ReignOnU wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:33 am
I'm about as boring as it gets...
- I don't collect stuff. Still have my cards and a bunch of magazines from my youth. Cards aren't worth what they are printed on now. Some of the magazines are pretty fun to look at (Ken Griffey's rookie run, Pete Rose gambling, Tony Mandrich "The Incredible Bulk" and "Incredible Bust," and tons of Bulls and Orlando Magic stuff.
- TBH, I'm absurdly cheap, unless it's something that I absolutely want. Cars, sports, video games or buying sports related stuff for my kids... I'll typically overlook prices and target quality.
- I have a couple mixed drinks every month or so. Has to taste good. I don't drink to get drunk. If I'm wasting calories, it better be worth it.
- Never smoked a cigarette, cigar or pipe. Grew up with both parents as smokers and hated it. Kept my bedroom door closed and Febreeze handy.
- Don't smoke weed. Had nearly unlimited access to it growing up. Full access to a garage that always had at least a garbage bag of it. Yes, garbage bag. Th family of my father's closest friend were some of the biggest producers in the region. (still are today)
- Haven't had a dip/chew in almost 20yrs.
When it comes to vices and such, it's all adrenaline / gambling. I used to race everywhere I could. Track, strip, street, highway... didn't matter. Outside of screwing around a bit in my truck, 3-5 times, I haven't done any of that since I had my G8 5+ yrs ago. Gambling is the same. Haven't been to a casino in just over 2 years. Played a little online poker last summer and prior to that it had been since the shutdown. Haven't played in a casino since '15ish. Haven't put serious effort into DFS since '15-'16.
A lot of this all goes back to my upbringing. Lower income, always in trouble, father was more concerned with alcohol/weed and his friends, than his family, and I worked from 12yrs old on for anything that I wanted. Mom couldn't afford name brand stuff, so I got whatever the coolest thing at Family Dollar/Kmart was. Didn't get my first pair of Nike's until I got the team basketball shoes in HS and I know my mom worked her ass off at 2 jobs to make that happen. Meanwhile, I knew how much my dad made and how much he pissed away at the bar and the liquor store. So having 2 kids now, I fully intend to give them everything that I wish I had. They won't be spoiled and overwhelmed with non-sense/excess, but I'll do what's necessary to support their interests (my daughter is going into her 4th year of USJO gymnastics training... I've got a damn bar in my living room about 5' from her piano).
I am just as boring.
I don't collect anything currently. I have my cards and such from when I was a kid, so I have them from the 70's on up. Probably 20,000 cards or so. I have quite a few complete sets, etc. I was going to sell them off about 10 years ago, but didn't. Will see if my son or daughter is into them eventually.
I drink, but not on a purposed regular. When I go to my parents house, they live like 5 houses from me, we always have a beer or two.
On the weekends, we have a fire pit at their house and have some drinks, but again, just a few, nothing to get drunk.
It has been quite a while since I have been really drunk.
I used to collect cigars. I have a humidor that holds 200. I have about 100 currently in there. I haven't smoked one since Father's day last year.
I do not smoke weed and grew up with unlimited access also. Not a garbage bag full, that is crazy, but my uncle always grew it when I was a teenager and my other uncle grows it now, I just have no desire. I tried it twice in college and not being a smoker, I didn't inhale right and really got nothing out of it, so I never did it again.
I have had edibles. My wife made me brownies for a camping trip before. That was fun, but I honestly get the same feeling from smoking a good cigar, it just doesn't last as long from a cigar.
I tried cigarettes and dip/chew one time each and hated it so I never did them again.
I also grew up in a lower income family. My sister and I shared a bedroom till my sophomore year of college and then we had 2 bedrooms added on to our very small house I grew up in. My dad used to have a good job in the mill and then he lost his job and did excavating as a career as he was always a heavy equipment operator.
We grew up here near Steubenville though, so not a very populated area, so he made enough to help pay the bills, but that was about it.
As far as my own kids, we are very much like you.
I want to give them everything that I can, but they are not spoiled. We make my son (7) do chores and make money and he buys some of his own little toys that he wants to teach him money and such.
So that is why I play OOTP and Madden and a couple other video games. That is about all I do.
I love being a dad though and play with them and such as much as I can.
Cnasty wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:46 pm
Beer brands/breweries.
Up to 325 distinct beers most of them during this quarantine period
I'll have Pino stop by and give you an update. 325 is child's play.
He’s up to 1395. Friend of mine is 1763.
I feel like I can’t find any other beers lately to get to 500 let alone their HOF worthiness.
I used to use the app all the time when I lived up in the Cleveland area, but since I moved back to the country, I don't go to bars much anymore, so I haven't logged a beer in the app for a while now. I did log a few back in January when I was in Akron for an evening, but nothing on the regular.
Cnasty wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:46 pm
Beer brands/breweries.
Up to 325 distinct beers most of them during this quarantine period
I'll have Pino stop by and give you an update. 325 is child's play.
He’s up to 1395. Friend of mine is 1763.
I feel like I can’t find any other beers lately to get to 500 let alone their HOF worthiness.
I think he's added 200 since the virus, lol. He lost a ton of weight and then gained some back, which he attributed to the beer. I think he's back on the weight loss grind now. I know his job is really conducive to getting all of those locals beers while he's traveling.
Cnasty wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:46 pm
Beer brands/breweries.
Up to 325 distinct beers most of them during this quarantine period
I'll have Pino stop by and give you an update. 325 is child's play.
He’s up to 1395. Friend of mine is 1763.
I feel like I can’t find any other beers lately to get to 500 let alone their HOF worthiness.
I'm betting Pino has stopped checking in if he's only at 1395. I'm catching up to him though!
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:28 pm
by nick
You guys have drank 1400 different types of beer???
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:50 pm
by cougnix
Pino probably has way more than that. There are new brews in the Northwest every day. SO MANY micros in every town you drive into around Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and everywhere in between. I'm not a micro drinker, so I don't know them all, but when I go with friends there are just as many ciders to match the brews.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:16 pm
by Cnasty
I think I’m closer to 1000 but I often forget to check in as the night wears on
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:56 pm
by nick
what the hell is a micro drinker
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:12 pm
by cougnix
nick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:56 pm
what the hell is a micro drinker
Micro Brews are small brewery beers, so a micro drinker would be a person that drinks micro brews
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:14 pm
by nick
so reigns fathers friend is a micro grower. got it.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:39 am
by ReignOnU
nick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:14 pm
so reigns fathers friend is a micro grower. got it.
Bingo!
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:43 pm
by shel311
That Andrew Schulz guy that Nick likes with an absolutely hilarious and on point video about Shaun King wanting to take down all images of Jesus.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:58 pm
by nick
Talcum X.. LMAO.. Schultz is the best.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:01 pm
by wdoupis
I mean the world would probably be pretty sweet if nobody ever made up all these religions
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:05 pm
by nick
ppl think times would be bad without cops.. imagine all the brain washed ppl who havent committed crimes because they dont wanna go to hell.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:13 pm
by shel311
nick wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:05 pm
ppl think times would be bad without cops
And then there's this article I woulda guessed was straight out of the Onion had I not known the source:
A Minnesota neighborhood vowed to no longer called the cops amidst the current climate. In short, they regret that decision.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:40 pm
by nick
i hate cops but theyre a necessary evil. too many humans to watch over for this utopia everyone wants.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:27 am
by trendon
How long have I been warning people about the police?
They aren't racist. They kill indiscriminately and then cover it up. Thanks again, cops! You've really fucked things up now. That is also not to mention that it is going to much, much harder to bribe a cop or politician now.
Re: Random Discussions
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:15 pm
by nick
watching scammers get scammed is amazing cause they make my blood boil.
Fast food franchise Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s is the same but two different names, why? We have Carl’s Jr. around here, what part of the country has Hardee’s?
