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You think the second Spiderman is crap? It's generally considered one of the best superhero films, and thats because it is . It pisses on the first from a great height. Third is admittedly poor. First X-Men is a bit dull, second is decent fun (mostly because it circumvents another superhero film problem - the supervillains superheros have are usually, asides from 1 or 2, shit. In X-Men 2, they overcome it by having Stryker as the baddie, who's just a nasty bloke, and have Magneto playing in the middle, all the other baddies are just henchmen with **** all to add to the story). Third film is absolute shite. Iron Man I'm surprised you didn't go for. for 2/3rds its a good film, little slow in parts but Downey Jr drags you through it. Dies on it's arse when it turns into CGI things hitting each other.

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My mom does that too. Done it for years. And not only in Ireland . Drives me mad. Whenever she does it it's always 'Scott, I mean Clair, no...'. I've only got a brother and a sister, and she has never done it with either of them. When my sister had kids she started calling me by their names. And why she even says my sisters name I dunno, I'm a bloke, and have been for 22 years.

As you note at the end, a number of those films aren't what I was talking about, very specifically the superhero film genre. A lot of them are pretty dull and generic and not really doing much beyond a high production value action film with a tie in to market it and not much in the way of innovation or anything brilliantly new. Even the good ones, as I mentioned, regularly fall off the cliff at the end as they descend into mindless action - Iron Man is the best example that came to mind, there are others though. Of the ones you mentioned, a lot are graphic novel adaptations and those tend to fare much much better in the movie adaptation stakes, because usually they don't just buy into the superhero archetype (or even the superhero genre at all) and tend to have much more subtle sensibilites. Looking at those, ones that I would call some of my favourite movies include Road to Perdition, Sin City and a History of Violence. Kick Ass and Men in Black are also favourites that perhaps don't quite match your usual superhero genre (MIB definitely doesn't and Kick Ass, like the Watchmen, plays with the concept - it's a less subtle ribbing of the superhero genre like the Watchmen imo). Even the Hellboy movies, which I enjoy a lot (the second in particular) suffer a bit of this feeling with a superhero comic book film that theres something missing somehow. The first is the main culprit, it has vast sections where it's just a little dull somehow. The second mixes it up by chucking stuff at you constantly, even slower sections tend to be visually interesting (the Troll Market, fights aside, had the potential to lull imo but instead they set it in a scene that had so much going on even if the plot doesn't grab you the setting keeps you occupied). I've enjoyed a lot of comic book films and will continue to do so, but I think already we're starting to see the superhero genre start to... chug (?) a little. We've exhausted the superhero royalty and especially in the case of Marvel, are rebooting the well known names and starting to plumb the less popular depths, and I don't think thats a good thing.

My mom has a habit that has developed in the last few years of saying something wrong, usually because in the hurry to say something she's given something it's wrong name or simply doesn't know what it's called, and then saying as a seeming way of forgiving herself the fault this phrase - 'as I call it'. It's really annoying. It wouldn't be quite so bad if she did always call that item by that name, but she doesn't. She's also developed what she thinks is a subtle way of getting me up if I've not needed to be up early, which is to come into my room and put washing away by loudly opening and closing draws. I think she thinks that this is very clever, but I'm onto it and not playing the game...

Kuyt Alves and Kezman all had better goals per game ratios in the Netherlands than Suarez. Could be touch and go whether he's a success or not. I suspect he'll be alright mind.

tTo be fair I've always felt that Amazon was a quite badly designed site. It's too cluttered, can be awkward to navigate round and generally looks a complete mess.

If Torres is a genuine target for Chelsea, that they are really gunning for, I think it might be an example of them accepting that Drogba's time is winding up and they need a guarenteed goalscorer to take his boots. Unfortunately in Torres they're going for a player who has shown himself to have excellent form at picking up injuries and then never quite hitting form again. Wouldn't be my first choice especially at the money he'll cost.

The Green Lantern always struck me as quite a poor superhero and thusly never took my interest. I'm amazed they're making it into a movie. To be honest I'm hoping the superhero comic book adaptation bubble pops soon. It's a genre that has given us very very few genuinely top class films. Most of them tend to have good moments that then fall apart. Iron Man for example - first 2/3rds are good fun, well shot, well acted, interesting, funny, etc etc, then it drops down a peg or 2 for the end. Pretty much all of them do it, the obvious exceptions being Nolans Batman movies (and even Begins does lull a bit) and Spiderman 2. And I would also argue Watchmen, but thats largely because the Watchmen is based on an original concept that plays with the superhero archetype and tries to do something new with it, so the movie also ends up being a bit different to your usual comic book fare. The next crop already look... shifty. X-Men First Class managed to even make it's promo shots look shit, Green Lantern looks quite... bleh, Thor already looks shifty, and the Spiderman reboot looks like it's going to be very middle of the road just from the concept and the cast.

I still reckon when Torres leaves (and that I think is still a sooner rather than later call) it'll be abroad. He's already on record effectively saying for the sake of his career he might have to leave England because it's destroying his legs.

This topic further reminds me that I think I endeavour to be middle class :|

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I'll be amazed if it launches sub £250.. Nintendo are launching the 3DS at more than they've ever charged for the Wii, the cost of the respective home consoles doesn't come into it really. They'll charge a price that they believe they can get away with, and with Sonys track record that price will be steep. If this thing launches at under £300 I'll be quite surprised. To be viable as a serious seller i think it needs to be much less than that, but I can't see them doing that. Guess we'll find out when they actually announce the price in 6 months.

Mentioning the price as well actually... this is Sony, it'll be silly money on launch.

...hence the heard that before bit , since the GBA each company has said comparable to '________' graphics, and it never quite is, but gives you a decent hint at the kind of power you're looking at. If it genuinely did have PS3 level graphics it'd have a battery life you could measure on a 60 second stopwatch. I think it'll follow in the PSPs footsteps and be less of a hit than they'd expect over here. The PSP just never really kicked off here, it sold enough to not be a flop but never really blew the socks off the market. I won't be buying one regardless of price.

Apparently it has comparable to PS3 graphics. Heard that before, but truth be told the games shots look amazing. Of course those are largely tech demos and the like so don't tell the whole story but hey, under the hood it's hard to deny it's a beast. Rear touch pad coupled to front touch screen has gimmick written all over it.

The 'Next Generation Portable' which for some reason they won't call the PSP2. Anywho, here it is. The Full Specs CPU: ARM® Cortex™-A9 core (4 core) GPU: SGX543MP4+ External Dimensions: Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection) Rear touch pad: Multi touch pad (capacitive type) Cameras: Front camera, Rear camera Sound: Built-in stereo speakers, Built-in microphone Sensors: Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass Location: Built-in GPS, Wi-Fi location service support Keys / Switches: PS button, Power button, Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left), Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square), Shoulder buttons (Right/Left), Right stick, Left stick, START button, SELECT button, Volume buttons Wireless communications: Mobile network connectivity (3G), IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode), Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR （A2DP/AVRCP/HSP） Somehow, I don't see this doing anything in the market the PSP already didn't. And the PSP wasn't a raving success (and the Go was a genuine flop). Interesting though, I guess. Shock horror at UMD getting dropped.

Red House Painters - Revelation Big Sur (One of those songs that I've always felt would have benefitted from a better singer... still good though. EDIT - also shows that it benefits from a string backing a fair bit... but still his voice mires it)

A few years back we played Chelsea in the FA Youth cup semifinal, the second leg of which was at Villa Park. Kakuta brought one of the most petulant displays I've ever seen, punctuated with a lot of gamesmanship, one of those displays that genuinely makes you hate a player. He then raised that to a boiling point with me and a number of other people in the sizeable crowd for a youth game, probably the biggest crowd he'd seen in his time in England and something he should have been quietly grateful for at that time. Chelsea won the game, and the tie, and reached the final. Kakuta and a friend of his decided the best way to celebrate this would be to run directly to the Villa fans, who were on the opposite side of the stadium to the few travelling fans, and take the piss. Time and again he and his friend would run upto the crowd, waving their shirts and inciting that entire corner of the Trinity and the entirety of the Holte, and then scuttle away laughing at the reaction. Eventually people started throwing rather a lot of stuff at the words removed, to which they then decided they should carry on their piss taking but stay a bit further back so they were in no danger. I hate him. That marked him down in my books as a egotistical tosser with little to be arrogant about at that time, the worst kind of oxygen stealing clearing in the woods, and since then I've wished him a career ender sooner than later. I don't say that easily, but since that night I've really hated the word removed. Genuine loathsome hatred.

Kakuta going to Fulham is good. I'll celebrate every extra minute he gets for a leg breaker to nail him and his career.

I wouldn't worry, nothing will come of this vote or anything like it. We've got our anthems. Nobody sings them (or sings them in their entirety). Thats the character of the club as it stands right now. I don't think our vocal fanbase is that terrible all things considered, and we don't need an arbitrary anthem to make it any better.

I can't say I do renounce it no, I just am deeply aware we're debating the structural definition of loo roll. But I don't renounce it, as the definition of bonding itself doesn't actually suggest any particular type of adherence, or any particular strength of connection between 2 materials beyong them being held together, I'd stand by the fact that 2+ ply loo roll is a laminate as it's individual plies are intended to act together as a sole material and do so, by being (however loosely) connected together by the manufacturing process and the nature of the mateiral itself. It's not a good laminate, nor would it be the perfect thing to use as a definition of a laminate, but it is one imo.

Edit - Sod it, I'll just say I'm wrong as I seriously cannot be arsed to debate that anymore

I was going entirely on what the episode showed, hadn't looked at any pictures, so you could well be right on reflection. In the shots on the show it looked bloody low, which is what raised the comment.

Isn't the point of departure that the said toilet roll was not working as a single material? I thought that's what the problem was. Perhaps I haven't been paying attention. It's happened before. ...if you take a sheet of plywood, and it becomes delaminated for whatever reason, would you say that plywood wasn't a laminate? Just because some sheets of toilet paper can become delaminated, doesn't mean it isn't a laminate.