Horrible Mansplainy Video about "Nice Men"

[Orang Utan]

I now feel compelled to google the fucker - he gets money for shit like that?

He's basically a walking Hallmark card with a PHD

 

[alfajobrob]

He's basically a walking Hallmark card with a PHD

That tickled me - what a fucking brilliant insult

 

[Buckaroo]

"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."

De Botton has described his relationship with his father as difficult, stating: "When I sold my first bestseller (and a million dollars was peanuts for my father) he was not impressed and wondered what I was going to do with myself." When his father died, his family was left a large inheritance, although de Botton says his income is derived solely from his own activities (book sales, speaking engagements, business consulting, The School of Life).

 

[Gromit]

That Book of Life is hysterical.

Here's another gem from them:

 

[Orang Utan]

I prefer Jacques Liverot:

 

[Buckaroo]

That Book of Life is hysterical.

Here's another gem from them:

Who is the narrator? Josie Long?

 

[alfajobrob]

That Book of Life is hysterical.

Here's another gem from them:

I suffer terribly - it's tough!

 

[ska invita]

I've no appetite for getting involved in this, and i stay clear of talking about such things on the boards, but since no one else has said it and there have been many contrary voices, I need to add my experience which is that blue balls pain is not a myth...have experienced it countless times. It doesn't happen on every non ejaculation, but it can happen and it is painful.

Of course if anyone has been using this as a justification for forcing sexual acts, that's awful.

 

[Buckaroo]

It's just this shit regurgitated.

 

[Orang Utan]

what, they actually go blue? I find it hard to imagine teenage boys suffering from it, or even men tbh.

 

[alfajobrob]

I've no appetite for getting involved in this, and i stay clear of talking about such things on the boards, but since no one else has said it and there have been many contrary voices, I need to add my experience which is that blue balls pain is not a myth...have experienced it countless times. It doesn't happen on every non ejaculation, but it can happen and it is painful..

That's a new one on me - only time I had issues was with my first time with viagra and meth - I was walking like John Wayne for a few days and had to manspread on the tube due to pain after - grim!

Another funny one is I used to get intense headaches (basically migrane) when I was close to ejaculation a decade back. I'm not sure my new gf at the time believed me but after searching online it was a "thing" - hey ho.

Probably too much info

 

[ViolentPanda]

Looks like this 'School of Life'/'Book of Life' is a money spinnerphilosophical project from Alain de Botton.

He can fuck right off, the pretentious slapheaded fuck!

 

[ska invita]

what, they actually go blue? I find it hard to imagine teenage boys suffering from it, or even men tbh.

Not particularly blue, no. That seems to be an expression. Don't try and imagine it, its just a fact.

I experienced it more as a teenager but still do as an adult.

 

[bi0boy]

I've no appetite for getting involved in this, and i stay clear of talking about such things on the boards, but since no one else has said it and there have been many contrary voices, I need to add my experience which is that blue balls pain is not a myth...have experienced it countless times. It doesn't happen on every non ejaculation, but it can happen and it is painful.

Of course if anyone has been using this as a justification for forcing sexual acts, that's awful.

You're a guy?!

 

[ViolentPanda]

It doesn't make any sense. I mean, yeah, I have rude thoughts and I don't shout them out at the till in the supermarket but so what? The video is completely baffling. It doesn't ring true with me as a man at all. This isn't an issue I'm struggling with. All people have some amount of inappropriate thoughts passing through their mind much of the time, regardless of what genitalia they've got wobbling around in their undercarriage.

It doesn't even seem to have done decent market research on what I presume to be its sexist target audience. It's just confusing and a bit strange. The idea that guys are are dead horny and women are frigid ice maidens is a problem that doesn't exist. The sex thing can get worked out by a couple in a pair of simple conversations. What does it mean?

I just don't understand really.

All help welcome.

Any psychologist will view "inappropriate thoughts", and the fact of NOT acting on them, as healthy socialisation, not as something worthy of reward from compliant females. That video is purely sexist whataboutery, demanding compensation for acting in a manner that is merely legally and socially civil. Fuck the sad masculinist bastards. With a traffic cone.

 

[alfajobrob]

He can fuck right off, the pretentious slapheaded fuck!

Oi - You can use any insult you want but having a go a the "follically challenged" is bang out of order!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Not particularly blue, no. That seems to be an expression. Don't try and imagine it, its just a fact.

I experienced it more as a teenager but still do as an adult.

It's mild muscular tension, and occasionally the equivalent of a muscle cramp in the vas deferens. It's about as physically-harmful as a smack on the arse.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oi - You can use any insult you want but having a go a the "follically challenged" is bang out of order!

de Botton isn't "follically-challenged".

He's "follically-bereft"!!!

 

[alfajobrob]

de Botton isn't "follically-challenged".

He's "follically-bereft"!!!

I'm reporting you for errr.......

 

[ska invita]

It's mild muscular tension, and occasionally the equivalent of a muscle cramp in the vas deferens. It's about as physically-harmful as a smack on the arse.

I'm not saying its physically harmful but it can be extremely painful.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not particularly blue, no. That seems to be an expression. Don't try and imagine it, its just a fact.

I experienced it more as a teenager but still do as an adult.

but but but, sorry to get into detail, can't you just have a wank? surely such relief is available readily, esp if you're a teen? are you talking about over the course of a relationship or over the course of a session of 'heavy petting'? cos i've certainly experienced some discomfort during the latter when I was younger.

 

[alfajobrob]

but but but, sorry to get into detail, can't you just have a wank? surely such relief is available readily, esp if you're a teen? are you talking about over the course of a relationship or over the course of a session of 'heavy petting'? cos i've certainly experienced some discomfort during the latter when I was younger.

Can a mod please change the title to "Men's discomfort" and we can chat about all penis related issues here

 

[goldenecitrone]

Blue balls problem solved, say scientists.

 

[toggle]

I just found it a bit annoying and bizarre. If anything, I thought it was sexist towards men and a misrepresentation of men, as if this is what all 'nice' men think.

that's because it's all about the men, isn't it. lets not fucking bother looking at how it's a gross repesentation of men and women. it's all about the fucking men.as per fucking always with you

 

[ska invita]

but but but, sorry to get into detail, can't you just have a wank? surely such relief is available readily, esp if you're a teen? are you talking about over the course of a relationship or over the course of a session of 'heavy petting'? cos i've certainly experienced some discomfort during the latter when I was younger.

Yes, ejaculating is the only cure.
Sometimes the pain kicks in a good deal later, the next day even. It can mean having to deal with the pain through the day

 

[alfajobrob]

Blue balls problem solved, say scientists.

I've got a story a

Yes, ejaculating is the only cure.
Sometimes the pain kicks in a good deal later, the next day even. It can mean having to deal with the pain through the day

STFU - it's not about you or any pain!

 

[alfajobrob]

that's because it's all about the men, isn't it. lets not fucking bother looking at how it's a gross repesentation of men and women. it's all about the fucking men.as per fucking always with you

fuck off

 

[The Boy]

fuck off

Why? toggle was bang on the money.

 

[Gromit]

I can't help but think of this School of Life as a modern day School for Scoundrels teaching people how to cheat at tennis etc.

 

[alfajobrob]

Why? toggle was bang on the money.

Where is that wanker gif when you need it?