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OK, I had this unfortunate incident today that has really confused and upset me, and if I see this guy again I may inform the authorities about him (or lodge a formal complaint to the bus company). When the bus journey I took today was nearly over, this swarthy, dishevelled looking guy was sitting i...

I think the meme of the "underequipped" British in Afghanistan and Iraq was mostly down to British Army/Royal Navy/RAF infantrymen, through institutional inertia, going about in comparatively flimsy Range Rovers (which were alright for Northern Ireland or the brief jaunts with the Desert S...

Oh dear, do you think Gibraltar is the most pointless topic over on the train wreck N&P sub-forum? I'm only paying it half attention and seems to be childish posturing between two troubled political administrations, causing irritating inconvenience for the locals. And Elfdart is making an ignora...

Paul Guilfoyle's too damn old to be a cop over half a decade ago as well.

Two other actors that I think would make decent Doctors are Alan Davies and Robert Carlyle.

Capaldi is a swell actor (and I was subconsciously thinking about him) but I must say it was a pretty conservative, almost safe choice, and he's a Scotsman like Tennant. But it's refreshing he's visibly fairly old and not a young(ish) adult like his last three predecessors.

But I think Windows 8's Photo and Skydrive suites are genuinely good (synching up with my phone beautifully), which makes up up for the Video Player fuckwittery (which seems to be trying to be a cheapish knock-off of Netflix or Lovefilm rather than a reliable video player).

And you're correct, it does fail completely by trying to be a tablet OS on the desktop. Do yourself a favour and install something like Pokki menu, it puts back a start menu and forces desktop mode on boot. It's not just that, my problem is Windows 8's Video Application steadfastly refusing to play...

RogueIce wrote:Windows XP was the greatest. I miss it.

I find Windows 8 to be a Jekyll and Hyde OS - I find it very good on my Nokia Lumia but more illogical, awkward on my laptop if I have to do more than just browse the net or use email.

wish the AV referendum had come up 'yes', then I could vote for the greens (and the socialist workers etc) without worrying about handing a vote to the tories. If that had succeeded, I could almost forgive those lilly-livered liberal tosspots for going into the coalition. I can vaguely remember the...

I don't like the porno industry, but I have a feeling that trying clamp down on the net will backfire and piss more innocent users off. Recently saw The World's End , me and everybody else in the cinema was laughing all the way through, but it was a surprisingly dark movie with a shock ending: First...

Spoiler : They already tried nuking the rift in the past, but it didn't work then. The only reason why the Marshal gave the order to try once again was because the UN had decided to shut down down the whole Jaeger program. Him giving the order for this mission, just after having lost two jaegers in...

Yeah, like I said I take IQ scores with a degree of caution and its comes across as a form of reassurance. Also IQ results can easily be misused for dubious political purposes.

Terminal illness is still an on going blight despite our advances, I hope your grandmother departs with as much comfort and dignity as possible, RyanThunder. I recently took a intelligence test in psychological survey exercise and I've perhaps got an IQ of 111 (with a verbal of 103). A bit above ave...

Why is Metahive the boogie man of the month now, when people pooh-poo SD.Net? He always seemed like a fairly laid back and bright person, though what's gone wrong with now in recent months is (IMO) he's gradually transforming into a mini-Thanas (cooped up in the History sub-forum a bit too long).

Shep: Grand champion of SDN. He got everyone to cover him while he trolled to his heart's content. Then went of his own accord. I once plugged "shep" "banned" and some other stuff into the SDN search, and it was always funny to see either the mods impotently posting, or DW basic...

I rather not get too tied to a talk forum these days and another place, ConceptArt.Org, suddenly folded (and its admin wad revealed to be a fraudster).

And being the 5th century, with the relatively rapid collapse of Western Roman Empire and the onset of the Early Medieval era (or so-called "Dark Ages") the general look of King Arthur and his cadre was several centuries out. Roman weaponry and equipment had evolved a lot after the 1st cen...

Wow my Windows 8 on my laptop can't play videos imported from my WINDOWS phone!

And what's with the "thanks" system (with kooky nitwits such as Cloak & Dagger getting showered with thousands of "thanks")?

And arguably more millions of people died in the near total breakdown of civil order and from becoming refugees (ie dying from hunger/thirst/cold/exposure/infighting) than falling to the actual zombie hordes. And you had Pakistan and Iran turn against each other then fight a "small" nuclea...

Apparently they blew a horrifying amount of money to re-do the ending for WWZ.

I'm looking forward to Pacific Rim.

It really bothers you when people don't like Britain, doesn't it? You missed out my "American" alongside the "Anglo" :engleft: . I'm no mindless patriot and I'm glad that the British Empire has mostly been discontinued and America being stuck in its outmoded Cold War mind set ha...

Questor wrote:
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 4#p3785344

Boy, does the hypocrisy and bordering on paranoid Anglo-Americanphobia shine through from the usual suspects.

=> http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=158856 Short story : he passed away in his sleep from a heart attack. Oh wow, that's saddening to read about and he seemed like he was suffering for many years, judging from his sometimes almost garbled postings (and he seemed more articulate ...