I didn't find it particularly funny, but okay.
I didn't find it particularly funny, but okay.
Bummer; I liked him.
Scrivs said:
I just don't even know what to say.
How about "who cares"? If Britney were like any other person, no one would care about this; they wouldn't even know about it.
The cool part is, Britney is just like any other person. Stupid, famous person and family continue stupidity; check. Back to regular business.
I'm not able to watch it currently; the Quicktime installation at the university seems to be borked.
However, I must say: I wonder if that site could get some more ads? Damn.
@Nils: Nope, all of my other Flash stuff has been working fine. Thanks for the tip, though.
@Tyme: I tried a bunch of diff. songs, including ones that were on the "top songs" list or whatever. All of 'em did the same thing. :(
I'm not sure if it's on their end, or if I have terrible powers that have yet to be unleashed, but I seem to have killed the site - at least for myself. I can search for music, get results, click play - and nothing happens. It says "loading..." then "playing...", but on my end, there's not much "hearing..." going on.
Anyone else experience this?
@Tyme: Wow. Those make the ones I've "received" look rather simplistic. It makes me wonder - how do they come up with those? I'm imagining a bunch of guys sitting around, saying things like "No, no, we should do the finger slide and then the knuckle tap, not the other way round!"
I think I'll stick with my grasp and pump method. :)
@hthth & @Tyme: I'm glad to know you got a laugh out of it.
The first few times it happened, I know I look baffled. "What the hell is this guy doing to my hand?"
In all seriousness, can someone explain to me what that style of handshake means? Is it gang related? I ask, because if men of my generation got a memo dictating the new rules for The Handshake, I didn't receive one. It hasn't happened recently, but when it does, I just have to let the other guy "lead," for lack of a better word. I don't know the right steps / moves for the handshake, so I have to put my hand in his and let him have at it.
That's pretty hilarious - mostly because it's true, just as others mentioned.
This makes me think of a problem I've had the past few years: I apparently no longer understand how to shake hands. It used to be, when I met a fellow adult male, we would both extend our hands, grasp them together, and give a short pump or two. That was it.
Now when I try to shake hands with guys my age, they try to have finger-sex with me or something. They slap the top of my hand, they show me their palm, the shake slides out where only our fingers are held together. I just don't get it.
I vote we return to our old handshaking ways. They're far simpler.
Mike's going to get up this morning, hit Notes, and probably scream.
DL's character never did much for me. Even though he appeared quite a bit, the development of the character never went very far. When he died it was basically (for me): "eh, okay. Moving along."
@hthth: HRG does indeed stand fro Horn Rimmed Glasses (as Erin already confirmed). I became familiar with the acronym as it was used in TV Guide, the magazine.
@all: I'm enjoying this second season, but I don't think I'm enjoying it as much as the first one. Some of the story lines just aren't doing much for me; some of the powers being introduced are just kind of blah. I wish they'd tighten in on the main storyline, and quit jumping around so much. Some of the episodes have actually left me a bit bewildered, trying to pull all of it together in my head.
It is, in a way, like Battlestar Galactica, Season 3: too much intermediary fluff, not enough advancement of the main plot. Yes, we know, people who find pictures with a red symbol over their face = they're going to die. Next plot piece, please. Season 1 of Heroes suffered a bit from this, and as I recall, a lot of people complained about it; it would appear the makers didn't learn their lesson.
Advance the main plot! Forward!
I love HRG; like hthth, I find him a fascinating character. Hiro is also a close second for me, for comedic reasons.
Also like you lot, the Mexican pair isn't doing mch for me. Too political in nature, and their power(s) is/are.. well, lame. The black, bleedy eyes rate an 11 on my 1-10 cheese factor scale.
I wish Sylar would be knocked off for good. His low montone oh-so-scary voice is no longer scary, it's just annoying. He's whiny, and he needs to shave that unibrow in half.
Can you tell I'm bored to death of his nonsense?
Hah, Gnorb. :P
Funny pictures; I quite liked this one. When I first saw the groom, I thought it was just a Star Wars wedding, but when one looks deeper, it's.. well, I'm honestly not sure WTF it is, heh. On the left, I see a pirate (?) and a "wench"; on the right, I see a sci-fi thing - pretty sure it's not Star Wars - and, of all things, Spider-Man.
I was a bit let down to find that there wasn't a shot of a Lord of the Rings wedding, though. :(
The first time I looked through the pictures, it was "well, okay, that's interesting."
Then I went back and really compared what his face started out looking like, with that of how it looked like at the end.
What - the - frak?
shadowsun7 said:
Imagine the tragedy, though. The Grindewald - Dumbledore fight could've matched that famous "I AM YOUR FATHER" Skywalker battle, had she covered it.
Heh. "I AM YOUR LOVER!"? Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, I'm afraid.
I just realized that Dumbledore lost usage of one of his hands, just like ol' Luke. Maybe the Big D. is a blend of Gandalf and Luke Skywalker; then again, Dumbledore didn't whine much, so the Luke strand can't be that thick.
I'm with Cappucino. I just recently finished reading the series (not just the last book; I read them all within a rather short time frame), and I just don't see it. Certainly, there wasn't anything in the book that said, "Hey, Dumbledore isn't gay" - there was nothing about him dating girls or being interested in a woamn - but on the other hand, there wasn't anything that I saw that pointed to him being gay, either. Dumbledore was, if anything, a Gandalf rip-off - highly intelligent, a bit (okay, maybe more than a bit) eccentric, somewhat aloof at times. I've not seen Christopher Tolkien stating that, yes indeed, Gandalf was actually gay.
Ultimately, this just sounds like a marketing ploy to me. Maybe it's not, and maybe Rowling intended Dumbledore to be gay all along, and just let it out of the bag now for a bit of publicity; but I'm not buying that much. The proof is in the pudding (in this case, the books), and the books don't point to Big D. (heh) being gay.
@Ollie: Agreed, I was surprised to reach almost the bottom of this note and not see Schindler's List. I also liked the Gladiator soundtrack, along with all of the music from the Lord of the Rings films.
Being a former trumpet player, I may now cry. I thought you were serious.
Then again, I suppose that WAS pretty unbelievable...
edit: Just noticed what area you posted this in...
While I suppose it's unlikely, I've always thought that Admiral Adama would be an interesting twist, as the fifth and final Cylon.
In that shot, you look an awful lot like Gregory House from the TV show, House.
Pretty sure I did it like that, but let's try again:
edit: Cheers, Oli. Now everyone can see my honking nose.
Can you clarify on "straight image link", Scrivs? I've tried img src, just pasting the image URL, etc. Nothin' works.
publicenergy - how'd you include that image in your first post? I've tried a few variations on img src, and it still isn't working. Grr!
I don't know if I'd win a biggest nose competition, but I think I'd be at least decent competition:
edit... hmm. I tried using an img src code to include a pic of myself, but Notes ate the code.
lol. Not what I meant. I was implying you Photoshopped a picture of yourself to get that big ol' nose. ;)
It loses something in the explanation...
Hmm. Did you Photoshop that? I think you did...
Nothing at the moment - I'm studying ancient Indian history at the moment for a test tomorrow - but later? Heroes.
Um.. a few things:
* Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
* Medieval Europe: A Short History
* Touching Peace
* Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
* Absalom, Absalom!
* A variety of texts for school
I suddenly feel a bit like Hermione...
Nah, I'd say her star has definitely seen its highest point. From what I've seen (and that's not much - I don't follow pop culture very much), she's in the news now more as a running joke, not as a real star. Last I saw, she'd missed her kid's birthday to have a big "comeback" concert, where she was damn near naked, tossing about her chubby stomach. Nothing wrong with a chubby stomach, mind - I've got one! - but I also don't dress in skin tight clothing and then dance around on stage. :)
@All BSG fans: Yeah, I know it isn't being "axed" exactly, but rather coming to a respectable end. And I, like others, applaud that. One more season will let them wrap up the storyline and close the curtain, before having dragged out the show for far too long (ER, Simpsons, etc., I'm looking at you).
I'm certainly not angry about them killing it after this final season - I think it really does need to happen, especially after how mediocre most of season 3 was (season 2 was AMAZING) - but I will miss it. Guess I'll have to find another science fiction show to fall in love with.
I suppose I could continue watching all of the old seasons of SG1, which I've never seen. I'm at the beginning of season 2 now.
Farscape. That was my favorite show ever, and then the axe came.
Battlestar Galactica, while not gone yet, has 1 season left, then they're axeing it.
» Is this dancing? ... Last Reply: 10 months ago by Vidar.
That's not dance, it's sex without penetration. I would label myself as liberal (perhaps extremely liberal), but I think those "dances" cross way too many boundaries. Even if they were adults, I'd call it tasteless crap; that they're not even adults makes it awful. Where are their parents?
As a parent, if I found my son doing that with friends, I'd feel pretty bad; wouldn't it reflect on me that I'd made a serious blunder in raising him? Perfection is impossible, but I hope that when my son gets older, I will have done a good enough job with him that he knows that that is NOT dancing, and it is NOT something he should be doing - not until he's an adult and has moved out of the house, at any rate.
Going to have to go with RightOn, Michael: WTF? What is that supposed to mean? Our society is growing more complex and competitive, and so we should expect 14 and 15 year olds to act like that on video, and then post it to the internet?
If that's the case, maybe the doomsayers are right. Maybe our society is headed for the garbage.