No doubt. If you have someone on your tail going into a corner, they may think you are slow, but they will also think you are all in. Very easy to be nerfed off the track if you think too much.
To succeed at just about anything, one has to keep focused on the goal and have faith in oneself. At the same time, there's a reason why we teach kids the story about Icarus.
If one is going to *live* on the edge, one has to keep from going over the edge.
America has a weird way of celebrating its Playboys until they become problematic. Then everything they ever stood for and were encouraged to do is wrong. I personally hate everything.
W.C. Fields once gave out as a Christmas gift a large leather bound book which was embossed on the front in gold letters declaring “Places Where I Am Not Wanted—W.C. Fields”. Inside was the Los Angeles phone book.
Computers and the internet had such potential. Now I ask real people "Hey do you know a mechanic, plumber, electrician, etc" cause some asshole corp who can't do shit makes sure they end up on the top of the search engines which have turned into complete shit.. I searched for something simple the other day and google found 0 results. Zero. I must have broke the algorithm
While I agree, we shouldn’t be accepting of womanizers in society. In a sane time, the dads would have strung him up years ago. We also shouldn’t accept whores.
I’m sure that in the circles Brand moved in back then his reputation preceded him. I’ll also bet that most if not all of his partners made themselves quite readily available. Why would Brand even make any effort if they were just lined up waiting? Effort just gets in the way and why expend the energy if it’s not necessary?
When you sleep with loose women, you eventually find yourself in the situation that Brand is in. You know why Tucker Carlson isn't in this situation? He wifed up at 24 and grew up. Get married young, stay faithful, and you will likely never run into this problem. Unless you try and get on the supreme court.
Remember how Ned Flanders was 60 but looked half that because of clean living, and how Homer lamented that Ned had never actually lived a day in his life?
Nah. Flanders was fine. The degenerate hollywood writers want you to think living a good clean life is wrong. It is not. That said, I drink, smoke the occasional square and have done a couple different recreational drugs in my life. But heck, even Jesus drank. The drugs? Skip those.
"I've slept with 200 men but this guy touched my boob at the wrong time" Cry me a river. Porn stars who were paid to have sex on camera have complained "He went too far!" You are literally a whore lady! That's your job. We live in Gomorrah
See, one could make the case that if a woman's been with more than a dozen men in her life, she's a whore by nature and has abdicated the right to complain about being mistreated.
I don't care what the "Men Are Dogs" and "Women Are Hypergamous Sluts" guys say admiringly about promiscuity, humans are wired to have one long-term sexual partner in their lives.
The teenage boy who gets burned by his crush and decides Never Again, Better Villain Than Victim and the girl who Uses Her Feminine Wiles to get what she wants are both wrong.
The writer of the article straight up says she went through hundreds of hours of interviews and apparently contacted as many women hes had contact with as she could. How is this not the journalistic equivalent of entrapment? If you talk to enough people about anyone you will eventually find someone willing to say something bad about them, to say nothing of a self-admittedly promiscuous celebrity. Do people really underestimate what will be done for a bit of ephemeral fame or money? It astounds me(but not really) that people dont see right through this. It’s been a clever game they’ve played - when you spend years proclaiming the nobility of victimhood, its very easy to find victims when they suit your purposes.
If you called the last 20 women with whom I've had sex, five of them would tell you they watched me skin a live cat with a rusty butter knife. It's insane.
The revolution is successful, but survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives means slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered. Signed, Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV. „
Especially if they were paid by the DNC to say you skinned that cat. Good thing you're probably not going to be nominated to the Supreme Court anytime soon. Though I'd say you belong on the Supreme Court much more than John Fetterman belongs in the Senate.
Fetterman's shining accomplishment so far is being a poster boy for Beyond Business Casual. I fail to see considering he has handlers to lead him by a leash, how he can't dress up. There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag and then go "What!!!???!!! You got a problem with that!!!??" But, that might open the door for that kind of stuff on the regular.
I'll never forget watching him on a TV interview with some friends and one saying "I don't like that guy, he always looks so weird and doesn't move his body, can't trust him." Then we told him that he was paralyzed... There's really no excuses for Fetterman other than Dems wanting to rub it in
My favorite part is they exempted senators from the dress code but staff members have to abide by it. Kinda reminds me of Congress and insider trading laws.
Man, this Fetterman thing with the Senate dress code is so unbelievably embarrassing for us. It’s not even like he’s dressed casually but nicely, it’s like he is going out of his way to look slovenly. The contempt is the point, I suppose.
I admire the skill and talent of some tattoo artists, but I'll be really happy when the tat thing is over. No woman's looks have ever been improved by more ink than a small butterfly on her boob or butt.
The whole Fetterman thing is a rouse. Y’all know he’s never worked a day in his life, right? It’s all a cosplay at being an ironworker. The rich imitating the poor so they can take control of the poor.
I think he has to serve a certain amount of time before they can have him step down for health reasons and the Democrat governor can appoint a replacement without the need for an election.
I think Jack talking about how many women he's slept with is a bit uncouth but when arguing with the Reddit crowd, having some success with women is a real thing. These people have absolutely zero idea how "consensual" sex between adults works. Nothing is verbalized IRL. To be a bit uncouth myself, I'd estimate the wife and I have had sex north of 1000 times in the last 6 years. The amount of times we've had "Verbal consent" has been zero. It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic. It's a game and we really shouldn't be getting instructions on how the game works from people who have never played it. And yes, men are judged by the company of the women they keep.
Agreed. It shouldn’t be. Promiscuous sex ruins men too. I’m not going to be too harsh on jack considering I made the exact same mistakes and just got a little luckier. My goal is to encourage my daughters to have their own kids. The “wild oats” thing is bullshit. Get married. Have babies. The religious people have it right.
I, logically, accept that the religious girls and guys I knew from the homeschool co-op will likely be happier, in the long run, than any of the SSRI-addled artists and sweet but slutty sorority girls that I’ve banged, or even myself. They’re learning trades, making babies at 20, and not terminally online. I certainly have nicer material possessions, and my future novel will be better than theirs could dream of being, but in a way I envy them. The St. Augustine quip of “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!” Made an appearance in a class this semester. Plays in my head often now.
I'm not trying to do that. I dont think of myself as someone with a lot of partners. I've owned more cars than I've had girlfriends. My brother once did in a year what I've done in 36 years. I'm not trying to lord anything over anyone in that regard.
Maybe I completely missed the intent, this being the internet, but if people like Brownell or the reddit crowd are particularly daft about consent to this degree, yes, it's a very important and sensitive issue, but sure there is another way to make the point. This is more me thinking out loud.
>It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic.
I dunno about this. In my younger days I rather liked this approach after opening a nice young woman. Cept it was usually when the casual flirty conversation started to wane, I'd say "so you wanna go fool around?" And they often did. I recall one time sitting on a couch next to a girl in senior high school year and after chatting a bit, I asked her if she wanted to have sex. She said yes, but not right here. Well yes, dear. Like my one degenerate buddy used to say, "just ask em, it's 50/50 yes or no!" Some of our odds are better than others.
These days with the wife are considerably less consensual. It's just more fun for the both of us.
The consent people want every move to be explicit. Flirty “wanna fool around” is not the same as while fooling around. “ can I penetrate you now? Can I touch your boob now?” These people are insane. I wish I could find the “consent is sexy” video. Is horrifying
Using sex assault allegations to undermine opposition is part of the women’s studies playbook, and has been taught on college campuses for at least 30 years. Rape has been defined down to “I had a drink that night” or “I affirmatively consented at the time, but changed my mind later.” Go ask a Ukrainian POW what actual rape is like.
Just like how in divorces, it's a standard tactic for the soon-to-be-ex-wife to accuse her husband of sexually abusing the kids, for no better reason than to get leverage in the custody battle.
Give her full custody. She'll be begging for you to take the kids within a month. What women think they want and what women actually want are very different. My wife and I have a running joke "Whoever leaves has to take the kids" We love them but doing it alone would be rough.
I think that's an exaggeration, in the sense that "standard" sounds like it's a common occurrence. It is common enough, however, that a lot of family law judges these days reject the charge out of hand because the vast majority of charges of molestation when there is a divorce involved have proven to be false.
Would someone please help out an Englishman struggling with some cultural references here? What does "redpill a lot of fence-sitter/Gray Tribe/casual tankie types" mean? I know what fence-sitter means, but is Gray Tribe just old boomers (er, like me) and wtf are casual tankies? Here a "tankie" is a left-winger who still supported the Soviet Union after they sent the tanks into Czechoslovakia (they still exist, truly - but one could never call them casual with that belief set). Much as I love this site I do sometimes get a bit lost!
You're more or less on point. We have "casual tankies" in the USA who cosplay at being Commies but who would be the first ones up against the wall if Tito came back.
Long indeed it is, particularly for a grasshopper like me. But thank you - I have even forwarded it to my children, which is as high as a compliment can get, imho.
Red Pill is a term from the Matrix movie. Take the red pill and the scales fall from your eyes. It's current usage is men that don't believe women are sugar and spice and everything nice, and given a chance would cut out your liver in the middle of the night to sell it. Then call the cops to say you hit her while you were trying to protect yourself.
I confess I have never seen the Matrix. It came out when my children were tiny, so a bit of cultural reference just glided past me. Now that my hair is silver and dragons no longer roam the earth, I shall put it on my list.
That Twilight zone episode where the kids controls everything except the kid is bitter middle aged cat ladies. I'm not saying everyone has to have children but chicks who don't seem to lose it in their forties.
If a woman doesn't have children by 30 she will go crazy for violating her prime directive. Same if no grandchildren by menopause. This explains most of our current issues in politics and the corporate world.
If reports are to be believed, Yuki and Danny boy will be announced as being brought back at Suzuka. This ends up with a rather sticky situation for Lawson who seems incredibly and humble compared to what I expected given even how he looks and dresses. (I know I'm not supposed to judge, but he does look like he'd be a douche... instead he's quickly becoming one of my favorite drivers by just how business like he seems.)
A few rumors have that Williams is knocking trying to get Liam some seat time before Checo's contract is up. Not sure how true that is, but loaning him out to see what he is really made of would make some sort of sense. I have to keep reminding myself that Sergio isn't young anymore. He's got a lot of races under his belt. And, for once, Max didn't see bored this weekend. The challenge returned to driving a less than perfect car. Or rather, the challenge returned to driving a car with more clear flaws.
But, but, but Sargeant is a Yank, and he's a poster boy in the US for F1 racing. F1 needs him. The only reason people watch in the US is because of him.
I don't have Netflix but did have access when visiting my sister about a month ago. So, I turned on some of the episodes of DTS. "WTF!?" were my thoughts. If that's what's selling F1 in the US, the ones that are watching it in the US because of that, had better be more interested in F1 without DTS than with it. I thought it was incredibly stupid. Maybe DTS got you to watch. If you need DTS to stayed interested you will drop F1 somewhere in the next few years.
Don't get me started with the Bachelor whatever shows. Whenever I'm stuck viewing them I fell like HAL 9000 having my memory modules pulled. "Daisy, Daissssyyyyyyyy....."
My sister years ago was visiting with her oldest when Meghan and Harry tied the knot. He and I were making sport of the TV coverage. She got pissed big time. Today though, she denies any knowledge of that.
Women love drama. I'll get caught up in some of my wifes crap when she's watching it "This is really fucking stupid but I see why you can't look away" Train wrecks.
When I was married, my ex and I would sometimes disagree about what to watch on television. I'd want to watch the Red Wings play hockey and she'd want to watch something like St. Elsewhere or NYPD Blue. I'd tell her, "You want drama? There are at least 200 people in NYC and LA that know exactly how that show will turn out. Nobody knows who' going to win the hockey game. That's dramatic."
Came here to say this. I’ll also add that I hope we see Yuki and Lawson paired at AT next year. It would be fun to see two young talents competing for a seat at the big team come 2025. Ricardo’s time in F1 as far as I’m concerned should be up. I’m sure he’d have zero problems getting a plum factory hypercar seat in WEC if he made himself available.
Fat Brad is back! At Jalopy-necks. Looks like he started Cheeto-dusting his keyboard again on September 11th.
How do I break away from a decade long habit of thinking it is a site worth a daily visit? "Stop Calling Shawn Fain a 'Union Boss'" articles edge me closer, but the eroded promise of some unique insight or story about the auto world still presses me on.
Open thread, therefore super random question. Is there a way to improve reading speed? Mine is the same as speech. I don't move my lips, however. Lots of books to read out there, would like to get through them quicker.
I have no advice to offer, I was a fast reader by the time I was three years old. It was the whole "getting along with other humans" that has always stymied me.
I'm probably not as fast as you but I'm definitely faster than most which is a blast when I have to do continuing education and I can get through the 8 hour material in half the time but they put a little timer on it that won't let me.
I’ve had that happen on sites that require you to read the Privacy Policy or other such legal gobbledygook that basically says that you’re giving away your great-grandchild’s firstborn--you have to actually scroll through all 1,500 pages of it before you can check the box to consent to aforementioned anal searches without lubrication!
I have a theory on this. Ask my wife I have a theory on everything. I learned to read early but was taught reading in school using flash cards where you learned words by sight, rather than phonetically. It’s a longer process. It takes much longer to read words phonetically. My advice is to read more and your speed will improve. That’s what worked for me as I have to evaluate new word phonetically. Once I know them I am much faster.
My 11 year old grandson howled in delight when I told him how a man knows he's too fat, partly because it was funny, but mostly because I told him an adult joke.
BTW, I sometimes see couples that are both pretty big and wonder how the parts fit.
Look up Bionic Reading. I have always read quickly but can go even faster and still comprehend with that format. That said, I don’t need to read any faster so I don’t use it.
look at the bottom of the words at three spots per line. but it's fun to 'hear' thewords by reading each one. you should be able to do about 1 line/sec.
Sigh, here we go again. Brendan O'Neill had a good column at Spiked the other day that discussed the Death of Skepticism. My favorite retort to the "Believe all women!" cadre from a few years back was "You mean like Susan Smith?"
Funny how Hunter’s hookers haven’t been tracked down. Probably because they’re the only people in Biden World who made a legitimate business transaction.
If you wrote fiction saying that the president's son got a pass from the IRS and DoJ for trying to write off hookers and cocaine on his taxes, it'd be considered too outlandish to believe, even for fiction. Somewhere, Wilbur Mills is shaking his head.
I used to follow Brand, quit for no particular reason. I and others would always comment "They are coming to get you. You need a 2nd platform". Ultimately he did, "Rumble", and now YouTube has demonetized him.
The mere fact he questions the narrative and the fact he is willing to listen to people makes him a threat.
He is still a scumbag. I dont agree with the cancelling but I’m not shedding any tears because they got to russel brand ba all the normies sitting in prison for violating the narrative.
Russell's book, "Revolution", is an interesting read. Parts of it are indicative of long-term drug use, but overall, he has something to say worth hearing. Not everyone agrees, of course.
I enjoy Max dunking on Lewis and I hope it will continue.
I enjoy anybody dunking on Louis hey
I’m no literary scholar but I’m sensing your use of the modifier ‘Princess’ is less than complementary. What is it you don’t like about Russell?
That's what Max called him -- I think it's funny and appropriate, he comes off as being such a toff.
He believes people should just move over for him, which implies delusions of Royalty. Max is an asshole, but he was spot on.
They all believe that...
They all do. Grojsean always thought he was Ferrari material.
You have to.
You have to believe you're a golden god.
Because otherwise the car will intimidate you into a casket.
No doubt. If you have someone on your tail going into a corner, they may think you are slow, but they will also think you are all in. Very easy to be nerfed off the track if you think too much.
Why is it that so many things require a man to be a complete and utter douche?
To succeed at just about anything, one has to keep focused on the goal and have faith in oneself. At the same time, there's a reason why we teach kids the story about Icarus.
If one is going to *live* on the edge, one has to keep from going over the edge.
Plus, he’s just so pretty!!!
Truly is. Looks like someone who would play an F1 driver in a movie
America has a weird way of celebrating its Playboys until they become problematic. Then everything they ever stood for and were encouraged to do is wrong. I personally hate everything.
A brief list of things I hate:
1. Everything
Can confirm.
You forgot to add #2: everyone.
You both sound like fun.
I am an effervescent embodiment of joyousness.
Don't tell my wife she won't believe you.
I tell mine "I am a ray of sunshine." She laughs at me.
A dog is man's best friend. Women know better.
They are!
Actually I hate parties, too.
W.C. Fields once gave out as a Christmas gift a large leather bound book which was embossed on the front in gold letters declaring “Places Where I Am Not Wanted—W.C. Fields”. Inside was the Los Angeles phone book.
Brilliant! 😂😂
A man of culture.
"Did they ask you to come back?"
"No, they dared us."
"What's a phone book?" - Everyone born after 1992.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Julius Henry Marx
#3: Computers.
Computers and the internet had such potential. Now I ask real people "Hey do you know a mechanic, plumber, electrician, etc" cause some asshole corp who can't do shit makes sure they end up on the top of the search engines which have turned into complete shit.. I searched for something simple the other day and google found 0 results. Zero. I must have broke the algorithm
We turned our world over to a machine that only a few of us truly understand, and hope for the best.
We're one Nork EMP away from The Road Warrior.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villain.
Old rape claims are unfalsifiable, ergo unscientific.
Let's say the allegations are ture. Those women knew what they were getting into.
Another case of Regret Not Rape.
While I agree, we shouldn’t be accepting of womanizers in society. In a sane time, the dads would have strung him up years ago. We also shouldn’t accept whores.
No, we shouldn't.
We should be asking these women why they didn't come forward immediately after the incident.
They are lieing. I have no idea how to spell that
They may be lying about the laying.
I’m sure that in the circles Brand moved in back then his reputation preceded him. I’ll also bet that most if not all of his partners made themselves quite readily available. Why would Brand even make any effort if they were just lined up waiting? Effort just gets in the way and why expend the energy if it’s not necessary?
When you sleep with loose women, you eventually find yourself in the situation that Brand is in. You know why Tucker Carlson isn't in this situation? He wifed up at 24 and grew up. Get married young, stay faithful, and you will likely never run into this problem. Unless you try and get on the supreme court.
Remember how Ned Flanders was 60 but looked half that because of clean living, and how Homer lamented that Ned had never actually lived a day in his life?
You can't win.
Nah. Flanders was fine. The degenerate hollywood writers want you to think living a good clean life is wrong. It is not. That said, I drink, smoke the occasional square and have done a couple different recreational drugs in my life. But heck, even Jesus drank. The drugs? Skip those.
"I've slept with 200 men but this guy touched my boob at the wrong time" Cry me a river. Porn stars who were paid to have sex on camera have complained "He went too far!" You are literally a whore lady! That's your job. We live in Gomorrah
See, one could make the case that if a woman's been with more than a dozen men in her life, she's a whore by nature and has abdicated the right to complain about being mistreated.
I don't care what the "Men Are Dogs" and "Women Are Hypergamous Sluts" guys say admiringly about promiscuity, humans are wired to have one long-term sexual partner in their lives.
The teenage boy who gets burned by his crush and decides Never Again, Better Villain Than Victim and the girl who Uses Her Feminine Wiles to get what she wants are both wrong.
Doesn't statute of limitations apply,, or is that another quaint and obsolete concept?
The writer of the article straight up says she went through hundreds of hours of interviews and apparently contacted as many women hes had contact with as she could. How is this not the journalistic equivalent of entrapment? If you talk to enough people about anyone you will eventually find someone willing to say something bad about them, to say nothing of a self-admittedly promiscuous celebrity. Do people really underestimate what will be done for a bit of ephemeral fame or money? It astounds me(but not really) that people dont see right through this. It’s been a clever game they’ve played - when you spend years proclaiming the nobility of victimhood, its very easy to find victims when they suit your purposes.
I call it getting Kavanagh’d.
If you called the last 20 women with whom I've had sex, five of them would tell you they watched me skin a live cat with a rusty butter knife. It's insane.
Hell hath no fury... which is a pretty stupid way to run a legal system.
Like a woman scorned for Sega
The Dreamcast was pretty awesome...
I don’t think he’s in legal trouble, only under threat of never earning another penny.
This is the shot across the bow. They’ll absolutely Weinstein him if they have to.
Legal system? We run a country that way.
Ok, Did you?
The only thing I've ever done to a cat with a knife was cut up an Outback filet for my five indoor kittens!
No rules, just right!
The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.
The revolution is successful, but survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives means slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered. Signed, Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV. „
Put a vid of that on your Insta and it'll do NUMBERS
And if you were just a bit more famous, it might be double that! Luckily a cursory glance at your IG tells us youre not capable of such atrocities.
Especially if they were paid by the DNC to say you skinned that cat. Good thing you're probably not going to be nominated to the Supreme Court anytime soon. Though I'd say you belong on the Supreme Court much more than John Fetterman belongs in the Senate.
Which John Fetterman? There's 4 of them
And between the 4 they can’t get out 1 intelligible sentence.
The Pennsyltucky Orc.
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-are-people-making-memes-about-john-fettermans-body-double-thats-not-john-fetterman-jokes-explained
I may use that to piss some people off.
Fetterman's shining accomplishment so far is being a poster boy for Beyond Business Casual. I fail to see considering he has handlers to lead him by a leash, how he can't dress up. There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag and then go "What!!!???!!! You got a problem with that!!!??" But, that might open the door for that kind of stuff on the regular.
Never saw Charles Krauthammer wearing a hoodie.
I'll never forget watching him on a TV interview with some friends and one saying "I don't like that guy, he always looks so weird and doesn't move his body, can't trust him." Then we told him that he was paralyzed... There's really no excuses for Fetterman other than Dems wanting to rub it in
8 years ago when our President was of sound mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkr-lePr7jA&ab_channel=BlazeTV
My favorite part is they exempted senators from the dress code but staff members have to abide by it. Kinda reminds me of Congress and insider trading laws.
Or NYC Met Galas where the elites weren't masked up and the "Help" had black masks on. Might as well have gone all in and dressed them in Gimp suits.
>>There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag
C'mon man. Hasn't worked for Susan Collins this whole time...
I still say that Congressmen should have to dress like the Hamburglar.
I support this idea 100%
How about this?
https://sport.woot.com/offers/rasta-imposta-genie-in-the-lamp-costume-1?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&ref=mwj_cd_deal_9&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=9ee08316587511ee807e00890a82b824&utm_source=Slickdeals+LLC
Or orange jumpsuits
Man, this Fetterman thing with the Senate dress code is so unbelievably embarrassing for us. It’s not even like he’s dressed casually but nicely, it’s like he is going out of his way to look slovenly. The contempt is the point, I suppose.
“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”
-Tom Ford
The grave of Sen. Robert C. Byrd is quaking at the news of US Senators schlubbing around in sweatpants.
And the tatts!
I admire the skill and talent of some tattoo artists, but I'll be really happy when the tat thing is over. No woman's looks have ever been improved by more ink than a small butterfly on her boob or butt.
Fetterman is Schumer's golem.
Nah, the golem protected the community. Look up the original story concerning the Maharal of Prague.
By the way, in my grandparent's Litvak Yiddish, "geilem" was a term of disparagement for someone who had all the brains of an idol made of clay.
The whole Fetterman thing is a rouse. Y’all know he’s never worked a day in his life, right? It’s all a cosplay at being an ironworker. The rich imitating the poor so they can take control of the poor.
MBA from University of Connecticut, MPP from Harvard. “Worked” for dad until dad bought him that town.
He comes across as a halfwit thug with the morals of a sewer rat. Which is his act. Because that's how they see us.
I think he has to serve a certain amount of time before they can have him step down for health reasons and the Democrat governor can appoint a replacement without the need for an election.
I've never thought of you as a half-wit thug, but the morals... well...
kidding
His Mrs. is a piece of work, too. I bet she thinks Eva Peron is a role model.
Absolutely true!
And why are you so intent on talking up these encounters as something worth Lording over the Brownells of the world? Ew..
I think Jack talking about how many women he's slept with is a bit uncouth but when arguing with the Reddit crowd, having some success with women is a real thing. These people have absolutely zero idea how "consensual" sex between adults works. Nothing is verbalized IRL. To be a bit uncouth myself, I'd estimate the wife and I have had sex north of 1000 times in the last 6 years. The amount of times we've had "Verbal consent" has been zero. It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic. It's a game and we really shouldn't be getting instructions on how the game works from people who have never played it. And yes, men are judged by the company of the women they keep.
I can agree with that on the consent part. I'm just annoyed that quantity is used as some sort of trophy to lord over people.
Reminds me of that one episode of MTV Cribs where some rapper bragged about having 30 cars.
At least half were Cavaliers and Grand Ams.
Insert P.o.n.t.I.a.c. Joke here
I have absolutely fucked a few Sunfires and (under)Achievas.
https://www.theonion.com/report-many-rappers-may-suffer-from-unrealistically-hi-1819564937
Agreed. It shouldn’t be. Promiscuous sex ruins men too. I’m not going to be too harsh on jack considering I made the exact same mistakes and just got a little luckier. My goal is to encourage my daughters to have their own kids. The “wild oats” thing is bullshit. Get married. Have babies. The religious people have it right.
You're dead right on all counts.
How many times can you rip the tape off before it won't stick anymore?
I, logically, accept that the religious girls and guys I knew from the homeschool co-op will likely be happier, in the long run, than any of the SSRI-addled artists and sweet but slutty sorority girls that I’ve banged, or even myself. They’re learning trades, making babies at 20, and not terminally online. I certainly have nicer material possessions, and my future novel will be better than theirs could dream of being, but in a way I envy them. The St. Augustine quip of “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!” Made an appearance in a class this semester. Plays in my head often now.
I'm not trying to do that. I dont think of myself as someone with a lot of partners. I've owned more cars than I've had girlfriends. My brother once did in a year what I've done in 36 years. I'm not trying to lord anything over anyone in that regard.
Maybe I completely missed the intent, this being the internet, but if people like Brownell or the reddit crowd are particularly daft about consent to this degree, yes, it's a very important and sensitive issue, but sure there is another way to make the point. This is more me thinking out loud.
>It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic.
I dunno about this. In my younger days I rather liked this approach after opening a nice young woman. Cept it was usually when the casual flirty conversation started to wane, I'd say "so you wanna go fool around?" And they often did. I recall one time sitting on a couch next to a girl in senior high school year and after chatting a bit, I asked her if she wanted to have sex. She said yes, but not right here. Well yes, dear. Like my one degenerate buddy used to say, "just ask em, it's 50/50 yes or no!" Some of our odds are better than others.
These days with the wife are considerably less consensual. It's just more fun for the both of us.
The consent people want every move to be explicit. Flirty “wanna fool around” is not the same as while fooling around. “ can I penetrate you now? Can I touch your boob now?” These people are insane. I wish I could find the “consent is sexy” video. Is horrifying
Ill try it and report back.
More proof they're not normal or healthy human beings.
They're all damaged in some way.
Doesn't that say more, Jack, about you? 🤔
Only that I tend to inspire strong reactions in people!
Assuming you haven't been celibate since your latest nuptials, a simple reading of that would include your wife.
So did you gather them all together to watch you skin one cat or did you do it five separate times?
Did it on Zoom
Using sex assault allegations to undermine opposition is part of the women’s studies playbook, and has been taught on college campuses for at least 30 years. Rape has been defined down to “I had a drink that night” or “I affirmatively consented at the time, but changed my mind later.” Go ask a Ukrainian POW what actual rape is like.
They are indeed insufferable. Surely nothing will come of this mentality.
Except the conviction of innocent men.
Good thing that hasn't happened!
Never!
Just like how in divorces, it's a standard tactic for the soon-to-be-ex-wife to accuse her husband of sexually abusing the kids, for no better reason than to get leverage in the custody battle.
Give her full custody. She'll be begging for you to take the kids within a month. What women think they want and what women actually want are very different. My wife and I have a running joke "Whoever leaves has to take the kids" We love them but doing it alone would be rough.
I think that's an exaggeration, in the sense that "standard" sounds like it's a common occurrence. It is common enough, however, that a lot of family law judges these days reject the charge out of hand because the vast majority of charges of molestation when there is a divorce involved have proven to be false.
Would someone please help out an Englishman struggling with some cultural references here? What does "redpill a lot of fence-sitter/Gray Tribe/casual tankie types" mean? I know what fence-sitter means, but is Gray Tribe just old boomers (er, like me) and wtf are casual tankies? Here a "tankie" is a left-winger who still supported the Soviet Union after they sent the tanks into Czechoslovakia (they still exist, truly - but one could never call them casual with that belief set). Much as I love this site I do sometimes get a bit lost!
I think the "Grey Tribe" are centrists, like how "Blue Tribe" people are Democrats.
Australians call old folk in camper vans "grey nomads" which I think is a great image.
And they all seem to travel at 50mph, towing their acoustically transparent excrement boxes.
Tru dat!
Tankies is a term for communist, it's a little tongue in cheek here.
Speed has Grey Tribe, referencing slatestarcodex's work originally, I think.
You're more or less on point. We have "casual tankies" in the USA who cosplay at being Commies but who would be the first ones up against the wall if Tito came back.
Gray Tribe is explained here, but it's long: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
*sent to goli otok to make sand from rocks is more accurate in Tito’s case
Long indeed it is, particularly for a grasshopper like me. But thank you - I have even forwarded it to my children, which is as high as a compliment can get, imho.
"tankies" was originally used for Communist Party of Great Britain members who supported the Soviet's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Seven Days of Freedom by Barber should be required reading.
https://archive.org/details/sevendaysoffreed0000barb/
Red Pill is a term from the Matrix movie. Take the red pill and the scales fall from your eyes. It's current usage is men that don't believe women are sugar and spice and everything nice, and given a chance would cut out your liver in the middle of the night to sell it. Then call the cops to say you hit her while you were trying to protect yourself.
Many thanks, all. I was part way there at least!
I confess I have never seen the Matrix. It came out when my children were tiny, so a bit of cultural reference just glided past me. Now that my hair is silver and dragons no longer roam the earth, I shall put it on my list.
Just keep in mind the guys who created it are a couple of trannies, and said it was about transgenderism.
I don't care what they say now, it was not. The Matrix was a very good movie. It's a shame they didn't make any sequels....
It was. Only movie I ever saw that got a standing ovation when the end credits rolled.
He's had 1000 women and all they could come up with were 4 complaints. I'd say that speaks well for Mr. Brand.
Charlie Kirk??
Yeah, the controlled opposition.
Grifter class.
Someone's got to articulate a movement's policies and ideologies.
Would you say that James Lindsay and Chris Rufo are grifters?
That Twilight zone episode where the kids controls everything except the kid is bitter middle aged cat ladies. I'm not saying everyone has to have children but chicks who don't seem to lose it in their forties.
And the ones who do have kids? In their fifties.
If a woman doesn't have children by 30 she will go crazy for violating her prime directive. Same if no grandchildren by menopause. This explains most of our current issues in politics and the corporate world.
If reports are to be believed, Yuki and Danny boy will be announced as being brought back at Suzuka. This ends up with a rather sticky situation for Lawson who seems incredibly and humble compared to what I expected given even how he looks and dresses. (I know I'm not supposed to judge, but he does look like he'd be a douche... instead he's quickly becoming one of my favorite drivers by just how business like he seems.)
A few rumors have that Williams is knocking trying to get Liam some seat time before Checo's contract is up. Not sure how true that is, but loaning him out to see what he is really made of would make some sort of sense. I have to keep reminding myself that Sergio isn't young anymore. He's got a lot of races under his belt. And, for once, Max didn't see bored this weekend. The challenge returned to driving a less than perfect car. Or rather, the challenge returned to driving a car with more clear flaws.
But, but, but Sargeant is a Yank, and he's a poster boy in the US for F1 racing. F1 needs him. The only reason people watch in the US is because of him.
</sarc>
Ooooof. Yeah, he is a talented driver but seemingly not at this level.
Fun fact, we average like 1.1mil audience in the USA watching F1. Nascar beats it by almost 40% even during crappy weeks.
Watching racing in the USA is basically dead. Watching DTS in the USA... well... that's why Danny Ric is going to continue getting PAID.
I don't have Netflix but did have access when visiting my sister about a month ago. So, I turned on some of the episodes of DTS. "WTF!?" were my thoughts. If that's what's selling F1 in the US, the ones that are watching it in the US because of that, had better be more interested in F1 without DTS than with it. I thought it was incredibly stupid. Maybe DTS got you to watch. If you need DTS to stayed interested you will drop F1 somewhere in the next few years.
I swear it was like watching some slop on Bravo.
In my experience, 90% of what women watch is just like that. "Love Island" and so on.
Don't get me started with the Bachelor whatever shows. Whenever I'm stuck viewing them I fell like HAL 9000 having my memory modules pulled. "Daisy, Daissssyyyyyyyy....."
My sister years ago was visiting with her oldest when Meghan and Harry tied the knot. He and I were making sport of the TV coverage. She got pissed big time. Today though, she denies any knowledge of that.
Women love drama. I'll get caught up in some of my wifes crap when she's watching it "This is really fucking stupid but I see why you can't look away" Train wrecks.
I usually scream at the people on TV how idiotic it is. I know, they can't hear me.
When I was married, my ex and I would sometimes disagree about what to watch on television. I'd want to watch the Red Wings play hockey and she'd want to watch something like St. Elsewhere or NYPD Blue. I'd tell her, "You want drama? There are at least 200 people in NYC and LA that know exactly how that show will turn out. Nobody knows who' going to win the hockey game. That's dramatic."
OK, I'll bite. What is DTS?
I had to look it up: "Drive to Survive"
I think they used to be Sedan DeVilles.
Fun fact - 70+ million people globally watch an F1 race.
How many people watch NASCAR outside of the USA?
Roughly 69.9 million?
69.69 million lol
Nice!
Came here to say this. I’ll also add that I hope we see Yuki and Lawson paired at AT next year. It would be fun to see two young talents competing for a seat at the big team come 2025. Ricardo’s time in F1 as far as I’m concerned should be up. I’m sure he’d have zero problems getting a plum factory hypercar seat in WEC if he made himself available.
Looks like they're gonna go with the Drive To Survive strategy.
Fat Brad is back! At Jalopy-necks. Looks like he started Cheeto-dusting his keyboard again on September 11th.
How do I break away from a decade long habit of thinking it is a site worth a daily visit? "Stop Calling Shawn Fain a 'Union Boss'" articles edge me closer, but the eroded promise of some unique insight or story about the auto world still presses me on.
```
$ grep jalopnik /etc/hosts
0.0.0.0 jalopnik.com
0.0.0.0 www.jalopnik.com
```
This should be in the root nameservers
Please explain, I don’t speak jive. I mean i haven’t been to Biden’s code camp yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Purpose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Extended_applications
Thank you sir!
Treat it like we treated Drudge when he sold out.
Yeah, he cooked his own goose years ago!
Let's check out his work...
"This weekend has convince me, we have fully taken on the roll that Boomers once held in car culture. "
Yup that's Fat Brad.
He took on the rolls a bit too literally
Literal LOL
Wow, that’s great!
Sir, that is
DISGUSTING
ly funny
The Ballad of Fat Brad (chorus)
🎵 Are you takin' on the rolls?
Storin' the cal-or-ies?
Can you fit through any doors?
Will they sell you any jeans? 🎵
LMAO. The turning point for me was when I realized I was too fat to buy pants at Academy anymore.
Fat girl, I can't believe you're eating again.
Fat girl, where does your neck begin?
Holy shit
I'm not even that bad and this guy is a writer?
(I use that term loosely)
Wtf do those children think the liberal Detroit Free Press called Walter Reuther when he was running the UAW.
About the connotation of the word "boss", will those children deny that Jimmy Hoffa was connected?
You'll never find either of those things on that site. Ever.
Here, you might.
Mostly from you, however.
There's quite a few of us here, where we belong.
RBR ought to throw a race by putting zero side pods on and say "Yep, it doesn't work. Only idiots would think that this was a good idea".
Open thread, therefore super random question. Is there a way to improve reading speed? Mine is the same as speech. I don't move my lips, however. Lots of books to read out there, would like to get through them quicker.
Are you tracing the words with your finger as you go? That usually helps.
Also most books are overrated, and occasionally smell funny.
I'm interested in new books, smell is not an issue.
I have no advice to offer, I was a fast reader by the time I was three years old. It was the whole "getting along with other humans" that has always stymied me.
I'm probably not as fast as you but I'm definitely faster than most which is a blast when I have to do continuing education and I can get through the 8 hour material in half the time but they put a little timer on it that won't let me.
I’ve had that happen on sites that require you to read the Privacy Policy or other such legal gobbledygook that basically says that you’re giving away your great-grandchild’s firstborn--you have to actually scroll through all 1,500 pages of it before you can check the box to consent to aforementioned anal searches without lubrication!
I have a theory on this. Ask my wife I have a theory on everything. I learned to read early but was taught reading in school using flash cards where you learned words by sight, rather than phonetically. It’s a longer process. It takes much longer to read words phonetically. My advice is to read more and your speed will improve. That’s what worked for me as I have to evaluate new word phonetically. Once I know them I am much faster.
Lift weights, eat saturated fats from animals, supplement creatine.
This won’t really make you read any faster but it will give you a 9 inch hog.
It makes you smarter too!
I’ve got a twelve inch thrust but lots of that is airtime
M8, it's not the size of the tool, it's how many tools you got in the toolbox 💪
NOW YOU TELL ME!!!!
Well then I'm not doing it, I can't afford to lose an inch and a half, I need it to clear my stomach!
Well played
My 11 year old grandson howled in delight when I told him how a man knows he's too fat, partly because it was funny, but mostly because I told him an adult joke.
BTW, I sometimes see couples that are both pretty big and wonder how the parts fit.
Life, um, finds a way.
“Roll it in flour, aim for the wet spot”
Yo momma's so fat...
We're calling them "hogs" now?
We’ve been saying that but only if you’re well endowed.
If it's under 9, it's a piglet.
Then at least 95% of men have a little oinker. Average is something like 5.2, with small variations depending on ethnicity.
In any case, who wants to worry about hitting an ovary or her being too sore for action the next morning?
Look up Bionic Reading. I have always read quickly but can go even faster and still comprehend with that format. That said, I don’t need to read any faster so I don’t use it.
Thanks for the tip I'll check it out.
Need SOMETHING to get through 800 comments in one evening! 😂😂
I spent a LOT of time reading this Substack!
look at the bottom of the words at three spots per line. but it's fun to 'hear' thewords by reading each one. you should be able to do about 1 line/sec.
Is Evelyn Wood still a thing?
No idea, will have to look it up.
It was ~15 years ago. Our HS had an ACT prep class one semester and part of it revolved around it. I found it to be beneficial.
Sigh, here we go again. Brendan O'Neill had a good column at Spiked the other day that discussed the Death of Skepticism. My favorite retort to the "Believe all women!" cadre from a few years back was "You mean like Susan Smith?"
Spiked is a good mag.
"Believe all women!"
Okay, I've decided to be a woman. Now what?
Um. I believe you?
That's the spirit
Good! If you don't it's a hatecrime.
You are an "Ally of Wymen".
Whoops--that should be “wymyn!”
You are stunning and brave and a role model for your future sisters.
…. with prostates.
You one of the Science skeptics?
Only of “The Science”.
I prefer science with live electric arcs and glowing chemicals and ambitious lunacy.
You know - SCIENCE!
Believe all women
except for anyone who talked about Bill Clinton
and Biden's daughter's diary
which isn't real
but they arrested people for stealing it
Arrested for something that doesn't exist.
Funny how Hunter’s hookers haven’t been tracked down. Probably because they’re the only people in Biden World who made a legitimate business transaction.
That, and the only people who went into it EXPECTING to get fucked.
If you wrote fiction saying that the president's son got a pass from the IRS and DoJ for trying to write off hookers and cocaine on his taxes, it'd be considered too outlandish to believe, even for fiction. Somewhere, Wilbur Mills is shaking his head.
"Sector 7 doesn't exist."
"That's right. And we don't take orders from people who don't exist."
I used to follow Brand, quit for no particular reason. I and others would always comment "They are coming to get you. You need a 2nd platform". Ultimately he did, "Rumble", and now YouTube has demonetized him.
The mere fact he questions the narrative and the fact he is willing to listen to people makes him a threat.
He’s exceptionally dangerous to the left because he comes from the left, has been red pilled, and he’s a Happy Warrior.
He is still a scumbag. I dont agree with the cancelling but I’m not shedding any tears because they got to russel brand ba all the normies sitting in prison for violating the narrative.
I’ll go with: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Russell's book, "Revolution", is an interesting read. Parts of it are indicative of long-term drug use, but overall, he has something to say worth hearing. Not everyone agrees, of course.