I have played chess my whole life but was never very good at it. Every few years I would try to play a chess computer, would easily defeat the first level and find myself completely nuked at level 2. The learning curve was too steep, I just didn’t get it. Summer of 2020, I started getting chess videos recommended to me by youtube. I watched a few, figured out a few small things, and decided to try some things out. On January 9, 2021, I created an account on chess.com.
This is my story.
Last year that was the intro to an article I wrote. For some other basic details, read that article here.
This time, I am just going to give a stats update, because, why not. All of this is based on chess.com, rapid games. I don’t take blitz seriously and rarely play bullet. I haven’t played a single daily game in the last year.
One year ago my rating was 1094 with a peak of 1210. Currently it is 1262 with a peak of 1289 on January 3rd, 2023. I was hoping to break 1300 before this update, but it didn’t happen. Below is my progress graph. It actually looks fairly linear, so that is good. Despite my peak not changing much, I am clearly a better player, the 2021 peak was artificial, this one is realistic, I have been slowly pushing it up.
In the last year I played 1264 games, with a record of 602 wins, 581 losses, and 81 ties. My best win was vs a 1330 rated opponent, that win pushed me to the 1289 peak. My longest win streak was 8, both this year and all time. I have had a streak of 8 multiple times, but 9 is apparently not possible for me.
As white I was 313-268-42, as black, 289-313-39.
Now the more interesting stuff.
I started to use openingtree.com to analyze my stats in different game stats to see where I struggle. For example, I suck vs the French defense, so changed to playing the Tarrasch Variation against it. More on that below. The site is neat, it sucks in all your games from a website and allows you to see stats from various game positions.
As white, I always play 1. e4.
My record vs various opponent moves on turn 1:
e5 206-149-21
c5 (Sicilian) 31-25-5
d5 23-26-5
e6 (French) 16-26-7
c6 (Caro-Kann) 8-16-1
Others have too small a sample size to worry about. The C-K is worrying, because I play the Caro as black, so should do better against it as white.
Re: The French Defense, as mentioned earlier. I used to play the Advance Variation, I am 2-7-1 vs it. So I switched to the Tarrasch, I am 3-0-1 with it. So I am now comfortable playing against the French, just need to figure out vs the Caro now. I have been experimenting with the Fantasy Variation, but haven’t played it in rapid yet, I really don’t know what I am doing with it. I will say I have already improved a good bit vs the C-K. I was 1-9-0 playing the Exchange Variation, but switched to the Advance Variation and am 6-6-3. So much better, but I am still considering the Fantasy instead.
As black, I have to prepare for multiple openings.
e4 199-213-26
d4 55-52-7
Against e4 I played almost exclusively the Caro-Kann, I did misclick and play the Sicilian by accident one game, and won it. I also lost won game playing e5. It was almost exactly a year ago that I started playing the C-K vs e4.
Versus d4, I do well. I used to play the King’s Indian Defense against it, was 53-52-7. I just started playing the Dutch Defense also, am 2-0-0 so far.
No other openings have enough games to discuss.
Last year there were some mild complains about posting a puzzle based on banned moves (vertical castling), so this year is more straight forward. Hover for a hint.
White to move and force mate.
If you actually made it this far, you deserve music, so here is some chess themed music not from Murray Head.
I always move…First.
Flaunting your white privilege?
I spit on your wordplay. Firster’s are their own race and yes, we do believe in First Supremacy.
Whatever, sad man.
Please, don’t encourage him, none of us want to see that.
The Firsts I play would not excite you.
+1 cloister
+1 sunshine
The teens have been dabbling. They showed me their draw and I had to teach them what a stalemate was. The teen that drew to the stalemate said that is stupid. Said if you would have moved this piece it would have been a mate.
Did you ask why you should make a move that would lead to your loss?
+1 equity
So many strange terms…
It’s like I went back to school and I didn’t study for the final…
I like playing chess… without studying it and other people’s way to play. I am this way with all my games, it sounds more like work once you get into stuff like:
“I started to use openingtree.com to analyze my states in different game states to see where I struggle. For example, I suck vs the French defense, so changed to playing the Tarrasch Variation against it. More on that below. The site is neat, it sucks in all your games from a website and allows you to see states from various game positions.”
Of course, you can only be middling at best when others have done that work. the end result being I rarely play as people who don’t play chess at all are so bad and don’t enjoy while those that do so typically wipe the floor with me.
Same here. I like games where I can turn my brain off. I’ve tried chess, and when it became apparent that the biggest missing component was memorization of moves and countermoves, I lost interest.
At that point it becomes too much like work.
We should play sometime then. We can flail around without fear.
Backgammon is the happy medium for me, you can study strategy and situational best practices but you’re not studying moves and countermoves since no one knows what the next roll is going to be.
Hmm, nice. I do enjoy backgammon, but never played anyone who had taken it ‘seriously’.
Yeah, backgammon is way more fun than chess.
I was thinking of video games earlier.
It used to slightly bother me that I rarely “finish” a video game but when I realized I stop playing when it stops being fun, it doesn’t bother me anymore.
Yup, I rarely finish video games, especially the older ones. I have been on a dragon warrior 2 kick (NES) I played the first one as a kid and was never able to finish it even though I thought I had all the clues and parts needed to win.
This one is similar and I’ve broken down to using a walkthrough to finish it. It feels dirty, like studying chess moves. 😛
There was a text based fantastic four game.
It opened with Thing stuck in a tar pit and the Human Torch has to get him out. I revisited it a few times. My brother has tried it. I tried it with friends.
We never get past the opening. I either kill thing by setting the tar pit on fire, or I wander away looking for something to help him with and he dies before I get back.
I still wonder if I was being goofed.
Is this it?
The thing about chess moves is you are going to get “off book” soon enough, so you just have to “play chess”.
Openings can give you a small edge and avoid traps in the beginning.
Midgames and tactics are a bigger part. You cant memorize that, but you can practice. Puzzles teach tactics. Not the one above, real ones, not trolly ones.
‘Is this it?’
By Scott Adams? The Scott Adams? That’s a terrible game.
That is it!! Newer revision with color. And the intro is added. But yup
Never made it out of the pond
Also has images of torch and thing added.
Also changed the amount of time thing lives in tar pit. All of those wait 10 commands would have seen him dead in the first iteration.
30 freaking years.
Son
Of
A
Bitch
As I have gotten older, my patience for grinding, timing traps or obscure combinations has waned.
So I am with you. I kinda liked the spiderman game a couple of years ago and played it with my daughter. But about ten times through the same boss battle, I got painfully bored.
Did I bail on her? No way!
Did I secrete myself to the bathroom and look up a YouTube video to tell me what the trick was? Oh, yes I did.
EWWW!
My dad and I play on weekend when weather permits and we’re both competitive enough that we practice and have read books on strategy. Two other guys that hang out with us sometimes play, one is a good texas-hold’em player and knows all the percentages, he holds his own, The other is clueless, plays by pure feel and has never won the “Championship.”
Games that are pure statistics can only be played worse than the statistics, not better. That is what all the “reading the opponent” stuff is about.
Obscure, but have you ever tried the royal game of Ur?
It’s kind of similar to backgammon. Though I think there may be a single optimal strategy.
Heard of it but never tried it, I think you’re right about the optimal strategy, that’s what I think I read about, how for a long time people thought it was mostly luck then some math nerd discovered that there was a right way to play it.
Huh.
I made a paper version and played a few times with my wife. You could tell there are various strategies with different probabilities of success, but I wasn’t sure if I was missing something either, having only played it a few times.
Give it a shot, all you need are some tokens, dice and a sheet of paper for the board. There is a YouTube tutorial on how to play from the royal British museum, or others, e.g. https://youtu.be/5mFP3YUfOTo
I wouldn’t bother painting dice, etc. Unless you find you really like it.
I’m a backgammon fiend.
Ditto.
Sometimes analytics tells you to do a quarterback sneak from the 4, and you lose. Sometimes ‘your gut’ says throw a TE leak and you win. Playing by strategy isn’t a guarantee. Too many people miss that these days.
I hate those AWS commercials where they try to say ‘X play has X% chance’. In reality it’s only a 50/50, it succeeds or it doesn’t.
Back in High School I was a king at chess
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/d0/76/fed076fc8325371e1004c491209da08d.jpg
But were you a hot topic?
No… kicks pebble.
Did you also live in the County Seat?
No I lived near Hickory Farms by the old Zales place in Sears county.
My editor needs to be fired. I typed states instead of stats at least twice.
We still love you.
Have you tried using teledildonics in a chess match? I hear that works like a charm.
It certainly makes the game more fun
I suck at chess, but it looks like Q to d1 would do the trick.
Black blocks with Rc1.
I think you got the first move correct, but see the hint.
Oh… You can’t move the king next to the king. Duh.
Been 20 years since I played a game of chess.
I was wondering if it was a joke and I just don’t know enough to get it. Seems obvious and simple. Which, in the world of puzzles, means trap.
It is totally solvable, just not by hum..
Actually only humans, this one is beyond the best computers.
I have one year to find a good puzzle to troll with next year.
As part of my research for this article, I “watched” my first game on chess.com. it was embarassing. I had the game won (by a lot) but somehow gave it away.
I played chess.com’s first level once, and did somewhat well. I had most of my pawns, while taking most of black’s and a slight advantage in capital (? I don’t know the real term) pieces. But I chased the black king around for a long time, until the game said “draw”. I suck at chess. I like it, I just can’t play it worth a damn.
I really don’t like games with strict random rules. WHY can’t a rook attack diagonal? Is he too drunk to?
Of course he is. CP, why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?
Because he’s drunk.
Why can’t I move backwards around the board in Monopoly? Why can’t I declare that the 9 of diamonds trumps every card in Spades? Why can’t Judge Nap write a new According To Hoyle and change all the poker rules?
You’re right, chess has to many strict random rules.
CALVINBALL IS THE ANSWER!!!
This is very intriguing. Have never seriously tried to learn chess aside from the strict rules of play.
Might be a good brain exercise.
For now, I’m only at “Othello” level of strategy games.
Hyperbole – thanks for the response on the Rings question. I think if you like a book, you want a faithful translation to the screen (small or large) – you’re just a more demanding consumer than someone who hasn’t read it (or was indifferent to it as a story).
I like to reference back to Shogun, where the mini-series could be fairly accused of shortchanging the book just because so much had to be cut out. I’ve always thought it did justice because it simplified the storyline to mostly Blackthorne’s point of view.
This is a huge part of why I no longer watch movies/tv made from books I like. You have a idealized version in your head, and no one is ever going to match that.
Patriot Games did, exactly.
I had read it as an excerpt in a magazine, years earlier. Maybe Omni? Some friends talked me into going, and as the terrorist attack scene unfolded I leaned over and said “I’ve seen this movie”.
“No you havent,It is opening day.”
That whole scene played out so perfectly, down to every movement, that I thought I had already seen it.
That is why I dislike LA confidential. The first half is pitch perfect, and then they add all sorts of nonsense.
The first Bourne movie is my personal pet peeve. One of the worst adaptations ever. One of the few movies I’ve gotten up and walked out of the theater out of disgust.
But…Matt Damon!
Not that I walked out, but it pisses me off to no end that they ruined Marie (Not Franka Potente – she did fine with what she was given) but the Marie in the book is a much more active character and is very important for the resolution. Identity is the best Ludlum IMO, because of Marie, and I don’t understand why they changed it. The Marie in the Chamberlain miniseries was basically straight from the book (as I recall, it’s been awhile) and you could do that version with a higher, faster action level if they wanted.
When it comes to the Rings Of Power, it really doesn’t require one to have read much Tolkien not to like it. In fact, a shit ton of people don’t watch it and if Amazon hadn’t pumped so much money to it on top of being desperate for content, there would be no way they could justify pumping more money into it. It’s viewership numbers suck, particularly when compared to the budget.
It isn’t even the forced diversity that makes no sense the way it’s done. House Of The Dragon shoehorned in diversity, but managed to win over pretty much all skeptics by simply being a well written, well acted, well told story. It also looks far more like a realized world while costing nowhere near as much as Rings Of Power.
That it is a complete bastardization of Tolkien is just icing on the cake.
QxB4!
And then?
And then?
No and then!
There is nothing on b4 to take.
So? I becomes blacks move, which is either Kxc1 or Rxb2.
Wait, did I mess up my notation?
Yes. X means capture.
1. Qb4?? a5xb4+
Damn, I am out of practice. I was reading the board upsidedown.
then please to remove the x and read it straight.
Now you’re just making it like stupid text games. Like that time I lost Wii Jeopardy because for final jeopardy I typed ‘The Sun’. But the correct answer was ‘Sun’.
1. Qxa4?? Rc3+
I’m assuming the correct solution begins 1. Qd1+ Rc1 2. Qd3+, but there’s no way I’m reading the rest of it out.
I was thinking the same thing, but can you maintain control from that position? If he chases with the rook, yes. But if not?
https://youtu.be/j5iy0VpwbSY
If anyone really wants the solution to the puzzle.
TIL the 50 move rule resets when a pawn moves.
If it didnt, games would end after 50 moves.
I feel like it’s too late for me to take it up seriously.
I enjoyed the article, robc!
I played a lot of chess and pool in college, and when I moved away I had no one to play either with. Then when I ended up in Sac, I found the bar three blocks away was a bit of a pool payers spot. The few times I played chess in there I got my ass handed to me by an older black dude.
I’d let you watch, I would invit– Oh, fuck it. You all have the earworm too.
The good news is the song I posted is the universal earworm remover.
I absolutely adore “One Night in Bangkok.” It is on a regular rotation as my ringtone, with “Walks Like an Egyptian,” “Allentown,” and a snippet of Foghorn Leghorn saying, “Go away, boy. You bother me.”
Yeah, “Bangkok” is an eighties highlight for sure.
Some wag here will probably say they don’t like it but I’ve never come across that IRL.
Wag?
Polite way of saying “smartass”.
I like that song but sad to see Yes as old.
My ear worms aren’t like yours.
My tryout piece in college years was “i know him so well’ from the musical, which is great fun, even if I don’t know how many kids really ‘get’ what the main conflict is there.
First chess competition I ever played in was in grade school. I was jacked, My first opponent was this cute brunette girl. I was very confident.
She gave me a whoopin’.
Manliness and masculinity
I should make my nephews read Alphabet of Manliness now that they are all of reading age.
Never try to MAKE a child read something. They won’t. Instead, hide the books and say, “Now, whatever you do, don’t go looking in [place you hid the books]. There are some things you aren’t old enough for yet.”
Uncle CPRM don’t make no one do nuffin, it was just a parlance. Of course, I make them NOT do things like wine and fight. When they feel the over-whelming need to do such things, that’s when they go home to their parents.
My cats had a fight today. I for real thought they were going to kill each other.
Maybe one of them deserved it.
Snitches get stitches
They’re cats. They both deserved it.
We got all sorts of cat drama going on out in the shop. The “approved” residents are three siblings we “adopted” when their mom abandoned them. Two boys, one girl. The girl is fixed, the boys are not.
This summer another abandoned, male kitten started making the shop his home and I didn’t fight against it hard enough. Well, he’s now “of age” and the original two boys (whose relationship is mostly peaceful but occasionally strained) are giving it to the new guy pretty bad.
There is waaaaay too much cat testosterone flowing out there. No actual fights, but all sorts of domination moves and just annoying fuckery. Spring can’t come soon enough.
There is a “fix” for all that drama.
That’s … a problem.
You send me $900 and I’ll get right on it.
Are you that bad of a shot? A few bucks should cover it, even at today’s ammo prices.
Maddox. Jeez, I remember following that site a couple decades ago.
It was kind of funny then. Pure early internet edgelord shit.
The guy in real life is a massive cuck who ended up humiliated and is now a nobody.
Well, yeah, the book was 2006 and after that he got too full of himself and fucked it all up. but that doesn’t mean the book wasn’t wasn’t great.
I lost interest before then when the site seemed to be drying up.
I still checked the site from time to time, that’s how I found out about the book. But yeah, that was back in the days when websites would just go cold for years with no updates. Probably a better time than now when sites just get skinsuited,
What in the ever living fuck kind of cuck suburban shit is this?!
There’s a lot of talk about what “we” are doing, but the we is always nebulous. What’s the source? Right now, a lot of it seems to start in childhood education funded by taxpayers. If public education started as a brutal system to force conformity and obedience to the state, it seems that they have realized that the best way to do that isn’t to produce fit young individuals but broken souls that have no fucking idea who they actually are. They have created a generation of nitwits who will believe anything. It’s a strange system that produces people who think they are radical individuals in the most fundamental of ways, but whose actual identities are so weak that they can’t form their own thoughts. Have to be attached to the progressive hivemind to know what to think.
The pronoun thing is…pronouns exist as shorthand to make speech more efficient. They do not exist so that you can force a specialized identity of yourself on the world that makes speech infinitely more confusing and difficult. All of that while being an absolute assault on objective reality.
‘Men’s low testosterone levels reflect a population that’s not eating right, not exercising right, and not acting on their underlying ambitions. They’re becoming apathetic pot smokers stuck in the pursuit of cheap dopamine hits through Netflix and porn. And these low “T” levels are threatening fertility, which is already on the decline, in the long term, while guaranteeing a generation of fat, lazy men with no hormonal motivation in the short term.’
When does he man-up and knock a lady up for the team? *rolls eyes*
While I think those are all factors in our low -birthrate world, it is also pollution from estrogenizing chemicals, women who go on birth control, (I’m convinced this is very bad for society, since it completely changes a woman’s sexual desires, and who know show many other attitudes. Also, probably has other nasty side effects related to fertility, like we wouldn’t think this would be okay to put men on super high levels of T or whatever during puberty to manage their fertility. It is shortsighted. End tangent.), plus everything else he said.
Razorfist’s takedown of Lincoln – pretty fucking good. Highly recommend.
^^ cosigned
Razorfist is a hilarious characture of right-wingers, that guy is a grade A trolling. (and if he’s not a troll he’s on the spectrum something fierce)
I have zero sense that Razo is any sort of troll and regardless of what you think of what he thinks, he comes off as completely sincere in his beliefs as far as I’m concerned.
Hence the part in ellipses.
Eh, it’s a shtick. If you’ve ever heard him unscripted, he sounds very different (and less breathlessly angry).
I’d be curious to hear that. Any links?
I mean, I don’t agree with that part, either. The average person would say most of us are on some sort of spectrum.
He’s a vehemently small government conservative. He has a small, but loyal following. He isn’t one of those guys jumping on every hot topic issue or culture war battle for clicks.
You can believe this guy that dresses like a 1985 edgelord and rants like he slams 40 Jolt Colas is smart and serious if you want. I’m not stopping you.
We have a senile old man in the White House who shits himself and can barely speak on top of being horribly corrupt. We just elected Trump before that. What the fuck is smart and serious in 2023?
I’d gladly elect The Razorfist to office.
Hey, I voted of Kanye in 2020. If you’re gonna vote for crazy, might as well vote for the crayziest.
We live in a real world manifestation of The Emperor Has No Clothes parable with court eunuchs tell us endless lies that don’t even begin to make sense and half the population believes it, and you are shitting on a guy who you would agree with on like 90% politically because he wears leather.
I’m shitting on him because I’m a free man. And that is my wont.
This is why your music links are so much better than Ted’S’s links.
OT: has everybody discussed the fun new ATF rule that a whole lot of guns with stabilizing braces into NFA items? In their benevolence, theyre giving people 120 days to get their stamp or destroy the gun. 🙄
What’s the ATF’s stance on personal F-15s?
Nuclear M-16s!
Depends. Does it have that thing that goes up? Does it have a 30 mag clip gun? Is it black? If not, the EPA is the bigger challenge.
The F-15 definitely has the thing that goes up
https://youtu.be/hulgsFpW1qA
Also
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/how-the-f-15-streak-eagle-broke-eight-time-to-climb-world-records/amp/
theyre giving people 120 days to
get their stampadmit they’ve committed a felony and the ATF promises they’ll overlook it and issue a tax stamp.I guess the brace is coming off my shockwave. I wasn’t particularly fond of how it interfered with the pump release anyway.
Just pushing me ever closer to that Beretta 1301T…
Now that’s thinking positive!
It ain’t over until Tres’ dates sing.
BATFE is bluffing (or setting you up for a trap, take your pick) with the 120 days thing.
There are 8 full-time employees in Firearms Branch who process NFA applications. A single e-file Form 1 application takes about two weeks of actual paperwork time (the rest of the delay is getting through the backlog/BATFE sitting on your app.) There are an estimated 40 million pistol braces owned by the public.
So do the math. Even if BATFE kicks all the brace Form 1s to the front of the line, and even if they pencil-whip all the paperwork through in a week, and even if 80% of the brace owners out there decide to either change their gun to comply (hopefully…) with the new regs, or else throw away their brace and keep their mouths shut? There’s no possible way they can process through that many applications in 120 days, and they know it.
I wonder if this is going to wind up like the NFA amnesty in 1986? That didn’t cover nearly as many guns.
You can’t trust them, dissolve the agency and prosecute the people in it.
First up, I need to pass condolences on to 4X20. I’m days behind. So sorry for your loss. Second, my Brother always ran circles around me chess wise. Too bad for him that one of us was better at the real game. The game of love…
The only winning move is not to play.
I’m a chess winner then.
Repaired the built-in dishwasher tonight. It wasn’t draining properly. Filled one sink with hot water and stopped up the other then went to work with plumbers little helper, the plunger. I AM JANITOR! Beats the the heck out of paying some other ass-crack to do do the job! I haven’t owned a win for months so I’ll take this one. *does tiny jig*
I felt this so much. It’s always a win when DIY goes right. Go Festus!
Thanks Mojo! It’s kinda silly but every up-thumb means a lot, lately. No homo!
Up thumb =/= thumb up your ass. Congratulations on the win.
No kink shaming.
Festus invoked No Homo. I’m just clarifying. Everyone is welcome to get their kink on.
I was at my little brother’s house. He’s in IT. His son wanted to play Xbox Series X. My brother couldn’t get it to work. I turned off and turned it back on again, and I was a hero.
This is me tonight – https://youtu.be/Aa9BqpLUI1Y
Damn, when that show was ‘on’, it was so good.
Glad you seem to be feeling better, Festus. Hope it continues.
LOL.
Judy “Oh, hunky plumber man, my husband won’t be home for hours” Cue Music
She is quite pleased.
Heh. I said do-do.
The press may have found that 10% for the big guy.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/01/17/heres-quite-a-coincidence-concerning-the-ridiculous-rent-at-president-joe-bidens-wilmington-home/
So nefarious after so many years. Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.
I’m sure CNN will get right on that.
Divine justice?
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/17/attempted-robbery-st-michael-archangel-statue-monterrey-mexico-injured/
The secret to chess is vibrating anal beads. Just ask Magnus Carlsen
Good morning gliberati. It is going to be a shitty day. It always is.
How about a new Romanian Drinking Song to funk up your morning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg-5ie0OCo8
I was expecting to have something at least vaguely Romanian about it
I always look forward to your stanky take on things, Pie. That and the athletic young women.
Insomnia activate! Wait..no..don’t! Shutdown! Shutdown!
Reading these threads…I can say you are all doing it wrong.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Even the Bro, with his unrepentant schtick. He’s half wrong.
Good morning, anyway.
Good morning, Sean and Roat!
What are we doing wrong?
I’ll have my secretary draft a list. Do you have people I can have it sent to?
https://www.justrite.com/cease-fire-waste-receptacle-safety-drum-can-with-aluminum-head-30-gallon-white-26630w
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/deadly-sanford-shooting-involving-2-vehicles-woman-killed-5-people-hurt-were-all-in-same-van-deputies-say
Did it say free candy on the side?
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/federal-building-arch-shooting/3474662/
“Sharp objects”
Imagine if he had a pointy stick!
Jewelry worth $560k taken from car during robbery at red light in Garden Grove
I keep my valuables locked in the trunk.
Smart.
yeah that’s an inside job.
I’m betting insurance fraud.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-gourmet-coffee-day/
I had a Peet’s k cup.
Close enough.
OCC French Roast. Exquisite.
https://www.oceancitycoffee.com/collections/all-coffee/products/french-roast-coffee
Reasonable prices for a full pound.
Do you know how much they charge for delivery before I go through the motions?
Cutoff is pretty low, I’ve never paid shipping charges.
👍🏻
Why sex on the first date is a good idea: Relationship expert slams ‘old fashioned’ mentality and urges singles to get it on right away
By good, you mean guys don’t have to put as much time and effort before they can move on to the next conquest. Sexual Revolution 2.
She’s just building a bigger pool of potential clients, like most therapists do. Give people bad advice and then offer them continuous services.
Why do you hate casual sex?
I hate casual sex like I hate getting drunk. It’s fun, but doing it every day isn’t going to lead to positive outcomes.
Give people bad advice and then offer them continuous services.
You know who else…
Going through my sister’s purchases in an attempt to reconcile the credit card.
Not sure if she bought this personally or not, but she ordered a fucking $4,000 houseplant.
$4K for a $*&^#%)*!! plant.
It’s probably dead now anyway.
It could have been worse?
A plant worth big bucks: https://youtu.be/QETfA9_b7wM
::compares time stamps:: We’ll call it a tie.
A bowtie?
I understand bow ties are cool.
just a flesh wound?
Previously I would wonder what type of person would buy something like that, now I know.
Mrs Rat buys discounted, distressed plants at Lowes and nurses them back to health.
That’s weird, my wife buys perfectly healthy plants and slowly kills them.
I think she likes to test their will to live.
Obligatory.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/scientists-divert-lightning-strikes-using-lasers
Neat.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/flyers-provorov-cites-religion-for-boycott-on-pride-night/ar-AA16sHA6
Such a scandal! 🙄
He’s Russian and he hates teh gheys.
BURN HIM
Russian Orthodox because of course.
Here’s a thought… ditch divisive pigeonhole crap. Hell, it would probably fly except for the trannies having latched themselves to the Movement.
NO, EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE MUST BE CONSUMED BY SIGNALING.
When is drag queen night?
Morning, Glibs.
I hate those nights where despite best efforts, the known amount of sleep attained was zero. I lay around trying to sleep all night and now I’m tired.
Ouch. It’s National Gourmet Coffee Day, suggest consuming mass quantities.
🙁
My all-time favorite insomnia song. In my case, the cause is usually having ingested caffeine too late in the day (read “past noon.”)
Mornin’, GT. Related:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E
A real classic! 😁
I’ve made the mistake of taking pseudoephedrine in the afternoon. The difference with caffeine is I’m awake the following morning.
Mornin’, reprobates.
@robc – nice write-up, and a perfect tune to accompany it. I peaked a long time ago, but I enjoy the game a lot more now. Unsolicited advice: try the Two Knights vs. the CK (1.e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3). One nice feature is that 3..dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5? is a blunder and you will get some quick wins with this.
Good Morning:
Congrats Festus on the win.
Woodbridge delegate’s bill would block parents from seeing children’s medical records
Fortunately there is no chance of this becoming law this year but it shows what Democrats want to do.
Lovely. All your children are belong to us? Break out the woodchippers.
This is unbelievably nefarious and it’s starting to happen everywhere Dems rule.
It is and they are overplaying their hand. Youngkin was elected because McAuliff kept schools closed. This will turn off every normie out there.
The party of banging kids and cutting off their genitalia is getting a bit bold, that’s for sure.
Are they counting on a lone nut going too far or think will forever be personally immune from any backlash?
I think most of them are just delusional.
“LGBT grooming conspiracy theory”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theory
Oh Wikipedia, fuck off…
Every time I see “conspiracy” now, I interpret it as “inconvenient truth.”
It’s a baby truth that will blossom over time.
F***ing smoke alarm low battery level warning. The thing should alert you during daylight. Not while the roosters are still sleeping.