Team Suck Beachhouse - Leave Your Cares Behind

06/18/2007 10:50:25 AM · #1376

Originally posted by griz210:

I am in backsides and it is droping but i did get a Fav so that is good
and its still well above my avg so i am happy

Backsides

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I took a peek at my backsides score (about 5.0), and quickly turned scores back off. It is less frustrating not knowing how the voters are mocking me throughout the week. Hope your 6.1 holds up, griz!

snaffles

Nikon D7100

06/18/2007 10:58:07 AM · #1377

Originally posted by posthumous:

btw, those gay men will come in very handy when you do hook up. you can have close friendships with them without your man feeling threatened. :)

Ummm....may or may not happen, posty...there are still a great many closeminded people out there...I used to make it a condition that a bf had to accept my closeness to the gay community. Even though they're not a sexual threat, gay men can still be intimidating to an insuecure bf. It all depends.

However one of my bedside books is written by a gay man and a straight woman, and both collaborated on how to *please* your straight man...called Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man.

oh yeah here's current scores

Pure..
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Message edited by author 2007-06-18 10:59:34.

06/18/2007 11:09:30 AM · #1378

Originally posted by snaffles:

...there are still a great many closeminded people out there...

and having gay friends will filter them out! :D

06/18/2007 04:35:39 PM · #1379

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by snaffles:
...there are still a great many closeminded people out there...

and having gay friends will filter them out! :D

Heh, that's one of the more persuasive arguments I've heard for the importance of having gay friends around all the time :)

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

06/18/2007 04:40:59 PM · #1380

Originally posted by skewsme:

Originally posted by meyers:
peeking in from the family reunion..

Wow, so I've missed all kinds of discussions the last day or so. And then today I swam face first (underwater) into the side of the pool, ending up with a big gash across the top of my nose which is now covered by a very unphotogenic band-aid.

Oof! I felt that vicariously as I read it! Sorry! Sending you a (virtual) pair of swim goggles!

I think my battle wound is intimidating my coworkers; they keep asking me if I got into a fight. I'm sure my kung fu and escrima colleagues would approve.

sickdog

Sony DSC-F828

06/18/2007 04:42:52 PM · #1381

well im only at a 4.86 in the pure challenge.

thats cool though because i've had five really cool comments and one of them is from a team suck member.

thats always a vote of confidence for me.

krnodil

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/18/2007 05:36:02 PM · #1382

Went to give the OOBIE and YAPPIE nom thread a bump, and realized there have been no award announcements since the end of May. Are these things still happening?

06/18/2007 05:38:04 PM · #1383

Originally posted by krnodil:

Went to give the OOBIE and YAPPIE nom thread a bump, and realized there have been no award announcements since the end of May. Are these things still happening?

uh-oh. I was afraid someone would notice that. This is our third week without Oobies and Yappies. Sorry about that.

06/18/2007 05:43:38 PM · #1384

Originally posted by meyers:

Originally posted by skewsme:

Originally posted by meyers:
peeking in from the family reunion..

Wow, so I've missed all kinds of discussions the last day or so. And then today I swam face first (underwater) into the side of the pool, ending up with a big gash across the top of my nose which is now covered by a very unphotogenic band-aid.

Oof! I felt that vicariously as I read it! Sorry! Sending you a (virtual) pair of swim goggles!

I think my battle wound is intimidating my coworkers; they keep asking me if I got into a fight. I'm sure my kung fu and escrima colleagues would approve.

Oh wow, you could make use of that. Come up with an elaborate story involving dark alleyways and heroic crime fighting - you know you want to :)

06/18/2007 05:44:52 PM · #1385

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by meyers:

I think my battle wound is intimidating my coworkers; they keep asking me if I got into a fight. I'm sure my kung fu and escrima colleagues would approve.

Oh wow, you could make use of that. Come up with an elaborate story involving dark alleyways and heroic crime fighting - you know you want to :)

no no no, just stoically say "I don't want to talk about it."

You will rule the school.

06/18/2007 05:49:37 PM · #1386

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by meyers:

I think my battle wound is intimidating my coworkers; they keep asking me if I got into a fight. I'm sure my kung fu and escrima colleagues would approve.

Oh wow, you could make use of that. Come up with an elaborate story involving dark alleyways and heroic crime fighting - you know you want to :)

no no no, just stoically say "I don't want to talk about it."

You will rule the school.

:) The voice of experience. Go with that actually - much cooler. Look ever-so-slightly brooding while you're at it.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

06/18/2007 07:07:51 PM · #1387

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by snaffles:
...there are still a great many closeminded people out there...

and having gay friends will filter them out! :D

Heh, that's one of the more persuasive arguments I've heard for the importance of having gay friends around all the time :)

That's so true! Just be up front and make it clear that your gay friends are dear to you, but not a threat to him. If he's leery at all, just say bye-bye.

btw Jelena, there may be some hope for you...I remember reading poetry at a club once and noticed this really hot guy watching me, but I figured he was gay. Nope. He was metrosexual, straight with gay-ish sartorial and style sense.

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

06/18/2007 07:57:14 PM · #1388

This is what I'm much better at than photography. I am for whatever reason, pretty talented with the '60s and '70s British roadsters.....a labor of love, for sure.

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

06/18/2007 08:03:36 PM · #1389

Originally posted by snaffles:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by snaffles:
...there are still a great many closeminded people out there...

and having gay friends will filter them out! :D

Heh, that's one of the more persuasive arguments I've heard for the importance of having gay friends around all the time :)

That's so true! Just be up front and make it clear that your gay friends are dear to you, but not a threat to him. If he's leery at all, just say bye-bye.

btw Jelena, there may be some hope for you...I remember reading poetry at a club once and noticed this really hot guy watching me, but I figured he was gay. Nope. He was metrosexual, straight with gay-ish sartorial and style sense.

I like that!

I've been accused of being a closet case by some of my gay friends because of my taste and sense of humor. Funny thing is, this is kind of an urban backwater....I commonly refer to it as "Ford Country" because there are so many pickup-truck driving, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, MCP Neanderthals around here.

Personally, I'd way rather be mistaken for gay than a redneck.

BTW, one thing that I tell my friends who are black, gay, whatever, is that they have an advantage over me. They get to see the a$$holes right outta the gate whereas sometimes I actually have to waste time around them before they show their true colors.....that's usually good for a yuck or two.

It's sad how many really narrow-minded people there still are in this modern age.

griz210

Nikon D300s

06/18/2007 08:14:16 PM · #1390

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

This is what I'm much better at than photography. I am for whatever reason, pretty talented with the '60s and '70s British roadsters.....a labor of love, for sure.

Jeb this is awesome you got a real talent there. It takes a lot of time and talent to restore a car like this

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

06/18/2007 09:23:09 PM · #1391

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Will it make it into my top 5? Or will it not?

I don't know how some of you guys can live without the update button, honestly :)

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

06/18/2007 09:59:08 PM · #1392

Originally posted by griz210:

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
This is what I'm much better at than photography. I am for whatever reason, pretty talented with the '60s and '70s British roadsters.....a labor of love, for sure.

Jeb this is awesome you got a real talent there. It takes a lot of time and talent to restore a car like this

Five years and about $50K. I built the car for a friend of mine who isn't old enough to have bought one new. So I built him this one. It's actually better than what a new one was 'cause even though Austin-Healey was a small, low production cottage industry, it was still somewhat built to a price, so an awful lot of off the shelf pieces went into them.

This one was, obviously, hand built, and no expense was spared in making this car as perfect as possible in most every way. It's got numerous little tricks and tweaks that come from the years of sorting that the people who owned, loved, raced, and restored these cars have at their disposal. I personally owned over twenty of these cars and have worked on them since about 1975. There is probably 25% content in this car that though it appears to be stock and original, is most decidedly, not. These little departures make this Healey a much more civilized, enjoyable, and reliable car than most of what's out there today.

This car is the culmination of a 30 year career as a British car specialist. It's the only Healey I have *ever* driven that does not rattle. There is an awful lot of my heart and soul in this car.

Maybe now you guys have a little better feel for why I was so thrilled with the '32 Ford truck that is my best shot to date. It's the first time I was ever content to find an awesome car like this and just let it be.

If I ever go through the thousands of prints I have from my old Canon A-1, I'll show you the '68 Firebird 400 convertible I handbuilt, then kept for 17 years, 100,000 miles, and drove all over the country with my wife and daughter. I'm very fortunate to have been a car freak during the best times of cars, I once met Donald Healey and his son Geoffrey, have seen a lot of examples of automotive history, like watching Paul Newman win his first SCCA national championship in a TR-6 in 1976, when he was just a regular hotshoe in a fast sports car, and am now just enjoying the occasional encounter and applying the passion and joy to photography.......okay, okay, the obsession part, too.

There's more of me than you needed to know, huh?

Message edited by author 2007-06-18 22:03:29.

griz210

Nikon D300s

06/18/2007 10:08:50 PM · #1393

Thanks for shareing Jeb. You sound like a fellow i would setting around and jawing with. Never had the opportunity to build anything like this but i did use to play with vw's and enjoyed that. So i do appreciate a nice automobile

06/18/2007 10:17:31 PM · #1394

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Originally posted by griz210:

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
This is what I'm much better at than photography. I am for whatever reason, pretty talented with the '60s and '70s British roadsters.....a labor of love, for sure.

Jeb this is awesome you got a real talent there. It takes a lot of time and talent to restore a car like this

Five years and about $50K. I built the car for a friend of mine who isn't old enough to have bought one new. So I built him this one. It's actually better than what a new one was 'cause even though Austin-Healey was a small, low production cottage industry, it was still somewhat built to a price, so an awful lot of off the shelf pieces went into them.

This one was, obviously, hand built, and no expense was spared in making this car as perfect as possible in most every way. It's got numerous little tricks and tweaks that come from the years of sorting that the people who owned, loved, raced, and restored these cars have at their disposal. I personally owned over twenty of these cars and have worked on them since about 1975. There is probably 25% content in this car that though it appears to be stock and original, is most decidedly, not. These little departures make this Healey a much more civilized, enjoyable, and reliable car than most of what's out there today.

This car is the culmination of a 30 year career as a British car specialist. It's the only Healey I have *ever* driven that does not rattle. There is an awful lot of my heart and soul in this car.

:) That's a very impressive skill. It must have taken many years to master.

That style of cars just has a lovely timeless elegance to it.

06/18/2007 11:02:54 PM · #1395

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Backsides
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Will it make it into my top 5? Or will it not?

I don't know how some of you guys can live without the update button, honestly :)

Many of my challenge entries start out ok, then drop into the low 4's. It's very depressing, and I'm a happier person just getting my comments during the week and seeing the score at the end.

06/18/2007 11:06:00 PM · #1396

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Originally posted by meyers:

I think my battle wound is intimidating my coworkers; they keep asking me if I got into a fight. I'm sure my kung fu and escrima colleagues would approve.

Oh wow, you could make use of that. Come up with an elaborate story involving dark alleyways and heroic crime fighting - you know you want to :)

no no no, just stoically say "I don't want to talk about it."

You will rule the school.

:) The voice of experience. Go with that actually - much cooler. Look ever-so-slightly brooding while you're at it.

I've been told I look even more like Russell Crowe now, sporting the Cinderella Man look.

Only somewhat related, back when my wife and I were dating, we were in the same taekwondo class. During a light sparring drill, I reached around an opening in her guard just as she was twisting to punch me hard in the chin. The edge of the pad in my glove hit just below her eye, bruising her eye socket. What was her response when her coworkers and friends asked how she got a black eye?? "My boyfriend hit me." To this day (about 8 years later) they still don't like me. Oddly, she left that taekwondo place because they weren't hardcore enough..

Message edited by author 2007-06-18 23:54:06.

06/19/2007 12:48:15 AM · #1397

Bleah, the macro shots just aren't coming together. I still have one more night to find inspiration..

levyj413: Thanks for the recent comments! The Lifeguard shot has minimal post processing; I couldn't get the soft light effects to work right for that one, though it did help my current entry which will remain unspecified for now.

06/19/2007 08:51:45 AM · #1398

My wife walked into a door just a day or two before I met her parents for the first time. So there she was with a black eye introducing me to her parents...

06/19/2007 09:30:56 AM · #1399

Walked into a door. Pfft, like they'd believe that story.
:)

skewsme