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Last film I saw was Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind which I rented on DVD the other night. I'd been meaning to get round to seeing it for a while. Anyway, odd as it was, I really liked it. I though Kate Winslet & Jim Carrey were fantastic in it, and I thought the whole thing was...

I ought to be doing a billion and one things today (like cleaning :eek: ) but instead I'm going down to the Quayside to watch the Tall Ships which are in Newcastle as part of the Tall Ships Race. :cool: And I plan to do some reading. I'm reading "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult. Tis all right...

Yeah, I saw the news Bugs, scary as hell. However I think this is just a variation of the Looney Tunes and not a permanent revamp for all future LT endeavours. I bloody well hope not anyway!

I read it a long time ago and loved it, but then I was only about 17 at the time. I did re-read the first chapter or so a couple of years ago and couldn't get into it, but then I am rarely able to re-read novels.

I'm listening to Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love album. I still love Cloudbusting.

I used to have lots of penpals when I was at high school, aged about 14-16. Did anyone else have FB's? :D Anyway I eventually couldn't manage them and they dwindled. I am still in touch with a girl from Atlanta and we have been corresponding since I was about 15 or 16 (I'm now 27). We have...

I was conceived in Germany. :D My pa was in the Army. The only thing he could teach me about the German language though was really useless stuff like "ich habe drei Kinder" and that "wasserfest" means "waterproof"! And I actually quite like Germany, although I've only been there a...

We say, or used to say, "mint" here too. Also Jenem's "shut your cakehole" one, which I think is class. :D A current common term in use in the UK at the mo is "muppet" meaning "idiot"... I use it all the time.

I'd forgotten about this. Even when I was doing my most rudimentary French/Spanish/Portuguese, I used to write my diary in the language. I tried to get far too far ahead of myself and write complicated stuff, but it was worth it. The result is that I look back now at some of my early diary...

:eek: :D omg, I really thought you were joking till you provided a link. I like the way the council says it helped put Woking on the map "not only as the birthplace of modern science fiction but also as a location for artistic excellence"... :rolleyes:

I've never read anything that's been set where I live, and that goes for Wales, France, and the four places I've lived in England. I know that Arnold Bennett wrote books set in my hometown of Stoke-on-Trent though, no particular urge to read them though.

In Stoke-on-Trent (my hometown), if you are "nesh" it means you are prone to feeling the cold. Other than that, people have a tendency to call each other "duck" as in, "shut the door, duck", or "where you going, duck?". I live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne now which is renowned for its...

I wouldn't recommend just blindly translating a book. I tried doing this when I was studying French, after I'd been learning the language for about 5 years. (I was doing my A-level in French at the time, which is the part of school when you are aged 16-18). Did I learn anything...

There was a case here last year of a guy who did just that, and he infected quite a few women. I believe he was found guilty of something and received a custodial sentence... I'll see if I can dig it up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4267433.stm There we go. I think it is...

I prefer to read the book first and then see the film. If I see the film first, I usually can't be arsed to read the book (sorry) unless the film was super-duper. Also reading a book after seeing the film is kinda like... Well the best way to describe it is like doing a crossword that's...

Ah, well we don't have internet access. :( But we have access to the full range of BBC sites so I usually peruse them and sometimes post on their forums (which have such a low post turnover, it's just dull).

Yeah, the whole key to call centre work is not to take anything personally. People are generally angry at the company - after all if they met me, I'm sure they'd love me. :p I think one plus point is that I keep my head during arguments now and if I know or believe I'm in the right, then I have...

I like my job, but god I love that hold button... Don't know what I'd do without it. :D And no, it's not a great job, not very well respected, but quite a tough one sometimes. The way some people think it's okay to speak to you... It's like, "do you kiss your children goodnight with those...

Good grief. :eek: Well nice to see a fellow simian on here. :p Anyway I did my degree first, just a BA - well done for doing a PhD !!

I'm a call centre monkey for an airline.