Bondiguy

C Cup

Member No.: 11025 Posts: 638 Joined: 10/2005

▫ Nov 23 2006, 08:26 Post #1101

QUOTE(summoner)

Good you didn´t

And how you could have known that...

Ok, I´m so happy right now (even if a doctor did something to my left boob today and it´s hurting a bit...) so I will take a pic soon

And tell you why I´m so fucking happyhappyhappy

Pleased to hear your happy, especially if it results in a pic for us. Bondi you couldnt have known and im sure he appreciated the gesture

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 23 2006, 09:55 Post #1102

QUOTE(closeup)

Hey man, you gotta let yourself off easy on this one. Just the fact that it's "almost a custom" means that it's practically expected. ie, that it's really an insult if you don't at least offer. Not being there, I can see how it would be uncomfortable to "insist" but since that's part of the whole process, you were only following custom. I went a year with out drinking anything (from March 05-March 06), and always put my friends at ease when they were drinking around me. I use to have to push full beers away, that were bought and paid for, then explain why I wasn't drinking. The onus to make accomodations is with the person who is going against custom, no matter how "unfair" that may at first appear.
On a side note, I ran into a guy from "down under" tonight. I happened to mention that I knew someone from Bondi Beach. When I pronounced "Bondi" I said "Bondee".I was corrected, it's pronounced Bond-I. I always thought it was Bondee. It made me wonder, what pronunciation were you guys using?

Oh I know... there was no way of knowing but I still felt terrible for a while afterwards. A few hours later I looked at the bright side and started to drink those very beers haha

It is pronounced bond-i or bonde -eye pretty simple.

Christof whilst you are visiting my thread... How do I go about getting tickets to an EPL game next year??? I'll be over in mid March

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Melon Master

Member No.: 2922 Posts: 10,702 Joined: 03/2005

▫ Nov 23 2006, 15:59 Post #1103

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Well yesterday I suffered some foot in mouth disease.... I felt like vanishing after this. Here's the story;

At my house my hot water is heated by gas. After a month or two of problems with out existing old gas heater we decided it was time to buy a new one. The guy that lives a few doors up installs them for a living so we asked him to come down and hook us up with a new one. He said he'd install it for cost price and wouldn't charge us anything extra.

Now in Australia it is almost custom to buy anyone that helps you out like this a case of beer. So knowing he was coming around I got a case of beer. he came, installed and got it up and running. I paid him for the system and then said, "here mate, here is some beer. Thanks for helping us out."

He did not want the beer (I thought he was just being polite) so I insisted he take it as a favour. After a minute of back and forth he said, "Last year my brother died from years of alcohol abuse and I swore I'd never drink again."

I could have died.... :ph34r:

That is pretty much a custom here in Canada too, at least in western Canada.
I can't blame you for feeling bad, but at the same time looking at it from a third party perspective, I think it wasn't as bad as it seems.
I think the guy realized you were just being polite and the only way you weren't going to let him leave without taking it was by telling you the truth. If he would have said, "no I don't like that kind of beer" or something, he would look like a dick to you. So I don't think he said it to make you feel bad or to get sympathy but just because it was the best way to deal with it.

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 11:33 Post #1104

QUOTE(Gnappster)

That is pretty much a custom here in Canada too, at least in western Canada.
I can't blame you for feeling bad, but at the same time looking at it from a third party perspective, I think it wasn't as bad as it seems.
I think the guy realized you were just being polite and the only way you weren't going to let him leave without taking it was by telling you the truth. If he would have said, "no I don't like that kind of beer" or something, he would look like a dick to you. So I don't think he said it to make you feel bad or to get sympathy but just because it was the best way to deal with it.

Oh yeah Im sure you are right. Now I think about it it's funny as hell but at that one moment it happened.... You could've cut the air with a knife! haha

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Melon Master

Member No.: 2922 Posts: 10,702 Joined: 03/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 16:06 Post #1105

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Oh yeah Im sure you are right. Now I think about it it's funny as hell but at that one moment it happened.... You could've cut the air with a knife! haha

well I hope you at least gave all those beer a good home :alc:

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 20:19 Post #1106

QUOTE(Gnappster)

well I hope you at least gave all those beer a good home :alc:

you know I did :alc:

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Melon Master

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▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:16 Post #1107

Is the world spinning at a faster rate?

What with all the deforestation taking place all over the globe, wouldn't simple physics suggest we are providing less resistance? Just like a figure skater spins that extra bit faster when she has her hands by her side rather than way out front?

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Melon Master

Member No.: 2922 Posts: 10,702 Joined: 03/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:22 Post #1108

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Is the world spinning at a faster rate?

What with all the deforestation taking place all over the globe, wouldn't simple physics suggest we are providing less resistance? Just like a figure skater spins that extra bit faster when she has her hands by her side rather than way out front?

smoking the ganja again huh

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:33 Post #1109

QUOTE(Gnappster)

smoking the ganja again huh

it's almost like you know me too well

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Melon Master

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▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:38 Post #1110

QUOTE(bondiguy)

it's almost like you know me too well

I just read that and thought, "that is about the most quintessential drug induced kind of brainstorm one has"

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:43 Post #1111

QUOTE(Gnappster)

I just read that and thought, "that is about the most quintessential drug induced kind of brainstorm one has"

As bad as drugs are... most shit that fucks with your brain come from an induced state...

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B Cup

Member No.: 16557 Posts: 213 Joined: 07/2006

▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:47 Post #1112

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Well yesterday I suffered some foot in mouth disease.... I felt like vanishing after this. Here's the story;

At my house my hot water is heated by gas. After a month or two of problems with out existing old gas heater we decided it was time to buy a new one. The guy that lives a few doors up installs them for a living so we asked him to come down and hook us up with a new one. He said he'd install it for cost price and wouldn't charge us anything extra.

Now in Australia it is almost custom to buy anyone that helps you out like this a case of beer. So knowing he was coming around I got a case of beer. he came, installed and got it up and running. I paid him for the system and then said, "here mate, here is some beer. Thanks for helping us out."

He did not want the beer (I thought he was just being polite) so I insisted he take it as a favour. After a minute of back and forth he said, "Last year my brother died from years of alcohol abuse and I swore I'd never drink again."

I could have died.... :ph34r:

thats not that bad i mean you didnt know and you were just trying to be nice.. its just kinda like "oh my bad man" or something... and now you know from now on if he helps you get a sack of weed instead haha

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Melon Master

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▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:49 Post #1113

QUOTE(bondiguy)

As bad as drugs are... most shit that fucks with your brain come from an induced state...

well lots of drugs are bad but some are very very good!

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 21:50 Post #1114

I was cleaning up some shit and stumbled upon an old poetry book I filled in high school.

Here is something I wrote when I was 15.... Its from the perspective of an 8-10yr old girl. It's chillingly to say the least:

To dear jolly Santa Claus
Christmas time is here,
And I just wroite to tell you that
I've not been good this year.

This year don't send me any gifts,
Don't send me any toys.
All I want from you this year
Is to rid me of this noise.

The voices from inside my head
Are telling me to kill,
And if I don't take myself from here
They're sure someone soon will.

They say I don't deserve all this,
I don't deserve at all.
They say that it is all my fault
I made my daddy fall.

We were just playing round
And he rested by the ledge,
I didn't mean to push so hard
He'd fall over the edge.

I watched him falling through the air,
He landed with his face first.
Ever since that moment I have
Felt like I've been cursed.

I wish I could go back in time
And change all that I did.
I don't want all this pain inside
I'm just a little kid.

So tell mum that I love her so
Ans the fun times that we had.
And I will see her soon enough
Cause I'll be waiting here with dad.

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Melon Master

Member No.: 14606 Posts: 28,387 Joined: 04/2006

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:03 Post #1115

QUOTE(bondiguy)

I was cleaning up some shit and stumbled upon an old poetry book I filled in high school.

Here is something I wrote when I was 15.... Its from the perspective of an 8-10yr old girl. It's chillingly to say the least:

To dear jolly Santa Claus
Christmas time is here,
And I just wroite to tell you that
I've not been good this year.

This year don't send me any gifts,
Don't send me any toys.
All I want from you this year
Is to rid me of this noise.

The voices from inside my head
Are telling me to kill,
And if I don't take myself from here
They're sure someone soon will.

They say I don't deserve all this,
I don't deserve at all.
They say that it is all my fault
I made my daddy fall.

We were just playing round
And he rested by the ledge,
I didn't mean to push so hard
He'd fall over the edge.

I watched him falling through the air,
He landed with his face first.
Ever since that moment I have
Felt like I've been cursed.

I wish I could go back in time
And change all that I did.
I don't want all this pain inside
I'm just a little kid.

So tell mum that I love her so
Ans the fun times that we had.
And I will see her soon enough
Cause I'll be waiting here with dad.

and may god have mercy on your soul

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Melon Master

Member No.: 2922 Posts: 10,702 Joined: 03/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:06 Post #1116

QUOTE(bondiguy)

I was cleaning up some shit and stumbled upon an old poetry book I filled in high school.

Here is something I wrote when I was 15.... Its from the perspective of an 8-10yr old girl. It's chillingly to say the least:

To dear jolly Santa Claus
Christmas time is here,
And I just wroite to tell you that
I've not been good this year.

This year don't send me any gifts,
Don't send me any toys.
All I want from you this year
Is to rid me of this noise.

The voices from inside my head
Are telling me to kill,
And if I don't take myself from here
They're sure someone soon will.

They say I don't deserve all this,
I don't deserve at all.
They say that it is all my fault
I made my daddy fall.

We were just playing round
And he rested by the ledge,
I didn't mean to push so hard
He'd fall over the edge.

I watched him falling through the air,
He landed with his face first.
Ever since that moment I have
Felt like I've been cursed.

I wish I could go back in time
And change all that I did.
I don't want all this pain inside
I'm just a little kid.

So tell mum that I love her so
Ans the fun times that we had.
And I will see her soon enough
Cause I'll be waiting here with dad.

haunting to say the least!

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:09 Post #1117

Im not sure how much you are into art 3d, but most people have the common misconception that everything an artist does comes from personal experiences etc

I do write alot of personal stuff, but other times I adapt a persona. Also, artists can see the beauty that lies within tragedy sometimes... it's an extreme emotion

otherwise, if you were just taking the piss....

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Melon Master

Member No.: 7542 Posts: 16,209 Joined: 05/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:09 Post #1118

QUOTE(Gnappster)

haunting to say the least!

and how

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Melon Master

Member No.: 14606 Posts: 28,387 Joined: 04/2006

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:10 Post #1119

QUOTE(bondiguy)

Im not sure how much you are into art 3d, but most people have the common misconception that everything an artist does comes from personal experiences etc

I do write alot of personal stuff, but other times I adapt a persona. Also, artists can see the beauty that lies within tragedy sometimes... it's an extreme emotion

otherwise, if you were just taking the piss....

It was ment as a piss yes ,,, its a pretty good poem to be honest ...

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Melon Master

Member No.: 2922 Posts: 10,702 Joined: 03/2005

▫ Nov 24 2006, 22:15 Post #1120

QUOTE(ddd35)

It was ment as a piss yes ,,, its a pretty good poem to be honest ...

i agree
the only poen I ever wrote was
There once was a girl named Delores.... Now how the hell does the rest of that go? :huh:

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