Just look at Leisure Suit Larry. If that wasn't a cunning ploy to keep geeks out of bars, leave them contained in basements rather than seducing real women, I don't know what is. All nerds now know that women are evil and conniving. They'll take your apple and your money and leave you tied to a bed for room service to find you.
on the plus side at least this demonstrated to one man how to avoid such situations.
I'm pretty heavilly inked, while I could never fall asleep during a tattoo I dated a chick that did. Some women have incredibly high pain thresholds and this chick may have been one of them. However, There are almost no artists that don't work off stencils first so the customer can see what they're going to be wearing. I've only ever had one artist work freehand on me and it looked good in the end but I was fucking nervous while he was doing it. The Tattoos on this bird are real, you can see how they've scabbed up so they're probably 2 days old in the photo, maybe a little more. Also the bruising on the face is consistant with other fresh facial tat's I've seen on some of my mates. I reckon she was trashed (and therfeore the artist would have breached his code of conduct over here in Oz, not sure about belgium though) or got in trouple from her old man and is trying to bullshit her way out of it. My monies on the latter. Most tattooists I've met or been cut by have a strong set of ethics and are extremely proud of their work, to the extent that that's whay they call themselves professional tattoo ARTISTS. That aside i reckon they look good on her, but in twenty years she'll look like an ex con after they've faded. Then again she'll look like shit after laser removal, that shit leaves nasty scars.
Yeah but if you toe that line what about mainstream gay authors like Clive Barker, or say books by Poppy Z Brite which deal with homosexual themes? The former by Barker don't actively deal with homosexuality as a central theme. While Brite uses homosexuality metaphorically to demonstrate the diversity of youth. Meanwhile B.E. Ellis's American Psycho never made it onto the blacklist. You gotta have consistency and it's hard to attain with the arts where many of the creators come from what could be considered the fringe.
Hey i'm a chef and student so I need to be off the books, and with running costs here in australia for restaurants where the minimum wage for floor staff is almost 1.5x that of qualified chefs (who don't get tips) there is a reason that stuff gets done under the table. Haldf the problem over here for that is food cost being almost double what the US has, aswell as tax being higher on bussiness and also the fact that owners have to collect GST for the government too. If owners over here didn't do their accounting on the stoves here, the failure rate for bussiness would be even higher than it already is 60%,/a>
Together with news that Port Melbourneâ(TM)s Ping has closed (via Epicure) comes, via Ruhlman, the news that 60 per cent of restaurants fail, not the popularly quoted figure of 90 per cent. According to Businessweek, banks perpetuate the myth that 90 per cent of restaurants fail, which justifies the fact that they wonâ(TM)t invest in them because they are high risk businesses.
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Guess thats why so many chefs I know are getting out of the industry here and in the states. The only place it is even remotely lucrative is europe or places like Dubai.
Correct form according to the OED, depends on localised variations. Restauranteurs. Not sure if it will work if you don't have a subscription (I get it through a uni portal, so it always works for me, but have never tried to link it before). It is the same as saying Americans are wrong because they spell color or the English are wrong for using Colour. Different sides of the atlantic do things different especially when it comes to loan words.
Another point worthy of note is, Bogans are proud to be bogans. Go rent The Castle. Australians myself included tend to be proud of our anti-heroes, we turned Ned Kelly and Chopper into heros, and we tend to idolize the Larrikin as part of our humour and national identity. Sometimes it's a slur, but no more so than the way we use terms like "cunt" as a term of endearment. Insults in Australia tend to be based more around the Taller poppies than the average Joes. Wasn't trying to bite your head off, but when people call us bigots for how we refer to ourselves in and amongst ourselves it seems a tad like the kettle and pot syndrome. There are the few that look down on bogans but bearing in mind they make up most of our population its narrow minded to take the instant view that its a term of derision. Just because you don't understand the relation doesn't mean it's an insult. Do you jump on African Americans when they drop the "N" bomb? Because that is what you guys are doing here.
It's not financial, it's geographical. You really trust wikipedia as a source? Bob hawke, Prime Minister in the 80's he was a bogan, wealthy and a Rhodes Scholar also has the world record for doing a yard glass.
The work, "The Green Chinese Lantern," uses a 400 milliwatt handheld green laser with micro-stencils to beam simple messages and images up to three stories high on surfaces such as billboards, buildings, and bridges. The Laser Stencil technology was developed in conjunction with Students for a Free Tibet.
I've seen a fair share of stencil art around the traps, but would somebody illuminate me on what a L.A.S.E.R stencil is, please. Does it have anything to do with sharks?
Hey I was interested, until they started on the planned parenthood thing. Conspiracy theories interest me, some I take interest in and others well, well others are just a bit too out there for me to take credibly. The world's dark, and has its fair share of crazy people. That's the interesting bit, how peole respond to their environments, some people lust for power, some people put their heads down and work to get ahead. Then some people just go sideways with apathy and look for things that are holding them down. Hell it's their right, but the distinction between the real and the fabulous is definitely discernible, and you can spot people where it's wearing thin.
The Illuminati and all such imaginative spinoffs of freemasonry are interesting and amusing, but probably not in control of the world. And even if they were, I doubt radical depopulation would really suit their aims, who would be the slaves?
I'm not dissing your views, but i certainly think while there might be the smallest kernel of truth in some of this stuff, it suffers from the same fate as Zeitgeist the movie. That is, it gets mired in own self dellusion and disregard for facts and proper research method. The day the world sees the Amero in currency is the day I join Lord Xenu.
Do you really think people want to destroy the world in Moores Watchmen universe? I thought it was Ozymandis who could see past human folly to try and resolve a peace with one horrific act. The folly in this case being the US and USSR having a pissing contest and not wanting to back down or resolve a peace for fear of losing power. It's not outright I want to destroy the world, but more if I can't have it neither can you. which is in itself an act of futile defeat. Nobody wins. That's why Doc flirts off to an alternative dimension to start life again. He see's how humans back themselves into corners and it takes an act of extreme aggression and horror to change peoples responses. I think Moore was more on the button than you give him crdit for. He was qriting in response to the Cold War which was coming after what has been the most bloody century in human history. Before the first world war, the worl had never really seen mass slaughter. Sure there were wars and bloodbaths but nothing even remotely like that on the western front, after that it became a cycle. WW1 had an unresolved conclusion that led straight to WW2. Again the resolution of WW2 just led to more isolation policy which allowed Vietnam to rear its head and become another Quagmire. Meanwhile the Cold War raged oh so silently, but threatening much bigger stakes. Moore IMHO gets that straight on the head. He saw bigger tidal forces at work than most people give him credit for. From Hell was a better take on sociopathic and dellusional meglomania stemming from worl spanning cults than Watchmen (although the Black Freighter is a pretty good subtext for psychopathic behaviour in a wonderfully intertextual way). But both deal with it in terms of history and ritual and progressive decline (albeit in a modernist manner, with post structural flavouring). I agree with what you say about his take on superheroes being a band-aid, although in this case they become the problem more than they were ever the solution (and they realise this). Veidts actions themselves are population thinning, allowing for greater structural unity in a very wack social darwinist manner, if there's less to worry about then they easier to help, especially if they're shit scared.
As to people wanting to destroy the world, I think not. Nobody in any situation of power wants to willingly throw that power away. Ther is piss pooor leadership, irrational decision making and nation states warring themselves into corners. But no one has yet to demonstrate any comic book style universal destruction urges yet. I mean there are some small nutbags who might be interested in that on a small scale. But the people with the power and purse strings like their comfy chairs and influence too much.
Sorry about the spelling, coherence and grammar but it's 3:30am and I'm left of sober.
I doubt it would be Moore directly, he hates his work bring made into film, look at how he reacted to adaptations of "From Hell" and "V for Vendetta". Most adaptations he gives all the screen credit and profit to the colourist and the artist, so in his mind he has kept his hands clean. DC comics with whom he has long running disputes is more likely to have sold the rights in the first place, they did after all fuck him over pretty comprehensively.
the number of directors and studios that this project has passed through since Paul Greengrass then Terry Gilliam tried to helm it, and later Darran Aronofsky (though it might have been Gilliam first I'm not 100%), would make it murky as to who was in there first. One thing is for sure, Fox is just trying it on because they want in on a cash cow like Snyder's film of "300".
FurtherMoore (bad pun, I know) it actually seems like it was the producer that hasn't been paying Fox and not any of the other studios. In which case I imagine it would not so much be the blame lying at the feet of Warner Bros legal Dept but rather with the original producer (Lawrence Gordon is still on imdb.com as the producer and he was the one that originally grabbed Gilliam for the project).
I'm hoping it does get released and comes good with a decent interpretation of the text and it's themes. However I think if it sucks everyone will wish it was left alone. That said Snyder seems to be aiming for something that will please Moore, assuming the studio doesn't cut the shit out of it.
As a nation they deserve only disgrace and isolation.
I hate to invoke Godwin but sorry I don't recall shame and isolation being to successful when it was used against a reduced and beaten Germany and a ruined Russia after the "Great War". We left those two to simmer after 1918, what happened? The Germans walked all over the French, Isolated England and decided to poke an injured Soviet bear with a hot poker. All isolationist policy ever does is piss people off enough to invoke fervent nationalism. One thing the world does not need is an incredibly nationalistic financial and military giant feeling it is owed something. And owed enough to take it by force.
People should learn from history, especially history that is fairly recent.
Here in Sydney and other parts of Australia we have signs in suburban parks (there's one in the park in St peters near my girlfriends place) warning people to watch out for the magpies. They can be vicous fuckers and two or three of them can do a surprising amount of damage to peoples heads.
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on the plus side at least this demonstrated to one man how to avoid such situations.
I'm pretty heavilly inked, while I could never fall asleep during a tattoo I dated a chick that did. Some women have incredibly high pain thresholds and this chick may have been one of them. However, There are almost no artists that don't work off stencils first so the customer can see what they're going to be wearing. I've only ever had one artist work freehand on me and it looked good in the end but I was fucking nervous while he was doing it. The Tattoos on this bird are real, you can see how they've scabbed up so they're probably 2 days old in the photo, maybe a little more. Also the bruising on the face is consistant with other fresh facial tat's I've seen on some of my mates. I reckon she was trashed (and therfeore the artist would have breached his code of conduct over here in Oz, not sure about belgium though) or got in trouple from her old man and is trying to bullshit her way out of it. My monies on the latter. Most tattooists I've met or been cut by have a strong set of ethics and are extremely proud of their work, to the extent that that's whay they call themselves professional tattoo ARTISTS. That aside i reckon they look good on her, but in twenty years she'll look like an ex con after they've faded. Then again she'll look like shit after laser removal, that shit leaves nasty scars.
SPACE?? Don't they sell storage solutions?
Yeah but if you toe that line what about mainstream gay authors like Clive Barker, or say books by Poppy Z Brite which deal with homosexual themes? The former by Barker don't actively deal with homosexuality as a central theme. While Brite uses homosexuality metaphorically to demonstrate the diversity of youth. Meanwhile B.E. Ellis's American Psycho never made it onto the blacklist. You gotta have consistency and it's hard to attain with the arts where many of the creators come from what could be considered the fringe.
hence stainlesssteelpat as opposed to the rodent variety that is my family nickname. you're the first i've met. Nice to meet a kindred spirit.
strange, why do poets like steel, is it a hark to ozzymandis?
I'll let you spot your own oxymoron there.
With my brother.....
Ask it how Jesus is!!!
I think i saw something like this in an old film called "fantastic voyage. But where will they get the minature sharks?
Now they can really their googlegulp data without my tinfoil hat getting in the way.
In Soviet Russia your career chooses you and, err, your species.
Together with news that Port Melbourneâ(TM)s Ping has closed (via Epicure) comes, via Ruhlman, the news that 60 per cent of restaurants fail, not the popularly quoted figure of 90 per cent. According to Businessweek, banks perpetuate the myth that 90 per cent of restaurants fail, which justifies the fact that they wonâ(TM)t invest in them because they are high risk businesses.
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Guess thats why so many chefs I know are getting out of the industry here and in the states. The only place it is even remotely lucrative is europe or places like Dubai.
Correct form according to the OED, depends on localised variations. Restauranteurs. Not sure if it will work if you don't have a subscription (I get it through a uni portal, so it always works for me, but have never tried to link it before). It is the same as saying Americans are wrong because they spell color or the English are wrong for using Colour. Different sides of the atlantic do things different especially when it comes to loan words.
Wow....I think somebodies PB database got too close to a magnet, without a tinfoil hat.
Another point worthy of note is, Bogans are proud to be bogans. Go rent The Castle. Australians myself included tend to be proud of our anti-heroes, we turned Ned Kelly and Chopper into heros, and we tend to idolize the Larrikin as part of our humour and national identity. Sometimes it's a slur, but no more so than the way we use terms like "cunt" as a term of endearment. Insults in Australia tend to be based more around the Taller poppies than the average Joes. Wasn't trying to bite your head off, but when people call us bigots for how we refer to ourselves in and amongst ourselves it seems a tad like the kettle and pot syndrome. There are the few that look down on bogans but bearing in mind they make up most of our population its narrow minded to take the instant view that its a term of derision. Just because you don't understand the relation doesn't mean it's an insult. Do you jump on African Americans when they drop the "N" bomb? Because that is what you guys are doing here.
Pull you head in mate.
The work, "The Green Chinese Lantern," uses a 400 milliwatt handheld green laser with micro-stencils to beam simple messages and images up to three stories high on surfaces such as billboards, buildings, and bridges. The Laser Stencil technology was developed in conjunction with Students for a Free Tibet.
Thats sounds really neat I want one.
That said, I hope this guy turns up again. Some of his art sounds really cool.
I've seen a fair share of stencil art around the traps, but would somebody illuminate me on what a L.A.S.E.R stencil is, please. Does it have anything to do with sharks?
The Illuminati and all such imaginative spinoffs of freemasonry are interesting and amusing, but probably not in control of the world. And even if they were, I doubt radical depopulation would really suit their aims, who would be the slaves?
I'm not dissing your views, but i certainly think while there might be the smallest kernel of truth in some of this stuff, it suffers from the same fate as Zeitgeist the movie. That is, it gets mired in own self dellusion and disregard for facts and proper research method. The day the world sees the Amero in currency is the day I join Lord Xenu.
As to people wanting to destroy the world, I think not. Nobody in any situation of power wants to willingly throw that power away. Ther is piss pooor leadership, irrational decision making and nation states warring themselves into corners. But no one has yet to demonstrate any comic book style universal destruction urges yet. I mean there are some small nutbags who might be interested in that on a small scale. But the people with the power and purse strings like their comfy chairs and influence too much.
Sorry about the spelling, coherence and grammar but it's 3:30am and I'm left of sober.
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the number of directors and studios that this project has passed through since Paul Greengrass then Terry Gilliam tried to helm it, and later Darran Aronofsky (though it might have been Gilliam first I'm not 100%), would make it murky as to who was in there first. One thing is for sure, Fox is just trying it on because they want in on a cash cow like Snyder's film of "300".
FurtherMoore (bad pun, I know) it actually seems like it was the producer that hasn't been paying Fox and not any of the other studios. In which case I imagine it would not so much be the blame lying at the feet of Warner Bros legal Dept but rather with the original producer (Lawrence Gordon is still on imdb.com as the producer and he was the one that originally grabbed Gilliam for the project).
I'm hoping it does get released and comes good with a decent interpretation of the text and it's themes. However I think if it sucks everyone will wish it was left alone. That said Snyder seems to be aiming for something that will please Moore, assuming the studio doesn't cut the shit out of it.
As a nation they deserve only disgrace and isolation.
I hate to invoke Godwin but sorry I don't recall shame and isolation being to successful when it was used against a reduced and beaten Germany and a ruined Russia after the "Great War". We left those two to simmer after 1918, what happened? The Germans walked all over the French, Isolated England and decided to poke an injured Soviet bear with a hot poker. All isolationist policy ever does is piss people off enough to invoke fervent nationalism. One thing the world does not need is an incredibly nationalistic financial and military giant feeling it is owed something. And owed enough to take it by force.
People should learn from history, especially history that is fairly recent.
Here in Sydney and other parts of Australia we have signs in suburban parks (there's one in the park in St peters near my girlfriends place) warning people to watch out for the magpies. They can be vicous fuckers and two or three of them can do a surprising amount of damage to peoples heads.