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  1. I'm fucked. My internal hard-disk crashed the other day because of a electric failure while it was switching off, and I can't even install the operating system again. It seems like I have to change the whole hard disk? WTF. At least only a few of info might be lost, most of my things were already on a external hard drive that is not damaged (I hope - I haven't been able to check it yet). Anyway, fuck.
  2. Shit buzz dude, hopefully the external is all good.
  3. Hope you sort that out Sergio

    Just my own rant, this Royal Wedding bollocks has been annoying the shit out of me all day. Contrived and moronic. Sorry, I'm a staunch Republican.
  4. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Hope you sort that out Sergio

    Just my own rant, this Royal Wedding bollocks has been annoying the shit out of me all day. Contrived and moronic. Sorry, I'm a staunch Republican.


    I'm an Irish man but the arse on that bridesmaid. . . .
  5. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Hope you sort that out Sergio

    Just my own rant, this Royal Wedding bollocks has been annoying the shit out of me all day. Contrived and moronic. Sorry, I'm a staunch Republican.


    I know how you feel, we had a wedding here in Sweden not so long ago. Using the state's money to those kind of things just feels wrong, wrong, wrong.

  7. Amen to that. And lol at what Joe said
    Originally posted by Mr_Trek:I know how you feel, we had a wedding here in Sweden not so long ago. Using the state's money to those kind of things just feels wrong, wrong, wrong.

    I wouldn't mind as much, although I'd still might get annoyed, if we had an elected head of state. I just think monarchies are outdated, and indeed were never justified - the only reason such people are in the positions they are is because their ancestors were bigger and nastier than their peers/enemies/whatever I can't confess to feeling that much in the way of an affiliation to my country at times, but partly because I don't feel all that English/British 'cause of my own personal heritage, i.e. half of my ancestry is Eastern Europe, Italy etc. Not saying any heritage is better than the other, but I really don't buy into it. And watching some of the people that got interviewed just made me cringe, like, talking about royalty as if they were there by divine providence. It's, urgh.

    I'm perfectly happy for the two of them as much as I am for any couple getting married, it's a big day for their lives, but so much of the buildup and the reality of it irks me. Commentators and the like celebrating this as being some kind of magical moment where the royalty have connected with the people 'cause Kate/Catherine is a 'commoner' - her family are fucking loaded, hardly like they've had it tough. And I'm not one who cares all that much for Diana either - not as a disrespect to the dead. Yes I cried when her funeral or whatever was broadcast, but I was 6? And just saw everyone else being sad so joined in lol. But, bah, I'll stop before I get carried away - I guess I've made my stance clear enough lol.

    What annoys me more than anything, aside from the gross inflation of the occasion's importance is that the government have used it to quietly propose new regulations to force new money-saving measures in the NHS. Wankers. Snide little wankers.
  8. Monarchy just doesn't belong in 2011. Especially in countries that see themselves as "civilized".
  9. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Amen to that. And lol at what Joe said
    [..]
    I wouldn't mind as much, although I'd still might get annoyed, if we had an elected head of state. I just think monarchies are outdated, and indeed were never justified - the only reason such people are in the positions they are is because their ancestors were bigger and nastier than their peers/enemies/whatever I can't confess to feeling that much in the way of an affiliation to my country at times, but partly because I don't feel all that English/British 'cause of my own personal heritage, i.e. half of my ancestry is Eastern Europe, Italy etc. Not saying any heritage is better than the other, but I really don't buy into it. And watching some of the people that got interviewed just made me cringe, like, talking about royalty as if they were there by divine providence. It's, urgh.

    I'm perfectly happy for the two of them as much as I am for any couple getting married, it's a big day for their lives, but so much of the buildup and the reality of it irks me. Commentators and the like celebrating this as being some kind of magical moment where the royalty have connected with the people 'cause Kate/Catherine is a 'commoner' - her family are fucking loaded, hardly like they've had it tough. And I'm not one who cares all that much for Diana either - not as a disrespect to the dead. Yes I cried when her funeral or whatever was broadcast, but I was 6? And just saw everyone else being sad so joined in lol. But, bah, I'll stop before I get carried away - I guess I've made my stance clear enough lol.

    What annoys me more than anything, aside from the gross inflation of the occasion's importance is that the government have used it to quietly propose new regulations to force new money-saving measures in the NHS. Wankers. Snide little wankers.


    Monarchies are just weird when you think about it. It's kind of like they're cossetted, very expensive zoo animals. They aren't expected to do very much, and people like to stare at them and read ludicrous trivia about their lives.

    The one that really does my head in is Cambodia, which is the world's only communist country with a reigning monarch. Figure that one out.

  10. At one point, the commentary said 'these scenes are almost identical to how they would have been 100 years ago' or something like that, and my housemate and I thought 'yeah, that's half the problem, we're just stuck in the past'.
    Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:Monarchies are just weird when you think about it. It's kind of like they're cossetted, very expensive zoo animals. They aren't expected to do very much, and people like to stare at them and read ludicrous trivia about their lives.

    The one that really does my head in is Cambodia, which is the world's only communist country with a reigning monarch. Figure that one out.

    That is a bit of a mindfuck. I don't envy them for that zoo-like spectacle that they have become, but other than that, it's just old school now.
  11. it's something inconceivable, for me, that such a country, who's supposed to be the cradle of modern democracy, is still a monarchy .. same thing for the other countries as well.
    i find it a "little" contradictory


  12. That system they live in, one of clicked fingers and willing subordination - it just repulses me.
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