I'm recycling this as it didn't get enough response last time.
another thing you never used to hear about was velociraptors. I was into dinosaurs as a kid as were/are many boys, but, while I'm sure they were known they were not like this big, ubercool dinosaur, it was all about the tyrannosaurus rex, although ankylosaurus was my favourite.. And that's another thing, when I was a kid half the fun of knoyi ng about dinosaurs was the long and complicated names, none of this dumbed down T-Rex shite. I blame Jurassic Part on both counts. Damn you Michael Crichton!. /rant
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:19, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

10 YEAR OLD LADDIE!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:20, Reply)

NO WISKEE CHAT!
Did I do it right Monts?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:21, Reply)

YOU SURE DID WILFREDO

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:23, Reply)

*sigh*
I would have though that as a purist and a respecter of old things you, like me, would detest the whole 'willie fogg' incarnation. what the hell is wrong with Phillias as a name?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:29, Reply)

It's just not as good as 'Phileas'.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:35, Reply)

Good point.
annoyingly spell-check did not help me on this.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:37, Reply)

It was one of my favourite books as a boy.
That and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. That cartoon was a heap of shit on a par with those gay-ass Muskehounds.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:47, Reply)

I'm going to have to challenge you to a dual
over this ridiculous assertation
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:51, Reply)

Yeah none of those books had catchy theme tunes though, did they?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:52, Reply)

I totally agree.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:55, Reply)

I miss his mini garlic breads

( Theoban What of it, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:47, Reply)

Dinosaurs are cool but they changed some of the names from when I were t'lad

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:21, Reply)

yeah, aparently Brontosauruses don't exist
Kinda like Pluto, but not.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:22, Reply)

INORITE

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:23, Reply)

They corrected the name of one of them.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:23, Reply)

yeah, but to an american name
this is of course wrong.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:24, Reply)

WHY?!!!!
*looks up into rain*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:25, Reply)

Some cunt found some Apatosaurus bones and thought he'd discovered a new dinosaur, which he named Brontosaurus.
Then someone better said "Shut up, dick, it's a fucking Apatosaurus - all those kids who grew up in the 70s and 80s now believe something that was never true" The end.
I don't think it was anything to do with Americans renaming stuff, as Wilf says.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:32, Reply)

everything can be blamed on the Americans.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:40, Reply)

Racist.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:41, Reply)

American's are not a race.
they are a rag tag band of mentally deficient religious nutters that we are well rid of.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:43, Reply)

That's right. They are all like that without exception.

Apart from fucking millions of them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:48, Reply)

Monty? is that you?
are you feeling OK monts, casual xenophobia is usually right up your street.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:54, Reply)

They are making Jurassic park 4

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:22, Reply)

Jurassic Park was an excellent book

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:23, Reply)

true, but the film took all the edge off it and made it waay to cutsey
the sequel book was shite too. but the Crichton's a whore.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:24, Reply)

i enjoyed the film, but I'm younger than you

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:25, Reply)

had you read the book?
make a difference. as is often the case the film is fine in it's own right but lacks a lot form the book. for example in the book Hammond, rather than being a cuddly but misguided dickie attenborough is an eval shit and you are happy when he get's eaten alive.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:27, Reply)

i read the book afterwards
i enjoy that as well as far as I can remember
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:30, Reply)

in this order I can see why the film would not offend

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:32, Reply)

I love Crichton, I think the only book of his I haven't read is the pirates one, which wont' be my cup of tea.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:43, Reply)

did you read the Jurassic park sequel?
I used to like him but he got too formulaic for me about 10 years ago.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:47, Reply)

Yup, I can't remember much of it though, but I remember enjoying it.
State Of Fear and Micro are both very good.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

not read those
but I'm guessing man interfered with nature/technology in a way he really shouldn't, everything went horribly wrong, several people died but it was all sorted out in the end with the hero and either an attractive woman or some cute kids surviving and escaping at the last moment.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I was made to read one about some kind of nanoplague
it was terrible, sexist and badly written
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:56, Reply)

this is why he's so in demand for Hollywood films

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:58, Reply)

Oh for Fuck's fucking sake, 2 and 3 were bad enough.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:23, Reply)

Kids still know the long and complicated names.
Well, mine does at least.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:24, Reply)

mine too, but he still says T-Rex and play with a lego Velociraptor
that's another thing, Lego is getting well shite.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:25, Reply)

And money doesn't feel like 'proper money' anymore, does it?
'Member when a five pound note was as big as a car?
And another thing...
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:34, Reply)

I remember when coins were a proper size.
5P, 10P & 50P coins have all been shrunk. they feel like toy money.

not dead fond of modern bank notes either, they are smaller and more colourful, more like euros, they don't feel real.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Have you noticed how policemen are getting younger*?


*They're not.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:43, Reply)

no, they aren't, I'm getting older.
there are an awful lot of PCSOs about now though and they are really fucking pointless.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:45, Reply)

The point of them is that they are much, much cheaper.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:49, Reply)

and, as far as I understand, have no actual powers beyond what a man in the street has.
they are diet police.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:51, Reply)

coins will be extinct in 10 years

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:44, Reply)

You heard it here first, folks.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:45, Reply)

mark my words tangles, mark m y words

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:47, Reply)

I've already printed this page out.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

Make sure you file it correctly.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

no, they won't
they can't even get their act together to get rid of cheques which are totally pointless.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 18 Jan 2013, 11:46, Reply)