
Also, in responce to "Forty-seven nuns walk into a bar:"
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom and Boom!

Very nice though.
And Rorschach died 87 years ago today.
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And Rorschach died 87 years ago today.

My son was excited this morning when I told him daddy has bought an xbox ( we are a console free family ) and was talking about new 360 games and if he was good he might be able to have it in his room during school holidays.
You should have seen his face when I explained that I have bought an original xbox and that there will be no games or controllers and Daddy has bought it for the sole purpose of adding to the network to stream downloaded films from the server to the TV room to save me making discs.
he was not impressed.
I bought another one this morning actually, for the bedroom for the same purpose.
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You should have seen his face when I explained that I have bought an original xbox and that there will be no games or controllers and Daddy has bought it for the sole purpose of adding to the network to stream downloaded films from the server to the TV room to save me making discs.
he was not impressed.
I bought another one this morning actually, for the bedroom for the same purpose.

You are a bad bad father ;)
Give the kid some fun :D
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Give the kid some fun :D

It's his birthday soon. he's getting a telescope.
(ok, and a PS3 but that's not my idea ).
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(ok, and a PS3 but that's not my idea ).

The controllers are too light, not enough meat to them, that and the limited back catalogue of games.
But Im sure he'll have fun playing it :D
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But Im sure he'll have fun playing it :D

let anyone in this house who has ever seen a wii, let alone the toy itself, you would be sadly mistaken.
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If you're going to own a console, that's the one to get.
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if only for the following reasons: blue ray, wifi, SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE, it doesn't sound like a helicopter struggling to take off ALL THE TIME.
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also - Street Fighter isn't as good as I'd hoped it would be.
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which is a shame because I had high hopes.
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I remember having much fun with my birthday telescope :)
It's still at my parents' somewhere
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It's still at my parents' somewhere

I have a 7" meade refractor and a maksutov cassegrain but they are not toys so i want to start him off with something he can handle. A small reflector probably, just to see how interested he gets.
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That's some nice gear you've got there! I've yet to buy a "grown-up" telescope, but the purchase is delayed by monetary reasons and the fact that I'm living in a city :(
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And starts mindlessly killing stuff on the PS3?
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i find being well-rounded is not economical. so i just play games.
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and has the v+ box set to regularly record the sky at night ;)
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at a great distance away... then he can use both presents at the same time!
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i'm getting a 360 soon, as soog as i get my bloody Masters out the way
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yay for MEng, thats actually what i'm doing none of that MSc nonsense
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What kind?
Chemical all the way.....
Now I need to apply for jobs
/lazy blog
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Chemical all the way.....
Now I need to apply for jobs
/lazy blog

I'm tring to persue my dream of making giant robots.
I can't find any jobs in this though.. cant find any jobs at all.
Maybe i should try looking.
Proirities: MEng then XBOX then job (when my parents get really angry).
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I can't find any jobs in this though.. cant find any jobs at all.
Maybe i should try looking.
Proirities: MEng then XBOX then job (when my parents get really angry).

i am prepared to be proved wrong
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Lord of the rings is the single most epic story ever written.
The films were great but I can't help thinking there is a whole generation will never read the books now.
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The films were great but I can't help thinking there is a whole generation will never read the books now.

I just seem to recall falling asleep a lot while trying to read LOTR. The version I had was an old one split into 6 books, and I don't remember anything really happening in about half of them, just a lot of walking about.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad book, I'm just saying I think in this case, the film is superior to the book. I do think that in 99.9% of cases though, books are better than the films.
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I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad book, I'm just saying I think in this case, the film is superior to the book. I do think that in 99.9% of cases though, books are better than the films.

So for me LOTR movie was better
but
films like IRobot take a huge steaming dump on the book. The robots books by Asimov are amazing. The film was simply retarded.
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but
films like IRobot take a huge steaming dump on the book. The robots books by Asimov are amazing. The film was simply retarded.

I think I was about 13 when I read LOTR so possibly my attention span was not what is required for such a tome.
That being said, I still think the films are better than the book in that case.
Agree with you on iRobot though, definitely.
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That being said, I still think the films are better than the book in that case.
Agree with you on iRobot though, definitely.

word because they are seriously hard work i know. I'm just a bit precious ( pumn intended) about Tolkien because when i was given 'the hobbit' by my aunt aged around 7 I just know that it was a life changing moment and altered the way I perceive books now. This is why my boy is surrounded by books and not games consoles.
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Got all irritated with some of the TV adaptations they've done in the last few years. They're not all that bad, but they're just not what I had hoped for. Teatime in The Hogfather was a major let-down for me especially.
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graphic novel. I have half-heartedly started a painting of V in the same style as the rorshach one I did a while back.
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RACISTLOLS
Also did anyone here what prince phillip said to Barak Obama
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Also did anyone here what prince phillip said to Barak Obama

the queen said: you must be very busy
then obama said: yes, i've just been meeting with the chinese, and after this im meeting the japanese
then prince phillip asked "how do you tell them apart?"
all the news bulletins afterwards showed them meeting, but muted the sound
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then obama said: yes, i've just been meeting with the chinese, and after this im meeting the japanese
then prince phillip asked "how do you tell them apart?"
all the news bulletins afterwards showed them meeting, but muted the sound

it was the excited way his face lit up and he scooted over, grinning, waiting for the second he could get into the conversation to say it.
He obviously thought he was being very witty.
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He obviously thought he was being very witty.



You've got to admire his ratio
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he must be the guy who got kicked out of kiss for taking it all too seriously
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He was FINE in the early 90s, though.
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