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I will have 3+4 then! (Why me also?)

OK, DuD, bob and Cube can be an Alliance. Team name pending.

bob is starting an Alliance, with themselves. They will forge ahead of all these other Alliances.

I've just started the Liveship trilogy by Robin Hobb. It's pretty good so far, but there's not much action in it...more chatting rather than doing.

Mwhahahaha! Back to winning ways! Two goals is not enough Dragooooooooo!

So far i've only seen 5 episodes, but i've immensely satisfied with it. It may not be quite as laugh-out-loud funny as previous seasons, but the over-arching story seems a lot more complicated and clever, which i like. Not looked at any spoiler tags yet, but my funniest moments up to now have to be:

Well i'm going to tell you anyway! The globe is actually warming overall (because of all the carbon and whatnot) but the effect of this is not always warmer weather for everyone. The greatest effect that warming the globe has is the melting of the ice caps. As they melt, they release lots of fresh water into the oceans - resulting in the sea levels rising (something you may also have heard of, and why certain low-lying islands are a bit worried). However, putting loads of fresh water into the oceans not only increases the depth of the oceans, it also changes the make-up of the ocean. Because the oceans are salty, adding fresh water to them actually makes them less salty (the amount of salt stays the same, but the water is increased, similar to watering down a glass of squash). You would have thought that slightly less-salty oceans wouldn't be a bad thing, seeing as pretty much everything in the ocean works hard to remove the salt from it and fresher water is a good thing. Nope! Changing the salinity of the water also changes it's density and therefore how warm and cold water react to each other. Now, the reason why Britain has such a mild climate compared to other countries at the same latitude (such as Russia) is because of the Gulf Stream. This is a huge flow of warm water that flows up from the tropics in the Atlantic Ocean and dumps a lot of warmer water around the UK. It also brings with it some of the warmer weather that we are used to and explains why we are used to winters with an average temperature of 0C rather than -20C like Russia does. The changes in salinity and density of the oceans is messing up the flow of the Gulf Stream, breaking it down and giving us shitty weather. This is most probably going to be permanent. It is lame.

I love this:

Every time they say Pieschek (sp?), i think they are saying Petr Cech. It's quite confusing.

Holy crap that was incredible. All my Christmasses...

So is every game really.

In London for the day, there are German fans everywhere! Currently more Dortmund than Munich but if can all change!

Dude, come in and try again. That was poor.

Ha! I'm noticing a trend of it being called the 'XBone'. I hope this catches on.

I had a go at the Gadget Show Live, i was unimpressed, although to be fair i only played Deus X and it was a bit flat.

Well it's FIFA gamers, so not exactly OMG hardocree 1337!!!111one gamers.

Well tech demos of any technology are always portrayed to be way better than they actually work in real life.

Agreed, i don't think i've ever seen a trailer that has 'ruined' the film. I'm sure they're careful enough to not put spoilers in their trailers.

How do you find that out? What is it based on? Is it more VIP rubbish?

What's more awesome is that your name is Tom Clancy!

Desire? Yes! Potential? Nevermind... Great write-up Haden! Let's do this!!!

Right-o! Smear your creative juices all over this one then.

Cool, I'll post one tomorrow. Does it have to have a segway in it?

Some might argue that the subscription to Live pays for extra servers which give a better online service, less downtime, faster downloads etc. Not sure if this is necessarily true though.

They are from the French for slow; 'Retard', meaning go slow around this car.