When the agency I work for needs hard drives destroyed, I physically take them to a steel plant 45minutes away. Once there, I meet with the manager of the "melt shop", we put the boxes of drives onto a pallet which is then hoisted up to the furnace area. We go into the control room (aka shelter) while the drives are smelted in a 3000+ degree Celcius furnace. Not once do the drives leave my sight (even when in the control room, there's windows and CCTV).
As someone who was also recently in the hospital, and also recently had morphine, it most definitely takes away the pain
I can agree to this 100%. A few years back I had a bad case of kidney stones that had me in and out of the hospital for 4 days. I was in writhing agony, the pain so bad I was throwing up because of it. Fortunately triage admitted me quickly and I was on morphine within half an hour of entering the emergency room, followed with a dose of toridol for long term painkilling. The morphine most definitely killed the pain because while I was in agony I could barely move without assistance. On morphine, and later toridol, I was able to roll over in the bed, sit up (albeit difficult due to being heavily stoned), etc. I also was most definitely not in agony anymore.
By the way, a small dose of morphine followed up with toridol is great for pain. The morphine is to get rid of the pain quickly while allowing the toridol to get to work, which takes half an hour or so to take effect (and as far as I know, isn't addictive).
Oddly, when I was wearing contacts I'd wear 'em all day every day (Taking them out at night to sleep.) Then during one eye exam my doctor told me that my eyes weren't getting enough oxygen and that was causing an overabundance of blood vessels to grow in my eyes. He told me to cut back on my contact-lens wearing or bad things would happen. He was kind of vague on what kind of bad things, I assume my eyeballs would fall out of my head or something like that.
I used to wear my contact lenses nearly non-stop as well, just to take them out to sleep. Rarely would I give my eyes a rest over a weekend or whatnot, because I hated the glasses I had at the time and they didn't fit too well. Went to see my eye doctor and she told me that basically, due to my eyes not getting enough oxygen, I risked going blind, or losing a good bit of my sight ability.
I basically ditched my contacts and went out to get a good pair of glasses (well, not in that order). Now, I don't mind wearing glasses so much, unless I'm doing yard work in the heat in the summer, as sweat causes no end of problems. Not considering Lasik surgery myself because it is too cost prohibitive for me, not covered by insurance, and I'm not sure I'm willing to risk the very small chance of losing my sight completely even if done by a true professional.
Also, there may be the mentality, "Fuck the directions - I'm in a disaster area, I'm not going to be able to follow the directions to cook this thing, so I won't bother to read them." Or, "fuck the directions, I'm STARVING!!"
If that's the case, I know I for one would be happy to have anything to eat at all, not giving a shit if it's warm or cold. The audacity of complaining about cold MREs when there's nothing else to eat is ridiculous at best.
That's actually something that could be done better with the laptop. It's a multimedia device. Let them hear actors reading, or watch actors performing. Good actors can make the page come alive far better than a high school freshman can. That's their job.
The best teacher I ever had was my Grade 8 Junior High home room teacher. One of the many great things he did teaching was include the original Hamlet movie with Sir Laurence Olivier along with having the class read it.
Basically, he would have the class read a certain amount by a deadline, then expound upon what we read in a full class discussion. Once the discussion was over, he would turn the TV/VCR on and we would watch on TV what we had read. It really helped to understand what was going on to actually see what we had previously read. He also strongly advised we watch the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet once we were done. Funny enough, myself and three of my friends did exactly that, and we weren't ones to take school work to the extra-curricular level.
There were so many things this teacher did right, and looking back I could see that he really cared. This discussion just brought back what he did with our Literature class, and I'm thinking if he had access to computers for us, he could have really put them to good use.
The difference is, chances are you have a much better "relationship" with your family doctor. This is someone you've probably been seeing for years and someone who you trust considerably, given what you may share with him/her.
Exposing yourself to some schmoe security guard who you have never met in your life before is completely different from exposing yourself in a doctor/patient relationship.
What MXC are you watching? I agree that it's a hilarious show, and love watching it, but the jokes are rather base and crass. Honestly, I never have to think when watching MXC to get any of the jokes... they all have to do with sexual connotations or the sexuality of Guy LaDouche.
Nothing like Futurama at all, but it has its charm.
What's to stop people from going to [Insert Hunting Store Here], buying a rifle and shooting people with it?
That *is* violation of the law. Isn't it?
However, it shouldn't be illegal to sell rifles to hunters who actually plan on using them to hunt game (unless you're one of those people staunchly opposed to hunting, in which case you think the opposite, but my point is still valid).
Just because something CAN be used to circumvent copyright doesn't mean that the powers that be should use all of their legal might to prevent a useful (albeit very expensive) device from being made for consumers willing to pay for it. This way, anyone wanting to use it legally doesn't even have the option to do so.
I have something that sounds similar. Pain on my right side, concentrated in the hip/lower back area. Most times it's just an annoyance, but sometimes when I get up from sitting or lying down, the pain is so bad that it's hard to walk, and sometimes my leg wants to buckle. (see comment here)
I've been to my family doctor, a back specialist, chiropractor, physio, and even acupuncture. Nothing has helped. The only ray of light that I've had was when just over a year ago I was hospitalized because the pain was so bad and had moved to my abdomen. I was diagnosed with kidney stones, and sent home/readmitted to the hospital 3 times over the course of as many days. Finally, I passed the stones and the pain went away for a long time. However, it came back this past summer. One night it was so bad, I went back to the hospital (thanks to my fiancee), but I felt like I was treated as if the doctor didn't believe me (he didn't do any tests aside from moving my leg around a bit, asking if it hurt), given some Oxycocet, and sent away.
Right now, the pain doesn't even bug me, but I know it's still there. I've pretty much given up... doctors don't see anything (have had numerous X-rays, a couple CT scans, a bone scan, urine tests, and ultrasound), and the pain I describe doesn't sound like anything familiar to any doctor I've talked to, aside from sciatica. The doctors don't even consider anything worse than that, and I just pop a couple T3 when the pain is too bad and go on with my life.
And I've really scared myself researching my symptoms. I've seen possiblities of everything from cancer to Necro-something or other (has to do with not enough blood in the area causing the joint and tissue to wither and die). Fortunately I'm self-deluded enough to not think that anything like that could happen to me:-) but god forbid for my fiancee and kids if it is something as serious as that.
And no you dont have to be a citizen, just show up at a hospital and they have to treat you.
Funny enough, over the past couple of years I have had, on and off, pain in my hip/lower back so severe that there are times that I cannot walk, or get up from sitting without excruciating help. One night, this happened and in the early morning my fiancee took me to the hospital where I had been admitted about a year before. The prior visit, I had been diagnosed as having kidney stones, and the symptoms were pretty much the same, so I figured same routine.
Well, two doctors saw me. The first ordered a morphine drip with a follow up of Toridol (sp) for long term pain relief. Before a nurse came with the drugs (the pain was almost unbearable), the doctor came back with another doctor who told me that it wasn't kidney stones and that I was being discharged.
Now, I was still in a lot of pain, and they didn't even bother to do any tests whatsoever (minus a quick physical check of what caused the pain... lifting a leg, etc). The nurse came in with the drip but was told that I wouldn't be needing it. I was given a prescription of Oxycocet, a painkiller that works wonders, but numbs *everything* (hence why the fiancee didn't like it, lol), and told to leave.
Now, maybe that's considered treatment to some, but given how much pain I was in, I got the feeling that the doctor didn't believe me one bit and just prescribed the Oxycocet to get rid of me. Personally I would have liked to at least have had an X-ray done, or a CT scan (which was how they found the stones the last time).
Fortunately the pain has subsided enough that I don't notice it most of the time, but every once in a while it hurts like hell when I get up from sitting or laying down.
but used the last of my points yesterday. As a non-smoker, I completely agree with you.
Recently in my hometown (Winnipeg, MB), they've gone smoke-free in all public establishments. Now, sure it's nice to go in to a restaurant and eat without cigarette smoke in the air, but honestly it's never really bothered me.
Bar business is definitely hurting because of it. There's a bar that I've been to a few times, and the owner had put a broken down schoolbus beside it, allowing smokers somewhere to go in the winter to get out of the cold. There were even heaters in there. Now, of course, he was fined and told to get rid of it because it circumvented the bylaw. How fucking ridiculous is that? The bar is smoke free, and he's just trying to keep patrons by allowing them someplace to go. It's not like non-smokers had any reason to go in there, but they still whined and bitched and complained. Bullshit!
Prior to meeting my fiancee, I was contemplating getting either a PS2 or XBox. My fiancee came with a Gamecube, and I won't look back. The games on this system are just plain F-U-N. We can play Double Dash for hours with the kids, and I went out and bought Luigi's Mansion before her and I were really serious just so I could play it.
PS2, XBox... I dunno, they may or may not have better graphics, and they have the more 'mature' titles, but in the end, I just enjoy playing Nintendo's games. They're fun, and the kids love them. Toss that in with the GBA that I have which we can take on the road, and Nintendo is the winner in our house.
As for what you're saying about HALO, I agree completely. My soon-to-be brother in law is waiting with baited breath for the release of HALO2, and all I can ask is 'why?'. Personally, I can't stand playing FPS games on a console, because I require the keyboard/mouse combo (this may be a personal failing on my part tho). But, really there isn't much in HALO2 that I know of that I haven't seen before in Quake/Quake2/Quake3Arena/any number of other FPS games or their mods. *shrug* to some XBoxers, it may be like the second coming of Christ, but to me it's been there, done that.
And I take appropriate steps too... except I leave the phone out, so I can quickly see caller id and determine if I need to rush out, or send it to voicemail. Sorry if your sensitive eyes can see my backlit screen while it's tucked up near my stomach. Personally, if you're so busy watching other people and not the screen that you can notice a little LCD screen light up (they're not that bright, I don't even notice mine when I'm driving at night), then you should consider whether the movie is really worth your money.
And it's not that 16 year olds cannot take care of themselves, but accidents can happen. A responsible 16 year old can still slip down the stairs and hurt themself or any number of other mundane accidents that still would require some sort of attention. Or does this mean that I've failed as a parent?
And I'd much rather put my phone on vibrate, sit it on my lap, and have the screen light up a bit, than have an usher come in to the theatre and begin disturbing everyone just as much if not more than if my phone rang.
I can understand not being reachable for work if it's not life-and-death, but I will never turn my cell phone completely off so long as I have children too young to care for themselves completely (basically, under 18). I can understand some lame ringtone playing at full blast annoying the piss out of you, but if a quiet vibrating and tiny backlit LCD screen pisses you off, then you really need to remove the broomhandle and learn to calm down a bit.
I will do my best to not disturb you and other patrons, but I will still make myself available for three things more important than anything else.
Yes, but you cut out the balls and you remove the desire. I'm not too sure how the mind of a rapist works, but is it possible that in doing so, you would remove any sexual desire? Hence why eunuchs were used in harems?
Of course, I suppose it may not work if the desire is to simply damage a woman in any way, rape being the most desirable to a rapist...
Yep, it's from the Ewok movie involving the two children (a whole family? did the mother and father die?) who befriend the Ewoks. I think they were trying to escape a pterodactyl-ish monster in the scene that you're talking about...
This doesn't justify the illegal action of violating copyright by downloading movies.
It does discredit the movie industry's claims that they are losing more money than can be imagined due to pirates (Pirates! PIRATES! BOO! PIRATES!!!) downloading these movies. That concept is completely ridiculous, they know it, and we know it.
Fido, a Canadian GSM cellular service provider is beginning to roll out a service called iFido... wireless 2.2Mbps internet access. Currently it's only available in certain areas of BC, but myself and a few others here in Winnipeg are (im)patiently waiting for it to come to the rest of Canada.
I'll be glad when I can finally move 100% away from the phone and cable companies here. Right now, I'm 100% off the phone company (MTS), using Fido for my phone service, but still stuck with Shaw (cable) for high speed internet access while using satellite for TV.
I don't know... personally, I couldn't stand more than a few sips of Guinness when I tried drinking it cold, and I sloughed it off as Guinness just wasn't for me. A few months ago, I tried Guinness again but after leaving it out for a few hours. Much smoother... I loved it. Room temperature is the only way to drink a Guinness in my book.
As well, as stated above the "f word" could be dropped on KitH anytime, and this was during early prime time on the CBC, not to mention the ahead-of-its-time stance on gay issues.
Just the other night, I was watching The Buzz on the Comedy Network, and they were going to have a piece on vulgarity, right after a commercial break. Right before they broke for commercials, the announcer said "That's some fucked up shit, motherfucker". BAM, during prime time (this was at about 10:20pm).
On top of all that, I used to watch the Tom Green Show regularily when he was still in Canada (first with his small budget show, then when he was with the Comedy Network). I stopped watching as soon as he moved to MTV in the States because they didn't show nearly half of the stupid shit he did because it was too "outrageous" for American TV. If you only saw Tom on MTV and thought he sucked, you should have seen what he was allowed to do while on Canadian TV. Much better...
An album, in the true sense, is a collection of songs that are similar and put together well
Agreed. The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails is a good example... if I'm listening to it, I typically have to start right from song 1 on Left and go straight to the last song on Right (unless I simply have to listen to Starfuckers, Inc.). Another example is Lateralus by Tool... these are albums that just flow from song 1 straight to the end.
The majority of pop(ular) music albums these days just don't flow in this way, because, as you stated, it's mostly filler.
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When the agency I work for needs hard drives destroyed, I physically take them to a steel plant 45minutes away. Once there, I meet with the manager of the "melt shop", we put the boxes of drives onto a pallet which is then hoisted up to the furnace area. We go into the control room (aka shelter) while the drives are smelted in a 3000+ degree Celcius furnace. Not once do the drives leave my sight (even when in the control room, there's windows and CCTV).
Not much chance of data recovery after that...
~jaraxle
As someone who was also recently in the hospital, and also recently had morphine, it most definitely takes away the pain
I can agree to this 100%. A few years back I had a bad case of kidney stones that had me in and out of the hospital for 4 days. I was in writhing agony, the pain so bad I was throwing up because of it. Fortunately triage admitted me quickly and I was on morphine within half an hour of entering the emergency room, followed with a dose of toridol for long term painkilling. The morphine most definitely killed the pain because while I was in agony I could barely move without assistance. On morphine, and later toridol, I was able to roll over in the bed, sit up (albeit difficult due to being heavily stoned), etc. I also was most definitely not in agony anymore.
By the way, a small dose of morphine followed up with toridol is great for pain. The morphine is to get rid of the pain quickly while allowing the toridol to get to work, which takes half an hour or so to take effect (and as far as I know, isn't addictive).
I used to wear my contact lenses nearly non-stop as well, just to take them out to sleep. Rarely would I give my eyes a rest over a weekend or whatnot, because I hated the glasses I had at the time and they didn't fit too well. Went to see my eye doctor and she told me that basically, due to my eyes not getting enough oxygen, I risked going blind, or losing a good bit of my sight ability.
I basically ditched my contacts and went out to get a good pair of glasses (well, not in that order). Now, I don't mind wearing glasses so much, unless I'm doing yard work in the heat in the summer, as sweat causes no end of problems. Not considering Lasik surgery myself because it is too cost prohibitive for me, not covered by insurance, and I'm not sure I'm willing to risk the very small chance of losing my sight completely even if done by a true professional.
~jaraxle
Beeeeeeefcaaaaaaake!!!!!
~jaraxle
If that's the case, I know I for one would be happy to have anything to eat at all, not giving a shit if it's warm or cold. The audacity of complaining about cold MREs when there's nothing else to eat is ridiculous at best.
~jaraxle
That's actually something that could be done better with the laptop. It's a multimedia device. Let them hear actors reading, or watch actors performing. Good actors can make the page come alive far better than a high school freshman can. That's their job.
The best teacher I ever had was my Grade 8 Junior High home room teacher. One of the many great things he did teaching was include the original Hamlet movie with Sir Laurence Olivier along with having the class read it.
Basically, he would have the class read a certain amount by a deadline, then expound upon what we read in a full class discussion. Once the discussion was over, he would turn the TV/VCR on and we would watch on TV what we had read. It really helped to understand what was going on to actually see what we had previously read. He also strongly advised we watch the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet once we were done. Funny enough, myself and three of my friends did exactly that, and we weren't ones to take school work to the extra-curricular level.
There were so many things this teacher did right, and looking back I could see that he really cared. This discussion just brought back what he did with our Literature class, and I'm thinking if he had access to computers for us, he could have really put them to good use.
~jaraxle
The difference is, chances are you have a much better "relationship" with your family doctor. This is someone you've probably been seeing for years and someone who you trust considerably, given what you may share with him/her.
Exposing yourself to some schmoe security guard who you have never met in your life before is completely different from exposing yourself in a doctor/patient relationship.
~jaraxle
Or (by all standards of what it has sunk to) really good American Reality TV...
~jaraxle
What MXC are you watching? I agree that it's a hilarious show, and love watching it, but the jokes are rather base and crass. Honestly, I never have to think when watching MXC to get any of the jokes... they all have to do with sexual connotations or the sexuality of Guy LaDouche.
Nothing like Futurama at all, but it has its charm.
~jaraxle
What's to stop people from going to [Insert Hunting Store Here], buying a rifle and shooting people with it?
That *is* violation of the law. Isn't it?
However, it shouldn't be illegal to sell rifles to hunters who actually plan on using them to hunt game (unless you're one of those people staunchly opposed to hunting, in which case you think the opposite, but my point is still valid).
Just because something CAN be used to circumvent copyright doesn't mean that the powers that be should use all of their legal might to prevent a useful (albeit very expensive) device from being made for consumers willing to pay for it. This way, anyone wanting to use it legally doesn't even have the option to do so.
~jaraxle
I've been to my family doctor, a back specialist, chiropractor, physio, and even acupuncture. Nothing has helped. The only ray of light that I've had was when just over a year ago I was hospitalized because the pain was so bad and had moved to my abdomen. I was diagnosed with kidney stones, and sent home/readmitted to the hospital 3 times over the course of as many days. Finally, I passed the stones and the pain went away for a long time. However, it came back this past summer. One night it was so bad, I went back to the hospital (thanks to my fiancee), but I felt like I was treated as if the doctor didn't believe me (he didn't do any tests aside from moving my leg around a bit, asking if it hurt), given some Oxycocet, and sent away.
Right now, the pain doesn't even bug me, but I know it's still there. I've pretty much given up... doctors don't see anything (have had numerous X-rays, a couple CT scans, a bone scan, urine tests, and ultrasound), and the pain I describe doesn't sound like anything familiar to any doctor I've talked to, aside from sciatica. The doctors don't even consider anything worse than that, and I just pop a couple T3 when the pain is too bad and go on with my life.
And I've really scared myself researching my symptoms. I've seen possiblities of everything from cancer to Necro-something or other (has to do with not enough blood in the area causing the joint and tissue to wither and die). Fortunately I'm self-deluded enough to not think that anything like that could happen to me :-) but god forbid for my fiancee and kids if it is something as serious as that.
~jaraxle
Funny enough, over the past couple of years I have had, on and off, pain in my hip/lower back so severe that there are times that I cannot walk, or get up from sitting without excruciating help. One night, this happened and in the early morning my fiancee took me to the hospital where I had been admitted about a year before. The prior visit, I had been diagnosed as having kidney stones, and the symptoms were pretty much the same, so I figured same routine.
Well, two doctors saw me. The first ordered a morphine drip with a follow up of Toridol (sp) for long term pain relief. Before a nurse came with the drugs (the pain was almost unbearable), the doctor came back with another doctor who told me that it wasn't kidney stones and that I was being discharged.
Now, I was still in a lot of pain, and they didn't even bother to do any tests whatsoever (minus a quick physical check of what caused the pain... lifting a leg, etc). The nurse came in with the drip but was told that I wouldn't be needing it. I was given a prescription of Oxycocet, a painkiller that works wonders, but numbs *everything* (hence why the fiancee didn't like it, lol), and told to leave.
Now, maybe that's considered treatment to some, but given how much pain I was in, I got the feeling that the doctor didn't believe me one bit and just prescribed the Oxycocet to get rid of me. Personally I would have liked to at least have had an X-ray done, or a CT scan (which was how they found the stones the last time).
Fortunately the pain has subsided enough that I don't notice it most of the time, but every once in a while it hurts like hell when I get up from sitting or laying down.
~jaraxle
but really, if that's what they've looked like in your experience, you are SERIOUSLY going to the wrong bars to pick up chicks.
;)
Either that, or you need to get your woman some serious antibiotics!
~jaraxle
but used the last of my points yesterday. As a non-smoker, I completely agree with you.
Recently in my hometown (Winnipeg, MB), they've gone smoke-free in all public establishments. Now, sure it's nice to go in to a restaurant and eat without cigarette smoke in the air, but honestly it's never really bothered me.
Bar business is definitely hurting because of it. There's a bar that I've been to a few times, and the owner had put a broken down schoolbus beside it, allowing smokers somewhere to go in the winter to get out of the cold. There were even heaters in there. Now, of course, he was fined and told to get rid of it because it circumvented the bylaw. How fucking ridiculous is that? The bar is smoke free, and he's just trying to keep patrons by allowing them someplace to go. It's not like non-smokers had any reason to go in there, but they still whined and bitched and complained. Bullshit!
~jaraxle
...you'd get them.
Prior to meeting my fiancee, I was contemplating getting either a PS2 or XBox. My fiancee came with a Gamecube, and I won't look back. The games on this system are just plain F-U-N. We can play Double Dash for hours with the kids, and I went out and bought Luigi's Mansion before her and I were really serious just so I could play it.
PS2, XBox... I dunno, they may or may not have better graphics, and they have the more 'mature' titles, but in the end, I just enjoy playing Nintendo's games. They're fun, and the kids love them. Toss that in with the GBA that I have which we can take on the road, and Nintendo is the winner in our house.
As for what you're saying about HALO, I agree completely. My soon-to-be brother in law is waiting with baited breath for the release of HALO2, and all I can ask is 'why?'. Personally, I can't stand playing FPS games on a console, because I require the keyboard/mouse combo (this may be a personal failing on my part tho). But, really there isn't much in HALO2 that I know of that I haven't seen before in Quake/Quake2/Quake3Arena/any number of other FPS games or their mods. *shrug* to some XBoxers, it may be like the second coming of Christ, but to me it's been there, done that.
~jaraxle
To paraphrase George Carlin (or was it Dennis Miller?):
If everyone's giving tit for tat, where is this "tat" and how can I get me some?
~jaraxle
And it's not that 16 year olds cannot take care of themselves, but accidents can happen. A responsible 16 year old can still slip down the stairs and hurt themself or any number of other mundane accidents that still would require some sort of attention. Or does this mean that I've failed as a parent?
~jaraxle
And I'd much rather put my phone on vibrate, sit it on my lap, and have the screen light up a bit, than have an usher come in to the theatre and begin disturbing everyone just as much if not more than if my phone rang.
I can understand not being reachable for work if it's not life-and-death, but I will never turn my cell phone completely off so long as I have children too young to care for themselves completely (basically, under 18). I can understand some lame ringtone playing at full blast annoying the piss out of you, but if a quiet vibrating and tiny backlit LCD screen pisses you off, then you really need to remove the broomhandle and learn to calm down a bit.
I will do my best to not disturb you and other patrons, but I will still make myself available for three things more important than anything else.
~jaraxle
Yes, but you cut out the balls and you remove the desire. I'm not too sure how the mind of a rapist works, but is it possible that in doing so, you would remove any sexual desire? Hence why eunuchs were used in harems?
Of course, I suppose it may not work if the desire is to simply damage a woman in any way, rape being the most desirable to a rapist...
~jaraxle
Yep, it's from the Ewok movie involving the two children (a whole family? did the mother and father die?) who befriend the Ewoks. I think they were trying to escape a pterodactyl-ish monster in the scene that you're talking about...
~jaraxle
It does discredit the movie industry's claims that they are losing more money than can be imagined due to pirates (Pirates! PIRATES! BOO! PIRATES!!!) downloading these movies. That concept is completely ridiculous, they know it, and we know it.
~jaraxle
Fido, a Canadian GSM cellular service provider is beginning to roll out a service called iFido... wireless 2.2Mbps internet access. Currently it's only available in certain areas of BC, but myself and a few others here in Winnipeg are (im)patiently waiting for it to come to the rest of Canada.
I'll be glad when I can finally move 100% away from the phone and cable companies here. Right now, I'm 100% off the phone company (MTS), using Fido for my phone service, but still stuck with Shaw (cable) for high speed internet access while using satellite for TV.
~jaraxle
~jaraxle
Just the other night, I was watching The Buzz on the Comedy Network, and they were going to have a piece on vulgarity, right after a commercial break. Right before they broke for commercials, the announcer said "That's some fucked up shit, motherfucker". BAM, during prime time (this was at about 10:20pm).
On top of all that, I used to watch the Tom Green Show regularily when he was still in Canada (first with his small budget show, then when he was with the Comedy Network). I stopped watching as soon as he moved to MTV in the States because they didn't show nearly half of the stupid shit he did because it was too "outrageous" for American TV. If you only saw Tom on MTV and thought he sucked, you should have seen what he was allowed to do while on Canadian TV. Much better...
~jaraxle
Agreed. The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails is a good example... if I'm listening to it, I typically have to start right from song 1 on Left and go straight to the last song on Right (unless I simply have to listen to Starfuckers, Inc.). Another example is Lateralus by Tool... these are albums that just flow from song 1 straight to the end.
The majority of pop(ular) music albums these days just don't flow in this way, because, as you stated, it's mostly filler.
~jaraxle