Off Topic 2010

[Bellsprout]

Re: Off Topic 2010

Depends on your scary movie tolerance. I don't watch many of them. Hardly any. I can probably count on 2 hands the number I've seen. So, I'm pretty easily scared.

If you've seen a ton of them, though, I can see where Paranormal might not be all that scary. If loud noises at random times are what scare you, I'd avoid it. But it's more of a suspense movie in my mind because you spend an obscene amount of time just staring at an open door and freaking out wondering what's going to happen.

[Scottdau]

Re: Off Topic 2010

Well I think my friend might get rid of his big snake now. Today it attacked his leg.

[Bellsprout]

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I really wish you'd learn spoiler tags.

[BlueNGold]

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Depends on your scary movie tolerance. I don't watch many of them. Hardly any. I can probably count on 2 hands the number I've seen. So, I'm pretty easily scared.

If you've seen a ton of them, though, I can see where Paranormal might not be all that scary. If loud noises at random times are what scare you, I'd avoid it. But it's more of a suspense movie in my mind because you spend an obscene amount of time just staring at an open door and freaking out wondering what's going to happen.

Yeah I'm not big on scary movies either but the DVD case is sitting right in front of me staring me in the face, so I'm debating it.

Well, if I come back to this thread screaming and crying my eyes out, you'll know I watched it.

[Scottdau]

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I really wish you'd learn spoiler tags.

Be a man. If I can handle it you can handle it. I ****ing hate snake.

[Scottdau]

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I can do it for text, but for picture I don't know how to do it. Maybe a mod can do it for me.

[Bellsprout]

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I can look at it now that I know it's coming, but when it first pops up my heart always skips a beat.

[Scottdau]

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OK this is what you do. When it is late at night and you are on Off Topic, just look for my name and if you see a post from me in here, be very aware.

[TracerBullet]

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Wow did not know this came on at 2 in the morning on sundays:
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6zDfxZ4NcE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6zDfxZ4NcE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

I was about to go to bed but I have another 30 minutes in me at least.

[superjames1992]

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Holy ****! The hotel where my dad stays in Rio de Janerio was invaded by gun men and many hostages were taken (It's where US Airways puts its' crew during overnights)! Fortunately, my dad is at home, but goodness. I'd assume there were many US Airways employees down there at the hotel when it was invaded, so I wonder if any American hostages were taken? What a ****ty place Rio is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/22/hostage-shootout-police-rio

The drug wars blighting Rio de Janeiro, the host city for the 2016 Olympics, were back on Brazil's front pages today, after a hotel was invaded by gunmen involved in a shoot-out with police.

Ten heavily armed gang members on the run from police swept into the beachside InterContinental hotel yesterday morning, taking 35 people hostage and triggering a three-hour siege that ended with 10 arrests, one death and four policemen wounded.

"There must have been over 1,000 shots," said Paul Ayscough, 48, a British businessman who was staying in the hotel. "It was a huge number of shots – automatic fire, pistol fire, everything."

The violence began early yesterday, when up to 60 members of a gang involved in drug trafficking attempted to return to their base in Rio's largest slum, Rocinha, after an all-night party in a nearby favela, Vidigal. A convoy of about eight vehicles was intercepted by police.

The 40-minute gun battle that followed was of proportions rarely seen outside the conflict-ridden favelas. Video footage, taken by a local resident, showed half a dozen armed gang members taking cover behind a rubbish truck and firing automatic weapons in an up-market neighbourhood.

"It was as if the shooting was happening inside our house," the Brazilian sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares, who lives in the area, told O Globo. "The walls were shaking and we realized we were at the centre of the shoot-out."

Writing on his Twitter account, Soares said: "Am I in Afghanistan?" No I've become a war reporter in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro."

A woman was killed and four policemen injured in the lengthy exchange of fire. Some of the gang members managed to flee to Rocinha, a sprawling hilltop shantytown that serves as the drug faction's headquarters, but at least 10 sought refuge in the hotel.

Ayscough, who comes from S****horpe, was among those caught up in the siege as about 200 police combed the building for the gunmen.

"I woke up at around 8am to what I thought were fireworks," he said. "I opened my window and saw 30 guys running up and down the street. Then I saw the cop cars ... It looked feral."

Rio's governor, Sergio Cabral, said the government's offensive against drug traffickers would continue. "We are under no illusion … about the size of the challenge. But we are convinced we are on the right track."

Soares said yesterday's battle proved that while Rio's government had been praised for a recent security project, "pacifying" several favelas through permanent police occupation, the problem was far from resolved.

"We have been sharing in the illusion that Rio is entering another chapter, turning the page on the horror," he said. "But this shows that the pacification units are merely islands of excellence in an ocean of barbarity that is very much alive."

[countryboy]

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glad your Dad is ok James.

[Cusefan]

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Holy ****! The hotel where my dad stays in Rio de Janerio was invaded by gun men and many hostages were taken (It's where US Airways puts its' crew during overnights)! Fortunately, my dad is at home, but goodness. I'd assume there were many US Airways employees down there at the hotel when it was invaded, so I wonder if any American hostages were taken? What a ****ty place Rio is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...out-police-rio

Rio is a mess. How they got the Olympics is beyond me, their gangs are just as powerful as their army.

[TracerBullet]

Re: Off Topic 2010

Holy ****! The hotel where my dad stays in Rio de Janerio was invaded by gun men and many hostages were taken (It's where US Airways puts its' crew during overnights)! Fortunately, my dad is at home, but goodness. I'd assume there were many US Airways employees down there at the hotel when it was invaded, so I wonder if any American hostages were taken? What a ****ty place Rio is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...out-police-rio

That's crazy! Glad he's safe man.

[Buckeye]

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Wish the browns could have won last night.

[mikenoob]

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Woke up at 5 am to take like 5 big poopies every 5 minutes. I was holding my stomach because it hurt.