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Today, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and anyone in any other categories, I'm gunna rant about Aria Farm Beef Chips.

I highly suggest people in no way buy these little expensive peices of cardboard.

Have you ever had a McDonald's patty? By that I mean no bun, no petty excuse for vegetables, no sauces, just a patty? They taste like watered down cardboard, and so, do Aria Farm Beef Chips.

The chips smell a little like lamb, and taste, well, much like what I'd expect a good meal of fried dog food to taste like.

Needless to say, they are not good, and I do not like them, and they get NO little gopher dudes, which is a worse score then Pearl Harbor (and that's saying something). The reason I say this, is I managed to sit thru the full 3 hours of Pearl Harbor, yet couldn't eat 2 Aria Farm Beef Chips.

On a Pearl Harbor note however; Shrek. , (brilliant movie by the way, reminiscent of The Princess Bride. with it's humor and gets 6/5 little gopher dudes) has out grossed Pearl Harbor in the US Box Office, in fact, Pearl Harbour hasn't even broken even yet (this meaning Ben Afflek, who gets a percentage of the profits of the film, has received nothing for his role yet).

Being poor is the best reason to take care of your teeth

I have no money.

Unfortunately I chipped my tooth today. All day I've thought that I just had something in between my teeth, to try cure myself of this problem I even bought floss!! But now, after a very unprofessional examination with a little mirror and a big mirror, I'm officially screwed.

on the bright side, it doesn't hurt.... yet, but I'm pretty sure it will start to soon.

It's on my top teeth on the inside, and as I brush and mouthwash (although, admittedly I don't floss) reguarly, I can't figure out what caused it (I haven't been in any fights recently and I was eating a soft food at the time of noticing it), probably a lack of milk.

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Fucked up or what?

I knew politicians were stupid, but this takes the cake.

How can anyone justify letting a natural disaster happen? Let alone one which has happened before!!

I'm sure DOC finds it perfectly reasonable to avoid upsetting local Maori and try to avoid loss of lives with a warning system, something which means traffic flow and trains have 45 minute warning, but that doesn't stop the larger environmental and economical effects it will have. It could disrupt major power pilons along the Desert Road area, cause potentially millions of dollars of damage to the transport infrastructure and possibly leak into the Tongiriro River - causing damage to Taupo's lucrative Trout Fishing market.

Am I the only one left thinking "what the fuck?" I would much rather have the government spend $200,000 and two weeks with a small bulldozer getting rid of the dam, rather then what could be easily millions in lawsuits (it's a preventable disaster, and possibly a future Cave Creek), repairs to infrastructure, and loss in profits from the fishing industry, as well as tourist and travel industries.

So some people get mad, there is no one way to please everybody, it's more a matter of which desision is better for the country as a whole, which will save lives and which makes more sense.

Pearl Harboru

Despite it's big budget, Pearl Harbour does not live up to expectations. Even before I saw the movie I had my first line sorted out, no movie, this hyped up could ever meet the public expectations. Even with this in mind, and trying to have no expectations at all, I still thought this movie sucked.

If you've seen Titanic, then in my opinion, you've seen Pearl Harbour.

Both movies follow the same formula: 75 minutes of love story and background, 75 minutes extreme graphic footage of the event, 30 minutes closing off.

Both have certain scenes in common, such as the sinking of the ship, in Titanic's case this was their money shot, in Pearl Harbour's case not so. In Titanic, there is a scene depicting bodies getting taken out of the water, there is an almost identical scene in Pearl Harbour.

These are only two examples of the many that make the two so similar.

At least Pearl Harbour has a slight twist to the love story, and although it has been done before, fits well into the story line.

The performance of Kate Beckinsale is a highlight of this movie, and does a beautiful job of depicting a nurse torn between two love interests. While Ben Afflek gives a less then stirling performance, Josh Hartnett deserves a mention for his acting, and all three are good for eye candy appeal.

The costumes are often not in tune with the era (1941), and we see Beckinsale's midriff, and is often fitted in more 60's clothing.

The film's money shot, where the Japanese bomb the ship 'Arizona' is spectacluar, amongst all the shouting and screaming, the whole thing gets blotted out into an erie silence as the bomb is followed from the chute, thru 3 floors, into the ship, it shows the reactons of those on board, and is a really great shot in itself.

All in all I give it 2/5 little gopher dudes for the shot and the eyecandy appeal.