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Oh lawks, another one..

Oh-oh-oh RUN WITH US. Lisa Lougheed - she was about 17 when she recorded that song and others for the soundtrack. She released two critically acclaimed solo albums then disappeared. Shame, because she had such a fantastic and distinctive voice.

Jesus, Danny... Get help.

Ah, at last! A confession! Let this day be remembered as the the day Danny finally admitted the Matrix sequels were bollocks.

*snickersnickerhnorfhnorfBLORT!* Vagina beats tea! Penis beats vagina! Tea beats penis!

Grabsolutely. My two fabourites from Sylvester McCoy were The Chains of Fenric and Remembrance of the Daleks. Two series that showed a much darker and more complicated side to the doctor.

It's so strange, everyone talks about Dr Who these days as if the whole thing began with Chrisopher Ecclestone. The original series were incredibly arc-heavy and the true mysteries were not revealed until a few episodes into the run. To tell the truth, I actually enjoyed that more than these self-contained little things.

Sincerest condolences Ganepark. In many ways, the peaceful way is the best. Grandma Iun has Parkinson's, and when I went back to the UK this Summer she was just a skeleton, can barely walk, memory is going... It's just awful. I feel it will be worse for my granda who is 80 and is there watching her slip away.

Sorry, I thought you were going to be talking about our beloved Cube's female equivalent here. My mistake.

I am, just not about this. It's a lengthy treatise on the importance of needle widths in early-model Victrolas.

I feel you, man, I feel you. I travelled halfway across the world to be with a girl I was in love with. When I got there, I realised she was just getting off with the attention, the emotions, the love, the self-sacrifice... It just didn't appeal to her as much as having this guy who was crazy about, but at arms length. Days into my stay, I found that there were four or five other guys in the same position. And she was LOVING it.

Yeah, I'll go with the "this sucks" line. It seems a massive reversal of gender roles that the man is pursuing the relationship, but when you want something,its hard to shake that feeling. However, if she's not willing to commit and she's just happy with casual sex...that says something about her character that needs to be considered. It's hard to break away from those overpowering feelings you're having, but try and look objectively for a moment. I've been there, and with hindsight, I wish I had not wasted so much time. You want to give them the world, but they want the twat their mate lives with who never shaves, bathes or cuts his toenails. It hurts.

er, I think we agreed in another thread that use of the un-word "jokes" was to be punished with immediate acid testicle bath?

That makes no sense - for your passport you have to have certified and stamped change of name deeds. I mean, Christ, anyone could just write to the paper and say "John Peterson wishes to be known as Crepuscular P.N.S. Erection". And frankly, there is FIFTY POUNDS for anyone who does that, with proof. And doesn't change it for two years. And it's legal.

Ah, just what I needed at the start of the new term... Especially as I know I'm about to be ignored by hundreds of parents at the school. Me: Good morning! Them: *Blank, angry-looking stare that not only implies that I should go and make love to a lamp-post, but that my family and descendants for five generations will be cursed for having the audacity to speak to them*

Checking it now... Edit: limited amount of joy to be honest. Most seem to be long scale, and with the bridge setup, long scale tend to be looser. Though any advice would be welcome in that vein...

Problem: I have a short scale Ibanez 5-tring bass that I am going absolutely nuts trying to find strings for - anyone have any good shops online? China doesn't seem to "do" 5-string or short scale and my search so far on US sites isn't turning up much. I have a gig coming up in a few weeks and this is getting my goat. Tanks in advance!

Oh, I've told her. But really it's a control issue. She's apologized and said she would listen to me "but not all the time"

Madame doesn't know too much about the history, mainly because I have a fairly big psychological lock on it - I can't remember so much of it myself. Thanks for the man hugs, i have a few Wine Gums, and I would have had more had Madame not disappeared for 45 minutes at Heathrow jus before our flight, leaving me no time to buy more and actually nearly missing the flight. Sigh.

My thoughts exactly, but still. Shouldnt have lost it the way I did, I regret that I shouted at her. She's angry at me for scaring her, but I truly feel she needed it.

High arches are damn sexy, sorry that they're a pain as well. Major, major, major bust up with Mrs Iun. We were having a nice dinner, few glasses of wine, good chat, watching some silly thing on TV. She then suggest we go for a walk - great, I need to walk off the wine and it's a nice evening. Turns out her idea of a walk is "drive to the supermarket and get some vegetables" which isn't very walk-like in this humble weasels opinion. Anyway, she'd sunk a glass and a half of wine and I point blank refused to get in the car "come on, we can walk somewhere closer" I said. "No! It's too expensive, I'm fine! Get in the car." "how about i pay for a taxi, I don't mind." "No I'm driving stop making such a fuss, I feel fine." Continued politely for a while, then she edges towards the car and I just sit down on the steps. She gets in, pulls up next to me. "are you coming?" I tried to get the keys out of the ignition but she's having none of it. I get out and she drives off. When she comes back, she rings the bell, I come down to pick up the bags and she totally ignores me. I start off trying to be polite and explain the number Of crashes my mother had (she was an alcoholic) and she carries on ignoring me. Eventually she makes a silly remark and I completely lose it: start telling her she's a stubborn, spoilt child and needs to consider the danger she is putting herself in and other people as well. Again, she tells me she felt fine and that she doesn't have to listen to me... ...then I ripped a picture off the wall, threw it at the door (well away from her) threw a wooden pot pourri dish at the same door... I'm pretty ashamed writing this, but at the time it brough back all the horrible memories of the school run with my mum...she was tanked up at 8 o'clock in the morning sometimes and it scared the hell out of me. I was pretty insulting to her, kept calling her a stubborn, selfish child. She keeps telling me she doesn't have to listen to me and that she was fine. S I said "if you don't listen to your husband, go and find someone who is happy with that situation. Get out of the house and go live with your parents." I picked up her stuff and started throwing it in a suitcase, she does the same to me. Eventually things calm down a little bit, but I the end up locking myself in the toilet as a...wave of repressed memory completely overwhelms my mind. All the shit my mother did during those final years of her life...her stupid stubbornness, her selfish arrogance...it just set me off something terrible, and here was my wife doing pretty much the same. Sure, she hasnt anything like the background and this is the first time, but this stubborn stupidity was so like my mother I couldn't handle it. I burst into hysterical crying as I remembered the pain, the horror of that part of my life. And all she could do was say "you're a man, you should be stronger" I never in my life needed a hug more than then. But she couldn't give it to me as she was so angry and scared at my shouting at her. I shouldn't have lost my temper the way I did. However, I asked her later: why don't you listen to me "I'm strong" she said, "I know myself better than you know me, so why should I listen to other people? I listen to myself. If you want me to listen to you, then don't shout at me" I didn.t know what to say... I had been polite, firm and reasonable and she didn't pay any attention my concerns. then when I lost it (which I regret) she didn't listen either, just focused on the shouting. We've...sort of made up now, but I really feel exasperated: this pig-headedness is just insane. She was drunk, very obviously drunk. Her face was right red and she was giggling, but still she insisted. And now....somehow it's my fault. Perhaps I shouldn't have shouted at her when she got back, maybe I was wrong, but I only cared aout her safety. Was I wrong?

That sounds like an amalgam of Rocky II and the last fight had in 2007 - except I didn't swap stances, I just hammered the little guy in the face, he went flying with a cut under the right eye and stopped the fight. Pretty little thing had never really been hit before. I play bass right handed however: the ol' brain box performs a double somersault when I pick up a guitar left-handed.

I hear you on that. I tried playing Halo 3 here... It's Chinese spoken dialogue but with English Subtitles. And even then, the sub titles are cut-scene only. So I end up missing about two-thirds of the story. Eventually I just stopped playing. Back to left handedness: I was born a leftie but my teacher made me sit on my left hand and write with my right. The consequence is that my writing is incomprehensible with either hand and I'm pretty much cack-handed with everything. Except boxing. I'm a DAMN FINE southpaw. And someone mentioned about inverted look? Since Lylat Wars I have to invert every control scheme, it just seems to make more sense. Except for Resident Evil 5. Inverting the look doesn't help at all. In fact, that game is just shit, really. That must have been like a bad dream.

Now I do, yes. But this was 2008 - before I married her. The crazy ex was before the slightly less crazy, but can't be trusted with more than 10p in her wallet wife.