The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[kernow]

ah hangovers, love em. *sips his lucozade gingerly*

[Big Seany]

I've not seen a caterpillar in years, but son found this one in the garden the other day, was about three inches long. Although harmless, markings didn't look too friendly.

That is an elephant hawk moth caterpillar Dave. Hawk moths are quite rare these days in towns and cities, that is quite a find. **** me I have turned into Terry Nutkins.

[VR46]

Probably shouldn't laugh, but did.

> In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
> Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across
> a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The
> elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully.
>
> He got down on one knee, inspected the elephant's foot, and found a
> large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as
> gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after
> which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned
> to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared
> at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of
> nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted
> loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant
> or the events of that day.
>
> Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with
> his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of
> the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son
> Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter,
> lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant
> did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring
> at the man.
>
> Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if
> this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed
> over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked
> right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant
> trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and
> slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
>
>
>
>
> Probably wasn't the same elephant.
>
>
> This is for all of my friends who send me those heart-warming
> bullsh*t stories.

[Rossco]

Hehe love it!

[Rossco]

I just sat playing CoD4 online with mates for about 4-5 hours straight. My eyes are numb!

I've now played that game for 9 days and 18 hours online. That is sick.

Anyway, off to bed! I hope that huge spider I seen earlier doesn't resurface while I'm sleeping...

[toythatkills]

I started college yesterday, I'm doing an access course to get to university next year. Today, I had to do a small test thing, to establish whether or not I needed help with maths or English.

The English was generally "spot the spelling mistake" and "does this sentence make sense?" It was easy. English help I do not need!

The maths started off easily. I mean really easily. 4+2? Then as I went along, GCSE level stuff started creeping in.

F=(D2)/4. Rearrage the forumula to find D.

Then cos/sin/tan. Then median/mean. Then all sorts of other stuff I've completely lost (apart from one question that I actually remembered how to solve thanks to Professor Layton!) I got an A in my GCSE, I used to be great at this stuff!

I was promised when I did my GCSEs that I'd need this stuff every day! Where were you when I needed you, Pythagoras?

I did well enough to pass though. I think they were just looking for a pass on the first question!

[Ouenben]

Local chip van at school sells cans of Irn Bru for 55p when 39p is written on the side of the can! Is this legal?

[toythatkills]

Does it say it's an RRP?

[Rossco]

I've seen that before, Irn Bru does have the price on it alot as just the price, no RRP or anything. Surely it's illegal.

[VR46]

$17,000 for a pre-release Blackberry Javelin

http://cgi.ebay.com/RIM-BlackBerry-8900-Javelin_W0QQitemZ160282468849QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160282468849&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A4|65%3A13|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

[Spatial]

If I was Madonna I'd sue (even if it does actually make her look better)

[jimmbob]

Is the bottom left one meant to be the McCans?



*Edit, now I see it.

[Spatial]

Oof!

Apparently it's Brad and Angelina.

David Beckham seems to be going out with Robin in a bad disguise.

[DeathAdder]

Cool. Where did you find them?

[Spatial]

BBC News website - they've cobbled them together for Lego's 30th birthday or something.