the election, and stuff..

Celestial-Todd said:
Saying Tesla invented electricity is like saying Alexander Grahame Bell invented speaking.... all they did was discover a way to truely harness it (with Tesla, the alternating current... Bell, the telephone).

Yup. In actual fact, what he did was discover a way to generate and harness *alternating* current effectively. New York was already wired up and had *direct* current electric power for about 18 years before Tesla even emigrated.

(He did a lot more than that as well, such as three phase power and the radio, but it's still no invention of electricity)
 
Celestial-Todd said:
Saying Tesla invented electricity is like saying Alexander Grahame Bell invented speaking.... all they did was discover a way to truely harness it (with Tesla, the alternating current... Bell, the telephone).

THANK YOU, this point was shitting me and I was about to say something along those lines - nobody 'invented' electricity.
 
Fine.

Oh, it's big deal when everyone else likes something. Yay, balloons and streamers. But what's this? Here comes phloggy! Quick everyone! Hide! Oh liking stuff? That was like SOOO 20 minutes ago.

*sigh* That's the story of my life. Now if you don't mind I'm going to be over here playing with my Yu-Gi-Oh Tazos. Alone.
 
I hate those Yu-Gi-Oh things. You know you are old when you see something and go "oh thats the latest kiddy fad". I hate things that make me feel old, I used to be IN the fad, so I couldnt see it as one, but now... :(
 
So all it takes to turn you from a suicidal maniac to a well adjusted guy is a balloon?
 
Oh yeah, Tesla also devised a patent for a "free-energy" machine and apparently had "visions" and could see what his patents were going to look like even before he'd invented them. He was a pretty complex fellow.

Cricket rocks.
 
This thread is a monster, it has like another 2 pages every time I look at it. And I thought my Australian Idol one was big. Rock. :headbang:

Spawny, that reminds me of when I was watching Rage the other night, thinking "I hate to sound like someone who isn't cool anymore, but all this shit sounds the same". I am only 20, I am not supposed to start thinking that already. Everything these days is either generic garage rock or generic R&B (and I am not even sure why it is called R&B). For further proof, one only had to watch those MTV awards the other night. What shit.
 
Well, really, it IS getting all the same, things are different now theres music videos and Australian Idol/Popstars tv shows all homogenising everything. It just seems to be getting worse as we go, imagine when we are 50 how shit music will be :(
 
I find it funny that people in today's rock scene say all the hair bands looked the same. Why don't they have a look at themselves? As if they don't all look the same as well... everybody having shaggy hair and wearing dull coloured street clothes is as much of an image that ALL the bands have as the big hair, makeup & leather was in the '80s. Of course the glam bands all had the same look too, but at least it was an exciting look, and because it was more over the top it was easier to tell them apart. You knew Poison had the pretty blonde singer with the bandana and crazy white haired guitarist in the suit jackets and the drummer with the big wave in his hair with a bit of pink dye, and you knew Motley Crue had those 3 tattooed big black haired crazy lookin guys with the bleach blonde singer out the front, and you knew Guns N Roses had the guy in the top hat & hair over his face and the singer with the bike shorts & bandana who moved like a snake, etc. Today's bands look totally interchangable because they are just in street clothes and probably look different day to day, they don't really have those "trademarks" of their own like Slash or Axl or Bret Michaels had.