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Lows:

* Illness in the first four months, including an unbearable week in April, when me and my dad somehow caught the so-called 'winter vomiting bug' in the spring.

* Still no closer to a full job.

* The usual ugly elephants in the uglier room - Brexit and Trump. We spent both 'days after' in a trance.

* An old teacher's tragic death. Hundreds of people from in and out of town attended her funeral, including some big local names and lots of staff from my school, past and present. I'd never seen a crowd so big a church couldn't contain it before. That was a powerful sight for someone who's not exactly been good friends with religion in his adulthood. In a year in which the world was desparately trying to eat itself, this gave me a slight hint that it'll be alright, even though it'll take a few years first.

* Two of the earliest of this year's abnormally high number of celebrity deaths hit us hard. Heroes both: Alan Rickman and Terry Wogan. A sad omen of things to come, when January alone sucked so bad. Still, we can always dine on the story of seemingly bumping into Alan Rickman in Dublin, but not recognizing him. He was in Dublin that week starring in a play. We'd just arrived for yet another hotel weekend, and making our way there, we were shattered and my mum was annoyed from encountering a rude woman in a queue somewhere, so we were just focused on getting to the hotel, so we didn't register the man standing next to us at the crossing at first. As we crossed, he headed in the direction of the famous Temple Bar area, while we went off towards O'Connell Street. Only then did my mum pipe up and say "Do you know who yer man reminded me of?" emoticon Next day, on the tour bus, the driver remarked that Rickman was in the play and that the driver had been to see it two days ago, as the bus went past the Abbey Theatre. My mum's reaction was priceless. What if it had been him, eh? emoticon

Highs:

* We got an automatic car. Maybe, whisper it, I could learn to drive now... Eep. emoticon

* Going overseas for the first time the day I turned 30. Wow. emoticon Thank you for having me, Germany, even after all the nasty things I said about you as an ignorant teen. emoticon The special treatment I got in the hotel... wow.

* Another visit from my great aunt. Living in California, you might appreciate I'll worry about her for a little while to come... emoticon

* And the sporting high I ranted and raved about all year... Nico Rosberg, Formula 1 World Champion. Hell yeah. emoticon

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Bad day
No takeshi'castle thailand in youtube
Homies

Plan day
My youtube livestream
Get back takeshi's castle
My beach vacation
I buy laptop
 
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- Getting married.


You what!? How come this is the first we've heard of this? Congratulations!!

Now tell me how, because I'm 27 and never even had a girlfriend.. This is mainly because I have low confidence, and most girls see me as another girl, but putting that aside... emoticon


Highs:
- Finally getting out and doing stuff. I spent the summer doing what most people my age were doing over ten years ago. Better late then never though, right.
- Finding a real friend. Sounds so pitiful, but for the first time in my life I know what it's like to have a proper best friend, and she was the one who actually put in all the effort to start with emoticon I don't know why Sophie decided to take me on as it were, but she's done so much for me over this year - and it's all down to her that I've had so many great experiences this year. Like...
- Disneyland Paris! The first time I've been on holiday for 11 years. Woo!!
- Jimin finding my videos, thanking me, messaging me, following me on Twitter... It goes on! Her just being amazing in general really. Genuinely the nicest, most gracious famous person I've ever come across!

Lows:
- I hate my job more and more as every year passes. Now I'm treated like a little kid, or a total moron. In the last few weeks they've changed my job from the one I've been doing permanently for over three years (and on and off for almost nine years) without any warning or giving me any reason. And they haven't even actually told me myself at all. They've told a bunch of other people I'm "not allowed" to do it but won't tell me or give me any type of explanation. So I've been pretty ill the last few weeks. But that's enough of that.
- Jealous boyfriends. I'm far more comfortable around girls and find it far easier to become friends with them than guys. Probably because I've grown up most of my life with just my mum and sister. But when you start being friends with a girl, there's usually a boyfriend who will get jealous and begin being a total arsehole to you thinking you're trying to 'steal' their girlfriend. I'm not. Piss off. At least that always seems to be my experience. There are a couple of people I became quite good friends with who now are pretty distant thanks to their idiotic (to put it mildly) boyfriends. One of which is a girl I went to Disney with, and we've been really good friends since last year, but since we came back she's started avoiding me, and when she found out I'd realised has told other people that I'm the one ignoring her. Aah, I've just got to laugh about it now. I know exactly why she's doing it, because her boyfriend gets shitty with her if she even talks to me, so she's trying to avoid that by avoiding me. Not that she'll admit it... Even though she pretty much did admit that to me the other week. PEOPLE.
- Getting old. How am I 27? HOW!? 😩
- The year going so damn fast. Where the hell did the past 12 months go?


That the longest post I've written for ages. Aren't you all so glad I did!?... emoticon
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- Jealous boyfriends. I'm far more comfortable around girls and find it far easier to become friends with them than guys. Probably because I've grown up most of my life with just my mum and sister. But when you start being friends with a girl, there's usually a boyfriend who will get jealous and begin being a total arsehole to you thinking you're trying to 'steal' their girlfriend. I'm not. Piss off. At least that always seems to be my experience. There are a couple of people I became quite good friends with who now are pretty distant thanks to their idiotic (to put it mildly) boyfriends. One of which is a girl I went to Disney with, and we've been really good friends since last year, but since we came back she's started avoiding me, and when she found out I'd realised has told other people that I'm the one ignoring her. Aah, I've just got to laugh about it now. I know exactly why she's doing it, because her boyfriend gets shitty with her if she even talks to me, so she's trying to avoid that by avoiding me. Not that she'll admit it... Even though she pretty much did admit that to me the other week. PEOPLE.



You're starting to talk like one of sixth grade teachers lol emoticon But I know how you feel just about all of it. I've only been in your same situation once or twice, but I'm annoyed by shipping. Just stop shipping me and ship yourself off someplace else emoticon

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I hate my job more and more as every year passes. Now I'm treated like a little kid, or a total moron. In the last few weeks they've changed my job from the one I've been doing permanently for over three years (and on and off for almost nine years) without any warning or giving me any reason. And they haven't even actually told me myself at all. They've told a bunch of other people I'm "not allowed" to do it but won't tell me or give me any type of explanation. So I've been pretty ill the last few weeks. But that's enough of that.



 emoticon What the heck? If they think you did something, they should give a reason. It probably wasn't a mistake you made, but they thought it was emoticon



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Wow chojan's alive. I though that something had happened after the typhoons.

P.S. chojan: Sorry for pissing you off

Christmas Eve tomorrow (at least, for me in my territory), and on a Saturday. On Christmas Eve, you would get to work just half of a day. However, it's on a Saturday this year. Saturday gives you half the day off too, so Christmas Eve half-day wasted this year.

One year later, my high school starts. What will happen is still a mystery to me.

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Bloody hell. That was some soul-baring right there, Dan. emoticon It's inspired me to do the same. Well, we've been here TWELVE years, we can get away with it.

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- Finally getting out and doing stuff. I spent the summer doing what most people my age were doing over ten years ago. Better late then never though, right.




If your self-esteem is non-existent, that what happens. You find a way. Nothing to be ashamed of. Been there, done that. Didn't even go to the shops on my own til I was 18. All my young cousins born since the turn of the century have been all over the globe on holidays. Me? Never been on a plane till I was 30, as I've said. The one that actually likes me, who I've mentioned before around here, wondered whyever not, then she said well done, anyway.

Partly down to fear of the unknown and having my routine disrupted (classic autistic spectrum trait, that one), partly down to the family being permanently skint, partly down to a fear of flying - dunno where it came from, my mum said I furiously opposed flying to London aged 6, saying "Planes can fall out of the sky. I don't wanna fall out of the sky!" My best guess is because I used to have a Looney Tunes video at that time, in which one of the cartoons was Falling Hare, where Bugs Bunny... is trapped on a US Air Force plane... that falls out of the sky. Must have drilled its way into my mind.

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- Finding a real friend. Sounds so pitiful, but for the first time in my life I know what it's like to have a proper best friend, and she was the one who actually put in all the effort to start with emoticon I don't know why Sophie decided to take me on as it were, but she's done so much for me over this year - and it's all down to her that I've had so many great experiences this year. Like...
- Disneyland Paris! The first time I've been on holiday for 11 years. Woo!!




Whoa. We've got a few things in common, Dan. I've not had a lifelong best friend, or anything close to the loose definition of 'best' since primary school. My sister's bestest pal, we joke, has pretty much been 'adopted' by us, we see her so much. She's even told me at least once that I'm like the brother she never had. emoticon As her friends have become mine too, I used to worry that people might say I was just riding their coat tails, or trying to 'steal' friends, until they told me to stop being stupid.

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- Jealous boyfriends. I'm far more comfortable around girls and find it far easier to become friends with them than guys. Probably because I've grown up most of my life with just my mum and sister. But when you start being friends with a girl, there's usually a boyfriend who will get jealous and begin being a total arsehole to you thinking you're trying to 'steal' their girlfriend. I'm not. Piss off. At least that always seems to be my experience. There are a couple of people I became quite good friends with who now are pretty distant thanks to their idiotic (to put it mildly) boyfriends. One of which is a girl I went to Disney with, and we've been really good friends since last year, but since we came back she's started avoiding me, and when she found out I'd realised has told other people that I'm the one ignoring her. Aah, I've just got to laugh about it now. I know exactly why she's doing it, because her boyfriend gets shitty with her if she even talks to me, so she's trying to avoid that by avoiding me. Not that she'll admit it... Even though she pretty much did admit that to me the other week. PEOPLE.




Absolutely. In times that are supposedly more enlightened, certain gender dynamics have become less enlightened, instead. As all kinds of people and their lives and orientations, etc. get rightfully more accepted, it has had an unforeseen and unfortunate side effect - the worsening of the 'someone for everyone' idea. Which sees people who don't do that stuff - hello! - not believed or seen as abnormal. So much for everyone being accepted, huh? And worse, in your case, Dan, which touch wood has never happened to me, modern society thinking you can only be bosom buddies with your own gender, and if you're seen with someone of the opposite gender, then you MUST fancy them and wanna run off into the night with them. Piss off is the right answer, mate.

Similar thing with me, in that I've always found it easier to get on with girls. They don't judge me like boys used to. It wasn't like that so much in 'big school' - an all-boys school - as luckily, my classmates all took care of me like I was everyone's 'little brother' figure, once my mum and teachers explained my difficulties to them. I never went to the 'formal', convinced I would hate it, and would look awkward on my own, but I was moved that they were upset that I wouldn't go. One the few really close friends I have had, offered to go with me, and I seriously considered it, but I then feared it would go the other way, and I would get mocked for turning up with a girl, in a "Hey, who's your friend?" kind of way, so I said no in the end. I was reminded of this last year, when that friend got married, and we all went to the wedding. The groom was one of said classmates - oh, the jokes. Just the other day, a year and a bit on from that, I met her in the street. She has a son, now. I said to her "You've got a kid. Where the hell have our lives gone?"

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- Getting old. How am I 27? HOW!? 😩




I know, I know. Sucks, doesn't it?

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That the longest post I've written for ages. Aren't you all so glad I did!?... emoticon



Yeah, that was long for you. Welcome to the dark side. emoticon

Aah. I actually feel better now. Merry Christmas. emoticon

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Whoa. We've got a few things in common, Dan.



I feel like I've kind of written my heart out the last couple of days, so I won't come out with another massive post, but it's funny how you discover that other people have exactly the same experiences as you. Even though it usually feels like you're alone in feeling this way.

So much of what you've said rings true with me and with my life. I'd have never thought that you would have been that 'bad' because of your seeming confidence of recording your voice for years. And years. And years! I could still never do that myself. I find it so hard to get my voice out at all when I'm nervous. Sounds stupid, but my voice box just doesn't want to work. But with friends I can. Like with Sophie I can talk no problem, about anything. My mum drove the pair of us to Thorpe Park a few months ago (sounds bad, I'm 27 and my mum drove us to a theme park, but it was literally our last resort to get there - her dad picked us up after so we had a proper day of being kids again driven around by our parents emoticon), and she even said to me the next day how surprised she was to hear me talking to Sophie the whole way there. But that's what happens when you're actually so comfortable with someone I guess.

Now I'm just constantly paranoid she's going to get fed up of me and I'm going to lose her as a friend. Ffs.

Hopes for 2017: Think less, worry less.

It's never gonna happen.
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chojan's posted since then so you would know already.

I'm glad to hear that maybe I'll get a free-pass from driving when I'm an adult emoticon How I don't crash and burn on the others is another question! emoticon

And, this isn't directed to anyone here, but I'm sick of people saying "Can't wait for the worst year everzzzzz to end!!" The only thing you can call a problem with this year was the shootings over the Summer. Which were sick, of course, but there's always something. If people are referring to Trump then they need to give him a chance in his presidency. I agree that he's made quite a few mistakes, but I'm using my 100 Lives mindset (meaning that if someone says something truly offensive, they might lose a life. If they hurt someone physically badly then they're out of lives already) before I think he's a totally bad person.

Give this year some props, people, next year might not be better.

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Next year won't be better with Trump as president emoticon
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I'm the only one who knows the U.S.?

Donald Trump may be president, but it is the law for him to follow the instructions of Congress. If Congress wants a hotel built, the president MUST hire the builders to do it.

Congress creates a budget for all the things it wants. This will lead to the super complicated Debt Limit issue. Also, just because Trump seems bad, it does not mean that the Congress members will be.

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