Gallant

[experimenting youth]

My names Sam Gallant, I'm 14 year old from little old England, I live in east anglia, I cant think of anything else to say

[Peace-Phoenix]

I'm a fellow East Anglian. Where abouts do you live?

[experimenting youth]

I live in Norfolk so we're neighbours. :) i live in gorleston so im really close to suffolk :D. Gorleston used to be part of suffolk i believe

[Peace-Phoenix]

So, tell us a little about yourself? How did you find this forum?

[experimenting youth]

i found this forum when i was looking for different cultures and stuff ( goff emo chav etc) and i searched for hippy and i read the articles and stuff and i loved it

[Harry Tuttle]

My mother lives in Swaffham and I go up to see her from time to time... How do you find Norfolk? Is it happening or boring or just home?

[experimenting youth]

just home, in my life i hope to do a lot of travelling but i think norfolk will always be the place i return to

[Peace-Phoenix]

Which articles did you read? I wrote a couple of those....

[experimenting youth]

err i cant really remember, i read the trip thru the 60's. the veggie one and a lot of ask the old hippie what articles did you write?

[Peace-Phoenix]

Last couple that I wrote:


http://www.hippy.com/article-299.html (http://www.hippy.com/article-299.html)

http://www.hippy.com/article-298.html (http://www.hippy.com/article-298.html)

So, do you consider yourself a bit of a hippy? Welcome to the forum by the way, hope you're enjoying the UK community and having fun posting here....

[experimenting youth]

yeh if hippies are peace loving people, and try to tolerate all views, and love people for there differences then im 100% hippy

[lithium]

What values are most important to you?

[experimenting youth]

well I'm a vegetarian.
I forgive people if i think they honestly feel sorry.
I think technology is a marvelous thing, I dont think equality would be good, because it would stop lots of people being motivated to do things. etc

[lithium]

What made you decide to go veggie?

If you could vote, who would you vote for?

[Peace-Phoenix]

well I'm a vegetarian.
I forgive people if i think they honestly feel sorry.
I think technology is a marvelous thing, I dont think equality would be good, because it would stop lots of people being motivated to do things. etc
Why would inequality be a better motivating force? What if inequalities were entrenched? Black people cannot be motivated to be white, for example....

[experimenting youth]

I didn't mean things that you can't change,
I meant things that you could like how hard you work etc

Im veggie because when i was eating meat it played on my mind and i felt guilty.

I don't know who i would vote for, if i was able to i would learnn more about the parties

[Peace-Phoenix]

I didn't mean things that you can't change,
I meant things that you could like how hard you work etc

Im veggie because when i was eating meat it played on my mind and i felt guilty.

I don't know who i would vote for, if i was able to i would learnn more about the parties
I know you weren't talking about unalterable differences, such as race and gender, but I thought it would be an interesting comparison to draw. That hard work equals greater economic rewards is not the entire picture, and inequalities of income and wealth are more entrenched than they might seem on the surface. For example, someone working in a shop or a factory full time may work much harder than the business owners who are investing capital and reaping the returns, but their economic reward would be considerably less. It is unlikely that these workers would ever build up enough capital in minimum wage jobs to ever own these businesses outright, and so inequality here is not a strong motivational factor. Conversely, take the example of Venezuela, where some industries are owned by worker co-operatives. These workers are highly motivated to produce wealth for the industry, and thus for themselves, because they all share in the profits of that industry. Equality and co-ownership can prove much more powerful motivational factors than inequality. After all, governments don't simply make equality out of thin air - people have to work for it!

What music are you into?

[experimenting youth]

yeh theorectically that would be fine but i dont believe it could ever work.

Music? i like lots of music kaiser chiefs are my favourite though

[Peace-Phoenix]

I just gave the example of Venezuela as where it is working :)

And have you seen many bands live?

[experimenting youth]

no i see local bands at places but not big bands, have you seen many bands?
when i said it wouldn't work i meant globally, mainly coz the MEDC's would be to greedy

[Peace-Phoenix]

Yep, seen loads of bands, usually at festivals. Are you a sporty person?

[experimenting youth]

I love lots of sports, I play football most days, I play rugby rarely, and in the summer i do athletics. I play table tennis quite a lot as well.

[phoenix_indigo]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years time, and in 10 years?
That is both in location, what you would like yourself to be doing, etc.

(i always think this is a cool question ... especially if you write down your answer and look at it 5-10 years from now)

[experimenting youth]

5 years from now: i might be in education still,
10 years from now: hopefully travelled a bit but as for job i have no idea, i also have to think of somewhere i can do my work experiance, this question is similar to one i got asked in school today, i got asked what my dream is, people were talking about having good cars and large houses, etc i put i want to be happy, help people, travel a bit and see lots of animals. i also want to experiance lots of stuff.

you like these questions but i hate them, i don't know why but i find them really hard to answer, you say its cool to look back later.
when you were years younger what did you put and how is that similar to what you got now?

[phoenix_indigo]

i still have a letter i wrote when i was about 15 telling myself where i wanted to be in life when i was 21. i had wanted to already have a song published, be touring the world as a performer, and recording on a regular basis. when i was actually 21, i was suffering from such severe mental illness that i couldn't even look at a piano. now i'm nearly 29 (only 17 more days to go) and i'm looking forward to hopefully buying a piano sometime in the next year so i can get back to playing again. i never in a million years thought i'd be living in England, and never thought I'd know now what I do about life.

i take it that you feel life experience and happiness is more than just material possesions? If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Why?
What sorts of 'stuff' would you like to experience?
And with that 'stuff' are you willing to take the bad with the good?

[experimenting youth]

Yeah I think happiness is much more important than materials. Where would i go and why? hmmmmm. Nepal, coz from what i've been told lots of people havent got much but are grateful for what they have got. that was quick answer if I actually had the chance i would consider much more carefully. stuff: to visit other cultures. Food, music festivals and other things. I guess i gotta accept the bad ain't i?

[phoenix_indigo]

sometimes i wish i could go back in life and re-live bits of it knowing what i know now. then again, i'd be in a much different place most likely; and i kind of like it where i am.

yeah, the bad always comes with the good. if you are lucky, you'll get a lot more good than bad.

what do you think of fireworks? (since they are all going off around me, and i can't think of anything poignant to ask)

[experimenting youth]

I love firework displays, but i think it'd be better if you couldn't buy them personally. Also my pets get really frightened about them, i guess thats true for lots of pets yeh?

[dapablo]

Hello to you young man, hope lifes good for you.

Are your parents a help or a hindrance ?

[flowerchild17]

Damn Dapablo, you stole my question.:D

Um... I talked to you earlier and you asked me a lot about school and education. What are your grades, and your general school experience like?

[experimenting youth]

My parents are definately a help. They will always try there best to support me in whatever I do. They've taught me right and wrong. But my views are very different to theres, which is good I think.


my grades are quite good. Im targeted at an A or A* in maths in everything else a B or C and i think i will do quite well, not overly optimistic, but if i try really hard i can get great grades. Almost all my school experiances are good: Sport, friends and lessons. I get told off for being late when i go in with everyone else but am in a different form but thats tiny really isn't it. or was that question to Dapablo?

[flowerchild17]

Nah, it was for you.:D

I wish I was that talented in math, I have the math skills of about a 6 year old...


Whats your least favorite subject?

[experimenting youth]

I used to dislike art. I no longer have to do it, but when i did i really didn't like the work. I hardly ever done any. we had no freedom to chose what we wanted to make and in that lessons lots and lots of resources were wasted. To me art should use materials people no longer need.

yeh, but now I enjoy pretty much all my lessons.:D

[dapablo]

Have you ever kissed a girl ?

[experimenting youth]

yeh :D we're not going out now, but it was all good fun. dapablo, I hear its really nice in cornwall, Do you surf a lot?

[dapablo]

yeh :D we're not going out now, but it was all good fun. dapablo, I hear its really nice in cornwall, Do you surf a lot?
We're supposed to ask you questions in this thread. :)

We live 5mins from a little cove so do spend a fair bit of time on the beach. Me and mine will do a bit of bodyboarding rather than surfboarding.

Have you ever been to Cornwall and have you ever tried the surf ?

[lithium]

Have you lost anything recently?

[experimenting youth]

No & No, but i like swimming in the sea(im from yarmouth) and messing about down the beach when the weather permits it.

Have I lost anything lately?
I don't think I have. aha i've lost some belly lately. I used to be small and have a belly. but now i grown up and lost it. Maybe its under my bed.

(dapablo)We're supposed to ask you questions in this thread. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif

ok fire away!

[lithium]

What's your favourite smell?

[experimenting youth]

The smell of grass and nature is nice, but I don't know really, I hate the smell of petrol, it makes feel sick and be sick sometimes. Thats my 200th post :D

[lithium]

Have you ever stolen anything?

[experimenting youth]

err yeh kinda from my paperround i sometimes end up with extra papers . but apart from that not that i can remember

[Peace-Phoenix]

What's your dream job?

[experimenting youth]

I haven't got a dream job really. But it ould definately something helpful and worthwhile got any ideas?

[dapablo]

Street cleaner :)

Who is more powerful, the male or the female ?

[experimenting youth]

wow look what i found :D. Males have more strength, females are more dangerous.