The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[AxAxSxS]

putting the pedals I want together and building a board around that.

Exactly how I did mine. The plexi covers were an afterthought to prevent settings getting messed up in transit. has worked out really well for me so far.

[t-rey]

Short of it, I and my sibling was raised by a single parent(through divorce) with very low paying job with no government assistance mainly because she was raised not to ask for a handout either. Outside of that I'm not very particular about sharing my entire background, I was taught to work and earn what I want. I was going around doing yardwork and cutting grass when I was 10. when I was 13 on I was working on a shipyard scraping barnacles off the bottoms of boats and repainting the bottoms. Grunt work. I went to college only through scholarships and grants. Even then I worked 2 jobs, one parttime, one full time while going to school full time and participating in mulitple bands that practiced and toured.
I've always worked, I've always felt responsible for what I do and achieve and that's a fault cause I just don't sympathize with anyone else because they just can't for whatever reason. And for that reason is why I'm considered a bastard and a half. I care little for most.

The bolded bits make your experience below the poverty line different than a lot of other people. It's interesting that a small change is all it takes to send your life in a totally different direction. I feel like poor folks in the south are a bit different than in other places because of the 'pull yourself up for your bootstraps and fucking work for it' mentality that many families have.

SLK, that kinda jives with my thoughts on it. Sounds like your mother was an exceptional woman. Work ethic and personal responsibility are two of the things that a lot of kids don't get taught.
As an Infantry Squad leader, I had the honor of teaching kids just out of high school to deal with the reality's of combat. I saw a large cross section of the country and kids who came from wildly varying backgrounds.
One of the best ever was a kid from Kentucky who grew up poor as shit, single parent, and had dropped out of school early on. That dude was honest to a fault, worked his ass off, did everything asked of him and did it right away.
One of the worst was a kid from washington, who had the single parent thing going on, I had to teach that kid how to swim, how to walk (for distance without hurting himself), how to eat, what pain meant (aches vs hurt) basically everything. Kid had zero values beyond "I want X" The country kids were almost always the easiest to deal with. A lot of the kids who grew up in cities..... It's like they lived in caves with tv's and had everything brought to them.
Not scientific, but it showed me that environment had a lot to do with things.
We also had to deal with weight issues and the same kinda held true. Kids who had learned to be responsible for themselves really were not a problem. Kids who had not been taught that struggled, some got over it and became stronger people, some did not.

There's a chapter in my book about how the culture of particular regions impacts development and levels of entitlement in people. The part about the South is pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. The parts about the Northeastern US and California are (intentionally) stereotypical and will probably catch a lot of shit because of it. Spoiler alert: I love the South.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Someday when I get a man cave or what have you

hahaha it's a literal cave.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Mount them to a wall via velcro and daisy chain them with jumpers. Just punch your tone/effect in... literally.

hahahaha

If they are building for you, I bet that will be something special when it's done. Going with wood?

SLK, that kinda jives with my thoughts on it. Sounds like your mother was an exceptional woman. Work ethic and personal responsibility are two of the things that a lot of kids don't get taught.
As an Infantry Squad leader, I had the honor of teaching kids just out of high school to deal with the reality's of combat. I saw a large cross section of the country and kids who came from wildly varying backgrounds.
One of the best ever was a kid from Kentucky who grew up poor as shit, single parent, and had dropped out of school early on. That dude was honest to a fault, worked his ass off, did everything asked of him and did it right away.
One of the worst was a kid from washington, who had the single parent thing going on, I had to teach that kid how to swim, how to walk (for distance without hurting himself), how to eat, what pain meant (aches vs hurt) basically everything. Kid had zero values beyond "I want X" The country kids were almost always the easiest to deal with. A lot of the kids who grew up in cities..... It's like they lived in caves with tv's and had everything brought to them.
Not scientific, but it showed me that environment had a lot to do with things.
We also had to deal with weight issues and the same kinda held true. Kids who had learned to be responsible for themselves really were not a problem. Kids who had not been taught that struggled, some got over it and became stronger people, some did not.

fucking right! I'll be back in a bit got to do some running. I'll finish reading the rest of anything inbetween here and there.

[Kacey Y]

Someday when I get a man cave or what have you

Come hang out in mine any time.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

that is horrifying cause I immediately thought of it as a man cave meaning a giant asshole.

T rey, true that's why I end up looking down on those people and don't feel bad about doing so.

[Kacey Y]

that is horrifying cause I immediately thought of it as a man cave meaning a giant asshole.

That's more like a man Sarlacc pit.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Slowly digested over a 1000 years. time to cry forever.

[D.o.S.]

There's a chapter in my book about how the culture of particular regions impacts development and levels of entitlement in people. The part about the South is pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. The parts about the Northeastern US and California are (intentionally) stereotypical and will probably catch a lot of shit because of it. Spoiler alert: I love the South.

Pfft, you don't actually love the South, you just don't know any better.

or: The South Is A Hotbed Of Poverty And Suffering Because They Don't Trust Anyone They Can't Fuck (Second Cousins, this means you!)



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[deathmonkey]

There's a chapter in my book about how the culture of particular regions impacts development and levels of entitlement in people. The part about the South is pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. The parts about the Northeastern US and California are (intentionally) stereotypical and will probably catch a lot of shit because of it. Spoiler alert: I love the South.

your book awaits me at home. I am interested in seeing what stereotypes you assume of us northerners. Cause, you know... the south:

[D.o.S.]

Regional Ribbing for your pleasure.

[deathmonkey]

Regional Ribbing for your pleasure.

I like the cut of your Jib, sir.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I take no offense cause really anything north of the interstate in MS is every single one of those stereotypes.

Well my firepod is acting like an asshole and not wanting to talk to the computer. I have to now mail it off for repair. tried on both ports in the back with two different firewires on two different computers. Fuck.

[t-rey]

Pfft, you don't actually love the South, you just don't know any better.

or: The South Is A Hotbed Of Poverty And Suffering Because They Don't Trust Anyone They Can't Fuck (Second Cousins, this means you!)

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There is probably significantly more truth to that than I'm capable of acknowledging

your book awaits me at home. I am interested in seeing what stereotypes you assume of us northerners. Cause, you know... the south:

You'll notice how I'm not arguing against the accuracy of that pic.

I mostly talk about how your shiny buildings and high population density are fancy and intimidating to us and take a bunch of jabs at yuppie suburbia in the part about youze guys.

And since we are talking about the book. Check out what came today



I have a bigcartel storefront now, so for those of you who wanted to buy direct, you can use that or just let me know via pm/email/facebook

http://thesnowflakeeffect.bigcartel.com/

[ShaolinLambKiller]

How am I to make sure that you are going to add all the delightful goodies throughout the covers... like how you made sure to place it next to the pedals.