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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 10:06:52 am

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 10:06:52 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/3643910.stm

Title: True Athletics
Post by: Tiara on September 17, 2004, 10:27:26 am

You, my friend, need to stoip browsing the BBC pages and all other sorts of news pages... :doubt:

Seriously... At least stop posting everything here :p

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 10:29:35 am

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Originally posted by Tiara
You, my friend, need to stoip browsing the BBC pages and all other sorts of news pages... :doubt:

Seriously... At least stop posting everything here :p

Are you implying I should actually be doing the job I'm paid to do?

Title: True Athletics
Post by: an0n on September 17, 2004, 10:35:44 am

Yes. Now go kill Virtu.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: kasperl on September 17, 2004, 10:39:58 am

Seriously, mate, are you posting all the news on the job, WTF?

I wouldn't mind an RSS feed or webpage called "aldo's news selection". (Saves me the trouble of sifting through the mess)

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 10:40:06 am

I told you already, I want 50% up front, in a brown bag under the specified seat in the bus stop.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 10:40:53 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
Seriously, mate, are you posting all the news on the job, WTF?

I wouldn't mind an RSS feed or webpage called "aldo's news selection". (Saves me the trouble of sifting through the mess)

I work from home.  I'm astonishingly bored.  nuff said.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: an0n on September 17, 2004, 10:41:27 am

Don't you have a wife or girlfriend you could play with?

Title: True Athletics
Post by: kasperl on September 17, 2004, 10:43:32 am

Aldo, what are you on? You stopped a campaign because you didn't have the time, and you're making a reader's digest each day.

Not that I mind, though.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 11:27:41 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
Aldo, what are you on? You stopped a campaign because you didn't have the time, and you're making a reader's digest each day.

Not that I mind, though.

This is my thinking time.  I write code very fast, but I need a few hours to think over it (skive).

Plus, you have no idea how tedious & dull this job is.  I don't even get paid regularly, because it usually takes about 4 weeks for the bastards to get round to sending my cheque out.

And this is easy, modelling was long and hard and time consuming.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: kasperl on September 17, 2004, 12:07:10 pm

Ah, got the point

Title: True Athletics
Post by: Clave on September 17, 2004, 12:50:08 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14
And this is easy, modelling was long and hard and time consuming.

I hear that.

And texturing argh!! :eek:

Title: True Athletics
Post by: Mongoose on September 17, 2004, 01:09:21 pm

And now for something actually on-topic...:p

The people in these games are truly inspirational.  I remember watching the ice sledge hockey event from the Salt Lake City games...the game was just as action-packed as a regular hockey game, and the athletes showed incredible determination.  It just goes to show that you can turn disabilities into triumph.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: an0n on September 17, 2004, 01:11:16 pm

Not really.

They might be the fastest cripple alive, but they're still a cripple.

Just because they fixate on the silver lining, it doesn't mean there's not still a collosal cloud.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: aldo_14 on September 17, 2004, 01:20:34 pm

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Originally posted by an0n
Not really.

They might be the fastest cripple alive, but they're still a cripple.

Just because they fixate on the silver lining, it doesn't mean there's not still a collosal cloud.

Don't be an arse.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: an0n on September 17, 2004, 01:40:38 pm

I'm not.

Winning at the Special Olympics is a great personal achievement, but compared to the rest of mankind you're still largely inferior.

Title: True Athletics
Post by: Rictor on September 17, 2004, 02:00:00 pm

Not when it takes ten times the effort of normal athletes to do what they do.

Its about being the best among your peer group. So, you don't see skinny little lightweight boxer guys fighting Mike "I will stomp on your testicles" Tyson, do you? Or take for instance college level sports; they can't compete with the pros but its still a hell of an accomplishment.