I feel a midlife crisis coming on

[Fresh Prince]

Yes the only way to feel good is to buy expensive things to proclaim your worth and cause resentment amongst your peers.

[Flannel Boy]

An adult's IQ and personality traits are stable throughout adulthood, and fairly intractable. All other improvements are window dressing, so I will stick to "can't."
 

[Bildi]

A fucking boner crisis.  Rumer Willis' giant sad chin is here to stay.

I didn't know who the fuck you were for a while either.  We're a very visual bunch, you can't just pull this sort of thing on us!

[Powerslave]

[Bildi]

(this may be the crappiest post I've made on this board yet).

[Powerslave]

trust me, it isn't. When compared to the shit you post on a regular basis to which I cry occassionally to because of the sheer failnessity of it, this one is just gold.

[Bildi]

That's kind of you to say, but deep down I know you think I failed yet again.

[Powerslave]

failurenessityness maximusityness

[Powerslave]

doesnt matter if it's a crap post or not. I can take a hit with my extraordinary 4000+ postcount of legendary material.

[Bildi]

It takes a lot of balls to make a post that features your own avatar.

[Flannel Boy]

An adult's IQ and personality traits are stable throughout adulthood, and fairly intractable. All other improvements are window dressing, so I will stick to "can't."
 

  IQ may be mostly static, but knowledge absolutely is not.  I can't believe you think everything in life outside of IQ and personality is just value-added nonsense.  Just because a lot of people suck and you feel you can't improve your life at all doesn't mean that holds true for everyone.  I've seen a ton of people fail...and I've seen a few turn shit around.  So you can "can't" all you want, but that's more naive, negative, and lazy than some failure who still believes he "can".  God, stop being so fucking depressing.

An increase in crystallized intelligent, which increases for all adults anyway, is not going to affect a meaningful change in a human being whose life outcomes are tied to his or her IQ and personality traits. You may have seen people change their lives, but you have not seen them fundamentally change who they are--because they can't!

[Powerslave]

It takes a lot of balls to make a post that features your own avatar.

[Flannel Boy]

The Mavericks could turn anyone into a pessimist.

[Bildi]

FA & Malek, if you don't mind, SOME of us trying to have an intelligent conversation here.

It takes a lot of balls to make a post that features your own avatar.

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[Powerslave]

FA & Malek, if you don't mind, SOME of us trying to have an intelligent conversation here.

[Bildi]

WTF?

[Powerslave]

I, for one, know this board has made me a better person. 

[Barry Egan]

An adult's IQ and personality traits are stable throughout adulthood, and fairly intractable. All other improvements are window dressing, so I will stick to "can't."
 

  IQ may be mostly static, but knowledge absolutely is not.  I can't believe you think everything in life outside of IQ and personality is just value-added nonsense.  Just because a lot of people suck and you feel you can't improve your life at all doesn't mean that holds true for everyone.  I've seen a ton of people fail...and I've seen a few turn shit around.  So you can "can't" all you want, but that's more naive, negative, and lazy than some failure who still believes he "can".  God, stop being so fucking depressing.

An increase in crystallized intelligent, which increases for all adults anyway, is not going to affect a meaningful change in a human being whose life outcomes are tied to his or her IQ and personality traits. You may have seen people change their lives, but you have not seen them fundamentally change who they are--because they can't!

No one needs to change 'fundamentally'.  Like just about every other chump, you've adopted a self-defeating outlook to keep from making any of the changes you need to be making.

[Eel O'Brian]

 

[Laramie]

I, for one, know this board has made me a better person. 

[xnikki118x]

How old are you?

My parents are 43 and 47 I think, and they got motorcycles like 2 years ago. Total midlife crisis.

[Tauntaun]

How old are you?

My parents are 43 and 47 I think, and they got motorcycles like 2 years ago. Total midlife crisis.

  That's awesome.  When they realize their mistake can I buy one of them cheap?

[Eel O'Brian]

How old are you?

My parents are 43 and 47 I think, and they got motorcycles like 2 years ago. Total midlife crisis.

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i'm not really having a midlife crisis, i was just goofing off based on some pms prof prole and i exchanged last night

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[Powerslave]

Denying that you're in a midlife crisis is a perfect sign of being in a midlife crisis.

[Laramie]

Young people goof off over pm's.  You're just trying to hold on to youth a little bit longer by goofing off over pm's.  Totally signs of a midlife crisis.

[Eel O'Brian]

 

corvette, mustang, or camaro

these are the choices i face

[demi]

who goofs off via pm? thats like playing footsie under the table. WILD HOMO

[Eel O'Brian]

i was goofing off here, in this thread, based on some pm comments

[Powerslave]

more like Eel Ol' Brian.

[Eel O'Brian]

 

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[Bildi]

Young people goof off over pm's.  You're just trying to hold on to youth a little bit longer by goofing off over pm's.  Totally signs of a midlife crisis.

YOU.

You have a new avatar.

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[Powerslave]

uhh that's amazing how did you do that omgfgwwtf

[Bildi]

Lots of time and effort.  Actually I shortcutted by using Word and made the pattern with "O" and "D" and then used the replace function.

I don't want to sound patronising, but I've spent a lot of time around computers so this was actually fairly easy for me to accomplish.  You might want to wait until you get more experience before you try things like this.

[xnikki118x]

How old are you?

My parents are 43 and 47 I think, and they got motorcycles like 2 years ago. Total midlife crisis.

  That's awesome.  When they realize their mistake can I buy one of them cheap?

My mom actually hasn't ridden hers since the weather warmed up. She got rear-ended in a car accident about two months ago, and now her neck is really fucked up. Her doctor hasn't cleared her to ride yet; he might never clear her. They're certain she can't ever ride roller coasters again, though, which is pretty devastating to her.

Her bike is only a 250cc though. She's tiny like me and probably wouldn't be able to handle much more.