Back then that phrase actually meant a woman. Now, sadly, it is all about the gender you “persuade” yourself you are.
Captain Willard
March 7, 2018 12:21 pm
At the rate we’re going, this will be a typical Match.com ad in the year 2065.
18 productive acres, well-watered and out of the nuclear impact and fallout zone, will be the equivalent of a SoHo penthouse by then.
BL
March 7, 2018 12:33 pm
My how times have changed, today his list would read:
Basically sit in my mom’s basement and play video games
Work 15 hours a week at Starbucks
Don’t own anything , not even a car
Not interested in marriage, that would be hard
Not interested in full time employment, that would be hard
Perfectly willing to have a relationship over a electronic device
Really not interested in spending money on a girl
BL
March 7, 2018 12:55 pm
One of the first questions I posed when I came here was , are men/males becoming obsolete? May be time to ask that question again.
IDK Anon, the US is not the entire world, Latin men still seem to have the time for the ladies, Asians still have the drive (maybe not in Japan). There is hope.
You’ve got that right! I’m not Latin, but I live in South America and at 71, being solvent and still astonishingly handsome (; ) ) have my pick of very attractive women 20 years younger and still feminine. And they come equipped with financial assets in the bargain! Trust me, beta males down here (I live in South America) are not viewed well, except among the hippie community. The fellow in that ad would be deluged with responses down here.
Roosta county Maine. I have a few friends from there. Guess they hadn’t got into potatoes by then. (potatoes in the us were first grown in londonderry NH in 1719, about 12 miles from my house). Some history. When a fleet of ships left France, it got split into two. One group of ships ended up on the Maine-New Brunswick border, the other in New Orleans. These people are related. Acadian’s and Cajun’s. Pretty cool.
Snow’s starting to fly, gotta run around the property to make sure everything is buttoned down.
jimmieoakland
March 7, 2018 4:09 pm
Dude can still buy hoop skirts. A lot of guys are into that, at least in my neighborhood.
Anonymous
March 7, 2018 4:21 pm
Damn
I wish I were obsolete. I have so many women dependent on me (who also tell me what to do) that I feel I don’t own my life any more. I made half a mil last year as a surgeon and every penny was scooped up by various women: wife, mother, daughter, assistant, others. (No not THAT type of other). Oh —and I get no reward for my efforts, having not been laid for twenty years. Paradise to me would be the apocalypse before which rapture took up all the fairer sex of the world to live in heaven.
Why go on if you haven’t been laid in 20 years? Do your women’s need some help?
Anonymous
March 7, 2018 4:25 pm
Addendum
…the fairer sex to live in heaven, leaving us sweaty swarthy malekind to engage in smoking drinking gambling and swearing. And shooting and fighting and farting and laughing
This was 1865 and he couldn’t find a wife? After the slaughter of the Civil War? Boy may have been industrious and had good teeth but must have been beyond ugly.
MrLiberty
March 7, 2018 4:48 pm
18 years old!!! THAT is the real takehome message from this post. ALL THAT to his name, plus all that hard work, and only 18.
I would have married him, if he was decent looking.
Anonymous
March 7, 2018 5:29 pm
You’ve never been to “The” county!
Anonymous
March 7, 2018 10:24 pm
ILuvCO2
Why do I go on?
Have you ever played the game RISK? At the beginning, just as in life, each player has a chance at winning, although some are positioned better than others. There comes a point in the game at which it becomes obvious who is about to win. That player has one or two sets of cards to turn in for a huge number of armies with which to sweep the board and eliminate the one or two other remaining players. It would be simple for the remaining players to quit, to concede. But then the winning would-be conqueror doesn’t get to have the fun of conquering, which is the whole purpose of playing the game in the first place. I am like the remaining losing player. I continue my existence so the winner can win. Hopefully it will be my offspring.
I have a BIL who’s a neuroradiologist. He says he has to make the figure you state to stay afloat, but he’s got three wives and two sets of kids to maintain. He’s totaled two BMWs due to falling asleep behind the wheel commuting from one hospital to another. I think he is insane, and his children are spoiled and delusional. They won’t make the cull.
If that was today, next year he’d have nothing and owe for huge child support and alimony for about 21 years.
Or he’d be shopping for a sex robot instead.
Or he’d be investigated by some busybody government agency for restricting his search to a “person of the female persuasion”.
Back then that phrase actually meant a woman. Now, sadly, it is all about the gender you “persuade” yourself you are.
At the rate we’re going, this will be a typical Match.com ad in the year 2065.
18 productive acres, well-watered and out of the nuclear impact and fallout zone, will be the equivalent of a SoHo penthouse by then.
My how times have changed, today his list would read:
Basically sit in my mom’s basement and play video games
Work 15 hours a week at Starbucks
Don’t own anything , not even a car
Not interested in marriage, that would be hard
Not interested in full time employment, that would be hard
Perfectly willing to have a relationship over a electronic device
Really not interested in spending money on a girl
One of the first questions I posed when I came here was , are men/males becoming obsolete? May be time to ask that question again.
Oh, it’s already been answered.
The answer was: Yes.
IDK Anon, the US is not the entire world, Latin men still seem to have the time for the ladies, Asians still have the drive (maybe not in Japan). There is hope.
Ummm….there must be a Jap in the TBP community.
You’ve got that right! I’m not Latin, but I live in South America and at 71, being solvent and still astonishingly handsome (; ) ) have my pick of very attractive women 20 years younger and still feminine. And they come equipped with financial assets in the bargain! Trust me, beta males down here (I live in South America) are not viewed well, except among the hippie community. The fellow in that ad would be deluged with responses down here.
Look at any farm, right HSF?
Roosta county Maine. I have a few friends from there. Guess they hadn’t got into potatoes by then. (potatoes in the us were first grown in londonderry NH in 1719, about 12 miles from my house). Some history. When a fleet of ships left France, it got split into two. One group of ships ended up on the Maine-New Brunswick border, the other in New Orleans. These people are related. Acadian’s and Cajun’s. Pretty cool.
Snow’s starting to fly, gotta run around the property to make sure everything is buttoned down.
Dude can still buy hoop skirts. A lot of guys are into that, at least in my neighborhood.
Damn
I wish I were obsolete. I have so many women dependent on me (who also tell me what to do) that I feel I don’t own my life any more. I made half a mil last year as a surgeon and every penny was scooped up by various women: wife, mother, daughter, assistant, others. (No not THAT type of other). Oh —and I get no reward for my efforts, having not been laid for twenty years. Paradise to me would be the apocalypse before which rapture took up all the fairer sex of the world to live in heaven.
Why go on if you haven’t been laid in 20 years? Do your women’s need some help?
Addendum
…the fairer sex to live in heaven, leaving us sweaty swarthy malekind to engage in smoking drinking gambling and swearing. And shooting and fighting and farting and laughing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1dP7p2dqUI&feature=youtu.be
This was 1865 and he couldn’t find a wife? After the slaughter of the Civil War? Boy may have been industrious and had good teeth but must have been beyond ugly.
18 years old!!! THAT is the real takehome message from this post. ALL THAT to his name, plus all that hard work, and only 18.
I would have married him, if he was decent looking.
You’ve never been to “The” county!
ILuvCO2
Why do I go on?
Have you ever played the game RISK? At the beginning, just as in life, each player has a chance at winning, although some are positioned better than others. There comes a point in the game at which it becomes obvious who is about to win. That player has one or two sets of cards to turn in for a huge number of armies with which to sweep the board and eliminate the one or two other remaining players. It would be simple for the remaining players to quit, to concede. But then the winning would-be conqueror doesn’t get to have the fun of conquering, which is the whole purpose of playing the game in the first place. I am like the remaining losing player. I continue my existence so the winner can win. Hopefully it will be my offspring.
That’s an extremely philosophical point of view.
I have a BIL who’s a neuroradiologist. He says he has to make the figure you state to stay afloat, but he’s got three wives and two sets of kids to maintain. He’s totaled two BMWs due to falling asleep behind the wheel commuting from one hospital to another. I think he is insane, and his children are spoiled and delusional. They won’t make the cull.