It feels like the actual story really ended with the successful jailbreak and the rest are really impromptu addons created by the writers to make the series 24 episodes long. It'd have been much better if the villains last a little longer, not just for 10 half the series like Hector, who was supposed to be the mastermind at first.
C'mon, it's like one of those RPGs in all these shows. Final bosses die at the end! At most, throw in a real final boss after the one you thought was the final boss for a twist. But if you have 3 or 4 twists they wouldn't be twists, would they?
Totally brings into mind Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. His way of dragging the story with undying Chosens was similar to this, such that killing them makes no difference and new ones will just pop up and ruin the party. Even making them reborn into the opposite genders doesn't improve the quality.
And so it is in 24, because we expect bad guys to die and the story ends there. And FFS the writers are so full of shit that they make so many things happen within 24 hours. Many of those things that happened don't happen all the time, like the baby subplot. What's the probability of all of them happening on the same day??
Okay, let's wrap this mad rant on 24 with "Fuck you Kim stop asking so many questions learn to STFU and you may just live a happier life and all of you stop backstabbing each all on the same day when a major operation is taking place and learn to trust each other a bit!"
Okay that was stupid, but so was the series.
Rule 1 for any Internet explorers: What is seen cannot be unseen. Keep that in mind. Some things, I'd really rather forget after seeing them, but they're just so traumatic I cannot erase them from my memory. Like pictures of people who got shot in the head. Like pictures of a knife cutting into an eyeball still in the socket. Like pictures of a penis, with a knife cutting off the head. Like pictures of an infected penis. Like pictures of rashes on the scrotum. Like huge female human "whales" naked. Like an 80-year-old woman, also naked and on all fours such that the really really really really really really really wrinkly tits are hanging and you cannot recognize what that is between her legs. I thank my parents for bringing me so far away from my grandparents. I will never see old people the same way again.
What is seen cannot be unseen. Remember that and be happy you haven't seen the stuff described above. When you're down, think of this and you'll feel better.
LOL!
Damn, maybe I really should save all those pics and use them on the next person who pisses me off.
"Okay this is a simple psychiatric test. I'll show you a picture and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind."
*Shows picture of a horribly infected and swollen penis, preferably photoshopped with a pencil stuck in the hole for extra effect*
Win.
I find this screenshot hilarious. For any guy who has watched any of the Harry Potter movies, you'll probably ask the same question as the poster after seeing the picture in the screenshot. By the way, that picture is a fake. She has never done any nudes - she's just turned legal this year!
(FYI : sause = sauce = source = source of picture)
So I was wrong. The Yen is becoming stronger constantly, dropping a little for a while here and there but generally rising. The Euro and Sterling have gotten stronger too, against the dollar. Everything else is falling, all the commodities like Corn and Oil and all the ETFs like Dow Jones Stoxx 600 and etc. I'm almost giving up on this game now. There's nothing to buy! I have little idea when they will all stop dropping. Buying now isn't wise because at the rate everything is dropping, they may not recover to the same level as before. Need to read more financial news but I'm having bloody exams.
http://zip.4chan.org/trv/res/79456.html
Here's a useful thread for any traveller - whether it is alright to order a glass of tap water in other countries. I remember my German teacher telling me that she had never done it before coming to Singapore, and decided to try it when she returned to Germany. She told us the waiter got a little irritated because that was all she ordered. According to the people in that thread, that is quite true. No one in Germany orders "stillwasser" which I take to mean "still water" aka non-fizzy water. Unless it's for your dog, in which case tap water is completely normal.
But if you're in Germany, why drink water? There's beer EVERYWHERE!
In another thread http://zip.4chan.org/trv/res/79595.html
this guy described his backpacking trip to Germany in which they carried very little and went around getting drunk all the time and trainhopped for free rides to everywhere.
Wow I just saw one of the most interesting sights ever to exist in the showers - shit! Fuck this place! Obviously someone washed his ass in the showers and didn't bother to make sure all the fecal matter went down the drain. Now little pieces are all spread out on the shower floor in all the cubicles. Can't everyone just learn to use the toilet rolls or, if that is impossible, keep the damned shower cubicles clean?? Fuck! Shit in the showers is way worse than seeing yellow fluid - at least piss is easier to guide to the drain and if I step on it I can just treat it as an antiseptic footwash liquid. Fuck whoever did it and gratz that you've just hit a new low. I hope your future baby will shit on your face when you're asleep and you discover yeast infection every time you go down on your girlfriend. Fuckin shitface fag.
No it's not the deed itself that disgusts me. I've seen janitors break down during my army days because someone passed motion on a toilet cover. What really irks me is that this is done in an university. We're supposed to eventually become the better parts of society, be the higher drones of the workforce (drones nonetheless). Yet people here leave feces in the shower cubicles and do not clean up the mess.
Don't give me shit that it's only one person out of the thousands. There shouldn't even be a remote possibility of such an occurence in the first place! Every single one of us should be above that, way above.
And so another bit of my faith in humanity rots away.
Some time ago, I finally figured out that there are some things in life that are quite similar to the psychohistory concept invented by Isaac Asimov in his Foundation series. Psychohistory is a fictional science that is basically mob psychology made mathematical, such that equations can calculate to a degree of certainty how large groups of people will act in different situations.
In psychohistory, the people involved must not know how psychohistory works. None of them must know even very advanced psychiatry so that not a single soul knows even a hint of how it works. This is one of the few major rules that cannot be broken for it to work.
And in life, I find that some rules work only if no one understands/knows them. Nevertheless, I'm stating one here anyway. I may have mentioned them before, I can't remember. Everything we do is right. No matter if you're the greatest philantrophist in the world or the most evil mass murderer in human history, what you do is always right.
Right in the sense that all consequences of your actions are always balanced. There is no action that only has negative benefits for everyone, or the opposite. Even Hitler's 6 million kills/Beyond Godlike streak/6M : 1 kill/death ratio is not wrong in this sense.
Because of his actions, people around the world are now more hesitant to resorting to war. Everyone is now more sensitive to war fatigue. In fact, we have all learnt from WWII that violence alone is no longer an answer to anything. Violence in the modern world can only be part of a solution, quite unlike the days before. Except for the US and certain African countries, but we all know that.
We've also seen major scientific breakthroughs because of the war, eg nuclear science. And Hitler is now the role model for everything a human should not be, including not having his funny little mustache.
In short, everything we do has balanced consequences. A death in the family can be sad, but it can give you release from the past, release from the chains of duty or anything else. Does not matter how atrocious the negative side can be, because there is always a postive equivalent. 2 sides of the same coin in every case.
This world is perfect because of that. Nothing you do can destroy the Universe. The Earth will continue to swing around the Sun for billions of years no matter what kind of deeds you commit. It will not make a difference in the largest picture. Everything seems to adapt to our every action.
But if everyone understands this, then they may as well lie down and die! Life will have no purpose for everyone! But the Earth will not stop spinning on its axis. The Universe will continue to exist.
It wouldn't be nice to force everyone to understand this. It is always important to be nice to other people because there are always consequences to everything, even if you don't see it. Just like if you play a practical joke on someone and you apologize later, his trust in you will still decrease a little. You cannot tell at first, but if you repeat the process enough times, the effects will become more visible. Plus his mental image of you will change accordingly and etc. Despite these, it will still be lots of fun.
This is what I mean by it being similar to psychohistory. People should stay ignorant of certain laws of life and such laws do exist. I'm not in any way insane or smart for understanding this, but I believe I should not be the only person who knows this.
Was reading this Wiki article on Hiroo Onoda, some Japanese dude who didn't stop fighting in WWII until 29 years after his country's surrender. He was the penultimate Japanese to surrender and his story was pretty epic. It was somewhat similar to Castaway in that he was alone for the last few years of his war because his fellow soldiers died one by one during the 3 decades. And he didn't leave even though some Japanese traveller found him and told him about his country's surrender over 20 years ago. Wtf!
And the Japanese government had to call up his commanding officer, who had become a bookseller after the war, to personally, in full uniform, order him to stop fighting. LOL kinda like reservist, except more dramatic. And that was what he told the traveller, that he would surrender only if he receives direct orders from his officer.
I can't imagine what he must have felt when he finally accepted the truth. He was probably thinking about what the past 3 decades had accomplished, which was nothing. And how he was unnecessarily wasting time and lives all these years.
Funny thing was, this Norio Suzuki (the Japanese who found him) told his friends before he left that he was "going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order." I found that pretty funny and hope he finds the Snowman someday. Probably found the panda if he went to China during his journey.
And after 3 decades of fighting, Onoda's rifle was still in working condition. Holy cow! Plus he still had 500 rounds of ammunition. That is enough to supply a small army camp! He probably never used his rifle throughout his guerilla days.
But he is an excellent example of how strong indoctrination can affect people. Despite all those flyers they dropped from the planes and the flyers left by the villagers living nearby, they never surrendered. They were unable to go against their beliefs and accept that their country has lost. He did not surrender even after a fellow Japanese informed him of this, 29 years after the event!
That is the best kind of soldier. Unquestioning and faithful to the last. Sometimes, orders just have to be strange because not everyone has the same clearance level to all information. I mean, low ranking soldiers aren't mean to think and question their orders. If they're supposed to think they would be higher-ranked officers instead.
And officers aren't meant to fight. Generals aren't meant to lead charges, despite all those heroic accounts in human history. Unless they need the morale boost, it is always unnecessary for high ranking officers to risk their lives. Normal soldiers can be replaced; leaders aren't expendable.
An excellent example can be Stalin. In the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands died during his reign but USSR stayed strong. The day Stalin died, poof! The USSR died with him.
According to this Wiki article on Survival Techniques, I already knew how to test potential food sources. Step one was to rub some on the skin and wait for 15mins to half an hour. If nothing happens, do the same on the lips. If nothing happens do the same on the tongue. If no irritation or anything occurs still, swallow a little bit. If you're fine after half an hour, it is edible.
Saw that on Discovery Channel, a show that taught me how to survive on a life raft if my ship sinks. That guy was showing the viewers how to test whatever you can find floating on the surface of the sea, including seaweed.
But if you wear leather shoes all the time, you probably won't have to worry about food.
Anyway, food is the least important problem if you're lost in the wild because a human can survive an average of 3 weeks without it. Water and shelter are apparently of higher priority. Unless you're in a very cold place, of course, in which case you will need food fast or you'll die of hypothermia. A lot of energy is needed to maintain body temperature in extreme climates.
Wow more drops in the Trade Up game now at 12am 21st Nov. DJ Stoxx is still dropping like a rock. But it's doing better than FTSE 100 because it's dropped by about $500 since I started playing, from $4300+ to $3800+ now. Even Crude Oil has dropped to $54.99. Only thing that is still rising is the Yen, probably a ton of speculators or something buying it. The rest of the currencies are either maintaining(SGD) or dropping(TL). Hell, everything is going down but the Yen. The Yen is like freakin godlike right now according to my records.
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