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  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    God how many times have I seen that on Youtube!
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    Bless you @forgotmyusername, what would the world be without you?


    Does the whole game have such good graphics? I guess it´s time for me to come down from my tree. Last time I watched a video game it had pixels.
  • boldfinger wrote:
    Bless you @forgotmyusername, what would the world be without you?


    Does the whole game have such good graphics? I guess it´s time for me to come down from my tree. Last time I watched a video game it had pixels.


    Ironically i can't play games I get headaches....but the graphics are as good as shown and I loved the story and of course the trialer....it's awesome.
  • These are just great.

    #14, #17 and #19 really did make me laugh hard

    http://www.yoodot.com/2972/23-people-who-are-way-more-awkward-than-you/
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
    Posts: 4,012
    Yesterday the Ig Nobel Prize prizes were awarded (not to be confused with the Nobel Prizes). These prizes celebrate achievements that first make people LAUGH
    then make them THINK
    http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2013

    Here are the winners for this year:

    MEDICINE PRIZE: Masateru Uchiyama [JAPAN], Xiangyuan Jin [CHINA, JAPAN], Qi Zhang [JAPAN], Toshihito Hirai [JAPAN], Atsushi Amano [JAPAN], Hisashi Bashuda [JAPAN] and Masanori Niimi [JAPAN, UK], for assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice.
    REFERENCE: "Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ cells," Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, vol. 7, no. 26, epub. March 23, 2012.

    PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Laurent Bègue [FRANCE], Brad Bushman [USA, UK, the NETHERLANDS, POLAND], Oulmann Zerhouni [FRANCE], Baptiste Subra [FRANCE], and Medhi Ourabah [FRANCE], for confirming, by experiment, that people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive.
    REFERENCE: "'Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder': People Who Think They Are Drunk Also Think They Are Attractive," Laurent Bègue, Brad J. Bushman, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, Medhi Ourabah, British Journal of Psychology, epub May 15, 2012.

    JOINT PRIZE IN BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY: Marie Dacke [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA], Emily Baird [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY], Marcus Byrne [SOUTH AFRICA, UK], Clarke Scholtz [SOUTH AFRICA], and Eric Warrant [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY], for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.
    REFERENCE: "Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation," Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke H. Scholtz, Eric J. Warrant, Current Biology, epub January 24, 2013. The authors, at Lund University, Sweden, the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and the University of Pretoria

    SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers — the system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors, whence he parachutes to earth, where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival. US Patent #3811643, Gustano A. Pizzo, "anti hijacking system for aircraft", May 21, 1972.

    PHYSICS PRIZE: Alberto Minetti [ITALY, UK, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND], Yuri Ivanenko [ITALY, RUSSIA, FRANCE], Germana Cappellini [ITALY], Nadia Dominici [ITALY, SWITZERLAND], and Francesco Lacquaniti [ITALY], for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if those people and that pond were on the moon.
    REFERENCE: "Humans Running in Place on Water at Simulated Reduced Gravity," Alberto E. Minetti, Yuri P. Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Nadia Dominici, Francesco Lacquaniti, PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 7, 2012, e37300.

    CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Shinsuke Imai [JAPAN], Nobuaki Tsuge [JAPAN], Muneaki Tomotake [JAPAN], Yoshiaki Nagatome [JAPAN], Toshiyuki Nagata [JAPAN, GERMANY], and Hidehiko Kumgai [JAPAN], for discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realized.
    REFERENCE: "Plant Biochemistry: An Onion Enzyme that Makes the Eyes Water," S. Imai, N. Tsuge, M. Tomotake, Y. Nagatome, H. Sawada, T. Nagata and H. Kumagai, Nature, vol. 419, no. 6908, October 2002, p. 685.

    ARCHAEOLOGY PRIZE: Brian Crandall [USA] and Peter Stahl [CANADA, USA], for parboiling a dead shrew, and then swallowing the shrew without chewing, and then carefully examining everything excreted during subsequent days — all so they could see which bones would dissolve inside the human digestive system, and which bones would not.
    REFERENCE: "Human Digestive Effects on a Micromammalian Skeleton," Peter W. Stahl and Brian D. Crandall, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 22, November 1995, pp. 789–97.

    PEACE PRIZE: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.

    PROBABILITY PRIZE: Bert Tolkamp [UK, the NETHERLANDS], Marie Haskell [UK], Fritha Langford [UK, CANADA], David Roberts [UK], and Colin Morgan [UK], for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and Second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.
    REFERENCE: "Are Cows More Likely to Lie Down the Longer They Stand?" Bert J. Tolkamp, Marie J. Haskell, Fritha M. Langford, David J. Roberts, Colin A. Morgan, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 124, nos. 1-2, 2010, pp. 1–10.

    PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" — techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. [THAILAND]
    REFERENCE: "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam," by Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, American Journal of Surgery, 1983, no. 146, pp. 376-382.
  • ^ nice and makes epic reading.








  • I liked the one with grumpy cat lol.
  • DiscoVolanteDiscoVolante Stockholm, Sweden
    edited September 2013 Posts: 1,347
    Saw the most fantastic autograph collection yesterday... (belonging to "almost a relative").



    Marlon Brando, Louis Armstrong, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan.

    He obtained them the traditional letter-writing way in the 40's and 50's. It was quite surreal to hold all these... (all genuine). He has a full box of 'em, these are only a few examples.

    :-O
  • Saw the most fantastic autograph collection yesterday... (belonging to "almost a relative").



    Marlon Brando, Louis Armstrong, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan.

    He obtained them the traditional letter-writing way in the 40's and 50's. It was quite surreal to hold all these... (all genuine). He has a full box of 'em, these are only a few examples.

    :-O



    That is soooooo cool.


  • Please make this 2 hours
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    Wow! You have her number?



    I usually don´t like posting trailers for upcoming films in this thread, but watching this trailer after Jackie Chan told everybody he´s done with action films brought tears to my eyes:
  • ^ iron man, skyfall, indiana jones all combined into one - looks awesome.

    This is the best thing I've seen in ages, if this doesn't make you a hippy tree hugging monkey, i don't know what will:

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,801
    boldfinger wrote:

    I usually don´t like posting trailers for upcoming films in this thread, but watching this trailer after Jackie Chan told everybody he´s done with action films brought tears to my eyes:
    October 18 in the States! I'm there!
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    This is the best thing I've seen in ages, if this doesn't make you a hippy tree hugging monkey, i don't know what will:

    I think Cameron should do a Spirou é Fantasio movie.

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    :))
  • retrokittyretrokitty The Couv
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    Saw the most fantastic autograph collection yesterday... (belonging to "almost a relative").



    Marlon Brando, Louis Armstrong, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan.

    He obtained them the traditional letter-writing way in the 40's and 50's. It was quite surreal to hold all these... (all genuine). He has a full box of 'em, these are only a few examples.

    :-O

    Disco... amazing. Really a love pic of the collection too.

  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
    Posts: 4,012
    This is an unbelievable story, incredibly funny too. It might be a bit gross (it is a bit gross). I would say it's not a bad idea for a future Bond villain too, with suitable changes, nothing so easy as grabbing a pair of tweezers. Read for yourselves:

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/how-to-read-a-research-paper-about-that-scientist-with-a-nematode-in-his-mouth/

    [url] http://www.wm.edu/.../tired-of-being-a-host123.php[/url]

    Anybody interested in reading the actual paper (I doubt, but hey!) just PM me, I think I might be able to get it.

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    Buddy

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    and Buddy's buddies
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    :))

    That's awesomely funny, William!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    This is honestly one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life:

  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    That makes me proud to be an Ohioan right now. ;)
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    Incredible!!! A really must-see spectacle!!! @-) @-) @-)
  • Posts: 5,767
    How on earth did they do that?! :-O Was that for real?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited November 2013 Posts: 14,585

    He's actually pushing them apart with his legs ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    'Only Time' by Enya just soothingly playing in the background makes that video great.
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    Loved the Jean Claude Truck Stunt. That was awesome!
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