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Some videos I've seen of the event edit out the second shoe being thrown for some reason :/ So it's like 'one shoe thrown -> capture'. Weird. Anyway, the real vid is just amazing, I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. Those gifs people made after are also funny, yeah. But the real thing....wowie =D> It's like it's directed or smth, it's so perfect ;d That guy throwing one shoe after another at super speed, Bush ducking, the dude next to him looking more or less clueless, the guards only reacting at the end.... Bwahahah. Yeah, a great historical moment right there. And yeah Bush redeemed his stupidity a little bit with that joke. Still, he fully deserved being thrown shoes at, the dog : P

Meh, I get that this is supposed to be a moral dilemma but the circumstances are so unrealistic. In Situation 1, why doesn't the train conductor see where he is going, and therefore stop the train before it sees either of the workers? Secondly, even if these workers have ear plugs, do they also stand facing only in one direction that just happens to be opposite to the one the train is coming from? If that seemingly ghost train has no passengers, perhaps it's better to try and derail it off the tracks altogether, since apparently it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place (the construction workers wouldn't be there if they knew the train lines were in use). Situation 2 and Situation 3: I think that it's very likely that once the baby started crying, the Nazis already heard him (it's what tends to happen in real life, as opposed to in movies, where bad guys tend to be more stupid and more deaf than average ;p), so it's pointless to try and silence him afterwards. Everyone should make a run for it immediately.

Not the first time I think about this, and I think I have no idea how to raise a kid. I don't like baby-talking to small children and I'm not particularly fond of them either :P I think I'd also have problems with imposing my will and expressing authority. I'd probably be like my mother was to me, like sort of a big sister, and give advice, but in the end let them make their own decisions. Which is sort of cool, except now I think parents should tell their children what to do, even if at the time their children disagree with them. So yeah, it's tricky. Also I wouldn't want to hear my kids telling me at some point 'oh it's your fault I'm like this or like that', or even implying it. So yeah I think that in the off-chance that I do have kids, their father will have to deal with their education :P

Huskies and Golden Retrievers are awesome. I also like Collies and Cocker Spaniels ( I have one myself). Also, Carpathian Sheepdogs, these dogs here: http://www.bucovinadogs.ro/galerie/0.htm. They're so beautiful. My grandma had a white one when I was little. It was huge xD Big paws, big head and very fluffy. Actually there are very few dogs I don't like. I generally don't like small dogs like Chihuahuas and Pekingese dogs. The latter ones I really hate, I think they're ugly and the ones I met all had very bad disposition. Mean little ****ers.

I love to read, ever since I learned to read it's been my favourite activity. As for recommendations, the best books I read recently were the Shardlake series by C.S. Sansom: Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign. (you should read them in this order). I dare anyone to read these books and not like them, they're just too suspenseful and entertaining to put down. Very well written and evocative too. Dark Fire was my favourite of the bunch but the other two were awesome as well. I just saw there's another book he just published in the same series called 'Revelation'. Too late to put it on the Christmas list though :P Anyway, the books are basically crime novels set in 16th century England, so there is a lot of history involved as well, but not the boring kind I learned at school, this is the interesting stuff. And since the writer is a historian himself, the books are heavily based on real fact. Oh and don't think they're some sort of 'Tudors' series, the writer is not romanticising that period at all; on the contrary even: the books are gritty and grim and sometimes even downright gothic. (gives self bonus for consonance ;p)

TSO - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12 -24 is a likely candidate (it's actually a remake / adaptation of Carol of the Bells), but it's more powerful than the original version. Btw, Nox Arcana have a pretty awesome - if a bit on the eerie side - version of the same song.

That's interesting, especially how he seemed to have 'lost it' after 3-4 days, having hallucinations and such, but then on his last day he gave that press conference where he seemed okay. But I wonder what they mean by 'no stimulants', because food itself is a stimulant. If you eat, you get less sleepy and you have more energy. I don't know how well that applies after not sleeping for 5+ days, though...

Yeah we don't have that many holidays either. :P Anyway, Christmas is definitely my favourite.

^ Moonsorrow (if you haven't already listened)

Are you feeding them glass?

That's entirely beside the point, the point being, they should have given credit where due. Also, it's a matter of opinion, I personally find Coldplay's music quite boring. Edit: I just listened to the Coldplay song. Not a very subtle case of plagiarism, is it? Let the payment of royalties ensue ^^

The universe itself is musical, it is energy pulsating, and we subconsciously feel the rhythm. Maybe one of the reasons we like music is that it brings us closer to universe as a whole, makes us more attuned to the world around us. See also String Theory.

OP: like pretty much everyone has said, you look better with brown eyes. But I understand the idea, you like blue eyes so it's logical you wanna have blue eyes, but they don't suit you. I have the same problem with blonde hair. I love it, but I am forced to admit it doesn't suit me at all. My bad luck. Also, with some shades of eyeshadow, like violet ones for instance.

Umm, no? Not yet, at least.

That's a Darwin awards nomination right there.

I've thought about this before, and came to the conclusion that a song that describes me pretty well (or well, my life :P) is 'A long way to nowhere' by Sentenced. But that's just the lyrics, that's not my favourite song or anything. There are some songs though, that when I hear them (the melody, not the lyrics), I feel that they're exactly like they're supposed to be. Like, I can't make them any differently to be any more perfect; if I had any musical talent it's just how I'd make them. Like they speak to me on a whole new level. Can't explain it but I'm sure everyone has had that feeling at least about some songs. I'm not sure that means those songs 'describe' me or anything; but possibly me and those songs are on the same 'wave length' or smth. :P

Same. Or Almond

Haha. Very impractical, sure but spiffy symbolism and all that.

Innie. Bah, I love it that so many people are innies, I don't like outies at all : ( Oh yeah and I do know many outies, for some reason....so that I started to think they were the majority >_< Glad to know it's not the case ;p

I don't think there are many girls out there who like viking metal. And if they do, I think they'd be a big [bleep] up in the head. I like viking metal. Never thought I'd have to be bleeped in the head to like it. *shrug*. (I know plenty of other girls who do, as well. Probably equally bleeped though, yeah...)

No offense to any of you (yeah, I don't really consider myself a tif-er), but one way I can tell this forum is made mainly of teenagers is that you endlessly talk about it, instead of actually planning it. I'm just comparing it with other forums I've been to, also international, and they planned meet-ups in a very sensible and efficient manner. It's no big deal to meet people, you know. Most of them aren't werewolves. (most!). And you don't need alcohol to have fun either. Although it helps with tolerance issues =)

OP: While you're at it, ban cars.

Yeah they're totally different situations. Screw mathematics, common sense tells me that two different decisions are required, from an ethical standpoint. Save the 5 people in the first situation (train track), Let the 5 ones die in the second situation (hospital), rather than sacrifice a healthy one. In the first situation, all 6 are at the end of the same rope. You're forced to act as quickly as possible, in order to minimize the effect of someone else's evil deed (who decided to tie a bunch of people to train tracks). But in the second case, 5 are already so ill that they're close to death and one is perfectly healthy and you're just randomly deciding he's gonna die for the noble reason of saving 5 people? That's insane, what are you, god? :P

That's the only 'pick up line' that would work on a normal girl tbh.

Thanks for the vid link, trapical. Very inspirational. I usually don't dig politicians because they have an air of hypocrisy that is very transparent to me. But, I'm sure this has been mentioned before, Obama has a power of inspiration akin to Martin Luther King. I've been right time and time again when it comes to my instincts about people and this guy's the real thing.