Recent content by Alumit

This hasn't been the first time I have watched people die on camera. As part of our IED training in the military, we were required to watch two videos of IEDs and their devastating effects. One video included a graphic scene in Turkey where a police officer was blown up by an IED in a crowd of...

Always loved that one. I also liked when Lenny said "There's no school like the Old School, and I'm the fucking Headmaster!" OP: "For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best...

King Duncan I, Macbeth, and Thorfinn the Raven-Feeder were all cousins, and I descend from them as well as Adam Duncan and Donn'chaidh Reamhar ("Stout Duncan"). Duncan I and Macbeth you'll know if you've read the Shakespearean play Macbeth, though Thorfinn isn't mentioned in it. He was basically...

I don't smoke but I have no qualms with people who do. It's not a personal thing, but I'm ALWAYS intimidated immediately by people who smoke or do drugs and such. It's kinda like judging a book by the cover but experiences (talking to people who smoke then saying I don't then getting immediately...

Age: 17 Race: Canadian (Half Australian, half Quebecois) Height: 5'11 Weight: ~158 - 160lbs Rejoining the army as soon as high school is done, and I like to play rugby. I'd consider myself half a geek and half an average kid :P

I usually only ever watch TV if I'm absolutely bored with nothing to do. Other than that, maybe a few shows if the programs are actually decent. As far as the fame thing goes, I watched shows on Family Channel when it was actually cool to do so (ie: before they got all this new shit in there...

This looks like a modern day Atlantis. Especially if something were to "happen" to one or many of the supports. Personally, I'd be too damn scared to live out over open water on a city / country supported by an oversized oil rig. 10$ says that they actually install an oil rig into one of...

I tried with my friends when we were younger, but we never got even halfway to getting them all before getting bored and playing in the trees and the park again. It was an interesting bit of time, though.

Isn't this the same as imprisonment or instituting only without putting them in prisons? You're still isolating and segregating them from the general public.

I had voted and meant pretty much the same thing. Imprisonment in prison systems and instituting the affected is too harsh. I would pretty much have affected individuals instituted for X amount of time (no longer than six months to one year depending on how the testing goes) to observe the...

More or less I'm somewhat neutral. I respect their job and their duties, but as individuals I can't take a side. Until they'd do something to me or someone I know that makes me want to lose my respect for them, they have an average amount of respect from me. As I said, I'm somewhat neutral - I...

If you've had some interest with Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", you may take some interest in "Muddle Earth" by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It's about this kid who's having trouble writing a paper for school and takes his dog for a walk. His dog pulls him down this hole in the ground and the...

I'm just playing around with Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" and Dante's "The Divine Comedy" right now. They're both quite the captivating reads - Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection and all of his notes to prove it and what he experienced when he was out on his five year...

There were new rules added to the forum? Haha, I should wake up and be more active in the forum. OT: I really don't care to be honest. So long as they're nothing outrageous, I probably wouldn't have noticed anyway.

Good luck mate ;D Hope it goes well for you! :D I'm currently applying to the Canadian Forces army reserve (as I'm still in high school :P) as an infantryman, so I'd say "so far" this is the closest :P Again, good luck to you!