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Cephas Ironclad
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You guys dont even know what random means this thread has failed. :P
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Cephas Ironclad wrote:
Nexa wrote:
Berrith wrote:Although many substances hurt when they get in your eyes, flour does not. :)
This is the most interesting thing I have found yet.

Also.

Hipsters ain't got $#!7 on me. Indie music? Get that pseudo wannabe mainstream bull crap outta hear, I jam to the Newgrounds Audio Portal. Fedoras? Punks please, I shave my head or try out cornrows. Coffee shops for loitering? Gimme a blender and a day pass for a Mexican bus, I'll show you loitering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
Mexican buses are the greatest mode of transportation ever to be invented.
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Foes are users which will be ignored by default. Posts by these users will not be fully visible. Personal messages from foes are still permitted. Please note that you cannot ignore moderators or administrators.

You cannot add administrators and moderators to your foes list.
I tried to put Nexa on my foes list and this is the message I got.

So here's a random thought for you: why would any cabal/guild need to have around 87 or so people with administrative privileges anyway? Those are all people who can't be blocked no matter how they behave.

Some people think that having a certain degree of control over the extent of one's interaction with crazy people/trolls on the internet is important for preserving a little peace of mind. That is why blocking lists were invented for internet forums in the first place. But the efficacy of such measures is considerably diminished when the forum administrators themselves are too irresponsible or too unstable to behave in a mature and orderly fashion. Increasing the number of administrators beyond the amount that is absolutely necessary to conduct vital operations can only increase the risk of irresponsible conduct by one or more of those administrators.
I have tried many times to foe Kate, as well as other admins or moderators on other forums, but it never works out for me either.
Ravynswind wrote:Nexa...you should have stayed the other guy
"Be the other guy"? I do not understand the meaning of this command. Cor. That was for you. Please try to stop exploding me.

Also I'm pretty sure the other guy is dead and gone for good and that we shall never see him again or be bothered by him.
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Here is an excerpt from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. This is unrelated to any of the other content in this thread, and therefore may arguably be considered "random," but to me it also feels pertinent to The Secret World (especially the parts about Tarot cards, and the Phoenician, and the reference to "planting" a corpse in a garden; the overall mood is wonderfully eerie and unsettling).
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.
Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:
One must be so careful these days.

Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying “Stetson!
You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,
Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!”
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Occupy Wall Street

If you guys haven't heard about this stuff yet. Its f*ckin bananas, like Soviet America; media is keeping it all hush hush and websites about it have been taken down multiple times, people getting beat by the police in the middle of the street, and all they're doing is peaceful protests against the banks and stuff.
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BBC is covering it much better the the US media... lawls
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Pluto wrote:Occupy Wall Street

If you guys haven't heard about this stuff yet. Its f*ckin bananas, like Soviet America; media is keeping it all hush hush and websites about it have been taken down multiple times, people getting beat by the police in the middle of the street, and all they're doing is peaceful protests against the banks and stuff.

Have you not been reading my Facebook stuff for the last week? Sheesh! :lol:


also another good link: http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
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I looked at this page some days ago... made me really sad.

Is the whole Occupy Wall Street movement really not that present in the US media? In Germany it is well covered and to say the least police really seems to be intent to discourage people from participating.
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Not really covered here... only in snippets. Now it is growing , so they can't completely downplay it, so the media is trying to demoralize and portray the protesters as lazy , dirty hippies. American media only shows us what they want us to think and see. The real media heroes are the amateur reporters posting on youtube.
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CNN had very very short mention of it.
FOX Had the longest bit, where they just said that the protesters are violent, and the police are 'dealing with them'

Huge political/media cover up. It's like Egypt all over again.
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