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We actually both gave great performances, it was a helluva match. I hope to see both us back season after next. Then it's on.

6-5, bloody hell. Not bad to come from 6-2 with half an hour to go though. I think it says it all that I've finished the season with the 2nd highest number of goals scored but also bottom of the table with the biggest negative goal difference. Grats to Dyson though!

I have no response.

I know you're joking but please don't write something like that ever again. Some subjects just aren't suitable for humour yet. The world still needs to heal.

You know, I almost envy you people. You're in for a treat.

God bless you sir, our floors would be in far poorer states without yee.

The film was awful. This is awesome.

Anyway, Schumacher. You heard me.

Hey guy, this is pretty good stuff. (I really need to come on to the creative board more often. )

Discovered chocolate coated Brazil nuts are 25p a box at my store and they are so god damn good. If I die young I hope it's choking on a mouthful of these and scotch. You're like the worlds happiest mathematician!

Given that I fielded most of my developing young guns, that was not nearly as bad as I feared it would be.

One of joys of re-watching something is seeing something you haven't seen a while and being reaffirmed in your long standing affection for it. I don't give a flying Ferengi what anyone says, Star Trek: Generations is a fine, fine film.

Happy John Hurt Moment Flink!

Can we mention video games? 'Cause I went back to Mario Galaxy after an extended hiatus and I couldn't believe that I had ever stopped. I've never read, played or watched anything that was simultaneously so ingenious and infectiously joyous in the entirety of my existence. I remember it being good, but playing it again it seemed so much more brilliant then even what I recalled. Also, old episodes of The Simpsons. You can't understand how much of a disappointment the more recent episodes are until you go back and watch some of the earlier "classic" episodes. They're not just breath-takingly funny and inventively plotted, they're also genuinely affecting with sympathetic characters and a genuine sense of emotional consequence. They're easily the best things ever committed to television, and that includes modern greats like The Wire and Mad Men.

Happy Birthday! Hope it gets better fast.

Glad to hear it - more Daniel Craig-Bond can only be a good thing. Quantum was slightly disappointing but Casino was a superb reboot to the series. More poker-faced battles of wits and slightly less Bourne-esque shenanigans again please.

I found out that More 4 will longer be showing one of my favourite TV shows, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart daily in order to make room for more "high-end American programming." They have apparently purchased the rights to the American version of Shameless. I am baffled, annoyed and insulted in about three different ways. At any rate someone is going to die, by my hands, in a painful yet humourlessly sophisticated manner.

F1 in HD this year - now if only I lived in an area that would actually bloody broadcast BBC HD. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88873

Was not expecting a 1-0 victory. Pleasantly surprising.

I'm fine with this, but I still maintain that David Croft is right down the hall.

I loved the first game but it had it's problems that stopped it from being so much more then it was - the glitches, a clunky graphics engine, dull exploration a needlessly drawn out and finicky skill & inventory systems. Parts felt flat out unfinished. ME2 basically improved in every single way, not just with what went wrong but even improved on what it got right - the strong universe, subtle characters and morality themes, presentation, music, combat, every god damn thing. I thought even the writing was so much stronger. The first had great writing and decent plot-progression, introducing us to the Mass Effect universe. Both the story and the characters in the second game are so much stronger though, right from the off. A genuinely thrilling opening sequence kicks of a fantastic series of encounters, oscillating finely between action and quiet emotional drama. I've read comments like the one above complaining about the lack of plot progression towards of the eventual conclusion of the defeating the reapers. That's not an unwarranted complaint, but we've still got the third game, the Return of the Jedi with it's Reapers, Death Stars, military politics and it's legions of dead Bothan spies to do all of that. This was Empire Strikes Back territory, lots of character and world development with multiple arcs spinning off in various different directions, depending on how you played. All of it is brilliant, just brilliant. As a middle act it's essentially perfect at setting us up for the start of the final chapter in a rich, complex universe teeming with stories to let us blow shit up in the most spectacular and involving way possible.

I continue to be baffled at my continuing ability to earn victories against hard-bitten championship contenders while still floundering at the bottom of the table overall.

Fantastic - let the awesomeness continue!

The cider industry salutes a great hero of the cause, gawd bless you sir, gawd bless you!

Why not? If you've ever purchased something online you've already handed your card details, your address and details of what you've purchased to someone to store and backup on a cloud-type service. Heck, the last transaction you made at a brick & mortar store is probably already backed up with thousands of others on a server in a hole in Reykjavík.