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April Fool?

CoD4's not really a squad game, it's a single player game with some people around you that are less stupid than the usual, but they don't actually contribute anything, they never save your life or take out anybody but respawners. Some levels are better than others and the SAS in ex Russian republics are the superioir levels, especially the flsahback sniper ones, superb. And give me a better leevl in any FPS ever than the one where you jump on and off the helicopter sitting at the 40mm grenade launcher, with it's fantastic denouement and I'll eat my hat!!

Haven't really got in to Fallout 3. Prologue was good, that first sight of the wider world very cool gaming moment, but then it just became Oblivion without the pretty fields nor the mushroom picking. Same dreadful characters and acting, and I became bored within a couple of hours, especially the monotony of the game world. There are still a few good lines here and there, but the moment I lost momentum I knew I'd never recover it. Currently enjoying Neverwinter Nights on PC, much more fun I must say, give me demonic tendrils of doom over a plasma pistol any day of the week!!

Oooh, as I was settling down to a self-indulgent weekend of gaming this saturday, I got a weird error, looked across and my red ring was flashing (ooh can I rub your pussy mrs slocombe). Luckily it was a rotational flash rather than the 3/4 solid RRoD. So far all still good since, but approaching machine with trepidation every time now. New games (preowned from Game) Mirrors Edge, nice to see something original being done with an FPS(ish), slick engine, great visuals, but a bit repetitive and limited and short, up for borrowage grabs soon if anyone wants. And Prince of Persia, which is ok I suppose. Again looks great, plays fine, good level design with almost Zeldaesque feel, actually quite well written too, and has made me genuinely chuckle quite a few times. But I know what ZP means about the all american hero, it is somewhat out of place, and the fights really are nothing but a button mash, forget trying to learn combos, no point.

Good self send up though, I liked the bit at the bottom

"People are strange.."

Back on topic Has anybody spotted any good ones yet? Candidates so far, Royal Horticultural Society to play tomato plants Day of the Triffids, to encourage them to grow (and wipe out the human race?), and Alan Shearer made Manager at Newcastle.

We've all learnt the hard way that the written format doesn't translate very well to a spoken interpretation as it's all in the inference, not the implication. Hence _lots_ of use of emphasis, SHOUTING, winking ;) *waves arms in descriptive manner* A well constructed vocal sentence can work wonders for lessening ambiguity. Trolls are always trolls however, I just say grow up or fuck off. Is there an emote which denotes lack of emote, an anti-smiley if you will?

Too easy moos, too easy. Though I'll point out to *Bob* that BBW's post could easily be a statement and therefore quite correct, though I will also note that *Bob*'s post does contain a question mark and is therefore questioning the possibility rather than correcting BBW per se, so I'll shut up, which may or may not be hyphenated. I'll also get my coat.

The EDT have oft volunteered free pints when cloudy end of barrel of guest beer has been hit, good work I say.

"hideously short skirts" an oxymoron surely?

"your worse" missing an apostrophe and an e. So easy. Of course they're not really sentences.

come on snorks, the sins of previous generations and all that... Plus the City launders more dodgy cash than anyone else, so we brits can hardly talk there. Mind you they still protect the pope...damn them all to hell!!!

Brilliant, I'm going to usher in a new age of hanging being brought back, an end to habeus corpus (although Labour's already been there) in fact lynching of anyone who looks a bit beady eyed will be made legal, the imminent invasion of France... Dear god what have I done?

Exactly. Invade Iraq? "I' Urrrrrrr"* *attempting to write sound that Family Fortunes computer makes.

As I said, I've no idea, but with modern technology that's getting on for feasible, if the country can get it's finger out in their millions several times a week for singing stars, ice dancers, ballroom dancers etc, vacuous wannabees hanging around on sofas being dull, then why not?

I have to say I'm curious as to the correlation between the quality of food in the castle and the absence of the dog. Was the dog a fine chef, or has he become the foodstuff? What's the implication? And surely they're a completely different set of beers in the Florence to the Bishop. Microbrewed beers and small name lagers/ciders etc. Not a single high st booze available there [at the Florence] frankly. And don't give me 'similar' set, all pubs are that.

I have been pondering a system where political service is something akin to somewhere between the honours list and jury service, and the executors of policy get nominated and forced into stints of service of say, 4 years, and that no more than 2 terms can be served by anyone. I've no idea how it would work, how we would keep the democratic element by voting for policies that should be enacted by the drafted politicians, someone with more time and experience than me might want to start thinking about it. But I've long thought that it's careerism that's damaged politics so much, but also the mentality of those who are attracted. The concepts of public service don't seen to hold the same cachet and status, except perhaps some of those at the grass roots level and NGOs, in the way it did 60 or even 30 years ago. It has ceased to attract the best minds because banking, law, medicine and many other areas tend to get those. It's no coincidence that many politicians had unremarkable careers in law etc. In fact the first party man I saw talking sense on Question Time a few weeks back was revealed by another panelist as having left a stellar career in banking to do something he believed in. And he was (mostly) honest, which freaked me out. We need more people with integrity, rather than self-serving money grubbers (of which TB was the WORST sort) really. Anybody want to draw up a proposal for seismic democratic reform in this country with me? Snorks?

ssssswwhwhwhhwwwssssssshhhhh *diversity tumbleweeds blow past* ssssshhswwwwshshsooOOOOOooooOOoooossssshhhhhhhh

Aaagh, can't stand The Unit and was not surprised to find it's written by David "why use one word when 5000 words of sub-even-tarantino-quality fare will do" Mamet. Yet, somehow, I watch it far too often, I think I like winding myself up. As you say, guilty pleasure. A bit like Star Trek in that respect, it's sh!t....but...

Yep easy mistake to make. I guess DDL was expecting Sadr City's marvellous kebab houses, coffee stalls, open markets, open sewers and unfortunately ended up with tat shops and queues for the butcher (as opposed to queues where you're butchered). Easy mistake to make...doh!!!

I hope that's heavy use of irony there Mike!!

fair point, I think I meant introduced, I really was talking about bacterial cultures on agar, but equally apply to say, grey squirrels or rabbits or mice swarms in Australia etc. But evolve'll do...picky picky... ;-P

Aaagh Fiskette, you weren't even fisking. You don't HAVE to quote you know, you're almost as unreadable as Tony.London.Suburbs you know!!! And as this has gone totally off topic, adult films are rubbish, but the seventies 'risque' Carry On films are still timeless classics.

nooone would even be combing trough her expenses if it wasn't for the fact that she was claiming 40k for her husband as an administrative assistant and claiming ?116,000 expenses on a very dubious basis. She has only herself to blame. The damage her husband has done, as the independent points out today in a good comment piece, is that she has now become a joke, which is far more damaging than the taint of sleaze to a politicians career, and points out that in all likelihood both hubby and wife will be looking for new jobs come the day after the next election as her constituents won't be voting back such a waster (nay embezzler) of increasingly scarce tax payers money.