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Briggaman - some advice, if you will.

For some reason I'd never actually got around to watching Blade Runner. No idea how I managed to go so long having never seen it but I recently saw the Final Cut version.

I know there's a lot of conjecture about which of the many versions is the best - just wondering what your preference is.

Our injury situation is getting ridiculous at the moment:

Looks a bit like the Canucks roster a few weeks back. Thankfully most of the players are on the way back now and we've not suffered as much as I'd expected.

^^What team is that? I went to a Beitar game earlier this year and great fun it was too!

^^Bleak isn't the word!

Possibly already mentioned in this thread but I watched this last night and I'd highly recommend it.

No Subway kiosk, keep it healthy please ;-)

Subway is very healthy - just ask Jared :winkold:

Finally got round to watching this after having it on the shelf for ages. Highly recommended so long as you're not the blockbuster action thriller type.

I'm of the school of thinking whereby the more photos you take, the greater the chance that one or two will turn out OK

This ...

trouble is I'm also quite lazy with culling the bad ones and i have a PC full of photo's

Do you find though that the ones you think are going to be really bad often turn out to be your best shot ??

Every time - they look good through the screen but once on the computer they're awful and then, very occasionally, I get one on the laptop that turns out much better than expected. I have one from safari somewhere which I though was just a long-shot of a hippo yawning, then I got it home and realised that there were a family of lions in the background and a few crocs in the foreground. Not that it's a "good" photo but I've definitely had a few average shots turn out to be better than expected.

Also have to agree on culling the duff shots. I took 2,800 photos on a recent 1 week trip to Israel. Not only have I not deleted the poorer shots, I didn't even weed them out when sending to the printers so I now have them all to go through to decide what to keep and what to bin.

(apologies to those that really do know how to take a photo for sullying this thread with such amateurism :winkold: )

You do yourself a disservice, some of those shots are great, if thery wee mine I'd be quite proud of them :nod:

Hehe - I wasn't fishing for compliments but I'll take them :winkold:

I'm of the school of thinking whereby the more photos you take, the greater the chance that one or two will turn out OK. And it helps that I've been lucky enough to be in places where interesting things are - fish in a barrell some of those shots.

At the risk of flooding the page, here's a few more:

(apologies to those that really do know how to take a photo for sullying this thread with such amateurism :winkold: )

Here's a few of my offerings - can't remember if I've posted any of these before so apologies if they've BeanDunne.

A mate of mine met his now wife while working in Kolkata (Calcutta). Her family are really lovely but still, on their first date, Mum, Dad, Granny and little sister had to come as chaperones!!!

Might be a bit more relaxed with Indian families over here though but I guess we've all had problems with families of girlfriends regardless of where they come from.

4 pints of hash browns :shock: how does that work?

I couldn't find a better way to describe what is a complete mountain of the buggers. :winkold:

Maybe you're supposed to rub the Marmite into your skin, rather than eating it? :?

Tried that too - I was obviously just too tasty an offer for the little blighters to pass up on :shock:

I've had marmite sandwiches for the last 10 days at work (I'm making my own now) and I feel something may happen to me. I have been told mosquitos dont like the vitamins in it, so they won't bite me anymore - wish someone told me this before Egypt and 40 bites on the lower right leg and 32 on the left. Nice.

Did it work?

Didn't work when I was in Africa. We had marmite for breakfast, lunch and dinner and after 3 days I had 98 bites.

Sophie's Cosmic Cafe just outside Vancouver is a must-visit whenever I'm there. The Lumberjack special, apart from having a somewhat cheesy name, also contains about 5million calories. 6 thick, pancakes, 5 sausages, 8 rashers Canadian bacon, 4 thick slices of ham, 3 fried eggs, 4 pints of hash browns, beans, all covered in lovely maple syrup. Don't forget the toast and coffee so rank that it needs 5 sugars to be pallatable!

Seriously, if you think a full English is the nuts, you've never had the full Canadian Breakfast!

Other than that, Brummerican's shout for Taco Bell is seconded.

59% say "A very good window" :shock:

Hope it doesn't get any higher than that :winkold:

£15 to VT if the end of transfer period poll asking "Are you happy with the signings?" is more than 60% in favour.

Another cock-up from those tin-pot charlies down the road

Blues fans miss United game after St Andrews tickets fiasco

Aug 18 2009 by Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Mail

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ANGRY Blues fans were turned away from the opening game against Manchester United on Sunday because Birmingham City sold some of their tickets twice.

Dad-of-two Paul Bateman bought two tickets for the opener against the Premier League Champions as a treat for his daughter Chloe, who is 13 next week.

The season ticket holder paid in cash and collected the tickets from the Blues ticket office on August 5.

But when he arrived at Old Trafford on Sunday his tickets were rejected at the turnstile and United officials told him the seats had been sold twice by Blues.

Today the club has admitted a ticketing mix-up and has promised to “investigate how it has happened” and to refund disappointed fans.

They have already apologised to Mr Bateman and have refunded the £57 he paid for the adult and concession tickets.

The 30-year-old from West Heath, who has been going to St Andrew’s for 24 years, said: “I arranged it as part of my daughter’s present and she was left in tears. It’s the one game on the fixture list that you want to be at.

“I paid £57 for the tickets, £40 on petrol, £10 in car parking and I took a day off work. We were told that our tickets have somehow been duplicated. They were sold to somebody else and the ones in our hands were on a lost or stolen list.”

Paul, a customer account manager with a local brewery, added: “There were 15 or 20 other people who had the exact same problem.

“We had to leave Manchester and didn’t even get to see the game on television.”

Another season ticket holder was left outside after he also bought tickets from the Blues ticket office.

Alan Dean, a self-employed painter and decorator, bought his ticket as a member of the Travel Club.

The 56-year-old from Shirley said: “My £42 ticket was refused and I went down to complain at Blues on Monday. I have been told to write to customer services and I now have. I paid cash and picked up my tickets from St Andrew’s three weeks ago.”

A spokesman for Birmingham City confirmed that Mr Bateman had received a refund and that there had been an error: “We have received complaints and are investigating how this happened.”

Not sure if this has already been mentioned in the thread but I picked this up for a fiver at Asda the other day and it's a really great watch. Tyson comes across as a pitiable soul who whilst acutely self-aware of his short-comings, is totally unable to help himself. He does come across as a total scumbag in the main but it also shows how the influences in his life (good and bad) made him who he is/was.

Presentation was thoroughly amusing for any of you who missed it. Mr Moon patting NRC on the head and the stadium announcer shouting to all the Villa players not to go back on the pitch. It was a bit amateurish but was great to see how happy the lads looked at winning.

"Sometimes you go back in your progression" got to love the commentary.

130 million to get a franchise player !!

...so sometimes it might be cheaper to grow your own!

Saw Gran Torino on a flight the other week. I thought it was a good film

I saw it on a flight too last week - unfortunately the plane landed with 25 minutes to go so I'm going to have to get it on DVD now.

My recommendation for this week would be The Baader Meinhof Complex. It dies off a bit in the last third but up until that point it's fantastic.

Probably bin dun but I'm not going through 177 pages to find out :winkold:

A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, "Harry, what's your problem?"

Harry answered, "I'm too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rd grade and I'm smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade too!"

Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the principal's office.

While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.

Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test.

Principal: "What is 3 x 3?"

Harry: "9."

Principal: "What is 6 x 6?"

Harry: "36."

And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know.

The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, "I think Harry can go to the 3rd grade"

Ms. Brooks says to the principal, "Let me ask him some questions."

The principal and Harry both agreed.

Ms. Brooks asks, "What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?"

Harry, after a moment: "Legs."

Ms. Brooks: "What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?"

The principal wondered why would she ask such a question!

Harry replied: "Pockets."

Ms. Brooks: "What does a dog do that a man steps into?"

Harry: "Pants."

Ms. Brooks: What starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?"

Harry: "Coconut."

The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.

Ms. Brooks: "What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?"

The principal's eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer, Harry replied, "Bubble gum."

Ms. Brooks: "What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and a dog does on three legs?"

Harry: "Shake hands."

The principal was trembling.

Ms. Brooks: "What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'K' that means a lot of heat and excitement?"

Harry: "Firetruck."

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, "Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong.

Are we talking about Macro-evolution or Micro-evolution? I'm sure everyone knows the difference but it's often the cause of confusion in such discussions.

I always find the christians way of answering the question why all the shite in the world happens by blaming it on the devil quite amusing. I thought god were almighty.

I don't know many Christians that would blame the devil for that. My understanding of the Bible is that the state of the world is because of mankind's actions. Not sure why people expect anything from God as it's us that has turned our backs on him. The consequence of that, according to the Bible is eternity in hell. God gave us free will to chose our path in life but showed His love to us by giving us an opportunity to avoid what was due to us.

At least, that's my reading of it.