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All three, I would agree, are excellent films, even if Fight Club did have a crappy ending. At any rate, I didn't *get* it. My own picks would also include Stalingrad and Princess Mononoke.

JS Mill's 'On Liberty.' The guy talks a lot of sense, you know.

Riding bike. Flies. AAAAAAAGGHHHH! ...play with lego?

Piffling details old bean! It matters not to me anyway, as I have precisely no nationalistic pride whatsoever. Jingoism irritates me immensely. Team GB's a crappy name anyway. It sounds like something cheerleaders would say. What's wrong with plain old Great Britain?

I finished The Martian Chronicles a few days ago, and like all short story collections (though these are interconnected) it was hit-and-miss. I didn't really 'get' some of them, but two, 'And the Moon be Still as Bright' and 'The million-year Picnic' were simply beautiful. The evocation of the...

I heard that GB won another medal today. Scottish cyclist or something. Which is good, I guess, though I'm really not that bothered.

It is. Hence the leet haxxor kiddies being universally derided, and their language being used only in ironic intent. Watercrystal: l33tsp34k isn't that rare - play any game over the internet (games as in commercial releases, not Martin's glorious finds from the dark corners of the internet)...

Christmas thank you letters probably! I generally use e-mail instead. When did you last feel serious regrets about doing something?

Yep, only nowadays leet/l33t/1337 is used more with ironic intent than anything, and is basically the single biggest gamer in-joke in existence. So there you go, consider yourself educated Martin. Here we have the equation that forms such kiddies, brought to you by Penny Arcade.

yesterday's google pic was fencing, I think, and the day before was archers - one of the 'o's served as a target. As for pwnzed/pwned/0wn3d, it means 'owned.' Which in this context means defeated or triumphed over.

I loved 'Eats, shoots and leaves,' especially for the punctuation jokes. This was probably because I'm a real pedant too, forever correcting signs and the like. Especially apostrophes. They are never correct. Aside from that, another Sheffielder! Which area are you from?

My mistake, the Stoors are hobbits, just not the same kind of hobbits as Frodo, Bilbo et al. (there are three strains.)

If I'm guessing correctly what the V and S stand for, the Robin Hobb books already mentioned have a fair bit of both!

Ahhh, but we pwnzed curling, and that is all that matters. :rolleyes:

Years of fun when you're five/six, it was. I remember it well. But what's up with the sound on this 'un? Lemmings is nothing without the music, NOTHING.

The Stoors were actually one of the races that came from the east from which hobbits spawned; the evolutionary precursors of hobbits, if you will.

Lemmings! Such a brilliant game. Years of fun.

Tom Bombadil is a Maia, like Sauron, the Balrogs and the Istari (Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast and co.) He is in some ways the greatest of the Maiar, and his wife is in fact the daughter of a Vala (Nienor I think - a while since I read the Silmarillion too!) That's valar you buffoon - the...

No, you see they're like power-ranger cookies. In that they fuse together to form a giant cookie. Or megazord-cookie, if you will.

I barely ever get really ill. I even went to Nepal and spent the best part of a month in a cramped house with numerous people either vomiting or suffering from diarrhoea, sporadic water supply (so no way to clean up the bathroom...) and other forms of nastiness, and I was the only one not to...