Evening Reading

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  You sold the "free" one right? Why? Just to have a proper store bought one? : abrasion
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    for the free ram upgrade : Korban
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      I'm thoroughly fucking impressed an apple store will accept a return of a boxed product (un opened or no... : abrasion
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        Well the serial wasn't coming up in their system (I took it back the second it was in my hands) and they ... : gameindustryplant
        • awesome. somehow seeing those pics makes me want to do this, or at least convince someone I know who is e... : PlanetPerfecto
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  so, you traded it in, for which model? : g0nk
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    I returned the original unopened monday to the apple store for $2166 in store credit on a apple store car... : gameindustryplant
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      Low end why low end? was the one you shipped low end? Also glossy screen - ... oh boy. : abrasion
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        Low end = 2.133ghz = didnt want to spend a dollar on this, wasn't worth the extra $100 to me to go up or ... : gameindustryplant
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          The one they sent you, was that one 2.133 ghz though or what? You did basically return it for the same... : abrasion
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            Right, yeah, I just stuck with the 2.133ghz one that was the same as the one they gave me. They just send... : gameindustryplant
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              It's a core 2 duo right? 2 cores, 2.133ghz? Honestly calling that the "low end" model is fucking insane. ... : abrasion
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                They don't "call it" then low-end model, it just is. : SockMonkeh
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                  Gotcha, it just happens to be the lowest they offer? Interesting, because apple might get a lot more s... : abrasion
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                    no floppy? lol, Macs haven't had those for nigh on a fucking decade. I will however decapitate you if ... : Toraz Chryx
                    • before you start cutting people and go to prison, please to be checking shackmessages! : losimagic
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                    the "low end model" is the macbook NON-pro. There'll be a 15" version of that this year, probably. : flibble2k
                    • lol sorry the lowest clock rate macbook pro currently offered on apple.com is what i meant : gameindustryplant
                  • Agreed, this is exactly why I didn't get one until I could get it for about $500. I mean, I get their pri... : zakazi
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  Does someone still have a link to the "you do this this this and this and then this and this and this the... : rosewood
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    this does not exist : lakren
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      I thought a shacker did a detailed post about which offers work the best. : rosewood
      • This might help you, a post I did http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13818194 : pancake humper
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    The closest would be this http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1129638~4e1d68cdd103078099b55e8e88c59d... : gameindustryplant
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      How would I go about returning it if there is no mac store anywhere near me? : rosewood
      • Hmm that is a dealbreaker But hey you can always go spend $80 to get the second gig or live with the ... : gameindustryplant
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      Also, your pdf does not exist. : rosewood
      • Try this (also a great forum for info) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17919582 and click on... : gameindustryplant
  • i did all the deals i could an only ended up spending about 90 dollars for my macbook pro. Well worth it... : burning eye
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  Nice that you were able to do that, but I'll just spend the $70 or so for a ram upgrade from OWC or Neweg... : mancide
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    yeah, $70 and waiting yet another week for a macbook is not worth it to me; i dunno. i'll just buy the r... : FrayLo
    • I'm not too worried about bumping it to 2gb anytime soon as it is fucking snappy as hell at 1gb, but I'm ... : mancide
  • :) Yeah i know what you mean..the big thing was I wanted to try glossy too so the combination of the ram ... : gameindustryplant

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  Er, make that Wolcott and Hubbard. Sorry. : Caboose
  • Morning BUMP : Caboose
• woot - i'm on the team too, lookin forward to it :-D : Crimson
• I might be downtown at that time, maybe I'll check it out. : ripper9
• I have to be at O'Hare by 6:30 that morning. :( : wild falcon
• no >:( : Mr.SEX
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  what is it with you people and your need for excuses to pub crawl on Saturdays at noon : Deathlove
  • Drinking should be it's own excuse. : jad3d
• Was all about signing myself up with my three roomates but my girlfriend has other plans for me. Next yea... : graincloud

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• Hahaha. :) Me too. I'm just obnoxious and an asshole on Facebook. *SO* entertaining. : Rice-Rocketeer
• I logged in for the first time in 6mo today and I felt like mr popular with all kinds of friends requests... : rosewood
• you're drunk aren't you. : p4ck3tloss
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  why is facebook cool here, but myspace isn't? : whodares
  • good web design. : Warlock
• Facebook is 10X better than Myspace : ke_rico

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• Oh cmon, it's great!! : AndyGoin
• I would watch it. its funny as hell, im on my internet time right now so I wont catch it! : ke_rico

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• that fancy xpansion card technology : multisync
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  i think i'm gonna put bootcamp on it just so i can play some games.. i honestly have no clue what to do w... : lakren
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    WoW runs flawlessly. No need for bootcamp : multisync
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      i don't play WoW : lakren
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        loser : multisync
        • funny : videlectrix
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      this is bad news for me.. heh.. so, how would i go about getting the Mac version of WoW? I already ha... : g0nk
      • i just ran through the installer, but you should be able to download the mac executable : multisync
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  It's an Expresscard/34 slot http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/expressreader/ : Toraz Chryx
  • <3 you Toraz - shackmessages! : losimagic
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    sooo can I get an xd/sd reader? : boomstickah
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      mr.sleepy mode off. thanks toraz you're a mountain of a man : boomstickah
      • More redheads need to climb me. : Toraz Chryx
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      learn to read jerome : multisync
      • Is jerome your imaginary buddy or something? stop replying to my posts, stumpy. : boomstickah

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• Me too! + Warren G - G Funk Era.. nostalgia FTW. Oh, and it definitely stands up compared to todays rap..... : cause&effect
• You're expressin' with your full capabilities? : Wolfanoz
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  It's just better - today's rap (for the most part) sucks zebra cum : flagg209
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    Today, as opposed to that era, is just mostly garbage. There are a few diamonds in the rough in Del / Hi... : Wolfanoz
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      I think I'm too old for angsty / emo / gangster / bang bang bang stuff - but reminiscing for old school N... : abrasion
      • i still enjoy listening to Dj Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince after all the years. I never feel the music sho... : vikramwillrock
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      Its just different styles. I never understand why people think they should like all rap music, and if the... : peanut-
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        He didn't say it sucks, he said it's mostly garbage, which is true if you've ever listened to an hour str... : rotten element
        • "New era bling crap" - what does that even mean? Singing about bitches, drugs, guns and money? Well you'v... : peanut-
• hell yeah. Gangsta Gansta was awesome as well. I used to blast that from my crappy speakers in my crappy ... : jvox
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  I can tolerate that music in GTA: San Andreas, but I would never listen to it otherwise. It fits the game... : MatthewPhillips
  • They really did and do a good job of fitting the music into that game. Also Vice City was awesome to... : flagg209
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    I'm reffering specifically to NWA though - not the SA soundtrack - I didn't know or like 9/10'ths of that... : abrasion
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      I thought NWA was on the GTA: San Andreas sountrack, but I guess I am wrong. I could have sworn one o... : MatthewPhillips
      • they are on the official soundtrack on the radio los santos cd : creep
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  Weird, I just played Straight Outta Compton (just the title track) to get the kid to sleep last night and... : SiW73
  • Express yourself is pretty unique. : abrasion

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• I tend to trim my skill set based on the job i'm applying for : chazums
• Honestly, I think you should only list the skills that are relevant to the job you are applying for. At ... : MrLobo
• focus your resume on the skills that you find the most interesting... you mention vbscript, would you be ... : Str8Dog
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  I read a lot of resumes last year while helping to hire someone into a second position like mine (at my p : Goncyn
  • ^^^ bingo. As another resume reader IAWTP. : unlurker
  • This is some great info, thank you! I have some serious trimming to do. : zakazi
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  One thing that i like to do is near the top of my resume put together a summarized list of technologies t... : trevis
  • I was thinking of working some of that sort of action as well (summaries and sidebars) as a good deal of ... : zakazi
• Remember that 80% of the job description is going to be bullshit filler, it's the top 20% of the job desc... : TommyMcHighpants

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• That ep was the first ep that really hooked me. I'd just been watching it half interested before that but... : aeg1x
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  First 5 episodes or so I liked the best, the last 5 have put Heroes back down nto "nice" category, but I ... : enyakk
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    is this opposite day or something? : Clay
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      I'm going to go start an orgy of with lots of hawt women, if it works out. Yes. : buzzbat
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        So normally you have orgies with lots hawt men? : Practix
        • Location: Munising/Houghton, UP A: Yes : Deathlove
        • ^^funny guy : buzzbat
    • Seriously. I thought the first episode was okay, and the second one was pretty bad... but then it started... : SatansFist
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  when Lost was as old as Heroes is now it was just starting to piss me off with all its unanswered questio... : skitfish
  • Agreed. I enjoyed lost for the first season but by the finale i had given up on trying to make sense of ... : trevis
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  I actually like Mr. Bennett now. : Fred Garvin
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    I like that so many of the characters are ambiguous. There's very few clean good guy/bad guy lines. We ca... : Clay
    • Yeah, I really like that too. I keep trying to decide if certain characters are being set-up as villains ... : SockMonkeh
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    I always liked his character, simply because he was a great father to Claire. : Edges
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      but he wasn't a good guy either, which makes him an excellent bad guy. a good man doing the wrong things ... : Clay
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        I hope the bring him back now with his memory of Claire erased meaning he'll be back to his good old a-mo... : SockMonkeh
        • I think that's exactly that they're going to do. He's going to start working for the company again, with : SenorSpine
        • I don't think that'll happen unless they have someone else who can erase memories since the Haitian was g : boredguy
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  Is it being shown on terrestrial tv then? : chazums
  • It's gonna be on BBC2 at some point, it's on SciFi already. : marmite
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  What I want to know is how did her clothes survive the fire? My gf said, "Aww, look at you all desperate : nb-co0kieman
  • mine said the same, except she just used a "look" rather than actually making a sound. : marmite
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    That always bothers me in shows/films even if it's superman doing it. Like somehow their powers are tran... : Ecks
    • lollololololo : SockMonkeh
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      Superman's clothes are indestructible though. http://theages.superman.ws/Encyclopaedia/costume.php : aethyr
      • unstable molecules!! : buzzbat
  • She's 16 in the series. :| : Eej
• Amen node, i've heard a lot of people complain that heroes is too slow but i think it's perfect. I love ... : trevis

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• Yup, NewEgg is great. : trOmblyj
• yeah on more than one occasion I have ordered shit from newegg and actually gotten it in the mail before ... : mikecyb
• Yep, newegg is great with that, and my wife had the same experience with Zappo's last week, 4pm order pla... : Deathlove
• Newegg makes me feel kinda funny... like when we used to climb the pole in gym class... : Q-ball
• I get that all the time with NCIX. Its cool. : SirX

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  I'm having a fun time with SSX Blur but not without some complaints. The only SSX games I've played in t... : Faluzure
  • Cool review, I can't wait to try it out myself. : razlebol
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    I'm enjoying it as well, but yah the uber moves are near impossible! : Shadowdane
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      Maybe they are not supposed to be easy .. : razlebol
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        From what reviews have said, it's more of a design flaw than a feature to make it harder. Seems their re... : kingdepork
        • Not according to IGN (disclaimer, I haven't played): EA has made it sound as though the game is Wii-if... : aethyr
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      How far are you? Have you done the Slalom? I always get fourth place because I can't carve out the down... : Faluzure
      • I haven't tried that yet.. I only played an hour before LOST came on. Then I was dead tired and just ... : Shadowdane
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    Is it three peaks like SSX3, where at the end you can go down all three, or is it just three seperate mou... : Deathlove
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      I actually don't know if they are seamless but there are 3 peaks. I'm not that far yet to know. :( : Faluzure
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        I heard a little while ago you can take one run from the top of Peak 3 to the bottom. : Shadowdane
        • awesome. one of my favorite gaming moments ever was doing the top-to-bottom run in SSX3, with Stare At Th... : Deathlove
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    Ubertricks can be practiced in the in game menu, do it! It fucking helps, I can uber 8/10 times now. : oldschoolbob-o
    • sweet.. didn't know that. : Shadowdane

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• Thinkpads are so well built that the laptop would contain the blast. (yes i'm kidding) : killboy
• Thinkpads are so well built that the laptop would contain the blast. : killboy

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• A1 here.... its your internets ! : barichnikov
• yup working fine here... : Shadowdane
• It appears to be working for me. : 0tter
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  I got this: Server Error We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working... : dognose
  • I got this, too. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  works here - lol auf deutsch : Deathlove
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    it's actually in Brazil. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      lol con gas? : Deathlove
      • * farts * : Mad Brahmin Disease
• working for me but I'm getting a inordinate amount of spam of late : Lynn Minmei
• it's been on and off hosed for me yesterday and today. must be doing something with the clusters. : manero
• Been unable to access it all morning. :-( : ezanga
• I think that what happpens is that different people's accounts go away depending on which servers are up ... : trevis

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  chainsaw+gears : buzzbat
  • ^ got to be pretty much the top of the list for 'next-gen'. : chazums
  • Headshots in RE4 leaves the head hanging by a thread on the back of the victim while he/she takes his/her... : Tissen
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  everything+manhunt? : cause&effect
  • ah.. you said next-gen, sorry about that. : cause&effect
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  One game has you forcing pinatas together so you can watch them fight and hump : zakazi
  • And force them to eat the remains of their own children. : Eej
• Damn... Why didn't epic think of that for gears. Directly implanting grenades would be all kind of aweso... : Nali4Freedom
• Killing childrens' souls from the school bus in Prey, while they weep [ i do not remember this correctly ... : vikramwillrock
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  Dead Rising = can dismember and section bodies in half with a katana/chainsaw/lawn mower Crackdown = Bod... : edgewise
  • in condemned they are "drug crazed lunatics" not hobos. Beating up hobos would be unacceptable. : oatmela

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• Dude... :(. http://www.amazon.com/Namco-P2NAMC-722674100243-Katamari-Damacy/dp/B0002Y2XXQ/sr=8-1/qid=1... : Ecks
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  I'm pissed off about how there are 500,000 console games and three PC games in the store, and two of thos... : dognose
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    And starting Monday, they're no longer accepting DVD's for trade-in credit. : RomSteady
    • Well crap. I was two bootleg copies of "Get Shorty" away from a used Dead To Rights. : dognose
  • Then I call and tell him it's "you're" not "your" and hang up >:( : dognose
• There is like 10 box of we love katamari at my local blockbuster and they are 40$ca new each : razlebol
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  I know it's stupid and unreasonable to feel this way but I feel the opening of your post is misleading an... : r_picmip 5
  • My original first line was: "CUT OFF PEENER BY ACCIDENT! SHACK, WHAT DO I DO?!" For what it's worth, I : Bold
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  Most of my game purchasing these days is done through GoGamer or Amazon. I worked for EB for a year, a... : Helter Skelter
  • too bad gogamer dont ship to canada, they seem to have good prices. : razlebol

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  if a bit chilly means that it was below 40F then yes you should be able to eat it just fine : kbnerd
  • that's not an arbitrary number by the way that's the lower bound of the danger zone. : kbnerd
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  i wouldn't risk it. whats that, 12 bucks worth of sushi vs a week of sickness? : Hoax
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    i agree, the "outcome" could be miserable : PapaBoo
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      seriously, in the "end" that would be awful : lakren
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        You would "shit" everywhere. : ChibiJosh
        • "lol" : Phil
        • haha : judge
        • hahaha : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • hahahaha : Chris Remo
        • hahahahaha : pyrogen
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          hohohohohoho oh noes I broke the chain. : razlebol
          • I hate you all. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          kekekekekekeke : g0nk
          • vivivivivivivivivivisual humor : zakazi
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  Real men eat beef. : cerealSAM2
  • "in the can". : Wolfanoz
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    Beef.... tataki? Mmm : usar naem
    • Sasashi is where it's at. yuck : yonderboy
• The fridge is normally at 4 or 5 Celsius so if it was below that, it should be ok if not, do not eat. : razlebol
• yeah, it'll be fine. the issue with sushi is parasites, not excess bacteria. It'd be the same as if you l... : edgewise
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  EAT IIIIIIT : tomservo
  • ^ Do what he says. : razlebol
  • I agree, don't be a pussy : mikecyb

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• Those are awesome. : zakazi
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  the design and colour reminds me of shoes we used to wear in grade 3. : vassili_zaitsev
  • lol seriously. : SatansFist
  • it's.... so..... beautiful. hehe. Yeah I could have had a nice white lace and royal blue color to it. : Optimus Prime
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  If i draw "NES! SMB! Nostalgia!" on a piece of paper, think i can sell it for $20? : kingdepork
  • You have to ask for more than that, or people won't think it is valuable. : pyrogen
  • Would it be a limited collector's item in mint condition? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• wow, people actually like those? Those colors together makes me want to barf. : razlebol
• alternative male birth control has arrived : systatic
• nice fisher price colored shoes. : gdestiny

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• i can't believe these things are actually paying off....fuck... : vassili_zaitsev

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• It reminds me of FFX for some reason. : Prozium
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  That first pic looks awesome. Do you have any larger versions of it? I'd like to put it on my desktop. : sanchez
  • larger than the "view it larger here" link? : OrkO
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  wow what a nice fucking town! crazy clouds!@ : oldschoolbob-o
  • that be Reykjavic. : beastrabban
• The THREE horsemen of the apocalolypse : rasputinreborn
• damn, that looks amazing : moshman
• I made a wallpaper version that fits nicely on dual 1280x1024 monitors http://www.hi.is/~siggij/reykjavik... : OrkO
• wow... I notcied the clouds and was going to take pics but could not find my charger :( Geðveik... : gummijoh
• Very beautiful. : razlebol
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  Vá, geggjað What kinda camera do you have? Áttu heima í tjarnarbrekkunni ... : gakera
  • canon eos 350d Tjarnargata heitir þetta, og ég bý þar jámm ;) : OrkO
• Whoa nice. Background'd : nomaad
• pretty awesome, we just get blue clouds here : ke_rico
• Whoa, someone Photoshop smudge tool'd the sky. : nb-co0kieman
• Hang on... I want another shot at these guys. : SockMonkeh
• Excellent shot. Bookmarking ... Man, there are so many places I want to visit still. I need a one year... : Damodred

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  Vonage is always trolling here. He needs a perma. : ashkie
  • didn't he just go to China? : edgewise

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• all files of matrixes of numbers : askedrelic

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  NOOOO my coworkers browse tuna sites all day :( : dognose
  • Oh dognose, how innocent you are. : chazums

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• I get a ton of those daily in my work inbox. : SatansFist
• We get assaulted with those emails at work all day. : Wombat Woo