Russ Jowell

@tyromper I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but your friend is a little “too” perfect and put together. I know a lot of girls who would get intimidated, and not in a good way, by him. Also, he’s likely to be sorely disappointed by the kind of girl that would commit to him.

A good buddy of mine I've known for YEARS. 34. -Great job, hard worker, good with money -In great shape. Training for an iron man. -Close with family. Grew up Christian, went away in college-- now reignited as his personal faith & locked in! -Has a flip phone. Zero porn, didn't want the temptation. -Goes to church, volunteers, reads the Bible daily. Objectively a great catch. Wants a wife & to be a dad. Went on a date a couple weeks ago. Had a blast. Talked for hours after dinner. The next day they hang out all day, and she takes him to her home meets her family for a cookout. They kiss & both say best date ever. He invites her to his church that week (she says she's Christian with no home church) & she accepts. They make plans that week to go on a run before work. He texts & she ghosts him....... He calls the next day..... ghosts. A couple days later...... "been really busy sorry." He was a little bummed & asked my advice. 1) Why do girls/guys do this? Why not just reply, be upfront? You don't have ONE MINUTE you were that busy...... come on. 2) What would you tell him? 3) I said, bullet dodged, her loss, respect yourself & keep it moving. Feel extremely sorry for her that she blew her chance with a great dude. Don't chase, keep building you. There's 3 billion girls, you need 1 great one that wants to hop on your mission with you, follow Jesus & you. Make sure she'll make a great mom & can communicate well or marriage will be miserable. Go run, lift, read the Bible, & never give her a second thought again unless it's to remind yourself to feel sorry for her as this will be the biggest regret of her life. Make sure it is & keep building!

@SabreExe @PathToManliness The “3 for me” is a special deal (and a good one FWIW) and isn’t really a typical menu item.

@RussJowell @PathToManliness $10.99 for a burger with drink and chips and salsa Times 4, that's $44 Something wrong with the AI

I get why kids aren’t racing to get their driver’s licenses anymore. Cars are expensive. Insurance is absurd. Gas isn’t cheap. A trip through the Taco Bell drive-thru somehow requires a consultation with your financial advisor. But young bucks, listen to the millennial: You are massively overestimating how much money is required to have fun. We were broke too. We just had lower standards. Millennials would pile six people into a 1994 Toyota Previa with a check engine light that had achieved permanent residency. Someone knew a lake. Someone’s older brother knew how to acquire questionable booze. Someone had $11. Download every fast food app on your phone. Become a scholar of the value menu. Split gas. Buy a football. Find a swimming hole. Go fishing with equipment your dad hasn’t touched since 2004. Build a fire where you’re legally allowed to build a fire. Go to minor league baseball games. High school football games. Free concerts. County fairs. Hiking trails. Run a stupid 5K together. Get six friends and invent a competition so poorly organized someone nearly loses a shoe. Stop waiting for entertainment to be sold to you. That’s the trap. You think “going out” means spending $80 at a restaurant, buying $17 cocktails and paying $40 to park because that’s what adults on Instagram do. You’re 17. Your advantage is that nobody expects you to have any money. Get your license if you can. Get a shitty car. Find five good friends. Then go. The lake is still there. The woods are still there. The girls are still out there. Taco Bell still occasionally makes serious accounting errors on its app. Your youth is too valuable to spend complaining that fun got expensive. Become cheaper. Become more creative. Go make some stories. Just have one of you stay sober and drive the shitty van home.

Redditors decided to meet up in real life It looks exactly how you would expect

@transcended @Mary_LouD2 @PathToManliness Yup.

@Mary_LouD2 @RussJowell @PathToManliness Right? It’s like ok then sit on your fat ass in your room and do nothing and rot into a corpse. Problem solved.

@transcended @AndroidCarlisle @PathToManliness Ok boomer.

@RussJowell @AndroidCarlisle @PathToManliness Uh when I was 16, KFC was a freaking splurge lmao

@AndroidCarlisle @PathToManliness The fact that so many of you see Chilis as a splurge restaurant is concerning.

@RussJowell @PathToManliness Who is hanging out at Chili's as a teen? I don't think I ever went to a single sit-down restaurant with friends outside of an organized party for sports or a birthday. We would grab a couple McChickens and go hang out in the ballpark parking lot....

@Concerned_In_CO @PathToManliness “Just enjoy your bugs, peasant.”

@RussJowell @PathToManliness What is it, prom? Just don't go to sit down restaurants.

Imagine thinking 3 Chilis meals with $6 margaritas is a luxury.

@GreerPoplin @PathToManliness Imagine actually accepting the notion that you have to assess your ability to afford a single fast food meal to “go out” by how many hours you spend sacking groceries.

@RussJowell @PathToManliness My friends and I never once went out to restaurants like this in high school. It was always McDonald's or chikfila. And a meal at chickfila still costs about one hour of work bagging groceries at the grocery store, which was my first job.

@Mary_LouD2 @PathToManliness “Let’s go to Chilis, split a single app sampler, and drink only water.” ….said no teen friend group ever.

@RussJowell @PathToManliness My 4 kids and I split the app sampler for $19 and drink water. It’s not hard

Their…WHAT???

@MurrayHillGuy1 This is news to you?

My friend was unemployed for a few months last year so he picked up a cashier job at Trader Joe’s. He said he quit cause he couldn’t take it anymore… said “everyone was dating everyone. Half the store was in poly relationships. Coworkers kept inviting me to house parties that definitely weren’t just house parties. Every shift someone mentioned about Trump dying or insane liberal nonsense.” wtf is going on there?

@PathToManliness This is an awfully boomer-esque take for an alleged millennial.

PRO TIP: If you’re going out on a fishing charter and want to play your own music, choose something other than Jimmy Buffet, and ESPECIALLY not Margaritaville. Your captain and crew will be ever grateful.

Would someone ELIF. It’s 2026. We literally have the ability to catch a rocket with chopsticks. So why TF are we still shipping our Astronauts off to Kazakhstan for launch?

By the late 90s, 80s nostalgia was already becoming a thing in the form of campy fun at 80s nights at clubs. The 80s were a fun time. In the 2020s, 2000s nostalgia is not a thing (the 2000s were just a less fun version of the 90s). Neither is 2010s nostalgia (what are we supposed to look back on? The enervated cultural sunset of hipsterism?) There is no chance that 2020s nostalgia will be a thing in the 2030s: we're already past the halfway point, and it has been a decade of unrelenting suck. This entire century has been a cultural write-off. Economic decline, third world invasion, gender war, surveillance, censorship, politicized agitslop as entertaiment. Everything just gets worse, uglier and less functional but more expensive and more tightly controlled. The only note of our dying culture that still has the breath of life in it is smouldering, bitter rage, and even that is mere food for the algorithm.

@MisterWhy420 @omgsidewalks This is grade-A 🐂💩

As an employer you are correct! Most low wage employees have to be micro- managed or babysat! They are low wage because they have low skills or low attention spans or low self control or a low ability to work as a team! When you LEARN how to work you get more money and more trust! I am CONSTANTLY raising other people’s children.

An underdiscussed part of modern capitalism is how low-wage workers are often micromanaged every minute they’re on the clock, while many high-wage jobs come with hours of unstructured computer time where no one really cares what you’re doing as long as the work gets done.

Pure uncut Boomer slop, not being able to conceptualize the 2nd and 3rd order consequences of their own failures. Why would a 16 year old get a learner's permit for a car he reasonably can't buy? Obama's Cash For Clunkers program killed 677,000 cars that would otherwise be affordable on the used car market. The car plants all got offshored. The same regulatory bureaucrats made it so that a new or used car is prohibitively expensive because it's now just a computer system with wheels. It uses your house's Wifi to send your driving info to your insurance company to rat you out for speeding or braking too quickly. That's if the Flock cameras don't report you first. Where are they going to exactly? To the mall inhabited by roving gangs of masked shoplifters or a sea of unaccompanied East African "teens" or fent zombies staggering through the streets? Most of the malls have closed anyway. Retail shopping is online. Are they going to see the next Marvel movie that has their favorite character replaced with a quippy lesbian black woman? What money are they going to spend? The money they can't earn because all of the minimum-wage starter jobs now have to pay $18/hr and include full benefits so employers just eliminated the positions or automated them away? The ones that are still available have DEI requirements that make it illegal for them to hire a regular white kid, so instead it's going to a 70 IQ hood mother of 7 who is making "part time cashier at McDonalds" her lifetime career so she can still collect welfare. Moms are no longer "taking kids out of school to take their driving tests" because the ones that are married and normal have to work some humiliating pantsuit career alongside their husbands just to afford a house (since they're competing with 50 million migrants and BlackRock for housing). Those jobs are also being stolen by Indians or eliminated with automation. Then again, most moms aren't even married because no-fault divorce incentivized them to leave the first time they have a fight or get attention from someone else or "just don't feel the spark anymore". That's of the women who are even having kids and not brainwashed into rabid pro-abortion anti-natalism and using progressive politics as a proxy for their normal maternal instincts. Then the most ludicrous statement of all: "privacy on a date"? What do you think it is, 1962? Privacy on a date is how you end up with false SA accusation and a ruined life before 20. A date in 2026 requires witnesses. Sworn affidavits of intent and consent, signed and notarized by her friends. Even then, if she remembers your date unfavorably a year from now you'll have to prove your innocence. If you can even manage to get someone out of the DM's and into the real world then the girl is going to insist on the most public venue possible anyway because her brain is filled with memes demonizing men as more dangerous than bears. The micro-managerialism and Civil-Rights era progressive slop that boomers invented and enforced around every aspect of our lives are why the kids now don't leave their rooms. Because their grandparents created the panopticon. "Why don't kids these days want to experience the manmade horrors we've created to torture and dehumanize them?" I don't know man, you tell me.