dickleyjones

regarding the prequels...they were terrible imo. and not because of the reasons most people state. i was fine with jar jar, and pod racing, and all the silly childish stuff that people hated (although the darth vader "noooooooo!" at the end of III was just embarrasing). that stuff reminded me of jedi, and i liked jedi. the problem with the prequels was that the acting and storytelling went to crap. it was not a believable universe. the acting was atrocious. the only person who was remotely decent was obiwan. and the storytelling was so bad: honestly, how do you ruin the mystic of something like "the force"? what a beautiful thing to just leave in the spectator's minds and hearts to figure out for themselves. how do you ruin a wonderfully tortured soul like vader, turn him into a joke, when all he had to do in the first movies is show up and he was frightening, and of course the twist which made him human/a tragic character. turning from good to wholey evil for no real good reason. no actual intrigue into how he came to be evil, simply the ultimate copout really. i'm no writer, but he should have been betrayed by obiwan first and THEN turned. and it should have been a long process to turn, not just "one day i decide to embrace the dark and kill children" imo lucas deserved the flak he got. he was the director. his actors sucked. his story sucked. that's on him. visuals and fun stuff was great, but that's all it was, fluff and nothing else. nothing deep AT ALL.

come on. crayonz was way better than this. waaaaay better.

i, for one, am glad that we didn't draft gronk...or brady for that matter...because now we get awesome threads like these! hurraaaaaaay!

and why should he?

if my what?

MST3K ah what a great show. The perfect thing to put on when you don't know what to watch, or if you don't feel like paying full attention and want to make dinner or do something else productive while watching. Last one i saw was terrible though, "The Dead Talk Back". That movie was so bad that the guys didn't know what to do with it. I almost didn't make it to the end and when i did i regretted it.

Get a MAG box with IPTV subscription. shouldn't cost more than $20 a month and you will have it all.

Black Locust, that's the one! the bees love them, but i only have a couple trees around me, thus my desire to temporarily move the bees to a place where the Black Locusts are aplenty.

I was 7, she was 5. She had beautiful long blonde hair. I cut off her ponytail and threw the evidence in the fire. yeah...i got in trouble for that one. and then my dad made it worse by trying to fix things, he cut her bangs to about 1 inch length. we still have the school photos that were taken shortly thereafter to prove it. ahhh...good times.

No I am not sure if they are Acacia, but that's what people call them around here. They are large trees with huge clusters of white flowers that bloom in May and smell like Jasmine. They have some nasty thorns on them too. "tonnes" - yeah, i'm used to British spelling, being from Canada. as for your vegans - i have heard that vegans don't eat honey. you know, cause it's cruel to let bees do...what they do normally. The "fact" that it takes the bees 48,000 miles (what are those??) of travel seems weird. that number really depends on whether flowers are close by or not. bees aren't dumb, they will travel less if they can. you can see that the bees are tired when no flowers are in bloom close by and they have to travel to the neighbour's and beyond.

i'm near hamilton, ontario. I've got 40 acres of wildflowers for the bees and i'm surrounded by countryside so they can usually find something to eat. We (me and my friend who originally hails from Romania) had 1 deep with 1 medium food and 2 super up top at one point a couple of years ago, but we lost a bunch of bees. Moved to only 1 super and the hives seem much stronger. i haven't a clue what i'm really doing though, perhaps it was just coincidence but my friend assures me it helped.

i started with 10 hives, and kept splitting them as they multiplied. now i have 40 hives and not enough time. oh well, the bees are happy! this year i'm hoping to target certain areas for types of honey. there's some property about 1/2 hr away from me with tonnes of acacia trees and they will let me drop some hives there.

they look good, but i am afraid of earbuds...

the headphones use bone conduction, yes. cochlear implants don't. they use electrodes connected directly to the nerve, bypassing most of the human hearing system entirely. people who need cochlear implants wouldn't get much out of bone conduction. I want to be aware of my surroundings while listening as well, and opted for "on ear" headphones (the V-MODA's). my exercise of choice is swimming though...i've got to check out some waterproof bone conduction headphones!

Cochlear implants have electrodes attached to your cochlear nerve...these use bone induction. Not similar. That said - how do you like the sound compared to traditional headphones?

earbuds are frightening - way too easy to damage your ear. for regular listening, i bought v-modas. bought them for my daughter too. i'm not sure if !@#$ kids gave her a hard time but her headphones beat beats any day of the week and she knows it. they are tough, great sounding headphones.

Oh man this Trump victory is the gift that keeps on giving. i was ready to enjoy the salty tears no matter how the election went, but in retrospect, the Dem's reactions are the best. Is there such a thing as schadenfreude overload? Thank you America!

wtf is going on. I'm a lefty, I'm from Canada...and this amuses the hell out of me.

Trump visits the White House, Obama's staff reacts:

You evil deplorables! You crushed their dreams!

more we need MOOOOOOORRRRRRE

yeah there was all sorts of wrong in that sequence, i wonder if that was the refs way of showing Carp his faking was not appreciated.

did anyone else think that Carp was faking it a bit? He was trying to coerce on a flag. He looked injured at first, but when the med staff came over to him, he was pushing them away frantically, because he saw that there was no flag and he knew he would be taken off the field for a play. it was a dirty hit to be sure, but that's what i saw.

embrace the hate...feel it flow through you...