I love using my GPS, problem is I can’t find it.
Quizzical Quotations
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 20:10
#102
I love using my GPS, problem
Thu, 05/16/2013 - 07:36
#103
Mojo-beef
For those who neglected to read the OP, there is a rule stating you cannot quote yourself.
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
"Hope is a waking dream."
-Aristotle
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
-Vince Lombardi
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
-Maya Angelou
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 08:26
#104
Well, it was fun yall....
I doubt this thread will survive the influx of destruction in the GC, so here's a couple fitting quotes. Maybe I'll come back one day when the GC is restored.
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
-Abraham Lincoln
"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
-Abraham Lincoln
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I will see you again. But not yet, not yet..."
-Juba (Gladiator)
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 13:46
#105
“I shed a tear when I meet
“I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.”
― Bauvard
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 15:56
#106
"Plunder"
-William C. Quantrill
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 16:26
#107
Well then. I wasn't expecting so much change in the GC this fast
Gosh dang it....First I see your quotes Iam, then I read mine form post #103....I dug my own grave here, huh? I guess I'll do away with my hypocrisy of post #104 for now. I was always planning on "detoxing" from the forums over the summer, but I'll stick around a bit to help tidy up this mess!
I think you're walls of text have tuned the GC down a bit Iam. =O
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 17:53
#108
The Cupcake-God does not approve!!!
I think this is right
"to eat cupcakes or to not eat cupcakes, that is the question" ~ Ben Franklen
if it is not, the Cupcake-God does not approve!!!
Sat, 05/18/2013 - 07:15
#109
he he he
"The Cupcake-God does not aprove!!!" ~ Cupcake-God
Sat, 05/18/2013 - 10:00
#110
"A joke is a very serious
"A joke is a very serious thing."
-Winston Churchill
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 04:19
#111
"Dear MATH, stop asking to
"Dear MATH, stop asking to find your X, she’s not coming back."
-unknown
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 14:46
#112
“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
― Andrea Gibson
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 16:39
#113
lol very popular
My name is Bond, James Bond.
- James Bond
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 19:24
#114
NO
"NO"
-almost every movie, book, or video game ever made :D
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 20:19
#115
Hit em hard,
Hit em hard, Rifles!
-Lieutenant Morgan, from Battle Nations.
No ones calling me a coward.
-Sargent Ramsey, from Battle Nations
-Mrrow.
Mr. Purrface, from Battle Nations
Mon, 05/27/2013 - 22:29
#116
at the risk of sounding cliche' "what Dark Ritual" (surprisingly not what you think. Trigger Warning: there may be feels involved)
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 03:50
#117
"The surest sign that
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
-Bill Watterson
Fri, 05/31/2013 - 08:05
#118
When life gives you
When life gives you radioactive lemons, you make glow-in-the-dark lemonade.
-Someone.
Mon, 06/10/2013 - 17:24
#119
Hunger is insolent, and will
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Homer
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 10:03
#120
^
Whoa! You changed your name Iam!
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 19:31
#121
I changed my name. Left my
I changed my name. Left my guild. Deleted all my friends. Then, ran around haven homeless and with no friends. It was like being a noob all over again.
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 07:54
#122
^
Is that so? Is that what's happened after the GC went all topsy-turvy on us? =P
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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
-Tad Williams
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 08:37
#123
o.O
Are you reading my mind?
The Tad Williams quote. I read it several times...
I've been struggling with a deep thought and desire for 6 months to a year now. One I'm struggling to achieve. I've been thinking basically homelessness for a home. Or better word it, liquidating and downsizing everything. That home is where we come from. Who we are. What we are. What we do. What is in our heart, soul and mind. We make our home. In material scene, it only needs to meet our basic needs. It doesn't need to define us or own and enslave us through labor incurred in terms of monetary costs and physical upkeep. If I free myself from owning the home and most other material goods, I don't have to work as much to pay for them and I don't have to spend all of my days off taking care of it. I only need to earn basic needs and the things I really enjoy doing in life. Freedom to go where I want, when I want and to do what I like to do. My home could be that journey of life. Look for me in my front yard, out riding a wave. Come into my back yard where I can be found canoeing the rivers winding through the forest.
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 11:17
#124
Of course I can read your mind Iam
I can see the appeal to living like that. Changing the scenery whenever you want to, less worries, etc.
But there's two halves of me; My music, and my friends. I don't believe I could live a life moving around like that. I'd just get lonely and depressed...
I could easily live with the less is more mentality. I mean, isn't that how most young adults start off anyway? Ya know, venturing out on there own, gradually making themselves a home wherever they're living?
But like you said, home is Who we are, What we are, and What we do; and my home is among my friends. If they all wanted to form a nomadic tribe and travel around, then I'd be perfectly content with that as well.
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:11
#125
I'm thinking less nomadic and
I'm thinking less nomadic and just with less and no ownership. No ownership, no responsibility. It's often said renting is just throwing your money away. I'm starting to think, bare minimum and let the landlord fix everything, worry about everything and he can cut the grass too. While he's unclogging my toilet, replacing windows, cutting the grass, he's also worried about paying the taxes, sewer, water bill and how to pay to replace the roof.
Me, cya. I'm out of here and off to live. It might just be worth the cost and lack of investment.
I'm thinking bare minimum to exist and do what I want then as little work (earnings) to maintain it. No material growth. We can't take anything with us anyway.
Thu, 06/13/2013 - 07:52
#126
Ah, but there come's a
Ah, but there come's a certain feeling of accomplishment when you work for what you own. Granted, you only need to have just what you need to live, but I believe being able to take care of what possessions you do own can develop one's character and maturity. Responsibility is a blessing.
Your right about us not being able to take anything with us when we leave this world though. That is, we cannot take anything physical.
“19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal." 20“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;" 21"for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Matthew 6:19-21
To sum this up real short, it means that while we are here on earth we should strive to make it a better place. To reach out and touch someone. What we do in this life will echo in the eternity to come.
That of the material world will end, but that of the immaterial will endure.
Thu, 06/13/2013 - 11:24
#127
<3 Matthew 6:19-21
The day comes when we realize maturity is over-rated. Then, we degress into what we were when we came into this world. Something that wears diapers and needs to be fed. xD
Thu, 06/13/2013 - 18:54
#128
Haha Iam
There went another one of our deeply philosophical discussions. ;D
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Random thought: Are you gonna have your landlord do all that for ya once you've digressed? =P
Thu, 06/13/2013 - 21:05
#129
o.0
No diapers in the swimming pool, please.
I don't think I'll degress that far. I went back. I always do. It's what I do. Every time I try to get away, it pulls me back for one reason or another. It's what I do best and I tend to fail back on it or get talked backed into it. I have been given the gifts to master the element. The closest thing to walking on water and giving life, or at least maintaining it, that he will give. When I went back, I went back knowing eventually I will cease to master it. That those gifts and will eventually be taking away. I will fail and the element will open up and swallow me. Showing me who the real master is. It has often been said the water is just recycled T-Rex pee. That pee will be here far longer than me.
scenario 1:
Lifeguard jumps into cold water to perform a rescue on a panicky victim. Contact is made and the swim for safety begins but slowly rescuer and victim submerge due the rescuer's coronary arrest. Rescuer and victim are found in a prone position on the bottom.
scenario 2:
During the lifeguard class, no one pays much attention to the instructor who is playing the "victim". The lifeguard instructor drowns.
scenario 3:
The lifeguard sitting in the lifeguard chair dies for unknown reasons. After hours of the slow dehydration that come with sun drying, lifeguard slips from the chair and plummets to the water below.
scenario 4:
While in watercraft, the watercraft personnel/rescuer has a medical emergency.
split 1; No other watercraft is available to do a rescue.
split 2; Everyone sees the empty boat floating off shore and seeks a rescuer to report it to but are unable to do so as the rescuer is lying on the floor of the boat, drifting away, with their body unseen from shore. Everyone eventually gives up deciding it must be a boat that blew free and of no concern especially after all that time with no apparent emergency or calls for help.
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 18:28
#130
^
Wait, what are we talking about here? O_o
It went from lifestyle and responsibility, to grisly death by chlorinated water? What "element" are you speaking of I might add?
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 03:57
#131
water
We can go back to
water
We can go back to talking about lifestyle and responsibility.
Or we can talk about that chlorine you brought up.
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:13
#132
Oh. Oh no. Don't even get me started on chlorine.
Too late.
Yeah, so I'm a swimmer.
I swim every day.
Sometimes multiple times a day.
At least 2 hours every practice.
It's tough. It's draining. And it's painful.
No really, my triceps and lats are almost too sore to move most of the time!
But what about the chlorine part of it...?
Well, it turns out I swim in the most heavily chlorinated pool in the entire metroplex of (REDACTED). No joke!
That makes for some irritated sinuses. Sometimes I even have trouble smelling stuff besides chlorine!
Chlorine is also great at giving headaches. I usually get a pretty bad headache above my right eye every time I swim.
But really, swimming is great. All those sore muscles pay off in the end.
Swimming is the quintessential sport when it comes to getting a full body workout at the same time as you're practicing. It's also really good for the lungs. And the whole circulatory system in general. It definitely works that heart out!
Feel free to join a Summer team while it's still Summer though! The season should be halfway through already, but don't let that stop you! Summer teams aren't as intense as the club teams like what I swim on either. So you won't half to worry about swimming until your body utterly rejects your will and you go into cardiogenic shock.
Naw, I'm just kidding. That's never happened. So far at least.
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:27
#133
"I don't like having to play
"I don't like having to play this role, but someone has to."
~Warmaster Seerus (in my imagination)
"What, does this look dangerous to you?"
~Ziggs, the sexiest freaking yordler
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 20:01
#134
Ah, the sweet smell of
Ah, the sweet smell of chlorine. We swim in it yet, it has been known to blow up and burn down entire towns and communities. Trains have and will derail carrying it, causing hazmat crews in zoot suits to be called out and wide spread mandatory evacuations. Inhaling it probably isn't too good of an idea. The headaches are probably an indication of that.
Swimming is a wonderful workout indeed. It's full body, strength building, endurance building and cardio. It can easily wear you out. Professionally, I'm in it for the long haul. I do it as little as possible and as easy as possible. I've been known to hit 25 meters with 2 and 3 breaststroke strokes. To me, treading water is more of mind over matter (or water). It's more of a vertical float. I can do it for hours. I don't need speed or distance, I just have to stay above it. And I try to stay out of it, at least at work. It's just not safe. I want to go home at the end of the day.
Public Service Announcement:
If you are ever asked if you can swim prior to jumping into water, do not say yes THINKING you can and never actually having done so.
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 08:58
#135
Do you lifeguard?
2-3 Breaststroke strokes per 25meter is pretty good if I'm not mistaken! Did you hear about that swimmer recently who swam the 200breast in like, 1:31.31?? They took about 3 strokes per 25 meter as well! O_o
The Breaststroke happens to be my specialty stroke as well.
I'm a sprinter, rather than an endurance swimmer, so I don't swim anything well over a 200 meter. Which is great, cause that's the longest Breaststroke event there is!
As for treading water, the hard part is if you're forced to do vertical fly kick. Try keeping your head above the water for more than 30 seconds with that! O_O
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 15:32
#136
/giggles
No, I didn't. I'm
/giggles
No, I didn't. I'm one of those who plays sports but usually doesn't watch or follow them.
2 or 3 strokes per 25 meters is pretty good but don't expect me to do it with a quickness. Stroke ------------------------> long glide XD
I'm not doing events, just classes, mostly crash classes, like 25 to 30 hours per week. You're getting off easy with 30 seconds. My last class was 8 minutes, no hands/per night of class. I usually use the rotary kick and frequently switch to sizzler, switching the lead leg. If we're allowed to use hands, I have been known to stick my feet up and go hands only.
Right now I'm hiding out and it's "No running please." and "Dad please don't throw your children." (Like they have a choice.)
/chuckles
I just got demoted recently.
In the fall, I'll finish my classes.
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:42
#137
Are we talking about the same vertical fly kick?
As in dolphin kick? Streamline vertical fly kick that is, with arms straight in streamline position, etc.?
Random inspirational quote:
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
-Muhammad Ali
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 05:42
#138
I'm not sure what a dolphin
I'm not sure what a dolphin kick is. A scissor kick is one leg forward and one back then whipping them together like in the front and back crawl but done vertically. The rotary kick is kicking in circles like the beaters on a mixer. I also will spread my legs out to the side like a cheerleader split then whip them together. That's wonderful for relieving the cramps that come mid-tread. Luckily I've never had to tread with arms streamline.
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
-Warren Buffett
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 23:54
#139
cheese
While I would like to join in on your conversation, I don't know much about swimming. I'm more of a runner. Love the way the open air smells, how my legs are moving like poetry in motion, the strain I put myself in order to improve my running time, it's all very relaxing in a way.
"Behind fear, you will find success."
-Anonymous
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 05:19
#140
/giggles
The jocks are
/giggles
The jocks are craving out a place in the geek world.
I always loved running. I don't think I ever walked anywhere. I rode (anything), or ran. I loved the wind in my face and the feeling that I was like a deer. But now it's something I can't do. The strain, the pain, the break that occurs in the bone right where the ankle meets the bones of the feet...sighs.
Who would have though that every time I hit the board to dive, I was taking away another step in my run.
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 10:23
#141
Some random alternate translations for whoever might need it.
Butterfly Kick = Dolphin Kick (Basically your whole body is moving like a wave.)
Rotary Kick = Eggbeater Kick = Standard Treading
Front Crawl = Freestyle
Back Crawl = Backstroke
(Frog kick?) = Breaststroke Kick
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@Hero- By all means, join in! I enjoy the random conversions the three of us occasionally have.
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As for running, I too enjoy it immensely . I prefer the "push yourself" sports, such as swimming or running, over the usual team sports, like basketball or football (Though I love soccer).
To make a long drawn out explanation short though, I've got really bad joints for someone as young as I am. And running is a high-impact sport. Besides the fact that I'm more in tune with swimming than running, that's a big reason why I don't run track/competitively. I still cross-train in for swim however, so my team and I run every now and then.
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@Iam- Hah, I've always been somewhat of the "intellectual" type. When I was young I'd read encyclopedias for fun. As I grew older however, stuff changed and whatnot, and I molded myself into someone who could easily fit into the jock world. I still continue to find myself drawn to people who don't fit in as well, than I do to the people who are considered "cool". The jocks tend to be too arrogant for my tastes, and don't pay the least bit attention to anyone else around them. That doesn't suit me at all, cause I've always been a "one big happy" kinda person. I'm happiest when everyone is together and conversing together, rather than separated off into their little cliques.
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 21:31
#142
I never fit in anywhere. If I
I never fit in anywhere. If I was always on the fields and courts, in a pool or a ballet/jazz class I was out in the woods or by a stream or lake. I was also geeky, really geeky. I would read the ingredient label on the cereal boxes etc, I would read law books, at the doctors office I would shoot right past the rag mag table and head for the doctors reference books. And I always read the fine print. While my friends were shooting off fireworks, I was telling them the chemical recipe for making them.
I was kind of a strange mix of super-girlie tomboy and intellectual. I was always a loner. I'd rather talk to the chickens or the trees than people. I was always able to entertain myself. I was mostly just daddy's little princess. I could do whatever I wanted to do. And if that was go shooting with my dad wearing a pink skirt and black patten leather shoes and not miss a shot, I could. I might even climb a tree after. If anybody had anything to say about it, they'd be talking to him. xD
I think that's what made me a perfectionist, too.
Mon, 06/24/2013 - 21:45
#143
Where do we belong?
It's funny that you called me a jock Lord(or do you prefer bacon, or eater?) because I would be what you call a bank geek. And I looked the part as well with being skinny. My strength is in my legs. Yep, I played the trumpet at middle school and high school. Rented a trumpet from a music shop so I could play. A course, the school had instruments of their own to lend to the students, but I preferred to have my own instrument. All those hours after school practicing for the concerts and marches that we attended. In the summer, the month before school started, the band had band camp, which lasted for 8 hours, every weekday, for the whole month. Yeah, we band kids are hardcore like that lol.
In school, I would belong to the band geeks type, but I liked to hang out with my friends. I had two different group of friends: one when I was in band class or practice, another during school. At first, it started out with 3 guys, including me.Then it grew to 5. By my senior year, It had grown to 9 people. A big group you would say. But enough with my life story.
Tue, 06/25/2013 - 10:34
#144
^ Dang, band kids are
^ Dang, band kids are hardcore.
Call me whatever you like. Just don't call me late for dinner, especially if we're eating bacon.
Tue, 06/25/2013 - 15:26
#145
"Many things can be done in
"Many things can be done in life, but people are just too lazy to do it" (forgot who said it)
"It doesn't matter if you have Azure Guardian Armor, A skolver coat or whatever gear or weapon you have, or how strong you are. All that matters is that you have fun"
- Doom-Xx (yes, I made it up)
Tue, 06/25/2013 - 21:17
#146
"Many things can be done in
"Many things can be done in life, but people are just too lazy to do it" (forgot who said it)
-Doom-Xx (The person who was too lazy to look up who said it before posting the quote.)
Wed, 06/26/2013 - 23:54
#147
*shudders*
"On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the titans, and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls."
-Eren Jaegar
Thu, 06/27/2013 - 06:35
#148
Sooooooo
Don't be a sheep.Be special.
--Myself (but its possible that another person have said it before me)
Being special don't say being useful.
--I forgot who said this.
Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:02
#149
Thought I'd pop back in for a spell and say hello!
"So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show."
-Del Preston (Wayne's World 2)
Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:05
#150
Immortous! You're back!
Immortous! You're back!
/wave
"Yay, I'm the first on the this page" ~me