The One-Year Topic

[Crazy Elf Boy]

In one year I hope to be fluent enough in Japanese to be able to have an indepth conversation with a native Japanese speaker, to have my Zombie movie script up and running, start writing a few fan fictions and attempt to read more books.

[Clark]

good luck.

i hope to have a few more thousand kanjis imbedded into my brain, a few less lbs on my body, and more money invested in savings rather than games.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Heck, I never was TPM's Japan expert, and now I'm going to be left even more behind! I still study Japanese to be able to teach it myself, but the feedback from the last course was a little contradictory and I don't know if I can improve. I have tried, but I haven't been able to learn too much more during the last few years, partly it might be a result of my mental illness that arose in 2004. Soon I'll have to ask you guys to help me with Japanese.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

Well if anyone here wants to set up a Japanese pen pal language exchange with me I will be more the happy to oblige, because my japanese will always need improving.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

E-mail or traditional mail?

I don't know if I should have asked this in another way, but nobody else would know if I asked this via PM. I just wonder what Blademaster thinks about the way this topic has gone, but he said

So, TPM, I open the floor for you all. Keep this topic alive for one year, no matter what it takes. No matter how controversial or screwed-up it gets... Not that I need to encourage that around here, but...

so it should be OK, this isn't so screwed-up, heh.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

I think E-mail would be best because normal mail would take ages to go back and forth. Also I don't think Blademaster would mind this sort of conversation, as long as it isn't controversial then it shouldn't break any of the TPM laws. Plus I think he will be greatful that we are keeping this thread alive and thriving.

[Blademaster]

You guys really don't know me very well, do you?

[Zak]

This year, I hope for Hamas to shut up, and also looking forward to my next semester being better than last one. God, what a disaster that was.

BTW Suzie, thanks for getting to this topic before Gabi did.

[Drago]

Also I don't think Blademaster would mind this sort of conversation, as long as it isn't controversial then it shouldn't break any of the TPM laws.

ROFLMAO

My Japanese was shaping up pretty good back in late 2005; I was studying so hard, because I was obsessed. I grabbed computer programs, made flash cards (honest to god, flash cards!!) and watched the Japanese news three times a day. In a couple short months, I had managed to learn about a year's worth of stuff. I had learnt all of hiragana, but having to start all over again with katakana was a frustrating concept.

By about March in 2006, I was so bogged down with university and the like that I just stopped altogether. No more programs, flash cards or Japanese news... And now, most of it is gone. Seriously, I watched the news so much I knew about pretty much everything that was happening in Japan. Kinda sad to have lost it all, I wonder if I tried if everything would come right back?

Though I do remember douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu quite easily... can't remember what it means, but I can say it pretty damn well.

[Asilynne]

Ok for predictions. Next Year I predict..
~I will have a better job and on my way to paying off my shit
~I will either be engaged or single >.> no more of this in-between shit lol
~My lil nephew will be one year old and walking
~My sister will be engaged or married
~My dad will start his own company
~This year would turn out better than last year, because 2008 sucked ass

Thats what I hope anyway :>

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

To be honest, I was quite surprised when Roy Karrde posted the prediction issue. I'm sorry but it kinda overlapped with mr_pikachu's '2009!'. Of course, it's everyone's own choice whether to talk about this year or not. Is my comment late again?

Do you have any long-term resolutions? Will anything be different for you this year, or are you looking forward to more of the same? Tell us!

Oh heck. I ended up talking about discussing just as in Questions Only.

[PancaKe]

I wonder where my boyfriend went..


Anyway - Predictions? Ahhhhh by this time next year; I better be engaged. haha but I wont be T_T

I'd like to be.

Any takers?

lawl.




And ermm last night I had a dream that I needed $65 for a concert ticket; so decided to sell the other concert ticket I had but wasn't listening when I heard someone say they'd pay- and they gave me $500 because they wanted me to traffic drugs for them. And I was so confused I kept trying to give them change cos the concert ticket was only $65.

The end.

[MToolen]

By next year, I'll have my first year of college under my belt, be mostly planned for my wedding, my fiancé will have gotten her degree, and I may even have a job. Anything's possible. There's not too much in the way of resolutions, though; last year, I gave up soda (something I deemed a "sodabattical"), so I think I'll wait before doing some other crazy thing.

[DarkTemplarZero]

This year I plan to:

- Drink more. After tonight, I have to say that's going well.
- Get laid more. Not so successful so far.
- Continue the exponential increase in my yearly income. $3000 in the bank this year so far, going well.
- Maintain a winter workout schedule. Have pretty much maintained my weight since August, so that's going alright.
- Download every remix of Crockett's Theme ever made to make an uber epic Crockett's Theme playlist. About 20% done so far and discovered some great remixes. Jan Hammer Project/TQ remix is baller, I just love it when gangster rap meets 80's synthpop.

[Blademaster]

I knew that your seriousness would kill the topic, Roy. Good job.

Dick.

[Drago]

- Download every remix of Crockett's Theme ever made to make an uber epic Crockett's Theme playlist.

In the interest of activity, I have to say; I never expected anyone to say this. Then again, I didn't realise that Crockett's Theme had been jumped by random hip-hop artist. Not really a big fan myself after having just listened to it, I'll stick to just the Jan Hammer version, personally.

[Asilynne]

I knew that your seriousness would kill the topic, Roy. Good job.

Dick.

Dont worry Blade, Rudys planning on causing trouble by starting a gun control debate so Ill just have him start it in here, that should buy you at least 8-9 pages ^-~

[Master Rudy]

*sets up the bait*
As anyone with a brain knows gun control is using both hands......

[Crazy Elf Boy]

Whats gun control?

[Heald]

Gun control is for countries that aren't full of inbred red-necks.

[DarkestLight]

I just wanted to post cause the word "baller" came up willingly.

Savage.

[Jeff]

Guns don't kill people. In-bred rednecks kill people.

[mr_pikachu]

Guns don't kill people. In-bred rednecks kill people.

Quoted for truth. Those damn New Yorkers are so violent!

[Heald]

There's been another shooting, loosely related to video games (some kid shot his parents and was apparently addicted to Halo, blah blah blah) and although I've realised there was a pattern, I never really documented it, so I thought I'd elaborate:

1 - Youth uses gun to kill/shoot loved one.

2 - Media discovers said youth listens to metal/plays video games/smokes pot/collects stamps and plasters this all over their respective press outlets.

3 - Idiots blame metal/video games/pot/stamps.

4 - Sensible people point out the millions of other people who listen to metal/play video games/smoke pot/collect stamps and haven't killed anyone, and suggest perhaps guns plays a more vital role in the shooting of people than the aforementioned factors.

5 - NRA and other pro-gun people interpret this as guns caused the shooting and go ape-shit.

The fact is, the fact he had a gun wasn't the main factor. Neither was playing video games or listening to metal or rap or whatever. The main factor is usually that the kid is a bit psycho. However, here's the difference: if you made a list of all the factors that led to this kid shooting his parents, including all the little ones, and ordered them by the magnitude that led to the shooting, the fact he had access to a gun is probably higher on the list than the fact he played Halo, and so it is idiotic to blame things like the kind of music they listen to or the games they play over their access to a murder weapon. I'm not saying guns are to blame, so you pro-gun guys can stop hovering over that quote button, quivering with anticipation to start a quote war, but calling for a ban on violent video games or certain kinds of music whilst keeping schtum on gun control issues is insane.

[mr_pikachu]

For the record, I don't blame metal/video games/pot for these shooting (although stamps could be at fault). Nor do I blame the existence or proximity of guns.

The way I see it, parents who own such lethal weapons have to be aware of the mental state of their children. If there's any risk at all that the kids might try something with a gun, whether due to anger, depression, ignorance, or anything else, then it has to be kept under lock and key. It's as simple as that. And don't give me any of the "Oh, but they're too busy!" bullshit. If that's true, then they can assume the aforementioned risk is there and lock up the gun.

Also, please take note that I don't own a gun, none of my friends or family (to my knowledge) own a gun, and the only time I ever fired one was at a target on vacation - I never hit the target, nor the piece of paper on which it was printed. I've long since concluded that I'd stand a far better chance in a fight without firearms... but I have no problem with them. I have a problem with some of the idiots who own them. If only background checks could legally include stupid screenings.

[Heald]

I've long since concluded that I'd stand a far better chance in a fight without firearms.

To quote a British expression concerning people who can't shoot for smack:
"You'd do more damage if you fed it to him!"

[mr_pikachu]

Well, I suppose that would be one use for it... throw the gun at the guy's head while I charge at him. The second-and-a-half he spends guarding his face could make all the difference.

[Asilynne]

My dad has a shitload of guns, and we grew up knowing where they were and that they were there, but we never even thought about breathing on one let alone touching it lol
Also they werent loaded lol

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

During one year, Finland was shot to a worldwide knowledge.

November 2007: A school shooting in Jokela.
August 2008: Finland gets two of its four medals for shooting in Beijing Olympics.
September 2008: A school shooting in Kauhajoki.

Now if you ask a Finn what Youtube is, you'll get an answer:

"It's a place where you can put shooting videos."

[Houndoom_Lover]

PancaKe! I shall marry you, come, let's enlope!

Guys are caused by demon...yep. I'm preeeetty sure! Demons and Dick Channey.

[Master Rudy]

......so you pro-gun guys can stop hovering over that quote button, quivering with anticipation to start a quote war......

Quoted....just for the sake of starting the afforementioned "quote war"

[Heald]

Is your sig meant to be a joke? Either way, in any thread you post in, you automatically invoke Godwin's Law.

[Blademaster]

WHAT THE FUCK, RUDY?!

;_; I thought you were cool, man... I thought you were cool...

[Toxicity]

Is your sig meant to be a joke? Either way, in any thread you post in, you automatically invoke Godwin's Law.

At least he has the choice to counteract Godwin's Law by removing Adolf Obama from his sig.

As for 2009, I'm just hoping I'm healthier and more optimistic than I am now come 2010. 2008 was a huge leap, but at this point it's downhill, I guess.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

No matter how controversial or screwed-up it gets...

What the heck, I already quoted this once!

I'll have to grow wings. Then I could fold them behind my back and neck and nobody could see what kind of sig there is in the forums I browse.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

To quote a British expression concerning people who can't shoot for smack:
"You'd do more damage if you fed it to him!"

I know this is a lame joke, but it gives new meaning to the phrase "I am going to make you eat lead"

[Master Rudy]

At least he has the choice to counteract Godwin's Law by removing Adolf Obama from his sig.

Now if I only knew what Godwin's Law was......
And yes the irony of the situation is not lost on me.....the guy who on more than one occassion got into a battle of words with DTZ over various issues such as President Bush, Iraq and gun control. Did I think putting those in my sig was going to win me friends? Of course not. Go ahead and ask people that know me. For pretty much my whole life I could have been easily described as someone that would not "rock the boat" so to speak and and cause controversy. I'm not going to say anything else on the matter because:

1-It will be seen as "attacking poor Obama"
2-No matter if you like or hate Obama it will start and endless wave of "I'm right, your wrong"
3-It'll destroy the purpose of this topic

I could go on for a long time about how I believe he's fooled a ton of people but this topic is not an Obama debate. Instead I'll keep my controversy limited to my sig and steer it back towards something else......

How 'bout those Cardinals?
FUCK THE STEELERS UP!

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Wiki it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law I did.

[Jeff]

How 'bout those Cardinals?
FUCK THE STEELERS UP!

*points to sig*

The Steelers must be brought down. The Ravens could have done it if it weren't for that dang hurricane. Now the Cards need to finish what they started.

[Master Rudy]

Yeah I'll admit in hindsight maybe Adolf Obama was in poor taste since Hitler is never funny......BUT COMMIE OBAMA STAYS!!!!

In any case I want to see the Steelers lose like you wouldn't believe. I jumped for joy when Brady went down at the start of the season but totally forgot how much I hate Big Ben too. I personally think the Cards can pull it off and fully believe if they win that Warner will retire right after. Winning a Super Bowl with a team no one thought could do it? That's not a bad way to go out.