George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
a cum infested e celeb.
I suppose if this revolting term applies to anyone it applies to the girl in question. I'd like to think, however, that we'd avoid such wording (I originally thought this was a quote but I see it's your term.) Why? Because it's pointless and smacks of a chodey kind of schadenfreude.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Everyone else has covered the best advice, so let me ask: Do you ever have a strange, difficult-to-describe sensation in and above your perineum, that comes and goes, and/or difficulty getting started when you urinate? You may have heard of BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia). It's basically a periodic inflammation of the prostate, of varying degrees. By the age of 70 about 80% of men will have this to some degree. There are treatments and you will note the word benign because it is not cancerous (though cancer of the prostate can present with similar symptoms.) Erectile dysfunction can have all sorts of psychological reasons, though--I think in some ways as men we would prefer it to be a physical ailment. Maybe not.
I'd agree with ask your urologist (get a urologist, not a GP, for this.) Be as frank as possible, this is his job (or her job). Personally the veil has been lifted for me regarding Andrew Huberman and I can't take him seriously, but that doesn't mean his vid on this topic with Attia (who I like a bit better) isn't worth watching. It might well be.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Maybe check to see if any of those substacks (or Motte posters) suddenly go silent.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
You're on a roll here.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I think you're right, yes, but I have declared my taste thus.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Oh, I agree, and I fully admit that my own dislike for the term is just me being overly touchy.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Thankfully I have not seen this error of basic grammar before now. Let's try and quarantine that to reddit.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I am in agreement. It's a word that causes me to immediately partially dismiss whoever uses it. Other annoyances:
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Beginning any comment with "I mean,..." We know you mean it. Otherwise why are you writing it. Tedious.
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Using hyperlinks to images or other sites without any explanation why. It's ok to do this as sort of online footnoting, but even then some sort of reference or statement should be made.
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Veiled secret handshake-type phrases alluding to things like HBD. Example: "Well HBD can account for that, and until we realize this and make the rational choices we're not going to see any progress." I always think: " What exactly are we saying here? What choices? What is accounted for and how?" But the post is up voted as if everyone gets it.
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Any once-catchy phrase like "Live in my head rent-free." I can barely even type that it's so annoying. Thankfully people don't use such phrases so much here.
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Endless use of esoteric terms and jargon. I get that in intellectual circles the use of allusion and certain vocabulary are part of the package--you accept that your interlocutor knows as much as you do about whatever topic it is you're talking about. I suppose mine is the bridling of the outsider sitting at the family dinner not knowing who the hell Aunt Paula is or what she used to do that she doesn't now do that everyone else agrees is a shame.
Probably more but I'm only arrogant enough to type the 5.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I'm probably more in your camp, but as an adult raised in the 70s and 80s I honestly find the idea of tracking apps like Life360 a bit unnerving (just in reference to the specific reddit thread you mention but that I am not going to read because reddit is a bizarre echo chamber of people whose opinions I do not value). There's parenting, then there's micromanaging. I do not have daughters, and despite probably what I am meant to believe is enlightened parenting, I will raise my sons differently than I would raise a daughter. There are definitely lines I would set as Do Not Cross, but then ultimatums are dangerous.
I am fortunate in that my sons both appear very Kind-hearted and not terribly reckless, but that may change. Part of parenting teens is how you've parented the children prior to that. But as many parents can attest, peer groups are more influential than mom and dad most of the time.
This is disjointed but this train platform is cold and I have to put my gloves back on.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
But you did know the answer! Winner!
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Others have answered correctly.
Here's my effort.
In a well known Jack Nicholson film his character plays or we hear on the soundtrack the following:
Fantasy in F minor
Fantasy & Fugue in D minor
Piano Concerto no 9 in E flat major
Prelude in E minor
Fantasy in D minor
Characterize these and if brave tell me the name of the film.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
A runny nose, sure, not a big deal, but any chronic condition bears investigation.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
have been skipping the PT I have to do at home
Don't do this. The physical therapy is what is going to help you. Does your physical therapist know you're also lifting weights?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Out of curiosity, why would your last choice (rather than first) be a doctor's appointment?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I didn't say a father should cover up crimes. In fact I am suggesting subtly that to do so is not, ultimately, best for his son in that it's a model of criminality and a lack of basic ethics, and that a father should model these.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Irving's prose I always enjoyed, and I remember reading A Prayer For Owen Meany and thinking it could have been a timeless, beautiful novel if not for the constant intrusion of his politics (Iran Contra and Reagan). I still enjoyed it, and the Dickens influence on Irving is evident.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
A father should do what's best for his son. It's debatable whether get-out-of-jail free cards and general leniency qualifies as such. (I'd suggest it doesn't.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
A good friend of mine started following college (SEC) football in his mid teens so that he could immediately bond with pretty much anyone (he was a bit of a politician a s eventually went into business). He had no real interest in it before.
When he died at age 48, his wife (who had known only the last five or so years of his life) had a Bama football-themed wake for him, where people were wearing crimson and white and houndstooth and signing Roll Tide etc. in the memory book.
It was an odd feeling for me, having known him almost all his life. Maybe he would have liked it? I kept this all to myself.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
If you've something to say, please say it.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I don't agree with anything you're saying here, except that I concede that people may be using メス and オス for humans in a pejorative way--that simply illustrates my point, that these terms are for animals, and thus to use them with humans is considered rude.
I'm also not sure what you mean when you say
For obvious reasons, feminists tend to be sensitive about being associated too closely with their biological nature.
What are the obvious reasons? I know many women who consider themselves feminists of various stripe and I wouldn't say any of them are sensitive about being associated with biological femaleness. In any way.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Had our first around 4/5 years after our wedding. Despite what I was taught by Risky Business, it's not always that easy to get a woman pregnant.
I'm a native English speaker but do know the words you mention here I'd argue mesu (female) like osu (male), is an idiosyncratic use only for animals in a way that male and female is not in English. Much hay has been made in feminist circles of Mulvey's term "the male gaze" in cinema (and elsewhere), to say nothing of the general term "male chauvinism." I haven't heard any men upset with the term. It seems unexpectedly childish for women to be upset over the use of female--like an adult woman I know strongly dislikes the word moist among other words. But that's just a mild word aversion. She doesn't try to justify it.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Today I learned there are women who are offended by the term female. Really we are living in interesting times.
The circuitous way you're making your point is flying by me. I don't agree with the quoted worldview, but I'm also not saying practicalromantic has that view.
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