The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

[HisMajestyBOB]

Just learned that Brazil (or as the natives like to say, "Braziw") recently passed France and the UK to become the world's 5th largest economy.  Had no idea.

India is #4, isn't it?

[MadBurgerMaker]

So I sat down in the front living room intending to watch some shit on the DVR.  Flipped on the TV, which was tuned to HBOZ, and am now watching Alien Sex Files 3: Sex Wars.  The description:  "Sexy alien babes want to conquer mankind through sex-filled encounters."

Hot chick:  There must be a microphone planted somewhere on you!  Take off your pants!
Dude:  Not again!

Edit:  Okay the alien babes have some sort of hypnotizing capabilities.  Their eyes flash green and it makes the dudes they're talking to want to bang them (more than they already did, I guess), then after they're done, they dissolve into green particles and go...somewhere...space I assume.  Softcore porn at it's finest.

Uh oh...looks like the flashing green eyes work on chicks too.

[Admiral Yi]

India is #4, isn't it?

Pretty sure it's the Bundt Cake Republic.

[Josquius]

It's surprising because as Squeeze said it's the kind of thing that one would expect to be greeted with more wailing and pontificating.

Not so much wailing but at least reporting.
China passed the UK a few years back, the BBC had a big China season about this, lots of interest in China.
With Brazil though...the only time I can recall a documentary about Brazil in recent times was one about China's rising influence in the world and how they're getting involved in Brazil.

Checking wikipedia Brazil seems to still be well behind the UK and France. Sounds to me like your magazin is just trying to be sensational, 'Brazil has finally risen!' makes for better news than 'All is as it was.'

[The Larch]

Oh I posted about them a bit ago in the listening thread (might have been post re-boot). This South African had me listening to them. Quite odd but somewhat enjoyable.

Yup, they have a really catchy beat in all their songs. I didn't know if the listening thread would be the right place as there seems to be little conversation going on and wanted to see if someone was curious about thme so I posted here instead.

Supposedly part of the Evil Boy song is about traditional tribal circumcision.

Then all those cocks and the cock-centric rap by the black kid make sense.

Edit: Found this on the band's wiki, it makes things clearer:

The single Evil Boy contained a verse by guest vocalist Wanga (a Xhosa rapper) in his native language, which rejects the traditional Xhosa passage to manhood achieved in part by circumcision, electing to remain uncircumcised; thus an "evil boy for life".

[Syt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29

[Josquius]

Nominal is the one normally used, not ppp. Including in this case- Britain and France are quite a bit lower than 5thj and 6th,.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[jimmy olsen]

Mortal Combat Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQirOSjf4ao&feature=player_embedded

[sbr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12950258

Charlie Sheen live show bombs in Detroit

Actor Charlie Sheen was booed off stage by fans on the first night of his Violent Torpedo Of Truth: Defeat Is Not An Option one-man show in Detroit.

The former Two And A Half Men star had initially been greeted with rapturous applause, but fans reportedly began to walk out within 15 minutes.

Sheen had promised to tell "the real story", but critics said he instead gave "a series of nonsensical rants".

The show ended after an hour when Sheen failed to return after a musical break.

Entertainment Weekly described the show as an "unmitigated disaster".

"The padded and disjointed show was a hodgepodge of video clips and Sheen-isms that felt hastily assembled and misjudged the patience of even the hardest of hardcore fans," it said.

The Hollywood Reporter said: "Call it 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA' if you will. Just don't call it entertainment."

Sheen opened with a monologue saying: "I am finally here to identify and train the Vatican assassin locked inside each and every one of you."

After talking about his "napalm dripping brain" and describing himself as "a giant and leaky bag of mayhem", he added: "Is anybody else as confused by this as I am?"

He also showed film clips including one he wrote, produced and directed entitled RPG, but was abruptly halted after more booing from the audience.

The 45-year-old responded to one heckle by saying: "I already got your money, dude."

He later told the crowd the show was "an experiment" adding: "You paid your hard-earned money without knowing what this show was about."

Fans walked out chanting "Refund!" and were quick to express their disappointment outside.

"I was hoping for something. I didn't think it would be this bad," said Linda Fugate from Detroit, who said she paid $150 (£93) for two tickets.

"I expected him to at least entertain a little bit. It was just a bunch of ranting," said Rodney Gagnon, who travelled from Ontario in Canada for the show.

Others blamed the audience: "I thought it was good. It was what I expected," Lori Caputo of Battle Creek, Michigan, told USA Today.

"I was disappointed in everybody booing."

The Detroit performance was the first of 22 sold-out planned shows in 20 US and Canadian cities.

Sheen's publicist Larry Solters declined to comment after the show.

Sheen was fired from hit comedy Two and A Half Men last month amid a frenzy of US media reports on his controversial personal life.

Meanwhile, Martin Sheen has spoken to the BBC about the "roller coaster ride" his family have experienced in trying to support his son.

"Charlie is dealing with the most profound problems and addiction - there's no secret, his behaviour has been an example of that," he told Kirsty Young on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

  Shocking. 

[Neil]

After the civil war United Empire Loyalist who've taken power clamor for complete integration, a United Empire of Great Britain and America. The technology to govern it is there and their bonds have been forged in blood.

That's just crazy.

There've been far crazier revolutions in history. Viva la revolution!

Here's the problem:  What you're suggesting flies directly into the face of what the Empire was doing at that point.  Britain wasn't consolidating the Empire under her rule, it was starting to spin the White Dominions off.

[Josquius]

Funny Japanese dog barks quieter on demand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArnunZlPvxo&feature=player_embedded

Woman is saying:
can you do it again?
you got it?
can you do it quietly?
no no even quieter
now do it cute
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[jimmy olsen]

After the civil war United Empire Loyalist who've taken power clamor for complete integration, a United Empire of Great Britain and America. The technology to govern it is there and their bonds have been forged in blood.

That's just crazy.

There've been far crazier revolutions in history. Viva la revolution!

Here's the problem:  What you're suggesting flies directly into the face of what the Empire was doing at that point.  Britain wasn't consolidating the Empire under her rule, it was starting to spin the White Dominions off.

There's been 80 years of divergence and there was just a violent war to keep it together which the United Empire Loyalists won. Sepratists from then on will be tarred with the brush of slavery and racism.

[Neil]

There's been 80 years of divergence and there was just a violent war to keep it together which the United Empire Loyalists won. Sepratists from then on will be tarred with the brush of slavery and racism.

It's not American separatists that are the issue.  The issue is the attitude in Britain.  Besides, the British would never have let the Americans wage war on everybody on the North American continent.  The idea that the Americans would swim so strongly against a current that created a separate Canada is laughable.