Space Cadet

Sebastian you're in a mess You had a dream, they called you king Of all the hipsters, is it true? Or are you still the queen? Briggins made a lovely band index in the sticky threads for this very reason: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6148

Depends on who they are, why they're ignored, and how much any particular comment is vital to the conversation.

I either freeze half and feel good that I cooked myself two meals, or I pack the leftovers up as lunch for school the next day.

:laugh3: Talk about making up for lost time. ;)

Wait, so you just lurked for the first 6? :inquisitive: Good grief.

^Whatever you say miss 2000 posts a month. :p

Oh wow. :nice: I wonder what their shows will be like?

I just don't talk. It's always a lot more awkward for them than it is for me and eventually they just shuffle on and leave me in peace. ^^Ug, those are the worst. I just avoid them in the first place- you can usually spot them before they even open their mouth.

Indeed it did. :stunned:

Much as I fear it may be drugs there are a lot of different reasons people die of heart attacks very young. A cousin of mine -a total jock, very fit- had one during a casual game of pickup football. He was only about 25. At first they blamed an electrical problem in the heart (rare, impossible to detect before it happens, and not as uncommon as you might think). After the autopsy they found out that a virus had eaten away the lining of his heart. Total freak thing. Could have happened to anyone. :cry: So until we knew more, who knows. Young heart attacks happen all the time. My thoughts for her family. They will now be finding out a little piece of the definition of hell on earth I'm sure. :( Well in many of their cases, it's called consequences. They learn to think that their celebrity makes them immune to the downfalls of us mere mortals. And then it catches up with them. Beyond that, it's all a matter of odds. If there are X thousand major celebrities, proportionally so many of them are likely to have this happen, and so many to have that happen. It's part of life, and again, no one is immune.

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Nice. :cool:

Good grief. They should just keep on calling it Oasis. As long as there's at least one Gallagher in the band they could get away with it. This does not bode well. :facepalm:

It's because there was a bear at a zoo named Winnie after the city of Winnepeg. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkm21rg04o]YouTube- A Part Of Our Heritage - Winnie The Pooh[/ame]

Aw, I'm glad all this worked out. :nice:

Yeah, that would be weird. :uhoh2: Sorry :(

^^Well I'm pretty shy and quiet to begin with, so if I'm talking to someone, usually they started talking to me first, or else they're already a friend. Yeah, forcing conversations is awkward. If the person doesn't geek out about their thing I move on- what's the point?

^ :laugh3: I'm sure your rats are grateful. I just thought it was interesting because people seem to think of it as such a low-consequence drug (you couldn't pay me to go near the stuff but I have fallen into that category), yet it's such a cultural cliche that regular pot smokers end up like overgrown teenagers at least well into their 30's even if they quit long ago.

When I come across something entirely new and interesting, I actually get kind of excited. I usually ask a lot of probing questions to see if the person knows what they're talking about, and then bug them for every scrap of info I can. It's so silly to act like you know something just to keep a conversation going- most people like to talk about something they know about.

Discuss: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217115834.htm http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/17/marijuana-teen-brain-rats.html

^It comes at a high cost though- lots of worrying which can really screw up your personal life. And it's compulsive. But yeah listen to House of Cards and then look at how the credit crunch started. He called it two years before it happened. Heh... was just coming in here to post that if no one else had. :nice: Now back to work... :(

Man, lots of Canadian dates, but still no east coast. Go figure. :shrug:

Don't you get it? This is what he does. This is what he doesn't even have to try to do really. If you have a problem where someone is acting like a jerk, acting like a jerk back lets the original jerk point and say "you're a jerk too". And he will be right. If you always take the moral high ground and never give in to the temptation to be anything less than perfect to that person no matter how much they deserve otherwise, you can pin their own actions on them without distraction. You get to show them up as the jerk they are. So yes, trying to act fairly is important. Vital, even. You have to be squeaky clean and perfect and on message. And you have to be united in not playing the game. Not gossiping, not pointing out things that don't really matter to the main message. Not taking the opportunity to shove in an extra dagger to the mix. Trolls will always win the game. You need to be above the game so that they can't drag you down into it.

^Basically. Well looking around, it seems like Rage is currently in the lead and will at least finish second. The band have promised that the profits will go to a British charity. Now you can gripe all you want about Sony vs. Sony (the X-factor people certainly are- Sony are betraying us boohoo!) and about all the irony of buying a song you're told to buy because it say I won'd to what you tell me. And such and so on ad nauseum. BUT the thing is money does talk. Sony is currently getting a great big wake up call that people are so frustrated about the state of pop music that they will pay a record label to be able to tell that label to change. Bring lining the pockets of a charity vs. lining the pockets of Simon Cowell into it, and I kind of sympathize with this. Actually, what it really reminds me of is the Juno awards a few years ago where Broken Social Scene had been bashing Canadian Idol in the press, since most of the nominees were former contestants. When BSS won an award one of them yelled "Fight for Good Music". Canadian Idol's Simon Cowell clone's response was his opinion doesn't count because he doesn't sing very well. :wtf: They don't get it. They really truly don't get it, and this is a chance for someone somewhere to get the message through. So good luck to Rage, say I.

Thus my point about taking the higher ground.