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[Norfleet]

Originally posted by spirokeat:
Lets add the additional premise that paradise/heaven is actualy one continual unending peaking orgasm.

Would that equate to pleasure or pain ?

Well, it's like the saying goes: Too much of a good thing, is an awesome thing. But too much of an awesome thing, is really bad, and dumb.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Stormbinder:
How about puting your camera 20 feets away? Or 30? That would be enough distanse for standart camera to have you, and several of your T34 tanks on top of each other.

If you'd ever actually seen a T34 (or any other tank), you know that 20-30 feet isn't hardly enough distance, unless you use a ultra-wide-angle lens, which isn't common on the el-cheapo point-n-click disposable cameras someone was mentioning. Oh, and you cannot fit one inside a basement, either. Too large, especially in height.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
If you'd ever actually seen a T34 (or any other tank), you know that 20-30 feet isn't hardly enough distance, unless you use a ultra-wide-angle lens, which isn't common on the el-cheapo point-n-click disposable cameras someone was mentioning. Oh, and you cannot fit one inside a basement, either. Too large, especially in height.

Yes, well, obviously, Storm has never seen one, since he can't believe that anyone might actually come to own such a thing, not that it's a terribly monumental task for anyone with some money, given that you can BUY SUCH THINGS OFF OF THE INTERNET even now. He also has yet to address the fundamental problem of how the hell I'm supposed to focus the camera while it's lying on the ground, or get anything other than an extended shot of the floor from that position, or even how the hell I'm supposed to get this picture to him, not to mention why he should be worthy of this effort at all, given that I don't really care what a little child like him thinks.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
Do you guys never sleep or spend your time anywhere else?

Rarely.

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Yes, it's amazing how much one can accomplish thanks to the wonders of chronic insomnia. I can't imagine why anyone would want to get this cured, since you get SO much more done with your life when you can't sleep. This is why I have come to see that sleep is for weaklings.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
since he can't believe that anyone might actually come to own such a thing, not that it's a terribly monumental task for anyone with some money, given that you can BUY SUCH THINGS OFF OF THE INTERNET even now.

I suppose he'd not believe that there's a guy here in U.S., a private citizen, that owns a MiG fighter jet (or SU, I've forgotten which model he got)? And not one of the Korean-war vintage things, either. A very modern one. It was on network TV news some months ago. Of course, it's been disarmed. But it can still go supersonic, not that the FAA allows him to fly it that fast over the U.S.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
How about puting your camera 20 feets away? Or 30? That would be enough distanse for standart camera to have you, and several of your T34 tanks on top of each other.

If you'd ever actually seen a T34 (or any other tank), you know that 20-30 feet isn't hardly enough distance, unless you use a ultra-wide-angle lens, which isn't common on the el-cheapo point-n-click disposable cameras someone was mentioning. Oh, and you cannot fit one inside a basement, either. Too large, especially in height.

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First - I've seen plenty of tanks, including real T34s, several different models of them in fact. But based upon your words I am not sure you did. FYI the dimensions of T34 are 2.44m x 3.25 m (from the straigth front perspective). It not as huge as you seem to believe Arryn. In fact now that I think about it I even have the picture of me on top of T34 from about 1996 (but I will not claim that it was mine T34 )


Second - 30 feets is more than enough distance to show it. If you have any doubts just take a camera, walk 30 feets and look into it. And while you are doing it keep in mind that you can turn camera 90 degree if you like.


Third, I assume that Norf sometimes take his fictional tank outside the basement. He told us stories how he love driving it all over the place.


I could add more but I think that will be enough.

[ July 29, 2004, 10:34: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Arryn:
If you'd ever actually seen a T34 (or any other tank), you know that 20-30 feet isn't hardly enough distance, unless you use a ultra-wide-angle lens, which isn't common on the el-cheapo point-n-click disposable cameras someone was mentioning. Oh, and you cannot fit one inside a basement, either. Too large, especially in height.

Yes, well, obviously, Storm has never seen one, since he can't believe that anyone might actually come to own such a thing, not that it's a terribly monumental task for anyone with some money, given that you can BUY SUCH THINGS OFF OF THE INTERNET even now. He also has yet to address the fundamental problem of how the hell I'm supposed to focus the camera while it's lying on the ground, or get anything other than an extended shot of the floor from that position, or even how the hell I'm supposed to get this picture to him, not to mention why he should be worthy of this effort at all, given that I don't really care what a little child like him thinks.

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ROLF. Norf, unfortunately for you, I happen to be a military history buff, with particular interesst for WW2 weapons. And what more, my grand-father got a top State Award of the Soviet Union (Stalin's Premium) for designing very different oil filtering system for T34 during WW2. So please, don't tell me about T34 unless you want to show yourself even more stupid that you already did, and make me laugh harder that I am laughing as already.

As for the rest of your photography troubles, as well as how can you make picture public, give me a break. 6 year old kid can handle such "challenging" tasks just fine.

[ July 29, 2004, 10:20: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]