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[Blzer]

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I chuckled, sue me.

[Speedy]

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I'm at a hotel and I see a beautiful bosendorfer piano. Been here a couple of days itching to play it. Guy was playing today and I noticed he was sitting on the couch....it was my chance!

Me: Man, you sound great! Do you mind while you're resting if i play a quick song?

Him: Nobody can touch that piano while I'm here.

Me: Excuse me?

Him: Only i can play it. I'm have a contract with them (hotel) to play. So bye.

........

Get the crap out of here dude.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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I'm at a hotel and I see a beautiful bosendorfer piano. Been here a couple of days itching to play it. Guy was playing today and I noticed he was sitting on the couch....it was my chance!

Me: Man, you sound great! Do you mind while you're resting if i play a quick song?

Him: Nobody can touch that piano while I'm here.

Me: Excuse me?

Him: Only i can play it. I'm have a contract with them (hotel) to play. So bye.

........

Get the crap out of here dude.

I hate people like that, so insecure about their own abilities, always afraid someone else is going to be better at their craft than they are. I have worked with (and still do) several people like this over the years. And they are miserable to be around.

[pietasterp]

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I'm at a hotel and I see a beautiful bosendorfer piano. Been here a couple of days itching to play it. Guy was playing today and I noticed he was sitting on the couch....it was my chance!

Me: Man, you sound great! Do you mind while you're resting if i play a quick song?

Him: Nobody can touch that piano while I'm here.

Me: Excuse me?

Him: Only i can play it. I'm have a contract with them (hotel) to play. So bye.

........

Get the crap out of here dude.

There's a nice way to say that. What a d- that guy is.

[Master Live 013]

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Right, I understand why he might say no, but why you gotta be like that :P

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Couple of random thoughts that came to me in one helluva pizza-induced bizarre dream.

If they did a sequel to the Jackie Robinson movie 42, would it be called 43?

Why isn't there a porn parody titled Thank-you For Your Cervix?

[TheMatrix31]

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Couple of random thoughts that came to me in one helluva pizza-induced bizarre dream.

If they did a sequel to the Jackie Robinson movie 42, would it be called 43?

Why isn't there a porn parody titled Thank-you For Your Cervix?

It appears there is.

[Majingir]

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Speaking of pizza.....

I went on a site just asking for tips on improving the pizzas I make and are people sure picky or what.

It's why I hate asking online for any topic because you always get the "experts" who look down on anyone who isn't an expert like themselves and are always like "get a pizza oven" or "what do you mean pizza? Thin crust and thick crust aren't names. Is it chicago style, Detroit, new york, italian?"

Ok thanks, I'm not a restaurant, I'm literally just making some basic pizza in my kitchen....I just want basic advice like the temp to set my oven to, if using Shredded cheese is better or if I should shred it myself and so on, but the experts act like I need to know every single technical detail about it.

Same with when I asked advice on getting a TV years back. People are like "if you're getting anything less than X, then why are you even watching tv?". Ok, next time I'll spend $1500+ on a TV instead of one of the $600 ones from the same big name brands I'm looking at that the average person has.

[LambertandHam]

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Same with when I asked advice on getting a TV years back. People are like "if you're getting anything less than X, then why are you even watching tv?". Ok, next time I'll spend $1500+ on a TV instead of one of the $600 ones from the same big name brands I'm looking at that the average person has.

With the price of TV's now at most big box stores if I can get 3-5 years out of one with daily use for $300-600 I'm happy. A lot of it comes down to investment for me imho.



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[Ghost Of The Year]

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File this under ''Weird facts, strange but true.''

John Belushi is buried on Martha's Vineyard island.

[dubcity]

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File this under ''Weird facts, strange but true.''

John Belushi is buried on Martha's Vineyard island.

33 is so young. Just was reminded that Sam Kinison died at 38. Once you get to around that age you realize how crazy young that is.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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33 is so young. Just was reminded that Sam Kinison died at 38. Once you get to around that age you realize how crazy young that is.

I feel like everyone has a strange but true fact or two.
Kinison's is he was a Pentecostal preacher for seven years.

[Majingir]

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Random thought I saw someone post a while back that I definitely agree with the more I think about it.

Video games are one of if not the best "bang for your buck" entertainment purchase.

Let's say you're spending even $80 on a game. How many hours in that games lifespan are you probably playing it for? Now compare that to how much it costs to go to the movies, or a sporting event, or any sort of event in general vs the amount of time you'll be there for.

Not saying invest all your time and money into gaming, but from a hobby standpoint, it definitely is better/cheaper than most others.

[bcruise]

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Random thought I saw someone post a while back that I definitely agree with the more I think about it.

Video games are one of if not the best "bang for your buck" entertainment purchase.

Let's say you're spending even $80 on a game. How many hours in that games lifespan are you probably playing it for? Now compare that to how much it costs to go to the movies, or a sporting event, or any sort of event in general vs the amount of time you'll be there for.

Not saying invest all your time and money into gaming, but from a hobby standpoint, it definitely is better/cheaper than most others.

This is how I always tried to justify the hobby to my boomer parents (don't mean that derogatively, they're actually from that generation and had different values). I don't know if they ever really bought into that explanation, but they never really stopped me or pushed back on it either.

I used to be well over 1000 hours per year on The Show, and am still consistently around 500-600 hours on each year's game today. Even just one game in that series pays for itself over and over again in the time I spend with it. And since I'm also big into single player RPG's (many of which are massive time sinks) it applies to those as well.

[Majingir]

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This is how I always tried to justify the hobby to my boomer parents (don't mean that derogatively, they're actually from that generation and had different values). I don't know if they ever really bought into that explanation, but they never really stopped me or pushed back on it either.

I used to be well over 1000 hours per year on The Show, and am still consistently around 500-600 hours on each year's game today. Even just one game in that series pays for itself over and over again in the time I spend with it. And since I'm also big into single player RPG's (many of which are massive time sinks) it applies to those as well.

I'm not even someone who plays huge amount of hours anymore, but let's say a game costs me $50 (I sometimes just wait a few months after a games released to buy it when black friday sales happen) and I play it for even a few hours a month for a year. That will definitely accumulate more hours in a year than dollars spent. Sports games especially, I don't get them yearly, so multiply the hours by 2 or 3 years.

Speaking of the older generation, I wonder how much different games are viewed now and in the future compared to the past. Older generations never understood because at best their generation grew up on pong and it really was just viewed as a short term hobby for kids, no different than a toy you buy. The parents of kids today are the generation who grew up on Nintendo and playstation so they understand gaming more and of course are more likely to play games with kids too (if I were a parent I'd definitely pull one over on them and a game I want to buy I'd pass it off as THEIR birthday or Christmas present since they'd be playing it too).