Dancer is trying to sell her broken car via social media. Yesterday she got this inquiry:
X: Hi, I am interested in your car.
D: Great! It’s not running but if you are handy, it needs x,y, and z. I am asking $400.
X: OK. But I need you to know I am transgender. Are you OK with that? What’s your phone number?
D: Sure, no worries. $400 and it’s yours. When would you like to come look at it?
X: I know my profile name is Brian but now I go by Rachel. Is that OK? What’s your phone number?
D: OK Rachel, when would you like to come see the car? It’s yours for $400 cash.
X: I am not sure. What’s your number?
D: Ok, think it over! Let me know if you decide when you want to see it.
(D wanted to say, but didn’t, that Rachel may want to update the profile name from Brian to the preferred name to eliminate such need to [over] explain.)
Bottom line, are you interested in buying a car, or just looking for… Not sure what that would even be?!?!??? Dancer was for sure NOT giving out her phone number to explore it further.
It was such a 2017 moment. Peak outrage culture? (We can only hope!)
Notes From a Red Pill Girl 
I am not kidding, this is absolutely a true story. Only the names have been changed
Maybe that Mayan calendar prediction of the (known) world coming to an end was actually accurate and we just missed the obvious?!?
Is this the new normal? And if so how does one go about just selling a car w/o it becoming some exchange like this? What is the “correct” response?
Dancer was smart. Don’t give out personal numbers. Get a burner phone from Safeway or somesuch with prepaid minutes if you must give out a number. Never meet at a secluded location, or at a personal residence. Meet at a busy parking lot, and have somebody with you, preferably a man.
Personally, I drive all my cars into to the ground and then donate them to charity. I don’t bother with trying to sell them to anonymous buyers or such.
I’m too fecking paranoid to sell to strangers. We did that once when we were young and desperate. They came saw something else they thought we were selling and were hugely disappointed we weren’t selling what they thought we were.
That sounds like an LGBTfjdksla;fjdksla; person looking for their 15 minutes of social media fame when someone selling them something doesn’t say what they want them to say. And then they blast them for it.
Otherwise it makes no sense. Dancer did great!
I mean it can’t be a straight guy wanting her number because he wouldn’t want to pretend to be trans (that would disgust a straight woman, right? Are we even allowed to be “disgusted” anymore? Probably not lol). Plus that would be insane – not that he maybe isn’t already insane, but…
And yet… he REALLY seemed to want her number. lol
Again, I think maybe he was hoping he could catch someone’s reaction to his weird trans over-explaining so he could blast them. That’s the kind of world we live in, people watching for tiny little offenses they can “report” you on because they’re hostile.
Wheeling and dealing with strangers online is the worst. The asking for the phone number is very common, for some reason, but not good practice. If someone is selling something on facebook, you contact them on facebook. How hard is it to comply with that?
@ Roman agreed probably not worth the potential risk. Bc the car doesn’t run she can’t take it to a busy spot. I will suggest the donation route.
@ Stephanie I am not sure what the number ask was about except maybe so the weird discussion could happen “live?” It was bizarre.
True Ash, if someone had questions about the CAR, why not just ask them via FB, not phone? The questions didn’t seem to be about the car… I am not even sure Rachel was interested in the car as much as maybe trying to find someone to engage in conflict with? Or get approval from? Or something? It seemed pretty unhinged. I was very glad to hear Dancer didn’t give the number or engage in any way over the Brain/Rachel biz. She kept it to what it was about, the CAR.
Now its bad to have 5 kids
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/opinion/chip-joanna-gains-pregnancy-1.4481165
“Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision. So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out.
And if the birth rate in Canada declines, so what? As old You-Know-Who cuts off aid to not-for-profits that educate on abortion, restricts immigration and stops sending money to countries that need it, we will have a steady supply of smart and talented immigrants. Their loss, our gain.
Anyway, here’s wishing Chip and Joanna the best!”
Moron.
From Roman
“…Meet at a busy parking lot, and have somebody with you, preferably a man.”
From the last conversation about men withdrawing….what if you don’t have any men to protect you let alone fix your plumbing?
We just naturally fall into these patterns of thinking….just get a guy friend to….
But soon there will be no guy friends……
Weird. Could have been a trick to con someone into a “discrimination” claim. Might have also just been a scammer though. All sorts of people who try to get phone numbers from people since so much existing information is publicly available on social media. I knew someone who was getting calls from Nigerian scammers. It’s really easy to do calls worldwide with softphones with no real cost involved.
Social networking is stupid. I had a former police officer tell me a week ago that they have so much data available on anyone that they know what you ate the day before. Why would you advertise your whole life to the world? And even if you don’t use social media, your life is being constantly recorded when you walk down the store or drive down the road past traffic cameras.
I was thinking about this very thing a month or so ago. In 10-20 years, we will probably see accurately recreated representations of a person’s life and experiences through VR while only needing photos and video / voice recordings that people have posted online. As an example, the personal assistants like Google Girl and Siri are created by piecing together complex phrases by using other sections of words. All it would take is dictation software that can do text to speech to capture every section of a person’s vocabulary, and very easily recreate accurate speech patterns and faces and environments through photographs. If it isn’t already obvious, Google already has the tech to to it.
Horseman – The only people who have stopped reproducing are the more “privileged classes”; White Westerners, and first world Asians, etc. Mostly male but that’s changed as these women are also expected to work being that they can be higher income earners. It’s no wonder that these are the people who are shamed from having more children and are expected to pay for the welfare state for a large portion of “underprivileged classes”.
Coincidentally, the leftists are all about “stopping climate change” by getting people to have fewer children, but only if you are part of a certain demographic. Even Oprah admitted that the Hollywood women are part of a “privileged class” and coincidentally she’s part of the billionaire club that has ties to Rockefeller / Carnegie Nazi eugenics programs.
@mgtowhorseman
You caught that did you. That’s what was going through my head when I wrote that. I wanted to make the subtle point about the everyday importance of men.
With regards to your link about the couple who selfishly had five kids, my response to those naysayers is….HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just FIVE! My wife had over a dozen pregnancies the majority of them made it to birth. That last person that gave me shit about having too many kids learned very quickly that I wasn’t taking that crap and spent the last years of his life not being allowed to contact those grand children he thought we shouldn’t have had.
Funny thing was as I watching Gramps and Grandma celebrate the birth of all their other grand children I could tell they weren’t very happy about my wife having more and more children by their emotionless reaction every time we announced a new pregnancy. But my in-law’s final comment to me was a punch in the gut from a man I deeply respected.
“Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision.”
Yeah a big middle finger to the global public health concerns.
We only had 5 and people started cracking *jokes* and looking at us askance at the announcement of number 4.
‘From the last conversation about men withdrawing….what if you don’t have any men to protect you let alone fix your plumbing?’
I guess that scenerio never comes up in a woman’s short sighted thinking. The emotional feelz of destroying a man just feels so good.
Funny, whenever I was buying a car…things like, ‘I’m a stander, not a sitter’ were not important to the conversation.
The population total ain’t the problem
It’s the sort of folks who generally make up the large populations ie the functional retards that can’t feed themselves in their own nations. That’s the problem. That and White people sending them food so they can keep breeding fuck trophies they can’t feed.
“I had a former police officer tell me a week ago that they have so much data available on anyone that they know what you ate the day before. Why would you advertise your whole life to the world? And even if you don’t use social media, your life is being constantly recorded when you walk down the store or drive down the road past traffic cameras.”
Yea… that and together with how much people comment it’s very easy to understand pretty much what’s actually going on behind the scenes. In my opinion it’s best to be VERY upfront and honest, but also guarded when it comes to your husband’s or kid’s personal lives. I’m sure that’s hard to find that balance, but I’m glad I’ve never thrown them under the bus to make myself look better online. If anything I tend to try to take the blame (I’m usually at least partly at fault anyway lol) if there was anything negative going on.
I know the topic is thrown around here and elsewhere that a person’s blog is only a veil or what you *want* them to see, and that is true. To me it’s sad when I find out the real truth about what someone’s life is really like, and then seeing them literally pretending online that everything is ok. It IS like false information or lying by omission, much like Lysa Terkeurst was doing in a way when her marriage was falling apart throughout the years, but no one really knew because she acted so happy and positive.
RPG, I think you’re right. That LBGT….. person was probably fishing for some kind of discrimination to blast it on the nightly news.
As for having 5+ children: what business is it of others? As long as the parents are providing for the children and the government doesn’t have to pay… Then by all means procreate. I would much rather see that than the growing number of poverty level people having multiple children and depending on welfare as their only revenue stream.
“Now its bad to have 5 kids”
LOL I love making those kinds of people angry. Yes, I’m actively supporting and helping the overpopulation of the earth!
I would have 10 kids if we could! The sad thing about articles like that (and I’ve seen quite a few through the years) is that they really do affect the Gen Y’s who believe it’s true 😦 And then they miss out on the joys of having multiple kids or sometimes kids at all.
I never knew how happy motherhood and being a stay at home mom in particular would make me. It’s the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done.
I would love to have 10 kids as well. Just didn’t work out that way. It’s not like it’s too late but as I said previously; I don’t think that I want to risk serious relationships again, let alone marriage. I kinda like not having a live-in SO at the moment. Who knows if that’s going to change. Too much distrust for the fairer sex after spending half of my life with one who ended up being a really poor choice.
“I would have 10 kids if we could!”
It kinda like getting to Carnegie Hall. Practice baby, practice. 🙂
Anyway, We were on our 10th when my wife started miscarrying. We never did get to 10 living children. The thing I noticed about having a large family is that after a certain number (6 for us, different for others) it looses it’s holy-cow-this-is-a-big-family feel and all the talk about them costing so much is pretty much proved wrong.
I will say one of the best parts of having a large family is watching them work and play together and witnessing how they develop their own personalities. Where one who was once considered the leader is supplanted by another who shows a certain personality that over shadows the first.
It’s definitely an adventure.
4 and some sadly but the older 2 are picking up the slack
Though not sure my daughter’s kids count toward The Ton Total
There is a new post st Spawny’s
https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/apex-fallacy-google-edition/
“Anyway, We were on our 10th when my wife started miscarrying. We never did get to 10 living children.”
That is so impressive RL, but I’m so sorry about the miscarriages. I’m sure that was very hard. We’ve only been through one, and wow was it brutal.
” We’ve only been through one, and wow was it brutal.”
It’s tough…I think one of the problems I had was that while I was busy worrying about mama and how she was doing was I didn’t realize how deeply it affected me.
I hope your husband was able to deal with it properly and not just dismiss his feelings outright.
Sorry for your loss.
It did affect him a lot more than he thought it would… he failed a couple of tests right after and it was I think related to that because he hardly ever fails things like that. But yes, he did actually deal with it then, and it helped that we got pregnant again pretty quickly.
I think it’s endearing that it affects you men so much more than y’all initially let on. Shows how much y’all truly care about your families and would give anything for them to be ok.
Speaking of the ‘bad to have 5 kids story’…I meet a married couple at church today who told me they have 7 kids. I responded…’that’s excellent!’
Unrelated, but maybe a topic to discuss. Women are now less happy than men: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5178261/Women-unhappy-men-entire-lives.html?ITO=1490
Holy moly. I wouldn’t want to wait until I’m in my 80s for happiness. LOLs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA59H3f61Lk
Women are happier when their husbands are dead.