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Fallout
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 04:02 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 04:02
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Delayed reaction! Someone blasted a footy into my hand yesterday from point blank (no it wasn't intentional handball ), which snapped it back. Didn't hurt too much and played on fine. Drove home, had dinner, went on lappy, all good, went to bed. Then I start waking up realising my wrist is aching like a bar steward, and now I can't sleep from the pain. So I'm sitting up with a tea, bored and pumped full of paracetamol, waiting for it to take effect. I never really take pain killers so hopefully these will have more effect, like drinking when you've been booze free for a while.

Ain't my typing good for a one armed bandit? Apologies for my useless post, but this is my sanity at stake here.


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Keo C
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 04:30
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Well, that stinks. How is this going to help you finish games?

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 04:34 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 04:36
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Very clever Falloutz. Making a thread about "injuring" your wrist and then sitting back and waiting for the first fool to bust "that" dirty joke.

Not gonna work on me, my level of maturity has evolved. Like a Pokémon.

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 04:51
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Quote: "Not gonna work on me, my level of maturity has evolved. Like a Pokémon."

Which one?


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Benjamin
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You should go and see a doctor as soon as you can, it could mess you up for life. I once knew someone who got elbowed in the eye and was permanently disfigured (more than they already were) due to this.



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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 05:22
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as long as we're on medical issues, I have some weird marks on my back that look like scars. as if someone was whipping me. have no idea where they came from. been there for almost a year now.

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 05:23
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You tried WebMD?

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 06:34 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 06:45
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Tiger Balm works having had strained wrists in car accidents some crazy person suggested this to me. I was sceptical until I tried it.

You can get it at Boots chemists in the UK so the blurb says http://www.tigerbalm.co.uk/ukproducts.html



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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 11:15
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Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. It's still knackered this morning, but I'm working from home today, cos I dont think I could drive.


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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 12:38
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you drive with two hands?
sheesh.



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Fallout
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 13:14
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In this country we have things called "manual gearboxes", not those automatic lazy things you guys have. Plus my car like two hands on the wheel, otherwise it threatens to kill you.


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You may well have fractured it. You should have it X-rayed.

I fell over on a ski slope onto my wrist. It felt just like a sprain, thought nothing of it until the Medic on sight pointed out it was either broken or fractured. It was a fracture in the wrist.

If you don't get it in a cast it could heal a bit funny.

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 13:32
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Quote: "You should go and see a doctor as soon as you can, it could mess you up for life."


Not if you see the right doctor.

Yes - get it checked out ASAP. Minor (but painful) injuries in the bones and tendons of the hand and wrist can cause serious problems later. Probably just swollen joints/tendons - but get it checked.
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ah, driving stick. yeah, I drove stick too forever, but with the mrs. our current family car is automatic for a bunch of years, so I forgot. good point. I dont miss stick in traffic however

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Oolite
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I know its different for the yanks, but i couldn't imagine not driving a manual, i'd feel like i'd be punished for being lazy.
My two driving positions; for in town traffic, one hand on the wheel with the other on the gearknob. Long A-Roads/motorway involve one hand on the wheel and one hanging out the window (floating in the breeze or divulging in one of my many bad habits).

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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 21:43
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Quote: "floating in the breeze or divulging in one of my many bad habits"


What, drive by shootings?


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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 21:51
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You could just tell that was coming, couldn't you?


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Quote: "as long as we're on medical issues, I have some weird marks on my back that look like scars. as if someone was whipping me. have no idea where they came from. been there for almost a year now."


Ahhh, my cousin has that and so do I...

Actually we think it has something to do with bad posture. How's your posture? Ours almost look like stretch marks or something.

...Too much computer I guess ^_^

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Woah! That's weird...

Hey! Someone I know has that! I was wondering about that...

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whipping? now that's strange, you should get tested for GHB

jk please don't take that seriously. also about medical things, on one side of me the ribs bend in alot and spring out on the end. I saw a doctor but they didn't say anything

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Bingo, folks. It's stretch marks. They can be achieved with bad posture, or working out some muscles to be really big, then letting them get small. The skin stretches out, but when the muscles shrink, the skin doesn't do such a good job of fitting back.

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 11th Jan 2008 04:49 Edited at: 11th Jan 2008 04:49
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Or maybe they are Rami's henchmen that come at night at give you a knock out toxin to keep you asleep and then proceed to whip you on your back until satisfied, at which time they quietly leave the house, leaving the whole scene undisturbed.

It's happened, I swear .


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tha_rami
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Gil, you'd make Seppuku proud.

I wouldn't sleep tonight if I were you. I sent my henchmen to give you at least four times the normal treatment. You'll be lucky to have a back when you wake up.


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Quote: "Gil, you'd make Seppuku proud."

Master has taught me well.

Quote: "I wouldn't sleep tonight if I were you. I sent my henchmen to give you at least four times the normal treatment. You'll be lucky to have a back when you wake up."

Didn't I already bomb your headquarters earlier? Dang it, I knew I shouldn't have sent my worst henchmen.

*puts on ski jacket for extra protection*


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Well, yeah, you bombed my headquarters, but honestly, you should've used something else than an explosive balloon. Your henchman was a friendly guy, I offered him some coffee and a watermelon to drive home on. Don't be as indecent as to ever send one of your henchmen without transport, forcing them to borrow my watermelons.


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Quote: "How's your posture?"


I've been described as having the posture of "A hick from St. Lick"

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Quote: "Well, yeah, you bombed my headquarters, but honestly, you should've used something else than an explosive balloon. Your henchman was a friendly guy, I offered him some coffee and a watermelon to drive home on. Don't be as indecent as to ever send one of your henchmen without transport, forcing them to borrow my watermelons.
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Ahh, that was Henry. He eats way too much anyways, so no matter how much food I send him with he'll eat it all on the way there anyways, so I send him with none, hoping he'll just return faster. He's always bringing back some gift (usually involving food) given to him by his targets. Yeah, he's a friendly guy, but stupid, which is why I can use him. If he wasn't stupid he would realize the immorality of his actions, but since he's stupid he can't remember what his morals are in the first place.


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That immorality thing must be why he gave me those $17.000 he found in your command center in exchange for the water melon... Send him my greetings, though.


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Quote: "That immorality thing must be why he gave me those $17.000 he found in your command center in exchange for the water melon... Send him my greetings, though."

Ahh he must have found it in my desk drawer, dang it, I told him to stop digging through there. Oh well, that's just where I keep my spare change that I get from uhmm...various sources. No harm done, but as punishment for taking advantage of Henry, I've gone ahead and launched one of my $8.5 million rockets towards your base, and it should be arriving any second now.


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Thanks, I recieved the missile unscrathed. I posted it on eBay and already sold it for $10 million to some Afghani. If you ever need to lose another one, we could set up a deal - I'll be the middle man, and we could split 50/50 or something?

You did forget to put on enough post stamps, so I paid the lack of those to the postman. If you'd be so kind as to compensate for that by wiring me those $2 as well, I would be very thankful.


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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "Thanks, I recieved the missile unscrathed. I posted it on eBay and already sold it for $10 million to some Afghani. If you ever need to lose another one, we could set up a deal - I'll be the middle man, and we could split 50/50 or something?

You did forget to put on enough post stamps, so I paid the lack of those to the postman. If you'd be so kind as to compensate for that by wiring me those $2 as well, I would be very thankful."

Actually that was one of my tech guys posing as an Afghani. You see, in case problems like this arise, I keep several hundred of my minions constantly scanning eBay in order to intercept my own products being illegally sold and to buy parts for my latest project, which of course involves destruction on an unimaginable scale, as all secret projects do. Should be done some time next month, I'll send some over to you as part of our tests because of your generosity. I've sent one of my mail pidgins carrying the $2 postage stamp, thanks for covering that for me. Hold on, I'll be right back, I just got a report that we finished conquering Northern Russia. It's about time, took a whole 3 hours this time.


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Ah, you mean you bought back a $8.5 million missile that you sent me for free for $10 million? Whatever suits you... I mean, I had stripped it of its payload and replaced it with explosive waterballoons, as I didn't expect Henry to actually realize something was wrong. Do you always send Henry to do the work? I'm not certain whether he's... capable.

Jeez, 3 hours? That's bad. I had levelled and scorched most of the Southern Hemisphere by that time. I think the pidgin got caught in one of the nuclear explosion, although that'd be another testament of the intelligence of your minions: a detour over the southern hemisphere isn't the most efficient route from America to Europe.

In any case, I heard your army of cyborg ninjas has conquered Russia by now, congratulations! I've sent my army of huge bipedal nuclear tanks to conquer the rest of the world, just got the report that they succeeded. Zero casualties on my side. Might've had something to do with those preventive nukes.

Hope you enjoy Russia. Heard it could be chilly during this time of the year. We'll talk when I get back from falloutless Hawai.


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*And secretly in the deepest location on the planet... even deeper than the opposite side of the earth. In fact so deeply buried in the earth that it's on the dark side of the moon... a new evil genius rises. His name is Agent Dink.

Introductions aside. I just a few seconds ago ordered that all 500 of my satellite based Ion Cannons be fired at the pacific ocean at once. The cataclysmic effects of such an energy force will create the biggest tsunami the planet has ever seen, effectively wiping out 85% of the planet's population.

Tomorrow after the cannons cool and recharge we will be firing into the Atlantic ocean to get rid of the pesky 15% who managed to survive.

I hope your secret bases are water tight boys.

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Damn you, Agent Dink! You exactly hit my pacific mirror dome, shattering it completely after a rather pretty disco-ish effect. The beams stopped after that, could it be the split second of reflection did something bad to your disco sattelites?

BTW, I'm not certain if deep underground is a really smart idea. I'm dumping all the nuclear waste and toxic stuff and so underground.


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Oh, no problem, you can have Russia, I was just taking it so I could have some room to launch my fleet of spaceships that will just about now be arriving on Mars, and then onwards into the solar system. I've decided Earth is too easy and small, so what better solution than to colonize my own planet? Hopefully I can meet some real competition some day when my ships get far enough, and judging by the fact that I've already discovered how to fold space and instantly warp anywhere within 10 million light years, shouldn't be long now. By the way, sorry if the nuke I just set off in Hawaii ruined your vacation.

Ahh, a new competitor. Agent Dink, you two can fued over this worthless piece of ground (and water) called Earth, I'm off to better and bigger things now.


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ZOMG. You must have scrambled my Ion Cannons' solar panel based power supplies with the bright flash of disco light! This is an unforseen event... I will have to scramble my mutant dolphin army as soon as they grow their legs. MUHAHAHAHHAHAHHA!

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I think you must've let Henry install that nuke, as the only thing that happened here was that the fountain started working again.

Hey Agent Dink, would you by any chance be able to deliver this package to Gils main cruiser? It's an old friend of his, Henry. I think he'd be a good addition to Gils team, as pilot or something.


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/me sees long list of off-topic posts.
No! The horror!

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Sure Rami. I just launched Henry to Mars on my own personal unicorn shaped space cruiser. He is of course not on my personal ship. He is being towed by a rope about 300 meters long. I did give him an empty oxygen tank, but I think he forgot to fill it up before they departed... oh well. He was disintegrated in the atmosphere anyhow according to my pilot...

Returning my awesome ship back to base.

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Quote: "I think you must've let Henry install that nuke, as the only thing that happened here was that the fountain started working again."

Ahh, no, that was George, my repairman, I sent him to repair the fountain before I blew up the island, thought you might want to enjoy the beauty one last time before I destroy it. Henry probably just wandered over there looking for food again he tends to tag along with George. Don't worry, I've sent my highly specialized team of mutant robot ninja pirate monkey special forces team to detonate the nuke.

I'll need to keep Henry locked up for a bit now, he's starting to get out of hand.

EDIT: Ahh, it seems he's dead. Oh well, his twin Henrie is just as good (as in stupid and loyal)


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Well, to take this back ontopic:

Gils ship, piloted by Henry, folded time and space at the exact moment the nuke detonated in Hawai, killing Gil's specialized team of mutant robot ninja pirate monkey special forces team in the blast while I had escaped in a time/space anomality caused by Henry's space jump. This caused an EMP blast to fly through the planet, ejecting Agent Dink high into the atmosphere after which he dropped in his parachute chair. Seeing that Henry's ship was now exploding in the Earth's atmosphere, a sudden burst of wind, similar to a shockwave, caused the ball to accidently blast into Fallouts hand.

Of course, Gil died of AIDS.


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As I was falling down on my parachute chair I radioed my Magnificent Unicorn Space Ship pilot to come pick me up before I landed in the ocean. We then retrieved my mutant dolphin army and are returning to my moon base. We must hurry though. IanM our neighor (he has his own secret moonbase too) is coming for tea and crumpets. A shame. I don't like tea... Oh well.

EDIT: Oops didn't quite realize that Rami put the thread back into Fallout's hands... My bad... It's late.

>_<

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Quote: "Gil died of AIDS.
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See! Always use an antivirus program. Every time.

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I can just see the nsa flagging this topic, reading it, and thinking wtf >.<


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My friend had a wierd medical condition due to programming all day and IT chairs. He had to have an operation on his lower back. It's non technical name was "Jeeps Arse" or "Jeep Disease" because WWII Soldiers who drove Jeeps got it due to their hard seats. More info here http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/clients/sub.cfm?source=dispen/elguide/chronpil

Another IT friend got kidney stones from not taking enough Tea & Coffee breaks. I won't explain how they removed them but trust me I'd rather take a break than go through that procedure

Stretch marks normaly come from being pregnant or overweight. Being overweight seems to be another IT disease

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I'm not pregnant, I'm a guy. And I'm not overweight. I'm probably too skinny, I don't eat much.

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