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kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "You're Doing Great Work, It's Just...You Aren't Trying Very Hard."

Thing of it is: parents who can kick six figures to their daughter's college can afford to throw a trophy wife into the mix. In our anything-but-classless society her strategy is entirely sound.





nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's the infuriating bit. She could actually pull it off. Mildly hot too. Oh well.

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, so mildly hot, no ambition, expects to ride her parents' money until her husband takes over? Yeah, fail. She's gonna have to trade down especially since JH is a Tier 2 school.

She's at the apex of her life right now unless she develops some drive. It's all downhill from here.

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mildly hot, so 7-8/10 plus I'm picky. Still nothing?

edit: I believe her emotional capacity peaks at the equivalent in color of sand dunes in a desert. Does the transparency of a Proterozoic jellyfish add points?

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude. You live and hunt in Manhattan and you're calling her a soft 8?

If you're a moneyed rentier slumming it at Johns Hopkins, you're not putting up with a soft 8 every bit as rich as you are. You can pillage all the 10s that actually give a shit that your BMW is less than 8 months old. A soft 8 with shit tons of money becomes interesting only to aspirants on scholarships, who are exactly the prospects she's looking to dodge.

You need to read you some Brett Easton Ellis. It'll never be as good as it is now.

b_b  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but an 8 in Manhattan is probably a 9.5 elsewhere. I've gotten some high class tail there in my life that were basically castaways for the New York elite. Maybe your view is skewed too, since you live in the one other place in the US that's on that level.

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

guys there are girls here

but, to be clear, she's an 8 from my school in new jersey. Here round my work, in Midtown Manhattan, she's a generous 4. Not joking.

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The numerical rating system is gender-agnostic. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but we're discussing a girl who intends to use an internationally-renowned medical school as her singles bar. The crassness of the topic matches the crassness of the language.

_refugee_  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeaaah this whole conversation is making me way curious

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i would be happy to alleviate you of your curiosity

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Precisely: an 8 in Manhattan or Redondo Beach is a 10 anywhere else, but an 8 from Manhattan or Redondo Beach sees all the other 8s as 4s. Where she's going there's nothing but castaways.

b_b  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Point taken. I just want the lad to know that his views of which women are attractive are probably skewed by circumstance, as relativity matters. Back in engineering school I used to drool over girls I wouldn't hold the door for in high school (figuratively speaking). Gotta take advantage of what you can while you can; that's always lost on young men.

Note: Don't get a big head about the Redondo thing, insomniasexx.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Back in engineering school I used to drool over girls I wouldn't hold the door for in high school (figuratively speaking).

As someone currently in engineering school it's the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest.

galen  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As someone currently in a high school that's 85% male, I feel you. You just have to join up all the clubs and groups you can find relating to your interests and hope to meet someone.

Unfortunately that's far easier said than done, especially when you're my age. But you aren't, so congratulations, I guess.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What kind of a high school is 85% male? That's a bit unusual, no?

My post was a bit sarcastic, I've done quite well considering I mostly avoid my college of study and have been heavily occupied in two organizations plus our center for leadership and community service, and the music scene of the city at large. You are right though, it is all about the extracurriculars. Much easier to find people of common interests while still having them come from a diversity of genders, sexualities, cultures, etc.

galen  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it's a tiny private school with some pretty serious privilege issues. It's 90% white, 85% male, etc., probably due to a combination of the surrounding area, the high tuition, and the stated mission (school for the gifted - not that white males tend to be more gifted, but I wouldn't be surprised if white males were more often designated gifted).

ButterflyEffect  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, we have a high school like that back home and I recently worked about a mile away from Phillips Academy. Talk about privileged. But you know, I'd like to think that while they're not exactly melting pots, that places like those set a person up to go almost wherever they would like, and open up a lot more doors down the road. I'd think a lot of it has to do with socioeconomic standing as well.

galen  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sure hope so. But at this point I've switched schools so many times I've decided just to make the best of where I am. Senior year!

humanodon  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would say that being born with a silver spoon in one's mouth is something of a gift, but I don't think it indicates intelligence or capability at all.

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The other nice thing is that composition shifts with the scale. A Seattle 10 is a different kind of beauty than a Los Angeles 10 than a Denver 10 than a Utah 10.

I find women in Los Angeles to be a lot more tan and a lot more put together than women in, say, San Francisco... but also a lot deader behind the eyes.

insomniasexx  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another thing I've noticed is the disparity between weight in different places - across both genders. You don't often see awfully obese people in NYC or Manhattan Beach. Go to Portland, Maine or Central MA and I'm a fraction of the size. I'm never the skinniest person in NYC or MB though.

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hie thee to Wisconsin. You'll be anorexic.

humanodon  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are very tiny.

insomniasexx  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm actually from Manhattan Beach and live in RB now and I think I kept up in NYC. Soooooo. What does that make me?

b_b  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're a 10, insom. You're a 10.

b_b  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Easy, son. She doesn't need her tires pumped that much.

_refugee_  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

u guize

(i know we were referring to insom but for the reocrd)

i'm not a number i'm an anglerfish

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey there pretty lady, nice gonads.

_refugee_  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty much exactly what I look like, too.

thenewgreen  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've actually met _ref_ and I can attest to the odd gonad shaped fish protruding from her head. It took some getting used to, but by the third round of rye whisky's, nobody noticed anymore.

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you're the most beautiful anglerfish there ever was ref. you're a rainbow anglerfish. A golden rainbow anglerfish dolphin shark.

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right, shit. Shit shit shit. I need to get rich stat. But I don't want to work hard :'(

kleinbl00  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude.

marry that chick.

SORTED!

nowaypablo  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lmao. You're a wizard kb.