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Try saying 'Irish wristwatch' repeatedly at a decent volume and speed.
Too easy? Try 'toy boat'
Red leather, yellow leather...
New York is unique, Unique is New York...
I'm going to be in Texas for the holidays. I've never been. What should an uber cool unique New York hipster douchebag like me expect??
Baytown, which I believe is not too far from Houston?
Pretty sure this is the right thread for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Vt4vmWxmY
... well. is it?
Perhaps, if she was planning to massacre the rest of her crew and required a quick means of absorbing the evidence.
all i know about tampons is that when i bought my wife ones labeled "super" she was like "how loose do you think i am down there!?". you see, i didn't know that tampon manufacturers spoke in euphemisms. i thought it was all about the absorbency per volume of padding. :(
I seriously did not know there were women out there that can't hold in normal sized tampons. I assumed an absorbency per volume thing as well. Actually.. I think that literally is the case lol, I don't think your wife's reaction was warranted.
Randomness Thread: The Women's Health Education You Never Received (But Always Secretly Hoped You Would!)
well. the super ones are kind of thicker, here in germany anyway. and my wife says they're a little too snug for comfort.
Well, if you don't know for sure, then the professional thing to do is to ask, because WHAT IF YOU'RE WRONG?
well, OMG MY PERIOD IS REALLY BLOODY THIS TIME sounded like super tampon time.
Dammit, that's better.
lol that's not why I'm single. Do you think this is a reflection of my irl personality? It's me being an internet dick. I'm single because I'm 34 years old and spend my life getting stoned while pissing about on the internet. I have literally nothing going for me. I'm not stupid, I know exactly why I don't get daily blow jobs. But then again I don't have to go to fucking work either, so it's all good.
The past several chicks I've been involved with have all used multiple sizes of tampons depending on how heavy their flow happens to be.
yeah super size tampon doesn't necessarily mean
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln...vaudo1_500.gif
pretty sure it's just an absorbency thing
I think Larry David should be the clincher to the tampon conversation.
You act like there isn't a world full of women who don't give a fuck that you're jobless, they're just thrilled that you like to have a generally laid-back, stress-free, good time and that you don't insult them or mistreat them.
As long as you're the kind of guy who doesn't expect your lady to pay for your lifestyle, there's a good woman in your local area that you just haven't met yet.
Some women like to play poker, and video games, and like to smoke, and just hang out with someone who has a good sense of humor.
P.S. Have you considered that you're single because the advantages of being single outweigh the advantages of being in a couple?
"Some strangers are just rapists you haven't met."
Wtf lol
I don't believe that for a second. Maybe being single us better than your current options for coupledom.
movie..Baytown outlaws...fucking stupid..and hilarious..
You have to be honest that it takes a lot of hard work, compromise, and forgiveness on both parties to maintain even the best relationship. Throw kids into the mix and kiss your free will goodbye.
Kids are a thing that couple's want. Having kids blinds people to what they gave up to have them. People say their kids make them happy, but that's statistically false. People with kids are on average as happy as people without kids. People with kids report a rich sense of fulfillment. People without kids report good night's sleep and much lower cost-of-living.
So there are major unspoken cons to both being in a relationship and to having kids.
People in relationships with kids just don't want to talk about that stuff, and it's understandable why. They've made their choice and they're done shopping.
Hey dan, how much is xmas costing you? Mine will be under £100.
Ong, the amount you're spending has more to do with your income than the number of people you care about enough to buy for.
Also what do kids have to do with anything? Kids aren't something most couples want. They might be something most couples end up with. What most guys I know want when entering a relationship is regular sex and someone to share stuff with which is pretty much companionship although nobody pre couple would use the word.
Yeah I'd say as much as 90% of parents I know did not plan their kids
In work till 1pm then it's off to the staff party where there will be food and darts and a free bar all day, then no more work for two weeks. Awww yissssss
hmm. i haven't spent a dime on my wife this xmas, and she won't either probably. i mean what's the point, it's all coming out of our conjoined finances anyway...? so we should just buy shit for ourselves if we feel like it, imo. or go on holiday. for a long fucking time. man i want a holiday.
i have spent money on wife's relatives however, what a pain. people who i care most about are getting little to nothing from me, just people who i feel "obligations" towards are getting little token gifts. what an absurd world.
I'm lost on what this argument is in favor of.
At first, I though you were saying, "Hey MMM, leave kids out of it, we're talking about couples," but that doesn't really capture the sentiment.
Are you saying that being single is a good way to prevent accidentally having kids?
Most people in relationships long forgot what regular sex is.
I'd obviously be lying if I said that I didn't miss sex. But that's all I'm missing out on. Well, the cuddling and kissing too, but that all falls under the "intimacy" umbrella. I have relationships, there's two women in my life who I've been very close to for the best part of 20 years. The one in particular, I unload all my problems on her and she unloads hers on me. We love each other, I have my soulmate. I just don't have the intimacy. That's preferable to regular sex but no soulmate.
The point is kids are irrelevant to the value of having a partner.
And being single doesn't prevent kids. Unless you suck with women.
Ps I also am drunk.
I'd say that increased chance of having kids you 'don't want' or 'didn't plan on' is a notable con to being in a couple.
I'm not saying being in a couple is bad. I'm saying it's not all roses, and it's not for everyone.
There are incredibly motivating pros and cons to both being in and out of a couple.
merp.
And I'm quite jealous of daven.
Furthermore:
Many relationships are predicated on false presentations.
Many relationships are perpetuated for unhealthy reasons.
Many people in relationships feel trapped into roles that don't really fit them.
Relationships can be brutal. Given the choice of brutal relationship vs. no relationship, I'll take no relationship every time.
- and that's only considering the cons of a bad relationship, and not even addressing the pros of being single.
relationships are hard work, yes, absolutely but should ultimately be enriching and fulfilling on every level and should make your life undoubtedly better than it would be if you hadn't met that person. that's what the hard work is for: personal growth. the best relationships inspire you to be the best person you can be on your own, and therefore for each other. the frisson should never dissipate completely. i believe relationships die when codependence reaches the point of no return.
the german poet Rainer Maria Rilke said it best (this applies to any relationship of course, not just marriage):
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
Rilke has a brilliant book called Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: http://www.amazon.com/Rilke-Love-Oth...=1419020510865
I highly recommend it.
i feel like i won't be mature enough for a healthy relationship till im 40
Godspeed, Rand Paul
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/742273...aul-rubio-cuba
Rainer Fucking Rilke ITT
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Letters to a Young Poet
Plus, why have kids when you can have drugs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH0DFEXzKKI
I totes agree that great relationships are great, too. I'm just saying it's easy to lose sight of other realities when you've picked one.
but yeah... let's forget what I was talking about and move on to this...
It's way better.
Dayum.
Rainer Maria Rilke.
:popcorn:
I was introduced to him by a friend and architect. His teacher told him he had no idea what was good and what was crap, and the first step to knowing the difference was Rainer Rilke. It's a good sales pitch for a dead poet.
omg, Rilke appreciation & drugs & one of my fav songs to do my loony robot on lsd dance moves to. this thread just got so real. i am so moved. -wipes away tear-
This Henry Miller quote is a fantastic complement to the quote you posted, Rilla:
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
I'm also seriously considering appropriating Rilke's ideas on love and being guardians of each other's solitude for my toast at my brother's wedding next year. As an antidote to the usual gross things people say that they think are romantic.
Here's the crux of it imo...
healthy relationship > single > unhealthy relationship
Being single is not a problem. Being happy with a partner is obviously better. But that doesn't automatically make being single a huge problem. It is for some people, I get that. But not for me. I could probably count on one hand the women I've been interested in during the last five years. I'm certainly not desperate. If I stay single until I die, well I admit that's a depressing thought, but still, not as depressing as the idea of being with someone I don't love just to fend off the lonliness.
quick now somebody post any random shakespeare quote so i can point out how it's senseless harblegarble
I wish I could remember the speech I gave for my brother's wedding, I opened with "We met when I was zero years old..."
im forever saddened there was no recording of my speech at my brother's wedding. was dreading it for months yet knocked that shit so far out of the park
Oops MY kingdom for a fucking horse.
I don't think either of those quotes are right
YOUR KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
Really? I think Miller is goading people to find the artist inside them too in that quote. He's referring to what Robert Graves talks about in this awesome interview: "A source in the primitive. In the prerational."
The heartache he's referring to is the ineffable pang of emotion we feel when something resonates with us, beyond "happy" or "sad" or "angry" and just simply rings true. It's not about "better." It's not heartache in the sense of "oh man I wish I could have written that."
My feelings don't go that deep. To me it's an epiphany. When I see someone lay it out better than I could, I work out how he managed it.
But then again, the things that strike me as awe-inspiring are often not poetry.
I couldn't read through the tears
For you to see something as revelatory and be inspired to want to work out how they managed it, you would have to have the aesthetic experience first. That's how you know that it's something on the level, something that's tapped into the source. You have the "heartache" (perhaps you wouldn't use that word yourself, but that's just semantics -- the heartache in Miller's quote is simply is the aesthetic experience) and consequently you are inspired. Not everyone is inspired to action, of course, but I guess you're just awesome and a natural born arteest. :)
I've been having it in seemingly endless torrents lately listening to Prokofiev. He's introduced a whole new paradigm to me when it comes to my emotional/psychological response to music.