The fruit baskets that wear guy liner and a lot of monochromatic clothes probably think it's real, too.

Is there any way for us to change our nicknames in this server? I like to use my YT presence nickname wherever I go...

I think it might have been possible to have had it working for a few days but srsly...it wasn't ever going to work because according to the snowflakes, "It wasn't REAL socialism."

My dad's family is largely from Ecuador so I've seen what you mean first hand

It's so hard to imagine this happening in the world today...what with all the advantages the rest of us have

It's probably surreal for the first few months but after it becomes the new normal...looking out from the inside has to be unsettling. OR, maybe it's not something you get used to. One just continues to suffer

Yeah that sounds about right

Gawd, seriously...I hope you can improve your situation

In that case I would take anything you learned from her with a grain of salt!

She was saving up for dental work I'm sure

And if we're being honest here I've always secretly wanted BBC to stand for Big Black Cock...just because they remind me of FOX stations so much

Totally. My car salesman has been married three times and has six kids....dafaq?!

His health by the looks of it. He was eating lunch out of a paper bag (McD's) had to ignore six calls from his Mrs.....

I was starting to feel like I was interrupting his real life!

Oh yeah...He probably died years ago but his body refuses to give up its air addiction

Long day though...I'm ready for a nap but it's only a little after six here

That was me night before last...got up at three am and bumped around all day

High school?

I mean ARE they though? I have a good close friend who was an incel for a long time before he started working out and eating better.

I seemed to hit dietary impasses a LOT when I was cutting weight. I constantly found myself changing something or other

LOL...I dropped back down to XL!

I wasn't sure about the PIC being high school...I've heard Coach Greg Adams refer to college as indoctrination camps

Bro, it's brilliant that you've figured this stuff out WHILE in high school. I'm 44 only just learned that there's a better way of life...I mean I learned it right as I was turning 40 but still...that's WAY too long to be thirsty

Either way it's win-win, right?!

I would just politely chat but be non-commital about it. I NEVER offer to buy them a drink and as you might surmise more often than not they would buy ME a drink to keep the conversation going. It's been a few years though since I was merely 'on break' from my marriage and not fully divorced.

Eh...I'm with Nig on this one these days though. I don't bother drinking in public anymore. Even in a bar/public setting you might get #metooed...as they've shown in the past, 'Proof? What proof?!'

You're not missing on anything. I'm simply in the habit of drinking two or three glasses of wine a week...

Or maybe three beers at the end of a work day

BREAKFAST BEER?! LOL!!!

Speaking of which it's time for my breakfast coffee

@haku. Most likely for the buzz/drunken sensation. Also some people genuinely like the taste. Domestics (US) taste like someone ran hot water down a 300 pound man's sweaty ass crack and added some urine to the runoff though so YMMV

Ya know? Whatchagonnado? I mean I can imagine that only a woman would take issue with such things so if you're living the full red pill you're golden. Do what makes you happy and let no one be your judge.

Despite being red pilled while married I'm still in the habit of not always doing precisely what I want to do just to avoid turmoil. Does it make me unhappy? Sometimes...but by and large I feel pretty good about how my finances and overall life are going. Every once in a while I'll hit a snag but not often

I gotta be honest it makes me feel at ease to be in chat room FILLED to the brim with other guys to whom I don't have to explain the notion of MGTOW or the red pill philosophy before I can get a point across!

Oh, oh, oh! Meeeeeee! ✋

The one saving grace is that my wife makes slightly more money than I do but my company provides killer medical benefits so it all comes out in the wash. Single or married I would do the same thing which is invest in real estate to either flip or rent (rent is probably better in this market) and get that passive income stream rolling

Yeah, I've also been divorced...a story for another time

Absolutely. I started too late with it so my real estate empire is going to be more of a real estate fifedom...we'll see.

Yeah...I was red pilled WHILE married

Magically it all came together almost 4 years ago...but I've been married since '08

When I share the bad stuff going on in the world (she tends to avoid the news and only uses social media for work stuff) she gently reminds me, "I'm NOT a feminist!"

She's one of those bona fide honest to goodness decent people you hear about from time to time. Good, middle income family without many skeletons in the closet....good upbringing with zero entitlement. I couldn't see it before our break

@The-Free-Monk You have to be introduced by an active mason to their community

That too....coffee time!

There's a LOT of indirectness involved in that and that's not what I'm about. Frankly I think I'd rather join a biker gang (something ELSE I wouldn't actually do). One of my coworkers is an officer here locally and he's busy AF! I mean like non -stop he's always talking about how he needs to be off on time for this or that lodge related business

Honestly I don't see the benefit...but then I probably haven't spent but a minute or two researching it

Yeah but they'd all REE if there was a men's only hotel

I think it only bothers me because we're not supposed to give two squirts that they get their own spaces but because of one reason or another they're always permited to invade ours

I was thinking that one of the few reasons one would have to join something like that is for the community activities but I'm kinda...anti-social that way. I really haven't tied myself to this community in any way outside of what's needed to be welcomed

Yeah this one is a men's only of course I did know that. Still...too many expectations. I'm too busy in real life for that

No shit?! I'mma ask Bubba about that to see if they have one here

There are FOUR big houses (EVE shelters) for women but I have seen nothing around here for the menfolk

Hey, they wanted equality...they need to obey the rules just like the rest of us

Actually that figure is likely just the ones that get reported...technically I'M an abuse victim too...from my first marriage. There was something DEEPLY wrong with that chick but boy she could rock the sheets

But it's TRUE! In my experience the crazy ones are less inhibited in bed

But now I'm all about Don't stick your D in crazy....just nope out when you see red flags...which is pretty much all the time

Oh definitely but if you've got a woman that's perfectly fine throwing cookware at you or taking a baseball bat to you in your sleep then psychological abuse isn't much of a stretch

Oh, she never just threatened...if she was yelling and suddenly left the room, RUN!

You're spot on! I have a 23 year old daughter and 20 year old son from that practice marriage and they're unhinged largely due to their awesome-sauce totally sane mother

My 4 year old daughter from my second marriage is more well behaved

I'm a telecom specialist for A certain phone company

Field Operations, telephone cable repair and splicing

I'm only used to women asking me that...on the first date. Most of them used to find other points of interest after they realized I barely crack six figures (with overtime)

I work in a rural market that only has DSLAMS in the central office but the rest of it is pretty spot on. I do a LOT work in the rainbow spaghetti

LOL...I just bought a replacement part from Kreg tools that cost 10 bucks but it was six bucks for shipping and another buck-sixteen for tax....psh

ACTUALLY we just went through what the company calls a surplus where they indicated that we were over headcount for the area. The amount of work we have is cyclic so some of the year we're overencumbered and some of the year we're scrambling to find things to do with a tiny bit of time between the two where it's just right. Since 2014 we went from 12 guys on the team to just six before the surplus, we're currently down to five thanks to the forced headcount reduction.

So five guys (yup all dudes in this market but I've heard there's a female tech that uh...never actually comes in to work as she's constantly off for FMLA stuff) for this whole county and three guys for the next county up

No, they haven't hired anyone in this company specifically for this job since...heck when was that. 2001, maybe? They've been gritting their teeth trying to get rid of this job title for ages

And yes, sometimes 'loaners' come in from other markets when they run out of work

They could drop a TINY bit of money and upgrade our fiber fed Xboxes to full VRADs...push that internet signal farther out

Oh, no you're absolutely correct...janitors, though. I like it. One of my coworkers called us certified turd polishers

I really just avoid a lot of the governmenty things...those guys are on a separate level and way out of touch

We have a LOT of trouble between closures and the company is extremely resistant to cable replacement because of the iternal rate of return in areas that don't have internet service

They've essentially told us that they're done replacing our cables and if we need to bypass anything we need to consider aerial service wires and as a last resort buried service wire

Yeah...DROPS in lieu of actual cable. The most advanced network in the nation is held together by drop wire and hopes and dreams

We have fiber here but it's not for residential use. it's mostly business fiber and what runs the internet service

That part was done earlier this year, tbh. We've got fiber to the towers and we're adding more towers to the area but they haven't turned up 5G yet

Naturally!

They claim to be whatever they want as it suits them and we're just caught in the middle. There's a LOT of people 'above' (I actually make more than most first level mgrs) my pay grade working hard to justify their jobs...the tech expectations is a 16 page document stuffed to the brim with farts and whimsy that frequently contradicts itself.

Oh hell NAW! You're trying to use logic and reason. We're talking about a corporation here, my man!

Not really in this market...the vast majority of our Xboxes are just big copper splice points...that's about it.

I mean we do have a good number of pair gain systems but they ONLY push phone through them

I'm not at that level of implementation...I'm largely only involved in transmission. Anyway, did you know that ADSL will work on half a phone line?

IPDSL however shits the bed if you merely look at it wrong

IP-based DSL? To my understanding this is the standard name for the next generation of DSL

Somewhat...A (asynchronus) DSL doesn't use matching bitstreams for data transmission where IPDSL does. To make matters worse IPDSL can be installed using a bonded pair profile so now you not only have one pair of cables in sychrony but FOUR...bonded pair, in this market, is the bane of my existence because I've yet to find two pair of phone lines that are similar in quality

So we do what we can

So check this out...in our single pair markets 18 Mbps is the absolute fastest we can provide and only if you live within 5k ft of the central office

I had an opportunity to work in a more developed market (i.e. big city) a couple of years back and our full fiber installs were getting 1000 Mbps

Alright, bud...good chat. I've gotta get to the 'office' now. I'm neurotic about being on time so I leave 50 minutes early to drive six miles

Hold up a tick...

I've personally installed 35 Mbps as a single pair service...out of a VRAD of course but still...kinda slow considering my personal connection through the cable company is 425 Mbps

The bonded pair installs have the benefit of a higher top end but I'm fairly confident the top end on that is much better than 100 mbps...that's a copper, two phone line install

Ok, now I'm out!

Dude, I love that I hopped into this Kool-Aid half cocked! We talking about not choking the chicken?

Like six months ago I went no-fap and it's probably the BEST thing I've done for myself. Now the only release i have for that is my quarterly starfish sex with the wife!

I'm kidding...it's not that infrequent...and it's NEVER starfish

But we are over 40 now and rabbit-style is behind us

It works differently for different fellas I guess. I absolutely had to go cold turkey because I had this whole routine and if I allowed myself to slip just once it'd be off to the races all over again

I had to do my smoking the same way back in the early 00s