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Godzilla To Retire (for now)
ackthpt writes "CNN is reporting that Toho, after 50 years and 28 films, will be retiring Godzilla (Gojira in Japan) after this years film. Toho has thought of retiring the venerable monster before, but after pulling the stops to make a special Best of Best this may be it (but you never know, particularly if it draws large audiences)"
Okay, I admit that there are some really stupid girls out there. I know I've had some "stupid girl" moments. But even when a girl knows something, 9 times out of 10, she gets blown off too. I haven't looked at the file yet but I have a suggestion for you guys.
Rather than make fun of these girls, why not help them out and teach them a thing or two. I hear a lot of you complain that your gf/wife doesn't get into the car thing-maybe if you took the time to explain/teach them, they'd enjoy it just as much you do.
Since people have taken the time to explain things to me, I love the car scene. I can't wait to start work on a car for me, go to the track, SEMA and all that stuff. So just remember, not all girls are stupid, in fact you'll find a lot of girls that DO know something about cars (oh wait, you would actually have to listen to the girl to realize this!). Don't just put this stereotype on all of us "stupid girls."
Sorry if this sounds a little bitchy or whatever but I'm sick of people assuming this type of stuff. I've tried to hold conversations only to get blown off b/c the guys assume I don't know anything. The majority of the time I'll say something, no one pays attention or says I'm wrong, only to have a guy say the EXACT samething and somehow it's now credible. But this is just my 2 cents.
Jesus fucking Christ. I nearly died today on the highway. Kansas City drivers are terrible anyway so I am always aloof when I drive. But today was something a little more than careless drivers. Someone was out to kill me.
I started off today late. Work starts at 8:00 sharp and I had just crept onto Route 69 South at 8:02. My truck was freezing. I had a minute and a half of 75 MPH travel before I hit the I-435 East and West exits, which are a big slowdown. So I was trying to make good time before I got locked in traffic.
Well, just like every other day, everyone slowed to about 45 MPH at the I-435 exits. As I was sitting there eyeing the cars around me for hot girls (there were none, it was a bunch of ugly office women wearing sunglasses and yuppie nerds with their little spiked-forward haircuts and Honda Civics) when I saw this atrocious car enter Route 69 from I-435. It was a very old Dodge Omni and it was blowing smoke all over. Laughing out loud, I watched as it merged with traffic and stunk out the person behind them. Oddly enough, the windows were tinted on this car too. What the fuck?
After another false start and subsequent halt, I noticed the smell carrying from this offensive little car. Whoever owned that piece of shit needed to change their oil. Badly. That and their fucking breaks, which were making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. God, what kind of moron can't take care of simple maintenance on their car? The thing had gone from funny to annoying at this point, between the sound and smell, and it was then that I noticed the stickers.
The back end of this idiot's car looked like a small billboard. It has sticker upon sticker upon overlapping sticker piled across the back. The only thing not skinned by the stickers was his license plate (oddly from Pennsylvania, I noted), which read "LNUX!" What the fuck!? Darting my eyes over the stickers I noticed there were several "LNX" and "Open Source: Love It or Leave It" bumper-stickers, as well as a "America = Gun Ownership" and "WILL ROLEPLAY FOR FOOD." Whoever was in this car was clearly between the condition of the vehicle and their fascination with role playing, guns, and Linux disattached from reality. Someone else who shouldn't be on the road.
Traffic started moving again and I revved my V6 into gear in the far left lane, trying to make up for lost time. It was already 08:08. Then I heard a bunch of honking beside me and off to my right. Had my bed's gate come open in the back? If it had I'd be spilling garbage all over the highway (LOL!). Glancing around, however, I saw there was nothing wrong with me. Then I caught what the commotion was all about it was that God-damned little Omni, weaving in and out of traffic, cutting across three lanes, and heading straight toward me! I'd seen this happen before, when some hapless loser wants to make time and charges into the passing lane, but this guy seemed not to even notice any traffic around him at all!
In a split second the Omni was next to me. Traffic was in full motion now, so I lead footed it and climbed to 70 MPH. Whatever this guy was up to he could be up to it 50 feet behind me. Then I hear this terrible sound like a tricked out Civic exhaust system with bronchitis and the guy's next to me again. His car is shaking like it's gonna fall apart too. I pushed it to 80 MPH and the same thing the car shook harder and it sounded like the engine was gonna blow, but he was up beside me again.
I tried looking through the tinting on the Omni's windows but it was no good. For all I knew this Omni could be a driverless Transformer drunk off of bad energon cubes. So I braked. He braked. Everyone behind us was keeping their distance by about 15 cars. I began reaching for my celphone in case I couldn't get away from this guy and needed to call the state police when the window began rolling down. Then I saw this dickhead.
The man behind it was short, stout, had a mess of greasy red hair on his head, a drooping re
So where does the name "mozilla" come from anyway? I couldn't find it anywhere on the website...
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