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At 1/3/09 05:05 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: This is why the Who shall forever remain rock gods.

They're like 60 in this performance.

Jesus, they rock.

yes, yes they do. They are the top Rock Gods.

The Who > Lead Zeppelin in my opinion.

i as in needs of Yoshimoto cube!

At 1/2/09 11:44 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 1/2/09 11:06 PM, Malachy wrote: I hope this shows it, I'd use a real one and use my camera...but I don't think I own any paper clips

.... and by doing this, do you launch the paperclip, or the rubber band? Or is this one of those sadistic kind of deals where it can go either way?

you launch the paper clip. You use your thumb and pointer like a sling shot.

At 1/2/09 06:34 PM, SolInvictus wrote:

At 1/2/09 06:20 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I swear to God, boys. You have to do physical violence to them to get your point across.

or for us to enjoy things. i'm still baffled as to why i played bloody knuckles with toonies. we had to change the rules from first one to bleed to whoever gives up first.

One time both me and the dude I was playing it with bled at the same time. We continued until one of us couldn't take the pain, and we eventually resorted to using sharpened objects to speed up the process. He gave in.

At 1/3/09 05:07 PM, SevenSeize wrote: What happened to the good old days, where kids beat each other with sticks and rocks?
None of this fancy rubber band shit.
You little bastards are spoiled.
In my day, we fought with whatever we could find after we farmed all day long.

I had a slingshot. Which I armed with rocks.

I also had a fort in the woods near the air force base, where my buddies and I would play shootouts. That was cool, until this bastard cop went in there and SHAT ON IT. HE POOPED ON MY FORT.

At 1/3/09 06:03 PM, Christopherr wrote: I had a slingshot. Which I armed with rocks.

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I had a wrist rocket sling shot, I used marbles & they would knock a cat off a fence from 50 ft away.
But the best was putting shot gun pellets into plastic wrap & when you put a packet of those in the pocket of your sling shot, you gave it a little twisting squeeze & when you fired it it was like firing a shotgun blast at what ever your terget was...often a damn cat digging/shitting in the garden !

ah yes..good times, great fun ;)

At 1/3/09 05:14 PM, SevenSeize wrote: The "weight" question is what you're supposed to avoid with the females.

Seeing as how I'm something of a large framed individual to begin with, most women have no issues discussing their weight with me. Usually I just look at them and go "You've gained ten pounds.... where?"

At 1/3/09 05:38 PM, Malachy wrote: you launch the paper clip. You use your thumb and pointer like a sling shot.

Then I guess firing one of these would be attempted murder?

At 1/3/09 07:02 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I had a wrist rocket sling shot, I used marbles & they would knock a cat off a fence from 50 ft away.

I've actually been considering investing in one of those for that very reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm a cat person, I just don't like other people's cats... or dogs... or the occaisonal coyote or fox... wandering into my yard. Either a wrist rocket slingshot and some big-ass steel shot (I'm thinking half inch hardened steel bearing balls), or maybe just getting some of those little kids bags of glass marbles at wal-mart.

That, or the Cold Steel Big Bore Blowgun.

I luvs cold steel, LUVS cold steel.

I almost had a panic attack today at work. I went to pick up my ocd meds from the local pharmacy, and my doctor has not gotten back to them yet about answering my refil request. The problem; I was out of my meds for three days (no big deal), I turned in my prescription on New Years Eve, and.... today's the third, so I've been without my meds for a week now.

So... yeah... today has not been fun for me. :-(

At 1/3/09 10:33 PM, Proteas wrote: So... yeah... today has not been fun for me. :-(

I would have never guessed you had OCD.

Sorry to hear about that...

although, I can't think of a worse condition to NOT refill the meds for... its like, what if they decide to stop by every half hour on the DOT to see if you decided to refill it yet? or they made it a point to do the pee pee monster to your bathrooms every time they needed to relieve themselves...yeah.

At 1/3/09 07:02 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I had a wrist rocket sling shot, I used marbles & they would knock a cat off a fence from 50 ft away.
But the best was putting shot gun pellets into plastic wrap & when you put a packet of those in the pocket of your sling shot, you gave it a little twisting squeeze & when you fired it it was like firing a shotgun blast at what ever your terget was...often a damn cat digging/shitting in the garden !

I didn't have much money, so mine was made of whittled wood and a thick rubber band. Worked fine for me, but I had to practice a lot with it.

At 1/3/09 11:02 PM, Malachy wrote: I would have never guessed you had OCD.

Most people wouldn't. But if Redskunk were here today, he'd probably tell you that my personality and posting style has drastically changed from what it was two or three years ago.... that's when I finally got on medication for my ocd. I've REALLY mellowed out since then. ;-D

Sorry to hear about that...

Nothing for you to apologize about, it's just genetics... my dad doesn't use the term ocd, he prefers "perfectionist." And If you call him a control freak, he'll just stare and you and go "I am not a freak."

although, I can't think of a worse condition to NOT refill the meds for... its like, what if they decide to stop by every half hour on the DOT to see if you decided to refill it yet? or they made it a point to do the pee pee monster to your bathrooms every time they needed to relieve themselves...yeah.

Okay....

At 1/3/09 10:33 PM, Proteas wrote: That, or the Cold Steel Big Bore Blowgun.

hey; guess what else is illegal here in Canada (from what i was told).

At 1/3/09 11:31 PM, SolInvictus wrote: hey; guess what else is illegal here in Canada (from what i was told).

Anything remotely considered fun?

At 1/3/09 11:51 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 1/3/09 11:31 PM, SolInvictus wrote: hey; guess what else is illegal here in Canada (from what i was told).

Anything remotely considered fun?

bingo. well except for beer.

At 1/3/09 10:33 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 1/3/09 07:02 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I had a wrist rocket sling shot, I used marbles & they would knock a cat off a fence from 50 ft away.

Either a wrist rocket slingshot and some big-ass steel shot (I'm thinking half inch hardened steel bearing balls), or maybe just getting some of those little kids bags of glass marbles at wal-mart.

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Ball bearings are too heavy. THey work fine...lots of hitting power up close but the don't have the range of a marble... & marbles are cheaper. Don't forget the trick with the saran wrap & the shot out of a shot gun shell it makes hitting the offending animal easier , often in more than 1 spot & doesn't break bones unless your close.

yep, we just want to discourage them....we don't want to kill them outright, cause then you gotta work digging the damn hole to bury them in. Yep , Better that they can crawl off on their own...saves you the trouble .

Am I the only one a bit concerned by people shooting ball bearings and marbles at animals? Isn't that what serial killers do before they start hurting people?

At 1/4/09 11:41 AM, Malachy wrote: Am I the only one a bit concerned by people shooting ball bearings and marbles at animals? Isn't that what serial killers do before they start hurting people?

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I don't know?!?!?
I'm not a serial killer, heck I'm not even a cereal killer, I find most of them have too much sugar.

But when you have pest problems...& you don't want to chamber a shell in the ole 12 gage. Using a slingshot is the next best thing.
My comments about using plastic wrap, with the shot/BB's from a shotgun shell, puts the pesky critter on the run & doesn't have the possibility of a more crippling injury/death that a marble might do.
I don't like it when a cat comes on my property & digs up the girlfriends flowers, rips open my garbage bags & takes to spraying their stench around my house.
It pisses me off to come home to deer in my garden & all my work is ruined.
You hit them & they remember they been hit, I have a couple of cats here that acually go along the street to avoid crossing my yard :)
The back yard & wood pile hasn't smelled like Piss/Stench in quite awhile...So I feel its working.

I think this is my 4000th post & I wasted it talking about cat's instead of something that is truely earth shaking...like blow jobs .

I would love to come home and find a deer in the yard. It would just be completly fucked up. For a while there was a bear who'd show up but I'm not gonna take a slingshot to him either.

At 1/4/09 01:06 PM, stafffighter wrote: I would love to come home and find a deer in the yard. It would just be completly fucked up. For a while there was a bear who'd show up but I'm not gonna take a slingshot to him either.

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When my cousin & I were visiting our Uncle's farm about 20 years or more ago, we each had home made sling shots that were carved out of wood & had old inner tube rubber cut to fit. We were down by a big berry patch & seen a black bear & we shot it////shot at it !

I beleive the saying you don't have to out run the bear ...you have to out run your buddy, could be attributed to us that day...cause it charged & we F@(#$D off. I don't remember much about the dash to the house...I do remember us getting our asses kicked, for being so stupid.
But we were young & we had weapons LOL

Taking down a few Christmas card the other day, I noticed something: one of them which was supposedly just a Christmas tree had the branches shaped exactly like a Menorah.

Is this another sneak attack by the Stealth Jews?

Observations based on my afternoon watching vh1's hundred greatest hard rock songs.

1. Nothing ages you more than realizing how old songs you like are. Oh, that alice in chains song was.....15 years ago? That's around the same time the chilli peppers were on the simpsons. Guess which I was more aware of at the time.

2. Man, I'm glad rap/rock ended.

3. Brett Micheals does not have a bad life.

4.Rob Halford is on here talking about Queen. No rocker has any right to be a homophobe.

5. Audioslave was together for 6 years?

6. I don't care how many times they advertise it, I am not going to see Bride Wars.

At 1/4/09 09:38 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Ball bearings are too heavy. THey work fine...lots of hitting power up close but the don't have the range of a marble... & marbles are cheaper. Don't forget the trick with the saran wrap & the shot out of a shot gun shell it makes hitting the offending animal easier , often in more than 1 spot & doesn't break bones unless your close.

They sell 1/4 inch steel shot for slingshot ammo at Wal-Mart, I guess I could use that. From what I'm reading, glass marbles are half inch in size... so I could easily see how a glass marble would fly through the air a lot faster and with more sting than a steel ball bearing at a farther range.

I was just really turned on by the thought of being the only guy on the block to fire .50 cal steel rounds out of a slingshot. ;-D

At 1/4/09 11:41 AM, Malachy wrote: Am I the only one a bit concerned by people shooting ball bearings and marbles at animals? Isn't that what serial killers do before they start hurting people?

Like More was saying; doing it more to get the animals out of our yards than for the sake of torturing them. The only entertaining part about it isn't the fact that they've been stun, it's more that perplexed "WTF?!" look the animal gets on their face when they realize they've been hit and then the subsequent bat-out-of-hell run they do afterward.

We don't so much have issues with deer as we do stray dogs and the like. Occasionally we get coyotes, and on one occasion last week, we had a red fox amble through our yard. Foxes I don't worry so much since their so damn rare in this area, but coyotes and stray dogs I do worry about because we have cats.

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That panic attack I almost had at work yesterday turned out to not be a panic attack at all, but a manic episode. I ended up taking a nerve pill about two thirty this morning just to relax enough to sleep... and even then, I wound up only getting 5 hours of sleep. It WOULD have been more, but my brother's girlfriend and her two kids spent the night last night, and at seven this morning it was dawn and they were up and being typical little kids, so... no rest for the weary.

Turns out the older of the two has night terrors, and he had an episode of them last night. Myself being the only one awake attempted to calm the kid down, but my mother came out and just scooped him up, and rocked him until he stopped crying.

It kind of blew my mind seeing my brother handle these two kids, though. My folks always thought I'd make a great dad because of my laid-back personality, but when I get around these two, I freeze up and don't know what to do. My brother on the other hand, the self-styled badass with all the tattoos and piercings who cusses out his coworkers and boss on a regular basis, just takes to these kids and they to him. And much less, they actually MIND him, which really takes my head for a spin.

*shakes head*

I caught this cool picture before the storm blew in this morning, thought I share with everyone. I stepped out for a breath of fresh air, came back a few minutes later when I heard thunder and caught this.... five minutes later the storm came through.

At 1/4/09 03:49 PM, Proteas wrote: They sell 1/4 inch steel shot for slingshot ammo at Wal-Mart,

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I've never seen that Product Proteas.
Next time I'm in the city I'll have to go see if its available here in Canada....I'll keep you posted.

At 1/4/09 04:01 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I've never seen that Product Proteas.
Next time I'm in the city I'll have to go see if its available here in Canada....I'll keep you posted.

It's kept in sporting goods right next to all the paint ball and bb guns and the like. I'm not sure what the laws are like up there or whether or not you'd be able to get such a thing, but worst case scenario.... you could always get yourself a nice pound or two of copper .144 airgun bb's to do that shell-shot bag trick with. >:-D~

At 1/4/09 03:47 PM, stafffighter wrote: vh1

cha, I was watching that too.

*begin rant*

1. Where's Layla? That is a fucking classic.

2. Nirvana IS OVERRATED. Seriously, even Soundgarden is better. Hell, Foo Fighters are better.

3. Enter Sandman at 5? Peh, could of picked a better Metallica song.

4. Jump is a way better Van Halen song.

5. Who are you? Where are you?

6. Finally, what the hell. Welcome to the Jungle at 1? Hell no. 1, Sweet Child of Mine is better. 2, Zeppelin should be 1, 3, Slash is Overrated, etc.

7. Stairway. STAIRWAY NOW.

I was just perusing through some of the Royal Canadian Mints 2009 offerings & discovered this year 2009 is a year of the OX .
Which is my Chinese zodiak birth year sign.
And this year is my 96th YAY ...I think I'll go pour a Rum !

At 1/4/09 04:29 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

At 1/4/09 03:47 PM, stafffighter wrote: vh1

cha, I was watching that too.

*begin rant*

1. Where's Layla? That is a fucking classic.

Agreed

2. Nirvana IS OVERRATED. Seriously, even Soundgarden is better. Hell, Foo Fighters are better.

I'm a big Foo Fighters fan but I respect the hell out of Nirvana. I find people your age,I am not including you in this, tend to dismiss them because they represent the last generation and they need to hate them to have identity.

3. Enter Sandman at 5? Peh, could of picked a better Metallica song.

One from before they got popular? you fucking hipster

4. Jump is a way better Van Halen song.

No, all about Hot for teacher

5. Who are you? Where are you?

Yes, your other lover

6. Finally, what the hell. Welcome to the Jungle at 1? Hell no. 1, Sweet Child of Mine is better. 2, Zeppelin should be 1, 3, Slash is Overrated, etc.

Something you'll notice about all those songs, it didn't take someone 14 years to record them.

7. Stairway. STAIRWAY NOW.

I want some Tolkien lyrics NOW

At 1/4/09 05:30 PM, stafffighter wrote: I'm a big Foo Fighters fan but I respect the hell out of Nirvana. I find people your age,I am not including you in this, tend to dismiss them because they represent the last generation and they need to hate them to have identity.

I give Curt great respect with what happened. But I just don't think Smells like Teenage Spirit is a great song.

3. Enter Sandman at 5? Peh, could of picked a better Metallica song.

One from before they got popular? you fucking hipster

Damn straight.

4. Jump is a way better Van Halen song.

No, all about Hot for teacher

Jump is much more epic.

5. Who are you? Where are you?

Yes, your other lover

It's a great song, expecially at the end when Daltrey yells out "WHO THE F--- ARE YOU?"

6. Finally, what the hell. Welcome to the Jungle at 1? Hell no. 1, Sweet Child of Mine is better. 2, Zeppelin should be 1, 3, Slash is Overrated, etc.

Something you'll notice about all those songs, it didn't take someone 14 years to record them.

Because apparently Axel finally realized it's easier making money doing stuff than nothing at all.

7. Stairway. STAIRWAY NOW.

I want some Tolkien lyrics NOW

If Freebird is on there so should stairway. NOW. MORE STAIRWAY.

And where's Don't Stop Believin' and Foreplay/Long time?

Juke Box Hero?

They missed out on more epic songs.

At 1/4/09 05:38 PM, SevenSeize wrote: That's really pretty.

You should do photography, for real real, not for play play.

You post pics in here all the time that I end up saving.

Some of the pics I posted a while back (like the backyard where the sky was a cloudy azure blue and the one at sunset where the sky was blood red) were taken by my mom, actually. She's thinking of going into photography herself, so she asked I not share any more of them. I usually don't have such luck taking pictures.

But now, I do have a little folder going of scenescape pics I've taken from first person view in City of Heroes. You wouldn't think a computer game would have that many opprotunities for good pictures, but you would be surprised.

At 1/4/09 05:30 PM, stafffighter wrote:

7. Stairway. STAIRWAY NOW.

I want some Tolkien lyrics NOW

Ask and ye shall receive.

Proof they're not a gimmick band.

More screamy goodness.

At 1/4/09 05:39 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:
If Freebird is on there so should stairway. NOW. MORE STAIRWAY.

And where's Don't Stop Believin' and Foreplay/Long time?

Juke Box Hero?

They missed out on more epic songs.

They had Journey on before. Maybe they just didn't want to put too much of one band on the list, I don't know. Also, I feel like you're using the word epic to describe some particular quality of a song. Could you explain that further?