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[Uncle Ben]

[Uncle Ben]

So in The Stick of Truth you can get your character to look like David Hasselhoff

 

 

David fucking Hasselhoff

[Alextendo]

I am grump, and i'm not so grump, and we're the catgrump!

[MoKat]

Since I seem to be on a Skyrim kick this week...

[TheRedStranger]

Since I seem to be on a Skyrim kick this week...

 

Hey Mokat, ever played with mods?

 

[MoKat]

Heh, I'm stuck (offline) with the PS3 version of Legendary Edition, so modding is out of the question.  I -have- seen pics/videos of some amusing Skyrim mods in action tho'.

 

{edit: found another funny video ^.^}

[Uncle Ben]

Dont forget about Macho Man Randy Savage...

 

[TheRedStranger]

Dont forget about Macho Man Randy Savage...

 

 

And...

 

[Uncle Ben]

Dallas Stars Center Rich Peverley collapses on the Bench, Game Postponed

[TheRedStranger]

Dallas Stars Center Rich Peverley collapses on the Bench, Game Postponed

 

Cardiac Aryhtmia? That's horrible...

[Uncle Ben]

 

Dallas Stars Center Rich Peverley collapses on the Bench, Game Postponed

 

Cardiac Aryhtmia? That's horrible...

 

 

 

He had  the problem back in Boston as well, it hasnt stopped him from playing hockey. This shows what tough SoBs Hockey players are

[TheRedStranger]

 

 

Dallas Stars Center Rich Peverley collapses on the Bench, Game Postponed

 

Cardiac Aryhtmia? That's horrible...

 

 

 

He had  the problem back in Boston as well, it hasnt stopped him from playing hockey. This shows what tough SoBs Hockey players are

 

 

I pray all this smoothes out. It usually does with willful people. He probably just needs to get a pacemaker or a readjustment  and reevaluation of his medical needs.

 

Man, you should see the kids in Special Olympics. Many have physical disabilities but they can run a typical person into the ground athletically. I've worked with them for years and when you see a guy with no legs from the knee down run the 400 yard dash and get a gold medal in a state-wide championship…well it shows you how much people can achieve despite their predispositions. It’s something I believe we are losing in our deterministic and vainly entitled postmodern America. It doesn’t matter what way we are born, we can change and grow and change beyond that, and even become stronger because we had the incentive to do so. 

[furrykef]

Did you watch Jeopardy! a week ago? They had a blind guy on there, Eddie Timanus. He was a five-time champion in 1999, which was the maximum allowed back then, so he was undefeated until the 2000 Tournament of Champions. He didn't win this time around, but he had a decent shot at it, since he had the most money going into Final Jeopardy.

[Uncle Ben]

Did you watch Jeopardy! a week ago? They had a blind guy on there, Eddie Timanus. He was a five-time champion in 1999, which was the maximum allowed back then, so he was undefeated until the 2000 Tournament of Champions. He didn't win this time around, but he had a decent shot at it, since he had the most money going into Final Jeopardy.

 

Yea i heard about that.

[TheRedStranger]

Did you watch Jeopardy! a week ago? They had a blind guy on there, Eddie Timanus. He was a five-time champion in 1999, which was the maximum allowed back then, so he was undefeated until the 2000 Tournament of Champions. He didn't win this time around, but he had a decent shot at it, since he had the most money going into Final Jeopardy.

 

Case in point.

 

By the way...

 

Has anyone said thank you for all your hard work, yet?

 

Ogivile and you have done a lot for the community lately. It would be nice everyone showed their grattitude.

[furrykef]

Sure, but the satisfaction of a job well done is good enough for me.

BTW, speaking of Jeopardy!, today -- after I waited a whole week to see Arthur Chu play again -- they interrupted the end of Double Jeopardy! to report a fire. Then they cut back just in time for commercials, then when the commercials were through, they started the news five minutes early to cover the fire some more. I can understand interrupting Double Jeopardy!, annoying as that is, but could the news really not wait five minutes? Sheesh...

Unfortunately, our local Channel 4 pulls this crap all the time. We, the viewers, are their source of income, but in moments like this they throw us under the bus. And the worst part is they can get away with it because they know it's not going actually cost them money.

I wish I could figure out a good way (short of just torrenting Jeopardy! episodes or something) to cost them money anyway just so they'd stop doing it.

[TheRedStranger]

Sure, but the satisfaction of a job well done is good enough for me.

BTW, speaking of Jeopardy!, today -- after I waited a whole week to see Arthur Chu play again -- they interrupted the end of Double Jeopardy! to report a fire. Then they cut back just in time for commercials, then when the commercials were through, they started the news five minutes early to cover the fire some more. I can understand interrupting Double Jeopardy!, annoying as that is, but could the news really not wait five minutes? Sheesh...

Unfortunately, our local Channel 4 pulls this crap all the time. We, the viewers, are their source of income, but in moments like this they throw us under the bus. And the worst part is they can get away with it because they know it's not going actually cost them money.

I wish I could figure out a good way (short of just torrenting Jeopardy! episodes or something) to cost them money anyway just so they'd stop doing it.

 

 Well the consumers are sovereign (unless you are in the U.S.S.R ).  If you amassed a big enough mob. it would happen.

 

 Take for instance the case with McDonald’s and their controversy over the quality of their menu ever since Super Size Me and various other investigations. Government didn't make that happen, the consuming public did. Once people are aware of something's import they start to do something about it. 

 

Jeopardy! butchers the heart of my inner editor. When I read its proper name I feel like the speak has turrets syndrome.  Speaking of which...I one time yelled at the TV when watching teen jeopardy as a 13 year old. Why?

 

Catagory: Gods/Godesses

 

Answer: "Ra, Isis, Orisis."

 

Questioner: "What are the Norse Gods?"

 

What's the most stupid thing you've seen on Jeopardy!?

[ILOVEVHS]

[furrykef]

There have been some times I screamed "NO!" at a Jeopardy! contestant, but I don't remember any of them except today. The category was "dialects" and the clue was (paraphrasing from memory), "Kansai-ben is a dialect spoken in cities such as Osaka and Kyoto, which are on this Japanese island." The first guy to buzz in guessed, "What is Hokkaido?" Arthur Chu followed with the correct response, "What is Honshu?" I study Japanese (and, as it happens, my studies have included a bit of Kansai-ben), so I know that one pretty well. For what it's worth, Hokkaido doesn't have any cities most people have ever heard of, except maybe Sapporo. Honshu has most of the big cities, including Tokyo.

Obviously, I wouldn't expect most people to know the answer to that one at all, and at least he did name an island of Japan. But it strikes me as odd that he knew enough to know Hokkaido is a Japanese island, but not enough to know that there aren't really any famous cities on it.

[TheRedStranger]

There have been some times I screamed "NO!" at a Jeopardy! contestant, but I don't remember any of them except today. The category was "dialects" and the clue was (paraphrasing from memory), "Kansai-ben is a dialect spoken in cities such as Osaka and Kyoto, which are on this Japanese island." The first guy to buzz in guessed, "What is Hokkaido?" Arthur Chu followed with the correct response, "What is Honshu?" I study Japanese (and, as it happens, my studies have included a bit of Kansai-ben), so I know that one pretty well. For what it's worth, Hokkaido doesn't have any cities most people have ever heard of, except maybe Sapporo. Honshu has most of the big cities, including Tokyo.

Obviously, I wouldn't expect most people to know the answer to that one at all, and at least he did name an island of Japan. But it strikes me as odd that he knew enough to know Hokkaido is a Japanese island, but not enough to know that there aren't really any famous cities on it.

 

Hokkadio, like Okinawa, had a very unique culture before Japanese Imperialism as well. Ainu and their languages are surely very different than Honshu's Kansai-Ben and should be noticable to those wanting to study or answer questions in that field. Afterall they have a unique heritage. It's sad to see those languages, those unique forms of expression, growing more and more endangered.

 

Care to educate us on these differing dialects? If I recall the aforementioned accent is the "redneck" accent of Japan, correct?