Why is this post titled “Spot the Chad” instead of “Spot the Alpha”? You’ll understand why after seeing the photo I’ve attached:
This is REO Speedwagon, pre-snowflake era rockers. Despite the classification I’m about to reveal, all these guys got mad pussy. Comes with the job.
They were (are) all alpha males according to the CH and Darwin definition of alpha male:
The alpha male attracts hot women, attracts women strongly, and attracts a lot of women.
Quantity and quality of female interest defines the alpha male.
By that metric, all the members of REO Speedwagon were alphas, hauling groupie pussy in its prime like a shrimping net.
But within the subset ‘rocker’, we find subtle and not-so-subtle physiognomic differences of male value. In the photo above, there is a clear Chad and a clear Cuck.
CHAD: far right (ofc)
INTENSE ALPHA: 2nd from left
GOOFBALL ALPHA: far left
NICEGUY: middle
CUCK: 2nd from right
FYI, “intense alpha” is the brooding artist type who may or may not leave a lover before morning light. “Goofball alpha” is the class clown if the class clown wasn’t a secretly low self-esteem basketcase.
The Cuck with the homo pose is the lead singer, Kevin. The Surfer Chad is the bass player, Bruce. So did their real lives match their physiognomies? reactionary writes,
Mostly. Kevin was their lead singer and had a very effeminate/annoying voice. Bruce was there bass player and would occasionally do vocals. “Back on the Road Again” is sort of an alpha song.
So what distinguishes the Chad from the generic alpha male? Politics, for one. No Chad is With Her. In point of fact, very few alpha males are With Her, so that’s not telling us much. The Chad phenotype tends to more often align with conventional views of what characterizes an alpha male (heavy jawline, Eastwoodian squint, overhanging brow ridge, mesomorphic frame, perpetual smirk). This serves as a reminder that more often than not, real life alpha males don’t look like central casting alpha males. They don’t look like soyboy cucks either, but the physical properties of the alpha male span a wide spectrum.
Crucially, I think the biggest delineator of the Chad is his aversion to emoting. He keeps it “close to the vest”, except when he’s giving atomic wedgies to nerds. There’s an IDGAF vibe about him that says “when the time comes, I’ll gladly take up sword and rid our land of these locusts”. Balancing this is a hint of playfulness in the eyes, honed from years in middle and high school teasing girls to heights of tingle eruptions.
Could we do an analysis of Winger? From what I recall, nary a Chad ever graced their line-up!
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I bet Kip Winger pirouetted to more quality pussy than you could ever imagine.
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I used to think that Winger is a joke until reading a bit about Kip WInger. Discovered that he studied classical music and at 16, sent a tape to Alan Parsons Project and impressed them enough to get a positive personal reply.
“Miles Away” is a good song.
Mike Judge had a feel for pop music and saw that glam bands are running on vapors, as far as their appeal goes, so he turned them into a running joke in Beavis and Butthead. As Winger said, they went overnight from selling out stadiums to no tickets sold.
Some of those early-90s bands were quite good and would have matured over time and made original contributions.
But “That’s show business,” as Kip said years later, when asked about Mike Judge’s harsh treatment.
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I saw Winger once waaaaay back a long time ago…great show, crowd was young and into the show, really positive energy.
Kip was the real deal, his problem was that he was just too goodlooking to be taken seriously.
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I saw several bands of that subgenre in the early 90s but not Winger. Kix at the original Hammerjack’s in Baltimore was a great show. They were also a talented glam/hair band. “Don’t Close Your Eyes” is an underappreciated classic.
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Another good but little-known glam rock band: Steelheart. Their song “She’s Gone” — there might be a time when your wfe or girflreind is justifiably angry with you. What you do, is get the video below ready, pause it at 2:14 and tell her that you have something to say to her.
Make sure she can see the screen.
Click Play and stop it at 2:27.
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I saw REO Speedwagon a the Warner Theater in 1978 and thought the lead singer was faggy then too. They were pretty good as far as a band went. I went for the warm up act, which was the Sweet from Britain. They were huge in Europe but only had a couple of hits in the US.
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Fucking Winger hahaha
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https://goo.gl/images/BjZ2gV
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Linked from the sidebar in YT:
Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Oakland Coliseum in 1977. Crowd has the Coliseum packed to the top rows.
All white.
Oakland. It used to be nice.
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1977.
A mere 12 years after the turd world invasion began.
America was still mostly America and not (((America))) back then.
Used to be nice is right.
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Without knowing the stats, it would seem to onlookers (of videos from the 70s, 80s and 90s) that the immigration act of 65 engendered a mere trickle in the early decades, and only went into overdrive in more recent years. Would this be accurate? If so, it’s likely America could have retained its character had the flow remained at a mere trickle, and the ‘invite the entire village’ of each new citizen policy hadn’t been implemented.
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Nowadays, I don’t think Lynyrd Skynyrd is even played anywhere near Oakland.
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Correct mendo, all that’s played there is phukkin nog music. Amazes me how many whiggers there are these days that listen to it to.
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Chad is also looking away from the camera. He doesn’t need this. Likely scoping out the photog’s little sister.
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This. First thing I noticed about the Chad is that his attention was elsewhere, whatever bullshit is in front of him can’t hold his attention long enough, even though he knows his visage is an important part of why the photo is happening in the first place. That sort of confidence (or, solipsistic perception of everything being of lesser importance than that which is most entertaining) is very unique, and deserves acknowledgement.
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Yeah, it was pretty clear:
Smallbrain chad: Confident smile for the photo
Normalbrain chad: No smile, doesn’t show teeth like a submissive chimp
BigBrain chad: >imaging the makeup girl in her panties
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This analysis comes along right in the middle of my band’s album project. Bottom line: the lyrics are all Chadly/ no gratuitous emoting. More comments here as this develops, but MAGAmen will be privy to the final musical results.
Possible title – “[frontman] and the Poolsiders”
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You could always post a pic of Queen because I’d bet the lead singer was getting more ass then this entire band. Wrong kind of ass, but more.
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Freddie Mercury was Arabic from Zanzibar. No shit.
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I’d bet the lead singer was getting more ass then this entire band
As if “getting more ass” wasn’t already a “comes with the territory” for merely being a member of the Rump Wrangler Rodeo, with or without a band.
If the homo lifestyle was any more profligate, toilet seats would turn green with envy.
(((shakin’ mah haid)))
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Howy Fuk !!
– Wow! NYT Hires Sarah Jeong to Editorial Board — Who Has Twitter Page Littered with Racist Filth –
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/nyt-hires-sarah-jeong-to-editorial-board-who-has-twitter-page-littered-with-racist-filth/
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Ho Lee Fuk?
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Depends on the region and dialect.
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Dulay lomo chow hi.
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The media isn’t even pretending not to hate whites. I love it because more and more stupid sheep are getting red pilled daily.
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I had a normalcuck Christian type respond to my Twatbook post about this admit without prompting that “yeah….its really getting fashionable to hate white people…”
Sum Ting Wong.
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Literally the previous CH post bro.
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Miescko you fuckni nitwit. Get a real job.
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Today it emerged her new employer was also mercilessly trashed by her in many tweets in 2017
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‘No Chad is With Her. ‘
No man should be anyway.
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Let me assure you, nobody hates boomer rock more than a boomer who got sick of it 30 years ago. REO Speedwagon? Almost as bad as Bruce Springsteen or Supertramp. More to the point of this forum, their lyrics are betatude itself.
And though I know all about those men
Still I don’t remember
‘Cause it was us baby, way before them
And we’re still together
And I meant every word I said
When I said that I love you
I meant that I love you forever
And I’m gonna keep on lovin’ you
Cause it’s the only thing I wanna do
I don’t wanna sleep
I just wanna keep on lovin’ you
Of course musicians are noted for not behaving like their songs, but still.
I can’t fight this feeling any longer
And yet I’m still afraid to let it flow
What started out as friendship, has grown stronger
I only wish I had the strength to let it show
I tell myself that I can’t hold out forever
I said there is no reason for my fear
Cause I feel so secure when we’re together
You give my life direction
You make everything so clear
My life has been such a whirlwind since I saw you
I’ve been running round in circles in my mind
And it always seems that I’m following you, girl
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They were going for a niche market called Ballad rock, Liked mainly by females and the rainbow crowd. I think these guys were mainly after record sales, money, and tail.
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Never could stand REO – I think the lyrics and lead singer were a big part of that revulsion. And this was in the late 70’s / early 80’s ffs..
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I guess one could say you can’t fight this feelin’ anymore?
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LOL good one
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Never could stand REO
That’s a storm many of us had to ride out.
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But back then when this music came out, dudes weren’t considered beta and chicks weren’t the k*nts they are today! Most of the c unterry has developed in the last 15-20 years, and the red-pill is catching dudes up, but it is still BEHIND!
Love this line: “when the time comes, I’ll gladly take up sword and rid our land of these locusts”. Exactly the way my 50-something azz feels. Keep stocking ammo fellaz!
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All this led to Punk.
Unsurprisingly Johnny Rotten likes DJT
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The esteemed proprietor of the chapeau did a post on soppy lyrics years ago, explaining how musicians can get away with effeminate/over-emotive expressions of love, devotion, etc. They’re given a lot more leeway, and are tapping into a female fantasy that everyday blokes are disbarred from.
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He wasn’t with her either. Its almost like he was killed on purpose. Strange, very strange.
– How Gaddafi’s Grim Prophecy for Europe is Coming True –
” The flow of migrants coming to Europe from Africa is likely to grow in the coming years, writes Sputnik Germany contributor Bernhard Schwarz. For decades Libya served as a firewall halting the tide of refugees heading to the EU. Now when Libya lies in ruins European leaders see that late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was right, Schwarz stressed. ”
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808011066827297-europe-africa-gaddafi/
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And guess (((who))) k!lled Qaddaffi?
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While Mugabe can take white farms
I’d like to nominate Sarah Curran as woman of the month
Had her farm taken in 2004, lost her hus..band (a famous Zimbabwean sportsman) unexpectedly yet still brought up 3 boys, 2 of which have played professional sport (cricket) for England.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-3526884/Sam-Tom-Curran-evicted-Robert-Mugabe-Zimbabwe-Surrey-brothers-overcome-tragic-loss-father-hit-headlines.html
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Heard it from the CH who
Heard it from a gabber who
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Yea, REO sucked, but “Back on the Road Again” is a good tune due to Hall’s effort. Singing about the ZFG life he was living, abundance but, still a sweet spot for a special girl
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Lead singer is a dead ringer for my sister at age 30.
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He reminded me of Winger…
… Debra Winger.
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Still trying to figure out how Geddy Lee in the KMET shirt had time to moon light away from Rush?
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REO Speedway on had some of the most beta lyrics ever in their songs.
If you want a band that will pump up your testosterone, check out the Bon Scott Era AC/DC.
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“You like Speedwagon?”
“What kind of man doesn’t?”
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Cobra Kai is MINT.
Whoever made that series is red pilled. The intro to episode 10 was amazing.
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One of their more beta songs was called “Tough Boys” about a woman who doesn’t like tough or rough boys. As a young guy it gave me a false sense of comfort.
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Somebody does like rough boys, though:
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Nominee for Beta of the Month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1z0IPae7pE
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Poor *stupid* b@$tard. I can “ballpark” how this ends up..
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I did A LOT of things wrong before discovering the red pill/manosphere but even though it was considered standard practice in my social circles to get down on your knee to propose to a girl, I always instinctively knew it was a bad move.
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I didn’t do that shit, but they was required to ask my father in law. My wife is from former Czechoslovakia . Her old man was red pilled before I even knew what it meant. Still gets drunk every day and in his mid eighties. My mother inlaw is 10 years younger than him.
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Damn, that poor jerk just radically over-inflated her value in her own eyes. Now that he’s made her such a colossus, it’s going to be almost impossible for him to appear as anything but an attendant midget.
As I said in an earlier thread, women view a man as either a leader or a chump. What leader offers such absurd deference to someone they are trying to recruit as a follower?
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And to boot, he looks like a fine Aryan fellow, but she seems to have a hint of Maori or some other mystery meat, is a bit too thick for her age, and really isn’t all that attractive.
(((shakin’ mah haid)))
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For some reason, the video didn’t embed above. Try again:
And if you’re thinking to yourself that the girl looks like a standard-issue materialistic Instagram ho, you’d be absolutely correct:
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Sorry, here’s the Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/maryammattii/
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Lifeless eyes.
I don’t know if it’s the boob implants, the makeup job, or the beta thirst highlighted by instabook…but they do overvalue themselves a lot.
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Just found her next to the “I Love Dubai” sign further down her Instagram page.
So, confirmed — she’s wallowed in the feces of rich sand noggers and stuck live trouts up their asses for money.
All this proposal bullshit for a literal walking n1gger toilet.
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Trout. Unnecessary plural. But fuck it, my grammar suffers a bit when in the grip of this much disgust.
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they do overvalue themselves
and for the life of me i can’t understand how any man would be okay with his girl putting herself on display like that. constant ego feeding, constant male attention, exposing her body to the world, etc
and a lot of men are out there proud and bragging about dating attention hoes like this. same kinds of dudes who think dating/wifing up strippers or porn stars is something to be proud of.
i’m sure some men are envious because the girls are hot or whatever, but man, they just seem really gross to me
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and Ironsides just confirmed, this one is in fact gross to the nth degree
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It’s proof just because a guy has money and muscles doesn’t mean he has sense.
In fact I’d bet these eye candy types are actively searching for that type of sucker…hoping their hawtness is enough that the guy will let her do whatever she wants…including continuing her lucrative Dubai/instaho business.
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It’s strange how upset women get about men who watch porn. If you think about it, men sometimes get upset about the amount of guys a woman has actually slept with, and women judge them for that. On the flip side women don’t care how many women a guy has slept with but they get upset with men over the amount of women they have watched having sex in porno videos. So men are upset about actual sex but women are upset about imaginary sex.
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You got me thinking on this and this is what I’m brainstorming with right now:
Based on what we know, a man bedding many women increase his SMV. Especially if she knows about it in one form or another.
And, we also know that watching porn is essentially being cucked. He’s watching another man bone some tramp. (Whores have their place….giggity). That’s why she gets mad.
Like Cappy keeps saying–sperging about (love ya man!)–that women sniff out and have stupidly wicked, nano-sharp detection of weakness in a man. Her finding out that her “stud” is watching some other bloke(s) pound some pin cushion? That looks like that?, etc. Though more so about the fact that he’s literally showing and/or making known a weakness, that being watching porn.
What say le denizens o le chateau?
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I always figured women were against guys watching porn mainly because 99.99999% percent of women are insecure about their bodies and assume, rightly or not, that the porn stars the guys are watching are hotter than they are. You make an interesting point though, there likely is an element of porn watching showing weakness and we all know how women feel about weak men.
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the more bitches I fuck the more the bitches I fuck seem to like it.
The lawyercunt is like you’re OBVIOUSLY very experienced…and “this is the best sex ever”…she was a virgin till 28 so I’m not gonna do a victory lap on that lol. I’m not sure there’s an upper limit…women like men who have fucked lots of women
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I have never been into porn. If I am hungry I don’t want to watch someone else eat.
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it raises a man’s expectations for sex and the quality of the woman. They also see it as emotional cheating and can’t make the distinction between that and actual cheating. Tell them they need to up their game and it will shut them up.
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“Tell them they need to up their game and it will shut them up.
this leads to the question, why are so many men in relationships turning to porn in the first place?
i’d guess that in most cases, it’s because the gf/wife isn’t taking care of him properly and he’s trying to fill a void
sure, men can get into it to an unnatural degree and that’s on them but if a man is in a relationship and he starts to rely on porn to get off, that’s a sign his needs weren’t being met so he went elsewhere trying to get some satisfaction
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It rewires the brain.
I wonder if a woman ever asks herself why her husband would want to rewire his brain from a real woman to some pixels on the screen.
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That would require a level of introspection heretofore unknown to most men, let alone any woman… the latter being ABSOLUTELY incapable of such mental gymnastics, in my ken.
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“why are so many men in relationships turning to porn in the first place?”
Women are created to fuck wildly from about 15 to 23. They are then designed to shift into matron mode, slowly at first and then fast.
A society that blocks 15 year old girls from mrrieegge but tells them to be celibate places cruel and unreasonable expectations on women.
A society that blocks 15 year old girls from mrrieegge but tells them that it’s ok to fuck places cruel and unreasonable expectations on men.
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Women are created to fuck wildly from about 15 to 23. They are then designed to shift into matron mode, slowly at first and then fast.
Somewhere along the way, perhaps right before menopause, they seem to regress… individual mileage may vary, of course. 😉
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women are repulsed at the thought of betas having any sort of sexual satisfaction. they know that the primary consumers of porn are betas, something that no one needs to explain them. that’s why they also loathe men who are into hookers and own sex dolls.
women hate beta males more than they love alpha males. they spend far more energy to get away from the former than to get closer to the latter.
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Funnily enough, plenty of alphas keep any beta tendencies at bay by keeping the regular company of whores.
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The bassist does have a Wooderson vibe to him
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War Drummer and Serial Brain’s theme song. Very righteous!
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Discussion of the three assassination attempts on the EGK.
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Steel Panther. Parody Pussy Slaying Slays Pussy.
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Steel Panther is so funny
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Living the lifestyle they lampoon. Good musically and clever with lyrics and presentation. Feel the Steel is still on my workout play list.
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Lesser known gem from them:
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A lesson in ” How to kill your career: part one.”
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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/434639-polygamy-war-economist-west/
Less sex =more wars…
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CH: P0rn star cries and makes drama because her Instagram account was delated, if that´s not pathetic enought see the comments of Betas white knighting her. Lozlzlzoozl
I’m honestly having a freaking panic attack soon to be a mental break down Bc Instagram deleted my account I never posted anything bad ever I’m very careful…. @instagram I need this to make a living I’m gunna have to quit my job I seriously can’t breath pic.twitter.com/RuIFl5v2d0
— Lana Rhoades (@LanaRhoades) August 2, 2018
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Huh. . .that’s interesting: she’s a porn start but makes her money via instagram?
Either porn ain’t paying much or she’s nickel-and-diming photos on IG.
(I’m reading more into this than I should only because there’s an impossibly lazy vibe at work right now and Lana Rhoades needs to lose some weight.)
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That woman is mentally broken, look at her empty eyes. She is only 21 and she is ruined for life, very sad.
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Nothing a few babies and a strong pimp hand won’t correct. 😉
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Ah stands corrected, based upon new information provided by Jay below… never having heard of this cooze before, I bow to his superior experience on the subject.
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Lana freaks me the fuck out. She started out as an obviously pretty girl with an insane body. Sure, a strupper but a good girl. She went to hard core dick slut like overnight.
All that jizz is already fucking with her looks.
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“Either porn ain’t paying much”
The problems the music industry has with illegal downloads is nothing compared to what’s happening to the porn industry. Almost no one pays for porn anymore.
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Makes you wonder why women who aren’t porn stars go on the same promiscous route. They all end up in the same place.
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“My pathos would definitely move you to laughter,
Had you not weaned yourself from mirth.”
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That’s Goethe, fer youse yeggs what ain’t been to college yet.
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My earnest proposal:
Let’s start calling them Venereal Performers. “Star” of any kind is unduly glamorous.
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“Venereal performers.” Superb, sir.
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I like the Seinfeld description: public fornicator.
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She is actually one of those “too beautiful for porn” girls, one comes along every few years.
Especially her early stuff before she started catching mad nigga dick. Another misguided descendant of Norwegian heritage from Minn. Cucked white daddy who let his model hot daughter do whatever the hell she wanted. 300,000 years of genetic fitness snuffed out with a couple black dicks.
I’m liking White Sharia more and more…
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yeah, she was insanely hot. But the life has chewed her up.
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Since I know the mod wouldn’t allow it…I compare her tears to the picture of the croc cying while it eats its prey.
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By the way, does anyone else find that picture to be physically revolting? That swollen-lipped, mooing face with liquids trickling out of it — ugh. Looks like it would have a foul odor emanating from it as well. Glad I wasn’t eating when first setting eyes on it.
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I didn’t until I found out she did n1gger porn… now she could doll herself up to the nines and she’d still be dead to me.
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She’s acting to evoke sympathy with her white knight crowd. She’s a whore, remember?
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Someone on reddit suggested fetal alcohol syndrome. Hard to unsee.
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Who knew white knights dug emotional porn though?
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She’s no Airu Oshima*, that’s for true.
*nsfw
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This warms my heart.
– Trump praised as ‘pro-black’ at White House prison reform event –
“This is probably going to be… the most pro-black president I’ve seen in my lifetime,” said Pastor Darrell Scott, a supporter of the president.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/trump-praised-pro-black-white-house-prison-reform-event-n896526
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I can see it now… instead of negroes voting 95% democrat, it’ll shrink right down to 92%.
After all, Lincoln was a Republican, and he freed the slaves, don’cha know?
Democrats are the REAL raycisses.
:duckface
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But we’re all one human family Greg ! How dare you sir, how dare you !
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I feel suitably chastised.
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Since we’re on the subject. Q: Spot any Alphas ? Answer on bottom.
They all are.
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Zeppelin was 3 fruits and one Anglosaxon (who had the common decency to off himself) stealing music from murrican negroes (how low can you go?)
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Yid our local music critic. How sweet.
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‘murricans slobber over brit repackaged murrican-negro music. sad!
“take the only tree that’s left/stuffit up the hole in your culture”
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the time I wuz listening to Kang Oliver and a fat boomerrette commented about “cartoon music”
or when our own resident nondenominational herretik didn’t know “this is my land” was a ripoff of a westvirginian hymne.
special providence … until a time
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If you’re talking about me as that nondenominational heretic, you’re going to have to check your premises.
First, I recall no discussion of music with you in particular, although feel free to post the link if there was one and refresh my memory.
Second, if you’re talking about Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, everybody and the devil’s grandmother knows he only wrote some lyrics to an old folk tune/hymn, its origin admittedly unknown and immaterial to my ken, since I never claimed knowledge of, nor cared about, that genre.
What was your point again?
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NOW you know.
Good, at least you have a good memory.
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Zeppelin concerts were the height of tedium.
Rock died when it abandoned its dance beat. The rest was masturbation.
You want sexual energy in your music? Try anything that can carry a foxtrot.
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I was handed 4 free tickets to see REO geeek wagon in 1981. On the day of the concert, I couldn’t see myself anywhere near that shitshow, told the gf at the time, sorry. Gave the tix away. The people that went said it was “great”.
Was a Ted Nugent (with Donnie Iris at the time), AC/DC, Priest fan – seeing REO would have been like seeing Billy Squier…nope.
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They played at my high school before they made it big (probably around 1972, but hey, it was a long time ago). Technically they were competent enough, but I always found their material rather pedestrian. Never understood how they made it so big. Far from being alpha chads, back in the day they were mostly regarded as bland mainstream corporate rock.
Of course, compared to most contemporary acts, they’re an oasis, but at the time there was tons of more musically interesting acts.
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“I always found their material rather pedestrian. Never understood how they made it so big”
Most of the money is found in the middle of the road.
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One of my high school friends’ brother was a concert promoter and put on several REO shows over the years when they were at the height of their popularity. (And for you younger readers, REO was insanely popular. Hit after hit after hit for years.)
According to the brother, the scenes backstage and at the hotels were straight out of Caligula. Positively Dionysian. Weed, piles of cocaine, and naked girls everywhere. These guys plowed through oceans of pussy while traveling the world and making millions.
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Always thought that Californication episode with that weekend at the bands mansion was well done. Hot chicks with these idiot looking rock stars . Red pill moment #243.
Think that band were based on Motley Crue.
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Meanwhile, young boys/men who informed their sense of chivalry with REO lyrics were likely pushed further away from ever having a hot groupie get naked and wild for them. Diametrically opposing realities.
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Hmmm… Interesting analysis Mr. CH.
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Pre “High Infidelity” REO Speedwagon was quite good. “Riding the Storm Out” is a good song from that era. The album “High Infidelity” marked their transition into soft rock. Prior to that album, they were definitely a hard rock band.
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