BlueLancer

While I agree that he went totally overboard in that clip, when I was watching it, inevitably the following scenario came to my mind: Think it was a black guy on stage, and the hecklers were white. Everybody would've thought of the scenario as very hilarious and thought of his equivalent comments of "vanillaface" or "crackerass" as appropriate if he insulted the white audience with an equally blunt slur. Dave Chappelle, who is one of my favourite comedians, could've done that scenario with elegance and nobody would've called him a racist. But because it's a white guy, he's the racist of all time. Though I agree his reaction was ridiculous; if you didn't watch the clip, watch it now. I don't get it why he wants to ruin his reputation and possibly his career. I could barely distinguish him from a Ku Klux rallyist.

You kooky americans. In England we serve turkey cooked. I've had a thanksgiving meal quite a few times when visiting my relatives in scandinavia and they always serve the turkey cold. I don't get the idea, though the taste is nowhere near bad. I just wonder where the custom comes from? I know slaughtering a turkey is an age-old pagan tradition along with slaughtering a pig in the winter, just wondering where the 'cold turkey' comes from. Anyways, to reply to the thread, no I don't think it's justified. I could do perfectly without a slaughtered turkey that was bred for the sole purpose of being eaten on a certain day. I wont refuse one if I'm offered it at a thanksgiving party or dinner. And yes, I do think that if the turkey could breed me, it would eat me with his family on thanksgiving after I weighed 600lbs from all those potato chips it fed me.

Lol, that's nothing. The guy who founded Apple corporation, Steve Jobs, used to prank call the Pope. That's what I call having balls. Where did he get the popes number from? :D Apparently, through illegal hacking activities in his younger years. Well, that doesn't explain how he got it, you don't just look up "The Pope" in a phonebook next to Pete Portsmouth. No idea...

There are many 16 year olds with the emotional stability of a 3-year old. (Not all) They should have no reason to be allowed to drink, I think it's great the age limit is at least 18. Though, I think 21 is a bit extreme. People wont respect the restriction, nobody who is 20 and likes alcohol is going to be restricted by the fact he's "only" 20. A fair age for drinking would be 18, or better still, grant drinking licenses based on easy intelligence tests performed on young people. If they can't locate Canada on the map or answer "10 times 10 times 10 is 101010", they shouldn't be allowed to buy a drink that dumbs them down even further and they will just ruin their own lives with an alcohol beverage. Their place is back in elementary school instead of trying to act "adult" by drinking themselves until they puke and lose consciousness. What a way to destroy your brain cells and "socialize".

Eventually, you will have to get some kind of responsibility. Even if you won the lottery and had a 100 million dollars, you'd still have all kinds of responsibilities like filling out forms, taking care of the wealth so it doesn't dry up with inflation, etc. (or you could ignore them, but then you'll be left with nothing) If you want to make great money but also have a fairly exciting job, despite what you think of the UN personally (I do kind of think it is politically a joke, but they do good stuff too) try applying for a UN peace enforcer. You don't need formal education, though you will recieve training. There are usually always some missions around the world, but you need to apply in advance because otherwise you may not be accepted because there are too many applicants. I worked in Kosovo in 1999 for a temporary 6-month contract, and the salary was $4200 tax-free a month plus benefits at the hotel. The only problem is that you will be under harsh physical scrutiny before you can get the job, and you have to pass a multitude of tests and requirements. The rebels in the area would harass the local militia for patrolling the streets but they'd often be silenced just by the presence of UN troops and heavy artillery. The main task was protecting the civilians. I also can understand the local secondary language that the kosovars speak (serbian) so that helped a lot and I got extra salary as a translator. At least you can take it realistically with humor. Falling in self pity would be the second option, and you apparently drifted away from that which is great. And hey, I wouldn't do Forex trading either. I'm familiar with it but quite honestly you need lots of money to really make a profit. And hey, if you're bored, work in a cinema? In my area they will accept almost anybody age 16 and up, and you get to see movies for free (though sometimes you may have to watch the same film twice). You get a salary and it's fairly fun.

Yes, because Bill Gates can make way more than $1 in the amount of time it takes for him to stop and pick the money up. But he doesn't literally "make" it, he gets tons of money even if he's just chilling in the Bahamas, and even more since his stock value steadily goes up. So he loses nothing by spending time on picking up the $1. I think it's more acceptable somebody picks up my $10 and runs away if I have millions of dollars, than if I have no personal net worth and somebody takes my $10 I accidently drop on the shop floor. I don't yet have 'millions', but I definitely wouldn't care if somebody snatched my $10 I dropped. However, if I saw somebody who clearly doesn't even have an income drop a $10 and an arrogant kid tries to steal it, I would care and tell the kid to back the heck off. They need a lesson.

I watched some movie, maybe it was Team America, where they had this thing called the "Film Actors Guild", and I can't remember if there is one really in the USA. If there is, I feel sorry for the guy who coined it up and is now getting prank calls daily.

If your friends simply deserted you, it may be hard to just 'get' new friends. I wont say anything stereotypical like pick up a hobby and meet people there. That doesn't even work always and you could end up more depressed. Pick up your own way of meeting some new people, be it in huge events or just hook up with some people in a LAN party or whatever. Also, if you believe your life lost meaning, try making money. It sounds shallow, but it's one of the things that keeps me going. When you do something for money, you get the feeling that you did something that matters (such as keeping you alive and still having lots of extra). You can make more money than your job allows, try looking up (legitimate, remember there are many shady scams) investment opportunities. It also has the adrenaline factor if you'd decide to go for quick-paced investing. If you're interested in something, make your own forum. I made a couple *.tk based forums on games I occassionally played for my guild/clan, and got a few hundred people to post. Okay, they maybe withered eventually, but it was fun. :)

...That's why it's called the Jedi religion and the followers designate themselves as 'Jedi Knights'. :lol:

Testosterone itself is a steroid, and a male body on average has about 20 times more testosterone than a female one. But it doesn't mean males are 20 times more aggressive, the hormone is essential for muscle mass growth, bone growth, etc. I read about it from several sources and didn't encounter anything that would prove the claim to be more than a stereotype.

I don't know. I just think it sounds really egotistical and sexist. Like it's men saying they are better. And I've had enough of that, especially in history. It would be funner to joke about other stereotypes, ones that are funnier and not so much sex based, but more society based. Like, for example, the dumb blond stereotype doesn't offend me. But men tend to be better at certain things, women in others. So that must become a taboo? I use to blaim it on testosteroin. But I don't anymore, because each sex has their strengths and weaknesses. I just don't like how some people 'rudely' 'jokingly' flaunt their strangths. And this goes for both sexs. I sometimes browse random articles to kill time, and just recently I came across "testosterone posoning" which is a term used especially by feminists to make fun of males. It has been proven wrong that the amount of excessive androgen testosterone in males creates "aggressiveness".

Lol, that's nothing. The guy who founded Apple corporation, Steve Jobs, used to prank call the Pope. That's what I call having balls.

You're never "too old" for doing stuff, don't let that propaganda get to you. You can still have fun with prank calls even if you're 80 years old. I don't generally like eBaum, but the soundboards are good for pranking. The Arnold ones are mostly pretty good, considering they have been made with soundboards with pre-recorded clips from his movies etc. 8-) I feel sorry for the lady being called in #7... Pranks are pretty childish unless the scheme is really funny and most importantly believeable.

It is not yet considered official in the UK, but it is assigned it's own unique code in the consensus. Lots of things are given unique identifiers in the census but that doesnt mean its analysed as such. Its purely for speeding up data entry. See: Wiltshire & Swindon Intelligence Network Religion not stated 31613 7.3% which included 2026 Jedi's But biased statistics don't change the fact that Jedi is the 4th most popular religion in the UK. If the government wanted, they could intentionally leave out all christians, but that still wouldn't mean they aren't the most practiced religion in teh UK. 8-) I wonder what it takes for a religion to become "official"? It should have its' own holy book? Enough followers? Flying spaghetti monster comes to my mind, it fills all the criterias.

Good luck with that.... Don't belive the rubbish that people say "You need x number of ppl to say it on census and it becomes official" because thats rubbish. As someone who worked on the Census 2001 you just get shoved into the "Other" category In New Zealand, Jedi Knight is the second largest religion, more popular than the following: In the UK, Jedi is the 4th popular religion, beating Judaism and Buddhism. It is not yet considered official in the UK, but it is assigned it's own unique code in the consensus. Also a member of the English Parliament from the Labour party Jamie Reed declared himself a Jedi after getting elected. I can't beleive how awesome some people are in this modern world of yes-men and sellouts.

Squier guitars for the win. :3> Started when I was around 16. Also, I hope a woman does not count as an instrument.

In cases like Darkricks, if you're dumb enough to keep larger bills in your pocket, it's your fault if they fall out. If I kept tons of $50 bills in my pocket, I wouldn't really expect anybody to run to me and return them if they dropped out of my pocket. I wouldn't keep the money though. To me it matters more than the person doesn't get screwed. I like the thought that even if they think nobody will return it, they do get it back. To put it simply, I like surprising people positively. I wouldn't feel morally "guilty" about it though if I found $50 in a shop and couldn't see who dropped it. Really, problems like this are nothing compared to real problems or moral dilemmas like murder and other things that happen daily.

If you think you're even half-decent at Linerider, check out this clip. It will shatter your dreams and you will curl into a ball.

Borat is a brilliant movie and probably one of my favourite comedies, but even so if I had a 14 year old child I'd think twice before letting him/her watch it with me. It is funny, but it is very offending, and you probably wouldn't appreciate all the finer parts of the movie and discard it as 'weird' if you don't know what he's making fun of. Anyways, when they check the tickets, they should be fair. If you're 14 and didn't get into Borat, it's probably because you look very young. They don't want to annoy you, they want to shield their company from angry parents who hear their child watched "Borat" in their movie theatre. Many underage kids in my town just put on a leather jacket so they can watch Blade or The Grudge just because it makes them look older than a wind jacket. Strangely, they are let in and other kids older than them have their movie ticket bite the dust and are told to get a refund. Or.. Just wait until you're 18, have your ID ready and don't worry about silly restrictions 8-)

In that case.. I rest my case 8-) I just had fun picturing that event in my mind, because in modern console adverts, they use well-dressed middle aged men as an example of a typical gamer. In the USA I've yet to meet such a person in a public transportation vehicle. In Japan businessmen do actually play for example handheld consoles in the subway.

Lol, almost everybody failed to see the humor of the game. The female part of the game is intentionally like that, you can't win it. No need to get so serious about it :lol: Everybody knows that there are both good and bad female and male drivers (though women *may* make more parking mistakes). Males still get a lot more speeding tickets in most countries of the world where women don't usually even drive.

They can't, but it is so loosely enforced that practically everybody has more than one child in the countryside (in big cities it is hard to get away with it). They still prefer males because they are of actual use because they can work in the fields for long periods of time and have more chances of earning (honest) money. They just bribe the local officials who are just as poor as the citizens.

Exactly. Europe's poplulation is expected to shrink by what, 50%, over the next 50 years? Perhaps that figure's a bit high, but it'll be a pretty big decrease. I figure either war, disease or the return of Christ will keep us from overpopulating the earth. Yep, Europe is the only continent (not including Antartica) that has a reducing population. The recent population census says that it has decreased by as much as a few 100 million per year. Go Europe! \ But they'll have to +1 person, because I'm going to live there. Haha, you must be quoting some misinformed numbers though. :lol: Europe has about 450 million people, if the population was decreasing that fast, by the time you'd move to Europe you'd be the only person alive in there. I actually checked it on the CIA world factbook, the population of the Europe (European Union, which includes almost all European countries) is actually growing by 0.15% per year. Other countries like Russia have a decreasing population, not because of natural reasons but because people move away from poverty to western countries, especially the States.

No, that's not "like 3 people". Try more like 3 hundred thousand people. Find out about things. A significant part of the world's richest people did not finish their education and did drop out from highschool, not because they're stupid, but because they found something better to do. They have earned more than you ever will, and they are not "just 3 people". That is a very brief list. Of course there are people who drop out and earn minimum wage. Did they have business plans when they dropped out? Probably not? If you have a clear plan on making money, a piece of paper isn't going to either help you in gaining more wealth or stop you from doing so. In the business world, money talks, not your education. When we talk about making real money (in the millions), people only care about how much you have to invest and what is your net worth. People will respect a dropout with $50 million more than a graduate with $100,000, simply because the latter doesn't directly benefit from his degree unless he chooses to work for someone else. Sure, they are a minority. That's why I said I do encourage people to study. However, they are not a minority in the sense that YOU talk of it. About 20% of the people you see on the Forbes 400 rich list are undergraduates. I finished my education (MBa), so why am I not against dropping out then? Because if you're intelligent, you can make good decisions even without listening to an old man who makes $40k a year teaching babble and lecture you about how to get the big bucks. If you know you wont make it in the world and you have no clear plans, obviously you should go on with your education. People like those exceptions clearly knew they wanted to do something smart and considered their education a waste of time.

Don't worry.. That doesn't count as a "spoiler". :) I wouldn't count on it, different sites say different things. Gamespot for example says December 13th and some other sites simply say "first quarter of 2007". Either way, even if the date may vary a bit from what you mentioned, I'd say it's very likely to come out before christmas. Nintendo would not miss such an opportunity to get massive sales done, because a lot of people *will* want the game as a christmas present. For some reason I think this scenario never actually took place anywhere :lol: No offense but it sounds like one of those dreams my 6 year old cousin would have. Sorry if you were being serious, but why'd you all of a sudden ask random people in Armani suits if they want a new gaming console..