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• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  @Antinous: So, Pyros is dropping f-bombs, and I´m the one beeing rude for answering a direct question? Interesting. But, fair enough. I respect your decision. Even arbitrary and inconsequential house rules should be followed, when you´re in somebody else´s house....
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  Pyros wrote: That's idiotic. There aren't any other people for whom ordinary citizens are required to stand up. Sure there are. You rise for the person officating during most religous ceremonies, you rise for the bride at the wedding, you...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  Atomix wrote: Jail time!? He wasn't on trial and didn't have to be there. He should have just been kicked out of the court room. No, quite the contrary actually. It´s precisely because nobody was forcing him to be...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  Pyros wrote: While we're on the topic, why are people required to stand up for judges when they enter the court room? Is not standing up considered disruptive? No, quite the contrary actually. Having everybody stand up is an easy...
• Commented on Street-cons on probation in Naples work as free tour-guides
  You really shouldn't be wearing that flashy watch, now should you? Now, why don't you just give it to me and I'll keep it safe for you... Yeah, I know that these are supposedly "reformed" conmen, same as GWB is...
• Commented on Documentary on the Church of Satan from 1970
  I usually laugh at people who spend to much time worrying about labels and images. But you really have to recommend a king-size reality check to self-proclaimed "Satanists who don't believe in God nor Satan". I mean, if the established...
• Commented on Electro-Mechanical Arcade Games
  Wow, I actually remember "Junkjard" and "Haunted House" from way back when I was just a toddler! This post triggers old memories from before I even could speak properly! I suspect these games may have subconciously shaped our collective expectations...
• Commented on Steampunk monkey cigarette card set
  So, does it include an image of a "greasemonkey"?...
• Commented on Steampunk cosplayers at ComicCon
  @Thieving Magpie: Yeah, I have surfed around johnnypayphone's site - and his friends sites - for a while now, and I've come to the conclution that those people who call themselves "living steampunk" are essentially makers wearing cravattes. Now, I...
• Commented on Six String Nation, the chronicle of Voyageur, a remarkable, unifying, synthesizing Canadian guitar
  I dunno. Love the project, but why a book? Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. This is supposed to be the 21st century: where is the sing-along DVD allready? Or the AVI-file, even....
• Commented on Steampunk cosplayers at ComicCon
  "Living steampunks", huh? I think Scott Kurtz said it best: http://www.pvponline.com/2009/07/27/clothes-make-the-fan/ Sure, the outfits are gorgeous, but a prop cybernetic eye doesn't magically become a functional cybernetic eye just because you insist on wearing it on a regular basis. Rather...
• Commented on More Griping About Advertising: Bing Edition
  So, appearently Search Overload Syndrome makes people burst out in random animal noices? Sounds like fun. Where can I get that? I can understand the premise that blunt websearches bring up heaps of irrelevant answers that lead you away on...
• Commented on Reptilian Alien Tearing Through Fake Human Face Thermos
  I´m kinda miffed that nobody has mentioned Michael Ironside yet. Robert Englund is awesome, sure, but to any kid alive in the 1980´s Michael Ironside was the living definition of "badass". This was long before Chuck Norris had picked up...
• Commented on Like Knight Rider, But That's No Car
  To me, this really looks more like Early Edition - except that the crap comes in a bag instead of beeing delivered in print... Anyway, I loled. For realz....
• Commented on Love in 2D
  At first glance, this seemed increadably weird and sad and alien and icky to me. Then it occurred to me that plenty of people here in the western world are marrying fictional caracters and devoting their entire life to them,...
• Commented on Improbable Video Games
  That makes me think of this classic Nintendo home console game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiUU0F81yYE...
• Commented on Scenes from an oxytocin party
  Well, I´d say that any placebo that can be instrumental in instigating an orgy is money well spent! Who cares if it's the anticipation that produces the effects or vice versa? Isn't this exactly how "Spanish Fly" used to work...
• Commented on UK cops threaten to bust woman who videos her boyfriend's search on terrorism charges
  Turns out most of the incriminating footage at The Guaridan site wasn´t her own video, but rather CCTV-footage. Good thing that the CCTV was there to record the cops behaviour so that it wouldn´t just be her word against theirs....
• Commented on Why didn't Alexi Leonov take that one small step?
  All right... Now my nightmares will be fuled for years by visions of a nameless, jetlagged russian midget, dieing the most lonesome death ever trapped on the surface of the moon locked inside an immobile makeshift rover. Thank you for...
• Commented on Independent comic book artists draw Marvel's superheros
  I remember back when Bizarro came out, Marvel said it would never treat it's heroes with such irreverence. Irreverence seems to be the norm rather than the exeption for Marvel these days. Aside from the "What The..." books, haven´t...
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  Mm, yes. Sorry about that, Joey. I´m on a different continent, and I just reached my post-brunch espresso peak. Usually, I´m all for "printing the myth" as long as it makes life more interesting. Its just that the Van Gogh...
• Commented on Talking to bureaucracies considered as a corporate fitness factor
  So if you want to play the game, knowing the rules of the game gives you an (unfair?) advantage. Huh. A lot of small businesses get burned when they charge just the 40% and the client expects that the other...
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  @ the Joey B Actually, the story about Van Gogh mailing an severed ear to a "girlfriend" is a good example of a factoid: First of all, it was just the earlobe, not the entire ear. Second, Van Gogh didn't...
• Commented on Death by Chocolate (no, really): worker dies in hot cocoa mixing vat
  Oh dang it, I arrived late to the fight and now I don't know who to side with here. So help me out please; who's winning the name-calling contest? Because winning is what matters here, right? Right?...
• Commented on iPhone app lets you squash Wall Streeters
  Sooo... basically it´s a remake of that old classic sociopathic flash game "Ant City" with bankers added for extra fun? http://www.e4.com/game/ant-city/play.e4 Ok, I would gladly pay to have that on my iphone. With or without bankers. Squish! Wich kinda makes...
• Commented on Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
  Mayor YAY! with an extra added yay on top. This is the only film I've ever actually written to the mouse and pleaded for a release from the "Disney vault". There was a general concern that internal mouse politics would...
• Commented on Fatal monorail collision at Walt Disney World
  Hm. Is the examiner really correct in calling the unfortunate victim a "cast member"? I mean, he was the actual operator of the train. I always assumed that the term "cast member" at Disney parks was supposed to refer to...
• Commented on Blog about awful library books
  Its easy to forget that one man´s Awful is often another man´s Awesome......
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  @takuan: Actually, I think "ickky" is as good a reason as any not to eat meat. Granted, it does not make for a very good argument when you want to convince somebody else not to eat meat. @Jonathan Badger: One...
• Commented on Half-billion-dollar expansion for Hong Kong Disneyland
  Actually, Disney IS making an concious effort to do some localized strip-mining in the public domains of asian culture. Case in point, the Magic Gourd, a recent Disney film not intended for american theatres at all: http://www.dianying.com/en/news/view/309 More will follow,...