Renton

iTunes is as user-friendly as it gets, what's to loathe about it? I've said it before, but I don't understand these people that have constant problems with iPod batteries. I've had mine for years now and have no bother with it at all. What do these people do with them?? 37488[/snapback] I don't like being forced to use their system, or forced to shop at their shops. Also, it doesn't play WMA files does it, which accounts for a lot of my collection? Do I have to convert these somehow, and will there be a loss of quality, and how long will it take? Basically I hate the monopolistic attitude of Apple - I want something I can just drag and drop with MS windows, downloaded from anywhere. As for the batteries, I guess it's just luck. 37495[/snapback] I don't use iTunes with my iPod, I use anapod instead. 37500[/snapback] Now you've lost me.

Bad analogy, Betamax failed because Sony insisted on retaining all the rights on it rather than licensing it out like VHS. I'm only vaguely aware of what an iRiver is tbh.

iTunes is as user-friendly as it gets, what's to loathe about it? I've said it before, but I don't understand these people that have constant problems with iPod batteries. I've had mine for years now and have no bother with it at all. What do these people do with them?? 37488[/snapback] I don't like being forced to use their system, or forced to shop at their shops. Also, it doesn't play WMA files does it, which accounts for a lot of my collection? Do I have to convert these somehow, and will there be a loss of quality, and how long will it take? Basically I hate the monopolistic attitude of Apple - I want something I can just drag and drop with MS windows, downloaded from anywhere. As for the batteries, I guess it's just luck.

Rob, just how old are you? Are you like one of those people from "Highlander"?

I quite fancy one but I'm not sure. I have a deep loathing of iTunes, and don't trust its battery. I'll probably wait for the equivalent Sony or whatever.

It's been superb. It's obviously got very high production values too, yet I have never seen it advertised. Strange. 37183[/snapback] They were saying it's been as massive coup, as both the US and Russians were quite happy to help with the production and also provide information. 37193[/snapback] They'll be able to sell it to every country in the world afterwards as well. Things like this remind me why we need the BBC - just a shame they don't do more of them rather than Eastenders or some shitty reality TV show.

Been through Switzerland before on route to Italy on a coach holiday (remember them?). The scenery is stunning. 37162[/snapback] Lucky you, i'd really like to see it, wouldnt mind Prague and Venice too. Yeah, i remember coach holidays, still do them cos i wont fly 37170[/snapback] Venice is beautiful too, haven't been to Prague yet. 37174[/snapback] apparantely because Prague has become quite a fashionable place to visit (stag doos etc) its got really expensive. 37179[/snapback] I think it's relatively expensive rather than actually being so (from what I've heard). The days of the 20p pint of pilsner are probably over though 37182[/snapback] My wife went there in the summer hols in 1990. Apparently as a condition of the visa, you had to spend at least £3 a day there. Doesn't seem like a lot - except you could eat 5 of the finest meals a day (which were still rank) and virtually unlimited alcohol with this money. Basically, you couldn't spend it fast enough.

It's been superb. It's obviously got very high production values too, yet I have never seen it advertised. Strange.

I wanna visit the US but after having seen so much of it on telly Im bound to be disappointed. I wanna see New York, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Disney Land, the Grand Canyon, Cowboys and cacti, visit cape canavaral, have breakfast in a roadside diner, go to the whitehouse, watch a denver broncos game and go jellystone park. knaa what i meen lyek? would be quite a hectic weekend i suspect 36915[/snapback] do it mate, u wont be disappointed, except maybe by LA which is a total shit hole. 36924[/snapback] im gonna have to do some planning to get the most of of it though, where would you recommend me go? obviously i cant go everywhere like. perhaps i should have thought of this before i had kids as well really, guess I'll have to settle for disneyland in a few years! 36939[/snapback] In 96 I travelled for about 18 days on Amtrak - you could get this unlimited pass for about $200 (regardless of age) - you should check it out (especially if you like slow moving trains - the best way to travel!). I stayed in all the major cities from Florida to Boston (my favourite). Accomodation wise it was off season (also had the benefit of missing us "losing" the premiership), so I basically booked medium priced hotels on the day - hotels in the US were also quite cheap then. This worked out OK apart from one night in Baltimore. They were having some game of rounders or something, and all the hotels were booked up with travelling rounders fans - I slept on the street that night which was VERY scary. I believe you can also get cheap unlimited plane tickets as well - definitely worth doing if you want to see the states and your time is limited. A word of warning though, I believe (from experience) the whole atmosphere of the country has changed since 9/11, and it isn't the relaxed experience it once was. For instance, you used to be able to turn up on the day and get shown around the whitehouse (btw Washington is a great city), but I doubt you can do that now. As for me I agree with several others - Japan has a strange allure.

The riddle game in The Hobbit eh? 37141[/snapback] Great chapter, and the question posed here is the one that finally flummoxed (?) Gollum.

Or maybe it's easier than we'd like to think to turn people into fucking savages. Orwell wrote a nice piece in the Observer at the time of the liberation of Paris on how the liberated behaved, worth a read, don't know if that stuff is avaliable online. We don't learn. 37144[/snapback] Yeah, you're right. Conformity is a huge driving force too. It has been scientifically proven that people will do terrible things as part of a group under peer pressure, or when ordered to by someone in authority.

Ohh, and talking of the chant, I really don't remember it, but that could easily be down to memory. Needless to say I did find it quite amusing at the time that the mighty Liverpool were being reduced to a shambles by an idiot like Souness mind - every non-Liverpool fan in the country thought it was funny iirc.

Misery guts. Nigel Clough, what a player. Remind me who signed him again?

A plain gold ring that makes me go invisible.

Joke man I wasn't at the game mate, I was at Uni and I couldn't make it. Watched it though, happy days eh? 37103[/snapback] Happy days indeed. I remember being held up at the Gallowgate, running up the stairs, and hearing the roar as the first went in. Then this scouse lad said the funniest thing ever after the match to me - "Eeeeeh, youse were shit, lykkke". As it happens that was one of the last Keegan league games I got to - tickets were like gold dust after that if you didn't have an ST. Easy enough to get in the second year of Dalglish for some reason.

Maybe something has been lost in translation, you need German as your first language to feel emphatic about him. But yes, just look at the state of him. He was a complete tit and I can't help thinking I would never be swayed by him, whatever my plight. This is fundamentally against my beliefs though, it has to be said (i.e. I believe people are fundamentally the same so it could have happened here).

Ah well, maybe the message should be PANIC after all. It looks distinctly likely that the increase in these powerful hurricanes is linked with the rise in temperature of the gulf of Mexico, which in turn is probably linked to the green house effect. The thing is, if this is the case, these will happen with alarming regularity from now on, and its going to cost the US hundreds of lives and billions of dollars. Surely this will encourage Bush to think of his energy policies, although in all likelihood it is probably too late for the next two generations. It would be flippant and unfair [on the people affected] to say you reap what you sow, but I hope he finally faces up to some environmental responsibilities.....

Mind you, Houston isn't at the same risk as New Orleans is it? I mean it's not built below sea level underneath dykes holding back millions of gallons of water? Could be a considerable over reaction here, but I guess you can't blame people.

Mine keep ringing me, giving me a cheaper rate every 6 months without any loss of free minutes or texts. It's just to keep me loyal. It means my handset is 2 years old now, but it's been my favourite anyway. So cheap I may as well give up my landline, tbh.

ffs

Loved Simcity 2000, I've never been able to get into the later versions for some reason.....

In Tynemouth it's probably the plaza tandoori, where the plaza used to be (strangely enough), near the park hotel. They are really a restaurant though and don't do deliveries I think. In Shields your guess is probably better than mine - I've got tons of flyers but I reckon they're all much of a muchness. I bet SLP knows.... 36656[/snapback] I like Momin's Tandoori at Billy Mill, been going for years, but my Mrs doesn't like it...picky cow. You can become a member free of charge and you'll get 10% discount! Honest! 36666[/snapback] It's normally that one that sets me off wanting one on the way home when I drive past it. Right, I'll give it a go. Do they deliver? 36669[/snapback] They do! Don't blame me if it's shite though, I've always liked it but my Mrs was raised on real West End of Newcastle curry houses which are the real-I-am of the region, which is why she's a picky bitch. 36671[/snapback] Hope she doesn't read this!

True, better to be ginger than bald! You can always dye it. Unless you are one of those people with pubes for hair, in which case it's pretty much equally bad.... Thank God I've got great hair.

In Tynemouth it's probably the plaza tandoori, where the plaza used to be (strangely enough), near the park hotel. They are really a restaurant though and don't do deliveries I think. In Shields your guess is probably better than mine - I've got tons of flyers but I reckon they're all much of a muchness. I bet SLP knows....

Puff! 36605[/snapback] Oh look, we've got a curry 'hard man' who won't eat a curry any milder than a vindaloo.... Taste-buds are fucked then? 36614[/snapback] Not at all, would never go beyond a Madras personally, and I'm not really that keen on curries full stop. But I thought Korma was exclusively for girls? 36633[/snapback] Puff! 36637[/snapback] When you've lived a bit you basically realise curries are shit food, imo. Like Kebabs. Always a place for them at night when nothing else is open however.