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There's an idea bulletproofbacks. We mould or acid etch favourite books onto titanium-ceramic pages, ring bind it, and voila! Your favourite book preserved for future generations, and possibly you too.

I think you should go full Brando style Colonel Kurtz. If in doubt, why not formally request advice from HR on the matter?

If I wanted a stool softener I'd read biological warfare manuals.

Copy that, melkathi. This is Tower. Advise change your bearing to 1925, and decrement your professional standards fifteen degrees. Come level when you achieve a desire to drink coconut juice with rum and crushed ice. Relax. Over.

Perhaps if you boiled it down a bit?

"Tennis over. Britain won."

You're crazy, man. You're dangerous! I'm going to ask the Lieutenant for a new partner. I'm only a few weeks from retirement, you know?

Hah. When I were a lad we had to get challenges from jars full of pondlife we scooped out of the garden. Seriously though, Nonek. Do you not think you're laying it on a bit bloody thick?

I think it's an over-reaction to say a delayed release for the PS4 is letting down the 'community'. You say that like you've invested in it, but you aren't thinking like an investor. We the community have to be flexible and accept that being part of PS4 will help sales and help 'our' devs.

My reaction when I read this.... No, I'm not and I wont be anytime soon. *looks at ever growing mountain of spreadsheets* I'm trying to remember the name of the film now. All I can remember is the name of the tank. Great film, tho.

I'm actually finding the heat tremendous. I dragged a box of admin out to the garden and organised all the finances. I think the lesson is that in future I must make sure I get enough sunshine.

Harry needs one of those. Scratch that, a whole pack of them. Hanging from bungees under an apache. Biting terrorists. On the backside.

Well, I'm not holidaying, but I'm working from home...

You fool, that's not blood, it's toffee!

To clarify I don't doubt the time and energy Mr Murray has dedicated to winning. Quite the reverse.

Ah nuts.

I'll eat Dominos if it is put in front of me. But I can honestly say that I would rather go hungry than order one myself. Of course, I can afford to run on my reserves for some considerable time before hunger became an issue...

I got shot in the face by a child waving a roman candle when I was in Southeast Asia. Narrowly missed my bloody eye. I'm ambivalent about the incident because it didn't scar, and I've always wanted a cool scar. It's for the better, the only scars people notice are the disfiguring ones. Plus, I'm sure Fate would have made my scar shaped like a nob or something.

Man sounds so good, that you can go after cops over there by pressuring local politicians. That kind of **** simply doesn't fly here. One of the delights of the UK system is that members of parliament are expected to have 'surgeries' where they speak to the people who voted for them (or not) directly and in person. Depending on the MP they can end up discussing anything from the War in Iraq to the BBC's attitude to cake in sporting programs, to trouble getting a school placement for little Timmy. MPs can get a lot of kudos and local support (if not Big Party support) for championing causes and exposing things is a big win. Beats attending ribbon cuttings all to hell. But we'll see what good it does here. Or not.

I only found out about those originally from playing Empire Total War. Actually, I'm quite surprised there hasn't been more of a resurgence in airgun systems as we've got better at producing the parts. Anyway, nearly recovered from my hangover. Due to meet chap in the pub in about half an hour.

As an Englishman I should like to say "F*** Wimbledon" Utter waste of time and energy.

I only know it by name. I've only ever seen the big 'game' rounds in the hands of rangers. .375 is a favourite in South Africa. .303 is as much gun as I think I'd ever need, and to be honest I probably won't ever need it in earnest. I actually learned how to shoot on a rechambered .22 lee-enfield. Lovely gun. Like firing a chesterfield sofa.

Wow. Your post sent me scurrying for more info. I found this page listing all sorts of bullet calibres. http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/mediapages/ArticleDetail.aspx?mediaid=542 There really have been one heck of a lot over the years. Strange to think that we are now witnessing a contraction and standardisation down to a mere handful. EDIT: My favourite has to be the .577 'tyrannosaur' round.

Indeed. I've just written and erased three completely different responses to your point about Popes. It seems to me that the jifs are in the process of trying to establish a single 'holy' order. I'm sure a bloke holding one finger in the air would wind up being islamopope in time. ...Or very likely more than one would try and declare islamopopehood, and the killing would just enter a new phase.

Sorry to be spamming the thread a bit, but this just in: 9 explosions at a buddhist temple complex in India. Nine explosions hit the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar state's town of Bodh Gaya on July 7, injuring two monks, Hindustan Times reported, citing agencies. According to Indian State Minister R. P. N. Singh, the blasts were part of a coordinated terror attack. Intelligence sources have said that the town has been targeted by terrorists based in Pakistan for some time. Jifs again, and it just makes me so sad and angry. That there is a movement of men so utterly dedicated to nothing more or less than provoking a hideous war between faiths. I do not know what is worse, that it should fail and so many deaths be utterly meaningless, or that they should succeed and there be so many more.