Steve

I have a question Mr Gravy. Seeing as I was absent for the better part of a year I missed your antics as CrimsonFault. What is the story behind your re-registering? Why did Gol tell you to behave? Were you banned? Or are you just a wanker that nobody likes? Please tell me, there is so much I need to catch up on.

Amelie is fantastic. I was one of those doubters but I made all my assumptions having not seen the movie. Yes the ending has a happy feel-good cheesefest ending, but the way it gets there is just so quirky and funny. Watch it and if you disagree, if you think Amelie is shit then you have no soul.

To steal Scott's gimmick here: Snatch is better than Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. FACT! And it has been scientifically proven that anyone that doesn't agree with the above statement is gay. FACT!

I thought you were a fucking student?? So what if I'm gay? It's ok Alistair, we all figured as much.

Poor bastard.

Edited for me. Fuck paying someone to do it.

The same could be said about Newcastle though...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/289178...ndred09.article

Rotten Tomatoes, which I'm sure you know about, has a shitload of reviews all together for movies. It was has more positive reviews than negative, why have you not included any of those in your post? http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/300/

Happy Birthday Osama you wacky bastard. Hope you're taking a day off from whatever it is you're scheming. p.s. Mr CIA Agent if you're reading this. My real name is Scott Robinson and I'm as ginger as they come. A 'fanta pants' if you'd prefer. So you don't arrest and torture the wrong guy. Just bring two of you in case you physically can't drag me away on your own.

I prefer the term 'fanta pants' for when talking about our less evolved ginger 'friends'.

That's nobody's genius.

I used to follow F1 must more closely than I do now. I think the end for me was after Damon Hill retired. Not that I liked him, but the Hill/Schumacher rivalry was so entertaining. There's just no entertainment left, no personalities. It's just all so dry. I look for Mark Webber's results and that's it.

Fixed your post for you there Champ.

I don't take one with me on a night out but I do have a little one that goes in my bag when I'm going to work. Fuck getting rained on. I guess seeing as how when I was in Melbourne it wouldn't rain a whole lot that coming over here I wasn't used to it. But still, fuck getting soaked, cold and uncomfortable in the morning before having to go to work. If you think you're being a man and just puting up with the rain I've got news for you, you're just being that sad wanker that deserves every stupid look they get from people when you're standing there soaking. And if you are that wanker soaked to the skin and you sit next to me on the tube I will tell you to move.

As have I my good man, although I felt a little old at the show. Bloody kids. It was worse at the AFI show though. I mean, they play Days of the Phoenix and half of the kids had no idea what it was. I mean shit, it's not that old and was AFI at their peak! This is one I hadn't heard. Four discs?! Do they actually think they have that much good new material? Thinking of the recent(ish) double albums, be they released together like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, or apart like Kid A and Amnesiac, or Mezmorize and Hypnotize, all of them would've been better if the crap filler was cut. np. Zero by Smashing Pumpkins

Listening to songs like this gives you more of my love Kevin. <3 np: Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins

Sushi is lovely and isn't as bad as you think. When you go somewhere that does proper sushi it is very fresh and doesn't have a strong fishy taste at all. It tastes 'clean' if that makes sense, it just very fresh oh my god so great. And Vegemite is so much better than Marmite. As for me, I've never tried Guinness.

I got my ipod back from its service so all is right with the world again. Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins I've become one of those old people stuck listening to music from 'their' decade. My ipod is full of this stuff, Pumpkins, Tool, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine and on and on. Fuck it, it's better than most the shit that's around today. And now I definitely know I'm old.

The fact that you like any of them speaks volumes about you.

I'm bored, broke and at home on Friday night and I was checking out the UK shit town thread and thought about the shitty places to go out around the world and here we are. 1. Adelaide, Australia The most boring city on the face of the Earth. Even on a Friday or Saturday night the place is dead, and everything either closes early or worse, is full of South Australians. No decent pubs or clubs, no decent chicks to look at and SA beer is god awful. 2. Christchurch, New Zealand Much like Adelaide, is a little town that thinks it's bigger than what it is. Going out in the tourist extreme sports places on the south island is great, but Christchurch is just a boring wannabe big city. Pales in comparison to Wellington which surprisingly is a fantastic night out, mainly because of all the student type places. And Auckland is fantastic, if I had to move to NZ that's where I'd go. Just avoid Christchurch. 3. Moscow, Russia Firstly, going out at night scared the crap out of me because I had enough hassle from the police during the day, at night I had no idea how bad it'd get. Anyway, the bars and stuff typically start off quite cheap until you get a small group of you happening that are foreigners and then magically their prices go up by three times or more. At the start of the night pints started off at about 50 Rubles (just under £1). This was at a pretty posh place too, you can find cheaper beer around, but at the start of the night there was only two of us. After an hour four other met us and just like that they were charging us 200 Rubles per pint. Just for being foreigners. Wankers.

Actually, it's a bit surprising the media have focussed solely on nursing staff for this one (well, not surprising, more annoying). After AfC this will affect ALL NHS staff, except clinicians, including me. Rat's cocks! The worst discreprancy I think is seen in primary care, where GPs have been awarded HUGE pay rises with reduced hours (most are now on over 100K with no mandatory call out), whereas the rest of the staff have to make do with less than inflationary rises. The whole thing fucking stinks tbh. I'm one of those evil agency staff that are looked upon like scum, particularly around the nurses. I do this because my wage as a permanent NHS employee would be absolutely pitiful. When you get right down to it, agency money isn't all that fantastic. I only make a fraction of what my agency charges the hospital for my time. I make about half of the hourly rate, and I know this because I've seen the invoices that my agency sends out. The thing is though, it is harder to stay employed as agency staff. I have ZERO job security, and can be let go of over night. Technically they're supposed to give a week's notice but I have friends that were told just not to come back the next day because the job was done. Where I work now there is no permanent staff, we are all employed through and agency and the department prefers it that way. Why? Because we have to work to keep our jobs. If we are shit, they simply let us go and get someone else. It's probably the best department I've ever worked in because of that, we all have to work to the absolute highest standard because if not we're gone.

It's always about the nurses. What about us poor radiology staff?

Was on MSN with a friend from home and I put her surname in just to see. I didn't expect this one: