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I see an opportunity for the Dark Mod here! *water arrow hits a torch - pssst!* "What was that?!" "Must have been a can of coke opening."

The last english book I read was 'Hood' by Stephen Lawhead, after I was sent a copy at work. It's basically the story of Robin Hood set during the Norman invasion of Britain.

Another version of Windows? I'm still using DOS Shell!

Watch out for underage shemales, murderers released because they converted to buddhism, and tsunamis. Otherwise, life's a beach.

Watch out or you'll end up like this unintentionally hilarious Scottish independence forum.

There are 95 serious national rugby teams, and at least one great top 20 rugby team in every continent on earth, so I'd consider it to be a more international game than hockey. Soccer and rugby are also more accessible games than ice hockey to the vast majority of the population, because they can be played pretty much anywhere. The only bad thing about rugby is that it has been mostly spread by British colonialism, and is mostly played by the upper classes (see how few black people are on the South Africa team, for instance). Wales is an exception where it is at its most popular in the working class valleys. I'm not much of a fan of football because of the hooligans who follow it. Football is a gentleman's game played by thugs, while rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen.

'Soccer' (or football to the rest of earth) is the most popular sport on the planet. It isn't a sport the UK concentrates on just because no-one else plays it. Canadians: "OK, we'll play a game based on ice, 'cause most of the world doesn't have any and can't beat us at it! Bwahahaha!" Its better being small and insignificant than big and insignificant, like Canada.

Bah, I don't know why North America is so inward looking when it comes to sports. You may not be able to find the rest of the world on a map, but you can at least support your international teams rather than, er, 'playing with yourselves', so to speak. There were very few Canadian supporters at the game, only two in fact, and they were sitting behind me. They kept saying 'this is sure different to mount royal, ey?' and whooping whenever Canada got the ball.

Any Canadian rugby fans out there? Canada will play before their biggest ever crowd, 74,000 people (including one Macsen) when they face Wales at the Millenium Stadium today. For those of you not familiar with rugby, it's like American football but you can only pass backwards and aren't allowed to wear any padding. Here's a Welsh rugby song to get you in the mood, with lyrics slightly amended: We paid our weekly shilling for that November trip: A long weekend in Cardiff, aye, without a bit of kip. There's a seat reserved for beer by the boys from Abercarn: There's beer, pontoon, crisps and fags and a croakin 'Calon Lan'. And we were singing hymns and arias, 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'. Into Queen Street we did roll with an empty crate of ale. Will had lost at cards and now his Western Mail's for sale. But Will is very happy though his money all has gone: He swapped five photos of his wife for one of Barry John. And we were singing hymns and arias, 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'. We got to the stadium early and were jostled in the crowd; Planted leeks and dragons, looked for toilets all around. So many there we couldn't budge -twisted legs and pale: I'm ashamed we used a bottle, that once held bitter ale. And we were singing hymns and arias, 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'. Wales defeated Canada in a fast and open game. We sang 'Cwm Rhondda' and 'Delilah', damn, they sounded both the same. We sympathised with a Canadian whose team was doomed to fail So we gave him that old bottle, that once held bitter ale! He started singing hymns and arias, 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'. So it's down to Splot for the night, to the girls with the shiny beads; To the funny men with lipstick on, with evil minds and deeds. One said to Will from a doorway dark, damn, she didn't have much on. But Will knew what she wanted, aye...his photo of Barry John! 'Cos she was singing hymns and arias, 'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'.

Rabin Hood is crap. I watched the first three episodes before working out that every episode has exactly the same plot and set. Everyone wears medieval costumes that have come straight from the Paris catwalk. The BBC's new series Torchwood is better, if only because I can feel nostalgic for my college days when they film in the street I used to live.

Komag, everyone but you is a Vampire. We'll get round to biting you eventually, once you improve the old B.O.

They should have launched a pre-emptive air strike against the school. They may be harmless schoolchildren now, but already the seeds of anti-Americanism have been planted. If we don't take them out soon we'll pay the price in 10-25 years.

What are you guys on about? Is this all some veiled metaphor for sex?

Cool! I like dragons.

What if you needed something to stand on to reach a high shelf, deliver a political adress, or plug an oddly square hole in the side of a ship?

But evolution disagrees with the Bible. How can you be a Christian and disagree with the Bible? That's like a Builder living in a tree. Those who know the Bible's truth but reject it will burn all the longer in hell! The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow... It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all. You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Bwahahahahahaha! *choke* Nah, I wouldn't know one way or the other really. I'm an agnostic.

Thanks Spar I now have 1.6GB free on my C drive.

Thank you Sparhawk and the rest, once I get back from work I'll try and use your suggestions. If you hear a loud bang that's my C drive bursting...

Awww, I open this thread thinking 'oh good eight replies of people dealing with my problem' then find the whole thread drawn like a moth to a flame towards speculation about Spar's sexuality. Again! What is 'swap space'? They are on D.

I have some PC troubles, if anyone can help. For some reason my C drive, which has Windows on it, is only 5GB size, while my D drive, with everything else, is 150GB. The D drive is only 20% full, but the C drive is getting so full it's causing major problems... I tried compressing all the information on C, but then my video drivers stopped working, and when I de-compressed the information it seemed to grow again and left only 12kb of room left on C drive. This has caused all kinds of crashes... I've run all of the system cleanouts, disk check, and the defragmentor, and deleted all unecessary programs (including internet browsers, games, applications...) but C is still stuffed to the gills. Any ideas about what I could do? Best of all, is there any way to transfer some things, like Windows itself, to the D drive which is as empty as the New Orleans disaster relief fund? Thank you for reading this.

Are these the same people who spend hours toiling on 3D models under the dim light of their computer screens? Where?! I want to watch it and feel equally disgusted, tut tut. It's just a video of the news report about his death.

I was rather shocked at the news, but in hindsight it seemed inevitable. The number of times he's been bitten I'm quite surprised it didn't happen sooner. It was rather unfair of him to take such risks when he had a wife and two sons. BTW, is there a person who's job it is to update and change all the tenses on a person's wikipedia page after he/she dies?

It could still be a torture device... prisoners are 'crucified' to it and then the wheel is rotated... splat!

Arumaki, some forum members did mention the fact that you had PM'd them quite a bit and then quickly moved on to discussing 2 watt lightbulbs. But they certainly didn't 'slag you off'. Calm down.

That's very true! I'm 'different' insofar as I speak Welsh and campaign on Welsh language issues, but you can win a lot of prestige throughout Wales by winning some major awards at the national Eisteddfod. Yo.