It would be nice if the media would stop glorifying athletes, and stop portraying scientists/engineers/academics as nerds or evil.
Who on earth would pay to watch a film where James Bond has to defeat Derby County FC's plan to conquer the world? "Oh no, their bumbling ineptitude might possibly have the tiniest sliver of an outside chance of maybe causing some slight irritation to an elderly one-legged deaf-mute in Burkina Faso. We must send in our top agent immediately!" Just the thought of it conjures the sound of popcorn going stale.
Besides, I thought the common goal of building a death ray in a secret volcano base is why we're all here...
They're a device designed to prevent passengers becoming bored and restless on longer flights. Originally they were cheap cardboard construction kits, but the airlines found that by serving them with gravy mix they had greater entertainment value.
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War machines come flat-packed? Good, we can defeat the Martian invaders with poorly translated assembly instructions.
Louis Armstrong was a musician, not an astronaut.
But his cheeks ballooned out like he was undergoing catastrophic decompression, so the mistake is understandable.
I for one welcome our historically accurate but humourless overlord...
I realize some ridiculous crap has happened in the past few years
The surveillance tapes show the crap was actually pretty ordinary. Oops, you weren't supposed to know about those cameras...
This guys deserve some sort of award for this.
The cash prize should be enough.
Wait, we have to care? I thought we were supposed to point and laugh...
I, for one, would be happy with an oversight committee that does its job.
Job descriptions don't come more accurate than that...
was it an accident, or was it a marketing movement by some big medicine corporation to grow the market for their products.
A little bit of each: some marketing guru mentioned "viral advertising", and unfortunately they took it too literally.
He was also charged with sexual assualt, of himself, because when they picked him up he was looking at porn.
No, that was consentful by way of a handshake agreement.
Remember, "global" includes Asia, which would tend to push the average down, unless you're counting hentai characters.
-Building tall buildings underground, instead of above.
Great idea, then everyone can be basement dwellers.
(chants) One of us! One of us!
It would be nice if the media would stop glorifying athletes, and stop portraying scientists/engineers/academics as nerds or evil.
Who on earth would pay to watch a film where James Bond has to defeat Derby County FC's plan to conquer the world? "Oh no, their bumbling ineptitude might possibly have the tiniest sliver of an outside chance of maybe causing some slight irritation to an elderly one-legged deaf-mute in Burkina Faso. We must send in our top agent immediately!" Just the thought of it conjures the sound of popcorn going stale.
Besides, I thought the common goal of building a death ray in a secret volcano base is why we're all here...
I propose this be called the "Thompson Effect" in his...um, honour?
The telling part is that it boots when you choose (F)ail.
90% of the videos on YouTube explain why YouTube sucks.
They're a device designed to prevent passengers becoming bored and restless on longer flights. Originally they were cheap cardboard construction kits, but the airlines found that by serving them with gravy mix they had greater entertainment value.
I'd be interested to know what effect it would have on an airport for example.
The in-flight meals would be warm for once. Now, if only someone could work out a way of beaming flavour from a satellite...
I could swear Slashdot is becoming sentient. The fortune at the bottom of the page:
Michael Bolton got sued and lost
I'm confused: are you objecting or complaining that copyright infringement isn't a capital offence?
Also, I'd never want to have to explain to my neighbor how I accidentally "mowed" her cat.
A mark of good intentions: putting the inverted commas around "mowed" rather than "accidentally".
...just better graphics.
Oh great, now we have the half-a-car analogy...
Lucky they didn't pull the poor bloke out of the car and burn him as a witch.
They nearly did, but he weighed more than a duck.
Relieved by a sense of karmic justice, I thought.
Not if you play them his last four albums.