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What did you want to be when you were a child?

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    Theidar wrote: »
    Sheri wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    Disney's laying you off? So much for the happiest place on earth.

    hugs Sheri

    No, my internship ends on Friday and apparently no one wants to hire me. :(

    :v: Job searching sucks.

    Seriously, it really does.

    Even worse when you're trying to land jobs on the other site of the continent :\

    The whole, like "all the jobs in my field are in California" thing gets old after the fifth time you've gone "I have to leave my friends, my family, my karate school, pretty much everything except my profession, just to get a job." Shit, I can't believe I was considering Canada at one point.

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    I wanted to be a journalist, and, at this point, I'll pretty much settle for anything short of total failure.
    Fandyien noooo :(

    :O

    Pretty much all my friends have quit at life and I am trying hard not to do the same thing

    I should slap you for that kind of pussy-talk. Spend time with your winner friends, not your loser friends.

    Wait, fuck this, there's already some kind of ninja on YouTube saying this exact message.

    Defender on
  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    I wanted to be a journalist, and, at this point, I'll pretty much settle for anything short of total failure.
    Fandyien noooo :(

    :O

    Pretty much all my friends have quit at life and I am trying hard not to do the same thing

    I should slap you for that kind of pussy-talk. Spend time with your winner friends, not your loser friends.

    Wait, fuck this, there's already some kind of ninja on YouTube saying this exact message.

    Yeah, I barely see a couple of my old friends basically because they spent a couple years doing nothing at all, both jobwise and personal-growthwise. One managed to get his shit straightened out and is doing good for a guy who's a daddy at 22. The other went back to living with his parents.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Dumb Hero wrote: »
    A YOUNG WARTHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG

    I was thinking this

    I'm glad you did it

    You or The Geek

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I wanna be a steam roller when I grow up!

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Fuck what is the name of the comic where it is this little girl who can do all this crazy shit and someone asks her what she wants to be when she grows up

    She answers, "I want to be an elephant."

    And he's all ,"You can't!"

    And then she's all bam I'm an elephant

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Minus?

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    When I was little I wanted to be either a vet or an animal trainer at Sea World. Then I wanted to be in the CIA. Now I am going to work intelligence in the Air Force. My long-term goal is to get a job working for the state department in an Embassy somewhere in Southeast Asia.

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    neville wrote: »
    I wanna be a steam roller when I grow up!
    Steam shovel. That is, if you are referencing what I think you are.

    I wanted to be a paleontologist. Dinosaurs fucking rule.

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    neville wrote: »
    I wanna be a steam roller when I grow up!

    How do you shovel steam?

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Minus?

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    SirToasty wrote: »
    neville wrote: »
    I wanna be a steam roller when I grow up!
    Steam shovel. That is, if you are referencing what I think you are.

    I wanted to be a paleontologist. Dinosaurs fucking rule.

    hi5 for dreams of paleontology

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    That's awesome. When I was younger, I'd often attempt to delve into arcane subjects like that, and I always failed due to total lack of attention span.

    That particular thing bugged me for a few weeks though. I still don't fully understand why perpetual motion isn't possible.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    i wanted to be a comic strip artist
    then i realized i wasn't funny
    and didn't like drawing repetitive things

    except for myself

    so uh
    yeah

    then i wanted to be a forensic ballistics and/or spattering specialist
    but.. now i do autocad
    close enough right

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Fandyien wrote: »
    That's awesome. When I was younger, I'd often attempt to delve into arcane subjects like that, and I always failed due to total lack of attention span.

    That particular thing bugged me for a few weeks though. I still don't fully understand why perpetual motion isn't possible.

    no such thing as "totally frictionless"

    friction means drag

    drag means heat

    heat means negative energy

    negative energy has to be countered from something, somewhere


    no matter on how miniscule a level, all things must equal zero

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Veretas wrote: »
    Minus?
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    Would you believe that was a guess?

    I don't think I have actually seen that one before.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Veretas wrote: »
    Minus?
    minus10.jpg

    Would you believe that was a guess?

    I don't think I have actually seen that one before.

    well that was my first thought too

    "girl who does fantastical things" kind of narrows it down

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    mully wrote: »
    i wanted to be a comic strip artist
    then i realized i wasn't funny
    and didn't like drawing repetitive things

    except for myself

    so uh
    yeah

    then i wanted to be a forensic ballistics and/or spattering specialist
    but.. now i do autocad
    close enough right

    I can see right through you

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  • KreutzKreutz Blackwater Park, IARegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    As for me, my uncle worked for a wrestling promotion up in Minnesota and knew a bunch of wrestlers and used to show me a shitload of tapes, so up until the age of 12 or so, I wanted to work in the wrestling business somehow (not as a wrestler, though). It probably would have been a lot more interesting than engineering, but there's really no opportunity for independent promotions anymore, so I probably would have ended up on a dead-end career.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    As for me, my uncle worked for a wrestling promotion up in Minnesota and knew a bunch of wrestlers and used to show me a shitload of tapes, so up until the age of 12 or so, I wanted to work in the wrestling business somehow (not as a wrestler, though). It probably would have been a lot more interesting than engineering, but there's really no opportunity for independent promotions anymore, so I probably would have ended up on a dead-end career.

    Defender is a bigger fucking nerd than you are.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Veretas wrote: »
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    As for me, my uncle worked for a wrestling promotion up in Minnesota and knew a bunch of wrestlers and used to show me a shitload of tapes, so up until the age of 12 or so, I wanted to work in the wrestling business somehow (not as a wrestler, though). It probably would have been a lot more interesting than engineering, but there's really no opportunity for independent promotions anymore, so I probably would have ended up on a dead-end career.

    Defender is a bigger fucking nerd than you are.

    major identity crisis

    ZeroFill on
  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    Veretas wrote: »
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    As for me, my uncle worked for a wrestling promotion up in Minnesota and knew a bunch of wrestlers and used to show me a shitload of tapes, so up until the age of 12 or so, I wanted to work in the wrestling business somehow (not as a wrestler, though). It probably would have been a lot more interesting than engineering, but there's really no opportunity for independent promotions anymore, so I probably would have ended up on a dead-end career.

    Defender is a bigger fucking nerd than you are.

    major identity crisis

    Well he argues better than him

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    Please explain what series of events is likely to happen that will lead to my career changing to fry service.

    Defender on
  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    Please explain what series of events is likely to happen that will lead to my career changing to fry service.

    I drew you a diagram with the word continuum spelt incorrectly!

    cheesecontinuum.jpg

    If this doesn't explain how I don't think it can be explained.

    You see, you need to serve cheesy fries, otherwise, death.

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  • skinny87skinny87 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    Please explain what series of events is likely to happen that will lead to my career changing to fry service.

    I drew you a diagram with the word continuum spelt incorrectly!

    cheesecontinuum.jpg

    If this doesn't explain how I don't think it can be explained.

    You see, you need to serve cheesy fries, otherwise, death.

    But what if he stays in the middle?

    Cheesy Death

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember when I was around 14 I spent most of the year occasionally pondering how a perpetual motion machine could conceivably cheat the laws of thermodynamics and it was pretty cool reaching that point where I really understood why it's not possible.

    Haha yeah me too.

    I mean

    you fuckin NEEEEEEERRRRRRD

    If you think questioning the laws of physics and thermodynamics is nerdy, then you're going to be serving fries to a lot of nerds.

    As for me, my uncle worked for a wrestling promotion up in Minnesota and knew a bunch of wrestlers and used to show me a shitload of tapes, so up until the age of 12 or so, I wanted to work in the wrestling business somehow (not as a wrestler, though). It probably would have been a lot more interesting than engineering, but there's really no opportunity for independent promotions anymore, so I probably would have ended up on a dead-end career.
    You're not too bright are you? We weren't just talking about questioning them, but reaching that point of really understanding why they're laws instead of just parroting information that wasn't really understood as so many unfortunately do. And this isn't meant as an insult toward others that aren't that interested in science but just pointing out the difference to you after you tried to "put us in our place" you pompous windbag.

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I used to want to be a rescue diver with the fire department when I grew up.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I wanted to be a mad scientist. It has always been a very appealing lifestyle.

    Or an astronaut, that's cool too.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Viper pilot would be pretty cool. Too bad that isn't a real profession.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Viper pilot would be pretty cool. Too bad that isn't a real profession.

    It's a great euphemism for a hooker though

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'M PRACTICING TO BE A BOYFRIEND, POP!

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    One of the earliest things I wanted to be was the editor of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I've always wanted to be the Highlander.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I've always wanted to be the Highlander.

    THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I can honestly say my life's ambition at seven years old was the same as it is now at twenty-seven
    To be a child prodigy

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I wanted to be a policeman because they had flashing lights on their cars

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  • Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    a geneticist

    I guess I wanted to play God!

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    a geneticist

    I guess I wanted to play God!

    So you wanted to play hide and seek?

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