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wow that is one amazing art deco influanced piece of wall art, it's much better then the Chui... rat like dog painted on the side of a tower block in Chrisp Street, East London....
Now this one was done with bricks
http://i62.tinypic.com/2lkzczs.jpg
Shadow of Mordor is totally amazing
the couple who made fake bomb detectors have received three and a half years for the husband, and community service for the wife. they endangered hundreds of thousands of lives selling fake devices to Iraqi security forces, and might have played a part in hundreds of deaths. and they have been found guilty of 'article fraud' as though they were selling knock off hand bags. this makes me absolutely incandescent with rage. I would put the pair of them in a mine field with one of their 'detectors' and tell them to find their way out.
[url]http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29477894[/url]
Just Googled my own job - not entirely sure why.
Found some reviews.
Well, you can easily spot the people doing the rating who have gone school/uni/job there. Say the pay is poor, progression is poor, slagging off management etc.....
Yeah. I've had more jobs than most (I was right butthole for a long while) - I think the people posting those reviews are in for a very, very rude awakening if/when they leave.
Especially the one who said there was no progression, but only worked there for 6 months...erm.....
"It is finished hear him cry!"
So that is that, 7 years done and dusted, slipped out the back door escorted by security.
Though I had a lovely card and monies "to buy war hammer"
sounds exciting.
I just watched 300: Rise of an Empire, which was awesome. has to be a third one now.
Onwards and upwards dude!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
hm well Themistocles did get up to some shenanigans after that... but the Persian Wars are pretty much covered now, so the question is what they are going to cover... probably something under a slightly different title "by the makers of 300" or some such - Alexander or maybe even Roman conquest of Greece come to my mindQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
nope, Xerxes is still in Greece with his army, they need to do a third film with a final battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckO2FDxjUvw#t=209
well he basically pussied out after Salamis... left a general there, but took his elite with him back home... and the final battle of that invasion has actually been shown - last bit of the first movie, Battle of PlataeaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
I have an ancient history degree, I know what happened historically. the films are not historical pieces. Rise of an Empire covers Xerxes becoming a literal god king, not a figurative one. He is still in Greece with his army, the threat is still there. It is set up for a sequel, otherwise he would leave at the end of the second film.
I hated both films so whatevs.:p
Snooping around flats online, ready for the next success stages of career (manager within 6 months is the new goal).
Two bedroom places seem better priced than one bedroom places, and means I can potentially have a nerd den...which is nice!
If you look at it from the perspective of historical accuracy, plot coherency, plot at ALL actually, portrayal of... uh, I think you can insert any group vaguely referenced in the film at all, really? Well, by any of those metrics 300 isn't very good.
If you look at it from the perspective of "hey, there are a heap of oiled strippers doing really athletic things in tiny scraps of armour!" and enjoy the vaguely BDSM overtones, 300 is fun. :D
the first wasn't all horrible on that count (at least better than some, and definitely better than the second) - both the "kicked into a well" and the "we'll fight in the shade" scenes are taken from Herodot, who is our main source on the matter. Rise of an Empire on the other hand seemed to kinda make a point of directly going against Herodot in various respects... so yeah there's definitely the possibility of a third if they continue the trend... I just don't see any obvious battles/plots that remained uncovered in the first two, at least none that would warrant a movie of that kind... and the Athens vs. Sparta Peloponnesian War kinda lacks the whole Civilization vs. Barbarians vibeQuote:
Originally Posted by Morgrim
It's a silly film - not a documentary! Just enjoy it for what it is.
I don't mind historical accuracy, A Knights Tale is one of my favourite films, I just hate Frank Miller and I really disliked the films though the first was marginally better. Cannot forgive the way they depicted and disposed of Artemisia, it was ****ing disgusting. She was an amazing ruler and military leader in an age when women weren't supposed to be either and to have her reduced to broken rape victim who is bad because men abused her was ****ing vile.
A Knight's Tale.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
That film has absolutely no right being anywhere near as good as it actually is! On paper, it sounds utterly atrocious. But damn it's an excellent film!
300 was in large parts pretty interesting and in large parts almost unwatchable especially the narration.
And if you would gather a military historian, a professional animal trainer, a guy with a time machine and an actual elephant that all would try to convince me that it is possible to drive an elephant over a cliff like that, I still wouldn't buy it.
Until you get to the end of the film and realize that it's literally a propaganda story told to pump up the other Spartans before the next battle. And the sequel has a nice touch of showing the Spartans as arrogant pricks from the perspective of the Athenians. Both movies make extremely good use of unreliable narrators.
That depends on how much the narrator is going on your nerves and how desperately you want him to shut up.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkLink
well I loved both of them and hope for a third, so nerr to you all :p
Just watched Rise of an Empire.
Meh.
Not as good as the first, and kept feeling like 'oh, it's the end? No wait there's more. Of the same. Oh'
Not a keeper for me I'm afraid.
Don't trust you to leave by yourself?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZj3Fs6wWBI
this is my new favourite thing ever, I think I am in love.
possibly NSFW given the bong at the start of the video :p
Friends, romans, countrymen! Lend me your beers!
It is I!
I have returned to grace you with my awesomeness, and let you know I survived today in the new job, mostly reading and filling out forms and stuff.
Hope the new job goes well! It is usually a breath of fresh air to get into something different. :)
Same thing better t's & c's.
First meeting, the department is massively underspending and needs to increase capital projects to resolve this issue. It's a hard time.
Holy cow! A job where the company isn't claiming poverty! Sounds like the jackpot. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Government job. You can call me "Mr Lynch" ;)
Sweet! :)
Woohoo, still not shared the wifi key with you yet though ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Fun fact about the legend of the 300 Spartans (not the movie but historically) the Greeks sent roughly 20000 troops to stop the Persians and when the enemy discovered a way to flank them the spartan king ordered everyone else to retreat and defend their homes except his 300 personal guard and roughly 1000 troops refused to abandon the Spartans, and the battle was in the best case scenario for a small army to hold back a huge army
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Also there where more professions in Ancient Rome/Greece that prohibited men from entering them then prohibited women from entering them, the only carrier a roman/Greek woman couldn't get was in the military, whereas men where banned from the majority of the priesthood (of all gods except solar invictus actually) and several other things, in fact until the tenth /eleventh century women where seen as more inherently holy/close to god then men because they could create life and men couldn't, it wasn't actually until the idea of original sin was conceived that Europian society started using the patriarchal system, before then inheretance worked with the first born son getting the fathers title and first born daughter getting the mothers title, and cooking wasn't performed on a household basis but at a community level with half a dozen or so people preparing food for the whole town for dinner, and women would also only care for children until the child learnt to walk and then would go back to working the field with their husband, I learnt this from a episode of a documentary series called divine women on history channel as nothing better was on, I've also watched a hour long documentary on cannibalism for a similar reason
Never mind all that!
Dredd is getting a 7 part Web Series!!!
FLAILING EXCITEDLY IS TO OBEY THE LAW!
What like dragon age did?
Are they bringing Sly back? :D
Stuff sly, Urban was an absolute BOSS!!.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
thats great news Mystery, hope they do bring back the same actors
lols