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I’ve kept a gratitude journal for a year now after years of sneering at the concept and I think it’s… working?!? Times are tough. It’s easy to lose track of what you have to be thankful for. I’m thankful for goons. This site has helped me a lot … lols, advice, and more. Thanks and gratitude to the following goons/threads: The goon who told me to grow the gently caress up in career advice thread. Made me mad at the time but was good advice (they posted other things too). All the career advice goons are champions, helping folks every day. The goons who taught me to cook chili on the GWS thread. One in particular instructed me to use *#% loads of paprika. winning a chili cook off at 30 knocked me out of my failure loop and showed me that everything I wish I could be doing and accomplishing was done by normal humans who put in the time and persisted. Many positive changes came after that. Which goons are you greatful for?
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I'm thankful for pencilhands and his fun threads. Also, I love the idea of a gratitude journal. It might sound lame, but being nice to yourself and trying to focus on the positive has real consequencs.
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Nov 10, 2024 16:54
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I'm grateful to all of GBS as I've posted many times. They were nice to a weird lonely cavewoman for years. Literally a Bird was gracious as hell to me when she [correctly] banned me for drunk posting I haven't drank since. That's wonderful for me, I would tend to get plastered...
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Nov 10, 2024 17:48
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I refuse the idea of a gratitude journal because I don't like homework I will, however, say that I am grateful for the niche thread dorks that make this place worth it. Tool and woodworking thread dorks are top notch Games room is full of good folks
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Nov 10, 2024 18:20
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I’m grateful for all of the game goons. If the collective gaming hours spent by goons were used to benefit humanity, we’d be living in star trek. Instead there’s no video game question I can come up with that goons can’t answer.
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Nov 10, 2024 18:27
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I am grateful to the goon who encouraged me to try a contact break with my abusive family. Single best piece of advice I received in my entire life. That break turned into fully  ing. More than a decade later, I still have zero desire to talk to those people ever again.The Rejected Parents thread was helpful to read about patterns of abuse in dysfunctional families and to realize how common they are. Vox Valentine posted:As time has gone on I've met more and more folks with worse upbringings than mine and I just want to say that every day you live apart from them and take care of yourself is another day you get one over on the people who hurt you. And one day you're gonna realize you lived free longer than you did when things were bad. I hope that day greets you warmly like an old friend.
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Nov 10, 2024 18:46
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redshirt posted:I'm thankful for pencilhands and his fun threads.
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I'm also thankful for the great mods in GBS who put the lesser subforum mods and admins to shame
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Less Is Definitely posted:I am grateful to the goon who encouraged me to try a contact break with my abusive family. Single best piece of advice I received in my entire life. That break turned into fully This is fantastic I'm glad to hear it. I broke contact with my monstrous father 35 years ago. I'm not sure if he's dead or alive and genuinely don't care. I stopped thinking about him decades ago.
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Nov 10, 2024 18:48
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Same, my mother's family are horrible monsters and I'm richer for being rid of them.
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Nov 10, 2024 20:07
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ninjoatse.cx posted:I’m grateful for all of the game goons. If the collective gaming hours spent by goons were used to benefit humanity, we’d be living in star trek. Instead there’s no video game question I can come up with that goons can’t answer. "How old is Mario canonically"
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Nov 10, 2024 20:12
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Smugworth posted:I'm also thankful for the great mods in GBS who put the lesser subforum mods and admins to shame The wear and tear is greater so generally only the really not lovely ones survive. PYF is similar Other forums have the "luxury" of not attracting the same amount of random weirdos and if you're a mod or admin of any sub forum that has to do with politics everybody will hate you regardless of what you do This also means a lot of stinky gross mods still exist in the pits of this forum that barely see new posters. Horrible, wretched things
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Nov 10, 2024 20:13
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But yes I am thankful for Smugworth
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Nov 10, 2024 20:15
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Aesop Poprock posted:The wear and tear is greater so generally only the really not lovely ones survive. PYF is similar DO YOU HEAR THIS YOSPOS THEY CLOWN ON YOU YOSPOS
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Nov 10, 2024 20:19
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I'm thankful for the awful app dev(s?)! Best time vampire app ever. One day I hope to see it being used by someone else in the wild.. 'Hey bro do you have stairs in your house? Huhuh'
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Nov 10, 2024 20:25
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I'm great full for lowtax. 
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Nov 10, 2024 20:35
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sometimes when i need to clear myy head at work i will go take a poo poo an dpost in the taking a big poo poo thread i go post in tat thread other times too but i'm thinking specifically about those times
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Nov 10, 2024 20:54
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Aesop Poprock posted:"How old is Mario canonically" don't remember whence I found the info but if I recall correctly, Mario Mario is a sprightly twenty-five years old e: I'm grateful for the opportunities this board offers me to be helpful with the small trove of useless facts and observations I've built up so far in life SatansOnion fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 10, 2024 |
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Nov 10, 2024 21:40
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Thanks thank you
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Nov 10, 2024 21:48
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I’m grateful for not having to deal with vicious mockery when my posts are bad and unfunny 
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Nov 10, 2024 22:00
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SatansOnion posted:don't remember whence I found the info but if I recall correctly, Mario Mario is a sprightly twenty-five years old 'Spritely' right there smh
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Nov 10, 2024 22:38
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I'm thankful of smugworth, our hard working moderator.
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Nov 10, 2024 23:51
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I'm grateful that SA has remained an island of relative sanity as the rest of the Internet plunges ever deeper into enshittification.
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Nov 10, 2024 23:54
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I was a little baby (not literally) when I found the forum but of all the places a lil teenage me started reading Goons With Spoons and developed an interest in cooking. From there I learned about nutrition, found confidence from information provided in Musicians Lounge to start learning guitar, and so on. I am a pretty Cool and Awesome(tm) person in the RL these days, and I'm thankful these forums, in an incredibly ironic way, prevented me being a weird antisocial shut-in nerd and instead actually inspired me to become as healthy and well rounded as I have become.
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Nov 11, 2024 00:44
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Aesop Poprock posted:But yes I am thankful for Smugworth Thank you Aesop
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Nov 11, 2024 02:33
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Grey Cat posted:I'm thankful of smugworth, our hard working moderator. Thank you grey
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Nov 11, 2024 02:34
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Unkempt posted:'Spritely' right there smh Mario's been 3D for a while now though 
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Nov 11, 2024 02:36
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I'm thankful for every admin, mod, and IK who have tirelessly worked to extend the length of my rapsheet 
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Nov 11, 2024 02:38
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Somethingawful may have raised me almost as much as my birth parents, and yes that is terrifying. But uh, thanks for the funny poo poo
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Nov 11, 2024 02:42
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm grateful that SA has remained an island of relative sanity as the rest of the Internet plunges ever deeper into enshittification. This, in spades. It’s like a refuge - a dead gay refuge - but a refuge nonetheless.
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Nov 11, 2024 03:20
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Grateful to all the new username thread contributors and the schad thread folks for brightening my day without needing to scour reddit. Also Plant MONSTER. for kickass paper flowers.
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Nov 11, 2024 03:58
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I'm thankful for the NEET thread, the Unpopular Video Game Opinions thread, and the Taco Bell thread in gently caress You and Dine because I don't think similar spaces can be found elsewhere online. I'm thankful that BigBadSteve was banned much sooner, and Clamdestineboyster much later, than I anticipated. I'm thankful that pencilhands makes fewer threads than he could if he wanted to.
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Honestly, just a big shout-out to the new era something awful for making it just as funny and stupid as earlier versions, but also such an inclusive and diverse group of goons. It could've easily just been Elon Musk's Something Awful in an alternate universe with all the transphobia and white supremacists, but instead it's full of threads about hamburgers, video game conversations that don't have some dipshit whining about "woke poo poo" and comedy threads that are the most playful, funniest shitposting on the Internet. One day, I'll hope to join a SASS or one of the fun challenges, but things have been e/n lately. I do love this community, and the moderation team for keeping it cozy.
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Nov 11, 2024 04:44
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I’m thankful for the only two things that matter here: Thos BIG. PIG. BALLS.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I’m thankful for the only two things that matter here: Every time I see 'em, I can't help but go 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm grateful that SA has remained an island of relative sanity as the rest of the Internet plunges ever deeper into enshittification.
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