The regulars at PUAhate.com – we’ve met them before — are a strange and bitter bunch. Most seem to be self-loathing so-called “incels” who blame their lack of romantic and sexual success on their average or below-average looks. Rejecting the basic premise of the pickup artist crowd – that average guys can transform themselves into suave lotharios by mastering manipulative pickup formulas – the PUAhate regulars tend to be true believers in what they somewhat pretentiously call “looks theory,” the odd and obviously untrue notion that women only date men with “male model” looks.
As one PUAhater put it recently:
PUA makes you think that all your problems are because of your personality/behaviour – i.e. things you can control. So when you keep failing, it means that YOU are fucking up and doing things wrong
the reality is that many of us just lost the genetic lottery. we are ugly, the wrong race, the wrong height etc, and that fucked us up. there is NOTHING we can do about it
So, naturally, the PUAhaters spend a lot of their time jealous of tall, good-looking men for their supposed monopoly on the women of the world — whom they also hate.
But the strange thing is that the PUAhaters pretty much hate everyone else as well. They get angry when guys they consider ugly score “hot chicks.” They get angry when guys who are good-looking but not male models get attention from “really hot girls.” And so on, and so on, and so on.
Indeed, many of the regulars seem to walk around in a perpetual state of rage, angry at each and every man who’s managed to pair up with a woman, not to mention the women as well.
One regular recently described his “day from hell” to his comrades:
To start the day I saw a couple where it was an average White guy with an OBESE Asian girl. They were walking around acting like they were trying to prove shit. LMAO. I wanted to kick the guy in the fucking nuts for dating that landwhale. If you’re going to use the racial advantage, at least date a girl who is under 300lbs. Later I go to the gym and see the same tall guys I usually do. Even if I had a good face, how the fuck do you compete with guys who are fucking 6’4”?
Then at the gym there’s this good looking White guy there talking to this Asian dude about how Asian girls are easy and how they approach him. To make things worse after that these fucking frat douchebags come in with their girlfriends to show off . Then to cap off the day a girl I used to know from freshman year walks right past me without even saying anything. I used to fucking live next door to this bitch and now she doesn’t even say anything and acts like a pretentious cunt. She’s an Indian girl dating a White dude lmao. Days like today make you wonder why you even still try in the first place.
Of course, as I’ve mentioned before, most of those posting on PUAhate don’t actually seem to be ugly by anyone’s standards but their own, at least judging from the pictures of themselves they sometimes post to the site, which reveal them to be mostly average-looking guys, with some of the regulars even quite conventionally handsome.
But evidently they would rather believe that they have “lost the genetic lottery” rather than face a more obvious explanation for why the girls don’t like them: because they’re shallow, self-obsessed assholes who hate themselves and hate women and radiate their bitterness from every pore. (And some are even creepier than this, like this pedophile – sorry, ephebophile – who’s angry at me personally because unlike him I don’t chase after 15-year-olds. Link NSFW.)
The PUAhaters often talk about getting surgeries to “correct” their supposed genetic flaws. They would do far better to spend that money on therapy.
Argenti: Can you? Yes. Should you? Maybe. Whatever you brew needs to be brewed in a sterile environment. To keep it that way you need a some form of gas trap (which I presume you are using, but you don’t need; for your present purpose). I suppose the tank itself could function as one.
What sized brewing vessel are you using? What do you like to drink? (and no, making your own whisk(e)y isn’t practical, quite apart from it being illegal, even for personal use).
Pecunium — ah, right, dumb me forgot that hard liquor, of any variety, would be moonshine and illegal…no vodka either…
But yeah, I’ve got a liter bottle tubed into a vitamin water bottle and then the tank — limits the risk of back siphon, seeing how I’d rather not have my tank drain out on the floor. It basically looks like this — http://thenemosomen.com/page3/lower-center4.gif — except I used a printer toner box to make the mess less of a mess. Also, that diffusion method is a major waste, I’d been using a DIY bell jar type thing, got a plastic diffuser that does the same thing but isn’t a bottle floating in my tank, that looked silly.
Guess brewing anything with it isn’t really practical though. Still, can’t wait to see how it looks when it settles, my little ecosystem is coming along nicely and I do hope I managed to replant everything.
And I’m babbling about my tanks, again.
You are making the basis for distilling “cane liquor”. With bread yeast it will be about 4-5 percent alcohol. Not very tasty either. If you get champagne yeasts you will have longer between instances of needing to recharge the generator. If you wanted to brew (beer/mead/wine) you need 6 gallon carboy. Beer is not great, because the early part of beer brewing often has foam running out of the brewing vessel (this is how one gets local strains of yeast, since the “barm” has yeast in it) and you don’t want that going into the tank.
So meads/wines/sugar mash are what you would be working with. Wine is pricey (grape juice isn’t free), and distilling isn’t hard, just illegal. It’s not something the feds are going to track you down for, if you are making it for personal use, but anything but rum/cincaca/vodka/gin has storage issues.
So, even if you don’t plan to brew, it might be worth getting some high attentuation yeasts, so as to be able to spend less time refreshing the CO2 maker.
a completely irrelevant picture to bump up the comments tally
Pecunium — one more issue, I can’t refrigerate the results. Period.
My mother’s okay with me having alcohol in the house, but I absolutely cannot let me father know. And fair enough, not like I want to be paying for my alcoholic father’s booze!
So yeah, wine or beer could sorta work, but neither is all the good at room temp. Well, in theory, I don’t mind room temp wine. I haven’t room for 6 gallons though, so unless champagne can be done is smaller batches, or I want to risk making methanol, it isn’t practical.
Think I can use the, um, cane liquor for anything though? Pouring it down the drain seems like such a waste. Also, high attenuation yeast, where do I get such things?
Kitteh — now that is just entirely unseasonal! Oh wait…it was just the autumn equinox down there huh? Enjoy your leaves then!
LOL it’s unseasonal everywhere! I was trawling through old unfinished pics and chose this one to play with.
We just had the equinox (and are due more stinkin’ hot weather this week RAAAARRRRRRRRRR) but there aren’t any places with leaves like that where I live. There’s a town called Bright that’s famous for its autumn foliage, but it’s a train-and-coach trip and I think it’s one of those places you really need a car to be able to see properly.
However when autumn comes at Home, we’ll certainly get the chance to play in leaves like this!
Y’all don’t get proper autumn leaves? I guess I’m spoiled by New England’s leaves huh?
Enjoy the ones you do get though!
I always envy the autumn leaves you get in the northern hemisphere! Our native trees are pretty much evergreen. Eucalypts shed all year round and their leaves just turn brown, no colour at all. The grey-green look of the bush (or in summer, the burnt-toast look) was one of the things that depressed a lot of the early colonists here; it’s not at all colourful if you’re used to the European landscape. What colour we have is from introduced species, but even then, Melbourne isn’t awash with the sort of trees that turn red or bright yellow. Most of our street trees are elms or planes (type of sycamore). They look lovely in autumn but it doesn’t compare with the type of colours you get up north. Apart from anything else, our autumns just don’t have the very sharp cold nights needed to get that sort of colour; our weather is more temperate and is getting warmer. I would SO love to see Vermont, frex. I time my trips north to be in autumn in the hope that I’ll get to see some reds and golds!
Pittsburgh only sort of manages the leaf change. It happens, but they start to fall so fast after. Here it tends to be a month of yellow trees, it’s gorgeous. And the only thing I missed while in Pittsburgh (versus, you know, everything about Pittsburgh *sigh*)
It’s pretty fast in Illinois, too, from what my friends have said. When I visited they were all “Don’t turn yet, you stupid leaves, she hasn’t arrived!”
This was probably the best colour I saw, at Lowden State Park. (I’m using this version of the photo ‘cos that’s where my other bff saw Himself – first time she had, I think.)
Those trees are beautiful. One problem though, Mr. K’s right arm is suffering a photoshop disaster. Either he has extremely slender forearms, or he’s lost bits.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be nitpicking, but the anatomy issue there is bugging me! (Easy fix? Take the bit of sleeve on the outside and reverse it)
Sorry *runs away* lol, I’m going to bed anyways, but yeah, corner of shame, I go to it now
LOL I’ll have a look! It’s a couple of years since I did that pic, so I don’t remember whether it’s one I had to do much cutting and pasting on. It might have been given weird photoshop treatment before I ever got to it. 😀
Niters!
Argenti: Think I can use the, um, cane liquor for anything though? Pouring it down the drain seems like such a waste. Also, high attenuation yeast, where do I get such things?
Brewing supplies. Champagne yeast is one. It basically means it will survive with more alcohol in the mix. About all the fermented cane is good for is a cheap buzz, or distilling. If you think of drinking it out of the fermenter, make sure you use clean equipment, and get some bentonite to clarify it.
You could also look into getting a methanol license, and make your own “denatured” alcohol for spirit lamps, etc. If you are using commercial yeasts, and food sugars, making methanol isn’t likely to happen at fermentation strengths. It shows up in distillations; as a result of contaminants.
Apropos of nothing,
DALEKS ARE NOT ROBOTS STOP LUMPING THEM IN WITH ROBOTS DAMMIT
Have a nice day.
Of course Daleks are robots.
ro – bot: ro from the Latin rota (rotation or wheel) and bot from the Greek botane (botany or plant). Since they evolved from plants and run around on wheels, that makes them robots.
QED
I forgot to mention I used the following as a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English
@joanimal
Really? Did this come up within some context, or is it just some bizarre backstory they decided to give them? I haven’t watched much of the pre-reboot Who, so I’m pretty ignorant of the Whoverse
Oh, like anybody actually remembers the difference between a cyborg and a robot… they all have metal parts, that’s what’s important!!
(gets shot at by an angry RoboCop)
On second thought this is a Very Important distinction.
Nah, it’s a joke…take any word and give it inappropriate greek/latin roots. Since the closest root to bot was bota, I made up the bit about evolved from plants.
PS: speaking of the different between cyborgs and robots, and picking back up the webcomics thread, who follows Manly Guy Doing Manly Things?
It’s cool. Deconstructing machismo in video games.
Relevant.
Daleks are mutated Kaleds, I think. In any case there’s a weird tentacled green thing in there. Is cyborg, not robot.
Pecunium — I’ll look into brewing yeast after coffee, I could certainly use a longer lasting yeast! And yeah, the sugar is my standard baking stuff. I’d need sterile glass though I guess. Ehh, ponder it after coffee.
@Howard: That’s really funny. Bookmarked!
Yes, the Dalek creature mutated from a humanoid because of a centuries-long war on their home planet. We occasionally got a glimpse of the actual Dalek before 2005’s “Dalek” came along and gave us a great big whopping eyeful.
What we usually see is their travel machine, which is armored and armed and very much like a tiny tank that can fly now, and suffers from the law of conservation of ninjitsu.
First time I saw the mutated Dalek clearly was in The Five Doctors, back in the 80s. That was a fun show, but oh, it was sad that Cardinal (now President) Borusa had turned bad and came to a nasty end!
Also I thought that making Rasillon look like a cross between Genghis Khan and a mutton-chopped sergeant major was weird.
@Kittehs’: Yeah, Borusa came to a bad end.
Gotta watch all that Time Lord power. I guess it corrupts in a special Time Lord way that regular power doesn’t.