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Accident in the Crocodile Pit

After a night of drinking, you wake up next to your mistake

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Why are hospitals so ridiculously expensive? 4 stitches for $4k…$90 for two pills… Etc etc. Is there a reason for this or is it just total corruption? 

You hurt your hand and it needs a couple stitches, you have no insurance and don’t pay, hospital eats that cost. You hurt your hand and it needs a couple stitches, you have health insurance with a small amount you have to pay say 100 dollars and then the rest is covered by insurance. Hospital charges 1000 dollars for stitches, you pay 100 and the insurance is billed 900. Insurance then says we wont pay more than 350, hospital counters with 600, they settle on taking 500 for the money they will get back. So, in order to cover the cost of say 8/10 patients who didn’t have the insurance and don’t pay, they charge a lot and then haggle with the insurance. This is of course very simplified

- geriatric-sanatore 

In American healthcare, what happens to a patient who isn’t insured and cannot afford medical bills?

60 percent of all bankruptcy in the US are tied to medical bills.

The common refrain you hear is “anyone can go to the emergency room and get treatment” and that is not untrue. However, people do not go to the ER for routine care that can prevent problems. If you went to the ER because you had a strange growth they would identify it as a cancerous tumor but that treatment wouldn’t be an emergency so you would either have to find charity care or die a slow painful death. Some local governments (states or counties) have welfare care (the dole for health care) but you have to qualify & that takes time and you probably have to not have a job or a very poor paying one.

- ne7minder

Why are doctors and nurses encouraged to work such long shifts(like 14hrs +) Wouldn’t the quality of care be of utmost importance, and decrease as staff get tired?

To some degree having them work longer shifts reduces the frequency of hand offs which is where a significant amount of medical errors are generated through specific details about a patient being left out and the incoming doctors ignorance of the detail possibly leading to a bad outcome. Its a trade off though as the shift gets too long the work fatigue itself can impair the providers/staff functioning. Also lot of people like the longer shifts because then they can work 3-4 days a week instead of the “standard” 5 days a week from “the prototypical work week”.

Why do dogs hate mailmen?

Your home is also your dog’s home. And even if your dog can see the mailman, you might think he would recognize him. But instead, your dog goes into attack mode and fiercly defends his territory. Your dog instinctively wants to defend his territory when he sees the stranger coming. The mailman or delivery person, doing their job simply comes and goes in a matter of seconds. To your dog, this means that his threatening behavior worked to rid his territory of the intruder. So, the next time the mailman or a stranger comes to the door, the dog recalls that his tactics worked the first time, so he does it again. And, lo and behold, the stranger leaves again. Your dog learns over and over that whenever he barks at these strangers that come to the door, they quickly leave. If you do not step in and correct this behavior, it just continues. And of course, the deliveries come when you are at work, so your dog is free to defend his territory at will and how he sees fit.

- The Woof Blog

How can the Church of Scientology get away with blackmailing, extortion, intimidation, fear?

Scientology’s strength comes down to primarily 2 factors: (1) substantial resources, and (2) an extremely passionate, obedient group of members.

Laws are generally created to manage issues on an individual level, which dilutes each individual’s ability to have a direct effect on influencing the law. This is why social movements are so effective… because groups of people can overwhelm the law’s defensive mechanisms to change and can enable exceptions to be carved out, etc. This is the same way lobbyists affect how law is structured.

So any time you have a large group of people who are willing to band together passionately for a cause + you have the resources to fund their efforts, then you will be able to do things that individuals will not. As discussed in the documentary, members of Scientology strategically began launching lawsuits against both the IRS and individual IRS officers in order to ultimate win its tax-free status battle.

The IRS deals with a lot of law suits in general, and, independently, people pretty much have no way to win against them (especially when it comes to big issues). However, the system is not prepared to deal with strategic, unionized litigation.

So, in short, to answer the broad stroke of your question: there is a level of wealth and influence that any organization can reach which, at that point, they can have large amounts of influence on the system itself and those who oppose their goals/ambitions will need an equal amount of influence/resources to truly make an impact.

This is why the HBO documentary was interesting. I’m curious how it was pitched to the company, because its cost has to be immense. On the legal front, [HBO hired 160 lawyers in anticipation of the inevitable litigation that the documentary will provoke]. This topic is essentially off limits for indie filmmakers and small operations and inherently required a big gun like HBO to be willing to take it on.

But that isn’t necessarily exclusive to Scientology. If you were to do an expose on, say, Disney… you would also need to have a solid legal defense strategy in place. Granted, I do not believe Disney is anywhere near as aggressive about its brand as Scientology.

- shaunsanders 

How did the Bible Belt come to be? In other words, why is there such a large concentration of conservative Christians in those states?

• Immigration: the South was mostly settled by Anglicans back when that was where all the cash crops were, and they later split into their own church: Baptist. The North, however, had a much more diverse group of immigrants later from Germany, Italy, and Ireland.

• Importance of religion was reinforced with the Second Great Awakening . This is probably the biggest factor. There was some revivalism in the North, but never to the pervasive extremes that the South had. The entire movement was dedicated to making sure that religion was the central focus of their lives, because the ministers felt that people had forgotten religion at that time.

• Cultural: it was an important center of the community, as is often the case with more rural areas. This was a particularly big factor in the post-war environment when many previous social institutions were shattered and the class system was all awry. The South was also much less diverse than the North, leading to intellectual isolation.

• Slavery: white owners imparted Christianity to their slaves, who adopted it and saw it as a source of strength during the ordeal. Black communities in the South are some of the most religious parts of the country.

• Social factors: this sounds pretentious but oh well. Since the Civil War, the South has lagged behind other parts of the country in terms of education, technological adoption, economic growth, etc. To be blunt, they’re backwards. And because of that, they rely more on religious institutions for answers, which leads to a self-reinforcing cycle.

- SongOfUpAndDownVotes 

What do the numbers after a crime mean?

The number is the “degree” of the crime. Murder, for example, includes:

• First-degree murder is any intentional murder that is willful and premeditated with malice aforethought. Felony murder is typically first-degree.
• Second-degree murder is an intentional murder with malice aforethought, but is not premeditated or planned in advance.
• Voluntary manslaughter (also referred to as third-degree murder), sometimes called a crime of passion murder, is any intentional killing that involved no prior intent to kill, and which was committed under such circumstances that would “cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed”. Both this and second-degree murder are committed on the spot, but the two differ in the magnitude of the circumstances surrounding the crime. For example, a bar fight that results in death would ordinarily constitute second-degree murder. If that same bar fight stemmed from a discovery of infidelity, however, it may be mitigated to voluntary manslaughter.
• Involuntary manslaughter stems from a lack of intention to cause death but involving an intentional, or negligent, act leading to death. A drunk driving-related death is typically involuntary manslaughter. Note that the “unintentional” element here refers to the lack of intent to bring about the death. All three crimes above feature an intent to kill, whereas involuntary manslaughter is “unintentional”, because the killer did not intend for a death to result from their intentional actions. If there is a presence of intention it relates only to the intent to cause a violent act which brings about the death, but not an intention to bring about the death itself.

So, to answer your question, yes – the lower the number, the more severe the crime, thus the more severe the punishment.

- nofftastic 

How can I eat 2000 calories and 100g of fat in a meal at In N Out and still be hungry? If I ate that many calories in a home cooked meal I would be bloated.

The hunger you feel is based on how full your stomach is – not how much energy its contents contain. Calorie Density and food mass are not related. Butter is one of the most calorie dense foods around, you can get almost 1,000 calories from a single stick, but you almost certainly won’t be “full” if you’re extremely hungry. Meanwhile, you could eat 3 entire heads of cabbage for the same amount of calories, but you probably don’t have enough room in your stomach for one.

So no, there’s nothing a place can “do” to their food to make you more hungry other than charge you more for smaller portions. The calorie content is irrelevant to how filling it is.

– barmasters 

Why do many former drug addicts become religious after rehabilitation?

The majority of rehab programs are based on the 12 Step Model which involves acceptance of a higher power and asking members to turn their lives over to God. They all derive from AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) which was founded in 1938. 

The experience of a believer in Christianity is in some ways a lot like the experience of escaping drug addiction. It is about repenting and leaving one’s own sins while God does the work. Look at the story of Saul/Paul who spent years persecuting the early Christians until God intervened. The lives of the reformers like Martin Luther are similar – recognizing their own sin and understanding that it wasn’t their own work but God’s work that helped them through.

Why do most females I know will feel embarrassed if you see them in a bra and underwear but act totally cool in a bikini? 

Consent. If you catch someone off guard while they’re in their underwear, they gave you no consent to look at them while wearing underwear, so they’re either embarrassed or tell you to leave.

Whereas with a bikini, the wearer is giving you and everybody else the permission to look at them.

Same thing applies to swim shorts/boxers.

– PoniesNotBronies

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1. He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

2. “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

3. According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

4. Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

5. Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!

6. Once while rushing to a New York meeting, there were no cabs available, so Rogers and one of his colleagues hopped on the subway. Esquire reported that the car was filled with people, and they assumed they wouldn’t be noticed. But when the crowd spotted Rogers, they all simultaneously burst into song, chanting "It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood." The result made Rogers smile wide.

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by Nick Notas

People give more thought to choosing their next Amazon purchase than to choosing their next relationship.

When it comes to romance, everyone is in such a hurry. You jump into a relationship with the first person who shows you interest. You commit to being exclusive before you’ve even gotten a chance to really know each other.

I think that’s insane! You’re playing Russian roulette and hoping that this person is going to be a good match for you.

I know you’re eager to find love, but being in an unhappy relationship is much worse than being alone. Especially if you’re trying to find someone you plan to be with forever, you shouldn’t just settle for anyone. Choosing the wrong person will affect your entire life.

The right partner can help you grow to the best version of yourself. The wrong partner can bring out the worst in you.

The right partner can support you. The wrong partner can use you and leave you more isolated than when you were single.

The right partner can make every experience more beautiful and satisfying than you could imagine. The wrong partner can strip out any shred of happiness from any moment.

So if the difference between a right partner and a wrong one is so obvious, why do we still find ourselves stuck in unfulfilling relationships?

The unhealthy, unrealistic pressure to settle 

Much of society places unfair expectations on others to settle into a relationship. People make sweeping judgements that you’re an asshole player or a heartless bitch if you don’t stay with someone who likes you.

They’re speaking out of insecurity. They somehow believe dating around cheapens romantic connections or true love. But I’d argue the opposite. I’d argue that settling is a major factor in why the porce rate is roughly 48-53% and 41% of marriages experience some form of infidelity.

We are inpiduals with our own values, needs, and expectations. Just because you like someone, doesn’t mean you’re compatible with them.

Being romantically selective doesn’t make you a jerk — it’s the only way you discover what you truly care about and need in a partner. It’s how you learn to be a better partner. And it’s how you create healthy, lasting relationships.

As I’ve written before, you are the only person who knows how to fulfill yourself. So those who might judge you don’t understand that settling hurts everyone in the long run. 

Though it doesn’t always happen right away, settling causes resentment, unhappiness, and regret. Delaying the break-up by months or even years will only result in more pain and suffering – and you’ll wish you didn’t settle in the first place.

Why we settle

Men…

• Guilt. You don’t want to hurt a woman’s feelings by breaking things off. You’re not that attracted to her but like her personality. Or you know she’s not “the one” but you’ve already invested so much time in each other. So you stay in the relationship even though you know she’s not a good long-term match.
• Physical attraction. You stay with a girl you find extremely attractive because she’s the hottest you think you can get with. You ignore your lacking emotional connection.
• Jealousy and control. You can’t stand the thought of her with someone else and have to keep her to yourself.
• Fear of being alone. You’re afraid that you might never get another girlfriend like her. You don’t want to be alone. You’re terrified of having to go through the whole dating process again.
• Comfort and ease. You don’t dislike being with her but you don’t have that “spark”. Still, you get to have sex with her and always have someone to hang out with.

Women…

• Pressure from family or friends. Your friends constantly ask you for relationship updates. Your mother tells you that if he hasn’t committed yet, there must be something wrong. They remind you that if you don’t make it official, he’s going to stray.
• Biological pressure. You want to get married and have a child and feel like time is running out. You feel your value in the dating scene is decreasing.
• Societal pressure. Media, movies, music, and tradition tells you that being desired by men is what makes you valuable. Therefore, if you’re single, you must be unattractive and less worthy of love. 
• Blinded by emotion. You have fun with a guy and are attracted to him. Because of this, you overlook all his negative qualities and red flags. You ignore his mistreatment, disrespect, and believe you can “change him”.
• Dependence. You believe you need him — whether that’s financially, emotionally, or because you have a history together (house, child, etc). You may even think that without him, you are nothing.

The key to overcoming these points is to start building your self-esteem. Realize your worth. Learn how to meet more people so that you cultivate a mindset of abundance.

This way when you’re deciding to be exclusive with someone, you’ll know that it’s truly YOUR decision. 

5 questions to answer to avoid settling

Listen to her, she plays Catan. (Source)

To help prevent yourself from settling, make an educated decision before you decide to become exclusive with someone. If you can answer yes to these five questions, you’re on the right path.

1. Am I physically attracted? This is the starting point for everyone. I firmly believe it’s damn near impossible to maintain an intimate relationship with someone you don’t find attractive. Again, don’t measure beauty using society’s view, but from your own personal preference.
2. Do they respect me? Healthy relationships are built on care, compassion, and emotional investment. Unless you enjoy being treated like shit, find someone who treats you as an equal. Not someone who you hope will change, but someone who respects you now. 
3. Do I WANT to be with this person or do I NEED to be with them? Staying with someone out of fear, approval, desperation, pressure, or control are never valid reasons. You should want to be that person because you’re excited to connect with them on a deeper level. 

4. Have I dated enough? This is especially important if you’re inexperienced or trying to find a serious relationship partner. When you have limited experience, it’s hard to know what you truly value in a person. I had no idea what I actually cared about (more than a beautiful body) until I connected with a variety of women.

   Before you commit, why not go on a couple of other dates? Explore your options and see the differences. You don’t have to hook up if you don’t want to, just meet more people. Keeping things casual for a couple weeks or months to date around will confirm whether or not you’ve found the right person for you. 

   Also, experience helps you understand how to be a better partner. You want the best odds possible for maintaining a healthy relationship for when you do find that special someone.

5. Do we have the same expectations? Or can we at least come to an understanding? If you’re looking to get into a serious relationship — you both need to answer some big questions and figure out what’s important to you.

   Where do I plan on living? What are our financial goals? Can they accept my religious or non-religious beliefs? Do I want to get married soon? Do I want kids?

   There are some major viewpoints in life you both need to agree on. Or at least be able to compromise. Having your expectations not met is a surefire way to be stuck in an unsatisfying relationship.

You should be with someone who makes every day better, not just palatable. When you find a great match there won’t even be a question of “settling”. 

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I got to give the folks over at Ford some props for their Ford Focus ST. It has come a long way in terms of winning the hearts and minds of avid car enthusiasts. Their 2015 incarnation of the Ford Focus ST has 252 horsepower and 270 lb.-ft. of peak torque. Can do 0-60 in 5.9. Give you audio bliss with its 10 speaker Sony audio system with added subwoofer and on top of that it turns heads with its sleek styling and all for $25k! You really can’t beat that! Check out this video from Jimmy Kimmel Live! where Guillermo tries his hand at making tacos while a hot stunt driver shows him what this car is capable of. Too funny!

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Season 4 of ‘Game of Thrones’ Recapped in 8 Minutes

Fish drives his own little electric car around the room

£100,000 on options on a Ferrari — is this a record?

We are always told carbon fiber is stronger/lighter than steel. To put it in perspective here is a test of a steel vs. carbon fiber drive/prop shaft

Preparing and slicing a flounder for Sashimi

One of my favorite scenes of all time…dude in Total Recall gets f**ked up! (0:22)

Worst movie death scene ever

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A tribute to the hawtness of Blake Lively – Radass

Newly Adopted Kittens On The Ride Home From The Shelter – Ned Hardy

10 Questions that Will Change the Way You Think About Your Problems – Marc And Angel

Yoga Pants are kind of amazing – Bro My God

The science behind power naps, and why they’re so damn good for you – i09

Girl Says Possibly The Dumbest Thing Ever (video) – Leenks

A Did You Know On Hottest Pron Stars – Linkiest

Cara Santana In Tight Spandex – G-Celeb

7 Surprising Tips For Breaking Out Of Procrastination Prison – Addicted 2 Success

McDonald’s Cuts Some Additives From Chicken – Newser

The 50 Sketchiest Easter Bunny Photos Ever – World Wide Interweb

Cutie Girls With Colossal Cleavage (28 Pics) – Regretful Morning

13 Thoughts Every Guy Has Had During Sex – Distractify

Dayuuuuuum! – Double Viking

Doutzen Kroes in a 1-piece…nice! – Celeb Slam

Drinkwel the Vitamins to Heal Your Hangover – The Gentleman’s Garage

The biggest mistakes from sports movies – Extra Mustard

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10. Rulon Gardner beats “The Unbeatable”

This wasn’t even a blip on anyone’s radar during the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was a foregone conclusion that Alexander Karelin was going to win gold in the heavyweight division of Greco-Roman wrestling. That was until Gardner, the big bear (now even bigger) from Afton, Wyo., stepped onto the mat and took down the internationally undefeated Russian to take home the gold. Karelin had been undefeated in 13 years of international competition and had lost only one wrestling match in his entire life — when he was 19 years old in the 1987 Soviet Championships.

9. N.C. State wins 1983 NCAA Championship

College basketball is a difficult sport to select just one historic upset from. Do you go with Villanova beating Georgetown in the 1985 NCAA finals? Or Duke downing UNLV in 1991? Or even Division II Chaminade’s stunning regular season upset over Ralph Sampson and the Virginia Cavaliers in 1982? While all of those games are worthy candidates, in the end we have to go with North Carolina State’s surprising victory in the 1983 NCAA Championship. The Wolfpack’s victory over the Houston Cougars (and future NBA stars Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler) may not have been the biggest mathematical upset of all time, but it has left fans with many indelible images, including Coach Jim Valvano frantically running around the court after the final buzzer, desperately seeking someone to hug and share the emotional moment with.

8. Jack Fleck outlasts Ben Hogan, 1955

There are few golf “upsets” mainly because, with golf, it’s not so much players versus each other as it’s players versus the course (and par). What sets Flecks’ 1955 U.S. Open win at San Francisco’s Olympic Club apart is that he overcame a huge early deficit and then out-dueld legend Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff to claim the title. Fleck trailed the first round leader by nine strokes before working his way back into contention, the greatest comeback ever for a U.S. Open winner.

7. Denver Nuggets SHOCK the world in 1994 NBA Playoffs

In the history of the NBA playoffs, an eighth seed has beaten a number one seed in the first round only five times. But the first time was in 1994 when the Denver Nuggets, led by Dikembe Mutombo, stormed back to win three straight games and defeat a loaded Sonics team (Sean Kemp, Detlef Schrempf, Gary Payton, and Kendall Gill) in one of the biggest NBA playoff upsets to that date.

6. The New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III

People forget that this game was the first to ever be called the Super Bowl. It was the third NFL-AFL Championship Game (hence the III), and the AFL was considered inferior to the NFL. The AFL’s New York Jets were huge underdogs against the NFL’s Baltimore Colts. Joe Namath, the Jets’ quarterback, guaranteed a victory over the Colts before the game then went out and delivered. The Jets dominated this game, leading 16-0 at one point. Namath won the Super Bowl MVP, throwing for 206 yards on 17-of-28 passing.

5. The New York Giants defeat the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII

It wasn’t so much that the Giants were bad; they were a Wild Card team and made the Super Bowl, after all. It was that the New England Patriots had slashed their way through the regular and post-season undefeated, rolling into the Super Bowl at 18-0, 12-point favorites, and shouldering tremendous pressure to finish the NFL’s first perfect season since the famous ’72 Miami Dolphins. After a low-scoring start – the Pats held a 7-3 lead at the end of the third quarter – the teams exchanged the lead three times in the fourth quarter and Giants WR David Tyree made one of the most miraculous plays in NFL history – “The Helmet Catch” – to extend what would be the Giants game-winning touchdown drive.

4. Appalachia State Upsets Michigan, 2007

The football cliche may be as old as college football itself: “On any given Saturday, anybody can win.” But a team from a lower division defeating a ranked team? That’s pretty rare. In fact, it’s only happened four times in history. But none was as staggering as in 2007 when Appalachian State rolled into the Big House in Ann Arbor and upset then-No. 5 Michigan 34-32. The Wolverines had a chance to eek out the victory but Appalachian State blocked a field goal attempt as time expired.

3. The Miracle Mets of 1969

Since entering the National League in 1962, the New York Mets had never finished above .500 during a season. They had lost 100 games in five of their first seven seasons, and in 1969, they entered the season as 100-to-1 longshots to win the World Series. True to form, they started off 18-23. Then something amazing happened. The Mets won 11 straight games, and finished the season with a 100-62 record. They won the NL East, then swept the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS before stunning the Baltimore Orioles, four games to one, to win the 1969 World Series. It was one of the most dramatic turnarounds in sports history, and the miraculous nature of the upset not only led to the team’s popular moniker, but also prompted New York pitcher Tom Seaver to quip, “God is living in New York City, and He’s a Mets fan.”

2. Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson

Forget Cinderella Man. As impressive as James J. Braddock’s win over Max Baer in 1935 was, Braddock was merely a 10-to-1 underdog in that fight, which is nothing compared to the 42-to-1 odds that faced James “Buster” Douglas in his heavyweight title fight against Mike Tyson in 1990. Tyson had been the heavyweight champion of the world for more than two years, and appeared unstoppable. The Douglas fight was supposed to be a tune-up, merely warming “Iron Mike” up for an eventual showdown with Evander Holyfield. Douglas had other plans, however, taking the fight to Tyson early and unlike any opponent the champ had ever faced, dominating the early rounds. Tyson would fire back, knocking Douglas down (but not out) in the eighth. The two continued to battle into the tenth round, when Douglas clocked Tyson and put him down for the count, becoming the undisputed champion of the world in the process.

1. The Miracle On Ice

Is there really any question here? This game was so much more than a game to America — the nation, not the team. It didn’t matter that this wasn’t the gold medal game. People don’t remember who the U.S. beat in the gold medal game two days after it beat the Soviets, just like few people remember who the Red Sox beat to win the 2004 World Series.

The Americans were so overmatched that it was funny. The Soviets were led by legends while the U.S. was led by college kids. The Soviets beat the U.S. in an exhibition game before the Olympics, 10-3. Viktor Tikhonov, head coach of the U.S.S.R., went on to say that that game “turned out to be a very big problem” for his team because it led the Soviets to grossly underestimate the Americans. In five group-play games before the medal round, the Soviets scored a total of 51 goals, while the U.S. barely slipped into the medal round.

When the Russians and the Americans met in the medal round, it became much more than just a game. On the shoulders of these young college kids, rested the American hopes in the midst of the tense Cold War between the two countries. In dramatic fashion Mike Eruzione, an IHL player for the Toledo Goaldiggers (yes, that’s a real team), scored a goal to put the US ahead, 4-3, with exactly 10 minutes left. For U.S. fans, the following 10 minutes lasted longer than a Red Sox-Yankees postseason game. The Americans held on just long enough to hear Al Michaels ask “Do you believe in miracles?”

YES!

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by Anthony Bourdain

(from Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook)

I am frequently asked by aspiring chefs, dreamers young and old, attracted by the lure of slowly melting shallots and caramelizing pork belly, or delusions of Food Network stardom, if they should go to culinary school. I usually give a long, thoughtful, and qualified answer.

But the short answer is “no.”

Let me save you some money. I was in the restaurant business for twenty-eight years—much of that time as an employer. I am myself a graduate of the finest and most expensive culinary school in the country, the CIA, and am as well a frequent visitor and speaker at other culinary schools. Over the last nine years, I have met and heard from many culinary students on my travels, have watched them encounter triumphs and disappointments. I have seen the dream realized, and— more frequently—I have seen the dream die.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not telling you that culinary school is a bad thing. It surely is not. I’m saying that you, reading this, right now, would probably be ill-advised to attend—and are, in all likelihood, unsuited for The Life in any case. Particularly if you’re any kind of normal.

But let’s say you’re determined. You’re planning on taking out a student loan and taking on a huge amount of debt. In many cases, from lenders associated with—or recommended by—your local culinary school. Ask yourself first: is this culinary school even any good? If you’re not going to the Culinary Institute of America, Johnson and Wales, or the French Culinary Institute, you should investigate this matter even more intently, because the fact is, when you graduate from the Gomer County Technical College of Culinary Arts, nobody hiring in the big leagues is going to give a shit. A degree from the best culinary schools is no guarantee of a good job. A degree from anywhere less than the best schools will probably be less helpful than the work experience you could have had, had you been out there in the industry all that time.

You’re about to take on $40,000 to $60,000 in debt training for an industry where—if you are lucky—you will, for the first few years, be making $10 to $12 dollars an hour. In fact, if you are really, really lucky—one of the few supremely blessed with talent, ability, and great connections deemed worthy enough to recommend you to one of the great kitchens of Europe or New York for your post-school apprenticeship—you will essentially be making nothing for the first couple of years. You will, once living expenses are factored in, probably be paying for the experience.

Should you be fortunate enough to be among the one-in-a-million young cooks taken on at a famous and respected restaurant like Arzak, in Spain (for example), this will truly be time and money well spent. If you perform well, you will return home never again needing a résumé. In this case, the investment of all your time and money and hard work will have paid off.

But the minute you graduate from school—unless you have a deep-pocketed Mommy and Daddy or substantial savings—you’re already up against the wall. Two nearly unpaid years wandering Europe or New York, learning from the masters, is rarely an option. You need to make money NOW. If that imperative prevails, requiring that you work immediately, for whomever will have you—once you embark on a career dictated by the need for immediate cash flow, it never gets any easier to get off the treadmill. The more money you get paid straight out of school, the less likely you are to ever run off and do a stage in the great kitchens of the world. Time cooking at Applebee’s may get you paid—but it’s a period best left blank on the résumé if you’re planning on ever moving to the bigs. It may just as well have never happened. Country clubs? Hotel kitchens? These are likely employers straight out of school—and they promise a pretty decent, relatively stable career if you do well. It’s a good living—with (unlike most of the restaurant business) reasonable hours and working conditions—and most hotels and country clubs offer the considerable advantage of health insurance and benefits. But that sector of the trade is like joining the mafia. Once you enter the warm fold of their institutional embrace, it’s unlikely you’ll ever leave. Once in—rarely out.

If it matters to you, watch groups of chefs at food and wine festivals—or wherever industry people congregate and drink together after work. Observe their behaviors—as if spying on animals in the wild. Notice the hotel and country club chefs approach the pack. Immediately, the eyes of the pack will glaze over a little bit at the point of introduction. The hotel or country club species will be marginalized, shunted to the outside of the alpha animals. With jobs and lives that are widely viewed as being cushier and more secure, they enjoy less prestige—and less respect.

You could, of course, opt for the “private chef” route upon graduating. But know that for people in the industry, the words “private” and “chef” just don’t go together. To real chefs, such a concept doesn’t even exist. A private “chef” is domestic help, period. A glorified butler. Somewhere slightly below “food stylist” and above “consultant” on the food chain. It’s where the goofs who wasted a lot of money on a culinary education only to find out they couldn’t hack it in the real world end up.

How old are you?  Nobody will tell you this, but I will: If you’re thirty-two years old and considering a career in professional kitchens? If you’re wondering if, perhaps, you are too old? Let me answer that question for you: Yes. You are too old.

If you’re planning on spending big bucks to go to culinary school at your age, you’d better be doing it for love—a love, by the way, that will be, almost without a doubt, unreciprocated.

By the time you get out of school—at thirty-four, even if you’re fucking Escoffier—you will have precious few useful years left to you in the grind of real-world working kitchens. That’s if you’re lucky enough to even get a job.

At thirty-four, you will immediately be “Grandpa” or “Grandma” to the other—inevitably much, much younger, faster-moving, more physically fit—cooks in residence. The chef—also probably much younger—will view you with suspicion, as experience has taught him that older cooks are often dangerously set in their ways, resistant to instruction from their juniors, generally slower, more likely to complain, get injured, call in sick, and come with inconvenient baggage like “normal” family lives and responsibilities outside of the kitchen. Kitchen crews work best and happiest when they are tight—when they operate like a long-touring rock band—and chances are, you will be viewed, upon showing up with your knife roll and your résumé—as simply not being a good fit, a dangerous leap of faith, hope, or charity by whoever was dumb enough to take a chance on you. That’s harsh. But it’s what they’ll be thinking.

Am I too fat to be a chef? Another question you should probably ask yourself.

This is something they don’t tell you at admissions to culinary school, either—and they should. They’re happy to take your money if you’re five foot seven inches and two hundred fifty pounds, but what they don’t mention is that you will be at a terrible, terrible disadvantage when applying for a job in a busy kitchen. As chefs know (literally) in their bones (and joints), half the job for the first few years—if not the entirety of your career—involves running up and down stairs (quickly), carrying bus pans loaded with food, and making hundreds of deep-knee bends a night into low-boy refrigerators. In conditions of excruciatingly high heat and humidity of a kind that can cause young and superbly fit cooks to falter. There are the purely practical considerations as well: kitchen work areas—particularly behind the line— being necessarily tight and confined . . . Bluntly put, can the other cooks move easily around your fat ass? I’m only saying it. But any chef considering hiring you is thinking it. And you will have to live it.

If you think you might be too fat to hack it in a hot kitchen? You probably are too fat. You can get fat in a kitchen—over time, during a long and glorious career. But arriving fat from the get-go? That’s a hard—and narrow—row to hoe.

If you’re comforting yourself with the dictum “Never trust a thin chef,” don’t. Because no stupider thing has ever been said. Look at the crews of any really high-end restaurants and you’ll see a group of mostly whippet-thin, under-rested young pups with dark circles under their eyes: they look like escapees from a Japanese prison camp—and are expected to perform like the Green Berets.

If you’re not physically fit? Unless you’re planning on becoming a pastry chef, it is going to be very tough for you. Bad back? Flat feet? Respiratory problems? Eczema? Old knee injury from high school? It sure isn’t going to get any better in the kitchen.

Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin—who cares? You can either cook an omelet or you can’t. You can either cook five hundred omelets in three hours—like you said you could, and like the job requires—or you can’t. There’s no lying in the kitchen. The restaurant kitchen may indeed be the last, glorious meritocracy—where anybody with the skills and the heart is welcomed. But if you’re old, or out of shape—or were never really certain about your chosen path in the first place—then you will surely and quickly be removed. Like a large organism’s natural antibodies fighting off an invading strain of bacteria, the life will slowly push you out or kill you off. Thus it is. Thus it shall always be.

The ideal progression for a nascent culinary career would be to, first, take a jump straight into the deep end of the pool. Long before student loans and culinary school, take the trouble to find out who you are.

Are you the type of person who likes the searing heat, the mad pace, the never-ending stress and melodrama, the low pay, probable lack of benefits, inequity and futility, the cuts and burns and damage to body and brain—the lack of anything resembling normal hours or a normal personal life?

Or are you like everybody else? A normal person?

Find out sooner rather than later. Work—for free, if necessary—in a busy kitchen. Any kitchen that will have you will do—in this case, a busy Applebee’s or T.G.I. Friday’s or any old place will be fine. Anybody who agrees to let your completely inexperienced ass into their kitchen for a few months—and then helpfully kicks it repeatedly and without let-up—will suffice. After six months of dishwashing, prep, acting as the bottom-rung piss-boy for a busy kitchen crew—usually while treated as only slightly more interesting than a mouse turd—if you still like the restaurant business and think you could be happy among the ranks of the damned? Then, welcome.

At this point, having established ahead of time that you are one fucked-up individual—that you’d never be happy in the normal world anyway—culinary school becomes a very good idea. But choose the best one possible. If nothing else, you’ll come out of culinary school with a baseline (knowledge and familiarity with techniques). The most obvious advantage of a culinary education is that from now on, chefs won’t have to take time out of their busy day to explain to you what a fucking “brunoise” is. Presumably, you’ll know what they mean if they shout across the room at you that you should braise those lamb necks. You’ll be able to break down a chicken, open an oyster, filet a fish. Knowing those things when you walk in the door is not absolutely necessary—but it sure fucking helps.

When you do get out of culinary school, try to work for as long as you can possibly afford in the very best kitchens that will have you—as far from home as you can travel. This is the most important and potentially invaluable period of your career. And where I fucked up mine.

I got out of culinary school and the world seemed my oyster. Right away, I got, by the standards of the day, what seemed to be a pretty good paying job. More to the point, I was having fun. I was working with my friends, getting high, getting laid, and, in general, convincing myself that I was quite brilliant and talented enough.

I was neither.

Rather than put in the time or effort—then, when I had the chance, to go work in really good kitchens—I casually and unthinkingly doomed myself to second-and (mostly) third-and fourth-tier restaurant kitchens forever. Soon there was no going back. No possibility of making less money. I got older, and the Beast that needed to be fed got bigger and more demanding—never less.

Suddenly it was ten years later, and I had a résumé that was, on close inspection, unimpressive at best. At worst, it told a story of fucked-up priorities and underachievement. The list of things I never learned to do well is still shocking, in retrospect. The simple fact is that I would be—and have always been—inadequate to the task of working in the kitchens of most of my friends, and it is something I will have to live with. It is also one of my greatest regrets. There’s a gulf the size of an ocean between adequate and finesse. There is, as well, a big difference between good work habits (which I have) and the kind of discipline required of a cook at Robuchon. What limited me forever were the decisions I made immediately after leaving culinary school.

That was my moment as a chef, as a potential adult, and I let it pass. For better or worse, the decisions I made then about what I was going to do, whom I was going to do it with and where, set me on the course I stayed on for the next twenty years. If I hadn’t enjoyed a freakish and unexpected success with Kitchen Confidential, I’d still be standing behind the stove of a good but never great restaurant at the age of fifty-three. I would be years behind in my taxes, still uninsured, with a mouthful of looming dental problems, a mountain of debt, and an ever more rapidly declining value as a cook.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them—wherever you go. Use every possible resource you have to work in the very best kitchens that will have you—however little (if anything) they pay—and relentlessly harangue every possible connection, every great chef whose kitchen offers a glimmer of hope of acceptance. Keep at it. A three-star chef friend in Europe reports receiving month after month of faxes from one aspiring apprentice cook—and responding with “no” each time. But finally he broke down, impressed by the kid’s unrelenting, never wavering determination. Money borrowed at this point in your life so that you can afford to travel and gain work experience in really good kitchens will arguably be better invested than any student loan. A culinary degree—while enormously helpful—is only helpful to a point. A year working at Mugaritz or L’Arpège or Arzak can transform your life—become a direct route to other great kitchens. All the great chefs know each other. Do right by one and they tend to hook you up with the others.

Which is to say: if you’re lucky enough to be able to do the above, do not fuck up.

Like I said, all the great chefs know each other.

Let me repeat, by the way, again, that I did none of the things above.

It’s a little sad sometimes when I look out at a bookstore audience and see young fans of Kitchen Confidential, for whom the book was a validation of their worst natures. I understand it, of course. And I’m happy they like me.

But I’m a little more comfortable when the readers are late-career hackers and journeymen, like I was when I wrote the book. I like that they relate to the highs and lows, the frustrations and absurdities, that they, too, can look back—with a mixture of nostalgia and very real regret—on sexual liaisons on cutting boards and flour sacks, late-night coke jags, the crazy camaraderie that seems to come only in the busiest hash-house restaurants—or failing ones. I wrote the book for them in the first place. And it’s too late for them anyway.

But the young culinary students, thousands and thousands of them—new generations of them every year, resplendent in their tattoos and piercings—I worry that some of them might have missed the point.

At no point in Kitchen Confidential, that I can find, does it say that cocaine or heroin were good ideas. In fact, given the book’s many episodes of pain, humiliation, and being constantly broke-ass, one would think it almost a cautionary tale. Yet, at readings and signings, I am frequently the inadvertent recipient of small packets of mysterious white powder; bindles of cocaine; fat, carefully rolled joints of local hydro, pressed into my palm or slipped into my pocket. These inevitably end up in the garbage—or handed over to a media escort. The white powders because I’m a recovered fucking addict—and the weed ’cause all I need is one joint, angel dust–laced by some psycho, to put me on TMZ, running buck-naked down some Milwaukee street with a helmet made from the stretched skin of a butchered terrier pulled down over my ears.  Smoking weed at the end of the day is nearly always a good idea—but I’d advise ambitious young cooks against sneaking a few drags mid-shift at Daniel. If you think smoking dope makes you more responsive to the urgent calls for food from your expeditor, then God bless you, you freak of nature you. If you’re anything like me, though, you’re probably only good for a bowl of Crunchberries and a Simpsons rerun.

On the other hand, if you’re stuck heating up breakfast burritos at Chili’s—or dunking deep-fried macaroni at TGI McFuckwad’s? Maybe you need that joint.

Treating despair with drugs and alcohol is a time-honored tradition—I’d just advise you to assess honestly if it’s really as bad and as intractable a situation as you think. Not to belabor the point, but if you look around you at the people you work with, many of them are—or will eventually be—alcoholics and drug abusers. All I’m saying is you might ask yourself now and again if there’s anything else you wanted to do in your life.

I haven’t done heroin in over twenty years, and it’s been a very long time as well since I found myself sweating and grinding my teeth to the sound of tweeting of birds outside my window.

There was and is nothing heroic about getting off coke and dope.

There’s those who do—and those who don’t.

I had other things I still wanted to do. And I saw that I wasn’t going to be doing shit when I was spending all my time and all my money on coke or dope—except more coke and dope.

I’m extremely skeptical of the “language of addiction.” I never saw heroin or cocaine as “my illness.” I saw them as some very bad choices that I walked knowingly into. I fucked myself—and, eventually, had to work hard to get myself un-fucked.

And I’m not going to tell you here how to live your life.

I’m just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky.

And luck is not a business model.

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What Is It Like To Serve A Life Sentence In Prison?

Psychologically, a life sentence is deteriorating to anybody. This mental decaying process takes many different forms that ranges from changes in behavior, to going literally insane or even committing suicide. All this depends on the mental strength of each individual. However, it usually begins with individual institutionalization.
 
In my case, when I was sentenced to serve life in prison plus 13 years of enhancements, my entire world crumbled.  All the plans and dreams I had for my future went out the window; I felt as if I was being buried alive. Unlike being actually lifeless, embalmed, and stuffed into a coffin, I was screaming for help while being wrapped in concrete walls and steel bars. A walking grave called prison.  Emotionally, I was crushed and nothing made sense to me. Everything seemed and felt surreal.  But all my desperate attempts to seek help and snap out of the worst nightmare ever were of no avail. My fate had been sealed, and slowly but surely the little hope left in me of seeing the streets again vanished. As a first termer in prison, I did not know or understand what a life sentence entailed.  All I knew was that it meant I was going to spend a long, long time in prison with the possibility of dying there.  At nearly 23 years old, I thought I was done.
 
As my time accumulated in prison, my belief continued to solidify with the negative retribution & isolation of the prison environment. In every prison I had been in prior to San Quentin, I experienced a mixed environment of non-sense and an insane culture of prison politics played by the majority of both sides; inmates and prison guards alike. There were no leading traits of anything positive coming from anybody. Everyone is in their own world so to speak. You want any changes? Good luck, you are on your own!
 

To top it off, all I was hearing repeatedly on the news channel(s) was, “Lock them up and throw away the key.” The lack of rehabilitation programs and education in those isolated prisons, and the disowning sentiment from some segments of society combined with the hardships of staying connected to my loved ones accelerated my institutionalization. For quite some time I believed that once labeled as a convict one was repudiated by society in general. The only thing left for me to resort to, was desensitizing myself as a coping mechanism. Thereafter, I began conditioning my mind, above all, or as well said recently by a friend of mine from the outside, my “Emotions are there and VERY real but [I] have to put a time delay between [my] head and [my] heart.” This has enabled me to maintain my overall health, mental stability, and spirituality as well as physically through my journey in prison.
 
For many years I went to sleep hoping to wake up out of prison just to continue opening my eyes the following morning watching the same crumbling and dilapidated concrete ceiling of my four and one half by eleven feet long cell. I’m still here. But, ever since my arrival at San Quentin my opinion has been changed by the warm, and humane treatment that every single volunteer has shown me. Today, I can see that I was wrong all along and that there have always
 been people within society who care and never stopped believing that change is possible for the incarcerated individuals if given the proper tools and opportunity. This is what has rekindled the hope in me and in humanity.

- Jorge Heredia, inmate San Quentin State Prison

What’s It Like To Be Addicted To Cigarettes

I’m 30 and started smoking when i was 12. by the time i was 15 i was a full fledged pack a day smoker. over the years i have witnessed many people fall prey to the habit.

you start by smoking here and there, maybe you don’t inhale at first, maybe you just like to blow it out your nose or smoke it like a cigar. it’s only on certain occasions.

if you are fiddling with cigarettes, you likely have friends that are smoking, also. so you are hanging out, maybe having a few beers, and you see them smoking and decide to be social with them, and also have a cig, but alas, you have none. so you bum a few off a friend for the night. you kind of like it. it just feels good to have one with some drinks or just when you’re talking and laughing. soon you do this every time you get together for a drink/movie/whatever. it’s not a big deal, it’s just once in a blue moon.

after a while, your friends start complaining that you are always asking for cigarettes but you never seem to have your own, you cheap son of a biatch. those shiets are expensive. maybe next time you could come prepared and letother people bum them. so you buy a pack prior to the next gathering. it feels weird to order them at the counter, but whatever. it’s only for the night and you feel like an asshole smoking everyone’s cigarettes all night. you see how they act when they run low. you don’t want to be that guy.

so now you have your own pack of cigarettes. it’s just for the socialness of it. but at the end of the night you have leftovers. you leave them for a friend because what the hell do you need them for? the night is over. it’s not like you’re going to smoke them tomorrow.

eventually there comes a time where you decide you may as well keep the cigarettes you bought. they areexpensive and you’re sick of having to buy them every time you go out, so you’ll just save them for next time.

now, a weird thing happens when you have your own pack of cigarettes. maybe you’ll get the idea to just smoke one after a shietty day, maybe you won’t. maybe you’ll have your own 6 pack while you watch the game. if you have a few beers, you will notice a strange urge to have one of those cigarettes. for the past few months, every time you’ve had drinks with friends you’ve had a few cigarettes. it’s like they go together. it’s just what you do. but there’s no one else there, it’s just you.

so you have a little debate with yourself. you don’t need the cig, but you sure would like to have it. it’s not going to ruin your night either way.

if you decide to have that cigarette, you have fuking failed. you are doomed. doomed. what you have done is solidified an association with having drinks and smoking cigarettes. it is no longer a social thing. you love the little buzz you get. you love playing with it as you sip your drink. you love trying to make smoke rings or whatever other cutesy shiet you do to amuse yourself while you smoke it. you don’t realize it, but you now have a habit. an itsy bitsy manageable habit, but a habit nonetheless.

you may now find yourself looking forward to outings with friends because you can’t wait to have an occasion to smoke a cig or two. you might notice a feeling of “nakedness” if you have beer or two with dinner but no cigarette. you might hang out with your smoker friends on non drinking occasions and feel that same sense of something missing. then you see someone light a cig and it hits you. you want that fuking thing. shiet. you have another internal debate with yourself about whether or not to have a cigarette without the drinks. you don’t even have cigs on you. if you decide to bum one now, you are officially screwed. you gave in. now you’ve solidified an association between social occasions and smoking. you will come to expect this at gatherings. going out to dinner? let me join you for a cigarette. cookout? you don’t mind if i have one of those, do you? i didn’t bring any because i’m not drinking.

so now you smoke at social drinking occasions, you might smoke when drinking at home, and you also smoke when just hanging out. your friends again chastise you for bumming their cigarettes. buy your fuking own if you want one that bad, they say. you promise to bring your own next time…

now you smoke often enough to expect a cigarette after certain occasions. after dinner? smoke. movie’s over? smoke. drinks at bob’s? smoke. you dun goofed, and it’s all downhill from here. you’ve accidentally built cigarettes into your life.

- masshole4life

What’s It Like To Work At Walmart

My average day when I was a day-shift Sales Associate (the ones who stock shelves) at Wal-Mart:

1. Clock in a little early, duck management and stock some areas that need it.

2. Management eventually finds you and acts as if you’ve been neglecting your job for avoiding them. They make you take the items you were going to stock to the back, then set you on taking down features on the floor and moving them to a different location on the floor, or piling them in the back and replacing them with something similar. I once spent three hours switching two dog food displays that were less than twenty feet apart.

3. Intermittently while you’re doing this management will come ride you and the other 1-2 Sales Associates who actually try to do a good job about doing a better job, meanwhile the lazier Sales Associates -who would discredit zombies to refer to them as such- will shamble back and forth accomplishing next to nothing while management pretends they don’t exist.

4. If you’re unlucky enough to be trained as a cashier you will probably be doing that half of the day, because the register staff is also woefully undermanned, as well as having a high turnover/call-in rate.

5. Just when you find that you have time to stock a few items again it is now your lunch break, or else management has decided that the daily “zone” (Facing the items and pulling them forward on the shelf) is starting an hour early. Never mind that there are several carts of items in the back that can go on the half-empty shelves that you are zoning.

6. You clock out and try to pretend that you weren’t working in circles all day- and maybe, just maybe you helped out somebody, somewhere.

Also, the department manager of your area is probably trapped between a half-dozen redundant meetings and/or putting a billion new price tags with a slightly different color or graphic or slogan on the shelves, so he/she can’t help you much.

Also ALSO, during all of this, exasperated customers who can’t find half of what they are looking for will approach you for help, and the most you will be able to do is shrug with an idiotic grin on your face and tell them “Sorry, maybe it will be on the shelf next week”.

You can’t totally blame the middle management that is yanking you around the store, because their manager has a list from their manager, who has a list from their manager (and so on for who knows how many iterations all the way back to hq), and if they don’t check off that list it’s them in the frying pan.

I find a lot of positive things at Wal-Mart. The customers (not kidding, they can really make your day), most of your coworkers, flexible hours that work with school, and a lot of the management are great people. It’s just a wonder that anyone can get around the store with so much red tape floating around.

What’s It Like To Be An Unattractive Woman Living In A Superficial World

I am ugly. I am unattractive. I know that my skin is awful, my hair is greasy, and society simply does not permit women to weigh as much as I do.

But, mind you, this is not the same as having low self-esteem. Because when I look in the mirror, I hate my body, not myself. I simply shake my head and think, “This isn’t me. This mediocre sack of meat isn’t me. I’m just renting it out, driving it around. It’s a tool. It’s a vehicle. I use it to take myself places that I need to go, and that’s all there is to it.”

Ok fine, I’m not Zen enough to actually believe I can escape with that train of thought. The truth is, I am frustrated with the irreconcilable disconnect between my pride and my presence. The acne mask and the fat suit egregiously fail to conform with my mental mockups of my perfectly badass self. I suppose the only real solution then, besides undergoing extensive surgeries, is to upload my conscience to a supercomputer. 

Maybe the Singularity will happen, and everything will be great, but in the meantime, I much prefer the Internet to real life interactions because most of you haven’t got a clue as to what I look like, and if you don’t like me it’s because my ideas suck and not because you find my face unpleasant. The Internet allows me to temporarily abandon the limitations of my subpar physical avatar.

Even if people are especially curious about my appearance, I only allow them to make vague inferences based off a single profile picture, uniform across all my social media haunts, taken a very long time ago at a surprisingly flattering angle, in which I actually manage to trick them into thinking I look quite average. Well, I don’t. I’ve gained 50 pounds since then, and academic stress makes my acne flare up like nobody’s business.

Regardless, I decided a while back that everyone has his or her own strengths and weaknesses, and I would do well to focus on my strengths instead of my weaknesses. Even people who are bad at everything are less bad at some things than they are at others. After some introspection, I concluded that I was less bad at learning things than I was at looking pretty, so I would ultimately benefit far more from sharpening my skills and pursuing a technical career than from trying in vain to undo the effects of losing the genetic lottery.

As for the romantic side of things, I avoid unnecessary heartbreak by keeping myself from harboring silly delusions about reciprocated love in the first place. I have rationalized that it is okay for me to be ugly because 1) marriage is not the optimal arrangement for everyone and 2) the human race would likely carry on just fine without my genetic contribution.

I am irritated with the cliché that “everyone is beautiful” because surface friendliness and pretending to be PC don’t solve anything. It doesn’t help the young girl with confidence issues because even if you’re “nice” enough to tell her that she’s beautiful, are you nice enough to, like, actually date her? Words mean nothing without actions, yet it’s patently unfair to expect people not to be shallow because at the end of the day, beauty is beauty, attraction is attraction, and sexual desire is governed by deep-rooted evolutionary impulses that people don’t understand and can’t control.

It would be far more useful to promote the idea that people can contribute to the world in a variety of interesting and fulfilling ways besides making others salivate over their bodies. You can make original scientific breakthroughs! You can regale people with tales of heroic conquest! You can build products that make people’s lives easier! But I guess changing the world wouldn’t make for an effective beauty products campaign.

- CS Undergrad at MIT 

What’s It Like To Be A Pimp

I remember when I heard pimpin ain’t easy for the first time, long before I ever turned my first bitch out I thought it was a joke. I thought pimpin ain’t easy was like “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”. I thought it was an over exaggeration, like yeah, pimpin ain’t easy cause you gotta count all that money boo-hooo right? Well after being a pimp for a while I can certainly attest to the fact that pimpin ain’t easy and it’s no joke.

Being a pimp is not hard, and I don’t mean to over exaggerate in any way cause I sure as hell don’t mean to make it sound like working a dead end 9-5 or even compare to being a CEO of a major company. The saying was never pimpin is hard, pimps just say pimpin ain’t easy because the general conception is that pimping takes no work or effort at all. A true pimp will make it look easy, but it’s far from being easy.

If you ain’t a pimp and you’re just reading this out of interest, then think about it like this… if you’ve ever had a wife or a girlfriend who needs to talk, feel wanted, feel comforted, feel safe, feel secure, feel like she knows you love her, feel like her future holds better things, feel like she’s the center of the fucking universe and if not, she’s bitchin and nagging at you. Then just imagine the same situation but your wife is a bitch who’s fucking 5-10 tricks a day, she was sexually abused as a child, she’s got a handfull of addictions going from caffeine and nicotine to prescription drugs to straight up cocaine and heroine problems. Now on top of your bitch being that fucked up you’ve also got 5-10 of them to deal with on a daily basis 24/7.

Like I said, it ain’t like being a pimp is working in a factory and hard labor, but being a pimp is mentally tiring and you gotta be smart and stay on your toes at all times. You can never kick your feet up, have a weak moment, confide in any one or show any weakness at all. At all times you need to be 100% in control and in check of not only yourself, but all your bitches as well.

Pimping Is Morally Wrong

So what does it take to be a pimp? I’m going to break it down for you. First and foremost you can’t be a good person. A pimp is not a good person. You can be nice, you can be friendly, you can be a lot of things, but being a good person is completely out of the question. A good person doesn’t pray on women who had a fucked up past. A good person doesn’t steer a bitch into fucking 5-10 tricks a day. Never fool yourself and think that there’s some bitches who just love to fuck, no bitch in this world loves to fuck for money. They’re not doing it for the money, they’re doing it for you. You need to be able to understand there’s a lot of bad karma that comes out of pimping and you gotta be able to look karma in the face and tell it go fuck itself.

Pimping Is Lonely

Pimpin is also hard because it’s a lonely job. I don’t mean to sound like a bitch or anything, I’m a very confident person who doesn’t need to seek approval of others in order to feel complete. But when you got like 10 different bitches and you’re constantly their rock, the dude they look to when shit gets tough, their sense of security in the world, you’re constantly listening to people open up about their feelings and it’s always a one way conversation. You never talk about yourself, unless it’s a bullshit story that somehow makes you look better to your bitches. You can never lose control of the situation, you always have to be on your game. To some people this is easy, to others it becomes difficult and in a moment of weakness or a moment of wackness they open up and tell their bitch something stupid that ends up biting them in the ass in the future.

Pimps Are Players

Like a judge was a lawyer, the natural progression of elite players is to become a pimp. But deep down in your heart you have to be a player first. You have to know how to play women so well that it’s easy and boring to you. You have to know how to manipulate women, you have to know how to sense what their needs and desires are, you have to find their needs and fill them. If you don’t know how to manipulate a woman, you can learn. But if you don’t know how to find out what their needs are naturally, you’re going to have a lot of trouble being a pimp. If you’re talking to a bitch for the first time and you have no clue whether she’s down to kick it on the weekend, check out a movie etc or if she’s trying to come up with an excuse in her head to get rid of you, then you’re probably not going to be a very good pimp. You have to have natural game and know what women are thinking. You might be able to learn this, but every pimp I ever met worth his salt was a natural.

Pimp Swagger

Part of being a player is being on your game 24/7, a player doesn’t go to the corner store looking like a broke ass homeless dude and neither does a pimp. A pimp is fresh and clean and exuding confidence at every step of his day. If you find it natural to always be looking fresh, then this will be easier for you. But if you’re someone who likes to dress up to go the club but don’t mind looking wack when you’re hanging around the house, you’re gonna have to change. When I was pimping I would go to the spa every single day, 7 days a week. I got a hair cut every 2-3 days, never let my hair grow out and look even a week old. Staying fresh isn’t just about filling the stereo type, there’s an important reason behind it that I will fully get into but the bottom line is you need to first and foremost it is required.

- Pimp Feet

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10. The Ironman Triathalon

Arguably the world’s most famous one-day endurance event, the Ironman World Championship is a true test of all-around ability and fortitude. To complete the famed race in Kona, Hawaii, competitors must swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and then run 26.2 miles. And before you can even think about racing Kona, you need to qualify by posting a top time at a different Ironman event. “Finishing [Ironman Kona] gives you something to hang your hat on for the rest of your life,” says Kevin Mackinnon, managing editor of Ironman.com. “The winds are insane, the heat is unbearable, and when you put that together with competing against the fittest athletes on the planet, it just doesn’t get any tougher.”

9. Hardrock 100

Forty-eight hours may seem like a pretty generous amount of time to finish this 100-mile race. But add in altitude sickness, headaches, and knee-crushing terrain, and the Hardrock, which has been held in the San Juans near Silverton, Colorado, each July since 1992, gets pretty grueling. The loop includes 33,992 feet of ascent and descent, the most of almost any ultramarathon in the world. Since the average runner takes 41 hours to finish, most have to run through the night at elevations where temps can drop below freezing, navigating scree-covered slopes by headlamp. Being above treeline for most of the course, racers are also vulnerable to lightning and freak storms.

8. Jungle Ultra Marathon

Peru’s Jungle Ultra is mostly downhill, dropping 10,500 feet from the cloud forest down into the Amazon over its 142.6-mile course. But underestimate it, and you’re in for a world of hurt. The five-stage, self-supported race winds its way through utterly remote terrain, where temperatures hover over 90 degrees, the humidity is brutal, and hordes of biting bugs are just waiting to make you their lunch. Along the way, participants wet their feet in 70 tropical rivers and streams, in some cases zip-lining over them.

7. Race Across America

From Oceanside, California, teams and solo-riders pedal 3,000 miles to Annapolis, Maryland, climbing 170,000 along the way. The winners average about 22 hours a day on their bikes (which equates to about 250 to 350 miles per day), in order to complete the ride under the 12-day limit. The shortest qualifying race for the RAAM is 375 miles long, so expect to spend a few years getting to the starting line.

6. The Barkley Marathon

The Barkley Marathon held at Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee is a 161km run, but that’s not the hard part. It’s the staggering 18,000 metre climb that causes problems; well, that and the fact that there isn’t one of those fancy pants “trails” for you to follow. Oh, and there are tons of thorns and briars, collapsed trees are everywhere, and it tends to rain. A lot.

Since 1986 about 700 people have attempted the annual marathon, but only 11 have finished under the 60 hour time limit. The cut-off time seems harsh considering the course record is 55 hours and 42 minutes; you’d think that just letting people complete this gruelling event would be challenging enough. But if it’s too much for you, you could always try the 97km “fun run” instead. You get 40 hours for that light-hearted adventure!

5. Iditarod

Contenders in the Iditarod Trail Invitational run, bike, sled, or ski their way across 1,000 miles of Alaskan snow in February. They have a maximum time limit of 30 days to finish and must carry their own supplies. The long stretches of uninhabited terrain can take days to cross, so participants must be self-sufficient when it comes to personal supplies and navigation—GPS devices are prohibited. The race alternates each year between two routes: the northern and southern. Course records are 10 and 17 days, respectively. Temperatures can drop to minus 50 degree Fahrenheit. To cope with the extreme cold, participants need to consume extra calories and take extra precautions, such as covering their entire bodies when they sleep to avoid frostbite. Results vary widely depending on the weather and the field. In 2012 conditions were so bad that no participants finished the thousand miles. But in 2014, 16 people finished—the largest group in race history.

4. Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc

With more cumulative ascent than the height of Mount Everest, this non-stop 103 mile mountain marathan that traverses three countries and includes 10 mountain passes is famous for not only attracting the best trail runners in the world, but also breaking some of them.

In fact, this race is so popular that you have to qualify by collecting points from previous ultra marathons. And even then, it’s not just a lottery to see if you’ll get an entry, but whether you’ll actually manage to finish. Although it has a generous sounding 46hr cut off, there’s no time to sleep.

Only 67 participants successfully earn the coveted The North Face UTMB finishers gilet.

3. Marathon des Sables

Often referred to as the ‘Toughest footrace on the planet’, over a thousand runners congregate in the desert for what could be described as the grand national of multi-stage ultra marathons – the Marathon des Sables. Competitors run a marathon for six consecutive days, carrying all their food and supplies with them.

The race is broken into several stages with time limits for each one. Organizers have scattered mandatory checkpoints with water along the way to ensure runners stay hydrated.

Cut-off times are generous and medical support second to none – but take more than two IV drips and you get disqualified.

Even with the safety measures in place, runners still run the risk of getting lost. In 1994, Mauro Prosperi lost his way in a sandstorm and wandered alone for about 125 miles. He survived by eating bats and drinking his own urine before rescuers found him nine days later and more than 30 pounds lighter.

2. Badwater UltraMarathon

This invitation-only event was first conceived as a way of connecting the lowest and highest points in the contiguous United States: California’s Death Valley (elevation -282 feet) and Mt. Whitney (summit elevation 14,505 feet). The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135-mile, summer race from Death Valley (280 feet below sea level) to the trailhead of Mount Whitney (almost 8,300 feet above sea level). Temperatures reach around 130 degrees Fahrenheit, while asphalt bakes to nearly 200, hot enough to force runners to race on the road’s white lines or risk their shoes melting. Every 15 minutes, support crews douse the racers with ice water to prevent overheating. At the age of 67, Badwater legend Arthur Webb finished his tenth consecutive race in 2009.

1. 6633 Ultra

When a race describes itself as the ‘Toughest, Coldest and Windiest Extreme Ultra Marathon on the Planet’ you know it’s not going to be particularly pleasant. Even if you choose the paltry 120 mile version over the hard-as-nails 350 mile mammoth yomp, the non-stop and self sufficient 6633 Ultra will still succeed in spitting out the toughest of endurance athletes.

With a fully laden pulk and in sub zero temperatures, competitors run/shuffle along the Dempster highway, almost exactly crossing the Arctic Circle, at a latitude of 66 degrees and 33 minutes (hence the name). Your only chance of sleep and rest is at one of the checkpoints – which happen to be 26 to 70 miles apart.

How tough is the 6633? “It is flippin tough. I mean really tough. No seriously, I really do mean it”, says its founder, Mike Likey.

Only 11 people have successfully completed the 350 mile race in its six year history.

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