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There's no law saying "No Beatle except John Lennon is allowed to perform Imagine". Ringo or not Hey Jude did kinda suck as an Olympic finishing song. There was word of Rolling Stones being part of it, but they considered themselves getting on a bit. Also it is the London Olympics, so communism isn't a thing we steer clear of. I'm sure NBC could have arranged an interview in its place.

Mind the Gap: There is a gap between the train and the platform, don't get your foot in it or drop your wallet or phone down it. It's a safety warning, not a joke. It is a meme of sorts here. It started life in WWII as a propaganda type poster. Few years back an original copy was discovered in a post office attic(iirc) and it gained a sort of retro chic popularity. (Which means "always" in US is a couple years at most) Why the hell would we put Jarvis Cocker in our orang juice?

Carboot. Full name: carboot sale. It's a market of sorts, usually held in a local field area like a school, race course, park, etc where people sell old (though some increasingly selling new items) stuff via their car boot(..trunk iirc). Normally on a table mind. Well.. wallpapering table usually (light and easily folds up into car). Good for finding antiques, items no longer on sale, cheap books and games, random toys etc. What is a swap meet?

So when talking nunchuck we're meaning the actual weapons? Even then it'd be a slught compromise on the vision and wouldn't help much. you'd need something sword sized, but that comes with issue of slowing kinect processing down as it'd have to seek out the sword/prop, divide it from skeleton, and have many more body configurations to run through that involve the prop. And even more issues when people reckon they can replace the Official Kinect Prop™ with any old item. A controller nunchuchuck is fairly simple, two buttons and a stick. I'd say main issue is 3D navigation. That trips most folks up, the movement of the stick doesn't wholly translate to movement of player in game. Bit like patting your head and rubbing your belly.

@ethan: Romney had made some remarks about UK not been up for hosting Olympics (we're only country to do it three times soo...). This was well played upon by both London mayor boris johnson who used the remarks to pump up a crowd with "some guy named mitt thinks we're not ready. Are we ready london?"(or along those lines). And Cameron made some remark along lines of "obviously it's much easier to host Olympics in middle of nowhere" referencing romneys stewardship of Vancouver Olympics. Many news outlets also pulled a qoute from his book "No Apology" about england being "a small island with tiny houses that no one cares about and would have been lost to Hitler had it not been separated by water"(or along those lines). He is currently on a foreign relations trip through europe atm after Obamas campaign team called him a novice. One of the US athletes said of him "there's some Americans that shouldn't leave the country". NBC weren't as fun. They skipped over the 7/7 bombing tribute in favour of Michael Phelps interview. And during the social media/music segment remarked "here's englishman tim. Tim berners-lee, if you haven't heard of him neither have we". At least they understood the part about the web. @cowboy: I'm a Brit, I know who did Imagine . I'm just saying it would have been the better Beatle song to go for over Hey Jude and much more relevant to Olympics.

I can post pictures later but I've picked up a Fighting Fantasy box set for £6 (rrp £50), hence reading city of thieves, from cancer research. And also a Magic the gathering starter kit, in wrappers still, for £1 at a carboot. Had been aiming for Pokemon cards but MTG is as good as at that price.

I reckoned Imagine would have been more appropriate. As for "Fear Her" matt smith did torch in Cardiff, about closest dr who would get it seems. Given historical n cultural references of show you'd have expected it along side bond, bean n voldermort. P.s how much of the show went of other countries heads?

We missed first fifteen minutes, came in on industrial revolution and rings being formed. Was pretty neat, and the petals did keep us intrigued in following along with the hour+ parade of athletes. That and going through my grans 1994 encyclopedia figuring where n when n what countries are/were. Shame on McCartney at the end. Beatles are big part of British music but his voice is past its best n hey jude was a terrible choice. Shame about NBC n Romney. I guess good on our end that just being relegated to news and not the reality of the show like in US. BBC obviously picked up from jubilee remarks n feedback. I've yet to fully dive into it but I hear BBC coverage on web is phenomenal.

The Irish "tax haven" status is brought up a few times as far as corporations go. I know a few silicon valley companies like google are set up there (which EU hates). I imagine there's more to it than just tax rates. Oh and if you're set up for taxes outside of home nation then I think it's counted as "tax haven" regardless of being lower or not.

The Hobbit (for obvious reasons) and currently "City of Thieves" though reading isn't exactly the right word.

However it would have completely destroyed their marketing. If they were to add a nunchuck they may as well have not Eve bothered.

I'm to understand it was highest turn out to womens football match in the UK. Also it's not hosted in London I think, which will attribute to low turnout to a fair few events. That'd be how the event ran before the opening ceremony, Olympics hasn't fully started yet(Also means people are still arriving)

Probably worth noting when the iPhone launched it didn't even have apps, let alone games. Stuff like that didn't come in earnest until several years in. Stuff like Epic Citadel n Angry Birds.

"Olympics start with Team GB win http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18982453" Woot. Apart from the North Korea flag cock-up.

Via my mums BF who has an equally terrible sense of humour as I: (This one modified a bit by myself to fit instead of as convo): We don't know if the guy that crashed into Katie Holmes was part of a Scientology plot to kill her or not, but we do know that he was a rubbish driver. There was another I thought was good but I've forgotten, I'll add it in when I remember. For my own: A man finds a magic lamp and out pops a genie. The genie says "You have three wishes, but under one condition; whatever you wish for your wife gets twice as much". Guy is "okay. Well for my first wish I'd like £1million". "Done," says the genie "and as promised your wife now has £2million too". "For my second wish I'd like a big house in the country". "As you wish, and your wife has a house twice as big. Now what would you like for your final wish?". The man thinks for a bit then says "I'd like you to scare me half to death".

That is our opening ceremony. Come on, we pulled up to end of Beijing in a bus, you think we're going to have an army of trained dancing school kids n ventriloquist singers? Best we can do is fire off our Trident fireworks n hope for the best.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/coincidence-chick-fil-a-pulls-jim-henson-toy-safety-issue-company-blasts-restaurant-anti-gay-stance-article-1.1121473 So for those not cuaght up on this (turns out Ethan wasn't), Chik-Fil A have a anti-equality/homosexual stance. This has brought them a bit of grief. Jim Henson, the company with a frog n pig dating each other, is pro-equality and upon news of Chik-Fil A's stance then donated the income they got from the muppets toys at CFA to GLAAD(Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.). These toys then developed mystery safety issues and CFA have recalled them and stopped issuing them anymore. The Onion also stepped in. http://www.theonion.com/articles/chickfila-debuts-new-homophobic-sandwich,28888/?e In nicer news(but less funny) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-18981287 Scotland (well SNP) to introduce gay marriage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18980974 I think this is one of the things I'll never ever be able to wrap my head around. "Hey someone shot up a cinema, what the community needs now is more guns on the street". I dunno, does anyone have any word on average joe citizen having a gun upon his person at the moment of a crazed gunman going loony and being able to put the gunman down? (Also any where the average joe citizen has maybe put down the wrong person? cos I can see that being more likely). More guns on the street just means more chances for them to shoot the wrong people. Especially when folks are on edge right after an incident like this. Oh to amend the previous post on "you're not a criminal until you use the gun on someone". The killers two hand guns, pump action shotgun, automatic rifle, 3000 rounds of handgun ammo, 3000 rounds of AR ammo and 300 rounds of shotgun ammo were all legally purchased, and he had only a speeding ticket on his record. edit: Oh this thread got active as I was typing :/ What's the "1 in 88 chance of dying in car" thing? As in for every 88 times you go n drive a car, you'll die? Seems a bit skewed. Also people have a huge difficulty in propelling small metal objects to speed of sound, it's something we've never really gotten the hang of.

http://yfrog.com/z/gzimzhsbj Oh dear, that's looking a bit naf. In other news one of the Greek Olympians got kicked out due to being a bit racist, cos of course that's what you want to do right before a major international event. http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-18987678 Come on, it's not 1936 anymore

Batmam: I, Joker was neat if a tad weird and off the beaten track. Over a bit too soon after I am enjoying the Elseworld stuff, gonna go onto "whatever happened to the man of tomorrow?" next. Any Marvel alternatives to Elsworlds? Oh wait there's that Marvel Zombies isn't there. Hmm. Oh if you're a Android user may I suggest https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rookiestudio.perfectviewer&hl=en Fully free, the "donation" version is just that, two tiers of donation.

Kim Jong-Un and Ri Sol-Ju up a tree, Making this tune as hard as can be. First comes love, then comes marriage, Then comes...I'm so ronery, ever so ronery..

So impromptu survey: Dean: would you buy a replacement for the Wii? Mum: No, we've got a wii and it works. Even if we had the money for one I wouldn't get one cos we barely play on the Wii as it is. Phones are eating into casual (and I'd say core too) handheld market, Wii is eating into the casual market. However I wouldn't want to make many guesses on plausibility of casual market next-gen, Wii was slammed ahead of release and then came out on top. Of course before that "casual" didn't exactly exist. Though if casual market does gain traction on Wii U it is much bigger than that of core.