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BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:42 pm

In Italy this game is knows as "POKEMON FOR PLAYSTATION". Street vendors used to sell illegal copies of this game in a case with PIKACHU on the cover. When I was 7 years old my father came back home with this game. "I've bought pokemon for the playstation" he said. I was as happy as much as I was deluded when I realized that that fucking rabbit wasn't Pikachu. The funny thing is that there isn't even an Italian version of this game. This is Italy, this is business!

Obiwanshinobi · Post by **Obiwanshinobi** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:45 pm

Didn't quite make me smile, but the sunset yesterday was unreal, then I heard that The Party's Over song I recalled the other day on the radio (so it's this time of the year not just for me) and today women outside started talking to me out of a sudden. Conclusion - my aura today is a bit less serious than usual.

rancor · Post by **rancor** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:24 pm

Turning on channel 2 (NHK) and seeing that they're showing re-runs of the old anime "Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water". Maybe Japanese people are longing for the good 'ole days of anime as well.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:32 pm

Today I lost my job. It really made me smile.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:53 pm

njiska wrote:Today I lost my job. It really made me smile.

Sorry to hear that buddy! Hopefully you got a good severance package.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:06 pm

jonny5 wrote:
njiska wrote:Today I lost my job. It really made me smile.
Sorry to hear that buddy! Hopefully you got a good severance package.

Oh yeah, and I may have a decent hiring prospect lined up, so life is peachy. Hence why I posted this in this thread. I am smiling because I hated that job and now they're paying me to find a better one.

Post by **system11** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:48 pm

I made a new friend.

Looks like a maple leaf seed from above, evolutionary camoflage. It also had an amazing clockwork walk, very ratchety movement. I found him somewhere better than my car windscreen to sit:

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:15 pm

Looks like a type of Seed Bug. An insect you can actually call a bug, being that it is a Hemipteran, or a "true" bug.

Friendly · Post by **Friendly** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:54 pm

I just realized this is the right thread for this:

Friendly · Post by **Friendly** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:56 pm

drauch wrote:Looks like a type of Seed Bug. An insect you can actually call a bug, being that it is a Hemipteran, or a "true" bug.

Correct! Looks similar to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreus_marginatus

It definitely belongs to this family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreidae

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:21 pm

drauch wrote:Looks like a type of Seed Bug. An insect you can actually call a bug, being that it is a Hemipteran, or a "true" bug.

You know, given your insect pedantry, your taste in music and your alcohol capicity, I think we would get on pretty well IRL

moh · Post by **moh** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:06 pm

walking through the physics building in my university. saw a bin labeled "electronic waste" with a bunch of shit in it.

grabbed this 20" monitor hoping that it might work.

turned out that it worked flawlessly!

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:58 pm

MX7 wrote:
drauch wrote:Looks like a type of Seed Bug. An insect you can actually call a bug, being that it is a Hemipteran, or a "true" bug.
You know, given your insect pedantry, your taste in music and your alcohol capicity, I think we would get on pretty well IRL

Haha! I need more people like you to live around me. My cats are the only ones who put up with it.

Also, Friendly, are you into Entomology?

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:32 am

I have a co-worker in my section who carries a little entomology book. People from the office bring him all kinds of weird insects they find at home. He then proceeds to take out a disecting microscope... and identify it!

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:57 am

xbl0x180 wrote:I have a co-worker in my section who carries a little entomology book. People from the office bring him all kinds of weird insects they find at home. He then proceeds to take out a disecting microscope... and identify it!

Haha, sounds like my life during summer. Sad to see it go, but during the summer months I get bombarded with texts and facebook messages to identify stuff. It's almost always Camel Crickets, the differences in May Beetles and June Beetles, Wolf Spiders, Brown Reclues; usually boring stuff. Was nice to identify both a Polyphemus and a Luna Moth for someone, though. I often find it surprising that people don't know what June Beetles, Brown Recluses, Jumping Spiders, Black Widows, etc look like. I dunno, just seems like pretty common information.

Then again, Daddy-Long-Legs are like 4 different things to people.

Post by **system11** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:58 am

Friendly wrote:
drauch wrote:Looks like a type of Seed Bug. An insect you can actually call a bug, being that it is a Hemipteran, or a "true" bug.

Correct! Looks similar to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreus_marginatus

It definitely belongs to this family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreidae

Well identified, I live in one of the locations the top link says is common for the species.

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:32 am

Good! If you have anymore send them my way!

Friendly · Post by **Friendly** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:34 am

drauch wrote: Also, Friendly, are you into Entomology?

Insects are fascinating!

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:27 pm

Never noticed the (S)HELL sign before, somehow. That is an awesome bit of symbolism with Murphy emerging from the flames beneath it next to his patrol car as Emil flees for his life!

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:18 am

I hadn't either! Good find!

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:55 am

Friendly wrote:
drauch wrote: Also, Friendly, are you into Entomology?
Insects are fascinating!

It's better when you combine these with shoot-'em-ups

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:16 am

What are a silverfish's favourite things to eat? Already an interesting topic for any curator, now experience it in Engrish!

"It comes to no surprise that silverfish will certainly eat on whatever foods we all leave on their behalf."

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:21 am

Spent 7 hours today cleaning, rewiring and adding a surround sound system to my living room. Sat down after all was done to test it out and found everything was working correctly on the first try. No fucking about trying to see where I miss wired something. Everything just worked. It was a happy rare occurrence.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 11:08 am

Ketsui Arrange 1.51

WKL · Post by **WKL** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:34 am

Decided to pay a surprise visit to my parents yesterday evening by driving to their chinese takeaway and spending a few hours with them due to it being the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition to being pleased that I was able to find the time to visit and had bought them a box of their favourite mooncakes, my timing was perfect as their shop was full of customers when I arrived which meant that an extra pair of hands wouldn't have gone amiss.

After a solid hour and a half of efficient teamwork, we were finally able to sit down, relax and eat a most agreeable meal together.

blackoak · Post by **blackoak** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:50 am

i smiled today hearing about the new trapped in the closet episodes, november 23rd. fuckkk, i have been waiting for this

"this darkest closet"

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:00 am

ChainsawGuitarSP · Post by **ChainsawGuitarSP** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:56 pm

This was a neat experience:

Guy was fluttering around a lightbulb like a moth so I had to help him off the porch.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:59 pm

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, sealed roll collectors.

rancor · Post by **rancor** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:26 pm

Seeing a sign in a shop today that was offering "Prison-style" massages..

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