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Nicktendo

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  1. The Dark Side of Dubai

    Check BBC iPlayer
  2. The Dark Side of Dubai

    I've posted it on facebook and tagged all my friends in it, oh the disgusted comments!
  3. Loving all the Red Dwarf stuff. Can't wait until Friday night! : peace:
  4. The Dark Side of Dubai

    I'm not surprised by this in the least by this. I did some research on Dubai for my course earlier in the year and came up with similar stuff. All of my rediculously wealthy 'friends' always go to Dubai and rave about how great it is. It's not, it never has been and never will be. It's a fake hell-hole filled with everything that's wrong with consumerism and neo-liberal capitalism. If ever you needed a reason why neo-liberalism has failed Dubai is the perfect condensed example. Shocking, disgrace of a place. The class heirarchy is similar to something that is often found in the most disgustingly oppressive dictatorships. The poor are, as the article correctly put, enslaved by the do-nothing vastly wealthy minority who sponge and feed like parasites of off other people's lives. Yet for most Britain's upper middle class it's 'the complete holiday' - F*****g twats!
  5. Formula 1 2009

    I think Ferrari will be much more intersted in Kubica, maybe teaming him up with Massa or Alonso. Heidfeld is very consistnt but just doesn't have the raw pace or "championship winning quality" you need to drive for Ferrari.
  6. The "Let me get to know you!" thread!

    I'm Nick, born in York Hospital in September 1986 with an 'upside-down heart.' Appernetly for the 1st year and a half of my life it was touch and go. But I don't remember it... I just have a scar down my chest and have to go for check-ups every 18 months which I don't mind. I lived in a Suburb of York with my parents and 2 brothers, one 3 years younger and one 4 years younger. We fought a lot. It was fun being the oldest/cleverest/strongest/meanest until I realised 5 foot 3 was all I would amount too. Left school at 16 with pretty good grades a few A's and B's. Went to college for 2 years and slacked off, messed around and ended up with a B in Media Studies and a C in Geography. Failed ICT and English Language, re-took English and got a C at AS level. Started working at Pizza Hut once I could drive where I met my girlfriend after about a year we went out. She was 2 school years older than me but only 13 months in reality. She'd had 2 years out and convined me to take one so we went travelling to Thailand (Amazing), Australia (Equally so), Fiji (Very scary, but beautiful) and West Coast USA (A mix of incredible and shit). Was excellent overall though and I learnt a hell of a lot about myself and the world. Did it all on our own as well with no prior planning except the flights. I was only 18 at the time and it's by far the bravest thing I've ever done. After 2 months we came into Heathrow and it was very emotional to see everyone but it was the best experience of my life! Also showed me that England is by no means that great, but I find it strangely endearing. Stupidly, aged 19 (and 20 for her) we decided to try and buy a house and go to uni in Leeds which was close to home (for the missus' horse) and our families but far enough away to get the 'uni experience.' The reason we could afford a house (albeit in what turned out to be a VERY nasty council estate, hence it was very cheap) was her Granny died and left her £13,000 from her estate. Added on to a bit we had saved up that was our deposit. I started a Media course at Leeds Met and it was awful, full of horrible, trendy c**ts. Dropped out after 3 months. In this time I worked full time and hated it (I transferred to a new pizza hut). I applied to do a Human Geography course and got accepted which was a massive relief as full time was very dull... Before I started my course again we rescued a dog from the dog's trust who is AMAZING! He's become my best friend in a geeky kind of way because I was so far away from home, and incidently the city centre of Leeds. So I very rarely saw my friends, home or course mates. I'm currently in the second year of my course and I love it, it's exteremly interesting and has re-ignited my desire to explore every inch of the world. I'm going to Russia 2 weeks today . Last July me and the missus broke up after a very difficult period of dishonesty and arguements and considered it best to go our separate ways. Of course with the house we still live together which has been a huge pain in the arse even though we've maintained a friendship we still rip each other to pieces sometimes. So kindly her dad has offered to buy my half (not a lot) of the house and she's renting our 2 spare rooms to her mates when I'm gone. I'll be glad to get out of this isolated shit hole to be honest and get back home (which kinda sucks, but it's so much cheaper!) with my friends and commute to uni next year. Then as soon as I'm done I'm hitting the road again, hopefully to South America, Northern Africa and the Med provided I have enough cash. So while this past year has been difficult I've got out of a rut I was in after 2 disasterous attempts at new relationships, I've decided I'm happy single at the moment and I'm content on waiting on the right girl, hopefully after an intense 3 and a half year relationship I'll be in a better position to make it work. After promising myself I'd concentrate on me, I've lost 2 stone, spent a hell of a lot less on things I really don't need (home cinema stuff and gaming ) and become hugely interested in politics and punk rawk so I'm on the up again and enjoying life. In six weeks I'll move back home which will be strange but I'm slightly looking forward to a massive change but I'll miss my dog like crazy! Life advice: Don't buy a house with someone until you've lived with them. I'm aged 22 now and my major interests are music - punk, ska, reggae and a bit of old school rap, travelling and politics, my dog and animals in general and of course gaming. Although I only own a Wii now and dedicate much less of my time to it. I like to watch Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer , American Dad, South Park and LOTS of doucmentries. As I kid I loved football, now I hate it as it's become too much about the money. The only sport I love is Formula One have done since 1992 (hypocrite? ). I like to think of myself a bit of an anti-establishment kid, I don't have any clothes with a high street label on, I despise fashion and wear things that symbalise what I stand for ("this aint a T-shirt man, this is me heart" - King Blues). I enjoy Marxist theory so I'm a bit of an anti-capitalist. I do believe Communism can work, people despise me for it. Maybe I'm naive?? I hate everything that Britain stands for as a nation. Thus I call myself a world citizen and not British. Despite this I'm half Scottish/English and I LOVE visiting Scotland. I think it's beautiful. I hate the BNP and will do anything to stop them I hate wasting anything and I am a massive environmentalist. I suppose I'm really just a hippy, but i don't have long hair and I shower every morning :p
  7. Little King's Story

    Consider it bought!
  8. The Wrasslin' thread

    Ahhh, that new game is gonna be so much sweeter next time I get one!
  9. Formula 1 2009

    This is completely ridiculous. We've been robbed of seeing a full race because of a greedy little midget wanting more money. Fuck Bernie Ecclestone.
  10. Majora's Mask

    I'm hoping it comes out on Monday in the US. I would rather get the NTSC version :p
  11. The Wrasslin' thread

    Maybe it's just me, I can't seem to stomach any wrestling at the moment and the storyines in WWE and TNA just bore me to death. Perhaps I should give up, it's too much of a soap opera now, not that it wasn't before but at least there was some high quality wrestling and not just people who could play a good character.
  12. The Wrasslin' thread

    This is the first time since Wresltemania 16 I won't be watching. The build up (IMO) has been dreadful, the matches look poorly put together and the Vickie storyline is atrocious, especially for a main event WM. The Orton/HHH storyline is also stupid. Attacking women and breaking into people's home on a program rated PG. WWE have lost all sight of what used to make them good. Fail.
  13. MadWorld

    I think Nintendo need to bring back the Seal of Quality and push it so consumers know what it means, maybe have it represented in an obvious manner on the front cover.
  14. Talk To Strangers

    lol NO WAY!
  15. Talk To Strangers

  16. Russia, anyone been?

    I'm off to Russia and Lithuania with uni at the end of this month and I have absolutly no idea what to expect. I'm going to Kaunas (Lithuania) and Kaliningrad (Russia) Which is in the far west of the country (near Finland). So has anyone been to this region of the world before and is there anything I can expect to encounter good or bad. Going there with no knowledge at all makes me a bit apprehensive but from the pictures it looks like a weird contrast of military grey buildings with massive amounts of green open space. Thoughts??
  17. Formula 1 2009

    Oh dear. Silly Hamilton. Penalty is deserved and he's lost what little respect I actually had for him. *facepalm*
  18. Wii General Discussion

    OK I exaggerated a bit, it doesn't look awful but it does look like a step backwards from Resi Evil 4. Especially the Wii version, not that that can be helped on the 360/PS3, due to the controls. To me it seems too focused on action elements and seems to have strayed too far from what the series was about, even though I'm all for series advancements. The puzzles and different enemies were great in the early games and since Resi 4 it seems to be going more in a Dead Rising esque direction with masses of zombies, too much emphasis on the survival and not enough on the horror. Just my two cents but I haven't played it so I can't really comment.
  19. Wii General Discussion

    Don't care about Resi 5 it looks awful but I'm desperate to play SFIV. Please Capcom, some of us can't afford more than one console. I'm sure graphically it wouldn't be much of a challenege to downscale it.
  20. Russia, anyone been?

    Yeah I'm a bit nervous tbh. Since Litvinenko got murdered in London in 2006, Russian & British relations soured a bit and citizens of the UK now have to pay £75 for a Russian tourist visa. We've been advised not to drink outside of the hotel or really leave it after 10pm... Hmmmm.
  21. Weight Loss 2009

    According to Wii Fit I'm down to 9st 11lbs this morning which means since mid-January I've lost exactly 2 stone. This pleases me Just 10lbs more to go to my target of 9st 1lb (58kg), which hopefully I can achieve in about 5-7 weeks. I lifted weights of 16kg this morning as well to see just how much weight I've lost and I'm shocked at how heavy it is (and I was). I can feel bones again for the 1st time in 5 years hips, ribs, chest, it's bloody great. I'm really starting to feel the health benefits as well now, at uni I have 3 lectures a week on the 4th floor of my building and I can conquer the stairs quicker than all my buddies go in the lift, which is awesome because before I couldn't pass the 1st floor without being out of breath. Onward... destiny.
  22. Formula 1 2009

    Yeah it turns out that it was McLaren and Hamilton that gave misleading information and as a result the whole team have been disqualified from the race including Hekkei Kovalianen (not that it made a massive difference to him...). Pretty stupid of them really but in retrospect it's pretty fair.
  23. Formula 1 2009

    I'm really not a Hamilton fan, I don't like his attitude to the other drivers at all, or the fact that he's a tax dodger but the FiA really seem to have it in for him and are determined not to let him succeed. I feel sorry for the guy he just can't do anything right.
  24. Formula 1 2009

    I think the KERS story was a really bad April fools 'joke'. At least that's what I gathered from the DigitalSpy forums.
  25. Wii Fit

    I'm only 5"3' My BMI is 24.5 which is .5 off of overweight.
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