Another sign that we are living in the r-selected age of a rising cad/tramp society (and a declining dad/damsel society) is the perception among women that having a low marital market value (LMMV) won’t hurt their long-term romantic prospects or rebound to their eventual unhappiness.
Reader duderino writes,
I broke it off with a fuck buddy a while back and she posted this popular meme, directed at me.
“I’m not the girl you’re going to marry, but I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years from now when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline”
Try-Hard Level 99: Unlocked.
It’s weird to live in a time when girls brag about not being wife material. To me this (and the weird new pop songs) is a defense mechanism. Girls are giving it up without even a realistic chance of commitment now, and this was their post rationalization they had any power in the situation. In the time society tells them they are supposed to be empowered, most of them are feeling cheap and used.
That’s why women have to keep telling themselves they are expensive and factory fresh. The more reality harshes their mellow, the bigger the toke they have to take off the anti-reality blunt.
She wasn’t anything special, for the record.
Duly noted, and duly unsurprised. (You will hardly ever hear exquisitely beautiful and exceptionally self-possessed women trash talk in this manner. IM THE TOWN HO YOU’LL BE JERKING OFF TO IN TWENTY YEARS is the pained oinking of mediocre m’ladies and bitterbitch spinsters.)
A lot of this is sour grapes. A girl who has a shitty personality and little in the way of looks to compensate will find it psychologically comforting to pretend to herself and others that she never wanted those juicy wedding day grapes hanging just out of her reach. The best thing to do with girls like this is set phasers to “ignore”. The butthurt attention whore fears social isolation more than anything. If you want to twist the cosmic shiv a little before departing her presence, answer her womanly rant with a curt “gay”.
Donning the CH sociological omniscience cap for a moment, the turn by women away from selling themselves as worthy marital properties (and a concomitant turn by men away from selling themselves as dutiful provider betas) is a totally expected emergent sexual market phenomenon when marriage rates are down, age of first marriage is up, fertility is down, the Pill is up, and women can generally get by economically supporting themselves and their bastard spawn through SJW enforcer jobs or government largesse (itself redistributed from the efforts of reviled white beta males).
The devil is in the details. It’s the little things like this — woman crowing about their low MMV — which escape datanauts and statisticians combing through coarse sociological signposts for theories about where we are and where we’re all heading. In time, the little details of societal collapse add up to an epic story of shit, and an ending no one can confuse for fiction.
“Is she perverted like me
Would she go down on you in a theatre
Does she speak eloquently
And would she have your baby
I’m sure she’d make a really excellent mother”
In the song, that’s a bad thing.
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yeah, alanis morisette was the beginning of the end when it comes to female music idols who hate on men.
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didn’t she lose it to joey from full house?
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That is a perfect example. After that I do no think that Alanis Morisette got her personal life in order until about 5 years ago. In her mid 30s right as the biological clock was about to tick its last tock.
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Truly sick. Women are in for a rude awakening…
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Som say no evil thing that walks by night
In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen,
Blew meager Hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost,
That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time,
No goblin, or swart faery of the mine,
Hath hurtfull power o’re true virginity.
-John Milton, Comus
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[…] Girls Bragging About Their Low Marital Market Value […]
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“I’m not the girl you’re going to marry, but I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years from now when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline”
That meme is a twig on the gurrl power tree, but that tree is about how everyone and all traits are equal. Fat is as good as thin, everyone is beautiful, everyone is great, everyone is a genius. The leftist intellectual bribe to the lazy and weak and freaky: there are no goals to accomplish, and therefore there are no standards to live up to.
But then she insults his “boring wife”. Funny how the equalists immediately turn to condemning other people’s behavior or traits, real or imaginary, without seeing the contradictions in their beliefs.
Of course, the equalism is only about THEM being perfect. Not the people they hate. Like married women who don’t get wasted thrice a week and tattoo their chests.
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Isn’t it a mirroring of the Alpha male – meaning that the Alpha makes Alpha widows who can’t extract commitment from him but who nevertheless gave him their sexual best and rank him as the pinnacle of their sexual experiences? Except, the sexes not being the same, being a transitional easy/good lay for a woman with multiple partners is an indication of low status, rather than high status, whereas extracting commitment and resource provisioning from a HMV male is high status.
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I’m not sure if I understand that first part of your post correctly. But as for alpha men (“male” sounds like animals which is why feminists so often talk about men as “males”), it is a misconception that those who have good game will go from woman to woman. Almost all will stop searching when they find a woman who is girlfriend material.
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There was a time when intentionally damaging yourself through action, inaction, or wilfull negligence to disqualify yourself from the fray was considered an offence and categorised as Self Inflicted Injury (SII)and would have got you in front of a firing squad. It was later downgraded to psychological disorder and renamed Deliberate Self Harm (DSH)and resulted in medical exemption from gene selective frontline service.
Females that are getting themselves tattooed and pierced and allowing themselves to pile on pounds through self indulgence and then claim its because they don’t consider they are marriage market material are in that DSH mindset and SII category. Psychological intervention required? Definetly. Firing Squad? In the worse cases.
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Females that are getting themselves tattooed and pierced
Here’s one Mila Ryshkova. A beautiful girl – except that for some reason she decided to disfigure her own skin. A clear case of how beauty is marred by tattoos.
Even putting another person’s face on her skin – why do people do that? You can’t parasitize on someone else’s accomplishments by attaching her picture to you.
This girl is apparently a model, so she gets money for her looks. What makes her think she will improve those looks by ruining the smoothness of her skin? It is insanity. But it is an insanity pushed by Hollywood, so then it’s safe to join it.
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That’s it exactly. It’s like drawing a permanent marker moustache on the Mona Lisa to devalue it to the price of modern art grad’s meaningless and amateurish squiggle. Doing it to oneself because it’s currently a sign of empowerment has surely got to be deliberate self harm or self inflicted injury. A psychological disorder at best, iconoclastic self inflicted injury at worst.
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I’ve also noticed how girls and young women today will freely admit that they cannot cook anything (“I’m useless in the kitchen!”) and are almost proud of this fact. it seems cooking (and housework/cleaning) is an activity which is beneath today’s pampered princesses.
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i am working on raising one of the good girls of the future. her mother’s failures have made her hunger for a large stable family and a happy husband and father in the home. so when i say “you need to learn to cook for your 6 kids” she actually nods happily. she’s 15 and most things i say go over like a lead balloon. long way to go but i can hope
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hold on dad;
what color is she?
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good for you.
and hopefully she can put it all together and see that her mother’s current life miseries are a direct result of her own choices and failures instead of thinking…my mom made lots of mistakes but it all turned out okay anyway. she found a decent guy who loves her, takes care of her, her life is good, etc. etc.
i’m sure the mom blames everyone else for all her mistakes so she isn’t going to be the greatest teacher but it’s important for kids to see that actions do have consequences and have someone around who will help them recognize that. it’s really the only chance they have of breaking the cycle of destruction.
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white. i doubt it will literally happen. but the idea of a large happy family is what i’m going for. not unheard of in whites of the past. so she needs to stay home, cook, and make a happy home possible
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“my mom made lots of mistakes but it all turned out okay anyway. she found a decent guy who loves her, takes care of her, her life is good, etc. etc.”
good point Mac. that’s exactly how young people see things too. doesn’t matter what anyone tells them or what advice they get from other people if what they see in real life tells a different story.
because they are always going to focus on the proof that the easy way is an option and ignore the proof that they should live on the straight and narrow. so yeah, we can tell them to do the right thing, but when men are still out there getting into relationships with broken women, providing for them, cleaning up their messes, etc. young girls are going to keep thinking they can screw up their lives and still get the happy ending.
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@burke
i’m not gonna bash you for being with a single mom (been there done that) and you’re doing a noble thing trying to help raise a good kid. but is this the girlfriend who furrows her brow when you tell the kid what’s up?
“her mother’s failures” failures…plural? does that mean a lot of lost jobs, multiple marriages, relationships, and/or baby daddies? one lost job, one bad marriage, those aren’t deal breakers for me. other guys will think otherwise but it really does depend on the circumstances and some of the best women i’ve known have been divorced moms, had kids, etc.
but a string of bad relationships, career failures, or whatever? that’s a problem.
mom’s not happy when you give good practical advice to her daughter even though she’s been irresponsible with her own life and her kid’s life. so she isn’t owning up to her crap and she’s obviously not on the same page with you. she’s probably giving contradictory advice and disrespecting you whenever she has the chance.
so aside from taking on responsibilities that aren’t yours, it seems like you’re fighting a losing battle, and wasting your best years on an unworthy woman.
i’m not trying to give you a hard time here but what are you doing man? you staying with this chick until the kid/kids move out? finish college? get married?
time slips away before you know it bro. it’d be a shame if you spent your best years with a broken woman and living your life for someone else’s dream.
you at least have an exit plan, right? and the kid, does she see what a train wreck her mom is? there is some hope for her if she does.
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Also pathetic how proudly they exclaim their ability to “be a bitch”… as if THAT were a badge of honor. (((shakin’ mah haid)))
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And they say it with that shit-eating-grin and scrunched up nose face so as to entice, when it merely disgust.
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also seems like a lot of these (and there are a _lot_) are fat and trying to avoid the reality of their fatness making them lonely. they’re just too ‘fierce’ (read: ‘fat’ and ‘obnoxious’) for anyone but a ‘real’ (read: ‘blind’ or ‘black’) man to handle
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“they’re just too ‘fierce’ (read: ‘fat’ and ‘obnoxious’) for anyone but a ‘real’ (read: ‘blind’ or ‘black’) man to handle”
yeah, it’s everywhere. even with the non-fatties who just have bad personalities.
can’t handle sarcasm? you’re just too dumb to get my jokes, can’t handle me at my worst? then you don’t deserve me at my best. my profanity and rudeness offends you? you’re just not man enough to handle a strong women. tons of that out there.
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@88
They don’t see the irony in quoting Marilyn Monroe.
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Fred Reed said it when he described our society as “arrogantly ignorant”. Either alone is bad enough but the two together are the ultimate ipecac cocktail, like kimchi + distilled diarrhea.
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yep. even the sweet ones who try suck at it (they burn it) and I must do it if I want an edible meal.
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Agreed, you can’t eat chicken fucking salad 5 days a week.
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20 years from now he’ll be thinking about someone 20 years younger than her, or _maybe_ her from 20 years before. and a receding hairline will be the least of her present-day-partner’s problems if her smv trajectory continues apace
it is truly sad that no one taught her where (and when) her value was, and what might make her happy long-term
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You have just defined the role a Father’s used to play in his daughters upbringing.
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i’m probably late to notice but twitter suspended @heartiste in case anyone can more effectively heap scorn on them than i can
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“the bigger the toke they have to take off the anti-reality blunt.”
So awesome!
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Liberalism is literally the War on Reality.
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Liberalism is the struggle against the struggle for existence.
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In the same vein of this post, someone I know who just completed a divorce found this meme directed at him the day the ink dried: “One day you will wake up and realize how perfect she was. When that day comes, she will be waking up beside the man who already knew.”
Backstory- he was an ex-player turned dutiful provider for their 2 kids (youngest barely 6 months old) while she was lying about classes and other things so she could sneak off and fuck some instructor at her posh racquet club behind his (and the family’s back). He caught her red-handed one day and initiated the divorce.
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they literally choose not to see or believe in their own sluttiness
which interestingly is what good pickup often feels like– helping her put on the blinders and let her believe she is swept away in a whirlwind of excitement. ‘i never do this’ ‘what are we doing’ etc, just give her a plausible (to herself) excuse and she’ll go farther than you’d ever guess.
monsters
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Well, we did just spend millions to find out why dykes are fat, so I guess we’re gonna see more studies.
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“IM THE TOWN HO YOU’LL BE JERKING OFF TO IN TWENTY YEARS”
no girl grows up with this as her goal. they’re already thinking about getting married to prince charming before they know what jerking off is.
“You will hardly ever hear exquisitely beautiful and exceptionally self-possessed women trash talk in this manner”
exactly. it’s now easier than ever before to spot the bad ones. society doesn’t force them to have a filter anymore, so you know what you’re getting right away.
“when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm”
interesting that the madonna/whore complex has crossed into women’s thinking now. it’s like they’re just spitting our thoughts back at us because they don’t have original thoughts of their own.
quality girls know that behind closed doors she’s yours to do with as you please and that this in no way affects her ability to be a loving mother. if anything it makes her a better mother because her total devotion to her husband is essential in keeping the family unit strong.
“sexual market phenomenon when marriage rates are down, age of first marriage is up, fertility is down”
not for the top girls. nothing has changed for them.
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all good comments and with regard to this:
“You will hardly ever hear exquisitely beautiful and exceptionally self-possessed women trash talk in this manner”
“exactly. it’s now easier than ever before to spot the bad ones. society doesn’t force them to have a filter anymore, so you know what you’re getting right away.”
totally agree.
you can figure out most girls within minutes of talking to them and that makes it easy to filter out the bad ones.
they put everything out on social media too which is handy. i don’t get people who say we should all get off facebook, twitter, etc. there is a wealth of information out there and it’s stupid not to take advantage of it.
even if a girl’s facebook profile is private and you aren’t friends on there, a lot of them have their movies, music, likes, etc. set to public. and you can do a facebook search of her recent likes and comments in the search field. anything that’s public or on a page of a mutual friend shows up there. lots of stuff usually shows up and it’s a good quick way to get a read on what a girl is into, her attitude, priorities, etc.
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her beta wuss father must be very proud
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On a related note – I just read an article about how women are outraged that Ben Seewald (husband of Jessa Duggar from 19 and Counting) made a social media post where he told young women to respect themselves and not slut it up for guys who just want to use them for sex. Apparently this advice is now considered demeaning to woman because it assumes that women don’t want to be used as sexual playthings by cads.
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He’ll probably be thinking he’s glad he did not marry her.
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“I dodged a bullet.”
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a couple of thoughts somewhat related. So first, I have noticed that women put absolutely 0 effort into trying to be polite. Whether I am buying something, or just its some chance encounter, it is almost always the case that if the woman is younger, she doesn’t say hi, smile, respond, or anything. Second, regarding statistics I had a thought. So they say immigrants have the same crime rate as americans, at least according to something I saw in the news but that surprises me. So I thought, what if the threat of being deported lowers their crime rate? second gen immigrants apparently are more criminal but they don’t have a deportation risk. I would like to see the crime rate of people before and after entering the states to see if there is a difference.
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just a short and incomplete retort to that headline
1. asians and europeans commit less crime, bring down average for ‘immigrants’
2. el paso ‘safest city’ is very non-black so has lower average crime than most of usa (black crime > hispanic crime > the rest)
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https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/rupert-murdoch-is-a-lying-liar/
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I will repeat, I want to see crime statistics of hispanic immigrants from before and after they cross the border. Wouldn’t the threat of being deported lower crime? If that is true then it answers something important about them.
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Same crime rate as “Americans”. Blacks are only 12 percent of the population but commit slightly more than 50 percent of all murders. They are counted as “Americans” in the statistics. (Even though it is absurd to count non-Whites as Americans. No matter what the politicians have put in some document. You don’t become a member of someone’s family by standing on his front lawn.)
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checking out your twitter feed, @heartiste. “Account suspended” wtf?
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It sucks to be a girl.
She should (and may want to) not slut herself out and should only give it up to a man of high status.
But I dont care how hot or high quality a girl is; if she does not have sex within the first couple dates then I figure she is not worth the effort (no girl is) and move on from her.
She is damned if she does and damned if she doesnt.
[CH: it’s tough out there for both sexes, but moreso for beta males and omega females (fatties,oldsters). best not to live by lies, and accept the truth of the sexual market. this way is happiness.]
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there are institutions to cope with that, even if they’re supposedly outdated. people have thought about all this before. courting sounds ridiculous but if you’re serious about a (chance for) family and a non-slut wife, you won’t laugh
realize a girl that has sex early is a higher divorce risk. so being ‘worth the effort’ depends on your perspective.
if marriage ain’t in the cards, you’re doing it just right. use them in good health, then move along, leaving them more empowered and man-like with each spin on the carousel
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yeah, that’s true. people balk about taking their time getting to know someone but you really need to if you’re looking for something long term.
you don’t want a girl who will jump into the sack quickly with someone she barely knows. you can try to convince yourself that she’s only doing it because there is something special about you, you have good game, whatever. you tell yourself she doesn’t do that with other men. but the fact is, you’re probably wrong. slutty girls put out easier and faster than decent girls. that’s just the way it is. it’s actually a good thing though. helps you know who to keep and who to P and D
besides that, you do need time to get to know a person is if you’re going to keep them around. you gotta be on the same page, ethically, morally, have similar values, belief systems, etc. important stuff and if you don’t have it, you’re doomed from the get go.
that’s why social circle game works so well. you already have some basic knowledge about a person before you even get involved with them. helps cut down on the time you need to figure out who they are and you mostly like have a lot of the important stuff in common. then once all that stuff is all lined up, all you need to do then is find out if you have chemistry and attraction.
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Nuclear family is in the cards but any american girl who lives in NYC where I reside is essentially an alpha widow after their first frat party.
What is the point of getting to know her when she hooked 4th year frat bro after some jello shots the first time they met
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That courting stuff is only for virgins.
You don’t court a whore, discard after use.
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It’s not that tough. There is a high demand for quality girls.
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They don’t need to get married, they have their hands in our pockets thanks to their daddy the State.
What we need next is the wholesale exit of beta providers from the wage-earning (i.e. tax-paying) plantation. The good news is, it sounds like GenY is stepping up there.
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That problem is, we only hurt ourselves (and our children, if we are lucky enough to have any) if we do that. We have to eat and have a roof over our heads too. Daddy government won’t give us a penny because of our sex or because of our pretty face or boobs. We *are* slaves, indeed, but we have no way to gain freedom.
We are tough enough to take it. That is what men do.
But what we can change is the system itself–stop the welfare forced wealth transfer (for blacks and single women) state that you describe, which rewards women for being single, which is exactly backwards for promoting civilization, which must make the betas have a reason to go to work in the morning.
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He’ll probably be thinking he’s happy he did not marry her.
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Ding Ding Ding!
The girl in question called me later and casually brought up using tightening ben-wa balls and wanting to try anal. I’m not opposed to a serious relationship with a kinky girl, but it just feels like she’s using her ass as a desperate bargaining chip.
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“she’s using her ass as a desperate bargaining chip.”
LOL!
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Well, it’s her ass on the line. She is really hauling ass to get the relationship to work.
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And the gods of copybook headings say:
Whites don’t do r-selection well.
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My reply:
Actually, I’ll be jerking off to pics of girls who look like what you used to look like.
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Um, who is this? Don’t call again.
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“This is duderino’s girlfriend. He can’t come to the phone right now ’cause me and my sisters exhausted him. Please write again tomorrow.”
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“I’m not the girl you’re going to marry, but I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years from now when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline”
“I’m the girl you’re going to be glad you didn’t marry, because I would have frivorced you and taken your resources after I had turned into a whale 7 years from now.”
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[…] Source: Heartiste […]
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I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years
Most of that type I don’t remember anything about the next day – let alone years in the future. The ones I remember are those in my “core” group – they are the cream – everything else is the dregs – doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy dregs since I can do what I want, when I want, and really don’t care anything about them other than that I got off.
I mean – do you remember the last pot-o-potty you used? Other than you were glad it was there when you needed it?
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@ Just Saying
Would you have a look at my comment over on the 6 pack thread – ‘preciate your 2 cents.
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“Most of that type I don’t remember anything about the next day – let alone years in the future.”
that type yeah. isn’t that the truth.
the most comical thing about it is, the girls you do remember…the keepers, it would never even occur to them to say something so ridiculous.
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“I’m not the girl you’re going to marry, but I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years from now when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline
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Stupid cunt in 20 years not only that nobody will remember you but your existential weight will be equal to the dust that wind blows from one side of a nameless street to the other
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“I’m not the girl you’re going to marry, but I’ll be the one you’ll be thinking about 20 years from now when you’re having polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline.”
Even without ever meeting this woman, there is one thing you can say with absolute certainty — her father utterly failed her.
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The thirst! The thirst is huge!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/tinder-user-michelle-thomas-told-she-was-too-fat-to-date-is-flooded-with-offers-10389686.html
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Loved reading the comments on that article. Choosing the Top comments and reading through, good stuff!
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When you write,
“The devil is in the details. It’s the little things like this — woman crowing about their low MMV — which escape datanauts and statisticians combing through coarse sociological signposts for theories about where we are and where we’re all heading. In time, the little details of societal collapse add up to an epic story of shit, and an ending no one can confuse for fiction.”
You remind me of Tacitus.
“Much what I have related and shall have to relate, may perhaps, I
am aware, seem petty trifles to record. But no one must compare my
annals with the writings of those who have described Rome in old days.
They told of great wars, of the storming of cities, of the defeat
and capture of kings, or whenever they turned by preference to home
affairs, they related, with a free scope for digression, the strifes
of consuls with tribunes, land and corn-laws, and the struggles between
the commons and the aristocracy. My labours are circumscribed and
inglorious; peace wholly unbroken or but slightly disturbed, dismal
misery in the capital, an emperor careless about the enlargement of
the empire, such is my theme. <<<<<>>>>>
“All nations and cities are ruled by the people, the nobility, or by
one man. A constitution, formed by selection out of these elements,
it is easy to commend but not to produce; or, if it is produced, it
cannot be lasting. Formerly, when the people had power or when the
patricians were in the ascendant, the popular temper and the methods
of controlling it, had to be studied, and those who knew most accurately
the spirit of the Senate and aristocracy, had the credit of understanding
the age and of being wise men. So now, after a revolution, when Rome
is nothing but the realm of a single despot, there must be good in
carefully noting and recording this period, for it is but few who
have the foresight to distinguish right from wrong or what is sound
from what is hurtful, while most men learn wisdom from the fortunes
of others. Still, though this is instructive, it gives very little
pleasure. Descriptions of countries, the various incidents of battles,
glorious deaths of great generals, enchain and refresh a reader’s
mind. <<<<<>>>> Then, again,
an ancient historian has but few disparagers, and no one cares whether
you praise more heartily the armies of Carthage or Rome. But of many
who endured punishment or disgrace under Tiberius, the descendants
yet survive; or even though the families themselves may be now extinct,
you will find those who, from a resemblance of character, imagine
that the evil deeds of others are a reproach to themselves. Again,
even honour and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their
opposites by too close a contrast. But I return to my work.”
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Once more w/ Tacitus w/o bungling the html code
“Much what I have related and shall have to relate, may perhaps, I
am aware, seem petty trifles to record. But no one must compare my
annals with the writings of those who have described Rome in old days.
They told of great wars, of the storming of cities, of the defeat
and capture of kings, or whenever they turned by preference to home
affairs, they related, with a free scope for digression, the strifes
of consuls with tribunes, land and corn-laws, and the struggles between
the commons and the aristocracy. My labours are circumscribed and
inglorious; peace wholly unbroken or but slightly disturbed, dismal
misery in the capital, an emperor careless about the enlargement of
the empire, such is my theme. Still it will not be useless to study
those at first sight trifling events out of which the movements of
vast changes often take their rise.
“All nations and cities are ruled by the people, the nobility, or by
one man. A constitution, formed by selection out of these elements,
it is easy to commend but not to produce; or, if it is produced, it
cannot be lasting. Formerly, when the people had power or when the
patricians were in the ascendant, the popular temper and the methods
of controlling it, had to be studied, and those who knew most accurately
the spirit of the Senate and aristocracy, had the credit of understanding
the age and of being wise men. So now, after a revolution, when Rome
is nothing but the realm of a single despot, there must be good in
carefully noting and recording this period, for it is but few who
have the foresight to distinguish right from wrong or what is sound
from what is hurtful, while most men learn wisdom from the fortunes
of others. Still, though this is instructive, it gives very little
pleasure. Descriptions of countries, the various incidents of battles,
glorious deaths of great generals, enchain and refresh a reader’s
mind. I have to present in succession the merciless biddings of a
tyrant, incessant prosecutions, faithless friendships, the ruin of
innocence, the same causes issuing in the same results, and I am everywhere
confronted by a wearisome monotony in my subject matter. Then, again,
an ancient historian has but few disparagers, and no one cares whether
you praise more heartily the armies of Carthage or Rome. But of many
who endured punishment or disgrace under Tiberius, the descendants
yet survive; or even though the families themselves may be now extinct,
you will find those who, from a resemblance of character, imagine
that the evil deeds of others are a reproach to themselves. Again,
even honour and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their
opposites by too close a contrast. But I return to my work.”
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I had a disturbing experience today with a couple of nasty overly tattooed b…s
at a store today. I had noticed them shopping and thought to myself “wow talk about low value marriage candidates.” ( I had read this article earlier. ). Anyway I turn down an aisle when I noticed they were looking at me and talking. One of the nasties then asked me why I was following them . I replied trust me there is no way I am following you . She did not believe me and I repeated myself again
Anyway she glared at me and I just kept on shopping. I was considerably older than them but was not in anyway checking them out. Disgusting ……..
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Reblogged this on MGTOW 2.0.
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no in twenty years i’ll be thinking about, and hopefully banging some 19 year old who hasn’t been born yet. And i’m not above hookers/escorts, so actually that’s DEFINATELY what i’ll be doing, HOE
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