The Bard

The 2007 N-Europe Member Of The Year You’re all drudgingly monotonous. I win. I mean, Eenuh. Thread Starter Of The Year None Best Mod Of The Year Supergrunch Best Admin Of The Year Ashley Most Helpful Member Of The Year Only the weak need help Most Respected Member By me? Probably Dan Dare. Best Newcomer Of 2007 Oxigen_Waste Most Knowledgeable Member Of 2007 Dan Dare Funniest Member Of 2007 The Bard. I wouldn’t post half the shit I do, if it didn’t make me laugh so damn hard. Best/Worst Negative Member of 2007 Mikey Spammer Of The Year I’m supposing “spam” refers to posting things characterized by their lack of any worth? Kurtle, then. Most Missed Unbanned User Of The Year Stocka Most Missed Banned User Of The Year Atomic Boo User With The Best Sigs Of The Year Freshness User With The Best Avatars Of The Year Shorty If You Were Stuck In A Lift With An N-Eer...Who Would It Be...Of The Year Oxigen Waste/Goron_3 The Taciturn Award McMad, cause he is mad dope, yo. The User Who Spends Most Of His/Her Entire Life On Here Jordan Best Forum Moment of 2007 The times when a few of us used to have bare epic games on Gears of War, and let the smack talk continue on the boards. Very fun times. The N-Europe 2007 Award For Personality Of The Year Fierce_Link Best User Ever Goron_3. Cause he is made of win. The N-Europe 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Ashley Best Game of the Year Bioshock/Virtua Fighter 5/Metroid Prime 3 Worst Game of the Year Ninjabread Man Best Movie of the Year 3:10 to Yuma/ Control Best Album of the Year Nile - Ithyphallic Best Company of the Year Capcom (as always) Person who you think should next be in charge of the world The man in the mirror. He's just too damn sexy. Best New Product of the Year Silent velcro? Er...oh…I know, wait...no. I got nothing. Person who should become leader of the free world! Mwahaha! Bill Lawrence And finally... Guy I despise so much I'd pay someone to kill ya and stuff you and leave you by my bed so when I wake up in the morning I could roll over and punch you in the face...of the year. There are so, so many people that I have unmitigated spite and loathing for, but it's mean to say, so I'll try not to crush their spirits by posting their names here. How uncharacteristic.

Haha. I shook his hand in rl after making a fool of myself on stage.... in other words; 10/10.

In honour of this most excellent announcement, would anyone like to get comboed to death by me on 3rd Strike over XBL anytime? Anyone?

I've spent the entire day playing Street Fighter. I just utterly raped everyone I played on Xbox live. It makes me feel like more of a man

Yeah man, sorry if you were expecting me to be good...Akira is unbelievably difficult to use...amazing, amazing game though, it's the most well designed 3D fighter I can think of. Up for a few fights sometime in the near future when I get to grips with the game properly?

Yay...they brought back Hooch. Hooch is crazy.

Christ! *cries* How freaking difficult is Akira to use properly...I've been going at it for hours...his move list is scarily huge.

Doesn't mean they're not shit. I'm not fishing for an argument, It's just that they have absolutely zero musical value. If you want decent punk go listen to Bad Religion or The Misfits...or Discharge...o_0

Sex Pistols are one of the worst bands ever.

Just got my arse handed to my by Dan Dare on VF5. The rest of my day/ weekend will consist of practice

Eenuh pwetty .

Anything with a CNS.

I'd sit, usually with a couple of close friends, and between us, we'd talk, vent, whatever, while emptying the bars stock of vodka.

That's the most shockingly wrong thing you've ever said. Of course they have emotions, Animals feel all the emotions that we do.

I'm having to re-bloody-read Heart of Darkness for university interviews. Damnit, that book is only like a hundred pages, but it's like wading through treacle. Doesn't mean I love it any less though

I don't know...it just really pisses me off, it just seems hugely unjust. I'm no scientist, and I don't have a depth of knowledge of these things past A level Biology, but come on, it's pretty sickening... Humans have caused many of their own problems through drugs. Take pregnant women for example, many of them rely on an epidural, because since painkillers make it easier for women with tiny cervices to give birth, it has made it almost impossible for some women not to have a miscarriage in the absence of dimorphine being pumped directly into their spine. Same thing goes for antibiotics. We're digging our own grave, and not giving a damn about the cost; animals aren't our playthings, they deserve a bit of respect. Meh...

o_0. Eight stone? Jaaaaysus. Yeah, I have like, no body fat left, at all that I can find, mainly cause I spend excessive amounts of time climbing/ at the gym, and I think the only thing I've eaten today is 2 pieces of shredded wheat, and a few cups of tea. I'm 10 stone and 2 pounds...used to be 14 stone 6 months ago. Self five. I could never get down to 8 stone my frame is pretty beefy. Mam thinks I'm bolemic though...I just have no appetite.

I can't believe Fopp closed down

In b4 lock eh?

I'm happy with the limitations. The guys who got horrifically ill, yeah, that sucks for them, but at the end of the day, I couldn't give a shit, they volunteered, so it's alright. In fact, they should be admired. Hell, this is getting into Euthanasia territory, but I think the subjects might be aware that excessive drug trials could result in a mild case of death. I'm not volunteering, because I genuinely don't care. I accept that I might get very ill, I have been before, and like then, I won't refuse drugs either, but as I've stated before, if the drug is not there, I'm not the sort to get all weepy at the idea of my own mortality. Maybe, like applying to be a donor when you die, you should be able to apply to be a guinea pig when you turn into a vegetable. I don't know, fear of death leads people to do irrational and inconsiderate things...*points to Sonnet 11 by John Donne* Pretentious allusions ftw.

I'm pretty well practiced at keeping secrets. Not for other people though, so I don't know how that would work. Depends on how spiteful I was feeling at the time.

Oh, I'm sorry that I don't subscribe to whatever puppydog eyed fantasy is playing out in your head, Just because Animal testing continues, doesn't mean it's necessary you idiot, we can test on humans too. Example: Testing of the first polio vaccine. People volunteered, and the vaccine didn't work; they got polio from it. The difference is, the simple fact that they consented to the trial, shows not only that they had grit, but it also liberates everyone from any moral doubts. See what I'm getting at? Your statement "Humans > Animals" shows exactly how retarded you are, especially as this time, you're defining individuals by species rather than religion. I'm pretty sure I'd save the life of any organism on the planet over a Hitler. You see what I'm getting at here? Let me point it out to you: You are a dense motherfucker.

No, they do it because, like you, they have some odd will to immortality, regardless of the means.

"Little Children" haha...this guy sounds like one of those cheesy conscription posters. "Support animal testing...and save a little child." Animal testing is not the only way to find, or test cures, it's not even remotely essential. What I'm saying is that the nature of your morality is a little dubious, when you detach yourself so completely from the suffering of another living thing. You're saying that animal testing is "the lesser of two evils," when I'm saying that it doesn't need to exist at all. If I get ill, and there is no drug to save my life as a result of Animal testing being outlawed, I wouldn't be happy or sad as a result, I would be content in the knowledge that the sole purpose of another creatures existence was not to delay the inevitable. People die, children die, and so will you.

I'm not asking you to agree. I'm just asking you to accept that your opinion is not categorically exempted from being wrong or right. What I am asking you to do, is justify what you say. Unlike Mikey for example; "We don't owe animals anything." Self righteous to the core. We wouldn't survive as the only species on this planet. Funnily enough, though, Animals would get on a whole lot better without us. As the title states, this is supposed to be an "ethical debate." I'm not sure Mikey actually understands the concept of "ethics," and if he does, he just disregards it, or so the evidence seems to suggest.