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Ultimately, Doritos cannot be beaten by any other tortilla chip out there. Their dips are pretty solid too. Coleman's Mustard, Hellman's Mayonnaise and Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce claim strong holds on the condiments tehy represent, but Heinz... I think I just have a thing against them and their unwavering, unquestioning consumer base. Scrumpy Jack is the most efficient cider out there. Sailor Jerry's is the best rum by miiiles. Golden Virginia is the best tobacco, but only in the sense that it is clearly made with chemicals that prevent you from ever liking the taste of other tobacco ever again, rather than actually tasting better. Bombay Sapphire is winnar in the Gintest. Clipper make the best 'disposable' lighters, that last the longest and are the most durable and wind-resistant. That's all I can think of for now. As opposed to all this FAKE TIME flying around these days. Tsk!

No, LazyBoy's definitely not the builder! I know who is, but there's no point naming and framing!

I motion that Maase's self-votes be discounted :P The 2008 Edition Ultimate Member of the Year If ReZ had gotten round to starting that cool game thing months ago, maybe it'd be him :P As it stands, I'm going to vote for The Bard, as he is pretty ultimate when he wants to be. Thread Starter of the Year King_V, for his virginity and his paranoia. Thread of the Year The User Image Gallery and the every-changing 'themes'. Most excellent. Staff Member of the Year Don't have a clue as I never visit the main site :P Moderator of the Year Can't exclude, to be honest. Admin of the Year Shorty and Ashley both; they put a lot of effort into this place. Most Helpful Member Of The Year The Fish Most Respected Member Aimless and Supergrunch and and Odwin and killthenet and tapedeck and someone else. Yeah just pretend I didn't vote, can't choose. Too much respect in here! Best Newcomer of 2008 See, this is why you don't join teh forum at the beginning of the year, nightwolf - How can I not put my vote in for nami?! Most Knowledgeable Member of 2008 Supergrunch Funniest Member 2008 Mr_Odwin Most Negative Member of 2008 Rokhed00 Spammer of the Year Maase The Credit Crunch Disaster Award - Who Would You Trust Least With Your Money? Domstercool. Seriously. You seen how much stuff the guy buys?! Most Missed Member of the Year Bowser57 Best Return of the Year Jamba User With The Best Sigs Of The Year Shorty User With The Best Avatars Of The Year Pfft to avatars. Nobody cares. Forum Couple of the Year Well honestly, Jordan and Letty are King and Queen of the Prom, aren't they? And Paj, Chair and Haggis are more of a trio... If You Were Stuck In A Lift With An N-Eer...Who Would It Be... Shorty. We'd beat-box the night away. The Taciturn Award (Doesn't post often, but when they do it's worth waiting for) I would normally vote for Aimless, but I think he's going to win anyway so I'd like to give my vote to Rummy, who is a sound guy and really ought to post more. And perhaps double-space his paragraphs. The User Who Spends Most Of His/Her Entire Life On Here Dyson. But he won't admit it. Best Forum Moment of 2008 Am I allowed to say the N-E meet ups? They were surreal. If not, then I'll say... The instigation of this very playground, a pretty seminal moment. Best N-Europe Playground Game What, besides mine? :P Definitely The Mafia threads. The N-Europe 2008 Award For Personality Of The Year Not sure how this is different to member of the year... I'll throw my vote at Dan Dare, who I can actually say is a real life mate now Best User Ever Mr_Odwin. Never a wasted word. The N-Europe 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Platty, for being one of few to still stick around after all these years. ftb: Best Wii/Ds Game of the Year no idea. Best Non-Nintendo-Console Game of the Year Hard to say! Fallout 3 is shaping up nicely but I've barely started it. Gears 2 has provided much love but I need much more... I suppose Rockband (came out this year over here, amirite?) is the reason I have so many friends right now :P Worst Game of the Year (most dissapointing?) Mirror's edge. Not a bad game, but definitely missed the mark. Best Film of the Year Hard to remember what came out this year, really. I guess the only film I can remember seeing at the cinema was The Dark Knight, so why the heck not, eh? Best Album of the Year Drawing more blanks here. Best TV Show of the Year The Wire was 2006, right? Damn. I'll go for this year's Supernatural. Shame on you, Heroes. Propz be with Lost and Smallville.The Wire. Best Company of the Year

Ok well it's the 13th today! I have a list from a whopping seven people. But! Rummy, Dan, nami, Welsh_Gamer, dyson, eenuh, coolness bears, shadow v7, gary greatie and Mundi are all utterly failing at being 'in' so far. All you gotta do once you say "I'm in!" is spend two minutes thinking about it then PMing me! Doesn't take days, you know.

You can get all the hugs you need right here, baby Shit, these guys aren't worrying enough for me to break out the whines!

Beat dom 5-0 3rd place looks fairly solid. Three games left, against Tellyn, Molly and... whoever has Gremlin football club! Assuming I lose to tellyn and beat the other two, I'll end on 34pts. I doubt Tellyn will lose his other two games though, so I won't leapfrog him, and Cube's got a game in hand with all 4 games against the bottom 4 so he's pretty set to win the league. Dom can end on 35pts if he beats tellyn and wins all his games... I think the standings pretty much all depend on Tellyn's games to decide the top 4 spots!

... then why did you give it back? :P I'll get it back to you - you have to finish it.

London N-E Meet! Hyde Park! Hungover! On 2nd can of the day! Then BAM! suddenly we've all got the codec as our ringtones. Awesome. I have my phone on silent. My old phone had a recording of the wind blowing through a door in an amusing fashion. As for your problem, I have no help for you.

Very true, sorry for doubting you Flinky - if you do go then let me know - we can be train buddies :P

No train passes through king's cross from brighton, and St. Pancras deals with trains from the north and trains from europe, so that doesn't... work. My route works :P Unless I misunderstood! In that case, I'll see you and wossisface then

But still you'll submit your suggestions? No? Why not? Not like the website won't be here in a few month's time, of course we're still adding to the list

Had a frustrating session earlier, constantly running out of ammo and health thingums and having to resort to ridiculous, running-backwards-while-shooting tactics. Got the guts to take on that supermarket place and pwned it up rather well - still struggling for health item thingums, but have started to utilise the beds more. My struggle stemmed from the moment my combat shotgun broke! I love my shotgun and its close-range headshots. I hate how innacurate/weak the weapons are at longer ranges, but I guess that's because I didn't choose the right stat-choice-things at any point. Would you guys say there's replayability? I noticed in order to get all achievements you probably have to play the game three times. I'm thinking it'll be fairly hard to be neutral, non?

22nd eh? Well I'm due to be back in brighton on the 21st, so I could make it for the next day. Depends on how long it'd take to get there/back and what we'd be doing to make it worthwhile... Whereabouts in England will you be hitting up? Just checked fares and times and stuff -- if I got there at 1pm and left at, say, 10pm, it'd cost me roughly £20-£25 and take 2 hours each way (to st albans, that is). Gimme a time and a promise that someone'll grab me from the station, then I'm all-but-there.

Another 'keep it!' vote from me :P

WOKE UP AT 21:30! FFS :P Going to find out/do the whole juggling-in-front-of-cameras thing tomorrow at 9:30am. It's going to be interesting to see whether I just stay up all night and do it knackered, or if I actually get any sleep at all. At the moment all i know is me and two juggling mates will be pretending to juggle someplace, then some person with a camera crew will "randomly" select us to talk to, and will ask us to juggle some food. So then we juggle some food, and the food easiest to juggle with, they then cook for us. At the moment they don't have anywhere to cook, and it's been clear that my juggling president wants to do it at my flat... So maybe I'll change my mind and have them come over to mine, for shits and giggles.

Whenever you feel the need, just remember the video tapes that need returning, aight?

You said you shouldn't read it unless you're a tween girl, while he's saying you basically shouldn't read it unless you're a retard.

I just saw the Law and Order:Johannesburg episode. The main point I took from the episode was; law and order is not something you can force upon a community, they have to agree to it. The city he portrayed was rife with 'vigilante' groups trying to quell crime by, in effect, beating it out of the criminals. I think Louis was focusing too much on the policing element, trying to make criminals out of the enforcers rather than focusing on teh problems of the community structure, of what the individuals, be it culturally moulded, believe justice actually is. As a westerner, our views of justice are firm and ingrained. We fear arrest, we fear imprisonment, yet these shantytown lawbreakers don't react to beatings and burnings as we would - they are not deterrred by the 'stick' method because they do not fear the police as we do. With Theroux I always find the most important thing as a viewer is to try and understand the mindset of the study, and with this episode I generally found that the inhabitants were largely just unfortunate - the shanty dwellers believed in this 'community' that was being policed externally, but a vital essence of community is surely in having an agreed leader who is respected, who can carry out justice effectively due to having the faith from the rest of the community in his decision to uphold equality and fairness. It also makes me, even more than usual, look at capitalism with a glum eye. Why are these people so eager to move from remote villages to settle outside Johannesburg and live in such dangerous squalour? Why, because of the promise of prosperity and wealth! The desire to join in the rich race and afford a life of pleasure - or at least, this is what the previous generations that originally imported themselves to the capital must have thought. Truthfully, has such mentality actually reaped any reward for any of them? Are they any better off than they would've been in a smaller tribal (and I don't mean that in a rain-dance, voodoo-doctor way) setting where there is trust and unity? The show just made me wonder just how long, exactly, was it that the ancient greeks went around as barbarians (lol, etymological hiccup) before their great philosophisers arose and demanded morality and order? Is a paradigm shift in social mentality something you can move into, or be born into, or does it have to occur in your lifetime? tl;dr? ur mum.

I don't know what sort of parties you normally go to, but mine are always massively confusing and full of fruitless debates... Yeah... Glad people are gathering their senses and getting another day out of the way. We should be glad that the identities of the protectors aren't out yet - so long as they're protected we don't need to freak out about the mafia too much.

^that was my guess. bet it wins.

Sure thing grunchie, I'll throw it in

Cheers dude - I'll just do that. Annoying thing was I had lugged myself around the wastelands collecting all sorts of tripe and just generally exploring, not caring that I'd lugged myself down massively. I had intended to head to Gob to get a good price on stuff, and i was very hesitent to drop all the stuff I'd gathered in order to get away. Didn't know what to expect with teh game to begin with, and was freaked out by the size of the map when I got out of the vault... but exploring a little made me realise that I should just take it eeasy. Looking forward to playing more!

Ugh! Heyulp! I 'accidentally' broke into the weapons trader place in Megaton (just started the game) and now the whole town is after me. Is there any way I can, like, get them to chill the fuck out?

^what he said. Much more fun that way, and stops people from potentially jumping the gun. Edit your post when they're sent plz

Voting for someone based on a lack of activity is waaay worse than voting for someone based on potentially dodgy information. My vote stands, I don't think we're going to uncover anything new today.