Be on a packed train

>be on a packed train
>I'm standing near a exit and reading a copy of Russell's History of Ancient Philosophy
>as we approach a stop, this black dude reaches for the door
>he glances over my book then at my face
>shakes his head and mutters "fucking Socrates over here"
>leaves

Is he right? Am I pretentious for reading on public transportation? Should I stick to a Kindle or, even more discreetly, read PDFs on my phone?

Literally nothing wrong with reading in public transportation. It's the best place to read imo. Tons of people are reading books in subway in the place where I live(Russia).

Reading on public transportation leaves me feeling goofy. This disjointed digesting of a book in 20-30 minute intervals twice a day makes my recollection and understanding of the book... I don't even know. Feels wrong.

Random mentally ill person makes you question reading? You should quit all reading immediately, post-haste.


Don't hide that shit under a bushel basket. Inspire others, friend. Less screen time.

Literally nothing more pretentious, more attention-seeking.

You didnt have to bring race into this

sounds pretty insecure to me

I'd lick the grease off her face till I get obesity.

bugs ... easy on the rape

>History of Ancient Philosophy
>"fucking Socrates over here"
I think you're all missing the point. The guy called you out for not reading philosophy that's relevant for these times. If you weren't so insecure and looked around you you'd probably notice that he was reading Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies.

>shakes his head and mutters "fucking Socrates over here"
That's hilarious. Are you so self-absorbed and lacking in confidence that you can't laugh at yourself?

that never happened.

... and at him, for that matter.

Well what the fuck else am I supposed to do? Stare blankly at the other passengers who more often than not are disgusting excuses for human beans (I'm American, in a fat city) until I reach my stop feeling depressed about the absolute state of humanity when I could have escaped it all for that 30 minutes?

Unironically this

>implying someone who knows about Socrates would ever admonish you for reading

Most people don't even know who Plato is these days.

i only read pulp, easy reading trash on public transport. pic related.

I couldn't concentrate on the deep and edgy stuff on a train

Restricting reading to any one circumstance usually also restricts my ability to recall it to that same circumstance. Similar to state dependant memory when drinking.

OP is the insecure one. He had to come vent on here over a non-problem

God damn it your life must suck. You have to realize that out there in the real world no one gives a flying fuck about you and that YOU are the ONLY one thinking that reading in public is pretentious simply because you're insecure and autistic. Grow up.

I believe it.
I live in a backwater village full of drunks, smokers, fat, and obese people, more often than not all four in a person.

I was taking a quick jog, running past a bunch of people like these, who were (who would've guessed it) drinking in front of a pub.
It was dark already, in the evening.
I overheard a bunch of them unironically calling me a madman or something to that effect, probably mocking me for not treating my body like a trashcan.

Joke's on them though, this memory doesn't bring my confidence down, but quite the opposite.

>America.txt

user.. easy on the projection..

You don't get it. They called you a madman because you were jogging. What activity could better signify the meaninglessness of modern life than running for the sake of getting tired? In the past people ran when they had to.

I was going to say "try harder" but this was one of the weakest, most milquetoast posts I have seen lately that I'm beginning to question whether it was your intention to bait at all, or if you just tried to make a bad joke and I didn't get it.

Veeky Forums memes were a mistake

when you get memed on by Veeky Forums you have a surprise lol

I thought it was obvious that it's just a stupid joke. I find the hypothesis that all these "dumb people" are actually giving you shit because they're even more intellectually smug than you somewhat more entertaining than your insecure whining about them.

I'll take your word for it, user.

>plato

and this is why you aren't an intellectual

>Insecure whining
I was mentioning my similar and very relevant experience. No need to be a faggot.

Platon?

Dude I'm on 3 weeks nofap don't post this shit on a blue board.

>nofap

But why?

okay

NoFap is retarded you dumb faggot.

I work on the side while studying because I couldn't afford to live in the city with student aid. I always bring a book to work. A few weeks ago I was reading a generic black cover book (I had taken the papers off to avoid them tearing in my stuffed backpack) during lunch and some brainlet commented with "oh wow look at this guy reading the bible over here". The book wasn't even thick.

Then again I already make 4€ more per hour than he does, and he's a guy in his 50s working manual labor while I'm a college student paying bills so if anything his comment made me feel good about myself.

He's mocking you because you're reading "History of Ancient Philosophy," not because you're reading in public

>t. zero self-confidence

You go, user.

>3 weeks
1 week is optimal due to how hormones work. Also, what's the point of doing it if not developing enough self-discipline that you can actually look at these images, get aroused, and do nothing about it?

I remember doing 6 months of nofap once and having my test levels plummet. I couldn't even stay hard when I finally had sex again. Since then I've masturbated 1-2 times a week (without porn) to keep my t levels up.

this is just like that part in HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS where RON has to destroy a HORCRUX and sees a FALSE VISION of HARRY and HERMIONE engaging in HEAVY PETTING, about to GET IT ON.

tl;dr you cannot defile my waifu. i know your deception, o fork-tongued-one.

>do nofap
>ejaculate in your sleep anyway

Why can't you fuckers just buy huge rolls of brown craft paper and use it to cover your books with? If you're this insecure about people scrutinizing you for your literary tastes, you should have done this by now.

Reading in public should be the new counterculture to people browsing phones and being obnoxious about social media. If only to piss them off even further and to make them feel inferior.

It already is.

You are missing the point

kek

Show proof.
If anything literature is on the way out unless it has a shitty movie or TV show advertising it while people are adopting science as a belief ironically being atheists and these are probably the same people who couldn't scrap at least a C in High School science.

But its your hand and you are married to her.

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Not him but every day I see somebody reading a book on the train. It's not that rare even in the smartphone age.

>things that never happened- the post

Pretty sure those are the edges of her nipples

Desperate to get out

Most intellectual post ITT

You should try it sometime to see yourself.
There is something to it

The maturity and intelligence of a /lit post can be measured by how much the poster is able to resist commenting on the sexuality of an OP image (unless it is the subject of the post), and I must say, you have failed miserably.

get a girlfriend you waste of sperm

it's better that his is wasted rather than put to good use

Work on your fiction writing. It's not a believable scenario. There's plenty of people who read on public transit, everywhere. It would have been believable if, perhaps, the black dude was your friend or colleague simply razzing you.

He was just being facetious, maybe even complimenting you.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Just bee urself.

gay

undisciplined

>reads to impress other people
kill self pls
What the fuck am I going to do for 8 hours in train?

Are you that guy who would read that manual on tantric sex in public?

All these posts and not one person was able to identify this as a riff on an old meme. Anyways, would love to lick the sweat from underneath her tits.

Russell wrote "A History of Western Philosophy." You fucking retard.

If you're going to make up stories that never happened at least make sure you have your details right.

You are on Veeky Forums.
It's a given that you, as a person, are pretentious.
Where you are or what you're doing doesn't really matter.

>Reading Bertrand Russell
you deserved it

OP already has enough problems with insecurity, don't make it worse.

Kill yourself. I mean it. If you have to catch public transport, and you like to read, there is no fucking excuse for not doing so. And if you actually care about what others think, you're a fucking pleb anyway

>a completely believable situation is not believable
>in fact, 2 more similar ones in this very thread

Your opinion is wrong.

Nah, mate. You have to write it in greek Πλάτων. And randomly say things like ἀγορά and shit.

Yea, he should only read rap lyrics. Tupac is the best poet, isn't he?

After using brown paper bags for public drinking, americans have to use brown paper bags for books now?

>im le mature intellectual floating above the carnality of lowly wenches meme
suck my uncut dick my you cumhuzzling nincompoop

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don't give a fuck, do what you want - i thought this at least had become a moral standard for 4channers.

WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS? All I want to do is come here for an asexual experience that will exercise my brain but I am constantly titillated by these vixens with their prodigious hips and provocative figures. Can I never satiate this thirst, will I ever know the touch of a woman and enter between her loins? Will my seed ever drip from her moistened hole?

Life is a constant hell. No wonder I resent women too.

good post

Don't worry user, maybe you were in the way? It's not pretentious to read in public, reading on public transportation is the best

ease up dude

Yeah I hate that shit too

>tfw always read on the bus to work
>the bus is filled with Somalians because I live in a European city
>sometimes the Somalians look at me and make comments in Somalian, and sometimes in broken english
>reading pic related the other day
>somalian sitting next to me
>looks at me
>grabs the fucking book and closes it to look at the cover
>laughs at me
>'YOU READ CRAB BECAUSE YOU SISTER SMELL FISHY'
>hits the book onto the floor
>I feel like i have to apologise and put the book away

I mean what the fuck can I do? People feel threatened by my learnededness I guess

Fapping is fine so long as you take it easy, and only do 1-2 a week like said. Porn is what you have to watch out for

frog must have ran out of piss bottles

Except this didn't happen, did it? Nobody took the slightest bit of notice of you. So you had to project your anxiety and prejudice onto an internet message board.
No one gives a fuck what you read or where you read it, you silly juvenile rascist tosser.

but does she?

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>blue balls on a blue board
P O T T E R Y
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how beta can you get

why do all somalians act mentally retarded

>10090056
It's a fascinating experience. Sometimes I'd just like to do a month of no fap all over again. Not fapping just turns you into something quite different

Because most of them are (i.e. sub 80 iq)

He's the one in the wrong, and he's acting like a child about it.

He clearly tried to insult you though, you shouldn't have let him.

Lel, did I trigger you? Well you're wrong about one thing: I love women. I might actually be obsessed with them. They're what I mainly write about nowadays.
But I can still hold back from the need to comment on their sex appeal when it's not pertinent.

They look so happy :3

why did i kek

You can't compare a patrician country like Russia to America, the most illiterate country that has ever existed.