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Cheers Doc. Sounds like my kind of book. Another one in a similar vein that’s maybe worth checking out is Earth Abides about survivors of a global plague that wipes out 99.9% of the human race.
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
Your contacts said AvP2 would be an academy award winner.. for best film ever.. how wrong they were.. you get 0 english pounds from me!
Well I thought the lead alien put in a sterling performance in that film, on par with Dustin Hoffman’s performance in Rain Man. The academy awards rarely give awards to bio-mechanical killing machines though. Shame on them!
Remember Insane: “It’s better to give than to receive.” I will then pass on the money to my pub landlord and the circle will be complete.
Dear lord, what a little cutie? Best not let Mrs NeonSamurai see that picture or she’ll start going ‘all Tess’ on me.
However Vic, here’s a way that both Tess and yourself can have kids and still have the kind of life you want:
1) Have a baby or two.
2) Put them on a few flights on a rickety old cargo plane flying across Africa.
3) After the inevitable plane crash they’ll be brought up by apes, or lions, or elephants or something.
4) 18 years later they’ll turn up with special animal abilities and/or be called ‘King of the Animals’.
5) Use them to fight crime in the most dangerous jungle of them all: The urban jungle.
Although you might want to gently break these plans to Tess Vic, since my wife went nutzoid when I told her my ideas for our kids.
My contacts in the movie industry tell me that this film will be crap.
You heard it first here and remember that it was I that warned you.
My advice is invaluable, please give generously:
Hmmm…
No wonder I’ve never heard of a poor chemist.
Tis true though Munkee, those kinda drugs cost shed-loads, especially when you can get a couple of ‘E’s for a fiver. Cost me 240 for my trip to Kenya a couple of years back and during my time there nothing bit me and I didn’t drink the tap water, so I hardly got my money’s worth.
Insane, I’ll save you the trouble and predict the story for you now:
Perseus is a bumbling farmer who just can’t seem to meet the right woman, until he falls in love with the beautiful Andromeda, but unfortunately she’s supposed to marry the snooty but incredibly rich Calibos. The gods (played by Rosanne Barr and TV’s Bill McNortle) take pity on Perseus and decide to ‘help love along’. Giving him a magical sword and shield they set the young man a series of tests to show Andromeda just how much he loves her, with hilarious consequences! Proving that Clash of the Titans is one of the wackiest, most outrageous comedies of all time.
You have been warned.
@Turks wrote:
Perhaps all the redundant XDCers should start up their own company! I will be the tea bitch/CEO
The only thing I think us XDC’ers would be good at is some kind of cross between the ‘A Team’ and ‘Bugs’, what with us all having either an IT or military background. We could save old people’s homes from evil developers and then give them broadband and setup a VPN for them.
Pharty could be Hannibal.
sPUNKer could be Face Man.
One of the big blokes could be BA.
And the rest of us would be like Howling Mad Murdoch, only with probably more serious mental issues.
@Mad Max wrote:
Not greatly happy at the moment, what with a new manager above me grrr. 👿
I thought Pharty was you boss, or has he gone schizo from PTSD?
Cheers fellows. I’ll be back with OTT swearing and a short fuse for trivial matters soon enough, just need a few more ‘Dwayne Eddies’ to bring my PC into the 21st century and I’ll be back with the gaming.
Sadly I’ve promised 2142 to a friend of mine, but I’ll hopefully sort something out in the future. At least the pennies he’ll give me will pay some way towards a new GFX card. (It don’t work so well on an old 16mb TNT card!)
I’ve also got to get a new job since as Insane has pointed out, our new employers are a bunch of spazmos. However, I’m lacking motivation at the moment so if anybody here’s an MP and wants to adopt me as their son and pay me 25,000 a year for research then drop me a PM.
That’s very good of you Sean, and I really appreciate the offer last time, but sadly couldn’t take the risk with contracting work at the time, although on that kind of money I’d have cleared the debt and brought myself a few new houses as well!
Sounds like Dutch and Max might be in the same situation Insane and myself are in with regards to the future. Our company has subscribed to the ‘the cheapest solution is the best solution’ ideal at the moment and things have already started going wrong. Time to find something else before it gets worse.
And stop moaning WET, we all know that 300 a day pales in comparison with what an unlicensed mini cab driver can earn 😉
Cheers
Mark
I asked my wife what she thought about sharia law, and she said she didn’t like it one bit. But then I said that her opinions are only worth half of what mine are worth so really I might as well have not asked her, and then made her put on a Burka.
So in summary I’m all in favor of Sharia law. That’ll learn those feminists a thing or two.
Well I really liked the first two thirds of the movie. It was kinda slow and dwelled on his loneliness, although for my money that dummy he tried hitting on was waaay out of his league. So going by the pacing and how they’re carefully covering the outbreak, but not going into much detail I thought this film would be about 100+ minutes long, particularly having read the book and noticing how some of the infected were not quite as thick as some of the others.
So after such a setup I thought the ending was pants. Big yellowing pants with snapped elastic waistband. That’s how pants the ending was, particularly as it ended so suddenly.
Also, did anyone notice scenes from the trailer that weren’t in the film? i.e. Neville filling up his car with a hand-pump, the lioness roaring at him and (most importantly) two of the infected flanking him as he stands still and they shout in his ears. I reckon they were going to do something more like the ending in the book, but decided on an alternate ending.
Plus I was annoyed at god turning up after everything’s gone wrong, whispering something in somebody’s ear and then taking all the credit. I mean, he picks his moments doesn’t he, making me wonder if somebody else was in charge they might have tried to save the human race, rather than just a couple of people. From now on I’m worshiping a decent god, like Thor or Odin.
@=XDC=Mouse101uk wrote:
Neon you got the same book as me. We could now form our own Neighbourhood Watch/Vigilante group using the book as the guidelines. Cos its written by coppers it must be within the law to do what is says in there! 😈
That’s just what I thought. Only had a quick peek so far, but I think any policing advice given by Gene Hunt must be gospel.
Crowbar: Good for opening doors and shutting mouths.
Genius.
