But did you ever win a tattoo in a trophy contest?
Above & beyond the call of duty!
Most races give medals & not trophies. Maybe the overall winners get trophies but the age-groupers get medals. I do have a trophy at home from a race I won ≈ 8-10 years ago; the best part is that was the last year for that race so I’m still the defending champ!!!. It’s used to hold all of the medals I get from other races, most are finisher but a few AGer’s in there as well.
I won an AG medal this spring but I had already left so one of my teammates grabbed it; problem is he keeps forgetting to bring it whenever we do another race so he still has it. I should tell him to mail it to me.
It was also my turn to keep the team trophy in another race. I was a scorer on that team & not just a part of the team, so I did my part to earn it.
Heh. Funny, but I’ve never paid for ink. All my tattoo work has been from friends. I don’t charge them when they come see me at work. They don’t charge me when I get a tattoo.
It works out. My tattoo artist/buddy Moose died decades ago. He never charged me for ink. Recently a friend of his came to my business and I took care of her, no charge, explaining I still owed my friend. We both cried a little.
It may be popular to criticize schools for giving out participation trophies nowadays, but when I was in school I was kind of irritated that I never got any trophies. Not that I felt I should get one merely for participating in some event, but rather it seemed like my school district only gave out real trophies for winning athletic competitions. Why didn’t my academic achievements warrant a trophy? All I ever got were lousy certificates. Even for winning the science fair all I got was a ribbon. I think I got a medal for some academic award in high school , but don’t know if that counts as a trophy for purposes on the poll.
I got a trophy for taking first place in a city-wide math contest held by the Mathematics Teachers Association of Chicago in my senior year of high school. Our school’s team trained for months for that contest, and winning it was the highlight of my high school career. It’s the only trophy I’ve ever won, and I still have it.
I had several yout sports trophies, all long gone now.
I earned, and still have, some 5k, half-marathon and (one) marathon medal; they are sorta fancy but I don’t know if they count for the poll, so I voted zero.
I have several piano-competition trophies from 20-22 years ago. They were meant to look good but are comically lightweight plastic and in some cases, there were very few other competitors.
I have to say that was poisoning the well by calling it that. I drink Celestial seasonings black tea with either lemon or mint flavors. Not an option.
And honestly, Lipton isnt that bad.
Why? It isnt bad.
Neither did it for me. Irish breakfast tea is a good choice and also Yorkshire tea if you want it strong.
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Black tea/mint mix…Occasionally something else altogether. There are a whole lot of teas in my cupboard.[/quote]
Yep, same here.
I got a LOT of awards from the US Treasury, mostly placards- which I think I have discarded except a clock. In my younger days I played a lot of wargames and got trophies from my club.
Good stuff.
How much better is that than Plain Yorkshire? (I drink that when I want a strong cup of hot sweetened tea, but I usually just make my tea overnite in the fridge, I prefer cold drinks)
Yeah, I got some pins and something I could pick out of a catalog, but I dont remember what it was.
Because it’s mass-produced by Big Tea, rather than being loose-leaf, whole-grain, grass-fed, non-GMO, small-batch, organic, gluten-free, hand-picked tea leaves by a family-owned, granola-eating hippy co-op. /s
All the catalog stuff we had at work were total crap. They never had anything I wanted, and they made you choose something. I usually picked something I knew somebody else would want/need and gave it to them.
Once the woman in charge of the program changed our awards to a catalog from Tiffany’s. But that only lasted about two years. I didn’t have a chance to order from that catalog, and I was pissed!
I don’t remember ever being awarded with an actual trophy; it probably didn’t help that I didn’t participate in sports as a kid, and non-sports extra-curriculars (where trophies might have been awarded) were very limited at my grade school and high school.
When I was an active runner, a decade or so ago, I did get a bunch of medals at races, most of which were “finisher” medals (i.e., everyone who finished the race got one). But, there was one small 5K, in which I finished in second place for my age group, and got a medal for that.
The environment; because we’re going to screw the entire planet. Democracies come and democracies go, and I’m furious and grieving about that; but species extinction is forever.
Everything else is tied.
I would probably either notice the blinker noises, or notice the blinker arrow, or just plain remember to turn the blinker off. But there’s a small chance that I’d leave the thing on. Sometimes I have the radio turned up, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I can’t see the blinker either because it’s blocked or because unless I keep resetting it the entire dash goes dim if I turn the headlights on when it isn’t full dark outside.
The thing that pisses me off the most isn’t even Trump. It is the the willful ignorance of half of America. If they were all trapped in a car fire, I wouldn’t waste the piss it would take to moisten their lips.
