MICHAEL POLINKO, 49 YEARS OLD, DIRECTOR OF QUALITY

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I'M LIVING MY DREAM

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060916193925AA9Dhkn

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK YOU I HATE THIS GUY

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

HE LIVES IN VIRGINIA ONLY AN HOUR OR TWO AWAY DO YOU WANT TO GO KILL HIM?

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

There is totally one of those guys at my gym, except with more tattoos. Sometimes I eavesdrop on his conversations with other buff old dudes just so I can hate him more.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, this guy is in the best shape of his life!
http://www.nathanneff.com/_borders/Michael1.jpg

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

bowflex_promo.jpg

hahahahahahahahahaha

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a little disappointed that his bass is just the usual 4 stringer

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

OH WAIT XPOST SHAZAM

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

For a 49yo dude, he doesn't look too bad to me! (I have no idea who this guy is)

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of hope he googles himself now.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel so ashamed that, for 5 minutes today, I wanted to be him when I got to his age.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

HE SUCKS AND IS A DOUCHEBAG. "DIRECTOR OF QUALITY" MORE LIKE "DIRECTOR OF ASSHOLISM" AMIRITE

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the facial hair is, as cutty put it, reprehensible

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He kinda reminds me of that ultimate fighter guy from Jackass that beat the shit out of Bam Margera. Except, um, not.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you guys notice in that picture up thread, the ambitious seaming on his jeans? This guy is nothing but ambition. To be a horrible, horrible douchebag that I hate. Even Bono has hair, asshole!! Can't hide that with yr bowflex, LOL.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ambition killed ceaser so maybe it will work it's magic on michael polinko too.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

He kind of reminds me of Larry Wig-net:

http://www.larrywinget.com/images/work-banner.jpg

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, we need one with the chin beard

http://domainamerica.net/Winget/Photos2006/pictures/maroon-standing.jpg

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I suspect he's holding his tummy in a bit on the larger photo. The facial hair is pretty bad too. Is this advert on youtube?

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It doesn't appear to be :(

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

What is best for a bald man who aims facial hair?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

no facial hair. If you have no hair on head, you should have no hair on face, and be from the future.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I like shaved head + chops look. It is...cartoony.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Larry Wig-net tells it like it is.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

COOL DAD

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I've come around to the upside down head look, bald w/full beard.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.penguin.com.au/covers-jpg/0141806893.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.tv4.se/imagesdb/editor/tv4noje/979F7D5D-CB8C-4B4C-8E38-E1946D983BA2.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

there are quite a lot of older men in england that are trying to be michael polinko

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

At the end of 2005, Strauss passed his knowledge, which he has titled the "Annihilation Method", to 5 selected followers at a three-day seminar at his California home. He recently sold 375 exclusive copies of the "Annihilation Method" program to those who arrived first on his website, only375.com. Strauss completed an interview with the popular seduction blog The Attraction Chronicles in mid-June 2006 that helped to give members of the community a glimpse into his goals and future influence in the seduction community.[9]

Stylelife Challenge

On May 31, 2006, through Neil Strauss' VIP mailing list, Strauss announced the Stylelife Challenge [1]. The challenge was for those who have trouble with women to get a date in 31 days or less. During the entire month of July 2006, participants were given daily challenges on the Stylelife website[2]. These challenges were designed to help men change their look and overcome their fears and hopefully get a date within the allotted time limit. While the primary goal was simply for participants to get a date, the most improved won a week-end in San Diego with the famous guru 'Hypnotica' (see 'Rasputin' in the Game). The Grand prize winner was "Taste".

http://theseductionbible.com/images/strauss.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The bald/facial-hair look pretty much screams made-over 40-something. It's like "Yeah, I'm going to start embracing my baldness and live life to the fullest!

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

future influence in the seduction community

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/images/detail/0762408073.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i just threw up in my mouth

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.integris-health.com/newsletter/fall2005/images/feature.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://videoboxstudios.com/images/newspics/patcroce.gif

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

arrgh pat croce

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://imshopping.rediff.com/shopping/books/pix/0743266498blowup.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/0743235142/C_0743235142.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.takegreatpictures.com/content/images/1_Dr._Phil.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Strauss is secretly also David Blaine only wearing a wig.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.myetv.org/about_etv/pressroom/highlights/2006/03-mar/images/waynedyer2.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Shaved head + long and/or braided beard = "I'm going to start embracing my NU-METAL BAND and living life to the fullest!"

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The seduction community is a loose-knit subculture of self-help teachers and men who strive for better success with women through self-improvement and a greater understanding of social psychology.[1] It exists largely through Internet forums and groups, as well as over a hundred local clubs, called "lairs" [2]. Supporters refer to the subculture simply as 'the community'[3] and often call themselves "pickup artists."

The seduction community has received an increasing amount of press-coverage, especially since The Game, by journalist and pickup artist Neil Strauss (nicknamed "Style"), reached the New York Times' bestseller list. Strauss compares the community to a "men's self-help movement."[4]

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG ROFFLE!!!

" Hidden Camera Video Reveals Proven Strategies of Attraction, Isolation, & Rapport. Watch a Clip of Real World Live Pick-Up Inside ”

“Pickup 101 has some of the most innovative and powerful ways I've ever seen to build attraction with a woman FAST... and connect with her on a DEEP EMOTIONAL LEVEL.”
-David DeAngelo, DoubleYourDating.com

“One of the few pick-up businesses with integrity.”
-Neil Strauss ('Style') NeilStrauss.com (Author of "The Game")

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

QUICK DEEP EMOTIONAL CONNECTION

WITH LUBE

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a photography professor who looked just like this dude (possibly a little less douchebaggy). He was cool (by the standards of art profs who've realized that their dreams of being famous are dead).

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ISOLATION = u gonna get raped

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/people/robinson/Images/robinson4-3-25s.jpg

Not this guy, is it? (xpost) My wife had his class. He was a cool guy. I think he's very slightly moderately known in the art world though.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, sorry - bizarre brainfart. You said photography. That dude was painting.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Some pickup artists in the community write up "Field Reports" ("FRs") and "Lay Reports" ("LRs") detailing their experiences with women which they share on Internet forums for constructive criticism, or to serve as examples for others.[17]. Others, notably Mystery[18] and Stevie PUA[19] have released 'sarge' audio of themselves 'sarging' in the field as a model to others. Some audio has included 'full closes' (i.e. sex).

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

these dudes are seriously crepey

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not objectification and reduction of women to prizes to be won, it's SELF-HELP!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Professor Dude was a ringer for "I turned 40 and started working out 12 hours a day" guy at the top.

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the point of bowflex is that you only work out 12 MINUTES a day!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I can only begin to imagine how underwhelming sex with a "pickup artist" would be.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god I bet they flex during it.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You must stand up for yourself, and love yourself (as well as women),
while at the same time not being afraid to call bullshit from women
(or men spewing bullshit on behalf of women) openly, publicly and
for what it is, particularly in this day and age, and in particular
in English speaking western countries (ie. the UK, the USA,
Canada..etc). This would include a lot of the “politically correct”
nonsense sexual 'harrassment' bullshit, fake rape...yada yada..
circulating around college campuses, office/workplaces..etc. today.
Because guess what. .Girls want attention and nice dinners, just as
guys like sex, and hot looking women. Both are OK, totally normal,
and it is * NOT* OK for women to openly want and demand what they
want, yet then try to deny or restrict the man what he wants as he
goes about his life in society. When a chick attempts this on a PUA,
that is the express ticket to the evening by herself. That is a fact
of life in the real world, and it is something the “me” generation
had better start getting used to again.

Because it is just as much sexual harassment to * ME * to have to see
an overweight fatty food loving 300 lb co-worker waddling down the
aisle at the office, as it is for her to see my picture of Claudia
Schiffer hanging on my wall. I am JUST AS OFFENDED AND REPULSED to
have to see her (all of 300 lbs of her!), as she is to have to see
my picture.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy shit.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

these guys need to be shot with balls of their own shit

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

dear fucking god. these guys need to have their balls stitched to their thighs (haha x-post)

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"And this guy," he adds, nodding his shaved head in the direction of a man hunched over on the bench in the middle of the room, "he's blown it already -- he is looking lonely and lost. I would talk to those women standing next to him, as a group. Just go up and ask them a question -- but not the one they're expecting. 'Who lies more -- men or women?' Always smile, and always keep your energy level slightly higher than the group you're approaching."

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

billionaire this type:
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/JOBS/Steve.jpg

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Walk up grinning like Corky and throw out an obvious line - chix dig it!

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

To be fair, the above quote was from here: http://www.pickupguide.com/ not Neil Strauss.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I read about the seduction artists, it reminds me of the Toronto poker club that got posted to ILX at some point, where all the nerds thought they were co-starring in Swinger.s

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

neil strauss - when music writers go bad!

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sorry, still laughing at

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Yep - It's me. Shaved my head....still playing in a rock band called TORQUE

TORQUE, mutherfuckers! it's got ZAZZ! He does the jazz hands whenever he says it!

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a great seduction artist episode of csi miami.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of vaguley curious about the "sarge" audio referred to above b/c it sounds like it could be teh omgwtf/funney or good for looping & embedding in threads for lulz, but I suspect in actuality it's really grim, boring and depressing to listen to.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

TORQUE is a great name for a bad band. It suggests either badn foursquare hard rock or even worse directionless noodly fusion. You can imagine a guy playing one of those multi-thousand dollar prs special edition guitars in a band called TORQUE.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cdn.soundclick.com/04/images/t/band/torque.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.torquerock.co.uk/images/book290.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

neil strauss - when music writers go bad!

when was he a good music writer?

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

TORQUE wears jewelry hand made from engine components.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Because guess what. .Girls want attention and nice dinners, just as
guys like sex, and hot looking women.

hahaha I love "Because guess what." as a sentence.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ps anyone who can find the webpage of those Toronto poker nerds will be my hero.

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

when was he a good music writer?

The Dirt is nonstop roffles

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

oh except the vehicular manslaughter bit. I stopped roffling during that.

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what does it have to do with music?

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

he just wrote something that i don't hate!

anyone else read the piece on paul nelson by neil strauss in the current RS?

he is a capable journalist when he wants to be and when it isn't about him. i mean, i read his stuff years ago and never got the idea he was a major-league sleaze or anything. his nerd anger fire was in check. i don't know what happened to him. he lost his mind.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I worked w/Neil as an editor 10 yrs ago, before he went all LA. typical nerdy music geek dude, albeit with ambition to burn. he picked my brain/learned what he could and moved on. whatves.

somehow this polinko guy makes me feel better about turning 49!

― m coleman (lovebug ), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, he's in a rock band.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing that bugs me most about him is how he's like "life's sweet, I'm all buff, I even play guitar in a rock band." YOU PLAY BASS, DICKFACE.

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

NB there is nothing wrong with playing bass, which is exactly why you shouldn't be some giant dicktard and try to fool casual observers into thinking you play lead or something.

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Bass-playing is in fact more manful. But he's obviously trying to fool the casual, non-music-loving bowflex buyer.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Five strings ain't manful.

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you guys ever seen the lady version of the Michael Polinko commercial? With the 50 YO "MILF" with the enormous fake breasts and a "Bowflex Body"? I like to think that she is the former Mrs. Polinko and when "Mickey" had his midlife crisis and joined his Irish pub cover band and bought a car and a bowflex and left her to go try to pathetically pick up on women half his age at the beach (as depicted in the ad), she also bought a Bowflex and some boobs and her ad is an answer, kind of like YouTube holla backs.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Having to put "MILF" in quotes like that reminds me of Pete S. and his "MIF" v "MILF" distinction which I think is very pertinent here.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that the woman who I imagine is his ex-wife has a Bowflex AND a cabana boy, I mean that is living the dream no matter what your sex is, screw playing "guitar" in a "rock band".

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

oh perfect, they make PRS guitars AND basses

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

so this is about tv.....

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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