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schatze;ein, sage dir spaeter wegen dem flug bescheid, denn ich will ihn erst confirmen. meld mich in 2h!!! morgen sehn wa uns..... FREU MICH!!!!!!! [NT] - Rotten 22:51:51 02/08/10 (3)
- ICH BIN EIN DONUT! [NT] - JFK 00:28:58 02/09/10 (2)
  - What happened to the Jelly? [NT] - TheDeamon 01:30:48 02/09/10 (1)
    - COMMIES. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 02:22:25 02/09/10 (0)
You know it's a Superbowl party when the Glocks come out. [NT] - Ravil 20:38:48 02/08/10 (7)
- Sounds like things are escalating in the Kingston student ghetto. [NT] - Fron 21:13:04 02/08/10 (6)
  - The revolution will not be Facebooked. [NT] - Ravil 21:23:57 02/08/10 (5)
    - Of course it will. And tweeted. [NT] - Dark Nexus 21:31:51 02/08/10 (4)
      - So who is going to be first up against the wall when THOSE revolutions come? [NT] - Grorx 00:45:19 02/09/10 (2)
        Probably the people who posted about it on Twitter and Facebook. The real revolution, when it comes, will come upon you like the Inquisition, because nobody expects it. [NT] - TheDeamon 01:33:03 02/09/10 (0)
      - No, those would be the failed revolutions. [NT] - TheDeamon 21:35:03 02/08/10 (0)
Silly IL, Vancouver, BC may be in the south-West for you, but it is between the "Pacific Northwest" of the United States and Alaska. =P [NT] - TheDeamon 19:27:03 02/08/10 (1)
- Let's compromise, it's in the Pacific About Halfway Down the Continent [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 19:37:03 02/08/10 (0)
Bioshock 2 lacks atmosphere. :-( Somehow "stereotypical communist" just doesn't menace in the same way "mad genius" does. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:18:21 02/08/10 (0)
Hey TD... - The Man with the Platinum Gun 17:14:10 02/08/10 (14)
- I think I'll hijack this for another Haiti update: One Amphibious Ready Group(3 Amphibs) left Saturday, as well as one cruiser and a frigate... So It looks like its down to four Amphibs and the fleet auxiliary ships(Including the hospital ship USNS Mercy) at this point. Army/other groups taking control at this point. [NT] - TheDeamon 21:10:00 02/08/10 (4)
  - I'm going to make a private subforum just for the two of you if this keeps up. [NT] - Fron 21:13:53 02/08/10 (3)
    - That wasn't for him it was for other who expressed interest the last time someone complained.... and I'm not sure why he shared the OP. [NT] - TheDeamon 21:31:57 02/08/10 (0)
    - "No I don't think you understand Snaps. You know how to create a forum, don't you? One without HTML in the names and subject headings? Create it, and say "a new RR has been created, the same as the old, except there will be no renegade admins, I am the only one there will ever be. TAK and Hydralisk have been banned permanently. Come if you want to." That is all that needs to be done." - Fearless [NT] - 7/13/1999 11:57 PM - Snapper 21:19:14 02/08/10 (1)
      - Ah, the things I missed while in bootcamp. [NT] - TheDeamon 21:32:32 02/08/10 (0)
- Licoln was a US Representative, as was Carl Vinson and Gerald Ford. Also a couple carriers have been named after Presidents of the Continental Congress. Most were named after famous battles or other (recently) notable figures/previous ships within the Navy (namely: Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, JFK, Ford, Bush 41, Nimitz, and Forrestal) [NT] - TheDeamon 19:18:47 02/08/10 (2)
  - Erm, the carriers above mentioned were named after people. Vinson and Stennis got ships named after them in honor of very long congressional careers with a history of strong advocacy for the Navy. [NT] - TheDeamon 19:20:51 02/08/10 (1)
    - Also, WTF on the LHA(R) program? From what I'm seeing on it now, it looks like it's basically going to be a Panamax sized aircraft carrier tailored for the Marines air strike capabilities... That isn't an amphib, that's a mini-carrier. [NT] - TheDeamon 20:21:31 02/08/10 (0)
- Er, guess again on Lincoln [NT] - Snapper 18:11:36 02/08/10 (5)
  - Aaaawwwww nah, biznatch, you just got all historified on his ass, yo! [NT] - Grorx 18:22:27 02/08/10 (4)
    - Watch Out!!! TMWTPG is about to lay down some serious alternate history on yo ass! [NT] - diefortheswarm 18:32:06 02/08/10 (3)
      - Actually Snapper is the one with the alternate history. Sorry folks I will be sure to look things up first in the future... [NT] - diefortheswarm 19:33:27 02/08/10 (2)
        I don't know what you're trying to go for, but I'm the one with the correct history here [NT] - Snapper 20:32:26 02/08/10 (1)
        Lincoln was a Representative for 2 years. You are right that he was never a senator though... [NT] - diefortheswarm 20:50:07 02/08/10 (0)
Help! Help! My lumber is writhing! - Inconsequential Lurker 15:28:32 02/08/10 (11)
- I wonder if all those tendrils are actually wangs... [NT] - Vektor 15:41:27 02/08/10 (6)
  - So uhh, it turns out that they actually are. That's a giant log covered entirely in a squirming mass of writhing penises. I am not making this up. - Vektor 02:56:07 02/09/10 (0)
  - DOCTOR OCTO-PHALLUS LIVES! [NT] - Ravil 21:08:27 02/08/10 (2)
    - And he is involved in stem cell research!!!!!!!! [NT] - diefortheswarm 23:22:36 02/08/10 (1)
      - You could say he has a dong in just about everything. - Inconsequential Lurker 01:45:03 02/09/10 (0)
  - How many years of evolution would it take to turn into a tentacle monster? It looks like a primitive form of one... [NT] - Eye of the Night 19:06:43 02/08/10 (1)
    - Keep your perverted sexual fantasies to yourself. [NT] - diefortheswarm 19:17:37 02/08/10 (0)
- Why do we keep finding brand new weird JoystickJ under the sea? I mean, the giant marine isopod was discovered not too long ago. [nt] - The Man with the Platinum Gun 15:31:36 02/08/10 (3)
  - That isn't even new though, it's just barnacles clinging to a log. Now *this* is (sort of) new: - Fron@Work 15:48:56 02/08/10 (1)
    - I guess that's why I've only found non-photo images of an oarfish in books. [nt] - The Man with the Platinum Gun 17:07:50 02/08/10 (0)
  - Probably because exploring the vast majority of the world's seas/oceans is not only magnificently difficult, but expensive, dangerous, and has questionable returns on investment - so it remains largely unexplored. When you have VAST SWATHS of unexplored area, you tend to find new things there. [NT] - Vektor 15:37:08 02/08/10 (0)
Oh great, John Murtha died. Another seat we have to JoystickJing defend. - The Man with the Platinum Gun 15:07:07 02/08/10 (7)
- Who did it? [NT] - Eye of the Night 16:02:39 02/08/10 (1)
  - The Clumsy Surgeon, with a scalpel. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:34:11 02/08/10 (0)
- Sonic hedgehog homolog (SHH) is one of three proteins in the mammalian signaling pathway family called hedgehog, the others being desert hedgehog (DHH) and Indian hedgehog (IHH). SHH is the best studied ligand of the hedgehog signaling pathway. It plays a key role in regulating vertebrate organogenesis, such as in the growth of digits on limbs and organization of the brain. [NT] - Fron@Work 15:43:39 02/08/10 (1)
  - Also, it runs really fast. [NT] - Legacy 21:58:51 02/08/10 (0)
- Rest in peace, John Murtha, Vietnam War veteran. Semper fi. [nt] - The Man with the Platinum Gun 15:19:16 02/08/10 (0)
- Yeah, i saw that. [NT] - Kalledon 15:13:04 02/08/10 (0)
- In Canada, milk comes in bags. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 15:07:40 02/08/10 (0)
There sure is an awful lot of pedophilia in this season of the Venture Brothers... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:18:55 02/08/10 (4)
- It actually got to the point where I was slightly weirded out. But don't worry, it sort of disappears after Sgt. Hatred suffers a complete and total breakdown. Unfortunately, the season (well, the first half of it, which is all we're getting for a while) ends shortly after that. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 18:09:18 02/08/10 (0)
- Theres an awful lot of AWESOME in this, and every, season of the Venture Bros. (nt) - Midnight 16:09:22 02/08/10 (0)
- Aren't the Venture Bros. technically a lot older than they appear to be, by virture of being constantly resurrected as clones of their young teenage selves? [NT] - Vektor 14:19:46 02/08/10 (1)
  - Well *Season 3 Spoilers* - Kalledon 14:32:11 02/08/10 (0)
Does anyone else think that the Lemur on the Firefox Google Start Page looks ugly as sin? - Tssha 10:10:19 02/08/10 (5)
- Does anyone think that the C++ STL is more hideous? [NT] - Ishpeck 14:14:15 02/08/10 (0)
- You know, you can change your browser's start page. Since... well, a very long time ago! You should probably just do that. [NT] - Vektor 13:27:41 02/08/10 (2)
  - Yeah, I have no idea what Tssha is talking about. I've had my browsers set to just open up where I left off for years now. Years! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 15:07:18 02/08/10 (1)
    - Same. But having installed FF on a computer recently, I know he's talking about the Namoroka lemur, because that's the internal codename of the current Firefox release branch, much like the 3.5 release was Shiretoko. [NT] - Vektor 15:40:22 02/08/10 (0)
- Link? [NT] - djmmm 12:23:01 02/08/10 (0)
Good god, I spent all of yesterday asleep and this is as far as you've posted? - Tssha 07:28:07 02/08/10 (2)
- It's all Lothos' fault! Where is he?!?!?!?! [NT] - diefortheswarm 09:46:04 02/08/10 (1)
  - If we knew where Lothos was none of this would be happening! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 10:00:36 02/08/10 (0)
Questions and thoughts regarding the Oxford Trip of Doom, for Ravil, The Hat, and Reecle. - Lothos 03:47:12 02/08/10 (41)
- *puts on Vader Helmet* NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!! - Reecle 13:16:40 02/08/10 (13)
  - Good ghad woman, come to your senses! Why in the bloody hell would you move?! [NT] - The V Man 14:23:48 02/08/10 (9)
    - To Americaland no less... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:26:25 02/08/10 (8)
      - It's only for a couple of months? - Reecle 14:33:40 02/08/10 (7)
        Soooo what you're saying is you don't have special needs kids in England? [NT] - The V Man 14:40:16 02/08/10 (3)
        They all live in JoystickJensian theme regions for the amusement of literate tourists. [NT] - Fron@Work 14:50:09 02/08/10 (0)
        None that consider me a good influence. [NT] - Reecle 14:42:26 02/08/10 (0)
        I think they've given up on them... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:40:46 02/08/10 (0)
        A real job in a real country. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:36:02 02/08/10 (2)
        like Luxembourg! [NT] - Vektor 14:40:19 02/08/10 (1)
        And what does a Luxembourg do? How much does one get paid? [NT] - The V Man 14:41:24 02/08/10 (0)
  - I don't know what an Oyster card is, but I suddenly crave seafood. CURSE YOU. [NT] - Vektor 13:38:38 02/08/10 (2)
    - Tis the crappy name we give our (now stupidly overpriced) bus/tube passes. - Reecle 13:41:30 02/08/10 (1)
      - Yeah, I was just going to say something about "tube pass", too. Then I clicked the post to reply. And you beat me to it. KHAAAAAAAAN! [NT] - Vektor 13:56:55 02/08/10 (0)
- Thoughts on travelling to the UK from experience... - The V Man 12:06:26 02/08/10 (0)
- ANSURZ - Captain Hat 05:31:11 02/08/10 (24)
  - Useful info, although a pity about Reecle-lack! In terms of Lothosian international travel? DE NADA. I'm thus going off horror stories from friends and family and assuming the worst. [NT] - Lothos 05:54:49 02/08/10 (23)
    - Aye- 'tis indeed a shame. As for the Not Travelling thing, have you never even been to Australia before or anything? NZ seems like a bit of a small territory for a Sasquatch. Notes on London inside. - Captain Hat 07:54:52 02/08/10 (1)
      - #1 is the thing that bothers me the most about cities, and confused me the most moving to Charlottetown. Everyone here stops to say "Hi" or "How are ya?", and people you've never met before will just stop to chat about anything. Really threw me off, moving here from Ottawa. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 08:59:24 02/08/10 (0)
    - You can still use her jaccuzi though. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 06:49:16 02/08/10 (20)
      - OH GOD I FAIL AT SPEALING! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 06:49:37 02/08/10 (19)
        NO BUBBLES FOR YOU! [NT] - Reecle 13:11:05 02/08/10 (18)
        You might want to reconsider that, in light of what he may end up wearing if there are no bubbles versus the concealing properties of well-situated lather. [NT] - Vektor 13:40:29 02/08/10 (17)
        At least he'd be wearing something? Or am I being waaaaaay too naive? [NT] - Reecle 13:43:44 02/08/10 (16)
        Well, maybe if you let him at some of that cheesecake you're storing in the 'fridge... [NT] - Vektor 13:58:12 02/08/10 (15)
        I dunno, he's already half naked and covered in bubbles, adding chocolate to the mix might not be a good idea. [NT] - Reecle 14:01:40 02/08/10 (14)
        No, no. Blinky doesn't do anything halfway. He needs the cheesecake tohide his shame if you're going to take away his bubbles. [NT] - Vektor 14:20:53 02/08/10 (13)
        Point taken, though it's not a very big piece of cake. - Reecle 14:25:51 02/08/10 (12)
        No no, we're going to need a massive wedding cake sized cake at least. Like one a really really fat chick would jump out of. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:36:32 02/08/10 (10)
        ... I think my brain just broke. [NT] - Reecle 14:41:21 02/08/10 (9)
        Because my junk's so big only such a cake would be large enough to cover it all. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:44:30 02/08/10 (8)
        You're probably better off just feeding him to the dragon, if you ask me. [NT] - Vektor 14:47:06 02/08/10 (0)
        Yeah, I got that much. The mental image is the brain-breaky part. [NT] - Reecle 14:46:53 02/08/10 (6)
        Instead of a fat chick it could just be a half dozen skinny hot chicks... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:53:12 02/08/10 (2)
        I've sat here for what feels like an eternity trying to find the right words for 'your giant cake-shaped/sized wang has put me off both sex and baked goods for life'. - Reecle 15:04:09 02/08/10 (1)
        Glad to be of service. *wink* [NT] - Psycho Sam! 15:05:16 02/08/10 (0)
        Are we talking a tiered cake? Because that raises more questions than it answers. [NT] - Lothos "I AM BLINKY! FEAR MY MIGHTY ZIGGURAT-WANG!" 14:52:39 02/08/10 (2)
        hehe, ziggurat [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 15:07:19 02/08/10 (1)
        There's nothing that isn't made better by ziggurats. [NT] - Vektor 15:42:41 02/08/10 (0)
        Just turn the heat off, so the water's all cold. That should take care of the problem. [NT] - Vektor 14:36:12 02/08/10 (0)
Congratulations to the Saints. Looks like I underestimated Brees. - Legacy 21:02:23 02/07/10 (5)
- Speaking of commercials. The Tim Tebow ad was SOOOOOOOO controversial. I can't believe CBS went ahead and aired it - Kalledon 10:42:24 02/08/10 (3)
  - I've noticed that lately you sound more and more like a valley girl. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 11:55:42 02/08/10 (2)
    - If you think so *shrug* [NT] - Kalledon 12:09:16 02/08/10 (1)
      - Oh snap! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:44:59 02/08/10 (0)
- Yeah the commercials really suck this year. You would have also thought The Who would have made a better half time show then they did. [NT] - diefortheswarm 22:57:39 02/07/10 (0)
Demonoid signups are open. [NT] - Vektor 16:03:29 02/07/10 (8)
- This will ruin it for us all. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:38:01 02/08/10 (0)
- Quick, everyone download Pathologic so I can fix my ratio! [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 16:05:01 02/07/10 (6)
  - *sigh* FINE. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:06:57 02/07/10 (5)
    - Now, someone else, so it doesn't negatively affect mine! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 06:26:20 02/08/10 (4)
      - Why the fuss? There aren't penalties attached to Demonoid's "ratio" anymore. [NT] - Ravil 06:44:50 02/08/10 (3)
        It's a penis thing. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 06:46:28 02/08/10 (2)
        Pfft, we're in Canada. If anyone JoystickJes, just tell them they're "capping ur torrentz" [NT] - Vektor 13:41:29 02/08/10 (0)
        Ahhh, so it's your Giving / Taking ratio. You're worried about Taking more than you Give. [NT] - Ravil 08:08:46 02/08/10 (0)
[LINK] Have people seen the story about the Polish newspaper which included Pedobear in among the mascots for the Vancouver oympics? - Lothos 14:29:12 02/07/10 (10)
- Hahahahah! So wrong... [NT] - Tssha 07:18:48 02/08/10 (0)
- Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:08:37 02/07/10 (0)
- Yup! Viewing the image of the scanned newspaper article itself blew my mind. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 16:02:41 02/07/10 (0)
- It would be hilarious if Pedobear really did somehow wind up as one of the mascots. [NT] - Legacy 16:00:09 02/07/10 (0)
- As if the real ones are any less creepy anyway. This is gonna be such a weird trip. [NT] - Fron 14:33:19 02/07/10 (5)
  - I think they're all meant to be derived from native spirit animals or totem animals or something. Which is kind of weird if you think about it. - Vektor 01:21:45 02/08/10 (4)
    - Well... You do need to remember there were/are a number of totemic tribes in the Pacific NW area of the US and they extend into Alaska IIRC. So it isn't to weird for that region. [NT] - TheDeamon 13:17:55 02/08/10 (3)
      - Silly TD, Vancouver is SOUTHwest. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:19:59 02/08/10 (0)
      - No, I mean it's weird that they're making cute fuzzy dudes-in-furry-suits mascots out of the native's mythology, what with the sea bear, the thunder bird. [NT] - Vektor 13:37:40 02/08/10 (1)
        Addendum: thus, the comparison to Buddy Christ. [NT] - Vektor 14:22:31 02/08/10 (0)
[POLL] Colts, Saints, or Commercials? [NT] - Grorx 10:55:30 02/07/10 (14)
- Commercials. The game was pretty good, but since I have no investment in either team it didn't really have the pull on me it could have. [NT] - Kalledon 08:15:01 02/08/10 (0)
- The Who [NT] - Arcturus 15:08:25 02/07/10 (0)
- I expect the game will actually be fairly good this year. Maybe not as good as the last two, but still a good one. [NT] - Legacy 11:17:59 02/07/10 (4)
  - Also, are you asking for actual predictions on the game itself? [NT] - Legacy 11:18:44 02/07/10 (3)
    - Predictions and/or preferences. [NT] - Grorx 11:51:10 02/07/10 (2)
      - Alrighty. Prediction and preference are both the Colts. What can I say, I'm a Vol, so I'm rooting for Manning. As for why I predict the Colts: [text] - Legacy 11:53:53 02/07/10 (1)
        SAINTS [NT] - Ravil 20:49:48 02/07/10 (0)
- Huh? [NT] - Fron 10:59:55 02/07/10 (6)
  - Superbowl. [NT] - Dark Nexus 11:03:19 02/07/10 (5)
    - Oh, I thought that was last weekend. [NT] - Fron 11:04:25 02/07/10 (4)
      - Last weekend was the Pro Bowl. - Legacy 12:43:23 02/07/10 (3)
        This is altogether too many bowls. [NT] - Vektor 01:16:41 02/08/10 (2)
        Are you including the 40ish college bowl games in this assessment? [NT] - Legacy 01:32:02 02/08/10 (1)
        Sure, why not. [NT] - Vektor 01:34:21 02/08/10 (0)
Hosting the humongous FASS theatre company strike party at my house has, ironically, left it cleaner than when it started. - Tssha 08:43:44 02/07/10 (0)
Do I get some kinda prize? I just got both the special post and preview button at the same time. [NT] - Kalledon 07:44:17 02/07/10 (1)
- It's happened to me already, I just didn't find it that remarkable. [NT] - Tssha 08:06:49 02/07/10 (0)
Anyone have any notable DVD commentaries that they remember thinking were particularly interesting or entertaining to listen to? I am currently watching the commentary for Road to Perdition (which is a movie I really like) and its pointing out a bunch of neat stuff that I never would've noticed otherwise. - Grorx 22:18:50 02/06/10 (10)
- the commentary tracks and deleted scenes on any Kevin Smith movie usually wind up being four times longer than the movie itself, and sometimes completely change the entire plot. Worth watching if you're really bored and have a lot of free time on your hands, and enjoy his movies. It's always neat to see what could have been. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:07:10 02/07/10 (1)
  - Like a cut scene from Dogma where Silent Bob sings the Fat Albert theme, that I still wish made it into the film proper. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:08:40 02/07/10 (0)
- The commentary tracks on The Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are almost as fun to watch as the movies themselves. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:42:01 02/07/10 (0)
- Whatever you do never listen to the commentary for Total Recall. Paul Verhoeven and Ahnold rambling back and forth with their heavy accents. It's mind-bending. [NT] - Gato 11:17:34 02/07/10 (0)
- Man, it's been a while since I've watched that movie. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 10:14:43 02/07/10 (0)
- Babylon 5 has some damn good commentaries from both J. Michael Straczynski and members of the cast. The only complaint is that there's maybe three or four commentaries per season, but they're all worth watching. - Tssha 08:23:22 02/07/10 (0)
- Dr. Horrible, The Commentary! - Kalledon 07:43:19 02/07/10 (0)
- Elvis' commentary on Bubba Hotep is gold. [NT] - Archangel 01:43:05 02/07/10 (0)
- "The Thing," commentary by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, which turns the film into a comedy. [NT] - Lothos 01:25:38 02/07/10 (0)
- Futurama, both the DVDs of the TV show and of the movies. I mean, assuming you like Futurama to begin with. [NT] - Fron 22:36:44 02/06/10 (0)
JoystickJ AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS WHOOO [NT] - Fr. 19:38:51 02/06/10 (6)
- Pics or you're lying. [NT] - Ishpeck 21:41:22 02/06/10 (3)
  - NDA; maybe later. [NT] - Fr. 22:36:03 02/06/10 (2)
    - Not even of the JoystickJ? [NT] - Legacy 11:19:14 02/07/10 (0)
    - Thats what she said. [NT] - Grorx 09:05:44 02/07/10 (0)
- Do these contracts come written on JoystickJ? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:41:00 02/06/10 (1)
  - He now has enough money to ensure that they can be. [NT] - Ravil 19:45:39 02/06/10 (0)
Dear Doctor Grorx: I've got a sore throat, and it hurts whenever I breathe. Is there some way I can just avoid breathing for the next day or two, until it goes away? Thanks in advance for the helpful advice. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:23:09 02/06/10 (1)
- Have you tried gills? Try gills. [NT] - Grorx 21:26:34 02/06/10 (0)
I have noted that a bunch of you JoystickJers are coming to the UK in the new year. This cannot be allowed to go unobserved! - Captain Hat 18:10:32 02/06/10 (23)
- If it's before mid-June then groovy! Also, I still owe you a pint. [NT] - Reecle 14:06:52 02/07/10 (1)
  - Wait, 'new year' = pre-summer. *goes back to the Pit* [NT] - Reecle 14:09:52 02/07/10 (0)
- Wait, who's all going to the United Kingdom now? [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 23:16:15 02/06/10 (13)
  - I'm going to visit family when Christmas comes around again. Possible for a week in March as well. [NT] - Ravage! 18:48:58 02/07/10 (0)
  - I'm going to Germany this fall for Oktoberfest, maybe I'll stop by the UK! [NT] - Rotten 08:56:33 02/07/10 (3)
    - Damn, I was planning on going to Germany for Oktoberfest this year, but if Rotten's going I certainly can't... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:17:14 02/07/10 (2)
      - It could be worse, you could have not known and found out you showed up in the same dress. - Inconsequential Lurker 15:39:59 02/07/10 (1)
        ROTTEN WHAT ARE YOU WEARING [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:27:31 02/07/10 (0)
  - Me. Ravil, from the sound of things. The Hat and Reecle already make their lairs within Britannia's realm. [NT] - Lothos 00:28:42 02/07/10 (7)
    - Mine has a jacuzzi. [NT] - Reecle 14:03:06 02/07/10 (6)
      - I'm staying with her. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:07:31 02/07/10 (5)
        First you must pass the gauntlet of trials... - Reecle 14:18:47 02/07/10 (4)
        Hmm... I'll take the dragon. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:27:02 02/07/10 (3)
        Really, I doubt a dragon would fare very well versus modern day advancements in heat-resistant ablative ceramics and human-portable weaponry capable of penetrating hardened armour plating. [NT] - Vektor 01:40:40 02/08/10 (2)
        Also, he'd have to delete like half his hard drive for the first option to work. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 02:28:19 02/08/10 (1)
        Yeah, and even if I thermited the entire thing there's still people who can get at my JoystickJ. Seems like a bit of a hassle. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 06:47:37 02/08/10 (0)
- Sounds good to me! Considering that the university will be (hopefully) paying airfare and such, I might not have much control on how much 'outside of conference' time I have to roam, but seeing people would be awesome. [NT] - Lothos 19:04:06 02/06/10 (6)
  - Just throw on your invisibility cloak(and some pants) and roam around the schoolgrounds at night. I'm sure you'll run into all manner of interesting CWALer. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:19:27 02/06/10 (1)
    - That would be outstanding. "Oxford, Pantsless, By Night: A Memoir." [NT] - Lothos 22:56:14 02/06/10 (0)
  - I'll be playing tourist for part of my trip in addition to doing Actual Work, so perhaps this great and mighty meeting can take place in Oxford, if the BritCWALers can make it and if you can't roam too far from the conference. [NT] - Ravil 19:17:04 02/06/10 (3)
    - Some roaming around would also be good, I just have no idea how nuts the bureaucracy is for how they want to arrange funded trips. Funding N amount, with me picking up the rest, might not fly - I have no information. Hopefully they're sensible and I'll have the flexibility to do something similar to you. [NT] - Lothos 22:55:44 02/06/10 (2)
      - Well, I'm in Britain for a research trip / honeymoon, so there's plenty of built-in wiggle room. I can understand how it would be more constraining at a conference. Here's hoping that they give you enough money to see more than the inside of Heathrow and the inside of Oxford. [NT] - Ravil 08:00:40 02/07/10 (0)
      - You should ask if they consider swimming to be a viable means of transportation to England. =P [NT] - TheDeamon 01:42:57 02/07/10 (0)
I've noted a comparative lack of SNOWPOCALYPSE notes from Canadians. So: Is Canadistan infrastructure inherently superior in surviving winter? Discuss. [NT] - Lothos 17:10:20 02/06/10 (19)
- When I lived in Bismarck, they didn't bother with snowplows. Instead, they used /bulldozers/. [NT] - Legacy 00:31:37 02/07/10 (1)
  - I always enjoyed seeing them running up and down city streets around here using road graders to do snow removal. Though they typically used snowplows while it was actually snowing, the other construction stuff only came out after it stopped snowing. [NT] - TheDeamon 01:21:36 02/07/10 (0)
- A discussion about various disaster scenarios came up here this evening. Our conclusion was the "grocery store panic" that was seen was the likely result of a small but significant percentage of the population not having more than a day or so worth of food supplies in their homes as they typically eat outside of the home. [NT] - TheDeamon 00:16:37 02/07/10 (1)
  - ..For example, the DC Metro is 5.3 Million people according to Wiki. Even 2% of the population doing that would cause ~106,000 people to run to a grocery store to buy up enough food to feed themselves for a few days who wouldn't normally be in those stores otherwise. [NT] - TheDeamon 00:20:18 02/07/10 (0)
- I dunno about the rest of Canada, there's hardly been any snow around here most of the winter. [NT] - Fron 17:46:34 02/06/10 (1)
  - We've been getting JoystickJ for snow aside from maybe one or two days. And we can't even use the "it's too cold to snow" excuse, because it mostly hasn't been. [NT] - Vektor 20:12:31 02/06/10 (0)
- I think a good part of what shuts cities down is how many people look out the window and say "JoystickJ this JoystickJ" more than actual infrastructure issues. That JoystickJ just doesn't fly in Canada. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:32:23 02/06/10 (2)
  - Personally I've found that the first major snowfall of any given winter causes every Canadian behind the wheel of a car to forget how to drive, but after that they're fine. [NT] - Ravil 19:18:38 02/06/10 (1)
    - Technically they have, their winter driving skills have atrophied since their last use. - Tssha 08:29:09 02/07/10 (0)
- Part infrastructure, part expectations, I think. A foot of snow on the ground typically provokes a reaction of, "Damn, it snowed last night," rather than "AUUUGGHHOHMYGOD THE SKY IS FALLING CLIMATE SHIFT." - Ravil 17:18:05 02/06/10 (1)
  - That's just it, one heavy snowfall (even upwards of 3 feet) is not a crisis for most Canadian cities. That much would definitely still slow most cities to a crawl for a day or so, but it wouldn't shut them down. [NT] - Dark Nexus 17:22:57 02/06/10 (0)
- Not really the infrastructure (though there is a bit of that compared to places that get almost no snow), it's more the equipment and people that are in place to deal with it [NT] - Dark Nexus 17:14:29 02/06/10 (3)
  - That, and "it snowed out" just isn't an excuse that anyone is going to accept. [NT] - Vektor 20:13:46 02/06/10 (0)
  - Good point. In my head I was thinking 'social infrastructure' as much as 'municipal infrastructure,' so people having the equipment and plans to deal with snow were part of the package. [NT] - Lothos 17:55:19 02/06/10 (1)
    - Yeah, the only real big infrastructure thing is having somewhere for the snow to go - wide shoulders on roads to allow for snow banks, and "snow dumps" to move snow to when the banks start getting too big. There's a few other minor things, but not much. [NT] - Dark Nexus 18:12:35 02/06/10 (0)
- What they're getting now is about what we got on New Years Day last year, and I still walked to/from work, even though all but 50 of our 350 reservations for Brunch cancelled on us. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:12:15 02/06/10 (0)
- The other option is that power is down to the extent that nobody who has reason to complain can get online... [NT] - Lothos 17:11:33 02/06/10 (1)
  - Also this storm isn't likely to be headed my way until Monday or so, so it's just kinda cold right now, but that's about it. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:13:12 02/06/10 (0)
Adanaxis is cooler than any game you're playing. [NT] - Ishpeck 17:04:22 02/06/10 (1)
- I dunno, Mass Effect is kinda fun... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:12:40 02/06/10 (0)
So how come Rotten's the only one who ever comes to visit us on CWAL IRC? It's so lonely here on the weekend... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:14:19 02/06/10 (5)
- Well, I just assumed it was another abandoned area of the site. Pretty much the only time I click that link is when I'm trying to visit the Rubber Room and fail. [NT] - Tssha 08:05:58 02/07/10 (0)
- IRC is boring. [NT] - Ishpeck 17:04:11 02/06/10 (0)
- Wait...when does Rotten visit IRC? [NT] - Kalledon 16:18:07 02/06/10 (2)
  - Just now, but much like Polkaroo, you missed him again. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:19:43 02/06/10 (1)
    - Heh. [NT] - Ravil 17:05:28 02/06/10 (0)
Oh hey, this archive visitation for the Platinum stuff brought a couple (political) gems from the 2008 election back to my attention. - TheDeamon 11:54:03 02/06/10 (71)
- I like how you proudly linked to a thread where you were pointlessly being a huge JoystickJ. - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 17:40:28 02/06/10 (33)
  - I'm more than comfrotable with the Asshole label on this on. I find it funny when people(myself included) decide to do/try things they should know isn't likely to work, but do it anyway and fail. Sometime the trying part is important. However, it doesn't change the fact that failure is the most likely outcome, and in that light it'll be funny because they should have seen it coming. [NT] - I spend plenty of time laughing at my own failures, TYVM - TheDeamon 16:24:22 11/05/08 18:12:58 02/06/10 (32)
    - or for a more current take: Being a (mostly objective) dispassionate ass (who is right) isn't a crime. In many situations, that kind of asshole is a blessing to be appreciated, not scorned, as they're able to spot things others are more than happy to overlook while "in the moment." [NT] - TheDeamon 18:24:11 02/06/10 (31)
      - You seem as though you're trying to come across as far more "dispassionate" than you are. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 21:48:25 02/06/10 (13)
        I'm significantly more capable of doing so than the vast majority of the population from what I've seen. Which isn't to say that I always operate from the end of the spectrum. As the expression goes "Sanity is boring, madness is much more interesting." [NT] - TheDeamon 23:29:20 02/06/10 (10)
        Uh huh. I never realized before just to what degree you are missing a few important gears in your brain - you know, the ones that allow you to function in and have a healthy relationship with the world around you. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 01:52:50 02/07/10 (9)
        I mean, this entire thread and about half of your statements are just JoystickJing weird. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 01:53:36 02/07/10 (8)
        You do realize I'm being flippant and/or sarcastic in a number of these responses? As time and time again has demonstrated in here, nearly everyone in here is very effectively set in their views, so trying to "convert" or otherwise convince is largely pointless, .. So might as well have some fun with it. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:51:38 02/07/10 (7)
        LOL I TRULL U - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 12:38:55 02/07/10 (6)
        I find it amazing some people in here are unable to believe that others in here are capable of self-satire and/or self-caricature. Also, while the goal may not be to convince as that outcome is unlikely, it doesn't mean there isn't an attempt to further draw out and see what the "other side" is thinking, which is what the more classical forum trolls did. [NT] - TheDeamon 15:14:41 02/07/10 (3)
        This post only reaffirms my belief that you don't quite 'get it.' Either way, it's not that people don't believe that anyone *could* parody themselves (obviously), it's that in *this specific instance* there was no discernible switch in your tone, nor were your words much of a departure from what you traditionally spout. So, yeah. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 16:05:52 02/07/10 (2)
        Eh, whatever. I got some of what I was trying to get, so happy hunting up the wrong trail for you I guess. It shall provide potential entertainment later. [NT] - TheDeamon 19:07:25 02/07/10 (1)
        Keep trying; I'm almost convinced! [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 22:33:51 02/07/10 (0)
        This is my new preferred troll image. - Inconsequential Lurker 14:26:15 02/07/10 (0)
        But us mere mortals will try to consider you "a blessing to be appreciated," I'm sure! [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 21:49:49 02/06/10 (1)
        Do note I said "in most situations" not all situations. Sometimes an ass is just an ass. And sometimes they're wrong. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:31:54 02/06/10 (0)
      - Don't pat yourself on the back too hard, this whole thread is such bullJoystickJ. I tried to get you to make an actual prediction that the Repubs would take back either house congress this year and you shied away, being unwilling to speculate. And then here you say you think it's likely he'll lose in '12 (whereas I think re-election almost totally assured), but I doubt TheNostradeamon would be even [NT] - make a firm prediction about that here after bragging about his foresight - Snapper 20:58:44 02/06/10 (16)
        I think it is very possible for the Republican's to take back the House. Taking back the Senate looks like a bit more of a long shot. 18/18 Republican/Dem split on the 36 seats up this year. 6 Republican and 4 Democrat retirements, it is possible the Republicans could hold the Republican seats and claim some of the retired ones, getting significant turnover on inJoystickJbent Senators is a pain however [NT] - TheDeamon 23:04:24 02/06/10 (14)
        Very possible? What kind of a qualification is that? Can't you say probable or something? Make some prediction that can be checked in the archives if you really want to prove your clairvoyance rather than puff your chest? [NT] - Snapper 23:31:30 02/06/10 (8)
        That would be because the things that will largely determine the specifics of that outcome haven't happened yet. The Republicans gaining seats is historically likely, so its just a question of how many they pick up. Using 1994as a reference, it is very likely(Republicans gained 54 seats that year - roughly 1 in 5 Democrats currently in the House would need to lose their seats) Republicans need 39. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:43:42 02/06/10 (7)
        ...and considering those numbers, and Obama's ego about this year versus 1994. I guess I'm going to say I comfortable calling in favor of a Republican majority in the House for 2010. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:48:18 02/06/10 (6)
        Terrific [NT] - Snapper 00:07:29 02/07/10 (5)
        for those not "in the know" on the ego comment as reported by the now retiring Democrat Marion Berry. "The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, 'Well, the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me." - TheDeamon 01:32:53 02/07/10 (4)
        person with ambition to be the most powerful human being on planet has ego, news at 11 [NT] - Snapper 03:02:48 02/07/10 (0)
        Really? This is your airtight argument for Obama having a big "ego"? Then again, you are "in the know," so who am I to judge? [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 01:50:50 02/07/10 (2)
        Well, the cult of personality thing he's had going on is another tip-off. But the big one here is "hey this is almost exactly 1994 all over again" and then the big assumption that he's going to somehow manage to do significantly better than Clinton's efforts did in 1994. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:48:48 02/07/10 (1)
        I think you're going to need more reliable sources if you're determined to put forward that particular thesis. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 16:06:53 02/07/10 (0)
        ...So flipping 10 more seats in the Senate this year(~56% turnover on the Dems) seems a bit out there. Looking at 2008 for example it was 23/12 (with 3 republican retirements) R/D before and 15/20 after. So even with Obamamania helping Dems and Bushhate hurting Republicans, they only gained 8 seats... a 10 seat gain seems extreme in the Senate. Unless the Democrats really screw a pooch. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:12:22 02/06/10 (4)
        Can't TheNostradeamon at least tell us who's going to win in 2012? I let Archangel keep his foolishly wagered 50$ the last time around [NT] - Snapper 23:25:59 02/06/10 (3)
        Well, if history is any guide, it seems that picking up 8 seats in the Senate in a single election is the "traditional" barometer swing for the country, though Regan in '80 and the '58 midterms managed to get 12. .. Thanks to a bad economy... Still inclined to say Dems retain control of the Senate at this point, but they can "Screw the pooch" on something yet. [NT] - TheDeamon 00:11:31 02/07/10 (0)
        Need to know who the candidates are first. It might be a (relatively) unknown at this point in time. Get back to me in Spring of 2012. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:34:03 02/06/10 (1)
        The other thing about 2012 is looking at how Obama is behaving currently, and hoe Republicans have behaved recently, I have low expectations of anything good happening between 2010 and 2012, the only question is who will be the most "special" in a bad way. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:45:53 02/06/10 (0)
        correction: "would even be willing to make a firm prediction" [NT] - Snapper 20:59:48 02/06/10 (0)
- Is it so wrong to vote for the one who tries, rather than for the one who's already given up? Without hope, progression is slow, if it takes place at all... [NT] - Eye of the Night 16:47:23 02/06/10 (12)
  - There is such a thing as False Hope, and the damage it does can be far worse than not giving them any hope in the first place... As it turns the people needing the help into deeply cynical and bitter people. You simply don't promise what cannot be delivered. Lucky for Obama he avoided specifics in most cases, he just sold the concept of "hope" with no real substance. [NT] - TheDeamon 18:19:27 02/06/10 (1)
    - True, but when is hope false? Obama has also said that it would not be easy, and that it'd take time. That sounds more like being realistically optimistic than like offering false hope. [NT] - Eye of the Night 20:30:16 02/06/10 (0)
  - Indeed. With Hope�, "progression" has increased by orders of magnitude. - Ishpeck 17:08:09 02/06/10 (9)
    - Blame Bush for the deficits. Obama has only done what's necessary to keep the damage of Bush's legacy to a minimum. [NT] - Eye of the Night 20:27:54 02/06/10 (4)
      - From what I'm hearing about recent polling, people hold Bush responsible for the current economic situation, but hold the Democrats to be even more culpable for the ongoing economic situation. Basically "Yeah, its his fault, we know that already... But what are you doing about fixing it?" [NT] - TheDeamon 01:26:12 02/07/10 (3)
        Do those people have a realistic view about how quickly it can be fixed? It would seem not. As Obama has said many times during his campaign, it will take time. [NT] - Eye of the Night 05:27:59 02/07/10 (2)
        Well, when you also have (presumably non-scientific) polls of investors by Bloomberg reporting 75% of investors view the current admin as "anti-business" other more telling things like locking out the US Chamber of Commerce and numerous other small business organizations from the Healthcare Reform process, or Obama's Jobs Conference... It becomes kind of hard to fault US based businesses for [NT] - working defensively rather than expansively for the time being - TheDeamon 10:56:17 02/07/10 (1)
        But then, I guess who needs economic/job creation inputs from the US Chamber of Commerce when you have Andy Stern and SEIU available to tell you how to make jobs happen. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:59:13 02/07/10 (0)
    - Why does anybody still attempt to reply to EOTN with anything resembling facts? He's like a nasty pimple on your ass; stop picking at it and it will go away. [NT] - Fr. 17:15:27 02/06/10 (3)
      - We tried that, he didn't go away. [NT] - Dark Nexus 18:36:30 02/06/10 (1)
        Much like the ignored pimple on my ass, he has actually developed into a inflamed, weeping abcess. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:40:42 02/06/10 (0)
      - I just wanted to repeat the line "look at the deficit JoystickJ" [NT] - Ishpeck 17:18:39 02/06/10 (0)
- So what you're saying is, you continue to predict the things you said you predicated? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:24:28 02/06/10 (23)
  - How the hell did I spell predicated instead of predicted? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:33:45 02/06/10 (1)
    - By inserting the letter A, hope this helps. [NT] - Fron 13:03:56 02/06/10 (0)
  - Cap and Trade(with C02), and Healthcare Reform both turned into political train wrecks in the last year, though it isn't stopping him from continuing to try on both fronts. And I think the record budget deficits certainly point to funding problems... And polls are looking rather bleak for the Dems this year, but November is still 9 months away, a lot can happen between now and then. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:32:04 02/06/10 (20)
    - You could have just said "yes". [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:32:54 02/06/10 (19)
      - If by "yes" you mean some of it has happened already, and the rest of it appears to be on track for happening. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:34:31 02/06/10 (18)
        I don't think there's been any actual trouble with paying for anything, and even if calling elections so far out wasn't retarded the conservative chorus call is going to be YOU WILL BE THE BOOTED IN SHAME every single election a Dem wins, so all you have to do it keep repeating it to be able to say "told you so", no matter how minor the swing. See also: Every other politically charged issue ever. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:41:17 02/06/10 (17)
        Um... Hi. You must be new here. Welcome to arithmetic. - Ishpeck 16:02:45 02/06/10 (11)
        Protip: Other first world countries are still carrying a higher debt to gdp ratio than the US and they haven't collapsed in on themselves yet. Furthermore, the current increase in deficit isn't exactly typical, what with the whole "two wars, recession" thing. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 16:16:15 02/06/10 (9)
        I'm convinced you've never looked at the actual numbers on federal spending or money just about anywhere - Ishpeck 17:17:22 02/06/10 (8)
        I don't even know where to start on this, but I'm going to reply anyways just to thank you for making me laugh irl with the first statement. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:30:44 02/06/10 (7)
        Defense spending hasn't appreciably increased under Obama vs Bush. Other parts of the budget however, have grown by leaps and bounds, which is in addition to declining receipts from the recession... And we haven't even dented Obama's to do list as of yet. [NT] - TheDeamon 18:10:08 02/06/10 (4)
        I just thought it was hilarious that he evidently thought 782 billion is a third of 1354 billion yet he was accusing me of not looking at the numbers. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:16:03 02/06/10 (3)
        [LINK] 2009 federal budget was $3,100 Billion ($3.1Trillion). - Ishpeck 21:30:19 02/06/10 (1)
        I'm not sure the total budget has much to do with the fact that you either thought defence spending is much less than it is or Medicare/SS is much more than it really is. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 21:37:11 02/06/10 (0)
        You don't know where to start because you can't add. [NT] - Ishpeck 17:35:07 02/06/10 (1)
        I think it's more the part where your entire view of economics is built on weird as JoystickJ distortions of reality and I've never seen a libertarian wingnut give up ground anywhere, ever, so it'd be futile to even try at this point. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:36:46 02/06/10 (0)
        This lurker observes: How is Ishpeck the only one to call IL out on this one? Yes, little friends, the world is quite dewm'd. hen a statement such as "I don't think there's been any actual trouble with paying for anything..." swings by while most people nary bat an eye. Lash. [NT] - Legatou 16:06:49 02/06/10 (0)
        There is a much more extensive post I made during the Presidential Primaries in the OCWAL guild's general bull forum that actually wasn't predicting much of one with Hilary, only Obama obtained the prediction of "significant backlash likely." [NT] - TheDeamon 14:02:36 02/06/10 (4)
        Just for fun, that post contained within. - TheDeamon 14:16:11 02/06/10 (3)
        So you predicted the more left wing guy would cause more contention with the right than the more centrist candidate? Wow. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:34:25 02/06/10 (2)
        Though to be fair, you have to acknowledge that there is more to it than that. A candidate can hold very extreme views and not be too contentious, as there also is something to be said about how strictly they adhere to that position. Obama hasn't failed to disappoint on that, as he seems quite content to go "hardline" when it comes to dealing with Republicans. [NT] - TheDeamon 15:18:06 02/06/10 (0)
        I know, it's hard to imagine. =P And for 1st year, 1st term presidents, he is now the most polarizing President the US has had since they started tracking w/Eisenhower. [NT] - TheDeamon 14:56:21 02/06/10 (0)
Why the hell do some people have a beef with Alan Grayson talking JoystickJ on television? - The Man with the Platinum Gun 23:40:44 02/05/10 (32)
- I may be the only dude here who enjoys Grayson's rants (well, for the most part). Take that for what it's worth. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 11:12:27 02/06/10 (1)
  - I enjoy SOME of his rants. [NT] - Ishpeck 17:05:02 02/06/10 (0)
- The breasts are too big [NT] - Legacy 10:54:36 02/06/10 (0)
- Tonds. [NT] - Steamtrap Entity 00:37:29 02/06/10 (0)
- who the JoystickJ is The Man with the Platinum Gun? [NT] - Snapper 00:05:12 02/06/10 (18)
  - Some douche? [NT] - Rotten 07:41:26 02/06/10 (0)
  - He is one of TheDeamon's navy buddies. Actually he is more of an acquaintance then a buddy which is why TheDeamon never comes to his defense. [NT] - diefortheswarm 00:55:41 02/06/10 (16)
    - [LINK] Your timeline doesn't work, I last wore a Navy uniform in April of 2007. From what I can find in the forum archive, he probably didn't enlist until 2009, based on a question he posed in the link provided inside. - TheDeamon 11:20:02 02/06/10 (6)
      - It seems weird that you had to look this up in the historical record instead of just saying "nah, I don't know him". [NT] - Fron 13:07:51 02/06/10 (2)
        See Swarmy's link, I did just that, and see Meat's response to it. [NT] - TheDeamon 13:59:22 02/06/10 (0)
      - ...and very definite he joined in 2009, as I just found a post w/him talking about his barracks assignment for Naval Hospital Corps School... [NT] - TheDeamon 12:19:28 02/06/10 (0)
      - And that link appears to be the first post where he addressed me by name. 46 posts in the Archive with me mentioned by name in the subject line. Wheee. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:12:36 02/06/10 (1)
        To be honest, I'd think it was justified to cull those. Information control is a good scheme... but I think you know that already. [NT] - Lothos 14:00:32 02/06/10 (0)
    - No, I don't think so. Cause I seem to recall TMWTPG asking TD if he was in the Navy. [NT] - Rotten 07:42:20 02/06/10 (2)
      - [LINK] Proof - diefortheswarm 10:59:09 02/06/10 (1)
        That isn't him asking me if I was in the Navy. though I did provide a link (above) that shows him asking me questions about the Navy... And asking those kinds of questions doesn't make sense if he knew me from being on Active Duty in the Navy. [NT] - TheDeamon 11:25:34 02/06/10 (0)
    - can someone tell him to go away? [NT] - Snapper 01:32:37 02/06/10 (3)
      - My earlier attempt to gently discourage him from JoystickJposting was surprisingly controversial amongst the populace. [NT] - Fron 16:04:31 02/06/10 (1)
        Weren't you talking about bans at the time? I think that was my main complaint. [NT] - Sensitive Meat for Gentlemen 21:51:59 02/06/10 (0)
      - I did that, it didn't work. Even sprayed some Raid in his direction. [NT] - Fr. 04:26:20 02/06/10 (0)
- who the JoystickJ is alan grayson? - Ishpeck 23:55:40 02/05/10 (0)
- who the JoystickJ is alan grayson? [NT] - diefortheswarm 23:49:40 02/05/10 (0)
- who the JoystickJ is alan grayson? [NT] - Fron 23:48:01 02/05/10 (1)
- who the JoystickJ is alan grayson? [NT] - Rotten 23:41:51 02/05/10 (4)
  - What? You didn't see that video on YouTube of him grilling a lawyer? [nt] - The Man with the Platinum Gun 23:58:21 02/05/10 (3)
    - We have a salad at the hotel. It's essentially just Spring Mix, soy beans, crumbled goats cheese, a grilled watermelon puck, and a maple vinaigrette. It is delicious. - Psycho Sam! 16:15:50 02/06/10 (1)
      - u ever grilled a lawyer? according to platinum they're pretty good. [NT] - Rotten 19:11:56 02/06/10 (0)
    - No. No, I did not. [NT] - Rotten 00:58:53 02/06/10 (0)