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Our company just laid off about 20% of it's staff here... due to a slump in the housing market.
Can I say, I'm pooping my pants! sniffle

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Ouch Connie...

Victoria 4's Morphforms are currently pissing me off. The control morphs for posing the arms, torso, etc, are great BUT when you want to save them as poses for distribution, you have no choice but to save the pose with morphs, and then go into each pose with a text editor and strip out all the extraneous information. So far it's taken me about 3 times as long to edit all the files as it did to make the 30 poses in the first place.

Also, one of my cats (Forum Cat) keeps waking me up in the night by scratching on my wardrobe door. I even got up last night and opened the door - I was ready to shut her inside the bloody wardrobe - and she looked at me as if to say "Duh" and walked back around to the door, leant on it to shut the thing, and recommenced scratching. I'm shutting them in the kitchen tonight.

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It really ticks me off when I'm waiting for oncoming traffic to clear to make a left and the last two or three on coming cars race up to the interesection with no blinkers on and make abrupt right turns and I could have easily made my left safely long before.

Turn on your friggin' blinkers, signal your intentions and think of the other person.

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operaguy... I'm with you.  That makes me really mad too.  In fact, it just happened to me about an hour ago!

I tried ordering an item from air miles for the second time in 3 months, and both times when the item arrived it was the wrong model number! So now I have to go through the inconvenience of returning the same fan I returned to them 1 month ago!

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I just want to complain that this isn't the "New grapes and wine thread". Sorry. My mind just did that to the words when I was reading the title. :laugh: My biggest gripe is all the politicians in Washington are still there! Haven't we shaken it out over a trash can yet?

My brain is just a toy box filled with weird things

A 15 MPH speed sign in a school zone means you go 15 mph,  NOT MULTIPLES OF 15!
(I.E. 30, 45, 60 etc.)

Silly people like SoCalRoberta who don't understand that you're supposed to reverse the digits and then go the higher of the two speeds ;p

j/k - yeah, they annoy me as well, especially when they're behind me. "hello, you cannot go faster than the car in front of you!". And then, 5 minutes later on a major thoroughfare, where 98% of everyone is speeding, I get stuck behind either the 1% who are going the speed limit (annoying, but ok) or the 1% who are going WAY TOO SLOW!!!

Or idiots who slow down/clog the lane/access road, when they could have pulled into the huge parking lot much sooner. Attention morons: you only need to slow down right before your turn, NOT 30 minutes before.

People who only have to drive 10 minutes to get to work, but complain when it takes them an extra couple of minutes. For the reasons above. /looks at self ;p

Too freak'n many content sales going on here and elsewhere right now! My poor debit card is about ready to scream!. :cursing:

I'm a freak'n guy for petes sake, and I can't pass up a sale on Girl's clothes, Girl's hair styles and Girl's makeup(texture-character sets). I think I need to see a shrink!

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Quote - Too freak'n many content sales going on here and elsewhere right now! My poor debit card is about ready to scream!. :cursing:

I'm a freak'n guy for petes sake, and I can't pass up a sale on Girl's clothes, Girl's hair styles and Girl's makeup(texture-character sets). I think I need to see a shrink!

 

Finally a guy that's beginning to understand us wimminz :)

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I have absolutely nothing to gripe or whine about.

And if you believe that, you may be interested in a bridge I have for sale.

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People that do 40mph in a 60 zone AND brake to 20mph every time the road has the slightest kink in it, then STILL do 40 when they enter a 30mph zone.............Steve

We have  a section of road that drops from 70 to 50 mph and what pisses me off is the dick wads that brake when entering the zone instaed of just lifting off the accelerator and letting the engine do the braking!!!   Aaaaarrrgrgghghhhh!!!!
It's like "I must brake now or 50 yards into the zone the cops'll get me!!"
Tossers!!!

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Having to go to work on a Saturday morning when you'd just rather have a lazy day spent in the 3D art world.

where i live, there are hundreds, if not thousands of help-centers of all kinds for women. there are 3 (three!) for (hetero) men.

Just got moved from swing shift to day shift, so instead of getting to work at 3:30 in the afternoon, I have to get up at 4:00 in the morning to be at work by 5:00!

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

I second Sorm! Saturday is not for work in my mind.

btw, happy to see you again Storm!!

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I hate truck drivers who try to force me to go over the speed limit just because they're in a hurry. I slow down that'll teach them.

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Has to be taxi drivers who park in the middle of the road to let a fare in/out when there is a space available only a couple of cars length away.... i mean why?

Oooo I second the tailgaters trying to make me go faster :mad: I either slow down to a crawl when I know they can't pass, or I tap my brakes and scare the crap outta them. EG

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Quote - Having to go to work on a Saturday morning when you'd just rather have a lazy day spent in the 3D art world.

Oh! Welcome back! Is it just a stop in or permanent?

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I really hate whiners (present company excepted, of course! This IS the gripe and whine thread, after all ;))

You know the kind....always complaining about SOMETHING.....never happy.....can't please 'em for nothing. Wakes up whining that they woke up....LOL!

madame, i ain't got anything to gripe about, but thanks for the nice v4 gown!

I do but it wouldn't do much good. Until humanity wakes up and smells the coffee as they say things aren't going to change much.

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Taxi drivers who keep trying to kill me by pulling out without looking !!!
HELLO I HAVE MY BLOODY HEADLIGHT ON - LOOK FOR MOTORBIKES !!!! for we have been known to get aggressive
fsckers
In fact - make that taxi drivers in general - I dunno where most of 'em buy their driving licenses but it's about time the damn place actually tested them

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Quote - madame, i ain't got anything to gripe about, but thanks for the nice v4 gown!

Why thank you, Miss Nancy! It's very nice of you to say that. Got another one (night/house dress) that I'm planning to submit, too. ;)

Ok, peoples, carry on....

Woo hoo, Stormy is here!  
Well, now I got nuttin' to complain about (for a minute anyways) ;)

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My main grip is that the vast majority of folks hate Poser 5's Judy,    She would like more  wardrobe for herself instead of stealing Vicky's and Victoria's-and there are very few cousins for Judy-the ones that do exist are great eg ViktorinaP5f, SatomiP5f, LilianaP5f, FedosyaP5f and Christy P4 all here in the freebie section.  Plutom 

My gripe is all the people who gripe about how ugly the default Poser people are when they come out of the box!  I think the DAZ people are just as ugly til you add morphs and good textures to them!

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Quote - My gripe is all the people who gripe about how ugly the default Poser people are when they come out of the box!  I think the DAZ people are just as ugly til you add morphs and good textures to them!

 

Nah, I strongly disagree with that.  Posette was, IMO the last good native Poser female.  That's excluding Sydney, because I don't have P7 so I can't comment on that one.

What really let the P5 people down was the lack of morphs.  Maybe Judy can look good (in fact, both Quarker and 3Dream proved it) but it's impossible to make Judy look human without buying third party add ons.   Sure, you have to buy morphs for the DAZ people but at least they're directly available from DAZ.  Remember, the Gen 1 and 2 figures had the morphs built in, also.  Oh yeah, Judy also bends about as good as glass.

As for the P6 creature, I mean, woman...  Well, she doesn't have arms for a start.  She has flippers.  I honestly doubt the modeller even referenced any anatomy books when that hideous thing was being built.  No amount of morphs can allow for that, since clothes are built for the default shape.  Scaling Jessi's arms makes clothes go bananas unless she happens to be wearing nowt but a bikini.  Not to mention that great big balloon head she has.  To be honest, she reminds me of a very bad copy of the original Stephanie, but remade when the modeller was on some serious drugs.

On the other hand, the P5 and P6 males are pretty good by comparison.

DAZ's models may not all be ravishing beauties out of the box but they are more or less realistically proportioned.  Apart from V4's ridiculously oversized eyes and that stupid ribcage cut on the default shape.

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I hate kidney stones...especially mine!

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

The problem is I happen to personally know someone (My old supervisor at work) who looks like Judy straight out of the box so I have to disagree that she doesn't look realistic out of the box. And my point was you have  to buy morphs to make her look good just like you have to buy morphs to make the DAZ ladies look good. Doesn't matter who makes the morphs. If you need em' to look good you need em' to look good.

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Ok now I am pleasantly annoyed and griping and whining about the dis on Judy. 

You guys know I am lurking in this thread, and you are possibly aware of my advocacy of the best figure EVER in Poser/Daz world, until the birth of V4. And of course, that is Judy/EJ.

She is easy on the poly load. She is shapely. She is bendy. Add there is no problem whatsover making her cute as a button. The set of morphs on this character is so laughably better than anything you can throw at me.

Your complaint is that you have to purchase a product to bring her to life? Your complaint is that the purchase is not from EF or Daz.?

Can you guys afford $12.00 for the love of Morph? And why do you have a problem buying the morphs directly from the brilliant author of this concept?

Long Live EJ and all honor and respect to 3Dream.

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Good point, OG.  I'll concede that one.  I stand by my comments on Jessi, though.

I guess my main gripe about the morphs - or lack thereof - was that CL/eF seem to have abandoned the figure as soon as she escaped.  Little or no support from the creators hardly bodes well for a figure.  IIRC, it was quite a while before 3Dream worked his magic with EJ but I could be wrong with that one.

To be fair, I have used Judy once or twice but with Quarkers Farrah morph.  Never tried anything else.

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No problem.

When V4 came out, with limited morphs, I wrote to 3Dream and asked....no, I begged him to create a 'conception' and system for V4 as he did for Judy.

He wrote back and simply said he would not be doing it.

I am a gigantic advocate of V4, considering this model a complete class above all other pre-made models in 3D. But I wish for the exquisite control and exhaustive range of morphing inherent in EJ.

Both models, by the way, I use for male characters as well as female.

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I don't expect you to back away from your comments, but even Jessi can be made to look georgeous with the right morphs and posing. Just because you personally don't want to do it, doesn't make her crap. I could dis the DAZ figures for a lot of the same reasons.

I've done some images with Jessi that I've been very pleased with and seen my efforts outdone by others using her. She's not as ugly as all that and she's certainly no less useable than any other female figure, just because you don't want to use her.

Everyone has their own personal preferences and ideas of what's good and bad. I just don't like seeing people knock things for reasons that are completely subjective and expecting the world to accept those reasons as iron facts.

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Quote - I don't expect you to back away from your comments, but even Jessi can be made to look georgeous with the right morphs and posing. Just because you personally don't want to do it, doesn't make her crap. I could dis the DAZ figures for a lot of the same reasons.

I've done some images with Jessi that I've been very pleased with and seen my efforts outdone by others using her. She's not as ugly as all that and she's certainly no less useable than any other female figure, just because you don't want to use her.

Everyone has their own personal preferences and ideas of what's good and bad. I just don't like seeing people knock things for reasons that are completely subjective and expecting the world to accept those reasons as iron facts.

 

I'd use Jessi if her arms weren't disproportionate.  The balloon head ain't so much of a problem but the arms are a pretty much insurmountable problem.

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Opera, that is a wonderful morph of Judy-I was wondering what the heck was wrong with me, I really like the Judy figure--she looks like a girl I knew in grade school many, many, many years ago  (had a crush on her).  The combination of the face and poser room morphs can really transform her into a beauty--but not Jessica Alba.

One can always do post work in PaintShop Pro to fix stuff.  Plutom

I had no idea about this, "EJ" until I read this thread. I so want her. But wait...I have P6 and the description says the obj file is only in P5. :(

EJ requires that you own a copy of the original Poser 5 Judy. As a Poser 6 owner, you should have access to the Poser 5 Judy figure. It's certainly available to you as a download with a Poser 6 serial code.

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I have both P5 and P6 and I think the P5 content is included in 6.  Check yer Runtime.  I can't check mine at the moment.

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Yes, Judy is included in the content of P6.

All V1 and V2 textures will work on EJ (not on Judy) because 3Dream completely redid the UV for that purpose (among others.) Then...if you have UTC (Universal Texture Converter) from Daz, you can make all V3 textures convert over and work on EJ. I have many renders/characters with EJ as the base and various V3 texture maps on board.

I don't worry about clothes very much because I am either rendering nudes or dynamic clothes that I can always make fit. The outfit in the image above, however, was custom-made by Batlab for EJ.

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Okay thanks guys. The reiteration of ONLY threw me off. If the person had stated P5 and above, then I would've gotten it. I was devastated when I saw such a morphable figure and it said only for P5 and PP users. But now...Christmas came early. :)

> Quote - Yes, Judy is included in the content of P6. > > All V1 and V2 textures will work on EJ (not on Judy) because 3Dream completely redid the UV for that purpose (among others.) Then...if you have UTC (Universal Texture Converter) from Daz, you can make all V3 textures convert over and work on EJ. I have many renders/characters with EJ as the base and various V3 texture maps on board. > > I don't worry about clothes very much because I am either rendering nudes or dynamic clothes that I can always make fit. The outfit in the image above, however, was custom-made by Batlab for EJ. > > ::::: Opera :::::

Actually you can use V2 texture on the original Judy and you can use M2 textures on Don. This wasn't a 3Dream incorperation. 3Dream may have improved upon the UV mapping but the V1&2/M1&2  textures worked on Judy & Don before he made EJ.

Just to prove it here's the default Judy with a little ethnic faceroom work and a freebie V2 skin texture.

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On topic...gripe...

All the good clothing are being made for that wide-eyed freak named, Victoria4!

LOL.

I heart V4!

But I must admit, she has stollen the show and it must be very annoying for anyone who does not like her.

Quote - It really ticks me off when I'm waiting for oncoming traffic to clear to make a left and the last two or three on coming cars race up to the interesection with no blinkers on and make abrupt right turns and I could have easily made my left safely long before.

Turn on your friggin' blinkers, signal your intentions and think of the other person.

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That's why they don't use their blinkers -- because they don't want you turning in before they do.  They want to be the one in front -- like most other people these days.  And some people are willing to risk their own lives (not to mention the lives of others -- but who cares about them, anyway?) in order to get in front of you.

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E: You are getting a lot of attention.
V: Well, I'm new, you know.
E: Is everything okay with you? I heard you had an eye problem.
V: No, that was just a rumor. I see things with eyes wide open, but it is under control.
E: You walk in that dress like you own it.
V: They made if for me.
E: You know, I saw that dress on Victoria. That's it, you must have borrowed it from your sister Vickie.
V: I am not related to "Vickie"
E: Then what does the "V" stand for?
V: Voracious
E: Voracious?
V: It comes from a Latin word that means 'to devour everything with a greedy appetite."
E: Oh.

lol @ Operaguy. She sure is eating up all the stuff around here! Stuck up "Voracious" princess. I can see why all the attention she's getting...

Btw EJ OWNS this scene. Take that... V "looking like a deer caught in headlights" 4!

On EJ: Any idea which of the downloads from E-frontier actually contains
the proper Judy OBJ?  After checking through all my backups, it appears
that I did a scorched-earth elimination of everything connected to Judy,
and the P6 installer doesn't seem to contain that OBJ either.

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I think it's in the additional content package.

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/poser_5_content_product_9751

Thanks, SCR!  It's a monster, but I guess it's the only choice.

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England may not qualify for Euro 2008, England lose in the Rugby World Cup Final & Lewis Hamilton loses out on the F1 title. What a bad few days for English sport! 
I do have 3D gripes but if I start I'll never stop, LOL!!
I've actually deleted my entire gallery, I may regret it at some point but I think I reached the stage where I needed to move on & improve. I just need to find the time now.

Also, I'll just hijack this thread to say hi again to my friends on here. I'm back online permanently now. I probably won't have the time to post as often as I did before but it's good to be back & I'll try not to talk too much trash as I usually do, LOL.

Good to see you back, Storm.

Here's a 3D related gripe...

OperaGuy got me thinking about poses.

Poses which move forearms, lower legs and fingers above the first joint from side to side.  Female poses which insist on all women walking round on their tiptoes.

Most of the time I use my own poses but I'm still amazed by how bad some canned poses are.

Oh yeah, another one.  This is a perennial dislike...

Female faces with huge, pouty, smacked in the face lips.  And teeny, tiny noses.  And huge eyes.

And - sorry, all you faery fans - those bleeding huge great pointy bloody ears.  Not that it's any business of mine, since I avoid them like a blood transfusion from Rock Hudson.

Baked in specularity in hair textures.  Skin people don't do it any more so now we should grab our pitchforks and go to work on the hair guys.

Somebody stop me! :biggrin:

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Quote - since I avoid them like a blood transfusion from Rock Hudson.

 
LOL, that's bad Sam, but very funny!

I agree about the hair textures. OK, we could correct this ourselves, but if you've paid for the hair then you shouldn't have to.

Brand-new gripe: People who constantly 'housekeep' and throw out
stuff that they will need tomorrow, and who really ought to have learned
after all these years that the discarded items will be needed tomorrow,
and who then have to ask for the stuff from secondary sources, which are 
fortunately available but monstrously inconvenient to use.

In other words, me.

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You know who hated the depiction of elves with pointed ears?  (No, not Cate Blanchett, she took the part of Galadriel partially so she could wear pointed ears.)

J.R.R. Tolkein.

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Quote - You know who hated the depiction of elves with pointed ears?  (No, not Cate Blanchett, she took the part of Galadriel partially so she could wear pointed ears.)

J.R.R. Tolkein.

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Nice to know I'm in good company. :)

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My 3d gripe is about people who complain about how the Poser community is being "destroyed" by people who don't make freebies. Then the same group oif people complain about there being too many freebies, or they don't like the quality, or it's the "wrong" kind. 

Ummm... I was one who complained about not enough freebies and too many merchants so now I make freebies instead myself thank you very much.

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Glad to know you'll stay permanently with us now Storm :D

Another gripe:

those 3D companies that make softwares you pay full bucks but don't work full time! If we were officially beta testers, we would be paid, as we are unoffivial beta testers, the real freebie is us!

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Some 3d gripes:

Poses where, for example, the neck is rotated 25° and the head is rotated -25°. Like others above, I usually make my own poses, but occasionally I use premade ones for inspiration.

The fact that there are approximately 120,472.783 render plugins for 3DSMax, compared with the relatively few standalone or multi-application plugins. Please note that the above figure, while made-up, is most likely an understatement. Fortunately, however, things have been getting better recently.

GRIPE:
My favorite 3DSMax/Maya/XSI plugin is not available for Poser or Carrara. 

It's a combination of a way-powerful ZBrush-type texture/mesh painter combined with an insanely great facial animation and lipsync tool. Watch Joe's videos and drool.

http://www.lbrush.com/max.htm

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I got another serious gripe.  In the freebie section-those beautiful dynamic clothes, suits etc. and  the xxx forJudy morphs,   I want to do that sort of stuff too.  However, my brain cells aren't up to it.   How do I know, well me efforts in the setup room for one thing-cant tell if its SOE or the a real bug. Plutom

SOE-Stupid Operator Error

Darn it that ZBrush looks fascinating-got a copy of issue 95 3D World Magazine with a tut on ZBrush.
 

Gripes:

-My horrible (talking almost legally blind) vision occuring NOW in my late 20s. How I dream of a world, where the first thing I wont have to do in morning, is reach for my glasses to see my alarm clock. Anyone wanna donate to my lasik fund?
-My bad back the two epidurals made worse
-My two computers. Why is that bad you may ask? Not bad, but one is a laptop and the other a desktop. The DESKTOP has ALL my poser content on it. All million contents I can't even bother to download onto my laptop so I have to sit all day long (due to my Poser addiction) upwards at the desktop, resulting in...you guessed it...MORE BACK PAIN!
-Tutorials which leave me more confused than enlightened.
-MY POSER ADDICTION. You know you're addicted when you spend $60 dollars on content for a DOLL. You know you're addicted when you're tickling your 2 yr old with one hand and browsing with the other. You know you're addicted when your chin is holding the bottle so your good hand is free. You know you're addicted when, instead of sleeping when you can, you're on the net!
-Lack of sleep. Did I even make sense? I'm working on atleast 3 GOOD hours of sleep here.

Quote - ...You know you're addicted when you spend $60 dollars on content for a DOLL....

 

Is that all?  Lightweight.  Away with ye!

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My current gripe: Working graveyard shift 4 nights a week, 10 hour shifts, not getting enough rest during the week, unable to shake a stoooopid cold and sore throat for the last 3 weeks now!!!

I have my 8 year old daughter Friday to Mondays (my days off) but I never seem to be able to catch up on getting rest on the weekends!!!  Fortunately my little girl is harsh cool and mellow like me and she's a homebody like me too so we can just chill at home and still have a great weekend!!

Another gripe: Had a HD die a few weeks back and still haven't gotten around to getting all my Poser stuff  or 3D Studio Max reinstalled...  Not enough time or energy....   :sad:

Have Max 8 and the new 3D Studio Max 2008 is looking SWEET!

Might have to check into upgrade options!!  Then I'll be griping about $$$ or the lackthereof after that!!!  LOLZ!!

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We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

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Actually the down turn in the US economy is great for me...an exchange rate of my £ buying 2 of your $'s is great for my bank account...plenty of quality goodies at peanut prices ;0)
Obviously I'm making the most of it until our economy goes belly up lol!

 

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