George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16hr ago
At least this is a rationale. I'd counter with the notion that the average person, white or not, probably can't write very well anyway. Twenty five years ago as a grad student I taught freshman composition, and the majority of my native-speaking students (almost entirely white) couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. Also dialects are legion even within the English language, and not as prominent in writing as speaking, in particularly phonological dialect. I can write "pen" and you read it in your own dialect, not realizing I'm imagining it pronounced "pin." Even lexically there aren't all that many terms in English used by native Indians that wouldn't be used by, say a British person* (e.g. "lift" for the proper term: elevator).
In any case I appreciate your having a stab at defending the position. I still think it's giving "whites" way too much generalized credit. Admittedly my experience with Indians has been with the highly educated.
*Let's say white British person.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17hr ago
I see you in my mind's eye doing the whole goddam set at once because to not would be p**sy. Don't interfere with my placing of the pedestal, just hop up on it.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17hr ago
This is an extrapolation but you're explaining for the person who posted, who made no caveats about "more expensive" white writers, just wrote "most whites" as if we are to believe whites (defined how I do not know) are somehow more talented as a whole at writing than ___. This kind of presumptuous comment jars and I concur with @ThomasdelVasto that it shouldn't be just left unquestioned.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18hr ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: A hundred pull-ups is (are?) no joke. I can probably do 100 push-ups (though reading back through I see it's supposed to be twice that.) I can imagine a situation where I could do 300 squats. I can even run (though maybe not after all that pulling pushing squatting.) But 100 pull-ups. Put a gun to my head and I'd have to eat the bullet around 10. How do we get to the point of 100 pull-ups? Big strong men can be stymied by the pull-up because they're actually fatasses but strong. Wiry guys are put off because their arms just aren't strong enough (probably where I am). You have to be in some zone of badassery to do 100 pull-ups. Is this just me? Can everyone on the Motte do 100 pull-ups?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Since Japan has come up it might be my chance to introduce the concept of 枕営業or "makura eigyou." This term could be translated strictly as "pillow business" but in reality refers to the necessarily transactional nature of the mizu shoubai or "water trade" aka night life business such as hostess bars, etc.
Relevant to this discussion due to a 2015 case that made the news.. Essentially while long term infidelity is grounds for divorce, just sex with your friendly neighborhood hostess is not. At least not so in a way that would grant the wife a settlement. Why? Because our friendly neighborhood hostess (or whatever) works hard for the money, that's why. Just another part of the nightly grind. Sorry, wives and mothers in Japan, but at least dad was just paying for it and wasn't really in Luv.
Who says Japanese law is impenetrable? Well, I say that, but I suppose sometimes I'm wrong. All puns intended.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
Clueless discourse and blathering is it. Well. I am trying to find your point, which seems to be, give up? Anyway all this talk makes me want to throw myself into a profile just to see what would happen, though I'm well out of the game.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Ah, nevermind. I was looking at the other thread. Did you xpost this on purpose?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Oddly, in the main thread of this I cannot see my reply to you nor your reply to me.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Current AI will routinely have crisp foreground and similar but blurred background --no doubt because it has been trained on such images (that, like this one, are real). The cleanup and lack of any granular detail here also looks AI, but that's probably just the usual digital airbrushing. My mistake.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Good luck; you'll need it. Not because of anything to do with you, but because I fear you are in an extremely vulnerable position at this point ("she's gorgeous"/"she's not interested in anything serious"). Probably more to say but here's my stop.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
I hate piercings past one in each ear (for females) and any sort of tattoo unless it's some branding you intentionally got with your unit/ship because you experienced hell in some faraway jungle/rice paddy/desert.
I used to wonder, as a boy, what would be the thing that separated me, finally, from youth--what would finally be the issue(s) that made me have old man opinions. For my dad I remember he was disgusted that anyone of my generation and peer group would have the depravity to smoke marijuana. That seemed to me pretty regressive back when I was a teenager (though I didn't drink or smoke anything until over 21.)
I think I accepted homosexuality as just one of those things early on (though I am often confused by activist's insistence both that homosexuality is biological but also that to explore the biology of it is fascist and evil.) I hit a wall at transvestism but there was a time when my doubts were mainstream. Then transgender became (seemingly) a massive movement and any doubts about its authenticity or normalcy was shunned as -phobic and evil. What I had always considered normal became marginalized as "cis." People online started replying "Ok boomer" to me, though I am of GenX. Dennis Rodman back in the day seemed edgy and bizarre, but then you knew he had his demons and felt he was on the edge anyway. But then he was fawned on by Madonna (still barely relevant then) and everyone sort of just accepted his appearance. What had been transgressive became pop cool. Years later on screen you saw Lisbeth Salander sitting in the chair, warned that her new tattoo would hurt, and she just shrugs. But the subtext (emotionally damaged individual) was there. Then, tattoos eventually everywhere--not on the ripped, or lithe, or edgy attractive Swedish girl, but on the obese, on the calves of a guy in a print t-shirt and cargo pants at the 7-11--very quickly began to chafe. Piercings in the nose of otherwise attractive girls (or who would be attractive assuming they washed their hair and maybe did something more to prepare their appearance than a 12 year old boy) immediately revolted me.
In Japan, tattoos are still rare-ish (though a guy on my morning commute appears to have full leg tats, and because he's middle aged I assume he's involved heavily in the Yakuza.) But you do see them in the young who've opted out of traditional jobs. And in nightlife workers (bartenders, DJs, low-tier girl's bar girls) you also see weird piercings. But like everything in Japan these are the uniforms of their milieu. Like the artist wearing a beret or the new mom cutting her hair short or the salaryman and his suit. There's an order to it.
I can't see the order in the US (and thus it's harder for me to steelman). It's still too much my own culture.
I am reminded of this recent comment by @Sloot in he which he wondered (possibly ironically) whether eventually having no tattoos will become the edgy choice.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
That looks like AI to me.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
If your small-scale question is AITA? The answer is No. If it's "Is this a sign of the end times?" The answer is Yes.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5d ago
Of course you might end up looking weird. I'm guessing these places have pics of their previous work? A former colleague had a vanity-driven surgery to suck fat out of his baggy (in his mind) eyelids. But because he has serious sleep issues and his genius response to this was just to begin taking Ambien, he looks now like a guy with two black eyes about a week into healing. This is post-surgery.
Don't mind me, though, I'm generally adamantly against cosmetic surgery to begin with.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5d ago
You write quite well, though.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
I can usually see everything from Japan fwiw
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
Two hours is a long nap. Especially if, as you say, you are not sleep deprived. A good target nap time is about 20 minutes? Any more than that and you're heading toward a full sleep cycle. Have you considered shortening the nap time?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Thanks I'll update a bit later
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Advice, but not what you asked for: If you have essentially cut ties, don't worry about drama. You have just written that you hate the guy, and have called him a "scamming motherfucker."
Tell your 20-year-old friend exactly what you think and what he should (or shouldn't) do.
If you don't want to do this, just let fate take its course; it's none of your business at this point.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
GPT 4o has improved dramatically quite recently.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
You never know what's going on in this woman's life. Just as women can smell desperation, so can you and I. And desperation makes people neurotic. And neurotic people can act very unpredictably. The "You're not expecting sex" line was enough of a warning signal to set my alarm off. (Which isn't to say it's unreasonable of her to not want intercourse on a first or any date, but it's weird to ask like that over text.) I'm guessing she is very attractive to you, otherwise you'd be able to shrug this off. My advice is shrug it off anyway.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
I should update and add all the suggested revisions.
I think what rubs me the wrong way (a phrase of my mother's) is the default alternative to word salad writing was not even to native speaker, but to "white."
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