View Full Version : Damn... why me, god? WHY ME?!
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 09:23 AM
My parents are telling me to go outside today, get some fresh air and play basketball or some shit. I HATE BASKETBALL! I can't understand what the point of it is. Why the hell should I block someone? Can't I just grab their arm, break it, and take the ball from them? And what the hell is this checking deal? I don't understand shit about the rules of basketball.
ARGH!!! The problem is, my parents also don't want my brother and me to play computers during the school year. They don't get home until 7, so naturally we get on when we want, but still. This makes weekends where I have homework agonizing. I do a bad job because I'm so rushed to get on the comp, as that's the only time I can "legally" get on.
So... if someone could explain basketball a bit for me, it'd help. If you can sign this post as a petition to my parents to let me play during the school year, that's just as good.
NeoTassadar
2003-07-12, 09:29 AM
In basketball, beat the shit out of the other guy until you get enough fouls to be kicked out of that game. Relax. Repeat.
Edit: ^May be extreme^, but basketball is the worst sport ever devised, next to log rolling or whatever you call it (lumberjacks on the water).
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 09:43 AM
I agree. Better yet, bring a gun. Other guy says you suck at Basketball, you cap him in the kneecap.
I also hate volleyball, why do we do that in gym class? There's this ugly girl named Samantha, she always comments how much people suck at volleyball. I once asked her what she can do well besides volleyball and basketball, something that can be used in the real world. She drew up nothing, I calmly stated that I proved my point. I do computers and guitar, she does athletics shit. Computer skills mean I won't need jack shit of a college education for that, I'm learning to program right now. That gives me four more years of life to use.
Revolution
2003-07-12, 09:47 AM
Well, I have an idea:
Play till 6:45., get off the computer, bust out a book and act like you are reading it when they come home. Delete your tracks on the computer before you log off though. In case they check. Deny using it. Do a bunch of jumping jacks from 6:45 to 6:55 to work up a sweat, then let it dry, tell em you were done working out and decided to read a book.
Just an idea. Modify as you see fit.
OR, wait till you live on your own out of the parents house like me and do what ever the fuck you want :mad:
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 09:57 AM
I'm in 8th grade next year, it'll be a bit... *sobbing*
Onizuka
2003-07-12, 10:03 AM
Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
I do a bad job because I'm so rushed to get on the comp, as that's the only time I can "legally" get on.
That's why your parents are taking away your comp playing privalages.
try for maybe 2 weeks, i know this may be hard, but try doing your homework right when you get home from school then when your parents get home, tell them youve already done it. you show it to them, they are impressed and blah blah maybe youll get your comp back, instead of having to play illegally.
But i think the best solution lies where when you start your homework (not project) you cant play computer for another 4 hours during the weekend that way you wont rush yourself and do poorly.
Just suggestions........
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 10:07 AM
I'm a straight-A kid, I get maybe an hour of homework every month. I have no issues with schoolwork, I get it done at school. Homework, get it done at school as well.
Onizuka
2003-07-12, 10:10 AM
Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
I get maybe an hour of homework every month.
!!!!
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 10:14 AM
Read that post, I'm in 8th grade next year, 7th grade was a cakewalk, 8th will be, too. I got one C that year, PE. The Straight A thing was referring to the classes that are real, that matter to some degree. My Related Arts classes in 7th were Chorus, I have no intention of singing bad music or being drilled for info about composers who died 2-4 hundred years ago. Social something, a feelgood class that has no place in real life. And two PEs, and I have no intent on being a star football player in my future.
OneManArmy
2003-07-12, 12:01 PM
kids suck. ha ha ha
Kuraltai
2003-07-12, 12:02 PM
Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
Read that post, I'm in 8th grade next year, 7th grade was a cakewalk, 8th will be, too. I got one C that year, PE. The Straight A thing was referring to the classes that are real, that matter to some degree. My Related Arts classes in 7th were Chorus, I have no intention of singing bad music or being drilled for info about composers who died 2-4 hundred years ago. Social something, a feelgood class that has no place in real life. And two PEs, and I have no intent on being a star football player in my future.
Okay, I think I understand ... your 1 hour a month is the real homework the other hours are the fluffy stuff that's not real, though the school and your parents think it is, am I close?
Fine arts was my major so I won't harass you about that ... to each his own ... but, social studies not real life? Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but alot of that does apply, information wise if nothing else.
Sounds like you'd rather be digitized and play inside a computer all day ... maybe someday that'll be possible. Good luck!
OneManArmy
2003-07-12, 12:03 PM
gee wait until you have *gasp* a full time job!! then something else will be dictating your precious computer time.... look dude, get a life....
NightWalker XI
2003-07-12, 12:15 PM
You could go outside you know, its not healthy staying in all day long...
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 12:23 PM
I'd like a job, but you know, there's those damn labor laws. 7 hours of school a day, 2 are related arts, one is always band, then the others you saw. Ethnic studies! That was the name I was thinking of, just thought of it. Yeah, that's the class teaching you not to be racist even though you aren't. Science, English, American Studies (wish we could just to world studies, more interesting), Reading, and Math. That's my day. Then I come home and sit around, work out at the gym, play on comp if I'm in the mood, walk the dog, mow lawn, pet cat, etc.. Pretty boring, except for driving, that's fun. Wish my cat did weird stuff, then I could video and send to planet's funniest animals on animal planet and get $100 a pop. Pity we lost our old cat, she used to crawl inside the pool table and sleep with the pool balls, that would work. I wasn't around back then, it was my sister's cat when she was like 5.
What else is there to do? I'm bored as hell during weekdays, talking to you guys is the only real thing I enjoy.
NightWalker XI
2003-07-12, 12:26 PM
Well I know what you mean there, I dunno what to do lately, all I do is go to College lwarn come back and go on the net, not that much else besides the days where I go swimming...
My life is shit, it has no purpose....(yes I am feeling pretty miserable right now)
Robot
2003-07-12, 12:51 PM
Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
Social something, a feelgood class that has no place in real life.
Yeah, because Social Studies only teaches you about the history of our country and introduces base economics and other important pre-requisites for many jobs in the corporate sector.
pretty useless, huh?
and i'd really recommend spending more time on your homework and less on the computer. your parents are far, far more likely to be happy and allow more lenience for you on the computer if your marks shoot up
Lonehunter
2003-07-12, 01:41 PM
I never had homework. The last time I had homework was in the 10th grade.
Dear Crazy Ass Parents,
Let the poor kid play f**ckin' video games. They improve reaction time and intelligence, it's clinically proven.
Bismarck
2003-07-12, 01:46 PM
Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
I'm a straight-A kid, I get maybe an hour of homework every month. I have no issues with schoolwork, I get it done at school. Homework, get it done at school as well.
He he he, i was in the 8th grade last year, you get a fuc*load more homework than one hour a month. I got around 1 - 2 hours every night.
EDIT: then again i was in all advanced classes.
eXoSloth
2003-07-12, 01:46 PM
Homework gives me no problem at all. I got one B+ in english last year and all the rest were A- or better. I might have spent an hour on homework each day last year.
Also, if you are bored during the week then try joining the band program. I had 5 hours of drumline during the week plus later in the year we had competitions on weekends. There are I was rarely bored during the week.
Bismarck
2003-07-12, 01:48 PM
Band SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Join a team, i chose soccer.
or wait you hate sports, uh then I dont know what to tell you
Lonehunter
2003-07-12, 01:51 PM
FOOTBALL!!! I played soccer and football and football is the best! I played linebacker my junior and senior year.
Bismarck
2003-07-12, 01:54 PM
Yeah but my high school's football team is state champ, or second place actually. So that means NO ONE, unless you're really good gets on the team. We had 300 tryouts this summer. Well I guess 1700 students will do that to ya
Onizuka
2003-07-12, 02:06 PM
i remember in middle school i had at least 2 hours every night..... and it only got worse from there on.....
Kaltagesta
2003-07-12, 02:08 PM
nightwalker might be able to relate to me on this, or any english kid, but the only time i ever go out now is when i go to other peoples houses
normally every saturday or friday nighjt, or both, about 8 of us [yeah, thats 4 girls and 4 boys!! wweee! actually, its not that bad considering i go to an all boys grammar school].
but the reason i never go out is because, basically, we are all 'grungers'. i dunno how much of a problem this is in usa, but in england, if your a 'grunger' [by that i mean wear baggy cloathes. personally, i hate nirvana and all that depressing shit, but thats not really the important thing here] and you go out after, say 6, you WILL get beaten up! seriously, its so fucking gay.
Kaikou
2003-07-12, 02:20 PM
Eighth grade...damn dude you have no idea how good you have it...Wait'll you hit junior.
Maybe it's just me but in eighth grade there was very little home work, projects were simple and most often involved describing an animal and it's certain habitats and such. But hit 11th grade and you're making giant scale 3D models of uranium atoms and writing 20 page reports (size 12 font single spaced) about them.
Geh..school...
Lonehunter
2003-07-12, 02:25 PM
Originally posted by Kaikou
Eighth grade...damn dude you have no idea how good you have it...Wait'll you hit junior.
Maybe it's just me but in eighth grade there was very little home work, projects were simple and most often involved describing an animal and it's certain habitats and such. But hit 11th grade and you're making giant scale 3D models of uranium atoms and writing 20 page reports (size 12 font single spaced) about them.
Geh..school...
:stupid: :nod: He's right. Especially science, whoa. I used to like science, not no more.
Kaltagesta
2003-07-12, 02:25 PM
i dont see why we do chesmistry? whats the point? learnign little detials about very important things such as the atomic mass and convalent bonding patterns of chemicals we have never heared of and the best thing is, we cant even SEE them!
for the small percentage of people who are going to become chemists, i dont see why we all have to do it. or learning how to pull out elaborate and pointless little subtle meanins from shakspearean poems - i dont see it aiding me in future life.
NightWalker XI
2003-07-12, 02:27 PM
Originally posted by Kaikou
Eighth grade...damn dude you have no idea how good you have it...Wait'll you hit junior.
Maybe it's just me but in eighth grade there was very little home work, projects were simple and most often involved describing an animal and it's certain habitats and such. But hit 11th grade and you're making giant scale 3D models of uranium atoms and writing 20 page reports (size 12 font single spaced) about them.
Geh..school...
LoL Kaikou just wait till you hit College like me...prepare for looooong pieces of homework......
The again some peep will come along now and say "Hey Night, wait till you get a job like me...."
Me? Work? NEVER!
Ill become a Rurouni! :D
Mr1337Duck
2003-07-12, 02:44 PM
Why do you have chemistry? It's simple. Our world is dominated by violence, in chemistry you learn to blow shit up with home-made explosives, simple, huh?
By the way, I said it was ethnic studies earlier, I was just geting class names confused. Ethnic Studies is a new class, they teach you how to not be racist. Give me a report assignment, one page on the animal they assign, I'll get it done in 30 minutes. My only problem is when they force me to pick my own, I hate choosing. Give me some animal like a ninja monkey, and I'll crank out a good report in 30 minutes. Aye... my sis said junior year is the hardest. Looking back on her reports she wrote, I find it hard to disagree.
My grades are fine, the C wasn't because of anything I was doing in class, it was because they're really strict on wearing your gym clothes, every time you forget they slice your grade one letter. I forgot twice after the weekend to put them back in my backpack.
Bismarck
2003-07-12, 02:55 PM
hmm, gte beat up for wearing baggy clothes. It's quite the opposite over here. Baggy clothes are the norm for guys. And if you say "i hate nirvana" ever again I'm gonna kick your ass. Never insult the god, Kurt Cobain. He spoke to the genration lost like no one could. And btw i feel sorry for you getting beat up for being a "grunger" (whatever that means). However because of columbine, if you wear trench coat everyone thinks you're a mass-murderer
EDIT: ramble, ramble, ramble
Onizuka
2003-07-12, 04:12 PM
yeah but he also killed himself... i lose a great amount of respect to anyone willing to commit suicide :rolleyes:
eXoSloth
2003-07-12, 04:36 PM
So does that mean that all the dorks who wear the shorts that come up past their knees and all the other weird shit like that are beating up the "grungers"?!?!?!? Really quite the opposite here
Kaltagesta
2003-07-12, 04:52 PM
no i think england is a lot different to america cultural wise. basically [m being broadly stereotypical here, but its just to save time] there are 2 main types of people:
grungers: people that like rock/metal/punk/punky-pop [like LTJ, blink etc] and are like vanu - completely harmless. they/we [yes, i am preobably being biased] just min d our own business, wear baggy cloathes, skateboard but get the shit beaten out of us for it.
Gary's/Kevs'Pikies/Townies/Fucktards[eh]: they like garage, rnb, all that shit, like drum'n'bass. they all think they are black [ali g is basically taking the piss out of them, which i think is why hes so much more popular here than in usa]. they go round, hanging out outside offy's trying to get fucking alcopops whihc are like 2% and cost �2 a bottle because getting pissed is soooo cool. they beat up grungers, 'jack their phones wallets etc, but would never go anywhere near anyone unless they have at least 3 times the popel [eg it would take 9 pikies to approach 3 gungers] and they would never say boo to an adult. they are asshats. we hateessss themsssssss, my preciousssssss.
AsylumX
2003-07-12, 10:08 PM
wow, glad i'm not from england
<-------Baggy clothes, black - death - operatic - neo progressive - progressive metal. progressive rock (Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd) grunge/punk rock, classical...hell almost anything that's not pop, country, rap (rnb, whatever the hell you want to call it)...wear silver chains and bracelets, spiked hair depending on my mood....
guess the fuckin pikies would eat me alive
:nazi: :lol:
AsylumX
Peacemaker
2003-07-12, 10:14 PM
I think I would just hurt ppl who didnt like me. Brits are weird htey have two diffrent social classes. Us americans on the other hand we have like 20 diffrent types of ppl.
AsylumX
2003-07-12, 10:20 PM
american? bah no...
<---Canadian Eh? lol
Social classes when you're younger aren't a whole lot different here though. I was lucky enough to grow up in a small town, mind you drug and alcohol use were at about 90%, no one cared if you did it, and peer pressure wasn't a big thing. To each his own was held true. Can't say much for a city, as i've never lived anywhere with more than 8000 people (no, that's not a typo :lol: ) but a lot of my relatives do, and i hear the same from the ones in canada as the ones in the states.
AsylumX
Cauldron Borne
2003-07-12, 11:31 PM
MUAHAHAHAHA!! He's entering 8th grade! Wait til you get to High School kid. then everything becomes clear, and if it doesn't then someone will beat the crap out of you until it does become clear. (I know, I don't understand how, either) Oh, yes:
<--- Baggies, X-country shoes(?), Loud Tees (i.e. 'never under-estimate the power of stupid people in large groups'). and am the biggest trouble-maker in school, and i get away with it! I think my teachers/councelers/principals all hate me and are out to get me :).
Any way: Stupid parents let the stupid kid play his over-addicting stupid games! stupid.
I only play on sundays and during school breaks.
Onizuka
2003-07-12, 11:35 PM
/me hands Cauldron some rytalin
"take it... take it well"
:)
AsylumX
2003-07-12, 11:51 PM
oh, and on the computer thing...someone else suggested be good do your homework and all that shit...listen to him. Complying with your parents earns you more points than argueing with them about getting on the computer. "But mommmmmmm i want to get on the computer! Homework? i rushed through that earlier let me on the computer!"
And all that shit you said isn't important? well, if you want to get through school it is, and i think that should be a major goal on your part, unless you want to live with your parents the rest of your life. If it's easy and you're smart enough to say i don't need this...prove it, do the work and be done with it, you'll regret it later if you don't.
And don't take this as info from someone who's forgotten what high school is like, i just graduated this year. I fucked up a lot in school. I was smart as hell, but i never did anything...in grade 8 i was doing great, didn't have to do homework, great i'm still getting 90s on tests and report cards...kept slipping bit by bit. Graduation rolls around and i'm kicking myself in the ass because i'm a god damned idiot and i'm almost sure i didn't graduate. I passed english with a 53 and french (hey, it's canada, and i just needed the credit, shitty school nothing better to take) with a 56. Other subjects i half enjoyed were still around 80, but i really wish i actually did work. And don't say it won't happen to you, cus that's what i said and guess what happened :P
If you're :rolleyes: right now, well...do as you wish, but take it from someone who knows, don't fuck it up when it's so easy if you put a little effort in. Do well and you have lots of options at the end of it
AsylumX
DUDE ITS FUCKING SUMMER STOP TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL!!!!!
AsylumX
2003-07-13, 12:08 AM
or, ummm....no
AsylumX
Bismarck
2003-07-13, 03:11 AM
Originally posted by Onizuka
yeah but he also killed himself... i lose a great amount of respect to anyone willing to commit suicide :rolleyes:
In case you didn't know he had a stomach illness that caused extreme pain and suffering. And some ppl I know have a theroy that Courtney Love had him killed.
BUGGER
2003-07-13, 03:15 AM
Originally posted by NeoTassadar
Edit: ^May be extreme^, but basketball is the worst sport ever devised, next to log rolling or whatever you call it (lumberjacks on the water). actaully if ya got satilite that like could stop wat ur watching, its pretty funny to see their faces befor they fall.:rolleyes:
Bismarck
2003-07-13, 03:18 AM
Originally posted by BUGGER33
actaully if ya got satilite that like could stop wat ur watching, its pretty funny to see their faces befor they fall.:rolleyes:
You have stop-screen televison and you use it to watch log-rolling????:confused: :confused: :confused:
i can find some much better purposes for Tivo (or whatever you have):brow:
shinken
2003-07-13, 03:32 AM
Originally posted by NeoTassadar
In basketball, beat the shit out of the other guy until you get enough fouls to be kicked out of that game. Relax. Repeat.
Edit: ^May be extreme^, but basketball is the worst sport ever devised, next to log rolling or whatever you call it (lumberjacks on the water).
i so wish i could play like that at school, the jocks have no comprehinshin of pressure points, u can take many of them down by pressing hard on their shoulder
Bismarck
2003-07-13, 03:33 AM
And then they kick the shit out of you
Happy lil Elf
2003-07-13, 05:14 AM
Never insult the god, Kurt Cobain. He spoke to the genration lost like no one could.
No, Kurt was a manic depressive musician who shot himself. I'm a part of the "lost" generation. We're not lost and we never were. Two points for using a media buzz word though :high five:
BUGGER
2003-07-13, 05:20 AM
Originally posted by Bismarck
You have stop-screen televison and you use it to watch log-rolling????:confused: :confused: :confused:
i can find some much better purposes for Tivo (or whatever you have):brow: its not mine, my friend's mom sells satilites (i forgot which) an they got a shitlaod of tv stuff i never seen before outside of his house. he could play doom on the tv, DOOM ON THE FUCKIN TV! i dont care wat u guys say, but it is like, damn.
and i dont watch it, we wer looking for some football on ESPN but log rolling was on instead....
Sentrosi
2003-07-13, 05:30 AM
If you want to really piss off your parents, tell them that you're interested in playing hockey. Tell them that you have to have them invest at least $400 in equipment in order for you to enjoy the sport, then quit. Your parents will never want to push you to do something you don't want ever again.
I love hockey though. Give it an honest try and if you like it, stick with it.
BUGGER
2003-07-13, 05:38 AM
or log rolling :D
Jesus, who doesn't know how to play basketball?
Im pretty sure there's a good reason not to break other peoples arm just to steal the ball from them. Its a great game when your good at it.
Hope you have better luck next time you play.
Lonehunter
2003-07-13, 01:12 PM
Basketball isn't physical enough.
ParadoxSix
2003-07-13, 01:22 PM
Basketball isn't physical enough.
Basketball is pretty damn physical if you play Power Forward or Center. I've played in highschool, and the normal sized "big man" is at least 6'3" and around 260 lbs. Basketball is much harder at the higher levels of competition(i.e. a highschool team).
I wouldn't recommend constantly fouling in a basketball game either, that would result in the other team taking a time out so they can beat the shit out of you.
Cauldron Borne
2003-07-13, 07:16 PM
Rugby is the ultimate sport. What other sport condones the beating up of other teams? And if you answered football to this question, your wrong. I'll have words with any football 'jock' who says otherwise. Especially if he's a Quarterback, the game was practically invented to protect the precious $#%&@ quarterback. Rugby=you have ball, i want ball; die or give me ball.
And Onizuka, if you ever /hand me anything again, I'll tell you where to stick it, get me? I'm perfectly stable and sane, otherwise I would not be able to come up with plans that can't be traced back to me. You can't need rytolin if you are capable of controling your emotions. If I needed rytolin I would probably be flaming you.
Onizuka
2003-07-13, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by Cauldron Borne
And Onizuka, if you ever /hand me anything again, I'll tell you where to stick it, get me? I'm perfectly stable and sane, otherwise I would not be able to come up with plans that can't be traced back to me. You can't need rytolin if you are capable of controling your emotions. If I needed rytolin I would probably be flaming you.
yeah it was just a joke sheesh. just playin.... chill
Cauldron Borne
2003-07-13, 08:55 PM
I know I was too, sorry.:( Just Joking, No worries?
shinken
2003-07-13, 09:58 PM
Originally posted by Bismarck
And then they kick the shit out of you
actually, the teacher never sees the first person, that has happend in school and i got some one suspended, they didnt see me hurt him but then he got up and tried to beat me up, never got to tho :D
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