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Get over yourself. Maybe if you live in boonies and worked with like-minded people, but if you lived in New York or any fast-paced Business capital where time is money, to NOT have a cell phone and being accessible is suicide. Unless you're not all that high up on the corporate food chain, then you're not important enough to be reachable after hours.
In Japan everyone has a cell phone. The difference is, they don't answer the phone on the subway(everything there knows it's rude). You know what they do?
They text message each other. It's silent, it's fast, it get the info across.
Your wife yelling into the cell phone is the least of your problems. Ever see how Italians use their cell phones? yeah you get the picture. They talk LOUDLY into their phones and putting on a show for everyone to show how important and cool they are.
You sure that's not a little of what your wife is doing too?
Well first off -
These nerdy guys are at their core, good people at heart and are what are they looking for? Companionship on some level.
But they don't have the skills needed. They approach women the wrong way. They're wearing the wrong clothes, and styled badly as well.
About this "pick-up" stuff. Some of the techniques are good, and come on everyone - let's be frank - they really really do help. They are not sure-fire, but for hopeless nerds, it's a good starting point.
Not all of these pick-up stuff work on any women, of any race, of any culture. It won't work if you can't speak her language, and she can't understand yours. Furthermore, the key here is - these techniques work best on women who are:
a) "easy" to begin with, or are already looking for a one-night stand.
b) already are attracted to you physically.
Trying to coax an intelligent, sharp lass into bed is another thing entirely. These funny games like palm reading, anchoring, negging and so forth, won't be such a snap against someone who's onto you. Try it against a 40+ lady who's a CEO and see how that works out for you.
But things to do is, use the techniques that work for you personally, but don't get too caught up in the negative vibe that is all too often expressed in these player guides.
Don't take it all too seriously, most importantly, don't take yourself too seriously, and most of all, have fun and learn when things don't work out your way.
My kid, my genes, my money spent raising him/her, my choice to name him/her what I please.
end of story.
So you're telling me that it isn't about the parents, but everything about the kid? I'm guessing that you're not a parent, who:
a) endures the pain of childbirth
b) pays for everything to do with the kid
c) loves the kid more than life itself
So you're saying we don't get to name it whatever the hell we want? Come on we're not gonna be stupid and name it Osamabinladin. Our kid, our choice to name him/her.
When the kid is old enough to earn his/her own way, pay his/her own bills, buy his/her own car, start his/her own career, he/she can do whatever he/she deems fit with his/her name. Names can be changed.
But you only get to name your kid once.
The tone of this article is condescending from the start and that's the problem I have with it. Oh, so women are such mysterious creatures that they can NEVER be figured out?
Take these studies as just that - studies. They may prove something and they may not.
No reason to turn up your nose at them, as if women are so high and mighty that they can't be studied.
Whether she wins or not is the real question.
Who really cares about what she's called. Let's focus on whether people like her enough to vote for her, that's all that matters.
Not trivial things like names.
Sigh always gonna be the readers who say "dump him" you damn extremists.
You can't really understand what it feels to go balding unless you're a man, and how damaging it is to the ego and so forth. I myself have a full head of hair, but I can appreciate what a blow it is to lose hair. Those of you calling him a wimp for acting the way he is, deserve to lose your hair and let's see how you feel.
It's a very difficult thing to come to grips with. Especially when the possible solutions involve taking pills, getting surgery done...none of which are great options.
Guys I know going bald just bit the bullet and shaved all their hair off. Might as well, since they're losing it anyways right?
Do the they look OK bald? The white guys typically look pretty good, the asian guys well, look like monks. Can't do much about that though.
Salon you need to start putting out that news that's well...actually news.
Young people(girls AND boys) have been modelling as adults for decades now. Where the choices of age haven't changed, the various marketing campaigns have - more in your face sexually provocative ads, and so on.
That said, modelling is very lucrative, particularly for young people who make in a few hours of shots, what it would take a weeks worth of work at McD's or Wendys to match. And if the parents don't approve of the ads - come on, the ads are right there are Wall Street - they can, though with considerable difficulty, pull the teen out.
But what better way is there for you to start a modelling career?