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:lol: although I feel like I shouldn't be laughing hey coincidentally guess what's on random on my iTunes right now "you'll go to hell, for..."

saying a person 'eats like a bird' That implies they don't eat much. Which is funny to me, because the birds that come to my birdfeeder eat incessantly.

I've used this plenty of times before, but now that I think about it I don't understand the spitting reference.

:bomb: Now I think I really should go to the Electronic Music Festival on the odd chance that he might show up and perform with FlyLo (FlyLo is scheduled to perform). I don't have anybody to go with me, but at this point I just don't care. :lol: EDIT: I started a thread regarding the festival here, hopefully somebody on the board will respond. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76576

I was just watching ABC World News tonight and they did a report regarding the fact that they also brought in some sort of special ops dog with them. These dogs are trained like Navy Seals. It even showed them jumping out of the helicopters with the dudes (in a general sense, not pictures from this specific mission). They wear waterproof bulletproof vests, trained to do specific things, have bugs planted in their ears so they can receive commands remotely, and... this is creepy... they have titanium teeth implanted so they have the ability to bite through Kevlar. :sick: The government is not allowed to reveal the specific breed used, but I'm guessing it's a hybrid of a few different breeds. Wow.

yes - agreed on all counts

I'm curious what the reaction was to Hitler's death. I'm not saying that in a snarky tone, I really haven't seen any footage of that (recently). But I highly doubt there were zero celebrations in Europe. True (regarding what could come from their actions); but I don't think we can say that nothing would happen if everyone stayed home and those soires didn't occur. The man is dead; regardless of how people express their reaction, there's going to be retaliation simply because he's dead.

Massive multi-quote followed by my response. Okay first, just to clarify my personal stance: - I felt a slight sense of relief about it (that he's gone), but I also worry about the consequences - I cringed when I saw the 'celebrations' on TV - I would NOT have gone out in the streets like that However, as I mentioned, I think this reaction of disgust over seeing the 'celebrations' is being over-simplified. Were there people out there that were solely celebrating his death? Sure. Those are the ones I'm cringing at (as well as most of you here). But we can't say that's what every single person out there was doing. Many people were expressing more of a sense of relief that this person who has taken up so much attention over the past years and cost thousands of lives either through the attacks or through the resulting effort to find him, is no longer here; he no longer has to be found. More years don't have to be wasted hoping he is found, thinking it may never come to fruition. Now, while I expressed relief in the comfort of my home by not really saying anything and then proceeding to go to sleep for the night shortly after, other people feeling a sense of camaraderie decided to go out and be around other people. (Let's face it, some people prefer to be around other people in certain situations, some people prefer to be by themselves.) Now, when these individuals meet up with the others, they might decide to express their relief in a sense of unity with the others; the unifying factor being 'USA blah blah blah'. But how do we know who is who? WE CAN'T. That's why I think it's over-simplifying it to say, "oh look at each and every one of those people, they are all simply celebrating death, how dare they." Maybe it might be better to relate the above in an analogy: Pretend some dude is a 40-year-old virgin and his friends have been routing for him to get laid for several years, to no avail. Then finally one day he announces to his friends that last night he spent 40 minutes with a prostitute. Some of his friends say, "You were with a prostitute?! Cool!" Umm, NO that's not cool. His other friends are thinking, "Finally, he got laid after all these years." Regardless of which of his friends think what, they all go out to the bar with him to revel in the fact that he is no longer a 40-year-old virgin. Of course, they soon realize that there could be bad consequences of the 40 minutes he spent with the prostitute, i.e., an STD or two. But regardless, they won't be wondering for the next 10 to 20 years if he will ever get laid. It's done. Now if I'm sitting in the same bar observing this from afar, how do I know which friends are thinking what? I DON'T. That might be a piss-poor analogy, but I think it's a good idea to depart from the actual topic so the emotinal factor is mostly removed from the judgments/comparisons. Anywho.

^ me too :bigcry:

Now I play first base. Which is rather odd, considering I'm only 5'. But I'm surprisingly really good at it! Pitching in coed recreational softball is completely different than high school, so I opted out of pitching here. :D

My first softball game of the summer season is June 1st. :awesome: Which means I should really go to the batting cages this weekend...

But that's part of the point I'm going to make, is that you guys are over-simplifying it by saying that it was just about his death.

I agree with what you guys are saying for the most part. All of the celebrations made me cringe too. Initially, I felt a slight sense of relief when I heard the news, but I wasn't about to go out and do what some of those people were doing in such a celebratory manner. However, I also think you guys are grossly over-simplifying it by saying "celebrating anyone's death bad". I don't think that's entirely what it was. I've gotta think a little more about how I want to explain it, I just woke up. I'll post more detail later.

Hey Mike, I'm listening to them right now (finally)... will send you a PM later tonight with a full review.

Welcome here! :nice:

you should submit that as a hypnofeed entry, bro

I was looking on ebay for IR box sets, and someone actually did the same thing that you're thinking of doing with TKOL; the package it was mailed in wasn't even opened yet. Here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/Radiohead-Rainbows-deluxe-vinyl-package-never-opened-/160582171481?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8917529928408679458 Well, I think it was just supposed to undergo the natural degredation that any newspaper goes through (yellowing over time), nothing more than that. I might be wrong though. Also, remember I posted information from a book re: keeping newspaper as well-preserved as possible. If anyone wants that info again I can find the post.

So you just got the IR box set recently... have you listened to the vinyls yet, or are you planning to just keep them in the box?

But it's like, collectible 'n stuff. Seereeussslay.

:lol:

May the 4th be with you /cheesy

If you changed it, I think it would be tied. There's really only 7 votes for C, not 8... right Mike? One of the votes is from some random person that wasn't logged on, I don't think those count.

I'm pretty sure all of them were deciphered shortly after the interview aired back in 2009. Not sure where that thread/post is though.

So last night I was leaning toward C, now I'm leaning toward B... ugh, I don't know! I think what I need to do is see which songs are on both lists, factor those out and then judge the remaining songs on the lists. I didn't think this was going to be that hard. edit: After doing that, with the remaining 8 songs on each list and comparing that to my personal list... I shared 4 songs on 'remaining' list B, compared to 3 songs on 'remaining' list C. Hence, I'm going with B.

I'm waving my magical good luck wand over y'all