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Lol. Yeah, some of it is a bit out of date these days, of course. You can criticize the Queen if you like, only in some circles it might still be considered rude! (Personally, I'm not a big fan of the Crown, but I do like Elizabeth Windsor herself, mainly because she just seems like a nice old lady.)

I just stumbled upon this document, and found it fascinating. As an example of the strong friendship between our nations, it actually brought a tear to my eye. It's so lovely. I also really like how Germany is never even mentioned; the enemy is always Hitler. Enjoy! http://www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/britain.htm

I've seen people spell it Wharf. Trouble with Open All Hours, is that while David Jason is an excellent actor for both comedy and drama, he is definitely less funny than Ronnie Barker was. Without Barker you just can't really do it. Incidentally, I'm really surprised you've even heard of that show, let alone seen enough of it to like it! On the topic of David Jason, have you watched any Only Fools and Horses? As a series it went on for years, so it's a patchwork of good and bad episodes, but it does have some excellent bits. Every "Top 50 comedy moments" show that they put out in Britain will predictably include a number of well known scenes from it: Batman and Robin

Aaronovitch is awesome in this... I love how he starts off his opening question, lulling Jones into a false sense of security, and Jones laps it up; at no point does he suspect it's just veiled hostility, whereas everyone else can see exactly whats coming! Jones is so awful it's brilliant.

Oh. My. God. I WILL be buying this. I don't give 2 shits what it costs. Who is going to group with me!? To be honest dude, I think everyone wants a go on this! You're not going to be short of people to play with. Everyone at work has been creaming their pants about it.

Yeah... The Division looks awesome, but it is an MMO though, so that might put people off.

Presumably they don't like their General Secretary to be compared to a notoriously air-headed cartoon character. While I'm all in favor of freedom of speech its not like any coherent political point has been made here, so I guess they figured it was just pointlessly disrespectful and banned it.

Stargate Universe (managed to make the previous Stargates rubbish by comparison, and I love those) Firefly (you know why) Dollhouse (for the same reason above) The Wire (because McNulty is hilarious) 24 (which apparently IS actually coming back, but should probably really now be called 12) Game of Thrones (because I never want it to go away)

Platform puzzler. You're a spy, you can jump and climb like a monkey, tackle guards then punch them in the face, and rewire buildings so that light-switches zap enemies with power. Its less than 10 quid on steam, or something, or via the guys website... though he wants people to use steam to raise his profile. Hilarious story. Takel knows the score.

(Sorry, this is a bit of a silly one!) So, I have a couple of delicious packs of sausage and fusilli, and the packaging tells me that in an 800W microwave oven, one pack will take 5 minutes. How does that timing value scale up for two or more packs? You see, obviously it's going to take longer than 5 minutes, but how much longer? Do I double the time, or is that too much? Why isn't this taught in schools?

It entirely depends on what the defendant has been charged with. If the charge has a victim, then decide on the basis of the evidence presented. If the charge's "victim" is some abstract sociological concept, like "the state" (e.g. no victim), then you basically have a moral duty to acquit.

Awesome... I've not tried playing it competitively, but it sounds fun! Right now, I'm playing with Vaulters "Hard Pack", which makes the game a bit more of a challenge... it adds cargo destination, increased construction costs, etc to make it trickier, but also adds useful stuff like conditional-orders, scriptable waypoints etc. Lovely.

Seriously - give OpenTTD a go (it's free!). It's not particularly beautiful, and I fully appreciate if it's not your thing. It's not exactly a simulator... at least, not in the sense of driving a train, or in the sense of very realistic simulation; to me it's just a weird toy. But the reason I like it, is being able to sit back for 5 minutes, and just watch all the hundreds of trains I've amassed go scurrying about, busily picking up goods and delivering them! Oh, and the fun of building the biggest mountain you can, in the middle of nowhere, running a road up it, and sticking your company HQ at the top as a big vanity project!

Ah man... I've had the same issue before I think. Back in the day, simply backing up steamapps, reinstalling steam, deleting the fucked game from steamapps and copying the rest back in... worked. Last time I tried it I didn't have such luck. Some games worked, others didn't. What I ended up doing was: Went into my DODS folder, and backed up all my downloaded maps, etc., autoexec.cfg and config.cfg. Uninstalled ALL valve games. Entirely. Checked through the steamapps folder for any mention of any valve games. Load every other game in turn, see if it works. Any that didn't I uninstalled. (backing up any saves I wanted etc.) Then, re-installed DODS and all the stuff I could be bothered to re-install. Finally, carefully put back the downloaded maps back into their places in the DODS folder. It was a massive pain in the arse, but it did eventually solve it. Slightly cut-down solution If you can't be arsed to backup stuff (and its not that necessary, since you can download all the DODS maps from our forums easily) then I'd just Uninstall all source engine games. Go into the steamapps Re-install all source engine games. Do the same for any other game that you can't get to work. Solution that is most likely to work NUKE THE LOT. Essentially, uninstall steam and ALL the games on it, then go into the steam directory and remove anything that might still be hanging around, then finally go and have a very long wank while you re-install everything. I'm afraid that's not great help, but sometimes steam can get into a bit of a mess. i seem to have resolved it for now , will update is anything changes

For the F12/F11 key thing, try editing your autoexec.cfg (alongside your games config.cfg, just create a new text file and rename if you need to (I'm fairly certain you know that anyway)) and add the bind bind "F11" "jpeg" bind "F12" "" (or whatever you want F12 to be) config.cfg has an tendency to revert to what you didn't want it to be. It's really annoying. autoexec.cfg remains under your control though - valve don't fuck with it, so it should always override config.cfg, and it shouldn't get changed without you changing it.