Like a lot of people in the US of A, I am taking a long weekend. Posting may be a little light for a bit. So here’s an open thread for everyone else taking a long weekend. Or not. Use this thread for anything that’s not personal. Like misogyny, politics, kitties, you know the drill. (Though kitties are welcome in all threads, of course.)
I am hoping my long weekend turns out a bit better than that of the people in the Australian movie of that name from 1978, which I keep meaning to see. Apparently their little beach vacation doesn’t go so well, and they are attacked by … nature? At one point, I believe, they face off against an enraged dugong. (No, really.) The movie was recently remade, but apparently the remake wasn’t as good.
Stay tuned for more reviews of movies I haven’t seen and that I’m just giving vague impressions of based on things I’ve heard somewhere.
@hellkell
It’s straight up bizarre how MRAs think that women choosing who to have sex with is some kind of bug in feminism. Even denserock here thinks that it’s some kind of unforeseen consequence that noone considered would affect men.
Dudes, women’s sexual agency is a feature, not a bug.
I wouldn’t suggest it should be the only thing, but it’s like having a pantry full of rice and canned beans. In a pinch, you know that you can eat decently and healthfully even if you can’t make it to the store (or can’t afford to buy much there).
Either way, the more options you have, the better you will be able to pick and choose what works best for you! I’ll still offer suggestions if you still want them to consider!
We’ll have to ask pecunium when he gets here then! He and I keep failing to manage to meet up so I don’t think he’d much mind hosting a repair party. Idk about letting you crash there, but no harm in asking right? (And seriously, I think you’d be safer with him than here, my father is a world apart from my mother)
@Gillyrosebee: Yeah, at some point you have to way the pro:s and the con:s and ask yourself whether it’s worth it.
I managed to put on seven kilos (about fifteen pounds) a couple of years ago through working out really hard and eating like crazy. The eating part was the hardest. I’d eat three BIG cooked meals a day, plus sandwiches and fruit. I’d wake up already full since last nights evening meal and still begin the day by stuffing myself with sandwiches, and I just kept getting fuller and fuller from there. Eventually I fell ill, couldn’t eat like that anymore and lost most of the gained weight again during the course of a month. When I was well again, I thought fuck this shit, it’s better to be thin than to constantly think about food and constantly feel completely full.
WEEEELL now I’m giving “bigger and stronger” another go, as I said, but I’m never gonna eat like that again – it’s just not worth it. And I reckon constantly thinking about what you eat in the other direction so to speak must be even worse.
Sorry, you have to WEIGH the pro:s and con:s, obviously, not “way”.
@Obsidian
See, the thing is, you’re not good, you’re evil. You see things only in terms of getting your dick wet, which is why you say thinks like “I don’t support harassment because it doesn’t work”. You can’t be trusted to not do something awful because at any moment you might think doing that thing will get you laid and that’s all that matters to you.
Argenti: what kind of fallacious appeal is this?
The fallacy of taking credit for shit you didn’t do?
Ok, I’m awake enough from my Obsidian induced nap to get back to the data. LBT email me if you need anything, have questions, whatever. The iPad and Mac both have email alerts set up (dual alerts is pretty funny btw, iPad goes bing, and about 30 seconds later the mac alert pops up)
RE: Argenti
I got the flashlight from a garage sale. It’s a bit beat-up and faded, but I’ve used it in power-outages and such with great success! It’s always given me light when I need it.
And my water bottle is GREAT. It could probably hold a liter too, it’s giant. Only problem is that it can leak a little out the top.
Got a Swiss Army Knife and some first aid gear, will have to look around for a compass.
Appeal to authority? Definately a red herring. Unfortunately he’s maxed out his red herring category on Spot! That! Fallacy!
@Dvärghundspossen
It sucks deeply.
(Warning: sloppy and gross generalization about complex neurobiological processes ahead!!)
When you are trying to eat less than you are used to the body tends to freak out and become convinced you are starving, and it kicks out cues to prime the mind to look for food. So not only is your body itself sending signals that it wants more food (growling tummy and the like) but your brain is flooding you with OMG GO EAT SOMETHING NOW!! chemical cues and you end up thinking about food all the time. It is not a very conducive state of being.
LBT — Walmart and target and the like have compasses cheap, hell, I might have a spare even (I wouldn’t count on it, but I’ll ask around)
And awesome on the flashlight, I never have that kind of luck with them!
@Ugh:
“Shocker. Douchey pretentious drivel leads to douchey pretentious nicknames,”
O: I wa only responding to a question…
“Also, lol at “student””
O: Whatever float your boat, chief…
“WAH women like having sex with people they find attractive, party twenty billion.”
O: Not at all; I’m in full agreement with the idea that a Woman can and should be with whomever she pleases, for whatever reason she pleases. Try hard much?
“You have yet to explain how somehow there are more vastly more single men than women in the world, or how women as a group have heterosexual sex more often than men.
FYI, it’s about 50/50”
o: Actually, those sex ratios change over time. For example, in the Black community, at the younge ages, and by that I mean in the teens, there are actually slightly more males than females; however, this situation reverses itself by the time Black Men and Women hit their upper 30s and beyond.
Then, you have the fact that history has always recorded more married Women than Men, or to put it another way, there have always been more bachelors to spinsters. That remains true today in our time and clime.
As it relates to the online dating piece: for one thing, one has to assume that all the Women there are indeed looking for a relationship, and that’s not true; as I said, there are some Women who post profiles merely to get a boost in their self esteem. Other Women are looking for a short term arrangement. And so on.
Then, add in the fact that it is very possible for one guy to be having sexual relationships with a number of Women, which comes at the expense of the other guys in the pool.
Finally, factor in the fact that, as to the two studies I’ve mentioned points out, most guys don’t get messaged by Women, and most of the time their messages they send to Women go unanswered, and it’s easy to see why it simply doesn’t work out for most Men.
Which brings us back to Square One…doesn’t it?
😉
O.
I actually got a halfway decent crank flashlight with my emergency radio. You crank to charge the battery and you can get a pretty bright light out of the little five led lamp. It’s not as dependable as my Surefire, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much light the thing actually does put out.
RE: Argenti
Yeah, I’m positive I can find a compass around here SOMEWHERE. I might as well just ask around my friends first.
As for the flashlight, yup, only one of its three bulbs work, but it’s pretty great! I have a list of “underrated objects I own” and it’s on there. (That and the Mooncup. God DAMN I am glad I bought that thing.)
Speaking of buying things, I just ordered a used GBA SP from Amazon. I lost my old one when I was 11, and now I miss the old GBA games I have lying around.
Yo, Obsidian Files, what’s your opinion on camping? Any places you like to camp, or would like to?
Completely off topic non sequitur alert!
When y’all buy soap, do you prefer scented or unscented? Does it matter to you whether it has added colors or is made with animal products (lard and tallow)?
Practical and functional compass obtained!
@Myoo:
“See, the thing is, you’re not good, you’re evil.”
O: LOL. Not quite; I’m a pragmatist…
“You see things only in terms of getting your dick wet, which is why you say thinks like “I don’t support harassment because it doesn’t work”.”
O: No; say that because, one, it’s true, for the most part, and two, it’s not worth the hassle.
“You can’t be trusted to not do something awful because at any moment you might think doing that thing will get you laid and that’s all that matters to you.”
O: As I’ve said before, Obsidian is the least of your worries if you’re concerned about rape and street harassment. The guys you need to be concerned about are on the streets right now.
Go get em, tiger…
Rawr
O.
@Gillyrosebee: Yeah it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint (evopsych FTW!) that it would be more difficult to abstain from food than to stuff yourself. Like, people stuffing themselves haven’t really been a threat to our survival historically, while on the other hand it’s been super important that people who’s had to do with only little food for a while are on the look-out for food and eat as much as they can whenever they get the chance.
GRB: depends on the scent. I’ll take unscented over anything too flowery, but if it’s a woodsy fragrance, I’m all over it. I prefer things without dyes and whatnot, because I can be super allergic to soaps.
@LBT:
“Yo, Obsidian Files, what’s your opinion on camping? Any places you like to camp, or would like to?”
O: There’s alot of really great camping grounds in my home state of PA; I’ve done the Poconos, which is what I would recommend for beginners just starting out.
As for where I would like to hit up? Big Sur, Yellowstone national park, that sort of thing. The Pacific Northwest. Alaska.
And I’ve always liked the idea of driving an RV coast to coast…
O.
@Hellkell:
“Argenti: what kind of fallacious appeal is this?
I was born and raised in a military household, USMC to be exact, three generations of Marines.
The fallacy of taking credit for shit you didn’t do?”
O: Hardly, LOL. Just giving you a heads up on where I come from in terms of answering your question. The military, and the Marines in particular, have a certain way of approaching problem solving. That was my point, and was something I learned growing up.
O.
RE: gillyrosebee
Generally, I prefer unscented. The one exception is peppermint. I ADORE THE SMELL OF PEPPERMINT. As for added colors and animal products, I don’t really care, but I am a bit picky just because my skin hates everything. I tend to stick to stuff that’s hypoallergenic and good for sensitive skin–last thing I want is to ENCOURAGE my skin to blister and ooze even more.