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A quick mention for Utopia, Channel 4's new drama. Reminds me of Twin Peaks or The Shadow Line. Deliberately obtuse, wonderfully dark and with plenty of black humour, I'm really looking forward to the second episode.

More info. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21040410 Sky News reporting that the crane was attached to St. George's Wharf Tower which they said is the site for the future US embassy. Presumably a coincidence. They're saying that only the pilot was on board and that it appears to have hit two cars when it plunged to the ground. Obviously terrible for those involved but could have been much worse.

As title says, a helicopter appears to have hit a crane and has crashed into a road in Vauxhall.

I once dressed up as a dolphin and pretended to cry for a paying punter in a animo-fetish brothel in Winchester. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going for a spot of undousuru.

You think the fact that you'd had a finger from a bear is a surprise to anyone on here?

An envelope containing your own semen? Snap! Who'd have thought I'd already have one? #thatwondrousnightafterthecityawaygame #secretssafewithme

You should try postal Snap. That's living alright.

I think we need a new investigation Toke. Any Dune suspects?

Yes, I thought there was a slight flaw in Deano6's approach to transferring Rock, Paper, Scissors to the Internet. As an aside, there is only one way to start a game of 'live' Rock, Paper, Scissors. You look at your opponent and say "Are you ready?". They reply in the affirmative to which you say "Good luck". Closely followed by "...You're not one of those players that always starts with rock are you? One, Two, Three...". It's psychological torture and you can then pretty much play Scissors with impunity. Unless you're playing a psychopath or Gustav Ibitsen - Rock, Paper, Scissors world champion 85-92.

Well it's like this Deano6. When the Bear isn't around, Toke gets all #theendoftheworldisnigh and either starts trashing the place or heads over to The Lounge to advise on issues of morality. So as one of The Muppet Show's nominated adults, I drew the short straw this morning and have been on suicide watch, holding his hand and hash-tag flyting. Toke, really needs a forum nemesis that he can really lay into. And, in true S&M fashion, I guess he also needs to be laid into too. But despite his best efforts at grooming SB and Matthew Le God, Toke can't get them up for it. So I'm standing in and I'm just not very good at it. I like him too much - he 's nearly 87% as funny as the Bear and he taught me to speak Japanese. It's difficult to hate someone who has taught you to speak Japanese I'm sure you'll agree. We could tag-team if you want, feel free to squander your other two posts today on insulting Toke. Be careful, he's a chameleon. He gets inside your head, knows your deepest fears, and turns them against you. Good luck. #yourturntosucktokestwittercock #imofftobrushmyteeth

Shut up Anton. Toke and I are engaged in a bout of flyting #lookitup #dotcottonishot #justme?

An interest in words won't make my kids proud of me but at least I'm not prepared to punch a Japanese (#notaeuphemism) child in the face in a Tokyo sushi bar for them to respect me. #youreanobodyhere #youreonlybiginjapan

I've never taken drugs (whilst posting on here) Toke. Respect myself and those that I force to read my ramblings too much. You're not even close to being a Premier Leauge poster, you'd struggle to make a Japanese Emporer's eleven. #onemansstonkerisanothermanssemi

Can you look yourself in the mirror though Toke? You're just a hint of a shadow of a poor-man's, pale imitation of the comic talent that is the Bear. #ursinewannabe

You're an idiot Toke. #yourforumnemisisstrikesagain #nooffence

I agree. It's a great series CHAPEL END CHARLIE. As I think I've said elsewhere in this thread, it would make a great TV cop drama. The characterisation and dialogue is wonderful. It's part of a trilogy that follows the same character. Child 44 is superb and was justifiably longlisted for the Man Booker which is when I first read it. I have to say though that the other two books aren't quite up to the same high standard. Still worth a read though. Personally I've taken a break from my second reading of Joyce's Ulysses. First time took me 5+ months and as soon as I finished I started again. But after a quarter of the way through my second time I need a break. So I'm currently right in amongst some excellent Jeeves and Wooster stories that I haven't read before. Wodehouse was a genius.

Also enjoyed this pap. Found the motion capture disorienting at first but eventually found myself marvelling at the quality of the 'animation'. I'm not quite sure the dialogue was up to Moffat's usual standard. He gave Haddock a good voice but the other parts fell into the background a little for me. Still very enjoyable though.

Was there a happy ending Bear? I saw The Hobbit over the Xmas period too and thoroughly enjoyed it. My wife stayed awake, as did the friends we went with. As others have said, the nearly three hours went by in a blink. I'm pleased that Jackson chose to lavish time and effects on each part of the story. Stretching out the story into three films seemed crazy to me before I saw it, but I now think it will make three beautiful films. I didn't see it in 3D or the high frame rate version.

Good question Jeff Le Taxi. A bit of a Google and the answer appears to be a qualified maybe. The phone 'appears' to have the FM hardware inside, but is looks like it has been disabled. This is likely because Google wants you to use the 'cloud' for your services - witness no SD card so you are forced to store more stuff on-line. So they don't really want you getting your radio fix for free over the airwaves. I think your best bet might be to listen to an on-line stream of the radio station. But for that to work you'd need a good data contract (unlimited hopefully), be in a good 3G signal area, and listen to a station that streams live via the Internet. I can wholeheartedly recommend the TuneIn Radio app for this. It's excellent. Even IF the bits for an FM radio are inside the phone and the kernel geeks can build a specific kernel with the ability to talk to the FM hardware, then you'll need to running a bleeding edge custom ROM. This isn't for the faint of heart and probably invalidates your Google warranty. It might actually be academic anyway as the last couple of posts here suggest that it is a non-starter because Google has sabotaged the FM radio chip. On a separate note, what do you think of the build quality?

I'd bet good money that the video RAM has overheated... You're not going to believe this Ron Manager but on the shelf behind me in my home office is an Acer Aspire 9304. Well it's actually the remains of an Acer Aspire 9304. It died a dignified death after a relatively short number of years in the service of a friend of a friend, and in its death throes exhibited exactly the symptoms you've described. The owner asked me to take a look at it as he wanted me to salvage some photos he had on the disk. I managed to get them off before it finally gave up the ghost. But now it is deader than Jesus (topical). At the time I did some research and it was a common problem with certain Acers. Forums were suggesting that there was a design problem with the cooling on the video RAM. But as yours has been warming your lap for 5 years, you've probably been lucky. I'd use the safe boot mode to salvage any data you need, and then I'd get a new one as the RAM deteriorated pretty quickly on the one I have here. I did look at costing a repair (there are a few companies if you Google) but it really wasn't economical.

Huffton, classy OP. Classy response. Well done Sir. A polite request is ignored, as I'm sure you knew it would be. But instead of throwing your playthings out of the crib, you rise above it. Well played. Your attempt to raise the debate from the abstract to the specific, is too highly evolved a concept for some.

I'll be your nemesis Toke. You no-mark Deppo wannabe wannabe. No more Mr. nice guy (If that's alright with you).

The wife's got one of these, trousers. As has been mentioned it's not cool, but I can't recommend it highly enough for the price. Also recently got an upgrade to ice cream sandwich. So the company is still supporting it too.

Well you two had better clean up your joint ectogism as I don't think there is anything spiritual at play here. But there is something that needs investigating. Using my Sherlock Homonym powers of deduction I have concluded that Cheese on Toast has a cookie on his computer that thinks it is logged in even though he isn't able to post. This means we think he's come back from the dead, but in reality he's just reading the forum - still not able to post. It's the equivalent of forum erectile dysfunction (I would imagine), in that he's still got a penis, we can all see it, but it's of little use to him. But what does need investigating is the conspiracy amongst the Modfathers that allows Essruu to post more than 3 times a day whilst being a registered user. I have no evidence for this whatsoever, just a gut feeling that I've seen him post more than the rest of the curry thieves between sunrises. But gut feeling has never stopped a Muppet Show investigation before. I guess that Essruu may live somewhere that has a shorter day than the Earth which allows him to get more than 3 defences of Apple in during one of our Earth days. My theory however, is that following a particularly rowdy Mod curry evening, Essruu's taxi CCTV captured the benevolent owners of our wonderful forum in the back of his taxi in some sort of horrifically compromising situation. I don't want to start some a Lord McAlpine scale defamation here, but my guess is that the film probably involves animals, a copy of 50 Shades of Grey, a large carrot, bodily fluids and the Pompey home kit.