Battles are interesting

Especially on wikipedia, where they helpfully list the beligerants of war and the casualties and the flags.

This one looks like a bitchin’ one, all the western gang (plus the nips for good measure) against a sci-fi sounding opposition (I totally nearly wrote ‘bad guys’ then).

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

That looks like it might have made a good Sharpe.

Just go through wikipedia finding out about all the fucking weird random wars and, if you want, show me the most strange.

Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine–American_War this one: (check out the casualties, we rock) (at murdering) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

We pop up quite a lot in these.

King George commands and we obey, over the hills and far away.

something wonderful here

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/01/27/levitating-cats/

17 fucking metres!

SFW

GFY

I want you to really try to think about this:

if you were told you couldn’t talk anymore. no one on earth can talk anymore because our ears all started bleeding at once (not rob’s he’s already deaf). and our brains forgot how to speak or write language (again not rob, too late for him) But there was this computer that was left over from this chaos and it could produce words from reading your mind. and what was (somehow) proposed was that at least to begin with everyone would get a turn with the computer in which it would read their mind and print a t-shirt that would have one phrase or sentence on it that as best you could imagine would serve your purposes for surviving in this situation what would it be? (this is a post apocalyptic in many ways)

rob heres one you will like: ‘I’m just here for the fuel’ – because it conveys your need for substances that power things, useful in such hard times and it also indicates to people that you are a fan of mad max films

another could be: ‘eats shoots and leaves’ – this is the best I could think of because its that phrase that communicates several ideas at once, though they contradict eachother sometimes, but it would also indicate that you were were a reader or at least literarily aware as a person.

if I were gay I might have: ‘take off top, push up bottom’ because it’s clearly a gay joke, so peopel know you’re funny and…..gay.

ok so anyway mine would be: ‘I wont hit you if you dont hit me, also can I have some food?’ mine is terrible. but you might be able to do better

gfy

Hi, i have two questions.

1. If there was a crowd of people skiing down a ski slope and a big great white shark sliding down on its belly with them, would it try to eat the people or just concentrate on getting down the slope?

2. (similar) If a large group of people are free falling from 30,000 ft for a charity sky diving event and there is a massive grizzly bear falling with them, would it try to eat the people or would it just spin wildly out of control and vomit on the other participants/focus on a steady decent?

We may all have seen this.

This might even be crpytmenisa:

The oldest lolcat, circa 1905:

GFY

We’re trying to decide on some garden furniture

Obviously, you will use it, and when we imagine people using it, because we’re lame and have no close friends down here, we picture you sitting at it with us, drinking, playing guitar, cards or whatever piece of shit board game we decide to play.

Which of these would you rather relax, eat and drink at. Bear in mind that the Madrid one has holes in it that poker chips and plectrums and capos and bottle openers might fall through, but we could put mats on it.

John, which of these would you feel more comfortable destroying with your full body weight after windmilling and shrieking?

Door number one: http://www.greenfingers.com/superstore/product.asp?dept_id=3456&pf_id=LK7038D

Door number two: http://www.greenfingers.com/superstore/product.asp?dept_id=200446&pf_id=LS4920D

I’m swayed towards the second, because it looks more pimpin’ and relaxing. The downsides are, if we get in a gunfight, the table would provide about 50% less cover because of the holes. Then again, the cover provided by the bench would cancel out that disadvantage.

Oh wait, nevermind. On the Milan one it says: Note: 5/11/09 This item is discontinued and sold out out.We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

I think I’ll leave this post up as a tragic cautionary tale.

Feel free to make suggestions of your own.

GFY

I was just watching QI

And Stevie told me that 25% of all prisoners in the world are American, in the American penal system.

1 in 30 men aged between 20 to 24 are in prison.

1 in 9 black men of that age group are  in prison.

Prison labour (25c an hour, if you refuse, you go to solitary confinement) is responsible for the manufacture of all of the USA army’s helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags and other items of uniform. 93% of domestically-produced paints, 36% of home appliances and 21% of office furniture.

You may have seen this, it may have been posted before but on the of chance you/it has/haven’t –

COP OUT

also…a bit crap but some funny

I was just doing some random searching

Going from one link to the next , and I found this site:

http://www.chrisgeary.co.uk/ChrisGearyGalleries/info/

John, make a site like this for yourself, please.