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DrizzDrizzDrizz
  
 
| | #1 posted June 6, 2008 at 11:35pm (EST) |
This topic had many older posts which were moved here:
http://gametz.com/forum/General/topic/300179.html
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Jeffro
 
| | #161 posted June 13, 2008 at 12:01am (EST) |
Just finished watching the greatness that is Rambo. Gonna take a piss and chop something's head off.
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mackey
| | #162 posted June 13, 2008 at 10:18am (EST) |
Crest day. I got out of my house yesterday at noon, just before it was impossible to leave by any means but boat. The river was expected to reach 28 feet, 8 feet over the all time record, but due to non-stop rains we're cresting at 32 feet, a full 12 feet above the record. My city is completely destroyed. I'm sure you could turn on any news station and see that.
My house was on the boat tour they did on the local news, the water was thankfully only up to the basement windows, which is what I had expected being on the fringe of the 500 year plain. Still six days away from being able to go anywhere near my home, I guess all you can do is hope. I have tons of friends who will come do the work to fix it as fast as possible, but all of downtown CR is completely obliterated, and will take months, if not years to get back to normal.
At 1:00 AM myself and over 500 people were still at the hospital attempting to save it long enough to get patients evacuated. The flood waters were never predicted to reach it, but lo and behold. This city has come together and answered the call every time the news shouted out an order. We saved our last water pump at midnight to keep our city water going at 25% of capacity, meaning we can only use drinking water, NOTHING else, unless we want them to turn us all off completely to save the city. 7000 sandbags filled in 2 hours, and then everyone from there went to the hospital.
Fudging horrible, boys. I haven't slept in three days, and have been surviving entirely on liquor and fear.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
Chad
| | #163 posted June 13, 2008 at 10:54am (EST) |
thats rough. i lived through a flood but ours that did damage crested and went back below flood levels in under 1 day. the worst thing for me wasn't so much the damage it did (not that it would be, I was a kid at the time) but the look on peoples faces where they were completely demoralized. |
Chad
| | #164 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:19am (EST) |
yeah, they dont really act strange until after it falls. and then you get about 2 weeks of help from people and then the people not effected by it forget about it and get tired of the constant whining fo the people who were flooded. |
SmarmySir
| | #165 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:20am (EST) |
Gah, that sucks. I read a bit about it online. Hope things work out, Mackey.
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My tee-shirt shop.
My Ebay store. |
Chad
| | #166 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:20am (EST) |
damn you for deleting your post. |
kzn
(frozen)
| | #167 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:30am (EST) |
Hang in there Marky boy.
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mackey
| | #168 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:41am (EST) |
Chad wrote:
> damn you for deleting your post.
I read it again and was like "wait, agreeing with racists is racist, do I want that negative karma right now?"
To quell curiosity, I was discussing the lazy blacks of Cedar Rapids.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
mackey
| | #169 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:43am (EST) |
Oh, and seriously, don't feel bad for me. Everyone else involved is way worse off than me. I'm fudging golden. They're up to their roofs, I only have to carry a few buckets out of the basement by comparison. Weep for the city though. She didn't deserve it.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
Chad
| | #170 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:47am (EST) |
for some reason this made me remember when you wanted me to get a job with honeywell and move to cedar rapids just so you could show me what real partying is all about. |
mackey
| | #171 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:50am (EST) |
THOSE WERE GOOD TIMES. I mean, obviously, everyone affiliated with those good times has multiple criminal offenses and lives a lame life now. OWI, possession, drunk and disorderly, etc. Also children, many have ugly children.
Although, I could still drink you to death. There's always that.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
mackey
| | #172 posted June 13, 2008 at 11:52am (EST) |
My all-time favorite moment was when we planned to get drunk on the internet, and then did it. I don't remember if it was just me and you, or others. All I know is answering the question "Hey man, whattya doin' tonight?" with "Ohh I'm gonna get drunk on the internet" makes me laugh to this day.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
Chad
| | #173 posted June 13, 2008 at 12:08pm (EST) |
my drinking prowess only lasted about 1.5 years. 5 beers would probably get me drunk now. |
Nick
 
| | #174 posted June 13, 2008 at 12:10pm (EST) |
Yo Mark, glad you're doing ok for the most part, but it still sucks to hear about all that, sounds terrible.
Nature is a scary dog sometimes. |
mackey
| | #175 posted June 13, 2008 at 12:17pm (EST) |
Right on, Lundy. Seriously though, thanks for the support, boys.
I'm off, they're calling for volunteers pretty close to my crib. I'll pop by here again tomorrow when I come back out to the farm to shower.
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I like your style. You're a liar, and a cheat, that's cool. I'll give you 10%. |
monkeysmadness
| | #176 posted June 13, 2008 at 3:27pm (EST) |
NERV wrote:
> Yo Mark, glad you're doing ok for the most part, but it still sucks to hear
> about all that, sounds terrible.
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> Nature is a scary dog sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwSsPp0cE7o&eurl=ht...
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MyAlterEgo
(frozen)
| | #177 posted June 13, 2008 at 3:34pm (EST) |
Mackey, I hope everything works out for you.
OT: Doing nothing.
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Jeffro
| | #178 posted June 13, 2008 at 3:40pm (EST) |
going to go and get the essentials for the golf tournament tomorrow, beer and balls(har har har).
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Chad
| | #179 posted June 13, 2008 at 3:56pm (EST) |
Laughing at some dumbass engineer that took 3 months to get me requirements for a contract, and after beating my allotted time to place the contract (allowed 30 working days, I took 18) he started doging to my boss about how slow it was. My boss told him to screw off that if he needed it earlier it should come out of his flow time, not mine, and then he proceeded to give me 50 pride points for beating my objectives in contract time placement. |
vDub
(frozen)
| | #180 posted June 13, 2008 at 4:45pm (EST) |
I just got back from seeing The Incredible Hulk. Awesome movie, much better than the first one.
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Jeffro
| | #181 posted June 13, 2008 at 5:18pm (EST) |
Wondering what "Pride Points" are......
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Chad
| | #182 posted June 13, 2008 at 5:32pm (EST) |
Its like a gift card to the "pride catalog" which has a variety of things from video game systems to GPS to TVs to shirts to cookware, etc, and they claim that 1 pride point = 1 dollar, but like a 360 core system costs 466 pride points. but then like http://www.amazon.com/Bose-TriPort-Ear-Headphones-... those are 107 pride points, much more accuratley reflecting their real value.
i currently have 237 of them. |
Jeffro
| | #183 posted June 13, 2008 at 5:34pm (EST) |
Ah, thats pretty cool and I want those earbuds.
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Chad
| | #184 posted June 13, 2008 at 5:39pm (EST) |
I hate earbuds. I was wanting some over the ear headphones. They had some decent ones last time but not anymore. So I am thinking of getting like $225 in Lowe's gift cards (they come in $25 amounts) and ebaying them to get the headphones I want, but thats more work than I am wanting to do for headphones. |
Jeffro
| #185 posted June 13, 2008 at 5:59pm (EST)
edited June 13, 2008 at 5:59pm (EST) |
I want the buds for portability and crap, Ive been wanting a good set of wireless headphones for a long time though.
...and Im sure there's something BoB can trade for those Lowes cards as long as he has a Lowes near Houston.
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Chad
| | #186 posted June 13, 2008 at 6:04pm (EST) |
i like big goofy 12 pound headphones. fudge portability. I want to wear them while running in a pair of zubaz and with aviators. |
Jeffro
| | #187 posted June 13, 2008 at 6:16pm (EST) |
bahahahahaha
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BoB
 
| | #188 posted June 13, 2008 at 6:37pm (EST) |
i have those earbuds the yrock my face and jiggle my sack
i havent been fudgeed like that since grade school - marla |
Xena
| | #189 posted June 13, 2008 at 7:57pm (EST) |
just got back from the grocery store. looks like sandwiches and chicken fingers for the rest of the month again 
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MyAlterEgo
(frozen)
| | #190 posted June 13, 2008 at 9:23pm (EST) |
You know, I kind of feel bad today. It was the last official day of school, not including finals, so the seniors are pretty much done with school until graduation. I've hung out with my brother and his friends for a while now, and I've come to like them, and they appear to like me. I feel as if my class likes me, but I don't really hang out with anyone in my grade, seeing as how I distanced myself from ex-friends and such. I don't regret the time I have spent with the seniors, but I wonder how I will be next year, for I will have no one to look up to, hang out with, or casually talk with except a small group of friends in my grade. We'll see how it all works out, I suppose.
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RDTZ
| | #191 posted June 13, 2008 at 9:38pm (EST) |
Getting
ready for work/living the dream.
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. " - Edward Abbey
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GOSH
| | #192 posted June 13, 2008 at 10:02pm (EST) |
mackey wrote:
> Crest day. I got out of my house yesterday at noon, just before it
> was impossible to leave by any means but boat. The river was expected
> to reach 28 feet, 8 feet over the all time record, but due to non-stop
> rains we're cresting at 32 feet, a full 12 feet above the record.
> My city is completely destroyed. I'm sure you could turn on any news
> station and see that.
>
> My house was on the boat tour they did on the local news, the water
> was thankfully only up to the basement windows, which is what I had
> expected being on the fringe of the 500 year plain. Still six days
> away from being able to go anywhere near my home, I guess all you
> can do is hope. I have tons of friends who will come do the work to
> fix it as fast as possible, but all of downtown CR is completely obliterated,
> and will take months, if not years to get back to normal.
>
> At 1:00 AM myself and over 500 people were still at the hospital attempting
> to save it long enough to get patients evacuated. The flood waters
> were never predicted to reach it, but lo and behold. This city has
> come together and answered the call every time the news shouted out
> an order. We saved our last water pump at midnight to keep our city
> water going at 25% of capacity, meaning we can only use drinking water,
> NOTHING else, unless we want them to turn us all off completely to
> save the city. 7000 sandbags filled in 2 hours, and then everyone
> from there went to the hospital.
>
> Fudging horrible, boys. I haven't slept in three days, and have been
> surviving entirely on liquor and fear.
>
>
I've been following this story with you in mind and it's a horrible sight to see. I wish the best for you, your family and your friends in CR and hope for a speedy recovery.
It rings eerily familiar to what happened here in New Orleans and I hope Cedar Rapids fares better in every way. |
Bubbler28
| | #193 posted June 13, 2008 at 10:22pm (EST) |
MyAlterEgo wrote:
> You know, I kind of feel bad today. It was the last official day of
> school, not including finals, so the seniors are pretty much done
> with school until graduation. I've hung out with my brother and his
> friends for a while now, and I've come to like them, and they appear
> to like me. I feel as if my class likes me, but I don't really hang
> out with anyone in my grade, seeing as how I distanced myself from
> ex-friends and such. I don't regret the time I have spent with the
> seniors, but I wonder how I will be next year, for I will have no
> one to look up to, hang out with, or casually talk with except a small
> group of friends in my grade. We'll see how it all works out, I suppose.
>
Go a grade down?
OT: Working on my Frets on Fire songs. My xbox died too. Tomorrow: Going to the pool to make some friends. |
vDub
(frozen)
| | #194 posted June 14, 2008 at 12:21am (EST) |
just finished LEGO Indiana Jones for PS2
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Nick
| | #195 posted June 14, 2008 at 4:19am (EST) |
Eating Taco Bell at far to late an hour, but oh well.
I'm sure I'll regret it tomorrow. |
Bubbler28
| | #196 posted June 14, 2008 at 5:11pm (EST) |
NERV wrote:
> Eating Taco Bell at far to late an hour, but oh well.
>
> I'm sure I'll regret it tomorrow.
There aint nothing wrong with eating great late. |
BoB
| | #197 posted June 14, 2008 at 5:22pm (EST) |
cept when your poo hole gets squirrely a little early
thats all i had right there
i havent been fudgeed like that since grade school - marla |
monkeysmadness
| | #198 posted June 14, 2008 at 6:48pm (EST) |
Just tried posting some stuff for sale on eBay then Amazon, realized how much they SUCK to sell with, so I put it up in the General Marketplace here.
Hoping some of it sells.
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Nick
| | #199 posted June 14, 2008 at 6:54pm (EST) |
Amazon is sweet to sell stuff on. |
monkeysmadness
| #200 posted June 14, 2008 at 6:57pm (EST)
edited June 14, 2008 at 6:58pm (EST) |
NERV wrote:
> Amazon is sweet to sell stuff on.
Except the fact that their fees are as bad (or *gasp* WORSE) than eBay's, plus there's no option to change shipping costs. If something's going to cost $20 to ship, they still only charge the buyer $3.
P.S. - I like your avatar. One of the greatest books ever written.
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