Some gal — aw, that sucks, my tank-of-cories is because they bred, and I felt bad enough about the eggs that got picked off while I was moving them, to have the fry get eaten must’ve been terrible, particularly as a kid!

Yeah, my clown loaches have cory friends, and hilariously neither species can ever decide which species to school with. I’ve had cories following loaches, loaches following cories, loaches that wouldn’t share cave space with other loaches pick a new spot when the cories took over…they’re adorable.

They were all so sparkly and fun to watch and the light was nice and relaxing when we were sitting in the living room. I would kind of like to get some fish again, but with apartment living, they aren’t really practical to move with us and many places have restrictions on the sizes of tanks iirc. They are on my someday list alongside two more cats. :)

Some gal — no worries, and just Argenti is fine btw. I never had tank size limits, but then again, I never mentioned that it was a 55 gallon tank. As for moving them, plec’s a fucking nightmare to move; the loaches are a royal pain to catch, but they’re small enough to transport easily; any of your standard fare 1~2″ community fish can be moved in an empty wide mouthed container (beverage, pickles, whatever’s handy, though I do stick with plastic myself)

I moved plec nearly 500 miles, moving a tetra/danio/etc tank across town seems like a breeze!

…there are three cories nibbling algae off the same bit of PVC tube // tunnel … guys, it’s a 55 gallon tank, you’re an inch long, there’s plenty of algae!

Well, I guess that aVFM article answers the question of whether or not there’s anything that can happen to a woman that those scumbags think people* are justified in being upset about.

*Notice that I didn’t say “women”. Decent men all over the word are upset about this too.

I’m glad that someone who does math well has taken a look at the stats on the lead thing. It looked solid to me, but I was hoping for outside confirmation.

@Argenti

Well, my boyfriend has, well let’s just call it a moving phobia, and so between him and the cat, I’ve already got my hands full. We hope not to be in apartments for too much longer, though, so maybe “someday” will be someday soon.

Cassandra – it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if vomitbuckets like Elam envy the Delhi rapists/murderers, or at least did until they were arrested. Seriously, it would not surprise me at all.

Which is why I won’t keep mollies! Eggs are one thing, live birth just seems way too complex (in the avoiding the fry being food sense)

Not like I meant to breed cories though!

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! (Yep, it was a Pell Incident)

Possibly? I’m still dying to know how one goes about getting these free scooters that make card pointless because, you see, my 86 year old grandfather doesn’t quite get around as well as he used to…

Though my mother, his DiL, did nickname him the speed demon, some days he zips right along with that walker! And it’s always hilarious to see him dancing with the thing, while singing WWII era songs. But yes, a scooter would be most helpful, and Pell was just positive they where easy to get for free in CT. And this is Important Info damnit!

Yep, Pell’s thing was about disabled people being free loaders. Mind you, in my grandfather’s case he’s an 86 year old WWII vet, so Pell can shove it, and there’s even a Doctor Who quote for this —

“Don’t you get it? You were fighting so little twerps like me could do what we want, say what we want. Now you’ve become just like them.”

Wouldn’t sexually frustrated soldiers be more likely to get distracted and make mistakes?

I have to say (from personal experience) that being sexually frustrated isn’t all that common among soldiers. When they need to, they wank.

In combat zones, (and in some training) one is os often not all that sexually aware; for some reason there are other things on one’s mind.

Certainly when one is patrolling/in a firefight, sex isn’t what one is thinking of (even when there are women in the mix).

“…for some reason there are other things on one’s mind.”

I’d imagine being shot at, exploded, wtf-ever, would trump most other things, yes. Probably even such things as “nature calls”. Silly MRAs, thinking war is like Call of Duty with bathroom and snack breaks!

(Am I being too flippant? I’m sorry if so, sleep dep is setting in, I’m sure you’re familiar with that problem)

I should write some lyrics, but gosh, nothing rhymes with the word “hygiene.”

Listerine.

Phosgene.

Unclean.

Silly Teen.

Other things that I gather might be on the minds of military personnel not in a combat zone (though this is mostly from Stuff I Heard about training):

officers
oh god tired
polishing boots
sleep

Cloudiah: Here’s the Mother Jones article on the subject. I think pecunium or someone might have dropped this earlier, but just in case people missed it…

That was me. I forget where. I was happy to see it because it adds more layers to the, “Levitt is a twit” argument; in the, “that theory looks more like shit than it did when you were shown to have flubbed the numbers and then engaged in really tortuous special pleading because you’d written a bestselling book, and launched a second career and managed to leave your ass hanging in the wind”.

All while not mentioning that two of the other studies to support the idea of “freakonomics” also have his hand in the pie (i.e. he was the advisor of those students).

In a combat zone:

Officers: Not really a problem (at least not below the rank of Major) Training environments are different, and Colonels who are looking to get a star are assholes of the first water.

The only truly stupid/assholish Capt. I had the “pleasure” to serve under was laterally transferred when we got to theater.

Good thing too, because he’d have come home in a box.

Oh God Tired… oh yeah.

Polishing Boots. No. Even in training the boots are let go. Fix them when one is back in garrison. These days even garrison boots aren’t polished. I think the only soldiers who need to know how to polish are assigned to airborne units; which wear black books with Dress Greens, and tankers, who still have black leather boots (because suede isn’t as good at keeping your feet from burning in a vehicle fire).

Sleep: Hell yes.

Things one cares about in a combat zone.

Food
Sleep
Mail
Showers
Sleep
Mail
Showers
Food

A bad officer… can make things hard, but since most of those are echelons above everyday, and the Captains and Majors are insulation, it’s only asshole generals, (like the prick from the 3ID who send Lt. Colonels around to peek through camo-netting to see if people were more than six feet from their cots without a blouse and helmet; I shit you not, or idiots who were all up in our shit about hair and mustaches) that come in for much in the way of being hated.

And it’s harder to frag one of them, because they don’t leave the wire.

Sex… not that high on the list of pressing concerns.

@pecunium

I misread mail as mall and was wondering how that made the list of things to worry about above sex.

*seeming to take them at face value (basically, I think his tone is wrong for his point/the material)
and
a better writer (clearly not me unless I get an editor :) )

@katz

At least we can agree that he should shut up forever!

Problem of denying males sex goes further than opposing porn and prostitution. This problem is actually more complicated if you include involuntary celibates. I believe urgent action from the government is needed here.
However, both feminists and MRAs won’t do anything about it. Feminists are mostly women, which means they have likely never even heard of incel, let alone experienced it or thought about it. Also, most women, especially feminists couldn’t give a shit about males who can’t get partners or even sexual encounters.
As for MRAs, most of them also aren’t incel so they have problem understanding it. Many of them are libertarians/right wingers too so they oppose such government intervention.

But the main point is that there aren’t enough people recognizing this problem and incels are told they must be silent or else they’ll be exposed to ridicule and my dating government dating service idea is critized when it really could help. For example, if an extremely lonely and shy goes on a dating website his profile will be one among thousands of male profiles and he might never go on a irl date. Using governmental programs he would be guaranteed a date. That’s a huge difference.

People refuse to acknowledge this and the fact that parents should also try and find incels partners. If they refuse to and incels can’t stand their incel (as is in my case) these parents are murderers and deserve to be arrested. I’ve tried getting my parents arrested several times but failed and cops even threatened me.

These oblivious people are creating suicides and future George Sodini’s. If George Sodini could use my program he might get a girlfriend and not do what he did. Of course, liberal fools will mix cause and effect and say he was violent before he even did that, which is nonsense. This, and the idea that therapy solves everything, is why liberalism causes deaths,

I realized that I will never be trusted by any psychologists and will never get help from them. They could only harm me. I remembered the film Terminator, first part. In it humans and machines are waging a war in the near future. Since the machines are about to lose to humans led by John Connor they send out a terminator into the future, a machine with a mental skeleton under human skin and parts of tissue, to kill John Connor’s mother Linda so he could never be born. On the other hand, humans send Kyle Reese, a human soldier, to protect John Connors future mother from being killed by the Terminator. They both arrive to her at about same time and a shootout ensues. Kyle gets to Linda first but is unable to convince her of the truth before more shooting occurs and the cops get involved, capturing Linda and Kyle while the Terminator escapes. In police custody Kyle is laughed at by a shrink and most of policemen for claiming he is from the future. He says that no matter what that Terminator is out there, will wade from them and rip Linda’s heart out. Of course, that same night Terminator comes to the police station and kills all the policemen, with Kyle and Linda escaping and the film goes on.

That scene in a police station pefectly describes my situation. I feel like Kyle Reese. I understand that the shrinks think I am crazy for saying that it is the responsibilty of other people to find me a girlfriend just like they fought he was crazy for saying he is from the future and that there is a Terminator out there. But that Terminator really is out there , it is called involuntary celibacy and it is lethal.

Shrinks are my enemies, though I understand why they don’t believe me. That’s why I’ve even been institutionalized. They just don’t acknowledge the Terminator. They will eventually have to. Their only sensible solution is to either find me a girlfriend or lock me up forever and keep me in highest security department to prevent me from killing somebody because I know I will never get out anyway.
Same goes for every incel who’s hurting because of it.

Liberals don’t like these truths do I’m constantly censored for reasons which amount to complete lies.

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read!

That scene in a police station pefectly describes my situation. I feel like Kyle Reese. I understand that the shrinks think I am crazy for saying that it is the responsibilty of other people to find me a girlfriend just like they fought he was crazy for saying he is from the future and that there is a Terminator out there.

Am I a police officer if I am laughing my ass off?

Then it gets a bit threatening-y and almost ruins the whole thing.

Oh perfect! Pierre on the phone with the incel wanker.

He wants the government to provide comfort women? Creeptacular.

“I have long, strong hair (strong enough to embroider with)”

@kitteh Don’t know if Spawn has been channelling your Mum, but have you actually embroidered with your hair?? (I’m an aficionado of the needle arts)

@cloudiah

It’s the first AVfP that is totally true! Just like the Terminator.

Standing O for cloudiah! Whose very name I adorable.

@cloudiah

I don’t know what could be cut. It’s all awesome.
*joins standing O*

stam: Problem of denying males sex goes further than opposing porn and prostitution. This problem is actually more complicated if you include involuntary celibates. I believe urgent action from the government is needed here.

This shit again?

How is the gov’t supposed to get guys laid?

Why should the gov’t be in the pimp business?

Feminists are mostly women, which means they have likely never even heard of incel, let alone experienced it

Cause any chick can get laid at any time, right?

Bullshit.

But the main point is that there aren’t enough people recognizing this problem and incels are told they must be silent or else they’ll be exposed to ridicule and my dating government dating service idea is critized when it really could help.

Oh, it is you again. You were banned. Buh-bye.

@katz

My guess? Never posted. What would he post? All he’s got is the bit he used to pimp the blog. It isn’t like he’s started a We the People petition or something.

Thank you, David.