Wow...this Really Sucks

UnknownUnknown Join Date: 1970-01-01 Member:
<div class="IPBDescription">Erm, grounding is teh stupid...</div> Bah, last week I got in trouble over something ( I think I got into a long arugment with my dad, but hey who never has) Well I was grounded, my beast computer (Named: Commanche) was put to rest somewhere around my house for about a month. So now I'm on my laptop, in my car, in the freezing weather on a WAN connection thats leaking outside my school. Well it can be worse, but not being able to play NS is right now is truely sadening. I have my 2nd command of the clan taking over for me now, but its really sad to hear Practice Rage! Where you at?! *crys* Bah, this little laptop also pukes when I try and run HL. Well it sucks being cold and typing this out some I'm gonna read me some more threads before my long due school bell rings in 6 hours <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

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  • GrimmGrimm Join Date: 2003-04-13 Member: 15448Members
    Yes, grounding does suck. Especially when the parents deciding the grounding are more immature than the offspring they are grounding (like in so many cases with my parents). You can make it though, it'll be a bit rough, but at least you can cruise the forums and such. I lost the internet completely for 8 months over some petty stuff, still havn't forgiven my parents for it.
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    Ouch, I feel that. Being cut off from the Internet would be a fate too terrible for me to imagine nowadays... good thing my parents don't control my access any more.
  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 1970-01-01 Member:
    Did I mention the 300 bucks a month that I have to put into everything for my clan?

    Server's/Website/Webmaster

    Ah yes, also the complaints that I receive everyday from members, or being accused of hacking while playing (no seriously I get accused too often <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> And on my own server too) Bah, its real stressful at times, but I learn to cope with it.
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    I don't understand why they ground them, it's an odd punishment.
    (me goes off to read Maddox's words on it)
  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--[TB]-Rage-[Lt.Gen]+Sep 23 2003, 11:35 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([TB]-Rage-[Lt.Gen] @ Sep 23 2003, 11:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> around my house for about a month. So now I'm on my laptop, in my car, in the freezing weather on a WAN connection thats leaking outside my school. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    *gasp!

    Your not wardriving are you?

    Wardriving - mooching off of someone elses wireless network

    which can be considered theft of services....

    No but really, sorry to hear to hear you wont be gaming for a while. Maybe you can play at a friends house.

    Where do u exactly get the money ($300 a month) to run your stuff? If you are still young enough to get grounded by your parents, I guess you dont have a full time job or anything.

    Big allowance maybe?
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    I'd like to note that, despite the fact I'm 18 now, I haven't been grounded since I was 9.

    I'm just to ingenious to be held back by being confined to one room, or having no TV or video games. My parents gave up on it. They gave up on spankings too. They don't really work when your kid can out run you, or is strong enough to prevent them.

    I would just recommend not getting grounded (or proving to your parents it is not an effective discipline). Of course, you might have the kind that just ground people for...not cleaning dishes or something, which is retarded.

    Maybe you just need smarter, more mature or lazier parents.

    Of course...there was the one time my Mom tried to prevent me from using the computer (before I got my own, better one)...Ahh, the wonders of reverse psychology...among other things (such as...being the only one who knows how to do anything besides download music and launch half-life).



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    ...the live edition, it's on a NGE music video, I think it's better than the CD version, but I'm weird. Download it....NOW.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    I'm kinda the same as gecko... my parents gave up grounding me waaay before I even reached teens because it didn't work at all. They also stopped spankings because hitting people just isn't right =P
    If you get on with your parents really well the worst thing they can do is ignore you and get huffy... that's what they do to me and have done for ages now whenever I get on their badside and it's too effective @.@
  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    when raising kids you shouldnt punish but you should award them - since when you punish them, they'll get a negative view on you, but if you award them for good they will get a more positive look on you - and the world in general.

    - its just like puppies <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    Wait.......you got a month for getting an argument? You think?

    Well that's just a big pile o' suck.
  • homerxhomerx Join Date: 2003-04-01 Member: 15094Members
    I remember when I was a kid, I got grounded for about 3 weeks.

    I had no choice but to go to the <b>outside world</b> and play basketball with the other kids.... <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    Heh, i've never been grounded in my life. But anyway, respect your parents, they are your parents afterall, they raised you, have forked out countless amounts of money over you, and if you go against their trust or wills, or something else that pisses them off, it's your own fault, live with your actions and pay the price.

    I guess i'm lucky i've always had supportive parents, if i did something wrong they actually sat me down and talked to me about it, now whatever i do, they support me.... I still remember the first day i came back with a facial piercing.. "What's that", "i got my lip pierced"... "oh, that's nice".
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Pjofsky+Sep 24 2003, 12:36 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pjofsky @ Sep 24 2003, 12:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't understand why they ground them, it's an odd punishment.
    (me goes off to read Maddox's words on it) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Woo! Sociology rox
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    In six hours? Yikes!

    Good to know I'm not the only young one around here that runs an NS server (though I am past groundation age :-p)
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Sep 24 2003, 06:10 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Sep 24 2003, 06:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Pjofsky+Sep 24 2003, 12:36 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pjofsky @ Sep 24 2003, 12:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't understand why they ground them, it's an odd punishment. 
    (me goes off to read Maddox's words on it) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Woo! Sociology rox <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You can always meet up with friends in school--besides, don't you have homework to finish and stuff?

    My parents never grounded me, though, they always came up with some weird punishment (like whipping <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->).
  • Smoke_NovaSmoke_Nova Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8697Members
    I've been grounded in a weirder way.

    Ok, one time i'm down at the park, I leave my bike unchained and I go and eat lunch. Someone took my bike and threw it down a ravine. I go home, get my stepdad, he comes and helps me look for it. He finds it, brings it back to the house and then asks me "Why did I throw the bike down the ravine?"...I was like WTH? He wouldn't accept the idea that I didn't throw it down so in the end I lied and said "Yes Tom, I threw the bike down the ravine because I wanted to get a new one"...so they ground me...from using my bike for a month. Now that's a weird punishment.

    Also, i've been grounded from using the computer before...but as I was always home alone and I was the one who configured the computer start up, not much my mother could do to stop me.
  • XaniethXanieth Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7280Members
    I have never been grounded.

    Gogog being Vietnamese. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • p4Samwisep4Samwise Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10831Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Cpl.Davis+Sep 23 2003, 10:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cpl.Davis @ Sep 23 2003, 10:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Where do u exactly get the money ($300 a month) to run your stuff? If you are still young enough to get grounded by your parents, I guess you dont have a full time job or anything. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I also am very curious about this. If your parents give you a $300/mo allowance I can't muster too much sorrow for you.
  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 1970-01-01 Member:
    I make it myself by working a golf course as a caddy. (tips mainly) <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • akou27akou27 Join Date: 2003-08-29 Member: 20358Members
    What you mean too old to be grounded? I get grounded all the time! I am 24, and I don't even live with my parents! I am just kidding. I've been wondering where you been lately. Glad to know you're still alive.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--akou27+Sep 24 2003, 10:53 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (akou27 @ Sep 24 2003, 10:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What you mean too old to be grounded? I get grounded all the time! I am 24, and I don't even live with my parents! I am just kidding. I've been wondering where you been lately. Glad to know you're still alive. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You could be 24 and grounded, well, married. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Xanieth+Sep 24 2003, 11:39 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xanieth @ Sep 24 2003, 11:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I have never been grounded.

    Gogog being Vietnamese. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LOL, no kidding, my parents don't even know what grounding is <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited September 2003
    fah...

    i'm grounded right now. threatened with probation.. my parents stole my computer when i was at school.. gawddammit.

    i'm gonna sneak out, of course.. but i'm saving that for next month. gonna sneak into the city and hang out with some college chix for a few days... ehehe XD

    i think that's worth probation. i'm a good kid if i don't have to SNEAK out.
  • BirdyBirdy Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16825Members, Constellation
    If i do something wrong they take away my speakers <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Guitar amp's are too heavy <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MajinMajin Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16829Members, Constellation
    which I was able to be grounded when I was growing up.
    My parents had different ways of punishing me.
    They use to put a sack over my head, hog tie me and beat with with sticks, then lock me in a closet and play LOUD CHURCH MUSIC!

    ....... LOLLOLOLOOL

    I was always a good kid I think the last time I was grounded was in grade 11 and that was a LONG time ago now about 5 years ago.
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--UltimaGecko+Sep 24 2003, 05:02 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UltimaGecko @ Sep 24 2003, 05:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> They gave up on spankings too. They don't really work when your kid can out run you, or is strong enough to prevent them. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You respect your **** parents and don't EVER raise your fists at either of them.

    My brother did it once.

    I caught him outside as he was leaving in a huge huff and puff and knocked his disrepecting arse down.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    seriously!!! jesus f***ing christ... what kinda kid has to PROVE to himself that he's stronger than the f***ing people who MADE him!?

    that's your gawddamn <i>parents</i>..
  • Supra_SoldierSupra_Soldier Join Date: 2003-02-02 Member: 12993Members, Constellation
    I have total respect for my parents, we never agrue and I've never been grounded. In turn I have earned their respect as well, so the benefit is mutual. Learn to love and embrace your family, a lot can come of it.
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