glumbert

OMG!

Sweet.. randal, you got kicked. First! =D

Wait.. comon.

=)

I'll never win.

wicca...today YOU RULE!

Excellent message in this video.

I was "touched" by the vid.

Am really rethinking what we've done in the past.

Lofty thoughts...doable, too.

Would be a really nice Christmas-spirit thing.

Thanks, Glumbert, for the inspiration this piece generated.

My first thought was:
"MC made this."

I'm building gifts for X-Mas, and it really sucks. It costs more in time and materials, than just the gift card.

Umm I'm pretty sure that in the bible Santa said "Screw the poor, buy everything you can get your hands on." You know why Santa delivers presents via the chimney? Because homeless people don't have chimney's, and that way he doesn't have to help anyone who actually needs it. All hail Santa, money money money, buy buy buy. The economy depends on it!

...that would be the "Gospel according to Santa" you are referring to? Or is it the "Letter of Santa to the Cynicalians"?

and it reads:

"In that time there was among the people great hunger and thirst, as consumed many. And Santa walked among them saying: "Let those among you able to labor in the fields do so, and those unable be scourged and ignored, for they are the bane of the good hearted".

"And at that time a feast was spread to honor Santa and his works. And the call went to those of means to come and share their wealth with the wealthy, and as many called did come so adorned. In the streets those of little means gathered in their misery as close to the fires warming the guests as they were able. And even in this did their needs steal from the feast the fullnes of satisfaction the guests sought.

"And so it was that the master of the feast set out upon the needy his guards and vassals, so to eliminate this stain from the city, whereafter the Santa proclaimed the word of the ward, it being the everlasting separation of those with and those without, the twain ever to live separately, one in comfort, the other as it might be able to sustain itself apart."

So saith the gospel of our Santa Claus, amen, and amen.

That's the one, right?

Kinda missed the point of the piece here, I think.

With the economy the way it is, the last thing we need is for everyone to not buy shit this Christmas. In a couple years I'll listen to this, but for now think of buying gifts as giving back to society because your paying for people to keep their jobs.

Might have been a message if the church and jesus thing had not benn in it...

A topic that is likely an even bigger thorn in the side of grammarians than the lay/lie dilemma is that of snuck/sneaked.
It hasn't been an issue for me for a while, because that's one of the lesser used words in the English language.
That is until someone decided to use that word a couple hours ago.
I immediately put my hand up in a somewhat obnoxious fashion, and cut them off with the swift justice of my correction before they had even finished acknowledging me.
Rude? Yes, but in this case, I don't really care.
The problem is that, to begin with, "snuck" isn't even a word.
Tell your average person that, and they will respond much in the manner my aforementioned target did:
"Huh? Yes it is. I've even seen it in books." (I repeat myself) "It really should be a word."
Weeellll-
It isn't.
Anyway, I just don't see why people can't get that through their heads. It's a pretty simple concept, really.

In regards to the "Extreme Ironing" thread:
1. I think that bus should drive through a narrow tunnel.
2. Why IRONING?
3. Now they should try it in a volcano crater.
=)

And... "Bears playing hockey":
Seeing as the blades are only on the animals' back feet, I say they cut that by now irritated donkey from the previous thread loose and give him a pair.

wicca...a purist, you are.

Speak me this:

sneak, sneaked, snuck, or whatever
hang, hanged, hung, or whatever
awake, awaked, awakened, or whatever
swim, swam, swum, or whatever
slink, slinked, slunk, slank, or whatever
drink, drinked, drunk, drank, or whatever
kid, kidded, kadiddly, or whatever I am doing to you.

Words are fun...toys, even.

Hey randal, if chaz swills (wrong word) vino, then you must be off swigging (word you were probably going for) Bud Light.
Quit sulking over your failure to post first and get back here, ya bugger!
=)

I hear this all the time, HOWEVER... so many buisness rely on Christmas sales, that if Americans didn't go nuts for Christmas the economy would take a huge punch to the package. With the downturn of the economy this year, it looks like Christmas sales are going to be low, and there are many buisness that are going to be hurting because of it. LIke it or not, that $450 Billion really makes a difference for a lot of people's livelyhoods.

Hey guys, guess what I just picked up on:
I was on pac's page, and I just randomly decided to start looking at her picture.
This is what I noticed:
1. My first though upon close inspection of the picture was that for some reason the girl on the bike was floating.
2. Look closely, there's no visible shadow under her. That would make a picture abnormal right off the bat.
3. The bike is tilted slightly upward towards its front end, furthering the appearance of levitation. With the camera angle and the backdrop shown, this would be tricky to achieve, all other things aside.
4. Looking closely at the bikes wheels, the color of the cement around the spokes is slightly different than that of the area of cement the bike is "resting" on.
5. Looking even closer at that cement within the wheels confines, there is a seam. Looking at the cement surrounding the wheel, there is also a seam, but IT DOESN'T MATCH THE ONE SHOWN ONLY IN THE WHEELS.
6. The amount of light, the lighting conditions on the bike especially, and somewhat on the girl don't match the weather of the backdrop.
7. There is a slight fuzziness around smaller appendages and protrusions on the bike/girl that I recognize happens when you edit a picture.
8. There is a bit of black around the front tire, which looks like what would be left of a darker shadow when you use the lasso tool or selection type tools in Photoshop or a similar program. This shouldn't be there, unless the rest of the shadow was present. (Which it isn't.)

My final thoughts:
This seems to be an edit, fairly simple, not all that complicated, done by removing the girl and bike from one picture and using the layers system to superimpose it on the backdrop photo. The person who did it did a decent job, but it would have done better if another layer had been added for shading, to make the superimposed image match the backdrop.

Now, this obviously brings some questions about pac into play.
For one, it would be decent evidence to question pac's sincerity in the information she's given us so far. Sprung off one picture, the fact that it's almost definite she's lied on that one thing, could mean that all the other information is also a lie.
Now, pac could simply be hiding her identity for security reasons, but it's usually easier just to turn down someone's request for specifics about yourself, like I do.
Why make up a story?
To seem like you are someone else.
It makes excellent cover if you are an alias, and are trying not to draw attention to this fact.
With this, I'll conclude my long-winded bit of detective work, and wait for constructive criticism, other people's views on this, perhaps more information if anyone has it, and the expected "we don't care" or "just shut up already" from some people. Anybody that has taken the patience to read all this, thanks.
I'm done for now.

Well, let's see...if you didn't buy gifts and instead donated the money, the economy would suffer further and more jobs would be lost nationally.

Where are you Canuck? I'm missing having a cretin like you to laugh at!
God, it's boring here in Maine. I got a new girlfriend who's rich but retarded - ideal yet again. But she doesn't have a computer and I just have to screw her all the time. With any luck she'll get some illness and die before Xmas.
Canuck - you're a prick!!!!

today I gave a drunk $5 for beer/wine, $75 to the junkie outside my office for a fix, the cleaning lady got $20 for a nice job on my floor and I gave my boss crabs I got on vacation,,,,,,,,I feel wonderful and it only cost $100.

I was hoping for some feedback on my comment about that photo...

wic you seem to be right .
good going girl.
Now is every thing fake coming from pms ?
I don't think so .When I pissed her off she showed her true self .
CM

Answer any of those questions you want, they could be illuminating!

Hey pac, I did a quick modification of your picture. I circled the areas that were the most crucial; the shading.
Also, because of the seam and cement color in the wheels, you would have had to go over the spokes and original color with the surrounding cement's color, then redrawn the spokes (since they are too small too effectively select) and drawn a seam to match the background in both of them.
I did a rough job on the front wheel, just to give you an idea of what I mean.
Sorry, didn't have enough time for a good one.
http://echopic.com/18f5

Hey guys, check out my new profile pic.
I took a 3d render of a cross I made and added special effects with a program like photoshop.
I especially like the symbol, which I did by creating the shapes in plain red and shading them.
It's a cross between an Anarchy sign and a Pentagram.
Ol' Mountainclimber's gonna shit BuyBulls when he sees this.
; )
(Chaz, the cross is a great example of how CGI is done. If I was good enough, I could have done the whole thing 3d, but I can't do particle effects.)

why the hell do we need to talk about jesus to get people to do the right thing?

today people have no integrity no honor and no idea.

you give to people in need because its the right thing to do. NOT because your church is doing it.

everyone knows christmas is now a capitalist money sink. but to sit there and try and raise people's awareness by talking about how we should worship is a waste of time.

reeducate our childeren by NOT buying bullshit. reward good deeds regularly so they know that its good to do so in an early age. dont shower them with gifts once a year. it makes them think they are entitled to a mass amount of gifts once a year no matter how they behave all year.

christians teach their kids that they should worship and do good because god is watching. almost like a report card, you will be judged and if you were evil you go to hell. thats utter nonsense.

isnt it more respectful to do the right thing when no one is looking rather than doing it because the old man in the sky is watching?