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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 26, 2011, 10:15:11 PM
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I think this will be the 4th year in a row I've done since being here on EB.
How was your year.
This might be the first time that this might actually be a yay year. I was genuinely surprised.
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By most traditional metrics o life measurement I really have no room to complain. I get what I want when I want and all I need to do is not fuck around at work. Life is grand even tho I bitch a lot.
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Started nay ended yay.
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yay, got a job passed calculus it was aight
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Definitely a yay :heartbeat
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YAY, got a nice job - that's about it really.
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It started out catastrophically nay, thanks to a gay 2010, but now it's slightly leaning towards the yay kind of gay.
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2011 was a rebuilding year for the Joe Molotov franchise.
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First half was really great. Best time in years. Hectic and stressful, but fun. Second half started out with some odd health concerns. It was still good, just a drop from the first half. Overall 2011 was good.
The entire year went by so fast. I can barely remember what happened in September, October, and November.
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I have a feeling 2012 will be bad though. Won't be herp derp end of the world Mayan bad, but bleh. My grandma's cancer came back, so we've been dealing with that. She's doing quite well but I just have a bad feeling about next year. Just hits me with a ton of bricks knowing I might not have any grandparents soon
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Half yay, half nay. More nay than yay I suppose.
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Started gay, went to yay and now is nay. A full spectrum!
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Wife votes 'Gay'. :supergay
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2011 was yay for me. 2012 should be yay with a bit of nay thrown in when Lil' Gundam does not let us sleep.
Two more months of freedom.
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eh...
Half yay, half nay. More nay than yay I suppose.
or this
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Nay for the 16th year in a row. :fbm
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Last year was the first yay in a loooong time. Hoping 2012 is more yayful.
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Nay for the 16th year in a row. :fbm
The human equalivant of the 08 Detroit Lions :'(
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It's been a YAY year. It started off NAY, as I'm pretty sure this is the year of My Big Middle Age Crisis. Somehow it got turned around into a Middle Age Opportunity, by an even bigger "crisis." It turns out most crises are opportunities when viewed from the proper angle.
2012 is going to be very challenging, but it will also be the year I get to do a job I'm even better at than the one I've been doing for years.
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Started off totally nay gay. Then became just nay and stayed there until now. 2012 needs to be yay
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This year sucked for me. Nay.
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All my years are good.
Got a better paying job once again, bought a big house and to top it off, I discovered wittle baby fishies in my fish tank yesterday. :heart
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I can't describe how much I hate you every time this thread is made, Rebiak.
I hope those little fishies die.
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Link me to the threads of previous years so I can relive the glory.
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I had loads of sex in 2011.
2012 more of it.
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Link me to the threads of previous years so I can relive the glory.
Last year's (http://i.imgur.com/gEB4B.jpg).
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2009 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=32813.msg997833#msg997833)
2010 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=35892.msg1256847#msg1256847)
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Arent you afraid the house prices will drop even further Rebiak?
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2009 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=32813.msg997833#msg997833)
2010 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=35892.msg1256847#msg1256847)
Not only was it the worst year of my life, it but it was extremely terrible for the rest of the family. 2011 is definitely gonna be better, there is literally no way but up for us.
Edit: Unless I die, of course. Definitely the only possible way down.
Well I didn't die, so I guess it's a yay.
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Arent you afraid the house prices will drop even further Rebiak?
Not really, I bought a house big enough to raise 3 children in, in a place I'm content living the rest of my life.
Also, I financed in a way that allows me to pay for it with half of my current pay, leaving me room to switch careers.
So basically, if the house prices, my career or my relationship goes to shit (or all of them at once), I'm still covered.
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Nay. 1000 times nay.
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Overall, 2011 was mostly yay. Graduated college, got a real job and started to get my future on track, although I went through a bunch of personal shit (but it's all fine now so the year was still pretty good).
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Not really, I bought a house big enough to raise 3 children in, in a place I'm content living the rest of my life.
Also, I financed in a way that allows me to pay for it with half of my current pay, leaving me room to switch careers.
So basically, if the house prices, my career or my relationship goes to shit (or all of them at once), I'm still covered.
Very solid and dutch of you, maybe even old school dutch. One of the thing I admire the most about the low countries is the non flashyness of it all.
low lights include the earthquake, quitting booze, and a miscarriage
Damn. I had a dude threatening to kill me, but that was kind of my own doing.
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Below sea level.
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You didnt know this Borys?
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Also:
Nether-lands
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I already can't remember anything from 2010. That's not a joke. I've developed serious memory problems.
I'm hoping in 2011 will be as swift as 2010. Here's hoping 2012 lives up to the hype.
you stupid fucking asshole
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I thought low as in low income, sorry.
Have you ever been to the Netherlands? :lol
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yay pretty much the whole time
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Gives me hope for the future, biz. Been down on my luck, lately.
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Well, my wife became pregnant in January of this year, and since we hadn't planned on having a kid yet, it started out as a 'nay'. However, time went on, we came around to the idea, and our son was born, and not only is fatherhood not as awful as I initially dreaded, but I'd go so far as to say that I enjoy it. So, we'll call it a 'yay'.
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I have a broken down vehicle in one of the biggest metropolitan cities in the country that utterly relies on vehicular transportation. I've been trying to get a professional full time job, but no avail and it has me utterly broken. Especially since my car is so unreliable, and I have to rely upon to get anywhere to appease potential employers. No reliable car, less opportunity for a job, but without a better job I can't get a better car. Meanwhile college loans are piling up and I have to work at a fucking grocery store just to help my mom out, while my dad travels around working his ass off while he has goddamn cancer.
2011 sucked.
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Sounds like you need the promise of discipline, adventure, and steady pay checks twice a month. :american
I told myself if I didn't have a steady job by 2012 I would join the navy but I don't think they'll take me. I'm still overweight.
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Well, my wife became pregnant in January of this year, and since we hadn't planned on having a kid yet, it started out as a 'nay'. However, time went on, we came around to the idea, and our son was born, and not only is fatherhood not as awful as I initially dreaded, but I'd go so far as to say that I enjoy it. So, we'll call it a 'yay'.
How long have you been married and what's it like being a father?
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How long have you been married and what's it like being a father?
Been married for... 17 months now. We've been together for closing in on five years now, and known each other longer than that.
Parenthood is an interesting change that I had thought was a few years away. It's certainly... something. It's not all sunshine and roses. The first month to month and a half -- while still rewarding -- lead to many days of walking about feeling like a zombie given the inexperience and anxiety of dealing with a baby that is completely reliant on you and also has no concept of your sleep schedule.
But, eventually you simultaneously get used to less sleep while the baby starts to develop something of a routine. And you forget that changing diapers once disgusted you, and the child starts to show signs of being a real human being with emotions other than incessant crying. It all comes together and starts to feel incredibly rewarding.
The obvious downside is that more responsibility means less time to do whatever you want. But, it's all worth it. Why that is can only be articulated poorly, but it is.
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Last couple weeks have been surreal as fuck.
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how so?
Finally got the nerve to end my long term relationship, now I'm talking with someone who's been trolling me on GAF for months. It's fucking strange.
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boogie? :o
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boogie? :o
timedog.
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back at work today, and events have confirmed this is a total nay
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after further consideration, fuck even pretending. this year was a naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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the faggiest fucking year ever
:(
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I smell breakups and lots of drama.
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the faggiest fucking year ever
:(
Isn't that a yay for you?
no I mean it in the homophobic sense
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Fairly nay :'( Dad died, I dropped out of uni ('taking a break'), working in a kitchen, relatively poor compared to previous years working in IT though kitchen work is mindless and easy as well as physically tiring which is satisfying, a weird ongoing health issue with worrying symptoms (esophageal varices) and a yet to be solved mystery cause which has forced me to stop drinking (too much :P) and my doctor also wants me to stop smoking and drinking coffee >:( my life without such vices is a little hard to comprehend. Got 2 months worth of nicotine patches I'm going to try after the New Year and I've finished my current pouch and am down to 2 coffees a day while working and 1 or none when I'm not. Still have the odd beer but haven't been drunk for a month or more.
On the upside lifes fairly easy, I've got a supportive partner and enough quality vidja backlogged to last till the apocalypse. I'm kind of looking forward to 2012 as a bum year filled with doing whatever!! Booked in for a holiday north of Auckland which will be HOT and full of golden sandy beaches.
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By most traditional metrics o life measurement I really have no room to complain. I get what I want when I want and all I need to do is not fuck around at work. Life is grand even tho I bitch a lot.
this, pretty much.
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Thanks Business. I plan on continuing IT but it's hard to find a good job and I'd already had three years experience working front of house and was interested in getting something in hospitality again but didn't want to deal with stupid customers anymore so I'm trying out kitchen life. Pay cut definitely sucks, but there's nothing quite like good, physical, fun work. Hope 2012 is smoother for you now you've found a career you enjoy, I toyed with the idea of trying officers training a few years back because they pay your way through uni if you get through, but I'm too lazy.
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Thanks Business. I plan on continuing IT but it's hard to find a good job and I'd already had three years experience working front of house and was interested in getting something in hospitality again but didn't want to deal with stupid customers anymore so I'm trying out kitchen life. Pay cut definitely sucks, but there's nothing quite like good, physical, fun work. Hope 2012 is smoother for you now you've found a career you enjoy, I toyed with the idea of trying officers training a few years back because they pay your way through uni if you get through, but I'm too lazy.
There have been a number of TV specials in Japan about salarymen who were laid off after the Japanese economic bubble burst. Some of them left the city to become farmers; apparently Japan's countryside has become tremendously depopulated due to young people moving to the cities, and the government has some kind of program which pays people who are willing to relocate to the "inaka" (rural areas).
What I noticed is that the photos they'd show of the salarymen working in the office were these pale, meek, stolid looking guys, and then they'd cut to these same guys in the present-day. They're thinner, skin like raisins, commonly missing a couple teeth which I'd consider necessary to my continued self-esteem... but their whole aspect is healthier, and they are full of (gap-toothed) smiles, nearly constantly. These guys are getting up at 04:30~05:00 every day, and busting their ass, but they look like they're going to outlive their co-workers who are still in the office.
The job I just left, I'd seen several people have nervous breakdowns, and many more times their number quit the company to "go somewhere better" which actually turned out to be the same or worse.
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gay
so much homo
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Not really, I bought a house big enough to raise 3 children in, in a place I'm content living the rest of my life.
Also, I financed in a way that allows me to pay for it with half of my current pay, leaving me room to switch careers.
So basically, if the house prices, my career or my relationship goes to shit (or all of them at once), I'm still covered.
Very solid and dutch of you, maybe even old school dutch. One of the thing I admire the most about the low countries is the non flashyness of it all.
low lights include the earthquake, quitting booze, and a miscarriage
Damn. I had a dude threatening to kill me, but that was kind of my own doing.
Pshh. I've had so many guns pointed at me that I'm more disturbed when I stub my toe then when somebody threatens me.
Dcharlie, damn. If ever you should find yourself in America, lemme know, I'll get ya faded proper!
And this year blew hard, fucking cheap electronic ballasts that catch fire real easily, and moldy mid-fall rains suck dick.
By the end of next summer, things should be fucking EXCELLENT.
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Definitely ended on a gay note.
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Definitely ended on a gay note.
couldn't have ended on a gayer note than mine, i was involved (ie happened to be walking past) an exploding aerosol can at work (ie one second i'm minding my own damn business the next i'm standing inside a ball of fucking FIRE). it was a can of vegetable cooking spray that got knocked over and rolled under the flattop. it singed my stubble, eyelashes, completely "shaved" both forearms, gave me a haircut, and got me pretty good on my hand and arm that was facing it - first degree burns up my entire arm right to where my t shirt started and second degree burns on my hand, took some skin off the tip of my nose too, the ER wrapped me up like a mummy
long story short i really need to get off my ass, finish college, and find a nice safe desk job
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thanks man
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Hey Drew, whatever happened with that one disease you were suffering from (IIRC) earlier in the year? Has that gotten better for you?
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2010 was fucking miserable but 2011 shat all over it in terms of being shitty.
so nay
low lights include the earthquake, quitting booze, and a miscarriage
Holy shit, how did I miss this?
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I can't imagine it.
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2011 was the worst year in my life. Awful girl experiences, had some health scares, my newborn nephew had a stroke and is pretty much stunted from now on (he probably won't ever walk or talk), school was really hard, I've been rejected by 10 jobs that I wanted to get hired at...it's fucking sucked.
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so is that nay or gay
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pretty bad ass 2011 for me. 3rd year being self employed, moved the fuck outta the silicon valley and just overall a much higher quality of life. hope everyone has a good 2012, happy new year.
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Hey Drew, whatever happened with that one disease you were suffering from (IIRC) earlier in the year? Has that gotten better for you?
yeah, the only thing that bothers me now is my hands, my feet bounced back 100% quitting adderall really helped everything, i'm convinced that shit caused all my problems, now i just need to quit smoking and wait the 7 years it'll take for my cells to replace themselves
Also get better Drew!
thanks! i'm getting more sympathy here than i am at work, all they seem to be worried about is when i can come back
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seriously hope everyone's 2012 is better than their 2011
i'm not off to a good start myself, but 2011 was pretty godawful so i'm hoping somehow i manage to pull it off
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thanks! i'm getting more sympathy here than i am at work, all they seem to be worried about is when i can come back
That sucks, duder. Shouldn't they be worried about whether or not you're going to sue them?
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2011 kinda sucked. My father got sick and passed with a respiratory illness I had never heard of before. I had to take care of him for about 5 months as he got sicker and passed. We always had a not so great relationship and it didn't get any better and only got worse over that final time in many ways unfortuntely. Made me realize how shitty the final days are for anyone as their helth declines. It's not all noble and heartwarming like a made for tv movie.
So yeah 2012 should hopefully be able to top that.
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That sucks, duder. Shouldn't they be worried about whether or not you're going to sue them?
thats what my dad just said, i just got off the phone with jew boy and he gave me all kinds of shit about it being the first time he's heard of it. how is that my fucking problem?