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OK, interesting to me, to hear about where people have got to. And where they liked life the best.
I will start. Started in Auckland, and at 16, flew to Aussie. east coast trip from Cannes to Surfers Paradice. I got bitten by a fish, three cockatoos, a grey Kangaroo, bull ants, sugar ants, tree ants,a big jelly fish, a small jelly fish and some sort of spike collared lizard, on that trip. I like animals, and hadn't yet learnt to like them from a safe distance at 16. :p
I returned to Aussie at 20. I went all over NSW, and I went for a while to Canberra. I went to Lord Howe ( Really cool if you like coast walking or fishing from the rocks. ) Island.
Then I went to Europe and did a circuit took 90 days, and the main line of travel was : London Paris down the south of France, Senna down Italy, skipped Rome( because I met so many girls that had been RAPED by roman guys
BARSTARDS ) Evil Brindissi > The most scary dangerous place. I was only there for 8 hours, and saw a dead guy, and three hospital cases, and LOTS of people that had been mugged. We scared backpackers went into a square and MADE a square of our packs, and stood sentry go over each other, because we were all so concerned. Two hours of that, was quite boring, so we. . . . Started to drink. :rolleyes: And then I saw an astonishing scary thing. Two Americans guys, brothers, walked across the way, and sat in a bar and ordered drinks. We could SEE them. The drinks came, and little brother drank deeply while the other paid, and in a matter of 20 seconds, was falling out of his seat !. Two greasy looking guys from inside the bar, came out and, pretending concern, tried to carry the little brother away up the street !. Big brother screamed out " Help me" and a tidal wave of Yarpies, Aussies and a Kanuka and a kiwi or two ;) (sad to say, not one of their countrymen came to their rescue) leaped out of the larger' and swamped the scumbags, and pulled the Yanks back to our fort.
In those few seconds, the two Yanks lost their wallets and one daybag. Big brother had had only one mouthful of the beer, and still he became dropsy and messed up.
We were all upset, and yelling and, out of the Bar, sauntered the architype of the greasy wog. He walked over, and started trying to explain how we ought to be careful, and not say anything that might reflect badly on his tavern, or he would have us all arrested. Consensus of opinion was expressed with a growl, and a few threats of our own, so he. . . SHOWED US THE PISTOL IN HIS WAISTBAND!
One of the guys travelling with us was a doctor from New York, and he sat with the young guy, and told us not to be too concerned. He thought he ought to make the young guy sick, so we did that. We were all SO FREAKED OUT, that we. . . . sent out a sorte to buy more alcohol :p Five of us, me too, went to a bottleshop. While we were there, a grey haired old man walking past on the pavement was clubbed to the ground by a young immaculately dressed 17 year old . We stood in shock, and a cop jumped out of another shop and ran forward, The young guy turned around and stared at the cop, who dropped his eyes. young guy walks off. Cop looks at the five foreigners and shouts, " You, fuck off , eh ! "
On the way back to the fort, a Canadian said "I gotta piss bad" so he and I broke off when we saw a pissor . He went in, I stood sentry at the door and a guy walked up towards me and took a knife out of his pocket. I had seen him watching us, knew for SURE he was doing a setup and had drawn my own knife and had me day bag as a shield I just showed him my knife and was going to KILL or be killed and he just nodded respectfully and backed off.
Canadian was watching too, with ( praise be to the Bulldog spirit ) his own knife out, trying to piss quicker. lol He said, your turn, in the pissor, and i said, nope let's go. We got down the street a bit, and came across another blonde yank, bleeding from the head and witless, with his POCKETS CUT OPEN!. Took him back to our fort. He still had his money belt, and his passport, and Eurailpass inside his trousers. And, offered an escort to the police station, he said, "No, fuck this place, I'm just getting on the ferry."
We told them all, "Toilet is in No Mans Land" and I just pissed on a tree, lol. We had about 50 people in our fort, when the time came to get on the ferry, about 5 to 3 girls. So we walked down the road , blokes on the outside, ready to go.
A fucking warzone. 1991, and the south of Italy had all those Albainians running around. Anyway, that was a digression ;) <
Across to Greece, Corfu, Athens, Santorini ( YAH! Best place, so great that I must go again soon) Ios, Cos, Metoria up the Adriatic by Ferry to Venice ( the whole instigation of the trip, I saw that in 1991 there would be a exhibition of the treasures of the Celtic people there, so i went to Europe and made a real meal of it. ;) ) Innsbruk(I went into a REAL castle, how wonderful ! ), Salsberg ( I went in the salt mountain, 1.7 km inside in a train, COOL ! ), Munich, hamburg, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway ( Yah! Such a wonderful place, I caught Fisk !. I saw the end of the world !. I paid 21 dollars for 350 mls of beer ! :wacko: ) Holland, Belgium, Back to Paris, Canne, Dover, London again, then flew home by way of San Francisco. I was too tired, so I gave up on spending anytime in the US.
I went back to NZ, then travelled a bit more around my own country.
Three years ago, I went to Japan !. only 28 days, but SO FUCKING OUTSTANDING!. I went to Tokyo, Hayama, Yokohama, Sendai, Nagano, Nagoya, and places in between, I reveled in it. I can't stress too highly, Japan as a travel destination. If you want your mind blown, and your life changed, Nihon ni itta hoga daroo (It is my opinion, you ought to go to Japan )
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I take pleasure in other peoples triumphs unless of course they triumph over me in which case I note them down in my book of grudges and then catch them unawares years later with some sweet revenge.
OK. My philosophy in life, itterated by one of my E-friends. :)
And I would have loved to share, if I got to WATCH, as well.
OK, off to think about that some more !.
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the dog, that actually was really sad...
Yeah, just reading about it is very bloody sad. The only way I can understand religious people, is to consider my own faith, because I believe in Dogs. I would beat my best friend, if I caught him harming a dog.
Futarama is on so late here, and I start work so early, that I hardly ever get to watch it. Plus, I am low monkey on the totem, when it comes to the remote control.
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I can also remember the sheer joy I felt whilst visiting my gran's about a week after finishing Fellowship to find a copy of the entire trilogy on my uncle's bookshelf (he'd left it behind years before).
So, was he the type of Uncle that handed over "Precious" things, or did ya have ta . . . ."liberate" them?.
When I first heard that they were going to produce a live action version, I was very skeptical indeed but from the very first rough-cut I was won over - one of the first clips that made it out to the public was from the finale of the Fellowship movie, the running fight with the Uruks. The clip from the trailer of the Fellowship climbing over a hill damn near had me wetting myself - it was hundreds of fantasy novels, rpgs and childhood memories all bought to the big screen.I saw an interview right early on with Jackson, almost day one, where the reporter, a Kiwi smart arse/intelligent person called John Campbell, asked something along the lines of " Are you aware that x million people are going to hound you to an early grave, if you screw up their favourite book?"
And Jackson said something like. "I am a MOVIE producer, I am going to make a movie, and cut anything out that interfers with a MOVIE "( My heart drops out , and my mouth tastes bad) "I have read these books repeatedly since I was a child, and love them, I can't wait to make it, I am so excited " ( I cheer up immensely because the hairy little man is shaking slightly, with what looks like a professional equivalent of the same feeling I have for the books. )
I thought the first movie, was the greatest, till I saw the third.
I REALLY hate how they have so many shots of villagers cowering in the caves of Helms Deep. Earls Children DO NOT COWER. So that sort of spoiled the second movie for me. But then, they had WARGS !.
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yeah, pooks told me i have the same kind of good/ugly looks. i didn't know who he was, hence this thread.
Wow, can we uglys actually be considered goodlooking?. How?. Seems slightly like a paradox. Actrually ( hey, my drunkn fingers just coined a new word ! , Just call me "Dubya the second) :) I would settle, quite happily, for Christophers' brand of ugly. Not in a GIRLFRIEND, you understand, I would swap my ugly for his.
I am back in Auckland, after being away for most of a month, cutting up scrap, in the hot sun. I put on 4 and a half Kgs, and was worried, but everyone has been doing a double take, and saying "Wow, Tigger, you are looking buffed." I was compared to one of my friends who is a full on weight monkey. As in, " Wooo hoo, won't Rodger the "Rodger"* be pissed off, when he sees you.
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Hurrah!.
Except. . . . .
Now I scare people on the bus. Ugly AND musclebound.
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* Yes, he is a homosexual, pill popping, steroid snorting, gym junky. We gave him a nice friendly nickname, and invite him to our parties and shit. Anything else might be mistook for homophobia, and "we scared of the big black man"
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Ho hum. I decided some time ago that if I were ever to meet Peter Jackson, I'd be genuinely torn on whether to shake him by the hand for making a magnificently entertaining, gorgeous (if a little confused) cinematic epic out of a near-unfilmable book, or to head-butt him out of a window for pointlessly and bafflingly butchering an excessive number of the best characters and scenes in what was, when I were but a wee lad, my favourite book in the whole wide world. Because I genuinely believe he managed to do both.
I still prefer Bad Taste and Brain Dead, mind...
This would be a very interesting thing to watch. You would have to lean so FAR forward, and down, to head butt him, you would probably end up with your forehead parallel to the ground. And have you seen the rotundity of the man?. I think a "Liverpool Kiss" on top of his head, isn't going to hurt him quite as much as it would hurt you. And then, of course, you have to think of his response, here's you hunched over, down around his level, holding your forehead and saying " Arrgh gerooutoit that fucking hurt " and him with the choice target for an uppercut, and 15 stone to launch it from.
Better just shake his hand mate, and say, "Good luck with the monkey job, you Bombadilacide "
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He is actually well sick of people walking up halfway through a rave about LoTR, or so he said to a reporter.
I think The Ride of The Rohirrm paid a lot of debts, ne?.
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"In France there is no milk, only wine."
True story. I was in a French restaurant in London and I asked my dad if I could have wine with my meal. He suggested milk, and the French waiter said the above quote, concluding, "Let the boy have wine."
Outstanding memory that must be for you. My Dad never took me to LONDON !. I was lucky if he took me to HOSPITAL.
When I went to Europe, I had saved and saved because I were afeare'd I wouldn't have a big enough budget. However, seeing as I was only going to be there for 90 days, and I took 10 000 NZ dollars, about 3300 Pounds Stirling in 1991, my fears were baseless.
In fact, by the time I was in Paris (Paris je' te amie), only 11 days into the trip, my daily budget was INCREASING. SO I began to . . . Indulge myself. I would find the sort of girl ( other backpacker ) that appealed to my highly developed asthetic sensibilities, and ask her to accompany me to dinner. They would demure, and say " I have x Francs budget for dinner tonight" and I could say, "OK, gimme that, and DON"T order the lobster, and let's go have a ball*"
One night, I was escorting TWO girls, beautifully distant from anything obtainable by my charm, infinitely beyond my ugly mug. Arm in arm, we strolled up to around about the other side of the water from Notre Dame, and one girls pointed into a "Crepes" (sp?) restuarant.
The plate jockey stepped out to hold the door for us, and said " Monsiour, you have TWO very beautiful ladies here, and no companion? " I grinned.
He rolled the tip of his moustache and said " Now I am a happy fellow ! ".
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I never forgot his pleasure that I had obviously won one outside my fighting weight. Can't remember what the food was like, though.
I got my budget down to a managable penury not long after travelling as far as Greece, but I had a lot of fun doing it.
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Wow, how inventive are those people?.
Thanks, electricinca, that was great. Arrrrh!
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Still, that young female student was gorgeous and the last five minutes were excellent (but why did the king kill him?).
the reason is in what his advisors tell him: that no one should be allowed an attempt on the king's life and get away with it, to make sure all obey the law of "All under Heaven".
As magic and stuff... well, these flicks like Hero, Crouching Toger and the upcoming House of Flying Daggers all should be seen as the Chinese fairy tales and myths. Just like our fairy tales and myths characters have superhuman powers, so do the warriors in these stories. the King of Qin isolated himself in his castle BECAUSE of Broken Sword and Flying Snow's attack on him those years before (the palace has been emptied of nearly everything, and the king is now in full armour all day for his protection): his troops can't stop them, which is why there's such a huge bounty on their heads. the king only survived because Broken Sword didn't want to kill him as he agreed with his philosophy.
Yes, I understood it as myth alright. It is just that it was inconsistant in the extreme. Dragon/tiger was at least consistant, so you could swallow the superpowers as part of the myth.
Like, I accepted the calligraphy master insisting his students stay at their desks, that is like the Zulus dancing a war dance on the deck of the sinking British ship in ww1. You have trained for this skill, you are going to die one way or another, die with dignity as you lived your life. Or the Royal Marines that stood still in their ranks as the ship founded, because they couldn't help it to float, and undisplined running about would have degraded them.
What was stupid and inconsistant, was sending troops to shoot arrows at people that you KNOW can just dance about flicking the arrows away.
If superpowers exisited, you don't send normal troops after the supermen. You train up supermen of your own.
I have seen many kungfu movies, and swallowed much myth in my time, so it isn't that i couldn't swallow a little more. Just not a very good movie. (imnsho ;) )
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Yeah, well, I wouldn't have wanted to flirt with any of her friends in the first place. There was no doubt she was by far the most beautiful of all of them. And, she had the nicest body. And, she dressed the nicest.
Oh well, thats much better !.
:) So you make a virtue of your not chatting up or pantsing her friends, while secretly never feeling the desire to. Thats more like it, Christian.
Bwahahaha.
All you need to do now, is work on the beer thing. It's dirty work, but someone has to get it done.
And, she had the nicest body. And, she dressed the nicest.
This seems like one of the mathematical statements that are true back to front also !. :lol:
I was feeling old and grumpy yesterday, wasn't I?. I am still old, but not grumpy today.
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Aye, well, that advice'd be a good way for me to get my ass kicked by my girlfriend!
Luckily, I met her when she was by herself, so I only had reason to give her all my attention! She can be a possessive one, she can.
Two scenarios here:
1.If I had given all of her friends attention, and then started flirting with her, she'd immediately have gotten suspicious of me, and thought I was a "player".
2.If I had shown interest in her, and then when she was around her friends, flirted with everyone, then told her I only wanted her, well, I'd have gotten the hell beaten out of me by her!
I am starting to WORRY about you, mate. First, the spirits drinking and the disdain for Gods Blood/Beer, . . . . . .
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I saw Hero night before last, and didn't really enjoy it. I Don't say that Chinese people aren't allowed their little florishes, but whats the POINT of the King HAVING an army, if a bloke and his mad wife can just walk in untouchable?.
Why not save on laundry and beer deliveries, and just HIRE yourself someone named after an aspect of nature?. And someone to watch him.
I realise we have similar things in British Myth ( Finn MacCool and his burnt finger springs to mind, and even good man Robin could have cut to the chase and just SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE SHERRIF ! ) but seriously now !.
Not a thousandth of the movie that Crouching Dragon was.
And some Chinese blokes asked me afterwards what I thought, and I was hard pressed to explain that I understood it was traditional Kungfu myth powers, but just taken too far to make it worth watching.
Little John might pull up an immature oak as thick as his wrist, roots and all, which we can swallow with a little straining, but he doesn't push over a castle wall, does he?.
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lol. Where as i played inanity for 20 levels, before i figured out it had no purpose.
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Ouch, Avaunt... that's pretty cynical. But I'm not going to defend us women, because underneath the bitterness you know well enough that we're not all like that. And most of us are just as vulnerable as you guys, so...
[isn't that counter attack a bit silly? Do you really think girls don't get what's happening? A guy who does that is merely trying to save his face. Cos why would a guy ask a girl out if he's not really interested in her, right?
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Sure, the two species have much in common. When men have a lot of money, and a fast car, WE are USERS to you guys, too. Many girls are hatefully manipulated (no pun intended ;) ) by rich guys, or by bullies. And when the man has nothing more ( don't think I place a low value on this, as the pure opposite is the fact ) than a kindly heart and an honest nature, 99.9 % of the time, he is doomed to cruel hateful manipulation from the womanfolk. It is how life works.
It is just that I sense Rogan is neither rich nor a bully, and therefore doomed to be the pawn of many a heartless user bitch. it is the way of the wicked world, and no, i don't think he will take my advice, no more than i take it myself. I thought he might get a warning, or a tougher skin, or at least amused by what I had to say, and realise it isn't just him. I think he is doomed to misery, because of his normal sex drive. Of course i know many many women that have also suffered at the hands of men. I sympathise with them.
It is just that I am sure of which side I am on.
Edit: You are quite right "Go Rogan, don't lose Heart". I just think you ought to have told him HOW. Don't place your HEART in a losing wager. Respect, and liking, but protect your heart, the simplest forest witch knows that. (inside a magic box, inside a glove, inside an egg, in the highest eirye of the eagles perched nest )
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I say, Ms Peru is a bit of alright, eh chaps?.
Personal motto " My family is my strength "
Bother. Seems like all those South American girls have aggro brothers !.
Rogan, you ought to play more mindgames on your intended victim/prospective lovers. It's sad but true, women love a cad, the path to getting the pants offa them, is best trod by a barstard.
You ought to flat out ignore any girl you have a gonad inspired interest in, for at least the first three weeks you know her. If she asks you a question, or says anything, look at her blank faced, as if you could care less that she has an opinion. Then say something faux nice to her, like "that's interesting" but don't add anything else, just get up and leave. She will spend a week wondering what you meant. Always leave them in doubt, and confused.
NEVER mention to any other female that you have the least interest in her. EVERY woman scurries off as quick as thought, to spill the beans to the other woman, and to give their opinion of the man*. We are at war, with the species, Rogan, and THEIR SIDE is an army of mutual support, where as our side is a rabble of lone gunners.
This one you describe, sounds like a lost cause to me, you have made yourself vulnerable, and appear slightly eager , I fear. Your only possible chance is to make a counter attack, like ringing her up, and retracting your offer, in some way that leaves her wondering why she hasn't kept your attention.
Actually, the best advice is that which people always MIS-quote from Macciavalli
"Put not your faith in Princesses"
Fat ugly girls are best, mate. Far less opinionated, and much better in the sack anyway. Far less likely to say " No, i won't do that, it's dirty " .And when you are finished with them, they EXPECT you to dump them, because they KNOW they are worthless, and there is always plenty of OTHER fat ugly girls to replace them with.
*It is always a bad opinion.
(What, me, Bitter?.)
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One of my favorite writers was the protege of Mr. Vonnegut: John Irving.
I liked his SPIRITUAL son, Phillip Jose Farmers' pen name "Kilgore Trout."
Venus on the Half Shell and others.
Was it Vonnegut that decided people ought to stop reading forwards, and read backwards till everyone has had all the classics?. So he stopped writing new books?.
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Yeah, you should be able to get a laptop that'll run it but it'll cost you a pretty penny I reckon.
Sean's spending more time in the office playing Rome than working, so there must be something to it.
We haven't used British coin here for about 90 years, so i think even a very big pile of extremely good looking pennies, were they even the Jude Laws and the Gwen Steffanis of pelf, won't do the trick.
Luckily, NZ Dollars grew some mighty big balls the last few years, so IMPORTING things is not the blood haeomorrhaging, paupering experience it has been for most of my life.
Actually, thats a saying for the "Sayings" thread, isn't it?. "That'll cost you a pretty penny" I wonder if it was a hangover from the times when most of the coin in circulation was clipped?. So if you had a pretty one, it was the full weight?.
I wonder if you could get a normalish laptop, boot off all the windows shit, and like the internet, everything except the games specific stuff, and do it that way?.
As for Rome, I have a playable demo off a game mag cover. I think that its' claim to fame is more that it's pretty pretty , lifelike , nothing particularly strategic superised about it, I felt. Of course, thats just from a demo. Though it looks interesting for multiplayer.
I was surprised that it ran on my machine here. I have always misread its stats , it says pentium® 4 cpu 2.60 GHz
504 MB of RAM
but doesn't mention that it has a 64 MB video card.
So I have always flagged games that needed a Video card. Just noticed last night, that it had one, because the demo of rome told me it had.(I know NOTHING about these things, a babe in the woods)Might go out on a buying splurge now :)
I played a demo of Worms Forts, which is three dee worms with a bit of stratagy throwen in, and quite good, but damned hard to control him in 3D.
Summer time here, so I gotta go enjoy the sunshine, mate. Cherrio !.
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Thanks John, I will be buying it asap. I really need a laptop , do you think you could get one that would play a new game, like Rome?.
And if the answer is yes, please try to get it to me BEFORE christmas, eh?.
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I need a seriously rich uncle, but only long enough to endear myself to him.
This was a drunken joke, john. I suffer from a lack of a sense of what is actually funny.
What I meant to ask, was, do you think a game like R:tw, could fit onto a laptop?.
I wouldn't buy another PC, because i think I am going to be homeless/living in flatland soon. And not being a driver, I think I will have to cut down on belongings, AGAIN.
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Thanks John, I will be buying it asap. I really need a laptop , do you think you could get one that would play a new game, like Rome?.
And if the answer is yes, please try to get it to me BEFORE christmas, eh?.
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I need a seriously rich uncle, but only long enough to endear myself to him.
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Oh, wow. He was on television in 'Reilly, Ace Of Spies' when I was a girl, and I've loved him ever since.
OH YES. That was real acting by Sam Neil, you really felt he was a heartless spy, what an excellent miniseries. No exposition, no pandering to the idiots that plague us. I got so heavily into that, that I went out and read up about the real man. Sigmund Rosenblum. Life is dull for me, in comparison* ;)
I knew who he was when I served him and his friends one night. Being eglatarian New Zealand, I couldn't show him favour above anyone else, and my pride wouldn't let me treat him any better than the next customer either. And I was determined, because we were quiet, to shield their party from stickybeaks, because why should any of my customers have their privacy bothered?. But I was only the Bartender, eh?. and our manager plowed out there with a menu for him to sign, and faffed about saying how much she respected him blah blah blah.
Small frog in the small pond, rubbing aginst the big frog for luck, or something. Fifteen years ago !. Or more, possibly.
*Or in actuality, probably. High point of my day today?. I was able to effortlessly corral two escaped calves, just sauntered along like a Gen-U-ine cowpoke, and lifted the latch that captured them. Woohoo ! :rolleyes:
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Loved that Russell Crowe story, Avaunt. Any dirt on Carl Urban, now that you're at it...?
Sorry, I never knew who he was at the time, I don't watch tv much at all.
Once he got a part in a show here, forget what, probably Zena, we all twigged that he was an actor. From memory, he is an intense concentrated bloke. Probably Gay, do you think?. ;)
We have like the one single road that is "In" with the arty crowd, in Auckland. Or maybe one and a half, if you include the Parnell Rise. SO I have actually seen most of our actors.
Sam Neil?. An excellent human being, if he isn't crowded, but a fighting spirit if people care to push him. And a command of the English language that a Kings' General ought to have. This man could say " Up Guards, and At Them ! " and men would be swept along.
None of them are famous, or important, till they leave here. Big frogs in a small pond.
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The Bourne Supremacy, which was good, clean fun. Nothing spectacular, but good entertainment, nice direction, some cool action scenes and a fair enough plot. Nice seeing the guy who played Eomer playing a russian assassin...
Yeah, Carl Urban. He, and Martin Henderson ( from "the ring" -ringu-, Torque,) and Russell Crowe are all from my Hometown. Auckland is so small, I have served all of them beers at various times, in my part time bar working, and when we were younger men, Russell Crowe and I had a drunken disagreement outside a nightclub once. The bloke was always an arsehole, and an egotist. And Stupid. He took a lease on a disused wharehouse in about 1986 (so old now, not really sure of the year. Around about the time I got my first hotel job, though, and was 20, so about then.-grandpaw rambling away to himself by the fireplace. ;)), and conned a lot of schoolgirls * into helping him fit it out as a nightclub, and THEN applied for a liquor licence. Doh !. The powers that be, knocked him back, because he actually was underage himself. lol. So he got involved with A shady bloke as partner, and reapplied, more money up front and a wage for the bloke, and "Nope" says the PTB, "this fella is an undischarged bankrupt."
What I have to give Crowe, is he is not one to take no for an answer, because then he opened it anyway, as a "Dry" kids disco, and pool hall. And it did alright for a while, because Auckland never had somewhere for kids to go, except the movies. Eventually it went sour though, because a gang "adopted" it as their head quarters, so people stopped going. But before then, Russ had moved onto better things, and left someone else with the lemon.
*He used to be a Glam Rock "star" called himself " Russ le Rock " and always had a sea of 16 year old St Cuthberts girls following him around.
And so did Martin Henderson, when he was living in Ponsonby and acting on NZ TV as a Doctor in a soap opera. We would card the girls that came into the bar with him, and he would shoo off the ones he knew wouldn't make the cut. ;)
If only my head wasn't a horrorshow, I would have been a Martin Henderson with both boots :) Oh, and I would have to be a lot taller. And less lazy. and better hair too.
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but you know as well as I do that it is very hard to find a 20th/21st century history book that does not give the "West", "First World", and the "Superpowers" more attention than any other country.
Well. history would be pretty confusing a subject, if countries that didn't have a hand in setting its course, counted as importantly in the official records, as countries that drove the car of history.
I mean, what did Burma count for in history, except that GB colonised it, and Japan invaded it?.
How did Burma change or influence the course of history?.
Or Papua New Guinea?.
If you plucked them , and all reference to them, out of all the history books, the books would read much the same, I think.
In truth, Newton was far and away a more important historical person then Lai Po. And Caxton more so again than the nameless-even-in-Chinese-histories person who first made movable type. Wellington made more of a difference to history than Chakka.
It is called the First world, not by chance.
(imho, of course ;) )
BARSTARDS ) Evil Brindissi 
Saddest Futurama
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I just laughed outloud. Seriously.
Like this, but with vibrations in the air