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Name: Greg
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Birthday: 7/14/1975
Gender: Male
Interests: Anything and everything as long as the company's good. mostly i like talking about random sh*t: sports, politics, movies, books, music, and life. my hobbies change constantly. my biggest concerns nowadays are my career, my golf game, learning to cook, and trying to bank off the stock market.
Expertise: Jack of all trades, master of none...
Occupation: Chemist
Industry: Pharmaceutical/Biotech
Email: email me
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Yahoo:  goopup
MSN: goopup@msn.com
Member Since:
1/17/2006
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| So the other day I was talking to an old friend from high school. The conversation is pretty much following that traditional template between two people who see each other once or twice a year. You know, "so what are you doing," "where are you working," "who are you seeing," type stuff.
The conversation gets into activities and I bring up surfing. He gets excited, "yeah, you gotta teach me! I'm having problems standing up." I explain that I ride foam, not fiberglass. His answer: "oh, ok. I already know how to do that."
Sure you do...
I think Ice Cube put it best when he said, "nigga, please!"
Try this: go to Youtube and do a search for "surfing" and "pipeline". Check out some of the 5 star vids. Now do the same searching for "bodyboarding" and "pipeline". Tell me which one you'd rather do.
I don't bodyboard because I can't stand up. It's simply more exciting, to me. Bottom line: it's a preference, not a limitation.
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| Come on, you know you don't really like these guys. Maybe you just don't want to seem like a hater. It's hard to badmouth a team that everyone loves so I'll offer my jumper cables to help you get your pretty hate machine started.
Here are 5 reasons (+1 bonus reason) for jumping off the Patriots bandwagon.
1) The coach was caught cheating. Come on! I'm not saying it helped them win, but I can't stand people who take shortcuts. Do it right or don't do it at all.
2) I hate crybabies. I know it's been awhile, but have you ever seen Tom Brady after a loss? He's the sorest loser I've ever seen. It's always "we could've won, but..." I'm all for confidence and belief that your own team is the best but give credit where it's due, bitch. It sucks that this little whiny bitch took the TD record from Mr. Wholesome (Peyton Manning, and yes I'm mocking him; watch his SNL skit and you can't help but love him). About the only thing that would make this awesome is if Manning retakes the record then reveals in his autobiography in the year 2038 that he was so pissed after losing the record that he juiced up just to get his record back. Then we could hear all you Baw-ston fans cry "ASTERISK!!!"
3) Fuck Tedy Bruschi. The only reason people don't say shit about him is because he's a stroke victim, but other than that he's a fucking arrogant prick. If they win his locker room comments are always along the lines of "we don't listen to what they say" or "we leave that stuff for you journalists", but when they lose he doesn't even talk to the media.
4) Another record set by this team is TD receptions by Randy Moss and it's a damn shame that this cancer of a football player will now sit above the guy who most consider the greatest player ever as the single season TD catching king. It's completely unfathomable but unfortunately true that a guy who admits to taking plays off that don't involve him is now easily mentioned in the same breath as the hardest working player in the league. It's terrible that a guy who once tried to run over a parking attendant will overshadow a guy who runs 4 miles daily in the 9 month offseason. This guy is like the Scottie Pippen of the NFL - loads of talent, but he can never lead a team to victory on his own; and he's the best teammate when you win, but the worst teammate when you lose.
5) What a difference a day makes for the dirtiest player in the league... It's like Rodney Harrison went into the witness protection agency; the thing is that he actually still plays dirty. The only reason he stays under the radar here is because the rest of the defense plays so good that he doesn't get put in a position to spear anyone.
6) Whore... I actually like Junior Seau (although I have heard a couple of disturbing stories involving him here in San Diego), but let's face it, he's just whoring himself out for a ring. What's funny is that everyone was critical of this behavior when Karl Malone and Gary Payton did it with the Lakers, but they all turn their heads when it involves the Pats.
I won't argue with anyone that the Pats are the best team in the league, but they are also composed of some of the worst characters with a coach who leads them in all ways including nefary (yeah, I made that word up, fuck off).
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We had one good swell 2 weeks ago. Everyone got excited. Now it looks like this:
I've given it a thought a couple of times - moving back to Hawaii. I do miss the waves and the weather, but I got island fever last time. Most mainlanders do. Honestly, I don't know what I'd do for a living there and as I grow to know myself more and more I realize that I would only get bored. Hawaii is like the hottest girl you know. You'd love to be seen with her. Going out all the time, dinners, parties, sex, etc. But then you realize that there is this thing called a relationship which is a lot more than just having fun. Other than the waves, I don't think there is much else for me there. I guess that's why everyone only goes there for vacation...
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| Are you sick of watching Christmas movies, yet? How many of you dread the holiday season because of the complete commercial overload of Hollywood? Many, many years ago, Thanksgiving weekend was something to look forward to for something other than turkey and stuffing - it marked the beginning of the holiday movie releases. But movie making has become so cheap and easy that the holiday season is now a marketing version of the fat ugly chick at the bar that will sleep with anyone. It's unfortunate that if you do a search for Christmas movies on Amazon.com, you get gems like this:
The Christmas Story still stands as one of the best holiday movies ever, but since TBS/TNT started doing the 24 hour marathon of the movie who hasn't gotten sick of it. Then there are all these remakes and modern adaptations like The Grinch or the dozens of versions of The Christmas Carol. Sometimes there is no focus on the story, just a "here are your favorite characters at Christmas time"...
There aren't many good original Christmas movies anymore; personally, the last good Christmas movie I can remember was Elf. Bad Santa was a decent Christmas movie, too, but the focus is on the word Christmas. Is the movie still good minus the Christmas theme? Does it still sell well if Christmas isn't involved in the story?
So here's a new approach - instead of looking for good Christmas movies, why don't we just start with finding a good movies and then filtering them for something that has to do with Christmas. Of course, this post would be completely useless if I hadn't alrady attempted as such so without further adieu, here are...
10 Non-Christmas Movies To Watch During Christmas (in no particular order)
- Lethal Weapon - The opening theme hooked me, 'nuff said.
- Die Hard 1 & 2 - It was fun the first time, then Bruce Willis delivers the line, "Another elevator, another ventillation shaft - how can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?!" Gotta love McClane.
- Just Friends - Dane Cook's brother cracks me up. "I just slapped a ham to her poster in my room.
- Trading Places - I love walking into a party and exclaiming "Merry New Year!!!"
- Serendipity - Yeah, I'm just a little bit of a romantic.
- While You Were Sleeping - A great movie for people looking to fit in somewhere.
- Gremlins - Me and my roommate both agree that, despite what happened in the movie, if we had a mogwai we'd throw it in a tub and eBay the litter.
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Michelle Monaghan in an elf suit, yum...
- Coming To America - I think Eddie Murphy likes Christmas as much as I do.
- Beat Street - I still have a broken down cardboard box in my basement to practice my backspins.
MSN.com recently put a similar list called "Underated Christmas Movies" or something, but ask coworkers and they'll tell you this is my original idea that I've been working on since October. Their list sucks anyways. | | |
| If Mother Nature says fuck off, I won't argue.
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