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I believe that may be a photo of Oby's private regions. To quote the Financial Times: "Magnificent!"

EDIT: Where in the name of spiderman's swinging nutsack is the button for spoilers?

Doesn't have to kill you. Ah, one's teenage years.

Well, that would make me look rather foolish.

I had no idea that Teotihuacan was so impressive. Can you imagine rocking up there, dressed in your loincloth, like 2000 years ago? I'd literally crap myself, just out of respect. Mind you. Slaves.

Or the back of my head?

Those vox populi (posh name) are the epitome of cheap journalism, though. Actually, I take that back. They used to be. Now they can just read out online comments. Yes, that's right BBC news 24. I'm looking at you, you pointless ****party.

Could be worse, you might be a southpaw. Or I could have written on my face.

Yup. It's fun in a sadistic way when the player realizes that yes, they will live because of the FP, but nowhere does it say that they will do so in one piece I think in many ways it randers the combat more interesting and fearsome. We're all used to the thought of characters dying. What's weirder is coping with the character being blind or one legged or what have you. *thinks* Probaby something to that in real life, now I think about it.

Work avoidance rules! ~ I'd say there were three things I consider in a system, any system: 1) Can I tell the story I want in this milieu? Or act out the character I want? 2) Can I make/engage in dynamic exciting combat in a narrative sense? 3) Can I understand the mechanics enough to actualise points 1 and 2? Point 3 always boils down to percentage probabilities. I completely fail to understand why any other method would be used, since the maths always ends up as a percentage probability anyway. ...Although now I think about it, there might be some mileage in letting the GM know the probability then obscuring it to the players. Maybe spome sort of computerised conversion system? i.e. "I want the percentage chance to be 67%. OK (checks) I need you to roll a d20 and catch this beermat."

Thought I'd break out a space for anyone playing in this milieu. My first question is - does anyone understand the sodding warhammer calendar? My players keep asking about it. As if TIME actually matters to any real person!

I have two open notebooks on my desk ...and my left arm is covered in notes. *sobbing* I'm a freak!

Sometimes I can't tell if I drink to get drunk or for the "after-drunk" zombie feelings. Watching movies or listening to music seems so much more rewarding in the latter state. *big belly laugh* You may be onto something. Drinking to achieve a hangover is some serious quality command intent. :D Actually I had the most intense and realistic dreams last night. So maybe getting hoon'd and sleep deprived beforehand is the answer after all.

Forgot to say good luck to Calax.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/sunil_tripathi_reddit_suspect_dead/ The article linked points the finger at crowdsourcing as the guilty party for the accusation. I think that is ludicrous. All the 'crowd' did was review material. The failure lies squarely with media sources using the output as newsworthy fact. ~~ Full disclosure, I am a fan of 'old' journalism conducted by professionals in a 1in24hr atmosphere. The news the public needs in order to be informed and engaged in the democratic system is (I believe) on this pattern. A rolling blanket of sensation 24hr 'news' is just noise. It is worse than no news.

That reminds me, I saw the Liverpool Newcastle game yesterday on the TV. Dear God that was embarassing.

Only two hours sleep after a night's drinking. I've just been zombied out, drinking tea and cooking all day. I feel as if I _ought_ to die from booze abuse at some stage soon. LOL That's what old age feels like, at first. I reckon.

Perhaps more pertinently: I originally knew this through the Pogues, but frankly I think Shane McGowan knows about as much about war as my sock drawer. Give the song a go.

Lady, you need to check out Susmans so badly it's not even funny.

You're right. That is a neat idea. Might have to copy that one.

Sounds like a great idea if you happen to be a manufacturer of bullet proof vests. EDIT: To prove I'm not a naysaying ninny, my concept for child defence is to have them trained at an early age to combine like Voltron, leaping on each others' shoulders. Every classroom would contain a suit of 9 ft tall samurai style armour and a 12 ft halberd. In this way they would be harmless unless motivated to act as one. Any children deemed too weak to form the collective warrior will be assigned to playing drums and synthesisers.

Agree with Rostere. The battleships and battlecruisers were a grotesque folly from Herr Funny Moustache. But like I say, if he hadn't been given to stupid grandiose gestures would we have had a war at all?

Don't knock working in an adult store, old boy. I learned a lot. For starters, I had no idea that many people seem to find dolphins sexy. True story. I'm sitting with coffee and rehashing my CV for the bazillionth time. Today's watchword is brevity. I am hugely amused at the irony that people reading my CV don't want my life story.

One for another thread, maybe. As far as the ANZACs go, perhaps the last thing to point out that once Japan joined the war they were in danger of invasion, yet they stuck to their guns in Europe and Africa. Of course not all were sterling buggers. Some were bludgers.

For my money the real gimping was the Nazi party. Corrupt, bonkers, and evil. You could posit removing them, but remove them and you don't get a war. Plus - recognising this is a touch revisionist - the British Empire was really something back in the day. Germany just couldn't compete in the long term. The British Isles had the biggest arms industry in the world, a higher per capita spending power, and ready access to every perquisite of war fighting... ...including (on topic) the fighting men of the Dominions.