41,000 B/P Points.

Coop comes to terms with the fact that his holiday is nearly over, while congratulating:
Denton: Level 55
Jolly: 41,000 B/P

Thank you to:
Fro
Metal-Therapy

At 12/29/12 08:54 AM, Fro wrote: I have family staying today so I have a very busy day ahead of myself. Life has been up and down for me as of lately, but its finally looking up! I've gone through divorce, living on the street, losing my job, to getting into a relationship, finding a job at the bottom of a business to only be promoted three times in less than a year to a great stable job! I'm next in line for management too! I have my own apartment, it may be small, but I'm making rent each month so that's all that matters to me. :P

Congratulations - always nice to hear when someone makes it. I never liked the idea of paying rent, so someday I hope to get a place of my own, that belongs to me personally, rather than somewhere that I need to remove the shelves from when I get kicked out of and even though it was not my choice to move, I still have to make good.

At 12/29/12 11:05 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 12/29/12 07:51 AM, Coop wrote: Nice. 7 in two days is a good benchmark for me.

Indeed. I've got 3 so far today, so things continue to look good, for now.

It went well yesterday as well, with what looks like some blammable crap there first thing, too :)

I move. You have to when you're playing cricket.

I speak of your presence in the Portal. Your movements in the physical world are of little concern to me. :P

My movements in the physical world are tied inextricably to those within the Portal.

And now, the handiwork that I've been doing these past few days. The desk and laptop have been there for a while, but having added the shelves and the massive amounts of books and CDs there, I can firmly say that this is my new "Creative Corner"

Fro plans on having a nice relaxing day watch football, eating junk food, and drinking while saying Congrats To:

Denton: Level 55
Jolly: 41,000 B/P

At 12/30/12 06:24 AM, Coop wrote:

Congratulations - always nice to hear when someone makes it. I never liked the idea of paying rent, so someday I hope to get a place of my own, that belongs to me personally, rather than somewhere that I need to remove the shelves from when I get kicked out of and even though it was not my choice to move, I still have to make good.

I haven't quite made it yet, but with yearly raises and chance for performance bonuses I'm in a position where if I don't move up to management in the next few years I'm not stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can't quite afford a house yet so I have to pay rent. I guess if I could fine a house where I could make small payments for the next 30 years I could swing it, but then I have all these taxes and interest to worry about. I'm not ready for that.

I have a nice one bedroom, one bath apartment, and a little car that if it holds up for a few years I may just make it.

That bookshelf is awesome by the way. I can't do anything to change the apartment like that because I'll lose my security deposit.

At 12/29/12 11:05 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

Holy shit, dude. Sorry to hear about all that. :( Good to hear things are getting better for ya, though. Also good to see you on NG again. Get back to b/p'ing -we need moar people blamming shit in the portal, k? :P

I can't view flash. :( I was never one to vote blindly.

I'm good now, gotten over the hard stuff. Everything was taken from me financially, but you can't take much from someone who doesn't own anything. :P Everything is moving in the right direction. Even my football season with the Broncos!

Is not happy with how some members of my family treat me over certain thoughts. I had the misfortune to see the former headteacher of the terrible high school I went to and when my dad was speaking to me about that witch, I said that I'd rather not remember who she was and he was trying to shove his thoughts down my throat by saying "She wasn't a bad person". Does he not remember that I was bullied in that shithole and no-one was even willing to help me out?! The fact that they insist I should respect them in any way is sickening. It didn't help me that night when earlier before my dad was wanting me to have my hair short. These reasons alone killed my mood for the night and it was really too bad since I wanted to enjoy myself for my nan's 75th birthday. You're not going to win me over if you start mocking my life throughout the night as well.

Thankfully I am invited to a new year party in Liverpool so I can stay the fuck away from my family. After last time they are the last people that I want to celebrate new year with.

Listening to:

...Nothing, actually. The USB cable for the external hard drive packed it in so I now have to wait for a replacement. I only got the new power cable for it yesterday. I suppose after five years the cables have moved about a lot and they have been used well. External hard drive still works well which is amazing considering how many bad stories you might come across about them. Thankfully the iPod is still usable so it's a matter of using that for the time being.

At 12/28/12 12:29 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 12/28/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: This was a period between June 2010 - December 2011 with on and off breaks. I hardly did any icons from October 2010 - February 2011 so when I was doing them, I really was smashing through MANY! If I did it non-stop, we should have been done by now.

So, if I understand you correctly, you averaged around 40 icons everyday. Not too shabby. ;)

On my better days I was making 100-200 icons a day!

At 12/28/12 01:16 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/28/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: The only attempted "crime" they'll see is you attacking the burglar. It's really bullshit. I'm just glad we haven't had any burglars here.

That really sucks.

So if you need to get someone arrested, you must let them attack you and steal your possessions.

I can't care at all.

But the media. They need SOMETHING to write about. Even if it is complete bullshit.

The media can keep talking about recession.

so humans really have a shitty life span...

There you have it. Humans suck!

Get your own damn money!

Shut up and give me money!

Shut up and get your own damn money!

At 12/29/12 07:51 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/28/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: Same, I try to make my trips to see them as little as possible. However, after a while it becomes mandatory to see one just to get prescription to give treatment to my eczema... Oh yeah, none of the cream to settle it down never works. Fucking con artists.

Mine went, now I've developed Asthma. Go figure.

I'd much rather have asthma then eczema. I highly doubt I'll ever get rid of it so I'm stuck with it for the rest of my life.... Why am I still alive?

Congratulations To:

Jolly: 41,000 b/p

Listening To!

Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Judas Priest - Run of the Mill

I was looking through my profile just now and I happened to notice that little "Other Favorites" box down that's down at the bottom of your favorites page. It dawned on me that it was the same shit I wrote over 8 years ago when I first made this account, thus making it the only part of my profile to remain completely unchanged since its creation. (That even includes my alias itself, which I used to change all the time, back when you could do so at will.) :P

At 12/30/12 06:24 AM, Coop wrote: It went well yesterday as well, with what looks like some blammable crap there first thing, too :)

3 more so far today! Funny how they seem to come and go in cycles...

My movements in the physical world are tied inextricably to those within the Portal.

I suppose movement is necessary when interacting with a computer. :P I tend to separate the digital world from the physical when thinking about people chat with online, though. I would probably think differently if I actually knew the people here irl.

And now, the handiwork that I've been doing these past few days. The desk and laptop have been there for a while, but having added the shelves and the massive amounts of books and CDs there, I can firmly say that this is my new "Creative Corner"

Looks nice, man. I'm digging the color! I've been doing some remodeling, myself. I just got a new carpet installed and a new bedroom set delivered. Not to mention a 37" flatscreen, which looks absolutely badass in my bedroom. (It is a huge upgrade from the 26" I had before.) :D

At 12/30/12 09:45 AM, Fro wrote: I'm good now, gotten over the hard stuff. Everything was taken from me financially, but you can't take much from someone who doesn't own anything. :P Everything is moving in the right direction. Even my football season with the Broncos!

Well, keep it up, man.

I have no problems with the Broncos, but I'm not a big Peyton Manning fan, or Eli for that matter. (I live in New England -shouldn't be too hard to figure out why.) :P

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: On my better days I was making 100-200 icons a day!

I was just trying to calculate an average. Guess I was off a bit! :x That's a pretty amazing amount, though.

My tank just got some wings. Supreme Commander in 2012!

At 12/30/12 01:55 PM, DiMono wrote: My tank just got some wings. Supreme Commander in 2012!

Sidenote: after the Sup. Commander adjustment, my votes are now worth 11.11. So that's kind of cool.

You passed 79,000 B/P! Congrats!

6,000 Posts.

Quick list before bed:

Congratulations To:

DiMono: Supreme Commander, 11.11 vp -Nice work!
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 79,000 b/p
Jolly: 6,000 posts

Just logged my stats to find that I've currently got more blams than saves since my last log. It was an amazing sight.

Passed 25000 B/P

Coop bids farewell to 2012 and prepares to usher in another 365 days. Congratulations to:
DiMono: 30,000 B/P; Supreme Commander; 11.11 Total Voting Power
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 79,000 B/P
Jolly: 6,000 Posts
LiquidFire: 25,000 B/P

Listening to:
Alestorm - Back Through Time
Iron Maiden - Sanctuary (Live)
Rush - Ghost Rider

Thank you to:
Odyssic

At 12/30/12 09:45 AM, Fro wrote:

At 12/30/12 06:24 AM, Coop wrote: Congratulations - always nice to hear when someone makes it. I never liked the idea of paying rent, so someday I hope to get a place of my own, that belongs to me personally, rather than somewhere that I need to remove the shelves from when I get kicked out of and even though it was not my choice to move, I still have to make good.

I haven't quite made it yet, but with yearly raises and chance for performance bonuses I'm in a position where if I don't move up to management in the next few years I'm not stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can't quite afford a house yet so I have to pay rent. I guess if I could fine a house where I could make small payments for the next 30 years I could swing it, but then I have all these taxes and interest to worry about. I'm not ready for that.

You'll get there - you have a decent showing of having some sort of long-term game plan.

I have a nice one bedroom, one bath apartment, and a little car that if it holds up for a few years I may just make it.

I might need to get a new car, as the one I have is slightly thirsty - 50 mpg, when I know of cars out there that can do 80. To put it in refuelling terms, one tank a week becomes almost a tank a fortnight.

That bookshelf is awesome by the way. I can't do anything to change the apartment like that because I'll lose my security deposit.

Yeah, but that's what my friends like about their landlady - they speak to her and she lets me do shit like that to her house - they like being long term tenants and she likes having long-term tenants. Keep everyone happy.

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/29/12 07:51 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/28/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: Same, I try to make my trips to see them as little as possible. However, after a while it becomes mandatory to see one just to get prescription to give treatment to my eczema... Oh yeah, none of the cream to settle it down never works. Fucking con artists.

Mine went, now I've developed Asthma. Go figure.

I'd much rather have asthma then eczema. I highly doubt I'll ever get rid of it so I'm stuck with it for the rest of my life.... Why am I still alive?

As far as I know, eczema is not a killer... Just irritating as fuck.

At 12/30/12 11:30 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 12/30/12 06:24 AM, Coop wrote: It went well yesterday as well, with what looks like some blammable crap there first thing, too :)

3 more so far today! Funny how they seem to come and go in cycles...

I'm up to a total of 18 Blams in 4 days. Woo! 1,247 Blams in a year...

My movements in the physical world are tied inextricably to those within the Portal.

I suppose movement is necessary when interacting with a computer. :P I tend to separate the digital world from the physical when thinking about people chat with online, though. I would probably think differently if I actually knew the people here irl.

I started thinking differently when I attended a few meets. Now people practically expect me to show up :P

And now, the handiwork that I've been doing these past few days. The desk and laptop have been there for a while, but having added the shelves and the massive amounts of books and CDs there, I can firmly say that this is my new "Creative Corner"

Looks nice, man. I'm digging the color! I've been doing some remodeling, myself. I just got a new carpet installed and a new bedroom set delivered. Not to mention a 37" flatscreen, which looks absolutely badass in my bedroom. (It is a huge upgrade from the 26" I had before.) :D

Adding furniture helps to tone down the colour somewhat. Hence the canvas on the otherwise bare wall on the right of shot...

I'm satisfied with a 32" flatscreen for the bedroom. Given that I'm hoping to move out soon, I'll have to get a bigger one for the living room :P

At 12/31/12 01:09 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Just logged my stats to find that I've currently got more blams than saves since my last log. It was an amazing sight.

Yeah, that's a fantastic achievement if you can manage it.

At 12/29/12 07:51 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/28/12 01:16 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/28/12 05:57 AM, Coop wrote: Because we genuinely don't know when he was born. Joseph was a clot and as a result, he lost the Birth Certificate. It could have been 3 weeks earlier, for all we know.

I thought it was some kind of mutual agreement that he was born on the 24th.

We don't know, so I think that this was where the churches came to agree on, thus it's when is celebrated, regardless of actual fact. Of course, he was probably black, for all we know :P

Yeah, it's highly unlikely that he looked as white as he's displayed on some pictures.

At 12/29/12 08:54 AM, Fro wrote: Life has been up and down for me as of lately, but its finally looking up!

I'm sorry to read about your divorce and the other stuff as well. So, I hope you can make it and it's definitely good to have you back.

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Is not happy with how some members of my family treat me over certain thoughts.

I think some people just can't understand what it means to be bullied. They think there are some people who talk bad about you or push you in the hallway and that we all had to deal with such people. While this is true, I think being bullied is something much worse. I can gladly say that, while there where some people who treated me like shit (we all know those persons), I have never been bullied. And I really hope that I never bullied anyone.

I also will never understand why parents care so much about the haircut of their children. Especially when they are in their 20's already. >_>

At 12/28/12 01:16 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/28/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: The only attempted "crime" they'll see is you attacking the burglar. It's really bullshit. I'm just glad we haven't had any burglars here.

That really sucks.

So if you need to get someone arrested, you must let them attack you and steal your possessions.

In the USA you can shoot someone if he just sets a foot on your land. And then you can say: "It was selfe denfese!".

I can't care at all.

But the media. They need SOMETHING to write about. Even if it is complete bullshit.

The media can keep talking about recession.

The media should just stop with the extrema. Either, something is "THE BEST EVER!!!!1111" or it's the "WORST THING EVER!!!!11111". There's only black and white and no grey.

so humans really have a shitty life span...

There you have it. Humans suck!

In that one aspect. But I don't see any cultural achievements from dragons anywhere. TAKE THAT YOU PUNY DRAGON!

Get your own damn money!

Shut up and give me money!

Shut up and get your own damn money!

I do. But I have to spend it on other things. I bought a floppy-emulator for my Amiga just the other day, haha. That thing really rules. It let's you put various amiga disks on an SD card and then you can load the games and programmes from there. WIN!

and so... with nearly 7 years, 7 months and 7 days of been on newgrounds... i get to the level i always dreamed off

Thanks for voting, LegolaSS! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 25,580 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 49

Everybody dance now!

See you later 2012 you piece of crap year.

Listening to:

Death - Spiritual Healing

At 12/30/12 11:30 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: On my better days I was making 100-200 icons a day!

I was just trying to calculate an average. Guess I was off a bit! :x That's a pretty amazing amount, though.

You didn't do a bad job at the estimation. I suppose on average that is how much I did.

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'd much rather have asthma then eczema. I highly doubt I'll ever get rid of it so I'm stuck with it for the rest of my life.... Why am I still alive?

As far as I know, eczema is not a killer... Just irritating as fuck.

Maybe not a killer but it sure as hell doesn't make life enjoyable when its at its worse forms.

At 12/31/12 05:44 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Is not happy with how some members of my family treat me over certain thoughts.

I think some people just can't understand what it means to be bullied. They think there are some people who talk bad about you or push you in the hallway and that we all had to deal with such people. While this is true, I think being bullied is something much worse. I can gladly say that, while there where some people who treated me like shit (we all know those persons), I have never been bullied. And I really hope that I never bullied anyone.

There is never anything good that comes out of bullying. If it's left ignored, things will only get much worse. That was the cause of some school shootings in the past and while this may not be the case for every country, it only just shows.

I also will never understand why parents care so much about the haircut of their children. Especially when they are in their 20's already. >_>

My dad is a piece of shit fascist, that's why.

So if you need to get someone arrested, you must let them attack you and steal your possessions.

In the USA you can shoot someone if he just sets a foot on your land. And then you can say: "It was selfe denfese!".

I'd much rather take America's logic than Britain's logic for this any day of the week.

The media can keep talking about recession.

The media should just stop with the extrema. Either, something is "THE BEST EVER!!!!1111" or it's the "WORST THING EVER!!!!11111". There's only black and white and no grey.

But I like EXTREME!

There you have it. Humans suck!

In that one aspect. But I don't see any cultural achievements from dragons anywhere. TAKE THAT YOU PUNY DRAGON!

We breathe fire, we fly... What do you humans do again?

Shut up and get your own damn money!

I do. But I have to spend it on other things. I bought a floppy-emulator for my Amiga just the other day, haha. That thing really rules. It let's you put various amiga disks on an SD card and then you can load the games and programmes from there. WIN!

Well buddy, I may have to start saving up in the new year if I am in need of a new laptop. I've bought a cooling pad for it so if it still fails with gaming performance then I will have to look into getting a new laptop.

At 12/31/12 07:53 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Is not happy with how some members of my family treat me over certain thoughts.

I wonder what I would have done if I got bullied in school, I have changed as a person in the last 5 years so I think I would have actually took it sadly. I seriously hate when people get bullied, I would never stand for it now, I would fuck shit up if I found out one of my friends got bullied.

I'd be the same at this point. If a friend of mine becomes a victim of bullying, I won't take any shit from it because there's a good chance everyone else will turn a blind eye on it.

Hello Newgrounders, I have reached level 42 just in time before 2013. Happy new year!

At 12/31/12 09:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: See you later 2012 you piece of crap year.

Why? 2012 was the greatest year Britain has seen in ages.

Congratulations To:

LiquidFire: 25,000 b/p
LegolaSS: level 49
NewsReporter: level 42

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote: I might need to get a new car, as the one I have is slightly thirsty - 50 mpg, when I know of cars out there that can do 80. To put it in refuelling terms, one tank a week becomes almost a tank a fortnight.

My car (a 12 year-old piece of shit) gets around 20 to 25 and I thought that was okay. I'm sure you drive more than I do, with your commute to work. 50 mpg is still pretty damn good, though.

I started thinking differently when I attended a few meets. Now people practically expect me to show up :P

*Is Jealous*

Adding furniture helps to tone down the colour somewhat. Hence the canvas on the otherwise bare wall on the right of shot...

Yeah, I've noticed that, too. The furniture I bought ended up being a lot bigger than I anticipated, so I'm seeing a lot less of the walls now. (yay for buying furniture online without seeing it in the showroom first.) LOL

I'm satisfied with a 32" flatscreen for the bedroom. Given that I'm hoping to move out soon, I'll have to get a bigger one for the living room :P

Definitely. We got a 46" in our living room, though it's like 8 years old at this point. With this new one I got in my room I can play games on my bed at the other side of the room and still feel like I'm close to the TV! It's probably the most TV I could manage in here without looking totally ridiculous. :P

Yeah, that's a fantastic achievement if you can manage it.

I logged my stats again this morning -It was just a fluke! ;_;

2 hours late for middle europe, one hour late for western europe (and a few more hours late for eastern europe and russia...), but a few hours early for the US nd Canada: Happy new year!

At 12/31/12 09:37 AM, NewsReporter wrote: Why? 2012 was the greatest year Britain has seen in ages.

Exactly. The Olympics, Queen's Jubliee, Skyfall, umm England's Euro team, err Boris Johnson...

Anyways Happy New Year's Wi/Hters!

Happy New Year LUL!

Hope you all had a good time last night. I certainly had.

Looks like I can celebrate 2013 with an achievement:

Top 90 Experienced

Happy New Year, all.

Happy 2013 to all! Despite a very rough moment with the party I was at, I enjoyed myself overall. Stayed up so late I was actually able to get back home at 9 in the morning all the way from Liverpool. I'm still glad I celebrated the new year with my friends and would like to see us having a great time like that again but the end of 2013 is a long way off. For now, January is looking to be a good month. Some good metal releases and of course, the London meet. That's a good way to kick off the new year.

Thanks to:

Odyssic

At 1/1/13 09:21 AM, Odyssic wrote: Happy new year, me and my friends went on skype(we're so cool) for new years party, we all went on webcam and recorded the full thing on twitch.tv, I popped a balloon so you know it was fun. After the party was done, I drank my drinks really fast and now I feel like shittttt.

I had various drinks last night. Had myself drinking Jack Daniel's and vodka shots (as part of our drinking games) as well as some Stella.

Congratulations To:

SmashLuigiFan1: Lieutenant, 8.00 total vp
Coop: Top 90 in exp.

At 1/1/13 10:37 AM, Bahamut wrote: I had various drinks last night. Had myself drinking Jack Daniel's and vodka shots (as part of our drinking games) as well as some Stella.

I remained totally sober last night and still failed to notice it was 2013 until 12:07 AM. lol

At 12/31/12 09:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: There is never anything good that comes out of bullying. If it's left ignored, things will only get much worse. That was the cause of some school shootings in the past and while this may not be the case for every country, it only just shows.

Yeah, we had a few of those cases in Germany. And what do people do? Blame fucking VIDEOGAMES...

I also will never understand why parents care so much about the haircut of their children. Especially when they are in their 20's already. >_>

My dad is a piece of shit fascist, that's why.

Well, I can't really argue about that, since I don't know him. ^^

So if you need to get someone arrested, you must let them attack you and steal your possessions.

In the USA you can shoot someone if he just sets a foot on your land. And then you can say: "It was selfe denfese!".

I'd much rather take America's logic than Britain's logic for this any day of the week.

Yeah, but only in this case. :P

The media can keep talking about recession.

The media should just stop with the extrema. Either, something is "THE BEST EVER!!!!1111" or it's the "WORST THING EVER!!!!11111". There's only black and white and no grey.

But I like EXTREME!

I would much rather have a more balanced news coverage. In 2012 there was a lynch mob, because the media declared a young man as a rapist and killer of a little girl... the police could convice those people to go home. And in the end, the young man was innocent. This is just unbelievable.

There you have it. Humans suck!

In that one aspect. But I don't see any cultural achievements from dragons anywhere. TAKE THAT YOU PUNY DRAGON!

We breathe fire, we fly... What do you humans do again?

We kill your kind as we like. HA!

Shut up and get your own damn money!

I do. But I have to spend it on other things. I bought a floppy-emulator for my Amiga just the other day, haha. That thing really rules. It let's you put various amiga disks on an SD card and then you can load the games and programmes from there. WIN!

Well buddy, I may have to start saving up in the new year if I am in need of a new laptop. I've bought a cooling pad for it so if it still fails with gaming performance then I will have to look into getting a new laptop.

There you have it. I have to save up as well.

Fro had a great New Years, and hopes everyone else did too while saying Congrats To:

Jolly: 6,000 Posts
LiquidFire: 25,000 B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 79,000 B/P
DiMono: Supreme Commander, 11.11 Voting Power
LegolaSS: Level 49
NewsReporter: Level 42
SmashLuigiFan1: Lieutenant, 8 Voting Power
Coop: Top 90 in Experience
SCET3: 8 Base Voting Power

At 12/31/12 07:53 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Is not happy with how some members of my family treat me over certain thoughts.

I wonder what I would have done if I got bullied in school, I have changed as a person in the last 5 years so I think I would have actually took it sadly. I seriously hate when people get bullied, I would never stand for it now, I would fuck shit up if I found out one of my friends got bullied.

I was bullied when I was a child. Weighing in at about 90 pounds and going into 7th grade it wasn't a good thing. I had very few friends and I was an easy target to get picked on. I took it upon myself to make it end. I joined some sports teams and became dedicated to the weight room. I graduated my senior year weighing around 240 pounds, held almost all of the schools lifting records, was an all star athlete, and made tons of friends. I then remembered my roots, where I came from and made sure that I protected those who couldn't. I literally pulled kids off of other kids that were getting beat on or bullied in school, warned them, etc... I was friends with everyone and it really made a difference. Granted it was a small school, but you need people like that for things to get better.

Not everyone can, but if you're capable you have to take these things into your own hands. Expecting an adult or teacher to do this stuff for you is ignorant and lazy in most cases. Especially when there really isn't anything they can do.

At 12/31/12 05:44 AM, Haggard wrote:

I'm sorry to read about your divorce and the other stuff as well. So, I hope you can make it and it's definitely good to have you back.

Thanks, everything is good now though. It's good to be back!

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote:

You'll get there - you have a decent showing of having some sort of long-term game plan.

I get to start the 12th officially. Next week I'm still working my old job, but get paid the new wage. That works for me just find. I get two weeks shadowing someone, then I'm set free by myself.

I have a nice one bedroom, one bath apartment, and a little car that if it holds up for a few years I may just make it.

I might need to get a new car, as the one I have is slightly thirsty - 50 mpg, when I know of cars out there that can do 80. To put it in refuelling terms, one tank a week becomes almost a tank a fortnight.

That's better than any car I've even heard of... Mine gets around 30 mpg and I only fill it up once every 2-3 weeks for $35.

That bookshelf is awesome by the way. I can't do anything to change the apartment like that because I'll lose my security deposit.

Yeah, but that's what my friends like about their landlady - they speak to her and she lets me do shit like that to her house - they like being long term tenants and she likes having long-term tenants. Keep everyone happy.

We passed up on a small house that would literally let us do anything as long as we asked, but it needed too much work to make really nice. It was livable, but we just wanted something move in ready with no work. Plus it was $100 cheaper a month and that money was all I was really worried about when I had such a poor job to start with.

Metal-Therapy - I quoted you, but I'm on my ipad and I accidentally x'd it out before I pasted it. :P Oh well...

I mentioned that I hated the Patriots with a passion, especially Tom Brady, the fragile childlike man. I'll have another miserable football season when the Patriots beat the Broncos in the playoffs. Eli on the other hand. Someone hit him too hard with the stupid stick.

Coop recovers from his first day back in the office, congratulating:
LegolaSS: Level 49
SmashLuigiFan1: Lieutenant; 8.00 Total Voting Power
SCTE3: 8.00 Base Voting Power

Thank you to:
Metal-Therapy
Fro

At 12/31/12 05:44 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/29/12 07:51 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/28/12 01:16 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/28/12 05:57 AM, Coop wrote: Because we genuinely don't know when he was born. Joseph was a clot and as a result, he lost the Birth Certificate. It could have been 3 weeks earlier, for all we know.

I thought it was some kind of mutual agreement that he was born on the 24th.

We don't know, so I think that this was where the churches came to agree on, thus it's when is celebrated, regardless of actual fact. Of course, he was probably black, for all we know :P

Yeah, it's highly unlikely that he looked as white as he's displayed on some pictures.

I think it was said about Michael Jackson being "similar" to Christ, but even as a hardcore fan of his, I'd not get drawn into that so easily.

At 12/31/12 09:28 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/30/12 10:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'd much rather have asthma then eczema. I highly doubt I'll ever get rid of it so I'm stuck with it for the rest of my life.... Why am I still alive?

As far as I know, eczema is not a killer... Just irritating as fuck.

Maybe not a killer but it sure as hell doesn't make life enjoyable when its at its worse forms.

It prevented me from swimming as a kid and as an ex-girlfriend of mine had Psoriasis, which is similar, though an auto-immune condition, or so I understand.

At 12/31/12 01:43 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote: I might need to get a new car, as the one I have is slightly thirsty - 50 mpg, when I know of cars out there that can do 80. To put it in refuelling terms, one tank a week becomes almost a tank a fortnight.

My car (a 12 year-old piece of shit) gets around 20 to 25 and I thought that was okay. I'm sure you drive more than I do, with your commute to work. 50 mpg is still pretty damn good, though.

You're in America, where gas is cheap and people never cared about having to drive hundreds of miles. Cars have never been designed to make even 60 mpg, where now there are certain cars on British roads that have been tested to 80+ mpg. I want to be able to do that.

I started thinking differently when I attended a few meets. Now people practically expect me to show up :P

*Is Jealous*

I'm going again on the 18th. London meet IX, if I recall.

Adding furniture helps to tone down the colour somewhat. Hence the canvas on the otherwise bare wall on the right of shot...

Yeah, I've noticed that, too. The furniture I bought ended up being a lot bigger than I anticipated, so I'm seeing a lot less of the walls now. (yay for buying furniture online without seeing it in the showroom first.) LOL

I bought some from IKEA and made the mistake of buying one wardrobe that was only one door, despite buying two doors for it...

I'm satisfied with a 32" flatscreen for the bedroom. Given that I'm hoping to move out soon, I'll have to get a bigger one for the living room :P

Definitely. We got a 46" in our living room, though it's like 8 years old at this point. With this new one I got in my room I can play games on my bed at the other side of the room and still feel like I'm close to the TV! It's probably the most TV I could manage in here without looking totally ridiculous. :P

I've seen these new OLED televisions that LG have just launched. Paper thin and energy efficient, the problem is the price of £6,300

At 1/1/13 12:46 AM, reverend wrote:

At 12/31/12 09:37 AM, NewsReporter wrote: Why? 2012 was the greatest year Britain has seen in ages.

Exactly. The Olympics, Queen's Jubliee, Skyfall, umm England's Euro team, err Boris Johnson...

Prince Charles reading the weather?

At 1/1/13 07:29 PM, Fro wrote:

At 12/31/12 05:32 AM, Coop wrote: You'll get there - you have a decent showing of having some sort of long-term game plan.

I get to start the 12th officially. Next week I'm still working my old job, but get paid the new wage. That works for me just find. I get two weeks shadowing someone, then I'm set free by myself.

I prefer making the move straight from one to the other, rather than having a week's break in between the two. I took a week off when I left the supermarket to start for the house builder, mainly because I'd been treated like shit and I was just a lazy bastard. Between the housing and now, I had three days, which got me sorted before Xmas with the new place.

I have a nice one bedroom, one bath apartment, and a little car that if it holds up for a few years I may just make it.

I might need to get a new car, as the one I have is slightly thirsty - 50 mpg, when I know of cars out there that can do 80. To put it in refuelling terms, one tank a week becomes almost a tank a fortnight.

That's better than any car I've even heard of... Mine gets around 30 mpg and I only fill it up once every 2-3 weeks for $35.

I've got a 10 gallon tank, that takes over 60 pounds to fill, let's call it $100 for argument's sake. That's about a quarter of my weekly wage on fuel.

Oh and a VW Passat has been tested to 84 mpg or 1,626 miles from one tank.

That bookshelf is awesome by the way. I can't do anything to change the apartment like that because I'll lose my security deposit.

Yeah, but that's what my friends like about their landlady - they speak to her and she lets me do shit like that to her house - they like being long term tenants and she likes having long-term tenants. Keep everyone happy.

We passed up on a small house that would literally let us do anything as long as we asked, but it needed too much work to make really nice. It was livable, but we just wanted something move in ready with no work. Plus it was $100 cheaper a month and that money was all I was really worried about when I had such a poor job to start with.

Yeah, I'd like something like that, but it's what is about when I get into the market.

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SCTE3: 8.00 base vp

At 1/1/13 07:29 PM, Fro wrote: Metal-Therapy - I quoted you, but I'm on my ipad and I accidentally x'd it out before I pasted it. :P Oh well...

Darn.

I mentioned that I hated the Patriots with a passion, especially Tom Brady, the fragile childlike man. I'll have another miserable football season when the Patriots beat the Broncos in the playoffs. Eli on the other hand. Someone hit him too hard with the stupid stick.

I suppose a team's going to have it's fair share of haters when they've been as dominate as the Patriots have, for as long as they have. I've been a Pats fan since the mid 90's, back in the days of Bill Parcells and Drew Bledsoe, so it's not like I jumped on the bandwagon yesterday or anything.
As far as the playoffs go, a Brady v Manning rematch is more than likely in the works. Should be quite the game, if it goes down that way.

At 1/2/13 04:23 PM, Coop wrote: You're in America, where gas is cheap and people never cared about having to drive hundreds of miles. Cars have never been designed to make even 60 mpg, where now there are certain cars on British roads that have been tested to 80+ mpg. I want to be able to do that.

Gas isn't cheap here, though I will admit it is way cheaper than the UK. I found this site and was appalled at what some countries are paying at the pump. Damn.

I'm going again on the 18th. London meet IX, if I recall.

Have a good time!

I bought some from IKEA and made the mistake of buying one wardrobe that was only one door, despite buying two doors for it...

I've never bought anything from IKEA, but I've heard some horror stories about assembly and such...

I've seen these new OLED televisions that LG have just launched. Paper thin and energy efficient, the problem is the price of Ã'£6,300

Damn, that's way too much for a TV. I remember when the flatscreens were new and super-expensive -I bought my new 37" for $300. lol I like staying one step behind the newest thing in electronics to keep price down, not to mention things change so fast anyway... :P

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My external hard drive is operational again! Those cables shall last a very long so who knows how long the hard drive itself will live for but I'll only ever need something with more space than a capacity of 320 GB if I am getting really cramped on space but for the time being I have 124 GB of free space.

Listening to:

Devin Townsend - Terria. And now I can listen to the latest CDs I got post-Christmas.

At 1/1/13 12:11 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: I remained totally sober last night and still failed to notice it was 2013 until 12:07 AM. lol

We just sung The Final Countdown throughout the, well, countdown of the new year. We sang through it but it was worth it. From being alone in the streets at the very first second of 2012 to this for 2013, that's by far a huge improvement for my new year celebrations. Will definitely like to party with friends for the new year again. I just hope some douche of an ex-bouncer doesn't try to turn things sour next time. :P

At 1/1/13 06:55 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/31/12 09:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: There is never anything good that comes out of bullying. If it's left ignored, things will only get much worse. That was the cause of some school shootings in the past and while this may not be the case for every country, it only just shows.

Yeah, we had a few of those cases in Germany. And what do people do? Blame fucking VIDEOGAMES...

I heard about those problems. It's bad enough you get all that censorship bullshit over there.

My dad is a piece of shit fascist, that's why.

Well, I can't really argue about that, since I don't know him. ^^

And thankfully you don't. I just hope you don't have a dad that tries to tell you how you should look, act, etc. I only wonder how much I could take from him before I get to a point where a police officer/court case has to be considered.

I'd much rather take America's logic than Britain's logic for this any day of the week.

Yeah, but only in this case. :P

That is true. I don't want to think they're doing everything wrong, though as I can appreciate the whole place for what they brought.

But I like EXTREME!

I would much rather have a more balanced news coverage. In 2012 there was a lynch mob, because the media declared a young man as a rapist and killer of a little girl... the police could convice those people to go home. And in the end, the young man was innocent. This is just unbelievable.

If anything, 2011's news was more over the top but then again, shit like a tsunami in Japan and a riot in England happened so....

We breathe fire, we fly... What do you humans do again?

We kill your kind as we like. HA!

Number of dragons killed in the real world: 0

Well buddy, I may have to start saving up in the new year if I am in need of a new laptop. I've bought a cooling pad for it so if it still fails with gaming performance then I will have to look into getting a new laptop.

There you have it. I have to save up as well.

Thankfully I don't have to worry about getting a new laptop soon. The cooling pad puts all troubles with TF2 behind me. Still, it might help to look into funding a new one and make this an ongoing thing over the next two years since I feel by 2015 the laptop will be a bit behind the times so an upgrade with a brand new laptop would help.

At 1/1/13 07:29 PM, Fro wrote: Not everyone can, but if you're capable you have to take these things into your own hands. Expecting an adult or teacher to do this stuff for you is ignorant and lazy in most cases. Especially when there really isn't anything they can do.

It's not that it's lazy, it's a duty teachers should have to ensure students are not under stress. If you attempt to take the law in your own hands, you only get threats of being arrested or have that actually happening to you. Last time I tried to hit someone for bullying me, the college only threatened me that I would be arrested the next time that happened. I'm just glad I left that shithole as that place enough put a dent in my life.

At 1/2/13 04:23 PM, Coop wrote:

At 12/31/12 09:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: Maybe not a killer but it sure as hell doesn't make life enjoyable when its at its worse forms.

It prevented me from swimming as a kid and as an ex-girlfriend of mine had Psoriasis, which is similar, though an auto-immune condition, or so I understand.

Having eczema has never stopped me from swimming. Infact, I used to swim all the time but it has been ages since I last went for a swim on a regular basis but I have been negotiating with a friend of mine to see if a weekly session can be done at the local swimming pools just for some exercise.

Level 56! I liked the golden chainsaw better, but I'm getting pretty close to the finish line. Next up: the ban hammer!