Self-love
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Posted:Aug 26, 2018 7:12 am
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Hello Friends ,
What the heck is self-love ? What does it mean to practice self-compassion ? What’s the deal with the idea that no one will love you until you love yourself ? I take care of myself and I acknowledge that I don’t deserve to be mistreated , but it happens . People suggest that the solution is more self-love , where’s the line between self-love an narcissism ? Is self-love even realistic ? I am incapable of self-love if I’m willing to admit that I’m not that great and neither is anybody else ? And if I find some magic formula for feeling and practicing self-love will it translate into others loving me more fully as well ?
I love you guys like I love myself – in a complicated way .
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I have no feeling in my fingertips or penis
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Posted:Aug 25, 2018 7:58 am
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Every now and then I remember that during the heyday of the X-Men in the 90's Shadowcat was supposed to be 14 . I think that's why I was never super impressed with the X-Men , because aside from Logan their gimmick was they were all teenagers - and as you know one of my many pet peeves is as protagonists .
And what does that say about Professor X that he was basically training soldiers to fight in a race war ?
I assume that's why in Star Wars they had to make an army of clones - because what other military force is going to accept a as their commanding officer ?
Right now Marvel is doing a big "Marvel Next" push where they're starting up all these new teenage superheroes that are the successors to your Iron Mans and your Spidermen and whatnot . I get what they're trying to do , but I didn't like reading about when I was a so I don't know if it works or not . Clearly they whole " with a special destiny" thing must work because they do it all the time .
Dreaming that you can fly is a common dream that I have never had . If I wanted to be cynical (and I do) I could say that's probably because I don't care about freedom and possibility - which I what I assume said dreams are about , if dreams meant anything which they don't .
There's a show called Drop the Mic which I have never watched but I still feel confident saying is the worst show ever created . But from the footage I have scene it probably does accomplish one good thing . There are probably people that think any black person can , and that show dispels that stereotype 100% . Because everyone of every race on that show is TERRIBLE .
One of the bad things about working in IT is that many IT people are robots . One of the good things about working in IT is that many IT people are robots .
Such as the other day two of my co-workers were working together on something and dude 1 kept interrupting dude 2 and after a few minutes dude 2 goes "You keep interrupting me and it's frustrating" and dude 1 says "Oh sorry" and stopped doing it . The end . Robots !
When "normal" people are in that situation one of two things happen . Either the person being interrupted says nothing and just shuts down and then spends the rest of the day fuming and sending angry e-mails to their side piece OR they say something snarky and it turns into a massive hissy-fit .
I was doing some research on OpenStack the other day and like many IT platforms they give all their components wacky names that appeal to IT robots . It sounded like a Superhero team to me . So it shall be so ;
Nova - This is tricky because there's also a superhero named Nova , although he was a minor , I mean the New Warriors ? Who gave a shit about them ? Nobody . Not even Tom DeFalco's mom . Anyway this is a new Nova . A nova is a flare up of light that occurs when two binary stars do . . . something , they're not really sure . So this Nova will actually be twins with the standard twin telepathy that can generate blinding flashes of light and also visual illusions . Only one of them heroes at a time though , while the other lives a normal life . It's like the Prestige . Kinda .
Neutron - I'm not aware of a superhero named Neutron but there has to have been one . Anyway this is someone else . A neutron is the part of the atom that has no electric charge . So Neutron is immune to electricity . Which isn't much of a power but he's the leader and the leader is always kind of lame power-wise . He's got a military background and is smart and shit .
Cinder - There was a fire-monster in Killer Instinct called Cinder . This is someone else though . This is a woman who worked in an arcade (remember those ? ) and played Killer Instinct all the time and always played Cinder (even though he sucked) and was playing said game when the building was hit by a radioactive lightening tornado and she was granted not fire-powers like Cinder , but rather the powers of whatever video game character she last played . She calls herself Cinder because her name is actually Cinderella . Because her parents were Disney freaks .
Glance - Photographic memory , obviously . Super-vision , not super-super though you know , like as good as hawk (which is really damn good) . Can read body language so well that he can avoid most attacks - which is why he hates robotic enemies as they have no body language . Martial artists , sharp-shooter , etc.
Swift - Bird dude , you know the bird swift ? Everyone assumes he's a super-speed guy like the Flash or Quicksilver and it drives him insane . SWIFT IS A BIRD !!! he shouts . Standard bird-person abilities .
Horizon - Teleporter , and like all teleports is boring and has little to no characterization . What do you do ? I take the team where they need to be to do the stuff . Oh , so you're like a human bus ? Yeah . . . . yeah . . . .
Trove - This dude can store stuff in extra-dimensional space , gear and weapons and such but what he really loves is fashion and being a charming man about town . He has a responsibility to use his powers to help the team but what he really wants to be doing is drinking martinis and doing cool guy stuff .
Dang , there's like 20 components to this thing - I want to do them all but this is already boring so I shall refrain . Respectfully .
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Coffee : The Movie (sponsored by Caribou)
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Posted:Aug 22, 2018 6:24 pm
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2018 4:47 pm
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I was complaining at work about how the café has been out of Coke Zero since last Thursday and some lady had the audacity to say "Why don't you drink coffee or tea instead ?" and as I was raining blows down on her I came up with a great idea for a movie trilogy .
Movie #1 - All the coffee and tea drinkers are rounded up and put into prison , and there's so many of them that everyone else has to become a prison guard - BAM instant dystopian police state , people like that .
But one gender neutral person dares to defy authority !
The opening scene will be a bunch of bigwigs around a conference table and one guy (played by Sam Rockwell) will ask “Why don’t we just stop making coffee” and the main guy (played by Thomas Middleditch) will berate him because you have to make the coffee to find out who the coffee people are so they can be locked away/magnetized (the prisons will hold people still with giant magnets you see) .
The second part of the trilogy will be called Tea and Eh about the tea-prisons in Canada where one gender fluid Native person dares to defy authority . The tag will be Thomas Hayden Church (the Tea-Czar of Canada) shouting “There’s no tea in Canada friend !”
Uh-oh , I just realized that all the authority figures in this trilogy are men . I better make up for that in the last movie but shoehorning in a bunch of female characters that don’t really move the plot along .
I am going to be SO rich .
Just recently here in the great state of Iowa a dude killed his family and them himself - this is a thing that happens from time to time . A dude loses his job and in our society if you can't provide for your family you're not a man so he decides to off himself - but he takes his family out too because clearly they can't exist without him .
What I don't understand is if the issue is that he can't get money for his family and he has a gun and he's willing to both kill and die - why doesn't he go down the corner of MLK and Army Post road and try to rip off the dudes there dealing smack ? It can't be cause it's too dangerous because he's willing to take himself out . And it can't be because he doesn't want to break the law because he's willing to murder .
So what is it ?
Problem - Need money
Assets - Gun , willing to lose everything
What is it in these guys minds that makes them not turn to crime ?
Like these guys that do these things , would they be "okay" as long as they always had a job or are they a ticking timebomb that's going to go off one day regardless ?
I suppose there's really no answers .
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I'm willing to let my membership lapse and lose out on all the fun
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Posted:Aug 21, 2018 5:22 pm
Last Updated:Aug 22, 2018 6:05 pm
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One time there was this movie called This Is the End . It wasn’t very good but people liked it , maybe because the characters were playing “themselves” ? In this movie there’s a scene were Michael Cera (playing Michael Cera) is getting a simultaneous blowjob and rimjob . And I am left to wonder , the two girls that were in that scene . Were they pumped about that ? Did they tell all their friends to go see it and say “I play the girl licking Michael Cera’s asshole” . Do they try to big time people about it ? Are they yelling at a waiter somewhere “Do you know who I am ?! I’m the girl in This is the End who sucks Michael Cera’s dick ! You show me the respect I deserve !”
As you all know I think the same thing about the lady in the movie Logan who flashes her tits at Logan .
Most fan created things are lame . But sometimes they’re pretty good . Years and years and years ago a fellow made a fake movie trailer for a movie called Grayson that was killer . The idea was that Dick Grayson aka the first Robin aka Nightwing aka Red Robin aka etc. had given up all that crazy superhero stuff and settled down with Barbara Gordon in a normal life . But then Bruce Wayne is murdered and no one can figure out what happened so he starts looking into it .
As he does so Wonder Woman , the Green Lantern and Superman all show up hindering his investigation and they won’t say why . Now we’ve got a mystery on our hands .
Great premise . I was bummed it wasn’t going to be a real movie because I wanted to know what the deal was . And just recently the guy that made it put the entire script he wrote online . The big reveal is that Batman isn’t really dead and the Justice League was covering for him because he was doing some Batman Gambit shit .
Which is disappointing because that’s not very interesting . It reminds me to two things – one there’s a reason why this guy isn’t a real screenwriter . And two , possibility is always better than reality .
Which isn’t to say that reality sucks , reality can be just fine – but the question is almost always better than the answer . Think about when you first start talking to someone as a potential friend or lover or pyramid scheme dupe or fuckbuddy or golf partner or whatever – even if it works out it’s never as good as you think it could be in the beginning when you don’t really know their deal right ? When the possibilities are endless ?
It’s kind of a bummer .
Remember those old commercials for “Trials of Life” videos ? I do . They were “nature” videos where animals were fighting and/or fucking . In the commercial for the fucking one they showed two mosquitoes banging . I can see some people maybe spending money to watch two bears tear each other up – people that should probably be on a watchlist of some kind .
But who’s going to buy a tape of frogs having sex ?
And who made this thing ? It had to have been a production company that just had a lot of leftover footage right ? No nature filmmaker would create that would they ?
One of the “fights” was a mako shark against a seagull . Pretty sure I know the outcome of that one .
For a brief period of time they had a show on Discovery that was animal fights – not real ones but people talking about it and then a little animated story . That was when I knew Discovery was pretty much over . A dude I used to work with loved that show and talked about it all the time . So one time I says to him I says “Did you see this week ? They had a blue whale against the Hanta virus” . He wasn’t amused .
One time a lady said to me she said “Why can’t you guys ever hit the bowl ?” preferring to stray pee on the floor of the bathroom . And I explained to her that the human penis is more like a shotgun than a sniper rifle – the stuff just kind of goes everywhere . That first blast is a question mark . Quantum urine . You don’t know what’s going to happen .
So she says to me then “Why don’t you sit down to pee then ?”
And I don’t know why other guys don’t but I don’t because I can’t . As I explained to her when you’re a fatman with a small unit when you sit down your penis points forward because of all the flab and there’s not enough length for it to bend down really . So when you’re an inch dick fatty if you try to piss sitting down there’s MORE of a chance of spraying all over the place .
So if you didn’t know now you know .
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Robot Emporium and wart removal center for the criminally insane
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Posted:Aug 20, 2018 5:44 pm
Last Updated:Aug 21, 2018 5:19 pm
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Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine went out on a date with Phil Totola and things were going great until he flopped his dick out ? I do . We all had a good laugh . And yet if that were to happen today people would be very upset .
When I was in school there was this girl that everyone called Ugly Heather , even the people who were normally nice , which was odd . The only person who didn't call her Ugly Heather was me , your pal , 40Deuce . So one day in the hall I says to her I says "Hello Heather" and she flipped out and start kicking me and knocked the books out my hand and shouted "Why do you call me that !!!" before running off . Then when I was trying to pick my books up Ben Fram kicked me in the ass and send me flying at which point his cronies started pelting me with clay from the art room .
What do you think that was about ? Did she want to be called ugly ?
And do you think those dudes had the clay for some other type of mischief or why were they carrying it around ?
"You're 41 man , quit talking about high school you loser , get over it"
Counterpoint - Go to hell
And now a review of the 2018 DC/WB Batman Calendar .
We start off January with Batman which is wrong right off the bat . January is named after Janus - you know the god with TWO FACES ergo January should obviously be Two-Face . That's just sloppy . Plus you can't give us Batman right away - that's crazy . You're blowing your Bat-Load right away .
February - Catwoman . Nope . February is the coldest month of the year so it should obviously be Mr. Freeze . You know how cold it gets in a leather catsuit ? I do .
March - Now we get Mr. Freeze ? March is named after Mars , a war god , ergo March should be Bane .
April - Riddler . Approved . On account of April Fool's .
May - Nightwing . May is named after Maia a fertility goddess and therefore May should be Poison Ivy .
June - Joker . Good enough , he needs to be in there somewhere and I can't think of a month that's very Jokery
July - Harly Quinn . Harly should be in August because that's my birthday month . Who should be July then ? Oh , let's say Killer Croc because why not .
August - Penguin . See above . Also ugh , Penguin . I didn't watch much of Gotham because I didn't like the main dude and little Bruce Wayne is stupid but I did like that they actually made Penguin and interesting character .
September - Poison Ivy , see above . Let's but Nightwing here on a flip-flop .
October - Batman again . Super wrong . Halloween is in October so clearly it should be the Scarecrow . Also why put Batman in there twice when there's literally one trillion Batman characters ?
November - Robin . Fine
December - Two-Face . Another flip-flop , this is where the Batman should be . You don't give them the Bat until they're good and ready .
Would you watch a youtube show where I reviewed superhero calendars ? No , you would not .
What if my co-host was a nude Katie Morgan ? Still no .
Remember that time in 2000 when Katie Morgan was arrested trying to bring 100 pounds of weed across the border and she started doing porn to pay for her bail and for the fine what was part of her plea arrangement ?
I do .
I try to pretend that porn isn't that bad but I've never heard a happy story about how someone got into it .
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I'm naked because they'll never recognize me without my uniform
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Posted:Aug 18, 2018 8:51 am
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2018 4:48 pm
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Have you ever run out of bread so you made a sandwich with a hamburger bun ? Why does that seem to wrong ? Somehow using a bagel seems less wrong . Also that sentence makes no sense because a hamburger bun IS bread . But you know what I mean .
I called customer service for the bank that has all the money that was left in my health savings account from my last job and the lady asked if I had my account number and I said yes and she was astonished . And then she asked if I knew what my last charge was and I said yes and she was astonished . And then she asked if I knew my PIN and I said yes and she was astonished . And so on . Clearly she wasn't used to getting a lot of cooperation .
People LOVE to shit all over customer service , and rightly so in some cases but I bet a lot of the time it's just as bad from the other angle - people call in demanding something being fixed without having any information or even really knowing what they want .
The closest I've ever come to working customer service is once in a blue moon at my old job they'd offer triple time to anyone who would come help out taking calls in the bankruptcy department . All I ever did was try to explain to people that declaring bankruptcy was not a get out of jail free card where you just got to keep all your stuff for free . I don't think any of them believed me - until they got evicted from their house anyway .
I was chatting with a gal last night and she sent me a picture of her face and it reminded me of a long time ago when that happened and after I said whatever I said the lady expressed her gratitude and surprise that I didn't make some remark about wanting to ejaculate on said face . She asked me why I didn't say that and I said to her I said "Well mostly because I don't want to do that but also even if I did that seems like it would be coming on pretty strong - no pun intended" . She thought that was the funniest thing ever even though it's not .
Humor is strange .
I posted this long ago , but here's some highlights from that conversation . For context my profile at the time talked a lot about trains .
Her - Do you think you could get in a train locomotive and just by moving the switches and levers at random make the train move down the track ?
Me - Eventually I'm sure something would happen .
Her - At a high rate of speed ?
Me- Oh yes , I'm sure it would be barreling out of control if I got it moving .
Her - And do you think , again , by just moving the controls at random you could get the train to stop .
Me - Maybe , a sudden stop probably not , just getting it to stop at all ? Sure .
Her - Would you be willing to strike things that were on the tracks , like cars ?
Me - I don't think there's a lot of choice there right ? You can't really steer a train .
Her - And would you be willing to tell people that you took the train without permission ?
Me - I'd probably try to blame someone else somehow .
Her - And would you start a fight with someone ?
Me - Like who ?
Her - Anyone who was around .
Me - Probably not .
Her - Do you think you could drive a train over a cliff and live ?
Me - Why would train tracks take you off a cliff ? You do know that trains have tracks right ?
Her - Would you just go somewhere and wait there until I contacted you ?
Me - Sure
Her - Even if it was years later ?
Me - Maybe , depends where I am .
Her - Do you smoke ?
Me - No
Her - Would you ?
Me - Sure
Her - Would you smoke a lot ?
Me - As much as it takes .
Her - Can you operate a crane ?
Me - No .
Her - Well that's good , we don't need anyone swinging a crane around . Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and you wonder , what am I doing on this planet ?
Me - Many times .
Her - Would you be willing to change your religion ?
Me - Maybe
Her - Would you be willing to publicly renounce Jesus Christ as your lord and savior ?
Me - Sure
Her - Are you familiar with ants ?
Me - I've seen them in movies .
Her - Would you be willing to let ants crawl on you and bite you ?
Me - Sure
Her - How many ants would you let bite you ?
Me - As many as it takes .
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Aliens love dreadlocks
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Posted:Aug 17, 2018 6:55 pm
Last Updated:Aug 19, 2018 7:00 am
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Proof
Now wondering , is Forest Whitaker a scientologist ?
But more importantly , now we know that aliens love dreadlocks we must ask ourselves - why ?
And does this prove the ancient astronauts theory ? Did aliens visit earth in primitive times and people saw their hair and were like "yeah" ?
Did you know that dreadlocks were a part of the formal attire for Greek hoplites ? I didn't . I doubt 300 would have been as popular with a bunch of white guy dreadlocks all over the place .
I wrong or did Micky Rourke have dreadlocks for a while ? That was a trainwreck .
I wonder what Mickey Rourke thinks about his life .
Did you know that lady from DS9 (the tall one not the little one) married Leonard Nimoy's ? I didn't . If you found out all the main cast members of all the Star Trek shows had married of other Star Trek cast members would you think it was some kind of cult ? I would .
I watched part of the Exorcist 2 the other day and remembered that James Earl Jones is in that movie . He was also in Conan the Barbarian . And Allan Quartermain . And Best of the Best . That dude has been in some terrible movies . I wonder what actor has the closest ratio if prestigious awards to truly dreadful credits .
Which is worse , accidentally helping someone you dislike or accidentally hindering someone you like ?
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Would I like to delete the recording ? No , I would LOVE to delete it
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Posted:Aug 13, 2018 6:18 pm
Last Updated:Aug 17, 2018 1:30 pm
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Last night I watched a documentary about a supposedly semi-famous/infamous dude from the great state of Iowa who I had never heard of - which calls his fame into question yeah ?
He was a big time psychologist (psychiatricist ? therapist ? ) back in the 80's when everyone was into that . He was credited for all kind of research on how people tried to manipulate each other and why it worked .
Guess what he did in this spare time ?
They had several interviews with his now ex-wife , the woman he was cheating on said wife with at the time and the woman with whom he was having a "non-penetrative sexual affair with" at that same time . That's how they phrased it . They must have said "non-penetrative sexual affair with" at least 30 times .
And why ? A good 30% of the "film" were graphic retellings of all the stuff he did with lady #2 so why didn't they just say what he was up to with lady #3 ? Did they just do that to make it seem more interesting than "oh had another lady that just did mouth stuff" ? It was odd .
But the whole thing was odd - the documentary I mean . Such as a lot of it was dedicated to testimony from a trial but the never said what he was on trial for . At first I assumed he had killed his wife but they had present day interviews with all three women . What the heck was he on trial for ? They never said .
"40 you just weren't paying attention and you missed that part"
Wrong ! not one of you multi-taskers or someone who has the TV on "for background noise" when watching TV I have laser focus . TV is my real mom , I owe it to her .
Remember on American Gods when the chick that played Scully , representing the new god of media , said that people give her a sacrifice better than burnt offerings or money - they give her time . I do .
Also riddle me this , aren't recording devices banned on courtrooms ? So why do they always have recordings of court testimony to play ? Are they really playing a deposition or something and just saying "well this is pretty much what they said in court ?"
Anyway , they had a lot of woman talking about how good this guy was at manipulating people but it seemed kind of lame to me . This main move seemed to be giving someone a couple grand they were supposed to give to someone else and then people were over the moon because he trusted them with a pile of . Doesn't that seem kind of rudimentary ? I suppose the real trick was finding the right people who didn't expect anyone to ever trust them ?
Speaking of I saw ANOTHER profile where a dude was saying he wants a woman who's "trusting" . Do all these guys really mean trustworthy or are they really just being upfront about wanting someone gullible they can lie to ?
Anyway , listening to women talk about this fellow's "skills" put me in a mind of the times I've heard one of the my dirtbag acquaintances on the phone with one of their baby-mommas/meal-tickets/ mommas and they talking about how much they love them and they need them and yada yada yada and I always thought "this seems very obviously manipulative to me , why does anyone fall for it ?' And again , I assume the key is finding the right victim .
Plus , just like me and the Stacy Webber scenario I mentioned probably they DO know they're being manipulated but they want so badly for that to be the case they just go along with it .
Something I've been pondering lately - if people magically lost the ability for self-delusion do you think the world would be a better place or worse ?
Some people confronted with the true reality of their nature would probably dedicate themselves to trying to be better .
But I feel like a lot more people once their comfy blanket of lies was taken away would lean into their shittiness and become even worse .
I mean obviously in the long run it would be better once you built a society to support people without the capacity for deluding themselves but I think things would get so bad in the short team maybe we wouldn't make it .
I wonder what thing most deluded about . The frustrating part is I'll probably never know . My brain's a real dick like that .
I've got the place surrounded brain - don't make me come in there and get you .
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Posted:Aug 11, 2018 5:21 pm
Last Updated:Aug 13, 2018 5:44 pm
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Oh man , the greatest thing just happen . My sister and I went to see The Meg at the local "café" movie theater and after the movie was over and we were kind of milling around the oh-so-cute little server girl kind of leans in and says to me "If you weren't here with your girlfriend I'd give you my number" and I says to her I says "You're in luck because that's my sister" .
The look of sheer TERROR that came over her face was literally priceless . It's my favorite thing that's happened in a long time .
I laughed to let her know I knew the deal and it was "cool" and I asked her if that usually works . And she said "Usually , but only with guys who are with a girl - they're starved for female attention ."
Sometimes life is beautiful .
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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Posted:Aug 11, 2018 1:43 pm
Last Updated:Aug 14, 2018 5:40 pm
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When Playboy first came around did they intentionally make their magazine look like Playbill or why when I see an old Playbill do I always think it's a Playboy ?
You can all rest easy the mystery has been solved . As everyone who reads this log knows I get an annoying pimple on my balls every X months and it went on long enough that I started paying more attention to when/where/why/how and I think I have enough evidence now to state that it's the result of shaving my junk - which is why it used to happen a lot more . It makes sense because if you believe the internet (which you do) the most common cause of acne of the scrotum is an ingrown hair .
So I guess it's a good thing I'm unlikely to ever have regular sex again . And I know that women generally don't care if you shave because it's all gross down there anyway but ball hair is the worst and I hate it . I mean the balls themselves are no picnic but the hair makes it 7.4 times worse .
Anyway , on the off chance we ever bang ; sorry it's going to be a jungle down there .
At my old job I worked with a trans lady (or maybe just a cross-dresser , is there a difference in some cases ? I don't know) and I don't remember there ever being any issues . But at my new job there's a trans lady there and two older employees talk shit about her constantly - 20% of that is because she sucks at her job but 80% of it is pure trans-bashing . Which is annoying enough but they also having long conversations about what's going on "down there" and what they can see through her skirt .
The other day trans lady came up to these two chuckleheads to ask them about something for work and out of nowhere the lady chucklehead says "Does it get hard ?" How could anyone ever think that was okay ? Imagine how you'd feel if someone just randomly started asking questions about your genitals .
I briefly thought about reporting them to HR but honestly what's the point . Nothing's going to happen . And here's the thing , I don't think you should be fired for that . Isn't that awful ? If this was a POC instead of a transgender individual I would say "fire them !" What does that say about me ? Nothing good .
What I wonder is if there were no problems at my old job because in that case if you didn't know you wouldn't know . You know . Whereas this lady at my new job it's pretty clear what the deal is .
Also in another potential show of subtle anti-transism I wonder about the of this lady . Your dad turning into a second mom has to be kind of a mindfuck right ? Or maybe it just rolls off the backs of these days . Who knows . Maybe with younger it's kind of okay but I feel like if you're a and one of your parents is transitioning you're probably going to be a real asshole about it .
Speaking of I ran into Stacy Webber's HS boyfriend this week at Walgreens . It always kind of weirds me out when people from when I was a recognize me because do I look anything like I did then ? It doesn't seem like it .
As I'm sure you all remember Stacy Webber is the girl who when I was 16 told me to meet her after tennis practice and we could make out and instead her boyfriend (this dude) and his cronies were there to kick the shit out of me . They had some thorny branch they kept saying they were going to shove up my ass and they did strip me nude from the waist down but they didn't go through with it - although they had shoved things in my ass before . I wonder if that's why I like giving rimjobs now .
Anyway as I do whenever I run into one my old torments I thought about extracting some kind of revenge and people always say "Oh , that was a such a long time ago , they're probably not like that anymore" which to me indicates that they don't understand revenge . That makes it better . If this guy was just a nice dude who never did anything bad now that's the best time to cut his foot off and burn it in front of him because he doesn't deserve it - just like I didn't deserve what he did to me back then . That's the whole point .
I mean really if the guy was still an asshole there wouldn't be any reason to get back at him . Ya dig ?
And yes , I know what you're thinking "40 , Stacie Webber would have never made out with you , you had to know it was a trap" . Here's the thing , I assumed that it probably was but I wanted it to be true so much I did it anyway . Anyone who's ever been in a relationship knows what I mean . Things are starting to go south and you know the ending is going to be bad but you so badly want it to work out that you just plow ahead anyway .
And then you get cornhole with a pinecone . Emotionally .
I started a couple fake twitter accounts to spread different conspiracies and see which one catches on . Which one do you think people will like ?
The McDonalds Corporation is planning to resurrect John Lennon as part of a plot to destroy public television
The Republican Party wants prevent the creation of a utopian world government and plans to achieve this by polluting the public airwaves with sarin gas
The frozen head of Walt Disney is going to use sexist Twitter posts to turn public opinion against fertility clinics in order to prevent the Singularity
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Glass , smash or bitcoin - nobody rides for free
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Posted:Aug 8, 2018 6:24 pm
Last Updated:Aug 13, 2018 5:50 pm
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Unbreakable is a great movie . I don't know if it's still in my top 5 but it's for sure in the top 10 . I never saw Split . I'm not a big fan of palms-up horror movies and I find stories about multiple personalities to be annoying . Seems like a lazy writing trick . It probably doesn't help that back when I was involved in writing workshops there was a guy who always wrote about multiple personalities and thought it was the greatest idea ever .
When the Glass trailer debuted at Comic-Con everyone lost their minds because they thought it was so awesome . I watched it , seemed a little underwhelming to me . I can't exactly put my finger on why but it seemed kind of cheap and shoddy to me - maybe it was the lighting to the set design or something ? And it seems weird to lump Sam Jackson's character in as someone who delusionally thinks they have super powers - there was nothing about that in Unbreakable . he just wanted to prove people exited that had super powers .
Anyway , I hope Glass is good but I have my doubts .
And now let's take a look at some of my company's reviews on Glassdoor shall we ? We shall .
Average rating is 3.1 , which is nice and average . 100% of people approve of the CEO - TWO whole people have voted !
Coming in hot with a 1 star review from a current employee ;
Pros
Parking is free, although that's expected outside of downtown. Expect a long walk if you get in after 8am. Lunch is free although you won't want to eat what they serve. Employee gardens are available.
Mentioning free parking is weird because even if you work downtown very few places (maybe none) make you for parking . Maybe they were reaching for pros . And long walk ? You could walk from the farthest parking place to the building in 2 minutes - it's not a large place . The lunch thing is a little harsh - the food is mostly mediocre but what do you expect for free ? The fish is always terrible .
Cons
Max 3% raise annually regardless of performance, bonuses are low or nonexistent, and base salary is not competitive with other companies in the area. Health isurance rates are poor, no home/auto discount for employees now that personal lines is sold, company and employees have created a culture that is afraid of change and technology. Vital systems go down on a weekly basis sometimes for hours at a time. Building is old and leaking with plumbing issues
I find the base salary thing interesting because they just announced they're going to give most people a cut because their salaries are higher than their competitors - which is a BS maneuver but does seem to be true . I also find it interesting that he mentions that employees have helped created a culture that is afraid of technology and change , because of course they have , that's what employees do . Must be an IT guy .
I'm glad someone else hates the janky building . Why would you buy a country club and try to turn it into a place of business ? The layout is insane . Also to nitpick that last sentence is wrong - it's leaking with water not plumbing issues .
Advice to Management
a competitive salary and cut out a lot of middle management. The organizational charts are a joke.
This also curious to me because the review isn't that old and there's basically no middle management at all - managers have like 100 people reporting to them - it's cray . We NEED middle managers . I also think it's funny that this person is complaining about the org charts - not the organization , the org charts . Who gives a shit ?
Ooh , next up is another one star review , not looking good - also it says this person disapproves of the CEO so where's the 100% come from ? Shenanigans I say ! This is from a former employee .
Pros
Free lunch but that was about it.
Cons
Systems are old. Leadership does not support you.
Short and to the point . I remember when I got this job EVERYONE knew it was the place with free lunch . People are weird . Lunch isn't hard to get , I can get my own lunch . It shouldn't be that big of a deal . Are there places where the systems aren't old and leadership supports you ? Do you deserve to be supported ? Ponder that .
Now we're turning the corner with a FIVE star review from a current employee ;
Recommends
Positive Outlook
Approves of CEO
I have been working at GuideOne Insurance full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Smart, solutions-oriented senior leadership team
- Customer focused and believe in the value of quality service in all aspects of the company
- Nice perks (fitness facility, free lunch, close parking, etc.)
- Fun, collaborative work culture (not all areas, but most)
- Recognition programs that reward hard work
- Friendly, inviting employees
Why is everyone on the parking thing ? This isn't New York City , it's not even the Twin Cities - I have never worked anywhere in Des Moines where parking was an issue . I find the last two things amusing because the recognition program is a joke that is gamed by the same 10 people to get the rewards every month and I find the attitude there to be very chilly and unfriendly .
Cons
- The amount of recent change leaves more tenured employees feeling angst
- Benefits could be better (i.e. PTO, maternity/paternity leave, etc.)
- Due to the size of the organization, lack of career growth opportunities
I think the benefits are pretty good but then I came from a place with no insurance so . . . you know . The first item is true and 100% warranted because management is aggressively trying to purge the long time employees and replace them with cheap millennials who'll work 90 hours a week for pennies on the dollar .
Advice to Management
- Continue rewarding hard work.
- Review benefits/ and better align them with other local companies are offering
Again with the ? What local companies are these people talking about that are forking over cash like . . . like . . . something that you fork over . Hay ?
That's enough of that .
It has been argued that the looking glass self conceptualization of the social self is critically incomplete in that it overlooks the divergent roles of ingroups and outgroups in self-definition . That is, it has been demonstrated that while individuals will converge upon the attitudes and behaviors of ingroup members , they will also diverge from the attitudes and behaviors of outgroup members .
The neglect of the latter scenario is attributed to the looking glass approaches’ implicit focus on ingroup member appraisals . This alternative perspective is derived from the self-categorization theory analysis of social influence . Indeed , it is further argued that the looking glass self metaphor fails to reflect the fact that influence derives from the self-categorization of other individuals as part of the self . In other words , people are not shaped by the reflections from ‘others’ but rather are shaped by the creation of a collective social identity that contrasts ‘us’ against relevant ‘others" .
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The Game's a Foot
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Posted:Aug 7, 2018 6:16 pm
Last Updated:Aug 8, 2018 5:43 pm
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I don't "get" most fetishes , which is acceptable since I don't "have" them , but one that I really don't get is feet - because feet are mildly gross at best . I've occasionally rubbed a woman's feet because that's a thing , but I was inwardly cringing the whole time . I hate it when they spontaneously throw in some foot stuff in "normal" porn . The guy will be banging away and then all of a sudden he sticks her foot in his mouth and I scream and run out of the house and dive into a ditch . And then I get cited for public nudity . Thanks a lot porn .
There's a significant selection of women on this site who include a picture or two of their feet , I assume to harvest comments from the feet-people . But what I wonder is if you're a foot-dude are you into any feet or just nice looking feet ? Because , I have to say , some of the picture I see are of some pretty janky looking feet . Are the feeties into that ?
Like that scene in Kill Bill that I HATE where Uma Thurman is starting at her nasty feet for several minutes does that get them all hot and bothered or no ? Also if she was in a coma for long enough that her legs didn't work anymore wouldn't her arms also not work ? Do you know how hard it is to drag yourself around by your arms like that ? Try it sometime . There's no way she could have awaken(ed) from a X year coma and muscled herself around like that .
40 , it's just a movie don't be a nitpicker .
Counterpoint - Shut up you .
I don't like knees either as long as we're on the subject . Cover up your knees . Wear kneepads not just for my sake but also to avoid banging your knee - because that hurts .
I'm not crazy about elbows either .
Remember the Foot clan from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ? I do . They were an homage to the Hand ninja clan from Marvel comics . It's hard to name ninja clans .
Remember a few months ago when I mentioned that a shady massage place at moved into the spot on the corner where they used to be a shady gym that no one ever went to ? Of course you don't . I noticed a couple days ago that they have an eviction notice on the door . Which I've never seen on a business .
I mentioned this to one of my old work cronies and she said that they mentioned on the news how all these massage places had popped up a while back and now they're all getting shut down for involvement in human trafficking . So that was a disturbing piece of information . I read an article about it and it mentioned that Des Moines is one of the 100 worst cities for trafficking which was startling at first , but then I remembered that the USA doesn't have THAT many massive urban centers and Des Moines is one of the 100 biggest cities . So I guess that means every moderate or large sized city has an issue with trafficking ?
It's one of those things that just puts you in a malaise because what can be done about it ? I looking at a few things produced by various law enforcement agencies about what you can do to help combat human trafficking and the answer (my interpretation) seems to be nothing . Aside from not patronizing tug joints which is feels like nothing .
Because I am a man who's been inundated with violent hero media my entire life ala Die Hard/Lethal Weapon/Rambo/James Bond done of my standard daydreams is that I'm driving along and then I notice that a truck in front of me has people in the back and they're waving for my help and it turns into a whole action sequence where I save all these women from the clutches of the traffickers . If only it was that easy .
I suppose the reason we make movies where the hero shoots all the bad guys and saves the day is because in the real world things don't shake out like that . This has essentially been a problem for all of human history so who exactly are we supposed to shoot ? Do the men that go to these places not realize what the deal is ? How can they not ? But by the same token how can there be enough men who don't care to keep this a viable business ? Are they more responsible than the traffickers themselves ? Is the real problem capitalism/consumerism ? I mean these people wouldn't be doing it if there was no money to be had right ? And the women that fall victim to are able to be victimized because they're poor right ?
Would the problem go away if was legalized ? Or would it get worse ?
People often say that there's no easy answers but I don't think that goes far enough - often times there don't appear to be any hard answers either .
In case you're wonder in the truckload of sex trafficking daydream I get my ear and nose shot off by the traffickers . Most of my violent man-fantasies involve me getting maimed in some fashion . That probably means something . In case you were wondering here's the other ones in the rotation .
A guy tries to kill his ex-wife with trained attack dogs and I fight them off - getting savagely mauled in the process
A woman with mental problems leaves her baby on a wasp mound and I have to rescue it - getting stung hundreds of times on the face , arms and torso in the process (this one is the least violent but also the one where I almost die)
Some frat boys that I testify against in a gang (banned topic) case drive up from Louisiana and initiate a home invasion on me where I blind them with a flashlight and fight them off with a curtain rod and a kitchen knife
Working late one night I come across some dudes running a fighting ring and it turns into a violent confrontation .
Some people are shooting at cars on the highway with rifles from sniper positions in the woods and I creep up on them and take them out stealth style .
Of course in all these scenarios while I'm bloody and battered I suffer no long term health effects other than cool scars and am lauded as a hero - although of course I'm too humble to brag about it .
I assume most American men have these kinds of daydreams - I don't say "fantasy" because to me that indicates something that you want to actually happen - but maybe I'm wrong . Maybe most men don't have these thoughts and I have some kind of syndrome .
Someone said that what I should do to help is follow Ashton Kutcher on twitter because he's against sex trafficking which is not good advice on several levels but it did remind me of the ad he did a while back saying "Real men don't buy women" which to me is one of those things that wildly misses the point .
Basically the message was "don't do this bad thing because then you're a pussy" which is macho bullshit , and isn't macho bullshit part of the problem that's causing the thing we're trying to stop ?
Obviously no man who was going to go to a is going to see that commercial and then think "Oh , I better not , I don't want people to think I'm not a real man ."
Maybe I shouldn't criticize because it's not like I have any better ideas
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Would you like to play a game ?
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Posted:Aug 6, 2018 5:32 pm
Last Updated:Aug 8, 2018 5:49 pm
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A lot of women around these parts have comments about hygiene on their profiles - is that code for something ? Or are there just a lot of guys who don't bother to hose off their Juggalo make-up before going out on a date ?
Another thing a lot of people put in their profiles is that they don't want any games - which is interesting because if everyone has to put that warning out there it must mean there's a lot of game players right ? And yet everyone says they don't want that . Every now and then you do run into a profile though where someone says they love drama .
Back in the day I had a girlfriend who never called me - I always had to call her even thought we went out like 4-5 times a week at that point . So one time I decided not to call her and see how long she would wait before she called me . I considered that an experiment . She said I was playing games .
At work today a lady was making fun of my skinny arms . And yet , if I were to hide in the backseat of her grey 2010 Honda Civic which never has the doors locked and wait there for hours after she got home and was sure was asleep and crept up to her bedroom and set her tits on fire I would be the one who went to jail . That's justice for you .
For no real reason it reminded me of the time a lady accused me of creating a hostile work environment because I never laughed at her jokes .
And that reminded me of the lady who told me that I was selfish for not trying to get a promotion because she couldn't have my job if I never moved up . And I said to her I said "So you want me to apply for a job because it would help YOU and I'M selfish ?" She didn't seem to appreciate the irony .
She's the same lady who divorced her husband because he was no good at sex . Which I still find somewhat shocking . Everyone knows women don't like sex . Every sitcom and standup comedian says so .
Remember when they guy sued KLBA because he won a "foursome" with Bananarama and then was mad because it was a golf foursome not the kind where you bang ? I do .
Obviously that guy was crazy , but could you have a contest where the prize is sex ? I feel like you can't , but is it if no money or goods are traded ? Or are you paying for the Bananrama sex by listening to the radio station ? What if I just have a clipboard and you sign up for a random drawing who gets a handjob from Sarah Dallin . Illegal ? Legal ? Where's the line .
I wonder the same thing about porn - you're paying for sex right ? How is that not ? Seems like if you were busted banging a you could just "no , no , were filming a porno here" and then you'd just get cited for making a movie without a permit . Which I think would play much better in a job interview .
"Wow Steve , it says here you've been busting for filming without a permit 37 times ."
"What can I say , I love cinema ."
"You're just the kind of person we want here at Moxie Solar ."
The supposed male infatuation with threesomes has never made a ton of sense to me on account of the One Penis Conundrum , three girls makes more sense - then you can at least watch the other two while you're doing the deed with lucky lady #3 . I suppose that's the main benefit of being bi-sexual , things never get tricky with group sex .
Did you know that Bananarama is in the Guinness Book as the female music group with the most charted songs ? I didn't .
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