>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?
Lucas Phillips
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).
Elijah Cox
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.
Grayson Cook
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.
Nolan Clark
Literally nothing more pretentious, more attention-seeking.
Cooper Torres
You didnt have to bring race into this
Joseph Campbell
sounds pretty insecure to me
Michael Nelson
I'd lick the grease off her face till I get obesity.
Joshua Garcia
bugs ... easy on the rape
Jacob Parker
>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.
Samuel Cruz
>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?
Jose Sanchez
that never happened.
Charles Robinson
... and at him, for that matter.
Julian King
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?
Elijah Brooks
Unironically this
Jaxson Anderson
>implying someone who knows about Socrates would ever admonish you for reading
Most people don't even know who Plato is these days.
Levi Gomez
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
Oliver Sanchez
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.
Lincoln Fisher
OP is the insecure one. He had to come vent on here over a non-problem
Daniel Bailey
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.
Juan Thomas
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.
Isaac Adams
>America.txt
Christian Carter
user.. easy on the projection..
Evan Wood
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.
Tyler White
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.
Parker Rivera
Veeky Forums memes were a mistake
Jayden Morales
when you get memed on by Veeky Forums you have a surprise lol
Bentley Morris
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.
Jason Torres
I'll take your word for it, user.
Ryan Carter
>plato
and this is why you aren't an intellectual
Owen Green
>Insecure whining I was mentioning my similar and very relevant experience. No need to be a faggot.
Lucas Foster
Platon?
Zachary Russell
Dude I'm on 3 weeks nofap don't post this shit on a blue board.
Easton Hernandez
>nofap
But why?
Tyler Garcia
okay
Nicholas Hall
NoFap is retarded you dumb faggot.
Bentley Torres
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.
Matthew Sullivan
He's mocking you because you're reading "History of Ancient Philosophy," not because you're reading in public
Michael Foster
>t. zero self-confidence
Jackson Wood
You go, user.
Owen James
>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?
Jack Anderson
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.
Christian Taylor
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.
Ethan Murphy
>do nofap >ejaculate in your sleep anyway
Elijah Ross
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.
Cooper Thompson
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.
Wyatt Lee
It already is.
Ian Butler
You are missing the point
Mason Thomas
kek
Parker Nelson
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.
Ayden Sanders
But its your hand and you are married to her.
Aiden Long
...
Connor Rivera
Not him but every day I see somebody reading a book on the train. It's not that rare even in the smartphone age.
Leo Sanchez
>things that never happened- the post
Eli Martin
Pretty sure those are the edges of her nipples
Dylan Rogers
Desperate to get out
Blake Flores
Most intellectual post ITT
Lincoln Stewart
You should try it sometime to see yourself. There is something to it
Alexander Fisher
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.
Logan Price
get a girlfriend you waste of sperm
Nolan Anderson
it's better that his is wasted rather than put to good use
Sebastian Thompson
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.
Dylan Gray
He was just being facetious, maybe even complimenting you.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Just bee urself.
Elijah Cox
gay
Justin Powell
undisciplined
Joseph Nguyen
>reads to impress other people kill self pls What the fuck am I going to do for 8 hours in train?
Lincoln Lewis
Are you that guy who would read that manual on tantric sex in public?
Brandon Green
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.
Jonathan Hernandez
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.
Ryan Powell
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.
Andrew Hernandez
>Reading Bertrand Russell you deserved it
Oliver Evans
OP already has enough problems with insecurity, don't make it worse.
Ryder Powell
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
Hunter Ross
>a completely believable situation is not believable >in fact, 2 more similar ones in this very thread
Your opinion is wrong.
Luke Reyes
Nah, mate. You have to write it in greek Πλάτων. And randomly say things like ἀγορά and shit.
Jacob Nelson
Yea, he should only read rap lyrics. Tupac is the best poet, isn't he?
Julian Jackson
After using brown paper bags for public drinking, americans have to use brown paper bags for books now?
Julian Campbell
>im le mature intellectual floating above the carnality of lowly wenches meme suck my uncut dick my you cumhuzzling nincompoop
Brody Wood
...
Parker Young
don't give a fuck, do what you want - i thought this at least had become a moral standard for 4channers.
David Evans
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.
Eli Gutierrez
good post
Charles Perez
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
Kevin Allen
ease up dude
Evan Thomas
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
Alexander Gonzalez
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
Wyatt Sanders
frog must have ran out of piss bottles
Levi Hall
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.
William Scott
but does she?
Camden Adams
...
Sebastian Torres
>blue balls on a blue board P O T T E R Y O T T E R Y
Thomas Brooks
how beta can you get
Nathan Kelly
why do all somalians act mentally retarded
Camden Hill
>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
Liam Nelson
Because most of them are (i.e. sub 80 iq)
Sebastian Cook
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.
Jonathan Peterson
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.
Logan Howard
They look so happy :3
Blake Perry
why did i kek
Alexander King
You can't compare a patrician country like Russia to America, the most illiterate country that has ever existed.