Monte Carlo

Pop I'll take a look at the banters later, if you want to PM me an email addy I'll knock out a Word Doc (I'm on Word 2007 on this machine).

What a moronic thing to say. In what way? Modern society would not function without the ideas of the left, and the left still has plenty of good ideas left to give. Likewise modern society would not function without the right's best idea: free markets. Monte Carlo is being intentionally small-minded and rude with the statement in question. It's not necessary. *yawns*

Pop am happy to look at and polish dialogue. I know I write like a simpleton on this forum, but that's because I have to write copy in my day job.

It's not me, the left doesn't need a trolltastic parody alt to make itself look silly.

Am seriously thinking about investing time in Stalker 2 now its dirt cheap on Amazon. Any views?

Possibly, but your economy is in a better state than ours plus there's the issue of volume. As others have said, the demise of decent vocational training in the UK is part of the problem, as is the proliferation of frankly trivial and frivolous courses of study by second-rate institutions. As usual, the UK is opting for an amalgam of the worst aspects of European and American models. There should be decent system of affordable student loans, consolidated and accessible bursaries and (crucially) a structured and properly supported system of apprenticeships. The idea that you need a three-year degree to do certain jobs is ludicrous, and we need to develop more modular access to higher education. Like the Aussie health care system, which makes lots of sense, it simply doesn't translate to a smaller country with a flat-lining economy but a much bigger population density.

Apples and oranges Krezack, you have a population of what, twenty-odd million? In the UK I think we are in the mid-sixties.

This was one of Harriet Harman's booby traps left as part of the NuLab revanchee in 2010. It does indeed provide for an 'Equality Impact Assessment' for any policy enacted by a public body. Staggeringly, 'class' is one of them. This action will likely fail. The Coalition should have smashed this law immediately, but were too weak, so screw them.

Shame, cuz a campaign with all those things would be awesome.

Hehe, that seems to be the trend in the DSIII forums: ---> ---> That's strange because most games do the opposite, whereby they lull you into a false sense of security before showing their true colours.

Do me a favour and tell me it isn't true. Geez. Your obsession with modernity is as dull as mine with the past. your retorts are equally predictable. come back when you start shaving.

I'd not seen that picture before. I apologize to the forum for not being as cool as Morgoth.

Oh, I forgot you were a moderator. **** off.

Kudos to the excellent Grognardia blog...

Apologies if I indulge in hyperbole, but the whole series was a triumph and the best thing that's happened to fantasy as a genre in a long time. High production standards, outstanding actors (both known and newer, I could watch Peter Dinklage paint a wall and not get bored), a great script. I loved the ending of the season and can't wait for the second. Kudos to HBO and all involved.

Ideology trumped reality, the leitmotif of the European project. Greece should never have been let in the Euro, it was a fudged piece of creating accounting designed to propel the integrationist project forward. You reap as you sow.

I suppose it's the cyber version of graffiti on tall buildings: they do it because they can.

Walsingham is a lovely chap, but hails from a brutish place with no hot running water and horrible weather. Everybody is unemployed. They get their first tattoos at six. This has left him with a twisted perception of his betters from the capitol of the Imperium.

German is a difficult language to learn, apparently Arabic is easier. Germany is important because of it's economy and size.

+1. Vin Diesel rocks.

The Argentinians are an ungrateful bunch. Thanks to our intervention in 1982 the military junta, y'know, a dictatorial abduct-folks-in-the-middle-of-the-night style bunch of tyrants, was toppled. Every tinpot Argie populist since, who ironically owes their job to Margaret Thatcher, bangs on about it. My advice to Frau Kirchner is to **** or get off the pot. The Falklands garrison is small but reasonably well-resourced. The Argentinians would be squandering mucho blood and treasure taking it militarily. Of course, that the islands sit on an oilfield doesn't really help.

It has begun. At some point, every message board on the internet becomes a stew of nostalgic veterans complaining about how it used to be better and being nasty to newbies. It always starts with posts like this. Anyway, I'm fine with this theme. It's nice. Fair point but I've been around a while and I still like it. Some of the people who've joined in the past twelve months are very groovy forum members too.

I completely agree. Like the second Riddick film, really. Vin Diesel has some interesting ideas but they struggle in the execution of the movies.

Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan. Read it twice before, but y'know. GD, Ernest Hemingway's adventures with Leclerc's brigade during the liberation of Paris deserves a book of it's own.

This is exactly the type of spam-based lore that I hoped this thread would inspire so I take my hat off to you, sir.