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Excellent. More than a match for "poor" Enterprise. In other news, it's not yet 3am and I've had 2 hours sleep between 10pm and midnight. It's been this way for almost a week now. I won't sleep again until tonight. For another two hours.

Woah, @dr4hkon that is just plain awful Would you be able to show any proof that the package has been tampered with beforehand?

Do it. DO IT, MAN.

If you REALLY want to dick them over, keep the best room for yourself, secretly get someone to take it off your hands and then suddenly move out.

Woah, woah, woah, Izzy sounds like she might have breasts. Fish, you need to explore using sex as a means of getting what you want. Or give her a cake full of razorblades. Or just give her a razorblade and tell her to go kill herself.

Happy birthday, I'd choose you, but... y'know. :shrug:

Whoops! Sorry I missed this! Haps!

Dangert Nintendaw! There b'ain't nuttin' to dew in thas Summar! Jes' a buch o' bug-catchin' fair-steev-als?

Aw, Christ on a stick, that's disgusting. At least let the guy get settled down before you start flashing your man-sacks at him...

It would be too stimulating, like having Star Wars sheets.

Alright let's turn up the heat: Who was your favourite villager in past iterations? Mine: Cookie. She had a fun personality and I loved the Ranch-themed house interior.

I feel for you, Moogs, I do. Couple of years ago, "we" decided to open up a bi-lingual section in the school. Long story short, the other two managers hired an American guy as homeroom teacher, a teacher who I had rejected a year previously due to his lack of teaching experience, ability and personality. I told them repeatedly that (a) hiring is MY job and (b) that this guy was going to be a disaster. Anyway, they decided to persevere with him getting worse and worse, more and more attitude-y and generally pissing everyone off, even to the point where his co-teacher resigned because she couldn't work with him. Oh, and he blackmailed the school into giving him a two-and-a-half hour lunch break. Eventually he goes completely off the rails, scares the shit out of the kids, screams at his co-teacher and threatened me. The school then throws it all into my lap because it's "Your responsibility". So I have to take the flak from the parents about this teacher, apologise for "the school" fucking up and generally be insulted by the other management. The lucky thing was, I saw this guy's meltdown coming a mile away, so the class was without a teacher for two days - I had hired his replacement three days before he went nuts. Did I get thanked? Did I get commended? Did I fuck. To this day I have not had any kind of apology, and now my contract negotiations are coming up. Guess who I'm going to fuck in the ass? YOU, YOU COCKS. Goodness, I've had a lot to drink tonight...

No I disagree. Our society is based on words as a foundation for communication, it's one of our hallmarks as a species. You burn the words someone else has written, then you are burning what they have said. All of us have at one time or another been censored/deleted on the internet, and only someone with mental problems does not even have the tiniest pang of indignation at that censorship or deletion. Those are my words. They are a record of my existence. Even "LOL" is relevant, no matter how sad that may seem - someone laughed at what you said. And that means you changed the world. Even in a tiny world. You were there. It happened. It's irrelevant whether you burn a copy: if only the original has any value, then only one copy of every book ever written should exist. Then of course book prices would skyrocket, or perhaps the market would be flooded with thousands of inferior books written by people to try and capitalise on the paucity of reading material. However, in an emergency, I suppose you'd have to burn a book. But start with religious texts first (the most worthless) and leave the dictionaries until last - those are the protoplasm of the written word.

I just watched the trailer, I wasn't interested before and I'm not interested now. This is going to get two seasons at best. I'd love to be proven wrong, but it just looks like mid-90's rubbish with fancy camera angles.

Calling it a "stem cell burger" makes it seem ultra unappealing, like the meat will be ... crunchy? However: Fowl Unfertilised Ovulations - Eggs Coagulated Bovine Plasma - Black Pudding hmm... there might (not) be a market for gross-out names of rather delicious dishes.

Sorry to hear about your injury,having worked with individuals with special needs, I know how dangerous it can be. Also, being injured sucks out loud. Two jobs?

But I thought... we were... and you said... but...but... I'm happy for you, but I just can't help thinking what might have been between you and I. (Congratulations, man, it's a tough job well done!)

Happy belated birthday!

I call every fortnight - always goes to BT answer or whatever it is, and email once a week, I get a reply on average once every six weeks. And so far this month I sent my dad five unanswered text messages.

He would need a licence to serve alcohol...

Good lord, isn't that the guy from The Blind Side?

Backpack: iPad, pen, spare cufflinks, hand cream, lip balm, glasses, baseball cap (for sunny days), LoZ Beanie (for rainy days), spare socks (rainy season in Shanghai can have water up to 12 inches in about 30 minutes and the downpours can be sudden), plastic shoe covers (again, lost too many shoes to rain), keys, umbrella and collapsible police baton. I've never had to use it, but there have been several cases of nationalistic Chinese going after foreigners for no good reason over the last twelve months. Pockets - phone, wallet, travel card for public transport and that's about it.

Yeah I get that. For me I just can't talk to dad about mum, doesn't help that they divorced before she died. And also...well what the hell, man? You begged me to stay with you when you guys divorced and then two years later were happy to cut me out of your life almost completely! That's such BULLSHIT. @ReZourceman You mention that Claire's family is nice, do you have a good relationship with them?

@JonSt I wish I could say the same - after mum died and my father remarried, it was as if my existence was a nuisance: I got one phone call a month at University (which completely dried up after the second semester of the second year), I was charged £200 a month rent during the Summer holidays (even though I didn't have a job) and since moving to China I have received an average of two phone calls a year - one on my birthday and usually one to confirm what is supposed to be happening at Christmas. Don't get me wrong, they're happy to see me at Christmas and always treat me nicely when I'm there, but in ever feel like anything other than the cuckoo in the nest. Out of sight, out of mind seems to be the motto.

Yeah, it's the Chinese only version. Contemptible crap. Also, once or twice throughout the movie, Dr Wu "calls" a Chinese associate of Tony to remind him to take care of his health... BECAUSE CHINA JUST LOVES HIM SO MUCH!