I won... a neon pink fanny pack. I believe it came stuffed with a t-shirt and some chocolate coins. The t-shirt was kind of crappy, and the coins were quickly consumed. And the neon pink fanny pack was... neon pink and a fanny pack. So kind of the worst prize ever, but i remember the shit out of having actually won something!
LOL, sorry man, you know you have to be a kid to eat chocolate coins. They gotta be the worst chocolate ever! To think, I was gonna make some snide remark about you still wearing the fanny pack, but I held back, I figured eating those coins was punishment enough. Sorry man. Their prizes were useless though, no joke.
I don't recall any of your
Now, we get to modern gaming, and everyone bitches about the "tea-bagging" Halo tweens, as if snotty brats ruined gaming. We were snotty brats too, we just didnt have voice chat! LOL! I had a guy call me a hacker piece of shit for beating him 5 times in a row on Virtua Fighter 5 on PS3 the other day. I never knew a hack to any fighting game, EVER, that pressed buttons for you. I seriously had to block him from my PSN account because the messages kept coming. There are always haters to success, always, no matter your occupation or talent. I get frustrated when I play MW2, MW3, Battlefield 3, because my skills just arent there anymore, but I dont dedicate my time to one game. I can usually hit middle of the pack on end rankings. These kids have what we used to have, love and moxy to put yourself into something that gives you joy, completely. Sometimes it so happens that in the nerd world, maybe you arent good at anything else. I really think these guys are amazing, and most importantly, they are truly doing something they love. Its not for the money, its for the emotional reward. Technology was always so cool to me, and I grew up poor with a single mother who worked two jobs, I know how gaming can fill a void in your life. Some people are just a no go for sports, acting, modeling, what have you....its better to be known for something than nothing. I'd rather be have the highest score at anything than die unknown making $45k a year at some mindless job. These guys are young yet, I think we should celebrate what they can do because we never had the chance to do so with such monetary compensation, and I'm positive there are more than a handful of people on
Lots of professional athletes die because of their profession, they push their bodies too hard. Drug addicts are trying to fill a void in their lives and push their bodies too hard as well. If you are so dedicated to one thing, anything, and it costs you your life, sometime people just wouldnt mind going out that way. I remain impressed, and I think we all should be as well. I'd rather almost reach Mt. Everest and die climbing at 32, if I loved climbing, than die at 70 after 50 years of rewardless drudgery in a cubicle. Everyone, think about it.
Keep in mind the concorde needs a very long runway and operated at only the largest airports were it would have to wait in line and/or travel a long way from loading to takeoff at low speeds which is very inneficient for a jet engine.
This is portion is false, completely. Fuel useage aside, it had extreme thrust from its afterburners for takeoff, and could function wuite well on a small scale airport / runway. We have flown to and from BGI in Barbados for years, and its far from a large aiport with very long runways. Its a very small airport with only one runway, for both arrivals and departures, that doesn't appear to be any larger than a standard regional airport, I'm not talking Dulles, or Charlotte or even Pittsburgh, Im talking regionals. Yes, that was one of the 4 main ports of call for the Concorde, and there is currently one there at the aeronautics museum at their airport.
OK nice job Jeremiah Johnson but OP has a wife and kids. I doubt they'd be that keen on living in a log cabin and bathing in the creek. Many people (well men with families) would willingly do a boring job of drudgery for 25 years if they could thereby guarantee economic security for their family.
You know, still bothers me that people always mention "men" doing this, I can't wait for the day more women do it. I would love to be a stay at home dad!
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"