Showing posts with label men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label men. Show all posts
Just Another Reason To Love Men
Because they do crazy ass things like base jumping off of mountains in wing suits.
Happy Monday
Billionaires on Boats or Barrack , Bella and an Appreciation of Anticipation
From the
Bella and Edward Who? Real-Estate Tycoon Deconstructs 'Twilight'
So what do you get when you put a brilliant billionaire named Tom Barrack on a boat in Turkey with some free time on his hands and nothing to read except 'Twilight'.
What you get is a thoughtful analysis of the book and a brilliant letter to the senior management at his firm Colony Capital.
Here is a brief excerpt
I boarded the gorgeous but stark Turkish Gulet right as the sun was setting. As I made my way into the main cabin I saw something so frightening it left me speechless. There, staring up at me from the ebony coffee table was a book. On the cover was a gorgeous red apple nestled between two soft and caring hands. Between the hands were written the words that strike terror in the hearts of every macho, red-blooded male…TWILIGHT. AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!! Alone, on a boat, with no wifi, no satellite, no magazines, no newspapers, just me and this book. This piece of chick lit, teeny bopper heartthrob stuff. Terror on the high seas! I wanted nothing to do with any of it. Not relevant, not interesting.
As I sat there with nothing to do the book kept taunting me. I began to think that there must be something I don’t understand. What could it be? What is it all about? Women don’t just read these books, they live them. They become each paragraph. I picked it up, but then immediately dropped it like a hot coal. What if someone saw me reading this? My macho reputation would be finished! I would be kicked out of the bench press section of the gym. My polo compadres would send me packing to the pony rides and my surfing buddies would exile me to the kiddie pool.
But it was a long night and there was absolutely nothing, and I mean NOTHING else to do. Long story short – not only did I read Twilight, I read the other two as well!! I was fascinated, captivated even. However, what intrigued me was not the same thing that hooked the millions of women whose lives and had been changed by this series, but something else entirely.
I love the way that Barrack starts his aversion to the book, then goes on with what he finds from reading the Twilight books and extrapolates that into lessons for life.
Also in the lessons for life category, Christina at Fashion's Most Wanted has posted the Dalai Lama's instructions for life. Yes, we've all read them before, but they are always worth re-reading.
Judgement Day
From the TelegraphWhy men will judge a woman in milliseconds
Men take a fraction of a second to decide if they are attracted to a woman or not - but they should not be called shallow because they are genetically programmed to do so, scientist say.
Men weigh up potential partners almost instantaneously based on their appearance because their "ancient" genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to, experts claim.
In contrast women take longer to decide their feelings for a man because they need to weigh up whether he will be a committed partner who will provide for them well – part of their survival programming.
And they needed experts and a study to find this out?
The most amusing thing about this article is the underlying tone
"men are not shallow...no really they're not"
To Read And Enjoy
Admiral Cod written by Laguna Beach Trad
Why do I adore this blog?
Maybe it's because of the multi-lingual posts
or the interesting choice of music videos
or the unabashed anglo-german-franco-philia
or the attitude about the investment business
or maybe it's because the blogger, so very un-Laguna like, wears the full on prep attire of rep ties, alden shoes, pink shirts, topsiders and madras shorts like my ex-fiance wore when we both lived Laguna Beach.
How Sex Drives Spending or Happy Valentine's Day
From Smart Money via Instapundit
So Happy Together: Sex and Spending
Valentine’s Day...may be a multibillion-dollar industry. But the larger driver of economic progress is the sex drive itself.
What drives us to create and produce? What drives us to consume? Why are love and money so intimately intertwined?
...let’s look at how sex drives people’s spending.
There are obvious ways sex gets people to spend more money (flowers, presents, dates… not to mention the direct, usually illegal, purchase of sex), but a tremendous amount of economic activity also goes into what’s called “signaling” — buying things to communicate one’s status, and thus one’s desirability as a mate.
Ah, so it's all about signalling. How do women and men differ at this?
Even more revealing, however, is how men and women respond in an economic experiment when “romantically primed” — that is, when they are shown pictures of attractive people of the opposite sex and then asked to make various consumption decisions.
Romantically primed men, in a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2007, proved much more willing to splurge on things like flashy watches and expensive cars (while they showed no difference in their spending on boring, non-flashy things like tissues and headache medicine).
Women, meanwhile, didn’t adjust their consumption at all when romantically primed. Instead, romantically primed women indicated that they were more willing to spend time volunteering (such as at a children’s hospital or a homeless shelter).
So all this time I thought that women signalled through getting all gussied up with botox and blow drys and boob jobs...
But as it turns out men use stuff and women use actions to signal
What does all this tell us? It tells us that these consumption decisions are most likely about signaling: for men, of status and access to resources; for women, of altruism. Romantic priming made men no more likely to want to spend time volunteering; and romantically primed women only wanted to volunteer more when their effort would be visible, not when it would be inconspicuous.
So one way or the other, at least for women and their altruistic actions, it is all about the show.
The article goes on to discuss the evolutionary ramifications of all of this and suggests that men are at their prime, in terms of their creative output, when they are around 30 years old, because that period coincides with their greatest competition from other men for finding mates.
Personally, I'd like to leave all the analysis out of Valentine's Day...and the flowers and the chocolate....and just celebrate with caviar and champagne.
Man Creates The Perfect Woman - Robosexual Roxxxy
THE world's first "sexbot" — a life-sized rubber doll named Roxxxy who can chat about football — has been unveiled. Owners can customise Roxxxy's features and change her race, hair colour and breast size.
Obviously she can be tailored to any man's taste
Prospective owners can pick from the five different "personalities" depending on their individual preference.
There is Wild Wendy - who is outgoing and adventurous, Frigid Farah - who is reserved and shy, Mature Martha and S&M Susan - available for more adventurous types.
Mr Hines said: "She can't vacuum, she can't cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean.
Um yeah Mr. Hines I think that we all know exactly what you mean.
Even better she's a girl with a personality!!
"She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person."
Mr Hines, from TrueCompanion, said the doll could carry out simple conversations and was designed to "know exactly what you like".
He said: "Sex only goes so far, then you want to be able to talk to the person.
"She knows exactly what you like. If you like Porsches, she likes Porsches. If you like soccer, she likes soccer."
And she's a lot less expensive than a real wife
The doll costs between US$7,000 (£4,350) to US$9,000 (£5,993), and was unveiled at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas at the weekend.
Yep, she's every man's dream...and she never ages!!!
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