Luv-U-Long-Time
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huligan is getting punked hard.That white chick is leading that a-feminent latino around by his taint.
So is there anyone else that just does not care to "hang out"
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maybe the parents followed the "spare the rod, spoil the child" theory...??
possibly an intentional decision? ^^^
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longearedfriend
sometimes you write some words and then you reflect on things, and your view changes, so does your post
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I liked alot of what's been said in this thread this particularly grabbed me. This is exactly how it is for me, a feeling of constant isolation because i cannot trust a living soul except my partner of 4 years with my secrets. Even the fellow growers in my area are mostly complete muppets who i wouldn't associate with. How i long for the days of the end of prohibition...
On another note the whole drinking and driving thing was something i used to not handle responsibly at all. After you lose your licence a few times and then get done repeatedly driving while disqualified and get in quite a lot of trouble because of it, you soon learn the hard way.
Especially seeing as a driving bust could lead to other busts is it really worth it? Its nothing less than stupidity.. Taxis and designated drivers FTW!
that is all
DarthFader
EDIT: I just wanted to boast and say i was and still am a supremely competent drunk driver. I outran the man a ton more times than he got me. Imagine Jackie Chan in Drunken Master lol.. I'll take the fuckin Pepsi challenge for any non believers!!
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Hey MTBAZZ, I'm 49 with a career as well. I can totally identify with you. With my job, overtime is a given when I'm involved in a big project. Most days I come home and chill out. I have a nice circle of friends and do 1 or 2 things a week with them. Unless I'm skiing or golfing, I keep to my self mostly. (and that's not a bad thing)
I realized a long time ago that there is a WORK/LIFE BALANCE that our modern lifestyle has ruined completely. A 12+ workday is not a life but endentured servitude or an addiction.
I got burned out a few years ago taking classes while commissioning the automation systems in a steel mill. Try working a 60+ hour work week and taking 2, 4th year engineering courses with all the math. I didn't have time to get groceries or do laundry for 2 years, but I did it and got A's and used my vacation to go and write exams.
Sadly our culture is being manipulated by big greedy companies and people have lost the 40 hour work week that they fought hard to get.
You have to break that cycle and get your life back. A 60+ hour work week is no way to live. Being a wage slave is no way to live.
I realized a long time ago that there is a WORK/LIFE BALANCE that our modern lifestyle has ruined completely. A 12+ workday is not a life but endentured servitude or an addiction.
I got burned out a few years ago taking classes while commissioning the automation systems in a steel mill. Try working a 60+ hour work week and taking 2, 4th year engineering courses with all the math. I didn't have time to get groceries or do laundry for 2 years, but I did it and got A's and used my vacation to go and write exams.
Sadly our culture is being manipulated by big greedy companies and people have lost the 40 hour work week that they fought hard to get.
You have to break that cycle and get your life back. A 60+ hour work week is no way to live. Being a wage slave is no way to live.
This made me lol. Thanks i really needed it, twas a rough day today
DarthFader
LOL Darth...rarely do you find someone proud of that fact, however props to anyone who can outrun the man.
LOL Darth...rarely do you find someone proud of that fact, however props to anyone who can outrun the man.
Hahaha yeah it was definitely "proud" with tongue in cheek... But thanks Princess!
Yeah i grew up with fast cars so it was never very difficult.. It was more of a question of balls. If you want a shot of adrenaline more intense than any drug could ever provide, this is one way (albeit not a smart way) of getting there. Those days are long gone for me now, these days i get butterflies in the stomach when i ride my pushbike without a helmet lol.
Darth
Did the graduate course work thing while working full time. It sucked ass. I stopped after one semester after I realized that having a Master over a BS degree is not going to make a difference for me. Smart decision as I am at the same level as most of the MS people I work with.
The companies have certainly ruined the whole work/life balance thing. While I do have leeway in terms of hours I start and leave work, there is really an expectation of essentially 24/7 availability/responsibility. I have even seen colleagues who are on vacation be required to dial in for meetings.
It all ties into an article I read recently that stated the age of the "average worker" is over. Meaning that the the days of someone showing up at nine and leaving at five to go home to the wife and children, bowling night are over and that those who have good jobs today need to work at a level that is leaps and bounds what was required even ten years ago.
It sucks beyond description, as it means on top of a 10-12 hour day, I often am required to log in at night to finish stuff up, and than because there are constant pointless meetings and other interruptions over the course of a work day I generally need to spend 4-5 hours on a Sat/Sun playing catch up.
What this ultimately means is that I've had to make decisions on how to spend the few hours a week that make up my "free time", and if it is a choice between hanging out with people that have too much time on their hands, or playing with my toys or doing things that are mentally stimulating too me, I will be doing the latter.
Some people still really don't get it thought. One of my hobbies is playing music. Not professionally these days, merely for self gratification. When I get together with other musicians I consider this to be "hanging out". Unfortunately some of these guys want to take it a step further and are after me to hang out after the jams are done for hours and hours smoking and drinking....I politely decline, but I think they are insulted.
Bottom line is there are 168 hours in the week. I need to spend at least 56 of those sleeping. 65-70 hours are spent working. Another ten is used up doing chores around the house. That leaves what, 32 free hours over the course of a week. Not even two complete fucking days. Hanging out for hours on end doing nothing but partying is simply a luxury I can not afford.
The companies have certainly ruined the whole work/life balance thing. While I do have leeway in terms of hours I start and leave work, there is really an expectation of essentially 24/7 availability/responsibility. I have even seen colleagues who are on vacation be required to dial in for meetings.
It all ties into an article I read recently that stated the age of the "average worker" is over. Meaning that the the days of someone showing up at nine and leaving at five to go home to the wife and children, bowling night are over and that those who have good jobs today need to work at a level that is leaps and bounds what was required even ten years ago.
It sucks beyond description, as it means on top of a 10-12 hour day, I often am required to log in at night to finish stuff up, and than because there are constant pointless meetings and other interruptions over the course of a work day I generally need to spend 4-5 hours on a Sat/Sun playing catch up.
What this ultimately means is that I've had to make decisions on how to spend the few hours a week that make up my "free time", and if it is a choice between hanging out with people that have too much time on their hands, or playing with my toys or doing things that are mentally stimulating too me, I will be doing the latter.
Some people still really don't get it thought. One of my hobbies is playing music. Not professionally these days, merely for self gratification. When I get together with other musicians I consider this to be "hanging out". Unfortunately some of these guys want to take it a step further and are after me to hang out after the jams are done for hours and hours smoking and drinking....I politely decline, but I think they are insulted.
Bottom line is there are 168 hours in the week. I need to spend at least 56 of those sleeping. 65-70 hours are spent working. Another ten is used up doing chores around the house. That leaves what, 32 free hours over the course of a week. Not even two complete fucking days. Hanging out for hours on end doing nothing but partying is simply a luxury I can not afford.
LOL Darth...rarely do you find someone proud of that fact, however props to anyone who can outrun the man.
Actually it's not all that hard if one is mounted on or driving apropriate gear , here in the States though , once you commit you'd best make it good or be ready for an asswhipping if you get caught.
I've got a rather interesting story involving a lightly modified '04 GSXR1000 and the county Mountie in an Expedition who attempted to pull the chain on the fun at just exactly the wrong time one fine day. I may be old , but not quite THAT old yet.
250 horse ( maybe) 3 ton SUV , under 600 lbs for scoot and rider 172 dyno horsepower to the ground.
Lets not put an exact figure on it in an open forum , but folks used to modern liter and over bikes will will understand what I mean when I say there's not much point in stopping when you're already at the top of 3rd gear when they light you up. At that point it's mostly a " Ya have GOT to be kidding me....." ...upshift
.... " where'd he go Barney...hand me a donut will ya".
I'm ancient but it's against my religion to stop for some barney fife that actually thinks he's going to catch me in a 4 x 4 the size of a freaking tank.
Course now someone will come along and tell me how irresponsible it is to hammer it on the street. I don't care , my view is that God invented corners to be strafed , within reason of course and out of town.I make no apologies for following that Commandment and worshipping at The Church of The Sacred Apex ( Double Apex for the Decreasing Radius Corner Survivors...Over The Bars Cluster awarded as warranted).
Hhmmmm...........back to the topic, seems to me that a lot of us don't " hang out" and do the social thing because of the very nature of what we're present here for. It could conceivably be a security risk. Any validity to that?
AAAHHHh the good ole days!!! Brings back memories. Dirt bikes an picket fences.. or Goin so fast I was back behind 'barney' when he slow rolled by my place lookin for me,Dropped a gear and blew flames out the pipes..waved and went to bed. You know I really disliked that cop then.But compared to these ass suckers now??
And back to topic. No I don't hang out any more. Unless I'm 'workin'. Then it's just Business
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guest 77721
I was in the same spot. Taking call outs at home, working 60+ hours in a 24/7 frame. Getting sick and working OT on the first day back.... yada...yada..
It reached a point that I decided to reclaim my life. Basically, unplugged the answering machine and turned off the ringers on the phone after 10pm. I set Sunday as being a no work day and added 1 evening a month until I weaned the field people off of me. My job isn't required to carry a cell phone and the company has to pay to be on call. Once I cut them off, I hear the occaisoinal grumbling now and then but I'm off the hook.
A couple of big projects ago, I noticed that most of my co-workers were going home "on-time" even though paid OT was available. I'd be left being the responsible one and try to get stuff done without support for a few hours in the evening. The last couple of big jobs, I do the same thing. Just walk out... The big shot managers call meetings at the end of the day or past working hours, just walk out... You gotta have an excuse handy, like gotta pick up kids or it's somebody's birthday or you got tickets to something...
The IT guys spend all their time blasting emails to everyone in the company. I read an article that every one is getting on the order of 200-300 emails daily and only 1-10 of them has any importance. The progressive companies are recognizing that the after hours email abuse is burning out people so they are actually shutting down the email servers on shift changes so people can GO HOME. They are also disabling emails to crackberries after working hours.
You gotta start digging yourself out of this hole. Once you realize that every email doesn't require instant gratification by the sender, start delaying your responses and cut down your conversation list. Every email doesn't have to go to your boss and every boss in the company. Smart people like Bill Gates take up to a week to answer a single question. You provide answers in a microsecond. Why?
Once you realize that you are victimizing other people by the same behaviour and stop it, the other people will stop it too. Your bosses are bullying you and your co-workers. They are also letting the co-workers bully each other. You guys are all afraid of standing up for yourselves.
Hope this helps...
It reached a point that I decided to reclaim my life. Basically, unplugged the answering machine and turned off the ringers on the phone after 10pm. I set Sunday as being a no work day and added 1 evening a month until I weaned the field people off of me. My job isn't required to carry a cell phone and the company has to pay to be on call. Once I cut them off, I hear the occaisoinal grumbling now and then but I'm off the hook.
A couple of big projects ago, I noticed that most of my co-workers were going home "on-time" even though paid OT was available. I'd be left being the responsible one and try to get stuff done without support for a few hours in the evening. The last couple of big jobs, I do the same thing. Just walk out... The big shot managers call meetings at the end of the day or past working hours, just walk out... You gotta have an excuse handy, like gotta pick up kids or it's somebody's birthday or you got tickets to something...
The IT guys spend all their time blasting emails to everyone in the company. I read an article that every one is getting on the order of 200-300 emails daily and only 1-10 of them has any importance. The progressive companies are recognizing that the after hours email abuse is burning out people so they are actually shutting down the email servers on shift changes so people can GO HOME. They are also disabling emails to crackberries after working hours.
You gotta start digging yourself out of this hole. Once you realize that every email doesn't require instant gratification by the sender, start delaying your responses and cut down your conversation list. Every email doesn't have to go to your boss and every boss in the company. Smart people like Bill Gates take up to a week to answer a single question. You provide answers in a microsecond. Why?
Once you realize that you are victimizing other people by the same behaviour and stop it, the other people will stop it too. Your bosses are bullying you and your co-workers. They are also letting the co-workers bully each other. You guys are all afraid of standing up for yourselves.
Hope this helps...
I hear ya bro...
But I sure miss those good old days of getting blind hammered drunk and driving on the wrong side of the freeway for fun...
Wifey is getting old and it makes her nervous.
But I sure miss those good old days of getting blind hammered drunk and driving on the wrong side of the freeway for fun...
Wifey is getting old and it makes her nervous.
I never did drink , but it does upset the wife a bit when you sidestep the clutch on 600 horsepower whilst looking straight at the cop sitting at the light across from you , even it is a situation where he's gotta go a mile before he can cop a u-turn.
Had to paint that Nova because of that sort of crap though.
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wilbur
just read the beginning of this thread ... when I click on 'quote' my connection times out so ...
never got the idea of this hanging out business. the j would be rolled while there was a sense of anticipation and then as it was smoked the energy would seem to leave the group. conversation was usually dull. and when I suggested we get up and DO SOMETHING most people seemed too listless.
so for me unless we are going to smoke a joint, yes, sativa, and go for a nature walk, then don't come to my place.
never got the idea of this hanging out business. the j would be rolled while there was a sense of anticipation and then as it was smoked the energy would seem to leave the group. conversation was usually dull. and when I suggested we get up and DO SOMETHING most people seemed too listless.
so for me unless we are going to smoke a joint, yes, sativa, and go for a nature walk, then don't come to my place.
I am sorry it took so long. This part time job I accepted has become more than full time.
My girl was not drunk when she bit me, just jealous of the other girl. She is worse than a Colombiana in that way.
I have a hard time taking her to a place where no girls I know work. Small town.
My girl was not drunk when she bit me, just jealous of the other girl. She is worse than a Colombiana in that way.
I have a hard time taking her to a place where no girls I know work. Small town.
odogyouknow
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Just a lurkers point of view...
So your lady bites you, you can't take her out to a [in public easily] place, she makes you hold her shit...
Makes my recent pickup of a 95 pound male rescue dog from the pound sound like a little puss. LOL
EDIT: went back a read the post I blindly commented on... THANK GOD YOU PULLED OUT!!!!!
