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Worth mentioning that the Immortals is released on blu-ray in the first week of March, but will be the UK censored edition. The cinema release had 15 seconds cut, as well as the blood recoloured, which will be what the home release over here will also get, despite the studio being told they could release an uncut edition on an 18 rating.

Best of the series so far. Even the scooter skit, which disastrous written all over it in the series preview, was decent. And props to them for not falling into the trap of being almost voyeuristic with the injured soldiers aspect, something they had done last time. I don't think it's a coincidence that the skit featured little to no 'Hammond' character stuff. Fassbender was a sound guest (don't believe the time for a second, but that hasn't been the point of the section for donkeys), and there was eye candy over the guests shoulder again. They even had a dig at how bad the India special was. Good stuff!

Bacon update - we didn't have bacon. I had spaghetti on toast.

You look absolutely nothing like I would have expected.

And I'm glad you won't because I had no intention to - nor do I intend to ever again. Colours have been revealed before now. My comment was solely intended to comically steer things back to what the topics actually about, instead of mumbo jumbo that it was on a collision course with.

I think you'll find I don't have my head in any sand - rarely comment on this thread because I'm not an economist, amateur or otherwise, and I frankly don't know if the gold standard is worth a return or not (I suspect not). Nor has economics ever lit my fire, unlike other, political, debates. Anywho, economics.

I know what bloody the gold standard was you fool. I made a flippant comment hoping to nip this rubbish in the bud and get back to what the bloody topic is actually about. I don't give a flying **** about 'monoatomic gold' and know nothing about whether it exists or not, because I don't care to know. Now... is the economy still **** gentlemen?

So what we're saying is, we should base our currency on magic gold? Time to get chasing rainbows...

Tonight I will do very little, probably spark up the 360 and listen to some podcasts I need to catch up with, and the food will be about the only thing that can get cooked in this house without issue, which will be bacon sarnies (we've already had a fry-up this week). Tomorrow, off to work, then sod all... I'm thinking about seeing anyone is free to do something on the night because... ...I have Sunday off for the first time in months. Shit, as usual.

I'm sorry but that is just grossly offensive and misleading Snowy. Poor show. although the link is to the Grauniad , the Daily Heil actually make a WWII reference in their report of it so he doesn't appear to be the only person making this analogy ... risky title perhaps but a fair one in the context On the face of it (by which I mean I haven't read the full details of the Welfare Bill to see if it is as the headline suggest ) it's actually quite a sickening policy .. it's one thing going after "benefit scroungers" (excuse the term but i think everyone knows the context it's being used in ) but this appears (see disclaimer above about not having read the bill in it's entirety) to be a step (or many steps) too far Fair play to you Mr Loc Sir for that call. Seconded.

Iranian nuke plants have been experiencing a number of explosions already... As, allegedly, have their staff. Incidentally the Israelis on their own will likely be able to strike any facility already - 'bunker busters' are not uniquely American, although they have looked into improving them, like a misguided venture into making nuclear bunker busters. If Israel wants (/is allowed), they will be able to send Iranian nuclear ambition back to the Stone Age. That may not be ths best option at the moment for them, but certainly the easiest, ignoring the repercussions.

I'll keep an eye out, I'm watching an hour behind. 5mins in the Yank woman is getting on my wick already.

IX is incredible. Vivi fo' life, yo'.

I always cringe and sigh a little when I read one of those impassioned calls to arms from a football fan, making out that their club is somehow unique on the football horizion, that their fans shit doesn't stink and so on. Because ultimately the clubs aren't really different because people aren't really different, especially within one countries borders. But that one takes the biscuit. It's some of the most vomit inducingly hideous writing on football I've read. We're forking innocent becorse we're forkin' Liverpoo-ell! And they're dirty lyin' Mancs. We're speshul! appears to be his argument. Well...shit.

I still love how the 'Qatar Foundation' text on Barca's shirts looks like it's been 'designed' on Word. It'd make the best shirt in the world look hokey.

Receiving an unexpected free hat from Microsoft.

Completely useless trivia Terrorism International politics (Specifically conflict and the EU) Gaming Culturally unimportant film Non-ancient History Some Science ..shoot.

Uncharted is fairly disappointing once you clock proper time into it... Impressive on a 5min long demo though, There's potential in the system but in the launch games I've played so far nothing blows my socks off in the long run, despite it's clearly strong launch lineup.

Decided to treat myself. Bought myself a new telly. Get home. Doesn't fit my current bracket. Fucksocks

I'm spectacularly unconvinced.

Well the real world thing is what made me basically write off Bane as a potential character for Nolan to do - his character is basically defined by his being pretty 'unreal' - the Venom stuff, the prison child back story, etc etc. He's never been my favourite character but I guess I'll let Nolan convince me. Rah's al Ghul was always a stupid villain and he pulled that off. I just can't get over the mask - its a bit shit. I couldn't make my mind up if it's better or worse than the luchador look. News on the film has gone a little dark at the mo, which is odd as the previous film had a great (and long winded) hype campaign that was in gear well before the film came out, and also because it's comic rivals this year have both whacked out big new trailers and kicked their campaigns into gear in the last week or so.

Celtic are as bad, which is why everyone can only hope they take a tumble too. Get rid of both.

Rounds rarely happen with my group of friends. We all drink vastly differently and frankly, I don't think any of us trusts each other to not screw the other at some point. So it effectively turns into getting our own drinks, or at best a 2 person round if it's particularly busy. Anyway, something that pisses me off during every shift at work, price matching trade ins. It's just a pain in the arse. Worse thing of all is if someone brings in a huge stack of stuff and asks you to pricematch it. It takes forever, you can easily get confused and if you do you have to start again, every price being matched has to be verified by a senior staff member (who has to enter their till number for each price match) which serves only to piss off them because they have to be dragged from what they're doing. Or the other way to do it, which you're not supposed to but makes thing easier all round, is to get a senior staff member to sign into the till and just do it all under their till number, in which case come the end of the day you print off your sales reports to prove you've done the work and hit your targets, and they're wrong, because the trade in wasn't attributed to you. I find it annoys me just that little bit more when you know that people just walk in and say 'Can you price match _____ mate' when you know they've not got a clue what the place they've asked you to match would offer in the first place, they just assume it offers a better price. The plus side of all this is the little glee I get on the rare occasions that the price match actually reduces what they'd have got on an item.

I honestly can't decide if Bane would look better, or worse, if they'd gone down the traditional route for his look

That. If you were important to Iran, you'd be shitting yourself for the forseeable, because Mossad will be out to put you in a box. ...if you're lucky. Plastic bag if you're not.