Woten.

[mattcanning]

Looks like Woten tried registering again on getbig a couple of times but was banned both times. He is on youtube as "Shitbags69". LOL. I posted this clip already, but scroll to the comments here (Peter = maxsho):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJqeyiIYacLOL

Comments

[mandyb120]

I've never seen your basement before. LOL.

[cogent]

"Living in a place where by virtue of being here, I am in the top 8% of wealthiest people in the world. "

Are you content with being the top 8% of a glass when the bottom 60% is pretty much backwash?

[mattcanning]

Fair point.

But tell me what is so sad about simply living a nice, comfortable (meager) life? To me, as long as my base needs to live are covered and I have my mental & physical health and rich social contacts, I feel great. I'll be a millionaire before I'm 30 - don't worry about that. But I don't need that; I don't even really want that. That is not what comprises the sweeping majority of that wonderful thing everybody is chasing called "happiness". Close to 100% of it comes from very basic things which are within the reach of pretty well all of us by sheer virtue of circumstance. How lucky. Am I in a position to be this optimistic? Well given that I had as hard a life as pretty well anyone reading this, I would say yes. I overcame things in my past by never using it as a crutch. To reach my goals, I lacked in genetics what I made up for with desire. One thing for sure, I'm extremely grateful for the set of circumstances present when I popped into life. It really is far from backwash.

[halved_smile]

People usually don't mind drinking their own backwash, Currie.

[anonymous]

Thats wicked cool that you're putting laminate flooring in the basement, it's gonna look great.

Your mom loved when i lived there, cause i used to clean all the time.
I completely agree with you about people not learning how to do things with their hands.
I guess they're under the mentality that they can always get someone to do it for them. I personally think that's a ignorant way to look at life. Why NOT learn how to be a handyman? Then if anything does go wrong in your potential house, you can fix it without any of the bills. It also gives you the potential to do as you're doing Matt; Customizing your home.
I think it's awesome that you're renovating the basement.
Are you still thinking of moving your room down there?

[ianfromvaya]

That was me.

[mattcanning]

^^^ Listen to this man. He knows how to do all the simple things that a lot of people don't like pretty well everything associated with home maintenance. I found it particularly piquant that you knew it was laminate flooring that was being put in

[zermatt]

"At that point, "the dream" is wishing you could go back in time and not walk into the casino to begin with and simply break even. Notice how the dream changes with reality as time goes by?"This is a load of crap and the key mistake which will trick you into falling into a life of averages

[ianfromvaya]

someone didn't have their apple juice this morning.

[zermatt]

some1 doesnt 'get it'
LOL

YOU RUINED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!

[mattcanning]

Listen to me...

I need to go O.D on cocaine to self medicate my ADHD. Then I'm going to dabble with heroin and mainline meth for a month for the purposes of religious experience. It's not that I have a drug problem or anything, I just like to get in touch with my spiritual side with a slow drip I.V of every form of contraband under the sun.

This isn't me trying to justify stupid bullshit behaviour or anything and it's not like I'm assuming you're naive enough to believe ridiculous lies in order to get social support to enable my problems.

You believe this right? Right?