Stroopy121 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't know what "All your base are belong to us" means, or what it is from.It's a reference to some old console game that was poorly translated from japanese.Link.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't know what "All your base are belong to us" means, or what it is from.When I was a toddler, I covered my face in Oxtail soup, to be more like Winston from Ghostbusters. My racist mum didn't appreciate the gesture as much as I did. Nor did she like that I would say "Winston" when the odd passing stranger would ask "What's your name then?". Fucking loved Ghostbusters. Still do.All Your Base Are Belong to Us | Know Your MemeBasically a poor english translation form a video game which was used in a flash animation and took over the internet 10 years agoDamn, beaten to it. The know your meme thing has loads of links to the animations etcAlso in Meme news today: With the official release of Portal 2. I'm surprised we haven't seen more 'the cake is a lie' references around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Typical of me. I come first but in my haste sacrifice something in quality.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Typical of me. I come first but in my haste sacrifice something in quality.xx<insert mandatory thats what she said joke here> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I've never actually been in Pizza Express, despite having had their chilled ones from supermarkets and likign them. I keep thinking 'must go there' but never do remember. Must use 2 for 1 orange wednesdays better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 The game was Zero Wing on Megadrive. I have it. Confession: in my entire life, there's only ever been one film that I've liked so much that I've watched it from start to finish, then immediately put it back to the start and watched it all again. And it was the Powerpuff Girls movie. I was 23. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfer_Rosa Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I almost cried watching this:Chimpanzee trailers and video clips on Yahoo! MoviesI did let out an audible high pitched "Noooooooo" at around 0:48. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Confession: in my entire life, there's only ever been one film that I've liked so much that I've watched it from start to finish, then immediately put it back to the start and watched it all again. And it was the Powerpuff Girls movie. I was 23.Mine was Liar Liar. I was 13 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Mine was Liar Liar. I was 13 though.Inspector Gadget. The one with Matthew Broderick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Me and a few mates skived off school once and watched 'Dirty Harry' 3 times back to back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I don't really understand how people in Australia aren't walking around upside-down. I just accept it as fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marillionboy Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 I don't really understand how people in Australia aren't walking around upside-down. I just accept it as fact.EXACTLY what I say too! It makes no sense to me at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 I think Helen Mirren is really sexy. I'm partial to Meryl Streep too, but Helen is such a babe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 On a related note.. I have never understood why Australia is 12 hours ahead of us. Is there a reason why it's not 12 hours behind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 On a related note.. I have never understood why Australia is 12 hours ahead of us. Is there a reason why it's not 12 hours behind?We are 12 hours behind them. Technically. Ok we're GMT and that. But we're still 12 hours behind if they're ahead really. Silly question wasn't it?If you're in a race and someone's in front of you, you're automatically behind them eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 We are 12 hours behind them. Technically. Ok we're GMT and that. But we're still 12 hours behind if they're ahead really. Silly question wasn't it?If you're in a race and someone's in front of you, you're automatically behind them eh. I think you missed the point..They are on the other side of the world and there is a 12 hour time difference because of the way the world spins while rotating round the sun. But who decided that the day would start first there and then come round to us.. and not that it would start here and move round to them so that they were 12 hours behind. Not really seeing the relevance of your race analogy.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewarden Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 I think you missed the point..They are on the other side of the world and there is a 12 hour time difference because of the way the world spins while rotating round the sun. But who decided that the day would start first there and then come round to us.. and not that it would start here and move round to them so that they were 12 hours behind. Not really seeing the relevance of your race analogy..not mainly because us brits were once great and told everyone what the fuck to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 The upside down thing is one of the reasons I don't want to go to Australia. That and the fact its full of simpletons who abbreviate everything*. I can just imagine me freaking out all of a sudden one day and fearing I'm gonna fall off the earth.*joking. The abbreviating thing is annoying though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 not mainly because us brits were once great and told everyone what the fuck to do?I thought, as I was writing my query, that it may come across as if I had some problem with the UK not starting the day first and like I was questioning who had allowed other countries to be hours ahead of us magnificent Brits..But I'm not a complete fud. In all honesty.. it's one of those things that I've always wondered. Why does the day not start in America and then we'd be behind them rather than a few hours ahead?Can anyone actually explain why it is like it is? Or am I looking way too much into this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 You should go to Yorkshire. Pretty sure we abbreviate more than the Aussies. I find it equally as annoying as folk from the Shire who change the sound of vowels in just about every word. Home/Hame. Cold/Cald. Do/Dee. Pay/Pie. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 When people started being able to travel and communicate with other countries far away, it was decided that it might be best for everyone to be using the same time measurement. The measurement of time was therefore standardised at the place that was best at it - The Greenwich Observatory in London, and called Greenwich Mean Time. GMT.But obviously if everywhere else on the planet used this time, they would be eating breakfast in the middle of the night or trying to sleep at the time of brightest sunshine. So they split the globe as far as possible into 24 segments so everyone could have their hour nearest to the relevant part of the day. The time ( as in minutes past the hour) was made the same, obviously.So if GMT (i.e. in London) is taken as zero, it makes sense to make half the world to the east of there (east because of the direction of rotation) as being ahead of zero, and the half to the west of zero as being behind. That way nowhere in the world is more than 12 hours away from GMT either way. If we made everyone to the west of zero run behind zero hour (or midnight if you will), then by the time you get round to 2300 hrs you would have our nearest neighbours in Europe being almost a whole day out. Much confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Then China came along and said 'Fuck that we'll decide what time it is in our country' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Yeah, but no-one gives a shit about China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 When people started being able to travel and communicate with other countries far away, it was decided that it might be best for everyone to be using the same time measurement. The measurement of time was therefore standardised at the place that was best at it - The Greenwich Observatory in London, and called Greenwich Mean Time. GMT.But obviously if everywhere else on the planet used this time, they would be eating breakfast in the middle of the night or trying to sleep at the time of brightest sunshine. So they split the globe as far as possible into 24 segments so everyone could have their hour nearest to the relevant part of the day. The time ( as in minutes past the hour) was made the same, obviously.So if GMT (i.e. in London) is taken as zero, it makes sense to make half the world to the east of there (east because of the direction of rotation) as being ahead of zero, and the half to the west of zero as being behind. That way nowhere in the world is more than 12 hours away from GMT either way. If we made everyone to the west of zero run behind zero hour (or midnight if you will), then by the time you get round to 2300 hrs you would have our nearest neighbours in Europe being almost a whole day out. Much confusion.Thanks for that.. all makes sense now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Then China came along and said 'Fuck that we'll decide what time it is in our country'And also Venezuela, the only country in the world that runs at a half hour difference to the rest of the world. EG if it's 40 past the hour in EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, it's 10 past in Venezuela, awkward fuckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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