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Post by Nightspade on Apr 20, 2010 20:00:54 GMT -5
So... how's that pant load of volcanic ash treating you guys? All bad and tasteless jokes aside, I'm actually concerned for our friends here on RS.net across the pond. I doubt they all do much travel by plane, so the air lines being closed down for a while won't affect them too much. Still that's a lot of ash in the air. How are you guys holding up? Incidentally, this is one kick ass volcano. I mean, look at this bad mother:  That's lava, a cloud of ash, and motherf*cking lightning! If that volcano could walk it would annihilate all life as we know it. |
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Post by drakkenfan on Apr 20, 2010 20:10:43 GMT -5
Wow... that photo is amazing. It really shows the power of nature and the earth.
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Post by Zephyr on Apr 20, 2010 20:20:26 GMT -5
Haha.. That's me on dollar taco night...
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Apr 20, 2010 20:20:30 GMT -5
I concur with you, df. That is a great photo.
Also, I hope our European friends are doing well.
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Post by shockwave on Apr 20, 2010 20:22:22 GMT -5
Well, it's not affecting the general economy in the UK that much yet, but it's completely boned over air travel when it comes to jet aircraft, e.g., mainly international stuff.
I think the Royal Airforce jets are the only things with a jet engine that are regularly flying over the country at the moment.
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Post by Muzzlehatch on Apr 20, 2010 20:31:34 GMT -5
I've heard that there's an even larger volcano in Iceland that's getting ready to blow any time. It's called the Kletustheslackjawedjokull.
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Post by shockwave on Apr 20, 2010 22:49:22 GMT -5
Huh...British Airways is resuming air travel.
Ya know, if I was an airline passenger right now, I wouldn't know whether to feel relief because I could finally go home, or piss my pants because there's a chance that the plane engines could get choked with ash and you'd end up being flambayed.
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Post by drakkenfan on Apr 20, 2010 23:24:24 GMT -5
Kletustheslackjawedjokull?
Looks like someone slammed their hands on their keyboard to name it. Whoever named it, I feel sorry for their kids... they probably named their kids Gniwrgkljwiogijl and Nriuoehayhnilagnklangknrgjijjrkheak.
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Post by Nightspade on Apr 21, 2010 0:04:55 GMT -5
Kletustheslackjawedjokull? Looks like someone slammed their hands on their keyboard to name it. Whoever named it, I feel sorry for their kids... they probably named their kids Gniwrgkljwiogijl and Nriuoehayhnilagnklangknrgjijjrkheak. Nriuoehayhnilagnklangknrgjijjrkheak IS A PROUD NAME! It means 'He who fights volcanos of doom! Also he wears fish on his feet.' |
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Post by drakkenfan on Apr 21, 2010 10:16:08 GMT -5
Speaking of the power of nature, I just witnessed one of the most beautiful sights of my life today. This morning as I was dropping off my daughter at school, a huge rainbow stretched across the sky. It wasn't just a stripe. It was a full arch that touched the ground on both sides. Like something out of a fairy tale. People were stopping in their tracks and pointing and shouting "Look!". I tried to take a photo of it. I drove home, and as I ran up the stairs to grab my camera, the sky grew dark and it disappeared. I even drove back to the school, to see if I could see it from there, but it was gone. I did a google search to try to find a photo of one as amazing as the one I saw, but there were none. However this one comes close... but the one I saw was much bigger with brighter colors, and even more beautiful.  |
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Post by shockwave on Apr 21, 2010 12:24:32 GMT -5
Ya know, if I wasn't afraid of the ol' Irish Lep's being carnivores who lure in prey with the promise of 'pot of gold', I'd be tempted to follow that!
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Post by Nightspade on Apr 21, 2010 14:42:53 GMT -5
Why are you afraid of them because they're Irish? jk
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Apr 21, 2010 16:37:27 GMT -5
You want Bad & Tasteless jokes...? here you go! It's not Ash... It's just the dust form Manchester City's Trophy Cabinet. or, if you want (unfunny) satire: What's the difference between Cheryl Cole and that Icelandic volcano? One of them is still blowing Ash! Yeah. sorry for the crude jokes and all... but I really have nothing to say about it. Except that, although the flight bans have been lifted, it still seems to be in the news everywhere and it's starting to get annoying. |
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Post by Muzzlehatch on Apr 21, 2010 16:41:19 GMT -5
Kletustheslackjawedjokull? Looks like someone slammed their hands on their keyboard to name it. Whoever named it, I feel sorry for their kids... they probably named their kids Gniwrgkljwiogijl and Nriuoehayhnilagnklangknrgjijjrkheak. Cletus the slack-jawed yokel is a character on "The Simpsons". ;D |
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Post by shockwave on Apr 22, 2010 2:15:48 GMT -5
Irish? Nah.
Anyway, the volcano at least isn't as bad as the new writing direction/artistic direction/acting direction of the new Doctor Who season. That's a true calamity.
Seriously, the multicoloured Daleks? Part of ya wonders if they're suddenly going to start talking about what colour drapes they're going to put up on their spaceships!
Daleks = feared intergalactic and temporal conquerors, not Basset's Liquorice All Sort design rejects.
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Apr 22, 2010 4:24:13 GMT -5
Anyway, the volcano at least isn't as bad as the new writing direction/artistic direction/acting direction of the new Doctor Who season. That's a true calamity. Nyeh, Milage May Vary on that... I Personally think It's Okay so far... (Though IMO all Victory of the Daleks was was exposition and introducing the New Generation of Daleks) Then again, the next couple of episodes involve those God Damned Weeping Angels. And considering they scared the crap out of everyone the last time they showed up, it sounds like it's going to be a fun episode to watch... behind the sofa... yeah. |
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Post by Nightspade on Apr 22, 2010 7:29:19 GMT -5
Daleks again?! Seriously, what the hell? Are they an entire race of freaking terminators?
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Post by shockwave on Apr 22, 2010 8:01:28 GMT -5
Pretty much.
I get the feeling they were running out of storylines of which how to keep bringing them back, but the thing is, they've done it in -frankly- a pretty naco-y way. Maybe it'd of worked if they (the new Dalek design) didn't look like freaking Smarties!
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Post by Nightspade on Apr 22, 2010 9:29:22 GMT -5
I've only seen the new series (2005 and onwards), so I don't know much about how Daleks were in the past. Thing is, after the second season (Or do you guys call those series too?) when they kept coming back I felt they were running out of ideas then and just going for ratings.
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Post by shockwave on Apr 22, 2010 10:08:20 GMT -5
Well, basically the Daleks you see in the new, 2005 onwards show are (or, rather WERE) designed to be like the natural evolutions of the Dalek designs seen in the 'old' series, e.g., like a scooter 'evolving' into a sportsbike as time and technology went on.
The 'new' Dalek designs look like something that came before the 'old' series designs, e.g., a sportsbike devolving/supposedly 'evolving' into something which looks like the first ever moped produced back in the early, (and I mean EARLY) 20th century.
It just doesn't match up.
And as for the plot lines, yeah, they did seem to be running out: the 'falling back in time' thing had been used several times before, but the direction they're going in now is just...blegh.
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