
Not exactly "rapey or stabby" but damned good skills! And for anyone wondering, I go under the knife next week, and I think this is a good thing! I may be back poking and slashing in no time!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 4:33, Reply)

and mentioned you. glad to see you are about, and good luck! :D
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 4:39, Reply)

A. Alms Secret Cellar Construction, A. Alms Knot-Tieing and A. Alms Candle-Making
Good luck under the Knife mate!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 5:34, Reply)

Might attempt one with my bbq and Wifes nail file.
Good luck under the knife!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 8:42, Reply)

with the knife it is for a good reason ok?
good luck and dont get any infections and maybe you could auction of what ever they cut of/out just for the fun of seeing face eating weirdos paying money for snacks
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:43, Reply)

Get well. We miss you.
Edit: hate to say it, but someone posted this t'other day with you in mind. You got a name check and everything.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 12:25, Reply)

but I am hopelessly behind. It's still quite a skill - I hope to make something new before my return.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 20:21, Reply)

but please have a proper surgeon do it.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:11, Reply)

Wonderful skills in that video, but I can't help but wonder how long it'll remain shiny, given that it's not stainless steel.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:30, Reply)

it is good to see i am not the only one that talks to myself. i dont feel so alone now. :)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 3:48, Reply)

you feeling (up) a lone... person, animal or thing.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 4:00, Reply)

but what a gracious loser you are! :)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 4:13, Reply)

Re-imagined using Valve's Source Filmmaker. Rather brilliant.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 2:25, Reply)

that made me smile. and really makes me want to figure out how to play with source filmaker. :)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 3:38, Reply)

Been waiting for someone to do something interesting with the Valve engine :)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 8:19, Reply)

good place to start with good tutorials
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 9:40, Reply)

Claude Lelouche at his Paris fraudful best
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 1:30, Reply)

Absolutely nuts though.
Climbdance is also ace if you 've not seen that.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:15, Reply)

Do he have his eyes open or is he just using the force??????
*clicks like a loon cos we've all wanted to do this*
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 11:19, Reply)

but he is a dick.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 11:52, Reply)

Sorry if a repost. Been a while since i saw it. The wee fella really cheers me up. Married now i believe. Tasty wife too. There's a lesson in there somewhere i think. I might start being nice to women too.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:47, Reply)

( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:49, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM74ngy9EIw
Ron plays a paedo in it.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:19, Reply)

might explain why i am a bit mental. haha.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 1:07, Reply)

He looks like a dodgy Australian surfer or an escapee from the Adams Family. I'll check it out, looks full of real 80's (?) goodness.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 1:11, Reply)

but it never mattered. the 'teen angels' bit always confused me... but you must check it out. crap US cartoons at its best!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 1:15, Reply)

CcCCCCccccAaaaAAAaaAaaPPPpppPPpPpTTTttTTtAaAaAiIiIiIiInNNnNcCcaaAAAAAvvvvVEEMMMmaAAANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 13:22, Reply)

Also has an interesting choice of runway.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:46, Reply)

But I do fly regularly, the quote's an old one but true. I flew Donbass airlines many years ago in an old (read fucking ancient) Antonov 24 and that shat me up sufficiently to realise that I had no control whatsoever over the plane so, sit back, enjoy it and just be thankful that you got off the plane alive.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:29, Reply)

As they there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old and bold pilots.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:29, Reply)

You take a bus 70 miles to the town they said they were flying you to.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 10:05, Reply)

That's exactly the reason why I decided to go powered...
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:02, Reply)

( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 19:58, Reply)

and it scared me too - I've not done my first cross country yet so I hope my field landing selection (as will happen one day) is better than that!
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 8:35, Reply)

Well racist, obviously some kind of comment on America and African Americans.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:14, Reply)

(Storified for your convenience)
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:33, Reply)

*They're ALL mental, just the level of insanity differs.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:48, Reply)

No, wait, fruitloop not catch.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:51, Reply)

Therefore Female = Fruitloop.
Don't they teach anything in schools these days?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:37, Reply)

This is why it isn't a private conversation.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:22, Reply)

he GOT out of that insanity. good for Tim. he now has a future.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 2:38, Reply)

not that she needs circumsizing, although if she did it would take a very brave surgeon to go near her bear pit.
i think this is a good thing in that it will allow the authority's to check on who is who in the showers
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:56, Reply)

it is probably better to regulate the practice than drive it underground, because you can't expect people to stop practicing their religion just because it's illegal. It's not just fantasy role play to them.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:59, Reply)

I agree...But at the same time, why do we think it's ok to chop bits off babies just because it's religion?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:17, Reply)

unless some government is brave enough to come out and say "Judaism is wrong, the Bible is not the word of God &c, and no-one has the right to believe it is" they can hardly outlaw something that is an unambiguous requirement of the holy text, unless they claim to be a higher authority than God.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:23, Reply)

( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:24, Reply)

and isn't necessarily right. Separation of church and state goes back to the puritans, the idea isn't universal.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:30, Reply)

but we shouldn't discount it for that reason.
What's in the Bible doesn't apply to the whole world and isn't necessarily right either. Doesn't mean there aren't good ideas to live by in there.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:38, Reply)

neither is vigilantism generally. Neither are muslims actually required to stone adulterers as a condition of being muslims.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:02, Reply)

but it is in the Old Testament, so it has at some point been outlawed by law despite being part of the Jewish religion.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:10, Reply)

it was a capital punishment, it happened by order of the Jewish law court (Sanhedrin) after a guilty verdict at a trial.
The Sanhedrin hasn't sat since the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD. So it wasn't outlawed by law, but rather the authority that enacted it disappeared.
I'm not sure what the muslim set-up is, but it's definitely part of the legal system. No individual is required to partake in such an act in order to be considered a muslim.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:17, Reply)

does not let them set up their own law court and dish out the punishments the OT clearly says they should.
Hence, there have been aspects of their culture outlawed already.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:27, Reply)

in fact they have their own country and they still don't do it there, because the temple was destroyed so there's no authority for the Sanhedrin.
Some Zionists want to build the third temple and resume temple sacrifices again.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:35, Reply)

Stoning adulterers is as much a "unambiguous requirement of the holy text" as circumcision.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:01, Reply)

and should anyone ever be convicted of adultery by it. It is not a requirement of an individual. Nobody is ever declared non-Jewish for not ever having stoned someone. That would actually require someone to commit adultery before it were possible for anyone to become Jewish, which would be absurd.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:05, Reply)

at the very least they can then sue their parents and church for being the mutilating idiots they are.
Seriously, if "God" didn't want a foreskin, he/she/it wouldn't have put it there in the first place
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:19, Reply)

Judaism does not maintain that everyone in the world ought to be Jewish.
Circumcision is the sign of the covenant, if nobody had a foreskin they'd only have to cut something else off instead. Like their earlobes or something I don't know.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:33, Reply)

( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:17, Reply)

there are probably millions of circumcised people who don't know what all the fuss is about. It's fairly standard practice amongst Christians in the US for some reason.
Your theory of God is yours... others might not agree. I don't see the point in arguing what the will of God really is. Unless the state says that it isn't it has to accept that it might be.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:28, Reply)

it's only a medical procedure in freak cases of some kind of muscle contraction.
When I say "god" I deliberately put it in speech marks. I mean 'mother nature' really. If there was a need for circumcision, evolution would have made it happen by itself.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:37, Reply)

it doesn't condemn one to being Jewish forever.
Well whatever you mean, you have to prove it to a Rabbi, I guess.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:44, Reply)

I'm not talking about being Jewish at all.
I'm saying once you've had part of your dick cut off you can't grow it back.
That in itself is doing something to a child before it can say "yeah, I think that'd be cool"
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:47, Reply)

and it raises interesting questions about the rights of children.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:52, Reply)

oh of course, religion, they know better than the children they inflict themselves on.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:56, Reply)

Does a government have the courage to say "we must protect children from religion"? That's what I'm asking. There seems to be something of a stand off here between the modern western idea of rights of children and the right of freedom of religion. Because circumcision is not an option for Jews.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:00, Reply)

children should have a say in what made up fairy tale they believe in.
Fuck religion, fuck their parents saying you must have part of your cock cut off because an imaginary friend said so.
If they want to do that, let them do it when they are 18, or better still after they've been psych tested and simply weighed up the options.
The sooner laws prevent gullible religious twats inflicting their doctrine on their kids the better.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:04, Reply)

At 8 days old, so it says.
It's easy for you to say that's fairy tale bullshit or whatever... question is, what happens if a government of a liberal democracy says it.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:12, Reply)

simple as that.
A government should protect its citizens from cults, scams, fraudsters and religions, especially when they intend to inflict physical alteration to them, until an age when they can make the choice for themselves.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:15, Reply)

Abortion is entirely down to the circumstance of the woman involved and certainly not a fucking church.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:28, Reply)

does the government not have the duty to protect it?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:32, Reply)

Where do you stand on a blowjob or a wank or a piss (which for a man who has passed puberty dumps sperm)?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:41, Reply)

it would be nice if it did but what we've got has more to do with some concept of "viability" as far as I know. But supposing we take that cut-off point.
Would it be ok to circumcise a foetus, if it were possible, before the same time limit?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:43, Reply)

- threatening individuals with castigation (sic) if they don't toe the party line, in whatever form, is repression, regardless of the reason for it. Just because something has always been done doesn't make it right, and the reasons for doing something a few thousand years ago doesn't mean it has to continue.
Also, there it appears "degrees of Judaism" - not all Jews avoid shell fish, pork, tattoos, for example.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:12, Reply)

Obviously the antiquity of a practice doesn't make it more likely to be right. But this is a religion that has been allowed to do its thing until now, and now we decide, it isn't right. Novelty doesn't make an idea right, either. It's our morals vs theirs.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:21, Reply)

get rid of Derek Acorah.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:26, Reply)

is still practiced today does not make sense at any level. As well as that, there is plenty of research which shows circumcision leads to long term physiological and psychological problems in later life.
Enough fuss was made of docking the tails of dogs, which is now outlawed in the UK at least, but has similar physical and psychological effects as circumcision - and was proven to shorten life expectancy in dogs.
Both are barbarous practices which have no place in the modern world, along with female genital mutation.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:35, Reply)

It's still practiced today because people are still Jews today and it's one of the rules of Judaism. As such it doesn't need to be justified on practical grounds.
"Barbarous" is rhetorical language, I'd be careful of it.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:39, Reply)

I think "emotive" is the word you're looking for.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:50, Reply)

WHAT!?? You are you actually trolling?
I won't bother coming running to you if my partner of ten years has his throat slit because he came across some muslims who believe that gays should be exterminated then.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:39, Reply)

Are you counter-trolling now? I don't know.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:41, Reply)

Please- elaborate. Do you think muslims who believe that gays "should be thrown off a cliff" only mean it about muslim gays. Is that what you mean?
I just want to be clear here- & how is that any better?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:43, Reply)

Firing squad - got the pics somewhere if you want.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:48, Reply)

I'm sure there are individuals who get angry about all sorts of things, but I don't see any muslims anywhere demanding the legal right to slit people's throats in Western countries because the Quran says so.
It's an interesting point about the limits of religious freedom, though. We have to draw a line somewhere I suppose. But circumcision of your own child is hardly comparable to killing someone.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:50, Reply)

in any case governments often do explicitly condemn this kind of extremism.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:57, Reply)

I started to write a genuine response; but, but....that is such fucking mental, utter bollocks.
I genuinely don't know if you're trolling or just a fucking idiot.
Night all.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:55, Reply)

Dont really know what to make of this, I'm calling bullshit on this one.
Well done if it is, holy end of days if it's not.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:38, Reply)

*arranges career change to 'Arms Dealer'*
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:39, Reply)

I don't really get the bit
Where it's an article in a tabloid and not followed up by let's say ........ Team America (fuck yeah)
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:09, Reply)

i went to a conference in oxford about nuclear terrorism. the upshot of it was- it is incredibly easy to procure nuclear materials from ex-soviet sources, any idiot can set it off because you don't need it to produce a proper thermonuclear explosion to work, you just need to irradiate a large area.
in summary, it's pretty surprising we still haven't been subjected to an attack.
certainly back then (15 years ago) there was no proper auditing of the warheads in ex soviet bases, or more worryingly nuclear waste, uranium oxide etc, low level stuff from soviet civilian nuclear projects. The guys tasked with guarding them were paid a pathetic pittance, compared to the massive sums they could get for the stuff they were guarding.
a lot of money from the west has gone in to securing the nuclear stuff in the east since then, but i doubt it is anything apporaching properly secure even now.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:47, Reply)

Much better than it was during the chaos of post USSR collapse & most stuff has been traced, mostly.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:11, Reply)

I hate the attitude of the people involved at times, they seem to look down their noses at people, but i think they're doing a good thing and the subject matter is, more often than not, very interesting.
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:38, Reply)

Old crusties never die they just bio-degrade.
I miss my dreads
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:16, Reply)

Unfortunately the pills i bought were worm tablets.
Did wonders for my hunger though.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:07, Reply)

So this is my attempt. Love me some Pikes Peak.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:06, Reply)

( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:08, Reply)

As in, people really do it.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:10, Reply)

i wrote a game many years ago with a few other people about extreme ironing... was a good laugh
extremeironing.plasticmartians.com/
(may look old... written in about 2006)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 9:33, Reply)

you want thrills ?
you want adrenaline?
you want this and more?
then you my friend should try extreme wet paint watching YEAHHHH man
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:11, Reply)

of solvents evaporating and watch in awesome amazement as skin forms before your eyes, you wont believe how addictive it can be.
it got so bad for me i was doing 10-15 liters a week any wall that was dry was fair game for a coating just so i could get my adrenaline fix, but once you get the rush stay away from the woodchip man that is some seriouse shit going on right there dude. it nearly got me once and i found my self toying with the idea of doing 3 coats, but i was lucky dude i was nearly skint and i only had a 1 inch wilkinson bristle brush and i knew then that if i dipped i would be hooked, stay away from the woodchip for your own sake and the sanity of all those who know you
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:49, Reply)

"begins at 9,390 feet and finishes at the 14,110 foot summit of America’s Mountain; Pikes Peak! As the drivers climb toward the summit, the thin air slows reflexes and saps muscle strength. The thin air also robs engines of 30% of their power at the summit."
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:44, Reply)

I think Dummy was better, but there are a couple of great ones from Portishead, 'All Mine' being a favourite.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:48, Reply)

I think all three are great. Third wasn't exactly easy listening, but it certainly packed a punch.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:55, Reply)

"All Mine" in particular; the way she enunciated everything so clearly was wonderful. Such lovely affricates...
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:52, Reply)

It's one of those multiple game bundle things... 6 games for less than a quid? Sure thing! There's a couple of decent ones in here as well, especially if you like puzzlegames and dungeon crawlers.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:42, Reply)

Holy Hannah! Don't do this at home, kids!
(and no Tabby, this is not the type of blow-up teenager you're used to.)
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:22, Reply)

is in extremely poor taste...even I'm aghast...congrats...
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:31, Reply)

I worked or a while on a building site, at every opportunity people kept having their lives threatened 'For a joke' by bored mental retards who didn't realise sticking high pressure hoses up people/ stretching them with the forklift/ tying them naked someplace in winter, etc, would fucking kill them!
I was witness to a young lad tied by his long hair to a chair with his mouth taped and they then sprayed him with water, due to having his mouth taped and the water being freezing he very nearly drowned/asphyxiated from having to breath heavily thru his nose, and no matter how much sense I made nor how much I tried to make them understand, I was a party pooper to be ignored. The poor cunt had to cut his own hair off to get free.
I lasted 3 months n just had to move on before they killed someone...
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:37, Reply)

but I don't know how much of this is in any way new, or whether it's just the invention of ever more powerful tools has magnified the dangers.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:52, Reply)

I used to work in a massive mental asylum and every day something hilarious happened, it was brilliant!
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 21:27, Reply)

You've never let me down, Bready. Well, except for that one time.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:57, Reply)

( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:00, Reply)

seems like a fucking epicly stupid thing to be doing wont be long before there's health and safety vids concerning this
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:54, Reply)

all i will say is that it fucking sore and i nearly had my arm cut open from knuckle to shoulder to allow for the muscle to swell, it felt like the arm was on fire and felt like my skin had bubble wrap under it , it made a crinkly plastic type noise when pressed. and what was worse it happend on my wifes birthday aswell so i had to spend the whole weekend getting an earfull for messing up her day
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:16, Reply)

Well, coulda been worse, air inside the human body is seldom healthy!
*edit* except for lungs, in there it's a good thing! ;)
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:43, Reply)

funny thing though that when i happend, i was a paint sprayer at the time and after washing my arms down a small scab on my arm came of, and when i blew my self down with the high pressure air line gun it didnt even hurt of feel as if any thing had gone wrong.
you could see that there was some thing had got under the skin through the scab and there was some small bubbles coming out of it, but no pain or blood etc.
at the thai resturant that night we started with chopsticks and soon after i had to use a spoon due to not being able to hold the chop sticks, and very quickly i couldnt even use the spoon and then my arm started to feel like it was on fire from the inside. at A&E i was triaged and admitted with in 30 mins and on my way to xray and the ward with in an hour
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 22:04, Reply)

it is all a bit too touchy feely at airports these days.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:20, Reply)

( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:27, Reply)

I haven't been able to take American news reports seriously since The Day Today, mind you.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:31, Reply)

The Patriot Act? That is nothing to the warrantless searches, lack of transparency that this "liberal" has done. He just signed an executive order allowing him to takeover "all communication" in case of a "crisis". Scary stuff.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:46, Reply)

you know, call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but sometimes I wonder if it's really the president who is in charge of things.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:48, Reply)

They may not know everything, but the buck stops with them. I was listening to Clinton on a program last week. He is still so charismatic. He said he saw no evidence about Area 51 or Roswell that would lead him to believe there was an alien incident.
It made me sad.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:52, Reply)

you wanted there to have been an alien incident?
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:54, Reply)

still, there's increasing evidence now that life here began out there... far across the Universe.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:33, Reply)

that was a nice way to shoe in that you believe in little green men. subtle.
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:02, Reply)

Jesus! Thats... Nine hundred and eleven thousand!
(To badly paraphrase)
( , Sat 14 Jul 2012, 0:01, Reply)
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