I cannot remember any specific threads, but there have been a lot of great ones. That one you linked to is pretty neat. I forgot about that. Everybody loved me.

In other news, I just might need to buy a Halestorm album. Sounds pretty up my alley, and I've never heard of them before.

That was a good thread. So many old names.

I wrote this at one point:

I had someone refer to me as "a young man' the other day. I nearly fell over in shock.

You beat me to it! Here are some more threads that are memorable for me. Perhaps they are for others, as well.

• Milk

• Let's Animate!

• Bloobs!

• Who Do You Miss Most?

• OpenGL vs Allegro (starting with gnolam)

That milk thread was hilarious. If I had happened to be drinking milk at the time, it probably would have come out my nose.

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You can easily reproduce these events. However, I do not recommend it. It's actually quite unpleasant. It can totally ruin a few hours of your life. Just count your blessings while your run lasts!

Append:

In other news, a few children that attend my finacée's daycare have nosebleeds regularly. They're like 2 years old. The parents don't consider it a problem. It's really pretty sick the world we're living in. I can only imagine tomorrow... Imagine, 2050, average Western lifespan is only 25 years again.

You're not.

Until I was about 16, the veins in my nose were right on the surface and I'd get 3 or 4 nose bleeds a week. I had to get my nose cauterized three or four times a year. Not pleasant.

The only key life experience involving noses is A grade cocaine.

That reminds me of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

We didn't have a nurses office (is that an American thing?). I'd have to sit in class and bleed.

edit: But yes, I could make it bleed easily if I wanted to. All I had to do was squeeze it and it would start.

If a teacher ever forced me to sit there while my nose was bleeding, my mother would have returned to the school and yelled his ears off.

There was one time a teacher refused to let me go to the bathroom so I ended up pissing all over at my desk. My mom had to come to school with clean clothes, you could hear her screaming at the Principals office all over the school!

English style?

Good for you. I would have held it in like a wuss.

I had no choice, I had to go badly and I had a fairly weak bladder at the time. I actually did hold it in as long as I could as I recall. The teacher was a b.i.t.c.h and should not have been teaching.

Yeah, I went to school in the '70s mostly. We used to go to the principals office and he would just tap this thick leather strap on his hand while talking to you and that was often enough to scare you into submission. The really bad students got it, but it was rare as most didn't do anything bad enough to warrant it.

I hated school growing up. Not because I didn't like learning, I loved that, but due to bullies. At one point I would skip school and go to the public library and spend most of the day there reading about radio electronics and eventually, when computers came out, I started reading books on programming them. For this reason I am a strong advocate of home schooling.