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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I'm not dead yet!

Keep watching.

devilman wrote:

Anyone into the Fire Emblem games? After a bit of Shining Force reminiscing for the Top 50 games, I thought I'd dig out FE:Radiant Dawn for the Wii and give it a whirl. Excellent turn-based strategy with an unforgiving nature - one wrong move and you lose a key character and fail the map conditions. If there's one thing wrong with it, it's the completely forgettable music.

Only one i've really played was the GBA one and it worked really well as an Advanced wars type of game but with the novel idea of having characters who can actually die.

I did have a very quick look at the gamecube version but didnt really spend the time on it.

I have purchased "Season" 1 on The Wire. Hurrah.
However, the back of the box tells me it is Region 4. Boo.
The website tells me it's Region 2+4.
WILL IT WORK ON MY 360/PS3?

Anyone see 'Diary of a Mail Order Bride' last night?

I have also been to Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Ekaterinburg and Novoryssisk. Each place is more grim than the last.

The plane which flew me to Novoryssisk (which isn't that far from Chechnya) was a sight to behold. I was in business class and this consisted of a table and four chairs bolted to the floor. You know, like a picnic table. The seatbelts may as well have been a length of rope and the inside of the plane actually frosted up. All of it! It also wasn't pressurised.

peasants huddling on benches with goats..

Someone posted a link to two Scottish guys who cover songs in a kind of nu-wave folky way, and I've had one of their songs stuck in my head all morning. But I can't remember who they are, and I can't find them through the search. Any help?

"Aa would pay £2 a month, and aa would pay £2 more..."

she even left the one over the camera lens, the idiot.

Malabar Front wrote:

she even left the one over the camera lens, the idiot.

I thought that was pretty wise.

Gmail is out of beta.

I'd be staggered if you could tell the difference with a lens of that quality though.
It's something to test when I get a new phone

Gmail is out of beta.

I have no idea how that happened.

Doc G says (14:52):
quicxk
go repost your gmial post in the RC airplane thread
to confuse thread-splitting myp
Doc G says (14:53):
viewtopic.php?p=264236#p264236 that
in there viewtopic.php?f=3&t=126
Matt says (14:54):
done
why?
Doc G says (14:54):
coz he';s splitting posts from BnB into that other thread
now, when he's done, we can accuse him of being foolish and moving the wrong post and he'll be vonfused
this was funnier in my head
Matt says (14:55):
you're taking the blame for this one, Gaywood
Doc G says (14:55):
hahaha
Matt says (14:55):
I'm keeping this conversation
Doc G says (14:55):
damn
ok I am a fool
it was a spur of the moment thing
Matt says (14:56):
hahaha now he's moved it again
Doc G says (14:57):
brilliant
that's what I hoped would happen
hahah
see, wasn't such a bad idea
Doc G says (14:58):
imagine his confused face
Doc G says (14:59):
brilloiant viewtopic.php?p=264259#p264259

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

Malabar Front wrote:

"Aa would pay £2 a month, and aa would pay £2 more..."

You are very bad men.

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

Like Sidetalking. Remember that?

I've ordered more Space Putty.

Grim... wrote:

Gmail is out of beta.

There's a labs plug-in to put the 'beta' image back in case you were missing it

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 19:16 ]
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Craster wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: I'm not dead yet! Keep watching. Don't worry. I'm wiring in a USB extension lead so I can carry my Xbox camera throughout the house. Someone has to volunteer to watch me.

Author:	devilman [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 20:48 ]
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zaphod79 wrote: devilman wrote: Anyone into the Fire Emblem games? After a bit of Shining Force reminiscing for the Top 50 games, I thought I'd dig out FE:Radiant Dawn for the Wii and give it a whirl. Excellent turn-based strategy with an unforgiving nature - one wrong move and you lose a key character and fail the map conditions. If there's one thing wrong with it, it's the completely forgettable music. Only one i've really played was the GBA one and it worked really well as an Advanced wars type of game but with the novel idea of having characters who can actually die. I did have a very quick look at the gamecube version but didnt really spend the time on it. Well I think I'm going to give up on this. It's very nearly a great game, but its unbalanced difficulty spoils it. The game is split up into chapters and oddly, the first one is the hardest. At the end of the first part, you switch characters and don't see that bunch again till part three. At that stage you only really find out if your party is up to scratch - if not (as mine wasn't first time round), you may as well start again. So I started over after 15-20 hours and with hindsight did a lot better in the battles. Unfortunately, the characters I've got left simply aren't good enough so I'm faced with starting over again. I think I'll play Rock Band instead.

Author:	DBSnappa [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 21:11 ]
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Grim... wrote: I have purchased "Season" 1 on The Wire. Hurrah. However, the back of the box tells me it is Region 4. Boo. The website tells me it's Region 2+4. WILL IT WORK ON MY 360/PS3? I've got all five seasons you can borrow if you want, on a "you bend or scratch you replace" policy.

Author:	Plissken [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:32 ]
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Isn't it a shame when someone you think is a decent, intelligent person turns out to be a right wing, climate change denying, Fox News supporting fruitloop?

Author:	metalangel [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:56 ]
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Anyone see 'Diary of a Mail Order Bride' last night? We had a not-that-fit Russian woman who'd moved to the UK for six months to live with 'Dave', in Lancashire, to see if she'd fit in. Dave, with his delightfully sunken panda eyes and thinning Leisure Suit Larry haircut, spent all day in the pub drinking and smoking. Svetlana (or whatever) was horrified that 'he is drinking beer out of BIG GLASS and guzzles it! Fucking alcoholics, fucking them all'. She also hated English food and every time we saw her she was other complaining that he was a slob (which he was) or doing the housework. Suffice it to say, she fucked off back to Soviet Russia as fast as her hammer and sickle could carry her. We then had a man who I'll whimsically refer to as 'Ten Gallon Tex', a 51 year old property developer from Buttfuck, Texas. Unable to find a suitable bride back home (all Texan women my age are either fat or have loads of kids, or both, he claimed) he went to St Petersburg on a £4000 'matchmaking' holiday. Things didn't work out well for Tex. The first 'date' was a golddigging slut who, after dinner, tried to take him shopping. Ten Gallon declined and retired to the hotel bar to neck tequila. At the party the following night, he met a freakishly tall woman who he quite fancied but she apparently got a better offer and dropped him like dissident into pit in gulag ah hah hah hah! Perhaps is because Tex is look rather like Kane from Command & Conquer only old and a bit sagging? Tex at least emptied nuts as got taxi out of party with two girls and one is wank him much while riding, him enjoy this but says looking for wife, not whore. Tex give up and fuck off back to enormous house to drive enormous truck (both of which bring pictures of to flaunt at Russian hotness) in enormous state. Finally, we had Liuda (pronounced almost the same as 'Ludo'). Ludo lived in darkest Siberia with father Parcheesi, mother Operation, and smoking hot 16 year old sister Battleship. Ludo had recently become engaged to some bloke (let's call him 'Dodgy Darren') who was a part-time bouncer in the UK. Darren, who looked like he should be sitting in a rusty transit van approximately three inches from your rear bumper, somehow could afford to go out to Soviet Russia not once but twice to meet with Ludo. This was his second visit, as he sought their blessing to put his ring on her finger (in more ways than one, probably). Chipmunk-like Ludo was delighted and Darren arrived in a sinister Aeroflot plane to the snow-swept airport and was driven in a decaying taxi to the imposing Stalinist tower block where her family lived. After serving him a traditional Russian lunch (which seemed to consist of strawberry puree, chicken and lots of vodka), Parcheesi and Operation were concerned that Darren didn't speak Russian, and that Ludo barely spoke English. Her older sister, Monopoly, had also come to welcome them and agreed this didn't quite seem right. In the end, Parcheesi and Operation had to bring in an interpreter to grill Darren, who told them everything they wanted to hear (including a chilling mention of a pre-nup) so that they would agree to send their apple-cheeked daughter off to spend the rest of her life having her anus fondled by some drooling unqualified pervert nearly twice her age. It worked, and a wedding date was set for Prague in six week's time. Darren fucked off back to England to try and get a few more up-against-the-walls in with drunken slags in the club where he worked, while Ludo cried lonely tears and got fitted for her wedding dress. I have to admit, I felt sorry for a lot of the people in this show. The blokes because they (apart from Dave) seemed fairly decent but couldn't meet the unrealistic expectations of their local attractive women... and the Russian women who were forced into this because apparently so many Russian guys died in Afghanistan and Chechnya that you either marry rich Western husband or spend the rest of your life in front of a webcam with a variety of vibrating implements and your childhood friend Anya licking your foo.

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Author:	BikNorton [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:03 ]
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MetalAngel wrote: Anyone see 'Diary of a Mail Order Bride' last night? No, but I did see Charlie Brooker's new show on C4, which was excellent.

Author:	myp [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:43 ]
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I'm going to employ Meaty to watch every programme I can't be arsed to watch - his descriptions would be much more entertaining than the shows themselves.

Author:	Picston_Shottle [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:56 ]
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I've been to Russia a few times, and it's horrible. Moscow was alright, for an afternoon, but once you have seen the Kremlin and Red Square, and St Basils and Lublianka, that is about it, really. I have also been to Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Ekaterinburg and Novoryssisk. Each place is more grim than the last. There is nothing redeeming at all I can think to say about them. Other than yes, some of the women are fit. The plane which flew me to Novoryssisk (which isn't that far from Chechnya) was a sight to behold. I was in business class and this consisted of a table and four chairs bolted to the floor. You know, like a picnic table. The seatbelts may as well have been a length of rope and the inside of the plane actually frosted up. All of it! It also wasn't pressurised. I have spent the worst times of my life in the former Soviet Union. I fucking hate Russia with a passion.

Author:	TheVision [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:58 ]
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No mention of Zangief then? Shame...

Author:	MrChris [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:00 ]
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Who's this Captain Tib chap that the posh folks go on about?

Author:	Kern [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:00 ]
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Picston_Shottle wrote: I have also been to Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Ekaterinburg and Novoryssisk. Each place is more grim than the last. Not been to Petersburg? Beautiful city, other than the bugs in the water

Author:	kalmar [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:06 ]
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I went to St Petersburg in 2000. Apart from the pretty bits, it was pretty grim. My mate had his wallet stolen by the taxi driver on the way to the hotel. Things went downhill from there.

Author:	Picston_Shottle [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:09 ]
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Nope - managed to avoid St Petersburg. I was supposed to go late last year, but I managed to swerve that one and go to Singapore instead. I wouldn't mind seeing St Petersburg, as people who have been said it is beautiful, but just the thought of going back to Russia chills my blood. Just seeing something written in cyrilic gives me a panic attack.

Author:	metalangel [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:26 ]
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Picston_Shottle wrote: The plane which flew me to Novoryssisk (which isn't that far from Chechnya) was a sight to behold. I was in business class and this consisted of a table and four chairs bolted to the floor. You know, like a picnic table. The seatbelts may as well have been a length of rope and the inside of the plane actually frosted up. All of it! It also wasn't pressurised. Ho ho! That reminds me of an old American Airlines advert where a guy walks through the ridiculous and opulent first class on a plane to his seat in economy. Economy is bare metal walls with peasants huddling on benches with goats. Tinny music strains from an old gramophone (the turntable turned by a peasant's finger).

Author:	Kern [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:28 ]
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MetalAngel wrote: peasants huddling on benches with goats.. Please don't give Ryanair any more free advertising

Author:	Malabelm [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:44 ]
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Someone posted a link to two Scottish guys who cover songs in a kind of nu-wave folky way, and I've had one of their songs stuck in my head all morning. But I can't remember who they are, and I can't find them through the search. Any help?

Author:	chinnyhill10 [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:51 ]
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Malabar Front wrote: Someone posted a link to two Scottish guys who cover songs in a kind of nu-wave folky way, and I've had one of their songs stuck in my head all morning. But I can't remember who they are, and I can't find them through the search. Any help? "Aa would pay £2 a month, and aa would pay £2 more..."

Author:	Malabelm [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:54 ]
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chinnyhill10 wrote: "Aa would pay £2 a month, and aa would pay £2 more..." I love you, Chinny

Author:	chinnyhill10 [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:01 ]
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Can't find the consumables thread but I've just emailed SVP to ask what the fuck is going on with their abortion of a new website and why has their address changed from Devon to Scotland. If they've changed hands and are no longer going to be consumable specialists they can frankly GTFF. According to my accounts software I average a grand a year of consumables with them so if they still want that money they can explain themselves.

Author:	Malabelm [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:13 ]
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Why do some people insist on leaving those shitty little protective pieces of plastic film on gadgets? I've been moaning at Miss Malabar for a couple of weeks now to remove them from her G1; she even left the one over the camera lens, the idiot. Except it has somehow fallen off and now she's blaming me. I've assured her if I'd taken it off, I'd have removed the rest, too.

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:19 ]
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Malabar Front wrote: she even left the one over the camera lens, the idiot. I thought that was pretty wise.

Author:	Malabelm [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:38 ]
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Grim... wrote: Malabar Front wrote: she even left the one over the camera lens, the idiot. I thought that was pretty wise. Maybe I'm just a snob, but putting an even cheaper piece of plastic completely not designed to be used as an optic material in front of your already-cheap lens is a bit pointless. A better idea is to not keep your phone in the same pocket as your keys, etc.

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:39 ]
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I'd be staggered if you could tell the difference with a lens of that quality though. It's something to test when I get a new phone

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:40 ]
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Grim... wrote: Gmail is out of beta. There's a labs plug-in to put the 'beta' image back in case you were missing it

Author:	Malabelm [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:42 ]
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Grim... wrote: I'd be staggered if you could tell the difference with a lens of that quality though. It's something to test when I get a new phone Possibly not. Anyway, it looks tacky! Her lovely, matt black G1 is covered in cheap tatty plastic with small air bubbles.

Author:	myp [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:51 ]
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RC car stuff split into existing thread.

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:54 ]
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Grim... wrote: Gmail is out of beta. There's a labs plug-in to put the 'beta' image back in case you were missing it

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:56 ]
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Now I've said that twice.

Author:	myp [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 14:58 ]
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I have no idea how that happened.

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 15:01 ]
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myp wrote: I have no idea how that happened. Quote: Doc G says (14:52): quicxk go repost your gmial post in the RC airplane thread to confuse thread-splitting myp Doc G says (14:53): viewtopic.php?p=264236#p264236 that in there viewtopic.php?f=3&t=126 Matt says (14:54): done why? Doc G says (14:54): coz he';s splitting posts from BnB into that other thread now, when he's done, we can accuse him of being foolish and moving the wrong post and he'll be vonfused this was funnier in my head Matt says (14:55): you're taking the blame for this one, Gaywood Doc G says (14:55): hahaha Matt says (14:55): I'm keeping this conversation Doc G says (14:55): damn ok I am a fool it was a spur of the moment thing Matt says (14:56): hahaha now he's moved it again Doc G says (14:57): brilliant that's what I hoped would happen hahah see, wasn't such a bad idea Doc G says (14:58): imagine his confused face Doc G says (14:59): brilloiant viewtopic.php?p=264259#p264259

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 15:01 ]
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Great, now they all see how bad my typing is when I try to write fast.

Author:	myp [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 15:02 ]
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My sides.

Author:	MrChris [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 15:04 ]
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I love the occasional little insights into Grim and Gaywood. You two make such a cute couple. The kids would be horrendous, though.

Author:	Cras [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 15:05 ]
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Brilloiant.