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Dale Parish wrote: »We get crapola like those pens and watches all the time at work
Never given them a second thought :pac:
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Dale Parish wrote: »We get crapola like those pens and watches all the time at work
Never given them a second thought :pac:
Send them to me, I'll stick a Darius sticker on them and sell it to Pyongy
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Send them to me, I'll stick a Darius sticker on them and sell it to Pyongy
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I'd love a Darius pen! :eek:
It's alright, I've already pestered Mr. Parish. Hands off my pens Steven Emmanuelle!
Oh, here was a pen I sold a while ago. Loved that pen but I never inked it.
http://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/limited-edition-053-of-188-made-visconti-van-gogh-fountain-pen-14k-gold-palladium/810996
Should have known better than to risk the jungle that is adverts.ie! Ended up selling it to a bloke in Canada.0 -
I'd love a Darius pen! :eek:
It's alright, I've already pestered Mr. Parish. Hands off my pens Steven Emmanuelle!
Oh, here was a pen I sold a while ago. Loved that pen but I never inked it.
http://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/limited-edition-053-of-188-made-visconti-van-gogh-fountain-pen-14k-gold-palladium/810996
Should have known better than to risk the jungle that is adverts.ie! Ended up selling it to a bloke in Canada.
You're safe, I'm not really into pens.
I have a nice enough Leonardo da Vinci fountain pen from an exhibition in Boston in 1997 and that's about it.
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crikey! I just realised I've owned a copy of Mercenaries 2 on the ps3 for the last 6 months and haven't actually played the damn thing yet!
Oh no. You didn't.
Hey, let us know when you finally get your hands on The Devastator.
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Been trying to find a cheap Rolex on ebay for the craic. No luck so far!
who needs a Rolex, when you can have some proper retro sh!t
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2533393/Trail/searchtext%3ECASIO.htm0 -
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the groutch wrote: »who needs a Rolex, when you can have some proper retro sh!t
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2533393/Trail/searchtext%3ECASIO.htm
F'ed up related article on Wikipedia.
"Because of its claimed use in terrorism, possession of a Casio watch, often a Casio F91W, was listed in Guantanamo Bay Combatant Status Review Tribunal reports and other government documents as a reason for these detainees' continued detention."
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F'ed up related article on Wikipedia.
"Because of its claimed use in terrorism, possession of a Casio watch, often a Casio F91W, was listed in Guantanamo Bay Combatant Status Review Tribunal reports and other government documents as a reason for these detainees' continued detention."
That exact model.
Tis true.
I'm no terrorist but I'm wearing one right now. In fact I have a backup sealed in a box for when the battery goes
Edit:
See
Also, it's cold so that's why I'm wearing a long sleeve jumper
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are we just posting anything now? :P
I got some Pinky:St figures today, know some of you who are mad into them after playing the NDS game.
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What's that chap called? The blue looks cool.
It's an Infiltrator by Infantry.
Not to sure about the quality of the strap just yet as part of it just came off. The watch was cheap enough but the strap should be better than this.
It's also not the smallest/lightest watch in the world(I don't mind but some people hate big watches):
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Ronin has some of the best, if not the best, chase sequences in a movie, hands down.
Having owned it on VHS, DVD and Blu, and the DVD having the best extras as well, I can honestly say little comes close.
The doc's included with the DVD include one on how the chases were shot and it's amazeballs!
Bullitt is a little too obvious, but should be mentioned as incredible stuff, as is The French Connection.
What lots of folk haven't seen is Vanishing Point, the whole movie is a chase scene, with the hero getting a car from point A to point B with the cops in pursuit, kinda like Smokey and the Bandit but without the smarm and cheese.
And, of course, Grand Prix and Le Mans, not chase movies, but racing movies with amazing car footage.0 -
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »It really needs to be watched alongside the other great anime achievements, though - films like My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away (well, everything Ghibli that isn't set in Earthsea), Summer Wars, Ghost in the Shell (although I'm not the biggest fan of GitS), Millennium Actress, Paprika, 5cm Per Second... There is a tendency to define anime as 'Akira' and then 'everything else', but Otomo's film is but one of many greats.
For myself, Akira never really felt like an anime though, you know? I know that's probably unfairly lumping all the other films you mentioned together, as 'anime' itself is hardly a genre.
But if anything, it feels more like a big budget western animated feature. It's missing a lot of anime stylings and instead uses western ones. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade would be another film which would fit the same kind of criteria if you get me.
Ghibli films feel very Japanese, as does Paprika. Not saying someone shouldn't watch them all (they definitely should!..well, excluding Earthsea of course :pac:)
Sure I remember the first time I saw it back in the early 90's I rushed out and bought loads of anime expecting more of the same - but the majority of it was far far different. (Think late 80s/early 90s Manga Entertainment cyberpunk releases - The Guyver, Doomed Megalopolis, Angel Cop, Wicked City etc) fun, but full of anime animation shortcuts. They were all OVAs either lumped together to form a film or else over a series of multiples of tapes.
Akira though was just this absolute pinnacle of animation. The fluidity and high FPS is it is not something you got in other japanese animation at the time.
So yep, Otomos film is one of many great masterpieces from Japan, but to a lot of us, it is a bit different.
By the way, have you ever seen The Thief and the Cobbler? It's an interesting story to read about, the film went through production hell and was never released in its true form. Which is a tragedy as it's some of the greatest animation ever created. (Disney completely ripped it off with Aladdin, but that's a story for another day). Some of the animation in it is so fluid you'd think it's rotoscoped or CGI - but it's not!
Check out The War Machine scene -
Ah, here's the one I was looking for. A lot of it isn't animated and it's the original story boards, but watch through it for the bits which ARE animated. It's the most fluid and overly detailed stuff you'll ever see. You can see why the damn film was never finished and worked on for 30 years!
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