The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Duke87 1,070]

(421)

 

In other news, getting up at 5:30 AM on Saturday after having been up until midnight on Friday, and then going out for a looong day and not getting home until 2 AM Sunday... is a great way to make yourself sleep half of Sunday away.

[Larks2242 251]

422.

 

15 pages in, already rollin on.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

423

So.........................

Nothing really going on in the house of Mr Saturn.

[Haljackey 17,303]

424

 

Heading to Edmonton tomorrow for a job interview. I might even see an Airbus A380 during my layover in Toronto (in the same terminal as my flight and it departs about an hour after my flight leaves)

[Duke87 1,070]

(425)

 

That is further away than I would be willing to move for any reason.

[Chptrk 86]

426.

 

Four year club!.. Until February.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

424

 

Heading to Edmonton tomorrow for a job interview. I might even see an Airbus A380 during my layover in Toronto (in the same terminal as my flight and it departs about an hour after my flight leaves)

427: Wow! What's the job?

I'm in need of a job right now. Waiting for a few places to get back to me, I guess I will follow them up in a week or so.

[Larks2242 251]

428.

 

So I was watching the emmy's today and didn't reconize most people there.

[Chptrk 86]

429.

 

Normally something like the Emmy's wouldn't interest me, but I really hope Michelle Fairley wins one.

[astronelson 339]

430.

 

The only thing I know about entertainment awards is that Adam Hills never wins the Gold Logie.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

431: My English teacher was on his show once, doing a sketch.

[timmie 988]

432

 

One of the best acceptance speeches in recent years is still this one by Randy Newman. Only a little bit cynical

Justin Timberlake is quite pathetic at 2.12

 

[Duke87 1,070]

(433)

 

Entertainment awards shows are the opposite of entertaining.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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Like I told my wife about getting a tie as a Father's Day gift, if I have to watch a stupid awards show, I'll hang myself with the TV cord.

[timmie 988]

435

 

The good thing about awards shows is the most important ones are in America, so they are on tv when I sleep. I'll hear the 5-minute-summary the next day when I wake up.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

436: Frankly, I'm more interesting in Australia playing Iraq. If we win, we go through to the World Cup.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

437

 

The hardest part about living in Japan is pretending to look like I give a crap when people talk about the World Cup.  That said, I don't look down on soccer, I just don't care.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

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I know nothing about Team USA and the only things I know about the Philadelphia Union are the new stadium and the occasional dirty word on their uniforms

[astronelson 339]

439.

 

I don't generally care much for sports, but I do like when our international representatives do well.

[Haljackey 17,303]

440

 

427: Wow! What's the job?

I'm in need of a job right now. Waiting for a few places to get back to me, I guess I will follow them up in a week or so.

 

Junior planner / planning technician with the city. Yes it's a long way to go but I need to get my foot in the door somewhere to get some experience. Alberta is hiring like crazy whereas in this part of Canada there's high unemployment.

[timmie 988]

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The Belgian national football team apparently is at place 5 in the bookmaker lists of teams most likely to win the World Cup. And we haven't even qualified yet. Americans may remember that we recently won from your team with 2-4.

 

The team has become really popular recently, with tickets selling out in just 5 minutes and record viewing figures on tv. Odd, because only one year ago, the Red Devils were the laughing stock of the nation.

[astronelson 339]

442.

 

I found out how to change the driving side on the Steam install of SimCity 4. Tomorrow I'll install the new NAM.

[Duke87 1,070]

(443)

Alberta is growing like crazy for the same reason Texas is. Lots of money from oil drilling.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

444

Canada seems like a nice place, I would love to go to Toronto and Montreal. French is my second language

[Larks2242 251]

445.

 

Too far north for me, I like my palm trees.

[Duke87 1,070]

(446)

 

Canada is nice, although I have not been there in winter.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

437

 

The hardest part about living in Japan is pretending to look like I give a crap when people talk about the World Cup.  That said, I don't look down on soccer, I just don't care.

447: So you'd be aware we nearly beat you until you scored a penalty in the 89th minute?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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timmie: Nope, never heard it.  I would put the percentage of Americans who actually know that and care at 5% or less.

 

Yoshi: Nope.  It's baseball season   I won't pay any attention to soccer unless I absolutely have to (as in, all my colleagues are talking about it, or it's on the news and I happen to catch it).

 

In Japan, I'm often asked why Americans don't watch soccer.  The best thing I can think of is that Americans tend to like "American" stuff.  Soccer?  Not really American.  Football?  Oh yes, so American.  Baseball?  An exciting, American version of rounders (whatever the heck that is).  I also think it kind of applies to F1 (unwatched in the States) and NASCAR (vying with American football for the most popular sport in the country).  I've grown a distaste for the arguments over which sport is better, though.  Soccer is really difficult to play at the level the World Cup teams play at, American football players are seriously talented athletes in a very rough game, and racing cars is hard no matter what series you're in.  I'm sure Juan Pablo Montoya would be able to back me up on that  

[Duke87 1,070]

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Yeah, over here in the US we do tend to have to be different. Doing things the way the rest of the world does them is not our style.

 

Reminds me of this page someone linked to on FB recently: 35 Things You Appreciate About America After Living in Europe

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

450: AUSTRALIA MADE IT TO THE WORLD CUP FINALS!

yes I know I'm shouting... 1 - 0 win over Iraq.