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Phone zombies are everywhere. You know, those people so glued to their smartphone screens they are barely aware of what’s happening all around them, in real life?
I remember watching the movie Wall-E and thinking how silly it was, all the humans glued to a small tablet, right next to each other but not speaking. Little did we all know then the Steve Jobs was showing us a glimpse of the future, as such tablets were already in development and would hit the market soon. I wonder if he ever considered not releasing smartphones and tablets, knowing what would happen to humanity?
Of course smart phones have many good uses too, like maps and information at your fingertips and the ability to check email and such on the go. Things you used to have to be sitting at a computer or before that go to a library to do.
Yet despite the convenience, they have also created this inconvenient 24×7 tether, too. Instead of walking away from that computer, now it goes with you. People expect a reply at any hour, day or night. Sometimes even your boss!
Even if you don’t want a smartphone to take over or change your life, somehow it seems like they do anyway. I know very few people who can keep it in its place. It’s like the devices were built to be highly addictive, to be very “sticky.” To replace human interaction. To supersede even your friends and family. To replace hobbies and real world activities.
I am curious how others feel. Am I being too negative? Do others have ideas for how to keep smartphones from taking over their life? Ways to put it in its place? A technique to reverse phone zombie-ism?
What do you think? Please share in the comments!
Sometimes, I H A T E !
Sometimes I wish that I could go back to the time of no phones, where I had few distractions.
But, I have to admit, being a business owner, these newly indispensable tools help to make much better relationships with my customers. When we communicate quickly, my customers know that I care about their business. Last year, a customer left me a message on my “voice mail”. He said that in the 20+ years of our relationship, it was the first time that he had ever heard my OGM. Jokingly, he said that I knew this day would come, but he didn’t realize it would come so soon.
I can work more efficiently in many different aspects with these tools. But, like anything else, one has to realistically manage what you allow to show up on them. Notifications, I have found, will kill your time. The recent fluctuations in equities has wasted some of my time, but I still found the information interesting and useful. In addition, sometimes you have to fire customers.
One of the best uses that I have found is using OSMAND in conjunction with various tracks, such as the those in ridebdr.com to do my off line navigation for me. It saves many hours of work and keeps me out of trouble.
I guess that it is like anything else, one has to look in the mirror and manage these things and realize when they are actually managing YOU. Social media, such as your place RPG, can be places where we learn and broaden our understanding, or they can be a cesspool of validation and arguments about nothing. A complete waste of a person’s life.
I really worry about late Millennials and Gen Z’s. My impression is that they would RATHER communicate with their thumbs than face to face. They would rather play a game where they could simulate shooting an RFB versus shooting the real thing. It is almost like they prefer pixels over the real.
I wish I used my laptop and phone less than I do, but being a writer, I’m always using it to jot down ideas or reading up on something inspiring or pertaining to what I’m writing. However, I have applied a no technology rule with my guy when we’re on a date or trying to spend quality time together. It’s nice to enjoy an afternoon or evening without constantly checking all your apps and online minglings.
Traveling now with a Smartphone is incredible. Directions, translation, service! It wasn’t like this 15 years ago. For that I’m grateful. I love reading blogs during my downtime. Not a big fan of social media. So for me, technology works.
Once I stopped with social media the phone isnt so bad.
I use it to reada lot or play games.
But they are very addictive.
It’s not a incorrect evaluation. I’m stuck to my smartphone reading this article, so it’s pretty addictive. I substitute it for actual human interaction because… humans suck.
There ain’t much a man can’t do with a smart phone, a quality fake passfake passport port, 10k in cash and a Glock.
That makes smartphones one powerful ass tool.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/fertility-rate-south-korea-1.4540398
“In my opinion, the reason the women are having a ‘birth strike’ in Korea is because of the economic issue,” Jeong says.
“For them to graduate from university, it costs a lot of money. And it’s not just university. After university when you’re trying to get a job, that costs a lot as well. So I think the main reason why women hesitate to get married and have kids is because of the money.”
On the surface yes. Going to school and getting a job costs money and the decade of peak fertility.
That in the past Your MAN Gladly Paid to support you while you had his babies!!!!
Its really simple.
Its a choice.
One women have been making for the last twenty years.
Bloom
Best answer to your question. If this video makes you even a little uncomfortable it says something.
Scrying Mirrors;
@ mgtowhorseman; I watched that whole video just now with speed up to 2. I couldn’t watch it at normal speed, cuz it’s too slow. But I watch pretty much all youtube videos at top speed.
*just the ones where people are talking like news or vlogs. Ones that are music or movie clip, I play at normal speed.
I wonder if this technology peaked ten or more years ago and I’d be happy if I could just continue with that without having to move on to supposedly better versions. But I don’t let “notifications” of any sort through to the phone and I only fire up my email if I’m expecting something. It’s totally secondary to my computer and thus isn’t ever demanding anything of me unless I let it. Unfortunately, the newer technology is more and more invasive and tracking absolutely everything you do. A flip phone may be in my future though I’d probably buy a pad of some sort that I could fire up for serious browsing or emailing.
Since I have a pretty effective firewall up against everything but calls and texts my phone is not an addiction. Everything today tracks you, however. I’m not paranoid (I hope!) but I used to know a few of the movers and shakers in the internet world back when they were in their mere mortal “garage phase.” I absolutely hate the idea of those jerks tracking our every keystroke and, more and more, every spoken word. Don’t kid yourself, Alexa and Siri my not be tracking you individually (though they could) but they are analyzing everything you say and they could do the same to what they hear even when you are not talking to them.
As I write this I’m learning that I dislike what I am transmitting more than I dislike what I am receiving.
It’s funny and telling that you mention Wall-E. One of the publishers I worked with in the ’80s produced a Whitley Strieber and James Kunenka novel called “Warday” about the aftermath of a limited nuclear war. It’s a fantastically irritating book but OH BOY did they project some fascinating and accurate ideas about the future. One of them being the tracking of iPad like devices by the government and the fact that people are completely addicted to them, to the point of feeling helpless when they are denied access. Heck, cell phones were new when they came up with that idea!
If you want to see the ultimate in horror check out the Chinese Social Credit system that is in development … it scores your political correctness 24/7 with a low score potentially leading to prison.
No question that *screens* exert a magical pull on people. One flight instructor mentioned that when he is teaching primary students in planes with large navigation screens, he finds it difficult to get them to pay proper attention *outside the cockpit*, even on final approach to landing.
And then there is the combination of screens with wireless technology. When the telegraph was first introduced, a journalist marveled that ‘there is no *elsewhere* anymore…it is all here.’ But if wired technology reduced the sense of Elsewhere, it seems that wireless technology reduced the sense of the Here and Now.
It’s not specifically about phones, but my post ‘Duz Web Mak Us Dumr?’ is relevant to this discussion:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5851.html
Please need to make a concise effort to stay off of them. I can’t stand when I catch up with a friend over dinner and the whole time they are on their phones texting. It’s so rude.
A. Thea, indeed. I see people on a date or at dinner and every party at the table is on a phone rather than interacting. Not good!
One of the biggest complaints in the manosphere about modern dating and women is the phone zombie thing. That plus social media addiction, which kind of go hand in hand. Gals can set themselves apart just by NOT doing these two simple things. Put the phone away! Live in the moment! 🙂
In fact it probably would be good practice for people to routinely put themselves on a phone time out, so they can notice the feelings of panic or whatever and realize how dependant they maybe have become. Then develop other ways of self soothing besides screen time. Like reading, or art, or playing with clay, or cooking, or…
Yes! I’ve been to some dinner parties where people have a dish for phones so everyone stays off them. People go to their phone to fulfill something but really it just makes them empty. Or so it seems, it’s like just engage in human interaction and then you won’t need to be searching for something that you’ll never find on social media. Right?
I would like to think I have sort of come full circle with my phone zombie-ism. I have given up all social media except for work related and even that is very scaled back. I find myself resenting my phone more and more, what a tether, electronic ball and chain it is!
Indeed A. Thea, it seems people are more disconnected than ever, despite the false sense of connection phones can bring.
‘On the surface yes. Going to school and getting a job costs money and the decade of peak fertility.
That in the past Your MAN Gladly Paid to support you while you had his babies!!!!
Its really simple.
Its a choice.
One women have been making for the last twenty years.’
Considering it doesn’t matter if it is white women or Asian women this happens to…I have to think it is a depopulation technique.
From dalrocks a brilliant truthbomb from Boxer
“I’m 58, and the last several men I’ve been sexually active with could not get an erection, and told me that ED meds did not work well for them.
My understanding is that ED meds only work when there’s an underlying physical problem. They don’t (and will never) work when a man is faced with having sex with an utterly unattractive partner.
Honestly, none of us would get an erection for a 58 year old woman. We don’t get erections when we see automobiles, fenceposts, dogs, children, or doorknobs, either. Unless a man is mentally ill with some sort of weird granny fetish, he’s not going to be able to get it up for you. You sag. You stink. You’re ugly. End of.
The only possible exception that proves this rule is an old lady who has been a faithful and good wife, for a lifetime, to a man. That one man can get it up for his woman. The dick *ALWAYS* knows a good woman.
Regards,
Boxer’
I’d be curious to see real research into this area (of course unlikely to occur.) I am sure some (maybe lots of) ED is caused by not being aroused/attracted, but in other cases it may be a physical cause (clogged arteries or prostate surgery that has affected nerves are two examples.) I know men in their 80s who self report still getting it on regular, I know men who say they started to struggle with ED in their 40s. And I have heard guys say Viagra and the like don’t always work, for whatever reason. It may be this gal really is that repulsive, or it may be these guys would have this same problem in other cases, even with younger/more attractive targets. Hard to say (no pun intended.) For some reason people, even near strangers, tell me the most surprising stuff, I do not know why! Maybe I have an understanding disposition? I have heard it all I swear — sometimes I am like, “la la la TMI!!!”
One time an elderly gentleman got to talking about his prostate surgery and how that ended erections for him but then he added that he could still get aroused and also even still have an orgasm with stimulation. I have no idea how we got on that conversation, and I was blushing I am sure, but I found it pretty interesting that a man could still orgasm even if he physically could not get hard, as I had assumed the two were connected. But I am sure if a guy is not erect bc he is not aroused (vs physically unable), he would likely not be able to orgasm either, but of course I am just speculating here. May these be things none of us ever experience!
RPG I agree that there is more to ED than an ‘unattractive’ lady. Obviously she was attractive enough to get them to that point to attempt sex. I believe with the amount of stress men face now a days the problem of ED occurs more frequently and at a younger age. There are so many factors that contribute to it… One being technology. Yup… The use of laptops/cell phones/ etc can decrease libido and stamina.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/erectile-dysfunction/is-technology-ruining-your-sex-life.aspx
True, Love, I have read online postings by young men who were avid porn viewers say that had led them to have ED in real life situations, they had unknowingly trained themselves only to be able to do it solo
Maybe people overshare with me so that I can in turn share that info here? Lol. Hey, maybe someone will realize just bc her guy can’t get it up post prostate surgery does not mean he can’t still enjoy the experience! 😉
These things are really hard to talk about, I am sure. In real life. In the heat of the moment.
Yes this is a growing problem and only creates further rift between men and women in our society. Despite popular belief, the younger generation is having less sex. https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/why-millennials-are-having-less-sex-2017-7
Yes there are many ways to be sexual. Perhaps the older lady in question needs to learn more about ED and ways to pleasure her partners … The mentality that a man just needs to see a woman naked to become aroused is not true for some men.
I’ve seen studies claiming that a considerable % of people check their phones not only right after sex, but actually *during* sex.
Pretty contemptuous of one’s partner, I think.
The Paris Hilton effect? Kidding! (She checked her phone mid shag in her supposedly “leaked” sex video from the many reports, I did not watch it myself.) maybe the memory of that video has in itself led to ED!
Phone Zombies to ED … gotta love visiting Bloom’s Place 😉
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i grow weary of technology. i get tired of it changing so fast and always having to learn something else. thankfully, my daughters aren’t like that b/c they can’t escape it. my daughters also don’t seem concerned about being tracked – it’s just an ‘is’ thing for them, rather than, “What the hell?!!!” (which is me!)
i use the smartphone aspects of my phone some but not a lot. i’d still rather look at a paper map than listen to that *^!#$! gps!
i like the good things of technology … like having music available for my aspie girl all the time is a blessing. she can go for periods of time without it, but it makes life so much better for all of us for her to have it. i like that my daughter can take college classes online. i like the ability to research easily without having to go to a library. i LOVE my ereader. i do like having a cell phone and my girls being able to get ahold of me anytime they need to. they don’t abuse that, but it makes me feel better as a mom.
@ love the article you linked to describes the weird “pretend it’s nothing” world today’s young experience. Ironni ally an abundance of (meh) options leads to opting out?
This article off Love”s other link is… Ahem… About a version of phone zombies… https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/tinder-generation-having-more-sex-ever-its-terrible-2015-8
Lol Ame, you never know where the comments will go! So don’t miss any! Lol 😉 kidding!
Who else can I tell there things to though?!?! Lol I can’t believe people tell these things to me!
i worked with the public for years, and it truly is amazing what people will tell you if you just listen.
and stuff like that … we just have to get it ‘out’ and pass it on! 🙂
from the article:
The numbers stand to reason: if you’re going on 2-3 dates a week, and scoring with roughly two thirds of those, you’ll be getting it in so frequently that you better have the free clinic’s number on speed dial.
yep! hummm … perhaps need to invest in the std testing industry?!
Yet she also reports that within this Tinder hook up culture, men are noting a lack of intimacy and connection, and women aren’t regularly experiencing orgasms.
ummm … and this is a shock?! sigh.
So true Ame, it amazes me what people (over) share! Maybe it’s an infp thing? People confess to us whether we want to hear it or not? Lol.
But speaking of age and attractiveness, I was SHOCKED the other day to meet a gal I figured was late 50s who actually was three years younger than me! She seriously looked almost 60, and even refers to herself as “grandma.” Sorry but I am NOT going there yet!
One other thought: some of the addictive activity we see people doing on their phones is really just a modernization of behavior types that have been around since forever.
I was reading one of Henry Fielding’s novels (recommended) and a character was talking about a woman with a very busy social schedule. He remarked that she didn’t really care about the people she invited to her parties, or about interacting with them, what she cared about was to be able to brag about the people who came to her house. It struck me that this was an early-1700s version of collecting Likes and a long Friend List….
‘The mentality that a man just needs to see a woman naked to become aroused is not true for some men.’
Yes the attitude the naked woman brings with it helps a great deal too.
No man wants a starfish…he’ll still get the job done, but it won’t be as exciting.
‘ Ironni ally an abundance of (meh) options leads to opting out? ‘
Or perhaps a lot of people settle for meh sex. It’s nothing more than a physical transaction…like a handshake.
‘Yet she also reports that within this Tinder hook up culture, men are noting a lack of intimacy and connection, and women aren’t regularly experiencing orgasms.
ummm … and this is a shock?! sigh.’
Not to people who have a clue what sex is really about.
Intimacy, connection, and I’ll add COMMITMENT…are all just as important when it comes to sex as the physical parts. If you take those out, you are going to get meh sex.
‘I’ve seen studies claiming that a considerable % of people check their phones not only right after sex, but actually *during* sex. ‘
They have a more emotional connection to a phone than the person they are having sex with.
Intimacy, connection, and I’ll add COMMITMENT…are all just as important when it comes to sex as the physical parts.
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I bet the gals in your sewing circle all went awwww at the same time when you said that
That all you got, Ton?
The phone thing! Yea it is a problem for society. We just recently saw that Wall-e movie (so cute!) and I couldn’t believe how accurate it was and so sad that that’s the way we’re becoming as a people.
I don’t have internet connected to my phone except for when it rarely decides to work (which even then, I’m so used to not using it that I often don’t even notice when it’s finally able to connect to a wifi). So that’s really helped not being plugged in all the time.
It’s frankly SO NICE to take long breaks everyday from technology stuff! I mean I’ll use the computer for beautiful music on the background, or a sermon while I’m folding laundry or playing with the kids… but it’s nice to kind of get away from the computer for long periods of time.
And blogs are really addicting! Reading other people’s thoughts are inspiring and exciting to me.
Speaking of LOL… I hope Deti is ok… haven’t seen his comments for weeks I think. He’s probably a tax attorney and is super busy during this time… but I miss his wisdom.
Hold up with this “porn made him have ED” bullshit. Most women don’t even look good naked, hence why men only really care about the age 18 -25 demographic.. Most women don’t even care enough to understand basic male biology, much less what turns a man on. Bottom line, technology makes you a lazy bitch whether you want to believe it or not.
Honestly, none of us would get an erection for a 58 year old woman. We don’t get erections when we see automobiles, fenceposts, dogs, children, or doorknobs, either. Unless a man is mentally ill with some sort of weird granny fetish, he’s not going to be able to get it up for you.
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2018/02/11/sexy-genarians/
Now these ladies were all considered quite/very/amazingly attractive in their day (never Marina Sirtis, though, and Dana Delany, meh). Some of them look very nice for their age, but all of them fall into the could-not-bang category now just because their too old to elicit the required response, unless you were already married to them for a significant period as suggested above. That is not ED, as ED is not a situational diagnosis.
I work on an office floor that has @ 60 women, between the ages of late 20’s – early 60’s. There is ONE fuckable women in that group. I believe she is 31. You can still tell a couple of them were probably quite attractive 20-30 years ago, but that ship sailed and it ain’t coming back.
I understand what you men are saying about physical attractiveness of a woman and your desire for sex. But my question to you is how did the men end up in bed with the 50 something year old woman? She didn’t put a gun to their head. So obviously these men jumped into bed with her willingly. Did they think she was going to magically transform into a Playboy bunny?
Btw, the ladies in my sewing circle are young with incredible bodies. Some enhanced assets. And believe me I’ve heard plenty of stories of half mast salutes. So yes, ED is real.
A new post at Spawny’s there is
https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/hush/
Who said ED isn’t real? I said it isn’t situational, you either have it or you don’t. Failing to get hard for saggy old women isn’t ED, it’s actually working as designed. Failing to get hard for Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas is ED.
But my question to you is how did the men end up in bed with the 50 something year old woman?
Bad choices lead to bad outcomes.
I want to suggest a thought experiment. But it will work better if you are reminded of some basic science stuff first.
For folks who study such things with electrodes and other measuring devices, chemical secretions into the blood etc., arousal is non-specific. From looking at the readouts of the multiple physiologic outputs being measured, researchers can only see that one is aroused; they cannot tell whether one is angry, sad, joyful, etc. Before the advent of the internet, I was familiar with the various articles in the research journals that covered this stuff. I don’t know what of those studies has been converted to digital form and is available on the internet.
From the truth contained in the previous paragraph: the body is designed to respond to the stimulation of our five senses. We “make sense” of that stimulation by attributing meaning to the stimulation (Attribution Theory). We then have a physiological response to our understanding of the “meaning” we perceive. We end up with … Stimulus –> Response –> Cognition (leading to attribution of meaning) of that initial physiologic response / arousal –> Response to our Cognition (Secondary Response) –> all kinds of other fallout resulting from our cognition and resulting Secondary Response.
In one study of brain waves that I have not been able to find on the internet, it was demonstrated that – in response to stimuli – females tend to ramp up the intensity of the brain wave response while males tend to clamp down and dampen the brain wave response. When I read that, I understood the tendency of females to faint in the presence of rocks stars and such (see the swooning visible in early videos of performances by the Beatles).
Thought experiment:
Whether male or female, we are designed to respond to sight, sounds, smells, taste, touch. But our sight gives us information that can lead more quickly to attribution, and the meaning we derive can more quickly interfere with the responding of the other four senses to the input.
Imagine you are naked, blindfolded, and lying comfortably on a soft surface. Another human begins touch you with a feather, or with gloved fingers (to hide the sex of the toucher) in all of your areas that have lots of sensitive nerve endings. If your sense of touch is operating normally, all of the measuring devices that could be hooked up to you (but aren’t at the moment) would start registering your arousal response. Certain brain wave activity would increase; certain chemical secretions into the blood would increase; heart rate would increase, etc. Your body is designed to respond to touch. And it will respond if that system is working normally.
Now, take off the blindfold and turn on the lights. Who was touching you? The answer to that question will determine whether the arousal continues or is immediately shut down. Why? Cognition. Your response to what you see will be determined by what you were taught about who is an appropriate sexual partner.
So – if you first see the one who will be touching you, before they begin touching you, this ramp up or shut down of arousal happens first, before your body’s natural response to touch has a chance to kick in.
Conclusion:
Guys whose five sense systems are healthy have the biological potential to be aroused by the touch of anyone – including other guys and old ladies. It is that cognition part, fueled mostly by sight (is it OK for me to be aroused by what I am looking at?), that mediates how things progress.
There are lots of practical application, for both guys and gals, in what was just said. The studies are out there, as well as the practical applications.
@RichardP
A category mistake, or category error, or categorical mistake, or mistake of category, is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category, or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
@ headhujnter out of curiosity, how old are you?
50 orbits of Sol.
I want an invite to Love’s sewing circle
I’m pretty sure the typical blindfold hetrosexual man will not be stimulated if an unknown person is touching his junk
Yeah most men dont need Viagra
What they need is some better looking strange
Here is the scoop from my sewing circle:
For the guys 40+, their erection wanes throughout the act. The girls say this is especially true when the guys wear a condom.
For the guys in their 20s and 30s, they usually struggle to maintain an erection after a number of alcohol drinks or if they’ve taken drugs (cocaine, Molly, etc.)
50 orbits of Sol.
A toddler you are.
Talk about crashing and burning
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-heather-locklear-arrest-20180226-story.html?outputType=amp
Who the fuck wouldn’t need boner pills to bang that bitch?
Condoms and drugs aren’t ED. One takes out most of the stimulation and the other produces a fake one.
Your sewing circle ladies sure know how to find the meh sex. What a waste of ‘assets’.
Earl, I neither condemn or condone. I just listen and learn.
That’s cause you are a sweetheart, Love.
But I can.
“When I read that, I understood the tendency of females to faint in the presence of rocks stars and such (see the swooning visible in early videos of performances by the Beatles).”
RP what you wrote about the attraction/arousal being linked to cognition makes sense. And this quote about females with stars… it’s very true, but I’m not sure it’s an arousal thing (is it)?
I just saw a former pro basketball player at our gym… apparently he’s a regular when he’s in town (he’s now an sports analyst for another team and has to travel when they travel).
Before I knew who he was, he was just another man. Tall and very athletic (super tall really), but I mostly ignored him. Even though he held the door open for me and our toddler one time to which I was polite but not enthusiastically over the top.
Then my husband told me who he was and showed me a picture of him when he played which wasn’t that long ago. And then the next time I saw him it was like a rush of adrenaline or something very strange and involuntary. And I was all like… LETMEGETHISAUTOGRAPH1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL quietly teasing my poor hubby who would have killed me if I treated this poor man like that when he’s just trying to work out and be somewhat normal… if over 7 feet could count as normal lol.
But it’s real – that ‘star quality” or celebrity shock syndrome 😀
Get rid of all social media. I even deleted my Reddit. It’s like I glanced up and realized there’s an ACTUAL world outside my virtual one. The day will soon come when old people regret the time they spent with technology, instead of family, from their deathbed.
I preferred Heather Thomas:
Think Mallory hit the wall harder than Locklear did.
LOL in Hawaii I was on friendly terms with a number of famous, semi famous and formerly famous dudes. I got the impression they liked hanging out with me because their fame etc made no impact. I worked out and helped coach a sports team with the one semi famous dude for months before I found out he was supposed to be a big deal. To me he was just another large as hell, tough as hell and friendly as hell Somoan who occasionally liked to eat and drink to much….. which sums up most of them….. though he did have an incredibly bad ass wife.
Any rate none of them dudes mentioned it but you could tell the star struck thing annoyed the hell out of them. They were happy for the money and the bad ass wives but they were all middle age dudes who just wanted to drink beer and talk shit.
LOL don’t recall Heather Thomas.
Only reason I recall Locklear is because of all my time at Ft Bragg dealing with Locklears
She was on Lee Majors “The Fall Guy” show. Not much else.
“just wanted to drink beer and talk shit.”
If there’s no beer in Heaven, I don’t wanna go.
“They were happy for the money and the bad ass wives but they were all middle age dudes who just wanted to drink beer and talk shit.”
Yea Ton… when he held the door open for me, he just seemed SO normal. I mean really really tall and pretty muscular in the basketball sort of way… but just a good looking normal man that was actually kind enough to hold the door…. for a LONNNG time as he waited for my toddler.
We watched him drive away in his little sports car with his old pro team’s sticker discreetly on the back… you’d never know!
Geez they both were gorgeous!!
Agreed Ton, I bet that would get old to have people clamoring all the time. I am sure fame becomes it’s own kind of prison.
I suspect the starlets who aren’t aging as well either have drinking or drug issues. Cigarettes are also really aging.
Can’t say it gets old for everyone Bloom but them dudes I was drinking with all made the decision to go home and chill after they retired. Most were into real estate but none were doing side jobs in advertising and what not. The guy I knew the best was close to landing a big with ESPN but said fuck it, enough money was enough money
Hanging out with them dudes elevated my opinion of pro athletes. These guys were franchise players and had to work their asses off to keep their jobs. Always training, going to different coaches to improve skill sets, watching endless hours of game footage to study other players and themselves. Their work ethic reminded me of my tier one days.
True Ton, I think for some people all that attention would be the bomb. But once it’s gone, not good. Better to be the type who is ok w not needing the attention long term, I reckon.
And yes pro athletes give so much to reach that peak. I was thinking that watching the Olympics, such dedication, so much else sacrificed. I am glad to hear some think ahead and manage their earnings well. Such a short career, one can only sustain it so long, nice if the ear I he can last a lifetime.
The couple of guys I hung out with where never big names with big contracts.
I am sure that helps put things in place.
“Hanging out with them dudes elevated my opinion of pro athletes. These guys were franchise players and had to work their asses off to keep their jobs. Always training, going to different coaches to improve skill sets, watching endless hours of game footage to study other players and themselves. Their work ethic reminded me of my tier one days.”
The level of their training is amazing and beautiful to watch!!!!! Especially right there in real life (not on tv).
We saw him running almost full speed on the treadmill and it was actually beautiful to watch. It was perfection.
SUCH an inspiring work ethic!
I completely agree. We’ve become the land of the dead.