Sadly, I have to make this short, as it's midnight, I had to steal my father's laptop, and can get into some VERY SERIOUS gak (Maybe even 3 weeks in detention) for this, but here it goes:
I am at Theraputic Boarding school. I am alive, well, and still kicking!! Thanks for all of your support through my time at DakkaDakka for my (one, gak IT RAN OUT) DCM's, hello and welcome to the newbies. I will have fun seeing and talking to you all in March of 2014!!
Chowder has been ensconced in a boarding school for a goodly while, with very limited (if any) access to things like Dakka (or the internet in general AFAIK). Being a very well known and active member of Dakka, for him to suddenly fall off the grid with nary a word raised more than a few questions, and so he took this opportunity to let people know the general situation, knowing that if he was caught doing so then there would be punishment for falling foul of one (or many) of what are no doubt strict rules.
Chowder has been ensconced in a boarding school for a goodly while, with very limited (if any) access to things like Dakka (or the internet in general AFAIK). Being a very well known and active member of Dakka, for him to suddenly fall off the grid with nary a word raised more than a few questions, and so he took this opportunity to let people know the general situation, knowing that if he was caught doing so then there would be punishment for falling foul of one (or many) of what are no doubt strict rules.
Ironically it seems to be the educational embodiment of blame the victim, where kids with mild problems mostly due to issues in there backgrounds are sent by well off parents who think that spending money is a good replacement for love.
This may not be the case for chowder, just a general feeling about the system. Not helped by the removal of access to the internet. Seems like its run by people who think the 1950s were a golden age and don't understand how vital understanding and use of technology in everyday life is to be employable. Like these people who keep there kids away from TV then wonder why they are social outcasts when they are excluded from accessing the cultural currency that binds relationships.
well, with any luck, chowder will escape doctor mindbender with just a few scars
it must be relaxing, working for a place that doesn't have to get real and proper accreditation though (my place of work goes into mini panic mode making sure everything is up to snuff whenever we have to get reevaluated by carf)
Hang in there. Boarding school won't last forever. Besides, not much has changed while you've been away.
It's the same old, same old:
1. GW made people mad.
2. GW made people happy.
3. Some other company made something better/cooler/cheaper.
4. Some other company made something that is even worse.
5. Yay, Kickstarter!
6. Boo, gakky, cheating Kickstarter!
7. BrookM is still not a woman.
8. My socks are still missing.
Yea Chowder is a pretty cool kid, when we chatted anyways. He once just gave me some gamecube and Wii stuff just cause, and helped teach me how to play BF3 some time ago. And by teach I mean, he just kept bringing me back from the dead while I figured out how to die less
Wait, are you the dude that goes out in the ocean on the little sail boats? Were you lost at sea ala Tom Hanks and that volleyball? Got pics of the volleyball? Did you get scurvy?
Choke-holding mutha could not be stopped. Only a combined team of mods on combat drugs and dry martinis, forming MODASTATOR!! (tm) could exile him from the realm, by putting him into one of those little diamonds that spins through space like in the superman films.
Choke-holding mutha could not be stopped. Only a combined team of mods on combat drugs and dry martinis, forming MODASTATOR!! (tm) could exile him from the realm, by putting him into one of those little diamonds that spins through space like in the superman films.
GES, Lest We Forget...
Now, who else misses gwar! ???
Are you a bad enough dude to hang with Golden Eyed Scout?
Also, I haven't found any really funny posts from him yet. Did most get deleted?
Corpsesarefun wrote: I feel this should be renamed "The DakkaDakka Nostalgia Thread" and moved to the DCM section to further impede the damn commoners.
Get your stinking paws off of our thread, you damn dirty apes.
Ironically it seems to be the educational embodiment of blame the victim, where kids with mild problems mostly due to issues in there backgrounds are sent by well off parents who think that spending money is a good replacement for love.
This may not be the case for chowder, just a general feeling about the system. Not helped by the removal of access to the internet. Seems like its run by people who think the 1950s were a golden age and don't understand how vital understanding and use of technology in everyday life is to be employable. Like these people who keep there kids away from TV then wonder why they are social outcasts when they are excluded from accessing the cultural currency that binds relationships.
I take great offense to this. I am Chowder's neighbor and have known him for many years. His parents are not "shipping him off" and they are some of the nicest people I know. It is not fair to blame them as they have given him nothing but love. I do agree that it was not Chowders "fault" but given the situation I think his parents made a good choice. Please don't make statements about things you know very little about.
Frankly I think it's the school that's mental.
In today's world separation from the Internet shouldn't be encouraged.
The Internet is such a change from the world even 10/15 years ago.
Anyone ignoring that is a fool and a Luddite.
I take great offense to this. I am Chowder's neighbor and have known him for many years. His parents are not "shipping him off" and they are some of the nicest people I know. It is not fair to blame them as they have given him nothing but love. I do agree that it was not Chowders "fault" but given the situation I think his parents made a good choice. Please don't make statements about things you know very little about.
Yeah, no slandering Pappa-Chowder.
Several of us met Chowder's dad at Dakkacon a couple of years back.
The guy drove his son from north of Boston to Philadelphia and back again, just so his lad could play toy soldiers with the rest of us. He seemed like a top bloke and several of us old time Dakkantediluvians would have liked to have recruited him for the cause.
Here was me thinking he'd become a serial cat kicker or some such.
It can be a downer in itself to be depressed when you've got a really loving/supportive family, it just makes what you're feeling seem even more perplexing.
I would like to chime in that from the few times I've spoken to Chowders dad, he seems like one of the most down to earth, nice, funny guys I've ever spoken to.
Ironically it seems to be the educational embodiment of blame the victim, where kids with mild problems mostly due to issues in there backgrounds are sent by well off parents who think that spending money is a good replacement for love.
This may not be the case for chowder, just a general feeling about the system. Not helped by the removal of access to the internet. Seems like its run by people who think the 1950s were a golden age and don't understand how vital understanding and use of technology in everyday life is to be employable. Like these people who keep there kids away from TV then wonder why they are social outcasts when they are excluded from accessing the cultural currency that binds relationships.
I take great offense to this. I am Chowder's neighbor and have known him for many years. His parents are not "shipping him off" and they are some of the nicest people I know. It is not fair to blame them as they have given him nothing but love. I do agree that it was not Chowders "fault" but given the situation I think his parents made a good choice. Please don't make statements about things you know very little about.
Like I said, I was not talking about his situation, but about the system in general in response to the link to Wikipedia I quoted. So, please don't get your knickers in a twist about something I didn't say. I don't know anything about him or why he was sent there.
There's not a lot to say... I found out the kinect has a skype-like webcam function so I called Chowder and while it was ringing' I hopped (HA HA HA!!!) into a bunny suit to mess with him. His dad answered and we had a chat about the weather...
purplefood wrote: There's not a lot to say...
I found out the kinect has a skype-like webcam function so I called Chowder and while it was ringing' I hopped (HA HA HA!!!) into a bunny suit to mess with him.
His dad answered and we had a chat about the weather...
There was also the time we all downloaded some other videochat program for the sake of having all the harem in terrible one video chat.
purplefood wrote: There's not a lot to say...
I found out the kinect has a skype-like webcam function so I called Chowder and while it was ringing' I hopped (HA HA HA!!!) into a bunny suit to mess with him.
His dad answered and we had a chat about the weather...
There was also the time we all downloaded some other videochat program for the sake of having all the harem in terrible one video chat.
purplefood wrote: There's not a lot to say...
I found out the kinect has a skype-like webcam function so I called Chowder and while it was ringing' I hopped (HA HA HA!!!) into a bunny suit to mess with him.
His dad answered and we had a chat about the weather...
There was also the time we all downloaded some other videochat program for the sake of having all the harem in terrible one video chat.
purplefood wrote: There's not a lot to say...
I found out the kinect has a skype-like webcam function so I called Chowder and while it was ringing' I hopped (HA HA HA!!!) into a bunny suit to mess with him.
His dad answered and we had a chat about the weather...
There was also the time we all downloaded some other videochat program for the sake of having all the harem in terrible one video chat.
We need to do that again now I have a webcam.
I have an extremely gakky webcam.... I should get a better one... you can get HD for like 60 bucks now anyway, right?
I'm a little let down by the chowders dad/bunny suit story, i thought there was going to be more to the story to it than "i put on a bunny suit" (classy pun btw) . Real question is, why do you have a bunny suit hanging around? Get some furry inspired action on the weekend purplefood?
On the other hand I'm thinking a group of people who used to chat on webcam and called themselves the "harem" might have too much story for me
Bullockist wrote:I'm a little let down by the chowders dad/bunny suit story, i thought there was going to be more to the story to it than "i put on a bunny suit" (classy pun btw) . Real question is, why do you have a bunny suit hanging around? Get some furry inspired action on the weekend purplefood?
On the other hand I'm thinking a group of people who used to chat on webcam and called themselves the "harem" might have too much story for me
MrDwhitey wrote:We really don't.
Just spend an hour watching them post in Skype and you will pray for death or a pencil to poke yourself with.
That the harem is the nicest group of lads that I've ever met, and since you are true paragons of friendship that hate is what can only be described as the Anti-Harem
Bullockist wrote: I'm a little let down by the chowders dad/bunny suit story, i thought there was going to be more to the story to it than "i put on a bunny suit" (classy pun btw) . Real question is, why do you have a bunny suit hanging around? Get some furry inspired action on the weekend purplefood?
I'm honestly not entirely sure where it came from...
On the other hand I'm thinking a group of people who used to chat on webcam and called themselves the "harem" might have too much story for me
I believe the name came from a good deal of alcohol...
The Everlasting Harem.
I wrote it on my arm in permanent ink to remember it and it took a week to wash out properly.
