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Dead Like Me. I initially dismissed this as a Buffy wannabe, but how very wrong I was. This is a show about a group of Grim Reapers doing thing in modern day America. It shares a lot of DNA with Six Feet Under. There is a lot of inventive death in the show and a lot of swearing. Mandy "Inigo Montoya" Patinkin plays the head reaper. Excellent show with a well thought out universe. Very funny too.

Could all look very different after Monday night. Naturally, I haven't been feeling great about the run of results, but Benitez aside, don't fancy any of the mooted replacements. Didn't vote in the Adkins poll but I've said myself that out decline was more to do with a lack of stability than anything else; brought about by the revolving door policy of the past. People have gone on about Nige having to play 4-3-3. Not sure I buy that entirely, but if there has been any inflexibility in terms of what Nige can and can't do, that probably needs to end. Players are starting to come back. Incidentally, was listening to Football Weekly. We were mentioned. They really don't rate our chances of survival. Said we paid way over the odds for Ramirez and Rodriguez too.

Translation: "It's not just your device which is substandard. So was your holiday" If a grown man is reduced to deducting the potential enjoyment that a forum poster's family may have had on a holiday all because of a device he doesn't like, on a thread about a device he doesn't like, there is something wrong with the man, surely?

Essruu has convinced me to get a Nexus 10. Thanks, mate.

Very funny, worthy of a 30 second giggle fit

Most Germans really didn't want to go to war. At that point, why on earth would they? Austria and Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich. I know it seems very transparent in hindsight, but at the time, Hitler needed it for his own people. Poland had been agitating toward Germany for years before and cosying up with France, etc. Then you've got the issue of Danzig, isolated from the rest of Germany. The Poles weren't well-liked. Most Germans would have believed it; those who didn't would have kept quiet. As I said in an earlier post, it isn't kept quiet. Stuff gets out, but as long as you can control the media people see, it really doesn't matter. There is a shocking lack of plurality in ownership of big media companies. That's only going to get worse as companies absorb each other in mergers. Doesn't matter how many honest journalists you might have; they don't have editorial control. Aren't you also assuming that everyone involved in a conspiracy has to be in on the conspiracy. I keep making the point about hierarchy because it is perhaps the biggest enabler of any conspiracy; people following orders without question. Look at the coppers who changed their Hillsborough statements when the orders come down. It has been proven time and time again that major sh!t can be kept completely under wraps for decades. I'm not quite sure why you think the whole world would know about it, or would blab about it if they did.

No, I mean that in 1939, shortly before the invasion of Poland, Hitler staged an attack in which Polish aggressors attacked a German customs post and post office near the border town of Gleiwitz, black propaganda that Hitler sold to his own people.

Your Microsoft Surface has the resolution that the US did for the Iraq War; none.

Let us question the motives of these supposed madman. Why on earth would anyone want to plug something into their device to watch a movie? Our top answer:- "Can't be arsed copying file to device because of time or space considerations". Our next top answer:- "Can travel around with terabytes of storage, all accessible with a little wire". I think you're being knowingly vacant, Essruu. Even a junior geek would know why that would be a good thing.

I hope not. But my Galaxy S3 knows when I am looking at it. Maybe

Yawn. All conspiracy theories are equally unbelievable claim shocker. Do me a favour. Go find out how every war in the last 100 years got going. Then we'll talk.

I am guilty of loving a conspiracy theory. I'd believe all of them if I could. It's a good link which demonstrates a little of your point and a little of mine. I appreciate that Iraq has vast oil reserves. I can see that there are some British companies doing very well out of it. That doesn't really answer the question of what we, the British public got out of it. The economic activity generated by the oil coming out of Iraq, be that transportation, tax take, shareholder dividends, etc? I'd say that's about the size of it. Our position in parts of the world has been massively eroded as a result of this specific conflict; I thought Afghanistan was a sledge-hammer to crack a walnut, was proven right on that too. Iraq was totally unjustifiable and was nothing more than part of the neo-conservative's New American Century, the one where they'd consolidate their power as the world's sole superpower. Well, top job there, lads. Iran is now the big boy in the region and rather than show its strength, the US has actually shown the limits of its power and lost a whole chunk of its moral authority. If the cause was so just, why didn't France and Germany weigh in? If the evidence was so strong, why didn't the US secure a resolution from the UN, when it did with Kuwait and Afghanistan? It was a war of aggression; the whole world, including us, knew that from the outset. Our own Prime Minister invented a case for war, knowing that it would be shown to be a lie, knowing that it would forever tarnish his reputation. We just happened to go along with it. Now I'm happy to accommodate the fact that Blair might have been a narcissistic pr!ck who saw being a War Prime Minister as a statesman badge he had to have. Perhaps that's true. But equally, I'm not happy to accept anything as "set" either. New evidence can often provide context to old events. You need look no further than the Louis Theroux Jimmy Savile program for that. What might have been mistaken for quirky old-skool eccentricity looks crystal clear now. I believe they call it the benefit of hindsight.

Er, no. They just rely on a hierarchy, murder, disinformation and scapegoating or when none of the above work, kept under wraps for 100 years under a D-Notice under the guise of national security. It's also not the case that everyone keeps schtum either. That's precisely why you need the murder component.

Depends. Without naming names again, that is one serious politician, especially at the time. Might not just have been him, or confined to the sphere of elected politicians. As for a vivid imagination? Possibly, but blackmail has been a tool in trade of the intelligence services and elsewhere for centuries. DPS made the point earlier about how a political party might be destroyed by these allegations. I'm actually inclined to agree with you that one bloke is not enough.

As I said in the other thread, this really depends on the existence of a D-Notice. The US had UN resolutions behind them in Kuwait and Afghanistan, so blackmail wasn't required. They did not secure a security resolution for the most recent conflict in Iraq, needed us to back them up so they didn't look like isolated corporate imperialists. I find it amazing that we helped them. What was seriously in the Iraq War for us?

Why? Which bits particularly amused you? What needs to go to the Fringe as a one man show?

A further allegation is that the UK was blackmailed into the Iraq War after details of Operation Ore found their way into the hands of the US intelligence service, so it's potentially much bigger than a cover-up. You are right about the Labour Party though. If it is true.

Posted on the Savile thread about this, but some have alleged that it is Gordon Brown. That would be immense if true.

Agree on missing Cork. Was all over everything last year. Defence further up the field.

I am now officially back to tempted. Sweet deal. Think I'm still in the Apple mindset of "it is the way it is".

The reason that Disney lets Pixar keep doing what they're doing is because they've consistently managed good commercial and critical results. Lucas managed the commercial of the Star Wars empire very well, but was a disaster critically in later years. Even Star Wars feels extremely ragged compared to the two films that followed it. Lucas was literally a victim of his own success. The merchandising deal he cut made him ongoing residual income, so much so that when it came to make the prequels, he had complete creative control. We all saw the results. The prequels were horrific. If you're in any doubt, go look at http://redlettermedia.com and give yourself something of a film education at the same time. The next Star Wars film does not need George Lucas, or indeed want him. This is the man that thinks that the way you do aliens is to give them all stupid accents that border on offensive. This is the man that gave the world Jar Jar Binks and the confused Oedipal mess of a "love story" in Attack of the Clones. The shame of it is that there are bits of those films that are utterly superb. Problem is that it's all held together by the jism that George refers to as "dialogue and characterisation". Disney would be off their heads to let him have any input on that side,

Same old, same old, innit? Speaking only for myself, I used to post on more topics, but it gets to the point where you think "do I actually have much more to say about topic x than I did the last time it came up?", and that's the sensible discussion. The main board is just full of the same old stuff, recycled. Stadium size. Friction at the club. Adkins on way out. If you were being charitable, you'd call them evergreen topics of conversation. For most people, it's just tedious, and goes back years. I know it sounds mental, but I think that the current inscrutability of the club has a big part to play in all of this. We have owners who say absolutely nothing, a chairman who says next to nothing and a manager who says a lot, but actually says nothing. Wire anything up that tight and you're just left with endless speculation where no-one can prove anyone else right or wrong, but will spend 300 posts trying anyway. I'm not saying every other Premier League club is a model of transparency, but Southampton FC seems to be particularly opaque, and it really doesn't help sometimes.

You say that aintforever, and to an extent you're right; there may be some cases where compensation is incorrectly awarded. That said, Jimmy doesn't need the money, doesn't have any kids, seems to have given a lot away to private individuals, some in the places that he was conducting the abuse (those people need to be investigated as potential enablers, IMO). I suppose that the tragedy is that a lot of money was bequeathed to charities, who will now lose out as the money is chewed up on compensation claims. That's on Jimmy, not the victims. If he hadn't built his entire life around abusing youngsters, there would be no compensation to pay.

sotonjoe: why, as an established Macsturbator, are you coming onto threads where people are discussing other brands of phone, to moan about their phones?

sotonjoe: why, as an established Macsturbator, are you coming onto threads where people are discussing other brands of device, to moan about their devices?