Long time downloader, first time poster, I hope nobody minds me diving in with a sizable request.
My girlfriends dad, Keith, has made it to the final five contestants on Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson Lookalike Competition, and I'd like for you all to have the chance to place your vote.
We've started falling behind on the votes and after all the effort we've put in (radio coverage, papers, etc) we'd be gutted if he didn't win, as the prize is a trip to New York, attending the Virgin 25 Year Anniversary dinner, and Keith has promised to give up smoking, too.
While this competition is taking place on Facebook, I implore those without accounts to sign up and participate. Details on how to vote can be found on this handy page:
http://www.shiftrunstop.com/skels/bransonalike/
While you can obviously vote for anyone you like, we hope you'll see the resemblance as much as we do, and vote for Keith.
If you do place your vote for Keith, please say so below and I'll be sure to get Keith to thank you personally on Facebook. If you can spread the word a little, that would also be fantastic.
Also, if anyone has an look-a-likes in their family, feel free to post them so we can have our own little vote for the best one.
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Hello Everyone!
I've taken the liberty of creating a Fantasy Football (NFL) league for XDA this year since I have not seen one at all and I thought what the heck, why not make one.
The league is with Yahoo! and it is a custom league. If you join you can see all the rule (points, playoff dates etc.) It is all very fair and the rules make for a great league and a lot of fun too.
The Live Online Draft is August 4th 2008 at 9:00 PM EST. I know the people on this site are all over the world, so If you really to join but the time is a bad time, let me know and I can talk to other people in the league to work out a better time.
If you would like to join, click the link below. If you have any questions PM me or send me an e-mail [email protected].
The MAX players is 16 so HURRY UP. KICKOFF FOR THE NFL SEASON IS SEP. 4th!!!
XDA-Developers Fantasy Football 08
shanetheclassic said:
Hello Everyone!
I've taking the liberty of creating a Fantasy Football (NFL) league for XDA this year since I have not seen what at all and I thought what the heck, why not make one.
The league is with Yahoo! and it is a custom league. If you join you can see all the rule (points, playoff dates etc.) It is all very fair and the rules make for a great league and a lot of fun too.
The Live Online Draft is August 4th 2008 at 9:00 PM EST. I know the people on this site are all over the world so If you really to join but the time is a bad time, let me know and I can talk to other people in the league to work out a better time.
If you would like to join, click the link below. If you have any questions PM me or sen dme an e-mail [email protected].
The MAX players is 16 so HURRY UP. KICKOFF FOR THE NFL SEASON IS SEP. 4th!!!
XDA-Developers Fantasy Football 08
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I guess, i'm in!
[email protected] said:
I guess, i'm in!
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Nice. It's gonna be a fun league
Only me and one other person so far, what does no one like football here?
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Please DO NOT cross post, it is considered as SPAM.
Regards
I registered. Time for some football action!
Yes Sirrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for a thread like this! For sure I'm in!
Operation TouchDown is in full effect!
Should be a great time! Plus I have the NFL Package and my Slingbox!!!!!!!!
I haven't left football since last season with the NFL Network!
Can't wait!
p.s. I finally should get my Gov't rebate check so I can finally get my 80GB PS3!!!
New S.O.C.O.M. comes out Oct. 14th!!!!
nace222 said:
p.s. I finally should get my Gov't rebate check so I can finally get my 80GB PS3!!!
New S.O.C.O.M. comes out Sept 15th!!!!
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Looks like its gonna be a lot of Football and Socom every sunday
make sure you all buy Stat-Tracker too it's worth it
Signed up too...can't wait!
I'm good to go.
Here comes the Silver n' Black
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I'm good to go.
Here comes the Silver n' Black
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NICE I'm glad a mod joined and especially you AllTheWay you've helped me out a lot with your posts
lookin like its gonna be a great league can't wait for the draft!
Oh Hell YA!!!!!
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Looks like its gonna be a lot of Football and Socom every sunday
make sure you all buy Stat-Tracker too it's worth it
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Stat Tracker ofcourse! SOCOM FAN?
FYI: Bunch of us log on to socom on Sunday's (Password Protected: usually: ***) so we can all be online watching football and bullsh!tin during games......bunch of fun considering I have had Socom since the 1st edition back in the day!
Handle: ChickenHawk_22 (Clan: KBN (KilersByNature))
Send a friend invite or leave your name on here. Maybe for my first thread ever I'll start a SOCOM thread in Off-Topic.....lol.....kidding
Ranked Central Server: Room is usually SHELLSHOCK! Can't wait for Football!
Awesome people on this forum and it only gets better with Football and Video games!
Later and GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow I'm all over the place on this post!
I don't play the old Socom I traded it in a while ago
But I already paid for Socom-Confrontation through Amazon so I'll get it the day it comes out and I will be on every day including Sundays...basically whenever i don't work and my girlfriends at school
Anyway, back to the topic at hand...
We now have 8 people signed up so far for the league, need another 8 for a full roster....
PLEASE MAKE SURE IF YOU SIGN UP YOU ARE ABLE TO ATTEND THE DRAFT FOR AT LEAST YOUR FIRST 5 PICKS OR YOU WILL HAVE NO CHANCE AT WINNING!!!! THE PRE-DRAFT SETUP NEVER WORKS OUT TRUST ME!!!!
*bump Up*
Come On People Only 8 Have Signed Up So Far We Need Another 8!!!!!
*double bump*
getting closer to the draft so I wanted to bump this up one last time so people can see it...
8 spots left people COME ON!!!!!!
for those who joined, if no one else does I'm gonna make the max teams 8...if so then at least we will have better players!
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!
Lowered it to 10 teams, 8 in the playoffs. Makes it fun and i wanted to know who I can expect to draft early.
Good Luck to all who joined.
For those who missed it, I will most def be having a XDA league for '09.
-Shane
Well, the draft was finalized about an hour ago.
We had a blast, my team was NY Crushers
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Lowered it to 10 teams, 8 in the playoffs. Makes it fun and i wanted to know who I can expect to draft early.
Good Luck to all who joined.
For those who missed it, I will most def be having a XDA league for '09.
-Shane
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You should have an XDA baseball league next year.
Newkirk Plaza David said:
Well, the draft was finalized about an hour ago.
We had a blast, my team was NY Crushers
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Yea good to see you there, it was only me you and gashouse gorillas. I feel bad for the players that were not at the draft because they got got some ****ty picks.
Looks like theres 1 more league I'm going to dominate this year
Good luck to everyone
P.S. There will definitaly be a XDA Fantasy Hockey league this year, and Baseball League next year. I'll keep you all posted.
Damnit! I didn't know the draft happened. Who knows though sometimes when you let Yahoo choose you come out on top.
since every sponsors is dropping him, Tiger got my support!
i would do the same if i'm Tiger, when you have all the money in the world, what' the point of living if u dont enjoy life the fullest!
Call me old fashioned, but I believe that when you are with somebody, especially married to somebody, you are to remain faithful.
Although, I don't really see why sponsors are dropping Tiger now, he's more popular now, then ever.
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Call me old fashioned, but I believe that when you are with somebody, especially married to somebody, you are to remain faithful.
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I believe this is often referred to as "commitment" ... which IMHO ranks right up there with "honour", "respect", and "ethics". Although I have no issues with living life the fullest, some actions such as adultery do have consequences which sponsors must keep in mind.
At the time I read this thread, I felt that it simply served to instigate a "flamewar" session amongst fellow XDA members or to encourage comments that could be construed as a personal attack on Tiger Woods behaviour as depicted by the media - and as such closed it. Additionally, I felt the thread communicated a negative message to younger - more impressionable - readers.
As a result of closing the thread however, a fellow XDA member felt that I was being too harsh and that to some degree, my actions communicated an undesireable form of censoring.
As such, I have taken the matter up with Flar. In the interest of not communicating a form of censoring, I have chosen to re-open this thread for others to comment with the caveat that it not deteriorate into a personal attack on Tiger Woods or fellow XDA members.
http://www.atom.com/fun_games/tiger_woods_defense/ this' why he's my hero!!
Well...if we're going down that route...
http://www.break.com/games/tiger-woods-wife-outrun.html
lol making games.. somebody has too much time on there hands its scary
i dont lke golf so i dint even know him until the ho's appeared
My art teacher was showing us pictures, she gets to a picture of Tiger Woods, precise quote;
"Here's a picture of that jerk *SNIFF* Tiger Woods."
I was like "OH NO SHE DIDN'T!
My art teacher was showing us pictures, she gets to a picture of Tiger Woods, precise quote;
"Here's a picture of that jerk *SNIFF* Tiger Woods."
I was like "OH NO SHE DIDN'T!
I would like to make a motion to rename this thread to "best tiger woods flash game"...and see who can find the most amusing game on the internets...
that and for my lil' buddy up here to stop repeating himself...
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My art teacher was showing us pictures, she gets to a picture of Tiger Woods, precise quote;
"Here's a picture of that jerk *SNIFF* Tiger Woods."
I was like "OH NO SHE DIDN'T!
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i woulda shouted out what a boss hahaha
but i love how everyone's so surprised by this....
Hi All
I very rarely post much on these forums but am hoping for anyone reading this if you can help a little in the following:
As some may know the Hillsborough Anniversary is again fast approaching, on April 15th 1989 96 Liverpool Fans tragically lost their lives that day and after a long & frustrating 22 years the families of those lost are still fighting for the justice that they and the 96 lost deserve, for more information regarding this please follow this link: Welcome to The Hillsborough Justice Campaign
Shortly following the disaster The Sun, one of the biggest selling tabloid newspapers in the UK printed many lies about that tragic day, putting the blame squarely on Liverpool fans and their supposed atrocious behavior, of course all those were sick, vile lies and since that day, Liverpool fans & Liverpudlians including the Everton fanbase have seeked to Boycott that vile newspaper whom still have yet to make any form of sincere apology.
If I can ask for one simple favour; Stephen Smith is a very talented music artist who recently released his album 'Next Train to Nowhere' on the album contains the song 'Liar, Liar' of which he has just released Monday gone (April 4th) in attempt to get it into the charts for the week leading upto the Hillsborough Disaster & there's also been a campaign by fellow Liverpool fans to help get the song into the charts and to raise awareness of not only the lies told by The Sun but to maybe even bring that deserved justice to those family members that one step closer to reality.
We ask that for just a paltry sum of 0.79p to download the song of which as mentioned above can really help bring awareness of the tragedy and what befalled it to a much wider audience and push that fight for justice one step closer to completion.
Not only will you be massively helping families who are still grieving to this day as they still have yet to receive the closure their loved ones deserved but the song in itself is worth purchasing alone written & performed by an exepetionally talented musician.
All proceeds from Liar Liar will be donated to the Hillsborough Family Support Group, Hope for Hillsborough and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
Here are the download links:
ITunes - Stephen Smith - Liar, Liar
Amazon.co.uk - Stephen Smith - Liar, Liar
Here's the music video:
Stephen Smith - Liar, Liar
Here's the Facebook Group:
Get 'Liar Liar' into the charts for April 10th
And finally here's Stephen's Website:
http://www.stephensmithmusic.co.uk/#
Apologies also for such a long winded post, thank you for taking the time read this.
JFT96
YNWA
PS: It is sadly currently languishing at 266 in the top300, we need one almighty push up the charts, if you do have the time please Tweet & Facebook this to anyone you know, thanks again for taking the time to read this.
bought.
JFT96!
RIP.
On that sad day, my grandfather, auntie, two uncles and my uncles friend went to watch their team play a game. Only four returned home again.
The events of that day are widely reported and I've never heard them speak of their ordeal.
One of my earliest memories of my uncle was him on crutches for so long afterwards.
You'll never walk alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster#The_Sun_newspaper
Kevin MacKenzie was the editor at the Heliograph who would invent stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie#Invented_stories
"When I published those stories, they were not lies. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue — and that is different. What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?"
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Hello fellow XDA'ers my name is Rob or ptfdmedic in the forums. I'm the developer of the midNIGHT ROM for the Epic 4G. I'm also the father to 3 Autistic boys. My goal is to spread Autism Awareness. The Epic community has adopted this cause and has been spreading Autism Awareness left and right. I infuse my ROM's with Autism Awareness as well. I blog about my family's story at www.lostandtired.com. By reading our story you can get a better understanding of what families like mine struggle with. I'm not looking for anything accept awareness, understanding and acceptance for my kids and other person's with special needs.
With that said, I need some help and you guys are just the people to do it. As you all know Autism Awareness is something very near and dear to my heart. In my never ending quest (in my newly discovered free time) to help spread awareness I listed my blog on a site called Picket Fence Blogs. VERY popular site. I need votes to keep me towards the top of the list. There aren't many Autism related blogs listed here and the more votes I get the more people will read my story and the more Autism Awareness is spread.
All you have to do is click this link. http://picketfenceblogs.com/vote/3616
When you click it you are voting for my Lost and Tired blog. It will tell you that you just voted for me. You can vote once a day. You can also vote from your phone as well (as it's a different IP address). Please feel free to share the link as you see fit. I don't get anything for ranking on this site accept sharing my story with more people.
You can also simply click this banner to cast your vote as well.
Anyway, I would really appreciate your continued support for this cause.
I voted today and the last 13 days before that.
Great cause. I've worked with some autistic kids (specifically asperger's) in a music class that tried to help build communication confidence. I understand the struggle even though my experience doesn't even begin to compare to your's. Its a hard condition to deal with, so keep it up, and know there are those of us that support you 100%!
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ptfdmedic said:
Hello fellow XDA'ers my name is Rob or ptfdmedic in the forums. I'm the developer of the midNIGHT ROM for the Epic 4G. I'm also the father to 3 Autistic boys. My goal is to spread Autism Awareness. The Epic community has adopted this cause and has been spreading Autism Awareness left and right. I infuse my ROM's with Autism Awareness as well. I blog about my family's story at www.lostandtired.com. By reading our story you can get a better understanding of what families like mine struggle with. I'm not looking for anything accept awareness, understanding and acceptance for my kids and other person's with special needs.
With that said, I need some help and you guys are just the people to do it. As you all know Autism Awareness is something very near and dear to my heart. In my never ending quest (in my newly discovered free time) to help spread awareness I listed my blog on a site called Picket Fence Blogs. VERY popular site. I need votes to keep me towards the top of the list. There aren't many Autism related blogs listed here and the more votes I get the more people will read my story and the more Autism Awareness is spread.
All you have to do is click this link. http://picketfenceblogs.com/vote/3616
When you click it you are voting for my Lost and Tired blog. It will tell you that you just voted for me. You can vote once a day. You can also vote from your phone as well (as it's a different IP address). Please feel free to share the link as you see fit. I don't get anything for ranking on this site accept sharing my story with more people.
You can also simply click this banner to cast your vote as well.
Anyway, I would really appreciate your continued support for this cause.
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Done, buddy.
I really don't know what else to say, but I voted.
Thanks everyone..
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Voted, apparently. I'm not quite sure haha
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Still voting for you, great cause.
Voted, and will continue to try to make time into my busy life to vote daily. Sounds like a good cause, and obviously doesn't take anything from me, so I'll be happy to support.
Voted .
Continually voting!
A vote for you!
Voted !
Voted
Voted! God Bless man!
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Fast as its Ever Been....
"Sprint" Hero.... Running My, *ExEnHeroC* Rom, w/Kifno's Twist, Also The XDA-BLUE.apk!! "Page 10" of My Thread!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957867
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WTMLMK6M
http://www.mediafire.com/?bb1axugm0bw7oro
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/profile?user=PMGRANDS
Done!
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I've placed the link to your website on my bookmark bar. That way, every time I go online (daily basis, really) I'll try to vote. Once from the office, and once from home. Different IPs and different cookies
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Hello everyone,
my name is Henri and I want you to gift me five thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars.
5437$ or about 4800€. (Rates May 13,2015 GMT)
If you have not clicked away yet, let me explain:
I live in Berlin, Germany and I am 21 years old.
When I was about 16 years old I was moderate to severe depressed. Thought about killing myself, cried myself to sleep et cetera. I don't want to go into detail with this, because you have all heard those heartbreaking stories before.
Anyway, I got over it. I did not go into therapy. Instead I decided to fix the problems which depressed me. Those were mostly that I did not have a social life at all and had a good amount of social anxiety.
I wasn't able to ask an elderly woman for the time on the streets, started sweating when people I didn't know talked to me in school and so on.
And obviously, I didn't have any female contact besides my mother and sister.
In 2011 I had a breakdown and decided that I had to change or I would eventually kill myself in a weaker moment.
I went out to fix my social life and become happy. And I succeeded.
Long story short: I pushed myself into social interactions, pushed myself to talk to girls. On this journey I found awesome friends, two especially which could not be closer to me. One of them had the same goals as I, wanted to overcome all social borders there are.
I also met a lot of great girls, eventually other guys asked me for advice.
I was the happiest person I knew.
This is when I and and the friend mentioned above decided that we could actually teach other guys to get to where we are.
We are currently building a German website where we want to give advice for young guys on talking to girls, fitness, having great sex, fashion, hygiene, motivation, discipline, managing happy relationships and ironically living a happy life.
Ironically, because right now I am depressed as f**k again. This is because I don't have money, my parents don't have enough to support me. I got a job, but I literally started crying there because I felt so miserable. At home I feel miserable because I have no money. I am working in sales without base salary.
My expenses are about 600€ a month. In Germany, parents get some money for their „childs“ as long as they study, so I get close to 200€ a month from them. 400€ left.
My options right now are :
1) „Manning up“ and work and hope that therapy fixes this.
2) Getting student loans and go to university in a field with which I will be able to pay back the roughly 20.000€ in loans, just so that I do not have to work right now and can put my energy into the website.
3) Moving back into my parent's place on the other side of the country and everything on hold. They live in small village, so I won't be able to meet and advice people, talk to girls, network etc.
I would give up everything I built here.
Yesterday I decided to give another idea a shot. The idea you are reading right now.
I figured if I could get 4800 people to give me 1€ each, I could live one year without stress.
12 months times 400€ is 4800€.
I am convinced that my website and other projects will make enough money for me after this year.
If not, and this is a very small if, I will be where I am right now again, hopefully with more valuable lessons learned, happy and therefore able to work a normal job if I have to.
You see, I am basically asking you for time. I realize that 1$/1€ isn't much, but if you gave it to everyone you'd be dead broke. I do not know how I can convince you that I deserve this money more than anyone else, but I know that all I need right now is this money to handle this situation and put all my energy into the website and hopefully helping others.
I am asking you to gift me your next coffee, ice cream cone or burger.
If just 1% of the people reading this decides to help me out with one dollar, I have to show this to 543,700 people.
This is why I actually looked up the biggest online communities and I am posting this to every single one that can somehow relate to my situation or the subjects of our site. Some just seem to have cool people in them.
As you will see, there isn't any content up yet. We already have a lot but want to publish about ten good articles for the start. And yes, this is a working-title
If this post gets removed because it violated any specific rule I understand that and want you to know that it wasn't on purpose. I also tried to post into Off-Topic or similar.
If you have any questions, I will answer them as soon as I can.
Please don't give us advice on the design or that wordpress „is bad“. I appreciate it, but I want to answer questions about the content, our goals and whatnot instead of discussing webdesign. So far we have been working on content only.
The site as it stands is just a vehicle for the donate page, since sites like „fundme“ take 30cents per donation plus fees.
Again, all I am asking for is 1$ to solve all my problems for one year.
Thank you for your time.
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Perhaps you should be reading the forum rules before posting stuff like this, as you were clearly aware that those exist.
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Perhaps you should be reading the forum rules before posting stuff like this, as you were clearly aware that those exist.
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While many of us, myself included, sympathize with your issue, this site is not the place for raising funds for yourself. This is against forum rules and is simply not allowed.
Thread closed.