I prefer Root-Bear. Fun Fact: My hometown is the 4th largest in the states.
I love root beer too. I can never decide between it and DP as my favorite soda. Once I've finally decided one is my favorite, I have the other one and then think, "Hey, this is even better!"
I also love Mtn. Dew Baja Blast.
I've gone to Root-bear, DP never tastes right anymore.
My little bro love Mtn.Dew, I prefer anything but Mtn.dew
That was supposed to be a rhetorical question but thank you for the information, it is rather interesting. Most of our cities were either named by the local Indigenous tribes or the British. For instance, Canberra (parliamentary capital) means meeting place.
Advantageous position? Well that's something Canberra and Brisbane were never considered for. Canberra and the Australia Capital Territory were positioned so that neither New South Wales and Sydney or Victoria and Melbourne could claim capital status. The two colonies fought over it, though most foreigners still believe Sydney to be the capital of Australia.
As for Brisbane, well... It has nothing going for it. Brisbane should have been built by the Pumicestone Passage (40kms north). With two peninsulas and an island, shipments wouldn't need to squeeze through the snaking Brisbane River. Additionally, you wouldn't have sharks swimming through the streets because it wouldn't flood every couple of years. Also, Brisbane is just boring and someone needs to do something about that river, it's disgusting. I guess this is why I never catch the ferry to school.
I knew the capital of Australia!
So you live in Brisbane?
Yeah, no. I live more rural, but I study in Brisbane.
I love root beer too. I can never decide between it and DP as my favorite soda. Once I've finally decided one is my favorite, I have the other one and then think, "Hey, this is even better!"
I also love Mtn. Dew Baja Blast.
I've gone to Root-bear, DP never tastes right anymore.
My little bro love Mtn.Dew, I prefer anything but Mtn.dew
Mtn. Dew is so awfully unhealthy, I can't make myself drink it. But the Baja Blast flavor doesn't have the brominated vegetable oil, (the ingredient that makes normal Dew all but toxic) and it tastes amazing, so I drink it at summer camp.
He didn't ask what it was, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. He was just wondering why you compared it to the armadillo as far as disease-carrying goes.
I've gone to Root-bear, DP never tastes right anymore.
My little bro love Mtn.Dew, I prefer anything but Mtn.dew
Mtn. Dew is so awfully unhealthy, I can't make myself drink it. But the Baja Blast flavor doesn't have the brominated vegetable oil, (the ingredient that makes normal Dew all but toxic) and it tastes amazing, so I drink it at summer camp.
I normally just drink tea, it's a lot healthier than sodas.
True, but he stops chasing them right at the beginning of DOS, for reasons you'll see, and Bolg takes over.
I agree that Azog being alive, and chasing them was a significant change, but I think it was with good reason. He links the journey of Thorin and Company directly to Sauron's rise, as you will see in DOS, and BOTFA, which I think was very important, and it helps tie the story together.
Also, he provides a more consistent threat, which helps keep the pace up and add some more action.
It makes sense that Peter Jackson wanted to put Sauron's origins in the Hobbit films, since they were made as prequels. And since he put that in the movies, it also makes sense that he would want to somehow connect it to Bilbo and Thorin's quest. And it makes sense that he would want plenty of action and suspense in the films, although personally I prefer Bilbo having an often-peaceful journey with various dangerous incidents, but I can understand why that wouldn't work as well in film as it did in writing.
All those things make sense, but when you add them all up, it just changes the feel of The Hobbit too much in my opinion. However, I have been greatly enjoying the films, and can't wait to watch Five Armies tonight. I might even be willing to forgive the whole Orc hunt thing if they could have made it just be Bolg, since he's not supposed to be dead, and he actually does end up attacking the dwarves at the end, and starting the Battle of Five Armies. But the fact that Azog shouldn't even be alive, coupled with the fact that the Orc hunt wasn't even relevant until the end of the quest in the book, makes me feel like it's a bit too large of a change.
I'm not saying I don't like it. It's really cool, and I enjoy the sense of danger to the quest. That's just my biggest problem with the way the book was adapted, and for me it's hard to forget that it shouldn't be happening.
My other biggest problem with Desolation wasn't super huge, but it just annoyed me like crazy. BILBO BARELY USED THE RING AT ALL!!! I get that it's supposed to be bad when you put on the Ring, but in the book you don't even know that, and Bilbo doesn't know even in the movies! He should be using it more! He used it ALL THE TIME to get out of sticky situations in the book. Especially when he saw the Eye of Sauron while talking with Smaug and took off the Ring. I can't tell you how much that bothered me. But it was an amazing scene overall. Smaug was unbelievably good, his voice and the CGI both.
I'm sorry if I sound super negative about all this, I'm loving these movies, I just felt like expressing my feelings on the worst aspects imo. Sorry if it was a bit rant-y. *looks at "subject"* Well, not sure what this really has to do with the Top 50 Posters, but.... well, I guess it's kind of a chatroom anyway.
Man, that was a long post.
"Shouldn't be happening."
That's the problem. And I face this too, sometimes thinking this way but there's nothing to say it shouldn't be happening. This isn't the book it's the movies. There they're own story, adapted from the book. So, the book isn't the "correct" story. In the film's continuity, Azog lived. Now, I understand thinking that movies can be to far, but I don't think that is the case with either the Hobbit or LOTR.
Now, that's not to say I like all the changes in The Hobbit or LOTR, I don't, because sometimes I think it would have been better like it is in the book, but there are many changes I like or love, and I sthink they are excellent adaptations that do a great job of making the books into amazing movies.
He didn't use much more at all in the book. Much of that has to do with the way some of it was abbreviated, so where in the book he might use the ring several times during the same sequence, in the film he uses it once or twice, such as during the Spiders how in the films the dwarves are captured immediately after the the spiders, or how they spend less time in the wood-elves caves, or how Bilbo goes down to see Smaug once, not twice. But Bilbo still uses the Ring for much the same purposes. As for Bilbo taking off the Ring, I think they did that so they could actually come face to face, so Smaug could move around following Bilbo, so we'd be seeing him move and showing off, as him remaining still wouldn't be very interesting in a film.
P.S. Watch the extended editions. The Extended of DOS has(among other scenes) the Dwarves meeting Beorn in pairs, the enchanted river and the White Stag, and Gandalf meeting Thrain in Dol Guldur.
He didn't ask what it was, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. He was just wondering why you compared it to the armadillo as far as disease-carrying goes.
I must have misread. Nope, most people think they're bears. Well koalas carry a bad disease too. I'm not sure it's appropriate to mention it though. Hence the stalling.
I've gone to Root-bear, DP never tastes right anymore.
My little bro love Mtn.Dew, I prefer anything but Mtn.dew
Mtn. Dew is so awfully unhealthy, I can't make myself drink it. But the Baja Blast flavor doesn't have the brominated vegetable oil, (the ingredient that makes normal Dew all but toxic) and it tastes amazing, so I drink it at summer camp.
I'm pretty sure all soft drinks are awfully unhealthy. Never heard of them except Mountain Dew. They sell it at KFC, but I haven't eaten there in close to ten years. Australian soft drinks are much nicer. If you ever get the chance (I doubt you will though) try Bundaberg or Bickford's soft drink. Much better than the can stuff you guys get.
By the way, what is summer camp? Is it like a sport clinic over the summer holidays?
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Most of our cities were either named by the local Indigenous tribes or the British. For instance, Canberra (parliamentary capital) means meeting place. 
Hence the stalling. 
Australian soft drinks are much nicer. If you ever get the chance (I doubt you will though) try Bundaberg or Bickford's soft drink. Much better than the can stuff you guys get.