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Most people have just posted their own usernames... and to the guy who posted the ones comprised primarily of numbers - WOW those really are the BEST EVER. :|

Fhck You Mom (hehe) Rs Pk (ohhh yeea) And I heard one guy has the name "Saradomin" B) and some others :P

I'm one of those kids :D I got a C in my math mock without revising at all, which is great cuz I never do anythin in class... again, the bad part, I haven't done any [bleep]ING COURSEWORK so I'll still fail :) What the hey, I'm a failure, so what? :P

I go back in.. 4 hours. :| Lame huh, first day back at school an I can't sleep. Back to the topic question.. I [bleep]en hate school. I've gradually gone downhill , seriously... year 7 I was top of the class in everything, year 8 I still was but I didn't do work as much, year 9 same as year 8, year 10 and I start to worry, try and do work but can't be bothered anymore. Now, year 11, final GCSE exams in like 4 months and I've done no coursework in anything, tests I beat most people cuz I can learn easy but I HATE coursework. I HATE it and I wish it wasn't a part of GCSE courses, because I [bleep]ING HATE IT!!! :@ So yeah in conclusion.. my life's being flushed pretty much, but I'm not phased cuz I always expected myself to turn out as a hobo, way things are going I'ma reach those expectations.

"Someone" would have to be a moron :P

Hackney eh? Hackney, England? I used to live at Sidcup, near Chislehurst, wouldn't have heard of it?

ROFL I soiled myself too :( I'm off to send this to everyone on my MSN heheh

You guys suck :D No no no... eat stuff with tons of calories and work out a bit.. I eat junk all day, drink beer and do very little exercise but I'm still fit as [bleep] :lol: Trust me! :P

I don't think international terrorists will worry about borders anyway? "Ok, our intricate plan to bomb central Madrid is complete!" "But wait... there's something on the map I did not notice before" "What is it??" "A BORDER!!!" "CRAP! Well let's just forget about bombing spain then." :lol: Cuz there's no way to get past borders, that's why there are no mexican immigrants in the US, right? :?

1. Someone pointed me here from the original poster's apology thread, an I didn't check dates :lol: 2. I think it's relevant, in a world where money is god, is it really so weird that people will try brainwashing to attain it?

Read first page, and don't be so close minded people.. Things aren't always what they seem, not even often. A bit of food for thought: Who/what rules the world? I'm not going to look back at this, but I guess people would say.. 1) God 2) GW Bush 3) People 4) The sun None of these are true, MONEY does. Money owns you, your family, your pets.. everything. You WILL work for money all your life, but no matter how hard you work, you'll never get enough of it. 666 doesn't mean [cabbage], $$$ is the true evil symbol.

If you ever played the Spyro games, any of them, please confirm my weird deja-vu nostalgia feeling.. Download Radiohead - Baby Sitar and listen carefully at 0:48 - 1:08!!!! I SWEAR it's the same music as on a part of Spyro but I can't find anything about it! For 2 days I was grinding my brain trying to remember what it was from... 2 days!! "Sonic? Tenchu? Driver? Crash Bandicoot? GOD DAMN IT!" If you feel as I do, PLEASE post back so I know I'm not crazy!!! :)

It's easy at low levels, magics and yews aren't easy. That's why it'd be 80+ anyway... you think that's easy to get?

W))TTTTTTTT!!!! Go 20006!!1

Hey I know MERCHANTING is work, I've been there and done that, trust me. But rare merchanting is not. Take rune ess - you have to stand around for ages buying small amounts for 20 each, haggling and bargaining, at Varrock East bank. You can then sell for 40 each on the forums. Rune essence does not appreciate in value with nothing but time. You can not just buy some, leave it in your bank and then sell it at a later date for a lot of profit. Take party hats - you have to buy one, generally on forums. You then sell it in a few weeks/months for massive profit. Was that a lot of work? No, I don't think so. So in conclusion, I agree with merchanting, I believe it to require numerous skills - communication, persuasion, haggling, sales technique. All required to be a good merchant, so having them is admirable. But rare merchanting requires only money. Not very admirable, do you not agree?

Best idea ever! Seriously. I'm 78 wc, and I don't cut yews anymore cuz, as mentioned, 60 woodcutting is ridiculously easy to get, so there will be like 10 people on 1 tree. A reward for dedicated wcers would be much appreciated I think, 80+ makes sense. I'd have to work a bit to get in, but at least I would be around only other dedicated wcers, and not noobs :-)

Agreed, it's a very good idea! :-) At the moment, there's no way to flaunt your QP, if you tell someone them ingame they'll say something like "am i supost 2 care", but if there were a nice weapon... :lol:

Argh! I don't want them to be banned FFS!!! Just for the price to be stabilised and kept at a fixed value! Then ANYONE will eventually be able to get one, and NOONE will be able to make money from doing nothing.

Some good points made, but I still do believe that they are an unfair advantage, because it's hard to get into merchanting rares. Sure, you can work and buy a santa, pumpkin or easter egg, but they're small fry and it'll take a long time for those to appreciate much. By which time, Party Hats will be many many millions more. Someone already in P hat game has an unfair advantage now, because they have had to do very little work for a lot of money, and can, like I said in my first post, now spend that on, say, a lot of herbs and 2nd ingredients. Someone who works via a trade skill for their money will have to work lots of those herbs and 2nd ingredients, by either working for the money or gathering them themselves. See what I'm saying? :)

Thanks, Giedrius, what an insightful post. You definitely used a lot of good points there, and explained them really well. You make a great case. :roll:

I have a santa, so 2 of your points are invalidated. Your third point is just irrelevant, I already said that they would still be a status symbol, you dork. Thanks a lot, for nothing, you've completely wasted my time, your time and anyone who reads your post's time. If you want to contribute, go ahead, but don't just try and be a smart [wagon], cuz you suck at it. EDIT: Now these forums censor everything too? :?

It was set up? Oh.. it's ruined now :( And about the under-13 gene thing.. I'm 16, and I'm English.

Oh I know this is old but I knew that not everyone would've seen it... I thought it was funny as f anyway. ^^ I had visions, whilst reading that, of a scientist like the hostage ones from half-life explaining all of that to a small child in a matter-of-fact way :P Heh.. hehe... hehehhahahahaha

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are not talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second - 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that flying reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them -Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). A mass of nearly 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reaches the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim considering all the high calorie snacks he must have consumed over the years) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering pink pulp.. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. MERRY CHISTMAS!!!

Great, just what America needs - more lawyers!! :roll: Especially considering how sueing is all the rage over there.. what a country, you can sue anyone for anything and probably win and get millions of dollars. :S Aside from that, congratulations! :)