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Totally welcome, I saw the clip before you, just neglected to post it. Out of curiosity I had looked it up beforehand.

yeah, with the whole transforming monsters thing, way too much material to be used on a female character. On the bright side, Guyver would probably become even more popular thanks to that hentai/doujin stuff.

wiki "gintama" you'll get your answers there

Fake ATM prank. This I love, apparently it's from one of those Japanese animated Porno movies. But the scenes are so funny. Worry not, nothing revealing here, and no actual sex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5zUvOfvWM

Well, I've seen many of those cases. From what I've seen, many of them are from parents who constantly over feed their children. Now I understand there are other causes, I had a friend and neighbor in school who swelled up and looked overweight because of side effects from cancer drugs. I understand there is also a rare gene in some cases, and even mental disorders towards food... The mental disorders with food though can still be treated though, first is a rigid change in diet (and please no diet trends, they fail. It has to be a lifestyle change to succeed) and the second is the medical therapy needed, such as psychiatric help and antidepressants. Correct me if I'm wrong, though I studied obesity as well, and in my conclusions, I find it very similar to Hikimaru's/shutins, and mild drug addictions.

There is usually no need for gene therapy for that problem, just change the diet, it works with 99% of the people. Still, if we could actually manage to be successful with gene therapy, we could solve many problems. Perhaps even regrow limbs for people who lost them in surgery or some other tragedy (or simply transplant limbs with gene therapy by making any limb transferable.) But the gene therapy idea just reminded me of Designer babies... in the future, will parents be telling docs to genetically alter their kids hair to be naturally pink, have red eyes, to have better lungs, stronger bones, and maybe have increased brain capacity. It would be great in some cases, but it's also scary, because the kid may suffer from the actions of a parent making such changes. In essence, playing god with your children. Then again, I wouldn't mind have genes that would make me 6'5" and Antonio Banderas's face.

oh, I forgot the name of that horror movie. It was pretty horrible. Basically the monsters (trolls?) were vegetarian monsters, so they often turned people into vegetables by feeding them something, then in turn would eat the person. Oh and how Darth Vader tortures his victims.

Yeah, it's pretty horrible in some countries. Hell, in India they still have families willingly selling off their daughters (and even babies) for a profit. Also I remember one international incident between the US and one Arab country. Turns out the princess to the Monarchy ran off with an US soldier stationed in that area. They had been in love and married shortly. But the US and that country tried to find legal loop holes to allow her to get deported out of the US because of the financial ties to the country. I think it happened in the late 90's. Ahh, found an article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6628334

yeah, many people came to that same conclusion. Tons of similar things, sort of how Gundam SEED was practically a remake of the original series.

I like that candian ad. pretty clever with the skunk liquid. Not sure if pumping that stuff underground is such a good thing, but still way better then current methods. Oh and an old article I read about a few years ago. Child born with Tail hailed as Hindu god Hanuman

nice articles. 1. Yeah it happens, poor gal. But honestly, she should of known better then to wear that to the airport. 2. Speed dial, it's logical the fella had his dearest family on speed dial. With the crash, the phone could of been open and pressured with just a few buttons, constantly dialing any of three or four keys randomly. 3. I can understand them wanting to create their own versions... but it's incredibly silly because it will likely remain public knowledge as to why these new holidays were formed and modeled after western influences to begin with. In other words a needless complication.

hahaha, you can tell because of the way the shoulder and shading are. As for the rape pic, I would of changed the text to. "When Botox starts leaking."

I never got a chance to read her books, but as a kid I had one teacher who used to mention her name. I looked her up later and found some of her ideas to be ahead of her time and usually attempting to do good, but some things lacked the logical consequences of disrupting societies as they are. Also... her umm fetish's... are a little creepy, this coming from a guy who has researched rape in general of psychology. I will try and get her books someday, if I remember that is. By the way, anyone ever read Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler? I found the book a bit of a mess to read, but it shows just how disillusioned he was with society. Also how he seemed to want sympathy for his actions... or rather his future actions. Interestingly enough, you can tell he wasn't a real monster when he wrote this, just a horribly misguided human being filled with too much anger and hatred towards people. I don't think he truly became the monster he was later pictured as until after his doctor started to dope him, and he surrounded himself with men even more vile and insane then 10 Hitlers combined. He was however obsessed with glory and war, and wanted to be a hero. He unfortunately was not the type of hero we wanted, and is now remembered mostly as a villain.

those are some great ones, wish I noticed this thread earlier.

I never got deep into the series. I mean, it's a good series, but I stopped watching the Anime after the Manga started to degrade.

The I've read a ton of Star wars novels, they are all pretty good with the exception of the first few in the late 70's early 80's. I love X-Wing's "Wraith Squadron" and "Iron Fist" by Aaron Allston the most. One of the few star wars novels to make me cry and also make me laugh hard enough to wake up people at night. The most alluring things are the blend of humor and tragedy of some characters. All the characters except for Wedge can be considered "defective" people, one is a traumatised form squad leader who's entire squad was killed in an ambush. We got one who's Jedi flunky. A former imperial child actor who was used to as propaganda and later horrified of the truth in the empires actions as well as the results of his work. One is a man who's lost the ability to live life to the fullest because he finds himself losing his humanity over time due to his injuries (No longer able to attract women, incapable of having children, and unable to continue his career) and tons more. Anything by John Dos Passos is pretty good. He was on par if not better then Hemingway, and not to mention has gained the highest literature awards around at his time. I love both his historical, and fictional works. Various versions of Kind Arthur's legends and his knights. At age 8 I read a 12,000 page 3 inch thick book, I don't remember who wrote it, but I believed it was titled "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table" possibly by Roger Lancelyn Green. That book was a to read... Animal Farm. Probably one of the most enjoyable books I read, it's so incredibly funny with it's horribly dark morbid humor. Any of the Darwin Award books, good for a laugh, or just go to the website. As well as dozens upon dozens of historical books like "Europe and Our Nation", "Army of the Potomac", and "Great People of the Bible and How They Lived". One of my favorites is Plotting Hitler's death. Real life stories about how the German resistance and many others plotted to kill Hitler. Hitler survived over 56 assassination attempts and over 200 plots. The book offers a great deal of detail and an inside view of Germany that most people aren't aware of. Finally, I suggest you guys read a couple of foreign books. "The Art of War" Sūn Zǐ Bīng Fǎ and "Pack Of Wolves" by Vasil Bykov I was about ot wrap this up when I remembered more good books. Let's see In "My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer" by Irene Gut Opdyke is one of the most tragic and horrifying books I read. She lost a lot of things, including being raped by a Nazi to save the lives of the Jews she saved, as well as escaping her own persecution from Russians and others, and loosing her first love. "Summer of my German Soldier" another great read. About a young American girl under an abusive father who houses and protects a German POW in the USA. "Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge" a real life murder carried out in California by a bunch of teens with such horrible brutality and insane circumstances that you'd think it was a low budget B movie. "Call of the wild" a must read classic

Mega Driver, cool name... wait, he seems to love using the word "Mega" Thanks for all the work Durendal, were you really that bored?

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