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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Gothic77 wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
smt_007 wrote:
monteitis wrote:
A fun fact is that i make out with my sisters when drunk guys talk to them.

ookay then…is that the norm in New Jersey?

Absolutely fucking not. Once again though, this guy may be from South Jersey…otherwise known as “Pennsyltucky” to those of us from North Jersey.

K, something tells me there’s a REASON for that name…

One thing you guys never understand about New Jersey is that it isn’t like “The Sopranos”. On that show, you see only one county, which is right around where I live.

However, after about the Raritan Bridge, shit goes downhill. It turns into something that I lovingly named “Pennsyltucky”. Because its like a little Alabama right here in NJ. Some of the people have Southern accents, they drive pickup trucks, and it takes you about an hour to get from your house to Dunkin Donuts. It is truly horrifying.

Now, if you go too far West in New Jersey, again, hillbillys everywhere. It turns into Pennsylvania about 100 miles from the Delaware.

And you go North…christ. Look up “Jackson Whites” on the internet. We stay the hell out West Milford and Sussex Counties. Clansmen and inbreds.

Kind of like Texas ;)[/quote]

LOL, what a typical view of NJ from someone in your living area. For a point of reference, i live in Morris County, about 30 miles due west of Manhattan (which puts me in PA on your map).
Your post about NJ is pretty misinformative and should not be taken as accurate by those looking for any information about NJ.

Just to point out a few things, “Pennsyltucky” actually refers to the entire state of Pennsylvania and was not coined by you or anybody from Bergen/Passaic/Hudson/Union County. My relatives have used it my whole life and they are from either Ohio or Upstate NY.

Last time I checked a map, 100 miles from the Delaware (River) would either put you in the Atlantic Ocean or on Long Island, depending on where on the Del you are starting (assuming you mean to the east of course).

As for southern accents, the only place I can think of that features these would be around Ft. Dix. Anyone with military experience can tell you that around any large installation you will find people with accents from around the country, the most recognizable of these being a southern (generic term) one. I will grant that there are rednecks in NJ - just like anywhere else (including your neck of the woods).

Listen, I don’t want to come across as a NJ cheerleader - I’m not originally from here. In fact, I’ve only spent a small pct of my life here and it’s not where I’d be if I didn’t have to work and support a family (Finger lakes region of NY is my choice).

But your depiction of NJ is just goofy misleading and in need of a correction, imo. My suggestion to you Irish, is to get out and check out some of the places you’ve never been (I’m guessing you’ve never been to Princeton or Lawrenceville). Also, there are several estates in towns like Far Hills, Peapack, Gladstone, Basking Ridge, Mendham, etc, that are not to be believed (Malcolm Forbes’ estate just to name one), but these are just where the rednecks live, right?

As for the message of the thread: I hate ignorance and I’m self-loathing.

DB

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Obscure fact, I nailed the runner up for MS. Teen Texas, and her best friend.

Bullpup

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[quote]BFBullpup wrote:

A fact about myself: my favorite computer game is Rogue. That game is older than all of my students.[/quote]

You should try Angband and Zangband sometime. They’ve both got more crunchy bits than Rogue does without ruining the inherent Roguelike purity with terrible GUIs.

Free downloads, compatible with pretty much everything.

Google “Angband” or “Roguelike”.

Dan “Was recently compared to Dustin Hoffman in Rainman while playing trivia” McVicker

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This is me with Gunter a couple weeks ago at The Fit Expo in Pasadena, CA.
He and I weigh about the same.
I’m on my way!

Obscure fact: I speak 3 languages and own a pest and termite control business.
(I’ve been stung by more than 150 bees at the same time. Thank goodness for Vicodin)

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here i am

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[quote]bullpup wrote:
Obscure fact, I nailed the runner up for MS. Teen Texas, and her best friend. [/quote]

Simultaneously?

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Once again, I thought it was understood that it was in humor, and I figured that someone like you would catch it. Guess I gave you too much credit.[/quote]

sorry if I missed that. I reread your post 3 times and couldn’t find anything resembling humor. What do I know, I live in Pennsyltucky.

DB

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Obscure fact: My brother once stabbed me in the face with a pencil crayon.

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Say hey guys. Nice to meet y’all finally. :wink:

Factoid 1 - I’m not usually that squinty, I just wasn’t ready for the picture.

Factoid 2 - I’m not usually that yellow. It’s a lousy camera.

Factoid 3- I learned to play the trumpet in third grade, but gave it up halfway through fourth, because I thought it would chap my lips, and then girls wouldn’t want to kiss me.

Factoid 4 - I change my facial hair an average of once a month. What I’m sporting now is about 3 weeks old, and I call it “The Evil Trucker.”

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[quote]Minotaur wrote:
Factoid 4 - I change my facial hair an average of once a month. What I’m sporting now is about 3 weeks old, and I call it “The Evil Trucker.”[/quote]

Welcome, friend. Now…about that “evil trucker”…

You need a mullet and a mesh hat to go with it. Then, and only then, would you be as cool as me.

:slight_smile:

-Nate

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[quote]proxy wrote:
Some random facts about Nate Green:

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Holy Hell! I just realized this was here! You sneaky, sneaky girl!

-Nate

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here is my most recent pic. I just finished power cleans for like 350 so I was pretty jacked up.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
The Mrs. and me hiking the Kilaeau volcano. (I know, I know. You thought you were gonna get a pic of my face…but ya gotta understand…I might want to run for political office someday…LOL)

Obscure facts: I’ve been charged by a cow moose in Alaska, smuggled an employee of mine into Canada at Niagara Falls, joined the Mile High Club, been a professional horseshoer, had a job jumping on trampolines, chased juvenile delinquent escapees across the desert on the Arizona/Mexican border on horseback, sold magazine subscriptions door to door in Ft. Lauderdale, drove a semi coast to coast for several years that had a kangaroo painted on the side of it, met a girl at a 7-11 over 23 years ago then married her (yes, still married to my precious princess). The only food I don’t like the taste of that I know about is pigeon. I’ve seen temperatures of 113 degrees above and 52 below (in pretty much the same location and no, that’s not counting the wind chill factor), sailed Hobie Cats in the Gulf of Mexico, watched glaciers calve from a kayak in Prince William Sound, homeschooled my two now-on-the-honor-roll high school kids from grades 1 - 8, held a dying man in my arms who’d been ejected from his car and had his face sliced completely off by the car’s windshield, pulled beef calves with a rope, chain, AND a pickup truck out of their mommas at birthing time (calving), been a church deacon, drove 2200 miles across the country by myself in two days in a Datsun 280Z with a full night’s rest after the first day (had outstanding speeding tickets in 13 states at one time), was paddled by the dean as a high school senior, raced dirt bikes, watched a horse fall out of the back of a school bus and live and then die of a heart attack 20 minutes later when the owner tried to load him up again, and …have only loved ONE woman. Done some other obscure stuff too but can’t remember it all right now because I’m laughing too hard about Grimm’s Bodyfat and the Shoe fable.[/quote]

Wow, you’ve done some pretty cool shit but how did you find time to lift?

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I thought I looked ill on my last pic, so am adding another. Here I am trying to formulate a four word sentence.

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[quote]AG1 wrote:
MikeTheBear wrote:
PGA200X wrote:
Here’s me in my element, Trump National Golf Course.

Obsecure facts: I’m not allergic to poison ivy. My longest drive is 396 yards. I’ve never had nightmare.

I’m not trying to take away from your accomplishment but did the 396 take a bounce off of the cart path or something? Seriously, because that’s putting it out there. I’m ecstatic if I go over 250 and it stays out of the woods.

I’m assuming he is a Pro?!
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I can beleive this. Then again I’m at 415 yards. In Denver, we had a nice tailwind and on a 565 yard par 5, I went driver, punch wedge… and didn’t eagle.

In Seattle my best drive so far is a paltry 295.

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I missed this thread first time around. This is me in Maui last summer, tossing the nerf ball with a few friends.

As far as obscure facts go, I tend to get very involved with my own thoughts, to the point where I become oblivious to just about anything else.

The worst example happened quite a few years ago

During a break in a night class I was taking, a gorgeous black girl caught me checking her out. At the time, I was pretty wrapped up in some issues with this chick I was seeing at the time.

Later on, I just happened to walk by her, puzzling over the aforementioned girl troubles, when she stops me and says “I know, you’re craving some chocolate”.

To which I reply “uhh, no” thinking to myself "why the hell would I be craving chocolate? what an odd thing to say. Then my brain switched back to my girl troubles.

Ahh, if I only had a time machine…

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[quote]nephorm wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
I thought the samething that you, kj and Prof x were saying. But when i thought about it more I realized hey when i first started working out, I didn’t do it to appear in any magazine I did it for my well being. Anything else is a bonus.

I’m a photographer. When I was taking art classes, some of our favorite models were black, because darker skin tone can allow you to use more dramatic lighting without washing out the subject. As far as photographing a darker guy goes, there’s simply no reason it can’t be done.

I’m glad it doesn’t bother you, but I still think that’s a lame explanation. If true, the man needs to hire new photographers.[/quote]

I know this post is a month old and all but I thought I might throw this out there… Im a photographer as well (more accurately a recovering cinematographer) and depending on a couple of factors the skin tone thing could be a legit excuse. Film has what is known as “latitude”. It is a measure of how great a distance from the lightest lights to the darkest darks a given film can handle and still hold detail. As recently as say 6 years ago or so when I stopped paying attention, a good film stock had about 10 “stops” of “latitude”. think of stops as essentially being levels of grey between what is seen on film as the blackest black and the whitest white. So a photographer can certainly make a photograph of someone with dark skin look beautiful and they can certainly make a photograph of someone with light skin look beautiful but photographing the two together can be problematic. If Titan’s photo shoot was going to be by himself with art direction on a similar brightness scale, no problem, easily done… but if his photoshoot was going to be with the 9 other white dudes then that photographer would be in a jam because he has to make the decision to either let the white dudes skin “blow out” or make the black dudes skin get “crushed” or make a 3rd decision which would be to ask Lu Shuler to find a lighter skinned black dude.

It’s also conceivable that there were other things that were locked down for the shoot, say art direction ( bright wardrobe or set design ) or location ( white sand beach ) that didn’t lend themselves to being photographed with someone dark skinned.

Again… if you have a photograph of someone with dark skin against a bright white sand beach the photographer is stuck with where to set his exposure… lose the brights?? lose the darks?? I can tell you from personal experience this exact thing happened to me. I was once on a job where I had to shoot a graduation scene and it was a very dark skinned woman wearing a white graduation gown and it was rediculously difficult to shoot… There was either no detail at all in her face, or no detail at all in the gown, or worse no detail at all in either…

so anyway… I know this is a month old post but what the hell… It’s also not to say that it wasn’t a racially motivated decision, or a matter of Titan just being too jacked. But it is possible that under certain circumstances that Shuler was being totally truthful

just my point oh too

~~d

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I’m the one on the right.

Hmm…random facts:

1)I’ve biked through most of france
2)My diet consists mostly of milk and ice cream
3)I’m saving up to go to Thailand and spend all day learning Muay Thai

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me around three years old.

I have always been a little chubster.

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I’m not in the military, I just like the hat.