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Same for me as well. And I thought we had a date in Nashville for USA-England. Either that or I don't count as interesting. Lols, I wondered if you'd remember our date, snookums. Sorry to say, there's no chance of me making it to Nashville now. My wife will be delivering the player to be named later about three weeks prior. Best I'm going to be able to do is hit a local bar here in Evansville. Turns out she was pregnant for a little longer than we thought when I made that post about us meeting up. When we did the math, we figured her due date to be towards the end of June, turns out it's more like middle of May. It should go without saying you're more than welcome to attend, but I totally understand if you're generally against travelling to Indiana <shudder>.

Dig it man! I'll try not to talk loud. My buddy (the Glazer lookalike) was in Scotland for a semester and he said the friends over there were always like, "You don't have to yell- we're right here!" An American thing, apparently. Also, if you ask me for a graphical representation of a geographic area, I'll not look around for a wooden stick with fibers on the end of it used to soak up water from a floor. He was guilty of that as well. Good point. I'll be sure to bring a pen and paper and just leave him a note on the side of his concrete bunker.

Not a fan of Robbie Williams at all but I'm not able to get my head round why you have such issue with this. He doesn't play an instrument nor, I'm led to believe, is he a particularly great song-writer But what he lacks there he does make up for in terms of being a lyricist and his performances. Almost every single track in that medley he performed last night were instantly recognisable. Given that and that he's been at the fore-front of pop music for 18-20 years and it's not surprising that they've given him the award. His music might not be your cup of tea - it's definitely not mine but you can't deny what he's achieved. To put it in context, this is some of the previous recipients of the award: 2009 - Pet Shop Boys 2005 - Bob Geldof 2004 - Duran Duran 2002 - Sting 2000 - Spice Girls 1999 - Eurythmics 1986 - Wham Are any of that lot more deserving than Robbie Williams? Band Aid / Live Aid aside, I fail to see what Geldof's 'outstanding contribution to music' is. At least those lot have contributed to music across the globe, in particular the U.S. I wonder how many folk in the states know who Williams is. For my money, a lifetime award (whatever it's called) should be to musicians/singers who haven't received much acknowledgement for their contribution to world music over a long period of time. The Brits, yes, but a recognition for what British musicians have given the world. Williams is what, 30-ish? There must be musicians of 50 to 60 who have done far more for world music than him. And he's a knobheed. He was pretty big over here in the late 90's/ early 2000's. I'm not into pop music much at all, but I definitely know who he is. He was big around the time that pop was starting it's resurgence with Britney, Christina, and them having their biggest success. I'm firmly of the opinion that Lady Gaga is a man as well. I was at a party with my wife at one of her friends and saw Gaga perform "Paparazzi" on some MTV awards show. It was the one where she goes over and hammers on a piano for a bit, then gets up with blood pumping out of the front of her outfit. Since then, I've been convinced. Here's my thing- girl performers don't do that kind of shit. Say what you want about tucking it in or the man face or that nearly all of her tracks are sung in a falsetto on the high parts or whatever, but I'm telling you, that whole martyring yourself in front of your fans isn't a female thing. That's totally something a guy would do- the whole, "I'd die for my art" vibe. Girl pop singers don't do that kind of thing- they want their audience to want them sexually, they don't want to die for them. I suppose one could make the debate that Gaga is breaking new ground for female performers and all that, but let's be honest- we're talking about pop music here. People don't generally try to advance the formula when it comes to pop music. If she made industrial or something, maybe, but if you're still on the fence about this Lady Gaga being a man thing (and please understand, it doesn't matter to me either way- she/ he makes some decent pop music, I could care less what she/ he has between her legs), watch several of her live performances and ask yourself this- Is what I just saw indicative of a female performer or gay male performer? So why the charade? Simple- because the global pop audience is going to be way more accepting of a guy who protrays himself as a female pop singer than a gay male one, but she/ he still gets to make the music she/ he wants to make and puts on the live show that she/ he wants to put on. She/ he doesn't have to comprimise his/ her art, he/ she just comprimises him/ her self. Which actually is kinda sad, frankly.

Same for me as well. I will say this though, although I'd never admit to it, if/ when I do finally catch a match at St. James', I'll be hurt if some of the folks from the board don't meet up with me at a pub for a few rounds. I'd super curious to see if Parky is black and white in real life. No seriously though, it'd be cool to put faces with names at some point. EDIT: Woe to thee o earth and sea... FOR THIS POST IS SIX-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-SIX. Lols.

True 'dat, man. When I was teaching at the junior college, I had students who were my parents age come through my program. It's never too late to radically change how much money you make. (That being said, I need to take my own advice and go back to school)

Sorry, I haven't taken the time to read all the posts in this thread (although I highly suspect Happy's post above mine just summarized it)- he's not a terrorist because the media doesn't want him to be. They did the same end-run with McVeigh- the government wants us to be scared of external threats, not internal ones. This culture of fear perpetrated on me and my countrymen when directed towards the rest of the world generates a TON of cash for the military industrial complex that my boy Dwight D. warned us about. It's ok for us to be scared of shoe bombers and underwear bombers, but when one of our own has had enough and drives a plane into a government building, that's a bad thing because we don't (publicly) declare war on our own people unless they are criminals before the act. This act will be labeled as a tragedy inflicted upon the city of Austin (where I used to reside, although not at the same time as Happy's avatar, but I did visit his statue once) by a sick individual. It is NOT going to be labeld as an act of war by a disenchanted, pissed off individual because there are too many disenchanted, pissed off individual in this country who might follow suit. I haven't watched the news the past couple of days as I've been working 14 hour days filling in for the maintenance guy we just fired, so I don't know how we're spinning it, but I can almost guarantee you this event has the tragedy spin and not the anger spin that is generally associated with acts of violence from outside sources.

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Yeah, and the second one is supposedly our away kit.

The last band I was in used to do a cover of that song that would absolutely bring the house down. It was almost too good, being as how ideally we were trying to make it as an originals act. As for me, it was Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun. Oh dear.

No, no, NO!!! You short sighted bastards... After hearing what a cunt I was for ONE YEAR, FOUR MONTHS, AND SIX DAYS, I FINALLY break through to him and now you ban him? AAAAGGHHHH!!! Well, back to work on Parky then. So James, the end of the world... wot you fink then?

There's a lot of truth to that, Alex. Don't even get me started on NASCAR and why people watch that. lol... I'm the same way- contact has it's place in a game- again, I'm a huge hockey fan. But there's being a willing combatant and the victim of a drive-by. There's no honor in being the victim (or the perpetrator) of a drive-by.

This. Although, in the interest of full disclosure, the NBA was cool to watch until all the kids started leaving college early and half of the teams in the league essentially became development teams that paid kids millions to throw up bricks for 3-5 years while they matured physically and mentally (see also: Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett), if ever (see also: Allen Iverson). Baseball wasn't bad when I was a kid. Since the strike of '94, I just don't have that kind of free time anymore- too long of a season, games take forever, and it's too expensive to watch live if you follow a decent team. You think American football takes a long time... sheesh. That shit goes on forever. American football is what it is- it was created to make dough. The league was constructed around some very well thought out ideals and marketing strategies. It has relatively short season so more people follow it because it's less of a committment. Owners forced a miminum age requirement on the player's union so they can't leave college early which gets them out of the NBA's mistake of no development league and owners who can't control themselves. There's a TON of stoppage in the games that you all have mentioned largely to provide plenty of opportunity to get 15 and 30 second commerical spots providing revenue for the networks who pay the king's ransom to broadcast NFL games. That being said, I'd have a hard time allowing my kid to play organized American football. I know so many people (remember the guy who went to the U.S. World Cup Qualifier with me? The Glazer lookalike?) I went to school with that have needed knee surgeries because they played football in high school. High school. We're not talking pros here or even college. FFS, the only reason my knee is fucked is because I got it caught in some of our equipment a couple of years ago. Glazer had knee surgery because he played running back in high school.

Thanks for bringing back the nightmares of the.com I did six months of contract work for, Parky. You're a peach.

God, everyone at the plant is so butthurt over this today. I swear, you'd think somebody died.

Skoal Bandits and Snus are quite different in that the tobacco is processed completely differently although cosmetically, they do look similar. Taste is MUCH different, and as has been noted, no spitting required (although when I first started, I found myself getting the hiccups quite a lot and I rarely have the hiccups). It's definitely not as satisfying as having a smoke; I tell people who ask it's sorta like the difference between masturbating and having sex. Cigarettes being the sex, obviously. Patches and gum had absolutely no effect on me when I tired to quit previously other than the patches gave me a rash. Chantix worked well, but after a week, it significantly increased the level of my depression, so for those of you who need to quit but can't, maybe replacing your delivery method is the answer.

Zombieland Loved it. Not a great film by any means, but its a fun movie to watch with a couple of beers and a couple of friends. Especially playing some Left 4 Dead afterward. "I've never been good at goodbyes, so, uh, 'That'll do, pig.'"

Do you like gladiator movies?

Bill Hicks or Dennis O'Leary? what happened to O'Leary?....drink or drugs? He's Irish, but there's no "O". Probably shooting season 6 of Rescue Me at the moment... he may be a plagiarizer of Hicks, but Rescue Me is a brilliant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_Me_%28TV_series%29

Quit around this time last year largely due to constant nagging of my immediate family. Used Chantix for a couple of months, found it aggravated my depression greatly, but stayed on it long enough to stop. Picked it back up again around last August. In general, I felt a lot better- no more coughing when I laugh really hard, no waking up in the morning with my head full of congestion and my throat full of phlegm, etc. Bad part of it was though without all the stimulating nicotene, I swear, it felt like I never really fully was awake. Even after being up for hours. Found on a couple of late-night emergency calls from my work, I really had trouble waking up enough to diagnose issues. I really wanted to quit again, but couldn't do without the nicotine. What could I do? Worked brilliantly so far.

Stop reading the sun. Don't stare at it either.

Love that film. Screenplay by Nick Cave too I think. Yep, bought one of his books off the back of it. And the Ass Saw the Angel?

Are people seriously doing that nowadays. I don't understand this at all, they've had a kid, buy it an outfit, fair enough but anything more isn't needed imo. We'll be having fucking baby showers next. ? That's the norm over here. Lols...

Don't suppose they've registered anywhere have they?