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Paul is older than I thought... much, much older.
Those dragon paintings he did? They were from life.
(Actually, Paul, my girlfriend had one of your paintings as a poster in her room for years, and was pretty surprised to find out you posted on this forum! She really liked that one - a red dragon, I think).
- i have no self confidence in myself due to some past traumas.
- when under stress i have mood swings
- I cant see beggars, misery etc , im super sensitive to it and imagine myself and my loved ones in their place...its hard to beat, might go to a psychiatrist eh...
I have shitty eyes but dont wear glasses nearly as often as I should cause I hate how I look in them. I cant wear contacts cause they freak me out. I cant even put eyedrops in my eyes.
- I am African American but im white. Grew up in South-Africa, dutch heritage. People often think they're clever the first time they figure out that fact about me.
- Moving to another country when you're 12 fucking blows. I only stopped my hate spree of the US freshman year in college when i realized being hateful is like a lead weight on your ankle. Now i can't stand negativity, feels like poison when I'm around people that bitch.
- I'm i've been in love with a girl that lives back in Africa since I was 15. We dont keep in touch. Impossible love is always the best innit.
While some folks know this, I was "clinically depressed" two years ago and nearly killed myself. Nearly. Doesn't quite count, so I don't have bragging rights...
I've written a novel in 30 days as part of National Novel Writing Month. I made $28 off of family thanks to that sucker.
Despite having been here, modelling, skinning, etc. for almost seven years, I have not once finished a player model. I've only released a few weapons and skins. The rest of my time was spent furiously masturbating to pictures of dead animals.
I worry about everything. As a result, I often have some degree of anxiety. On good days, it's little to none, regularly it's bad in the mornings and eases off, but when it's really bad I literally sit under my desk and cry. No fucking joke.
I'm unfortunately very open about my life. As such, many details others would be hesitant to share are pretty much fair game. The only thing I don't like to discuss is relationship stuff (beyond saying how happy or confused I am), as I've never had one despite trying for the past couple months to develop one with someone who means a lot to me.
Um, I suppose there's also the fact that most people do not know that I sound like a radio announcer. My voice is extremely deep, to the point where folks online have a very hard time associating my voice with my face.
- I was starting quarterback of my high school football team for three years
- I played Varsity Baseball and was a starter all 4 years of high school
- Along with being a huge jock I was also a huge nerd. I actually taught the C and C++ classes in high school my junior and senior year.
- I went to college originally for computer science and played baseball in college. Once I found out how horrible programming was and the people I was forced to work with compared to my baseball / jock buddies I left college after my first year.
- I joined the navy at 19 and left my small hometown in maine and got stationed in San Diego, California.
- I did 2 depoloyments to the Middle East and worked with special forces (SEAL Teams) to combat piracy at sea, terrorist weapon trades, smuggling, etc
- I love to rappel regular and inverted.
- Once while on my ship in the middle of the persian gulf i asked a guy that was sitting outside what he was reading and when he began to tell me i knocked the book out of his hand and said readings for suckers. It got really bad when the book hit my boot and then tumbled over the side of the ship into the Persian Gulf to never be seen again. (We hadn't gotten mail prior to that day for almost 100 days and it was the new Harry Potter book he had been waiting ages for) Ooops
- I had my 21st birthday on an Iraqi Smuggling Vessle surrounded by would be terrorists and people that wanted my head on a stick.
- If it wasn't for September 11th I never would have met my wife Rhea and we wouldn't have gotten married in November of 2001
- I have gained almost 65 pounds since being married for 5 years. Yeah it sucks. Time to hit up the gym again.
Phew... I think thats enough for now.
Hey everybody, first post. Anyways, my most valued possesions are my 3 external hard drives. 750+ gigs of the best porn 10 years of pirating could offer.
well, I'm supposed to be in class right now but my car battery died as I tried to get going there. I just spent a hell of a last hour trudging through the snow, learning magical and mystical things to help it get back up and running again.
My name is not and never has been Frank. As I've been using the name online for over ten years now though, I do answer to it as there's a few people I know that only know me as Frank.
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I don't drink milk. I never have. I despise the taste. And yes, that includes chocolate and strawberry milk.
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I hate, loathe, and detest milk. I almost knocked out my best friend for trying to pour milk on my head. It isn't just the taste.... its its consistency and viscosity. I'm not lactose intolerant, just phobic.
From 97-99/2000ish my aspirations and goals were to become a High School Music teacher, teach private violin lessons, and play in a professional orchestra. Was started on the violin at the ripe age of 3, and a proficient on the Trumpet, F Horn, Cornet, Violin, Viola and mildly able in Piano, Clarinet, Flute, oboe, trombone, baritone, tuba, Cello, upright bass, Banjo, and Dulcimer.
Prior to starting on the violin, my parents enrolled me in Gymnastics (yes, at 3). They removed me from the class because the instructors would not pay any attention to me, being the only boy in the class. By a stroke of luck they saw a flyer for violin lessons, and i played all the way from 3 until my second semester in college where i picked up an Art major (2001).
my family is in Ripply's Believe it or Not. My last name is Mountain, and my aunt married a man named Hill. We got in there for a Mountain marrying a Hill.
there is a mountain in Oregon (near center) named Maury.
- this thread is awesome, period.
- i once broke my back ( a vertebra) while doing a wheelie on my mountain bike
- i used to weigh like 110 kilos and decided to lose weight on the 12grade (7years ago), i went to 76kilos and now im at 88, need to start working out again. im 185cm in height tho.
- i was once at highschool and saw a teacher's g-string thru her pants and became extremely excited so i went to the bathroom and jackedoff. lol
- when i was 10 me and my borther ( i have a twin) we set a bird on fire after he entered our house thru the chimney.
- i dont remember my first time, altho it was on a car.
-my mom went on a breackdown after finding out my dad was going to hookers.
ever since that day i found out that stuff about him, my relationship with my dad has never been the same. i cant stand being alone with him in the same room, cause i dont like talking to him. i was 16.
I play the Alto Saxophone regularly, I just bought a new guitar and am plucking around on it, and am able to play the Clarinet and Flute. The noise of the oboe has always made want to vomit up all my internal organs. And I've always had an obsession over Violin, but never have bothered to actually even touch one... sad.
bitmap: Makes me wonder why teachers would wear a G-string to school? (maybe she meant to show you =P, coulda boned teach!)
Some curiosities from me anyway:
-took my driving lincense about a year ago, and after get aproved just drive 1 time (cause i was forced) (i love speed, but i'm too lazy to take the car from the garage i always go with someone else or walking)
-i played violin for 8 years and piano for 7.
-i study medicine in the most reputated university in portugal
-my hometown has 900 habitants.
-my self stim isn't much good too, i'm managing to change it by heavly though and practise
-Portugal just beated Brasil for 2-0 !!!! eat that now!!
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I don't drink milk. I never have. I despise the taste. And yes, that includes chocolate and strawberry milk.
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I hate, loathe, and detest milk. I almost knocked out my best friend for trying to pour milk on my head. It isn't just the taste.... its its consistency and viscosity. I'm not lactose intolerant, just phobic.
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That always drives me insane, when people assume I'm lactose intolerant, and when I say no, they ramble on about my calcium needs. Bite me. Elementary school was hard too, as all the other kids had their nice little cartons for lunch and snack times, and I had nothing. They used to give me little things of juice, but that "wasn't fair"to the other kids. To this day I can have entire meals without drinking anything and think nothing of it.
- I've got a 21 month old son and he's the man
- I bought a wii last week just to play it over the weekend and then returned it
- I have been to Australia 3 times, Singapore 2 times, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Thailand, Guam, Egypt, Mazatlan, Seychelles
- I have swam in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
I was born and raised in Russia but look 100% Asian, and everytime someone finds out i have to go through the long process of explaining how and when. So i've just stopped
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- I am African American but im white. Grew up in South-Africa, dutch heritage. People often think they're clever the first time they figure out that fact about me.
- Moving to another country when you're 12 fucking blows. I only stopped my hate spree of the US freshman year in college when i realized being hateful is like a lead weight on your ankle. Now i can't stand negativity, feels like poison when I'm around people that bitch.
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I can identify with this, I came from SA to Australia when I was 13. Very difficult transition, though there is no other country I would rather live in now.
I have also had a recent epiphany in regards to negativity. Maybe it's a maturity thing? I detest negative thinking.
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Sounds almost premeditated.
Your bro: "I reckon that bastard will come down the chimney...He's not smart enough to use the catflap"
Pedro: "Yeah go get dad's lighter and my deodarant in the cupboard"
Your bro: "This bird's gonna fry..."
*Laughs*
- I have worked for the Pentagon, The Missile Defense Agency, and Air Force Communications Protection Agency. I have a Top Secret Clearance. I now answer phones for a pharmacutical company because I moved.
- I dated a model from suicidegirls.com for a short time.
- I can not remember much except fragments from the age of 21 and back.
- In every one of my relationships, I've been cheated on. Including my current.
- I hate my IT career with a passion, and would give anything to go to art college, but my credit was destroyed years ago by a robbery.
- I have Mineres(sp?) Disease, and have an extremely bad fear of heights. I can't even ride a ferris wheel or i'll cry and scream like a little girl.
- My mother denies my uncle abusing me as a child. She also denies global warming exsists.
- I hav'nt had sex in 8 years. Though it's been offered many times.
- I was what I think you call a 'cutter' when I was young. I have several hundred scars on my left arm, chest, shoulders, and the one on my face have faded. I dont really remember why I did it, I simply don't recall. Oddly enough I'm considered a fairly well adjusted person.
- I have a horrible memory. yesterday is a blur, so most of the past 23 years. I only remember random useless shit, never anything important. I can't remember names, especially on movies and tv shows, even ones that i have watched for months. I can't remember dates and birthdays so I have to call my oldest sister to find out when i know one is coming up. My mom has a horrible memory too, but not near as bad as mine.
- I hate medicine. Pills and whatever, i just feel weird taking them and don't like it. When i get a headache I just go with it. I hate it.
- I have a large penis and have been told i should be in porn a couple dozen times.
- I have also been told i look like Shaun of the Dead and the guy from Mythbusters more than a few times by a bunch.
Mum made me take ballet lessons when I was younger. I was the only boy in the group and it was pretty gay. Did that for about a year until we moved house.
I was born in Montenegro (Small country near Italy - Former Yugoslavia). I moved to Australia when I was 5, and because I wasn't able to speak english at the time, all the kids used to pick on me so I never really had any friends. Because of that, to this day I still like being by myself most of the time.
I have a younger sister who I always wished was a younger brother. We were born 2 years apart yet our birthdays are 4 days apart (sister: June 4 1985, me: June 8 1983).
I come from a muslim family and had to go to islamic school on every Saturday for about 3 years. I graduated from it being one of the best students. I can read arabic, I know all the prayers and all the other bits that are involved in the religion. This was forced upon me by my grandparents. I don't believe in God and never go to the mosque. Though I still visit my parents during muslim holidays out of respect. Oh, and neither me nor my parents are terrorists :P
The day I got my drivers license, I drove to my friend's place and locked the keys in the car. We had no spare set. We ended up breaking into the car without causing any damage. Though my friend lived in a rough area and people thought we were trying to steal the car and almost called the cops.
My dad almost walked in on me and my girlfriend (at the time) having sex.
-From the age of 13 to 15 I social engineered several hundred credit cards from businesses across the US purely to see if I could. I never saved or used a single one.
-My current girlfriend is the only woman I've ever truly trusted.
-When I was 16 I had my two big toe-nails removed due to severe in-grown toenails. I still send the Podiatrist a christmas card and a 'thank you' every year.
-In high school I once spent over an hour and a half in the bathroom due to the fact that I accidentally urinated on my jeans.
Geezus: Hey have you read The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick?
Amazing read and it's all about social engineering. I too am guilty of this and it was quite easy to attain very dangerous information about people but I didn't break the law with the info.
I actually have to see about my ingrown toenails as well.. I am sick of doing it myself. I hate doctors.
oh and for a finale (sp) I was blessed with Kidney Stones last week. It felt like I had been tied down and kicked in the side all day by a fucking ogre and had my nuts smashed with a hammer.
Good times...lot's of pain meds and water and i'm better now.
Jesse: Haven't read that. Though Mitnick got the shaft imo. In the end though, it was his own arrogance that got him caught. And yeah, how easy it is to obtain information like that is astonishing.
Sucks about the ingrown's dude, I use to have kids in middle school purposely stomp on my feet to see my reaction. Cruel little shits. I was never able to pull them outside myself, but once a month my mom would yank 'em out with hemostats. Christ was that painful. Good thing is, I no longer go through a pack of socks every two weeks, heh. Took 6 minor surgeries to get my toenails removed, but it was worth every session...Get 'em taken out!
Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
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Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
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My dad went through that about a year ago... he said it got to the point where he almost had to tell my mom to lock up all the firearms in the house and hide the key. He passed a few of them, and they were all right on the threshold of being large enough to require surgery. Quite an ordeal.
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Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
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Yeah i had a catscan and everything and they were like well they are big but not big enough for surgery. DAMN IT. Gave me a small strainer to piss through and catch them in. Man I can't believe they are as small as a quick dot on your sketchbook from a pen or pencil yet they brought me to my knees. I cried in the shower like I had just watched my dog get layed to rest.
Atleast I got to chill out at home all last week and play some 360. I didn't get much work done though... Hard to concentrate on pain meds.
Yeah Mitnick is a special type of guy. Amazingly smart but way too cocky. Oh well...
Reminds me. I worked for Best Buys Geek Squad for almost 2 years. You wouldn't believe the stuff I pulled off computers and could see. I worked on a girls computer I went to school with at the Art Institute and she had almost 2 gigs of naked pics of herself and videos. Damn I couldn't sit next to her in class after that without smiling. That chick was hot.
I have seen credit cards scanned front and back, social security cards. Everything I would need to become someone else if that is what I wanted.
What's the cause of kidney stones? What are the symptoms? e.g.: Why'd go you to the doctors in the first place? And how old were you?
EDIT: I just read up about kidney stones and I felt as though I was going to faint. For some reason this past 2 years, ever since having some medical issues myself, this type of stuff makes me really nervous. Being 6'4 and 300lbs has me worried. And I hate hate HATE going through stuff like this. I had to get a glass of water and go lay down for 5 minutes. Feck, that was weird.
Anyhoo,
Even though I've read up on kidney stones, and plan on drinking a shit load of water, I'd like to hear your stories on the experience if you don't mind.
Adam, well i'm 26 and will be 27 in june. I used to live a really healthy lifestyle. workout, drink lots of water, blah blah but since school started I have stopped going to the gym and began getting fat 5'11" 245-260lbs depending on what i eat for a few months. I tend to drink a lot of soda, energy drinks, basically stuff that isn't good for you but the main thing was not drinking enough water. The doc said it could be a genetic / hereditary thing but who knows. My guess was not enough water and being basically unhealthy.
Hmm well how it started i basically woke up and felt a tightness in my side and my left nut (lack of better words) felt like i had sat on it or got hit in it. Figured I just hit it while sleeping i went about my normal day. Ate breakfast, went to walmart, target, toys r us for my normal star wars hunt runs. Started feeling worse throughout the day and didn't really think too much of it until it was bed time and i was laying in bed in just a crazy amount of pain and then i had a headache. I tried to take a shower and it just hit me. Told my wife to take me to the hospital. I walked in there sweating, cold, clamy and told them what was going on. In about 35-45 minutes I was laying in a hospital bed with an iv of morphine in my arm.
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In grade 9 me and 2 other friends (mistakingly) burnt an entire farmers field to ashes. It was old crop, nothing fresh, but imagine the amount of smoke....
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I actually had a friend in highschool who accidentally burnt down a huge field as well. Funnily enough, it was when we were in grade 9 too. I thought, how can you accidentally burn down a huge field? Apparently it happens more than you'd think :P
@Motz ... 1982 ... 1982!!! And yes, I was terribly hurt and depressed when I watched the dinosaurs all die off. The poster image was a red dragon. I still own the original and my wife is very possesive of it. But actual limited edition art prints (not just cheap posters) of it are available for sale on my website!!
Pissing razorblades I've heard it described. One of the main reasons I've curbed my soda pop intake. Water and tea everyday keeps the kidney stones away!
-I was born in Germany but am Canadian.
-Lived all over the place, Canada, US, Germany, growing up.
-almost busted my head open crashing a BMX once. Couldnt remember anything for 24 hours, and it was an incredible experience being told about your life and accomplishments when you have no recollection of them. Luckily all returned to normal the next day.
-horrible memory for names and numbers.
When I was 6 I was struck by lightning. I was closing a barbed wire fence and it hit a rock that was about 3 feet away from me. I was thrown 10-15 feet and was in shock for about an hour. Ever since then I've been sensitive to strong EM fields.
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judging from the wikipedia article i am a prime candidate for about every type of kidney stone that exist. everythign under the prevention area is the exact opposite of me... god help me!
i wonder if taking calcium and protein supplements for weightlifting counts toward too much calcium and protien in ones diet?
- Despite having a rather large group of individuals I gladly call friends, I find that I can still be totally inept at being social at times.
- I didn't bother looking for a girlfriend all through college, and only now have started looking again, mostly because of the rather shitty relationship / breakup I had with a gal right before college. Needless to say, I'm outta practice on that front.
- I would give up in an instant everything I've worked so hard for.. my job, my friends, everything.. if someone approached me with the job of driving and delivering rare / classic cars across the country.
- I recently realized, while I was busting my knuckles rebuilding the engine in my Corvette, that I'd become one of 'them'... one of those guys that's able to and often is working on the guts of their cars on their own. I'd always thought those guys were so cool, and the realization of what being one of them involved was rather amusing.. not having your ride available to actually drive, and having rather busted-up knuckles.
My nephew was born on my 20th birthday. 4 days later my dad had a heart attack and died, he was 49 and set up to retire early. He had a heart attack doing a chore I should have been doing.
Art normally pulls me out of any funk I'm in, just looking at it, sometimes large quantities are needed like a trip to the museum, or making it almost always does the trick.
Ever since '20 thousand leagues under the sea' was read to me at a really young age, I've had a soft spot for deep sea exploration. But despise all types of sea food unless its fresh water fish made in very particular ways. When people say you should read to your kids read something other than the cow goes moo, trust me they'll thank you for it. I fully intend to read it to my daughter as soon as she's able to comprehend it.
I was fascinated with the Titanic from the time Robert Ballard started looking for it, until the craptastic movie cam out.
Everything that hung on the walls in our house was a piece of art my mom made or a photo my dad had taken, he traveled a lot (military and customer service for Boeing) and loved to take pictures of places. Ironically our family photo albums are pretty sparse.
A picture of my dad shaking hands with Fidel Castro hangs in the hall at my moms house.
I was at a friends house when I was 8yrs old and was amazed at how awesome of an artist his mom was until they explained you could get velvet paintings at the swap meet for dirt cheap. I had no clue what a swap meet was and didn't want to ask. I didn't find out until much later in life.
CS Lewis's book 'Screwtape letters' is one of my favorite books.
<ul type="square">[*] I held a "going-away party" for a girl in grade four. To which she was not invited. [*]I once stayed up for seventy-two hours playing World of Warcraft. I was laying my head down on the desk between kills. [*]I used to be a "jock." [*]I have driven a pencil through my right hand and a wood-carving knife through my left (by accident, of course).[*]I have been clinically depressed, and sometimes think I still am.[*]I once tried to see how much water I could drink, and drank four liters in a matter of minutes before throwing up.[*]I am evidently pretty boring compared to a lot of other Polycounters. [/list]
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Paul is older than I thought... much, much older.
Those dragon paintings he did? They were from life.
(Actually, Paul, my girlfriend had one of your paintings as a poster in her room for years, and was pretty surprised to find out you posted on this forum! She really liked that one - a red dragon, I think).
-I almost never volunteer information about myself unless I'm asked and my girlfriends hate it!
- when under stress i have mood swings
- I cant see beggars, misery etc , im super sensitive to it and imagine myself and my loved ones in their place...its hard to beat, might go to a psychiatrist eh...
I have cripplingly low self esteem, but put on a fake ego. It's pretty sad.
I have cankles!
- Moving to another country when you're 12 fucking blows. I only stopped my hate spree of the US freshman year in college when i realized being hateful is like a lead weight on your ankle. Now i can't stand negativity, feels like poison when I'm around people that bitch.
- I'm i've been in love with a girl that lives back in Africa since I was 15. We dont keep in touch. Impossible love is always the best innit.
I've written a novel in 30 days as part of National Novel Writing Month. I made $28 off of family thanks to that sucker.
Despite having been here, modelling, skinning, etc. for almost seven years, I have not once finished a player model. I've only released a few weapons and skins. The rest of my time was spent furiously masturbating to pictures of dead animals.
I worry about everything. As a result, I often have some degree of anxiety. On good days, it's little to none, regularly it's bad in the mornings and eases off, but when it's really bad I literally sit under my desk and cry. No fucking joke.
I'm unfortunately very open about my life. As such, many details others would be hesitant to share are pretty much fair game. The only thing I don't like to discuss is relationship stuff (beyond saying how happy or confused I am), as I've never had one despite trying for the past couple months to develop one with someone who means a lot to me.
Um, I suppose there's also the fact that most people do not know that I sound like a radio announcer. My voice is extremely deep, to the point where folks online have a very hard time associating my voice with my face.
- I was starting quarterback of my high school football team for three years
- I played Varsity Baseball and was a starter all 4 years of high school
- Along with being a huge jock I was also a huge nerd. I actually taught the C and C++ classes in high school my junior and senior year.
- I went to college originally for computer science and played baseball in college. Once I found out how horrible programming was and the people I was forced to work with compared to my baseball / jock buddies I left college after my first year.
- I joined the navy at 19 and left my small hometown in maine and got stationed in San Diego, California.
- I did 2 depoloyments to the Middle East and worked with special forces (SEAL Teams) to combat piracy at sea, terrorist weapon trades, smuggling, etc
- I love to rappel regular and inverted.
- Once while on my ship in the middle of the persian gulf i asked a guy that was sitting outside what he was reading and when he began to tell me i knocked the book out of his hand and said readings for suckers. It got really bad when the book hit my boot and then tumbled over the side of the ship into the Persian Gulf to never be seen again. (We hadn't gotten mail prior to that day for almost 100 days and it was the new Harry Potter book he had been waiting ages for) Ooops
- I had my 21st birthday on an Iraqi Smuggling Vessle surrounded by would be terrorists and people that wanted my head on a stick.
- If it wasn't for September 11th I never would have met my wife Rhea and we wouldn't have gotten married in November of 2001
- I have gained almost 65 pounds since being married for 5 years. Yeah it sucks. Time to hit up the gym again.
Phew... I think thats enough for now.
well, I'm supposed to be in class right now but my car battery died as I tried to get going there. I just spent a hell of a last hour trudging through the snow, learning magical and mystical things to help it get back up and running again.
Time to get a new battery.
Frank the Avenger
I don't drink milk. I never have. I despise the taste. And yes, that includes chocolate and strawberry milk.
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I hate, loathe, and detest milk. I almost knocked out my best friend for trying to pour milk on my head. It isn't just the taste.... its its consistency and viscosity. I'm not lactose intolerant, just phobic.
From 97-99/2000ish my aspirations and goals were to become a High School Music teacher, teach private violin lessons, and play in a professional orchestra. Was started on the violin at the ripe age of 3, and a proficient on the Trumpet, F Horn, Cornet, Violin, Viola and mildly able in Piano, Clarinet, Flute, oboe, trombone, baritone, tuba, Cello, upright bass, Banjo, and Dulcimer.
Prior to starting on the violin, my parents enrolled me in Gymnastics (yes, at 3). They removed me from the class because the instructors would not pay any attention to me, being the only boy in the class. By a stroke of luck they saw a flyer for violin lessons, and i played all the way from 3 until my second semester in college where i picked up an Art major (2001).
my family is in Ripply's Believe it or Not. My last name is Mountain, and my aunt married a man named Hill. We got in there for a Mountain marrying a Hill.
there is a mountain in Oregon (near center) named Maury.
- this thread is awesome, period.
- i once broke my back ( a vertebra) while doing a wheelie on my mountain bike
- i used to weigh like 110 kilos and decided to lose weight on the 12grade (7years ago), i went to 76kilos and now im at 88, need to start working out again. im 185cm in height tho.
- i was once at highschool and saw a teacher's g-string thru her pants and became extremely excited so i went to the bathroom and jackedoff. lol
- when i was 10 me and my borther ( i have a twin) we set a bird on fire after he entered our house thru the chimney.
- i dont remember my first time, altho it was on a car.
-my mom went on a breackdown after finding out my dad was going to hookers.
ever since that day i found out that stuff about him, my relationship with my dad has never been the same. i cant stand being alone with him in the same room, cause i dont like talking to him. i was 16.
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bitmap: Makes me wonder why teachers would wear a G-string to school? (maybe she meant to show you =P, coulda boned teach!)
there is a mountain in Oregon (near center) named Maury.
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But the important question is: is it the second...OR THE FOURTH??!?!?
Frank the Avenger
Some curiosities from me anyway:
-took my driving lincense about a year ago, and after get aproved just drive 1 time (cause i was forced) (i love speed, but i'm too lazy to take the car from the garage i always go with someone else or walking)
-i played violin for 8 years and piano for 7.
-i study medicine in the most reputated university in portugal
-my hometown has 900 habitants.
-my self stim isn't much good too, i'm managing to change it by heavly though and practise
-Portugal just beated Brasil for 2-0 !!!! eat that now!!
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I don't drink milk. I never have. I despise the taste. And yes, that includes chocolate and strawberry milk.
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I hate, loathe, and detest milk. I almost knocked out my best friend for trying to pour milk on my head. It isn't just the taste.... its its consistency and viscosity. I'm not lactose intolerant, just phobic.
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That always drives me insane, when people assume I'm lactose intolerant, and when I say no, they ramble on about my calcium needs. Bite me. Elementary school was hard too, as all the other kids had their nice little cartons for lunch and snack times, and I had nothing. They used to give me little things of juice, but that "wasn't fair"to the other kids. To this day I can have entire meals without drinking anything and think nothing of it.
- I've got a 21 month old son and he's the man
- I bought a wii last week just to play it over the weekend and then returned it
- I have been to Australia 3 times, Singapore 2 times, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Thailand, Guam, Egypt, Mazatlan, Seychelles
- I have swam in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
- I am African American but im white. Grew up in South-Africa, dutch heritage. People often think they're clever the first time they figure out that fact about me.
- Moving to another country when you're 12 fucking blows. I only stopped my hate spree of the US freshman year in college when i realized being hateful is like a lead weight on your ankle. Now i can't stand negativity, feels like poison when I'm around people that bitch.
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I can identify with this, I came from SA to Australia when I was 13. Very difficult transition, though there is no other country I would rather live in now.
I have also had a recent epiphany in regards to negativity. Maybe it's a maturity thing? I detest negative thinking.
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when i was 10 me and my borther ( i have a twin) we set a bird on fire after he entered our house thru the chimney.
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Sounds almost premeditated.
Your bro: "I reckon that bastard will come down the chimney...He's not smart enough to use the catflap"
Pedro: "Yeah go get dad's lighter and my deodarant in the cupboard"
Your bro: "This bird's gonna fry..."
*Laughs*
Err yeah, bedtime for me now.
- I dated a model from suicidegirls.com for a short time.
- I can not remember much except fragments from the age of 21 and back.
- In every one of my relationships, I've been cheated on. Including my current.
- I hate my IT career with a passion, and would give anything to go to art college, but my credit was destroyed years ago by a robbery.
- I have Mineres(sp?) Disease, and have an extremely bad fear of heights. I can't even ride a ferris wheel or i'll cry and scream like a little girl.
- My mother denies my uncle abusing me as a child. She also denies global warming exsists.
- I hav'nt had sex in 8 years. Though it's been offered many times.
- I was what I think you call a 'cutter' when I was young. I have several hundred scars on my left arm, chest, shoulders, and the one on my face have faded. I dont really remember why I did it, I simply don't recall. Oddly enough I'm considered a fairly well adjusted person.
- I hate medicine. Pills and whatever, i just feel weird taking them and don't like it. When i get a headache I just go with it. I hate it.
- I have a large penis and have been told i should be in porn a couple dozen times.
- I have also been told i look like Shaun of the Dead and the guy from Mythbusters more than a few times by a bunch.
I was born in Montenegro (Small country near Italy - Former Yugoslavia). I moved to Australia when I was 5, and because I wasn't able to speak english at the time, all the kids used to pick on me so I never really had any friends. Because of that, to this day I still like being by myself most of the time.
I have a younger sister who I always wished was a younger brother. We were born 2 years apart yet our birthdays are 4 days apart (sister: June 4 1985, me: June 8 1983).
I come from a muslim family and had to go to islamic school on every Saturday for about 3 years. I graduated from it being one of the best students. I can read arabic, I know all the prayers and all the other bits that are involved in the religion. This was forced upon me by my grandparents. I don't believe in God and never go to the mosque. Though I still visit my parents during muslim holidays out of respect. Oh, and neither me nor my parents are terrorists :P
The day I got my drivers license, I drove to my friend's place and locked the keys in the car. We had no spare set. We ended up breaking into the car without causing any damage. Though my friend lived in a rough area and people thought we were trying to steal the car and almost called the cops.
My dad almost walked in on me and my girlfriend (at the time) having sex.
-caseyjones
-My current girlfriend is the only woman I've ever truly trusted.
-When I was 16 I had my two big toe-nails removed due to severe in-grown toenails. I still send the Podiatrist a christmas card and a 'thank you' every year.
-In high school I once spent over an hour and a half in the bathroom due to the fact that I accidentally urinated on my jeans.
Amazing read and it's all about social engineering. I too am guilty of this and it was quite easy to attain very dangerous information about people but I didn't break the law with the info.
I actually have to see about my ingrown toenails as well.. I am sick of doing it myself. I hate doctors.
oh and for a finale (sp) I was blessed with Kidney Stones last week. It felt like I had been tied down and kicked in the side all day by a fucking ogre and had my nuts smashed with a hammer.
Good times...lot's of pain meds and water and i'm better now.
Sucks about the ingrown's dude, I use to have kids in middle school purposely stomp on my feet to see my reaction. Cruel little shits. I was never able to pull them outside myself, but once a month my mom would yank 'em out with hemostats. Christ was that painful. Good thing is, I no longer go through a pack of socks every two weeks, heh. Took 6 minor surgeries to get my toenails removed, but it was worth every session...Get 'em taken out!
Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
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My dad went through that about a year ago... he said it got to the point where he almost had to tell my mom to lock up all the firearms in the house and hide the key. He passed a few of them, and they were all right on the threshold of being large enough to require surgery. Quite an ordeal.
Had a friend recently pass some stones. He said it was one of the most painful experiences of his life. God I hope I never have to pass one.
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Yeah i had a catscan and everything and they were like well they are big but not big enough for surgery. DAMN IT. Gave me a small strainer to piss through and catch them in. Man I can't believe they are as small as a quick dot on your sketchbook from a pen or pencil yet they brought me to my knees. I cried in the shower like I had just watched my dog get layed to rest.
Atleast I got to chill out at home all last week and play some 360. I didn't get much work done though... Hard to concentrate on pain meds.
Yeah Mitnick is a special type of guy. Amazingly smart but way too cocky. Oh well...
Reminds me. I worked for Best Buys Geek Squad for almost 2 years. You wouldn't believe the stuff I pulled off computers and could see. I worked on a girls computer I went to school with at the Art Institute and she had almost 2 gigs of naked pics of herself and videos. Damn I couldn't sit next to her in class after that without smiling. That chick was hot.
I have seen credit cards scanned front and back, social security cards. Everything I would need to become someone else if that is what I wanted.
EDIT: I just read up about kidney stones and I felt as though I was going to faint. For some reason this past 2 years, ever since having some medical issues myself, this type of stuff makes me really nervous. Being 6'4 and 300lbs has me worried. And I hate hate HATE going through stuff like this. I had to get a glass of water and go lay down for 5 minutes. Feck, that was weird.
Anyhoo,
Even though I've read up on kidney stones, and plan on drinking a shit load of water, I'd like to hear your stories on the experience if you don't mind.
Hmm well how it started i basically woke up and felt a tightness in my side and my left nut (lack of better words) felt like i had sat on it or got hit in it. Figured I just hit it while sleeping i went about my normal day. Ate breakfast, went to walmart, target, toys r us for my normal star wars hunt runs. Started feeling worse throughout the day and didn't really think too much of it until it was bed time and i was laying in bed in just a crazy amount of pain and then i had a headache. I tried to take a shower and it just hit me. Told my wife to take me to the hospital. I walked in there sweating, cold, clamy and told them what was going on. In about 35-45 minutes I was laying in a hospital bed with an iv of morphine in my arm.
In grade 9 me and 2 other friends (mistakingly) burnt an entire farmers field to ashes. It was old crop, nothing fresh, but imagine the amount of smoke....
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I actually had a friend in highschool who accidentally burnt down a huge field as well. Funnily enough, it was when we were in grade 9 too. I thought, how can you accidentally burn down a huge field? Apparently it happens more than you'd think :P
JesseMoody: Unforntunate stuff.
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How long was the whole ordeal? From when you found out to when it was over?
Penzer - haha yah. "Accident" as in we never wanted to burn the entire field.... just a tiny tiny portion of it.
Damn similar names anyway! ;]
blood rushing from my head...uuurgg....
-Lived all over the place, Canada, US, Germany, growing up.
-almost busted my head open crashing a BMX once. Couldnt remember anything for 24 hours, and it was an incredible experience being told about your life and accomplishments when you have no recollection of them. Luckily all returned to normal the next day.
-horrible memory for names and numbers.
Pissing razorblades I've heard it described. One of the main reasons I've curbed my soda pop intake. Water and tea everyday keeps the kidney stones away!
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judging from the wikipedia article i am a prime candidate for about every type of kidney stone that exist. everythign under the prevention area is the exact opposite of me... god help me!
i wonder if taking calcium and protein supplements for weightlifting counts toward too much calcium and protien in ones diet?
But the important question is: is it the second...OR THE FOURTH??!?!?
Frank the Avenger
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hey, i was climbing (ha!), and i mated with a rock creature. we had a very large, large baby.
- I didn't bother looking for a girlfriend all through college, and only now have started looking again, mostly because of the rather shitty relationship / breakup I had with a gal right before college. Needless to say, I'm outta practice on that front.
- I would give up in an instant everything I've worked so hard for.. my job, my friends, everything.. if someone approached me with the job of driving and delivering rare / classic cars across the country.
- I recently realized, while I was busting my knuckles rebuilding the engine in my Corvette, that I'd become one of 'them'... one of those guys that's able to and often is working on the guts of their cars on their own. I'd always thought those guys were so cool, and the realization of what being one of them involved was rather amusing.. not having your ride available to actually drive, and having rather busted-up knuckles.
Art normally pulls me out of any funk I'm in, just looking at it, sometimes large quantities are needed like a trip to the museum, or making it almost always does the trick.
Ever since '20 thousand leagues under the sea' was read to me at a really young age, I've had a soft spot for deep sea exploration. But despise all types of sea food unless its fresh water fish made in very particular ways. When people say you should read to your kids read something other than the cow goes moo, trust me they'll thank you for it. I fully intend to read it to my daughter as soon as she's able to comprehend it.
I was fascinated with the Titanic from the time Robert Ballard started looking for it, until the craptastic movie cam out.
Everything that hung on the walls in our house was a piece of art my mom made or a photo my dad had taken, he traveled a lot (military and customer service for Boeing) and loved to take pictures of places. Ironically our family photo albums are pretty sparse.
A picture of my dad shaking hands with Fidel Castro hangs in the hall at my moms house.
I was at a friends house when I was 8yrs old and was amazed at how awesome of an artist his mom was until they explained you could get velvet paintings at the swap meet for dirt cheap. I had no clue what a swap meet was and didn't want to ask. I didn't find out until much later in life.
CS Lewis's book 'Screwtape letters' is one of my favorite books.