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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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How much of a geek and how clever my boss actually is. Not only does he know his medicine but he has basically modernised the current workplace, massively improved efficiency as well as started several new business ventures. On top of this, he can use ubuntu and wants to run his new practice with Raspberry Pi computers!  This is from a guy who doesn't look like a geek nor act like it (unless it's the new iPhone/iPad).
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Jonathan Bradis (played Lucas in Seaquest DSV) hung himself in 2003.
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Wed May 09, 2012 7:22 pm |
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm Posts: 1057
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That I can finally get fibre broadband and so go from 2.5mb/s to about 69mb/s 
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Wed May 09, 2012 7:41 pm |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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Quails can be violent. One had to be removed as it was beating up the others.
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Thu May 10, 2012 9:08 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Apparently 'big room sexy house' is a musical genre, and not estate agent brochure speak. It's as if they're just naming genres after the first four moves in a Scrabble game. </old>
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Fri May 11, 2012 4:30 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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"House" is the genre of music with the largest ratio of detritus to quality IMO.
With the possible exception of "Grime" which is approaching 100% [LIFTED].
Though I should say that you can have some great songs of any genre.
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Fri May 11, 2012 5:26 pm |
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HeatherKay
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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If I may make so bold, virtually anything since about 1988 falls into the same category. However, I am officially an old fart, so can be ignored. 
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Fri May 11, 2012 5:31 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Re Crispin Glover: "There were things about the moral aspect of Back to the Future that frankly made me not want to do the sequels," he says. The film ends with Marty returning to 1985, and having changed the past, he discovers that his parents are now rich. "I said to [director] Robert Zemeckis that if the characters had a monetary reward, then the film had a bad moral to it. I felt that the characters should be happy with finding love at the end of the film, but it ended up that the moral of the story was that money can buy you happiness. Robert Zemeckis became very angry and that led to me not doing the sequels." When Zemeckis used Jeffrey Weissman in the sequels, he was made to look and act exactly like Glover. So much so that Glover sued over the sequels abusing his image rights. Glover won the case and since then image rights have become an important component of participants in the entertainment business. He would later make up with Zemeckis and appeared in Beowulf. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 79049.html 
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Sat May 12, 2012 7:33 am |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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The Cure wrote a song for The Crow that they never play live, called "Burn".
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Sat May 12, 2012 12:35 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Hanged. 
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Sat May 12, 2012 12:52 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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He wasn't executed.
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Sat May 12, 2012 1:41 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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Doesn't matter.
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Sat May 12, 2012 3:09 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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I beg to differ - they were both interchangeable and it's only comparatively recently that this pointless differentiation has arisen. Hanged, I'm lead to believe, is correct when someone is killed by someone else. Such as an execution. This wasn't an execution, so hung is quite acceptable.
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Sat May 12, 2012 3:35 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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It still doesn't matter if it was someone else doing it, hanged is the process of being strangled by a noose, that's a sufficiently different process to hanging a picture, so it's not strange that it has it's own word.
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