Can’t stop laughing

From ‘s blog — http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html. ‘Tis a riot. A tad optimistic for my tastes, but well worth a read.

[Update: Surprisingly enough, the author of this is of a female persuasion. And seemingly very cool.]

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29 Comments

  1. twostupidogs
    Posted January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am | Permalink
  2. popcorn09
    Posted March 12, 2006 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

    What’s amusing about this? :)

  3. code_martial
    Posted March 12, 2006 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    Someone like this might help him.

  4. louiswu
    Posted March 12, 2006 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    And me! ;)

  5. louiswu
    Posted March 12, 2006 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    It’s hard to explain. You’d have to identify with some of those things to get it. Rueful, self-deprecatory, then amused smiles will then ensue.

    Strangely enough, there are at least two people I know who said, “that’s me!” (and it was true, too) — I wonder how many guys truly believe that they’re nice guys.

  6. fox2mike
    Posted March 12, 2006 at 6:46 pm | Permalink

    You’re not a nice guy are you? :D

  7. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:34 am | Permalink

    I wonder how many guys truly believe that they’re nice guys.

    Well, I made one believe it. I am sure there are others who can, too. :)

  8. al_lude
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 4:31 am | Permalink

    nice guys don’t finish last. they merely sleep at the office.

  9. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:31 am | Permalink

    That would make me a nice guy. Yawn

    Naah, nice guys work at office and don’t read LJ. :D

  10. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:32 am | Permalink

    Well, I made one believe it. I am sure there are others who can, too. :)

    Good, god! Why would you do that to anyone?

  11. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:33 am | Permalink

    Because he IS truly a nice guy. Bleh.

  12. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 7:55 am | Permalink

    Poor chap.

    bash-2.05b$ ping http://www.livejournal.com PING http://www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from http://www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=30.306 ms 64 bytes from http://www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=30.030 ms

    --- http://www.livejournal.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 100% humour loss, time 1010ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.030/30.168/30.306/0.276 ms, pipe 2 bash-2.05b$

  13. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 7:56 am | Permalink

    No, but I certainly qualify for nerd status. ;)

  14. al_lude
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    chooth, stop patting me on the back

  15. fox2mike
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 10:15 am | Permalink

    Yeah, that you do :p

  16. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    I have to. I might be joining that Honour’s course all over again. Muahahaha.

  17. t3rmin4t0r
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

    Wasn’t this from somewhere near new years or something ?

    Sort of makes sense – after you have a season of joy, something has to compensate.

  18. t3rmin4t0r
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

    Because nice guy is a euphemism for loser these days.

  19. t3rmin4t0r
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    Brainwashing starts at home (heard while watching a family drama):-

    "Oh, you wouldn’t do that to me … you’re such a nice guy."

    Somewhere in the lines of gentlemen don’t wage war on women or million other things which is called Chivalry (in other words, be what you not are). Forced to conform or be part of evolution’s overflow from the gene pool (ahe).

  20. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, so you see there are so many men suffering out there and women rule the world. Bleh.

  21. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    Yeah and not-so-nice guys like you would think so!

  22. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    I think it’s pretty obvious who is the loser. Sour grapes, eh?

  23. popcorn09
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    Yeah great humour too!

  24. t3rmin4t0r
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    /me points to 100% humour loss

  25. t3rmin4t0r
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    Read that rant more closely and read the penultimate paragraph :)

    And these grapes are delicious – forbidden fruit often is sweeter …

  26. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    Hey , don’t take all this too seriously. This wasn’t intended to be a rant against women. Humans are humans, gender notwithstanding.

    But your comment did trigger a memory from a story I particularly like:

    The obvious thing to do was to give the running of the world over to women. There was Thatcher in the Falklands and Indira Gandhi in Bangladesh, it was true; but still it would be worth trying, it could hardly get worse! And given the maternal instinct, it would probably be better. Give every first lady her husband’s job. Perhaps every woman her man’s job. Let the men care for the children, for five thousand years or fifty thousand, one for every year of murderous patriarchy.

    Frankly, my dear, I don’t think it’d change a thing (and no, I can’t pull the Casablanca look, in my dreams, even – smiles).

  27. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

    This wasn’t intended to be a rant against women.

    I speak of my intention in posting this.

  28. louiswu
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

    You’re in good spirits! :)

  29. Anonymous
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 4:31 pm | Permalink

    My guess is MOST guys would classify themselves within.. simply coz you’d like to think so. Exceptions would include guys who have found the converted girl.:)

    At least they recognize the fact. Not that they do too much about it.

    SEV

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