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Billionare Mike Ashley has bought Sir John Halls 55.3 million shares in newcastle united for 100p each and now owns 41% of the club. Says he wants to buy more shares at the same price and is tabling a £133 million offer to take over NUFC.

Probably gonna go down the pub and watch it. Might wear my frankfurt top I got in Germany when I was at a UEFA match seeing as it's black and red stripes, should confuse the scouse contractors we always get in pubs down the seafront

Xenon II Megablast's Atari ST intro by Bomb The Bass (The Amiga one was crap in comparison thanks to it's pissy weak sound chip) Commando on the C64

It's not much further south but I paid £583 for my season ticket last year and reckon it's going to be the same this year.

Really hope Spurs have the ambition to hold onto Berbatov. There's an excellent article in the NOTW today by Martin Samuel, who quite often writes a lot of piss boiling nonsense but I really think he's hit the nail on the head with this one (yes, even the stuff about the mackem bastards ):

I'm always inverted, have been since Quake. It's more natural as far as I'm concerned, you tilt your head forward to look down, you push the mouse forward to look down, you tilt your head backwards to look up, you pull the mouse backwards to look up.

Yeah, the match was crap - made worse by the fact I said to my mate during extra time I'd bet him a fiver on the winner and he could choose and he chose Chelsea. To make footy matches more interesting (even championship or second division games you have no interest in) randomly insert 50p bet with friends. Here's some suggestions Next foul Next corner Next corner postion (Bottom right, bottom left, top right, top left) Next managerial close up Next offside Next team to win a header Next team to touch the ball in the centre circle etc

The things which grate with me are that I think that if her parents were a cleaner and a bus driver rather than doctors then the Daily Mail would be crucifying them for leaving her alone. It's sad but I think the band-wagon jumping grief-a-thon displayed by some of the public and especially Sky News is sickening and I'm not all that comfortable with Everton's "Bring our Maddy home" banner or this FA Cup appeal. At least some people have noticed it and dare to point it out: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070518/tts-uk-portugal-girl-media-bed299d.html Also saw this posted on another forum: Back on topic, I'm not too sure who I want to win today. Guess Man U have played the best football this season,

It's sad, but I think the coverage of it, in the UK at least, is so extreme that it's become rather perverse.

Had a cracking time last time I was at Cardiff. The Man United fans were right miserable buggers like, sat in silence the whole time then moped around in service stations munching on cheese burgers and looking like they'd just been tonked 5-Nowt. See they're playing the appeal videos for this missing Madeline lass at the FA Cup Final, doubt she'll be there like.

I would love it if that happened, would be hilarious.

Really like the voice chat, good to be able to say "There he is" or "Let me on the back" to someone without everyone in your team wondering if it's meant for them. Jumping is also essential to the game and you need to press a button for that as well :P

Dual wielding is the way to go, chinning someone John Woo style and then calmly reloading both guns at once.

And apparently some unmodded consoles have also been accidently hit with the ban hammer. I remember a few weeks ago the people who made the firmware which mods 360's drives said they were aware of a soon-to-be implimented method of detecting backups in the drive and banning and released a new firmware to nobble it before it was rolled out, but it doesn't sound like that's worked. It'll only be a matter of time before a work around is discovered though I'd be willing to bet.

Thought the Halo servers went down at one point tho, didn't they? That's what someone on another board was saying.

Getting backers off people (Do they call them that down south? You know when you got two people on a bike when you were a kid?) is well funny. Had some kid on the back of my car yesterday shouting at me for driving like a madman, doing flips and crashing into walls. And was on the back with some guy from a newcastle board driving later on, bombing around shouting "WEEEEEE!" and invariably both ending up deed after a horrific collision.

They weren't officially released by Nintendo and if a game is expected to be successful it's not unusual for a company to begin work on a sequel before the first game is even out.

Gotta get up for work at 3:50 am so anything till late is a bit out the question sadly. Better see my lass when she gets back from the gym as well. Some time though!

Not really played on live that much but some of the American kids playing Halo are well funny, I didn't think people actually spoke like that outside of sitcoms "Oh my god you guys what do you think of this game huh ohmigod it is so fun it's totally the funnest I couldn't believe it you guys could I join your party omigod that would be awesome because I like so wanna play right now so you guys yeah invite me to your party and stuff you guys I don't believe this game I was like no way you guys ohmigod and there was this guy and I shot him and he was like "ahhh" and it was awesome. Guys?" Too. Much. Sugar.

When I beat people down it usually says beat down, but I've seen assassination as well. Usually seems to be when you get someone from behind but it could be something like killing you without taking any damage. What's the deal with the voicechat? Playing a teamgame it seemed like you could hear teammates when they were standing next to you thru the speakers, but to speak to everyone through the headset you had to press a button, is that right? Is there a guide anywhere to the controls or the weapons anywhere? Found myself running around with a big shotgun type thing and was rather shocked when I fired it at someone at point blank range and it sadly turned out to be a rocket launcher.

Someone on a Man U forum came up with this: Jose, wherever you may be, Ji Sung Park ate your dog for tea, You won fuck all, you dog is dead, Why don't you get a cat instead.

Canny game just then Stefkov, couldn't quite get me heed round it cos I've hardly played any of the Halo games before. Learned quite quickly that rushing at people firing widly and going AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHDIEDIEDIE and then stotting them one with the butt of your gun was the best tactic. Was never quite sure when we started a game if I had any team mates or if it was just a freeforall either Didn't talk much either because I've been at work since 5am and feel like my brain is going to seep out of my nose.

The game data is still read from a disc. The only data inputed if using this method to play pirate games is to change the media type sent to the Wii from the drive from "DVD-R" to "Hunkey dory kosher Wii disc"

Super Paper mario isn't a problem for mod chips - there are games that don't work but SPM isn't one of them. it's only a problem if you haven't updated your Wii for months and run SPM, because it updates your firmware with the american version, screwing it up. If you make sure your Wiis up to date before playing it for the first time it plays perfect.

This is what people did before the first modchips - wired a cable to the drive points and used a PC as a big, unweildy modchip, basically injecting the same code that caused the drive to mis-report the media type to the Wii from a computer rather than a chip.