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I've been worried about Proteas's mental state for quite some time, but not in the "I think you're going to do something stupid way" but in the 'You could be a lot happier than you are if you extended out of your rut" kind of way.

I honestly believe Proteas takes WAY more bullshit off of people than he should, because he considers his high tolerance for bullshit a virtue. It IS a virtue, but it's also twistedly masochistic. Proteas would be much better suited to being a mid level manager at a corporation in the financial sector, not selling powertools to slack jawed yokels for some senile old power hungry prick.

People see Proteas's potential, and think "What's wrong with this guy that he doesn't do better for himself? He must be some sort of psycho or something." What you NEED to do, is ADMIT you're a masochist, get a chick satisfies that need as part of role playing (but doesn't actually treat you like shit... it has to be RP to be healthy), and use that new found self worth to sell on the open market.

For example, I could TOTALLY see Proteas as a vender of custom made knives at a gun/knife shows. He'd get to do what he loves all day every day for people who share the same interests, get to see the country, and most importantly SHARPEN AND ASSEMBLE LOTS OF KICK ASS KNIVES.

Even if he doesn't do it as full-time employment, I think he'd be a lot happier. He could see a lot more of the world going to gun and knife shows, and I think that would open his perspective to his own worth.

At 9/18/08 10:16 AM, FUNKbrs wrote: I honestly believe Proteas takes WAY more bullshit off of people than he should, because he considers his high tolerance for bullshit a virtue. It IS a virtue, but it's also twistedly masochistic. Proteas would be much better suited to being a mid level manager at a corporation in the financial sector, not selling powertools to slack jawed yokels for some senile old power hungry prick.

Not everyday at my workplace is like that, man, most days go off without a hitch. My supervisor (who is really just a glorified csa and has no real authority) is trying to get on as a department manager in a different part of the store, so I won't have to put up with him for much longer AND there's a chance I'll be able to move up.

But you are right, there are days where I think I'd be happier doing something else. Hell, skunky's making twice what I am now doing half the work, and I'm a bit envious of her for it in SPITE of the asshole that called her.

"What's wrong with this guy that he doesn't do better for himself? He must be some sort of psycho or something."

.... is that really what everyone thinks of me?

For example, I could TOTALLY see Proteas as a vender of custom made knives at a gun/knife shows. He'd get to do what he loves all day every day for people who share the same interests, get to see the country, and most importantly SHARPEN AND ASSEMBLE LOTS OF KICK ASS KNIVES.

Even if he doesn't do it as full-time employment, I think he'd be a lot happier. He could see a lot more of the world going to gun and knife shows, and I think that would open his perspective to his own worth.

What I love to do is tinker around and make things, and the knife sharpening/construction thing is kind of an extension of that. Originally I wanted to go to school and become a Lutheir, but my folks wouldn't go for that (why I don't know, I mean Gibson has a showcase and a factory in Nashville, not to mention a dozen or so music stores between here and there including Sam Ash all have some sort of repair tech on staff). Before I quit at the music store last year I had built (from kits) about 4 electric guitars, an electric bass, a mandolin, and two dulcimers, and had gotten to the point where I was very proficient in setting up instruments.

At 9/18/08 03:16 AM, stafffighter wrote: I'll sacrifice the virgin jokes for a while. Least satisfying virgin sacrifice ever.

Regardless of what happened before, I giggle profusely at that. :3

;

my drumming perturbed my brother, so he locked me away in my drum room. hehehe.

Finnish martial arts movies (Jade Warrior) are made of pure awesome.

<--------------------------Just got his braces off after 12 years. Now he just needs to wear a retainer.

At 9/18/08 06:31 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Wow! why 12 years?

I wore mine 4 and that was enough for me.

My teeth originally grew in wrong after I lost about 6 baby teeth in 3 months. It created an overbite and other bad things happened. Thus the 12 years.

At 9/18/08 06:31 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 9/18/08 06:11 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: <--------------------------Just got his braces off after 12 years. Now he just needs to wear a retainer.

Wow! why 12 years?

I wore mine 4 and that was enough for me.

One year and 7 months.

I need to start eating more. People keep talking about the freshman fifteen, but I keep losing wieght. Two more belt holes and I need a smaller belt.

At 9/18/08 05:57 PM, Tri-Nitro-Toluene wrote: Finnish martial arts movies (Jade Warrior) are made of pure awesome.

He made a Sampo, sweet. That brings back childhood memories....of watching tv. Damn that's wrong

For most of my life I have been brought up to believe in the financial power of 'Supply' & 'Demand' .
Now lately that has just completely been swept away.
Its always been so simple...little or no supply, means that the price goes up. Conversely that means if there is an overabundence of something...the price drops.
Now it no longer seems to be so.
I am talking about commodities & the 'spot price' verses actual price paid for goods .
One example is oil...there is no shortage, but the price is totally out of touch with that reality/
Another perfect example is Silver Bullion. It took a jump today after falling in & around $10-$11 dollars the last couple of weeks after a early summer high of around $18.00+.
So with such a loss in price one would think theres lots of it around.
That the suppliers have been inundating the market with it.
Not so, as a matter of fact U.S. 1 oz Silver Eagles haven't been available for this 2008 minting year for over 2 months, & At Kitco a very large bullion dealer has been out of Silver in any size but Thousand ounce bars for over a week.
WTF.... the price is in down & you can't buy any ? Because there isn't any available.
My local suppliers are completely out ,& can't get any more at this time !
Even the Royal Canadian Mint isn't answering e-mails & calls about bullion Silver availability at this time.
But still the price is only $11. 89 at Spot.
Plus NWT Mint an American Bullion Dealer I've bought from in the past, is up to 12 + weeks of back order on its Silver orders.
So why is the price of this so low while its unavailable...& the price of oil is so high & their is a market glut ?
Funny Ole World were living in, aint it.

At 9/17/08 09:53 PM, reviewer-general wrote: Skin cancer.

I'm feeling for you.
My mom has breast cancer, but right now it should be okay. However, there's a possibility for it to be not malignant.

She's prepared to have a mastectomy if it's the bad "kill-you-dead" cancer.

There is treatment for skin cancer, and a lot of people have survived it.
All you have to do is help you dad, while we help you...

ciao darling--
love...

So we can talk about anything here.
Cool.

Just want to know, how do you google bomb?

At 9/18/08 06:59 PM, morefngdbs wrote: So why is the price of this so low while its unavailable...& the price of oil is so high & their is a market glut ?

Their prices are not in equilibrium.

Funny Ole World were living in, aint it.

Nah

"Salomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Francis Bacon: Essays LVIII."

Jorge Luis Borges: El Inmortal.

At 9/18/08 07:37 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Just want to know, how do you google bomb?

computers.

proteas: Dude, you're folks aren't cool with what you wanted...yet they are OK with you wasting away working for Minimum Wage, getting treated like crap? Fuck, by now I would have said "fuck em" and did what I wanted..because clearly you're getting neither. How much time can you really waste? As you said, Skunky is making twice as much as you, and her job isn't exactly difficult (physically), so what's keeping you?

also, avie: quit walmart already goddamnit.

R-G: *hug*

More: now I want to buy some silver on the cheap. damn supply

At 9/18/08 07:37 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Just want to know, how do you google bomb?

by making sure the words "how to" and "make" are included in your query.

At 9/18/08 07:52 PM, Malachy wrote: proteas: Dude, you're folks aren't cool with what you wanted...yet they are OK with you wasting away working for Minimum Wage, getting treated like crap?

They wanted me to go for a Computer Information Systems degree and become a computer tech, something I am somewhat skilled at. However, I got halfway through the program and decided if I had to sit in front of a computer screen all day troubleshooting computer problems for people as an Admin I'd probably have climbed a clocktower and taken out everyone in sight.

They reluctantly agreed to allow me to change majors tp music, but with a minor in business to cover my ass, which was fine by me. I wound up dropping out a few classes shy of getting my degree because I couldn't handle college level algebra even WITH a tutor.

They don't like the fact that I get treated like crap at work (which happens rarely), and I know it's not what they wanted for me, but it's better than what I was doing a year ago working part time at the music store. You want to talk about a crappy job? Pfft... my team leader giving me crap every once in a while about working outside my department is nothing. I stayed there for a year and a half where other people quit anywhere from 3 days to a week (a month at the most) after being hired on.

Fuck, by now I would have said "fuck em" and did what I wanted..because clearly you're getting neither.

I graduated High School at 16, they were paying for me to go to college out of their own pocket. I'm 23 years old now, I have no student loans to pay off and I'm employed full time with full health and dental. Am I doing what I want? Not really, but I'm doing better than most folks my age.

How much time can you really waste? As you said, Skunky is making twice as much as you, and her job isn't exactly difficult (physically), so what's keeping you?

My job history is spotty, and I'm bidding my time until I can establish a good solid work record before I go looking for something else. I'm not sitting here idly while my life passes me by, I do have a plan.

I realize I didn't really share the goods when I got back from the con.

Poison Ivy gallery
Gallery of my mortal embarrassment/proposal
Battlestar Galactica group shot
Don't know why, but I like this picture

At 9/18/08 10:39 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I realize I didn't really share the goods when I got back from the con.

Your mind was somewhere else.

Poison Ivy gallery

Giggidy

Gallery of my mortal embarrassment/proposal

I can't get over how happy all the other people in costumes are for you.

Battlestar Galactica group shot

Did they fight over who got to be a Cylon?

Don't know why, but I like this picture

Getting a kind of Sarah Conner vibe from it. Of course to really sell it you'd have to breath heavily over unconvincing dialog.

<-------just got back from some fun out with the guys. Little joint called Pizza Orgasica: The Original Sin. Great pizza. Put all sorts of stuff on it. Time for night-night for Brian.......

At 9/16/08 09:04 PM, stafffighter wrote:

At 9/16/08 08:26 PM, Ravariel wrote:

At 9/16/08 07:59 PM, stafffighter wrote: House is on, shut up now.

New season?

Yes and, DUDE!!!!

I must concur... DUDE!!

Finally got around to dow... watching *ahem*... the first episode... and I didn't really expect that. I mean, that's one of the reasons I like that show... is they're not afraid to rock the boat... do something you don't see coming... like the end of last season or the one before... y'know where nearly the entire cast got fired...

That and House kind of reminds me of my dad... without empathy and turned up to Eleven... but still.

even looks like him a bit, which is kind of creepy....

At 9/19/08 12:39 AM, SevenSeize wrote:

and you didnt bring us any pizza?

bastard.

Errrrrrr........e-pizza?

At 9/18/08 06:37 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: I need to start eating more. People keep talking about the freshman fifteen, but I keep losing wieght. Two more belt holes and I need a smaller belt.

you bastard...

At 9/19/08 12:44 AM, Ravariel wrote:
Finally got around to dow... watching *ahem*... the first episode...

DUDE!!

My Crew has been murdered in cold blood

At 9/18/08 07:46 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:

At 9/18/08 06:59 PM, morefngdbs wrote: So why is the price of this so low while its unavailable...& the price of oil is so high & their is a market glut ?

Their prices are not in equilibrium.

;;;;;
Never said or implied that they were....pay closer attention.
I said that one is readily available & the price is way above what it shoulfd cost to buy.
The other is way undervalued & isn't available from the usual sources...including the U.S. MINT !

If you don't 'get' that , theres no way i can explain it to you here in the lounge !

On a more Piratey note ;
ARRRR matey's Time fly's when yer havin Rum.
Where's my piratin' outfit ? ? ?

Yeah, I'm going to hell.

I got a kid plastered last night, his first time.
Due to my suggestions, I got him to do tequila shots, Captain Morgan Tatto, and some Jim Bean

He was gone, helped him back into his room though.

But yes, school is fun and suprisingly easy.

English 101 is basically highschool all over agin.

Heh... they sucker you in with an easy first semester (cuz all they're really doing is making sure you're on the leve to do the actual work, so they have to re-do high school)... then in semesters 2 and 3 they kick your ass... so be careful... don't lose good study habits (like I did).

At 9/19/08 10:35 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

Their prices are not in equilibrium.

;;;;;
Never said or implied that they were....pay closer attention.
I said that one is readily available & the price is way above what it shoulfd cost to buy.
The other is way undervalued & isn't available from the usual sources...including the U.S. MINT !

Your paradox is none at all, it proves laws of supply and demand. What happens is that the market mechanisms are not working; ie the people behind supply and demand are not correctly setting price and quantities.

On a more Piratey note ;
ARRRR matey's Time fly's when yer havin Rum.
Where's my piratin' outfit ? ? ?

I am of Spanish descent, and therefore find myself offended by this day.
>=(

We shall celebrate the day of the pillaging and destruction of ancient cultures, and of systematic slavery systems today instead.

Who wants to be the Indian? You get to wear a kewl feather.

We can celebrate that as Argentinians as well, in that case, there are machine guns involved.

At 9/19/08 12:10 PM, Ravariel wrote: Heh... they sucker you in with an easy first semester (cuz all they're really doing is making sure you're on the leve to do the actual work, so they have to re-do high school)... then in semesters 2 and 3 they kick your ass... so be careful... don't lose good study habits (like I did).

LISTEN TO DA MAN.
But my first semester was to kick slackers out of the university, the second is for kicking those who do not manage the subtle art of abstraction. And to kick out those who think they are kewl because they had outstanding marks in the first semester.
Third semester is real college.

At 9/19/08 10:36 AM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: English 101 is basically highschool all over agin.

First two years... it's all high school, but with ashtrays on the hallways.