Anyone been to see this yet? I was thinking of going to see it on Wednesday but 3 hours of arse numbing cinema seat and some bad reports are putting me off.

Yeah that's the kind of thing that I found with the others, not played the Rome one though - I'd like to hear more about that one.
It seems a shame they stink because they could be so good. I guess playing it multiplayer may improve it.

Slaughter: We've had less and less snow every year it seems. I live at 800 metres above the sea in Norway, and we have 10 centimetres or something. It's ridicules! We used to have two metres at least every winter when I was a kid.

Regarding snowmen, that's a good point. I think kids are more interested in PlayStation than healthy outdoor play these days. Durned parents should send them out! When I was a kid I were RARELY allowed to sit inside playing when the weather was nice outside.

Wow! 10cm in Norway. I'm looking out of a window on the east coast UK and it's deeper than that now and it's still coming down. Sodding freezing too. Yeah, I remember as a child winters could cut off whole communities for weeks but this is the first year for ages I remember any snow worth shouting about. Not many Christmas's ago I went out in a tee shirt and was positively warm.

Where's here Azrael?

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I got it from your profile - Montevideo. I guess if it snowed there it would be quite unusual.

I have played a couple of the Total War series games and the one I have just tried is Medieval Total War. I have to say there is a great deal missing from this game. It seems a great idea but it just doesn't work for me. The units seem very samey and once you get used to the way the game works it's easy to win. I expected politics to figure in the game too which it doesn't, maybe I expected too much.

Are they all the same or is there a good one?

It seems like years since we had any snow close to Christmas in the UK. We have had around 6 inches of the stuff and although it looks pretty it's damn cold. It never seemed that cold when I was a sprog. Snow men and snow cars were built everywhere which is a point. I haven't seen a single snowman around here. What's happened to the children of today?

How much have you got?

How about, "I dissagree with it but I don't mind my mate knocking out versions of the latest Deep Purple album" or "I don't mind copying stuff on my VHS from the TV but I wouldn't buy the latest pirate copy of King Kong." If you are bothering with a poll I would think it's advantageous to have an accurate one.

So you don't get all those little people stepping out from the screen and running around your living room, shooting at everything that moves???

Too shocking for me to understand it - Merry Christmas all.

I don't think it's an issue you could get an acurate poll on, the subject is too complicated. reading the last posts it seems obvious most people think alike anyway. If you create art then you should be rewarded for it but when people like Catherine Zeta-Jones can boast 6 houses of her own (and I don't mean just houses) then I have to wonder why I would want to put my hand into my pocket and spend hard earned on someone who already has so much they don't know how to spend it.

More options and I'll vote

Found it. It kinda brought the feeling back after reading it. I tried to remember how it felt and then put it down on paper a few days after.

DRUNK 1st Feb 2000. Completely sober.

I can't focus, I think I must be drunk, the light, the door, that woman,
They are all blurred, I need a drink to clear my head,
Books on shelves, beer mats, bottles, empty glasses,
Some full, most dead.
Lots at the bar now, moving, spinning a little,
People are ugly aren't they? Just look at that man.
And that woman there, but that one is pretty.
I bet she saw me looking, smile the best I can.
Poster, mirror, lampshade, glass,
My glass, nearly empty I better fetch another.
Oh it's not my turn. "Who's turn is it?"
Well someone's gone, they talk too much.
I don't listen, I think I'm drunk.
Bottle, glass, coat stand, lampshade.
Here comes my beer, I can see my reflection in the glass.
It makes me look as if I've got red eyes.
Tables, girl with short skirt. She nice, no dress sense.
Who's prodding me? they want me to answer, they talk too much.
I don't know what they asked so I'll say something clever.
"In these situations............. I will tell you what I always say.
I tend.......... I tend to don't put my fingers ... in the mains socket...."
There that'll fix them.
Oh they seem to think I'm drunk, I can tell the way they talk away from me.
I suppose they've never been drunk, I suppose they think... Poster.
Glass, beer mat ripped up.
"Why do people do that?" Oh I think I said that when I should have thought it. I bet they think I'm drunk now.
Look at that man at the bar, that has to be the loudest shirt in the world.
I think I will have to tell him.
Yes, right, I'll go tell him, I'm up, ... I'm down.
"Leave me. I can get up, I'm not drunk I just felt a little dizzy."
I bet they think I'm drunk, I'll sit back down.
Glass, beer, ........table.
I think I am drunk, I can tell because I can think faster than I can talk. Not the case with the others at this table. Especially that Mike. I've always wanted a reason to punch him, the fat useless bastard. Yes I'm going to punch him, ....... I better do it sitting down though.
Oh hell I'm on the floor again.
"Leave me Mike, don't you touch me you santimominious ...."
Oh god even I know my speech has gone. I bet they think I'm drunk.
"Oh Mike, Mike... what's up with mee... Help me Mike, your my best mate I trust you..."
Oh did I really say that, I'll be crying like a baby soon.
Mike has helped me up, oh right we are going to the toilet, that's good.
Good old Mike he knows what to do, he's been drunk a time or two.
Look at them all looking at me.
"I'm not drunk, I stepped on a land mine in the Gulf War, ........... blew my balls clean off."
Mike told me to shut my gob.
She's nice by the toilet door. Quick smile, wow she smiled back, she must like a drun... war veteran.
We're in the toilet now, Mike farted, dirty git.
"You'll have to get it out Mike, I can't do it in my state."
There's no need to be like that, no sense of humour that Mike, I bet he thinks I'm drunk.
A quick wee and I'll be fine.
Wall.... picture...... mirror.... Oh hell I look like someone's stolen my face and left a Picasso painting in it's place.
I can't get my willy back in.... oh well I'll leave it out, no sense in risking getting it caught in the zip.
Mike is helping me out through the door, he's a good chap.
I feel better now.
That nice girl is still there .. but the smile has gone.
She looking at my crotch the dirty tart......
Oh shit, I forgot, my willy's on view.
"You see madam, the Ayrabs got my balls but not my knob."
That was the quickest I've seen these chaps move.
Into the taxi before I knew they'd even booked it.
They're still talking though.......... but not to me.
I bet they think I'm drunk.

They do that, then they come out, squeeze into a wardrobe and then bite small holes in your best clothes.

Tigers are much the same but they take large bites out of the wardrobe.

There's no slot for TV.

Tigers are out then?

Now you're going to tell me that the columns on the forum lists expand to the size of the words arn't you.

When I first looked at the site and the forum tables I counted the maximum characters and found that Silvertongueddevil was too long. Now then Pete, don't have kittens about the size of your column width.

Well, it's still a bit quiet in here, I reckon we need a cat, or a Hamster. Or both, can we get pets in here or will it spoil the furniture?