Monte Carlo

If you grind them up into a paste with some basil and olive oil they make a surprisingly tasty pesto.

Huh? If you murder them you get some plate armour and a +1 halberd IIRC, which you can then sell to buy more phat lewt. Yes, I'm neutral evil and proud.

The internet needs the Codex. Don't feel the need to post there much, but enjoy the banter. I am glad Gaider was chased off. Gaider is to gaming what Glee is to contemporary music.

What is this Google+ of which you speak?

Funny you say that, I'd be happy to swap. Bloody hate the south of England with a passion. Go home then, you whippet-loving miserabilist.

Lend me your watch and I'll tell you the time.

Bah! Feeble counter-slurs won't save you this time, you reptile-obsessed creature of the night. The game is up.

I run a leading anti-tortoise trafficking charity called Shell-Shock. Millions of vulnerable tortoises (and indeed turtles and terrapins) are smuggled into the UK to satisfy the twisted desires of monsters like Walsingham. Please PM me your credit card details so I can fund the tortoise-salvation fightback immediately.

If you are all so happy why do you need to go on (a) bleating about it and (b) invading Europe in clapped-out camper vans?

Got it.

Pop I didn't get that PM.

Sounds like an interesting story, feel like sharing? Or are you still under a non-disclosure agreement? :: shrugs :: It's no biggie, but there were long hours, unhealthy peer-pressure and bullying. You'll never eradicate that, but it's much better in my industry now.

I'm certainly not going to be critical of Mr. McNamara for his passion and work ethic, he comes across as a grafter alright. ... but (you knew that was coming) He's not a manager. It's the quintessential workplace dilemma that I'm sure many of us have seen. An operator or field guy is the best at his role but poor at managing staff or leading teams. So they go for the Roman slave galley approach instead and end up with this sort of scenario. Conversely, you get the professional 'generic' manager who thinks IT is the same as retail is the same as marketing is the same as... and this guy is a **** too. Anyhoo, that McNamara doesn't deny it sets him apart from the herd, but that doesn't mean I'd want to work for or with him. In my early career I worked in conditions and under practices that people entering the game now are spared. It doesn't make them any less good, just luckier

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.