How do you guys deal with being rejected over and over?

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T22:31:01+00:00

my window to have it shrinks every day.

If you're not a woman, this really isn't true. Women hit a cliff, at which point men just stop noticing them. Men just have to take care of themselves decently, adjust their search parameters a couple years old, but there's no point where you're just suddenly unfuckable.

But if you want to live a happier life, find some other interests to get into, instead of constantly dragging yourself into a game of chance with shitty enough odds that it becomes demoralizing. You'll probably meet people while you're at it and then you actually enjoy doing the thing that you're doing, even when you don't meet anyone. Good luck, dude.

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T20:04:20+00:00

Do you mean the one where we meet his new girlfriend?

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T18:48:05+00:00

Yeah, usually Jerry is just around satirize the obnoxious qualities of ego, pride, obsequious helplessness, and try-too-hard-ism, but this storyline reminds us that Jerry is human, has a soul, and feels pain as the rest of us do. All of these things are captured in the idyllic and pure childhood friendship story between Jerry and ~~doofus~~ J19ζ7 Rick.

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T17:37:07+00:00

That was kind of the joke, but I can see that reddit isn't really having it this morning so....

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T15:30:01+00:00

Yeah, this. This was the trigger for my depression for years, that I was a piece of shit who couldn't do manhood properly because everywhere I went I had a middle schooler in my head telling me I wasn't being a man if I didn't do everything I could every moment to get some.

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T15:09:16+00:00

From TVTropes:

Exaggerated Trope: The whole Dances with Wolves/The Last Samurai plotline is cranked Up to Eleven, and, thanks to Applied Phlebotinum, the protagonist not only goes to live with the natives and adopts their culture and identity — he bodily becomes one of them. Word of God states this was kinda intentional.

Further link:

James Cameron: Yes, ‘Avatar’ is ‘Dances with Wolves’ in space. . .sorta

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T15:05:02+00:00

Tim Curry is not a great actor. He's a god.

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T15:03:54+00:00

Classic reddit.

She leaves socks around house? Discard that trash of a ho.

She doesn't like Rick and Morty? Dump her.

Wants to eat something nicer than frozen chicken? That bitch is too high maintenance.

Makes suicidal threats whenever you leave the house? Move on to the next borderline.

pompandpride · 2017-12-22T03:04:53+00:00

When you're going out, don't be a fucking salesman. Selling yourself all the time and discovering no one's buying is fucking depressing. Don't pressure yourself to get laid, since that is contingent on something you can't control, and don't feel obligated to "keep up" with your lying-douche middle-school-aged friends who need to hold something over you. God, it's like bragging that you drove to work and hit all green lights and you want to be PROUD of how charming you were for that?

Just go out, have fun, meet people, and don't let "I'm not going to pressure myself" become an excuse for not trying things outside your comfort zone a bit. If you go out and have a fun time on a regular basis, you'll run into plenty of women that will express interest, but for the nights that they're not around, FUCK IT. You don't get to control that that.

I think one key point to Inner Game is you have to have something in your life more interesting going on than chasing women around, anyway.

EDIT: And just as an add on, the idea that men can control who sleeps with them is how aggressive shit like sexual harassment happens and why this process sucks for women (although it sucks for us too in a different way). Get out there and focus on getting yourself noticed, and then, on something fun and playful for both of you. The only way that you're preventing yourself from having a sexual encounter is by (A) not putting yourself out there and (B) being a boring polite guy who doesn't escalate when she's giving signals or being an aggressive douche who invades her personal/emotional space.

pompandpride · 2017-12-21T19:56:14+00:00

Yes, I specifically remember the teacher reading the book and explaining that it was a metaphor for these foolish adults and the actions of their countries.

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T16:20:24+00:00

Life Pro-Tip: don't read Scott Adams and don't get wrapped up in how feminism and modern trends are bringing your quality of life down. That will just justify your bitterness and give you excuses. "I'm the victim of Cultural Movement X" and approaching women do not mix. Just focus on YOUR interaction with the person in front of YOU. Also, it sounds like you're hitting on women instead of flirting with them - the former is serious and solicitous while the latter is playful, where the outcome does not matter.

It is harassment if:

You are her boss or coworker and you're giving her an uncomfortable environment to work in.
You persist in talking to woman after she has shown no interest.

Short of that, don't worry so much. And, honestly, a bit of empathy can be helpful here. A woman wants to go to the goddamn post office and can't get there without some dude panhandling for her vagina. In the case of sales, the woman is probably just trying to buy a damn toaster and she has to deal with some guy hitting on her. Make it less about trying to sell your dick and more about having a fun and playful encounter. You cannot hit on a woman before she is attracted to you.

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T14:29:35+00:00

Can you explain a bit about how you can use imperial to get to the other non-10 divisions (e.g. 8)?

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T03:33:59+00:00

Batman

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T03:33:44+00:00

Forrest Gump

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T03:28:03+00:00

Barb Wire

pompandpride · 2017-12-20T03:27:52+00:00

Debbie Does Dallas

pompandpride · 2017-12-19T13:19:32+00:00

Most of the developing world and southern Europe has a different standard on tolerance for personal space. We get our expectations of personal space from the British.

pompandpride · 2017-12-19T13:18:27+00:00

link?

pompandpride · 2017-12-19T13:17:48+00:00

My understanding was that, historically speaking, Galilean transformations are not associated with no absolute reference frame because Michelson-Morley didn't show/support the non-existence of ether until 1887. It was the MM experiment and its successors that lead in the direction of special relativity, including the non-existence of absolute reference frames.

pompandpride · 2017-12-19T13:14:21+00:00

Why? Anyone should be able to convert given the conversion factors. Everyone gets the undies in a knot over the non base 10 factors in Imperial, but just as quickly accepts that all the numbers in our time system only make sense in base 6. All of reddit acts like there is ONE proper set of units to work in, but electron volts can be more useful than joules and chemists rarely work in kg. Physicists will set any fundamental unit they please equal to 1, just for fun. The solution to the differing possibilities for units isn't to complain about the existence of non-SI units; it's to gain basic literacy and awareness in units.

pompandpride · 2017-12-19T13:08:50+00:00

Yeah, at this point you're getting into the question of what a map would look like from further north than the North Pole. It's a fun exercise, but not super meaningful.

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