What's on Your Mind

[Wolfpack]

That I want to see a "before" and "after".

Nah , the before pic would just scare everyone to death , LOL.

[matty7]

Im wondering why I have a mind cold again after a Christmas full of flu, sick of been sick

[Wolfpack]

Im wondering why I have a mind cold again after a Christmas full of flu, sick of been sick

Awwww sorry to hear that Matty get well soon.

[ShiftyNJ]

Quick backstory. I only have one Facebook account, although I use it both for personal stuff and promotional. As such, I have a bunch of "Facebook friends" that I literally don't know from Adam. This is about one such FB friend.

I first noticed him popping up in my feed about two months ago, saying he was "deep in training for his upcoming UFC bout". I thought "huh, that's weird - I have a UFC fighter as a FB friend". I didn't give it much more thought than that.

The bout happened about a month ago. And apparently, he knocked the guy out in fairly short order. My feed was then overrun with photos of him standing over this bloody guy and whatnot. (Apparently, we have FB friends in common, and they would repost the photos.) Not exactly my cup of oolong, but the photos weren't overly graphic, and they were easily skipped.

This was followed by posts from him of a weirdly motivational nature. "Go live your dream", "don't let anybody tell you you can't", "listen to your inner voice and live the life you want to live". Pretty good advice, really, although a bit bewildering latching it onto what he actually did. "I beat the living shit out of a guy in a cage, so don't let anybody hold you back!"

But then came...well, what's happening now. Facebook invites. Not to his next UFC match (which I'd politely decline), but to kickstarter campaigns and fundraising events at bars. What's he raising money for? "To offset the outrageous cost of UFC fighting camp".

I'm kind of irked by that. The underlying message seems to be "Go live your dream...but underwrite mine".

Lex

I don't blame you. I have a few of those folks "entrepreneurs" who are constantly getting involved with hit-up-your-friends sales schemes, be it for cookware, jewelry, diet wotsit, and the like. Often they are the relations of someone I'm actually friends with, and thus the drama of "unfriending" is unappealing. There is the wonderful "stop following" feature, of which they will be unaware, and -- since Facebook arbitrarily decides what you do/don't see anyway -- you can always blame that if they ask you if you've seen something specific.

[Lexington]

Since you brought it back up, I decided to check his "campaign"...the deadline is tomorrow, and he's only 53% funded. I'll admit I'm a bad enough person to feel perversely pleased with this.

Another from the "The Gargoyle Takes Comfort In The Failings Of Others" category.

I put on these events once in a while, and in order to promote them, I make posters or flyers solely for online use. (The venue can of course print them out to use as well, but they rarely do so.) And honestly, I don't have much skill here. I know other people who can whip together brilliant posters on a moment's notice, but I've sat around for days trying to come up with a new and interesting design. Not only that, but my computer art skills aren't very deep, either. I don't even know how to use PhotoShop - I mainly use free software like Paint.net and Picasa to do create what I want. Over the last few years, I've come up with some I thought were pretty good, and others I thought were just passable. But in general, when I post one, I assume people's reaction is something along the lines of "Well, here's another low-budget gargoyle poster."

Today, a comedian friend of mine posted the official poster of his next gig. It's eight comedians at a night club - fairly standard. But the poster is...something else. Somebody literally just copy-and-pasted all the comics' current Facebook profile pictures onto it - so a couple of them are doing stand-up comedy, one is on the beach, one is dancing at a wedding, etc. The gig is apparently "presented by" a realtor (which is a bit weird), so at the bottom, there's a "presented by:" followed by the realtor's business card (in toto). The poster neglects to mention the address of the venue (I've never heard of it), or the day of the week. At least three words are misspelled. And outside of the fact that one of the people in the picture clearly is performing at a comedy club, there's not even a hint on the poster that this is in fact a comedy event.

I actually don't like ripping on somebody else's work. And I feel kind of bad that I needed to in order to feel better about my own. But I guess whatever works.

Lex

[BlueStar]

I need to relax after a tiring day.

[MikeW]

Trying to wrap my head around Hollywood's objectification of the male physique…



I realize this is meant to be a sleaze parody of male strippers butt…



sear ious llly??




wtf :eek:

[CellarDweller]

chores to be done tonight, and then perhaps a Charmed mini marathon on Saturday.

[ShiftyNJ]

Since you brought it back up, I decided to check his "campaign"...the deadline is tomorrow, and he's only 53% funded. I'll admit I'm a bad enough person to feel perversely pleased with this.

Another from the "The Gargoyle Takes Comfort In The Failings Of Others" category.

I put on these events once in a while, and in order to promote them, I make posters or flyers solely for online use. (The venue can of course print them out to use as well, but they rarely do so.) And honestly, I don't have much skill here. I know other people who can whip together brilliant posters on a moment's notice, but I've sat around for days trying to come up with a new and interesting design. Not only that, but my computer art skills aren't very deep, either. I don't even know how to use PhotoShop - I mainly use free software like Paint.net and Picasa to do create what I want. Over the last few years, I've come up with some I thought were pretty good, and others I thought were just passable. But in general, when I post one, I assume people's reaction is something along the lines of "Well, here's another low-budget gargoyle poster."

Today, a comedian friend of mine posted the official poster of his next gig. It's eight comedians at a night club - fairly standard. But the poster is...something else. Somebody literally just copy-and-pasted all the comics' current Facebook profile pictures onto it - so a couple of them are doing stand-up comedy, one is on the beach, one is dancing at a wedding, etc. The gig is apparently "presented by" a realtor (which is a bit weird), so at the bottom, there's a "presented by:" followed by the realtor's business card (in toto). The poster neglects to mention the address of the venue (I've never heard of it), or the day of the week. At least three words are misspelled. And outside of the fact that one of the people in the picture clearly is performing at a comedy club, there's not even a hint on the poster that this is in fact a comedy event.

I actually don't like ripping on somebody else's work. And I feel kind of bad that I needed to in order to feel better about my own. But I guess whatever works.

Lex

That kind of stuff drives me CRAZY. Not everybody has the time, funds, eye to do fancy graphic art, but you CAN proofread, you CAN ask for permission to use a photo (or let the person choose one) and you CAN make sure basic facts are covered. I'm sure your posters are far more useful.

If I can ever afford a yacht, I'm going to name her Schadenfreude.

[ShiftyNJ]

One of "the Chan"s co-stars allowed himself to be waxed in front of a studio audience on Ellen.