discipline posted:my brother can't focus on anything but smoking pot and playing video games with his friends and surfing. he can't post because that would involve sitting in front of something and typing for 30 seconds and not hearing screams or gunshots from his video game. he also never reads books or knows anything about the world outside of his cocoon of defeat
surfing is actually a cool and fun outdoor activity that is also good exercise and a challenging skill to learn. maybe get him to focus on that instead of pot and video games - at least then he'd get better at something hard to master, be in better shape, and spend more time outside, which makes people happier. you can even surf high and enjoy many of the same benefits.
KilledInADuel posted:discipline posted:my brother can't focus on anything but smoking pot and playing video games with his friends and surfing. he can't post because that would involve sitting in front of something and typing for 30 seconds and not hearing screams or gunshots from his video game. he also never reads books or knows anything about the world outside of his cocoon of defeat
surfing is actually a cool and fun outdoor activity that is also good exercise and a challenging skill to learn. maybe get him to focus on that instead of pot and video games - at least then he'd get better at something hard to master, be in better shape, and spend more time outside, which makes people happier. you can even surf high and enjoy many of the same benefits.
*has a terminally ill mother*
gyrofry posted:new york is no place to start a family
wasted posted:KilledInADuel posted:discipline posted:my brother can't focus on anything but smoking pot and playing video games with his friends and surfing. he can't post because that would involve sitting in front of something and typing for 30 seconds and not hearing screams or gunshots from his video game. he also never reads books or knows anything about the world outside of his cocoon of defeat
surfing is actually a cool and fun outdoor activity that is also good exercise and a challenging skill to learn. maybe get him to focus on that instead of pot and video games - at least then he'd get better at something hard to master, be in better shape, and spend more time outside, which makes people happier. you can even surf high and enjoy many of the same benefits.
*has a terminally ill mother*
surfing also contains a greater emancipatory potential than any other so-called "action sport". this is why the anti-capital themes of noted torture-apologist kathryn bigelow's "point break" resonate so deeply in american culture today.
KilledInADuel posted:wasted posted:KilledInADuel posted:discipline posted:my brother can't focus on anything but smoking pot and playing video games with his friends and surfing. he can't post because that would involve sitting in front of something and typing for 30 seconds and not hearing screams or gunshots from his video game. he also never reads books or knows anything about the world outside of his cocoon of defeat
surfing is actually a cool and fun outdoor activity that is also good exercise and a challenging skill to learn. maybe get him to focus on that instead of pot and video games - at least then he'd get better at something hard to master, be in better shape, and spend more time outside, which makes people happier. you can even surf high and enjoy many of the same benefits.
*has a terminally ill mother*
surfing also contains a greater emancipatory potential than any other so-called "action sport". this is why the anti-capital themes of noted torture-apologist kathryn bigelow's "point break" resonate so deeply in american culture today.
yea all i got out of that film is that agent utah couldn't shoot reagan given the circumstances which bluntly justified it
discipline posted:my brother bought this ridiculous skateboard for like $300. when I went home for thanksgiving he just chainsmoked in the car and told me how much he hates my parents for not supporting him. his car is a wreck and he can't afford to fix it because he buys $300 skateboards that feel like surfing and blows like $150 a week on pot. when I got back to my mom's house she was running a 102 fever and trembling, unable to even hold a glass of water. my brother took a bong rip and then went out with his friends to talk about how much he hates my parents. on my graduation day in 2010 my brother updates his facebook with a status about how much he hates his family and spending time with his family and when I confront him with this he yells at me for reading his private facebook page out loud to him, which is broadcast to hundreds of people. he calls me a hag and doesn't talk to me for two years.
this is like half my friends from highschool, except they're more good natured and seem to be thankful to their parents for supporting their parasite asses. i don't smoke weed regularly and haven't played video games, but there's a temptation to that sort of degeneracy that's hard to completely ignore. the idea of just being able to sleep and not grind every day seems so tempting (not that i'm working in the coal mines or anything). i mean, i fundamentally understand i would go crazy if i did for more than a month, but still, its tempting...fortunately if tried to move back home to my parents, my dad would have me like redoing the roof in a week and my mother would be giving me papers to edit.
it continues: "If you should ever leave me / Though life would still go on believe me / The world could show nothing to me / So what good would living do me". the second part is supposed to negate the first. but i'd rather see it as the second part being a sort of young love hyperbole while the true meaning is "you could leave me and i'd move on, but let's not consider that tonight"
anyway i emailed an old professor of mine and she seems to want to mentor me about such things which is basically the best news i've had in a while since that ikea monkey thing
KilledInADuel posted:kathryn bigelow's "point break" .
holy shit i didn't realize this
discipline posted:my brother can't even tell you where I was living the last three years. haha he always frames it like "well you're always moving around!" but the fact of the matter is that he never talks to me or asks anyone about me
in that car ride back in november he used the word "bitch" like 9 times to refer to co-workers he loves to "fuck over" and was talking about revenge and how much he loves it. he works as a server's assistant at a steakhouse
Write a movie. I genuinely, absolutely unironically believe that you out of anyone i know would be best placed to articulate the multiplicity of fails that makes up contemporary America.
KilledInADuel posted:discipline posted:
my brother can't focus on anything but smoking pot and playing video games with his friends and surfing. he can't post because that would involve sitting in front of something and typing for 30 seconds and not hearing screams or gunshots from his video game. he also never reads books or knows anything about the world outside of his cocoon of defeat
surfing is actually a cool and fun outdoor activity that is also good exercise and a challenging skill to learn. maybe get him to focus on that instead of pot and video games - at least then he'd get better at something hard to master, be in better shape, and spend more time outside, which makes people happier. you can even surf high and enjoy many of the same benefits.
i live 15 minutes from a dozen brilliant beaches that have produced some of the world's best surfers and every summer i tell myself i'll give it a go but this was the first year that i didn't tell myself that.
Progress, things are looking up
wasted posted:political strife in canada is pretty boring.
