Forty Four Days Left

[MGTOWmonkey aka No More Fucks To GiveParticipant 6635]

Built a home gym and getting back in shape to keep my mental intact. Starting to focus on more reading to ease my mind. Watching YouTube channels on meditation. Cutting down my hours at work because MY time is to be taken seriously for ME. Cutting cancerous people out of my life including toxic family members.

Never lose sight of what brought you here.

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Kolaxis wrote:

I’ve lost 20 lbs. and will continue to focus on weight loss. Cooking healthier for myself has been the biggest part of that process. Also, continuing to work on new IT certifications. Better certs means better pay and more exciting work.

👍👍
Congrats pall

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

OldBill wrote:

We used to get dried blood from Agway to scare away “nibblers”. You’d sprinkle it around the borders of the garden and the odor would scare them off. What with rain and dew, you’d needed to reestablish the border every so often.

Agway is a chain of agricultural and feed stores in the US. They’re one step up from a “garden center” of nursery with more serious products. The UK should have something like it.

Cheers man I’ll look into it.

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

Howdy Bill

It has rained a lot more than usual here in Ohio so I haven’t been able to get out every weekend, but pretty much every other weekend I’ve been either hiking/camping/biking. Hopefully the rain will slow in September and I’ll be able to do more hiking/camping.

Going to the beach next week by myself, can’t wait.

Diet is always improving, always finding new things to make for myself. Made some chicken salad this week, nothing special, but always good during the summer months.

Still working out 4-5 times per week. Cardio, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, toe-lifts. Started doing Spring Push-Ups and lateral planks a month or two ago to strengthen my upper body some more.

Became an uncle back in March, my brother and sister in law have one on the way.

Saving $$ like it’s going out of style, never know when you’re going to need it.

@DYD, you need to identify what is eating the plants in order to have an effective strategy to get rid of them. I know Hostas, and Rose bushes do get little bugs that eat holes in the leaves. There are plenty of insecticides that will help, and more natural remedies are available too. Rabbits also destroy gardens. Haven’t been able to keep a garden since I sold my home in February, I actually miss it.

The more I keep doing things for myself, the less I need a woman around.

Good to see so many men taking control of their lives, and living how they want to.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

You don’t really get great summers where I live, just warmer rain than normal. When I lived in Kent they were awesome for sunshine, its the only thing I miss.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Samsquanch wrote:

@DYD, you need to identify what is eating the plants in order to have an effective strategy to get rid of them. I know Hostas, and Rose bushes do get little bugs that eat holes in the leaves. There are plenty of insecticides that will help, and more natural remedies are available too. Rabbits also destroy gardens. Haven’t been able to keep a garden since I sold my home in February, I actually miss it.

Shall i get some insecticide then? I dont know s~~~ about growing lol.

[IntellectualSaviorParticipant 1238]

OldBill wrote:

I’ve started reading Homer again. It’s been decades since I read the Iliad and Odyssey

I hope you’re enjoying it! I really love Greek Mythology.

Btw you’re really showing us that age is just a number! God bless!

When I have a pen in my hands, it's lethal.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

IntellectualSavior wrote:

I really love Greek Mythology.

Me too. I did Classics back at school, it was my favourite subject and my teacher Mr Paxton was really cool.

[OldBillParticipant]

Samsquanch wrote:

Still working out 4-5 times per week. Cardio, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, toe-lifts. Started doing Spring Push-Ups and lateral planks a month or two ago to strengthen my upper body some more.

Sounds great. I’m looking into body weight exercises just like that, stuff you can do anywhere and without equipment. Makes more sense with my travel schedule.

I’ve a book called “Convict Conditioning” on order.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[OldBillParticipant]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I did Classics back at school…

Always loved the Classics. Plutarch is on my bedside table, I finished Tacitus’ Annals just last week, and was looking at Xenophon’s Anabasis when I remembered how long it had been since I opened Homer.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

OldBill wrote:

Always loved the Classics. Plutarch is on my bedside table, I finished Tacitus’ Annals just last week, and was looking at Xenophon’s Anabasis when I remembered how long it had been since I opened Homer.

Sweet i should read that too.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

Read, read and read some more. 90% of it non fiction.

Still hitting two gyms, a little local one on the coast charges £20 monthly and is a stiff 3 miles and a good climb on a bicycle away. Then I have free use of a mate’s gym in town when I’m there. It’s steep round here, good for tabbing and mountain biking. Its been a good summer, but it can be bleak in the winter. But if it ain’t raining it ain’t training right?

[IRuleMeParticipant]

Everyone else be making changes, and I’m over here like “NFG! w00t w00t!”

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

Samsquanch wrote:

Rabbits also destroy gardens. Haven’t been able to keep a garden since I sold my home in February, I actually miss it.

Stupid rabbit kept exacting a toll on my strawberries. Oh, I was still getting a reasonable harvest, but one day I finally had enough, and I shot the little f~~~er with my pistol crossbow. (I have a rifle crossbow for larger problems, like raccoons or deer)

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

OldBill wrote:

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I did Classics back at school…

Always loved the Classics. Plutarch is on my bedside table, I finished Tacitus’ <em class=”d4pbbc-italic”>Annals just last week, and was looking at Xenophon’s Anabasis when I remembered how long it had been since I opened Homer.

Ah, Tacitus, “Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges”.

Not familiar with Xenophon, though.

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

OldBill wrote:

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I did Classics back at school…

Always loved the Classics. Plutarch is on my bedside table, I finished Tacitus’ <em class=”d4pbbc-italic”>Annals just last week, and was looking at Xenophon’s Anabasis when I remembered how long it had been since I opened Homer.

You probably know this already, being the learned man you are, but Anabasis is the inspiration for the book and film The Warriors. Its a fantastic homage to Xenophon, very cleverly reworked.

Anabasis is also thought to be the first written account of mercenary soldiers in history. I read it in Iraq as a PMC (some might say a modern day merc, although I don’t) without realising until I started that the Battle of Cunaxa took place close to my digs in Basra. One of my favourite stories, I hope Hollywood leave it alone, The Warriors was an ace homage in its own right.

[Blue SkiesParticipant 15665]

hiking, playing sports, playing the piano, and teaching myself songs, recently, i did Despacito….
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MGTOW is not a movement, it is a way of life.

[Blue SkiesParticipant 15665]

great topic @oldbill

44 days left prevents procrastination. it is a great way of thinking.

life is finite, try not to waste time.

MGTOW is not a movement, it is a way of life.

[DiogenesParticipant 373]

I already have a full plate at work and in my personal life for the fall.

But…every evening on the way to dropping my youngest son off at the boxing club we pass an old school pool hall. I know the place well. It’s the local hustler hangout. A few road ticks pass through occasionally, also.

I hung my cue stick up a few years ago but each evening as I drive past I get the urge – that urge – to take it along and go pluck a few pigeons in that place. The skills are still there (I think) but the visual acuity is not what it used to be.

Could make for an interesting couple of hours each evening waiting for boxing to end while summer winds down. (Something I never would be able to do, by the way, if still tethered to the old ball-and-chain.)

[OldBillParticipant]

Ranger One wrote:

Not familiar with Xenophon, though.

Put his Anabasis on your To-read list. You can find any number of good translations for free online.

As Cu explained, it’s about mercenaries. Xenophon was part of the “Ten Thousand”, a body a Greek mercenaries hired to fight for one side in the all too usual civil wars wracking the Persian Empire. The “Ten Thousand” are on the winning side of the only pitched battle they fight but the man who hired them is killed. Because a dead man can’t claim the throne, the civil war is over and the “Ten Thousand” find themselves very far from home in the middle of an empire whose peoples have every reason to hate them.

Their only course of action is to march ~1000km from the heart of what is now Iraq, up the Tigris, across deserts, through the mountains of Anatolia and Armenia, to reach a Greek colony city on the shores of the Black Sea where they can arrange for ships to get home.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

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