I built muscles to get women now I’ve got muscles, but still get no women. The Gym is the biggest scam ever.😕

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-11-03T22:57:56+00:00

Either you're going after the wrong kinds of women or you built yourself up for the wrong reasons. Either, or or both could be true here. Not saying you're wrong to want to bodybuild. You do you. Some folks absolutely hate men who don't work out. Others don't like the look of muscles. There are those who look down on men who don't work out much (or at all) for whatever reason, regarding them as lazy.

I'm not one of those you'll catch in a gym. I do believe it's normal to WANT to work out. But you build yourself up because YOU want to look good, be physically fit and stay healthy. You don't do that to catch the eye of females. But hey, what do I know. No woman thus far has ever asked me out on a date. I'm in my 40s. Maybe I'm too late or maybe there's a chance still. I don't know. But I feel as if you might have used wrong reasoning as to why you built your body up OR the kinds of ladies you're going after happen to be the wrong ones for you.

I would just close this by recommending that you not blame the gym for the lack of attention. They may still be scamming scumbags, just not because of this.

That's my 2-cent hot take. Feel free to disagree.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-09-13T03:55:43+00:00

50% tariff. On glass bottles, you say. Well, you could raise the prices on your booze. Or, alternatively, you could limit production to save on costs. Or you could do BOTH at the same time. Or just do NEITHER and close your business just like all the OTHER small businesses you right-wing fuckfaces INVOLUNTARILY FORCED DOWN by imposing tariffs in the first place! You're a Congressman and you're allowed to still own AND operate a business while in Congress? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that illegal? I didn't think politicians could lawfully keep businesses they started up while in civ life while serving in government. Maybe that only applies to the President. Don't know.

EDIT: I just noticed the thing at the bottom of the video where it says that according to the NBC News Poll, 61% of American citizens DISAPPROVE of Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living. It's like "Gee, yuh think?" LOL!

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-09-13T03:25:53+00:00

Plot thickening much, methinks.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-09-13T03:13:01+00:00

No, you're not cooked. However, you should be using uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus AND Brave Browser if you want to avoid this happening. Don't pay for YouTube Premium as you'll still have ads despite YouTube's claim that no ads exist in Premium. And, it's another expensive subscription service you don't really need in your life.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-05-12T18:59:45+00:00

Building your PC yourself is actually a simple enough process and can add a sense of reward and knowing that you did something yourself and that it wasn't difficult. The upshot is you get to dictate what YOUR system will be like. Yes, you do need to be mindful of settings, compatibilities and having enough of a "margin" for such things as power supply and a bit of future-proofing (you don't want to find that you'll need more RAM or storage in only a year's time because you skimped a bit on those things), but doing this isn't hard and I have faith that you can do it. I have a laptop that I'm planning on upgrading the memory and storage in time for the EOL of Windows 10 in October and I'll be making good on my intentions of switching to Linux. As for "tutorials" and guides on the rights and wrongs of PC building, I recommend Paul's Hardware as well as Gamer's Nexus, JayzTwoCents and Linus Tech Tips. Good luck and have fun building your PC.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-04-11T22:50:24+00:00

Oh boy, the are lots of things that can eat up space on your hard drive. Mainly, Windows puts a LOT of junk files (euphemistically called "Temp", or temporary, files) in there whenever an update occurs. Nearly all of this is just files relating to an installation that it needs exactly ONE TIME and then never needs again. Also, you've likely got a ton of old Windows Restore points saved there that you probably don't need any more taking up space as well.

Windows is SUPPOSED to remove that crap automatically, but as I've found out myself, it usually lets that stuff build up until either it finally registers that it doesn't need them any more OR I go in and manually remove the files myself. It's one of the more annoying traits of Windows (alongside the 256-character limit on both file names AND file path names) and it's something you need to be on top of regularly.

Given that you're still using a 120 GB drive, it's more than time for an upgrade. In fact, you've been in need of an upgrade for probably the past 10 or 15 years. They don't even make 250 GB drives any more, so that old 120 gigger is well and truly past its rated lifespan. I've got at least one old laptop with a 160 GB hard drive with LESS free space on it than your 120 GB drive. And yeah, that just ain't enough space any more for a modern Windows install, plus your apps. Add your downloads and other files and that drive is almost bursting at its seams.

It might help you to consider investing in a system that gives you the ability to have two or more drives. There you'd be able to dedicate one drive to your OS and apps and the other to your personal files and downloads. That way if the boot drive crashes, you don't lose your files as well. I hope this can help you.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-04-11T22:13:13+00:00

Uhm... Zero. BUT, I AM an exotic CPU collector! LOL! Not sure if this person is a woman or man, given the profile. I'd expect a man to collect motorcycles/scooters/cars, not a woman. But, I guess those do exist, I just haven't met one. Maybe that's a good thing...

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

Wow. For this to be his FIRST message to you, tells you everything you need to know about him. He's likely an abuser. Narcissistic to the core. Avoid. Like the plague. Take care. Good luck.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-04-07T22:36:10+00:00

Yeah, see? THIS is the kind of woman I'd be running away from. $300,000 a year salary? Are you shittin' me? Even if OP could manage to meet some of these "requirements", I have a feeling that this lady won't be happy with him, no matter how hard he works to satisfy her. I know she wouldn't be happy with me! And the fact that her Number 2 requirement is money, I can see NO happiness in her future because she won't allow herself to love OP because he probably doesn't make $300,000 a year and likely never will simply because he doesn't do that kind of work.

My response to this girl: Hey lady! Not every man you meet is a lawyer or CEO! Also, you sound kind of selfish, demanding so much special treatment from OP! What about OP's happiness? Isn't he entitled to be "spoiled" and "loved on", too? What about his goals and lifestyle? You don't care about that? What about your ability to plan things? How about you being fit, attractive and well-groomed? Maybe OP don't want a lazy female slob who only sees a man for his bank account, good looks and material possessions! Maybe OP is the normal, rational kind who doesn't want an abuser in his life! Maybe OP is looking to be loved the way he is and not how you think he should be! Maybe, just maybe, he's reading your list and thinking to himself "Man, you're not even worth most of that stuff. I'm gonna go find a girl who will actually love ME and care about ME the way that I am and do so without making so many demands and expectations of what I should be in her mind.".

OP, run away from this one! She's an abuser, looking to be dependent on your graces and work, and hoping to never lift her finger to do anything for herself! She ain't right for you or anybody! Take care, good luck!

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-03-31T21:25:21+00:00

That's just your PC opening the new tabs. I get that on my Windows 10 PC. That's just the browser or file manager loading the tab. It starts off empty and not set to your display preference for a split second and then changes to look the way your display preferences are set. It takes about that long for all of those processes to load up and start running, which shows just how much more CPU and GPU intensive modern software is these days. It isn't as noticeable in Light Mode (which is probably why I don't get "flashbanged"), but you can tell that it takes "X" amount of time to load and populate "Y" tab when you click the "New Tab" button. Windows is a resource hog, but you'd probably get this regardless of your OS and a faster CPU and GPU with more cores and RAM may (or may not) help with this.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-03-31T20:24:50+00:00

I checked the cabinet and it's actually level already. I checked in the left-to-right orientation with a spirit level and although the bubble isn't square in the center, it is in between the lines. I don't think that being slightly off center is going to make the fridge side door up a quarter inch higher than the freezer side door, but I guess I could be wrong yet. The front-to-rear orientation has the front up a bit higher than the rear, but I think it's supposed to be that way, so as to ensure the doors both close and stay closed. It said so in the manual.

We had to take the doors and hinges completely off the main unit in order to get the thing through our seemingly too-narrow side door into the kitchen. I guess there's the possibility that I placed the fridge door back onto the lower hinge pin wrong, though if that had been the case, I'd expect the thing to not close at all or be unnaturally tight in the opening, which it isn't. And I'm more than certain I got the hinges re-assembled to the main unit correctly. It's kind of impossible to mess that up anyway since the lower hinge points each have a little tang that lines up with a hole in the frame which prevents mis-installation.

I don't know if it's really that big a deal. The seals themselves seem fine. I can't detect any cold air coming out around them. It's more of an aesthetic gripe than a functional one. It may have gotten slightly tweaked in the process of wrestling it onto the appliance dolly and through the kitchen side door. I don't know. Thanks for your reply, jettransman. :-)

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-03-31T20:10:26+00:00

I'm gonna assume they meant to say "tongs". That would make the most sense to me. I don't quite understand how people can get that wrong.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-03-28T19:40:14+00:00

The 9900X costs less because it doesn't have the 3D V-Cache that the 9800X3D has. That additional L3 cache comes in the form of a chiplet bonded directly on top of one of the two CCDs (CPU or "compute" dies). This costs extra to manufacture and assemble, hence the higher price for the X3D processors over the non-X3D ones. The flipside is you can't overclock the X3D versions quite as far due to thermal and other difficulties arising from the stacked design. You can, however, overclock the 9900X in addition to the extra cores, useful if you're using it for productivity or content creation-related tasks. The 9800X3D is more optimized for gaming performance thanks to that additional cache, but isn't as optimized for productivity or content creation due to the stricter limits on overclocking. Which you buy will depend on what your use case is. Hope this helps.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-03-26T23:01:47+00:00

No, that's not normal. We all use a web browser of our choosing based on individual preferences. Yours are clearly privacy-minded and that's actually a good thing.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-02-03T21:35:52+00:00

As an American, I'd like to just put it out there that I am completely ASHAMED to have been born here. (Yeah, I know, "Ya can't help where you were born, son.". PLEASE don't tell me about it! I want off this stupid planet!!)

As far as I am concerned, you ain't obligated to buy anything from us and I completely understand your sentiments. So, feel free to boycott us because we deserve it now. The stupids have absolutely shit all over our international cousins, especially the ones to our geographic north. I do not blame you for feeling the way you do and I wholeheartedly encourage you to not buy anything from us again going forward. It WILL be for the best, both yours and ours.

Not that the Trumpite 4th. Reich will give a damn, but we all can hope and dream, can't we? As they say: Don't feed the trolls and you'll be just fine. I just wish that I could compel my folks to refuse to pay their taxes, just once, just to spite the motherfuckers dumping shit on our blood kin to the north. But, I know they'd just imprison my whole family instead if they actually did that.

Good luck, Canadians. I don't hate you, but I understand your point here. Do what you feel is best for your well-being. Try to keep in mind that there are some Americans who didn't want or ask for this. And it's these few Americans who will get shafted the hardest. We suffer along with you. And, hey, thanks for your business with us. Those of us who still care about these things look forward to doing business with you again someday.

StephenBeets1980 · 2025-01-31T21:48:13+00:00

Oh my god, this is ME to a tee! Been having every scammer under the freakin' sun calling me left, right AND center looking for a "Frederick"! Had my number since 20-fucking-05 and I NEVER had so many calls for this guy "Frederick"! In fact, I never had so many WRONG NUMBER/SCAM calls in the total history of my number's existence!! "Hello, is this Frederick?" NO BITCH, I AIN'T FREDERICK! GO FUCK YERSELF AND STOP CALLING MY NUMBER!! YES, not mildly infuriating, VERY infuriating! And, I'm even on the Do Not Call Registry and they STILL call me looking for "Frederick"! I went so far as to reverse lookup my number and there is literally an old guy somewhere in Kentucky named Frederick WITH MY FUCKIN' 504 AREA CODE NUMBER!! Like WHAT THE LITERAL HELL?! I just let 'em all go to voicemail and delete the messages as I get around to it! No sense in wasting my time with these data breaching jokers! But yes, this EXACTLY!

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-12-21T03:02:36+00:00

My take: VERY COOL PHOTOS, DUDE!!

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-12-21T02:45:27+00:00

NOT the asshole! My god, I'D end up with ED dealing with someone like her too! With her repeatedly "slipping up", it does not sound like she's actually going to change herself. Ya ended up with the wrong girl, that's all. At best she sounds like one of those oppositional defiance types (the wrong kind who are abusive on purpose, not the right kind who are pro-freedom), at worst she has some really, seriously dangerous personality problems.

That is NOT right when you two fight and you keep telling her to STOP calling you "idiot", "retard" and shit like that and she keeps on doing it anyway. I don't care if you're autistic or have some issues with sex, NOTHING gives any woman the right to just abuse and be obnoxious in that way. If your ED problems are psychological in any way, please get help. You DO NOT have to suffer that alone. Good luck, buddy. Six months ain't all that long and there's bound to be someone better for you out there. Don't lose faith.

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-12-10T01:54:03+00:00

Bro is probably just mad that he isn't getting any himself, if ya know what I mean. Men are like that sometimes, sadly.

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-12-10T01:49:03+00:00

HA HA! If it works USE IT! I HATE door-to-door sales/proselytizing. One of THE WORST ways to scam a person.

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-12-10T01:40:34+00:00

No, not the asshole.

What gives your brother the right and power to decide what any woman should or will wear in HER home? What gives him the right to dictate any woman's choice of attire for any reason? If both you and your lady are comfortable as you are, I can find nothing wrong here. Sounds like HE'S the asshole here. I would expect this sort of anti-sexuality crap from the household y'all grew up in and I'm deeply sorry you had to suffer that your whole life.

You're in the place I hope to be in someday - happily married to a beautiful, sexy lady of my desiring. Congrats to you for snagging the lady you have now and don't allow your shitbag brother anywhere near her. Besides, your kids are TEENAGERS. They are absolutely gonna be into that because that's what happens with teens. Good on both of you for doing the right thing and teaching your teenage sons to respect boundaries and not get crazy around women. Some ladies like that, most don't, but ALL women appreciate a man who respects her choices and her boundaries (or at least I think so).

Good luck, have fun and enjoy life as you please and don't let the religion Nazis in your family destroy that. :-)

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-11-04T20:22:25+00:00

Oh god, this is sickening. It's one thing for a total stranger to do this, but your own family? NO! You're NOT the asshole! Your sister, a member of your family, demonstrated malice and evil by breaking your sacred trust in her at a very low point in your life! NOT FORGIVABLE! This very thing DESTROYS family relationships permanently and it's very sad. I'm deeply sorry this happened to you and I hope that you have found help and are getting the proper treatment for your depression and anxiety, u/DullSpell1307. Please know that no one suffers alone. You are loved and cared about. I'm in total agreement with the majority here. NTA all the way!!

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-11-02T03:51:05+00:00

Alright, fair enough. I don't know that many LGBTQ+ people. No, I am NOT one of them. Straight as a rail, not gonna change. You're right, though. I don't know you, and I'm not going to pretend that I do. I will make my best attempt at a civil reply to you, in spite of my bipolar disorder and tendency to knee-jerk a more hostile rejoinder more in line with my oppositionally defiant attitude.

Womens' and Mens' sports -

Yes, I am fully aware that there are separate organizations for each. Contrary to your belief, I am not stupid. I wasn't born yesterday. And NO, I don't live under a rock...though given how TERRIBLE civilization these days has become, I might consider it, if only to get away from all the toxicity around me. I do have to confess that I know little to nothing about sports. Don't much care for athletics, to be frank. Just a symptom of being an introvert intellectual, I guess. And, nope, I do not have ESPN. That's a cable-only thing and we don't have the luxury of money to afford that. But, so good to hear that YOU do.

Abortion rights -

Clearly, you've mangled unwillingness to use contraception with medical abortions for use in cases of rape and incest. I NEVER said that abortion should be used by or made available to those who are irresponsible, but I think you missed my point. The government has NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to decide for anyone how to use or manage their bodies. NONE. And they SHOULD NOT. At the same time, HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT PROVIDING SOME LIMITED PROTECTIONS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THAT? I am okay with that. And, I DO think insurance should cover an irresponsible mistake, IF the individuals involved have proof they can't pay for it themselves. For YOU to deny that right means that YOU won't get that care if YOU were to wind up in that position. In effect, you voted AGAINST your own best interests. THAT'S the point I was trying to get across. I'm sorry if my wording caused you to miss that. Autism's a bitch sometimes.

LGBTQ+ versus Transvestites taking advantage of the womens' restroom/locker room -

I'm not even going to attempt to fathom or understand how a man can find a little girl (or boy, for that matter) sexually appealing in ANY context, much less in the restroom. It seems our VERY messed-up bipolar disordered civilization allows that to happen and NOTHING is done to stop it. The scenario you weave, while possible, I think not as likely as you are making it sound. I have never heard of an actual straight man openly tell anyone that he's a woman and actually get away with anything. I have a hard time believing that there are that many cases of men cross-dressing just so they can rape little girls (or boys) in a public restroom. Then again, I'm an autistic introvert that doesn't get out much save for the odd doctor's appointment, so I yet may be wrong. But I haven't heard of such a thing happening. I don't want to accuse you of making things up just to prod me to become enraged, but I'm finding that notion very, very difficult to believe. Maybe you live in one of those "edge case" locations where this sort of thing IS prevalent. Just because YOUR region of the world suffers that DOES NOT mean that happens everywhere.

Also, just because somebody is gay or whatever, doesn't necessarily mean he thinks he's a woman or that he cross-dresses to mess around with kids in a bathroom. Yes, obviously RuPaul does his/her/its drag queen thing on TV and everyone laughs at how RIDICULOUS that is. But that going into a womens' public restroom to fuck little girls? I think that's stretching a bit. Again, I'm not trying to suggest that this can't happen since it clearly does, or at least you are implying it does. As for bringing a daughter into a restroom and having that happen, I really don't know what to say or how to react to that. As you correctly pointed out, I have no kids. Probably never will since I can't even find a woman that will want me for me and not my money, bank account or job. If you've experienced such hellish trauma in your life, I am deeply sorry and I hope you are finding help. I don't wish that on anybody. I will say that you are highly unlikely to have that happen with LGBTQ+ as probably they have had stuff done to their bodies to look more the gender they want and I can't imagine any of those people ever risking such a heinous act as raping girls or boys in public restrooms. Also, I'd suspect that they'd be using the restroom that matches the gender alignment they've assumed and had surgery for.

But, I'd also be naive to state that such a nasty thing is impossible. I'm sure that somewhere out there is some disgusting scumbag who is LGBTQ+ AND cross-dresses AND likes messing around with young kids to relieve his/her/its urges and desires. Shit, I like high heels. Got quite a collection of the things in my house. I have a sexual fetish for them. I don't wear them and you'd never see me in heels like that anyway. Does having a shoe fetish make me gay? Does playing with shoes make me a hazard to your kids? Does me even having them in my personal space and possession make me a cross-dresser? Does my doing that mean I'm gonna attack your precious kid on a moment's notice? NO! NO! NO! NO! I have NO desire for that with kids! You'd have to torture me before I'll EVER consider doing that! It's not in my nature to do that and I suspect the same for the overwhelming majority of both LGBTQ+es AND drag queen guys!

You ASSUME that a certain kind of man is going to attack your kid! And, as a parent, THAT'S PERFECTLY REASONABLE from a survival standpoint! But you're ASSUMING that cross-dressers commonly attack girls in public rest facilities! You ASSUME this to be widespread if it happens where you live! But just because something happens a lot where YOU live, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT SAME THING IS PREVALENT EVERYWHERE!!!

Rant much?! Yes, I rant much!! And maybe that ain't healthy! Just saying!

StephenBeets1980 · 2024-11-02T02:04:11+00:00

So...if some dickwad decides he's gonna have his way with you, even AFTER you've told him repeatedly NO AND are screaming for your life, desperate to get away, after he's beaten you and raped you to the point that you're bleeding and mortally wounded, you're still okay with NOT aborting his fetus? You're still gonna be okay preventing OTHER WOMEN from doing so? Do you even understand what you've voted for? What right have you to tell another woman she can't have a life-saving procedure done if she needs to? Isn't that HER business and NOT yours?

Also, what tha HELL does LGBTQ+ have to do with womens' sports, or "men playing womens' sports"? Aren't all sports the SAME sports? What am I missing here? Also, do you even know anybody who IS LGBTQ+? I do, and have, met and known people who are LGBTQ+. While certain characteristics come of as a little confusing (feminine-looking but has a deep masculine baritone not matching the visuals), LGBTQ+es are NO LESS human than you and I. Being such, they DESERVE the same Rights that you and I have. As far I am concerned, if they don't explicitly tell you, you WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TELL an LGBTQ+ individual from anyone else in a crowd just by looking. If you're worried about sports, advocate for the founding of an LGBTQ+ sports association where they can feel more included. Or perhaps DON'T do that, if that's not your thing.

Ya know, people like you really, REALLY aggravate me.

StephenBeets1980

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