Great post. I would only add that a major reason for the disconnect is that they treat hitting on women as a strict science, when in reality, it's far more of an art. You can do everything "right" and get nowhere, and do everything "wrong" and have the woman fall madly in love with you. There's a lot of subtle stuff going on which they oversimplify into a goofy terminology.
I completely forgot about this. But my roommate, when he first moved to Chicago 4-5 years ago, joined "Project Chicago". He had read the Game, and some of the PUA stuff, and really went into it looking for people to help him gain confidence around girls and go out with I guess. He's not had the best luck with girls despite being socially fluid enough and a decent looking dude. Within 3 months, he was out because like we've said, it was all either guys who were so socially awkward that they could have been talking about programming in HTML or Magic the Gathering with the terms they would throw out, and by the time they actually talked to girls, she had more ratings and sliding scales applied to her than is healthy. The other guys beyond creeped him out. They were actually plotting ways to try to bang girls in bar bathrooms or f-close before the night is over so they could go back out. When, to my roommates recollection, he never saw any of them lock in any females of note, or for most, at all.
One of my roommates and I are hanging out in the living room. I'm scrolling through Facebook, I see something about Kony, and I remember that hilarious prank I learned about on here about posting a picture of that other black guy saying you love him to enrage your idiotic Facebook friends. The following conversation happens: Me: I feel like this might've originated on Reddit, so you probably knew about it before I did, but have you seen that hilarious thing people have been doing - Him: Yes! Me: Are you just being annoying, or do you actually know what I'm talking about? Him: Yeah, that thing with Kony, right? Me: WHAT?! I can't believe we found each other on Craigslist. Six months later and we're psychically connected. Best roommate ever.
I read this at least 4 times until I figured out you said psychically instead of physically. The fact that you didn't say "mentally" leads me to believe that your subconscious wants it to be physically.
I spell-checked that four times to make sure I wasn't saying physically, because I knew someone was going to make that joke. Oh well.
Well, the last night of my vacation has been vastly improved by the consumption of delicious, delicious beer. It's so delicious I want to keep drinking more, except this damn alcohol has to get in the way.
This is hilarious: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...troduces-bill-limit-men-viagra-204340160.html
This is Mystery's book: Spoiler ...there's the one and only stated agenda, right there in the title: How To Get Beautiful Women Into Bed. You see, this tool that I am ashamed to share the same nationality with tells his drooling suckers that women are golden retriever puppies to train, and then guide to the top of your penis. You can do this using tactics like blatant insults, fake-smoking cigars and dressing like rejects tailgating at an Aerosmith concert. Then, throw the trash away because it's STATISTICS that are important. Fuck as many women as possible and don't stop. You'll NEVER tire of this. A recipe for dying alone if you ask me. I'm going to tell you how to ACTUALLY pick up women, and pay attention folks, because I am about to lay some motherfucking SCIENCE down on your asses: there is no sure-fire way. Mind-bottling, I know. There is not a more terrible poker face in the world than Drunk Horny Guy body language. It doesn't matter how smooth your taste is, a woman knows when you're trying to pick her up. And with that, she'll do three things: she's into you, she uses a tired excuse to ditch you, or she smells blood and decides to play you like a ten-cent flute all night before she ditches you at last call to go home to her deadbeat, X-Box playing boyfriend. In my single years, getting laid was NOT the one and only plan when going out. It was A mission, but it was rarely ever THE mission. If you scored, hurrah. Stories in the morning. If you didn't, well, isn't it important you went out and had fun with friends? That's why you party with THEM for one to four hours before even hitting a bar. That's who you look out for while you're there, and that's who you usually leave with to hit the Gyro dude when no action happens before splitting a cab. Their whole pile of shit they consider sure-fire is built on lies and scripted games. The whole term "Pick Up Artist" makes my blood curdle. Excuse me, "artist"? Russell Mills: artist. Adam Jones: artist. The Coen Brothers: artists. As far as the Artist Meter is concerned, you are barely one rung higher than the guy who makes the sandwich for you at Subway, you flaming fucking douchenozzle. Artists are professionals. Artists win awards. Two-faced liars don't win awards. If you're going to give awards to people for lying, then let's not snub the masters:
On the topic, the Philalawyer story "L'esprit de l'escalier" is worth a (re)read: <a class="postlink" href="http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/lesprit-de-lescalier/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/lesprit-de-lescalier/</a>
The retaliatory joking-but-not-really-joking laws that have been proposed against men's health issues to point out the ridiculousness of these anti-women's-health laws have been awesome. Not that I'd want any of these to actually be laws, but now if only Democrats would actually make any effort to fight for their side of things instead of drafting faux sarcastic laws, I'd be happy. er. Edit: I don't know why that URL didn't work. http://jezebel.com/5890587/your-sarcastic-dick+related-legislation-roundup
Here is a great quote from The Last Psychiatrist dealing with this issue and the whole "guys not getting laid" discussion in general:
That's a pretty accurate assumption of the male mind. The most important part of it states how angry and insecure guys can get when not getting laid. The hilarious thing about these guys in particular is that they think the only way to score is to go bars and drop lyrics on some "easy prey". The bar scene has, and always will be an unpredictable clusterfuck that ANYBODY can have a hot/cold streak when they are regulars in its sociopathic scenario. It's a vicious scene filled with backstabbers you can't trust that know full well you are nothing more than their competition. Kind of like being a stripper. A man's best weapons can be either looks, confidence, humour or charisma and if you have all four, then from the bottom of my heart and all the other guys on this board: fuck you. Patience, meditation, Internet porn. It'll happen, buddy. In the meantime, there are a million other hobbies to take the mind off the fact you are going through what SO MANY GUYS go through.
Hey can someone tell me if this counter top is granite? Also, looking for some glassware like this. Pretty sure that's granite...
I just go out and at the appropriate time whip it out. If it's a fancy dinner party I'll put a top hat and bow tie on it. I don't see what's so difficult about the whole process.
Actually, and I mean this in all seriousness, it looks like quartz. Quartz is typically man-made and has a more consistent, regular pattern. Granite is apt to be unique, with irregular swirls and such.
[rnsfw]This is a constrained optimization problem. 1) Set up the Lagrangian. It should be: L=a*ln(c) + (1-a)*ln(l) - lambda [c+wl-w-Pi+T] 2) Now start taking the partials and setting them equal to 0. a) First you'll take the partial of the Lagrangian with respect to c, dL/dc. This should give you (a/c)-lambda=0 b) Take the partial w.r.t. leisure, dL/dl which should give you ((1-a)/l)-lambda*w=0 c) Take the partial w.r.t. lambda, dL/dlambda which just gives you back the budget constraint.** 3) From here on it's just algebra. a) Take the first two partials and use substitution to eliminate the lambda. The easiest way, I think, is to move the lambda to the other side of the equal sign in the first partial, then sub it into the second partial. This and some minor rearranging should give you ((1-a)/l)=(a*w)/c. Solve for l. b) Take what you found for l and sub it into the budget constraint. (I stopped doing it myself at this point since it is just algebra.) c) take the budget constraint and solve for w since that is one of the things you are interested in. That will give you Qd sub w. 4) Do it again but solve for Pi and you'll get Qd sub Pi. Now here is a point of confusion. What you have here is the consumer side. This gives you Marshallian demands. But you need the optimization problem for the firm to get supply. Are you sure that is all there is to the problem? If that's it, then I think what he wants you to do is think of this as a one worker, one good, one firm economy. If this is the case, you will need to solve this whole problem again but get the Hicksian demands instead. That means you minimize the budget constraint subject to the utility function. All this means mathematically is that in the original langrangian you switch around what is multiplied by lambda and the chunk that isn't. Then you just go through the same partials, substitutions, etc. and solve for the same things. The demands you end up getting will be Hicksian, which can be considered Supply in one good, one worker, one firm economies. This is usually not done, but if I'm interpreting the problem correctly, this is a consumption/leisure problem and this is done sometimes in those contexts. But I would still make sure there isn't more to the problem. **Remember, these are curly ds, not straight ones. P.S. I hate you for making me do Economics the moment I woke up from my nap.[/rnsfw]
Lest we forget, girls can be socially awkward with dry spells, too. ANYONE can get laid if you bring your standards down low enough.