Gavin

[quote name='taperson'][IMG]http://graphics.samsclub.com/images/products/0003800032856_LG.jpg[/IMG][/quote] [SIZE=1]Agreed. Certainly a better chance at intelligent conversation anyway. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT=Comic Sans MS]he insulted your mother, milord. I'd go into detail, but I doubt you'd want his comments to be heard publicly. Besides, now you know his immortality serum was entirely ineffective against a lightsaber to the neck. Clearly his efforts were in vain. Anyway, I'm pretty sure Javier from Accounting was looking for a promotion anyway. He's good with heavy lifting, so.[/FONT][/quote] [SIZE="1"]Lies and slander, Fernando was one of my oldest and most trusted employees. I have no need for an immortality serum, Fernando merely prepared my afternoon tea which irks me even more because I demand my tea be delivered to me absolutely on time, which of all my numerous underlings only Fernando managed without a single error in many long years of service. So, having botched your attempt at a promotion Ace I'm giving you a reassignment to tea-boy and head of shipping and delivery. You have one week to impress me with your capability or you shall be joining Fernando's enormous bronze statue as part of the foundations, alive. As for you remark regarding one of my accountants that's also a blatant lie, I specifically only hire accountants on the basis that they enjoy cheating the IRS and leaving them no method of legal retaliation, enjoy being part of a multinational organisation which destroys people's lives through rampant consumerism in the pursuit of unattainable satisfaction and of course are competent accountants who enjoy their work in return for a competitive salary. Now unless you would like to attempt some other feeble usurpation my foolish apprentice I suggest you boil the kettle and ready my afternoon tea.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Must be a dud, then. I killed Fernando in packaging and shipping last Thursday.[/FONT][/quote] [center][IMG]http://zeitgeistglee.250free.com/Palpatine.jpg[/IMG] [/center] [SIZE=1]You killed Fernando ? Do you have any idea how instrumental that man was to the efficient running of the shipping department ? You will pay the price for your lack of vision. While it entertains me greatly when underlings jockey for my favour should any of you negatively affect the running of my Empire I will, I promise you, make you regret the day you left your mother's womb. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Naruto give up his moronic plot to save Sasuke from his own free-will and come back to the village his clan plotted to overtake for generations only to be killed off by their own most powerful members at the behest of the Village Elders ? What foolishness you speak. Naruto needs a Bright Slap, or a Kamina "Clench your teeth" punch, I really don't care at this point but I'm losing all hope for him as a hero. He wants to be Hokage but doesn't want to make any of the difficult choices that come with the office, Kage strength with a Genin mentality and worse his idiocy seems contagious. As I've said God knows how many times before Naruto needs to grow up, desperately. Yes there is a nobility in his intent, but there's also tremendous levels of stupidity as well. Jiraiya was just as good a friend to Orochimaru as Naruto was to Sasuke, but even Jiraiya accepted the fact he couldn't save Orochimaru from himself. I suppose it's equally bad that Sasuke displays the same level of maturity as Naruto with his core mentality being "I will do whatever the hell I want and justify it with some ****** claim of vengeance". There comes a time when he simply has to put away childish concepts he's carrying around, Nagato should've been the villain to really drill it into Naruto's head that growing up means dealing with loss and making adult decisions which don't boil down to "it's my ninja way to want to go back to a carefree childhood", but no, Naruto's stupidity infected him and he gained the Deus Ex Machina power of resurrecting everyone he'd killed at the cost of his own life effectively affirming Naruto's childish point of view (not even mentioning the Chosen One ********). I have to say for a long time I've considered Sakura a waste of space, but the fact she's actually accepting that even if she loves Sasuke she and Konoha have a duty to prevent him starting a war or helping it continue which will cost lives has changed my opinion quite a bit. She knows she's walking into a fight she probably won't walk out of as well, Sasuke and Naruto are well beyond her in much same capacity Jiraiya and Orochimaru went beyond Tsunade but she's at least willing to try to make things right. Naturally of course Naruto will reject the logical point of view (what measure are Sasuke's prior victims against my friendship with him) and likely convince Sakura to join up with him in trying to bring Sasuke back again. I'm actually half-hoping, even though I like new Sakura, that Sasuke kills her simply to breach Naruto's thick f'ing skull that he is not his friend anymore and that he doesn't give two shits about Naruto's desires for reuniting Konoha. Seriously Kakashi, take the lad aside and explain it to him, in clear words that he needs to grow the hell up. Innocent people are going to die, you have a moral obligation to free the moron from his childish dreams of a perfect world. Hell as the Hokage you're duty bound to protect the villagers and ninja within, so protect Naruto by protecting him from his own foolishness. /RAGE!!!! [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/20qi7hk.png[/IMG] That truly is the most disgusting looking thing I've seen in the series so far. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Sangome'][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif][SIZE=1]Well now I know to never work at Wal-Mart.[/SIZE][/FONT][/quote] [SIZE=1]Work at Wal-Mart ? You act like you'd have some kind of choice in the matter. If I want a particular employee added to the roster they're head-hunted and I don't think I need to point out the double-meaning therein if there's a refusal of my most generous offer. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Which would raise the question of why she was making out with you to a degree that would cause said reaction in the first place.[/FONT][/quote] [SIZE=1]With women, you never know.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]Heh funny I've actually always been both a Komamura fan and a pre-betrayal Tousen fan so now that Hisagi is out of the way I'm very much looking forward to seeing how this fight plays itself out.[/SIZE]

[quote name='chibi-master']PSH. I'm not getting a funeral. Such luxurious things are only for the highest ranking employees. I'm more like the disgusting little lump of chibi goo that licks his shoes clean. I get to be dumped at the side of a highway with nice scenery, if I'm lucky.[/quote] [SIZE=1]I see you've finished the employee handbook, that's good, you're now familiar with the protocols that occur in relation to employee death. Slight update will be added next quarter however, we will no longer be dumping bodies on the roadside, something about increased traffics accidents or some petty concern like that and it's becoming irritating having to make all those legal cases (and their plaintiffs) disappear. Rest assured however for an employee such as yourself who shows promise you won't be subjected to regular post-life reappropriation and used as a supplement/substitute for offal in our range of pet foods. Should you perform exceptionally well in the future I may even have you coated in bronze and donate you as part of [/SIZE][strike][SIZE=1]some trifling[/SIZE][/strike][SIZE=1] a moderately expensive park fountain. That is of course should you not be assassinated by another promising underling in which case your remains will be added to the cement of said fountain for another more worthy employee who has entered into post-life service. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff'][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Nice Gavin. Gotta love people who think wording something differently makes it better some how. [/FONT][/quote] [SIZE=1]Yup. Used to happen with the higher level and pass level classes in high school, one particularly sensitive teacher tried to call the latter [I]Higher Level B[/I] instead, needless to say the idea didn't catch on.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Sangome'][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif][SIZE=1]So Chibs, you're Chibi #2, but also the First Chibi In Command? How does that even work? o_O[/SIZE][/FONT][/quote] [SIZE="1"]No, no, no. There's Chibi with the capital C and chibi with the little c, that's how you tell them apart not this #1 and #2 business. As for the reason little chibi (chibi chibi ?) is the one in charge it's because that's how things work.[/SIZE]

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[size=1]I admit I've lost pretty much all faith in it myself as well. Started off with an interesting enough premise but became pretty much standard filler-fare as of the latest episode which really, really destroyed any promise that the arc had. I mean aside from Orihime being truly the biggest ditz ever to live, yes it's admirable to heal someone even if they're your enemy, but that's only if that person doesn't represent a gargantuan threat by themselves to not only yourself, but everyone around you and your entire city. The fact that Orihime has been such a dead weight in the manga as well (aside from forcing Ichigo into Hueco Mundo which developed his Vizard powers and [spoiler]gave him his newer Hollow form and mask after Ulquiorra killed him[/spoiler]) I was hoping she'd either not appear in this arc or at least be of some use. That said, Yamamoto is himself completely responsible for what has occurred. The man knew who and what Muramasa was, knew what he could do, knew what he wanted...and he decided to seal himself away without telling anyone thus giving Muramasa every opening he has had so far. Nice job you idiot.[/size]

[SIZE=1]Based on the current speculation, although it's limited to that one picture for the moment, Vizards which are fully derived from the Hyogoku (like Tousen) as opposed to merely stabilised after initial Hollowification (Shinji) also get a change of form to go with the mask (something about the lines going down Tousen's neck and arm, as well difference in his costume prior to donning the mask). Someone also compared it to Ichigo's second Hollow form, which raises the idea of "second generation" Vizards (Ichigo and Tousen) being able to call out more of their Hollow form rather than just the mask. I'm sort of leaning that way myself, but I'd need more pictures before I decide fully.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][B]So I was wondering, if you consider yourself a geek ? [/B] Relatively speaking, yes. I try to maintain the appearance of a normal, sane person however. [B]Do you ever have moments of geek affirmation like this ?[/B] Yes. One of which involved meeting an engineering friend of a housemate of mine from last semester. After the discussion strayed into the topic of future power sources we both ended up agreeing GN particles were the way to go. Naturally my non-geeky housemate was rather mystified by the whole thing. I have yet to do the internal "Yatta" however, thankfully. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Nerdsy'][COLOR=deeppink]I just realized life's ultimate irony: a real Klingon would probably beat the ever-loving **** out of the kind of people who speak Klingon.[/COLOR][/quote] [SIZE=1]Title of "life's ultimate irony" aside because surely there's something more ironic than that, that's a very good point Nerdsy. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Well that's two of Gilette's major stars in the news for all the wrong reasons, come on Roger, give us something so we can make it three out of three.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Magus'][SIZE=1][COLOR=navy]Speaking of old man Yama, is he really going to just stand there while Aizen and company are right there in front of him?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/quote] [SIZE=1]A tentative probably, based on his actions in the story so far he doesn't seem that pushed to do anything unless there's a clear call for him to get involved. The fact that Aizen is considerably beyond most of the current uninjured roster of Captains would seem to dictate he acts but I get the feeling he's just going to keep watching for the minute. Of course nobody dies in Bleach so it doesn't make any real difference. [B]Edit[/B] So, Tousen's unofficial status as Bleach's greatest dickhead just got physical evidence. [IMG]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6250/108846.jpg[/IMG] [/SIZE]

[QUOTE][SIZE="1"][B]G-Anime[/B] is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec"]Quebec[/URL]'s second largest [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Convention"]Anime Convention[/URL] promoting Japanese animation ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime"]Anime[/URL]), Japanese [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novels"]graphic novels[/URL] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga"]Manga[/URL]), related [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game"]video games[/URL] and Japanese [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-culture"]pop-culture[/URL]. The non-profit convention is run by a group called [B]La Société d'Animation Japonnaise de Gatineau[/B] (also known by its acronym SAJG), and has been held in February 2009 in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatineau"]Gatineau[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec"]Quebec[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/URL]. A second edition is planned for 2010 in the same time-frame.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Posted for those unaware what G-Anime is.[/SIZE]

[quote name='taperson'][SIZE=1][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Happy World AIDS Day![/COLOR][/SIZE][/quote] [SIZE=1]Boo don't you dare go stealing anyone's wallet. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Calibri]At which point he probably mentioned to the girl that he was experiencing the first condition.[/FONT][/quote] [SIZE=1]Naturally.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]For a heterosexual male, yes, it is perfectly natural. I do agree somewhat with Xyander though that posting it on a forum seeking an answer is a tad unusual. Honestly I'm more intrigued why your friend said it wasn't OK, would he have any particular reason for trying to convince you otherwise ?[/SIZE]

[quote name='SunfallE'][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Don't make me come over there and shoot you. ¬_¬[/COLOR][/FONT][/quote] [SIZE=1] *Belches after antacid tablets* I'll be waiting.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Trying to teach my father how to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another over the phone, over a half hour period has actually given me heartburn and a headache, thanks for that dad. On a side note, I vote anyone over the age of 30 not be allowed near any new technology unless they understand it fundamentally without instruction. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Magus'][SIZE=1][COLOR=navy]Screw this weeks chapter, I want next weeks chapter.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/quote] [SIZE=1] I have to agree. [spoiler]Sakura's little "I will be the one to kill Sasuke" sojourn is just going to end so badly I might actually laugh.[/spoiler] I mean really, she's been nothing but dead weight since the Rescue Gaara arc. But of course you were talking about the [spoiler]Danzo/Madara fight[spoiler] which should certainly prove entertaining.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Tad early for a Christmas thread but why not. Now if you don't mind I'm just to going switch on my home-made Large Hadron Collider. ...Uh oh.[/SIZE]