For the past three years of The Rational Male there’s been a consistent presence in the comment threads of guys seeking advice for particular situations with regards to Game. Whether it’s fine tuning certain aspects of Game or a larger consensus of the guys participating in my comment threads it’s become obvious there’s a need for a dedicated page and comment thread to address these Field Reports.
So I’m instituting this page for exactly this. If there is some urgency to have members of The Rational Male community analyze your particular situation feel free to hit anyone up in the comments of my current post, but please refer them to your particular field report with a link to your comment here. I’m hoping this will alleviate the mass of posts for field report analysis and Game specific insights piled into the main blog post for any given week.
There will be some rules for this “forum” as such. I ask that you only keep your comments to addressing the field reports at hand and save your larger theoretical stuff for the main posts, or if relevant, keep the “bigger scope of things” posts to being as succinct as possible. There will be no moderation in this comment thread (spamming excepted), so realize it will be a very hot kitchen before you post. I will impose no restrictions on video links here, nor will I limit links to various, but pertinent articles.
Understand, this is an experiment for now. It’s likely this comment thread will exceed thousands of comments. I’ll be instituting new comment plug-ins for wordpress to deal with this in the future, but I may archive this page the the posts and refresh this page in the future as well. If this gets cumbersome I may simply institute a dedicated forum-style sub-site of The Rational Male to accommodate for Game specific questions.
So have at it, post your field reports and feel free to comment on the ones you have some particular insight for. Be forewarned that it’s likely things may get a bit salty at times and I expect a lot of back & forth with debate and disagreements, but that’s what this thread is for – to hash out Game particulars for your given situations.
HABD
All that selenium is making you touchy…😛
IF that dude WAS an alpha stud (and didn’t just luck into a one-off), he wouldn’t have ‘ended up’ with one of her ‘friends’
I’ll take Blue Pill Alpha for the win here… Place yer bets!
Sentient – LOL.
Did you see that Silvio Berlusconi “upgraded” his girlfriend of 12 years? She’s 42 years younger than him and actually bought a wedding dress (never used) 5 years ago when he finally got his divorce from his second (or is it third? I can’t keep track) wife.
Berlusconi’s new girlfriend is 46 years younger than him. The old girlfriend found out from a newspaper (I think he may have actually issued a press release but I can’t remember that part).
@Sentient
HABD
All that selenium is making you touchy…😛
lol… gotta have enough reserve capacity to help inoculate the local community college…lol… (maybe i should start getting my marketing campaign ready…lol)
and to maybe ‘re-populate the planet’ when things get REALLY bad…lol
“IF that dude WAS an alpha stud (and didn’t just luck into a one-off), he wouldn’t have ‘ended up’ with one of her ‘friends’”
I’ll take Blue Pill Alpha for the win here… Place yer bets!
not takin’ that one…lol
good luck!
Culum The 83-year-old billionaire and 34-year-old Francesca Pascale will “remain friends”, Forza Italia said in a statement. Pascale, who once said in an interview that she asked Berlusconi to marry her every day, appeared to have been caught off guard, saying she was “astonished” by the statement, according to the Repubblica paper. “I will hold him dear for ever. I wish him all the happiness in the world and hope he finds someone who will take care of him as I have,” she said. The twice divorced media magnate, whose domination of Italian politics for more than two decades despite… Read more »
PalmaSaillor
What “singles scene” there is for 60 year old women comprises of the small minority of 70++ year old men that are still alive and in the market for another woman. One way or another most aren’t in good condition.
Dude, 70 is the new 60! I think there’s gonna be an article about that in “Rolling Stone” magazine soon, featuring Jane Fonda and Mick Jagger.
Lol. There must be something wrong with me mentally. I’m not overly attracted to 20-something year old girls like that.
Maybe if I took a break from being around them until I was 70, I’d see things differently.
But I don’t see anything different ( much ) about a woman because of her age / being ” young “. I have things I like about women, ways they look, physical dimensions….if you got what I like and you’re 45, I’m good with that.
Where’s Novaseeker when you need him?
( gratuitous C. Brinkley video here )
@PalmaSailor @HABD This thing appears to be moving massively faster than my projections. https://imgur.com/a/JkMLDIG that’s likely partly bc of better testing protocols… just bc you haven’t been tested, doesn’t mean you haven’t got it… (unless you’re the NHS/CDC…lol)… but it’s out of control already… based on the numbers put up already… But then we have a very very dense population in some of the outbreak areas (inc where I live which was one of the first with a local returning from skiing in Italy) if you are ‘out and about’ you likely have been exposed already… i hope you’ve been… Read more »
Palma
Corona is gonna turn us all into zombies.
Obvious man is obvious.
George Clooney: ” Hold my beer…”
Well, he’s not ” old “, but he’s got me by 2 months. Lol.
Think George could pull without money or fame/celebrity?
I w2ant to see 60-70 year old retired guys with stellar personalities and great mindsets pulling the 20 somethings. They’re out there.
@Blaximus Palma Corona is gonna turn us all into zombies. lol… i’m only sort of freaking out…lol… but do i have two overall concerns… besides the fact that the dunning-kruger crowd are running the show…lol… 1) the chinese stole a hybrid-virus (made from bat-corona virus) (which was DESIGNED/built (in the US… by US scientists…) to be ‘non-vaccinate-able’… as well as weaponized to be MORE infectious and MORE lethal… and which by all accounts was a successful effort…) and being good communists who wanted to ‘make sure’… after they stole it, they ‘tweaked it’ to try to make it ‘more deadly’…… Read more »
Speaking of older guys ( no homo ), I went to check on a neighbor this morning. He was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago. My daughter was walking the dog and heard him inside the house calling for help, saying he couldn’t breathe. Luckily the door was open, so she went to check on him and called an ambulance ( he’d run out of oxygen in his oxy tank ) and wifey went to stay with him until the ambulance arrived. Since he spends as lot of time alone, I check on him from time to time. So we… Read more »
HABD Well, I got 8 thousand gallons of water in the pool, and iodine and chlorine to kill the nasties – or I could just boil it. And spring is right around the corner. Time to get the garden fired up. Good thing the city has been so slow to remove those damn deer from the park down the street ( who says bushmasters aren’t ” hunting ” rifles? ) Lol, I’m good for 30-60 days before I have to go all survivalist. We had our first death here yesterday, and the count of the ” infected ” doubled in… Read more »
No Mad Max Cuda.
Ground clearance too low. After running over 2 people I’ll get stuck.
I always planned on staying put in a ” disaster ” scenario anyway.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-adds-5-new-covid-19-cases-tri-state-total-more-than-triples-in-days/2319688/
We’re a very tight knit neighborhood, so let’s put that shit to the test!! Lol.
Plus a lot of my neighbors employ armed, private security.
Culum strain I don’t think Sentient would disagree with most of that. If it is actually Sentinet… No doubt he can speak for himself but my reading of that story was more like “it’s also possible for it to happen like this” – not that it’s the only way for it to pan out. More like “she cried REAL TEARS, oh, teh poor wimmenz!” lol. Also, if her husband was able to get a 26 year old girlfriend in his mid 60s, he was likely alpha to some extent at least… If…but we don’t really know, do we? We have… Read more »
PalmaSailor This thing appears to be moving massively faster than my projections. There’s two different strains known for sure, L and S. By now there may well be mutations as well. It’s still a virus, just has a longer survival period on surfaces than cold virii. So clean everything, take vitamins like HABD. The masks do work some sorta. Anyone with reduced lung capacity is at risk. So your typical older Chinese man who smoked ciggies like a bonfire for 30 years AND lived for the last 20 years in a badly smoke-filled city AND is diabetic – tended to… Read more »
Someone commenting as “Sentient” Oh – the other point. While. $500k condo in a golf and tennis club is not as satisfying to the Women Hater Club as that bitch living out of a car… Lol. Whoever you are, you need to put down that bottle of blue pills. seriously. To women like this – who love a guy and get tossed over – it’s almost as bad. You know she got tossed over…how? Because she told you, with real tears in her eyes…and girls never, ever use tears to manipulate men, and they always tell the total, absolute, utter… Read more »
The Italian government has ordered the closing of all retail stores except pharmacies and groceries. The WHO has officially declared it a pandemic. Amazon is sold out of Spam and Dinty Moore. Pictures of grocery stores cleaned out of everything but the vegan section which is virtually untouched amuse.
Whether the plague is truly upon us I don’t know, but the panic certainly is.
But if I want to weather the storm in isolation playing with nifty new computer parts I figure I better order them soon before deliveries shut down.
Blaximus
Corona is gonna turn us all into zombies.
Open up a window on YouTube.
Turn “Safe search” off.
Look for “My Corona”. The quality of singing varies…
I think the band members of “The Knack” must have someone full time trawling YT to shut down those parodies but they keep coming back. It’s..viral!
Blaximus I would have put my hand on any bible and swore that he was 75-80. He’s only 5 years older than me. He has bad kidneys and need dialysis once a week, and he’s arthritic and has COPD and asthma. Some guy once observed “Time reveals all”. There you go. COPD associates with overweight, and it might just be that he’s been diabetic for 10 years or more. If so, “diabetes” is to “aging” as “gasoline” is to “fire”. Diabetics develop…everything…faster than the rest of us. Suggest that neighbor needs a reserve supply of oxygen because COVID-19 attacks the… Read more »
kfg Whether the plague is truly upon us I don’t know, but the panic certainly is. Yes, because COVID19 is TEN TIMES more lethal than regular flu. TEN TIMES! That means it has a worst case 1% fatality rather than 0.1%. Well, ok. There’s also some interesting data about humidity (both relative and absolute) and virus survival but I’m not yet convinced, so no links for now. But if I want to weather the storm in isolation playing with nifty new computer parts I figure I better order them soon before deliveries shut down. Yeah, pretty much. Amazon trucks were… Read more »
A friend just emailed me to say he was going to go to Walmart Saturday morning and asked if I wanted to come along. Sure, I want to maybe get . . . a phone. KaiOS. Linux kernal with a GUI based on the Firefox rendering engine. Open source with HTML5 and JavaScript as its api. It gets me all thinking that I could, like, do something with that, even if touching JavaScript does give me hives. I’ll see what they’ve got left in cooking oil. For, ya know, cooking. It’s just ice out here and my reserves are low.… Read more »
“$pamazon fulfillment centers are for sure gonna spread virii.”
Yeah. I was thinking the other day, “Wouldn’t it be funny if I wouldn’t risk going to the store, but then caught it from an Amazon package I got instead?”
I’m oldish. I have a genetic predisposition to be killed by respiratory infections. I would have to be considered at high risk for ending up dead and all if I catch it, but right now I’m more concerned with being done in by the panic than by the disease.
I’m largely self isolated and working on my Mustang restomod. I’m decontaminating mail and packages with a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol. All but one of my friends are operating in “business as usual” fashion. We are all operating with the same access to information. The next few weeks will tell who is taking the right course of action. The only downside I see to my abundance of caution is I could be missing out on a few weeks of gaming. I’ve also temporarily banished my gf from coming over. She works in a hospital where the first victim of… Read more »
kfg I want to maybe get . . . a phone. KaiOS. Linux kernal with a GUI based on the Firefox rendering engine. Open source with HTML5 and JavaScript as its api. It gets me all thinking that I could, like, do something with that, even if touching JavaScript does give me hives. Plus you might be able to get it on a Nokia handset, a thing I didn’t know was still being made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110_4G More better deal than BLU. Even though BLU has wider usage across the Latin American phone space, there’s that pesky issue with Chinese spyware phoning… Read more »
” . . . you might be able to get it on a Nokia handset, a thing I didn’t know was still being made.”
Although not made by Nokia. On the other hand Alcatel, the brand of handset I’m interested in, is a fully Nokia owned subsidiary. Go figure.
And never mind that near as I can tell the Alcatel handsets are actually manufactured by . . . True China Lion.
A lot of “made in” things trace back to FoxConn. Including that yellow Nokia handset.
Maybe you wish to play with this from Pine?
https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor
Or splurge on a Librum with all the cool “off” switches.
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
OR the Voila phone which may or may not actually exist
https://liliputing.com/2020/03/volla-phone-could-ship-in-october-crowdfunded-smartphone-running-linux-or-android.html
AR
Lotsa projecting… “Sadz”? 😆
“Reverse White Knight” in progress there AR. Every aspect of that commentary.
I get it. You’ve never broken up with a girl. And had her come round asking what she did wrong…
Carry on people, don’t look. Walk by.
There is doubt, so there is no doubt. Let me get that out of the way. Setup a date last week downtown that she almost flaked on after work ran late but she ended up showing up. We get to talking and I get the vibe going this time and she starts to relax. We share an item from the menu while I find out she’s estranged from her sibling and her parents have never liked her boyfriends. After dinner I lead us down the way towards a dessert spot and we share a sundae and sit down to talk.… Read more »
@Blaximus
WOW… i didn’t know you lived in a castle!!!…lol
that’s probably a great place to ride out “Teh ‘Pocalypse!!! ™ “…lol
and you can start your own feudal kingdom when things start to turn around…lol
good luck!
@PalmaSailor Ref the soap – yes apparently the de greaser breaks down the fats which hold the molecules? Together so it literally disintegrates. quick pedantic-infused point…lol soap only encapsulates the virus once it’s physically rubbed off your skin… which it then is washed down the drain when you rinse of the soap… that’s why you have to follow good hand-washing protocols for it to be effective… the virus is just off you, but it still could infect someone bc it’s still viable… alcohol, which is in hand-sanitizer, actual dissembles the virus structure… provided it has enough contact time… good luck!… Read more »
Catchers- Congratulations you’ve found the next girl you’ll be a provider boyfriend for 😂 She’s not even going to put out on the traditional third date?? She must really want a serious provider. Maybe kiss on Third date and sleep with her on no 6 or so at this rate.. Much harder to turn this around now than after the first date. Perhaps if you get massively socially proofed at the other dance place and Then escalate. If she won’t come to your place your best bet is to go for a quick dance somewhere you will be socially proofed… Read more »
@Culum Thanks for the feedback! She offered to split dinner on first date and paid for the second so at least initially she’s not giving off that she is looking for a provider. She IS however not as into me as I’m used to so I’ll cut her loose well before date 6 if I’m unable to salvage it. Not sure I care at this point but interested in the analysis and learning about some levers to pull to shift the dynamic. Im not trying to be a player but I’m not an afc either. Just want to be a… Read more »
Catchers After dinner I lead us down the way towards a dessert spot and we share a sundae and sit down to talk. Topic? What the bible says about celibacy? Dinner, dessert, dancing… Can’t she get that from her gay bestie? I mean you know what’s going on, but you are introducing structural impediments to a quick bang. Ask yourself why… At what point does she think with her vagina? That you present as a sexual threat? Also. – Kino when dancing not the same. Way too socially expected. I’d go radio silent for a bit. Let her get the… Read more »
Catchers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOjm4I7LRgY
Catchers
Im not trying to be a player but I’m not an afc either.
Well you got that covered…
Just want to be a red pill aware man controlling my destiny and working towards a long-term relationship on my terms.
This though… Is far far easier to do if you ARE a player though. Can you guess why?
risk of other guys
What is this fear of loss scenario? Seriously.
You should welcome other guys, just a chance to show her how awesome you are. Not kidding. 9 of 10 will blow themselves out or be easily tooled.
We need to get back to Capital G game and stop all the beard oiling…
@sentient @palma
Thanks
If I am a player then I’ll be following the platinum rule so by the nature of doing what I want when I want I will establish abundance and have women operate from within my frame as opposed to the current scenario.
Noted on radio silence then the spike.
Catchers.
All true. But basically if you are a player you have what other women want. And that want is preselection for your girl’s hindbrain. Her vagina gets the message.
@Everyone: update on N=5 aka no BJ girl (she is like 32-33 BTW). I was away from town and I sent her some message giving her a helpful suggestion on something, on International Women Day, and she went a bit off the rails and it devolved into a bit of a feminist rant. I replied for a while, not apologizing but apparently not passing the shit test either, then it was getting ridiculous and I stopped replying. That must have passed the shit test, so she apparently cools off and demured a bit with “I still meant what I said… Read more »
IAS I actually think it was actually trying to slot me into BB rather than AF? Well slotting is slotting… if yer won’t do it yourself, the hamster will get it done. Pretty good job of holding frame. I’m thinking of “staying in the set” to learn more and to see if I can turn it around on the third bangs, This. Use her to benefit your understanding, since you don’t care if you lose her. See juuuuuuuuust how far you can push things with her. I will bet your eyes are gonna open WAAAAAY up. See if you can… Read more »
That’s the thing about plates. Sometimes they need to move on and be replaced by the next one. Discussion is fine, interrogation is not. IAS it looks like homegirl is angling for girlfriend status, but in her frame. That’ll happen. Just hold fast as you are. Remember that it ain’t all about her or her opinions or her feelz, it’s about you, your satisfaction and your plans. Your frame. If you were ready for a gf, that’s another thing, but right now you’re on a different mission ( well deserved at that ), but in any case, with any chick,… Read more »
IAS There was a time when I was juggling 5 plates. It was a big much and I.was.contemplating letting one go. One not my favorites, because the sex was other worldly to an extent, was telling me she had a job offer in Nebraska and wanted to talk it out with me. I.didn’t have a problem with that, but after a couple of hours the conversation devolved and took a hard left. Anne started trying to ” plan ” for me to come visit on weekends, and she wanted to come see me on holidays. Then she said something about… Read more »
@palma care to elaborate on converting to genuine desire sex? I thought that was analog and its either she genuinely wants to have sex with you or not.
@IAS she went a bit off the rails and it devolved into a bit of a feminist rant. I replied for a while, not apologizing but apparently not passing the shit test either, then it was getting ridiculous Engaging was failing a shit test. If I get a rant like this, I usually agree & amplify and redirect. I can do it twice for the benefit of the doubt, but if a girl doesn’t get a hint and keeps going anyway, I go silent (if text) or just look at her, shake my head and walk away. Less is more.… Read more »
IRL
Thanks for the reminder. https://therationalmale.com/field-reports-comment-page-2-comments/comment-page-131/#comment-281190
I had an encounter recently that reminded me of something but didn’t quite remember. I’ll post it.
@IAS – IRL nailed it but I’ll just add that when i read that, my main takeaway was “Why did he engage in the text discussion about feminism? That’s when the rot started”.
I don’t really “do” text game these days but when I was learning a few years ago, one of the hardest things to learn was simply to overcome my instinct to engage and respond and just “give her the gift of silence” (I think that was Walawala’s line but it took a lot of practice before I was able to apply it).
Palma – I broadly agree with the thrust of your analysis, but I think it (probably) won’t get that bad. Your final scenario is the far right of the curve one. I think more likely there’s one last burst of life left in the funny money/fiat free money game for Governments – if they pretty much completely open the taps and hand out free money. It won’t last for ever but there’s a good chance of getting through the current crisis. I think that will probably be enough to cut off civil unrest for now too. I don’t think it… Read more »
Palma, a pandemic is really a panic epidemic,the govt has a responsibility to downplay the threat. Some thoughts Currency is losing its value in the us as the panic spreads and the stores empty out the prices rise. There is a point where working doesn’t balance out in rewards. Getting sick early on will have a better survival rate as beds won’t be full. The ems service has been overwhelmed for years as has the coroners office and law enforcment. Those^and their families will gather into pods that will treat people and run on fewer emergency calls. These pods will… Read more »
Palma, I fished all day yesterday with the enforcer,we cleaned up nice with 10lbs of scud fed trout. We had a powow on the state of the union and the final prognosis requires the stacking of pyre wood and the schmoozing of the coroner. When he got home she was watching law and order and dinner was in the microwave. When I got home the sink was full of brine and a burger was in the pan. Then she filled me in on the state of shopping and the closures of schools over the kung flu. Both our women are… Read more »
I am currently studying methods of documentation for death certification sans examiner.
We get our bio diesel out the back door of the bar and grill, buying the fry cook a beer has great mileage. Let it settle then rack it off like wine next filter it and add to tank. It attracts bears and strays as well so there is some meat to be had from protecting your fuel. The price of fuel is down and I don’t see any lines forming to buy it up so don’t get the worries.
Time will tell how it runs out and I’m nothing if not prepared.
Palma am I nuts? I see what you did there… My take. Fiat shekels will continue to work. Because the shekel producers still benefit and it’s all fiction anyway. This mass delusion, and cratering of the global economy, is knowingly being used by TPTB to reset prices. It’s 2008 all over again. There will be winners and losers sure – but most of the winners have already been picked. [Looks at the grave of Lehman – strokes chin] Still massive massive opportunities now and more to come. I know guys making 40% a day right now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDCmNFD18nQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqjQxs9l5fg [Still can’t… Read more »
I hate panic buyers. Every day the supermarkets shelves get more bare, and none of this is at all necessary. Hopefully in another week or two, people will calm down and understand that buying all the bread and toilet paper won’t stop you from getting the virus. I always stay prepped, especially since hurricane Sandy killed power here for a week ( and tore up houses and downed dozens of trees ) and left markets in the dark powerless. College here is extending spring break. My company is prepping to have employees work from home ( we didn’t get to… Read more »
Americans have been more and more at risk since transferring supply chain/manufacturing to China.
But we have tons and tons of really cheap shit, easing pressures on wages. That’s how wages can be flat for 40 years and everyone can still have air conditioning and giant flat screens.
And burger king has 2 for 5 deals all year long.
So a few black swans back to back might just be what the doctor ordered.
Sentient
And that movie was in 1987 no less.
An entertaining tutorial of sorts.
Blax
and BK is selling soyburgers LMFAO. Reaaalllly getting ready for the future.
And that movie was in 1987 no less.
An entertaining tutorial of sorts.
Indeed. Couldn’t get made today I think. But Richard Jewell slipped out… so maybe?
Here is some wisdom from Dan Pena.
“Pena” means pain in spanish btw
Yes. Double posting this….
LMFAO every time, Take heed, those with ears to hear.
Blaximus
“Americans have been more and more at risk since transferring supply chain/manufacturing to China.
But we have tons and tons of really cheap shit, easing pressures on wages. That’s how wages can be flat for 40 years and everyone can still have air conditioning and giant flat screens.
And burger king has 2 for 5 deals all year long.
So a few black swans back to back might just be what the doctor ordered.”
Peekaboo!
@PalmaSailor @HABD Ramblings: Well governments are in the “management of the masses” stage right now. Setting expectations to avoid outright panic. not workin’ too well and it’s ramping up…lol… i live semi-rural and the whole town is out of tp…lol…(one grocery store got some back in and it was a big talking point at the registers…lol)… AND obvious cleaning products like iso and bleach were gone… but not the same-effectiveness/exact same stuff of ‘other form’ cleaners…lol… like the wipes are gone, but the shelf with spray bottles of the same exact sh*t is completely full…lol… like @Blaximus says ‘there is… Read more »
@Culum Palma – I broadly agree with the thrust of your analysis, but I think it (probably) won’t get that bad. Your final scenario is the far right of the curve one. still got some of that bulk purchase wishful thinking laying around, eh?…lol… use it up now bc sh*t’s gonna get real pretty soon… one question is all you need to answer… how does everybody get fed for the next 3-6 months?… show your work… I think more likely there’s one last burst of life left in the funny money/fiat free money game for Governments – if they pretty… Read more »
@Everyone: I won’t be able to get a gun now but I have a stick to sharpen if needed and several long cooking knives.
Other suggestions for nice things to stock up before everyone is quarantined, in case online shopping breaks down?
I imagine some water purifying tablets would be good to have.
He who dies with the most toilet paper wins.
“He who dies with the most toilet paper wins.” Human nature is wiping toilet paper off the shelves clean. Panic. What if we can’t have normal things that we would panic without. I fore-cast this won’t be something–shortages, including sanitary disinfectant wipes that will be short lived. Meaning months. Here is a pro tip. Don’t panic if you or your friends run out of TP. Take a shit and wipe with anything convenient and then go hop in the shower and wash with soap and water. Then towel off. And use your clothes washer. I asked my mother what they… Read more »
@Blax, SJF: I don’t get the obsession with toilet paper. If the water supply continues it isn’t an issue, and if the water supply breaks down my major concern is drinking water.
Well corona isn’t effecting Hypergamy Palma. Turned down a bang with a 31 YO yesterday. She was not happy. Went to get breakfast, saw her look at me when I walked in. She was chatting with a waitress about corona. I stopped by on my way past and joined the convo. Just general stuff what was closed what was open etc. Teased her a little and kinoed her bare arm. She sees my shy and asks if I go to (place) and I say yeah. Probably go for lunch later. Ask jer what she is doing today. She says this… Read more »
“Shy” = hat… Wtf?
3 girls cancelled on me this weekend cuz of the corona crap.
What a cockblock, this shit virus. 🙁
Palma, now social unrest accelerates hypergamy to the point @sentients wall girl won’t take no for an answer. Sentient is must have DPA material and the more he is unavailable the more she will stalk him. F*n wild. Now you see its a feature with an invisible dial connected to instinct.
It might come to that McDaniels…
Bright side? This can double as a corona deterrent.
Sentient, LOL , you passed on some wild casting couch desire sex there, your stalker instincts are working good. She would have made you miserable with her entitlement to DPA.
@Catchers – I missed your post above about how to get desire sex. It’s not binary – I assume you are referring to something along the lines of Mark Manson’s rule of thumb – “if it’s not Hell, Yes, then it’s a no” (even if you’ve not heard of his rule specifically). This is nonsense – of course it is easier if she is “into” you from the start and of course it is harder if it is the opposite. But the first can be lost easily and the second can be recovered. Or in other words, even if she… Read more »
@Blaximus I hate panic buyers. Every day the supermarkets shelves get more bare, and none of this is at all necessary. i hate that sh*t too…lol… and it just creates the actual problem… (google johnny carson and tp…lol) ‘da panic’ ™ just hit the habd household…lol… wife got a first-hand experience with it… went to do some food shopping yesterday and freaked the f*k out…lol… i told her calm down and we would just go back when they re-stock tomorrow… but if the panic is going, the store might have lines of panic waiting to get in in the morning…… Read more »
@Blax, HABD: this is one of those Game Theory exercises applied to real life, like iterated prisoner’s dilemma or some variant. But we can’t expect the crowd to play nice for their own sake.
So I myself, despite already having some 50+ tuna cans at home (I’m not even a prepper, just weird) went to restock some other stuff like cheese and got some 1 hour queue.
But tomorrow it might be 2 hour so it’s done.
So I went to Wallyworld this morning and got my new phone. While I was there I might as well do the grocery shopping. Got everything I wanted, in the specific brands I wanted, in whatever quantity I might want. Yeah, the shelves were pretty bare. I guess I don’t eat the way most people do, even when they’re in an existential panic. Corn and Canola(tm) oil all gone. Olive oil available by the gallon. Butter, sour cream, no problem. Frozen burgers all gone. Brats and bacon in cornucopian supply. Six foot end cap racks of summer sausage as stuffed… Read more »
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/uks-coronavirus-strategy-just-let-it-happen-and-hope-herd-immunity
Interesting development. Thurs night I invited her out dancing on Saturday (tonight) after she pinged me via text and she responded “That sounds like fun! I might go do x but I’ll let you know” I didn’t reply and and she re-opened me two days later (today) asking how my weekend was going. She also mentioned she wasn’t doing the activity she had planned and due to confirmed covid-19 cases wasn’t up for dancing either. I replied favorably then in a subsequent text cut her loose telling her it was nice getting to know her but I’m moving on. She… Read more »
” . . . it’s Royal Tokaji Puttonyos . . .”
I’m already all in on California brandy guaranteed to have been aged since at least last Tuesday. We’ll see how it goes.
Blaximus
He who dies with the most toilet paper wins.
We all know what that means…
well… i’m back from my jaunt into Da ‘Pocolypse ™ …lol ’bout like i figured (and was hoping for)… big nothing burger… thank Odin…lol went to the first store where they were sold out yesterday… this time the chips/salsa, cereal, cookies and other snacks had taken a beating…lol… they were about half to a third of what they usually are… less stock than usual but not bad… still no rice, but some canned beans, etc were back… but still had buy limits… meats were back… cheese and other deli type stuff was back… only small white dried beans were stocked… Read more »
Spain is going on lockdown.
“Throughout the recessions I’ve lived through there’s never been “total lockdown” ie a total stop of the fiat currency magic roundabout.” I haven’t experienced it directly either, but I have indirectly, because my mother experienced it directly. Mexican peso crashed and the government suspended all the things the day before she was due to fly out. She got stuck there without access to money for a couple of weeks while I had to be on standby to go get her from wherever she eventually managed to get out to. The guy with the butter and bullets is easy enough to… Read more »
Just got an email from National Grid (I might be a Yank, but the Brits have bought all the utility things around here) saying that normal billing will certainly continue, but that all collections and shutoff activities will be suspended at least until the end of April. Got another from Newegg saying that if I’ve suddenly become a telecommuter they’ll sell me all the things. Which is fine, until they cease to have a way of getting them to me. My LAN is a hodgepodge of odd bits and bailing wire. I’d been thinking that if I had to spend… Read more »
Palma,this is the alternative to financial recovery.
Depends on where one lives.
The good thing is that most people don’t have the stomach to go rougue, and even if they did they don’t have the skills or strength to do so without getting ventilated by firearms, at least where I live.
So far, what I’m seeing is elevated examples of community/city wide cooperation and great concern for ” elderly “, which is good. This thing won’t run long enough to break that down.
Financials are a whole other thing though, as people tend to believe in the fiat fairy with all their hearts.
“Financials are a whole other thing though, as people tend to believe in the fiat fairy with all their hearts.” Tend to believe or seem to believe? Money is addictive and the withdrawls are fatal to all that partake. It changes the landscape and environment together with population density. Some of the big dogs have bought ranches in the remotest regions of the world as a plan B for “the Black Swan”. Even these don’t run without money the Vaqueros that run them won’t work without compensation. I am as close to living without money as I can get without… Read more »
” . . . the Vaqueros that run them won’t work without compensation.”
It’s called “A bed and three squares.”
The financial system will keep running, the turning point will be when they eliminate cash and go digital. At that point they will alienate the the service sector to the point of negative production. From there the serpent eats its own tail till nothing is left.
“It’s called “A bed and three squares.”
In prison they call it three hots and a cot, keeping in mind they don’t produce anything excepting jobs for the DOC etc.
Corona virus…< 0.77% mortality rate per South Korea…they have lots of testing kits, so they have a better handle on the actual mortality rate. No sense in making any changes you wouldn’t do for the ordinary flu. Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome is more of a threat than Coronavirus. Doctors and nurses have more to do which means less time available for care for non-Coronavirus-infected patients. Mass hysteria is fanned by Fox as well as the dems and drive by media because of General Revenue Enhancement Excitement Disease and TDS. The best case is that this is a practice run to prepare… Read more »
I don’t even want regular for much less this shit.
“I w2ant to see 60-70 year old retired guys with stellar personalities and great mindsets pulling the 20 somethings. They’re out there.” Depends what you mean by “stellar”. All you have to do as an old guy is to beat the young guys by 0.1% in value and it isn’t that hard to do that. That doesn’t even require a “stellar personality.” Young guys are so insecure and pedestalizing and won’t enforce their boundaries. One young guy I know who is about the most masculine of the younger guys doesn’t value himself enough to bang younger women and only bangs… Read more »
@asd Why did you tip 18% for reportedly bad service?
@catchers
The service was fine. Prompt attention and good food. The server just didn’t chat me up much. 18% basically says, “You were Ok, but try harder.”
Daughter Gamer told me that she had been asked by Internal Medecine docs to process faster if possible because they are getting backlogged due to corona virus. The fear of the virus has impacted U.S. medical care negatively.
Contrast the U.S. and Italy. The U.S. has had 50 deaths from cv and Italy has had 1400. And the U.S. has about seven times the population of Italy.
Some Obama-era pointy head has predicted 1.5 million deaths in the U.S. in the future. Color me skeptical.
(Oh, and most young guys are pussies. lol)
Pretty surreal. I’m more worried about the mass panic than the virus. Although the more this thing escalates, the more concerning both are. I’ve been somewhat stocked up, but I’m stocking up more while I can. Things I would buy in large quantities anyway. Gamma seal buckets are your friend. Actually wish I had some more of those right now. I’ve been placing some orders online while I still can, presuming that deliveries will be shut down not too long from now. Funnily enough, a lot of this food is stuff I was going to order anyway, but hadn’t gotten… Read more »
Palma, I am back in light residential construction, all my jobs have been on hold for a week or longer, I am surviving off emergency repairs roofs,plumbing electrical and mechanical. By surviving I mean not going into the red. I brought some smoked trout over to the elders yesterday and listened to them, they have seen it all and aren’t concerned,they both gave me their DNR’s years ago. The main concern is still mrs Mcdaniels as she has COPD and wouldn’t likely survive this one as it’s damage to the respiratory system takes too long to rebuild.. She is a… Read more »
Maybe now they will overhaul the health care system. Or not. People are stupid like that. A bunch of hospitals in my state have been shuttered over the years as a consolidation/monopoly is being established among 3 or 4 giant provider corporations. Right now the plan is to reopen many of them. There are 11 known cases in my county, doubled in one week. 2 in my city. No true shortages yet, but large crowds at most markets.smaller markets still well stocked because they serve communities. They even have plenty of toilet paper. State agencies will have work from home,… Read more »
But, the Fed cut rates to zero practically and injecte d a trillion bucks into the market.
Good to see our priorities are set correctly. Let’s see how the Dow responds today shall we?😑
Palma , Yes and yes.
A DNR can keep the system from bleeding you out on life support. We have the same basic legal system as you just differing laws.
Blax, the government should stick with protection,the legislature needs Tort reform to take the pressure off the medical system. The trial lawyers lobby won’t let that happen.
Palma
“.. it’s been a funny 48 hours.”
No doubt, I’m pleased to hear you are keeping useful. Should have known.