But I'm a great listener!" Are you? Because you're willing to sit quietly in exchange for the chance to be in the proximity of a pretty girl (and spend every second imagining how soft her skin must be)?
What makes you so qualified to give advice, Creepy Old Guy?
Im gonna start a band called "the nice guys" that plays banjos while wearing fedoras and the first album will be named "Creepy Old Guy"
Im gonna start a band called "the nice guys" that plays banjos while wearing fedoras and the first album will be named "Creepy Old Guy"
Im gonna start a band called "the nice guys" that plays banjos while wearing fedoras and the first album will be named "Creepy Old Guy"
I always mix up The Shadow and The Phantom
Im gonna start a band called "the nice guys" that plays banjos while wearing fedoras and the first album will be named "Creepy Old Guy"
the next night you can put on bicycle caps and just call yourself "Maleks"
BANJOS ARE COOL
Don't hate me just because I have sex with girls.Sentence: Death without parole.
You might even have to change your personality.
I wrote in my spare time for eight straight years, an article a week, before I ever made real money off it. It took 13 years for me to get good enough to make the New York Times best-seller list. It took me probably 20,000 hours of practice to sand the edges off my sucking.20,000 hours well spent. . . .
Because in my non-expert opinion, you don't hate yourself because you have low self-esteem, or because other people were mean to you. You hate yourself because you don't do anything.This advise, from a person who writes for a living, should have been followed by Virginia Woolf, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, or David Foster Wallace.
Steve Martin > you
are ukelele's ok though?
Im gonna start a band called "the nice guys" that plays banjos while wearing fedoras and the first album will be named "Creepy Old Guy"
Girls
Games
Gains
Pick 2.
Not a bad article. I think a lot of people our age grew up thinking that we were so awesome that money, bitches, etc. would just magically gravitate towards us because we're awesome for no reason other than being born.
SA has a good saying:QuoteGirls
Games
Gains
Pick 2.
or something like that
So, what do you bring to the table? Because the Zooey Deschanel lookalike in the bookstore that you've been daydreaming about moisturizes her face for an hour every night and feels guilty when she eats anything other than salad for lunch. She's going to be a surgeon in 10 years. What do you do?
Guess what folks! Not everyone finds someone! It sucks! Whatcha gonna dooooo?!?!?! listen to banjoooo muzak
article is too long, and posts in here are too long. suffice to say I agree with the short but sweet sentiments in the thread title and OP :bow
1. stop complaining
2. GO OUT and do something
3. talk to women like they are human beings
4. NEVER simp
5. eat the ass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD05lyPfT7k)
Follow those steps and you'll never go wrong
For a dude who dates Crystal Gemini or Cloudwalking, or whoever it is, your posts are kind of strange sometimes. I agree with some of what you said, but the point is that there are a lot of guys out there who simply have very little to offer, but expect to be in a relationship with a fantastic woman. Obviously that's not you, but surely you know some guys like this.
Not a bad article. I think a lot of people our age grew up thinking that we were so awesome that money, bitches, etc. would just magically gravitate towards us because we're awesome for no reason other than being born.
Fucking helicopter parents and 8th place trophies. Thanks.
Not a bad article. I think a lot of people our age grew up thinking that we were so awesome that money, bitches, etc. would just magically gravitate towards us because we're awesome for no reason other than being born.
Fucking helicopter parents and 8th place trophies. Thanks.
helicopter parents? always hovering? never heard this before...
Helicopter parents: http://gawker.com/5971524/overbearing-parents-ordered-by-court-to-quit-stalking-their-daughter
zzzzzzzzzz this is boring as shit. also I don't think I've ever encountered anyone in a fedora irl, hanging out at various hipster bars and coffeeshops; where are these people supposed to congregate?
zzzzzzzzzz this is boring as shit. also I don't think I've ever encountered anyone in a fedora irl, hanging out at various hipster bars and coffeeshops; where are these people supposed to congregate?
Does OKCupid count as a place? (http://fedorasofokc.tumblr.com/)
zzzzzzzzzz this is boring as shit. also I don't think I've ever encountered anyone in a fedora irl, hanging out at various hipster bars and coffeeshops; where are these people supposed to congregate?
So here is my terrible truth about the adult world: You are in that very situation every single day. Only you are the confused guy with the pocket knife. All of society is the bleeding gunshot victim.
Number 6 is pretty powerful. I admit I winced from disgust reading that.QuoteSo here is my terrible truth about the adult world: You are in that very situation every single day. Only you are the confused guy with the pocket knife. All of society is the bleeding gunshot victim.
sounds like someone in this thread where's a fedora :teehee
I actually thought the article was dumb as hell. It's full of post-25 self hatred and machismo that generally annoys me on the internet.QuoteSo, what do you bring to the table? Because the Zooey Deschanel lookalike in the bookstore that you've been daydreaming about moisturizes her face for an hour every night and feels guilty when she eats anything other than salad for lunch. She's going to be a surgeon in 10 years. What do you do?
She could also be working that bookstore in ten years. This article borders on the danger of still thinking girls are special and what do you have to offer them in order to win their specialness. That's not the best approach. Realize that the 22 year old bookstore girl is as aimless and clueless as the 22 year old gamestop employee. She may have dreams of being a surgeon just as the average male has dreams of becoming something spectacular, but the world doesn't make space for everyone to be spectacular or everyone to be surgeons. He may be nowhere in ten years and she may be nowhere in ten years. The only difference is that females can still fall back on being a homemaker.
Most people split down two paths: They follow their ideals and suffer from the fact that the world would rather they not follow their ideals and instead produce something they can profit off of now, or they forego ideals and aim for financial success and hope that things like ideals won't matter or can be replaced with the recreational resources money will give them. Around 30+ and into their 40s ,they start to either miss the financial security they wish they had or miss the self-assured identity they assume pursuing their idealistic interests would have given them. Some succeed on ideals, but its rare. Most tend to gravitate in the middle of their life towards whatever they gave up earlier in life to try to repair any damage they're currently dealing with. And their romantic partners won't always stay with them through either of these struggles for they aren't at that part in their maturing or their own maturing forces them down a similar but separate path.
But that's later on in life. "Girls want to know what you have to offer the world." Is just a somewhat more aged answer to the question "What do girls want?"that normally ends in "money and power". The problem is that girls, just like the dudes, mostly don't know what they want in their 20s. Finding out who you are is often a longer process than traditional marrying age allows for, so we have shoved in generalized questions and generalized answers to make it seem like we aren't all flying blind for half our lives. This article is just more of that same old shit.
But the recrnt fedora craze among nerdom and bros is directly due to Draper. And don't post a Casablanca pic in response to this post, Mandork
You know who make fedoras work? Orthodox Jews.(http://i.imgur.com/0yqpL.jpg)
zzzzzzzzzz this is boring as shit. also I don't think I've ever encountered anyone in a fedora irl, hanging out at various hipster bars and coffeeshops; where are these people supposed to congregate?
Does OKCupid count as a place? (http://fedorasofokc.tumblr.com/)
Don Draper has ruined more than the modern fashion decisions of jawless, small men. . . .
Lesson: look like Don Draper, have wealth like Don Draper, be intelligent like Don Draper, be well-spoken like Don Draper, have power like Don Draper, AND LOOK LIKE DON DRAPER!
5) I've almost finished a novel
Don Draper ???
Your teens and twenties are defined by trying on 'many different hats'. Especially among white males because they don't really have a cultural heritage/identity to fall back on.
Your teens and twenties are defined by trying on 'many different hats'. Especially among white males because they don't really have a cultural heritage/identity to fall back on. Unless you still live around some of the old immigrant neighborhoods of yore.
You don't have the skillset to approach women like many men do, so you come at them as a neutered, disinterested pal. Your aim is still the same, but when you get turned down you still get to play the victim role to assuage your hurt feelings. I only know it, because it was my game also. I just didn't cry about it to everyone I know. I moved onto the next one and tried again.
what did you change to make that happen like what did you say
what did you change to make that happen like what did you say
You know who make fedoras work? Orthodox Jews.(http://i.imgur.com/0yqpL.jpg)
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http://nymag.com/news/features/black-jews-2012-12/
Even the weave is kosher
5) I've almost finished a novel
Big deal. I've finished reading several.
ctrl + f "160"
That's odd.
I like how a thread about jolting some sense into whining lovelorn nerds is well on its way to being a lovelorn nerd self-pity party.
I went to a yoga class a few days ago. There was a girl next to me who looked absolutely amazing in her yoga pants. I looked again, and she had a wedding ring. :'(
My friend is a freshman professor at UC San Diego and he syas he gets a couple calls every semester from parents wanting to discuss their kids grades.Not a bad article. I think a lot of people our age grew up thinking that we were so awesome that money, bitches, etc. would just magically gravitate towards us because we're awesome for no reason other than being born.
Fucking helicopter parents and 8th place trophies. Thanks.
I'm kinda bummed b/c all my friends are now currently engaged or married. Need to jump back into the dating game again. My problem is that I'm not attractive and I'm not terribly "nice". IE I'm very opinionated (will call a girl out on her shit too) and don't wait on girls hand-over-foot.
Try playing some clubs? I hear DJs do pretty well for themselves.
Don Draper ???
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He's a fictional character played by Jon Hamm, the second hottest St. Louis Blues fan in the world.
I went to a yoga class a few days ago. There was a girl next to me who looked absolutely amazing in her yoga pants. I looked again, and she had a wedding ring. :'(
Yoga pants mmmmm.
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He's a fictional character played by Jon Hamm, the second hottest St. Louis Blues fan in the world.
Second hottest, you say?
I still can't think of any instance of seeing someone wearing a fedora in a public place. Maybe I just tune it out
never wear a fedora period you all look like twats
I hang out in the Seattle U-district much of the time, so you'd think I'd have seen them if they're rampant there. I guess I probably just tune out fashion in general, I don't really care what the kids are wearing these days, you know it's going to be stupid so just get over it and don't waste energy kvetching
Ha, I've walked by that place but never in it. I'm usually in either Solstice, Sureshot or Trabant, basically any coffee place that's open late is cool by me
digipen is filthy with fedorae
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2004
There is one picture of me on facebook where I'm wearing a fedora. But it wasn't mine, and I was wearing a suit in a matching color.
Actually, one of the fedora dudes in the bar last night pulled off the look. He had a pretty sick overcoat, a killer scarf, great boots, and all the colors went together well. The fedora looked good on him. But he was one dude out of about ten.
Actually, one of the fedora dudes in the bar last night pulled off the look. He had a pretty sick overcoat, a killer scarf, great boots, and all the colors went together well. The fedora looked good on him. But he was one dude out of about ten.
also, brace yourself for dudes in tights. it's a thing.
Actually, one of the fedora dudes in the bar last night pulled off the look. He had a pretty sick overcoat, a killer scarf, great boots, and all the colors went together well. The fedora looked good on him. But he was one dude out of about ten.
Who dresses like that at a bar?! Did him and his friends go on a fox hunt afterwords?
There are no dudes pulling that off in a bar. You just look like an alien.
:lol
You think an overcoat, scarf, and boots in the winter are the clothes of an alien? I feel sorry for you. What do you wear when you go out at night? Sneakers, jeans and a ski jacket?
Actually, one of the fedora dudes in the bar last night pulled off the look. He had a pretty sick overcoat, a killer scarf, great boots, and all the colors went together well. The fedora looked good on him. But he was one dude out of about ten.
Who dresses like that at a bar?! Did him and his friends go on a fox hunt afterwords?
There are no dudes pulling that off in a bar. You just look like an alien.
:lol
You think an overcoat, scarf, and boots in the winter are the clothes of an alien? I feel sorry for you. What do you wear when you go out at night? Sneakers, jeans and a ski jacket?
Leave Jarosh alone.
Last night wore my pea coat, favorite purple dress shirt, black tie, dark gray slacks, new black dress shoes I got for christmas (never wear the same color shoe as your slacks), and a black golfer hat. I have a fedora, but it was my grandfather's and it's tan/sandy, so it it would fit me with a limited amount of colors and clothes.
Last night wore my pea coat, favorite purple dress shirt, black tie, dark gray slacks, new black dress shoes I got for christmas (never wear the same color shoe as your slacks), and a black golfer hat. I have a fedora, but it was my grandfather's and it's tan/sandy, so it it would fit me with a limited amount of colors and clothes.
Were you also wearing a wig and stockings?
If you think like that, yeah, you won't.
Wimp.
If you think like that, yeah, you won't.
Wimp.
Seriously, you don't get the nicely vertical lines a skinny or fit dude gets. You end up looking like a christmas tree or like you're wearing a burlap sack. I guess if you like those looks then it's not so bad. Me, not so much.
I've got a little gut nowadays so button ups are getting tiresome for me. The ones that look good on me are stretching at the buttons at the gut, and a size larger makes me look like a 5 year old in my dad's dress shirt
Being a fat dude makes looking cool in clothes pretty much impossible. :-\
There is one picture of me on facebook where I'm wearing a fedora. But it wasn't mine, and I was wearing a suit in a matching color.
Actually, one of the fedora dudes in the bar last night pulled off the look. He had a pretty sick overcoat, a killer scarf, great boots, and all the colors went together well. The fedora looked good on him. But he was one dude out of about ten.
now people are reading on the internet that you have to "pull off" the fedora and those people are now gonna tarnish the rest of the 50s suit look.
So is fashion your new thing for 2013?
We're just talking in a thread that has devolved into discussing people's clothing habits. How about you go drink a beer and shut the fuck up?
dont ever wear a fedora ffs
You can wear a fedora. I've seen lots of people do it. It's just really hard to pull off. Honestly, you need a slim face with a prominent jawline to really do it.
I mean no one would ever say that Humphrey Bogart looked bad in one, right? It's doable. But 99.99% of the population doesn't look anywhere near as pimp as Bogart.
dont ever wear a fedora ffs
You can wear a fedora. I've seen lots of people do it. It's just really hard to pull off. Honestly, you need a slim face with a prominent jawline to really do it.
I mean no one would ever say that Humphrey Bogart looked bad in one, right? It's doable. But 99.99% of the population doesn't look anywhere near as pimp as Bogart.
The problem is if you think you'll look cool in a fedora, you're not cool enough to wear a fedora. Bogart didn't think "I bet I'd look really cool if I wore this fedora" no, he was just cool and he wore a fedora because that was the style back then. The only people that want to wear a fedora in 2012 are hipster nerds.
I've got a little gut nowadays so button ups are getting tiresome for me. The ones that look good on me are stretching at the buttons at the gut, and a size larger makes me look like a 5 year old in my dad's dress shirt
Start running.
You said a few years ago you wanted to GAIN weight.
Fucking baka.
http://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/in-memoriam-michel-foucault-15-october-1926-%e2%80%93-25-june-1984/
Two and a half millenia ago sexuality was invented by the horrible Greeks and idealized by Plato. Once idealized, sexuality was as robust as anthrax and as insidious as herpes, and could nest dormant in your cells like trichinella or plasmodium . For most people during much of human history, sexuality merely wallowed in the murk like some enormous, slimy, barbeled catfish, and emerged only occasionally to engulf some hapless human victim. But from time to time sexual / anti-sexual idealists like Augustine and Dante encouraged and strengthened the monster, and finally in 1830 (with the July Revolution and the opening of Hugo’s play Hernani) the French romantics and liberals brought the undead creature from mud to land. For almost two centuries now it’s been flopping and wallowing among us, going where it will, wreaking havoc and devouring any who dare come its way.
Many have tried to tame or defeat sexuality, but each attempt has only made it stronger and more horrible. Repression, chastity, marriage, idealization, libertinism, liberation, naturalness, “relationships”, psychoanalysis, bisexuality, intersexuality, transgendering, queering – nothing has worked, and sexuality still claims countless new victims each day. This creature has no benign forms and cannot be resisted, and all we can do now is resign ourselves to our sexual fates, whatever those may be, and hope for some post-sexual Beowulf or Parsifal to come along to drive a stake into the beast’s gigantic, loathsome head.
Whatever you do, make sure you take advice from people who aren't in shape.