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It shall be 'so' Pookiablo; we had a london meet over summer! Definitely not the last. Yeah it was insane to begin with, but it's suddenly so normal that I know these guys in real life -- and I know them better than some of the people I've supposedly known for 2 years at uni...

killthenet; it sounds like a John Carpenter soundtrack for a film about cyborg vampires. Between 5:40 and 6:10 I thought it got a bit messy, and the beat that goes through the whole thing seemed irregular with the main beat. I don't know if I like that or not! As a fan of 65daysofstatic I think I could like this. Let me know when you've got some more tracks available

chekkit; Dan Dare, jayseven, LazyBoy and nightwolf pubbing it up. 3/4(ish) of the sheffield Massive, yo.

Dan_dare! You totally need to fix me up with some mogwai. Also, I've decided I need to actually get some kick-ass music - and by that I mean stuff like this that I can rave like a monkey to. Any tips, gardeners?

But I don't want to accept ugly betty. Surprised/sad at Sarah Connor Chronicles. Season 2 looks quite interesting. Surely they'll keep it ticking over 'til the new movie comes out?

Because you just called me Jayseven. And I hate you.

Hey dude. Don't put yourself down unnecessarily Liars suck. People who let you down suck. I have friends who you know will never be on time, or will get all hissy if someone says the wrong thing... Everyone is annoying for one reason or another. I was a bit down last year. To rectify the feeling of isolation I started stitching myself onto other people; I got in touch with an old mate and effectively made 5 new friends. I started putting the london meet together with some other guys here. I joined the juggling society at uni and progressively, assuredly, I started feeling waaaaay better. Keeping myself busy with different people meant I felt like I had more to say to the other people. I've started appreciating the power of having a hobby... But that's self-help. That doesn't change the cocks in the world. Everyone and everything is so darned complex, and there are all these issues affecting it all, all of the time. Sometimes life can seem like it's been shit since forever, and that you're never happy. But there are some days where you're less unhappy than others. Focus on what makes the difference. It could be that you had three wheetabix rather than two... It could be that you woke up and your hair wasn't a mess. Could be anything. I don't want to preach or sound like I know the solution, because I don't; I don't completely know what the problem is :P But I do know that people can be twats, but the best way to deal with that is to not let them get to you - to find the strength within yourself to believe that it doesn't last forever; that life still has lots to offer! I think I'm rambling now...

Well I don't think God's all too fond of sodomy either, to be honest.

I think the grammar police is gonna start needing uniforms and batons, as I can tell it's gonna get violent.

STOP SAYING IT EFFECTS YOU. You are affected by things, and you effectively do things to others. Capisce? Normally I wouldn't shout it out, but my eyes are rolling non-stop with the repeated posts where people have so clearly ignored not one but two posts about it. P.S. this recession will probably last something like five years, if you ask me. Why? Because I pulled the number straight out of my arse! Isn't talking shit what we're doing in these threads these days? Yay. White.

THREE DAYS LATER... ¬_¬

multiple accounts? Oooh, controversial.

Recycling is unusual; it is about saving resources, but it takes a lot of energy to actually convert 'old' material into new. Pyxis: Interesting what you say about humans only keeping things that they need -- more true with animals... but trees? Naw. Plants grow without our help! Also trees only absorb carbon while they're growing, so needing to keep planting trees is a good thing! Sustainability is what it's all about; and that's not just about managing resources but also managing how we live to fit the resources. Which is how we should be anyway. I blame capitalism!

Rawr. I am home, hungoverish, bored, and want to drink again. No drinking buddies though!

Bleh. So I don't know how a 7-year-old precisely thinks, but I know I'm not being illogical or blinkered. I know this kid's no Damien.

Flinky: I love the newport accent. So very calming. Well, apart from the chavs, innit.

That's what I said in my first post, only the other way around :P I would seriously consider it more wrong if it was an elder child that did it. I will admit that I don't hang around 7 year olds a lot since I got put on that list *cough* but there is definitely a difference between a 7 year old doing it and an adult doing it. I know it was three -- it was poor semantics on my part. "Did he kill them separately, or all at once?" was meant to cover all three squishees. If we're going to look at what's 'wrong' with the child then what would we look at? Inability to perceive other points of view? Lack of empathy? You say he 'would have known that he was killing them (paraphrasing a little, but point maintained), well if we focus on a couple of things here; I would say that we are arguing he should have known what he was doing. I would also argue that knowledge of death isn't something that is inbuilt, nor something that occurs to all people at the same age. So we can only infer that he knew that he was killing them after the first one, to what extent that he knew that he was killing living, sentient beings is another matter. But I agree. There is certainly a lot of intent involved. He broke into a closed zoo. He killed, what, 13 animals? That suggests some sort of planning, perhaps fantasizing. One could argue that the kid showed empathy when he smiled while feeding the croc; perhaps the kid saw the croc before and thought it looked sad, or he never saw it eating and remembered the ones on telly ate stuff. We are distressed because the boy apparantly enjoys some form of violence, but then we are labelling it as a vicious act. You can easily argue (callously) that the kid loved the crocodile. You can argue that he 'bludgeoned' three lizards in self-defense. The reason it's not a big deal to me is that lizards are shit :P if it was thirteen puppies or kittens, I would be bothered. If it was 13 rats or pidgeons, nobody would care. Social conditioning tells us what we can and cannot accept. My genetic conditioning also tells me that I'd probably only really be bothered if he fed the croc babies or people, y'know? Then that'd be insane.

erm i read moogles post, and replied after it, so shh. Wouldn't have. Would have. It's not that hard to remember. I disagree with all of this "he's clearly insane!" prattle. For a start; remember we are reading a report of the incident from the not-so-objective media, who know how to spin a story to make it sound more intriguing. What precisely is 'bludgeoned'? does it amount to one hit? Did he kill them separately, or all at once? Did he intend to do so? Did he then feed them to the croc? Did he bludgeon them because they were fighting back? Did he use his fists, or just drop a rock on them? You can still argue that wrong is wrong, no matter which way you look at it, but then you would protest if I started making comparisons to, say, a friend who throws up in your sink and forgot to take the plug out you would say "oh, but that's different". So I say that unless you know the full reasoning behind not only what the boy did but also what the journalist has chosen to cover, you cannot truly cast judgement. The kid smiles as he sees a croc eat an animal. OH MY GOD HE IS SMILING. Yet is that any surprise when we pervert such natural acts and portray them as entertainment. Are you telling me that you've never laughed or smiled or enjoyed watching an animal eat another animal? Can you be sure? No movie? Lake placid? Oh but that's different because it's not real. But then, how real is a movie to a child of 7 years old? To what extent do kids understand special effects? To what extent do children see mock-violence as separate from real violence? Aren't you doing psychology, haggis? Shouldn't you think beyond the surface? Blah. Whatever. It's not a big deal because they're animals in captivity who probably would've been eaten long ago if they were in the wild. Context, context, context. Social and cultural conditioning. Mankind's god complex. WHATEVER.

Well you're not supposed to, but... The very top back of our fridge basically freezes stuff. One time I cracked an egg open and a massive ice-lump fell out into the frying pan. It was a bit surreal.

I'm sorry but this thread is so full of naivity and ignorance, clearly on my own part too, that it literally made me facepalm. I really don't see why this is seen as such a big deal.

Jericho Season 1. Whataseasonohmygod... I went into it with no idea of what it would be about whatsoever, and roughly 19 minutes into the show I basically went "....oh. Shit!" and for the next 18 hours I observed the precise scenario that i love thinking about. To offer a premise; basically, a nuke goes off in Denver, Colorado and the townsfolk of homely Jericho, Kansas see it and shit themselves. The subsequent episodes show how they deal with loss of communication, lack of power, fallout, illnesses, rationing food, vigilantes, and so on, and so on. The characters are on the one hand fairly stereotypically american; the wise Old man, the bad-boy hero, the mysterious newcomer with crazy skills, the cheating husband, the hard-nosed mom, the bullied kid, the snooty girl, et cetera. But! The scenarios they are in are generally well thought out, and there's always an element of uncertainty, if not unpredictability about the whole affair. In this show you'll find your Lost-shapen appetites both bubble and sooth with each episode serving up more than just morsels of satisfactory drama. Each show gives you more pieces to the jigsaw, and doesn't decide half-way through that the 100-piecer is actually 2,000-strong. Well, at least, not in season 1 More people should watch this! 22 episodes in season 1 and only 7 in season two... On the recommendation of Ashley and Dan Dare, next up is... Mad Men? Mug Men? Wossitcalled?

Yeah I've not cooked it up yet. I had some 9-day-old eggs yesterday and they tasted alright - on teh turn So just bacon sarnies for me! Found some porkmince in teh fridge in a tub. Gonna smell it and see if it's dinner-worthy...

haha... well I think you focused too much on the whole "waste" part there Life is just about wasting hour upon hour, and when I can actually choose how my life slips away, then I take it as a good thing. Be it games, books, tv, movies, drugs, sleep, drink, friends, family... all falls under that category. Other people call it such misnomers as "free time" and the like. But time is never free.

What? It's quiet? Really? Hum. I didn't notice. We an always blame the HWYD thread for sucking up smaller topics :P but we love it anyway. Nobody notices that their posts are by-and-large ignored in there. But anyway! I don't really have any interesting ideas for new threads. Well, I have a couple of awesome new playground ideas which y'all gotta keep an eye out for, but I'm too lazy to count the bish score (ever since i spent several hours redoing the OP only to lose it all again a few days later, I kinda hated the thing) so it'll have to wait.

Hungover. But finished season 1 of Jericho! What a show. So today I'm supposed to read this book. Which I probably will do. Not sure. Ok. Went to nightwolf's flat last night with my mate (Raj from the sheff meet) and her mate and we played some wii play (I suck at pretty much every game on that thing) and talked shit for a few hours. Fucking cold outside, and my window in my room refuses to close now! Great. Now, off I go to eat eggs which are 10 days past their sell-by-date and bacon that's 2 days past... mmm!