Comments on: Sex, Shaving, and Bad Underwear

By: mykcmvx

mykcmvx — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:39:23 +0000

By: Eni

Eni — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:43 +0000

F#$% you and your mom and his mom is dead. Anyone that knows him knows that. Hell i would beat some a&^ if smeoone of the same sex started grabbing me. They didn’t mean to kill him, they didn’t even know that they did untill they went back. And they didn’t need John to say anything because they were already going to turn themselves in. If you don’t know what you are talking about then don’t open your month and that is one thing that makes me mad about the news. now the only people that really knows the story are the people that they were friends with and told

By: Maybe I finally found my bad underwear! | I Quit... Again!

Maybe I finally found my bad underwear! | I Quit... Again! — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:30:10 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:00:07 +0000

hmm..the Granny Panties might actually have me more excited..depends how ugly they are (the underwear, not the woman)

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:51:15 +0000

It occured to me reading the Further Reflections on Self Control in “Irrational” (page 259 & f) that I had devised ways to trick myself into doing certain things (and in no way by this example do I take lightly the incredible pain that Dan suffered with the Interferon treatments);
For example, I am a runner and train very seriously. Due to my schedule I have to get up at 4:30 AM, five or six days a week – all seasons – and train either outside or at the gym. Now what “rational” person would put themselves through this, even if there is a benefit I can personally attest to (such as having more energy, sleeping better, feeling fit, etc.)?
So, to assist in keeping on this rigorous regimen, I started placing little “treats” on my office desk that would great me in the morning if I got up, such as a mini candy bar or a shot of Red Bull. Other times I would buy a lottery ticket the night before and just the thought (however irrational) that I might wake up and discover that I was now a multi-millionaire was enough to drag myself out of bed! It seems that I was accepting a small irrational behavior (small candy bar or a wasted dollar on the lottery ticket) as a means to accomplish the larger rational goal of training…

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:38 +0000

This is my rambling response to the shaving and granny panties discussion.

I have always resented the time expenditure to do the “tedious personal grooming” required of me to be acceptable as a woman in this culture (WASP North America 1967 to present).

Don’t get me wrong, I shower and wash my hair and brush my teeth, I trim inconvenient hair, also I take care that my face is free of errant hair, but that’s about it. I’m a jeans and t-shirt girl. Plucking, exfoliating, shaving, manicuring, and makeup are anathema to my intellectual and active working self.

When I was dating, I had to evaluate what a potential partner thought about a woman “au naturel”. I found this to be a very good screening process, for a person who will enjoy me for who I am would not be too troubled by unshaved legs.

As I have gotten older, I am also more likely to groom beyond my preferences for a partner who loves me for who I am yet would like a little smoother me occasionally.

So, to the granny panties I say hoorah! If he (or she) will have you in your granny panties then that is a good model for a life together. It can always get better from there.

If I were to do all of that tedious grooming to go on a date, I would be misleading my potential partner. How valid would my choices be, or how lasting would a relationship be based on such a start?

From another angle, if I were to prim and pluck to go out for an evening, for me that would signal that I am simply looking for a casual sexual experience rather than a partner, since I am essentially hiding my true self.

How much of dating and relationships consists of this lying about your self? How many people get into relationships under false pretenses and therefore are trapped in a role they are not comfortable with? How many people prefer that their mates conform to what they think they ought to be rather than being honest and true to themselves?

I have conquered smoking but can’t stop biting my nails. I don’t watch TV or play video games but I “waste” hours watching TED talks. I don’t shop for fun but I spend too much on books, which I spend too much time reading. People are complex.

/end ramble
minx in granny panties

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:27:53 +0000

I think if there’s a will there’s a way, both ways.

If there’s a will to stop yourself, you’ll go to all ends to attempt to do so…

Unfortunately likewise, predictably irrationally, we’ll go to all means to attempt to undo what we’ve done to protect ourselves if we’re really out to do it in the spur of the moment…

predictably irrationally…

By: Renars

Renars — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:57:02 +0000

Whenever I have previously arranged a morning run with someone else I would be in our meeting place at a time (well or at least no more than 5 minutes late). When I am going for a training on my own, I tend to postpone going out from my house as long as I can.
Also people tend to spend less if they are writng down their spendings, so they really can see how much they have spent.
In both of these cases – being accountable to somebody is one of the ways to self-control, however, it is again kind of external control.

By: Yaniv Rahimi

Yaniv Rahimi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:45:56 +0000

“Who is a hero?
He who conquers his passions”
(Avot, Chapter 4, 1).

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