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Men around the world are worshiping you like a god right now. One woman came to the club proud of her boob job thinking that's why no one likes her not knowing the true reason being her face. So I got tired of her bullsh!t and told her the truth that there ain't a plastic surgeon in the world that could fix her face. I told this one chick after she asked me for a dance that my life long goal was to keep crabs from my crotch.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthist...inaccurate.html 10,000 B.C. Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism (see: sending a computer virus via Macintosh to aliens in Independence Day). So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in fact, used to build pyramids. Heck, woolly mammoths weren't even found in the desert. They wouldn't need to be woolly if that were the case. And there weren't any pyramids in Egypt until 2,500 B.C or so. Gladiator Emperor Commodus was not the sniveling sister-obsessed creep portrayed in the movie. A violent alcoholic, sure, but not so whiny. He ruled ably for over a decade rather than ineptly for a couple months. He also didn't kill his father, Marcus Aurelius, who actually died of chickenpox. And instead of being killed in the gladatorial arena, he was murdered in his bathtub. 300 Though this paean to ancient moral codes and modern physical training is based on the real Battle of Thermopylae, the film takes many stylistic liberties. The most obvious one being Persian king Xerxes was not an 8-foot-tall Cirque du Soleil reject. The Spartan council was made up of men over the age of 60, with no one as young as Theron (played by 37-year-old Dominic West). And the warriors of Sparta went into battle wearing bronze armor, not just leather Speedos. The Last Samurai The Japanese in the late 19th century did hire foreign advisers to modernize their army, but they were mostly French, not American. Ken Watanabe's character was based on the real Saigo Takamori who committed ritual suicide, or "seppuku," in defeat rather than in a volley of Gatling gun fire. Also, it's doubtful that a 40-something alcoholic Civil War vet, even one with great hair, would master the chopsticks much less the samurai sword. Apocalypto This one movie has given entire Anthropology departments migranes. Sure the Maya did have the odd human sacrifice but not to Kulkulkan, the Sun God, and only high-ranking captives taken in battle were killed. The conquistadors arriving at the end of the film made for unlikely saviors: an estimated 90% of indigenous American population was killed by smallpox from the infected Spanish pigs. Memoirs of a Geisha The geisha coming-of-age, called "mizuage," was really more of a makeover, where she changed her hairstyle and clothes. It didn't involve her getting... intimate with a client. In the climatic scene where Sayuri wows Gion patrons with her dancing prowess, her routine - which involves some platforms shoes, fake snow, and a strobe light - seems more like a Studio 54 drag show that anything in pre-war Kyoto. Braveheart Let's forget the fact that kilts weren't worn in Scotland until about 300 years after William Wallace's day and just do some simple math. According to the movie, Wallace's blue-eyed charm at the Battle of Falkirk was so overpowering, he seduced King Edward II's wife, Isabella of France, and the result of their affair was Edward III. But according to the history books, Isabella was three years old at the time of Falkirk, and Edward III was born seven years after Wallace died. Elizabeth: The Golden Age In 1585, when the movie takes place, Queen Elizabeth was 52 years old - Cate Blanchett was 36 when she shot the film - and was not being courted by suitors like Ivan the Terrible (who was dead by then). And though the movie has her rallying the troops at Tilbury astride a white steed in full armor with a sword, in fact she rode side saddle, carrying a baton. She was more of a regal majorette than Joan of Arc. The Patriot Revolutionary War figure Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion was the basis for Mel Gibson's character, but he wasn't the forward-thinking family man they show in the flick. He was a slave owner who didn't get married (to his cousin) until after the war was over. Historians also say that he actively persecuted and murdered native Cherokees. Plus, the climatic Battle of Guilford Court House where he vanquishes his British nemesis? In reality, the Americans lost that one. 2001: A Space Odyssey According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it's better when the movies get the facts all wrong.
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3rd place again, w00t!
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N+ Think Exit with ninjas, robots, awesomeness and not having to save morons.
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I use to like MegaTokyo but I stop bothering for quite awhile. Largo was the rule. I think I was getting tired of it cuz it started to get way to sappy.
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Queens of the Stone Age "Go With The Flow"
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Does anyone know where this one comes from?
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N+ and Rocketman: Axis of Evil
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The one of a very few Spawn covers I liked. And now somemore Deadpool greatness. Badass Dr. Doom pic too.
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I'm offering my badass expertise with this game to anyone that wants it. From achievements to problem beating the game. Trouble getting gold on someone's comic mission? I'll advise ya on what moves are best. Ask me my ideal team and I'll tell ya. Whatever, I'll tell ya. I might do this with other games too. I know there are sites that do this like GameFAQs or xbox360achievements but they're revolving the same bs that's circulating the internet and elsewhere. Strategy guides suck too.
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Kazaa downloads cost one man $750 per song in RIAA suit
Skythe replied to Jitway's topic in Gossip Café [/offtopic]
You can still rip songs off of a CD and burn it to people and these people are getting free music. RIAA's cause is to help sucky ass musicians get money for making lousy music. Each musician that has complained against P2P programs at the time (i.e: Metallica and Madonna) who's records sells were piss poor claim it was because of P2P programs not sorry music. While good musicians have had sell increases because of P2Ps. I hate society. -
Melt Banana "Moon Flavor"
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Mine dealt with a county wide black out cuz a tornado took out a power plant.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum "The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion"
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Fail. What part of "I consider" did not register with you? There's was suppose to be a quote from Devia. I wasn't talking to you.
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No it doesn't.
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Bully (360)
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Jonathan Coulton "Still Alive"
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Peeping Tom "We're Not Alone (Redux)"
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YES! Bus stop death scene. All I gotta say.
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My first car was a Nissan Pulsar (I have no idea what year it was) and after that it was a 90 Mercury Cougar (I miss this car greatly).
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No matter who you surround me with I'm still the most badass in that collage.
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Then don't play Army of Two then. Bully and it's GTA cousins have always had that kind of loading.