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LOVE Gogol Bordello... brilliant stuff.

Kids are sexism incarnate. Ah, I just think it kind of sucks when one of these folks takes up a spot in a classroom (thereby denying someone else the opportunity) then ends up retiring to shat out kids less than five years later. A friend of my wife's became a nurse solely to meet a doctor and get married. Nursing programs are competitive (at least over here- dunno about UK) and frequently only allow a certain number of candidates in. I know, it's her life, she can do what she wants, but somebody out there was 26th on that list of 25.

Could be a couple of different things, mate. First though, when you mention your memory amounts up there, bear in mind you're talking about the amount of space on your hard drive. What's going to be more of a concern for you when running several different programs at the same time is the amount of RAM you have installed (probably between 512mb and 2gb). RAM is where your computer actively runs programs and whatnot, your hard drive is where they are stored when not actively in use. (Now, don't misunderstand- it can affect things when you start to get really full because Windows needs some space to do it's thing, but you're nowhere close to that). Since it sounds like you have problems when you're trying to do several things at once, you might consider buying some more RAM for your computer. It's fairly cheap unless you have a really odd setup or something. Can't imagine you'd pay more than 60-70 pounds to get a couple more gig installed. If money's tight, try turning off unecssary programs- especially the stuff in your systray (that's the little area down in the lower right near your clock in XP). Autolaunching programs like iTunes, WeatherBug, RealPlayer, Instant messaging softwares, etc. Turn all that crap off and see if your freezing goes away or lightens up a bit. Another thing you could try messing around with is Task Manager. If you're running XP, hit control-alt-delete and look for the tab. The stuff that has your username as the owner, you can probably turn off and not make it so unstable you'll have to restart. Just make sure you're not doing anything super-important at the time and you probably won't lose anything. The only other things I can think of off the top of my head that could be causing this are a failing power supply or overheating. Might want to blow out the vents, pick it up off the desk enough that it can circulate some air, and see what happens. I don't think I've ever heard of a laptop throwing a power supply, but if you were talking about a desktop I'd mention it for sure, so there ya go- probably unlikely, but anything's possible when it comes to dealing with these fucking things. Good luck!

What's the file extension on them?

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

I wonder how many of them are doing it to meet their future husband? Wonder how many of them will keep working once the kids show up?

To be fair though, there probably were 20,000 U.S. fans out of the 56,000 there. We were outnumbered significantly by the Hondurans in our own house. Pathetic.

LOLS!!! I'd never noticed before... does explain all the loot though...

Lols, is it? I lifted it from Who Ate All the Pies. Figured they'd have it right... EDIT: You're right- I should've read the comments under their picture-

Yeah, I figure I'm going to catch some shit with this thread, but you know what? It's like the most fun I've had just about ever. If I had this great of a time going to a hockey game or a concert or whatever, I'd post about that, so why wouldn't I post this? Also, none of my friends aside from the guy in the pictures with me appreciate the game, so I figured you guys could relate. My buddy Ben got into it when he did a semester abroad and ended up in Aberdeen. His roomates took him to a match and he's been hooked ever since. Lols, yeah, the nice cameras went back to the rooms before we started getting pissed.

My buddy and I were lucky enough to attend the U.S. v. Honduras match yesterday. Best sporting event I've ever been to by far! Over 24 hours later and I'm still hoarse from all the singing/ yelling/ chanting. Here's some of the pics we took- We had awesome seats- 13th row behind our bench. The teams take the field The Honduran support was massive. Didn't have much to cheer about after that early goal though... After the match, we got to go down to the pitch because Ben is an official U.S. supporter and he answered an email from USsoccer.com quickly enough to get us in. All in all, I'd say 60 or so of us got to go down to the pitch and walk around. I even managed to snatch a piece of the turf to take home to my Pops as an early Father's Day present (he's a massive Bears fan). I'm on the left. Us on the U.S. bench After the match, we got smashed and were hanging out with all these soccer fans from all over the place. Around midnight, a lot of the U.S. fans had turned in, but the Hondurans were more than happy to hang out, talk soccer, and drink with us. They shared the chips they'd brought with them from home with us and tried to get us to sing Gringos es putas. We may be hicks from the mid-west, but we're not stupido. Great people, gracious losers too. I can't tell you how many dudes wearing white and blue stopped us after the match to say, "Good game." We're both supporters, and were quite drunk at this point, so finding this was momentous at the time. As far as the match itself, I thought we looked more like an actual team than even in the Mexico game. There were some mistakes obviously (I felt so bad for Dempsey when he gave up the ball that lead to the first goal), but everyone played really well overall. Bocanegra stole the show with the Superman goal, obviously, but everyone had an above average to great game. Donovan's PK was wicked, and Tim Howard is THE MAN. When he picked up the armband as Bocanegra was going off injured, I knew we were going to be fine. Such a positive leader type player. The only player on our squad I wasn't really impressed with was Altidore, but he's still young- he'll get it. First touch of a rapist though, to be honest. He's got to learn how to take a long ball pass if he's going to keep playing striker.

Bullshit. We can spot a Canuck a mile away. 1. They're nice. Too nice. 2. They say words that rhyme with "about" funny. 3. The whole top half of their head comes off when they talk. Vegas is fun if you're single and like to drink. Otherwise, it's pointless. listen buddeh, i catagorically deny that the top half of my head comes off when I talk........and as we've said before we apologise for the entire Bryan Adams fiasco. I'M NOT YOUR BUDDEH, GUY!

Bullshit. We can spot a Canuck a mile away. 1. They're nice. Too nice. 2. They say words that rhyme with "about" funny. 3. The whole top half of their head comes off when they talk. Vegas is fun if you're single and like to drink. Otherwise, it's pointless.

Lols!

Stuff like this is why I hate this country. "We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning?" The doctor wasn't committing a crime- there's no vigilantism to be found here in any sense of the word. Fucking mouth-breathers.

I like that the other dude's name is Dick Cole. Uh, Huh, huh, huh... Hey Beavis, you said Dick Cole.

I've never personally had any luck with going "up the chain" on shit like this. Seems like unless you can get HR to notice a BLATANT violation of some company policy (i.e. fails a drug test, etc.), going to HR never works for me- only against me. Not knowing specifically what you do, it's tough to say, but as someone who often has to cover for people who are fucking useless, is there any way you could pull back a bit and let her fail (preferably in some spectacular way)? If she's missing that many days, coming in late, and leaving early, seems as though you have to be covering for her or doing her work to some extent. It's my guess this is why you're on here bitching about it. Can you stop doing that so some project misses a deadline or fails? Barring that, maybe having a heart to heart with your boss about this new job where you wouldn't have to take care of the slackers around you could spur some positive activity...

For fuck's sake. Shouldn't she be battling 1,000,000 chinese warriors one by one or something?

Don't forget, Ashley apparently made a bunch of his dough buying "troubled" brands then making them profitable again. I understand that to mean he takes a brand, Kangol for instance, that was big back in the day but has fallen on hard times. Ashley buys it, slaps it on a vastly inferior product, sells it for a slightly lower price which actually does lead to profit as now the operating costs are lower than originally, so while the sales price may be less and sales themselves are still relatively low, it's still a profit. Newcastle United was big back in the day and had fallen on hard times...

Where's the rubber? Are those worms?

Me too. Er, Baaaa...

BLASHPHEMY.

Useless lanky cunt ? This just made me spit soda all over my desk and keyboard.

This.