Re: Not joining you. Sorry.

console yourself with this thought; if his entire meal is a fiver I doubt he's having much steak either ;-)

Re: Instant fail

just like they think we all know every other "Britisher" :-)

Re: Religions and non-religions

I too saw the advert in question... while I agree that an entire channel devoted to any given creed can be thought of as an "advert", I don't think religions in general run 30 seconds ads during a normal TV shows and thats exactly what this was. I can't remember what show I was watching but it wasn't even in context.

It had a slick glossy Hollywood look about it., lots of saving the planet CGI stuff... thought it was a trailer at first, was a little surprised to discover it was advertising CoS.

Re: Eh?

Actually, as I understand it the French nuke engines are barely capable of the doing the job of shunting the big ship around with nothing spare for anything else. They chose "baby" sub reactors over proper "nimitz" type reactors as a..... <insert fanfare> ... cost saving exercise :-)

Re: Kid's will watch it.

catchy tune though :D

There was a rather annoying contractor who had it as his ringtone and even though he was often away from his desk, he left his 'phone there and would receive many calls.

As it rang he would lope across the office... we all found it so annoying that eventually we started "dah dah"'ing the tune whenever he moved regardless of the phone; he became known as "Inspector gadget" and was entered into the minutes of meets as such too :D

re Lost

I'm about 6 episodes from the end of the boxset, every episode makes my eyes feel like that bloke from Utopia's eyes must have felt like after torture blokey had finished.

sadly, I'm what's known as a completist.. I can't have half of something, its all or nothing. I started watching LOST.. the first couple of season were ok but the rest? so I've got tofinish it.

Dear oh Dear.

I've got no problem with "clever" TV . films... I like 'em but Lost is utter, utter drivel, its not even particularly good drivel, its just utter utter shite. Anyone raving about the show needs help.

Re: James Bond

burn the hertic!!!

We'll have none of your sensible discourse here! I've a pitchfork and I'm not afraid to use it! you've been warned.

Agree... It wasn't "Trek" per se but ...

it was a pretty good and entertaining film. I am the only fan of Star Trek amongst my friends and yet we all enjoyed the Star Trek movie allbeit for different reasons.

People that get as wound up about it as Greg need to work out what is missing form their lives that makes them so anal about a fukcing TV show / Movie series.

Re: LG TV

perhaps it depends upon the actual model. I bought an LG tv (LM620T) back in november last year and it has both apps and both work very well.

I had a trial with both services and have kept LoveFilm , dumped Netflix. It could be my bandwidth but the picture quality for HD content (of which there is much) is as good as the braodcast quality. They also seem to be constantly increasing the number of "collections" available.

So I've no complaints at all about the LG or Lovefilm for that.

On a side note... there have been 3 firmware updates delivered to my TV so they seem to be pretty good in that deptment as well.

wow... calm down dear.

Popular <> good in every case or even in everybodies taste

I've *always* watched Dr Who in all its forms (well OK not sylvester McCoy that would have been stupid) I've watched every "new" Dr Who and have found myself disapointed by pretty much every episode (apart from the odd one or two and I did enjoy the Ecclestone series)

The reality is, I don't find the new stuff, apart from the odd episode to be very, well, "Dr Who" , It's sci-fi yes, Dr Who No, (for me) there is too much "timey-whymy" stuff.. there is definately too much sentimentality in it but for the most unforgiveable thing is the "genral purpose, get out of everything" object that the Sonic Screwdriver has become.

Was is it just me but was Jack TRYING to be a shallow stereotype?

Not that he needed to try too hard...

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Not to mention Messrs Niven and Pournelle's Footfall

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Whilst I don't disagree with your POV Just because you or I don't recognise it as art doesn't mean that someon else wouldn't.

At the very least I would recognise as a sculpture perhaps not to my tatse and I do tend to be somewhat sniffy of people who say things like... "this is representative of the urban filth and decay and embodies the simple truth that everywhere and everything is suscptible to the decay that makes modern life so unbearable for people without the appreciation to recognise the artists' essential mesage *sigh* their lives are the poorer for it" but it is an artform

to dismiss it as simply bollocks is probably a tad unfair, afterall I presume the current owner did in fact pay 1.1 billion dollors for it.

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I agree.... the whole "Q" character was a conceit introduced by the movies anyway.. as was all the gadge..

As for "R" that was just stupid, given that "Q" was shorthand for Quartermaster.

I think Craig is an excellent bond and that the last 2 movies were superb.

I think you'll find that anybody killed with the thing would be the "wrong" kind of people

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My ex MIL sounded like a fax machine once she got started... when she really let go only cats and dogs could hear her....

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I have a single TV, I use it to watch TV on....

If I'm in the kitchen, I'm cooking ergo NOT watching TV

If I'm in the bedroom... I'm taking care of bedroom related business ERGO... not watching TV

if I'm in my dining room I'm....

Are you seeing a pattern?

If I need "backgorund" noise, I play some music or put the radio on. IE something that doesn't require teh use of my eyes because I am almost certainly doing something else that does.

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yep.... very happy with my Hero, had it just about 18 months and have been very pleased with it, like you I*really* miss the camera from my renoir but thats the only thing I'd change... oh I'd like to have had a flash as well.

have just started to look at phones for my forthcoming upgrade.

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Actually, I have a pair of bluetooth ear buds that double as a handsfree set.

There's no plastic stuck to me anywhere and at first glance you'd assume I was just wearing a headset.

Its only when you look closer that you can see the bluetooth dongle / controls hanging round my neck.

The big issue with them these days is the constant dropping out as I walk cos world + uncle seems to have some kind of 2.4ghz stuff going on.

I'll probably go back to wired for that reason tho and not because I look like a chump when I wear them.

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Actually, according to this -> http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/powers/road-traffic/ web page driving a car with a defective headlight is an offence.

So stick that in your smug pipe ;-)

I am also an IAM qualified driving and its you leather elbowed / courdery jacket wearing types that make us *all* look and sound like twats. I am neitehr of those things.

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why stop at a beating they shoulda popped a couple caps in his ass?

They did *exactly* the right thing because you obvioulsy need it speeling out for you.

really?

Do you have any idea how stupid your post makes you look?

If you can explain to me how I can pop down to your "facebook" with my dad who lives in New Zealand... or how about the life long buddy of mine that now lives in Chicago then that'll be great.

Not everyone that uses FB is a moron. I use facebook the way I want to use it. It doesn't *have* to contain your world.

Its just a tool and like 99% of tools is a useful as you make it and can be as controlled as you want it. it *really* isn't rocket science.

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For the sake of balance it should be pointed out that Fruity fanbois don't have a monopoly on that...

Er.. is anyone else having a problem entering text unless you've added an "optional" title?

do change the record....

that'll be the an EXTRA 15 years to pop out Nuclear power stations then

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This report is by our colonial cousins.... they still use imperial weights and measures

Surely you mean...

"An infinite Playmobil recursion could open a rift in the spacey wacey, timey whymey continuum." ?

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yes indeed... wasn't the very first person in the dock a teacher?

gosh! titles no longer required???

Anywhooooo.....

It seems to me that they are in fact going to honour the legitimately obtained keys and null the stolen ones.

So I guess that harms the bad guy's and not the good guy's so I@m not really sure what your point is?

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excellent... very funny :-)

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that thing was annoying the crap out of me to the extent that I disabled Skype from starting full stop; now I start skype at pre-arranged times to chat only to the people I've exchanged details with.. IE my family who all live abroad.

I had plans to extend my use of skype but that one single annoyance has effectively prevented me from exploring it further, I'll certainly never install a skype client on my mobey now, god knows what shit they'll pop up / under / over.

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I think this...

Don't *help* with ideas about how they *might* get some people to go along with them.

The correct response is.. if you want to shut down that domain go and have a word with Judge and convince him you need to.

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interestingly, those graphics often appear to be based on some far more Apple'y than MS'ey

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I don't think anyone has ever found anything they were actually looking for by using windows serach.. except maybe by accident.

I have "searched" a single directory which contains only the file I'm actually looking for and it still hasn't found it!

ummmm... I was doing it to prove a point to a doubting colleague :-)