My dad has this attachment to 50s rock and roll and he rightly believes everything in pop music was invented in the 50s and possibly the 60s.

I remember most of these songs (the british ones) coming out and me being fascinated by what could be done differently to what was then the mainstream. However pop quickly devolved through the 80s and I found myself meandering back in time, from late to early Talking Heads, from late to early Genesis and Floyd and Yes and Jethro Tull and Mike Oldfield and Fleetwood Mac, discovering the Beatles and the Beach Boys were actually good at some point, finding out Frank Zappa was a thing and discovering that yes, the guy who made late 20th century pop music up in his garage, with his searches for new sounds and writing his own music and lyrics was indeed one Buddy Holly in the 50s.

Anyway I found myself listening to a rather childish track by Basement Jaxx years later and could not quite put my finger on what made that one track work for me. All these bands that only have one really good track... Anyway what was going on was a Gary Numan sample.

So I went back and listened to some of this old stuff and I was really surpised that some of it still works.

But back in 1980 if you heard Numan, early Midge Ure Ultravox minus the ubiquitous title track of the album, Visage, or a couple of years later the Eurythmics you would hear a sound that was strikingly new and different.

Thinking back Peter Gabriels 3rd solo album (although itself very electronic) took me out of the electronic pop bandcamp and more into alternative rock. That and lucking into a friend who had an older brother who had all the old Genesis records also as sheet music including lyrics. That or David Byrne.

The main point is the music you like is the music you liked when you were 13.

So it's capitalism that makes grandpa manipulative and his children too wrapped up in their own daily lives to visit him?
The message this ad is sending is 'It's ok to fabricate drama to get your relatives' attention'. What the admakers want to communicate is that 'Edeka is a part of your home, your family life'. They're not really successful at it, the ad doesn't work as good as it could've. It would've been better if the children made grandpa believe that this year, again, they won't make it home for christmas but then, surpise, they show up anyways. With products bought at Edeka.
The loneliness of old age is a good theme for advertising but you have to get it right or you'll appear cynical and manipulative. Like grandpa.

It looks like a smiley face, until it's nose starts to fall off - then, surpised face.

I was pleasantly surpised to find out that this wasn't a parenting fail by the mom.

*blocked big surpise TDS ??? TDS=blocked @siftbot, get your head outta your electronic ass.

The reporting has it's own "pro-religion" spin... just in the way its toned.

- The fact it's pitched as a quirky "You won't believe this" surpising discovery. To any non-creationist, surely this is what you'd expect rather than a surprise.

- (1.27) "Poses a provocative question" Like he's a heretic to argue against. It's not provocative and it's not a question. It's tested evidence. Evidence is evidence - it's not up for opinion.
- (1.47) "If there is no god..." Immediately hostile christain combative phrasing.
- (1:57) "that humans, like primates..." Humans are primates. Unless you're a creationist.
- (2:15) "ONE biologist..." clearly pointing out this is just one guys opinion to be discounted. Rather than the common theory of most social behavioural scientists who are not creationists.

@theali

More about the legal situation here... from Reuters, surpisingly.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65133D20100602

By the way, here is how you should react when your ship is boarded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRzQNsumRRU

Ratatouille will surpise you. It's like an off-kilter Cyrano de Bergerac. Amazing art direction, with charm, style, and joie de vivre. big smile on my face all the way through. Joy.

Cars sucked. Story stolen from Doc Hollywood (terrible Michael J Fox movie), characters were clichéd and voices were uninspired.

When he came out, man, that was surpising. What a complete turn around. Inspiring!

I can relate, though of course not at all on the same degree - I used to be quite the little porker

You would be surpised how often we hold our breath when we do something.

Funny to see a grown man, pass out because forgot to breath when taking a fall. I speak from experience.

In reply to this comment by laura:
^dude, you practice breathing? Me TOO!!!

Surpised this didnt get more votes when it was fresh.

Gentlemen we have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government
Do you still think that jet fuel brought down the World Trade Center?
(Laughter)
Does anybody else see a problem here?
If the government has nothing to hide why are they so afraid to answer a few questions?
This story does not add up

We're on a mission to never forget
3,000 people that I’ve never met
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies X3
Surpise surprise

Lies Lies

We're on a mission to dig up the truth
You think we’re stupid and there’s no proof
Well let me tell you that the time has come
To pull the trigger on the smoking gun
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies X3
Surpise surprise

Lies Lies Lies Lies

Don’t listen to me listen to your head
Don’t listen
Don’t listen to anything, they’ve said
Don’t listen

Lies Lies Lies Lies

America has been hijacked
Not by Al Qaeda, not by Bin Laden
But by a group of tyrants
That should be of great concern to all Americans

We're on a mission to bring out the facts
You got your stories but they all have cracks
Misinformation, lies and deceit
What made you think that we were all asleep
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies X3
Surpise surprise

Lies Lies Lies Lies

Don’t listen to me listen to your head
Don’t listen
Don’t listen to anything, they’ve said
Don’t listen

Lies Lies Lies Lies

Don’t listen to me listen to your head

Oh choggie, if only everyone could respect women as much as you. Ol' kronosposeidonie couldn't agree more with the sentiments you lovingly expressed about the fairer sex. That's why ol' kronosposeidonie was a little surpised when ol' choggie said "Fuck you bitch" when a woman in a political ad made the innocuous query, "When did hope become a bad thing?" Kronosposeidonie dinna expect that from a woman-lover such as yourself. I might expect that from a buncha wankers, teeny-boppers, video-game playin', sittin' in yer mom's basement in yer underwear livin', thinks the world owes you a favor thinkin', wannbees, but not ol' choggie.

Too bad vinegar has been written off as a cure.

CGI breastseses (in a pre-rendered movie context) are a different story than dynamically using physics engine to make them react realistically on the fly in a videogame. The technology itself has been around for awhile...I'm glad it's finally evolving to this state (to include living skeletal/muscle animation in player characters and what would normally be completely static + lifeless backrounds/environments), dunno if this engine includes fully dynamic destructible terrain or not but I'm surpised we haven't arrived to that point by now. Red Faction gave us a small and limited taste of the many new gameplay options that open up with it. Also hope they liscense their physics technology to other more "capable" devs. Knowing Lucasarts, probably not though.

"No More Memory"

Why does that not surpise me?