Level 32! Man these levels just get farther and farther apart...

Coop prepares to go and meet the bank manager, while congratulating:
Jackho: Level 24; Bronze Whistle
sandwich-eater: Level 28
Ship: Level 32

Listening to:
Alice Cooper - The Congregation
Michael Jackson - Dangerous

Thank you to:
Nijsse
philonous (x2)

At 1/12/12 02:18 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:24 PM, IzzyDude wrote: Got a gold whistle! Not really sure if it counts as a "level up" or not, but I'm proud since it took a really long time. Kinda hoping that you can check how many whistle points you have with the coming of the redesign, but I doubt it'll happen.

It counts as a level up since you whistle went up in power. As for them showing off the whistle points, Never going to happen since by doing so it would cause udder choas with the whistle system since it isn't suppose to be a stat like B/P or EXP.

Whistles aren't a thing for stats - we have them for the greater good of Newgrounds, not the Statistics.

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote:

At 1/11/12 05:05 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/11/12 04:10 AM, Coop wrote: That's like asking someone from Londonderry where they are from. Protestants will tell you Londonderry, but Catholics will say "Derry", despising the name London in their town / city's name.

Not my fault that stuff's so confusing with history and borders.

Yeah, it's like all of the history regarding the regions of France, with their constantly changing borders, with the Brits, Germans (or their predecessors), Italians and Spanish all moving borders

Good thing there wheren't that many border changes in the past few years. Except for the crumbling of Sovjet Russia and the spawning of many many new countries, war in ex-Yugoslawia, and of course the falling of the inner-german border. But this all happened in the 90's, so it has been quiet for some time now.

Yeah, most border changes involve places out east, such as Tonga switching to the other side of the International Date Line, effectively losing a day.

Listening to:

Firewind - Burning Earth

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote:

At 1/11/12 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Next Sunday is an update to look forward. Excellent work man!

Thanks - I'm already looking forward to it... and the top 10, which is getting a lot closer now!

Too bad top 10 doesn't look doable before the redesign but at least you have something to look forward to afterwards.

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: I should get him to put me above Coop for maximum trollage on him.

...

Yeah, I knew you wouldn't be impressed.

At 1/12/12 02:54 PM, Nijsse wrote: Definitely! You've watched 100000 submissions and voted them fairly (way more if you include the times you've voted 'wrong'), and I've visited this website and voted on 5 submissions for 3000 days. Both are ridiculous if you think about it, but 100k is just an awesome number. Congrats!

And on top of that, just one post away from 1k.

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: I have yet to test your accent.

There's still no chance of me going to Manchster meet up. :(

That's next week so bookings will be expensive at this point. I should have sorted out my nights staying somewhere sooner but Christmas gets in your way.

Some bands deteriorate after the first album so hopefully they didn't get any worse.

I don't think that's possible.
Or wait, yes it is. Since the music was fine for most of the time, they may get worse in that department. Ugh.

Do we really want to hear more Drakkar?

Everything else sounds good, though.

Yeah, but the death metal vocals sound good as well.

Not in the best place there, I'm afraid.

I should get him to put me above Coop for maximum trollage on him.

That would be great.

Well, Tom can always give me something in return like another UK meet appearance.

At 1/12/12 02:54 PM, Nijsse wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote: Coop gets over his achievement hangover, in time to congratulate:
Nijsse: Level 53; 30,000 Experience - I still think my achievements on the day beat yours :P

Definitely! You've watched 100000 submissions and voted them fairly (way more if you include the times you've voted 'wrong'), and I've visited this website and voted on 5 submissions for 3000 days. Both are ridiculous if you think about it, but 100k is just an awesome number. Congrats!

And I just noticed that if you reply once more you will have 1000 posts. Also a nice achievement.

Also, with my review on abobo I now have 200 reviews.

At 1/13/12 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote: Good thing there wheren't that many border changes in the past few years. Except for the crumbling of Sovjet Russia and the spawning of many many new countries, war in ex-Yugoslawia, and of course the falling of the inner-german border. But this all happened in the 90's, so it has been quiet for some time now.

Yeah, most border changes involve places out east, such as Tonga switching to the other side of the International Date Line, effectively losing a day.

You mean Samoa?
On the other hand, they all will now live a day longer, because they didn't had to go through December 30.

Somewhat related question: Do you say "30th of December"? If not, what do you say? I'm confused right now...

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: I have yet to test your accent.

There's still no chance of me going to Manchster meet up. :(

That's next week so bookings will be expensive at this point. I should have sorted out my nights staying somewhere sooner but Christmas gets in your way.

Yeah, stupid holidays! >:(
Also, the last trip to Manchester was enough for one year, especially during the winter months. I don't get how you can survive with windows that don't even shut properly. There was a terrible draft in the hostel where my brother and me stayed, even though the windows where all shut tight.

Some bands deteriorate after the first album so hopefully they didn't get any worse.

I don't think that's possible.
Or wait, yes it is. Since the music was fine for most of the time, they may get worse in that department. Ugh.

Do we really want to hear more Drakkar?

Only if they have improved in song writing or singing (preferrably both).

Everything else sounds good, though.

Yeah, but the death metal vocals sound good as well.

Not in the best place there, I'm afraid.

I think that's what makes their music so special.

At 1/7/12 05:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: LEVEL 50!

That cupid is no more.Screw you level 49, I will not miss you one bit. As for the golden shurikens, hard to complain about them, even though the redesign is only around the corner so I'll most likely not have any golden shurikens then.

Well I actually prefer the bow. In Windhelm I killed many elk and deer with it. So a redesign is coming even the levels. I hope not I just got the Level 54 Golden Chain Saw

Level 51.

22k saves. Please ignore my underwhelming amount of blams.

Coop prepares to make a friend's birthday enjoyable, if not unforgettable. Congratulations to:
Knuckstrike: 200 Reviews (Flash)
life: Level 51
sandwich-eater: 22,000 Saves

Listening to:
Alestorm - The Quest
Rush - Ceiling Unlimited

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote:

At 1/11/12 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Next Sunday is an update to look forward. Excellent work man!

Thanks - I'm already looking forward to it... and the top 10, which is getting a lot closer now!

Too bad top 10 doesn't look doable before the redesign but at least you have something to look forward to afterwards.

Don't you think I've managed enough milestones for B/P in the last 2 days?

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: I should get him to put me above Coop for maximum trollage on him.

...

Yeah, I knew you wouldn't be impressed.

I'm just wondering what I've done to warrant being picked on like that :(

At 1/13/12 03:40 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/13/12 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote: Good thing there wheren't that many border changes in the past few years. Except for the crumbling of Sovjet Russia and the spawning of many many new countries, war in ex-Yugoslawia, and of course the falling of the inner-german border. But this all happened in the 90's, so it has been quiet for some time now.

Yeah, most border changes involve places out east, such as Tonga switching to the other side of the International Date Line, effectively losing a day.

You mean Samoa?

I do indeed - I can't help but get my Pacific Island groups confused :(

On the other hand, they all will now live a day longer, because they didn't had to go through December 30.

Somewhat related question: Do you say "30th of December"? If not, what do you say? I'm confused right now...

I should say the 30th of December, because I'm against the American way of putting the month first, i.e. December 30th.

I finally reached 100,000 Medal Points! But darn, I wish the medals would sum up right because I got a previous medal that didn't sum the points right and I got a total of 100,005. But still, I'm glad I finally achieved this!

I watched through Futurama season 5 on blu-ray rather quickly and now I'm sad.

Listening to:

Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell. Gotta love old school doom metal.

At 1/13/12 03:40 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's next week so bookings will be expensive at this point. I should have sorted out my nights staying somewhere sooner but Christmas gets in your way.

Yeah, stupid holidays! >:(

Yeah, how dare Christmas be a major celebration at the end of the year.

Also, the last trip to Manchester was enough for one year, especially during the winter months. I don't get how you can survive with windows that don't even shut properly. There was a terrible draft in the hostel where my brother and me stayed, even though the windows where all shut tight.

Poor windows they must be. I'm still disappointed our meetup in Liverpool didn't go to plan but when a place offered me to start working full-time for a few weeks from out of nowhere, there was no way I could have said no, especially after having been treated like shit the previous day.

Do we really want to hear more Drakkar?

Only if they have improved in song writing or singing (preferrably both).

Both by far. If neither have improved, why bother?

Not in the best place there, I'm afraid.

I think that's what makes their music so special.

I like the symphonic elements of the band.

At 1/13/12 07:18 PM, life wrote: Level 51.

Good, now my level icon is unique and used only by myself right now.

At 1/14/12 06:46 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: Too bad top 10 doesn't look doable before the redesign but at least you have something to look forward to afterwards.

Don't you think I've managed enough milestones for B/P in the last 2 days?

Good point, you already made a lot of achievements and where we stand, not many achievements should come by. Your next total B/P shall be 110,000.

Yeah, I knew you wouldn't be impressed.

I'm just wondering what I've done to warrant being picked on like that :(

Because you have determination to get to #1 and it would be hilarious if someone jumped above you from out of nowhere.

At 1/14/12 06:46 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/12 03:40 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/13/12 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/12/12 04:56 PM, Haggard wrote: Good thing there wheren't that many border changes in the past few years. Except for the crumbling of Sovjet Russia and the spawning of many many new countries, war in ex-Yugoslawia, and of course the falling of the inner-german border. But this all happened in the 90's, so it has been quiet for some time now.

Yeah, most border changes involve places out east, such as Tonga switching to the other side of the International Date Line, effectively losing a day.

You mean Samoa?

I do indeed - I can't help but get my Pacific Island groups confused :(

Don't worry. I had to look it up as well. ;)

On the other hand, they all will now live a day longer, because they didn't had to go through December 30.

Somewhat related question: Do you say "30th of December"? If not, what do you say? I'm confused right now...

I should say the 30th of December, because I'm against the American way of putting the month first, i.e. December 30th.

Yes, but that wasn't my question. I wasn't sure about the "th" after the "30". But you answered this as well. Thanks. ^^

At 1/14/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/13/12 03:40 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's next week so bookings will be expensive at this point. I should have sorted out my nights staying somewhere sooner but Christmas gets in your way.

Yeah, stupid holidays! >:(

Yeah, how dare Christmas be a major celebration at the end of the year.

Really. What a stupid idea to put those holidays right there.

Also, the last trip to Manchester was enough for one year, especially during the winter months. I don't get how you can survive with windows that don't even shut properly. There was a terrible draft in the hostel where my brother and me stayed, even though the windows where all shut tight.

Poor windows they must be.

They are. But when running around in Manchester, many houses looked like the one we stayed in. I can't imagine the windows there are any better (or at least not as tight shutting as the windows I'm used to).
However, we also walked out of the town centre, there where some more modern houses. I bet they had better windows, too.

I'm still disappointed our meetup in Liverpool didn't go to plan but when a place offered me to start working full-time for a few weeks from out of nowhere, there was no way I could have said no, especially after having been treated like shit the previous day.

Yes, that was a bit... unfortunate? I mean, you getting a job offer of course isn't unforunate, but that it got in the way of our meet up plans was. My brother liked the idea of traveling to Liverpool as well and we had more than enough time to waste. Instead we had to walk around in Manchester a lot. And worst of all: It hailed! So we couldn't really go sightseeing as well...

But at least you have a Cafè Nero about everywhere, and the Double Chocolate Fudge Cake there is real delicacy!

Do we really want to hear more Drakkar?

Only if they have improved in song writing or singing (preferrably both).

Both by far. If neither have improved, why bother?

Exactly, that's why it's not a top priority for me to check out their later stuff.

Not in the best place there, I'm afraid.

I think that's what makes their music so special.

I like the symphonic elements of the band.

Speaking of Haggard, I should buy more albums from them. But I realized a big flaw in my "about 2 albums every other month"-plan: I'm going to Singapore in March, so I should save up for this trip a little bit...

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: He must want this February to be better or maybe it will make him hate it even more. :P

Either way I'm glad it's sooner rather than later. I've been doing more genre modding and fixing icons when I come across them. I guess that's not really a hindrance to the redesign, having no genres or tags on several thousand submissions.

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote: No, because of what ladies call a landing strip. There will be no cocks confusing my chin for a vajayjay >:(

I think you should braid it. You know to prevent any such confusions.

Coop returns from the birthday celebrations, to congratulate:
Hacsev: 100,000 Medal Points

Listening to:
Metallica - Astronomy
Michael Jackson - Beat It

At 1/14/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: I watched through Futurama season 5 on blu-ray rather quickly and now I'm sad.

Well, it's some way to tantalise me on this one. I've put it on the Birthday list, so a few months yet to wait...

At 1/14/12 06:46 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/12 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: Too bad top 10 doesn't look doable before the redesign but at least you have something to look forward to afterwards.

Don't you think I've managed enough milestones for B/P in the last 2 days?

Good point, you already made a lot of achievements and where we stand, not many achievements should come by. Your next total B/P shall be 110,000.

Yeah, I've not been moving all that quick on the B/P front this week - social achievement meant that the pace was hit a lot harder than I expected.

Yeah, I knew you wouldn't be impressed.

I'm just wondering what I've done to warrant being picked on like that :(

Because you have determination to get to #1 and it would be hilarious if someone jumped above you from out of nowhere.

Yeah, but you'll have to pick them carefully, otherwise you'd lose a rank as well!

At 1/14/12 04:07 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/14/12 06:46 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/12 03:40 PM, Haggard wrote: You mean Samoa?

I do indeed - I can't help but get my Pacific Island groups confused :(

Don't worry. I had to look it up as well. ;)

All good - we've learned something new today.

On the other hand, they all will now live a day longer, because they didn't had to go through December 30.

Somewhat related question: Do you say "30th of December"? If not, what do you say? I'm confused right now...

I should say the 30th of December, because I'm against the American way of putting the month first, i.e. December 30th.

Yes, but that wasn't my question. I wasn't sure about the "th" after the "30". But you answered this as well. Thanks. ^^

Woo, I'm helpful, without realising it!

At 1/14/12 04:25 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:59 PM, Coop wrote: No, because of what ladies call a landing strip. There will be no cocks confusing my chin for a vajayjay >:(

I think you should braid it. You know to prevent any such confusions.

My friend's mum said that I need a bead for it. I'm not so sure, to be honest.

I should write a review or two today but I feel I should at least get Skyrim done once and for all.

Listening to:

Crystal Viper - Metal Nation

At 1/14/12 04:07 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/14/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, how dare Christmas be a major celebration at the end of the year.

Really. What a stupid idea to put those holidays right there.

Yeah, who in their right mind would celebrate Christmas right before the year ends?

However, we also walked out of the town centre, there where some more modern houses. I bet they had better windows, too.

Send in a complaint.

Yes, that was a bit... unfortunate? I mean, you getting a job offer of course isn't unforunate, but that it got in the way of our meet up plans was.

Yeah, shit happens but I was at least happy I got work for a month or two.

My brother liked the idea of traveling to Liverpool as well and we had more than enough time to waste.

Anything in Liverpool that interested him?

But at least you have a Cafè Nero about everywhere, and the Double Chocolate Fudge Cake there is real delicacy!

Oh yeah, I know where a few of them are so I would have easily helped you with that.

Both by far. If neither have improved, why bother?

Exactly, that's why it's not a top priority for me to check out their later stuff.

The band I'm listening to right now who are Crystal Viper, the album I have may not have the most original riffs written but you know what, they know how to make their music passionate and fun so I will give them that credit.

I like the symphonic elements of the band.

Speaking of Haggard, I should buy more albums from them. But I realized a big flaw in my "about 2 albums every other month"-plan: I'm going to Singapore in March, so I should save up for this trip a little bit...

Singapore? Yeah, best saving up for that. Much more important than CDs.

At 1/14/12 04:25 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/12/12 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: He must want this February to be better or maybe it will make him hate it even more. :P

Either way I'm glad it's sooner rather than later. I've been doing more genre modding and fixing icons when I come across them. I guess that's not really a hindrance to the redesign, having no genres or tags on several thousand submissions.

And of course, whenever I'm motivated I do a bunch of icons and genres. My main focus right now is to clear the oldest submissions that have yet to have icons. I'm running a long list of submissions to check through and they go all the way to 122xxx. I pick them up while I deposit my alts which is much better than voting on random submissions. I've also given other icon mods assignments for the said submissions.

At 1/15/12 07:03 AM, Odyssic wrote: I hope fast because you liked it so much, not that DVD has only 13 episodes like I read somewhere and was pretty annoyed.

Sadly it's not season 5 as a whole but considering the American releases, it was expected we'd get season 5 with 13 episodes and then "season 6" with the other 13 episodes. There'll be another 13 episodes this year and another 13 next year. They might change plans when they renew their contract but by then I have to see if Futurama have done enough. I will admit that some ideas for season 7 sound terrible but on the other hand, the magic from Futurama might just fix that.

At 1/15/12 08:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/14/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: I watched through Futurama season 5 on blu-ray rather quickly and now I'm sad.

Well, it's some way to tantalise me on this one. I've put it on the Birthday list, so a few months yet to wait...

At least you'll finally watch them. Beware of the holiday special, though. That one is by far the worst Futurama episode.

Good point, you already made a lot of achievements and where we stand, not many achievements should come by. Your next total B/P shall be 110,000.

Yeah, I've not been moving all that quick on the B/P front this week - social achievement meant that the pace was hit a lot harder than I expected.

At least things are happening to your life outside Newgrounds.

Because you have determination to get to #1 and it would be hilarious if someone jumped above you from out of nowhere.

Yeah, but you'll have to pick them carefully, otherwise you'd lose a rank as well!

Because Haggard may jump above me as well?

Top 50 in EXP.

Never would i have thought i would see this day. :o

Level 55 :3

With that vote, you now have 19,000 experience points.

Tweet!

Police Lieutenant and 1,337 saves.

Congrats to:
illuminate: Top 50 in EXP
wismty: Level 55
S-k-y: 19,000 experience points
SCTE3: Exp Rank # 1,111
Winrar1337: Police Lieutenant and 1,337 saves

29,000 Blams

And so ends a fantastic week of B/P achievement for Coop. Shame about the pace :P

I became a General.

You passed 1,000 Blams. Impressive!

Coop tries to finish the next instalment of Blammer, while congratulating:
illuminate: Top 50 Experienced
wismty: Level 53
S-k-y: 19,000 Experience
SCTE3: Ranked #1,111 for Experience
sandwich-eater: General
Gimmick: 1,000 Blams

At 1/15/12 08:26 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/15/12 08:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/14/12 03:21 PM, Bahamut wrote: I watched through Futurama season 5 on blu-ray rather quickly and now I'm sad.

Well, it's some way to tantalise me on this one. I've put it on the Birthday list, so a few months yet to wait...

At least you'll finally watch them. Beware of the holiday special, though. That one is by far the worst Futurama episode.

I'll bear it in mind.

Good point, you already made a lot of achievements and where we stand, not many achievements should come by. Your next total B/P shall be 110,000.

Yeah, I've not been moving all that quick on the B/P front this week - social achievement meant that the pace was hit a lot harder than I expected.

At least things are happening to your life outside Newgrounds.

Yeah, getting shitfaced and then consoling a friend because my ex has offended her. Great stuff.

Because you have determination to get to #1 and it would be hilarious if someone jumped above you from out of nowhere.

Yeah, but you'll have to pick them carefully, otherwise you'd lose a rank as well!

Because Haggard may jump above me as well?

Exactly. You'd feel the hurt, because you'd be one step further from the top 100. I'd have to get back in the top 100, because Voidist cunningly used the double deposit technique to effectively pull away from me. He's just one deposit ahead, but it's still ever so slightly annoying.

Thanks for voting, Auz! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 25,000 experience points. You need 580 more to get to Level 49. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 18 hours, 7 minutes, and 38 seconds.

Sweet!

Kicking off my new series of posts on my review site with a rant on Guns N' Roses being inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Listening to:

Cathedral - Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)

Thanks to:

Asandir
Coop

At 1/15/12 08:55 AM, illuminate wrote: Top 50 in EXP.

Never would i have thought i would see this day. :o

It helps that you pushed off one semi-active user to get there. The free spots for the top 50 are becoming very limited now.

At 1/16/12 03:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/15/12 08:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: At least you'll finally watch them. Beware of the holiday special, though. That one is by far the worst Futurama episode.

I'll bear it in mind.

Well, you could delay it and save it for the 2012 holiday season.

I'm guessing you haven't watched any of these episodes before.

At least things are happening to your life outside Newgrounds.

Yeah, getting shitfaced and then consoling a friend because my ex has offended her. Great stuff.

That's what happened? Fuck that!

Because Haggard may jump above me as well?

Exactly. You'd feel the hurt, because you'd be one step further from the top 100. I'd have to get back in the top 100, because Voidist cunningly used the double deposit technique to effectively pull away from me. He's just one deposit ahead, but it's still ever so slightly annoying.

I would be #101 in that case but then there's that user you were planning to pass so it would work for me. :P

13. Yay.

Congratulations to:

sandwich-eater - Level 28, 22,000 Saves & General
Ship - Level 32
Knuckstrike - 200 Reviews
iscrulz - Level 54
life - Level 51
Hacsev - 100,000 Medal points
illuminate - Top 50 Experience
wismty - Level 55
S-k-y - 19,000 Experience
SCTE3 - Experience rank 1,111
Winrar1337 - Police Lieutenant & 1,337 Saves
Coop - 29,000 Blams
Gimmick - 1,000 Blams
Auz - 25,000 Experience
No36 - Level 17
MaartenC - Level 13

Been a while since I last caught up...

At 1/2/12 06:20 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/2/12 01:24 PM, Auz wrote: You know, I always thought one of the main reasons our football isn't popular in the US is because the TV stations can't stuff a commercial break in every three minutes. Unlike baseball, where there's 10 seconds of action and then five minutes of fuck all happening.

My thoughts exactly. I mean, just imagine this: They even pause football games to show commercials on Television! Oh fucked up is that?

Yeah, I agree. They don't do it as much in basketball, right? That seems like the only sport I'd be interested in on American television.

Of course that might still be a lot of waiting, but now we have coaches and players bitching and moaning and arguing for five minutes every time there's an arguable decision by the ref.

Yeah, but we have the fourth official for that. Coaches bitch at him, not at the ref.
Also, this reminds me a bit of Stuttgart vs. Bayern where one of Stuttgarts players was sent off with two yellow cards. Both times he fouled Robben. Stuttgarts coach was furious and later accused Robben that he was overreacting and that he was diving. Some people even claimed that Robben was provocating those fouls. One person said: "He's stopping right before the foul, he's looking where the other player is and then jumps. Robben should've gotten a yellow card here."
I don't know if this guy was serious or just trolling, but sadly enough this is very similar to what the coach of Stuttgart said.

Robbens comment to that: "This is sad, how can he say such things?"

Btw. those fouls where two very clear fouls and it really is beyond me how anybody can say otherwise. Too bad I can't find any youtube videos at the moment...

Well there are some attackers who are very good at provoking fouls, but a foul is still a foul. That defender probably should've been more careful after that first yellow, right?

Is that even like... an official job? :p

Well, they have to visit some trainings, that's for sure. But they are not professionals, as far as I know. But they should be professionals, so they can make a living as a ref and as a linseman and they can fully concentrate on their job as a ref. This can only help the sport.

Yeah, but who's gonna pay their salary?

Maybe they could have the clubs pay a yearly contribution to pay for professional linesman. Then have the rich clubs pay more than the poor ones.

Exactly! The 12-hour system is actually pretty stupid in my opinion. I don't know why we don't all switch to the 24-hour as the standard one.

Because people are stupid!

... That is why they must have these "Keep your hands on board" warnings at roller coaster rides!

At 1/3/12 03:26 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/2/12 01:24 PM, Auz wrote: I only recently really discovered E.L.O. actually when I bought Out of the Blue from the pawn shop. Pretty good album allround in my opinion and I do like Mr Blue Sky.

The strange thing is that ELO made more of an impact in the States than the UK - they were never massive here, but they have almost cult status overseas.

Oh well, that happened to more artists. Many never managed to make it across the pond from our side either.

Hasn't Robbie Williams been trying for 20 years now?

I got three versions actually. The third, and my favourite one, is the one from Live in Pompeii.

Ah, live versions can be better, though some can be worse as well :P

Depends on the band I guess. Some bands aren't very good live, or their music just doesn't really work in large arenas.

Pink Floyd sounds very good live though and from what I've heard from my parents their shows were amazing.

And yeah, SOYCD is one of my favourite songs of all time. It's one of the songs I voted on in our annual top 2000 best songs of all time list. I liked to see it ending up at #16.

I'd have a tough time trying to pick some of my favourite songs of all time. I'm too eclectic.

Well I tend to have a hard time with picking favourite songs by my favourite bands as well, but I just decided to pick 2 songs max per band and didn't put them in a certain order or anything.

I might change some votes next year, but songs like SOYCD, Comfortably Numb, The End by The Doors and Stairway to Heaven by Led Zep are songs I know I will always love.

At 12/29/11 06:49 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/28/11 10:45 AM, Auz wrote:

Haven't heard of it and from the looks of it there's not even a release date set for the Netherlands yet. It does seem to get good reviews though, so I might check it out as well if it's ever released here.

The joy of watching Seann William Scott getting punched in the face might be how I get my best friend to finally watch one of his films, for a change.

That'd be fun to see. I used to like him in American Pie, but turned out this guy can really only play one kind of role.

At 1/3/12 08:45 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/2/12 01:24 PM, Auz wrote: Nope. This Deus Ex Machina and alien weaponry (Cow Mangler etc.) shit feels very out of place.

Ugh, yeah, all that nonsense with game promotions. The only items I'll get from them are games I actually want.

I heard a lot about Deus Ex Machina and it seemed interesting to me, but it just doesn't belong in Team Fortress.

Still using The Machina though, since it's an awesome Sniper Rifle.

At 1/4/12 12:39 PM, Bahamut wrote:

Not my thing.

Well there you have it Auz. Manowar and Slayer, not Coop's things.

Well... this turned into an anti-climax.

At 1/16/12 11:25 AM, Bahamut wrote: Kicking off my new series of posts on my review site with a rant on Guns N' Roses being inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Well, I'm actually more in favour of Guns N' Roses than ABBA. I heard they were going to be introduced in the Hall of Fame soon (or it might have already happened), but how are they Rock and Roll for fucks sake? I mean, sure they've made their impact on pop music, but they've never had anything to do with Rock or Roll for that matter.

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