The post whore thread.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

JM, you should get a time machine and go back in time and try weed.

Why the time machine? Because it's not as easy to tell an adult, "Hey, you should try this drug." As an adult, we have shit to do and can't just take time off to go experimenting with things. Even though with weed it is like a 2 hour high and not 8 hours like acid. For the record, I've never tried acid, so I only "hear" that the trip lasts that long.

Ya know, Irving... I heard some things about you tod... Well, yesterday.

[Irving]

Hmmm, I hope they weren't negative. I wish I could have been there. For the record, I feel the way you do about all drugs, about coke. Never done it, not sure I've ever seen it. Even though I know it's common, since my exposure has been limited, I don't get on board with the "everyone is doing it."

[JM Ver. 2.0]

Hmmm, I hope they weren't negative. I wish I could have been there. For the record, I feel the way you do about all drugs, about coke. Never done it, not sure I've ever seen it. Even though I know it's common, since my exposure has been limited, I don't get on board with the "everyone is doing it."

Only good things, Sir... Only good things.

I've always been very very against drugs... They're no good at all...

Ya know... Ever since I said we were going to "Blow this thread up" and that other member made that other comment... The amount of guests watching this thread has climbed...

[JM Ver. 2.0]

I really want to buy this Lee decapping die... But I gotta get money in the bank first....

[Irving]

I didn't actually see that part. Nice to see you back by the way. I seriously have been waiting months to ask how the contacts have been treating you.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

I was really pulling for the kid in this movie to get some... Poor guy got sucked up by the aliens though.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

I didn't actually see that part. Nice to see you back by the way. I seriously have been waiting months to ask how the contacts have been treating you.

I really don't wear them... Like, ever... Which is silly because I need them. It's just such a pain in the ass to put them in.

[BuffCyclist]

If I set the post per page to 40, that's just like challenging myself to become a bona fide post whore. I can't do that quite yet...

Exactly, thats the point of being a post whore. I no longer contribute much to this site other than filling this thread lol

I'm having a bad PTSD day today.

what do you do?

I'm an astronomer. I operate and take science on a 2.5m telescope, reducing the data as we go along and doing various quality control checks as well. Tonight, there is a huge storm system that has been lingering. We are just now getting some rain that is enough to wet the ground so thats nice. Will probably get to call it an early night since there is no hope of opening again. Oh well, 3 more nights to go.

Or, I spent all morning organizing the garage so that we have more usable space. When I wasn't able to find a stud to get the last little rail in place, I got kinda frustrated and stopped to go inside. The next things hear about is how the wife could have found a wall stud.

really? Then get to it. Go find it. Have a merry F-ing time.

The garage looks great by the way, and now its easy to get things because its organized as F but you care more about me not finding the wall stud at the end of the morning.

Sounds like my fiancee. Just today, she was searching for some step stool thing for a workout dvd that she hasn't done in a while (her weight lifting class was cancelled - laugh, but she's 1mo into a 3mo series for bikini competitions. The trainer she is with trains Ms New Mexico and they also just won some national event...anyways...), while she was searching for that step thingy, she moved some hanging clothes, that bumped into a shoe holder shelf thingy that fell over on her and she was cursing and saying various things, then moved straight to the "no, i dont' need help anymore but thanks". It immediately brought out the defensive nature in me, saying "if you wanted help, ask for help instead of beating around the bush". I'll train her yet!

So... I think I'll just throw this out here...

I think I'm gonna marry the girl I'm with. I think she's the one.

I gotta say, it scares the hell out of me... Mostly because of her family... Very well off. Very educated. VERY VERY Successful.

Then there's me... Big, bald, tattooed guy with their little blond haired girl. Amazes me... I don't know what she sees in me...

Anyway... For you married folk (which means not you, Monky) did you ask the father before you asked the girl?

I'm not married, 98 days to go though until the wedding. Been with her for 2.5yrs and got engaged right at 13mo. I knew she was the one from the first date. Call it whatever you will, she was the one. Just took me that long to save enough money to buy the ring, (long story short, rent was too expensive for me). She still tells me how beautiful the ring is.

And yes, I asked her father. Long story... well, nevermind. We were looking at houses to buy because I was being kicked out by my landlord (he was about to sell the house), we finally found one that was perfect. Literally right down the street from her parents (in a really good neighborhood, all that jazz) and had everything we wanted. We were going to pitch an offer on it, so the day before we did, I ran to Zales to pay off the ring I had on layaway (great idea for you if you can't come up with all of the money right now because it forces you to pay it off in 10mo or less if inclined), then before I went to pick her up before going out to dinner, I cornered her dad, talked up his daughter and how much she means to me and how she would always come first before me in everything, and then I asked for his blessing.

He was blown away that I asked him and gave me his blessing right there and said he would be happy to have me as a son-in-law. Little did he know, I was going to propose in a matter of hours.

[BuffCyclist]

^^ And again, I win the award for longest post in the post whore thread

[BuffCyclist]

Oh yea, almost forgot the moral of my engagement story. It doesn't matter where you come from, asking the father for his blessing/permission/whateveryoucallit to marry his daughter will win you a lot of points/respect with him.

It's not so much an old school tradition in that you actually NEED his blessing to marry her (like in the old days when you'd give a certain number of livestock in exchange for her hand in marriage), but more like a request to join his family and start it off showing him respect.