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All of this makes me miss having a job. I used to work as a research assistant and also as a delivery driver at Jimmy John's. I was terrible at the delivery driving though. Just the worst. I never would've been GM.
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You guys talking about jobs makes me damn happy I don't have to worry about one {XD} -shot-
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Do a quick google search. I think you were thinking of something more along the lines of "pull the trigger." |
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Maybe you would rather "push the envelope"? |
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Hmm, perhaps the expression has different, or several meanings in different parts of the world. I never once thought of biting the bullet as killing oneself. Biting the dust can mean somebody died, or failed. But idk nothing else comes close. Biting the bullet will never be an expression for suicide in my books tho. |
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Unless you're asking what you should say to replace 'bite the bullet' for suicide, in which case I would recommend 'commit suicide'. |
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2. Because he was unsure about it, and if he was convinced that the incorrect definition of it was correct in some cases, he might start using it incorrectly as well. 3. Because I responded to him, not you. Unless the person receiving said knowledge is not receptive to it, by default if I know something and another person is unsure I'll tell them, because knowledge is nice to have. :) |
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I use bite the bullet the same way marz does, but I have seen it used by some people to relate to suicide, and I think it's really insensitive of them.
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I guess others' experiences may differ, though. |
I think I'll chalk it up to intent not always being clear when you're reduced to sending out text on the Internet. However, even then, I'd rather refrain from using certain terms without appropriate context.
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Hm, I didn't know that "to bite the bullet" could also be related to suicide.
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My guess is somebody wrongfully used that expression in conversation with Alex and he simply interpreted it the only way he could given the context. Quote:
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As for Alex, I'd suggest doing some research before using unfamiliar phrases/expressions. |
Eh, it's an easy enough thing to do - if you think you know how it's used, it's seen as a familiar phrase and looking it up seems unnecessary. Like for a long time I thought "ambivalent" meant apathetic. I can't remember what finally made me realize that it was wrong, whether it was someone flat-out telling me or just reading/hearing it in a way that made no sense with that definition, but I didn't look it up until then because I was confident that it was right definition for it. I just turned out to be wrong about it, haha.
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Wait, in other way can "Bite the Bullet" be used other then for a professional hit or Suicide?
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It means kind of like taking one for the team, except 'team' in a very general sense - going through something unpleasant and just dealing with it. I always thought it came from biting a bullet in war when something painful like an amputation had to be done but I googled it and it seems like that's a common misconception.
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Jesus Christ enough. Biting the bullet doesn't mean what you think it means, Alex. Stop trying to make it work.
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Tell me what I'm supposed to say instead. Tell me how I ought to sound and talk. Make me act acceptably; make me behave. May you?
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So how does everybody feel about post-its? Personally I think they're handy little yellow mofos, but this could be the controversial topic to end all controversy.
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My desk at work came with a brand-new set of Post-Its. I used it to stick my area code onto my desk phone and doodle. I should write myself inspirational quotes and stick them to my monitor.
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The brand name ones burn really nicely and the ink dyes the flames, and when you burn the knock offs the cheaper adhesives makes this bizarre mixture of wax and ash. |
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/fun/news/a598141/no-you-cant-charge-your-iphone-in-a-microwave-despite-elaborate-wave-hoax.html#~oQCby3DAoH3KaE
No offence, but this just goes against common sense. |
The thing about people is that people are...less than smart at times.
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Post-its are useful. I use them frequently for notes and as temporary labels and bookmarks
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They're one of those things that I'm sure are really handy to some, but has never come in handy to me. In the past I have stuck them to my upper lip/chin and pretended I had a paper mustache/goatee out of complete boredom.
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Wow. You guys need to chill out and take it easy on Alex. People use some phrases differently in different parts of the world. Even in different areas within a general area. People probably use the expression that way where he lives.
Oops I'm a page behind but I think my point stands. |
I hardly use post-its. The last time I used them was in my Junior year in high school to bookmark my books.
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I think I might use Post-it notes sometime when I'm grown up. Probably at a job, but who knows when.
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thanks Nick. A power nap did it help my blood to settle a little bit better but it's nice to know that there is someone out for me as well. I do appreciate it.
in regards to that new article, I'm actually incredibly happy that /b/ finally did something useful for the first time in a while. When you get really sick of Mac users yammering about their technology, its really nice and relieving to read this and watch their idiocy get exposed. I hope it didn't break their phones though, honestly speaking. There is a point to where it does become overkill in any situation. |
I'd love to use Post-It's but mine generally just depict bizarre and/or inappropriate drawings and hang off my Mac for a few days before I throw them out. :(
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I use post-it notes from a sorority that I'm not in anymore. It gives me great joy to use their stuff when I'm not "supposed" to. When I quit that sorority, they asked for my sorority pin back. That thing was about $200, made of real gold and pearls. Needless to say I told them to get lost.
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Post it notes are great for making flip books. But I've never really found any other use for them.
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I like them for their function as tiny, simplistic notepads - no extra stuff like cardboard or binding. Like when I was looking for a new desk I was walking around my workplace and writing down ones I wanted to look into, and I didn't want to walk behind a bunch of people writing things on a giant notepad because that's pretty creepy.
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My imagination of sorority is always what those College freshman movies depict. Or movies like Neighbors with Seth Rogen and Zak Effron. |
College here is like a 6 year extension of high school. Live with your parents, get drunk on weekends with the friends, and maybe have a 9-5 job on the weekdays as well.
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College/University over here is nothing really too special. Then again I wouldn't know, I made it through six months and dropped out. Currently looking at going back and doing a course of some sort but I have no idea what I'd do, and I'm pretty busy with my workload right now e.g. night shifts + Pokemon during the day. D:
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I think that it's hard to judge college in an entire country based on a few experiences, because colleges are so different. The local college that my sister went to, most of the kids were within an hour of the school and thus lived at home, most of the kids had no plans of leaving this area, and most of the kids were partiers. Meanwhile at my school, the kids came from all over the world and lived in dorms and off-campus alone, and very few planned on going back to their hometown after graduation.
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IDK about the living with parents part. I didn't know anyone at my university that actually lived with their parents - most of us were from out of the area or if we were from the area we preferred to live on our own. |
I guess it's like a brotherhood, like the mob. You look after your own no matter what horrible things they've done.
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I just found my old PE2K account from 2011 and went through the post history. I both cringed, and nearly broke down crying at home innocent and young I was.
Whatever happened to that place anyway? Used to use it a lot for sprites and now it's just... Vanished. Not that I carePC Master Race >.> <.< |
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Finding posts from when you're young is so cringeworthy. Less so as you get older - 19 to 16 is really bad, 16 to 13 is worse, but 22 to 19 isn't that bad.
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Yeah reading my facebook updates from when I was 14-16 was horrifying. I got a little better at 17 and now I can view my 18yo posts without facepalming.
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I'm scared to look at my posts on here and other places in a few years because I feel like I'm kind of ~~edgy~~ at times AND I DON'T LIKE THAT.
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My Twitter and Facebook timeline from a couple of years back are cringe, I dread to tread even further back on here...
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Once I disowned all Pokemon games after Crystal. Because I was a dumb teen.
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I LOVE looking at my old posts from when I was a teenager. I was so full of anger it is absolutely hysterical.
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I look at my posts from like last week and cringe. The only way not to cringe is not to post. Looking back at posts on my facebook from when I was a freshman just makes me want to kill myself, they go way past cringe.
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I remember going back and seeing some of my posts and it was a mix of utter cringe and 'oh ........ have i actually changed at all' hahaha cries.
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I've been here for.... far too long. And once and a while I somehow (like Google searching something) come across something unintentionally I've said from way back when. I don't mind it. It's kind of neat. And I'm not that different
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I originally tunnel visioned the Hacks Showcase subforum. Then grew to the entire ROM Hacking section. Then eventually branched out into other interests and topics this forum had to offer. Definitely my posts from back in the day are wicked cringey. All part of growing up!
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I think that a lot of the posts in the whole hacks area of PC are pretty cringe worthy in general. I think I posted maybe 50 times in Rom Hacks and then I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
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But enough of me inflating zel's ego. I just really thought it was a fantastic game, and had high regard for PC's hacker community. I also remember seeing far too many hacks die out, and many more recycle old ideas. And the worst: Fakemon. God those things were the awful. I would almost always write off playing your beta if your entire game was based on Fakemon. I had no interest in learning a new Pokedex unless Gamefreak was its creator. |
This website, I didn't post anything really incriminating (I think.) But other Forums, I love looking at posts I made as a prepubescent sixth grader. They always make me cry in disappointment of myself.
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LOL I don't even want to look back on my old posts from other forums, feels like they'll always be there to haunt me unless I were to make a new account for a clean slate. My ROM hacking posts from 2006-2008 probably weren't very fun either.
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I'm totally non-existent in the ROM Hacking boards. I only like looked at one thread and then I all but knew the section wasn't right for me. Although looking back at my old posts here at PC from 2011-2012 make me feel embarrassed because I was such a huge noob at the time.
And when name changes came back, I decided to get rid of my old name (because of its bad past) and that was how I adopted my current, much better name and lost the noob persona in the process. |
Quizilla is being wiped away so that's one embarrassing past memory deleted, thank god.
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I have like 7 years history on BMGF and SPFF(each). I haven't touched my post history out of sheer fear of what I used to post. And still do.
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I remember posting a crapload of quizilla results on my myspace page. High school. Good goooooooooood times, man. xD
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I'm too embarrassed to even look up what I may have written years ago. Well, I'm mostly afraid of dying from laughter. That says a lot.
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I wrote a story on Quizilla but that was before they had the story section so it was really a quiz with a few options and the questions were just super super long and then when they added a story category they just cut off the questions to stop people from doing that. So I can't read my writing really because three sentences in it would cut off. :(
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Lot's of people have some pretty old, cringe-worthy stuff on the net then? :P
I can't get my sleeping patterns right and it's starting to REEEEALLY annoy me. I work nights so I'm accustomed to sleeping during the day, but I got to sleep at 4/5am yesterday morning and woke up at 5:30pm T_T Luckily I had the night off work but that brings me back too my point; it's 3:36am WHY CAN'T I SLEEEEEP. |
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On the subject of post history again, I went on NewGrounds just so I could look at my old post history on there (member since '06). Oh. My. God. It was absolutely horrendous. |
So we all have a tie to bond us together besides being Pokemon nerds: we all made ridiculous posts in the past.
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Surefire ways to reforge a good sleep schedule:
1. Stay up all night and then go to sleep whenever it is you're wanting your new schedule to be having you go to sleep, and then set alarms in 5 minute intervals starting half an hour before the time you want to wake up. 2. **** the above suggestion, grab a bottle of 151 and take a shot every minute on the minute up until the time you want to pass the **** out and hope you set an alarm for in the morning because if you didn't then get ready to do it all over again the next day when you wake up at 5 pm. |
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I hardly even remember my first posts on PC. That's okay, I don't even want to see them anyways!
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Just got back from a job interview, and buying more alcohol, and my plan is just to chill out on PC and drink till I sleep. Think it might be a good one. |
For me, my oldest forum posts are from the Forummotion version of Super Skarmory Forums. Course I could have posts older than that, but I don't exactly remember.
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I posted wanting a pokemon yellow remake. That was my first post haha
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This was back when I was SlimShady
I posted like a damn 14 year old ugh (well, I was) I cringe reading my old posts, sad part is, I remember them |
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Anybody a football fan? Anybody a Manchester United fan? Anybody else watch the game we just played against West Ham and have a mild heart attack the entire second half? I did. Sleep now, please. |
My first non-welcome post here was me asking how to obtain the bike in HG. Yeah, that was horrible.
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Hello everyone I know this conversation is so far gone, but I just want to thank everyone who actually prayed while I was using tinder. If there is a higher power than it has shown upon me for an old tinder flame has been rekindled and I will see the results of this tomorrow so pray just a bit longer!!!
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I pray to the gods of love, sex and fire for the success of your date.
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I really don't feel like studying, or doing anything
Damn this sinus infection! I get these like every year because of my sinus polyp buildup |
Dude I feel you, I despise reading textbook chapters so much. I wish there was a shortcut around it. >.>
I'm more of a technical person, I love math and would rather be solving equations than read 20 pages about Christianity for medieval history. Ughhh. |
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They have "computer engineering technology" which will give me a certificate to work as opposed to an associates degree. They do have a math department though, maybe I'll switch there in my 2nd semester.
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