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[Atrophied]

Interesting and opinionated post joebrent

I have but one qualm - you misspelled Hallowe'en

[Dorkmaster]

joebrent, I can't say I agree with all points, but I salute you!

My boredom thing... hmmm...

*I have found that in my experience, we say nastier things to friends than enemies, so if someone is nasty to you, consider that before thrashing back.

*People always want to be valued. People want to be liked, but not so much as they want to be valued. Example: If I came up with the stupidest invention ever, I don't care if you really needed it. I want you to buy just one, even if you do so while telling me to keep the day job. Or if you had an idea at work, I'll bet you don't care if they really implement it, as much as if you knew they really listened and really considered it first. You just want to be valued

*High-school kids are really smart. They play dumb... a lot... but they really are smarter than most people I know (and I know smart people). Most could get into the most crazy college or ace the most complex exams, if given a chance, and that freshmen are usually smarter than the seniors... something happens after that that dulls us!

*Everyone thinks they're funny. They're not. Probably 10% of the populace (which is really a lot of people) is funny. The rest are in two categories: the mildly amusing (estimated 40%) and the boring (the rest). I'm not sure where I fit in, but I'm pretty sure I'm not boring. (But statistics say I may be wrong, entirely )

*The most interesting people I know have little money, and even less cares.

*The least interesting people I know have lots of money, and seem to have a never-ending list of things that concern them.

*God has a sense of humor.

*You are not a l337 H4X0rZ. Really, you're not. Seriously.

[angel2k10]

i was bitten by a mentally unstable swan once

[Giskard]

[yanka]

[orphaen]

Dorkmaster.
Come here.
.......
*holds up the cutest little puppy near them at the time*
*puppy licks Dorkmaster's face in glee and thanks*
*puts down the puppy who then happily butt-wiggles and scampers off to play with the other dogs*

Best.
Post.
This month.
Period.


<3

[catlord29]

I got lost once, and a goose that was a head taller than me attempted to bite me, but it missed, but I'm still scarred for life. If anone knows the word for fear of water fowl, please let me know. [/quote]

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DOOOD!!!!! I HATE those Canadian Geese! I'm typically a fan of all creatures, great and small, but my last job, I worked for a company that had a cafeteria, and attached to that cafeteria was an outdoor patio area (which was nice, actually, with a little water fountain-y thing, what have you... it was cool. but I digress....) Anyway, across the maybe 15-20 feet of water (pond) there were some bushes, lining the way, so people on the street wouldn't be looking at people eating their lunch, smoking, etc.

Anyway, I'm out there eating lunch, and there's some geese over there...

They're looking at me wierd, and kind of pacing. (There's always a lookout... if there's more than one goose, there's all of em foraging or whatever they do, but always one lookout goose... creepy)

Anyway, I'm wearing this big black trenchcoat (it was the fall, but just cool, not cold...) Anyhoo, as I stood up, I guess my coat kinda billowed a bit, and the goose went CRAZY, and started flying at me, headlong, with it's neck kinda going in and out (point in front of you, with arm extended (this is the goose head) and then bring your hand back to your shoulder area, while still pointing in the same area, bring back to original position, and squawk crazily... this is SOMEWHAT of the terror I experienced, but in fowl bodily form. ) Anyway, he starts at me, and I run, and HE CHASES ME around a corner, and back to the door, where he finally gives up, and leaves me alone, but he took a couple bites at me (he missed, or just got my coat or something, but I felt tugs, but no harm done)...


But yeah... from that point on, man... I seriously dislike those geese. Devil's creature's they are... (shivers)

[catlord29]

[dorkie again]

from http://www.seps.org/oracle/oracle.archive/Life_Science.Health/2005.08/001122580041.30152.html:

[Withe Bartbi]

Considering I had nowhere else to post this, I'd like to celebrate my 100th post. I wanted to make it special, so I put on some music, lit some candles, made it a nice dinner, and here's the product of me and my 100th post's night together, a lovely triska-related haiku:


On tangled branches
I swing with the wind, Triscal.
A Child of the books.



Anybody wanna take up my challenge and make up another game related haiku?

[shane]

[joebrent]

Some more things I think I think:

There are two personality quirks which are simply intolerable. These are the tendency towards dramaqueenism, and a tendency to be mean to waiters. Drama queens are never happier than when they are miserable, and therefore must invent affronts where there are none to give themselves something to be miserable about; people who are mean to waiters only do so because they know the waiter will sit there and take it because he depends on tips for a living. The latter sort have no self-repect, and so they take it out on those who won't fight back, because if someone ever actually did, they would crumble into a womb of self-loathing.

All other personality quirks are tolerable, because it's the craggy juts in the rock foundation of your character that makes you interesting. Unperturbable, proper people are boring.

Your best friend is the one who will tell you you have a booger hanging out of your nose, rather than seek to save you a moment's face.

The greatest poem about war I'm aware of is Houseman's Here dead lie we. The greatest painting about war I'm aware of is Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 (not, you will notice, Guernica). The greatest piece of music about war I'm aware of is Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, the 'Leningrad'. If someone can hip me to works of art on the subject of war I am not aware of, please PM me.

The greatest poem about love I'm aware of is the epitaph Mark Twain wrote for his daughter, Warm summer sun shine kindly here. The greatest painting about love I'm aware of is Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy. The greatest piece of music about love I'm aware of is 'Morgandlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein', from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Again, please hip me with more.

The greatest poem about death I'm aware of is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The greatest painting about death I'm aware of is Poussin's 'Arcadia'. The greatest piece of music about death I'm aware of is Gorecki's 3rd Symphony. As usual, hip me.

Film music is the last relevant orchestral medium, but nobody will ever take Bernard Herrmann as seriously as Stravinsky, and that's a shame. Don Byron is the greatest living musician, Tom Waits is the bravest (now that Astor Piazzola is dead). And Stevie Wonder would have been great at whatever genre he went into. If he had been born in Austria in the mid 19th century, he would have kicked Brahms's ass.

And finally, sometimes, it's better not to have any thoughts at all.

[Obes]

did you know there's a phobia of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth?


I mean.. come on!

Some things that also annoy me:

*People that sue the council/government for trivial things. You fall out of a tree.. guess what.. DON'T CLIMB TREES. If a child does it, tell them it's a learning experience.

*You're not funny if you exploit people's fears. If I was afraid of popping balloons, and you creep up behind me an pop one, I'm perfectly allowed to be upset. Actually, you'd be lucky not to be quickly laying on the floor with a frying pan shaped mark on your forehead.

*I'm allowed to be upset. Stop telling me to 'get over it'. I'm not a dramaqueen, so when non-dramaqueens are upset, try actually asking what's wrong and listening.

*Don't be rude to strangers. You're the one looking like an inconsiderate creep, not them.

*Mothers with pushchairs/buggies DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY GET RIGHT OF WAY. Dammit, I shouldn't have to walk in the road to avoid you.

*As with above, DON'T TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAVEMENT/SIDEWALK!!!!, that's to all other padestrians. If you're walking, be nice and keep to one side. If you're in a group, don't walk incredibly slow, and please let other past. If I have to walk into the path of a moving car one more time to step around someone who won't move over, Orphean's puppy gets it.

And finally.. Don't Ever Ignore/Blank Me. You'll only regret it later when I do the same back at the opportune moment. Mwahahaha.

Obes.

P.S. What can I say... I'm bored.

[yanka]