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Actually, the reverse is true. For ADHD people, risky behaviour is a form of self medication. It's why so many ADHD people wind up in the sport.

Sometimes, we give the customers too much choice.....

You're welcome of course. We do aim to please However, I can't help but wonder how many cows died to make that fucking chair it's on. I'd be frightened to sit in that thing in case it ate me.

Dunno about scary, but the freakiest film ever is Eraserhead. You can't watch that film without becoming unsettled. The whole thing is just a psychotic nightmare. One of my favorite movies though. I can watch it again and again.

I was professional musician for nearly 17 years. I did huge amounts damage to my hearing that left me with tininitus. I have a low grade hiss all the time. A few years back, I had a stroke injury in my right ear, caused by jumping that left me profoundly deaf in that side with howling tinnitus. There really wasn't anything I could do about it, so I learned to cover it up with another background noise of around the same level. I found that music was good for this, as it also allows you to concentrate on that, rather than the noise. After a while, you learn to tune it out completely, and actually have to concentrate to be able to hear it. With steroid therapy, I was lucky enough to regain my hearing in my right ear after about two to three months, and the tinnitus has gone back down to the the usual hiss. I still don't have great high end hearing, and I know that it will get worse as time goes on, but there you go.

Sorry, should have attributed it, but I didn't want to link out to it. I thought it was a fairly well known rant, as I've seen it around a few places in different forms. I guess people add to it as they go along. It just says a lot of stuff I agree with. I have no idea where it originates from.

I believe I'll have another martini.

This is true, and a careful read of my little rant would reveal that it is spoken in the first person to an imaginary parent of an awful child, not the child itself. I believe in placing the blame where it's due. Surpised that nobody picked up on that yet. As for those who think I'm projecting an awful personal childhood onto others, I had a great childhood, with loving involved parents. However, I grew up in the late 50's and early 60's in the UK, which had not at that time, developed the awful cult of the child that has come about in the last half of the 20th century. There were rules and limits, that were actually stuck to. I was never allowed to act up in public, no meant no etc etc. Of course, I thought these all great injustices at the time, but at least when I'm making an arse of myself in public now, it's a choice, not a habit that I was allowed to develop as a child. We're not diong these kids any favors by treating them as little emporers. it's going to be a big shock for them when they wind up working for someone like me

Oh I've told them they're obnoxious in every forum I can get into, public and private. They know they're obnoxious brats too, because they're teenagers. Once I taught them to keep out of my stuff, that was enough for me. They'll do OK, they're bright kids. They'll work it out eventually, just like we all do in the end. They also have a father that's still involved, so I'm not about to get in there and try to usurp that role. I'd be completely crap at it anyway. I get to do things that their dad wouldn't do for them, like take the 13 year old girl to see Motorhead, and let them ride on the Harley. I'm also teaching them how to make the perfect martini.

Funnily Enough, Motorhead, Who knew ?

Yes she does. Two teenagers. A boy and a girl. I'll repeat that, Two fucking teenagers. Two thieving, obnoxious, confused bladders of raging hormones. I am also well aware that I'm quite possibly the worst role model in the entire world for behaviour, unless it is to serve as a bad example. Actually, I'm very nice in real life. Just like a big fluffy muffin basket filled with kiitens. Just ask anyone.

Er yes, it was hell. How did you guess that ? Is it that obvious ? And I'm an only child too, before anyone asks.

I'm not sleeping there, I'm drunk.

I don't give a flying arse about your children. I don't care who they are, where they are, how old they are, or what they are doing. Want me to see pictures of your kids or grandkids? Sure, but hold on while I turn on the paper shredder. What's that? You're selling cookies/candy/raffles/ornaments/prizes/trinkets so little Johnny and Sarah Jane can waste an afternoon at Disneyland? Sure I'll take some candy just so long as I can smash it in your face and retrieve it from your crusty rectum. This is an office where I work -- not a goddamn bazaar to peddle the wares of your snotnosed offspring. I don't care how smart you think your kids are. No, your children aren't geniuses. You'll be lucky if your brats move out of your hovel at age 30, after they've climbed the ladder to success making change at a gas station. You love your children? Good, I suppose you're obliged to, tell it to someone who gives a shit. And while I'm at it, keep your brats out of movie theaters and restaurants. Seriously, no one wants the living incarnation of your seed disturbing our shows and meals, spreading viruses and bacteria with every goddamn thing they touch. You need a night out? Fine, hire someone else's brat to watch yours, you cheap bastard. No, I don't want to pay more in taxes to send your pathetic pieces of dopeshit to school. Oh, you want "more resources"? Better "facilities"? Better student-teacher "ratios"? Well la-de-fucking-da, why don't you pay for it yourself ? If you're not catching my drift, let me make it clear, I don't want to throw my money away educating your third-rate douchenozzle of a kid so he or she can wash my car on the weekend. You gave birth to it, you pay for it. And thinking of that, your kid doesn't look bright enough to wash my car. I have a very expensive car that he might ruin. I got it because I don't have kids. Seriously though, he looks like he has an odd number of chromosomes. Was he really the fastest sperm ? Your children are our future? Fuck the future, fuck your kids, and fuck you. Ahhh, now I feel better. How's everybody else's day going ?

There were a few of them around at Z Hills during my time there as the manager. They were the forerunner of the Nova, and from all accounts, opened hard and didn't have a whole lot of landing flare. They were never very popular and were replaced in Glide Path's product line with the Nova. Any canopy that gets replaced by a Nova is probably not worth seeking out and jumpipng IMHO.

I had Earthlink for a year or so. They cost $21.95 a month. They were terrible. Slow connections that dropped all the time, horrendous spam, and loousy support. I got Yahoo/SBC DSl for $19.95 a month. Lightrning fast, on all the time, and the support has been very good when I needed it.

As long as you don't try to paint any of us

I did, and it should be fairly obvious to anyone with a basic reading comprehension that I don't. That clear enough now ? Righty ho, back to drinking.....

I've said it bfore, and I'll say it again. Not that it will make one iota of difference. The US military in Iraq is doing nothing for me, other than acting as a recruiting tool for terrorists and increasing my tax burden. They're not fighting for my interests out there in any way, shape or form.

I'd love to, but I have no idea of how to log on to the chat applet. Every time I try I get this.....

No, but you must remember that iyou must keep your head in it during the process for it to work.

I suspect this is a troll. Having said that, I've done the body examination at ths scene of a few fatalites, all but one of them high speed impacts, from totals to streamers. I've been present when a good friend coughed up his life blood from an aortic separation after a canopy collapse. It's messy, unpleasant, and there's no rush involved whatsoever. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It's a draining experience both professionally and emotionally.

You can get yourself abused and shot at here without having to join up. Get another job. Walk. Leave. Quit. Live in a van at the DZ if you have to. Don't go back to anything you already left just because you hate what you're doing now. If you move on, opportunity will find you. If you move backwards, it will move on while you stagnate. Life is lived forwards, not backwards.

I've been in IT for 20 years now. I have used PC's all that time. This year I personally went to a new G5 iMac as a cautious experimant. I wasn't sure if I'd like it. Two weeks later I gava away the PC. I'll never go back if I can help it. The iMac is just much better at everything the PC tried to do. It's more intuitive than the PC, and has an OS that gets out of the way when you need it to, rather than in it like Windows.

Please point me to the part of the Bill of Rights that you think is being abused here.