This is something that was bothering me for a while. Everytime you are on a plane, the flight atendands ask you to put up the shades when landing or taking off.

So, at wiki answers I found this:

To tell you the truth, it stills seems a little strange to me. All that technology and you still have to look out and yell if you see something? I don’t know about you, but to me it looks like an old solution.

Thinking about it, I got to the conclusion that what really bothers me are bosy the flight attendants. They just order you around, without a “please” or “thank you” (yes, I am a cry baby!).

Now, if these were my flights attendants, they could boss me around all they wanted

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It’s impossible not to make the parallelism with Silent Hill.

And now that I’m talking about my favorite game (one way or another I will always find the way to end talking about that game), I just remember an ending of Silent Hill 2 that maybe you haven’t seen.

It seems even those guys get bored…

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I remember I was just a teenager when I played Street Fighter for the first time.

Almost two decades after, Capcom shows us how that the end of this saga is still far away.

Good news for the bored people like me.

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And this time I’m not talking about the Guys of Liquid Web.

Yes, it’s a Halo 3 Expansion.

The bad news: it seems this time we will not see the Master Chief.

The good (great in fact) news: it’s a Halo 3 Expansion!!!

It’s time to kill them all (and again, I’m not talking about the Liquid Web guys, free time has it’s pros after all).

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Retro Styled Tin Sign With Futuramaism!

This genuine tin sign forces you to realize on a daily basis the corporate mantra to shut up and do your job. It’s the ideal office decor for the demanding technologist who thinks they are actually going to go somewhere in life. Perfectly sized to fit anywhere (assuming anywhere is perfectly matched to fit this sign) — this sign is sure to tickle your funny bone precisely when you don’t need a reality check.

This fully licensed tin sign is 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches and contains a hanging hole on cardboard backing for easy wall display. Optionally you can just place it on your desk using the included easel back. Best yet is that your tin sign arrives with 4 super strong ‘power peg’ magnets in the form of tacks so you can place those pointless post-its perfectly on your placard. No alliteration intended. It just happened. The sign itself says ‘You’re not paid to think. A mindless worker is a happy worker. Shut up and do your job!’. Choose to obey at your own personal risk.

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Bite my shiny, metal ass!

Everybody loves a sarcastic, galactically saavy, cigar smoking, prank prone, selfish, beer drinking robot. Enter Bender. Bender was his mothers 1729th son. His father killed by a can opener, Bender went on to college and majored in Bending and minored in Robo-American studies. This Unit 22 Bending Unit is proof positive that every desktop needs a tin metal, intriguing wind-up robot before it can be considered complete. Yep.

8.5″ tall wind up die cast interactive Bender, from Futurama (fully licensed). Twist the antenna on top of his head and his expression will change from ‘normal’ bender to ‘angry’ bender. Perfect to fend off unwanted visitors. Optionally insert an included cigar into his mouth for those times when Bender just needs to mellow down. Bare Metal Metal Bender includes a can of Mom’s Old Fashioned Robot Oil and a cigar! And arms articulate! Wind up key to make Bender walk inserts into side and is removable (his arms will also swing while in motion!). Open up Bender’s ribcage compartment and see what’s going on inside! Or just wind him up and let him walk all over your TPS reports. He doesn’t care. He’s bender, you new best desktop friend with an attitude.

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Bite My Shiny Metal A$$

Bender is many things to many people. Some folks see him as a brilliant vision of our future; others see him as a disgusting icon of everything wrong with animation today. We see Bender as a role model. If everyone was as honest as he was and forthcoming with their thoughts and feeling, the world would be a better place. We are proud to offer this 12″ representation (a noble size) of Bender for you to display on your desk. And not only will it show your pride in Bender Bending Rodriguez, but it will also help you save some coin.

Yup, Bender’s a bank. He’s got a slot in between his shoulder blades (if he indeed has shoulders) where the money goes in. To get the money out, just pop off his head (which Bender is very used to), flip him upside down, and shake. You’ll have just enough change to perhaps buy the one thing robots need more than anything in the world: alcohol!

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Bite My Shiny Metal Ass

Bender’s practically famous. Other robots of his model (Bending Unit 22) probably spend their days bending girders, wishing they could be more like him. Among Bender’s many admirable traits are lying, cheating, and stealing. It’s hard to blame a robot based on a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor for that. After all, our C64s used to get busted at the local convenience store all the time for underage drinking. And we ain’t even going to tell you what the Apple IIe got into.

Bender gazes at a field of stars and planets from the lower corner of this navy blue, fitted t-shirt. He could be pondering one of the deep philosophical truths about the universe, but we’re guessing he’s just trying to work “pimpmobile” into a sentence.

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Hey Sexy Mama… Wanna Kill All Humans?

Sure the Three Laws of Robotics are good for humans… but our favorite outlaw robot doesn’t live by the rules. (Plus, Mom’s Friendly Robot Company probably left that bit out of their bending units’ programming as a cost-saving measure.) He’s less likely to obey orders given by a human than to tell that same human to bite his shiny metal ass. And, occasionally, he has to kill all humans.

This shirt features Bender’s head with the words Ctrl – Alt – Shift – Kill beneath on a black, 100% cotton shirt. Bender’s eyes, gritted teeth, and the words glow in the dark.

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I even learned the “Large Hadron Rap” song…

There’s people out there saying it’s the end of the world. But, to be honest, I prefer REM…

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Miracle Fruits (sometimes called Miracle Berries) have been a secret wonder of the world for centuries. Though they were first documented by a French dude in 1725, they’d been consumed for many generations prior. They were eaten before meals to make the meals taste better. “How?” you ask. By making sour and bitter foods taste sweet. “But how?” you scream. The truth is, science doesn’t completely know (it has something to do with the protein miraculin that bonds to your taste buds, but the exact cause is still a mystery). But the berries work, and it’s a miracle.

Miracle Berry Fruit Tablets

• Dissolve half a tablet on your tongue and sour and bitter foods will taste sweet
• Flavor-bending effects can last up to 1 hour
• No harmful side effects (other than wanting more)
• Each tablet is 3/8″ in diameter and is two servings (10 tablets/20 servings per box)
• Take 1/2 a tablet – or take a whole one for a more intense experience
• Ingredients: Miracle Berry powder and corn starch – nothing else!

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• I swear to drunk, I’m not god!
• One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. – Mark Twain
• Homer no function beer well without. – Homer Simpson
• You can’t seriously want to ban alcohol. It tastes great, makes women appear more attractive, and makes a person virtually invulnerable to criticism. – Mayor Quimby
• I am in NO condition to be driving…wait a minute! I shouldnt be listening to myself…I’M DRUNK! – Homer Simpson
• Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time. – Catherine Zandonella
• A night sober is a night wasted, but a night wasted is really fun.
• One pint of beer … equals 1/2 college credit in philosophy.
• Beer… helping white people dance since 1837.
• Two hands and just one mouth… – now THAT’S a drinking problem!
• WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your pants.
• How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?
• Beer is the reason I get up every afternoon.
• If I saved all the money I’ve spent on beer, I’d spend it on beer.
• Beer is the answer. I just don’t remember the question.
• Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
• Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one! – Homer Simpson
• Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Also, I want to share with you some items I found really useful.

No more searching through your desk drawer for bottle openers. This is the real ring Gandalf was looking for.

Touch the outer glass with your fingertips, and watch as the colorful plasma magically follows your every move! Ideal for the office, parties, home bar or just for fun, the Plasma Mug will leave you baffled….and your friends glowing with envy…

The Fridge Magnet Bottle Opener magically sticks to the front of your fridge and can open any bottle with ease. The design lets you easily open a bottle using just one hand, helping you look extra smooth, even if you’re having trouble successfully operating both of your legs.

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I can feel exactly like Henry Chinaski.

This man is drunk, or working to get the money to buy alcohol. Sometimes, both of them.

A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having 110 books in print.

Here are some of my favorite Bukowski quotes:

• “The problem with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers were never told to shut the fuck up”
• “Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must lead”
• “That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
• “Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth – alongside of me.”
• “There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face.”
• “So many women that I’m told are beautiful…hell it’s like looking at a soup bowl.”
• “Women – I call them complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them….They think I’m a woman hater but I’m not.”
• “I have more faith in my plumber than I do the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.”

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. – Dave Barry
• I drink to make other people interesting. – George Jean Nathan
• Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. – Winston Churchill
• An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools. – For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
• All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me, so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer. – Homer Simpson
• Friends dont let friends drink and take home ugly women
• I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day. – Frank Sinatra
• Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for daddies, and kids with fake IDs. - Homer Simpson
• The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober. - William Butler Yeats
• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. – Ambrose Bierce
• Everybody should believe in something, I believe I’ll have another drink.
• Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin
• Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don’t know where the bathroom is. - Billy Carter
• Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. - Lord Byron

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