Topic: The Current Events Thread (Read 20198 times)

Black Sword · « **on:** 01 Mar 2011, 12:28 »

I didn't see a thread like this anywhere, so I thought it might be best to start one. We all know life sucks and then you die, but every so often, something positive happens to make your day. It doesn't have to be huge, but this is for those random happy moments you get when you're just minding your own business.

So, going first: today, my goddaughter had her first day of preschool. I've been spazzing out about it all day, since it's an environment she's never been in, I don't know how those brats were raised, and I kept worrying if they were going to pick on her or be mean to her, or if anything was going to happen.

Having spent the entire working day stressing, my goddaughter called me after preschool, and told me she was home, and she learned her ABCs in English perfectly up to S (Spanish is her first language, she's already counting, numbers, and alphabet in Spanish), made 2 little friends, misses me and is happy to hear my voice, and promises to call me every day so I don't worry. She's all of three years old. ♥ x 10000!

Thread name changed to fit thread content. That is all.

KvP · « **Reply #1 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 12:40 »

I thought this thread would be about Charlie Sheen quotes. It's now about our favorite Charlie Sheen quotes!

Quote from: The Sheen

Bipolar? I’m bi-winning. I win here. I win there.

Lines · « **Reply #2 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 12:46 »

But I want to read about happy things! Not what a crackpot Charlie Sheen is.

est · « **Reply #3 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 12:59 »

Han's tattoo made me happy yesterday. At the start I was worried, because the initial drawing the guy did didn't look too good. But we asked him to change it up a little and it looked awesome, and the resulting tattoo looks awesome and she's really pumped about it, so that makes me pretty happy.

calenlass · « **Reply #4 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 13:12 »

I had indian lamb red curry for lunch yesterday, and thai shrimp yellow curry today, and my boyfriend saved me a secret box of truffles from valentine's day that he gave me last night.

also isn't this basically like the blog thread

Zingoleb · « **Reply #5 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 13:28 »

blog thread - whining = this thread

imagist42 · « **Reply #6 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 13:31 »

we should segregate this shit

like "we like sports" and "we hate sports"

"blog thread for genuinely and probably temporarily happy people" and "livejournal thread"

Jace · « **Reply #7 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 13:33 »

Quote from: Linds on 01 Mar 2011, 12:46

But I want to read about happy things! Not what a crackpot Charlie Sheen is.

I think you mean crackhead.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #8 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 15:26 »

Re: Thread title

No, I don't

David_Dovey · « **Reply #9 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 15:27 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 01 Mar 2011, 15:26

Re: Thread title

No, I don't

Take it to the Blog Thread, loser

KvP · « **Reply #10 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 15:55 »

I WILL CARRY THIS THREAD BY MYSELF

DEFEAT IS NOT AN OPTION

Quote from: The Sheen

Mel (Gibson) is a rock star... I'm a huge fan, and think he's a beautiful man.

Johnny C · « **Reply #11 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 16:33 »

Quote

It's been a tsunami of media and I've been riding it on a mercury surfboard

jwhouk · « **Reply #12 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 16:48 »

Sorry, I'm in the reverse right now.

Tom · « **Reply #13 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 17:26 »

Quote

Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words—imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists

Liz · « **Reply #14 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 17:33 »

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“I am on a drug: It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”

Tom · « **Reply #15 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 17:45 »

I have tiger's blood and adonis DNA

Tom · « **Reply #16 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 17:46 »

This could get interesting.

JD · « **Reply #17 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 18:15 »

http://www.livethesheendream.com/

Tom · « **Reply #18 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 18:36 »

Quote

"The first one's free. The next one goes in your mouth."

Quote

"You should have read the directions before you showed up at the party."

He's just, wow. There is likely a sheen quote for every occasions.

nobo · « **Reply #19 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:06 »

Dear Happy Thread,

Today I got a package from my father in law. He knew that my wife is working night shifts for the entirety of march so he bought me the newest 28 Days Later comic to occupy my time. Good stuff.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #20 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:20 »

Sorry, but I just came upon this

tania · « **Reply #21 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:27 »

i shared with a friend today that i was planning on spending money on a nice, proper mattress this year and how i was kind of stressed by how much it would cost and how little i know about making such a purchase and she informed me that she just moved in with her boyfriend and now has absolutely no use for her super expensive, super nice mattress (his is better) so she is offering to give it to me, for free. this is so insanely generous i don't even know what to think. i am going to try to convince her to take some kind of payment for it because apparently she paid a LOT of money for this thing but she insisted she really just wants it gone asap so i guess we'll see how this goes.

either way i am getting a free mattress! a really nice one! i have been really exceptionally nice to strangers lately despite my life being horrible so i'm gonna attribute this to a karma thing despite the fact that i don't really believe in karma at all. so uh i guess whether or not you believe in karma, sometimes it pays off! life's okay.

KvP · « **Reply #22 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:31 »

A pretty girl just walked in and gave me some cupcakes from the place where she works.

UH

Quote from: The Sheen

People can’t figure me out, they can’t process me, I don’t expect them to. You can’t process me with the normal brain.

Johnny C · « **Reply #23 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:39 »

guys he looks so fucking gaunt lately it's actually troubling

KvP · « **Reply #24 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:41 »

Yeah. Mainly I'm pissed at CBS for enabling him to such an extreme degree. Beat your wife? That's fine. Menace sex workers you paid for while your kids are a few doors down? Okay. Insult a television executive? Now it's gone too far.

tania · « **Reply #25 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:42 »

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I have a grandiose life. Sorry my life is so much more bitchin’ than yours. I planned it this way.

KvP · « **Reply #26 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:46 »

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The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed, armless children.

tania · « **Reply #27 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 19:55 »

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Duh, winning! It’s, like, guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies and a ton of success. I mean, c’mon bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn’t even trying. I wasn’t even warm.

Lupercal · « **Reply #28 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 08:20 »

Dear HAPHAP

So after shitting myself about finding a house next year I managed to find one, with a guy from one of my classes, just down the road, perfect. The day before I'd went out for some beers with a buddy of mine who just sprung it upon me that he played the drums and his housemate was a singer. I got a house and a band in two fucking days, it was amazing.

Also:

haa pointless cameo by once idolised guitar player who hasn't released anything in 13 years save 2 songs for a porn soundtrack. I can do Sheen too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fYpkbq8jM

(Just for my own integrity, I do love EVH but man he has wasted over a decade by doing nothing)

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #29 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 09:22 »

For even more confusion

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #30 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 11:22 »

You scored 5 out of a possible 10.

Fair enough. One man's rave is another man's ... very similar rave

imagist42 · « **Reply #31 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 11:42 »

also also five out of ten

what the hell is it even possible to score differently

perhaps they have made some conscious, artistic choice to illustrate some point about this mean to constantly rigging a .5 batting average

JD · « **Reply #32 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 11:44 »

Six out of ten!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #33 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 11:50 »

Guys who is Charlie Sheen and why should I care? Answers on a postcard.

KvP · « **Reply #34 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 12:02 »

8 / 10!

Lines · « **Reply #35 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 12:13 »

3/10

Because I don't care.

Black Sword · « **Reply #36 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 12:38 »

Charlie Sheen does not belong in the happy thread.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #37 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:12 »

I read about the hilarious antics of an eccentric drug-addled playboy actor and it made my most terrible day in a long time less terrible.

Johnny C · « **Reply #38 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:19 »

he's probably experiencing like a stratospheric pink cloud effect atm, especially when you hear him talk about addiction. it's weird to draw parallels (and predictable since i talk about dfw ALL THE TIME these days) but i can't stop thinking about infinite jest, where like a lot of his behaviour is stuff that don gately talks about as being a predictor of imminent relapse – like how he can't stop talking about AA's failure rates and about how he doesn't do any of that "loser" stuff like count days and how everyone in AA is miserable and he ain't miserable man he's riding high on life. those are like serious indicators of someone whose attitude will eventually lapse into "i don't even need to be off drugs."

pen · « **Reply #39 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:34 »

Happy thread,

My friend Meredith has been writing a cooking blog for a couple of months now, and today, a cookware company emailed her to see if she wants to get free samples to review and she's so excited and that made me so very excited for her!!!

<3
Rae

Johnny C · « **Reply #40 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:57 »

six out of ten! why won't they show us the answers, i wanna know if sheen's a truther

Johnny C · « **Reply #41 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:58 »

Quote from: pen on 02 Mar 2011, 13:34

Happy thread,

My friend Meredith has been writing a cooking blog for a couple of months now, and today, a cookware company emailed her to see if she wants to get free samples to review and she's so excited and that made me so very excited for her!!!

<3
Rae

that rules! and is a life goal for me

KvP · « **Reply #42 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 14:00 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 02 Mar 2011, 13:57

six out of ten! why won't they show us the answers, i wanna know if sheen's a truther

He is, that's why he showed up on Alex Jones' show. They made a really ridiculous video when Obama was first elected with footage from some post-election interview intercut with Sheen asking hard hitting questions about the 9/11 hoax. They passed it off as a real interview for a bit.

Johnny C · « **Reply #43 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 14:01 »

yeah i just tweaked the quiz until i got ten out of ten so now i know who said what

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #44 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 14:22 »

So I had a bio test this morning today and there was an mini-essay question that asked what characteristics species in the the class Oligochaeta (which includes earthworms) have that separates them from other classes in Annelida and I couldn't fucking resist writing "Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words; imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.”

I think I deserve extra credit

Liz · « **Reply #45 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 14:27 »

Johnny C there is a link to the answers on your score page.

Just sayin'.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #46 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 15:17 »

I got 5/10.

Here's another one that adds Glenn Beck to the mix. I got 8/15.

nufan · « **Reply #47 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 15:40 »

9/15, which is more than I got for just Gadaffi and Sheen (5/10). Throw in Galliano and I'd get 20/20.

Eris · « **Reply #48 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 15:53 »

The weather lately is making me happy. Autumn has finally started to kick in, so the evenings have started cooling down. The days are still getting hot, but there isn't that oppressive heat weighing on you from the moment you wake up, and the morning have been so beautifully crisp and refreshing. It is amazing how much difference the cooler mornings make. It also means that hopefully the days cool down enough to let me wear my coats and scarves and tights and jumpers and all the clothes I love without running the risk of overheating terribly.

Also, i can have cups of tea again! And snuggle!

tania · « **Reply #49 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 16:49 »

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Now, every plan I have is the best plan in the room. Now everyone get quiet and listen to it and everyone will win.

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