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See, I thought Elektra was incredibly irritating, and far too thin. In a straight fight I think I go Karen... But each to their own

The press will get bored no matter what you do. Protests aren't important, or sexy. If the protests carry on into next season, that will quickly become an 'and finally' to match reports, and then ignored. Because nobody cares about Villa fans, or any fans, having a demonstrated moan for the umpteenth week. My point was more that is easier to draw people into a routine. Particularly if it's something very easy to do, people are inherently lazy so something like 'whistles out on X significant minute' isn't likely to get mass interest because nobody is going to bring their own whistle. Especially if last week it was banners, or walk outs, or tennis balls, or a party. It confuses people. You ultimately want as many people involved as possible, and the key to that is make it bloody simple, and consistent.

I have wondered whether the smart watch might be the shortest lived tech fad since 3d TVs.

I think the whole protest thing might benefit from picking a protest type and sticking to it, making a routine of taking up seats late or leaving early or whatever.

She changes in attractiveness scene to scene. There's scenes where she has that sexy secretary thing going on hard, and there others where she looks a bit weird, gangly and dowdy. It doesn't help that her eyebrows change colour constantly throughout the series as well, sometimes going so light as to almost look like she's shaved them off, which never looks good, and the show often portrays her as incredibly whingy and a bit thick which certainly didn't help.

What did you make of it? I personally think the second series is more consistent than the first but doesn't have the same highs (or lows) of the first either. I also agree with D1 that the show suffers with the same problems across the series, but series 2 for me suffers more for not having a villain that stands up the Kingpin's heights, and for the odd dual storyline that has one clearly interesting story, and one meh one.

He's so much of a fanboy he married Lisa Marie Presley because he loves her dad, and called his son Kal-El because he adores Superman. He's a very odd bloke. But in the right role, he's not a completely bad actor. It's just the right role is once in a blue moon these days.

Thanks both. The house isn't terribly big, 50s semi detached 3 bed so there's not going to be anything like the number of rads needed for somewhere line Davkaus' colleagues place. I also may be able to get rads at cheaper price due to a family friends contact, which might keep the price down. I'm used to the house being cold and we have cavity wall and improved loft insulation done which helps, but others less used to it are less happy with the situation and it does need doing ultimately so will probably just get the lot done once I've got everything in order. Genuinely wasn't aware British Gas would do a full installation, I'll have a look into that.

Anyone know much about having central heating installed? I've never had central heating, the house is a 50s build with the only fixed heating being a gas fire in the living room. My dad always wanted to add in a proper system which typically just never happened (he also wanted to rewire the house as the electrics here have been fiddled with numerous times over the years and 50s wiring doesn't have the best record...), however at the moment the gas fire, which is only a few years old and was shit from day one, isn't working and the hot water system, an immersion heater and also quite new, is playing up as well. Increasingly it looks like I might just have to bite the bullet. Unfortunately I've no idea about this stuff or where to begin, other than the obvious that's it's going to be a nightmare to install and cost a shitload.

It's more likely that the box will incorporated into the new product.

The embarrassment that you might have been able to see (they were on screen for a fleeting moment that I saw) probably had as much, if not more, to do with the shameful crap on the pitch I think. That's a bigger problem for them than some extra bin bags post match day.

'Champions league, you're having a laugh'

Absolutely nailed on... At least there was a fiver on it...

What money a Pato goal?

This is the same story it's been for most of the season. Some nice football, toothless attack, braindead defence, opposition barely bothering knowing they will score soon enough.

Michael Bay is responsible for some of the most heinous wastes of celluloid and human time in history, but damn is the Rock not a great action movie even 20 years on. I can only assume it was a fluke. Or he had a lot of help making it. Even Nicolas Cage is good in it.

Bautista being decent as Drax (who is a fairly crap character that they changed a fair bit for the movie in fairness) was one of the revelations in GOTG. Then again I like pretty much everything about that movie to the extent I don't even care about the massive problems with the villain. Genuinely funny throughout. The prison escape, the slapstick chase at the start, pretty much every line of Drax dialogue... Great. I'm not sure it'll work as well in the sequel though. Especially as it seems there's some stunt casting going on, and they need to add a bunch of characters, a number of which are absolutely dreadful.

You should watch BvS, barely any jokes in that

She changes the way you play. She can do the scouting thing D-Dog does but not as well - she can only spot what she can see and she requires direction to work best. But she's excellent as cover in certain missions and environments. She also unlocks a useful (if completely daft) ability to shoot your grenades in midair to ricochet them into awkward areas I used quite a bit later in the game. Once she gets a tranq sniper if your style works with using her she breaks the game in many respects. I tended to favour D-Dog over her but she was my second choice for most of the game.

WB don't have a clue what they're doing. Suicide Squad, which by all accounts is meant to be a dark comedy (and has been since the get go), is going through reshoots to make it funnier, seemingly as a reaction to the fact BvS was roundly criticised for being joyless.

I listen to Sam Harris's podcast semi-regularly. I don't always agree with him, and his habit of starting every podcast with 'X person who hates me has misrepresented my views again this week' is deeply irritating, but he often has interesting arguments and perspectives on many things. He's pleasingly anti-religion, and very openly hostile to Islamism which is appropriate, but these tend to open him up to attacks from pro-Islam and left commentators. Occasionally something he says will strike me, and that happened today. His latest podcast is an AMA, and at one point someone asks about the Golden Age of Islam and Islam's benefit to the world. He largely bins this (with some good arguments) but he raises a fact that I completely was unaware of. Spain translates more books into Spanish every year than the entire Arab world has translated into Arabic since the 9th Century. The same population only produces 1% of the world's books, and the percentage of these that are religious is the highest of any community on the planet. These figures are from a UN study he states, and I can't say I've checked this, but those figures astound me. There simply has to be another community that translates things to Arabic (are the Arab world is far more multilingual than I appreciate), because I can't imagine a society can operate today that doesn't translate ideas from elsewhere to use for their own gain, and moreover would be so isolated to its own ideas as to be terrifying.

I sincerely doubt devkits would be with developers of something as fundamental as what the CPU is hadn't been decided. I think some of this is probably correct. But it's educated guesswork rather than inside knowledge.

A day one purchase. Take some elements of 1 and 3, photocopy the rest of 2 and smash it into a decent story and this is a slam dunk. I await EA **** it up, chasing every penny they can wring out of it.

The first series is in a different league. The story is engaging, there's a real connection and enthusiasm to the reporting, and it's not one you already know.

Second series of Serial finished today. Possibly the most 'meh' finale to anything ever. Even Koenig sounded forced in her enthusiasm with the damp squib announcement it was the final episode. Some interesting moments, as have been scattered throughout the series, usually the perspectives of the differing military heads involved, but ultimately we end the show where we started, something which shocks no-one.