I learned something interesting in Pathology class...

Necrosis is cell death initiated by overwhelming injury to the cell, and there are several patterns of necrosis which are categorized by the type of injury, the tissue involved, and the environment surrounding the dying cell. [Seriously, this is interesting. Stay with me here.]
One of the types of necrosis is traumatic fat necrosis. This is produced when traumatic rupture of fat cells results of the subsequent phagocytosis of the lipid material by macrophages. See, what happens is you get hit in the fat really hard which ruptures a bunch of fat cells. These cells bust and the lipids (human oil, if you will) spill out. This oil is now in a place where it's not supposed to be - outside a cell. So the body then sees it as foreign material and sends the supertrooper white blood cells to defeat the menace. They swoop in and start gobbling up all the fat and cart it away.
This totally makes sense because when I was in high school, I slipped in my parents foyer and slammed my thigh into a corner where 2 walls met at a right angle. This left a big ol' dent in my thigh that was still there the next day, and the next, and remained a dent for years.
Recap: traumatic fat cell injury causes the fat to be carted away by the immune system.

So here's your assignment: You must go out and get in a fight...and lose.

Rule #1: You do not talk about John Stone Fitness Forum...
Rule #2: You DO NOT talk about John Stone Fitness Forum...

Try to get punched in the gut alot.

That is all.

:) Interesting theory there Ansett. :) I think you are joking but I'm not sure because there are no emoticons :confused:

So kicking my boss in the ass the other day as I resigned was actually doing him a favour, Damn it :( :D

Marcus :tucool:

Of course it was a joke. :) Have you not seen Fight Club, Marcus? If not, I highly recommend it. It's very entertaining in a disturbing sort of way.

Of course it was a joke. :) Have you not seen Fight Club, Marcus? If not, I highly recommend it. It's very entertaining in a disturbing sort of way.

Yeah I knew you were joking, I was just messing with you. :)

I have seen fight club (about 10 times) but I didnt make the connection with your post but I see it now. I love the philosphy of that movie. Not the fighting but the way it views materialism and the contemporary world.

Some of my favourite quotes:

"It's only after you've lost everything
that you're free to do anything."
~Tyler~

"The things you own end up owning you."
~Tyler~

"You are not your job.
You are not how much you have in the bank.
You are not the contents of your wallet.
You are not your fucking Khakis.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of
the world."
~Tyler~

"You just had a near-life experience."
~Tyler~


Marcus :tucool:

I have seen fight club (about 10 times) but I didnt make the connection with your post but I see it now.
Oh, perhaps I needed to include rule #2 also to make the connection more apparant. I'll fix that now.
Yeah, there are tonnes of excellent movie quotes in that film. Definitely not a movie you can only see once.
Hey Marcus, what part Oz do live in? I have been to your country on business, which was great fun. Spent about a month, mostly in Jerilderie, but also Wagga Wagga, and of course Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne. It was a fun role reversal for me because people kept asking me to repeat myself due to my thick american accent. On the other hand, people would politely ask if I was Canadian, and when I said, "No, I'm from the USA", they would look displeased and just say "Oh". If I ever get to go back there, I'm going to go ahead and let people think I'm Canadian. :) They were nicer when they thought I was Canadian. Not that they were ever mean...just not as friendly after that.

"I want you to hit me as hard as you can [in the gut]" :D

Oh, perhaps I needed to include rule #2 also to make the connection more apparant. I'll fix that now.
Yeah, there are tonnes of excellent movie quotes in that film. Definitely not a movie you can only see once.
Hey Marcus, what part Oz do live in? I have been to your country on business, which was great fun. Spent about a month, mostly in Jerilderie, but also Wagga Wagga, and of course Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne. It was a fun role reversal for me because people kept asking me to repeat myself due to my thick american accent. On the other hand, people would politely ask if I was Canadian, and when I said, "No, I'm from the USA", they would look displeased and just say "Oh". If I ever get to go back there, I'm going to go ahead and let people think I'm Canadian. :) They were nicer when they thought I was Canadian. Not that they were ever mean...just not as friendly after that.

I live in officially the most livable city in the world, Melbourne of course :) (equal with vancouver and vienna). Sorry, I tell that to just about any foreigner that will listen :)

What do you think of the place? Did you visit the botannical gardens near the city?, I work in the vicinity and its beautiful, I just love jogging through the place.

Its funny with people from Canada and USA. I have some friends from both and I come in contact with a lot of tourists and I always get the accent wrong. If their American I always guess canadian and vice versa. Some canadians even get offended if I assume they are American. :)

What kind of business were you doing over here, exporting digierdoos and boomerangs or something? :D :p

Marcus :tucool:

What do you think of the place? Did you visit the botannical gardens near the city?
Its funny with people from Canada and USA. I have some friends from both and I come in contact with a lot of tourists and I always get the accent wrong. If their American I always guess canadian and vice versa. Some canadians even get offended if I assume they are American. :)
What kind of business were you doing over here, exporting digierdoos and boomerangs or something?
Marcus
I really enjoyed Melbourne. I didn't go to the botannical gardens or anything like that though, because most places you go have botanical gardens or other such spots. But I used my touristy time there to experience the culture. You know, talk to blokes and birds in their natural habitat - the Pub! Fell in love with VB (the beer, not the coding language), mmmmm!! Australian wine too. I walked all over Melbourne looking for the interesting places that the locals hang out. On the weekends that is. During the weekdays, I was out in the bloody woop woop. I was a software developer back then, and our company was financing a subsidiary there in Oz. Several of us took turns going over there helping it get started and establishing a presence...no big deal.
Yes, there are subtle differences between the Canadian and American accents. Mostly it has to do with how we pronounce the letter "o".
Interesting thing about Australia...there is no tipping. Gratuities not necessary or expected. Took me a while to figure that out. When I first got there, I tipped the bellboy who showed me to my hotel room ($1) at 7:00am. He was so appreciative/surprised he stood there at my door talking to me for about 45 minutes. I just kept wishing he would go away so I could take a bath and a nap.

Glad you liked VB, the good old definitive Victorian beer. Next time your here, try Crown Lager another great Victorian beer. Also, I love Cascade and James Boag (Tasmanian Beers). The wine is also becoming internationaly recognised. I'm not really a good wine Connoisseur but I'm really good at faking it :)

Marcus :tucool:

Yes, there are subtle differences between the Canadian and American accents. Mostly it has to do with how we pronounce the letter "o".

yeah, get the victim to say "out and about" for e.z. ID :D

I spent 11 days in Sydney in 2002 and seriously thought about just missing the return flight (oops) and going native/awol, I liked it that much (plus the sheer horror of another 14-hour flight but it wasn't that bad in the end).

now I'm trying to wrangle a trip to Melbourne for a few weeks to work with this software developer there we've contracted for a custom system, who in my opinion needs me there during the main development cycle next month.

natch my boss disagrees, dammit.

Crown is not too bad, and I just tasted James Boag for the first time on Friday evening (another mate who has spent time in OZ) and I have to say, the alcohol your country produces is fab. I expect this to not be the best compliment in the world, but yourselves and New Zeland (sorry, I know) have the best wines in the world (I find old world wines a bit stuffy).



I will have to spend a year off around the world at some time in the next 7 years (a fellowship, and I have no choice really, unless I want to piss on my own chips totally career-wise) and my choices are narrowed down to 2 already. Toronto or Sydney.



I'm not really sure where I'd like to go to. Both have similar prospects job-wise, so the deciding factor will be cultural/fun based. I would love input from natives from both cities. (That means you SCHTEEVIE)


Andrew.