Don’t be fooled. By all measures that really count with Danica, it was a great year.... She mentioned mechanical issues, bad luck and the ever-popular “learning curve” that young drivers have to go through. But a lot of teams can bemoan bad luck, mechanical woes and a dog eating their spare tire. As for that nasty NASCAR learning curve, let’s see how some other big names handled it.Personally, I want to see Danica compete in MMA. Forget NASCAR, THAT would be real entertainment. And I don't see why the sports media seems to think people will be entertained by watching women compete ineptly with men. Wouldn't it be absolutely hilarious to see men playing on women's soccer, basketball, and volleyball teams?
Jimmie Johnson had eight races in the Busch series (now Nationwide) before moving up to the big circuit. He had three wins and 21 top-10s in his rookie season. He was 26.
Jeff Gordon raced two years in the Busch series. In his first Winston Cup year, he had seven top fives and 11 top-10s. He was 21.
Kyle Busch spent two years in Nationwide. In his rookie Sprint Cup year, he had nine top-fives and 11 top 10s. He was 21.
Joey Logano spent 15 minutes in Nationwide. He had three top fives and seven top 10s. He was 19.
Danica had 58 Nationwide races before this season, going a tidy 0 for 58. If you add Sprint, Nationwide and Indy races, she is now 1 for 221 (that winning coming in Japan).
Because equality!
And let's not forget the hypergamy. Who is even remotely surprised that Ms Patrick abandoned her husband for a fellow NASCAR driver? What a pity one can't get odds on that sort of thing. Women often lament that men are less than supportive of their careers and enthusiastic about their success, well, perhaps if there was not a reasonable expectation that their success would result with the end of the marriage or romantic relationship, they would understand this lack of enthusiasm.
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I read somewhere that a man-to-woman trans-whatever recently won the right to play golf against women. The lesbians are not going to be happy about that, but of course they can't complain too loudly about a fellow victim group. It's going to be fun to watch. Not that a lot of men are going to get their wangs cut off for the sake of playing against weaker competition, but it wouldn't take that many. Imagine just a half-dozen trannies with the obvious physiques of men completely dominating the LPGA. Then extrapolate that to women's soccer, the WNBA, etc. A few dozen could pretty much take over all the major (using that term loosely) women's sports that require more strength than beauty.
"Wouldn't it be absolutely hilarious to see men playing on women's soccer, basketball, and volleyball teams?"
You know, we might actually be seeing this in California this year.
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RE: JLT's comment
Hamsters, on your marks...
RE: JLT's comment
Hilarious. A woman unwittingly uses PUA tactics and finds they work quite well on delta/gamma males desperate for love.
OMG, too funny!
Look, it is far simpler than any of her conclusions, or even rycamor. A woman, any woman, who responds to more than one of your messages on OkCupid is a major IOI, no matter what she bangs out on the keyboard. The message to the men is "keep going, this is just a shit test. I'll stop being absurd in just a message or two, then it's on!"
Yeah, unfortunately that's how it is on these sites...
That article JLT linked to is great because it shows just how lopsided the online dating scene is, and what an ego-trip it must be for girls. 150 messages in 24 hours? Good grief, I didn't get that many messages from all my profiles added together in over 10 years! No wonder girls today have such inflated expectations.
However, if she thinks that's the worst profile ever, she's crazy. I've seen worse from women who were trying to do it well. She comes off as ditzy and a terrible speller, but with enough of a sense of humor that she's not taking it seriously, which is actually attractive. (I don't know who Aaron Carter is, so I don't know why that's bad.) The stuff about faking pregnancies just comes off as a dumb joke, and most guys probably ignore it as such.
If she really wanted to make an unattractive profile, she should have talked about wanting a father for her three Ritalin-taking kids, needing a rich man who can help her catch up on her debts, and how she's gained 80 pounds since that picture was taken.
Funny... at first I thought I'd wasted last evening in the company of a friend and seven other females whom I'd never met.
But it was eye-opening to see how utterly unhappy these "hotties" (some single, some married, all in the middle of slamming into if not post-wall, all of them) seemed. The one that seemed to be the least bitchy was the mediocre-looking one with five kids. Funny how that works, eh? I'd love to have a devoted mom of 5 over the vapid 7.5 with nice tits (highly-trussed and/or fake is my guess). Though if the mom of 5 had bothered to doll up, she may have been just as hot. There was a sense of ease and grace about her, it was actually sort of inspiring to see, especially considering the other harpies.
There was a date set-up being perpetrated too... with the girl drooling over how "hot" the guy's pic was. I should have pointed out how utterly shallow that was of her and what a disgrace it is that she's not looking for something "deeper". I wish I'd thought of that at the time. The reactions would have been amusing, at least.
I was quiet most of the night, though I poked fun at all of them at some point, I think. I actually still don't know why I was asked to be there. Dinner sucked but my Manhattan was excellent and the comedians were pretty funny at the club so it wasn't a total loss.
I cannot help but thinking... "most women are retarded... and sell their poon far too cheap".
Knowing nothing about NASCAR, I have a question. Are there dozens or hundreds of drivers who aren't big names, who fill out the field in every race but rarely if ever win anything? If so, do Patrick's racing results compare favorably with theirs?
"Women often lament that men are less than supportive of their careers and enthusiastic about their success, well, perhaps if there was not a reasonable expectation that their success would result with the end of the marriage or romantic relationship, they would understand this lack of enthusiasm."
Roissy had a post years ago about a musician guy who encouraged his wife's growth in a rock band of her own; her band became more successful than his, and she ditched him.
The simple game explanation of hypergamy and status anxiety explains this.
I've seen situations in my own life and the lives of friends where an event of success in the woman's professional life destabilized the relationship.
This is something guys have to accept if they are dating or married to a woman of serious career ambition; as much as feminists and liberals want you to think differently (or to think the problem is yours instead of hers), you really are going to be competing against her career; if you wind up on the low side of the inequality expression, her hamster is liable to start looking elsewhere.
It's funny how they project the problem onto the man, either painting him as "insecure" about his wife's success or to respond with a sneering "what woman would want a man who can't bring home the bacon?"
Funny how they admit equality isn't a good thing if it costs the woman some tingles.
'Are there dozens or hundreds of drivers who aren't big names, who fill out the field in every race but rarely if ever win anything? If so, do Patrick's racing results compare favorably with theirs?'
Not really favorably or unfavorably. Her results are pretty much the same as theirs -- i.e. she's just average all around. She's not a terrible driver -- indeed, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see her win a race or two eventually on fuel mileage or something like that -- but she'll never be worthy of all the hype she gets.
Danica Patrick, Juan Pablo Montoya. Compare and contrast.
Jonny Paul Montana won a some in open wheel. I don't know why he is in NASCAR - other than the demographic draw as indicated above. Danica is so bad that when she tried wrecking a fellow driver season before last, she took herself out instead. It was all kinds of Freudian fun.
Exactly. Plus, JPM even won occasionally in NASCAR, and posted a respectable number of top-10s.
Now, let's compare the media hype visited upon each ...
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