Bittersweet Candy Bowl

I’m a professional middle weight four round boxer, who is soon gonna become champion of the world!

Yeah, right. And I’m a skinny wimp who goes to a Catholic school in the same city a a large Areva facility.

I mean, come on! At least be slightly realistic!

@Jerk: You are correct. It may sound completely stupid, but it is an actual threat. It’s kinda like beating down a soldier as he walks up the road, and getting charged with Sabotage.
@Jake: Good luck to you, man. My grandfather was Golden Gloves Champion for 6 years.

Don’t fall for it, Jake! It’s a trap! He’s being sarcastic! D:

No lie, Jerk. His name was Phillip Bevins, look him up. His son, Phil Bevins Jr. was golden gloves 3 years, I think, and then won the local Tough Man contest 4 times. He has a son named Joe Bevins, who you may also come across, as he was in the paper many times for his Bluegrass and Old-time music at Fiddler’s conventions and the like. Best part of that is that Joe is only about 8 now.

Not you, Nero. I was talking about Ninja’s comment.

I think he was referring to me, Nero. I think your story is entirely believable.

Ah. my bad.

Look at me and Jerk, 28 seconds apart. It’s almost like telepathy.

It’s funny, I would have expected a resident of the space station to have better things to do with their time than be on here of all places…

But then I asked myself what I would do if I was in space, and after “play with 0 g’s for a while” and “get work done”, I realized that internets is a close third. This is of course assuming zero g sex is out of the question.

I’m a full time student, but for a scholarship I have to work a certain amount a week at a school orientated job. I work at a daycare my college runs and work with toddlers around 2 years old. Sadly I don’t get paid other than the scholarship money, but it helped make me actually get PAID to go to college due to the leftover money so I feel it’s worth it. I’m hoping to manage to get a part time job inserted into that schedule too, but I’m having trouble figuring out how I’ll manage time for anything else haha.

@ HappehFace: Sex is never out of the question, only people and things.
@ Ninja: If you’re going to kill me, quit looking over my shoulder and do it alr

Awwwww. But it’s funny to see you turn around in hopeless attempts to locate me. The only way you even know I’m here is because I keep laughing at all the stuff you delete before you post. Like that one about the rabbi in the Nazi brothel. I can see why you didn’t post that one.

@happeh: The only woman up here has impeccable aim, and I value my balls. Yea, Zero-G is a blast, until you crack your head off a few walls. Shit, even then its fun. And as far as work, there are so many of us up here, compared to the work load, that you find yourself with a lot of free time. Incidentally, zero-g is great on a bad back. Though I do keep wondering Why it is that I wake up in the air, and assume I’m dreaming

He liked to put it in their “gas chambers.”

Now you decide to post it.

It’s like a challenge to me.

@Nero

Only one girl? starting to sound like my uni: one girl per 50 or so guys.

yea. She has dealt with shit like this all through her life, so I don’t blame her one bit for the way she is.

My job hasn’t come to fruition just yet… I really do need to get off my ass and do it… *Sigh* Untill then, seeing as how most people just tell me it’s a pipe dream, consider me a Uni student I suppose.

part-time babysitter, trying to get a “normal” steady job in my major :/

So, uh, Nero… how old are you? I mean, you don’t have to answer it, but it would be nice to know, since you’re in space and all.

ummm im a student but when i grow up I wanna be from the riot control
or just get the boring jobs of my father which will provide me millions and let me keep my rich boy life :/

HAHAHAHAHA. I get itttt

@Maverik: What is this Pipe Dream? All my friends thought I was crazy for saying Id be in space one day, but look at me now!
@Micheal: 37

ITT: We talk about how awesome the resident astronaut at BCB forum is.

Though, hey Nero, how did you ever get into the program? Was it your childhood dream set from your fourth birthday? Or is it more like “ah, I can take this path, I’ll go along to see what happens”?

Man, and I thought Taiwan was too exotic a place to come from. Nero comes from goddamn outer space.

@ryan: I found myself always fascinated, if intimidated by space. Just the simple fact that everything we know is no bigger than an atom in the ocean is unbelievable. I wanted to go and experience everything that it was for myself. So, out of highshcool, I joined the airforce, then after several years there I got into NASA. Apply several more years of friggin’ intense training, and I find myself enjoying the unobscured view of the literally billions of stars. Oh, and that thing about seeing the great wall of China from space is bullshit, you need a hi-res satellite camera to see it.
Also: New pic! http://s838.photobucket.com/albums/zz306/ Nero_Amatam/?action=view&current=Lights.jpg
Unbelievable…

Holy shit that’s awesome. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was in 6th grade, but I realized then that I would never be tall enough so that dream had to die. I love the stars and planets and stuff.

Hee. I still want to be an astronaut. ^_^

And wow, Nero, that is a magnificent picture. I wish I could see that.

But can you tell me how close to Earth you have to be to see the Great Wall of China? I know you can’t see it from the Moon (my childhood consisted of rather too much misinformation ^_^), but I had the impression that it was visible when in close orbit.

The great wall is long, but not very wide. You would have to be in the atmosphere to be able to see it. Even from very low orbit, it would still not be visible from space.

Sorry.

Hmm. My childhood is even more ruined. ^_^

I’m a freshman. I really just…do homework and draw.

I sometimes work at my mom’s store for a few bucks every once in a while. Or clean house.

Or go here or 4chan when I’m not doing any of that. c:

Why didn’t explaininator ninja explain that? anyway, he is exactly correct. Even on hi-res pics, it can easily be mistaken for a river, that is if you don’t already know what you are looking at.
@Commie: How tall are you? If you top 5 feet, you are in!
Edit: Sorry, it’s 5’5”. my bad.

shaddup. I was lazy.

! I thought girls had to be 5’6”!!!

I’m gonna be an astronaut!!

Ninjas can get away with being lazy?

@commie: It used to be 5’6”, but it changed a couple years back seeing that many capable women couldn’t top that mark. It’s universal now as well, I myself am only 5’7”

: D YAY! Can I be a psychologist in space? You guys need those on the spacestations, right?

my employment? I’m almost sure half the readers are teenage girls. I’m a male junior in High school and unfortunately am unemployed.

XD, one would think that you would, but I haven’t really found that I need one. Some people worry me, but I know Im safe. Im going to say no, however, if for no other reason than the mental screening that keeps all the crazies out . however, if you enjoy space and planets and all that, come play EVE Online. There is a free two week trial to see if you like it.
Edit: My Corp (guild) name is Machtpolitik, and my character name is Nero Amatam (Of course). Tho if you do come join, don’t mention my profession. I’m trying to pass as an earthling for now, and it’s working. I enjoy putting up the facade.

Of course! We get away with everything!

@Taeshi

do the ads and store products pay for your living or do you have another job?

(Sound lika idiot drooling fanboy)

@ Taeshi: I am honored to have praise from the author/artist of my favorite read. It is however, difficult to keep up with updates, having little sense of time. So, I find myself here every 10-15 hours.
@Kevin: she works subway

How do you keep up with time in space? And don’t destroy my dreams Nero, being in space that long can break someone, you totally need them. I want to play in 0 Gs.

@Commie: I never said you couldn’t come up, just that we don’t need a psycologist. Get a job on the ground as a screener, sometimes the ground crew comes up to play with us
As far as time is concerned, there is a clock set here, we tell days by the clock going ‘round twice, but without a dedicated clock-watcher, the system doesn’t work well. Dunno why they don’t just give us a damn digital clock set for military time.
If I create the Astronaut thread, you must all come and join me!

i don’t have a job.

feels bad man

@ Nero Amatam

thanks mate.

You’re going to regret not having her around when one of your crew members goes HAL on you.