Celebrityscraps

So I heard an inkling that the female nightelf dance in warcraft is based on the french singer Alizee’s dance in a song of hers…!

Who would win in a celebrityscrap!!!

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So we’ve all read about the Canoeist “John Darwin” who 5 years ago faked his death in an “apparent” canoeing accident. He then made a few fatal mistakes which lead to the police discovering he was alive and his wife was in on it.

You see faking your own death takes a lot of planning, care and closemouthedness. First, you need to figure out what kind of death you want to have. For example, suicide, accident, or murder.

Next, you need to figure out how you will fake your own death.

Suicide and Murder are the two easiest to fake, unless you live in a town with an excellent police department, or have a suspicious parent/guardian/spouse who loves/hates you a whole lot and has lots of money to spend.

Accident is more difficult because you need to lead people to the conclusion that you are dead without actually producing a body. John would have done better if he’s lost his teeth in some “nasty accident” and then went to the dentist and sorted himself out with false ones. Then (moral implications aside) he could have found a similar size and age migrant worker to “knock off”… pull all his teeth… and hey presto… the cops have a body… although the best way of disguising it would be accidental fire!

Anyway John chose the easy method….. Suicide can be faked most easily; for example by leaving a suicide note, and jumping off a bridge and not resurfacing while making sure there are plenty of people to see you and not actually managing to drown yourself.

Research is crucial! Make sure you know how to swim well and how to land in water from a high altitude without hurting yourself.

Logistically, you need to have a getaway car secreted in some nearby spot and don’t be stupid and pack up your room. Dead people don’t need their clothes and cds.

Murder is also fairly easy, but this often requires pinning it on someone else, which may cause moral issues and also requires that the patsy have a plausible motive. Being murdered by an anonymous person, like a mugger or a thief, is very unlikely to work since your death is not easily verifiable and they can’t have a plausible motive to work with. Think Double Jeopardy, and Wild Things. Again, the key is not leaving a body, but still making it obvious that you are dead. Smears of blood, teeth and body parts such as fingers are often sufficient identifiers, but use your imagination.

Accident is the hardest to fake successfully without having a body, so the only real way to do it is by the ‘missing and presumed dead’ method. This is the one John Darwin opted for. A climb of a dangerous high mountain, Canoeing on “calm seas”, hiking alone in the forest, or driving somewhere and never making it to your supposed destination and leaving a burnt out car and smears of blood all over the place should work, but again, use your creativity.

The important things to remember however, are

1. Careful planning == greater chances of success

2. Don’t go blabbing to your friends

3. Don’t change your mind at the last minute, as doubts and hesitation at the last minute may cause someone to get hurt or die, for real.

4. Don’t have a picutre of yourself and you “supposed widowed” wife taken at your new holiday home in Panama and then proceed to board the nearest plane back to the UK and check into the cop shop as a missing person….. opps …. rumbled.

If you’re planning on faking your death own death remember convincing people you are dead is the easy part. The tough bit is emerging from your charade as a new person. You’ll need a new National Insurance Number (NIN). You need a birth certificate to receive a NIN. Where do you get a birth certificate? Those sort of records are notoriously hard to find. You’re not likely to get one just by asking. You can’t use just anyone’s either. If you use one from someone who’s still alive, or worse already dead, you’re back to zero and probably incarcerated for Identity Theft.

A popular “film method” is to get a birth certificate for an infant who died shortly after birth because, supposedly, Death Certificates aren’t issued for infant deaths, or some such nonsense.

Guys as the story of John Darwin has tought us… if you’re a complete retard…. don’t try and fake your death

So we all hear about online crime but those of us who hear about it rarely experience it unless we are either particularly careless or particularly gullible. I’d hate to think how many emails I’ve had from that “kind” Nigerian banker who has $2 million just waiting to be transferred to my account as soon as I give him my account details?

Only recently Ananova.com reported on how a 17-year-old was arrested after playing Habbo Hotel (an international game and online community with an estimated seven million members) and being found guilty of stealing £2,500 worth of virtual furniture (dutch police never do things by halves!).

Virtual theft is a growing issue in virtual worlds; in 2005 a Chinese gamer was stabbed to death in a row over a sword in a game. Shanghai gamer Qiu Chengwei killed player Zhu Caoyuan when he discovered he had sold a “dragon sabre” he had been loaned.

The most daring and awe inspiring online heist of course goes to the Guiding Hand Social Club (GHSC) corporation in Eve Online (open ended sci-fi mmorpg with a heavy emphasis on roleplaying).

GHSC; a freelance mercenary outfit that offers their services (which usually involves corp infiltration, theft and assassination) to the highest bidder pulled off a huge operation. Over a year in planning, the GHSC infiltrated their target’s corp with their own members and gained their trust, as well as access to the corp hangers, with time. It all concluded in a perfectly timed climax, with a massive theft in multiple corp hangars synchronized with the in-game killing of the corporation’s CEO, the primary target of the contract.

What’s most interesting and impressive about this operation is that it was entirely ‘legal’ and within the game’s own rules, and the mastermind and his agents pulled it off together flawlessly, all the while staying in character. The estimated real-life value of the items stolen is, according to PC Gamer, $16,500 US. The in-game value of course is much, much higher as the things stolen would take years and years to acquire.

Remember peeps!! Trust no-one!

Ok…. so after seeing what various friends of mine have done of their blogs I’ve decided to throw down a Christmas competition! Last month one of my friends quit Warcraft and gave me a free game-card which i still haven’t used!!!

So in the spirit of Xmas I’ve decided to pass this freebie onto all of my celebrityscraps fans!!

It’s very simple…. entrants my post a LINK to a “funny WoW screenshot” that THEY TOOK in the comment section of this post….. the winner is the one that i deem to be the funniest!

Here are the rules!

1.) Winner will be chosen by me

2.) My decision is final

3.) Arrangements for collection of the prize will be made between myself and the winner

So get taking those screenshots and win yourself and extra Xmas pressie!!!!!

So last night I awoke to a rather nasty pain which followed by me vomiting and stomach cramps for about 3-4 hours…this has left me feeling quite unwell today. Rather than treat work to my bodily fluids and general unwell state after a failed attempt to make my way into work I opted to call in sick and get some general rest…..

Low and behold I recieve an influx of people telling me it’s a “bad day to have a sick day” and also get lots of general work requests for me to do at home. Even my housemates jump on the band wagon and send me lists of housework to do since i’m at home anyway! Sure i’m ok to move in the confines of my own bedroom ….. but am I mad in thinking that when your ill the only requirement should be rest.

EU law states that i’m allowed to self cetificate for the 1st 3 days of sickness… I often wonder if other people get the same level of abuse when they are ill or if it’s just me??

People wake up and smell what you’re shovelling… Sick days are there to allow people to get better! A Sick day is not defined by someone who sits at home unwell doing their daily work… if it was we’d have “hospital style” wings in every workplace for Ill employees!

Things i find on the net never cease to astonish me …… A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.

Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, spent three months creating his Compubeaver, reports Metro News.

And, in separate but related news, two more US inventors created a computer mouse housed in a real mouse….. first question…. WHY!!!……. second……………. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ms McMahon said of her Compubeaver: “I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer into and decided it had to be a beaver.

“It looks at how nature relates to technology.” (hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)

She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife. Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.

Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein took the concept of a computer ‘mouse’ to its natural limit.

Both contribute to the Instructables website - which describes how to make similarly odd creations - and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent bought dead from a US pet shop.

The more i see stuff like this the more i’m convinced that ‘idiot snipers’should be the order of the day in all countrie… snuffing out the endless waves of fools living among us!!!

Picking up women has been getting plenty of press these days.. in both magazines and on TV. Shows often follow the “socially inept” in their struggle to master so called “seduction techniques”.

A “comical gem” pickup technique that a dude on tv was on about last night (known as “negging”) described a move that involves interjecting an insult during an initial conversation with a woman. The motivation behind the insult is to “lower her self-esteem, thus making her more vulnerable to your advances.” While this tactic has provoked considerable ire, by all accounts from the dude and his skirt-chasing endevours, it seems to work.

The show also described how Psychologists have been researching the topic of men insulting women, publishing a study called “Why Do Men Insult Their Intimate Partners?”.

Their first set of data consisted of a survey of 245 men with a mean age of 25.8, all of whom had been in heterosexual relationships for a mean length of 43.1 months. Each man was asked to record how often he insulted his female partner in the course of a month, choosing from a list of 47 insults divided into four categories: “derogating physical attractiveness” (e.g. “You’re ugly”); “derogating value as partner/mental capacity” (e.g. “You make my life miserable” or “You’re stupid”); “derogating value as a person” (e.g. “You’re useless”); and “accusations of sexual infidelity.”

These men were also asked to record how often they performed any of 104 acts labeled “mate retention behaviors” during that same month, including “direct guarding” (e.g., secretly following a partner when she goes out alone) and “public signals of possession.”

A second set of data came from 372 women who were asked to detail the number and type of insults they received from their partners, as well as the males’ mate-retention behavior rates.

The results showed that men who piled on the insults (particularly those in the “derogating value as partner/mental capacity” group) were far more likely to engage in mate retention behaviors, suggesting that “men’s partner-directed insults may be deployed as part of a broader strategy of mate retention.”

So there you have it peeps…. another truckload of cash spent on a poinless study proves the fact that if you treat her mean you’ll keep her keen!!!!

There was a time, about a decade ago, when LucasArts was best known not for its thousands of different Star Wars games, but for its graphical adventure games for the PC. Most all of these were very good, but some were so extraordinary that they remain uniquely remarkable to this day. The Monkey Island Series, Grim Fandango, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis….. all are classical masterpieces of their time that can still kick the crap out of anything Lucasarts is shovelling out of their doors today, however we must not forget the piece of art that is Day of the Tentacle!!! It is one of the funniest, wittiest, most charming, and most inventive adventure games ever made and it still makes me laugh! *use hamster with freezer* — GENIUS!

It also features one of the greatest video game villains ever: Purple Tentacle, whose name is self-explanatory. Purple Tentacle takes a sip of some toxic sludge, grows a couple of stubby arms, and turns incredibly evil. Nerd Bernard, spacey scientist Lavern, and portly surf dude Hoagie unwittingly free the tentacles from their master, all hell breaks loose…sort of. In short, the freakish Dr. Fred ends up dumping Hoagie 200 years in the past and Lavern 200 years in the future in a pathetically failed attempt to have the three friends undo the damage they caused. It’s up to you, at that point, to play as all three of the characters in their respective time periods, flushing items back and forth through the future via a toiletlike time machine and eventually thwarting Purple Tentacle’s plans.

Day of the Tentacle is continuously amusing if not laugh-out-loud funny to watch and listen to. The game’s exceptionally good voice acting stands out even to this day, and the excellent character animation and bizarre cast of characters–including the mummylike Dead Cousin Ted and none other than George Washington–make the game as memorable as they come. LucasArts pioneered a brand of adventure game in which you could never die–you would just get stuck for a while if you couldn’t figure out a puzzle–and Day of the Tentacle is a perfect example of this carefree, frustration-free style of gaming. This is a genuine classic–very few games have matched or exceeded the quality of Day of the Tentacle’s production.

Quite simply D.O.T.T. Rocks!