Weird attractions anyone? - Off-topic

For some weird reason Chernobyl district is attracting me like a magnet. It even came to my dreams several times!
I was growing up in Ukraine, about 65 miles away from the Chernobyl. My mom once told me that teachers forced them to go wash radioactive trains from Chernobyl, if they refused - their exam scores would be Fails. I was reading something last night, and found some interesting info, which would be very educative for all of you:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
I believe that she have done great job! She rode her bike all over that place, and it was done years before the "gates of Chernobyl" were finally open!
Anyone else have very weird attractions?

AntonJart said:
...Anyone else have very weird attractions?
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Most of my ex girlfriends to be honest!

I think that is a common attraction.

I really want to go to Pripyat. My life wont be complete without going there.
BTW, I was born in Poland, but I'm stuck in the States so Pripyat is pretty far.
(For anyone thinking what Pripyat is, it's the city where all the workers of Chernobyl worked, and the nearest city to Chernobyl, google it)
Another thing I want to see which is closer from home is the Freedom Tunnel. It's a train tunnel in NYC which was closed in the 80s and was home to bums and graffiti artists.

It is a remarkable story. Not so much that there was a nuclear accident, although that is remarkable in itself, but the stories of the people involved in the aftermath and the survivors who lived through a nightmare.
Pripyat would be a unique place to visit
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I've got a mate that went to Auschwitz and it was seriously about 2 years before he stopped talking about it. EVERY time I saw him the conversation would end up there.
It obviously had a MASSIVE impact on him.

johncmolyneux said:
I've got a mate that went to Auschwitz and it was seriously about 2 years before he stopped talking about it. EVERY time I saw him the conversation would end up there.
It obviously had a MASSIVE impact on him.
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Weird attractions? You mean that time with the...
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AntonJart said:
For some weird reason Chernobyl district is attracting me like a magnet. It even came to my dreams several times!
I was growing up in Ukraine, about 65 miles away from the Chernobyl. My mom once told me that teachers forced them to go wash radioactive trains from Chernobyl, if they refused - their exam scores would be Fails. I was reading something last night, and found some interesting info, which would be very educative for all of you:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
I believe that she have done great job! She rode her bike all over that place, and it was done years before the "gates of Chernobyl" were finally open!
Anyone else have very weird attractions?
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Something about that place just makes me wanna see it. Ive never been out of the southeastern u.s. though.

i really really really like apple pie

i love whats wholesome and good , because i know what that means , i wouldnt call it weird tho , but very rare indeed

Aaaa, yes, Auschwitz, I should go there, being that I am from Poland, and the camp was IN Poland. lol. Now it's made into a museum, so its not THAT bad...unless you mean your mate was there during WWII.

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Woo hoo

I know its off topic.....
But i'm getting married
buchman said:
I know its off topic.....
But i'm getting married
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Just say that you're giving Xperia as a gift to your fiancee, and it'll jump right back to topic...
Congratulations! Wish you all the best for the future - May God shower you both with his eternal blessings. May your new family sail in the ship of happiness and anchor at the port of success always.
Sticky plz LOL
Why would you ever want to do that! LOL
Congrats & best of luck!
Say goodbye to being able to go here
good luck
and all the best
*sighs*
It's really sad to see someone's life end as they know it.......
Just so you know, when she says "I do", she really means "I use to".
“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
-Rodney Dangerfield
“Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.” -Minnie Pearl
derekwilkinson said:
Say goodbye to being able to go here
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We have been trying to workout a problem with " silent calls " on the Kaiser.Some excerpts.
BennTech said:
BTW, early this morning while I was working on this, my wife came in and asked what I was doing.
"Just working on a problem we're having with our phones."
"Who's 'we'?"
"Me & a bunch of people who have the same phone."
Then she gave that look (you know the one) and said "Put away the rest of the Christmas stuff and clean the house today."
<sigh>
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jpcrailjr said:
I "KNOW" that look.
And to think, I just peruse these forums for ideas and try to "break" my phone in a repeatable manner to help out and I am glad my wife is at work today.
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nikagl said:
Btw., we've changed x-mas / new years decoration into balloons for our sons birthday (he turns 2 on the 19th, but we have the party tomorrow) and my wife is ill in bed (fever)...I wonder how much time I can spend the next days without getting that look...guess I shouldn't upgrade the ROM as yet...
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Still in love ?
The cosmic joke is :
Two members of the same species, that are diametrically opposed in thought, actions and feelings ,yet must come together and get along to procreate for the survival of he species. Someone/thing is on the floor rolling in amusement.
Good luck mate!
Your time on this forum will be reduced drastically....
Best for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6X6sacQYE

Beer!!

Sorry!! No free beers flowing here…….
Was getting bored so thought of asking you guys your favorite brand/ brands of beer.
We don’t have a icon for beer in our forum, but can have a thread now.
Will start with mine:
Kingfisher Strong
Jeva is pretty good
dam a favourite that for me is pretty hard but have to say Asahi has to be my favourite or czech budweiser. One of them.
Always had a taste for Heineken or selected micro-brews, myself. Or when I was poor Coors Lite
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Leon, the best Mexican beer!
Dark
$1.50USD for 1 liter bottle
And yes, corona is not close as good to this one!! just more popular...
Hmm i like Heineken crisp taste...
such a drag, its still imported in my place. (way costly)
What the heck...
today is friday... and i am sitting in my office.... talking of beer...when i should go and have one...Guess its about time
Cheers to every one!!
I think so!!! all is about time..
lets drink some Bohemias or Indios or or or...
OH YEAH!!!!
COOL!!!
Pour me an AMSTEL!
Kingfisher Strong
best beer ever
Let me leave this here:
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/trouble-brewing-p1.php
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...sult&cd=1&q=beer+turns+men+into+women&spell=1
galaxys said:
Pour me an AMSTEL!
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Served by her...
Si Señor!!
Arguably my most favourite sign, ever.
Well as my name is STELLAdel there can only be one for me...
STELLA ARTOIS
P.S. The name came about because everytime I went in the pub the first question was Stella Del?
http://www.stelladel.com
One more which i used to like in my college days due to its low cost and high alcohol content , of which i am sure almost no one wud have heard the name,
"Black Fort".
Noup never heard it...
In fact here most of beer never heard ever before...
nimish_fun said:
One more which i used to like in my college days due to its low cost and high alcohol content , of which i am sure almost no one wud have heard the name,
"Black Fort".
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anyone know if this is like red stripe in the uk?? As it sounds pretty similar part from high alcohol content maybe, also what do you mean by high?
Any cross-continental students around?? lol
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In fact here most of beer never heard ever before...
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Sure someone from Lituania (for example) also has never heard about Bohemia or León
Globalization Paisa!
Abita Amber, brewed locally in Louisiana and distributed across most of the southeast (USA).
Can get it online at samswine.com if you would like to try
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anyone know if this is like red stripe in the uk?? As it sounds pretty similar part from high alcohol content maybe, also what do you mean by high?
Any cross-continental students around?? lol
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Chris, Normally beers at my place will have alcohol contents in range of 4.5% v/v to 8% v/v. I dont remember exact content of Black Fort but it used to be some where neer 10%. It had a very watery taste, didnt like it. Only thing is that it made u high quickly

Who is Cyanogen?

Steve Kondik? I guess. Android Guru? No doubt.
I've taken a glance at his twitter thing. Says he's a snowboarder and trancer. I stopped there to avoid any semblances to "cyber stalking".
But really, who is this guy? I mean, at first, I get an image of this suave, debonair, sun-glasses-wearing-even-though-its-dark playboy by day and closet android-dev by night. I mean, how could he not be the Bruce Wayne of xda, as cool as his roms are.
But then i get to thinking about it.
He must work on this stuff tirelessly, sometimes endlessly to get updates up as quick as he sometimes does. Not to mention he's twittering and updating a blog. I'm not much of a "social networker" but I can imagine how time consuming this must all be. Is my image of cyanogen a.k.a Steve unrealistic? Is he really some middle-aged, balding, white-guy with a beer belly and cheetoh stains on his three-day old white-tee, sitting at his desk of 7 computer screens with his big slurp in one hand and typing furiously on his three ergonomic keyboards with the other?
I should hope not.
I really wanted to post this in the "Dream" boards but as this is not "related to any phone" I thought I better do right and put it in here.
And guys, really, I mean this:
With All Due Respect.​
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Oh, and I'm posting this as my fiancée drives us back home from our christmas trip up to her fam's. Thanks for usb tethering cyan
That description can fit almost any deserving geek/nerd so I think you will have to go into more detail......
I'm just sayin'... Is he Bruce Wayne or is he this guy. I don't think we can ever really know, unless he himself comments on this thread. I'm not really all that interested in knowing either Just a random thought that crossed my mind and that I wanted to share with the community. I don't really every have much to say in the dream boards, as you can see by my post count.
and what does any of that have to do with marlon brando :S
cyanogen quote
"Im am you father"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sj89xgnl4
Marlon Brando, THE Godfather, who will just as soon buy you dinner as blow your brains out, but "with all due respect". Come on guy!
Only one will "make you an offer you can't refuse"
Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all of his legs are hydraulic... all we know is, he's called Cyanogen.
Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground... all we know is, he's called Cyanogen.
Some say he's wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat... all we know is, he's called Cyanogen.
Haha, the Stig, I love it!
Some say that if he ate a sausage his brain would implode, and that he is wanted in 251 countries for indecent exposure, all we know is, he's called Cyanogen...
Some say that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered with it, he could crack the Da Vinci Code in 43 seconds.
Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong.
If you have five dollars and Cyanogen has five dollars, Cyanogen has more money than you.
He once had an awkward moment, just to see what it felt like.
Even though he's had sex with every woman on the planet, he is still a virgin. Nobody takes ANYTHING from cyanogen.
Let's avoid the Chuck Norris references >.<
I like the magnetic north one though
This thread sure has taken an awkward turn... lol but I guess I didn't quite know what to expect.
Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve.

Android on your arm!

The aesthete in me hates it...but the geek within is impressed
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-powered-imwatch-knows-what-time-it
Edit: Apologies for going all on-topic in Off-Topic. I should to be punished...
Oooo la la... much sexier in Black:
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I'd rock it
Not bad is it?
Problem is i'd be taking this off to wear it:
And that never comes off!!
I've just got a fossil band on. Need a watch but all of em nowadays are huge and gawdy. Like they were made for an 8 ft tall rapper.
boborone said:
I've just got a fossil band on. Need a watch but all of em nowadays are huge and gawdy. Like they were made for an 8 ft tall rapper.
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Lol, oversized watches look ridiculous. Better than i had as a kid though:
They will never top the awesomeness that was the original casio calculator watch...
Id' be a little concerned about being beaten up for being such a massive geek if someone noticed me checking emails on my watch
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Lol, oversized watches look ridiculous. Better than i had as a kid though:
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Haha true statement. Especially if one has small wrists
conantroutman said:
They will never top the awesomeness that was the original casio calculator watch...
Id' be a little concerned about being beaten up for being such a massive geek if someone noticed me checking emails on my watch
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I know what you mean. It wouldn't last a minute around here without some chav chewing your arm off to get it. Nobody has ever made a play for my Tag though, which i used to worry about. Now i'd use it as excuse to get the newer model that's in the picture i posted before. (Or an Omega...but the one i like is ~£3000)
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Haha true statement. Especially if one has small wrists
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I used to wreck and lose these things so much that I stopped wearing watches by the time I was in 7th grade. The worst were the ones that were labeled "Water resistant up to 10 meters!" I would wear it in the pool the first chance I got. Ruined.
Jinkeez said:
I used to wreck and lose these things so much that I stopped wearing watches by the time I was in 7th grade. The worst were the ones that were labeled "Water resistant up to 10 meters!" I would wear it in the pool the first chance I got. Ruined.
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Yeah, their marketing department were lying bastards! I lost many a good Casio like this.
The best one i had was back ~1984. It has a side scrolling space invaders style game on it. I used to trade people in class one go for a pack of crisps at lunchtime.

At Least 14 Killed and 50 Wounded in "Dark Knight Rises" Shooting Rampage

MOD EDIT: Thread closed as I do see this topic going south with moar pictures and heated discussions about gun control and stuff like that.
Do not reopen another thread with this topic, please.
We all mourn the great loss that these families are going trough..let us do that with found respect and personally.
Cheers,
BlueDynamo said:
http://abc.net.au/news/2012-07-20/live-blog-aurora-shooting/4144558
Absolutely disgusting.
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The current count is 14 dead, 50 injured. It is all over the news right now.
That's very sad. I am baffled that WB would cancel the Paris premier tonight though, do they know something they aren't telling us?
Also, who the hell brings their 3 month old to see a movie like this!?
.....and another one who wakes up and hates the world he's living in. I hope that the families & friends of the victims will find the strength to fight the pain & the peace they need now.
R.I.P to those victims. Terrible times we live in :/
Occasus said:
.....and another one who wakes up and hates the world he's living in. I hope that the families & friends of the victims will find the strength to fight the pain & the peace they need now.
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I agree, if only he had used the first bullet from the gun he was firing on himself, this would have just been a suicide as opposed to the tragedy it is...
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This is just insane. There's no other way to put it.
craziest thing that happened in 2012,
absolutely horrible
i can't put words that truly describe how gruesome this is
One of the women who was killed, Jessica Ghawi, was almost in the middle of a shooting last month in a mall food court. To paraphrase, she said she got a funny feeling and left minutes before the shooting began.
http://goo.gl/BMuxn
Very close to where I live there was a shooting in a bar recently in the college town, Tuscaloosa.
http://goo.gl/KMjNO
These shootings are happening too frequently!
The man was a Vet and he warned people on 9gag weeks before of his plan. He posted this the day before:
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Oh wow. Just wow.

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