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Comment on Pick-up (bullshit) artists. by Jefrir

Jefrir — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:00:09 +0000

“if i see myself as the most interesting/alpha/high value person in a small group of people, i can get into this state of mind more easily.”

Whereas I find someone who thinks they’re the best person in the room to be a massive turn-off, so you wouldn’t be doing yourself any favours. A healthy sense of self-esteem is good. Thinking you’re more interesting than you are, or especially, that you’re more interesting than the person you’re talking to, is bad

Comment on Best. Blonde. Joke. Ever. by When bloggers get silly | The Monash Report

When bloggers get silly | The Monash Report — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:03:31 +0000

[...] I generally find blonde jokes to be stupid, demeaning, and above all incorrect (I’ve known plenty of very smart blondes). So in the face of very limited competition, I am inclined to agree that this is probably the best blonde joke ever. [...]

Comment on Pick-up (bullshit) artists. by static

static — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:50:30 +0000

i’m a keyboard jockey but i think i know a few things. perhaps this will be relevant.

girls want to be emotionally stimulated. but in a fun way. a lot of asshole behavior comes off as fun and exciting to them if you’re being a fun upbeat alpha guy while you do it.

i think a lot of guys get confused here because we communicate in a relatively logical way. we communicate to transfer ideas and concepts. but girls communicate to transfer feelings. so, logically, while telling a girl that she’s a dork is an asshole thing to say on the surface, emotionally, if you’re smiling and being a FUN GUY when you say it, she feels it as being playful and fun.

it seems that the trick is to get in the FUN ZONE. to get in “state”. to be talkative. it’s a more free, alpha state of mind. everyone has this state of mind built into them. but our minds don’t want us to have access to it because we aren’t subconsciously comfortable in an alpha role. you said that your conscience threatens to shut you down / “social anxiety”. this may be what i’m talking about. i find that it’s easier for me to get into this state of mind when i’m exhausted because i stop caring what people think of me. also, if i see myself as the most interesting/alpha/high value person in a small group of people, i can get into this state of mind more easily.

at that point, it’s easier to talk to girls on their wavelength.. you can also do things consciously with your vocal tonality and pronunciation to say things in a FUN way. “noooOh, silly!!1!”, as opposed to “no. silly.”

Comment on On offense. by Bob

Bob — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:59:10 +0000

The truth of that bumper sticker hit me like a 2×4 across the forehead. Thanks for sharing.

There could me no hate displayed in those words. Perhaps your Muslim friend sees hate everywhere – especially in the mirror…..

Comment on Repost: Wal-Mart Online Job Application? by Marie

Marie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:17:52 +0000

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Comment on Repost: Wal-Mart Online Job Application? by MYRNA

MYRNA — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:36:17 +0000

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Comment on Repost: Wal-Mart Online Job Application? by objetetrianna

objetetrianna — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:26:55 +0000

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Comment on Repost: Wal-Mart Online Job Application? by SASHA SMITH

SASHA SMITH — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:25:44 +0000

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Comment on Pick-up (bullshit) artists. by AFC 4Real

AFC 4Real — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:13:54 +0000

I have recently been looking at the PUA stuff as I am the poster child for nice-guy-ness. I think it can all be boiled down to a 4 step process: introduce/initiate, escalate, close, repeat. How far on the asshole-meter this reaches depends on the definition of escalate and close. If you want to still be “nice” and “good”, you can simply escalate to friendship with the hope for more and close with a phone number rather than escalating to a one-night-stand and closing with a used condom. But I do agree that escalating has to be further than friendship and that has to be understood very quickly. Otherwise, your iPhone is filled with girls’ numbers that can only be used to give “the male perspective” for all the other lovers they have. I’m in that trap now and can’t seem to get out of it because I’m still stuck in the idea that escalating too far too quickly makes me an asshole. Oh well.

Comment on WWII Posters and Modern Patriotism. by Mike H

Mike H — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:58:06 +0000

Wow, a Wikipedia article most likely written by a collective of basement dwelling, hot pocket subsisting, virgins is definitively the trump card I would play if I was in the hole you just dug for yourself.

I realize that you fancy yourself as some kind of clever pseudo intellectual for your parroting of the attempt to dovetail German fascism – Hitler – and Christianity, but it’s a highly flammable straw man.

Hitler publicly embraced Christianity because it was an institution that nearly all Germans held some allegiance to. Privately he despised it because it undermined the authority of the state.

“All of the confessionals are the same. Whichever one you choose, it will not have a future. Not for the Germans anyway. Fascism (Italian) may in the name of God make its peace with the church. I will do that too. Why not! It wont stop me from eradicating Christianity from Germany root and branch. You are either a Christian or a German. You cant be both.” – Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, pg 105

Care for some more volumes?