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derspiess

#22650
January 22, 2013, 11:00:15 PM
There was a Canadian online store I used to buy DVDs and HD-DVDs from, dirt cheap even after shipping. They were all American movies but specifically packaged for the Canadian market.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

HVC

#22651
January 23, 2013, 12:30:33 AM
Stupid insomnia.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Liep

#22652
January 23, 2013, 04:47:33 AM
Russian history exam done. Got 12 in the new grade system, I'm still not exactly sure what that is on the old system which I'm more use to. But supposedly it's an A on the yank-scale.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Grey Fox

#22653
January 23, 2013, 07:06:43 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 22, 2013, 09:43:36 PM
I save nearly 50% buying DVDs of a Canadian tv series from amazon.ca over the same DVDs from amazon.com, even though we have near parity on currency value. :hmm:

Eh! At or near parity stuff will usually be 7% more expensive in Canada.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Syt

#22654
January 23, 2013, 12:39:07 PM
The Turkish Cultural Community in Austria is filing a complaint against LEGO. Reason: their version of Jabba's Palace would be a copy of the Hagia Sofia.



"What does LEGO suggest parents as Christmas present ofr their kids? Pure Racism?"
"The Muezzin as criminal with axe and machine gun."
"Same roof as the mosque"

LEGO replied that they just replicated the setting from the movie, end of story.

So the community goes on: "Well, then the movie is at fault: a palace built like a mosque, with a fat criminal/slaver/terrorist smoking water pipe(!) and doing human sacrifice - clearly fostering prejudice against middle eastern cultures!"

Article in German: http://derstandard.at/1358304400783/Lego-droht-Anzeige-wegen-Volksverhetzung

:bleeding:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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derspiess

#22655
January 23, 2013, 12:43:42 PM
If the shoe fits...
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

garbon

#22656
January 23, 2013, 12:44:43 PM
Probably something more like ayakkabı.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

#22657
January 23, 2013, 12:47:16 PM
They also complain about the "red-black devil" on the box that shows clearly this is not suited for children. And that LEGO should stop producing any toys with weapons.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

MadImmortalMan

#22658
January 23, 2013, 03:18:47 PM
That roof looks like Hagia Sophia to me...
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Admiral Yi

#22659
January 23, 2013, 03:26:14 PM
Wasn't there an exterior shot of Jabba's hut in the movie?

Razgovory

#22660
January 23, 2013, 03:33:17 PM
I didn't know the Hagia Sophia was built to be a Mosque.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Tonitrus

#22661
January 23, 2013, 05:18:20 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 23, 2013, 03:26:14 PM
Wasn't there an exterior shot of Jabba's hut in the movie?

Admiral Yi

#22662
January 23, 2013, 05:28:31 PM
Thought so.  Stupid towelheads.

Malthus

#22663
January 23, 2013, 05:31:58 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 23, 2013, 12:39:07 PM
The Turkish Cultural Community in Austria is filing a complaint against LEGO. Reason: their version of Jabba's Palace would be a copy of the Hagia Sofia.

"What does LEGO suggest parents as Christmas present ofr their kids? Pure Racism?"
"The Muezzin as criminal with axe and machine gun."
"Same roof as the mosque"

LEGO replied that they just replicated the setting from the movie, end of story.

So the community goes on: "Well, then the movie is at fault: a palace built like a mosque, with a fat criminal/slaver/terrorist smoking water pipe(!) and doing human sacrifice - clearly fostering prejudice against middle eastern cultures!"

Article in German: http://derstandard.at/1358304400783/Lego-droht-Anzeige-wegen-Volksverhetzung

:bleeding:

I guess they are good with the chaining up the barely-clothed hottie, though.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

jimmy olsen

#22664
January 23, 2013, 07:09:26 PM
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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