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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #665 on: January 26, 2010, 06:00:04 PM »
Sounds like BeatleMania, except for the prince instead.

BeatleMania didn't being about US-UK reunificaton...

Cricket, soccer and sons of HM subjects and Loyalists calling the shots these days might well I hope.

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #668 on: January 26, 2010, 11:41:04 PM »
I found SilentFox!
Is it wrong that I use Scripture to back my views, if that's what I have faith in to be true?

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #669 on: January 27, 2010, 12:07:04 AM »
https://www.theonion.com/content/news/science_channel_refuses_to_dumb

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #671 on: January 27, 2010, 05:24:53 AM »
https://www.theonion.com/content/news/science_channel_refuses_to_dumb

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Absolutely dead on. 

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Back when I had Discovery channel I was quite pissed off when the programming changed in this way. I even sent a letter, for all the good it did.

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #672 on: January 27, 2010, 05:36:18 AM »
If it wasn't for Mythbusters, I would probably cancel my "Knowledge" pack with Sky.

I mean, who wants to watch a programme about people demolishing buildings (https://dsc.discovery.com/tv/detonators/detonators.html) ? Snore. I mean, in one episode they were just blowing up watermelons and got all excited when they managed to blow them all up :facepalm:

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« Reply #673 on: January 27, 2010, 06:47:38 AM »
If it wasn't for Mythbusters, I would probably cancel my "Knowledge" pack with Sky.

I mean, who wants to watch a programme about people demolishing buildings (https://dsc.discovery.com/tv/detonators/detonators.html) ? Snore. I mean, in one episode they were just blowing up watermelons and got all excited when they managed to blow them all up :facepalm:



Not sure if sarcastic, more like. Sure it's entertaining, but they had sacrificed too much for pure entertainment, last I watched.

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #674 on: January 27, 2010, 06:57:01 AM »
That was a serious post.

I haven't watched any of the new episodes of Mythbusters, if I'm being honest.

The second line of my post where I talk about people blowing up buildings, I was referring to the show in the link I provided (The detonators).

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #675 on: January 27, 2010, 07:03:27 AM »
Sorry, I was talking more about Discovery (as a single case; I've never watched any other "science" channel, and even that was several years ago, before Steve Irwin passed away). I do actually have a deal of respect for Mythbusters, as they seem to take a marginally scientific perspective when attempting to disprove a myth.

I just recall seeing all the robot-building, motorcycle-customizing, blow-stuff-up programmes, and thinking along the same lines as the Onion article. After re-reading your post though, I'm fairly certain we, in fact, agree :P

What other channels come in the "Knowledge" pack?

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #676 on: January 27, 2010, 07:09:12 AM »
By the sounds of it, we do agree :P

Channels that come with Sky's Knowledge pack:

Animal Planet
Crime & Investigation Network
Discovery Channel
Discovery Knowledge
Discovery Science
Discovery Turbo
Nat Geo Wild
National Geographic
The Biography Channel
History
Eden
YeSTERDAY
Blighty
Military History
Animal Planet + 1
Discovery Channel + 1
Discovery Knowledge + 1
Discovery Science + 1
Eden + 1
Investigation Discovery
National Geographic + 1
History + 1
YeSTERDAY + 1

The history channels have fairly interesting stuff on them on occassionally but quite often it's just the same show about weapons over and over again.

Edit: There's also some HD versions of those channels which I can't find the listing for.

Edit 2: Got them:

Discovery HD
National Geographic HD
History HD
Bio.HD
Crime & Investigation Network HD
National Geographic Wild HD
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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #677 on: January 27, 2010, 08:06:00 AM »
Andy, sports and a national figure are hardly grounds for two countries unifying. You might as well say the US and Japan are going to merge because Ninja Warrior and anime are popular in America.
Of course but they symbolise (to me) a changing in the assumptions of what demographic and sensibilities of person are now caling the shots in the US, representing the US and determining the direction of the US. It's no longer the stereotypical grey-haired anglosceptic/anglophobic Irish-American. It's people with closer links (and more importantly affinity) to Britiain, the British Empire and Commonwealth. About time IMHO.

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #678 on: January 27, 2010, 08:38:44 AM »
"Let's watch how they slap my belly... but REEEAAAALLLYYYY slowly." *snore*

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #680 on: February 01, 2010, 03:16:49 PM »
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« Reply #681 on: February 04, 2010, 07:09:04 PM »
So, does anyone know why the stock market fell really sharp WORLD WIDE? Not only the Dow Jones, Sao Paulo's, Chile's, Frankfurt's, London's, Athens, Milan's... YOU NAME IT.

I thought this was over.

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« Reply #682 on: February 04, 2010, 08:27:46 PM »
totally unrelated:

https://www.theonion.com/content/node/27674

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« Reply #683 on: February 04, 2010, 08:32:44 PM »
totally unrelated:

https://www.theonion.com/content/node/27674

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"In order to have sex, you have to be confident in your sexuality, or at least appear confident," Pinter continued. "But in order to be confident, you have to have sex. It's, like, this Catch-22 sexual-confidence loop that I spent all of high school and half of college trying to break. And now I have to break it all over again."

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« Reply #684 on: February 06, 2010, 11:13:04 PM »
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_el_ge/us_palin_s_people

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« Reply #685 on: February 16, 2010, 06:52:15 AM »
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #687 on: February 20, 2010, 06:13:27 PM »
So, our governement fell apart last night - over the ongoing Irak debate (whether they should have gone given the information that was provided). New voting period will probably be in two months, and the statistics for now show that the guy I want the least in power (Geert Wilders, that racist douchebag) will probably get a lot of votes. Furthermore we will be without a normal governement until september/october.

Hurray...

I don't know if the term governement is correct in this case by the way, seeing as our political system is way different from the US and I couldn't find a good translation. I was talking about the people that lead our country of course.

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #688 on: February 20, 2010, 06:24:40 PM »
Netherlands, right?

Edit, news on the subject: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8525742.stm
Edit2: and the issue is Afghanistan, not Iraq.
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« Reply #689 on: February 20, 2010, 06:32:26 PM »
Netherlands, right?

Plan on moving? No federal gov, like your utopia.
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« Reply #690 on: February 20, 2010, 06:46:21 PM »
Netherlands, right?

Edit, news on the subject: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8525742.stm
Edit2: and the issue is Afghanistan, not Iraq.
I meant Afghanistan of course. It's 2:45am, not that sharp anymore :p.

And Netherlands indeed. This will be an interesting period... I really hope that Geert Wilders will lose some of his support. He has no actual standpoints and is just the most populistic (?) politicus you can imagine. All he says is that the islam is evil, and he tries to be in the news as much as possible (make a anti-islam movie that is based on nothing and then get mad when people dislike him).

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« Reply #691 on: February 20, 2010, 07:12:42 PM »
So, the Netherlands equivalent of Sarah Palin?

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« Reply #692 on: February 20, 2010, 07:23:14 PM »
So, the Netherlands equivalent of Sarah Palin?
They have some similarities indeed. Seems all the 'joe the plumber' people love him, and all the people that actually dig a bit deeper into politics or have half a working brain despise him and everything he stands for. Too bad the former categorie is quite a lot bigger.

I have heard of people that were planning to vote for him (a while ago, at surveys) because he 'had nice hair'. Or because he 'was that guy from the television.' :facepalm:

Makes me wonder if democracy is all that great...

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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #693 on: February 22, 2010, 09:48:45 PM »
:corn FUCK!!! Colombia's president (Uribe) had a verbal fight with Chávez today in Mexico at the Summit of Rio!!!! Uribe said: "Don't leave! Stay inside and be a man. These kind of topics [Chávez blocking commerce and expropriating Colombian's companies] are supposed to be discussed here. You are brave to go and insult from far away and coward to say it in my face." As to what Chavez responded: "Go fuck yourself! (ˇVete pa'l Carajo!)".

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!! :corn

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« Reply #694 on: February 23, 2010, 08:25:26 AM »
It's a real shame that dueling has become a thing of the past.  It's so perfectly suited for heads of state.  I've always thought it should be brought back.
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« Reply #695 on: February 23, 2010, 08:52:05 AM »
Adding a marksmenship portion to presidential debates would certainly liven things up, that's for sure.
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« Reply #696 on: February 23, 2010, 10:10:23 AM »
It's a real shame that dueling has become a thing of the past.  It's so perfectly suited for heads of state.  I've always thought it should be brought back.
There are sources that say that at one point they said: "let's go and fix this outside". :rollin They are fucking kids who hate each other. It's not that I like him, but Chávez would have whooped Uribe's ass in a swift.

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« Reply #697 on: February 23, 2010, 10:31:35 AM »
I was one of the few people that thought Saddam's offer to duel Dumbass was an outstanding idea.  Unfortunately, it a lot easier to risk the lives of anonymous soldiers than your own. 
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Re: The P/R-side Chat Thread v.2
« Reply #699 on: February 24, 2010, 08:07:05 AM »
Aw man, they've blocked The Onion at my job now :(