I am a newbie so how do you get more voting power...I tried different things and can't seem to get much..What gives and what am I doing wrong?

7,500 posts and counting.

2 Level ups for me. 9999 total stats, aaaand... 10000 total stats. (medals excluded)

Pigeon is completely addicted to The Legend of Zelda: OoT 3D, while congratulating:

Kevin: Top 400 in B/P
sandwich-eater: 16,000 Saves
NEVR: 6th NG anniversary
Addict: 65,000 Medal Points
Rage: 15.00 Voting Power
sushi13: 21,000 B/P points
sixflab: 4th NG anniversary
Auz: 23,000 Exp
Dream-of-Duke: 33,333 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn - Top 50 in B/P
Coop - 65,000 Saves
idiot-buster - 14,000 Exp
daethdrain - Sergeant
Knuckstrike - Level 26 & 10,000 Total Stats

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At 6/28/11 11:29 PM, reverend wrote: I wish there was a Jack in the Box around me. I hear they are pretty good; I've never been to one.

Jack in the Box has burgers with patties that actually tastes like beef :P
I highly recommend it. If you ever got the opportunity of eating there, you won't regret it.

Coop tries to recover from about 175 miles on the road yesterday. Congratulations to:
Dream-of-Duke: 33,333 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Top 50 B/Per
idiot-buster: 14,000 Experience
daethdrain: Sergeant
Drake: 7,500 Posts
Knuckstrike: 10,000 Total Points

Listening to:
Michael Jackson - She Drives Me Wild. Oh ho! The iTunes is taking the piss early this morning.
Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait [A Real Live One]
Guns 'n' Roses - Live & Let Die

Thank you to:
ThePigeonMaster

At 6/30/11 07:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Screw you Opera you incompatible broken piece of shit, I'm using Chrome!

What's with that? Opera seems to work well for me. Why not go back to Firefox, now that 5.0 is out?

Also, remind me. Is selling one's soul to Google as bad as selling it to Microsoft?

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/29/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I'll let you off, because you're one of the few Germans I know who has a sense of humour :P

We germans have a fine sense of humour in general. You just seem to know the wrong kind of people. :P

I think it's because English humour doesn't translate well into German.

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/30/11 06:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/29/11 03:14 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah thank God.

I just can't stand listening to those DJs that love to hear themselves talk. When I turn on the radio, I want to hear music and not a load of often unfunny, boring bla bla.

The DJ wasn't only the person to play the music, they had to make you feel like there was someone else there, otherwise you could just play the music yourself - I used to love listening to John Peel overnights on Radio 1, mostly because he got a bit shirty with people that kept requesting Pearl Jam. It made the night shifts go nicely.

Well I don't know about you, but the reason why I listen to the radio is to hear the songs that I wouldn't put on my iPod, but just like to hear from time to time. To name an example: Bohemian Rhapsody. I really don't need to hear that song more often than a couple of times a year, but when that time comes I enjoy listening to it.

I don't think I get it all that often, to be honest. Anyway, if you don't like it, just skip a track.

Ah. I guess that must've reduced the price by quite a bit.

About £4,000. The car itself would have sold for maybe £18,000 from new, IIRC.

£4,000 is a fortune to me, but I guess for a fairly new car it's a nice price. Keep it in a good condition and you won't even lose that much when you sell it.

Um yeah... about that. I've got some repair work outstanding and I've got to discuss it with the insurers - new rear quarter panel and bumper -.-

Though you can wonder if that's their peak.

Still selling out tours? I think that says a lot about Maiden.

Yeah that's quite impressive, but isn't the 80's like the time when they were really at their best? They aren't writing any new albums either, are they?

Their latest Album, The Final Frontier was released last year. Checking out their discography, it's their first UK Platinum album since Piece of Mind in 1983 and their most popular album in a US release.

So you do a lot in one morning then. Well if you don't take a shower every morning like I do then I guess you don't need much time to get dressed, brush your teeth and look alright.

A shower takes 10 minutes, if I wash my hair.

Ah, so you're fairly quick. I usually take 20 minutes or so and then take my sweet time to dry myself. I don't like hurrying in the shower for some reason.

When I play sport, I need to wash quickly and get dressed and on my way - if I wait around, I'll end up having to sweep out the changing room.

At 6/30/11 10:28 PM, dandy855 wrote: I am a newbie so how do you get more voting power...I tried different things and can't seem to get much..What gives and what am I doing wrong?

Basically, we have lots of experience (we've each voted on 5 submissions per day for the past 5-6 years) and we've also boosted out Blam and Save numbers, by voting on the submissions that are under judgement in the Portal. (The ones in purple)

It takes time, but it's worth it, I feel.

Congrats to:
Auz: 23,000 Experience
Dream-of-Duke: 33,333 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Top 50 B/Pers
Coop: 65,000 Saves
idiot-buster: 14,000 Experience
Knuckstrike: 10,000 Total Points

At 6/30/11 08:43 AM, Odyssic wrote: I hate Google's new layout.

The colours look REALLY out of place. 3% of the page is black and red and the rest is almost completely white.. Wtf Google.

I think I might have forgotten the list yesterday? Uncertain, it's all a bit shady. But this one's real long. So I'm guessing. Forgot to look at dates. Gotta do some reviews now.

Congrats to:
Aprime: Level 36
joeyjoah: 1,000 B/P
Auz: 8,888 Posts; 23,000 Experience
Fooloilo: 120,000 Medal Points
Coop: #111 in Experience; 65,000 Saves
Hacsev: 33,333 Saves
SCTE3: 300 Art Reviews
Asandir: 5,000 Posts
Addict: 65,000 Medal Points
SCTE3: 123 Art Review Responses
Rage: 15 Voting Power
sushi13: 21,000 B/P
sixflab: 4 Years on NG
Dream-of-Duke: 33,333 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn: #50 in B/P Saves
idiot-buster: 14,000 Experience
Knuckstrike: 10,000 Total Stats

Weighted voting power of 10.

Generic July blog post.

Listening to:

Symphony X - Iconoclast

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/28/11 07:50 AM, Bahamut wrote: I want a drawn picture of that.

You have to go find someone who can draw, then.

Maybe it can be a birthday present?

I don't know many that do that.

Maybe it's just some kind of "blue car phenomenon" for me then.

Blue car? Explain.

Newgrounds is gay. :P

The internet is gay. :P

YouTube is gay. :P

Oh wait, we already had that.

I thought we didn't cover that yet.

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/30/11 07:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hell, it's his standard melee weapon.

Oooooooh now that changes things. Does he actually have a ranged, damaging weapon aside that healing gun?

Yeah. He does have a primary weapon that shoots needles.

Nah, it was only that one guy.

So is the community any good then or am I better off playing without live chatting?

It depends which server you're on. The worst community I've come across is Bestinclass servers. The map has obstacle courses for all classes except Medic. Some of them are very tricky. If you want to know how hard it is, you have to be in the pitch dark with only Pyro's flamethrower to guide you through.

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 07:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Screw you Opera you incompatible broken piece of shit, I'm using Chrome!

What's with that? Opera seems to work well for me. Why not go back to Firefox, now that 5.0 is out?

I wanted to try out Chrome for a while and besides, Firefox also randomly crashed on me so that can eat shit apart from using it for a separate Facebook account as well as depositing my alts.

Also, remind me. Is selling one's soul to Google as bad as selling it to Microsoft?

At least Google has a good search engine. Microsoft are kidding themselves with Bing.

10,000 saves.

2,000 Flash Reviews

Now that's a nice number, but I've got to press on and write more.

Ranked at No. 50 in total saves. :P
Glad to go back to where I belong after a two-year absence! :)

Praporshchik! (11,000 B/P)

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: Well I don't know about you, but the reason why I listen to the radio is to hear the songs that I wouldn't put on my iPod, but just like to hear from time to time. To name an example: Bohemian Rhapsody. I really don't need to hear that song more often than a couple of times a year, but when that time comes I enjoy listening to it.

I don't think I get it all that often, to be honest. Anyway, if you don't like it, just skip a track.

I know my iPod still has room for plenty of songs, so I could get everything on it I moderately like. But I don't know, I'm fine with listening to that radio station and hear a nice variety of music that I don't really feel like having on my iPod.

£4,000 is a fortune to me, but I guess for a fairly new car it's a nice price. Keep it in a good condition and you won't even lose that much when you sell it.

Um yeah... about that. I've got some repair work outstanding and I've got to discuss it with the insurers - new rear quarter panel and bumper -.-

Is that from the accident you were involved a couple of months back? The one of which you posted pictures?

Yeah that's quite impressive, but isn't the 80's like the time when they were really at their best? They aren't writing any new albums either, are they?

Their latest Album, The Final Frontier was released last year. Checking out their discography, it's their first UK Platinum album since Piece of Mind in 1983 and their most popular album in a US release.

Oh looking at their discography they are still actively writing albums. Looks like Final Frontier has been their best album in Holland yet, followed by Seventh son of a seventh son.

Ah, so you're fairly quick. I usually take 20 minutes or so and then take my sweet time to dry myself. I don't like hurrying in the shower for some reason.

When I play sport, I need to wash quickly and get dressed and on my way - if I wait around, I'll end up having to sweep out the changing room.

Lol, that's how they did it at my sports club too. Wasn't a very good rule when we were kids though. One person always got picked on and they threw his stuff outside the changing room so he was the last one to finish.

At 7/1/11 08:50 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: Oooooooh now that changes things. Does he actually have a ranged, damaging weapon aside that healing gun?

Yeah. He does have a primary weapon that shoots needles.

A needle shooter? Awesome!

So is the community any good then or am I better off playing without live chatting?

It depends which server you're on. The worst community I've come across is Bestinclass servers. The map has obstacle courses for all classes except Medic. Some of them are very tricky. If you want to know how hard it is, you have to be in the pitch dark with only Pyro's flamethrower to guide you through.

I'll avoid that one then.

By the way, I'm trying to download TF2 right now, but... (see pic below). I got to 1.1GB pretty fast and for the past hour it's constantly been like this.

I guess their servers must be overloaded or something. My internet connection is fine and generally reaches speeds of about 400kb/s on average (1.4MB/s was the max for this download so far) =/

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/28/11 04:00 PM, Auz wrote: *Squirts his coffee*
"Hey, they've cutting back on our training programs. Not my fault." >: |

"We should go complain to our superiors then. But now..." *pays the ring-a-donut-guy and grabs a donut from the box* "some fresh donuts!"

"I don't know Taggert. Last time we went demonstrating they called riot control on us X|"
"Those boys from Manchester sure were tough..."

"Ah we just need to get our boys from the military to join us."

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/29/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I'll let you off, because you're one of the few Germans I know who has a sense of humour :P

We germans have a fine sense of humour in general. You just seem to know the wrong kind of people. :P

I think it's because English humour doesn't translate well into German.

I think that's the case with all humour around the world. It just doesn't translate too well into other languages.

At 7/1/11 08:50 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/28/11 07:50 AM, Bahamut wrote: I want a drawn picture of that.

You have to go find someone who can draw, then.

Maybe it can be a birthday present?

Maybe, but you'll still need someone who can draw that picture. :P

I don't know many that do that.

Maybe it's just some kind of "blue car phenomenon" for me then.

Blue car? Explain.

Copy & Paste from somewhere else:
Blue car syndrome is the popularized term for a very common phenomenon. It is the experience we all have of having having a specific observation, idea, experience, etc., come into our consciousness and then having it seem that the same observation begins to occur with increased frequency. So, you buy a blue car and then all the sudden your seeing blue cars everywhere. I think the best explanation is that you never paid much notice to the experience until it became personalized. Obviously, there have been blue cars all the time, but until you bought one yourself, they didn't register. Once you owned one, it became, "Hey, there's a car the same colour as MINE."

So, what I meant is: I saw one or two live DVDs/live albums with "destroying Wacken" (or "armageddon") in the title and didn't like it. Now when I see another DVD/live album with a similar name I think: "Oh gosh, can't you be a little more creative?" even though there might be not that many live DVDs/albums out there with such a name.

Newgrounds is gay. :P

The internet is gay. :P

YouTube is gay. :P

Everything is gay. :P

Oh wait, we already had that.

I thought we didn't cover that yet.

I thought we already mentioned that Anal Cunt song.

6000 posts..I didn't even notice lol.

At 6/30/11 06:11 AM, Coop wrote: "Le grand cigar! She's Mine! And with absolutely no consequences!"

"Grand theft tobacco. Time to get off our fat, cop asses, and ride!"

I need my legs and pelvis to play cricket. Shameful, isn't it?

That's stupid. What next, no jerking off because you need to save your wrist to swing the cricket bat?

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: Well I wouldn't exactly call vegan food 'bland', because it's just how you spice it and what you use in recipies. But it's different and it definitely takes some time to get used to eating certain things without animal products.

I found that once you get used to it, you'll learn to appreciate vegetarian and vegan food more and I now even find some things better without the meat. Like spaghetti with pasta sauce for example. Last time I ate that with minced meat (like I usually did) I was actually a little disgusted.

Spaghetti without meat to me feels empty. Even the best spaghetti sauce needs some enhancement with meat. I'm sure if I could believe that the ends justified the means in that not eating 'self polluting' foods like meat and milk products were beneficial then yeah I might get use to it but for me that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

How exactly do you coexist with someone who is vegan? Is it awkward when you are eating a big juicy steak in front of her?

Damn! I should get some investors on the phone right away.

I'm sure Casualty and other Newgrounders in the region can help out.

At 7/1/11 02:53 AM, ThePigeonMaster wrote: Jack in the Box has burgers with patties that actually tastes like beef :P
I highly recommend it. If you ever got the opportunity of eating there, you won't regret it.

The nearest one to me is about 50 miles away in another state. A little too far to grab something to eat. I really hope they expand some more in my region cause as you say the do make good burgers.

so is this thread for submitting post to level up or something if so awsome

Can I join the Cool Kids club now that I'm level 49?

I now have three ninja stars instead of two.

Level 34.

Congrats to:
sumidiotdude: 10 Voting Power
Tycrane: 10,000 Saves / 11,000 B/P Points
Coop: 2,000 Flash Reviews
Dream-of-Duke: Top 50 in Saves
HeavyTank: 6,000 Post
Aksumka: Level 49
Ronald-Mcdonald-LoL: Level 34

I lost nearly 30 post today (According to NGlogs I had 5,022 post 2 hours ago, so it's been just since then)
Was a user deleted recently, or something?

At 7/1/11 06:20 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 7/1/11 04:19 AM, Jolly wrote: The colours look REALLY out of place. 3% of the page is black and red and the rest is almost completely white.. Wtf Google.

And the home page looks small, Google filled nearly all the screen before, now it is empty. Nit-picking eh?

I actually hadn't even noticed the logo was made smaller.

After my daily deposit, I leveled up to the crappy level 10 icon, now I have to put up with it for another 21 days. At least I finally reached two digits...

Portal 2 maps are so much fun but some of them are highly complex. That's still good, though.

Listening to:

Rhapsody - Triumph or Agony

At 7/1/11 03:00 PM, Auz wrote: By the way, I'm trying to download TF2 right now, but... (see pic below). I got to 1.1GB pretty fast and for the past hour it's constantly been like this.

LOL! I guess we'll see you in a year then.

I guess their servers must be overloaded or something. My internet connection is fine and generally reaches speeds of about 400kb/s on average (1.4MB/s was the max for this download so far) =/

I'm guessing Steam's servers are still overloaded by the amount of players who are wanting to download the game. Valve never really prepare for major traffic.

At 7/1/11 04:10 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 7/1/11 08:50 AM, Bahamut wrote: Maybe it can be a birthday present?

Maybe, but you'll still need someone who can draw that picture. :P

Bah, what about you reverend?

I don't know many that do that.

Maybe it's just some kind of "blue car phenomenon" for me then.

Blue car? Explain.

Copy & Paste from somewhere else:

Interesting.

So, what I meant is: I saw one or two live DVDs/live albums with "destroying Wacken" (or "armageddon") in the title and didn't like it. Now when I see another DVD/live album with a similar name I think: "Oh gosh, can't you be a little more creative?" even though there might be not that many live DVDs/albums out there with such a name.

I see your point now.

YouTube is gay. :P

Everything is gay. :P

deviantART is fucking gay. :P

I thought we didn't cover that yet.

I thought we already mentioned that Anal Cunt song.

Oh, meh.

At 7/2/11 01:06 AM, Aksumka wrote: Can I join the Cool Kids club now that I'm level 49?

You put cool kids and level 49 in the same sentence.

At 7/2/11 02:11 AM, Jolly wrote: I lost nearly 30 post today (According to NGlogs I had 5,022 post 2 hours ago, so it's been just since then)
Was a user deleted recently, or something?

Not necessarily an account deletion but Bees had all his posts wiped out. He was speaking to Wade about it on Twitter last night. I can't recall posting in any of his threads, though.

5000 posts!

Coop wonders how he forgot to do the LUL list this morning. Congratulations to:
sumidiotdude: 10.00 Total Voting Power
Tycrane: 10,000 Saves; Praporshchik; 11,000 B/P
Dream-of-Duke: Top 50 Saviour
HeavyTank: 6,000 Posts
Aksumka: Level 49
Ronald-McDonald-Lol: Level 34
Banzaifly: Level 10
Gimmick: 5,000 Posts

Listening to:
Motorhead - Born to Lose
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Foo Fighters - Let It Die
Foo Fighters - Hell
Reel Big Fish - She Has A Girlfriend Now
AC/DC - Rock & Roll Dream

Thank you to:
Jolly (x2)
Odyssic
Soapbubble (x2)

At 7/1/11 08:50 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 07:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Screw you Opera you incompatible broken piece of shit, I'm using Chrome!

What's with that? Opera seems to work well for me. Why not go back to Firefox, now that 5.0 is out?

I wanted to try out Chrome for a while and besides, Firefox also randomly crashed on me so that can eat shit apart from using it for a separate Facebook account as well as depositing my alts.

Fair enough - I thought Firefox was best for browsing Newgrounds, until I saw Opera. Besides, I think that Chrome is just firefox, crudely re-branded

Also, remind me. Is selling one's soul to Google as bad as selling it to Microsoft?

At least Google has a good search engine. Microsoft are kidding themselves with Bing.

True. MInd you, there isn't really an innuendo in Google, either :P

At 7/1/11 02:30 PM, Tycrane wrote: Praporshchik! (11,000 B/P)

Good god, do you ever blam stuff?!

At 7/1/11 03:00 PM, Auz wrote:

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: Well I don't know about you, but the reason why I listen to the radio is to hear the songs that I wouldn't put on my iPod, but just like to hear from time to time. To name an example: Bohemian Rhapsody. I really don't need to hear that song more often than a couple of times a year, but when that time comes I enjoy listening to it.

I don't think I get it all that often, to be honest. Anyway, if you don't like it, just skip a track.

I know my iPod still has room for plenty of songs, so I could get everything on it I moderately like. But I don't know, I'm fine with listening to that radio station and hear a nice variety of music that I don't really feel like having on my iPod.

Well, each person has a different setup for how they play their music in the car. I think this system works well and I'll continue to do so until I get a new car that allows me to connect the iPod straight in :P

£4,000 is a fortune to me, but I guess for a fairly new car it's a nice price. Keep it in a good condition and you won't even lose that much when you sell it.

Um yeah... about that. I've got some repair work outstanding and I've got to discuss it with the insurers - new rear quarter panel and bumper -.-

Is that from the accident you were involved a couple of months back? The one of which you posted pictures?

No, that one wasn't my fault - I was driving to cricket last Saturday and met a car coming the other way on a tight, twisty country lane. I backed up and reversed into a brick wall. That's ridiculous, I know, but I'll have to live with it.

Yeah that's quite impressive, but isn't the 80's like the time when they were really at their best? They aren't writing any new albums either, are they?

Their latest Album, The Final Frontier was released last year. Checking out their discography, it's their first UK Platinum album since Piece of Mind in 1983 and their most popular album in a US release.

Oh looking at their discography they are still actively writing albums. Looks like Final Frontier has been their best album in Holland yet, followed by Seventh son of a seventh son.

I'll let you know how well it's received when I go to see them in Birmingham, come the 31st of July!

Ah, so you're fairly quick. I usually take 20 minutes or so and then take my sweet time to dry myself. I don't like hurrying in the shower for some reason.

When I play sport, I need to wash quickly and get dressed and on my way - if I wait around, I'll end up having to sweep out the changing room.

Lol, that's how they did it at my sports club too. Wasn't a very good rule when we were kids though. One person always got picked on and they threw his stuff outside the changing room so he was the last one to finish.

When we were at school, we were teenagers left to run amok. I used to grab a quick shower and the lads all took the piss for that, so I just pulled my trousers on over my shorts, just like everyone else and grabbed a "shower in a can".

We still shower in a can at some cricket grounds these days. We would go in the shower cleaner than how we came out :P

At 7/1/11 04:10 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 7/1/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote:

At 6/30/11 09:17 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/29/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I'll let you off, because you're one of the few Germans I know who has a sense of humour :P

We germans have a fine sense of humour in general. You just seem to know the wrong kind of people. :P

I think it's because English humour doesn't translate well into German.

I think that's the case with all humour around the world. It just doesn't translate too well into other languages.

That and most Germans don't find slapstick funny.

At 7/1/11 10:00 PM, reverend wrote:

At 6/30/11 06:11 AM, Coop wrote: "Le grand cigar! She's Mine! And with absolutely no consequences!"

"Grand theft tobacco. Time to get off our fat, cop asses, and ride!"

"Pee-yew! This fish is slightly too rotten to even make Jambalaya!"

I need my legs and pelvis to play cricket. Shameful, isn't it?

That's stupid. What next, no jerking off because you need to save your wrist to swing the cricket bat?

Now there are some places I will draw the line. Me, batting? That's ridiculous!

At 7/2/11 12:28 AM, MetalBox wrote: so is this thread for submitting post to level up or something if so awsome

Yes, you're welcome to tell us about level ups and major achievements on Newgrounds, plus a certain select few from IRL - we're not totally geeks.

18000 exp points. :P

34,000 Saves!

At 7/2/11 02:11 AM, Jolly wrote: I lost nearly 30 post today (According to NGlogs I had 5,022 post 2 hours ago, so it's been just since then)
Was a user deleted recently, or something?

I lost 4 today and 2 the other day... seems like there's some deleting of users/threads going on.

I got a Steam account with TF2 as well.

Username is AuzNG. Add me as a friend if you like.

At 7/1/11 04:10 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: "I don't know Taggert. Last time we went demonstrating they called riot control on us X|"
"Those boys from Manchester sure were tough..."

"Ah we just need to get our boys from the military to join us."

"Hey yeah. Last week I heard Steve saying they're all being replaced by JSFs next year. Boy, he was sure pissed about that. Surely we can round up some soldier boys and make a march."

At 7/1/11 10:00 PM, reverend wrote:

At 6/30/11 03:57 PM, Auz wrote: Well I wouldn't exactly call vegan food 'bland', because it's just how you spice it and what you use in recipies. But it's different and it definitely takes some time to get used to eating certain things without animal products.

I found that once you get used to it, you'll learn to appreciate vegetarian and vegan food more and I now even find some things better without the meat. Like spaghetti with pasta sauce for example. Last time I ate that with minced meat (like I usually did) I was actually a little disgusted.

Spaghetti without meat to me feels empty. Even the best spaghetti sauce needs some enhancement with meat. I'm sure if I could believe that the ends justified the means in that not eating 'self polluting' foods like meat and milk products were beneficial then yeah I might get use to it but for me that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Well again it really depends on how you prepare it and what you put in it I think. We usually start with baking garlic and onion, then pour in the chopped tomatoes, then add some veggies and then finish it off with some herbs like basil, oregano and thyme.

How exactly do you coexist with someone who is vegan? Is it awkward when you are eating a big juicy steak in front of her?

The only time I might eat a big juicy steak is when we're at a restaurant, but we don't go there often. And she's alright with me eating meat. The last thing she wants is be an annoyance to other people with her diet so she'll let me have my steak if I want it.

Damn! I should get some investors on the phone right away.

I'm sure Casualty and other Newgrounders in the region can help out.

No I need Luis to come down. He's Mexican so he should be an expert on setting up a burrito business.

At 7/2/11 05:59 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/1/11 03:00 PM, Auz wrote: By the way, I'm trying to download TF2 right now, but... (see pic below). I got to 1.1GB pretty fast and for the past hour it's constantly been like this.

LOL! I guess we'll see you in a year then.

I managed to complete the download this morning.

I also had some trouble with the game not starting up. Then I found one solution online that helped at first (out of dozens other people posted (apparently it's a very common problem with no standard solution)). So I played it for a couple of hours this afternoon, but I'd like to play it again now and I'm getting the same shit + errors that the game is inavailable =/

I guess their servers must be overloaded or something. My internet connection is fine and generally reaches speeds of about 400kb/s on average (1.4MB/s was the max for this download so far) =/

I'm guessing Steam's servers are still overloaded by the amount of players who are wanting to download the game. Valve never really prepare for major traffic.

Yeah I think they're getting a huge amount of traffic around this hour, when it's early evening for the UK'ers and the Americans have been out of bed for a while. I think that game inavailable error I mentioned above is caused by their servers overloading.

Best time I can play it seems to be around late morning - early afternoon...

At 7/2/11 07:16 AM, Coop wrote:

At 7/1/11 03:00 PM, Auz wrote: I know my iPod still has room for plenty of songs, so I could get everything on it I moderately like. But I don't know, I'm fine with listening to that radio station and hear a nice variety of music that I don't really feel like having on my iPod.

Well, each person has a different setup for how they play their music in the car. I think this system works well and I'll continue to do so until I get a new car that allows me to connect the iPod straight in :P

Oh but for the car I would love to have a system with which I can connect my iPod though, because as I said I can only receive shitty channels in there.

Besides, I got a few good car driving songs, like:
She Sells Sanctuary
Drivers Seat
Riders on the Storm

Is that from the accident you were involved a couple of months back? The one of which you posted pictures?

No, that one wasn't my fault - I was driving to cricket last Saturday and met a car coming the other way on a tight, twisty country lane. I backed up and reversed into a brick wall. That's ridiculous, I know, but I'll have to live with it.

So you backed up without looking or what? :P

Or was it one of those small, nasty ones that you can't see when you're up close?

Oh looking at their discography they are still actively writing albums. Looks like Final Frontier has been their best album in Holland yet, followed by Seventh son of a seventh son.

I'll let you know how well it's received when I go to see them in Birmingham, come the 31st of July!

Apparently they were here last month. Odd that I haven't heard any of my friends mention it. They drove all the way from Holland to Wacken to Sziget last year to see them twice live. If they bought tickets then I would've certainly gone too.

Lol, that's how they did it at my sports club too. Wasn't a very good rule when we were kids though. One person always got picked on and they threw his stuff outside the changing room so he was the last one to finish.

When we were at school, we were teenagers left to run amok. I used to grab a quick shower and the lads all took the piss for that, so I just pulled my trousers on over my shorts, just like everyone else and grabbed a "shower in a can".

We still shower in a can at some cricket grounds these days. We would go in the shower cleaner than how we came out :P

So that's like... not showering at all and just put some deodorant on or what?

I myself just went showering at home eventually. Well until later when people weren't so childish anymore.

At 7/2/11 02:11 AM, Jolly wrote: I lost nearly 30 post today (According to NGlogs I had 5,022 post 2 hours ago, so it's been just since then)
Was a user deleted recently, or something?

Bees had his posts wiped. TehSlapHappy lost over 420 posts and I lost over 60, so you're not the only one to lose posts.

1,500 Medals. Sweet!