5 Reasosn Being Single Sucks Even More Than You Think

[mikeraw]

I ran across this article on a satire website, but these guys always back their claims up... it's just that they report it in a funny and witty style:

http://www.cracked.com/article_17063_5-reasons-being-single-sucks-even-more-than-you-thought.html


I personally couldn't care less about any of the reasons they list. In fact, I don't even believe them entirely... especially the work-related stuff cuz I always get away with what I want...

Anyways, what do you guys think?

 

[mrRuckus]

Horribly thought through rubbish.


Now excuse me while i go watch hockey while my married friends are being dragged to the cherry blossom festival.

 

[BudBundi]

Are there really cherry blossom festivals?

 

[Luthor Rex]

Are there really cherry blossom festivals?

Yes, they have them in Japan and certain parts of America (like the DC metro area) where cherry blossom trees live. They are nice looking trees, but having a festival about the whole thing does seem a bit much.

 

[Luthor Rex]

Ok I read the article and the Rutgers University study...

The only point I can really agree on is how being a single men can be discriminated against. If you are a man and over some magic age, then you are looked down on for being single. "Something must be wrong with him" is what people think.

So yeah, on that one point I can agree with the article that being single can suck. But really it's not the single guy's problem (unless he really does have something wrong with him), rather it is the problem of other people.

In my personal life I have run into this a few times, but it hasn't been that bad. Every once in a while someone will try to bust me for being immature for being single. Usually that doesn't happen because people know I keep my house nice and clean, I do my own grocery shopping, my own laundry, etc etc. This lets women know I can take care of myself, and if they get into a relationships with me they won't have to baby me.

 

[jonwon]

#5.You Get Paid Less

lets say this 'study' is correct - Still every-single penny you earn is yours to spend on yourself - married couples since its two people living together have 2out-goings, if they have children that’s even less spending money.

Whats the point in earning more if you cant enjoy it?

Single people get to enjoy all there wage 100% of the time (after tax)

You control your finances, there not down to two people - i.e her credit card debts or shopping spree's or demands for useless materialistic shi*.

Number 1 - even if true is not a benefit.

4# You Work More

Now how the hell they can say a single guy works more then a Married Father is beyond me - Think of it this way: your wage your on x by 2 kids x by a wife on leave who could possible quit her job to look after the kids - means; single men Work More?

A single guy, you can live where you want - how you want, you don’t need a fancy house and all the trimmings if you don’t want - you could live in a two by four and be perfectly content - and every penny you earn is then yours to spend on actual shi* you enjoy rather then supporting a partner and her kids (women’s children are her property in this day and age).

Child-gets Sick, i.e sick leave! Some people have to work 2-3 jobs to pay for a family, whilst you the single guy gets to do what ever the fuc* you want. So what you can’t take 3-4 days per year extra to sit at home and look after some kid spewing snot from his nose like a re-creation of the exorcist.

#3.The Government Hates You

Government hates pretty much everyone except single mothers and there bast*rd children, including married couples - In the UK single people get tax breaks i.e council tax - not sure about America but I do know; single mothers have the best of all worlds in the governments eyes, they get preferential treatment, where single men get the worst - should this be justification to get married?

Not when the bitc* can drag you through the courts, take your kids and half of your take home pay for the next 18 years.

#2.People Hate You

Married men envy you.
You can go where you want and do what you want and don’t need to ask a 3rd party for permission or to take them along.

Married MEN tell themselves 'Fine, so I'm poor, over-worked and my government hates me'.

Then it tells you you’re going to be harassed by going to a restaurant?

Pro-Tip: go-to a better restaurant.

Divorce rate over 50% - 85% of it initiated by 'women', say good bye to the kids and half your wage.

If people hate you it's because there jelouse of your life-style choice.

#1.You Are Going to Die Soon

So what would you rather do?

Go out like a flaming meteor, living life fast, hard, how you want, when you want, burned out because your life is one roller-coaster ride.

Or go out has some over-worked, underprivileged wage slave to a wife and kids, towering the line of conformity and being another hamster in the cage of life?



This piece is trash, cra*! That plagues the current media - It is filled with hyperbole, stupid childish comparisons, half baked studies and allot of emotive spiel - that is simply laughable to anyone with there own brain and a clue about how the world works.

Being single is a pleasure.


Dont poison your mind with such cra* - Stay focused and expose the matrix everywhere you go.

I know of no one who is happily married and if they are, they are no way shape or form:
Better off
Happier
Or Healthier

Then a single person.

The comments are the most interesting - you'd be more inclinded to think 90% of the population where nothing but mindless sheep trapped in an alternate universe where some trash article filled with emotive none based facts was actually something from the 'Times Online'. Reading the comments makes me loose faith in human nature, it makes me think a large % of people on the planet, though educated are nothing more then idiots.

i'd post a comment, but you need to register - if i thought what i posted would make a difference i probably would, but I know it won't - Those poor fuc*s are so ingrained into the matrix anything else is crazy talk.

 

[azanon]

Hate on the article all you want, but this part was pretty funny to me:

"Time spent single is a lot like time spent in the bathroom. It's the most natural thing in the world, until you're there just a moment too long. But once you hit that point, there's no turning back. People start to wonder what's wrong with you. Gross images start popping into their heads. The next time they see you, you might smell a little funny to them. But hey, look on the bright side, at least nothing's actually wrong with you, right?"

Even if you disagree with this to the nth degree, there are tons of people with this mindset. So the fact that its unfair is not really relevant if its what most people think.

We have a single guy at work my age and people wonder what's wrong with the guy all the time. He might be getting tons of p* for all we know, but most people (including the women) assume he's only getting two kinds of p*; jack and squat, and that he must have some weird flaw.

 

[squirrels]

#5: You get paid less

In other words, you don't bust your ass as hard and work a crapload of overtime to make sure your wife and kids still have a roof over their heads. You have to look at where that money is going along with how much you're making. If you make 20% more, but are paying 50% more than a single coworker to support a crushing mortgage and a college-fund, then are you really better off? That money isn't buying Ferraris.

#4: You Work More

If you need a "family excuse" to get out of work and are such a slave to your job that you couldn't get off for personal time even if you needed it, then you're in the wrong job. Hell, you've still got parents, brothers, sisters...you could easily fabricate "family issues" dealing with them.

If you have LEGITIMATE kid-related issues that require you to take off work, you're going to be dealing with those kids during that time. Depending on the task, that's like a second job in itself.

#3: The Government Hates You

This one actually has a modicum of truth. Government tax breaks are given to married couples so they can convince them to breed more little consumers to keep the sham that is our debt-and-consumption-driven economy going.

I pay a little more in taxes because I don't buy into it. But the tax refund I DO get doesn't go to buying diapers and formula, or into decorating a house with useless knick-knacks, or to buying jewelry to keep a woman pleased. Instead I buy stuff like this.

#2: People Hate You

I care. Really.

If you haven't learned the "be yourself" lesson that people have been drilling into your head since Kindergarten, then you'll never learn it. But "being yourself" means not giving a sh!t if people hate on you for living your life to the fullest while THEY struggle to fulfill imaginary obligations to live by a certain image so they can fit in with their peers who are struggling to fulfill the same imaginary obligations.

They "hate you" because you made a choice to do what you want to do, instead of what society wants you to do, and you still function fine in society nonetheless. They didn't have the balls to stand up for themselves and reject an unfulfilling relationship, so it must be something wrong with YOU.

#1: You are Going to Die Soon

Sloppy pop-medical news which violates the number one rule of science: correlation is not causation.


I DO like Cracked's writing style and they report on some interesting stuff. But that doesn't mean I agree with everything they say.

Honestly, they're probably right, but not completely right. They claim it's "being single" that sucks. But while "being single" isn't as good as being in the RIGHT relationship with the RIGHT person, it's light-years better than being in *A* relationship, meaning any old relationship with any old person just for the sake of NOT being single.

This society doesn't seem to distinguish the difference. They assume that if there's no abuse, neglect, or other psychopathic behavior in a relationship that it's necessarily a "healthy" one. They see everything in binary...single or not-single, right or wrong.

To me, a "relationship" doesn't even qualify as "not being single". You can live with someone and agree to only have sex with them, but that's not truly an intimate partnership.

That's why all you f**ks rant and rave on about "relationships"...because you never bothered to learn the difference between actually being in LOVE with someone and being STUCK with them because you're afraid of being mocked for being single.

True love doesn't mean committing to someone for the rest of your life. True love means you could walk out on that other person ANY time you wanted to, for ANY reason you choose. You just enjoy being with them more than you enjoy being without them. If you can't just up and leave that person if the situation arises, then you're not in LOVE, you're STUCK. Like an alcoholic in denial, you just don't know the difference.

 

[Tazman]

I've been single and not having sex for long periods of time in my life, but I simply lied to people so I wouldn't have to deal with being judged and ridiculed. Some people say that women can tell when you're single and not getting any action. I guess that only happens when you dislpay the characteristics of someone who is "desperate".

I've lied my way into p-ssy all my life (claiming experience I didn't have), and in some cases it may not have mattered, I just did it to avoid any complications. None of them were the wiser and that's when I proved to myself that it didn't matter. Most times you can make people believe what you want them to believe.

If you don't care, tell them your single. If you don't feel like hearing all the BS, just lie about it. It really isn't a big deal.

 

[Da Realist]

I could go into a rant about today's society, but I've leave that for another time. All I have to say is look at a wolf pack, lion pride, a herd, or a group. A lone female can enter a group with the other females picking on her but the lead male allowing her to be there since she can reproduce. A lone male though is going to be hated all around because either he's a wimp that can't compete for the top spot or he's a threat to the leadership order. People really aren't much different in the end other than we worry about crap that really isn't important in the scheme of things.

 

[Nutz]

Yes, they have them in Japan and certain parts of America (like the DC metro area) where cherry blossom trees live. They are nice looking trees, but having a festival about the whole thing does seem a bit much.

And they smell like dog crap after a few days/weeks of blossoming. I've got one in my front yard and it took us a full summer to figure out where the stench was coming from when we first moved into the house.


As for the article, it's got some fair points. Single people do take it in the a$$ when it comes to taxes & military benefits.

 

[Hooligan Harry]

The comments are the most interesting - you'd be more inclinded to think 90% of the population where nothing but mindless sheep trapped in an alternate universe where some trash article filled with emotive none based facts was actually something from the 'Times Online'. Reading the comments makes me loose faith in human nature, it makes me think a large % of people on the planet, though educated are nothing more then idiots.

Not idiots. Parrots.

I agree 100% though. I also read through the comment sections of articles like this to see what people have to say. Its always the same, pre programmed responses that we have come to expect to hear from people.

You see it in everything. Be it the need to conform in social aspects of our lives or even in business. 95% of economists did not see the financial crisis that was looming. Just like 95% of them cant see when we will come out of it. Still, the fact that they are economists means that companies wage millions on their views and the media listens to them as if they reciting the gospel. These are people who are only reciting what they learned parrot fashion and trying to correlate the two. In the process they keep ****ing things up yet cant seem to understand why.

Its no different when it comes to western relationships. We see the shaming tactics used on television and in movies in our daily lives. We have women being "given" their opinions buy Oprah, Ricky Lake and Sex in the City. We have men trying so hard to land any ***** at all they turn into Ray Romano, Ross Geller and Doug Heffernans thinking this is what women want.

 

[Nutz]

Its no different when it comes to western relationships. We see the shaming tactics used on television and in movies in our daily lives. We have women being "given" their opinions buy Oprah, Ricky Lake and Sex in the City. We have men trying so hard to land any ***** at all they turn into Ray Romano, Ross Geller and Doug Heffernans thinking this is what women want.

In short, women are being told they want beta males. The problem is that A) guys believe this crap too and B) women don't respond to beta males. They may end up with one because that's what they've been socially programmed to accept, but when the alpha dog enters the scene they inevitably cheat on, or straight up dump the beta choad.

 

[STR8UP]

I love it how "Dan" automatically assumes that guys think that it sucks to be single.

If you're a pu$$yboy with his head stuck in the matrix, yea, then I can understand how you might feel like "it sucks", but any man who has managed to pull himself out of his societal induced coma knows that it ain't a bad gig.

 

[Hooligan Harry]

What is the true definition of single? I classify myself as single but that by no means suggests I am not getting any leg over at the moment. I have options if I need to take a date to an event of some sort. Ill sometimes spend time with the women I may be sleeping with. I get shamed for that almost as much as I get shamed for not settling down when I have had the opportunity to.

When is it an official relationship? Exclusive dating? Exclusive dating for more then 6 months? Living together? Marriage? When? Im not anti marriage and I am not anti relationship by any means, Im just anti *****. If I could find an attractive girl that had a little depth to her and had the traditional values I was looking for I would take a chance on her. Im not going to invest my time/money/emotions into some harpie and the women I consistently meet do not display the qualities I am looking for. So I bang them until they either dump me or I dump them. I think I have dated myself into misogyny. After seeing women in action for so long its difficult to trust them.

Its odd, of all the friends I have that tied the knot, only one was good with women. He was the best of the lot actually. The rest however married the first decent looking women that would let them or tied the knot with a girl they had been living with for 5-6 years. Or because their girlfriends "accidentally fell pregnant" Most have to ask for permission to go for a beer. They have to clear things up with their wives before they make a decision. The odd thing is that it seems as if they all accept the fact that this is somehow NORMAL behaviour. They joke between each other about this. "Hang on lads, let me just run it by the general." You will see them on their cellphones if they want to go out for a few drinks after the game. Smoothing things over, getting hammered on their mobile phones. Its generally the guys that are BAD with women that get married so quickly. Yet its the men with options who choose to hold off which get shamed, and even ostracised at times, yet display nothing to suggest that they are bad with women.

No thanks. Ill stay single for a while longer I reckon.