I’ve read and watched and listened to a lot of creepy pickup artist crap over the past few years while writing this blog, but in some ways this little video, from PUA “coach” Julian of Real Social Dynamics, one of the bigger and better known of the commercial “game” marketers, may well be the creepiest. Essentially, Julian provides tips to young men on how to “get” the girl of their dreams by temporarily driving her out of her mind.
No, really: he recommends that men overwhelm their female targets with confusing and contradictory stimuli to throw them so off-balance they’ll reflexively turn to their mental tormenters for support (and, maybe later, reward them with sex). This isn’t pick-up artistry so much as freak-out artistry.
The one thing about this video that is vaguely reassuring is that Julian’s examples of his technique in action are so crude and hamhanded I seriously doubt they’d actually work on anyone “in field,” as the PUAs like to say. What’s not so reassuring is that anyone would actually come up with something this predatory and perverse in the first place. Also, you know that at least a few of the video’s 32,000 viewers have actually tried out this technique on annoyed and bewildered women around the world. The world doesn’t really need any new ways for dudes to be assholes in clubs.
cloudiah – My best friend and I made a mass batch of pesto a few years ago. We found out that you can substitute toasted walnuts into the mix, and it’ll still taste good. NOM.
I should make some pesto. Damn it, I don’t have a food processor or a blender.
sparky – every time I see Caesar salad mentioned, I’m reminded of the one I had in a Denny’s. It was basically a chopped-up chook with an entire iceberg lettuce on top!
kittehs – I mean, it’s pretty obviously WHY they’d constantly state that you have to trick women or whatnot. The majority of misogynists just won’t readily admit it.
sparky – That sounds pretty easy to make. Damn it, I should have gotten larger tortillas.
Where do you get legit Parmesan cheese?
I remember ordering salad in Pittsburg. There was about a pound of cheese and ham on top. I had to dig for a bit in order to find the lettuce.
(Iceburg, which I don’t like very much.)
Argenti, just leave out the parmesan and it’s kosher.
To add on to cloudiah’s comment, pesto sans cheese still tastes good. *nod*
In case anyone is wondering, that’s when you eat a cookie and then drink a Pilsner afterwards.
I don’t mind iceberg – it’s the only lettuce we ate when I was growing up, and I still <3 an egg and lettuce sandwich just-don't-put-that-goddamn-mayo-in-it – but yeah, in salad, variety would be nice!
Alice – agreed. It's the getting them to admit it. Funny how every time we ask 'em (Fiddlebooger yesterday, Worthless today) to state why they think rape is good, they disappear.
If only that worked AFK. I'd quite enjoy seeing PUAs and MRAs vaporise.
katz – we shall have to eat cookies and follow them with weak-drink-of-choice and LOL at idiot trolls.
kittehs – If they vaporized, then we wouldn’t have things to mock anymore though. 😛
But it would be a better place. Just, no more misogyny. And no more racism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other really shitty, bigotry things.
Back to my idea about a reality show starring hellkell and CassandraSays facing off against an army of PUAs. Easily changed to include MRAs.
OMG, imagine a show where Cassandra and hellkell let rip and the PUAs/MRAs just go … whoosh …
Alice – we wouldn’t have mock-worthy stuff but there’d still be kittens and ferrets and cooking and movies and lots of stuff, not interrupted by trolls!
kittehs – Hell yeah! It’d be an awesome, happy place! 😀
Yessssss!
I think I fixed it. :fingers crossed:
Looks okay from here. Yay! 🙂
I presume you found the profile settings okay? 😛
kittehserf: Eww. I’ve never had a good salad at Denny’s; there lettuce always seems to be warm and wilted. Now, their bananas foster French toast, on the hand….
CassandraSays: We also like to add big piles of French fries to salads. Because what a nice, healthy meal of fresh veggies needs is a big ol’ pile of deep fried junk.
http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/2909062-Pittsburgh-Salad
Alice: Any of the larger grocery chains would have Parmesan (the actual cheese, not the preground kind in a can). Or a specialty market. It’s a pricey cheese, but a little goes a long way.
Jesus Christ the idiot is still trying to insult someone?
No self awareness at all.
I’ve been inspired by http://justbento.com to pack tasty, tidy lunches. And breakfasts. And I’ve had to adapt a lot since I’ve given up whole food groups, but things are working very well. I’m spending more on groceries (but I’m throwing out less), and absolutely no cash, which I like. (The blog hasn’t been updated in a while, as the blogger has been dealing with some health issues, and moving, and deaths in her family, and stuff. But there’s a reservoir of good ideas there.)
I generally spend about 3 hours on Sunday grocery shopping and prepping packable meats (roasted chicken thighs, meatballs) and veggies (chopped salads for warm weather, stir fries for cold weather–if you have access to a microwave). If you eat grains, you can always add a cup of boiled grains to add mass to fill up your tummy. Barley is fantastic, and doesn’t spike your blood sugar. F’rex: http://www.canadianliving.com/food/mushroom_barley_pilaf.php
Ziploc makes 500 ml and 1 L containers with screw-on lids that leak the least of anything I’ve come across, outside of laboratory supplies. http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Medium-Containers-2-Count/dp/B003UEMECA
One of these days I’m going to start a blog to keep track of my successful food experiments. Anybody got any platform recommendations? They all seem to be problematical as regards printable recipes, without either technical skills or money for plug-ins, of which I have neither.
Not a platform recommendation per se, but would hosting the printable version of the recipes on google docs help? Since that has a straight up print button? So you’d do your post and such, and include as much of the recipe as you wanted, and then link to the printable recipe…would that work? Cuz google docs is like Word but not fucking broken.
Speaking of food blogs, this one has awesome looking cookies.
http://pipinthecity.wordpress.com/
I just didn’t realize that I had entered anything to be linked when I posted. Took care of that in 1 second.
Tristian – WordPress does it automatically for you when you create your blog. Thankfully it’s reversible, and like I said, you can always put it back when you’re ready to present your blog to the world. 🙂
Unimaginative – I should bookmark that then. Need good food. *nod*
Good,
You responded to my post, clearly indicating you read it, but you STILL did not answer my question.
If I post instructions online on how to trick a man into handing me his phone and wallet, then promptly use this technique to remove your phone and wallet from you, did I steal them from you? Yes or no?
If you need a literal example, rather then a hypothetical situation, watch the following video. It’s only 1 minute and 33 seconds long.
Is taking people’s property this way, and NOT returning it, ethical or not? This isn’t a difficult question.
Reminds me of this a little bit: weasels gotta get them some bunny.
http://youtu.be/ODEUK5sB5vE?t=51s