At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote:

So what if Gagsy associates you with a supermarket? I'll deal with her if she's taking a step too far. :P

I'd like to see you try!

No way should Coop by back to Coop83. It's a known fact that any username with numbers is immediately less impressive than any username without numbers. It'd be like going backwards. Am I right in remembering that Coop is to do with your surname Coop? Cooper isn't it? That'd make a lovely alias imo. Or you could just bite the bullet and change to Cooperative.

Top 900 in experience points.

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At 3/23/11 05:04 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/22/11 07:30 PM, Auz wrote: I thought you'd know much about them, but I guess they're also well before your time.

Are you trying to say that I'm old?!

I thought the only reason you were here is because you're stuck in a midlife crisis ;)

At 3/23/11 05:22 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/22/11 07:23 PM, Auz wrote: I don't find drive-thru's to be that much faster than simply going inside the restaurant, but perhaps we're doing it wrong. Usually we just 'drive-thru' and then park somewhere close to eat our food, which of course doesn't save any time whatsoever :p

Yeah sometimes I do that as well. They don't usually make the seating comfortable enough, which is deliberate to keep people moving.

You mean the seating inside the restaurants is uncomfortable?

That as well, but I was more talking individually. For example my dad likes to eat (solid) cheese with mayonnaise on a slice of bread, which I find disgusting.

Ah yeah I guess. I can't think of anything I eat that most others won't except Old Bay on the fries apparently.

I thought that was normal in America. Or at least it was mentioned in the wikipedia article that it was used for fries as well.

Yeah that sounds comparable. The thing is though, there isn't one head of the household who gets everything here. We have to fill it in for every little thing, can decide who gets the money and they basically address letters to whoever filled in the form for that specific support. So I get all the health care support stuff right now while my gf gets the 'housing benefit'.

People over here can get social support services that aren't apart from tax credits e.g. low income medical aid (Medicaid) or need based aid (TANIF). However that's not typical for everyone, only the extremely poor.

Being a student, I am sort of extremely poor. I mean, I do pretty much live from my parents and the governments money.

At 3/23/11 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/22/11 10:52 AM, Auz wrote: Oh I forgot, I also reached 22,000 Experience today.

And so close to the top 200.

Just one spot away now.

At 3/22/11 07:23 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/20/11 09:08 AM, Bahamut wrote:

That's the one thing that I'd expect to completely collapse when 2/3rd of the world population suddenly vanishes :p

Hey, if we lost all the criminal scumbags, surely that would ease off on taxes.

Well there would be no more need for prisons and we could do with less police. That'd save some cash.

Well of course you could take your laptop there. If your old computer is there as well, I'm sure there must be room to sit.

Yeah but no stable table out there.

Ah that's always an annoyance. Of course you could keep it on your lap, but that's not always comfortable either.

Yeah you can beat the game without getting all the masks, but personally I consider that sidequest to be part of the main game.

Yeah, the sidequests do a lot for the game. I should probably try beating the game without the sidequest masks and see how I do.

I would like to pick up the Bunny Hood though, to get around faster. For the other masks it probably does not matter that much for the difficulty of the game whether you gather them or not.

Indeed. I've seldom seen a game that applied the time travelling idea as well as Majora's Mask did.

There are games that do involve time traveling but not in a way where it counts down to a certain time and then it's back to square one.

Yeah, most don't have such a short timespan either. Often it's going back and forth between different era's in time without having influence on little events.

I'm still unsure about whether I liked the second half of the game or not. The part where you have to gather all your party members again from all over the world before you can go to Kefka's Tower. It did sort of take the pace out of the games story.

I liked it that way. It was a matter of reuniting with everyone and ready to confront with Kefka.

Well it was fun that you could explore the whole world and go where you please. But Kefka is locked up in his tower and won't show his face again until the end and aren't any other big events anymore from that point onwards IIRC.

At 3/24/11 03:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/22/11 07:30 PM, Auz wrote: I can't say I have and my gf, who knows way more about the Beatles than I do, says that doesn't ring any bells either. What do they have to do with the Beatles?

There's a whole wikipedia article about the Beatles in Hamburg. ^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles _in_Hamburg

Bit of a long story to read all of that, but it looks like they went through an important time there in Hamburg.

Well I think we think that 'de Wallen' are world famous as well, but I doubt they are.

Never heard of it. :(

There you have it. It's Amsterdams red light district of which everybody in Holland knows about, but I'm sure that it isn't as well known as we think it is abroad.

... Weird. I thought the Moulin Rouge was a street, but now I remember that I actually walked past that place during one of my trips to Paris.

This reminds me, I never have been to Paris. :(

You should go there someday. It's a very nice city with lots of things to see. And with lots, I mean lots.

Lol! Not the place to be then if you don't want your wife, family or friends to find out :p

Well, it's not only strip bars and brothels on the "Kiez" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiez), but also normal bars, discos and other nightclubs. So it's not a problem at all if your friends and family know you are going to the Reeperbahn.
But the problem is that it seems that EVERYBODY who stays in Hamburg visits this place during the weekends.

Oh I see. I'd find it a bit odd to go to a bar next to a hookers house, but I suppose it's handy for all those drunks who are feeling lonely :p

True as well. Fortunately I only have to look up English words and I can just type in the phrase I think is correct on Google. Then I'll see if it is commonly said or not so that I know whether it's correct.

That's how I do it as well. Sometimes I already know the word I'm looking for, but I'm not entirly sure if it is the correct word... so I look up the english word and find out that I have been right with my translation. ^^

Funny thing is that sometimes I only find Dutch websites for a certain phrase. In that case, I know it's definitely wrong :P

Luckily the public transport in London is awesome, so you can get from one place to the other very quickly.

Yes, it took about one hour, which isn't too bad I suppose. The only thing that wasn't too good was the price for the tickets: 40 pounds for two tickets. And when we showed the tickets to the bus driver she didn't even had a look at it. I guess we could've just hopped on to the bus without buying any tickets at all...

40 pounds? I think you didn't buy the right tickets then. Last summer me and my gf bought a 30 pounds card with which could travel with the bus and the subway for as much as we liked for six days.

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At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote: Not at all - Coop83 is 83 times better than Coop1. I am merely Coop - the only implication of 1 is that there is no number, as in most movie sequences.

It just seem so neutered. Maybe if it was longer I can understand removing the numbers but it just seems to short.

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: In that case, Bahamut7 is seven times better.

Nope.

I would like a second opinion from NumberOftheDragon. :P

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote: You mean the seating inside the restaurants is uncomfortable?

Only McDonalds and other fast food places. Plastic chairs or booths that are also plastic with little cushion for your back; not really comfortable for long periods of time.

I thought that was normal in America. Or at least it was mentioned in the wikipedia article that it was used for fries as well.

Well it might be common in some areas but not all over America. I use to live in Maryland and that's where I picked up the taste for it.

Being a student, I am sort of extremely poor. I mean, I do pretty much live from my parents and the governments money.

In the US if you aren't earning much to support yourself and are a college student, you would technically be still a Dependent under your parents for tax purposes even in college up to the age of 24.

Level 32...this 'un looks nice.

Listening to:
Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

You can't go much farther back in the history of Metal than this.

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/24/11 05:03 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/23/11 05:22 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/23/11 05:04 AM, Coop wrote: You don't know me very well then - I do accents :P

Can you do a Dutch accent?

I can, at the risk of mortally offending Auz (and, from the discussion we had last week, Haggard)

Why would I be offended by a dutch accent (sorry, I didn't read the conversation from last week >_> )?
Also, dutch accent should be quite different from a german accent. ^^

Auz thinks that some people's Dutch accents sound German. This could be interesting.

Now I'm really curious!

At 3/24/11 03:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/23/11 05:04 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/22/11 12:55 PM, Haggard wrote:

Here, I bought you some bacon-flavour soda!

Holy shit, greasy pig in a can! *chugs*

It was all they had man, not my fault!

*belches* I still drank it, didn't I?

Yuck! Your breath smells really awful!

*eats Mentos* Now I've got to avoid shaking for a while. That soda has too much sugar in it...

So, we won't play "roll down that steep hill in a trash can" right now?

Well, if you want to get in and enjoy the ride, I'm up for giving you a push.

But where's the fun in that if I go down that hill alone?

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/24/11 12:49 PM, Bahamut wrote: To be fair, it was a new topic to talk about.

Yes, we need some fresh topics here.

So how about my latest discussion?

Tbh, I didn't read through all of it since I wanted to get done with the catch up post.
A brief summary would be nice. ^^

You really should check my list of CDs. You'll see In Rock right there.

TL;DR! :P
But it's nice that you already have it.

You can simply CTRL + F to find the specific album and see if I have it.

Could've done it, but I was too shocked of that long list.
But then, I guess I own quite a few CDs as well, but I'm too lazy to list them all.

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/24/11 03:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/22/11 07:30 PM, Auz wrote: I can't say I have and my gf, who knows way more about the Beatles than I do, says that doesn't ring any bells either. What do they have to do with the Beatles?

There's a whole wikipedia article about the Beatles in Hamburg. ^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles _in_Hamburg

Bit of a long story to read all of that, but it looks like they went through an important time there in Hamburg.

You could've just searched for the "Kaiserkeller" there. :P
I think Lennon once said: "I was born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg."

Well I think we think that 'de Wallen' are world famous as well, but I doubt they are.

Never heard of it. :(

There you have it. It's Amsterdams red light district of which everybody in Holland knows about, but I'm sure that it isn't as well known as we think it is abroad.

Well, as I've said, I've only been to Amsterdams airport yet.

... Weird. I thought the Moulin Rouge was a street, but now I remember that I actually walked past that place during one of my trips to Paris.

This reminds me, I never have been to Paris. :(

You should go there someday. It's a very nice city with lots of things to see. And with lots, I mean lots.

Yes, my wife was there once and she liked it as well.

Lol! Not the place to be then if you don't want your wife, family or friends to find out :p

Well, it's not only strip bars and brothels on the "Kiez" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiez), but also normal bars, discos and other nightclubs. So it's not a problem at all if your friends and family know you are going to the Reeperbahn.
But the problem is that it seems that EVERYBODY who stays in Hamburg visits this place during the weekends.

Oh I see. I'd find it a bit odd to go to a bar next to a hookers house, but I suppose it's handy for all those drunks who are feeling lonely :p

It's called "entertainment district" for a reason. ^^
There are also a few theatres on the Reeperbahn, but of course they wouldn't exactly show something like McBeth there...
The only annoying thing about those... "ladies" standing on the streets is that they tend to grab you. I hate that. If they would only "ask" me to go with them I could simply ignore them. But grabbing my clothes? Dammit...
The only time they don't bother you is when there's a female person with you. ^^

True as well. Fortunately I only have to look up English words and I can just type in the phrase I think is correct on Google. Then I'll see if it is commonly said or not so that I know whether it's correct.

That's how I do it as well. Sometimes I already know the word I'm looking for, but I'm not entirly sure if it is the correct word... so I look up the english word and find out that I have been right with my translation. ^^

Funny thing is that sometimes I only find Dutch websites for a certain phrase. In that case, I know it's definitely wrong :P

Lol, I know what you mean. In Germany the term "happy end" is very common, when in fact it is called "happy ending" in english.

Luckily the public transport in London is awesome, so you can get from one place to the other very quickly.

Yes, it took about one hour, which isn't too bad I suppose. The only thing that wasn't too good was the price for the tickets: 40 pounds for two tickets. And when we showed the tickets to the bus driver she didn't even had a look at it. I guess we could've just hopped on to the bus without buying any tickets at all...

40 pounds? I think you didn't buy the right tickets then. Last summer me and my gf bought a 30 pounds card with which could travel with the bus and the subway for as much as we liked for six days.

It's a special bus line that only stops at the airports. And it's 20 Pounds for a single ticket, that makes 40 pounds for two tickets.

Good news everyone!

Listening to:

Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled

At 3/25/11 02:51 PM, Gagsy wrote:

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: So what if Gagsy associates you with a supermarket? I'll deal with her if she's taking a step too far. :P

I'd like to see you try!

I'll try it in bed. ;)

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/23/11 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: And so close to the top 200.

Just one spot away now.

It always feels like forever when you're this close.

Hey, if we lost all the criminal scumbags, surely that would ease off on taxes.

Well there would be no more need for prisons and we could do with less police. That'd save some cash.

Yeah, I feel Britain needs to do more capital punishment in this country. There are far too many criminals in prison and most of them need to be ridden of.

Yeah, the sidequests do a lot for the game. I should probably try beating the game without the sidequest masks and see how I do.

I would like to pick up the Bunny Hood though, to get around faster. For the other masks it probably does not matter that much for the difficulty of the game whether you gather them or not.

Yeah, I can pick that up if I remember what to do again.

There are games that do involve time traveling but not in a way where it counts down to a certain time and then it's back to square one.

Yeah, most don't have such a short timespan either. Often it's going back and forth between different era's in time without having influence on little events.

You have games like Chrono Trigger that let you travel in certain time zones but then you have Majora's Mask.

I liked it that way. It was a matter of reuniting with everyone and ready to confront with Kefka.

Well it was fun that you could explore the whole world and go where you please. But Kefka is locked up in his tower and won't show his face again until the end and aren't any other big events anymore from that point onwards IIRC.

Kefka was to be feared considering his light of judgment.

At 3/26/11 02:03 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: In that case, Bahamut7 is seven times better.

Nope.

I would like a second opinion from NumberOftheDragon. :P

TheNumberOfTheDragon is no longer relevant.

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

You can't go much farther back in the history of Metal than this.

Really now?

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: So how about my latest discussion?

Tbh, I didn't read through all of it since I wanted to get done with the catch up post.
A brief summary would be nice. ^^

I was talking about new metal releases.

You can simply CTRL + F to find the specific album and see if I have it.

Could've done it, but I was too shocked of that long list.
But then, I guess I own quite a few CDs as well, but I'm too lazy to list them all.

I took the time to write it up, so can you.

Coop packs a lot of stuff into his Saturday, while congratulating:
Quinny: Master Sergeant
Emlfuryoflion: Top 900 Expeirenced
SeeD419: 9,000 B/P
Hacsev: 75,000 Medal Points
Kevin: 14,000 Saves
HeavyTank: Level 32

Listening to:
Velvet Revolver - Gravedancer

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Not only that, I still have some live shows to see, especially Maiden... and that AC/DC clone for support act.

But you're going to see IRON FUCKING MAIDEN! Ignore Airborne - go and have a piss, grab a drink and get ready for the main attraction!

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 12:49 PM, Bahamut wrote: What does that have to do with the number 83?

Adding the 83 at the end makes it more discernible from the name of the popular hyphenated supermarket brand, as opposed to the shortened version of the profession responsible for making barrels.

So what if Gagsy associates you with a supermarket? I'll deal with her if she's taking a step too far. :P

Whatever - I'm not the one complaining about it, as any attention is good attention :P

At 3/25/11 02:51 PM, Gagsy wrote: No way should Coop by back to Coop83. It's a known fact that any username with numbers is immediately less impressive than any username without numbers.

There are some usernames out there that are just numbers, how bad do they look?

It'd be like going backwards. Am I right in remembering that Coop is to do with your surname Coop? Cooper isn't it? That'd make a lovely alias imo.

Yes, all you have to do is click any of my audio or flash pieces and see the details :P

Or you could just bite the bullet and change to Cooperative.

Nah, I've nearly got back to Deity and I'd like to not have to go through all that again, since I changed my name to Coop.

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/23/11 05:04 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/22/11 07:30 PM, Auz wrote: I thought you'd know much about them, but I guess they're also well before your time.

Are you trying to say that I'm old?!

I thought the only reason you were here is because you're stuck in a midlife crisis ;)

A mid life crisis at 21. That's sad. Even though I'm 28 in just over a week, it would still be sad to have a mid-life crisis this early.

At 3/26/11 02:03 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote: Not at all - Coop83 is 83 times better than Coop1. I am merely Coop - the only implication of 1 is that there is no number, as in most movie sequences.

It just seem so neutered. Maybe if it was longer I can understand removing the numbers but it just seems to short.

It's the 8, isn't it - like I went from Coop8======D to Coop======D :P

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote: Why would I be offended by a dutch accent (sorry, I didn't read the conversation from last week >_> )?
Also, dutch accent should be quite different from a german accent. ^^

Auz thinks that some people's Dutch accents sound German. This could be interesting.

Now I'm really curious!

All in good time.

So, we won't play "roll down that steep hill in a trash can" right now?

Well, if you want to get in and enjoy the ride, I'm up for giving you a push.

But where's the fun in that if I go down that hill alone?

I'd think it was fucking hilarious :P

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Good news everyone!

Oh my, yes!

A shame it wasn't Katey Sagal, or Lauren Tom in their bathrobes announcing it :P

62,000 Saves

At 3/26/11 07:58 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to:
Quinny: Master Sergeant - Also, making me laugh.

AHA! I knew someone would get it.

level 47 *rawr*

Furtee free

71k medal points.

I just recently hit my 1,000th save point. It seemed like it would take me forever to get even anywhere close to 1,000 at anything on the forums when I first joined, and now it feels like in the blink of an eye here I am, rising, rising, and going higher in the ranks.

Can't wait until I reach 1k posts!

After a massive download yesterday, Coop prepares to enter Middle Earth. Congratulations to:
illuminate: 62,000 Saves
IvanTuroc: Level 47
Fezz: Level 33; English fail
Sectus: 1,000 Saves

Listening to:
Alice Cooper - Zorro's Ascent

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Good news everyone!

Morbo is pleased but sticky!

TheNumberOfTheDragon is no longer relevant.

Oh fine. What about newsreporter? He's suppose to be unbiased and can settle this.

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote: It's the 8, isn't it - like I went from Coop8======D to Coop======D :P

Coop8======D
While that might not be ten times better than Coop it is certainly ten inches better than Coop. :P

39,000 B/P points.

Just leveled up to lv 12 today :]

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

You can't go much farther back in the history of Metal than this.

Really now?

Yep.
They where one of the very first to use the sign of the "mano cornuta" in the context of an album (linkage time), plus they are the first to combine "music" and "satanism". Some artists say, they have been influenced by Coven (King Diamond used parts of the "Satanic Mess" in one of his songs, for example).

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: So how about my latest discussion?

Tbh, I didn't read through all of it since I wanted to get done with the catch up post.
A brief summary would be nice. ^^

I was talking about new metal releases.

Oh that. Yes, some very nice albums are going to be released, that's for sure. Of course, I'm very excited about a new Anvil release. ^^

You can simply CTRL + F to find the specific album and see if I have it.

Could've done it, but I was too shocked of that long list.
But then, I guess I own quite a few CDs as well, but I'm too lazy to list them all.

I took the time to write it up, so can you.

Yes, but I'm more interested in collection video games and listing them took me long enough (linkage time again, it's in german of course, but it doesn't matter too much this time).
Maybe I list the CDs when I unpack them after I moved. Would help me to get at least some order into my CDs. Right now albums of one single band are all over the place in the CD shelves.

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote: So, we won't play "roll down that steep hill in a trash can" right now?

Well, if you want to get in and enjoy the ride, I'm up for giving you a push.

But where's the fun in that if I go down that hill alone?

I'd think it was fucking hilarious :P

It would be even more hilarious if we both roll down the hill together. Especially if you explode after we get down. :P

Listening to:

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell. See Coop, I got this instead of some lousy compilation album. :P

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Not only that, I still have some live shows to see, especially Maiden... and that AC/DC clone for support act.

But you're going to see IRON FUCKING MAIDEN! Ignore Airborne - go and have a piss, grab a drink and get ready for the main attraction!

I can't ignore Airbourne if we need to be as close to the stage as we possibly can. At least Sonata Arctica had decent acts which I was willing to listen to.

So what if Gagsy associates you with a supermarket? I'll deal with her if she's taking a step too far. :P

Whatever - I'm not the one complaining about it, as any attention is good attention :P

Then don't complain at all.

At 3/26/11 12:16 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: level 47 *rawr*

Excellent work! It's all golden from here on. How does that feel?

At 3/27/11 05:04 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: TheNumberOfTheDragon is no longer relevant.

Oh fine. What about newsreporter? He's suppose to be unbiased and can settle this.

I spoke to him and he agrees that Bahamut is better without the seven. He always calls me Bahamut anyway.

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote: It's the 8, isn't it - like I went from Coop8======D to Coop======D :P

Coop8======D
While that might not be ten times better than Coop it is certainly ten inches better than Coop. :P

More like Coop8=D. :P

At 3/27/11 06:44 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: I was talking about new metal releases.

Oh that. Yes, some very nice albums are going to be released, that's for sure. Of course, I'm very excited about a new Anvil release. ^^

I still need to get used to Anvil but I did like the song from their new album so that's giving me confidence.

I took the time to write it up, so can you.

Yes, but I'm more interested in collection video games and listing them took me long enough (linkage time again, it's in german of course, but it doesn't matter too much this time).

Speak English or die! :P Joking aside, it's a nice collection.

Maybe I list the CDs when I unpack them after I moved. Would help me to get at least some order into my CDs. Right now albums of one single band are all over the place in the CD shelves.

I'm looking forward to seeing the list.

10 voting power.

Meh.

You entered the top 2000 in B/P Points. Outstanding!

Up next: Top 1000.

*Coop pulls over in the DeLorean and gets out to inspect the damage*

Hmm... the speedometer seems to be stuck.

88,888 B/P

Great Scott!

At 3/26/11 02:03 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote: You mean the seating inside the restaurants is uncomfortable?

Only McDonalds and other fast food places. Plastic chairs or booths that are also plastic with little cushion for your back; not really comfortable for long periods of time.

McDonalds' is okay here concerning that. Recently they all underwent a make-over to make the place look more modern. They now have more comfy chairs and couches and they generally look more inviting.

I thought that was normal in America. Or at least it was mentioned in the wikipedia article that it was used for fries as well.

Well it might be common in some areas but not all over America. I use to live in Maryland and that's where I picked up the taste for it.

I suppose that's by the sea? Considering it's typically used on sea food, which you probably won't find in Nevada.

Being a student, I am sort of extremely poor. I mean, I do pretty much live from my parents and the governments money.

In the US if you aren't earning much to support yourself and are a college student, you would technically be still a Dependent under your parents for tax purposes even in college up to the age of 24.

Yeah I know how it goes in the US.

If I'm not mistaken people get out of college and university with massive debts sometimes. I heard of one girl who was $100,000 in red after her studies were over and I believe she ended up with a not-so-great job. So she had to live in a crappy apartment for at least the next 20 years or so. You can wonder whether it was worth it for her.

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote:

Auz thinks that some people's Dutch accents sound German. This could be interesting.

Now I'm really curious!

Well what I said was that when people pretend to be Dutch in films, they often take on a German accent instead in the assumption that Dutch looks like German.

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/24/11 03:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

Bit of a long story to read all of that, but it looks like they went through an important time there in Hamburg.

You could've just searched for the "Kaiserkeller" there. :P
I think Lennon once said: "I was born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg."

I thought I was supposed to read everything. Which would be an interesting read I'm sure, but it's a bit on the long side :p

Anyway, some of the stories in there are hilarious. Especially if you keep in mind how big they have become later.

There you have it. It's Amsterdams red light district of which everybody in Holland knows about, but I'm sure that it isn't as well known as we think it is abroad.

Well, as I've said, I've only been to Amsterdams airport yet.

You could've heard of it somehow.

If you actually take a weekend to visit the city I think you will find it or hear about it eventually.

You should go there someday. It's a very nice city with lots of things to see. And with lots, I mean lots.

Yes, my wife was there once and she liked it as well.

About everyone does. As far as I know it's about the only major city in France worth seeing though.

Oh I see. I'd find it a bit odd to go to a bar next to a hookers house, but I suppose it's handy for all those drunks who are feeling lonely :p

It's called "entertainment district" for a reason. ^^
There are also a few theatres on the Reeperbahn, but of course they wouldn't exactly show something like McBeth there...
The only annoying thing about those... "ladies" standing on the streets is that they tend to grab you. I hate that. If they would only "ask" me to go with them I could simply ignore them. But grabbing my clothes? Dammit...
The only time they don't bother you is when there's a female person with you. ^^

Oh God. Yeah that's quite annoying. I can imagine a fight breaks out over that every once in a while. But hey... they're just doing their job.

Funny thing is that sometimes I only find Dutch websites for a certain phrase. In that case, I know it's definitely wrong :P

Lol, I know what you mean. In Germany the term "happy end" is very common, when in fact it is called "happy ending" in english.

So you get a shitload of hits on websites ending with .de :p

40 pounds? I think you didn't buy the right tickets then. Last summer me and my gf bought a 30 pounds card with which could travel with the bus and the subway for as much as we liked for six days.

It's a special bus line that only stops at the airports. And it's 20 Pounds for a single ticket, that makes 40 pounds for two tickets.

I'm sure it would've been cheaper if you went via the subway and the busses. I don't know how close they will take you to the airport though, but I suppose they will bring you there.

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote: Just one spot away now.

It always feels like forever when you're this close.

Still at #201...

Well there would be no more need for prisons and we could do with less police. That'd save some cash.

Yeah, I feel Britain needs to do more capital punishment in this country. There are far too many criminals in prison and most of them need to be ridden of.

I think here the prisons are quite empty, but we're letting too many go unpunished. Like recently we let a guy get away with rape because the girl was dressed too 'invitingly' or something. I know some girls are dressed like sluts, but you still oughta keep your hands off asshole.

I would like to pick up the Bunny Hood though, to get around faster. For the other masks it probably does not matter that much for the difficulty of the game whether you gather them or not.

Yeah, I can pick that up if I remember what to do again.

Won't spoil anything, but it wasn't hard. Though you do need another mask first.

Yeah, most don't have such a short timespan either. Often it's going back and forth between different era's in time without having influence on little events.

You have games like Chrono Trigger that let you travel in certain time zones but then you have Majora's Mask.

Chrono Trigger did it pretty well too in my opinion. It was nice how you could walk around a prehistoric world, a medieval world, the future etc. and how the story was tied together.

Well it was fun that you could explore the whole world and go where you please. But Kefka is locked up in his tower and won't show his face again until the end and aren't any other big events anymore from that point onwards IIRC.

Kefka was to be feared considering his light of judgment.

I can't recall that...

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote: I thought the only reason you were here is because you're stuck in a midlife crisis ;)

A mid life crisis at 21. That's sad. Even though I'm 28 in just over a week, it would still be sad to have a mid-life crisis this early.

Of course I meant you at age 27 having a mid-life crisis :p

It'd be sad, but I can see it happening to some people.

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At 3/27/11 05:04 AM, reverend wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote: It's the 8, isn't it - like I went from Coop8======D to Coop======D :P

Coop8======D
While that might not be ten times better than Coop it is certainly ten inches better than Coop. :P

Who have you been talking to? If you're after verification, I'd speak to EchoRun :3

At 3/27/11 06:44 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/26/11 03:50 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/25/11 04:59 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/24/11 02:41 PM, Haggard wrote: So, we won't play "roll down that steep hill in a trash can" right now?

Well, if you want to get in and enjoy the ride, I'm up for giving you a push.

But where's the fun in that if I go down that hill alone?

I'd think it was fucking hilarious :P

It would be even more hilarious if we both roll down the hill together. Especially if you explode after we get down. :P

Yeah, but the risks inherent of if I go off like a mentos / coke rocket while we're heading down the hill just screams Darwin Award to me.

At 3/27/11 08:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: Listening to:

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell. See Coop, I got this instead of some lousy compilation album. :P

Fair play.

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/25/11 01:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Not only that, I still have some live shows to see, especially Maiden... and that AC/DC clone for support act.

But you're going to see IRON FUCKING MAIDEN! Ignore Airborne - go and have a piss, grab a drink and get ready for the main attraction!

I can't ignore Airbourne if we need to be as close to the stage as we possibly can. At least Sonata Arctica had decent acts which I was willing to listen to.

MP3 player? Drown it out?

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote: It's the 8, isn't it - like I went from Coop8======D to Coop======D :P

Coop8======D
While that might not be ten times better than Coop it is certainly ten inches better than Coop. :P

More like Coop8=D. :P

You leave Coop-Chode out of this - he has personality, which is what counts :'(

At 3/27/11 05:57 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/25/11 06:20 PM, Auz wrote: I thought the only reason you were here is because you're stuck in a midlife crisis ;)

A mid life crisis at 21. That's sad. Even though I'm 28 in just over a week, it would still be sad to have a mid-life crisis this early.

Of course I meant you at age 27 having a mid-life crisis :p

It'd be sad, but I can see it happening to some people.

But I'm just a kid.

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At 3/27/11 03:44 PM, Coop wrote: 88,888 B/P

Shame I had to pull the plug by the time you got this nice number. Would be nice to see with myself at 77,777 and you with 88,888 B/P.

At 3/27/11 05:57 PM, Auz wrote:

At 3/26/11 07:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: It always feels like forever when you're this close.

Still at #201...

The system is teasing you. :P

Yeah, I feel Britain needs to do more capital punishment in this country. There are far too many criminals in prison and most of them need to be ridden of.

I think here the prisons are quite empty, but we're letting too many go unpunished. Like recently we let a guy get away with rape because the girl was dressed too 'invitingly' or something. I know some girls are dressed like sluts, but you still oughta keep your hands off asshole.

Oh man, not even Britain or America would be that dumb. If it's rape, they won't take it lightly.

Yeah, I can pick that up if I remember what to do again.

Won't spoil anything, but it wasn't hard. Though you do need another mask first.

Well, I've already seen it all once before. It's a matter of remembering everything.

You have games like Chrono Trigger that let you travel in certain time zones but then you have Majora's Mask.

Chrono Trigger did it pretty well too in my opinion. It was nice how you could walk around a prehistoric world, a medieval world, the future etc. and how the story was tied together.

Yeah, the game did time traveling right in its own merit. It was fun going through everything from different times. I don't think there was a single thing I missed out on. Yes, I even saw all 14 endings. Then again, I just saved at one point, beat the final boss, go to a later point and beat the final boss again and again up until I saw all the endings. That saves me from going through the game a dozen times.

Kefka was to be feared considering his light of judgment.

I can't recall that...

Not the part where he tears town apart with his light?

At 3/27/11 08:21 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Also how is everyone here?

Full of cold. I really shouldn't go into work and will probably be told by my manager I shouldn't have come in to begin with but they're expecting me today and tomorrow for important work so I shouldn't be off. I'll soldier on, unless I'm told to go home. It would be a pain having to go there and back in the fog today but at least I made the effort to get into work for a time where they really need me.

At 3/28/11 03:58 AM, Coop wrote:

At 3/27/11 08:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: Listening to:

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell. See Coop, I got this instead of some lousy compilation album. :P

Fair play.

It's not a bad album. Hey, it can't be praised for nothing besides the title track. My only gripe is how rock n' roll-ish it feels when I was expecting something more like Queen. Yeah, the title track is a bit of a tease considering it's one of the most astonishing rock songs of all time.

At 3/26/11 07:40 AM, Coop wrote:

I can't ignore Airbourne if we need to be as close to the stage as we possibly can. At least Sonata Arctica had decent acts which I was willing to listen to.

MP3 player? Drown it out?

As if a volume limited iPod will drown out a live act.

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