But you did come up with the idea for the urban sombrero.
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Nah. Iām not that creative, worldly, or stylish.
I mean, ffs, I still use libraries.
I owe a book, well a couple of books, to the local library. They are about 30 years overdue. Or they would be had the library not burned down about 30 years ago. It was an accident. I mean however the fire started was an accident. I swear. I mean I heard. The irony is that some dickhead stole one of the books from me. They rebuilt the library.
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Z, Please deposit overdue funds, interest and penalty fees, directly into to my personal bank account I will make sure the relevant authorities will get it(minus my 100% commission).
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My sister actually accidentally stole a book off of me that I ended up having to purchase about 7 years after I checked it out.
The thing is, even after I told her about it, she still kept the book.
Some people are slow readers.
I was a really disorganized (i.e. stoned) kid, and didnāt always return books when I moved, which was frequently. I lived in 6 states between the ages of 16, when I ran away from home, and 22, when I really settled in and got my shit together. It wasnāt dozens of books, but Iād say maybe 3-5.
So then years later, after Iād become the hyper-responsible adult I am now (i.e. had kids) I moved to a town that had a āconscience jarā instead of set fees. What a mindfuck that was! Like, do I put a hundred dollar bill in for my 4-days-overdue book to pay my historic debt? A thousand? $.50 for the actual book that was only slightly overdue? It was painful.
Iām pretty sure that, if your copy of āAtlas Shruggedā is overdue, youāre suppose to take money OUT of the jar.
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You would only know that if you were one of the two people who actually read the whole thing.
Please tell me it had Jiminy Cricket on it.
No, nothing. Blank. Accusing. Like its very lack of ornamentation was meant to convey its deep disappointment in me.
On a related note, one of the only āStar Studentā cards I ever got while attending a school that gave those out for performance, and maybe THE only one, was for having all of my library books returned on the day the past due list came out. Mr. Hopkins. He got really excited and gave the card to me with all this huge hoopla.
The truth is that I donāt like handing good books back over. I guess I never have.
My grandfather owned a used bookstore after he retired. One evening my grandmother asked him how his day went. He said that unfortunately, he sold some books.
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Haha, harsh. I wouldnāt mind selling the ones I donāt like, but yeah, I can see it being a problem in general. āHey! You! You in the back! Why are you touching that? Put it down!ā
Iāve puked on Bukowskiās Women but I bet he wouldāve felt honored. It was a good puke, too, as far as consistency goes. Not like that watery china white puke.
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im curious what peter molyneux would have said on the subject
Here is Alek Minassian on his reasoning:
He seems to believe he accomplished his mission. Damn, he didnāt get himself killed by the officer. The trial is about his mental state, he admits he did it all, and I wonder what the incarceration for the rest of his life will be like. Likely no gaming.
there is a whole community of men like him.
Sorry to post so many Globe and Mail stories.
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Then check The video posted in the OP.
Iām curious about your reaction upon reading this article, @BrickHead. This thread has discussed the radicalization of men through these sites, and @flappinit accused you pretty bluntly of being someone who participates in this radicalization, though he pulled back a bit.
But really, there it is, people being radicalized to commit violence against randoms in hopes of hitting laughing girls and the boys who attract them.
I just finished a book entitled āThe Husbandās Secret,ā which had nothing whatsoever to do with incels or movements of any sort, but which featured among its characters a girl who was strangled 20 years ago at age 17, and both the boy the mother has believed did it and then man who actually did - now the loving father of three daughters. As it turns out, the dead girl had been dating both boys and eventually chose one, then when notifying the āloserā laughed, which was a nervous habit she had. In fact, she was second-guessing her choice of the other boy at the time of her murder.
Anyway, yeahā¦giggling girls, nervous laughter, stupid boys. Leading reasonably to mass murder?
What really disturbed me about the Molyneux video was the part, which I think quoted verbatim, but no one discussed, where he talks about OF COURSE you stop bathing, why WOULD you, and play video games all day. And really WTF? So, so poisonous, as exemplified in Alek Minassianās actions.
Thanks for the post. Iāll say this for the meantime and might get back to it later. When My life was not going in the direction I wanted it to for an aforesaid reason, I didnāt even know of the portmanteau incel nor did I ever intend harm to people because of it nor did I even know of a ācommunityā or āmovementā. So applying the word radical for me is incorrect.
I also had some common sense to know that the world is complicated and that some things are going to be easier for some than others. To take violent action because of this is ridiculous and this just goes to show the two men we speak of here are highly disturbed.
Iāll check the article. Iāve been busy with my non-radical, ordinary, busy life (not being sarcastic).
I think he was being hyperbolic. However, I believe there are few things that sap the motivation or make a man angrier than being womanless.