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SpeaKEaSY
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1070 Posts
March 22 2011 15:16 GMT
#821
Wow, that's 45 mins of my life I'm never getting back. I lol'd hard at the part where they pumped gas into his room and that's why I kept reading, but the thread went downhill from there.
Aim for perfection, settle for mediocrity - KawaiiRice 2014
mesohawny
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada193 Posts
March 22 2011 16:15 GMT
#822
On March 22 2011 23:05 Skrelt wrote:
no offence intended, but how on earth did that guy get a PC 6 years ago with no money?

sry just really wanted to ask cause it makes my head spin

Edit: Shame its 6 years ago, could have offerd you a sleepingplace and a hot meal, oohwell


Geez, it was only 6, not 16, years ago... PC's weren't that expensive lol, and he was staying with some girl.
love you long time
Project Psycho
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom329 Posts
March 22 2011 16:26 GMT
#823
just spent, like the last hour reading the full thread, great story but i thought he would of gave a little bit more back to the community that helped him out when he was on the bones of his arse and in a foreign country. He eventually got home then you never hear from him again until 3 years later, if that was me in his position and a community as awesome as this helped me out when i was in dire straits, i would owe my life to teamliquid.

Am sure he is good guy and maybe just felt a little embarrassed by the whole situation or whatever, but he has debt to this community now and he should of shown a little more love imo.
LegendaryZ
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1583 Posts
March 22 2011 21:06 GMT
#824
On March 22 2011 11:25 Fallacy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2011 11:10 LegendaryZ wrote:
Just out of curiosity (haven't read the entire thread) it seems like he had a ticket for a return flight on February 1st the entire time and the only problem was that he didn't have the money to survive until then. But if he had just told the embassy that he didn't have a place to stay, they would have sent him to a shelter until his flight date, which means that he wouldn't have needed work or donations to sustain himself anyway. So what exactly was this entire thread about and why didn't he just do that? I don't get the reasoning behind most of the decisions made here...

Why would you want to lie to your own embassy?


To get the help that they should be giving you anyway so you don't have to feel bad mooching off friends and random people on the internet. What kind of question is this? As for the person who said that he needed money and not a place to stay, what did he need money for? Wasn't it pretty much for food? Getting the embassy to assist you in getting into a shelter would have eliminated the need for this. Sure, it would have been a lot less interesting as a story, but it would have also made a whole lot more sense than looking for random jobs online and burdening people with your situation (basically the girl he was staying with and whoever else was supporting him while he was meeting people for free meals and drinks).

I'm not sure why you would see this story as inspirational at all. Maybe it was inspirational while he was backpacking across the world, but I don't see anything inspirational about his decisions from the moment he was robbed. If anything, they were irresponsible and short-sighted.
Fallacy
Profile Joined September 2010
United States227 Posts
March 22 2011 21:13 GMT
#825
On March 23 2011 06:06 LegendaryZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2011 11:25 Fallacy wrote:
On March 22 2011 11:10 LegendaryZ wrote:
Just out of curiosity (haven't read the entire thread) it seems like he had a ticket for a return flight on February 1st the entire time and the only problem was that he didn't have the money to survive until then. But if he had just told the embassy that he didn't have a place to stay, they would have sent him to a shelter until his flight date, which means that he wouldn't have needed work or donations to sustain himself anyway. So what exactly was this entire thread about and why didn't he just do that? I don't get the reasoning behind most of the decisions made here...

Why would you want to lie to your own embassy?


To get the help that they should be giving you anyway so you don't have to feel bad mooching off friends and random people on the internet. What kind of question is this? As for the person who said that he needed money and not a place to stay, what did he need money for? Wasn't it pretty much for food? Getting the embassy to assist you in getting into a shelter would have eliminated the need for this. Sure, it would have been a lot less interesting as a story, but it would have also made a whole lot more sense than looking for random jobs online and burdening people with your situation (basically the girl he was staying with and whoever else was supporting him while he was meeting people for free meals and drinks).

I'm not sure why you would see this story as inspirational at all. Maybe it was inspirational while he was backpacking across the world, but I don't see anything inspirational about his decisions from the moment he was robbed. If anything, they were irresponsible and short-sighted.

He needed money not just for food, but to change his flight because the ticket was for a plane in the UK at Feb 1st and he couldn't afford to stay at that girls house until then. Changing your flight location and time isn't necessarily cheap either. I would rather him be sincere than be a dishonest person.
Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone.
LegendaryZ
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1583 Posts
March 22 2011 21:20 GMT
#826
Assuming that the embassy would have helped him into a shelter, there would be no need to change the flight since staying at a shelter would mean he wouldn't have been burdening the girl he was staying with. Just because someone is willing to take you in doesn't necessarily mean that you should take the offer, especially when there are alternatives. They may not complain about it because they feel sympathy for you, but still you should take into consideration that you're burdening them with your problems as well and try to find a better way to deal with it.

If he told the embassy that he didn't have a place to stay, it wouldn't have necessarily been dishonest since he only had a place to stay due to someone's good graces. It's not like he had a hotel he was paying for or an apartment he was renting. He was essentially homeless.
User11
Profile Joined June 2005
Canada481 Posts
March 22 2011 23:41 GMT
#827
On March 23 2011 06:20 LegendaryZ wrote:
Assuming that the embassy would have helped him into a shelter, there would be no need to change the flight since staying at a shelter would mean he wouldn't have been burdening the girl he was staying with. Just because someone is willing to take you in doesn't necessarily mean that you should take the offer, especially when there are alternatives. They may not complain about it because they feel sympathy for you, but still you should take into consideration that you're burdening them with your problems as well and try to find a better way to deal with it.

If he told the embassy that he didn't have a place to stay, it wouldn't have necessarily been dishonest since he only had a place to stay due to someone's good graces. It's not like he had a hotel he was paying for or an apartment he was renting. He was essentially homeless.



The girl i stayed with i met in Australia. She was very supportive and helped me out alot.We still keep in touch and are very close. I dont feel i made any poor or short sighted decisions.


For everyone who added me on Facebook. If you go to my photo albums and look under random you will see the lovely girl i stayed with " Sylvia" and other pictures from around Europe that i had a on disposable camera.

I never went inactive. I got right back in to BW after few a few months back. I hung out on the site quite a bit. i still kept in contact with old bw friends. Im really proud to see my old friend " Lzgamer" still very active and doing well!!


I will never forget what the Tl.net community and its operators did for me.. Now that I look back i can say that it was a Great Adventure and an awesome learning experiance!
thanks to all who helped me get home and a big thanks to TL.net
mrscheng
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Sweden658 Posts
March 22 2011 23:44 GMT
#828
cliff notes

User was temp banned for this post.
SKT Hyuk is my homeboy
Pekkz
Profile Joined June 2009
Norway1505 Posts
April 01 2011 00:17 GMT
#829
Glad i took the time to read this epic thread. Gonna leave it with a big FUCK YOU to ToT'strafe.
Facehugger
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden17 Posts
April 01 2011 00:26 GMT
#830
He should have stayed in Amsterdam, and worked as a hooker. It's legal in Netherlands
LaSt)ChAnCe
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States2179 Posts
April 01 2011 03:01 GMT
#831
On March 23 2011 08:44 mrscheng wrote:
cliff notes


read the thread, this is important tl history
LanTAs
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1091 Posts
April 01 2011 04:00 GMT
#832
=0 Epic bump, i think i saw this thread a few months back, but never bothered to read the rest of it.

i finaly did =D

holy crap, this pretty much shows how awesome the TL.net community is =D lol. i think this thread should be... immortalized? anyone else agree with me?

oh and a question: do you play sc2 now? or do you still play BW? great read btw
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
April 01 2011 11:49 GMT
#833
It was nice to see reference to some old BW clans in here/in sigs of people posting
x17, tQ, [x]domain, oMg., wgtour... sigh
the days of 2005 hahaha
University of Kentucky Basketball #1
Executrix
Profile Joined March 2011
Netherlands36 Posts
April 01 2011 11:59 GMT
#834
The guy probably swam cross the channel to the UK by now! Also, funny stuff to bump this thread at the first of april.
G
Profile Joined May 2004
Canada69 Posts
April 01 2011 14:10 GMT
#835
I actually stayed up to read through the whole thread. Got me hooked. Crazy story.
Glad you made it home. Perhaps one day I can hear the story in person since you're back home.
User11
Profile Joined June 2005
Canada481 Posts
April 01 2011 17:53 GMT
#836
On April 01 2011 20:49 Bill Murray wrote:
It was nice to see reference to some old BW clans in here/in sigs of people posting
x17, tQ, [x]domain, oMg., wgtour... sigh
the days of 2005 hahaha



Those were the good old days!! Wgtour/Pgtour really improved the foreign bw scene.

I played sc2 single player. Played a few games on bnet but never got into it. I got over whelmed with school and work.

thanks to all who helped me get home and a big thanks to TL.net
Svartstol
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden171 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-18 07:09:23
May 18 2011 07:07 GMT
#837
I guess there is still hope for mankind, It's always nice to read something like this once in a while.
These are the things we should be reading about in the newspapers instead of what Paris Hilton's shit smelled like and the new haircut of Justin Beiber.

I'm glad everything turned out well, I was recently in the same position (well almost) I got stuck on Fuerteventura for a couple of weeks. Lucky for me my parents could help me:p
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-15 01:40:44
September 15 2011 01:39 GMT
#838
Isn't this like international bump week or something?

this is my favorite TL thread that might not contain Rekrul
University of Kentucky Basketball #1
Wala.Revolution
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
7584 Posts
September 15 2011 01:41 GMT
#839
Wow this got bumped too?

Nevertheless epic story.
Stuck.
Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
September 15 2011 01:42 GMT
#840
What's up with all the necro going on these days?

Last time I saw a forum where threads were being chain necroed, it died a few days later
o choro é livre
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