Show some sympathy for the poor alpha male trainee confused about how to flirt with women without inadvertently making them feel good about themselves by telling them they look pretty or something.
“How do you flirt without validating,” someone called Lanaskillet wonders in a post on the Ask the Red Pill subreddit. He knows the general Red Pill stance is “to avoid validating and kissing up to women but,” he asks,
how do you even show interest to begin with. Talking to them without any sort of compliment will just have her thinking of you as just a man without a penis right? Push/pull to me seems like the only answer but even then it’s some sort of validation for them since you still give them a feel good statement. I’m trying to comprehend this part of the red pill
The trick, I imagine, is to figure out how to compliment a woman without making her feel good, about herself or about anything, really.
You’re beautiful — like the precious lives so cruelly snuffed out on 9/11.
If you were a fish, I bet you’d be a cod.
Your head shape appears to be within normal parameters.
You have a sister? Let me guess: she’s the pretty one?
Your makeup really makes your eyes pop … I mean, bulge.
You look better than you smell.
You’re almost as pretty as my mother.
You remind me a lot of this bug I once saw.
Are you a national park? Because you look like you’re open for drilling.
Are those your actual toes?
Use any of these suggestions and you’ll be in like Flynn.
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So sorry to go O/T again, but I just have to because Jacob Wohl is at it again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-staged-fake-fbi-raid-on-business-partner-actor-hired-for-production-says
@Alan, @Naglfar
This may interest you. An ancestor of mine was an explorer, and he kept a diary of his travels.
Proof that the States have always had odd little sects running around.
@ Vicky P
That is interesting; thank you!
That’s basically me at any music festival.
What does “not much hurt by the Fresh” mean do you know?
@Alan
I’m afraid I’m not sure. A lot of his journal for this trip involved describing rivers and other waterways, so I’ve supposed that Great-Great-Great-etc.-Grandfather was describing a recent flood or a vigorous river.
@VP
Do you know if this is the same group he was referring to? If so, it appears they still exist.
@Alan
The fresh in this context would be a recent flood, probably caused by smowmelt.
@ Vicky P
Hmm, got me thinking of possibilities.
The way it’s written may suggest somehow it’s connected with living on the river branch.
At first I thought maybe fresh water? But that doesn’t really seem to make much sense in context.
We sometimes use fresh here to mean cold; as in “Brrr, it’s a bit fresh out there today.” Wonder if that’s it?
ETA: Ah cheers Dali. That makes much more sense.
@Naglfar
Yep, I believe that’s the same group!
@ naglfar
I initially read that as drunkard brethren and wondered where I signed up.
@Naglfar:
<I>O/T: Looks like ICE has been doing hysterectomies on large numbers of women whom they have detained. Unsurprising, but horrible nevertheless.</I>
And with abundant precedent:
http://mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com/about/
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/469478098/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations
Wow, I go to work for a few hours and come back to so many interesting comments! This site is great. ?
@ Alan,
…to put it mildly? ?
“O/T: Looks like ICE has been doing hysterectomies on large numbers of women whom they have detained. Unsurprising, but horrible nevertheless.”
Not sure how many times we have to say this is genocide and these are concentration camps before the liberals listen.
That ICE stuff is so vile,
An amusing case of french etymology is that waste bins are called “poubelle”, from the name of the guy who imposed their use in Paris. As a patronym it lost a lot of popularity since then.
Technically, it’s also a case of something not named for its inventor.
Thanks, Jenora. Yeah, it does sound reasonable – but we humans do love our just-so stories, so … guess I’ll file it under “dunno” (an excessively large category for me) until or unless somebody further enlightens 🙂
@ Penny Psmith
Huh, I totally had Sylvester Graham’s history mixed up with Kellogg’s history. I’m indebted to you for making me fact-check your report, which is 100% correct. I can’t even imagine a vegetarian causing a riot of butchers and bakers today, so… progress?
@opposablethumb : as a french speaker, I never ever have heard of “parler comme un basque espagnol”.
The etymology might be true (I have been raised quite further east than the Pays Basque), but it do reek of anti-basque racism.
@ big titty demon
Sainsburys set up a meat-free butchers in Shoreditch (of course)
And that did provoke this!
Admittedly it’s not exactly the Storming of the Bastille.
@Alan Robertshaw
Did the meat free butcher sell things like imitation meats and substitutes? If so, that sounds rather useful, as it’s hard to find those sometimes.
@ naglfar
Basically it’s all the same stuff they sell in the regular Sainsbury’s but put out on trays rather than in packets.
That’s Shoreditch for you.
(I shouldn’t dig; I love the place)
It alway amaze me how much effort some people are able to do just because someone else do something not destined for them.
A bunch of vegan and vegetarian are annoying, but I much prefer doing some efforts to, you know, just be less annoying than them, than trying to one up and make myself even more of a nuisance than them.
@Ohlmann
At this point, it seems the main philosophy of many conservatives is to be obnoxious because someone is doing something different, i.e. “owning the libs.” Instead of just not getting an abortion or not entering into a gay marriage, conservatives have to be assholes to people for those things.
For a more on-topic example, I saw a conservative meme the other day saying that they will eat twice as much meat to make up for vegans. Or, as someone who doesn’t eat meat and is Jewish, I’ve had antisemites tell me they will eat extra pork to make up for me not eating it. Truth be told, I really don’t care what they eat, but I think they were expecting a different reaction. Pigs aren’t kosher, but the reason for that is because the meat spoils in a Mediterranean climate, not because they are viewed as holy or special. Although I do think potbellied pigs are cute.
@ olhmann
There’s a guy called sv3rige who turns up at vegan things and eats raw squirrels at us.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/13/man-who-ate-raw-pigs-head-at-vegan-festival-stabbed-four-classmates-at-school-9184229/
@ Varalys is the expert on him though, so I’ll let her fill in the details if she’s about.
He does have some rather unpleasant views though; he’s an unapologetic rape proponent for a start.
Someone who eat raw squirrels to spite people is already pretty unpleasant. I am not against squirrel-eating in general, but eating them raw in front of an audience seem much more motivated by spite than by taste.
I mean, still small potatoes compared to being a rape apologist. But I don’t expect that kind of individual to be pleasant TBH.
Oh, him. He’s an embarrassment to humanity. Not edgy or particularly irritating, just embarrassing. I can just see our far distant ancestors slapping him upside the head and saying “We tamed fire for a reason!”