one of the reasons Channel five shows the programs you're both moaning about is that a large part of its (terrestrial) remit was originally for 'educational' programming in the same way C4s was for 'alternative' programming so they are essentally pulling a fast one with things like 'World's Most Ama...

me too,

it's not great news, but some of the US shows are OK and the sport could be interesting.

:lol: only a couple of weeks ago i watched Jonathan Ross show his prostate exam endoscopy tape on his Friday night (& the BBCs flagship) chat show, i'd love to see Letterman try something like that and ride it out. if that was a reference to the BBC, i can only assume you don't understand the se...

i wish it was bigger (a US source ?)

A black bear got more than it bargained for after straying into a family garden in the US state of New Jersey.

The unwelcome intruder was forced up a tree - twice - by the family pet, a tabby cat called Jack

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looking it up now !

if that solution was applied the self righteous could not control what you're exposed to and there would be much whaling and gnashing of teeth because they would no longer be able to dictate such. people have to be 'protected' in much the same way women have to wear burqas so's as not to tempt men. ...

Also, on my main monitor, there was this weird flicker. I'm not sure what that's about. XP doesn't do it. XP runs the desktop using Direct Draw, Vista runs the desktop using Direct 3D which is why you need a decent GPU to run it. Direct Draw is history (so is running OpenGL in a window btw :mad:) t...

some snippits of Freeview news for the resident Britons firstly Channel five will be launching two new Channels at the expense of that waste of time Top Up TV one is a Kids/'Womens lifestyle' Channel :puke: the other called Five US 'will offer drama, films, sport, comedy and youth programming from a...

Hi all, first post so please be gentle . . . 1st is there any of the current SNES emus listed on the main site that would let me play Secret of Mana all the way through with decent sound and no (major) problems. links to up-to-date compatiblity threads or webpages would be greatly appreciated. 2ndl...

our top goverment officals are all in the KGB.






oh wait, that was 30 years ago.

i fancy Portugal too, and intend to try and catch their games.

Trinidad & Tobago held Sweden to a nil nil draw despite having a man sent off, their defence was conducted well but made for a dull game.

overall i think England will find them harder than expected especially if there going to rely on the opposition scoring all their goals

i disagree, swearing on air or talking about subjects others find offesive is the greatest threat facing mankind today

yup

well it is a four year tournament and they only decided that a couple of months ago (plus it's not went through yet afaik).

a but on the day . . . . you never know,
i mean look at Korea last time.

I fail to see how same-sex marriage is more important than finishing what we started halfway around the world. Then again, this is the United States. :roll: you're right. heaven forbid a person multitask. heaven forbid George Bush should multitask. half the time he can barely stand up and talk at t...

your taking me too literally, i was just having a jab at Microsoft. by making the xboxs more and more like a PC they have transferred over some of the PC developers bad habits, yet they have a targeted hardware platform (so just like apple to some extent) they should have less problems to deal with ...

there's a ticket stub to pin on the wall, huh