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Does she even know to to run a sailing ship?

It's a basic part of any engineering curriculum.

Particularly if the curriculum is radioactive.

Aaron wrote:Not even with a bicycle powered hair dryer.

just pedal faster ^_^

Aaron wrote:Does she even know to to run a sailing ship?

can't you just hire on a drunken sea captain

i nearly typed 'she captain' :V

Life isn't like bad comedies.

Stofsk wrote:

Aaron wrote:Gonna hook a bike up to it and try and cook eggs with a bicycle powered microwave?

it's just not possible to fry an egg that way man

Can't we use those Eggies things I saw on the infomercial?

i never really thought if my microwave oven is one of the fancy things or not

i purchased it in 2009

but i paid bottom dollar for it


remind me to check this when i get back to the house now tho

im curious

they still seem to make the full range, from teh plastic crappy ones with nothing like 1985 to the crazy workflow ones that will nag you to add more salt

sherry's used mine to cook a roast and it came out totally boss, so ovens can just fuck right off

imagine if your house came with a huge commerical microwave instead of an oven

would you ever miss it

I WONDER

ha i just asked my mum how old our microwave is

she said 'too old, we should get a new one'

most people i know bought a mid-range one in the last 5-10 years

and because they don't break or seem to wear out they can more easily justify buyign an icecream machine than a new one

Well yeah, we run our appliances into the ground.

Actually, last week the oven had a short or something and started sparking out of all the rounds. So we're in the market for a new one.

My old microwave broke about a year ago and I replaced it with a cheap one

Only use that for defrosting stuff and maybe baked beans. Everything else gets done The Hard Way.

I'm pretty sure I'm not inclined to spend more than $100 on a kitchen appliance

my current microwave was like $60 or so, and all the convection ones I see are way more than $100

We bought our current microwave after our previous one proved too small to fit baby bottles/sterilisation stuff...

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Wash getting speared through the chest in Serenity. I actually yelled 'NO!' in the theater.

God I fucking hate 90% of the people at TEO.

because

you hate... serenity?? or chookie?

My spectrum of hate goes something like:

Joss Whedon shows
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Fans of Joss Whedon
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People who talk to characters/don't shut the fuck up in movies.

So Chewie is pretty much batting 1000 there.

i cannot argue against the notion that joss whedon's shows tend to be spectacularly awful, although i would say firefly is the exception that proves the rule

because serenity fucking sucked

whedon's fans do tend to be enormously idiotically slavishly obsessive

There's something about his writing that seems to engender that response, though I can't be bothered to try and pin down how exactly he does it. I'd be interested to read someone else's analysis of it, though.

Was serenity bad because of the writing, like the dialog and the story boarding

Or was it bad becuase it was a really bad idea followed self indulgently

both

oh wait

starkles you sly fox, that was a trick question wasn't it

what i dont understand about serenity is why river had to be a ninja. i mean, "gifted child tortured, subjected to forced brain surgery; becomes psychic but also emotionally and mentally destroyed" seems like a pretty interesting backstory; you really should have enough to work with there without adding "is secret ninja".

i think the problem with serenity (which i liked, for the record) is that joss thought river was a much more interesting character than most of the rest of us

edit: it also annoyed me that the movie had simon breaking into the secret government facility and rescuing river like hes space james bond. i mean, his character was never a coward, but he never showed any aptitude for batman shit like that and theres no reason to expect that he would (sure would have come in handy a bunch of times in the show). in the other 'serenity' (the tv pilot) its implied that he spent all his money to pay someone else to break her out, which fits the character 100000% better

My own problem with Whedon shows is that each and every universe is perfectly set up so that any and all characters are constantly ready to fire off snappy one-liners, comebacks, and cutting observations. I understand how the occasional witty remark can help things out, but the torrent that comes out of any Whedon show just serves to constantly remind me that it's a fictional universe deliberately set up to help the many author's darlings fire off more quips. The deluge just makes the characters all come across as insufferable, self-inflated assholes rather than cunning avatars of awesome.

but if you take away xander's one liners you are left with nothing but a broken shell of a man who has watched his every dream crumble and fade

and i don't know if i could watch 7 years of that

interestingly, from our experience as people who make money off nerds buying shit at conventions, browncoats tend to be some of the more tolerable convention goers out there second to steampunkers

at the very least they seem to understand that they should bathe and groom themselves before they go outside and should probably aspire to be all witty and able to converse with people instead of being smelly disheveled basement dwelling nerdboys who think that saying that someone is rapeable isn't fucking disgusting and should get them punched in the face