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  1. On those points.

     

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    The plugs are mentioned in some of the other Dune books but IIRC they were written after the film, the weapons on the other hand combined 2 storylines into 1 to shorten the plot lines from the book (the reason why Shadam wants rid of the Atreides and the 'weirding way' style of fighting used by Paul).

     

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  2. Incredible we've reached this far and not had any Michelle Pfeiffer adoration. She's clocked up the half decade, and would still get it in a heartbeat.

     

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    Man she looks rough for a 5 year old. :laugh:

  3. Speaking of Stephen King, my copy of "The Running Man" is on order from my library. Is it as enjoyable as the film? (i'm aware they're totally different) but if you had to pick film or book.

     

     

    I prefered the book. Though, as you say, they are very different and both are enjoyable.

     

    I just finished the Saga of the Seven Suns. A great series, now I'm moving onto the Night Watch trilogy.

  4. Just started re-reading my Sharpe books. Im a big fan of military history (pre WW1 mostly) and love these books.

     

    To agree with a few posts up, Timewasters Letters, the QI Book Of General Ignorance and American Psycho are great.

     

     

    Twilight, just meh until the last books last third. Then its OK. Poorly written and full of purple prose.

  5. Tracey Smothers, bloody brilliant guy. Very friendly.

     

    Sheridan Smith, very funny and amazingly sexy.

     

    Kate Baines (was in Hollyoaks), up her own arse bitch. But, errrm , lets say shes not shy. ;)

     

    Oh yeah, and John Virgo. He may have been nice, Im not sure as I was so pissed I made him angry.

  6. I hate when the rumours come out with shit like 'Oh Billie Piper!' fuck off.

    It'll never be a woman, and nor should it. The moment that happens I'll stop watching, he can change his face but he is essentially A MAN. There are women timelords as well, so I hate when people try to change things like that.

     

    Yeah, but we all know the doctor was a woman in various radio adventures, so its a very real possibility that one day the doctor will be a woman on tv. Obviously if David Tennant has said its a man in that video online then this tme its going to be a man.

     

     

    Time Lords have been known to swap (apparent) species as well as gender. So no problem as far as I can see.

  7. http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-fam...-solutions.html

     

     

    the Daytov Pass incident is the first it talks about, and while Cracked is a humour site its take on the incident is far more beliveable than the paranormal stuff.

     

    For the link shy:

     

    So there's six things that freak people out about this one:

     

    1. The no-tongued woman

     

    2. A mysterious orange tan on the dead bodies

     

    3. The ripped tents

     

    4. The hikers' lack of clothing

     

    5. The crushing damage done to three of the hikers

     

    6. The traces of radioactivity

     

    The big fact that gets lost in the re-telling of this story is that the bodies weren't found until weeks later. It's not like somebody turned their back, then five minutes later all their friends were dead and half naked.

     

     

    That makes the missing tongue a lot easier to explain. As disturbing as it may be, the first thing a scavenging animal is going to go for is probably the soft tissue of an open mouth, especially if it still smelled like the burrito the hiker just ate. Laying out in the sun surrounded by white snow for days also accounts for the weird tan.

     

    The trauma and the destroyed tent points to an avalanche. Their state of undress can be explained by paradoxical undressing, a known behavior of hypothermia victims when their brains start to freeze and malfunction. In other words, it's the kind of behavior you'd expect from a group of injured avalanche victims wandering around in the middle of the night in the freezing cold.

     

    What about the radioactivity? Or stranger details that turn up in some accounts, like orange lights in the sky? Well, there's the fact that none of that stuff turns up in the original documents from the incident, and appears to have been added later by people who just can't resist making things spookier than they are.

     

    It's those later accounts that have stuck in the public memory, because so many of the original reports were destroyed (this was the Cold War-era Soviet Union, which treated casserole recipes as state secrets).

     

    So none of the details on their own prove anything other than a tragic hiking accident. The conspiracy-loving public widely reject this, too busy lighting their torches and getting their pitchforks to go hunt down an, "unknown compelling force."

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    Sod it, IM not on the bawbag list but if you mean it I will buy one off you on wednesday. Not only funny but for charity. Nice one.Paypal?
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