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You're right Nightie - equality goes across all things: you want same pay, same rights, same respect then you can absolutely have them. But you have same working hours, same shit given to you and same expectations. One thing that used to bother my old boss and is a big problem for my current school is maternity leave: I'm not precisely sure what the laws are, but the lady with the baby gets a fair amount of time off, paid, and then she can expect to come back to her job after. A man gets what, two weeks? And generally is looked down upon for taking that. At my school here, six teachers out of twenty are pregnant. They will all take a minimum of three months off, which are paid by the school. We then have to get replacements in for the duration. I guess you either have to acknowledge that women are physically different and say "ok, have the job, but your salary will be lower because one day you're going to disappear with a baby" or say "same pay, but if you get pregant I expect you back within a week." I've never struck a woman in anger, and I'm not sure I would. But I'm certain that if a lady attacked me that I would do what's necessary to defend myself.

My Wii is Japanese, but an update I got about 2 years ago rendered all the menus in English - it wasn't too hard trying to figure out the "yes/no" options anyway, but it was nice to get everything else in English as well. All the copied games are in English as well. My 360 came from HK so English was standard. If I buy a Wii U, it'll be just Nintendoland and ZombiiU for started.

Yeah, Christmas is still a thing for me. The most important thing is stuffing myself silly, the presents are secondary to that. However, don't confuse presents and stuffing me silly - a present that I can stuff myself silly with is not a present, it's a cop out and and you know it. I'll be getting my sister Just Dance 4 for her present. She's 11.

YOU SIR! Appear to be in Taiwan. What are the prices like there? To be honest, I'm not sure if I can be bothered with getting two, it's a lot of expense and hassle. Also, the shop where I buy the stuff is only nice to me when the lady is there. The man hates me. Because I personally burned down the Summer Palace.* *Actually, certain members of the British Army over 150 years ago burned the Summer Palace. But the Chinese are not a nation to ever let fact get in the way of blaming people for everything. Interestingly enough, they never mention the 20+ million who were starved to death through the incompetence of the Party in the early 50s.

I'm unsure what to do... On the one hand, virtually everything is chipped here in China, which means you can't play online, but the games cost 50p. On the other hand, I want to play online, but I've no intention of paying $59 for a retail game through the post, or the inflated price it will be here on Taobao.

All I can remember of the second film is that there was a ship. The third film I saw in a grubby Sofitel in Paris at the end of a weekend break in EuroDisney. The main feature was, if I recall some hippy guy who was sent to protect Sam Neill.

I am amazed that you can remember that. I would like to give you money as a reward.

"bamf" was the sound effect for Nightcrawler every time he teleported, but obviously he means "Big-Assed-Mewling-Quim". But put an "F" in place of the "Q", which was silly.

Stupid bastard doctor bastard didn't give me anything to stupid bastard help me sleep. Bastard. To top it off, the domestic helper we have here just lock me out of the house. I called out to her very loudly, but no answer. I remember she told my wife her ex-husband had been giving her trouble and threatening her. So there I was imagining all sorts of things happening to this poor lady in my house... ...so now we need a new door. STUPID COW LOCKED IT BY MISTAKE AND THEN PUT HER HEADPHONES ON IN THE KITCHEN.

I just want Timesplitters 4, that's all. Please. I beg you. If it's good I'll buy two copies.

Male voice, a lot of synthesizer but otherwise a fairly MOR sound.

It isn't search and destroy, I've googled and bing'd this one to death and I just can't seem to find it. I'm hoping someone has heard it but no-one has posted the lyrics on the 'net just yet.

PM me with your email and we'll get the all rolling!

Why sir, Elrond's Shoe and BattleAxe Emporium is the place for you! Browse our many fine mail shirts while your wife haggles on price over a pair of luxury Orcskin pumps. Dine in our coffee shop and enjoy complimentary parking for your horse!* *Mounts larger than a horse accommodated by agreement of management only. Nazghul please call ahead to ensure space.

...see, the thing is: I'm useless at drawing. I can picture it in my mind, but my ridiculously useless hands will simply not obey. What I need is for someone to create the comic based on my script and ideas. I could even scan a loose-leaf version of my penciled-in ideas and send it to you. The idea is to create a regular, funny and satirical set of true-to-life comics. Think a cross between the Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half and Cyanide and Happiness. * Any takers? Let's see if we can do the artwork first, PM me for my first few script ideas. *NB: In the extremememememely unlikely event of this shit making any money, I would consider a 50/50 split on costs and profits to be the best way.

Welp, yours truly started off as an ESL teacher in this here kindergarten, and the discrimination from teachers here was overwhelming, one going so far as to say "You're a man, you should have a man's job, you can't be a kindergarten teacher." Another one I hear all the time since I've moved into management when I propose a male teacher for an international class "Men don't have what it takes to be caregivers and class teachers, they don't have the emotional strength." Hmm, I suppose in a society where displays of emotion by men are actively discouraged, then that must be true. "Women have it worse" is a fine argument, but if you want us to feel sorry for your travails, it's a bit shit of you to ignore ours.

Emotionally. "I am the only person who will ever truly love you." "No-one in your life will love you as much as I do" "You can never, ever know love like the love I have for you. Forget other people, they are just liars." Had that drummed in for about 14 years. A bit of an emotional cripple as a result.

My first two major relationships were long distance (the first became long distance after we both moved to separate Universities after six months) and both were eventually failures. Why? Well, in the first case it had more to do with the girl than the distance - we used to see each other every weekend. I would travel on the FUCKING NATIONAL EXPRESS every Friday night to Nottingham and then back to Reading on the Sunday, travel time around 9 hours depending on the buses. Nightmare. She was good to be with for the first year and a half, then she got kicked out of the University for failing the first year. She got into a pyramid scheme and then... just lost all sense. I broke up with her after 2 years together and she was devastated. Then I was devastated that I'd done it and tried to get her back. We eventually got back together two years later when we both moved to the same town again. That was a disaster. She was a bitch and I was looking for a decent job. Anyway, we kind of ... HAD to have the relationship as we never really got to have a proper ending the first time round - I was always convinced I had made a mistake. Turns out I was right to ditch her. The second one was with this Scottish lass I met in another forum. She was two years younger than me, we saw each other every two months. Great sex, but she was a mood swinger: she could go from 0 to UTTER COW in less time than it takes to blink. She was completely devoted to me the rest of the time, but those sudden changes were intolerable after a while. I'd still be willing to believe it can work, but the people have to be right.

Good question. What about adults with mental ages below the age of consent?

None of my business, but would you be willing to elaborate? My departed mother, whom I loved so dearly, left me with more than a few unresolved issues...

Can't see those Youtube vids, so sorry if I'm repeating anything you've already pointed out. Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws from Fish-era Marillion are two absolutely brilliant albums. Their first two albums are pretty good too, but the album tracks are a little ropey.

Overheard lyrics, the ban of my life. Not sure if there's a thread for this, but I'm a little desperate for help. I heard a song that starts like this: "Look up and let me see heaven from two stories down..." Then the refrain: "a million little pieces of my soul" Any help? Thanks much! Feel free to share your own overheard/misheard help me oh god please lyrics.

Good topic, but an absolute minefield. One thing I'm going to point out though: Esther Rantzen was for years one of the most feared people at the BBC, but never during Savile's heyday. If she wanted to out him as a Paedophile, she could have done so in the last 20 years or so without any trouble whatsoever, I find her excuses disingenuous.

Don't even go there. When my parents were divorcing, the Social Worker was one of those "mother knows best" types. My mother was an alcoholic, had beaten both me and my baby brother, had an affair and scratched my father's face to pieces... But still the courts and this lady believed I was making "the wrong choice" to stay with my father.

Minge! minge! minge! Happy birthday! Minge!