Walsingham

Good to hear it. I shall have to get onto my local fishmongers. Problem is that I only know how to cook crab in curry. Advice?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14803840 Who'd be up for eating a few thousand of these bastards and saving the planet?

Hmm. Not sure if I can make it, but I have an er... Mexican friend I can send instead of me. His accent is a bit West Country, but don't let that fool you. he drinks tequila, which should be proof enough.

The roof looks a bit goofy. Surely HMMWVs are kind of squat. Lowbrow. Yours looks more ...startled. having said that, I couldn't begin to do what you've done so I'm not knocking you. Just suggesting you should work from reference.

My boot started twitching when I listened to that. I think it has a rendezvous with his ass.

I think something may be broken. I don't save to the cloud unless I have to. And of course I DON'T!

ROFL. Well, that would be an option. I've taken the slightly less extreme option of going into his save and tidying his s*** up. Ammo in the ammo box etc. Misc in the misc boxes. Food in the fridge. The freak has more than 340000 caps! Plus thousands of rounds of ammo, 300 weapon repair kits. 400 wonderglue etc. Dressed him in the assassin suit, and given him a tasteful and sensible array of weapons from the lockers. 70 rnds apiece. Haircut. Lost the skanky hat. Authority shades. Basically I got post-apocalyptic Gok Wan on his ass.

Change of subject Had anyone else noticed the Valve own brand games updating about five times a day, recently? I think it may actually be something to do with save games on the Cloud. But it's frakking my non valve games up the wazoo. They kep crashing and every time they do there's avalve game mid-update with this guilty look on its face and its pants around its ankles.

I believe I have aleady mentioned that my housemate was tidying the Mojave wasteland long before Old World Blues came out. But now he actually has an excuse for collecting literally every tiny thing he sees. Now, I thought this was a joke he did when I was around, so I didn't kibbitz him. But I checked. He's working his way around Big MT collecting everything down to the shot glasses. EVERYTHING. Then waddling around at a snail's pace, pot-shotting nightstalkers with whatever POS gun he's found lying about, AND THEN DYING. I saw him do this for over two hours last night. This surely must be the most annoying and pointless video gaming experience ever. It's also stopping him doing the washing up. And he LOVES doing washing up. Can someone explain what is going on? And d oso before I am obliged to lock him out of my PC for his own good.

I'm saying you approach your love of the area - arguably - from the wrong end. Like "I love prostitutes. I will become one!"

There's no consistency in what you're coding at the time? Any other apps running?

Bolt thrower!

How long for, sparky?

Sounds like non-trivial bad news... Perhaps he's just realised he's not British? ~~ Agree with GD. Although I think hate gets a bad rep sometimes. It's better than an insipid emotional vacuum. ~~ Mad dreams last night. Terrorist bombs, and frogs doing handstands... You ever seen a frog doing a handstand? Don't. It's bloody awful.

Sorry, GD. Not having a go. Didn't catch your 'tone' so to speak.

The offer is appreciated. Just not as much as TELLING ME WHICH ONES YOU HAVE AND ARE GOOD.

*blinks* ~~ EDIT: Man goes to fishing port and officially complains that his children were traumatised by seeing dead fish.

Wrong. (as usual) Funny how the rebels merely "suspect" those blacks of being pro-Q mercenaries -though apparently mere suspicion is enough to get you a bullet to the back of the skull in brave new Libya- yet you can give us assurances that they were. How's the weather inside your colon? edit: as for the "no racism" idiocy: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3328336026.html Interesting thought. I wonder if much of the atrocity tendency in unregulated troops comes as much from the unchecked spread of stories about atrocities from the opposite side? Not suggesting for a second that it's not mostly do with a lack of regular discipline and punishment. I say again that I'd be extremely cautious before saying that what we're seeing isn't down to the fact that these are volunteer militias rather than Libyan volunteer militias.

In defence of the old boy, rape was pretty common and still is common in many countries. Maybe he does it to convey a sense of violence which we tend to miss when he's talking about cutting heads off etc.

Fair play, GD. It does clearly say that there's no evidence of abusing captives. I just checked. It's interesting, because I used to know an old ex mercenary from the sixties and he'd say that getting a merc gig was fraught with this kind of thing. If these had been eastern european mercs getting locked up would people be that bothered?

My sincere apologies. I assumed it was a persistent attempt to annoy and obscure. As for funny... if you don't find conspiracy theorists funny then I can only feel sorry for you. I find them both abundant and hilarious.

that were 'posed to be a funny? well, we agree that there were a "sense of humour failure." poking fun o' junai takes so little effort, but you make it look difficult. in any event, is doubtful that the folks from 30 rock ask for walsh to join the writing team anytime soon. HA! Good Fun! This put down would be a good deal more cutting if you ever updated your own act.

I just started a new game, which I expect to last me until Lonesome Road.

I just finished re-reading When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. The book only gets better as I get older. George R.R. Martin described this trilogy (of which this is the first) as 'wry and black and savage'. Yet no bastard has ever heard of it!