I Want My Money Back!

I want my money back!  The venders hiked up the price on the popcorn and soda, and they’ve made a covert deal with the theater across town.  I can tell because the prices in that theater are just as high if you take into consideration the quality of the facilities and the surrounding neighborhood.  I bet I could smuggle some soda in here, but it wouldn’t be socially acceptable . . . even though everyone else realizes the swindling as well. 

I’m not enjoying the show.  The previews promised more excitement, better graphics, strong romance, and a little comedy.  The reality of the show is different.  There’s no climax, just surging anticipation and subsequent disappointment followed by more surging anticipation and more upsetting disappointment.  And another thing, I can fucking tell you the ending right now.  The main character will die alone, depressed, and disappointed.  OH! I get it! This is one of those movies you have to be fucked-up to enjoy.  This is much better.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Artistic Writing, Culture, Death, Economy, General Sarcasm, Lessons Learned, Recommendations, Self Actualization, Wisdom, World Wide Policy

Old Sluts: the Root of Circumcisions

Old sluts are responsible for the circumcision of their grandchildren.  There aren’t any considerable health benefits to circumcision . . . especially when hunter and gatherer societies conducted the act of circumcising before the availability of antibacterial products and anesthesia.  Grandmas helped young mothers raise children because grandma already passed childbearing age and had the time to help.  Grandma, in her old sluttiness, insisted on circumcision being conducted in her grandchildren.

Men have loads of nerve endings in their penis tips so that they will enjoy sex – leading to the proliferation of the species.  Men also have masses of nerve endings in their fingers, so that they can be sensitive to touch.  Human fingers become less sensitive to touch over the course of human lives because the skin over fingers grows thicker and more leathery as man consistently touches rough surfaces.  It’s a protection measure for man’s nerve endings.  Laborers grow thicker skin over their fingers (callouses) than non-laborers.  But, no matter what man’s occupation as he ages his fingers become less sensitized.  The same thing happens to the exposed (circumcised) tip of the penis.  An exposed tip rubs against rough clothing and over time penises lose sensitivity.  The foreskin, if left uncut, protects the penis and sustains its moisture so that it won’t grow leathery and remains sensitive. 

The climax of a woman is more prolonged than a man’s.  It takes her longer to get there.  There’s nothing more disappointing to a woman about sex than premature ejaculation.  High sensitivity in the penis causes premature ejaculation.  Hunter and gatherer grandmothers, over the course of their lives, had multiple partners in the sack.  They spent hours, days, and weeks talking with other sluts about their sexual experiences.  Collectively, they realized that circumcised men lasted longer in the hay, and satisfied women more often than uncircumcised men.  Grandma insisted on the circumcision of her grandchildren.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Culture, Evolution, Parenting, Relationships, Time, World Wide Policy

Learning through fear and failure

I learn more in a tough environment than in a soft environment.  I learn when I work.  I work when I’m motivated.  I’m motivated when I know that I have something to do.  I have something to do when I know that my boss will check if I’m doing it or not.    

In my current employment I take a new group of Soldiers to play war every six weeks.  Building a field problem for 300 Soldiers to train on Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills and their Military Occupational Specialty for 96 hours at a time in a remote location is taxing.  We, at the company level, plan the operations, the food and water needs, transportation, billeting, build an inclement weather plan, etc.  Well, we recently changed Brigade Commanders. 

The former Brigade Commander visited the field problems, knew the process, and understood the standard.  He made on-the-spot corrections, informed my boss (Battalion Commander) if something was not right in my operations, and chaired extensive After Action Reviews following every exercise.  I thoroughly prepared for each exercise a full month from its start point with MDMP, I continuously sought ways to improve my operations, I checked to ensure my subordinates completed tasks, and I scrutinized my actions during the exercise so the AAR would develop in a favorable way for me.  I learned.  I developed.

The current Brigade Commander does not visit the field problems, trusts that we (Company Commanders) are conducting business properly, and believes in a positive work environment.  She asks questions instead of correcting us because she wants to understand our thought processes so she can learn, she does not yell at my direct supervisor when I’m wrong, and she does not chair an AAR after any field exercise.  We build AAR Powerpoint slides to send to her after the exercises and she ALWAYS sends positive feedback for a “job well done!”  I haven’t done anything wrong in months.  I know because she hasn’t told me that I have.  I don’t plan as thoroughly for exercises anymore, I don’t conduct MDMP, and I don’t learn as much as I used to learn during each exercise.  I’m not developing as I did before.   

I need fear of failure to grow.  I don’t have that.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Environment, Lessons Learned, Military, Wisdom