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Last update: June 15, 2018
03/24/17 The "
stage" command is temporarily disabled to prevent excessive stage calls saturating the stage queue. Most users will be able to transfer files without pre-staging, since commands like
rsync and
scp will stage data automatically. If you have a large number of small files to transfer, please submit a support ticket and we will assist you.
11/04/16 Please examine the new section "Organizing Your Data" below. This section contains new information and examples on how to best organize and package your data for optimal archiving and retrieval. A few simple steps can make the difference between hours and weeks for data retrieval.
TACC's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used primarily for scientific computing and although their disk systems are large, they are not big enough to keep up with the data generated on the systems. The Ranch system fills this need for high capacity storage, by providing a massive, high-performance file system for archival purposes.
Ranch (
ranch.tacc.utexas.edu), a Sun Microsystems StorageTek Mass Storage Facility, is TACC's long-term storage solution. Ranch utilizes Sun's Storage Archive Manager Filesystem (SAM-FS) for migrating files to and from a tape archival system with a current storage capacity of 160 Petabytes (PB).
Intended Use
Ranch consists of long term tape storage and is designed to be used for archiving data. Ranch is not meant for active data, nor is it intended to be a backup solution for your "
/scratch" directory. Ranch is also not suitable for system backups, due to the large number of small files this inevitably generates and the nature of a tape based archive. The Ranch system provides a single backup copy of project related data.
Note: Ranch is an archival system. The Ranch system is not backed up or replicated. This means that Ranch contains a single copy of user data. While lost data due to tape damage is rare, please keep this possibility in mind when making data management plans.
System Configuration
Ranch's metadata system is built on two Sun 7420 appliances, with 4 disk storage shelves, 4 high speed read cache SSDs, 4 log SSDs, and 88 x 15k 600GB SAS disks. The high performance SAM-QFS file system stores metadata and data separately, on dedicated devices. This maximizes data I/O, and means that updates to the metadata don't affect I/O to the data cache system. The data is stored in 8 Dell MD3600i based arrays, each with 7 MD1200 enclosures attached, so 96 disks in each array. These arrays are broken up into multiple file systems, including the home file systems, and a file system for tiny files that are too inefficiently small to go to tape. And then there is the tape storage.
Two Oracle StorageTek Sl8500 Automated Tape Libraries are combined to serve the offline archival storage. Each SL8500 library contains 10,000 tape slots and 64 tape drive slots. Each tape is capable of holding 8.5 TB of uncompressed data, so when fully populated, a single SL8500 library can house 85 PB on the current generation of tapes. Each SL8500 library also contains 8 robots to manage tapes and move them to or from the tape drives.
/home filesystem has an expandable capacity of 160 petabytes.
System Access
Ranch is an allocated resource, meaning the system is available only to users with an allocation on one of TACC's computational resources such as Stampede2, Lonestar 5, or Maverick. XSEDE PIs will be prompted automatically for the companion storage allocation amount as part of the XRAS submission request, UT and UT system PIs should also make a request and justify the amount of storage requested when applying for an allocation. The default allocation for XSEDE, UT, and UT affiliate users on Ranch is 500 GB. To request additional Ranch storage for your allocation, please submit a TACC user portal ticket.
Ranch users may login directly via the standard SSH utilities as described below.
Methods of Access
Direct login via Secure Shell's "
ssh" to Ranch is allowed so you can create directories and migrate files from tape back to the disk subsystem for later transfer to TACC machines or personal computers. The Ranch archive system cannot be mounted on a remote system.
stampede2$ ssh -l taccusername ranch.tacc.utexas.edu
Inherited Environment Variables
The preferred way of accessing Ranch, especially from scripts, is by using the TACC-defined environment variables
$ARCHIVER and
$ARCHIVE. These variables, defined on all TACC resources, define the hostname of the current TACC archival system,
$ARCHIVER, and each account's personal archival space,
$ARCHIVE. These environment variables help ensure that scripts will continue to work, even if the underlying system configuration changes in the future.
Accessing Files from within Running programs
Ranch access is not allowed from within running jobs on other TACC resources. Data must be first transferred from Ranch to your compute resource in order to be available to running jobs.
Citizenship on Ranch
- Limit
scpprocesses to no more than two processes.
- Follow the procedures for archiving data
- Delete all unneeded data under your account
- No workstation or other system backups
Organizing Your Data
We ask our users to employ the following practices going forward. Your existing data does not need to be touched, and you only need to make changes going forward. Our goal is to increase performance and usability for all users of our system.
- Use the UNIX "split" utility to chop up very large files (1 TB+)
- Tar up small files into chunks between 10 GB and 300 GB in size.
- Minimize the number of files you store on Ranch. For example, 1000 files in a directory tree should be turned into a single, or small number of
tarfiles, depending on how the data is organized.
The archiver process moves your data from spinning disk cache to the tape media (see Figure 1.) In order for the archiver to work optimally your data should be bundled into large
tar files.
Online data limit of 10TB. This limit is independent of the total quota or allocation you have been granted. The online limit refers to the amount of data that resides on the spinning disk cache before it is written to tape. This limit is to cap the influx of large amounts of data, which can negatively affect all users, it will also prevent users from staging very large amounts of data all at once, so a batch strategy must be used for staging data if you need to copy more than 10TB off the system.
TACC staff are available to advise you in developing a data storage strategy. Take a look at the following examples of data organization to clarify your understanding of how the system should be used:
Example 1: Data is comprised of a large number of small files:
A user on Stampede2 with a large dataset of 15,000 small files, at around 900GB in total size. Ideally, the user would
tar the files into three
tar files of around 300GB, containing 5,000 files each, then transfer the data to Ranch. Data management (creating tarballs of directory trees) should be done before moving the data to Ranch.
Example 2: Data to be transferred exceeds 10TB online data limit
Another user with 30TB of data, in 100 Tar files, each around 300GB, is much more appropriate for storing data to tape. However, if the user tries to move all their data to Ranch in one go, then they will run into the 10TB online data limit, and their transfer will stop. This limit is intended to stop huge influxes of data, as hundreds of TB can cause issues. What the user should do, is transfer 9 of their 300GB files at a time, wait for the files to be archived to tape (instructions in user guide for checking) and for the files to be released from the disk cache system (happens automatically after files are archived), then transfer another batch of 9 300GB files.
Managing Your Files
Monitoring your Ranch Disk and Tape Usage
Users can check their current and historical Ranch usage by looking at the contents of the "
HSM_usage" file in their Ranch home directory.
ranch$ more ~/HSM_usage
This file is updated nightly as a convenience to the user. The data fields within this file show the files and storage in use both on-line and in the Ranch tape archives, as well as the quotas for each currently in effect. Each entry also shows the date and time of its update. Do not delete or edit this file.
SAM-FS commands
Ranch uses the Storage and Archive Manager File System (SAM-FS). SAM-FS supplies several extensions to common UNIX commands, as detailed in Table 1. These commands help manage the storage and location of files stored on Ranch.
Table 1. Common SAM-FS Commands
|SAM-FS Commands
|summarizes disk usage. The "
sdu" command is based on the GNU version of the Unix "
du" command
|searches for files in a directory hierarchy. The "
sfind" command is based on the Unix "
find" command and contains options for searching based on SAM-FS file attributes.
|lists contents of directories. The "
sls" command is based on the Unix "
ls" command and contains options for displaying SAM-FS file system attributes and information
|releases files from the disk cache system that are already on tape. This happens automatically, so only users trying to move multiple terabytes to Ranch will need this command
Consult each command's man page for additional, detailed information:
ranch$ man command
Transferring Files
To maximize the efficiency of data archiving and retrieval for users, data should be transferred using large files. Small files don't do well on tapes, so they should be combined with others in a "
tar" file wherever possible. The name
tar is derived from (t)ape (ar)chive. Files that are very large (5 TB+), can also be a problem, since their contents can be split across multiple tapes, thereby increasing the chances that there will be problems retrieving the data. Use the UNIX
split utility on very large files (1 TB+), and
tar up small files into chunks between 10 GB and 300 GB in size. This will allow the archiver to work optimally. Submit a consulting ticket to the TACC portal if you have questions, or would like help developing a strategy for storing your data.
Retrieving Files from Ranch
Since Ranch is an archive system, any files which have not been accessed recently will be stored on tape. To access files stored offline, they must be 'staged' from tape, which is done automatically with tools like
rsync and
scp. We ask that you use the Unix tar command or another utility to bundle large numbers of small files together, before transferring to Ranch, for more efficient storage and retrieval on Ranch.
Ranch performs best on large files (10GB to 250GB) and datasets. If you need a single file from a large tarball, it can easily be extracted without extracting the whole tarball. Due to the nature of the tapes that Ranch uses, it is quicker to read a single large file than it is to read multiple small files.
Large numbers of small files are hard for our tape drives to read back from tape, since the drives need to start and stop for every file. So instead of reading steadily at 252MB/sec (max read speed for T10KD drive), a drive reading many tiny files at a crawl may take a week to stage them back to disk, which occupies the drive, and prevents other users from accessing their data.
Popular transfer methods like
scp and
rsync should be less than four processes at a time. During the upload TO ranch it is true that one could achieve better throughput with more threads, but when taking data FROM ranch it will adversely affect the throughput if the data set is not staged prior to
rsync or
Data transfer methods
TACC supports three transfer mechanisms:
scp (simple),
rsync (avoid if possible) and
globus-url-copy (best for moving large files).
The simplest way to transfer files to and from Ranch is to use the Secure Shell
scp command:
stampede2$ scp myfile ${ARCHIVER}:${ARCHIVE}/myfilepath
myfile is the name of the file to copy and
myfilepath is the path to the archive on Ranch. For large numbers of files, we strongly recommend you employ the Unix "
tar" command to create an archive of one or more directories before transferring the data to Ranch, or as part of the transfer process.
To use
ssh to create a "
tar" archive file from a directory, you can use the following alternatives to copy files to Ranch
stampede2$ tar cvf - dirname | ssh ${ARCHIVER} "cat > ${ARCHIVE}/mytarfile.tar"
where "
dirname" is the path to the directory you want to archive, and "
mytarfile.tar" is the name of the archive to be created on Ranch.
Note that when transferring to Ranch, the destination directory/ies must already exist. If not,
scp will respond with:
No such file or directory
The following command line examples demonstrate how to transfer files to and from Ranch using
copy "
mynewfile" from Stampede2 to Ranch:
stampede2$ scp mynewfile ${ARCHIVER}:${ARCHIVE}/mynewfilename
copy "myoldfile" from Ranch to my computer
stampede2$ scp ${ARCHIVER}:${ARCHIVE}/myoldfile .
The UNIX
rsync command is another way to keep archives up-to-date. Rather than transferring entire files,
rsync transfers only the actual changed parts of a file. This method has the advantage over SCP in that it can recover if there is an error in the transfer. Enter "
rsync -h" for detailed help on this command.
A huge downside to
rsync however, is that it will stage data before it can start the sync, so this can lead to a lot of unnecessary staging calls, and really waste resources. In general, it is a bad idea to
rsync a whole directory, and it is horrible for archiving data.
If transferring data between XSEDE sites, use
globus-url-copy. This command requires the use of an XSEDE certificate to create a proxy for passwordless transfers. It has a complex syntax, but provides high-speed access to other XSEDE machines that support gridFTP services, the protocol for
globus-url-copy. High-speed file or directory transfers occur between the different FTP servers at the XSEDE sites. The GridFTP servers mount the file systems of the compute machines, thereby providing access to your files or directories. Third party transfers, transfers initiated between two machines from another machine, are supported too. Consult the
globus-url-copy docs and the XSEDE Data Transfers & Management page for more information.
To start using
First, load the CTSSV4 module. This command will setup the necessary environment variable to use
ranch$ module load CTSSV4
Now use the myproxy-logon command to obtain a proxy certificate. This command will prompt for the certificate password. The proxy is valid for 12 hours for all logins on the local machine.
ranch$ myproxy-logon
globus-url-copy, you must include the name of the server and a full path to the file. The general syntax looks like:
globus-url-copy options \ gsiftp://gridftp_server1/directory/file \ gsiftp://gridftp_server2/directory/file
Use the "
-stripe" and "
-buffer" size options (
-stripe to use multiple service nodes, "
-tcp-bs" 11M to set ftp data channel buffer size). Otherwise, the speed will be about 20 times slower! When transferring directories, the directory path must end with a slash (/).
Consult the Data Transfers & Management page for a table of GridFTP endpoints.
globus-url-copy, especially via Globus interface, users should check the actual transfer of data before multiple copies are submitted. All too often, one user saturates the entire server threads due to multiple submission blocking other users. Many users achieve very high throughput with a single
globus-url-copy command. Of note here is also the movement of data OUT of ranch for un-staged data. All threads will wait until each file is staged and will not move any data just taking up the server threads. Sending multiple
globus-url-copy commands on un-staged data tends to hurt the system's performance due to serialized stage calls on tapes.
Large Data Transfers
If you are moving a very large amount of data to Ranch and you encounter a quota limit error, then you are bumping into the limit of data you can have on Ranch's cache system. There are limits on cache inode usage, and disk block usage, but these limits should only affect a few very heavy users and do not affect a user's total allocation on the Ranch archival system. If you encounter a quota error, please submit a ticket to the TACC user portal, and we will work with you to make sure your data is transferred as efficiently as possible. The limits are merely to prevent the system getting unexpectedly overloaded, and thus maintaining good service for all users.
Use the "
du -h" command to see how much data you have on the cache system. The command "
sdu -h" will tell you how much data you have total, including what is on tape.
Use the "
release" command to release data from the cache system that has already been archived. It will only release data that has already been archived. Archiving takes time, especially if you are trying to move a very large amount of data, so please be patient.
Archive a large directory with
tar, and move it to Ranch, while
splitting it into smaller parts. Eg:
stampede2$ tar -cvf - /directory/ | ssh ranch.tacc.utexas.edu 'cd /your_ranch_path/ && split -b 1024m - files.tar.'
Alternatively, you can
split large output files, or
tar files, on the Stampede2 side, then move them to Ranch, since Ranch has an older Solaris version of
split, which is more difficult to work with.
Large files, more than a few TB in size, should be
split into chunks, preferably between 10GB and 500GB in size. Use the
split command on Stampede2 to accomplish this:
stampede2$ split -b 300G myverybigfile.tar my_file_part_
The above example will create several 300GB files, with the filenames: my_file_part_aa, my_file_part_ab, my_file_part_ac, etc.
split parts of a file can be joined together again with the "
cat" command.
stampede2$ cat my_file_part_?? > myverybigfile.tar
man split for more options.
Large collections of small files must be put into a
tar archive before being sent to Ranch, or even better, put into a
tar file while on route to Ranch (that way there is no temporary
tar file on the source filesystem).
The following example will create an archive of
my_small_files_directory in the current working directory.
stampede2$ tar -cvf my_data.tar my_small_files_directory/
As with staging, when using
scp or
rsync , you must limit your transfers to a maximum of four processes at a time. If using
globus-url-copy, then limit your transfer to one process at a time.


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The UCI couldn't stop Valv.Piti, but Eyjafjallajökull did! The Icelandic volcano literally blew its top when accused-doper (convicted in Italy) Alejandro Valverde was inscribed for the start of the Amstel Gold Race in Holland. Pat McQuaid's lament not withstanding, Valv.Piti (18) was going to take to the start of the Ardennes classic, and was a favorite for the win. In fact, just yesterday VeloNews reported:
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) returns to the Ardennes on the hunt for a victory in one of the three classics in the offering. Hot off second place at the Vuelta al País Vasco behind Chris Horner (RadioShack), Valverde says he's in shape to have a good run through the Ardennes. "I come with a lot of motivation and ambition to get the best possible result, just like every time I race," Valverde said. "These are three races that I like a lot and they are well adapted to my characteristics, just as I've demonstrated in my win at Flèche and two at Liège. This year, I'd like to win one of the three..."
BMC team, which sidelined former World Champion and ex-Lampre rider Alessandro Ballan on the mere suspicion of doping,Valverde's team, Caisse d'Epargne, has seemingly had no issue with continuing to enter their star in as many high-profile events as possible, seeking to maximize their ROI - perhaps before sanity is restored and Valverde is handed a global racing ban.
Apparently, someone at Caisse d'Epargne felt queasy about backing Valverde after his CONI-sanction was upheld, and he was reportedly suspended from competition. Valverde, however, protested that this was not the case, and claimed that he simply had a week-long gap in his racing program, which he filled with family time. The Spaniard explained, "While waiting for a decision about my future and during a week in which no race was in my program, I spent a lot of time with my three sons. We had a great time."
It seemed he was right, and no sooner had Valv.Piti finished playing "Mr. Mom" than he was back to his winning ways, most recently taking two stages and second overall (behind an ageless, or well-prepared Chris Horner) in the Tour of the Basque Country. Oh, by-the-way: Valverde is reported to earn roughly $4million(USD) in salary per year.
Now...we know that doping is a bad thing, and to fail to condemn an athlete convicted of performance-enhancing drug use is to tacitly sanction his behavior. But Pappillon admits to being slightly conflicted about Piti. While one of Valverde's more obscure ex-Kelme teammates fingered him for partaking in that squad's infamous doping practices - explaining to us in great detail how the two were part of one of the most sophisticated systemic doping programs in cycling, the fact remains that Valverde is a brilliant racer who has thus far eluded the dope police and is technically free to compete on his UCI license. Sure, CONI did what the UCI couldn't - or wouldn't - do, and handed Valverde a two-year ban that will keep him off the bike on Italian soil at least until May 2011. And yes, the doping-in-cycling-whistle-blower, Jesús Manzano, testified that Valverde doped with him during their time together at Kelme. The conflict comes from the fact that Valverde just looks like he should be a champion cyclist, and it's a guilty pleasure here that we enjoy watching him ride - even though we imagine he has had to find more creative, and logistically-complex methods of enhancing his performance:
Of course, it's not totally impossible that Valverde is currently competing dope-free, in which case it would be great to know that he'd learnt his lesson. Highly unlikely, but not impossible.
Mother Nature is no longer backing Piti, and she finally accomplished what neither Pat McQuaid and the UCI nor CONI nor the bosses of the Real Federación Espanola de Ciclismo could, or would: keep Alejandro Valverde from contesting a major race. As the Spaniard himself writes on his blog, "¡Contra la naturaleza no se puede luchar!" or roughly, "Against Nature one cannot fight!"
VeloNews briefly explainss this latest development: "Another Amstel contender, Valverde, was forced out late on Saturday when he and two other Caisse d'Epargne teammates, Luis Leon Sanchez and Luis Pasamontes, were unable to fly out of Madrid."
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The UCI Couldn't Stop Valv.Piti, but Eyjafjallajökull Did!
2 comments:
- Anonymous17 April, 2010 23:29
Is that Puerto document legit or is it just a media report?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 April, 2010 19:27
It would have been great to see Valverde battle Gilbert up the final climb today. The Belgian was a deserving victor, but would Valverde have given him a run for his money, as they say? I think so.ReplyDelete
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Thursday, 10 January 2008
Real mature!
After Real Man/Men, "mature" and "immature" are the favourite terms in the arsenal of shaming language a lot of women like to use.
Of course, women's definitions of maturity and immaturity differ from objective fact.
Take two hypothetical men:
Man A is married and works long hours to support his wife and kids ("their" kids in his view, "her's" in her's), his income going on paying the mortgage of the excessively large suburban home and the cost of running a car and an S.U.V. He provides well for his wife, remembers wedding anniversaries and brings home flowers each Friday when he gets home from the office at 9:00PM. He hates his job and the long hours give him migraines and heart palpatations, but he remains stoic and slogs away at his desk to provide for his wife. He doesn't go out to the pub with his mates much because he knows his wife feels neglected if he does so too often. He watches Coronation Street and Friends; not because he likes them but because his wife loves to snuggle up next to him whilst she watches them. She does not like Top Gear and finds Jeremy Clarkson offensive and sexist, so he does not watch it either. His wife's happiness is his primary concern.
Man B is single, lives on his own, works less than 40-hours a week at a job that's either easy or halfway enjoyable. After providing for himself - and no-one but himself - he saves some of his money and blows the rest on his hobbies; building model railways, fixing up motorbikes, reading horror novels, whatever. He goes to the pub when he wants, leaves his socks on the floor, plays video games, runs screaming from any girlfriend who utters the word 'commitment' in a serious conversation, and watches Top Gear and South Park because they're fucking great.
In a woman's mind, Man A is 'mature' and Man B is an 'immature big kid.' And women love to speak their mind. I've been condemned as immature many times in recent years by women, just because my lifestyle is similar to the latter example.
To me, immaturity in males means harking back to infancy, of avoiding behaviour that may incur the disapproval of Mother. Say 'please' and 'thank you', don't get into fights, don't say the word 'willie' in polite company, lest your mum cross her arms and glare at you with that look that says 'I'm not happy with you, you have disappointed me.'
Not that there's anything wrong in mothers employing the threat of a withdrawal of approval in their young son's - or young daughter's - behaviour. After all, saying 'please' and 'thank you', not getting into fights and not saying the word 'willie' - or 'cunt', 'shitfuck' and 'meecrob' - in polite company are lessons kids must learn to become proper social beings (not there's much of a society out there to be being in these days.)
However, to become a fully-fledged man, a boy must learn to shrug off the yearning for female approval, primarily by not giving a flying fuck about whether a woman denounces you as 'immature', 'a big kid' or 'not a Real Man(TM)'.
So in my view:
Man A is immature. He has thrown his life - and his happiness, freedom, financial security and, above all else, his bollocks - into the handbag of a woman. Bearing in mind the fact that, thanks to feminism, marriage these days offers nothing but risks and obligitations to a man, this individual is acting against his own interests; he had nothing to benefit from getting married, save for the approval of his future wife, and her approval meant more to him than his own happiness and security. He is stuck in mental infancy, desperately seeking the approval of 'mother', the personification of which he now transfers to his wife, and it's her glare of disapproval (and threat of divorce and associated financial arse-ramming of course) that he fears.
Man B is mature. He has thrown aside the residues of Woman Worship, sneered at the pressure the Matriarchy places on a man to become a slave to a woman and 'her' kids, and basically thrown a spanner in the works of women, big corporations and the government by working just enough to get himself by and putting his energies into basically having a good time, rather than ensuring a woman, big corporations and the government have a good time at the expense of his labours. This guy loves his mum and even remembers her birthday, but nonetheless he has long since outgrown the need to win the approval of her or any other member of her sex at the expense of going his own damn way.
The paradox is that if a woman tells a man that 'if you were a Real Man you would do X' then, if he does X, he is not a Real Man. The term Real Man is absurd, a joke, the primary tool in the lexicon of shaming language, but whilst neither I nor anyone else can declare objectively what a Real Man is, I can certainly tell you that it isn't a guy who will do any stupid shit (invariably against his own interest) to prove to a woman that he is one.
Similarly, a man who abandons hobbies and behaviour just because a woman accuses him of immaturity is, paradoxically, immature, as he is still stuck in the infant stages of desperately seeking Mother's approval, just with Mother projected onto another woman.
On the other hand, a man who is 'mature' has outgrown that dependancy on female approval. He is not neccesarily hostile to women or their opinions, but he most certainly does not change his behaviour or adapt his lifestyle just so a woman will nod her head and declare that she bestows her approval of him. He laughs in the scowling faces of disapproving women, and tweaks the nose of shaming language.
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I think it's ironic that men who have a certain joy of life and don't hesitate to tell a woman "no" are seen as more attractive to a woman anyway.
- 10 January 2008 at 13:38
Golddiggers? Noooooooooooo!
Duncan, look at this:
Men can join the website if they pay 10000$. Women can join free if they are beautiful.
- 10 January 2008 at 13:39
Most immature are those who buy sports cars to impress their gf.
Did you know that approximately 70% of women in GB carry STDs? Girls as early as 12 carry human papilloma virus, chlamydia and so on. Some 15yo girls have had their first treatment of chlamydia.
These diseases are only transmitted via sexual intercourse, so basically all these women are unfit to be wives.
I recommend: do not have sex with western women.
Genital warts, HPV can be transmitted just via skin contact, even if one uses condoms.
As said above 10-20% of girls have HPV in their early years.
It has become dangerous to have sex with these women.
Chlamydia leads to infertility, so one would have infertile wives.
Chastity is the most secure, even if that sounds outdated.
If one wants to marry and have children, marry virgins. People in the old days instinctively did the right thing.
Today, you as tax payer are paying the health care of women with STDs.
- 10 January 2008 at 14:13
I think you will regret not applying yourself more to work as you get older, Duncan. You do not want to be working in lowly jobs when you are 50 - there's very little satisfaction in it and all the video games, drinking, etc. will be old news by then.
Learning a trade or running a small business (perhaps even from home) would be the way to go. You would be independent and have a larger retirement nest egg to sustain yourself when you are old and retired.
- 10 January 2008 at 15:05
I wrote something similar about men in marriages who give up their hobbies in some vain attempt to further placate their wives.. Fred Dibnah had some neat insight into this..
Cheers, DuncanM
- 10 January 2008 at 15:11
Excellent post, Duncan. A great comparison of the different definitions of maturity, both in real terms and fembot-speak.
I particularly liked the final paragraph:
"On the other hand, a man who is 'mature' has outgrown that dependancy on female approval. He is not neccesarily hostile to women or their opinions, but he most certainly does not change his behaviour or adapt his lifestyle just so a woman will nod her head and declare that she bestows her approval of him. He laughs in the scowling faces of disapproving women, and tweaks the nose of shaming language."
I think if anyone printed a handbook on "stuff a man should know about" or some such thing, that should be on the first page of it.
- 10 January 2008 at 16:52
- Duncan Idaho said...
Cheers b.r. Much appreciated.
- 10 January 2008 at 18:11
At some point, you know, you'll have to write a book.
- 10 January 2008 at 18:16
Yes, and yes. That's why You are not only an angry man, Duncan, but a philosopher. Unfortunately, in this society thoughts like yours will not be considered, besides yor readers.
- 10 January 2008 at 19:18
Shaming language is only effective when used sparingly. As Duncan's proven, overuse dulls that sword to the point where it essentially is useless.
It gets to the point where men simply don't care what women think, because what men think invariably is wrong in the female's eyes.
- 10 January 2008 at 22:00
You've taken the words right out of my mouth. I work part-time with a bunch of women and go to the uni part time. Over the years I've managed to save a nice stack which acts as my safety net. I haven't bought any new clothes for awhile and drive a very practical, boring car. It hit me that women aren't interested in frugal men and that's ok with me. Tonight I kicked back and started reading a new book and drank some wine. I don't have to vacuum or do any dishes or clean up baby barf. Even though I get along with women, I try but I just can't see myself being married and sharing a bed night after night, year after year with a potentially vile, obese pig. And I'm seriously wondering whether monogamous marriage is natural at all, at least these days. I'll take plan B and freedom, even with the inherent solitude.
- 10 January 2008 at 23:05
Wow, Duncan you have a gift.
This post is between your best ones.
No wonder we missed so much when you disappeared.
A post which is straight to the point and which addresses the common experience of being labelled as "immature" and being asked "Grow up!" with self-assurance which we all have had.
I can only add that the problem lies in our infancy. We are taught to be "good boys" by our Mum. Sometimes Mum succeeds in doing this and sometimes Mum doesn't succeed (this is because of a variety of reasons).
If Mum succeeds in doing this, we become "nice guys" a.k.a. "women's slaves", waiting for a female approval like a junkie waits for his next fix. The perfect slave (a.k.a. husband). Until we wake up and we become MRAs (and free to do what it pleases us, regardless of other people's opinions).
If Mum doesn't succeed in doing this, we become "jerks", so we are the perfect "fuck" (but unable for slavery, I mean marriage).
- 10 January 2008 at 23:42
Ah, 'tis like a breath of fresh air. Staying single, in spite of what women may say, is the mature position to take. It requires a MAN of strength to control his sex drive and refuse to give in to women. That is MATURITY.
A weak, and consequently IMMATURE male (note I don't say MAN) can not control his sex drive, and gives in to women. This is weakness, and not manly. A MAN is always in control of his sex drive, and a spineless drone is always controlled by women through his sex drive. He goes from being controlled by his mommy, to being controlled by his wifey.
As a bachelor, I do what I want. I have a cushy job with our socialistic government, and have the next four weeks off on vacation. I spent the last two days doing nothing but watching "Deadwood". This series is an absolute MUST for the single man. You will learn new and beautiful phrases like "San Francisco Cocksucker!", amongst others.
Ah, the single life is grand. The next week should be dry and fairly warm, so when not watching movies, I shall be riding one or the other of beloved Harley-Beasties.
Married men are soooo stupid.
- 11 January 2008 at 00:18
Also, Anon 14:13 is right on the money on STD's. In the U.S., by age 24, 60% of women are infected PERMANENTLY with at least one strain of HPV, and some estimates are that by about the same age, at least half have genital Herpes, and up to 80-90% have oral Herpes. (The same thing essentially).
For all practical purposes, YOU CAN NOT HAVE SEX WITH AN AMERICAN WOMAN WITHOUT BEING EXPOSED TO EITHER HERPES OR HPV.
These viral STI's are incurable, almost universal, and condoms are USELESS in preventing transmission. Celibacy, according to the CDC is the only method of protecting yourself.
Women simply are not worth the risk, either financially or to your health.
Plus, quite frankly, pussy smells very, very bad. Not unlike moldy cheese smeared in dog excrement.....
- 11 January 2008 at 00:25
ALSO, it might amuse you to know, a whole new crop of women in their teens are appearing on the dating scene not yet deflowered who ALREADY HAVE HPV AND/OR HERPES.
How, you might ask?
Quite simply, they are being infected by their dear mothers who were infected twenty-odd years ago.
Yes, indeed, boys. Even if you can find an elusive virgin (cough, cough) the odds are fairly good that she already has an STD.
Still sure you're horny.....?
- 11 January 2008 at 00:30
Whore has become a standard noun to call women and the women call themselves whores, sluts etc.
I am disgusted.
- 11 January 2008 at 04:44
Duncan, work more, invest and be able to retire early.
- 11 January 2008 at 04:46
"Mostly because for women, marriage and family is indeed their raison d'etre. Women rarely become consumingly passionate about anything beyond their house, their kids and their husband."
That is why women have nearly never been great investors or business men.
- 11 January 2008 at 04:50
I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-size likeness of herself.
Her childhood dream was a cake in her likeness. How self-absorbed can any woman be?!?
- 11 January 2008 at 05:29
'I didn't want a dad in the child's life...I'm not denying my children anything'
Australian Single Mother by Choice Clare Edwards has one child via a sperm donor and says she wants to have 10 more . When asked if it is right to inflict fatherlessness on her present and future offspring, she says:
"I didn't want a dad in the child's life...I'm not denying my children anything."
This TV report explains that Edwards " lives on government handouts " and "being a modern woman gives her that right to make that decision [to have fatherless kids]."
"[Single Motherhood by Choice advocate Peggy] Drexler does allow that some male figures can be positive for boys. Who? ' Grandfathers, godfathers, uncles, family friends, coaches'—in short, anybody but dad . In fact, boys being raised without fathers benefit because they enjoy 'more male figures in their lives than boys from traditional families.'
Governemnet hand-outs are funding these selfish and lazy sluts.
Pure socialism combined with extreme feminism.
Australia is doomed.
- 11 January 2008 at 07:22
Dumb, dumber, Rick Salomon.
Rick Salomon married Pamela Anderson 3 months ago. Now, pregnant, she want a divorce and spousal support, despite earning much more.
Why are men so dumb and marry such women? I knew it would end this way.
- 11 January 2008 at 08:13
Eddie Murphy - Raw - Marriage vs Leasing
- 11 January 2008 at 08:28
"has long since outgrown the need to win the approval of her or any other member of her sex at the expense of going his own damn way"
That's me. Cutting those parasites out of my life was the best thing I ever did. Those so called Real Men can have them.
Let them give up the immaturity of playing video games to finance the very mature and empowering act of endless shopping sprees. Go hold their bags sucker.
- 11 January 2008 at 09:04
There are some real knobs out there. In my view Man A isn't a man, he's a Eunuch.
If you see these married people the women will often go for a "girlie" night out, but the blokes are never allowed to or if they are allowed out their wives tell them how much they can spend.
As for TV. Apart from Top Gear is there anything on ANY of the 4 main TV channels that is aimed at men? Even Match of the Day has female presenters and commentators now. None of whom know anything about football.
- 11 January 2008 at 10:26
16yo slut:
From: sexibabegirl1920
YO !!! stop spaming my comments u jealous bitch... (more)
YO !!! stop spaming my comments u jealous bitchs.
This innocent looking girl uses a language that shows her true face: what did she expect dancing like a whore?
Good for sportfucking but no marriage material at all.
Then being 30 they will complain: "there are no good men left - sobbbbb!"
- 11 January 2008 at 12:11
Women today are selling themselves so cheap. You can have sex any time, marriage is no prerequisite anymore.
Marriage itself is a trap for divorce.
- 11 January 2008 at 12:20
@anon 00:30
Thanks alot, I did know that children could get infected through their mothers but did not expect it would continue until they are nubile.
I am not interested in using whores, so why should I have "normal women" as gf if they are all infected?
I knew a girl who told me she had intercourse with 3 HIV infected men - AIDS (!).
She went to university...
- 11 January 2008 at 12:43
There are DUMB men out there, really dumb.
This woman is a former prostitute, she was the boss of a brothel, she is 50 years old and her husband is 44.
They invested 50,000€ to have a baby, she had two miscarriages.
Now the child is growing too fast.
These are the men, who made the modern mess possible.
She should have married a good man when she was 16 if she wanted children.
- 11 January 2008 at 13:37
A agree wholeheartedly with the ideas of this post.
We need to take back the concept of maturity and return it to its true definition.
Men who live free are truly the most mature ones in our world.
- 11 January 2008 at 16:07
Damn fine post, Duncan. You're absolutely right: why the fuck should anyone in their right mind respect Man A? He's given his life to a damn dream. Better religion to the church of 'family life' through total self sacrifice.
What a bad joke. One of the coolest men I've ever met (happily married, two kids at last news) is basically Man B, but with a wife. He's still racing motorcycles. Take no shit, do what makes you smile, and watch your wife respect and love you. Turn into the butler and watch the opposite.
- 11 January 2008 at 18:27
By the way guys, how reliable is this STD stuff? C'mon. 70%??
- 11 January 2008 at 18:28
"Quite simply, they are being infected by their dear mothers who were infected twenty-odd years ago."
I don't think they all are. There is a reason for all the C-sections these days. It's to avoid giving the newborn the STD's.
- 11 January 2008 at 22:00
"By the way guys, how reliable is this STD stuff? C'mon. 70%??"
This statistics are absolutely correct and are from the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC).
All of the information is available here on HPV, the most common of the STIs.
"According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), by the age of 50 more than 80% of American women will have contracted at least one strain of genital HPV."
The infection rates are probably similar in the UK. Does anyone have figures on this?
- 12 January 2008 at 04:38
- NHY said...
You hit the nail on the head there, Duncan. I'm constantly told that I need to grow up and be more mature. Of course, most of the people my age are regularily doing such ' mature ' things as going out on the piss every weekend, working shit jobs and basically not doing much with thier lives.
Meanwhile, people like me, have seen through this and decide for ourselves what is mature and immature and at the same time, work on ourselves to make ourselves a better person.
I'll admit, it is not fucking easy. I'm 21, still living at home but I'm in college. I'm trying to get through college without going into debt ( Its cheaper to go to colleg ein Ireland. I DO NOT want to be debt if the SHFT ) but as a result, I feel right now I'm missing out on a lot and as I don't have a part time job at present and have to depend on my parents for money, that I can't say ' no ' to anything they ask me to do, no matter how much I'd want to say no.
I guess its shaming language but its stuff I'll just have to grit my teeth and endure until I graduate and can afford to leave home.
- 12 January 2008 at 07:51
Great post, but I want to nitpick one line: "The paradox is that if a woman tells a man that 'if you were a Real Man you would do X' then, if he does X, he is not a Real Man."
The thing is, what the woman tells the man to do ideally shouldn't affect his decision one way or another. In the above example, the man should do or not do X as he pleases. Always doing the opposite of what you are told can get you into trouble too.
I realise that your post more generally captures that idea; as I said: just nitpicking.
- 12 January 2008 at 18:37
To all:
Read the following books:
"Women At Risk- The HPV Epidemic and Your Cervical Health" by Gregory S. Henderson, M.D. The author is a leading expert on STI's.
Also, read "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About HPV And Abnormal Pap Smears" by Joel Palefsky, M.D. The author is also an expert on STI's.
These books will scare the ever- loving crap right out of you. The information is available about the prevalence of HPV and HSV infection in society. The fact is that you have virtually no chance of engaging in any sexual activity of any kind (unless you wear a body-suit of latex) without exposing yourself to one or more of these diseases.
Condoms are USELESS in preventing transmission of HPV or Herpes.
The vast majority of women in the U.S. are permanently infected with at least one strain of one of these viral STI's, and most women probably have multiple infections. It's not uncommon for a woman to have several HPV strains. I know of one woman with TWELVE strains of HPV, both cancer and wart varieties.
I kid you not.
There are over three dozen documented STI's around, and many women harbor Chlamydia and Ghonorea
infections on top of HPV and/or Herpes.
Face it young fellows: Your generation is utterly and hopelessly infested with STI's, and there is nothing you can do to protect yourself other than keep your pants zipped up at all times.
No exceptions.
If you have had more than one sexual partner, you probably already have HPV, although there is no commercially available test for men to determine your status. If like most young men today, you have had six. eight or ten or more partners, you probably have multiple strains of HPV, as well as Herpes.
"What? I've had no symptoms!", you proclaim. So what? Most people are asymptomatic, at least for a frequently prolonged period of time, or the symptoms went unnoticed.
The situation is HOPELESS. We have reached a critical point where MOST women, and probably men, are infected with an STI.
The research has been done; the issue is settled. It's a fact. Nothing can be done.
Get used to it.
Now, with that said, what are you going to do? Are you going to adopt the usual foolish male bravado and bounce around like a fool proclaiming your need for sex, and parrot the usual line "I'll just wear a condom!"
How stupid.
Your lives are at stake, boys. Keep your bloody pants on, fer Crissakes. Women are riddled with Sexually Transmitted Infections, and no shot of penicillin will do diddly-squat to cure them.
Their infections are PERMANENT.
The chickens have come home to roost. The damage is done, and it's irreversible.
I've been studying STI's (as an amateur) since HIV first came on the scene in 1983.
Yeah, I'm just that old.
This is a whole new breed of bug out there, and it just won't go away no matter how positively you think about it. Since the 1960's people have been screwing everything in sight. Well, there is no free lunch. Time to pay up, boys. It couldn't go on forever.
Celibacy is your only alternative- IF you want to keep your little Willy clean.
I just turned 47, moderately successful in life, and CELIBATE.
I don't have Herpes, HPV or anything else because I have kept my pants on. I knew the risk early on, as I studied STI's when I was quite young, and what I found disturbed me greatly. I'm very pragmatic about the pleasures of life. Yes, I have a sexual drive, and yes it has been strong, but never so strong that I was willing to destroy myself in order to obtain satisfaction.
Your generation has almost completely abandoned any semblance of morality or modesty, in particular the women, and the price you are going to pay is far more tremendous than most of you realize.
I urge you to reason things out. Think with your big head. Study the material available to you. Know the risks. Then, if you decide to dip your Willy into a Vaginal Sewer, you won't have anyone to blame but yourself if it develops a cluster of festering warts that keep recurring.
And spreading.
Possibly up your urethra or inside your rectum.
(I know a man who had his urethra FILL UP with genital warts. You DO NOT want to know how they removed them.)
Then, maybe you'll remember that crazy forty-seven-year-old Harley-riding celibate bachelor in Oregon who told you it would happen.
Then, you'll be really pissed at yourself......
Christopher in Oregon
- 12 January 2008 at 22:30
I just re-read your post.
"However, to become a fully-fledged man, a boy must learn to shrug off the yearning for female approval, primarily by not giving a flying fuck about whether a woman denounces you as 'immature', 'a big kid' or 'not a Real Man(TM)'. "
This is so utterly true it should be required reading in male-only classes at high school. If they don't like you the way you are or doing what you do, then fuck 'em. Or better yet, don't fuck 'em. Don't have anything to do with women who try to make you over.
HPV, STDs and all the rest: It sounds like I need to do some checking here. I'll advise further if and when I get the time to do so.
As a last side note, I saw (just in passing) a minivan stuffed full of rioting pre-teens turn up at the petrol station. A mum with the same haircut as Bonzo The Clown got out. Her arrrrrse was a mile wide and I just thought, son, there but for the grace of God goes your probable marriage. Imagine what a total idiot you'd have to be to surrender your life toward being the foundation for this collection's existence.
It isn't so much the current generation of girls who've fucked marriage up, it's their Boomer mothers who've put their daughter's chances largely in the shitter.
- 12 January 2008 at 22:55
"I just turned 47, moderately successful in life, and CELIBATE."
Christopher, are you a virgin?
Duncan, are you a virgin?
- 13 January 2008 at 08:30
There is a vaccine against HPV now, but only for women.
There are initiatives to vaccine all girls beginning at 12 years of age.
Sure it will protect them against HPV, but at the same time they will be encouraged to be even more promiscous. And there are many more STDs waiting to get spread.
Women may have wonderful bodies, there is no reason to get infected.
Let the bad boys get the STDs. :-))
- 13 January 2008 at 09:17
"He kept saying, 'Oh my God she is so hot, she has an amazing a*se and she is going to make me rich'. I wanted to die. I couldn't believe the man I'd fallen for could be so cruel. "I could just about stomach the fact he had a wife, but when there became four of us in our relationship I had to dump him."
"Britney is on the edge and it's ironic that the only person she feels she can turn to is a paparazzo," one U.S. source said.
"It's like the lamb going to stay with the wolf pack."
Well, when men are golddiggers it is condemned, when women are it is not even mentioned.
Good for Ghalib to do what all female golddiggers do.
- 13 January 2008 at 16:25
... is scared shitless. I've been doing just five minutes of checking and it looks like Christopher's bang on the money.
Blood tests don't necessarily spot Herpes, condoms don't stop Herpes or HPV, particularly if you're with the same infected person repeatedly. Oh and I just found out that the virus which causes cold sores can be transmitted mouth to dick.
Take care out there guys.
- 14 January 2008 at 00:04
@Anon 22:30
The thought of getting STD's is what kept me from having any sex for over 6 years. Then (before waking to the fematrix) I had 2 partners but after the usual bitch problems I got rid of them and I've been abstinent for 4 years.
3 years later I found that a small wart had developed on my johnson. Don't know if it was just a regular wart or something else but its gone now.
- 14 January 2008 at 03:34
Fellow bachelors, check out this article. The shaming language is monumental!
Dealing with Anti-Feminism
- 14 January 2008 at 18:45
Actually to be married is to be reduced to infancy. Well that's my 30 year experience. One example is that one looses control over what one eats. It might sound a small point and not one that is obvious - but it is true. As far as meals are concerned marriage reduces a man to being in the high chair again. He has no control of what or when he eats. It is more or less being a baby accepting spoon feeding. My wife thinks I like this arrangement but in fact I hate it. Soon hopefully I will rest control of my meals and indeed the rest of my life back into my own control. And like Duncan I don't care what women think I am no longer enchanted by the magic orifice.
- 15 January 2008 at 02:44
Haha, it's not a joke, here one goes again:
They are really that stupid. Okay, men aren't willing anymore to marry fraudulent fembots? Now we are immature and should take our part of guilt in divorce. No, ahah, thanks - womyn break marriages, and we take our part? Stick it!
Funny too - "these bachelors will grow old alone". - Hello? This is exactly what a huge part of these who dreamed of families will happen too. With the exception, that the bachelor has his own money (and probably a less weak constitution, less depressions, if he decided for beachelorhood, more friends, because he has no wife who objects etc.)
- 15 January 2008 at 03:57
Person of the year 1975: American Women
It could not be the american man who had been dying in Vietnam while the women whined about being oppressed in cozy USA?
- 15 January 2008 at 10:10
- RHM said...
I agree... live your life how you want NOT how your woman wants.
- 15 January 2008 at 12:50
- many_luxury_vacations said...
Nice to see you back, Duncan. The feminist poison is even stronger in the Christian Church (an institution now dead and buried in the UK).
- 15 January 2008 at 19:43
I can harp all day about the dangers of marriage to western women, or indeed marrying ANY woman in a western nation. I can quote divorce statistics until I'm blue in the face. I can refer you to any of countless books dealing with feminism and its effect on women.
I have a pretty good-sized library dealing with these issues, but when dealing with young men, these subjects generally fall on deaf ears for one simple reason:
Until you hit thirty or so, you are ruled by your sex drive, more or less. I was fortunate in that I was raised a very devout Mormon and was so until 26, then I became a fundy-Baptist up until several years ago. Religion ruled my life, and since I wasn't planning on getting married, I felt pre-marital sex was immoral.
However, when I was 21, I was seduced by a recently divorced lady I knew in the Mormon church that was older than I was, and I attempted to engage in my one and only shot at sexual intercourse.
What a nauseating experience. When she disrobed, the stench from her privates would have literally knocked a buzzard off a garbage truck at fifty paces. Yet, I was horny, so I made the effort. I've jokingly said that Napoleon could have marched his army six-abreast through her vagina. Talk about LOOSE. That's the effect of having three children. The vagina becomes so loose and floppy and UGLY that intercourse is usually pointless for the average man who isn't hung like a horse. It simply isn't going to work very well, and requires Herculean effort on the man's part. This is one reason why so many married men lose interest in sex with their wives. As a woman ages, her vagina falls apart, and her vaginal odor grows worse. It's like nature is saying "She had her children. Leave her alone. And to make sure you DO leave her alone, I'll make her so unattractive, you won't want to touch her."
This was my one and only attempt at intercourse. She had to finish me off with a hand-job because, frankly, I probably would have put out my back hammering away at that gaping cavity. I was only 21 at the time, and in very good physical shape. (still am)
I concentrate on the sexual issues when warning young men about marriage and women because that is probably the only way to get your attention. Older guys, over thirty, generally know what I'm saying to be true. They understand that sex is INSANELY over-rated, and that a man's sex drive is short-lived. You need to know that, in the long run, sex just isn't that great, and is NEVER worth the price you will pay in order to have it.
But, the method I use most frequently is to warn men about STI's. This is hitting below the belt, but it often works. I don't care how attractive she is; she has HPV. I don't care how sweet her smile is; her lips have probably already been sucking on a penis that has HPV or Herpes. I don't care how attracted you are to her pretty figure; she's probably had ten or fifteen peckers poking her already, if not many, many more. I don't care how she preaches that she believes in God; the odds are good that she has already dabbled in bisexuality.
You are taking your life in your hands when having sex with ANYONE today. You can't even let a woman masturbate you if you are fully clothed. They have found HPV DNA in hair and finger nails. They are implicating HPV in many cancers of the throat, anus and penis, not to mention virtually all cervical cancers are a result of HPV. Many, if not most female cancers of the genital area are HPV-related.
You can HPV or HSV1 or HSV2 from oral sex, giving or receiving. You can get genital warts in your mouth. On your gums. In your throat. Up your rectum. Down your urethra. You can have genital wart out breaks so extenisive that they block your ability to urinate or empty your bowels, requiring surgery. They can be so extensive that you hardly can recognize that your penis is indeed a penis. They can grow at an incredible rate. They can resist all medical attempts to eradicate them. Or they can go away on their own. Maybe. Maybe not.
No one knows.
You can have herpes outbreaks so painful that you are immobilized and can't work. Herpes might hit you once a year, or once a week. Genital warts might never come back, or they might have to be burned, chopped or frozen off every few weeks for the rest of your life. (check out the treatment for cancer of the penis- CHOP-CHOP!)
Go to medical web sites and price medications for Herpes and HPV. I hope you're very well off, or have VERY good health insurance. Valtrex is a real bank-buster. I know one fellow who spends on average $500 a month on his Herpes medications.
Most guys don't know that cold sores ARE Herpes, and is known as Herpes Simplex Virus 1. Genital Herpes is known as HSV2, or Herpes Simplex Virus2. HOWEVER, HSV1 and HSV2 are frequently interchangeable , and it's very difficult even for experts to find any difference between the two. For all practical purposes, they are one and the same. Some estimates are that upwards of NINETY percent of women have oral Herpes, and by their mid twenties,
it's generally conceded that at least half of women have genital infections of either Herpes1 or Herpes2. If you or a woman has a cold sore, or even if no symptoms are noticeable, a casual brushing of your hand over your lip (or hers) and then touching your genital area can facilitate transmission of Herpes. Yes, it's just that easy.
As I have mentioned before, by age 24, well over half of women are infected with at least one strain of HPV.
I am free of any and all diseases. The tiny bit of sex I had was back in the early eighties when Herpes and especially HPV were quite uncommon.
I tell you these things not to gloat; far from it. I have many friends with these infections, and one young women I know has HIV, and was infected during her sluttish years as a teen-ager back in the early nineties. What an insane price to pay for promiscuity.
But, you don't have to be promiscuous to become infected. In fact, if you have just one encounter, you will probably become infected on your first attempt. Herpes and HPV are just that common.
Don't believe a woman who tells you she has been tested for STI's. Unless a specific request is made for a very expensive Herpes test, she has NOT been tested for Herpes. Even if she has this test, it gives out false positives and false negatives. NO test is fool-proof.
Herpes and HPV can be spread with NO visible symptoms, so visual inspections are USELESS. Most women will LIE about previous known infections, so her claiming to be clean means nothing.
Condoms are USELESS in preventing the spread of most STI's and certainly Herpes or HPV. I say again:
There is NO KNOWN METHOD of protecting you from exposure to Herpes of HPV if you have sex with an infected partner. These viral infections are, as one MD put it, "Super-contagious". The slightest brushing up against any part of a woman's anatomy from her lower back to her knees can possibly facilitate transmission. Read that again. Merely lying in bed and having your thigh brush up against her thigh can do the trick.
Infected for life.
Is it really worth it? Is an orgasm worth a life time of misery and expense? Really?
I can't control what you fellows do with your own bodies, and wouldn't if I could. I only hope you think with a clear head while you still can. Studies have shown that women are more than twice as likely to have Genital Herpes as men, and it's often assumed that the same applies to HPV, although that can't be proved as there is no available test for men and HPV.
Women are sluts, pure and simple. Let them rot in their misery. Protect yourself, and don't let them drag you down to their level.
Renounce your sex drive as the corrupting influence it is. Under normal circumstances, this would not be so, but today sex will ruin your life.
Consider my life as an example of what can be. I'm 47, STI-free, months away from being completely debt-free (including my home) and I have no dealings with women.
I am a separatist and a misogynist. This means I have NO social or sexual dealings with women. I am celibate.
I am happy and at peace with life. I am not a slave to my passions nor women. I understand the dangers of the flesh, and do not indulge.
I am not gay, or effeminate. I ride two fairly new Harley-Davidson motorcycles. I'm not rich, but financially, I'm better off than 95% of the men in society for one reason and one reason only:
I stay away from women.
Be wise.
You won't get a second chance today.
Christopher in Oregon
- 16 January 2008 at 00:29
"Older guys, over thirty, generally know what I'm saying to be true. They understand that sex is INSANELY over-rated, and that a man's sex drive is short-lived. You need to know that, in the long run, sex just isn't that great, and is NEVER worth the price you will pay in order to have it."
Absolutely. Now that I am 35, I can see that this it true and that sex is completely overrated. This is not even considering the very high risk of STD infection.
Masterbate if you must to relieve sexual desire. Keep it up until your sex drive goes off a cliff in your 30s (like mine did) and then you won't even want to do it anymore. Have children through a surrogate using artificial insemination if you really want to have kids and raise them yourself. Any contact with women is just not worth it until there are complete immunizations for STDs (someday in the future).
- 16 January 2008 at 16:21
Agreed.Sex is completely over-rated you know.I can't for the life of me figure out why so many decent men,down through the ages,up to the present day have been hoodwinked by this illusion.That's all sex and lusting after woman is.Pure illusion.Realise this, address it and free yourself from the constraints that so many men have succumed to.Women are just plain boring and I don't mean to sound harsh, that's been my experience.
Just save your cash lads,read good books,exercise,play some games if you like video/computer games,enjoy your time with your close family and friends and above all don't fret cause you think you're(or you've been told) a loser cause you haven't a thumping mortgage,a brood of screaming kids to clothe&feed and a fire-breathing nag-monster wife lurking in your home.
The last woman I slept with was the final straw for me.Utterly self obsessed,selfish to boot with a freakin voice which would have shattered glass.Her breath was rank,I mean it smelt as if she had been gorging on shit&dead rat sandwiches.Her fud,pussy,pie,cunt or whatever you wish to call it was absolutely honking.I mean truly awful.I kicked her out and told her to piss off.That's me done with'em I tell you.It seems some of 'em can't even keep up a basic standard of hygeine,yet we're supposed to respect and worship that?Watch me.
I'm saving to emigrate from this feminised shitehole the U.K. has become. I have close to £100,000($200,000) savings and I'm fucking off soon to explore new horizons for myself.And yes,no nag-monster!
- 16 January 2008 at 21:00
There is a HPV vaccine for men too. It's called Gardasil.
- 16 January 2008 at 23:18
Can I make a response to the anonymous post a few entries above? He begins by saying the sex is overrated. I think I am in a similar position to him. Yes I too think sex is overrated and freeing yourself from enchantment by the magic orifice is the real liberation. Also I too hope to quit the UK very soon for exactly the same reasons. It is good to find kindred spirits.
- 17 January 2008 at 07:29
Christ, it sounds safer to have sex with animals than with Modern "liberated" Women!
I kid, I kid ...
Is it safe to milk the one eyed monster?
- 17 January 2008 at 19:59
Yeah,I made that post you're referring to,my friend,the one about my last,rather unhygeinic woman.As you say,it'd good to know some guys feel the same way and are plotting their escape from the ultra-feminist U.K.I'm 39 now,and believe me,what others have said is true.After you hit your 30's your sex-drive diminishes,the blinkers drop from your eyes, and then you see the truth.I don't hate woman, only these cold,callous bitches that are becoming the norm it seems.I've lived in Belfast,Edinburgh,Leeds and London.Every British city is the same - full of tramps,sluttish selfish hoes who are all obsessed with celebrity and,of course,themselves.Most men can't see the problem.I think most of 'em wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they weren't lusting after and chasing skirt.The reality is that there is a whole world of wonder out there beyond the "magic orifice" A world ready for men to explore,experience and enjoy.Be selfish and elevate yourselves to number 1.After all,your "worth it"
- 17 January 2008 at 23:05
To anonymous Jan 10, '08 @ 13:39....
I went to the site you mentioned, felt like I need to wash out my eyeballs with Listerine. Some of the women are in their mid 40's to early 50's, it ain't pretty.
Put up a warning next time.
- 17 January 2008 at 23:07
American Woman gives new hubby herpes
- 18 January 2008 at 06:44
The gynocrats don't have anything to say now when you point out that they all have infections.
All gynocratic commenting stops when you point out that they have infections.
And you ever find it odd... how you point out how women are in our society, but each woman will say "not me!"
80% of women have STDS.
"Not me!" "NOt me!" "I don't!"
You are and you do.
- 22 May 2008 at 11:36
Let me add something here. Note that my Mexican wife of nearly 33 years and I married in the 70's, before it became obvious that only a fool would marry under current laws. It made no sense to divorce to avoid divorce.
We are 66, and though the hormones are down a bit, we still have some really good sex from time to time. A little KY Natural Feeling Liquid works wonders, and I am free from worry about STD's. Her weight is back to what it was when she was 30, 102 pounds, and she still looks pretty good in bed. Not so good standing up, but that is not my favorite pose. With all the worry about STD's, marital fidelity does have advantages, and boinking an enthusiastic 66 year old woman is not too big a price to pay for freedom. Benjamin Franklin knew what he was talking about.
My point here is she never ever has had a bad vaginal smell. I mentioned this on DGM and a man with more experience said this is because clearly she knows how to clean her vagina. Women who clean it properly usually have no bad smell at all -- also assuming no STD's.
So, it is not normal for a woman to have such a bad smell. Women who smell like that are pure pigs, disgusting filthy creatures. They are as disgusting as a person who does not use t.p. after a bowel movement.
I have watched my wife take showers. Sometimes, I ask if I can watch, and she tells me, sure, because she knows I enjoy seeing her 'nekkid' body and doesn't mind. I tell you she really makes an effort to clean herself well.
Anonymous age 66
- 23 May 2008 at 07:37
So much of the above comments are sad , but all too true.
Did fem bots know what they were unleashing all those long years ago?
- Probably not, but it has to be said- the men with highest sex drives, low insight and high ambition have been used to further the fem cause and now we see the God awful result.
Politicians ( Yes!- the same) are the reason we have lost our way- as with looking after the elderly ,care for forces injured and child care really working for the health of future society are all statist failures.
Men with selfish, feminist agendas have used and corrupted democracy to further their aims and now we see the backlash.
In some ways women are no more to blame than men- as only a few rotten apples ,in the system we have, can have a huge effect beyond their intelligence -if they know how to hijack well ,'the people' and the 'system'!
Yep- that seems to be the case to me. 5K
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I want to personally apologize to the hundreds of parents and their advanced students for not being able to save the valuable and honored Accelerated Learning Activities Program (ALAP) that benefited all students, in one way or the other. Everyone who has been involved in this productive and educational program for these many years, including the caring teachers, all deserve much better than this outcome.
In my opinion, it is a backward step that will have a negative effect on the overall education of our fine and industrious students, especially in the elementary schools.
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I find it hard to believe that the Warwick School Committee & School Administration couldn't reclassify available funds WITHIN the School Budget. Maybe it's time the School Department hire/find managers WHO CAN.
The funds were there. They chose not to allocate them to the program. There was $100K for a new administrator position to oversee evaluations. There were raises for employees. Why can't the evaluators who were paid the last 2 years to learn the system teach others how to do the evaluations? There was a little talk about using the money to create a different program but it has not happened. My child was told to bring in the summer work so she could get some extra credit for something. I don't want her to get extra credit. I don't want her to have inflated grades because someone feels bad that she did the work... I want her to actually learn more. The motto of the program was raise the bar. Warwick Schools should be ashamed of themselves. Why raise the bar when it can be lowered...
Warwick elected the union hack, Karen Bachus, to the school committee and this is what you get; Less for the kids, more for the employees. 17 days after the election she voted to give the union a raise and didn't have the money to pay for it. They didn't have the guts to close Gorton because people would have been laid off, saving millions, and they have a budget problem.... cut the kids programs... problem solved.
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Lefthand Trail connects the Sage Trail at Lookout Rd. with Neva Rd at 39th (39th is a dirt road, so it's a cool way to avoid all that yucky "pavement" all the roadies talk about loving). The trail trucks along for just over 2 miles next to Lefthand Valley Reservoir and some great cattle grazing land. From the Sage Trail, you can connect onto this trail by following the signs at the Boulder Valley Ranch Trailhead. After going through a somewhat confusing set of gates and splitting trails (just keep heading North), you will quickly get rolling. There are a few minor twists and turns and even a couple of small bridges to go over. If you are a beginning mountain biker, this could be a great way to practice your skills on an easy trail with very few people around to be embarrassed in front of!
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Simcraft version 530-7 was released this week, and contains a bunch of bugfixes and updates. You can download your copy here. As usual, here's a list of the major changes:
- 5.4 PTR now includes the new Vengeance formulas, including diminishing returns
- TMI calculation now normalizes against health on-the-fly to account for temporary health buffs (e.g. Last Stand)
- New "T16Q" boss to challenge well-geared tanks
- TMI bosses reclassified according to content type:
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- T15H10 (translates to old T15N)
- T15N10 (translates to old T15LFR)
- Bosses have gained a new "melee_nuke" attack. This is much like spell_nuke, but does physical damage and cannot be dodged, parried, or miss. It can be blocked.
- Boss attacks now do variable damage rather than fixed damage
- Melee attacks default to a range of +/- 20% of the base damage
- spell_nuke and melee_nuke attacks default to a range of +/- 10% base damage
- the APL option "range" now lets you specify a custom damage range. For example, if you wanted an auto attack that did 50k to 150k damage, you could use:
- Fluffy_Pillow has been re-calibrated to be much more melee-heavy. He still performs spell_nuke, but now also uses melee_nuke and uses both much less frequently.
- Ability reporting has changed slightly. When clicking on an ability to open up the detailed report, there will no longer be a separate "Block results" sub-table to summarize the results of the block roll. Instead, attacks are broken down by their full type – i.e. miss, dodge, parry, hit, hit (blocked), hit (crit-blocked), crit, crit (blocked), crit (crit-blocked), and so on.
- Minor corrections to mitigation ordering (i.e. armor before block, shouldn't have a noticeable effect for paladins, matters for warrior set bonuses).
- SotR no longer mitigates magical damage (oops?).
- Blocked attacks now do less damage than full hits (oops?).
- PTR changes updated to b17331
- T16H/N Protection profiles implemented
- T16H/N Retribution profiles implemented (but not optimized)
- Fixed an import bug for Retribution that was causing L90 talents to be ignored
- Shield Barrier bugfix
- Lots of other changes that I haven't been keeping careful notes on
As you can see, those are some pretty big bugfixes for paladins. SotR was unintentionally mitigating magical damage, and blocking wasn't always working quite correctly. Together, these two should cause mastery's value to jump around a bit (positive from the block change, negative from the SotR change). I don't think it will suddenly be a strong stat, but it may be able to keep up with dodge and parry now.
In addition, SimC should be fully up-to-date for the latest PTR, so we can do some testing to see how certain talents stack up to one another. I've already done a little work with SS and EF over at maintankadin which I may write up as a blog post for next week. I'm working on re-building all of my various MATLAB simulations as simc files, but now that the semester's started things have gotten busy and I can't guarantee I'll have them done in time for 5.4's release.
You may notice your TMI go up fairly significantly if you're simming with "ptr=1″ enabled. That's to be expected, partly due to the SS nerf, partly due to the fact that you're getting less Vengeance. I don't *think* there are any other bugs that could be causing TMI inflation, but as usual if you see something fishy don't hesitate to post a comment so we can double-check it.
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