I need to vent!

[LordCyrusOmega]

It gets lonely being alone - so im grateful for the wife and 2 kids.
I spend most of my time with them but the Transformers collecting is all for myself.

I use to enjoy it as well as be depressed by it. Now i'm not alone but still want it occasionally.

[kaiden]

I really need an american ebay account -_-

[SkyWarp91]

I really need an american ebay account -_-

Can't you still just use your aussie eBay account but look at international sales at the Australian ebay? Because on the US Ebay some items are posted only within the US.

[gantz]

Yeah thats what I had thought

[kaiden]

Can't you still just use your aussie eBay account but look at international sales at the Australian ebay? Because on the US Ebay some items are posted only within the US.

i can look at them, but not bid on them...

there's about 3-4 ultra magnus vs skywarp misb i am looking at, trying to bid on them. but yeah, they don't want international bidders.

i have an aunt in america but she doesnt have an ebay account, and i asked her about making one, but meh.

[SkyWarp91]

This thread has been quite active this week, maybe it's just a coincidence that many of us OTCA boarders are having a crud week.

My week's been drama after drama and it's got to the point where I've decided to unleash my fury on anyone in the public that pisses me off, like yesterday I was walking I passed this house that had a dog that ran up to me and started barking so I roared back 'DON'T F*CK WITH ME YOU STUPID B!TCH I'VE GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS F*CKBAG'. The dog actually squealed away and the owner had dropped their jaw but I did not give one flying crap.

[SkyWarp91]

i can look at them, but not bid on them...

there's about 3-4 ultra magnus vs skywarp misb i am looking at, trying to bid on them. but yeah, they don't want international bidders.

i have an aunt in america but she doesnt have an ebay account, and i asked her about making one, but meh.

Maybe we should use an OTCA member's US relative as a United States TF mule for us

[gantz]

.....like yesterday I was walking I passed this house that had a dog that ran up to me and started barking so I roared back 'DON'T F*CK WITH ME YOU STUPID B!TCH I'VE GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS F*CKBAG'. The dog actually squealed away and the owner had dropped their jaw but I did not give one flying crap.

Lol FTW! that was great!!

And yes OTCA boarders relative should def consider being a mule.

[heroic_decepticon]

The thing is, it's not meant to make you happy, it's just what works in my/our experience. Sure, we could say something like 'Don't worry, I'm sure your perfect hunk is just around the corner waiting for you', but it'd be BS and dishonest, and wouldn't actually help.
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Eventually after a whole lot of heartbreak and 'just friends' BS I decided I was gonna try and be happy on my own - or at least just live for myself and never ever be 'just friends' with women I was sexually attracted to - and if I found a girlfriend then it'd be a bonus rather than a necessity, and then surprise surprise, I started getting the girls - and damn awesome girls at that. My favourite quote - well, one of them - so far has been "Wow, you're an arsehole. When I'm rich we should get married" from a law student I'd been chatting politics with.
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If you put yourself out there and are confident and happy, or at least content, within yourself, people find that attractive and you get the guys/girls.

I'd say I'm sorry if this is kinda harsh, but I'm not 'cos it's the truth and obsessing/angsting over your singleness won't help.

Pulled the words right out of my mouth, sir!

So true esp the bold bits. From my experience, girls actually get turned off by 'nice' guys who are always hovering around waiting for them to say 'jump', then the does exactly that, jump. Seriously, how boring is that? They might as well get a pet or something.

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What you need to do is find yourself first, only then can you seek out and find others.

and that...

^^This totally.
In my experience, girls can tell what a guy's agenda is in about 10 seconds. If you go around thinking 'need a girlfriend, so horny, please be attracted to me' they'll know, and be instantly scared off. No girl wants to talk to a guy when she can tell that all he's thinking about is getting her bra off. Seriously. Be happy in you, because how could anyone like you if you can't like yourself?

So true. There's gotta be more to your life than chasing skirts. In fact, they'll find it a challenge and fight for your attention if they know that they can't have all of you. You know, like you are so devoted to something that you will never be 100% theirs (eg: TFs, basketball, surfing, etc) - it just eats them up inside (okay, exaggerating, but something like that).

From what I've been told over the years, girls actually find that sexy (and a challenge). The loser is the guy that is willing to throw down whatever he is doing once the girl comes a-callin' (what I've been told by girls too).

I do however dress like a bum and drive an old car so they could be under the impression that I am just an unemployed schmuck

intelligent and witty guy like you, if you actually bothered to engage with girls, I'm sure they will flock to you in droves.

Over the last year I've come to the conclusion that my plan should be to finish my degree, become uncontrollably rich and then attract gold diggers from whom I will hide the majority of my assets and funds using a series of cunning constructed trusts and tax shelters, which I will combine with keeping a reasonably low living standard as to nullify the prospect of alimony payments.

Basically my law degree is teaching my how to effectively be a lonely rich bastard.

Dude, I don't want to shatter your dream. This is coming from a lawyer (ahem, me) who has been in the top Australian and international law firms, to a soon to be lawyer (you) - unless a miracle happens, you are very unlikely to be "uncontrollably" rich by being a lawyer, "constructed trusts" and "tax shelters" are not going to help you much.

Sure, you will make more than the average joe, in fact the moment you start you'll be earning 2 to three times more than your peers from other courses (bar Medicine and bankers and maybe other minor categories). BUT, you'll not be uncontrollably rich. You'll be comfortable, sure. You'll have lots of disposable income, sure. But, not uncontrollably rich.

Wanna be uncontrollably rich within 2-3 years of graduation? Go be a trader, stock broker or investment banker. But I gotta tell you, its not for everybody. Some people hate it.

My banker friend who went to law school with me just got a bonus of US$700,000, for 3 months' work. Not to mention that his basic pay is more than on par with a lawyer's. That, is uncontrollably rich and of a scale and a magnitude that is inconceivable, even to lawyers or doctors who cannot ever hope to achieve pay on that sort of scale (if they stay purely lawyers and doctors).

Sorry for that, I just don't want you to have this rosy picture and get smack disillusioned when you get into the working world and find out its not what its touted to be (I know it pissed me off back in the day).

The good news is, you'll still be exceeding comfortable as a lawyer, but you'll unlike be able to say that you're "set for life".

[Paulbot]

Wow I'm in the wrong profession. A $700,000 bonus would solve every problem I currently have. Well I'd still be single but I would be in a much better position to be able to change that too.