The last movie you saw...

[maxpayne2409]

we dont, if we want a sandwich we just say "eee by gum i'm feeling a bit peckish, think i'll make meself a sandwich" which can translate into anything with bread and filling

[spudthedestroyer]

LOL! bacon butty motherfucker

french baguette, yeah i would call it that rather than a sub. sub seems exceptionally gay terminology to me, unnatural and doesn;t really describe anything. i would never say it.


weird the english language divide, some stuff is just wrong in england. a chip meaning a crisp is just fucked up, i just shut down trying understand wtf ?

weird but its true.

[dinky]

chips/crisps don't bother me. although the brit division is more accurate for "crisps." but since the others are called fries, which is prolly more descriptive than "chips," I'm not in a rush to fix that anomaly. the funniest shit I've encountered though was when we hosted a buncha people from england (and holland) for a summer exchange program. when we went to the mall, there were these signs that read "no soliciting," which apparently means something like "no prostitution"...at least to the older brits. but here it's just "lawyer speak" for "no trying to harrass people by using our property to hawk jewlery or convert people to christ"...kinda like saying "collateral damage." and of course the "fanny pack" versus "bum bag." honestly, I think they both sound a bit gay. at least the US version has some resonance in britain though.

bleah. just got back from memoirs of a geisha</i>. it was alright. nothing more or less than it looks like on the previews. I wanted to see casanova, but it started later. hmm...oh yeah, bloodrayne was out too, but there's other more interesting stuff atm.

[maxpayne2409]

chips/crisps don't bother me. although the brit division is more accurate for "crisps." but since the others are called fries, which is prolly more descriptive than "chips," I'm not in a rush to fix that anomaly. the funniest shit I've encountered though was when we hosted a buncha people from england (and holland) for a summer exchange program. when we went to the mall, there were these signs that read "no soliciting," which apparently means something like "no prostitution"...at least to the older brits. but here it's just "lawyer speak" for "no trying to harrass people by using our property to hawk jewlery or convert people to christ"...kinda like saying "collateral damage." and of course the "fanny pack" versus "bum bag." honestly, I think they both sound a bit gay. at least the US version has some resonance in britain though.

except dinkster we have crisps, fries and chips, crisps are what you call chips, fries are those things fast food places serve (french fries not freedom fries bush you retardo), and our chips are what you call steak chips, also on the subject of bum bags i guess it would make more sense as a fanny pack here because on a woman thats near where its worn , of course by that i mean the uk meaning of fanny ie vagina, not your meaning of fanny as in the arse, which really confused me the first time i saw it on some film when i was younger, thought i was gonna get to see some poontang

and to me soliciting would mean hookers too

[dinky]

and our chips are what you call steak chips

steak fries. although we do have "fish 'n' chips," which is always fried fish and french fries (sometimes steak fries - most restraunts only serve one or the other kind of fries).

new dead-donkey logo looks good and definitely fits the domain name a lot better than previous one (though I did like the zombie one).

[maxpayne2409]

i loved the zombie one like a brother

just out of curiosity what slang do you use for things like condoms? we use Rubber Johnnys (part of a joke i had to explain to some americans on an irc chan)

[spudthedestroyer]

"fish 'n' chips," which is always fried fish and french fries

do you mean fried and battered fish i take it?

french fries with battered fish is just weird

[maxpayne2409]

it is isn't it spud, infact its like getting no scraps with a bag of chips, tantamount to treason, scraps are an essential part of the chip shop experience

[spudthedestroyer]

you mean "bits" surely? (as in battered left overs)

[dinky]

it could be fried and battered or breaded fish. the emphasis is on the frying.

the "classic" fish 'n' chips (as I've come to know it) is actually fried & battered fish (ala long john silvers/arthur treachers) and steak fries (no seasoning). so not to say that's it's an english dish. and they're most common in this form at drive-in type places, or those fish fry & ice cream joints that you eat outside. anyway, the use of "chips" is an interesting quirk, since it clearly refers to what we normally call fries.

edit: we do have those little battered "crisps" too...which seems to consist of fried batter? but that's not essential part of fish 'n' chips.

[maxpayne2409]

you mean "bits" surely? (as in battered left overs)

lol and this where we find the regional discrepencys, as in lincolnshire they are known as scraps (the scraps left over from the batter), but i have heard them called Bits around neighbouring counties but yeah same thing "fish n chips wi' bits"

anyway, the use of "chips" is an interesting quirk, since it clearly refers to what we normally call fries

obviously an attempt by the company to look intelligent falling flat on its face like kate moss on an uneven pavement

anyway check out this bit of cool

[dinky]

mother$%^(#$!

universal hd is airing season 2.0 throughout january while sci-fi pumps out brand new eps. wtf!?!?

[maxpayne2409]

mother$%^(#$!

universal hd is airing season 2.0 throughout january while sci-fi pumps out brand new eps. wtf!?!?

while i have absolutely no clue of what show your referring im gonna go out on a limb and guess, as its you, bsg?

[spudthedestroyer]

Battlestar Gallactica obviously. scifi = universal owned, season 2.0 = first dvd boxset of bsg

I watched the The Triangle mini-series. It was a tad silly and totally over the top sfx for what it was, but it was entertaining and was worth the watch. Plus it had sam neill in it (that always makes me laugh, the big australian goon )

Sam Neill rules... it also had that man that turns into water in X-men. ironically he drowns, maybe he's just not very lucky?

[dinky]

we actually got a US (NTSC) release of season one from UK (some BestBuy special). Then a few months later, they released the official US version. Then on dec. 20, season two (called 2.0 for some reason) hit store shelves.

not sure what you mean by first box set, cuz I thought the BestBuy thing was your first boxed set.

watched...something. can't remember. it was on tv.

edit: ooh! I saved the hd feeds of AoD and Andromeda Strain to my dvr. the former will remain there FOREVER (or until I get my hands on a component video input card)

[spudthedestroyer]

first box set of series 2 i was referring to.
They've gayed up the releases. They've done it with lost too. Total scam.

We don't have HD over here yet as far as i'm aware.

[maxpayne2409]

first box set of series 2 i was referring to.
They've gayed up the releases. They've done it with lost too. Total scam.

We don't have HD over here yet as far as i'm aware.

when you say gayed up do you mean started doing that gayness of releasing half a season on 4 or 5 discs for the same price as a normal full season then releasing the other half at an also extortionate price so u end up getting 1 season for the price of 2?

and with regards to hdtv i think its being phased in over the course of the next year or 2

[dinky]

casanova</i>. it was good. if you're familiar with dangerous beauty</i>, it's more or less that premise done for shits and giggles. it's also just like the preview, so I'm sure you'd all hate it, and I'm wasting my breath.

ps - I have some funky adblock and noscript ff plug-ins, so maybe it's just me, but here goes: can anyone else see the emoticons? all I see is text like "very happy" "smile" "sad" etc.

and yes, I have enabled dd as a trusted site with noscript. still got no clue how to use adblock, but it was working fine before.

[maxpayne2409]

i dont see the emoticons either i just see writing along the bottom line and small boxes in the messages, i presume they are broken

[dinky]

ah. good...er...hmm. heh

watched latest BSG ep. good stuff.