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15 Common Myths You’ve Always Believed That Are Actually 100% False – Ranker
North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war – CNBC
Bernie Sanders introduces bill to impose jail time for execs behind opioid crisis – STAT
A Navy SEAL’s Secrets to Surviving Any Disaster – SEAL Survival Guide
This Is How To Sleep Better: 5 Secrets From Neuroscience – Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Hackers once stole a casino’s high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank – Business Insider
10 Mistakes Lots of People Make When Buying a New Car – Bright Side
Gun Enthusiast Rejoice: This Shotgun Provides You With A Fun Way To Decimate House Flies – Awesome Galore
Two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for doing nothing – Upworthy
How to find your purpose in life: 12 powerful exercises to help you discover purpose and passion – Get Rich Slowly
Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for "DAMN" the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the award – The Atlantic
Here’s the secret that dealerships don’t want to tell you – Discount Drivers
Where The Amish Go On Vacation – New Yorker
Big Girl Iskra Lawrence Booty of the Day – Drunken Stepfather
Idiot Driver Almost Kills Everyone In The Car (video) – Leenks
A trauma surgeon explains the bloody reality of keeping gunshot victims alive – The Verge
The Uber Hot Miranda Nicole Is Our Tuesday Wonder – Yes Bitch
Scientists Finally Discover Ancient Blueprints Showing How The Pyramids Were Built – Weird History
Russian hackers mass-exploit routers in homes, govs, and infrastructure – ARS Technica
UPS Trucks Almost Never Make Left Turns — and Maybe You Shouldn’t Either – Curiosity
This Insane Loan Term On A Used Porsche Shows That Even Rich People Can Be Dumb At Math – Jalopnik
Ariel Winter Shows Plenty of Skin at Coachella – The Blemish
Southwest Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Explodes, Woman Almost Sucked Out Window – Gizmodo
When Did Dove Cameron Get Those Boobs? – Hollywood Tuna
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Sometimes we try to show the world we are flawless in hopes that we will be liked and accepted by everyone, but we can’t please everyone and we shouldn’t try. The beauty of us lies in our vulnerability, our complex emotions, and our authentic imperfections. When we embrace who we are and decide to be authentic, instead of who we think others want us to be, we open ourselves up to real relationships, real happiness, and real success.
There is no need to put on a mask. There is no need to pretend to be someone you’re not. You have nothing to prove to anyone else, because…
No one else really knows what’s best for YOU.
Don’t lose yourself in your search for acceptance by others. Walk your path confidently and don’t expect anyone else to understand your journey, especially if they have not been exactly where you are going. You have to take the steps that are right for you; no one else walks in your shoes.
Let others take you as you are, or not at all. Speak your truth even if your voice shakes. By being true to yourself, you put something breathtaking into the world that was not there before. You are stunning when your passion and strength shines through as you follow your own path – when you aren’t distracted by the opinions of others. You are powerful when you let your mistakes educate you, and your confidence builds from firsthand experiences – when you know you can fall down, pick yourself up, and move forward without asking for anyone else’s permission.
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Probably.
Some reasons why this may be a correct assumption:
While it is possible that Hoover was bisexual (a distinction that hardly would have made a difference when he was serving as FBI Director) or even asexual, his long-term relationship with Tolson indicates that he was most likely a closeted gay man who used his political influence to deter most comments and investigations into his personal life.
– Jon Mixon
I served time many years ago.
He’ll get fucked up in prison
Probably not. Despite what most people think, prison’s aren’t free-for-all, lawless islands where people get tortured or killed upon entry for having an unfavorable offense.
He’ll enter a community that he is physically locked inside where he’ll have a reputation as a piece of shit. Nobody will want to talk to him, much less be helpful in any way. He’ll be the last person in line to take a shower, eat, and he won’t be included in any recreational activities or sports. He’ll get the worst work duty, if he gets one at all. He might stand up for himself at some point and get in a scuffle, but he’ll just end up getting a black eye and shots from the nearest guard.
5 years later, the gossip about him will still be prevalent. New prisoners will not want to talk to him out of fear that they’ll experience a fraction of the same social exile. He won’t be applicable for educational programs since he’s a lifer. He’ll see people come and go knowing that this lonely, outcasted existence is literally the rest of his life. He’ll probably try and kill himself unsuccessfully once a year and get force fed some awful meds like lithium that prevent him from even thinking straight.
Time will stop existing. Every Christmas will be a benchmark for most people, but not for him. There’s no point in counting when it’s just a reminder of how much of your time on this earth was spent this miserable way.
Then he’ll die. His immediate family members will likely be already gone, or completely disconnected from his existence. His body will probably be cremated and nobody will want the ashes. Maybe as he ages he’ll feel charitable and donate his body to science. Then it’ll be used for forensic research and left to rot in the woods while the decay is studied. At least he’ll have amounted to something on this planet then.
– and303
The thing to remember about contemporary art is that it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Rothko wasn’t just saying “isn’t this pretty?” any more than Hemingway was just writing about an old man and the sea. Contemporary art is in a conversation with every painting that came before it. But since that conversation is long, entirely visual and not well-publicized (articles that mention how much a piece was sold for never talk about why), it can be really difficult to understand what an artist is saying just from looking at it.
I’ll try to give a brief overview of the narrative leading up to Rothko. This well be over-simplified and contain errors:
Painting for a long time after the Renaissance was about the rules of positing. How too paint people. How to use color, shadow, and contrast. Composition. You worked really hard to learn these rules, then tried to improve the art. This produced a bunch of beautiful paintings that approached photorealism.
Then people started to question these rules. They started to intentionally break them to see what would happen. Impressionists started painting everyday scenes instead of royal portraits. They made things blurry, top capture emotions rather than detail. They used visible brush strokes, at once reminding the viewer that they were looking at a positing, not a real landscape, and making the painters presence, and personality, an important party of the aesthetic experience.
Then you have a bunch of movements that continue along this trajectory, breaking long-established rules about how one should paint. Post-impressionism distorted forms to express a mood, used color wildly, abstracted real objects into geometric shapes. Surrealism, cubism, art nouveau, and a ton of other movements played with these themes and tried new things.
By the time the mid-20th century rolls around, it seems like every taboo had been broken. How many ways can you paint a still-life? One solution was to not paint anything. As in any thing. A painting didn’t have to be anything but an expression of the artist’s creativity, or a commentary on painting itself, without having to use a subject (a landscape, a nude) as a vector for the ideas. Painting could just be about painting, our the process of painting, or the experience of looking at a painting.
Rothko’s journey followed a similar trajectory to the one I’ve described for all modern art. He stayed painting as an impressionist, doing landscapes, city scenes, etc. with influence from the Surrealists, he became interested in myth and mythology, and the compares turned him onto primitive art and children’s art. All this was in an attempt to hack into something deep inside the viewer, to express an idea in a visual language that was more direct and pure than painting a seaside scene. He would use simple symbols that were meant to hit the viewer deep. Unfortunately, these works weren’t well-received, so he figured his theories weren’t right. He broke with surrealism and went full abstract.
This was the beginning of his “multiforms”, the paintings he is most famous for (including the one above). The theory was, as best as I can understand it:
When you look at a painting of a tiger, you are not just looking at the tiger. You are relating it top every other time you’ve seen a tiger, which lets you pull back from the experience, view it from above, not from within, experience the tiger only from a distance. But when you look at his paintings, they aren’t “of”anything. You’re not allowed to reduce it and categorize it. You have to dive into it, experience it, let it seep into you. He recommended that you get as close to 18 inches from the canvas so as to really immerse yourself and confront the unknown.
This discussion is definitely flawed and very incomplete, but I hope it helps illustrate why this want just a hack saying “ain’t these colors purdy”, and why some people may think it’s quite valuable.
– UWillAlwaysBALoser
John Stapp’s last sled run on December 10, 1954, was also his more noteworthy. Three more rockets had been added to Sonic Wind’s propulsion system for this run; the full cluster nine of solid fuel rockets could produce 40,000 pounds of thrust. Because there was no windscreen, Stapp’s arms and legs were secured to decrease the chances of injury from his limbs flailing in the wind. He wore a helmet and had a bite block in his mouth to protect his teeth.
Strapped in an unable to move, Stapp and his team waited for the clouds overhead to break. Stapp needed clear skies because part of the test involved photographing the run. High speed cameras on the ground were trained on the track, and a photographer in the back of a T-33 piloted by Joe Kittinger would capture the end of the run from above.
When the cloud broke, the test was on. The nine rockets behind Stapp came to life. In five seconds he reached 632 miles per hour, which is about Mach 0.9. Kittinger watched at the sled outstripped his T-33. Almost as suddenly as it started, the run ended. From the moment the scoops first dug into the water, it took just 1.4 seconds for the sled to come to a complete stop. This rapid deceleration translated to more than 40 Gs, making Stapp momentarily weigh 6,800 pounds as his body slammed forward. The force of the stop was the same that a driver would feel smashing into a brick wall at 120 miles per hour.
And then the sled was still. Stapp waited for emergency personnel to remove him from the seat and take him to hospital. His body was in shock from the extreme g-forces. All the blood vessels in his eyes had burst, rendering him momentarily blind; for a few nervous minutes didn’t know whether he would ever regain his sight. He had cracked ribs, both his wrists were broken, and the deceleration had taken a toll on his respiratory and circulatory systems. He was banged up, but in good spirits. Time Magazine subsequently named Stapp the “Fastest Man on Earth.”
Before he had fully recovered from his injuries, Stapp was already planning to add more rockets to the sled for the next test. He wanted to get it up to 1,000 miles per hour to go faster than the speed of sound, but the Air Force finally intervened. He was “grounded” from doing any more high speed research runs. His life and work were too valuable to risk on another high speed run.
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1. The one that was the most upsetting was a guy who had been my friend for years, who I was close to and confided in, telling me my boyfriend at the time had cheated on me. I wanted to confront the boyfriend and this “friend” kept dissuading me, telling me to just drop contact with him, and trying to comfort me with physical contact.
Obviously I still confronted my boyfriend. He said no such thing happened. And it turned out my friend had made it all up.
2. I’m a girl, but this story is about my husband and how he caught the bad end of a “nice” guy.
A few years before I met my husband, he decided to go to a party. He gets there and some random girl walks up to him, says “Your cute” and kisses him. This amused him, so he started chatting with her. While chatting, he notices a very angry, short man standing next to her. The man is scowling at my husband and it’s making him uncomfortable. He can tell the guy is pissed at the attention girl is giving him, and it’s just not worth it, so he stops talking to random girl, turns away, and starts walking to another room. It’s at this point husband feels short man punch him in the back. When he turns around, short man is running away and actually runs out of the house and never returns to the party. Husband laughs it off, cause it wasn’t even a hard punch. But then somebody notices husband is bleeding, and there is a hole in his shirt. The short fucker hadn’t punched him, he stabbed him.
Random girl saw this all go down and was pretty mortified. Turns out the short dude was obsessed with her, they were “best friends”, and he accompanied her everywhere.
The knife was pretty small, so it didn’t do any real damage. But he still has the scar.
3. We met on OkCupid and after like 2 weeks decided to go meet. We both weren’t into coffee so we decided to eat a dinner together. At his place. We agreed to meet at the mall to buy groceries. He couldn’t decide even one thing, but when I would take a certain brand he would mention how his grandmother would take some other. At the end I made him to pick at least one thing – appetizer (thinking of soup or something), so he picked blueberries. I payed. We came to his apartment, he couldn’t cook which I didn’t mind, but he didn’t even feel like helping. While I was making the sauce he mentioned things like that I am not intelligent enough (because I suck at math and wasn’t interested in it when he was reading his math book to me for 5 – 10 minutes), that it annoys him me not being interested in video games, he blushed when I joked and said word “pussy” and also got frustrated when he read Jesenin to me and I wasn’t that interested. Then we finally sat and ate. He commented how his mother does it better. But he also ate pretty much everything. Then all of the sudden he stood up and said “now we should kiss and cuddle”. Of course not. I offered to wash the dishes. He didn’t even help. I felt sorry for him the entire time, that’s why I just didn’t leave.
4. Met a guy at college who seemed like a wayward out-of-towner that wasn’t having any luck in the friend department (word was he moved up from Cali). So we started working as semi-study buddies (he was taking courses for a different major but they were courses I had done already).
He knew I had a boyfriend but decided one day to ask me to dinner. I specified “as friends?” And his response was something like “sure, or it could be a date.” The fact that I was in a long term relationship didn’t seem to make a difference to him. So I declined.
After that my courses got switched to online courses, so I stopped seeing him as much. Until he added me on Facebook and started trying to ask me out again. I finally told him no, that if he couldn’t respect my current relationship enough to lay off the date attempts, that we didn’t need to be friends.
Then he went Uber religious on me. Started preaching at me constantly that he was “terrified about (my) destiny of going to hell” and wanted to “save (my) soul so that didn’t happen”. Basically just admonishing every single decision I ever made as a person and determined like no other to convince me that my sinful ways would undermine me in every way. Kept saying he didn’t want to see his “friend” go through that.
I told him forcing his religion down my throat was the surefire way of pushing me away permanently, and proceeded to block him. I gave him a lot of chances to understand that what he was doing wasn’t cool, but he was so convinced that he was just being a “nice guy”.
5. I went to school with a “nice guy”, neck-beard, anime katana sword wielding kinda guy.
He would talk about how girls only like the big jock guys and how they neglect the smart intellectuals like him. He also talked about how he was waiting for a girl to be smart enough and “good enough” for him. Which doesn’t make any sense at all but ok.
He weighed about 90 pounds, had vampire pale skin and bleach blond hair which he wore at an awkward too-long-in-the-front length so it could cover his eyes.
He started hanging around where I would eat lunch my freshman year of high school. No one wanted him around, but we were nice and we would just smile.
Anyway neckbeard would get waaaaay to close to me, making up reasons to touch me.
I am really short so he would set his arm on my head, grab my shoulders- just awkward unwanted touching.
So I told him to hey maybe don’t touch me. He did not get the message. In fact the not-so-sly hair smelling/ weird touching increased and I said zip cuz I was shy.
Well he got my number from one of my “friends” and started sending me those creepy asterisk messages.
Example
Hey good looking 
walks over to you and puts arm around you I missed you runs hand over your soft hair hugs you feeling your nice boobs press against my strong manly chest
I didn’t respond and they just got worse and worse. He sent me a shirtless photo that nearly blinded me. I texted him telling him what he was doing was making me uncomfortable but that didn’t stop him. He started asterisk texting me about how he was gonna rape me and how I was gonna call him daddy and like it.
I learned how to block someone on Verizon that day. I never told anyone about it. I had to go to four years of high school with this kid getting too close, making me so uncomfortable.
6. This actually just happened recently. My good friend from college and I, along with other friends from our program went out to a bar to celebrate finishing our degree. He kept feeding me shots but I figured everyone just wanted to be drunk and have a good time. The night is coming to an end and I’m quite incapacitated. My “good friend” frantically approaches me saying that he had just seen a guy put something in my drink (which I had just finished). He told me that I would soon be unconscious and it was best that he take me back to his apartment so he could take care of me. Being heavily drunk and also quite scared, I agreed and he helped me back to his apartment.
After making me something to eat and giving me some water, we set up camp for the night on his couch. He put on a movie and he said he would sit and watch me sleep to make sure I didn’t throw up or anything. As I started to dose off he started touching me, first on my feet and knees and then my upper thigh. I confronted him about it and he said after everything he had done he felt he deserved “compensation”. I laughed it off but after he tried to make a move again I got angry and we began fighting. He exposed to me that no one had put anything in my drink and it was all a ploy to allow him to make his move. After some more arguing he decided it was best I left, and he kicked me out of his apartment at 3:00 am while I was still considerably drunk.
This is someone whom I’ve trusted and spent 4 years being friends with. Safe to say I’ll be a lot more speculative with future male friends.
7. Pretended to be interested in me, we developed a great friendship 3 strong years at the time. Then I met my future husband, he noticed that I have never been so interested and in love with someone. He would comment sarcastically on our pictures on facebook. He then confessed his love for me and begs me to leave him by saying that he has put up with my shit for so long. In my defense, he never showed romantic interest. He lived in Texas, he drove all the way to California to bombard me at 3am, threatening to kill himself If i dont ever love him back, threatened to hurt my husband and such. I called the cops and now I have a restraining order against him.
8. I was friends with this guy for a couple years, but was never interested in dating him. I was fairly certain he was aware of that, and since he never said or did anything that seemed to me like he was interested in me either, I assumed we were legitimately friends. He never asked me out, he never made any comment even suggesting he wanted anything more. We were fairly close, and had a lot of mutual friends. I never thought anything else was going on.
Apparently, this was not the case. A couple days after I got a new boyfriend, I update my relationship status on Facebook. My “friend” calls me within like…2 minutes of this update, and immediately starts shouting at me, demanding to know why he “wasn’t good enough for me” and why my boyfriend “was so much better than him.” I tired to get him to calm down, but he just kept yelling about how he was a “nice guy” and how he had “always been so nice to me, why didn’t I ever give him a chance?” I calmly tried to explain to him that I never got any signals from him, and I didn’t think I ever did anything to lead him on or anything, and he shouted that “he’s such a nice guy and doesn’t deserve to be friend-zoned like this.”
I made one final attempt to salvage the conversation, and tried to explain that I was sorry if he felt deceived, but it also really hurt my feelings that I thought he legitimately valued me as a person and wanted to be my friend, but now he’s just mad I won’t sleep with him. He flat-out screamed at me “FUCK YOU! You’re just a cold bitch! I bet your boyfriend’s an asshole anyway!!!”
I hung up on him and he never spoke to me again. Two years of relatively close friendship down the drain in one phone call. It felt pretty shitty.
9. The first few days of my freshman year in college, before classes even started, I was really excited to get to meet new people. And I met lots of people. One of those people was this guy who lived in the dorm building next to mine, they were actually connected on the main floor. He was a “nice guy.” We talked about a bunch of stuff, he was a sophomore, gave me some tips on some professors, etc. He was telling me about some movie, I don’t even remember what it was now, but it sounded cool and I had never heard of it. We decided to go watch it in his dorm room. So we watch this movie (small dorm room, we sat on the bed because there’s nowhere else to sit). I go back to unpacking, talking to other people, all sorts of days before school starts things.
Except he decided that not only was watching a movie on his laptop a date, it was me agreeing to a deep relationship with him. I find out he’s told people we are dating. I quickly try to straighten it out, I tell him it wasn’t a date, and I’ve just gotten to school and am not about to jump into a relationship anyway. He cries and tells a bunch of people that I’m cruel and a terrible human being and basically stomped on his heart because I’m just that evil.
But then he apologizes, hopes we can just be friends. I can’t really avoid him so sure, we can be friends. Except then every time I’m in the same room as him he moves to stand next to me or sit next to me and scoot closer and closer. Then he starts “happening to be” places I am. If those places were the library or quad, sure. But those places are the stairwell that goes from my dorm to the main floor and outside. Because lots of people like to hang out in stairwells, particularly ones that don’t go anywhere they need to be. Or outside of a class I have he isn’t taking.
I talk to him again. Very clear. Do not want relationship. Do not want friendship if he cannot handle that. Want to be left alone. Why don’t I like him, “he’s a nice guy.” Nice guys don’t make me have this discussion. Nice guys do not wait for me in the damn stairwell.
We go through this cycle for the next year and a half. He leaves me alone for a little while, comes and apologizes for being inappropriate in the past, says he’s seeing a counselor, he didn’t get it before, he does now, he’s so sorry. Within a short period of time, like hours, he does something again, like walks over while and tries to “casually” put his arm around me. I stopped even saying “What the Hell?” when he did this, I just removed it and left. It got better the next year when our dorms were not close to each other but didn’t completely stop. It ended pretty badly.
He thought he was this misunderstood, nice guy. That I didn’t see who he was. I could see who he was. He was was an entitled, whiny, narcissistic stalker who made me have to constantly look over my shoulder.
10. I had one guy who had a crush on me completely stop talking to me when I started dating someone else, but on my birthday I got a huge box in the mail from him. It had a ton of weird stuff in it, bed sheets, a stuffed giraffe, an old journal from a young grade that they had to write in for points with new entries made about me (all written in his “kid” style), a framed collage of pictures of me and screenshots of our text conversations, a letter explaining the giraffe begged to be sent to me, as well as congratulating me on my 4 month anniversary.
I called him immediately to tell him that it was inappropriate and he called my boyfriend and got into a fight with him or something and then posted on facebook about how he “went out of his way to get a nice gift for a girl who didn’t appreciate it.”
11. A past co-worker had a huge crush on me. He was very sweet but I would ignore his incessant messaging and when he asked me if I received his messages that weekend, I came up with a basic excuse,”sorry but my phone is messed up and I don’t receive messages on time.” This fucking guy not only believes a terrible excuse, but he adds a phone line to his phone plan, gets a great quality, brand new goddamn phone and “surprises” me with it at the end of my shift. As he stands beside my car with a bulgy-eyed stuffed animal and a T-Mobile box, I wanted to crawl into a hole. Long story short, let him down easy and he cried. No he did not get watery-eyed, he fucking cried with snot coming out as I gave him a ride home because he had taken the bus for an added surprise so i wouldn’t suspect he was there. cringe
12. I went on some dates with a very nice guy (who naturally complained that girls didn’t like him because he was “too nice”). The problem was that his idea of nice was avoiding confrontation. I did something that upset him and instead of talking to me about it he sent me this insanely long text message that came through scrambled and I could barely read it. So I say come over and we will talk about it.
Shows up, says basically nothing even when I am asking pointed questions based on what I was able to decipher from this crazy long text.
Happened a second time and I gave up. He was nice but that definitely wasn’t the problem. It was that he never wanted to say something even mildly confrontational which meant we couldn’t ever talk about something we might disagree about. No way to move forward in a relationship like that.
So now I’m just one more woman who didn’t like him because he is “too nice.”
13. I went on a date with a guy who did actually seem quite nice. Almost… too nice. Such as over the top compliments every few minutes, outright refusing to let me pay (I gave in because I didn’t want to argue in front of people) and agreeing with my opinion on absolutely everything.
At the end of the date I tell him that I’m sorry but I don’t want a second date, although I do agree to be friends when he asks if that’s ok. Friends actually goes well, we hang out a couple more times and he’s way less OTT.
Two weeks later I go away for a week to Auckland, and shag a guy I met online while up there. Come back, and a couple of days pass then I hang out with the first guy again. He asks how the trip went, I tell him what I got up to, and then… it gets creepy.
He tells me he can forgive me for cheating on him, because he knows I’m the one, and that we’re going to get married one day. As I’m sitting there with a look of WTF on my face, he continues that he understands that I only slept with someone because I needed a release since we hadn’t “consummated our future” yet, but perhaps it was time because he didn’t want us to get too old to be good parents (I was 20!)
I noped right the fuck out of there, and for the next month or so I swear I caught glimpses of him hanging round my work and home.
14. I had this friend in high school – and we’ll call him a “friend,” quotes and all, because I don’t talk to him anymore – who I’d thought was a pretty chill dude. He was kind of a dork and didn’t have a lot of friends, but I was kind of the same way so I could relate. Anyway, towards the beginning of our senior year of high school, I started steadily dating another friend of ours who had asked me out a few weeks before.
My “friend” flipped his lid.
Now, this “friend” had also asked me out on a couple of previous occasions, but I’d always declined because I didn’t see him as anything more than a buddy. So one evening I told him that I’d started dating this other person, and this guy just went off on me, claiming that he had more of a right to date me because he’d known me longer, that he’d been a good friend to me, the works. It was a royal mess. That “friendship” somehow lasted another two years. I finally cut it off at the knees because he was an emotionally manipulative jerk who kept trying to horn in on my relationships and got jealous when I made new friends. Last year I dropped him like a bad habit and have never felt better.
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By Jodan Gray
Let’s end this whole “nice guys” myth once and for all…
The term “nice guy” has been thrown around in popular culture a lot lately. A quote unquote “nice guy” is actually a first class manipulator.
Women don’t have an aversion to truly nice guys… they have an aversion to passive, manipulative liars (just like – surprise, surprise – all humans do!).
People respond positively to others that have a strong sense of identity, solid morals, and strong personal boundaries (all things in which “nice guys” are lacking).
Nice Guys, Jerks, And Strong-Minded Men
One of the nice guys’ favourite fall back arguments is that “Women say that they want a nice guy, but what they actually want is a jerk.”
Oh, my friend, if only it were that simple. Kidding! It’s even simpler than that.
Women don’t like being lied to. They’re also generally a lot more socially intelligent than men. Even if you think you’re being extra sneaky, your intentions have been noted by females before you’ve even fully formed your first thought.
Nice guys = passive, manipulative liars who attempt to trade niceness for intimate relationships/sex. Most men are hopelessly transparent with their intentions with women, but nice guys really take it to the next level.
Jerks = assertive/aggressive suitors that share more character traits with a strong-minded option than nice guys.
Strong-Minded Man = an assertive, strong-willed person who is unapologetically forthcoming with his desire. He is ready and willing to take no for an answer without resorting to manipulation or douche-baggery.
So reading through the three descriptions, doesn’t it become clear that the nice guy option is a dead last?
If you are a man reading this article, imagine all of those descriptions again but instead describing women. #1, a girl that you are not attracted to in the slightest who keeps trying to convince you to like her by being extra-super-duper nice. #2, a girl that isn’t necessarily your ideal woman, and is a little rough around the edges, but you feel magnetically sexually attracted to her for some reason (though you probably wouldn’t bring her home to meet your parents). #3, a woman with clear morals and boundaries, a voracious sexual appetite and has no problem initiating sex with you but will turn it down when she isn’t feeling it, and doesn’t push you to do things that you’re not comfortable with.
Unless you’ve got some intimacy issues, narcissism, or low self-esteem a-brewin’ within the chaos of your mind, you would most likely be attracted to #3, followed by #2, and then by #1 in a distant last place. And guess what? That’s what women respond to too. Hooray, we’re all humans and there’s no distinguishable differences in our attraction process when it comes to not enjoying being lied to!
Bottom line, you are either attractive to someone or you are not. If you find yourself having a really tough time getting into a relationship, then it’s probably something you should get looked at. Whether it’s an unconscious pattern of driving people away, fearing vulnerability, or just not having your life sorted out, there are many steps you can take to become more attractive as a partner to your gender of choice.
Onto the good stuff…
If your inner child (nice guy) still rears its ugly head on occasion (everyone’s does in certain situations), here are five things you can do to make sure that you’re not being a manipulator in your intimate relationships.
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A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks
The 100 Most Influential Pages in Comic Book History – Vulture
Perfect For Strip Clubs! The Cash Cannon will make it rain for you with the pull of a trigger – Cash Cannon
In the Marvel Universe, there are (conservatively) 12 characters who could beat Thanos in a one-on-one fight – Total Nerd
Sandy Hook Parents Sue Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Over Claim Shooting Was ‘Fake’ – NPR
‘Are You Done, Yet?’: Women on How Long Sex Should Last – Mel Magazine
Mike Pompeo, C.I.A. Director, Met With Kim Jong-un Over Easter – NY Times
How to Enjoy Food When You Can’t Smell Anything – Munchies
How to disagree well: 7 of the best and worst ways to argue – Big Think
The 2019 Toyota Supra ‘Won’t Be A Cheap Car’ – Jalopnik
Sophie Mudd’s Massive Bewbs of the Day – Drunken Stepfather
Great Podcast: Guy interviews entrepreneurs from many fields and industries who went on to build successful businesses. There are great bits of insight, inspiration, and plenty of learning opportunities. – How I Built This
Carol Saraiva Busts Out Her Drool-Inducing Fitness Hotness! – Yes Bitch
Bugsy Siegel – The Gangster Who Built Las Vegas – All That Is Interesting
A Former Beauty Queen Kidnapped A Mormon Missionary And Made Him Her Sex Slave – Ranker
42% of Americans have less than $10,000 saved and will retire broke – CNBC
Wait 17 Seconds Before Jumping Into Your Kid’s Struggle – Offspring
Diet Coke’s Moment of Panic – The problem with the soda is right there in the name: It’s neither healthy-seeming enough to thrive as a diet drink nor tasty enough to thrive as a cola – The Atlantic
The Richest Person Of All Time From Each State, Mapped – Digg
An Italian Design Firm Wants to Make Air Travel More Dehumanizing Than Ever – Esquire
Jennifer Lawrence newd scene from Red Sparrow (nsfw) – Celeb J
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Pain and discomfort are the gatekeepers of success.
They are the guardians of becoming extraordinary. No one enters without meeting — and trading punches — with them first.
Most people see these burly warriors and promptly turn the other way, hoping they were unseen. Most people avoid pain, and try to get through life without ever being unfortunate enough to meet it.
Sadly, this lifestyle actually costs far more energy, time, and effort than just getting on with it. Like avoiding the needle at the doctor, we get sicker and sicker as we avoid the very thing we most need.
“When uncomfortable, my instinct is not to avoid the discomfort but to become at peace with it. My instinct is always to seek out challenges and opposed to avoiding them.” -Josh Waitzkin, world champion chess player
No one becomes extraordinary or achieves true success without overcoming some serious pain.
Pain creates us. It reveals us. It is the fire that hardens us, the crushing pressure that chews up us lumpy pieces of coal and spits out brilliant diamonds.
In the words of Ryan Holiday, “Bad things are fuel. You don’t just want fuel — you need it. You can’t go anywhere without it.”
If you think you’re going to cheat your way into success, and somehow win the pain-free lottery and fall into your wildest dreams without ever breaking a sweat or feeling the sting of rejection or defeat…
You’re wrong.
Pain is the gatekeeper. No one goes around — you must go through.
And that’s when you realize a funny thing.
You actually kind of like the pain.
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Freemasonry is the largest fraternal organization for men who believe in a Supreme Being in the world. More or less.
It is true that many of founding fathers and patriots (Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Revere), US Presidents (Truman, Ford), Supreme Court Justices (Warren, Marshall) , et al are or were Freemasons, and many of the government buildings were laid Masonically. The influence is undeniable. The Boston Tea Party was carried out largely by Masons, for example. You see many facets of Masonry carried over into our system of government — one person, one vote, secret ballot, executive term limits, even the oaths of office have similarities.
But that said, Masons don’t run the world as if we were a secret cabal. It just so happens that many of our members are accomplished men, which includes politics but is hardly limited to it. Harry Houdini was a Mason. Duke Ellington was a Mason. John Glenn is a Mason.
I decided to join because I saw a glimpse of a world I liked. Its a great group of men. God became a huge part of my life a few years back. It seemed like something I could do to make myself better, to meet new people, to network, and to serve God and to do some good!
We work with charities for veterans, kids with disabilities, organize blood drives. Sometimes we also get together and just hang out as a group.
Neither (though many fathers recommend their sons, but that’s normal.). The answer is: To be one, ask one.
You may see guys driving around in cars with Masonic square and compasses on their bumpers…sometimes you’ll also see a bumper sticker “2B1ASK1″…that’s what that means.
The initiation was not homo-erotic, dangerous, or in anyway bothered me. It was one of the pivotal moments of my life, however, and therefore was very unique and like nothing I had ever experienced before.
Not without revealing something I swore I wouldn’t.
You have to be a man, free born, over 18 and believe in a higher power. Atheism is a deal breaker for sure.
Its tradition. Women can’t join because they never have. I agree its strange, especially nowadays. But I kind of like the fact that its something men can do and women can’t…so sue me.
Good question! In my lodge, no. I come from a very white area. I am very liberal in this regard, since I came from a large and diverse city. I am a white man and would have no issues with any man of good standing of any color joining. Due to the age of the men that are Freemasons these days, however, this isn’t a popular notion. I’ve heard tales of high up Freemasons having to force lodges to admit black members. This pains me a lot, that an organization I love could be this narrow minded.
No. I am a younger guy, no college degree, and I didn’t have a job when I joined. They looked past all that and accepted me.
We have a “regular communication”, which means once a month we get together for “regular business”…which usually means doing the things we do as Masons — planning charity work, planning social outings, planning or delivering degrees, voting, etc. Sometimes we’ll have a guest speaker. We also review the bills (reality…someone’s gotta pay the electric bill).
The rest of the time it’s actually doing what we planned — like putting together care packages for our troops overseas, or going to ballgames, stuff like that. It’s as much social as anything else.
There have been quite a few benefits. The central purpose of Masonry is “to make good men better”, and that’s accurate. Our degrees, of which there are three, roughly correspond with the stages of life — entered apprentice (child), fellowcraft (adolescent) and Master Mason (a man). Each degree teaches profound lessons — which have not changed in hundreds of years — and you can spend a lifetime contemplating the deep meaning behind the symbolism and allegory. I have certainly learned a lot about life and manhood, first going through them, and later delivering those degrees to new brothers.
Also, because I enjoy the company of other good people, the relationships with my Masonic brothers has been a blessing. I have moved to different states for my job, and there is always a lodge of brothers there to welcome me to the neighborhood and share a good meal. That is true almost anywhere in the world.
For the amount of work that’s involved in memorization, someone looking for business connections is better off joining another organization, like the local Chamber of Commerce. I have done business deals with brothers, and they weren’t for profit, they were more like break-even deals for friends.
Your yearly dues.
It depends on your area. My lodge is pretty big but we believe in charging a bit more so we have the hard currency to get stuff done. Our building is old and takes a lot to maintain so I don’t mind…just one of the many ways we put the money to good use For example, another lodge in my area has twice the membership that mine does and can charge less. Its under a hundred dollars.
Under a hundred a year.
There are theories that the Freemasons are descended from the Knights Templar. The best book on the subject is “Born in Blood” by John Robinson. He postulates that the things that make masons masons (secret modes of recognition, meetings guarded by swordsman, etc — would confer no benefit on ancient European stonemasons (who were mostly employed building cathedrals, so the Church was their client), but would be of great value to excommunicated and hunted men like the Templars. It’s a pretty compelling theory, but there is contention about it of course. The earliest written reference is probably the Regius Poem which dates back to the 1300s I believe.
Tremendously. But not in the way you’re thinking. Freemasonry makes good men better. If we do have some hidden agenda its to make the world a better place.
No I don’t, haha. Although I did join because of the Stonecutter episode of the Simpsons. Its more dealing with that kind of thing from other people…its actually kind of fun. Sometimes I don’t disarm people’s suspicions about Freemasonry, though. For one, its good press. Let them wonder. For two, anyone who is going to assume something sinister about a benevolent organization without doing any research isn’t worth my time to begin with.
There are secrets, which are mostly related to the modes of recognition (so we can tell who’s a real freemason and who is not) and to the degrees themselves (so that they have the maximum impact on the man receiving them).
I swore to never reveal the secrets of Freemasonry, so I don’t, and would never. But it’s a common question I get, and I don’t want to be a douche about the answer, so I just laugh it off…I’ll make a joke out of it.
It usually goes like this: Q: “You’re a Mason?!? Tell me the secrets!”. A: (whispering) “Can you keep a secret?” Q: ” YEAH!” A: (winking) “Well so can I!”
Either that, or I make up something ridiculous, like “we’re werewolves”.
In all seriousness though, I’ve had friends ask me to tell them privately, with the justification “come on, if you told me no one would ever know”. To which I’ve replied “Yes, someone would. I would know.”
Yes.
Yes.
Not once. I’d be willing to bet that you’ve shaken hands with a Mason and not known it.
Well, the two things that are absolutely forbidden as discussions in lodge are politics and religion. So of course, what do Masons talk about after lodge, at dinner? Politics and religion, just like everyone else. In my experience, it’s been more geographic than anything. Down south, they’re Republicans. Up north, Democrats. We have our share of prominent politicans from both parties, and journalists, and union organizers, and GOP fundraisers and what have you. It’s a pretty broad demographic.
We don’t.
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A eyewitness from history:
George Carter Stent described the process as follows: “The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen”.
A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI. The trench soldier of WWI had to cope with millions of rats. They were attracted by the human waste of war – not simply sewage waste but also the bodies of men long forgotten who had been buried in the trenches.
Possibly drawing on his pre-war trade in the leather industry, this fellow has set himself up in business, tanning the pelts in the age-old method of separating soil and gore from the skin, before they are washed and spread out to dry (as depicted here). It’s possible that he used the skins to make patches for repairs to uniforms. Some of these rats grew extremely large. Many troops were awakened by them crawling across their faces, or attempting to take food from the pockets of sleeping men.
Disgusted and often feeling a horror of their presence, soldiers would devise various means of dealing with the rat problem. Although shooting at rats was strictly prohibited – being regarded as a pointless waste of ammunition – many soldiers nevertheless took pot shots at nearby rats in this manner. Attacking them with bayonets was also common, but efforts to eliminate them proved futile. A single rat couple could produce up to 900 offspring a year. Cats and terriers were kept by soldiers in the frontline trenches to help free them of disease-carrying rats. The Terriers were actually very effective.
JANINA NOWAK was a Polish woman born on August 19, 1917, in Będów near Łódź. She was deported to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp on June 12, 1942 and received the prisoner number 7615 during registration. Janina was the first female prisoner who escaped from Auschwitz.On June 24, 1942 Janina escaped from a work party, known as a Kommando, consisting of 200 Polish women working near the Soła river, drying hay. After she was reported missing, the soldiers of the Nazi SS unsuccessfully attempted to chase her down. Exasperated by the loss of their prisoner, the SS led the remaining female prisoners from the Nowak’s Kommando back to the camp. The camp’s political officers interrogated the other members of the Kommando over the details of her escape. The women, for their part, provided their captors with no answers. As the camp’s officers were unable to punish Nowak for gaining her freedom, their anger was laid upon her fellows, instead. That evening, as a punishment, the women of the Nowak’s Kommando were all forced to have their hair cropped short (before this only Jewish female prisoners had their hair cut in the camp).
The following next day, the entire Kommando was re-designated a penal company and sent to one of Auschwitz’s sub-camps, called Budy, located roughly 6 km from the main camp. The accommodations at Budy consisted of a former school building, a ramshackle wooden barracks, a small kitchen and latrines, all of which were surrounded by barbed wire. The women of the penal company were forced to toil in extremely harsh conditions cleaning nearby ponds, cutting bulrushes and digging drainage ditches–all of which was undertaken as part of a German scheme to turn Auschwitz into a centre for agricultural research.
A few days later, Nowak’s former Kommando was joined at Budy by a cadre of 200 female prisoners consisting of French Jews and Slovakian nationals. The penal company was surprised by a group of German kapos*, who brutalized their charges in the name of meeting the production targets set by their German SS camp supervisors.
After escaping Auschwitz, Janina Nowak managed to reach Łódz. She evaded the authorities until March 1943 when she was arrested. On 8 May 1943, Nowak was brought to Auschwitz once again, where she received a new prisoner number – 31529. In 1943, she was transferred to KL Ravensbrück where she was liberated at the end of April 1945.
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This Woman Is So Good At Cosplay, She’s Like A Live-Action Movie Version Of Your Favorite Cartoons – Total Nerd
The Biggest Song From The Year You Were Born – Thrillist
Is an Anti-Aging Pill on the Horizon? – Elysium
How Much Money You Need To Make To Be Part Of The 1% — And Every Other Percentile – Digg
Shower Strippers With Money Using ‘The Cash Cannon’ – Awesome Galore
17 ‘Girly Man’ Traits That Would Make Your Father Ashamed – Average2Alpha
This book looks great on your coffee table! – How To Live With A Huge Penis
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do – Success
10 Things You Might Not Know About Pappy Van Winkle Whiskey – First We Feast
Every Kind of Smoking, Ranked By How Bad It Is For You – Mel Magazine
Low Energy Associated With Missing “Micronutrient” From Our Diet? – Energy At Any Age
Karrueche Tran Bikini Booty of the Day – Drunken Stepfather
10 Indications That Western Society Is Collapsing – Listverse
Republicans Push Bill To Protect Mueller, Without McConnell’s Support – NPR
These Videos Show How Artificial Intelligence Can Use Celebrities to Deliver Fake News
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Tori Hughes is THICC! – Yes Bitch
7 Curious Facts Your Appearance Says About You – Brightside
Ford Dealership Abuse Caught On Dashcam (video) – Leenks
Green Lantern No. 76 Was the Moment Superhero Comics Got Woke – Vulture
The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams – Big Think
25 Greatest ‘Game of Thrones’ Moments – Rolling Stone
Canada’s Liberal party considers decriminalization of all illicit drugs – The Guardian
North Korea appears to be totally caving to Trump before they even meet in person – Business Insider
50-Year-Old Woman Looks So Young People Mistake Her for Her Son’s Girlfriend – Oddity Central\
Dove Cameron, Angelina Jolie and Other Random Women – G-Celeb
Emily Ratajkowski’s Hotness Continues On Social Media – Hollywood Tuna
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