Pics and stories about things you're proud of.

[Retroboy]

I'm having great fun brewing my own beer, smoking my own food, and so on, and am getting compliments back on my products when I share them. Makes me feel pretty damned good, and I thought it would be interesting to see what "skills" people here have, or things they've done that others appreciate.

It's storytime, and you're allowed to brag a tiny bit in this thread.

Share with us some of the things you've accomplished that others appreciate or that you're proud of. Whether it's a hobby that has resulted in beautiful works, or a friend that you rescued, or you knuckled onto a particularly rare and prized collectable, or won a fight against a jerk, or hosted some event, or you married the right girl, or contributed your time to a charity, or raised a smart kid... tell and show us.

Pictures welcome!

-- Retro

[Rusty]

I'm getting allot of acknowledgement for my DJ-ing lately. I might even become a 'resident' in one of the Hardstyle-Clubs in the neighboorhood. Woo!

[Alliance]

personaly I've got a knack of orginising very comfortable places to sit. I call it the lazy feel, since it involves using the smallest amount of effort for the most comfortable place to sit/lie down. during trips, Im always called over to make a nice place for the friends to sit, while they do their special thing, like a friend that makes great coffee, or another that makes wonderfull food.

[Hive_Node]

I can whistle in a way that nobody else can, its hard to describe but I put my tongue between my lips and blow and whistling comes out. :D

[Handarazuur]

I'm writing a book. It's in the Studio (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=106821). It's the first of three.

In my last year of high school I raised over $1000 in charity for no reason whatsoever. That's bragging about the generosity of the people I know though, so that doesn't count.

Haven't raised a smart kid, but I've irritated most of #homeworld into accepting proper English (which they only use when I'm offline). Go team!

-Hand, Use Your Goddamn Apostrophes Next Time

[paloozzaa]

Ive like, never lost at a blinking competition, i'm very good.

edit: I'm good at some stuff but I really can't think of what i'm best known for. The only one I can think of right now is my coffee making skills. Seems like a simple thing, but not everyone gets it right :)

[Lestaki]

Ditto Handarazuur for the writing. It's not very good, but hey. I'm on chapter thirty-eight, about 185,000 words so far. Been working on that since last summer, more for myself than anything else. If length determined quality I'd have something worth talking about. ;)

[Cable]

I'm absolutely awesome at making coffee. I can't stand the stuff - its horrible, but whenever a family member / neighbor comes round I get kettle duty and over the years I've refined my skill and can make an awesome cuppa.

And I'm in a band, and we um... rock... yer... more later, got to go do stuffz.

[Scribble]

Hmmm, I don't have any piccies for it but I'm great at making food. The only other thing (I'm prepared to mention) that I'm proud of is teaching children; might post some pictures of that soon.

[Tesla]

getting into the uk's national accadamy of gifted and talented youth.

everyone at school thought i was completely out of my head from a selective dislexia dissorder, scince i got into the national accadamy they have helped me a lot, and i am now working at a level 2 years ahead of myself :jig:

[Dj]

My family owns, and runs Ground Zero Pyrotechnics. Every year, we put on about 10 fireworks shows. IMO, the best show that we do is the Camp Quality show. We do the show for free, getting donations from various fireworks manufacturers, and retailers, then set up, and fire the show for the kids at the camp.

Just in case someone doesn't know what Camp Quality is, it's a camp for kids with cancer.

It makes me smile hearing them clapping and cheering after the finale goes off. :)

[Retroboy]

You know, I'm mildly surprised about the low frequency of responses to this thread. It seems there's a crisis of self-pride on these forums or sommat.

-- Retro

[Paladin]

Pride is a sin, and I don't believe in bragging.

[Fullforce]

getting into the uk's national accadamy of gifted and talented youth.

I did that 2 years ago, I was pretty chuffed too. Nice work! :)

My most "prestigious" achievement would have to be passing my diploma for keyboard. Now i'm entitled to use the letters AVCM after my name. :D

[cfoley]

I rescued three people when I worked as a lifeguard.

[Alpha_Monkey]

In all honesty, the only thing I can think of is that I'm a Damn Nice Guy.
Seriously though, that's probably the one single thing I'm best at. Not sure if it counts, tbqfh....

[Sosobra]

I lift weights and have been able to lift more weight as time passes. Oh and have started to go to school for my RN license.

[Retroboy]

Pride is a sin, and I don't believe in bragging.No it's not, although I agree with the latter half of your post. A parent who is not proud of their child's accomplishments is a much greater sinner than one who *quietly* IS. Bragging and pride are completely different animals.

-- Retro

[The5thElephant]

Off the top of my head:

I re-wrote an entire cell phone manual in simpler terms so an elderly co-worker could figure out her phone.

I work in my school's dining hall and they just removed the make your own sandwich area and replaced it with a sandwich bar where workers make your sandwich. When I work in that section I try to make the sandwiches exactly to specification so people get what they want. I even ask if they want it cut Horizontally or Diagonally.

In the past five minutes: Helped a pretty girl make her tea (used my privilege to go into the kitchen at school to get ingredients she didn't have).

[Vaarok]

I'm a damned good photographer:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/

And I can identify any military service rifle made since 1890.

[Numenor]

I may have posted this before - im not sure.

2 years ago I broke up with a girlfriend. It'd been a reasonably long term job, about a year and a half, and i was crazy about her for a long time afterwards. During this time, about 6 weeks after we had broken up, she rang me one night saying she was in town and wanted to meet up. I met her and it turned out she was really drunk. She came on to me pretty strong, and said she wanted to stay the night at my place. I was pretty sure she was just saying it because she was drunk, so I turned her down, told her it was a bad idea and walked her back to her friends house that she was staying at.

Might not be particularly amazing, but honest to god, turning down a woman you're madly in love with, who's crying her eyes out begging you to take her back (When she dumped me i might add!) is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. We met again a few days later. Funnily enough, she reckoned that she couldn't remember it ever happening.

Might not compare to saving lives but I've always been proud of myself for doing (what I'm sure was) the right thing.

[Tails]

I volunteered to help out a friend teaching free SAT classes to a rowdy and boisterous group of underlings...all out of the goodness of my heart (I was responsible for teaching math). Roughly ~1000 problem-solving photocopies and 40 hour-long lectures later, I'm sure they're better off now than they used to be.

Although I can't say they were completely ungrateful. On the last day of class a few of the students ordered me a pizza. Never has a pepperoni pizza seemed so well earned.

[Benjamin]

You know, I'm mildly surprised about the low frequency of responses to this thread. It seems there's a crisis of self-pride on these forums or sommat.


There's plently of things I'm proud of, I'm just a modist guy...probbably the worst type of person for this thread. :)

Maybe there is just alot of people on here who don't want to blow their own trumpet :p

[Retroboy]

There's a big difference between blowing one's own trumpet and feeling good about an accomplishment that one has, B.B. Sometimes modesty can be harmful, and not just for yourself.

At our place of work, for example, we're less inclined to seriously try to help the careers of those that work hard but are too modest about themselves, for several reasons. First, to be a good manager, you have be a bit assertive so you can be firm when you have to, and you have to recognize and work with truth - and covering up your accomplishments or denigrating them can be misleading. Second, as a consulting organization, we need people that can and do have confidence in front of our clients, and that can and will stand up and say "I don't think this part of the project is right...". If you can't acknowledge truth about yourself verbally, you're probably not going to be the type to acknowledge less-than-optimal situations that might have a negative impact on someone else - and yet this is a core and key element of sustaining quality in our business. Finally, we need to know what our consultants are good at so we can place them in the positions that will best help our clients. If we pick the less optimal choice for a position because someone didn't tell the whole truth that indicated they were better suited for that job, the client's business is harmed. In this case, modesty is actually bad for everyone that's involved.

So, in a nutshell, provided it's done in a way that acknowledges one's successes and skills, but doesn't become either overbearing about it or denigrate others' accomplishments in the process, it's not only acceptable, it's desirable.

Plus Retrowife tells me that chicks dig confident men. :spin:
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-- Retro

[rocket_Magnet]

i have outdrank anyone and everyone i have been drinking with.....

dunno how proud of that i am, and my liver certainly aint too happy about it

[jetfx]

And I can identify any military service rifle made since 1890.That just makes you dangerous Vaar.

I learned how to use logic properly over the last year, and so feel much smarter about handling everything the world thorws at me. Being really logical however, annoys the hell out of people.

I've also become more sociable and witty, and made more friends as a result.

[Benjamin]

Posted by R3tr0b0i:
There's a big difference between blowing one's own trumpet and feeling good about an accomplishment that one has, B.B. Sometimes modesty can be harmful, and not just for yourself.

At our place of work, for example, we're less inclined to seriously try to help the careers of those that work hard but are too modest about themselves, for several reasons. First, to be a good manager, you have be a bit assertive so you can be firm when you have to, and you have to recognize and work with truth - and covering up your accomplishments or denigrating them can be misleading. Second, as a consulting organization, we need people that can and do have confidence in front of our clients, and that can and will stand up and say "I don't think this part of the project is right...". If you can't acknowledge truth about yourself verbally, you're probably not going to be the type to acknowledge less-than-optimal situations that might have a negative impact on someone else - and yet this is a core and key element of sustaining quality in our business. Finally, we need to know what our consultants are good at so we can place them in the positions that will best help our clients. If we pick the less optimal choice for a position because someone didn't tell the whole truth that indicated they were better suited for that job, the client's business is harmed. In this case, modesty is actually bad for everyone that's involved.

So, in a nutshell, provided it's done in a way that acknowledges one's successes and skills, but doesn't become either overbearing about it or denigrate others' accomplishments in the process, it's not only acceptable, it's desirable.

Plus Retrowife tells me that chicks dig confident men.
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Oh, no-no-no, I know the differences, I'm not saying I have nothing to be proud of, or in anyway trying to snub anyone who's proud of anything, or dissmiss it as boasting. All the better for them. And being proud of things is a way to improve confidence certainly...

As for the work examples, I know exactly what you are talking about, I happen to be an employer myself... somthing I could list as being proud of in a way I suppose. ;) Correct me if I'm wrong, I do think you may be throwing in a bit of low self esteam, being timmid and unweary in your example. It's an example skimming on a few extreams. Modesty doesn't nessacerily mean those things, as I'm sure you know.
On the flip-side extream, being an arrogant wanker can be harmfull... but in all honesty, I know quite a few sucessfull wankers... and especialy in my line of work you can add "pretentious" infront of "successfull" and before "wankers"

Personaly for me, I'm a bit "meh" about typing down what makes up my pride, even if a bit of self-indulgence is always nice,... my post was partly in jest I should mention. :)

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[Alliance]

Jetfx, I've heard of this learning how to use logic, where exactly do you learn it?

[radical ed]

When i was a security guy at a rock concert, i saved a guys life. he was having a sezuire, and i seen him out the corner of my eye, rushed thro the crowd, grabbed him, and got him to the medics. They later told me that if i had been any later in getting him out he would of died.

oh, and my girlfriend thinks i rock!! ;)

[No Surrender]

Let's see... I'm slowly but surely crawling throught the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme which, anyone who's taken it will tell you, is really fucking hard. That and I'm one of the top Model United Nations (Speach and Debate kind of thing) delegates in my school, I even got a medal for it last year.

[jetfx]

Jetfx, I've heard of this learning how to use logic, where exactly do you learn it? In the philosophy department of any university there should be a course on logic. Failing that, you can buy books on logic. I learned logic by reading an old university text book on logic. Generally, since the 1960s, formal has fallen out of popularity (in favour of utter subjectivity) so the best you can do in most bookstores is a book on critical thinking, which isn't as formal. It's still an extremely handy skill to learn though, particularly the logical fallacies.

Or if you're really cheap, you can just read the article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic) on Wikipedia on logic.

[Cable]

Oh yer, I can also write conversations in binary. Its funny when some nosy bastard is sitting next to you in college and watching what your doing and then they realise they don't know wtf I'm typing.

[rowan sjet]

In a workshop for my Performing Arts Uni course today, my class split into groups of five for a drama game. One person from each group was supposed to come up with a story from their life, and the rest of the group would learn it. We would then all individually tell the rest of the class this story as if it were from our own life and the class would have to guess which person was telling the truth. I was proud of the fact that I managed to convince the majority of the class (including the drama coach) that it was my story when it was actually someone else's.

[severijn]

I talked two people out of committing suicide. One of them is know probably happier than she's ever been, while the other decided at making her goal in life to destroy me and my reputation. So everyone in my old school thinks I'm a monster, but atleast she didn't commit suicide. Oh well...

Also, even though I have absolutely no talent at the piano, I'm still practising it and have gotten two diplomas for it.

[munkyfunk]

I joined the company I work for as a barman, after working as a nightclub glass collector and cloakroom attendant with about a weeks worth of bar experience while i was studying. Since joining the company I've been a waiter, head waiter, head barman, cover-chef, cellar manager and assistant manager. Now I'm out of the bars and work in head office with the company directors, I earn a half decent salary and own 2 suits (hey it was a big thing for me). Im in charge of wages, accounts, tech support, and cover as Manager in any one of six, soon to be seven premises. Some days I even like my job. Im sure theres plenty people on here who work higher up and earn more than me. But that dont stop me from bein proud of what I've done :viking:

[trebmal_ca]

I used to sail on this schooner as a volunteer, for a few years.
was loads of fun, had to dress up in period uniforms, got to take part in 1812 battle renactments.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/trebmal_ca/H.jpg

one of the many things Im proud of.

YARR!!

[Alpha_Monkey]

As a guy who spent the last year working in a nightclub, I'll say that while there may be more senior people in other lines of work, probably not many take the effort the club work does.

[Lestaki]

...while the other decided at making her goal in life to destroy me and my reputation.
Look on the bright side, at least she has a goal in life now. ;) On a serious note, that's something really impressive. I doff my hat to you, sir.

[havoc]

hmm... I'm good in making flash websites... But it is only a job.

But I'm a volunteer in the animal shelter. I think that all the dogs, cats and other love me for what I do for them ;)