Oppo, tell me something unique about you. 

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats) 05/17/2017 at 22:30 • Filed to: None

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This was a question a professor once asked in college on the first day of class (his phrasing was “something unique not related to your major, I don’t care about that”). It was very disappointing, because college students are not unique. Consequently, I thought that was a great question.

What is unique about you from every other Oppo?

Spaceball-Two > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:34

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I’m allergic to all melons. Not like throat close up death, but I’ll have a noticeable reaction to watermelon, cantaloupe, etc.

CB > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:34

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I nearly lost an eye in a nerf dart accident.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Spaceball-Two 05/17/2017 at 22:37

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That’s unique, but also sucks I’m allergic to mangoes, which sucks. Melons in general must be rough.

Spaceball-Two > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:38

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I’d die if I couldn’t have mangoes! It helps I’m not a fan of most melons.

Spaceball-Two > CB 05/17/2017 at 22:38

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Nerf wars are serious business.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:39

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I broke both the bones in my lower left leg at the same time in an elementary monkey bar accident.

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:39

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I skipped 2nd grade.

Also, I’m a 49 year old first time dad of a 9 month old (married at 45)

Honeybunchesofgoats > CB 05/17/2017 at 22:39

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Details.

Was it this one with the hidden dart in the handle so you could be like “I surrender. Ha. jk I just shot you in the face”?

Spaceball-Two > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 22:41

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Nice job! Older dad here too.

TheHondaBro > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:42

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Yeah suuuuure today it’s something unique about me, tomorrow it’s my social security number. I will not be subjected to your little mind games!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:43

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I hang big things from the ceiling.

CB > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:43

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As copied from an old post.

“Well, we were having a Nerf battle, and I got shot from four feet away in the eye. Noticed a squiggly thing in my vision, didn’t think much of it.

Then I woke up in the night and notice a large black spot that couldn’t be accounted for by the fact that it was night. Turned the light on, the squiggly was in the spot. So I Googled the issue and saw that I had a tear in my retina. I did the only logical thing, which was delay my trip to the hospital until six hours late (twelve hours after the experience), until one of my professors yelled at me to go to the hospital since I had told her what had happened. I grabbed my buddy because going to the hospital alone sucks, and we bused out.

Four mistaken buildings later, we got to the hospital, and spent about four hours there until it was confirmed that I had a tear in my retina that could possibly lead to retinal detachment and make me blind in that eye. An appointment was set up for the next morning, I called my parents to let them know what happened, and then I went home to tell my roommates. The mood was less than great. I was in decent spirits, but everyone else was kind of freaked out.

The next morning we went to the hospital, and I was taken into another room, where they told me I would have to undergo surgery. I asked when it would be, because my health card expired the next day, which was also my nineteenth birthday, and he said that surgery was in five minutes. Surgery consisted of them freezing my eye and shooting into it with a laser until everything was decent.

My eye still bothers me today, but hey, at least I’m not blind. I was later told that if it had been in a slightly different spot, I could have gone blind in an hour and a half.

Tl;dr: I got shot in the eye by a Nerf gun and got a tear in my retina, which they fixed with lasers or else I would have gone blind, all within the three days before my health card expired and I turned nineteen.

(The long version of this story is a lot longer. There are more jokes and tangents in that one. Too lazy to type it out.)“

Honeybunchesofgoats > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 05/17/2017 at 22:44

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Okay, so here’s the deal. In elementary school I was playing Ninja Turtles with some kids and I decided that the dramatic motivation for me, Donatello, would be if Leonardo died, so I pealed his fingers off of the climbing thing and he fell.

IN MY DEFENSE I got a time out, and that SUCKED. So, sorry if that was you, but I did my time, mang

I have another burner, try to guess it! > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:44

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I’ve been told I have a healing factor like wolverine, when it comes to cuts. Multiple times I’ve cut myself bad enough people say to go to the ER, and not the kind of people who say that for everything, I just hold pressure until the bleeding slows enough to put a bandage on it, sometimes hours, and 1-2 days later it’s nothing, but a small scar.

Also I graduated HS with over 20 of college credit, but didn’t go to college for years.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:44

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I qualified for some of the best universities in the country yet managed to fail out of high school :/

fhrblig > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:45

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I have been a Broncos fan since I was 11. The very first Broncos game that I got to attend in person? Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. I won tickets, airfare, and a hotel room in a radio station drawing.

Honeybunchesofgoats > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 22:46

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That’s awesome (both, but especially the kid). Has that made you more or less of a paranoid parent?

Spaceball-Two > TheHondaBro 05/17/2017 at 22:46

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Mother’s maiden name please?

WilliamsSW > Spaceball-Two 05/17/2017 at 22:46

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So I’m not unique then? Dammit! :)

It’s great, but I find myself wishing I had the energy of a 26 year old sometimes...

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:46

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I’m left handed and have the same name as a Brazilian bossa Nova composer/musician.

Honeybunchesofgoats > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/17/2017 at 22:46

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Are you Zoidberg’s chandelier hanging nemesis?

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:48

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Ha, no, it was my still best friend landing on top of my leg that did it. I fell off, he fell off on top of me. We were both giggling until I realized my leg wouldn’t move.

This is the same person who was swinging me back and forth on a chin up bar that I fell off of and broke my arm on a year earlier.

Honeybunchesofgoats > CB 05/17/2017 at 22:48

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Jesus. My mom has a detached retina, that’s no joke. I’m glad it turned out okay.

itschrome > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:49

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I’ve lived many lives and died many deaths. Who I am today isn’t who I was yesterday nor who I will be tomorrow. I’ve experienced the brightest joys and the darkest sorrows but have been phased by neither.

There isn’t anything I can’t do but there are lots of things I choose not to do. Having said that I dont have a valid reason for doing or not doing any of it.

My greatest triumphs have passed silently unnoticed but my slightest failures get praded in the streets. I can hid from my accomplishments but not my failures, at the same time I’m not ashamed of either.

Also I have webbed toes.

Honeybunchesofgoats > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/17/2017 at 22:49

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PLEASE TELL ME IT’S TOM JOBIM

ALSO I AM LEFT HANDED WHICH IS WHY I AM SHOUTING

BUT ALSO BECAUSE I LOVE BOSSA NOVA

Urambo Tauro > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:50

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I was the target of a FBI investigation.

Berang > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:50

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I can hum a fugue.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:50

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No but here’s a hint something Brasil 66'

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:50

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I’m *probably* the only Oppo with a Klingon dictionary. Probably.

ETA: I also can put both feet behind my head and can read the Korean alphabet.

Honeybunchesofgoats > I have another burner, try to guess it! 05/17/2017 at 22:51

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What did you eventually go to college for?

CB > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:51

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It still bugs me, but eh, could be worse.

Honeybunchesofgoats > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/17/2017 at 22:52

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That’s awesome, though.

Honeybunchesofgoats > fhrblig 05/17/2017 at 22:52

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That’s so cool. Was the drawing based on a question? If so, what?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Urambo Tauro 05/17/2017 at 22:53

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I remember that story, you Tolkeiny miscreant.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Spaceball-Two 05/17/2017 at 22:53

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Scoob

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:53

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Thanks! Being older? I’m not sure, really.

I think I’m pretty laid back, generally, but probably would have been that way 20 years ago, too - maybe more so?

Funny thing is that my wife and I are paranoid about completely different things. I worry about him falling - we have hardwood floors everywhere, and a fireplace with sharp corners and other hazards. I also insisted on him getting his own seat on airplanes, that sort of thing. My wife doesn’t worry about that stuff - she worries about nutrition, food additives, sugar, how many blankets to cover him with, etc.

There’s little overlap in the things the two of us worry about, oddly.

bhtooefr > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:53

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I started college at 14, while also in high school.

(Which was so unique, I broke some of my college’s systems - they didn’t expect a high school freshman to start in that program, only a sophomore or later.)

Honeybunchesofgoats > itschrome 05/17/2017 at 22:53

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Does that help with swimming?

Honeybunchesofgoats > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/17/2017 at 22:55

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:O

:O

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:56

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My SAT scores were in the 90th percentile without a single minute of studying. Now I’m stuck stagnating in a job that doesn’t make use of my brain.

itschrome > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:56

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No but I get a phantom itch at the base of the toes that drives me crazy.

TheHondaBro > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:57

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I was born almost 3 months early with underdeveloped lungs and I stayed at the hospital for about 4 months after birth.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Berang 05/17/2017 at 22:57

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Pfffffft. That depends on the fugue.

Honeybunchesofgoats > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 22:58

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WilliamsSW > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/17/2017 at 22:58

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I’m left handed and have the same full name (even the middle name) as a player on the 90s Bulls teams with Michael Jordan

I have another burner, try to guess it! > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 22:59

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Idk, this spring semester was my first time going to college. I’m contemplating. IT/CyberSecurity, Enviromental Science, or some kind of Health/therapy. Like occupational therapy or something.

Mostly I want a job that’s not super boring and I could do overseas. Like your “engineering” trips and what not. I find living/working in new places way more interesting than visiting.

Honeybunchesofgoats > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 23:00

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I’m terrified about having kids. As much as I want to think I’d be like “eh, I didn’t die and I learned something,” I know that I reality I’d end up wrapping my kid in non-toxic organic bubble wrap.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:00

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I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in the world with my first/last name. I’ve googled myself many times and never found anything except papers I’ve published and my LinkedIn page.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:00

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I also play the saxophone. I’m piss poor at the piano.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 23:01

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But can you do them at the same time?

DipodomysDeserti > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/17/2017 at 23:01

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Don’t the best universities require a high school diploma?

Honeybunchesofgoats > bhtooefr 05/17/2017 at 23:01

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That’s awesome. I heard about people who did things like graduating at 18, but it always seemed so insane to me. Did you go to graduate school or just move on to a career?

PS9 > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:01

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http://oppositelock.kinja.com/hi-im-actually-not-a-real-person-1481440570

AestheticsInMotion > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:02

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I can handstand walk on a treadmill for at least a quarter mile, but if I try running on said treadmill, I inevitably fall. Usually in front of cute girls.

One more, because you reminded me that I still have these photos. I used to love making “vehicles” as a kid (probably 12 or 13). Here’s two. The shovel board and the night skates. I’d keep building stuff like this, but I’d probably get arrested or killed haha

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:02

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I was a child prodigy that graduated high school at 14 (they held me back since it was hip at the time to keep children with others their age, no matter how bored they were). I graduated college before I was old enough to vote.

TheHondaBro > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 05/17/2017 at 23:03

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We meet again, Mr. Head Gaskets.

Dave the car guy , still here > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:03

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In addition to my college degree I got a 200 hr food handling certificate from a community college while working at restaurants to pay for schooling just because it was offered. Also Andy Griffith used to eat in the place I worked at in Nags Head. I knew his god children and when we were younger he would pick up his kids from the roller ring and arcade where we all hung out. My dad knew him from chamber of commerce meetings.

Honeybunchesofgoats > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/17/2017 at 23:03

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My SAT scores were also good (except math, where I was 56th percentile).

I don’t think any job makes use of your brain, though, except for nerd jobs. I’m sure there are people who are matching and stuff, but most jobs are dumb.

Tripper > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:04

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I can remember and retain silly long strings of numbers. Sometimes alphanumeric strings.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/17/2017 at 23:04

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Hmm, tricky to write (or obviously, read) Klingon via Korean script. The Romanization of Klingon depends on having capital letters, which don’t exist in Hangul. Might be possible to work something - maybe do the syllables with diacritics. HOLD MY BEER

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > DipodomysDeserti 05/17/2017 at 23:04

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“Qualified” in this case meaning SAT scores in the top 10% of the country.

Honeybunchesofgoats > itschrome 05/17/2017 at 23:04

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Phantom itch terrifies me. Everyone I read about that or phantom limb syndrome, I think that’s a thing I should have, but don’t, and then sit around waiting for it to manifest itself.

Honeybunchesofgoats > TheHondaBro 05/17/2017 at 23:05

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On the plus side, it’s an undisputed fact that premies are the cutest babies.

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:05

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That is tempting, believe me. I just have to keep reminding myself that overprotective parenting isn’t good for him, and he needs to learn from his own mistakes.

My own parents were really good about trusting me and letting me screw up, and it’s nice having them around (and my brother) to remind me of that.

What freaks me out is being responsible for another person who absolutely needs me. 45 years of not giving a rats ass about anyone else got me pretty comfortable. Tough habit to break.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:06

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No, I’m definitely stagnating. Not as sharp as I used to be. No mental stimulation.

TheHondaBro > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:07

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There’s a picture of newborn me taking a nap in a Christmas stocking.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > TheHondaBro 05/17/2017 at 23:10

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I was born about 2 months late: I think my mother couldn’t count.

Honeybunchesofgoats > I have another burner, try to guess it! 05/17/2017 at 23:12

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Just from a secondhand healthcare perspective, it seems like a pretty sweet gig. My mom is in medicine and she routinely gets offers to go work in places like the Emirates for ungodly sums of money. Language instruction seems pretty nice too, although not really a long term career.

DipodomysDeserti > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:12

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I have a crazy weird memory. I can remember things back to my first year of life in pretty good detail including things I wish I could forget, but will forget weird things like people’s names. I’ve had three concussions so that might have something to do with the name problems. I also lucid dream and have had a certain recurring dream since I was about three.

Honeybunchesofgoats > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 05/17/2017 at 23:13

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I thought that too, except there’s some other guy with my name who is apparently a high school teacher in Massachusetts. It seems like he’s close to retiring, but every time I Google myself I pray to god that he doesn’t sleep with a student.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:14

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I have extraordinary luck when it comes to getting away with stuff that I really shouldn’t be able to get away with.

Spaceball-Two > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 23:14

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Just stay away from Paw Patrol cartoons.

bhtooefr > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:14

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Well, I didn’t graduate at 18 - even though it was an associate’s degree program, scheduling classes around each other (and the college’s terrible scheduling of which classes were available in each quarter) meant that I didn’t finish it up until a year after graduating high school.

However, during my senior year of high school, I was basically just one of the sysadmins and the computer tech for the high school, I didn’t actually take any high school classes. And, during my last quarter of my associate’s degree, I realized that I didn’t want to be a code monkey, and that I rather liked the sysadmin and desktop support work that I was doing, so I just kept doing that. Eventually I left, and now I’m just doing desktop support.

Honeybunchesofgoats > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/17/2017 at 23:15

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I really want to learn the piano, but I have this problem with instruments where every time I see one I’m like “I could sit down and play that” (I cannot) and piano is the worst of those.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:15

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I’m an Eagle Scout and was a soccer referee for 10 years (started at 14)

itschrome > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:15

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Oh its awful too. I just want to scratch it but you know cant get between them. Ive scratched em raw too many times in the past thought im learning as i age to let it pass.

But more interesting is I cracked the case and proved the guy from the washington navy shooting entered the base with a valid credential that some onw for got to deactivate.

Edit: i said too much

Honeybunchesofgoats > PS9 05/17/2017 at 23:16

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Can we play chess?

Viggen > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 05/17/2017 at 23:17

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I was the only person with my name in the Army. Was a little shocked.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Dave the car guy , still here 05/17/2017 at 23:18

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Do you have Andy Griffith stories?

Honeybunchesofgoats > Tripper 05/17/2017 at 23:19

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So, pi to what number?

interstate366, now In The Industry > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:19

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I own a pair of bamboo sunglasses.

Honeybunchesofgoats > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 23:22

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That’s my big fear. Like, I don’t think my parents know that me and my friends used to play a game where we’d try to hitchhike with strangers and then run off when they stopped.

I can’t imagine trying to balance experience with being a dumb kid with being in a position of wanting to keep that dumb kid alive.

WilliamsSW > Spaceball-Two 05/17/2017 at 23:23

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I’m pretty sure that’s one of the cartoons my brother warned me about.

Seems like there’s too many out there and you can’t dodge them all-

Kiltedpadre > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 23:23

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I don’t have a Klingon dictionary, but I have the Starfleet technical manual for both the original series and TNG, the “blueprints” of the original series Enterprise, an “official” starship design text, and a book on alien species of the Trek universe.

Why yes, I am a nerd! Why did you ask?

Honeybunchesofgoats > TheHondaBro 05/17/2017 at 23:23

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That’s adorable even without a photo.

HammerheadFistpunch > Tripper 05/17/2017 at 23:24

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So youre the one that gets infinitis lineup?

Honeybunchesofgoats > DipodomysDeserti 05/17/2017 at 23:25

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Is the dream something you can share?

I have a vivid memory of my uncle giving me a fish tank when I was two. It’s weird because everyone I’ve spoken to tells me it happened, but babies aren’t supposed to remember things that early.

HammerheadFistpunch > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:25

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I can play the saw. Id be amazed if we had another musical sawist

Honeybunchesofgoats > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 05/17/2017 at 23:25

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That’s the greatest gift anyone can have.

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:25

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Yeah, but that means that you knew a lot of that dumb kid’s tricks. So you can stay one step ahead.

Although, make no mistake, the kid will think up a few new ones eventually.

I’m a long way away from him doing shit like that, though.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:26

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Hmm I don’t think so, just shows

Honeybunchesofgoats > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/17/2017 at 23:26

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I really regret not being a scout.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:26

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My first name is somewhat uncommon but my last name even rarer. Oddly enough, however when my wife changed her last name to mine, we found out that there was someone else with that name. Somehow, though, my wife got the gmail address with just the first and last name and that person has their middle initial in it. Yet my wife gets messages for her that people enter incorrectly, probably because they don’t expect another person with that name to exist.

Honeybunchesofgoats > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/17/2017 at 23:27

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That sounds awesome, though.

Honeybunchesofgoats > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 05/17/2017 at 23:29

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I am rarely an early adopter to anything, but I am so glad I locked that gmail shit down early.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Viggen 05/17/2017 at 23:30

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Impressive. I work for a defense contractor, so I’m always sending emails to people on the .gov side. I’ve seen quite a few strange/complicated names with a middle initial added or number appended that I never would’ve thought there was more than one of.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:30

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For example: just finished a brakestand or two with the straight piped Crown Vic, I’m two blocks away from the spot and there’s a cop sitting in the traffic at the red light ahead of me. I thought for sure I was gonna get popped for either the smokeshow or the exhaust, but he pulled over the kid ahead of him in the stock Corolla instead.

Honeybunchesofgoats > HammerheadFistpunch 05/17/2017 at 23:31

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I can picture having seen someone play the saw on TV. I know it exists, but somehow before you mentioned it, I forgot all about it.

HammerheadFistpunch > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/17/2017 at 23:33

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Its not a growth field

Honeybunchesofgoats > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 05/17/2017 at 23:33

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One time I passed a cop doing 85. He pulled out behind me and I changed to the next lane. He continued on and pulled over the M3 in front of me.

Never underestimate the invisibility of a Panther car.