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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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235Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 1
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Up n Atomizers and NPC traffic on high. Each frog for themself. 5 min. https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/job/gtav/Ontwci9ufUu7sojP2x-DBg- 2
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235Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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