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User ImagePreston Swagger 17 November 2008 Ask A Guy 246 views 13 CommentsPrint This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post

So the writers on this site are the last of the free men. In college there were 8 of us. Since then, 4 have fallen. Toby and I came up with the bet for the last of us. It goes as follows:

All of us chip in and buy a giant gold belt.  One like the champion in the WWE wears.

The last single person is presented with the belt sometime DURING the second to last guys WEDDING.  It can be during the ceremony.  It can be at the reception before the best man toast.  Hell, it can be during the father daughter dance.  But the losers must present the winner with his belt and acknowledge him as the champion.  Plain and simple….and hilarious

Yes…I’m laughing right now.

So the question was asked: Do guys wager on everything?

The Answer: Real guys do.

I’m just kidding.  But yes, a lot of us do.  One of the most common traits found in men is competitiveness.  Whether it’s at work, against his boys, playing sports, lifting weights, video games etc.  You name it.  My friends and I are HYPER COMPETITIVE — and that’s putting it mildly.  We’re the guys who — when one of us balls up a piece of paper and shoots it into the trashcan — the next one of us moves the trash can 6 inches back and tries the same shot.

The essence of being competitive comes from belief.  Belief that you ARE or WILL BE the best at something (Note: Ladies, don’t you want a guy like that?  Plus that competitive spirit is EASILY transferable into other things.  Do with that information whatever you’d like.  I’m just sayin…).  So when someone comes along and tells you that you’re wrong about your belief…it’s pretty powerful.  NO ONE whoever won ANYTHING didn’t start by BELIEVING he could…..even if it was just a little bit.

So you think you’re the best.  Their belief conflicts with yours.  So you have to settle this.  And you have to settle it in such a way that the loser feels it. In a way that it stings…

Typically, this result is achieved by taking his money.  Usually when something costs you…it stings.

(That’s why you ladies key and or bust the windows out of our car, isn’t it?  That’s what Jazmine Sullivan told me anyway…)

I’d argue that guys wagering isn’t childish, rather it’s just a bi-product of their over competitiveness.  The determining factor for whether or not it’s childish is WHAT we wager on.  Which begs the question:

Preston, isn’t the bet you and Toby came up with childish?

Possibly.

But I don’t see it that way.  We’re really just upping the stakes on our love lives.  I want to win the bet.  But what all of us want more than that is the woman who makes us not give a damn about it…

–Preston

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13 Comments »

  1. Hmmm…that quote sounds EERILY FAMILAR!

    Anywho…ok. So guys bet on everything. Because you’re uber-competitive and that translates into being super manly and therefore women should be happy that their men like to bet cash on whether or not they can skip a pebble across a lake further than their best friend, dad and brother huh?

    **silence…crickets**

    Right. ‘I can do anything you can do better’ is the statement that is flashing in my head. And it’s already getting annoying. As a woman who grew up in a house with two older brothers, I have seen that competitiveness play out in a number of ways…does it never get old? I’m just saying…

    //no imageChelz... (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 9:09 am

  2. @ Chelz, no it NEVER gets old! It’s just apart of who they are.

    But what all of us want more than that is the woman who makes us not give a damn about it…
    SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE POET PRESTON!

    //no imageSILKIE TRICKZ (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 9:13 am

  3. @Chelz — what if I was once dating a girl and we were fooling around. What if we were exchanging oral pleasures with each other at the same time. What if we made a friendly wager to see who could make the other cum first? What if that lead to a fun little evening of us devouring each other?

    Competition is ok then, right? Trust me no crickets were heard then… Mostly because I won. But then again, there really was no loser.

    Alot of male traits can be a pain. I fully acknowledge that. But instead of lamenting them…you should figure a way to use them to your advantage. Ego and competition…both are often found in men…both can EASILY be used to your pleasure/benefit…

    //no imagePreston Swagger (Who am I?) (author)
    17 November 2008 at 9:17 am

  4. @Silkie — Thank you very much!!

    //no imagePreston Swagger (Who am I?) (author)
    17 November 2008 at 9:18 am

  5. @Pres

    Nothing involving oral sex (hell, sex period) is gonna get an ‘oh hell no’ from me…but regardless of if I can use it to my advantage or not, I’m still not gonna wanna necessarily watch you and your older cousin battle it out for who can make the best burger at your parents annual 4th of July barbeque for $30 and bragging rights…just not cool.

    And I also aint gonna be happy bout Bengay-ing you down and stroking your ego all night because you and your frat brother bet $50 on a pick-up basketball game and you lost…miserably.

    But keep throwing in those sex and household chore wagers and I might be a little more amicable in this betting crap.

    //no imageChelz... (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 9:25 am

  6. Ok. That last sentence made me disregard everything that came before it. Men will bet on ANYthing. It’s a given, and competition is a good thing. Mediocrity and complacency are so dull. And I like to cheer for my guy, but I will warn that I bore easily. I may not pay attention to the entire thing, and I don’t really want to hear about it later no matter if he won or lost.

    //no imageReina (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 9:34 am

  7. @Preston

    and let me make sure I heard you right….are you insinuating that your oral game is on point?

    Hmmm….

    //no imageChelz... (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 9:39 am

  8. [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSo the writers on this site are the last of the free men. In college there were 8 of us. Since then, 4 have fallen. Toby and I came up with the bet for the last of us. It goes as follows: All of us chip in and buy a giant gold belt. One like the champion in the WWE wears. The last single person is presented with the belt sometime DURING the second to last guys WEDDING. It can be during the ceremony. It can be at the reception before the best man toast. Hell, it can be during the father [...]

    //The Bet & Ask A Guy
    17 November 2008 at 9:49 am

  9. @Chelsea — I am insinuating that. I’m also insinuating that my skills rose even higher than normal because there was a competition involved. I thought about every instruction she’d ever given me. I thought about every way that I’d touched her in the past that got a response. I thought about every experience prior and applied it. Cause that was my girl…I always want her to feel good and be physically satisfied. But you can’t discount the fact that I WANTED TO WIN.

    I wanted her to look back and see a smug look on my face as she panted…

    //no imagePreston Swagger (Who am I?) (author)
    17 November 2008 at 10:17 am

  10. @Reina — OK your last sentence made me disregard everything that came before it…LOL. Nah I’m just playin.

    “Mediocrity and complacency are so dull” — Absolutely. You HAVE to be a go-getter. “If you don’t have a plan, then you are not a man” –Phonte (Little Brother)

    “And I like to cheer for my guy…” — And we like to be cheered for (especially if you’ve got an outfit you like to “cheer” in!!) It’s alright that you get bored easily…we appreciate the effort. And that effort shall be returned to you…

    //no imagePreston Swagger (Who am I?) (author)
    17 November 2008 at 10:24 am

  11. @Preston

    Can we PLEASE refrain from the oral sex references? I’m at work, for orgasms’ sake!

    //no imageChelz... (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 11:39 am

  12. Men will bet on just about anything, it’s funny though that you guys really have a bet about the last to get married though. Reading this I was like aren’t they really just setting themselves up to maybe be alone? But those last three lines sum it up nicely…

    *sidebar* and in case you don’t know women are just as competitive.You get me and a certain homegirl together at a club we always bet who can get the most numbers, it’s a lil vain but fun..lol

    //no imageBahama (Who am I?)
    17 November 2008 at 1:13 pm

  13. here’s a bet for you.

    i’ll bet you a weekly feature on this website that the cheesemonkey will marry a man in california before you realize you and your boys are all frightened homosexuals cowering in the closet of anal love. stopped proclaiming how manly you are and step up and give your readers some gay love.

    //no imageCheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey (Who am I?)
    20 November 2008 at 1:26 pm

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