"Punch-fisted in the shitter by a bear with shark arms" has got to be the best description of post-Taco Bell indigestion I have ever heard.
Thought for the Day:
An idealist is one whose perception of reality is untainted by the horrors perpetrated against mankind.
ego homini lupus
Those who feel they are underappreciat
Veritas vos liberabit
I've been considering this for a long time, and I still hold that upgrading our bodies and modifying our physical forms is one of the greatest sources of interest for me beside the biochemical responses that our body creates. The addition of circuitry to make our lives more easy, the enhancement of muscle tissues to make us respond more quickly, the introduction of specialized chemicals to create new levels of perception or distraction. I'm a bit of a singularitaria
"Collecting dreams like dew drops on a thread of spidersilk."
"In hoc signo vinces" meaning "In this sign you will conquer".
For the float:
6 ounces crème de mûre (blackberry liqueur)
7 grams (1 packet) Knox unflavored gelatin
1 package (3 ounces) grape-flavored Jell-O gelatin
1 cup hot water
For the gin sour:
1 cup gin (lemon infused)
2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
28 grams (4 packets) Knox unflavored gelatin
1 cup hot water.
http://www.avo
Stop Violence Against Women aggregated legal writings and produced a list of determining factors for the primary aggressor. Below is a portion of the list:
⁃ The height and weight of the parties
⁃ Which party has the potential to seriously injure the other party
⁃ Whether a party has a fearful demeanor
⁃ Whether a party has a controlling demeanor
So, pretty much 'If you're a man'....
Morning Life For Nekko's Body
Have you seen this comic floating around lately? "The Friend-Zoner vs. Nice Guy"
http://imgur.c
Well, to be frank, it's pretty retarded, and honestly fills out the stereotypical Tumblr attitude. Thankfully, a kind and understanding soul over at Reddit offered a rebuttal.
"The Friendzoner vs The Nice Guy is a cheesy web-comic strip that has been circulating around the internet for at least a year if not longer. Sketched by a feminist blogger on Tumblr, it portrays a nice guy being friend-zoned by a girl he had strong feelings for and a close friendship with. He flips out, presumably because he has faced this situation many times before, like a lot of guys have, and the whole thing blows out of proportion as they don comic book superhero spandex and duke it out with physical violence and insults being thrown at each other. In the end she wins and literally cuts him off as a friend because she feels like she doesn't deserve him.
Due to the way the comic has been written out (with the Friendzoner winning the bout, the Really Nice Guy having nothing to combat her words with, and the Friendzoner having the last say); it implies that any man who reacts badly to rejection is an asshole, not really a friend and is a bit rape-y in their intentions. However, this entirely misses the male argument of the whole friendzone debate.
1) Society's view of relationships and how they form may not tell the full picture:
Why did the nice guy pursue this woman? Why did he see his closeness to her - the fact she'd often come to him to talk about her problems whether it was her breakup, complaining about boyfriends or maybe (the last point is a mostly-baseles
Various forms of media have taught us that romantic feelings and relationships start from moments of emotional intimacy whether that is helping somebody in distress, becoming emotionally close in friendship, or both.
I'll give many examples of anime, film and television series that have featured this in some way, shape or form. Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, Pokémon, Suzuka, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, One Tree Hill, The O.C., There's Something About Mary, Love Actually, Hitch, The Waterboy, Sonic The Hedgehog, Back To The Future, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cardcaptor Sakura, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Fairy Tail, Dragon Ball, Shaman King, Chobits, Love Hina, Tenchi Muyo, Harry Potter, Shrek, and many others.
It is even the central theme of a book called South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami in which the protagonist has a close female friend in the form of Shinamoto and bonds with her because he was asked to help her at school over her leg condition. Despite being really close friends, they drift apart when attending separate high schools and he only meets her again once successfully running a chain of bars in Tokyo and happily married; forcing him to make the tough choice of whether to cheat on his wife or not.
Then there's many examples in video-games...
Saria from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a huge example. She is the only one to really befriend Link after he was left to the Kokiri as an orphan. As such, she develops a crush, much to the jealousy of Milo, the Kokiri village chief. This is not only implied through her friendly interactions and genuine joy to see him, but by her conversation with him when he leaves Kokiri Forest. It is later confirmed by Milo after Link rescues her from the Forest Temple.
As for other games with romantic elements that revolve around this? Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Phantasy Star Universe, Second Sight, Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy IX, the Mario series, Castle of Illusion, Persona 4, The Sims, Tales of Symphonia and dare I say it... virtually any romantic visual novel or dating sim. You get the idea.
I'm not calling any of this misleading. But considering how romance is very-well present in the entertainment industry, can you blame men for wanting this to be a greater reality than it actually is?
2) The Friendzoner is a bona fide bitch:
As ridiculous as this seems to argue because of course there's going to be fighting; they are portrayed as superheroes, let's list some facts about what the Friendzoner did:
She provoked him by taunting him about being friend-zoned because he dared express his dismay at being rejected, presumably for the umpteenth time. Whether she did this sarcastically, as a form of exaggeration or because she's sick of hearing the friend-zone argument thrown around once again herself; it doesn't matter. She shouldn't have escalated the issue and provoked an even angrier response from him.
She assaults him. It is unclear who lands the first hit here. While it looks like she was assaulted first from what looks like her parrying a hit with her arm and circular lines of motion around his arm, the nice guy's posture in this panel doesn't seem to indicate that he actually made a swing for her and if he did, it was in the worst way possible. Rather, he is stood, tensed up, yelling his point to her. But then again, maybe it is useless to argue this because this is merely used as a metaphor to illustrate their shouting-match
She refers to herself as a bitch. While this was most likely sarcastic and to parody how women like her are portrayed, it still raises a valid point due to how she is actually acting.
She accuses him of being an asshole and verbally mauls him apart out of disgust that he was even interested in her in the first place.
She kicked him in the head while he was down. Again, this could just be a metaphor but if literal, that is a highly dangerous situation that could have caused at least ABH (he also caused it too if you look at the bruise he made by punching her in the face but only in retaliation to being kicked in the face.) Somebody I knew from school died after attempting to break up a drunken argument, being punched to the ground then repeatedly kicked in the head like a football. The guy who did it is in jail for murder.
She spins every argument against him. More on that further below in Point #3.
She ends her friendship with him. More on that further below in Points #3 and #4
3) Etiquette is improperly viewed as a manipulative sexual strategy:
"What about that time you got wasted at a party!? Any other guy would have taken advantage. But I drove you home safely instead!"
"You don't get fucking brownie points for not raping me!"
So it is wrong to be a nice guy all of a sudden? This is certainly what The Friendzoner is implying.
When we are taught from the point of childhood to be nice, morally respectable and law abiding citizens else face punishment whether by our parents, our teachers, our supervisors, the police, etc. When we get rewarded for doing nice things in many different ways, is it not surprising that men have made this assumption that being nice and befriending a girl is the best way to eventually form a romantic relationship?
When you are a child, you better obey your parents and stay out of trouble or else you'll probably get grounded or worse. Likewise, if you do really well at school, you'll likely get rewarded through them buying you something nice or through them taking you somewhere nice.
The same goes in schools. Good behavior is rewarded because they act as an incentive while bad behavior is punished because punishments act as a deterrent.
It similarly goes for law enforcement. Criminals are punished and sentences are often seen as a punishment. While some systems focus more on rehabilitation
How does this link back to relationships? Simple, romantic relationships are often seen as much stronger, more significant friendships where a degree of physical and emotional intimacy are involved. Being an asshole and doing things like cheating generally lead to getting dumped.
And what about being rewarded? Look at Valentine's Day, one of the tackiest, most over-commercia
Technically, aren't men manipulative assholes for buying women romantic presents in the same way that some men try to woo women by treating them like close friends and putting them on pedestals? Oh wait, they get a free pass because people who buy valentines day presents tend to be attractive, already in relationships and are buying material presents instead of just being nice.
And single people without a partner on valentines day? Like marketing departments seem to imply by pretending they don't exist, they can fuck off!
4) The Friendzoner heavily downplays the significance of her friendship with the Nice Guy:
When you broke up with that douche! I was always there when you wanted to talk!
I thought that was because we were - I don't know, actually friends!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's cut the crap for a second. If you confide your desires for a nice guy and your complaints over your boyfriend being a complete dickbag to a guy-friend of yours; is it not surprising when he'll interpret that as interest in himself, especially considering how much she likely emphasized it? In fact, I'm pretty sure lines like "I wish there were more men like you" or "I wish I could find a guy like you" came up. I mean, those are some pretty big compliments and you don't just say that stuff for no reason.
Sharing stuff like that isn't what you do with 'just a friend.' That's at least close-friend level, if not future-boyfrie
This stuff certainly came up about 80%+ of the time I was friend-zoned by a close female friend who I later developed feelings for. In fact, especially when they made compliments about me and my personality, I felt like I was being led on and for good reason. But of course if I express that, I'll be called the asshole.
Sorry that my friendship is a crappy consolation prize!
That is not the point. The man is clearly feeling discontented because he had his heart broken yet again. The hypocrisy that people would shower a girl with their sympathies (whether in film, television or in real life) should they be rejected by a guy while if a guy did it, they'd be seen as losers, manipulative assholes or even sexual pests in some extreme examples, is mindboggling.
Do you even know what friend-zoning is, douchelord?
What you just did to me.
Sure, but what assholes like you actually mean when you say you've been friendzoned is "This bitch won't let me put my dick in her even though I treated her like a human being."
Friend-zoning is when somebody shoots down your romantic advances and declares you only a friend, likely out of a lack of sexual attraction. It's not gender-exclusi
And she downplays his generosity and friendly nature as 'treating her like a human being'? Technically any action from good to bad to downright despicable counts as treating her like a human being. So no, being treated like a human being is a bad term.
5) The desire for nice men is actually an oxymoron:
Well, I don't fucking care. When you girls are bitching and moaning about how you just wanna find a nice guy, I won't feel sorry for you. They're all in the friend zone where you left them!
This is a very valid point. Why should we continue to be close to women when that is clearly misinterpreted as nothing but friendship and not what women look for in a guy?
Why is this guy speaking so much truth?
That is because the desire for nice men is an oxymoron, a statement that contradicts what women appear to really be attracted to. Confidence, status, physical attractiveness and material possessions. This has been developed through millions and millions of years of evolution. Attractiveness helps determine a mate which can produce healthier offspring, confidence makes up part of what a male should be and is often a trait picked up by women that makes them initially attracted to jerks (as many of them display confidence), material wealth is dictated both by Western consumerist society and evolution and status is very important too as humans are social animals."
Have you seen this comic floating around lately? "The Friend-Zoner vs. Nice Guy"
http://imgur.c
Well, to be frank, it's pretty retarded, and honestly fills out the stereotypical Tumblr attitude. Thankfully, a kind and understanding soul over at Reddit offered a rebuttal.
"The Friendzoner vs The Nice Guy is a cheesy web-comic strip that has been circulating around the internet for at least a year if not longer. Sketched by a feminist blogger on Tumblr, it portrays a nice guy being friend-zoned by a girl he had strong feelings for and a close friendship with. He flips out, presumably because he has faced this situation many times before, like a lot of guys have, and the whole thing blows out of proportion as they don comic book superhero spandex and duke it out with physical violence and insults being thrown at each other. In the end she wins and literally cuts him off as a friend because she feels like she doesn't deserve him.
Due to the way the comic has been written out (with the Friendzoner winning the bout, the Really Nice Guy having nothing to combat her words with, and the Friendzoner having the last say); it implies that any man who reacts badly to rejection is an asshole, not really a friend and is a bit rape-y in their intentions. However, this entirely misses the male argument of the whole friendzone debate.
1) Society's view of relationships and how they form may not tell the full picture:
Why did the nice guy pursue this woman? Why did he see his closeness to her - the fact she'd often come to him to talk about her problems whether it was her breakup, complaining about boyfriends or maybe (the last point is a mostly-baseles
Various forms of media have taught us that romantic feelings and relationships start from moments of emotional intimacy whether that is helping somebody in distress, becoming emotionally close in friendship, or both.
I'll give many examples of anime, film and television series that have featured this in some way, shape or form. Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, Pokémon, Suzuka, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, One Tree Hill, The O.C., There's Something About Mary, Love Actually, Hitch, The Waterboy, Sonic The Hedgehog, Back To The Future, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cardcaptor Sakura, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Fairy Tail, Dragon Ball, Shaman King, Chobits, Love Hina, Tenchi Muyo, Harry Potter, Shrek, and many others.
It is even the central theme of a book called South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami in which the protagonist has a close female friend in the form of Shinamoto and bonds with her because he was asked to help her at school over her leg condition. Despite being really close friends, they drift apart when attending separate high schools and he only meets her again once successfully running a chain of bars in Tokyo and happily married; forcing him to make the tough choice of whether to cheat on his wife or not.
Then there's many examples in video-games...
Saria from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a huge example. She is the only one to really befriend Link after he was left to the Kokiri as an orphan. As such, she develops a crush, much to the jealousy of Milo, the Kokiri village chief. This is not only implied through her friendly interactions and genuine joy to see him, but by her conversation with him when he leaves Kokiri Forest. It is later confirmed by Milo after Link rescues her from the Forest Temple.
As for other games with romantic elements that revolve around this? Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Phantasy Star Universe, Second Sight, Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy IX, the Mario series, Castle of Illusion, Persona 4, The Sims, Tales of Symphonia and dare I say it... virtually any romantic visual novel or dating sim. You get the idea.
I'm not calling any of this misleading. But considering how romance is very-well present in the entertainment industry, can you blame men for wanting this to be a greater reality than it actually is?
2) The Friendzoner is a bona fide bitch:
As ridiculous as this seems to argue because of course there's going to be fighting; they are portrayed as superheroes, let's list some facts about what the Friendzoner did:
She provoked him by taunting him about being friend-zoned because he dared express his dismay at being rejected, presumably for the umpteenth time. Whether she did this sarcastically, as a form of exaggeration or because she's sick of hearing the friend-zone argument thrown around once again herself; it doesn't matter. She shouldn't have escalated the issue and provoked an even angrier response from him.
She assaults him. It is unclear who lands the first hit here. While it looks like she was assaulted first from what looks like her parrying a hit with her arm and circular lines of motion around his arm, the nice guy's posture in this panel doesn't seem to indicate that he actually made a swing for her and if he did, it was in the worst way possible. Rather, he is stood, tensed up, yelling his point to her. But then again, maybe it is useless to argue this because this is merely used as a metaphor to illustrate their shouting-match
She refers to herself as a bitch. While this was most likely sarcastic and to parody how women like her are portrayed, it still raises a valid point due to how she is actually acting.
She accuses him of being an asshole and verbally mauls him apart out of disgust that he was even interested in her in the first place.
She kicked him in the head while he was down. Again, this could just be a metaphor but if literal, that is a highly dangerous situation that could have caused at least ABH (he also caused it too if you look at the bruise he made by punching her in the face but only in retaliation to being kicked in the face.) Somebody I knew from school died after attempting to break up a drunken argument, being punched to the ground then repeatedly kicked in the head like a football. The guy who did it is in jail for murder.
She spins every argument against him. More on that further below in Point #3.
She ends her friendship with him. More on that further below in Points #3 and #4
3) Etiquette is improperly viewed as a manipulative sexual strategy:
"What about that time you got wasted at a party!? Any other guy would have taken advantage. But I drove you home safely instead!"
"You don't get fucking brownie points for not raping me!"
So it is wrong to be a nice guy all of a sudden? This is certainly what The Friendzoner is implying.
When we are taught from the point of childhood to be nice, morally respectable and law abiding citizens else face punishment whether by our parents, our teachers, our supervisors, the police, etc. When we get rewarded for doing nice things in many different ways, is it not surprising that men have made this assumption that being nice and befriending a girl is the best way to eventually form a romantic relationship?
When you are a child, you better obey your parents and stay out of trouble or else you'll probably get grounded or worse. Likewise, if you do really well at school, you'll likely get rewarded through them buying you something nice or through them taking you somewhere nice.
The same goes in schools. Good behavior is rewarded because they act as an incentive while bad behavior is punished because punishments act as a deterrent.
It similarly goes for law enforcement. Criminals are punished and sentences are often seen as a punishment. While some systems focus more on rehabilitation
How does this link back to relationships? Simple, romantic relationships are often seen as much stronger, more significant friendships where a degree of physical and emotional intimacy are involved. Being an asshole and doing things like cheating generally lead to getting dumped.
And what about being rewarded? Look at Valentine's Day, one of the tackiest, most over-commercia
Technically, aren't men manipulative assholes for buying women romantic presents in the same way that some men try to woo women by treating them like close friends and putting them on pedestals? Oh wait, they get a free pass because people who buy valentines day presents tend to be attractive, already in relationships and are buying material presents instead of just being nice.
And single people without a partner on valentines day? Like marketing departments seem to imply by pretending they don't exist, they can fuck off!
4) The Friendzoner heavily downplays the significance of her friendship with the Nice Guy:
When you broke up with that douche! I was always there when you wanted to talk!
I thought that was because we were - I don't know, actually friends!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's cut the crap for a second. If you confide your desires for a nice guy and your complaints over your boyfriend being a complete dickbag to a guy-friend of yours; is it not surprising when he'll interpret that as interest in himself, especially considering how much she likely emphasized it? In fact, I'm pretty sure lines like "I wish there were more men like you" or "I wish I could find a guy like you" came up. I mean, those are some pretty big compliments and you don't just say that stuff for no reason.
Sharing stuff like that isn't what you do with 'just a friend.' That's at least close-friend level, if not future-boyfrie
This stuff certainly came up about 80%+ of the time I was friend-zoned by a close female friend who I later developed feelings for. In fact, especially when they made compliments about me and my personality, I felt like I was being led on and for good reason. But of course if I express that, I'll be called the asshole.
Sorry that my friendship is a crappy consolation prize!
That is not the point. The man is clearly feeling discontented because he had his heart broken yet again. The hypocrisy that people would shower a girl with their sympathies (whether in film, television or in real life) should they be rejected by a guy while if a guy did it, they'd be seen as losers, manipulative assholes or even sexual pests in some extreme examples, is mindboggling.
Do you even know what friend-zoning is, douchelord?
What you just did to me.
Sure, but what assholes like you actually mean when you say you've been friendzoned is "This bitch won't let me put my dick in her even though I treated her like a human being."
Friend-zoning is when somebody shoots down your romantic advances and declares you only a friend, likely out of a lack of sexual attraction. It's not gender-exclusi
And she downplays his generosity and friendly nature as 'treating her like a human being'? Technically any action from good to bad to downright despicable counts as treating her like a human being. So no, being treated like a human being is a bad term.
5) The desire for nice men is actually an oxymoron:
Well, I don't fucking care. When you girls are bitching and moaning about how you just wanna find a nice guy, I won't feel sorry for you. They're all in the friend zone where you left them!
This is a very valid point. Why should we continue to be close to women when that is clearly misinterpreted as nothing but friendship and not what women look for in a guy?
Why is this guy speaking so much truth?
That is because the desire for nice men is an oxymoron, a statement that contradicts what women appear to really be attracted to. Confidence, status, physical attractiveness and material possessions. This has been developed through millions and millions of years of evolution. Attractiveness helps determine a mate which can produce healthier offspring, confidence makes up part of what a male should be and is often a trait picked up by women that makes them initially attracted to jerks (as many of them display confidence), material wealth is dictated both by Western consumerist society and evolution and status is very important too as humans are social animals."
About gender
Male and female isn't defined by genitals, it's defined by gametes. Males produce sperm, females produce eggs.
Suck on that Social Justice tumblrfags.
"The prison industrial complex is a system situated at the intersection of government and private interests. It uses prisons as a solution to social, political, and economic problems. It includes human rights violations, the death penalty, slave labor, policing, courts, the media, political prisoners, and the elimination of dissent."