The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam celebrates the simple pleasures of
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Reddit’s MGTOW contingent has a somewhat different notion of what constitutes the good life. It involves a motorcycle in one’s bedroom.
Last week, one Man Going His Own Way proudly posted the photo above to the MGTOW subreddit, where it received more than 80 upvotes and pretty much universal acclaim.
“People always ask when I would leave this ‘narcissistic immature lifestyle’ behind and just man up and get married already,” he wrote. “Why would I want to wake up to anything other than this in my bedroom???”
Replacing the wine, bread, and poetry of Omar Khayyam’s little scene we have:
- An air mattress
- A motorcycle
- A bigass flat-screen TV
- A Playstation 4
- Two video games
Replacing the tree, a Minecraft poster tacked to the wall.
Replacing “thou?” Whatever … that is on the bed, I guess.
You go, boy.
@David – That’s a valid point.
You were viewing the post in context & were graced with the presence of its replies.
And that’s the thing about MGTOWs: They’d actually be a-OK in my book (as would WGTOWs, etc), but they don’t go their own way, not really.
They go sulk in the corner and fester and stink up the joint (the joint being “civil society”).
MGTOWs: If relationships aren’t for you, BY ALL MEANS go your own way – whether truly alone like Wolverine in the north or in a guy-filled collective, spaces and effort shared to minimize expenses and toil – just for fuck’s sake stop being bitter.
Go out and LIVE.
You’re hurting yourself and annoying everyone else with what you’re doing now.
Also, I swear I will come up with something more valuable than vehicle-nerd “Well, actually” posts, at some point, and I realize these are not important points that I’m making. But here we are, and I’m still typing…
@panda: Whew, there it is.
Buzzed right by it or thought maybe I had somehow managed to block someone at some point.
(Can you block people on WordPress? I don’t even know.)
Okay, this is aemi-off-topic and possibly contentious, but holy hell do I hate Harleys.
It’s that stupid noise they make. pak-pak-pak-pak-pak like a broken washing machine turned up to 11. So friggin’ loud. And what for? It can’t be unavoidable, I’m sure. There are quite powerful engines that run quietly – in fact, that’s one feature that some powerful engines boast about. Kinda feels like it’s just a status thing, a way for everyone within a few block radius to know that you’re riding a Harley Davidson. And as a person who has never been on a motorcycle, just suffered hearing them pak-pak-paking their way right outside the window of my boyfriend’s apartment, I find it incredibly annoying.
*semi-off-topic
Penny – I have some bad Harley jokes, but I don’t want to offend anyone.
@mockingbird
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/dunno2.gif
I like Harley but I wanna hear dem Harley jokes.
OK, one: What’s the difference between a Harley and a vacuum cleaner?
The position of the dirtbag.
http://i.imgur.com/oEhVvjZ.gif
I did specify that it was a bad joke.
Hah! Bad jokes are awesome.
I don’t want to offend people, too. I know there’s a whole Harley culture, and all. It’s just… the noise, the goddamn noise.
Yeah, I’m in the camp of “This guy isn’t poor he’s just showing off what he has in a very sorry attempt to try and get praise from his fellow migtoes all while trying to use his material gains to shame women into maybe paying him attention all while coming off as desperate and still somehow conceited and sniffing his own farts.”
And only two PS3 games? Pffft. I have more games for my PS2 and XBox. XD (What kind of games would he even play, besides Minecraft?)
WAIT I JUST REALIZED.
Those aren’t PS3 games on the shelf there! Most PS3 cases are clear!
THOSE ARE BLU RAY CASES. He’s got two BLU RAY MOVIES, not games!
@PI – I think they’re PS4 cases.
*goes back to polishing up stagnant resume and translating skills into corporate-speak for LinkedIn profile*
Miss Andry’s detective work has made the OP over there indefensible. That’s some rotten thinking. But the guy does also post about hitting “rock bottom” with depression and how “depression ate my ass alive.”
That’s no excuse for his public woman-hating, but bashing the guy for his lifestyle is a low blow no matter what he thinks. Everything in David’s post calls him out for enjoying the way he lives and clearly suggests that we should ridicule him for it. “You go, boy!” We’re apparently supposed to consider the guy a loser based on his stuff.
I don’t understand why a spartan lifestyle with two video games is somehow better than a spartan lifestyle with thrift store cat art on the walls. I prefer the latter myself (lots of thrift store art on my walls), but I don’t think it gives me the right to judge others for their lifestyle choices.
@mockingbird
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/old-lol.gif
@Paradoxical
He could have downloaded games.
Eh, they could be, upon further digging. Still, it’s an odd color.
This is also true. Still, I fail to see why it’s such a big deal for him. (And I don’t think Minecraft’s on PS3 as far as I’m aware because Microsoft now owns it, so he must either play it on his computer, or he has an XBox off-camera.)
Do you know that sound is actually copyrighted? They design their bikes to make that noise because it’s literally their trademark.
The other trademarked bike sound is, of course:
PI – Minecraft’s on PS3 and PS4. I can say that with certainty because my eldest two are playing it while I suck at staying on task / update my resume.
(I’m not picking, just…ugh, resume. And LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s the devil. It encapsulates quite a bit of what I hate about corporate work.)
Minecraft is def on PS. It came out before Microsoft buyout,
“Not once in my life has some stupid cunt been vurnerable. Women are all actresses. Some are better at hiding behind their nature than others. Sally may seem sweet and ideal of a NAWALT. Sally just isn’t showing you the predetermined winning hand she’s been dealt. In fact, she’ll deny knowledge of the hand in entirety.”
There’s also Jerry Sandusky, The Menendez brothers, Charles Manson, Scott Peterson, and every sociopath with a penis. Men are just as capable of being manipulative sons of bitches and yet women are somehow worse because reasons.
Honestly, the guy who made that comment sound every bit as irrational as the feminists they claim to despise. Switch the genders around and it could be something from an Andrea Dworkin lecture.
I didn’t know it was copyrighted! Wow, that’s interesting.
Odd anecdote – with the local messes over the last couple of summers here (Israel) which saw Hammas rockets reaching Tel Aviv, and therefore more warning sirens in those areas as well, there’s actually been an issue where people get triggered by motorcycle sounds (the regular kind, not the pak-pak-pak kind), because they sound so much like a siren. I have one friend who had that issue, and have heard of others.
To be fair, that photo looks kind of cozy. I’d really like to know which women are being hurt by men living thrifty, single lives. MGTOW is such a comical concept that every time I read about it, I smile.
I thought it was a PS4?
@Flint
Just a small note, please don’t call them “Sociopaths” or “Sons of bitches” here. Those are ableist and sexist slurs. “Assholes” works perfectly well.
@Falconer: Upon further inspection: It does appear to be so. The photo was taken from far away though, so it was hard to tell.
SPEAKING OF VIDEO GAMES:
http://giant.gfycat.com/FondAccurateHartebeest.gif
Have a gif that sums up Arkham Knight pretty well.