Despite popular belief, I've learned that pimpin' IS in fact easy. As long as you do enough water changes, and don't get 'em from Walmart.TheMightyQueenPixie said:
Was His Death Staged
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:OT:Lila Boffins said:
I generally don't like to generalize, but I'll make an exception here. I've always kept friends in a wide range of groups and spent most of my time with both jocks (I'm still athletic at 43) and hard rockers. As I matured, I started categorizing people as hard-working and lazy.
There are a percentage of jocks that can participate in sports due to an abundance of natural ability. Some, like me, only found success after a great deal of hard work. The hardworking athletes generally went on to be successful, developing a work hard/play hard attitude. Most rockers just liked to party hard. If they became hard working it wasn't until they had to start paying the bills or aquired family responsibilities. Few went to college right away, but several finished college later in life.
Without a doubt, the work ethic that came with sports better prepares kids to work hard in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, hard working attitudes and drugs frequently overlap. I had a very close friend go from high school athletics to working his way through college in four years. To fund his senior year in college he started selling and using cocane. He managed to graduate, but became addicted, lost what few posessions he had, and had to flee from an angry drug distributor. After 20 years, he's still a drifter and changes jobs frequently. The saddest part is that he has no lasting relationships.
In general, more jocks finished school and aquired better jobs than hard rockers. Rockers generally had a higher percentage of drug usage as we went through our 30's.
Now, back to our regular thread...
(not directed at anyone in particular)
I've always enjoyed watching older people nag on about the youth. It is funny how convinced they are that they grew up properly and that the younger generation isn't anything like they were when they were younger. It is so apparently obvious. My grandfather still goes on about how my dad grew up without a good work ethic, and my dad does the same to me.
It is just...funny :laugh:
I've always enjoyed watching older people nag on about the youth. It is funny how convinced they are that they grew up properly and that the younger generation isn't anything like they were when they were younger. It is so apparently obvious. My grandfather still goes on about how my dad grew up without a good work ethic, and my dad does the same to me.
It is just...funny :laugh:
Reminds me of Led Zeppelin!msouth468 said:
Now a Led Zeppelin song is the theme for Cadillac commercials!
Many 'old' rock bands were "frowned upon" years ago...
Click on "Cadillac Train": http://209.98.62.119/cgi-bin/WebObj...tch=1&spotID=1006283&charAct=G&idioma=Spanish
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msouth468 said:
Yup, ain't it so. I started drinking and smoking dope when I was 13. Kept it up through college. Yet I managed to graduate high school with good grades, had my choice of colleges, did more drinking and drugs, double-majored in Art and Art Education, went on to teach public school, got an MFA, then University, then PhD (Penn State, no slacker there), then back to public school. I did lose a sister due to drugs--but I maintained the work ethic my parents raised me on. Granted, I stopped using after college, but I did make it. What sux is I worked so damned hard to be the best teacher and artist I could, and now at 47 live paycheck to paycheck teaching alot of kids who couldn't care less about an education. Yet they expect to live at the same standard alot were raised on. Hmmmffff. And how many of our kids here think they will be pro athletes or successful rappers, livin' the high life? Beaucoup. Yet, how many have done so? Well, one made it to Pro Football, but screwed up and lost it. Drugs, sex, rocknroll. Life. We make choices. We allow ourselves to make our lives, or we make them ourselves. In the end, it's all the same. Ashes to ashes. . . .
I dont think it matters. Dead or alive, I dont see any new music from him.
Now if you want to talk conspiracys, was Cobain murdered?
Now if you want to talk conspiracys, was Cobain murdered?
msouth468 said:
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.--Hesiod (8th century B.C.)
