One Man Banned

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Looks like a bobcat met a bear. From what I can tell by the blood and dropped money, some sort of mugging.

1st attempt at my own. Store bought beer dough, store bought sauce with a little something something thrown in, home grown cherry peppers, caramelized red onion, shaved steak. Forgot to get cheese, twice, so improvised by cutting up some baby bells.

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Milkshake... vanilla ice cream, caramel, and bourbon.

Had to go Sicilian today... hamburger, sausage, pepperoni.

Yeah man, post more! That SP has seen some action over time

Ha. Almost bugged out after taking a dump this morning. Then I remembered- I had the beet salad last night. Crisis averted.

Just left the rudest fart in the dairy aisle

Also, this

@misteraven one of my pet peeves with restaurants is when they open for business but aren't really ready. Like if a pizza place says open @ 11 they better have some slices out and ready @ 11. Think it's the same concept here based on your description, like don't say you're back until you absolutely know that things are up & working correctly. The blog- I didn't mean to focus so much on that, the point was that you need the writers back on here (blog writers or otherwise) and you need them posting content. The trophy thing- rather meaningless to me personally but I have played along for amusement at times. Kind of sounds like you're saying it's just something that comes with the program. If this is the case I am even more amused that people became so invested in it. Anyhow, apparently users became endeared to it, I remember people logging back in after the first reboot or so asking where are my tic-tacs, how do I neg? It is probably lowest on the list of priorities but if it is going to exist on the site you might look at it later- all those users chasing props, negs, e-status... Finally ease up, know this is your baby & all but you have some loyal followers on this ghost ship and more people who will get (back) on board when you get things right. I def have 12oz stories from the website, still have my mags from years ago, still have the graf books I got through 7th Heaven years ago like the German graf books! So, no hating here. :peace:

Think this questions has been asked/discussed in different threads at this point. Saw someone mention that 12oz always promises a fix or a comeback, then fails to deliver. People have grown tired of this. I know people who were power posters delivering graf content that people wanted to see- now they don't want to come on here because of this 'boy who cried wolf' effect. In a situation like this I would typically advise that at this point it is more important to understand why the same mistake keeps getting repeated and to strengthen that weakness rather than to keep trying to make something 'new & improved', I mean you have about 10 regular users which is pretty sad compared to what it once was. Along these same lines oontzers are asked what to change/fix and it doesn't get done. This new forum has been running for a minute, at least in test mode, and people still don't get alerts on site to basics like receiving messages from another user?? Also think you have to get your friends on board. Can't understand why people with so many connections in the graf world can't get those connections to contribute to them. Not just talking here, I've seen this happen with other sites and such. You have a front page with a blog list at the bottom full of a who's who in graf and none of them have blogged anything in years or posted on site. For someone coming on who doesn't know the site, it looks like a dead site. And... regular users want to see content from those people and others. Final thought for now... either trash this trophy/points system or make it worth something, you guys are missing the value of that. Before, you had numerous users infatuated with those tic tacs, props/negs, achieving the next member level. It helped keep people coming on and contributing. Think about that for a minute- you had a whole group of people invested in something that in the end actually had no meaning- that's very powerful and you're not tapping into it. Currently you don't really get anything for trophy points, and the amount of points a user needs is pretty much unobtainable after the 1st level or so. I know this all sounds trivial, this is a site about graf culture 1st, but again- look at how many users you had invested in something pretty much meaningless- powerful stuff there my friend.

Raven that's your 2nd post mentioning those places- they paying you to advertise? Lol. Yeah, went to school, racked up big debt similar to Raven. Lucky to have dwindled it down to where it might be gone in a year or 2. One of the things that was pointed out to me is that the people making student loans were doing so knowing that the odds would be stacked against people paying them back- forgot what the issue was here but a lot of loans were handed out in this fashion, at least at the time. School was a worthwhile experience overall, I guess. But- I will say that much of the learning and education that was the most meaningful did not come out of the classroom but from other activities as well as internship/training opportunities. When choosing an education these days one has to consider the overall cost of the education vs what you can earn with that education. There are definitely good job opportunities available that do not require a college education. There are also educational paths that you can get stuck on, like you earned a degree but a higher degree is needed to make up for the cost of living. The whole topic is worth exploring as far as what you get, is it needed, etc. I was commenting in another thread the other day that going to college does not equal being intelligent or being more intelligent than others.

Do you think I tucked it back where I found it? Left a turd in it? I stashed it back nicely, but am considering if I should go back to put some item or another in it. Sometimes the trinkets that are left are meant to travel, wonder if I can leave some stickers and get some random folks to take them along and put them up elsewhere.

Turns out it was someone's geocache. Never heard of this shit before, had to look it up, people stash shit in a location and the GPS is available for other seekers who want to try to find it. Teens and adults do this, I guess people take/leave a trinket and sign a log book that they were there & found it. Probably the biggest irony here is that I don't even own a smart phone or have any GPS enabled on anything I own, I just found this shit exploring the woods.