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    Today i learned that there is an actual cartoon with Chuck Norris in it. What will cartoon network show next.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragonrage
    Today i learned that there is an actual cartoon with Chuck Norris in it. What will cartoon network show next.
    CHUCK NORRIS KARATE KOMMANDOS!!!!

    Gotta love the horrible voice acting, skipped animation frames, and life tip by Chuck at the end of the episode.

    Anyway, uh... today I learned that growing my hair out wasn't such a good idea, because I can't see anymore.

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    They showed Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos on Adult Swim on April Fools day instead of Inuyasha. I welcomed the decision. I mean, Inuyasha might have a slow-developing romance and boring action scenes and story, but it does not have Super Ninja, which is probably the most ridiculous, yet most badass name for a villian. Ever.

    And of course, not even someone named Super Ninja can stand up to Norris' lethal kicks. They also showed a similar cartoon starring Mr. T.

    @Genma: I also started to find long hair annoying. Especially on windy days. If you happen to catch a powerful breeze coming from behind you, you can't see a goddamn thing.
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    Today, I learned that 1/9 women gets breast cancer.

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    I learned today (if by "today" I mean, around 14 months ago) that while women cannot get testicular cancer, for obvious reasons, men can get breast cancer. Plus I learned that Ultimate Spiderman rocks.

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    Today i learned that God#2 wishes he had Spidey Sense. If I were him, I'd be wishing for common sense.


    LaZie made this...a long time ago.

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    Today I learned that Best-buy bought Toshiba media center laptops require something like an hour and a half worth of uninstall-time, intermediate registry editing skills, and familiarity with sysinternals "autoruns" application to purge all the horrible invasive nagging crapware that comes preinstalled.

    If they had given me a winxp media center edition install cd instead of a system restore cd, I would have just formatted to save time.

    (and no, I didn't buy it, my department's director did ... and handed it to me to set up for him)

    It's a nice machine, but seeing how craptacular it is was before I got rid of the unnecessary and excessively resource-hungry bits, I have learned a valuable lesson: never, EVER buy a pc from a big-box retail store, unless you've got time to waste futzing with the horrible stinking pile of software that will inevitably come on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genma
    today I learned that growing my hair out wasn't such a good idea.
    Quote Originally Posted by XanBcoo
    I also started to find long hair annoying.
    I shake my fist angrily at you both!
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    Today i learned that people often really really really miss the point. This guy makes install Alboy locks on this Jank door that could be kicked down in about 5 seconds. We tried to point out that no matter how much money you spend on locks if the door can be kicked down or a window broken it kinda makes spending the money useless.

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    How about insurance? Technically an insurance company could require good locks (for some deal), but wouldn't pay any attention to the fact the door itself is insufficient to make any difference.

    Btw... How is it in Canada? I have noticed in American movies and series that doors always open inwards in the USA (unless it's just the TV and movies).... Over here they always open outwards. Thus, in the US the lock would be the only thing preventing a door from being kicked in (or rammed to be realistic). Over here, you would actually need to break the whole door into pieces or the door frame to gain the same effect. In that sense one might think structurally very sound locks would indeed be essential in the US. But like I said, I don't know about Canada.

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    The doors here mostly open in. Some open out tho. Sure the lock could get you a better deal on insurance but calling a lockie to unlock it would cost alot since they are a bitch to open.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
    How about insurance? Technically an insurance company could require good locks (for some deal), but wouldn't pay any attention to the fact the door itself is insufficient to make any difference.

    Btw... How is it in Canada? I have noticed in American movies and series that doors always open inwards in the USA (unless it's just the TV and movies).... Over here they always open outwards. Thus, in the US the lock would be the only thing preventing a door from being kicked in (or rammed to be realistic). Over here, you would actually need to break the whole door into pieces or the door frame to gain the same effect. In that sense one might think structurally very sound locks would indeed be essential in the US. But like I said, I don't know about Canada.
    Actually, I think the door opens in the direction that the flow of traffic is mostly going in. Or if the flow is about the same, then it opens in if it's a main entrance. For example the front door to a restaurant would most likely open into the restaurant, while a back-alley door to a restaurant would most likely open into the alley.
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    Quote Originally Posted by woofcat
    Today i learned that people often really really really miss the point. This guy makes install Alboy locks on this Jank door that could be kicked down in about 5 seconds. We tried to point out that no matter how much money you spend on locks if the door can be kicked down or a window broken it kinda makes spending the money useless.
    This exact problem came up in the movie Crash. The door to this store wouldn't lock properly so the owner hires a locksmith to replace the lock, the locksmith tells him that the door itself is the problem, but the store owner feels like he's being cheated and just yells at the locksmith to fix it, obviously locksmiths don't fix doors so he just left. Then later the store gets broken into and ransacked, the insurance guy comes to appraise it and deems the robbery negligence because the owner didn't listen to the locksmith and fix his door. Now said owner has lost everything and goes out to drive the plot of the movie forward.


    As to doors opening out, if the police are coming in and they find a door that opens out, they'll probobly blow the whole damn door off it's hinges, and you don't want that happeing just because you were out partying when they came to serve their warrant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
    As to doors opening out, if the police are coming in and they find a door that opens out, they'll probobly blow the whole damn door off it's hinges, and you don't want that happeing just because you were out partying when they came to serve their warrant.
    Heh. Fortunately over here that happens extremely rarely, so it's not really any point to be considered when designing houses and apartments. I suppose it's just some tradition.

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