I figured out several things between 2006 and now:
-Family is the most important thing.
-If you don't pay attention or you're distracted or focused on one thing way too much, you may miss something important and later think "Why didn't I see that coming?"
-You can change to try to please everyone around you, but it's almost impossible to change them.
-Never trust a long-time-well-established-supposedly-trustworthy person you met online, even if it's someone from a forum dedicated to the Spectrum. They may not have the decency to reply to your messages, even if they owe you something. You will not expose them to public opinion because you're better than that, but they're not the nice, decent, honest person they appear to be. You may be stabbed in the back by someone you thought was going to be a friend for life. You always reply to their messages, but they ignore yours.
-You may think you have everything figured out, but life has a way of punching you in the face when you least expect it.
I'm at a loss to explain how I managed to remain unaware of such an influential writer, speaker and thinker as Christopher Hitchens until three years after his death. It was only after one of his playlists appeared out of the blue in my YouTube "What To Watch" list that I became aware of what I'd been missing. At least now - with some 471,000 video files listed on YouTube recording his speeches, interviews and debates - I still have the opportunity to do something towards making up for that egregious omission.
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"Why are you going back?"
"Because they told me not to."
The rapper M&M and the Rapper Enyme-nim (How I always pronounced it) are in fact the same person, and neither of them are Fat Boy Slim as I first thought. Found that out at the beginning of the year.
The rapper M&M and the Rapper Enyme-nim (How I always pronounced it) are in fact the same person, and neither of them are Fat Boy Slim as I first thought. Found that out at the beginning of the year.
That's going in my sig :lol:
Fatboy Slim has about 30 other aliases but Eminem/M&M/Enyme-nim has never been one of them.
Still if you're not down with da kidz I suppose you can be forgiven... and there was a bootleg/mashup going round years ago with Enyme-nim rapping over a Fatboy Slim track, perhaps you heard that once and it stuck.
A female friend of mine is often reminded of the day she once said:
"Oh yeah, Led Zeppelin, that's the band with Jimmy Nail and Robert Palmer"
:grin:
:lol::lol::lol:
my mum does some of them muck up's , with words. I can't say on here the funniest one, but when I told my sister she almost fell of the chair laughing. If I meet any of you in person, remind me about the time she went to the posh hospital and a certain food delivery company.
she did one, when they were watching challenge maybe 6 months ago when I was in the same room... wheel of fortune... job
title **** *******
which she replied lazy b'stard.. it was in reality "bank manager".. then again she may have been right :D
I'm at a loss to explain how I managed to remain unaware of such an influential writer, speaker and thinker as Christopher Hitchens until three years after his death.
God Is Not Great
One of his best polemics.
The western world needs more contrarians like Hitchens, and fewer yes men and women who are fearful.
I never knew you could eject from the plane in Harrier Attack until someone here mentioned it a couple of years back. It put a whole new spin on the game for me, trying to eject myself into the path of a plane or rocket. :-)
Last night I worked out a reasonably failsafe path through the Vat in Manic Miner. It's taken me the best part of 30 years.
That's a pig of a level - I've traversed it a few times now (never managed it BITD either) but always seem to forget which is the best route and waste at least one life on it.
I never understand people having a problem with The Vat. I'm not particularly good at Manic Miner (and often struggle on Eugene's Lair and Processing Plant) but I find The Vat pretty easy. You've got all the time in the world in there and can drop down at your leisure or jump/walk along to delay your fall. As long as you take it easy and don't panic I think it's ok. I don't use any particular 'tactic' and it's quite free-form compared to some levels where there's really only one way to do it.
I always seem to whack my head on one of those little bastard spider things!
+1. It doesn't help that the two at the bottom seem to be arranged in a way that makes it difficult/impossible to do a running jump to avoid the kangaroo.
I used to find having more freedom in the sinky platform bit actually made it worse, as I kept trying new routes which didn't work...
In the past it's just been trial and (mostly) error, but I resisted looking at a walk through as I like the challenge of figuring out a route. Now I've figured one out it's quite easy..!
Recently I'd been listening to the Album Frankie Goes to Hollywood a lot and it got me thinking 'You know after all these years and all the hype I've still never watched that Frankie Goes to Hollywood film'. I now find out there never was one was there?
Nope. But so many thought that, that Barry Levinson probably made Toys.
That particular sample seemed to fit the pace and action for a few minutes, or the action seemed to fit that sample somehow.
The Mirror Song from that film - not sure who recorded it, but Robin Williams sings it in the film version, was about things that never happened but were hard to forget, or something like that, but the lyrics only really made sense in the film. However people actually seemed to like it, ok I liked it. Very cleverly they used it in the film for the scene when Robin William's character fools the security with a mirror and and pop video while they dodge the surveliance cameras. It's a brilliant scene, as one of the security guards gets into the music video set up as a diversion, and then the other one gradually gets into it but questions if they are lip syncing, and the other says "Nah this looks like its real", but Robin steps back through the slit in the projection screen deliberately in full view of the guards, to evade them, and they still think its part of a music video.
Nice ideas, but the movie was too clever for its own good sometimes.
Riddle solved?
Either I am inventing this next bit but I thought there was something about the director setting the scene up without the security guards knowing what was going on, so that their reactions were more natural. Can someone tell me if there is any truth in that?
Found out that Kubricks movie the shinning was about the decimation of the American Indians, the holocaust, an admission that Kubrick fabricated the moon landing footage and a whole bunch of other stuff not related to Stephen kings novel.
Well given that Steven King novels are not about vampires, and haunted hotels, I really don't know where I am now. :lol:
Yeah you get that sort of thing with some books and movies nowadays. I think you might have rolled a few into one there though.
Well The Frankie Goes To Hollywood band name was taken from a newspaper headline when Frank Sinatra began making movies.
As for The Shining stuff, well I never read such a load crap!! Total and absolute rubbish, it's just an adaptation from the book which Kubrick completely ruined.
Well The Frankie Goes To Hollywood band name was taken from a newspaper headline when Frank Sinatra began making movies.
As for The Shining stuff, well I never read such a load crap!! Total and absolute rubbish, it's just an adaptation from the book which Kubrick completely ruined.
I thought the film was great, though it did differ from the books in some aspects, but to me it's good enough to be viewed as an alternate story to the book's version.
I thought the film was great, though it did differ from the books in some aspects, but to me it's good enough to be viewed as an alternate story to the book's version.
Stephen King hated it and wasn't happy the way Kubrick filmed and changed it, so that's good enough for me...
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My older brother kept telling me im crap at everything but I didnt listen.
I suspected he might be right a few years ago!
As a kid I always heard the names and assumed they were the same guy.
Also, "Ray Charles" it turns out is a different person to "Ray Alan and Lord Charles".
-Family is the most important thing.
-If you don't pay attention or you're distracted or focused on one thing way too much, you may miss something important and later think "Why didn't I see that coming?"
-You can change to try to please everyone around you, but it's almost impossible to change them.
-Never trust a long-time-well-established-supposedly-trustworthy person you met online, even if it's someone from a forum dedicated to the Spectrum. They may not have the decency to reply to your messages, even if they owe you something. You will not expose them to public opinion because you're better than that, but they're not the nice, decent, honest person they appear to be. You may be stabbed in the back by someone you thought was going to be a friend for life. You always reply to their messages, but they ignore yours.
-You may think you have everything figured out, but life has a way of punching you in the face when you least expect it.
--
"Why are you going back?"
"Because they told me not to."
That's going in my sig :lol:
Fatboy Slim has about 30 other aliases but Eminem/M&M/Enyme-nim has never been one of them.
Still if you're not down with da kidz I suppose you can be forgiven... and there was a bootleg/mashup going round years ago with Enyme-nim rapping over a Fatboy Slim track, perhaps you heard that once and it stuck.
A female friend of mine is often reminded of the day she once said:
"Oh yeah, Led Zeppelin, that's the band with Jimmy Nail and Robert Palmer"
:grin:
:lol::lol::lol:
my mum does some of them muck up's , with words. I can't say on here the funniest one, but when I told my sister she almost fell of the chair laughing. If I meet any of you in person, remind me about the time she went to the posh hospital and a certain food delivery company.
she did one, when they were watching challenge maybe 6 months ago when I was in the same room... wheel of fortune... job
title **** *******
which she replied lazy b'stard.. it was in reality "bank manager".. then again she may have been right :D
God Is Not Great
One of his best polemics.
The western world needs more contrarians like Hitchens, and fewer yes men and women who are fearful.
Lol, that's more than likely as a couple of younger chaps where I worked listened to that sort of thing. Glad to have made you smile. :)
More like Ned Zeppelin
duct tape, not duck tape.
Errmmm ... ;-)
That's a pig of a level - I've traversed it a few times now (never managed it BITD either) but always seem to forget which is the best route and waste at least one life on it.
Technically yes, if you don't mind dying of asphyxiation :-P
I always seem to whack my head on one of those little bastard spider things!
+1. It doesn't help that the two at the bottom seem to be arranged in a way that makes it difficult/impossible to do a running jump to avoid the kangaroo.
I used to find having more freedom in the sinky platform bit actually made it worse, as I kept trying new routes which didn't work...
In the past it's just been trial and (mostly) error, but I resisted looking at a walk through as I like the challenge of figuring out a route. Now I've figured one out it's quite easy..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-d33ImK4c
That particular sample seemed to fit the pace and action for a few minutes, or the action seemed to fit that sample somehow.
The Mirror Song from that film - not sure who recorded it, but Robin Williams sings it in the film version, was about things that never happened but were hard to forget, or something like that, but the lyrics only really made sense in the film. However people actually seemed to like it, ok I liked it. Very cleverly they used it in the film for the scene when Robin William's character fools the security with a mirror and and pop video while they dodge the surveliance cameras. It's a brilliant scene, as one of the security guards gets into the music video set up as a diversion, and then the other one gradually gets into it but questions if they are lip syncing, and the other says "Nah this looks like its real", but Robin steps back through the slit in the projection screen deliberately in full view of the guards, to evade them, and they still think its part of a music video.
Nice ideas, but the movie was too clever for its own good sometimes.
Riddle solved?
Either I am inventing this next bit but I thought there was something about the director setting the scene up without the security guards knowing what was going on, so that their reactions were more natural. Can someone tell me if there is any truth in that?
Yeah you get that sort of thing with some books and movies nowadays. I think you might have rolled a few into one there though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4keCVDhZE4w
by Yolanda and Steve
I think they're terrific . :-)
But in case that not answered everything, The Mirror song sounds a little bit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk
Which also (if I was good with dates I could say for sure) probably gave rise to this intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZpRJYPDNQ
All clear?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_%28ZRS-4%29
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I think they were also going to attach interceptor fighters to heavy bombers too for added protection.
As for The Shining stuff, well I never read such a load crap!! Total and absolute rubbish, it's just an adaptation from the book which Kubrick completely ruined.
I thought the film was great, though it did differ from the books in some aspects, but to me it's good enough to be viewed as an alternate story to the book's version.