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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • In my experience, a woman’s living space is either more cluttered than a man’s because she’s got 5.37*10^9 bottles in the shower, piles of laundry made of a larger number of smaller garments, and 900 pillows, OR she lives in a film set where nothing can be moved, touched or used. You don’t dry your hands on the towels on the towel rack, those are for decoration, if you need to dry your hands go down to the laundry room, open the towel bin, take out a towel, dry your hands, wash-rinse-sanitize-dry-iron-fold and put away the towel, then go about your day.

    Man tidy is “blanket’s on the bed, laundry’s either put away or in the hamper, the carpet has been vacuumed at some point in the last month, and none of the cologne/deodorant bottles on the dresser are empty.”






  • If you’re committed to the black and red aesthetic go with ebonized white oak and glazed black cherry. I’d lean toward the American Craftsman/Mission style, stylish within practicality and built to last, and most importantly would look absolutely stupid in distressed chalk paint.

    There’s a stereotype that men don’t understand bed frames, somebody already in this comment section has posted a bare air mattress on the floor. The other extreme is the fuckateria table on display in the original post. Looks like a futon mat on plywood? Go to a mattress store and buy something that isn’t marked down. As for a bed frame, simplicity is the order of the day. No footboard, if you go with a headboard make it functional. Should be low enough to sit down on, a bed you climb up on is college kid shit.

    A taller dresser is more masculine, compared to a woman’s dressing table.

    A simple rocking chair is surprisingly useful, serves as a dressing rack.

    You’ll probably want three levels of lighting, mood lighting, reading lighting and cleaning lighting. Built-in overhead lights will serve as the latter.

    Avoid any urge to set dress. This isn’t a film set, you don’t have to intentionally clutter tabletops and shelves with shit. Live a life and things to put there will happen to you. For the love of fuck don’t decorate with books you want people to think you read.



  • I’ve both seen and read Starship Troopers. I think most people are familiar with Verhoeven’s heavy-handed satire, but Heinlein was serious. Leave it to a WWII vet to think the problem with Kids These Days is they weren’t forced to stab enough Japs.

    The United States of America, here in 2026, operates the world’s largest army, the world’s largest navy, the worlds largest and second largest air forces, a marine corps, a coast guard and a motherfucking space force entirely manned by volunteers, and we have to keep picking fights with towel heads on the other side of the planet to justify it. What do you think we’d have to do to the rest of you fuckers if we had to find a place in the military for every last one of our 3.8 million teenagers that graduate high school every year? We’d be clumsily JDAMing London, Perth and Tokyo within the decade.

    Nah fuck that, that’s the kind of thinking we get out of the regulatory capture cloaca-crotched lizard people currently plundering Washington DC. If we’re going to do the “service guarantees citizenship” thing, we’re not basing it on destructive power aimed without but with constructive power aimed within. And there ain’t gonna be no merchant class that somehow gets exempted that wields the actual power. Your kids are gonna spend 2 years in training and 4 years replacing lead pipes in Michigan just like the poor kids.