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Oddly enough, at roughly the same age as Dr Who?, I have the opposite problem. Too many hobbies, and I have felt like this since my mid-thirties. Everything frivolous I do seems like double the waste of time it did in the past. There's no way I could hole up for five days and play Suikoden, for example - whereas that shít was prioritised at 22 Just going through the ones I have left, and am still okay with. Reading. Education is the best provision for old age, and all that. Had a bit of a five year lull where I didn't read much. I read something every day now, even if it's not substantial, and don't feel a jot of guilt about doing it. Guitar. Well off the wagon at the moment with this, but feels like progression each time. Very physically satisfying activity on a number of levels. Writing. "Ah, but you already did reading, pap!". Different skills, different motivations and I'm glad I only really post on forums. Used to produce professional copy back in the day and used to spend eight hours editing a two hour piece to perfection. I like writing better now. Football. Utterly pointless or beautifully universal. Take your pick. I'm still very much a student of the game. Was never any good at it. Video games. Yes, they still exist in my life. Probably always will, and apart from the old hand-eye co-ordination and (apparently) being better in the sack than my equivalent non-gamer (gamers are used to doing something over and over until they get it right, yo), it's a complete time-sink. For that reason, think this might be the one to keep Dr Who? out of trouble. World of Warcraft subscription. Finally, as an alternative, Dr Who? might want to learn to wear a pair of trousers and start turning up at some of his friends' 40th birthday dos. I understand that's all the rage this year.

Yours was choice. In the midst of all this nasty business where our elected politicians are raping vulnerable kids and using the levers of power to get off scot-free, you took the time out to explain how the narcissist Brand made YOU feel. It was an unexpected angle of debate.

Top contributions, lads.

Brand's got a view here:- Some interesting cases of national security being used to gag files until 2056.

Start a Fight Club in Royston.

I submit another plop into the Ramirez Off-Topic u-bend. .... Yorkshire, eh? God's own country http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/video-south-yorkshire-pony-sex-accused-s-sweat-problem-1-7076173

They probably have a return code ready to go, Bear. This is not the first time I have heard bricks used as a substitute for supposedly bargain buys. It's probably why we have a housing crisis, and just another reason to adopt Gary Neville's stance of living like a Teletubbie if we want any way out of it.

Means nothing. If you'd have won the World Club with the non-union Mexican alternative (Telfordo?) your fans might have cared. As it stands, this Midlands New Town powerhouse would probably take you to the nearest courtroom with a view for getting you hanged. World Club Cup. Europeans don't care about it. Frankly, I'm appalled at having to correct you on this matter.

Y'see, that was always the benefit of the bin bag sales they used to have in illegal pub lock-ins back in the '90s. Those bricks would have burst the bottom of the bin bag before you can say "vacuum-cleaner-less bin-bag".

We did look at a bloke called Gavrilo Princip at one stage. Causes too much trouble, apparently. (little Arch-Joke there, arf!)

tbf, business shenanigans and inspiration aside, they're very well implemented.

I'm disappointed that we haven't had any more clever crimes reported. Bunch of people I know went down for a pretty clever crime in Southampton in the last year.

And quite right you are, but an interesting personal case study in what gets reported/regurgitated vs fact, eh?

The bits I can verify, such as the word Saga appearing at the end of other game titles Panzer Dragoon, anyone? What really made me laugh about that was the sheer balls of it. A firm which made its name off doing clone match-3 games, which everyone else had done up until that point, trying to claim that it was the originator of something, or should have least have exclusive rights to something that already wasn't exclusive.

I suspect the only thing you could tell me that I don't already know from the press is the amount of Colombian Marching Powder consumed before "obvious PR disaster" became "a good idea"

Don't get him started. It'll just turn into a litigation saga.

I played the beta months ago. Wasn't impressed with what I saw. Also, don't you dare say that about Star Wars Battlefront

This is getting fun now. A government has been formed and sworn in. Syriza are resolved to negotiating only with governments, not with the troika. Negotiations are already underway, according to Tsirpis. Of course, the big fear from the likes of the ECB and the EU is that Greece will be successfully in getting some of that artificially created cash quashed out of existence, that an IOU or two might be lost down the back of a bank vault. If that were to happen, all of these other countries that were forced to put their citizens under condition of austerity might ask for some of their pretend cash to be unimagined. Austerity has never been shown to work as a means to grow an economy. I know it looks like the EU has all the IOUs, I mean cards, but the alternative is for Greece to leave the EU, or worse, fall under the influence of another regional super-bloc, not that there's one about (cough, Putin's Eurasion Union, cough!). Greece has a better hand than would initially appear. A long-time member state, and the cradle of democracy's earliest forms, decides to do the offs? It'd be a symbolic disaster for the EU.

Do you honestly think any of these parties are operating in the best interests of the UK? Once, maybe. The Lib Dems put power over principles, time and again, going against the British public each time. They've enabled this bandit Parliament when they could and should have walked away at the first sign of trouble. It wouldn't have taken long. The one thing that I can guarantee in the next election, whoever wins, is that more of the state will be handed over to big business and those plucky Parliamentarians made redundant by the British public will find really good jobs in the private sector with great hours.

I've been in this game 20 years now. That there describes years 2 to 3 Around the ten year mark, you have enough experience with scope creep to point out change like it has just burst through the plate-glass windows on a flaming motorcycle and burst into song, singing "change! change is here again! It takes time to cha-----nge. Change.". It's a skill.

Playing devil's advocate a bit, but isn't there a case to be made for the English being somewhat indifferent about the day to day problems of the rest of the UK? The one good thing about including Scottish and Welsh politicians in the debate is that'll remind people that we are a union of countries. Of course, it's probably redundant. Those Scots have the lot. I hear they are replacing all motorways with a 6-lane gold-plated flume system. At English taxpayer expense, naturally

By that token, any separatist movement anywhere in the world could be deemed unconstitutional. Self-determination is supposed to trump all, at least in theory.

They ask me 'bout the clothes I wear And ask me why I fry my hair They ask me why I'm in a van I dig doubletime for the man And you want to see me doing my thing All you got to do is plug me into high I said high High Voltage Engineer! Please tell me you sing this on your travels. You've wasted your life otherwise.

International* superstar** rock star*** programmer****. * They sometimes let me out ** Self-applied *** I have long hair **** Some things have been known to work

They say crime doesn't pay. It does, of course. They just say that to try to deter people from doing it. As someone that lives in the stereotypically crime-ridden dystopia of Liverpool (it's lovely mostly, but for the purposes of the thread, stay with me) I am often amused and enlivened by dastardly tales of the criminal's low wit trumping the best laid plans of our corporate masters (and bow, we do, to them). An example can be found in today's Liverpool Echo. Apparently, the Ellesmere Port choring crew have found an interesting way to avoid the security tag detectors when nicking DVDs. The British postage system and ASDA's continual efforts to bring people into their store. "Hey! You can post your letters in-store!" What can possibly go wrong? http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/asda-criminals-steal-dvds-posting-8526826 The TMS Blagwatch Thread.