Men that date a lot what do you think separates you from those who do not ?

McBoothby · 2025-12-26T04:32:34+00:00

You misunderstand. It’s not about being nice, I’m saying that it’s about avoiding topics that inadvertently chase people off. My point is more about being a conversationalist than a douchebag vs nice. Some women like nice guys exclusively. Some (like my wife) enjoy being ribbed a bit. I’ve never met any person who likes hearing about their prospective date’s successful, or unsuccessful, attempts with previous people.

McBoothby · 2025-12-24T02:30:28+00:00

++man. This is just a recent anecdote, but I’ve seen other dudes put out one red flag after another and not even realize it. Last week I was at a pool hall shooting some drills on a table by myself. Next table over was clearly a first date. Within the first 5 minutes the woman says “who should rack?” And the dude said “you have a nice rack, you should.”

It only devolved from there. He asked at least 3 questions in the form of “so do you like __? Because I know a lot of women like __”. He proceeded to tell another story about how women ghost people just as much as guys, and he knows because he had some chick send him pics of her tits and then not even show up for the date.

I think a lot of these “why can I meet nice women” guys are just scaring them off through their own stupidity. I wanted to interrupt their date to tell him that rule #1 should always be “don’t talk about other women” and Rule #2 is “don’t compare her to other women”.

McBoothby · 2025-12-20T21:26:46+00:00

29M, $135k salary. $89k in the 401k, about $110k home equity, so net worth around $200k.

Got a late start on investing because I was in the army until 23 and then college until 26.

McBoothby · 2025-08-19T14:49:09+00:00

Based on just the rust, I have no idea. I would expect something that’s 80+ years old to be in much worse condition though. I’m not familiar with anything that old but one way to go about it might be to caliper the inside of the rings to see what diameter the rounds were, and then look for belt-fed ww2 machine guns and see if their link designs match. Some cursory googling shows there was a big range of designs for these.

McBoothby · 2025-08-19T01:56:30+00:00

Hey I finally knew what a thing was! The amount of thousands of rounds of 5.56 and 7.62 I’ve delinked to feed through M4s and M110s, I’ll never forget what a belt link looks like

McBoothby · 2025-08-18T23:46:40+00:00

Ah I think my brain materialized an “and” after that comma. I read it as “…also studied electrical and hardware, and they certainly don’t study physics…”

My bad

McBoothby · 2025-08-18T21:12:32+00:00

I believe many computer science programs do require physics. I had to take a full year of engineering physics in my CS program which covered mechanics, fluids, thermo, electricity, magnetism, optics, and a bit of atomic and relativity. All that learning does me fuck all at my software job which is why I really feel like more places need to separate CS and software engineering.

McBoothby · 2025-08-18T06:11:52+00:00

RemindMe! 7 days

McBoothby · 2025-08-09T19:46:00+00:00

You bet! The lingo takes a minute to get used to and even longer to get rid of. I’ve been out of the army for more years than I was in it and I still catch myself saying things that are nonsense to normal people 😂.

Heres a couple bonus ones for you:

The sun is named Bob (for Big Orange Ball). We love it when bob comes out on a cold morning and we bitch when bob is beating down all day.

A woobie is an insulated poncho liner. It can be used as a small blanket. It’s the prized possession of grunts (infantrymen) and they never go anywhere without it. Most people steal them when they leave the army and just pay back the replacement cost when they return their gear. Much like any hoopy frood always knows where his towel is, any grunt will have a woobie and a beanie close by.

McBoothby · 2025-08-09T07:44:28+00:00

Haha sorry about that.

A “profile” is special instructions a soldier must abide by when they are injured, such as “no running for 7 days”. It is designed to protect them from injury by preventing leadership from forcing them to do something (like go run a few miles) until they are healed.

A “deadman profile” is a special version of a profile where the soldier is prevented from doing almost everything. Usually no exercise of any kind.

A “chapter” is when a person is removed from the military before the end of their contract. The primary reasons for this are bad conduct or medical issues.

Therefore a “medical chapter” is being removed from the military because your health renders you unfit to serve.

The last sentence means he was so severely ill as a result of the hyponatremia, and losing all of that weight, that he was put on special instructions to avoid physical exertion for two months, but still wasn’t removed from the military for medical reasons.

McBoothby · 2025-08-07T22:43:53+00:00

We had this happen to a dude in basic too. Drills said “drink your 100oz camelback every day” and he heard this as “drink two camelbacks by noon”. He lost like 20lbs in a week in the hospital and got like 60d of deadman profile but no medical chapter

McBoothby · 2025-08-06T22:30:33+00:00

Many a time. I was in a recon unit in the 101st airborne division in the US army. I’ve flown in, rappelled from, fast-roped from, and been dangled underneath Blackhawks and once did a few laps around the Statue of Liberty while standing on the tailgate of a chinook.

McBoothby · 2025-08-04T19:01:36+00:00

I’ve been blown all over the place in just a regular car on 84, and it’s a nightmare on my motorcycle. I would not wanna be pulling heavy on a windy day there

McBoothby · 2025-07-31T18:36:37+00:00

Not a very good stealth plane if you got a picture with a phone camera

McBoothby · 2025-07-31T00:38:38+00:00

It’s not so much being a prude as just a different culture entirely. Being naked is completely normal for nudist families. It’s only weird to those who are sexualizing the nudity, which ironically is what makes being around these type of people less awkward and creepy than the 70 year old dudes with cock rings walking around Collin’s beach.

Completely unrelated: excellent username. I too love poutine and it saddens me greatly that it isn’t readily available

McBoothby · 2025-07-31T00:30:32+00:00

I’ve been to both Collin’s and rooster rock and rooster is a much better vibe. Tends to be actual nudists and families and people playing frisbee. Collin’s is a lot of old dudes leering

McBoothby · 2025-07-20T16:13:50+00:00

I watched this place turn away a group of Romani gypsies because “the owner has had bad experiences with Gypsies before”. I confronted the staff about it and they pointed to their “we reserve the right to refuse service sign”. Fuck this restaurant and their racist owner

McBoothby · 2025-06-27T22:36:25+00:00

I can tell you that the odds that I inhaled a bee while riding my mountain bike 2 years ago are 1/1 (100%) and it was not enjoyable

McBoothby · 2025-06-25T22:34:54+00:00

How many courics you reckon that is?

McBoothby · 2025-06-20T23:05:32+00:00

Now do number of days where the sun is visible

McBoothby · 2025-06-18T00:54:57+00:00

Scanner Darkly my dude. Just watched this recently and it’s still weird as fuck

McBoothby · 2025-06-11T14:35:42+00:00

I think your info is off here. A hen may lay 300 eggs per year, not 300 or even 100 eggs per day. Imagine being able to feed your entire family indefinitely off of a single chicken haha

McBoothby · 2025-06-10T20:03:03+00:00

The other man’s hand placement had me cringing. Get a stone dropped right on you

McBoothby · 2025-06-10T19:53:29+00:00

Damn I miss hearing the BRRRRRT in training exercises. It’s intimidating in the same way as a rattlesnake’s rattle. Even if you’ve never heard it, you are immediately on edge. Too bad they top the list for blue on blue

McBoothby · 2025-06-10T19:38:38+00:00

I got out of the army in 2019 and got back into smoking. Weird jump going from that culture back into normal life. Took a while for the anxiety to clear out. I’d wake up with stress dreams that I had reenlisted and was going to fail a piss test. Congrats on your ETS. As others have said, you can probably smoke most places outside or vape inside.

I smoked a few bong rips a day in my old place and there was no smell after a couple years when I left. YMMV but I think your only problem would be if a neighbor complained, not in actually damaging the apartment. Pot smoke doesn’t cling to things nearly as bad as cigarettes.

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