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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: tania on 31 Dec 2010, 10:39
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i know we all hate list threads around here and blah blee bloo blah blah but honestly, i really love both making resolutions for the new year and looking back on old resolutions to see how successful i was, and i think a bunch of you really like doing that too whether you want to admit it or not so here's the resolutions thread, and here's last year's thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24314.0.html) for reference.
my resolutions for 2010 were:
get into graduate school beginning september 2010 and, subsequently, finally move out of parent's house for good
i did this! i'm in a great criminology program in vancouver and i absolutely never shut the fuck up about living in vancouver. life's good.
learn to use my new camera
i did this too but i haven't had a lot of time for photography since moving. oh well!
go to the united states next summer
yeah i went to chicago with some jerks
stay in shape
got real good at running, started going to the gym, got freakish she-hulk muscles
quit smoking for good
i did this too!
be less of a hypocrite and start recognizing and being okay with when i am wrong about something
no i still suck at this
get over social phobia and be more assertive and confident when dealing with people
this too
finish knitting all unfinished projects
oh my god with my schedule you got to be kidding
start drawing again
nope
learn to parallel park
i have no fucking clue how to do this
floss more often
absolutely not. man this list started out so well and then kind of took a turn for the worst all of a sudden! i guess 50% or so ain't too bad.
and resolutions for 2011:
get my GPA up to a 4.0 again
get a secure volunteer position in the city
save up enough money to move out of this apartment and into a newer, bigger, better apartment
save up enough money to also take another trip to america, hopefully san francisco
get my full driver's license
be nice to everyone, all the time, because no matter how easy it may be to pass judgment on someone there will eventually come a time when you will really appreciate them and be truly glad they are your friend
floss more often
run a half marathon
don't take up smoking again
start building a decent collection of "adult" clothes, aka anything but yet more fucking t-shirts
see the city and enjoy life more
now i want to hear yours! go go resolutions thread. let's go
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Ooh - resolutions for a brand new decade. Let's be tragically optimistic and say by 2020 I will have:
A couple of little-me's scampering round the place. Maybe bolt onto that a patchy, ill-advised marriage of some sort.
A house with a fully paid off mortgage. Not a luxury mason, just a decent house somewhere pleasant.
A job that, whilst interesting, doesn't involve trapsing round the shit-holes of the world.
All my limbs still attached along with full use of my body and its senses.
Still look alright naked as, after all, I will be past my prime by the time I'm 34.
Get get my black belt one these sunny days.
Get into photography.
And, one that I always say but never do - learn to play the guitar.
With a bit of hard work and a bit of luck, none of that is asking too much, is it?
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i think my only real 2010 resolution was to not blackout while drinking anymore, which i failed like 6 or 7 times
i think for 2011 my list is (so far):
- get a job
- get back in school
- get in shape
- drink responsibly
- be less of an emotionless husk of a human being
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Get back into fighting shape
Finish Junior year at Texas State with good grades.
Move into an apartment
Find gainful employment
Work on my social issues.
If I accomplish these things, I will feel quite satisfied.
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It turns out I didn't make any resolutions last year and I think that will be my resolutions this year
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2010:
1) Get a job.
Kind of. I had consistent work for a couple of months, need to get something more long-term.
2) Write more, I waste a shitload of time online, I could be using hours of it each day writing with no real impact on my online interactions.
Took a creative writing class, wrote a short story and several poems. I don't write as much as I would like to, but it is an improvement
3) Write at least one song.
Nope.
4) Practice playing guitar with other people.
Some, though not as much as I want to.
5) Be an awesome older brother. My little brother is actually turning out to be pretty damn cool some of the time, I should return the favor.
Hit and miss
As before, a girlfriend would be nice, but I've got priorities and a somewhat realistic outlook on life.
Got this one.
2011:
Gain weight, at least to 180 pounds, hopefully more.
Write more
Write a song, practice with other musicians more regularly
Get a damn job
Finish my Associate's.
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Making resolutions is always really depressing for me because I always let myself down. So um.
-Stay in School
-Stay just as compulsive with hair changes, but make increasingly better ones. Find favorite haircut
-Be happier.
-don't whine so much
-save more money so I can go traveling farther this summer
-get to the yukon
-continue to stay on top of updating my photoblog.
-Be Safer
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-Sack the fuck up, do work and stop complaining.
Can I maybe borrow your resolution?
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Bitch and moan less.
Talk to someone about shit so that it won't stop you from not doing other shit you need to do.
Get a job.
Sort out my shit for the GAMSAT/Post-Grad Med/Honours?
Do more work during the course so I get better exam results. I'm there 9-6 3 days of the week with lots a breaks, I have no excuse.
Do more than wistfully think about studying abroad.
Get a good haircut and some new clothes.
Get into a shape other than pear and/or bouncy ball.
Get more involved with Uni life, fuck SAD.
Get a boyfriend.
Moan more.
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My resolution is to get a job before the end of Janurary and continually have a job until I move back to AZ, then when that happens, I want to have a job out here, and possibly my own apartment and a welsh corgi that I am going to name after one of the primarchs from 40K.
Welp, didn't move back to AZ, got a job in February, have a job still.
Do not have a corgi named Rogal Dorn, but I am working on that.
I'm gonna just change mine to "grow up"
Oh I guess I changed it to something that could be easier, says the 21 year old with legos, hot wheels and happy meal toys on his floor.
For 2011:
Not be in debt.
This is probably not going to get accomplished.
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2010: I resolve to do my best to stay alive during 2010 and go back to school. That's all.
I'm still alive and I'm back in school, so yay!
For 2011:
- Try to keep doing as well in school as I did my first quarter back.
- Finish my grad application.
- Don't get fired from my job.
- Continue supporting myself.
- Work out more this year than I did last year.
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Here were last year's resolutions!
-spend more time doing degree-related reading and less time doing internet-related reading
-learn to skate backwards well enough that I can play defence
-get a job at easter that is not in a supermarket, and save up some money from it
-cook proper meals to prevent repeat of fainting incident
-FIX A BOAT (ALSO IN ENGLAND)(IT'S THE SAME BOAT)
Well, I dropped out of uni. So that one didn't go very well.
I didn't learn to skate backwards well enough to play defence because I left the team, but I can skate backwards.
At Easter I worked for the college on the telephone campaign and earned lots of moneys (which I then spent)
I can cook, and have only fainted twice since.
Did not fix boat.
This year's resolutions:
-be the best goddamn au pair in the whole world
-learn French/Norwegian/Both
-go to at least two folk festivals
-go back to university
-finish knitting the jumper I started in like 2007
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Last year was like this:
1. Get a job, you hippie. (Oh hey, I did! Worked at a new bookstore in town for like three months and got laid off because they weren't making any money. Thank god my volunteer soundman gig at the bar is turning into an actual thing, though it probably wouldn't hurt to also find a day gig.)
2. Start an actual band, with actual people in it. (This happened! We are still going strong! I am telling people how to play my songs! We are playing shows!)
3. Graduate and get my degree. (Yerp derp.)
4. Record other people's music for a try. (Sadly never got to do this, due to a dearth of like-minded musicians in town.)
5. Attend the 2nd Annual PRFBBQ in Chicago, Summer 2010. (GREATEST FUCKING WEEKEND OF MY LIFE)
6. Continue to get in shape. (Welp. I think I've gained back the weight I lost last year and then some. My fat ass needs to get back on the bike more often.)
7. Be more sociable, in general. (This year I actually felt like I had a large group of friends to hang out with rather than girlfriend + two or three people.)
8. Figure out what I'm going to do after college. (Move to Chicago God Damnit)
Here's the new shit.
1. Move to Chicago
2. Find more gainful employment so I can save up to move there (or just save up Like A Boss)
3. Lose some fucking weight again, fatty
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In last year's thread I resolved:
I plan to finally get around to developing the iphone game I've been planning.
My current avatar came out of that effort. Unfortunately I kind of gave up on that project a couple months ago, but now I'm working on a new iphone game that I'm halfway finished with already. My plan is to release this new game in February, so I guess that's a resolution for 2011.
Also I really want to take another trip to London this summer, so I'll say that's my other resolution. Beyond that, I generally don't make resolutions; I have lots of future plans, but I change plans so often that I prefer to keep them to myself. live in the moment, go with the flow, etc etc
I suppose I could resolve to post less. Everybody breaks their New Year's resolutions right away, right?
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I thought I had all my resolutions from last year covered, but it seems I didn't:
1. Be Happy
I am basing this off the fact that I have mostly happy memories of the last year, rather than sad memories, so I say tick this one off
2. Learn at least one new skill
I think I did this. I learned how to do counted cross stitch? I feel like I have learned new skills, but can't actually think of anything.
3. Draw more, and maybe try improving
I drew for a while, and tried new things with that so I think I started improving. Stopped again, though.
4. Make more things (that will tie in with 2)
I made some socks! And embroidery! And some deformed prototype toys before giving up on that! Hopefully if we move into a bigger place next year I will have more room to try crafty things.
5. Keep going to the gym
Ha. Ha Ha Ha.
6. Cook more
I kind of was a bit hit and miss with this. I cooked more than I did last year, but still ate a lot of take away food. Again, move to a bigger place and hopefully I will cook more.
2011
1. Be Happy Again
2. Buy Nicer Things
3. Water The Plants and Don't Let Them Die
4. Save Money Regularly (I have already been doing this, so it is more a reminder to keep it up)
5. Get You Goddamn Tattoo Already.
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i didn't post in last year's thread and i have no idea what my resolutions were! i will assume that i succeeded fantastically.
for 2011 i would like to
a) save more money! i am incredibly lucky to have graduated from college, own my own car, and have a good-paying job with absolutely no debt. i'd like to keep things that way! financial security is a really big deal to me so i want to save as much as i can while i am still young and don't have anyone else to be responsible for financially.
b) maybe occasionally get off my fat ass and do something that could remotely be considered exercise! i work in an office/corporate-type job and i work a LOT of hours, so when i get home after working an 11-12 hour day all i want to do is watch netflix and go to bed. i am not really getting fat (yet) but i am certainly maintaining my flab.
c) stop wasting so much time on the internet. do things! play the piano that i got for free that's gathering dust in the living room! read the books that are stacked in towering piles that i haven't gotten around to yet! go outside!
d) visit friends who have moved far away. this is my first year out of college and it hasn't been as difficult as it's made out to be, but it's definitely an adjustment, having to get used to my friends living three states away instead of three minutes.
here's to a new decade!
(edit: dang it shut up NEW DECADE HOORAY)
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Yay! Being on a forum makes last year's so much easier to remember. Man, I really dropped the chain this year, last year I did so well!
For 2010:
- Re-learn how to ride a bike without being terrified
Um, not really. I mean, I rode it to a place once, maybe twice, still terrified. I think it is because the bike is so old and broken.
- Continue fixing up my rusty ol' vintage bike so that it's awesome
Yeah I didn't do anything aside from put on a flowery seat cover. But I did buy a bike helmet!
- Be the best girlfriend I possibly can
I guess I have? I am still with the same guy, so.... win?
- Have some fantastic roadtrips and weekends away
I think we did this. We stayed in hotels three times so I guess that counts as an actual trip. One of those times we went there in a plane so it doesn't really count as a roadtrip.
- Do a lot of decorating and furniture/house restorations/awesomefying
Hm, I guess I did. I painted a few things and went to Ikea and moved into a sweet old house that I adored because it was falling apart and everyone in it was unimaginably awesome. But then The Shittest Thing In 2010 (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24421.msg936609.html#msg936609) happened and the rest of us split up and Nick and I had to move to a house that I dislike.
- Have a nice 25th Birthday and an actual party where maybe people will come
Oh hey, I did this! It was fun, I think. People actually came, which is amazing.
- Make better friends of the people I already know and love
I guess I didn't work very hard on this. I am a hermit at heart and I have turned down so many invitations.
- Spend less money on junk, and consequently pay off my credit card debt and try to get some form of savings together
I didn't do this either because my laptops both died and I needed to take out a loan to buy a new computer. I have consolidated all my debt though and should have it paid off by 2013 at the latest.... eesh.
- Get another promotion
I can't remember if I did or not. I think I did? Was that in 2010? I think so. I'm now Production Coordinator rather than Production Assistant/Office Bitch (even though I am still really Office Bitch) and I make 5k a year more. Woo!
This year I also sacked up and spent a bunch of money on doctors and specialists and tests and stupid diets to sort of my health and stomach problems once and for all, after suffering for ten years on and off. After many months I am now pretty excellent and only need to take pro-biotic capsules every day or so, and have Vitamin B injections every month. I also haven't had a cold or virus or anything since I have been healthy, when previously I would catch something new every few weeks.
So anyway. I don't really know what to do this year. Maybe...
- Keep my job, that would be great (I have been slacking off)
- Move out with Max to a sweet sweet new place
- Either sack up and fix my bike properly or save up for a new one
- Keep growing my hair even though it shits me constantly, I really want to see how it looks long
- Learn to sew better, maybe make some clothes
- Stop buying so much crap and learn how to buy food properly. Buy from the greengrocer rather than the supermarket.
- Learning how to make more than like, 5 dishes would be helpful too. Also take lunch to work more often.
- Walk and cycle more places instead of carring or bussing. (This will depend on where we move though.)
- Make my blog decent, try to blog several times a week
- Maintain my weight since I'm actually putting it on now that I'm healthy
- Save. Some. Money. (This will never happen.)
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Although I have not posted any New Year's Resolutions in this forum
before, they have tended to be the same every year:
Lose weight and eat healthier
Exercise more
Play the guitar more
Stop smoking.
Every year, I start out doing fairly well, but then things kind of
go to pot. I lose weight, then gain it all back,
I start exercising, then it sort of slows down and stops,
I start playing the guitar more, and then sort of stop,
and I quit smoking, only to start up again (this happens several
time a year, most years).
However, this past year, due to some crappy blood test results, and
some snarky comments from my kindly old physician (actually she is my
kindly young physician - all old physicians my age have already retired)
I have been doing pretty well for the last six months; partly, I figure
this is due to eating healthier and partly due to exercising more
consistently. I have lost a bunch of weight (and am keeping it off at
this point), I have been exercising pretty regularly (stationary bicycle,
albeit with relatively low resistance), and I am playing the guitar more
regularly. However, at this point in time, I am still smoking, although
I will probably quit again after the new year.
Good luck with your New Year's (and New Decade's) Resolutions.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
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Ok so
MMX:
- Keep this job, do it well, aim for it to turn into permanent position after the 6 mth contract finishes up.
- Finish writing something. Anything. A short story, complete game idea/dialogue, a song, whatever. Just finish something!
- Try to learn how to not haemorrhage so much money all the got-dang time.
- Go to either Japan or the US with Han. Maybe both if possible.
I failed pretty much everything bar #1, but that one is pretty important, I guess?
New ones:
- FINISH WRITING SOMETHING
- run more often, goal of being able to run solidly for half to a full hour (ie: run home directly from work)
- swear less
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I really only have a couple of very general resolutions for the next year (get into a PhD program, eat/live/exercise healthier), but I like the idea of making a decade-long set of resolutions. Ten years from today, I will be 30 years old, and by then I hope to:
- Get a doctorate
- Be close to getting tenure (or at least be in a secure academic job)
- Be published academically, and maybe poetry-wise, too
- Have and/or adopt kids
- Either be in a secure LTR or be married (either is cool)
- Have been back to Europe
- Purchase a house
- Not be fat... between the ages of 20 and 30, my dad gained like 100 lbs. I do not want to do that. So I resolve to maintain healthy habits.
Happy end of the old year, guys!
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Continue to ignore resolutions - experience has shown that they generally turn out to be less important than what actually goes down in the year. However, in spite of that:
And towards that aim:
- Lose some more weight
- Get better at eating healthily (in particular, resist drift back towards junk food)
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my resolution is to go to the gym on a regular schedule and that's the only resolution i have. i figure if i start being physically active, my diet is honestly decent enough (read: soup-, salad-, vegetable- and sandwich-filled) that if i actually attempt to exercise away the calories i do eat in a week, my body will resolve itself down to a decent shape and weight. that's how it's always worked before. and i think part and parcel with that is my mental health improving, which will lead probably to better performance in class, etc. etc. etc. time to be a well rounded person, thanks 2011. thanks for nothing 2010
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This is the first year I've done resolutions so I figured I'd stick to a fairly simple list:
1. Lose 5 lbs of fat
2. Work out 3x per week
3. Maintain my 4.0 at college
4. Get a girlfriend
And one for the decade ahead:
5. Buy a boat(live near place I can live in aforementioned boat)
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last year my resolution went something like
Stop Drinking
I'm actually happy about how long I managed to not drink. I didn't have a booze between Jan and April, which I thought was pretty cool, I caved because well it was so much easier than not.
This year, I'm thinking my main new year's is going to be "eat meat only once a week". I don't want to be vegetarian, because I don't 100% believe in the vegetarian cause or whatever, but just because I think that's the healthier thing to do.
Also, I'm writing at 5 in the morning whilst drunk. I will come back to this message tomorrow.
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL OF YOU!
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Ten year goals:
Have a PHD
One year goals:
Move out
HD average
Sack up and get shit done
There is no good reason why any of this shouldn't come to pass. It's my responsibility to make this happen and it'll be my fault if I let myself down. Not recognising that has been why I've fucked up so much in the past.
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Over emphasing that has actually been a problem for me.
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oh my god i made resolutions for 2010 what have i done
anyway here they are
get into photography (maybe)
haha no
do better in school (my grades still blow)
work in progress, though my grades are getting better so HEY
form a NEW band, hopefully play a few shows and get a demo out
haha no though im gonna start trying to write solo ambient music whatever if i can get a delay pedal or a loop pedal. i dunno im working on this still :c
get at least a valid learners permit, hopefully my full license (i have never needed it and to this day i still do not need it)
so i totes got a permit but i still cant drive. my college frands are gonna teach me though i think so maybe i can do this!
become even more rad
i think i got more rad? do you guys think im rad?
continue getting better at cello
im better but i didnt make much progress this fall. gotta stop slackin aw man.
ask out the lady at the coffee shop
she totes has a boyfrand but we hang out now and are friends and whatever so ill settle for that.
so i guess 2010 went well. oh well, 2010 is fucking passe now. for 2011 i guess these are things that i want to do.
actually do this thing where i want to play solo ambient music and maybe form a band again! whoo!
continue this thing where i dont suck at school anymore
get a motherfucking job
then get a motherfucking apartment so i dont have to move home for the summer
be more adult and less shitty (more rad?)
i give up on girls (reverse logic)
actually finish the 5 or whatever books that i have started and then read more because reading is cool
get at least kind of in goddamn shape because goddamnit i am out of shape
so hopefully 2011 will be cool and turning 20 will be cool to. oh god that sounds old
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I will ask her out.
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a girl kissed me tonight. she was kissing everyone but it was nice to remember what kissing lips feels like. ok that's my sad post for 2011
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have drink free January.
Damn right.
Stress less about things.
dont want to die heart attack soon
Say what you really think about somethings and stop being so polite.
its good for you.
Maybe even dare to tip my toe to dating pool again.
Fat change fucker!
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have to keep things at 1366x768 so my graphics card can handle the HI-D TALES
re: johnny: I hereby resolve to mack on some ladies in 2011
that'll be a first
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Ok so I didn't make any resolutions last year so maybe I will try this year?
1) Get my driver's license. I only have 17 more hours to get on my learner's permit and if I don't get my licence by June I have to do another 100 hours so Fuck. That.
2) Lose some weight. Ideally I'd like to lose about 20kg but that probably isn't going to happen in a year unless I go vegan or something (not going to happen). Basically I'm just going to have to start eating healthier and actually exercising instead of, you know, not exercising. Might join a gym, who knows.
3) Get started on my sleeves.
1) Done!
2) I don't know if I've lost any weight but I certainly started going to the gym and working out regularly and have gotten much, much fitter and everyone says I've lost weight and am bulking up and whatever so that's cool? I'm putting this down as a half done because I certainly haven't lost 20kg.
3) Totally done! and getting the colour done in a month or so!!!
I fucking rule.
Ok so new New Year's Resolutions I guess.
1) Figure out what I want to do with my life and get started on doing it. It might be opening up that comic shop I've been talking about or going back to uni. Either way I'm sick of being completely at a loss of where my life is going at 24 years old.
2) Continue to lose weight and get fit or whatever.
3) Quit smoking.
4) Get my band's album recorded and released.
5) Learn Mandarin (again).
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Resolution number 2: stop breaking shit.
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My only resolution is to try harder.
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I usually don't do them, but what the hell, why not have a go. Just for the year though, no idea what I'll want by the end of a decade.
- by, say, September, actually goddamn finish the play I started in 2009, and apply to direct it in 2012, as well as doing some other fun writing
- go to sleep at earlier hours whenever I have to be at uni the next day, because uniformly staying up til 2am is a terrible idea for learning ability
- move out (this plan has nearly come to fruition already) and make enough money to live out of home without dying
- occasionally get some exercise
- maintain an HD average
- try really hard to relax and not feel obligated to keep my family happy all the time at the expense of my own happiness
- don't ignore most of my friends when drowning in work, and make time for some goddamn fun and laziness and silliness
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I dind't have any resolutions for 2010, but it still turned out to be exceptionally great.
So my only resolution for 2011 is to keep up what I've been doing.
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1. Read the books I have before buying new ones.
2. Get less lazy with studying etc.
3. Talk to somebody not from my family at least once a day.
4. Learn Japanese.
5. Brush my teeth more often.
1. Their number doubled. I guess. There's a second stack, at least.
2. haha
3. haha
4. kinda sorta slowly
5. YESSSSSS
For 2011:
1. Don't drop out of uni.
2. Talk to people.
3. Write something longer than half a word page.
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Also I think this year I may actually try to turn a short story I wrote a few years ago into a comic. I've been meaning to do it for years, maybe now it's time to actually happen.
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I didn't participate in last year's thread, I believe I was actually out of commission internet-wise at that point. That's okay though because I didn't make any resolutions. This year's:
- Treat people better
- Stop getting hung up on absolutely the wrong people
- Become a better musician (I work at this every single day)
- Actually write some full songs
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-Don't starve and die in a ditch
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Far too new to have posted in the last thread so no accounting to resolutions that I didn't really make.
But resolutions can be a good thing so here goes.
1) Train properly for Paris-Brest-Paris.
2) Make sure I eat properly on every singe long ride without exception.
3) Complete the Bryan Chapman Memorial ride, it will make PBP seem much easier.
4) Get down to a 25 minute 10 mile time trial (and here ends my cycling nonsense)
5) Expand my range of cooking, the current repetoire is getting a bit boring and all of this money spent on kitchen equipment needs to be for more than nothing.
6) Draw that bloody comic man or dear god I will make you suffer.
7) Change the world for the better, even if it's only a little but.
That ought to keep me busy for a moment.
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Lose More weight
Turns out eating right and drinking water has been helping. I best keep it up
Get Better Grades
My grades are in a sad state, and soon I will need to change schools to further my degree. Better study more, slack off less, and knock the remaining classes out of the park
Be Productive with my Endeavors
I have a lot of ideas that I am leaving half finished. I wanna work on these a lot more and try to finish a few of them, like making my comic, finishing some of my stories, and starting the band.
Save Money
I always seem to have a lack of money, I want to more to work towards moving out of my families house
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Right well, I never do resolutions but I'm going to make some:
I'm going to move in with my girlfriend.
I'm going to get married (that may have to wait until 2012 thugh).
I'm going to do more solo theatrework.
I'm going to finish my novel.
I'm going to buy a new state of the art PC/Mac/laptop.
I'm going to take up meditation.
I'm going to take up learning French again, then once that's going alright will take up German again.
I'm sure there are loads others but I've been up since yesterday celebrating and have taken a shit load of drugs so there, yeah? Piss off. Also, the world's probably going to end next year so this is pointless. I've booked MY place on the boat to Africa, have you?
Tania, was looking up dermatillomania and was amazed as I seem to do all that stuff but have never had a name put to it. Didn't even know it was a thing.
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it took me a very long time to understand it as a quite serious problem, and i think it takes a long time for other people with similar impulse control disorders too because everyone knows it's normal to absent mindedly pick at pimples or old scabs every so often, yet there's a massive difference between doing that and actually compulsively and constantly picking at your skin and doing permanent damage every single day, all the time, which is the boat i am in. apparently it's not all that uncommon among people with ocd. i don't know how i'm going to stop but i need to finally find a way to get this shit under control because being ashamed of your skin and your scars and the way you look all the time really sucks.
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Goals for 2k10.
1. Climb V9. Should be feasible if I keep goin like I'm goin.
Kinda. One or two of the 8's I sent were FA'd as 9's and downgraded because my friend is a sandbagging douchebag
2. Have sex with at least 3, but no more than 8 different people I haven't fucked before.
Seven. I think. Swag me the fuck out.
3. There was something important that I was excited about doing when I showered this morning, but I no longer remember what it was.
Still don't remember what it was.
4. Have this year be at least 45% less complex than the last 2-3 have been.
Oh man 2010 was so much better than 207, 2008, and 2009. If things continue in this pattern 2011 should be a really good year for me.
Resolutions:
1. Don't do drugs.
2. Get back to V7/V8 fitness, this is fucked how weak I am and I think I finally healed from the injury.
3. Motivate my friends to print this little chapbook of our pomes from Greece.
4.Go to less parties.
5. Quality over quantity fucking this year. Ideally a combination of the two. I would like to be having really really good sex maybe 2-3 times a week minimum. Preferably with one person, but if I gotta stick my dick in 150 different girls in 2011 to make that work it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
6. Regain the lost respect I used to have on this board.
7. Swag.
I was gonna just make a bunch of jokes here but today I will be serious on the internet.
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I'm not sure i like the New Kieffer
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Cmon man it's been like one post cut me some slack here.
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I'm not sure i like the New Kieffer
c'mon guy he used the phrase "stick my dick in 150 different girls" in a new year's resolutions thread, what more do you want
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OK yeah I guess I was being rash. Good boarding, Kieff. Keep it up.
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Look I am not saying that I am walking bleary-eyed and bushy-haired into 2011 intending to attempt to fuck that wide a variety of bitches this year, I am just saying that if the only way for me to reach my goal of overall penile saturation is to attain heretofor unheard of levels of promiscuity, then like, hopefully I don't get herpes.
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i didn't post in the resolution thread last year but i think the only one i made was "grow the fuck up"
i'm not sure that worked but i can confirm "at least a little bit"
upcoming year: be awesome, basically, and not just the kind of fake awesome where everyone thinks i'm awesome when i'm actually not at all. :/
(and do more drugs and drink more and smoke less and get straight A's and write more songs)
so yeah
still trying to grow the fuck up
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1. get out of here
2. stay the course, chief
whoopsy deferral
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I didn't make any resolutions last year... but I think I shall make some this year!
1. Get a sweet house with Jimmy in a few weeks time
2. Find an awesome, decent paying job and not settle for second best.
3. Travel to the US and hopefully Japan again for me and Liz's rollercoaster world tour.
4. Learn to do calculus again
5. Get back in mountain biking, lost at least 10kg and do the 100pushups and 200situps programs.
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I want to lose my belly this year. Just put it down somewhere and forget where I leave it.
My resolution this year is the same as my resolution last year.
But my main resolution is have more adventures.
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Better version of my resolutions:
- Be more positive & less judgemental.
- Finish writing a story. Any story. Pick one of your ideas and start writing.
- Run regularly with a goal of running home from work & completing the Bridge Run in September (9k)
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Okay so my other resolution for this year is to Build a fucking net gun (http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-Net-Gun/#step1)
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I guess that will make it easier to put your dick in many women.
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Dude rape isn't funny.
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I dunno, it got a chuckle out of me in Carl Hiassen's Native Tongue. Mind you, that scenario is rare enough to be the exception that proves the rule.
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I don't think I made any actual resolutions last time around, however at the start of 2010 I did make two somewhat rash declarations on Facebook which I guess is the new New Year's Resolution? They were that 2010 would be, in turn, the year of saving (money) and the year of getting serious about writing.
Let's see how that went.
1) Year of saving money:
- current bank balance: A$385
- predicted bank balance by next Wednesday: A$15.
Hmm. In my defence, there was one big mitigating circumstance: moving fucking house and deciding to live by myself. That shit's expensive! And it was forced on me, too. Not that I'm at all unhappy about how any of it turned out.
2) Year of getting serious about my writing:
- current state of writing: one 80,000 word manuscript near completion, and awaiting feedback from a literary agent; one other project which I've had on the go for a while which is hopefully nearing completion.
Okay so I haven't had anything published but 2010 wasn't necessarily about that. The main thing I achieved this year was to actually start applying myself: I started (and put aside for now) a manuscript mid-year, and I was writing around 3000 words a day on that. The first draft of manuscript I'm currently working on was written in two months at a rate of around 2000 words a day. I started treating writing like a proper job, with daily targets (which I always met!) and weekends off. I also got my name out there and met a bunch of people in the Melbourne literary scene and did some open-mic readings. So I'm going to call Year of Getting Serious About Writing an unqualified success.
This year's plan is to get a book - my third - published. Maybe even my fourth, as well, if everything goes according to plan.
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lofty almost seemingly unobtainable goal for 2011:
1)buy a condo/house/living space of my own. i got a good steady job, about a year away from finishing my graduate studies, i just need to save. which for me is always hard. now's the time to buy i keep hearing.
less impossible goals:
1) get a girlfriend, i feel like i'm finally over The Girl. i'm not using drugs as a means to forget anymore, i'm not using excuses to be alone, etc.
2) finish community service hours, get the fuck off probation
3) record some goddamn songs, at least an EPs worth, that wouldn't get me booed if i ever played them live
4) finish paying off my car
5) no soda except when paired with alcohol? (maybe?)
6) find a really awesome avatar to use
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harry reminded me just now – with his posting! – that i lied, and that i'm also resolving to whip my idiot self into financial shape this year. i've got a band that's going to cost more money than it makes for a long time and i need to start behaving like it.
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5) no soda except when paired with alcohol? (maybe?)
get more mileage out of this by only mixing using diet & "zero" stuff
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I made a New Year's resolution many years ago to stop making New Year's Resolutions.
Works so far.
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5) no soda except when paired with alcohol? (maybe?)
get more mileage out of this by only mixing using diet & "zero" stuff
eeeewwww
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5) no soda except when paired with alcohol? (maybe?)
That shot of alcohol has about as many calories as a can of coke.
edit: or more. Depends on the alcohol. US "servings" of alcohol go off of the amount of ethanol, an amount which is over 100 calories. If you pour yourself a shot of something strong enough that it is more than one serving, that's going to be more calories. Get something with sugar as well as ethanol? Even more.
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lofty almost seemingly unobtainable goal for 2011:
1)buy a condo/house/living space of my own. i got a good steady job, about a year away from finishing my graduate studies, i just need to save. which for me is always hard. now's the time to buy i keep hearing.
I don't know your situation but I would probably put off thinking about buying a house until well after grad school, at least a couple years. Too much flux right now, to say nothing of how all your money is going to tuition right now.
4) finish paying off my car
So wait, you're planning to pay for grad school and a car and a mortgage all at the same time? Seriously, wait for at least one of the first two to be taken care of before thinking about the third.
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That shot of alcohol has about as many calories as a can of coke.
edit: or more. Depends on the alcohol. US "servings" of alcohol go off of the amount of ethanol, an amount which is over 100 calories. If you pour yourself a shot of something strong enough that it is more than one serving, that's going to be more calories. Get something with sugar as well as ethanol? Even more.
true, but my line of thinking is that i don't drink as much as i would drink soda in everyday situations. i could try the diet i suppose
lofty almost seemingly unobtainable goal for 2011:
1)buy a condo/house/living space of my own. i got a good steady job, about a year away from finishing my graduate studies, i just need to save. which for me is always hard. now's the time to buy i keep hearing.
I don't know your situation but I would probably put off thinking about buying a house until well after grad school, at least a couple years. Too much flux right now, to say nothing of how all your money is going to tuition right now.
4) finish paying off my car
So wait, you're planning to pay for grad school and a car and a mortgage all at the same time? Seriously, wait for at least one of the first two to be taken care of before thinking about the third.
well, i owe only a little more than 3000 on the car. but you're right in some respects, i haven't even thought about how much i would have to start paying back per month for my student loans if i decide i'm finished. the upside is that i have a job in the field i'm studying in already, and i've been there a year and all signs point to it being steady for a while.
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I don't like rape jokes.
So I've been thinking about this a lot more in my post-drunkfuckedupohmygodIloveyouguys state yesterday. And I actually want to make a more serious list.
- Work on mental health issues. I have a lot of things in my past that I haven't dealt with very well, and I'm going to try and tackle them now that I have a good support system of friends to help.
- Become even more active with student/queer/anarcho/etc activism. My city has a lot of organized and personal activism stuff going on. I've gotten a lot more involved this year but I'd like to become even more active.
- GET WORK ON REAL MAN CALENDAR. This year I was involved in organizing and getting a grant for a 12 page full colour calendar focusing on the various forms of queer masculinities, ranging from cis-gendered straight men, to transmen, to genderqueer folks, etc. I was really excited about this but between scheduling and the fact we only got confirmation a month before the new year we had no time. But I want to get this out for next year as a fundraiser for TRANSaction.
- Make zines. Namely start more work on enthusiastic consent and gender zines. Start zine on my experience with an ED. Release last years unfinished things. Seriously this one.
- Sleep with less dinks. I need sex. Like, absolutely. I have probably slept with an odd 20ish people this year. To a point where when I go too long I make bad decisions on who to sleep with. This year I want to only sleep with people who a: deserve it b: will make me feel good c: don't make me feel panicked and disoriented.
- Have orgasms. This might seem trite and usual for folks but in relation to mental health issues this is a thing I am learning to do.
- find partner to practice this with. I really need a supportive sexual partner to try to get through some things so. Also would probably solve problem of sleeping with people I don't know 100%
-lose weight in a healthy way. Don't give in to old habits. Eat healthier.
- be a good student. Don't flunk out. Work hard. Become better. Make art.
- Be a better daughter and sister. On top of my step dad's cancer my mom is going through tests for a condition she has had her whole life that could be quite serious now. With my sister on the west coast, I really want to make sure my family stays close because I love them and need to stop being a selfish jerk.
I feel really good about this year, like, really really good. I have always had tragic and/or terrible new years eves and I had a wonderful one this year because I feel like more and more I am finding a place in the world and figuring out who I am, so I feel like I can really change some major bad habits. Awful New Years Evee Curse: Broken. Now just gotta get the rest of 'em.
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- Sleep with less dinks.
I'm not sure why you were sleeping with Double-Income No Kids couples that often in the first place. Like, how do you get the opportunity to do that very often?
WHAT SOCIAL EVENTS ARE YOU FREQUENTING
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- Have orgasms. This might seem trite and usual for folks but in relation to mental health issues this is a thing I am learning to do.
at the risk of turning this into a TMI thread or sounding deliberately immature and obscene, i really sucked at uh... having fun with myself for a really long time and never actually started doing it on a semi regular basis until i was like, 21. i feel pretty confident this is related to a lot of the other positive changes i have made in my life in recent years as well and in hindsight, having spent so much of my teenage and young adult life being completely afraid of this act now feels really silly and pathetic cos it's dumb to feel bad about orgasms, orgasms are fun and they make you feel really good about yourself! basically i really like this resolution.
2011: year of orgasms
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I don't mean to pry (yeah I do), but how does one come to fear orgasming?
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Hey Tania can you change the name of this thread to "resomolutions" seeing as that's how I've been reading it this whole time anyway
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I don't mean to pry (yeah I do), but how does one come to fear orgasming?
i'm not sure why exactly but i think the main causes were that i never had any sort of proper sex talk from my parents at all, in any form, when i was growing up and they were always really weird and immature and embarrassed about sex stuff, and in middle and high school i felt really painfully unattractive and awkward and unliked (like a lot of people i guess). thus for whatever reason i just... never masturbated or had any orgasms at all. the funny thing about sex stuff is that once you feel weird about something, it gets increasingly harder and harder to not feel super weird about it, i guess because it becomes a bit of a comfort zone of sorts, and subsequently it isn't until you finally push your boundaries and just do it that you realize how dumb being embarrassed about something that is really fun and feels good is. my example is a bit of an extreme one, but maybe it's similar to the hangups that other people have as well.
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Re: resomolutions for a brand new dovey
Yesssssss
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I don't mean to pry (yeah I do), but how does one come to fear orgasming?
It is kind of a big emotional deal long story time that I am not prepared to type up this soon after so little sleep.
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harry reminded me just now – with his posting! – that i lied, and that i'm also resolving to whip my idiot self into financial shape this year. i've got a band that's going to cost more money than it makes for a long time and i need to start behaving like it.
It is pretty easy to do this when you negotiate your way into free drinks, I've found.
Now I spend zero money on drinks, where it used to be like $15 for three beers.
I AM SO CLEVER I AM SAVING SO MUCH
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me and my friend befriended and got drunk with the bartender at the university pub during the first week before classes (we bought him like, six shots) and now every time he sees us come in, he happily remembers us and give us huge discounts on our drinks. short term expense for long term savings!
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get better at drawing
get a job
get a drivers license
Yes!
Not really!
No!
Resolutions for '11
jorb
drivers license
finish graphic novel thingy
graduate
punch a bear in the face
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6) find a really awesome avatar to use
Man I have like a bazillion of these since I get bored so easily.
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6) find a really awesome avatar to use
I could probably hook you up with one. I have over 32 pages on my imageshack, there's bound to be an image you will find awesome and personifies you as a person.
FUCK YOU ZOMBIE, I JUST FOUND LITTLE RED AKU AND WAS ABOUT TO USE IT
Also I guess be nicer to my sister, even though she stole from me, makes poor decisions, and generally ignores her daughter.
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But I approve of you using Wayne's cats instead :-)
Have some more (http://cassland.org/images/Wayne'sCats/).
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FUCK YOU ZOMBIE, I JUST FOUND LITTLE RED AKU AND WAS ABOUT TO USE IT
haw haw haw
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- GET WORK ON REAL MAN CALENDAR. This year I was involved in organizing and getting a grant for a 12 page full colour calendar focusing on the various forms of queer masculinities, ranging from cis-gendered straight men, to transmen, to genderqueer folks, etc. I was really excited about this but between scheduling and the fact we only got confirmation a month before the new year we had no time. But I want to get this out for next year as a fundraiser for TRANSaction.
I would so buy this. Please shamelessly advertise it when it's done.
Also, I too do not like rape jokes. I should not have looked into the horribly offensive pickup line thread.
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everyone's got their own preferences but if it helps to redeem some of the members of this board in your eyes, making jokes about offensive subjects doesn't necessarily make that person an advocate of those terrible things - rather it's used by a lot of people (including me, pretty much near constantly and often with mixed reactions) as a method of disarming and rendering harmless the things that often upset or scare people the most. the world is a pretty horrific place in every single conceivable way like basically all of the time but frankly, it's a lot more fun to laugh once in a while than to just be angry and miserable forever.
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But being angry and miserable makes me feel morally superior!
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FUCK YOU ZOMBIE, I JUST FOUND LITTLE RED AKU AND WAS ABOUT TO USE IT
haw haw haw
Oh god I heard it in his voice
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Making jokes about certain subjects doesn't disarm or render them harmless, it just trivializes and renders someone's struggle as a joke. I know on the internet that is sort of silly to say but for example as a person who has been sexually assaulted when I see people make jokes about rape, I don't laugh. I currently can hold back getting really angry about it, but a few months ago, shortly after being raped, I couldn't hold myself in, and every time someone made a joke about getting a girl drunk or 'surprise sex', I had to relive that moment.
I think about being raped, or a people I know who have recently been through sexual abuse because honestly I can't hear the word rape without thinking about it, and honestly, that is a fact of life that I have to deal with, especially given that I talk about consent and rape all the time. But when someone makes a joke about it, no they're not saying that rape is okay, but they're supporting rape culture, and potentially saying something that's really triggering for someone.
When you make a joke about rape you have no idea if a person has been through a sexual assault, who is around, whether they've come to terms with it, how by making a joke you're potentially further making them attempt to trivialize their emotions because it's easier. It can be extremely triggering to think about those sorts of topics if you've recently experienced them, but since it's a 'joke' you're not allowed to be hurt. So you swallow it. Making a joke out of rape takes away the seriousness and when we live in a society where rape is only serious if it's violent, male on female, she wasn't drunk, she wasn't wearing any 'slutty' clothing, and it was a stranger, I don't think that's okay. I don't think it's fair of anyone to attempt to disarm a topic, because it shouldn't be disarmed. It shouldn't be rendered harmless, because it's not.
It should be scary, it should be serious. It is not anyone's place to devalue the fear and pain that people go through, just for the sake of a cheap laugh. Find something else to make a joke about.
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on the contrary, comedians often use black comedy and make light of serious subjects as a way of exploring those taboo subject areas and provoking serious thought and discussion in their audience, which is usually a step up from those topics not being discussed or brought up in the mainstream at all in the first place. as an example, i read in the news here a couple of weeks ago about a show here in the city being organized that would feature women who formerly worked in the sex trade performing stand-up comedy that would reflect their experiences in the industry as a way of both opening up about their (often traumatic) experiences in a friendly, lighthearted environment and also drawing attention to the more serious issues surrounding the sex trade which lie at the root of the whole thing. not everyone who tries to a sense of humour is a bad person, and you miss a lot of extremely important gray area by assuming that if you try to find humour in anything you obviously must be hurting someone else. it's a really powerful tool in a lot of ways, and like everything it just depends how you use it. personally, i know for a fact that i try to have a sense of humour about some bad things on a frequent basis mainly because i plan on working in an immensely upsetting environment in the future and having a sense of humour makes me feel more comfortable and prepared whenever i need to discuss those things in a more serious context, and in all honesty i wouldn't even waste a single minute of my time trying to defend myself to a person who tried to use my sense of humour to accuse me of not taking those things seriously because not only would they be wrong, they couldn't possibly be more wrong about anything.
2 cents
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I think there's a clear difference, though, between joking about rape in the context of a comedy show, in which ideas and themes can be played out over time, explored in depth, and developed in full, and just tossing off a one-liner with "rape!" as a shock-punchline.
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There's also a difference because within that comedy show, the performers are speaking about and working through their own experiences, and are more likely to have given at least a cursory degree of thought to the way the humour will sound to other people who've had those experiences. In contrast, a lot of the time someone will just toss off a one-liner with rape as a punchline for the sole reason that they think it makes them sound edgy.
There are ways to do these jokes well, or to find humour in dark situations - amongst friends who know each other's comfort levels, or the way Harry described, within a broader frame that makes it clear where your empathy lies, where you can be making jokes with an obnvious tone of, "Sucks that the world is like this", or when working through your own stuff (see the lyrics for Amanda Palmer's Oasis, for example, where the wryness of the humour is built on a young girl's sense of priorities and the way she chooses not to deal with what she's been through, instead focusing on youthful friendships and her excitement about a signed photo from a band she likes). It's just that that isn't usually how they're done, especially not on the internet.
Drill King, based on your writings I am guessing this (http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/a-woman-walks-into-a-rape-uh-bar/) is a thing you have come across before, but I'll just leave it here anyway.
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cis-gendered
is this a chemistry joke
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I was wondering the exact same thing, freaking bio chem.
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Nah it is this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender). The origin has links to the chemistry concept though.
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Well you learn something new everyday! I'm surprised I haven't heard that term before.
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can someone explain it in layman terms? for some reason i'm reading the wiki over and over but not able to understand what it means exactly
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Ok. I was born female. I am perfectly comfortable with being a female and it is my gender. I am cisgender.
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Basically ^. When your body's identified sex upon birth matches your mind's gender and there is no contradiction. The opposite of transgendered. The term was basically invented because people realised that there was no proper word to describe being non-trans, and it would be kind of shit if the opposite of trans were "normal" or something like that.
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That's pretty freaking clever and I can't believe I hadn't thought of it before.
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jeez that is what i thought but for some reason i kept thinking it had to be more complicated than that for it to have a label.
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It's the 24th of December and as best as I can tell I'm going to be a lazy shit from now until new year, so time for a little festive thread minery.
Far too new to have posted in the last thread so no accounting to resolutions that I didn't really make.
But resolutions can be a good thing so here goes.
1) Train properly for Paris-Brest-Paris.
2) Make sure I eat properly on every singe long ride without exception.
3) Complete the Bryan Chapman Memorial ride, it will make PBP seem much easier.
4) Get down to a 25 minute 10 mile time trial (and here ends my cycling nonsense)
5) Expand my range of cooking, the current repetoire is getting a bit boring and all of this money spent on kitchen equipment needs to be for more than nothing.
6) Draw that bloody comic man or dear god I will make you suffer.
7) Change the world for the better, even if it's only a little but.
That ought to keep me busy for a moment.
I count that as
Yes
Yes
Yes
No (in fact I didn't even do any time trials at all)
Yes
No (I started but too much freaking out over cycling, moving and money has caused me to be a failure there)
No (Maybe I did, I've campaigned, donated, supported, and helped on stuff through the year, but didn't do anything in the way I imagined for this resolution)
4 out of 7 is pretty shoddy really given that all were achievable. Still, at least I can do better next year.
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I've been thinking about this a bit too - and my main one is your #5 from last year for all the same reasons. But first let's look at last year's!
-be the best goddamn au pair in the whole world - erm hmm well I wasn't bad but I left two months early because I was still ill
-learn French/Norwegian/Both - French yes. Norwegian not so much. Poisonous parrot, anyone?
-go to at least two folk festivals - Nope. Not even close. None at all.
-go back to university - Yes! I did this! Wholeheartedly and completely with 100% success so far.
-finish knitting the jumper I started in like 2007 - hahaha I have maybe done three more rows.
So for 2012:
-finish second year
-cook at least one new recipe a fortnight for at least a term (a term is eight weeks - this isn't too much of an ask)
-sort out my vocal chord issues so I can sing louder and better
-either be properly single, or date properly (ie stop having sex and getting emotionally tangled with people who don't want to commit)
-volunteer and donate to charity more
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I don't remember my resolutions but I'm pretty sure they were the same as usual and instead of achieving them I moved 3,000 miles and made a bunch of awesome new friends instead, so I'll count that as a victory. Not the victory I intended and all, but fuck it, this is better.
This year I plan on:
Losing my tummy (I've lost somewhere around 100 pounds already)
Taking classes (German, art, and vocal lessons)
Visiting Seattle more often (because fuck, I have so many friends there that I never see)
Oh, and getting a regular job (I really don't have the self-discipline to be a camgirl, I usually fuck off and spend the night playing Warcraft or gameboy emulators instead and tend to make only a little more than rent, and it's not like I need an awesome job. I could live pretty damn well on about $800-1000/month)
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For 2011:
1. Don't drop out of uni.
2. Talk to people.
3. Write something longer than half a word page.
1. fail & restart
2. kinda sorta works
3. occasionally, having a blog helps
I guess general goals at the moment work as resolutions?
1. Don't drop out of uni again.
2. Get RL friends.
3. Don't forget my blog after three months.
4. Seriously, don't drop out of uni again.
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My main resolution is have more adventures.
Achieved.
My 2012 resolutions:
Smoke more
Drink more
Become a famous rapper
Get into space
Invent perpetual motion
Maybe do something about university? That seems like an important thing I haven't really been paying much attention to.
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More awesome, less not awesome.