August 23, 2009 07:30 PM
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Must be heard to be believed: this stud muffin's voicemails to a woman he hit on in a bar, is making the viral rounds quickly. After the second voicemail from "Dimitri the Stud," the woman in question gave it to her local radio station. Hilarity (and outrage) ensued. Found at one of my favorite literary blogs, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.
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He lost me at "hello".
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
the one with issues and is DERANGED is the caller.
hope she did not call back...the guy is a loser.
What was amazing was how he had worked himself up to defensive accusations about "why she wasn't calling him" and listing all her flaws, like it was two years into a relationship that was now angrily breaking up. Rather than calling someone who he had basically not even met, except for cruising quickly in a bar.
I shudder to imagine what he'd be like after it was two years in, and pray that no woman is foolish enough to find out.
What was amazing was how he had worked himself up to defensive accusations about "why she wasn't calling him" and listing all her flaws, like it was two years into a relationship that was now angrily breaking up.
I've gotten this reaction from men *in* bars.
Guy walks up to me and starts hitting on me. I give him several politely vague "I'm here with someone/I'm in a relationship" responses which he responds to not by taking the hint and walking away by becoming more aggressive.
I finally point blank tell him as politely as I can that I'm not interested and to please leave me alone.
Guy flips his shit and starts cursing at me, calling me a "frigid, ugly bitch" who should be grateful he was interested. Even though a couple minutes earlier he was trying desperately to get into my pants.
Took about 5 minutes, tops.
If you think this is a freakish or rare case, you're not paying attention.
DRST
end up shooting women at a gym...
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
further. Apparently there is a serious problem with him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N._Sears
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
= unemployed.
Straight people are weird.
They shouldn't be allowed to mingle or get married.
/snark (just in case)
Pro-creation can be a dangerous thing.
Asswipe spammer.
Coffee is for closers!!!
Man, Dimitri and Olga?
Behind the iron curtain of love...
+1 for the GGGR ref
"Ooooh Dimitri, tell me once again about how there's nothing wrong with you like there is with almost all other men because twice wasn't enough."
Generally speaking I don't trust anyone making over 150K a year.
Fuck, she didn't call you. Get a clue.
"They pour syrup on shit and tell us it's hotcakes." Meteor Blades
Not new, but new to you.
still funny as hell.
I think he lost his windex.
Excellent article about varieties of universal health care programs in the advanced nations.
All the more remarkable in that it appeared in the Washington Post.
From Washington Post by way of Common Dreams:
Socialized Medicine? Not Quite
More at link.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
"As a matter of fact, I'm one of the few men in this city with nothing wrong with me."
LOL
Wow that is truly amazing. The Ego knows no bounds.
Run for your lives, ladies!
The comments at the voicemail link are hilarious. Thanks, bluegal!
Dmitri's long distance romance didn't work out because she didn't leave a forwarding address but did leave a restraining order.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
..not to have called him back. Because he's so frickin' perfect! How arrogant is that?
OK, that was a rhetorical question -- he's arrogant enough that it qualifies as a mental health issue (diagnosis: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.)
OTOH, if she had called him back it would probably have ENDED UP LIKE THIS.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
I love the scene where he's in the bathtub with her toothbrush! LOL!
this circled the nerd spam lists a couple of years ago :p
so I figured some other folks here at C&L might not have heard it.
Too funny!
but on the nerd lists it was offered as dating advice.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
That the rest of us (who don't frequent the nerd sites) are somehow less cool than those of you who do?
Whatevah, dude....
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
i found this terribly sad and tragic. the subtext here is a man who has no job, has lost his girlfriend and is desperately trying to use cheap psychological tricks that he read in a some dating book to pick up women. very very sad.
but an oldie. I first heard this one a couple of years ago.
On behalf of all the guys, let me say, no let me scream: WE'RE NOT ALL LIKE THIS!
Thank you.
NOBODY 2012
:)
than the conversation that got you the phone number. EVER.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Shouldn't you be taking your mother in for her chemo appointment or taking your psychiatric medication instead of playing games?!?!??!!?
He tried e-harmony but they kept trying to hook him up with Ann Coulter.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
...on SO many levels. Sounds like a dysfunctional teenager pretending to be (his idea of) a famous actor playing a bigshot Wallstreet CEO.
Republicans don't want to pass real healthcare reform – so Democrats should push the button on the 'nuclear option'
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
and throwing in Conrad and Liberman this weekend, their is no other choice. All of them are repeating the lies and aren't even acknowledging that they have been debunked. Fuck em, reconciliation is the only choice.
It's time for govt. to work for the people, not insurance companies and their bribed politicians.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
don't use the term "nuclear option." That is their term andd it shouldn't be used for reconciliation.
the DLC / DSCC / DCCC will not sabotage the bill in two ways:
1) no general public option of any form, just privatized bullshit like Medicare part D. no one with a gubmint plan is allowed to sue.
2) mandated insurance (works so well in Mass.) for all over 18 years of age with stiff penalties. they must also make sure there is a wide gap to penalize the most people that they can. prison terms for unpaid fines. debtors prisons will be part of the budget.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I've read the Mass. plan isn't working.
and that's why it's the closest thing to what we will get. It's bankrupting the state and forcing fines of $1000 on people making over $15k/year, (I don't know the cutoff).
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Some stuff you can't make up!
Massachusetts achieved its high coverage rates by mandating in its landmark law that almost every resident have health insurance, and that all but the smallest businesses make some contribution toward their employees’ costs. Those who do not enroll but are deemed able to afford insurance can be fined up to $1,068 in the 2009 tax year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/health/poli...
But I was just reading that San Francisco's does.
like it to work, there has to be almost full employment and then it will only work if everyone is getting more than just a living wage.
didn't say minimum wage.
then thay can say it doesn't work, then kill it and blame it on Obama.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Boy!!!!I hate the DLC It's the PUKIES in drag.
(Response to ctalk up above).
Conyers/Weiner H.R. 676.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Oh man, this guy is really a piece of work.
His overblown sense of importance indicates he is a Neo-Con Republican.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
However, the employer-based system has two major weaknesses. First, and most obviously, it means keeping your health insurance is dependent on keeping your job. That means that your health is only insured to the extent that your job is insured -- and your job isn't insured. If you lose your job, or get a divorce from the spouse whose employer covers you, you have to find a new employer who offers a health plan, or you will be stuck in the individual market. Alternatively, if you get sick, you may be stuck in your job, no matter how much you may want or need to leave it.
Second, employers are dropping their health plans; the percentage of people covered through an employer has dropped from 64 percent in 2000 to 59 percent in 2007, and that decline is likely to accelerate. Why? Because, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, the average annual premium for family coverage has already increased from $5,791 in 1999 to $12,680 in 2008 -- a 9 percent annual increase -- and a study published in Health Affairs forecasts that national health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 6.7 percent until 2017. Arithmetically, with each year that passes, it becomes harder for companies to keep their health plans without reducing benefits, reducing wages or increasing employee contributions to health plans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
history. That directly effects the economy. What is it that you hourly wage earners and salaried employees don't get? Lower wages, higher insurance premiums equal less disposable income and the economy goes into the dirt. You and your families suffer more just because you want to accept the status quo.
wages have been stagnate partially due to health care premium costs. like you said ron. health care premium/ins. is part of a person's wage. the rise in health care premiums does not allow for wage increase. with consumerism down business aren't hiring but laying off. consequently, health care insurance becomes less of a priority. i think we agree amongst other factors this is the blowback/result of NAFTA in my opinion. bringing down health care ins. cost will make us competitive. the notion that president obama is doing this on a whim is ridiculous. this is economic necessity.
Her name is Tracy and she told me the other day that when the Mass Plan started she had to sign up for insurance or face the penalty.
She told the Mass Plan folks her yearly salary (based on federal tax returns) and they estimated which plans she would qualify for. Then she shopped around and found what she thought was the best plan for the money.
Tracy is about 50 years old and her premium is about $100/wk. out of her check. Her deductible/year is $5000!
She said to me, "This is like not having insurance at all! And if something really bad happens to me, like a heart attack or car accident, how the hell is a person like me supposed to come up with $5000?!"
I've spent a good part of the past 6 weeks chatting it up with the locals here in The Berkshires and I'm telling you, the average Joe and Jane are NOT happy with the Mass Plan. Here's a website for all of you to check out:
www.masshealthlawtruth.org
If the U.S. ends up with a national "Mass Plan" there are going to be A LOT of unhappy Americans.
We are being railroaded by the corporately controlled White House and Congress:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/lwe...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/21/wines-malbec...
but I am a Californian and I will never advocate drinking a wine made anywhere else.
i live in tahoe a couple hours drive to napa.
he appears to be alone in that.
Some stuff you can't make up!
does your scant smell like roses or something? Just asking.
He's seeing a whole team of Psychiatrists, isn't he?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
what heinous crime have I committed?
[None. Something in one of the URLs tripped the filter-Sitewmonitor]
Some stuff you can't make up!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/health/poli...
Malaysia almost caned one of its citizens for drinking beer. (They're still considering whipping her, however.) Hottest oceans ever? Mexico's worst drought in decades. Britain denies alleged under-the-table deals involved in the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Vets aren't getting paid on time, but the VA administrators are still getting bonuses. Bill Calley waits 40 years to absolve himself of his war crimes. We rank at least 31st in life expectancy. Rove visits Novak's funeral, for some reason. Looks like we've been successful in weaning kids off the illegal drugs and on to the legal ones. "Free market" health care is making social security more expensive. And private insurers are horrible at competing, for some reason. Ensign's popularity is waning. In spite of what the White House wanted, lawyers for detainees were granted the right to question their defendants and thus build a case against detainment.
to teach other muslims a lesson
still dont understand how any liberal can support these repressive regimes
we wouldnt stand for it here
wan't to be cained by a woman or maybe they just want to be diapered and spanked. Vitter, are you paying attention?
but guys like this get laid...and become president
makes life much easier to have absolutely no self awareness
Although I suspect Bar put something in Laura's gin to make sure there'd be spawn... .
.... this is why.
prank phone call gone bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGm0aFtjpC0
It suggests we need to look back at that torture thing.
Does this guy have a long form birth certificate????
This might either be a very elaborate hoax, or a form of viral marketing for a feature film Dimitri claims is being produced by the makers of BORAT and BRUNO. If you go to his so-far-over-the-top website:
http://dimitrithelover.com/
you'll get a better sense of this stunt. AND...here's a link to the flier he supposedly hands out to women who outright turn him down, telling the women that they're clearly lesbian, and he has a medical degree, so it's a diagnosis, and not an insult.
http://pics.livejournal.com/suspiciouslump/pi...
I suspect this is viral marketing for an upcoming "borat" style film.
Sounds like dimitri is stuck on himself. LOL
Imma gonna have to be commenting less often now, because I think my employers are lookin at me and my job as a way to save money.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I've got my fingers crossed for you.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Hang in there.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Hang in there.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Tapadh leat.
I wonder if anyone said what y'all did to Barzan Ibrahim?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
going into a gym somewhere and mowing some women down
unfortunately
probably
Hula dancers?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Rep. Anthony Weiner will be on Morning Joe in a couple of minutes. This is the guy who verbally smacked Joe down last week.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
One has balls, the other does not...
I'll give everyone a hint, the one that doesn't have balls is the one that pimps Starbucks every hour on the hour...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Majority of ‘Energy Citizens’ rallies organized by oil-industry lobbyists - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-21-energ...
Most of the folks organizing "Energy Citizens" rallies against climate legislation all around the country also happen to be registered lobbyists for the oil industry.
Myself, two friends and a liberal blogger (Creative Loafing) showed up to the Atlanta 'event' and it was cancelled...apparently Sean Hackity's 'freedom concert' was just too much moron competition... Answering the question...what if the right wingnuts put on an Astroturf anti-climate bill 'protest' and only 4 counterprotesters showed up...
Coal industry won't give up easily on using atmosphere as a dumping ground - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-gre...
Within the coal lobby itself, the biggest player is a multi-million dollar powerhouse called the "American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" (ACCCE), an organisation receiving big bucks from major coal companies like Peabody Energy. A glance at ACCCE's website and its slick advertising would have you believe that the US can continue to burn "clean" green coal while at the same time deal with the issue of climate change.
Its website asks: "can we use coal and meet the commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in response to climate change concerns? In a word — yes!" The reality is that the answer is actually an emphatic "no." Coal continues to be the largest contributor to climate change in the world, and emits around 1.7 times more carbon per unit of energy when burned than natural gas and 1.25 times as much as oil.
'Clean Coal is an oxymoron' - Dennis Kucinich
Southern Governors Warned About Impacts of Climate Change - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/south...
Won't do any good...these GOP schmucks will just 'pray' that it goes away or ask the 'invisible hand' to do something about it....either way...useless imbeciles...
Native Americans to Join London Climate Camp Protest over Tar Sands - http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/...
NY Daily News. Expensive without the results: Health care in the U.S. costs the most, not the best in the world - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/08/23/20...
One instance where...'you get what you pay for' is absolutely 100% untrue....
Private Insurance Companies to Make Out Like Bandits Under So-Called "Healthcare Reform." -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9268
In a stunninng revelation in the LA Times today, it appears that that the for-profit health insurance companies are poised to make out like bandits under the so-called "health reform" bills being considered by Congress, particularly if they succeed in defeating the "government option" in the Senate.
The LA Times article is a must read because it shows that the "change" being supported by the WH is going to make the for-profit companies fatter and wealthier at the expense of a healthcare system bloated by the excessive administrative, profits, and grossly high salaries of the health insurance and drug companies.
Must Read - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washi...
As BuzzFlash has observed, "The health of the individual insures the health of the American nation."
It is tragic for us that President Obama doesn't have the courage of his promises to ensure such a goal.
Who's Tom Daschle, 'Architect' of Health Reform Working For? - http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item...
Now, Senate leaders and President Obama are moving towards that plan and away from the public-option, to the dismay of the left. Daschle is a highly paid adviser to health care industry clients of a law and lobbying firm, though he is not a registered lobbyist himself. Critics say his advisory role to the White House is inappropriate, due to his lobbying ties.
But Obama and Daschle met as recently as Friday, and Daschle was introduced at one event as "the architect of President Obama's health care plan." Daschle says he favors a government-run insurance plan, but doesn't think it could pass, and that his support for a non-profit cooperative model has nothing to do with the interests of his industry clients.
I have a feeling quite a few Obama 08/Obama-Biden bumper stickers will be coming off of vehicles in the next 2 months....and his approval ratings will fall to Bushevik levels soon...
Screwing the Self Employed Out of Health Insurance - http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/23407
If you work for yourself, you are literally screwed out of large sums of money every year for health insurance. There are few differences in cost based on region or state regulation. Ultimately, plans in Salt Lake City and Boston cost the same, about $17,000 a year (premiums plus deductibles).
Despite the costs, many self employed are grateful to just have insurance since without it a major acute or chronic illness can bankrupt a family and the absence of care can be fatal.
Bob Herbert on the Obama Roll of the Dice with Expectations of Change - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/opinion/22h...
Maybe they’re wrong. Maybe the economy really is turning around. Maybe Mr. Obama is working on a bipartisan deal that will take us a few small steps down the road to real health care reform.
It’s possible that we’ve been without mature leadership for so long that it’s difficult to recognize it when we see it. Mr. Obama has proved the naysayers wrong time and again. But if it turns out that this time he’s wrong, hold onto your hats. Because right now there is no Plan B.
Richard Power: The Second Coming of the Liberal Jesus: Yes to Universal Health Care & Green Power - http://words-of-power.blogspot.com/2009/08/se...
David Sirota: Citizens Brandishing Guns at Political Events With the President is Political Intimidation and Implicitly Threatened Terrorism. - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies? by John Perkins - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?contex...
In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support.
And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras's minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits.
They were joined by a coalition of textile manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America.
I kept hearing people who claimed that it was a matter of record that Chiquita (United Fruit) and the CIA had toppled Guatemala's democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and that International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had brought down Chile's Salvador Allende in 1973.
These people were certain that Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya's.
Obama to health care critics: end `phony claims.' Barack, they won't stop until you start punching back. They've been doing this for 40 years. The only thing that stops them is a hard right to the jaw.
- http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Those town hall protesters, drunk on childish antics. P.M. Carpenter Exclusively on BuzzFlash for Saturday, August 22. At its core, the right just can't stand someone else being in charge, which, of course, is the defining element of an authoritarian personality. If they haven't all the marbles and can't invent all the rules of the game, they throw hissy fits and pull childish stunts. Just don't serve them rum.
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/474
FACT CHECK: The Right-Wing Smear Campaign Against Mark Lloyd - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/22/mark-lloyd/
UK Guardian: "Take the Profit Motive Out of the News." BuzzFlash Has for Nearly 10 Years. Support It. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifam...
As it becomes abundantly clear that a corporate media system cannot withstand market pressures long enough to deliver the news our democracy requires, it's time to make an orderly transition to a public service model. The first step in this conversion is for government to implement sound public policies that restructure media along more democratic lines.
Its the only way to restore the '4th estate'....
Are We Proud of Ranking So Low on Healthcare Compared to Other Nations? - http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/8/21/...
Amenable mortality measures “deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care,” such as treatable cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
According to the Commonwealth Fund, the United States ranked last in comparison to 19 industrialized countries with a rate of 109.7 deaths per 100,000 in 2002–03. In the leading countries, mortality rates per 100,000 people were 64.8 in France, 71.2 in Japan, and 71.3 in Australia.
The origins of the Corporatocracy: The Obscure Case That Gave Corporations the Same Rights as Persons, Which Have Grown Into De Facto Control of Capitol Hill.
- http://www.ratical.org/corporations/SCvSPR188...
How Lyndon Johnson Would Have Passed Healthcare Reform: With an Iron Fist. - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-storie...
Paul Krugman on “This Week”: “The Argument Against the Public Option is Sheer Nonsense” - http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/23/paul-krugma...
Robert Reich: "Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us" - http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-g...
Myth of private health competition. 1 or 2 companies dominate most regions; public plan would save billions. - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Senator Chuck Assley Admits He Wasn't Telling the Truth About Non-Existent Death Panels and Proceeds to Compound His Idiocy - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/23/gras...
Frank Rich: "In last year’s campaign debates, Obama liked to cite his unlikely Senate friendship with Tom Coburn, of all people, as proof that he could work with his adversaries. If the president insists that enemies like this are his friends — and that the nuts they represent can be placated by reason — he will waste his opportunity to effect real change and have no one to blame but himself."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23r...
Illinois GOP forgets flag so they Pledge Allegiance to Gene, a man in a American flag t-shirt. What more can one say than we have a species of morons among us.
- http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/08/illino...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/08/21/the-chen...
http://politicalirony.com/2009/08/18/some-bac...
http://politicalirony.com/2009/08/19/if-you-c...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
For someone who claims to be Greek, he displays some of the most tritely American "I'm Number One!" attitudes I've ever heard.
i will be playing this for my 14 year old son as what not to do, ever.
As other posters have noted, this is most likely a viral marketing thing done for a parody of all those pickup and "how to deal with women" sites out there.
Some of those sites actually do pass on some good information to men about how to approach women.
It's funny/sad that a lot of women take this seriously, it speaks about how many lame guys are out there.
On the other hand, I can't help wondering how well most of the women posters who think Dimitri is a piece of work would react to a post with real life recordings of some of the craziness that women do with men.
Cuz some ladies do...
No gender has a franchise on cheesy clueless and revolting behavior towards the other gender. Women give as well as get in that area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N._Sears
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I was commenting more on the reaction from women here and on other sites.
My comments about how both genders mess with the other and engage in inappropriate, crazy making behavior don't really change, however.
I'm not defending this guy, whether it is a stunt or not.
I'm just saying that there is plenty of misunderstanding and bad behavior on both sides of the gender aisle.
Some of the behavior of certain men is blood-curdling, without a doubt.
Certain types of female behavior is pretty bad as well.
It may be a hoax, but I've known guys who use the same kinds of attitudes and lines when trying to pick somebody up. In a salesman-dominated culture where honest self-reflection is equated with "thinking negative" and "depression", this kind of behavior probably isn't that uncommon.
Reminds me of any given episode on "Wire Tap" on CBC.
http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/index.html
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If Dmitri is for real, remember his voice. You may hear it on a telemaketing call.
Divine Right of Kings (1600's); Divine Right of Corporations (2011)
I work in the military healthcare realm and we're trying to push online appointment scheduling. When I asked for some information for a point paper, I was informed that many junior Soldiers with families don't have internet access.
I had no idea.
I assumed everyone could afford at least dial-up service, if they are in the military. I guess that's not necessarily the case.
Granted, a lot of the problem boils down to poor management of finances, but for our younger and junior servicemembers, life is a little more difficult than it was for me when I joined in 1990.
The amount of predatory lenders, insurance hoaxes and internet scams have really taken their toll on our more vulnerable service members.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Now Olga, I'm not going to leave another message...if you don't call me by 3pm tomorrow then I'm not interested. This time I really-really-really-really mean it, umkay. I am a very intelligent guy, now I know that some people including my doctors and the Toronto authorities would have you believe otherwise...don't believe them...they are just jealous of my infinite intelligence. Now, when you call me back, if you should hear a woman screaming for help in the background, don't take it as a sign that I am a bad person..."
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