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  1. Posted

    Una cerveza por favour!

     

    Thats basically the only sentance I can remember, definitely want to start learning some though as I am planning on spending a fair while down South Americany way in the near future.

  2. Posted

    Got into NHL quite a bit when I was in Canada, mainly because I happened to be in Montreal when the Canadiens destroyed the Maple Leafs 6-1. The atmosphere was fantastic in the city centre after the match. I haven't really seen any games for a while though, when I go to California over New Year I'm going to see if I can get to a Ducks /Kings /Sharks game.

  3. Posted · Edited by Noodleman

    Hulkenberg's manager Willi Weber has said he will definitely be on the grid next year. My guess is alongside De La Rosa in a HRT. Very small possibility he could be in a Renault if they do get rid of Petrov.

     

    I thought Williams offered him a multi year contract on the proviso that he went to HRT next year? Can't see him rejecting that only to sign for HRT anyway, that would be a stupid move. But then I cant see where else he will go, Force India if Di Resta isn't given a chance? Lotus? I imagine Petrov will stay at Renault after this weekend with all the sponsorship he brings with him.

     

    Edit: Autosport appear to think so as well: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88301

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    Batman, Beetle Juice, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks and Sleepy Hollow are all great.

     

    Big Fish was alight.

     

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland where both disappointing.

     

    Planet of The Apes was shit.

     

    I'm not counting Nightmare before Christmas because he didn't direct it.

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    What an epic fuck up by Ferrari, thats 2 seasons in recent times where they have thrown the championship away by shit strategy calls. Gutted for Webber but he was off the pace all weekend and didnt have an answer to Vettel when he needed it the most. Still Hamilton didnt win and Kubica held him for ages so :grin:

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    They've announced that whatever happens they will still support the DLC and the Rock Band and Dance Central brands. So really it's all good, hopefully they sign with somebody who realises Europe exists in the future.

  7. Posted

    *Edit* nevermind... seems that you just have to type as much of the code as will fit in up to the limit - and obv without the dashes - then it just lets you download the export pack...

     

    ... after you've paid 800msp. :/

     

    I blame EA... greedy fuckers!

     

    It's actually the record companies refusing to license the Rock Band 2 songs for more than 1 game. So they had to rebuy the song licenses.

  10. Posted

    Was chuffed with Hernandez getting both the goals the other day. I was sat there, in Ine's room watching the game, willing him to get another or potentially his hat-trick.

     

    Berbatov and Hernandez up front is the partnership I want to see. With Nani on the right (in Valencia's absence), which leaves the spot open for somebody else on the left. Maybe Obertan...we definitely don't have a first choice option there. Maybe give Anderson a few games there instead of centre midfield. Might give him a bit more attacking freedom.

     

    I've got the highlights taped for the City vs Arsenal game. Still need to watch that. Apparantly Gareth Barry got ripped apartfor the first goal , so I want to see that.

     

    More like the entire game.

  13. Posted

    Can't see Rooney going to Real Madrid. He's arguably not much better than Higuain and at the moment Higuain is about 10000000000 times better, Jose only plays 1 up front and he doesn't get in Real Madrid's team for me.

     

    Can't see him going for 50 million either, with a year to go on his contract when he will realistically leave (next summer) United are looking at £20 million at the best really. Look how little Ozil went for after a storming world cup, just because he only had a year left on his contract.

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    Hockenheim is pretty terrible now really. Which is a shame because the old layout off into the forest was fantastic. Hope Webber wins the title and tells Horner where to go after the way he was treated at points of the season.

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    Noodleman wins the thread so far I think!

     

    Any chance you could chat a little about funding, accommodation, people... the experience in general? :)

     

    OK so basically when I finished uni I knew I wanted to go travelling. I also knew the only way I would get the money together would be to move back home :nono: Did that got a crap IT support job and worked stuck away £500 (just over half my monthly salary) a month for 18 or so months. None of my mates either wanted to go or could afford to because they had all moved out after uni so didn't have the cash. But I decided to go anyway by myself, most people I met whilst travelling said I was mad to spend that long away from home on my own, but on the whole I didn't regret it.

     

    So I booked the flights at about April 2008 to leave in September 2008, couldn't be bothered to sort it myself as a round the world ticket is quite confusing. Went to STA Travel and just gave them a list of places I wanted to go and they managed to sort it into some kind of route. Flights came £2200 including airport taxes. I think my initial route was London - Toronto - overland - Montreal - New York - Chicago - Mexico city - Rio - overland - Buenos Aires - Auckland - Melbourne - overland - Cairns - Bangkok - Hong Kong - Beijing - London. Although I wouldn't have bothered with the Montreal - New York flight and used that somewhere else with hindsight. But STA did an excellent job and I cant recommend them enough if anybody is thinking of doing something similar.

     

    So after paying for the flights I had a budget of about £800 a month. for 10 months. This wasn't really enough and I came back home broke, with a £1000 overdraft and £1000 on my credit card. Don't regret that either. What's the point of going somewhere and not seeing anything because you're worried about money.

     

    Accommodation was hostels mostly, although I shared a hotel room in Buenos Aires with an Aussie girl :wink: and spent about a couple of weeks at hers when I was in Sydney. I also stayed in a hotel in both places in Cambodia, one was $5 a night the other was $2 a night! After 7 months sharing a room with at least one other person generally 6 that was heaven. It is amazing the difference in hostels from place to place though. Some of the ones in Asia where practically hotels.

     

    The best hostels where the ones that organised group activity's in the evenings, or at least had somewhere cool to hang out in the evenings so you could meet other people. The ones in America where very good at this (apart from New York). On the whole I found the better the atmosphere in the hostel the better time I had in the place I was at.

  19. Posted

    Went backpacking for 10 months a couple of years ago:

     

    Canada

    Toronto 7/10

    Ottawa 2/10

    Montreal 10/10

     

    USA

    New York 6/10

    Philadelphia 9/10

    Washington DC 3/10

    Chicago 8/10

     

    Mexico

    Mexico City 6/10

     

    Brazil

    Rio De Janeiro 9.5/10

    Paraty 8/10

    Iguassu Waterfall 11/10

     

    Argentina

    Buenos Aires 9/10

     

    New Zealand

    Auckland 4/10

    Wellington 6/10

    Queenstown 8.5/10

    Christchurch 4/10

     

    Australia

    Melbourne 9/10

    Sydney 10/10

    Byron Bay 6/10

    Surfers Paradise 2/10

    Brisbane 3/10

    Cairns 5/10

     

    Thailand

    Bangkok 5/10

    Koh Samui 6/10

    Koh Phangang 4/10

     

    Vietnam

    Hanoi 8/10

    Ha Long Bay 7/10

     

    Cambodia

    Siem Reap 7/10

    Phnomh Penh 6/10

     

    China

    Hong Kong 8/10

    Beijing 8/10

    Shanghai 5/10

     

    Fucking loved it, already planning on doing an even more epic trip in 18 months time. Will spend a year in Sydney and hopefully a year teaching English in some part of south east Asia. (Hong Kong preferably). Will definitely be going to Vancouver, Machu Pichu, back to Brazil and back to Argentina.

     

    That said I haven't really been to that many places in Europe. Budapest and Ljubljana where both cool although probably not close enough to get to by coach. I would just get some Ryan Air tickets though and spend a long weekend in central Europe rather than going to France by the coach or something.

     

    I am also going to California/Arizona/Nevada for Christmas & New Year which I cannot wait for.

  21. Posted

    The regime is, by all accounts including my Uncle's brief interpretation there, evil. However, I appreciate the huge sacrifice the regular people there make, either through choice or not, against economic globalisation. I am convinced, in reality the average life there is no harder than that of a low-skilled worker in China, if very, very different in our understanding.

     

    While I'm sure life in as a factory worker in China is not great that is just utter tosh. Check out the book I linked to on the first page please.

     

    China haven't managed to kill 3 million of their own people (since Chairman Mao's time at least) through a disastrous food policy. While Chinas human rights record is not exactly great it is far far better than North Korea's. The main problem of course being that Juche doesn't work and has not since the fall of the USSR.

     

    They don't produce enough food to feed everybody

     

    "In 2006, Amnesty International reported that a national nutrition survey conducted by the North Korean government, the World Food Programme, and UNICEF found that 7% of children were severely malnourished; 37% were chronically malnourished; 23.4% were underweight; and one in three mothers was malnourished and anaemic as the result of the lingering effect of the famine. The inflation caused by some of the 2002 economic reforms, including the Songun or "Military-first" policy, was cited for creating the increased price of basic foods"

     

    Peoples accounts of the lack of food in that book are horrifying, so people resort to having their own private vegetable plots, which they sell excess food on the black market which the North Korean government claim does not exist, but allow to continue because they know they cannot feed the population.

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    Game hates me, 1st race in Bahrain I was 14th, in the lotus, then got a penalty for dangerous driving because Sutil drove into the side of me, when I had nowhere to move. Next race in Australia (In the rain) I was 13th then got a puncture which sent me across the gravel on the next corner. Made it back to the pits came out in 22nd got half way round the lap and got another puncture. Threw myself into the wall in disgust so I retired :mad:

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