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I'm not proud

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I cut off the corner of my middle finger on my left hand when I was 12. It looks normal except for the fingernail, which actually looks kinda cool.

Apparently I snore REALLY loud(ly). I've never heard it, so I can't say just how loud - but I've driven many people out of many rooms and been kicked out of many rooms.

I had to run out in the middle of a recording session once to buy C4RLY S1M9N a nailfile.

I once killed, skinned and ate a snake. After I'd tanned the hide I made it into a glasses case. I was about 11.

(The workplace was bullpen-style where we all worked at our own drawing boards and could chat while we worked.)

my headmaster beat me up once while the vice principal checked for onlookers

would love to know full story behind this

― NI, 02 October 2010 13:49

TL;DR alert but anyway-

I was called from a class to the Vice Principal's office, where he launches into a 'what did you get up to during break' intense interrogation. I hadn't really gotten up to anything except the usual football, so I kinda stuck to that story. He kept at it, 'what did you get up to during break, what went on during break'. I really hadn't any other story, so couldn't enlighten him any.

So out he comes with an accusation that I'd gone to town on an unnamed first year at some stage that day, and had been named by the kid. Taken aback, all I had was, 'um, I tackled one during a kickabout' (whom I named), but was fairly sure I hadn't hurt anyone.

In bursts the headmaster, who's a bit of a cowboy prone to getting his dig in (if you've seen Colm Meaney in 'Intermission' you're onto the gist of it)- picks me up bodily and flings me off the far wall- ranting and raving about how the kid I've named has plenty of older brothers that would love a piece of a thug like me. The VP sames fairly taken aback himself, but nonetheless heads out to the open door and gives the corridor the old one-two glance while I'm face-slapped, thrown around and take a few punches to the stomach for me troubles. Takes maybe a half minute, I dunno, VP eventually steps in. I'm sent back to class.

Fairly bewildered and shocked, I spend the rest of the day more worried that I'd inadvertently done damage to a kid I know and quite like, so when I see him on the bus later I quietly head over to see if he's ok and apologise (and I mean quietly, because I felt bad enough having hurt him, I don't want to intimidate him cos I feel enough of a bully already)- he doesn't have a clue what I'm on about, in fact he thinks I've gone soft if I thought he'd go complaining to teachers about a football tackle etc.

So turns out that another guy in my year called Derek McSomething had kicked shit out of a young fella from up the island round behind the sheds. Said young fella didn't know one third year from another, got yerman's name garbled and between them they came up with mine somehow (don't ask me how, I wasn't exactly the fighter of the village, though it's fair to say I'd a mouth on me alright).

Best guess I can make is that the VP and principal agreed to get me in to admit it, and the principal was waiting outside the door to hear me fess up. That not forthcoming, the fact that he was obviously worked up and ready to go to town on someone already, and that I'd given him the name of the kid I'd been playing football with as some kind of half excuse (? I dunno?), and probably that I wasn't his favourite student to begin with gave him enough to go 'fuckit' and unleash on me anyways.

Eh that's about it- never went any further, cos in rural Ireland if you went home and let them know you'd taken a slap or two from a teacher the assumption was that you probably'd had it coming anyway.

That's rough, dude. So was the principal just kind of a wacko hothead in general?

if you've seen Colm Meaney in 'Intermission' you're onto the gist of it

^^^^!

lol my memory really sucks. And you are?

damn so it wasn't even partly-justifed. you say it was for your own good though, were you a rum kid in general?

I have been raided by the FBI

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
I've had sex with fewer girls than fingers on one hand, but I have had two threesomes

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
I've been in the newspaper numerous times for being arrested, but at this point I still have a clean criminal record

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Despite all that, I plan on being a lawyer

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am a heterosexual male with a navel piercing

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:56 (4 years ago)

this is like one of those "news quiz" columns in the times: which statement is true/false?

ALL OF THE ABOVE

wonder how law school turned out

In middle school I may have been the victim of an extremely disgusting 'prank', and will probably never know for sure whether it happened or not, but...

As mentioned in other threads, I got fucked with a lot in middle school, and I played baseball, but had previously played in less competitive leagues on teams where all the players got along. So I went over to Pony, and it was almost like the baseball version of The Mighty Ducks. I'm on one of the worst teams in the league, partially because everybody on the team hates each other. This is the only team I've ever played on that heckled their OWN PLAYERS at the plate (including me).

Anyway, I was pretty good the years prior, but the psychological torment and higher degree of skill in the league made me turn in my worst year as a player, so I was playing late innings only mostly. This one game, already feeling like shit, I come off the field after the third out, and immediately run to my Gatorade as I'm thirsty.

As I take a few swigs, I notice everybody turning their head to watch me, and I know obviously there's a reason. I detect an excessive dampness on the rim of the container, and I said "Did you backwash (spit) in this?" to the ringleader. He laughs Chesire-cat style and said "Yeaaaaaah, we backwashed in it, that's what we did".

The next day, word went around the school that I drank piss. One of the offenders friends was insisting that the kid had taken it behind a dugout and peed in it, and that he knew for a fact it had happened because when he came back it was much 'fuller' than when he had left. The friend never changed his story. The offender then denied it a few days later, saying they were just joking...but I don't now if he really was kidding all along, or if he just said he was so that I didn't report him to anybody.

It's a wonder I didn't stab somebody in middle school.

That's horrible!

I've had sex with fewer girls than fingers on one hand, but I have had two threesomes

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

This is some real "that man's father is my father's son" nuttiness.

I've had sex with more fingers on one hand than girls

hahahah

I have fingers on one hand that have had sex with fewer girls

I've had girls fingers on more than one sex hand

The answer is that the doctor was HIS MOTHER!

If your sister's aunt's dog has five pineapples, which train holds more coal?

the one run by the Libertarians

If your sister's aunt's dog has five pineapples, which train holds more coal?
--VegemiteGrrrl

Irl lol at this

I was looking at a map recently and realized that Atlanta is further west than I always imagine it to be. I guess because I forget how much the East Coast moves inward the further south it goes. Like, there are towns in South Carolina that are further west of Detroit.

― jaymc, Friday, October 1, 2010 1:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cleveland is further west than any part of South America's mainland.

only if you buy the whole "earth is round" theory

I am a native Clevelander...what does this mean for me?

You should move?

i think

i think she would still be a native clevelander?

My father was killed in a sword fight by a man with six fingers. No, wait. That can't be right. My name is NOT Inigo Montoya.

At 2 years old, I nearly drowned Ina steeple chase pit.

i lived here for about a year when i was ten years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providenciales

our house was on chalk sound (pictured)

one time my friend and i swam around chalk sound and collected a bunch of conchs (live ones, not just shells) and put them on a surf board and floated them around, we found like twenty of them. i later killed one with a hammer and felt totally awful, never really killed anything again after that.

I, somewhat unintentionally, got a girl to strip - totally naked - in the middle of a dance floor.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:14 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk how this went without comment. did you say the secret code that drives women crazy? did you puke on her?

Darragh's story reminds me of similar ones my old flatmate, a Corkman, told me. He too said that teachers hitting kids wasn't that unusual. I never heard of it at all, growing up. Still surprises me.

Lol I made that exact point upthread

a shure he gave me a mighty reference tho so all's well

I appear on the back of the Playn Jayn's Friday 13th lp.

I was on Songs Of Praise as a cub scout in the Royal Albert Hall in the late 70s.

Melanie Lynskey's dad (a dr) told my mother I was a hypochondriac looking for attention.

it turned out I had juvenile arthritis.

Parts of Louisiana are further east than parts of Michigan.

Sorry, I had to put that somewhere.

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I don't know what color the sky is in my world anymore.

the first thought that enters my mind when I come across a lawn freshly cut in a diagonal fashion is how great it would be to play touch football with the Kennedy's circa 1960 but now

in 2008, adbusters made me feel like a self-hating hipster

Parts of Michigan are further east than parts of Georgia!

ooh interesting. i used to, for some inexplicable reason, think that it was cool that i was born near the easternmost part of america (way out east in long island) but then i looked at a map and realized that was not the case.

A voter in Wyoming enjoys 66 times as much representation in the Senate as a voter in California!

as recently as the 1980s, a squirrel could walk from Florida to Washington without ever setting foot on a tree.

and that squirrel...is my life

squirrel could do it yet if he wanted i reckon

did u mean the ground xp

poor squirrel

I meant what I said

*sigh*

I've lived in all three Ontario cities with an international bridge to Michigan (Sarnia, Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor)

And I lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan!

im addicted to twix ice cream bars
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