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Here be FOOL'S GOLD, I tell's 'ee!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY" target="_blank">Arse! The Joy of Left Hand Love

Ray Harryhausen's test footage of a Martian from an unproduced version of The War of the Worlds (circa late 1940's).

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tr2H6dJhiyA" target="_blank">The chances of anything coming from Mars...

Anyone remember the Brat Pack flick St Elmo's Fire?

Anyone else realise that the movie's theme song was not actually about Demi Moore's jeep, but actually about a man in a wheelchair trying to circumnavigate the globe?

No...?

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qts5u6QJo04" target="_blank">All I need is a pair of wheels...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWsMKZt3Eg" target="_blank">She Loves You (Brains! Brains! Brains!)

That shark movie was, in a word...shit.

Now this, on the other hand, is the pinnacle of what modern spohisticated special effects and Babbage Engine doodads can do:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTB2iogcmsI" target="_blank">Holy Batshark!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7uICa9Yig" target="_blank">"Ere, d'ya want yer dog skull-fooked?"

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvP7dT3Dx0" target="_blank">*Really* Indian Thriller This Time...!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYczbBlatA" target="_blank">Turkish Star Wars

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Pjo0WjBcs" target="_blank">Indian Superman

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsQgKCTucM" target="_blank">Indian Thriller

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fli2JM3DZck" target="_blank">Come to Tony

I preferred this version of Captain Planet, meself...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFu__Q9ASU" target="_blank">Cap-tain PLANET!!!

"Now there's a *massive* difference between being treated like utter shit and being bullied. From your post, you weren't bullied, as you'd have actually used the word if you'd had. Being bullied goes far deeper than people who haven't experienced it can ever realise. I was bullied for years, purely for having long hair(!) I survived and had plenty of friends nonetheless (although at other schools). There are people I went to school with that I'd still seriously like to see floating face-down in a river with their throats slit even now, nearly 20 years on. Even though it doesn't rule most victims' lives into adulthood (including me), it's fucking impossible to just "let it go" when you've suffered years of constant physical and mental cruelty as a kid."

Well, thanks for saying that those five or more years of hell I went through during secondary school were little more than a bit of gentle ribbing - sorry didn't realise that this was a fucking misery contest. Glad to hear that being smacked about and spat on every day walking to and from school was just a fucking picnic, and that an entire school population refusing to talk to you and not having one single friend to confide in for six months is just bog-standard behaviour. Especially since the only time a teacher put a stop to me getting my arse kicked, it lead to the attackers claiming that they did it because I was being 'racist', and I got suspended and had to apologise to THEM.

Did you think that maybe - just fucking maybe - the reason that I didn't go into specific detail was because I didn't actually want to dredge all that shit up again, because I'd liked to have thought that I'd been able to move on with my life and leave all the crap behind?

Violence is NEVER the answer - I've learned that over time, and I've made plenty of mistakes because of it that I now deeply regret. Doesn't mean that I'm not held responsible - and I DO believe in personal accountability - but unless you understand WHY people do what they do, the cycle just continues regardless. And the truth is, you get used to being miserable - being sorry for yourself is a readily familiar state of mind, and I think it ends up being a psychological crutch, and ultimately if you can't be rational and move away from it, then it ends up controling and crippling you emotionally.

Sorry, I realise I'm coming across like a complete prick - and it's a fair assessment - but I really can't put into words the crap that post has brought up for me.

"Sorry, mate, I know it was twenty years ago, but do you really think you forget being punched unconscious? Being spat on? Being humiliated on a daily basis for four years?"

Let it go, Jim.

I know that's easier to say rather than do, but you can't dwell on these things, because ultimately it's only going to be harmful to yourself (and like you say, the guys involved don't even seem to remember the incidents, which shows how much importance they placed upon it). For your own mental and physical wellbeing, you've got to leave these things in the past - you've changed, and so have your former tormentors. Some of my best friends now are people who treated me like utter shit at school, but then they were treated like crap by others too. That's the nature of violence; it goes round in circles, and ultimately you're better off not giving in to it, because that's never the way to win.

That said, there was this guy in our class who used to punch people in the arm as hard as he could during every single class. For two years. Anyway, this stopped after I knocked him unconscious with a wooden stool in the science block.

Pah! You can prove *anything* with 'facts'...