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by Nick
July 18, 2009, 2:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How much should I save for a two week trip to Europe?
Replies: 32
Views: 4983

Re: How much should I save for a two week trip to Europe?

I just got back from 2 weeks in Spain and was pretty shocked to see how uncompetitive the place has become. A whopper burger and a regular coke for 9 euro's? fuck off! I went to Paris last year, I spent about 650 dollars for 5 days, but that was without sacrificing any quality overly in favour of cu...
by Nick
July 9, 2009, 2:22 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Raped
Replies: 8
Views: 1671

Re: Raped

Well, it´s good to see one of the many cases of false rape allegations get a bit of coverage. It´s sad, and disgusting, anytime a false rape is claimed. It diminishes the real cases, and leaves a question mark over the innocent victims head, simply because a lot of manipulative fucked'in the head bi...
by Nick
July 5, 2009, 3:07 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Aussie Open
Replies: 6
Views: 1652

Re: Aussie Open

What a final :O

Poor Roddick. That was so epic. :shock:
by Nick
June 29, 2009, 12:59 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Aussie Open
Replies: 6
Views: 1652

Re: Aussie Open

Not one reply and we're at Wimbledon. That's a shame. Federer surely has to be the favourite, with Nadal out with an injury. Murray is looking pretty sharp though. Still, like the French, it's so open these days. Still, if Federer is going to beat Sampras' record, this is his best and earliest chanc...
by Nick
June 29, 2009, 12:47 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Moon
Replies: 13
Views: 2870

Re: Moon

I really like space related films (well, apart from all those terrible ones..:P) - especially given the timing, with 40 years since the first moon landings, I would just go see these regardless of whether or not it got good reviews.

(It's getting good reviews :D)
by Nick
June 28, 2009, 11:38 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Billy Mays: An Ex-Pitchman?
Replies: 25
Views: 3139

Re: Billy Mays: An Ex-Pitchman?

oh snap
by Nick
June 28, 2009, 11:37 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: What an ameteur
Replies: 2
Views: 644

Re: What an ameteur

:lol:
by Nick
June 28, 2009, 5:53 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Krod Mandoon
Replies: 8
Views: 1345

Re: Krod Mandoon

I've watched the first few episodes on bbc iplayer, out of boredom more than anything. It's pretty nonsense, but has the occasional moment. It's stupid as hell. I think the girl is the highlight of the show 8)
by Nick
June 25, 2009, 4:34 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Jocks vs. Nerds
Replies: 12
Views: 1472

Re: Jocks vs. Nerds

Yes, because he would have stolen half of it from Bill Hicks.
by Nick
June 23, 2009, 3:00 am
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Add a cool song
Replies: 451
Views: 194803

Re: Add a cool song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZw9D9c18E

This may have been posted before by me, since it's one of my favourite songs.

I'm not sure.


Still....I dare any of you to find a better song.

(That's not meant combatitavely, it's just a ridiculously beautiful song)

John Butler - Oceans.
by Nick
June 23, 2009, 2:20 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Moon
Replies: 13
Views: 2870

Re: Moon

I wish my dad was David Bowie.
by Nick
June 22, 2009, 11:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Taking a trip to Texas
Replies: 22
Views: 3246

Re: Taking a trip to Texas

Fash wrote:or punch me in the face.
:lol:
by Nick
June 22, 2009, 11:14 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Nine Inch Nails done?
Replies: 9
Views: 1866

Re: Nine Inch Nails done?

Doh, Oxegen (the only Ireland gig) is a 250 pound weekend ticket. It's notorious as one of the most violent and shitty festivals in Europe, largely because the North Dublin Spide (hoodie wearing knife wielder twats) frequent it in large numbers, ignore the music and concentrate on stealing things fr...
by Nick
June 21, 2009, 11:30 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Nine Inch Nails done?
Replies: 9
Views: 1866

Re: Nine Inch Nails done?

I saw Nine Inch Nails a few years ago in Dublin, at a place called Marley Park, they were completely amazing 8) This is sad, I would have liked to have seen them again :( .
by Nick
June 21, 2009, 11:24 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Student denied diploma for blowing mom a kiss.
Replies: 12
Views: 2157

Re: Student denied diploma for blowing mom a kiss.

Well, that certainly is very silly indeed.

Who cares if some guy blows a kiss when he's graduating?
Psyloche wrote:I think the administration involved has some massive sticks up their asses.
by Nick
June 16, 2009, 4:20 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Hey Kev, Yeah, that's what I've been going for a little. I guess some of my hysteria has become so boring and ridiculous that even I have become bored of it. Still, I guess time will tell if that continues, and how the VV crowd react to it. I still no doubt will differ in my opinions to the majority...
by Nick
June 13, 2009, 5:22 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Hey Tanc, wasn't really attempting to be a fucking arsehole :P It must just come naturally to some of us :lol: Perhaps my impatience is just that, impatient, nevertheless, the revival of military tribunals, even with new guidelines, is a pretty shocking state of affairs. I was a huge fan of Obama, h...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 11:30 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Perhaps so, I just find that a horrible way to go about living your life, especially if your entire spiel is that you're an honourable Christian man with an ethical backbone. It sends out a pretty bad message of cultural priority as well.
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 10:52 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Beckham to LA
Replies: 92
Views: 21616

Re: Beckham to LA

That's what I don't quite understand about a lot of this obsession with Real Madrid. They have bought Kaka and Ronaldo, and yeah they are both world class awesome awesome awesome players. But it's like when Beckham and Zidane went and played alongside Raul and the like, and earlier Roberto Carlos. R...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 10:47 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: LOST: Season 5
Replies: 150
Views: 19960

Re: LOST: Season 5

I forgot to reply to this thread ages ago when the final episode came out. I thought that final episode, and the couple before it, went a long way to uncovering (whilst deepening) the larger story arc, which was unbelievably satisfying, yet....in that same "oh for fuck sake I still know pretty ...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 10:26 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

What's ridiculous is you seem to think closing Guanto would end torture, or even curb it. Hi Leonard, I don't think closing Guantanamo Bay would end US sanctioned torture. I do hope US torture will end, as well as torture by any other nation (fuck - look at North Korea, I don't see anyone giving a ...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 8:24 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Beckham to LA
Replies: 92
Views: 21616

Re: Beckham to LA

I find it absolutely fucking unbelievable that a company will piss away that amount of money on a man who's job it is to kick a football into a goal. Then again, I suppose he'll make them the money back over the course of the years? Presumably? And they just spent 56 million on Kaka as well. That's ...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 6:56 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

That's merely a dishonest interpretation of a larger moral document that the US has decided to push for long enough that even basically intelligent people like yourself seem to have become immune to how absolutely ridiculous a statement that is.
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 6:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Refusing chemo for a minor
Replies: 53
Views: 5817

Re: Refusing chemo for a minor

Fair points I suppose in some parts, then again, I pretty much have prefixed these things over the years with "anyone with a brain can see.." :P Your claim seems to be, more accurately, that "the majority of the educated, thoughtful, cosmopolitan, humanitarian people in the world disa...
by Nick
June 11, 2009, 1:40 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

By keeping the place open, with all reports suggesting the torture is still occurring on a daily basis (hi google), as well as the revival of military trials, an issue Obama previously criticised both implicitly and explicitly, then yeah, I guess if your memory is shorter than a goldfish's and you d...
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 9:13 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Eminem - Relapse
Replies: 10
Views: 1989

Re: Eminem - Relapse

Haven't heard the album, I think I bought his first/second albums or whatever years ago. I still have a lot of time for him, he's hit and miss. I liked that Toy Soldiers song he did a while back. He's always had serious music and completely silly childish music, I'll have to give this one a listen :)
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Add a cool song
Replies: 451
Views: 194803

Re: Add a cool song

Keverian FireCry wrote:
Glen Hansard - Say it to me now (Van Morrison song? not sure)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRwplFTh_Y
Pretty sure Hansard wrote that song while with The Frames.

Great song!
Ah great, it is a really lovely song :)
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 8:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sotomayor's troubling stance on Constitution
Replies: 45
Views: 5522

Re: Sotomayor's troubling stance on Constitution

I'd like to go out drinking with Kilmoll and get him shit faced drunk just so I could listen to him go off on everyone and everything. It would have to be like going out drinking with Ted Nugent. Good times. :) Would be hilarious until you stumbled on me and I spit on you and pulled out my gun. Bit...
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 8:53 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Yes I want Guantanamo closed, and I believe it will be closed. But your frothing at the mouth and sissy fit temper tantrums aren't going to speed things up. You're like a spoiled child who cries every time he doesn't get a cookie. You will never see the United States of America that you want. Never...
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 8:42 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Abortion doctor murdered in his church
Replies: 20
Views: 2175

Re: Abortion doctor murdered in his church

The point remains that there is an obvious disconnect both in western public conscience and the media when it comes to christian terrorism and islamic terrorism.
by Nick
June 10, 2009, 8:39 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Refusing chemo for a minor
Replies: 53
Views: 5817

Re: Refusing chemo for a minor

Legit question. Totally fair question indeed. Legit answer incoming! I assume we're defining "left" and "right" as something like "freedom/tolerance" and "authoritarian/social control," in a pretty vague and nonspecific way, with an added bit of international...
by Nick
June 3, 2009, 12:03 am
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Add a cool song
Replies: 451
Views: 194803

Re: Add a cool song

For the Heartbroken:

Bon Ivers - Skinny Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMmr1oMPGA

Glen Hansard - Say it to me now (Van Morrison song? not sure)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRwplFTh_Y
by Nick
June 3, 2009, 12:00 am
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Replies: 9
Views: 1714

Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)

I like the odd Green Day song (Time of your life is class) but I don't buy into the hype of this album. It's great pop I guess, which means it's fairly predictable and energetic and such. I don't think the whole "we are the voice of a generation" crap is in any way believable. They're gett...
by Nick
June 2, 2009, 11:50 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Hey, he's half assed Guantanamo. I know you don't think its a shame, but a lot of others do (most of these people are smarter than you) :o
by Nick
June 2, 2009, 11:45 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Refusing chemo for a minor
Replies: 53
Views: 5817

Re: Refusing chemo for a minor

Kilmoll and Nick practice the exact same black and white world views, just on opposite ends of the spectrum. You cannot discuss or reason with people like that. Hats off for trying though! I'm glad this board and the rest of the USA thinks more towards the center. Sueven is more in line with what I...
by Nick
June 2, 2009, 11:37 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Abortion doctor murdered in his church
Replies: 20
Views: 2175

Re: Abortion doctor murdered in his church

Pretty much what Wulfran said. As for the murder, probably the actions of a lone mentally deranged zealot, like most forms of terrorism. But we can't call it terrorism if Christians do it! Still, the word terrorism has effectively been rendered meaningless at this point. I hate seeing zealots win ou...
by Nick
June 2, 2009, 11:21 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lets paint it white!
Replies: 58
Views: 7866

Re: Lets paint it white!

People are still trying to derail climate change and turn it into a political football?


That's a bit sad. :(
by Nick
May 31, 2009, 12:18 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Political Questionnaire
Replies: 103
Views: 12189

Re: Political Questionnaire

guns are for hero superstars and funkmasterr is intelligent.
by Nick
May 28, 2009, 10:25 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Political Questionnaire
Replies: 103
Views: 12189

Re: Political Questionnaire

Oh no Jice doesn't like my posting because I don't think murder in the Iraq war is ok, whatever the fuck shall I do now that I share the view of 99% of the rest of the planet Earth.

As for mine - roughly:

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by Nick
May 26, 2009, 5:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Water-boarding IS torture
Replies: 113
Views: 33418

Re: Water-boarding IS torture

Hey dudes waterboarding is torture but I support Obama continuing that because he's awesome
by Nick
May 25, 2009, 9:03 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

You can't even recognize that the positions you hold are actually extreme, at least by American standards anyway
American "standards" are obviously retarded to anyone with half a brain.
by Nick
May 20, 2009, 1:13 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

What the hell would we have to apologize for? It is your own credulity that is at fault. You convinced yourself that a center left candidate would become a hard left president, when it was blatantly obvious that going hard left is not at all pragmatic. Obama never advertised himself as anything les...
by Nick
May 18, 2009, 1:09 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Re: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

Hmm, apologism is totally the way forward guyz.
by Nick
May 16, 2009, 1:36 am
Forum: Everquest General Discussion
Topic: Decade of decadence
Replies: 106
Views: 38707

Re: Decade of decadence

10 years later... Yeh it's been a long time and it's not the same game, but I'm back again and having fun! (/wave asslanna) I was considering eq2 because you could solo if you wanted, but the new mercs make soloing easy as pie. No longer will you ever have to sit in a zone spamming "Mage LFG&q...
by Nick
May 16, 2009, 12:44 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)
Replies: 117
Views: 12155

Obama - all words no substance? ... (the answer seems clear)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8052999.stm Civil liberties groups have reacted angrily to US President Barack Obama's decision to revive military trials for some Guantanamo Bay detainees. Mr Obama has previously denounced the Bush-era judicial system, but in a statement said new safeguard...
by Nick
May 11, 2009, 9:03 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?
Replies: 158
Views: 17618

Re: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?

Oh shit? we all alive still? That must mean Winnow was being a reactionary hysterical moron, as per usual!

Enjoy your normal flu guys, and don't forget to tremble in your boots when it comes!
by Nick
May 2, 2009, 12:50 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?
Replies: 158
Views: 17618

Re: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?

Hehe :) :D :D
by Nick
May 1, 2009, 10:49 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?
Replies: 158
Views: 17618

Re: Swine Flu - Pandemic of dooooom?

Boring.
by Nick
May 1, 2009, 9:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I am still alive
Replies: 37
Views: 16868

Re: I am still alive

Hey you lunatic, good to see you're still kicking. :)
by Nick
May 1, 2009, 9:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 2007 VV Telethon
Replies: 51
Views: 18963

Re: 2007 VV Telethon

I don't have a paypal account. If you want though I can throw a bit your way, and thanks again :)