What were you doing 10years ago before DU??

[Parche]

:shrug::hi:

[madinmaryland]

1. I was GORN before DU.

:P

[Parche]

4. if it was windy....

you were GORN with the wind.....


if you were in Africa you were.....GORN free......

if you were singing with Bruce Springsteen you would be GORN in the USA

if you were an actor would you be......Rip Gorn?

if you were in college would you be going to GORNell University?

[madinmaryland]

18. Actually, I grew up in the Gorn fields of the Mid-west!

[Lucian]

2. I was in my senior year of high school ten years ago.

I'm old. :(

[Crystal Clarity]

7. Oh my!

You're not much older then my daughter. Now I feel old.

But it's really good to see you here. I'm impressed! Are your friends and friends of friends as interested in politics as you? If not, I hope you encourage them (as long as they are liberals too) :hi:

[Lucian]

8. Most people I know my age don't care about politics.

They're too focused on raising their kids and focusing on their careers. I have neither. My only career is being a college student. After ten years (with a five year absence from college), I'll finally have my B.A. in Anthropology in August, and will (finally!) start grad school in the fall. I'm only six years off on the "average life timeline" of those I graduated high school with.

:(

[Crystal Clarity]

11. I see nothing wrong w/that

If it works for you, then who cares about average family lifetime trends? Unless you are an anthropologist or sociologist. Oh wait... lol!

But seriously, you've chosen what I consider to be a fascinating field to enter into. And the fact that you are not stopping w/a BA and going onto grad school says a ton of good things about you and your dedication to this field of social science. So cool!

And just think, someday you'll be seeing at least half of those peers (if not more) going through messy divorces and other un-pleasantries at my age or even earlier, much in part due to them not having done what you are doing now, which is finding your passion and learning to make it pay off before jumping into the other stuff.

So, good for you! And keep doing what you are doing! :pals:

[Lucian]

13. Thanks.

I'm hoping to become a career archaeologist. Someday I want to be a college professor and teach archaeology to those who are interested. Hopefully the economy will be better by then so I can find a job. :)

[Crystal Clarity]

16. I hope so too

For you and your entire generation which of course includes my daughter. She's doing well but I can't help but wonder about her/your future. For all of us actually, but you guys in particular. My generation has been tuning out for way too long but I suppose blame can be spread quite liberally among all of us beyond the age of 40. Which is why I noticed your age in the first place on DU.

I hope you don't let those in your circle of friends tune out too much. If possible, get them thinking and working toward real change. If they are hanging out w/you, they are probably smart too. Let them know how much their future depends on their involvement! BTW, my daughter gets this same lecture. Yeah, I know.. :eyes: lol!

Archeology, cool too. Now there's a thought! Can you imagine 500+ years from now archaeologists w/BA's in Anthropology finding the remains of our once great society shaking their heads and wondering wth happened?

:shrug:

[Lucian]

23. The archaeological gold mines someday will be our garbage dumps.

They'll be analyzing our garbage and wondering why we were living in an unsustainable period, why we wasted so many resources.

[abq e streeter]

3. Thinking...George Bush is gonna be president, but how bad could it be?

Unfortunately, I guess we all found out.

[sarge43]

9. Thinking .... George Bush can't possibly be president.

That would be a disaster.
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Well, I was half right.

[tigereye]

5. grad school and then taking care of a baby!

[meegbear]

6. I WAS JERKING OFF

[rug]

14. The question was 10 years ago, not 10 minutes ago.

[Crystal Clarity]

24. LOL! nt, just...

:rofl:

[petronius]

42. That was my first thought too. Assuming the question refers to online activity,

10 years ago I was probably masturbating to distorted scans of magazine centerfolds. Now, I can whack off to hi-def amateur video while browsing DU in another window.

The future is fucking awesome!

;)

[NewJeffCT]

10. In early January of 2001

I was enjoying my limited time as a bachelor between marriages.

[kentauros]

12. Playing Monty Python's "Complete Waste of Time" game.

Oh wait. That was the early days of the Internet. Shows how much has changed with it in ten years :P

[Yavin4]

15. Breast Feeding Children At Olive Garden

while volunteering for Nader.

[bigwillq]

17. Still in school

They told me if I stayed in school, I would get a good job. They lied. :P
So, now I work and spend most of my working hours on DU!!! Not a bad trade off! :P ;) :)

[yurbud]

19. listening to Pacifica radio wondering why the rest of America had gone totally fucking insane

After 9/11, I felt like I was in some kind of surreal, Donnie Darko, Jacob's Ladder nightmare, with politicians and TV news people saying stuff that made no political, historical, military, or even common sense.

A country that might have one or even a handful of nukes could blackmail the whole world, so we have to invade them? That doesn't even pass muster as action movie logic.

Americans have to give up their civil rights because a handful of terrorists backed by our allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan attacked us, but those countries, not even their leaders, are punished at all?

We need to keep a Cold War-sized military to fight terrorist groups that have no navy, air force, or ability to take and hold territory here or in any country outside of lawless backwaters like Afghanistan, Sudan, or Somalia?

and so on.

Pacifica was like listening to the BBC radio in occupied Europe during WWII for a while.

I would scour the internet for real news and eventually one of my leftier friends told me about DU. I was hooked pretty quickly though the first couple of years I didn't bump into the boundaries of acceptable debate a tenth as often as I have since Obama was elected.

[MrScorpio]

20. Troll killing on Yahoo

[GalleryGod]

21. Hi, Scorp!

:fistbump:

[MrScorpio]

22. YO! G.G.!

[IcyPeas]

25. I was so much older then...

I'm younger than that now

[Odin2005]

26. I was a 14yo, was obsessed with girls and computer games.

[Skittles]

27. oh yeah, and you've changed since then

please :D

[Odin2005]

29. HEY, where did you get that pic of Ulen?

:rofl:

Google Maps, I assume? :-)

[Forkboy]

37. Hell, I'm 43 and that's still what I think about!

:)

[RandomThoughts]

28. Programming judgement training systems for law enforcement.

[snooper2]

30. building the intertubes

so we could turn tens of millions of americans into lazy bums...


You know how much Nestle invested in the Internet? :rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

31. I havn't done anything in quite awhile.

But my history shows I am not lazy, furthermore, they should have corrected their wrong if they are worried about me working.

If they can't fix something as simple as the wrong done that created the debt of the beer and travel money to me, why would I work for any of them.


Some of them think what I type here is working for them.


That is what I realized, you can say it simply, you can say it with flair, you can say it with metaphors or things beyond coincidence. People pick what they want to believe based on who they are.

Either people blocking people from seeing what I post, or people in many sectors are directly responsible for not correcting what was done wrong, if they have far more then they need.

[snooper2]

32. I think the lake is lazy

and when the shopping cart hit that ladies car, the mouse should have stopped right there.

I realize it was a gold plated coin but the dry erase marker fell from the roof.

Sometimes I wonder where the desk would be if you ask the maker of Pall Mall cigarettes carpet on the floor when it rains. Either way I agree.

[RandomThoughts]

34. People say that about her, she works in a different way no lazyness.

So you think my comments were to much? maybe, I was trying to explain how I see things, not how other people should. I find many ways to think on things in stories.

Not sure if it fell, but it was hinted twice once before the sequence, then someone else added that in. Although I don't say where stuff comes from, I think everyone should decide on that.


Many things smoke, non filters are better I agree, I try to remove filters when learning things also. And depending how you interpret it, I like rain.


Magic Carpet Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDa5dMmfZ4

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. living out loud

[Parche]

35. in a quiet sort of way??

[zipplewrath]

36. USNET

participating in USENET newsgroups of all manner. It was more fun to spend time arguing on the various GOP groups than chear on the DEM groups.

[vtdem_6550]

38. a student

[lunatica]

39. I was in shock over the Supreme Justices selecting Bush

I innocently thought that for sure that would be challenged and overturned by Constitutional lawyers. It was the beginning of the end of my political naiveté. I'm glad it's ten years later and Bush is gone. What a hell of a ride that was! :scared:

[jobycom]

40. Trying to tell everyone just how bad Bush would be.

I was cruising the Nets back then, picking fights on any message board I could find. That's how I found DU.

I also joined up with a couple of local groups as an activist, got involved in local politics, became president of a pretty good Democratic club here, and did everything I could. Wasn't much, but it kept me sane for a while.

And for the record, I told anyone who listened that Bush was going to get us into war, that he would let a major terrorist strike happen on US soil (based on the stuff Clinton and Gore had been warning us about, the attempts they stopped, and knowing that Bush was incompetent to stop them), that the economy would go to Hell, that the deficit would explode, and that he would not be able to handle any emergencies. I also predicted he would drink himself to death within two years. Okay, I missed that one, but considering the pretzel story, I don't think I missed it by a lot.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. Happily taking classes at UC Berekley

Before my money ran out, and I had to drop out. I loved being a student.