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Guppy

2 years

"The Judge, seeing me frail of constitution, conceded to my lawyer’s request that I be placed in a women’s prison, where I would have less probability of meeting either battery or buggery." You Have Wasted Your Life | The Pedestrian🚶

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4 years

Each large muscle of a bodybuilder represents a language he didn't learn, a poem he didn't read, a fun fact he never memorised.

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3 years

A man in his late twenties, after a promising start, rubs up against the limits of his IQ and begins to settle into his job.

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5 months

Develop exquisite taste, work little; the money will come.

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2 years

LSD allows even civil servants to have mystical experiences.

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3 years

A man, sick of modern society, quits his job, leaves the city, moves to a house in a remote village, and then watches the news on the television every day.

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The high rate of divorce is partly driven by the modern wedding industry, expensive, lavish and embarrassing, with only the most histrionic and self-centred buying into it, and therefore divorcing in higher numbers.

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3 years

How do you break a man? You discount the price of duck breast just long enough for him to get a taste for it. Then you raise the price indefinitely, forcing him to choose between financial ruin and the now-underwhelming chicken thigh.

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3 years

My advice to young men: Move to a foreign country and work for one year as a dishwasher while you learn the language. Then move to another and repeat the process. After seven years you will be fluent in seven languages, and you'll also have seven years experience as a dishwasher.

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3 years

They are trying to pit you against the politicians, who are looking after your best interests. Don't lose sight of the real enemy: the elderly and the vulnerable.

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5 years

This is literally what Jesus did.

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4 years

These men sit in the changing closets, on the wood-bench, counting and comparing muscles for hours, as if it were something to be proud of.

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4 years

Catholicism is a scheme for fat men to marry beautiful women.

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4 years

The four years between 2017 — 2021 in which Prince Phillip was banned from making media appearances represents a cultural loss comparable to that of the burning of the library of Alexandria.

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1 year

Everything I have done on a whim has worked out, and everything I have done out of pragmatism has made me miserable.

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2 years

You can only be successful today if you are either anti-racist or overtly racist. There is little room in the market for an ambivalent, aversive racism.

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4 years

If you work out in a gymnasium, become fit, and get an attractive woman because of it, she wins. If you get fat drinking and smoking, and get an attractive woman, you win.

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3 years

Kant, an ugly, tedious little gnome, was a popular man who regularly threw dinner parties that were attended by dozens of friends, while I, who have read more books than he, and have demonstrated the un-truth of his philosophy, have yet to make a single friend.

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4 years

There are two types of man: The man who lies to his wife about still having a job, and who sits on a park bench all day, and the man who lies to those at the office about still having a wife, who sits on the park bench all night.

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3 years

In his heart, Hitler was not actually racist, which only makes his cynical appropriation of racism the more horrifying.

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The French do not have a word for petite. They have only "petit", which means small.

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3 years

Narrowly avoided homelessness and destitution again with the help of my parents and their excess money.

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3 years

Claiming that "being homosexual was illegal until 1967" falsely equivalates the gay sex act (which was illegal) with the ontological condition of "being homosexual," which wasn't. This isn't an important or interesting insight, but you can mention it at work and see what happens.

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@w_guppy

1 year

You must speak three or four modern languages, read some Latin and Greek, play one instrument well and two poorly, have read the Western canon and be proficient in one sport before considering serious employment, and all this can take up the first forty years of your life.

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3 years

Twenty years ago you could call in sick, and the mutual understanding between you and your employer was that your absence was actually due to the disgust and displeasure of your employment. Now you are forced to humiliate yourself by claiming it as a "mental health day".

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3 years

You must buy only clothes of good quality material. Since I have switched to cotton my mood has improved tenfold. The majority of supposed mental illnesses — including depression, anxiety and asexuality — are caused by the irritation of the skin by acrylic garments.

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3 years

The Medieval Ages were not as backwards as we are led to believe. They had laptops, skyscrapers, and even a rudimentary form of Thai cuisine.

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1 year

Serious reading is the privilege of the lonely and unlovable. A devoted wife will not tolerate you spending two hours a day in pensive solitude.

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4 years

Weightlifting cultivates subservience, sedentarism, listlessness and inverse sexuality. Cycling cultivates joy, nomadism, an appreciation of nature and good urbanism, and a love of liberty.

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19 days

Living in a foreign country, understanding little to none of the local language, the world is rendered unreal, its native citizens mannequins in one's personal playground. One feels a temptation to frivolous criminality. I can hardly blame them; I have felt it myself.

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5 years

My mum got them plastic titties done. She was breastfeeding my little brother and the silicone burst, blew his face off; he's dead. Now her titty is reconstructed with the skin of his face. She got a baby face on her tit, Minister. What is the government gonna do about that?

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5 years

That pretentious guy who insists on using chopsticks in the Chinese restaurant but never beats his wife in the Italian one.

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6 years

Every book you buy is just going to be another painful ten seconds for the family member who has to pile them into a cardboard box to take to the charity shop when you prematurely die

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2 years

Does the Butcher think of the pig he slaughtered in the afternoon when he holds his wife at night? Worse — does he think of his wife when he holds the pig?

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5 years

In a sense, the rapist is the greater victim. He himself is raped by his desires; his desires to rape.

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4 years

You have not ignored it. In fact, you have made a video.

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3 years

I cannot think of a single dignified job for the university educated man.

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2 years

Your diet of reading for good mental health: books from two centuries ago or more, and the weekly blogs of social and economic failures.

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3 years

"We have been bred, quite simply, for pleasure. We are soft and useless, but we are at least exempt from the sort of suffering that real people experience." On being vulgar middle class:

On Being Vulgar Middle Class

Jealousy, poverty and inheritance money

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3 years

You cannot fire a man for repeating the status quo ideology in an ironic voice.

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2 years

How many marriages has alcohol saved? The benignly drunk husband, and the wife who finds his inebriation funny.

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5 years

STOP NORMALISING REALITY STOP NORMALISING REALITY STOP NORMALISING REALITY

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4 years

Under luxury socialism they will refer to offices as "pleasure domes," data as "pleasure," and spreadsheets as "the pleasure grid," and your job will be to work in a pleasure dome entering pleasure into the pleasure grid.

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4 years

A lot of people read Hegel because it's much better for the mind to think "I am a data entry clerk who reads philosophy" than "I am a data entry clerk that watches the television".

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4 years

There is an apparent relation between bodybuilding and paganism.

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4 years

The car is a wheelchair for a disability that we invented.

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3 years

School is where children are forced to listen to middling university graduates talk about their chosen degree.

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4 years

Medieval scribes made the best of the damaged parchment they worked with, transforming them into doodles.

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5 years

Many males will flash money in order to signal value to local females, but this is a wholly unnecessary proxy and diminishes the same effect that might be achieved by simply carrying meat and bread into the club.

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2 years

Human Resources have discovered that you do not in fact consider this your vocation, and that you are actually a beast motivated only by pleasure. You are fired.

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1 year

Don Quijote is the story of a man who pretends to be mentally ill to get out of work.

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1 year

You are not one of the beautiful people who get to delicate their lives to art; you are one of the pudding-faced people who walk around supermarkets.

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3 years

It is difficult to describe the contempt I hold for my followers, but I will try anyway: Sometimes, as I look down upon you from my balcony, I worry that one of you will see me. Then I am reminded that pigs cannot look up.

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Catalonia is such a pathetic entity.

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4 years

Just imagine: Hell is even worse than this.

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2 years

I have an unhealthy obsession with the sexual habits of others, and a pathological desire to control them, says my dentist.

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2 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg is a former hedge fund manager, studied "History" rather than Classics at university, and has written nothing beyond a few political pamphlets. His reputation as as "old world" Tory is a total fiction. He is a roleplaying member of the middle class, a modern man.

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5 years

All good literature is an adventure book for boys. Don Quijote is an adventure book for boys. The Faerie Queene is an adventure book for boys. The Canterbury Tales is an adventure book for boys.

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5 months

Too many people consider suicide before they even consider leaving their employment as a minor civil servant.

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3 years

I've read Freud. The problem with many people is that they are unable to read someone and then conclude that they are wrong, because they are unable to accept that they have invested time into something fruitless.

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3 years

ppl who never read freud: freud was wrong

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2 years

Modern Spain as an unintended satire of modernity in general.

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1 year

A man must spend thirty years working as an accountant, living in misery, to be able to say at the end: "I wish I had done what had made me happy." This first step, just as it closes off the possibility of its realisation, is imperative to understanding how to be happy in youth.

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2 years

English is a serious language, and can only affect a sort of absurdity in the multitude of deliberately "silly" literary genres: Caroll, Lear, etc. But Spanish is a legitimately silly language, and those that speak it (and no other) are blessed to never say anything serious.

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3 years

In the future, conservatives will be in favour of last Monday, and reactionaries will stand for two weeks ago.

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3 years

The fact that this person, a self-styled Edwardian gentleman and cultured intellectual, is stupid enough to think Opera an "ancient art," proves that education is not what it used to be, making his fetishizing of a past which he is too idiot to conceive, entirely vindicated.

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3 years

I will never understand why people take photographs of famous landmarks while on holiday. Whatever it is, it has been photographed hundreds of times before by photographers with better equipment and far more talent than you, and their images are freely available on the internet.

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7 years

Kantbot fan expo was wild this year

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1 month

It is not possible to write a novel from a suburb.

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4 years

I don't want to work; I want to be Spanish.

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1 year

You are living a life which is aligned neither with the ethical nor with your own selfish aesthetic pleasure.

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3 years

A medieval serf on his deathbed would have hallucinated those repetitive acts of which his daily life consisted: planting the seed, harvesting the wheat, looking at those stained glass windows of the village church. In your final moments you will hallucinate spreadsheets.

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4 years

You belong in a cage.

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American is not a nationality but a mental illness.

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3 years

French is written in cursive, and English in an imperfect cursive. German is written in block capitals. Japanese is written in red paint on large wooden doors. Spanish, and to some extent Portuguese, are not written at all.

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I do not understand why others are not interested in the same boring things as I am.

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5 years

My theory: a man who just wanted to practice his English.

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I sold my copy of Peter Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynicism and I said (out loud) "The next time I read this, I shall read it in German" and my father weeped and said "I wish you had become an electrician"

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2 years

To create a country with virtually no public transport, and then to build houses miles away from pubs while banning drunk driving: that is entrapment.

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2 years

You have wasted your life, and so have I.

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3 years

Continually embarrassed by this Catholic self-obsession, this insistence on one's own esotericism, this childish desire to show how different and special one is, this Pride.

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not a want, but a need

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4 years

You will work for twenty years in an office for your child's liberal education, and it will grow to hate you as a weak man who tolerated ugliness.

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4 years

Notice what happens to countries when they ban smoking indoors.

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4 years

This is true. The mind is not as interesting nor as complex as Freud et al would have you think it. It responds well to simple reconditioning of thought patterns. People don't like to hear that.

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A little philosophy inclines a man's mind to atheism; a little more depth in philosophy will bring him to God. Keep going and he'll be an anti-natalist before long. Next Tuesday he's Kierkegaardian. A fortnight later, in ISIS

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3 years

Teaching was once a profession in which unsuccessful adults would speak about their academic interests to captive children. Things are very different nowadays: Teachers have no academic interests.

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4 years

You have not experienced an "existential crisis" but rather the realisation that neither you nor anyone of your generation are capable of experiencing anything like one; that the conditions in which existential crisis and religious visions occur no longer exist, and will never.

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Men who theorise themselves into womanhood.

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4 years

Since I started believing in God I haven't known a moment of peace.

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4 years

I can't imagine that "imposter syndrome" – though a ridiculous term, a self-diagnosis for the genuinely mediocre – could be anything but a joy. What is more thrilling than 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵?

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3 years

If we on the Right cared for each other, and looked after each other, and loved one another, we would be no better than those on the Left.

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4 years

I was reading poetry, drinking wine and making love at the same time — like the Greeks — so I was unable to read the message in the work group, Sir.

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4 years

The uninteresting man's idea of interesting people.

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3 years

"Let the bodybuilders remain in the gymnasium and the academics in the library." On the Perversity of the Bodybuilding Movement

On the Perversity of the Bodybuilding Movement

"Let the bodybuilders remain in the gymnasium and the academics in the library."

williamguppy.substack.com

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6 years

I am fostering an army of young effeminate men who will crumble at the first obstacle and be forgotten forever

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I prefer older women because they share my natural conservative instincts. The older the better. My ideal woman died in the 1930s.

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Even quite a long time after the death of a friend one sees, with great frequency, their personality flash briefly in unknown persons, as if their spirit were trying to return through another's flesh.

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The Left insists that you study it profoundly before making a criticism (quibbling over Peterson's definitions of post-modernism) because all of its literature is hypnotism and one cannot read it without getting sucked in. I say it is better to criticise from a place of ignorance

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