Although i was a young lad i remember this song and how different (cool) it was. It's still quite appealing to me. A song i appreciate more now than i could then.

Scary movies have never affected me. I loved horror flicks as a kid.

So even now as a grown-ass man, horror movie trailers are always just nothing more than meh, whatevs.

This trailer was pretty well done though. I actually felt my skin crawl a little. Maybe it harkens back to the original Hellraiser movies I saw as a lad and the way those creeped me out a little.

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Happy Birthday, Lads and Lasses. I have lots of memories from here, happy, sad, good, and bad. I always felt the community was what kept Videosift alive for so long and I still do.The lively discussions we used to have were always interesting. I've stepped away from the site the last years, but peek in now and then.

I wish you all well.

*timeshift *fear *wtf *fail *wings *dead -- "http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf"

When we visited Iceland, my wife and I hiked all over Dimmuborgir, the home of the Yule lads. It was a maze of caves and canyons with pathways throughout, some more obvious than others. Various placards had information about them and their parents, but I don't recall anything about their cat.
*quality mythology

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ChaosEngine + BSR - you guys crack me up, this one's going in the archives. Funny lads - Cheers*


*with honey mead of course, none of that hops and barley stuff. I mean, only if the bees can hold it together for few more months, 'cause it's either them or the frogs going first.

I recall, years ago, reading a standard (ISO or ASME, don't recall), on testing "bullet proof" window materials. The requirements were, and I will probably get the numbers wrong, 12 burly young lads, at least 3 of which were right handed, and at least 3 left handed, and a standard set of tools with which to bash windows. Then you encouraged them to bash for a standard time, and evaluated the damage using standard criteria.

Also a *quality seems about right for these lads.

ECB Research Bulletin:

In an economy with its own fiat currency, the monetary authority and the fiscal authority can ensure that public debt denominated in the national fiat currency is non-defaultable, i.e. maturing government bonds are convertible into currency at par. With this arrangement in place, fiscal policy can focus on business cycle stabilisation when monetary policy hits the lower bound constraint. However, the fiscal authorities of the euro area countries have given up the ability to issue non-defaultable debt. As a consequence, effective macroeconomic stabilisation has been difficult to achieve.

Translation:
- all members of the eurozone effectively use a foreign currency
- they can default, because they do not and cannot issue debt in their currency
- fiscal policy has thus been completely neutered

Ergo, national parliaments have a significantly smaller policy space compared to countries with their own currency. Our parliaments intentionally surrender power to unelected technocrats, even control of the national budget, which is the primary power available to any parliament anywhere.

"Sorry, lad. We cannot pay for healthcare/pension/infrastructure/education/wages/X, we have to maintain a balanced budget to appease the market." Yet it is still illegal to call for the guillotine...

Meanwhile, Japan doesn't give a fuck. The BoJ has been vacuuming up outstanding debt like there's no tomorrow. It currently holds in excess of 40% of all government debt, effectively canceling it. It's just book-keeping. The Treasury issues the debt, the CB buys the debt. Both are part of the consolidated government sector, ergo no debt. "Hyperinflation!", they scream. Can you hear them? Except Japan has been fighting deflation for two decades, with no end in sight.

Yet the inflation-hawks are still treated as persons of authority. Flat-earthers, the lot of 'em.

And my country wants the rest of Europe to sign on to the most moronic law in German history: the "Schuldenbremse", which makes running a deficit illegal at the constitutional level (except for undefined "emergencies"). They are either a) brainwashed, b) idiots, or c) straight up evil. And I'm not sure which one I prefer.

You know how fucking win this is because she actually admits it. Cornering an angry woman with a response so good they actually capitulate (rather than digging something up that you did in the past to shift the battleground ; ) is one of the hardest relationship maneuvers, and this lad stuck the fucking landing.

Well done sir, well done!

Can't wait to see what he does to pimp it up... =)

Lad is gobsmacked.