If you want a spouse or even a gf, treat it like finding a full time job. Do your best to look presentable and send resumes to every place with an open position you qualifies for. It is work and it is hard work. Show your best qualities, hide your worst qualities. If your are a five, expect a five unless you have some quality that lets you level up (that quality is fame) a 7 who treats you well is worth more than a 9 that treats you like shit. We all age into looking like crap.
None of it really bothers me. My wife isn’t fat and is more attractive than Bezos gf. She has stretch marks and saggy tits. She gave me three kids. It was worth it. That said, I’d fix the tits first.
I always treated dating like door knocking when I sold vacuum cleaners.
I was always comfortable asking girls out (in person and online) and I’d usually set up a date every night of the week. Half wouldn’t need a follow up date, and the others would work themselves out over the coming weeks and months. Then I’d repeat.
Improved my social skills and tolerance for rejection. By the time I met my wife (on a sudsy dance floor at the bar during a foam party) she got added to the rotation and quickly rose to the top.
Been with her for 20 years now, married for 16.
Maintaining the relationship has been much more challenging than securing it; can’t really walk away from my fuck ups like I used to.
Having no idea who Old Dirty Bastard was I immediately had to reference everyone's standby Wikipedia to learn said gentleman last performed just around the corner from the site of our own esteemed Host's last performance. Seeing how both personages also have a fondness for Insane Clown Posse I thought I should bring this to everyone's attention.
I am not sure if he likes them or just likes pointing out that people who could not explain how a simple electric motor works (or build one, an even simpler task) are fond of saying that the line "fucking magnets, how do they work?" is stupid when in fact it is not really known how fucking magnets work.
Next summer can we do some boxing matches at your compound when we all come for the weekend camping trip for paid subscribers? Like an outdoors version of finer things club.
PS a lot of men seem to try to attract women the way that women try to attract men and wonder why it doesn’t work…like not long ago I told people on dating sites to look at every woman’s profile that you were remotely interested in and to not contact them first because online you have to let the woman chase for the dopamine hit. Then don’t post pictures with just you, women love group pictures for some reason and it d doesn’t scream lives in moms basement. Be unavailable, have hobbies and not seem needy is hard to teach a lot of people.
Wait two hours to respond to texts. Is it stupid? Absolutely, but it works. And for everyone sake, TURN READ RECEIPTS OFF. (Double uppercase here) ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE MARRIED.
I have a buddy who has read receipts on and a wife who tracks the location of his phone. He couldn’t grab one drink at the bar with us after a group activity because she would track him. He’s a really good guy who is terrified his wife “will divorce me if I do that” if I was married to that, I’d welcome it! It is the couple that would surprise me and the wife the least if they got divorced.
In an environment with that lack of trust I don't know what his obligation to be trustworthy is.
It sounds like she is very confident in her location tracking. I'm turn, he could go anywhere and do anything he wanted, so long as his phone was in a plausible location.
My wife has a tracker in my suitcase for 2 reasons. #1 she rarely remembers where I am traveling, and I get tired of answering the same question every week in a different city. #2 it's a suitcase filled with some clothes, but mostly tools for work. I prefer not to lose said suitcase, and I'm too lazy to figure out how those tracker things work.
On the contrary, I leave them on for (almost) everyone.
Sometimes, the best response of all is silence, especially if they know you read their most recent missive immediately and concluded that it merited no response.
But usually there’s enough of a preview on the Lock Screen that you can tell what the total content will be (and whether it merits immediate response or putting it on ice).
I doubt anyone at my office has heard of Substack. Explaining why my face is bruised is not the kind of small talk I want to be making during coffee refills.
Before games my high school soccer team would have a friendly fight "helmets and gloves" style to avoid unwanted visible dammage as a way to get amped up for the game. We would wear a hockey or lacrosse helmet and gloves. All the same head trauma, probably more, and none of the broken noses, black eyes or split lips.
Thank God I met my wife in college. She told me very early on “you and I are going to get married some day.” And like any red blooded straight male, I looked that pretty blonde in the eye and said “sounds great to me!”
I went back to college in my mid/late 20s. Definitely doable.
Full Disclosure: I opted to scale back my social calendar and stay on top of my classes. My objective was a better career, not a wife. Someone with better discipline can probably do both.
You're lucky to have her. She is very pretty and she is also proportioned in a way that doesnt make you look like a Shriner in the clown car. Women like that are vanishingly rare.
Must have been some OTHER chick -- although I'm not surprised Rogan would see her as "hot", he comes from a demographic and experience that equates "hot" with "sex worker".
I actually thought the top post picture was a he-she posing with a guy in a cowboy hat. Jack always has ironic type photos at the beginning of the article so it seemed to check out
Jack's caption probably threw me off a bit, but I seriously thought the headline picture was from a country and western themed gay porn. Lady looks like a dude.
To your point, the first I ever head of Rogan was in the '90s when Howard played a clip of his routine, "Hey, ma, we're in the basement, liftin'. Leave us alone." With suitable bleeps to keep the FCC happy.
A couple of not particularly profound thoughts on Lauren. 1) She actually was hot 20 years ago. She looked like she had good enough genes not to have to put her plastic surgeons kids through Harvard to look good in her 50s.
2) She has her helicopter pilots license. And, she owns her own helicopter. Now, I don't know what that really means, but to me, finding a girl with a helicopter license, and a helicopter to go with it, just made her a whole lot more interesting. Adventurous? Maybe? Forgiving of my own automotive excesses? Likely. But definitely more interesting than most women folk out there.
Finally, damn shame about all the plastic surgery.
Apparently she's also going to be going on one of his silly space flights. Jeff's pretty medically-enhanced looking, too, since he decided to stop looking like a complete schlub and do roids - which started long before he hooked up with her. And they're both originally from the same city, come from hispanic backgrounds, etc.
They certainly both seem to enjoy being publicly cringey as hell together, anyway.
If I can be charitable for a moment - isn't it possible these two might actually be a match? Would she have still left her better looking, still well-off and connected husband for him were he not the richest man in the world? Of course not. But that also doesn't mean it's not more than that, either.
She looks good in the pic in the Vogue article where she's flying the helicopter. Maybe it's because she's relaxed and doing something she likes instead of trying to look 'hot.' I agree that she looks way too fake and plasticky in the others.
Let's get to what's important here -- I also like the cut of young Mackenzie Scott’s jib, but also current day Mackenzie. She looks better now than she did in the young picture, in my opinion, which is nice, as I am also older than I used to be.
Sanchez creeps me out.
It seems that Jeff Bezos has some perverse desire to give away another half of his fortune, when this upcoming magical union doesn't work out. Odd psychology at work here, as Jack details in the rest of the article, which came after that Mackenzie photo, which distracted me.
It shouldn't be overlooked that Bezos' ex has already remarried AND divorced again. Who does that?
As much as I want to laugh at Jeff's behavior because of my overall, intense dislike of the man, I think there's a deeper disfunction at play here that's not limited to him and current choice of partner.
In a general sense about people 5k miles away, it doesn’t shock me. When it’s people I am close to, it does. I have read every horrible manosphere story out there and was terrified of marriage and divorce. My marriage isn’t perfect. When you have three little girls, it can be downright stressful but my wife and I are still very much in love. The little girl in the butterfly costume is my daughter.
My old buddy that most desperately wanted to be married AND actually managed to end up with a decent girl still couldn't make it work out. He completely cut me out of any explanation as to what was going on, as has always been his defense mechanism, but I get the impression she gradually got tired of his supplicating nature and wanted out. He's also seems to have doubled down on stupid and almost immediately started playing Brady Bunch with some single mom and their combined brood.
You seem a lot more self-aware and self-assured than that, so I think you stand a better chance than the average whiny manosphere simp. Maybe it still doesn't work out in the long run, but as long as you put in the work and always give it your best, you can take what life throws at you without regret.
Before I was with my wife, I was in love with a girl ( in a situation like your old buddy)and I was on the simpier side of that relationship. I wasn’t really getting what I wanted and complained about it to friends all the time. Most guys will stick around terrified that girl will break up with them. Hell, id seen that story a million times. For the first time in my life, I made the hard choice, sacked up, and broke up with her. She was shell shocked and I was heartbroken. Six months later I met the wife. My parents are still married. My wife’s parents are still married. I’m pretty sure that is the most reliable indicator of a long lasting marriage. Can’t really do anything about that if it’s your parents. No guarantee she doesn’t hate me after menopause…
I met my wife at an industry conference in Los Angeles in November 1989. When I saw her I knew I had to get to know her and it was more than a hook-up desire. I could tell it was deeper. How often do you meet a beautiful 28 year-old VTAM systems programmer?
We ended up in a long-distance relationship spanning Raleigh, NC and Findlay, OH. This was back in the days when long distance calls cost real money. After my second $800 monthly phone bill we decided we had to get closer together or end it.
We both changed jobs to relocate to Columbus where she had worked before. We have lived in four different states since then. So now I sit here thirty-four years later looking back on the life we have built together. It is based on trust, mutual respect, and communication. We have always made about the same amount of money so there was no resentment there. As I have posted, she is the source of all of the good in my life.
So, what's the moral of this story? You never know where and when you will meet the one. As you said you can put yourself into a position to improve the odds. The main thing is to recognize it when you have it and work hard to keep it.
I said we have built a life. It takes hard work and the willingness to fight through the rough times and the capacity to celebrate the good together.
I have a friend who is 3 months behind on rent for the barely one bedroom apartment above a pizza place he calls home. He drives around on a suspended license in his 2008 Altima with all four corners smashed but he when he is not attending supervised visits with his son he’s is out taking the pants off some (or maybe all of I don’t know) the hottest young trim in Upstate New York. How he manages to do that with a bank balance lower than his 550 score I’ll never understand but it’s all the evidence I need to dispel any idea that it takes money to fuck hot women.
I used to think the same when i started reading a certain auto writer about 15 years who got a lot of tail who was the same age i currently am. I can almost certainly confirm that auto writer wishes he had a couple more kids because he tells us all the time. Dont get me wrong, it is fun but its fleeting.
I went full returning prodigal son when I found out I was going to be a father. Now I tell young people on the internet all the shit I refused to listen to when I was their age. It's humorous in a meta way.
This is clearly supposed to be an open racing thread and MotoGP was a mixed bag this past weekend but the championship remains a close fight between Bagnaia and Martin.
In the sprint race Alex Marquez rocketed away from the pack and Jorge Martin finished 2nd ahead of Bagnaia's third to narrow the points lead to 13 points. A great deal of fighting further down the field and not too much wrecking drama outside of Honda hitting the 50 crashes this year mark. Enea Bastianini finally looked strong in a race after a season plagued by injury and finished 4th in the sprint.
Race day was an early fight between five riders who gradually separated out with big gaps betwixt. Enaea won (!) the race by a large margin over Alex Marquez. A. Marquez, likewise, was ahead of Bagnaia who had passed Martin fairly early and had a massive lead over Martin (who may have had front end feel or grip issues). The championship widened from this race to a yawning gap of 14 points.
2 sprints and 2 races to go mean Martin finishing 1-2 ahead of Bagnaia in all four would win by 2 points. Anything is possible.
And I'm supposed to be working right now, instead of writing comments on some forum that will no doubt be used as evidence by some revolutionary people's tribunal in ten years.
Also, if anyone is unaware what steroid body looks like, it’s bezos traps. Those are 100% steroid earned. I was deadlifting three plates (315 lbs) which isnt even a lot in the workout community a long time ago and i never had traps like that. Money might not get girls but being in fairly good shape absolutely helps. You dont need a six pack, just dont feel soft.
I was shocked and disappointed in my late 20s when I worked up to deadlifting and squatting fairly serious weights. I didn't look nearly as jacked as I would have hoped.
A youtube fitness channel I follow estimates at least 50% of even recreational lifters are on gear now.
Can't confirm - I lost motivation during covid and the the wheels really fell off my training plan when my son was born, so its been a while since I've seen the inside of a gym.
I had to Google "gear" in this context to make sure I was on the same page. Is that a recent term?
Earlier this year I worked my way back to college weight totals at age 59. But most of the definition and size in my upper body had already been gained from a long term chinning and dipping program. I tend towards the Barrel type, too.
I was always skinny. As a kid, being 6' 1'' 160lbs I thought of it as a curse - especially in Highschool and into early college (now in my 40s I think it's a blessing).
In my late 20s I too got into lifting. I was relatively strong and a healthier weight but was nowhere near as jacked as I thought I should be.
Got married, got a "career", got kids - and fell off lifting. Got it in my head again and decided that by 40 I would be "jacked". So 3 years ago, during Covid I got back to it.
Turning 41 (actually tomorrow) - and while I can put up even more weight than I did in my 20s - including a recent milestone of over 400lbs on *bench, I'm nowhere near as big as I thought I would be. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting The Rock here, but I thought I'd be bigger than Benzos. That shit is juice. So much of this world is fake.
Oh well, it is nice to just feel a lot better and to stave off injuries, plus keep up with the kids more.
"I’m holding up better, which is not a phrase I thought I’d ever use about anyone besides the fellow from Fargo who got put in the woodchipper and possibly Jerry Garcia."
My beard needed a trim and it has more than a touch of grey these days. Looking in the mirror, I said to myself, "Self, you look like Jerry." Then I remembered that I'm 68. Garcia was 53 when he died. He was a man of large appetites.
His doctor said it wasn't heroin that killed him, which was technically true as he died of a heart attack, the doc said it was the cheeseburgers and lack of self-discipline when he was using.
doc in england decades ago said heroin users who were just on a maintenance dose (which cost a couple dollars a week in the early '70s) had the same lifespan as non-users
How much the more so for Jimi Hendrix? Speaking of which, while I'm not thrilled that my son is into metal so hard that I don't consider it music, I am tickled that he agrees with me that that the Eddie Kramer produced First Rays of a New Rising Sun is the best Hendrix album even though Jimi didn't really make it.
A BGP documentary? I’ve read the book. It’s pretty matter of fact. No real magic aside from right place right time. I’ll watch the doc because that was my favorite season, but I’m not expecting anything exciting.
Married before I was self aware, had a child, decided I didn’t want any more children, strictly because if I couldn’t take it anymore, the child support wouldn’t bankrupt me, still married to same person, no romance. Have no idea what a house mom is.....
Life hasn’t been terrible, but if I had it to do over again I would be more discerning.
a few years back a billionaire car guy and i wound up at the same 6-person table with karen and his hot young lady. he remembered me but i didn't remember him! wife eventually says he has great taste in young women since he could afford anything. we find out she, besides taking care of him--don't wanna give him away by mentioning his problem--she has some med creds, a multi-engine rating to fly his plane, and is a computer expert--whatever that might mean. now that whole thing is a jackpot as far as i'm concerned!
Solid post. Answers questions about where to find and how to keep a wife.
gonna rawdog strangers now thx
If you want a spouse or even a gf, treat it like finding a full time job. Do your best to look presentable and send resumes to every place with an open position you qualifies for. It is work and it is hard work. Show your best qualities, hide your worst qualities. If your are a five, expect a five unless you have some quality that lets you level up (that quality is fame) a 7 who treats you well is worth more than a 9 that treats you like shit. We all age into looking like crap.
“We all age into looking like crap.”
But crucially “wits don’t sag”.
cant motorboat a sense of humor
You do not want to see what having children does to a set of knockers
correct
It is so unpredictable!
The only real solution is to replicate the machine learning process and experience thousands of them before and after, then draw conclusions.
you need to become the ai
It's inspiring at first and then later a bit of a let down
Those first twelve weeks of pregnancy with the first child were awesome. For me, not her.
"Stretch marks haven't ruined our bodies!"
"That's the spirit!"
None of it really bothers me. My wife isn’t fat and is more attractive than Bezos gf. She has stretch marks and saggy tits. She gave me three kids. It was worth it. That said, I’d fix the tits first.
Shea butter, lots and lots of shea butter lotion.
If they're still enjoyable, she lets you enjoy them, and she enjoys you enjoying them, how much does it actually matter?
We would both prefer them at pre baby height
“Every woman eventually grows into her tits” - My Dad
will marinate on this one for a bit
So confused
And every well-endowed woman eventually finds said hooters migrating south for the winter...
I should have listened to mine when he said that.
Oh, come on!
You know damn well your dad doesn't know shit until you're 40.
Mine have.
Will do, thanks for the heads up.
I always treated dating like door knocking when I sold vacuum cleaners.
I was always comfortable asking girls out (in person and online) and I’d usually set up a date every night of the week. Half wouldn’t need a follow up date, and the others would work themselves out over the coming weeks and months. Then I’d repeat.
Improved my social skills and tolerance for rejection. By the time I met my wife (on a sudsy dance floor at the bar during a foam party) she got added to the rotation and quickly rose to the top.
Been with her for 20 years now, married for 16.
Maintaining the relationship has been much more challenging than securing it; can’t really walk away from my fuck ups like I used to.
Old Dirty Bastard, who was known to like it raaaaawwwww, had seven children. From a strictly Darwinian viewpoint his short life was very successful.
Having no idea who Old Dirty Bastard was I immediately had to reference everyone's standby Wikipedia to learn said gentleman last performed just around the corner from the site of our own esteemed Host's last performance. Seeing how both personages also have a fondness for Insane Clown Posse I thought I should bring this to everyone's attention.
Jack is down with the clown??
What, this clown?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFoLv3bTLSc
no, this one
https://youtu.be/Pfcy15ZUE2c?feature=shared
Oh, of course!
I am not sure if he likes them or just likes pointing out that people who could not explain how a simple electric motor works (or build one, an even simpler task) are fond of saying that the line "fucking magnets, how do they work?" is stupid when in fact it is not really known how fucking magnets work.
I can't understand the music but i am fond of Faygo.
I was literally about to type "I'm reasonably sure he at least likes Faygo."
As for me, I don't understand the music or the community of Juggalos, but I love that they both exist.
Next summer can we do some boxing matches at your compound when we all come for the weekend camping trip for paid subscribers? Like an outdoors version of finer things club.
PS a lot of men seem to try to attract women the way that women try to attract men and wonder why it doesn’t work…like not long ago I told people on dating sites to look at every woman’s profile that you were remotely interested in and to not contact them first because online you have to let the woman chase for the dopamine hit. Then don’t post pictures with just you, women love group pictures for some reason and it d doesn’t scream lives in moms basement. Be unavailable, have hobbies and not seem needy is hard to teach a lot of people.
subscription fee is $100 but these hands are free of charge
We could build a barn for meetings like we’re Amish?
nah i want violence
Box in the barn after it’s built. Dan Peña does this with all his mentees.
sold
clearly you aren't imagining the violence that can be done with saws and hammers
I'd be down for building a barn... trouble is, Jack's already got one.
You must live in the city or suburbia, you can’t have too many barns on a farm
I figured Jack would say much the same, given the Tetris he had to play to get everything into the one he's got.
Yeah let's get another barn up.
Wait two hours to respond to texts. Is it stupid? Absolutely, but it works. And for everyone sake, TURN READ RECEIPTS OFF. (Double uppercase here) ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE MARRIED.
“ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE MARRIED”
I can’t emphasize (or like) this enough.
I have a buddy who has read receipts on and a wife who tracks the location of his phone. He couldn’t grab one drink at the bar with us after a group activity because she would track him. He’s a really good guy who is terrified his wife “will divorce me if I do that” if I was married to that, I’d welcome it! It is the couple that would surprise me and the wife the least if they got divorced.
Holy hell, that's really annoying.
It is as much on the man as it is on the woman. Our entire demise of the west is based on men who are too afraid to tell women “no”
This is the truest thing I've read all day.
Yup.
I'll get to that in my Blue Lightbulb series, many episodes from now. Only up to age three now.
I’m with you 1000%
I have little sympathy for dudes like that. Especially since my aversion towards women who act like that was gained the hard way.
In an environment with that lack of trust I don't know what his obligation to be trustworthy is.
It sounds like she is very confident in her location tracking. I'm turn, he could go anywhere and do anything he wanted, so long as his phone was in a plausible location.
or asked a friend headed out of town to take it with him...
Ha!
My wife has a tracker in my suitcase for 2 reasons. #1 she rarely remembers where I am traveling, and I get tired of answering the same question every week in a different city. #2 it's a suitcase filled with some clothes, but mostly tools for work. I prefer not to lose said suitcase, and I'm too lazy to figure out how those tracker things work.
That’s obviously different. You don’t carry your suitcase with you everywhere.
As a counterpoint to these comments, perhaps he’s done something to lose her trust. But it’s probably not.
He hasn't. She's always had him whipped and we've always given him shit for it.
The fact that read receipts are on by default makes me hate the tech world even more.
On the contrary, I leave them on for (almost) everyone.
Sometimes, the best response of all is silence, especially if they know you read their most recent missive immediately and concluded that it merited no response.
I’m talking about women here. You’re more successful than me in a different industry. I won’t advise you on that.
I mean it for EVERY relationship lol.
But usually there’s enough of a preview on the Lock Screen that you can tell what the total content will be (and whether it merits immediate response or putting it on ice).
I doubt anyone at my office has heard of Substack. Explaining why my face is bruised is not the kind of small talk I want to be making during coffee refills.
thats your cue to make up a badass story about how you got banged up
youll get mad hoes that way
That may be true, but I don't need a mad wife.
I tell people my--at this point, subtle--facial scar was a knife fight (“You shoulda seen the other guy.”)
Truth is, I lost a fight with a 2004 Cadillac Deville at the age of 16.
Were you on the inside or the outside?
Don’t explain.
Makes it even more fun.
Before games my high school soccer team would have a friendly fight "helmets and gloves" style to avoid unwanted visible dammage as a way to get amped up for the game. We would wear a hockey or lacrosse helmet and gloves. All the same head trauma, probably more, and none of the broken noses, black eyes or split lips.
Yeah why not. My experience suggests that I am a three round fighter at best.
Thank God I met my wife in college. She told me very early on “you and I are going to get married some day.” And like any red blooded straight male, I looked that pretty blonde in the eye and said “sounds great to me!”
mad jelly
You are of the age where you can still do this.
man i hope so
How old are you speed
late 20s but in college
I went back to college in my mid/late 20s. Definitely doable.
Full Disclosure: I opted to scale back my social calendar and stay on top of my classes. My objective was a better career, not a wife. Someone with better discipline can probably do both.
You're lucky to have her. She is very pretty and she is also proportioned in a way that doesnt make you look like a Shriner in the clown car. Women like that are vanishingly rare.
I recall Joe Rogan talking about Bezos and he mentioned "he's now with a super hot chick" or words to that effect. Don't see it myself.
Must have been some OTHER chick -- although I'm not surprised Rogan would see her as "hot", he comes from a demographic and experience that equates "hot" with "sex worker".
Ha!
I honestly don't think she looks that bad, especially at 53. I've seen far worse.
She looks like Caitlyn Jenner if he had a better plastic surgeon so the "super hot chick" was probably ironic.
It is possible Bezos could be on the podcast, or overlap socially, or be in a position to do a favor. Rogan is that big now.
Sometimes it is reflexive to say nice things about people in your circle or circle adjacent.
You'd think with all his money, Bezos could buy an actual fembot.
he could buy all of us a fembot
I thought about buying a friend who was down on his luck a real doll as a joke. It’s a good joke but it’s not 4k good!
Speed, I have to say and maybe I need new glasses, I was thinking she looked a lot like Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) not Caitlyn Jenner.
Dude looks like a lady
God damn it.
You beat me to it.
I actually thought the top post picture was a he-she posing with a guy in a cowboy hat. Jack always has ironic type photos at the beginning of the article so it seemed to check out
It is an homage to an iconic pic of Ralph Lauren and his wife - Ricky - presumably taken in Telluride.
Nah, you're on the money.
They're not that far apart, really.
You're not far off the mark.
Go to People magazine about her engagement party. Chris Jenner was there. Of course she was.
Jack's caption probably threw me off a bit, but I seriously thought the headline picture was from a country and western themed gay porn. Lady looks like a dude.
EIGHTEEN NAKED COWBOYS AT RAM RANCH
Rogan is a known dumpster pumper and bezos' squeeze looks like a tranny, so, yeah
Beat me to it!
This is why I don't work in PR.
I have no clue what a dumpster pumper is but it is hilarious. Comments like this are the icing on this site!
I honestly envy your innocence.
To your point, the first I ever head of Rogan was in the '90s when Howard played a clip of his routine, "Hey, ma, we're in the basement, liftin'. Leave us alone." With suitable bleeps to keep the FCC happy.
Google it.
A couple of not particularly profound thoughts on Lauren. 1) She actually was hot 20 years ago. She looked like she had good enough genes not to have to put her plastic surgeons kids through Harvard to look good in her 50s.
2) She has her helicopter pilots license. And, she owns her own helicopter. Now, I don't know what that really means, but to me, finding a girl with a helicopter license, and a helicopter to go with it, just made her a whole lot more interesting. Adventurous? Maybe? Forgiving of my own automotive excesses? Likely. But definitely more interesting than most women folk out there.
Finally, damn shame about all the plastic surgery.
Not letting your woman drive you unless youre drunk applies double to helicopters.
You’re on a roll tonight. Keep ‘em coming!
I can't find ANY woman named Lauren hot, because that's my sister's name.
Apparently she's also going to be going on one of his silly space flights. Jeff's pretty medically-enhanced looking, too, since he decided to stop looking like a complete schlub and do roids - which started long before he hooked up with her. And they're both originally from the same city, come from hispanic backgrounds, etc.
They certainly both seem to enjoy being publicly cringey as hell together, anyway.
If I can be charitable for a moment - isn't it possible these two might actually be a match? Would she have still left her better looking, still well-off and connected husband for him were he not the richest man in the world? Of course not. But that also doesn't mean it's not more than that, either.
Apparently Mr. Sanchez has gone on yacht trips with them... which makes me think that there's more going on than just conversation.
Plastic surgeons love plastic surgery because once you get it, you need to keep coming back. No one should ever get it unless they really NEED it.
One John Z. DeLorean got very good results.
Oh you can have fantastic results, just need to keep doing it. March of time kills it all
She looks good in the pic in the Vogue article where she's flying the helicopter. Maybe it's because she's relaxed and doing something she likes instead of trying to look 'hot.' I agree that she looks way too fake and plasticky in the others.
Let's get to what's important here -- I also like the cut of young Mackenzie Scott’s jib, but also current day Mackenzie. She looks better now than she did in the young picture, in my opinion, which is nice, as I am also older than I used to be.
Sanchez creeps me out.
It seems that Jeff Bezos has some perverse desire to give away another half of his fortune, when this upcoming magical union doesn't work out. Odd psychology at work here, as Jack details in the rest of the article, which came after that Mackenzie photo, which distracted me.
It shouldn't be overlooked that Bezos' ex has already remarried AND divorced again. Who does that?
As much as I want to laugh at Jeff's behavior because of my overall, intense dislike of the man, I think there's a deeper disfunction at play here that's not limited to him and current choice of partner.
She could have problems, or it could have been "The Rebound."
It is shocking how many wives loathe their husbands. My wife tells me about it all the time.
You and I are both old enough to no longer be shocked by this.
In a general sense about people 5k miles away, it doesn’t shock me. When it’s people I am close to, it does. I have read every horrible manosphere story out there and was terrified of marriage and divorce. My marriage isn’t perfect. When you have three little girls, it can be downright stressful but my wife and I are still very much in love. The little girl in the butterfly costume is my daughter.
My old buddy that most desperately wanted to be married AND actually managed to end up with a decent girl still couldn't make it work out. He completely cut me out of any explanation as to what was going on, as has always been his defense mechanism, but I get the impression she gradually got tired of his supplicating nature and wanted out. He's also seems to have doubled down on stupid and almost immediately started playing Brady Bunch with some single mom and their combined brood.
You seem a lot more self-aware and self-assured than that, so I think you stand a better chance than the average whiny manosphere simp. Maybe it still doesn't work out in the long run, but as long as you put in the work and always give it your best, you can take what life throws at you without regret.
Before I was with my wife, I was in love with a girl ( in a situation like your old buddy)and I was on the simpier side of that relationship. I wasn’t really getting what I wanted and complained about it to friends all the time. Most guys will stick around terrified that girl will break up with them. Hell, id seen that story a million times. For the first time in my life, I made the hard choice, sacked up, and broke up with her. She was shell shocked and I was heartbroken. Six months later I met the wife. My parents are still married. My wife’s parents are still married. I’m pretty sure that is the most reliable indicator of a long lasting marriage. Can’t really do anything about that if it’s your parents. No guarantee she doesn’t hate me after menopause…
Psychos, that's who.
I met my wife at an industry conference in Los Angeles in November 1989. When I saw her I knew I had to get to know her and it was more than a hook-up desire. I could tell it was deeper. How often do you meet a beautiful 28 year-old VTAM systems programmer?
We ended up in a long-distance relationship spanning Raleigh, NC and Findlay, OH. This was back in the days when long distance calls cost real money. After my second $800 monthly phone bill we decided we had to get closer together or end it.
We both changed jobs to relocate to Columbus where she had worked before. We have lived in four different states since then. So now I sit here thirty-four years later looking back on the life we have built together. It is based on trust, mutual respect, and communication. We have always made about the same amount of money so there was no resentment there. As I have posted, she is the source of all of the good in my life.
So, what's the moral of this story? You never know where and when you will meet the one. As you said you can put yourself into a position to improve the odds. The main thing is to recognize it when you have it and work hard to keep it.
I said we have built a life. It takes hard work and the willingness to fight through the rough times and the capacity to celebrate the good together.
This was a true pleasure to read. Thank you.
I have a friend who is 3 months behind on rent for the barely one bedroom apartment above a pizza place he calls home. He drives around on a suspended license in his 2008 Altima with all four corners smashed but he when he is not attending supervised visits with his son he’s is out taking the pants off some (or maybe all of I don’t know) the hottest young trim in Upstate New York. How he manages to do that with a bank balance lower than his 550 score I’ll never understand but it’s all the evidence I need to dispel any idea that it takes money to fuck hot women.
my hero
I used to think the same when i started reading a certain auto writer about 15 years who got a lot of tail who was the same age i currently am. I can almost certainly confirm that auto writer wishes he had a couple more kids because he tells us all the time. Dont get me wrong, it is fun but its fleeting.
Ain't that the truth.
One of the major joys I derive from ACF is witnessing an old roué get religion.
I went full returning prodigal son when I found out I was going to be a father. Now I tell young people on the internet all the shit I refused to listen to when I was their age. It's humorous in a meta way.
Because he's an utter sociopath with no conscience and no concept of consequences.
My kind of brother!
<strike through> kind of </strike through>
genuinely laughing so hard I'm shaking
You both understood the assignment.
Thanks jack
This is clearly supposed to be an open racing thread and MotoGP was a mixed bag this past weekend but the championship remains a close fight between Bagnaia and Martin.
In the sprint race Alex Marquez rocketed away from the pack and Jorge Martin finished 2nd ahead of Bagnaia's third to narrow the points lead to 13 points. A great deal of fighting further down the field and not too much wrecking drama outside of Honda hitting the 50 crashes this year mark. Enea Bastianini finally looked strong in a race after a season plagued by injury and finished 4th in the sprint.
Race day was an early fight between five riders who gradually separated out with big gaps betwixt. Enaea won (!) the race by a large margin over Alex Marquez. A. Marquez, likewise, was ahead of Bagnaia who had passed Martin fairly early and had a massive lead over Martin (who may have had front end feel or grip issues). The championship widened from this race to a yawning gap of 14 points.
2 sprints and 2 races to go mean Martin finishing 1-2 ahead of Bagnaia in all four would win by 2 points. Anything is possible.
Thank you for keeping us at least SLIGHTLY on task here!
Usually I can guess by how far I've scrolled when a MotoGP recap is about to come up. Somehow this week it caught me by surprise.
Yeah, "supposed to."
And I'm supposed to be working right now, instead of writing comments on some forum that will no doubt be used as evidence by some revolutionary people's tribunal in ten years.
Maybe. When the time comes, I will take my plan from Giles Corey in Miller's "The Crucible."
Yeah, he had the biggest stones in the room.
Figuratively and literally?
Aside: what does it say about Miller, that the most sympathetic character gets less than one scene? He wasn't Shaw, is my summary.
I haven't actually read it since high school.
Me either, as I'm certain that I have gotten from it all the good that I can.
Not forum. SECRET SOCIETY.
I propose we have robes and Ominous Latin Chanting at our First Principles meetings.
No flogging, though. I read further up we're going to be boxing, that will be enough.
The manly art of fisticuffs!
Be sure to wear your handlebar mustache!
Oh shit. I better start growing it. If I give it enough time I can get the full Sam Elliott-style broom 'stache!
Can't wait to break my hands AGAIN on all you tough bastards.
May as well go down in flames!
Also, if anyone is unaware what steroid body looks like, it’s bezos traps. Those are 100% steroid earned. I was deadlifting three plates (315 lbs) which isnt even a lot in the workout community a long time ago and i never had traps like that. Money might not get girls but being in fairly good shape absolutely helps. You dont need a six pack, just dont feel soft.
I was shocked and disappointed in my late 20s when I worked up to deadlifting and squatting fairly serious weights. I didn't look nearly as jacked as I would have hoped.
I should have worked more on my beach muscles.
The amount of guys on gear is staggering.
A youtube fitness channel I follow estimates at least 50% of even recreational lifters are on gear now.
Can't confirm - I lost motivation during covid and the the wheels really fell off my training plan when my son was born, so its been a while since I've seen the inside of a gym.
I had to Google "gear" in this context to make sure I was on the same page. Is that a recent term?
I think it’s an old term. My workout regime has taken a killing since kids and im trying to get back to it. I heard it imn2010 ish
Maybe the trick was a very low bodyfat percentage.
It’s that and gear.
There was a time where i could break a bike chain and pick up an engine by myself. I looked like myself only even more barrel shaped.
Earlier this year I worked my way back to college weight totals at age 59. But most of the definition and size in my upper body had already been gained from a long term chinning and dipping program. I tend towards the Barrel type, too.
like a BOSS
Same here.
I was always skinny. As a kid, being 6' 1'' 160lbs I thought of it as a curse - especially in Highschool and into early college (now in my 40s I think it's a blessing).
In my late 20s I too got into lifting. I was relatively strong and a healthier weight but was nowhere near as jacked as I thought I should be.
Got married, got a "career", got kids - and fell off lifting. Got it in my head again and decided that by 40 I would be "jacked". So 3 years ago, during Covid I got back to it.
Turning 41 (actually tomorrow) - and while I can put up even more weight than I did in my 20s - including a recent milestone of over 400lbs on *bench, I'm nowhere near as big as I thought I would be. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting The Rock here, but I thought I'd be bigger than Benzos. That shit is juice. So much of this world is fake.
Oh well, it is nice to just feel a lot better and to stave off injuries, plus keep up with the kids more.
*Power-Tec Lever Bench
You just need to look like you care about yourself and your own appearance to some degree. Don’t be sloppy.
"I’m holding up better, which is not a phrase I thought I’d ever use about anyone besides the fellow from Fargo who got put in the woodchipper and possibly Jerry Garcia."
My beard needed a trim and it has more than a touch of grey these days. Looking in the mirror, I said to myself, "Self, you look like Jerry." Then I remembered that I'm 68. Garcia was 53 when he died. He was a man of large appetites.
guess thats why he got his own flavour of ice cream named after him
His doctor said it wasn't heroin that killed him, which was technically true as he died of a heart attack, the doc said it was the cheeseburgers and lack of self-discipline when he was using.
Perhaps he should have kept kosher!
didnt know they made kosher heroin
Kosher heroin costs twice as much.
oy vey
doc in england decades ago said heroin users who were just on a maintenance dose (which cost a couple dollars a week in the early '70s) had the same lifespan as non-users
I doubt that because that maintenance dose keeps going up
It's like those guys who say they're just gonna smoke the heroin. They always end up shooting up
99% maybe. I'm the 1%; tried it, very nice, but it obviously comes at the price of the rest of you life. No thanks.
Also, Jerry wasn't doing street heroin like what killed Mike Bloomfield (perhaps an early fentanyl death).
https://www.theonion.com/biden-chokes-up-while-describing-hardworking-americans-1819579072
I can't decide if Bloomfield's death was an insane tragedy or the best way of preserving his legacy. The same is sadly true of Jaco.
How much the more so for Jimi Hendrix? Speaking of which, while I'm not thrilled that my son is into metal so hard that I don't consider it music, I am tickled that he agrees with me that that the Eddie Kramer produced First Rays of a New Rising Sun is the best Hendrix album even though Jimi didn't really make it.
Dying tragically young is always a good career move for an artist.
And sued Ben and Jerry, or his handlers did.
Since Flavio is a personal hero of mine I'll take that as enough F1 content for a Wed.
In looking forward to a review of Keanu's documentary about Pinky and the Brain, er Button and Brawn.
A BGP documentary? I’ve read the book. It’s pretty matter of fact. No real magic aside from right place right time. I’ll watch the doc because that was my favorite season, but I’m not expecting anything exciting.
Married before I was self aware, had a child, decided I didn’t want any more children, strictly because if I couldn’t take it anymore, the child support wouldn’t bankrupt me, still married to same person, no romance. Have no idea what a house mom is.....
Life hasn’t been terrible, but if I had it to do over again I would be more discerning.
Sorry to hear that, Joe.
I have a dog and some cats, no worries
Yeah, I had a great dog too. But on the third try I've finally got a great lady in my life. And everything is better.
a few years back a billionaire car guy and i wound up at the same 6-person table with karen and his hot young lady. he remembered me but i didn't remember him! wife eventually says he has great taste in young women since he could afford anything. we find out she, besides taking care of him--don't wanna give him away by mentioning his problem--she has some med creds, a multi-engine rating to fly his plane, and is a computer expert--whatever that might mean. now that whole thing is a jackpot as far as i'm concerned!
"Escaped zoo walrus."
Perhaps THAT is the legendary tenth Inherently Hilarious Thing!