I dont feel that this applies only to women. It also applies to Americans, if you ask me. Now I don't want to come across like an anti-american asshole, because you stinky yanks outnumber me about 50 to 1 on here. So I'm gonna skip the rhetoric and jump straight to it: do Americans have trouble understanding subtle humour?

I've seen alot of American comics try and fail miserably at irony, for example, but irony is a harder thing to achieve than one might think so that is understandable. I never see American satirists though. I'm sure they must exist, but not in vast numbers. There are two exceptions I know of. The first is Jon Stweart, I watch the daily show occasionally and I usually enjoy it although it's a bit too wrapped up in American politics for a foreigner like me to fully appreciate it. The second is Larry David, again there are a few jokes where I think some things have been lost on the journey overseas but I think its a friggin hilarious show.

My third and final example would be The Office: An American workplace. You may or may not know that the concept for this show was bought from a UK sitcom called simply The Office. They recreated it and the immitation wasn't as good. While I found the American office to have some funny moments, on the whole I think it lacked sincerity and they were trying too hard, hence the subtle comedy tones that tickled my ribs in the UK series weren't as strong.

I've seen alot of HBO specials and American standups, and don't get me wrong for the first 20 minutes I'm usually in stitches with the good comedians. But... it gets to be too much for my tastes. American stand ups seem to follow this trend of commenting on a situation that the average person might find themselves in, pointing out some particular aspect of this situation, applying a funny line or catchphrase, and shouting really loud.

"You ever get your dick caught in your zipper?"
"I love women with big breasts!"
"You know what mice are? I'mma tell ya what mice are... fag rats!"

I seriously think I could get on HBO if i had more material like that and an energetic stage presence. I watched this one stand up, was called George Lopez: America's Mexican. My god it was shite.

There are funny American comedians out there; Katt Williams is one of my personal favourites. But even then, his style of comedy is very basic, he just does it to such a high level that I enjoy it. Americans can also do situational comedy, but usually only in movies. Knocked up and all those kinds of movies... good situational comedy but again not really any subtlety about it.


So I ask you, Americans and others, am I grossly overgeneralising here or is there really a lack of subtle comedy in the American sense of humour?

When Im on the top deck of a bus, sitting right at the front, I look out the front window and down at the line markings on the road and imagine myself running along the road at the pace of the bus, with huge strides. My feet land in between the road markings with each stride. I run with the poise of a cactuar.

I tap my fingers onto the keyboard with enough force to make a noise but not enough force to constitute a keypress. It's a fine but ultimately useless art.

I tap my feet, bite my fingers(nails), run my fingers through my hair, stroke the underside of my chin with a single finger while my left eyebrow is raised (my arrogant/intrigued expresion), crack my fingers, make silly clicking noises with my mouth... tick most of the usual suspects here.

I use my hands to tap a beat out onto my chest. I tap my belly for the bass, even though theres practically no difference in the sound that's produced.

When I'm buzzing I chew straws, then straighten them out again with my mouth and blow'n'suck through them, then chew them all over again.

Some of my friends get a bit put off because when I'm having a serious conversation I pace around.

Yeah anyways unless there are any better offers within the next few hours I think I'm gona take soolars offer.

It blows my mind that he is willing to pay that much.
Unless this site has some HUGE FOLLOWING I'm not aware of, there's no way it's worth all that.

It has a mild following ;-)
Like I said though, you're paying for the community, the traffic (the domain), the established resources and THE CODE.

Providing the ads he listed above are the only income, only four or five months of the year make enough to cover the hosting.

Switching from adbrite would change this.
Im not sure what caused the low income in April 2007 but January-February 2008 was when the new domain came in I believe, so bound to be less hits on the whole. No pun intended.

The domain uirpg is pretty fucking useless to be honest.

The traffic stats are getting close to what they were for uiv2.com, a domain alone which sold for $800 on a domain marketplace type of website. To a reasonable degree at least, these buyers know their stuff.

So, the website makes on average $8.99 a month. So it doesn't even cover the hosting costs. So you're paying $1 a month, plus the $9 to renew the domain - that's $21 a year in the red. So you want someone to pay $800 for the privilege of taking the aforementioned costs off your hands for a piece of shit website that at the moment has only 10  users online, 9 of which are guests?

How the fuck can you justify that? It's not worth $8. It looks like a piece of random generated blah blah here's some motherfucking gaming resources.

Beauty is not skin deep, my friend. You say it looks like a piece of shit website blah blah bollocks, but that's not the point. Fact is that people like it, and thats reflected in various stats. Alot of work has gone into it in various forms. The most obvious and pricable bit of work would be the coding, but then it extends to other more abstract and unpricable things like podcasts, something we were onto long before any other rpg making sites I know of. Read above as far as hosting costs vs ad revenue goes.

Point is its easily worth $800, and its certainly a far cry away from (and on the better side of) $55.

soolar, ill break it down for you now.

Ad Revenue past 12 Months:

$10.68 - August 2007
$12.49 - September 2007
$9.52 - October 2007
$10.20 - November 2007
$10.53 - December 2007
$5.67 - January 2008
$5.23 - February 2008
$9.81 - March 2008
$6.98 - April 2008
$8.91 - May 2008
$11.23 - June 2008
$6.74 - July 2008 (So Far)

I advertise with adbrite. They're shit. You should go with yahoo ads and you will make more, I would have gone with them myself but as I dont live in the US I dont apply. If you were to set up a yahoo account and wanted me to add the code in before handing it over, I could do that. OR, you could do it yourself, I think you're quite tech savvy no?

Hosting costs are $9.95 a month, that's not about to change. The domain has been recently renewed so you dont have to worry about that for another year, and when that time comes it'll cost $9 to renew for another year. If you renew for longer you get it relatively cheaper.

So basically at the moment the advertising covers the hosting costs. Being the dick head I am though, Ive been trying to cash American cheques from Adbrite in England and havent had any luck. So Ive been paying out of pocket. For you though, this would cover it, and with yahoo ads you'd make a profit. There are opportunities with the hosting account from referrals too, I have made $98 from one referral.

I was looking to make as much as possible (obviously). The hosting account should pretty much go to you for free, so you're paying for the community and the code I wrote for the site itself. A few months back I sold the uiv2.com domain alone for $800. Since I'm looking for a quick and easy sale, I'll be willing to sell the site itself for the same amount.

no it looks like this time he's selling the website itself.

Yeah that's correct.

No joke bids please. I'm a delicate flower deep down inside and every time I see a million dollar bid a gram of seratonin goes KABOOM in spontaneous combustion.

safe.

I'm looking to sell my website. Ultima Island is an rpg-maker focused community site which has been running for a couple of years now. Custom coded website (based on phpBB forums) and has an almost-impressive database of resources and games and shit.

Advertise on it? Destroy it? Improve it? Vandalise it? Take good care of it?
 - If you want to buy it, feel free to do what you want with it.

If you buy I will give you the hosting account (with dreamhost.com) and domain and you can have it as it is.

Paypal payment required. Make me an offer. Go on, show me the money!

Womens football is slower, but it is okay to watch because there are some skillful players and skillful teams. But womens football cannot be taken seriously because the defending is generally attrocious, and the goalkeeping is AWFUL. This isnt just a general trend; all women goalkeepers are TERRIBLE. Fucking pussies.

Back to the mens game, England are probably gona qualify, get to the quarters (maybe even semis) and disappoint again. We have such a good squad, why do we never get it right with the team? Steve Maclaren has made some bold choices lately (bringing Heskey back pour exampler) and I would like to see some more as I think that, really now, qualifying should be easy. I wanna see Sol Campbell given a game. Also, it's great to see Michael Owen scoring goals again, keep it up Michael!

xxx

Beat that, John Locke.