Which of the three photos in this series of the same man taken at different times in his life strikes you as the face of a hard alpha? A soft beta? A man who has checked out?
How about the man in this series?
And, finally, what about this man?
Make your guesses, then go to the original link to read the details. Are you being duped by manipulative lighting? Or does a man’s face really change to reflect the burdens and the expectations of his life?
If the latter, what you are seeing here is evidence that a man can become more alpha or less alpha, in disposition and even in expression, when circumstances intrude and decisions, sometimes life or death, have to be made. Maybe a man can’t go from 100% beta to 100% alpha on a dime, but he can increase his alpha at the margins. And the margin is all the edge you need, whether the situation you are in is firing at a nest of insurgents or walking up to a girl and capturing her imagination for a night.
Meh. The middle versions are going to look different if they’re on the job.
Most of the time the befores and afters don’t look much different. The people who see something vastly different there tend to be overemotional farts who want to see something that isn’t there.
The afters that ARE different could look different for reasons. Too many variables. But like I said people will see what they want when things are so open-ended like this.
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The after pics differ from the before pics in having a hint of despair and cynicism which replaces the before pics’ callowness and naivete. It’s obvious to me — even if not in all cases, definitely in a large number of them.
Otherwise, notice the difference in the tilt of the eyebrows at rest. Soft betas, it would seem, don’t frown nearly as much as hardened alphas do.
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I don’t know what the correct answer is – I haven’t RTFA’ed yet – but in all three instances, there is a single photo which shows weight loss, grouped with companion photos which show pudginess.
And in all three instances, the lean-mean-fighting-machine looks the most alpha to my eye.
Which is not to say that pudgy guys can’t work “Game” to their advantage, but boy it sure does help to be in good physical shape.
I’d be curious what the chicks think [to the extent that the chicks around here aren’t completely nuts to begin with].
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“lean-mean-fighting-machine”
Whoa – apparently I nailed it.
Kiss my posterior, suckas, kiss my posterior.
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yea both times in my life I was in the best shape or strongest was in war zones
he he he
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[to the extent that the chicks around here aren’t completely nuts to begin with]
lolzozlzozlzozlz
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Why are you laughing?
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I’d have to say it’s (1) a matter of lighting and (2) less nutritional intake during a war.
Looking at some of the pictures, they actually appear to get YOUNGER over time! See the black guy, where the effects of lighting are more evident. He looks like 3 different people.
p.s.
Great example of the West imploding on itself via black folk / diversity / “Muslims” / white women jumping on the diverse cocksa / ball-less white men:
1) Great pic of murdered beta & his fat wife:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077439/Woolwich-attack-why-was-suspect-Michael-Adebolajo-free-to-kill.html
There are actually videos that show the killer talking to the camera, waving bloody hands & cleavers, and 2 different women walk right by him, with expressions ranging from annoyed to indifferent.
2) Crazy killer gets hotter ass than the murdered beta. White women love the diverse cocksa that white men import into their country; do law-abiding betas ever feel tits like these?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077523/Woolwich-attack-My-ex-boyfriend-the-terror-suspect-was-a-lovely-polite-boy.html
3) Frumpy white woman forced to step up because no white men will.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077409/Woolwich-attack-I-looked-him-in-the-eye.-I-was-sure-he-wasnt-going-to-kill-me.html
The West, the end.
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I might be a little nuts, but I’ll go… I strongly preferred the middle picture every time, and was actually kind of shocked when I checked the link and saw those were all pictures of men in combat duty. Though maybe I shouldn’t have been, seeing as I’ve always tended to feel most attracted to men who are (or seem) fighting fit as opposed to gym fit and who have an air of alertness or focused readiness about them.
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A fitter man is always more attractive, yes. But enough game can compensate for pudginess pretty well. It’s almost like you have to be extra cnofident just to show confidence at all when you are pudgy, so its like the same dose of confidence gets you more alpha points when you are pudgy, but it’s still not enough to fully equal the attractiveness of a guy who is fit.
My little brother is a pudgy 5’6″ indian kid. That kid cleans up with la chicas like you cannot even believe.
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“Man’s first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead.” The Fountainhead.
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Yes. That project was commissioned by some antiwar group bent on visually “demonstrating” their wish fulfillment.
How about simple aging? Even year to year, the effects are discernible.
The true test would be to shuffle up the three pics and see if people put them in proper time order above chance. Otherwise it’s a propaganda hack job.
Being deployed to a theater of war is not the same as combat. Only civilian haters would think they’ve uncovered something profound. I simply do not trust “Lalage Snow’s” claims that these men have “seen combat.” I wouldn’t put straight-up photoshop fraudulence past them, since …
This is a product of “Upworthy.com,” an unabashed leftie outlet with less integrity than Pravda. I encourage you to go there. (I won’t link it lest I get locked in moderation until after CH’s vacation.) You will not be able to click on their site until you answer a push poll, which rewards robotic conformity.
Exposed:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/upworthy-or-how-we-are-losing-the-internet-to-lowest-of-low-information-young-liberals/
Next.
Matt
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I read that article, and it’s some scary shit.
Warren really is the favorite of low-information libtards.
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People always look different in photos and everyone’s perspective is different. But it’s how you look in person and how you stand and carry yourself. online is a whole different ball game
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Really it would go like this.
The Soft Man, The Hard Man, The Made Man
The first two make the third.
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Uh… “Made Man” generally has a positive connotation, which would not apply here. Perhaps “Unmade Man” would be better.
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It wouldn’t apply here…but guys need to know that it exists.
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1. hard, soft, checked out
2. checked out, soft, hard
3. soft, hard, checked out
This is more fun that Cosmo! Do I get a Skittle? 😉
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I didn’t realize who the people were (not that it should have mattered, I suppose). Silliness retracted.
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You already have a skittle. NOT for public.
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Wrong Kate. The middle photos are clearly different from the others.
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The middle photos of 1 and 2 look more “awake” than their first photos. 1’s last photo looks most haunted of the three men. 2’s first and last photos don’t look all that different. 3, to me, is the clearest demarcation.
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Hard, soft, checked out, checked out, soft, hard, soft, hard, checked out.
Yeah, I’ve been to that motel.–
How you doing, honey? 😉
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Very well, n/a. Very, very, very, very, very very well 🙂
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I belong to community, I belong to a fighting army, I belong to nothing
They just look dead in the last pic, like those who’s life has lost all meaning, their eyes are empty. They were once part of something amazing, they felt it and believed it too.
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Yep. You get it.
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Tough to assess. Were they all in the same unit at the same time? Who saw more combat? Who saw worse combat? Who sustained wounds?
If you want to *really* draw conclusions worth thinking about, photograph identical twins serving in uniform, where one sees combat and the other doesn’t.
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Yes, that would be a better method.
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I wonder what the faces of women would look like if (1) virginal, (2) after first time, (3) hardened prostitute. Maybe analogous (roughly).
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Right now the west has an ugly, soft mug. The long peace is fat and stale. People whine about “American decline” and prattle about “secession” and the “day of the rope.”
Well. There will be no secession, and no day of the rope. As soon as the Chinese believe it is possible, they will try and take Taiwan. This will probably occur in Hillary 2.
Chinese nukes are decent and they will be able to strike cities in the western United States. People who claim that cannot happen because “it is irrational” are fools and ignorant of history. Pride and spite will carry the day for fanatical Chinese nationalists and, with ignominy and defeat at the hands of the hated US inevitable, they will do what many have hungered to do.
When this happens, a real rain will fall and wash all the scum off the streets. All the problems discussed here will be solved by main force. Then you can sharpen your machetes, knot your ropes, and take the shears to the whores.
Until then it’s all talk. 😉
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Queue Sam Kinison: “I like the way you think.”
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Hillary Prunecunt will never be president.
The Chinese will get old before they get rich or powerful. They will have a dangerous period of young pussy-deprived men with no outlet for their frustrations, but that force is at least as likely to be directed against their totalitarian minders as it is against Taiwan or us.
Your Noah’s Ark fantasy is far less likely to occur than secession or even domestic backlash. “People who claim that cannot happen because ‘it is irrational’ are fools and ignorant of history.” Exactly. And what makes my scenarios even more likely to occur is the fact that it has happened before in our brief history. Secession, in the most profound, bloodiest way, not six generations ago. Domestic backlash, at least once every twenty years, sometimes violent, sometimes sublimated.
We are a republic, we give space for regular conflict and thereby contain it. “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire” (Federalist 10). This is the business we’ve chosen.
Matt
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Hillary is on her way; the Hag’s Reich will be realized.
The Chinese have an urgent need for resources and the Chicoms have an urgent need to maintain the country through war. We are bound by treaty to defend Taiwan and we will. The Chinese are bound to call that bluff with a female as US President. They are essentially mobsters and thugs and don’t realize that the US war machinery functions beyond any one President. They don’t understand that when it comes to war, Hillary might as well be Hank.
Things have been mighty peaceful round these here parts for some time. I don’t think we’ll see serious insurrection, despite the perfervid fantasia scrawled on the walls of this tiny Chateau.
Family business will be settled by world war, nothing less.
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Hillary is on her way; the Hag’s Reich will be realized.
Unfortunately, you may be right, considering the GOP will likely put up some squishy pro-amnesty pro-free-trade pro-Mideast-war type again, like McCain and Romney (yes, Romney would have pushed for amnesty).
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Romney is misjudged; I came to love the man. He had the excellent sureties of a 50’s sci-fi hero and believe me, that was the height so far. These Mormons are fecund and fearless. I blame his defeat on Superstorm Crowley. He would’ve been a great President.
Endless coolies coming over Porkchop Hill are nothing compared to the single-mom zombie hordes that will place Hillary on the throne.
In this matter women will act as one. Your “conservative” girlfriend will touch the screen for Hillary with all the glee that women bring to every naughtiness behind the curtain. She will lie and tell you she voted for some rube.–
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Endless coolies coming over Porkchop Hill are nothing compared to the single-mom zombie hordes that will place Hillary on the throne.
Golf clap… most droll… most sobering.
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“He had the excellent sureties of a 50′s sci-fi hero”
Really. Please enlighten us on Willard Romney’s unflinching moral principles.
Tax breaks for the wealthy don’t count.
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Hasn’t shithead Barry appointed you to be the new ambassador to Libya yet?
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Brother, you all but unzipped and revealed your weeping stanky mons with that codespeak. And you wonder why we take you the opposite of seriously?
Fuck.
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That alphie loves to squeak.
Lawd, could he possibly be any more predicable?
I’ve been hearing those hackneyed shibboleths for damn near 40 years now… it’s almost cute, how subsequent generations think their canned milquetoast Marxist protests and professor-approved railings against The Establishment is something unique.
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The U.S. And Britain will both do whatever the Israel Lobby wants them to do.
The only family business going on is a kosher one
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Whatevs. I’m not counting on the presidency anyway. It is a corrupt, unaccountable, self-governing superbureaucracy bloated larger than Hill’s thighs. Congress + statehouses + a Speaker with balls is the flanking plan, and only to hold the status quo, not for any affirmative political deliverance. Having a GOP milksop will be fine. Having an alienating, gray-bushed twat in there will be even better, to focus the animus.
Do you really think each of the 50 states will line up like lemmings to follow Blue State suicide? Some are already maneuvering for apocalyptic position. All we will need is a Boston “Massacre” or Fort Sumter or U.S.S. Maine for our inciting spark and the white man will instantly organize. That’s what we do. After sixty years of manliness sublimated into the sissified ambiguities of cold war and hundred-hour conflicts and the NFL and HD porn, do you think Joe Sixpack isn’t champing to demonstrate his quality?
That’s right, you’re not from Texas / As if I couldn’t tell. Laugh all you want at redneckism: the Scots-Irish Jacksonians will use any excuse for a throwdown. If it’s the Chinks, it’s the Chinks. If it’s the Census Man, okay then. Tonight we’re fucking or fighting.
One man makes his own majority, the “tiny walls” of its inception point notwithstanding. I just don’t get the morose doom-and-gloomers. Is it an age thing? Immanentize the eschaton, bring on the Unveiling (apo – kalyptein). Whatever it will be, it won’t be a bore, or “the little poison now and then that makes pleasant dreams,” our accursed condition today.
Rather:
When the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Americans.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonor not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made stateside, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble luster in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start.
The game’s afoot.
Matt
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Not from Texas but I’ve heard such *wonderful* things about Austin!
I’m from here:
Matt I like your spunk kid but I’m afraid there’s more belly than fire at the moment in the US of A. We need a big boom to get things going. And that’s not morose, that’s plain hopeful.
“Whose limbs were made in Texas, show us here”
Let’s keep the meter, pal. Thought about Yankee for “Americans” but it doesn’t sit well with Texas, does it?
Excelsior, my friend.
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Louisiana here. I didn’t know you were next door, Matt.
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I didn’t want to get too precious about it. “Stateside” also doesn’t fit, with regard to lexical stress.
To appropriate the work of a genius is to vandalize it, so I kept my adjustments obvious and to a minimum. Only fools attempt to mimic the craft of the greatest poet in history.
Though I did take the U’s out of “favour’d” and “dishonour.” Because I’m no limey fop.
The fire is resident in every man, if only a flicker in this “weak piping time of peace.” Add gas, instant flamethrower. Do not mistake my countrymen for the skinny-armed metrosex hipsters with scarf and knit hat whom our traitorous infotainment complex happens to be celebrating at the moment.
And you, good yeoman / … show us here / The mettle of your pasture; let us swear / That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not.
Doubt not.
Matt
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do you think Joe Sixpack isn’t champing to demonstrate his quality?
Good line
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We should harken swiftly to a policy opinionater who uses “whatevs” as a comment, like a 13 year old girl. Must be a ton of wisdom there.
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A female president will undoubtedly be seen as weakness by the rest of the world. Especially a liberal one who’s on record as not giving a shit about her own State Department employees getting hacked apart by a jihadist mob.
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“Secession, in the most profound, bloodiest way, not six generations ago.”
Off topic, but don’t you find it profound that for the last several years we have been passing through the 150th anniversaries of the epic battles fought in opposition to Abraham Lincoln’s Anti-Constitutionalistic Nihilism, yet we hear nary a word from the Frankfurt School mainstream media about those anniversaries?
This summer, on July 3rd, we will experience the 150th anniversary of the death of American constitutionalism, at Pickett’s Charge – do you think that the Frankfurt School will allow even five minutes to be devoted to a Pickett’s Charge story on a show like “Sunday Morning” or “Sixty Minutes” or “This Week” or “Good Morning America”?
I’m guessing we get nothing but crickets.
If a tree falls in the woods, and if the Frankfurt School forbids the story of the falling to be told, then the tree might as well not have ever fallen in the first place.
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They will be remembering it at Gettysburg, I can tell you that. A charge more destructive than that of the Light Brigade. I recently took a five hour tour of the battlefield and was fascinated to discover that at the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, there was a reunion of soldiers from both sides who camped out on the former battlegrounds. (Apparently only the Union soldiers had come to the 25th.) They determined from this convention to build a peace memorial with an eternal flame, which later inspired Jackie O to do the same for JFK’s gravesite. One of the most interesing things I learned about the three day battle was that there were only 2,400 inhabitants of the town who then had to deal with the care of an astronomical amount of wounded and burial of dead men. The entire town became a hospital.
http://www.gettysburg.travel/150/event.asp
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The only way we’ll see anything about it is if Honey Boo Boo et familia don grey caps and throw a picnic.
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The soft-jowled eunuchs have no past, they have no future. What’s history to them?
They won’t even bring knives to the gunfight. The best they have are pillows to bring, the ones they bite. Because they outlawed war, remember?
It will hardly be a struggle.
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You’re Frankfurt School obsessed. How do you sleep at night?
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My former colonel’s take on the future of America? That secession will happen along the same lines as those of the electoral map, and that the blue states will end up eating each other when the red states refuse to export grain.
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Yeah, like anyone will survive a nuclear exchange between superpowers. I also find this fatalism fascinating, it’s like you’re acting out some sort of revenge fantasy because the world isn’t the way you think it should be.
We’re getting nuked by China. There’s going to be civil war. Hyperinflation is going to collapse the world economy. Horses eating other horses. It’s fun to play out these scenarios in your imagination, but it’s all just mental masturbation.
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Personally, I see the undersexed Chinese guys turning the west coast of the United States into a veritable brothel before I see them nuking it.
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Not if they’re undersexed.
And they don’t like roundeye women anyway. They seem to prefer women from neighboring Asian countries.
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Chinese men will happily solve the Japanese demographic dilemma.
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Maybe not… marriage statistics seem to show that Japanese women prefer American and British men, but that Korean men will do in a pinch, being more available. Japanese still seem to look upon Chinese (as well as Filipinos and Thais) as their bitches.
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2005/11/29/international-marriage-still-means-japanese-man-and-asian-woman/
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“Chinese guys” don’t want to nuke anything; however, don’t expect an old and truculent party hack to exercise the same restraint.
That’s the point here.–
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It’s so HEROIC to just think of shit, shit, shit. I mean, everyone IS as malevolent as you, and it’s not partly you projecting, right? Kissy kiss!! xxx
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The Chinese of the River Valley, are unconcerned outside the Middle Kingdom – military imperial aggression on their part, is unlikely or impossible. Such acts are not in their character.
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You’re forgetting their slanty-eyed cousins. THE NORTH KOREAN MENACE:
I think I just uploaded n/a’s fever dream.
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… which uncoincidentally supports my point. This brand of awesome-o hypermasculinity is being channeled into sport and video games for the moment. It is not dead, merely sublimated. With every generation comes a fresh wave of irrepressible, youthful masculinity, the scourge and salvation of the world.
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Yuks aside, the North Koreans are useful to the Chicoms. China tamps them down from time to time and the Americans gush.
Asian commies are silky sly — it’s one of their weirdly endearing, cartoonish qualities.
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The Chinese economic boom — a quick and very dirty process that would’ve pleased the psychotic, chaos-loving Mao — is ending.
The only solution to this slow-motion crash, for the communist party, is military mobilization and war. It’s a natural progression. Chinese military expansion is proceeding at an almost Teutonically frenzied pace. They will take Taiwan.–
Do not mistake the “character” of the Chinese people for the character of their government. Two different things.
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The Chinese are in general a delightful people, happily burping over a rare plate of roast poodle; their government, however, is another matter entirely.
Remember that.
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The Chinese will never nuke the US or fight us directly. They have invested far too much time and money moving people here, buying real estate, etc. The Chinese aren’t idiots. They are very patient, and they will eventually control Russia, Canada and the US through the very simple mechanism of long term colonization.
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The same was said of the Japanese in the eighties. China also holds shitloads of US debt (just as Japan did and still does).
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why is the third one the pupils dialated
everyone think i’m on drugs cause my pupils are always fucking big but anyway
they were always like that
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Pupils might be dilated if they are on medication for PTSD.
Also, the middle photos all have pinprick pupils – normally a sign of anger or hostility while the larger pupils in pics 1 and 3 are related to happiness/fear.
For example see this study: http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v020272
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i think there is definitely something to the idea that active warfare brings coiled-up alphaness out of the shell. That said, I do think the lighting in the active warfare pics (shown on the website linked to CH’s post) lights up the eyeballs of the soldiers.engaged in active warfare, making them look more alpha than they perhaps really are.
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PTSD sucks. For everyone involved. Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, etc.
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You are looking at a combination of simple lighting tricks and circumstance.
The “during” photos all appear to have been shot with a fill flash, which increases the contrast between their irises and the whites of their eyes, while simultaneously making them squint just a little bit. It makes for an arresting, almost haunted, gaze.
Most of them are also just a bit thinner in the “during” pictures, for reasons that should be obvious, and this sharpens their jaws and cheekbones.
The “before” and “after” pictures, by contrast, appear to have been shot with ambient light. Since the light is coming down on their faces, it causes their eyesockets to fill with shadow, giving them a dull, slightly flat appearance in the eyes.
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And yet…
“Prolonged stress cripples the hippocampus, which is full of cortisol receptors and therefore highly responsive to stress signals. It particularly degrades executive function, motor skills and declarative memory processes. The excess cortisol of sustained stress degrades hippocampal plasticity (capacity for continuous alteration of neural pathways) and hippocampal dendritic morphology (disconnects neural networks by decreasing the number of apical dendrite branch points).”
etc. The effects of prolonged stress are real and manifest physically.
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Another bit from the same article:
” Men who received the SIT [stress innoculation training] appraised stimulants as less stressful, displayed higher coping competence and had a reduced cortisol response compared with the control group. These findings suggest that stress inoculation training will attenuate soldiers’ combat stress response.”
Think that has any Game applications? I do.
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Your expertise makes my ovaries tingle. Make love to me.
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Not if you’re going to keep crying afterwards. You left snot and greasepaint all over my good towels last time.
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I told you. I had something in my eye.
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That exchange was awesome.
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interesting
it prob does change you a bit
I didn’t see a chick for two days she came back and had no soul
it was gone
weird shit
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ok
i think i need to hear this story
in its entirety
because i just read your comment three times and i have no idea what you’re talking about
pls deliver story in free verse if that’s possible
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The middle pictures seem to have a longer focal length as well.
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I like the presence in all the middle faces.
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Rather than proving that a person can become more or less alpha, these pictures seem to show that the dichotomy between alpha and beta is awkward and could probably be replaced by something more accurate. Alpha is a relative term which refers to hierarchies (it would be interesting to see the ranks and responsibilities of the different soldiers and see if that affects their faces), whereas these guys, within well-defined hierarchies, go through a transition to more masculine and then more care-worn.
Ultimately your face will tell your story, which is a reason why manipulating people into overestimating your apparent value can only take you so far.
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1) Mark Addy
2) Jon Manfrellotti
3) Keir Dullea… or maybe Christopher Walken.
Send the cookie FedEx.
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The 3rd shot is after they converted to Islam.
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From left to right the pictures say,
1.”Huh? I may have to kill someone?”
2. You gotta problem? Don’t make me kill you too.”
3. “Fuck, can’t believe I killed people.”
But yeah, the beta is on the left, the hardened alpha is in the middle, and the divorce-court-raped beta is on the right.
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But yeah, the beta is on the left, the hardened alpha is in the middle, and the divorce-court-raped beta is on the right.”””””””””””””””’
holy fuck man too much truth in that
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The one two three analysis is correct right and so.
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One thing I like, having now read the link: the “during war” ones look ready to kick ass, and the US armed forces *will* kick your fucking ass, bitch.
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Are we sure these photos weren’t taken before/during/after a meal at Outback?
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Ahahaha
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before/during/and after fucking this bitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nvYyGTmcP80
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The guys on the far left and far right are really unappealing. They ALL look best in the middle photo. If the leftists are trying to use this as anti-war propaganda it totally has the opposite effect! If all men had the middle face from living in a state of constant war, me (and lots of other girls) would likely be in a state of constant tingle!
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I think life can change the way you look. I used to look so soft, big eyes, welcoming eyebrows etc. Then I started drinking and going to rough bars. Just last week one of my haters, and I do have a lot of them, threw me on the floor and tried to strangle me, and it’s not the first time something like that happens (I’m too confident for my small size, they hate it when I’m not afraid of them). I look tougher now, after two years of living like this, my eyes are smaller and my eyebrows are angry (one girls told me I had very dominant eyes, another girl told me I had a charm like a serial killer with nothing behind the eyes). I met a girl I hadn’t seen for a year. She immediately said, “wow, your voice has changed. It’s so powerful now.” Life changes you, a tough life makes you look tough.
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I look massively alpha during sports,even sailing,let alone physically tough shit like rowing.
Same applies to soldiers- excercise and concentration change appearance
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I find all 3 middle ones most attractive.
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Could be the eyes, they have more contrast in the middle picture, especially the outer rings around the eyes.
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If this is anti-war exhibit, then as often happens with anti-war art, the appeal of war – for men – breaks through.
Military service contains an essence of masculinity that is being reduced in modern civilian society. In (pre-Communist) Marxist philosophical terms, we are alienated from our essential manhood in the normal modern social environment. These soldiers have reconnected with their essential manhood in war. Marx also holds that real-world philosophical application must be social and practical activity. As such, in war, these men have re-engaged their essential manhood with fellow men, a band of brothers, doing the same. When they go home, they and their fellow soldiers who were essentially men in the war are once again estranged from their essential manhood in the normal modern social environment.
This is not to dismiss the terrible traumatic cost of war nor devalue the benefits of modern society. But the cost of war does come with benefits and the benefits of modern society do come with a cost. Picture 1 shows men who don’t know better, so are satisfied with their lot. The change from picture 2 to picture 3 shows, among other things, men who have been awakened in their masculine element and then their loss after being removed from their element.
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If this is anti-war exhibit, then as often happens with anti-war art, the appeal of war – for men – breaks through.
An excellent point… to my eye, the middle pics put these faces in their best light… figuratively.
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The change to checked out in the last pictures is clear in all cases. The change from beta to alpha from the first to the second pictures is only apparent in some of the pictures. Heck, one or two of them seem like they might be the opposite.
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I imagine the female version is virgin, carousel rider, cat shelter.
And the change in the face is 100 times worse.
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Take 2: 1st reply didn’t post; don’t know if it will show up later.
I would tweak the female version to ingenue (virgin is fine, too), dominant alpha’s lover in her prime, supplicating beta’s wife after the wall.
A man immersed in the vigor of war is akin to a woman in a torrid love affair with a dominant alpha. Both involve connecting with their essence in an intense, bruising way that sears the soul.
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Here here. Give this man a steak.
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Make that 2 steaks for these two.
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i have actually given thought to the possibility of me living too comfortably killing my motivation and mood. on prewar photos they do indeed look very wussy.
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Off topic folks, but is it really? It seems this topic is always appropriate.
These are the cannibals the liberals let into our countries. They chop westerners’ heads off.
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Maybe they are just aging, it takes a little under a year to go from civilian to soldier, with added stress etc. And usually the biggest change/maturing from boy to man is 16-22 (enlistment age is 16 in the UK, I believe)
But in general, I agree a man can become more or less alpha because of life experiences most omegas I know were cuckolded alphas/beta. Cuckolding really is like rape, it can change a person.
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OT but funny as fuck (chicks dig jerks part eleventybillion):
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Second time this has been posted here. Good opportunity to point something out: this is for kids aged 18 to 22. Same with most of what is written here: much of the super-asshole-game type advice here is for KIDS IN COLLEGE. It is an entirely different ballgame for folks in their 30s operating anywhere that is not on a college campus or a beach during spring break. Need much more provider-beta type game. Anyone disagree?
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Its called the thousand yard stare. Thats what people who have been in combat call it.
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P.S. Those dudes’ facial expressions reflect their current state of mind – ie, their thoughts, so remembering what Henry Ford said,”Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right,” if you think you are beta, your face will show it; if you think you are alpha, your face will show it.
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Look it until you make it.
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Interesting. I would make a good low alpha/high beta or checked out series of pictures. Looking at my it’s like how am I not getting laid constantly and others I look like pretty much dead inside. Of course I also suffer from severe mental illness and I’m sure this has an affect on how I look at any given time.
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Pick the alpha? is this tiger beat?
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I know former marines who fought in Fallujah. Most of them had that cold dark look in their eyes like their souls were sucked out of them. You just knew instinctively not to fuck with them.
Interestingly, women too can have that look. Most of these women were used up by players, drugs, traumatic experiences, or some combination of these, in my opinion.
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the mid ones are always the most “testosterone filled” versions of themselves. You can see it on their faces; It’s the same thing with people who never did martial arts (who were sedentary) had feminine faces- but in time they looked different (way back in my taekwondo days when I fought for high school) it was as if their facial bones changed as well.
FYI domestic swines when exposed to the wild were found to exhibit a change in their facial bone structure in reaction to hormonal changes in their body. it is not far from posibility that we experience that as well
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These photos bring back memories… I recall during my first deployment about 3/4 of the way through one of the other squad leaders in my platoon commented that I no longer looked like the baby-faced 22 year old that had left ‘Merica 9 months previous. I looked older and “something had changed.” Mind you, I was no Popeyes eating POG, but a grunt.
Fast-forward almost ten years (where did the time go?) and I get a lot of comments from the womynz that they are scared of me or were intimidated until I talked to them (I am 6’ 4″, 220lbs too)… Even from 9s and 10s. I’ve even had arguments with exes about how I “scare people.”
It’s amazing how that experience changed my whole outlook from beta pussy worshiper to somebody who didn’t have time to waste listening to bullshit because life is too short. Basically, once you realize life is too short and outside of a handful of individuals who have EARNED your trust, the public in general is your servant. Extract what you can and dont let “morality” get in your way. That’s some shit for rubes.
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“EARNED your trust, the public in general is your servant. Extract what you can and dont let “morality” get in your way. That’s some shit for rubes.”
And you are surprised the manboobs and pussies are scared? Really?
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Not surprised, more like perplexed.
When one undertakes such an endeavor, the transpiring events don’t seem exceptional. Everyone else around you is doing it too. What’s so great about that? The events harden everyone but its not something you realize until you leave that group.
People I have met as a civilian are just much more “cunty.” They don’t understand that edge or need for aggression and confrontation. And to that end, they don’t understand the sacrifice, which leads to the puss boi behavior we see by most. Nobody beats their ass for acting like a bitch. Money and “power” today are not the same and it is a ruse through which one can easily see. I’d venture a guess that those with either or both tremble at the site of a true alpha because they know they are at his mercy.
Sparta doesn’t sound bad.
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gotta agree.
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The typical anti-war theory would hold that you were “scarred” by your experiences. A shift in perspective, now that you mention it, seems far more likely.
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“what you are seeing here is evidence that a man can become more alpha or less alpha, in disposition”
As an aspie with a constant poker face, I guess I’m screwed.when it comes to having an ‘alpha’ disposition.
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Poker faces can be alpha.
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Poke-her-face is a pretty alpha move.
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heartiste, you gonna weigh in on this decapitation business in the UK?
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Great post.
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So war makes a man, any man, harder, edgier? Who da thunk it?
I hope this is just a slow day at CH. Even Alphas need some R&R, yes?
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This “art” project is pretty stupid. I wonder how many people would even be able to grasp the significance, or jump to the same conclusions, if the photos had been taken with the same lighting conditions, and without the “artist’s” explanatory blurb. i.e. if we had not been told these are “before during and after” combat, would people still be trotting out all the “dead-eyed” “jaded” “world-weary” cliches? I doubt it.
What would be interesting would be if (a) the pics were shot under equal lighting conditions, (b) the before/during/after shots were jumbled up, and (c) a few “decoys” were included – photos of guys who had not served at all, but had merely aged over the same period in a regular 9-5 job.
It’s also interesting that the “during” photos are almost universally more “handsome” looking, IMO (even more obvious in the linked website). I suppose part of it is due to being in better physical shape.
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it’s the eyes. i know that look all too well. they’re focused on the task at hand because someone could die if you fuck up. the before picture reeks of naivety. in the after photo, they’ve aged.
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If you can imagine a mainland invasion of the United States by a coalition of China and her allies, I would be willing to wager that leftist liberals would be hand wringing and surrendering in massive numbers. Whether the Red Han keep them as slaves or execute them outright is anyones guess.
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That’s why I own guns and know krav. I realize the threat and I plan on going down swinging when the huns are at the gates.
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Same here. I’d rather go on top of a pile of yellow bodies. Everytime I see some guy who says something to the effect of not being proficient with a gun, or worse, against them, I want to rip their face off.
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Any woman can shoot a gun; edge weapons are a much more honest expression of martial skill.
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Nah… the Chinese menace will be dying out in a few decades. Their mean age is like 40 now. And Latinos, Indians and even the muzzies are dropping toward replacement level, if not below it.
If there’s an endless horde we’ll have to worry about in the future, it’s far more likely to be Africans.
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There’s a good novel on the premise of an invasion of the USA by China:
Invasion by Eric Harry.
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off topic – women like thugs: london killer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077523/Woolwich-attack-My-ex-boyfriend-the-terror-suspect-was-a-lovely-polite-boy.html
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What would you expect a coalburning slut to say?
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Possibly a post from Heartiste about how chicks dig jerks might be forthcoming. She seemed to have a wonderful body and a decent face. As a former American Soldier who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I wish the murdered British soldier named Lee Rigby, our ally, and brother to Rest in Peace and sympathize for his family. He made it out alive out of Afghanistan, but not Londonbad, Britainstan. If we had a sane West, his murderers would be publicly executed and these immigrants and their descendants would have never been allowed in to our countries. Most people aren’t bad no matter what their race, ethnicity or religion, but a few are, and having incompatible populations of different people living in the same nation is a bad idea.I predict that there will be more attacks on currently serving military and veterans..
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Bull to the shit. No valid conclusion can be drawn by looking at snapshots. If you had a camera taking a photo of you every ten seconds as you went through your life, you would appear alternately dopey, handsome, pensive, angry, mysterious, faggy, on the verge of tears, frightened, constipated, disgusted, ugly, weak, tough, et cetera, even if you were doing nothing but reading a book or watching TV the whole time. These photos are meaningless for drawing any conclusions about these men of any sort.
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Agreed to some degree- Certainly a subtle change in facial expression you could do without even realizing it is capable of completely altering the perception of your demeanor. But at the same time, if you were repeatedly asked to stare blankly into a camera for a photo, you’d probably be inclined to revert back to the same expression each time. Not sure about this one.
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PIECE OF CAKE.
1. “A man who has checked out?”
2.”face of a hard alpha?”
3.”A soft beta?”
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Hormones control personality. And the experiences in life affect those hormones. Scientist refer to the plasticity of personality. Loss, stress, and low status will incur cortisol and that cortisol destroys the collagen under the skin and cause the sunken and hollow cheeks.
Manual and masculine work, sex, expectation of sex and most especially victory produces testosterone which enhances male capacity, thought, strength, status, and sexual success.
And furthermore testosterone stomps cortisol and offsets the effects of stress.
No you cannot go alpha on a dime. But you can purposefully and deliberately raise your level of testosterone.
Roosh lists two Keystone Habits. Lifting heavy weight on a regular schedule with proper nutrition and proper training regiment and technique. And second he approaches one woman a day. Both will raise the level of testosterone.
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Any really good actor can do this. Watch Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man, and then in Boardwalk Empire. In the first role, his every visual and expressive cue gives off the vibe of a wimpy nebbish; in the second, that of a terrifying, ruthless predator. Same man with the same body and the same face, just playing a different role.
So yes, Heartiste, point well taken.
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truly amazing. all those guys look more alive in the middle of a war, and seriously depressed after it. no wonder Hemingway was a war-coholic but killed himself during the lightness of the peace time.
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wall approaching hamster of the year submission:
http://www.gq.com/contributors/siobhan-rosen
would the chateau mind ripping this apart?
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I just read her angry nerds article on that list. It’s really good actually. Very true, I think. Angry nerds-turned alpha are the worst to date. They are the meanest most resentful bunch you can find. Natural alphas, who may even be considerably more alpha than nerd-turned alpha are much better partners.
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Was it Whiskey who noted, once or twice, that women hate hate hate betas?
Lol.–
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A natural greater beta is generally much better than an angry nerd turned alpha.
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Think about how jargon-laden and insane that sentence you just wrote really is. 😉
A simple “beta” is already stretching it, but it suffices for Whiskey’s very accurate observation.
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Shocking, men who used to get treated like shit by girls treat girls like shit when they have the upper hand.
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Not alpha. Alpha mimic.
There is no resentment in the alpha male. There is no real resentment in the beta male either, strictly speaking. Betas are strivers, looking to supplant the alpha, worthy of taking his place.
What you’re looking at are the outcasts/omegas who did a little razzle dazzle and got up your skirt.
The culture would be healthy if it were populated with true beta males — men working hard to seize their opportunity when they spy it. No, we are a culture of omega men and mimics (“play”-ers of “game[s]”).
At the same time, though, “angry nerds” is a good turn of phrase, and you should employ it liberally in your female capacity as judge of men.
Matt
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No need. If her hamster (author is female) spins with any greater velocity she will rip her own body, and possibly her entire trailer park, apart.
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I’ve read 2 of the four there and her articles seem pretty realistic as well as funny. How about you articulate for yourself what you don’t like about it?
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I think it’s going to come apart on its own. Stand well clear.
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No need. If her hamster spins any faster the force will rip HER apart.
Any articles written by zebras for lions on how to eat is suspect.
Guilty until proven guilty.
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Any articles written by zebras for lions on how to eat is suspect.
Well-put… that goes for historical accounts written by those whose ox had been gored, either in fact or in their imagination.
On a lighter note, found this gem:
Siobhan Rosen is the pseudonym this writer made up so that her grandmother would never know that semen has touched her face …
Our charming arbiters of Kultur just can’t do enough, what with that high IQ of theirs.
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She’s a typical JAP metroslut, writing in a laddie mag like a lad. Her style is amusing and execution skillful. That is enough.
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Did you know their is a male feminist website called manboobz?
I’d troll but as to be expected, the comment policy is tighter than a nuns pork pocket.
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Siobhan Rosen is the pseudonym this writer made up so that her grandmother would never know that semen has touched her face …
LOOZOLZLZLZLZOZOZOZLZLZLZL… oh, those wacky high IQ’s YKWs… arbiters of Kultur, they are.
P.S. Beware… you’ll never post in this town again… like the erstwhile Greg Eliot.
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Siobhan Rosen is the pseudonym this writer made up so that her grandmother would never know that semen has touched her face …
Another gem, from the arbiters of our Kultur. What will those high IQ types think of next?
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Her article about nerds is so god damn awful. Her argument is that all women love and seek nerds, and yet nerds are angry because women never had an interest in them.
On top of this, she admits that she is overweight, and just can’t understand why boys seek thin girls.
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Where is thwack
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Hanging from yonder tree, I guess.
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No self-respecting tree would sport that strange fruit.
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A very Heartistey new story
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The middle pictures recall the CH post about photos chronicling the distinctly masculine look of American men during the Great Depression.
Also, the men look *happy* in the middle pictures.
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Mystery stated to be a fun/confident guy and don’t try to be the coolest/toughest guy.
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Heads up, Heartsie: more scientific grist for the Chateau mill…
http://www.science20.com/catarina_amorim/how_female_promiscuity_can_be_smart_move_evolution-95169#comment-124882
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“All creators are hard.”
“The harder the material,
the more accurate the form”
We’re righteous when hard!
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When you go through hell, you see life totally different.After the hell ride is over, you look at the world as a spectator rather than a participant. After the hell, you look at those being enveloped by the hell and they seem pretty intent and even enjoying it. You see them and shake your head because you know none of them know the true hell they are about to see, and you also know not even half are going to survive.
You see that today, as Washington, DC keeps pissing on our rights. There are some who know the hell is coming, and are prepared. Some have already resolved to fight.
With every day that we hear of some rag head stabbing someone over in Europe, we know it is coming here soon enough. And yet, the beta tells us to not blame the religion. The alpha has to fight back the urge to rip the beta’s throat out. We FUCKING KNOW it isn’t ALL FUCKING RAGHEADS! But, we also know it can be hard to tell the difference between the ones who will stab you and the ones who will not.
We just pray that when they do reveal themselves, that they kill you first so you aren’t in the way when we take them out.
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As a woman: I didn’t look at the labels, just asked myself which photo was sexiest.
In all photos: Middle was sexier than first, usually sexier than last. (There were two where the 3rd was the most appealing but almost all were best in the middle.)
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[…] the entire say in how your face can transform, your face also reflects the going-ons of your mind. Heartiste linked to and analyzed a set of pictures showing men’s faces before, during and after war. I was […]
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They all look better in the middle, ‘during war’ pics because they are lean and fit as well as going through intense experiences that are ramping up their testosterone production. Basic training strips all the fat out of your face and reveals masculine bone structure. My BIL lost all the puffiness in his face during training, he’s not getting deployed for the first time until next week. #1 reason why I prefer naturally lean and thin men. Chubby cheeks are so unsexy.
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