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Lol, Barry :P Great fun, that 'outtake'!

Yeshh whittling too! Stupidly researched it before properly trying it and was put off with all the types of knives and blades you can get. Smart answer is to get a swiss army knife and a stick.

Would be good to hear from ReZ first, tbh.

.. Yeah can we concentrate on the game itself? Please?

No proxy. It's not rez at all.

cheers ash, totally not what I said in my post at all!

It's a different era. The media likes to savage anything and everything and unfortunately the general public will BUY the seedy and the truly inconsequential forms of gossip (because purchasing a newspaper is fairly anonymous and one can pretend that they are interested in the news of the world [lol] while actually they are feeding their facile interestin in the lives of others that are richer yet more broken than them. It's a sad reflection on our society that papers like NOTW, The Sun and The Daily Mail sell so strongly despite generally rubbing against what our country likes to parade to other nations as our ideals and beliefs. Newspapers do not seek to inform or educate. They just seek to make money. A lot of genuine human lives are tainted because of the supposed anonymity of readers - of the disconnection between funding a paper by buying it and the actions that paper undertakes. Readerships are unwilling to accept any liability for fuelling the behaviour of papers - as is made apparant by the NOTW closure recently. people were happy to pay for the invasion of privacy because they didn't know of the means that were carried out to feed their hunger. One person can vote "gimme more gossip" then "shut the bastard stalking paper down" because they have no personal liability for the conflict inherant. Yeah. Stuff. Things. Sigh.

(prov donk is in no way affiliated or approved by ReZcOrp, just to confirm.)

I think that's one of my problems right now - I don't feel like i have any communicable or gratifying 'interests' or hobbies. I have desires to take up things like woodwork but don't really have the immediate capability to do so, and am too idle to go out of my way to pursue that interest.

Quite tricky to think of weird traits. Funny you didn't mention the line-spaced stuff. ... But yeah. Interests! I like UFC, chess, crosswords, jigsaws. Getting into F1. Following the premier league. But I don't really believe I have any interests that I'm particularly knowledgable about.

Count me in

It is a technique I was saving for my descendees but you, my Bear, are qualified to be entrusted with the magical skill. Bring salad.

I have been attacked many times by many a gull. Also! Outside my attic window (where I bed) there are two families of gulls that I've watched grow. it's kinda cute to see them with their toys and their play. But pigeons.. I have a wiggle-finger to lure them in. I will show you at the next meet (we should go pidgeon hunting). I also prefer guinea pigs to most other pet rodents. Rats are pretty good too. Hamsters and gerbils are too small, insane and scared.

She was probably about 6. Did it because we had rabbits and ate nesquik cereal and she though it would be funny to pretend to be silly. I ate a snail when I was 2. Used to be fine with Wasps/bees until I got stung and watched My Girl. Spiders, after Arachnaphobia, are split beween the tiny/cute/spindly and the hairy/big/canseetheirpincersandeyes. The latter are scarier but overall it's... yeah. I'm cool with pidgeons but seaguls have the evil faces.

I can remember many a childhood hour playing with woodlice. They always seemed so innocent. My sister ate one.

Had 3 interviews in the last 2 weeks. I say 3 - first one was a fuck-up as the recruitment agency emailed me wrong date. Second interview was with a tosser who clearly adored the apprentice (never got back to me), third interview went really well but they didn't take me. I was unemployed for 9 months prior to what was essentially a temp job. I had one interview in that time for a kick-ass mega-money job but came 3rd (lord knows why they said that). Searching for jobs online is full, full, full of shite. direct.gov.uk is, for my area, 80% sales jobs, 10% cleaning, 5% building-related, 5% specific-qualifications-needed. Gumtree is mostly "wanna work from home and earn A TRILLION POUNDS?!" or "wanna work ABROAD so we can STEAL YOUR KIDNEYS?!!" And general job sites are full of employers over-dramatising their vacancies. We have an exciting new opportunity in our lively, busy branch five minutes [20 minutes] from the city centre. We are looking for individuals who are capable of working as part of a team, as well as able to use their initiative and drive to take on more than they have been asked to do. Successful applicants must have excellent communication skills, a strong will to seek out new lines of thinking and a strong ability to pick up new skills. Pay is £5.03 p/h. A typical advert for any job. Instead of just saying "look, we want you to answer teh phone and make sure we aren't ever double booked. Even a monkey could do it." They have to dress up the job as if it's the best thing ever. The majority of job advertisements are extremely vague. Many are provided by recruitment agencies who, themselves, don't really know what the job is about. Application proceedures range from phoning an answer machine and leaving your details, emailing a CV, filling out an absurd questionnaire with multiple-choice riddles where all choices are surely right, to interactive flash nonsense, phone interviews, and so on. Most jobs will say something like "training given - experience preferred but not essential" which means if you have the experience you'll be chosen over someone who would waste the company's time to be trained. Many jobs require certification or qualifications that cost money to do - from insurance-based compliance you find in building/etc to competence signs for food-related or even computer-related. Job hunting is soul destroying because you realise that the world does not know who you are, and do not believe you when you say you can do it regardless of experience. It's depressing because you basically have to lower yourself to their level in most instances with having to provide jargon to quantify your response to their questions. There's an unnecessary steeple-chase ine very job inquiry that just seems, in most instances, jarring to the actual job itself. So yeah - volunteer. Sign up to recruitment agencies as they'll do a lot of leg-work for you, and at the least usually can get you interviews. Make sure your CV is good. Oh! And lower your standards. (whoops that was massive)

Sorry to hear it, Serebii. It happened to my nan about 5 years ago now? Seeing her in the hospital was a bit of a shock - half her face was paralyzed, her arm wasn't moving well and her speech was useless - memory gone... But even then, making her laugh, she showed strength. Since then she's regained much control of her arm (still shakey) and her speech is mostly good. Her memory is just an issue with remembering specific words but she's recovered remarkably. She was sad to lose her independance - used to travel several times a year - but if anything (bit sad really) it's made the family appreciate her more and so she's in touch with them all far more frequently. Thoughts with you, pal.

Zechs; so your reasoning behind your opinion on this specific matter is that there's a difference between REAL problems and NOT REAL problems, one of which is an allowed reason to be an addict, the other is not- and I would also like you to elaborate on precisely how you know Winehouse so well as to be able to quantify your decision that her problems were NOT REAL. I will be amused if your reasoning is not somehow based on solely the media's representation of Winehouse as opposed to, what one imagines is actually necessary in order to make such a sweeping classification of someone, actual factual knowledge of the individual in question (specifically regarding their problems). Primarily I ask for this elaboration so I can eat you slowly with spices and cutlery formed solely from the devices my mind concocts - traditionally called 'wit' (you may need to look that up, I don't think you're too familiar with it).

During my wikitrawls I noticed that the points system has changed recently from 10(or 9?) points for a winner to 25. Can someone tell me the reasoning behind this, and whether it really alters anything at all?

Nice one What course?

Wait you've nearly finished -- how many hours would you say? I was about to but it then -- oops, 1180 points in my account. Fecksake.

Links don't work. Anything in an image tag has to end in .gif, .jpg, .png, etc. Those links you have - I can't rectify them as you need to be logged in/authed somewhere somehow. Go back to the image and rightclick -> copy image location and try again :P

Well I have nothing to add.

You're obviously a brainwashed, believe-everything-they-sayer who has no experience of the alternative lifestyle, no comprehension of a meaning bigger than 9-5, no belief in the concept of empathy beyond those close to you. You are unable to see faces in the street and the lives, entire lives they represent. People are different. You are conservative and believe that logic is somehow natural to humans, despite emotion and experience. You are the sort of person who will lie on their deathbed and realise that maybe you should've lived a little. Or maybe I'm just reading massively into your person based on a few forum posts. Like you are. You should read the article Dan posted that Russel Brand wrote (yeah, I'm sure you hate him already, thus you will be unable to read his article without shunning every sentence as you read it). It provides insight into a world you refuse to exist - the illness of addiction - the spiral, the trap that the human mind can find itself in. Nobody starts taking drugs in order to get any where near that sort of level of addiction. They don't believe it'll happen to them. Nobody is aware of how truly impossible it is to break your own mind's routine - to stop the thoughts. You have no concept. Breaking free from a mental illness is essentially the task to stop being you. One develops a sense of empathy when one touches the mental boundaries and has a true sense of how fucked up one can get. You have clearly no understanding whatsoever on mental illness. You hate drugs therefore you hate anyone who takes them. You see in black and white and are unable to comprehend teh intricate complexities of everything. Every moment in time, every choice made by anyone. You get a rude cashier in a shop and you think they're a twat. You don't consider that they might've just had an exceedingly rude customer, or may've just been diagnosed with cancer, or lost their cat. You just see their action for its face value, and are unable to imagine other scenarios. Which is why we lol when you post.