Caught my [chat] down

Nova_C

Oh, okay. I just saw the note on Wikipedia.

MyDcmbr

Frosteey wrote:

is it safe to change avatars now?

Yeah.

No one will yell at you about it now.

matt has a problem

Richy wrote:

So I have this image I want to upload. But it's pretty big, and photobucket resizes it to the point that it's unreadably small. Where can I upload it to be ok?

Use http://www.imgur.com

Richy

So I have this image I want to upload. But it's pretty big, and photobucket resizes it to the point that it's unreadably small. Where can I upload it to be ok?

thehumandignity

The Pong Su incident occurred during April 2003 when members of Special Operations Command (Australia) intercepted and boarded the Pong Su, a 4,000 ton North Korean ocean freighter in Australian territorial waters. The ship was flying the flag of Tuvalu at the time, known as flying a flag of convenience. The boarding of the freighter was carried out by members of both TAGs and the Incident Response Regiment whilst the ship was underway in rough seas. The reason for apprehending the ship was that it was suspected of being involved in smuggling almost 125 kg (300 pounds) of heroin into Australia. The Pong Su was berthed in Sydney and the crew extradited to Victoria for prosecution. The Pong Su was later sunk by a Royal Australian Air Force F-111, using two 2000lb laser-guided bombs.

O_o

I was not aware of this. How do you suspect a ship of smuggling heroin when it hasn't docked yet? What was the point in bombing it with two tons of explosives with air force jets?

bloodyroarxx

Richy wrote:

So I have this image I want to upload. But it's pretty big, and photobucket resizes it to the point that it's unreadably small. Where can I upload it to be ok?

abload.de?

21stCentury

Still reading the Kotaku article on japan (taking breaks now and then because it's dense), but Japan sounds like a foreign country, something that might be hard to adapt to for a foreigner!

amazing, i know.

It does make me want to experience it some time, though... maybe i should go to Japan sometime.

matt has a problem

thehumandignity wrote:

The Pong Su incident occurred during April 2003 when members of Special Operations Command (Australia) intercepted and boarded the Pong Su, a 4,000 ton North Korean ocean freighter in Australian territorial waters. The ship was flying the flag of Tuvalu at the time, known as flying a flag of convenience. The boarding of the freighter was carried out by members of both TAGs and the Incident Response Regiment whilst the ship was underway in rough seas. The reason for apprehending the ship was that it was suspected of being involved in smuggling almost 125 kg (300 pounds) of heroin into Australia. The Pong Su was berthed in Sydney and the crew extradited to Victoria for prosecution. The Pong Su was later sunk by a Royal Australian Air Force F-111, using two 2000lb laser-guided bombs.

O_o

I was not aware of this. How do you suspect a ship of smuggling heroin when it hasn't docked yet? What was the point in bombing it with two tons of explosives with air force jets?

They probably had no use for it, weren't going to return something used for international smuggling, and needed practice bombing ships.

Sparvy

Sometimes I miss the good old days of counter strike.

Guess people are still playing it

bloodyroarxx

21stCentury wrote:

Still reading the Kotaku article on japan (taking breaks now and then because it's dense), but Japan sounds like a foreign country, something that might be hard to adapt to for a foreigner!

amazing, i know.

It does make me want to experience it some time, though... maybe i should go to Japan sometime.

It's something else. but just dont stay in the city,

21stCentury

God, i should stop eating Kiwifruits. They melt my lips away and leave my mouth a garden of pain and horror.

emnmnme

japan

Richy wrote:

So I have this image I want to upload. But it's pretty big, and photobucket resizes it to the point that it's unreadably small. Where can I upload it to be ok?

imgur seems to work well for most things. I started using it when imageshack started being really annoying.

Zombiemambo

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

japan

Damn it Bethesda, in Fallout I can't go ten feet without being attacked by something, but now that leather is useful for crafting in Skyrim, I can wander around the wilderness for half an hour without encountering another living thing.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

weeaboos have idealized notions about japanese culture and get super upset when it doesn't work out like magic happy time

RMS Oceanic

Because I want to.

emnmnme

japan wrote:

Damn it Bethesda, in Fallout I can't go ten feet without being attacked by something, but now that leather is useful for crafting in Skyrim, I can wander around the wilderness for half an hour without encountering another living thing.

The dragons ate all the random critters you'd otherwise find.

Nova_C

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

Donchya know? Everyone interested in Japanese culture should be ridiculed and ostracized.

Cinders

21stCentury wrote:

Still reading the Kotaku article on japan (taking breaks now and then because it's dense), but Japan sounds like a foreign country, something that might be hard to adapt to for a foreigner!

amazing, i know.

It does make me want to experience it some time, though... maybe i should go to Japan sometime.

Here's a blog of someone who has lived there for 20 years discussing things she likes and dislikes about living in Japan.

I'm not a big subscriber to the "weird Japan" mentality. One of the reasons I don't get so into it is that so much of it is clearly manufactured to be novel (e.g., maid cafes) and is little different than similarly generated oddness in other cultures which links not to human nature, but calculated commercial interests. However, when the weirdness manifests as a small component of a larger "normal" aspect of culture, my interest is piqued, and that is where we arrive at "akapantsu" or "red underpants". Sugamo is an area of Tokyo with a shopping district, Jizo Dori, which is described as an old folks Harajuku. The shops carry items of interest to the grey-haired set, but they also sell red underwear which is popular because the color red has positive associations in Buddhism. In particular, it wards off disease. So, many elderly flock to the red undies store and purchase over a million of them a year in order to gird their loins with red hot undergarments.

I will miss this odd contradiction in the conservative nature of older Japanese people and the way they dress and behave with an attraction to buying colorful and flashy underwear.

1000thingsaboutjapan.blogspot.com/

Zombiemambo

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

weeaboos have idealized notions about japanese culture and get super upset when it doesn't work out like magic happy time

did you even read it

any of it

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Nova_C wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

Donchya know? Everyone interested in Japanese culture should be ridiculed and ostracized.

They really should.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Zombiemambo wrote:

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

weeaboos have idealized notions about japanese culture and get super upset when it doesn't work out like magic happy time

did you even read it

any of it

I read the entire thing.

Cinders

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

Nova_C wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

Donchya know? Everyone interested in Japanese culture should be ridiculed and ostracized.

They really should.

This is why I like you.

Zombiemambo

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

Zombiemambo wrote:

Cinders wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore

My god, this weeaboo's rant just keeps going.

how is he a weeaboo

weeaboos have idealized notions about japanese culture and get super upset when it doesn't work out like magic happy time

did you even read it

any of it

I read the entire thing.

I'm hard pressed to believe this

either that or you don't understand what weeaboo means

actually you know what fuck it you nerds are annoying as shit some times

TehSloth

Sweet, just finished up making a chocolate and a regular peanut butter pie since I got dessert duty for a football game watching party thing.

Now to figure out who the teams that are playing are and the names of their throwy guys so I can sound like I am at all familiar with football.

Nova_C

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote:

I read the entire thing.

Who's the weeaboo now?

21stCentury

The more i read the japan is not funny article, the more it seems like the guy could just be complaining about similar things if he lived in America.

Like, he complain japanese pop music is formulaic and lame...

Yes, because boybands were always groundbreaking and unafraid of artistic experimentation, right?

he makes some good points, but it's like a bucket of freshwater in the ocean.

Dynagrip

Organichu wrote:

i just saw an obvious off-duty cop with the most obvious exposed gun ever. he almost looked like he was open carrying, just by inattention. he's wearing sweat pants and a PPD tshirt, and his pants are hanging down under the weight of his pistol- just, fully viewable for all the world.

you bastard, if i did that i'd be searched.

would the cops draw straws to see who had to put their hands on you?

Organichu

man, i'm finding it really difficult to get back to sleep nowadays. i can usually get to sleep in the first place without a big hassle. but the first time i wake up to pee or walk the dog or whatever, i'm just fucking up. woke up at like 3am and now i'm gonna have to power on until tonight, because if i sleep early i'm just gonna wake up in the middle of the night again and reinforce the cycle. blech.

Tav

I'm not really looking forward to Japan in the Summer

woo a week with my incredibly racist parents in a foreign country

Richy

japan wrote:

Richy wrote:

So I have this image I want to upload. But it's pretty big, and photobucket resizes it to the point that it's unreadably small. Where can I upload it to be ok?

imgur seems to work well for most things. I started using it when imageshack started being really annoying.

That works. Thanks!

Organichu

Dynagrip wrote:

Organichu wrote:

i just saw an obvious off-duty cop with the most obvious exposed gun ever. he almost looked like he was open carrying, just by inattention. he's wearing sweat pants and a PPD tshirt, and his pants are hanging down under the weight of his pistol- just, fully viewable for all the world.

you bastard, if i did that i'd be searched.

would the cops draw straws to see who had to put their hands on you?

i like to smear myself in poop before going outdoors specifically to make any sort of police encounter more unpleasant for them.

Richy

And here's the image. It's a little "find the difference" game I came up with.

Spoiler:

There are 19 differences between these images. See if you can spot them all!

Cinders

Richy, I am so bad at these games.

TehSloth

Cinders wrote:

Richy, I am so bad at these games.

I think it has something to do with the color saturation.

Dynagrip

sweet, was able to get a hold of my copy of SoaSE from impulse. it's the base version though.

Frosteey

21stCentury wrote:

The more i read the japan is not funny article, the more it seems like the guy could just be complaining about similar things if he lived in America.

Like, he complain japanese pop music is formulaic and lame...

Yes, because boybands were always groundbreaking and unafraid of artistic experimentation, right?

he makes some good points, but it's like a bucket of freshwater in the ocean.

Boybands owned we're probably only a couple years away from them becoming popular again : D

Dynagrip

wonder if i can buy the mini-DLCs stand alone or whatever.

Gosling

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