What's the stupidest thing you have said/done this year?
Here's mine.
I was speaking on the telephone yesterday with a potential client whom (I thought) was named Steven or Stephen. In order to clarify, I asked him "Steven, do you spell your name with a 'ph' or with a 'v'?"
After a moment of awkward silence, he answered "Actually, I spell it with a B-R-I-A-N..."
"What, have Canadians run out of guns to steal from other Canadians and now need to piss all over our glee?"
- TSM
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hahaha that's very stupid. were you drunk.
We do not sow.
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Well, yesterday I had to climb my way across a train car connection of a train that just stopped. Sometimes the trains will stop at the train station here, and being as long as they are these days they stretch all the way to the intersection next to student parking, blocking traffic for well over 20 minutes. In order to get to my test on time I had to get through that train. Going through the train whenever it stops is standard procedure here, but still, trains are one of the last things you should mess with. Right up there with grizzly bears.
"Never in physical action had I discovered the chilling satisfaction of words. Never in words had I experienced the hot darkness of action. Somewhere there must be a higher principle which reconciles art and action. That principle, it occurred to me, was death." -Yukio Mishima
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I have no idea, the list is far too long and I usually forget them, but it was definately something of irredeemable stupidity. Something that I kicked myself for saying for at least a wekk and lastly something that just had to be said during one of those rare and ill-timed lulls in conversation....
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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I said CalState Florida, the problem is CalState is California State University
"Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare."
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
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I asked the wrong aunt how long she'd been pregnant for. The problem is, the one I asked is sensitive about her weight...
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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Yes I committed the almighty sin.
You see my girlfriend whom i love dearly and will one day have to marry. Is always, relentlessly, complaining that she is gaining weight. (which she is not) now the holiday season being what it is (a mass gorging feast where one thinks that death could hardly be as bad as the stomach pains aquired from over eating) anyway back to my story, So we are laying there and she ask me "do you think I have gained weight" after refusing to answer for what seemed like eternity I finally succumbed and told her that although it was hardly noticable she may have gained a little, as i quickly tried to explain that I had also, as does everyone during the holiday season. The week that followed was absolute hell, i could not talk to her without afterwards feeling as though I was the most cruel creature in the world.
A warning to all who have not yet made this mistake. Do not ever, under any circumstance be it life or otherwise, tell your significant other that she has or may have gained weight.
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What's the stupidest thing you have said/done this year?
That would be my wishing JAG and Teutonic Knight Happy 20th of January Birthday on the 20th of.....
FEBRUARY!
Some kind of warp in the space-time continuum thingie.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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Well we were in class and the teacher was showing a slide of a pussyweisel but i didn't hear what he said corrctly and I was looking on my desk and I blurted out "that's a pussy?" really loudly.
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pardon my ignorance but what's a pussywiesel?
indeed
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A pussyweisel is a little vermin who lives in trees.
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Originally Posted by Byzantine_Prince
hahaha lol
"Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law."-Japanese Proverb
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hey i have a question for you, maybe you can relate a good answer:
what if the girl you're with keeps telling you that she's gaining weight.
that has happened to me before.
of course, i want to say: "well then stop talking to me and go work it off ffs!!!"
but that would not go over too well.
so i just kind of don't say anything other than a few subtle polite suggestions on what she should be doing to get rid of it
the problem is that by suggesting them in a calm and passive manner, she's never gonna get the weight off.
i don't want to be "supportive" of her weight gaining, but that's the role i've got pigeonholed into!
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I do
ok serious.
I put a glove under a big car, making it seem like a crushed body. Well it worked, then I suggested we took it away before someone gets a heart-attack. I forgot that he just lost his father a week ago because of one.
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Friends ask if I want to help them a bit renovating their recently bought house.
Before we start working, they give me a quick "tour" through their house, which clearly still needs a LOT of renovations.
Then they show me their (small) bathroom.
Me: "Oh my God! THIS is an ugly colour..... When will you start painting here?"
Them: "We painted the bathroom yesterday".
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That is why I do not care about the color of the walls or anything like that; give me heat, air conditioning, electricity, a bathroom, a couch or bed, a kitchen, a TV and a computer and I will be fine.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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How easy it is to make a man happy....
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
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Well more than just that a man with no need for aesthetics. Oh did I mention comfortable and season appropriate clothing? I am not a nudist I just don't think about clothes either. Maybe when I get a house I should get pink walls just for the heck of it.......
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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Dumbest thing I said
"Why don't we go out on a date, (insert name)?"
You know your prospects suck when this is something she gets angry at you for.
The surest way to lose the respect of one's peers is to take a stand on principle...alone.
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hey i have a question for you, maybe you can relate a good answer:
what if the girl you're with keeps telling you that she's gaining weight.
that has happened to me before.
of course, i want to say: "well then stop talking to me and go work it off ffs!!!"
but that would not go over too well.
so i just kind of don't say anything other than a few subtle polite suggestions on what she should be doing to get rid of it
the problem is that by suggesting them in a calm and passive manner, she's never gonna get the weight off.
i don't want to be "supportive" of her weight gaining, but that's the role i've got pigeonholed into!
Is is a most interesting situation, I cant say i have an easy solution. except to say (in the voice of the crazy Irishmen from Braveheart)
JS,
Better is it for a man to live on the corner of a rooftop than with a nagging wife -- Bible
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Some books. A good stove and a well-filled wine rack. Some more books, A balcony with an oil lamp for those long summer nights. Yet more books.
Oh yeah, and throw in some of them womens. You know, the kind with the bare feet, long curly hair and thangs.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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Some books. A good stove and a well-filled wine rack. Some more books, A balcony with an oil lamp for those long summer nights. Yet more books.
Oh yeah, and throw in some of them womens. You know, the kind with the bare feet, long curly hair and thangs.
I cannot help but see that you throughly enjoy reading. I do as well and was wondering if you have any recent favorites i should look for.
Recently I have read Godsworthys "The Complete Roman Army" C.S. Lewis's mere Christianity, "The Spartens" by Paul Cartledge and John Calvins Commentaries on Acts. And with the wine rack... toss a few bottles of Jack Daniels single barrel on.
JS,
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle
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Oh, mine would be the first time I went out driving with my mom (I have my learning permit, and I had only just gotten it). I was at a four way street, and was turning right. I went out to far though, and almost hit someone who was turning left from the road I was turning into to to road I was turning from (kind of hard to explain with words...)
I hit the huge gas guzzling SUV with my small Chrysler Serius (or Cirrus... or something). I shattered my left headlight and blinker, and all that happened to the SUV was that it lost the little cap on it's wheel.
Fortunately the lady driving it decided not to press charges, and didn't call the cops.
But then her husband tried to get us to pay 500 bucks for "damages"... but fortuantly my dad told him stop.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
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Hi, Rising general, it depends on what you're interested in. From what you listed I would guess it's mainly Ancient and Medieval History. Lemme see, I thoroughly enjoyed a couple recently. 1. Georges Duby, The Legend of Bouvines, which is about the battle itself but also, and mainly, about the treatment it was given by (partisan) contemporaries and later historians and the resulting mythology. Everything by Duby is great, and it's all available in English I believe. 2. Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, which is really modern man's companion to Thucydides' classic and very good, not just on war but also politics, plague, philosophy etcetera. 3. Ian Ousby, The Road to Verdun, not really ancient history, but a very well-written and researched book that compares myth and reality in the battle over Verdun. Three massive, well-done bricks that should tie you over the remainder of this winter.
Anything you can recommend to me? I'm more the Modern History, Political Philosophy and Current Affairs kind of guy. And is it OK if I change the Daniels for a Tullamore Dew?
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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What about some fiction? You cannot go around reading ancient history all your life... well some can, but y'all know what happens to those kinds of guys ;)
Common Unreflected Drinking Only Smartens
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With a computer you can order books!
Right now I am reading All Quiet on the Western Front , anyone else read it?
Did you like it?
I can't get the time to do much free reading though, my English class is assigning a lot of boring books and I don't have enough free time to be reding 2 at a time right now.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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I read it. It was 'good' in the sense that it could invoke emotions. Almost made me cry a few times.
GoreBag: Oh, Prole, you're a nerd's wet dream.
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