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Re: Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias

Post by archonix » Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:17 am

D.B. wrote:Oh for the love of god...

It is a bit cold. Do greater anglia trains require a warm tank + heat lamp or something? Are they tropical trains, ill suited to our climate? Can i get the RSPCT to press charges? If not what is going on?
This is why they should bring back the old steamers. The weight combined with the heat of the steam meant that they could run on rails that modern trains find impossible. They also, rather more sensibly, attached sanding gear to the front to provide grip, something the modern trains don't seem equipped to handle. Or perhaps it's just the operators that can't handle the idea...

Interesting titbit: one of the reasons maintaining the trackwork has become so expensive these days is because they have to send special trains out to scan every inch of line looking for microscopic fatigue cracks in the rail head. These cracks develop as the rails shift and flex under the weight of the trains and if they're not dealt with they can result in the rail cracking rather catastrophically - especially in cold weather. It's only become a problem in the last 30 or so years. Before that the trains were so heavy that any microscopic cracks in the surface of the rail were worn off by the weight of the passing train before they could develop into a serious problem.

So yeah, everything was better in the old days. Bring back the age of steam!
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Re: Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias

Post by D.B. » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:43 pm

What's that? A small amount of snow in London? That means it's time to play WHEEL OF TRANSPORT! Just spin the wheel - will you gamble on this train moving some time and stay on it, or get off and risk losing everything? Does it even matter?

Okay, I'm done moaning about this now. But still. Ugh. It's almost every week. Weather just makes a bad system worse.
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Post by archonix » Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:37 pm

... age of steam!
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Re: Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias

Post by D.B. » Wed May 01, 2013 4:14 pm

Viva done. Heaps and heaps of corrections, but they liked the main material. So, yay.

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Re: Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias

Post by c_nordlander » Wed May 01, 2013 5:44 pm

Pat! Way to go!

Hopefully the corrections are easily fixed run-of-the-mill stuff.

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Re: Ackpth! and other onomatopoeias

Post by c_nordlander » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:10 pm

The Tetris movie is a real thing that is happening

I think a bit of my brain leaked out my nose when I read this. I can't even. Brain functions shutting down. Going into emergency mode. Definite articles disabled.

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
'Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove...
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Post by AssistantCrone » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:25 pm

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that Tetris should be a musical.

EDIT: I will support the film if done Ingmar Bergman-style.
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Post by c_nordlander » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:31 pm

No no, Bergman should make the "Minecraft" film.* This is a film about a true Soviet block-arranger, we need Sergey Eisenstein or someone.

EDIT: Well, I *assume* it's going to be about a block-arranger in the Soviet Union, since that's the only way this would have a remote chance at not sucking.

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Post by AssistantCrone » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:38 pm

Very well. And also it's a musical.

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Post by c_nordlander » Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:18 pm

Does anyone know whether the Red Army Choir is doing anything nowadays?

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Post by SirMustapha » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:09 pm

It's the same company that made Foodfight!. At least the movie is already doomed to fail right from the start.
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Post by Meteorite » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:18 pm

SirMustapha wrote:It's the same company that made Foodfight!. At least the movie is already doomed to fail right from the start.
Oh god, seriously? ... Part of me kinda really wants to see it now, just to see how horrible it can get.
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Post by c_nordlander » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:02 pm

"Foodfight!" completely passed me by. I only really looked it up after reading this article. The concept of food mascots fighting for supremacy actually sounds like it could make for a good surreal comedy/adventure story. So I guess it didn't.
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Post by Meteorite » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:17 pm

Well, they got the surreal part nailed down.
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Post by SirMustapha » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:11 pm

The Nostalgia Critic's review is great. In fact it was the first time (and only time until now) that I heard about the movie. What you see in the review is much, much more than enough.
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