jayseven

Should I bring fire on long sticks to the bridge opening ceremony, or will that just go over everyone's heads?

Well to be honest, it was, dante. "and for some reason my leg is hurting me" then "i don't want to say why it is hurting me" are generally sentances that do not compute together, thus we members are intrigued and then appaled by any lack of explanation. BACK TO ME! Went to pub. Did a quiz. Drank some stuff. Burger way home. Want to watch something but nothing is streaming fast enough so aaaaaah!

Hyde park has way more privacy, thus less fear of distressing small children and/or the police. Plus there are more piss bushes and general foliage for amusement.

That's because you mentioned that elephant man sitting on your face. I mean your nose.

You ought to see SOTL, and maybe Hannibal. Much better movies.

Wait. You got the train from london road to brighton main station? Then you should already be on the other side of these barriers you mention, thus aviouding the influx of Southwick/Fishersgate Young Mums. Why do you have the suitcase with you if you were going back into brighton main? What sort of behemoth suitcase are we talking here?! Unless it is the size of a car, I still think these prammers have right of way, to be honest. But as for them on the streets themselves - my dad has one of those blind sticks, and women pushing prams are the most ignorant, self-righteous breed of pedestrian. This man is BLIND and CANNOT SEE, and yet they shunt their prams at him expecting him to give way. Madness.

Woah. I come in here expecting pictures and there are all these words everywhere...

I forget at least one movie at least each time I recount.. Let's see... manhunter, red dragon, hannibal, hannibal rising... That's it, right? Hannibal is alright - Manhunter is well worth watching simply because of the chronology of it all, but from what I hear (I haven't actually seen the other two)... you'd not really find anything matching up to SOTL.

You're not coming across as whiney - it's just easy for poor plebs to get RAAAGE about this sort of stuff :P There are a lot of people who find it a real struggle to get the mortgage paid. My mother actually has a strange double-mortgage, effectively 40 years worth to pay off, and she struggles to pay off the interest alone. This way of life is life to several million people, and if anything they just prove that one can get by on a hell of a lot less than they think. Your university tuition fees are nothing to worry about. If your parents cannot find £75 a week (which is pretty much what it averages out to) to support you, then you really have to ask them questions. EDIT: the £75-a-week figure is quite arbitrary. I could sit and work out precisely how much a loan equates to per week but... but I can't be arsed :P

nice list rizz! You still need a j, q and x band otherwise your life will forever be incomplete.

I read it thing is every family faces troubles. The fact is families with a higher income have more at their disposal to help sort matters out. My mum has no car she could sell if things got really bad. She has no sky subscription to cut out. She doesn't have any holidays she could skip for a year. She doesn't have an extra freezer in the garage she could turn off to save energy. No attic with no old heirlooms. No selling up and moving to a smaller place, because there are no smaller places to move to. No cutting down on aerobics classes, no gym bills to stop paying. Seriously, I could go on. The only positive, in a sense, is that my mum is used to scraping money together in order to get by. If she can do it then so can a family with a combined income of triple what she had. EDIT: in no way is this a personal attack on you or anything, it's just something that needs venting.

Hmm.. Not counting Reading as I was drunk/high and cannot remember every single band... Zebrahead Breed77 Hundred Reasons The Used Brand New Green Day New Found Glory Jimmy Eat World Meshuggah Rise Against Flobots Antiflag yourcodenameis:milo stiff little fingers ... and others forgotten, and a bunch of support bands i can't remember as well. Oh yeah... Reuben The Blood Arm The Hair

Your point is that on an economical level, it is entirely acceptable; you suggest that the tickets may as well be auctioned off in the first place, allowing the supply/demand to truly set the price of the good in the first place. I'm saying that society has such a skewed income distribution, leading with this method would ultimately mean only those rich enough will be able to afford gigs. Your other point is that money is good. More money = better. I want more money, ergo: this shit is cool. My argument is that you wouldn't feel the same if you knew the person you were selling to. Would you buy a ticket for a gig you don't want to go to, then sell it at double the price to your best friend? Your girlfriend? Your mother? There's a point where you gotta stop looking at how the gig or the ticket is valued, but at how you value money. Fuck the money, I say. There's always more of it.

Hey mister, I commented on teh distinction between need and want. I was going to use a puppy as an example, or a cornetto or something. Yes, it is a choice to see a gig, but can you not see how it is unfair when the only choice you have is to pay double the price, when the tout could choose to pay the regular price? How is that equal, how is that fair? It is not. With businesses there is a win/win situation between a customer and a supplier. You are willing to pay an inflated price on a good because you are unable to attain the good directly, without the middleman. Bah! No point. Thankfully we operate in a society where we don't accept anyone and everyone. If you choose knowingly to do something you know isn't liked, then that's your choice. I choose to not respect you for it.

Don't dismiss the entire genre :P I did at first, but thanks to shorty I've managed to see a massive range of stuff. I'm still not into any of the mech shit, but on offer is anything you can find anywhere else, and often is prettier than any live action counterpart because of the scope and flexibility of the medium. And don't watch it on youtube >_< Great thing about Death Note is it's only, like, 50ish episodes (will probably get corrected here). You ever watched one of those mirazaki/studio ghibli movies? They're a good way to start to at least see how quirky anime can be.

either in here or in online gaming? I don't know how busy online gaming is, so in here is a good bet. If it gets competitive it could get moved to playground.

Honestly, i went and saw that post and I could've sworn it was utterly in the wrong place - like, by a dozen pages or so. It was a reply to Rizz at some point, I think. SERVERBLAME! I saw them last night! They weren't dissapointing. The crowd was dissapointing in several ways - there was a circle pit of pure shiteness-- people were just WALKING AROUND IN A CIRCLE!! That was lame. The Used live were a dissapointment. Green Day put on an amazing show, Zebrahead were cool, Meshuggah had a real raw aura that was awesome to be hear. Brand New were sooooo fucking good it was insane. No need for special effects or pyrotechnics, they were just classy. I would like to see; Rammstein, Mindless Self Indulgence, mewithoutYou *jizzes repeatedly* and... er... dunno :P Missed 65daysofstatic the other night due to sleeping 'in'... >_<

But touts are taking advantage of our emotions! When it comes to your favourite artists, desperation takes over! You need to see these artists, no matter what. Of course there's a difference between illegal and legal. The Law. Buying low and making as much profit as possible is usually done through bulk buying at discounted prices; cutting overheads, increasing a product's status and NOT by acquiring all or most of the resource and bottle-necking access to it, charging whatever price they like because they know people want it. If shops did this with your food, you would starve. If the utility companies did it with our fuel and water, we would freeze. The difference here is that gigs are a veblen good, but it is still a rodenty, low-life occupation that closely resembles racketeering, which is against the law. There is something wrong with selling them on to make a higher profit. It is, simply, that they are reducing the freedom of others - the freedom to buy a ticket to a gig at retail price. Morally, it is wrong. It's like... you've been saving up your pennies to buy this puppy. Some old pensioner's seen you fawning at the shop window every day for a month at this puppy. One day they see you walking down the road looking all happy, armed with bags of coppers - they don't see the potential happiness about to occur - oh no! They see an economical opportunity to make some easy money. They pop into the shop, buy the pup, and upon seeing your sad face they say "I'll sell you this pup for twice what you were gonna pay." Et cetera, et cetera. It's just not nice, not necessary, and causes annoyance and hatred.

Yes. There was.

I've not searched for any yet; just going through the pages. Stopping on page 107 - I've watched 968 movies so far, but there are a lot of movies I'm not sure on, so I don't bother adding Blerg!

Cheers for the listal! Totally wasting my day with this now :P

Woop woop! We managed to pull off some trickery of epicness last night. nami had been thinking for ages that we had managed to miss the Rise Against gig here in sheffield. Shorty and I knew it was still on, and had bought her a ticket and kept it hidden. We then told her that we were gonna go to the cinema (then out afterwards so she'd not kill us for dressing 'wrong'), and off we went. Now, the venue is next door to the cinema so we decided to try our luck. "say James, what was it you were saying about the box office?" "Ah yes! They're having some sort of technical issue. Last time I went we had to buy our tickets from over there *points to o2 academy*. Look, there are people queueing, that must be right." So we walk past about six people with Rise Against tees on, and nami still believing us. When we got to the venue there were two queues (upstairs/down) and nikki was about to ask a security guy "excuse me, where can I buy tickets for Bolt?" which would've been... embarassing... Shorty suggested I ask, which I did, and at that point I felt bad so I showed nikki my Rise Against ticket... and she was very, very confused about it! I can't believe we'd managed to trick her all this way. LONG BORING STORY WINNIT? Well support was Flobots and Antiflag. Flobots were body-poppin' good, violinist n'all. Antiflag were punkass and whatever. Rise Against were pretty good. I knew about 4 songs. We started about 10 rows of people out and as soon as the first song started we were pushed miles closer. And you weren't allowed to smoke! They wouldn't let you out! Madness. My leg was killing me for ages. This post is getting rather long and useless. Yeah, the manimpuation side of things is what makes it feel somehow wrong. The put-down thing was described to me in a certain way; if a girl says she's a model then you say something like "what like a hand model or something?" - a cheeky jab to 'reduce' her. Too many compliments and the girl will think that you don't think much of yourself. And yeah, I see this being a regular thing for the boys that I will undoubtedly be dragged into, sooner or later. Pray for me! ellmeister fail! Do what my ex did to my mess in her room - when you tidy, give her a drawer and put her shit in it. allocate her spaces for her stuff. Unfortunately this tends to mean that you end up allocating spaces for your stuff too, whis was probably their plan all along.

Another way to solve the whole but-what-if-I-can't-go,-I-should-be-able-to-try-and-get-my-money-back thing; if you buy online you shouldn't be charged until the day of the event, or maybe you actually pay for it once you are inside the venue. That way if you don't go, you don't lose out.

I'm sorry but if your parents can't find the means to support you through university because they would rather spend all their money on a new kitchen or a holiday or a bigger television, then... well then it sucks to be you.