Annoying and Nekkid for the top!
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Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)
You are the master and we are but the students.
;-)
Ha!
I approve of this post.
Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)
You are the master and we are but the students.
;-)
Bah! My fellow Amerifawtlies will throw old hotdogs and rotten apple pies at me, but if the Queen gave me the nod (and a job), I'd yank my doodle out in a dandy and pop right across the pond to Mother Britannia. Strooth.
Watching On Stranger Tides. FINALLY.
Also, I hope everyone will go see The Woman in Black.
Um, where the hell did mermaids get web? They're half jorogoumo?
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I'm still waiting for The Eldritch Mr. Shiny Prizes alias.
<whistles>
Ask and you shall receive.
Not enough mermaid action in PoC:OST. Also, clearly we are getting a fourth movie.
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Looking good that the family and I will be at PaizoCon this year. Although from the hotel discussion looks like we will have to squeeze into a room with a king size bed and roll away. And banquet tickets are gone :( Unfortunately, I was not in a position to buy tickets until now. Thank you new job.
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Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)
You are the master and we are but the students.
;-)
I haven't laughed that hard at a post in a while.
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CJ: Per usual, the order in which one does these things is crucial, both in the logic of English sentence structure, and in the real life consequences.
Looking good that the family and I will be at PaizoCon this year. Although from the hotel discussion looks like we will have to squeeze into a room with a king size bed and roll away. And banquet tickets are gone :( Unfortunately, I was not in a position to buy tickets until now. Thank you new job.
If you're willing to drive PM me. ;)
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I bought myself Space Battleship Yamato from the DVD shop the other day... It was ok, a little too much exposition and conversation and not enough action.
I bought it because as a kid we used to watch Starblazers...
Bah! My fellow Amerifawtlies will throw old hotdogs and rotten apple pies at me, but if the Queen gave me the nod (and a job), I'd yank my doodle out in a dandy and pop right across the pond to Mother Britannia. Strooth.Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)
You are the master and we are but the students.
;-)
Throws less savory things than apple pie and hot dogs
Lizzie lover!
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Looking good that the family and I will be at PaizoCon this year. Although from the hotel discussion looks like we will have to squeeze into a room with a king size bed and roll away. And banquet tickets are gone :( Unfortunately, I was not in a position to buy tickets until now. Thank you new job.If you're willing to drive PM me. ;)
We briefly thought about driving, but if we buy tickets soon we will be able to fly.
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We briefly thought about driving, but if we buy tickets soon we will be able to fly.Looking good that the family and I will be at PaizoCon this year. Although from the hotel discussion looks like we will have to squeeze into a room with a king size bed and roll away. And banquet tickets are gone :( Unfortunately, I was not in a position to buy tickets until now. Thank you new job.If you're willing to drive PM me. ;)
Huzzah! Looking forward to meeting you.
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Morning FAWTLY Folk! Charlie had a good night, although mom had to get up to feed him around 0430 to try and put him back to sleep a bit longer. And, since I'm feeling 100% better today, it's back to work. But we've got a three day weekend coming up! Huzzah for President's Day!
Yeah, we just behave badly when we visit. Oh and export our crappiest tv shows to them and then laugh when they like them.
Australians make TV shows? Since when? ;) See I could make a list of BBC shows that are or were worth watching. Some of them only a single series worth which blows my mind but hey FOX canceled Firefly so anything is possible. Oh and there is what a single Canadian TV series despite the export for years of quality actors, or well actors, um guys who played on Star Trek.
Bah! My fellow Amerifawtlies will throw old hotdogs and rotten apple pies at me, but if the Queen gave me the nod (and a job), I'd yank my doodle out in a dandy and pop right across the pond to Mother Britannia. Strooth.Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)
You are the master and we are but the students.
;-)
No part of me is descended from the English, why should I care what the Queen nods at?
Morning FAWTLY Folk! Charlie had a good night, although mom had to get up to feed him around 0430 to try and put him back to sleep a bit longer. And, since I'm feeling 100% better today, it's back to work. But we've got a three day weekend coming up! Huzzah for President's Day!
Do president's brains taste the same as everyone else's? Or, do they just give you gas and leave you wanting?
I am descended from folks dispossessed, starved and transported to foreign shores in the name of the Hanoverians, so they can suck it. No sovereign! \M/O.O\M/
I bought myself Space Battleship Yamato from the DVD shop the other day... It was ok, a little too much exposition and conversation and not enough action.
I bought it because as a kid we used to watch Starblazers...
was thinking about getting this myself. Need to get Macross 7 first. Or the Macross Frontier movie.
Yeah, we just behave badly when we visit. Oh and export our crappiest tv shows to them and then laugh when they like them.Australians make TV shows? Since when? ;) See I could make a list of BBC shows that are or were worth watching. Some of them only a single series worth which blows my mind but hey FOX canceled Firefly so anything is possible. Oh and there is what a single Canadian TV series despite the export for years of quality actors, or well actors, um guys who played on Star Trek.
One of their few wise moves over the years. Also, I heard that Australian version of ER was awesome.
hi everyone
Yeah, we just behave badly when we visit. Oh and export our crappiest tv shows to them and then laugh when they like them.Australians make TV shows? Since when? ;) See I could make a list of BBC shows that are or were worth watching. Some of them only a single series worth which blows my mind but hey FOX canceled Firefly so anything is possible. Oh and there is what a single Canadian TV series despite the export for years of quality actors, or well actors, um guys who played on Star Trek.
when I was younger we had Neighbours (with Kyle minouge) and some family sidcom from down under (something about an architect and his daughters)
today we have McLouds Daughters.and of course we had CrocHunter
Looking good that the family and I will be at PaizoCon this year. Although from the hotel discussion looks like we will have to squeeze into a room with a king size bed and roll away. And banquet tickets are gone :( Unfortunately, I was not in a position to buy tickets until now. Thank you new job.
huzzah, I am looking foreward to meet you Tordek
Yeah, we just behave badly when we visit. Oh and export our crappiest tv shows to them and then laugh when they like them.Australians make TV shows? Since when? ;) See I could make a list of BBC shows that are or were worth watching. Some of them only a single series worth which blows my mind but hey FOX canceled Firefly so anything is possible. Oh and there is what a single Canadian TV series despite the export for years of quality actors, or well actors, um guys who played on Star Trek.when I was younger we had Neighbours (with Kyle minouge) and some family sidcom from down under (something about an architect and his daughters)
today we have McLouds Daughters.
and of course we had CrocHunter
Don't forget the Flying Doctors (or, wait, that one was actually quite good), which I know was shown in Germany since we watched an episode or two there in 1992 or '97 (laughing a bit at the occasional huge disconnect between the German voice-actors' voice and that of the actual aussie actors').
Economics
Margin Call tries to make clear the reason for the problems at Unnamed Investment Bank, but whenever someone starts getting into the details it sounds like: "Well, sir, we're now leveraged up to our historical volatility index limits, and if you cross the streams in the flux capacitor Skynet will become self-aware at 2.14am Eastern Time." At least, that's what I wrote in my notes. I may have drifted off for a minute. So impossible is it to set out what's going on without immediately boring and confusing the audience that both Paul Bettany and Kevin Spacey have to ask Peter to explain it "in English". Finally they summon the big boss, John Tuld (Jeremy Irons), whose name hints that he may be based on real-life former Lehman CEO Dick Fuld. "Speak as you might to a small child," Tuld tells Peter. "Or as you would to a golden retriever." Unfortunately, it turns out that even faced with a golden retriever Peter would yammer on about things like trading security, product layering and market capitalisation. Maybe he's a cat person.
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Responsibility
Perhaps no feature-length film can hope to convey what happened at Lehman Brothers, which was sufficiently complex to fill nine volumes of a court examiner's report in 2010. Margin Call manages to get it across that Unnamed Investment Bank has bought too many subprime mortgage assets and those have now turned out to be toxic, but it underplays the crisis in the rest of the banking sector at the time. Nor does the human drama ever hit the high pitch it needs, bearing in mind that this film has no sex, no violence, no explosions and no velociraptors – even though just a couple of those released into the boardroom would really have livened things up. It's just a lot of obscenely rich people standing around wearing suits, looking mildly disgruntled because they've just broken the world. Historically speaking, of course, this is realistic.[/b]
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Don't forget the Flying Doctors (or, wait, that one was actually quite good), which I know was shown in Germany since we watched an episode or two there in 1992 or '97 (laughing a bit at the occasional huge disconnect between the German voice-actors' voice and that of the actual aussie actors').Yeah, we just behave badly when we visit. Oh and export our crappiest tv shows to them and then laugh when they like them.Australians make TV shows? Since when? ;) See I could make a list of BBC shows that are or were worth watching. Some of them only a single series worth which blows my mind but hey FOX canceled Firefly so anything is possible. Oh and there is what a single Canadian TV series despite the export for years of quality actors, or well actors, um guys who played on Star Trek.when I was younger we had Neighbours (with Kyle minouge) and some family sidcom from down under (something about an architect and his daughters)
today we have McLouds Daughters.
and of course we had CrocHunter
Voice-over actors crack me up. The best was when I was in Quebec and I saw an episode of the Simpsons translated into French. Marge sounded like some sort of elderly Parisian prostitute.
Boo! Hiss!
Come on! Let's try to keep that kind of crap out of the FAWTLY threads!
Funnily phrased movie-reviews?
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Voice-over actors crack me up. The best was when I was in Quebec and I saw an episode of the Simpsons translated into French. Marge sounded like some sort of elderly Parisian prostitute.
She was née Bouvier ;)
Let's hope. Maybe I'll be gaming with Freehold soon :)
woot, dood!
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Funnily phrased movie-reviews?Boo! Hiss!
Come on! Let's try to keep that kind of crap out of the FAWTLY threads!
Yeah, but being a finance-related thing, you know even the most ardent attempts at humor can still draw the politrolls like flies on s*~@. Best to keep it out of here and sequestered in places that can be hidden away.
I'm sorry man. Salary questions asked at the interview level may become illegal one day, I heard somewhere.
I just hope I didn't low-ball my salary requirements. I found out that the maximum salary available for the position is about 80% higher than what I requested. Salary questions are a trap...
Twas skynet becoming self aware, dood. I didn't see anything political about it.
Yeah, but being a finance-related thing, you know even the most ardent attempts at humor can still draw the politrolls like flies on s+*!. Best to keep it out of here and sequestered in places that can be hidden away.Funnily phrased movie-reviews?Boo! Hiss!
Come on! Let's try to keep that kind of crap out of the FAWTLY threads!
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Twas skynet becoming self aware, dood. I didn't see anything political about it.Yeah, but being a finance-related thing, you know even the most ardent attempts at humor can still draw the politrolls like flies on s+*!. Best to keep it out of here and sequestered in places that can be hidden away.Funnily phrased movie-reviews?Boo! Hiss!
Come on! Let's try to keep that kind of crap out of the FAWTLY threads!
Probably that mention of Lehman Brothers that has my eye twitching.
And speaking of the Simpsons
my favorite are the x-files episode and Lisa becoming vegeterian