Wanker of the Week on Master Giraffe
Chris Hill
Poor Chris - this is his solution for climate change:
Bradster.
Why? I’ll tell you why. Bradster play WoW. I’ve never played WoW, but hey, everyone has a hobby. In Bradster’s case that’s 36 hobbies. Bradster has 36 accounts on WoW.
That’s a large number. He plays against himself. That amounts to $5711 a year. What a wanker.
This is what Bradster has to say on the whole thing:
A lot have asked me, why create so many? The main reason is to invade Stormwind and Ironforge when they reach top level. I’m sure the Alliance will put up a big fight when that happens. We’ll see how it goes. If they don’t make level 70 before Wrath of the Lich King, then it will be at level 80. That is my main goal. That will probably happen after I’ve got some PvP gear from the battlegrounds. I’m also planning to do some 25 and 10 man raid instances but that is secondary to my PvP goal. Of course I’ll be doing arenas too to build up PvP gear but I’m not expecting to do that great there because I’m way behind in gear right now. I need to get to level 70 first, then level 80 and by then I will probably have all green gear while most others have been doing the battlegrounds and arenas.
It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I’m looking at it like it’s a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.
32 of my shaman are level 61. One shaman that I had before I started the 32 is at level 70 along with 8 other level 70 classes that I had. My mage, priest and druid are in the center of the circle of shaman in the pictures but they are kind of hard to see. I’ve also got some mages and priests that I’m currently working on that are level 23. Once they are at level 31.9, I will stop working on them, get 16 of them to level 60 with the recruit-a-friend bonus levels and work on the shaman again.
When Wrath of the Lich King is released, I plan to be at the store when it opens and will purchase 36 copies of it. With tax, it should be about $1500 for all of them. Then the shaman are on their way to level 80 along with the priest, druid and mage.
By the way, I have 9 level 80 shaman created on the Murmur PvP realm in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. I mainly tried it out to see how well my computers would work as they are. With the exception of one my desktop computers, I should be fine with the hardware that I have.
I use 3 addons in the game. CT_MapMod is used to give me locations for quests, etc. ClassIcons is another addon that I use to show the class of the target. It helps for PvP encounters. Then the last addon I use is SSPVP2 which is excellent for displaying timers and other things while in the battlegrounds.
For my keys to send to all instances of WoW on my 11 computers, I use Octopus 1.3.2. Maximizer in Octopus allows me to start up all WoW instances at the same time or any individual instance such as if a WoW instance has crashed. It also allows me to shutdown all of the computers at the same time.
Brian Craft
This salmon-shirt wearing individual found that he was getting some serious RSI issues using his keyboard at home. The solution? Chop the keyboard in half and attach it to his ergonomic chair! What a wanker. Check out HIS PERSONAL WEBSITE which will offer some glorious insight into his personal world, and also a link to his wife’s page on QUILTING. Awww.
Gino Corica
This one is for you Spence, this guy was so pumped that Geelong would win the grand final that he got ‘08′ tattooed to his arm. What a wanker! (If you didn’t know already Geelong LOST the AFL grand final).
Here is the story from the ‘Geelong Advertiser’:
NEWTOWN’S Gino Corica has so much faith in the Cats he tattooed his arm with Premiers 08 two weeks before the game is decided.
But this strong loyalty for his beloved Cats is nothing knew for the father-of-two.
Last year, the day before the grand final, he got his first ever tattoo the Geelong Football Club emblem with Premiers 07 inked on his forearm.
“I have been a fan for so many, many years, since the late ’60s, and last year it felt so right and I jumped the gun a little bit,” he said.
“This year the way they have played, no bloody way they will lose.”
But there is also an element of surprise with Mr Corica’s tattoos.
“When I got it last year no one knew,” he said.
“I had it all bandaged up and after the game, I pulled my sleeve up and took the bandage off.
“They thought it was (fake) and were asking when it would come off.”
And his family’s reaction was no different this year when they saw his new artwork.
“They thought I was an idiot,” he said.
Mr Corica, who is heading to the MCG for the clash, said the match would be close until half-time.
“It will be a hard slog for a bit and then they’ll just take off,” he said.
“They will keep the 1989 final in their minds to stir them on.”
After watching last year’s wild celebrations on Geelong’s city streets, Mr Corica said he wished he was in his 20s.
“If I was a bit younger and not 58 I would have gone out for three days,” he said.
And Mr Corica had a message for those superstitious people who might think he had set a bad omen for the blockbuster today.
“It worked last year, didn’t it?” he said.
Sorry, it should be WANKERS of the week ARE:
This guy who decided to knock out a girl because she squirted him with red dyed water at a water fight in England. It must have been his favourite white t-shirt, yeah you know those t-shirts that are JUST white? The pictures are the best part though, especially him running ape style at the woman. Oh England, what has become of that place?
Yeah, a picture tells a thousand words. In our case, we’ve got a 4000 word story about this wanker. Gotta be a new record!
George Lucas. Mostly because of a couple things he said during an interview for The Sunday Times. Check out some of these quotes.
“Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it this way’ and ‘I want it that way’, whereas when I first did Jones, I just said ‘We’ll do it this way’ - and that was much easier.
But now, I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys too, so it’s a little hard on a practical level.”
Of course. Damn that Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg trying to have a little creative control over a beloved character. The nerve of them. But wait, there’s more.
“I’m in the future, Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”
I see. Spielberg wants to be awesome and take an old school approach to the films, which worked perfectly before. Lucas wants to have aliens, spaceships, shitty character development and tarzan swinging across really bad cg backdrops. Good one, Mr. Lucas. No seriously, marvelous contribution to a stellar movie saga. Sarcasm aside now, it’s easy to see why George Lucas is this week’s wanker. He ruined Indy, he tarnished Star Wars. What next? American Graffiti: IN SPACE?
What. A. Wanker.
Mark Kump
Because it’s a road that you go! WHEN YOU DIE.
The Dominos Pizza Tape Lady
How hard is it to order pizzas over the phone? Well you would think it’s pretty easy, but Miss Dominos Pizza Lady aims to make it the most frustrating part of your day.
Here is what happened when we tried to order pizzas from Dominos over the phone:
Dominos Pizza Tape Lady: Hello, please say your town or name of store.
Me: Launceston
Dominos Pizza Tape Lady: Sorry, I had difficulty understanding.
Me: Launceston
Dominos Pizza Tape Lady: Sorry, I had difficulty understanding.
Me: Launceston
Dominos Pizza Tape Lady: Unfortunately we are having difficulty processing your response. Thanks for calling Dominos Pizzas. Goodbye.
Dominos Pizza Tape Lady hangs up
That’s right. They hang up. Because the stupid fucking tape woman couldn’t understand it. So we had to ring them again and it ended up taking 4 attempts before we made our order.
By the way, they screwed up our order too. They made all the pizzas on thin base but we only wanted one thin base pizza.
Dominos, FUCK OFF.
Gary Bakewell
So who is Gary Bakewell?
He’s an actor. Who portrayed Paul McCartney in the film ‘Backbeat’.
Now, this film is about The Beatles’ earlier years when they performed a few shows in Hamburg with guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe. The film heavily concentrates on John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe’s relationship in and outside of the band.
The actor who plays John Lennon (Ian Hart) looks NOTHING like John Lennon, the George Harrison character basically has 2 lines and looks nothing like George Harrison, Pete Best and Ringo Starr are basically left out of the film BUT it’s Gary Bakewell as Paul McCartney who steals the spotlight.
Why? Because he looks so much like Paul McCartney, but made him look like such a tool that even Paul McCartney himself noticed it.
“One of my annoyances about the film Backbeat is that they’ve actually taken my rock ‘n’ rollness off me.” says Paul McCartney about the film, and he wasn’t off the mark at all.
Unfortunately, clips of this film on the internet were scarce (I wonder why?), so sorry about the delay, but I managed to whip up our own video clip of our favourite Paul McCartney scenes from the film above.
So watch the vid.
We here at Master Giraffe don’t know what’s better - the Gary Bakewell/Paul McCartney ‘Guitar Air Punch’ or the Pierce Brosnan ‘Pointing in the distance because I’m on a horse’.
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