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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2012 at 11:39
^Don't parp on your horn in future.LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2013 at 13:31
what's the bloody point of ennui?
 
I wanted to resurrect this long forgotten thread to have a rant for no other reason than the cathartic release that a well timed and perfectly pitched rant can attain, then, (after much musing and furrowing of brow), came to the reluctant conclusion that I couldn't raise the energy to find something worthwhile to rant about. Everyone just seems so intense and so fraught at the moment that I can't find the motivation to join in and have a damn good moan about things that are so evidently important that we waste hours on end fretting and whining about yet are so impotently incapable of doing anything practical or constructive in fixing. We seem to have reached that point of social and economic evolution where we've become ineffectual at everything except complaining about things that we have absolutely no influence on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2013 at 13:48
^Yes

I don't actually moan that much..unless I  do of course and am unaware. Can't think of much to moan about now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 09:02
'Twas a time of 630am when ... a fCensoreding compactor noise woke us up! Fading in and out, in and out. I got the feeling that my mother was slightly less irritated by this then me, so I got my ass up and decided to see what the Censored was going on. Turns out, it was a helicopter!

So, this helicopter was moving some containers from one place to another. Here's a picture of the helicopter, o'er the local mall, moving back!


What a stupid scoop o'f$%ks on planet Earth! They couldn't do this in the afternoon, could they?! "This is a mockery," said my mother.

EDIT: 7:14am. The chopper quit bothering us.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 09:13
I just in general hate the human race and wish I had been born into a better class of species.  Maybe one on some other planet.  Censored the universe or god for sticking me in this place (Earth, not PA) with this savage child race.  That felt good.  Rant over. 
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 09:14
^ I'm following you. (Well, why wouldn't I?)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 09:57
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

I just in general hate the human race and wish I had been born into a better class of species.  Maybe one on some other planet.  Censored the universe or god for sticking me in this place (Earth, not PA) with this savage child race.  That felt good.  Rant over. 


Good rant sir!

Don't you just resent having to share oxygen with the rest of the human race, sometimes?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 10:14
Sometimes?  I think you've underestimated my loathing for my species.  Wink
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 10:28
We're on a four-and-a-half billion year old spaceship flying through the Universe at over one million kilometres per hour eight light-minutes away from a two octillion tonne nuclear power plant burning at fifteen million degrees kelvin. While the view from the observation deck of our immediate neighbourhood is spectacular
...disembarkation is not advised.
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:39
That is awesome Dean, did you shoot that? 
 
Are those trees in the foreground?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:48

Sadly I didn't, we don't get to see the depth of the milky way galaxy like that in the South of England due to light polution. Yes, those would be trees, with a fixed camera the long exposure needed would get streaked stars and static trees so the camera must have been on a tracking mount that kept the stars stationary and blurred the treeline. I've yet to try astro-photography with any real determination, I've takes a couple of less than impressive photos of the moon through my telescope and that's about it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:52
However it's done, it sure is beautiful.

We get a lot of stars up here in the northern part of Denmark. All you have to do, is venture out beyond the little communities and swoop a huge glistening serpent of light appears on the sky screen. I didn't get anything close to that back when I lived in Copenhagen.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:54
Light polution is a problem here too for general stargazing, but a few hours north...incredible, even with the naked eye.  Getting a decent to good telescope is on my bucket list for someday, one of several hobbies I'd like to pursue to get me away from computer monitors...theoretically....Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:10
LOL
Yeah well, we can all hope eh? I have a lot of things I'd really like to do one day, seeing the neon light sea of jellyfish in Fiji, climb Kilimanjaro, trip to Goa - all that and the list is loooong. I truly hope some of it happens one day. Main problem is finance though. I'm too fond of music...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:15
Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here?  This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room.  Get mad or get out! AngryTongue
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:21
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Light polution is a problem here too for general stargazing, but a few hours north...incredible, even with the naked eye.  Getting a decent to good telescope is on my bucket list for someday, one of several hobbies I'd like to pursue to get me away from computer monitors...theoretically....Embarrassed
I made the mistake of getting too ambitious too soon - the bigger and more complicated the telescope the less you'll use it because it's such a faff getting it out and setting it up. I use a small pair of binos more than my small telescope and I use my small telescope more than my larger newtonian reflector. A small spec of light 40 light years away still looks like a small spec of light when magnified 400 times and the Orion nebula looks like a tiny smudge on every amateur telescope no matter how much you spend. Unfortunately we're spoilt by quality professional photographs, Hubble and the wonders of Sci-Fi cgi images so our expectations can be bigger than the reality of what we can achieve in our own backyards with a $300 telescope.
 
What I should have bought first was a good pair of astronomical binoculars.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:22
Dear Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,

Go die in a fire.

Sincerely,
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:28
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here?  This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room.  Get mad or get out! AngryTongue
Ermm ...
 
 
...what I meant was...
 
 
  "What I should have bought first was a Censoreducking good pair of astronomical binoculars!"  Angry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:30
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here?  This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room.  Get mad or get out! AngryTongue
Ermm ...
 
 
...what I meant was...
 
 
  "What I should have bought first was a Censoreducking good pair of astronomical binoculars!"  Angry
 
Much better.  Big smileAngry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:31
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here?  This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room.  Get mad or get out! AngryTongue


My bad.

Or let me rephrase that: I'd like to see the people who dress up children in those Little Miss Perfect contests to be paraded out on the street and receive a good public violation by a series of enraged and horny giraffes.
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