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Wow, I never guessed that growing up in South London in the 70's would give me such an eye for architecture.

I like Kirkwall, it looks like a 1970's housing estate but in a twisted fantasy way. The rest of it is meh, I think I'm going to get into FPS games this winter.

Thinking "lefty" is a meaningful political description is even more hilarious. It is. You are just being a churl.

Orwell was left-wing but not of it. And he came to despise Iron Curtain era totalitarianism. FWIW lots of Englishmen fought in the Spanish Civil War for a variety of reasons, some of them even fought for Franco. I doubt I would have agreed with Orwell on too much politically, but he's one of the most important writers and thinkers of his generation. I would reiterate that he would find LotF's views repugnant, but then again lefties attacking other lefties is part of what makes them so much fun (q.v. The Spanish Civil War).

You could start by joining the Schengen and sacking all the border guards. No.

Medieval Total WAR 2 using the latest shiniest iteration of DavE Scarface's GP mod. CoHO, I am now a level 33 Blitzkrieg badass. BG2, on my laptop. I have FO:NV waiting for a quiet moment.

Hey, this is the new s**t!

Am I the only person who finds Star Wars completely meh?

Godo news, it's No.1 in the big stores in the UK on PC (dunno about console ::sinffs:: ). Like a fine wine, I refuse to install it and play until I have a good 24 hours to myself.

Coolio, but FFS sort out the tiny inventory that plagued TQ.

I am definitely worried about the oncoming invasion of the United States by Iraq. :roll: "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "- Eric Blair (AKA George Orwell) There's an Orwell quote for every occasion! Suffice it to say he would have been steadfastly against the type of politics you espouse.

::Cough:: Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld ::Cough::

The confluence between Watergate and Linda Lovelace in early 70's political and pop cultures is lost on these youngsters.

It will be much better now it is being filmed on This Blessed Plot. After all, Hue in Full Metal Jacket was filmed in East London. The barbarians at the beginning of Gladiator were defeated in Surrey. Harry Potter, most James Bond movies and Band of Brothers were made in Hertfordshire. I'm sure NZ is utterly beautiful, it certainly looks lovely from the LotR movies. But shouty trade unionists can take the shine off of anything. The Shire is, in Tolkein's mind's eye, the English East Midlands of the early 20th Century. It is good that The Hobbit is coming home.

Maybe one day your generation will work out a way to fight a completely clean war, bereft of any human error or folly. In the meantime you can chill out in your Che Guevara T-shirts and sneer. Or perhaps you'll decide never to fight wars, whereupon you will be conquered. Am looking forward, with alacrity, to the day wikileaks finds a whistleblower from, say, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Consoles? LOL. Everythings a computer now. Phones are small computers now. One runs my car. They just come in different shapes and sizes, right?

Thanks, I was thinking of stone, but I was thinking it might have been a false friend (that's what it's called in Finnish...) FYI, in the U.S., "pit" is by far the more common term. "Stone" is still in the dictionary, but a lot of people would look at you funny if you starting talking about an "olive stone" (or cherry, peach, etc.). I blame Mister Webster, it was him what made you talk funny.

In English the middle of the olive is a stone, or a 'pit' a derivative of pip.

Bravo, these are all excellent, if not slightly disturbing, entries. Women really need to read this thread, along with forensic psychologists and magazine agony aunts.

Krezack, of course you are correct. The one thing that is occurring here is that the economic situation in the UK is keeping interest rates low, which is good news for home-owners. Home-ownership is deeply ingrained into the DNA of the UK economy, higher interest rates could seriously be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Yes still my favourite film of 2010.

You mean... There are no healing potions? :/

Off topic perhaps, but I played WoW for about a year with the director of Bio-Dome. Did he try to advocate soppy romances in WoW?

The cuts are spread over four years, a 20% cut is 5% per annum until 2014 for example. Most public spending in the UK is predicated on year-on-year increases so it's a bit of a double whammy. I'm going to be about

Move to Australia. No thanks.