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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] competition markshumanship<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Over three decades ago, when I was younger than I am now<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…What, seriously? You didn't crawl out of the womb fully grown and wrinkled? :P <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No! It was a TRICK, I tells ya. I was once younger and handso… eh… younger, and had yellow hair rather than white. But then suddenly, time went by, and I didn’t stop it so it was my fault perhaps for not doing anything about time going by. Then one day I noticed I was no longer young and han… no longer young. I was middle-age and getting middler. Never was much in the beauty department, so in a sense that made it easier. Beautiful people must have a hard time, for they have a lot more to lose than we ugly old boys do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Come to think of it, that makes perfect sense. It explains why in general women spend so much money and effort with beauty products, but we don’t. In most cultures I know of, the same pattern, it’s the women going out of their way to look good. We boys just shave, wash our hair, comb, look in the mirror, how do I look? About average? Cool, done, fully satisfied, good to go. We boys get saggy and flabby, but do we worry much about it? Not really, or rather I never did. I figure, hey no worries, my bride doesn’t complain and I don’t care what the other ladies think. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I like being a man. Life is just easier when one is a man.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>