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AMUSING SNICKERS CATASTROPHE.

"Even if you were from the future....you'd still be wrong."

-from Green Wing

"It's called a SteadyCam, it's said to eliminate jerks."

"Yeah well so did Clint Eastwood, but I wouldn't want him strapped to my chest!"

-from Jonathon Creek

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*robayn:iconrobayn:
Yes, it will travel that far. Truuuust me. In fact, the very next one that you see will be the one that I blowed ;)
Wed Jul 16, 2008, 12:22 AM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
do they really travel that far? It might just get stuck in a nearby tree :D There's a song by Audioslave called Dandelion - and it rocks!
Fri Jul 11, 2008, 5:08 AM
*robayn:iconrobayn:
I blowed some dandilion seeds today... so next time you see one floating on the wind it could be from me!
Fri Jul 11, 2008, 12:32 AM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
Tentacles from a squid-like being are indeed involved!
Fri May 9, 2008, 7:58 AM
*TaylorJewelRyan:iconTaylorJewelRyan:
Tentacle? Like Squidward Tentacles?
Fri May 9, 2008, 7:11 AM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
p.s. either way I'm scared
Wed Apr 30, 2008, 3:06 PM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
well there were people in Victorian clothes, I dunno about japanese schoolgirls :D
Wed Apr 30, 2008, 12:55 PM
*robayn:iconrobayn:
Tentacle rape is scary :fear: Hide the school girls!!
Tue Apr 29, 2008, 11:57 PM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
Tentacle rape. It's in Bristol and it's real :fear: :D
Thu Apr 24, 2008, 4:57 PM
*Destro7000:iconDestro7000:
Feeeeast
Sat Apr 19, 2008, 3:49 PM

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Burdening Balance

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 17, 2008, 4:07 PM
  • Mood: Suffering
  • Watching: HIGNFY / Long Way Round
  • Drinking: coke
Sometimes, I think I'm happy, then something comes along and fucks everything right up. :hmm:

Is it Karma? Are there some Angels up there keeping balance that say 'oh, obviously everyone's too Happy today so we gotta make a really bad event to balance that out'.

Yeah....nice.

Some carpeting peeps finally finished my room, therefore, yey, satisfation, I can stop living in a cupboard.

Then Dad's obviously drunk a bit too much and he's hobbling all over the place - the carpet men leave, obviously seeing him drunk out of his head.

Then later, Dad's limping around the kitchen in pain. I ask him if he's hit his leg on the cooker or something...then he says 'I've got an illness, I shouldn't really show you this' and he shows me his leg and it's all bruised and blistered up, and he's holding back tears 'don't tell anyone, keep quiet about it'. :(

Now I dunno what the HELL is going on, but of course it looks serious and I'm not gonna keep quiet about it. I tell him he's got to see a doctor and he just says 'Shh'.

Mum + bros arrive from work and Mum looks around the room, I'm holding back from telling her when Sam says 'Have you seen Dad limping?' and Mum says 'yes I know he's limping' - I ask what's going on and it turns out she's suspected something and Dad showed Sam his leg also after jumping around in pain at the shop. Mum says every time she tells him to go to the doctor he becomes confrontational and says to piss off.

Then my brothers are all sniffling and mum's crying and Dad's shut himself down in the living room. Yeah great.

I've had enough of this and I'm just angry. He's already stopped travelling anywhere, preferring to sit and listen to music and drink for hours. I love my father, but what the fuck?

Who on earth would just not see a doctor to treat an injury or symptoms of something, and just sit there and let it get worse? What message is that sending to us? Has he gotten so jaded that he's just going to let these things happen? Is he scared to swallow his pride and face up to the fact that his lifestyle is screwing him up, because he enjoys time off by smoking and drinking and using music to dwell on the past? It's fucked up, and I don't like it.

To an extent it's selfish, because he doesn't face up to what it does to us, or how it jeopardises the family business, and that he could be in a fit state at 60'ish if he tried to give up everything that is killing him.

I was semi-prepared for this...he smokes so much that I thought he'd have cancer long before now, he's going into a downward spiral now unless he sees a doctor.

For fucksake. I don't need my family to crack open just this moment, thanks - I don't even have financial security yet. I goddamn hate being dependent. We're stuck.

Meh.

Journal Entry: Tue Jul 15, 2008, 11:55 AM
  • Mood: Noble
  • Listening to: LedZep
  • Reading: notes
  • Watching: Long Way Round
  • Playing: Mysteries of the Sith
  • Drinking: coke
After much searching, I have to say I don't like the new dA site design.

I think dA's going overboard with layout changes when 2 versions ago it was absolutely fine. Don't fix what's not broke, you might just be breaking it!

I'm listening to some really interesting lectures lately by a guy on youtube called Doctordave. He's basically a US University lecturer who is recording some of his classes as 1 hour audio clips with occasional slides covering high science topics such as Physics and basic Astronomy. It's really pretty cool, to hear an educated american voice once in a while, besides watching Horizon space docu's on tv.
Besides my personal interest in Astronomy, I think what he's doing is fantastic, I remembered when I was at UWE one day somebody said in the student papers that a lecturer from Frenchay campus was uploading some of his lectures as online podcasts - I thought this was a great idea. To think I was learning Media and at any time I could sit down and learn Biology or English or Robotics between doing my own course's work - that would be fantastic. Plus the lectures are really interesting online, a great and unexploited resource for teaching the masses.

I'm having some nice reminders from my past in Physics, and learning a fair bit more that I didn't know. Why don't they record all uni lectures and post them online? That'd also be good for the sake of Standards inspectors checking up on how well the teahcing is being implemented and such.

Back to the grindstone.

-Des

Aqua-planing through the Fog +Edit

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 10, 2008, 1:03 PM
  • Mood: Amazed
  • Listening to: REM
  • Watching: Sherlock Holmes - Case of the Silk Stocking
  • Playing: Rainbow Six: Vegas / SPORE CC
  • Drinking: Doc. Pepp.
I think I'm gonna split my Journal up into Life and Media Culture stuff so that people ambivolent toward the culture stuff can nicely sidestep it.

Culture news
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Rainbow Six Vegas rocks. Joe's letting us borrow it for LAN play and we've recently completed Terrorist Hunt, so now we're having a go at the Co-op Singleplayer.

SPORE Creature Creator is out now, and I urge you all to download it from [link] and build your own animals before the full game comes out in september. So far I have built a cow tiger being, a little walrus, a tiny rat / bean thing, and more. It's hilarious watching some of them walk.

Batman: Gotham Knight is out now (I'm gonna get it!) which is the anime gap-bridger between the new Nolan Batman series. Now normally I don't care for anime, but obviously I make an exception when it's tied to comicbook films. And then we're gearing up for Batman: The Dark Knight in a couple weeks time. Christian Bale carries every film he's ever done really well (I know Stew agrees on this point, lol) plus you can't go wrong with Cillian Murphy and Gary Oldman returning. I have a feeling Commissioner Loeb is going to die at the start.

Big Brother. All that needs to be said is: keep Rex and Rachel in. kthxbye!

[EDIT]
They're making a Max Payne movie - with Mark fucking Wahlberg who bears no relation to the character whatsoever! Now I consider Mark Wahlberg a good actor, but him playing this part is SO WRONG. The trailer features a river and a black bird thing flapping about. No nicole horne, no Aesir Corp, no Green dream sequences....ugh - the fan videos are far better. I hate people screwing with Game Franchises that I love. It never works! I wrote my goddamn dissertation on Film's corruption of Gaming. Fetch me a shotgun.

They're gonna be making a BioShock movie too, which absolutely baffles me. Why would you make a film based on something that is the film and more? Interactive stories beat films anyday...when are people gonna get this?!

Okay rant explosion over, resuming normal journal.
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Life stuff
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We drove through the rain to Okehampton today so I could go in search of a hoody - I used to wear them a lot, but I don't do it so much anymore! It's weird though, because ever since I stopped wearing them, everyone else started to! I'm obviously the target of some insane national boycott.

On the way through the EXTREME fog in the car, Dad explained to me what Aqua-planing was. He was on the motorway once, doing 70mph a raining, foggy day, when he lost control of the car. The steering wouldn't work because the car was skimming along the film of water on the road, in much the same way as a hovercraft - he said it has only happen to him once and it was scary. He had to slow down to sink back into traction.

When we got to Oke', the police were absolutely everywhere, and mum said that officers had come in in the morning saying they were going to do a training excercise in which a team of people acted like criminals and were going to run through town while the junior officers tried to correctly stop them. Yikes.

I shall be checking out jobs up there in Okehampton soon. After my goddamn room is revamped and I don't have to live in a tiny cupboard anymore.

babai monkeys!
-Dezzles.

NOOOO leave Jabbler alone!

Journal Entry: Wed Jul 2, 2008, 10:19 AM
  • Mood: Daily Needs
  • Listening to: REM - Man-sized Wreath
  • Watching: Big Brother 9 / Superman Returns
  • Playing: Rainbow Six: Vegas
Jabbler = me saying Diablo rather quickly.

The newschool (see what I did there?) devs at Blizzard are making a 3rd Diablo game, and THEY ARE SCREWING WITH IT on an unprecedented basis.
It's 3D, overly colourful, and oriented toward gimmicks and gameplay toys. PLZ DIE. I don't agree with it...plus it basically looks like a top-down World Of Warcraft, so it's probably an attempt to pull the WoWers into the Diablo franchise in an attempt to wallow in a deep pool of cash.

Diablo is meant to be about being stuck in a dark horrible place, discovering new species, living the dark story of Sanctuary. I think somewhere in the making of Diablo2 they really started to lose their minds. GRR.

Myleene Klass new face of M&S, good move, but it's not enough to save them from being utterly extortionate. They're going downhill.

I'm jobless and roomless. I'm living in Joe's room until the decorators do my place up, which is taking fucking ages and I don't like being a drifter. At least I get to ride my bike. Although I don't really like playing down to my brothers level when I'm out there (it seems I have to act really childish if I wanna talk to them. This is not working for me.) which is a pain because occasionally I need to talk about young adult things and there's nobody here to confide in on that level. You can feel the lameness like a close coal fire.

I get to talk to Baz & Ben every few days though, mainly on what our course taught us (not enough useful stuff!) and what jobs there are in Bath, journalism-wise :P Future publishing looks so nice.

Last eppy of Doctor Who was crappy, I'm sorry but whoever wrote that clearly doesn't know how to write a worthwhile story. I have doubts for the climax, but we'll see!

I cycled to Tavi yesterday with Joe. A good 3 miles (and 3 back)and my longest bike ride so far on me' new one. It was a bit of a killer on the legs, but luckily it started raining, which cooled me off no end. W00tages aplenty. Why are there so many HILLS around here? :D

Big Brother: anyone watching this show atm, please evist Jen! Rex needs to stay, kthx.

After watching a few vlogs and various politics shows, I feel the urge to state my feelings about Shyness vs. Arrogance. Introverts rock. They are good people and I don't really see the need to sideline the shy side of the population. I know where such personalities are sourced from, and I would definitely protect people like that from propaganda and putdowns. It sorta relates to upbringing and mental difficulty.

And another thing - when people say anti-social, they're talking about criminal youths, graffiti vandals and streetgangs, and somehow relating that to the completely different group: the people who don't yet know how to fit into social circles/are apprehensive about sharing their thoughts. It is a dangerous assumption for certain people, teachers and politicians, to think that these 2 groups are one and the same.

I have beef with Extroverts, not confident people in general, but the ability to naturally speak out without regulating what you say is dangerous. This normally comes from kids who have had social supremacy during secondary schools, and have never thought they had a need for cautiousness.

It's a 50/50 thing with Extroversion, I find that half are Confident and rational, and the other half are Arrogant and un-cautious.

Ooh, controversy. I need to expand on this sometime.
When my head's not full of music, maybe. :)

ciao
-Des

:icongwomp:

Tagged x2!

Journal Entry: Thu Jun 26, 2008, 5:22 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Superman theme
  • Reading: PCG
  • Watching: Big Brother
  • Playing: Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tagged by Robyn!

1) Answer the questions below.
2) Take each answer and type it into the dA search box.
3) Take a deviation from the results (may use "popular" or "newest") and post the thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers).
4) You can't copy the answers of the person who posted this before you.

1. The age you will be on your next birthday: 24



2. A place you'd like to travel: cyprus



3. Your favorite place: st. ives bay



4. Your favorite object: sketchpad



5. Favorite food/drink: curry / root beer



6. Your favorite animal: cat



7. Your favorite color: golden brown



8. The town/state/etc. in which you live: Devon



9. Name of past pet: Cleo



10. A dream come true: Love


11. Your nickname/screenname:

Nicknames:
Des
Death
Helmet
Tequila (Tequili)
Crazy Tom
Tom



Screennames:
Destro
Destro7000
Destroyer
Mega Demon
Large Metal Ferret
Semiskilledmink
GoldenRooks
The Wandrin' Hypsilophodon



12. Middle name: Spencer



13. Favorite smell: Vanilla



14. Bad habit of yours: Doing hair



15. Your first job: shop assistant



16. *?*

17. What are you doing right now?: THIS QUIZ



18. Whats the weather like? cloudy / sunny



19. Favourite sport: badminton



I tag anyone. :P
babai!