Est-il vrai?


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(dognutz, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:39, archived)

shouldn't that be a whale?

( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:40, archived)

shouldn't Hitler apologise for the war?

( Master Of Turnips. In the arena of logic I fight unarmed, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:41, archived)

Shouldn't you be revising?

( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:42, archived)

Yes
/leaves
( Master Of Turnips. In the arena of logic I fight unarmed, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:43, archived)

WHAT?
Turnips is just a bairn?
( The Snockerty Friddle, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:58, archived)

He should by his own admission

( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:01, archived)

il y a un whale dans la Seine!

( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:40, archived)

Hahahaha!
il n'est pas vrai, il est un coq de verre
( Afinkawan, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:40, archived)

i read that as coq de buerre
which would be quite something else, i suppose
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:46, archived)

Probably
but at least it would be self-basting.
( Afinkawan, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:50, archived)

hahaha
i like that
total TJ: Look! They've actually gone and made those big "get away from her you bitch" machines from Aliens! Lordy!
news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/technology_enl_1169555154/img/1.jpg

p.s. how do you do the linky thing?
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:42, archived)

Oh. My. God
*buys eleventy thousands*

Whats the link to the article?
( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:43, archived)

no article
it just says underneath it "Masaaki Nagumo, an engineer at Japan's machinery maker Sakakibara Kikai, gets into a 3.4-metre tall, two-legged robot called Land Walker for a demonstration as part of an art exhibition."
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:48, archived)

google all of those nouns

( mictoboy, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:50, archived)

shan't

(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:51, archived)

How do you ever expect to learn anything
if you won't google all the nouns?
( mofaha : life during wartime, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:59, archived)

*googles nuns*
*learns a great deal*
( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:01, archived)

*refuses to google nouns*
*works on a switchboard*

/stupid switchboard bloody workers....
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:03, archived)

an Art exhibition?
Let down of the year =(
( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:50, archived)

It's a demonstration of it
therefore it must work.
art isn't completely useless you know
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:53, archived)

Yea but art exhibitions aren't renowned for killing ability

( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:56, archived)

unless you count sheep. and sharks. and cows.
but sadly not with rapid-fire weapons. more's the pity.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:58, archived)

GC i think
It moves really slow. I think a clapped out Astra could take it out by just driving into it.
( cooler_king http://www.flickr.com/photos/_russ_/, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:45, archived)

Dont worry about me
I'll just cut myself with these broken dreams
( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:45, archived)

There there...
You're still young enough to see future Mecha developments. You can't keep a good crazy Jap inventor down.
( cooler_king http://www.flickr.com/photos/_russ_/, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:49, archived)

yup

( mictoboy, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:45, archived)

there's a video for that
i've seen it, it has a diesel engine, and walks like a spacker, but it can go up slopes
i think it can fire foam bullets too, iirc
( mictoboy, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:45, archived)

i must see this video
it was new news to me, which is why i threadjacked, juuuust in case
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:47, archived)

i think it was linked on 4rthur, which is now defunct, so have no idea how to find a useful link

( mictoboy, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:48, archived)

maybe this:
www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/Japanese_Walking_Robot_Resembles_ATST_99578.asp

google 'japanese walking robot' but it's not the top link


edit: MY FUCKING PLEASURE
( mictoboy, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:49, archived)

l n
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:50, archived)

bloody hell
that moves SHITE. it's not walking - it looks like a drunken old man shuffling in a tin can

/disappointed
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:00, archived)

That is great...
Want One Want One!
( Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:47, archived)

Strap on a mini-gun and i'm in Ed-209 heaven

( Colonel Dracula Is not as think as you drunk I am, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:47, archived)

perhaps one of
these?
(dognutz, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:51, archived)

Drools.........
"Lets Rock!"
( Colonel Dracula Is not as think as you drunk I am, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:55, archived)

You krazy kid
That picture is in-seine
( Colonel Dracula Is not as think as you drunk I am, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:44, archived)

poor french
Vrai = true not real
(cs192 how appropriate, your mother fights like a cow, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 15:56, archived)

!

(dognutz, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:02, archived)

It can be used for real as far as I know
/not an expert blog.


what do you think the French word for 'real' is then?
( Afinkawan, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:07, archived)