It's finally happened!
After 13 years of being paid out about being short,
i've had a pretty big growth spurt.
While it's not drastic (about 75% of the class are taller than me)
it's a lot better.
I CAN ACTUALLY WALK DOWN A HALLWAY WITHOUT A YEAR 9+ MAKING A JOKE ABOUT MY HEIGHT!
Ah, the puberty system works.
Cheers,
(a normal, non-short) Fb.
Now all you need to do is convince all your tall friends to take up smoking and you'll be sorted.
I swear, if he starts another new thread about his first pube (with pics), I will choke him.
New shoes?
Shut it, pint-size.
heh, I remember when I was one of the tallest in my class... that's what you get for growing up earlier... though today there's 1-2 boys in my whole school who are shorter than me :D Well at least I grow beard and none of my friends do, so though shorter, I get into the bars... And I was the first one to... well anyway... Some of them still scream occasionally and that's a laugh
Wasn't there an age limit on these boards too? ¬_¬
No, that's a height limit
I'm 1 centimeter taller than my 2 years older brother... It's so much fun. :=
There are rules concerning posting "useless and boring" threads. There are rules about the age limit. I honestly thank the moderators for doing the job they're doing, but allowing this guy to go on doing this without any more penalty that locking his threads (Which hasn't obviously worked for making him to try to improve) is, in my opinion, a mistake.
Fluke's post become interesting when the members develope it. He posts "Hey, I am taller, cool!" and the members start a good discussion about puberty and how tall/short we were at high school, and how did affected us. That's why I love the forums. But seeing that the first post has been made without following the rules and he will escape happy (again) annoys me.
I offer myself as a tutor of this guy, if nobody else wants. Forbide him to post, directly, I'll read his posts and post them under my name, revisiting them and making them suitable, I will carry with the responsability if I can't make them interestings, but don't allow him to laugh of our rules, because the message we are giving is horrible "Pissers are allowed, we won't do anything".
I know it is difficult to make a balance between freedom and rules, and it is obvious that you mods have different opinions, and put the "freedom" line futher than I do, but that's what I think and I thought I had to be honest with myself. I am expressing an opinion towards the forums, no problems! I am not attacking the moderators or taking it as something personal... But I think the discussion might be profitable, so, please, discuss with me if you want, but don't use the "You're not a mod, don't pretend to be one" to cut my arguments. Discussions about how this is going are needed, IMO.
And well... Moderators will probably crush me, and the people who hates me will probably join the ship, but well... I was trying to deffend the forums... Ã, :-\
yeah I'm not sure the original post belongs here, but you tutoring him is not the solution at all.
Well... He has the gift of making threads with a lot of response. I imagine that making this very post with some more "sauce" (inserting my own reminds about puberty, how short I was, how I managed with sports, how can affect that towards popularity... dunno... something "else" that "Hey! I am taller! post!")
At least I would feel like we are making something to improve the way he posts and the forums in general...
if you want to talk about rules, fluke should be banned. But I guess it's better to have a forum such as this with lax rules than one with neurotically upheld rules. I can deal with a couple of flukeblakes if I have to. Do the same.
"I am not 16, but I agree to act responsibly. I am, however over 13 years of age."
What I answered to get in here...
I'm not exactly sure what anyone should do with FB. Tutoring him like so probably wouldn't help his situation, some maturity would help out his points on the forums. Although this isn't that great either--Every thread he makes turns into a "parental discussion" with him watching each time, which surely can't be good.
Helm, I'll try... as someone said "It's worse in the other forums I've visited" Ã, :) But as you said, being witness of someone that is not following the rules enters in the "DEAL WITH IT" terrain.
It's something I can do, but sometimes I DON'T WANT to.
I guess it had something to see with a discussion I had with an annoying old woman who has discussed with Lorena at her building... I had to deffense her, but I am still annoyed of the discussion. Sorry to bring my bad humour here.
EDIT: King_Nipper, the worst of all is that I honestly think he is a pisser. He posts like a pisser, he posts and leaves the thread, seeing how we discuss, and Jodo Kast and some other "cool guys" did. I don't trust him, and my first vote goes for "ban him". But I understand that the people who pays wants to keep the (not sarcasm here) lovelly "no ban" attitude. Some poeple might think he is not pissing voluntarilly. Anyway, something must be done, I think we all agree... If banning is not an option, I am open to any else, no matter which, but please, do something.
The age is not a problem actually, because there is a lot of underaged people here. The problem is how he posts. You can ask the members "who is the most annoying poster here?" and 99% will ask with no doubt "Flukeblake". So, that's the problem. I am not talking of a total upheld (thanks for the new vocabulary Helm) of the rules. Just trying to do something with someone who is an obvious exceotion to the other members.
King Nipper, for example, is a great example of a mature 13 year old. He makes valid points and mature posts and I'm sure that most people haven't even noticed he's under 16.
I don't kow why you are picking on Fluke. He has peviously taken a lot of well deserved critisism and as shown a lot of character by listening and changing his ways. You are not moderators so please don't pretend like you are.
If you think a thread is uninteresting or unfunny then just ignore it and let the rest up to the moderators. In all honesty this thread is more interesting, IMHO, than many others I have seen in Gen and Chat recently. When Fluke said...
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I CAN ACTUALLY WALK DOWN A HALLWAY WITHOUT A YEAR 9+ MAKING A JOKE ABOUT MY HEIGHT!
it made me smile.
Farlander makes the point that this is in fact a legitimate post when he says ....
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Fluke's post become interesting when the members develope it. He posts "Hey, I am taller, cool!" and the members start a good discussion about puberty and how tall/short we were at high school, and how did affected us. That's why I love the forums. ...
Unless I'm mising something, isn't the whole point of having a forum is to stimulate the participants thoughts. So if a post is thought provoking then what's wrong with it?
This post reveals something about Fluke that is very important to him and perhaps something he was hoping to hear how other people may have dealt with this isssue. Why is this different than so many other similar threads people have stareted about their own personal issues? At least Fluke doesn't appear to be asking for sympathy since has revealed this after he has seen the light at the end of the tunnel and did't say "Woe is me! What shall I ever do? Won't someone feel sorry for me...".
Sorry about the rant but it really bothers me to hear people whining about rules. :=
Shutup, Rick. We all know that you're only 11 yourself. ;D
Hehe, Yeah and I'm short too! Can you dig it man... :D
QuoteHe has the gift of making threads with a lot of response
Let's make him a "resident winner of all AGS competitions"! So he's always hosting...
** Thinks about currently hosted Sprite Jam with only 2 entries >:(
Shut up now and draw some gorgeous sprites.
I think I was always a little taller (and bigger) than most kids. Then I hit middle-school age and just stopped at 6 ft tall and 180 lbs. Since then I haven't grown at all....
I recently hit puberty... I grew 1' 3" and gained 30 pounds of muscle. I now tower over my friends... It's a good feeling. It's even funnier though when a kid 5 inches shorter than me called me a "stupid little midget" after I insulted him badly.
Woa, I just realized this is my 300th post!
Man it rocks to be tall!
I myself was like a midget right through up until my final year of secondary school.
I even got a nick of being short, the funny thing is it stuck and I am now taller than
Ill say 90 percent of people... So running into old school friends is quite funny when
they call me by my nick I got.
It also kicks ass to be the tallest in the family, since I have three older brothers!
RickJ makes an interesting point, besides guys this is general Discussion.
But a I agree with the no pubes pics!
I don't remembering having problems with my height, even being the shortest in a proportion of 10/1. I think it was because I was short, but at school everyone was short, maybe the tallest was just 10 or 15 centimetres than me, and I was strong, I played as soccer deffense one of the positions that needs more power. So... I think that being short must be a problem for short and weak people in the cruel school world, but not for me.
The problems arrived at high school, when girls looked for tall, strong and old guys. But well, girls of my age looked for older guys, so, even tall guys of my age had problems for picking up. When I was in last course, I had enough "experience" for being able to pick up younger girls, and girls of my age were mature enough to being able to go with a guy of her size. I started to practise cyclism in that period and... being short was an advantage. Less cms, less kilos, less effort.
I dunno, I never gave a lot of importance to height. I think I was witness of a lot of "growing sprints" when I was a child to lose the hope of growing when I was a teen. And when I realised I was short, I was mature enough for not taking a lot of care of it.
My growing experiences. :)
Meh. Age and maturity are only sparsly linked. Isn't it ironic we're posting about how stupid someone is in a topic that they themselves made? Some people...
Back to plotting... ;)
Enjoy your plotting.
...With some pudding and cheese....
I think I'm shorter than most people my age. But I try not to worry about too much, there are more important things than heigth. Like, AGS.
Heh... You people and your wishes to be taller...
Amusing and at the same time... POINTLESS!
GIVE UP!
Signed,
Mr. Colossal
Quote from: MrColossal on Fri 04/11/2005 21:48:23
Amusing and at the same time... POINTLESS!
Kinda like... you! ROFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!!! ;D
Ow awful.
I wish I was a moderator so I could lock this thread, unlock and lock again. And maybe repeat.
maybe i should just quit the forums while i'm behind...
Yeah, maybe that is a good idea.
hmmm... perhaps i can develop a new account....
y'know, i've always liked the name Eenis....
I'm not sure that will help anything. Although I do get how you post and people go 'flukeblake! let's kill him!' but maybe not as much as you'd think.
Quote from: InCreator on Fri 04/11/2005 22:31:37
Ow awful.
I wish I was a moderator so I could lock this thread, unlock and lock again. And maybe repeat.
Can no one read?
3. If you're not a moderator, don't pretend to be one. If a thread needs to be moved or locked, the moderators will deal with it.
And sorry Farlander, but that goes for you too, you can ask for people not to say it but it's true. You don't like his posts, don't read it.
It's just AGS Gen Gen.
Flukeblake, because other people can't handle themselves properly when you post is no reason to leave. If this thread was brought up by anyone else people wouldn't have gone crazy on them so just forget about it.
Congrats on your growth spurt, let's just hope the spurt stops soon or you'll collapse under the weight of your own bones!
Fuke you all (mis-spelling intended). I been drinking and I'm fed up with 17 year olds telling 13 year olds how they are imature teenagers. Just fuck'in gorow up all of you; phleeeease! Fluke came here trying to be cool by talking like a gheto nigger and we told him that we weren't impressed. He got the message and stopped trying so hard to be accepted. Now he makes a sincere post from the heart and a bunch of imature folks jump on him for being imature! Why are you so #$%@ing intolerant?... or perhaps it's insecurity rather than imtolerance?
For Fuke's sake, I posted about Sony fukeing up every computer in the whole world and fewerer people saw fit to read or respond to that than to this post. What that that say about all of you shits that ignored my post and say fit to spenf your time here. By your own logic you should certaintly be banned from the forums before FlukeBlake. In this spirit I would like to propose new rules for all AGS forums as follows:
- Responimng to a a post in an unintersting, humorless, or otherwise useless manner, in the view of the moderators is grounds for being banned from the forums.
- Responding to a thread that is uninteresting, humorless, or useless, in the opinion of the resaponder is grounds for being banned from the forums.
Thank you for your indulgence. Please have another beer on me. :=
Don't post on the forums drunk. You're not helping.
Give me a break Eric. As SSH says I'm only 11 years old, and short too. It's one hell of a burden for a short 11 year old to have a 16 inch tool. I'm sure someday I'll figure out what to do with it. Until then I'll just have to struggle along and get by somehow.
And by the way, it's a bit presumptous of you to assume that I am drunk just becaus I said that I had been drinking, isn't it? Just because I can't draw dosen't mean that I am a light weight. ;) .
Eric,
LoL and mucho respect. Wish we all (everyone) could go out for a beer every once in a while and blow off some steam. I enjoy mixing it up with everyone and hope my humor is appreciated in the manner it is meant. I know in my heart that if you didn't like me you wouldn't pay me any attention man! So I love you too man! :-*
Cheers
Rick
I'm only mildly confused as to what just happened.
Anyway, I have in the past jumped on Fluke for posting worthless shite, but I think I'm beyond that now. Rick makes a good, if not mildly inebriated point. However, I think I will jump on Fluke for something else now:
Posting worthless shite and then leaving it be. And then, only coming back later to say "you guys make me sad, I'm going to become an internet terrorist now."
At least discuss what you have brought up for discussion, man.
As for me: 5'11 and a half friggin' inches tall since 5th grade... And 280 pounds since 8th grade. I once didn't eat for a full month and didn't lose any weight... I'm almost 26 now and still have the same proportions. WTF???
And, just because I want to have a drunken rant too (goes and gets a bottle of Smirnoff that someone left in the fridge at work) SSH, how come you don't type with a cool Scottish accent? And did Rick just say "ghetto nigger?" Is that legal?
Hoots mon. Fit ya sayin like? Awa an boil ya heed, ya scunner
Eric, I thought I was discussing about how forums are going better than trying to be a moderator, but apparently you think I was trying to behave as a moderators. So, your point is valid, I can't fight against different apreciations, I obbey and I'll try to post better in the future.
RickJ, your first post made all my arguments collapse. I was saying that he is not following the age rule (which can't be discussed) but apparently that rule does not count much.
My main complain was about that Fluke's post are not interesting, helpful or funny. If you see them as interesting and funny we have another case of different apreciations. I was not even able to imagine someone seen his posts as funny, interesting or funny, but it is clear I was wrong. Thank for your post, and accept my apologies, both of you.
Your second post was... odd... but well, there are phases when you are drunk... I guess you were in "rage"... then comes "I love you all", "Cry for nothing" and the last one "popular songs". Now you must have a nasty hangover, so, please, count to ten before replying to this humble tiny spaniard... ::)
And if some evil mind wants to point that this post has sarcasm, trust me, it hasn't.
Dammit, Farlander, you're always so sarcastic....Ã, :=
And SSH: Thank you, so much. You can't be a Super Scottish Hero without that accent. And could you please do me the favor of recording yourself screaming "FREEDOM!"
So anyway, I was doing a little investigating into this matter. Does anyone know that Fluke tried to organize an official "Ban the Moderators" revolution a little while ago, or that he pmed "insults and curses" to Andail and possibly AGA???
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=21128.0
EDIT: This isn't an attack on Fluke. I'm still in the initial stages of my newbness, too, after all, but maybe we should rethink things a bit. Besides, I think it was either Andail or AGA in the thread that I just posted that made an excellent point, the same one that was brought up when snarkarvolucione (or whatever his name was) posted the "Looking for friends" topic not too long ago: It's a legal thing.
Everyone remembers that. It was at that point FLuke stopped being... er... well, not "stopped", but since that his posts have simply gotten "annoying". I hope it doesn't take another thread like that for him to totally grow out of it.
Hit puberty last year and have not hit age 13 yet. Weird...
Current height is 5 foot 9
Weight is 210 lb
After 13 years of getting paid out, he's still getting paid out!
Farlander, even if you weren't acting like a mod, leave the person alone.
You don't like the thread, don't post in it. You don't like the person, don't attack him. Moderators will handle things.
If you read through Fluke's post history you'll see that he doesn't constantly post useless stuff or 1 word posts or emoticon posts. Admit that if this was Evil or LGM [man, imagine LGM with ANOTHER growth spurt!] who started this thread you wouldn't have jumped on him saying that he was a pisser and useless.
And... If I have finished the issue with an apology and telling I will try not to do it again... shouldn't you leave as it is, even acting as a moderator?
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sat 05/11/2005 14:56:03
After 13 years of getting paid out, he's still getting paid out!
...holy crap you're right!
omg dude lol.
i wish i was a midget so i didnt have to get on my knees while giving my bf a bj lol.
GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER IN SOMEBODY ELSES GARDEN is what they say lol.
:)
But....what would you do when you eventually marry someone? Isn't it international woman law that Bj's are pre-marriage only?
...All of this on a thread dedicated to impressionable young minors such as myself. You should be ashamed of yourself...;)
Quote from: Squinky on Sun 06/11/2005 02:31:49
But....what would you do when you eventually marry someone? Isn't it international woman law that Bj's are pre-marriage only?
I'll go consult some of my women lawyer friends.
I'm back and now I have a black eye.
Perhaps if you'd made it a case of, "I have this hypothetical friend who wants to know. . ." instead of, "Hey, if I married you, would you . . . "
Thank you very much for that piece of advice, Mr Lets-tell-DG-these-things-AFTER-his-black-eye!
For all he knew though, it could have gone well and er... been something other than a black eye *nudge nudge*
If porn is anything to go by, women are just looking for an excuse to blow any guy they come across.
Where is this wonderful land of Porn and how do I apply for citizenship?
It's called LA. Simply go there with a desire to be a serious actor. You'll be in the land of Porn within three weeks.
You're just on fire lately, DG.
And it's amazing how quickly a thread turns to the wonders of pornography as soon as I come along.