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Bubby want pizza! Awesomely disturbing film.

I really couldn't be any less interested. So some old bint is celebrating 60 years of living in obscene luxury at taxpayers' expense, all because her great great great great great (?) grandfather happened to be a bloodthirsty, war-mongering megalomaniac. Whoop-de-doo. And don't anybody give me "Oh but she's such a wonderful lady", I'm not disputing that. I'm sure she is a warm, loving and humorous person and all that, but so are many people I know and none of them will ever or would want want to be afforded the luxurious lifestyle of the monarchy. It's high time we rose up out of the dark ages and scrapped the idea of hereditary rule IMO.

I have emailed the site owner and asked him to clear up any confusion. I recommend everyone else does the same... email@the-end.com

Take the teams off and then place some land mines at random points around the pitch. Winner is the team with the most players left alive after 30 mins ET.

Does indeed look a lot of fun. No idea how much the tents are though, not cheap I imagine due to the strength required to hold the tension.

You mean like these?....

The end of the world? Should we all lie down with bags over our heads?

Strange isn't it, considering how quickly the 'Maggie Thatcher Dead' thread was closed when it became clear she wasn't.

All very interesting dune, but what exactly does this have to do with the Greek economy?

Just been announced that Rebekah Brooks and her husband will be charged with perverting the course of justice (not on BBC website yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYMlV7kSZU&feature=related

Aaah, remember those days well. Sitting in my bedroom as a young teenager on a saturday afternoon with my brother, listening to Grant Coleman playing lots of Beatles songs and willing that jingle to come on, then feeling the hairs on my neck stand up when it did with the anticipation of which way the goal had gone. What was the other tune they used to play once all the results had come in? Was it ELO or something?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/01/ed-miliband-interviewer-shame-strike-soundbites Not sure if this is quite what you had in mind but I cringe whenever I see this and it reminds me why Ed Miliband can never be taken seriously.

I couldn't agree with you more about Galloway. The irony, of course, being that he calls his party Respect but if you've ever listened to his radio phone-in show he is actually the rudest and most disrespectful tvv@t you could ever imagine. But how do you come to the conclusion that anybody who considers themselves 'on the left' (whatever that actual means in this day and age) shares the same characteristics? Honestly I would like to know how you can justify such a ridiculous sweeping generalisation. I try not to get involved in the left/right arguments on here and other forums but it is my observation that people on the right tend to be the ones most often applying irrational stereotypes and your post is one of the most spectacular examples of that I have ever read.

Have you never heard the saying 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'?

Yeah, you're right Delldays. In fact, everybody should be banned from ever posting any opinion whatsoever about him on this board, by punishment of a two-week ban.

8 = Office block?

I get what you're saying Phil, but the only way that would have worked would be if the films had all been made in a short space of time. It never really hurt the Bond films to have different actors at different ages playing him (although Roger Moore was way over the hill and embarrassingly bad by the time he made his last one). Any film director who does a book adaptation will tell you their film is only based on the book and not intended to be a visual representation of the original story. So with the Clancy ones it's unsurprising that they are anachronistic when you look at when they were made. Red October was the released in the 80s during the Cold War and portrayed Jack Ryan as being married with a daughter. The Sum of All Fears, however, was clearly set in the 21st century yet had Ryan as a younger man who had only just met his future wife. To me that didn't spoil my enjoyment of the films, although I never read either book so perhaps it might have if I had done.

Isn't that always the case with book adaptations though? I can't think of a single example of a film that I have found to be better than the book on which it was based. I've read a few Clancy novels over the years and often found myself thinking that they would make good films though - especially Rainbow Six and The Bear And The Dragon (although the amount of CGI the latter one would require might detract from it a little) Edit: Actually, thinking about it.... Although I never read the book, Patriot Games was another Clancy adaptation and was a stupendously good film, so it may well have been better than the book for all I know. Anybody read it?

Crimson Tide was alright.

Oh and just one thing Dog... Try not to be offended when you get called 'Duck' by the locals. I've kind of got used to it now but in the 8 years or so I have lived up this way I have still yet to meet anybody who has even the slightest clue where it comes from. You may even encounter the odd bloke calling you 'Love' as well. Again, don't be offended and start cracking skulls - it's just a term of endearment that takes a while to get accustomed to.