I still can't believe I wasn't invited! I would have loved to wave my 14€ unlimited iPhone data plan (+additional usb modem +tethering) in your collective faces. Nice episode though.
I still can't believe I wasn't invited! I would have loved to wave my 14€ unlimited iPhone data plan (+additional usb modem +tethering) in your collective faces. Nice episode though.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. I think more people were bothered by the subway car full of blood.
It did provide the excellent mental exercise of figuring out how to seal a normal subway car so that it wouldn't all just leak out. Bonus - when the doors opened, it would gush out onto the platform, traumatizing even more people.
Also, I learned what a knife-girl was. Mildly disappointed, but interesting all the same.
I still can't believe I wasn't invited! I would have loved to wave my 14€ unlimited iPhone data plan (+additional usb modem +tethering) in your collective faces. Nice episode though.
Who the balls offers a plan like that?
Pretty much all operators here in Finland have their fastest unlimited plan at around 15-20 euros a month. Sometimes they add perks (like the parallel sim card) to get people to switch operators. This is basically what happens when phones and plans are sold separately. I had to pay 700 euros for my iPhone, but with that plan it still comes out cheaper than what you guys are paying for the combo in the US. It comes out cheaper even if one buys the phone on a credit card to space out the cost of the phone.
It was actually illegal to sell phone -- contract bundles (unless you also offered both items separately) until the industry lobbied our parliament to make an exception for 3G phones (under the pretense that 3G adoption would otherwise be slow and too costly).
(under the pretense that 3G adoption would otherwise be slow and too costly).
That is the weakest pretense I've ever heard.
I still can't believe I wasn't invited!
See, I thought I did invite you, but then I looked at the mailing list and it seems I spelled your last name wrong, thus confusing google into not finding your contact info.
See, I thought I did invite you, but then I looked at the mailing list and it seems I spelled your last name wrong, thus confusing google into not finding your contact info.
Aah, my last name, my nemesis! Someday I shall have to relate the very hilarious (though not at the time) story of how my last name almost got me a demotion once.
Finally listened to the latest episode. My Sound Quality is better than last time, and I swore less. I will be well rested next time - I kept screwing up jokes, for example, that Ford Edsel joke, which is a good sign I should have either not slept or slept more.
I suddenly want to take All y'all on a road trip down here. Show you what I mean about those driving roads.
I'm really, really quiet when luke is talking about pranks, because my mute button is on pretty much 100% of the time, because I could see my audio levels going mental, because I was laughing too loud.
There is a time I said Fuck that Sonic missed, but it pretty much self censored anyway, thanks to a fortuitous stall in the connection.
You're pretty close - I didn't want to derail to far with the long version, but it's usage is a little trickier than Fuck. For example, while that is a legitimate use, it's rare - pretty much because it sounds a bit funny. More likely, you'd encounter it as a replacement for fucked or fucking, along with some different uses. You can even use it in tandem with fuck. To provide examples - "I'm utterly Rooted" (I'm utterly exhausted), "Nah mate, your engine is rooted"(Your engine is really rather broken), "I wouldn't turn down rooting her", "I'd give her a root"(I wouldn't turn down shagging her, and I'd give her a shag, respectively, "Are ya bringing along a root?"(Are you bringing along someone you fancy to have sex with/your wife/your girlfriend?), "Where's bruce?" "He's off having a root." (Bruce is somewhere getting his freak on) "He's a like a robo-rooter" (Shags like a machine, play on the Roto-rooter drain cleaner thing) and so on. There are also terms that use it like "Root Rat", a term for someone who is constantly looking for sex. In short, it doesn't tend to replace fuck as an interjection or ejaculation, but works better as a conjunction.
Australian slang - More complex than organic chemistry, but much more rewarding.
I want to hear the story of John C. Dvorak calling Churba a douchebag.
Not much to it - I fixed their wiki article, and took the piss on the discussion page. They didn't like that, arc'ed up, had a go at me on the show, but then someone said "Hey, he's a bastard, but he's right" and then it was fixed. I did have to deal with a few weeks of No Agenda fans sending me insulting messages, but water off a duck's back, the soft-headed ones can't string together a half decent insult, and the smart ones don't bother doing it.
You're pretty close - I didn't want to derail to far with the long version, but it's usage is a little trickier than Fuck. For example, while that is a legitimate use, it's rare - pretty much because it sounds a bit funny. More likely, you'd encounter it as a replacement for fucked or fucking, along with some different uses. You can even use it in tandem with fuck. To provide examples - "I'm utterly Rooted" (I'm utterly exhausted), "Nah mate, your engine is rooted"(Your engine is really rather broken), "I wouldn't turn down rooting her", "I'd give her a root"(I wouldn't turn down shagging her, and I'd give her a shag, respectively, "Are ya bringing along a root?"(Are you bringing along someone you fancy to have sex with/your wife/your girlfriend?), "Where's bruce?" "He's off having a root." (Bruce is somewhere getting his freak on) "He's a like a robo-rooter" (Shags like a machine, play on the Roto-rooter drain cleaner thing) and so on. There are also terms that use it like "Root Rat", a term for someone who is constantly looking for sex. In short, it doesn't tend to replace fuck as an interjection or ejaculation, but works better as a conjunction.
I love how these examples of slang usage are riddled with slang themselves.
If you went back in time, and say, killed Hither as a baby, You wouldn't be that guy that killed Hitler, You'd just be that guy who killed an Austrian Baby. Or that Guy that Murdered a failed art student. Or a Politician.
Also, I'd go back, become the first or second Doctor on Doctor who, then come back, and Audition to be the Final Doctor after Matt Smith, just to fuck with people.
Also, money will buy a 13th regeneration. Money always beats the rules.
Considering that the whole "regeneration" thing was a contrivance in order to justify changing actors, I have infinite confidence that the writers will find some bullshit reason to have more than 13 doctors.
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Also, I learned what a knife-girl was. Mildly disappointed, but interesting all the same.
It was actually illegal to sell phone -- contract bundles (unless you also offered both items separately) until the industry lobbied our parliament to make an exception for 3G phones (under the pretense that 3G adoption would otherwise be slow and too costly).
I thought it was the former.
Also, I said I'm not worried about people killing themselves - Well, fuck, got that wrong.
I suddenly want to take All y'all on a road trip down here. Show you what I mean about those driving roads.
I'm really, really quiet when luke is talking about pranks, because my mute button is on pretty much 100% of the time, because I could see my audio levels going mental, because I was laughing too loud.
There is a time I said Fuck that Sonic missed, but it pretty much self censored anyway, thanks to a fortuitous stall in the connection.
Australian slang - More complex than organic chemistry, but much more rewarding.
Also, I'd go back, become the first or second Doctor on Doctor who, then come back, and Audition to be the Final Doctor after Matt Smith, just to fuck with people.