NationStates Jolt Archive


What NS wants for Christmas...

Riopo
22-11-2008, 18:35
Well, what do you want? I'm not getting you anything, of course.

It's approaching, and my Wish List so far...

- A PS3 and Call of Duty - World at War
- A new Fender Telecaster guitar & Amp

That's actually it. I'll probably get some idea's from the to-be posts. :)
Nanatsu no Tsuki
22-11-2008, 18:37
I want a billion dollars. But I'm sure Santa won't bring me that so, a Wii and Animal Crossing: City Folk will do fine.
Rambhutan
22-11-2008, 18:38
*waits for someone to do an NS Twelve Days of Christmas*
Nixxelvania
22-11-2008, 18:40
all i want for christmass is my two front teeth:p
Riopo
22-11-2008, 18:40
all i want for christmass is my two front teeth:p

Awww, how'd they come out, dude?
Katganistan
22-11-2008, 18:43
Hee, funny enough, I want my family and friends to go look at my housewarming registry and get me neat stuff for my apartment. I know, I know... but it saves time and they know precisely the color, size, etc I would like.
Riopo
22-11-2008, 18:44
Hee, funny enough, I want my family and friends to go look at my housewarming registry and get me neat stuff for my apartment. I know, I know... but it saves time and they know precisely the color, size, etc I would like.

Oh yes, and the Orange Vodka flavoured sweets. *nod* :)
Sarkhaan
22-11-2008, 18:52
I'd like Christmas to wait untill after Thanksgiving (hell, even Halloween this year) before invading my life. Really. I can't take the damn Christmas CD at work any more.
Fassitude
22-11-2008, 18:56
I would like for the people I know to pool their money and get me an hour or so with a consultant interior decorator. I've been thinking about doing something with my place for most of the year and setting off money for it, but the ideas are just not materialising. Quite frustrating.
Smunkeeville
22-11-2008, 18:58
I would like for the people I know to pool their money and get me an hour or so with a consultant interior decorator. I've been thinking about doing something with my place for most of the year and setting off money for it, but the ideas are just not materialising. Quite frustrating.

Can't you just go to Ikea? :p


I want someone to come finish my remodeling......living in this mess is killing my soul.
Fassitude
22-11-2008, 19:00
Can't you just go to Ikea? :p

Yes, but then what? No ideas = paralysed before choice.

I want someone to come finish my remodeling......living in this mess is killing my soul.

Apply to be in a DIY show and hope for the best?
Katganistan
22-11-2008, 19:03
I would like for the people I know to pool their money and get me an hour or so with a consultant interior decorator. I've been thinking about doing something with my place for most of the year and setting off money for it, but the ideas are just not materialising. Quite frustrating.
oooh, sounds lovely. I hope you come up with a look you love.
Aceopolis
22-11-2008, 19:06
A Colbert Christmas

Wait, that's coming next week.

Trauma Center Second Opinion
Call to power
22-11-2008, 19:18
all I want for Christmas is you! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ip-Ql5FQlhc)

I'd settle for some hazelnut cookies and maybe a special bottle of whisky really but if you have to give me some T-shirts I won't complain :wink:

SNIP

SNIP

SNIP

Santa's going to need a chiropractor
Dumb Ideologies
22-11-2008, 19:18
For Christmas I want the Global domination I so clearly deserve but as yet I have been cruelly deprived of. Or a lifetime's supply of haribo. And a pony.
Riopo
22-11-2008, 19:23
And a pony.

Unicorns are better... They are amongst some of the most kick ass of all animals. I mean a horse, with a horn. Lassie doesn't have a horn does she? That's because she's crap in comparison. Unicorns are the most magical of all creatures. Even their turds can cure cancer. And they fly. How many times in Braveheart did you see the horse fly? None. Because in comparison to a unicorn it's just crap. There is not one bad thing about them. And if you can mention a bad thing then you can't prove it because you've never seen one.
Call to power
22-11-2008, 19:23
a lifetime's supply of haribo. And a pony.

will it eat rainbows and poop butterflies? (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkaKAIl_Fc)
Saige Dragon
22-11-2008, 19:48
I would like for the people I know to pool their money and get me an hour or so with a consultant interior decorator. I've been thinking about doing something with my place for most of the year and setting off money for it, but the ideas are just not materialising. Quite frustrating.

For 50 bucks all consult you on damn near anything.

I really don't know what I want for Christmas. I've got everything I really need or want right now, other than a big chunk of land to build my house. I did ask for a particular backpacking hammock but no biggie if I get it or not. Other than that, I don't really care.
Dumb Ideologies
22-11-2008, 19:52
Unicorns are better... They are amongst some of the most kick ass of all animals. I mean a horse, with a horn. Lassie doesn't have a horn does she? That's because she's crap in comparison. Unicorns are the most magical of all creatures. Even their turds can cure cancer. And they fly. How many times in Braveheart did you see the horse fly? None. Because in comparison to a unicorn it's just crap. There is not one bad thing about them. And if you can mention a bad thing then you can't prove it because you've never seen one.

*ponders changing list having been presented with this new and surely reliable information*

will it eat rainbows and poop butterflies? (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkaKAIl_Fc)

No, silly, it will eat the French and fart the tune of "La Marseillaise", while destroying all my enemies by pooping bullets made of GLORY :p
Sirocco
22-11-2008, 20:15
A lifetime's supply of marinated olives. O_O
Quarkleflurg
22-11-2008, 20:19
for christmas.......dosh lots and lots of dosh so i can buy some clothes
Vampire Knight Zero
22-11-2008, 20:22
Sex. lots and lots of sex. :D
Free Lofeta
22-11-2008, 20:35
A conditional offer from Cambridge would suit me just fine...
Sarkhaan
22-11-2008, 20:38
Sex. lots and lots of sex. :D

Bend over.
Vampire Knight Zero
22-11-2008, 20:43
Bend over.

:eek:
Mavenu
22-11-2008, 23:22
I'd like Christmas to wait untill after Thanksgiving (hell, even Halloween this year) before invading my life. Really. I can't take the damn Christmas CD at work any more.

i concur. dumb companies.
Riopo
22-11-2008, 23:26
No, silly, it will eat the French and fart the tune of "La Marseillaise", while destroying all my enemies by pooping bullets made of GLORY :p

Okay that beats Unicorn's. :(
UNIverseVERSE
22-11-2008, 23:42
A conditional offer from Cambridge would suit me just fine...

Ditto.

My actual list is almost completely books, and very little else. I'm a geek like that.
Pure Metal
22-11-2008, 23:52
No, silly, it will eat the French and fart the tune of "La Marseillaise", while destroying all my enemies by pooping bullets made of GLORY :p
LMAO too funny :p
Lord Tothe
22-11-2008, 23:53
More bookshelves.
Soheran
22-11-2008, 23:59
I don't celebrate Christmas, so nothing.
Fartsniffage
23-11-2008, 00:08
To be able to find my passport. I'm supposed to be going away on Boxing day and I can't seem to find the bugger.
The Romulan Republic
23-11-2008, 00:27
The Dark Knight on DVD.
The Romulan Republic
23-11-2008, 00:28
To be able to find my passport. I'm supposed to be going away on Boxing day and I can't seem to find the bugger.

Maybe you should report it lost and apply for a new one. I just took in the application yesterday. I'm in Canada though, maybe it takes longer where you live.
Fartsniffage
23-11-2008, 00:31
Maybe you should report it lost and apply for a new one. I just took in the application yesterday. I'm in Canada though, maybe it takes longer where you live.

It's less the time and more the money. I don't have £80 to spend on a new on at the moment.
The Romulan Republic
23-11-2008, 00:33
It's less the time and more the money. I don't have £80 to spend on a new on at the moment.

Well 80 British pounds is more than it costs here. Canadian dollars being worth less.;)
Alexandrian Ptolemais
23-11-2008, 00:42
All I want for Christmas is a reasonably stress free lead up to the big day; it is always hellish at work as you try to manage an unmanageable situation.
Exilia and Colonies
23-11-2008, 00:44
I don't celebrate Christmas, so nothing.

In the spirit of almighty capitalism, go and get lots of presents anyway.
SaintB
23-11-2008, 03:16
Some quality time with a woman who isn't batshit crazy and going to steal, lie, cheat, or attempt to kill me.
Ashmoria
23-11-2008, 03:28
Some quality time with a woman who isn't batshit crazy and going to steal, lie, cheat, or attempt to kill me.
oh darlin' dont ask for the impossible.
The Plutonian Empire
23-11-2008, 03:54
Nuclear ICBM's. And lots of 'em.
New Manvir
23-11-2008, 04:00
A bedroom...
Holy Paradise
23-11-2008, 04:10
To paraphrase the rock gods AC/DC:

I want a mistress for Christmas. A women in red at the bottom of my bed.
SaintB
23-11-2008, 05:03
oh darlin' dont ask for the impossible.

Its a want, not a possibility..

Thanks for the concern though?
Redwulf
23-11-2008, 05:09
all I want for Christmas is you! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ip-Ql5FQlhc)


She's better (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pikz3DMhu54&feature=related). Yes, that actually is her singing. They actually had her come in a second time and told her that she had to sing WORSE so people wouldn't think she was lip syncing to Beyonce or something.

As for what I want, Bush brought up on war crimes charges would be nice.
Soheran
23-11-2008, 05:43
In the spirit of almighty capitalism, go and get lots of presents anyway.

Alright. I want a socialist revolution.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 06:04
I want World peace.
Lapse
23-11-2008, 06:57
to be honest, I'd be happy with a miserable rainy day...

Yes, I'm one of those poor suckers that has to work christmas day. (double time and a half is good though)

Failing that I'll be happy for a weekend away somewhere to relax.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 07:17
Yes, I'm one of those poor suckers that has to work christmas day. (double time and a half is good though)

Yeah double time and a half penalty rates is always good. That's why I enjoyed working over Easter I would work for 32 hours and be paid 76 hours, (the missing four hours is because Easter Sunday isn't a public holiday and so I was only paid double time). Still sucks you have to work on Christmas day though.

Actually there is something I really would like for Christmas but, after yesterday's performance I don't think I am going to get it.
Lapse
23-11-2008, 07:33
Yeah double time and a half penalty rates is always good. That's why I enjoyed working over Easter I would work for 32 hours and be paid 76 hours, (the missing four hours is because Easter Sunday isn't a public holiday and so I was only paid double time). Still sucks you have to work on Christmas day though.
Oh, it should be okay... last year patrons gave us bacon and egg burgers because "you poor bastards have to be here"
I have 7 on Xmas, 7 on boxing and 7 on New years... that'll be a nice fortnights pay.
Actually there is something I really would like for Christmas but, after yesterday's performance I don't think I am going to get it.
what? why? (unless it is the sort of thing most people wouldn't mention on a global public internet forum)
SaintB
23-11-2008, 07:35
what? why? (unless it is the sort of thing most people wouldn't mention on a global public internet forum)

His shipment of AK-47s got delayed again.
Wilgrove
23-11-2008, 07:41
A Libertarian Revolution in the USA. :D
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 07:44
Oh, it should be okay... last year patrons gave us bacon and egg burgers because "you poor bastards have to be here"
I have 7 on Xmas, 7 on boxing and 7 on New years... that'll be a nice fortnights pay.

Yeah that will be sweet, and that was nice of them giving you some food. But working on New Years? Does that mean only a small party for you? You are a lifesaver from memory aren't you? Do you work at a pool or something?

what? why? (unless it is the sort of thing most people wouldn't mention on a global public internet forum)

Nah it's alright I don't mind. I want to get into the honours program next year, I had my final exam yesterday and needed to get a distinction over all to be able to get me in, meaning I needed about 83% in the exam to achieve that. After talking to a few other people in the post exam party and their responses, it seems I didn't go that well and may only end up with a credit for the topic overall, meaning I don't get in. Nothing major but it is something I wouldn't mind getting into, and get for Christmas. Considering I hear about whether I get in or not in three days before Christmas it would make a nice present and solve one problem.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 07:45
His shipment of AK-47s got delayed again.

You seem to know a large amount about my shipment?
SaintB
23-11-2008, 07:46
Oh, it should be okay... last year patrons gave us bacon and egg burgers because "you poor bastards have to be here"
I have 7 on Xmas, 7 on boxing and 7 on New years... that'll be a nice fortnights pay.


I work on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing day, Easter, New Years... and ll the other holidays :(.
Lapse
23-11-2008, 07:51
I work on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing day, Easter, New Years... and ll the other holidays :(.bah, thanksgiving isn't a real holiday.

Yeah that will be sweet, and that was nice of them giving you some food. But working on New Years? Does that mean only a small party for you? You are a lifesaver from memory aren't you? Do you work at a pool or something?
Yeah, lifeguard at a pool. a fake beach to be exact. I have the 5-midnight shift, so it means I cna go out the night before. I thought that was amazingly good fortune!


Nah it's alright I don't mind. I want to get into the honours program next year, I had my final exam yesterday and needed to get a distinction over all to be able to get me in, meaning I needed about 83% in the exam to achieve that. After talking to a few other people in the post exam party and their responses, it seems I didn't go that well and may only end up with a credit for the topic overall, meaning I don't get in. Nothing major but it is something I wouldn't mind getting into, and get for Christmas. Considering I hear about whether I get in or not in three days before Christmas it would make a nice present and solve one problem.

I'm sure you'll be right. Even if you do get a credit, I'm sure you could weasel your way into the program by calling up the organiser and being really enthusiastic.
SaintB
23-11-2008, 07:53
You seem to know a large amount about my shipment?

Why do you think it got delayed?
SaintB
23-11-2008, 07:54
bah, thanksgiving isn't a real holiday.


Nonsense! It is a Holiday when your fat.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 07:59
Why do you think it got delayed?

Foiled again :mad:

*Slinks off back to lair*
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 08:00
Yeah, lifeguard at a pool. a fake beach to be exact. I have the 5-midnight shift, so it means I cna go out the night before. I thought that was amazingly good fortune!

Ah ok, cool, well that's alright then.

I'm sure you'll be right. Even if you do get a credit, I'm sure you could weasel your way into the program by calling up the organiser and being really enthusiastic.

Yeah hopefully. If I don't get in I will be going and presenting my case to a few people, hopefully not to many people apply and they take me in to make up numbers ;).
SaintB
23-11-2008, 08:02
Foiled again :mad:

*Slinks off back to lair*

Once again CONTROL triumphs over CHAOS.
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 08:09
Foiled again :mad:

*Slinks off back to lair*

Bah, AK-47's antique. Switch to AK-74's or at least AKM's.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 08:14
Bah, AK-47's antique. Switch to AK-74's or at least AKM's.

My "take over the world" fund is short on cash at the moment so I have to buy cheap. Perhaps you can help me and use your connections in getting me some of these rifles?
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 08:27
My "take over the world" fund is short on cash at the moment so I have to buy cheap. Perhaps you can help me and use your connections in getting me some of these rifles?

Well, the AK-74 is quite expensive, but the AKM was developed in 1959 and replaced the AK-47. Here's an article on the AK-47 and the AKM. http://world.guns.ru/assault/as01-e.htm
The AKM is quite cheap, I'd imagine.
Lord Tothe
23-11-2008, 08:42
Well, the AK-74 is quite expensive, but the AKM was developed in 1959 and replaced the AK-47. Here's an article on the AK-47 and the AKM. http://world.guns.ru/assault/as01-e.htm
The AKM is quite cheap, I'd imagine.

The problem is that all AK-series rifles are little more than carbines. Switch to REAL rifles! 7.62x54mm MINIMUM! There's the FN-FAL/L1-A1 or the HK-91 or the AR-10. Of course, the AK-74 5.45mm ammo is the cheapest available military caliber now, so take that into consideration.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 08:46
Well, the AK-74 is quite expensive, but the AKM was developed in 1959 and replaced the AK-47. Here's an article on the AK-47 and the AKM. http://world.guns.ru/assault/as01-e.htm
The AKM is quite cheap, I'd imagine.

Interesting a whole range of possible armaments.

I know the Finnish army has stockpiles of the AKM, perhaps you can make them magically disappear only to reappear in my army's hand. :p
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 08:49
The problem is that all AK-series rifles are little more than carbines. Switch to REAL rifles! 7.62x54mm MINIMUM! There's the FN-FAL/L1-A1 or the HK-91 or the AR-10. Of course, the AK-74 5.45mm ammo is the cheapest available military caliber now, so take that into consideration.

You also have to consider recoil. Try shooting on rapid-fire with an FN FAL.
Anti-Social Darwinism
23-11-2008, 08:50
I want a car with power steering and an automatic transmission. I love my Honda - at least insofar as it's easy on gas and cheap to keep up and repair, but my arthritis makes driving a car without power steering difficult. Four wheel drive would be nice, too, because the streets get icy around here.
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 08:52
Interesting a whole range of possible armaments.

I know the Finnish army has stockpiles of the AKM, perhaps you can make them magically disappear only to reappear in my army's hand. :p

RK-62. Pretty much the same rifle, but no wooden parts. Here's an article:http://world.guns.ru/assault/as43-e.htm
Miami Shores
23-11-2008, 08:55
At least a million Dollars $ after taxes.
Blouman Empire
23-11-2008, 09:00
RK-62. Pretty much the same rifle, but no wooden parts. Here's an article:http://world.guns.ru/assault/as43-e.htm

Cheers.

*Reconsiders armaments for light infantry*

All jokes aside thanks for the info and this site WMU, I don't mind reading up on this and will prove interesting.
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 09:04
Cheers.

*Reconsiders armaments for light infantry*

All jokes aside thanks for the info and this site WMU, I don't mind reading up on this and will prove interesting.

You're welcome. I originally found the site, when I found a link there from Wikipedia.
The South Islands
23-11-2008, 09:07
I want a pony, and a fire truck, and a Thai hooker...
New Wallonochia
23-11-2008, 09:11
You also have to consider recoil. Try shooting on rapid-fire with an FN FAL.

Firing pretty much any assault rifle on full auto is a waste of time except in a few, very rare situations.

The problem is that all AK-series rifles are little more than carbines. Switch to REAL rifles! 7.62x54mm MINIMUM! There's the FN-FAL/L1-A1 or the HK-91 or the AR-10. Of course, the AK-74 5.45mm ammo is the cheapest available military caliber now, so take that into consideration.

Sure the 7.62x54mm has a lot of ass behind it when it hits, but the 7.62x39mm is sufficient at the ranges in which firefights generally occur in urban combat (less than 100m).
Western Mercenary Unio
23-11-2008, 09:16
Firing pretty much any assault rifle on full auto is a waste of time except in a few, very rare situations.


What about bursts?
New Wallonochia
23-11-2008, 09:25
What about bursts?

Just about the same. I'd rather put accurate fire towards whatever I'm shooting at, especially with a higher caliber rifle. Something like the M16/M4 series isn't too terrible due to the very light recoil but you're still not going to hit anything further than a dozen meters away with any regularity.