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@ djones yeah some of the freeks give the hobby a bad name. the stigma still stand. I freking hate people that just talk and live GW.

@ bigkris1313 dont know what the hell you are talking about, is that code for something.

@ Hellfury, why oh why did you give our secret away

Posted By beef on 12/07/2006 1:48 PM

@ bigkris1313 dont know what the hell you are talking about, is that code for something.

I blindly assumed Atman was talking about American Football, of course!

Started gaming at 12, started raving/clubbing/'partying' at 16 ('94) main hobbies included getting blotto and hooking up/trying to hook up with women (note, they ARE two different hobbies that were mostly mutually exclusive). Got most recent woman pregnant. Started gaming again because getting blotto and hooking up/trying to hook up with women as hobbies is frowned upon by my wife and gaming is not.

Moral of the story: ????

I never did D/D. I play 40k a lot until about 8th grade and then the store closed and moved to far away to drive.

I just painted a bit and the models got put on the back burner.

I pretty much worked and did Tang Soo Do (since 4th grade) all in highschool, only small amounts of painting starting w/ my senior year.
Oh and I did a lot of computer work for a company.

I got back into it when I got out of school and took time off before college. Now that I am back and working full time (havent finished college) I am painting more, playing very little. Very busy.

Oh but we are thinking of playing D/D.

IF atman was talking about american football that explains why I had absolutly no idea what the hell was being discussed.

Beef has security issues.

Beef, in American Football, the big fat dudes in front on each side of the ball are the defensive and offensive lines, respectively.

The defensive line tries to grab and crush the quarterback (the guy who throws the ball) or the running back (who runs with the ball) before they get the ball further upfield.

The offensive line tries to stop them, and tries to make gaps between them so the running back can run upfield if that's what the offense if trying to do on that particular play.

The offensive line is technically forbidden from grabbing and holding onto the defensive players. They are just supposed to block (push and shove). Holding breaks the rules, and can cause the refs to give your team a penalty. In practice, however, the offensive line NEEDS to hold to some extent, just to buy time. The rule is really selectively enforced, mostly being called if it makes a difference on that particular play.

@Mannahnin thanks for the explanationm. So the quarterback gets all the girls usually. It like in football or as you guys call it "soccer" the striker is the main guy.

@chuckyhol, what security issues?

Well, I'd think the goalie would get all the play. He gets to actually
put his hands on the ball for BOTH teams.

Posted By beef on 12/09/2006 3:53 PM
@Mannahnin thanks for the explanationm. So the quarterback gets all the girls usually. 

Correct.  It's amazing how some truths remain self-evident across cultures.

Nah the goalie gets the blame if they lose the game. Always the crappest position to play. In school they usually put the crappest player in goal or the Fat kid in the hope that his size might block the ball.

As Ruud Gullit once said:

?A goalkeeper is a goalkeeper because he cannot play football?.

That?s why I was often the goalkeeper.

So true. Hell Me and my mates never played when we had P.E, we used to just climb on to the roof of the sports hall and look at dirty mags.

sounds like you had a productiver education :-P

Well a productive Sports education as we mainly looked at a newspaper called the Sport which just had nude photos and some sport, we obviously did not bother reading the sports pages, just looked at the nice pictures.

Just like you buy Playboy for the articles. I got ya.

Soccer for the duration (Captain last 2 years)
Basketball 9th-12th grade (Captain last year)
Class President
Chess Club

EDIT: I think it's obvious that Beef spent his formative years mastering the subtle complexities of the English language. I was a total nerd in high school. The only reason I didn't get beat up all the time was the fact that I was bigger than everyone else (6'4", 180 pounds by 10th grade). While most of my friends were discovering the wide world of smoking behind the gymnasium and making out under the bleachers, I would be reading The Thrawn Star Wars trilogy for the 4th time. I was the opposite of sexy. Now, 5 years later, I'm a veteran and flying helicopters for the Army. "Most likely to Succeed" in my class works in a Dilbert-esque cubicle and hates his life. Ah sweet irony.

You know the funny thing is I have A levels in both English Literature and Language. Mostly my bad spelling is due to the fact I type at work in a dark room with the lights on and I also never bother to go over my post before I submit it.

Yes I know it would be easier for people to understand what I am saying but then I would not be the "slaughterer of the printed english language." anymore

But, but...

I think I will give beef a run for his money. I never proof read, which is probably a bad thing.

I doubt you will as there has yet to be someone who has attained my level of skills. It takes many hard nights and lack of typing skill to achieve

Than I accept.

You never met listy...

listy is an ol timer, he has officially retired and is out of the running, Stay away from my crown you vagabonds.

thats not slaughter of anything.

i have my moments of poshness follwed by moments of stupidity. I am from England after all. Queens english and all.

No one ever takes an interest in anything I say, so I just now noticed that there were follow up questions.

Taught us how to shove the other players pads up so that it would block their airway, kidney puch when the ref isn't looking. Exciting things like that.

I played goalkeeper in soccer(football) and it is true that we don't know how to play and also that we either take all the blame for losing or none of the credit if we win. It's the postion of manic derpressives and such.

Posted By beef on 12/15/2006 1:42 AM
i have my moments of poshness follwed by moments of stupidity. I am from England after all. Queens english and all.

I'm American, French, Canadian, and English. How are you gonna beat that?

That's a whole lotta passports.

Well I am English, French, native american, Persion, African, Asian, Eastern eurpoean and 10% Unknown.

You must just have an american passposrt as I am sure you cant have others if your american? right?