Jingus

The fact that I haven't been near as good about brushing them as I should just might have something to do with it too. It's more a case of cavities gone unchecked than teeth falling out by the roots. And considering that I've experimented with half the illegal drugs on the planet at some point, but no longer do any of them, I'd say that sticking to storebought stuff is like my own version of longterm rehab.

Had one. "Friend" wrecked it. Car and friendship both gone.

What exactly would "signability" entail? Al said any wrestler alive, so what's the penalty if I wanted my main event to be Dynamite Kid vs. Droz? If I wanted to make money, and assuming that they could all wrestle an active schedule, my choices are pretty easy: The Rock Steve Austin Hulk Hogan Goldberg Ric Flair

A what? Do you mean "beater" as in Beater, the orcs' nickname for the legendary Elven sword Orcrist? Sorry, it's buried with Thorin's body underneath the Lonely Mountain. Or do you mean "beater" as short for wifebeater t-shirt? Already wearing one. (It's fuckin' hot in Texas.)

As far as I can remember, they're never mentioned. Of course, this is the Bible we're talking about, women are mostly portrayed as being men's property.

No. He wasn't into S&M. At all. After that night, she never heard from him again, which was the point. ...also, it was in college, period. I saw a lot of really, really weird shit then. Anyone who's lived in a dorm for a couple years knows what an experimental mindfuck it can turn out to be.

...wow. Um, I tried cough medicine, and liked it? That's about it. (Oh, and I actually hate the syrup form, swallowing Cloricidan pills is way easier.) And, mom drive me to a wrestling show, any wrestling show? LOL. She's a special ed teacher who used to work in a head injury rehab clinic and is a major limosine liberal. I'm the only wrestling fan in my entire family.

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No... entirely the opposite, really. He was fucking terrified out of his mind. I think he peed himself. That was one fearsome woman.

I would. And what games have come out in the past few years that are so superior to the old ones that they justify the across-the-board raise in price? You can't find a new game anywhere that takes just a quarter to play, hell it's tough finding one that runs on a mere fitty cents.

I don't. Yet my mom still bitches that I need to go find a job so I can buy a car. She apparently doesn't see the inherent logical contradiction here.

I have read the whole book. When the world at large can even agree on one English translation, let me know. Til then, I'd say it's a work of man and pretty damn fallible. "Fags go to hell." (Along with anyone who isn't a Christian or has nonmonogamous sex.) How else do you interpret "not inherit the kingdom of God?"

That's all due to the booker, not the wrestler. Big Show was turned face/heel at least twice a year for his entire career, and got pinned pretty often. Khali has (til recently) been presented as nothing but an unstoppable monster. But, "aggressive"? He's really slow, his offense looks like shit, and personally I think he often looks nervous, confused, or unsure of himself.

Yeah, cuz a lot of those frames are just nondescript blurry crap that seem like they coould come from 1000 different films. and I've SEEN like 1000 movies if not more. How can anyone have a memory photographic enough to spot them?

Yeah, it's weird how some conservatives obsess on fags to a suspicious degree. Don't you have more important things to worry about, like maybe the Muslims who're trying to kill us all? As to the "Bible don't preach intolerance towards gays"... aw, did I kill the discussion dead by using actual factual references? Sorry guys, but the Bible says quite plainly that homosexuals should be stoned to death. (Yet another reason why I'm not a Christian.)

So... does anyone else utterly hate Great Khali the way I do? Can't wrestle, can't bump, can't talk, always looks green, and killed a guy in-ring. I don't get the point. He's only 2 inches taller than Big Show and Andre, but can't do any of the cool stuff they could. I understand that wrestling is a highly subjective media/artform in which everyone has their own separate opinions. As a Libra, I pride myself on being able to comprehend the mindsets and motivations of those different from me. That being said, I just don't fucking get anyone who likes this big goof. You like Cena, Punk, or Orton? I don't agree, but I understand the argument. You hate Undertaker, Carlito, or RVD? I don't agree, but I understand. But... frigging Giant Singh? To me, these statements are all analogous: "Feces is the tastiest topping for a sandwich." "I really hope they don't catch Osama Bin Laden." "Lindsey Lohan is way hotter now than she used to be." "The least funny comedian ever? Richard Pryor." "Jingus sure is a quiet, humble, and non-opinionated poster." "I wish they'd repeal the Constitution so GWB could be elected for a third term." "Aliens Vs. Predator was the best movie ever." "Man, I really enjoy the Great Khali's matches."

Heh ha, what was that game called? Yeah, I'd include a couple of shitty games just to balance the good ones out. Oh yeah, Violence Fight, that was it. I think the important thing would be having a good mix of different kinds of games from different eras. 1. Street Fighter 2: this one's a gimme. Pick yer favorite version, but most people think that Turbo was the best. 2. Crisis Zone: FINALLY, a modern shooter gives us aa fuckin' machine gun to start out with. A great diversion from all the semi-auto sshooters out there. 3. Mrs. Pac-Man: you gotta have some old school. 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: probably the best side-scrolling fighting game. 5. Star Wars Arcade: an awesome flying/shooting game, during the X Wing levels at least. 6. Mortal Kombat 2: 1 was cool, 3 and everything past it was too complicated, but 2 was just perfect. 7. Zaxxon: ridiculously difficult old skool flying game. If you could make it thru the force field level without loosing a life, you're my god. 8. DDR: I give up. Gotta make some money somehow. 9.. Any one of those machines that let you pick 10 different old Nintendo games. (But I'd change mine so it doesn't have that damn timer, you only get kicked off when you actually lose all your lives.) 10. Ski-ball. Not a video game, I know, but still a vital part of any arcade.

I am, in video game years. But I felt the same back when I was in elementary school. I'll get off my ass when I feel like it, don't try to condescendingly appeal to me with exercise which is badly disguised as "fun".

I don't wanna jump around while playing games. If the kids do, go play a game of hopscotch while clutching a gameboy. The entire point of video games is that it's an intense activity you can play while still remaining as lazy as humanly possible.

DD2 was closer to the arcade... kinda... by the time it came out, the programmers knew how to stretch the hardware & cartridge limitations a lot farther than they did back when the first one was made.

Yep. Here in TX, small cars are taxed much higher than big trucks and vans. You pay more tax for a Corolla than you do for a friggin' Hummer. And yeah, in my experience, public transportation is either useless or nonexistant. I live a few miles north of Dallas, and guess what? There's NO public transportation out here, a mere half-hour from the heart of downtown. No trains. No buses. Nothing. And I don't have a car, and my balance and coordination have always been so bad that I can't ride a bike (and the psycho leadfooted drivers out here make riding a bike into a complicated suicide method anyway). And if I wanna walk, I gotta do it in the tall grass, cuz there's no fucking sidewalks. If you don't have a personal vehicle out here, you're boned. Same thing when I lived in a suburb of Savannah, GA. No public trans. You basically had to be in the downtown area already just to catch a bus. And things weren't much better in Nashville TN either: no trains, limited sidewalks for pedestrians. There was a bus line, but the schedules were ludicrously complicated and counter-intuitive in their design, plus they just plain didn't go anywhere except the main roads. And I can hear some damn yankee right now saying, "Why don't you just take a cab?" If you have to ask, then you've never been to the South. There are very, very few cabs out there, and they all cost about triple what their northern counterparts do. As for speed limits, shit, nobody obeys the ones we already have. No point in turning mild crime into moderate crime. People already drive too damn fast. Why else would auto wrecks be the #1 cause of death in this country?

CW, there are indeed LOTS of dramatic factual inconsistencies in the Bible. Here's a list of 384 of them. Knock yourself out explaining how they aren't really mistakes. (And just wondering, Spiderpoet, is that you? Cuz this debate feels familiar.) And yes, the Bible pretty explicitly condemns homosexuality. Several times. The obvious examples are in Leviticus, along with all the other wacky and bizarre rules in that book: "If you see fags, kill 'em." How can you claim the Bible doesn't condemn it? That's the most harsh examples, but there are others. Like how Noah curses his son Ham for seeing daddy naked. Or the very word "Sodom". Or where it says crossdressing is evil. Or where it forbids the Israelis to let homosexuals live in their camp or worship in their church. Or the SEVERAL times where God's chosen people exile or kill "sodomites" with God's full approval. And don't give me the "well that's only in the Old Testament, that's not what Christianity really is" argument, because they keep going way into the NT as well. Romans 1:27, Corinthians 6:9, Timothy 1:10, and various others are very, very clear in their condemnation of buttfucking and pillowbiting.

89: Night Trap. Well, not JUST Night Trap. Sure, it was a crappy game with godawful acting and video quality, but the suck didn't stop there. Nope, long before Mortal Kombat was offending senators everywhere, friggin' Night Trap started the whole backlash against video game violence and the endless debate over whether our kids' games were turning them into psychos.

As I recall, the AVP arcade game was one of the few decent games made from either the A or P franchises. But oh yeah Time Killers was one of the most godawful wastes of silicon ever. As far as I'm concerned they still suck now (don't get me started on the Wiimote). And yes, big fat slobs. Great big fat fucks. All the time. Including the young girls. But mainly I hate 'em because 1.they take up space that could be filled by two or three real arcade games, and 2.the kids who obsess on them tend to be incredibly loud screaming annoying little bastards. Eh, it wasn't as good as the arcade game, true. But considering how limited the NES's hardware was, they couldn't even come close to duplicating the Double Dragon arcade experience. Also, except for Renegade and Urban Champion and other primitive crap like that, DD was pretty much the only side-scrolling fighter on the console at that time, so there wasn't much to compare it to. It was pretty damned popular back in the day.