Facts about yourself!

[Iceni]

Are Doritos so hard to come by? And' date=' where is home? I'm curious...[/quote'] No, but it's good to get them for free. College, remember. My home is in my avatar; Los Alamos, New Mexico. NO I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BREAKING BAD SO DON'T BLOODY ASK.

[FatherAlabaster]

Actually I don't know anything about Breaking Bad either, aside from having watched the pilot episode a while ago... I'm not huge on watching TV. I was asking because I've seen a couple of locations below your avatar in the past, and Relentless mentioned something about South Africa a while ago, unless I'm just confused...

[Iceni]

Sorry, everyone here asks me that.

I was asking because I've seen a couple of locations below your avatar in the past' date=' and Relentless mentioned something about South Africa a while ago, unless I'm just confused...[/quote'] I suppose I'll give you the quick run-down of where I've been. Born Santa Fe, NM. Lived in Los Alamos, NM, for about a year. Lived in Vancouver, Canada, for 2 years after that Lived in Cape Town, South Africa, for 5 years after that Lived in Houston, TX, for 2 crappy years after that Lived in White Rock, NM, for about 5 years after that Been living in Los Alamos, NM for 4 years now. I also recently went to a speech tournament in Birmingham, AL where my brother was competing and changed my location for that. And as you know, I go to college in Washington, D.C.

[RelentlessOblivion]

He's been everywhere man, Iceni's been everywhere I guess my location could be a bit more specific as well Australia's a big place.

[FatherAlabaster]

Sorry, everyone here asks me that. I suppose I'll give you the quick run-down of where I've been. Born Santa Fe, NM. Lived in Los Alamos, NM, for about a year. Lived in Vancouver, Canada, for 2 years after that Lived in Cape Town, South Africa, for 5 years after that Lived in Houston, TX, for 2 crappy years after that Lived in White Rock, NM, for about 5 years after that Been living in Los Alamos, NM for 4 years now. I also recently went to a speech tournament in Birmingham, AL where my brother was competing and changed my location for that. And as you know, I go to college in Washington, D.C.

Everything has been revealed to me! ;)Thanks. Facts about me: I was born here in NYC, moved to an ashram in upstate NY when I was about 6 months old, then moved all over NY and even a short stay in NJ before winding up on Shelter Island for three years. Moved to Raleigh, NC when I was 9, hated the school system, dropped out of high school when I was 17 and lived in my own apartment for a few years before getting my GED and coming back up to Brooklyn for art school. After school I spent a couple of years wandering in dark corners of NC and PA, before deciding that I absolutely had to move back up here. I've been back for nearly eight years now, living in the same neighborhood I moved into something like 11 years ago. Feels like home. My wife hates it and wants to move to Boston. So look for my location change sometime next year.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Fact about me: I was born in Adelaide, South Australia and haven't moved. That will change once/if I get my degree (things haven't been going well for the last few years of it sadly) and I'll then move to Melbourne or Sydney.

[FatherAlabaster]

He's been everywhere man, Iceni's been everywhere I guess my location could be a bit more specific as well Australia's a big place.

But aren't there just, like, a couple of tiny towns fed by postage-stamp-sized bits of barely arable land on the borders of a vast, howling desert inhospitable to anything save the indigenous flora and fauna that spent nearly 40,000 years evolving in isolation before being cruelly displaced towards the interior by you lot? That's what I heard, anyway...

[RelentlessOblivion]

Nah mate your info is a bit wrong. Yes the inland of Australia is completely inhospitable and yes technically speaking we only have one city which is actually a city as opposed to just a very big town but 25 million people live here and our farming land is actually pretty huge. Shame the government sees fit to export most of what is produced on those lands and bankrupt farmers in the process because they aren't subsidised for their loss.

[Iceni]

Well, I've not had enough time to make solid friends anywhere although I probably had the closest friendships with the guys in ZA, given that I was 3-8 years old at the time. Still have some good friends here in NM but I expect my brother will always be my best friend.

[FatherAlabaster]

Nah mate your info is a bit wrong.

I was joking.

[FatherAlabaster]

Well' date=' I've not had enough time to make solid friends anywhere although I probably had the closest friendships with the guys in ZA, given that I was 3-8 years old at the time. Still have some good friends here in NM but I expect my brother will always be my best friend.[/quote'] I consider myself really lucky to have some great friends in North Carolina (including my younger brother) and here in Brooklyn - didn't start really connecting with people until I was maybe ten, since we moved all the time. I hate leaving my friends. But a lot of my closest friends, I met through school - anybody in particular that you hang out with at Georgetown? That's one of the most important things about college IMO, the personal connections.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I officially suck at knowing when people are joking, especially around exam time.

[Iceni]

anybody in particular that you hang out with at Georgetown?

One guy, a temperamental Filipino-descended agnostic from Alabama. I first made his acquaintance upon discovering our mutual dislike for white-knight male feminists, but other than that we have marked philosophical differences. Then again that's what makes the friendship interesting a lot of the time. Weirdly he's the only person I've made friends with that my parents have never complained about after having met him. He's entertaining and intelligent - a very nice fellow in general.

[FatherAlabaster]

I officially suck at knowing when people are joking' date=' especially around exam time.[/quote'] I mean, there was a modicum of truth to my jest, but c'mon, I used a fucking smiley...

[RelentlessOblivion]

You forget I can't fucking see, can't blame me for missing a smiley every now and then

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Facts about yourself!

No, but it's good to get them for free. College, remember. My home is in my avatar; Los Alamos, New Mexico. NO I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BREAKING BAD SO DON'T BLOODY ASK.

Breaking Bad was set in Albuquerque, and might just be the best TV show ever produced. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[Iceni]

Breaking Bad was set in Albuquerque' date=' and might just be the best TV show ever produced.[/quote'] What, you think people actually know about more than one city in this neck of the woods? I keep hearing people rave about it. Maybe I will give it a go at some point.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I prefer Sons Of Anarchy but Breaking Bad is pretty awesome. Not Game Of Thrones awesome but more awesome then Dexter.

[Ghouly]

I like this thread Feel like I've learned so much about you guys. Okay... random facts and confessions... I can't remember the first concert I ever went to. I've been going since age 13 I think? But one of the earliest I ever saw, that I can recall, was The Dead Milkmen. I drive an '01 volvo stationwagon (and give no fucks. I like practicality and swedish things) I am ambidextrous, and can do pretty much everything lefty and righty, except opening jars.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I too am ambidexterous

[FatherAlabaster]

I'm capable of being equally clumsy with either side of my body, does that count? Fact about me: somewhere along the way, I turned into a decent cook. I was a ramen-and-spaghetti guy when I moved out of my parent's house, and I don't recall exactly when I started making food that was actually edible. I'm no trained chef, but Thanksgiving here won't suck! Today, I'm going to make a shepherd's pie, and maybe a couple of other things; my wife is making pignoli cookies and cranberry upside down cake; and tomorrow, we'll cook the turkey, mac and cheese or maybe potatoes au gratin, and a bunch of our friends are coming over for a feast. I can't wait.

[Iceni]

I drive an '01 volvo stationwagon (and give no fucks. I like practicality and swedish things)

You might well fit in here in Los Alamos, most people are very practical in this town. They wear North Face and drive Subarus, Saabs or Volvos. Sure, they make a lot of money but they put it into reasonable things like paying off their houses, debts, insurance, etc.

[Ghouly]

You might well fit in here in Los Alamos' date=' most people are very practical in this town. They wear North Face and drive Subarus, Saabs or Volvos. Sure, they make a lot of money but they put it into reasonable things like paying off their houses, debts, insurance, etc.[/quote'] Haha I probably would! Sounds really the same where I live. Everyone in my town has tons of money (real estate starts around 800k - 1MM for a small single family home) but everyone pretty much drives volvo, subaru, saab, and stuff like that. They wear north face and yoga clothes a lot too. It's a very similar vibe, and I actually quite like it. I'm pretty practical myself and am not into flashing money or living around people who do. Granted, you get the occasional tit in a Maserati.

[Iceni]

Haha I probably would! Sounds really the same where I live. Everyone in my town has tons of money (real estate starts around 800k - 1MM for a small single family home) but everyone pretty much drives volvo' date=' subaru, saab, and stuff like that. They wear north face and yoga clothes a lot too. It's a very similar vibe, and I actually quite like it. I'm pretty practical myself and am not into flashing money or living around people who do. Granted, you get the occasional tit in a Maserati.[/quote'] If I'm perfectly honest, when you said 'tit in a Maserati' I pictured a corporate mother breastfeeding at a traffic light. The preferred sports car in Los Alamos is overwhelmingly the Porsche Boxter, which is practical in and of itself as it's one of the cheapest high-end cars on the market. Big difference from DC, where I have seen an Aston Martin DBS, a Porsche 911 GT3, a Ferrari 430, two Maserati 3000GTs and a Maserati Gran Turismo, two Rolls-Royce Phantom Dropheads, a fricking Maybach 62, and several Bentley Continentals. Real estate is expensive here as well, though not as much as what you're saying.

[Ghouly]

If I'm perfectly honest, when you said 'tit in a Maserati' I pictured a corporate mother breastfeeding at a traffic light. The preferred sports car here is overwhelmingly the Porsche Boxter, which is practical in and of itself as it's one of the cheapest high-end cars on the market. Big difference from DC, where I have seen an Aston Martin DBS, a Porsche 911 GT3, a Ferrari 430, two Maserati 3000GTs and a Maserati Gran Turismo, a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead, a fricking Maybach 62, and several Bentley Continentals. Real estate is expensive here as well, though not as much as what you're saying.

LMAO You probably would see a tit in a maserati like that here! Latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, driving oblivious with no hands, with a breast out and a baby attached. So frickin typical. On my morning commute, overwhelmingly the most common luxury cars I see are Tesla Maserati and Aston Martin. The occasional Bentley. Here we call the porsche boxster the "poor man's sportscar" XD Rarely do I see Ferrari but I did spot one last week. All the people driving those live in the next town over where people are stinking rich and have security cams and vanity gates at the end of their driveways. I have no desire to live that lifestyle (but I'll take the Tesla, thanks!) Real Estate is so unreasonable where I live (San Francisco area) that I have no sights set on ever owning a house as long as I live here. Then again, home ownership never was a goal or priority for me.