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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 8th Sep 2010 16:55
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... seems to be beyond some people.

I went to a friend's 60th birthday party last Friday. After a while the atmosphere got to me and I decided to re-enact my long-forgotten teenage years by joining those few dancing. Twenty minutes later I was in the local A&E with a suspected fractured Achilles tendon.

I am now languishing in a chair in front of the television with my left leg in plaster - for up to 6 weeks I'm told.

The good news is that about the only thing I can do is code.
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Aaagreen
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I wouldn't complain at 6 weeks in front of the telly. There are a LOT of games I need to play/finish.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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GG, I thought it was break dancing, not break something dancing.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Sep 2010 18:05 Edited at: 8th Sep 2010 18:06
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At least you tried. Even if for the next 6 weeks, you'll be exactly like every other old person out there - sat on a chair watching TV...heck...you won't be any different from your average teenager, so when you look at it that way, you've accomplished something.

Hope your ankle gets better soon dude.

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Quote: "GG, I thought it was break dancing, not break something dancing."


Lol'd XD


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Quote: "GG, I thought it was break dancing, not break something dancing."


BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Most of us teenagers tend to prefer going out to staying in. Not me though, there are tastier alternatives to alcohol and I can do any clothes/games shopping on internets.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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Quote: "Most of us teenagers tend to prefer going out to staying in. Not me though, there are tastier alternatives to alcohol and I can do any clothes/games shopping on internets."

AMEN! Geeks for life!

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I feel your pain. I threw by back out playing with the Grand kids two weeks ago and I'm just getting over it. It was worth it though.

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Quote: "There are a LOT of games I need to play/finish."


I am jealous, theres usually nothing to buy then all the good games come at once and I can't afford them all

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Quote: "Most of us teenagers tend to prefer going out to staying in. Not me though, there are tastier alternatives to alcohol and I can do any clothes/games shopping on internets."


Same, but I do like getting drunk, so long as I have some thing to play online XD

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 8th Sep 2010 21:58
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Quote: "GG, I thought it was break dancing, not break something dancing."


Thanks HowDo, I needed a good laugh.

I think I should have read this first:

dancing advice for men

I'm fairly sure the injury is a tear rather than a break but don't really know how serious it is yet. Anyway, since I wasn't attended to till about 4am (when both me and the medical staff were half asleep) the local hospital will probably check the injury again when I go for a checkup tomorrow morning. Serves me right for going to Casualty/A&E on a Friday night ...

Quote: "It was worth it though"


Debatable in my case. My wife isn't amused - we've had to cancel our holiday.
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inside every old person is a young person wondering "what the hell happened?"

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Quote: "Most of us teenagers tend to prefer going out to staying in. Not me though, there are tastier alternatives to alcohol and I can do any clothes/games shopping on internets."


i agree, however going out WITHOUT DRINKING ALCHOHOL is possible.
i promise.
for real.


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true but going out with friends without drinking, is close to impossible especially if your friends are in doing it. I mean we are all legal age to drink and stuff. Like its hard not to drink if your friends are drinking. Same with cigarettes, i would have an easier time quitting smoking if my friends and coworkers didnt smoke. Also its like a custom among russians to take a smoke break every 20 minutes.

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I'd never take up smoking. Not sure about alcohol though, it's probably hard to predict with that stuff.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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i thought the same thing, untill i started hanging out with the "grown ups" i mean when everyone goes on smoke breaks you arent gonna just sit all alone and keep working, and when you are hanging out with some friends who smoke, it just makes you feel like an outsider if you dont smoke with them, not to mention smoking is very addicting. besides living an a city breathing disel air is much worse than smoking (also i live right next to several factories and a nucklear reactor) so i end up asking mysel.. why the hell not?

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Both my parents (and my mum's mum) have smoked for longer than I've lived, so I can take the pressure of being smoked around.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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i know same here, but for me its totally different when my friends smoke

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Quote: "i mean when everyone goes on smoke breaks you arent gonna just sit all alone and keep working, and when you are hanging out with some friends who smoke, it just makes you feel like an outsider if you dont smoke with them,"


I wouldnt think of smoking, and if my friends smoke i take a few steps away to show them thats a nono for me, i find it disgusting and it smells awkward, i havent ever tried a cigaret, and hopefully i wont

also, drinking, i havent been drunk once in my life and the most ive had is a 33cl 5,5%.

iam a good boy =)


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Aah, but to hang around friends who smoke, first you need friends..
Who smoke.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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thats what everyone says, thats what i used to say too, then... it just happened. i can stay away from alcohol no problem since most alcohol (exept for the hard stuff like vodka kongac wiskey etc) is nasty tasting until you get drunk. but smoking is totally different, once you get hooked, its kinda hard to stop if you have a weak power of will. in my opinion the only thing more addicting is is heroin but thats only because your body will hurt if you dont have any. My grandpa who was a military person with good discipline, started to smoke during the war, then grandma told him to stop so he stopped and never smoked again. Dropping cigarettes was easy for him. but he had a real problem with alcohol, he was getting waisted every week since the end of the war. it became a real problem for him when he became a finished alcoholic, luckily he grandma dragged him to a hypnosist who made him stop drinking, and he didnt drink anything for 20 years. (just as a side note he once invited a prostitute to the apartment then my grandma came home lol) he was a party guy till the end. unlike my grandpa, every time i think about alcohol, it makes me not want to have any, and every time i got drunk i ended up puking in the cab or something bad. so drinking i can easily stay away from. as for smoking i was thinking of trying electronc cigarettes but thay are bloody expensive.

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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 17:03
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Quote: "inside every old person is a young person wondering "what the hell happened?""


Yup.

Quote: "the local hospital will probably check the injury again when I go for a checkup tomorrow morning"


Had the checkup. Seems like bad news.

Apparently the calf muscle has partly come away from the tendon. Two or three months in plaster plus physiotherapy afterwards. It could be worse...

Quote: "i can stay away from alcohol no problem since most alcohol (exept for the hard stuff like vodka kongac wiskey etc) is nasty tasting until you get drunk. but smoking is totally different, once you get hooked, its kinda hard to stop "


Stopped smoking over 20 years ago. Still drinking though - but not so much since the injury (it's too difficult going to and fro the fridge for beer - and bringing the fridge closer seems like cheating ). Perhaps my coding will improve now ...
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 17:10 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 17:10
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All you need is a Nintendo 64 and the 20 best games and you'll never want to move.

Assuming you have a good taste in retro games, but the N64 is probably over-complicated modern technology to you


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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Quote: "but the N64 is probably over-complicated modern technology to you"


Almost certainly.
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Green Gandalf ages?!!!
But who will make our shaders?!

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Whatever was wrong with the standard grey or white Gandalf?


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 22:39 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 22:39
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'Fraid so - at an ever-increasing rate it seems.

Quote: "Whatever was wrong with the standard grey or white Gandalf?"


They weren't of course. Strange question.

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Quote: "Apparently the calf muscle has partly come away from the tendon."

Almost sounds tasty when you put it like that

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o.O
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He said calf, and that's a baby cow, and cows make steak, and steaks make pie, and mmmmmmmmmmmm.


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Why wait until it has grown into a cow? Calf = veal, even tastier, but less ethical steak.

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HAHAHAHAAAA rofl, i seriosly lauged my ass off when i saw that pic lol
like symbollically i mean i am not lauging at the people who got hurt in that wreck. and i hope nobody got hurt

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Wright brother's aeroplane design test #17: The Train

Fail.

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Sounds like good advice - I'm glad my leg is in plaster. Should be safe there.

Quote: "HAHAHAHAAAA rofl, i seriosly lauged my ass off when i saw that pic lol"


So did I. If this thread is going downhill please keep it up, I need a good laugh.

I'm glad to see Michael P is a safe distance away - but then London isn't that far really. Hmm ...
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This might cheer you up GG.










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I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.

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Thanks. Keep 'em coming.

I've ordered an electric fence to keep Michael P out just in case.
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That's too close for comfort..

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I think that'll distract Michael long enough for me to escape heh. xD

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I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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