What do you completely and utterly suck at?

[Nighthawk 0]

I write primarily as a catharsis for myself, so I never particularly cared whether anyone else liked it. People seem to, though. I just don't really have the motivation to publish anything, although I have, it was just allowing someone else to do all the work.

I'm probably more likely to make my name in pornography and then use that as a springboard to publish something, I don't feel like just being a nobody shopping stuff around.

 

Which is another thing I'm awesome at: masturbating. I make myself cum so hard.

 

I'm bad at relationships with girls, but the reason for that is I'm actually too good at them, and am out of everybody's league.

 

I have a very bad sense of direction. I'll get lost like a motherfucker.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

pbone's quickly going from an amusing breath of fresh air to a guy who tries too hard.

[Nighthawk 0]

He's ok. He does try too hard, but I told him that and I think he listened. He and I have common interests.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I don't think that changes anything. Attending a class and doing well is not necessarily a huge accomplishment. I'm talking about actually finishing a novella or screenplay and getting it picked up. While it's nice that your ability is validated, and I'm not trying to pick on you specifically, at the end output is what matters.

 

My point was not that people here are misled to believe that they're good writers, but that no one ever seems to make something of it. Admittedly though, most of us are young and have a long life ahead of us (hopefully) to get something done.

I did just say in that post that I WAS published in a couple academic journals when I was younger. I think that warrants something, and I can't even begin to tell you the amount of bullshit and politics that come into play with a screenplay being picked up or not, regardless of whether it was any good. Likewise, there have been several screenwriters who know 'the formula' for a certain type of film and they get all the work- I know I can write better than they can, or at least display more creativity while remaining in that structure.

 

Either ways, I think Milky writing as a catharsis for himself is fairly common among a lot of budding stars in the writing profession; from what I've seen, he's an excellent storyteller in his own right, and if he cared at all, he'd be a great gonzo journalist.

 

I'd the say 'net becoming such a universal thing has led many to overvalue their abilities as a writer.

I strongly agree with this.

 

Another thing I feel may lead people to think that they are better writers than they think they are, is because their teachers view their writing as particularly exceptional in comparison to their classmates... and in an age where the importance of grammar and spelling is less valued through technological communications and whatnot, it's very easy to stand out, even as an average writer.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

 

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

 

I've only made it to the "And by the way, you are taking way more out in Social Security than what you actually put into it yourself" point of this conversation once or twice with seniors.

[KGB 0]

I completely and untterly suck at handling cards. Of course, it doesn't help that every time I play a card game, it's the first time I've done so in a long time.

[Nighthawk 0]

I've really taken a liking to Doug Stanhope lately. The dude's me in older stand up comic form. He did a bit about how it sucks to hear old people bitch about how society has gone to hell. "The trouble these days is it's as easy to buy drugs as it is to buy a newspaper." Which is true in certain parts of town. (I bought crack the other day as a joke) But I can walk down the street and buy a newspaper. Hell, they deliver them to my door and I don't even want them.

[Slayer 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

[B@RTOK 0]

He's ok. He does try too hard, but I told him that and I think he listened. He and I have common interests.

You're both gay?

[B@RTOK 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

Ther aren't many improvements in the construction of cars these days. Car companies purposefully make their vehicles break down after a certain point. It generates more money that way. Why do you think GM and Ford flourished in the 60's and why the foreign car companies today are attracting more customers. Honda's vehicles last a long time, over 15-20 years but you keep needing to replace the parts. It's the way business is done.

[At Home 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

Ther aren't many improvements in the construction of cars these days. Car companies purposefully make their vehicles break down after a certain point. It generates more money that way. Why do you think GM and Ford flourished in the 60's and why the foreign car companies today are attracting more customers. Honda's vehicles last a long time, over 15-20 years but you keep needing to replace the parts. It's the way business is done.

 

Bullshit, the quality of cars has been improving exponentially over the last few decades because the companies have been gradually phasing out metal, which rusts and is a cheap construction material in cars. Planned obsolescence does exist, but the build quality of cars today is almost astonishingly better it was 20 years ago.

[Nighthawk 0]

He's ok. He does try too hard, but I told him that and I think he listened. He and I have common interests.

You're both gay?

 

That is part of it, actually.

[Slayer 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

Ther aren't many improvements in the construction of cars these days. Car companies purposefully make their vehicles break down after a certain point. It generates more money that way. Why do you think GM and Ford flourished in the 60's and why the foreign car companies today are attracting more customers. Honda's vehicles last a long time, over 15-20 years but you keep needing to replace the parts. It's the way business is done.

NoCalMike, is that you?

[At Home 0]

He's ok. He does try too hard, but I told him that and I think he listened. He and I have common interests.

You're both gay?

 

You bore me, I'm going to put you on my ignore list. So long.

[luke-o 0]

You go girl *clicks fingers*

[justsoyouknow 0]

Yes, that will throw us off your trail.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Is it just me or has everyone here been told they're a good writer? I'm not trying to single you out, but to me it seems like everyone has been told that they have writing potential here and is one break away from the big time.

Like others have said, since more and more people have bad grammatical ability, those that have what amounts to a 7th-grade mastery of the language are viewed as above-average in most writing classes, and even by most people who would read otherwise. That, and whenever somebody decides to write about something that others around them aren't, they seem like better writers. When I took creative writing my senior year of high school, there was, like, 6 people in that class of 20 (including myself) who didn't just repeat the works of Hunter S. Thompson. Everybody in that class who were in it for an easy grade just blatantly stole from Thompson. It was obvious who did it, since they'd reference snorting a lot of coke, and one kid even flat-out plaigarised the laundry list of drugs from the beginning of Fear and Loathing. Nobody seems to try too hard, so it's easy to stand out.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Single spacing at TSM.

 

I've noticed I often type my posts this way.

 

Can't quite put my finger on it.

[B@RTOK 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

Ther aren't many improvements in the construction of cars these days. Car companies purposefully make their vehicles break down after a certain point. It generates more money that way. Why do you think GM and Ford flourished in the 60's and why the foreign car companies today are attracting more customers. Honda's vehicles last a long time, over 15-20 years but you keep needing to replace the parts. It's the way business is done.

NoCalMike, is that you?

No.

 

[B@RTOK 0]

I hate hearing the elderly speak about their present day lives...

"In my day it only cost $10 to buy a car."

 

"But back in your day you made a quarter a week."

 

*Silence.*

What's funny to me is that those people fail to factor in the inflation and improvements in production technology that actually make that $10 car five times as expensive as a standard car today

Ther aren't many improvements in the construction of cars these days. Car companies purposefully make their vehicles break down after a certain point. It generates more money that way. Why do you think GM and Ford flourished in the 60's and why the foreign car companies today are attracting more customers. Honda's vehicles last a long time, over 15-20 years but you keep needing to replace the parts. It's the way business is done.

 

Bullshit, the quality of cars has been improving exponentially over the last few decades because the companies have been gradually phasing out metal, which rusts and is a cheap construction material in cars. Planned obsolescence does exist, but the build quality of cars today is almost astonishingly better it was 20 years ago.

Cars last longer because the engine block itself is meant to last longer, along with the exterior of the car. However all the other components are constantly being replaced. It's called the razor and the blade theory. You sell the razor for practically nothing but purposefully make the blade dull and wear out quicker. The money isn't in selling the origional product it is in selling the replacement blades.

[B@RTOK 0]

He's ok. He does try too hard, but I told him that and I think he listened. He and I have common interests.

You're both gay?

 

You bore me, I'm going to put you on my ignore list. So long.

I win, plain and simple.

[luke-o 0]

Three posts in a row should prove as much.

[sfaJack 0]

- Paying attention to my wife. I'm sorry, but her stories are pretty long and boring. It's usually when the TV or something is on that I can't focus on her.

Seconded, especially when she starts throwing in the fifteenth bit of unnecessary detail into every part of the story.

[Copper Feel 0]

Being gay./

[At Home 0]

Foreign languages. Especially French. I'm actually pretty good at japanese and can carry on a little bit of a conversation, but French was a total mindblower.

[King Kamala 0]

I'm (was, haven't spoken it in two years) terrible at French. Just terrible. Didn't help that my high school's third language was English (Her 2nd was French and 1st was Russian) and therefore could never understand what the hell she was saying.

[Guest Soriano's Torn Quad]

You guys, French is a pretty easy language. It's pretty close to English. What's throwing you?

[Nighthawk 0]

Yeah, they're both Latin based. I don't give a flying fuck about any language besides English, but I can assure you he is right. I can pretty much speak French and Spanish, and like I say, I don't give a flying fuck.

 

Actually, that's not true, I would love to learn Japanese. pbone, you can teach me that if we did ever meet up.

[Kristianna 0]

As much as I hate to admit it. I'm kind of a bad driver.

 

I know, I know. LOL GIRLZ R ALWAYS BAD DRIVRES!!1

 

But, I'll cop to the fact that I've gotten 5 speeding tickets in the past 8 months and that I may have missed a stop sign here and there. The most damning evidence of course, is the fact that I've done the whole "putting on makeup while driving" thing, and been pulled over and bitched out by a cop for it.

 

And you know how they say that eye-lash batting and cleavage helps with getting off of tickets with a warning? TOTAL BULLSHIT.

[Nighthawk 0]

I can actually talk my way out of tickets pretty good. Just be funny, that works. Ed Kemper talked his way out of situations when he had dead teenage hitchhikers in his trunk. That's a level goddamn head.

 

Never been pulled over when I was drunk, though, that probably wouldn't work. Now I know some people are like "Anyone who ever drives drunk should die.", but look, it's not that bad. It's usually four in the morning, it's not like I'm getting liquored up and driving through a school zone at three in the afternoon. I don't do it anymore, though.

 

I used to take turns with whoever I was with, when one person started to pass out, we'd pull over and switch. One thing about drunk driving I'll tell you is that it's wildly fun. We're usually just basically yelling "Look at us! We're gonna die! We're completely hammered and driving away! This is the worst thing ever!" It's kind of like having unprotected sex with someone you just met. Sick thrills.