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According to behindthename.com So it goes like John -> Jankin ->Jackin ->Jack

I have heard in southern Finland there lives an old lady named Naima Kolo. Her last name is somewhat unusual, and her first name has gone out of fashion if it ever was popular in the first place. But there is nothing wrong in those names as such. It is only when they are put together that they bear the unfortunate connotation of

Unless Canada comes into tonight's game better prepared than they did yesterday, Sweden will win easily. Of course the problem is, they almost certainly will be better prepared. I can't see them getting too ****y against Swedes.

We kinda sucked in that USA game. It happens. Oh well, it's not like we weren't going to be crushed by the Russians anyway.

Oh, I don't care (much) about the health of those athletes who use steroids voluntarily, I care about those who would compete without endangering their health but cannot succeed because the competition is using drugs. If sports is to have any point at all the line must be set there, and it must never be compromised on. I don't really understand your point about the credibility of the game. Take all the side effects away, and what you have left is really only another form of training. Training, by the way, was frowned upon in the ancient olympics. The competitors were supposed to arrive in wartime condition, or something.

Every argument with Volourn is pretty much the same. You can't win, don't even try. For what it is worth, my opinion has always been that to the extent that performance enhancing drugs are harmful to one's health, they should be prohibited in sports. The day when one cannot succeed without endangering one's health is the day when athletics has become its own parody.

I hate that thing. It asks fifteen completely irrelevant questions which I can all answer no. And then, suddenly: "Has your character been on the Moon?" My character was Neil Armstrong, and needless to say, it had figured it out by question 18. How did it know to ask that?

Was a bit different game than I expected. Unfortunately win on shootout was worth to us exactly as much as loss on regulation would have been, but otherwise that result leaves a lot to be optimistic about now that the real games finally begin.

I saw the Finland - Belarus game yesterday, which we managed to lose on penalty shootout. I caught myself rooting for the David even when my own team was playing the role of Goliath. I think with that I have come to realise just how meaningless these round robin games(or possibly the entire tournament) are. It doesn't really matter at this point whether we are playing Sweden, USA or Switzerland in the quarter-finals, so who cares. Congratulations for the Belarusians anyway. It would never have happened if their goalkeeper wasn't some sort of superhuman, but isn't it always that way in these kind of games.

Happy birthday.

Ugh. I don't think I could survive this kind of temperatures. Not with my sanity intact, at least. As much as I hate the winter in northern Finland, I'd rather take 40 below than 40 above.

You are a caucasian male in your early twenties, of above average intelligence. You are not entirely happy with your life so far, and are looking for direction. You most likely suffer from at least mild depression. You like science fiction and fantasy. Most likely anime too. And video games, obviously. This is what I can infer from the information you offer, anyway. For anything beyond that, you have to ask from someone who isn't a total stranger.

Isn't it also true (I am actually not sure about this, but maybe samm can confirm) that all adult males are expected to maintain an automatic rifle and be proficient in using it. Meaning that even if you somehow managed to conquer the place, you'd be looking at lifetime of guerrilla warfare in extremely difficult terrain. No thanks. I'd imagine even the most megalomaniacal supervillains would have the sense to steer clear from Switzerland.

'France surrenders' jokes stopped being funny...well, truth to be told, I am not sure if they ever were funny. I guess they would have to have been, sometime, otherwise people wouldn't keep telling them. Might have been before I was born, though. Anyway, is this actually the first time the Swiss invade somewhere?

Thank you for making this thread. I find it useful since it gathers everyone with a signature image into a one place so I can easily block the annoying images. As for myself, I kinda like the way how owls in most photographs appear to express human emotions, mainly annoyance of being photographed. No other non-primate animal that I know of has a face that expressive. My signature quote changes as whim strikes me, the main reason for me to have one is that the teal color allows me to quickly find a post of my own in a thread, if I for some reason want to do that.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/26/...in2514554.shtml I am truly fascinated by this phenomenom. Every year lots of people end up dead or severely injured, and yet they never seem to learn that coating kite strings with glass is a bad idea. Oh yeah, and bonus points for firing into the sky near crowded areas, as well.

Children of Men is one of the best movies I have seen in the decade. Maybe the best. Cinematography was astounding.

I would rather that my username weren't inspired by Wheel of Time, but there you have it. I would change it, but I have had this one for so long a time that I won't really feel comfortable using anything else. Kinda like a nice pair of shoes you wouldn't like to let go even though it is long past time to buy a new one, knowing that anything you could find just wouldn't feel so comfortable to your feet. Oh, the extra 'a'? There is a story to it, I guess, but it isn't interesting enough that I would bother telling it here. Let it just be the one thing, superficial as it may be, that separates me from Robert Jordan's character and allows me to spare some semblance of my dignity.

And that is of relevance how exactly? Notice that I am not being sarcastic; I am honestly curious to know what made you think posting what you did was a good idea.

According to the blog linked to in the opening post, Verizon has given the guy full refund, though they do come off somewhat assholish in their reply, and they still fail to acknowledge that they screwed up.

I doubt Verizon is going to fight for seventy dollars, particularly when this story makes them look really, really bad. Once somebody in the management who has a modicum intelligence hears about this, this guy's charges will be waived and hopefully everyone involved in this debacle will be fired. Or, at the very least, they should be forced to take a remedial course in elementary arithmetics.

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ Long story short, a guy got quoted a rate of 0.002 cents per kilobyte for an unlimited data plan. This seemed to him as absurdly low, so he had it confirmed, and had them give it to him in writing. Everything seemed fine, until he got a bill in which he was charged $0.002 for a kilobyte. This results in over 20 minutes long, painfully hilarious customer service phone call, wherein our hero tries, with a patience that even angels would be envious of, teach elementary mathematics to the Verizon customer representatives, but alas, for no avail. If I lived in an area where Verizon operates, this story would be all the incentive I needed never to use its services.

When it comes to pure, unadulterated comedy, I don't think this one can be beaten. Part 2 Part 3 It's a half an hour long North Korean propaganda film, with not a single sentence in it that isn't funny.

^German government. Apparently there is a law that says kidnapping victims are entitled to state compensation. The question of whether such a law is a good or a bad thing aside, I would expect that the plaintiff must at the very least prove that they were kidnapped in the first place, which may be difficult in this case.