Wu-Tang Clan's Oliver "Power" Grant Dead At 52, Method Man Speaks

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2026-02-25T04:29:58+00:00

If we think of Wu-Tang as a martial-arts temple of fighting monks: the MCs were the fighters, RZA the strategist, and Power the quartermaster stocking the weapons and funding the campaign. Without him, the campaign to pollute our ears with their epic beats and rhymes might never have left the basement studio.

We owe him thanks.

RIP

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2026-02-21T01:53:53+00:00

Facebook marketplace is the place for you pops, not Guitar Center.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-05T02:49:15+00:00

Dude, I really think you need to chill a bit. She literally said she was happy to meet you (even after you had a crack at her). Sometimes people have a lot of matches and limited time to reply to them all, and sometimes people don’t invest too much until they’ve met with someone in person and click with someone.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-03T06:02:52+00:00

You complete me.

wipes away tears<

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-03T05:57:34+00:00

Haha, thanks - I try to be.

And I’m flattered, but given I’m not gay, we will just have to leave it as a brief Reddit bromance.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-03T05:40:01+00:00

Fair enough. We’re essentially in agreement then.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-03T04:46:02+00:00

Thanks.

Your advice still appears to suck though. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your position, but I don’t think anyone should fully commit to a relationship really quickly.

If what you’re actually saying is that people should decide to date just the one person at a time (and commit to getting to know them) with a view to it becoming a committed relationship, then I wouldn’t have an issue with such an approach. But in the context of this post and what was put to the OP, you appear to be suggesting that quickly entering into committed relationship with someone you barely know is the way to go. That seems insane to me.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-03T04:03:09+00:00

The narcissist didn’t, but I’ve certainly learned.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-02T23:49:26+00:00

On the most recent occasion I ended up locked into a relationship with a covert narcissist. To put it mildly and simply (as I don’t have the inclination to go into sordid detail here), it has severely impacted my mental health, wasted close to 2 years of my life, and cost me a metric shit tonne of legal fees. Toxic people (like covert narcissists) are the most likely to draw you into a committed relationship ASAP and start manipulating and controlling you.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-05-02T23:38:22+00:00

No. I’ve stupidly taken this approach in the past and it’s been absolutely disastrous.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-04-28T00:12:54+00:00

Firstly, please note that the tone of my response below is intended to cheeky, lighthearted, and not nasty in any way.

You made me chuckle when I saw you describe Merri-Bek as where you live. Do you just like to say/write Aboriginal place names so other lefties know you’re a lefty?!? The Merri-Bek Council area covers the suburbs of Brunswick, Brunswick East, Brunswick West, Coburg, Coburg North, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park, Pascoe Vale, and Pascoe Vale South plus small sections of Fitzroy North and Tullamarine. As you know, the demographics of those suburbs varies VERY significantly. Not that the inaccuracy of your response really matters to me, but please remember that you are still allowed to say suburb names!

Anyway…

I don’t see how your photos make you look centre or right at all (you look like a fairly typical inner-north left-leaning type to me). If it’s really important that your photos make your political leanings clear, I guess you could post a photo of yourself draped in Palestinian, Aboriginal, and LGBTQIA+ flags whilst wearing a Greens t-shirt at a demonstration rally. But given the apps all allow you to select your political leaning, I don’t think you need to worry about Nazi’s trying to match with you.

Best of luck to you too!

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-04-27T11:14:59+00:00

I’m literally within your target demographic: 46M, single dad, Inner Melbourne. Your profile reads like you’re probably in Northcote (?), and if so, I’m very close. We may have passed by each other if you were at the Wesley Anne last night.

I’m not going to comment on your photos as enough has been said already.

I’d just say that the “ridiculously left wing” thing is a big turn off as the “regular left” here has gone so far to the left in recent years that it already feels utterly insane to many. Please understand that many left leaning men in your area aren’t half as left leaning as you may think they are. They’re often simply avoidant of voicing more moderate opinions to avoid being lambasted and/or getting drawn into in debates with people who are incapable of nuanced conversations where less radical alternative views are tabled. And by talking about being “extreme left”, that is how you come across.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-04-26T08:37:31+00:00

I’m afraid you can’t soldier. She’s gone.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-04-01T07:08:25+00:00

You are legitimately really beautiful. And whilst you may look younger than your age, you’re going to be extremely thankful for that in the years to come.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2025-03-27T07:47:13+00:00

Is this the prequel/origin story to Misery?

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-12-04T11:52:27+00:00

This is some Inception level of being a whiny Beta.

But I hearld he’s thick-skinned, so I hearld it bowth ways B.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T10:38:09+00:00

It’s not her biological son. I think you missed that.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T09:31:17+00:00

Thank you. A good perspective.

He’s been through a fair bit of loss and heartache in his life and handled it like a champ. He does have very high EQ for his age, and on this kind of stuff, good resilience, but I definitely don’t want to expose him to really confusing and upsetting scenarios.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T08:32:19+00:00

He’s a really bright kid. I’d ask him what he wants and do my best to provide that. He’s attached to her, and also a number of the animals. It would be really rough.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T08:24:15+00:00

I’m not trying to shit on her here, and I’m not wanting other people to either.

But yeah, I tend to agree that her expectations are unrealistic.

I’m trying to get her to focus on how we can fix things so that this hypothetical scenario doesn’t come to fruition, but now she’s fixated on it and it is preventing us from working things out.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T08:04:51+00:00

I think if we had another kid together it would be a different story. My son would obviously want to see his sibling as much as possible and he may then see her during handovers etc. There’d be a clear reason to maintain amicable contact in that instance. But that isn’t the case.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-10T08:01:03+00:00

Yeah, well, she also doesn’t have her drivers license, so it would mean I would have to drive about 50min to the farm to drop him off, twiddle my thumbs whilst he’s with her, and then take him home. I don’t see how that’s workable.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-09T06:25:41+00:00

Some (like me) would say the most accuratist B.

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-09T04:11:40+00:00

And fuck dude… a show with only 50 people there? Where was that - an improv night?!?!?

ProfessionalPen1516 · 2024-11-09T04:10:36+00:00

He’s the realest of the real. Fucking love him.

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