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Drink Dwarven stout! It looks like GUINESS!!! :D Top of the mornin' to ya!

At the risk of spamming as well, I say to that: ROFL! :P

Ksssk...gloves?! :lol:

Yup, brand new today mate. Well done, you're one of the first!

The common consensus is that players will pay a small price for Runescape if they lose interest. Even if they don't, to be frank, I doubt Jagex cares, as they enlist many new players everyday who, at a chance, will pay. It's an old issue, but at least you've given a logicial justification as to why Jagex should give more f2p quests. I have to commend you on that.

Haha, that's very true. Hadn't thought of it that way :) It's good to hear that none of you seem to be offended by my post, so I hope I'll be able to express my opinion in the future in a reasonable manner.

I agree with you there man. It does seem like I've victimised The O.C. and I guess I have. There are equally as bad shows out there. I just picked this one because it's the one I get most grief from at 6th form and for what they did to that song. In any case, did any of you guys find the post offensive? >.<

OK, bear in mind guys, this is just an entry from my website. Someone who saw it liked it a lot and then another completely hated it. I posted it hear because I'd like to see your opinion. It won't change mine, but I'd like to know as to not to offend people with it :( I'm interested most in the context and the arguement I try to make, but you can talk about grammar and presentation if you wish. I've tried to edit out any explicit words, but sorry if I missed some! So if this is actually very offensive to people, let me know. I hope it's just an opinionated rant that doesn't do much harm. Your opinions on the matter are gratefully accepted too! Why I hate The O.C. Ah, The O.C., or as I like to call it: The Rich Man's Hollyoaks. How many of you I have heard bellow in your panic-struck voices "Z0MG! Did u c da O.C last nyt!?!" Now, many of you watch it and it has many fans in America as well, so you may be questioning my somewhat unfounded statement of: "The O.C. is a bag of haemerroids". Well let me explain to you why: First of all, the acting. You know, when I want empathy from a character, I don't usually result in bawling in laughter at the sight of tears. A good actor will not even attract your attention to you to see they're acting, until they enter a significant storyline, which makes you appreciate how good they are even more. The O.C's actors fails this, in every regard. Second, the storyline. Can someone explain to me what has actually happened over The O.C's seasons that has been reversed...or has actually mattered. I think of none. Gathered, I don't watch it anymore, but when I listen to you mindless slo - I mean, friends - all I hear are the same story line and relationship problems over and over again. It's like that bloody rape triangle thing in Hollyoaks, oh no, even worse "Elle and her conscience" over Toby which dragged out...for 3 smegging years. Next up, it's the whole scene of The O.C. Yes, I like California. Yes, I like money. No, I don't like The O.C. The people in the O.C (now I mean the characters, not the actors - they might be fine young people, regardless of their acting ability) are nothing more than frat boys and girls, fueling parties and shopping trips on daddy's plastic magic. That's not drama! That's not a crisis of conscience! It's not even realistic, yet, the undoubted influence it has on people I know makes them want to grow up in the same vain. Well, sorry to disappoint you sugar, but life's not like that. And finally, the thing that annoys me most of all about The O.C. - its effect on music. As if ruining Phantom Planet for me wasn't bad enough (and the trip to last year's Rosslyn Park on the mini-bus - Bill Barr playlist: California, something else, California, something else, California, something else, California, something else, etc) they have absolutely murdered (excuse the pun) the enigma of Jeff Buckley and ruined the modern day classic of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". There are the repeated hallelujahs of the soothingly hymn-like chorus, and there is a gently rocking tunefulness about the whole thing. This, if you didn't listen too closely, was what made it such perfect material for that supremely vacuous show The OC. Young, rich people - especially in California - often feel the need to look soulful and deep on camera, and the sound of doomed, youthful Buckley sighing Hallelujah as they all pondered the state of their relationships must have seemed about right. But look closer, Goddammit! You vain smegs! ...Sorry, just a bit annoyed. The point is, the producers of The O.C. take a song which has so much underlying meaning, semantic fields of The Bible and secrecy, and just turn it into another generic piece of slush that's been crapped out of that comic book Geek's permed arse. Look at the lyrics. Just by reading it can fill you with overwhelming joy and yet foreboding pain. Jeff Buckley did a fine job in the cover, but ultimately left it open to this Hollywood slandering, in the same way Kurt Cobain did for Nirvana; by committing suicide to escape the corporate regime, he did nothing but bring it further into the public eye and popular culture. Poor guy. Buckley's version actually had a great effect on the episode of "The West Wing" it appeared in (which came before The O.C. for all you fan boys out there). It seemed to adhere and fulfill all of Cohen's many connotations in that scene; a mgihty piece of production work. We can thank Buckley, however, for making the song "popular" if you could call it. Because for every 50 or so blasphemous covers, we are treated to a gem. None more so than John Cale's version. Ah the enigma that is John Cale already, it seemed so fitting that he should cover the song (Which I think was sang on an episode of Scrubs? - Now there's a good show. Irreverant humour one minute and then something extremely meaningful and emotional the next, like that scene). Someone said to me that it was "pure, cold and scarcely inflected at all, it sends shivers down the spine." and I whole heartedly agree. A new version I heard which sounded great to me was Gavin Degraw. I don't know how well-known he is, or the version, but he sings it with great emotion - but unlike Wainwright who doesn't - he takes it to a new level. His voice is very powerful and raw, and hautingly, it sounds like a cross between Cale and Buckley. Anyway, that's my rant of The O.C. Such a shallow show should never be able to ruin timeless classics of true meaning. But then again, that's modern day T.V. and Hollywood culture for you.

On par with Eric Bauman, I'd say.

My thoughts too. :P Posts by merc in runescape sections here just look weird to me. :lol: rofl am i like unofficially banned from posting outside off topic? ^_^ I thought it was self imposed :D

I call cow dung.

Kid used da srch buttonsfd lozl: http://forum.tip.it/search.php http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=410827

Then you assume Schumacher is leaving Ferrari next season? Not necessarily.

Aversion therapy FTW

Well, legalising them for a start.

The German entry is always worth a look at. Seems a pretty tame effort by their standards this year :shock:

Unbelievably terrible spelling doesn't show a person is lacking intelligence, it shows their really lazy. And does this matter? half of today's socitey is extreamly lazy? does this mean you will only "like" or "hangout" with the non-lazy people? You guy's seem to be justifying your ways with reasons that mean nothing. No, it simply means, like I said before, that why should we bother to read something totally incomprehensible if the author isn't bothered either. Is it too much to ask for legitimate posts. I mean, you may not be the best speller mate, but at least you make an effort to make your posts readable. The OA here clearly has not.

Add them to my list along with Hitler. But how about if it were innocent (if there are such things) people?

Sorry, what?

It does, but if you're going to rest I wouldn't use it. It's only really meant to help when the applied area will be subjected to exercise.

The keyloggers don't care about players :| Just what they can scavenge. I'm pretty sure they'd want him to carry on, so he can get wealth again which they can steal...again.

If it was 500 Hitlers well yeah. But 500 innocents...man, that's tough. It's hard to justify any murder, even if 500 people volunteered to be killed (which I think some would). But this could be for the greater good of mankind. Saying that, I don't know how our progress into the AIDS epidemic is going, if there's any chance of containing it etc. Plus, I wouldn't be able to live with myself after killing 499 people, so the 500th would have to be myself. I really don't know, but thankfully, I can safely say I'll never be faced with this dilemma .

Haha! Oh sweet! Go Finland, I can't wait to see what Terry Wogan says about them! :lol:

Kinda relieved they didn't mention something like: "Some fans have gone so far as to make songs and parodies about the game" :oops:

I just hope Libel-happy Jagex don't ban me for using their game in my songs without consent! Or ban my account! :o