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"Why didn't I win gameday?"
"I've been here for 3 days and haven't won yet"
So what?
Who cares?
Sorry to sound harsh, but I'm fed up with reading moan after moan about "how it's not fair" and "my post was better".
If you didn't win, that's because someone else posted something better than you did.
Get over it.
It's been said over and over by so many people, don't post merely because you want to win.
It shows. Lengthy, dry and impersonal posts that read like a news bulletin.
Where as the ones that do win are personal, have something to say or are reviews/cheats.
I appreciate that you may have spent an age on a post, but that should be because you had something you wanted to say, not because you thought "Ha! That'll win"
And yes, I am aware that I have won a number of filmadays.
But twice I have had to be told I've won.
Why?
Because it never enters my head to try and win a bloody DVD or game, I don't bother to check the lists.
I've written lengthy posts that have taken me an age, but that's because I've had an opinion I wanted to share with people.
Take my last filmaday win for bullying.
Cooldogs posted his experience, someone else started a thread about bullying because of video games and Wookie added his thoughts.
I had something to say about it, and stuck it in the life forum to try and help someone that was going through the same thing, to try and make them realise that it was ok, that they shouldnt be suicidal or depressed.
I didn't think "Excellent, a worthy topic! I'm sure to win now!".
I understand that some people might be too young to buy their own games.
I've been there too, but now I'm 28 and can buy what I want, when I want.
But you know what?
When I couldn't, when it had to be my mum pay for one?
I waited.
Don't be so bloody greedy and start screaming when you don't win.
It even says in the rules "No complaining, nobody likes a whinger"
This forum has many, many articulate, amusing and interesting people. They win more than once.
Not because of any favouritism but because they post interesting stuff.
Meka and Grix post a lot of long, decent topics each day.
Do you hear them sob when they don't win?
No.
Learn a lesson from those that have the grace and dignity to realise that GAD and FAD are a privilege, not a right.
Thank you, rant over.
"I've been here for 3 days and haven't won yet"
So what?
Who cares?
Sorry to sound harsh, but I'm fed up with reading moan after moan about "how it's not fair" and "my post was better".
If you didn't win, that's because someone else posted something better than you did.
Get over it.
It's been said over and over by so many people, don't post merely because you want to win.
It shows. Lengthy, dry and impersonal posts that read like a news bulletin.
Where as the ones that do win are personal, have something to say or are reviews/cheats.
I appreciate that you may have spent an age on a post, but that should be because you had something you wanted to say, not because you thought "Ha! That'll win"
And yes, I am aware that I have won a number of filmadays.
But twice I have had to be told I've won.
Why?
Because it never enters my head to try and win a bloody DVD or game, I don't bother to check the lists.
I've written lengthy posts that have taken me an age, but that's because I've had an opinion I wanted to share with people.
Take my last filmaday win for bullying.
Cooldogs posted his experience, someone else started a thread about bullying because of video games and Wookie added his thoughts.
I had something to say about it, and stuck it in the life forum to try and help someone that was going through the same thing, to try and make them realise that it was ok, that they shouldnt be suicidal or depressed.
I didn't think "Excellent, a worthy topic! I'm sure to win now!".
I understand that some people might be too young to buy their own games.
I've been there too, but now I'm 28 and can buy what I want, when I want.
But you know what?
When I couldn't, when it had to be my mum pay for one?
I waited.
Don't be so bloody greedy and start screaming when you don't win.
It even says in the rules "No complaining, nobody likes a whinger"
This forum has many, many articulate, amusing and interesting people. They win more than once.
Not because of any favouritism but because they post interesting stuff.
Meka and Grix post a lot of long, decent topics each day.
Do you hear them sob when they don't win?
No.
Learn a lesson from those that have the grace and dignity to realise that GAD and FAD are a privilege, not a right.
Thank you, rant over.
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New Jimmy wrote:
> Positive LSD Story...whats that tagline about
Drugs are bad, dont do them.
It's a Bill Hicks thing. As is Goatboy.
Drugs are bad? Ask Keith Richards about that one. And The Beatles.
I don't promote drug usage at all, and to mention whether I have taken LSD is a matter for me and me alone.
It's just a tagline dude, for those that would get it.
> Positive LSD Story...whats that tagline about
Drugs are bad, dont do them.
It's a Bill Hicks thing. As is Goatboy.
Drugs are bad? Ask Keith Richards about that one. And The Beatles.
I don't promote drug usage at all, and to mention whether I have taken LSD is a matter for me and me alone.
It's just a tagline dude, for those that would get it.
Dringo reads this topic, it is due to desperation when someone tries really hard to win only to get turned down it is frustrating and people want to vent it by angrily attacking SR.
I sometimes say i really wanted to win with that but hey don't we all.
Dringo
I sometimes say i really wanted to win with that but hey don't we all.
Dringo
*Turbonutter reads the topic, turns round and walks briskly away*
Positive LSD Story...whats that tagline about...my mate Rob took LSD and hes permanently messed up now. Hallucinations and the like, LSD binds permanently to the brain and is bad stuff..it never goes away.
If youve taken LSD you cant join the army, and do lots of other stuff.
Drugs are bad, dont do them.
If youve taken LSD you cant join the army, and do lots of other stuff.
Drugs are bad, dont do them.
Damn.
Wrong forum
Delete this please Webby.
Sorry folks.
Wrong forum
Delete this please Webby.
Sorry folks.
Bill Hicks died aged 32 of pancreatic cancer on Feb 26, 1994.
And with his death, this world lost of the true mavericks of comedy.
If you aren't aware of Bill Hicks and his work, I'll give you a brief resume;
Started stand up aged 14 and performed for almost 300 days of the year, every single year until his death in '94.
He was one of the most original, fiercely dedicated performers that comedy has ever seen.
But he was a virtual unknown his his native USA (or "United States of Advertising" as he called it).
Why? Because America didn't like his brand of humour.
He didn't tell jokes about how bad airplane food was or the difference between men and women.
He didn't really tell jokes, in the same way that most comedians did. He used comedy as a weapon.
He always wore black and prowled the front of the stage, not adverse to leaning into the audience and screaming into their faces if he felt they didn't get what he was talking about.
People called it "The Comedy of Hate", or as Hicks liked to call it, "New Rage Comedy".
Other people have jumped on board, notably Dennis Leary.
But any similarites end there between them. Listen to Leary's "No Cure for Cancer" cd and then listen to Hick's "Dangerous", recorded 2 years previously.
The same act, same jokes, but Leary lacked the honesty of Hicks.
Hicks reserved a special hatred for television and mass media, or as he put it "Lucifer's Dreambox, watching TV is like taking paint to your third eye man...what is the message you get from tv? Stay indoors, drink beer, be stupid, dont worry about the world outside. Here's American Gladiators! Here's 56 channels of this crap. Keep drinking beer morons!"
And this didn't go down to well on his home turf.
He was worshipped over here though, he sold out the Dominion Theatre 3 nights running, where as back in the U$A he did what he called his "UFO tours, which means I too have been appearing in front of handfulls of hillbillies that stare at me and polish their guns as I leave"
He wasn't about hatred and cynicism though, he was frustrated at what he saw as our potential being wasted by the pursuit of bigger houses, nicer cars, big bank accounts and general complacency with life.
He used to be a heavy drug user at one point in his life, kicked them but never then went about saying how bad drugs were.
"Every news story the same, drugs are bad, drugs lead to everything else wrong in this world...well hold it. I had a great time on drugs man, never robbed anybody, never raped anybody, never lost a house, a family or beat anyone. Got high, laughed my behind off and went about my day. Sorry! I'm not telling you to take drugs, I'm just saying that we need to hear both sides of the story..."
And this attitude was not appreciated by a lot of people. After one gig, two Vietnam vets approached him over a segment he did about the military ("Gays in the military? Who cares man, aren't you army folks hired killers? Who asked you for your opinion on gays? They can napalm children just as well as you can"), and a fight ensued with Hicks having his legs broken.
Hicks had a confrontational attitude towards life, but not in a bad way. He may have raged, he may have knelt on the floor screaming for the death of New Kids on The Block, but that was only because he saw us as wasting so much of our lives in mundane situations.
Hicks always ended his show with this coda:
"Life is like a ride on an amusement park, it goes up and down, round and round, it is very brightly coloured and it is fun. For a while. And some people have remembered and they come back and say "Hey, you know what? Don't be afraid, ever, because it's just a ride" and we...kill those people! HAHA..shut him up. This has to be real, look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, this has to be real. But it's just a ride.
And here's what we can do to change that ride right now, just a choice. No jobs, no savings, just a simple choice.
The eyes of fear want you to stay indoors, put bigger locks on your door and be scared. The eyes of love, instead, see us all as one consciousness capable of only love and understanding. Here's an idea. You know that money we spend on weapons each year? Billions of dollars? Instead, what if we spent that money feeding and educating the poor of the world? Which it would do many times over, we could then explore space together, both inner and outer. Together, forever. In peace. Thank you"
When Hicks realised he had a couple of months to live, he phoned every friend he ever had to say goodbye. He explained the Tibetan Book of The Dead to his mum, convinced his dad to take mushrooms with him, gave away all his posessions and lived back at home.
He say with his family and told them how much he loved them and that he was only moving on to the next stage of his time and not to worry.
His final words were "That's all I have to say".
He never spoke again and died 11 days later.
His headstone reads "Bill Hicks. Brother, Son, Friend"
Many bands cite Hicks as an influence, Tool being the main one, having used a painting of him and samples from his CD on their album Aenima.
If you're unaware of Hicks and appreciate someone that was fearless in trying to change the world to a better place, check out his 4 cds you can get through Rykodisc:
Dangerous
Relentless
Arizona Bay
Rant in E-Minor
The last cds have music he recorded in his final months woven between and under the comedy.
Bill Hicks is dead now, and nobody has come close to even touching the level he was on.
Bill Hicks 1962 - 1994
And with his death, this world lost of the true mavericks of comedy.
If you aren't aware of Bill Hicks and his work, I'll give you a brief resume;
Started stand up aged 14 and performed for almost 300 days of the year, every single year until his death in '94.
He was one of the most original, fiercely dedicated performers that comedy has ever seen.
But he was a virtual unknown his his native USA (or "United States of Advertising" as he called it).
Why? Because America didn't like his brand of humour.
He didn't tell jokes about how bad airplane food was or the difference between men and women.
He didn't really tell jokes, in the same way that most comedians did. He used comedy as a weapon.
He always wore black and prowled the front of the stage, not adverse to leaning into the audience and screaming into their faces if he felt they didn't get what he was talking about.
People called it "The Comedy of Hate", or as Hicks liked to call it, "New Rage Comedy".
Other people have jumped on board, notably Dennis Leary.
But any similarites end there between them. Listen to Leary's "No Cure for Cancer" cd and then listen to Hick's "Dangerous", recorded 2 years previously.
The same act, same jokes, but Leary lacked the honesty of Hicks.
Hicks reserved a special hatred for television and mass media, or as he put it "Lucifer's Dreambox, watching TV is like taking paint to your third eye man...what is the message you get from tv? Stay indoors, drink beer, be stupid, dont worry about the world outside. Here's American Gladiators! Here's 56 channels of this crap. Keep drinking beer morons!"
And this didn't go down to well on his home turf.
He was worshipped over here though, he sold out the Dominion Theatre 3 nights running, where as back in the U$A he did what he called his "UFO tours, which means I too have been appearing in front of handfulls of hillbillies that stare at me and polish their guns as I leave"
He wasn't about hatred and cynicism though, he was frustrated at what he saw as our potential being wasted by the pursuit of bigger houses, nicer cars, big bank accounts and general complacency with life.
He used to be a heavy drug user at one point in his life, kicked them but never then went about saying how bad drugs were.
"Every news story the same, drugs are bad, drugs lead to everything else wrong in this world...well hold it. I had a great time on drugs man, never robbed anybody, never raped anybody, never lost a house, a family or beat anyone. Got high, laughed my behind off and went about my day. Sorry! I'm not telling you to take drugs, I'm just saying that we need to hear both sides of the story..."
And this attitude was not appreciated by a lot of people. After one gig, two Vietnam vets approached him over a segment he did about the military ("Gays in the military? Who cares man, aren't you army folks hired killers? Who asked you for your opinion on gays? They can napalm children just as well as you can"), and a fight ensued with Hicks having his legs broken.
Hicks had a confrontational attitude towards life, but not in a bad way. He may have raged, he may have knelt on the floor screaming for the death of New Kids on The Block, but that was only because he saw us as wasting so much of our lives in mundane situations.
Hicks always ended his show with this coda:
"Life is like a ride on an amusement park, it goes up and down, round and round, it is very brightly coloured and it is fun. For a while. And some people have remembered and they come back and say "Hey, you know what? Don't be afraid, ever, because it's just a ride" and we...kill those people! HAHA..shut him up. This has to be real, look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, this has to be real. But it's just a ride.
And here's what we can do to change that ride right now, just a choice. No jobs, no savings, just a simple choice.
The eyes of fear want you to stay indoors, put bigger locks on your door and be scared. The eyes of love, instead, see us all as one consciousness capable of only love and understanding. Here's an idea. You know that money we spend on weapons each year? Billions of dollars? Instead, what if we spent that money feeding and educating the poor of the world? Which it would do many times over, we could then explore space together, both inner and outer. Together, forever. In peace. Thank you"
When Hicks realised he had a couple of months to live, he phoned every friend he ever had to say goodbye. He explained the Tibetan Book of The Dead to his mum, convinced his dad to take mushrooms with him, gave away all his posessions and lived back at home.
He say with his family and told them how much he loved them and that he was only moving on to the next stage of his time and not to worry.
His final words were "That's all I have to say".
He never spoke again and died 11 days later.
His headstone reads "Bill Hicks. Brother, Son, Friend"
Many bands cite Hicks as an influence, Tool being the main one, having used a painting of him and samples from his CD on their album Aenima.
If you're unaware of Hicks and appreciate someone that was fearless in trying to change the world to a better place, check out his 4 cds you can get through Rykodisc:
Dangerous
Relentless
Arizona Bay
Rant in E-Minor
The last cds have music he recorded in his final months woven between and under the comedy.
Bill Hicks is dead now, and nobody has come close to even touching the level he was on.
Bill Hicks 1962 - 1994
Dan2K1 wrote:
You have nothing else to do?
:)
No honestly...
You
> have nothing else to do...
Actually that's not too far from the truth...
Brought in to a large company as a trainee, given nothing to do somedays but wait.....
You have nothing else to do?
:)
No honestly...
You
> have nothing else to do...
Actually that's not too far from the truth...
Brought in to a large company as a trainee, given nothing to do somedays but wait.....
yeah too right man, I've written posts that are winning quality and people have made smart replies and won but I'm not here for the games. I'm here for the whole point of the forum and i think giving a gameaday out keeps the forum interesting and makes people work to keep it good.
I think the prize is just a nice bonus for a good review or topic but if your just here for that then your here for the wrong reason.
I think the prize is just a nice bonus for a good review or topic but if your just here for that then your here for the wrong reason.
Dan2K1 wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> I agree.
It took me months to win my first
> game!!
>Hi Ant - remember when there were hardly any of us here!
Yep. I also remember /////////////////
{:)
> Ant wrote:
> I agree.
It took me months to win my first
> game!!
>Hi Ant - remember when there were hardly any of us here!
Yep. I also remember /////////////////
{:)
I am with you there Ant, none of my three stories won. They took me a long time and a lot of effort that I did for the enjoyment of it, they didn't win no, but just having others on here say 'well done' and 'great story' made it worth the while and the time it took to type...
:D
:D
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