Australia and NZ tour rumours going around Part 2 (No Bullshit)

illegal pants

ZiggyStar wrote:

Next are the 8 issues of Leigh's comic....I've got to re-write the script with Leigh then as he draws each page (nearly 200 in total! :eek: ), I've got to do the computer work for each, fixing up smudges, word bubbles, darkening etc, setting it for the printers etc. That job is going to be MASSIVE. But worth it. I'm looking forward to it actually.

I'd learn Japanese.

sounds hardcore time-consuming (but fun )! will this be a night thing or will you take time off work for it?

Japanese... it was that or French in high school and i was too lazy to learn symbols hahahaa

yellowled24

illegal_pants wrote:

don't think they do no.. are they the fluffy ones? Lucky had some remote Persian and Hercs father has Persian

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/yellow_ledbetter/Cats29.jpg

hehe always pissed off..

Maine Coons have big pointy ears and a large mane! Might have a throwback in them?

They are vey cute

illegal pants

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/jm_pappas/CATS/Cats47.jpg

we've never had water dishes for our pets lol :eek:

ZiggyStar

illegal_pants wrote:

CONGRATS! oooh cash.. nice i didn't realise you were trying to sell it for that long!

Huh? There's a few businesses on my books that have been for sale for AAAAGES...but I keep selling them as long as they keep paying me!

yellowled24

Well guys, im off....like Suz i gots me some housework...the plumber is here too, trying to hook up my kitchen sink, so I dont have to wash the dishes in the bathroom sink

See ya soon xx

illegal pants

yellowled24 wrote:

Maine Coons have big pointy ears and a large mane! Might have a throwback in them?

They are vey cute

awwwwwwww cute

LMAO @ throwback :eek:

illegal pants

ZiggyStar wrote:

Huh? There's a few businesses on my books that have been for sale for AAAAGES...but I keep selling them as long as they keep paying me!

pffft who can keep up

congrats again...

illegal pants

yellowled24 wrote:

Well guys, im off....like Suz i gots me some housework...the plumber is here too, trying to hook up my kitchen sink, so I dont have to wash the dishes in the bathroom sink

See ya soon xx

the simple pleasures of doing the dishes huh.. in the kitchen sink :eek:

catchya Sairs.. squish Eddie from me!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/jm_pappas/Cats44.jpg

Lucky says bye :eek:

ZiggyStar

illegal_pants wrote:

pffft who can keep up

congrats again...

Did you have your sushi? I did!

illegal pants

ZiggyStar wrote:

Did you have your sushi? I did!

YEAH

went with teriyaki chicken today..

pissin down so i'm off for tea and annoying the zoo.. catchya Zig!

vital5

illegal_pants wrote:

YEAH

went with teriyaki chicken today..

pissin down so i'm off for tea and annoying the zoo.. catchya Zig!

lol teriyaki chicken is not sushi!!

threefish10

i know this was pages ago, but i just felt like saying:

ZiggyStar wrote:

Have you ever thought about putting all that time you spend playing games into something else? Eg learning a language, writing a book, exercising, volunteering, learning something etc?

ZiggyStar wrote:

I just started thinking about how much time is wasted on games nowadays....and I wonder what could be achieved if so many hours weren't absorbed by games...and computers...and just shit.

maybe people see the activities you listed as a waste of time.

Oz Jammer

threefish10 wrote:

i know this was pages ago, but i just felt like saying:








maybe people see the activities you listed as a waste of time.

Touche

vital5

ZiggyStar wrote:

How about LEARN something? There are so many dumb people around....breeding dumber people....who just sit there and watch crap tv and read crap magazines and play crap games ALL THE TIME and never pick up a pencil or read something worthwhile or watch a documentary or TALK about anything interesting even.

I think the world needs to educate themselves....but I think the increase in computer game playing and other crap media is making it harder and harder for kids and some adults (*not you guys*) to do anything and learn anything because they're so addicted to playing or watching.

It amazes me how much time my friends spend on them....then complain that they're not happy with their lives because they're 30 and still living at home. WELL GO DO SOMETHING!!! Get off the fucking couch and put the controller down for a while!

What could these friends have done if they'd put all that effort into something more productive....THAT is my question?

Give it 50 years and the world is going to be full of deadshits.

"I think the world needs to educate themselves...."
Ziggystar.. think yourself lucky you have access, as a woman, to education.

anyways if people weren't into technology.. why would e-books exist? are you shooting urself in the foot?!....

vital5

aus_suz wrote:

I was standing at the bench spreading salmon pate on toast.... whilst looking out the window watching the oak tree leaves gently fall to the ground....
It was something like u would see on a movie....Such a pretty day here today.........

Suz... are you sure you didn't see all of that on TV?... wow real life outside the window :eek:

vital5

ZiggyStar wrote:

But I didn't say everyone is dumb. I said there are "so many" dumb people. Kids today can't even write or speak their own language properly?!?!? Or add or multiply. In my world, that's very very bad.

And I understand that people play them for time out etc....you're taking what I'm saying totally wrong.

Regarding No 2 -- Views like THAT is what's wrong with the world today.

So attack the Government and the education system for not schooling these people properly Did you go to a private school? why do these even exist? and why are funds not spread evenly throughout schools for everyone to access?? Now there's a real question Blame the dumbing down of exams in schools... society is getting dumber on it's own, not only due to video games....

ZiggyStar

vital5 wrote:

"I think the world needs to educate themselves...."
Ziggystar.. think yourself lucky you have access, as a woman, to education.

anyways if people weren't into technology.. why would e-books exist? are you shooting urself in the foot?!....

I don't have a problem with technology at all....I don't know why you thought I did?

ZiggyStar

vital5 wrote:

So attack the Government and the education system for not schooling these people properly Did you go to a private school? why do these even exist? and why are funds not spread evenly throughout schools for everyone to access?? Now there's a real question Blame the dumbing down of exams in schools... society is getting dumber on it's own, not only due to video games....

I didn't say video games were the only reason.....

And no, I didn't go to private school. However mum and dad wanted me to but I didn't want to go....

My kids will definitely be going to private schools.

ZiggyStar

threefish10 wrote:

maybe people see the activities you listed as a waste of time.

If that is the case, I find that comment very sad....

Self-education should never be classed as a waste of time....

ozsmalltowngirl

Hi everyone

Now this computer game debate is something I've really looked into over the years, being a Mum and all
This pretty much summerises most of the info I've read and been told:

The question is simple when it comes to a delivery device like a mobile phone. Mobiles make it easier to talk, but don't improve what we say, which is fine, because they are convenience tools. But now we are being told that the latest media technology, like video games and reality TV, are not just entertaining, but a way to boost the brain.

Interestingly, the charge is being led by a new book that argues trash TV and the likes of Space Invaders lifts IQ. In Everything Bad is Good for You, American writer Steven Johnson insists that what is making us smarter is what we thought was making us stupid: popular culture. The culture he is talking about is electronic, and ranges from Grand Theft Auto through Finding Nemo to TV, both reality (Survivor) and drama (24). It is revenge of the literate cyber-nerds. Video games, TV and digitally animated movies are a way to embrace, not escape, reality, Johnson says. They are different to reading, but they do expand the mind and make you clever.

The notion that Joe Millionaire is up there with Jane Austen is a long way from Flaubert and a sizeable leap from the standard defence of TV put by Clive James. "Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world," James says. Johnson, a contributing editor of cyber-savvy Wired magazine, goes much further.

Rather than a race to the bottom, popular culture, as expressed in new media, is an enlightening experience, he says, arguing that the media games we play are becoming more complex and intellectually challenging. So how is it that video games such as Ultima are brain food?

Johnson says brains are set up to respond to the kind of problem-solving hurdles posed by games and work for children because they tap into the brain's natural "reward circuitry". This happens through what he calls the "dopamine system", the mechanism that distributes feel-good chemicals. Thus, spending hours driving through virtual streets playing Grand Theft Auto is not aimless, but a structured narrative in which desire is engaged to solve problems. The brain, he suggests, demonstrates its approval of such cognitive effort by delivering dollops of its pleasure drug.

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