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Never judge a book by its cover!
by newyork-nightmare- 5 replies
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Saw this on my wife facebook wall and thought I would share it. Never judge a book by its cover. At an event in blistering heat this Marine had to stand at salute the entire time, to cool him down this group of bikers gave him cold water and fanned him.
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Aussies
by revbouncer- 1 follower
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I'm not much of a recruiter, for a start I can't even paste links on these forums with my browser, same for GTA forums. You guys don't really notice but this place is dead for 12hrs each day. We need more Aussies and Kiwis. Can there be some sort of recruitment drive aimed at the southern hemisphere. The prime hours for me in this game are like a graveyard here. If we do jag the occasional Aussie or Kiwi, they wont hang around long as there's no one for them to play with. We need a full on push so we are truly a 24/7 clan.
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Reminder: Mothers Day this weekend
by shadowvan- 3 replies
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if any of you are as bad as i am, then remember that mothers day is this sunday, 11th get your flowers/cards now before theyre all gone by the weekend. picked mine up from the store today
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Over the Edge!!!
by newyork-nightmare- 0 replies
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If your too young to know what the hell I'm talking about. Open Netflix and watch this classic movie. I remember seeing it on HBO when HBO first came out. Damn I'm old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ereen__ld8g
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For my thrifty friends who like beer!
by newyork-nightmare- 1 follower
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Found this today and thought I would share it. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/02/19/how-to-make-a-drinking-glass-from-a-bottle/
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If the crew were to visit you.....
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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what would be the 1 thing they must see within 50 miles of your house and why? I live in the sticks, not much within 50 miles other than corn and bean fields. I would say we would hit the liquor store and load up on some beer and go to the state park next to my house and spend the day fishing and drinking. It's not exciting but it is relaxing.
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I hate RTL , RTL 2 , VOX , ZDF and ARD
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I feel it is necessary that everyone understands that I am a big deal now.....
by handcuff_charlie- 12 replies
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I have one subscriber to my youtube channel. Aren't moms the best?
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Online experiments...
by bullittblitz- 20 replies
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There are some experiments I wanna try online... How many minigun rounds to bring down a tank? How many players will the heavy sniper kill at once? Will a Titan kill a player with a bounty on the ocean floor? We could line up stolen cars and blow them up at once to see if we can make a XDBX logo visible from the sky at night.
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YT Videos...
by bullittblitz- 3 replies
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I did not post this under random funny videos because not all will be funny...Feel free to comment and post your own... Anything funny, scary, thought provoking you name it...If you enjoyed it, share it...Here we go... Not all of mine will be GTA related and yours dont have to be either of course... No glitches are hacks related to GTA V or I will send David to your house with his gas powered weedeater.
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Extra Terrestrials
by JKan420- 16 replies
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The fact that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, and hundreds of billions of galaxies in our Universe, is proof in itself that when it comes to intelligent life, us humans are far from alone. In fact, it is almost certain that there exists civilizations throughout the Universe which are not just thousands of years advanced beyond our civilization, but millions of years advanced. For me the question is not 'do they exist?', but rather 'have they visited earth, and if so, why?' I believe the answer is a resounding yes, but I do not have any idea why we are being visited. I have been interested in E.T.'s since the age of 11, when, in 1998, I saw a 'U.F.O…
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Need a puppy name
by Locust_cnd- 21 replies
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Here's a pic of our new lil girl she will be coming home in about a month and were not sure what to name her, we want something unique and I'm not very fond of naming animals "people" names If it helps she's a brown/ brindle with white spots and four white paws and she will be about 100-120 lbs when grown breed is American bandoge mastif it's the pup on the right side of the pic
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jokes
by ssracingn2- 1 follower
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Ok I always have liked a good joke. So we don't offend anyone you have to keep them cleaner than locust dirty weed on 4/20. Sorry locust I will surrender like the French on that one. Damn it sorry I don't know what that was aboot. So I will start little Johnny was setting in class and had to go to the bathroom. He raised his hand the teacher tells him he can speak. Little johnny says he has to go piss. Teacher tells him the proper way to say it is urinate and he can't go to the bathroom until he uses urinate in a sentence. So he raises his hand again and gets called upon. He stands up and says urinate you would be a ten if you have bigger boobs.
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A Pony for Matusware :)
by Xyon14- 9 replies
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Here is that pony you wanted... um .... abducted unicorn I think the Lord Gummy Bear has stolen its horn for its magic though
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If you won a large lottery....
by BustyRose- 9 replies
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what would your life be like? Would you buy an island, cars, game store, mansion? I would buy and island and move my family and best friends there, build tthe biggest mansion possible with complete staff for my family, smaller mansions for the in laws and friends and the biggest diesel truck money can buy in crew blue. Tutors for the kids, cuz well we live on island. And a complete surround sound theater. I am sure there is other things, what would you do with millions +?
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April Fools' Day
by Cotick20- 2 replies
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I was just curious -- does everyone around the world celebrate this unofficial holiday!... And aslo what is the funniest practical joke that you did to someone or was done to you? In my case, one April Fools' day when I was a teenager -- my friends staged a fake fight in front of our house -- it included fake blood, hockey sticks, etc... My parents got so scared and upset -- that my dad wanted to call the police...
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Road rage? 1 2
by Pb76- 30 replies
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What stuff annoys you about driving IRL? My pet hate is when approaching a roundabout and giving way to a vehicle on the right, the vehicle leaves the roundabout without indicating, leaving me sat like a twat having not needed to slow down or stop but having done so because some lazy git can't be bothered to operate an indicator stalk. You can't point out their failings because they've passed you and are disappearing in your rear view mirror.
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Funny memes!
by Cotick20- 3 replies
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Thats just too funny not to post!!!
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Non American Opinion
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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First off no offense meant to anyone I was reading one of the other topics that discusses future GTA cities and most seem to think they will be in the USA and it made me think to ask this. Most games I have ever played that involve real world countries the games have the USA taking on forces in another country (Usually Russia). SO, if you do not live in the USA are the games that way or are they made different for each country and have say England vs Russia type thing, or are you forced to play a role as an AMerican? I always thought if wierd (especially since alot of games are Japanese made) Hope I made sense
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How long have you been using forums?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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With Facebook and Twitter and other social media outlets forums have lost a bit of there place (some say forums are dead but I disagree). How long have you been using forums? How have you seen changes since the advent of FB? I have been using forums for 10 years or so, the software is much more advanced now. I do notice with the exception of niche forums like this that more of the users seems to be older. I think it is because younger users tend to go f the FB route and not exploring the net.
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Spring/Summer things
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Soon winter will be over and for many of us our game time will slow down some to do outdoors stuff. What kind of stuff will you be doing. My time will be down some, I will still play every evening but daytime weekends will have other things going on. Yard work and house projects mostly. Plus flying my RC planes, this will be my first year as a flight training instructor.
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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178Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #148 (Oct 28-Nov 3) Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person dir. Ariane Louis-Seize/2023/1h30m Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire who, much to the exasperation of her parents, refuses to kill as she has too much empathy, a decision that is slowly killing her. She meets suicidal Paul (Felix-Antoine Benard) and he offers his life for hers, but over the course of the night the two form a bond and find a reason to live. Deadpan humour and charmingly awkward teenage romance add a lightness to what is a very deep emotional drama that is more complex than it at first seems. This put me in mind of a strange mix between A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night and Napoleon Dynamite. There's a beautifully staged scene where the two listen to an old record and, without a word, nervously steal looks at each other for an unbroken three minutes and it has more depth and meaning than most films manage in an hour and a half. You really get the feeling that you're caught up in that dramatic first flush of love where you feel like Romeo and Juliet. The two lead performances are extraordinary, especially Montpetit, and the direction has a real warmth to it despite being set mostly during the night. I loved this. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Jigsaw dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig/2017/1h31m Most of the time while I was watching this I was thinking “have I seen this one before..? No. No, I haven't. Wait, have I? I have! No? Oh, yeah I have”. I think this is the eighth film in the Saw franchise, and by this point they all just kind of blur into one homogenous mess. It's a shame because I think the original is a really good, tense thriller with a great, if ridiculous, twist. 2/10 Terrifier 3 dir. Damien Leone/2024/2h5m It's Christmastime and, five years after the events of the last film, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back playing Santa and everyone is on the naughty list, especially Sienna (Lauren LaVera) who bested him the last time they met. Not as long as Terrifier 2, this is still bloated and full of ridiculous bits of lore that makes the whole thing feel like a parody at times, I actually found myself invested in the character of Sienna here. I think LaVera does a decent job in portraying the trauma and PTSD she's suffering after the last film. Again, the gore here is very well done but so gross that it becomes banal. The best thing about this film, as is the case with the others, is Thornton's performance as Art who manages to be both creepy and funny. 4/10 Immaculate dir. Michael Mohan/2024/1h29m Sydney Sweeney plays Sister Cecilia, an American nun recently arrived at a remote Italian convent. Things take a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant despite being a v*rgin and she starts to think that all is not so holy at the convent. This religious horror doesn't do anything new and owes a huge debt to the likes of Rosemary's Baby but it does do a very good job of ramping up the tension and supernatural elements at a deliberate pace until it's ready to go for broke in the final act. There are a couple of unexpectedly gruesome moments that shocked me more then anything in the Terrifier films precisely because they are so unexpected. Sweeney gives a good performance as a true believer who must become a fighter in order to survive, and there are a couple of memorable supporting performances from Dora Romano as the Mother Superiour and Alvaro Morte as the charismatic Father Tedeschi. A well made, if uninspiring, thriller with a memorable smash cut to black ending, emphasis on the smash. 7/10 Joker: Folie a Deux dir. Todd Phillips/2024/2h18m This sequel to 2019's Joker picks up from the end of that film with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in prison awaiting his trial for multiple murders. While inside he meets and forms a relationship with Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), the two seeming to make the perfect couple. The first film was a well made rip off of Scorsese's The King of Comedy elevated by an incredible performance from Phoenix that didn't need a sequel. Thankfully this isn't taking the predictable route of charting Fleck as he wreaks havoc as the crown prince of crime but instead does something interesting and sees him try to face his many mental health problems while struggling to break free of his anarchic alter ego. This hasn't gone down well with comic book fans as it strays far from the source material, but not being a big comic book guy myself that isn't an issue for me. Phoenix is once again excellent, really giving his all in his performance. Gaga is also good and I liked how her character became a kind of antagonist in always pushing Arthur to be Joker. Brendon Gleeson has a supporting role as the lead prison guard and as much as I like him, and he does give a good performance with what he's given here, his character is too much of a caricature, one scene even implying that he and some other guards r*pe Arthur. Steve Coogan also pops up in one scene as a television reporter interviewing Arthur and it just came across as Alan Partridge doing a bad American accent to me. I haven't mentioned it yet but this film is also a musical - another sticking point for a lot of people – and I think it works well at portraying Arthur's mental state. I loved the moments where we go full fantasy and Arthur and Lee are singing and dancing on an old school style soundstage like a musical from the 40s and 50s. But I am a musical fan so I'm probably biased. Don't believe the anti-hype, not everything here works but it's going for something different and for that alone it should be commended, and I honestly think it's better than the original. 8.5/10 Piece by Piece dir. Morgan Neville/2024/1h34m Piece by Piece is a hybrid biopic/documentary about the life and career of musician and producer Pharrell Williams starring the man himself and featuring appearances by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. The gimmick here is that the whole film is animated with Lego. This makes for a playful, vibrant and imaginative film that matches Williams' method for creating music, putting it together piece by piece until you have something new. This is also a very funny film, making full use of the medium and the absurdity of everything being Lego to make some hilarious visual gags. Being a family friendly film this does smooth off some of the rough edges of his story but I still found Williams to be an open and honest subject not afraid to discuss his shortcomings. I love it when the style and form of a film like this matches its subject – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and the David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream come to mind – and Piece by Piece does just that with its eclectic and imaginative presentation. 9/10 Strange World dir. Don Hall, Qui Nguyen/2022/1h42m Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), son of legendary explorer Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), must go on his own adventure deep beneath the surface of the planet when his crops, which also acts as the planet's energy source, start to die. The plot here is quite simple but it has an excellent third act twist that I though worked really well and fits in with the environmental themes and message of the film. What works best here is the look of the world beneath the surface, populated by really well designed creatures that feel truly alien, as do the environments. Not quite as good is the family drama between Jaeger and Searcher and between Searcher and his son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White). It's the classic case of simply sitting down and talking to each other would solve all their problems, but then there'd be no film. The performances are all good, with Quaid's bombastic 50s b-movie style bravado standing out to me. This won't go down as a Disney classic but there are some really good ideas here alongside some gorgeous animation. 7/10 @djw180 The Bad Sleep Well is the least faithful of his Shakespeare films, the other two are much more recognisable.- 3
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