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@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
The other option is to sell all your possessions and buy a fabulous jewel, which the dwarves in the moutains set into a bracer, worn on your right arm with a ‘Wizards Lock’ spell cast upon it so that only you can remove it. I learned that playing AD&D.
Although being crack addicts they’d probably saw off your arm.
lol, When I played AD&D it was us that would do the sawing… anything for a bit of xp 🙄
You could always steal his crack, chain him up and employ him as the household gimp for washing-up duties.
This is pretty cool (from the same place) but as you say, odd. It’s a compilation of loads of stuff he posted on b3ta:
Book was awesome – with a cast like that I reckon the film could be good too – looking forward to it.
@=XDC= Minti wrote:
Personally I think the woman driving thought the mechanics hand signals were inapropriate
PMSL
@TurksMeister wrote:
Just saw it – fucking awesome! didnt see that bit though… when was that?
When he was driving at some point… [can’t remember] Nothing to worry about, just a little detail I thought was pretty cool along with the staggered close-ups of his face when he goes mental and the scene where he’s got writing on his forehead. I checked the IMDB after I watched it and the writer-directors are a couple of cameramen which makes sense.
I can see why some of you didn’t like the ending (it considerably defied the rules of gravity for one thing) but it made me laugh and if you want to get all arty-pharty could be interpreted as the final piss-take in a movie that takes the piss out of the action genre from start to finish: as stellas said, the sex scene was classic.
‘ Loved it!Good luck mate,
I’ll add my little bit of advice: Allen Carr’s “The Only Way To Give Up Smoking Permanently”. It’s a book that allows you to smoke while you’re reading it. It deconstructs all the reasons that you continue to smoke; the tricks your addiction plays on you; and it slowly persuades you not to. There’s no battle of willpower or strung out addiction (as with patches as mentioned above), you just get to a point where you have your last cig and then quit. I can’t recommend it highly enough and everyone I know who read it managed to quit. They (like me) might have been stupid enough to start again at a later date and have to quit again [Captain Chronic ;)] but seriously, everyone I know who read it quit and did so for months.
If the patches work, brilliant. but if they don’t, don’t lose heart, and remember this book.The author recently died of lung-cancer but he was nearly always in smoking rooms running seminars on his method.
Once again, good luck.Admittedly I watched the trailer with the sound down [since I’m at work and forgot my headphones] but it didn’t look all that good to me.
Seems to be aimed firmly at the teenage market but I guess I can go with that. The Decepticons do look evil though.
Rooting around on the internet I found some pre-post-production footage – amazing what they do with SFX these days:
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
i read the daily mail from time to time………whats the problem? 😕
… i’ll help the fucker get over it……make him dig a hole then shoot the fucker! One less problem for society to have to deal with.
Nuff said, lol 😉
I’m not sure I can defend prisoner’s suing of prisons for making them go cold turkey but I will draw a parallel. I once tried to quit smoking [cigs] for a girlfriend and it was painful because I wasn’t doing it out of choice and ultimately I blamed her and went back to smoking. When I finally quit it was because of me. The nature of addiction is such that the only way you can get over it is if you persuade yourself of the need to quit. If what I read about cold turkey is true, it’s a pretty horrific experience. It could be said that essentially these people were tortured even though it was done to help them. There might have been more humane ways to help; I’m not really sure. Giving up smoking may be easy for some but for me it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done [and I spent a year studying martial arts with the Tokyo riot police to give you some perspective] so I can’t begin to imagine the horror of cold turkey from heroin.
The fact that the prison was trying to help these people is a valid argument but it is also an argument that the end justifies the means. Perhaps in this case it does. That’s something all of us have to decide as a society.
The problem with “The Daily Mail Perspective” [for me] is that it’s usually a knee-jerk response that almost never empathises with all the people involved. “Fuck the crims – what empathy do they deserve? What about the victims?”, you might say. The test for me in these situations is always, what if that were a child of mine? [not that I have any yet]. I certainly wouldn’t want my kid to remain addicted to heroin and cold turkey would be an option but one that might come after exhausting other possibilities [not sure if the prison did]. And if my kid had hurt someone to get themself in prison, that would be really, really bad but it wouldn’t remove their right to be treated as a human being.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a liberal apologist for criminals. If you break into my house, I will use violent methods and I will escalate all the way up to fatally violent methods to get you out of my house but that farmer that the Daily Mail supported a few years back, shotgunned a teenager in the back. He crossed a line and deserved some prison time as much as did the kid he killed. He didn’t treat that kid with any humanity.
As for the legalisation of drugs, I’d apply the same child-of-mine test to that too. If I found out that my daughter had turned to prostitution to feed her habit like those girls in Ipswich I would be gutted that we have a society that stigmatises addicts rather than pulls out all the stops to help them get well again. I would be gutted that chosing to sell her body was easier than seeking help and potential imprisonment. Humans experiment – it’s in our nature and sometimes people fuck up but I think we’d have a better society if we tried to help people out rather than criminalise them.
A lot is said [in forums like The Mail] about throwing money at Chavs and criminals having more rights than victims but I’m certain that’s not the case if you look at the problem from a certain perspective. Since globalisation and the loss of Britain’s industrial production we have huge urban zones of poor, white, unskilled unemployed that we belittle as Chavs instead of try to help. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of them are scum but unless you put money into welfare or education they will always be scum and a blight on our society. It strikes me that we can either try to help them and give them more opportunities to get out of their cycle of poverty [which takes money and acceptance that often it will fail], disown and stigmatise them and leave them to fester committing heinous crimes such as wearing Burberry or more extremely rid our society of them by euthanasia.
In that final [admittedly extreme and hypothetical] example, the end justifies the means if it rids society of the people who commit most of the crime. But the question that we all have to ask ourselves is what kind of society do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a society that doesn’t care about some of its members? That’s something we all have to decide.
Anyway to get back to the original point of this thread, the reason that made me post on here was an article I read yesterday about the couple who are being prosecuted for “dealing drugs”. You may suspect the article of left-wing bias due to its source but for me it clearly shows that these people were only trying to relieve the pain of others [and more crucially believed they were doing so within the law]. There is really no public interest served by prosecuting these people. All they were trying to do was help other people. This really does seem to be a travesty of justice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1975104,00.html
Well that’s me done. I’ve climbed off my pedestal and climbed on to my high horse of moral outrage and will now ride off into the sunset with a copy of the Guardian tucked under my woolly, liberal arm… yeehaaaah 🙂
[oh and if I were the judge, I’d accept that those prisoner’s rights had been breached but would rule that they forfeit any right to compensation by breaching their contract with society and ending up in prison]
Don’t think you need wireless with your setup mate. I’m pretty sure it’s my neighbour’s wireless that’s causing my skype to crash so I’d stick with a proper one unless you’re planning on getting a laptop.
Well watch it through whatever means you can get hold of it. I certainly didn’t feel cheated paying to watch it. I’m still buzzing from it 3 days later!
I just watched it in Japan. It can’t be the case that they released it over here before they do in England, can it?
Just got back from watching this at the cinema – well worth watching this on the big screen. The action scenes mentioned are awesome with proper surround sound so unless you have a home system, try to catch it at the cinema.
It has an almost all British cast, is set entirely in England, and has a thought provoking storyline.
Thoroughly enjoyed it and despite the grim storyline it even made me a little homesick.
😯