This is inspired by Boudica's list of what have you done. Tova mentioned that she had a lot of other cool things that weren't on the list that were pretty cool. I know there are a lot of interesting people here on JU, so come on! What have YOU done? Share!
It doesn't have to be ten. It could be more or less.
1. got married in Hawaii
2. got my blackbelt in jujitsu (included practical test and essay written in Japanese)
3. been in some photo exhibitions
4. saw sunrise at Matsushima
5. bought a condo and later sold it and bought a house I adore with my husband and we actually have furniture and matching curtains now
6. swam with sea turtle in Hawaii (and no, I did not touch it. I just swam along with it but not too close)
7. week long river trip from start of the North Saskatchewan River to Rocky Mountain House
8. saw aurora borealis over Rocky Mountains during the 1988 olympics and they looked like a Van Gough painting (very cool because super unusual)
9. survived a car accident that took a big bite (like a bite out of a cookie) out of my passenger side without an injury to myself (and other driver was ok, too)
10. picked the three horses and won a trifecta (split the cost of the bet with my cousin and my 6 dollars became $250)
Okay. I'm looking forward to what you folks have done!
I meant Germany and Italy--type faster than I think sometimes.
And by the way--$17 Billion is a lot less than what 3,000,000 people on the bread line would cost this country.
How on Earth is that a cool thing? By your own admission here, you lied. And why? To be funny? I really don't see the humor in that. I suppose you could try to explain the humor of it. I still wouldn't get it. I've met people who do that and I've always thought that their lies tarnished anything real that they actually did.
I also have some issues with other stuff you posted here. In order to keep things on the positive note that I was hoping for, I'm not going to go into them. But I will say this (and it applies to the whole thread):
Just to be clear-- my point of this thread is really to celebrate the things that people have accomplished. They don't have to be equivalent of Olympics or winning a Nobel prize, but things that are important to them. However, I would hope that people don't make deceiving others into some equivalent of cool or worthy. If you don't have anything positive, you are better off starting another thread.
I can't believe I actually had to post this.
How on Earth is that a cool thing? By your own admission here, you lied. And why? To be funny? I really don't see the humor in that.
I think he sees it as cool because he managed to fool people.
But he misunderstood your point. You were looking for positive things, things that one will mention proudly as defining characteristics.
Obviously, I'm on the wrong board--I actually thought people had a sense of humor here--guess I was wrong. I guess I have to explain things because you do not understand sarcasm. You know how when you go to a class reunion? People always feel that they have to embelish what they have done since graduating? I did it as a little bit of sarcash--I picked the most otrageous thing I could think of (being a fighter pilot, being shot down and having a movie made about it starring Ben Afflec as me--and if you saw me, you would understand the sarcasm!) and cracking up when people actually believed it.
Tell you guys what--hide your heads in the sand, don't laugh, don't understand sarcasm, be good Republicans and have a nice life.
p.s. I am not SeanC by the way.
I'm just stereotyping about strippers like you are about car salespeople. I could stereotype and say that there are 4 stripper lies that almost all of them say...
1) "I've only been doing this for 2 days."
2) "I'm putting myself through college."
3) "You are my first lapdance."
4) "I really like you--oh--you're out of money? NEXT!"
Obviously, I'm on the wrong board--I actually thought people had a sense of humor here--guess I was wrong.
Hm... perhaps you are not as funny as you think?
LW, no worries about the post-rebuttal. Actually, I'm glad you wrote it.
I always see sarcasm as a fine edged scalpel that most people wield like a club. Some people end up flailing it about like a huge rubber oar. It usually just sounds like pettiness or meanness when spoken and usually worse than that when written.
I know in my case, I'm not as funny as I think so I often try to refrain from saying a lot of stuff I think is funny.
Anyway, onto positive stuff.
I forgot about one really cool thing and I can't believe I forgot it.
I bought a thoroughbred off the racetrack who had a broken sesamoid and I nursed him back to health. I never got to ride him. I ended up going back to uni before his complete recovery. I had visited him at his new home and he was pretty happy. It was one of the hardest, most frustrating things I ever did but there was eventually some good stuff. I was pretty sad when I gave him away.
I don't know how to do the cool QUOTE thing so I'm responding to this quote...
Just to be clear-- my point of this thread is really to celebrate the things that people have accomplished.
Maybe you should have called the thread "10 things you have accomplished."
I apologize about messing up your thread--I had no intention of doing that.
Whip drew "first blood" by joking about GM asking for a bailout. How the hell can you joke about something that effects so many lives? Don't you understand how close this country is to being a second class nation again?
I wrote stuff that is/was cool to me--quite frankly, is it "cool" to talk someone out of committing suicide or is it "cool" to save a life? Or is it "human?" I had a husband and wife buying a car one time and they had a son who wanted a life-saver (I had a jar of them on my desk.) "Can I have one?" he asked. "Sure," said I. The kid started choking on the life-saver a few seconds later. They parents--now, they were cool. The man (a cop) cooly turned to his wife (a nurse) and said, "Do you want to get this one?" She answered, "Naw--go ahead." He cooly did the heimlich maneuver and popped the candy out of his son's throat. I have never seen two people (who obiously had the training and who had been through this before) act as "cool"--cool as in the definition of cool and calm. Now was it "cool" like the Fonz to do it? No.
And for the record, I love strippers--they are easy to talk to, always act interested and are usually pretty hot to look at. And no, I do not go to stripclubs because I will find love, etc. I go because I love to flirt and have fun with beautiful women who flirt and have fun back (as long as I have the bank-roll, that is.) Hell--I'm married and don't go anymore (but still love them.)
By the way--how do you do the "cool" quote thing?
I clicked "quote".
So are we cool then?
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