"SAS for Women" seems really sexist. Like they aren't supposed to do statistics on the usual software.

Comfortable shoes for the elderly have always included women.

I'm reminded of Joaquin Phoenix's character's preofession in Her, which was super sweet but also I felt inescapably bullshit.

Apparently SAS boots just fall the fuck apart if subjected to actual conditions in for instance the sub-Antarctic.

In all fairness, it literally stands for San Antonio Shoes. They never imagined the sub-Antarctic.

I will bet actual silver dollars Ferdinand Magellan prayed to San Antonio at least once while south of the 50th parallel.

Imagine my surprise when my name came up in this thread! Pay up, Mossy! All my prayers were directed to the Holy Mother and Poseidon.

He wasn't a heretic. He asked Saint Anthony to intercede.

I feel that was a strange joke for me to get basically pwned on.

7: Liar! It was the Portuguese with the weird fucked up quasi-Classical mythology.

Magellan sailed for Spain, but he was Portuguese himself.

You can walk to Spain from Portugal.

I guess you can't carry much.

Lmao Imagine being the guy's ex wife and getting a call from the dating consultant asking for help organizing his calendar. I hope they're making her cut them in on the business.

Imagine sailing for Spain from Portugal and getting the first turn wrong and just riding it out regardless.

"Well, you know, it's a sphere. We'll get there eventually."

Thanks for making that explicit.

I just went the wrong way!

This thread title keeps making me think it's a Martin Sheffield Lickly song.

So, I read the article. I was expecting the stock brokers, but not the garbage man. I guess if the women exurban New York like grey jeans and tight cotton shirts, he's found the help he needs.

Maybe they grew up watching Huey Lewis and the News?

I bet the second husband of the woman who wrote "I'd Trade my Husband for a Housekeeper" is a lot more careful than I am about putting the dishes away in the right place.

I bet talking with people about who they want to date, their family details, and what to put in a dating profile is a really good way learn what the answers to their security questions are likely to be if you wanted to steal everything and skip town.

You don't even have to kill them first like if you were dating because they aren't asleep in the bed next to you before you can get away.

"Subalterns of Luuuuuv" would have also been a good title.

Imagine being the guy's ex wife and getting a call from the dating consultant asking for help organizing his calendar.

I bet they talk shit about the guy and the wife highly prefers talking to the consultant.

My friend's kid goes to the school with today's school shooting. He was home sick, though. Crazy.

Ugh. Those poor kids and their parents.

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From the article it didn't seem like these consultants hold their customers in the disdain they deserve. Also the stuff about cleaning their apartments for them is a bit much, as it's likely to fool women into thinking they have their shit together and by the time the realization sets in that they can't and won't do even basic domestic stuff it could be too late. I'm really not sure this isn't worse than them getting into Jordan Peterson because then at least they might clean their own rooms.

I think most people lie about how well they maintain their living space when they start dating. At least I did, but that was back in the 90s. I think the bigger issue in terms of deception might be the messaging with potential dates.

From the article it didn't seem like these consultants hold their customers in the disdain they deserve.

I don't think divorced women who are having difficulty getting back into dating deserve all that much disdain.

...oh, you mean their male customers. Gotcha.

From the article it didn't seem like these consultants hold their customers in the disdain they deserve.

I'm saying the consultant puts on a different face for the ex-wife than for the client. She's not his lawyer, going out like a bulldog - she's supposed to magically smooth things over. So she's going to try to mesh well with the ex-wife, whom she probably understands pretty well, anyway.

In my movie version of this, both the woman and the man are employing sub-contractors to do their messaging -- and in the course of this courtship each of the sub-contractors develops a crush on the person they are messaging. Much hijinks and misunderstandings -- both sub-contractors wind up getting fired --- but then when the 2 love-seeking employers actually meet they connect in their inarticulate way. And when the 2 sub-contractors meet - the one decides that she's not so straight after all, and the other decides she hasn't really given up on love, and they live happily ever until Thanos snaps his fingers.

On topic because relationships are mentioned: Apparently, at the entry level, performative racism doesn't pay enough to be able to afford insulin.

this is petty but what's up with her having glued eyebrows on with spirit gum? (just expand the top image to see.) I mean, maybe she's got trichotillomania in which case I feel...not sorry at all because she's an awful person trying to cash in on a redemption narrative now that the reichwing welfare has run dry. if she were older I'd say she over-plucked them when it was popular and now they won't grow back. I guess she was just out of fashion, maybe that happens to loathsome bannon carriers.

35: I noticed that too but thought it was a fashion thing, or possibly trophies she had taken from one of her victims.

Women are always stealing eyebrows from each other.

35/36: Alopecia, apparently. The more shocking thing about the photos is that she is only 30ish. She must have forgotten to leave a portrait in her attic.

We got spirit, yes we do. Holds our brows on, as a glue.

38: Being a massive racist does tend to prematurely age you. Look at Hitler; by the age of 55 he was a complete wreck.

My colleague Jon, on the other hand: not even a racist at all, 51 today, fit as a butcher's dog.

Probably has great eyebrows too.

And they're his own.

Nothing looks as rented as rented facial hair.

45: I don't know, I haven't had a lot of luck getting a natural look with merkins.

45 s/b 44. the second instance.

40: With Hitler I think it might have been the drugs. He wasn't committed to being a genocidal racist with a healthy lifestyle.

Usually, nobody sees a merkin in full daylight.

45 You rent your merkins?

Technically, subcontracts them out.

The wig economy.

39 doubleplusgood

High school football finally paid off.