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Mandy wrote:20 bucks says you end ass up in an alley, with semen leaking down your leg, you dirty swell guy.
Been there, have we?

Also, shut up. You're an embarassment to everyone here.
Odd. I didn't think people were so easily embarassed.

Maybe your boyfriend will hug you and soothe your shattered soul?
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Stop calling each other fags, it's getting old, like the nihilists last year.
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He's the one calling people fags, because he lives in 1976.

I'll bet he's also one of those who calls his girlfriend "Mommy" during sex and cries about it afterward.
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Hey, that's an improvement!
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Subhuman wrote:He's the one calling people fags, because he lives in 1976.

I'll bet he's also one of those who calls his girlfriend "Mommy" during sex and cries about it afterward.
What the hell do I say to this shit.
He's a fucking swell guy. His opinion is worth about as much as a 10 year olds vote.
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S4ur0n27 wrote:Dexter is getting MFG'ed for the first time D:
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Nice comeback.
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Where's yours?
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Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
Subhuman wrote:He's the one calling people fags, because he lives in 1976.

I'll bet he's also one of those who calls his girlfriend "Mommy" during sex and cries about it afterward.
What the hell do I say to this shit.
He's a fucking swell guy. His opinion is worth about as much as a 10 year olds vote.
... the last time I checked the one who wins the children's presidential election has also won the real one for the whole last century or so? So yeah, maybe his opinion *is* worht as much as a 10 year olds vote?

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Kerry won the children's presidential elections and were wrong, this time.
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No, it was Bush.

---> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041020/nyw076_1.html

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Ha, well I heard on the radio Kerry won. Blame the radio.
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After stopping with Douglas Adams after The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, (2 much of teh good thing, aight dawg?) I tried reading Douglas Coupland's Hey Nostradamus! With a title so hip it's lame, you know it's gotta be cool. Right? Wrong bitch.

It's a horrible novel that barely holds your attention. Just a bunch of people walking around explaining how shitty their lives are and what God means. I stop after Part 3 due to the fact that I hated the characters. Boring piece of shit, in my opinion. I'll try the author again with some of his earlier Generation X work.

Right now, I'm just getting into The Catcher In The Rye. Damn fine book thus far.
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Yeah, Catcher in the Rye is pretty good. First book I read in english, too, like 5 years ago.
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Douglas Coupland can be good. Microserfs is, of course, still an amazing read. And Catcher is just, well, an orgasmic New York story. I don't get why so many kids hated it though, they just criticized Holden. Assholes.
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If you're into Heinlein-esque power armor and military sci-fi, John Ringo's Posleen books are pretty good, although things kind of start to fall apart in the fourth one.

The books are <i>A Hymn Before Battle</i>, <i>Gust Front</i>, <i>When the Devil Dances</i> and <i>Hell's Faire</i>.
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Retlaw83 wrote:If you're into Heinlein-esque power armor and military sci-fi, John Ringo's Posleen books are pretty good, although things kind of start to fall apart in the fourth one.

The books are <i>A Hymn Before Battle</i>, <i>Gust Front</i>, <i>When the Devil Dances</i> and <i>Hell's Faire</i>.
I picked up Hell's Faire the other month in my local library, good book but typically the library system bought only that one and none of the rest of the series.
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<i>Hell's Faire</i> is by far the weakest one in the series. It actually should have been the ending to <i>When the Devil Dances</i>, but apparently the guy was SO heartbroken after 9-11 he couldn't write anymore. I definitely felt ripped off by that.
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I just bought Diary by Chuck Palahnuik, his new one. Seems pretty bizarre so far, but intriguing.
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Subhuman wrote:I just bought Diary by Chuck Palahnuik, his new one. Seems pretty bizarre so far, but intriguing.
Diary has the greatest ending he's come up with but Lullaby and Choke are better examples of his Fight Club style. I liked Diary somewhat.
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S4ur0n27 wrote:Yeah, Catcher in the Rye is pretty good. First book I read in english, too, like 5 years ago.
Why does everyone like Catcher in the Rye?
Is it because it has those evil swear words in it?

Anyways, overall it was alright but it was nothing special.
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