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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on February 17, 2005, 09:34:06 PM
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Not quite sure how the topic came up this evening in the MA, but someone made (typed in the text buffer) the statement, “I gave you the gun to shoot the dog.” Right away I replied with, “You shoot a dog, you bury the gun with it.”
I could tell by the responses that this is NOT a universal practice. But for some I know, and I count these as among the best I know... This is one of those unwritten rules. Mind you, this does not pertain to the stray that is tearing up your yard. Or the mutt that is attempting to deflower your purebred. But if you have had a K9 companion for more than a few good years, and you are forced to put this dear friend down… It is the last shot that gun will fire.
Any of you have these odd rules or traditions?
Another one with me is, “You don’t make money off of a friend.” If someone needs help putting a roof on, or swapping a transmission… Pizza and beer, or chicken wings and beer, are the only accepted forms of payment. Odd, but it keeps friends… friends.
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Tipping is generally considered a bit of an insult in NZ.
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Every winter I look up a picture on the board of one of my internet friends standing on his patio, in the snow, w/ a beer in his hand, BBQ'ing. It's a timeless Christmas classic, like Rudolph and Miracle on 34th Street.
Oh, and I always put my left skate on first, regardless if it's the first one I get my hands on or not and I absolutely must be the last one to tap the goaly's pads before the opening faceoff... I will circle back around if someone else touches up after me. It's gotten so bad that if Dave (our goalie) sees the guy trying to tap his pads after I do that he will try to fend the tap off w/ his stick.
It's such a habit that when I play w/ another goalie in open hockey or a tourney that I get the occasional odd look.
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Steve, Your friend was not alone... 14 degrees outside & tired of winter... While my daughter had friends over.... She still has not forgiven me.
Cheers!
(http://www.homestead.com/goaly/files/grill.jpg)
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Dang Goaly, we have the same internet friend, amazing!
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I can never remember how this goes exactly, but it's something like "When you can't do a good deed (or return the favor) for the person who did one for you, do one for someone else and keep the circle going."
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Originally posted by G0ALY
Another one with me is, “You don’t make money off of a friend.” If someone needs help putting a roof on, or swapping a transmission… Pizza and beer, or chicken wings and beer, are the only accepted forms of payment. Odd, but it keeps friends… friends.
That's 100% me. I will always refuse payment of any kind while doing work for a friend. Well, maybe beer.
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I agree with you and Goaly on this, Beer and a good time with friends is repayment enough and the beer isnt required but usually provided when dealing with my friends.
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I'm in the process of adopting the 'never lend a book' tradition. If I have a book I want someone else to read, I give it to them. If it's a particularily expensive book, like a hardback or something, I try to find a used copy on amazon.com to give to them.
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My circle does the never charge a friend, however, with my friends, sometimes it would be cheaper just to pay somebody to do it.
Another is never lend a hardback book; never expect to get a softback book back (and we swap a lot of books).
We never go to someones house without something in our hand, and no one ever leaves mine without something in theirs.
He who cooks does not clean.
Always leave it cleaner than you found it(rented/borrowed houses/cars/toys and campsites).
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the head of my bed always has to be as close to a window as possible, as well as being as far away from the door as possible, while remaining perpendicular to the direction of entry...
never fly a german plane on sunday
always take those stupid plastic things of the arms of my glasses...
jacket on left arm first
shoes must be retied at least 3 times a day
if socks must be worn, never shall they match, or if there is no non matching socks available one shall be inside out
if the house is going to be empty for more than 6 hours, all doors MUST be shut
always arrive second last, and leave second, and never go to any nonpublic thingy unless i someone i can recognize will also be there...
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Originally posted by G0ALY
Another one with me is, “You don’t make money off of a friend.” If someone needs help putting a roof on, or swapping a transmission… Pizza and beer, or chicken wings and beer, are the only accepted forms of payment. Odd, but it keeps friends… friends.
Agreed. I always tell em "I'll work with you but not for you"
Same thing with inlaws
though I try not to do work for family altogether cept my mother and 1 brother in law.
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couple of the traditions I have.
I BBQ something during every major snowstorm on blizzard
During the height of a blizzard when its the most intence
I go for a walk in it.
I also cheer on Lightening and thunder.
The more intence it is, the more I cheer it on.
Also cant leave my buddies house until I have pissed off his wife at least once.
She's a feminist. he's a wimp and afraid to but doesnt at all mind me doing it.
So I'll call up or knock on the door with comments like "Is your master home?"
Works every time:D
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Fly it like you stole it.
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It is legal to shoot welshman here.
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Dewynne/welsh.html
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lol nice link :)
In Shrewsbury in 1776, seven Welshmen were killed, three by musket, three by sword and one was bludgeoned to death with his own crops.
Being bludgeoned to death by a Leek must be eternally embarrassing.
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i always turn my phone off at night... cant sleep knowing its on cause calls in the the middle of the night are either bad news or some drunk dialing the wrong number.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
i always turn my phone off at night... cant sleep knowing its on cause calls in the the middle of the night are either bad news or some drunk dialing the wrong number.
ever since my mother passed, and they couldnt get a hold of me right away because the ringer was off i MUST have a working phone on all night for the exact opposite reason.
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Originally posted by JB73
ever since my mother passed, and they couldnt get a hold of me right away because the ringer was off i MUST have a working phone on all night for the exact opposite reason.
umm nevermind.
I'll let someone else say it
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
umm nevermind.
I'll let someone else say it
say what?
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Originally posted by JB73
ever since my mother passed, and they couldnt get a hold of me right away because the ringer was off i MUST have a working phone on all night for the exact opposite reason.
Everyone i care about lives under my roof so thats no problem except for my dad but he is moving in with us after my mother passed a month ago.
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Hmm.. waking up with a hard on would be something only guys would have I guess. :aok
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Siaf,
The early morning hardon is called a "EMHO" for obvious reasons.
So, refer to it as such so it will confuse your wife/GF or what have you.
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Ma'am, I just gotta pee, and stop calling me Echo Mike.
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One rule I've made is I never never lend anyone a video, be it DVD or VHS unless I'm prepared to write it off completely. I've had friends pop over, see the DVD stack and plead to borrow it...and a year later, Im still waiting to get those movies back.
Another...never offer an old PC to a friend. Throw it away or prepare to be free tech support forever.
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That's so true LePaul.
Remember the old days when you used to have VHS tapes only?
When you borrowed something, you always had to ensure the other didn't have a 'killer-vcr' like we used to call it.
Old VCRs could eat up and chop your tapes completely. The viewer could watch it normally but leave the tape totally destroyed.
When I was in the army I borrowed a tape from a friend in another garrison. I had it in my open bag, stooped me. Since it was pr0n the guys stuck the tape immediately to the _ancient_ vcr that was in the corner of the kitchen area of the garrison and watched it.
When I returned the tape I noticed the inside of the cassette was filled with metal particles from the tape. It was like confetti all over. :rolleyes:
I realised immediately what the guys had done, but had no option except return the tape. The guy I borrowed it from never forgave me. :D
It was not my fault!!! :rofl
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"If you jump it, you pack it". So f*ing tired of student whuffos who come in, make their Brag Jump(tm), ditch the gear and expect someone else (namely ME) to clear up their mess.
Can be transferred to general life. I'll lend just about anything to friends, but with expensive items, I expect them to come back to me as good as they were or better.
Same's true if I borrow something.
Gifts are gifts. They're not a form of checks that can be cashed in at a later point. Once given, they ain't mine anymore, and whatever is done with 'em by the receiver is none of my business.
If you do someone a favour and expect some kind of payment (be it gratitude or another form of compensation), you're not doing that dude a favour - you're making a business transaction.
Ice on the swoop pond is not an excuse for not giving someone his certificate/100jump/500jump/1000 jump/5000 jump swimming lesson. That's why we got axes. Or aviation fuel, if the pond is frozen through :D
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Originally posted by JB73
say what?
Nevermind.
What would be meant as a joke could easily be taken wrong or seen to be insensitive.
If we knew each other IRL you would know me. And know that such comments coming from me would be meant as nothing more then humor and not intended to be hurtful in any way
You would probably chuckle while you called me an A-hole.
I'd laugh, You'd laugh and that would be the end of it.
Here its different. Few people here really KNOW one another other then from the rantings that appear here and with online text it is all too easy to take something out of context.
I retract my comment. forget I said anything.
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See Rule #4
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Originally posted by Dinger
Ma'am, I just gotta pee, and stop calling me Echo Mike.
LOL dinger I think you inciting people in this thread.
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I pee off my porch. Does that count?
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Originally posted by Chairboy
I'm in the process of adopting the 'never lend a book' tradition. If I have a book I want someone else to read, I give it to them. If it's a particularily expensive book, like a hardback or something, I try to find a used copy on amazon.com to give to them.
books I really enjoy and want to keep I'll buy in hardbound and loan paperbacks.
Originally posted by LePaul
One rule I've made is I never never lend anyone a video, be it DVD or VHS unless I'm prepared to write it off completely. I've had friends pop over, see the DVD stack and plead to borrow it...and a year later, Im still waiting to get those movies back.
Another...never offer an old PC to a friend. Throw it away or prepare to be free tech support forever.
I never lend the original of DVD's, or music CD's and rarely play them myself. when I get a new CD or DVD, I rip the music onto the hard-drive and put it on CD-r in either audio or mp3 format when those get beat up, lost or stolen I just go burn another.
same thing with DVD's. I'll copy them the first night and just put the original away. DVD-shrink reduce them to a bit more than 40% of original size without any loss of quality that my eye's and ears can detect.
it's something I started back in highschool, when I'd always buy the LP even though I listened to most of my music on the cars tape-deck. when the tape gets worn or stretched (or my cheapassed deck ate it) I'd toss it and buy another dozen blank tapes. it left me with a pristine music collection, with albums I'd owned for 6 or 7 years that had only been played 2 or 3 times. that all ended of course shortly after I was married. I think I might still have 1 or 2 pieces of vinyl left without a scratch on them. nothing to spin them on though.
one of my favorite traditions/tactics is when you get the 'friend of a friend' who starts coming around that you just get that vibe that they are a POS but they haven't yet done anything that would justify you saying anything against them (for me it was mostly people my little brother met or the new boyfriend of one of the wifes friends). I would just look for an opportunity to loan them $10 or if they where particularly annoying $20. if you were wrong about them then it's 'no harm done' and you were the nice guy who loaned them a couple bucks. but for me, more often than not, my impressions are reliable. so you loan them the cash and then they hide from you and don't go to the places you hang out because they don't want to pay the money.
well worth the investment. thinking back to some of the people I've used this with, it's likely the best money I've ever spent.
one of our families holiday traditions (the wife and I not the extended family) is to play "Alice's Restaurant" while working on Thanksgiving dinner.
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
same thing with DVD's. I'll copy them the first night and just put the original away. DVD-shrink reduce them to a bit more than 40% of original size without any loss of quality that my eye's and ears can detect.
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Side note...You can re-author with DvdShrink and just choose the movie so you usually lose 0% quality. Just gets rid of all the Extras.
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yep. on most movies just dropping either the widescreen or fullscreen version will get you there with 0% compression. but if you change anything you might as well strip it down to just the movie since changing anything more than removing unneeded languages and subtitles will disable the menus anyway.
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yeah I usually just do movie and 5.1 and 2 channel. dont need all that fancy stuff. If I want to see the extras(which I never do) I will pop in the original.