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"Some people are conservative.  Get over it!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3sI0q5iMI">Oh dear lord, noooooo!

::"there is a heriditary Gay gene"

My blinkered right-on-ness is twitching.  It's a bit like spidey-sense, but more annoying.  Are you just talking out of your arse again?

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I couldn't help it - I thought more about the moron debate - proof, if proof were needed, that I am indeed a moron.

Anyway - if the invading army was losing badly, then helping their wounded would be okay - it would look good for propoganda.  If they were winning a lot, then helping their wounded in order to curry favour with what may well be the winning side, might not seem that mad.  And, if it was stalemate, helping their wounded and then holding them hostage for later negotiations, well that doesn't seem too bad either.

Hrmn.

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And - a pear pickle and goat's cheese wrap.

The Boys Own Adventure depiction of war in various media reports is fairly sickening, but that's got little to do with the Royal they're using to do it.

In a recent television advert for the UK army, they depict a scene where an "enemy combatant" is being treated in a UK army medical facility.  

Whether or not that's moronic...

Der happy stick doesn't get out as much as it used to, either.

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The only x/html tags that are allowed are (I think), <a>, <b>, <i> & <img>, plus there's the proprietary <spoiler> tag.

So, it's completely impossible to do this.

Fuck Ferrero Rocher at the ambassador's party - this is what I'm talking about: more top prog-age from the House of Tharg.

++This review sponsored by the Pron Thread++

Judge Dredd & His Magic Purple Daystick is just sublime stuff: bringing in all these characters from all the history of Dredd's world, and managing to make it one of the most important storylines ever.  It's mad juggling - one minute you get focussed on perhaps the best criminal in Mega-City One, the next on Judge Dredd's awareness of his own humanity, the next on Beeny's first major case.  Wow.

Stickyback - hurrah for the title character actually appearing in his own story at centre stage, and bollocks to the morality police.  It's like The Sopranos, sort of.  Half the interest is viewing someone who you could never be, and how easy it is to feel sympathy for someone who is at  times a cold-blooded murderer.  

Kingdom Cum - still my favourite, although there have  been two weeks of solid action without much driving forward of the plot. Will he escape?  Will the end be him, Leezee and her tick-thing walking off into the wilderness?

Strontium Dogging - I shouldn't read this board.  Despite the really obvious foreshadowing I hadn't realised that the lumpy one was going to dob them in until I read it here.

Letters Page - now we know the population!  And it's official and everything!  

Terror Tales - honestly, I've forgotten it.

SPOILERS for current prog ...

I like how Dredd says (sort of) that Beeny is replacing him.

Of all the ideas for replacing Dredd - a clone of himself, Rico, brain transplant et al - the idea that he's simply superceded by (of all people) the daughter of a failed democratic movement, is compelling.  There's pathos in them thar hills.

Floyd?  

::"at least a couple of good one offs in, say, the opinion of the judges on the cursed earth wall, or the cursed earth rangers"

I don't know how good a story that would make, though.  It's like Judge Prager from the Undercity - out split-second imagination of what "Grim" refers to is probably a lot better than anything that could be written down.  You only have to look at the sequel to Cry of the Werewolf for evidence.

Sometimes, less is more.

I've used this one before, but:

Banzai Butt Stallion

Italic'soff for Firefox user's.

That thing with "aks" instead of "ask" is done on purpose, though, right?

::"As I remember it, his mouth is full of right: Waterworld basically is Mad Max (well, Mad Max 2) on water - a kind of synchronised swimming director's cut. Of course, it's garbage compared to The Road Warrior, but it still has plenty of similarities."

I know, but I love The Road Warrior and Waterworld is just so fucking wet (bdum-tisch) in comparison.

Same plot, though - no doubt about it.  Instead of petrol, it's a map to dryland.

I can enjoy Waterworld on it's own merits (few that there are), but really - anyone choosing to watch it would do better to watch The Road Warrior.  If YOU'RE thinking of watching Waterworld, "just walk away.  Just walk away ... and live!"

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The Postman is almost unbelievably shite.  In watching it, it's difficult to believe, at any given moment, that it can get any shitter, and yet it manages to.  Eventually, it crosses the shit barrier, and you're transported to never before witnessed levels of ennui.  It's a bit like taking horse tranqs.

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Judge Dredd, by appearing at regular intervals on television, continues to do damage to 2000AD.  Shame.

::"It was a bit like Mad Max on water IIRC."

Your mouth is full of wrong.  Unless you mean Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome, in which case, I agree completely.

::"But Praxis wasn't just a moon - it was the power source of the entire Klingon empi... uh, say what? How'd that work then?"

A giant space-cable, of course.  I've done the Space Maths, and it's all perfectly feasible.