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Did DuD just find the smallest picture on the internet?

I'm still buzzing from it. I haven't slept.

Who? I thought it was the lead singer of Maroon 5....

Well possibly, but when i spend 9 hours a day in front of my laptop at work, its hard not to just quickly open a tab and check facebook etc, which is where my concentration problems are coming from. I'd love to stop it, but it's like an addiction i suppose.

Article by Ken Levine (of all people) about this. http://kenlevine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/i-wont-give-zach-braff-one-dime.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Well technically Leeds M.O.T. and I are both Middle Leaguers now...

Also, to be fair to Newcastle fans, if they ARE deluded, it may be because they finished fifth last year. That's enough for them to perhaps be expecting greater from their team.

Well i think that's what i was getting at. If i need a fact (that perhaps i would have remembered 5 or 6 years ago) i can search and access it within seconds. However, it's what this activity is doing to my brain in other areas that i'm worried about. I can't follow plots, i struggle to remember the right word for things (although my dad has this problem, so perhaps this one is hereditary), i have trouble working with large, over-arching projects. I do worry that when i'm away from the internet, i am much stupider than i was.... Interestingly, it does coincide with me starting to drink alcohol too (i was tee-total until 21-22-ish), so maybe i've just killed too many brain-cells that way....

Lower League promotees represent!

I'd play games with these if they were available.

I've noticed that over the past 5 or 6 years that my brain doesn't work the way it used to. It started small; i would have a bit of trouble concentrating, or remembering things that usually i would know. But then i noticed that quite a few things in my life were different. I've noticed that i can't concentrate on my work for much longer than 10-20 mins at a time, and i have a lot of trouble in focusing on more than one task at a time. Even when i am working, i bounce around doing lots of little tasks, forgetting which one i'm supposed to be focussing on etc. I've also noticed that i'm having trouble following complicated plotlines in films (and TV shows).....maybe i'm just getting old, but occasionally i see a plot point, or a subtle shot of something, and my brain just doesn't associate it with what i'm supposed to any more. Whereas before i would spot something and know that it was a reference to something a couple of episodes back - now i just stare blankly and have to have my girlfriend remind me. Now i'm not sure what is happening to me - whether it is a change of diet, or lifestyle or something, but i read an article a while back about how the use of the internet, and Google in particular has begun to re-wire our brains. The article mentioned how, like the invention of writing meant that our memories rewired themselves so that we didn't have to remember so much, the invention of the world wide web is causing some people to significantly change the way they think. People aren't remembering things when they can just look them up, since Google is often only a click away for most people. It's not to say people are getting stupider, but people are augmenting their brains with the internet, and using it as an extension or database to make their decisions with. Having said that, i'm a bit worried that i am getting stupider, or at least getting worse at my job because of it. Does anyone else experience this? Here's an article explaining it better than i just did: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/20/internet-altering-your-mind Sorry for the rambling - my mind wandered off many times while writing this...

Well i meant that all three are popcorn blockbustery, but the second one just isn't as good as a film. The baddie is lame, the finale is lame, the dialogue seems like they were making it up as they went along. The third is much better at all of those things!

Personally i think arguing over how 'big' a club is is pretty silly. There's no real way to quantify it, and everyone has different ideas on what it means anyway. Newcastle is a weird one. On paper they should be a top 10 team, but for some reason they've imploded this season; it's really bizarre.

I don't know what Pingements are.

Wow. Sunderland draw with Stoke leaving three teams on 38 points at the bottom of the table. If Wigan win tomorrow they will join everyone on 38. Bum-tighteningly awesome! I hope Wigan stay up...and Newcastle. And Norwich i suppose. So i guess i hope Sunderland go down.

I don't really care as long as we get Battlefront 3.

Is 12 some sort of Wallace and Gromit game? That kind of looks like the dog from a Close Shave... I'm going to go with Wallace and Gromit: a Close Shave (a game i just made up)

Yes. The second one is a bit rubbish, but for £15, the first and third will provide you with popcorn blockbusteryness. Unless you don't like that sort of thing.....but i'm sure you wouldn't be considering it if you didn't.

All of mine are either youths or were there when i got the team, apart from one spanish guy.

And he was never heard from again.

I'm surprised about the amount of notepads being carried in this thread. Creativity can strike at any time it seems.

Who's this Intergalactic Stars then? Have they won anything? Must be in a different league or something. bob will take them on.

When you pay for large items by card though, it means you don't ever break into a note (or even get them out of cash machines). Therefore you never even have coins. I'm like Shorty, i pay by everything with card, and even though i don't want to be the guy who pays for a £1 item with a card, i often have no alternative.

Someone told my girlfriend that they reckoned I was going to propose in Paris (maybe it was too obvious, but apparently she had not twigged). After that, all she could think about was what if i was going to. Hence it basically ruined the holiday, because she was either going to be expecting it, or be really disappointed if i didn't. So she got really upset (whilst drunk) and i ended up having to admit that i was going to. Then she felt terrible for ruining the surprise, and we agreed to pretend that she didn't know. Essentially though it's all ruined, all because someone thought they would come across as some sort of wizard by predicting the future. This is relevant to this thread i think because of the pressures that are involved with being in a relationship for so long. We've been together for 7.5 years and all people talk about is when are you going to get married. Maybe we don't want to yet? Maybe we can't afford it? It doesn't help that everyone we know is getting engaged. All i wanted was for it to be a surprise, and now that's ruined. I'm in a terrible mood now.

I will avenge the death of Joseph-Desire! EDIT: Oh hang on, i can't.....the downside of doing well in the cup...