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.
You’re doing good Marie, making sense. Don’t worry about it.
I just want to clarify that it was more than “HOLY CRAP MY MOUTH” which I like and can deal with, but more the fact that it was “HOLY CRAP MY ESOPHAGUS, MY STOMACH!” and lasted for at least 10 minutes and then I had an upset stomach for a while, so y’know, YMMV.
(But also I think my upper digestive system may be a bit more sensitive than average, based on the fact that one of my triggers for my vagal syncope is eating too-hot food. Legitimately, I will pass out if I eat potatoes or cassarole right out of the oven.)
Seeing as there’s a contest for the title of World’s Hottest Pepper, CassandraSays, I’d say you’re in good company.
By the way, is this your eyeball? Boyo found it under the couch.
That said, I do actually really like Thai chilies, just not a whole one in my mouth, I guess? Also the fridge pickles turned out awesome and between Dr. Husbutt and I, we’ve eaten entire small buckets of them.
(Sorry I’m so aggressively chatty today; I’m just really bored and it’s raining buckets so I don’t really want to go out anywhere.)
I think Good has been attending this church:
It would certainly explain his moral confusion.
(Side-note: I consider A Vampire in Brooklyn to be the most underrated of all of Eddie Murphy’s films. It’s funny, subversive and inventive, doing things with the vampire legend back in the days when veering from Stoker’s formula was considered taboo among horror fans. And Angela Bassett brings the thunder.)
@sittiekitty
well, yay that I’m being understandable :/
@ Fi, thank you! My girl just started crawling and one of the things she likes to do is crawl over and lay her hand on my big toe. She doesn’t squeeze or pull or dig in, she just lays her hand on it and then sits up, like a swimmer slapping the side of the pool after her last lap.
@freemage
Maybe I’ll have to check out that film, with that recommendation 🙂
@dustydeste
You’re fine, worry not.
I can’t believe there are people here who make macaroni and cheese in a pot. I simply cannot be associated with such people.
:: flounces dramatically, twirling petticoats ::
:: immediately returns, and pretends she never flounced at all::
So hey, what’s up?
Can you hold on to that eyeball for me? I’m sure it’ll go wandering again later, and I wouldn’t want it to get lost.
Hmm, maybe I’ll watch it then. I like vampire movies, or at least I used to, until The Books Which Shall Not Be Named happened.
I was actually recently reading a book called Fat White Vampire Blues, which is pretty much a guy from New Orleans cheerfully smashing Anne Rice-style vampire books ala Confederacy of Dunces. It’s kind of an interesting cultural oddity, in that the book is VERY powerfully New Orleans, while at the same time predating both Katrina and Twilight by a few years.
That said, I had to stop reading because of the rampant transphobia. Yes, I get it, it’s a book in the style of O’Toole, no character is intended to be sympathetic, but STILL. If you’re hurting trans people, I ain’t laughing.
Cloudiah::: immediately returns, and pretends she never flounced at all::
So hey, what’s up?
No worries, s’Good.
😉
Marie – Avocado smoothies are delicious! You just put in avocados, milk, and condensed milk in a blender and blend until smooth. SO MOTHERFUCKING GOOD.
A lot of recipes call for ice. My best friend and I don’t use ice. Just don’t forget to refrigerate it if you’re not going to eat it right away! Cover it with plastic wrap touching the top of the smoothie to keep the air out.
(I don’t use measurements in general, so we do it by taste. We use a decent amount of condensed milk though. NOMS)
Actually, the worst with those peppers? Yeah, the bathroom incident was bad, but the shower is Right There (and yes, I did immediately make use of it, because HOLY FUCKING SHIT MY NETHER REGIONS ARE ON FIRE)
The worst? I ate some with my previous winter gloves on (not the frankengloves thankfully, I doubt they’d take washing well)…the next winter I rubbed my eyes not realizing I still had habanero on my gloves. Yes, a year later. And nowhere near water of any sort!
Cute little orange peppers OF DEATH!
@argenti aertheri
Wow habanero stuff lasts a long time O_o Also, I shamefully did not think to take a shower because I wanted to finish what I was cooking, so…I kind have a bad habit of not thinking of obvious solutions.
Jesus
There was a bar in Seattle that used to put Thai chillies in its bar snack mix. It was delicious.
I like ALL the mac-n-cheese, but baked is probably my favorite.
Since we’re already on food as a topic – favorite bar snacks? Mine is wasabi peanuts (goes well with vodka drinks).
At El Quixote in MYC, they had some delicious crispy chicken and some kind of omelet thing that was to die for that they brought out for happy hour.
Other that that, nuts and/or Chex mix type nibbles are good.
There’s a Czech bar in San Francisco that used to offer this snack that was like bruscetta, but a bit spicier? Not sure what it’s called, but it was tasty.
Bruschetta: Now there’s something that anyone with a broiler can make, and probably should.
Hm… While I certainly encourage checking out A Vampire in Brooklyn, I should also note: I last watched it maybe 10-15 years ago. I can’t guarantee it aged well, especially since that goes back to the era when my privilege blinders were still pretty much surgically attached. (These days, I can at least usually manage to remove them when I’m reminded that they’re there.) So it’s quite possible, given the era it was made in, that I’m only remembering the parts that still appeal to me now, and there might be something secretly awful lurking in the bits between those.
@freemage
I’ll keep that in mind should I get around to seeing it. (my too-see list of movies is ridiculously long :p)