilty of Treeson has one of those Avants, and he loves the hell out of that thing. What Sam said about not tearing up lawns. They do have some kind of Ditch Witch for those tight areas the Avant can't get into, so there's that.
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One of the biggest puzzles to me is the advice my (step) mother gave me for dealing with women runs contrary to EVERYTHING I've learned about women over the course of my lifetime.
It's like she was setting me up for failure with women.
"Make friends with women," she said "that way, you'll always have a female friend."
"Treat women like ladies. Open doors for them. Give up your seat on public conveyances. Allow them to go first." And so on and on.
It's pretty much why I quit trying to date in my 20s; not long after I got out of the military, actually. I spent most of my time IN the military deployed overseas, so not a lot of action going on there, either.
If it hadn't been for the early days of the Internet, and chat rooms like AOL and Prodigy had, I would not have met my wife.
Don't get me wrong; it was a good marriage. It was my first, her third. Using the advice my stepmother gave me, it was a good marriage. But I was in my 40s - and yeah, I hadn't had a girlfriend in right at 20 years - and she was in her 50s.
She's gone now, and I don't regret having been married, but there's no way in hell I'd ever do it again, knowing what I know now.
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@askel6498 said: "Explained in gamer terms: Boomers had figured out the meta, are now op and gatekeep others from playing it. Gen Z understands that they have no way of winning and choose not to play. Now boomers complain that there are not enough noobs to farm."
Here's the problem with your cute little metaphor for life. The last of the so-called Silent Generation (aka, my parent's generation) AND the oldest of the Baby Boomers IS STILL IN POWER!
Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, is 82 this year. He is the youngest "group" that belongs to my parent's generation (1928-1945). Senator Nancy Pelosi is a year older than Sanders. That's a quick couple of examples from politics.
Industry: The best known example is Warren Buffet; he is 94 this year. In fact, he was born in the same year as my father, 1930. Roger Penske, of Enterprise, is 84. In fact, most of the CEOs in the Fortune 500 are early Boomers - who identify more strongly with our parent's generation than us mid- to late Boomers - and, of course, our Silent Generation parents. Well, the ones still alive. (don't quote me on those exact ages - close is good enough, in this case)
The point here, my dear baby Gen Zer, is that I've been retired for going on 5 years now. Again, mid-Boomer. My. parents'. generation. hasn't. given. up. power. Nor have my older brothers (and sisters) of my generation.
We did not come to power in the political realm, in the industrial arena, in media, fashion, or any other field you might care to mention, until we ourselves were near retirement age, because our parents wouldn't go away. Not until they died.
Do you understand? Your great great grandparents did not give up the reigns of power until they either died or, for some, retired.
We Boomers didn't have as much power and influence as you might think we did, in an effort to keep you brats from enjoying the alleged "good life" you think we were born into.
Some fun facts where we did have some influence, however: we marched and protested to end the war in Vietnam; we marched and protested for civil rights; for equal rights for women; for abortion - regardless of how one feels about that. Earth Day; the Free Speech movement on college campuses - not only did that one not age well, but your generation seems hell-bent on killing that movement.
Each generation tries their best to give their children a better life than they had. At least ideally. But other than the very affluent, the vast majority of us were not handed anything. We were taught to stay in school, go to college, get a good job, keep our heads down, work hard, and raise a family.
Here's a quote you might find interesting from Realtor.com:
"You might call them an unlucky generation.
Just as they entered the market hoping to buy their first homes, typical mortgage payments soared.
Amid rampant inflation, home prices had shot up more than 60% in four years, and mortgage rates surged to their highest level in recent memory.
No, these young prospective homebuyers weren’t millennials. They were baby boomers, and the year was 1980, when mortgage rates topped 16% and the average monthly home loan payment jumped 34% from a year earlier.
Those figures come from a new Realtor.com® analysis of historical home price, income, and mortgage rate data. They closely correspond with contemporary estimates reported in 1981 by wire service UPI, which called the record surge in mortgage payments “astounding.”
Millennials, perhaps bitter over the economic havoc wreaked by the 2007 global financial crisis just as they entered the workforce, have long complained that “boomers had it easy.”
Houses were cheaper, jobs were plentiful, and college tuition could be paid off with a summer job, according to the common wisdom on Reddit.
But, according to our historical analysis, boomers arguably faced the toughest housing market ever for first-time buyers."
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/boomers-not-easier-buying-first-homes-millennials-housing-market/
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There was one woman who joined the Continental Army, dressed as a man, and who, by all accounts, gave a good accounting of herself.
There was another woman, Molly Pitcher (don't quote me), who took over loading field artillery for her fallen husband - it wasn't that uncommon in early wars for civilians of all sorts to be situated near the battle lines, and even the battle field itself - and gave a good account of herself, but other than the chick who rode to warn "the British are coming!" along with Paul Revere (separate routes), that's pretty much it, as far as I can recall.
But to f'nists, that absolutely, positively proves that all women are ready, willing, and able to perform such heroics...well, except on the modern battlefield, of course. Then, the most ardent f'nists suddenly get all trad-wife on us.
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The older women get, the more angry, bitter, resentful, and demanding they get.
Per my sisters, it's because as women age, they begin to move into a frame where they are more able to move into logic and reason.
They're still delusional, however. Delulu in the vernacular. They still see themselves as "10s," they still believe that they are the table, and they still base their "standards (for non-Chads)" on this image they have hanging on from when (most) of them were young and relatively hot. And they hold on to that delusion for all they're worth.
Their girlies don't help. You know the ones. Those are the single girlies who keep other women single - or turn them single if they're not. Those are the friends and relatives who are competing for the same pool of top 5-10% of men who started and perpetuate the "body positivity" movement.
That's because the girlies KNOW that men aren't attracted to fat women. So they tell their Lizzo friends that "you're a queen! Slay! You're a 10, girl!" and sh*t like that. Cut's down on the competition.
Except for the brothers. The brother will stick their dicks in a knothole, if that's available. Not only does it give women an inflated sense of self, but it makes it difficult for those of us who are a teeny little more selective.
To borrow from comedienne Tammy Pescatelli, "just because a boy wants to stick his pee-pee in you, that doesn't mean you're sexy. Because my brothers would hump a couch."
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It's worth noting that the word "happy," as it applies to women is, at best, a misnomer.
Women are inherently incapable of being happy. It's why they started invading male spaces decades ago, using the coercive power of the Federal Government to break that sh*t up.
They suspected (and were right - I suspect we were sold out by simps) that men were happy in spaces that did not include women, and they weren't having that sh*t.
Women, sooner or later, figure out that external things won't make them happy the way they expect. So, being women, they blame men, and they make it a personal goal to destroy as many men's lives as possible.
Men can be happy without women, but women cannot be happy, period; with or without men.
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Puddin's Fab Shop (Jake) talks about that in his latest 2nd channel video. One of the metrics youtube is using is, I forget what he called it, but basically "engagement time." That is, how much of a 20 minute, 30 minute, hour long video do people typically watch.
What he found, and what surprised me, is that it's typically half. So a 20 minute video, people will watch 10 minutes, and so on. Jake said that he was really reluctant to make the longer videos because he believed exactly what you're saying content creators are "having" to do with their videos.
Maybe they're just crappy videos, but they are mistaken, otherwise. They, like him, believed that people's attention span was so short that they wouldn't watch longer videos.
And I know Jake isn't making that up; youtube tracks all those metrics, so creators merely have to go look at them.
People are watching longer videos. They're just not watching 100% of the entire length of the video, irrespective of the actual length.
I've noticed that Issac at I C Weld hasn't been making many, if any, longer videos, and I watch those 100%.
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Groucho Marx (google it, kids), and others, are reputed to have said "I'd never belong to any club that would have me as a member." Words to that effect.
In that same vein, at 68, I'm still suspicious of any woman who shows any kind of interest in me.
When I was in my mid-20s - which is about the time I gave up on trying to date, by the way - I learned not to approach a woman I took an interest in while she's in a group of her friends.
Still, I'm much better equipped to deal with rejection - "Yes, I dance, but not with you" - than I would ever be if a woman approached and expressed interest in me. Not that it's ever happened, mind you, but this is a completely different world than the one I grew up in. One never knows.
My advice for all you young bucks out there, for whatever it's worth: if a woman shows interest in you, she's up to no good. Well, good for her, not for you. Like Manosphere guy says "protect yourself at all times."
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I'm a veteran of both the Navy and the Army. I've known many cops over the years as friendly acquaintances, friends, and even a couple of family members.
Those acquaintances and friends and I used to "cuss and discuss" issues exactly like this back in the '70s.
Even back then, all of us saw a problem with hiring veterans as cops. And yes, we had preference, similar to the federal government, in hiring.
The problem: too many guys coming out of the military tended to approach grabastic civilians with the same attitude that our drill instructors had. They really expected to shout at civilians and achieve instant obedience in the same way that recruits snapped to. If you've never been in the military, there are plenty of videos that show that boot camp experience, probably for all services.
There's already a natural in-group us/them mentality amongst the police. Hell, we had the same mentality in the military, especially in boot camp. But I think cops have long held a siege mentality as well. Not only aren't you part of our in-group, but you are potentially the enemy. We saw that in Korea (no, I'm not that old), Vietnam (yes, I'm that old) and surely amongst other "police actions" we've been involved in.
I've long attributed at least part of the problem with the rise of cops getting into police cars and being insulated from the citizens. I am old enough to remember when cops walked a beat, after all.
But yeah, absolutely agree with the transition program.
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Or any major city, really. St. Louis will impinge anti-Asianism, if I can call it that, on one's world view, for instance.
I have driven the 405 - many times, having lived in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Camarillo.
For those of you who don't know, the 405 runs north-south-ish from the split at I-5 just south of Irvine until it merges back into the 5 up around San Fernando. It goes past John Wayne Airport and LAX along the way, and like most freak-ways in the nation, turns into a parking lot during certain hours of the day.
The 610 Loop in Houston was probably the worst, and I've driven in San Diego, Dallas, Philadelphia, Denver, and probably every other major city in America outside of the Northeast. If you didn't get onto the Loop by 07:00, you weren't getting off for a while, and it was that way until after about 7:00 pm.
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For those of you wound up a little bit about the whole MPH vs KPH thing, here's what I've observed from a limited pool. That pool is made up of videos from all over the world, including England, Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, and many others. Not Scotland, though; can't understand them, even though we share a common heritage.
You see them use a mix of metric and imperial measurements on the regular. Scott Brown Carpentry (New Zealand) typically uses strictly metric, but he does often convert to imperial for his viewers. A couple of people in Canada use both systems interchangeably.
SaskDutchKid will use both MPH and KPH, as well as distance in miles and in kilometers. Temps are almost exclusively in Celsius, though. That's easy to convert those. You get a ball park, not an exact conversion if you take 20 degrees C, double it, then add 30 to get 70F. Like I said, it's not exact; but that's a conversion that requires fractions, which I can't do in my head.
Tom Johnston, of Thomas Johnson Antiques is in Gorham, Maine, yet he almost always uses the metric system, but he does convert for his viewers. Which I think is strange, given that Gorham is closer to Boston than it is to Canada.
It's kind of a leveling-affect similar to what we've seen with accents in this country, over the last several decades. For instance, the Cajun French accent. Troy on "Swamp People" is a prime example of an accent being so heavy that it's hard to understand. Yet, I've heard younger people - young enough to be his children - who have described their own Cajun French accent as being mistaken for a soft New Jersey accent, believe it or not.
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Wait! Wait, wait, wait a damn minute! Women are always saying "The Future is Female!"
Well, is it, or is that just more lies coming out of their mouths?
You have to take the good with the bad, ladies (and I use that term loosely - like most of them). For decades and decades and decades, women were broke, if they worked at all, and men were expected to not only handle his own burdens, but to take on theirs without complaint.
Well, The Future is Female, which is it gonna be? Empowered, make-my-own-money, don't-need-no-man, or you want to revert to Trad Wife status - when it suits you?
Sh*t or get off the pot, ladies.
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I've been United Aerospace Workers (UAW), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Teamsters, AFL-CIO, and whatever union represents federal workers. I only saw the benefits of being in a collective bargaining union while in the government.
With UAW and IAM, they had government contracts for aircraft, and were contractually obligated to pay a similar compensation package to what wage grade (WG) and general service (GS) government employees received.
I was an auto mechanic later on, which is where the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO came in. Teamsters was General Tire, and I forget which outfit I worked for that was AFL-CIO. Interestingly (maybe), the IAMAW (which was just IAM at the time) was part of the AFL-CIO. Is part, I think.
So yeah, no net benefit to any of them, and I couldn't tell you how beneficial being in a bargaining unit for the government actually was. I suspect that our wages and benefits were originally politically-motivated, rather than a result of any collective bargaining.
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I'm a Boomer - and I did what I was told to do by my father's (the so-called "Greatest" generation): go into the military, learn a trade, transfer that trade into the private sector, go to college, get a good job. Keep your head down, don't make waves, never quit a job until you have another job lined up. Save your money, don't spend, and so on und so vida.
I went into the Navy; learned to be an aircraft mechanic. Guess what: you can't work on aircraft in the private sector unless you have a year aand a half of training AND you take the certification tests required by the FAA (federal aviation administration) in order to gain an entry-level job. And oh, by the way, when I went that route, there was such a glut of like-minded, former military guys (and a few gals) like me out there looking for those jobs, that most of us were working low-wage, entry-level jobs in order to get by.
I went to college - only to roll my toolboxes back out of storage in order to support myself and my family - which is what I'd done BEFORE going to college, and even while I was in college.
What I discovered in the white collar world, when I finally got my foot in the door at age 44 - not long after I bought my first house (a manufactured home that we paid rent on the land it sat on), I discovered that self-promotion, office politics, game-playing, and moving from program to program within the company, and going to work for other companies was the path to promotion.
I hated it.
Still, I managed to stick it out for 22 years.
Oh, and I'm living in the same house that I bought 18 years ago when I moved across the country for the job I retired from. It's the 2nd house I've ever owned. On top of that, we bought at the top of the market in 2005, an 1100 square foot home.
One of the problems I see with the Z'ers and the Millennials - even the X'ers, is they want what their parents have, without the years of sacrifice.
I'm not sure that was the case with us Boomers. One thing that was accurate about what they told us was that it would take us years and years of hard work and sacrifice to achieve what our parents had achieved - through years and years of hard work and sacrifice.
Most everything else they told us about how the world works was BS.
I saw it when I was about to graduate college in '99. Kids thinking they were going to get the sweet salary and benefits; buy a new house, new car, and all the things their parents (my generation) had, but took us 2 and even 3 decades to acquire. If we acquired that stuff at all.
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Women have always been lazy. They wanted to work, wanted to work, wanted to work...until they got jobs and discovered that they actually had to work.
Women are THE #1 reason for temporary services like Kelly Industries, Manpower, inc., and all the rest. Even when they got jobs, they didn't want to work full time, and that demand drove the creation of the temporary services industry.
They want all the perks and benefits that men receive, including, and especially the pay, but they don't want to put in the hard work for it.
Even when they are on the job, they seldom have to do their jobs; there are plenty of simps who will bow and scrape and cater to their every whim.
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I'm not a lawyer, however, it's my understanding that the holder of the the easement - which is probably the city, due to the presence of the sidewalk, road signs, hydrants and other such things - is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of that holding. All things being equal, that is. As far as I know, that's how they're SUPPOSED to work.
I live an an HOA, and they have an easement onto our lots, but if you think they're going to come out and maintain those easements, you've got another think coming.
Still, it might be worth pursuing if the land owner - referred to as the servient estate - nor the city - the dominant estate - seems interested in the upkeep. Again, it's quite possible that unless there's an inclusion in the easement regarding upkeep, each probably assumes the other will take care of the property.
Or, more likely, neither really cares.
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No, no, no. Sex for women is a TOOL. It doesn't matter how much they enjoy it or don't; it's a tool to trap the man they want/are able get.
The only defense we have against that bio-weapon is to not give in.
We DO NOT NEED sex. I've gone for 4 decades without sex. How do I do it? To borrow from Bill Burr, I rub it out like a man. It's quick, easy, and if you make use of the toilet, no fuss, no muss.
Stop falling for the trap! They have a biological need to spawn. It's a drive, and they can't help it. Here's the thing: they have children to trap men, then they cut off the sex, and go monkey branching to find your replacement.
They divorce men (80% of divorces are filed by women), walk away with cash and prizes, and do it all over again, starting with guy she cheated on her man with.
Why? It's simple: women cannot stand to see any man happy. It infuriates them, and they'll do anything to destroy that happiness. They do this because they are inherently incapable of happiness, of feeling love. They cannot feel love. They feel an incomprehensible amount of feelings, but none of them is love.
It pisses them off that men are capable of both. So, they determine on some subliminal level to destroy as many men as they can.
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You know, there were, have been institutes of higher learning that were started by women. All girls schools, typically. Mostly teacher education schools earlier, but the classic example is the so-called Seven Sisters. Those are colleges that include Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith, Radcliff, Mount Holyok, Wellesley and Barnard.
Some very famous women attended, and graduated from those institutions. Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Katherine Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Hilary Rodham Clinton, and the list is really quite extensive. And some really accomplished, successful women at that.
I have to ask if ANY of those so-called "Female Ivy Leagues," and others around the country, were founded AND funded by women all on their own.
If I had to guess, without doing any research, I'd say none, or close to none.
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I'm a Boomer, and I agree with quiet quitting - to a point.
Let me just first warn you that being old, I tend to write like a lot of old people talk in person; which is that it's a lot. I'll talk your ear off, in a manner of speaking. Heh.
Also allow me to point out that my parents' generation, the so-called greatest generation, still walks the halls of power in this country.
That might take a moment to sink in. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is 16 years older than me. Theoretically, he could have had a child my age. Meaning that we Boomers - you know, the generation that marched to end the war in Vietnam, to end separate but equal, for Civil Rights in the mid-60s, kicked off Earth Day, for the Equal Rights Amendment, and on and on. Yet Millennials in particular constantly blame us for the world's problems.
Dude, you know how Boomers came to power in education, in corporate America, in politics? Our parents died, that's how. Which meant that most of us were old by the time we started stepping into those halls of power. Hell, I'm retired, just turned 67, and there are still the youngest remnants of my parents' generation, as I said, walking the halls of power in this country. My own mother was 84 when she died. She'd have been 89 this year.
Look at (emblematically) the oldest of the Boomer generation: King Charles of England. He's 74; an age where the vast majority of the Boomers are either dead, or retired.
Get it?
Now, I've known almost my entire adult life that companies are not loyal to their employees, other than via collective bargaining.
I was just out of the Army in the late 70s/early '80s when Hershey raided the pension fund set aside for their workers. Nowadays, it's rare for employees to be guaranteed a defined pension plan. Historically, it's been rare, but companies began raiding those funds in the time period above like there was no tomorrow. Bunch of legislation was written in the '80s about pensions and pension plans.
Here's the thing: it was our parents who told us to stay loyal; to keep our heads down; to not make waves; to not quit a job until we had a job lined up. "Work hard," they said. "Your hard work will pay off," they said.
Yeah, naw. No it won't. Not for the most part.
I worked at the same job for 22 years, and I do have an annuity. That, combined with social insecurity, low overhead, investment/savings fund accounts, all give me a fair lifestyle in retirement.
Even within that job, I could have had better opportunities, and attendant higher pay. Still, I didn't make a bad living, and most of my bosses, who were moving around within the enterprise, were pretty good bosses. As far as bosses go.
But one thing I don't think the younger generations get is that it took me a couple of decades of hard work and sacrifice to get there. I drive a 3-year old truck that's paid off; I live in an 1,100 sq ft house that I pay half of what rent goes for in most places ($1,100 a month), and other than said $1,100 mortgage, I have no debt. All told, it costs me just shy of $25k a year to live, including $4,800 a year to charity.
Gen X, my daughters' generation, was the first, but not the last, to want what we had, and what our parents had, without putting in the work, and without having to do the time. Because it takes both. But we'd given them all the things we didn't have when we were growing up, as had most of our parents, and it didn't teach us very much in the valuation of either things or time and effort.
So yeah, that part is our fault.
Quiet quitting is not always the answer. Sometimes it is, but not always. You have to be smart about when it's an effective tactic or not. In my old job, self-promotion is a huge deal.
I was lucky and had bosses that recognized my hard work and extra effort. In situations like that, you absolutely have to put in the extra work. I directly supported my division's bosses as they came and went (about every 3 years).
Others weren't so lucky. If they played the self-promotion game well, they got recognized; if they didn't, normally they sucked hind tit. Office politics stink, but it's always been around; even in the blue collar world, and in the military. Trust me, been there, done that.
Told you it was going to be a long one.
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She's not wrong about women and commitment.
Women want the cash and prizes. Getting the guy, the ring, the wedding, the honeymoon...those are all prizes. Even the children are prizes.
But acquiring all those things doesn't seem to mean sh*t to today's modern woman. She has not been brought up to take care of those things, and she sees the responsibility for having those things as a burden.
So, they get all the things, then 80% (70% is the minimum) file for divorce and walk away with all the cash and prizes. Including the children, but those are just tools to hurt the man that she's made into a villain and told all the world what a monster he is.
Oh, and studies show that 20% of MEN stay in bad relationships for the sake of their children. Let me say that again: 20% of men stay in bad marriages for the sake of their children.
By the way, just saw this the other day: when children are harmed by one parent or the other, 70% of the time, it's the mother.
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Well, according to the guy in the inset, might as well put the kids in jail right the f*ck now, then, and get it over with. He's basically saying that it's in their nature, as well as the nature of those in society, so again, put them in jail, right now.
Chris Rock: "Black people are the most prejudiced people in the world."
Can confirm. I dated a sister for about a year, out in Oklahoma. I'm whiter than Lizzie Warren, she was blacker than the Ace of Spades. You know who gave us a hard time with snide remarks and side eyes, and all that? Not white people. Not in Oklahoma in the '70s.
No, it was black people, showing their asses in public.
But you know who is more racist than black people? The American left.
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I was lucky. I went to a 2-year school when I got out of the Navy, but couldn't find a job. This was mid-70s. So, I went into the Army reserve to supplement my G.I. Bill.
Fast forward through a bunch of years and a number of low-level jobs, so I went back to college again, this time a real community college that actually taught me the remedial stuff that I didn't get because I dropped out of high school, and because the previous 2-year school didn't focus on the fundamentals, like English, Math, and so on.
My G.I. Bill had expired by this time, so I paid for it all myself. Fast forward 5 years. I met a woman and went to live with her on the East Coast, and enrolled in a Big Ten University for my final 2 years. Working, and with the help of grants, loans, and small scholarships, I graduated in 2 years, but only by taking full loads for one summer - at the 400-level course tier.
Jobs were crappy when I graduated and went back to California. That was right at the tail end of Bubba's time in office. It wasn't until the middle of W's first term that I found a white collar job, which I retired from 20 years later.
I survived on my wife's annuity - which she could not have survived alone on, her job as a government contractor, and my income as an auto mechanic, which I had done for 20 years before my upper division work.
Again, I didn't plan things out; but things worked out. I had experience living through the Carter years, and the Clinton years, of always being able to find work, and on top of that, I had relatively current skills and the tools to exercise those skills.
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1st, you have to get past the barrier to dating and relationships that is the entitled, self-absorbed, hypergamous modern woman.
2nd, you have to deal with the huge risk that men run when they get into relationships, which is a court system, a legislative system, and even society itself, that not only does not reward men for entering into relationships, but punishes them severely for doing so, particularly when 80% of women file for divorce.
80% is a solid estimate based on an increasingly solid number of studies with dating and relationships as the subjects. Interestingly, around 80% of women vote Democrat in this country.
In other studies, it has been found that 80% of women are going after relationships (short and long) with 10% of the top tier men. Women also either ignore, or actively despise around 80% (or more) of men.
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Women pair bond differently than men do. Both pair bond through sex, but because men can reproduce with multiple partners throughout their lives (in theory), if that pair bond with a woman is broken after a one-night, or a short-term fling, it doesn't affect him the same way it does a woman. For her, every time that pair bond is broken, it diminishes her capacity to bond long term to a man, PLUS, the older she gets, the less likely she is to be able to reproduce.
Men, on the other hand, are still capable of long-term bonding with a woman, even though he's had multiple partners.
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Most shops have the tool trucks come by every week. CEE has the ice cream man stopping by.
NGL, I'm a little jelly.
TBH, though, most places I worked in California had little old Mexican couples stop by from time-to-time selling enchiladas, taquitos, and the like.
The male half of one such couple had been a dynamiter in mining operations, back in the day. He'd open the trunk where the food was, and you could still see old caps, 1/4, 1/2, and full sticks in there that were who knows how old.
Plus the tool trucks, as well as crack heads looking to sell tools and stuff they'd "found."
Life was never dull.
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At 2:08, you said "the Army is designed to win a war, they're not designed to preserve your rights while protecting the general public, which is the purpose of a police force."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You could not be more wrong.
Courts, including SCOTUS have ruled that the police do NOT have a duty to protect.
So yeah, you're wrong.
Plus, if you think most police give a fiddler's damn about your rights, think again. Too many of them flat out violate people's rights, and a far greater number have even said so, knowing they were being videoed. "I/we don't care about your rights." They've come out and said it, because they know there are zero repercussions for doing so.
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First of all, no. I'm getting increasingly aggravated at content creators such as yourself who attempt to end-around the usual in-video programmed ads by prostituting yourselves for your sponsors. It wouldn't be so bad, except rarely are these creators-as-spokespersons' pitches at the 30 second mark that pre-cable television held as a standard length of commercials.
I'm aggravated because I pay for youtube premium precisely so I don't have to put up with ads in the video.
Are you old enough to remember the late '70s, when they were pitching how great cable was? At least here in the States, they were. The big selling point was: monthly fee, no more commercials!
Yeah, that didn't age well, did it?
And now there are subscription services such as Amazon that charge you for membership, and charge you to NOT put up with ads within the audios and videos that you <checks notes> PAY FOR!
One is able to listen to youtube for free, and I've done that, but it's more trouble to me than it's worth.
Now, second, having said all that, I do not mind you hyping your own product. So few youtubers do, and I wish you success with that.
But as far as outside sponsorships: please stop.
Many youtubers have them. Some are a single sponsor that have sponsored channels for years that I know of, while others are a rotation of sponsors that sponsor individual videos, not the channel.
Where does it end? Today, you're doing one sponsor - though technically, you are doing two. Next week, next year, everyone is up to two, or three, or more.
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I've seen her before, but "women are scared of happily single guys" lady, while usually correct, is slightly off with this one, in my not so humble opinion (NSHO).
Women feel a deep-seated anger toward men who are happy, especially when no woman has authorized that happiness; allowed it, or feels she is the cause.
The reason: women do not know how to be happy (and content - which is a form of happiness), and they're jealous and angry when they see anyone who is happy for no apparent reason.
Women think that happiness comes from the outside - people, places, things, accomplishments.
A well-adjusted man knows that happiness comes from within, and has to be practiced; exercised. Unfortunately, a lot of men think they can make women happy. That's a Sisyphean task (that's that dude pushing the boulder up the hill for eternity - he gets it to the top, and back down the hill it goes. The gods are crazy).
The solution almost every woman alive comes up with to cope with a man's happiness is to destroy it. If they can't prevent it, they set out to destroy it. With marriage, the end usually comes at around the 7 year mark. Usually.
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Florida used to be a bill of sale only state. That means you could show up to the DMV with a bill of sale, a little bit of cash, and a quarter's worth of insurance (basic) - yes, really! And, you could buy it right there, either in the DMV, or right next door, I forget.
Driving down I-10 used to be a trip (in more ways than one). One would see cars and pickups (mostly the latter) rolling into Florida from all over the South with GA, MS, TX, and all sorts of license tags on the tow vehicle. Nearly all the sus vehicles being registered in FL were on trailers.
At times, the convoys were near epic in length.
And, once you registered a vehicle in FL, you could turn around and sell it, provided it was a no-rust vehicle, and pay for the purchase, any money you'd put into it, the cost of the trip,and still have a few dollars left over.
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After the 3rd notice that youtube doesn't permit ad blockers, I saw the writing on the wall. I bit the bullet and paid for premium content. So far, so good. It doesn't stop the creators themselves from their in-video advertisements, which I typically skip right on past like the sex scenes in the paranormal fantasy novels I consume. What, TMI? I'm old; I don't give a damn.
I am old enough to remember back in the mid- to late-70s when one of the big selling points to cable service was "you pay for the service and skip all the ads." I forget how exactly they phrased it, but yeah, cable wasn't free, but you didn't have to put up with advertising the way you did on "free" television. On the other hand, as Vicki Abt and Leonard Mustazza wrote (paraphrasing) "they're not selling goods and services to an audience; they're selling the audience to the providers of goods and services" ("Coming after Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show" (1997)).
It's even worse, now, in this technological age. We are the commodity being sold, and the information about us is far more sophisticated than ever before. I'd have to ask them, but as visionary as Abt and Mustazza were (along with many others), I'm not sure they would have seen just how infected our society would become with this type of behavior.
And we haven't even talked about the role of Government in all of this.
Anyway, the conspiracy theorist in me things this was all an evil plot to lure in millions of people to both create content and to consume that content, and once sucked into the matrix, gradually build up to the barely controlled cluster-f*ck that is youtube today.
I'm also old enough to remember when MTV played music videos. Like MTV, I also remember when youtube was merely a platform that played videos people uploaded, as opposed to the whole "creating content" thing we have nowadays.
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The vast majority of women, at least in the West, are conniving, lying, cheating, thieving, entitled, demanding, spoiled brats. Beyond that, they're too dumb to realize it, and can't figure out why men don't want anything to do with them.
The world is not like it used to be in the '50s and early '60s, and it never will be. We're never going back to that.
Men will adapt. We always have, and we always will.
It's women who cannot cope.
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I'm seeing a kind of prudishness coming from the left nowadays - or from tech giants that have aligned themselves with the left - that is almost puritanical.
For instance, I went to post something in response to another poster's claim to something that I found incredulous (due to my experience in that area), and I used the word h-e-l-l without the dashes. Youtube would not let me post. Like early computer-based testing, or forms used to input information online, they don't tell you what exactly the problem is, but I've been around the internet a long, long time. It wasn't hard for me to figure out.
I removed the offending word and: badda-bing, badda boom, my screed posted immediately.
Some of the channels I follow are almost unwatchable simply because the list of words you can't say on youtube is nearly encyclopedic. How do you have a conversation about sexual assault if content creators get demonetized, and even have their videos taken down for saying the words? In fact, you can't, which is why I no longer follow certain channels.
Again, this is coming from a corporation that has notoriously aligned itself with the left. We used to say in the '70s that [religious] fundamentalist take the fun out of everything. Who knew that in the 2020s that it would be the left actually moving that goalpost?
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I've never been a fan of the hot rod; the customs that involve radically changing the outward appearance of a classic car. To me: that's anything made before 1970. The older, and the rarer the car, the more it pisses me off.
That's why I quit watching "Monster Garage." Jessie would take a car, like a one-of-a-kind in the entire world, and turn it into a lawnmower or something. Well, that and the Orange County Choppers type, over-the-top, manufactured drama.
Actually, I'm conflating a Mustang and a true, according to him only existing known car from Europe I think it was.
It was, as he said, the only one of its kind in the entire world, and he chopped it up to the point where there are no existing original examples of that car.
Why would you do that? Why in the name of all that is good would you essentially destroy something that's so rare, if you see one at all, it's in a museum. Parts have to be scavenged or made because they're so unobtainium as to be non-existent.
I admire the craftsmanship that goes into building cars and trucks and motorcycles. I don't minimize or denigrate the talent, the skill, the creativity, hard work, the knowledge that goes into doing that kind of work. I follow Karl Fisher; the Cornfield Customs guy; and others. I love their work, but I hate what they do to classic and antique cars. Karl's Lincoln Zephyr that he's remaking from a 4-door into a 2-door. Fabulous work, hate the thought that a rare car like that is being modified from the original.
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@magenta7702 I went to college really late in life - I was 40 when I graduated from community college on the 7-year plan. In 1997, I matriculated from community college to a 4-year institution to do my upper division work. Because I took 3 courses at the 400-level, I was able to graduate in 5 semesters, or within that 2 year window.
The relevant background to my life is, that, like many people of the generations after me, I was sold on a degree, ALMOST any degree was a good degree.
I was also an auto mechanic (25 years in that biz), and I worked the entire 7 years of my community college experience, and even the 1st couple of years of my upper division. Even though I had a few small grants, it wasn't enough, so, I bit the bullet and took out loans. Colleges and universities think a lot of their education as far as cost - aided and abetted by the federal government.
A generic liberal arts degree shows one thing: that you have persistence.
If you don't take away anything else from the college experience, you should take away this: communication. You should be able to express yourself clearly in writing and in the spoken word.
You have your general ed courses that everyone has to take - ask an engineer, if you're ready to hear them carp on that fact.
Beyond that, I would focus on critical thinking - which is the other thing you should derive from your college experience and try to shoehorn at least an intro to business and finance. My company was willing to pay for a graduate degree - the baccalaureate being the foot-in-the-door - but I had had zero business courses at the lower level. Let's just say things did not go well.
I'm not ashamed of my degree, nor do I have any overall regrets at the time invested. I was so stinking proud of my 2-year degree that I was almost beside myself. I was just as proud of my 4-year degree, though by that time, I had spent nearly a decade in school, not counting the 2 years I spent in a 2-year program when I was fresh out of the Navy.
Knowing what I know now, would I do it again? I'm really on the fence. I don't want to just knee-jerk reaction say "no," however, I'm leaning heavily in that direction.
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On time is late. But what do I know? I'm just a boomer who worked in a broad spectrum of industries, including restaurants, factories, the military, casual labor, aircraft industry, automotive industry, and the Government.
It's not just Gen Z. I was taught better, trained better, and when I was young, also didn't see the big deal about being a few minutes late. But, you live and learn.
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I once called my sister the "C" word. I'm not British, nor am I Australian.
I was young, and heard one of my trashy little school mates say it. I understood that it wasn't a nice thing to call someone, but it didn't make the list of 7 words you can't say on television. Even before George Carlin, those were pretty well defined. Never mind our parents (I use that term loosely) used such words regularly.
But when my father, who has been gone for about 3 decades (he was in WWII) beat the hell out of me to the point where it took me 3 days to recover, the point was made that that was a word that no one should ever use in any context. Oh, and I was probably 8. Did I mention he was an abusive a*hole?
Imagine my surprise when I joined the Navy, traveled the world, and ran across Brits and Aussies who used the "C" word with abandon. Apparently, there's no part of sentence structure where the "C" word cannot be used; subject/object, adjective, adverb, and so on.
At 68, I don't use that word, even in writing. I still half expect lightning to strike me or my father to raise from the grave if I even send a meme, like the one an Australian friend of mine sent me, who happens to be a sheila, which says 'Grow up and stop saying "Karen"...say C-word, like an adult.' Except it spells it out. 4 letters that will probably get a youtube post yanked. The list is secret, and it's encyclopedic.
I told her my story, which made her laugh hysterically, because she can be one, apparently.
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@matthewsheets8115 They feel like they'll have more money in their pocket, which is fine, if you receive a refund every year.
Here's the thing: my tax liability was short last year - actually, it's been short for a number of years. That means that the money that was taken out before I got mine wasn't enough to cover what I owed.
I invest my money, mainly in a savings investment account, and I have money in a savings account.
By assuming the liability for having to "stroke a check" (virtually, not literally) to the government every year, my money that wasn't taken out of my pay made money for me. So last year, my liability was $1,500.00 (don't quote me, but I think that's what it was). That $1,500.00 was sitting in an investment account with all its friends and relatives earning me interest, and it was a lot more that $1,500.00.
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Or the encyclopedic list of words and phrases on social media that content creators and commentors alike are not allowed to use, but that is not posted anywhere. People only find out when videos are demonitized and/or yanked, and the same is true for post.
For instance: I once posted a meme (that I got on FB) on my FB timeline. It was not long after Epstein's demise. It was a picture of the Arkansider-in-chief herself, and it said something about making an appointment for the viewer of the meme on the sui-slide (H/t Donut Operator) hotline.
It was actually cleverly done, but FB responded thusly: "You used the "S" word in a post. We are concerned about your health and safety, and recommend you seek help if you are considering such a thing. Oh, and by the way, you're banned for 30 days."
Because that's what you do when you're truly concerned about someone's mental health and state of mind; cut them off from interaction with other people.
Who knew that social media providers were the new Catholic League - which was one guy in his basement who was prolific at writing letters to corporations, sponsors, and the media, and who was the reason Rob and Laura Petrie had separate beds as a married couple, and the reason they couldn't say "pregnant" on television. As a couple of examples.
But most "violations" of those hidden standards never know why their comments were pulled. They just were.
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Well, women are almost completely useless. They're really only good for one thing, and that's making babies. Unfortunately, we do need them for that.
The problem is: they're not good at raising babies, particularly since they treat their boy children like defective girls (as do female teachers, and even female bosses).
Women are more likely to cheat on men than men are on women - not a new fact; just one that mental health professionals and others are finally willing to say out loud.
Modern women go into marriages with an exit plan, generally by the 7 - 10 year mark; that too is becoming widely acknowledged.
They are entitled, privileged, arrogant, demanding, and they all think they're 10s - because if you think you're a 10, that will manifest in your life, don't you know.
Oh, and about that raising babies thing? Women are 7 times more likely to hurt their children than men are. We should probably ask about how many boyfriends of these single moms hurt their girlfriends' children.
Are there exceptions? Sure, but the exceptions, contrary to popular f'nist opinion that one exception completely obliterates the rule, they do no such thing. Only in the delulu minds of women everywhere do the exceptions disprove the rules.
But any of these survivor shows actually prove that women, as the communicative, cooperative creatures they claim to be, cannot, in fact, survive without men. On the other hand, men do just fine without women.
Maybe the Rapture will come and G_d will only take women, and we men can finally have some peace in our lives. I feel bad for G_d, however.
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Women want Chad-like men to give them babies, to protect them, and to provide for them, DESPITE the fact that women are strong, independent, brave, don't-need-no-man, make their own money, boss babes.
Even if they make as much as the man, they STILL expect the man to pay for all the things, and they WILL NOT contribute to the household income.
My father, a Silent Gen. guy, said it like this: "what's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine," specifically talking about women.
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@SH1974 I would say that one tattoo can be a yellow light - an enter that intersection with caution, lest it be busy with traffic.
Here is my general observation of chicks and tattoos: they get tattoos under 2 circumstances. 1) with their drunk girlies. Remember that single women keep and/or create single women. It's at the very least an indication of poor decision-making. It also shows you who she will turn to if your relationship isn't going the way she thinks it ought to; i.e. you're not really Prince Gaston, or whatever.
2) with their poor choice in men. Look at the women who are heavily tattooed, or have facial tattoos. Chances are, unless he's in prison or taking a dirt nap, there's a biker or a gang banger somewhere in her past. Chances are high that she has at least one offspring from at least one of those guys, and chances are better than good that sooner or later, he's going to pop up like a zombie, once he's been paroled, pardoned, or has done his time.
There are women who have done time themselves, as well as women who have served in the military, but generally, if they have more than one tattoo, there's at least one guy lurking in their background somewhere.
Oh, and the same goes for piercings.
Now women will say they're being rebellious, and while that may be at least partially true; generally, there's a man you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley in her not-so-distant past.
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Why did nobody tell us that to get the girls, you had to be the bad boy?
Our mothers didn't tell us that. No, they gave us bad gouge. "Make friends with women," they said "that way, you'll always have a female friend." Mom always said to be courtly. "Be nice; be attentive. Open doors, carry her books."
Meanwhile, that hot high school girl I was jonesing for, and trying to be her friend, was banging the college drop-out they modeled Fonzie after.
And dad proved what an A*hole he was by not contradicting her. Presumably because he still wanted a chance to get laid.
Former bad boy - way to go dad. You abused all your children, and all your wives, and you couldn't warn your son about women. You know what advice he gave me about women? "Son, never fall for a woman who thinks you hung the moon and the stars."
That's it. Then he probably put me through a wall because he was drunk and/or in a mood.
One more reason to hate your parents.
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I said this below, but I'll say it here, only more succinctly. It is nearly universally agreed by Aussie men AND women that the vast majority of Australian women are sloots. They're giving it away left, right, center, forward and back. That was a discussion on a youtube page about the current world record holder for body count (not the Hillary Clinton kind of body count) is, as far as anyone knows, an Australian woman (at well over 300 at the time).
I even verified that with the 6 FB women friends I have who live in Australia. Surprisingly, they not only did not deny it, but actually confirmed it, which is something one doesn't usually get from the Sisterhood: honesty that makes other women look bad.
Apparently men don't HAVE to put in a lot of effort to get what they're driven to. It's basically a numbers game, and apparently, the odds are ever in Aussie men's favor.
I can only imagine that once these sloots are ready to settle down, then, and ONLY then, do women suddenly pull the hoops men need to jump through out of their (as they would say) bums. Because that is what women, especially Western women, do. They make it easy for any old bloke to blow their backs out, but beyond difficult for the poor saps who want to give them love.
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Simps, that is, men with no sense of self worth, are going after any woman who will hold still long enough to give them the time of day.
They are convinced that women only want the Chads, and that the reason they want the Chads is because they have lots of resources - that having lots of resources can bring about attraction when they lack in other areas, such as health and fitness, grooming, dress, rides, cribs, and most of all the confidence that comes from being successful.
She's not wrong; it is extremely shallow, but simps don't know, because they've never been taught. All they know is what women say they want. They don't know that what women say they want, what they think they want, and what they respond to are 3 different things that almost never coincide.
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You don't understand the so-called "soft guy era" because you're stupid.
I'm just f*cking with you, my guy.
The whole soft guy era thing is a parody of some hog-dog childish chick on TikTok whose thing is for no other reason than she's a woman, a man has to do EVERYTHING for her fat ass. She always used to end her videos with "Sprinkle Sprinkle."
So men turned it around and said, "Okay, Ms Sprinkle Sprinkle; we men are the prize, and if you want to be with us, you need to pay to play. Drizzle drizzle."
And women went off because they did not, were not capable, of understanding that it was men throwing it back in their face. Men understood, and a few women understood, and all of us thought it was hysterical.
Then, when women said they'd rather choose the bear, men said "good luck with that, Grizzle grizzle." That's a play on the Grizzly Bear.
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Well, it all depends, Steve. If the argument is that the dog, being a police officer, is violating your 4th Amendment rights, the jurisdiction, as we have seen recently, will claim the dog is NOT a police officer, but an independent contractor, or something. Civilian ride-along, maybe.
However, if you smack the independent contractor's nose with a rolled up newspaper for jumping up on your Lambo and scratching the paint, that same jurisdiction will charge you with assaulting a police officer quicker than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at them.
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That one chick that wanted the 6'3" dude and was asking "how toxic are we talking?" She slid right over the love part.
I'm becoming almost militant about this. Women are constitutionally incapable of love. They cannot give love because they don't have that gene, and they don't respect love, because they lack that gene.
See, love is happiness for men. We express love by doing for our women; for our families; for the people we care about. It makes us happy; it is literally love in action.
Women have this wild, tangled hairball of an unfathomable number of emotions; love is not one of them.
People say "oh, women love their children!" Do they? Do they love their children when 70 or more percent of harm to children are perpetrated by their mothers? And we haven't even talked about stepfathers or boyfriends; even the children's baby daddies.
Women no more love for their offspring than any other animal. That is to say, they'll bear them, nurture them, fight to protect them, but they don't love them. And in human female animals, they will neglect, discard, even harm their children if it gets between them and some dude.
Like the saying goes, "men are in it for love; women are in it for money."
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You know who really started the "body positivity" movement, and the "fat acceptance" movement?
Skinny broads. And gay men.
Skinny broads because it cuts down on the competition for the 5-10% of so-called "high value" men if the competition is too fat for those men.
Gay men, because for whatever reason, have a love-hate relationship with hot chicks. It's actually fascinating to watch. They love, love, love the hot chicks, probably because, as we all know (h/t Hoe_Math), the hotter they are, the more cray-cray they be. The hate part is fashion shows, FR.
Not to worry, big girls (full disclosure: my late wife was a big girl): the brothers got you covered. They'll stick the Stick of Truth in most anything that'll cooperate long enough. Hell, like one brother said, "half the brothers in Atlanta are on the down low." Like I said, "most anything."
The rest of the Big Girls? There's a reason that lesbian couples have the highest divorce rates and most incidents of DV/SA of any group.
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I was in my 20s (I'm almost 68) when I realized that women use sex to a) trap men into relationships, and b) produce their desired number of spawn. That's all. My 20s, guys. I honestly did not, and 40+ years later still do not believe that women actually enjoy sex. It's a tool, and only a tool to be used for a) procreation, and b) manipulating men.
Oh, it's pleasurable enough for them; otherwise they would forego it altogether. If you listen to every, single married man out there, eventually, they do. Well, with them, anyway.
For men: men need to stop lying. Men have always lied about how great sex is; about how pleasurable it is; about how much they want, need, and enjoy sex. It's not. It's like a drug; there's no high as good as that first high, and addicts spend YEARS trying to replicate something that has almost zero chance of being replicated. Even if that first experience is "meh," men will spend the rest of their lives trying to find a better experience. All because other men keep lying about it.
Stop it. Do better.
You do not need sex. You. Do. Not. Need. Sex. The only thing sex is useful for is procreation. I've gone decades without it, and I'm no worse the wear. My body count in high school was zero. My body count in the Navy was 2. My body count by the time I was 24, which is the age I gave up on trying to date, was 3, maybe 4 (yeah, that memorable). My body count by the time I was 44 was 4 (or 5), and including my wife, it was 5, because we had a sexless marriage. The first couple of times was 2 middle-aged teenagers groping in the back seat (figuratively). She may or may not have been willing; I felt obligated to try.
For 20 years, we did without. Mostly, that was me. I was ambivalent toward sex anyway, and I wasn't attracted to her sexually. Nice woman, no drama, and in some ways, most ways, I'm a better man for having had her in my life.
Like comedian Bill Burr says "...rub one out like a man; who cares." It's cheap, quick, and easy. Stand over the toilet, pee afterward, and go back to your video game, or whatever.
But stop lying about it. You're not doing anyone any favors.
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I just looked on Amazon, which I've held a membership since almost the beginning, and I cannot find that information.
Like most everything Amazon does, it's suddenly a state secret, and I typically have to google "how to" when it comes to finding or changing information. It used to say right on my landing page to Amazon. Not now; now that I want to know. All the articles out there are out-dated.
My only real complaint is the gross lack of customer service. You want information? Type here. The answer is nowhere to be found on Amazon? Google it; maybe a youtube video will have it.
They've tried to think of every question a customer might possibly think of, they post those, and if your question or issue doesn't match any of them, too bad. Good luck trying to get someone to help you, f*ckface.
I did look at managing my plan, seeing if my membership date came up (it didn't), but what my choices were. Prime Plan (labelled "best value"), Renewal Date ("update your method"), and Update Your Membership ("update, cancel, and more").
When I click on "See more plans" under Prime Plan, I'm offered the following: $14.99/month for Prime or $139.00/year (a $30.00 savings). That's it; Prime, or Prime. There are no other options.
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No offense to your friend, Briggs, but we all have a price. Most of us think we don't, but we do. For some, it's higher than it is for others, but we all have a price.
An example: I've been straight all my life. I can't help it; I was born that way. I'm old enough, cynical enough, and have seen enough in that relatively long life in this country and around the world to know that if someone took leave of their senses and wanted to have a booty call with me, and offered me the right kind of money, I'm there for them.
How much is the right kind of money? Hell, I'm not sure. But I do know there's a price that will influence my decision.
Oh, and stay out of North Vegas; especially at night.
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So strange that leftists in general are against the death penalty, but in favor of abortion up to, and including after birth. Eight states, if I recall correctly, including California and New York (shocker, I know) have so legislated.
I'm against abortion. I was not always. Mostly, I was ambivalent, but after states started legislating up to and at the moment of birth, I was entirely in the anti-abortion camp.
I am, in fact, in favor of a nationwide ban, similar to Trump's stance. Not a total ban, but one that makes only a few exceptions.
The problem is, the left wants to have open abortions, not for the same reason I want them banned - which is that some things need to be held to one standard - but because they are totalitarians and want the power to enforce their will on everyone.
It's why they are so anti-gun, for the most part. Because people who own guns tend to be resistant to totalitarian heavy-handedness, and that's the only thing that keeps the left somewhat in check.
If they act the way they act now, and treat us the way they treat us now, can you imagine how they'd treat us if we did not have the theoretical capacity to fight back?
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CLEARLY Tim has never read any young adult sci-fi/fantasy, particularly the sub-genre of supernatural fantasy; primarily the ones written by women (and there are a lot of them). These are NOT their mothers' romance novels, though they range from what might be called soft porn to all-out hard-core porn, with little left to the imagination.
These books do illustrate the modern woman's standards, however. The men are always, invariably taller, stronger, faster, impossibly handsome, and beyond imaginingly wealthy. The women (the protagonists) are always impossibly beautiful, built like gym rats, coming into their supernatural selves, and invariably conflicted, even tortured (souls).
Babies do figure into some of the writing, but typically, it's a small part they play, if and/or when they actually get around to it.
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They never were. The behavior companies exhibited toward women, back in the day, by not hiring them, f-in'-ists attributed to misogyny. It was no such thing, yet stupid wah-men bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Companies didn't want to hire them because of all the baggage women brought into the work place. They didn't want to hire them because sooner, rather than later, they'd leave the work force to get married, have babies, or get divorced.
And, back in the day, most women went to college because that's where the "smart" men were; the guys who had potential to make big bucks.
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Hold on there, Nate. At the 7:32 mark, you say "...that's their, they have the right to remain silent, unfortunately."
I had been just getting ready to joke about her taking her right to remain silent to the extreme when you said that, and I thought "Wow! I've never heard a lawyer say that before!" Every lawyer I've ever heard has said this, or words to that effect: "Do not talk to the cops." And they'll go on to talk about attorneys and all that.
I sincerely hope you don't give advice to the contrary, because frankly, I was shocked, and I don't shock easily. "Sure, go ahead; talk to the cops; what could go wrong!?"
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@steelheadstalker You said "Yes, in the "in the eyes of the law" there is no difference whether the offender is male or female, but the difference for me is, a male offender can force himself on a younger female, it would be very difficult for a female to force herself on a teenage male."
I get where you're coming from, but a) with an equalizer, such as a weapon or coercion - typically grade-related, women are able to force themselves on young men. It happens quite a lot in our society, at all ages. The lack of physical capacity is why I figure women haven't been able to enslave us men.
Also, b) just because a young man or a young woman has a physiological response to a coercive situation, that does not mean that they "want" it, and that can have long-term psychological affects on both.
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I think you've got the right of it, Kurtis. That engine hasn't come up to temp often enough or for long enough periods of time, or even been started regularly enough to blow the condensation out, which has led to the rust issues.
Most of my career in automotive was spent on gasoline engines; very little time on diesels, but the growth in the #1 and #4 could be from the fuel itself. Diesel fuel can suffer from condensation issues, as well as contamination from bacteria. Biodiesel wasn't a thing, back in my day, but it seems to me like it might be more susceptible to certain kinds of contamination, but that's just a guess.
Diesels depend on heat for combustion, and despite what a lot of people, including truckers, think, long idling times aren't good for even a diesel engine.
I've honestly never seen a wear pattern that went perpendicular to the bearing like that. That's a weird one. I wonder if that's something that happened in the manufacturing process.
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@jetnavigator When a man and a woman are equally intoxicated, women are considered under the law to be not capable of making an informed, consensual decision, and are therefore absolved of any responsibility whatsoever should she wake up with a hangover and a bad case of buyer's remorse.
Men, on the other hand, while, as I said, equally as intoxicated as his horizontal tango partner of the evening, are judged to be 100% capable of taking advantage of the sweet, pure, and innocent (and obliterated) woman. Therefore, under college and university tribunals, they are judged to be rapper-ists by default, especially since the f'inists on campus see him as a potential rapper-ist already.
So, hurrah for pound-metoo!
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No, no, no, stunning and brave single mom modern woman! You're doing it wrong! Your son is a mere male and as such, his feelings should NOT be taken into consideration. They will not be later, when he's out on his own. You're just setting him up for failure. Consider the online rallying cry of bearded, hairy-legged trans male lesbian "feminists," which is to just "deal with it."
In fact, you're failing your son by not encouraging him to explore what clearly are feelings of misplaced body dysmorphia. You should have had him on puberty blockers ages ago! The bonus is: the unfeeling institution of public indoctrination...er, education, would protect him instead of allowing bullying to go on.
Fear not, madam! It's still not to late to get him into the system.
Or dump him off on his father, if known.
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I can confirm that this "not trying" actually works. Sort of.
For instance: I stopped trying to date when I was 24. I gave up and said, "I'll practice not trying, and if it happens, it happens."
I've not had a date in 44 years.
Not even with a professional, who generally charge by the hour.
Today, I'm single, happy, self-contained, have a modest retirement income, no debt, and did I mention: I'm happy.
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Yeah, you do have rust in Southern California. If you live in any beach city, town, or community from Santa Barbara to San Ysidro, right along the coast, you have rust as bad as anything in the rust belt or the deep south.
Generally speaking, once you get about 5 miles away from the coast - in most areas - you get away from the salt air and humidity. In some areas, the semi-arid region that is Southern California comes right up to the ocean, as is the case in Malibu, up the coast toward Santa Barbara.
And, it's worse in some beach towns than it is in others. Even in the same towns, you can have extreme rust, were just a mile or two away, you don't have hardly any. Leucadia, Cardiff-by-the-Sea can be really bad, but Solana Beach, just south of there, not so bad.
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It's beyond ironic that if Safeway, and other retailers come out and say "it's because of shoplifting," without saying who's doing most of the shoplifting, the black community KNOWS that it's primarily members of their own community doing the shoplifting, and will scream "that's racist!"
That's like if Waffle House sold and moved out of an area and said the reason was because their customer base had shrunk to where it was no longer profitable to keep the doors open, due to fights and disturbances, as well as people constantly walking out without paying for their meals - again, without naming names - and the black community turning around and screaming "that's racist!" thereby admitting that it's black people causing all the problems.
They KNOW who's causing all the problems, and even though Waffle House (in this hypothetical situation) never said it was black people causing all the problems, and they dime out members of their own community without realizing that's what they're doing.
At 68, I've traveled and lived all over this country. I've been in the military, in the blue collar world in a wide variety of occupations, and I retired from the white collar world. I'm sad to say that my bigotry is the soft expectations I have for the black community as a whole.
Yes, I understand that no all _______ are like the rest. Just as that beyond-Archie Bunker-type guy that lived next to us in Philadelphia doesn't represent all white people.
But when activists, black, white guilt leftists, and others constantly harp on how racist white people are by virtue of their skin color, eventually, people like me are going to react. I would hope that Dr. King is spinning in his grave right about now. His dream is dead, and they're digging that hole deeper to bury it in.
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Have you noticed that women almost never...let me say that again: ALMOST NEVER say "I want to find someone to love"?
The 37-year old: "I just want real love and a relationship." In other words: I want a man to DO something for me.
That's because women are incapable. of. love. Except themselves. They are hard-wired with a crap ton of emotions, all balled up like a giant hairball, but love is. not. one. of. those. emotions.
I'm beginning to believe that it's a survival mechanism. What purpose it serves, I don't know. When (if) I figure it out, I'll broadcast it from the mountaintops. I suspect I'm so close to that answer that I can't see it yet.
Men are in it for love; women are in it for money.
In other words, you don't have to be emotional to love, because it's an action word. It's a verb. We experience happiness in practicing love for the people we care for.
For women, it has always been transactional. And until f'inism came along, women, for the most part, were good with that. After f'inism, not so much.
Now, they feel entitled and demand all the things that men historically provided them as their part of that transaction. Unhistorically (made up word), women now feel that they are owed all the things, without fulfilling their part of the bargain.
And men are finally wising up, walking away, and saying "Oh, hell no!"
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We've also seen men (and women) "get religion" in prison. Not all of them turned their lives around once they were released. How many of them are in the 25% of people who do NOT re-offend? There's a study for someone.
Don't forget: around 75% of people in prison in the US were raised by single mothers. Recent studies show that children raised by single fathers do almost as well in life as children raised in a healthy environment by a man and a woman.
They did not say anything about children raised by same-sex couples of either gender, though I'm sure there have been studies. Those studies' conclusions are probably not flattering, or they'd be trumpeted from the rooftops constantly.
The point is that yeah, we men have been watching, studying, and taking notes on women for the vast majority of our lives.
What most of us did not realize is that, as others have said, there is what women say they want (what they teach their boy children), what they think they want (what they keep to themselves) and what they respond to.
Our mistake as boys and men is thinking that women generally say what they mean, and mean what they say. You know, the way men mostly do.
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It's baffling to me why these women think they can get off the c*ck carosel and into a commitment (for however long) without seggs.
I mean, there are women out there, and I'm sure you've seen the videos, where women are pushing back against the idea that they ought to be willing to do the deed with their husbands.
All of my adult life, it's been so far beyond cliche that once the rings go on and the requisite number of crotch goblins are pumped out, the seggs stops. At least for the husband.
And oh, by the way, even mental health professionals are tip-toeing up to the admission that women cheat more than men.
Thinking men have always known this, but society has always, always denied it, and blamed men for leading women astray.
There was something the other day that said that fully 50% of women in relationships have at least one backup guy, and women are even admitting to having rosters - even while they're in "committed" relationships.
Again, if you were fixin' to jump out of a perfectly good airplane on purpose, and the instructor said "remember! You have a 50% chance of you parachute opening," would you still jump?
I've never departed a perfectly good airplane in mid air like that, but I'm told that it's one of the most exhilarating experiences that one can engage in. Well, legally, anyway. But if you have a 50% chance of that experience ending in disaster, well, that's enough to give a fella pause. Unless you had a death wish. Or a terminal disease.
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The irony of f'nists nattering on about women's rights - when they really mean abortion - and at the same time, demanding that they, and ONLY they control reproductive rights, at the expense of men - who invariably pay for those abortions.
Because let's face it: if women had to pay for abortions, abortions would drop to almost zero. Hell, women don't even want to pay for dinner dates. Even when they make the same or more money than a man they might be out with.
Oh, and the Patriarchy! There's no such thing. That's an amorphous shadowy entity that ALL men belong to - because when push comes to shove, women will shove even "f'nist man friends, or 'male feminists'" into the Patriarchy category.
Just ask Warren Farrell.
It's a boogie man that's anti woman, anti everything related to woman, and it does not exist. When push comes to shove, it is women who are anti male, only instead of the amorphous blob they label "the Patriarchy," 80% of women belong to the actual Borg called "the Matriarchy.
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Yeah, I don't understand that female mindset of "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine," except that women move in and out of the workforce AT WILL. You understand? When they get to a certain age, they say "I'm tired of this rat-race," and they find a guy who'll support them (on 40K) and they QUIT their 100k job! Then, in about 7 or 8 years, they get tired of being a SAHM, and if they don't divorce the man and take everything he has, they'll go back to work.
So it's not that she's likely to keep her $100K job, once she cons some sucker into wifing her up, but even if she does, all of these modern women feel entitled to keep the money they make to themselves, and I don't understand where that comes from.
Into and out of; into and out of.
That's precisely why male hiring managers in the past did NOT want to hire women. They knew. They hire a woman, train her up, and the next thing they know, the woman has quit, gotten married, and is off having babies. So now they have to go through the whole thing all over again, preferably with a male employee who is likely to stay at that company long-term.
NOTE that that's AFTER the Federal Government said "you can't discriminate against women in hiring," which mean the Gov't began looking at quotas to determine solely on that basis whether you were discriminating against women in hiring.
Before that, managers tended to hire not only men, but MARRIED men, since married men were less likely to make like women and flake. I got turned down for jobs because I was not married in those days, and I wasn't smart enough to lie about it. Managers also knew that by hiring women and young, single men that that job would NOT go to a married man who needed that job.
And now, companies are actively discriminating against men generally, and white men specifically, WITH the blessing of the Federal Government.
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@EdOtis-n2u Most, probably all of the trades are like that. I've done factory work, restaurant work, construction, truck driving, been in the Navy and the Army both, a professional auto mechanic. Later, I went to college and became a white collar worker, but yeah, every trade I worked, drug and/or alcohol abuse was pretty rampant. Oh, and the 1st responders are not exempt. If anything, they're worse than the rest.
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The brakes never get hot enough to dispel the moisture, so the best thing is to put an annual flush the brake system once a year. European cars have done that forever, mainly because they used aluminum wheel cylinders for a long time.
As part of the casting, it should say what size the bore is, and you should (being the operative word) order rebuild kits. Those typically include the pistons, the cups and maybe the springs, I forget. It's been a minute. Or three.
You can hone the wheel cylinders with a regular ball or a flexible stone hone. Alternatively, some emery cloth will do the trick, if the cylinder isn't too rusted.
I always found that water on the brake assemblies was most effective as an initial cleaner, followed up by brake clean. The main thing is that it keeps the dust down, because you don't want to breath that stuff in. No more than you do, probably won't hurt you, but better safe than not.
Then again, my days go back to when everything had drum brakes, and it was all asbestos.
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I'm throwing the BS flag on this. I retired as a federal employee at the GS-13 level, with 26 years of service between my government service and my military service.
People voluntarily retire.
People are offered buy-outs, which is when the government offers the employee incentive to go ahead and retire. The government also eliminates that position, so they can't hire somebody into it, after they paid someone to vacate it.
People can resign. The offer to stay at home and not work, but still get paid sounds like a sweet deal - until you realize you forfeited a retirement. That's not such a good deal, unless you don't have a minimum amount of time and aren't old enough to collect a retirement.
People are put on probation for one to three years, and there are several factors involved, such as fresh hires out of college (3 years), newly hired former or retired military members (often 1 year), but here's the thing: if I, as a GS-13, were to move into a GS-14 slot, that's a management position; almost always. Not everyone makes a good manager, and despite having 20 years in the government, that GS-14 position is a probationary position.
I have talked to people who still work for the government, and such probationary people have lost their jobs.
The thing of it is, it's hard to get people to work for the government. The main reason to work for the government is the benefits, because it sure ain't the money. The vast majority of the workforce in the Defense Department is educated at least to the baccalaureate level. A great many of the jobs in DoD pay more on the outside.
For at least a half dozen years, the growing concern within DoD is the aging workforce, and the lack of replacements coming in.
Next time, do a little more research before claiming to be something you're not, and talking out of your 4th point of contact.
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I can't see inside her head, so I don't know for sure; however, I have been watching people for 60+ years now, and here's the pattern: women tend to fritter away their late teens and twenties, and then expect a man to rescue her by wife-ing her up. Like I said, it's a pattern. Women are all over social media doing exactly that: they've wasted their 20s being party girls and spending whatever money they make (and then some), and then they get tired of working in their mid-30s, so they start looking for a man.
Except they don't have, we'll call the attractiveness quotient (some people call it the sexual market value) that they did when they were younger. They still want those hot guys they were after in their 20s, but those guys have options, and chicks like this are not on the menu - except by the hour. In the middle of the night.
And the guys they didn't have time for in their prime are suddenly looking more attractive. Except those guys have also really begun to buckle down and get their sh*t together, and they don't have time for girls like her.
But don't listen to me; after all, I'm a mid-Boomer and retired. What do I know? Except I've been there, done that, got the scars.
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They neither are or are not, for me. A good friend's wife, herself a redhead, and an attractive, though mildly psychotic (like the vast majority), as well as her sister - unattached, younger than my friend's wife - looked at me and that got the old married dude's motor running.
I exercised good trigger discipline and didn't pull it, but for the first time in my life, a woman got me spun up, and that never happens. If I'd have been an a*hole, I had motive, means, and opportunity, right there for not screwing it up.
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What most women don't get is that, in the words of General George S. Patton, Jr. "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
Men get that. It's why we generally marry the woman who is in front of us, rather than holding out for a supermodel.
They, on the other hand, are holding out as long as they can, and even when they don't get their perfect man...well, first of all, they resent it, and immediately start looking to monkey branch. Then they cheat on their man, trying to lock down another, presumably higher value (to them) man. After that, they set out to destroy the first guy's entire life - because they resent the hell out of the "fact" that he wasn't the man of their dreams, and that resentment has had time to fester.
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She says something at about the 23:14 mark, or there abouts; right after she says "None of these men want a strong woman," which she's both correct, and incorrect about. We men, generally, want a woman who embodies the strength that only women have. We don't want to be in a relationship with a dude who has boobs and a slot "C."
But what she says right after that goes to something I realized quite a while ago, which is that women don't really love their children.
Children, for women, are a status symbol within the tribe (of women, because men only care about their own children; we don't give a f*ck about your children).
Women treat their boy children as defective girls. Mothers do that, and teachers (including young college and university professors) do that as well.
Provided there's a man in the house, women individuate from their boy children much earlier in life than they do their girl children.
And, women kill their own children much more often than men do, including accidental deaths such as leaving them in a hot car, as well as driving them into a large body of water to drown them.
Women use men to both trap men, and to punish men, especially when women leave the marriage.
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The dentist wants to RETIRE soon!? Baby girl, you haven't been in the work force all that long. Welcome to our world! What makes you think that just because you've got a slot-C that you're better than those of us who have to work until the money we EARNED and INVESTED kicks in, or we croak, whichever happens first!
I promise you, that because I invested, I'm 67 and not only do not have to work, but I bring in half of what you make. I don't have to even leave the house! I promise because I used to bring home what you make.
Ho, you think that because mommy and daddy paid for your education, and you bought a dentist out of their practice and you worked for a handful of years, you're entitled to RE-F*CKING-TIRE because you have a gaping wound of despair that bleeds buckets of blood once a month and a bad attitude, here's a thought: buy a bag of concrete and seal that wound up. Maybe it'll make you less heinous and entitled.
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The leftists want make it about age, because on some level, they know Joe isn't going to be around much longer. Once he's gone, they can go after Trump on what? Age.
Nothing else has worked, so why not that?
Look, Mad Max is as crazy as a bedbug, but she's a) older than Biden, and b) pretty damn coherent when it comes down to it.
Yeah, she gets facts mixed up and all that; hell, I'm at least 16 years younger than her, and I garble stuff up from time to time.
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@sspradley11 That's not the problem. They never even try. FedEx, UPS, Amazon, none of them will even attempt to deliver, unless it's a large package. Anything mailbox size, they go VFR direct to the Post Office.
Now, if it's a large enough package, most of the time, they'll bring it to my door. Some vendors won't deliver to my house, so I have to give them the address of my cousin, or someone I know in a nearby area, but yeah.
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@jkepler1571 Exactly. I turned down a partial ride to UPenn, but still would have had to depend on grants and loans, because neither my wife nor I was making that kind of money, and I didn't start making that kind of money for...I want to say 8 years. But by that time, my wife had retired (I was a late bloomer), and roughly $100,000 for my upper division work was not even in the running.
It wasn't the only reason (crime around the UPenn campus, as well as the commute from the outskirts of Philly were others), but the idea than I didn't need the connections did factor in.
Instead, I ended up going elsewhere for about $30,00 a year, and was perfectly happy with my 4-year degree. It got me into a career that I retired from and I'm comfortable in retirement.
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Walmart does not have consistently low prices across the board. When they build a new store, they chop their prices in order to put the squeeze on local businesses. Once those businesses have shuttered and their employees mostly go to work for Wally World* and the prices, across the board, go up.
What they do do is to keep SOME prices on certain items low - and this is a science, not guesswork - to get and keep people coming in, but on the majority of stuff, it's the same price or even higher than elsewhere.
It's all about the perception, and in the mind of the general public, the perception is that Walmart has the lowest prices overall.
*walmart calls that transfer of employees "job creation." You know: sort of like people being out of work during the 2 weeks to flatten the curve, and then going BACK to work, and a certain Presidential regime...er, administration calling that "job creation." Like that.
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@HollAnna Unlike you broads, we men are not part of the Borg, and I mean that in a creepy "what one knows, they all know; what one thinks and says is that they all think and say" kind of way.
We're not taking credit when we say "we [men] built society." We're acknowledging that men in general do the building, whereas women in general do the tearing down.
We also understand the concept that each individual is responsible for his or her own actions, for good or for ill. I don't take the blame for white men owning slaves, for example. I'm old, but I'm not that old. I never owned a slave in my life, and I never knew any slave owners, or any slaves or former slaves. Unless you count wage slaves, but that's a different conversation.
This idea that all men are responsible and should be held accountable for other men's actions and behaviors is ludicrous. First of all, it's such a chick thing to say, and second, coming from the sex for whom accountability is like kryptonite is beyond laughable. It is hypocrisy of the highest order.
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@Inked_Latina13 🤣 That's beyond hysterical! I genuinely had a belly laugh over that one. Jeebus.
Y'all women sure like to present yourselves as innocent victims of "duh Patriarchy," to the point when it comes to "he said-she said," it's "Believe [all] women!" and all hands on deck to do so.
So much so that guys have had their academic careers destroyed when he and some "they all look prettier at closing time" engage in mutual, horizontal combat; she gets buyers remorse in the morning, and claims he graped her because quote "I was too barachio to give consent."
Well, you know what happens next. Even though he was just as over-served as she was, he is held responsible for the whole thing; put in front of an academic kangaroo court - even when, as in many cases, the civil authorities assign no blame and absolve him of any wrong-doing.
The kangaroo court finds him guilty, guilty, guilty! He's almost always kicked out of school, any scholarships he might have had revoked, and his chances of getting into another institution somewhere between slim and none.
In fact, they're actually doing him a favor by kicking him out, because it's actually worse trying to move among EVERYONE at his school when they "know" he's a branded man.
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Here's how to estimate a woman's body count, because unless she's an ugly 11-year old, she's not a virgin. Not even a born-again virgin.
Subtract 17 from her age. So, say she's 27. 27-17=10. Multiply 5 times 10 and you get 50. That's her body count.
Is it higher? Could be. Is it lower? How hot is she? If she's at least a 6, but for sure a 7, it's not lower.
You're welcome.
Oh, and before I forget: there's always that one dude in her past that she could be married to you for 50 years, and she'd drop you and your children like a hot rock for. Always. There are no exceptions. Even if it's a doppleganger; somebody that looks like him, acts like him, reminds her of him; she's gone. Buh bye. And other women, the legal system, and even the cops will not hold her accountable. They understand! And they will move against you, because it's not her fault that you're not him. It's your fault for not being him.
Even if, or especially because you reminded her of him, but became compliant and malleable to her when you caught and expressed feelings for her. That's when she began to despise you for not being him. I should capitalize Him.
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If a guy has female friends, chances are good that he is in one or more of those female friends' so-called "friend zones," and that means he's a simp. At BEST, he's a back up, but more than likely, he's fulfilling boyfriend/husband duties and obligations while she's between "situationships." Note that I do NOT mean the conjugal kind of duties and obligations; I'm talking about the fiduciary kind.
A guy can have female friends; even friends who are married. I've had...4 in my life, including a former boss.
Everything has to be circumspect and above board. For instance, if I call my former "office wife" - my now late wife gave her that label; I'd never heard of it before - I'll say "hey, it's been a while, you and the big guy want to go to lunch?" Most of the time, he can't attend, but the key is: he knows we're friends and going to lunch together. Hell, I've been invited to their house for holidays several times after the Mrs. passed away.
We've kind of drifted apart, as these things do, and that's okay. We still remain in touch via social media, and a lot of time between texts (like over a year), but the connection is still there.
Everything is open; there are always witnesses. When my wife passed, my now former boss organized gift cards, sympathy cards, food, and brought it directly to me house - chauffeured by her BFF. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Female friends can be a great resource for many things, especially perspectives that might not have occurred to you. But female friends aren't like male friends; you don't belong to that club; that sorority.
You can visit, but only in the lobby, and when visiting hours are over, you have to leave. In a real sorority, the house matron or the senior girl would make sure you a) were not unattended with the object of your affection, and b) that you left when visiting hours were over. OMG, did I just date myself or what? I can't imagine the free-for-alls that sorority houses must be in this day and age.
That's the way it has to be, especially if you really care for your friend, because it's more than likely her reputation that will get besmirched or ruined if someone has an ax to grind.
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@biruk316 Women's needs with respect to the workforce led to an entire industry - the temp worker - being created. Kelly Girl (later Kelly Services), Manpower, and at least a handful of others were all created to allow primarily women to work ad hoc for temp agencies who would pair their woman's knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs in government speak) as well as their availability with companies temporary requirements for extra labor.
Many of the positions were secretarial in nature, but there were also white collar, even engineering, scientific, and so on. Someone on the ball could be pulled in by a company, and it was a win-win-win. Win for the agency, because the company would have to pay a fee to hire the person; a win for the person being hired, especially because they were already working for the company; and a win for the company because the temp had already shown their abilities to do the work, and to fit into the company culture.
Again, that whole industry came about because women had needs to work flexible hours and/or days.
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@allie9462 "That’s where you’re wrong. Women are nurturers and more loyal than men. Women actually get so much pleasure from taking care of their man by cooking for him, cleaning for him etc. it’s an innate desire to make sure your man is cared for to face the big bad world"
🤣 Hahahahaha!
Yeah, no. Women are NONE of those things.
Women are incapable of love, of happiness, of loyalty. That's not to blame them; it's a biological imperative. Women are biologically wired to be incapable of the things I just mentioned. It's a survival mechanism in order to reproduce.
Like the man said, men and women have to LEARN strategies in order to compensate for what they lack in areas that make them attractive to the opposite sex.
For example: I'm short, at 5'7" tall. That puts me solidly into the "average man" category, which means I have to learn strategies that make me more attractive to the opposite sex, which happens to be the one I've always been interested in.
If a woman is plain, for example, being and staying fit, wearing of clothing that not only enhances that fitness, but complements her "type," and so on, can go a long way.
Too many women (and some men) think that they're entitled to the opposite sex bringing all the things to a prospective relationship for no more reason than they have a physical presence. Just look at how women respond, after they've listed what a man needs to do for them, and what the woman is expected to provide, and if they don't get angry, they do the Vanna White wave and say "Me! I'm the table!" No. No, you're not.
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Nate said "...this is what happens when you hire criminals and give them guns." Leaving aside the historical fact that NOPD is, or has been one of, if not THE most corrupt law enforcement agency in the country for many decades, there are many people who will argue that cops ARE criminals with badges and guns.
In fact, that old saw goes like this: "What's the difference between a street criminal and a cop?" The cop has police powers, a badge and a gun." I heard that back in the '70s.
The thing of it is, Simmons could have been injured or killed by a brick. I've seen it happen not 10 feet from where I was. She looked to be in uniform, which suggests to me that the perp was not only willing to try and injure what looked to be a cop, but anyone who got in his way. The only reason he didn't try to incapacitate her was a) she was armed, and b) there ware at least 2 others after his punk ass. I would argue that he posed a serious threat to the community at large. Criminals only escalate their behavior.
My only issue with her is that she endangered the public by doing what she did.
Pretty good shooting, however; 7/11 rounds at a moving, man-sized target that a lot of people would have a hard time hitting from that distance were it stationary.
How many rounds did New York cops fire at a suspect some years ago, and hit everything BUT the alledged perp? Dozens of rounds fired. I can't remember for sure, but they hit buildings, cars, windows, maybe even a bystander or two. Dozens of rounds.
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I've been saying it over and over for a while now: women only love themselves. One day, I think the message will sink in.
Men love the people they're emotionally attached to. It's logical, because men are hard-wired to do for their loved ones. It's how men show their love, because love is an ACTION word. It's how men generate happiness; by doing for, by loving other people.
Women are miserable creatures who do not know how to be happy. They expect people, places, things, experiences to MAKE them happy; to bring it to them on a silver platter.
Fewer and fewer women demonstrate love toward others. They can't figure out why happiness seems to elude them. They can't figure out why men are avoiding them.
More and more women are joining the Borg of women in demanding that love and happiness be given to them, simply because they are women, and they "deserve" it.
That's not how it works, ladies (and I use that term loosely - like so many of them). That's not how it works.
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@dink_diggler True, but in fairness, most women never get over their first love, their father, who treated her like a princess.
I would still not get involved with a single mother; not even a widow, no matter how much compassion I may have for her, especially a widow of a veteran or a cop.
A man is nearly always going to play second fiddle to her spawn, and although a guy doesn't have to contend with a baby daddy showing up - though maybe his family - he still is unlikely to have any authority, even when the crotch monkeys are behaving badly.
Been there, done that, twice.
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It's not just that women see the red flags subconsciously; it's also, as more and more women are coming out and admitting, that women cheat more than men. They always have, given the opportunity. Those country songs didn't get written in a vacuum or fall out of the sky.
And it's not just professional women psychologists; ask a random drunk chick, and she'll tell you. Women cheat the way men change our skivvies.
The key word is opportunity. In the old days, pre-internet, especially in small towns, opportunities were limited. The key phrase is "opportunities were limited." Not non-existent. Limited.
In this day and age, opportunities for ALL women abound.
We know that in the vast majority of cases, if a man is accusing a woman seemingly out of the blue, of cheating, chances are almost 100% that he's the one cheating.
It works both ways. The question isn't IF a woman will cheat, but a matter of confluence of boredom, opportunity, and a willing stranger with game who'll tell her what she wants to hear. As Pearl Davis says "women are gullible."
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Yeah, let's throw money at a perceived problem because that ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS works! Always!.
I mean, education, infrastructure, housing, the war on drugs, poverty...you name it, we've thrown trillions at each and every single problem throughout American history, and not ONCE has it ever NOT worked.
So by all means, let's throw more money at whatever reparations is supposed to fix, and EVEN BETTER, let's throw money we don't even have at it! Because that'll fix it even quicker! It's the American WAY!
JFC, these people certifiably insane.
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@eestudaj Your master's degree doesn't seemed to have paid off when it comes to structuring a paragraph. You knew what you were trying to say; I've read it twice and am still trying to figure it out.
Your college degree cost what it cost, and that's a sunk cost. We SAY that we earn more with a master's (or even a baccalaureate), but the money we put into that degree is money that we really can't get back.
My first white collar job paid less than my last blue collar job; not by a huge amount, but still less. However, at the end of 22 years in that job, I retired making roughly $130,000 a year; far in excess of what I started at, and much more than I could have made in my previous career. As a matter of fact, only the very cream of the crop; well under 10% of the top people in my blue collar field were making upwards of a $100K a year the same year I retired from my white collar job.
I did not need a college degree for my white collar job. The requirement to have one was a gate-keeping device. It helped with my communication skills, which is all a general college degree is good for - as opposed to a specialized degree, such as engineering, for example.
Effectively, what I think you're trying to say is that by spending money on tuition instead of going straight to work cost you that $55K in wages or salary PLUS the cost of tuition.
And that's not necessarily the case. You have to ask yourself "could I have acquired that job without a diploma?" In my case, the answer is "no," absolutely not. That was one of the criteria of the gate-keepers: "do you have, or are you nearing completion of a college degree in at least a general studies area?" There was no waiver for that particular criteria.
If your answer is yes, then you might make a case for the lost wages as opportunity cost - except opportunity cost applies to production. Comparing how much you could have made in exchange for your labor and the costs of tuition for schooling is the old apples v oranges argument. Education is labor, but we don't view it as such, since most people don't get paid to go to school as an occupation. I would probably be still in school, if that were true.
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I haven't actually built a computer in almost 3 decades, but as far as software I can't do without, the software formerly known as Crap Cleaner is the main one. I used it ever since they came around in 2004. I finally rogered up and started paying for it a few years ago.
I do see that on CNET, they have a link to Revo, which I've already downloaded the free version. Maybe in 20 years I'll buy the pro version. Maybe sooner if it does a good job of getting rid of bloatware.
Oh, and AdBlocker Ultimate. I pay for that, too, after many years of using the free version. I've been pretty happy with it for the last 14 years, I think.
Malware Bytes, I also pay for. That's the only antivirus type software I run, but I'm old and pretty habituated in my internet browsing habits. Okay, Windows Defender, but I assume it doesn't work, because it's hit-or-miss.
I wanted to like Brave, but they have an ongoing problem with creating super strong passwords - and then losing them. That's been going on for years, and they still haven't fixed it. So Brave lasted about a year on my system.
That's about it for all the must-have software.
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You can call us sexist if you like, but biology doesn't lie. You don't need society to remind you; your biological clock is ticking.
Speaking of biological clocks, few people talk about this, but the risk of complications from pregnancy go up over the early 30s. Melissa Chen is a renowned journalist, in her 30s, and she just found out the hard way.
Also over 30 risks: However, an older mother may be at increased risk for miscarriage, birth defects, and pregnancy complications such as twins, high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, and difficult labors.
Additionally: The risk of chromosomal abnormality increases with maternal age. The chance of having a child affected by Down syndrome increases from about 1 in 1,250 for a woman who conceives at age 25, to about 1 in 100 for a woman who conceives at age 40. It is possible that risks may be higher as many statistics only report live births and do not take into account pregnancies with chromosomal abnormalities that were terminated or ended due to natural pregnancy loss.
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There is what women think they want, what they say they want, and what they actually get turned on by.
The three are almost never the same thing.
Women think they want a good man. They say they want to be treated with kindness and respect. The guy that turns them on is invariably the guy that treats them like crap.
What are us good guys who were told by our mothers to treat women as friends, and all that, when we see who women respond to? We weren't raised to talk to and treat women that way. Our fathers would have beat the crap out of us if we were 35 and treating women that way.
What are we supposed to think when women say "I think of you as a friend, not like 'that'" and then they dress up like streetwalkers to go try and trap guys...well, you know the guys they're after. And then they come use us as emotional tampons. Basically, they treat us as girlfriends, or their gay male friends.
And they have the nerve to tell us we can't be mad at the whole thing, and they go immediately for the shaming language.
They're setting us up to come back to - to circle back to us - once they've hit that wall and the bad boys are no longer interested in them. THEN, and ONLY then are they willing to "settle" for us - and even then, there are FB community standard-like terms and conditions. You know, the ever changing ones that don't seem to be written down anywhere, that you can violate at any time? Yeah, those.
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Take it from an old guy (68): Never, ever, ever, ever approach a woman you find attractive when she's with her girls. Never. Don't do it, unless you LOVE being humiliated.
Or, you know, if you're a Chad and you know it.
Because they WILL humiliate you. "Yes, I dance, but not with you."
Don't do it.
Follow me for more tips on how to leave women the hell alone. Unless, presumably, you're a masochist who enjoys being tormented by them. There's probably an app for that. I think it's called "attempting to date," or something like that.
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When I go to get in my Tundra tomorrow, my GPS is still going to try to get me to the general vicinity of the doctors' offices adjacent to the hospital 30 minutes from where I live that I went to today.
It got me there...and then shut up. I could see the building and the left, the hospital on my right, but the GPS was on a union-mandated break or something.
One of the first times I used it, a few years ago, it got me to within, oh, I dunno, 2-300 yards or so and said "You've arrived at your destination." And I'm arguing with it! "There's nothing here! There's a parking lot there, a pad there...the nearest building is a quarter of a mile away!" It went on break that time, too.
GPS didn't even say that. It just shut up altogether. Then, when I was driving away, it kept trying to get me to make a "legal u-turn" to drive back to the general vicinity, where, presumably, it wouldn't tell me I'd arrived at my destination. I did figure out how to mute it, but for the life of me, I could not find where to cancel the trip.
Break, break
So, I'm 66; about 4 months from being 67. Here's when you know you're old: going to doctors' appointments becomes a part-time job.
For me, I've been going to the cardiologist, the endocrinologist, the retinal specialist for a few years now.
Medi-don't care, which they force you into, requires an annual "wellness visit." Said wellness visit set off a whole series of other doctors' appointments, to where it's just about a part-time job, just coming and going.
So that's how you know you're old.
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I'm older than you, Rick; born in 1956.
Eagles: only one album worth listening to, which is "Desperado" (which I own)
Gun n Roses: never got them. Them, and Kansas. Listen, VKGoeswild here on YT does piano covers, which are amazing, by the way, and she does GnR better than GnR
The Beatlles: liked their early stuff (same as my preference for the Rolling Stones), don't really like anything after that. It's the raw edge blues stuff that gets me going.
AC/DC: never got them, either. Overhyped, for the most part. Couple of songs are good, that's it.
Jimi Hendrix: only ever did 6 songs, I think. Or that's the way it seems by what they play. You should have seen my reaction when I discovered Red House. I mean, they never play Star Spangled Banner; rarely play Machine Gun. Or much of anything except the rotation on FM.
Same with a lot of groups. Little Steven's Underground Garage has been playing a lot of early and obscure Stones stuff, which is awesome. But even XM gets into those ruts. To the point where who can take them Siriusly.
Sorry.
So fork 'em, if they don't want to unblock. Hell, I'll email them and tell them to keep up the f*cking good work, and good luck with their royalties in the future as they're left behind. If they're lucky, they might make Guardians of the Galaxy 3, or whatever they're up to now.
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That guy at 3:07, talking about "controlling women." Tell us you've never been out of the country without telling us.
I've traveled extensively throughout the Far East, and I don't care what country it is; those women are not "controllable," the way you're thinking.
They are traditional, family-oriented, often religious, adaptable, pleasant, willing to please their man and make their home an oasis.
Those women are also well-educated, even through high school, like Americans used to be. Many of them have at least some college, and the vast majority of them speak at least two, sometimes three languages. Quick: name an American besides Mrs. Trump who speaks more than one language. Don't quote me on this, but a) she's from outside the country, and b) she speaks at least five languages besides her own.
But controllable? B*tch will cut you if you get out of control. There's a lot of jungle in those countries, and if she doesn't straighten you out, her family will. They may never find your body.
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Hold on, Roland...er, I mean Greg. You said at 28:36 or so that "...even he has accepted responsibility...."
No, no he didn't. He accepted responsibility for getting angry, but then he blamed his attitude on having dealings with "law enforcement when he was growing up." He completely forgot that as the officer went to cuff him, she remarked that he smelled like marijuana. THAT is when he started getting upset.
He probably hadn't inhaled, and he may or may not have been around people who were smoking. I've been in some of those bars, and yes, they do flaunt the law.
But he never accepted responsibility for driving under the influence, or for being out of it far enough that he didn't have his lights on, or control of his vehicle (speeding and swerving). Basically, it's because of run-in(s) with the po-po while he was growing up, and now he has PTSD or something. He didn't say PTSD, but he said he was still traumatized.
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When you name a thing, you immediately and automatically put constraints on that thing.
Often, that's a useful thing. After all, how you solve a problem depends on how you define the problem.
On the other hand, it may not be entirely useful to name a thing because it's reductive to do so. You reduce its scope, its power, its influence, authority.
By naming God, as we're wont to do, we reduce that being to the status of a super human. We can assign super human attributes to that God, but beyond our understanding, what do those attributes even really mean? We've made our God too small (J.B. Phillips).
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You know what women never tell other women? In the midst of this pumping of one another up with the "you're worth it!" and the "take the risk!" they never, ever say to one another that the 4, or 5, or 6, or hell, even that 7 is worth it. They never tell each other to take a chance on the average guy who as a good job, a house, a car that's paid for. Suddenly, women are risk adverse when it comes to a guy who's not a 8, a 9, or a 10.
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Leslie the Liberal (LL) did exactly the way liberals ALWAYS do, and it's a 2-fold thing they do. They shift, shift, shift, trying to get the other person to follow them into a labyrinth of illogic and bad arguments, AND she didn't shut up once. She kept talking, talking, talking, which is what leftists always do.
If they can't argue the merits, they shift ground until you slip up and then they exclaim "Aha! You're wrong, I won!" Couple that with the constant stream of (un)consciousness talking, and you're better off dotting their eyes and crossing their teeth than trying to argue with them.
Example:
Kayleigh: "...you act like this is a one-off (gaffe)...."
LL: "I never said, I never said...." trying to get Kayleigh chase that laser pointer until she gets off and off and off the main point. Interrupting her all the while. Which is a form of that talk, talk, talk tactic they love so much.
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@kenweaver1329 If you were an actual business owner, then you'd know that the largest cost to doing business is labor. Period. Regardless of the industry or the size of the business IS labor.
Assuming you are an actual business owner, here is what I observed in the work force: the vast, overwhelming majority of business owners have no business owning a business.
You all have no training in business; in how to run a business where the rubber meets the road. You learned a trade, you got good at it, decided you could do better if you worked for yourself, and so you hung out your shingle and started working via referrals and a little bit of advertising.
That's best case scenario. Too many guys with enough knowledge to be dangerous pick up their hand carry Craftsman tool box out to the '72 Ford Econoline and go out and f*ck up more than they fix.
The point is that almost none of you learn how to manage a business so that anyone other than you and your wife who is the book-keeper (because she can balance a checkbook) makes money.
So you underpay your employees, because that is the largest expense of doing business, you barely keep your debts covered, you buy your wife a new car, and you take vacations that shut down the business for a week or two while your employees go unpaid for that period of time.
And then you can't figure out why you can't get any good employees. Or keep them if you do accidentally get one.
That's my observation from being in the blue collar, as well as the white collar world for roughly 50 years outside the military. Seen it over, and over, and over. If I had a dollar for every time I've seen this play out, I'd be f*ckin' rich.
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PS: I know it's popular to blame the Boomers - you know, the generation that marched to end the war in Vietnam, for civil rights, for abortion to be legal, started Earth Day, fought to clean up the environment and to no longer allow companies to treat the earth as a dumping ground for toxic waste - that generation - for everything wrong under the sun, but consider:
Joe Biden, the man that holds the highest public office in the land; the most powerful office on the planet, is technically old enough to be my father. He still holds public office. Okay, he would have been a 16-year old dad, but still.
Strom Thurmond died in the Senate at 101 years of age. People get exercised about the person who gets elected to an office that they can only serve in for 8 years at the most, and yet yawn and turn away when you talk about people that get elected at a relatively young age - and stay in that office for 4 or more decades.
Do you get it?
As one of the youngest of the Boomers (1946 - 1964), I retired before some of these people of my PARENTS' generation no longer waked the halls of power, in government, in industry, in academia.
Do you get it?
Nancy Pelosi is still in the US Senate; where she's been since 1981. She's 83 freakin' years old. My mother died when she was 82.
Warren Buffet is 93 years of age. He's 10 years older than Pelosi. ONE of the richest men in the world, 93 years old, and a captain of industry.
In other words, we Boomers began taking the reigns of power when our parents died. Not when they retired and turned things over to us. When they died, is when we began to have any influence in this world.
You know, other than the protests and the marches we took part in. Those were pretty powerful.
Now, they're mostly peaceful protests. The two aren't the same.
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You keep using qualifiers like "some," as though women like that are outliers.
Women have been telling on themselves for years on social media. I assure you that women like YOU are the outliers.
What we men have discovered after watching and listening to women in person and on social media, is that women's only "nature," as you call it, is survival. That is it. Women are incapable of loving anyone other than themselves. They are incapable of happiness that comes from love, which is the way men are hard-wired.
We give love; we show love by doing for the people we care for. That is what brings us happiness. Women believe they are supposed to be recipients of love; that experiences, people, places, and things are what bring about love. And when that feeling that comes with it is fleeting, they believe the love is gone; that experiences, people, places, and things have failed them.
That is women's nature. As a human being, theoretically capable of logic, and critical thinking, it is incumbent on women to overcome that giant, twisted hairball of emotions. You have to rise about your animal nature.
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Growing up in Minnesota, surrounded by a large "Scanda-hoovian" community, particularly Germans, potato salad, which did not look like that, was served warm. That was only because it was freshly-made with baked potatoes, which carried residual heat from the oven.
It wasn't like it was fresh out of the oven warm, but just about lukewarm, or a couple of degrees above that.
We did store left-overs in the fridge, and no, we did not heat it up to serve.
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@davisholman8149 Believe it or not (exhibit A: Wally World on any day ending in "y"), many women don't know what looks good on them. I don't know how many women in the wild that I've looked at, shaken my head, and thought "poor woman, has no friends."
I once picked out, with the help of a sales rep at Kathryn's, a capsule wardrobe for my wife when she went into real estate. By the time we got through, my now late wife looked very stylish, chic, and professional. Plus, there was a ton of variety because we picked outfits that could mix and match to the point where a week's worth of outfits would actually last her a month without wearing the same thing more than once.
That's opposed to the shabby chic/thrift shop disco/urban cowboy look she normally went for.
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@zaknaifen193 We need to start drafting at age 18. Induct them, train them up, and tell them: your quality of service will dictate how long you stay in the military. If you get it, and objectively meet the goals set for you, you get kicked loose in a normal term of service (3 years, 4 years, whatever). If you don't, you stay in until you meet those goals OR, you take a bad conduct discharge that entitles you to zero benefits and is not appealable.
Once you conclude your term of service, then, and only then are you allowed to vote. Period.
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They're importing millions of "new arrivals" every week to replace the blacks, so, problem solved, eventually.
I mean, eventually, they'll replace most whites, and other low- or non-skilled workers of all ethnicities in this country; they'll reliably vote Democrat; they won't fuss and fight about not having any Constitutional rights, other than what Democrats deign to allow them, so, winning!
For somebody, anyway.
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She's had more dates in what, a year? than I have had in my entire adult life. For context, I'm 68, so starting at age 18 (there were ZERO dates before that), in the late 50 years, 20 of which I was married, I didn't have HALF that number of dates. In fact, I never had a QUARTER of that number. I stopped even trying at age 24.
It's easy for a halfway decent looking woman to get a date. All she has to do is be somewhat attractive, fairly pleasant, and say "yes."
It's also easy for the same type of woman to smash. All she has to do is say "yes."
Women can be sloots if they're at least a 4. Men can be sloots if they're an 8, a 9, or a 10.
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So why is no one asking these hoes what they get in return for that $10, $20, $30K? I mean, with a hooker, you get a service, and she goes away.
With a high-class escort, you get adult conversation, a service, and she goes away.
With modern hoes, they want something worth $30K, they don't want to provide anything in return, and they sure as f*ck won't go away - until they're ready to take at least half your sh*t with them.
That doesn't sound like a very good return on investment to me.
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There has been a concerted effort since the 1960s, spearheaded by, among others, that fat drunk "Lion of the Senate," Teddy "I did not leave that woman to drown" Kennedy.
The phenomenon has been referred to as "the Browning of America," and I'm almost certain there was a book out there by that name.
At the time, America was something like 90% white, European, and some variant of Christianity. In fact, that was a slam against Jack Kennedy; the fact that he was Catholic - and therefore surely must be owned and operated by the Vatican.
Divided loyalty, is the issue. I don't know how I would answer Ms. Coulter, because to me, it's a valid concern. Perhaps in Vivek's case, unfounded, but how do we really know that?
On the other hand, FJB clearly has divided loyalties (when he's lucid enough), to the point where most people doubt, based on what he's done to this country, that he has any loyalty left to the United States. And he's clearly a WASP - okay, he's Catholic, which many people even today will say is not a true Christian. They do tend to totalitarianism.
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@rhondasevick4257 As I said in a post below, exceptions don't disprove the general rules.
And that's just taking your words at face value. Too many women out here in social media land are saying the exact opposite.
It used to be that people fell in love, got married, and both worked hard to build a life. Not anymore. The vast majority of women want to have their "fun" in their 20s and into their 30s; then, when biology begins to impinge upon them that there's a matter of some urgency, they begin to look around for a guy who's already made it, and they want to glom onto that guy - and they have spent close to 2 decades not making themselves ready to add value to his life.
Apparently, women think that we men are supposed to work hard while they're out partying, and then we're supposed to just take them onboard with no wifely skills and support them because they have a slot C - that they use as a tool to trap us, then cut it off from access after the baby trap is born.
Cynical? Men stand to lose at least half of everything we've worked for by locking ourselves into marriage with today's women AND, we're nearly always cut off from seeing our children that we've bonded with.
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- I cried when shipmates were killed when the helicopter they were riding in was shot down.
- I cried when my dog died. He was the best good boy.
- I cried when my wife of many years died.
I cried in private, except when my daughters were home after their mother passed; we all cried together. It's difficult not to.
That's pretty much it, other than childhood, wherein my father chose violence and psychological brutality. Often. A lot of tears were shed in childhood. Maybe that's why I don't cry a lot now.
Oh, I do tear up when I see someone demonstrate the best that humans can offer, like that youtube channel where they help people in need, like elderly people, get the cleanup and repairs that they desperately need, but are unable to do for themselves, and cannot afford.
That's allergies, though.
But then, I sucked it up and went back to work and took care of business. Because that's what men do.
I did see a therapist for almost exactly a year. She was awesome, and I give her a lot of credit. Among her first words were: "I'm not willing to put any more into this than you are." We worked through some things related to that aforementioned childhood, and to Southeast Asia.
I knew when I'd gone as far as I could, and Like I told her: I feel like that a person can only get so well. I think I've done as much as I can, at least for now. We shook hands, and that was that. She did send me a card when I graduated from college a few years later; I think I may still have that card.
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Some years ago, South Park aired at least one, maybe two episodes, during which, black citizens of South Park were being given a pass on any crimes they committed, to the point that it was pissing them off. They would commit crimes in front of Officer Bar Brady, he'd mouth some platitudes, and off he'd go.
Apparently, the left watched that (those) episodes and decided that that's the way things ought to be; that no black citizen of America should get arrested. Well, unless they are conservative, and then it's "bury them under the jail."
"Idiocracy" and shows like South Park are social commentary; not a how-to guide.
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Many, many...okay, decades, not years (early '70s), I met a woman from South Africa in San Diego on holiday. I was a lowly sailor, just out of boot camp, still wet behind the ears. One thing led to another, and no, this isn't a Penthouse Forum letter (You'll never believe what happened to me!)
Turns out, she was a high-end escort. She was paid for her time, just as any professional is. The long and short of it was that she was well-educated, well-read, and well-traveled. Men paid her to be their companion; sex was rarely, if ever, a consideration - and honestly, we didn't get into that.
She was someone to be seen with; someone to converse with on virtually any topic under the sun. Most of her function with these enormously wealthy men was mostly to listen to them.
I've always wanted to be wealthy enough to afford a woman like that, but alas and alack.
We all pay for it one way or another. With a woman like her, the ground rules were laid out, clear, and agreed to up front, and everyone walked away having gotten full value.
With non-professional women, not so much. In most cases, it comes down to you getting the f*ckng for the f*cking you got.
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Adam (Abom79) did one of these spray welding things on his channel a some time back. Actually, he's done several of them. Just go to his channel and search "spray," and they'll come up.
I learned to gas, arc, and forge, back in about 1967, when I was in what we call Middle School. Back then, it was called Elementary, Junior High, and High School.
Mig welding was a thing, but the machines were the size of a warehouse, and the price point was such that only the Government (mainly the military) and Government contractors could afford them.
I've welded off and on for most of my adult life, but I'd never heard of spray welding before Adam videoed it on his channel.
Great job on the explanation. I didn't realize how hard that material is until you talked about it.
My question is: does this have an application for flat surfaces? I'm thinking specifically automotive frames that are pitted to beat hell, but need to be salvaged because of numbers matching criteria. I mean, assuming that the frame is pitted enough to possibly compromised, but not so badly that it's an automatic scrap.
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My now late wife would have done that one time, and I would have packed my sh*t in the truck and left. Either that, or told her to call her daughters to come move her ass out.
I was pretty passive in our marriage, to my regret - when she passed, she left behind $12K debt, on 1 credit card - but I had boundaries.
She fooled around and found out when she cosigned a car loan for her youngest and her husband without telling me. I left our house, drove 5 hours to New Jersey, and told her girls that I was divorcing her. Scared the living crap out of her, and the girls, who liked me way better than their own father.
They talked me out of it, but she knew from then on, Hard Head had boundaries.
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@valkillmore847 Don't think so highly of yourself that the only reason my generation is holding onto stuff like that is to keep your generation from getting it.
My generation is, and has been getting rid of stuff as it's our final chance to do so.
Our Gen X children don't want our stuff; especially anything not easily portable. That includes heavy solid wood furniture and cars that don't run. They're staring 50 and 60 in the face, and starting to realize they have a limited amount of time left.
Our grandchildren don't want that stuff just because it's old timey stuff they didn't grow up with, and have no emotional connection to. They are also the generation boomeranging on their parents (and in some cases, their grand parents). They own a smart phone, maybe an iPad, their clothes, and not a lot else.
Not only that, but you can also add our parents' generation, the so-called "Silent Generation" to the list of people who not only won't f'ing die, but they still walk the halls of power in Government, Industry, and Academia. They were every bit as bad as us Boomers, since they were born to the generation that survived WWI and the Great Depression. They didn't let go of ANYTHING.
Trust me: I understand your feelings as far as letting that stuff sit and rot. I hate it, and if money were no object, I would buy and restore as many things as I could. But our feelings aside, those old vehicles only appeal to a limited audience.
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@mmarmrcz6770 As I told Richard, our parents, the so-called Silent Generation, were born right at the end of the Great Depression, to parents who had lived through WWI, and the Depression. It had a profound affect on their parents, them, and even us Boomers. It was a society-wide kind of thing that made hoarders out of most of the population.
You also had a great movement going on wherein more and more and more of the population was moving from the rural areas to more urban in search of steady employment. Those sorts of things have such a profound affect on the entire population, and over the course of generations.
Your generation can't imagine life without a computer you can fit into your pocket that has more computing power than something from my childhood that took up a room the size of a warehouse, and was extremely limited in its capabilities.
I remember growing up in houses without electricity, running water, or indoor bathrooms. That was the way they were built, not a function of not paying the utility bills.
Going outside to do your business in subzero weather in the Midwest, only lit by a fuel lantern was just about as much fun as you might expect.
It doesn't make me or my generation better than you, but it does color our respective outlooks on life.
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Is there any way we can stop pretending that marriage is all about love and all that bullsh*t?
Women are INCAPABLE of love.
They are only capable of feelings. That is how they navigate the world; their lives. PERIOD.
Women do not love themselves, let alone parents, children, husbands, or anyone else. It's simply not in them.
They are like the story of the half-frozen snake, where the monk comes across it, picks it up, carries it to his cabin, and warms it up. The snake promptly bites the monk. As the monk lies dying he says "why!? I picked you up, saved you from the cold, warmed you up, even gave you a mouse to keep you from starving! Why would you bite me!?"
And the snake said "you knew what I was when you picked me up."
We don't need to hate on women for being what they are. We can hate their behavior without hating them. We can certainly avoid them. I mean, let's face it: there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to get married unless 2 people want to have children. There is no rational reason.
My late wife and I got married. I was 44, she was older, and I was the retirement plan. Period. There was no other reason for us to get married. It was a good marriage, as these things go, however, she was entitled to all my resources, and I was the retirement plan and built-in care giver in her final years.
I saw marriage contracts are the way to go. It's the way to both protect ourselves, to make sure that the offspring are genetically ours, and that they are taken care of until at least 18 years of age.
Because if we don't, I can see a time when they at least try to implement a draft. Not selective service, but a marriage draft. And lest anyone think that's too far-fetched, stop and ponder your world for a while and think about the things in our realm of existence that even 50 years ago would have seemed to fantastical to even move beyond the world of Sci/fi.
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The 1st lie she told was "...have someone call you ugly."
No, sweetheart, no one called you ugly; you made that part up. A man expessing his concern about your lack of activity is not the same as calling you ugly, except in your own teeny, little, lying lizard brain.
The 2nd lie you told was that old "fat phobia." There's no such thing, baring you threatening to sit on someone and smother or crush them. Then again, some guys are into that.
I didn't get married until I was in my 40s - 20 years after I stopped even trying to date. I met her in the old chatrooms on AOL and Prodigy. We corresponded for a year before she flew from the East Coast to California to meet me in person.
She was a big girl - a 3x, if you want to know. But she was a great person with a good head on her shoulders, and she was both kind and peaceful.
I, having been a simp, nearly a virgin, and figured I couldn't do any better, wifed her up. She'd been married twice before and had 2 daughters that were finding their own way in life.
I learned a lot from her in the 20 years we were together, and I grew in confidence as a man. I never physically cheated on her, not that I believed there was opportunity there. I didn't grow that much in confidence.
Having said all that, she was also 10 years older than me, and medically, she was a train wreck. Whoever said "age is just a number" was a deluded fool. Not only did her medical issues, brought on mostly by her weight - as well as dangerous fad diets when she was younger, cost us a lot of money, but her insecurities had led her to becoming a hoarder and an abuser of drugs (prescriptions) and alcohol.
On top of that, she was a spend thrift. That doesn't mean she was thrifty with money; quite the opposite. Pro tip: never let your woman have unfettered access to money without oversight.
Anyway, big girls come with a host of issues (more so than other women), and you cannot fix them. They can be kind, and loving, bring peace (or at least minimal drama) into your life, however, the mental and especially the physical issues can become overwhelming.
Skinny beotches love telling big girls all the lies we've heard, because that's one less competitor for those so-called "top tier guys" that all women are after. In a group of 10 women, the big girl still wants that top tier guy, but she's almost guaranteed to be not in the running.
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I remember the gas can scam. I didn't realize that people were using it as a scam, though. I've never had a particularly larcenous mind, though. I'd even given thought to using a 5-gallon jerry can as a suitcase in order to get picked up more easily. I've hitch-hiked across the country a number of times, as well as within my local areas plenty of more times. By the late '70s/early '80s, it was so bad that people wouldn't hardly pick up a hitch-hiker.
I did deliver pizzas, down in Houston, back in about '80, or thereabouts. It was bad enough that I concealed carry, and I had a partner who was also armed. Plus, I had a sawed off shotgun in the truck. Never had any issues, but we were always ready.
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