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A Few Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About

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I’m a German soldier in 1939. What are my chances to survive until 1945?

By the end of the war the Germans had 12.5 million men under arms. Over 4 million died during the war. Survival depended upon where you were stationed. If you were in the East there was a much higher chance of being killed and wounded than if you were in the West or in Denmark or Norway. At the edges of the most vicious battles, such as the fighting near Vienna near the end of the war, or in Silesia, or in Czechoslovakia (where the Germans won major victories til the very last day) the chances of dying were very high. It also depended upon your branch. There was over an 80 percent chance of a U—boat sailor dying before the war ended and very few sailors from the beginning made it to the end. Aircrews also suffered, and this depended on where you were stationed and when you joined the Luftwaffe. The more experience you had, the greater chance of survival, however, the more experience you had, the more risky missions you were expected to take. It turns out if a soldier survives the first 90 days of combat his odds of surviving the war grow exponentially, according to the book “Dirty Little Secrets of WW2”. The most deadly time for a new soldier is the first couple of weeks at the front when the chances of dying are very high.

But if you were a soldier who joined the Wermacht in 1939 and were part of Operation Barbarossa there was probably only a 60 percent chance you would make it through the war, even less that you would make it through the war, survive and remain uncaptured. In 1941 alone almost a million men died in the East of an original fighting force of 4 million, mostly from cold and hunger. Survival was a matter of luck in many cases. Bidermann, a Leutnant in the 132nd Infantry Division who was stationed near Sevastopol had the extreme good fortune to have his division transferred to the Leningrad offensive right before the debacle at Stalingrad. The chances of a soldier surviving from the beginning through the Stalingrad debacle were less than 5 percent. The result for Bidermann was that he survived that turbulent period but ended up being captured at the end of the war in the Courland Pocket while Operation Hannibal frantically worked to remove men to Denmark in the final days.

Meanwhile, the chances of a soldier in Norway surviving the war were in the 90s of percent, despite the vicious need for violent and often torturous reprisals by Norwegian patriots against German soldiers.

In the US, the overall chances of any soldier surviving the war from the beginning were about 84 percent. In Germany, the number was roughly around 70 percent. The Germans fought for a longer period of time in more places against tougher enemies, terrain and weather and it doesn’t matter if death comes from a bullet, starvation or frostbite — you’re still dead.

–  Imiss07

 

 

What’s it like to drop MDMA with the girl you love?

We dropped 100mg each before we left our AirBnB to go to a nightclub downtown. The roll didn’t kick in until about an hour in, but when it did, wow. We danced for hours together on a crowded dance floor in our own little world. I held her in my arms and moved to the music. We would go from fast moving dancing, to her resting her head on my shoulders. When we got warm, we would share a cigarette and embrace each other in the cool air. Around 12:30am, we dropped another 50mg at the club and the roll continued. Every minute that passed felt like an hour. The night seemed to last forever.

When we called our Lyft around 2am, we dropped another 50mg. The whole car ride was spent holding each other’s hands and her resting in my arms. When we got back, the last redose was starting to hit, and man the teeth started to chatter. We laid down on the bed and just kissed and cuddled with each other for a little bit. We got undressed and made love to each other.

The whole night we were just silly and in-tune with each other. We dropped another 50mg around 3am to wrap up the night. The time we spent together that night felt like it lasted forever and it’s something I won’t ever forget. When we were dancing, it felt like the two of use were one. When we were in the bath, her laying on top of me, I could feel her emotions. And when we fell asleep in each other’s arms, I didn’t want the moment to end. We didn’t fall asleep until the sun came up.

We grew closer to each other more that night more than the whole year we’ve known each other. I wouldn’t trade our experience for the world.

 

 

Why are most people broke?

North American perspective: The root problem that causes most people to be broke isn’t necessarily “overspending”. That topic has been discussed a billon times over. We eat out too much. We buy too many clothes. We upgrade our phones too often. We go on too many vacations. We get it.

The root problem is WHY we’re able to consume to excess in the first place… and the answer to that is credit. It’s very easy to become broke when the money you spend isn’t yours to begin with… because any money you do come into, you’ll automatically owe to someone.

Credit is toxic because it enables money to magically appear out of nowhere, in a way that is accessible to you for monthly payments that seem more affordable than the actual amount you’re borrowing. Don’t have $20,000 in the bank for a brand new car? It’s okay! Just finance it for $300 per month over 72 months. Much easier to stomach spending $300 right away than $20,000 once you finally save it up, right?

Side note: Of course you can save up, say, $5,000 or so and buy an older car for cash. But in our society, there is more stigma to driving an older car and looking poor, than there is to having a brand new car that you borrowed money to buy. People would rather BE broke than look broke.

Similarly, you may not have $500 in the bank to join your friends on a weekend getaway. But if you put it on your credit card, you can pay it down at $100 or so per month… meaning it doesn’t matter that you don’t actually have the money. Because with credit, you can make decisions as if you do.

This is how North Americans think. Money is a largely abstract concept to them, in that the amount of money in their bank account is generally irrelevant to most decisions that involve money. If you’re buying a car, you’ll just make the monthly payments. If you’re doing a renovation, you’ll take a line of credit out on your house. If you’re buying a new outfit, you’ll put it on a credit card and sort it out later. It’s not so much about what you have… as it is about what you have access to.

Growing up, I was naive to the way credit was used. I always thought that if a $20,000 car costs $20,000… or if a $1,000 computer costs $1,000, or a $5,000 vacation costs $5,000, then you have to have that money ready to go. Like, if it costs $5,000, you have to have $5,000 in your bank account, don’t you? How else could you possibly pay for it?

My brain calculated it as “If I earn $10 per hour, and that computer costs $1,000, then I need to work about 100 hours, or about two and a half weeks full time to buy that computer”. Likewise, I figured that for an adult who earns $30 per hour, they would need to work about 30-something hours to buy it, and that’s just how people bought things. It seemed pretty straightforward…

  • You need time to earn money
  • You need money to buy things
  • Therefore, your ability to buy things is predicated by working the requisite amount of time to save up that money by earning it

Then as I saw the spending patterns of adults who I worked with, I knew this was impossible. There had to be something beyond the surface with the way these people spent money. People owned condos, bought lunch every day, came to work in new clothes on a regular basis, went on vacations to exotic places, bragged about the places they went to for dinner, the lot.

I could only think one thing… Where the HELL could all of this money possibly be coming from?!

Then I began to pay a little more attention, and it all made sense…

  • The condos are bought with mortgages (with the down payment borrowed from their parents, of course)
  • The cars are bought on financing
  • The clothes are bought on credit cards
  • The dinners are also bought on credit cards
  • So are the lunches that they buy every day at work
  • And the vacations are paid for with points that are earned ON the credit cards (so it’s “free”, right?)

Notice how the only “actual” funds that they have to support these things, are the payments they are making towards these debts. As in, you use debt to pay for things, and then cash to pay parts of that debt… as opposed to just using cash to pay for the things in the first place. It’s nearly unheard of to simply pay for something with actual money.

You’re probably thinking… “Okay, but they have a job… So it’s impossible for them to be broke, isn’t it?”

Not really, actually. Let’s go with a $1,500 semi-monthly paycheck. At the end of each month, you’ll have $3,000. Not really “broke”, right?

Well, let’s just say you get a lot closer to “broke” when that money gets distributed to your various debt obligations, which are the glue that hold the average person’s life together. Just illustratively…

  • $1,300 to your mortgage/condo fees (which are factored into your mortgage)
  • $300 to your car loan
  • $1,200 (3 x $400) spread across three credit cards that have been run up to the sky buying clothes, gas, parking, meals, and various incidentals. The $400 payment might cover some of this month’s new expenses… but these cards will usually have four or five figure balances from “unexpected” purchases you “had to” make, but “it’s okay” because you “have plenty of room on this card”, and “you’ll start saving money soon and pay it off” just like you said you’d do last year.

Side note: Since you can use credit cards everywhere, the way people think is that the amount of money that you “have” is whatever is in your bank account, plus whatever your credit limit is. So if you have $200 in your bank account and $5,000 of available credit, you “have” $5,200. That ability, combined with the stigma of saying “I don’t have the money” is exactly why even above-average income earners can appear well-to-do by never declining anything based on money, while actually being broke.

Remaining account balance after mortgage/car loan/credit cards: $200

Then you’ve got your utility bills, internet, phone, cable, and other such things… and before you know it, you’re at $0.00!

Observing this behaviour went a very long way in explaining both how everyone I worked with seemed to be living well, but yet they’re still broke despite working full-time jobs.

My conclusion was this… the North American economy is basically a complex weave of credit instruments in which illusionary dollar figures move from one balance sheet to another, and virtually no one has an actual “cash” balance to their name, beyond short-term holdings for servicing various debts.

This mentality isn’t even completely consumer-driven. It goes far deeper than the consumers themselves…

  • Shopping online? It almost always requires a credit card. Debit on the internet is a very new thing.
  • Travelling? You almost always need a credit card to get a hotel or rent a car.
  • Buying a car? Most car dealerships won’t accept a cash payment for advertised prices… because they advertise those prices based on the commission they get from selling you financing, which they assume everyone will need.

That is how deeply-rooted our credit dependence is… you are often REQUIRED to use credit for many types of purchases, even if you have the cash.

Think about how absolutely sick that is… even if you HAVE real money, there are many cases in which you cannot USE it!

So, if I had to simplify my answer to “Why are most people broke?” by keeping it to one sentence, it would be “Because everybody owes somebody.”

  • If you don’t owe it to your mortgage, you owe it to your car loan.
  • If you don’t owe it to your car loan, you owe it to your credit card.
  • If you don’t owe it to your credit card, you owe it to your line of credit that you took out against the equity on your home that you treat as an “asset”, when it’s really just a conduit to getting even more credit.

It never ends. As long as you owe something to somebody, it’s difficult to save up any money to have actual cash on hand. Especially because any money you can save, is better off being put towards your debts. No point earning less than 1% in a savings account when your credit cards are charging you 19.99%, right?

As long as you owe money to somebody, it’s difficult to “have” any money, because at any time that you possess money, it “belongs” somewhere else.

In the simplest sense, this is how being “broke” works. It has absolutely nothing to do with your income or earning power. It has to do with how much of your earnings are payable to your creditors. Which, for a lot of people, is 100%.

Of course, you can “plan” your monthly debt payments and “put aside” money in a savings account. But even if you have $5,000 in savings and still owe $20,000 between your car loan and credit cards… how is that supposed to help anything? Your net worth is still -$15,000! In fact, because you’re keeping that $5,000 in the bank doing nothing and paying interest on the full $20,000, you are becoming even MORE broke, just so you can “feel less broke”.

These problems don’t exist as much in places like Europe, where credit isn’t common, or at all in Islamic countries where most forms of credit are illegal. If you need something in those places, you pay for it with YOUR money. If you do not have enough money for it, you cannot afford it. It’s simple.

By comparison, more than 60% of North Americans can’t come up with $1,000 on short notice, even for a “necessary” expense like a car repair [1]… Because every single dollar that they earn is spoken for before it even reaches their bank account.

THAT is why most North Americans are broke. It’s not because they’re not making money. It’s because…

  • Most people will choose a $300 monthly payment instead of having to save up $20,000 cash for a car. Just a matter of discipline.
  • Consumer credit is extremely common, and with such easy access to borrowed funds, there isn’t really an excuse to not buy something if you want or need it. Why would you wait four months to save up $100 per month for a $400 purchase, when you can just charge it and pay $100-something per month to pay it off, and repeat the same thought process every time you need to buy something?
  • Since so many people do this, there’s a stigma to not being able to afford something like a birthday gift or a weekend trip… since with credit, anyone can “afford” anything. People think there’s something wrong with you if you can’t spend $100 on something you “should” be buying like tickets to a show all your friends are going to.
  • Between regular living expenses and debt payments, it’s easy for a $3,000 monthly income paid on the 31st to become $0 by the 1st. But since banks and lenders will make more money as long as you make tiny payments, they’ll be nice and accommodating with car loans that last 96 months, or 3% minimum credit card payments.

In even simpler terms…

  • People earn and get paid money (not broke)
  • But they want to live as if they have more money than that (seeming less broke)
  • So they’ll commit their money to making debt payments indefinitely to cover what they buy to live this way (probably broke)
  • Meaning that if they suddenly need $500 cash for something like a new fridge, they have to use credit to buy it (actually broke)

If you’re North American, this probably sounds like you or someone you know. The economy here is almost completely dependent on credit. Which is an easy way to get into debt… and an even easier way to be broke, no matter how much money you earn.

– Maxwell Arnold

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The Dumping Grounds

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Linkage

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The Men Who Deliberately Friend-Zone Themselves – Mel Magazine

The 14 Wildest Hippie Festivals In America – Thrillist

How to Successfully Delegate Work to Someone Else – Life Hacker

Cooling Pad with four fans helps keep laptops running cooler to help reduce crashes – Amazon

These Pics Show Women Before, During, And After Having an Orgasm – Maxim

O.J. Simpson suggested that Bill Cosby will be at increased risk in prison – AOL

Remove yourself from people search sites and erase your online presence – ZDNet

Steve Kerr and Phil Jackson Trade Coaching Lessons – California Sunday

Here’s how to fix America’s painkiller problem — without leaving pain patients behind – VOX

My $29 Food Stamp Challenge—and the Recipes That Ensued – Goop

How Juul Exploited Teens’ Brains to Hook Them on Nicotine – Medium

19 Time-Saving Cooking Hacks That Can Make You a Kitchen Hero – Bright Side

The Best-Designed Phones Of All Time, According To The Experts – Fast Co

Use the Memory Palace Technique to Remember Basically Everything – Curiosity

92% Of LA Homes Are Unaffordable To The Average Angelino – LAist

Mexican military disarm entire police force in resort city ‘corrupted by drug gangs’ – Independent

New Ken Burns documentary models what American healthcare could be – Big Think

This alarm clock is no joke! You will never sleep past the alarm ever again! – Amazon

Gunman Murders Two Virginia Reporters in Attack Broadcast on Live TV – Leenks

Here’s How China’s ‘Social Credit Score’ Punish And Reward Citizens, And It’s Terrifying – Bored Panda

Erotic Asphyxiation: The Widespread and Potentially Fatal Fetish That Nobody Will Talk About – VICE

10 Times Companies Passed On Revolutionary Opportunities – Listverse

How Meditation Can Change Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Buddhist Practice – Open Culture

Bill Cosby’s First Meal in Jail Will Include Pudding Dessert – TMZ

How Much You Need to Make to Afford a Home in Each State – Mental Floss

6 Things That Happen When You Stop Eating Sugar – Mens Health

Big Boobs in a Dress (nsfw) – BB Blog

Footage captures bodybuilder pummeling girlfriend in ‘roid rage’ attack – Fox News

Giada De Laurentiis Bikini of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

World’s Greatest Gallery of Mushrooms That Look Like Butts – Sad And Useless

Prostitutes Don’t Like the Idea That Realistic Sex Dolls Are Becoming Readily Available – The Blemish

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Reaction GIFs Beeeyotch!

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Me arguing with God’s security to let me into heaven

 

When they can’t help but mention their love for Jesus Christ in their Tinder bio

 

When I restart the computer for the first time after installing my first SSD

 

When my coworkers with different political views start their thousandth discussion 

 

When people tell me I need to smile more often

 

When im hammered as shit and my friend comes by with another round

 

When the cute little old lady in front of me at the grocery pulls out a check book

 

When your friend finally stands up to his controlling girlfriend

 

When someone gives me a sob story and asks for money 

 

When you try pulling the hotel blanket from where it’s tucked

 

When I’m listening to music and a song comes on that use to be my alarm clock for years 

 

When the fine chick in the group feeling my homeboy more than me, so I gotta show her his hairline

 

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There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With

The Daily Man-Up: Before You Do Anything, Write Down Your Damn Goals!

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(photo: @seteales)

So you think you want to go somewhere in life? You truly believe that you are capable of something more than mediocrity? Well, have you written down your goals? Do you know exactly what it is that you want? Do you really know? If you do, how do you know? Why is it that this is what you want and not something else?

You will wander aimlessly through life unless you clearly define what you want, why you want it, and how you will get it. Do you want that muscular body that drives the women crazy? Then you must eat the right foods. Do the lifts. And, above all, make it a priority. Do you want your dream career to lead a stable life doing what you love? Then you must go to class. Do your homework. Spend the hours studying. Sacrifice partying and friends.

Regardless of what you want, YOU NEED TO WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS. This is so fundamental in the self-development community yet I believe very few people actually do it (for the longest time I was one of these people)! According to a Harvard business study , 3% of the population writes down its goals. And, those 3% are thirty times as successful as those who do not (and three times more success than those who have an unwritten goal in mind). If you want to experience thirty times the success, you need to write down your goals every day. Make it the first thing you do when you wake up.

I have been asked time and time again: “How do I start to change my life?”. Sure, there are plenty of good habits you can develop, such as a consistent exercise routine, meditation, and a consistent sleep schedule, however you are never going to go anywhere unless you know where you want to go!

I do not mean to make this a rant; but, rather, a call to action!

You reading this right now. Write down your damn goals. However, if you do not have any goals, start by defining some. You are probably asking yourself, “Well, how the hell do I do that?”. To you, I say go out and find something you care about. Do you care about how uncomfortable you get in social situations? Go out and meet people. Make a goal to talk to X amount of new people each week. Do you care about your grades? Make a goal to get high marks by setting aside Y hours of sacrosanct time to study.

If I am going to tell you to write down your goals, I might as well tell you how to effectively make them. Your goals should be what you call “SMART”. SMART meaning:

  1. Specific – What do you want to achieve?
  2. Measurable – What is your target that indicates success?
  3. Achievable – Is this goal realistic? Is it not too high or too low?
  4. Relevant – Is this consistent with your overall life ambitions?
  5. Time Bound – By what time will this goal be achieved?

I am not going to lie, setting a goal can be intimidating because you are defining a source of failure. Failure is one of the most difficult things to learn to overcome. It is not easy, but the only way you do this is by failing over and over again. It is for this reason that I recommend you start with microgoals. This worked for me and it can work for you too.

Essentially, start small by defining a weekly goal. Then, break that weekly goal down into bitesize daily goals. For example, if you suffer from social anxiety, set a weekly goal of talking to seven new people. This can be broken down into microgoals of talking to one new person each day. There are many opportunities to talk to new people that you might not even realize. The cashier at the gas station, someone in a class lecture, or the guy at the gym front desk.

Even if you talk to five new people, that is great! You succeeded! You did better than not trying at all! In fact, this is exactly what you want. Believe it or not, there is an art to goals. A psychological flow where the goal is just high enough that you push yourself, but not too low that you achieve it without requiring growth. This quote sums this up perfectly.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it.” ~ Georges St-Pierre

I will leave this quote as a preview for ideas we will explore in a future post.

Best,

Gandamede

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Woman Allegedly Pours Bleach On Men’s Groins To Stop ‘Manspreading’

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manspreading russia

20-year-old Anna Dovgalyuk has been pouring the substances onto men while on the metro in St Petersburg, Russia, as she believes they’re guilty of ‘gender aggression’ on public transport.

Anna accuses Russia of being slow to deal with the problem, saying manspreading – men sitting with their legs spread – is being ‘fought around the world – but hushed up here’.

Instead, she decided to take matters into her own hands and has been targeting men who sit with their legs spread wide while on the train.

This is my new video manifesto, dedicated to the problem of manspreading,” Dovgalyuk says in the video. “Men demonstrating their alpha-manhood in the subway with women and children around deserve contempt. If you publicly show what kind of macho you are, we will publicly cool you off!”

By cool off, Dovgalyuk means pouring “about 30 liters of water mixed with 6 liters of bleach” into the laps of any man she catches with his legs too wide on public transportation. The video shows this in action: Dovgalyuk pours the solution from a water bottle onto unsuspecting men, horrifying them and onlookers. According to the video, she doused 70 men total.

The idea is to give the manspreaders a huge crotch stain marking them for their misdeeds. The video claims that the bleach solution is “30 times more concentrated than the mixture used by housewives when doing laundry. It eats colors on the fabric in a matter of minutes, leaving indelible stains.”

Anna shared the video of her targeting men on the train and explained it was directed at all men who manspread often. She said it was ‘so everyone can immediately understand which body part controls the behaviour of these men’.

Anna added the video was ‘on behalf of everyone who has to endure the manifestations of you declaring your macho qualities on public transportation’.

Anna has previously brought attention to her activism by flashing her underwear to commuters to raise awareness for upskirting laws in Russia.

She explained: "I am a social activist who advocates for women’s rights and against discrimination in any form."

Rumours circulated how Anna’s video of her pouring bleach on men was staged, and she’d used actors, but the feminist denied the claims: "My action is absolutely real."

 

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What Is Wrong With Modern Feminism?

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Christina Hoff Sommers on feminism

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former professor of philosophy at Clark University in Massachusetts

"I am a strong supporter of classical equity feminism — the sort of feminism that won women the vote, educational opportunities, and many other freedoms. But on today’s campus, equity feminism has been eclipsed by fainting-couch feminism. Fainting-couchers view women as psychically fragile and prone to trauma. They demand trigger warnings, safe spaces, and micro-aggression monitoring. Their primary focus is not equality with men—but rather protection from them. As an equity feminist from the 70s, I see this as a setback for feminism—and for women.  There was a battle for the soul of feminism in the 80s and 90s. The wrong side won. Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (precursors to today’s fainting-couchers) sought to protect women from the ravages of an implacable, all-encompassing patriarchy. Never mind that no such patriarchy existed. Another group, known as sex-positive or libertarian feminists, focused on female freedom, personal responsibility, and pleasure. They saw MacDworkinism (as it came to be called) as a reactionary social purity movement. The libertarians had better arguments, but the MacDworkinites won most of the assistant professorships. Over the years, MacDworkinism has melded with “intersectionality.” Today, undergraduate women are told (depending on their identities) that they are oppressed not only by sexism, but by racism, classism, ableism, etc. Conceptually, the theory is muddled. For one thing it fights sexism and racism by classifying everyone according to sex and race. But at the highly privileged intersections of American higher education, the theory is all the rage. For an equality feminist like myself, this is a sorry development. Our feminist foremothers viewed women as just as competent and mentally strong as men, so they fought and won a battle for equality. Trigger warnings, safe spaces and identity theatrics betray that tradition, and treat women like fragile little birds in need of protection. I see too many talented, idealistic young women turning inward—away from a world that needs them."

Christina Hoff Sommers on how Feminism went awry

 

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10 Sex Workers Reveal The Saddest Experience They Had While On The Job

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1. I’m a former sex worker. I booked with a middle aged client and we had a lovely coffee meeting before our date. I learned that his wife had passed away a couple of years ago and he missed human contact but wasn’t ready to date anyone so he booked in with me.

Our date didn’t consist of any sexual contact. He just wanted to cuddle in bed with me in our PJ’S, and talk about his wife. He had nothing but the most beautiful things to say about her. (Usually when clients talk about their wives they’re complaining about everything their wives won’t do, calling them bitches etc. It’s gross.) He was crying and I was crying and he just talked about true love and how he never thought he would find it, and how he doesn’t know how to keep living now that he’s lost it.

It was truly heartbreaking. I’ve never really dealt with much death in my life; I’ve certainly never seen someone grieving in that way. I didn’t know how to comfort him so I just made tea and listened to him talk for two hours. It was strangely beautiful to know that someone can love someone else like that. I felt so bad for him and his broken heart.

 

2. I used to visit a disabled client a while back, kinda young guy late 20’s and wheelchair bound. I had a whole gamer thing going on because I love video games so I’d offer to play games with clients, have some naughty penalties if you lose that sort of thing for fun. Clients could bring their own games or I had a list.

I got a message from this guy and he wanted to play games, explained he wanted me to come over because he can’t come to me, happy to pay the outcall rates and so on. So I visited and we played some games. He wasn’t really interested in the sexy extras to it but we did do some stuff in the end. He mostly wanted to play games and talk,cuddle etc. It continued like that each time, I’d come over and we’d watch a movie or play some games then maybe do some stuff but not always. He told me that he’s lonely and has never had any experience with girls before and most friends he had abandoned him because his disability got worse and he was less active. Now the only friends he has are online in games.

I saw him regularly for about a year and a half. His mother was also aware he was seeing me and was very kind to me. She’d go out when I was there and offer me drinks and snacks. She knew what I was but felt like I made him happy so it didn’t bother her. One day I stopped hearing from him, he was a regular client for over a year so I wondered what had happened. Some guys get bored and find a new girl but in this case it seemed out of character.

I went to his house just to see how he was and his mom told me that he’d had an aneurysm and passed away a week later in hospital. It was one of the most saddest experiences of my life. He was a client but I got to know him intimately over that time and he became like a close friend. I even got invited to his funeral and accepted. It was much less awkward than you might think. Everyone was really kind to me and non judgemental despite hearing what I was to him.

 

3. Not my story but I knew a girl who did “rent a night” type of stuff.

Guy asks her if she could come over. Doesn’t talk about sex over the phone just if she could come over and to come hungry. She thinks he is into feeding or some shit She arrives at like 6 p.m. pretty early for her work She asks what he would like to do. He just cooks for her. A really big delicious meal later he starts to open up a but His wife had passed and always loved his cooking, but he hates cooking for himself

 

4. When I was a kid, my mother was a “dancer”. As an adult, I know she did more than dancing. When I was 10, my mom told me she needed to bring my brother(2 at the time) and I to work with her for a couple hours. It was a few days before Christmas. We drove to this super ritzy neighborhood. Gated community. My mom told me we were going to help someone and that even though it seemed weird, she wanted me to call the man we were going to meet Grandpa. When we went inside, the guy that greeted us was probably around 65 or 70. He had the most beautiful Christmas tree set up. Loaded with presents. We were not super well off, financially, so it was way more than I usually saw. The guy was super kind. He gave my mom a kiss on the cheek and told her he was happy to see we all had made it. My mom said, ” We missed you, dad. We are happy to be home for Christmas with you.” I felt weird, but called him Grandpa like my mom asked. He told us all the gifts were for my brother and I. We spent a few hours eating dinner with him and opening all the gifts while him and my mom talked. Then we went home. My mom told me on the way home that his family hasn’t been around for a long time. And he just wanted to feel like he wasn’t alone for Christmas.

 

5. I work as a cam girl. There are a lot of sad stories- dead wives, divorcees, etc., but the one that hit me was this guy, we’ll call him Steve.

Steve sends me a message during one of my public shows asking to go private. I go private with him after the show and he just wants to talk about my life. No nudity or anything, and in privates, his cam isn’t visible to me. So I sit there talking about my life for about two hours at $5/minute and he doesn’t say a word. I finally run out of things to say and he is just like, “Thanks. Can I buy your Snapchat?” Of course I say yes, I give him my Snapchat, and he signs off.

The next week, I get a Snapchat from Steve asking if we can private again. I say sure, we do the same thing. He just wants me to talk about my day and random life stories for two hours. We do this once a week for about a month before he asks to Skype (where I can see him). I agree. I still know literally nothing about this person.

It’s our scheduled time to Skype and he doesn’t pick up the call. I Snap him to make sure everything is okay and he says he’s changed his mind, he wants to do our usual thing where I can’t see him. I say okay. This time, though, he types to me and I respond.

Basically, he gives me his life story. He tells me that he is an independent software developer (won’t say which for privacy reasons) in Switzerland. He’s never had a girlfriend and is a virgin. He’s 36 years old. He has crippling social anxiety and says he hasn’t spoken to a woman face to face (not even via webcam) since he graduated from college. He says that he’s hideously ugly and felt overwhelming guilt for even looking at a woman because he felt that it was just unwanted and offensive to her. I tried to just listen and be understanding.

At the end of the conversation, he asked if he could turn on his cam and try to have a conversation with me. I agreed.

He turns on his cam, and he’s a totally average looking guy. A bit overweight, but a handsome face and a nice haircut, clean looking. I was shocked and just really sad that he thought so lowly of himself. I told him that he was very handsome and that he shouldn’t think so lowly of himself, and we just chatted about life for a few more hours that night before saying goodbye.

The next day, I get a Snapchat from Steve. He says that he felt so good about himself that he finally said hi to the front desk receptionist at work. And she said hi back and smiled. He was thrilled about this normal social interaction.

We didn’t video chat again, but he snapped me every time he interacted with somebody. Last I heard, he has a girlfriend.

 

6. Not a sex worker anymore but I had one gentleman come in and situate himself on the back wall out of the way of the main commotion. Quiet, bearded lumberjack type in his 40’s. I saw him watching me and his eyes follow me around the place when I got off stage. He shooed off all the other girls who came up to him.

Normally it’d be creepy but he had this very…I’m not sure how to describe it but “tired” vibe around him? One of the bouncers came and said that guy was asking for me.

So I approached and sat across his table from him. The other girls had been sitting next to him or even in his lap and he seemed to really not like that so I gave him his space.

Anyways, I just started making small talk with him and it came up his wife had recently died. He could barely get it out. He was on the verge of bawling. And of course I reminded him a lot of her, looks and personality wise. I sat and listened and spoke softly occasionally. I felt so bad for him, he was clearly broken. Eventually I gently told him that this place was a cheap and shallow substitute for what sounded like a lovely lady. It wasn’t a very good place and that he should go home because she wouldn’t be found here. But of course he was welcome to see me anytime.

He seemed better and agreed with me and he didn’t know what the hell he was doing here, he just missed her so much. He chuckled and said it was like his wife was speaking to him through me, that she would have told him the exact same thing.

He didn’t pay me at all for the hour of time he took with me but I didn’t mind. He’s one of the only patrons I’ve had that I still think about from time to time and wonder/hope he’s doing much better now.

A lot of guys would come in and just want to talk, no dances, just company, but he was by far the saddest. I’ve always said if you want to be a therapist but don’t want to get the PhD go into sex work. Half your job is going to be listening to someone vent about their problems.

 

7. I used to be an exotic dancer. Had an older man in his late 60’s who would come in every night I worked (early on 3-4 times a week) and spend two hours in the VIP room with me where we mostly talked. I would do 4 or 5 dances during the two hours. As he started spending more I started working less because I hated my job. I dropped down to working only 2 nights a week since I was making over $600 a night off of him.

For two years he was my only customer. I never went on stage and only danced for him. And after our time was up in the VIP room I would go home.

He would bring me lots of gifts. Flowers almost once a week and jewelry quite often. What was sad is that I knew he didn’t make a lot of money. He did well for himself only because he worked tons of overtime. He fell in love with me and felt like I was his girlfriend because we spent so much time together talking. He was twice widowed, and a very unattractive man who I knew would probably never find love again at his age. He was not very intelligent, had no real personality, and had no interests or hobbies. It made me very sad. In the beginning I felt pretty good for giving him something to look forward to.

One night he comes in and tells me he’s moving from his 2 story house into a small one bedroom apartment. I know he loved that house because he had so many good memories with his wife there, so I asked him why he was moving. He told me he went into foreclosure a year ago. He stopped paying his mortgage because he was giving that money to me. He pretty much lost everything but his truck and some small furniture. I broke inside, and started crying.

I haven’t been back to the club since. I quit dancing that night.

 

8. A coworker said he paid a craigslist hooker to dress up nice and go with him to his mother’s funeral and the reception afterwards because he didn’t want to be given a hard time about being alone.

 

9. I worked as an escort for about a year and a half. I had a regular client with a number of mental health issues in his mid-thirties. He was an Asian guy who’s family didn’t believe in mental illness. He wouldn’t socialise with anyone except for his family. He had a mental breakdown the year prior and had to quit his job. He had to sell his house and move back in with his parents. He had never had sex with anyone who wasn’t a prostitute. He had never been on a date with a woman or had any female friends.

He would book overnight appointments with me and we wouldn’t even have sex, he just wanted the company. That’s $3500 he was paying for a sleepover with me. All he would ever want to do was talk and cuddle. He once told me I was his best friend, and how sad that was considering he had to pay me, and if there was no payment, I wouldn’t even be there. Broke my heart. I cared for him very much, and still think of him from time to time.

 

10. Former escort here. I didn’t do it for long, had a few clients who were nice, a few who were weirdos, pretty standard stuff. One evening I am contacted by a guy for an evening dinner date, but wanted the whole evening. Nothing unusual there. I agree a price that means I’ll stick around until breakfast and he asks me to meet him at a restaurant I knew.

When I meet him in person, I couldn’t believe my eyes; this guy was gorgeous, and I mean paid model pretty. I couldn’t understand why he contacted me, the man had three stunning women eyeing him up as soon as he entered the room. Still, he was nice and sweet, although clearly incredibly nervous, so we sat and drank and talk, ate our food and generally had a pleasant evening. He took a while to open up, so I did most of the small talk to start with, but he soon opened up, and seemed like a real, genuine nice guy.

Still baffled as to why this guy needed to hire a sex worker, the meal came to an end and he started to close up again; I started to think he was a virgin who was super nervous, I pegged him for early twenties so maybe he was embarrassed about never having had sex before. I called us a cab to take us back to his place.

When we got through the door, he rushed to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of booze (I forget what) and just started chugging. I took the bottle off him and tried to get him to relax, told him to take a breath, put on some music and to meet me in the bedroom. I stripped off for him and waited for him to come in; I figured if he was this nervous then undressing me would be tricky. Eventually he walked in, eyes turned to the floor.

I sat him on the edge of the bed, unzipped his trousers and started performing oral sex on him. He wasn’t hard, but had obviously been trying to get an erection once I left him alone. Perhaps he was semi impotent? He started breathing heavily so I thought he may be starting to relax.

After a minute of this I looked up at him to say something, and realised he was breathing heavily because he was trying to hold back tears, which wasn’t working because they were rolling down his cheeks. His face was screwed up in agony and his hands where white where he was gripping the bedsheets so hard, so I asked him what was wrong. He burst in to tears and started sobbing uncontrollably.

Turns out he was gay.

He had tried coming out to his parents, and apparently his mum basically carried on like he hadn’t said anything, but his dad just kept laughing. saying it was a phase, he would get over it. When he tried to convince his dad the feelings were real, his dad made him phone me.

We sat and talked for hours, about he had never been able to tell anyone about his sexuality, and that his parents had been the first people he confided in. He hadn’t got many friends because he was worried about being bullied, and he had always known he was gay so he had never had a girlfriend. I just cuddled him while he talked, not saying a word.

When I left in the morning he tried to give me money, but I left it on his counter after he got in the shower. I wanted to text him later, to see if he ever sorted things out with his parents, but at the time I felt like he might think I was weird because I wasn’t his friend, I was a call girl.

A few weeks later I saw his picture on the local news, and my blood ran cold because I knew the instant I saw it what had happened. There is only one reason you see a facebook photo of someone on the local news.

I heard from some friends in college that he had hung himself, because his dad basically disowned him. I feel sick everytime I think about it. Perhaps things would have gone differently if I’d have stayed in touch.

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The Dumping Grounds

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This Guy Showed Up To A Karaoke Bar To Sing ‘Tequila’

 

Meet the Accidental Genius

 

I Have $300,000 In Student Loans And No Degree

 

Mining Bitcoin: Inside a cryptocurrency mining epicenter, and the fight for a small town’s future

 

How a $40,000 Carpet Is Made 

 

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Linkage

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How to Know If a Woman Likes You – The Art Of Manliness

Bill Cosby Falls Down Prison Steps After Getting Hit By Hot Dog Bun – TV Web

Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus viral video you need to see to believe – AOL

Save $1,000 (yes a grand!) on this 82-inch Samsung QLED 4K TV – Amazon

‘Cosby’ actor Geoffrey Owens donates $25K gift from Nicki Minaj – USA Today

Why I Raised My Child on Feminist Porn – Hard Times

This Pretend Billionaire Threw Insane Parties for Celebs and then Vanished – VICE

Why Your Brain is Wired for Pessimism—and What You Can Do to Fix It – GQ

15 products with a cult following on Amazon, and why they’re worth it – Awesome Galore

Distracted Boyfriend meme is sexist, rules Swedish ad watchdog – The Guardian

Models with Three Boobs (Think Total Recall) Walked the Runway in Milan – WOW

How to Last Longer In Bed, According To a Sex Therapist Who Overcame Premature Ejaculation – Mens Health

Kazakhstan Set To Chemically Castrate First Of 2,000 Convicted Pedophiles – All That Is Interesting

The most professional way to admit you were wrong – The Ladders

Amazon Is Having A One-Day Sale On Everything You Need To Build Or Upgrade Your PC – Amazon

This Is How To Quit Bad Habits Without Willpower: 3 Secrets From Research – Barking Up The Wrong Tree

The 5-Minute Hack for Beating Procrastination Used by Instagram’s Co-Founder – Curiosity

Meet Loving Insta Model Cassie Amato – G-Celeb

4 Weird Signs That You Have High Testosterone – Return Of Kings

Everything You Fight Has Power Over you. Everything You Accept Doesn’t – The Mission

Paris Hilton in a Bikini of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

Financial Success Isn’t ‘Impossible’- The Simple Dollar

You can explore the garage where Google was born on Street View – Mashable

8 Things I Learned Reading 50 Books A Year For 7 Years – Medium

Ana De Armas fully newd scene (nsfw) – Celeb J

How to Stop the War in Your Head and Find Peace – Tiny Buddha

Here’s why you don’t like new music any more – AV Club

In two years, drug giant McKesson shipped 5 million pain pills to town of 400 – Charelston Gazette

Orcas, and other marine mammals, are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives – The Dodo

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Pretty Girls Make The World Go Round

Poll Of The Day

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How much should your woman have to pay?

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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In study group at university

“I should go ask her about this thing so I talk to her..

Uhh.. nah that’d be kinda creepy. I should just ask the person sitting next to me. Also that guy sitting next to her and talking to her might be her boyfriend.”

In social dance group

“I’d love to ask her to dance.

Uhh.. but she’s dancing with someone else just know I wouldn’t wanna stand around her and make it look like I’m specifically waiting for her to finish. Ah just started her break and I wanna let her catch her breath.. also that guy she came with could be her boyfriend.”

In grocery store

“She seems to be alone her and confused, I should approach and offer help, maybe strike up a conversation

Uhh… you know maybe she just wants to do some shopping and to be left alone for now.. also that guy standing over here could be her boyfriend.”

In public transport

“I should casually compliment her shoes and maybe try to steer into a conversation from there.

Uhh… she’s reading now and possibly wouldn’t like to be bothered. Also the bus driver could be her boyfriend.”

Possibly anywhere

“I should try to hold long eye contact to let her know that I’m attracted to her..

Uhh.. but then what if she doesn’t feel the same and this makes her uncomfortable? I don’t wanna look like a creep. Also she probably has a boyfriend.”

 

In other words, I’m forever alone because I’m a weak pathetic spineless castrated coward, whose agreeableness and inability to handle even the slightest discomfort is probably going to make me die alone.

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A Few Photos To Help You Scratch That Nostalgic Itch

A Few Videos Guaranteed To Make You Feel Better About Life

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Every day for months, this woman hiked by two dogs chained up in the mountains and asked their owners if she could take them. Her persistence finally paid off 

 

Abandoned good boy just needs a little reassurance before he eats and eventually finds a new forever home

 

Separated Baby Chimps Reunite And Can’t Stop Hugging Each Other

 

Woman Has The Most Adorable Reaction To Free Cake On Her Birthday

 

The obstacle course is important, but I love you the most

 

Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor, Graysen Cameron, meets his PTSD service dog

Cameron has been dealing with PTSD after surviving the bus crash that killed 16 and injured 13, most were teenagers from the Humboldt Broncos hockey team.

 

Stepdad Breaks Down After Adoption Surprise From Stepson

 

This Seal Fell In Love With A Diver

 

It’s not worth it bro

 

Beaver constructs indoor dam 

 

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A Few Photos To Remind You That Life Is Beautiful

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6 Money Traps to Avoid in Your 30s

 

I Can’t Taste Anything

Adrian Wellock lost his sense of taste. After suffering a cold, he started getting a metallic taste in his mouth, which took his palate with it. These days, he only eats foods that are simple to chew and adds spice and herbs to ratchet up the smell. Find out what it’s like when everything, actually tastes like nothing.

 

Pharmacist Set Up Fake Robbery To Cover Up His Fentanyl Drug Dealing

Pharmacist Waseem Shaheen orchestrated a fake holdup to cover up an illicit drug-dealing operation in which he trafficked at least 5,000 fentanyl patches out the back door of his Ottawa pharmacy… 

 

Father Upset With Son For Failing His College Classes! "I Pay For This… I Work My Azz Off To Put You Through College"

 

Born Rich – Heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, Jamie Johnson explores the experience of growing up in a wealthy family. The film consists of interviews with 10 other young heirs –including a young Ivanka Trump- and the taboo the ultra rich have against talking about their wealth

 

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How a $450 Million da Vinci Was Lost in America—and Later Found – WSJ

XXXTentacion murder captured on surveillance video, played in court – TMZ

The World’s Highest (and Lowest) Cocaine Prices – Alternet

If you need to feel like a human and have a productive day after a debaucherous night of boozing, drink this- Amazon

Researchers at the University of Tokyo accidentally created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history and blew the doors of their lab in the process – Motherboard

Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner – VT

Hacker says he’ll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg’s Facebook page – Engadget

Donations pour in for man holding yard sales to fund own funeral – Savannah Now

5 Psychological Strategies to Ease the Stress of Perfectionism – Tiny Buddha

Don’t Let Social Media Zombify You – Wired

If you’re full commited to your dental health, consider getting – Equipped

This Instagram Predicts What Rooms Smell Like with Frightening Accuracy – VICE

The Best Podcasts of 2018 – Vulture

This joint supplement greatly improved the mobility of my aging dog – Amazon

A damn fine collection of bewb, awsomeness and everything in between – Leenks

Here’s a Playlist of Songs You Know But You Can’t Name – Life Hacker

An introduction to Tantric Sex – Goop 

7 Work habits that will help you get more done each week – Rescue Time

11 Positions That Help You Go Deeper During Sex – Mens Health

Sexy girls are disgusting…wtf?! – Drunken Stepfather

To Avoid Overspending, Think of Money as Hours of Your Life – Curiosity

Selena Gomez Bikini Photos From Hawaii – G-Celeb

How To Become A Millionaire – Dave Ramsey

10 Truths that Will Change the Way You See Yourself Today – Marc And Angel

How Reliable Are the Memories of Sexual Assault Victims? – Scientific American

8 Famous Actors Who Have Literally Never Been Good In A Movie – What Culture

Jordyn Jones Does Bikinis – Hollywood Tuna

I Give Disabled People Orgasms for a Living – VICE

19 Women on What It’s Like to Receive Dick Pics – Mel Magazine

This is every man’s dream when he comes home at work at night – Ehowa

How Psychopaths See the World – The Atlantic

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