ozoneocean wrote: It's because Bravo and I are douchbags of the highest order. :)
I admit it. But more importantly it's also Preventive Care and Maintenance Services for Dependent Personnel; female; Wife, one each. blonde.
So someone compared my comic to Robot Chicken yet again and I went to Youtube and watched 60+ Robot Chicken bits. Then one of the residents lent me his new DVD of Abbot & Costello the complete series. It's so much funnier now than it was when I was a kid and I can't believe how many of the bits in there have become so ingrained in our culture that their origin is long forgotten.
bravo1102 wrote: DVD of Abbot & Costello the complete series.
I used to love watching those movies, which played here in NZ only occassionally, often on a weekend afternoon when my parents would be telling me I should be out doing something in the sun, not wasting my life in front of the TV … I was a bad widdle boy. The Road To … movies were also occassionally on, The Marx Brothers, Martin and Lewis, etc. … and I don't consdier a single minute of watching those movies a waste of my time. Formative stuff.
Banes and I model our relationship on Abbot and Costello… When I was little my fave were Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films. Banes and I do not model ourselves after them though, because we'd both be Jerry Lewis, except I'd be the older, unfunny version.
ozoneocean wrote: Banes and I model our relationship on Abbot and Costello… When I was little my fave were Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films. Banes and I do not model ourselves after them though, because we'd both be Jerry Lewis, except I'd be the older, unfunny version. Biggest shock for me returning to Drunk Duck; Skoolmunkee's been replaced in the quackcast. EDIT: Also that the quoting system is a pile of smelly turdbugers.
ozoneocean wrote: Banes and I model our relationship on Abbot and Costello… When I was little my fave were Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films. Banes and I do not model ourselves after them though, because we'd both be Jerry Lewis, except I'd be the older, unfunny version. Biggest shock for me returning to Drunk Duck; Skoolmunkee's been replaced in the quackcast. EDIT: Also that the quoting system is a pile of smelly turdbugers.
The quoting system was designed by a teenager. It's one of those things, like if you can't do this you are such an incompetent loser! Put a "L" on your forehead LOSER! LOSER!
And you wish you could get him transferred from web design to Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
They are magical… At least to me. Funny thing is that sexually, they're not really all that exciting, and aesthetically I much prefer wide hips, long strong legs, and a nice round bum to whatever a gal's bust looks like, but sometimes when you lock eyes with a pair and they just mesmerise you…
That happened the other day, with a woman waiting for the train at my stop: tight white tank top, the design stretched wide by her more than ample chest, short shorts, blonde hair, long legs… (She had skinny legs and a small bum, but the boobs STILL overrode that)
Couldn't stop looking. And every time I looked at her she was looking at me too… she sat across from me in the same carriage. There was mutual interest.
Buuuut, approaching someone on public transport… ugh, it just doesn't seem right, it's like starting up a conversation in a public toilet. Maybe I should've just shut down the thinking part of my brain and let the boob obsessed part take over. :(
ozoneocean wrote: That happened the other day, with a woman waiting for the train at my stop: tight white tank top, the design stretched wide by her more than ample chest, short shorts, blonde hair, long legs…
Couldn't stop looking. And every time I looked at her she was looking at me too… she sat across from me in the same carriage. There was mutual interest.
Buuuut, approaching someone on public transport… ugh, it just doesn't seem right, it's like starting up a conversation in a public toilet.
You are just too smart to get caught up in an obvious plot to involve you in torrid sex scandal. You know you'd have her in the plam of your hand if you went up and complimented her eye color.
Having been the guy in charge of cleaning said public restroom, you'd be surprised how many coversations start up in a public toilet. In WWII the plan to invade Sicily was finalized in a public lavatory. A conversation on the train is a classic! It's classy, it's like something out of of Hitchcock or Mary McCarthy's tale of seduction Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt! And hopefully it'll be seduction and not homicide.
But then I nearly picked up a lovely French girl while sitting in the National Gallery in London. But I'm married. Often distracted, but happily married.
I'm horrible at seduction anyway. The only people I get into conversations with on the train are the crazies and the drunks… I don't like the way people avoid their eye and pretend they don't exist. Everyone has a story to tell and if I keep them talking then the people who're avoiding them A: won't have to worry about being talked to, and B: will be extremely irritated by the long, loud, voluble conversation right next to them, so it's a win-win! :D (plus I'm fricken boring so the crazies and the drunks will likely tire of me before I tire of them)
Seriously, A friend I had at art school and all through university was this rough old paranoid schizophrenic who everyone was afraid of and hated to listen to or have around. But I'd chat with him for hours and hours and used to relish their frustration and irritation that would just grow and grow… They would seethe! But would never have the balls to say anything… It was so funny! Am I a bad person? ^_^
Seriously, A friend I had at art school and all through university was this rough old paranoid schizophrenic who everyone was afraid of and hated to listen to or have around. But I'd chat with him for hours and hours and used to relish their frustration and irritation that would just grow and grow… They would seethe! But would never have the balls to say anything… It was so funny! Am I a bad person? ^_^
Only a tiny bit menacing in my opinion :Þ, AND it just started snowing! How appropriate! After a snow- and coldless January and February, it's snowing now? *grumblemumbles* *edit* false alarm, stupid weather….
@Ozone - there is a bill, a work in progress in the parliment outlawing "hard" pornography. It's essentially a form of censorship and I'm fairly optimistic that it won't pass the commitee work … Besides it wasn't a pron, more like a bachellor party (no strippers, that's illegal)
@bravo - har har, hardity har. There are too many pools around here, mostly local ones not many indoor or private ones…
bravo1102 wrote: I'm surprised they have pools in Iceland. Any water there would be the same as the January 1 Polar Bear Plunge in NJ.
silly bravo. Iceland has this: You don't need to be a polar bear on 1 Jan (or at least I didn't have to be on 28 Dec). Who needs an indoor pool when they's gots this?
This is me turning green with envy (as opposed to turning green with face paint) I forgot about the hot springs.
But I hate pools whatever the temperature. Love pool parties (and strippers) just hate pools. I still have the soo-veen-eers of my batchelor party and the strippers. :D
gullas wrote: @Ozone - there is a bill, a work in progress in the parliment outlawing "hard" pornography. It's essentially a form of censorship and I'm fairly optimistic that it won't pass the commitee work … Besides it wasn't a pron, more like a bachellor party (no strippers, that's illegal)
Congrats on the film work! ^_^ That's what I meant to say before I decided on the stupid porn joke instead…
Wait… stripper are illegal in Iceland? Whazzfucawhatsit??????? Ah well, at least it's only a short drive/sail/flight away to countries where the laws are more favourable.
@Bravo- what sort of souvenirs could you have from a bachelor party?
@Ayes Congrats to you as well water-off-a-duck's-back! ^_^ Hope you had fun over there!
ayesinback wrote: bravo1102 wrote: I'm surprised they have pools in Iceland. Any water there would be the same as the January 1 Polar Bear Plunge in NJ.
silly bravo. Iceland has this: You don't need to be a polar bear on 1 Jan (or at least I didn't have to be on 28 Dec). Who needs an indoor pool when they's gots this?
ah, the most expesive hot-seawater(the only public open one) outdoor pool, AH the memories, stupid rocky bottom.
gullas wrote: ah, the most expesive hot-seawater(the only public open one) outdoor pool, AH the memories, stupid rocky bottom.
@gullas, there's a lot about that blue lagoon to take pride in – it's ingenious! – but I'm not sure being the most expensive pool is one of them. Rocky bottom? Don't remember that. I remember walking around in the silt – funkiest mud EVER. I caught on way late into the night that you're suppose to smear that stuff on your face.
So I visited two years ago – within 12 hours of landing. Winter in Iceland means it's pitch black before 5pm. I was there around 8 pm, jet-lagged, alone. There's a long pathway lit by the short accent lights landscapers use before you reach the facility. No one else was there at the time. (I mutter at times like this). Then there's the usual European locker room "en masse experience" that challenges my over-developed American modesty. And then you get out to the water while the air is cold but you see clouds of steam floating around, eerily lit by sporadic spot lights – SO otherworldly. Floating in that water, looking up at the stars, and wisps, clouds, tendrils of steam dancing here and there … I loved it and recommend it. Definitely a tourist thing to do, but it is so relaxing I didn't feel like a chump afterwards. Go ahead and do it! And don't be green, bravo. I haven't been many places, so I darn well better enjoy the places I have been to.
Next up: Italy (all that's in place is that I'm taking Duolingo lessons, which are FUN)
ayesinback wrote: @gullas, there's a lot about that blue lagoon to take pride in – it's ingenious! – but I'm not sure being the most expensive pool is one of them. Rocky bottom? Don't remember that. I remember walking around in the silt – funkiest mud EVER. I caught on way late into the night that you're suppose to smear that stuff on your face.
So I visited two years ago – within 12 hours of landing. Winter in Iceland means it's pitch black before 5pm. I was there around 8 pm, jet-lagged, alone. There's a long pathway lit by the short accent lights landscapers use before you reach the facility. No one else was there at the time. (I mutter at times like this). Then there's the usual European locker room "en masse experience" that challenges my over-developed American modesty. And then you get out to the water while the air is cold but you see clouds of steam floating around, eerily lit by sporadic spot lights – SO otherworldly. Floating in that water, looking up at the stars, and wisps, clouds, tendrils of steam dancing here and there … I loved it and recommend it. Definitely a tourist thing to do, but it is so relaxing I didn't feel like a chump afterwards. Go ahead and do it! And don't be green, bravo. I haven't been many places, so I darn well better enjoy the places I have been to.
Next up: Italy (all that's in place is that I'm taking Duolingo lessons, which are FUN)
edit: still a stupid text writer
It is the most expensive one, at least the admitance fee for the locals ;). It depends on were you are in the pool ofc. And I suspect that they have fixed most of the "trouble" spots when I was there.
It's is funny for me to read about foreign/tourist's comments about this place. Guess I can't really appreciate it like you guys…
Next up: Italy (all that's in place is that I'm taking Duolingo lessons, which are FUN)
Almost went to Italy last year, until the wifey broke both ankles on her trip to San Francisco. With the wife out of work now I'll be lucky to get to sign up for a day trip to MOMA in NYC.
bravo1102 wrote: Almost went to Italy last year, until the wifey broke both ankles on her trip to San Francisco. With the wife out of work now I'll be lucky to get to sign up for a day trip to MOMA in NYC.
Oh, I remember some of that! I hope she's walking without any recall of the accident by now. If so, skip MOMA when the weather is nice and go to Grounds for Sculpture. You'll probably find me there dreaming about Italy. Free Duolingo lessons and DK travel book – it's all I have toward a trip
@gullas: ah! most expensive Icelandic pool it may well be. and speaking of Iceland, was re-watching IRON GIANT yesterday … have you guys been keeping regular checks on those glaciers of yours for signs of robotic rejuvenations?
ayesinback wrote: @gullas: ah! most expensive Icelandic pool it may well be. and speaking of Iceland, was re-watching IRON GIANT yesterday … have you guys been keeping regular checks on those glaciers of yours for signs of robotic rejuvenations?
Interesting that you should bring that one up. It is true that our glaciers are home to many wonders of the universe, some more material than others. Planes, cars, bodies, money etc. and that's all due to the fact that the glaciers(at least Vatnajokull, the biggest) were a prefered route over rivers.
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