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Do we need a 12 Step program for ROM Flashers?

Ok, maybe this shows the extent that I'm hooked, but I think I'm having "Flashing Withdrawls"...
All day long I've been hoping the new Faria Vanilla WM6 comes out so it would give me a reason to flash a new rom. Since I started flashing new ROMs (only a month or so now if you can believe that) I've been putting new roms on my phone every few days. It started simply with wanting to fix my Radio to get rid of problems I had, and trying out the 2.47 and 2.61 on the stock Cingular ROM. Then I decided to try out CID Unlocking and something called AKU 3.3. My eyes were opened, and the addiction had taken hold... But then I kept reading about the world of WM6, and had to move to that.
Soon I realized that WM6 MBE was the longest to stay on my phone (up until now) being on my phone for almost 5 days (imagine! 5 days on a single rom!!!). NotTooSmart then passed me the "beta" version of his reworking of the mUn ROM last Thursday to try out and I've been on it ever since. The beta actually became production with no changes and is the one that went live, so there was no reason to reflash the ROM. Its been working fantastic (couple of quirks here and there, but all the WM6 stuff have quirks, and most have more than what I've had based on stuff I read here)... So thats 7 days now without doing another flash.
I keep looking at my phone and feel like it needs to be hooked on the USB to my laptop and flashed... I miss seeing the BootLoader screen... I miss the anxiousness of waiting for the bar to hit 100% and the phone reset to a new OS.
I hear the call of new ROMs like X-Plore's that is so tempting to try, but I've told myself I'm holding out. I have something that is working, and I don't need to try it... But it keeps calling... I'll wait for Faria's Vanilla first... Or can I???
I've even started cooking my own splash screens. I've started thinking about dabbling in the "kitchen" to start really "cooking" with Molski's tools.. Then I think about the Molski roms I haven't tried. And there's that Superrom and others (but can I really go back to WM5 now?)
I've even started thinking about pinging coworkers at work that have 8125's to see if they want me to "upgrade" their phones... Pass on the addiction and get them "hooked"...
I have it bad...
Hi, my name is MFrazzz, and I have a problem... I'm a Wizard ROM Flashing junkie...

ROFLMAO!!
I'll be the second to join your 12-step club for addicted ROM flashers!! I've now talked a co-worker into buying the 8125 just so I can teach them everything I know and flash their's to the "latest and greatest".
Don't know that we'd be much support for each other trying to kick the habit, or not, though. But, we could sure share some stories and compare notes. . .

Hello my name is Kirby and I am addicted to flashing my phone. My wife hates my phone and threatens to take a hammer to it.
Kirby

Hi! After a long talk with my self...I have to admit it! I am also adicted to rom flashing!

My name is NotTooSmart,
I am an addict just the same, but I think my addiction goes deeper. Im a chef. And it kills me that I have written an almost perfect rom and I keep breaking out the tools, but cant think of anything to cook on it. I must have dumped the NotTooSmart ROM a hundred times, but never go through with the cooking. I need help!!! Someone asked me to write a WM6 for the apache, so of course Ive tried starting, but my 8125 looks so lonely when I even think about it. I guess I will have to live with this addiction, at least till I get my TyTN or I end up with a brick.

newbie2 said:
Don't know that we'd be much support for each other trying to kick the habit, or not, though. But, we could sure share some stories and compare notes. . .
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Who said anything about kicking the habit??? I'm just admitting I have a problem

If we took those clear plastic adhesive screen savers and just printed screen shots of every new ROM to come along onto them, us addicts could just stick them on our Wizards and feel like we actually have the "newest".
Might call it......The Patch!

problem?
I think I might have a problem. rkwhyte2 – my wife hates my phone with a passion as well. As we lay in bed at night she asks what am I thinking about and before I can answer she say 'that stupid phone' and gives me an elbow to the gut. Does anyone else lay in bed at night until their spouse falls asleep to sneak off to get another fix and flash a new rom in the wee hours of the morning...or is that just me?!?

fryman said:
I think I might have a problem. rkwhyte2 – my wife hates my phone with a passion as well. As we lay in bed at night she asks what am I thinking about and before I can answer she say 'that stupid phone' and gives me an elbow to the gut. Does anyone else lay in bed at night until their spouse falls asleep to sneak off to get another fix and flash a new rom in the wee hours of the morning...or is that just me?!?
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Oh damn...dejavue. I have been down that road several times. The wifes hates the phone and she hates the computer. What am I to do I'm a network administrator and also in charge of the phones. I eat and sleep this stuff and it drives her crazy. Somehow the statement that I was in IT when we got married doesn't mean anything to her anymore.

Hi I'm Jody and I'm an addict. I just ruptured my Achilles tendon playing basketball (my other passion). My wife is NOT happy. Guess what I will be doing week after next. (chef hat goes on)
ROTFL...among friends of course.

jwzg said:
Hi I'm Jody and I'm an addict. I just ruptured my Achilles tendon playing basketball (my other passion). My wife is NOT happy. Guess what I will be doing week after next. (chef hat goes on)
ROTFL...among friends of course.
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Ouch that hurts just thinking about it. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Kirby

fryman said:
I think I might have a problem. rkwhyte2 – my wife hates my phone with a passion as well. As we lay in bed at night she asks what am I thinking about and before I can answer she say 'that stupid phone' and gives me an elbow to the gut. Does anyone else lay in bed at night until their spouse falls asleep to sneak off to get another fix and flash a new rom in the wee hours of the morning...or is that just me?!?
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ROFLMAO!!
So glad to see I am not the only one!!! I am a Networks/Computer Security guy and I live,eat and breath computers and now 'that stupid phone' !!! I am going to have my wife read it too so that she may feel good about she not being the only one married to WM addict..... ;-)
I am pretty sure my workplace netadmins are going to block xda-developers.com; one senior employee has gradually reduced productivity because of a device which is supposed to increase productivity!!!

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I am pretty sure my workplace netadmins are going to block xda-developers.com; one senior employee has gradually reduced productivity because of a device which is supposed to increase productivity!!!
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A few weeks ago when XDA-Developers went offline, I was positive they had blocked it from me at work. I actually panicked a little that they might be coming around to talk to me
Yeah when I first started to write the original post, I was going to say I'm an XDA-Developer.com junkie... But I'm not ready to admit that. I know I can stop anytime. I'm positive. Yeah, thats not a problem...

fryman said:
I think I might have a problem. rkwhyte2 – my wife hates my phone with a passion as well. As we lay in bed at night she asks what am I thinking about and before I can answer she say 'that stupid phone' and gives me an elbow to the gut. Does anyone else lay in bed at night until their spouse falls asleep to sneak off to get another fix and flash a new rom in the wee hours of the morning...or is that just me?!?
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Just don't pause so long while you are kissing her...
--M
(Add me to the list... My name is Mark and I am addicted to flashing my phone...)

"My name is Josh and I have been addicted to flashing for 8 months now. "
"Hi Josh"
"It all started when I was young kid and my neighbor wanted to play doctor"
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Oh (*&^ not that kind of flashing!!!
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Anyway, I am definitely addicted to ROM flashing and my girlfriend also hates my phone! She just doesn't understand why I spend so much time on a "stupid thing" that is "just supposed to make phone calls". Ahhh, the ignorance...
If you significant other has ever "been too tired" because you came to bed late after flashing your phone and had to reset everything, raise your hand...
Just me? Come on, I know there are others!

Raising hand, I have flashed about 30 times since I was introduced to this site. I have flashed every single WM6 rom numerous times and also Wm5, I have unlocked my phone numerous times and flashed the Wizard Love rom about 50 times. I have bricked my phone numerous times and been able to revive each time, I am a Wizard junky!!!! I am so much of a junky I bought my wife a G3 Wizard also. I deserve a medal or something.
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"My name is Josh and I have been addicted to flashing for 8 months now. "
"Hi Josh"
"It all started when I was young kid and my neighbor wanted to play doctor"
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Oh (*&^ not that kind of flashing!!!
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Anyway, I am definitely addicted to ROM flashing and my girlfriend also hates my phone! She just doesn't understand why I spend so much time on a "stupid thing" that is "just supposed to make phone calls". Ahhh, the ignorance...
If you significant other has ever "been too tired" because you came to bed late after flashing your phone and had to reset everything, raise your hand...
Just me? Come on, I know there are others!
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I tried quitting flashing...but I always go back to what my father taught me....
"Nobody likes a quitter"
I was considering taking a drive to Camden NJ to ask if on the corners if anyone has "a good ROM to flash" ... that's when I knew I have a problem.
Now it's just memories....."ahhh, the glory days of when everyone was flashing."
I'll have to tell my grandchildren someday.. "Yeah, I tried that flashing thing. But don't you try it!"
Ohhhh....I even got my HTC Car charger in the mail today that I submitted the coupon for in December... Normally I would have been excited getting something for free and it being a gadget...but.....
I felt nothiing......I'm dead inside. (If it ain't a new ROM...then forget it)
ughhhhh, I'm bored.

Hi, my name is Iulian and I'm an addict .
I'm doing my best to quit
But this thing is too powerfull.
...yup .... here it comes again ....
gtg and flash some more, it's been 2 hours since last one...and already i'm nervous and I have red eyes
btw, what does ROTFL mean ?

Hi ... I'm D W N Y ... and I'm a flasher ....
Can't stop, won't stop, can't stop
I don't just flash, I walk around with at least for 4 roms...looking to flash others
Help...or is it toooo late

ROTFL=Rolling on the floor laughing

Friday theme: No rain at all, Save Water!

I don´t know you guys in your countries, but here in México we are having one of the driest years in a long time, and this is in general in all country.
- Global warming?
- The "Niño"/ENSO phenomena?
http://translate.google.com/transla...omeno_el_nino.htm&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
Don´t know what´s really happening, perhaps is a normal behavior of our dear Planet.
But we have to make consciousness about not wasting Water!!
How many of you guys have rain water recollection at your home?
Have a great weekend!

Shame to see that ppl prefer to say what meal they prefer or what they drive, instead of making a stop for a moment and think on what´s really important
Even more than our beloved HTC devices...

orb3000 said:
Shame to see that ppl prefer to say what meal they prefer or what they drive, instead of making a stop for a moment and think on what´s really important
Even more than our beloved HTC devices...
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Maybe they are "saving energy" and switching off their PCs a little and saving in other ways. Don't judge everybody else here too harshly.
Peace (this alone may save the earth more...)

Lol!
You are right!
Yesterday I was so unhappy about watching the news about our planet, and I found this thread as my escape valve
As you wisely say: PEACE!!!!

mmm - today(Saturday) here in Latvia - it was raining a bit and absolutely no sun only clouds!! I managed even to go swimming(water was about 15C) with a hurting knee and ankle (cuz I did some Mountainbiking on Friday, and got a really heavy fall - half of my face is messed up and my MTB- rear messed up but driveable)...
But about the global warming and stuff - I think that it wont come to a level that we all gona die in the next 100 years, or atleast in our lives... even if we start saving all the water elctricity and stop poluting the earth - there were always gona be someone who will continue doing the bad stuff...
So- I dont know about you all but I want to live my life to the max - try out everything!! Of course if I will have a chance to change something very dramatically - Ill do it!

Like the poster above if i remeber correctly I ride a pushbike to which is saving the earth
Turn off electronic goods via mains if i know they new and don't influx when turned on, don't leave water runnin anymore than what is needed.
Not sure really what i'm saying but i think i do my bit
mikechannon
Always a corker "pun on words intended"

mmm I've always wondered what if we could ride a bike and make electricity at the same time (I know its possible but...) anways Im on foot atleast for half of this day, so Im gona spend half of my day outside and leave my PC off!!!!

mikechannon said:
Mike
huhhmmmm.... sorry![/LEFT]
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LOL!!
Yeah drinks for all!

Kristaps-K9-Lv said:
I want to live my life to the max - try out everything!! Of course if I will have a chance to change something very dramatically - Ill do it!
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That´s the spirit!!

this is how we do it yonder here...

Highschool is the best thing ever!!!!

Well i started highschool 2 weeks ago and i was kinda nervous. Everyone always talked about the freshman getting picked on and everything else but that dont happen. Its awesome theres so many hot girls to look at and talk to and the food is great(compared to the middle school). Just thought id tell you guys and any other freshman that are nervous about starting. The only bad thing is that i cant spend near as much time on Xda or on my phone anymore flashing new roms/radios and trying to find the perfect theme...

lol Youngin'. Live it up, but just don't become like the rest of the highschool kids these days and have 2+ kids before you graduate. lol.
Always remember to wrap it before you tap it.

LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! BR0! I'M GOING TO BE A FRESHMEN IN 12 DAYS AND I CAN'T WAIT!!! WISH ME LUCK! I hope it is as good as you say it is.!

Original Android <3ers! said:
LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! BR0! I'M GOING TO BE A FRESHMEN IN 12 DAYS AND I CAN'T WAIT!!! WISH ME LUCK! I hope it is as good as you say it is.!
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Haha i will and yeah you will like it. I use to hate school now i kinda look forward going every morning.

codybear said:
lol Youngin'. Live it up, but just don't become like the rest of the highschool kids these days and have 2+ kids before you graduate. lol.
Always remember to wrap it before you tap it.
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Lol na i wont have any kids in highschool... or atleast i hope not

Lmaoo wrap it before you tap it xD!
Do you do any sports?

Original Android <3ers! said:
Lmaoo wrap it before you tap it xD!
Do you do any sports?
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Yeah i started baseball this yeah and i run track. You do football right?

codybear;7658794
Always remember to wrap it before you tap it.[/QUOTE said:
Or don't be silly wrap your w!lly
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I'm gonna try even though my phasic doesn't help much. 4'11 and 90lbs, but hoping I can do something br0.

Original Android <3ers! said:
I'm gonna try even though my phasic doesn't help much. 4'11 and 90lbs, but hoping I can do something br0.
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high school was ok, i just graduated. if i were you, because you look like a freshman, i would stay low until you grow up a little

I was thinking of doing it next year. I already missed tryouts but I was sick, so idk.

Original Android <3ers! said:
I was thinking of doing it next year. I already missed tryouts but I was sick, so idk.
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I would do it next year if i were you. It will give you time to grow, practice and get stronger. If your serious about playing football start working out everyday and after you workout put some protein powder in your drink and you will grow muscles faster than you can blink haha...but that stuff is some of the worst stuff i have ever tasted thats the only bad thing.

Lmaoo. I guess I'll try going back to that again. Well, didn't mean to hijack your Thread. Tell us more.
So. High school is cool?!

Austin021296 said:
I would do it next year if i were you. It will give you time to grow, practice and get stronger. If your serious about playing football start working out everyday and after you workout put some protein powder in your drink and you will grow muscles faster than you can blink haha...but that stuff is some of the worst stuff i have ever tasted thats the only bad thing.
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Steroids work well too.
Not that I condone the use of 'em.

Austin021296 said:
I would do it next year if i were you. It will give you time to grow, practice and get stronger. If your serious about playing football start working out everyday and after you workout put some protein powder in your drink and you will grow muscles faster than you can blink haha...but that stuff is some of the worst stuff i have ever tasted thats the only bad thing.
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u can buy flavored ones , basically its like hot chocolate but its cold
also , working out every day isnt gonna do good cuz u grow when u rest , and if u dont give it time to rest ... well yea
3-4 a week is good
also , steroids do kick ass but u got lotsa time on ur hands dont get too desperate to do that (yet)

I didn't mind high school as bad as jr.high..Hated jr.high.
I graduated in '04 and freshman getting picked on was the norm..Hell, still is there. Glad your one of the lucky kids that dosen't have to worry about it..lol
I realised that high school was like jail..Keep your head up and your mouth **** and you'll be ok.. Start messing with the jocks women and you WANT be ok..lol
I wish you luck and always remember..If there bigger then you..Kick em in the nuts..lol

Yeah high school was a time you didn't give a darn about anything
Sent from my X10a

Br0 NO LIE I SWEAAARRR! Last night I had this dream where I shouted out this sophmore girls name, and he heard me and he came running at me and bashed me into the locker and all and he had to whip my @$$ for hollerin' at his girl. NIGHTMARE!
And no, I'm too god for steroids. You're all ugly.

original android <3ers! said:
and no, i'm too god for steroids. <wat?> you're all ugly. <not true >
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Original Android <3ers! said:
Lmaoo. I guess I'll try going back to that again. Well, didn't mean to hijack your Thread. Tell us more.
So. High school is cool?!
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Na its alright i dont care but yeah like that other guy said keep your eyes open and your mouth shut till you get use to it... and dont mess wit the jocks gf
Best advice i have ever heard lol

I survived, so did everyone else

Im not gonna tell the whole story but monday there was a bomb threat, nothing happend. Today there was a rumor that there was going to be a school shooting during the peprally for tomorrows basketball game. Half the people wernt there at school so we just messed around all day. Anyways they found 3 guys with guns and the girl that had the bombs (Im not sure if she had them with her but it kinda sounded that way when the cops were talking about it) but they were all at school when they found them. Think of how bad that would of been if they started shooting and the bomb went off with everyone packed in the gym. Theres 2500 people at my school.
I think i counted 15-20 local cops and 2 or 3 FBI agents. Along with the local bomb squad. The cops were there the whole day and the others got there around lunch.

where the hell do you live?

Holy moly buddy! I'm glad nobody got hurt. Perhaps time for a different learning venue. Be careful out there man, sounds like some real dangerous fools are out and about.
Scent phrum mie fone!

Holy Crap bro.

follow up on the story , the busted kids are certainly being kicked out the school but if they just go to another school without a trial and reasonable fine/jail time , then u know its a set up , part of the establishments campaign against gun owners

Were bomb girl and columbine wannabes working together?

Wooaahhhh........
Glad your okay

I always though that schools where there for two things:
- learning things
- boring your time.
but now it seems that schools ar like cigarettes; thy can kill you

souljaboy said:
follow up on the story , the busted kids are certainly being kicked out the school but if they just go to another school without a trial and reasonable fine/jail time , then u know its a set up , part of the establishments campaign against gun owners
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I like how you think, and not only in this thread
dude i survived real shooting between Israeli soldiers and some Palestinians throwing rocks on them.... a flash bang was thrown somewhere near me, but it didn't have any effect on me, I was hiding in a shop
edit: and another time in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

husam666 said:
dude i survived real shooting between Israeli soldiers and some Palestinians throwing rocks on them.... a flash bang was thrown somewhere near me, but it didn't have any effect on me, I was hiding in a shop
edit: and another time in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
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lol so u just happened to be near a massive riot , or they just started provoking while u were there ?

Wow!
Nice to hear you are fine.

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lol so u just happened to be near a massive riot , or they just started provoking while u were there ?
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Nope, they just started fooling around while I was there....

jaszek said:
Were bomb girl and columbine wannabes working together?
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No not that i know of, it just happend to all fall on the same day.

[Q] Please Help me out - i really like someone

hi everyone,
i really really love someone in my year but dont know how to talk to her, ive never really talked to any girls. We are friends on facebook and i was going to talk to her today but shyed off. its half term now so wont see her for a week should i just tell her that i love her on facebook as i dont think i can hold it in for a week, im missing her already
any help is appreciated
thanks

Don't tell her you love her straight away dude... That could get creepy
I take it you're from the UK if you broke up today? And I take it you found this site because you googled relationship advice and came across Alan's threads thinking this was a dating advice site
Some nice deducctions here eh?

You might want to start with saying "Hi", everything else will follow after that.. I suppose you know how to talk right, so that won't be a problem. You've got to learn to step over your shyness anyway, this seems like a nice way to start

How 'bout practise on some other girls too first

how do you love her if u never talked to her? how old are u ?

MacaronyMax said:
Don't tell her you love her straight away dude... That could get creepy
I take it you're from the UK if you broke up today? And I take it you found this site because you googled relationship advice and came across Alan's threads thinking this was a dating advice site
Some nice deducctions here eh?
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Ok i won't, nd yeah im in UK, however i go on this site quite a lot coz i have an HTC HD2 and am always looking for good custom roms xda rules
I think one of my friends kinda told her but heck im gonna try to talk to her after half term

GoldenFalcon said:
Ok i won't, nd yeah im in UK, however i go on this site quite a lot coz i have an HTC HD2 and am always looking for good custom roms xda rules
I think one of my friends kinda told her but heck im gonna try to talk to her after half term
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Haha Okay Just saw the one post
Okay Awesome! Good luck

souljaboy said:
how do you love her if u never talked to her? how old are u ?
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im 16, i dunno i just really seem to like her nd shes always in my head (not in a sexual way) and i cant exactly go 5 minutes without thinking of her

well im sorry to tell ya since itll be your first few times ull prolly mess up and the one after and after and after ... ull get it sooner or later but dont give up its the only way ull ever have one

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You might want to start with saying "Hi", everything else will follow after that.. I suppose you know how to talk right, so that won't be a problem. You've got to learn to step over your shyness anyway, this seems like a nice way to start
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yeah i tried to overcome it today, will try again when school starts cheers

Maybe he is a natural in seducing woman

Ask her if she wants sex. If she answers 'no', ask her if she minds laying still while you have it.

all in your hands

LOL @ nerdy interwebz kids thinking about love at 1st sight. hahahaha if you dont know how to talk to girls and cant socialize with them maybe its time to go outside or attempt to talk to people in your school, assuming your young and still in school or at least i hope so or else this whole thread is complete utter hilarity...
i think you should go on facebook and tell her you love her... see what happens next !

WarBird87 said:
LOL @ nerdy interwebz kids thinking about love at 1st sight. hahahaha if you dont know how to talk to girls and cant socialize with them maybe its time to go outside or attempt to talk to people in your school, assuming your young and still in school or at least i hope so or else this whole thread is complete utter hilarity...
i think you should go on facebook and tell her you love her... see what happens next !
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Actually can i just say that i spend most of my time outside:
I am Top in year for badminton, captain of 1st XI Hockey Team and 1st XI of Cricket Team and have around 5 matches every week so im not nerdy and i only get back home at around 8pm - 9pm everyday so yeah i pretty much stay outside the house

GoldenFalcon said:
Actually can i just say that i spend most of my time outside:
I am Top in year for badminton, captain of 1st XI Hockey Team and 1st XI of Cricket Team and have around 5 matches every week so im not nerdy and i only get back home at around 8pm - 9pm everyday so yeah i pretty much stay outside the house
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thats a good start... but how are your social skills... are you nervous to talk to all girls or just this one in general?
and badminton? srsly? LOL

Badminton is baller as f*uck actually

Goat_For_Sale said:
Badminton is baller as f*uck actually
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haha nothing like smakin a birdie around i guess lol

WarBird87 said:
haha nothing like smakin a birdie around i guess lol
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Its actually extremely tiring when you play against county champions, nd my main sport is hockey followed by cricket then badminton

WarBird87 said:
thats a good start... but how are your social skills... are you nervous to talk to all girls or just this one in general?
and badminton? srsly? LOL
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Hi, I am fine talking to girls in my classes but am nervous when talking to those who are not in my classes, its mainly just this one girl though