3,942 Forum Posts by "D2Kvirus"
At 8/13/09 05:12 PM, fli wrote:At 8/13/09 04:00 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Brief check, am I the only NGer to see Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular?Probably.
It was here in San Jose back in 2007, and I really really really wanted to go.
That would had fulfilled my childhood fantasy of seeing a real dinosaur... well, sorta.
Given I heard at least two kids voicing real concerns about being eaten during the show, you weren't alone. Still, I can now use the phrase "The baby Plateosaurus broke down."
Here's one I just made up: Gordon Brown is secretly an agent for every French, german, Japanese and Korean car manufacturer.
Since introducing the scrappage scheme, where you can get a £2000 discount on a new car if you use your car (registered before 31st August 1999) as collateral to boost the car industry, there have been 150,000 new car orders.
However, as the only car manufacturers in the UK are Aston Martin and Caterham, the benefits have been felt by Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Fiat, Volkswagon, Audi, BMW, Mercedes...
Is it because our healthcare system is evil?
By "evil", Sarah Palin means "One where anyone can be treated, and without the liklihood of their health insurance company going out of their way not to pay for their treatment."
An amusing sidenote is David Cameron is now saying the Tories are the NHS party - even though the NHS was cripplingly underfunded by both Thatcher and Major for the period of 1979-1997, which makes a lot of the £200bn underfunding it has been subject to over the past 30 years.
The first thought a lot of Britons have had is how Ronnie Biggs was released from prison a few weeks ago on compassionate leave because he was knocking at death's door...and somehow recovered remarkably quickly once released.
As a result, there's a lot of people expecting to see him perform cartwheels on the tarmac in Libya.
This sounds a lot like the Scrappage Scheme we have in the UK, where your old car goes towards the value of a new car, which is supposed to stimulate the economy.
And it has: the economy of Germany, France, Italy and Japan, as those are the cars people are buying - as the UK has no motor industry outside of Aston Martin and Caterham.
Brief check, am I the only NGer to see Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular?
Have you been watching Reaper or something?!?
The one crime the UK police really turned a blind eye to is where on person, sat on a train at Stockwell tube station, was killed execution-style with 11 point blank shots to the face with hollow point bullets.
Then again, it was the Metropolitan Police doing it, so...
Can I say: suprise, surprise?
Help! I'm addicted to watching Chi's New Address on crunchyroll!
I wasn't convinced he was anything but all talk and Blairisms before the Election...and I like being proven right.
At 7/16/09 12:41 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:At 7/16/09 10:15 AM, Der-Lowe wrote: CHAMPIONS OF AMERICA!Nobody in America actually follows "futboll".
1968-1969-1970-2009
No wonder the LA Galaxy thought Beckham's wages were money well spent...
You just noticed this now? They've had Minorah-tinted glasses for the last, I don't know, 60 years?
At 6/4/09 06:43 PM, stafffighter wrote: macs, cat buses, people with drill penises, and blind samurai. Oh, and Big Fucking Lizards.
A yakuza? How? Seriously, how?
He was literally walking (or swaggering) down the street in the Gion district of Kyoto.
Tell me if I get these refrences right
1. The ring
Yup
2. Ichigo the killer
No, Audition
3. Battle royal (I just started the magna, it's huge)
Yup
4. Some movie I saw reviewed on stomp tokyo, likely with a title about the machine gun arm girl.
Machine Girl
5. didn't get it. What's a mac?
Dark Water
6. didn't get it
My Neighbour Totoro
7. testsuo
Yup
8. Self titled
Zatoichi
Anyway, my diaries are now up, so if anyone wants a perusal:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
1.) All I remember about the 1990s (at least in the UK) is that the decade didn't have an identity of its own: it was too busy have a 60's, 70's and 80's revival, then suddenly realised they had to have that bloody Prince song on heavy rotation for two weeks befor eit wans't the 90s anymore.
2. RATM - Killing in the Name, Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod, Faitrh No More - Midlife Crisis, Metallica - Enter Sandman, Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyar, VAST - Here
3. "Schwing!"
4. Twin Peaks, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Spaced (albeit half of it was in 2001), Fist of Fun
5. Titanic, unfortunatly...
6. Eric Canton, unfortunatly...
7. The internet.
8. Creationism wasn't on the syllabus.
9. I spent half the bloody decade in schoo uniform! Anyway, shell suits for the scallies, jeans and t-shirt for most of the people I hung out with.
10. Limp Bizkit would turn your son into a date rapist. Also, Childs Play 3 would make your kid commit murder.
11. Not drink alcopops, contrary to what the Daily Mail said.
12. The second season of Twin Peaks isn't available on DVD, so that.
North Vietnam, perhaps? Well, they did it before...
At 5/28/09 05:03 PM, stafffighter wrote:
Did you meet Godzilla?
Not Godzilla, but I did see a real-life yakuza. However, to complete my Everything I Know About Japan From My DVD Collection, I missed out on girls crawling out of my TV, somebody trying to cut my foot off with piano wire, classes of schoolkids blowing each other way, schoolgirls with machine gun arms, creepy girls in yellow plastic macs, cat buses, people with drill penises, and blind samurai. Oh, and Big Fucking Lizards.
Long time no see - mainly as they need to update the Flash player where I work, so I can't vote or post on NG. Which is, like, gayness.
Anyway, just got back from two weeks in Japan, so...umm...yeah!
At 4/4/09 01:52 PM, animehater wrote: I knew something bad would happen this month. Bad shit always happens in April.
Whgat can I say, we lucked out with Jade Goody dying at the end of March.
At 3/30/09 04:49 PM, ImmoralLibertarian wrote:At 3/30/09 04:43 PM, Scarab wrote: I want to ask, how do you tell a peaceful protestor from a violent troublemaker when these groups are so mixed?One's holding placard, the other's holding a brick.
The ones holding sticks tend to have the words "Metropolitan Police" emblazoned on their high visibility bibs.
There was one cliip the BBC showed in the news headlines once (and never again) on Wednesday, where a guy was walking along and a policeman poked his baton into his ribs, so he turned around and you could lipread him saying "What the fuck did you do that for?" when three officers charged in and tackled him to the ground.
There was also an article in yesterday's Grauniad about the police tactics, and how they stuck to the book in case of using common sense. And, if you haven't seen the Youtube footage by now, here it is, with commentary.
At 4/3/09 04:15 PM, CaptainChip wrote:At 4/3/09 04:06 PM, fahrenheit wrote:24. USA.At 4/3/09 03:16 PM, TheOutsiders wrote: I think im glad i dont live in America lol.Really?
In a week America has more murders than England has in a year.
46. UK.
Please, check your links before trying to refute someone.
Beat me to it, darnit.
Oh well, there's always this, I suppose...
We've just had population control - Jade Goody died, didn't she?
At 3/11/09 04:39 PM, Jon-86 wrote:
Ah that word again terrorist, same could be said for the British and their state sponsored terrorism through the ages, but of course its never reported as a cowardly ambush if they do it!
You might notice I didn't say White Irish Catholics.
Do you know a Creationist? If you do, get their children one of THESE!
First the Real IRA, then the Continuity IRA.
Good to be reminded that the only real terrorist threat in the UK isn't from Islamic Arabs, but from White Catholics - we'd been getting a bit off message since about 12th September 2001 in that respect.
Nuclear Paedo update: He's already 30ft tall, and last seen trying to violate Battersea Power Station.
Am I alone in thinking this sounds like a 1950's monster movie, if the Daily Mail made it?
He's barely been in a month, and already the race card is being played all too freely by his acolytes.
There's a good sign of how the next four years are going to go, then - right up there with the fact he hasn't got his daughters their promised puppy in the three months since he won the Election.
One thing I can say about New Deal (British version, having experienced it first hand) is that it's a way to massage the statistics: after about six months on New Deal, you're put on a course that's three months long for 30+, and six months for 18-30 - and whilst you're on it, you're classified as a "student", not someone claiming benefits.
They really didn't appreciate it when I asked if I'd get a Student Loan on my first day, that's for sure...
How can people say Brits are joyless? Why, just this Tuesday - whilst it was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Carnival in Rio - it was Pancake Day where we...make pancakes. Then eat them.
Ah...
