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Was this from your years of fighting in the 'Nam as a Tunnel Rat? I suppose old habits die hard... No, I just didn't mind fighting in the tunnels. It was years of making love to your... Sorry. Old habits etc.

That is the most beautiful snake I've ever seen. If you want to see them 'properly', check out my favourite Youtuber: Viperkeeper.

Failed to push Raithe out a window.

I think that almost anyone would look better next to Alex Jones. How about me and Volo and oby?

I used to be able to do multiple simultaneous linear equations in my head. But then again I also used to be able to pull girls with nice smiles and well proportioned assets.

Is it just me or are those the whitest looking black women ever collected together? Well balanced.

Actually I was given to understand that they were public in the sense of not being Church run madrassas.

Anyone else feel like a stick insect who has just had the life and works of Albert Einstein explained to him?

I believe the rule is generally half your age plus seven.

Now there is a lady to indulge.

There is nothing interesting about oby which isn't more interesting when considered in the context of Fionavar.

LOL. You mean, they were just claiming they got raped when all that happened was they went to beach and made shonky with buff Scandinavians?

In fairness not all of those hours are mine. Only about 2/3rds.

Remember kids: you can't argue with science.

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." - Samuel Johnson

Were they foxy? EDIT: Anywhere I can't walk I go by taxi. Maybe a touch ferret-faced... Why were you touching his face with a ferret?

I'm thinking it's butthurt from the war, you know, when the "genetically superior russians" got their hineys kicked? Five quid says oby will claim that they weren't actually Russian, but were actually genetically from Rwanda.

Does choking a classmate unconscious count? Were they foxy? EDIT: Anywhere I can't walk I go by taxi.

Come to England. You'd cut a swathe through the local lasses not seen since your pointed-hatted ancestors landed in 1066.

My point was to say if both films are losing money why are the indies seen as "worse" to lose money? Even still, lets say that the blockbuster does $50 million and is number one on a slow week. That's (by the above scenario) 5 million tickets. That's 45 million pirated views under the 90% scenario described and $450 million in lost revenue. The thing about availability is that it holds through in piracy. Do you think, honestly, that a film that barely squeaked into 2 theaters is even going to be made available to pirate, and if it is who would know about it to download it. The stuff that gets pirated are the big budget blockbusters and the Oscar bait art films that have buzz. Could there be an audience to pirate a film like, say, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X that only showed a handful of festivals? Amentep, I believe we're both trying to say that it doesn't matter if a lot of top ten movies get pirated. Or that even a greater proportion. Your mistake - and its very understandable - is in assuming that it is the percentage return on investment which matters. But it isn't, by itself. Any investment proposal is tailored around the return, the risk on the return, and the scale of the return. Blockbusters get pirated, they even fail outright if they don't catch the pubic imagination just right. So the risks are high. But the rtruns are huge, and they are in an order of magnitude which suits big investors. So, if I am making an indie movie I have to pitch a return which won't allow an investor to put all their money with me, won't return a monetary 'win' on a scale I can recognise, and can still get pirated out of existence when people are too lazy to find local showings or buy the DVD. Most indie film makers I've met aren't even in indie films to make money. They are only in them as part of the lifecycle on the way to making big budget Hollywood films.

I think it's only fair to remind you that "he" is the male pronoun. * I think you just made a mistake there, but I know you are smarter than me so I'm not going to say anything*

I am surprised to hear he is racist. I wasn't aware he had strong feelings other than a powerful love for his own brilliance.

Side point: I tried twice yesterday, and twice this morning, but I simply _cannot_ be bothered to read a long post with multiple quotes in. If you have to respond to multiple points, try to collate them first?

I think it's only sensible to remind you gentlemen that oby isn't even a woman, let alone Russian. It's been amusing to pretend otherwise, but don't start discussing 'her' views as if they are representative. The only thing they represent is someone with some sort of mild mental disorder.