The stag do will be taking place in either London or Manchester. Plenty of opportunity for nefarious doings either way.
While the final venue might not be known, what is known is that it will be taking place on August the 25th and is that it’s open to any bloke that knows me. Including you Smith, so get your finger out!
Sorry ladies, but unfortunately, you’re going to have to sit this one out.
So if you’re interested let me know, I’ll be booking hotels once I have an idea of numbers, so far I have seven. Any advances on seven?
The best song Bernie and Elton wrote.
‘I finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.’
Fantastic.
I sat on the phone for 48 minutes last night all in the vague hope someone at Microsoft might answer the phone. As before, fat fucking chance.
So I made a decision, if Microsoft don’t want to fix it I’ll get it fixed myself and send them the bill. Right on!
Let’s see if I get anywhere with this. So far I’m £38.50 in the hole and it sounds like the company I’m using actually take the unit apart, get rid of the shit and dust out of it and fit a decent cooling that doesn’t let the motherboard warp like a suspension bridge in a gale. We’ll see how they do but to be honest they can’t be much worse than Microsoft.
I’ll keep you informed in my quest for Microsoft to pay my bill.
From start to finish this movie is fun. X-Men is about super heroes that are rock hard and completely serious about saving the world, the Fantastic Four are more light hearted, and if I’m honest looking at their super powers that’s the way it should be.
In Rise Of The Silver Surfer we get to meet, well, the Silver Surfer and quite frankly he rocks too. Voiced by Laurence Fishburne, the Silver Surfer really shines as a character.
Galactus on the other hand has become smoke. How this happened I’m not quite sure but that’s the way it is. To be perfectly honest I don’t think the movie suffers any for it. Although the Andys of this world may disagree!
The whole movie rollocks along at a fairly brisk pace, never becoming serious and never digging into character any more than it really needs to. The product placement is a little overwhelming at times and could do with being toned down, but the underlying story is fun. Forget that Ben Grimm is a bit too rubbery looking, just watch cool stuff happen and enjoy an hour and forty minutes of silly fun that lets you switch your brain off.
The bottom line is that this is a popcorn movie, characters like Batman need a little bit of gravity. The difference being that they’ve got a decent human back story that allows for that. The Fantastic Four got zapped by cosmic radiation, yeah, cosmic radiation. Almost as bad as gamma rays.
If you’re at a loose end go and see it. Take a bit of booze with you and it’ll be even more fun!
This is my father-in-law, he’s a top bloke. Mad as you like, but a top bloke nonetheless.
The best bit is when he does his Fulton Mackay impersonation, it’s comedy gold!
Looks like my Xbox 360 has finally decided to pack in at the grand old age of 18 months.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had this kind of problem, oh no, I’ve been having freezes for a few weeks now and I even rang Microsoft last week to report them. I was helpfully told then that a simple restore would cure the problem.
My arse.
I’ve worked in the IT support game long enough to know that the first thing on tech support’s mind, when handling a call, is to get rid of that call. This isn’t my idea of customer service by the way, I’m much more thorough, however my English speaking chum possibly wasn’t.
This time though it looks serious, I even had three red lights earlier tonight. I guess that means I’m fucked really.
The upshot of all this is, that tomorrow, I’m going to have to call Microsoft to try and get them to help me get my ‘360 fixed. God alone knows how much that is going to cost me.
Be warned though Microsoft I’ve got a PlayStation 3 now, and I’m not quite as impressed by your machine as I used to be.
Hah! Listen to me, as if Microsoft gives a flying fuck about me!
The PlayStation 3 is the most amazing piece of hardware I have ever owned. It is worth every penny of the £425 asking price.
I’ve just tested its upscaling of DVDs. Star Wars upscaled to 1080p on my Samsung panel looks amazing. Absolutely fucking amazing. Like nothing I have seen before. The picture is crisp, vivid and alive, motion is smooth and shadows detailed. It’s like it was on Blu-ray, it really is.
The XMB (the interface you get on switching on the box) is beautiful and surprisingly functional. Even the built in web browser is usable (this site looks awesome running full screen at 1920 x 1080).
So in summation, I’m sorry Sony. I really doubted you on this one, at least now you’ve gotten rid of king of the egos Ken Kutaragi the platform has a fighting chance.
As we all know he was a kind caring man who loved his Mum, he just hated coons that’s all. Lovely man.
I agree that words are just words and as odd as it seems I defend Manning’s right to say anything he wants, about whoever he wants, I don’t have to agree with him though.
Using words is beautiful and even ugly words can be used in imaginative non-offensive ways, but singling out a couple of waitresses in Derby and calling them wogs isn’t exactly comedy gold, it’s just bullying and worse still it’s almost pack-mentality, this contradicts what all his close friends would say of course, to him he was a loving caring man who’s racist ‘banter’ was just an act.
I can respect somebody for being honest in the face of opposition but for taking something so vile and turning it in to an act is pathetic. If he truly hated blacks, asians and jews then fine he’s just a bigot but if he does it as an act he’s using people’s hatred and ignorance for profit.
Hopefully he was the last of his breed…
This is the view from Stuart’s back garden, I’ve only just got it off the camera (see that freaky bug thing below), it was taken last weekend though. I love photos like this, I wonder where that jet’s off to?
Take a look at the pictures in the gallery below.
What the fuck is that supposed to be? It was crawling across a pavement when I was out for a wander today, had to take a photo before I stomped it into oblivion.
That was a joke by the way, once the photo session finished I let it go about it’s creepy little bug way. Freaky looking fucker though.
Come on Kate you’re bound to know what this is, chances are you’ve probably got a jar full of them somewhere.
In a shocking turn of events it would appear that Woolworths has cottoned on to the Pic ‘n’ Mix flat fee scam.
Traditional Pic ‘n’ Mix entailed filling a bag with sweets, getting it weighed and paying for the amount you bought. This was the way it’s been since the dawn of sweetie-time, it also made up about forty percent of the material for Peter Kaye’s stand up routine (in case you’re interested Rola Cola and ‘garlic bread!?’ make up the remaining sixty percent).
I digress, this pay by weight business went on for ages, until about four years ago when Woolworths introduced a new way to pay for your sweets. Pay by volume! That’s right, you got two different sized tubs one priced at £1.99 and the other slightly larger at £2.99, filled them with as many sweets as you liked and that was that.
This was a revelation and, if I’m to be completely honest, an opportunity for well intentioned freeloading. You see the sort of sweets I like were those ones that are made out of foam (bubble gum bottles if you’re feeling generous) and foam sweets are very easy to compress. Straightaway you’ll be able to spot exactly what happened every time I went for a bit of Pic ‘n’ Mix, I went in with £1.99 and came out with a container that had such density it warped space and time.
It was great and I will miss it. However I did at least find out exactly what value I’d been getting for the blag. My tub today, which was filled before I realised the new rules and was consequently at risk of collapsing in on itself and forming a black hole, cost me a whopping £3.27! Still, it’s nice to know that I saved £1.28 every time before now.
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