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Don't get me wrong, if I was being attacked by someone and they got shot down I'd probably give them a Halo-style teabagging and leg it.

Zounds! That really is a different approach.

Link: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging" target="_blank">teabagging on Urban Dictionary

I think the one where Max plays Jean-Luc Ordinaire for the title was reprinted in an EE recently.

I've played on an L-shaped pool table (which was stupid) so I'd welcome a genuine shuggy table too.

Saw the full trailer at the pictures tonight and have completely changed my mind about this: it looks well cool. [Indy looks shite though.]

Although I've noticed that the Gregs in town have cunningly started opening till 4am on a Friday to rake in those late night pastie-urge pounds.

For years I have been saying that Gregg's should open late at the weekend as they'd make millions. Where do I write for my royalties? And can you have a word about getting one opened at my work?

Cineworld has this fucking vile stuff that tastes like it's been left at the back of a malfunctioning fridge for the past three months.

Their nachos were good when it was the UGC as you could usually get them to put all the toppings plus extra jalapenos on for the price of one. When they moved from spooning it on to supplying the "cheese" in a plastic tub I snorted derisively and never bought them again.

KFC is my choice of fast food as I like my meat on the bone. However, no burger currently on the market can compare to the gone-but-not-forgotten majesty of the Wimpy HALF-Pounder. Just thinking about it brings me out in a wistful, meaty sweat.

but you ought to support the troops.

Why? A genuine question. I simply don't understand why I'm supposed to suspend all intellectual or political judgement just because some people are doing the job they are paid to do.

And getting back to the pressing business of being a moron: I see that Harry's being sent home now that he's had his little holiday in other people's misery and we've had the idea reinforced that he actually really wants to get out there and "do his bit" and can we just forget about all the boyish antics and take him seriously from now on please.

I concur. Best place for him. I actually like him because he truly is a Royal in the old-fashioned tradition: too thick and arrogant and occupied with shagging anything that moves to have the slightest bit of self-awareness. Anyway, I apologise to the couple of posters who wont find this funny, but he already had his uniform pressed.http://www.humorgazette.com/images/prince-nazi.jpg">

I've been getting the Mean Arena ones as I've only ever read a couple of episodes before, but it's getting pretty wearing. I do prefer the EEs to be a complete story rather than a collection of odds and ends, but putting some of the comedy strips like Bonjo and whatnot together or the Walter/Maria stories as suggested would be okay in my book.

Well my Prog did arrive today. Mostly good stuff but what on Earth is this rubbish with Johnny suddenly being able to manipulate objects with his eyes? An already lackadaisical story takes a turn for the worse.

Bah! No bleedin' Prog.

The film that is.

FUCKING A!

At risk of being shot down in knowledge-flames again, is it not maybe more of a dialect?

You could say that, but you'd be stepping onto a linguistic and semantic landmine if you did. What differentiates a "language" from a "dialect" is a subject of debate akin to asking whether John Wagner or Pat Mills has been more important to 2000AD. I would certainly agree that what you hear the average person in the street speaking is simply "just English with a heavy accent." However, Lallans Scots is something more than that, yet should still be intelligible to the average reader in the same way that Chaucer is intelligible if you put a bit of effort into it.

What does that prove? Don't know really: anyone who did French at school should be able to make sense of a restaurant menu in Italy or Spain but they're different languages.

I'd say it's up to the people of Scotland to protect and promote their culture however they like, and it's perhaps a bit insulting for people from other places to take the piss.

You could say that too, but I feel you'd be overreacting a bit. The problem I have with things like this Scots Leid wiki is that it's so obviously artificial. This is not how the vast majority of Scots use language on an everyday basis and trying to force a modern viewpoint into that kind of idiom simply grates for me.

Language changes and languages die and words alter their meanings. Is this a bad thing? In my view: no, it's natural. Certainly, a richness and diversity of vocabulary might be lost. I can think of a dozen words, off the top of my head, that my Granny would use in everday speech that many people wouldn't know. However, language is about communicating, so what use are those words if the people I want to speak to don't know what they mean?

If people want to get together and write collections of bawdy songs or manuals for gas boilers or anything else then I'm happy for them to do it in whatever language, dialect, idiom, slang, creloe, argot, cant or symbolic representation system they like. On the other hand, the quixotic quest to have Scots recognised as a language seems to me to be a waste of time on a par with middle-class couples from the West End of Glasgow sending their kids to a "Gaelic" school. (NB I know that's a completely different rant, but it really winds me up.)

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect" target="_blank">Quite an interesting field, linguistics

I wouldn't really describe any games as "scary." Played in the right environment (in the dark with headphones on) the first Doom and Silent Hill are atmospheric, but scary? The bit when the zombie dogs burst through the windows in Resident Evil is good too. The speech synthesis on Ghostbusters for the Spectrum was pretty terrifying.

I remember seeing previews of The Suffering and thinking it looked cool, but completely missed it when it was finally released.

Games with multiple endings really bug me.

My personal view is that the best format for an ongoing Judge Dredd series would be an episodic comic strip.