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Punic Hebil
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posted 17 May 2013 00:12 EDT (US)

The Man with the Laughs

Gooooooooood-byyyyyyye Vietnaaaaam! That's right, I'm history... I'm outta here. I got the lucky ticket home, baby. Rollin, rollin, rollin'... keep them wagons rollin', rawhide! Yeah, that's right... the final Adrian Cronauer broadcast... and this one is brought to you by our friends at the Pentagon. Remember the people who brought you Korea? That's right, the U.S. Army. If it's being done correctly, here or abroad, it's probably not being done by the Army.

In honor of Robin Williams, I've decided to forsake the rules and simple post a lot of what made him special to us: his humor and ability to make us laugh!!

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Jafar: You stay out of this!
Genie: [Weakly] Jafar, Jafar, he's our man; if he can't do it, great!

When Christopher Reeve was in the hospital after his accident, Robin came to visit him. Reeve said this about that surprise visit:

Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. He announced that he was my proctologist, and that he had to examine me immediately...it was Robin Williams...for the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.

When Stephan Spielberg was filming "Schindler's List", Robin would call him to cheer him up. I think I only called him once, maybe twice. I called him when I was representing People for the Valdheimers Association. A society devoted to helping raise money to help older Germans who had forgotten everything before 1945. I remember him laughing and going 'thank you.'"

WARNING: Language

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[This message has been edited by Terikel Grayhair (edited 12-13-2014 @ 02:35 PM).]

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DarthDovah101
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posted 19 January 2014 05:46 EDT (US) 1226 / 2504

Whole family watched Pitch Perfect on Christmas Day. Best bit is definitely inclusion of Simple Minds.

Jetkill Fastmurder
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(id: Mayank Sharma)

posted 20 January 2014 01:22 EDT (US) 1227 / 2504

So guys we got a 1200 AD Asia Map Game going on. You can join it here.

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 20 January 2014 02:02 EDT (US) 1228 / 2504

@Darth

In previously did not like the 'mash up' versions of songs- but the combination of Titanium and 500 miles is epic. Don't you forget about me is a classic and a great implementation.

I love the idea and running if map games- but I don't think I could go to the effort of starting playing one just to have it collapse and burn again. So much effort and thinking wasted..

Terikel- I saw that village in Norway burnt down. Where were you last night? No drunken revenge raids on your homeland I hope.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it- George Santayana
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are- David C. McCullough
Wars not make one great- Yoda

Terikel Grayhair
Imperator
(id: Terikel706)

posted 20 January 2014 06:50 EDT (US) 1229 / 2504

That village was only a few hundred years old. It did not even exist as a daydream in my day, so I did not know it.

It was, however, very pretty before turning to ash.

They have no idea how this started. Some schools of thought running around are that it was the work of a satanist, or some asshole smoking in bed, or faulty wiring. I think the two last one far more likely than the first- the church was not hit, after all.

A shame, but with enough pictures, some lumber, and a bit of hard work, the structures can be rebuilt as they were, leaving only the memories and the mementos of the people as lost forever. Hopefully they can rebuild it with better fire-protection this time.

Sixteen homes and a warehouse burnt down. I just heard on the news that one guy saw a fire on the outside of a house. Arsonists entering the ring?

Luckily nobody was killed in the blazes.

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Awesome Eagle
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posted 20 January 2014 16:37 EDT (US) 1230 / 2504

At least no one was killed or injured. That is a silver lining i suppose.

Still- the heritage of the village will hopefully be somehow kept with surviving houses- and as you say, possible rebuilds/ Could even be a good project for some 'specialist' people who want more information and practical knowledge on building that particular style of houses from that era(if such knowledge is needed/ not known already).

Alex_the_Bold
Legionary

posted 21 January 2014 17:19 EDT (US) 1231 / 2504

Well, luckily no one was killed in this disaster. I wonder though, how were these people feeling while thir houses burned. It must have been terrible for them to see the destruction of everything they had worked for...

Invincibility lies in defence, while the possibility of victory in the attack -Sun Tzu
Akouson me, pataxon de (hit me, but first listen to me)-Themistocles to Euribiadis prior to the battle of Salamis.

Hannibal the Conqueror
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posted 22 January 2014 12:05 EDT (US) 1232 / 2504

Good thing no one got killed or injured. I hope the reconstruction efforts will bring the village back to how it used to be.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 22 January 2014 14:34 EDT (US) 1233 / 2504

So- News providers- who does everyone use?

I normally stick to my BBC World News, but if something interesting is going on in Australia then SBS app it is. I would like to augment these with a new- at least somewhat reliable news service.

DarthDovah101
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posted 22 January 2014 15:59 EDT (US) 1234 / 2504

BBC News mainly, especially for sport.

The I when I can get it due to it being a very cheap newspaper that has serious and light stuff in it.

The Guardian for healthcare news, since BBC Health is a bit meh now.

Ischenous
Legionary

posted 22 January 2014 21:01 EDT (US) 1235 / 2504

At Uni I tend to get most my news over the internet. I find the Daily mail (which my parents get) is well, as it always is and the guardian is pretty much as bad, just usually the opposite side.

In fact, now that I think about it, most of the major news pieces I've found out about in the past 2 years have been over teamspeak and then googling them for more information.

Calling all new people. USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION before asking a question. Thank you.
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Punic Hebil
Centurion
(id: Punic Hoplite)

posted 22 January 2014 23:11 EDT (US) 1236 / 2504

BBC for the main stuff, Al Jazeera if it pertains to the Middle East and Asia, as I find they do a rather decent job in the Asian news.

And then for American news I go NPR and then a local Minnesotan news provider.

I am the Carthaginian who became an angel, and surrendered his wings for a life on the sea of battle.

My magic screen is constantly bombarded with nubile young things eager to please these old eyes. This truly is a wonderful period in which to exist! - Terikel the Deflowerer

Scenter102
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posted 23 January 2014 14:24 EDT (US) 1237 / 2504

I usually rely on what shows up on reddit for news.

As to the Daily Mail, I read it regularly.

General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 23 January 2014 19:29 EDT (US) 1238 / 2504

Yeah, if you're looking for a good world news source, don't look at US stuff. They're very much focused on the US, and typically so biased as to be unreliable.

I typically just use Yahoo from their front page for random news, or Google something if I'm actually looking for information.

Also, today is my 3 year anniversary in the forums.

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Alex_the_Bold
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posted 24 January 2014 09:34 EDT (US) 1239 / 2504

I tend to use the BBC as my main source of news from around the world and various Greek media for the Greek stuff...

BTW, happy "anniversary" GS

Hannibal the Conqueror
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posted 24 January 2014 11:58 EDT (US) 1240 / 2504

I use BBC and a couple other worldwide networks for world news.

I use various media for Syrian news.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

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Jetkill Fastmurder
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posted 24 January 2014 23:06 EDT (US) 1241 / 2504

I don't much require world news at this point, so I am just content with google news, twitter and the newspaper in the morning.

Terikel Grayhair
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(id: Terikel706)

posted 25 January 2014 04:53 EDT (US) 1242 / 2504

Online I check VG (A Norwegian newspaper) and the BBC regularly. If a post somewhere leads me to look deeper, then I examine those sources as well.

I do this also if I feel the BBC or VG may be biased on an issue- surprisingly, this is quite often, but not as slanted as the few American news sources I used to follow.

For local news I read a free hardcopies of Metro, the Spits, the Wassenaarder, and sometimes the Dutch Telegraf.

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Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
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posted 25 January 2014 23:42 EDT (US) 1243 / 2504

Happy Australia Day TWH..

Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 26 January 2014 02:15 EDT (US) 1244 / 2504

AE, have you been listening to the top 100?

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 26 January 2014 16:11 EDT (US) 1245 / 2504

I do this also if I feel the BBC or VG may be biased on an issue- surprisingly, this is quite often, but not as slanted as the few American news sources I used to follow.

Is the VG privately owned or more like the BBC? US news sources, being all private have only the incentive to their story over other sources, not actually report in an unbiased manner.

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 26 January 2014 16:40 EDT (US) 1246 / 2504

AE, have you been listening to the top 100?

No unfortunately, as i had to work. However i was very pleased to hear that 2 Arctic Monkeys songs reached the top 10! Woo!

That Royals song by Lorde is everywhere!

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 27 January 2014 05:06 EDT (US) 1247 / 2504

The depressing thing about Royals is that apparently Lorde wrote it when she was 16. I didn't need any more evidence that I'd wasted my life thus far.

house won this

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 27 January 2014 06:00 EDT (US) 1248 / 2504

Yes- if she says off drugs then there is a bright future for her. I heard that she got scouted and signed a contract when she was 13, and was put on the back burner to mature her voice for a few years- although i cannot verify this with a source.

Terikel Grayhair
Imperator
(id: Terikel706)

posted 27 January 2014 07:16 EDT (US) 1249 / 2504

GS- VG is a private newspaper.

Like in the US, it has no requirement to post unbiased news. It slants it heavily to make it sensational, because their number-one requirement is to sell newspapers.

However, the state-run NRK network is also biased- in this case to the left unless it concerns Israel, and then it is toward the Muslims. Anything the Right does, gets trashed, anything the Left does (not matter how stupid) is lauded. If the Palestinians shoot rockets into Israel for a week- not even a soundbyte. If Israel shoots back, front-page news of how that horrible country is indiscriminately and without provocation firing heavy weapons onto that poor population in Gaza...

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 27 January 2014 11:25 EDT (US) 1250 / 2504

Yes- if she says off drugs then there is a bright future for her

If she specifically stays off drugs?

house won this

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