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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Aussiemov?

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2010
    I'll mov your assi.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2010
    Ascimov's Foundation books are so good. I just wanted to bring this up since someone said it earlier in the thread.

    Only the first three. I recommend stopping after that.

    That said, The Mule is one of my favorite villains ever.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I just threw up.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I just threw up.

    Quit eating bad food.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I just threw up.

    Quit eating bad food.

    I just had coffee. I dunno, I also got some bad news the other day, I haven't slept well for 2 nights. I think it was the bad news.

    Edit: Man, I'll confess something to you guys, I'm really negative lately. I am a bit depressed. This last Japan adventure kinda killed me inside. I put all my heart in it, only to see it craaaaash.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2010
    I've been away, what happened with Japan?
    You didn't sell your car, did you? I know I know, you might have a buyer!

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    No, I couldn't sell it.

    As for Japan, I spent so much money getting my stuff out to the companies. I got really positive feedback, but everyone told me "You're great, but you don't have a visa". I didn't let it get me down but on my last day, I got an interview. I changed my air ticket, skipped 6 days of work and bought a suit to be interviewed.

    I was really optimistic! Everything went well, I had the necesary experience and they all rememberd my portfolio from the last time I applied, I speak English and Japanese. Then they said "Well, we've gone with another candidate". I sacrificed so much to be there; money, time and emotion only to get shot down.

    It takes a lot to bring me down. That one interview didn't do it by itself. It was the year long rejection, one after another. I've been turned down by everyone, from JET to the Military. That's a bit discouraging when it happens over and over for the course of a year.

    I'm not giving up. No way! I really want this! But right now, my heart is in the lowest place it's ever been.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I just threw up.

    Quit eating bad food.

    I just had coffee. I dunno, I also got some bad news the other day, I haven't slept well for 2 nights. I think it was the bad news.

    Edit: Man, I'll confess something to you guys, I'm really negative lately. I am a bit depressed. This last Japan adventure kinda killed me inside. I put all my heart in it, only to see it craaaaash.

    Yeah, if you have any reason to throw up, Coffee will put you right over the edge.

    Also, just take a break. I mean, I know you want to be with your girlfriend and all, but putting so much effort into something like that is going to take its toll on you. Take a few days or even a couple weeks to actively work on the parts of your life that have nothing to do with japan.

    Mass Effect 2:
    In a pleasant surprise, I now have a geth teammate.
    I know who's going to be in my bedroom by the end of the game

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Actually, Metal, as for my GF, she's comming over to PR for a couple of years. When it comes to that part of my life, I'm relaxed. But in the job sense I feel like I've failed so catastrophically. But you're right, I should find something else to do for a while.

    Edit:

    Sorry for being dramatic, guys.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Actually, Metal, as for my GF, she's comming over to PR for a couple of years. When it comes to that part of my life, I'm relaxed. But in the job sense I feel like I've failed so catastrophically. But you're right, I should find something else to do for a while.

    Well just remember that you know damn well you'd be regretting it on your death bed if you never gave japan a try. You made every reasonable effort to get there and the hit your job took is a small price to pay considering the alternative.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Issack Aseemov is my favourite word book story... maker.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Metal, you're a real sweetie, you know that?

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So I'm thinking I should stop talking to/hanging out with this dude I'm badly crushing on. Because I don't think it's going to go anywhere, and knowing that, it all seems like a painful waste of time. Emphasis on painful.

    But we have mutual friends, which could make things awkward.

    Bleh, damn you faulty human heart!

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Because I don't think it's going to go anywhere, and knowing that, it all seems like a painful waste of time. Emphasis on painful.
    Why is that now?

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    *double post* I can't stop laughing at page 67 of this thread.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Metal, you're a real sweetie, you know that?

    What I don't get is why nobody understands is that this is what puts my assholery into sharp contrast. Same reason the Vogon fleet commander writes poetry.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I suddenly have a mental image of small boy crying over his scraped knee and Metal being all fatherly.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Paradise wrote: »
    Because I don't think it's going to go anywhere, and knowing that, it all seems like a painful waste of time. Emphasis on painful.
    Why is that now?

    [Morning, in bed together (nope, no sex but physical affection) we're mucking around and playfighting. After a series of hard pokes to my ribs--]

    d.robots: Gagh! Stop it!
    HIM: Why!
    d.robots: I guess I'd rather experience other forms of physical attention?
    HIM: Well that's not going to happen.

    I get the feeling the guys a pathological flirt and our mutual friends appear to agree. Can't help the way I feel though. I feel really stupid about it.

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  • Forbe!Forbe! Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Take it for what it is. Have fun, enjoy life. If it is bothering you that much, tell him that and move on.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Paradise wrote: »
    Because I don't think it's going to go anywhere, and knowing that, it all seems like a painful waste of time. Emphasis on painful.
    Why is that now?

    [Morning, in bed together (nope, no sex but physical affection) we're mucking around and playfighting. After a series of hard pokes to my ribs--]

    d.robots: Gagh! Stop it!
    HIM: Why!
    d.robots: I guess I'd rather experience other forms of physical attention?
    HIM: Well that's not going to happen.

    I get the feeling the guys a pathological flirt and our mutual friends appear to agree. Can't help the way I feel though. I feel really stupid about it.

    Yup. Ditch him quick.

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  • Forbe!Forbe! Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    What should I make for lunch?

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010

    Yup. Ditch him quick.

    I'm pretty sure this is good advice.

    edit: oh, and your advice was appreciated too Forbe.

    Now have a tuna salad for lunch.

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  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yes that is good advice. There's too much out there to be wasting your time tied down to an attention whore

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I like the guy a lot. I think we'd make awesome friends. I just can't do that with all this infatuation static in the air all the time. Urgh.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I like the guy a lot. I think we'd make awesome friends. I just can't do that with all this infatuation static in the air all the time. Urgh.

    Well, I don't know why he's acting like that, whether its to keep you interested because that's all he can handle with his crippling fear of rejection, or keeping you on the hook in case some other plan of his doesn't work, or because he's afraid his friends wouldn't approve. But I do know that he's a damned toolbag for doing it, so ditch his ass and make him jealous by making out with someone who's willing to

    One more peice of relationship advice (for anyone, not specific to the situation): "It's not you, it's me" is a perfectly good reason to break up with someone, as in "I don't want to go out with you/ I'm disgusted by your appearance/ I think you're a goddamn tool" Just, you know, don't actually use the phrase "It's not you, it's me" and use some tact otherwise.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Robots, nobody that treats you that way is worth being in a relationship with.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I agree with the Toaster of Magic.


    Change of pace:
    Old ladies hate my new haircut.

    When I walk around anywhere (down the street or in town or whatever), I greet people with friendly hellos and such. But ever since I got a short new haircut, the only greetings coming back from old ladies are the bitter looks they're giving me.

    Everybody else seems fine with this haircut. I don't know what these old ladies' problem could be. Maybe I look like a famous, early 1900s misogynist. Or something?

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Paradise, no haircut that treats you that way is worth being in a relationship with.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    People shy away from me when I shave my head with a razor.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    You shouldn't shave your head with a razor in public.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    That's stupid.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I'm not the one shaving my head with a razor in public.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I need to chop my hair. It has grown out. There's about an inch and a half of brown under the purple, which is pretty distressing. It also won't stick up anymore.

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  • bombardierbombardier Moderator mod
    edited February 2010
    Hey Bacon you should go to the PA book signing and trade signatures since you got that contest piece in there:

    FEBRUARY 25 – HUNTINGTON BEACH
    BARNES & NOBLE – 7 PM
    7881 Edinger Ave #110
    Huntington Beach, CA

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    I need to chop my hair. It has grown out. There's about an inch and a half of brown under the purple, which is pretty distressing. It also won't stick up anymore.

    Me too!

    Although mine is more due to my nice hair cut slowly morphing into a mullet.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • edited February 2010
    i am semi-seriously thinking about shaving a maple leaf into the back of my head for the olympics. my hair is just over 1/8" right now so it'd show up pretty well but be basically grown out by the end of the festivities.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots perth, ausRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    do it. that's awesome.

    awesomely lame, but awesome all the same.

    or: Aweslame!

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Paradise wrote: »
    Because I don't think it's going to go anywhere, and knowing that, it all seems like a painful waste of time. Emphasis on painful.
    Why is that now?

    [Morning, in bed together (nope, no sex but physical affection) we're mucking around and playfighting. After a series of hard pokes to my ribs--]

    d.robots: Gagh! Stop it!
    HIM: Why!
    d.robots: I guess I'd rather experience other forms of physical attention?
    HIM: Well that's not going to happen.

    I get the feeling the guys a pathological flirt and our mutual friends appear to agree. Can't help the way I feel though. I feel really stupid about it.

    Yup. Ditch him quick.


    Yup get rid of him Robuts, flirts are a pain in the ass when you're attracted to them.
    I hear Brad from the Bachelor is free and probably gay.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Flirts/teases are a pain in the ass in general. Because if you're not attracted to them, it's a whole different kind of irritating.

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