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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2016 5:18:47 GMT -5
Happy New Years! Have you made your resolutions yet? -M
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2016 8:05:06 GMT -5
Happy New Year, one and all. Hope it's a good one for you
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 1, 2016 13:21:13 GMT -5
I am posting from the future, from the far-off year of 2016! Did we finally get personal jet-packs? I want to go to Sea Lab in 4 years !
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 1, 2016 13:22:54 GMT -5
Happy New Years everyone ! I'm still at work, renting cars at Hertz tomorrow too Sorry, man. I hope you can find time to relax this weekend at least Yeah. I've got weekends off. I'm like most of you: stay home with the fam and watch tv, but, I can now say that there's a ton of people that rent cars and go somewhere for New Year's. I had no idea !
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 1, 2016 16:04:39 GMT -5
I took my wife and son to Coney Island this afternoon and they both jumped into the water with the Polar bear club to start the Year off. It was cold, man.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 2, 2016 2:50:16 GMT -5
Did we finally get personal jet-packs? I want to go to Sea Lab in 4 years ! By that logic, life should get a lot more fun and a lot less serious by 2021
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2016 5:18:51 GMT -5
I'd bet any amount that there are also atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews who skip or skimp on the tip as well. Sure, but they don't print these up archive.is/vNRqOThis can't be an isolated incident on behalf of one or two cheapskates either, because we have ALL seen this before. It has national distribution. The hypocrisy inherent in passing around passages from a book about a guy who thought everyone should give everything they own to the poor and that rich people shouldn't go to heaven in leu of a tip for an underpaid service worker is not lost on me here. It's something that stands out more than anyone who isn't passing that literature around who also doesn't tip.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 2, 2016 9:55:15 GMT -5
I spent about 5.50 on eBay last night buying a few Pokemon cards that my son had mentioned he liked. I had looked in his binder (I bought him a binder and card pages for what he has) to see if had them and then ordered them. While I know nothing about the card game itself, I felt a bit of excitement for him, from remembering what locating key cards for my collection was like. And I didn't the Internet then.
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 2, 2016 12:46:01 GMT -5
I spent about 5.50 on eBay last night buying a few Pokemon cards that my son had mentioned he liked. I had looked in his binder (I bought him a binder and card pages for what he has) to see if had them and then ordered them. While I know nothing about the card game itself, I felt a bit of excitement for him, from remembering what locating key cards for my collection was like. And I didn't the Internet then. I was talking to my best friend about the effect the internet had on hobbies the other day while we were running. We both felt it had taken away the excitement of the hunt. I remember being excited about the Cologne Comic Convention for months because I knew I'd get a chance to fill some holes in my collection. I remember searching for the song "Misty Blue" by Dorothy Moore for months because I liked the story behind it so much, never even having heard it, then one morning waking up to my radio alarm clock playing it because it had finally been released on CD. Having a song stuck in my head and not knowing the artist or title and humming it to the clerk at the record store (while I was working at a used CD store/ comic book store as a student, customers serenaded me that way quite often). Nowadays, the Axis of Instant Gratification (Youtube, Google, ebay) spoils all that fun.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 2, 2016 13:59:30 GMT -5
From an economic standpoint the Internet in shopping for this is a benefit for me. Especially with my kid's hobbies. I can buy so easily and much cheaper online than locally for the same exact product when it comes to gaming.
On the note of not having the Internet when I was young. I just had radio, no cable, and not a TV until I was a teenager, and I didn't know until I watched Carribean Queen on YouTube Billy Ocean wasn't white, whose name I got mixed up with Billy Joel, who was. So yeah some things an remain a mystery then. Not so much now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2016 14:08:21 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 2, 2016 15:09:56 GMT -5
The Billy Joel/Ocean thing I remember being a mistaken association. Much like to this s day I couldn't for my life seperate Keith David and David Keith's roles. I recognize which man is which when I see them. But if you asked me who voiced Arbiter in Halo I'd have a 50/50 chance of answering correctly.
As far as irrational fears as a child most of my stemmed in my religion. Making me fearful to think a wrong thought. I thought I'd never be this old before the end of the world. Being that my folks religion forbade holidays, superstition, and pages things I at least never was subject to the lies associated with those things to develop fears about. (Who would tell their child a evil worm in their nose would bite their finger off if they didn't stop picking it?)
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 2, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -5
The Billy Joel/Ocean thing I remember being a mistaken association. Much like to this s day I couldn't for my life seperate Keith David and David Keith's roles. I recognize which man is which when I see them. But if you asked me who voiced Arbiter in Halo I'd have a 50/50 chance of answering correctly. As far as irrational fears as a child most of my stemmed in my religion. Making me fearful to think a wrong thought. I thought I'd never be this old before the end of the world. Being that my folks religion forbade holidays, superstition, and pages things I at least never was subject to the lies associated with those things to develop fears about. (Who would tell their child a evil worm in their nose would bite their finger off if they didn't stop picking it?) Whoa, I'm really sorry you had to go through that.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 2, 2016 15:51:12 GMT -5
Thanks pip. Just to be clear the evil worm thing was from the link Ms CW posted earlier.
But I still have these now rational fears. My folks religion taught Jesus coming would happen in my lifetime (and much earlier by their prophecy's calculations) and I'd never worry about death if I stayed on the path. But times gone on and nothing's changed. If they're wrong about that what else are they wrong about? What religion if any has it right? Now time goes on and death awaits. I'll die. I'll have to bury my folks. These are things I thought I'd never have to deal with. Even if something drastic happened and my folks or I died an accidental death we could still get a ressurection to an earthly paradise after Jesus returned.
I don't hold my folks to my faults and fears. I may hold their religion to it but that causes nothing but emptiness. I try to focus on making the only life I have happy and worth every minute for myself and my wife and sons. The empty inside me that I mostly don't share with even my wife is what the alcohol fills. I don't want to bury my parents. But time says I will. And that's a realization that I was taught wouldn't happen.
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 2, 2016 16:09:22 GMT -5
Thanks pip. Just to be clear the evil worm thing was from the link Ms CW posted earlier. But I still have these now rational fears. My folks religion taught Jesus coming would happen in my lifetime (and much earlier by their prophecy's calculations) and I'd never worry about death if I stayed on the path. But times gone on and nothing's changed. If they're wrong about that what else are they wrong about? What religion if any has it right? Now time goes on and death awaits. I'll die. I'll have to bury my folks. These are things I thought I'd never have to deal with. Even if something drastic happened and my folks or I died an accidental death we could still get a ressurection to an earthly paradise after Jesus returned. I don't hold my folks to my faults and fears. I may hold their religion to it but that causes nothing but emptiness. I try to focus on making the only life I have happy and worth every minute for myself and my wife and sons. The empty inside me that I mostly don't share with even my wife is what the alcohol fills. I don't want to bury my parents. But time says I will. And that's a realization that I was taught wouldn't happen. My mom was over 70 when she told me that when she was 8, the village priest was a sick pervert who would threaten her that her soul would get "eaten by worms" because of her impure thoughts about her body, and then he coaxed her to come up with impure thoughts about her body to share them during confession. That messed with her attitude towards her body and sexuality for her entire life.
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