@Typo-MAGAshiv That is great. Moderation in a woman is a great virtue. I know it depends on the man but I think women don't realise that it can be very attractive, since it suggests less shallowness.
@Typo-MAGAshiv That is great. Moderation in a woman is a great virtue. I know it depends on the man but I think women don't realise that it can be very attractive, since it suggests less shallowness.
@SwarmShawarma Fixing removes the dopamine hit of shopping or of being given a new thing (and women do love that don't they).
In my lady's case I can't think of anything big or clever I have fixed that has disappointed but a list of minor disapointments are;
She was disappointed when the oven door could be fixed by tapping another hole to screw another catch in and buying a replacement seal. She has really hoped for a new oven but oven heats food, so what is the problem?
Soldering some wires in her lap top meant she didn't get a new one.
She would like a new gate but I keep repairing the existing one (which in fairness does look a little old).
She would have liked new taps but the old ones only needed the seats grinding and new washers.
She assumes a new vacuum will clean better but really she just has to get all the crap clogging the existing one out and clean the filter.
She has had it in for my old Oak kitchen table since she arrived. It was my parents and it was antique when they had it. It is a rustic oak table. Nothing fancy, plenty of minor knocks. It is not going to be thrown out. Attempting to compromise I sanded it down and treated it with silvered oil to kill bacteria. It is tolerated (just).
Many complaints have been levelled at my hand made mahogany bed and I have variously assaulted it to stop the most minor squeaks. Its not going. She has in the past admitted the truth that she really does not like it because its a wooden bed. She associates a wooden bed with being a hick. She wants a smart urban bed. Should have got a smart urban gent then.
A new conservatory would be a lot better in her mind than fixing the lead flashing and the brackets that hold the panels in.
If the television were bigger I think there would be no complaints about my fixing the aerial from time to time but she insists the TV is broken and we need a new bigger one to fix reception. (This amuses me more than perhaps it should).
She wanted a new front door like some other houses in the street have when the lock broke but I just changed the lock (not that that really even qualifies as a repair).
One that I did win was that she was constantly telling me to throw out an 18th century mahogany table that was water stained. I refused and simply sanded it many times with decreasing grit sizes and applied finishing oil. It is as smooth as french polish. She now loves it. In fact she likes to tell people that she sanded it because she tried to help a few times.
Read More@Typo-MAGAshiv Nice one. A broken machine is a puzzle, solving the puzzle and getting a working machine as the reward is very satisfying.
You say you were not a tool guy when younger. This is actually quite similar to my own story. I was a young intellectual who liked the outdoors but only in a gentlemanly sort of way -it was just a huge adventure playground. I wasn't really practical. Friends would come to me with practical problems to solve because I liked solving problems but I had no basic skills and anything I solved was just from first principles not because I knew how to do it.
I can even remember once telling my friends "I have no interest in being able to fix my car, when I can pay a fat greasy man to do it while I go and do something more interesting" I used to think that guys who liked fixing stuff were really just compensating for small dicks or a lack of anything manly to do in life.
Life took a few turns and I ended up working outdoors as a tradesman and boy did I have some catching up to do! I discovered that it was actually very satisfying to fix something not throw it away or be dependent on getting someone else to fix it. It was even more satisfying to make a part with steel and cutting tools when you couldn't easily buy one. It was far more fun to make ammunition to fit your rifle perfectly than to buy the finest ammunition and the finest rifle.
Being able to fix stuff gives you a feeling of much greater security. You are not stuck being dependant when something goes wrong.
At first my lady looked in disgust at my collection of "junk" in the garage -parts and fixings saved from stuff that is broken. But over time she has come to accept that when something breaks I will probably have "something that I can use to fix that" in my junk. The junk is no longer loathed. At least I am no longer told it should go.
She is glad when I fix stuff but I still know though that she would rather have had a gentleman who just bought the new replacement she wanted every time something broke. However to me its almost a moral issue -why throw away when you can fix? Why buy heating oil when you can cut wood? I am not an eco geek or anything but waste just seems not as good as repair, expense not as good as moderation. However women love the power to just make it fixed by paying someone to fix it.
Women really want the king who can order it done not the craftsman who gets it done. When you put it like that its obvious.
Read More@MentORPHEUS Did Cuck stay with her? Oh I hope not. Thirst kills. She has caused all this by trying to keep them both and squeaky voice bad boy has got himself into a corner he can't escape and his life is now ruined. By the time he gets out there can't be a normal life for him. All because he got feelings for an unfaithful woman, who lived with the father of her child.
Slut of course walks free, when she really was the cause. Both guys thought they were defending her. They probably thought she was a prize. She would be a generous 5/10 in her own age bracket. But they still did all this.
@Kloi Very interesting. Thanks. They are appearing in the rivers around where I live. If any ever come up my quite small stream, I think I might try one.
@Baron I agree with Bozza, horse is good. Whale is good. Some say it leaves a smell on you if you eat a lot but then again I never noticed as we were all eating a lot of it. Its a bit like beef with a hint of the sea. Seal is more fishy. All deer are much the same -just very lean and stronger tasting but a lot depends on if the meat is hung. I never hang venison. Some tribes won't eat elephant because of the smell. Some regard zebra as smelling bad but I never minded. Just about the only mammal I won't eat is a dog. Its another altruistic small group hunter that we have spent a lot of time with over the millennia.
Beaver sparks my interest. I wonder if its nice and fatty? I have a nice beaver hunting hat for the coldest days still hunting. A home made one might be nice too. I wonder...
@Stigma Yeah abortion is so sacred to liberals that they will sacrifice justice for it.
Its funny isn't it how women don't like prison. Men don't either but no one cares.
I recently learned of one of the ultimate pussy passes. We have it bad with the gynocentrism today but in some ways it was worse in the past. We are I think past peak blue pill at least. This story is horrffying in its blue pilledness. Claudine Longet -a walking hypergamy nightmare has recently died and there are lots of interesting obituaries around.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine_Longet
Hot girl gets a job dancing in Vegas. One day, when she is 18, she has car trouble and pulls over. A passing Chad (famous singer) stops to "lend assistance". Since this is the early 1960's before the sexual revolution, she locks Chad down. They get married a year later and have 3 kids. She goes on his TV show a lot.
Story could have ended there but the sexual revolution comes along. Hot young woman starts riding Chads. 15 years later, her husband who is 14 years older than her and has long since peaked as a Chad has had enough of this and although it costs him over $2 million (in the 1970's) he divorces her. She now is a gay divorcee. She had rich famous Chad, now with a huge sum of money in the bank, she just wants athlete Chad , so she shacks up with an Olympic skier.
Needless to say Athlete Chad tires of her. Tells his coach he will bin her. She writes down her fear of losing him in her diary. Then one day he goes for a shower before he is to go out without her and she shoots him in the back with his 0.22 pistol. The exact details are hard to work out now because lawyers locked everything down but it was established that he was facing away from her and the Rolling stones when they wrote a song about her said she shot him 3 times but they feared to release the song for fear of lawyers.
The story should have ended there but enter the white knights. Cuck who divorced her stands by her. He walks her to court every day and pays her lawyers. She gets on really well with one of them. He is married with kids but it does not stop her going on holiday alone with him. The lawyers manage to somehow get her off with 30 days in jail it was just an accident. Chad was "showing her how the safety catch worked" while having his shower. The blue pill loser judge even says she can serve the time whenever she likes. She goes for weekends in jail. She does not like the decor in jail and they let her repaint the cell she visits at weekends. When she finished her "sentence" white knight attorney leaves his wife and kids and they move in together. They later marry.
You could not make this one up. The perfect hypergamy cycle -marry a famous singer, ride the carousel, get burned after a lot of fun. Kill the Chad you could not have, serve 30 days part time in a re-decorated cell. Marry again for security this time now you are ready to settle to the white knight lawyer who got you off.
This would not happen today. She would not be so protected. Peak blue pill is past. Thank the gods because peak misandry is on us!
Read More@Typo-MAGAshiv It may be a one sided view but if we warmed up the place a bit and provided more co2 for plants, would it be a tragedy? Less heating bills, more crops.... Might be less cool for certain shithole countries but even while humans have been on earth, the earth has endured greater temperature fluctuations. Human brain size grew each time the temperature fluctuated.
This is mostly hysteria. The world will adapt. Its not like time stood still and nothing on earth ever changed till the white man arrived.
@Typo-MAGAshiv That is priceless.
Its only what big state is doing to make your "green electricity" but its seeing the silliness directly.
My father has a much younger eco nut wife that he likes to please. He has held out against the idea of an electric car but she did get him to put solar panels all over his roof. Its great he told me "In 20 years, it will have paid for itself" "But Dad, it will probably have worn out in 20 years, especially that big battery thing you paid so much for. Then you will just have holes in your roof. Besides Dad you are 80"