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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: Tachyon on October 30, 2007, 07:33:02 PM
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I'll try and post one thing every day for a while about something awesome I discovered that day.
Today I will tell you about these Punisher comics I downloaded. The more recent Garth Ennis ones are pretty damn funny and there are two moments that really made my day.
Spoilers happen here, just in case you were actually going to go read comics on my say so.
The first is this fight with the Russian. In the last movie, this fight was lifted pretty much from V7 11. The Russian is this really big guy who apparently isn't affected by pain or any other sort of injury, short of heat. Anyway he spends an issue and a half tossing the Punisher through walls and generally demolishing things. Then, the Punisher stuns him with some hot pizza that his massively fat neighbor Mr. Bumpo is eating. Okay, that's cool I guess. But then comes the finisher. Is the Punisher going to roast this guy alive, blow off his head with a shotgun, toss him off a building or what?
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For those of you without eyes, we have just seen Frank suffocate a bad guy under a very fat man.
Moment number two comes in the next series. Throughout the previous few episodes, this mercenary general dick has sent the resurrected Russian (with his new Big Bob Boobies courtesy of the hormone treatment) after Frank and this has understandably pissed him off quite a bit. The general has also got a french nuclear weapon and hundreds of mercenaries camped out on an island.
Anything I can say would diminish what comes next.
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It is exactly as it appears.
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And the obligatory one liner.
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Gold. Name ONE other superhero who has used a fucking NUKE on an island full of bad guys. Go on and try, you'll fail.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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Oh man...if only there was a crossover...
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I just started listening to this band the other day and they kick a lot of ass. Here's a song they did (but didn't write) that I've been listening to all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAH_mjLhreE
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Dropkick Murphy's are Fucking sick. Their new album kicks so much ass it's not possible. If asskicking were people, they would be China.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=iJPFSNu_QNs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DIaQKnzQzj4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lBlbSoLHE-4
Fuckin' A
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Yeah they have some good stuff.
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I think I forgot a day or so so today I will mention two things, Bad Religion and Trailer Park Boys. I think the average person knows what the first one is, so I'll talk about TPB til my arms hurt from the carpal tunnel and I have to go slit my wrists with a kitchen knife.
Trailer Park Boys is probably the best damn thing that Canada has produced in my lifetime. The cast is recognised anywhere in the country and nearly anyone you ask up here who watches any TV can quote episodes. It's a half-hour long Showtime show about three friends in a trailer park who grow dope and pass in and out of jail each season. There are two movies (the first black and white pilot that few people have seen but is available on a few trackers I know of) and The Big Dirty, in which the boys conspire to steal a giant gumball machine full of change from a movie theatre.
It's massively foul-mouthed, I don't think that it's ever been shown in the states with the cuss words intact. If there's any of my Damn Good Things that you should check out (you really should check out all of them) this is one of them. All the seasons are on isohunt and scrapetorrent, and every phoneloser should get a kick out of them.
http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=trailer+park+boys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_park_boys
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Trailer Park Boys actually started down the road from me, eh? I knew some of the extras, not the real actors though. It's strangely captivating and original, but at the same time I don't like it that much.
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I think that should be a new Canuck game, "7 degrees of TPB Separation".
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Today's Damn Good Thing is the comic series "Preacher" (by Garth Ennis, same as those Punisher comics from before). I've read the first 20 over the course of a couple of very stoned hours today and can safely say that it's some of the funniest and most disturbing shit I've ever seen and am in thorough awe of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_%28comics%29
http://isohunt.com/torrents/Preacher?ihs1=12&iho1=d&iht=8
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Today's Damn Good Thing is this list of things to do in elevators that a friend of mine got in a chain email! Hooray for old poorly spelled e-flotsam!
1. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"
2. Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.
3. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
4. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
5. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
6. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
7. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
8. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
9. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
10. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, no, not now, damn motion sickness!"
11. Meow occasionally.
12. Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
13. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
14. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
15. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.
16. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your beeper?"
17. Say "Ding!" at each floor.
18. Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
19. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
20. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."
21. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
22. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
23. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.
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Wow, I shouldn't have encouraged you....
I SPEAK TWO LANGUAGES!
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Today's Damn Good Thing is an extremely sketchy store I found down in the ghetto. It's in a converted warehouse and to be honest, there wasn't much there that didn't in all likelihood "fall off the back of a truck" somewhere. It was loaded with candy, bladed weaponry, marijuana equipment, belts, lasers, shit it was amazing.
I told the guy at the front this was the greatest store in the universe and I meant it. I got three laser pointers, a laser pen, a machete, a hip flask, a kendo sword, two wallets, and a few other things, all for about fifty bucks. That almost takes care of all my Christmas shopping. I was worried that I couldn't afford anything good since I got fired but this is great.
God bless Ghettomart!
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There are about a thousand of those where I live. They usually sell luggage too, for some reason.
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Today's Damn Good Thing is an extremely sketchy store I found down in the ghetto. It's in a converted warehouse and to be honest, there wasn't much there that didn't in all likelihood "fall off the back of a truck" somewhere. It was loaded with candy, bladed weaponry, marijuana equipment, belts, lasers, shit it was amazing.
I told the guy at the front this was the greatest store in the universe and I meant it. I got three laser pointers, a laser pen, a machete, a hip flask, a kendo sword, two wallets, and a few other things, all for about fifty bucks. That almost takes care of all my Christmas shopping. I was worried that I couldn't afford anything good since I got fired but this is great.
God bless Ghettomart!
Sounds like a flea market to me.
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A monopoly one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfMBd7FyZU
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the world is fucked and so is that video for reminding me.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfgjJUn49M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LlazPgxKrA