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"beater" and "beeter" are the same aren't they?

The whole bee-tah, bay-tah, bet-ah thing really makes me cringe. I heard another one the other day. A radio advert for "My week with Marilyn" the guy pronounced "Lang lang" (which I've only ever heard pronounced as in "Bang") as "Lung lung". Made me shudder!

Don't think it has a DVD drive mate.

You can have corn bread and southern fried chicken, but there is no way Americans are laying claim to the barbeque. There's too many variants and too many other colonies that use the various methods for outdoor cooking for any one to say that they gave the world that cuisine. Australians are stereotyped as putting anything edible on a barbie and South Africans have a "braai" to name just two others. I don't for one minute adhere to the stereotype that "all American food is processed junk", there's a wealth of different and very good food available, clam chowder in sour-bread rolls is a fantastic "American" dish (in that I associate it with San Fran), it's especially welcome when the weather is colder. By the same token, not all English food is bland, and many French wines are utter crap. In short badly prepared food is bad. Go anywhere and you can find crap food, no country has a monopoly on it. America doesn't do its food image many favours though, the whole renaming (Belgian) "French Fries" as "Freedom Fries", the fact that many see McDonald's as the blue-print for US cuisine, the perception that American food is about piling tonnes of artificial flavoured, heavily processed "meat". The shady labelling of "Cheese Products" all conjur up a poor image of American cooking. As to English cooking, aside from proper bacon, some regional dishes like Haggis and Cornish Pasties and the Roast dinner, I think that we tend to assimilate and adapt other cooking styles. Chicken Tikka Masala being a good example.

Does she chase you out of the kitchen if you offer to cook for everyone?

Normally do onion gravy with toad in the hole. I tend to stick to pretty simple food, all that complicated fancy schmancy stuff tends to be a lot more effort with not much more tastiness. Learning how to cook meat properly without burning it is waaaaay more important than remembering recipes. I have a decent crack at doing a roast dinner every now and then. Including roast parsnips, carrot and potatoes and usually cauliflower cheese on the side. In fact, feeling somewhat inspired to do one this weekend.

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I make a pretty mean toad in the hole. Also, pretty good at chilli and bolognese. I tend to make meals that are easy to share around rather than discrete plated up meals, comes from having a Mediterranean background I think. I used to make my own pizza bases when I was at uni, but I don't have the time these days. EDIT: I don't make the time is more accurate.

If it's free DLC, no drama. If it's paid, well, still no drama. But meh.

I too find "Backronyms" irritating. Here's some more to wind you up... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithAcronyms James Bond's "S.P.E.C.T.R.E." was always a favourite of mine. SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

I just discovered this one. People who compare the price of data storage cards to the price of media players wind me up.

I liked Sucker Punch too. Thought it was a pretty slick production. I liked the visuals. The Steam Punk - Alice in Wonderland-ness of it all. It was a fun film. It's not exactly taxing on the noggin, but it was a good bit of cinema. EDIT: I also really liked the soundtrack. So there!

Personally, I ticked "Labour" because I wanted Blair in. I would not have voted Labour if Brown had been in charge. Swapping leader is no different to swapping policies imho. In fact, one was a direct cause of the other.

It was a tongue in cheek comment. Nevertheless I still expect only a minority of that vocal minority to actually even download the game, even then, I bet that the majority of that minority of the vocal minority will do so out of principle rather than a desire to play 1943.

Never really liked Street Fighter. Was more of a Tekken fan. I did really like Fighters Destiny on the N64 and still have nightmares about Joker. The only other fighting game I really got into was Bushido blade. I loved that with that game you could pretty much disarm your opponent before going in for the kill.

After the amount of fuss a number of them were making, they had damned well better. :-P

HA! I knew it was a different account! How could the rep not have thought of that???

*whistles innocently* Nothing to see here... move along... Not sure how on earth EA are going to magic up the server capacity for the millions of 1943 players, but ho hum, everyone can move on to moaning about something else now.

I know you get the distinction, just wanted to make the corporate structure clear for everyone before we get people claiming that "EA are working Bioware like dogs." and "EA are going to ruin Bioware by spreading them too thinly."

Is that Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic? There was a pretty good made for TV interpretation recently that you should look up. Also Hogfather and Going Postal. I believe Good Omens is in the works too, though I am not as excited about that one.

Bioware is a "Label" now, not just a Studio. It's like EA SPORTS.

So they said that the account had a different email address, name and billing info? How do they know that they are looking at the right account? Is there something else they were able to identify it by?

If I travel back in time and convince Ethan and Strangelove to kiss while "Earth Angel" plays, will he reappear?

What conversation?

WRT Uncharted 3. I would love a way to turn off the audio clues. I was on the verge of working one of the puzzles out when Sully started yapping on about the solution. Other times, you'd be working through it, turning stuff and what-not and the game will be giving it all "You have to turn the things!" Just a bit less hand holding would have been nice. Leant the game to my dad so it'll be a while till I can have a crack at Crushing. I can see a couple of areas being pretty frustrating.