The above brands I mentioned, first of all, cost about $200 a knife, are made of thick stainless steel, have wooden handles that won't even break off, and require regular maintenance (ie proper sharpening with a steel and occasional sharpening with a wheel). If kept in a decent condition they're durable, reliable, and capable of handling pretty much any regular kitchen job. You don't need that kind of knife unless you're a professional cook.

The miracle blades have plastic hilts for one, and they seem to all be made with a special type of finely serrated blade so that you don't have to file or sharpen them. This can be effective but you won't be able to work as quickly as you can with a pro knife, nor can you really handle meat or fish with them without making a mess. It depends. I like Ginsu knives personally but the thing with all these types of end-user products is they're not built very tough, so you aren't going to be required to use a lot of elbow grease, and if you do you'll probably break them.

That's about it.

Can't post any videos from it though, it seems Adult Swim is not allowed to show anything on their site in Canada.

Never ceases to pown me. I can't stop looking at the feet and I inevitably fail because Xenu mode is not ok for white people.

That shirt is straight out of Mile End crossed with Tim and Eric.

Hey, don't let me stop you! I'm picky about knives! I'm a cook!

But if you want to buy this set, you can make up your mind for yourself - you might not agree with me after all. Motivo, St. Zotique and Drolet I believe.

At least go for things that are made up of actual words so that there's a neat Dadaist double-entendre to it.

Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a book that goes into great detail on wordplay, especially in the French language. I think that if you want to be clever with words and the occasional jeu de mot.

I know, but I was really disappointed with the quality considering the price of the set. That's why I went on about it. I did however consider finding out if the holders would fit other blades. I know it won't take a decent, heavy Zwilling, because the blades are longer yet not very wide. The plastic figure is also disappointing, it's sort of light and flimsy.

Dude, it's like the story of Three Dog or something. That's crazy, there's even the rocket-view shot through the window, and eh kills raders and doesn't afraid of anything.

And that shot off the freeway. I'll watch it, even though I think Denzel is a flakey actor.

These are the worst knives. You can buy this at Motivo on St. Zotique, just to see how shit the knives actually are. They're single layer and seem to be some kind of weak aluminum alloy thing, mostly serrated as well, but fine toothed so they'll cut a tomato but barely cut meat or fish.

Not worth it.

Just. Stop.

Death truce
had cut tree
the curated
act the rude
aether duct
ate the curd
red hate cut
detract hue
threat cued
cute red hat.

Oh god. I can't wait to see the lineups to see it. I think it would be awesome to run into the place before everyone else, yell "Leeroy Jenkins!" and somehow ruin everyone else's movie experience.

I hope they make a Fallout movie. The only downside to it is that it'll probably be Michael Bey, due to the size of the 'splosions.

WTF is this shit?

I don't know why this is sparking a debate. The fact is that Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, and many other trance DJs, even those in goa and psy circles, play prerecorded sets. It's either Cubase or Logic or Ableton set up with a montage rather than loops (to avoid any embarassing mistakes), or it's DATs. There was a huge war in Europe "against the DAT mafia". That was what they were talking about.

In the 90s there was a large section of the Ibiza trance DJ population that was resorting to this to make it easier to put on a show with sync'd video. I've seen Steaming Poo Oakenfold at raves before and I assure you that he was doing nothing on stage but EQing the audio montage and letting the tracks play out. He would occasionally pass filters to hype the crowd, and there were a few times where he cut tracks. But for the most part, he's not tweaking because of the style of music and how it works. Even doing cuts on beatmatched tracks is mostly for show and effect. It's not designed to be glitchy music with fast cuts so it's always mixed as a huge stream. Simple crossfading between two tracks, with a bit of EQing to make the fades smoother. But for it to be effective in trance these fades have to be logarithmic which means - preprogrammed.

I'm sorry to burst the Tiesto fans' bubbles but he's a superstar, and you're going not for a performance, but for a show. The point is it's a show. So there's your argument for going. Don't front that you would know anything about what he does as his so-called "performance" unless you have anything to back those claims. You want to know who else pulls that shit? Here it comes:

Hallucinogen / Simon Posford / Shpongle - seen him spin, he was too fucked to pull it off and it was all DATs. We knew because one of my friends gave him the hits, and he couldn't even speak straight.

Ritchie Hawtin - he was promoting Ableton for a while and basically played his album anywhere he went live. Now this was a promotional tour but it was really cheap that he was basically just showing how one mixes with Ableton this way and fans were coming out in the masses to "hear him spin". I know this too because I was basically right next to the computer.

There are definitely others. I'm sorry, but this is why I'm skeptical of any superstar DJs. They front. They don't need to make an effort anymore, and frankly if they did they'd risk showing that they may not have what it takes to persevere in the face of new and fresher talent.

You can see his cyberjunk. Eew.

Hello, my name is Erik and I work for Tech Support.

Here is what it says on the Microsoft Troubleshooting site, it may help:

1. Check that the computer is plugged in.
2. Is the internet on? If not, turn on the internet.
3. Try hitting the computer with a blunt object to jog the fan back into a functional state.
4. Yell at the computer.
5. Don't ask me, I just work here.

Je suis le Pue Killer. Si ça pue, je le kill.

These are called anagrams and you all suck at them.

Earthyspirit
TRIP HYSTERIA

how you like that?

I'm sorry but you have the CD. Why not just put up a cardboard cutout of DJ Tiesto, drop e, and put the CD on a really big system? You can even rent those lazer things and smoke machines, and a venue, and invite your friends, and it still won't cost you $200 a head.

Actually, yeah, it was. Just got a new bar. Tastes terrible, especially on the poutine.

There is a point where you have to put the damned DMT and LSD away and just try to grok fullness without it for a few weeks. During this period you might find that you can actually get a job and a haircut and have a shower occasionally, and that women who don't reek as bad as you will once again talk to you.

Watch it when you visit that site kids, it's full of viruses.

Tu mache assez, you say that enough it sounds like "too much acid".

And at this point you will have peaked and solved your own personal cosmic question.

What the hell was that? I don't even.

Annonymous is leggion.

fix'd, gb2 grmmr sk00l n00b

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Yeah that cat sounds fucking annoyed. It's trying to annoy back.

I pee in the shower. Feels good man.

Fix'd

N is for Noledge. Like I gots it.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

You too can be a mouth-breeding jackass hotshot if you read this.

Play this thread off, keyboard cat.



(I kid, this is full of win.)

Oooh yeaaaaahhh?

I can't believe anybody could say that Catcher in the Rye is long and boring. I can read that book in three hours. It's short as hell, it's a fucking pocketbook. Lord of the Rings is long. War and Peace is long. Catcher? Wtf... read it forty times at least in my life, it's quick.

Another great Salinger novel is Franny and Zooey. It's touching, but it's very sixties. I enjoyed it thoroughly though.

I have PKD's "Minority Report" in a book of his short stories. They're really interesting, especially "The Mold of Yancy" and "Autofac". But I was surprised to find out he has a few regular fiction novels. A noteworthy one from his early career (the 50s I believe???) was "The Broken Bubble". It makes a lot of arguments for women's rights and for the problem with button-down society.

Well, I hardly ever do speed but because of the frequency of usage I was disqualified for one of these. Thing is the new study might be directed at a control group with a higher frequency of use.

Once again, the thread has derailed into discussion about tacos.



Now what's this about Ma Bell?

I understand, but lofts to live in are basically condos. It's either that or illegal seat-of-the-pants life with no tenant's rights. I personally found living at 1619 totally horrific, despite you guys being cool roommates, and all the awesome parties. I never dreamed I would have anybody in funfur cracked out in my own home.

That nomesayin fly is my new favourite thing.

*dons facepaint, ties bands around arms*

Re-coil... uggggghhhhh... Re-coooil...

What happened tonight was already written, Recoil. IT WAS WRITTEN A LONG TIME AGO RECOIL. I stood before you Re-coil and I SAW YOU WERE NOT DUMB. I needed no prisoners, I NEEDED NO PARTNERS! I NEED NOT YOUR PROTECTION RECOIL! The Luke Peril fears not your ways RECOIL...

If you look closely you will see the warrior spirit in my eyes. LOOK AT ME RECOIL. WITHOUT THE PAINT RECOIL, THE DESIRE... to withstand the pain Recoil and to destroy you RECOIL. WE WERE AS BROTHERS BUT NOW the path has become clear.

YOUR PLANE OF POWER WILL CRASHLAND into a land of pain... and I will be there, Recoil. I will stand above the plane that has crashlanded in the land of PERIL. And I will offer you no aid.

*freaks out, breaks stuff, almost decks Mean Gene*

It could be because I've worked in so many restaurants that I saw through their gimmick. The servings made for a 200% profit. That's fucked.

It's because everybody is supposedly having the same DMT trip about elves and pixies, and when you do acid you're supposed to like that shit.

Which is strange for me because all I hear is breaks and complex soundscapes full of cacophonic bliss when I drop.

You guys don't know your psychs and you like to retreat into cartoons and childhood memories when you trip... myself, I don't understand why this lore exists. Hunter S. Thompson never wore elf ears.

Could it be all that David Icke and Terrence McKenna flakey bullshit? Terrence really liked talking like a pixie and saying that DMT was about machine elves... but I for one communicated with plants and experienced a transdermal celebration when I did it, not an elf in sight. Some would call that a blockage, but I call bullshit on that.