How far will you take your addiction?

jaibaby

custardcream1000 wrote: »

Please tell me I am not the only one who cannot resist certain competitions and will do anything to enter them?

Me! But I wouldn't have those extra wins to look at and remind myself that sometimes that little extra effort is worth it all!

My first "big" effort win was my iPhone 4S from Airwaves - remember that stupid game on Facebook? Having to fly and miss objects but collect the airwaves? I spent 2 hours on that and as soon as I completed it once, I vowed to never play it again! Which was great as I won from that one time anyway

Another effort was a more recent one, I won a 19" LCD HDTV after spending an hour thinking up a poem describing my favourite film of the year so far.

And here was my entry:

D is for the daring job that Gru’s been chosen for

E is for the excitement as he falls out the boot door

S is for the special romance between Gru and Lucy

P is for the plotline which is full of jokes and juicy

I is for the ‘ickle minions that love bananas so much

C is for the cuddly pony that Agnes likes to cwtch

A is for the awesome lines that Gru pulls from nowhere

B is for the bald head of Gru’s, that Agnes likes to stare

L is for the Lipstick Taser that shocks Gru at the start

E is for the ending, that’s what caught my heart!


M is for the memories of watching this with my kids

E is for the enjoyment, they never batted their eyelids

2 is for the amount of times we’ve already watched this movie

DESPICABLE ME 2 is the one film that is groovy!

Do you know how hard it is to find something that rhymes with much? Apart from Dutch, butch, ummm, yeah


I still can't believe I won that

So, it's definitely worth it!

snakepilsen

custardcream1000 wrote: »

At 9.30 tonight I came across a competition on MSE with the UN. It was my dream comp, but it closed tonight and involved submitting a 750 word proposal about a gender issue. So what did I do...I decided to enter!

I have spent the last few hours running around like a headless chicken trying to find all my old uni notes (I still have no idea where they are) about the issue I chose.

I managed to finish it and send it 2 minutes before the deadline. My head hurts, my shoulders hurt, my entry was not very good and I went off on a tangent. In that time I could have entered so many comps. Why did I do it to myself :eek:

Please tell me I am not the only one who cannot resist certain competitions and will do anything to enter them?

Do you have a link to this comp ? I would like to have a look at it .

snakepilsen

Can anybody provide a link to this comp ? I can't find it anywhere !

custardcream1000

snakepilsen wrote: »

Can anybody provide a link to this comp ? I can't find it anywhere !

I managed to find it Snake so I sent you a second pm

custardcream1000

Stockie - That's dedication! I hope you manage to win early on in the competition so you don't have to spend too much time sucking up to the Daily Startling journalism.

Independance - I hope it wasn't right at the bottom. Fingers crossed it's a winner. I have not been rumaging yet, but never say never.

Jaibaby - That poem is brilliant, you certainly deserved to win. You are right about it being worth the time to enter effort comps, as that is where 3 of my best wins have come from too. Although, your poem certainly puts my effort comp entries to shame.

kiwicat

custardcream1000 wrote: »

At 9.30 tonight I came across a competition on MSE with the UN. It was my dream comp, but it closed tonight and involved submitting a 750 word proposal about a gender issue. So what did I do...I decided to enter!

I have spent the last few hours running around like a headless chicken trying to find all my old uni notes (I still have no idea where they are) about the issue I chose.

I managed to finish it and send it 2 minutes before the deadline. My head hurts, my shoulders hurt, my entry was not very good and I went off on a tangent. In that time I could have entered so many comps. Why did I do it to myself :eek:

Please tell me I am not the only one who cannot resist certain competitions and will do anything to enter them?

You do whatever you enjoy doing and if that is challenging yourself to win that's surely good. Hope you win.