jayseven

I'd need to watch NOTLD again, but iirc the zombies in that are literally the rising dead, so there is no infection whatsoever, just dead people rising again. Referring to zombi/zombie island, I think the cause is voodoo rather than infection, as if one spell is affecting a certain area where any dead bodies there will rise again -- kinda made clear when those conquisitadors, practically skeletons, get up and roam around. The idea in many early zombie movies was to try and suggest, rather straight-forwardly, that the whatever-stage of the apocalypse had begun. Subsequent films, particularly in the last decade or two, prey off of the growing human fear of contracting disease, for example since the BSE scare and subsequent foot n' mouth, pig, bird, etc flu stuff. I guess there's just less acceptable magic in movies these days!

Yeah! I have a gander at open recycling boxes to tut and scoff at what people are consuming. Twelve take-away pizza boxes?! All-day Breakfast in a tin?! HA What sort of scum lives he--- ooh look there's some left *scrape scrape scrape*

I'd be up for leaving it 'til monday too... as I'm going to wales from tomorrow 'til monday eve to see some relatives!

Sheikah I believe we must've had 4 posts between us in a row where the other person edits their own reply before we noticed! Such is teh quiz frenzy!

I don't think I've ever invested my money, in any way, shape or form, ever. I once had a savings account when I was a kid that, after like 13 years, peaked at around £120, which I used to buy a bike for my paper-round which, after a year, and with selling my n64 (20 games) and game boy (35 games, camera, etc), I could afford a TV and a gamecube! Then I got a job at woolworths, 9 hours a week, which paid for my train tickets to go to leeds to see my girlfriend, as well as the weed and alcohol! Then the uni years which were such a waste. I hate myself. THANKS! *ciders-up*

Do you still have a room in grimsby? Some sort of shrine of Teenage Shorty? I've got one main shoebox that hasn't got much in. I've been pretty ruthless with a lot of stuff from pre-uni, but having said that I have a lot of shite from uni that needs a proper think. BTW I can't find my lucky duck!! Lawl :P Well I'm moving to my dad's next week, and his wife does it a lot (she sells truly godawful shite that nobody buys), so a car boot is going to happen... Lots of pepsi max shall be consumed! Plus I'm pretty sure I'd just roam around and buy even more shite. I'll follow the general advice and keep an eye on a few of the bids, and I'll get a few auctions up in a week's time. Cheers for the input, guys

I hate the adjective 'old'. It's too vague for me! I pretty much exist 6 months behind everyone else when it comes to books/films/games, and by the time I'm going on about how much I love a game I've just started playing, everyone else is already "shit be old, jigga". I'm not one to assume that everything old is, by default, not as good as anything can be. I instead have good faith in my belief that the past holds a great wealth of Stuff Which/That I'd Find Great. I prefer to use the word 'mature'.

Brainddead, that was! Didn't you fall asleep watching it? Yeah we must've gone over the zombie plan for our flat - we had a hidden entrance, but 3 doorways to get to our place, with two flights of metal stairs that could be removed, then it'd be a precarious climb onto our roof (easier if we attempted from an upstairs flat, I assume), then hunting around the neighbouring houses, with the ultimate plan of hooking up a zip-line to costcutters over the road :P After watching Threads I even began picturing how we'd've survived a nuke. It wasn't pretty. In both nuke and zombie scenario you can't rely on good water, particular the former, so as soon as zombies hit it's a case of trying to find as many water containers to stock up on.

Fuck it for now, the anagram one is making me doubt my sanity; 42. Uber leets; piro roadkill, tendo, apple ndib, phantasmagoria/gamecubegod/zatoichi/Fred/amillionandoneothernames, zeikfried, largo (rob), jordan, athriller. OFFHEAD! Murray; if you move the queen first then white can simply move pawn to g3. editagainofRAGE: ... and I just solved teh anagram... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Correct moves, but wrong order! Moving the bishop first means that white would be free to take black's queen! Moving the queen forces white to move out of check edit: lol editing frenzy :P OVERRIDDEN BY NINJAS!

EEVIL; the round's been opened up again - you have the correct solution! Just out of interest, what would you do if white did the other available move they have; rather than responding by moving the king out of check, white takes the knight with the pawn. I know shorty's gamerscore (as of an hour ago :P) but I wanna try and do the anagram. It's fhard.

Nolan; that's incorrect, I'm afraid! Not just looking for a check, but the move that will lead to black winning the game, beyond doubt, with an eventual checkmate by forcing white's moves. if 1 ... ne2, then 2. Qxe2, which'd leave black fuxxord

I have both l4ds, am I right in assuming, then, that the DLC will be separate for both versions of the game -- so if I want all the achievements I'll have to buy it twice? Sadface...

Yeah, I know I was always a bit of a hoarder, but last year some of my stuff didn't leave the boxes from when I moved out of the flat, and this year there's even more in boxes. I live out of a suitcase. My mum's place is just ridiculously overcrowded with shit she doesn't need -- she has dozens of VHS, old GCSE text books, massive hardback Joanna Trollope 'novels'. I bought her a laptop to free up the PC space, transferred everything off of the computer and onto the laptop and now she's refusing to get rid of teh PC, not even box it up, which would free up enough room in the lounge to move the bookcase in from the corridor (which is about as wide as ours was, Shorty). The hardest stuff to throw away are those 'memory' things. I've got shitty little medals/trophies from when I played football, love-letters from my teenage years... I'm never going to have them on display, I just can't get rid of 'em.

Good luck with it all Sheikah! I was looking at moving into flat/houseshares with mates recently, and found that unfurnished places could be up to £100 cheaper a month for me. A quick ask-around of friends and family threw up a great smorgasboard of furiture that would've given the place a really eclectic feel - a rundown old sofabed, a z-bed, knackered computer desks, planks of wood (I was intending to make my own ramshackle furniture out of them...), garden furniture as dining equipment, an old fridge (no freezer compartment)... essentially I'd've had to start from the very bottom and work towards things like washing machines and real beds... Instead I've decided to put off getting my own place 'til I get a job :P I can't imagine how much getting all that furniture sorted out would cost, especially with a girlfriend raising the acceptible standards a little!

Oh yeah I got my n64 and GC stuff too but that's in another box in another room :P I've only got like 6 n64 games, i know i have vigilante 8 second offence and blast corps but I can't remember the rest... I figured I'd probably not get much for anything at a car-boot, but if I can sell half of my stuff for 50p/£1 each then I can maybe make a tenner and just free up a lot of space. I'm probably just going to throw away the master system and playstation. IIRC neither console fully works anymore, anyway.

I don't understand the 1 + 1 one ending at 0... I'm sure there's something sneaky involved, what is it?

RE: Routh/routh (lol): think of how we pronounce route differently in uk/us. Someone with routh as a surname in the UK is likely to pronounce it as if it rhymes with booth... but seeing as it's his name, going by how he pronounces is makes sense!

I'm sorting some shit out, and so far I've come across a PSX with a bunch of games (including an NTSC Chrono Cross, which must surely be worth a few quid?), a master system II with games, my old n64/ngc mags with loads of the free gifts (game guides, cards, fridge magnets, etc), and of course a crapload of books. I've never really used eBay, so I don't really know what's worth selling on there - maybe Chrono Cross, but it's hard to see whether it's worth it, seeing as there's a fatory-sealed one going for £15 (with 3 days left of bidding), a UK one going for £2 but with 5 days left of bidding and a jap one going for £16 but with 26 (!!!) days left of the bid. Similarly, the magazines are all up for like 99p + £1.75 p&p, mostly with no bids except the odd one here-or-there. There doesn't really seem to be much demand... so am i better off just going to the car boot and saying 50p a mag? I don't really know why I'm asking. Really I'm hoping someone'll know about Chrono Cross...

In brighton there's quite a focus on recycling, with 'black box' schemes having been run here for over 5 years. You simply put glass, paper, plastic, metal stuff into a black box and the company does its rounds once a week and sorts it as it goes. They slowly suggested people separate their material into separate bags, but now they have said not to use plastic bags anymore as it took too long per house to rip into each bag and empty the contents into the appropriate part of their truck, so it's back to everything-in-one-box, only now everyone has a separate box for glass, and they do the sorting later on rather than on-the-round. In sheffield I've always tried to have a focus on recycling... in halls there was a bin outside for metal so we saved that. In our flat we had a recycling cupboard that, once full, we'd gather and take down to a recycling point down the road. In my house, I was teh only one who had any interest in recycling at all. I'd often fish out cans/glass from the bin and put them in a recycling cupboard. There as a recycling point practically over the road so I did my damn bit and then some. We had a blue bin outside our house which was for paper/card only, a green one for waste and a black one for garden waste. Just as I was leaving sheffield I believe they were introducing a new scheme... LONG BORING. Could've thread-ripped.

I tend to, once every couple of months, go mad and buy loads of xbox games. I must have a dozen that I've barely played and yet there's loads I still wanna get! Currently I've been squandering money, slowly but surely, because I've not had to pay rent for two months and instead I've given myself a fairly large budget to fuck about with. Living at home sucks, I get no food provided so I buy it all myself and my cooking stuff is still in boxes so I can't cook from scratch so I just buy expensive stuff. I like to go into charity shops and buy loads of books!

16 increases, only 9 visible. kinda dissapointed after what I presumed was a good season for concentrating on dev. value, to find my two youth midfielders, who finished on 12 and 13 dev. value, didn't get a visible rise. While my defense if fairly rounded, I may need to buy a defender and a reserve keeper (dev. value of 13 and he visibly went down a skill...) My forwards are, as always, pretty shite. I guess next season I'll try somehow to do better than this one dev-wise. I think I may see a good knock-on effect from this season, and I'll aim for a double-jump for some of the higher dev-valued guys from the end of this season for the end of next. My team is definitely stronger now, but hearing everyone else's change reports, not strong enough. My prediction for season 15 will be a battle for survival, once more! I might buy myself VIP too... Looking at the strength of teams alone, I'd say that next season we'll see fish, me, Eights and maybe ReZ fighting for survival, with fish favourites to go straight back down...

People! Read the rules - answer one question unless told otherwise. I've edited a couple of posts that attempted moar. Maddog; rules state that you cannot guess again 'til you've been told that you are wrong by the quizmaster.

lolfail maddog :P

I edited the OP because it was black's move, not white's (my fault). After quickly answering (no idea why I felt the need, with so many questions :P) I scrolled down and saw how many I could've answered. I hope we get the questions re-opened a few times just so that people attempt some of teh tricky but oh-so good questions. I fancied myself for that three-pointer!