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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

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I thought you might have. We don't hear much about it here Smile


urayamashii. �����܂��� <I'm jealous> Smile
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Because getting maced just doesn't suck enough, there's now mace pepper spray gel. This shit will coat your face with pure, burning stickiness, turning your misinterpreted flirting into a blind search for water or anything else that'll provide relief for your painful, painful face. The benefit to the sprayer is that there's no mist, so all of the painful chemicals will end up in your assailant's eyes, nose and mouth rather than in the air around you. It "sticks to the face like glue," according to the marketing materials. Holy shit. Only $15! How can you say no?!
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Can you imagine if that stuff had been available when Daryl Gates was still around? The streets of L.A. would be oveflowing with that gunk. bleh
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Can you imagine if that stuff had been available when Daryl Gates was still around? The streets of L.A. would be oveflowing with that gunk. bleh


I wonder if works well as a marinade for steaks.....
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Tu_triky wrote:
I wonder if works well as a marinade for steaks.....

I like the original mint flavor myself.
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:

I like the original mint flavor myself.


Works great for macing lamb.
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

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Friekin' Looney tunes over there....as if people didn't know why they were so secretive...cuz those ppl are F*CKED up in the head....with their fuggin' lame ass pioneer clothes from the 1800s and magic underwear...wack ass fools.

Guess the magic of the underwear is if you're an old ass coot you get to commit statutory rape on young girls.....

Yup. It's nuts. Who the hell would want to live like that? Crazy Minus the pedo. I'd bet they'd had more members if they dressed like the 80's and spend their days snorting rails. hehe

I still wonder where that guy from Texas went. I liked young girls too. *cough*akb*cough* ...and he has been MIA since the FBI raided the place. hehe Beaten
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tabana wrote:

Yup. It's nuts. Who the hell would want to live like that? Crazy Minus the pedo. I'd bet they'd had more members if they dressed like the 80's and spend their days snorting rails. hehe


Haha... hehe hehe

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...and he has been MIA since the FBI raided the place. hehe Beaten


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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Strange. I don't know which one is crazier. Nut

'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks

HOLYHEAD, Wales - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones �\ aka Master Jonba Hehol �\ with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court. He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones �\ known as Master Mormi Hehol �\ bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones' brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the "Star Wars" films. The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses "insight and knowledge" from the films as "a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life."

"We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it," the Wales on Sunday newspaper quoted Barney Jones as saying last month. "But a lot of people do take it seriously." Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle. "Darth Vader! Jedis!" Hughes shouted as he approached.

Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand. "He knows his behavior was wrong and didn't want it to happen but he has no recollection of it," said Hughes' lawyer, Frances Jones.

District Judge Andrew Shaw sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. He also ordered Hughes to pay $195 to each of his victims and $117 in court costs. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 �\ 0.7 percent of the population �\ listed Jedi as their religion.
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tabana wrote:

Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand.
    One bottle of sake usually does the trick for me.
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Anime Dad wrote:


Read about the leader, Warren Jeffs. Stranger than fiction bleh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs


O.M.G.! Those racial remarks... and his sermon on the duties of a wife...

Man.
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

tabana wrote:
Strange. I don't know which one is crazier. Nut

'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks

HOLYHEAD, Wales - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape


rofl rofl Punk stole my Akihabara costume....Zanen desu
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Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

By LINDA STEWART BALL
Associated Press WriterWed May 14, 3:16 PM ET

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as "crazy rasberry ants" �\ crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.

"They're itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they're just running everywhere," said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. "There's just thousands and thousands of them. If you've seen a car racing, that's how they are. They're going fast, fast, fast. They're crazy."

The ants �\ formally known as "paratrenicha species near pubens" �\ have spread to five Houston-area counties since they were first spotted in Texas in 2002.

The newly recognized species is believed to have arrived in a cargo shipment through the port of Houston. Scientists are not sure exactly where the ants came from, but their cousins, commonly called crazy ants, are found in the Southeast and the Caribbean.

"At this point, it would be nearly impossible to eradicate the ant because it is so widely dispersed," said Roger Gold, a Texas A&M University entomologist.

The good news? They eat fire ants, the stinging red terrors of Texas summers.

But the ants also like to suck the sweet juices from plants, feed on such beneficial insects as ladybugs, and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken.

They also bite humans, though not with a stinger like fire ants.

Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.

They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet.

Exterminators say calls from frustrated homeowners and businesses are increasing because the ants �\ which are starting to emerge by the billions with the onset of the warm, humid season �\ appear to be resistant to over-the-counter ant killers.

"The population built up so high that typical ant controls simply did no good," said Jason Meyers, an A&M doctoral student who is writing his dissertation on the one-eighth-inch-long ant.

It's not enough just to kill the queen. Experts say each colony has multiple queens that have to be taken out.

At the same time, the ants aren't taking the bait usually left out in traps, according to exterminators, who want the Environmental Protection Agency to loosen restrictions on the use of more powerful pesticides.

And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide.

"It looked like someone had come along and poured coffee granules all around the perimeter of the rooms," said Lisa Calhoun, who paid exterminators $1,200 to treat an infestation of her parents' home in the Houston suburb of Pearland.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with A&M researchers and the EPA on how to stop the ants.

"This one seems to be like lava flowing and filling an entire area, getting bigger and bigger," said Ron Harrison, director of training for the big pest-control company Orkin Inc.
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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bleh

That's just great. I hope they hate winter. Sweat
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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

tabana wrote:
bleh

That's just great. I hope they hate winter. Sweat


They do, so we're good. >>high 5s<< Beaten Shake Head
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Tokyoites least eco-minded of rich city dwellers: poll

Posted Mon May 19, 2008 6:56am PDT

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan may be at the cutting edge of green technologies, but its capital has the least environmentally conscious residents of eight of the world's richest cities, a poll showed.

More than four in 10 Tokyo residents -- 41.6 percent -- said they "don't want to sacrifice a convenient lifestyle to prevent global warming," according to the poll results published recently by Japanese advertising agency Hakuhodo.

The percentage was the highest among the residents of Tokyo, New York, Paris, London, Milan, Moscow, Toronto and Frankfurt, and well above the average of 29.7 percent, according to the survey of 2,600 people.

Parisians and Milanese were the happiest to change their lifestyles to save the planet, it said.

Tokyo residents scored the lowest among respondents from the eight cities who said they were "having a lifestyle that takes into consideration the environment," Hakuhodo said.

They also ranked the lowest among respondents who said that "an eco-friendly lifestyle is comfortable."

In a list of 27 daily activities considered to counter global warming, from taking only short showers to participating in tree-planting activities, Tokyo residents only scored above average for five of them.

In particular, Tokyo dwellers came last when it comes to studying about global warming or preserving the environment.

They also ranked lowest when it comes to buying eco-friendly products and scored below average for using clean energy, biomass, solar or wind energy.

However, the poll showed that nearly 90 percent of Tokyo residents feel threatened by global warming. They also came tops in responding that "environmental protection is more important than economic growth."

Tokyo residents "have the dilemma of not wanting to give up a convenient lifestyle that they've had for years," Hakuhodo said.
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In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 �\ 0.7 percent of the population �\ listed Jedi as their religion.


389,970 unaffiliated members, eh?

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Strange. I don't know which one is crazier. Nut

'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks

HOLYHEAD, Wales - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones �\ aka Master Jonba Hehol �\ with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court. He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones �\ known as Master Mormi Hehol �\ bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones' brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the "Star Wars" films. The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses "insight and knowledge" from the films as "a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life."

"We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it," the Wales on Sunday newspaper quoted Barney Jones as saying last month. "But a lot of people do take it seriously." Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle. "Darth Vader! Jedis!" Hughes shouted as he approached.

Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand. "He knows his behavior was wrong and didn't want it to happen but he has no recollection of it," said Hughes' lawyer, Frances Jones.

District Judge Andrew Shaw sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. He also ordered Hughes to pay $195 to each of his victims and $117 in court costs. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 �\ 0.7 percent of the population �\ listed Jedi as their religion.


That is the funniest thing i've read in years. rofl rofl rofl
I never would have imagined this could happen in modern day! rofl rofl rofl
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Anger at 'slutty' Starbucks logo
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US coffee chain Starbucks has come under fire for a new logo that critics say is offensive and overly graphic. The Resistance, a US-based Christian group, has called for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant. It says the chain's new logo has a naked woman on it with her legs "spread like a prostitute... Die Laughing The company might as well call themselves Slutbucks". rofl

Starbucks says the image - based on a 16th century Norse design of a mermaid with two-tails - is not inappropriate. Rather, the image is a more conservative version of the original Starbucks design, which hung above the chain's first store when it opened in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971.

'Rubenesque'

It says the raunchy image - the longstanding logo for Pike Place bags of coffee - is appearing on some of its cups as part of a promotion, and will remain "for several weeks". Howard Schultz, who bought Starbucks in 1982, described the emblem in his memoirs as "bare-breasted and Rubenesque; [it] was supposed to be as seductive as coffee itself".

Although its share price has plunged in recent years, Starbucks has 16,000 coffee shops in 44 countries worldwide, employing more than 170,000 staff. The chain has just opened its first outlet in Argentina.

Based in San Diego, the Resistance claims to have more than 3,000 members across the US and has gained a reputation for espousing diverse conspiracy theories
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tabana wrote:
Based in San Diego, the Resistance claims to have more than 3,000 members across the US and has gained a reputation for espousing diverse conspiracy theories


Some people need to re-evaluate their priorities. Shake Head
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