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    #5221
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    I don't know what you are talking about. But when they made Wolverine come from a race of kinda wolvish species and that he was the one responsible for the whole lying to himself identity fiasco..it pissed me off.
    Satan is my spirit animal

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      #5222
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      Heh, I didn't hear about that.

      Easiest analogy for what's appening with Star Wars right now, the woman and the dinosaur in my avatar are slightly obscure Expanded Universe characters. So think of them as two lesser known mutants from 616 Marvel. Disney has just declared almost all EU to be non-canon. So by decree of the Mouse, both characters are retroactively Ultimates. They no longer exist in the 616 timeline unless Disney brings them back in at some later date. Now take that premise and apply it to hundreds if not thousands of characters, many of which are less obscure than Nomi and Thon. As an added benefit, I have no faith that Disney will actually print more in the current EU timeline so to continue the analogy, everyone just became Ultimate and Disney has no desire to write more in the Ultimates universe.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        #5223
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        Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
        Heh, I didn't hear about that.

        Easiest analogy for what's appening with Star Wars right now, the woman and the dinosaur in my avatar are slightly obscure Expanded Universe characters. So think of them as two lesser known mutants from 616 Marvel. Disney has just declared almost all EU to be non-canon. So by decree of the Mouse, both characters are retroactively Ultimates. They no longer exist in the 616 timeline unless Disney brings them back in at some later date. Now take that premise and apply it to hundreds if not thousands of characters, many of which are less obscure than Nomi and Thon. As an added benefit, I have no faith that Disney will actually print more in the current EU timeline so to continue the analogy, everyone just became Ultimate and Disney has no desire to write more in the Ultimates universe.
        That is really accurate. Really really accurate. I have some hope Mara may return, simply because it has been confirmed that Disney made a wig of Karen Gillian's hair and the Star Wars people took it.... But basically my shelf of novels is relegated to a corner that doesn't matter to them anymore *sigh*.
        hey look, I have a book! And look I have a second one too!

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          #5224
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          The following nano-rant is not aimed at members of this board, but people I dealt with today:

          I can't stand rubber-neckers. Is the accident/crime scene/dead guy really THAT interesting? Jesus, move along. If you want gore porn, there are websites for that, you sick freaks.

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            #5225
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            Originally posted by Luce View Post
            The following nano-rant is not aimed at members of this board, but people I dealt with today:

            I can't stand rubber-neckers. Is the accident/crime scene/dead guy really THAT interesting? Jesus, move along. If you want gore porn, there are websites for that, you sick freaks.
            On my annoyance scale, of 1 to 10, those sleazeballs general peg the meter, pushing it up above 10. That is, until it's THEM involved in the accident. Then THEY want everyone to stop gawking, too.

            Rubber-neckers must die. Kill them with fire. Fire ants and molasses.




            "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand

            "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

            "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain

            "The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp


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              #5226
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              Originally posted by ChainLightning View Post
              On my annoyance scale, of 1 to 10, those sleazeballs general peg the meter, pushing it up above 10. That is, until it's THEM involved in the accident. Then THEY want everyone to stop gawking, too.

              Rubber-neckers must die. Kill them with fire. Fire ants and molasses.
              I understand the people that pause for a second and look. It's natural, because it's not something you see every day. It's the bastards that stand there fascinated by it. And when ONE guy does it, another dozen will, too.

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                #5227
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                Originally posted by Luce View Post
                I understand the people that pause for a second and look. It's natural, because it's not something you see every day. It's the bastards that stand there fascinated by it. And when ONE guy does it, another dozen will, too.
                I think that's the difference between some people being curious, and wondering what happened, and other people being spectators, and aficionados of blood and crumpled bodies.




                "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand

                "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

                "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain

                "The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp


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                  #5228
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                  My new computer just up and decided it doesn't want to work with my monitor last night.
                  Trust is knowing someone or something well enough to have a good idea of their motivations and character, for good or for ill. People often say trust when they mean faith.

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                    #5229
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                    I really really don't want to work tomorrow. Really.
                    �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
                    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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                      #5230
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                      Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
                      And the majority of Star Wars EU, including the couple pieces I really liked are no longer canon. I am not pleased.
                      This bugs the poo outta me!
                      http://catcrowsnow.blogspot.com/

                      But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness.... Which could obviously only be redeemed by passing through the fiery inferno of my digestive tract.
                      ~Jim Butcher

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                        #5231
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                        Bah! Our Java language teacher is a.... I am not sure about how to call him. Tomorrow, there was ment to be a gov Arabic exam. It was being planned for 3 weeks. Suddenly, today, he has put a Java gov. exam. Guess what? Exactly on the time of the Arabic exam! So I had to go to the director, who re-put the Arabic exam on Wednesday. It's not fair at all!!!!
                        "Fair means that everybody gets what they need. And the only way to get that is to make it happen yourself."



                        Since I adore cats, I might write something strange or unusual in my comment.Cats are awesome!!! ^_^

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                          #5232
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                          This isn't so much an angry rant as it is a confusion rant.

                          I keep mumbling "doodley-doodley-doo" for some weird reason...surely my voice can't be that bored?

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                            #5233
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                            My mom filled out one of my college forms for a college I've never heard of that has the same abbreviation as the one I'm going to. It says in big green letters the name of the school across the top...
                            Then she says it's the college's fault for sending it back...
                            Circe

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                              #5234
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                              While at work today, one of my bosses stacked some large boxes on a dolly right behind the register area. We aren't allowed to put anything there. We were really busy. I went to go get the item number off the box because my customer was going to buy it and then we had to roll it out to her car. My foot tripped on the dolly wheel. I took a straight slow mo nose dive going towards the floor. I caught myself then kept falling. Finally reaching out my hands and banging straight into the boxes. Thus saving my actual teeth in the process. Once I was able to stand up right I raised my arms in the air and shouted 'I'm alive!' The sheer amount of adrenaline racing through my body caused my back to just ache sharply. Eventually my boss took me and the other boss in back and gave us a talking to. He said this is a final safety warning. And if something happens again like this, we are done. He wasn't as much mad *though he was* as scared. He was like see what could happen!?! I could have lost you! And the other boss said he was completely responsible for it. We laughed a bit. But my boss was shaken. And he knew I was too. It was a kin to a mother yelling at her kid who tried to cross the street without looking.

                              Needless to say I literally saw in my mind's eye all my teeth crunching out of my mouth at the idea of hitting the floor.

                              He and my other boss then pointed to my bewbies and said they saved my life.
                              Satan is my spirit animal

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                                #5235
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                                That was an awesome story. Danger, excitement, a happy ending and sexual harassment all rolled into one.
                                Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
                                -Erik Erikson

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