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The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Aaron » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 11:04:31

The unvarnished, real... bonified... honest to Joe, truth.

What is causing peak oil?

Women.

:)

(Shields up Mr. Spock... the Gynaloids are bound to attack)

And here's how it goes...

I need wheels to get laid. Ever since Mr. Ford & company made the car for the common man, it's required, if a man expects to attract the attentions of a woman.

No Bus... No trains... No mass transit... period.

No ride = No Girl

End of story.

And not just any car either. No furry Eco-Friendly mini-cars allowed. They demand Hummers & Broncos & Corvettes & such.

What has been for millions of years a successful breeding strategy, has been turned on it's ear by the powerful and committed fairer sex, into a tool which drives consumption.

My own sex drive compells me to obey... who can deny it?

So next time you're at the pumps whining about the price ladies, remember.... it's your fault.

:)
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby canis_lupus » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 11:30:10

wow

you just brought lucidity to my peak oil vision

i sit here stunned
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby MacG » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 11:32:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'T')he unvarnished, real... bonified... honest to Joe, truth.

What is causing peak oil?

Women.


Hilarious, but I think that you actually might have a point.

Breeding strategies differ between the genders. Women have a limited amount of eggs to get going during her lifetime, while men have virtually unlimited numbers of sperms.

As discovered by Charles "Big Chuck" Darwin, those who are most successful are the ones who pass their genes down the generations. Female strategies to choose sperm donors and partners will just simply be there - those who choosed unwisely did not pass their genes on. On the other hand, the most successful male strategy is to just spread as much around as possible (and if possible, hinder other males from doing the same with arguments about "moral" and "responsibility" and such).

This is just the way it is, nothing to do anything about. You see it among animals also. Males fight with eachother, females choose the winner, or the one with the most affluent horns or feathers and such.

I imagine it would work well under stone-age conditions - the best hunter who bring home the most game is really worth something.

These principles for "female choice" dont have any sense for absolute proportions though, only relative proportions - the important thing is not if we get by in comfort, the important thing is that we are above the average in the tribe.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby deafskeptic » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 11:46:18

Here's some interesting recent evolutionary biologists discoveries regarding female behavior:

http://www.alternet.org/story/13648/
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/200 ... ogamy.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ating.html

It seems that human behavior is a lot more variable than I orginally thought even though this is mostly about females of other species. It appears to me that that this behavior applies mainly to females in tribal socities with high male mortality rates. While Charles Darwian was a brillant scientist, you do have to watch out for cutural bias affecting your own views.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby dinopello » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 11:55:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'I') need wheels to get laid.


You might try learning to play an instrument, which is an alternative way to a lay.

Or back to transportation, ride a horse - women love it.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby rockdoc123 » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 12:38:06

Nope....can't see that this is correct otherwise the Dukes of Hazard types would have taken over the gene pool by now and......hey, hold on, maybe that explains Specop!!

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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Aaron » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 12:39:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'I') need wheels to get laid.


You might try learning to play an instrument, which is an alternative way to a lay.

Or back to transportation, ride a horse - women love it.


I do actually... several.

(instruments not horses)

And I'm a native Texan... so I ride.

But ever tried to polygrip 3rd base on horseback?

I don't think so.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Aaron » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 12:43:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', 'N')ope....can't see that this is correct otherwise the Dukes of Hazard types would have taken over the gene pool by now and......hey, hold on, maybe that explains Specop!!

:shock: :razz:


A couple episodes of Max-X should let you know who has inherited the earth.

I am certain of only 2 things... the infinite nature of the Universe & the stupidity of man... & I'm not really sure about the first one.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby dinopello » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 12:54:05

I may have been off base with the horses. Come to think of it, most the women you meet around horses are more into the horses than men anyway. But, come on now, a musician that can't get laid ? There's something else going on there. Even singers get laid.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby MonteQuest » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 13:15:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', ' ')As discovered by Charles "Big Chuck" Darwin, those who are most successful are the ones who pass their genes down the generations. Female strategies to choose sperm donors and partners will just simply be there - those who choosed unwisely did not pass their genes on. On the other hand, the most successful male strategy is to just spread as much around as possible (and if possible, hinder other males from doing the same with arguments about "moral" and "responsibility" and such).

This is just the way it is, nothing to do anything about. You see it among animals also. Males fight with eachother, females choose the winner, or the one with the most affluent horns or feathers and such.


What you describe is the "struggle for survival". Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" has nothing to do with choice. It is about random genetic mutation. If you are born with mutated genes that tend to promote your survival and reproduction, then they will be passed on.

Being "successful" has nothing to do with choice, it is a random possibility that causes evolution.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby killJOY » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 13:26:30

Aaron, this fag calls you on your hoax.


You straight guys are the ones who want the wheels, and you know it!

You project your needs onto the "bitches," blaming them for making you do what you've always wanted to do.

"Those damn women. If it weren't for their vaginal wiles, we straight guys would all be sensitive, non-materialistic types." :lol:
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby maya » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 13:50:58

ahem

a female voice is desperately needed on this thread.

darwin got half of it, survival of the fittest. sexual selection is the other (ignored) half. women are attracted to who can tell the best story, write the prettiest poem or siing the the most compelling song. NOT who can drag the biggest stick, fight the bloodiest fight, or drive the biggest car. matt savinar wrote a while back women will be looking for who is the best survivalist. wrong. women will look for who she can confide in on dark nights. the geeky software developer has equal chance to the beefy whatever dude. its all about communication.

just some thoughts from an xx :)
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby NeoPeasant » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 14:10:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('maya', ' ')women will look for who she can confide in on dark nights.


So she can confide in her geeky software developer friend about the difficulties she has had in all the troubled, but hot sexual relationships she has had with the guys who can drag the biggest stick, fight the bloodiest fight, or drive the biggest car.
But no touching, that would mess up the "speciai friendship"
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby lateStarter » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 14:38:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'T')he unvarnished, real... bonified... honest to Joe, truth.

What is causing peak oil?

Women.

:)

(Shields up Mr. Spock... the Gynaloids are bound to attack)

And here's how it goes...

I need wheels to get laid. Ever since Mr. Ford & company made the car for the common man, it's required, if a man expects to attract the attentions of a woman.

No Bus... No trains... No mass transit... period.

No ride = No Girl

End of story.

And not just any car either. No furry Eco-Friendly mini-cars allowed. They demand Hummers & Broncos & Corvettes & such.

What has been for millions of years a successful breeding strategy, has been turned on it's ear by the powerful and committed fairer sex, into a tool which drives consumption.

My own sex drive compells me to obey... who can deny it?

So next time you're at the pumps whining about the price ladies, remember.... it's your fault.

:)


I guess what you are saying is true if you are willing to accept the fact that 'lust in the US' caused PO!!! Now, everyone, everywhere wants a car: probably as you allude to, to pick up chicks..

Actually, it just boils down to the 'promoted' desire/need for individual means of transportation. Despite all the readily available means of public tranport in Warsaw, I see more and more single occupant cars. At the stoplights, you can see them switching out their CD's. I saw an add recently, that suggested that public transportation stinks (literally) and that you really 'deserve' much better. To be fair, it does stink sometimes.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Wildwell » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 14:49:51

Aaron has got a point.

It is noticeable that if you have a nice car, that’s not a shopping trolley, but a large nice car you get more attention. In fact, I would say it’s blatant, so much so that having had a nice car or two - then unexpectedly getting the attention of, shall we say, Ladies I didn’t expect to says it all.

But it’s not just cars is it? Ladies are, by and large, born to shop. Not for any particular reason you understand, they enjoy the process of consumerism, like a mother hen feathering her nest. You might have some really important information to impart, but she’s staring into space, not because of the shock of the ramifications, but the fact she’s just got that new pair of shoes.

In fact, just the other day, I was talking to ‘her indoors’ about some mind blowing information I had on global warming, only to be interrupted half way through to be told ‘There’s some really nice fawn table mats at the farm shop up the road’.

The key of course is to have a nice car, but use mass transit to prove how ‘social’ and caring about the environment you are. No, scrub that, say you're going to the bus station to sort the local yobs, yep that’ll work.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Raxozanne » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 15:05:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '
')What you describe is the "struggle for survival". Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" has nothing to do with choice. It is about random genetic mutation. If you are born with mutated genes that tend to promote your survival and reproduction, then they will be passed on.

Being "successful" has nothing to do with choice, it is a random possibility that causes evolution.


Haven't some behaviours (e.g: incest avoidance, kin altruism) been promoted over time as their enactors gained a fitness advantage. Isn't this sort of thing called evolutionary psychology?
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby julianj » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 15:43:33

Aaron's formulation is incorrect.

It should read:

No ride=no girl=no ride.

:)
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Pops » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 16:10:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('maya', 'a')hem
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just some thoughts from an xx :)


Maya, takes a lot to get you out of the woodwork! :)

But I think I must disagree with your generality and pose one of my own.

In my limited experience, I’ve noted that knuckle dragging (and/or drag racing) is indeed somewhat of an aphrodisiac to younger maidens – at least those of the certain socio-economic class of which I am familiar.

I suppose the limited experience of this particular group of young women to modern economic reality can’t overwhelm their more basic instinct, which favors the more primitive allure of physical prowess.

Not surprisingly, after a couple of errands to the store that Knuckle-Dragger is sent on to pick up the inevitable bag of Huggies turns into a detour to the drag strip (and the likewise inevitable loss at Pink-Slip-Showdown) our now wiser young mother decides that Geeky Software Developers (though a drag) not only have a better chance at a steady income but are much more likely to make it home with the Huggies than the drag-racers.

Just my observations from both ends of the Drag spectrum.

And now for a little musical interlude"

Well I ain't first class
But I ain't white trash
I'm wild and a little crazy too
Some girls don't like boys like me
Aww but some girls do

I yelled and asked if you would like a ride
When we pulled out of your yard I balled a tire
You was laughing at me, I was doing James Dean
You was the prettiest girl I'd ever seen
When you rolled your eyes and twirled my pink fur dice

Well I ain't first class
But I ain't white trash
I'm wild and a little crazy too
Some girls don't like boys like me
Aww but some girls do


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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby dinopello » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 16:18:53

Killjoy is right though, and drag racing is a good case in point. We don't race to attract women, we race because of the desire to compete and crush. The fact that (some) women get turned on is gravy. Music works even better though - just look at Ric Ocasek for pete's sake.
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Re: The Cause of Peak Oil

Postby Aaron » Fri 02 Jun 2006, 16:32:07

I bet if we took a poll of the general population, the percentage of women who would date a man without a car would be very small.

It's like some awkward habit that used to work for you when you were younger, that's now an uncomfortable & even embarrassing left-over.

Our adolescence as a species I guess.

OMG!!!!!!

It's Peak SEX!!!
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