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Post by treadiculous on Oct 24, 2014 1:14:03 GMT -5
we should be voting / suggesting other people's?
(i say that as I cannot think of a name for myself)
i'd probably be something daft like fraggle, tool or fugnuts.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 24, 2014 7:15:24 GMT -5
Can I redo mine? If we can do silly names, I want to be SpazzCannon.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 24, 2014 10:43:54 GMT -5
If Empty gets to be Thomas, I call Conductor. Are you rotund enough to be the Fat Controller? (Are you a round enough dude to save the train?)
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 24, 2014 14:19:23 GMT -5
Fat controller? What a lame superpower.
Denied! I am the SpazzCannon!
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 24, 2014 14:38:42 GMT -5
Second day of substitute teaching is now in the books. I'm logging it as another win because (again) nothing caught fire, and I didn't end up in the teacher's lounge curled up in a sobbing fetal ball.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 24, 2014 16:35:58 GMT -5
Second day of substitute teaching is now in the books. I'm logging it as another win because (again) nothing caught fire, and I didn't end up in the teacher's lounge curled up in a sobbing fetal ball. Day three will result in you turning into a bull fetus, that then catches on fire.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 24, 2014 17:25:37 GMT -5
Second day of substitute teaching is now in the books. I'm logging it as another win because (again) nothing caught fire, and I didn't end up in the teacher's lounge curled up in a sobbing fetal ball. Day three will result in you turning into a bull fetus, that then catches on fire. That would be pretty epic.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 24, 2014 18:25:36 GMT -5
Day three will result in you turning into a bull fetus, that then catches on fire. That would be pretty epic. Please stream it for posterity.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 24, 2014 18:58:04 GMT -5
That would be pretty epic. Please stream it for posterity. That would probably violate the school system's "acceptable use of information technology resources" policy...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 24, 2014 21:19:17 GMT -5
"Acceptable" is subjective. Subject them to your standards.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 25, 2014 1:34:13 GMT -5
Please stream it for posterity. That would probably violate the school system's "acceptable use of information technology resources" policy... Never has a burning, bull foetus been in a better position to dictate terms.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 25, 2014 12:13:21 GMT -5
What standards? Remember, "Hey it's me."
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Post by Adkenpachi on Oct 26, 2014 9:49:12 GMT -5
I forgot to say that Tiger 1 is in the museum joined on to the barracks I work at, brad pitt also visited for his honeymoon or something
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Post by Rook on Oct 26, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5
OK, I have a purely hypothetical question for you lot: Let's assume that you've learned of a tract of land that has concentrations of platinum around .05 parts per million (ten times the typical concentration in Earth's crust), with an estimated total value of around $2,074 trillion, and you want that money. Let us also assume that you deal in bulk precious metals for a living and so know how to sell that much platinum for maximum profit without devaluing everything and crashing the global economy. There's only one thing stopping you from getting all that money, and that's the rightful owners. There is infrastructure for extracting the platinum from the soil already in place, but it is old, slow, and inefficient. Furthermore, the owners of the property refuse to bargain, and there's a group of bandits in the area that periodically raids the settlement for supplies and however much platinum they can carry, and the settlers have essentially accepted it as the cost of doing business. Assuming that you are unscrupulous, and are pretty sure that you won't get into any legal trouble, how would you try to get your hands on all that platinum? The Rook. Indeed! hahahhah
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Post by Rook on Oct 26, 2014 10:38:48 GMT -5
I'm guessing I don't want to know what FKM is. Personal Message has been sent.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 27, 2014 0:25:25 GMT -5
I know we don't discuss world events very much on this forum, but I thought it was worth mentioning that the UK just officially ended combat operations in Afghanistan.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 28, 2014 15:05:03 GMT -5
Next time we need to have proto-type power armour, jump packs, chainswords and stormshields for all front line personnel. That would just rock!
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 28, 2014 15:49:43 GMT -5
What would rock is if we just let the world burn until we were asked for help. Then we send in the Breakfast Marines.
Yes. That would, indeed, rock.
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Post by treadiculous on Oct 28, 2014 16:39:44 GMT -5
"What would rock is if we just let the world burn until we were asked for help."
A bit harsh given we are often holding flame throwers whilst whistling innocently.
However, breakfast marines would enjoy being called for.
*phone rings*
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 28, 2014 17:29:04 GMT -5
"What would rock is if we just let the world burn until we were asked for help." A bit harsh given we are often holding flame throwers whilst whistling innocently. However, breakfast marines would enjoy being called for. *phone rings* We might be holding flamethrowers in a lot of cases (or the Russians and, more recently, the Chinese), but there seems to be a trend among the rest of the world to just watch the fires burn and start feeding it kindling on their own from time to time. To stretch the analogy, lots of these trouble spots seem quite happy to help burn the house down for insurance money and then say the US or the colonial powers are the only ones who have a hand in the arson.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 28, 2014 17:31:31 GMT -5
Wow... The Antares launch to resupply the ISS, that was delayed yesterday, just failed spectacularly. The first stage of the rocket blew up 5 seconds after launch and the remaining stages crashed back down onto the pad and exploded. That happened to many of the rockets that my dad worked on when he was with NASA during the early days of the U.S. space program. I feel bad for my friends who work for Orbital Sciences.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Oct 28, 2014 17:34:45 GMT -5
Wow... The Antares launch to resupply the ISS, that was delayed yesterday, just failed spectacularly. The first stage of the rocket blew up 5 seconds after launch and the remaining stages crashed back down onto the pad and exploded. That happened to many of the rockets that my dad worked on when he was with NASA during the early days of the U.S. space program. I feel bad for my friends who work for Orbital Sciences. *Waits for terrible 'Failure to launch* pun headlines* I remember seeing a highlight real of sorts of failed test launches back at the dawn of the space program. They're usually pretty spectacular.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Oct 28, 2014 17:41:24 GMT -5
Wow... The Antares launch to resupply the ISS, that was delayed yesterday, just failed spectacularly. The first stage of the rocket blew up 5 seconds after launch and the remaining stages crashed back down onto the pad and exploded. That happened to many of the rockets that my dad worked on when he was with NASA during the early days of the U.S. space program. I feel bad for my friends who work for Orbital Sciences. *Waits for terrible 'Failure to launch* pun headlines* I remember seeing a highlight real of sorts of failed test launches back at the dawn of the space program. They're usually pretty spectacular. Yeah they are, and yeah this one was... A scene right out of Kerbal that many of us who play it will be familiar with... IIRC, the rockets my dad worked on were mainly Thor Able platforms, and I've got a spectacular picture of one he worked on just as it's lifting off of the pad (prior to going out of control and exploding) hanging on my living room wall. Oh, speaking of gaming, today I bought the digital re-releases of X-Wing and TIE FIghter from GOG.com. I'm rather chuffed about it.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 28, 2014 18:09:56 GMT -5
We might be holding flamethrowers in a lot of cases (or the Russians and, more recently, the Chinese), but there seems to be a trend among the rest of the world to just watch the fires burn and start feeding it kindling on their own from time to time. To stretch the analogy, lots of these trouble spots seem quite happy to help burn the house down for insurance money and then say the US or the colonial powers are the only ones who have a hand in the arson. There is also a disturbing new trend of failed psychic, telepathic assassination and 'secret agent' sharks; showing that even Jaws can be weaponised and shot at people. What's next? A brigade of rubber ducks armed with power cheese-graters?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Oct 28, 2014 19:36:58 GMT -5
That is disturbing, considering the Ministry has Fred. He's the non-failure psychic sharkman assassin. No one ever sees him coming; they never even suspect it's a possibility.
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