jayseven

Id probably do nothing with the money except buy alcohol, tobacco and tins of spaghetti for a while, then hire a chef and a personal trainer, then hire someone to teach me my course 1-1, then but a couple of houses for investment and live in one and do nothing but CRAP ALL DAY LONG.

Gaggle - I had a similar situation last year. Went to the student finance office at uni several times and each time they said "wait another week", so I finally went to the admissions office and they were like "wait a week", and i said "I've waited six weeks already", then they totally went and got my form and were all "ah it says he you haven't ticked this box or signed it" then she lifted the post-it-note and saw my signature and a tick in the box and said "... ah. Yes. Well wait two more weeks and it should finally be there". *breath*... Sorry, reliving angering memories drives me into hyper mode. Today I went to bed at 2am, woke up at 1pm, did the washing up, got another reminder notice about council tax overdue even THOUGH we're students, we sent proof taht we're students, and we called them and tehy said "oh that's being processed just ignore the letter" the last time they sent us a reminder. SO I called them up, and they didn't have any 'advisors' to take my call - I did wonder why the woman who took my details so they could call me later didn't just 'advise' me herself! Also called up the school I painted over summer about having not been paid over 2 months later. They said to wait another week ¬_¬

That was certainly teh case for me! Damn I really hate TV sometimes for portraying relationships the way they do. It's not always the unfair true love that bothers me but just how easily someone can walk up to someone, have a subdued argument in three lines and walk off. Whenever I tried that in real life it was impossible to walk away. ARGH how long does it take to really move on ffs?

well personally, ash, I'm not the man for you :P but come to sheffield and i'll show you what dank depression is!

I got paid something like £6.40 for over 40 papers 6 days a week. blatant child labour. at the same time my sister did about 6 papers aday for £6 a week, and her round lasted about 15 mins while mine took 45! I got my discount after 3 months at woolies

The whole "not knowing what you've got until it's gone" thing is quite appropriate to love. I really, really thought I knew how much she meant to me, but once it's over my feelings magnify immensely - but with them come a huge bundle of hate and anger and general shit like that. To me, love means you can share your life with someone else and not ever worry about being judged. Love was always to me the one thing you can always rely on. The hardest thing is to get it started with someone. With my old relationship it took about 3 months to realise I was in love... but now that came to nothing, maybe I was wrong? I know that if and when there's a next time, I'll be a lot more cynical from the start. Perhaps that will prevent me from recognising true love again... I don't know. I don't really believe in the fairy tale idea of there being a perfect partner out there. My ex was not perfect in many ways, but I was willing to accept that. What hurt about it was that she was not willing to accept my imperfections. All I'd ask for next time would be someone who enjoys spending time with me doing anything, or nothing, and someone who wants to continue to do all/none with me. I think love teaches you to rely on someone else, and when you're alone you've forgotten how to be yourself, how to live your own life.

I've had the obligatory paper round, worked in Woolworths (i feel your pain, Ashley) for nearly two years (or perhaps it was a hell of a lot less... Time flies when you're in hell), worked as an admin assistant in a doctor's surgery on/off for three years, and I spent summer painting. Not much of a track record but fairly varied. I get the feeling I';ll need a job at some point this year but to be honest it's hard enough to feel motivated to brush my teeth, let alone leave the house and work with the public.

Did anyone ever get into a band because of the group's name?

Mad props to Darksnowman for thread inspiration. I used to think that all it took for a relationship to work was mutual love - some sort of golden rule that if you both love each other, you'll do anything to stay together and work things out. Clearly my ex-girlfriend did not share the same view. Love is something that comes from within, that nobody else gives you. It is your own capacity for love that warms your insides, and when it's somehow not good enough, you feel hurt because someone else does not see the worth that you know it has - that it's not good enough for them. Or at least thinking that makes me feel better. Is it really better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? Do we all become those old bickering couples you see everywhere? Are we really destined for one person only? Are you supposed to have love at first sight, or is that purely skin deep and you may already have met your soulmate you just won't find out until you know them better? *end of whine for now*

New thread time! Because you're totally right.

In a chronological order; Wales France Belgium Holland Spain Portugal Dubai Australia (with a stop-over in thailand, but I didn't leave the airport so that doesn't count) Italy For school trips, football, art, family, cancer and romance. Next up? No idea. Probably won't go on another holiday until I can afford it outright myself (I had to pay for the trip to italy and part of the trip to australia), which probably won't be until after I leave uni.

I've left my room twice! Eaten a tin of baked beans, drank some water, had three cigarettes, watched an episode of smallville, played some go, posted in here. AND THAT IS IT!

Today I've learned the difference between playing Go on a 19x19 board and a 9x9 one

Ah, so it's not run by the mods/admins everyone is complaining about? win/win! The MPT went at an average pace of 7-10 pages a day. Catching up with it and paying each post the attention it deserves took at least 30 minutes for me, and by the end of it I have to fight the temptation to quote something 100 replies earlier, and also something 70 replies earlier, and 50, 34, 28, 19... If you keep the IRC room open, you can scroll up if you miss things you get immediate responses and you can say things with less than ten characters if you so desire. You can always archive back on other threads too, if you choose to make one instead.

It's not a bad idea - but another con is that some of the 'soul' of this forum, as many claim MPT was (which personally I think sucked more than it spat) would be spread to another board. The creative board already doesn't get enough attention ever since it splintered from gen chit-chat, and many games like the n-e quiz (UPDATE IT BITCHES!) are things that come under the idea of "general chit chat" in my book. What's the thing that's actually wrong with the IRC room? EDIT: Basically you want a forum that's exactly the same as chit-chat, except with the MPT?

... So go talk in real-time in the IRC room? Seriously, half the threads on this part of the forum could be merged into the MPT by your description, and I guarentee that they wouldn't have gotten half the attention they got.

the MPT may have been a home for little tidbits of uniting chatter (which are suitable for the IRC room, which is no hassle to have on all the time you're browsing the forums anyway), but it also engulfed lots of interesting things that got ignored, or actually could have had a thread of it's own. Why not try making a thread about something you want to say? What's the harm? If it gets a few replies, then great. If it gets none, then it would have been spam in the MPT anyway. If it's useless then it'll get deleted, no harm done.

Not to mention all the other forumites who have left/awol/been banned in the past... Blackbird, Sven, Gerben, Space, Fef, Athriller, appleNdiB, roadkill, schpickles, ford prefect, jim, rob, fierce link, bowser57, flameboy, falco, nintendofan, lammie, jav, android18a, android17a, sonja_hippicus, Din... just a few of the characters that once made the boards interesting - and just the ones with memorable names, and just from Gen Chit Chat too! This forum has a cast of hundreds, and most of whom never get the recognition they deserve. Live with it!

omg! didn't realise that was you that's watching my game! aaaah but i'm sucking.

It's always "better before". Generations on this forum are probably about a year to 18-months in length, and with each one comes new awesome members - and also lots of regular, solid members who contribute lots but don't stand out as BEST MEMBAR EVAAR for what ever reason. Fact is, Dynastygal joined the other day and lots of people like her already. Any one (or two, or three...) members could leave or be banned from this forum and it will still continue. If you think that changing this place starts from the top and goes down, you're wrong. Surely if you think there needs to be better threads, then make them. Less arguing, more laughs? Then do it. I don't think the guys were banned for actualy being GTFOMORIA, perhaps an affiliation, and a trigger, and encouragers to the behaviour yesterday. Personally I don't have a lot against these guys - but they're two of about twelve members who I instantly associate with arguing and bickering in a range of threads, and I'm not going to complain if they were all banned, just as I'm not going to complain if they all stay either, because either way there will be arguments, jokes, good threads and bad, new users and the eventual case of everyone here now going "not as good as the old days"...

I'm pretty sure it doesn't - just smoking weed means you'll be using roach instead of a filter, thus more tar can be smoked - but it's not fair to say that weed itself has more tar, as it doesn't. I was addicted quite strongly, smoked a lot daily, and it's definitely affected me mentally. I quit smoking it about a year ago, and have smoked less than ten times since, nearly all with paranoiac episodes. I am paranoid a lot of the time. Yes, drugs can do that to you - but the key to the argument is drug use vs. drug abuse. Those who want to abuse drugs will do it whether it's legalised or not. I do hope you have read all of the previous posts in this thread as there is indeed a case for it. Seeing as drug use is currently illegal, then all these zombies you talk of are criminals and deserve no help - and certainly, they are cut off from ever rejoining society which surely isn't encouraging them to stop? Legalisation can mean production control and raise awareness of who is using, and why they are using, and raise awareness of the help available, and in general just help police all these smackheads you talk about. Because that's not going to change. Legalisation would mean priced goods, therefore taxes, therefore money to provide better rehabilitation services and to raise awareness of what things do. Limits can be imposed. Legalisation means more research would be done in preparation, which is only a good thing. So yeah, mostly repeating what's been said already.

I played a couple of games last night and won them both! After the second game, some guy came in and offered to review the game for us, which was really kind of him and very helpful - and he spent over half an hour doing it - was ace will definitely be playing there more.

Done. Why not 'til december, though? I'll just get Shorty signed up and give him a few rounds

so you're comparing the forums to a society where people work and provide useful services or goods for others, pay taxes and provide for the state in order for the state to provide for the people? A society where we elect our leaders and have a say in how things are run? None of us pay a penny to post our meaningless shit here. Ultimately the forum is not ours, and therefore out not ours to use as we please. Sorry to say, but we don't choose what is right and wrong on a forum - the forum does. Therefore, the admins and moderators are in charge. We should be thankful that they have ever listened to the regular users like you and me. They could have chosen to be way tougher and totally streamlined what we can say and do.

I think it's on again on wednesday at about 8 but to be honest I'm not completely certain...