Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 482961 times)

IDE · « **Reply #750 on:** Apr 14, 2012, 08:05:06 PM »

It's nothing as glamorous as all that, just standardized testing.

IDE · « **Reply #751 on:** Apr 14, 2012, 08:10:35 PM »

It would be a pain in the ass to start looking for another random credit union. The one I'm with is for employees and you'd think that they would take care of you, but they don't. Why would some random credit union that let's anyone in be any better?

The agents at wellsfargo are going to give me free checking if I jack back into the mainstream banking matrix. I want my free checking. I want my delicious steak.

That's how it will be until the time comes when we rise up against the fed and guillotine the rich or I decide to sell out and work for a private equity firm and oppress the poor.

B E C K · « **Reply #752 on:** Apr 14, 2012, 09:33:43 PM »

Quote from: IDE on Apr 14, 2012, 08:10:35 PM

It would be a pain in the ass to start looking for another random credit union.

No, it wouldn't. Just pick one and ask if they have free checking.

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The one I'm with is for employees and you'd think that they would take care of you, but they don't. Why would some random credit union that let's anyone in be any better?

I have no idea. All I know is myself, Merla, and our mother are all with three different credit unions and we all have free checking. Fifi's credit union gives him free checking. The "exclusive" one you were with apparently ass-rams employees. I have no idea why that is but the ones that let anyone in appear to do a decent job just the same. I've heard nothing good about Wells Fargo. If you decide to go with them, all I can say is I hope you have a better experience with them than others have.

Rama · « **Reply #753 on:** Apr 15, 2012, 02:32:28 AM »

Finished Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Pretty bullshit ending that doesn't really match with the character of Lincoln that he spend the whole book building up...which is also very different then most accounts of real Lincoln anyway.

B E C K · « **Reply #754 on:** Apr 15, 2012, 12:48:42 PM »

Such as the part about him not hunting vampires.

Rama · « **Reply #755 on:** Apr 15, 2012, 03:47:38 PM »

Such as...

Spoilers...

...becoming a Vampire after refusing the offer to have his first love, or either of his dead sons made one.

Rama · « **Reply #756 on:** Apr 15, 2012, 03:48:59 PM »

Anyway I'm reading the first Harry Potter again...mainly cause I know if I read through the whole series it'll keep me from having to find something else to read for a very long time.

joe · « **Reply #757 on:** Apr 15, 2012, 10:07:15 PM »

I think you should read Fifty Shades of Grey, then tell us about it, so that none of us ever has to read it.

Take one for the team.

Rama · « **Reply #758 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 12:57:28 AM »

If I didn't have to buy it...I might.

B E C K · « **Reply #759 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 12:59:04 AM »

Joe will be happy to send you a copy he procured with his Canadian doubloons.

Rama · « **Reply #760 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 01:00:58 AM »

Just try not to get any maple syrup on the pages eh!

joe · « **Reply #761 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 01:29:10 AM »

Dude.

Dude.

I will totally buy you a copy if you agree to read and review it.

I am dead serious right now.

The only thing is you'd have to trust me with your mailing address.

Rama · « **Reply #762 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 01:41:00 AM »

I'm not to worried about the address. I'll totally send it to you and I will read it. And when I get dirty looks I'll just tell people a Canadian gave it to me.

Rumble · « **Reply #763 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 08:15:42 AM »

Quote from: Rama on Apr 15, 2012, 03:47:38 PM

...becoming a Vampire after refusing the offer to have his first love, or either of his dead sons made one.

Yeah Linc becoming a vampire at the end was total bullshit, though I didn't even think about his sons and such. I just thought, hmmm ok so the sequel is gonna be called Abraham Lincoln, Vampire?

B E C K · « **Reply #764 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 11:11:35 AM »

I can only imagine how this went:

"Hey, Abe, would you like me to make your first love a vampire? You can be together again."
"Eh, no thanks. I'm cool."
"Abe, your dead sons can be made into vampires. And you can be together again."
"Meh, didn't like them that much, homes."
"Abe, would YOU like to be a vampir---"
"Fuck, yeah! Can I fly? Abe Lincoln, HOOOOO!" *WHOOSH!*

Rama · « **Reply #765 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 11:46:38 AM »

He never actually even asked. He let him get shot...and die(in this book Vampires can bring back the dead if too much time hasn't pasted) and then broke into his tomb and converted him. And then like 100 years later, when they go to see MLKjr talk in Washington, he is still hanging out with this Vampire. In the book he hated all Vampires by the end of it. They had killed his mother, his first fiancee, and one of his sons (other died naturally according to the book) and this one Vampire. that actually helps him hunt other Vampires, had offered to bring these people back and Abe goes on about not wanting to put them through the kinda living hell of being one of the undead. And he even talks about seeing his "boys" on the other side at one point. But this guy goes and does it to old Abe without even asking. I'm sure he would have been pissed off when he woke up. And not like he could just go back to his old life or anything either. Everyone thought he was dead. So it just goes against what was established in the book.

What would have been better would have been for this Vampire to come to him on his death bed and offer it to him then. And even though he knew he was dying, to still turn it down. It was foreshadowed through the whole book so they had to do something with it, but having him raise a dead Abe without even asking him, when Abe hated all Vampires by the end of the book, just doesn't fit.

Rumble · « **Reply #766 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 04:03:50 PM »

I'm reading 'Don't tell mum I work on the rigs, she thinks I'm the piano player in a whorehouse'.
Just some random book I picked up on Saturday as I had to fly back and forth to London this Saturday for a stupid meeting, but it's great fun. Just a bunch of anecdotes of a guy who used to work on oil rigs around the world. Amazing stories

B E C K · « **Reply #767 on:** Apr 16, 2012, 11:25:56 PM »

"Oil Rig Guy: Vampire Hunter." Now go write it, Rama.

Rama · « **Reply #768 on:** Apr 17, 2012, 01:13:04 AM »

I wish I could. Man, I do need to sell something again. And man everything is getting optioned for a movie these days. I could use me some of that sweet cash. Oil Rig Guy: Vampire Hunter it is!

Rumble · « **Reply #769 on:** Apr 17, 2012, 01:09:56 PM »

Vampires are last year's fad.
Write something about mummies

Rama · « **Reply #770 on:** Apr 17, 2012, 03:35:33 PM »

Oil Rig Guy: Mummy for hire!

Fiero · « **Reply #771 on:** Apr 17, 2012, 09:29:45 PM »

I'd read that for a dollar.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #772 on:** Apr 18, 2012, 07:47:41 AM »

It's hard for mummies to be sexy. It'll never work.

Fiero · « **Reply #773 on:** Apr 18, 2012, 11:34:47 AM »

Perhaps the mummy doesn't have to keep the bandages on all the time?

Rama · « **Reply #774 on:** Apr 18, 2012, 02:24:23 PM »

He didn't in the 1932 film. The Mummy only appeared in bandages for like the first 5 mins of the film.

Fiero · « **Reply #775 on:** Apr 18, 2012, 09:34:22 PM »

I'm tired. I was trying to sticker your post like canv.as

Rumble · « **Reply #776 on:** Apr 19, 2012, 07:17:12 PM »

Quote from: Adam on Apr 18, 2012, 07:47:41 AM

It's hard for mummies to be sexy.

But they are more hygienic than zombies

B E C K · « **Reply #777 on:** Apr 19, 2012, 08:02:55 PM »

And when you finish, you can change out the bandages. Har har.

joe · « **Reply #778 on:** Apr 19, 2012, 11:52:13 PM »

I want to be reading this.

It looks adorable and hilarious.

B E C K · « **Reply #779 on:** Apr 20, 2012, 12:06:31 AM »

Awww, that's cute! At the same time, I kinda want to see his hand get cut off.