on the subject of the watch battery, when my wife gets angry it drains her watch batteries. And she does not game whatsoever no matter how hard i've tried. we've been married 13 years. as for me i marinated in it for quite some time and that may still play an effect.
since we're on this subject who else thinks that electricity is/should be considered the 5th element?
since we're on this subject who else thinks that electricity is/should be considered the 5th element?
I... I thought the fifth element was loooooooooooove.
::Retch::
What a way to kill a perfectly good movie. Ending with that tired old love is the power that will save us from the superpowered baddie convention. Mila feels love and vomits away a flaming moon sized meteor. May one suggest that even a silly futuristic fantasy can at times be too implausible?
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I've mentioned this phenomena on bigger forums than this. No one disputed to claim but no one could relate either.
I've only met one other person who killed battery watches. A lady in her fifties.
So why are so many of us affected? Don't mean to be cutesy by suggesting a gamer connection... but I have to voice suprise at the oddness of running into so many people in one hobby-oriented place with a like, yet so unlikely a circumstance.
I made a watch run backwards once.
I made a watch run backwards once.
I can't compete with that but once I ran backwards and people watched.
I was sitting next to a projector then it exploded
I have had only one bizzare electrinics experience. I had gotten a new CD player, and after being around me for only 12 hours, it refused to realize that I had put CDs in it. I call it my autistic CD player.
I guess it just didn't like my music or something.
I... I thought the fifth element was loooooooooooove.
NO! The 5th element is COSMOS, not Leelu Dallas!
For those of you who saw that letter in (was it dungeon or dragon?)
I made a watch run backwards once.
I can't compete with that but once I ran backwards and people watched.
I can run forwards pretty fast.
I can run forwards pretty fast.
You sound like a sprinter. Your 100M dash time?
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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What a way to kill a perfectly good movie. Ending with that tired old love is the power that will save us from the superpowered baddie convention. Mila feels love and vomits away a flaming moon sized meteor. May one suggest that even a silly futuristic fantasy can at times be too implausible?
I'm confused. Do you mean to say that you were watching some other, perfectly good movie and then that movie was interupted by the 5th Element? Because there's no greater injustice to the English language than to say that what came before the terrible ending of the 5th Element was good.
That movie is worse than Stargate, which is saying a lot.
I'm confused. Do you mean to say that you were watching some other, perfectly good movie and then that movie was interupted by the 5th Element? Because there's no greater injustice to the English language than to say that what came before the terrible ending of the 5th Element was good.That movie is worse than Stargate, which is saying a lot.
Stargate felt like a week in Turkish prison. To go all the way across the universe to encounter the alien... no wait, people. I traveled across the universe to find Egyptians. Well, at least they saved all that money on sfx make-up.
Fifth Element was a wacky, cartoonish, and out there kind of film and yes, I was along for the ride with a coke and a smile, Seb. Up until the resolution and denoument. Then I cursed the world and grumbled my way home. I saw it in the theatres and it played big on the big screen.
After enduring the perpetual wave of cinematic carbon copies, I always have an extra appeciation for a movie that attempts to do its own thing. That said, still not a fan of Tank Girl or the Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.
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This roommate of one of my friends' came up to me while watching Stargate and goes, "so, that chick in Stargate is pretty fine, isn't she, Heath?"
I didn't want to mess him up so I was like, "uhh...that's a guy. He was in the Crying Game."
Everybody busted out laughing and said to him, "you're the ONLY one to fall for it, dude!!!"
He was like, "DAMMIT!!!"
(lol)
This roommate of one of my friends' came up to me while watching Stargate and goes, "so, that chick in Stargate is pretty fine, isn't she, Heath?"
I didn't want to mess him up so I was like, "uhh...that's a guy. He was in the Crying Game."
Everybody busted out laughing and said to him, "you're the ONLY one to fall for it, dude!!!"
He was like, "DAMMIT!!!"
I saw the crying game with a girlfriend and my friend Dave when it came out. I got that Jay was a dude right off, but kept my mouth shut. Only 20 minutes into the movie Dave whispered, "She's got lips you just want to kiss."
When she eventually pulled out her schlong I watched him shrink miserably in his seat. It was a precious precious moment and I never want to forget it.
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After enduring the perpetual wave of cinematic carbon copies, I always have an extra appeciation for a movie that attempts to do its own thing. That said, still not a fan of Tank Girl or the Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.
Jade! Say it ain't so! Defending the 5th Element and *gasp* not liking Tank Girl.
I guess I can see the later. I caught it on cable the other day and it wasn't the glorious movie I recalled from my bygone youth. Maybe it's one of those movies that require a certain frame of mind - one that can only be induced by youth or certain herbal supplements.
After enduring the perpetual wave of cinematic carbon copies, I always have an extra appeciation for a movie that attempts to do its own thing. That said, still not a fan of Tank Girl or the Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.Jade! Say it ain't so! Defending the 5th Element and *gasp* not liking Tank Girl.
I guess I can see the former. I caught it on cable the other day and it wasn't the glorious movie I recalled from my bygone youth. Maybe it's one of those movies that require a certain frame of mind - one that can only be induced by youth or certain herbal supplements.
Lol... hey, now I enjoy kangaroo soldiers as much as anyone, but what's her name just didn't sell it for me. That said, all my girlpower friends dug it like archaeologists.
I can see how herbs and Stargate, 5th element, or Tank Girl may have meshed well. Where were you when I needed you?
I like fine cinema, and I like schlock. It's hard to know with me. Film by film basis. I really liked Beerfest. Go figure.
Off wacky and/or dumb Sci Fi movies and back to the important topic of electicity. It has been postulated by some scientists that there is a connection between static electricity and spontaneous human combustion and that those people who carry around a big static electric charge are more likely to die a horrible flaming death.
I hope that brightens the mood! ;-)
You sound like a sprinter. Your 100M dash time?
I can run forwards pretty fast.
Actually I run distance. I can't sprint worth a damn unless I've run at least 700m first. 1500m or 3100m would be better. I've never clocked my kicks, but they're not half bad, I'm told.[/ego]
Off wacky and/or dumb Sci Fi movies and back to the important topic of electicity. It has been postulated by some scientists that there is a connection between static electricity and spontaneous human combustion and that those people who carry around a big static electric charge are more likely to die a horrible flaming death.
I hope that brightens the mood! ;-)
Spontaneous combustion has more to do with having breathed in powdered lye. It's best if you've got lots of bacon fat beneath your skin for the flame's consumption. Within twenty years everyone will know that as fact. I'm ahead of my time.
Actually I run distance. I can't sprint worth a damn unless I've run at least 700m first. 1500m or 3100m would be better. I've never clocked my kicks, but they're not half bad, I'm told.[/ego]
I'm a distance guy myself but never pushed myself past a five minute mile. That just seemed to be about as fast as my heart wanted to go. Ever. I can still run a five minute mile, even if I haven't been running for a while. So I may not be Mercury, but at least I'm consistent.
Off wacky and/or dumb Sci Fi movies and back to the important topic of electicity. It has been postulated by some scientists that there is a connection between static electricity and spontaneous human combustion and that those people who carry around a big static electric charge are more likely to die a horrible flaming death.
I hope that brightens the mood! ;-)
There's also a connection between SHC and the phenomenon known as "ball lightining". It can do amazing things like float into homes and incinerate old ladies.
NO! The 5th element is COSMO'S... Leelu Dallas!No comment.
No, no, no. The proper nerdy response to that would have been "but does Cosmo have a multipass."
I like yours too, though.
BTW: do you have a multipass?
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I have had only one bizzare electrinics experience. I had gotten a new CD player, and after being around me for only 12 hours, it refused to realize that I had put CDs in it. I call it my autistic CD player.
I guess it just didn't like my music or something.
I owned a CD player once that was supposed to display the song title on a little LCD panel. After about an hour with yours truly, it would only display the vowels. And occasionally, they had umlauts (sp?) over them.
Example: IA IA IAOA IOEAAUEA IA UEAEEEIA
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I... I thought the fifth element was loooooooooooove.
NO! The 5th element is COSMOS, not Leelu Dallas!
Fire! Earth! Wind! Water! Heart! We're the Planeteers and you can be one too! 'Cos saving our planet is the thing to do! Looting and polluting is not the way! Hear what Captain Planet has to say! The Power is Yours!
Captain Planet- he's a Hero! He cuts pollution down to Zero!
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My god, I just got taken back to a horrible place: 1994.
I... I thought the fifth element was loooooooooooove.
NO! The 5th element is COSMOS, not Leelu Dallas!
Fire! Earth! Wind! Water! Heart! We're the Planeteers and you can be one too! 'Cos saving our planet is the thing to do! Looting and polluting is not the way! Hear what Captain Planet has to say! The Power is Yours!
Captain Planet- he's a Hero! He cuts pollution down to Zero!
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My god, I just got taken back to a horrible place: 1994.
GET OUT OF THERE MR. SHINY GET OUT OF THERE 1994 NO GOOD PLACE!!
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OK, new strange happening today:
At the TV station, I was hooking up a monitor to a VCR. I found that if I turned the volume to a number >20 and stood at a certain angle to the monitor, it would feed back. Loudly. Really loudly. I mean, it sounded like there was a freakin' banshee in the room.
I spent about fifteen minutes annoying one of my co-workers, and nobody told me to stop, because nobody likes the guy. Finally, I got bored and moved out of the way.
Good times, good times.
OK, new strange happening today:
At the TV station, I was hooking up a monitor to a VCR. I found that if I turned the volume to a number >20 and stood at a certain angle to the monitor, it would feed back. Loudly. Really loudly. I mean, it sounded like there was a freakin' banshee in the room.
I spent about fifteen minutes annoying one of my co-workers, and nobody told me to stop, because nobody likes the guy. Finally, I got bored and moved out of the way.
Good times, good times.
To really freak them out, have them stand there, and if it doesn't happen for them they shall fear you.
When I walk past active studio microphones sometimes there's a popping noise not unlike what happens when you put a cell phone by a mike.
To really freak them out, have them stand there, and if it doesn't happen for them they shall fear you.
When I walk past active studio microphones sometimes there's a popping noise not unlike what happens when you put a cell phone by a mike.
I know this sound. When I'm working at the theater, you can always tell when someone has left a cell phone on vibrate and they're getting a call, as the PortaCom headsets will make this sound.
I know this sound. When I'm working at the theater, you can always tell when someone has left a cell phone on vibrate and they're getting a call, as the PortaCom headsets will make this sound.
Like a Geiger counter on qualudes?
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I hadn't checked this thread in a while; I mentioned earlier that I generate other odd electrical effects that may be simply coincidence. These include but are not limited to: streetlights flashing on or off in my presence with a frequency that others have pointed out to me as abnormal, getting static shocks in workplaces with alarming frequency in places where none of my co-workers ever did (I actually sufferred what was essentially electroshock therapy at one place and could no longer open a door that my job required me to use frequently), killing watch batteries and cell phones, having broken electrical devices work in my presence, turning off a tape player from accross the room by saying 'stop!' being able to 'sense' when electrical devices are on (dimmer switches give me killer headaches) etc.
I once got an electric water pump working by fiddling with it. I had no clue what I was doing. It worked, but not very well. When the repairman came two days later he was baffled, because an internal fuse was blown and it shouldn't have been able to work.
When I was eight I got a bad shock from an electrical outlet trying to put in a plug with bent prongs. When I was 14 my electricity shop teacher intentional ran an electrical current through me strong enough to paralyze me. I also received numerous shocks from electric fences on the farm I grew up on (although thankfully I never fell for the classic farmboy and the electric fence trick).
Anyways, I think this lends a little more support to the theory that a big shock in childhood causes you to carry a big charge for life.
Craig Shackleton,
The Rambling Scribe
Like a Geiger counter on qualudes?
Yep, that's the sound.
being able to 'sense' when electrical devices are on (dimmer switches give me killer headaches) etc.
I've always been able to hear many of the high frequency hums emited by just about every modern electronic devices, particularly computers and monitors. I first noticed it as a child with CRTs and TV sets, but these days I can hear all kinds of hums.
I'm sure I'm missing some of them, as I've lost some hearing sensitivty over time, due to a love of loud music. (YAY TOOL!)
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I don't generate any electrical charge that isn't human base-line (that I know of), but I'm pretty convinced that my sweat is on the higher side of normal acidity. I will eat through a normal watchband in a couple of weeks... and were're talking big pits eroding from my acidic salts. It eats through leather bands even more quickly. I'm not saying that I'm gonna drip acid and make folks around me holler 'BUGHUNT!', but it is pretty annoying. I don't try to get good watches anymore, I just go for the $15 Wal-mart or Wal-mart analog cheapie. Which blows, because I hate cheap looking watches.
Like Rambling scribe dimmer lights have the potential to give me a headache, and like Sean, I can hear the squeal of electronic devices in other rooms and when I ask others about it, I'm the only one so suffering.
This is really wild. Who knew there were so many of us? It makes me feel more legitimized, like I can relate my experience and not feel like I'm a buffoon prattling on about super secret psychic powers.
Your card is the... eleventy of hoes!
I don't generate any electrical charge that isn't human base-line (that I know of), but I'm pretty convinced that my sweat is on the higher side of normal acidity. I will eat through a normal watchband in a couple of weeks... and were're talking big pits eroding from my acidic salts. It eats through leather bands even more quickly. I'm not saying that I'm gonna drip acid and make folks around me holler 'BUGHUNT!', but it is pretty annoying. I don't try to get good watches anymore, I just go for the $15 Wal-mart or Wal-mart analog cheapie. Which blows, because I hate cheap looking watches.
Now that's a different event altogether, Gav... but nonetheless fascinating. You suffer from the gelatinous cube creature template. Here's the test. Put a cupcake into your head. Does it melt away toward the center of you in mere seconds? If so, I'm afraid you sir are a half-gel.
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I don't generate any electrical charge that isn't human base-line (that I know of), but I'm pretty convinced that my sweat is on the higher side of normal acidity. I will eat through a normal watchband in a couple of weeks... and were're talking big pits eroding from my acidic salts. It eats through leather bands even more quickly. I'm not saying that I'm gonna drip acid and make folks around me holler 'BUGHUNT!', but it is pretty annoying. I don't try to get good watches anymore, I just go for the $15 Wal-mart or Wal-mart analog cheapie. Which blows, because I hate cheap looking watches.
Actually, I have this problem too. I used to buy watches at an alarming rate, and it was always a crap-shoot as to whether it would die first or get eaten away. Now I carry a pocket watch.
Actually, I have this problem too.
Half-gel.
What exactly are you implying about my mother?Half-gel.
Actually, I have this problem too.
Uh... er... um... nuttin? <:) Might wanna try the cupcake test though, to be sure.
My mom never makes cupcakes. Just Jell-o.
<:O
::backs away toward a big bag o' salt for Scribe's desluggifying::
This thread used to be interesting.
Then it got weird.
Now it's just hurtful.
This thread used to be interesting.
Then it got weird.
Now it's just hurtful.
Don't be hurt, dear wiggly riggly cube. We do not descriminate again your spineless kind here.
We just call a goo a goo, and you, my friend, are undoubtedly a goo.
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I hadn't checked this thread in a while; I mentioned earlier that I generate other odd electrical effects that may be simply coincidence. These include but are not limited to: streetlights flashing on or off in my presence with a frequency that others have pointed out to me as abnormal, getting static shocks in workplaces with alarming frequency in places where none of my co-workers ever did (I actually sufferred what was essentially electroshock therapy at one place and could no longer open a door that my job required me to use frequently)...
Reminds me of that scene from Office Space. Ever just wanted to remove the door handle?
Also, I seem to be immune to those prank 'shocking gum packs' et. al.