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I know that there's a whole "gamers are unfit lol" stereotype going around but seriously I can't imagine how you can get like that (look good, be young, have godawful actual health) except by drug abuse or genetic unfitness. How old are you?

Love it. I especially like the way you can hear him exhale carefully before firing.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but we actually put money on an England USA draw. We just got the score wrong. We assumed England would be SO lacklustre they wouldn't score. 0-0. In fairness to the Yanks I have to say they played with a good deal of technical skill, and showed plenty of energy and determination. As usual England play with technical skill and fitness, but zero imagination and teamwork. Why in the name of Christ do we insist on this fantasy that we have such good strikers that we can push them up solo and expect them to score? We aren't that good, and I never remember us being that good. I don't know what's at the heart of our failures. I used to think it was the players being half asleep. But they woke up a bit for the second half and were still awful.

Fair enough. I'm just saying that aiming at the head and hitting is different to aiming at the person and hitting the head.

70 lines...

I fired a .44 magnum for the first time a couple months ago. It DOES sound like some kind of giant cannon.

I approve of your thirst for challenge. I'm trying to think of suggesting something I won't steal for work after you've done it. How about a search results reprocessor. Something that chomps up Google results and reprocesses them according to some sort of superior metrics? then you can do it and probably sell it to Google afterwards?

Ironically, I'll be f***ed before I'll bow to such a demand. I understand you live with a dog? No. I can't be expected to cope with a dog either. I simply pick up dogs in bars for a string of meaningless one night stands.

Cal, you don't have to shoot someone in the head on purpose. You can do it by accident.

LOL You'd totally have to put the number of the beast on him in UV pen.

Tell me about your mother....

Fallout 3, mostly. The downloadable content kicks it totally into overdrive, gievn teh DLC is now only about two pounds apiece.

Completely knackered, but absolutely first class week for work. Really starting to make headway after the long dry spell. My investment in taking the unusal approach of being painfully honest and working very hard is apparently winning out.

If true that's bloody clever. I wonder if he could engineer some way of making the Scots intelligible?

Ah. I can see your objection now. Mine doesn't use the thumb, but the index and ring finger, which years of offensive gesturing have rendered nimble to a degree far exceeding any ever exhibited by my arm as a whole. Gorgon is also correct that it means I can have on my desk *peers intently*: a square of velcro; two coffee stained pieces of A4 containing notes such as "Bacon" (double underlined) and "Destroy my enemies"; a pair of nail clippers; a nearly empty coffee mug, a 5.56 bullet casing; a disposable razor; one twst tie for blousing trousers; a pipe (so that's where it is); the second disc from Kotor 2; Star Wars Supremacy and so on... And that's after I just tidied up.

Whuh? My reactions are pretty slow so I can't confirm, but basically don't you just increase the pointer speed?

I really like trackballs, but have recently fallen out with my creative labs mice over the shoddy build quality of the prestles. I therefore decided to try a Kensington one. The new Kensington mouse is slightly easier to hold onto at a variety of angles, although it's even smaller for a man's hand. I don't know who they get to model the ergonomics for these damn things. The biggest failure of the Kensington is the trackball itself. It's a cheap cloudy marble coloured plastic compared with the much smarter trackball in the creative mouse. In fact the Kensington one is so cheap it fails to track at speed. A fact I verified and solved in one swift stroke by cannibilising the trackball from the old mouse! They are an identical size! Time will tell how good the prestles are on this new one.

Stuck doing work till late today. Bunch of friends coming to stay for the weekend, though. Hopefully no chance of slyly trying to work over the next couple of days. I love my work too much sometimes.

The Daily Mash rather astutely pointed out that it may not be wise for America to set a precedent for corporations being forced to pay compensation on a very large scale. Bhopal anyone?

Ach his dad sounds pretty tough. I know it's nerve wracking but he'll work out fine. Continuing this week's foreskin theme, I admire any man who feel he has so much **** he can afford to throw part of it away!

"Phom" *evil giggles*

I've laid money on: Mexico wining 2-1. A greek victory 0-0 France vs uruguay And gambled big on Argentina losing the plot due to mismanagement and Nigeria doing as well as they aim to. I thought about betting on Serbia, out of misplaced forum loyalty (I know several members are serbs) but restrained myself.

You can cut my hair, but the rest of me stays intact. Dysfunctional in the spine, hand, feet and ribcage, mainly, but intact.

Why has no-one invented an immature content filter? Basically, we could name it the Bill Hicks Tribute Filter, and it would prevent you looking at anything which lacked nipples or a rectum prominently displayed in it.