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well, it's on my kindle so I think burning it would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I read some more on my lunch break today and it reminded me of another problem - the author continually mixes the names of the two main characters up. so Peter would storm upstairs to his room and Rose would go up and comfort Blake. If the characters are so two dimensional and shallow even the author confuses them it has got to be a sad state of affairs.

I'm too embarrassed to give the name of the book I'm reading just now. It is pretty damn awful though. The main characters are kind of unlikable and at three quarters through I don't feel they're deserving of the happy ending they'll undoubtedly get. Add to that the enormous number of gay puns (fairy gaymother, regaytionship are two that stick in my mind) and cringe inducing sexual innuendo literally at least half a dozen to the page. I'm sure the author thinks he's being terribly witty and Oscar Wilde-ian but it's just embarrassingly bad. The only similarity is he should be in jail for his (crimes against) homosexuality. It's just the worst stereotypes of gay people - bitchy queens and self-loathing people who'd rather be straight. It's as crass as those seventies shows with blacked-up comedians. Jesus. I can't believe I'm reading it to be honest and I'm kind of pissed off I've given money to the author and I've contributed to its sales total. hmmm, that turned in to more of a rant than I intended.

I just watched "I Killed My Mother". The lead actor wrote it when he was 16 and produced and directed it too, so from that point it is quite impressive, but it's semi-autobiographical and I'm guessing he was a gigantic arsehole to live with. There was just too much shouting without any real explanation as to why they were angry. I guess that is actually pretty much the teenage thing - unarticulated anger. but it doesn't make for a very satisfying film or sympathetic main character. though I guess it had a happy ending of sorts. I'm guessing it was OK because I'm glad I watched it but I don't fell a desire to watch it again or own it on DVD.

It's in a film I just watched and I rather liked it.

It's for people who haven't worked for two years. Anyone who is vaguely employable will have been able to find _some sort of job_ in that time. I work in an area that has Christmas employees and seriously - if you can walk in without dragging your knuckles across the floor you can get a job. People get paid as much to sit at home doing chuff all as they would to be working minimum wage and some people are not ashamed to be doing exactly that. If they are dossers then they bloody well should be forced to work. I resent working in my crappy minimum wage job to pay for a bunch of lazy arseholes to sit on their lazy arseholes all day. If they can't manage that and are genuinely unemployable by the private sector then why shouldn't they earn some of the money we are giving them by doing government paid work? They wouldn't mind if they have any sort of decency and work ethic. If they are genuinely looking for work and for whatever reason they have not managed even to find a job in two years then why would they mind doing this? They should be the sort of people who would feel guilty for taking JSA so would be glad to feel they are earning it. The only people who should have a problem with this is the people who have some sort of messed up belief that they deserve to be paid to sit at home. Trust me there are plenty of those around. The only reason they want to get off JSA is if it is to go on to incapacity benefit, which is even more of a free ride. If these people put as much effort into finding honest employment as they did into screwing over the tax payers they would probably be millionaires.

Is Thomas the Tank engine narrated by Ringo Starr in the US version? Edit: I really need to watch napoleon dynamite again - I can't decide whether I like it or not.

Oh. I hope it works for my US account as it would be the first money I ever managed to get in there. I always keep meaning to get a USD PSN card but now I can see if buying stuff works OK without wasting my own money. Yay!

How was moby dick? People say it is quite the slog to read. I can't decide whether to start it as i hate to ditch a book once I do.

In my dream I was touching my big toe nail. Without noticing how it became as big as my thumb and really thick. I bit it off and then rubbed it soothingly in the way you might a pebble or smooth piece of wood. That was it. I don't remember ever having a dream so focused on on particular detail.

loving the loaded poll question: " No, the government needs to do more to help them, not force them to work for free"

That attitude won't do when the rapture begins.

Limbo, which is half off on LIVE and also reduced on PSN. I've been waiting ages for them to reduce it. Now all I need it that PG Winterbottom game to be reduced and I think I'll have all the download games I want.

pretty awesome video too.

yeah but you can run over so many more people on the way there so the time just flies by.

thanks for explaining the point of investing to me :/ but it's still all based on one product. I'm not saying that it won't be successful for a few more years to come or indeed that it won't become bigger than Disney I'm just saying that it is not much of a track record to arrive at that value. Angry birds has certainly caught the zeitgeist of the whole app/casual gamer thing but there is nothing to say their next game will have the same appeal indeed history is littered with one hit wonder companies. I don't want them to do badly, I'm not saying they won't be worth that much when they float, what I'm saying is until they've proved they can repeat that success with another brand it is a really hot valuation.

it just smacks of the dot com bubble to me. I know it actually has revenue so is better in that sense, but think of all the established companies with proven track records and more clear long term plans, not just "we'll make another game". Certainly not something I'd invest in.

I'm thinking of getting a WP7 phone. Would you recommend the OS? It seems cool, I'm just trying to find one you can add extra memory into. 8gb doesn't seem enough to me and the 16gb are such a jump in price it kinda annoys me to the point I wouldn't want to get one.

That adam buxton episode of never mind the buzzcocks was awesome. I just watched an older one with Frankie Boyle too which was toe-curlingly hilarious. Dale Winton was another great host. I think it's just Phil Jupitus that spoils the show.

you bought three copies?

This explains everything you need to know about Ganon's reappearance.