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Lego is ripping off the Galciv2 ship builder...

Lego is ripping off the Galciv2 ship builder...

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I could have sworn I built this in Galciv 2 at one point...
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Reply #26 Top
"The Brick Testament"

Nice, 'On Love' is hilarious!

1. Are all the faces Lego standards nowadays or did they paint them on themselves?

2. In the beginning, were there only bricks before He created Heaven and Earth and all upon it from the bricks?
Reply #27 Top
'On Love' is hilarious!

I take that back, On Self-Mutilation is hilarious!

What's the topic of this thread again by the way, am I off-topic? It's about legos isn't it?

*scrolling upward*
Reply #28 Top
this is by no means only happening in Australia. i call it 'cultural hypochondria.'


good one!

What happens in Australia all the time is whenever somone gets killed, the family goes on TV and cries and all that jass and demands new laws.... so the government creates the new laws. This process happens over and over again until you end up with all manner of stupid safety related laws choking to death that ideal once upon a time known as freedom!

Litegation or fear of litegation is an entirely different monster, but it certainly does work overtime to destroy freedom as well. Right now, here in Australia, there is a case against involving a quadraplegic who dove off some rocks at the sea shore and wants to sue the local council for not putting warning signs. This quadraplegic goes on TV and the TV report naturally is biased to drum up sympathy for him, but the reality of the situation, is that he chose to enjoy his freedom and had a tragic accident. To be honest, i think the court should tell him to fxxk off from trying to sabatage the coastline of Australia with billions of warning signs!!
Reply #29 Top
1. Are all the faces Lego standards nowadays or did they paint them on themselves?


i think they're standard. painting your own stuff on isn't easy (speaking from experience). erasing stuff is (you just need a pencil eraser). i've taken wire cutters, nail files and sharpies to my legos customizing them, too.
Reply #30 Top
a quadraplegic who dove off some rocks at the sea shore

How did this quadraplegic managed to dive off the rocks?? Was nobody there to stop his wheelchair??

Just kidding, here in the Netherlands I sometimes have the feeling it's already too late and we have rules and signs for everything. Although we do live here a little bit crowded compared to you guys of course, so maybe it's necessary.
But for instance when I've been on holiday to the Alps it always takes some time to get this idea out of my head that you can kill yourself on any moment by just walking off the path and plummeting down the mountain. I keep thinking that there should be railings and ribbons and staff preventing you from possibly injuring yourself.
I'm not used to mountains as well of course..

Reply #31 Top
i've taken wire cutters, nail files and sharpies to my legos customizing them

Isn't that one the early behavioural signs of a psychopathic killer?

In the mutilation section there were some Lego faces with missing eyes for instance, I guess the Lego company doesn't design those kind of faces.
Reply #32 Top
How did this quadraplegic managed to dive off the rocks?? Was nobody there to stop his wheelchair??


lol, yea, lazy grammer on my part!

But for instance when I've been on holiday to the Alps it always takes some time to get this idea out of my head that you can kill yourself on any moment by just walking off the path and plummeting down the mountain.


That feeling is called self preservation.... seems like our governments are striving to take over the responsibility of this concept from the general population. Along with the concept of right and wrong - since right and wrong have been replaced with legal and illegal.

See, we don't need to think about our own safety anymore, and we don't need to think about what is rite or wrong anymore, we are just cattle being herded along through the carefully fenced cattle yard of life.
Reply #33 Top
Isn't that one the early behavioural signs of a psychopathic killer?


we don't think so
Reply #34 Top
The marriage section is really funny too.

cops wear latex gloves now


FYI there's quite a market for "Cut resistant" gloves. They are essentially armored gloves. I'm not much of a fan of them (little too bulky, can't really feel anything)

I feel that latex gloves are needed in Law enforcement. I have no problem wresting with someone and getting a cold or a flu. Its more for when you are dealing with body fluids, cavities, or patting down addicts that may have needles.

A cold or the flu is ok. HIV, HEP, and MRSA isn't
Reply #35 Top
on don't get me wrong, i think it's a good thing for cops, the food service industry and others. this one time while i worked at a JambaJuice as an undergrad, some random lady somehow cut her hand and ran up to the kiosk demanding medical attention from us (and the amusing thing was, our store was in the courtyard of a military hospital). she bled all over the counter, and we had to close the store to santize everything. closing the store was good for us. for my anyway.

my bigger point was that the 'cultural hypochondira' in the home is a result of extensive advertising, which is occuring so that comapnies who make saftey products can make that much more money. serious communicable diseases are one thing, but the neurotic drive to kill off every microorganism in the home, whether it's a threat or not, is a little much. we're santizing our environment to such a point that our immune systems don't work as well as they should.
Reply #36 Top
my bigger point was that the 'cultural hypochondira' in the home is a result of extensive advertising, which is occuring so that comapnies who make saftey products can make that much more money. serious communicable diseases are one thing, but the neurotic drive to kill off every microorganism in the home, whether it's a threat or not, is a little much. we're santizing our environment to such a point that our immune systems don't work as well as they should.


That is more of a concern for people with children, since the childs immune system is naturally made stronger by contact with germs. I don't think it is so important for adults?

The natural order of things is that children with weak immune systems die off, just ask the early settlers about that! and the children that survive have individual strong immune systems as well as some genetic imune strength to pass on to their children. That is all turned upsideown these days which is good for the individual child but very bad for humanity as a whole over time.
Reply #37 Top

my bigger point was that the 'cultural hypochondira' in the home is a result of extensive advertising, which is occuring so that comapnies who make saftey products can make that much more money. serious communicable diseases are one thing, but the neurotic drive to kill off every microorganism in the home, whether it's a threat or not, is a little much. we're santizing our environment to such a point that our immune systems don't work as well as they should.


its not only making our immune system weaker.. but it is also making the germs STRONGER... those that survive become more and more resistant to what we use to kill them.