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The Edge's present signature thingy in this thread?

Not to sound snippy, but could someone kindly outline the reasons behind comic sans hatred? I am by no means an apologist, but I'm wondering if there are any technical details I should be aware of.

Solely from a reader's perspective, it's a real bastard on the eyes if you have to read sheets of the stuff.

I wonder if they will have plastic game controller replcas of Helm, Gunnar and Backpack.

I really wish Bagman had been named Backpack, in a great big 'fuck you' to haters of nominative determinism.

Jack is a corruption of John so the fry up may just be giving him his Sunday name.

It seemed unlikely when his own father, brother, girlfriend, Royal Navy colleagues, pirate crew, Aladdin, Issac Newton, George Washington, the Norse Gods and the Devil himself have all called him 'Jack' thus far.

Good to know there's another KYTV fan, though.

I read it as the magic fry-up using his Sunday name also - a good few Jacks are secretly Johns, even if nobody around them wants to admit the fact.

Marmite thinly spread on a hot toasted crumpet*  - that's a very satisfying taste explosion of a low fat snack.

I got the idea from MEN'S HEALTH Magazine so I'd best give credit where credit is due.



(*or pikelet I think some of you call them - if that's not racist).

Pikelets and crumpets are of the same breed, but not the same bready snack - pikelets are far thinner, sort of like a scotch pancake but crumpetier.

MARMITE!?!

Oh you fucking sick shower of tossers.
Marmite is the devils earwax, and fine ye ken it. Anyone who disagrees should be ritually strangled by orangutangs- streamed live via the internet to prove that something is being done about it.

Seconded.

I don't bother keeping my old progs any more, since I never re-read the damn things and I end up buying the collections of all the stuff I really liked anyway, so they go out to the recycle bin once a month.

My collection of TPs and graphic novels sits on pride of place on the first shelf you see as you come in the door, guarded by toy Daleks and Cybermen and serving to filter out those who are afeared of nerd things form entering my flat.

I also have a jolly nice Boo Cook drawing of a big Incredible Hulk-type dude I bought in the first Draw the World Together auction hanging over my bed.

I hate scabs. Especially big ones which come off in bits and rub against your trousers to your great consternation through the day.

On the other hand, I do like cheese. Particularly Wensleydale, when combined with banana in a sandwich.

I'm looking forward to 'later'.

Why couldn't they bring back something less abhorrent? Like say, Smallpox?

Have you ever got anything positive to say about anything?  At all?

He seems to like smallpox, to be fair.

That's a bit of a disappointment, then. Especially since it won't be on wii, which is where Resi 4 really shone.

I've heard tell of co-op on 5 - can you confirm if this is any good?

Just caught up via the iplayer kerjigger, and it's an enjoyable hour, without a doubt, and absolutely the best thing to come out of BBC Wales since last time there was a Moffat Who.

Didn't realise it was a comedy-drama, though - there were one or two light bits, but in the main I saw it as a straight-drama, which it was jolly good at.

As has been pointed out, though, the production team do seem to suffer from Hollyoaks Syndrome when it comes to incidental music.

What I find odd about that Dick Haffer thing (well, other than the patently obvious) is why the bloke with the glasses never wonders why his mate seems to know every tiny thing about homosexuality there is.

When the time comes that I am rich enough to own a yacht, and/or the polar ice caps melt and we all have to live on floating contrivances as sea nomads, my vessel will be called Thunder Child.

Farewell Thundeeeeeeeeeeer Child!

Turns out that the firmware on the routers wasn't up to date, and the handy installation disk from Sky hadn't installed it as it should have.

Problem solved, now, anyway. Thanks for the advice, chaps!

What ho, chaps! It's another one of these, I'm afraid.

I'm currently trying to help my mum get her new Sky internet sorted, as it's presently functioning in a non-ideal way, ie not at all.

To explain: The bloke's been round and poked around and suchforth and she's got the router connected up and such, but there are two distinct problems;

1) of two routers Sky have sent her, neither seems willing to transmit a wireless signal as far as six inches - I'm inclined to put this down to shoddy equipment on their part.

2) They're also both unwilling to connect to the internets - the test light is flashing constantly (or, indeed, constantly lit) on both, which to me indicates they're trying in vain to find something to connect to - could Sky have failed to connect her house to the network.

Their tech support seem so far to have been as much use as a chocolate teapot, having spent much of their conversations claiming she can't have plugged it into the master phone socket, and that a house she's owned for 26 years must have some other socket around there somewhere that she doesn't know about.

The two routers, incidentally, are the usual cheapo ISP-supplied jobs, with no model info other than one being marked a Sagem and the other a NetGear.

Anyone have any experience with Sky broadband on this kind of an issue? I'm given to suspect shoddy router merchandise, but it's seeming a bit suspect that they've sent out two different-make routers that are having identical issues.