Ic, well i guess we pay a licence fee in Australia as well,,, but it is in our taxes and not done through a licence mechanism. And when you think about the cost of maintaining a licence system, i think it is absurdly wasteful compared to it just being paid through general taxation.

I used to LOVE the Daily Show... tuned in nightly for about two and a half years solid. Then Jon interviewed good 'ole Henry Kissinger, Madeline Albright, and Senator John McCain. Now normally, Jon would've done his usual bit and put them 'under the gun' regarding certain 'international diplomacy' situations and their less than ideal views on these actions. However, during these 'interviews', he pretty much coddled up to them and let them off the hook... very much against his 'normal' self. At this point I'd lost all respect for him.

Insomnia
Not having medical insurance
people who don't bother with dictionaries
people who think they are helpless and then ask for help
I think I must be old because everyday it seems some other part of me hurts
Think that about covers it for now.

I'm grumpy about:

- Prince of Persia Classic not yet being released on XBLA. I've just completed classic DooM and need my daily dose of nostalgia.
- Petrol prices. 1.42 Euro / litre. Even with my current car (7.4l/100km) it means at least 100 Euros a month just to get to work and back.
- My DSL gateway frying its ethernet ports, ending up in me having 10 minutes to make it to the store. 12 km trip to downtown. I made it, but only because I know where the radar traps are...

I'm grumpy about:

The speed of genetic engeneering/stem cells . . . . still.

Johnny's desion to invest in "clean" coal techs (make some bloody solar panels you idiot).

The freedom of the media (damn you ACA).

Sony desion to boycott all there films from HD-DVD thus making us pay more with there stupid fancy blue laser.

The cost of EVERYTHING (I mean what the hell, there all made in china for 2 cents a pi.)

Liars

How many people there are in china

The reason the USSR lost the space race

My exam tommorow

More trig homework

Funnel Web Spiders....shivers....and shivers again. For those in the US imagine a Black Widow but 10x the size and with a very healthy dose of steriods.....shivers again...Oh yea, plus the ability to kill you within a very short time...

I'm grumpy about,

Reality T.V. - It sucks!

Noisy PC fans.

People who play poker and just call any hand they have

@Mystikmind,

I saw a John Howard sticker today actually. It said,

I like John Howard.......He is the only person stopping Peter Costello from being PM.

I loved it!

Yup, i should add that to the list,

fixed speed camera's...

Smokers (just becuase you have gotten yoruself addicted to pestacides doesn't mean you can litter where ever you like)

People who drink, screw up thier lives while drunk, then bring thier problems to the office.

Having all your friends get married (good for them, bad for me)

Having twenty more minutes before I can go get lunch

hehehe,, well, here are the signs of old age (for me).... no longer feel the need to drive my car as fast as possible, old crap music is more enjoyable because of nostalgia, have to stop eating tasty/nasty food, buy new computer games but never get round to playing them, loose track of what type of car is good to buy and thats all i can think of for now (wait, thats another one!)



hahaha, did they have one of those for Bob Hawk before Keating became PM?



Where is he going to build solar power plants?? Your forgetting, Aboriginal sacred sites will happen to materialise wherever they might want to build it!

They should have! They seem pretty similar don't they, Keating and Costello. Both are low lifes and neither one fit for PM.

hehehe, oh well at least Costello knows how to smile,,, so theres one thing he does better than Keating!

Definitely ! If I watch TV for more than 2 hours a week, my brain starts to turn into Jello. I'm in the U.S. and all I can say about TV is - What a load of ****! The shows that are any good are corrupted by the ad campaigns and become just a minor part of still another "bait-and-switch" moronic sales pitch.



Myself I never felt the urge to buy any series except afew of the Saturday Night Live productions. Steve Martin has got to be my most favoritist comedian. Did you ever see him do the 'Tribute to King Tut video', when the famous King Tut exhibition traveled to New York? Hilarious! I wish someone would do a movie from the Honor Harrington series of sci-fi by David Weber. She is such a complex and believable heroic character. The space battles would have been glorious to behold... Lots of sequels, too.

I havn't heard of that series? i am looking for a new series to watch right now actually?

Unfortunately it hasn't been done on graphic media that I'm aware of. Only books, sorry if i misled you.

Here's some good info on Wikipedia for ya, tho!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Harrington

P.S. - You can read quite a few sci-fi books for free online at Baen Books. I used the "read online" links after the book titles listed on Wikipedia to find them.

Well as Homer would say, "why read a book when you can wait for the movie". lol

Out of the few books i have read in my life, i did appreciate reading 'empire of the sun'. Especially when the movie was released.... most people were saying that it wasn't all that good, and there i was as somone who had read the book and then being totally blown away and awestruck by the movie as a result. Had i not read the book, then the movie would not have been nearly as good!

Im grumpy about:

- End of school exams ><
- Dad's refusal to let me drive the Mercedes
- Gas Prices(Im a kid, its WAYY to expensive for me!)
- iPod is being a b!tch, 4G space, yet it will only hold 3!
- Religion

Mercedes, iPod, man you DO have it rough!   

Only when you buy petrol!

Life is tough, then you die!

I'll throw in with the TV rant. I'm not even sure why I am still paying for my satellite any more. I watch one half hour show a week(ok maybe two) and everything else is crap. When reality tv started, it was the end of network television as we knew it.

Oh..yea I been grumpy about this for years and it led me to stop watching as much tv.

Comcast buying TechTv...aaargh!!! that still pisses me off   

Well they recently released a sci fi pay tv channel here in Australia, ,, then that reality shit won't be able to get on board, brilliant!

well at least until Big Brother decides to buy some aliens off the CIA to introduce into the house!!!!!

should I . should i not, Download a tv series i like before its on my telly.

Now thats a grump

I.m no pirate, but is tv piracy?

grumpy for a telly?

Marcus

I was happy about five minutes ago, now i'm grumpy as hell.

Was playing a nice mission in the old battlezone 2 game and then stupidly jumped in an assault tank. After doing that i then had to reset my cockpit view but forgot how?

When this game was new i remember having a hell of a time finding out how to reset the cockpit view because it isn't listed in any of the command menues.

Anyhow i have forgotten the command again after all this time and then proceeded to experiment with various combinations of keys until i hit the one that brings up the exit game command. It says "exit gasme" and you have two options yes or no, problem is you cannot make a choice, keyboard and mouse disabled!

So now i am not happy. I'm off to cook dinner,,, with the heat from my angry stare!