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Ooh a three way changing mat fight, like that scene in The Good the Bad and the Ugly (I'll let others decide who's who) but with changing mats instead of guns, and err the honour of puerile satirical websites instead of a grave full of gold....or is it.....

I guess humour is more likely to please me these days now that I'm a simplistic old man with slippers (if i could see them whilst knee deep in nappies). Seriously though, I'll go back to my youth, mire myself in morose music and be superior about everything, I was waaaaaaay happier when doing that.

"Julian Cook, professor of conspiracies so crazy they must be real at Roehampton University, said: "At the risk of sounding like Prince Philip, I suspect it's the Chinese guy from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Come on SJ, that was one of it's little moments of genius.

Don't worry se?or, i liked that one too.

Love it Nashoi, meanie media, piling it on when they've apologised! :-D Nothing to see here folks, move along...gotta love Fox

Have you been hacked by curmudgeon again SJ? I've always thought The Mash is much funnier than the Onion though obviously it follows in their footsteps. Actually lets face it both 'area man' and 'T Jenkins from Stevenage' owe a debt to Private Eye's 'footballer has sex' reports. I do find it very funny, though like anything that's been going for a bit, the misses are more frequent and the hits fewer. Maybe like TV Go Home before it, it should quit while ahead.

Does that mean you used to get on a bike or something?

I don't think I even have it any more, I think I lent it to keef, whatever happened to him!

I need one last push on AC2. I've pretty much collected everything apart from all the feathers, and I'm moving to the denoument. It has got to that doing the same thing time after time stage which is why i needed a break from it. In all fairness it took a lot longer to get that than with other games. Even the marvellous Bioshock I got bored with half way through.

In a slight game related aside, I'm reading a history book about the struggle between the Medici and the Pazzi in Renaissance Florence. I wished I'd read it before playing Assassin's Creed II, seems a lot of the seemingly bonkers plot is grounded i quite a bit of historical truth (minus the templars and building leaping of course)

I'll happily do Dragon Age borrowage, Bioware games are usually a pretty good bet. I'm going to do the same with LA Noire. Will be getting Eden, is it out yet as it goes, I notice there are already reviews out there? Othert than that don't see anything coming I'm excited about which is sad. I might have to finish my old deus ex 2. (fiver from steam)

Yeah, must get my teeth into a proper game again at some point. I'm amazed you find the time SJ. I'm enjoying Dishwasher:Dead Samurai as a good arcade button masher with great visual style and some nice touches.

Darnation, first year i was going to run rather than look on amused, and I have to blimmin work so won't end up doing either. Lasers set to manky sadly.

I don't know about revolting, and it's much more interesting than most of the dull architecture of east dulwich, but it's a bit spa hotel isn't it, definitely not my cuppa.

Blimey, thank god i wasn't at work RD!!!

Allfornun, it's actually now disturbing. Seriously, give it a rest.

Heaven.

"both next door to you or, it seems, in other forumites houses, according to their fellow forumites" I know what you mean. You wouldn't want to live around here if a cultural revolution ever kicked off would you!!!

Goddammit Brendan of course I do, don't you remember how much you had to stoop when you turned up with your 13 shortarsed mates and we had a few beers before we set out for the Gold Dragon?

As we say in Denmark Hill "Oooh, you are awful...."

As I held my firstborn in my arms after a 60 hour labour (i had the hard part, keeping everyone entertained, getting my hand squeezed, no drugs for me you know!!) I resigned myself to the fact that as a parent you will simply get everything wrong. every decision has a downside, you just try to minimise the damage you do and try to squeeze some good bits in the the best you can. From what I can see you're doing a pretty darn good job thus far Moos, just let yourself trust you in your instincts (if that doesn't sound a bit severe personality disorder).

I can't see anything wrong with a naughty step, especially with young ones with limited linguistic skills. you have to let kids feel that they've done something wrong, and sitting them on your knee saying 'well timmy you need to understand that there are some things we just don't do' is not going to achieve much when all they'll understand is 'mwa Timmy mwa mwa mwa mwa mwa mwa mwa'. I guess the older they get the more you can move to reasoning from conditioning. We all muddle through lets face it, but my dad had a (rare) bit of good advice on this. "Whatever disciplinary measures you take, never withdraw love from them, that's the most damaging thing you can do." Moos struck me as someone wanting constructive criticism rather than just criticism.

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I can't wait for next week's Private Eye, it's going to be a classic!!

I remember being told quite specifically that it was a conflict, we were not at war, hence why the comment about sinking it in an Argie port would have been an act of war, but I guess when the bullets and bombs are flying the semantics aren't of much interest to anyone involved. Regardless of the legality of the sinking, you can see why the decision was made to do so that close to the exclusion zone. As far as I know it wasn't a pincer movement, it was heading home, but we certainly weren't to know that at the time. The real victims of the war were the poor conscripts sacrificed as a last desperate act of a brutal and loathsome regime, one that really should make some of the more vocal Thatcher haters have a bit of fucking perspective, as to my knowledge she didn't shove anyone out of aeroplanes in to the ocean at 10.000 ft (that would have given a whole new meaning to the tory wets she disliked so much) whereas I know the daughter of one such teacher, now living here. I've also met one or two of those conscripts. One lost several friends in his freezing trench, and following the surrender he told me he was treated much better by the Brits than by his own officers and when a British soldier gave him some chocolate it was the first food he'd had in almost a week. He bears no malice to the British at all, a country they historically are close to and admire. My brother who lived there for a couple of years summed the Argies up nicely*. They are Italians who speak Spanish and want to be British. *of course a ludicrous generalisation of 40 odd million people