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BoneKracker
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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:52 am Post subject: New Year Resolutions |
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I resolve to be less of a prick.
I do this as an example to others, such as ichbinsysiphos, who has never been right about anything (search the forums).
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dmitchell
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:59 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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Make more money. A lot more.
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notageek
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:06 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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| dmitchell wrote: | | Make more money. A lot more. |
Mine too. Yes, this is my original idea. Just because dmitchell posted it first, doesn't make it his "original idea."
Oh, and save up some money too.
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I don't believe I've ever had a New Year based resolution.
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notageek
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New Year's Resolution: :pjp:
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drizek
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:19 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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| dmitchell wrote: | | Make more money. A lot more. |
Let me guess: babies are expensive?
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BoneKracker
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| notageek wrote: | :lol:
New Year's Resolution: :pjp: |
:lol:
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BoneKracker
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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| drizek wrote: | | dmitchell wrote: | | Make more money. A lot more. |
Let me guess: babies are expensive? |
Money cannot make you happy. However, it can get you laid. Or, if you're married, it can get the wife off your back.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| 3600x1200, hell yeah |
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To drink more... and to learn more fugues.
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Prenj
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:10 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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| dmitchell wrote: | | Make more money. A lot more. |
Yeah this one seems worthy enough  |
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New Year's resolutions are doomed to fail. It is just plain insanity to make resolutions every year and expect them to succeed. Therefore I have made zero resolutions for this New Year.
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| warrens wrote: | | New Year's resolutions are doomed to fail. It is just plain insanity to make resolutions every year and expect them to succeed. Therefore I have made zero resolutions for this New Year. |
Mine will succeed.
The trick is, aim low 
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| The Earth wrote: | | warrens wrote: | | New Year's resolutions are doomed to fail. It is just plain insanity to make resolutions every year and expect them to succeed. Therefore I have made zero resolutions for this New Year. |
Mine will succeed.
The trick is, aim point blank. |
Fixed.
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The reason most fail is because the "New Year" begins in the middle of Winter, which is the most depressing time of the year. Especially considering that most of the resolutions are usually things like quitting smoking/drugs/drinking and losing weight. Losing weight is difficult in the winter because it's too cold to be outside most of the time.
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BoneKracker
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| jdmulloy wrote: | | The reason most fail is because the "New Year" begins in the middle of Winter, which is the most depressing time of the year. Especially considering that most of the resolutions are usually things like quitting smoking/drugs/drinking and losing weight. Losing weight is difficult in the winter because it's too cold to be outside most of the time. |
The New Year used to always begin with Spring, specifically occurring at the Vernal Equinox (and this was true across a wide number of calendars developed independently by various cultures), up until Pope Gregory fucked it all up in 1582.
It's also the year 12012 HE (Human Era or Holocene Epoch), which is roughly the number of years since the beginning of the current warm, interglacial, period within the current ice age, and the approximate time of the neolithic revolution (the time when Man first started growing crops, domesticating animals, and stopped wandering around, scratching random roots out of the dirt, and chasing herds of animals like a bunch of angry, jibbering monkeys). It's scary, how recent that was, really. The Holocene Epoch, and probably human civilization, will end when the current interglacial warm period is over.
By the way, this new year in UNIX time is:
1325376000–1356998399
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | jdmulloy wrote: | | The reason most fail is because the "New Year" begins in the middle of Winter, which is the most depressing time of the year. Especially considering that most of the resolutions are usually things like quitting smoking/drugs/drinking and losing weight. Losing weight is difficult in the winter because it's too cold to be outside most of the time. |
The New Year used to always begin with Spring, specifically occurring at the Vernal Equinox (and this was true across a wide number of calendars developed independently by various cultures), up until Pope Gregory fucked it all up in 1582.
It's also the year 12012 HE (Human Era or Holocene Epoch), which is roughly the number of years since the beginning of the current warm, interglacial, period within the current ice age, and the approximate time of the neolithic revolution (the time when Man first started growing crops, domesticating animals, and stopped wandering around, scratching random roots out of the dirt, and chasing herds of animals like a bunch of angry, jibbering monkeys). It's scary, how recent that was, really. The Holocene Epoch, and probably human civilization, will end when the current interglacial warm period is over.
By the way, this new year in UNIX time is:
1325376000–1356998399 |
We'll probably nuke ourselves out of existence before that happens.
I hope 2012 is either not shitty or the end.
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Prenj
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | and chasing herds of animals like a bunch of angry, jibbering monkeys |
Sounds like a new years eve in Stockholm, except everybody is drunk and nobody knows what are they chasing. |
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BoneKracker
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| Prenj wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | | and chasing herds of animals like a bunch of angry, jibbering monkeys |
Sounds like a new years eve in Stockholm, except everybody is drunk and nobody knows what are they chasing. |
Not like the people in your home town, getting wasted down at the Blago, or puking off that bridge, right?
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| jdmulloy wrote: | | The reason most fail is because the "New Year" begins in the middle of Winter, which is the most depressing time of the year. Especially considering that most of the resolutions are usually things like quitting smoking/drugs/drinking and losing weight. Losing weight is difficult in the winter because it's too cold to be outside most of the time. |
It's the middle of summer here, buddy.
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| sugar wrote: | | jdmulloy wrote: | | The reason most fail is because the "New Year" begins in the middle of Winter, which is the most depressing time of the year. Especially considering that most of the resolutions are usually things like quitting smoking/drugs/drinking and losing weight. Losing weight is difficult in the winter because it's too cold to be outside most of the time. |
It's the middle of summer here, buddy. |
Is the success rate higher? It would certainly be interesting if it was.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | Prenj wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | | and chasing herds of animals like a bunch of angry, jibbering monkeys |
Sounds like a new years eve in Stockholm, except everybody is drunk and nobody knows what are they chasing. |
Not like the people in your home town, getting wasted down at the Blago, or puking off that bridge, right? |
Pretty much. Well they actually go down under the bridge, drink and puke there, but yeah. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:10 am Post subject: Re: New Year Resolutions |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | I resolve to be less of a prick. |
i resolve to increase my general assholishness, but alter it to incredible sarcasm and mockery. |
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| Another quality post by forum comrade BoneKracker. I suggest you read it all (but undo the typo ichbinsisyphos -> ichbinsysiphos in your head while doing so) |
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notageek
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Potaeto -- Potaato.
Same thing.
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