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10 Jun 2005, 15:00
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Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Hi, members of PT, I知 Sarah and I知 writing to you because I知 looking for brave people to take part in a sensitive television documentary for Channel 4 about modern addiction in Britain. If you池e interested, please read on...
Do you have an unusual addiction?
I知 looking for outspoken individuals who have for whatever reason built a reliance upon the less obvious, especially those things representative of busy modern living.
Do you have a fascinating tale to tell?
What impact has it had on your life?
Has it ever pushed you close to the brink?
Are friends and family aware?
Do they understand?
Have you ever sought help?
Are you a forthright and honest individual willing to talk openly about your addiction?
Can you impart words of wisdom and genuine insight to others in a similar predicament?
Are you willing to confront your addiction?
[b]If you池e undergoing a personal journey, and can see benefit in sharing your experiences, in so doing helping others, then please e-mail me direct, or visit:
You might want to tell me a little:
病bout yourself
病bout your addiction
冨our age
冨our gender
病nd your locality
(Your details will not be shared and all contact will be strictly confidential)
Thanks for your time, and thanks, Planetarion Forums for this thread.
I look forward to hearing from you...
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10 Jun 2005, 15:05
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I predict a thread on the nasty habits of [insert name of GD member you don't like] and various references raping [I'm still hoping i'll read a thread one day without such a reference....]
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10 Jun 2005, 15:11
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
This is the most random thread I have ever read on these forums
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10 Jun 2005, 15:13
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
pabs and clowns .
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10 Jun 2005, 15:14
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
it's not that surprising though, I'm assuming they are looking for people who are addicted to the internet.
Plus it's a known fact that only weirdos with major psychological problems use the internet so i'm surprised that it hasn't happened sooner.....
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10 Jun 2005, 15:17
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Yes, thats true All Systems Go.
How did your court case about slapping your cock on phoneboxes go btw?
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10 Jun 2005, 15:20
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by vampire_lestat
pabs and clowns .
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If you池e undergoing a personal journey
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It's a personal journey, that's my excuse.
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10 Jun 2005, 15:26
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
im not sure hwat PT is but im a member of it...do i close this thread and presume its spam or
jesus christ dudes
i dont know hwat to do!
Weve never had TV people come here before!
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10 Jun 2005, 15:29
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyJim
im not sure hwat PT is but im a member of it...do i close this thread and presume its spam or
jesus christ dudes
i dont know hwat to do!
Weve never had TV people come here before!
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Email about your addiction.
Anal bleeding
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10 Jun 2005, 15:31
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Godfather
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
your such a fag rob.
all you ever thing about is anus.
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10 Jun 2005, 15:36
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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your such a fag rob.
all you ever thing about is anus.
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no its not.
i stood up for your gay rights when we were out, even though i'm straight!
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10 Jun 2005, 15:42
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Guy next door
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
nigga what
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10 Jun 2005, 15:44
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Godfather
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
nigga please
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10 Jun 2005, 16:45
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I am.
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
oh great.
channel 4 thinks we're a community full of losers that they can exploit with 'reality television'
given that the 'researchers' who do this crap seldom even have a degree and get paid as much as i pay my cleaner, i truly don't think THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN SO INSULTED
as time goes by how many shit marketing gimmicks are we going to get from idiots in danger of losing their job who manage to blurt out in a meeting "we could advertise on an internet forum!!! At least it's free!!"
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10 Jun 2005, 16:49
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I want to lie about something just to get on the program, but I can't think of a lie bad enough to be worthy of C4
"I'm addicted to ITV"
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10 Jun 2005, 16:56
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
You could try posting it in the planetarion discussions page too , their you will find people who are addicted to online gaming. This is people just people who are addicted to forums without any games involved. Hmm infact which is worse i cant decide :/
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10 Jun 2005, 17:10
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
i like that font, looks somewhat better than the usual. in italic and bold it sucks though.
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10 Jun 2005, 17:35
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I thought the font and the use of bold and italics made a nice mix of looking profesional while still coming over "friendly".
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10 Jun 2005, 17:54
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rinoa
You could try posting it in the planetarion discussions page too , their you will find people who are addicted to online gaming. This is people just people who are addicted to forums without any games involved. Hmm infact which is worse i cant decide :/
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There are far more interesting online games to be addicted to, tho - ones with funky graphics, actual gameplay and a sense of interaction that can be adequately shown on a television screen.
This forum is the centre of the universe, and we all know that come the end of time all television programming will have been thought-up, think-tanked, gained input from, and given final approval from here. And probably for the better, too.
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10 Jun 2005, 18:02
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rinoa
You could try posting it in the planetarion discussions page too , their you will find people who are addicted to online gaming. This is people just people who are addicted to forums without any games involved. Hmm infact which is worse i cant decide :/
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Being addicted to "forums" is more like being addicted to the personalities in them, rather than anything to do with the forums themselves when taking a snapshot view of things.
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10 Jun 2005, 18:14
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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I thought the font and the use of bold and italics made a nice mix of looking profesional while still coming over "friendly".
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don't you think its a little too much? i would have skipped at least the italic in the last paragraph. its a list and there is only one noun per point, so that it should be already clear whats important.
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10 Jun 2005, 18:18
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
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I thought the font and the use of bold and italics made a nice mix of looking profesional while still coming over "friendly".
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I thought it was just indicative of a cut 'n' paste job. :/
And a quick google indicates that this has been spammed to a number of forums.
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10 Jun 2005, 18:20
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
we really should delete this thread.
Its just a ****ing marketing ploy and if we give in by letting it stay we'll only encourage more.
the scum who work in marketting are rats.
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10 Jun 2005, 19:13
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Comic sans MS is not welcome here.
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10 Jun 2005, 19:42
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Hello all,
Thanks for all your comments (I think).
I personally think that you shouldn't delete this thread. There may be members of PT who might feel they want to take part, and deleting it would not be great for freedom of speech(!)
And look - I've changed the font.
Sarah.
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10 Jun 2005, 19:48
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
"channel 4 researcher reaches new low"
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10 Jun 2005, 19:49
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by sarah2005
Hello all,
Thanks for all your comments (I think).
I personally think that you shouldn't delete this thread. There may be members of PT who might feel they want to take part, and deleting it would not be great for freedom of speech(!)
And look - I've changed the font.
Sarah.
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YOu changed the bloody font, but you also changed the bloody colour.
And if you're British, you wouldn't say Freedom of Speech. Besides that, there isn't freedom of speech on these forums.
In addition to that, what is this PT you keep going on about?
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10 Jun 2005, 19:53
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I am.
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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And if you're British, you wouldn't say Freedom of Speech.
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she might if she wasn't very clever and had a low paid low skill job.
not that i'm happy accepting the fact that it's female.
after all, even retards know that people are generally more receptive to women than men.
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10 Jun 2005, 19:53
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
That's short for the Planetarion Torums, duh.
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10 Jun 2005, 20:02
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Godfather
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by sarah2005
Hello all,
Thanks for all your comments (I think).
I personally think that you shouldn't delete this thread. There may be members of PT who might feel they want to take part, and deleting it would not be great for freedom of speech(!)
And look - I've changed the font.
Sarah.
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Here on the PA Forums we've never really been into 'free speech'.
Im basically a despot dictator gone crazy with my own forum superpowers and the moderators are somewhat akin to the war criminals you hear about on TV. Manson for example bears striking resemblance to Chemical Ali.
As such your calls for 'free speech' fall on somewhat deaf ears.
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10 Jun 2005, 20:05
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
All those on these forums who were going to apply for big brother have already applied, I'm afraid.
The rest of us are addicted to the internet as we like authoritarianism and rule 1 of the forums if you care to read it.
true story
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10 Jun 2005, 20:58
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
There are no women on the internet? Oh wait, that's rule 1 of the internet.
And what's with all the people pos repping sarah? Is it cos she claims to be a woman?
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10 Jun 2005, 21:44
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Probably. This thread made me laugh anyway, Channel 4 hoping to gain viewers by suggesting we're all a bunch of losers who are addicted to online gaming.
Sarah2005, some of us are actually normal people who happen to play games online - in fact, most of the people on here don't even play.
And to those of you wanting to get on TV, say you're addicted to sex or something, they'll put you on the next Big Brother.
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10 Jun 2005, 21:52
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
oh great.
channel 4 thinks we're a community full of losers that they can exploit with 'reality television'
given that the 'researchers' who do this crap seldom even have a degree and get paid as much as i pay my cleaner, i truly don't think THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN SO INSULTED
as time goes by how many shit marketing gimmicks are we going to get from idiots in danger of losing their job who manage to blurt out in a meeting "we could advertise on an internet forum!!! At least it's free!!"
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Addicted to ranting and blabbering. That is an unusual addiction indeed.
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10 Jun 2005, 22:50
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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And what's with all the people pos repping sarah? Is it cos she claims to be a woman?
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No, it's because her request was reasonable and pleasant, and because I find the hostile attitude of some to be a little embarrassing.
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10 Jun 2005, 22:53
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
You're a pos-repping slag though 1-X, you've even pos repped me three times!
Please keep doing it <3
*kiss kiss*
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10 Jun 2005, 22:55
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Allowing this thread to exsist any longer will expose GD for the bunch of gibbering lunatics that we are.
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10 Jun 2005, 22:58
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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No, it's because her request was reasonable and pleasant, and because I find the hostile attitude of some to be a little embarrassing.
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But.... but... this wouldn't be GD if we weren't unnecessarily hostile and insular!
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10 Jun 2005, 23:02
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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Originally Posted by Thermodynamics
Allowing this thread to exsist any longer will expose GD for the bunch of gibbering lunatics that we are.
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That's exactly what I thought when I wrote this, but then didn't post it
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1-X
Imagine an asylum, and they have a visitor... someone normal from the outside.
You hope the inmates will behave, make a good impression, but some of them are just too retarded to understand. There's one of them now, lets call him Flavius*, smearing himself in his own excrement.
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*sorry Flav, but you just sprang to mind
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10 Jun 2005, 23:04
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
She's gonne be sorry about her choice of username come January!
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11 Jun 2005, 00:32
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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Originally Posted by KaneED
And if you're British, you wouldn't say Freedom of Speech.
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Why not?
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11 Jun 2005, 00:38
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so f*cking zen
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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Hi, members of PT, I知 Sarah and I知 writing to you because I知 looking for brave people to take part in a sensitive television documentary for Channel 4 about modern addiction in Britain. If you池e interested, please read on...
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Brave people ... you're looking for fags more like.
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11 Jun 2005, 00:52
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I slowly insert my finger in my ass while reading posts made by women on the internet. How about you?
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11 Jun 2005, 01:02
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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You mean you don't lick it afterwards ?
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Duh. You smear it on white bread along with jam.
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11 Jun 2005, 01:25
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
If this thread doesn't make it to Clownshoe Corner, then i think we need to plot a coup (or give JJ a humour transplant)
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11 Jun 2005, 01:52
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by Horn
is the aim of this programme to educate poeple or to interest them enough to stick through the adverts ?
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Is there a difference?
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11 Jun 2005, 04:19
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mmm.. pills
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I assume PT is simply an abstract of PlaneTarion.
Though the correctly adopted name is of course PA, PlanetArion.
btw I don't qualify given I'm not based in the UK, and the term 'unusal' is entirely subjective anyway
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11 Jun 2005, 04:39
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share the <3
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
I was nearly enticed by this siren, until i remembered rule #1.
<3 dace
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11 Jun 2005, 09:46
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
Quote:
Originally Posted by djbass
I assume PT is simply an abstract of PlaneTarion.
Though the correctly adopted name is of course PA, PlanetArion.
btw I don't qualify given I'm not based in the UK, and the term 'unusal' is entirely subjective anyway
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I and a few others at my college used to call it PT for a few rounds, all depended on whether you put the emphasis on the Arion or Tarion part of PA.
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11 Jun 2005, 09:53
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Re: Modern Life ~ Modern Addictions
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I and a few others at my college used to call it PT for a few rounds, all depended on whether you put the emphasis on the Arion or Tarion part of PA.
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But the word is Planet-Ari-on, so it has to be PA.
If you pronounce it Plane-Tar-ion you are doing it quite wrong.
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