The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

I kinda want to try boiled peanuts now. What do they taste like?

Like peas.

[Syt]

Blast from the past: Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon's death:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

[Barrister]

Blast from the past: Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon's death:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

I was chechking out The Atlantic today and was puzzling over why a 20-year-old article was trending (and at one point #1) on their "most popular" list.

[CountDeMoney]

Indeed, which is why I don't get some Languishites ragging on these younger members of the tribe like Lettow and Tyr, as at least they're doing what part of youth is about ie getting out there, travelling ,trying out new places.

Well done to you guys, don't listen to the naysayers and don't take knock-back or disappointments to seriously.
By all means evaluate the experience and decide what could be done better next time, but please do continue to experiment.

Nothing wrong with seeing the world as a young man.  But is it really necessary to see the world as a broke as balls hobo and smelling like piss and body odor?

[Eddie Teach]

Nothing wrong with seeing the world as a young man.  But is it really necessary to see the world as a broke as balls hobo and smelling like piss and body odor?

What's wrong with fitting in with the natives? 

[Josquius]

I'd say because he appears (from his own words) to have a hard enough connecting to people with whom he shares the same culture. I don't know why he should make it more difficult on himself when he is already struggling.

It can be a lot easier to get along with foreigners. Language differences mask awkwardness and eccentricities can be blamed on just being from x country.
Back when I first started getting involved with foreigners in my second year of uni I was a bit of a social fucktard, from this making friends 'on easy mode' however I was able to develop and become more able to get along with people whom I didn't have a language advantage over.

Sometimes I wish I'd had the balls to go live in some place like Japan when I was younger. When I was 19, the other side of the world was Texas, and Nevada was a completely different planet. 

I thought going to Houston was a severe jolt.

But you chose the path of having a career and making something of your life. The path I'm on has no light at the end of the tunnel.

[Jacob]

The mom many languishites wish they had: http://gawker.com/mom-seeks-experienced-girl-to-take-harvard-bound-sons-829489972

[Ideologue]

Sounds like me, actually, except I wasn't going to Harvard and my mom wasn't as conscientious. :embarrass:

No Mihali jokes.  I've let his HLS education drive a wedge between us for too long.

[Eddie Teach]

Eh, you two seem thick as thieves.

[fhdz]

Blast from the past: Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon's death:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

[Lettow77]

But you chose the path of having a career and making something of your life. The path I'm on has no light at the end of the tunnel.

Why do you feel your life now is a dark tunnel you need to escape? What is going so poorly that you aren't already in a good set of circumstances?

[Syt]

[jimmy olsen]

I'm always surprised by how few people there were before the middle ages.

http://discovermagazine.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item={C7D29AC8-63DB-4C54-9D74-89D42C643FE5}&mw=900&mh=600

[Ideologue]

I'm always surprised that people born before the mid-20th century didn't kill themselves.

[Josquius]

But you chose the path of having a career and making something of your life. The path I'm on has no light at the end of the tunnel.

Why do you feel your life now is a dark tunnel you need to escape? What is going so poorly that you aren't already in a good set of circumstances?

Mediocre pay that will only go down and no room for advancement anywhere.