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Julia Price: The Checklist Song (2012)
An uncommon example of a woman openly satirizing women who create long checklists for ‘must haves’ attributes in potential boyfriends.
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Funny Video: The Women of LA
A funny video which, while somewhat specific for women in LA, is also broadly true for most large cities in North America.
PS: Women in NYC are no better, unlike what the video tries to imply.
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Garfunkel and Oates – The Fade Away
One of the better (especially sound quality) live performances of ‘The Fade Away’ by Garfunkel and Oates. Try to view it in HD if possible.
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Valentine’s Day for Most of You
I believe this impromptu performance by ‘Garfunkel and Oates’ best sums up Valentine’s Day (February 14) for most of you. The banter before the song in combination with their facial expressions and body language during the song make it a great performance.
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Garfunkel and Oates: The Loophole
Better known as “Fuck me in the ass cause I love Jesus”
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The ‘Friend-Zone’ Explained: Garfunkel and Oates
A live performance of “I Would Never Have Sex with You” which I think is better than the webcam version of that song- largely because of the audience interaction.
It contains such lyrics as..
Cause I really like you as a friend
But there are things I can’t pretend
Know I would love you ’til the end
But there is just one problem (problem, problem)I would never have sex with you
Believe me, you’d know it if I wanted to
I already would have shown my boobs to you
But that will never happen
and here are some relevant lyrics from that song.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise
You should’ve seen it in my eyes
I kinda like some other guy
But there’s a bigger problemI would never have sex with you
Believe me, you’d know it if I wanted to
I already would have gone down on you (Kate: You would have liked it!)
But that will never happen
and the clincher.
No amount of alcohol
Could change my mind at all
Our lips will never touch
So kiss that thought goodbyeI would never have sex with you
Believe me you’d know it if I wanted to
I already would have held hands with you
But that will never happen
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My Views about Alt-Right and Game Blogs
I considered writing a longish post on my views about ‘alt-right’ and ‘game’ blogs, given the considerable overlap between them. Then I realized that a very alternative music video known as ‘Sissy Boy Slap Party‘ by Guy Maddin would do the trick.
So here it is..
Note the masculine posturing of the old man who leaves at the beginning of the video to ‘go to the shop and buy some condoms’ after telling one of the younger guys to ‘go back to the gym; you look like you are gaining some weight’.
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Would ‘Gun Control’ Really Stop Rampage Killers in the USA?
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last three days you might have heard that a 20-year old guy (Adam Lanza) executed 28 people. He was only 4-5 bodies short of Seung-Hui Cho record (32 dead) set at Virginia Tech in 2007- a record which he could have easily broken given the nature of his captive audience. Having said that it is apparent that Adam was a better killer (28 dead, 1 injured) than Seung-Hi (32 dead, 17 injured). As many of you also know, more than a few politicians and media figures are trying to use this event to pass laws for more ‘gun control’ laws in the USA, hoping that the death of 6- and 7- year white kids can be used to grease the rails for passing such laws. But this post is not about whether they can succeed where previous attempts at ‘gun control’ have failed. This post is about whether even ‘strict gun control’ could stop rampage killers in the USA.
The short answer to that question is- No. Even very strict laws would not stop rampage killings in the USA. We would just see more of them committed with “illegally acquired” weapons or with other technology-based means that would cause a far higher body count. I should also point the hypocrisy of mourning the death of 20 white kids while supporting the killing many more brown kids in Pakistan as “collateral damage” of drone strikes. Understanding the reasons that make the USA uniquely susceptible to rampage killings requires to first acknowledge some of the unpleasant realities about contemporary american society.
People, unlike governments and large organisations, almost never profit from killing people publicly. The motivations of rampage killers are therefore very different from armies, police or bureaucrats. People who go on rampage killings almost always have a very deep personal and unremedied grievance with society. Going on a rampage killing is therefore just the last step in a process of progressively disenchantment with society. The seeds of that process are sown years before the final outburst and nurtured through increasingly negative experiences with society. Nobody just wakes up one day and decides that they have to execute 20-30 people by midnight that day.
Rampage killings are therefore almost never planned at a short notice. Indeed, the difference between your generic underworld-related killing and a rampage killing is that the person who commits the later has been thinking through the scenario for months, if not years. They have been playing, and replaying, that simulation in their head for weeks, months and often years. Rampage killings in the USA are therefore only partially like some tribal guy in Malaysia going ‘amok‘. While both are driven by a combination of personal insults and deprivation- the tribal guy snaps once the situation is intolerable. In contrast, his american counterpart will rarely kill immediately after his point of tolerance has been exceeded. The nature of modern life and amenities means that a person rarely has to act on his homicidal desires immediately. It is this delay between the final provocation and the outburst that makes american rampage killing very different from ‘running amok’.
Then there is the other crucial difference- education and intelligence. Have you noticed that many of the recent spree killers in USA, especially the ones with high body counts, were rather affluent, educated and intelligent. The modern american rampage killer is not some poor and dumb guy who dropped out of high school and works a minimum wage job- indeed the truly abused are too stupid and cowardly to kill lots of people. The modern american rampage killer is best understood as a reasonably privileged person someone who is lashing out at society reneging on its end of a contract he was explicitly (and implicitly) promised since he was born. A brief study of human history suggest that semi-elites who did not receive their promised share of the loot are the most dangerous adversaries of the system that defrauded them. What you are really seeing in the USA is the first overt manifestation of discontent among the younger generation of semi-elites, who rightly believe that they have been taken for a ride.
Now some of you might say- “why don’t we see such incidents in Japan, Greece, Spain or any other developed country with a high number of well-educated but unemployed or underemployed youth?”
The short answer to that question is- the peculiar nature of modern american society, institutions and beliefs. The longer answer to this question does however, once again, require us to talk about aspects of american society that most of don’t talk about or often hardly notice.
It begins with acknowledging that american society is not a society in the conventional sense of that word. It is based on conditional co-operation to attain personal gains without any real sense of social solidarity or togetherness. It has no significant and deep historical, cultural or ethnic competent. Therefore it has no organic institutions or mechanisms to keep most individuals content- especially under adverse conditions. While that was not as issue as long as the economy was growing or credit was plentiful, it does becomes an issue when the future is not looking good. Older societies such as Japan, Greece or Spain have gone through such situations in the past to have developed coping mechanisms that prevent the worst effects of poverty – though even that may not hold once things go beyond a certain point.
The educated but poor youth in those countries have a social net to fall back on. Whether it is their parents, extended family, local community, “unofficial” jobs or a government created jobs which pay enough to avoid serious social problems while providing good quality utilities (excellent and inexpensive healthcare, affordable and high-quality public transport, subsidized housing, subsidized or free higher education etc). That is why countries like Japan, Spain and Italy can have very high rates of youth underemployment and unemployment without any noticeable breakdown of civil society. Of course, youth underemployment and unemployment does fuck up the demographic profile- but that takes a couple of decades (or more) to manifest itself.
The youth in the USA have no safety net to fall back on. We do not have reliable family or extended family to provide them anywhere near the support that is the norm in many other countries and there is no sense of local community. The government is devoted to enriching a few at the expense of many and helps plutocrats, through armed force and law, to fleece everyone else. They provide costly and shitty healthcare, shitty public transport (if any), expensive housing and extremely expensive and mediocre higher education funded by non-dischargeable student loans. The system is so busy eating its seed corn to benefit the few that even the semi-elites (upper-middle class) no longer feel secure about their future. Until recently (a decade ago) the semi-elites and their progeny could look forward to a comfortable if somewhat uncertain future. That is no longer the case..
The reason you hear so much talk about growing income inequality in the last 4 years is largely due to the fact that things have become visibly and unmistakably worse for the semi-elites since 2008. They are now experiencing the same problems everyone below them has been experiencing for a couple of decades. Their belief in the validity of the previous social contract with the elites has evaporated. You can also add the ‘negative’ effects of feministic overreach and hypergamy to that- especially as far as younger men are concerned. It is therefore no surprise that you are increasingly seeing a few younger men from the semi-elite class take out their frustrations through rampage killings.
However the biggest threat to the current system does not come from the very small number of semi-elite youth shooting up movie theaters or primary schools. It comes from the much larger number who will express their frustrations through less overt but far more significant actions or strategic inaction.
What do you think? Comments?
The College Try by Garfunkel and Oates: Dec 05, 2012
This is a very funny and rather accurate song about a ‘liberated’ chick trying bisexuality in college.
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One of the Funniest Scenes from American Psycho (2000)
Then again, I have an odd sense of humor.
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Animated Treatment of the Petraeus Scandal
Sometimes only animation can do justice to a news story.
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More Tween Halloween Costumes
In light of the popularity of my previous post on this subject, I decided to find out if the costume shown in that post was an aberration or a trend. It appears that the overall trend in halloween costumes is towards costumes such as these..
I found all of the pictures in this post by simply image-googling “tween halloween costume girls”. Furthermore, all of them are from websites that sold the depicted costumes.
Yes, costumes such as the ones shown below are advertised and sold in well-known online stores. Since people rarely make and sell something that nobody wants, we must assume that somebody is buying them. Given the sizes they are available in- it is unlikely that men or most women can fit into them.
What do you think? Comments?
The James Holmes Meme: Too Soon?
What Mormons Really Believe
Since Mitt Romney is the one of two main candidates for the office of the President of the USA, it might be worthwhile for us to learn a bit more about his faith- Mormonism.
Here are two video clips I found on YouTube. The first clip is an older animated depiction of the main beliefs of Mormonism..
and the second one is a xtranormal animation that addresses the main beliefs of Mormonism.
What do you think? Comments?
Argentinian TV: Bailando por un Sueño
I was going to finish another large post today, but am not in the right mood today (shit weather). So here is a clip of an Argentinian TV dance competition.
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