TET: Celebrating the day we stopped the alien invasion!

[Dumb Ideologies]

Yeah, absolutely the best way to be. People can spot someone trying too hard a mile off, and it's a bit cringe-worthy to watch, in truth. Forgiveable perhaps if someone is heavily insecure and just wants to fit in, but only if you learn to grow out of it.

That was me when I was younger. When I stopped trying to fit in, to be liked by everyone, that is when I started making real friends.

And then you ate them alive.

[Gallade]

Egging on the oil crisis. Good enough.

Eggs are never good in an oil crisis. That stuff stings like hell when it spits at you.

Look, we can't put all our future profitability in one solar plant basket.

That's the wittiest way I could phrase the point. Don't judge me.

[Jute]

A handful of people may remember you. But as people leave the site and others join the site, you are nothing more than an ex nation amongst a world that's moved on.

At least I'm in the Awesome/funny NS Quotes thread. XD

Well, me too. As a subject of a poem quoted there

[Dyakovo]

That was me when I was younger. When I stopped trying to fit in, to be liked by everyone, that is when I started making real friends.

And then you ate them alive.

Nonsense. I killed them first. It's annoying when your food struggles.

[Allancia]

And then you ate them alive.

Nonsense. I killed them first. It's annoying when your food struggles.

Then don't eat children. I like them mobile, but that's just me.

[Lordieth]

Yeah, absolutely the best way to be. People can spot someone trying too hard a mile off, and it's a bit cringe-worthy to watch, in truth. Forgiveable perhaps if someone is heavily insecure and just wants to fit in, but only if you learn to grow out of it.

That was me when I was younger. When I stopped trying to fit in, to be liked by everyone, that is when I started making real friends.

I sort of came at it the other way. I hit Secondary school, and had no idea how to fit in at all. It was a tough learning experience, but I learned how to fit in with most groups, because "myself" didn't fit in at all, because I hadn't really developed any sense of self. So I became a sort of social chameleon. I wouldn't say I was popular, but I had a lot of friends, but then you leave school, hit college, and realise you'd have to go through it all again, and that's when I realised that it was a shallow pursuit, and knew enough to make a select few friends I enjoyed the company of.

[The Serbian Empire]

And fame can come from after death. Nobody would have remembered Buren Skeen, Friday Hassler, or Ricky Knotts if it weren't for their deaths.

Who?

These are men whose names are permanently encapsulated as drivers who died while racing. Skeen died at Darlington in 1965, Hassler at Daytona in 1972, and Knotts died in 1981 at the same track that claimed Hassler.

[Jute]

So there's been this techno festival right next to my dorm the entire day... so much for enjoying a peaceful summer day?

[Lordieth]

Eggs are never good in an oil crisis. That stuff stings like hell when it spits at you.

Look, we can't put all our future profitability in one solar plant basket.

That's the wittiest way I could phrase the point. Don't judge me.

Missed a pun opportunity in going for solar egg-plant basket, there, but it still works. smileyface.gif

[Allancia]

So there's been this techno festival right next to my dorm the entire day... so much for enjoying a peaceful summer day?

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

[Charlia]

At least I'm in the Awesome/funny NS Quotes thread. XD

Well, me too. As a subject of a poem quoted there

Now what poem could that be?

[Lordieth]

So there's been this techno festival right next to my dorm the entire day... so much for enjoying a peaceful summer day?

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

[Allancia]

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

Well, at least because of him a pretty kick-ass comic got written by Alan Moore.

[Laerod]

So there's been this techno festival right next to my dorm the entire day... so much for enjoying a peaceful summer day?

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Pretty sure Jute lives in Germany.

[Italios]

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

Americans celebrate by blowing things up, Brits celebrate almost being blowing up.

Perfect harmony.

[Jute]

Well, me too. As a subject of a poem quoted there

Now what poem could that be?

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[Italios]

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Pretty sure Jute lives in Germany.

Baltic Sea, he said. I don't think Germany counts as Baltic Sea, apologies if I'm wrong here.

[Jute]

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

At least you have a November holiday?

[Charlia]

Anytime near or around the 4th of July is guaranteed to be loud and abrasive. I don't know what to tell you, man.

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

Eh, the mask is cool.

Now what poem could that be?

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=98380&p=25062151&hilit=jute#p25062151

LOL I thought that was it.

[Allancia]

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

Americans celebrate by blowing things up, Brits celebrate almost being blowing up.

Perfect harmony.

It's almost like they used to be part of an empire...

[Italios]

Americans celebrate by blowing things up, Brits celebrate almost being blowing up.

Perfect harmony.

It's almost like they used to be part of an empire...

They were until 1776, when America declared F for freedom. And also farenheit.

[Kannap]

A handful of people may remember you. But as people leave the site and others join the site, you are nothing more than an ex nation amongst a world that's moved on.

And some disappear for a long time to comeback. I left when Kannap was still widely thought of as female, Gallade wasn't pregnant, and I was anxious about many things and still believed falsely that I was male both biologically and mentally. The former I will always be, but the latter I am not. I am Marisa.

Imma edit it into my sig that folks can use female or male pronouns to refer to me, I'm fine with either. If female pronouns to refer to me are more comfortable for you, go wild.

[Lordieth]

Move to the UK *nod*. The only difference is you'll have to put up with them on 5th November. We celebrate a terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament. True story.

At least you have a November holiday?

Guy Fawkes' Day isn't a public holiday here. Much sadness.

[Ethel mermania]

Reality check; a few hundred years from now, most of us are never going to be remembered. We'll be records in a computer, writing on a gravestone, words in an archive. A lucky few of us will find some way of contributing and be remembered, but most of us will be long-forgotten.

As Ethy said, life's too short, and it's certainly too short to give a damn about how popular you are. All the popular kids I knew at school who everyone looked up to threw their lives away for popularity. Popularity is fleeting, and misleading. It makes us feel like we belong, or that we're worth something, but true worth comes from finding our own worth. Not by the worth determined by others.

And fame can come from after death. Nobody would have remembered Buren Skeen, Friday Hassler, or Ricky Knotts if it weren't for their deaths.

Who?

[Lordieth]

And some disappear for a long time to comeback. I left when Kannap was still widely thought of as female, Gallade wasn't pregnant, and I was anxious about many things and still believed falsely that I was male both biologically and mentally. The former I will always be, but the latter I am not. I am Marisa.

Imma edit it into my sig that folks can use female or male pronouns to refer to me, I'm fine with either. If female pronouns to refer to me are more comfortable for you, go wild.

Which do you prefer?