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Taken 2

2/10 because it was christmas yesterday and apparently jesus was born and we're happy

on a side note I'm sure whoever is responsible for the scenario is one of those people who were forced to vote for Mitt Romney because all the other lovely candidates were eliminated .

feet touching pillows


would not bang

the dark knight rises sucked arse

acting sucked

scenario sucked

direction - to my surprise - sucked

and im not even gonna go into plot analysis, what it all means etc

only batman begins deserved the hype imo

shite/10

aerodynamic wrote:

Aawwwwhhh i thought a new ep was out or something.....

...fuck you guys...

Finray wrote:

You truely are fucking disgusting, Aaron.

He's not wrong though...

question for the believers

does this soul that lives on have any markings of your character? do the qualities that comprise Jaekus as a person now for example continue to be?

Mashtuur ffs!

and jalala

Apparently not much...

big lebowsky, snatch, lock stock, the good the bad & the ugly, ronin, the ghost writer, office space, dirty harry, fletch, the holy grail, ocean's 12, bourne trilogy, pink panther, the party, blues brothers...

i'm sure i've seen those quite a few times... and there's definitely a lot more i'm forgetting right now...

Duplicity

meh, 5.5/10

confusing for no apparent reason, though it had some potential... just didn't live up to my expectations I guess...

There is no plot newbie... Unless by plot you mean a sentence written on a napkin

Ty wrote:

recruitment tool.

and a bad one at that... gone are the good ole days when you had real actors play the parts

Dilbert_X wrote:

Depends, I worked in a company where the plan was to rape the investors, maximise apparent profits and run before anyone found out.
I've not seen many companies which have real long term plans, beyond a year or two.

There are quite a few of the latter actually, the kind Jay pointed out. But long term planning doesn't necessarily translate to better working conditions or customer care.

Jay wrote:

How cynical. I feel bad for you if that's the way you view the world. I've never seen my employers as the enemy.

Cynical? How could I not be? You should see how cynical that CEO I told you about was when he said it was his job to make sure people got fired without a compensation. If his job description was to murder babies on the street I bet he'd do it with that same calm and empty face.

In my small working carreer I've seen all kinds of terrible employers. Twice forced to resign. Twice owed to. I'm missing around 6-7 k. And you know what? Fuck the money - that I have no hope of ever getting btw. One of them was even a very close friend! So if you've never seen your employers as your enemies then I'm very happy for you. Hope you never have to.

Anyway all that is off topic, sorry. As far as the OP is concerned I'm with Ty. You gave Bush two terms. Let's see what Obama can destroy in 8 years. Makes little difference anyway. None of your voting options would radically change anything. Except maybe Nader. Is he even running this time?

I meant on a personal level, not for the country obviously! That would be bad business!

Jay wrote:

How is it that you think a company becomes profitable? By screwing the customer? Customers only take so much before they rebel and go to a competitor. Good customer service is far more important than you seem to credit.

Companies become profitable by screwing its workers and its customers and everyone else that comes between them and a buck. Customer service is indeed very important, but screwing the customer is all too easy when you're the only provider of a product or service and overprive the fuck out of it.

Interesting talk I had with a CEO recently: He said "you know, we could be 5 times bigger as a company but that would mean huge problems with the workers because they could form a union and put pressure on us. Instead we made 4 smaller companies, each not employing enough people for them to make a union" (under the country laws in which they operate - that's Germany btw). So now that guy can pretty much sack anyone he wants whenever it suits him and not pay a dime in compensation. And you know what? That's why he's getting paid so much - to come up with all that shit and save money whatever the cost. And rdx wants that guy to run his country? Really?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I get it. A government's agenda should be to lose money.

It all makes sense now.

Touché newbie but you know what I mean right?

btw seriously, our government did exactly that all these years! They tried - and succeeded - in making money off of us...

Yeah but... ok so he's gonna be the CEO and the government will be the board? And where does that leave the voter? The worker? The expendable tool? And how does this profit get distributed?
I don't know... the whole idea behind a government running like a business seems dodgy. The efficiency part is ok, but for a government to be successful there are so many more factors it needs to get right other than profit...

rdx-fx wrote:

So far, I'm going to vote for the real black guy, Herman "twice as black as Obama" Cain

I just saw this Who is Herman Cain video, don't know anything else about this guy so I'm not gonna jump to any conclusions, but what exactly does he mean by "this country needs to be run like a business"?

As far as I know a company's success is determined solely on whether it's making a profit. Scary for a government agenda that... What do you think...?

Burried? talk about shitty...

I wanna eat some pollos hermanos chickin

so what happened

Macbeth wrote:

the whole 'U.S. citizen by birth killed by the CIA on a presidential death warrant' thing just doesn't feel right.

Why does it not feel right? Because he was an American citizen or because of how the justice system was bybassed?

If it's the former, I fail to understand why you would value his life more, simply because he happened to be born within the US. What difference does it make where he was born? The act remains the same. It's illegitimacy remains the same.

I want xietsu back





what, he was funny.

I never learned how to

study properly
write code
fix the car
wash the dishes (takes me ages to do them!)
play musical instruments of any kind
speak French properly
draw/ paint
do that thing waterpolo players do with their feet to stay afloat
play tennis
play proper chess
win in fights

_{I could go on and on lol}

He was drunk lowing... Face it, the illegal part has nothing to do with it.

pirana6 wrote:

Does anybody watch these?

Yep

At least lower the price then ye greedy fockers

rdx-fx wrote:

Iraq;Saddam deserved to be taken out in 1991 for using chemical warfare WMDs on the Kurds, and for annexing Kuwait.

That may be true, but if it was the Kurds' welfare you were after, you would have pressured Turkey for the creation of a Kurdish state. Which you didn't. Sorry but I find your understanding of US foreigh policy to be fundamentally flawed. You're not trying to avert injustices around the world. You're just looking after your own interests like everyone else.

rdx-fx wrote:

Afghanistan; We asked the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden. 
They wouldn't.  We went in after him.
We almost had him in Tora Bora - but DC jerked the military's leash, at exactly the right moment to let Osama escape to Pakistan.

That is not the case. A handfull of men would be enough to kill Bin Laden. As history showed btw. There are other motives for military presence in Afghanistan as I'm sure you're suspecting.

rdx-fx wrote:

Saudi Arabia; These are the assholes who have way too much influence in DC. 
Wahabbiist shitheads, sponsoring Al Quaeda on one hand, sponsoring DC politicians on the other.

These assholes are doing business with your government because they have what you want and their influence ends there. Nothing more, nothing less.

rdx-fx wrote:

As I've mentioned previously, I'm not a fan of this futile "nation building" experiment either.

My military policy:
Go in, take out the offending regime, take out their military.
Leave the civilians and infrastructure as intact as possible.
LEAVE

And what is there to gain from that? What reason is there to go to war if US interests don't benefit from the rebuilding process?

rdx-fx wrote:

With you, every goddamned thing has to do with "t3h j000s" or "evil imperialist Americans"

Give it a rest, Dilbert

Well, not to be a tightass, but you can't disagree there is a connection when the entire ME policy is directed to a degree by pro - Israel forces within the US... Nor can you dismiss the imperialist part if you want to be objective about the whole thing...

Of course if you're only trying to defend your country's policy first and foremost, then there's no room for complaints against those who oppose it.

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1384486?ln=el

Your friend might especially want to check the last two slides before jumping to conclusions. I know it's two hours long and most of it will go over your pretty little head anyway but what the hell, you got plenty of time before you have to bend over for the soap again.

Got a friend who works at CERN, says it's probably human error... pity though

Cybargs wrote:

Reason why no one is going to invest in your economy, especially now is your sovereign debt problem and huge contraction. Yes Greece did have a pretty good economic growth.

Look at chile during the 80s, ran by a dictator in a shitty economy with little to no industrialization, they had an economic miracle through a strong private sector in the economy.

You don't necessarily need manufacturing to be an economic powerhouse. Iceland did pretty well till they fucked up their banking system. Finland's economy is flourishing quite well.

Pinochet did monstrosities with their country's natural wealth. They sold off their water to private companies ffs and now they have huge problems with these companies destroying the environment with dams and all kinds of shit.
Iceland is full of all kinds of natural resources. And most of their debt was private as far as I know. They were able to say fuck you we're not paying without there being any major repercussions on other economies. Finland I don't know about, but they probably got timber or whatever...

Cybargs wrote:

I don't know much about Greece, but what is the cultural attitude to attaining a higher education? Higher skilled jobs usually = economic growth without a industrial sector, concentrating on services.

Actually the problem is overqualification... Most people in their 30's today grew up with a dream of high salary positions, at some point they compromised with the security of a boring low paying public sector job, and in the last 2 years they're just happy to work as delivery boys, secretaries and waiters despite their degrees etc. At least that's in Athens, where half the population lives.

lowing wrote:

good post.

Except, you keep going back to the excuse and not the problem. You would think at some point, the Greeks would start to question where in the fuck all of their benefits are coming from. Greece is fucked up, and the population is govt. dependent. The private sector is never allowed to take hold. Read the link. Your banks close at 130? really? Why would that be?

It's absolutely true that govt. dependency must end. But those benefits you speak of? I never saw any of that. Unless of course you're talking about healthcare, which is something imo nobody should do without. And the private sector isn't exactly an answer because let's face it, there's not much the private sector can do in this country, there's no reason for anyone to invest. Not unless the Greek worker suddenly agrees to get paid $3 a day like the Chinese. And trust me, it's gonna take a lot more than tear gas and plastic bullets to make us bend over that far.

lowing wrote:

You dance around what I said, but you refuse to just say it. Greece's problems stem from a large govt. dependency by the Greeks. They frown on the private sector yet rejoice over big fat govt. benefits. and when those benefits can no longer be sustained, they riot.

The main problem for Greece is that its economy doesn't really produce anything. Industrialization never came, essentially. It's the same problem faced by Spain, Portugal etc. All these countries got left behind in a sense, compared to Germany and the other industrial powers of Europe, mainly due to a fundamental lack of resources. A boost in agriculture and services was supposed to compensate for that within the EU. But even if this were to be carried out in perfection - which it wasn't due to the huge corruption problem down here - it would still fail to bring the south up to par with the rest of Europe.

Now as for the government dependency, it's true that the Greeks have been selling their vote to the two major parties for 30 years now, hoping to grab a spot in the public sector - not so much for the money, as for the job security. And who can blame them... When the average worker makes about a grand a month, his only hope of getting a housing loan is a steady job... But as a result corruption in Greece is rampant. I think we rank second world wide after some african country plagued by civil war lol

Bottom line, I'm not so sure you can blame socialism for what's happening to Greece right now. The inability to create a viable economy more likely lies with unchecked capitalism and inherent regional poverty. If you look at the big picture, govt. dependency is the least of our problems.

lowing wrote:

Was in Greece recently

vacation?

HITNRUNXX wrote:

Brian Austin Green

Hobo with a shotgun

it was boring and it sucked

and to think I had high hopes for this one... the title's fault

reeeelly sucked

What do you guys think will happen if Greece - and subsequently all the other countries that are on the brink - is allowed to default?

paranoid101 wrote:

You mean Fuckin funny

yep great film 8/10 from me

i mean fokin fonny ye! specially that snip about MI5! omg i was in tears!

Just saw The guard

Very very funny! A must-watch.

7.5/10

I don't get what the fuss is about... Why can't we just have normal discussions like we do irl? Wtf is it with you people and flaming? It's part of life. Get used to it, deal with it.
The only thing keeping this forum together still is a bunch of people talking like they would to a friend on the street. Afraid of roughing it a little?

"If u dun liek wut u c, get ouf ot kichn." -bf2s legend

(d&st especially)

I drive in Athens. Aggression is a necessity.

x men first class

7.5/10

really first class - didn't expect it to be that good tbh

This distinction makes no sense to me...

wait, undercooked fish and beef are bad for your health you mean? I dun think so...





sashimi ftw

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

coconut milk isn't a dairy substitute.

so drink both I guess?


cereal with coconut milk... yuuuuh

The Sunset Limited
7.5/10

I liked this one more than I'd thought, and I'm curious what others think...Anyone else seen it?