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British politics has acquired some Australian driftwood lately in the forms of John Mcternan, who is running the disastrous Scottish Labour campaign (looking at losing nearly ALL of their seats in early May), and Lynton Crosby, who is running the disastrous Conservative campaign for David Cameron. Can any Australians fill me in on their Australian careers?

Lynton Crosby was the bloke who suggested the Howard Government say during the "children overboard" scandal that the migrant ships had been throwing children overboard as they sunk, even though no such thing happened.

McTernan was apparently a british citizen on a 457 visa, or maybe he wasn't, he evaded every question. A radio host once asked him "are you working on a 457?" to which he said it was "hardly fucking relevant".

I hope that sums them up for you.

Quote from: Reudh on April 19, 2015, 08:52:43 pm

Quote from: greatorder on April 19, 2015, 08:24:53 am

It seems a number of people stumbled upon my money making scheme in Guild Wars 2, crashing the market for it.

Fingers crossed it recovers.

Did you buy up Ugly Woolen Socks or something?

Not saying what it is. In the unlikely case it recovers, I want as few people in on it as possible.

It's not as if there isn't a surfeit of easily obtainable and easily manipulated items, Fapmaster.

It seems a number of people stumbled upon my money making scheme in Guild Wars 2, crashing the market for it.

Fingers crossed it recovers.

Did you buy up Ugly Woolen Socks or something?

Quote from: Reudh on April 14, 2015, 09:53:26 pm

Quote from: Vector on April 14, 2015, 09:39:29 pm

I keep on telling them "Make it spicy" and then I wonder if they actually just gave me the mild version :<

Yeah, i've noticed that a lot of places don't seem to understand spice.

On the other hand, with the surfeit of Asian restaurants here in Melbourne, it's pretty easy to find a food that's legitimately incredibly spicy.

Case in point; there's an amazing Szechuan place in Chinatown, in the alleyway directly north of the Croft Institute (and next door to Berlin Bar). I love spicy food, and this place does not dissappoint; it leaves my face bright red, and nose running like a faucet... and it. Is. AWESOME. Plus the food is legitimately very good.

Not to mention that North China Cuisine (name?) that you suggested we all go to in Box Hill that time. That was fantastic.

Geez that's a truly awful cpu, especially for a system that's gonna price out at $1k+ and even worse for a gaming system - it benchmarks even lower than the 10 year old never-top-of-the-line core 2 duo I have on my non-gaming system.  For gaming, at *least* go with a pentium,  say a g3258 for $50-60 and 3x the benchmark performance...

the A4 is a horrifically slow CPU - it's what they slap into low end, $500 laptops - my brother's $480 school laptop runs a A4 with a lower clock speed - 2.0ghz i think?

I mean heck, my laptop that I got for $800 two years ago runs an AMD A8-4500M - not the best A8 out there, but it's a damn sight better than the A4.

Quote from: Reudh on April 14, 2015, 09:10:47 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 14, 2015, 08:17:08 pm

Quote from: Paul on April 14, 2015, 06:07:31 pm

Heh, clearing out my prisoner list was funny. Had a character imprisoned for 40 years... who was 40. Poor guy, imprisoned as a newborn and kept till he was 40.

Large cities have been born, raised, and buried in the great dungeons of England.

I had a Duchess whose father rebelled when she was a child, died in battle after I captured his daughter, so she became Duchess of Trebizond, albeit as a child in the dungeon.

She survived until the age of 62. I don't remember how old she was when she first went in.

I still remember, and still love, the intrigue raising event chain where you can frame one of your serfs for stealing jewelry, only for, decades later, remember you forgot about releasing them.

Yeah, either the Baldrick-expy who still loves you and considers you his lord, or the cook's wife who's damn near destroyed by it.

Fucking Dreamdark Enclave jumping puzzle. I can do it fine, until I tell my guy to jump and they do the tiniest hop in response.

Guild Wars 2

All hops are equal among men!

Nah, seriously, you're always jumping the same height, regardless of animation - it often looks like Norn jump like a centimetre in the air and Asura jump twice their height, but in the end, it's all the same. It's the same with regards to fighting - everyone shares the same hitbox for balance reasons.

Considering that Kal's father told Kal to make a shrine to the Dwarven gods...? It's possible Kal is serious.

Well, I do wonder what that implies then? Sacrifices to a "god of blood", blood under your fingernails?