It's Personal...

Artless · Post by **Artless** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:34 am

Pay this no mind; I didn't immediately respond when Av asked about my site because I was working on an update and I was too embarrassed by the old version. But here it is anyway, updated to be all whizbang social connected with the Twitting and dribbbles all the kids are hip to these days.

K · Post by K » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:36 am

Artless wrote:Pay this no mind; I didn't immediately respond when Av asked about my site because I was working on an update and I was too embarrassed by the old version. But here it is anyway, updated to be all whizbang social connected with the Twitting and dribbbles all the kids are hip to these days.

Nice portfolio.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:45 am

An old friend has decided that now that he's talking to a woman that he is now too cool to talk to me.

I am not allowed to post on his wall or comment on anything on his feed because my presense might nerd his wall up or something.

Keep in mind we have put more years into being bros than this chick has put into BEING ALIVE. I have bled for this fucker and that is NOT hyperbole.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:56 am

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:36 pm

My thoughts exactly. We've been out of high school for 15 fucking years, I thought this bullshit was over with a long time ago. Fuck, I wouldn't have even gotten mad if he had just asked me politely instead of sending me a profanity-laced rant. And I never even contacted her or interacted with her in any way on the internet.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:14 pm

Do it!
Send her what he send you, publish it on your wall and on every other wall you can find!

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:43 pm

No need. I dont think the relationship will go anywhere with his attitude.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:45 pm

Yeah, I know a guy who turned 18 and suddenly acted like turning 18 meant he had to undergo a huge shift in personality and what he liked and didn't like and etc, etc.

In literally one day.

All of a sudden, he considers video games "immature" and tries to act all superior that I'm reading Terry Pratchett when he's conspicuously flashing copies of King Lear or suchlike.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:34 pm

Ess has a friend like that. It's like now that he's a husband, he's not allowed to like D&D or play games. So stupid.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:16 pm

I refuse to ever grow up or mature. I will always keep my LEGO's and Transformers, and I will never think that having an entire room dedicated to playing with them is childish. I will always play games like Pokemon and never feel ashamed (well, unless the games themselves get super shit-tastic), etc. etc.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:56 pm

Definitely. The idea that LEGOs (or whatever) are mutually exclusive with maturity is sad. Not only does it create conflicts (and mid-life crises) for grown-ups who still like those things, but it creates conflicts in younger people who interpret adulthood as bad.

I'd like my adulthood with a nice heaping spoonful of toys and games, please.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:59 pm

Relevant quote:

C.S. Lewis wrote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:28 am

True Story: I was in talks with my ex last year about getting back together. I decided to come out as a Brony (I was wearing my FlutterYAY shirt at the time). The negotiations failed.

Although to be honest, I was tired of her pretend tea-parties and shit where adults get together and prove how very adult they are. And I'd get most of them to admit that they loved the Batman animated series, or loved Ninja Turtles or Jem or He-Man whenever I was dragged along. She did not like that.

My definition of being an adult is similar to how Elan defines being on an adventure. http://webcomicoverlook.files.wordpress ... .jpg?w=604

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:33 am

I think you mean the way Haley defines being an adventurer.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:37 am

So today, I realized that I'm doing pretty well. I had more money in the bank than I thought, I realized just how much my job is getting me in shape (shit that used to take effort is now nigh-effortless, hurray for floop-mopping), I'm going to a Halloween party tomorrow (And making chocolate-covered pretzels to bring).

Someone introduced me to 1d4chan's wiki, and I spent this morning laughing myself silly over the Angry Marine entry. I pay my bills and still have money leftover for stuff.

So I'm basically in a mood to crank up the Eagles and "Life's Been Good So Far". Or maybe Travis Tritt's "Great Day to be Alive".

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:48 am

I, myself, play the soundtrack to Fallout:3 whenever I'm feeling good. Nothing like Roy Brown or the Ink Spots to lift your spirits. And, of course, classic Megaman music can and should never be discounted either. Stuff's like Prozac.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:45 am

oh yeah, 1d4chan is disturbingly fun ^^
hmm, musik for when i'm feeling good . .
No idea actually O.o

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:53 am

Went to a Halloween party. It was cool, because I have never been invited to a party before, I'm usually the one that has to throw them.

It was fun. It lost points because the host was a pothead and potheads throw lame parties (mostly because they think setting up a room to smoke weed in counts as entertainment), but I did have two different chicks in costumes that both involved fishnet stockings and thong underwear stumble drunkenly in my lap, and another chick in a rubber catsuit smacked me with a riding crop.

9/10. Would party again.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:57 am

what i don't get:
isn't halloween at the 30th?
why are there all these halloween memes / parties before that? x.x

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:19 am

31st. And the parties are happening before it, because it falls on a weeknight, and so people have to work/go to school/whatever the next day

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:55 am

my teachers/instructors always said:"if you can party, you can work the next day!"
i took that to mean:"if you can't party, you can't work the next day!"
and did not do either ^^

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:54 pm

So, recently I was reminiscing about my high-school days. One thing that I remembered most prominently was that fact that whenever we did book reports or research reports, on top of the written assignment itself, we also had to do a PowerPoint presentation of it as well. Which was endlessly fucking retarded, but thats another story.

One of the rules for the reports was that if you used a website as one of your sources, you could only use sites that were either .org, .edu, or .gov. Wikipedia was right out, because, and I quote, "Anyone can put anything on it and it's almost always wrong." I'm quite certain that the dumbfucks who through some miracle of nature became "teachers" had never been to Wikipedia, but again, that's another story for another day. (It should be noted that this school is what generated in me an intense hatred of PowerPoint, but yet again, another story.)

One memorable time, I chose to do a research report on the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who had always been an inspirational figure to me and was one of my favorite historical figures.

So, I did the report, both written and PowerPoint, and presented both in front of the entire school, as was the custom with these things. And I got an "F-" and dentention for my troubles.

Why? Because I used a website that ended in .org. This .org, to be exact: www.martinlutherking.org. Now, you may ask yourself: why did I get a failing grade for using one of the guidelines set down by the dick hole teachers?

Just read the site verrry carefully.

Now, this was all to prove a point: Just because a site has .edu or .org or whatever does not mean that it is factual or contains correct infromation. To further drive the point home, I did yet another essay and PowerPoint on the good Reverend, this time using Wikipedia as my primary source. And that report contained actual factual biographical information on Martin Luther King, Jr., and not racist propoganda.

I argued this point, rationally and intelligently, to the teachers, and they (reluctantly) ultimately saw my point. And because of this, I managed to single-handedly shame and disgrace the entire faculty of my school. I was invariably reminded of Orson Welles and his radio play of War of the Worlds.

I still got an F-.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:20 pm

of course you did . .
school is not about being right, it's about accepting what teachers say as right . .

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:33 pm

When I was in high school, I took lots of honors classes - especially Honors English. We read a fuckton of books each month, and most of the kids in the class read at least one other book on their own.

I got fed up of having to write book reports in an honors class when it was blatantly obvious that all the students in the class read books and had reading comprehension, so instead of writing a book report, I wrote a detailed essay as to why books reports should not be required.

I got a C, which was to be expected, really. But the teacher agreed with my essay and stopped requiring his honors classes to write book reports.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:53 pm

Nothing changed in my school, to this day students still have to do both written reports and PowerPoints. Fucking pricks, forcing too much damn work onto students.

Grr.

I never had to do them again myself, but that's because they were afraid of what I might've pulled next. Ah, the glory days...