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Tuna flavoured crisps sound intriguing, though I'd want it to be tuna and onion! Have they ever made mango/mango chutney flavoured crisps? Maybe also some sort of crazy curry flavoured crisps, though I swear these things musta been done before.

Currently using Tesco off of some LoveFilm trial I signed up for(tho i was incredibly busy for the three free months, so didnt make the most) and then forgot to return my shit in time, then got a 360 anyway so I've kept the rentals, it's like £11 a month but allows me to rent two games at any one time and it's usually 2-3days between sending one back and getting a new one, but with two games on the go, you can overlap it nicely.

I agree(and with later posts, this is the first I read and quoted). However, I also agree with Cube that it should be up to the parents. Me personally, I took a good old beating as a child, I wouldn't say my parents were abusive, it was just how they were raised(physical discipline maybe being a bit more extreme than the average child's over here). Though on that note, my dad never really hit my sister, only me and my brother, and my mum kind of hit us all equally(come to think of it, not my sister so much!) but yeah, both my parents hit us but they still tried different things. Some people might look on some of the things I could tell you and say it was too far, but I think it only ever went too far two or three times that I remember. The biggest thing of note though? I don't begrudge my parents for it at all(though of course I did at the time), because I'll admit I'm a little angry sometimes and people have jokingly blamed a harsh upbringing(i guess we can't say though) but on top of that, I think I'm a rather awesome person and I think my parents did an amazing job to raise me like this. It makes me seriously worried for when I have kids, will I ever be able to do the job as well as they did? On which note, my parents were also more strict than my friends' on average(was allowed out alot less, had to be in earlier, no tv in my room, no games on weekdays), and in the later years I had to break free of it, but I'm still glad. Also Danny, it's all well and good trying to say you just tell your kids what to do, but you've already said that children are naturally curious, just telling will not work, they need to understand it and sometimes they don't. In fact, you try and TELL you children not to do something with no reason as to why, I'd say there's a 90% chance they'll try and do it when you're not looking.

It seems to me that the ones who tend to succeed, are the ones who you never expected it from, the happy and jolly sort, popular etc. until one day, they're dead. Where I work(acute psychiatric healthcare, basically depression, bipolar, drug induced problems, schizophrenia etc), I see alot of DSH and 'attempted' suicide, but I've yet to know a patient who succeeded. Whereas a nurse who'd worked in the job for like 40 years, just a few months ago, went and threw himself in front of a train. Some people said they didn't see it coming or never expected it, alot of people started to see it being a possibility after it happened when it was too late, but that's another story. The want to commit suicide, to actually kill yourself? The problem is, no matter how trivial the problem to you, it's hard to jsut ignore or stop what you feel. I can understand it too, sometimes you just...give up, I guess. Just start to wonder what's the point, or just reach a point where you just feel like you've lived enough(not neccessarily in a bad way either, I think the ones who succeed have gotten some sort of closure on life). I guess it's a hard to explain thing really, can't know it until you've been there, and I'm not even sure if I have. I'd second this, sometimes it seems like the only thing left to do.

I was busy and out last night(friday night is a reason maybe?) but I've got a topic I been meaning to post for like two or three weeks now, unfortunately I never found the time to write it up(it's a biggun) and so it hasn't been done yet. I also will not get it done this weekend as I'm about to venture off to Hatfield, but maybe come wednesday...keep your eyes peeled! Also, it takes two to tango, and alot of people to post.

Assmin sounds...wrong. He is a pretty cool fellow though, and he's repping SE london, so I wish you a very happy birthday Mr Platty!

ID cards are bad and a joke and a waste of money and no, I do not want them. This new pay as your drive thing they were/are gonna do is also very silly and a waste of money, and I do not want it. Those are my two biggest issues, and also the current economy but that's a bit fucked, would my vote honestly be able to stop either of these things from coming into nationwide effect? If yes, there goes my vote.

I'm seconding this, if only FOR Never Gonna Give You Up, as I've always loved my 80s pop and loved the song, I don't actually know why people hate it(do people hate it?). I mean, getting rick rolled is still a bit 'oh god not again' like when you look down cos someone told you you dropped your gay card, but I just still love it, and I still love that damn song! And for the record, as it's kind of due;

I see what you did there. Does recylcing count towards the old carbon saving thing then? We do recycle, namely cos we have boxes and they collect from our doors and have practically forced us to cos they only collect no recylable every two weeks now, but even so we recycle cos it's good and stuff. In fact, I remember even when we was very little my parents used to collect the glass bottles and tins, then everyone once in a while I got to jump up and down on them crushing them to crap(the tins mind, not the bottles) then we'd run them down to the recycle thingies round the corner. Dropping bottles into the things and hearing them smash was fun too! But yeah, we recyle plastic bottles, tins, glass, and use the bin for decomposable things as much as we can too. I'm also rather annoyed, all this thinking made me realise earlier, there's a non-energy saving lightbulb in one of the lights, and I want to know how and when it got there, cos I went and bought lots of energy savers and put them in all the lights I could

I'm fairly sure most of us said we were motivated by the monetary cost of the waste, I realise I didn't actually state that, but I am too. I work out my wastage to maybe cost like £30-£50 a year at overestimates, which is kinda sizeable and I'd like to reduce it, but I'll at least give my parents money to that tune if not more over the course of the year. Somehow mine is 1.49?! I did it as the entire household though, so I dunno if that's affecting the household side of things(the one that scored most too).

Im same as alot of you, can't give a fuck about this carbon footprint shit and all this carbon is global warming going to destroy the world etc(in fact, I frankly don't believe it 100% having seen that documentary on channel 4 about it not being carbon caused, generally cos they provided me more evidence than I've ever seen from the proponents for carbon induced global warming). But yeah, I try sometimes, but tend to fail. I turn my TV off when I leave my room, but often have it on standby when I'm in here/at night(cos i sleep to the tv and so put on a sleep timer). Never really turn off the freeview box, and occasionally I fall asleep with my laptop on, but I also downloaded a sleep timer for that(which hibernates it, effectively turning it off). I'm recently trying to unplug/switch off my phone charger and any other transformers so they don't burn the little bits of leccie, and when I boil my kettle I boil it with just enough water. On the whole though, I'm probably quite shoddy at reducing my footprint. I DO get buses and walk everywhere, though that's because I have no other choice I think I worked out once that at any given moment I'm wasting about 20-30W on average.

Intellectual Property I believe. Basically, Zelda is an IP, Metroid is an IP, Mario is an IP, Sonic is an IP, DK is an IP, Pikmin is an IP, Timesplitters is an IP. Basically, any new sort of 'series' is an intellectual property. Nintendo need new, good IPs to get back that unique that they offer(and to stop rinsing the old IPs), back in the day it was Mario and he was flagship, he WAS Nintendo. What do people think of when they think of Nintendo now? Probably just Wii and DS, no actual games, and it shouldn't be like that. We want good, new, IPs from Nintendo so they offer something no one else does, but they have to implement it well obviously. EDIT:Woops, didn't see ...'s post there, wrote this last night then posted this morning. Now I feel silly.

Well, as I was saying/asking, I dunno if this is any good, but for some reason it's 26" and only £150?? I assume there's a reason it's cheaper than most, I just can't figure it out. http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0286876622.1222939569@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladeffijkfdjcflgceggdhhmdfhk.0&page=Product&fm=12&sm=0&tm=0&sku=903564&category_oid=-34804

To be fair, others in the thread have raised very good points, and I thought after posting, I'd told you to hold out, but then...hold out for what? The way things are going, I don't think the Wii'll see a price drop anytime soon, and you have games you want it for, so it's worth doing when you have the monies(that'd be the only thing I'd say to hold out for). It's all going off topic though. Yeah, I think the legal problems come with claims to rights of ideas and intellectual property and whatnot, but if it was just about all the old previous zeldas and their aspects, and then they developed things from there on, I don't see why it'd cause any problems! It's nice you mention some of the old aspects from the old games. When someone mentioned the bug sidequest and the bug catching net earlier, my face lit up with nostalgia! What a brilliant idea, a tiny touch for the old school fans, strange they didn't consider to implement it. It's is one other flaw of TP, it seemed to move too much into new and left behind some old in way of items and enemies. I would love something with a lot of bits of nostalgia and nods to previous titles and items, I just think it'd help recapture and recreate the magic of the Zelda games. I KNOW there's something missing lately, I think we all do, the problem is that I can't for the life of me place it, and I think it might be because it isn't one big thing, it's just all the little things that add up in the end.

I think that's how it works, I always try to explain it to people then fail. Basically, I could open a bank, Person A gives me £10 cos I say I'll give them £1 for every year I keep it for them. Person B comes along and asks to borrow £10, I say ok and essentially write an IOU, but they have to pay me £2 for every year they have it and I physically give them Person A's £10. Ideally, you do this but always have enough 'money' to go round that you can provide Person A should they come ask(in this scenario they can't, but that's cos it's only two people and so it's kind of hard). And as you said the banks go bust when people try, due to legal obligations. And me, the bank? I make £1 profit in the whole process. Banks are out to make money, and that's what and how they do it essentially. Only, at some point, the fake money becomes pseudo-real money, and it's done with that, and again, and again, and more and more non-existant existant monies come to exist, leading to not alot of the world's money actually existing!! (I think. Don't hold me to what I say as fact, I might be mistaken and don't consider myself all too qualified to talk about it beyond a flukey GCSE in Economics)

Does anyone know anything about this 'Sumo' I've heard of before? Supposedly the ultimate in beanbaggery? I've never been a beanbagger myself, decidedly not the way things are done in my household, though my derriere has graced one or two within its current lifespan, I have oft been tempted to purchase myself one.

But what about the bell! THE BEELLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSS! Hardly high pitched, I don't know the last time I even heard a high pitched bell! THEEE BEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSS!

Man, I was always convinced that June was the month of cool birthdays(and it still is dammit) but this past week has given us alot of excellent people! Anyhoos, Happy Birthday Mokong!

(Bit of a bump, thought it better than starting a new thread.) Man, spent the morning catching up on this(got just the last episode to go!) as I got busy and out of touch with things for a while, now seen all of season one and I think it's rather excellent! Does anyone know when season 2 is starting? I'm loving the progress of this alot more than the 90s one, it does pack alot in(the 90s took about 6 episodes to tell one story, though it was still excellent). I like this faster pace, there's one episode when they bring in about 5/6 new characters to the show at the same time! I like they way they did the origins late on too, brilliant stuff. One thing that bothered me in one episode however;

£80? Buy a frickin' TV! Double up and you could get yourself at least a 19inch, if not 26! Seriously, I just find such a thing totally pointless to have, want to game in your car? Throw £20 onto things and get a DS! Honestly, £80 for such a (in)'convienience' is just silly to me. Why would you ever consider such a thing?

Man, it's weird to think I didn't even EXIST before you were 8. Not to make you feel old or anything though...Happy Birthday! I hope I'm as cool as you when I'm 30...and still on N-E!

I think I proper started gaming when I was 4 or 5(that is, had our own console, it may have been younger, and ftr it was a SNES) but I'd been playing my cousins' gameboy and shiz when I was younger. My parents were strict though, I was ONLY allowed to play on weekends(something I didn't break free of until about 16) and they would often take away our games/console as punishment. Despite all this I was still heavily in love with gaming, and it stuck with me longer than it should have, I think. However, I have now turned to be a fairly well rounded individual I think, so I think anyone saying 3/4 is too young, it only is depending how the child is kept and brought up. As for the actual games, I don't know any 3 year old gamers, but I'd deffo recommend some of those family/party games, as it'd encourage some multiplayer sociability. Mario Party, Mario Kart, WarioWare etc

Man, I forgot about things from WW like the little item balls and the ability to pick up enemies' weapons and wave/throw them about, and alot of the sidequests and item collecting things! Goodtimes. Why did they not put any of it in TP? Does seem very silly. I guess it's Hellfire's catch 22, too many people want too many different things, and they can't please them all? Maybe Nintendo should try to make a truly ultimate Zelda game one day, poll a massive number of players and do some serious market research into what people want from it, or what they liked from the old games, then build it from there, cos it's apparently clear they're getting out of touch with the gamers. Back to the original post however, does anyone know what happened to Edjamakated and if he's ever gonna post some follow-up? I think this has been an excelllent discussion thread, I want more! I know this probably isn't the place for it, but what big games? Personally, I barely touch my Wii except for some multiplayer brawling. I never 100%ed TP after I killed the final boss(I tend to 100% my zelda) and never really played it again from 2 weeks after and on. I also didn't even finish getting all the stars of Galaxy for the first run through. The Wii leaves me surprisingly unmotivated compared to previous Nintendo consoles. I'd probs say if you ain't in it for Brawl, hold out.

It concerns us because our banks were just as greedy to turn a quick buck and so they got in on the whole thing, taking other institutions' debts on board to turn some easy money(or so I was told by a few people, correct me if I'm wrong as I never had the patience to follow it all in great detail, and I know how mistaken information easily comes about). The reason why the banks need to be bailed out though? Because all our economies are built upon them, it isn't the banks that are the only losers if/when they go bust, it's US, the people who have their money tied up with that bank! Luckily the government have instated that £35k guarantee, but I think that's pre-emptive, should every single bank go bust would they REALLY be able to acquire that money? The point isn't that though, the guarantee needs to be there so that people don't panic and take all their money away from the banks, as that would in turn lead banks to bust, from what I understand, and it's what happened with Northern Rock. Had people not panicked and started withdrawing like crazy, it probably never woulda gone down the shitter. The problem with banks is that they create money out of nowhere, it's all built on IOUs and promises, but they don't actually have all the money to give out should every single customer ask for their money all at the same time, but they can't just say no, so they go bust. The world's economies are built upon banks, the majority of the money in the world doesn't even exist!

I'm rather confused again. What is the average kind of going price for TVs, in relation to size? I mean, looking at this thread and even the TVs I've previously found, I seem to constantly find something similar or bigger for cheaper. So, when it comes to LCD TVs, IS bigger better? I saw two screens on Curry's site which were 26" and only £150, yet I also see 19" TVs going for like £250. Is it just better brand names, or what? I can't really see what I'm missing, and I don't get why there's so much variation in price both between and within sizes?