Here’s a question, how come on the internet the vast majority of idiots and spammers are 13 and under (supposedly), while in real life the majority of idiots and dickheads are 13 and over.
Did I just miss the train to growing up or something? Because children are so much more fun to be around.
Maybe people just forget how to have fun and be nice. 
Adulthood is boring. Except the alcohol and sex. Can’t deny those aren’t fun. :rolleyes:
wait… who is the grownup that has agreed to answer these questions? LOL!
Got any FACTS to back your second supposition? And of course, you know you,re ‘gonna be lookin at the long trail’ as we all are.
I’m probably wrong, but the word grown (grownup), I thought meant that something was finished growing…and as humans I don,t think we ever stop growing, (knowledge etc…) (the bod too) And, since I’m still growing, (not the bod ) I think I might be a grownup…LOL! BTW Your red walking avatar…really good…
Riiiiiggggghhht…
stupid fucking thread, I need a drink
I’m replying to basically every post of consequence in this thread, mainly because I don’t often come here these days (but this thread caught my eye) so apologies for the essay!..
It’s pretty scary in a way, and then you just man up and get on with life. I realised a while back that most of human endeavour is pretty arbitrary - that’s not to say that a given endeavour isn’t uplifting, morally strengthening or whatever; it may be, but only to you, and that’s the scary bit - you get to choose what’s worthy of your attention, from exciting experiments in the bedroom to mortgage repayments.
The simple fact of the matter is that being an “Adult” is an arbitrary viewpoint. Many people grow older, almost no-one grows up. That’s a good thing in certain circumstances (having kids for instance) and a bad thing in other circumstances (being responsible for an entire country, with launch codes for the nukes…:FFFUUU 
I think the truly wise people stop bragging about how much they know and start admitting just how much they don’t (and probably never will) know.
Of course, if you have half a brain, you won’t be dumb or naive about the things that you were dumb and naive about when you were a kid. However, there’s a whole raft of exciting new things to become dumb and naive about as you grow older.
You’re still the same kind of dumb & naive when you get older, it’s just about stuff that has more repercussions if you fuck it up by being dumb & naive about it… ain’t irony grand?!
[1] very, very badly - I tried waaaay too hard and always ended up appearing 80% desperate, 20% stalker. There’s a fine line to be walked where you’re aware of the attention you’re getting and yet oblivious to it (i.e. you’re just being your usual self, but a bit more aware that you’re having an effect on someone else). I never managed to walk it myself and have my wife’s forbearance to thank for the fact that we hooked up at all!
Basically, be yourself and don’t try to be the tosser who seems to bag all the fit women (it’s just because he doesn’t worry about asking - what’s the worst that can happen to you if a woman turns you down? Will your family be murdered? Will you be imprisoned & buttraped? Of course not; she’ll say “no” and you’ll feel like a bit of a nob, but that’s about it really).
[2] There’s 2 answers; 1) when everyone else brags about it being acceptable (not the right answer) and 2) when you feel ready (the right answer).
[3] I’m on this site about once every 3 months now and I play between 0 & 6 hours of games a week, depending on how much I feel like staying up till 0200hrs.
[4] I only had to worry about myself back then, sure there was MAD and all that, but my parents survived the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the “doomsday clock” was set at 1159hrs (and 1200hrs was “oh crap, we’re all burning in a nuclear inferno”)… besides, if it were all that bad, well, you wouldn’t be here to ask the question would you? 
Now I have to worry about my kids, my kids’ educations, my wife, my house, my pets, my job, my clients, my car, my garden, my government, my local council, my taxes, my debts (in no particular order)… so yeah, life was simpler when I was a kid.
[5] When I was 7 I played Elite and Repton on a BBC B Microcomputer with 32K of RAM and a tape drive… and it ROCKED!
[6] When I was 16 and at college - worked through a 3 litre bottle of Strongbow (cider) in 3 hours and somehow managed to convince my parents that I was as sober as a judge when I got back home (and no hangover the following day)…
these days I’m anyone’s after 3 pints (and suffering from serious hangovers after 4) ah, I miss those halcyon days when my liver worked at lightspeed and hangovers were things of myth & legend…:meh:
Firstly, you’re a looooooong way from being a grown-up if you’re just starting your second year at uni! (I’m light years from the gullible twat that I was when I was starting my 2nd year, and I’m still unsure if I’m a grown-up!!). Secondly, to answer your question…
Pay attention to the details: little things like turning up a little early for appointments/work, wearing the appropriate outfit for the environment, having done some research into the company you’re applying to, being able to spell and write your name without sticking your tongue out, are all noted by a diligent boss - it shows you have some work ethic and some gumption. If they’re not noted, then you probably don’t want to be working there.
Expect to hear the word “no” a LOT; sadly, rejection is good for the soul. If you’re a savvy person, you’ll understand that there’s a reason for the rejection. If you’re really savvy, you’ll take time to figure out what the reason might have been and (if possible) correct it. There are truckloads of other graduates pouring out of universities along with you… making yourself stick out from the crowd is going to be a bitch of a job, deal with it (sorry to be blunt, but it’s true).
I should probably also point out that the real world is a vastly different beast from the hallowed halls of education. “Best Practices” as applied in university are almost certainly applied differently (if at all) in the real world. Don’t be a complete tool and cry to the rooftops that you were told to do it differently when at university; curiously enough, many professors can’t conceive that there may be a different (or even [gasp] better) way of doing things… 
To answer your questions in turn:
[1] The average life expectancy of a typical “first world” citizen (i.e. the people on the internet) is around 70-75. Therefore, about 80-85% of the population in real life are over 13. Statistically speaking, there are going to be a greater number of dickheads and idiots who are over 13 than under. Deal with it.
[2] Yeah children are a hoot to be around. I particularly enjoy their company when:
[3] People haven’t forgotten how to have fun and be nice, it’s just that they’ve got more pressing things to do that, if they don’t get them done, mean that someone, somewhere, will give them hell for it.
[4] Adulthood isn’t boring; it’s stressful, tiring, emotionally charged, spiritually wracking, soul-destroying, beautiful, happy, exhilarating, breath-taking, sad, trying, [continue inserting adjectives here], but never merely boring.
Alcohol loses its appeal when it starts giving you greater & greater hangovers for less & less consumed quantity. :meh:
The shine goes off sex a bit when you see your kids popping out of your wife’s bits, accompanied by a couple of pints of blood & gunk :sick: (it can still be fun, but that image is always at the back of your mind… that and the fear that the condom might burst and you’ll have another bloody mouth to feed):fffuuu:
I’m absolutely genuinely not jaded about being an adult though; I’m having the most interesting time of my life and I’ve made peace with myself - I’m happy with who I am and how I am, something that almost none of the teenagers I’m aware of are able to claim!
Yeah, it’s a wall of text. You were warned!
tl;dr
Well, that was inevitable.
at least there are paragraphs, full sentences and bullet points.
Dipshit nerd, but I guess the photo speaks for itself… :fffuuu:
Lol, I didn’t know yoyo was still active on the forums d:
Figured he was just doing one troll thread, but guess not
Edit: This thread gives kids the opportunity to pretend they’re big boys…
like i said before, it doesn’t matter what age you are, you never stop being a kid. demanding that you’re an adult and throwing a temper tantrum over the fact that you’re more mature hardly proves anything… and yet that’s what most adults do when faced with a) someone much younger than them or b) someone who doesn’t believe in the fact that they’re mature.
being an adult is stupid. you’ll probably never feel as though you’re responsible enough for the shit that’s dumped on you. how does sekzes happen? well, there’s a lady, and you are a man with a penis, and both of you have similar interests. at some point purposefully and casually steer the conversation in the direction of sex. if they react in a good way, continue until you’re puttin’ your penis in their vagina. if they don’t then do something else. If neither of those work play mind games (for instance, hot and cold. that’s a winner) until you can. it’s easy and you can do it with pretty much any chick.
if you wanna avoid being a crazy douchebag then you should probably wait to put it in a chick until sex has come about in a normal fashion. never trying is the key, though. NEVER under any circumstances TRY to get into bed with a woman. trying proves that you give too much of a shit. even an average looking woman can have sex with pretty much any man she wants. you have to be oblivious to this.
now that i’ve answered it, i hope nobody asks this question on this thread again.
the first time i got REALLY drunk? i was about 16 and i was at a friend’s “house”. i put that in quotations because she really just lived in this hut behind her parent’s house. her parents were out for the weekend so pretty much everyone we knew got together and we decided to have this shindig. beers and vodka/red bulls for EVERYBODY! i remember the point at which i realized i was truly hammered: i had 3 vodka/red bulls and 15 beers. this is oklahoma 3.0 beer, mind you. i’m bein’ drunk and woozy on the ground in the tiny hut and my friend jacky comes up to me. she asks if i want something to eat.
“sure,” i mumble
“what do you want?” she asks
“uhhhhhhhhh cheetos.”
so she goes inside to get me some motherfucking cheetos. damn right, bitch.
whilst she’s in the main house, piling cheetos onto a paper plate, my friend krystal, the one who initiated this whole shindig approaches her and drunkly suggests that she adds peanuts “he fuckin’ LOVES peanuts!” she proclaims. jacky admits that this is a foolproof plan.
finally, once the proper resources have been gathered, she returns to me, still giggling and laying on the ground, and offers the sacrifice of fatty junk foods. i sit up. i look down at the plate. i continue looking for probably about fifteen seconds. and then i roar
“I FUCKING HATE PEANUTS!” and slap the plate out of her hand.
the next thing i know my head is rocking to the side, my cheek is burning, and she storms out of the hut crying. i find out some time later that she had slapped me. this is still my favorite story to tell people to this day.
the next day, after everyone’s gone, i take my first hit of pot! that’s my SECOND favorite story to tell people! weeeee!
Get a family to feed, a mortgage, bills out the butt and a kid or two with some issues. You would be surprized how “adult” you feel. :lol:
amen to that Catz… and yet, still I find myself feeling remarkably like the nerdy, greenhorn 20 year old I was about 15 years ago… some things never change I guess!
Yeah, sorry again about that…
This thread…
Well, i could ask a question since its that kind of thread.
I’m currently starting to smoke marijuana and I’m 16. My point being is that I’m gonna smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol. Should i keep doing that?
The truth is, all adults are actually still kids inside.
You can never change the “core” of your personality
either you are mature or not.
Life is awesome until you finish college - fact.
Life after that can be awesome, but for most people it’s not.
I am still in college, so we’ll see.
Well I have a “friend” who did the same- was in my high school class. When he was 17 he started taking LSD. By the time he was 18 he was on heroin.
Now, he is an exchange student- he went to the US. I wonder what happens to him he has rich parents so he will be ok.
So stop it if you don’t have rich parents, and if you are ok with the damage it does to your body
stop spreading bullshit
weed is not a gateway drug
weed is better than alcohol in all respects, since it does a lot less damage do your body, is a lot less addictive, and generally has a more enjoyable effect
What the hell? This thread is STILL going?!
What have I done…
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