Patterson and family moving from Athens to Portland
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I lived up (and not for LONG either, mind you) Boston for a time and I couldn't BELIEVE how quickly I started talking in New England dialect. All of a sudden, it wasn't "garbage can", it was "gahbage can"...it wasn't car...it was "cah"..., it wasn't "years", it was "Yee-uz" and so on and so forth. To this day, I still catch myself talking like that.
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Thanks for that btbubba. I appreciate it.beantownbubba wrote:One never knows what one might find on 3dd. Congrats on getting your life back, JJ.
Of the drugs I have used/am familiar with (cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, opiates, benzos), AND meth...albeit NOT from personal use, just from being around those that did), heroin/opiates are truly THE hardest to break free from. If the other drugs put a monkey on your back? Heroin/opiates put a 5000lb. gorilla that's always trying to beat you half to death on it. Benzo's/Alcohol are the deadlier ones to withdrawal from, but they are easier once you do walk away to stay away from. Coke is the same way. When you do coke, often times you wanna do more coke. But once you step away from it for a while, it's often times not such a massive deal to not go back. Marijuana, I was never a big fan of, personally. Even cigarettes....I used to smoke (and honestly speaking? I LOVED smoking...WHY? I don't know but I sure did like to, but it got so expensive and I just always felt so unhealthy that it came time to choose to walk away at a certain point)...and I've heard people equate stopping smoking to heroin. Bullshit. You walk away from 'em for a few months and it's not that damn hard at all to stick with staying away from those damn things. Heroin/opiates, OTOH, shit, 3 months is usually not even long enough to be out of the acute withdrawal stage yet. Which means you haven't even BEGAN the "paws" stage yet ("post acute withdrawal syndrome" - the "mental" stage). To this day, I still can't sleep worth a damn, I still dream about it (2 nights ago, I dreamed that I found a massive patch of poppy pods growing wild and the opium was already bursting forth from the seed pods - I have those dreams at least once a week, sometimes more). I think about it every single day still. I want it every day. But I don't have that grueling a withdrawal left in me for a second round. If I ever DO screw up royally and go back? I'll be a lifer in one way or another (meaning, at the very best, I'll end up on Suboxone treatment vs. enduring that HORRIBLE HORRIBLE withdrawal again. Going through that was like being in hell for almost 4 months - and then the mental misery afterwards that clung on and on for well over a year was almost all a human being can endure). And as I said. Even today, some of the beat still goes on. I doubt it will ever go away completely or permanently.
I hope that no one here EVER EVER fucks up like I did and ultimately has to go through and endure that misery. Because once you open the door? You can't shut it back completely, ever. You'll be a "lifer" in one sense or the other, unless you overdose and die from the shit and/or some shady piece of scum sells you a hot shot.
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http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/201 ... /26675665/John Cash's Suitcase wrote:Best wishes to him, but I could never live anywhere they don't let you pump your own gas.
And I knew when I woke up Rock N Roll would be here forever
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At least you were an adult. Kids will be kids but adults shouldn't pull that crap on kids.Cole Younger wrote:Lol. Been there Swamp. The ration of crap that I got for my accent for about the first year that I was in the Corps astounded me. I couldn't believe what a big deal people made of it. Some of it was good natured and that was fine of course but some people actually seemed to take offense to it. That both amused me and puzzled me to no end. I got the usual stuff from these people. Questions about my intellect and assumptions that I was a racist. The best part about that was, while I was at infantry school in North Carolina, which took place right after boot camp, when everybody was new and around people much different from them for the first time, I was befriended by a group of black guys from New York. So the Georgia redneck who caught crap about his accent was buddied up with a group of black guys from New York who spoke with a Brooklyn accents. It was fun watching some of the jerks try and get their minds around it and figure out what we were all saying. Then I would come home on leave and my buddies would accuse me of talking like a Yankee. Which was a complete joke. But they sure thought I did. Like you said, I didn't talk right no matter where I was.Swamp wrote:My dad was military and from the time I was born until I was in Jr High we moved every 3 to 4 years.
In the fall of 65 we moved from NAS Memphis to Whidby Is. I was in 2nd grade and nobody up there knew what
I was saying. Kids will be kids and I got teased alot. Luckily for me I come from a family of teasers but the adults
were the worst. Then I got sent to speech class. During that time my dad's squadron deployed to Viet Nam for
6 months. It was hard on my mom, there were 4 of us kids, so when he went back to Nam in the fall of 66, she
packed us up and moved us to LA (lower Alabama for those of you that don't know southern terminology) where
her family lived. They didn't understand what I was saying either and I got to do 2nd grade and go to speech
class again. Making friends was always a challenge and luckily for me there was a lone black kid in the class
with no friends and we became friends. It worked out great for him too as I had his back on the playground and
my cousin from another class had my back. The male members of my family in LA were all about fighting and
they trained me well. The playground was ours. Also my southern relatives didn't tease me about the way I talk
as much as my dad's relatives from Mich did. I still don't talk right!
People can be stupid and act like jerks. I hope Portland is good to Patterson and his family.
and the rest as they say is uh er uh, well somebodies history somewhere?
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New Jersey?John Cash's Suitcase wrote:Best wishes to him, but I could never live anywhere they don't let you pump your own gas.
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It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
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Oh do tellTDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
And I knew when I woke up Rock N Roll would be here forever
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Ummm nothing out of the way happened on this forum, it was the FB group. I don't know how we'll survive without ya.TDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
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It's shit like this that keeps me away.TDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
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I'm gonna echo beantown:JJAllin wrote: I hope that no one here EVER EVER fucks up like I did and ultimately has to go through and endure that misery. Because once you open the door? You can't shut it back completely, ever.
Congrats on getting your life back.
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We're getting off light. He didn't threaten to shoot anybody.Smitty wrote:Ummm nothing out of the way happened on this forum, it was the FB group. I don't know how we'll survive without ya.TDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
A single shot rifle and a one eyed dog.
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Smitty wrote:Ummm nothing out of the way happened on this forum, it was the FB group. I don't know how we'll survive without ya.TDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
Talking about what people are saying in the FB group is just as lame.
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No, what the people in the Facebook group are saying is lameTDB wrote:Smitty wrote:Ummm nothing out of the way happened on this forum, it was the FB group. I don't know how we'll survive without ya.TDB wrote:It's shit like this that keeps me away from this forum.
Talking about what people are saying in the FB group is just as lame.
And I knew when I woke up Rock N Roll would be here forever
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Talking about what people are saying in the FB group is just as lame.[/quote]
No, what the people in the Facebook group are saying is lame[/quote]
Ohhhhh.....I can TOTALLY see the difference!
I stand corrected.
No, what the people in the Facebook group are saying is lame[/quote]
Ohhhhh.....I can TOTALLY see the difference!
I stand corrected.
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So I take it you agree with the Facebook folks then
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True, but it was definitely more appealing than hearing you bitch about it after the fact. The funny thing is this thread was over and done with until you chimed in. I thought you were supposed to be keeping away?TDB wrote: Talking about what people are saying in the FB group is just as lame.
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Smitty wrote:True, but it was definitely more appealing than hearing you bitch about it after the fact. The funny thing is this thread was over and done with until you chimed in. I thought you were supposed to be keeping away?TDB wrote: Talking about what people are saying in the FB group is just as lame.
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard
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True, but it was definitely more appealing than hearing you bitch about it after the fact. The funny thing is this thread was over and done with until you chimed in. I thought you were supposed to be keeping away?[/quote]
Generally, I do. I didn't read the FB posts bc I'm not a member of the group.
I only come on here to check the setlists and see if they played anything good.
Sorry I commented at all.
Generally, I do. I didn't read the FB posts bc I'm not a member of the group.
I only come on here to check the setlists and see if they played anything good.
Sorry I commented at all.
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As opposed to playing things that suck?TDB wrote:
I only come on here to check the setlists and see if they played anything good.
Turn you demons into walls of goddamned noise and sound.
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Beebs is not a ragey man
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As opposed to playing songs I don't hear often.brett27295 wrote:As opposed to playing things that suck?TDB wrote:
I only come on here to check the setlists and see if they played anything good.
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Good luck to the Hood family on their new adventure.
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Agreed!! thanks for posting TDBTDB wrote:Good luck to the Hood family on their new adventure.
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This might be the best thing ever. Makes me want to move to Portland. A dude balancing on a ball with a flame thrower while playing bagpipes? What's not to like?Beebs wrote:
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I'm assuming he had to practice to be able to do that. For some reason I am just flabbergasted by that.Tequila Cowboy wrote:This might be the best thing ever. Makes me want to move to Portland. A dude balancing on a ball with a flame thrower while playing bagpipes? What's not to like?Beebs wrote:
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard
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"So what are you doing tonight? Want to grab a bite?"
"Oh shoot, I'm sorry I can't. I have to practice my bagpipe playing flamethrower thing tonight. Raincheck?"
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Yeah, awesome.
"Oh shoot, I'm sorry I can't. I have to practice my bagpipe playing flamethrower thing tonight. Raincheck?"
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Yeah, awesome.
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Well it seems Patterson really will be right at home up there. The only difference is that in the South before somebody does something like balance on a ball with a flamethrower while playing an instrument he tells one of his buddies, "hold my beer and watch this."Beebs wrote:
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Substitute "latte w/ a shot of expresso made w/ fair trade beans" for "beer" and we're home.Cole Younger wrote:Well it seems Patterson really will be right at home up there. The only difference is that in the South before somebody does something like balance on a ball with a flamethrower while playing an instrument he tells one of his buddies, "hold my beer and watch this."Beebs wrote:
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard
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That's a good one Bubba.beantownbubba wrote:Substitute "latte w/ a shot of expresso made w/ fair trade beans" for "beer" and we're home.Cole Younger wrote:Well it seems Patterson really will be right at home up there. The only difference is that in the South before somebody does something like balance on a ball with a flamethrower while playing an instrument he tells one of his buddies, "hold my beer and watch this."Beebs wrote:
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life