Who are you?

BS44325 · March 2018

F Me In The Brain said:

My name is Brett, and I am a Trojan

My name is also Brett...but I ain’t no Trojan. One day I hope to have a beard as solid as rgambs. It’s a legit tight beard. I’ll keep working on it.

F Me In The Brain · March 2018

All Bretts are good.

i_lov_it · March 2018

lastexitlondon said:

ConorKavanagh said

I've been clean and sober for 7 years this year. That's one of my biggest and proudest achievements in life. Chris Cornell's death hit me hard then.

You sir are an inspiration and i also have been affected very badly by chris's death. Broke my heart

Things will get Better Lastexit...yes I know it's hard I can just imagine what Chris Death did to you because I felt very similar such a sad moment which made me very sad and affected me too so I know exactly what you mean...just think Positive ok and don't give up...and believe in yourself ok it will be hard but you will get there...I send you Positive thoughts

i_lov_it · March 2018

ConorKavanagh said:

I've been clean and sober for 7 years this year. That's one of my biggest and proudest achievements in life. Chris Cornell's death hit me hard then.

Hey Congratulations Conor be very proud of yourself...I know what you mean about Chris Death hitting you hard...it hit me hard too so I know exactly where you are coming from...and hey be proud of yourself...also Smile because this makes me Smile...so much respect for you for achieving this

Degeneratefk · March 2018

tweedyfanjen said:

Degeneratefk said:

This thread got weird for a minute.

On that note, when I moved to South Carolina, I found it quite unsettling to see people walk around with shirts on that said "go cocks!" After almost 20 years down here, nothing has changed. It's still odd.

Have you ever been to a University athletic event? I would imagine that would be very odd for you.

No, but I partied a lot at 5 points during my several training trips to the fire academy. So many "cock" fans.

ConorKavanagh · March 2018

@mickeyrat An associate at this stage.

mickeyrat · March 2018

ConorKavanagh said:

@mickeyrat An associate at this stage.

I believe we are on the same page. please visit the pj fans in 12 step recovery thread on all encompassing trip subforum.

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

HesCalledDyer said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Who do you think you are? I AM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrdYpzsgp4o

i shit you not, pete weber was my across the street neighbor from 2001 to 2015. what you see on tv is exactly what he is like as a neighbor. when he is home that is. most times he is on the road. i remember one time i got home from one of by gigs at about 3:30 am. I had some friends over for a nightcap and he yelled at us to shut the fuck up. i was shocked, considering his stepson got home that time most nights and were just as loud and i never ever said anything to them about it.

This is the greatest!!

here is the extended clip. his wife is the blonde covering her face. she has since left him. one of my neighbors told me she was mortified about this video and was deeply embarrassed by his behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKQOXYB2cd8

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

mcgruff10 said:

rod,
where did you play d1 baseball? I played two years at d3 until my shoulder gave out. Man I miss it!

i played at southwest missouri state university, since renamed missouri state university.

i miss it too. crazy thing is i hung up by cleats 24 years ago this may. i have now lived longer without baseball being a part of my life than i did with it being my life. that is crazy to think about now.

brianlux · March 2018

gimmesometruth27 said:

mcgruff10 said:

rod,
where did you play d1 baseball? I played two years at d3 until my shoulder gave out. Man I miss it!

i played at southwest missouri state university, since renamed missouri state university.

i miss it too. crazy thing is i hung up by cleats 24 years ago this may. i have now lived longer without baseball being a part of my life than i did with it being my life. that is crazy to think about now.

Ohhhhh how I miss playing baseball. I wrecked my right shoulder slamming into a wall twice in as many weeks playing racquet ball in the mid 80's and have thrown like a girl (er, um, sorry ladies!) ever since. Good golly I miss diving for line drives, the crack of the bat, sliding into a base or home plate, the crack of the bat, the smell of oiled glove leather. Nothing like it in the world!

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

HughFreakingDillon said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

I'm Rodney, Rod for short. 42, st louis, misery. progressive, liberal, whatever you want to call it. i've been politically active my entire adult life. as you can tell by my post count, most of them from 1998 on have been on amt.

I am sometimes an open book. Other times I close it and lock it up tight. bravo to you, sir, for opening it and spilling the words all over the table.

I've always respected your posts, and miss that you aren't here more. i have learned a lot from you over the years. You probably don't recall, but one of my very first experiences on entering the shark-infested waters of AMT was getting destroyed by you over the justice of the peace that refused to preside over mixed race marriages. I learned a lot from that thread. To think before you type. To research before chiming in. And it was mostly because of you.

you seem like a great guy. Sounds like you just need a better work/life balance, which you obviously already know. I hope you find it, dude. everyone deserve happiness.

I also have no desire to see PJ in that setting. I have never seen them in a ballpark, but I don't want to. it seems too big for me. I have seen a few bands in those settings, and don't get the same feeling as I do in an arena even. 40,000 people IS way different than 15,000. And especially with no new music to get excited about.

it is never too late to have a family. you are fit, you are healthy, having kids in your 40's is nothing now. I know plenty of people that age who are just starting families.

I too play music. I play bass and sing. And I hear you on finding people that want to actually play and not just "fuck around" and have a few beers. No one wants to put in the work or practice. I'm not looking to make it big, or even at all, I just have more fun when people know how to play their shit. Don't stop playing and trying to find people to jam with. You will regret it.

Cheers,

Paul

i think i was in a little too truthful of a mood. i was mortified the day after i posted it. it is nice to see kind words in response and it is nice to read other peoples' posts as well.

thank you for the compliments. i have always thought very highly of you and your opinions as well. whenever i think about amt you are one of the people that always comes to mind, so i am glad you are doing well. it was nice to read a little more about you.

i am so sorry that i acted that way. unfortunately i don't recall that thread and i don't recall being a dick. but if you say it happened, i am more than sure that it did. i learned the hard way when i started posting on amt. i used to think i was the "thread killer". i would make a post in a thread and then nobody would reply. then i would start a thread and nobody would want to discuss anything i wanted to discuss. i did not have the warmest reception when i started coming around here. people like byrnzie, el kabong, abook, commy, animus, hippiemom, windedsailor, pj gurl/triumphant angel, catefrances, metsfan, barroom hero, pychosinlove, jlewasu24, and a bunch of others now forgotten would light me up if i did not "come correct" with links and a reasoned argument. i guess as i became more seasoned i expected the same of everyone else, so i am sorry if i was ever a dick. i think the discussion was a little better back then, because we all kept each other honest. i would get called out for being intellectually dishonest, or lazy, or things were a false equivalence, etc, so it made me raise my bar a little higher. i left here a lot of times feeling like a dumbass, but it motivated me to read and to open my mind and try to see things from a different perspective. most of the people i mentioned don't come around anymore, but those are the ones that kind of made me become the poster i became.

i am working on the work/life balance. i talked to a guy today with a surgical sales company. he talked about an opening in a different territory where i could potentially hire on and not have to do business with my current boss. he assured me the hours are better. maybe less pay at first, but i would take less money for a better life. hopefully something comes from that.

i think you should see them in a stadium at least once. i don't know how these next two wrigley shows will top the prior three, but i am hopeful that they might. i prefer club shows these days. i'm into other bands now, ghost, brian fallon, against me, people who tour and play smaller places.

Yeah man, to have a kid in your 40s is not that uncommon. my thing is i think i would need to get to know someone for a few years before having kids. i don't have any prospects at the moment, so assuming i meet someone at 43, start trying to have kids at 45, have a kid at 46, damn man, i would be the old ass dad at the little league game, lol. i think that kind of does a kid a disservice though. the older i am when i have a kid, the younger he will be when i pass away and that is what bums me out.

at this point, i think the playing music to make it ship has sailed for me. i don't want to be famous. i want to be understood. i think that is all i ever wanted. even when we were trying to talk to labels, i don't think i wanted to be famous. we just wanted to write our songs and try to make a living and do it our own way. we did not have a rapper, so we weren't going to go anywhere, haha. i think we are going to keep doing our covers thing and then if the original band gets back up and running we will then write more. hope you find people to play with that want it is badly as you do. cheers man!

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

I'm Rodney, Rod for short. 42, st louis, misery. progressive, liberal, whatever you want to call it. i've been politically active my entire adult life. as you can tell by my post count, most of them from 1998 on have been on amt.

i have been playing guitar since 1993. Mr stone gossard, randy rhoads, and kurt cobain were the guys that inspired me to pick up the guitar. i have been in bands for 23 years. one of them tried to "go for it" in the late 90s. we didn't make it past regional success and fame due to fucking nu metal and fucking rap rock coming out and killing the hopes of punk based rock bands like mine. the choice was keep doing what we were doing and fail, or sell out and get a fucking rapper and dj and change our style. we were actually told that by labels that we had contacted. we decided to call it a day and move on with our lives. i currently play covers once a month and write when i can. i am also in an original band now that gets together when we can.

i am the oldest of two kids. my sister is going to be 40 in september. i have one nephew, age 18, who is playing college baseball. god i am so absolutely proud of him. his dad was absent, so i helped to raise him the best i could. my sister was on a couple of national championship softball teams in high school and she played a couple of years in college until she got pregnant. i played a year of division one baseball until a shoulder injury ended that career. that injury directly led to my career path though, so i guess it is a blessing in some ways. the guy ahead of me at catcher was only a year ahead of me. i was going to have to beat him out or sit the bench behind him for a few years until it was my time. i saw the writing on the wall. working that hard and riding the bench were two things i had no interest in, so i quit after that first year and entered the sports medicine and athletic training curriculum. my nephew is a better athlete than i ever was, so hopefully he will get to use all of his eligibility. hopefully i have helped to teach him well.

i am the oldest of my cousins on both sides of the family. there is a lot of pressure in that. there was a lot of pressure to be the golden one. the one who is successful. the one that goes to grad school because nobody else in the family had not done so. the one that does not fuck up. the one that does not besmirch the family name. the one that gets the trophy wife and has the awesome kids who in turn go on to be successful.

that last sentence did not happen. turns out, my life has not really gone as planned in many ways.

i am an athletic trainer and orthopaedic technologist that is essentially the right hand of an orthopaedic surgeon. he is a rising star in the world of pediatric orthopaedics and hip preservation surgery. i helped him start his practice in 2014 and his practice has exploded. i used to love every minute of it when we were not so fucking busy. now our clinics average 55 patients per day and our surgery time is always booked. half of the time we are overbooked and need to use 2 operating rooms in a day to handle the volume. it takes about 5 months for some surgeries to get done. it is good for him, but bad for support staff like myself. i am about 4 years older than he is. i work 55-60 hours per week. it is the definition of a thankless job. this has made me a bitter person. i literally wake up, go to work, come home late. eat dinner, and go to bed and do it all over again. the stress at times is overbearing. the work is never ever done and i am rarely ever caught up. i can never work ahead. that is the main reason i am not on here anymore. i don't have the time or energy for it. i don't have the time or energy to do anything. i don't date, i don't play guitar like i should and i can't ever get to the gym. at this point i hate more about the job than i love about it, and that tells me it is time to do something different with my life. i don't even have the energy to come home and look for jobs. that takes time, and time is what i don't have. i want to transition to surgical sales, but the guy i work for is such a young hotshot that nobody around here wants to hire me away from him because they are afraid doing so would hurt their business. at this time i am open to moving for the sake of a job. until then i reside here in the fuckbarrel.

i've never married or had kids. i am really bummed out about that because i like kids and always thought i would have been a pretty kick ass dad. i was nearly married twice. turns out i just have a knack for spending too much time with the wrong people. giving people and relationships chance after chance after chance only to have it fail in a super cataclysmic fashion. either that, or i have the gift of bad timing, because timing is everything and if timing is bad, there is no hope for a lasting relationship. i have wasted a lot of years with the wrong people and sometimes i wish i could have those years back. at this point, i don't even have the desire to start over again and invest what little time i have into getting to know someone and have it fail and end up back as square one. ya know? i have come to realize that intimacy is strange to me. when i have it with someone, everything feels normal. i don't have to question it or worry about it or think about it. when i don't have it, the entire concept seems strange to me. its like "why do i feel like i have to feel intimately connected to someone?" i may not be connected to someone, but i feel like i need to be, and that causes me stress. too much information? maybe, but who cares?

i do know that i love music. i have an extensive record collection and even though i am older i am still discovering new music. like most of us, i am a hoarder of vinyl. i have a great guitar collection. i was hoping that if i ever have a kid that one day they would end up with a kick ass collection of vintage gear. i would like to play more shows than i do, but at this age it is hard to find other musicians that want it as bad as i do.

i do know that i am a loyal person. i love my family and close friends dearly. if i love you, i'd stop a bullet for you and you aren't getting rid of me easily. i sometimes expect the same from certain people and they always fall short of expectation, and that always hurts. i have learned to stop expecting anything from anybody.

jesus reading this i sound pathetic, lol. catharsis is good at times i guess.

as long as i am being honest, i might as well say i am going to wrigley, and for the first time in my life i am not looking forward to seeing pearl jam. i have seen them over 40 times, and this whole wrigley thing to me feels like "been there, done that", because i attended the other three shows. honestly i have gotten in to other bands that tour extensively and actually put out albums. i don't know if this is a form of a midlife crisis, but i am not finding joy in the things that used to give me a lot of joy. maybe because my ex will be at wrigley. i introduced her to a lot of PJ people that i have known for years. since we split i have been unfriended one by one by all of those people, so it is going to be weird attending preparties and shit knowing those people will be there and they are not going to want to see me. a few years ago i would not have given a fuck. but the older i get, i realize deep down that i'd like it if people liked me. i make it difficult a lot of the time, but i guess that is who i am.

i have enjoyed reading this thread. all of you are wonderful people. it is comforting to know that people that i sometimes disagree with are actually people with their own story. a lot of the time that gets lost when the person typing is behind a 1 cm by 1 cm avatar that i can't even make out what the image is supposed to be. cheers to all of you good folks and i look forward to reading more of who you are.

Rod

Always has been a quality individual even though we have differed significantly on a couple of issues. A truly good human being.

thank you. back atcha.

i don't think we differ that bad. i think deep down we want the same things, just disagree sometimes on how to go about making it happen.

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, yes Brian, you can call me Allison.

i've always just called you pj_soul, lol

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

PJ_Soul said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

I'm Rodney, Rod for short. 42, st louis, misery. progressive, liberal, whatever you want to call it. i've been politically active my entire adult life. as you can tell by my post count, most of them from 1998 on have been on amt.

...................

i've never married or had kids. i am really bummed out about that because i like kids and always thought i would have been a pretty kick ass dad. i was nearly married twice. turns out i just have a knack for spending too much time with the wrong people. giving people and relationships chance after chance after chance only to have it fail in a super cataclysmic fashion. either that, or i have the gift of bad timing, because timing is everything and if timing is bad, there is no hope for a lasting relationship. i have wasted a lot of years with the wrong people and sometimes i wish i could have those years back. at this point, i don't even have the desire to start over again and invest what little time i have into getting to know someone and have it fail and end up back as square one. ya know? i have come to realize that intimacy is strange to me. when i have it with someone, everything feels normal. i don't have to question it or worry about it or think about it. when i don't have it, the entire concept seems strange to me. its like "why do i feel like i have to feel intimately connected to someone?" i may not be connected to someone, but i feel like i need to be, and that causes me stress. too much information? maybe, but who cares?

i do know that i love music. i have an extensive record collection and even though i am older i am still discovering new music. like most of us, i am a hoarder of vinyl. i have a great guitar collection. i was hoping that if i ever have a kid that one day they would end up with a kick ass collection of vintage gear. i would like to play more shows than i do, but at this age it is hard to find other musicians that want it as bad as i do.

i do know that i am a loyal person. i love my family and close friends dearly. if i love you, i'd stop a bullet for you and you aren't getting rid of me easily. i sometimes expect the same from certain people and they always fall short of expectation, and that always hurts. i have learned to stop expecting anything from anybody.

jesus reading this i sound pathetic, lol. catharsis is good at times i guess.

as long as i am being honest, i might as well say i am going to wrigley, and for the first time in my life i am not looking forward to seeing pearl jam. i have seen them over 40 times, and this whole wrigley thing to me feels like "been there, done that", because i attended the other three shows. honestly i have gotten in to other bands that tour extensively and actually put out albums. i don't know if this is a form of a midlife crisis, but i am not finding joy in the things that used to give me a lot of joy. maybe because my ex will be at wrigley. i introduced her to a lot of PJ people that i have known for years. since we split i have been unfriended one by one by all of those people, so it is going to be weird attending preparties and shit knowing those people will be there and they are not going to want to see me. a few years ago i would not have given a fuck. but the older i get, i realize deep down that i'd like it if people liked me. i make it difficult a lot of the time, but i guess that is who i am.

i have enjoyed reading this thread. all of you are wonderful people. it is comforting to know that people that i sometimes disagree with are actually people with their own story. a lot of the time that gets lost when the person typing is behind a 1 cm by 1 cm avatar that i can't even make out what the image is supposed to be. cheers to all of you good folks and i look forward to reading more of who you are.

Rod

Well I like you, and I didn't think that you made it difficult at all.

(I had to cut out a bunch of your post above btw - I exceeded the character limit)

I'm also bad with serious relationships FWIW (so far, anyway). I make terrible choices ... I basically have terrible taste in men, lol. I mean, I have GREAT taste in male friends actually. They're wonderful. But I do the exact opposite when romance comes into it, and I don't really know why - it's like a fucking chemical reaction in my brain, lol. It always seems out of my control a bit, even in hindsight. I just fall in love with men who end up being douchebags and/or jerks, lol (but at least I don't fall in love with evil people or anything like that - these are just run-of-the-mill shitty boyfriends). I don't know if the term "you can't help who you love" actually holds water scientifically, but it certainly feels true for me. I like to think that I finally learned all my lessons with the last one; I'm pretty sure I did - I'm much wiser now ... But the last one (common law marriage) went so spectacularly bad and my heart got so broken that I was turned off of the whole idea of being in a relationship at all. It finally convinced me that this whole relationship thing is something I don't need or want and suddenly being single feels absolutely amazing, like it never has before. For me, and for probably 75% of the people around me as far as I can tell, relationships are way more trouble than they're worth. Congrats to the remaining 25% though!

awww thanks

i feel a little better now. i thought i repelled people, hahaha

next time ask me first. i can point out douchebags a mile away.

the heart wants what the heart wants. sometimes the heart knows better than the mind. in my case, my heart is a dumbfuck. i have been involved with women who i knew upon meeting them that they would chew me up and spit me out. so what did i do? hooked up with that girl for a torrid month or a torrid 2 month affair, and then promptly get chewed up and spit out. the sad thing is i KNOW better, but i still allow myself to get into those situations. you may be a lot like me. i always give people that i am dating the benefit of the doubt. even when it is obvious they are being unfaithful or it is obvious that it isn't going to work out. i am a cynic about a lot of things, but i still believe in love for some reason.

sounds like your last one was like my last one. being turned off about the idea of being in a relationship is kind of my natural response. i hate being alone. but sometimes it does seem to beat being with someone and trying to make something work. other times being alone is the worst thing ever. i am social by nature. coming home and not having anyone to talk to is kind of nice, but it gets old. hopefully you find what you are looking for. i am the kind of person that likes to spoil someone if i am with them. i give a lot of gifts. if i am single i kind of miss that. i end up donating more to charity when i am single, so maybe i should just do more of that for a while. who knows?

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

HughFreakingDillon said:

F Me In The Brain said:

My name is Brett, and I am a Trojan

FIRE AND ICE? WHAT THE SWEET FUCK?

you should try those things. they are pretty interesting.

if they are the ones i am thinking they are, they are shaped like a zeppelin, lol

gimmesometruth27 · March 2018

brianlux said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

mcgruff10 said:

rod,
where did you play d1 baseball? I played two years at d3 until my shoulder gave out. Man I miss it!

i played at southwest missouri state university, since renamed missouri state university.

i miss it too. crazy thing is i hung up by cleats 24 years ago this may. i have now lived longer without baseball being a part of my life than i did with it being my life. that is crazy to think about now.

Ohhhhh how I miss playing baseball. I wrecked my right shoulder slamming into a wall twice in as many weeks playing racquet ball in the mid 80's and have thrown like a girl (er, um, sorry ladies!) ever since. Good golly I miss diving for line drives, the crack of the bat, sliding into a base or home plate, the crack of the bat, the smell of oiled glove leather. Nothing like it in the world!

i love the smell of an oiled glove. pine tar too.

HughFreakingDillon · March 2018

gimmesometruth27 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

I'm Rodney, Rod for short. 42, st louis, misery. progressive, liberal, whatever you want to call it. i've been politically active my entire adult life. as you can tell by my post count, most of them from 1998 on have been on amt.

I am sometimes an open book. Other times I close it and lock it up tight. bravo to you, sir, for opening it and spilling the words all over the table.

I've always respected your posts, and miss that you aren't here more. i have learned a lot from you over the years. You probably don't recall, but one of my very first experiences on entering the shark-infested waters of AMT was getting destroyed by you over the justice of the peace that refused to preside over mixed race marriages. I learned a lot from that thread. To think before you type. To research before chiming in. And it was mostly because of you.

you seem like a great guy. Sounds like you just need a better work/life balance, which you obviously already know. I hope you find it, dude. everyone deserve happiness.

I also have no desire to see PJ in that setting. I have never seen them in a ballpark, but I don't want to. it seems too big for me. I have seen a few bands in those settings, and don't get the same feeling as I do in an arena even. 40,000 people IS way different than 15,000. And especially with no new music to get excited about.

it is never too late to have a family. you are fit, you are healthy, having kids in your 40's is nothing now. I know plenty of people that age who are just starting families.

I too play music. I play bass and sing. And I hear you on finding people that want to actually play and not just "fuck around" and have a few beers. No one wants to put in the work or practice. I'm not looking to make it big, or even at all, I just have more fun when people know how to play their shit. Don't stop playing and trying to find people to jam with. You will regret it.

Cheers,

Paul

i think i was in a little too truthful of a mood. i was mortified the day after i posted it. it is nice to see kind words in response and it is nice to read other peoples' posts as well.

thank you for the compliments. i have always thought very highly of you and your opinions as well. whenever i think about amt you are one of the people that always comes to mind, so i am glad you are doing well. it was nice to read a little more about you.

i am so sorry that i acted that way. unfortunately i don't recall that thread and i don't recall being a dick. but if you say it happened, i am more than sure that it did. i learned the hard way when i started posting on amt. i used to think i was the "thread killer". i would make a post in a thread and then nobody would reply. then i would start a thread and nobody would want to discuss anything i wanted to discuss. i did not have the warmest reception when i started coming around here. people like byrnzie, el kabong, abook, commy, animus, hippiemom, windedsailor, pj gurl/triumphant angel, catefrances, metsfan, barroom hero, pychosinlove, jlewasu24, and a bunch of others now forgotten would light me up if i did not "come correct" with links and a reasoned argument. i guess as i became more seasoned i expected the same of everyone else, so i am sorry if i was ever a dick. i think the discussion was a little better back then, because we all kept each other honest. i would get called out for being intellectually dishonest, or lazy, or things were a false equivalence, etc, so it made me raise my bar a little higher. i left here a lot of times feeling like a dumbass, but it motivated me to read and to open my mind and try to see things from a different perspective. most of the people i mentioned don't come around anymore, but those are the ones that kind of made me become the poster i became.

i am working on the work/life balance. i talked to a guy today with a surgical sales company. he talked about an opening in a different territory where i could potentially hire on and not have to do business with my current boss. he assured me the hours are better. maybe less pay at first, but i would take less money for a better life. hopefully something comes from that.

i think you should see them in a stadium at least once. i don't know how these next two wrigley shows will top the prior three, but i am hopeful that they might. i prefer club shows these days. i'm into other bands now, ghost, brian fallon, against me, people who tour and play smaller places.

Yeah man, to have a kid in your 40s is not that uncommon. my thing is i think i would need to get to know someone for a few years before having kids. i don't have any prospects at the moment, so assuming i meet someone at 43, start trying to have kids at 45, have a kid at 46, damn man, i would be the old ass dad at the little league game, lol. i think that kind of does a kid a disservice though. the older i am when i have a kid, the younger he will be when i pass away and that is what bums me out.

at this point, i think the playing music to make it ship has sailed for me. i don't want to be famous. i want to be understood. i think that is all i ever wanted. even when we were trying to talk to labels, i don't think i wanted to be famous. we just wanted to write our songs and try to make a living and do it our own way. we did not have a rapper, so we weren't going to go anywhere, haha. i think we are going to keep doing our covers thing and then if the original band gets back up and running we will then write more. hope you find people to play with that want it is badly as you do. cheers man!

You didn't "act that way", and you weren't a dick. you took me to task over my ignorant take on the situation. And it made me a better poster. before that, i was a stream-of-consciousness poster, not really thinking shit through. you taught me to think before you post.

I stopped replying to you (and anyone) for a while after that because I was intimidated, not because you were a dick. I chose to hang back and listen rather than speak for a while so I could learn the ropes a bit better. I almost never responded to byrnzie as he would destroy me pretty much every time. even if we agreed. that guy was on another level (especially about Israel), plus he didn't have a problem being a dick about it. LOL

yeah, and I also remember being admonished for not supporting my argument with links and whatnot by some of those you mentioned. NO WIKIPEDIA. LOL.

we started our family at 32. my parents started theirs at 21. different times man. my parents are 70 now and still as vibrant as a 55 year old in the 80's. I can imagine how hard it must be, being a GUY wanting to start a family. not really an option to do it on your own besides adoption.

a buddy came over a few weeks ago who I used to be in a band with. he wanted to start a green day cover band. as a bassist, I thought that would be fun. haven't heard anything since. oh well, par for the course at 40-ish with a hobby that people seem to think is reserved for teenagers and twentysomethings. such is life.

tweedyfanjen · March 2018

Degeneratefk said:

tweedyfanjen said:

Degeneratefk said:

This thread got weird for a minute.

On that note, when I moved to South Carolina, I found it quite unsettling to see people walk around with shirts on that said "go cocks!" After almost 20 years down here, nothing has changed. It's still odd.

Have you ever been to a University athletic event? I would imagine that would be very odd for you.

No, but I partied a lot at 5 points during my several training trips to the fire academy. So many "cock" fans.

Ah. Good ole Five Points. I spent my fair share of time there. Girls never got carded.

Degeneratefk · March 2018

I was fb friends with Byrnzie when I had fb. We also had several long email discussions. You're right, he is on another level. People were hard in him because he was so informed.

HesCalledDyer · March 2018

gimmesometruth27 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Who do you think you are? I AM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrdYpzsgp4o

i shit you not, pete weber was my across the street neighbor from 2001 to 2015. what you see on tv is exactly what he is like as a neighbor. when he is home that is. most times he is on the road. i remember one time i got home from one of by gigs at about 3:30 am. I had some friends over for a nightcap and he yelled at us to shut the fuck up. i was shocked, considering his stepson got home that time most nights and were just as loud and i never ever said anything to them about it.

This is the greatest!!

here is the extended clip. his wife is the blonde covering her face. she has since left him. one of my neighbors told me she was mortified about this video and was deeply embarrassed by his behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKQOXYB2cd8

Yep, I watched it on tv in a bar when it happened. All my friends were like "Look it's Dyer as a professional bowler!"

Who are you?

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