Silly Things

[Elentari]

Yesterday I was looking around a recipe site and I chanced upon this ->
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001679low_carb_cranberry_cooler.php

It looked so tasty, I immediately decided that I needed to go to the store and buy myself the stuff to try it out. Once there, I decided that the cups we already have are simply not good enough for the drink. So I bought myself a new cup! The cup, I might add, is not even all that different from the ones we have at home. So I went through all this hassle, and then made the drink and tried it. It wasn't even all that fantastic. Tasty, but not fantastic.

This thread is for all of you posters to talk about yourselves, and silly things you've done or even do on a daily basis. If you have never done an odd thing in your life, I suppose it's ok for you to tell us about something you saw another person doing.

And yes, I know. You don't have to tell me how amazing, gorgeous and fascinating I am for making a thread where all you do is talk about yourself ^_^.

[Serge]

Wow, what a random thread, you're so weird sometimes, Elentari.

Anyway, just a few minutes ago, I accidentally unplugged my mouse, so I had to duck under the table to plug it back in. This is a pretty big table my monitor/keyboard is on, but the space underneath is mostly taken up by the CPU and some cadboard box. Anyway, I don't have a "computer chair" I have this big ugly old heavy wooden chair thing, and it's really close to the table, and it's hard to move because there is a sofa right behind it, and so I had to pull off some acrobatics to get under the table. Then, once I get down there, and plug the mouse back in, I was stuck. I couldn't get out, the chair was implanted into the carpet so I couldn't slide it, and I couldn't tip it over because of the sofa behind it. I had to squeeze myself out, it was such a tight fit I had to take off my glasses first.

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[shatterstar]

this post was really gay.

[Northwind]

OK, this isn't specifically on topic (because, you know, I've NEVER done anything remotely silly. Unless you were referring to today when I made a ramp for a big (3 foot high) rock in my yard with some smaller rocks and dirt piled on the other side so that I could ride my bike up on the rock and then ride down the rocks to practice for some technical mountain biking that I've been doing lately. Anyway, I did it a couple of times and then my wheel hit a soft patch of dirt coming off of the rock and my front wheel stopped and I went over the handlebars and fell on my head and had a headache for the rest of the day. But that's the ONLY silly thing I've ever done. Seriously.)

Anyway, as I was trying to say before I was so rudely interrupted, seeing your "recipe" link made me think of this site (http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html). Read the story and then click on the top recipe picture. So great. :)

[Draquist]

Ele! :)

Well...One time when I was about 7 and Darque was about 11, we decided to play with the big plastic GI Joes. It ended up being Darque at one end of a couch and me at the other throwing the big plastic GI Joes back and forth at each other. We'd duck under the side of the couch, sprout up, and let it fly. Unfortunately, I stood up to throw one and was smacked in the forehead. I was given a concussion by a GI Joe. :(

[Tama Drummer]

I'm sure I do a lot of silly things, but they're not silly to me so I don't notice them. :D

But since Draquist went back to when he was 7, I will too. I think I was around 7 when it happened.
We had some indoor see-saw toy. Since I was so awesome, I would stand on it. :cool: Only one time I guess I fell and fell on a radiator, head first.

Around this time, I also decided I was too cool to open doors the normal way, and always pushed on the glass part of the door to open it (the door rarely latched properly). One time it was latched, and I pushed the glass. Door stayed, glass didn't. That actually happened to two doors, but I only got stitches the first time. My dad then replaced all our windows with plexiglass. :D

[WaCk-HeAd]

Silly things? Uhm, well, when I was still rather small (well, even smaller than now) we used to go on biking trips with the whole family all through the country and visited all kinds of things. We also visited things like "hunebedden" (http://users.bart.nl/~jbmeijer/engels.htm) and once we visited the largest one in our country and I figured it was cool to climb over those pile of rocks, against the advice of my brothers.

But since I was all that cool, I ignored them and started my climb. I proceeded to slip and I felt between two of those large rocks, smashing my head first against the left rock, then to the right rock and then the left rock again.

So I lay down there beneath all those rocks with a nice concussion and some pissed of guy came running towards me.

Not to ask if I was ok, since I just tried to break two enormous rocks with my head, but to yell at me because I was disrespecting the dead, because hunebedden are actually ancient graves, so I was lying on my ancestors.

Yeah, that vacation wasn't that big of a succes. My parents weren't all that happy with me, either.

And yes, this is probably also the explanation for my idiotic behavior. Yes... real funny guys.

[bludhoundz]

I have a few.

Just recently, I discovered that my air conditioner had a remote control, so one day I took the remote from the AC to my computer.

Later that day, I went to go get something to eat, and when I came back to my room, it was too hot. I began to walk towards the air conditioner, and then I remembered my remote. I think I stood for almost 30 seconds looking back and forth between the two before deciding to sit down and use the remote.

When I was 3 years old, I gave my dad a father's day present. I turned up the speakers to full volume and blew them (okay so it wasn't very long).

[Altiris]

I did something that wasn't funny then but it is now.

"Back in the day" (5 years ago, age of 11), I had a Huffy. Hell yeah, a Huffy. I rode that thing like there was no tomorrow. I got bored of just popping up curbs though. My friends and I, for the first time, watched the X-Games. We thought to ourselves, "we need to do stuff that crazy", so we built a dirt ramp. After a while we realized that it wasn't sturdy enough, so we placed 4 wooden boards down, covered them, and packed the dirt. We jumped it for about two days, and realized that it wasn't enough. My friend Mike came up with the idea that we should douse it in lighter fluid and set it ablaze while we ride through and take to the air like Evel Keneivel. Let me lay out the equation.

Lighter fluid + fire + wooden boards = Lots of flames.

Needless to say, I scorched a pant leg and a bit of my ankles.

GO ME!

[T3km4n]

I am the king of silly things. I will say something recent though just to be able to control myself.

So last night, I was at some house where almost everyone was much older than me. I ended up becoming a complete mess and I was wearing a tie dye shirt. Everyone came to know me as "tie dye shirt kid" and I forget all of their names. I was dancing with some girls and then the next thing I know I'm talking to some people about sleeping, and next thing I know I'm in a couch and it's morning and my head feels like it is made of lead. There is no one there besides me and this dad that is cleaning up the kitchen. I tried to escape and he hears me unlock the door. I had the most awkward experience of my life. We exchange hello's and he asks me if I'm alright, I say yes and promptly leave his house. All in all, it was a good night.

[Jax'D]

Hmm, my silliest thing ever would have to be in a nightclub called odyssey in saint tropez (south of france).

It was last year and I was in this nightclub and was extremely drunk (though I can still remember this, somehow). I was on this podium sorta thing on the edge of the dancefloor and was dancing with 3 girls and a friend was there too. Now, I didn't notice where abouts I was until I had managed to fall off it and onto my ass on the dancefloor and everyone close by laughed. I then got back up onto the podium and carried on dancing with these girls :bigsmile:

[Teacher]

Hmm, I'll spread these out.

Age 8, We are up camping in the mountains and I wanted to be a "big boy" and chop wood like the adults were doing. I had this hatchet, blade on one end and hammer shape on the other. Well I pulled over this piece of Aspen and leaned it against a log. It was only about 3" around and my Dad told me not to chop this peice because it was too flimsy. Needless to say I didn't listen and I brought that hatchet high about my head, concentrating on where I would hit. I brought that hatchet down with as much force as I could knowing I was going to prove him wrong.

*Wack* it hits the wood, the wood bends down like a rubber band, the hatchet comes flying back up and nails me right between the eyes. I got knocked the f**k out!

Later that night, my cousin was sleeping too close to the fire, my drunk uncle decides the fire isn't high enough and pours gasoline on it. My cousins hair caught on fire along with his sleeping bag. He was freaking out so bad it looked like a flaming warm trying to get to water. Of course all the adults were too drunk to move quickly they just looked in awe.

I miss camping :)

[Serge]

Oi!

The other night I was in my bedroom enjoying a nice Sprite, I decided I wanted to go grab a cookie, so I go to place the almost full can of sprite on my television. I miss, by about half an inch, so the can falls to the floor (admist the heap of video game controllers I had on the floor) and lands with the hole down on the carpet. Somehow, the soda inside exploded and covered everything in my room in little rain drops of Sprite. Goes well with the mustard stains on my wall.

[Lone2Wolf]

Once, when I was 13 (one year ago), my school had a half-day, so I went home early, and no one was home. I called my dad, and he said that he left some Ramen in the fridge, and that I should heat it up and eat it (Eww). I take the GladWare full of Ramen out of the fridge, put it on the stove, and I heat it up. Well, of course, I didn't know that heat melts plastic. Whoops.

[phoenixofflames]

A couple days ago, i was in the room watching world cup sitting on a hammock hooked to the walls of the house. i started growing bored cuz no one was scoring, so i turned sideways and started using the hammock like a swing. the peg broke on the wall, and i fell to ground and like broke my butt :confused:

[Zander]

I can't think of anything right now, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't bring this back.

edit: I get shivers every time I pee.

[Liquid Swordsman]

cranberry juice is a bit to bitter for my liking.

http://bethsownblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/velveeta-nacho-bake.html
^amazing recipe, takes like 20 minutes to cook and it can feed like 3-4 people easily

[mushroom_girl]

So every time I watch a scary movie I always get really paranoid of all televisions, closets, underneath beds, and touching any floor for more than 3 seconds in the dark.

Yeah, I'm a big baby.

Tonight I watched Pulse, and it was really a dumb movie...but it still scared me. So now I have to sleep with the TV on so it won't turn itself on, my blankets wrapped all around me like a cocoon (because baddies can't get you under blankies), and I need to check every crevice and closet in my room before I can go to sleep.

If that's not silly then IDK what is. :o

[Lex]

Liz, there's a guy hiding in your bathtub and if you walk in there he's gonna cut off his you know what.

[Tama Drummer]

tbh, i almost always sleep with the tv on (but on mute, or very low volume). I dunno, for some reason I just like the flickering lights, and the kinda dim glow it gives the room. Helps me fall asleep.

[mushroom_girl]

Liz, there's a guy hiding in your bathtub and if you walk in there he's gonna cut off his you know what.
I also had to check in the bathtub, under the toilet, and under the sink before I could comfortably pee....

[Zander]

Anyone else with a silly urine thing?

[Cavour]

tbh, i almost always sleep with the tv on (but on mute, or very low volume). I dunno, for some reason I just like the flickering lights, and the kinda dim glow it gives the room. Helps me fall asleep.

I hate your kind. My roommate last year was all about that shit, and I much prefer total darkness/silence/nothingness. But me, being the nice chap that I am, let him do his thing. Thank God for individual room apartments next year.

Anyone else with a silly urine thing?

I like peeing on people, but that's not silly, it's a lie.

But yeah, silly thing...

I haven't had sheets on my bed for like 2 weeks because I threw them in the wash before I went camping wheneverIwentcampingrecently, and I haven't been able to locate them since. Then today, I almost busted my ass tripping on, surprise, my sheets, on the floor, in the middle, of my room, comma.

Hint: My room is dirty.

[mushroom_girl]

I also keep procrastinating cleaning my room...so much so that the clutter is actually getting to me and now I'm sleeping in the TV room.

So instead of cleaning my room, I'm gradually migrating into the TV room and making that a mess too.

[***Duo***]

You're room is hardly dirty.


-Duo

[OFFLINE]

well i cant have my shower curtin closed when i pee and i sometime pee on the seat :/

[Lkalfaro]

Mu friend and I had a prank war going on while she stayed at my house for a while. It ranged from stealing/hiding food, books cars, to popping a water bed while someone slept on it and dying my maltese puppy purple (K-state colors)

Oh and my desk decided it was going to completely fall apart.....in the middle of the night.

Also I just got some really odd looks from people when i was reading the laugh you losse thread in the lounge here at school, b/c I couldn't stifle the laugh that came out of me.

[ponefish]

Every time I read Wizzy's Mary J quote about being paranoid I laugh even though I know what it says

[Wizzy`]

I feel cool when people laugh at my signature.
Wait, this isn't the confession thread. Crap!

[Night.Blaze]

when i was 4...
i never knew how they decided who was a chick.. and who was a dude...
then i got a gf...
now i know how =D

[Wizzy`]

edit: I get shivers every time I pee.

...
Me too. Weird

[Chess_Champion]

I do a lot of silly things :p.

Recently, I went out with a few friends... and I brought the wrong keychain and got locked out of my dorm. And like the idiot I am, instead of asking the school to open the door for me I attempted to climb the outside wall to my balcony... (I wasn't thinking straight, thats for sure). Well, In the end I managed to a good nights rest in a nice comfy bed... at the hospital with a "Hairline fracture" in my arm.

[Sinyra]

lolol. i totally know a guy who did that my freshman year. only it was his leg and he was climbing the tree next to his dorm room. apparently white men really can't jump. ;)

[ponefish]

apparently white men really can't jump. ;)

we can too.. sometimes

[Sinyra]

*pats pone on the head.
awww, it's okay. everyone's special in their own way.

:)

[kegsworth]

Sooo, I went to one of my buddies barracks to drink last night. I'd just flown into Fort Bragg and hadn't seen this cat in a while, so what the hell? I show up with some libations, put the beer in the fridge, introduce myself to one of the females there and make my way around the pad to find my friend. One of the ladies there asks me if I would like a drink. "Absolutely", I reply. She asks if I want some beer, or a mixed drink. I told her that I'd have whatever she's drinking (I prefer beer, but she looked good and I was hoping we could spark a conversation up off of my beverage choice). She comes back with one of those red cups you can get at the grocery store, filled to the top with a delicious concoction of something or the other and heads back to the kitchen. Feeling confident off of one sip of that magical liquid courage, I follow her out.

Now, I walk in the kitchen and see her frying something on the stove (I find out later that they're some sort of amazing burritos, damned good ones, too), but it looks more like a pan full of hot grease. I ask her of she would like some help, she obliges, I set my cup down on the counter and help her put them on plates and serve the other soldiers. By the time we served everyone and ate ourselves, she heads back to the kitchen to start cleaning up. We've had such good conversation that I wanna help clean too, just to keep talking. She pours the cooled grease in one of those red cups and explains why we have to pour it out outside, instead of the sink. Apparently it'll clog it up, who knew?

Welp, my buddy comes in with some friends and he's toasting to our deployment. I reach for my red cup, toast and take a sip. It wasn't that wonderful drink she had mixed me, though. It was warm, thick, chunky grease. Hoping no'one had noticed my mistake, I quickly look to see if my cup was on the counter still, but realize that someone had moved it in order to make room for the dishes. My buddy finishes his drink, notices that I only sipped mine and exclaims "Damn, Tubbs, you gonna babysit that drink or kill it? Bottom's up, bro!". All eyes on me. What do I do next? Do I let them know that I just drank grease? No, I can't, not now. I should've told him when I first realized. Now it will be awkward.

So I down it. All of it. Completely.

Don't judge me.

[mushroom_girl]

This is day 2 of my attempt to write my summer paper.

I had to read Brave New World and 1984, and compare and contrast them. Now, being the book lover that I am I read Brave New World at the beginning of the summer and thought it was pretty good...but 1984...*shiver*

I started reading it yesterday. Mind you, school starts on Wednesday and I have work every single day until then, so the only time for me to do this was last night and today before work at 4.

At 5 pm yesterday I was on page 60, then the next thing I know I'm waking up and it's 7 pm and the book is on the floor. I should've learned my lesson then that I just wasn't going to get the book done and sparknoted the rest...but I didn't. I made a feeble attempt to get to 70, which took me a whole hour to do since I found many reasons to procrastinate:
1. Notice toe nail polish is old, remove it.
2. Eat dinner and spend extra time watching the Mets with my dad.
3. Watch some of Blades of Glory, which is the most awful movie I've ever watched.
4. Oh, it's 8 pm. I should go to Cold Stone and get ice cream for my whole family.
5. Look! It's James! I should go outside with him while he smokes and talk to him for a half hour.
6. Damn, a long line. I gotta wait though.
7. Nicole is working tonight, so of course I gotta talk to her while she's making my ice creams and slow her down.

So then I get home, and it's 9 pm already. I decide I should check TAO, just because that's the BEST procrastinator ever. I get involved in a good conversation on Army, intermittently typing the introductory paragraph about a book I didn't read.

The paragraph sucks, back to the drawing board.

At 2 am last night I finally got down three paragraphs that are half way decent, and I still have 4.5 pages left to go, and here I am telling you all about how I procrastinated while I should be writing.

......I think I have a problem.

[Magician]

1984 is an awesome book. Scary, sure. But freakin' awesome.

[mushroom_girl]

No, it blows.

The story is cool, but the way it's written actually put me to sleep. George Orwell is BORING. He had a cool idea, and bored all over it. :mad:

[Magician]

:eek:!

I felt the book was a really good read. Thought provoking, interesting concepts, etc, made for a great novel. Maybe I just got into the story a bit more, idk. Animal Farm though - now that's a story. :bigsmile:

[mushroom_girl]

Animal Farm is even worse. Oh. My. God. That story is just plain stupid. The only thing that separates it from other novels about government is that it's about animals.

:dry: I hate George Orwell.

[Lkalfaro]

In regards to 1984, I agree with Liz. It bored me to tears and I could barely make it through for school. And after I read that I swore I'd never read George Orwell again, but one of my professors thought Animal Farm was a necessary read so I was forced to read it. I was very surprised at how much I did like that one. So I agree with mag about Animal Farm, it's one of my favs now :bigsmile:

yeah and Liz your procrastinating sounds pretty much like my weekend so far also. I have like 5 hw assignments and a paper on Ayn Rand to write and I'm spending my time on here instead of doing it :p

[Scorpionz]

Animal Farm really is a great novel. I didn't like 1984 as much though ;)

I found it funny how some students read the entire novel without ever realising what it was about. They thought it was some stupid kiddies book.

I laughed.

[Liquid Swordsman]

1984 sucked pretty bad, i'm not sure how anyone could have really gotten into that book

[shatterstar]

:eek:!

qft.

[meat.eater]

Brave New World > All other societal commentary books.

[Magician]

Animal Farm is even worse. Oh. My. God. That story is just plain stupid. The only thing that separates it from other novels about government is that it's about animals.

:dry: I hate George Orwell.

Animal Farm is more than a "novel about government". So, so much more. Please say you caught the satire, the humour regarding the Russian Revolution...? If not...

I found it funny how some students read the entire novel without ever realising what it was about. They thought it was some stupid kiddies book.

Unfortunately, that may just apply to you. :(

qft.

Someone who understands! Yay!

I've not read Brave New World yet. Must look into it on that note.

[Nitanius Nolund]

Brave New World > All other societal commentary books.

Sorry, but Brave New World is hands down the worst book I've ever completed reading.

[Liquid Swordsman]

who remembers reading the giver in middle school? now that was a classic :cool:

[KBHoleN1]

Brave New World > All other societal commentary books.It is really good. I did my senior term paper on Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451. A lot of great stuff in those books.

Sorry, but Brave New World is hands down the worst book I've ever completed reading.
You should really try again. It's a great book, if you actually try to relate to it. If you get nothing else out of it, just enjoying saying the name Aldous Huxley over and over.

who remembers reading the giver in middle school? now that was a classic :cool:
My roommate is reading that book right now for fun, took me way back. I barely remember the plot of that thing, but I remember the way it made me feel.

[Lkalfaro]

who remembers reading the giver in middle school? now that was a classic :cool:

I never had to read it :/

[Wizzy`]

who remembers reading the giver in middle school? now that was a classic :cool:

I read that book, was the only book that I actually enjoyed in middle school

[Oisin]

You know a bad book? Mrs. Dalloway. Seriously, what the hell am I reading?

[Unforgottner]

Animal Farm was terrible.

NAPOLEON IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

[Lkalfaro]

Count of Monte Cristo. Now THERE'S a good book from senior lit.

[Scorpionz]

Animal Farm is more than a "novel about government". So, so much more. Please say you caught the satire, the humour regarding the Russian Revolution...? If not...



Unfortunately, that may just apply to you. :(



Someone who understands! Yay!

I've not read Brave New World yet. Must look into it on that note.


:(


It's about Animals who run a farm! Sillay. :rolleyes:


but yeah, it's about the RR, Marxism, Stalinism, Right wing, whatever. I didn't really hate it, it just furthered my knowledge of what Stalin did to Russia.

[shatterstar]

Sorry, but Brave New World is hands down the worst book I've ever completed reading.

brave new world + archie's double digest != statistically valid population.

[Magician]

Count of Monte Cristo. Now THERE'S a good book from senior lit.

The movie is epic. I can't imagine just how awesome the book must be.

:(


It's about Animals who run a farm! Sillay. :rolleyes:


but yeah, it's about the RR, Marxism, Stalinism, Right wing, whatever. I didn't really hate it, it just furthered my knowledge of what Stalin did to Russia.

It's a good mix of fable and satire - something for everyone, really. Kids will read it and see the "animals talking running a farm" aspect, while adults will read more into the satire, if they have any knowledge of the Russian Revolution.

[ponefish]

I liked A Brave New World and A Separate Piece.... but best book ever goes to Enders Game beats any book hands down.

[Lkalfaro]

The movie is epic. I can't imagine just how awesome the book must be.


I thought the book was way better than the movie. But be careful to get the right version on the book if you read it. Some of them aren't translated very well. And there are two versions. The unabridged version is like over 1000 pages long whereas the abridged is like 400 I think. Either one's good, I've read them both lol.

[***Duo***]

I thought the book was way better than the movie. But be careful to get the right version on the book if you read it. Some of them aren't translated very well. And there are two versions. The unabridged version is like over 1000 pages long whereas the abridged is like 400 I think. Either one's good, I've read them both lol.

I had to read the un-abridged, 1462 page book in two days.

Needless to say, cramming it altogether made it much more enjoyable than having to have read it over a span of months. I would have just hated it at that point.


-Duo