As of 3:33 PST this morning, I am twenty years old. Happy birthday to me!
Let this also serve as a notcie that I will not be around from Tuesday to Friday because I will be in Las Vegas visiting Star Trek: The Experience with my girlfriend---whom I have, in a major coup, succeeded in getting hooked on ST. I will try to take lots of pictures and post them upon my return. Plus there will be the hot monkey sex. But not for you guys. Just pictures. Of the Trek stuff. Not the sex.
-MMoM Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Turning twenty is a big deal? No one told me this a year ago.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
So, who's going to go to Vegas to bail him out of jail Wednesday morning?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Sweet! Take pics of the new (Lobo created) Borg stuff for me!
You'll love the giant starshps hanging from the sentral ceiling and Quark's Bar is cool if really small and their food is just okay.
The souviner to get: they sell Isoleniar Chips on a keychain. I had planned on going back last year and buying a dozen or so to stick into my computer's case. That would have been cool.
- Of course, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you thing from another world, you! Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Happy Birthday. I just turned 31 on Saturday, which doesn't seem quite as exciting.
B.J.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Whatever you do, don't start talking about assimilating her before the sex. That's just tacky.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
"You will become one with the Mike-" "Don't you dare touch me, nerd!"
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
"I will add your biological distinctiveness to my own..."
The whole Borg/Sex sound bite list could on for awhile...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Well, in the interest of not feeling guilty about what his girlfriend will soon be going through, let's all just pretend that Mim isn't so far gone yet that his idea of talking dirty is to whisper Borg one-liners in her ear. B)
Posted by Renderking Fisk (Member # 1628) on :
Are you old enough for a scotch yet where you are? I'll pour one for you, regardless.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'm afraid he isn't, Fisk. You see, here in the States, we're allowed to die for our country at age 18. We're allowed to change the leadership of our country at age 18. We're allowed to start on the path to lung cancer and lawsuit earnings from Big Tobacco at age 18. We're allowed to freely have sex and become solely responsible for our actions at age 18.
But we cannot consume alcohol until age 21.
Even worst, though, is the reduction in car insurance premiums doesn't occur until age 25. And, folks, this is the real tragedy.
Happy Birthday, Mim. May it memorable because in ten years you'll start dreading the birthdays.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Hey, I'm 25, where's my actuarial windfall?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
The whole drinking age thing strikes me as a bit archaic. It's a holdover from prohibition. As Siegfried pointed out, if we're legally adults at age 18, then why are we still told that we can't make that one decision? Because having a beer is a far bigger life decision than having sex or joining the armed forces?
Wait a minute... I'm 29. I guess I don't really care anymore. I'm off to have a beer.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Actually, the federally mandated legal drinking age of 21 wasn't law until 1984.
I'm 32 now (as of the fourth) so i requite a drink from each Flarite with a snappy phrase under their name.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I'm afraid your drink request will have to go unrequited.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
S'okay, mixing booze and perscription drugs is probably not a bright idea.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
For a while, at least, at Naval Station San Diego, there's a bar/grill called Club Metro that use to be able to serve beer to underage sailors. However hard liquor, such as whisky, was only for 21+. They did this because they knew underage sailors would just go to TJ. Needless to say, the Navy would rather have the 18-21 crowd drinking on base rather than crossing the border to Mexico.
Apparently state pressure changed the drinking age on Navy bases in the US to 21. Go to a Navy base overseas though and you can drink at 18.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Hey, I'm 25, where's my actuarial windfall?
:: shrug :: My premiums dropped way down when I turned 25 a year ago. Then again, I'm also insured in Harris County, which is allegedly the most expensive place in the nation to be insured. Because we have idiots that can't figure out that you don't turn left in front of the light rail train that's barrelling right at you. Morons.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You guys drive with insurance? Man, I've ben without for over a year...(yes, I'm a fucker, I know).
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Yes you are. And at the risk of sounding stupid, surely that's illegal as hell over there?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Well, I'm not sure what its like south of the border, but its illegal here. In order to register a vehicle you need to have proof of insurance.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yes, it's illeagal- I had insurance when got the registration but my lovely medical bills cost mr over $500 a month so I let the inurance lapse in favor of...well, continued living.
I have renewed my registration just fine via mail though- easy as sin.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Auto liability insurance is mandatory in Texas. There's really no way to get around not having it; you have to show proof of insurance to renew your driver's license, to get a learner's permit, to renew your vehicle registration, and to have your vehicle inspected. I think the mandatory insurance requirement is relatively new; I want to say the law here went into effect in the early 1990s.
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