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Coop tries to recover from the manual labour, before cricket training tonight. Congratulations to:
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Listeing to:
Foo Fighters - DOA
Alice Cooper - Steven / Welcome to my Nightmare

At 3/19/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/19/11 06:43 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/18/11 01:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force

I've got to listen to more Malmsteen.

Yeah, he's got a fair amount of stuff. I'm more interested in his instrumentals. Give Trilogy Suite Op. 5 a listen to. As for any songs with lyrics, Vengeance is a good one.

I've got Vengeance, it's on the Best Air Guitar 3, I think. I just need more. Thanks for the suggestions

At 3/19/11 05:05 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/18/11 05:02 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/17/11 06:04 PM, Auz wrote: Slapstick specialist? Always useful to have one of those on your team.

I'd rather have had Groucho Marx, or one of the three stooges in his place.

Sadly I can't say I'm familiar with them, although I have heard of the three stooges. They seem to have an almost legendary status nowadays and when I first heard of them I thought they were from some famous old book :p

I'm not overly familiar with them, I just catch a scene or two ever once in a while on YouTube

At 3/20/11 03:29 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/19/11 06:43 AM, Coop wrote: Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Tenderly
Zoot - Sax & Violence

I'll toss in Mahna Mahna as well since it's so catchy. This isn't really a song as well, but it's still funny and interesting: Beaker's Ode to joy.

Yeah, both are good. At some point, I will make a file of my Miss Piggy impression ;)

10,000 Medal Points.

I reached Brig. General a few days ago but didn't notice it until now. LOL.

Coop starts to get his body in shape for the cricket season - aches and pains, but less than last time. Congratulations to:
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Listening to:
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Iron Maiden - Another Life

I felt in good touch yesterday, despite the first four hours of my day (8am start) spent shovelling tonnes of topsoil across the ground, to re-grass where the construction project had left a massive hole in our outfield. When that grass takes, it will be so much better - we'll be able to field on that part of the ground, for starters.

Level 32! :DDDDDDD

Metal Monday 2011 - Week 12: Stratovarius - Twilight Symphony

I was meant to send off my laptop today but the computer store couldn't take my laptop for the time being considering the other laptops they're looking into right now. They've given me an alternative number but I'll see how the laptop goes today.

Listening to:

High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine

Thanks to:

Coop

At 3/20/11 10:19 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/19/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, he's got a fair amount of stuff. I'm more interested in his instrumentals. Give Trilogy Suite Op. 5 a listen to. As for any songs with lyrics, Vengeance is a good one.

I've got Vengeance, it's on the Best Air Guitar 3, I think. I just need more. Thanks for the suggestions

Yep, that's what my dad has so he knew about the song as well.

At 3/21/11 06:57 AM, EggoBleeder wrote: I got a Last.fm account. I'll post what I'm listing to atm.

Please add me when you can. My username is NGBahamut.

I have leveled up to 30.
Cheers!

Just reached my 3rd NG Berfday, wow time sure as hell flies.

Shit, I still didn't find the time to catch up here. The reason is that I had a test today, one later this week and a third one next week (yeah, I know I wrote "three tests this week" in the B/P-thread, but I got the dates of the tests mixed up ^^).
Anyway, next test is on Thursday, so chances are great I can finally catch up tomorrow. :)

At 3/20/11 10:19 AM, Coop wrote: Yeah, both are good. At some point, I will make a file of my Miss Piggy impression ;)

*stares at Coop blankly, begins to slowly back out the door.

=P

My new bloody monkey wrench and I say hello.

Level 10 and as an added bonus a nice pretty green whistle yay :D

Still trying to recover from muscular ailments, Coop congratulates:
Hemlok: Level 32
MegamanMegafan: Level 30
RohantheBarbarian: 3rd NG Berfday
DiMono: Level 22
Mimilop: Level 10

Listening to:
MeatLoaf - Bat Out Of Hell

At 3/21/11 06:59 AM, EggoBleeder wrote: Listening to:
AC/DC-Shoot To Thrill

Just try to keep the posting down to a reasonable level - if you're making a much larger percentage of the posts on the Lounge, than any other user in one day, you're posting too much ;)

At 3/21/11 10:44 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/20/11 10:19 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/19/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, he's got a fair amount of stuff. I'm more interested in his instrumentals. Give Trilogy Suite Op. 5 a listen to. As for any songs with lyrics, Vengeance is a good one.

I've got Vengeance, it's on the Best Air Guitar 3, I think. I just need more. Thanks for the suggestions

Yep, that's what my dad has so he knew about the song as well.

The looks I got yesterday sitting at the traffic lights, with Hier Kommt Alex playing on my car stereo. The classical intro, followed by the scream just made people turn and stare.

At 3/21/11 01:03 PM, Odyssic wrote:

At 3/21/11 06:57 AM, EggoBleeder wrote: I got a Last.fm account. I'll post what I'm listing to atm.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't like last.fm?

I wouldn't say I dislike it - how can I dislike something that I have not tried?

At 3/21/11 05:05 PM, Haggard wrote: Anyway, next test is on Thursday, so chances are great I can finally catch up tomorrow. :)

Awesome, I look forward to it.

At 3/21/11 05:23 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/20/11 10:19 AM, Coop wrote: Yeah, both are good. At some point, I will make a file of my Miss Piggy impression ;)

*stares at Coop blankly, begins to slowly back out the door.

A shame that I'm not comfortable enough to even consider trying it at the moment...

At 3/22/11 04:51 AM, Coop wrote: A shame that I'm not comfortable enough to even consider trying it at the moment...

You know it could be interesting. I nevr heard of a British Miss Piggy before.

Oh yeah Coop, I got bored last night and figured that I would update your sig. I think it comes pretty close; use it if you wish.

Will be seeing Sonata Arctica tonight!

Listening to:

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

Thanks to:

Odyssic

At 3/21/11 01:03 PM, Odyssic wrote:

At 3/21/11 06:57 AM, EggoBleeder wrote: I got a Last.fm account. I'll post what I'm listing to atm.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't like last.fm?

As far as I'm concerned, reverend, Auz and Coop don't have Last.fm accounts.

At 3/21/11 02:57 PM, EggoBleeder wrote:

At 3/21/11 10:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: Please add me when you can. My username is NGBahamut.

Done.

Excellent!

At 3/22/11 04:51 AM, Coop wrote: Listening to:
MeatLoaf - Bat Out Of Hell

I do need to get that album. I've seen it packaged with Dead Ringer but I only know Bat Out of Hell and I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That).

At 3/21/11 10:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yep, that's what my dad has so he knew about the song as well.

The looks I got yesterday sitting at the traffic lights, with Hier Kommt Alex playing on my car stereo. The classical intro, followed by the scream just made people turn and stare.

It's an awesome, who cares what the others think? I really should pick up his Magnum Opus album. No, really, that's what the album is called.

At 3/22/11 06:06 AM, reverend wrote: Oh yeah Coop, I got bored last night and figured that I would update your sig. I think it comes pretty close; use it if you wish.

lol I didn't realise it still said 83 until now.

You passed 51000 Saves. Way to go!

I will probably catch-up later today. Yesterday I've been working from 8:00 AM to 1:00 AM this morning to finish up uni stuff =/

I just noticed that in addition to reaching level 22 with its bloody monkey wrench (seriously, it's blood-stained), I passed 22,222 total stats. Also, less of a milestone but still interesting, now more than 25% of my flash reviews have responses. Although not really something that's usually tracked, I think it's pretty neat.

At 3/22/11 08:34 AM, Auz wrote: You passed 51000 Saves. Way to go!

Oh I forgot, I also reached 22,000 Experience today.

At 3/10/11 07:12 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/10/11 01:46 PM, Haggard wrote: Okay, I bet against this. Rohan will have 4 kids with three different women, Coop will marry but will not have kids. Auz will have kids, but he won't marry!

Alright deal. Now we wait five to ten years from now.

That's quite long, but what can you do...

At 3/11/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/10/11 01:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/9/11 03:53 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/8/11 12:46 PM, Haggard wrote: I guess he did wabble all over just like Homer Simpson in that one episode where they tested his body fat by slapping him?

Also, I'm going to get the ball back now...

Can you bring me back a soda?*

Here, I bought you some bacon-flavour soda!

Holy shit, greasy pig in a can! *chugs*

It was all they had man, not my fault!

At 3/11/11 04:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now that Haggard isn't here, let's talk about Manowar and how much the shitblade sucks!

So that's what you do behind my back?

At 3/10/11 01:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

Enjoy your trip!

Thanks, I did! :)

At 3/11/11 05:41 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/10/11 01:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/8/11 03:53 PM, Auz wrote: Great. So... any good stripper clubs in Hamburg where we can meet? Or are we supposed to keep it a secret where we're going?

You know, asking if there are any good strip clubs in Hamburg is like asking if there are any good "coffee shops" in Amsterdam. ;)

But I suppose Amsterdam's reputation as a coffee shop capital is bigger than Hamburgs reputation as a sex club valhalla.

But you should've heard about the Kaiserkeller and the Star-Club, if you are a Beatles fan. Those bars are located in the red light district.
Also, I thought the Reeperbahn was something that is know across national borders.

Also, linkage time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeperbahn

Lol, so that's like Hamburgs Moulin Rouge? :p

Except for that the Reeperbahn is a lot bigger than the Moulin Rouge since it's a whole street and just one building. ^^

But to be honest, I try to avoid the Reeperbahn during the week ends. Much too crowded.

Conclusion: Translators suck and will seldom translate anything correctly.

But they are much better now than they used to be!

True, but you're still better off using an old fashioned dictionary (or an online one).

Yes, but sometimes those won't help as well.

On our last trip to scotland we had to wait 5 hours for our connection flight. :/

That sucks. It's a good thing airports have restaurants and shopping malls nowadays.

Yeah, we had to switch airports anyway (from Gatwick to Heathrow... or the other way round, can't remember ^^) and then we had a second breakfast. And then we could look around in the shops for a very long time. ^^

I know some people know everything about the royal family and constantly keep themselves up to date with what they do (royalty experts), but quite frankly I do not give a single crap about them.

I sometimes think the royal families only exist so that some people can work as "royalty experts". I have even seen a "billionaires expert" on TV once. :/

How people can make a living out of that is beyond me. Though I suppose if they are 'one of the few' in the country, they'd always turn to them if anything interesting happens at the palace.

But that's the thing: It never happens anything interesting. I mean William is getting married now... so what? No reason to get overly excited. But most likely there will be a 5 hour report on TV, on ALL of the major stations...

At 3/10/11 01:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

Okay, I bet against this. Rohan will have 4 kids with three different women, Coop will marry but will not have kids. Auz will have kids, but he won't marry!

Alright deal. Now we wait five to ten years from now.

With my current future plans, Haggard's gonna lose this one :p

We'll see. :P

At 3/12/11 07:05 AM, Coop wrote: Haggard: Married. Make sure the noose isn't too snug ;)

Thanks... I guess. I really don't know what that means. ^^
Damn those figures of speech!

At 3/12/11 09:01 AM, EggoBleeder wrote: Congrats:
Haggard: Married

Thanks!

At 3/13/11 08:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: Listening to:
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn

Nice.

At 3/12/11 06:37 AM, Haggard wrote: Just dropping by to say:
REAL LIFE ACHIEVEMENT!
MARRIED NOW!

CONGRATS MAN! :D

Thanks! :)

At 3/14/11 01:47 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/12/11 06:37 AM, Haggard wrote: Just dropping by to say:
REAL LIFE ACHIEVEMENT!
MARRIED NOW!

Congrats!!!!

Thanks!

At 3/14/11 09:06 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 3/12/11 06:37 AM, Haggard wrote: Just dropping by to say:
REAL LIFE ACHIEVEMENT!
MARRIED NOW!

gratz homeslice

Thankz man!

At 3/16/11 05:23 PM, Auz wrote: Oh shit, forgot to congratulate Haggard :(

>:(

Congrats Haggard! Hope you're having / had a good time! Best wishes with your marriage and all.

Thank you!

Just entered the top 600 EXP ranks.

I am feeling small by entering this topic, but here are my achievements for today:
Got to level 10, ranked up to Pvt. First Class and reached 3000 B/P Points.

Catch-up time.

Just a note: I probably won't be here as much for the next two weeks or so. There's a course I'm following at the moment on my uni for which I have to do a ridiculous amount of work to pass it. Within seven weeks I have to hand in four pretty big reports and have to pass three tests about all the material from the first two years. Today I heard I failed for one of the reports and so I have to redo that next to the other work that still has to be done in the following two weeks.

After that it's exam time again, so I'm pretty much swamped in uni work right now. Fortunately, after the exams are over, I can chill the fuck out until Christmas =/

At 3/20/11 03:29 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/19/11 05:05 PM, Auz wrote: You can clearly see they're less popular. Whenever I enter a McD, it's always crowded, no matter what time of day it is. In a Subway there are usually only two or three others beside me at most.

I think it's the fact that they have a drive thur and Subway doesn't. When you only have an hour for lunch, you want food right this instant.

I don't find drive-thru's to be that much faster than simply going inside the restaurant, but perhaps we're doing it wrong. Usually we just 'drive-thru' and then park somewhere close to eat our food, which of course doesn't save any time whatsoever :p

I can understand why everybody would think that, but I simply like it. But doesn't everyone have some weird, custom made food they like?

Yeah, it all about where you live and what resources you have there really depends on what unique foods a country has. America has tons of cattle, chicken, and pigs so most dishes derive from them. Peru has lots of fish and guinea pigs and that what they eat and so forth. And apparently England has a huge allocation of beans.

That as well, but I was more talking individually. For example my dad likes to eat (solid) cheese with mayonnaise on a slice of bread, which I find disgusting.

No not exactly. You have to officially live together under one roof before you can register yourselves as fiscal partners. For us I think the benefits come down to that, instead of getting health care support and 'housing benefit' seperately, one of us will receive it for the both of us and we'll have to share that. The total amount will be a little bit more that way, but it's not much.

There might be some more things, but I haven't looked into it in detail.

Sounds like someone claiming as Head of the Household on taxes here in America. One person can claim it and consider the other people in the household as dependents when filing their taxes. I don't think they have to be married.

Yeah that sounds comparable. The thing is though, there isn't one head of the household who gets everything here. We have to fill it in for every little thing, can decide who gets the money and they basically address letters to whoever filled in the form for that specific support. So I get all the health care support stuff right now while my gf gets the 'housing benefit'.

At 3/20/11 09:08 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/19/11 05:05 PM, Auz wrote: Well we could certainly do with about 4 billion less people. It would help to get nature and the climate back on its feet.

It'd probably help the economy in one way.

That's the one thing that I'd expect to completely collapse when 2/3rd of the world population suddenly vanishes :p

Ah yes, my gf has had similar problems with her rabbits. Two male ones had to be seperated cause they kept fighting.

It's better pairing with a male rabbit with a female rabbit. That's just how it works.

Yeah, they seem to get along much better. Two females appear to do fine as well.

Yeah that's one of the downsides. You have to have an LP player, otherwise you can't even listen to them anymore. I suppose that special device could be costly?

Luckily my dad has a hifi that has a vinyl player but that's outside in the conservatory and not next to my laptop. Then again, I'll be using the old computer soon enough while my laptop goes away to get the dust issues fixed again.

Well of course you could take your laptop there. If your old computer is there as well, I'm sure there must be room to sit.

It's certainly lengthy, but Ocarina of Time always felt lengthier to me. With all the sidequest it might get longer than OoT though. The sidequest for the Couple's Mask / Postman's Hat / Extra Bottle can take up a few hours since you have to do it 3 times to get all the stuff if I remember correctly.

Yeah, you have to time things right with some sidequests. I suppose that's one thing that makes it much longer. I'm sure you can beat Majora's Mask without getting all 40 masks but I know for a fact that Majora is much harder without the Fierce Deity Mask.

Yeah you can beat the game without getting all the masks, but personally I consider that sidequest to be part of the main game.

The Fierce Deity Mask makes the fight incredibely easy, and even without I think it was not that hard. You'd just have a bit more trouble hitting him since you'd have to use arrows instead of energy disks. I thought the difficulty of Majora was a bit dissapointing, but I liked the psychedelic, creepy atmosphere during the fight.

Majora's Mask just goes a different way and explores different, new themes, which was the right thing to do in my opinion. Indeed it is much less straight forward than OoT and it misses a few basic things, but that's not a problem. It's awesome the way it is and has a very interesting, unique concept with the time travelling thing and the impending apocalypse.

I think the time traveling concept was what made it great. Many things happened depending on the time and it gives you a chance to keep going back and seeing how things go elsewhere.

Indeed. I've seldom seen a game that applied the time travelling idea as well as Majora's Mask did.

Oh yes, that was another story element which wasn't explained in that much detail if I remember correctly. They could definately dedicate a whole game to that.

Yeah, the most we knew about it was a great war ages ago. It's one that can definitely be explained better to give it a better storyline. There's only a thing or two I'd change in FFVI but they're really minor.

I'm still unsure about whether I liked the second half of the game or not. The part where you have to gather all your party members again from all over the world before you can go to Kefka's Tower. It did sort of take the pace out of the games story.

At 3/20/11 10:19 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/19/11 05:05 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/18/11 05:02 AM, Coop wrote:

Sadly I can't say I'm familiar with them, although I have heard of the three stooges. They seem to have an almost legendary status nowadays and when I first heard of them I thought they were from some famous old book :p

I'm not overly familiar with them, I just catch a scene or two ever once in a while on YouTube

I thought you'd know much about them, but I guess they're also well before your time.

At 3/22/11 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/21/11 01:03 PM, Odyssic wrote: I think I'm the only one who doesn't like last.fm?

As far as I'm concerned, reverend, Auz and Coop don't have Last.fm accounts.

Nope I do not.

At 3/22/11 12:55 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/11/11 05:41 PM, Auz wrote: But I suppose Amsterdam's reputation as a coffee shop capital is bigger than Hamburgs reputation as a sex club valhalla.

But you should've heard about the Kaiserkeller and the Star-Club, if you are a Beatles fan. Those bars are located in the red light district.

I can't say I have and my gf, who knows way more about the Beatles than I do, says that doesn't ring any bells either. What do they have to do with the Beatles?

Also, I thought the Reeperbahn was something that is know across national borders.

Well I think we think that 'de Wallen' are world famous as well, but I doubt they are.

Lol, so that's like Hamburgs Moulin Rouge? :p

Except for that the Reeperbahn is a lot bigger than the Moulin Rouge since it's a whole street and just one building. ^^

... Weird. I thought the Moulin Rouge was a street, but now I remember that I actually walked past that place during one of my trips to Paris.

But to be honest, I try to avoid the Reeperbahn during the week ends. Much too crowded.

Lol! Not the place to be then if you don't want your wife, family or friends to find out :p

True, but you're still better off using an old fashioned dictionary (or an online one).

Yes, but sometimes those won't help as well.

True as well. Fortunately I only have to look up English words and I can just type in the phrase I think is correct on Google. Then I'll see if it is commonly said or not so that I know whether it's correct.

That sucks. It's a good thing airports have restaurants and shopping malls nowadays.

Yeah, we had to switch airports anyway (from Gatwick to Heathrow... or the other way round, can't remember ^^) and then we had a second breakfast. And then we could look around in the shops for a very long time. ^^

Luckily the public transport in London is awesome, so you can get from one place to the other very quickly.

How people can make a living out of that is beyond me. Though I suppose if they are 'one of the few' in the country, they'd always turn to them if anything interesting happens at the palace.

But that's the thing: It never happens anything interesting. I mean William is getting married now... so what? No reason to get overly excited. But most likely there will be a 5 hour report on TV, on ALL of the major stations...

Oh yes, I remember a report on TV about it which was only the announcement that they were getting married. Interviews with the parents and all. I kinda laughed at how the father of the girl had to read his (very simple) speech to the press from a piece of paper. That's about all I've seen from it though.

Level 29.

40,000 B/P points

Time on NG: 8 year(s), 0 month(s) and 0 day(s) (=2921 days)

My sign up date isn't for another two days it looks like....so....I guess NG Logs is just confused. Nonetheless I caught it in Ng Logs PLUS two days is the real NG birthday :D

At 3/22/11 11:41 PM, SeeD419 wrote: Time on NG: 8 year(s), 0 month(s) and 0 day(s) (=2921 days)

My sign up date isn't for another two days it looks like....so....I guess NG Logs is just confused. Nonetheless I caught it in Ng Logs PLUS two days is the real NG birthday :D

Thats strange. I wonder how that happened. Couldn't be leap year messing it up I wouldn't think since nglogs got my 4th ng birthday correct.

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11,000 Experience