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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So I'll go back to something I'm sure must have popped up at some point.
What films do you like that not many others have heard of?
For me, you've got Boondock Saints 1 and 2, along with Versus.
All 3 are violent and silly in equal measures.
Also, "Låt den rätte komma in" is absolutely brilliant.
How about you lot?
Alt Q: What's the worst film you've ever paid to see? Mine was War Of The Worlds, pile of unmitigated shite.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:48, 30 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Not only absolute shit, but I got done speeding on the way there.
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but not as bad as the time I went to the cinema with friends after not sleeping for 30 hours. They didn't tell me what we were seeing until I got there.
Father of the Bride. 2.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)
I know it's shit but I like sticking it on when doing something else. It's entertaining and I like people running round with swords shouting.
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i never actually sat through it, as i have some modicum of taste and intelligence, but i gather that line was actually in it. horrendous.
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Ben Afleck is so god damn macho that he turns a lesbian straight.
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only good scene in that film is when Kevin Smith is monologuing in the cafe. And the Nubian Princess line is a killer.
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would totally get it. "he's just not that into you" it is very hard to choose between him and bradley cooper.
hang on a minute, what am i talking about? a choice between the committed, sweet, caring character who does her washing up and buys her a massive diamond ring? or the lying, cheating, two-timing womaniser who shags his wife with his girlfriend in the closet? of course i'd pick the bastard, every time.
/men are all shit blog
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:20, Reply)
although he was a bit annoying in the A Team, his smile was too big.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:28, Reply)
i never ever watched the show as a child. but i will watch it soon because my future husband is in it, yes.
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I know I shouldn't, but I do! I think she's an ok actress, much better than some of the vapid bints out there.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:10, Reply)
but she's always pretty good. Monster in Law is dreadful but she did the best she could with it.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:12, Reply)
as much as I hate J-Lo, she is good in that, and I would bang her. Hard.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Remake of a Japanese film, rather than the 1936 Fred and Ginger classic of the same name
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:37, Reply)
The dancing in the Fred and Ginger one is much, much, much better though
Obviously
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:48, Reply)
It was toss from start to finish. If I could only ever watch one film again it would be Labyrinth. With David Bowie.
You remind me of the babe
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I am rubbish at FB stalking. I lose interest and go on the football pages. We have just bought a new defender. Gallas to spurs as well,
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:42, Reply)
...when my parents had Sky.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:30, Reply)
fucking dreadful crap. I've shat better films than that.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:54, Reply)
yesterday you quoted Top Gun and I didn't realise it. By coincidence I watched Top Gun last night and recognised it (ego writing cheques your body can't cash)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:56, Reply)
there was a period of my life where I watched Top Gun about once a week. Such a brilliant film.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:58, Reply)
before we revealed how awful we all were, me and my mate Paul strung together some good moves, and then did the high-low 5. It was splendid.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:19, Reply)
purely for the unbelievably high amounts of pointlessness
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It's a key scene in the film it highlights the competitiveness between Maverick and Iceman and shows how Maverick will always be a renegade as he leaves mid game for sexy time. It really is an interesting insightful scene.
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pretty much this. Well the whole film.
'You can be my wingman anytime'
'You can be mine'
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BUT DON'T BE MEAN ABOUT THE BEST FILM EVER MADE!!!!!!!
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so ye bring it on.
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I've seen other pictures and she really is
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:06, Reply)
but I'm getting the impression that you like a bit of ginger minge
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Right I'm off out to lunch.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:23, Reply)
I even posted a link to a picture of the guy!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:59, Reply)
I was proper excited when we went to a american diner like the one in that
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I want a big milkshake
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I'm well excited now.
Sometimes I forget that this is all make believe.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:32, Reply)
and AND an Oreo milkshake
turns out that is too much sugar
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Bloody marvellous film, but nobody I know has ever seen it (except my ex-flatmate's father, who kindly bought me the DVD as a present).
Worst film I paid to see? Hmmm. Wild Wild West was pretty dire. The last half an hour of AI pretty much ruined the previous 2 1/2 hours. But the one that left me the most disappointed, feeling betrayed, hurt and bewildered that such a monumental pile of honk could ever be commited to screen? Indiana Jones IV.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:55, Reply)
is that the one with the big steampunk spider? It was toss, but lots of fun
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"these people must be russian, they are drinking vodka and dancing like russians all dance"
utter rubbish. I hate Shia TheBeef as well
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rubbish
almost walked out, only stayed as i had the futile hope that it would get better
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Damn.
I though AvP was awesome, but AvP2 was fucking shite.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:59, Reply)
I made sure to leave my brain at home and adopt an appropriately mong-level mindset before going to see it, though
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:00, Reply)
it bugs me when people slag off films for not being the best film they've ever seen in the world at any time, because different films are meant for different things. If you want an indepth storyline and complicated plot twists then go and watch something like Inception, but if you're happy to be entertained for a couple of hours by ridiculous stunts and fun fight scenes, it's ok to enjoy Prince of Persia.
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it was just fun. Gemma Arterton annoys me, she's a bit shit, but it was entertaining.
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a) what the hell did they expect from a James Cameron movie? You wouldn't go see a David Mamet film and leave complaining about the lack of explosions
b) I cannot believe that anyone would sit through Avatar at the cinema and spend the whole time thinking "ooh, this plot's not very good"
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but I can't stand him or his roles in his films.
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he annoys me in all of them, his jokes seem too forced when he says them himself.
Like Tarantino, he shits on every scene he's in.
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I didn't bother to see it at the cinema. My brother has the DVD so I watched it with him; the plot was paper-thin and about as long as a midget's tonker, utterly predictable, and beyond twee.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I will buy an internet pint for anyone here who has seen it and enjoyed it. Even members of 'Wise & Wise'.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 10:59, Reply)
has the DVD, and really likes it. I haven't got round to watching it yet.
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Have heard of it but never seen it. Saw The Rainbow Thief, another of Todorowsky's body of work, mostly because of my love for Lawrence of Arabia. Can I have half a pint?
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:01, Reply)
It'll fetch a fortune on eBay. How, pray tell, do you plan to milk the erstwhile Soft Cell frontman?
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Oh, Monty, you still have a direct line to my funny bone
Today's compliments will all be in the form of quotes from Frasier
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Never fails to move me to tears, a combination of O'Toole's prettiness, the landscapes/cinematography, and the music.
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It also works as an excellent barometer for any given person's intelligence. If they say Lawrence of Arabia is boring then there's no reason whatsoever to listen to their opinions on anything.
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Anyone who claims they don't like foreign films, b/w films, old films, or having to read subtitles is immediately put down a level in my mental filing cabinet called "what people are worth in my opinion".
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:23, Reply)
I find after the first few minutes I stop noticing that I'm reading at all as my brain almost translates it in my head.
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says it's that because she spends the entire film reading the subtitles, she can't watch what's happening on screen.
Personally I don't find that a problem.
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is it a silent movie? The most exotic film I own is Intacto. Which is ace.
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I think I prefer the sensory overload of Holy Mountain though.
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B&W midget western. Indescribably freaky.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:04, Reply)
I also didn't hallucinate 'For Your Height Only', a Phillipino midget James Bond spoof, featuring 'double O three and a half'.
On the same theme, anyone seen 'Even Dwarfs (sic) Started Small'?

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:08, Reply)
I have seen pretty much every midget film going, I think.
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Hmmm I agree with you on the Boondock saints but loads of people have heard of that. When I tell people my favourite film is Wild at Heart I get a lot of blank faces but again its still quite well known. Technotise - Edit i ja is very good.
edit* None of my friends have ever seen Paris Texas which I think is an awesome film.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:05, Reply)
but I'm not sure how many of them will have seen either Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind or Princess Mononoke. Both environmental fables and both amazingly good. I would strongly recommend watching Nausicaa in subtitled Japanese, as Shia Labeouf's voice "acting" is immensely jarring next to Patrick Stewart's sonorous tones.
Alt Q - no contest. South Park. Actually went to the front desk afterwards and asked for my £4 and the last hour-and-a-half of my life back
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I paid to see it twice. I still have it on VHS and DVD.
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South Park is superb, particularly the film.
We appear to have this strange thing going on where we both really like some of the same things, but you mysteriously hate some things that are brilliant.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Although I don't think we've come across the reverse yet - something I love that you hate. Maybe you just love everything
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:10, Reply)
and the Manic Street Preachers.
I'm pretty easily pleased when it comes to films, I'll enjoy most things, but I do really love some.
As I was writing my previous post it occurred to me that we hadn't seen the reverse. Bit odd, but it just might not have come up
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:14, Reply)
U2 though utter rubbish. My dealer is a huge U2 fan to the extent he didn't go to Glasto when they pulled out. We have countless arguments about it he still has the ltd edition U2 ipod.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:21, Reply)
agreeing with Vipros here both Manic Street Preachers and U2 are unredeemably shit
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EDIT not agreeing with your made-up word 'unredeemably' though. It's 'irredeemably'.
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but fucking hell, the lyrics are the whiniest shit I've ever heard, delivered in the whiniest fucking voice.
"If you tolerate this your children will be next" Fuck right off, you fucking pretentious wankstain.
At least U2 managed to produce some decent stuff at the start of their career.
The Manics were shit even before the only talented one killed himself.
If you like the Manics you cannot say a fucking thing about the quality or not of the Smashing Pumpkins.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:28, Reply)
But given that the other is Lawrence of Arabia, a yardstick for excellence in films as solid as the Pumpkins are for musical shitness, it might be deemed "likely coincidence"
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I merely think they are quite good, but if someone can think that the Manics are anything other than fucking crap their opinion on someone like the Smashing Pumpkins has no weight at all.
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Actually Vippers is a big a fan of that as you are. As you were.
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I'm confident that Vippers and I have bummed the exact same number of men
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Until recently when I have begun showing them to my two year old who can't read. I don't think I like them so much in English. I did raise a smile the other day when I was woken up by Akira singing "Totoro To Tor OH!" at the top of her voice.
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Saw a very unusual Ghibli the other day - Grave of the Fireflies. Unusual because it's not remotely fantastical and unbelievably fucking depressing. Good though
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My wife hates it. I'm going to have to kill her because its bloody great.
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it's the most cheerful film ever! And the cats walk, there is a bowl of giant jelly, everything
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But Mononoke is my favourite. Probably the 5th best foreign language film ever made, if you ask me. Which none of you will, which is why I'm telling you.
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then I will say bad things about Dean Winchester
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haha.
As it happens not a climate-change denier, merely dubious of the flow of information and misinformation, and pretty certain that humans aren't the main cause
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The ridiculous levels of pollution we've created are
Also, Dean Winchester is a gay
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is not a gay. That's a far more important point to respond to than your other one
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He TALKS about girls a lot... that's all I'm saying
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:34, Reply)
and he was sort of in love with Cassie
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I'll give you Cassie though. Even though it's Ms Foxtrot you're really after
*lack of knowledge beyond series one painfully self-evident at this point
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Or are you waiting a while for that?
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I've not seen either of those 2 though, must have a look
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I've got Princess Mononoke, Totoro (yay!) and Spirited Away. I've seen Kiki's Delivery Service, The Castle of Cagliostro, The Cat Returns and Howl's Moving Castle (the only one I didn't like). Fopp were doing a promotion of loads of Ghibli films for £7 each, and I stupidly didn't snap them all up at the time.
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A very trippy short about 2 cats on spiritual journey.
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I might treat myself to a payday DVD, I've always wanted to see The Grave of Fireflies.
And Fopp have opened a new store about 4 mins walk from my office, just outside ULU.
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BUT
I stuck it on Lovefilm cos it was a Ghibli Ms Foxtrot hadn't seen, without researching it. She loves the fantastical, childlike nature of most Ghibli films and hates being depressed by movies. Fucking hell I got that wrong
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:33, Reply)
and show your wife Irreversible. Bunch of cunts.
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I love it but no one else I know has seen it.
I saw The Matador in the cinema, it was so unbelievably boring that me and my two friends (being the only ones in the cinema) decided to play tig instead.
I also walked out of Hostel to regurgitate my dinner after the guy had his Achilles heels sliced open.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:06, Reply)
It's Terry Scott and June Whitfield you oaf.
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it was just filling up telly time
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where your achilles heel is...
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Achilles heel is just a phrase about a persons vulnerabilities. As Achilles was held by the heel when dipped in the river styx as a child. So it was his only weak point.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I know the legend. That's why I thought it was called the Achilles heel.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:24, Reply)
had an actual Achilles heel. Most people just have an achilles tendon in the same place
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As an avowed ocular mong, I found that bit unbelievably distressing
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:09, Reply)
and I said "I'm not going back in, if they have stuff like that already, they're bound to have eye gouging and things" - eye stuff is something that really freaks me out.
I went home and read the synopsis so I could find out what happened, and lo and behold, I was bloody right, eye on a string!
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Funny, having piss-poor eyesight has made me incredibly protective of what little visual capability I do have
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it's most disturbing, I think it must be what I fear most. I hate waking up in the morning and not being able to see without having to search for my glasses first. But I'm too afraid of laser eye surgery too.
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scariest dream ever was being blind, and having my hands and feet chopped off
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My sister frequently dreams that her teeth fall out, apparently it's a sign of anxiety.
My dreams are so vivid that I often wake up unsure as to whether or not they've actually happened.
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Although if I have some of Wiggy's joint then I either don't dream or don't remember it.
I like dreaming, it's like watching my own personal film.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:59, Reply)
so have seen quite a few that probably don't have much recognition.
Alt Q: Worst film paid to see? Epic Movie. Some friends went as did I, actually walked out about ten minutes in
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I had such high hopes of Alyson Hannigan.
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was unbelievably shit. It hurt having paid money towards it
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Christ alive it was poor.
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Has the third one got that annoying little British kid in it?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(film) I saw it in London and I'm sure the air-con was set to freeze our nadgers off.
Much better than Enemy at the Gates.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:17, Reply)
also released as revenge of the woman
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Brilliant film, banned for many decades for shitty reasons. I made my kids watch this many years ago, as a lesson on not judging people on how they look.
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'gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you, one of us?'
EDIT no it's not. That's The Ramones.
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Strangers would stop me in the street when my boy was young and comment on how beautiful he was, particularly his fine set of teeth and radiant smile.
Now he is a teenager with acne and attitude.
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a "rom" "com". The girl I went with apologised for it afterwards. I still have nightmares about the "your penis is too big" song.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:36, Reply)
But that film makes me laugh quite a lot.
Plus, I drool a fair amount over Cameron Diaz. Especially in Charlie's Angels
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:39, Reply)
I think she's rather plain.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:49, Reply)
and her body is really boyish, it's a shame, I think she's gone too far now, it's not womanly anymore.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:03, Reply)
but it was just too awful.
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It was in the tag lines in Empire a couple of months ago.
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It's currently being filmed. Ugh.
Clarity - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(film)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:40, Reply)
King Arthur film was dull and shit and historically laughable
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:44, Reply)
... who on earth are they going to get to play Hobson? I suppose Sir Ian ought to be a shoo-in there, if there's any justice in the world.
(edit: Which Arthur are we on about?!)
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:44, Reply)
FUCKING TWATTING BASTARDING CUNTWIPES!
/rage
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 11:41, Reply)
the last tiny spark of humanity sputtered weakly then died in my soul.
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