Azdeus

As a Swede and an Volvo enthusiast... it's a useless, crappy, overprised, crappy, capricious car, depending on exact model you can't use a spare tyre for more than some 20km before it eats up the differential and it's crappy. I'm not biased one bit towards the older models, not one bit. If you get hold of an R version it actually does become a semi-fun car to drive. Still FWD though. And the above statements still stands.

White Supremacist Craig Cobbs DNA test reveals he's 14% African. Reality sucks, does'nt it?

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen. Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

That's good to hear Walsh! I'm quite envious of your sleep actually, the last few days I've been getting very little, because everyone and their mother have woken me up hours before I was ready to. Really damn annoying to be honest, not to mention tiring. Happy birthday!

Hahaha! Yeah, who would've thunk it?! ^^ Just would've hoped he could've actually put some effort into it, since in Swedish "Svear" is the old word for "Svensk(Swedish)". Any person calling himself king from the Svear tribe, is per definition a Swedish king. Swedes are'nt called Goths/"Götar" since that tribe got their arses kicked, by Svear. From Svealand. Little bit of a case of "What it says on the tin" here.

I'm a longtime subscriber to the Swedish version, something wich will be coming to a halt soon. They're trying to act "mature", try to do original articles without actually making proper research and have lost their sense of humor. It's funny that the magazine was much more mature before they tried to be...

By the way Oby, far be it from me to question your deductive/reading skills, but there are letters making up words on that map, and they say "Svear", "Götar" and "Gotland (Land of the Gutar)". Just for the hell of it, I typed it into wikipedia to see if the english version would recognize it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tar Svear and Swedes are names for the same thing... And it clearly points out sources mentioning Svear/Swedes from way before 800AD. Just thought I'd drop that in your lap and see where you run with it.

I rofl'd at that, thanks! :D I did try growing my beard long for a while, but getting past that half-long really annoying state where it's practically hopeless to keep it in order was too tall an order for me.

Brown eyes, never gotten a hangover, same with my pops. Still, Scandinavian heritage in general maybe? Kaine, got any idea about your family origins? Then again, my mothers side of the family have blue eyes and all have troubles (Staying away from, that is) with alcohol, so. *Shrug*

My mother's 54 and she still never gets hangovers, and boy... she does drink alot. Probably could take drink Ros and Kaine under the table after each other and wake up at 9 the morning after without any sign of headache. I've read or heard somewhere that it's in the genes, but I'm usually to busy to feel ashamed about stuff the day after to feel if I have an headache...

I'm just going to point out that you don't need to be that stringent about the amount of water, don't force yourself to drink too much because that'll probably cause feel like vomiting. Just drink until you feel it's enough, any amount will help. It's best to drink some extra fluids while you are partying.

I'm tripping on nostalgia. Remembering good old World of Warcraft times with buddies that has moved on or even passed on... Wistful...

Mirror imaged essentially. I was on Earthen Ring RP from the beginning though, so the HK patch actually helped things a little in my case, because suddenly people were interested in PvP in a whole 'nother way. I can easilly believe how the mood would've changed on an PvP server though. Never bought Cata though, but it was a close call for a while.

When you factor in Phasing into that... double-whammy. Alot of people can't even see your toon, just because you finished a questchain - hence you can't even go back to help people. Wich was really annoying on a RPPvP server where we were starting anew. I got corpsecamped and eventually asked for help; Noone in the channel that was interested in helping out and my friends could'nt even see me when they came there... Great stuff. I remember Barrens general chat. Hot damn, there was alot of chatting going on. 'Course that was also because it was such an annoying place, but it was bearable because of social interactions there. Hell, you even got HELP from PEOPLE! You did'nt have to tab out to look at guides back then... They've really succeeded in taking the Massive out of their MMO. Possibly, you could get guild recruitment spam and such though, but yeah. Removing the opportunity to trade would help with that bit.

I have just remembered another gripe about World of Warcraft. It's lost the community. Something that actually bothered me when they first introduced the crossrealm dungeon/raidfinder, was that people stopped socializing on the server. You never had a chance to build up a reputation on the server as being a competent player, good person or funny. There was nothing of it, all the channels were dead besides the oafs that noone wanted to listen to and goldfarmer spam, so that did'nt compensate for anything. You rarely had the chance to meet an interesting person while pugging because they all came from different servers and you could'nt reliably start guilds or anything similar. That goes double for PvP! You never really get to find build up any form of relationship with the other faction on the server either, even with the open BG areas. You never really find your nemesis or such either. Though, people having to wait 30 minutes for a BG was'nt fun either, especially if there was a steamroll waiting to come down on them. My opinion on this is somewhat screwed though, since I played on an PvE server, where the alliance players usually came over to chat/whinge and plead to get some scores. We did steamroll through Arathi Basin 99% of the time, wich often led to the Alliance staying in their base sulking or going fishing. Wich in turn led to us running around naked inviting them to get some free HK's atleast... Or us jumping into AB fighting an Alliance premade. In dresses. And winning. xD TL/DR, Crossrealm killed WoW for me.

Like Caverns of Time was'nt enough.

I've recieved roughly 80 text messages today from my RL friends trying to get me back into the game, that's the real danger in that game. Not that you get hooked yourself, but that you either drag your friends into it with you or they drag you into it. I've never had problems with the graphics or art-style of vanilla WoW, I actually loved Eastern Kingdoms style. What really got to me was the ridiculously ugly and silly gear that came later on in the expansions, and to a small extent in the late vanilla times when Ahn'Quiraj and Zul'Gurub with it's semi-organic stuff came along. The players really can be an annoyance though, can't argue with that. The memories that are flooding back are... interesting to say the least, especially when my friends and I decided to start on a new server... where it seemed all the rejects had gathered.

Thanks for the spelling correction, that one was really bad, even for me. :S tThe problem is... I also feel ashamed for my friends actions. I've seen my friends do things that are ludicrously embarrassing... but I feel worse about it than they do.

Me two years ago. Still look the same essentially, but less clutter on the desk since I don't smoke anymore.

Well, you have to START a fight to have something to surrender from!

I wish I had a memory blank from when I had that much to drink... It's close to ten years, and I still cringe and feel shame. I wonder how my mates manage doing worse things than I did and keep a clear conciense.

We're a shadowcoalition of the scandinavian countries, made to look like we have a clue with the support of all the others; Oil-money from Norway, cell-phone money from Finland and... pastries and candy money from Denmark. These moneys are used to build up the image of a strong socialist country that acts as a knowitall and made up as something to aspire to as to have the rest of the world be as comfy as possible for us when we finally dig out our horned helmets again! This plan is something that has been started during the Viking Age as we call it, when we kidnapped all the pretty ladies from around Europe and started our export business of goods. I'm pleased to report, it's so far working Just as Planned, and noone has got a clue yet. *Mutters* Part of DENMARK?! The only reason why they were'nt made part of the Swedish EMPIRE is because we DID'NT WANT Denmark!!

Might've posted this before, I'm a wee bit tired;

Hey, Sweden is doing what we've been doing the last thousand years; Exporting furniture around the world, having you furnish your homes in the fashion we find appealing, so that when the day comes, and we take over the world - we'll find it homey! Ikea is'nt a company; It's a tactic!

I'm glad I'll never get any..