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Welcome To Caveman’s Fight Club!

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Heel Hook effectively used to end street fight

 

Lights out!

 

Woman vs. Man in brutal Muay Thai fight!

 

Dude has pretty good head movement!

 

Wicked comeback!

 

Old School UFC No Gloves, No weight Class

 

Badass Fight: Michael Chandler vs Eddie Alvarez I

 

52 years ago Muhammad Ali shakes up the world and knocks out Sonny Liston

 

Lomachenko throwing murderous body punches on Gary Russell Jr. 

 

Cro Cop initiates the decline of Bob Sapp

 

This is why you don’t want to start a fight with a boxer…unless you got ground game lol

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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Let’s set the record straight.

If women always tell you, “You’re a great guy but I don’t feel that spark…”

It’s because they don’t feel a sexual connection with you. And that’s most likely because you haven’t taken the right actions to facilitate that attraction.

You may be sweet and have engaging conversations. You make women laugh. You wait patiently until a girl’s comfortable with you.

That all builds rapport, trust, and comfort within a connection. But that’s rarely enough to have women desire intimacy with you.

I know this as true even without hearing your story. Easily 9 out of 10 times I’ll be right. People try to argue it’s not that cut and dry…but it is. 

Some men stay in denial. They keep trying to “friend” their way into romance and never flirt, often due to the advice of their female friends.

Those guys struggle endlessly to build romantic connections.

Some women say I’m generalizing. They think that I’m ignoring individuality and preferences. They may even take it as a sexist remark.

I fully recognize and respect your uniqueness. I want other men to appreciate that, too.

But I also recognize patterns. So while maybe all you need is a kind guy who listens well for you to like him — you are in the minority.

For thousand of years women have been attracted to guys with certain qualities. They don’t respond to men who lack them. I’ve seen it thousands of times in the last 10 years.

These qualities tend to be: assertiveness, grit, sexuality, and confidence.

The majority of women select men based on these qualities. It’s hardwired into biology.

Attraction is an emotional response. Women have to FEEL the qualities that turn them on to a man.

If a guy has massive amounts of PASSIVE attractiveness like physical looks, wealth, power, or social status — that can showcase those desireable qualities in itself. Most men, though, need to demonstrate ACTIVE attractiveness to jumpstart their connections.

In the animal kingdom, almost every species has a courtship ritual in which males show their best selves to the females.

Check out the rest of the article at Nick Notas

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A Few Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About

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What’s it like to be a prison sex-slave?

Soon after coming to Allred prison in Texas, Bret Ramos claimed me as his own. He told me I had two choices: I could submit, or I could die. Thus began my life as a prison sex slave.

What most people don’t understand is that rape in prison isn’t like it is on the outside. It’s not random or chaotic. It’s planned and methodical. It’s business. The gangs trade amongst themselves to determine who is going to be with whom. And other inmates didn’t dare touch me without clearing it first with my owner.

Ramos would rape me once, twice, sometimes three times a day. Then he would force me to clean his cell, make his bed, or cook food for him. Eventually he demanded that I have sex with his friends, who took to calling me “Coco.” When a different sex slave was badly beaten for refusing sex, he said the same thing would happen to me if I didn’t comply.

When I was finally transferred to a different cell block, I was told by Cliff Brown that he and his gang had “bought” me. That’s when the prostitution escalated. They made me perform sex with dozens of other inmates — white gangs, Mexican gangs, black gangs. Sometimes it was anal. Sometimes oral. Sometimes both. They did it in cells, in the shower, on the stairs. The going rate was five or ten dollars in commissary a fuck. Eventually I was moved to another building. Waiting for me there was La Brigada. At the next building it was the Akin Soldiers. Then the Ivory Kings.

I pleaded with the guards, the warden, and the classification committee time and again for safekeeping. Each time I was met with deaf ears and laughter. They told me that because I was a homosexual, it didn’t matter. They told me to “fight or fuck.” The rape continued. The prostitution continued. And with it, my shame grew and grew. Eventually I couldn’t face the constant humiliation anymore. I was suicidal.

At last, I wrote the ACLU and told them I wanted to kill myself. They flew to the prison and contacted the prison director. And for the first time since my ordeal began eighteen months earlier, I was put in safekeeping.

I was released to a halfway house in December and now live in my own apartment as I try to move my life forward. I’m getting counseling and the medical attention I need. I spend my days working as a youth counselor and hope to start a nonprofit organization. But every day is a struggle. I’m always very aware of my surroundings. I watch my back. I hate crowded rooms. And the nightmares of being raped persist.

Tougher still is the struggle to move past the shame and guilt. Sometimes I blame myself. I think, If I had only listened to my grandmother and stayed out of trouble, I wouldn’t have gotten into this. Sometimes I start analyzing the situation, I start looking at the picture from all types of angles, and I start thinking, Why me? Why am I so weak? I just need to move forward.

Related Video: Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars

 

 

What’s it like to have a photographic memory?

I have a semi-photographic memory in that I can remember the content of most anything I’ve read and sometimes visually remember where the information is on the page or how far into the book/article it is.  I don’t generally remember the names of the author or possibly the article/book but can usually find it with the specific information I do remember.  I have almost no autobiographical/experiential memory ability and that usually feels like an unfair price to pay 🙂

What is it like?  It’s complicated.  

There are certainly positive ramifications: 

  • In college; I’ve never had to study as long as I took notes during lectures and I didn’t have to buy textbooks unless they were going to be used for independent reading and/or were interesting enough for me to want to buy them. I usually get 100% or thereabout on any test and if I miss any questions its usually because I missed a class or got lazy and didn’t take notes one day. I don’t experience any test anxiety because I know I will get an A. I can answer most people’s questions with some degree of certainty and back up my response with a reference to the research or source of my answer. I can write research papers more quickly than most people because I have the info in my head and know which references I need to collect in order to cite/back up my ideas. Professors tend to enjoy me as a student because I am knowledgeable about the topics and can participate in well-informed and interesting conversations about their work/research. I easily generate original ideas for projects and papers because I can remember and connect information from different fields and studies related to the topic. 
  • In regular life; I don’t get lost (photographic navigational memory). I can provide accurate information to friends and family about topics ranging from legal problems, medical problems, psychological problems, investments, business, parenting, nutrition, politics, fashion, etiquette, art, crafts, and anything else I’ve been interested enough to research (I research for fun and relaxation). I know how to fix things. I’m useful to have around and this helps me socially. I can generally come up with a relevant and amusing quote or anecdote from history or current events to amuse people with, I rock at karaoke, and no one can beat me at word games (except my brother whose strategy skills blow me out of the water during scrabble).

It’s not all good though, on a personal and emotional level its quite costly. 

  • In college; I feel guilty about getting As on tests I didn’t study for when really hard workers struggle to pass. I feel guilty about ruining the curve in classes that have one (and sometimes negotiate with the teacher to be removed from the curve equation, even if it might lower my scores). I hate working in groups because I end up doing more work when I have to not only carry more of the burden but also figure out how to make sure everyone looks like they’ve done an equal amount of work on the project. I hate working in groups because it takes me more time to complete projects when I generally have to spend a fair amount of time providing my group-mates with the information I have that they don’t. I am popular as a group member (particularly with average and below average peers) because working with me pretty much guarantees an A on the project– this is a disadvantage to me because I’d rather work alone but am afraid of hurting others’ feelings if I refuse to work with them.  I am unpopular as a group member with better students (usually those who actually work hard to earn their grades) because I choose unconventional projects and make them very anxious with my disorganization and procrastination.

     I have TERRIBLE study skills because I’ve never had to develop them and I fear it will one day bite me in the ass. I am a crazy perfectionist because I know what I am capable of and will punish myself severely for failing to get an A on a test or project. I find it hard to make friends because many people dislike me since I have an “unfair” advantage and don’t have to work to get the grades they struggle to approach. I find it hard to make friends because many people who like me in spite of my “unfair” advantage find it difficult to relate to me on a personal level and seem to feel like I have super-powers or am otherwise alien. I find it hard to make friends because I don’t fit in with most other people and they find it hard to comprehend that I research for fun and would rather spend a Friday night intensely discussing potential solutions to unsolvable problems than going out to drink and socialize with random people.

     Some professors dislike me because I ask questions that they don’t have the answers to or related to research on the topic that they haven’t yet read. Some professors dislike me because they feel like I am “too big for my britches,” and I often feel guilty for asking questions during class (so many questions) that are related to the topic but beyond the scope of what is being presented and often beyond the ability of others to understand when they haven’t accumulated as much information as I have about the subject.

  • At work:  I get bored easily because I have an insatiable drive for new information and most jobs are repetitive. I piss off my managers because they often feel like I’m making them “look dumb” and I don’t know how to keep my mouth shut if I have pertinent information. I piss off my managers because my coworkers often come to me for information and assistance instead of them. I have trouble working in groups because I usually have too much more information and I can easily dominate the discussion or make people feel like I’m being pushy. I have trouble working with other people because I often have more knowledge about any given topic we’re working on and its not actually a good thing to “always be right” about things because you can’t not remember what you remember.  I have trouble making friends at work because many peers find me odd, difficult to understand, and/or feel like I threaten their chances of advancing as much as they’d like.

    I have a lot of trouble even deciding on a career path because I am “really good at” (and really educated about) too many subjects and in order to choose one path I would have to give up my dreams and passion for the other paths I’m not taking. At 38 I haven’t yet been able to establish a track record or formal evidence of expertise in any particular field because my memory (and number of topics I’m passionate about) makes me have high aptitude for too many things and prevents me from being able to focus on one thing long enough to make tangible progress.  Worst of all, I have difficulty following through on projects because my memory is such that thinking through the problem (and figuring it out) seems like having done it completely and I then find it hard to muster motivation to take the time to finish it in real life.

  • The personal costs are what I hate the most: I have trouble in relationships because I’m “always right” when it comes to facts & information that I’ve accumulated knowledge about (non experiential) and have not yet figured out how to let other people “be right” without compromising my intellectual principles and/or unfairly hoarding information I could have shared. I have trouble finding people who connect with me intellectually because while many people are as or more informed than me in their particular domain of interest it seems impossible to find others who are equally informed in a wide range of domains of knowledge. I have trouble connecting with others because I often end up feeling guilty or becoming aware of the frightening potential of manipulating or unduly influencing others when they unquestioningly accept my input as fact due to my wealth of information about everything that I am compelled to learn about– It’s frightening to feel responsible for being infallible when you know you actually are not.

    I am disorganized because everything I experience internally or externally triggers a memory and demands that I contemplate the connection /relationship and I am rendered effectively incapable of reliably noticing the organization/cleanliness of my home or office. I lose track of time and days because I am distracted by associative memories triggered by anything; I forget to pay my bills & cannot properly manage money because I am usually stuck in my head and lose track of time or lose the bills in the clutter I’m failing to notice. Other problems associated with being constantly reminded of something that is potentially related to whatever: I can’t keep a schedule, I forget to eat, I forget to shower (or that I forgot to eat or shower), I forget important dates like birthdays and anniversaries,  I often have insomnia, I lose everything (If I were a man I’d be very grateful not to have a detachable penis), and I am always anxious that I’ve forgotten some important deadline or other task I usually forget.

    I can’t remember experiences like my 21st birthday, special times with my daughter (I think its a trade off for my other kind of memory ability), my first kiss or the first time I had sex, friends and lovers I have fallen out of contact with (I somehow completely forget many people which makes me sad), or most any personal accomplishment that would probably look really good on my resume.  

    I feel really guilty about not being grateful for my “gifts.”  I feel really guilty for not using my ability as much as I could or should have.  From childhood, people have told me that I am responsible for using my gifts to improve the world, I don’t feel I have honored that responsibility and so feel guilty for letting “the world” down (irrational, I know).  I fear I am arrogant; I fear that others think I’m arrogant.  I struggle to achieve greater humility but have little success on that count.  I sometimes worry that I’m a “bad person” because I have failed to use my abilities or live up to the potential this memory gives me.

    The single worst thing for me, though, is that I feel like I’m not quite human.  I don’t have many experiences others have, have not developed skills that others have developed because they require repetition or other tools to remember information, and I have many experiences that others do not have due to the differences in how my brain works. If I could feel like I “belong” somewhere or that I am really “connected” to another human being then I might feel like all the other negatives are worth it for the benefits I experience.

I don’t know if this actually answers “what it is like” to have this type of memory because it seems more like I’m simply listing the effects it has on my life.  However, I don’t know what its like to NOT have this memory of mine and since this type of question requires a comparison between the two experiences… I think the question could only REALLY be answered by someone who has both had and not had this type of memory ability.

Juliette Creech

 

 

What do guys get out of being a cuckold?

A man with a cuckold fetish derives his pleasure from the mental anguish and humiliation that results from his wife’s infidelity. (I use the words “infidelity” and “cheating” within the context of a consensual arrangement). He is immensely aroused by the thought of his woman with another man, lusted by other men. He wants to see his partner satisfied, and by doing so he now has a ‘private porn collection’ by which he uses to masturbate and fantasize. This is more rewarding than actual sex with his partner.

By being the cuckold, he willingly assumes the position of the sexual submissive. He is submissive to his wife, and he is now lowered in rank in respect to the other man having sex with his wife. He and his partner often ‘complete’ this fantasy by having sex right after she cheats on him.

Being a cuckold is to experience a form of psychological masochism. It is a cerebral pursuit whereby the man feels a kaleidoscope of feelings such as jealousy, misery, gratitude, shame, sublimation, inadequacy, and lust. It is a mental version of sensation play in which the emotions themselves are the sources of pleasure, bringing out some of our most intense reptilian instincts. A highly intelligent individual wants to experience this ‘psychological high’ for two reasons: to feel alive, and to feel diminished from the loss of control. In the book Masochism and the Self, author Roy Baumeister explains:

“Cuckolding is a form of escapism. Cucks are relieving themselves of the stress and burden of their social role and escaping into a simpler, less expansive role.”

Small penis humiliation is a point of focus for the victim. The other man is often more well-endowed, more handsome, and referred to as a “Bull”. The physical superiority of the other man adds to the humiliation of the husband.

Lastly, cuckoldry gives some men the chance to vicariously explore their repressed bisexual urges. While it is arousing to watch their wife with someone else, for some it is just as exciting to watch a naked man have sex, period. The wife who understands her husband’s bisexual curiosities would sometimes command him to service the Bull during foreplay.

– Ava Zhang

 

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This National Park Has Opted To Shoot Poachers To Protect Their Rhinos

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If humans fail to change their ways and adopt more sustainable habits, incredible species will go extinct. In fact, the African Elephant isn’t expected to outlast the next decade due to increased poaching activity. It’s because of this sobering reality and the increasing demand for ivory that a national park in India is shooting first and asking questions later.

The BBC reports that Kaziranga National Park has a pretty successful track record when it comes to protecting rhinoceroses from poachers. However, a controversial tactic is utilized by park rangers: shooting on sight. So far, the park has killed 50 people.

Reportedly, every individual that was killed was after rhino horn. The horn of a rhino can be sold for as much as $6,000 for 100g and because of this, is considerably more expensive than gold. The fabled ‘magical properties’ of it, however, are largely exaggerated. People in many countries, especially in the East, believe a rhino horn can cure various ailments — including cancer — and that it works as an aphrodisiac. It is of course a myth. The horn is composed primarily of keratin, the main component of hair, nails and hoofs.

When the park was first founded approximately a century ago, only a handful of Indian one-horned rhinoceros were protected. Now, the park hosts more than 2,400, which is two-thirds of the world’s population.

While animal rights activists might consider that something to celebrate, not everyone is too keen on the number of mounting bodies – locals, especially. It’s true that all who were killed were poachers, but some locals (primarily tribal) have been injured. In one instance, a disabled boy herding cows was shot.

Regardless, the guards are trained to shoot and kill anyone who might be attempting to kill an Indian rhino for its horn. Avdesh, who works as a ranger, told The BBC:

“The instruction is whenever you see the poachers or hunters, we should start our guns and hunt them.”

“Fully ordered to shoot them. Whenever you see the poachers or any people during night-time we are ordered to shoot them,” he added.

Avdesh has never killed anybody in his four years patrolling but knows there will be few if any consequences if he did.

In 2015 more than 20 poachers were killed—more than the number of rhinos poached that year. There’s no arguing that this method of protecting the rhinos is effective, but is it going too far to preserve an endangered species? 

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This Woman Was Reunited With The Gorillas She Was Raised With And It’s Beautiful

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Credit: The Mind Unleashed

A young woman, Tansy Aspinall, grew up alongside gorillas during her childhood because her parents ran The Aspinall Foundation, a non-profit organization that rehabilitates gorillas that were in captivity at a park in England. One of her closest gorilla friends, who she last saw at the age of 11, was released back into the wild and Aspinall went to see if she could reunite with him.

Animals are such intelligent beings, often having memories and senses that surpass those of humans. Many animals, such as elephants, crows, and sea lions, have superb long-term memories that allow them to remember loved ones, grieve, and even seek revenge.

Gorillas are no different, which is something Aspinall learned when she went to visit a gorilla she had grown up with and last seen 12 years prior.

Aspinall told Daily Mail in an interview,

“My sister Clary and I often played with Djalta and Bimms on the lawn and sometimes we went into the cages with other gorillas. I loved being around them all, but those two guys were really very special to us, like our relatives.”

Though Bimms’ and Tansy’s childhood relationship was strong, as she said that they “would come up and hug you, and we’d run and roll around and chase them,” Apinall was understandably apprehensive about meeting Bimms again. She wasn’t sure if he would even recognize her or if he had perhaps even become dangerous like all wild animals can be when defending themselves.

Once the two reunited, all of her apprehensions disappeared. Bimms immediately recognized his best friend from so many years ago and offered her hugs.

Tansy was relieved and happy about the reunion, saying,

“He definitely recognized me. He was so sweet and he was hugging me and being so gentle. He’s 18 now.”

It’s adorable how these two were able to connect after all these years, and it reminds humans that animals have a level of intelligence that many don’t give them credit for.

Watch below to see the touching reunion between Tansy and Bimms.

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A Beginners Guide To Filipino Food

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Lechon

The lechon is the most invited party guest in the Philippines. The entire pig is spit-roasted over coals, with the crisp, golden-brown skin served with liver sauce, the most coveted part.

 

Adobo

The unofficial national food of the Philippines. Adobo starts with a protein — bone-in chicken, pork loin, squid, or fish, usually — that goes into a pot filled with soy, vinegar, garlic, onions, and other veggies (depending on the recipe). It’s then simmered until tender, and kind of pickled in its own stock, before being served over rice. 

 

Pork Sisig

Pork parts (often: head, liver, cheeks) mixed with onions, chiles, citrus, and egg.

 

Lumpia

Filipino–style spring rolls. These meat-laden, fried type lumpia are filled with ground pork or beef, minced onion, carrots, and spices with the mixture held together by beaten egg andis commonly served with sweet and sour sauce

 

Pancit

The noodle dish is layered with rice noodles, a rich orange sauce made from shrimp broth, pork, hard boiled eggs, shrimps, chicharon (pork rinds) and sometimes oysters and squid.

 

Sinigang

Sinigang is a stew of fish, prawns, pork or beef soured by fruits like tamarind, kamias or tomatoes. Often accompanied by vegetables like kangkong, string beans and taro, this stew is eaten with rice. 

 

Crispy pata

This pork knuckle is simmered, drained and deep fried until crisp. The meat is tender and juicy inside, with a crisp, crackling exterior.  Served with vinegar, soy sauce and chili. 

 

Chicken inasal

Chicken inasal, commonly known as Inasal is chicken marinated in a mixture of lime, pepper, vinegar and annato then grilled over hot coals while basted with the marinate. It is served with rice, vinegar and soy sauce.

 

Kare-kare

This stew of oxtail has the most delicious sauce made from ground toasted rice and crushed peanuts. Banana blossom, eggplants and string beans add more interesting textures, to make it a complete meal on its own. It’s eaten with steamed rice and bagoong (shrimp paste). 

 

Longaniza

Every province has their version of the pork sausage called longaniza. It varies from sweet to garlicky to spicy. Usually eaten for breakfast with garlic rice, fried egg and a dipping sauce of vinegar. 

 

Beef Mechado

Beef Mechado is a beef stew made with beef chunks with pork fat inserted in center and cooked in a lemon juice, soy sauce and tomato.

 

Chicharon

Chicharon are like the Doritos of The Philippines. They snack on it like finger food and open a big bag of them while sitting down for a movie. Basically it’s deep fried pork skin

 

Bibingka

Bibingka is a type of rice cake from the Philippines traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. It is traditionally made from galapong (milled glutinous rice), coconut milk, margarine, and sugar. 

 

Bulalo

This Bulalo Soup is a favorite among Filipinos. It is a light colored soup that is made by cooking beef shanks and marrow bones until the collagen and fat has melted into the clear broth.

 

Kaldereta

Kaldereta is a stew with flavors influenced by three centuries of Spanish colonization in the Philippines. Tomato-based and traditionally made with goat or beef, potatoes, green olives and peppers,

 

Ukoy

Crispy shrimp fritters served with tangy vinegar dipping sauce.

 

Halo-Halo

Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert with mixtures of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans, jello and fruits.

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The Dumping Grounds

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Comparing An iPhone 7 Camera To A $100,000 Hollywood-Grade Camera

 

Silicon Valley – Jerking Off 800 Guys

 

How Strong is a Solid Block of LEAD?

 

Terry Crews explains why he decided to build his own PC

 

2015 Russian Spetsnaz Mountain Ration 24hr MRE Review

 

Conspiracy Theorist Claims Every Picture Of The Earth Is Fake!

 

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Awesome Stuff Around The Internet

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30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable – Thrive

This Is What A 70-Year Old Who Hasn’t Eaten Sugar In 28 Years Looks Like – Mandatory

The True Story Of Black Sabbath’s Real (And Fake) Relationship With Satan  – Ranker

This $13 Million Rolls-Royce ‘Sweptail’ Is Officially The World’s Most Expensive New Car – Maxim

Trump expected to pull out of Paris Climate Agreement Joining Syria and Nicaragua as the only countries to do so – Fox News

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Mariah Lee Bevacqua – Yes Bitch

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks

A woman who promised a professed rival gang member sex, only to see him stabbed 153 times, has learned her fate – Rare

Richard Branson Shares His Best Business Advice In 4 Letters – Forbes

This is How Harry Styles Designs a Bachelor Pad – Domino

When You Prank is an Epic Fail and You Get Beat Up – Trending Views

Chantel Jeffries and Jocelyn Chew Bikini Photos in Monaco – G-Celeb

What Can You Do with a $20 Laptop? – The Awesomer

Hot girls with dat rump! – Radass

It Could Be 10 Times Cheaper To Take Electric Robo-Taxis Than To Own A Car By 2030 –

Emily Ratajkowski Topless Goodness – Hollywood Tuna

I Started Wearing a Fedora to See if it Would Ruin My Life – VICE

Elon Musk Issues Warning to Trump on Paris Climate Deal – Newser

Floyd Mayweather Hits Up Instagram Model with the Laziest Pickup Line – The Blemish

The BMW Concept 8 Series Is Just Stunning – Guys Gab

Parents: let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor – Quartz

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Hot Instagram Babe Of The Day: Sophs

Reaction GIFs Beeyotch!

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When I drag my gf to a concert and she wants to leave but I’m just too busy grooving

 

When the professor asks my group a hard question at the end of our presentation

 

When I’m halfway to work and I realize I used the wrong mushrooms for my breakfast omelette 

 

When opportunity knocks 

 

When I get arrested but then remember my net worth is $700 million+ 

 

When I get to Chipotle during dinner rush after placing an online order

 

My introvert side celebrating canceled plans for something I agreed to when my extrovert side was present

 

When I walked in on my roommate choking his chicken

 

Waiting for a reaction after telling a bad joke

 

When my friend tried to trade me his grapes for my pudding cup back in elementary school

 

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There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With

The Daily Man-Up

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Pick an area of your life, perhaps your intimate relationship, your career, your relationship with your children, or your spiritual practice. For instance, you are currently doing something to earn a living.

Where do your fears stop you from making a larger contribution to mankind, from earning a higher income, or from earning money in a more creative and enjoyable way? If you were absolutely fearless, would you be earning a living in exactly the sameway as you are now? Your edge is where you stop short, or where you compromise your fullest gift, and, instead, cater to your fears.

Have you lost touch with the fears that are limiting and shaping your income and style of livelihood? If you have deluded yourself and feel that you are not afraid, then you are lying to yourself.

All men are afraid, unless they are perfectly free. If you cannot admit this, you are pretending to yourself, and to others. Your friends will feel your fear, even if you do not. Thus, they will lose trust in you, knowing you are deluding yourself, lying to yourself, and are therefore likely to lie to them, consciously or unconsciously.

Or, perhaps you are very aware of your fears: your fear to take risks, your fear of failing, or your fear of succeeding. Perhaps you are comfortable with your life, and you fear the lifestyle change that might accompany a change in career, even though the new career will be closer to what you really want to do with your life. Some men fear the feeling of fear and therefore don’t even approach their edge.

They choose a job they know they can do well and easily, and don’t even approach the fullest giving of their gift. Their lives are relatively secure and comfortable, but dead. They lack the aliveness, the depth, and the inspirational energy that is the sign of a man living at his edge. If you are this kind of man who is hanging back, working hard perhaps, but not at your real edge, other men will not be able to trust that you can and will help them live at their edge and give their fullest gift.

As an experiment, describe your edge with respect to your career out loud to yourself. Say something like, "I know I could be earning more money, but I am too lazy to put in the extra hours it would take. I know that I could give more of my true gift, but I am afraid that I may not succeed, and then I will be a penniless failure. I’ve spent 15 years developing my career, and I’m afraid to let go of it and start fresh, even though I know that I spend most of my life doing things I have no real interest in doing. I could be making money in more creative ways, but I spend too much time watching TV rather than being creative."

Honor your edge. Honor your choices. Be honest with yourself about them. Be honest with your friends about them. A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear. And a fearful man who still leans into his fear, living at his edge and putting his gift out from there, is more trustworthy and more inspirational than a fearful man who hangs back in the comfort zone, unwilling to even experience his fear on a day to day level.

A free man is free to acknowledge his fears, without hiding them, or hiding from them. Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

 

David Deida – The Way Of The Superior Man

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Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts

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A Brazilian footballer staged his whole career for 24 years – he could barely kick a ball. One time he was forced to play as the team had no strikers. He was worried he would get exposed, so before the game he started a fight with a fan and as a result got sent off before the game even started

He returned to Brazil and started a career as a farce footballer since he “wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football”, becoming friends of many footballers so that he could have a big network to be recommended whenever he needed a new club. With a physical shape similar to professional footballers, but lacking skills, his fraud consisted of signing a short contract and stating that he was lacking match fitness so that he would spend the first weeks only with physical training where he could shine. At the time he went to train with other players, he would feign a hamstring injury and, by the lack of technology at the time, it was difficult to discover that it was a fake injury. He had a dentist to claim that he had focal infection whenever any club wanted to go further in the case. By doing these steps, he went on to stay a few months at the clubs just training and without ever exposing that he was a fraud footballer.

 

Jean-Claude Romand failed his med school exam and pretended to work for the World Health Organization, fooling friends and family for 18 years. Instead of working, he hid in hotels to study medicine and maps of countries he claimed to visit. When afraid of being exposed, he killed his entire family and burned down his house. (article)

 

Steven Spielberg returned to college in 2002 to finish his film degree after a 33 year hiatus. His final assignment was to submit a sample of filmmaking proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List

Aged 55 and wearing a rented cap and gown, he had proudly sat among the 500 other graduates and, when his name was called, walked across the stage to receive his diploma. “The undergraduates really embraced me,” he says gleefully, “and made me feel like I had been there for 33 years. I felt like John Belushi at the end of Animal House.”

 

Almost every major porn site including youporn, redtube and many others are all run by 1 company called Mindgeek (article)

MindGeek (formerly known as Manwin) has over 100 million daily visitors and is one of the top 10 consumers of bandwidth; some reports have them in the top three. They operate nearly a hundred websites that in total consume more bandwidth than Twitter, Amazon, or Facebook. 

A list of some of the website they own pornhub redtube youporn tube8 brazzers pornmd thumbzilla realitykings mydirtyhobby digitalplayground mofos babes gaytube twistys peeperz sextube webcams

 

In 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but later found still alive. She then was allowed to go free because under Scots Law her punishment had been carried out. Only later were the words “until dead” added to the sentence of hanging (article)

 

Peggy Bundy, played by Katey Sagal, whose real life pregnancy was written into season 6. When the actress suffered a miscarriage, the pregnancy storyline was written as a dream of Al’s, as it was felt it would be too traumatic for Katey Sagal to work with an infant. 

Sagal and White eventually had two children — a daughter, Sarah Grace, in 1994 and a son, Jackson James, in 1996. The writers of Married… with Children deliberately did not write Sagal’s two later pregnancies into the show due to the earlier stillbirth, opting instead to write off her absences in a subplot.

 

During the height of the CA gold rush, an egg would cost the equivalent of $25 in today’s money, coffee went for $100/pound, and a pair of boots would set you back more than $2,500. (article)

 

Gordon Ramsay set up a business inside a London prison which allows prisoners how bake goods which are sold on the outside, providing the prison with financial support and giving the prisoners the culinary skills and work experience they need in order to get honest work after their sentence

 

In Japan, where “lifetime employment” contracts with large companies are widespread, employees who can’t be made redundant may be assigned tedious, meaningless work in a “banishment room” until they get bored enough to resign.

 

Japanese porn star Shimiken is one of only 70 active male porn stars in Japan. He performs in up to 6 movies a day and hasn’t had a vacation in 7 years (article)

Today was a light day: By noon, he had taken a new porn star’s virginity. By three, he had wrapped a niche scene that centers on girls consuming huge jugs of water before penetration (loose translation: “the act of pleasurable bladder-control loss”). Shimiken unfolds his napkin, waves off the cocktail list, and orders a green tea and the tasting menu.

At 35 years old, Shimiken is the king of Japanese porn, more often referred to here as AV (adult video), and there is essentially nothing he won’t do or hasn’t done while getting busy with more than 7,500 different female costars, including a former teen pop singer, Hungarian exchange students, and a pair of 72-year-old twins. In 18 years and more than 7,000 films, Shimiken has refused only one scenario: having sex with an actress after she had sex with a dog. (He agreed to a rewrite in which the dog merely licked butter off the woman before their scene.)

 

 

Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting (article)

 

Mao Zedong’s ‘Great Leap Foward’ killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined

In all, the records I studied suggest that the Great Leap Forward was responsible for at least 45 million deaths.

Between 2 and 3 million of these victims were tortured to death or summarily executed, often for the slightest infraction. People accused of not working hard enough were hung and beaten; sometimes they were bound and thrown into ponds. Punishments for the least violations included mutilation and forcing people to eat excrement.

The term “famine” tends to support the widespread view that the deaths were largely the result of half-baked and poorly executed economic programs. But the archives show that coercion, terror and violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward.

Mao was sent many reports about what was happening in the countryside, some of them scribbled in longhand. He knew about the horror, but pushed for even greater extractions of food.

At a secret meeting in Shanghai on March 25, 1959, he ordered the party to procure up to one-third of all the available grain — much more than ever before. The minutes of the meeting reveal a chairman insensitive to human loss: “When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”

What was China’s Great Leap Forward and why did millions die?

The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernise China’s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America.

Mao had toured China and concluded that the Chinese people were capable of anything and the two primary tasks that he felt they should target was industry and agriculture. Mao announced a second Five Year Plan to last from 1958 to 1963. This plan was called the Great Leap Forward.

The Great Leap Forward planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that both had to grow to allow the other to grow. Industry could only prosper if the work force was well fed, while the agricultural workers needed industry to produce the modern tools needed for modernisation. To allow for this, China was reformed into a series of communes.

The geographical size of a commune varied but most contained about 5000 families. People in a commune gave up their ownership of tools, animals etc so that everything was owned by the commune. People now worked for the commune and not for themselves. The life of an individual was controlled by the commune. Schools and nurseries were provided by the communes so that all adults could work. Health care was provided and the elderly were moved into “houses of happiness” so that they could be looked after and also so that families could work and not have to worry about leaving their elderly relatives at home.

The commune provided all that was needed – including entertainment. Soldiers worked alongside people. The population in a commune was sub-divided. Twelve families formed a work team. Twelve work terms formed a brigade. Each sub-division was given specific work to do. Party members oversaw the work of a commune to ensure that decisions followed the correct party line.

By the end of 1958, 700 million people had been placed into 26,578 communes. The speed with which this was achieved was astounding. However, the government did all that it could to whip up enthusiasm for the communes. Propaganda was everywhere – including in the fields where the workers could listen to political speeches as they worked as the communes provided public address systems. Everybody involved in communes was urged not only to meet set targets but to beat them. If the communes lacked machinery, the workers used their bare hands. Major constructions were built in record time – though the quality of some was dubious.

The Great Leap Forward also encouraged communes to set up “back-yard” production plants. The most famous were 600,000backyard furnaces which produced steel for the communes. When all of these furnaces were working, they added a considerable amount of steel to China’s annual total – 11 million tonnes.

The figures for steel, coal, chemicals, timber, cement etc all showed huge rises though the figures started at in 1958 were low. Grain and cotton production also showed major increases in production.

Mao had introduced the Great Leap Forward with the phrase “it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” By the end of 1958, it seemed as if his claim was true.

By the end of 1958, 700 million people had been placed into 26,578 communes. The speed with which this was achieved was astounding. However, the government did all that it could to whip up enthusiasm for the communes. Propaganda was everywhere – including in the fields where the workers could listen to political speeches as they worked as the communes provided public address systems. Everybody involved in communes was urged not only to meet set targets but to beat them. If the communes lacked machinery, the workers used their bare hands. Major constructions were built in record time – though the quality of some was dubious.

The Great Leap Forward also encouraged communes to set up “back-yard” production plants. The most famous were 600,000backyard furnaces which produced steel for the communes. When all of these furnaces were working, they added a considerable amount of steel to China’s annual total – 11 million tonnes.

The figures for steel, coal, chemicals, timber, cement etc all showed huge rises though the figures started at in 1958 were low. Grain and cotton production also showed major increases in production.

Mao had introduced the Great Leap Forward with the phrase “it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” By the end of 1958, it seemed as if his claim was true.

The consequences of the Great Leap Forward

However, in 1959, things started to go wrong. Political decisions/beliefs took precedence over commonsense and communes faced the task of doing things which they were incapable of achieving. Party officials would order the impossible and commune leaders, who knew what their commune was capable of doing or not, could be charged with being a “bourgeois reactionary” if he complained. Such a charge would lead to prison.

Quickly produced farm machinery produced in factories fell to pieces when used. Many thousands of workers were injured after working long hours and falling asleep at their jobs. Steel produced by the backyard furnaces was frequently too weak to be of any use and could not be used in construction – it’s original purpose. Buildings constructed by this substandard steel did not last long.

Also the backyard production method had taken many workers away from their fields – so desperately needed food was not being harvested. Ironically, one of the key factors in food production in China was the weather and 1958 had particularly good weather for growing food. Party leaders claimed that the harvest for 1958 was a record 260 million tons – which was not true.

The excellent growing weather of 1958 was followed by a very poor growing year in 1959. Some parts of China were hit by floods. In other growing areas, drought was a major problem. The harvest for 1959 was 170 million tons of grain – well below what China needed at the most basic level. In parts of China, starvation occurred.

1960 had even worse weather than 1959. The harvest of 1960 was 144 million tons. 9 million people are thought to have starved to death in 1960 alone; many millions were left desperately ill as a result of a lack of food. The government had to introduce rationing. This put people on the most minimal of food and between 1959 and 1962, it is thought that 20 million people died of starvation or diseases related to starvation.

However, in 1959, things started to go wrong. Political decisions/beliefs took precedence over commonsense and communes faced the task of doing things which they were incapable of achieving. Party officials would order the impossible and commune leaders, who knew what their commune was capable of doing or not, could be charged with being a “bourgeois reactionary” if he complained. Such a charge would lead to prison.

Quickly produced farm machinery produced in factories fell to pieces when used. Many thousands of workers were injured after working long hours and falling asleep at their jobs. Steel produced by the backyard furnaces was frequently too weak to be of any use and could not be used in construction – it’s original purpose. Buildings constructed by this substandard steel did not last long.

Also the backyard production method had taken many workers away from their fields – so desperately needed food was not being harvested. Ironically, one of the key factors in food production in China was the weather and 1958 had particularly good weather for growing food. Party leaders claimed that the harvest for 1958 was a record 260 million tons – which was not true.

The excellent growing weather of 1958 was followed by a very poor growing year in 1959. Some parts of China were hit by floods. In other growing areas, drought was a major problem. The harvest for 1959 was 170 million tons of grain – well below what China needed at the most basic level. In parts of China, starvation occurred.

1960 had even worse weather than 1959. The harvest of 1960 was 144 million tons. 9 million people are thought to have starved to death in 1960 alone; many millions were left desperately ill as a result of a lack of food. The government had to introduce rationing. This put people on the most minimal of food and between 1959 and 1962. The initiative is said to have cost an estimated 20 to 48 million lives as a result of catastrophic economic policy, compounded by adverse weather conditions including a flood that killed 2 million people and the subsequent crop failures that led to starvation. 

Mao Zedong was forced to resign from his position as Head of State, although he was able to remain in a powerful party position.

 

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What’s It Like To Be A ‘Salaryman’ In Japan

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salaryman (transliterated from the Japanese which is itself borrowed from English), more formally a “full-time company employee” (正社員), is the local equivalent of a W-2 employee in America. This is roughly 1/3rd of the labor force in Japan, but it has outsized societal impact.

Traditionally, salarymen (and they are, by the way, mostly men) are hired into a particular company late in university and stay at that company or its affiliates until they retire.

There are other workers at Japanese companies — contract employees, who can be (and are) let go at will, or young ladies on the “pink collar” track who are encouraged tacitly or explicitly to quit to get married or raise children — but the salaryman/employer relationship is the beating heart of the high-productivity Japanese private sector. (The Japanese economy is roughly 1/3rd the public sector, 1/3rd low-productivity firms like restaurants or traditional craftsmen, and 1/3rd high-productivity household-name megacorps. Salarymen are mostly present in the last one, which happens to dovetail with your professional interests.)

The salaryman/employer relationship is best characterized as “You swear yourself to us, body and soul, and in return we will isolate you from all risks.”

The employee hereby promises the company: Your first obligation, in all things, will be to your company. You will work incredibly hard (90+ hour weeks barely even occasion comment) on their behalf. The company can ask you to head to a foreign office for three years without your wife and child beginning tomorrow, and you will be expected to say “Sure thing, when does my flight leave?” or accept that your career advancement is functionally over.

The company will mold you to their exacting specifications to do whatever form of service they require. You will happily comply, in this as in all things. For example, if your company needs a Java-speaking systems engineer and you have a degree in Art History, this is not a problem because you can be fixed. Sure it might take ten years and only work on a quarter of the new hires but that’s why we employ you for 45 years and hire a hundred at once! (What of the Art History majors who don’t successfully learn how to edit XML files or architect web applications? Well, they’ll be promoted in lockstep with the rest of their cohort, but tasks which actually require programming with magically route around them, and they’ll end up doing things like leading 6 hour planning meetings and producing spreadsheets. Lots and lots of spreadsheets.)

The company hereby promises the employee: Your company will provide structure and purpose for your life. You will be clothed in the company colors, literally and figuratively. You will be respected, inside and outside the company, as befits an employee of ours. You will be provided with benefits perfectly calibrated to allow you and your family to lead a middle-class Japanese life. Your children will go to as good schools as they test into. Your wife will be able to afford an annual trip to Hawaii with her girlfriends.

You probably won’t attend that trip because, as a salaryman, you wouldn’t want to leave your coworkers in the lurch by taking extended vacations. Your company officially allows you between 12 and 18 combined vacation/sick days a year, but salarymen generally try to hold themselves to about 5, taken in single-day increments. Your company loves you and wants you to be happy, though, so they’ll suggest two days for your honeymoon, two if a parent passes away, and one if your wife passes away. You can take that Saturday off, too, because the company is generous. There, that’s like four full days — five, if you time it with a public holiday.

There exist companies which don’t require their salarymen to work Saturdays. That is considered almost decadent for salarymen — the more typical schedules are either “2 Saturdays a month off” or “every Sunday off!” Even if you’re not required to work Saturdays, if one’s projects or the company’s situation requires you to work Saturdays, you work Saturdays. See also, Sundays.

Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake rather than because it actually accomplishes more productive work. Depending on one’s company, this overtime may be compensated or “service overtime” — “service” in Japanese means “thrown in for free in the hopes of gaining one’s further custom”, so your favorite restaurant might throw in a “service” desert once in a while or you might do 8 hours of “service” overtime six nights a week for 15 years.

At those companies which actually pay for overtime (not uncommon, even for professional salaried employees, even for those who would characteristically be exempt in the US), there are generally multiple rates. I got time and a quarter between 6:30 and 9:30 AM, time and a half until midnight, and time and three quarters after 1:00 AM. That last bracket was there for a reason.

It is highly unlikely that anyone will ever tell you “We need you here until 3 AM. Yeah, sorry, tell you what, take off early at 9 PM tomorrow.” The company is just steeped in an environment which will make this decision seem like the most natural thing in the world to you. To leave early would let your team down. To make a habit of it would cause people to question your commitment to the company and to the important work that the company does. It will become so natural to work salaryman hours that you’ll teach their necessity to junior employees who you mentor, probably without you even realizing you’re doing it.

Don’t have a wife? You might quite reasonably think “I don’t have time to even think about that.” Don’t worry — the company will fix your social calendar for you. It is socially mandatory that your boss, in fulfillment of his duties to you, sees that you are set up with a young lady appropriate to your station. He is likely to attempt to do this first by matching you with a young lady in your office. There are, at all times, a number of unattached young ladies in your office. Most of them choose to quit right about when they get married or have children.

You might imagine that you heard a supervisor tell a young lady in the office “Hey, you’re 30 and aging out of the marriage market, plus I hear you’re dating someone who is not one of my employees, so you might want to think about moving on soon.”, but that would be radioactively illegal, since Japanese employment discrimination laws are approximately equivalent to those in the US. A first-rate Japanese company would certainly never do anything illegal, and a proper Japanese salaryman would never bring his company into disrepute by saying obviously untrue things like the company is systematically engaged in illegal practices. So your ears must be deceiving you. Pesky ears.

The company is your public life. Have an issue with your landlord? The company will handle it, in those cases where the company is not your landlord. (“So let me get this straight: we’re going to pay our employees, and then they’re going to immediately hand 25% of their salary over to an apartment? Doesn’t this suggest an obvious inefficiency? We could just buy a building and house dozens of employees there — lower transaction costs plus economies of scale.” Many Japanese companies have done this math already, and company dorms are quite common, particularly for young, single employees.)

Need to file paperwork with City Hall? Someone from HR can do it for you. Salarymen don’t file tax returns — the National Tax Agency and HR work out 100% of the paperwork on their behalves. Insurance? Handled. Pension? You’re sorted. Immigration, for those very rare salarymen who are also foreigners? Your CEO has written a letter to the Minister of Justice for inclusion with the paperwork that HR has put together, and you won’t even have to carry it into the office.

The company is your private life. All friends you’ve made since your school days almost by definition work for your company, because you spend substantially every waking hour officially at work or at quote leisure unquote with people from work. When you get off work rather early, like 7:30 PM, you’ll be strongly encouraged to go out to dinner and/or drinks with bosses, coworkers, and/or business acquaintances. (The company is buying, either directly via an expense account or indirectly via a “The most senior person pays and their salary has been precisely calibrated to accommodate this” cultural norm.) Like karaoke and golf? Wonderful, you’ll have an excellent time with the other salarymen, who have either perfected the skill of liking karaoke and golf or seeming to like karaoke and golf when invited out by colleagues.

We’ve mentioned that your company considers it its responsibility to see you appropriately married. That is not the sole way in which the company may try to arrange companionship, but let’s table that issue for the moment. When you get married, your boss will give the longest speech at your wedding, praising your diligence on that last project and bright future with the firm. Perhaps eight or so coworkers will show up. They’ll also take up a collection for you if a parent should pass away, come visit if you’re hospitalized, and offer to intercede if you should have trouble with your wife or children. You are, after all, one of the family.

Lifetime employment is somewhat on the outs in the last 20 years or so, but it is still a reasonably achievable thing in 2014, and an expectation that many Japanese folks quite literally structure their entire lives around. An offer of employment as a salaryman, while theoretically instantiated as a e.g. three year employment contract with “renewal upon mutual agreement”, is (practically speaking) a promise that one will be promoted on a defined schedule for one’s entire working career.

One’s actual salary as a salaryman is generally rather low — about $100 per year of age per month, as an engineer in Nagoya (set by a particular monopsonistic engineering employer near Nagoya). In Tokyo, my sense of the market is that, as an intermediate engineer in his early thirties, I’d probably command somewhere between $30k and $60k. (In Silicon Valley, the going rate would be somewhere between $120k and $160k and increasing rapidly.)

The stability is superior to even tenured professors or civil servants in the United States, though. Eliminating your position will result in, at worst, your transfer into a division optimized to shame you into quitting. Incompetence at one’s job bordering on criminal typically results in one’s next promotion being to a division which can’t impact shipping schedules and has few sharp objects lying around.

You owe your company one more thing: Don’t. Ever. Quit. Salarymen are very rarely hired mid-career — you start at a company directly after undergrad and stay there forever. If you somehow manage to separate from that company, you are damaged goods. You will, in all probability, never be offered a salaryman position again. You may be offered professional work as a contract employee, but this has worse material terms, second degree social status, and no job security.

You may think I’m exaggeratingNot so much. I spent about three years in the salt mines and could go on this topic for hours. You can also read about this, to exhaustion, in most books about modern Japanese culture. (Single favorite recommendation for foreigners: An Introduction To Japanese Society, Sugimoto. Salarymen rate only a chapter or two — the book is sweeping in breadth and does the best job I’ve ever seen at adequately representing the diversity of life here for a foreign audience.)

– Patrick McKenzie

 

 

A week in the life of a Japanese Salaryman

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Breaking Down Of Of The Greatest Diss Tracks In Hip Hop History: No Vaseline

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Ice Cube – No Vaseline

 

Got damn I’m glad y’all set it off.
Used to be hard now you’re just wet and soft.

Ice Cube decries N.W.A as a group that was once hardcore, but has now lost their touch. He uses a penis (“hard”) and vagina (“wet and soft”) analogy to describe them.

First you was down with the AK
And now I see you on a video with Michel’le?

After Ice Cube left N.W.A, the remaining members appeared in several music videos by Ruthless Records R&B singer Michel’le, including “Nicety,” “Keep Watchin’,” and “Something In My Heart.” Cube is probably specifically referring to the “Something In My Heart” video, which included scenes where Eazy-E and Dr. Dre wore costumes to fit with the video’s 1920s theme.

Cube is pointing out how ironic it is that a group who touts themselves as hardcore—down with a violent life of AK-47 assault rifles—is now playing dress-up in silly music videos for soft love ballads.

It’s also worth noting that Dr. Dre and Michel’le were a couple for many years, and have a child together – there’s also an implication that Dre is pussy-whipped.

Lookin’ like straight bozos.
I saw it comin’ that’s why I went solo.

While Cube previously said he left N.W.A for financial reasons, here he also claims he left because their soft new image is something he “saw coming.”

And kept on stompin’
When y’all motherfuckers moved straight outta Compton.

Here, Cube flips the line into a diss to his former group. While Cube is still “stompin'”—maintaining his integrity and representing Compton to the world—the remaining members of N.W.A literally moved straight out of their old neighborhood and into the suburbs.

Eazy-E bought a home in Calabasas, a wealthy suburb in the San Fernando Valley, in early 1991.

Livin’ with the whites one big house
And not another nigga in site.

The house—known as “Eazy’s Playhouse”—became an unofficial headquarters for the N.W.A. The group’s manager, Jerry Heller, lived one house away:

By claiming that they are living with “whites” in a “big house,” Cube is also making a subtle reference to slavery. He’s comparing N.W.A to so-called “house niggers” (mentioned explicitly later)—slaves who would work within the plantation household, rather than in the fields. These slaves were often considered sellouts.

I started off with too much cargo,
Dropped four niggas now I’m makin’ all the dough.
White man just rulin’.
The Niggas With Attitudes, who ya foolin’?

N.W.A (a.k.a. Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was managed by music business veteran Jerry Heller, who also co-owned the group’s label, Ruthless Records, with Eazy E.

Cube is pointing out the irony in a group named N.W.A.—a name that implies irreverence towards white power—having their career managed by a white man like Heller.

By saying that Heller is “ruling” them, Cube is also making subtle reference to slavery, implying that Heller is their master. Later in the song, Cube more explicitly calls Heller Eazy’s “massa.”

Y’all niggas just phony,
I put that on my mama and my dead homeys.
Yella Boy’s on your team, so you’re losin’

Cube throws a quick shot at N.W.A’s DJ Yella, implying that he’s such a loser that he’s bringing the group down just by being around.

Ay yo Dre, stick to producin’.
Callin’ me Arnold, but you Bent-a-dick,
Eazy E saw your ass and went in it quick.

Cube is responding to a diss from Dr. Dre on N.W.A’s 1990 track “Real Niggaz”:

We started out wit too much cargo
So I’m glad we got rid of Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold was a famous traitor from the American Revolution—Dre was calling Cube a traitor for leaving N.W.A over lack of payment from Ruthless Records owners Jerry Heller and Eazy E.

Here, Cube is turning the diss back around on Dre—he may be a traitor, but at least he’s not getting fucked (out of money) by Eazy like Dre is.

Cube pronounces “Benedict” as “bent-a-dick”—he’s saying that Eazy fucked Dre so quickly (with no Vaseline, of course) that he broke his penis. Therefore, Dre’s ass “bent a dick.” This is one of many times Cube uses rough anal sex as a metaphor for financial exploitation throughout the song.

You got jealous when I got my own company,
But I’m a man, and ain’t nobody humping me

After leaving N.W.A, Cube founded a management company and record label called Street Knowledge with his new business partner, Pat Charbonnet (who was previously N.W.A’s publicist). 

Here, Cube is talking to Dr. Dre, who he claims is jealous of Street Knowledge. Cube left N.W.A because he was getting fucked (or as he says, “humped”) out of the money he believed he was owed by Ruthless Records owners Jerry Heller and Eazy-E. He implies that Dre has the same complaints but isn’t “man” enough to leave.

Tryin’ to sound like Amerikkka’s Most,
You could yell all day but you don’t come close.
’cause you know I’m the one that flown,

Cube is accusing Dr. Dre of trying to sound like him. Amerikkka’s Most Wanted was the title of Cube’s first solo album, after he left N.W.A.
When Cube was in N.W.A, Dr. Dre was known for his relatively laid-back style of rhyming, while Cube was known for a high-intensity bark. But on the 1990 track “100 Miles and Runnin’”—released just months after Cube left the group—Dre put on a more aggressive voice, which Cube describes here as a “yell.” When Cube says “I’m the one that flowed,” he’s reminding Dre that he was the most respected rapper and primary songwriter in N.W.A. He even wrote all the lyrics on Dre’s solo hit “Express Yourself” from Straight Outta Compton.

Ya done run 100 miles, but you still got one to go.
With the L-E-N-C-H M-O-B, and ya’ll disgrace the see-P-T.
’cause you’re gettin’ fucked out your green by a white boy,
With no Vaseline.

Cube is using rough sex as a metaphor to describe how aggressively the remaining members of his former group N.W.A are getting “fucked” out of their money (“green”) by their white manager, Jerry Heller (who was also the co-owner of their label, Ruthless Records). He ends each of the song’s three verses with a variation on this line—this verse is aimed at Dr. Dre, the second is aimed at MC Ren, and the third is aimed at Eazy-E. In late 1989, Cube left the group because—as the group’s frontman and main songwriter—he felt he was not being fairly compensated by Heller and Eazy, who also co-owned Ruthless. Four months after leaving, he told the LA Times: At the end of the day, after everybody stops screaming N.W.A, I had to look at my bank account and I was still putting up gold and platinum records at home … living with my parents. According to a 1990 SPIN investigation into Cube’s departure, N.W.A’s 1989 tour grossed $650,000. Of that amount, Jerry Heller took home $130,000, while Ice Cube took home $23,000. For his work writing and performing on N.W.A albums that sold over 3 million copies, Cube took home only $32,000.

The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin’,
Who gives a fuck about a punk-ass villain?
You’re gettin’ fucked real quick,
And Eazy’s dick, is smellin’ like MC Ren’s shit.

Ice Cube left N.W.A over a dispute about unpaid royalties after he penned the majority of the group’s sophomore album, Straight Outta Compton. He believed manager Jerry Heller was “shady” because he wouldn’t let Cube see his contract. Cube likens the groups business dispute to anal sex. While Eazy E wasn’t literally “fucking” MC Ren, he was screwing him financially. Eazy E appeared to misunderstand this lyric: The only thing that got me was ‘Eazy’s dick smells like MC Ren’s shit’. How would you know what my dick smells like? I mean shit, how did Cube know, you know? Not unless my nuts was on your chin, and my dick is in your mouth. That’s all I got to say.

Tried to tell you a year ago,
But Willie D told me to let a hoe be a hoe, so
I couldn’t stop you from gettin’ ganked,

When Cube left N.W.A in 1989, he tried to warn Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Eazy-E of Jerry Heller’s shady business strategy. They didn’t listen. While the group never officially disbanded, Dr. Dre followed in Cube’s footsteps and left the group in 1991, the same year this song was released.

Now let’s play big-bank-take-little-bank.
Tried to dis Ice Cube, it wasn’t worth it
’cause the broomstick fit your ass so perfect.

“No Vaseline” is a response to N.W.A’s diss songs “100 Miles And Runnin’” and “Message to B.A.” On the latter, MC Ren rapped: Yeah, nigga; when we see yo’ ass, we gon’ cut your hair off and fuck you with’ a broomstick! Cube’s “wasn’t worth it” prophecy came true—“No Vaseline” is regarded as one of the greatest diss tracks of all time.

Cut my hair and I’ll cut them balls,
’cause I heard you’re, like, givin’ up the drawers.

In the days of N.W.A, Ice Cube and Eazy-E both sported Jheri curls hairstyles. When Cube he left the group in 1989, he shaved his hair to separate himself. This is Ice Cube’s response to a threat made by MC Ren: Yeah, nigga; when we see yo’ ass, we gon’ cut your hair off

Gang-banged by your manager, fella,
Gettin’ money out your ass, like a motherfuckin’ Ready Teller.
Givin’ up the dollar bills,

In the original version of this song, Cube name checked N.W.A’s manager Jerry Heller in place of “fella” since “Heller” rhymes “Ready Teller,” a cash machine.

While Cube was adamant Heller was a shady businessman, Eazy E never saw it the light until it was too late. It was’t until 1994 (3 years later) that Eazy E fired Heller for stealing millions from the group.

Now they got the Villain with a purse and high-heels.

“The Villain” is an alternate name for N.W.A member MC Ren. Cube implies Ren’s a prostitute who’s being “pimped” by N.W.A management.

So don’t believe what Ren say,
’cause he’s goin’ out like Kunte Kinte,
But I got a whip for ya Toby,

Kunta Kinte is the main character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. A TV mini-series based on the book titled Roots also aired in 1977.

Kinte is a slave on a Virginia plantation and who’s given a new name: “Toby.” He refuses to answer to the name and is beaten with a whip as a result. Here, Cube implies MC Ren is a slave to Jerry Heller and Eazy E. As a student of diss songs, Cube also refers to the classic line from Kool Moe Dee’s “How Ya Like Me Now.” “Who is the best?” And if he don’t say, “Moe Dee,” I’ll take my whip and make him call himself Toby

Used to be my homey, now you act like you don’t know me.
It’s a case of divide-and-conquer,

“Divide and conquer” means to encourage dissent within a group. Members begin to fight amongst themselves, rather than fighting against a mutual enemy. In this case the enemy was N.W.A manager Jerry Heller. Cube believes Heller used this tactic on N.W.A. Dr. Dre said the same thing shortly after he left the group: The split came when Jerry Heller got involved. He played the divide and conquer game. Instead of taking care of everybody, he picked one nigga to take care of and that was Eazy. And Eazy was like, ‘I’m taken care of, so fuck it’.

’cause you let a Jew break up my crew.

Jerry Heller identifies as Jewish and even sought help from the Jewish Defense League when N.W.A broke up. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles Jewish human rights organization described this lyric: We’re not asking Ice Cube to mask the reality of the streets. By all means flag the social problems, but don’t exploit them by turning a professional spat between a former manager and an artist into a racial dispute. Cube responded with: It’s wrong for the rabbi to call me anti-Semitic, Cube responded. I respect Jewish people because they’re unified. I wish black people were as unified.

House nigga gotta run and hide,
Yellin’ Compton, but you moved to Riverside.

Cube implies MC Ren is Jerry Heller’s slave. The term “house nigga” describes a slave who typically worked in their masters house, as opposed to a “field nigga,” who worked on a plantation.

Ren moved to Riverside in late 1989, right before Ice Cube left the group. Riverside is a city 60 miles east of Los Angeles that is historically richer and safer than Compton. At the time this song was released, Riverside was 71% White and 7.4% Black, a significantly whiter city then Compton, which was 53.7% Black according to 1990 Census data.

So don’t front, MC Ren, ’cause I remember when you drove a be 2-10.

The Nissan Datsun B210 Sunny is a cheap subcompact car from the 70s. This is the type of car that MC Ren used to drive when he was poor. Ice Cube knows—he knew MC Ren before N.W.A.

Broke as a mothafuckin’ joke.
Let you on the scene to back up the Verse Team.
It ain’t my fault, one nigga got smart,
And they rippin’ your asshole apart.
By takin’ your green, oh yeah,
The Villain does get fucked with no Vaseline.

This last couplet ties the verse together. The majority of the verse is aimed at N.W.A member MC Ren, also known as “The Villain.”

I never have dinner with the President.
I never have dinner with the President.
I never have dinner with the President.
And when I see your ass again, I’ll be hesitant.
Now I think you a snitch,

In March 1991, Eazy-E paid $2500 to get in to a luncheon benefiting the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle hosted by then-President George H. W. Bush. Eazy was invited due to his numerous donations to L.A.-area charities. When he returned, many thought Eazy had sold out. As Eazy explained in It’s Not About A Salary, pp. 202-203 this wasn’t the case:

Hell no [I’m not a Republican], I don’t give a shit really. How could I do a song like ‘Fuck the Police’ and be a Republican? I guess you can really, but I don’t even vote. I just went cause those muthafuckers sent me an invitation. They pulled my name off the computer cause I give a lot of money to charities and stuff. Soon as I got there CBS and other news stations were all there askin’ how you guys gonna let him get in there. It was a whole big mess, on every station. I just wanted to go, see what they was talking about, just to see. I get home, everybody was like “Oh so you’re a Republican, blah blah.” Hell no, I ain’t no Republican. They was talking about the fuckin’ war and how this and how that, it was bullshit."

Throw a house nigga in a ditch.
Half-pint bitch, fuckin’ your homeboys.
You little maggot, Eazy E turned faggot.

Cube sticks with the same metaphor present throughout the song—that in giving himself a bigger slice of the financial pie than the rest of the group, Eazy was screwing his friends out of what they rightfully earned. Eazy stood at 5’5". Although he never hid from this, even making a song called “Niggaz My Height Don’t Fight.”

With your manager, fella,
Fuckin’ MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella.
But if they were smart as me,
Eazy E would be hangin’ from a tree.

On the original demo, Cube said “Jerry Heller” instead of “your manager, fella.” This change was likely made to avoid liability for libel. Similar cases of proper names being removed from songs can be found in the work of Eminem. Sure enough, Dr. Dre left N.W.A shortly after this song was released. Yella stuck around, producing music on Eazy-E’s It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa EP. Shortly before his death, Eazy fired Heller, Heller’s brother, and cousin from Ruthless Records. “Hanging from a tree” refers to lynching, a form of punishment common in the United States during times of slavery.

With no Vaseline, just a match and a little bit of gasoline.
Light ’em up, burn ’em up, flame on,
Till that Jheri curl is gone.
On a permanent vacation, off the Massa plantation.

“Massa” is what slaves called their masters in antebellum America. In this case, the “massa” is N.W.A’s manager Jerry Heller, who Cube accused of financially exploiting N.W.A. In an original demo of the song, the word “massa” was replaced with “Jerry Heller.” A “permanent vacation” is an old phrase used to describe getting fired, retiring, or quitting a job. When Ice Cube burns Eazy-E alive (as he does in the preceding lines), Eazy will no longer be working on Heller’s plantation—he’ll be dead. The word “permanent” could also be a play on “perm,” a hairstyle that connects with the reference to Eazy’s Jheri curl in the previous line.

Heard you both got the same bank account,
Dumb nigga, what you thinkin’ bout?

Eazy-E opened his first bank account in 1988, when he received a six-figure check from Atlantic Records as payment for Ruthless Records’ first hit, “Supersonic” by J.J. Fad. According to a 1990 SPIN article, manager Jerry Heller “took Eazy to the bank and taught him how to open a checking account.” In 2016, former Ruthless Records affiliate DJ Speed also accused Heller of having access to Eazy’s account: Man, fuck you, Jerry. You can say you the closest to Eazy, but if you close to somebody, do you take money out of their bank account every fuckin’ day? Heller wasn’t the only one who may have had access to his accounts. After Eazy’s death in 1995, Michael Klein, the director of business affairs at Ruthless Records, claimed that money was missing from a Ruthless bank account that Eazy’s widow, Tomica Woods, and her lawyer, Ron Sweeney, had access to.

Get rid of that Devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple.

Cube is advising the remaining members of N.W.A to shoot their manager, Jerry Heller, in the head. “Devil” is a word commonly used by members of the Nation of Islam (which Cube was affiliated with at the time) to describe white people. This line cause controversy at the time of the song’s release. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Jewish rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center called the song anti-Semitic, and cited this line as proof that Cube was promoting the murder of Jewish people (Cube refers to Heller as a “Jew” twice elsewhere in the song). In a close-reading of the song in early 1992, SPIN Magazine even speculated that “temple” could be a reference to a Jewish synagogue. Cube responded to the anti-Semitic accusations in another 1992 SPIN article:

The simple fact is this: If Jerry Heller was green or purple, I’d say the same thing. I could care less what his religion is. That’s his business. But don’t act like you can’t have a bad seed in your people, because there’s bad seeds in all people, black, white, Jewish people. So don’t front like it’s impossible. Do they agree with what Jerry Heller did to me? Where was the Wiesenthal Center when this motherfucker was taking my money? So it’s all right for a Jewish man to take a black man to the bank? I’m not trying to advocate nothing against nobody. If the Jewish community would like better relations between blacks and Jews they should hear me, what I’m saying. Words aren’t threatening. If you can’t hear our cries, how can we better things?

’cause you can’t be the Nigga 4 Life crew
With a white Jew tellin’ you what to do.

Reference to the fact that now N.W.A. is not gangster enough to be the Efil4zaggin (or Niggaz 4 Life) crew.

N.W.A at the time was on Ruthless Records, run by Jerry Heller, literally a white Jew.

Pullin’ wools with your scams, now I gotta play the Silence of the Lambs.
With a midget who’s a punk too,

Somebody who’s been fooled is said to have had the “wool pulled over their eyes.”

To stop Eazy from scamming the rest of N.W.A out of their money, Cube is planning to murder (and perhaps eat) him like cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs.

Tryin’ to fuck me, but I’d rather fuck you.

A reference to “I’d Rather Fuck You”, a solo Eazy-E track from N.W.A’s 1991 album Efil4zaggin. On the original song, Eazy was using the phrase to boldly romance a woman. Here, Cube turns it around: he left N.W.A because he refused to get financially “fucked” by Eazy and partner Jerry Heller anymore. He’d rather “fuck” them with this diss song.

Eric Wright, punk, always into somethin’, gettin’ fucked at night.
By Mista Shitpacker, bend over for the gotdamn cracker, no vaseline

A reference to “Alwayz Into Somethin’,” a song from N.W.A’s 1991 album Efil4zaggin that featured a diss to Ice Cube.

The original song was about the members of N.W.A always getting into something—usually trouble—in order to get paid. Here, Cube uses the phrase to say that Eazy-E (real name Eric Wright) is always getting into bed with Jerry Heller.

“Shitpacker” is a derogatory term for homosexual males that refers to anal sex.

Throughout the song, Cube uses sex as metaphor for Jerry Heller “fucking” N.W.A out of money. Here, he seems to be more literally implying that Heller and Eazy were having sex.

 

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The Dumping Grounds

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Ice Cube-Talks Eazy-E & Leaving N.W.A.

 

So simple, yet so funny

 

Fatal police shootout in Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Loud Mouth Challenged The O.G. To A Fight And Quickly Regrets His Decision! “Call The Police”

 

This is how Louis Vuitton shoes are made

 

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Pretty Girls Make The World Go Round

The Daily Man-Up

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In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference.

People often say the key to confidence and success in life is to simply “not give a fuck.” Indeed, we often refer to the strongest, most admirable people we know in terms of their lack of fucks given. Like “Oh, look at Susie working weekends again, she doesn’t give a fuck.” Or “Did you hear that Tom called the company president an asshole and still got a raise anyway? Holy shit, that dude does not give a fuck.” Or “Jason got up and ended his date with Cindy after 20 minutes. He said he wasn’t going to listen to her bullshit anymore. Man, that guy does not give a fuck.”

Chances are you know somebody in your life who, at one time or another, did not give a fuck and went on to accomplish amazing feats. Perhaps there was a time in your life where you simply did not give a fuck and excelled to some extraordinary heights. I know for myself, quitting my day job in finance after only six weeks and telling my boss that I was going to start selling dating advice online ranks pretty high up there in my own “didn’t give a fuck” hall of fame. Same with deciding to sell most of my possessions and move to South America. Fucks given? None. Just went and did it.

Now, while not giving a fuck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood. I don’t even know what that sentence means, but I don’t give a fuck. A bag of burritos sounds awesome, so let’s just go with it.

The point is, most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many fucks in situations where fucks do not deserve to be given. We give a fuck about the rude gas station attendant who gave us too many nickels. We give a fuck when a show we liked was canceled on TV. We give a fuck when our coworkers don’t bother asking us about our awesome weekend. We give a fuck when it’s raining and we were supposed to go jogging in the morning.

Fucks given everywhere. Strewn about like seeds in mother-fucking spring time. And for what purpose? For what reason? Convenience? Easy comforts? A pat on the fucking back maybe?

This is the problem, my friend.

Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.



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