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LOTR Campout Begins
Rocknalle writes: "As reported on The One Ring
queues have have already started lining up for The Fellowship Of The Ring. Team GladBlad (having placed themselves nr. 1-4 in the queue), are reporting live from the event via notebooks and and cellular networking (9.6 Kbps rules! :-). Visit GladBlad and see what happens when geeks goes outside." The other LOTR news I know of is a description of the journalistic teaser trailer. Salon seems to have liked what they saw.
Thanks for spreading the truth. I had no idea Jon Katz is a turdwhiff.
There ain't no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something.
there is always going to be *something* that is going to incite/intice die hard fans.
LOTR, Macs, Linux, BSD, Rocky Horror, ect.
Especially the latter, if you think about it. I've seen it and was somewhere between mildy amused and not impressed.
No matter how much you keep your mind open to possibilites, well, some things you'll never be able to explain...like riding a motorcycle..."If you don't know, I can't explain" pretty much sums it up.
Oh, metamoderators out there, we need to keep an eye out a little more...some fuckwit with mod points keeps modding down funny comments. Overrated/troll seems to be "favorite" choice...puns, dry humor, mixed metaphores, seem to be beyond this person(s) sub 70 IQ. It almost approaches censorship'esque levels.
If it is one person, his privelage needs to be revoked/rebuked, if it is many exibiting this moronic tendancy, it still does not make it right. Lack of a sense of humor is *thier* problem.
Sorry for the rant, it has been bugging the shit out of me lately. Just because *you* don't get it/like it does not mean it is not funny.
IMO (in Moose's opinion, naturally).
Heh, I also had a funny comment to post, but the rampant idiocy lately has made me think twice. Pardon the egotistical comment, but you don't get an additional +1 bonus for being a fricking troll, now, do you?
There, I feel better. Like pissing in the wind, yeah it is a bad/pointless endeavor, but sometimes you *just got to!*
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
This is off topic, but I have too much karma. Will someone mod me down? Down with the karma cap! I may be forced to troll. Could be fun.
(if you want it) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko
A common attitude of people from Toronto, most of whom consider civilization to begin and end at their city borders because they're so ignorant they've never been anywhere else.
I've lived in half a dozen Canadian cities. I've also lived in New York City, Seattle, and rural Connecticut. And of all the places I've lived, the very last one I'd ever live again would be Toronto.
Toronto manages to combine the worst aspects of both countries. It's got the pompousity and pretention of Canadians but without their gentle and friendly nature. It's got the crime, filth, and overcrowded nature of the worst of American cities but without America's prosperity, resources, opportunity, confidence, and bolder style of friendliness. It's a city where all conversation seems to just be searching for opportunities to kick others in the teeth. When I moved to New York City, I was amazed at how much nicer everyone was.
Canadians are a divided people in many ways, not just the obvious French/English thing. But one thing I found universal among all was an extreme dislike of Toronto and everything associated with. As one Canadian put it, "we should build a wall around Toronto so high that not even ideas get out".