Before I start off this list, I want to remind everyone that I feel every bit as passionately about the shittiness of both genders in modern American society. I actually gave the 'ladies' a break when I did their list, as I couldn't quell my passion enough to spell, much less write well. I would also like to take the opportunity to state that if more than one of these things applies to a 'man', he isn't really a man, he is a boy-child with a grown penis.
11: Being pretty has a place in our lives now, and that's fine, but it should NEVER take precedent over function. e.g. The other day I stopped to help an aging woman get a couch up to her apartment. A passing 'man' refused to help because, "Dude, I just got my chest waxed and my shirt is new." Great, your as pretty as the women who won't fuck you because your a useless douche. Real manly.
10: The idea that having male genitals make one a 'man'. Nope. Hair, muscles, penis, even smarts alone don't make an overgrown boy a man. Men are made by what they do and how they act, as are women. Once those criterion are met, then we separate the men and women based on nuts and lips.
9: Earnings do not equal masculine worth. Gold digging women try to impose this standard all the time, and it degrades their worth when they do. As men we do this to ourselves and each other sevenfold. Bringing in a paycheck, no matter how large or small has very little to do with the measure of a man. Even if you have mouths to feed it is a byproduct of being a man, not a requirement or precursor.
8: Expecting women to bear the responsibilities. 100 years ago a man would have been ashamed to admit that he handed money over to his wife and burdened her with the responsibility of getting things done. These days, men will fork over everything they possibly can in terms of doing. It's peter pan syndrome at its worst. "No need to be independent and do my own fucking laundry like a grown ass man, I can exploit my wife to do it. I'm a fat hairy dependent child!"
7: Blaming their penis for their shortcomings. Again, in times of yore a man would've sooner removed his penis than blamed his frailty on it. Saying one cannot do something because they are male is pathetic. Prior to the advent of the modern American male, the presence of a penis was grounds to refute the impossible, it was a denial of the limitations of mortal men. So saying, "I can't help it, I'm a man!", then your anything but a man. The two words that go together least are 'only' and 'man'. A penis says, "I should not allow these shortcomings to exist in me, my mere presence makes any failure unacceptable."
6: Believing that intelligence is incompatible with manliness. Seriously meat-heads, listen up. The #1 marked characteristic delineating men from boys, until the recent upturn in anti-male feminist politics, was intelligence, followed closely by culture, kindness and education, with 'hard workin' being a distant fifth. Men are smart, and should be. When I see men going to deliberate lengths to avoid seeming like they have a brain, I am overcome with the urge to beat them down and castrate them, for at that point they are acting like the worst imaginable stereotype of an ape. Men don't think, men do. Horsecrap. Everything we enjoy in the world, from swords and guns, to T.V. and beer are the result of men thinking. Once they have done the thinking douchebag morons are put to work doing the laborious parts, before more smart men do teh proper doing.
5: The belief that feelings, or the regulation thereof, are incompatible with being a man. Men have feelings. Not tending to them weakens a man, makes him subject to acting like an ass and being run by forces of which he is not aware. On the opposite end of the spectrum anti-masculinity forces have led some men to believe that they should spew every little feeling, talk incessantly about their emotion, impose them on others, and never regulate them. Seriously guys on both sides...There is a real need to express feelings, in an appropriate time and place, with the right people.
4: Competing with other men to an excess. Men compete as do women. It's a little more intense with us though isn't it? When it turns into petty constant competitiveness it becomes an issue. Men seem to no longer be willing to compete at co-operative matters, such as seeing who can do more to solve a mutual problem. A group of bros divided is a bunch of unproductive fucktards.
3: A near total lack of moderation and self discipline. Men were once defined by their ability to take the middle ground, to moderate themselves. Men no longer play a half hour of video games, fuck no, they widow their wives with wow. They go out on benders every weekend. They lift weights until their hearts pop like a water balloon and smoke 3 packs a day. Men, as apposed to little boys, should have enough self discipline to know when to take a little and not overindulge. It's sooo pathetic.
2: Defining ourselves by our sexuality. Men have come to believe that they are only worth the number of vaginas they can poke. We have been taught that we are incapable of saying no to pussy. We pay for sexual related goods and services at a new and astounding frequency and rate. This goes back alot to #3, but is also it's own issue. We are the men we are, regardless of whether or not we get laid. We can live with it, and we're typically better off when we do. No real man would ever endure abuse, expense, betrayal, degradation or even minor irritation for a blowjob. I literally know 'men' that have accepted sexual favors as penance for acts of severe violence. Grow up, and stop letting your dick rule your life. She speaks to you like a dog, don't lower yourself by allowing a petty physical urge to get the better of you, hold her responsible.
1: Not being selfless. Men sacrifice, they are incapable of getting even a tiny bit more from the people who they care about than they give. Pure and simple, real men are selfless, children are selfish. This is what drives the independence of men, the need to give, the desire to not force other people to put forth effort on your behalf. Men who are selfish, who are not willing to give, not willing to put forth an effort and sacrifice by doing for themselves are not men. They are burdens to everyone around them. Men once commanded respect, not because others had to, but because they were compelled to do so. Because it was known that a man would give anything, laying down life, limb and sanity for those he loved. These days, it's hard to get some fuckers to take their hands out of their pants and put down the remote. Selfish men are just pathetic, and don't deserve the air they breath.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Dear Erica Jong,
I stumbled across these quotes of yours. I felt the need to reply.
I stumbled across these quotes of yours. I felt the need to reply.
“Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?” ~Erica Jong
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” ~Erica Jong
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money.” ~Erica Jong ** Couldn’t be truncated for brevity sake.
I can’t imagine where any sane man would begin riposting these remarks. The blithe and tasteless lack of two sidedness, objectivity or decency held in them is simply beyond comprehension for anyone who isn’t utterly bereft of empathy.
Women have not been forced to substitute adornment for love, or fashion for passion. Men throughout history who have loved the women they were with wanted nothing more desperately than to afford them their every want. As a man I can tell you this is nothing short of a need in my kind. The need to give, to provide, to sacrifice.
These things were given to women because, and for no other reason than, a woman will take adornment over love any day. I have yet to meet a woman who would hesitate to trade a loving and kind man for one who can buy her tragically expensive things. It is by the choice of women, that even now men are expected to give anything and everything without notion of self involved, as ransom for what fools refer to as a womans so called love and care.
It is demanded of men that they be sperm donors and wallets. Nothing more, and never anything less, at least if we want a woman to act falsely enough to convince us that we are loved. Our value, especially to women, is held solely in the number of days, hours and dollars we will hand over without so much as respect, decency or kindness in return. If we do not, we are failures. Our genetic material, and our wallets stands far above us as men, and it has always been such. Men were the ones swindled into giving, often until death, for women who never loved them, but only saw them as financial benefactors. This was a disgrace to both men and women, and will always be. The difference now, is that women are no longer held to such roles, but men are more than ever. Here’s to your giant penis, spewing sperm, silk and twenty dollar bills, but doing little to clean your character.
Why would men do this if it’s so wrong and demeaning to both men and women? Because, and I speak for every good man still left, undamaged and willing to follow the dictates of his frail male heart, we do idealize women. We cannot help but want to serve, to love, to protect and uplift. Women being idealized into powerlessness was as much a fault of women as it was of men. We tend in this direction because of an overwhelming urge to give, to separate someone precious from any wanting. Women indulge this for the overwhelming urge to take, and do without the burden of reciprocation or consequence for the harm done by its lacking. To say that this has been the thumb sized rod of male indecency and vileness is to shit on the heads, deeds and heartfelt gifts, of every loving man who has ever existed. Keep no doubt, lady, that every single one of those good men existed for the women they loved. You make comments like that because, as a woman, you will never know what it is to desperately love someone so much that you would dedicate your entire life to them, to live and die for them. You will never feel what it is to want to give more and more, not because you’re obliged to do so, but because it aches and burns in your heart to do so.
The apex of feminism is the slow telling of how morally superior women aren’t as they bring to themselves the mantle of authority. They are in fact, and in greater proportion I fear, just as dastardly and venomous as the worst of men. A woman unchained is no different than a man, save her lack of need for or capacity to render love, her lack of empathy and of course her phenomenal lack of ability to hold herself accountable.
Mz. Jong; may you have many sons, and may they all suffer and die at the hands of your sisters. Perhaps you might discover that there is just as much inherent beauty and value in mere men, as there is the unblemishable female.
Friday, July 9, 2010
10 reasons why open source will always be garbage.
Open Source has alot of potential. Open Source is both free and transparent. Those are both really good things aren't they? Linux is a full blown O.S. with great security and tons of built in apps.
The tragic truth about Open Source, in spite of all of its potential, is that 99% of the time it is a complete waste of bandwidth. It is now, and will always be, utter garbage. From here on in, I shall refer to Open Source as Open Sores. Here are the ten most undeniable reasons why Open Sores will never be worth anything ...
10. Open sores is supposed to be about community and the free exchange of ideas. In reality, it is about a bunch of elitist schmucks trying their best to run new members, and old members with divergent opinions, out of the community.
9. Open Sores has millions of projects, 90% of which are actually 10,000 variations of the same thing. The end result is that 10,000 would be Diablo clones never mature. The better projects, invariably try to compete with smaller projects, or apply number ten to any of the smaller projects contributors who would try to join them.
8. The vast majority of projects start strong, then realize 9 and 10 are true, and then stagnate. Stagnation is where all but one person leaves a project, no one new comes on-board, and that remaining developer refuses to let it go. The end result? 5 million projects that will NEVER be completed, have useless features or major shortcomings that could only be remedied with outside influence. The best part is to find one half way decent application, you have to download, install and take a couple hours to discover the inherent suck of the other 4,999,999 programs.
7. Because 8 and 9 are true, there aren't enough Open Sores projects that are solid enough to justify swapping out the commercial price tag for inferior software. That is to say that it's typically better for users to just spend $500 than it is for them to try and deal with the Open Sores. If 8, and 9 weren't true, more Open Sores would mature into something that was at least of equal usefulness when compared to it's commercial counterpart. Without user support, especially in the form of new contributors coming onto a project, Open Sores is just a bunch of celibate nerds and their crappy pet projects.
6. Because 7-10 tend to be true, the few rare gems with potential end up never seeing the light of day, and they die off, or as they are developed they remain unknown and fail to become a significant standard in their niche. An excellent example of this is GIMP. It's a pretty good program, it has it's issue due mostly to 7 and 8 on this list. It's good, especially for free. But the commercial big hitters lack the irritations of GIMP. Thus businesses and pros tend to just use the big name stuff, and the rest have probably never heard of gimp. If they would up their game for one year, they would start getting support, even financial from businesses. That would require new blood, new ideas, and a willingness to make #1 not be true.
5. A lack of infrastructure standards murders most Open Sores. This is known around the Linux community as dependency hell. Dependency hell is also what lengthens release and patch cycles. If the Open Sores community would stop for ten days and deal with their actual development tools and internal infrastructure countless projects would find that most of their problems would go away. This also means that for any new blood willing to stay on and keep working despite the afore mentioned problems, there is a plethora of irksome problems they must learn to work around.
4. Due largely to 5, but also to 6-10; the turnaround for bug-fixes, implementation of new and improved features, and the ability to draw in new talent who is willing to struggle and bust their asses on a project is far slower and less effective than it should be.
3. Sort of a sub set of 4 and 5 (see how this is going), Open Sores projects are relying more and more as the years pass on commercial software for design and development. This means that in order to work on an a project, an incoming developer may have to spend thousands on things like Visual C++, crystal, Photoshop, Bryce etc. Unfortunately relying on the free equivalent versions of any of these tools means that 4 and 5 can quickly turn into insurmountable obstacles for the much needed new blood.
2. Because it is Open Sores, it is OPEN. This is a double edged sword. This has lead to an epic (or epicacic) lack of standards that contributes to every single afore mentioned problem. 400 varieties of Linux, 12 versions of python, 200 difference versions of any given library. Real nice soup-sandwich-waffle-dog ya got their Franken-app. Now find me any serious and sane individual that wants to sort through all that to avoid finding out that the code he or she spent six months on isn't going to work now because a new snippet of functionality needed some other obscure flavor of G-Lib or Python.
1. Nothing is ever wrong or lacking with Linux or any other open source application. If you don't want to spend an hour recompiling a library, and then another 20 minutes in a prompt to set the permissions and gain access to a cd drive twice a week, and especially if you don't know how to do this, then your a retard and an asshole. If you want something to be user friendly, just install and go get it, then your a Windoze loving idiot who deserves to die. If you go on a forum and ask how something works, rather than parsing countless poorly worded faqs, figuring it out for yourself(as if, the average user hires men and women like me to work on macs and windows machines), or reading all 900,000 poorly categorized posts by other folks who were just as confused, then you suck. Unfortunately for Linux and Open Sores, most sane people will go ahead and take the easier, more productive route. This means no support from them. Yes Linux is more secure. Hackers won't shit in their own back yard, duh. Even with the occasional virus related loss, the other guys are still too much easier and faster for anything Open Sores to catch up. They are also nearly universally supported by any app or vendor a person would actually WANT to use. But, I'm an asshole and Open Sores are just perfect.
The tragic truth about Open Source, in spite of all of its potential, is that 99% of the time it is a complete waste of bandwidth. It is now, and will always be, utter garbage. From here on in, I shall refer to Open Source as Open Sores. Here are the ten most undeniable reasons why Open Sores will never be worth anything ...
10. Open sores is supposed to be about community and the free exchange of ideas. In reality, it is about a bunch of elitist schmucks trying their best to run new members, and old members with divergent opinions, out of the community.
9. Open Sores has millions of projects, 90% of which are actually 10,000 variations of the same thing. The end result is that 10,000 would be Diablo clones never mature. The better projects, invariably try to compete with smaller projects, or apply number ten to any of the smaller projects contributors who would try to join them.
8. The vast majority of projects start strong, then realize 9 and 10 are true, and then stagnate. Stagnation is where all but one person leaves a project, no one new comes on-board, and that remaining developer refuses to let it go. The end result? 5 million projects that will NEVER be completed, have useless features or major shortcomings that could only be remedied with outside influence. The best part is to find one half way decent application, you have to download, install and take a couple hours to discover the inherent suck of the other 4,999,999 programs.
7. Because 8 and 9 are true, there aren't enough Open Sores projects that are solid enough to justify swapping out the commercial price tag for inferior software. That is to say that it's typically better for users to just spend $500 than it is for them to try and deal with the Open Sores. If 8, and 9 weren't true, more Open Sores would mature into something that was at least of equal usefulness when compared to it's commercial counterpart. Without user support, especially in the form of new contributors coming onto a project, Open Sores is just a bunch of celibate nerds and their crappy pet projects.
6. Because 7-10 tend to be true, the few rare gems with potential end up never seeing the light of day, and they die off, or as they are developed they remain unknown and fail to become a significant standard in their niche. An excellent example of this is GIMP. It's a pretty good program, it has it's issue due mostly to 7 and 8 on this list. It's good, especially for free. But the commercial big hitters lack the irritations of GIMP. Thus businesses and pros tend to just use the big name stuff, and the rest have probably never heard of gimp. If they would up their game for one year, they would start getting support, even financial from businesses. That would require new blood, new ideas, and a willingness to make #1 not be true.
5. A lack of infrastructure standards murders most Open Sores. This is known around the Linux community as dependency hell. Dependency hell is also what lengthens release and patch cycles. If the Open Sores community would stop for ten days and deal with their actual development tools and internal infrastructure countless projects would find that most of their problems would go away. This also means that for any new blood willing to stay on and keep working despite the afore mentioned problems, there is a plethora of irksome problems they must learn to work around.
4. Due largely to 5, but also to 6-10; the turnaround for bug-fixes, implementation of new and improved features, and the ability to draw in new talent who is willing to struggle and bust their asses on a project is far slower and less effective than it should be.
3. Sort of a sub set of 4 and 5 (see how this is going), Open Sores projects are relying more and more as the years pass on commercial software for design and development. This means that in order to work on an a project, an incoming developer may have to spend thousands on things like Visual C++, crystal, Photoshop, Bryce etc. Unfortunately relying on the free equivalent versions of any of these tools means that 4 and 5 can quickly turn into insurmountable obstacles for the much needed new blood.
2. Because it is Open Sores, it is OPEN. This is a double edged sword. This has lead to an epic (or epicacic) lack of standards that contributes to every single afore mentioned problem. 400 varieties of Linux, 12 versions of python, 200 difference versions of any given library. Real nice soup-sandwich-waffle-dog ya got their Franken-app. Now find me any serious and sane individual that wants to sort through all that to avoid finding out that the code he or she spent six months on isn't going to work now because a new snippet of functionality needed some other obscure flavor of G-Lib or Python.
1. Nothing is ever wrong or lacking with Linux or any other open source application. If you don't want to spend an hour recompiling a library, and then another 20 minutes in a prompt to set the permissions and gain access to a cd drive twice a week, and especially if you don't know how to do this, then your a retard and an asshole. If you want something to be user friendly, just install and go get it, then your a Windoze loving idiot who deserves to die. If you go on a forum and ask how something works, rather than parsing countless poorly worded faqs, figuring it out for yourself(as if, the average user hires men and women like me to work on macs and windows machines), or reading all 900,000 poorly categorized posts by other folks who were just as confused, then you suck. Unfortunately for Linux and Open Sores, most sane people will go ahead and take the easier, more productive route. This means no support from them. Yes Linux is more secure. Hackers won't shit in their own back yard, duh. Even with the occasional virus related loss, the other guys are still too much easier and faster for anything Open Sores to catch up. They are also nearly universally supported by any app or vendor a person would actually WANT to use. But, I'm an asshole and Open Sores are just perfect.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Being tired sucks.
Being tired just sucks. It really really sucks.
Sitting at work during ones 90 day eval period, and genuinely wanting to exceed expectations, but being to tired to move is where I am at right now.
Americans weren't always this tired though. There was a day and age when people got plenty of sleep, and the sleep they were getting wasn't equated with losing money. So what the hell happened? When did our sleep, just like our health and our families start taking a back seat to all the other things we just absolutely have to do?
Lets start off with a little bit about sleep itself.
Sleep is such a vital thing to the human being. Science has shown us what we already know. The less you get of it, the sooner you die, the sadder you are, you get less done.
This list could go on and on and on, but it wont. How on earth did Americans get to have such rampant issues with sleep even though our own government claims that we are 2nd on earth for how well we sleep. How is it that independent surveys tell us that Americans have major problems with sleep, while the official sources tell us we're fine?
I think a better question is when did everything we do become more important than sleep?
We must give up two hours of sleep, even after countless studies have shown that this is a practice that is detrimental to our health, because if we don't we wont be able to buy things we didn't realize we wanted. Our cable might end up dropping below the 300 channel mark, our ringtone collection might stop climbing by the dozens, and god forbid, we might lose weight. That can't be the crux of it though.
Even just 20 years ago if a man or woman was working a job that was taking its toll on the persons health, family or social life the job was going to go, not the health,friends and family. year after year our bosses asked us to stay an extra five minutes, ten the next year. We worked an extra day here and there. We saw the neighbors work 2 overtime shifts and give in to the idea that as a good red blooded American, they weren't all that good until they sacrificed the fruits of their extra labor to buy that 70" flat screen T.V. Envious we ran out and did the same, ignoring the lonesome stares of our wives and children, the aches and pains of our bodies. A year later our bosses asked us to stay an hour and five minutes, and we did. Two weeks later we volunteer for more overtime and less sleep, because we filled our houses with things we couldn't afford.
You would think that being rational, sane beings we would have picked up on the pattern and stopped leaping deeper and deeper into debt. You would think that we would have noticed the toll it was taking on us and our families, while we spent more and more to make someone other than ourselves and our families richer and richer. I somehow doubt that sane, rational or thinking came into the equation at any given point in time.
So now we work more. So now we sleep less. We lose our families and get promoted. This is the slippery slope at its worst. It changes our valued and leaves us with no one to blame, all semblance of the road we walked to get here obscured in the fog of too little sleep and too much yearning for things we don't need. Employers and marketers aren't taking advantage of us on their own, we are willing participants in our own rape.
I do to some extent blame this on the growing American 'value' that profit comes before anything else. A value that is rapidly replacing the previously held values of sacrifice for family, country, neighbors and community. Plasma televisions, smart phones and take out have become more precious to Americans than their families.
Yes there is an arguable propagandist element at work, being driven both by elected officials and corporate entities. Ultimately however, it is John and Jane Doe, who choose to put hearth and home second to their account balances who are responsible. It is they, who when asked to lose sleep for the sake of profit, say yes.
Arguing that it is a matter of survival is ridiculous. There is not a single person in American who is going to die from cable or ringtone deprivation. In fact, spending less time at work to pay for those thing might save our families. Spending more time with our loved ones and less time with our jobs and T.V.s will undoubtedly make life a whole lot more flavorful. I guess I shouldn't say things like that though, it's un-American to suggest that money is less important than children.
I frequently make comments such as "The average American would set their own children on fire to double their salary, and not loose sleep over it."
The truth is we are already losing sleep and pouring the gas . We may not be lighting the match, but we're ignoring the smell of burnt flesh to stay late at the office. Not to worry though, if we're so tired that we overlook the stench, we can always cover it up with the sweet smell of a new car and an early grave.
Sitting at work during ones 90 day eval period, and genuinely wanting to exceed expectations, but being to tired to move is where I am at right now.
Americans weren't always this tired though. There was a day and age when people got plenty of sleep, and the sleep they were getting wasn't equated with losing money. So what the hell happened? When did our sleep, just like our health and our families start taking a back seat to all the other things we just absolutely have to do?
Lets start off with a little bit about sleep itself.
Sleep is such a vital thing to the human being. Science has shown us what we already know. The less you get of it, the sooner you die, the sadder you are, you get less done.
- 35% of Americans say they never nap, as they are too busy.
- A lack of sleep has been linked to heart disease.
- A lack of sleep sleep has been linked to lower productivity.
- Sleep deprivation has been shown to reduce sexual desire, increase chances of obesity and weaken the immune system.
- 16% of Americans get 5 or fewer hours of sleep per night.
- One particular brand of sleep aid managed 1.5 BILLION in sales for 2008.
This list could go on and on and on, but it wont. How on earth did Americans get to have such rampant issues with sleep even though our own government claims that we are 2nd on earth for how well we sleep. How is it that independent surveys tell us that Americans have major problems with sleep, while the official sources tell us we're fine?
I think a better question is when did everything we do become more important than sleep?
We must give up two hours of sleep, even after countless studies have shown that this is a practice that is detrimental to our health, because if we don't we wont be able to buy things we didn't realize we wanted. Our cable might end up dropping below the 300 channel mark, our ringtone collection might stop climbing by the dozens, and god forbid, we might lose weight. That can't be the crux of it though.
Even just 20 years ago if a man or woman was working a job that was taking its toll on the persons health, family or social life the job was going to go, not the health,friends and family. year after year our bosses asked us to stay an extra five minutes, ten the next year. We worked an extra day here and there. We saw the neighbors work 2 overtime shifts and give in to the idea that as a good red blooded American, they weren't all that good until they sacrificed the fruits of their extra labor to buy that 70" flat screen T.V. Envious we ran out and did the same, ignoring the lonesome stares of our wives and children, the aches and pains of our bodies. A year later our bosses asked us to stay an hour and five minutes, and we did. Two weeks later we volunteer for more overtime and less sleep, because we filled our houses with things we couldn't afford.
You would think that being rational, sane beings we would have picked up on the pattern and stopped leaping deeper and deeper into debt. You would think that we would have noticed the toll it was taking on us and our families, while we spent more and more to make someone other than ourselves and our families richer and richer. I somehow doubt that sane, rational or thinking came into the equation at any given point in time.
So now we work more. So now we sleep less. We lose our families and get promoted. This is the slippery slope at its worst. It changes our valued and leaves us with no one to blame, all semblance of the road we walked to get here obscured in the fog of too little sleep and too much yearning for things we don't need. Employers and marketers aren't taking advantage of us on their own, we are willing participants in our own rape.
I do to some extent blame this on the growing American 'value' that profit comes before anything else. A value that is rapidly replacing the previously held values of sacrifice for family, country, neighbors and community. Plasma televisions, smart phones and take out have become more precious to Americans than their families.
Yes there is an arguable propagandist element at work, being driven both by elected officials and corporate entities. Ultimately however, it is John and Jane Doe, who choose to put hearth and home second to their account balances who are responsible. It is they, who when asked to lose sleep for the sake of profit, say yes.
Arguing that it is a matter of survival is ridiculous. There is not a single person in American who is going to die from cable or ringtone deprivation. In fact, spending less time at work to pay for those thing might save our families. Spending more time with our loved ones and less time with our jobs and T.V.s will undoubtedly make life a whole lot more flavorful. I guess I shouldn't say things like that though, it's un-American to suggest that money is less important than children.
I frequently make comments such as "The average American would set their own children on fire to double their salary, and not loose sleep over it."
The truth is we are already losing sleep and pouring the gas . We may not be lighting the match, but we're ignoring the smell of burnt flesh to stay late at the office. Not to worry though, if we're so tired that we overlook the stench, we can always cover it up with the sweet smell of a new car and an early grave.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
11 reasons guys dump women.
This is just a fast and dirty list being put together about a few of the things that drive guys nuts. It will be expanded and updated as time goes on, reworded etc. They are not in hard (just roughly in order) , but I prefer numbered lists as they are easier to reference.
This whole list can be circumnavigated by simply saying men are alot more like women than most women realize. We are human, we hurt, we cry, we worry, we think and we have needs too. We love you deeply and fiercely; and just for who you are, not how well you fuck or how much you earn. We want to give you everything. All we ask in return is that you not forgot us when we need you.
11. Your insecurities. They suck, they contort your thinking, they make you crazy and wound us deep in our souls.
10. Unreliability. When a woman says I'll be here or there at this time or that, and shows up 90 minutes late it's not just a buzz kill, it can seriously ruin the couples ability to have out of the house time with other people.
9. Failing to take responsibility. Women make mistakes the same as men. The difference with many women is that they refuse to take responsibility and just admit they screwed up. Excuses
don't really fix anything, but they can cause his ability to respect you and view you as an adult to take a beating.
8. Not being realistic about what to worry about. If a man is going nuts and working two jobs to pay a hospital bill and a woman lays a trip on him about the fact that he hasn't taken her out for a fancy dinner, it kills everything. A fair number of women seem to think that cable t.v. and new shoes are more important than the bills. Bringing this up damages a mans provider ego, makes a woman look selfish and immature and makes him feel as though he is 100% alone in facing the real problems.
7. Acting like he is doing something wrong if he doesn't communicate the way you do. Relationships are about give and take. Try meeting a man half way. You think he is being emotionally unavailable, he thinks your torturing him by not supporting him and forcing an issue before he is ready to talk about it. Trying to force a man to emotionally divulge makes him feel emotionally unsafe, un-cared for and pressured.
6. Demonizing his sexuality. Women will badger and abuse their men if they catch them with porn, catch them masturbating, looking at another womans ass and about ten thousand other reasons. If he feels guilty or ashamed of penis, and he feels that the strongest because of you or when he is with you, he IS going to find outlets for his desires with a woman that doesn't make him want to apologize or commit suicide every time he gets an erection.
5. Acting like men are really stupid, simple creatures. See #2. It's a real wake up call for some women, for others you will just say DUH! If your one of the women who already know men are complicated creatures at their core and that #2 is obvious, spread the word amongst your sisters.
4. Trying to make him what you want him to be, based solely on what you want, rather than accepting and loving him just the way he is. Seriously, if he does that with you he's an asshole and can be convicted of domestic abuse in some places. You either love him or you don't. If you love who you can force him to be, then your using him and you should be left.
3. It's all about you. Women like to think that they are so much more selfless, they aren't. Women have needs. If a woman isn't getting any at home her needs aren't being met and virtually anything is justified. If a man isn't getting sex at home, too bad. It's not like he has needs, right? The same goes for all non-sec areas of a relationship. This is a big bad one, and one that 99% of women will never admit too. In fact the fastest way to make a woman go psycho is to tell her no when she wants it, especially if it becomes a habit. So why would you think that it is acceptable to do the same to the man you love? This isn't just about sex either, but sex is the biggest place where women tend to act like mens needs aren't real. A simple way to get this across is to compare the differences in personal ads. The guys ads are all about what they can offer, the womens ads are almost always about what they are demanding with no mention of what they offer. Loads of women will reply with 'It's obvious what we're offering'. Yes, the same thing any other woman can provide, or blow up doll, or hand, or talented gay man. Trying focusing on what you can give in return, you may actually get the best out him in return. And I don't mean sex. You can find alot of men who will say things like this "If it weren't for pussy I wouldn't even bother talking to women." Now, do you really want him to only be there for that? Try actually offering something else.
2. Trying to fix everything with sex. So you went without his permission and got keys to his place, or slept with his friend, or 'borrowed' $100 without asking. You can just sex the simple oaf up and he'll forget everything, right? Wrong. He'll still have sex with you, albeit less frequently with time. He won't however forgive or forget, after all it's not like you took responsibility or actually said "I was wrong and I'm sorry." Sooner or later, he will cheat, he will leave, and he won't care if you blame that on him too.
1. Not talking and LISTENING to him. Men have thoughts, lots and lots of them. Men have feelings. Lots and lots of raging torrents of feelings. You just won't get to hear about them if your not in the habit of talking to him about things that are of no consequence, making his opinion as important as yours and not judging him. The #1 reason I have had men give me for cheating or leaving is this, "She doesn't love me anymore, we don't talk and I am so lonely.", not I haven't gotten a Blowjob lately.
This whole list can be circumnavigated by simply saying men are alot more like women than most women realize. We are human, we hurt, we cry, we worry, we think and we have needs too. We love you deeply and fiercely; and just for who you are, not how well you fuck or how much you earn. We want to give you everything. All we ask in return is that you not forgot us when we need you.
11. Your insecurities. They suck, they contort your thinking, they make you crazy and wound us deep in our souls.
10. Unreliability. When a woman says I'll be here or there at this time or that, and shows up 90 minutes late it's not just a buzz kill, it can seriously ruin the couples ability to have out of the house time with other people.
9. Failing to take responsibility. Women make mistakes the same as men. The difference with many women is that they refuse to take responsibility and just admit they screwed up. Excuses
don't really fix anything, but they can cause his ability to respect you and view you as an adult to take a beating.
8. Not being realistic about what to worry about. If a man is going nuts and working two jobs to pay a hospital bill and a woman lays a trip on him about the fact that he hasn't taken her out for a fancy dinner, it kills everything. A fair number of women seem to think that cable t.v. and new shoes are more important than the bills. Bringing this up damages a mans provider ego, makes a woman look selfish and immature and makes him feel as though he is 100% alone in facing the real problems.
7. Acting like he is doing something wrong if he doesn't communicate the way you do. Relationships are about give and take. Try meeting a man half way. You think he is being emotionally unavailable, he thinks your torturing him by not supporting him and forcing an issue before he is ready to talk about it. Trying to force a man to emotionally divulge makes him feel emotionally unsafe, un-cared for and pressured.
6. Demonizing his sexuality. Women will badger and abuse their men if they catch them with porn, catch them masturbating, looking at another womans ass and about ten thousand other reasons. If he feels guilty or ashamed of penis, and he feels that the strongest because of you or when he is with you, he IS going to find outlets for his desires with a woman that doesn't make him want to apologize or commit suicide every time he gets an erection.
5. Acting like men are really stupid, simple creatures. See #2. It's a real wake up call for some women, for others you will just say DUH! If your one of the women who already know men are complicated creatures at their core and that #2 is obvious, spread the word amongst your sisters.
4. Trying to make him what you want him to be, based solely on what you want, rather than accepting and loving him just the way he is. Seriously, if he does that with you he's an asshole and can be convicted of domestic abuse in some places. You either love him or you don't. If you love who you can force him to be, then your using him and you should be left.
3. It's all about you. Women like to think that they are so much more selfless, they aren't. Women have needs. If a woman isn't getting any at home her needs aren't being met and virtually anything is justified. If a man isn't getting sex at home, too bad. It's not like he has needs, right? The same goes for all non-sec areas of a relationship. This is a big bad one, and one that 99% of women will never admit too. In fact the fastest way to make a woman go psycho is to tell her no when she wants it, especially if it becomes a habit. So why would you think that it is acceptable to do the same to the man you love? This isn't just about sex either, but sex is the biggest place where women tend to act like mens needs aren't real. A simple way to get this across is to compare the differences in personal ads. The guys ads are all about what they can offer, the womens ads are almost always about what they are demanding with no mention of what they offer. Loads of women will reply with 'It's obvious what we're offering'. Yes, the same thing any other woman can provide, or blow up doll, or hand, or talented gay man. Trying focusing on what you can give in return, you may actually get the best out him in return. And I don't mean sex. You can find alot of men who will say things like this "If it weren't for pussy I wouldn't even bother talking to women." Now, do you really want him to only be there for that? Try actually offering something else.
2. Trying to fix everything with sex. So you went without his permission and got keys to his place, or slept with his friend, or 'borrowed' $100 without asking. You can just sex the simple oaf up and he'll forget everything, right? Wrong. He'll still have sex with you, albeit less frequently with time. He won't however forgive or forget, after all it's not like you took responsibility or actually said "I was wrong and I'm sorry." Sooner or later, he will cheat, he will leave, and he won't care if you blame that on him too.
1. Not talking and LISTENING to him. Men have thoughts, lots and lots of them. Men have feelings. Lots and lots of raging torrents of feelings. You just won't get to hear about them if your not in the habit of talking to him about things that are of no consequence, making his opinion as important as yours and not judging him. The #1 reason I have had men give me for cheating or leaving is this, "She doesn't love me anymore, we don't talk and I am so lonely.", not I haven't gotten a Blowjob lately.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
pssst...advertisers. WE'RE NOT LISTENING!
I cannot for the life of me figure out why there are so many damned ads. For every single hour of television there are 15 - 24 minutes of commercials. Worst case scenario that is nearly half the hour of television show that I'm actually already paying for in the form of a monthly satellite bill. Most of the time they are repeats of the same lame ass car or cheeseburger ad I saw not ten minutes ago. The TV execs should figure this out. Nobody is paying attention anymore. There are too many commercials, and many of them are for things that no person in their right mind would buy based on a flashy ad. Others are for a product that is similar to the product that was advertised thirty seconds prior. Again, the repetition of the exact same commercial has gotten so bad that I often see the exact same ad twice in a row which is irritating. Lastly, the cost of commercials that aren't working in the first place drives up the cost of the actual product to the point where it sells far fewer units.
Let's just start off with volume. There are so many commercials that they have all blended together into an oceanic blob of irritating crap, encouraging potential consumers to zone out altogether. Kind of like the way the sound of a ceiling fan or ticking clock tends to fade away into nothingness as time goes on. If there were only 4-5 minutes of advertising per hour of television, and they didn't constantly repeat themselves, they MIGHT have some kind of impact. At this point though, it would take alot of time before people started even noticing ads again. How much attention do they expect people to pay when they are bombarded with the same thing until they are numb? Are they expecting people to give up and buy something just to shut them up? Doubtful. One may ask at this moment how else TV can remain free. Just charge more for fewer commercials. Thus, people won't channel surf so much, ratings will go up, ad costs would stay the same but they would impact revenue for a change.
Moving on to what is actually being advertised. Seriously, no one has EVER heard a loud ass, flashy car commercial and run out to spend $30,000 on a car because of an ad. In fact if that car company stopped running ads altogether the very same $30k car would cost a hell of a lot less, or it could cost the same and be far higher quality. Again, we're also numb and unaffected by these ads because they are so repetitive, obnoxious and frequent. It's like telemarketers of the 80's and 90's, only more invasive. This also relates to the next section which would be...
Seeing an ad for one type of soda 30 seconds after I see an add for their competitor. So if commercials really do work, then folks would be flooding out of their houses to buy both products? No, wait, they buy the product with the best ad, even if they think it's inferior quality? No, wait, these scenarios result in the ad having even less impact that the others in the torrent of commercials. It makes both products equally as unappealing. This is especially horrific when it comes to insurance ads and car commercials. Here is why, it makes both manufacturers look like liars. How can two trucks both have the most horsepower, the greatest ability to suck down gas while hauling items that 99% of the population will never lay eyes on, much less tow? How is that drivers switching from the creepy little lizard thing can save $1200, and 60 seconds later drivers from the other guys back to the lizard can save $1200? It's deceptive advertising. It is based on the customers that switched some prior year. It doesn't mention the fact that people don't tend to switch to the insurance provider that charges them more money. Again, in both scenarios if the company stopped advertising the cost of their premiums would plummet, they could provide better service, or god forbid pay more to their reps so that insurance people wouldn't be so damn pushy.
This is for the ad companies and the dicks that run their ads. fewer commercials makes us less numb to them. We buy cars based on these factors: price, appearance, quality based on personal experience, quality based on reputation, warranty. Stop running ads and bull-crap incentive programs. Americans, however stupid we may seem to you, aren't fooled. We buy food based on what we got for the money we payed lasts time we went into the restaurant. Odds are if we're going to buy that burger it's because we have eaten it before. Don't tell us about it unless there is something new on the menu, and don't remind me 38 times a day. We will watch alot more of the ads, if we know that the show really will be back on quickly enough that channel flipping could result in missing something other than more F*CKING COMMERCIALS!
Let's just start off with volume. There are so many commercials that they have all blended together into an oceanic blob of irritating crap, encouraging potential consumers to zone out altogether. Kind of like the way the sound of a ceiling fan or ticking clock tends to fade away into nothingness as time goes on. If there were only 4-5 minutes of advertising per hour of television, and they didn't constantly repeat themselves, they MIGHT have some kind of impact. At this point though, it would take alot of time before people started even noticing ads again. How much attention do they expect people to pay when they are bombarded with the same thing until they are numb? Are they expecting people to give up and buy something just to shut them up? Doubtful. One may ask at this moment how else TV can remain free. Just charge more for fewer commercials. Thus, people won't channel surf so much, ratings will go up, ad costs would stay the same but they would impact revenue for a change.
Moving on to what is actually being advertised. Seriously, no one has EVER heard a loud ass, flashy car commercial and run out to spend $30,000 on a car because of an ad. In fact if that car company stopped running ads altogether the very same $30k car would cost a hell of a lot less, or it could cost the same and be far higher quality. Again, we're also numb and unaffected by these ads because they are so repetitive, obnoxious and frequent. It's like telemarketers of the 80's and 90's, only more invasive. This also relates to the next section which would be...
Seeing an ad for one type of soda 30 seconds after I see an add for their competitor. So if commercials really do work, then folks would be flooding out of their houses to buy both products? No, wait, they buy the product with the best ad, even if they think it's inferior quality? No, wait, these scenarios result in the ad having even less impact that the others in the torrent of commercials. It makes both products equally as unappealing. This is especially horrific when it comes to insurance ads and car commercials. Here is why, it makes both manufacturers look like liars. How can two trucks both have the most horsepower, the greatest ability to suck down gas while hauling items that 99% of the population will never lay eyes on, much less tow? How is that drivers switching from the creepy little lizard thing can save $1200, and 60 seconds later drivers from the other guys back to the lizard can save $1200? It's deceptive advertising. It is based on the customers that switched some prior year. It doesn't mention the fact that people don't tend to switch to the insurance provider that charges them more money. Again, in both scenarios if the company stopped advertising the cost of their premiums would plummet, they could provide better service, or god forbid pay more to their reps so that insurance people wouldn't be so damn pushy.
This is for the ad companies and the dicks that run their ads. fewer commercials makes us less numb to them. We buy cars based on these factors: price, appearance, quality based on personal experience, quality based on reputation, warranty. Stop running ads and bull-crap incentive programs. Americans, however stupid we may seem to you, aren't fooled. We buy food based on what we got for the money we payed lasts time we went into the restaurant. Odds are if we're going to buy that burger it's because we have eaten it before. Don't tell us about it unless there is something new on the menu, and don't remind me 38 times a day. We will watch alot more of the ads, if we know that the show really will be back on quickly enough that channel flipping could result in missing something other than more F*CKING COMMERCIALS!
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