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#46
Website and Forum / Re: List of issues
22 March, 2023, 09:22:49 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 22 March, 2023, 12:04:08 PMYep, I'm now here a fraction of the time that I used to be, and that's all because of the loss of 'Active topics.'

Please, please, pleeeeeeease get it reinstated.

Me too
#47
General / Re: Random Dredd Questions
22 March, 2023, 09:51:05 AM
Quote from: GizmoDuck on 22 March, 2023, 09:45:22 AMQuestion on Megazines.

I haven't really read the Megazines as I'm going through the CCFs, but I've stumbled onto Mechanismo and it was originally published in 2.12-2.17 What does "2.12" mean?

Additionally; This might sound odd, but; what are the Megazines? I mean, I know they're a monthly anthology comic, but what makes it a Judge Dredd comic? There's one Dredd story in them and the rest are other stories and stories from past 2000AD Progs. They seem like monthly 2000ADs to me, but I'm aware that I'm new to it all, so I don't know.

The Megazine's (new) strips are all set in Dredd's world and often tie into characters from the main Dredd strip. So there's a focus in the Megazine on Dredd's world. There is also reprint to help with costs.

The "2." numbering ties into the frequency of the Meg. It started as monthly, then went fortnightly. From memory, it to "Volume 2" numbering (so issue 2.1 was the first fortnightly edition). It then went back to monthly and just ret-conned the Volume 2 numbering with the original sequence.
#48
Megazine / Re: Meg 454: Final Flight
21 March, 2023, 08:25:49 PM
I am quite enjoying the IDW stuff, on the basis that I ignored it first time round and find it curious.
#49
Music / Re: Upcoming Gigs
21 March, 2023, 08:24:37 PM
Going to see the Dogs D'Amour in Edinburgh on 7th April.

On their 40th anniversary tour. FFS.
#50
Off Topic / Re: Biscuits
11 March, 2023, 08:19:22 AM
Quote from: Fate Amenable to Change on 10 March, 2023, 10:58:14 PMAnd I had to look up these after Barrington's mention:



(I'm assuming the board's overall waistline is increasing due to this thread.)



Man, those things. They were childhood gold. Do they still exist?
#51
Off Topic / Re: Biscuits
10 March, 2023, 02:25:36 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 10 March, 2023, 12:11:58 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 08 March, 2023, 03:31:33 PMThere is no finer biscuit than a Mint Club.

Discuss.

Mint and chocolate should, never,never be consumed together.

First, I was encouraging debate.

Second, what about mint-choc-chip icecream?

Third, you're wrong.
#52
Film & TV / Re: On telly this week
08 March, 2023, 06:08:32 PM
I'm enjoying The Gold on BBC. Not sure how accurate it is, historically, but it's an easy watch.
#53
Off Topic / Re: Biscuits
08 March, 2023, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 08 March, 2023, 05:22:04 PMWell well this is a difficult choice a bit like which of my children do I like most 😳

Back to the biscuits - what should I go for the chunky chocolate of a fruit club or the dunkablity of a Hobnob but maybe I should be classy with a fox's Classic but surely a digestive with a smear of butter tops them! No the one I'd pick over them all is a Gold bar (just)

Now we have to convince Colin to do one of his long running competitions with every biscuit on the shelf 😁

OOOH! A Classic. Not had one of them for years, maybe decades. I am going to get myself a packet.
#54
Off Topic / Re: Biscuits
08 March, 2023, 04:06:48 PM
Quote from: JWare on 08 March, 2023, 04:01:28 PMBarrington Boots: a man with the courage to fight his way undaunted through Nightmare Castle;
A man with the wisdom to know the true worth of own-brand custard creams.
This is a man I can follow.
I march beneath his trifle banner.

I don't know what's worse. The cowardly custard creamer, or the coward who lets a cowardly custard creamer decide for him.
#55
Off Topic / Biscuits
08 March, 2023, 03:31:33 PM
There is no finer biscuit than a Mint Club.

Discuss.
#56
Website and Forum / Re: I like the new Look!
05 February, 2023, 02:41:24 PM
I just don't like it.  But it feels very constrained. The top half of my screen is filled with bland blocks of red, black and white. It's emotionless. It's cold. Not for me.

I do like the ability to more easily add links and photos.

#57
General / 20th Anniversary
02 February, 2023, 10:58:56 PM
Blimey, I just checked.

I signed up to this forum on 16th January 2003.

20 years of hanging around here! Wow. From Karne to Godpleton to Trout to Shark. Where has the time gone? So many have left the party, but here I am in the forum kitchen still rooting around for another beer. I guess I'll leave when they turn on the lights... or call the police.
#58
Website and Forum / Re: I like the new Look!
02 February, 2023, 10:54:11 PM
Not a fan. Bit 1992. Very... functional and cold, with a lot of empty red and grey.

EDIT: Still, I gets to keep my wee Dalek pic, which is probably 20 years old now.
#59
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
18 January, 2023, 08:18:51 PM
Quote from: JWare on 17 January, 2023, 09:29:50 AM
I have caffeinated sparrows.
They congregate in a bush that overhangs the little concrete yard behind my kitchen. The yard is only big enough for the wheelie bins and it's littered with leaves from the bush above and by the dregs from my morning pot of coffee. The coffee sludge is chucked out there and left to dry. Sometime in the future it gets swept up along with the dead leaves, and the snail shells, and the rest of the organic rubbish, and put in the bin.
I've only started noticing the sparrows this past year because of their numbers and the noise they make. It occurs to me that they're there for the coffee. When I see them pecking away in the little yard, it may not be seeds they're after, but coffee grounds. That might explain their liveliness. I have caffeinated sparrows.
No wonder they're all chirrupping loudly at the same time and flying in rapid little flurries – going nowhere but going fast.
These sparrows are buzzed.
I can hear them now, cheeping at each other like they've got a million ideas for a tech start-up.

This is comedy gold. I'm quite sure it's true.

It really lightened my mood after a bad day. Thanks.
#60
I've got some old Dredd pants from Asda, if you wants them Molch-R.

EDIT: Genuine offer! They're unworn, honest. I stuck them in a box of Progs when I got them and they've lain there since