"Melvin"... hrr hrr hrr. It's a typical name craze item over here. Add to that Kevin, Linus and Chantal!

Wait, isn't the most common name for male babies in the United Kingdom "Mohammed" these days? Well, allow me to introduce Her Majesty's Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mohammed Cameron!

On another note, I don't think Spain will really join forces with Argentina. In truth the Spanish relations with Latin America are at an all time low since that Chavez slob and King Juan Carlos got in each other's way.

We're in an aliance with Spain to attack at the same time British territory*, first time I hear that. As far as I know, it was only an "I understand you mate, it is annoying to have those silly tea-drinking buggers. Let's condemn them in a pact that nobody will read nor care after a few weeks!" Over here it was only worth five minutes in a news channel and... That's it.

Retake the Malvinas...Or Gibraltar, for what? And speaking in behalf of Argentina... with what? And do you really think that Spain will risk to attack the Brits, knowing that the whole EU will be against them? Even crossing into the Strain would be a political suicide, even the Spanish aren't that dumb.

And on another note, "oh, poor me, my navy has 50 destroyers instead of the 400 that we used to have in 1960, who will protect us!". Modern wars are unconventional, a big navy is a big expense, and I don't understand who you think that will atack you, or why, even more considering the fact that the UK is sorrounded by their allies.


*Or as they claim!

Blasphemy! I love it!

Since we have this colony hate thing going right now, do you even realize that just one more vocal would turn Cameron into Cameroon, which used to be a GERMAN colony before being given to the FRENCH!?

Full stop.

Dave, you better get this cloning facility of yours going. I need a clone to be my ghostwriter.

Couldn't you just hire, you know, an actual ghost? They usually don't have anything better to do.

Saying they don't have anything better to do implies they have something else to do, if less important. What is it what ghosts do for a living? You know, I wanna see for myself. Wouldn't want to keep a ghost off their business on your word alone.

I don't believe ghosts do very much living at all! Death usually precludes one from such careers.

Hey, listen everyone! Dave discriminates against the dead! As someone who nearly died on several occasions not long ago I take offence!

Oh God, don't tell me you're one of these bleeding heart death sympathizers. Do you want your daughter marrying a zombie or something? I'm sorry, is that not PC enough? Would you rather I said "living impaired"? Well I won't! A zombie's a zombie!

Merde, now he's using my own weapons against me.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/f...0819-2s5w2.html

I wonder how long it took the staff to stop laughing and start removing the thing

Goodness gracious me!

John! You're baaack! Where have you been?!

Oh I'm not back, that was just too good not to post

I see. Damn lurkers!

@Carver: An F1+ tornado struck a town about 150km from where I live yesterday. 27 people were injured, 5 of them seriously.

wy isent the uge ArmA3 Beta update covered on the site? :S

Same reason it isn't on ArmAholic, nobody has noticed

Personally speaking, I blame the site team

I blame BIS!

Oh, ArmA3. Right, there was something.
Hey, whatever happened to those BIS devs the Greeks detained?

they got lined up befor a fire squad and shoot for S-spinage :/

Greece executed Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar by firing squad in July after they pleaded guilty in their trial. It was all over the news, how did you miss it??

It's been a while. ;-) Hopefully everyone still doing fine. Maybe I'll meet some of you in Arma3 MP sometime.

The King Lives.

Well if my German is up to scratch... Oh mein Gott, die könig ist hier... Have you been hiding under a rock with deadeye?

I should get a virtual driving license someday (and that's why)

RewanzDaNinja?

I quite lacked inspiration when it came to find a correct name.

An extra round of Russian roulette for me today. To tell the truth I'm quite antsy.

You can still make some cookies there if you're still alive ! (PS : well ... I wouldn't actually advise clicking on this link. )

Well, obviously I'm still around. I daresay that's quite good.

On an unrelated note, how come Winrar is still around? Has anybody in recorded history ever bought the full version of their product?

Only the most pedantic of people who tired of clicking "OK."

Schmucks.

...and every click would've doubled their revenue. From 0$ to 20$. If you think about it they truly are philanthropists.
Well, we have those 7zip guys who offer the same service for free, but still.

Neither will save the dev industry from my wrath, though. Just now I spent a solid hour on Google sifting out one relevant result from quazillions of unrelated finds. They really dumbed down the whole engine. Not even their own search commands seem to work anymore. Not only are the results cluttered with obviously paid finds of barely graspable relevance - seriously, within a few years their first find for 'Adolf Hitler' will be 'peta' thanks to the "connection" of both advocating vegetarianism - and the results unpaid for are even less relevant.

Amen to that!
Recently google has either been auto-completing my searches and opening the results or just opening a page it thinks i want to look at. Been really enjoying playing Kerbal Space Program (a kick ass sandbox space sim-them-up) and found myself looking on google for guides etc. So there i am typing in K...S.. and up pops "Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre" covered in google adds and 'buy my sh*t' stickers. *close* no google im looking for K...S...Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre!!! BUUUYY ITTT!!! *blocks through AVG* K...S...404 Page ........

Well, I wasn't thinking of ads but that's my point right there. 'Relevance' has ceased to be a criterion based on what you are looking for - it now is what Google says is relevant either because they're getting paid for doing so or because their weird ass algorithm is flawed.

Ah the satisfying finger ache of counterstrike #amotherf*ckinghashtag

Such heresy Carver, however do you live with yourself D:

Took out a student's loan today. 25 years of servitude, yay!

Congratulations! In a few years, when they ask you to pay it back, you'll have finished your metamorphosis into a socialist

I have always suspected that in secrecy Socialists are just pissed about the world not being a giant take-away shop.

Bad topic, by the way. Bavaria is on the eve of general elections. Sigh, I'll be in charge of an entire polling station.

What a terrible, terrible day of restless working. Who would've thunk that putting 9 crosses on a few sheets of paper could be so difficult a task?

But we've made it. An absolute majority for sanity - and a crushing defeat for Socialist utopians!

Huzzah!

You can't complain, do you know what would happen if they make voting idiot friendly?

Just look at what happened in London!

You bring up a painful subject there. Yesterday I had a man screaming at me for not being allowed to fill out his wife's ballot paper (yes, they were Muslims).

Tallying the votes is always great fun, too. For the state assembly voters had two votes to cast and some of the combinations were just aneurysm-inducing.
For example I saw someone had voted with their first vote for the Bavarian Party and with their second vote for the Franconian Party.
Now, the thing is this: the BP - which is arguing that Franconia is no true part of Bavaria - wants Bavaria to break away from Germany.
Whereas the FP wants Franconia to break away from Bavaria.



Just now a fricking house spider/ tegenaria gigantea took up residence behind a barely accessible part of my rooms before I could hit it with Thor's hammer. Spilt lavender oil everyhwere so the fucker gets the same headache it brought me. Gee I don't understand how Aussies can live with a spider fauna way more dangerous than ours; this one is too much for me already.

/edit

Killed the bastard. Lavender oil always drives them out of hiding again.

No regrets.

Just google "tegenaria gigantea".
Nopenopenopenope.

How do you Anglosaxons call those, provided that you have them? Your dealing with terms from the kingdom of nature is a curious thing to non-native speakers. Pneumonia, canine, hippopotamus and so on - down here we have indigenous words for them that contrast strongly with the Latin names.

In other news, I have lost another expensive headset to my hat size today. I ordered an even more expensive one, clinging to the futile hope that in this way it might survive a little longer.

Don't tell me you're an arachnophobe... seriously, have you ever been bitten by a spider? Do you know anyone who's been bitten by a spider? Do you even know someone who knows someone who's been bitten by a spider?

Spiders are fun! Now, mend your ways Spider-racist, before it's too late!

(nb; Australians don't count, because everything bites you over there. Hell, they've got plants that bite you over there!)

Are you telling me my fears are unwarranted? How dare you! That's the whole point of a phobia you insensitive... person! You discriminate against phobics!

...did you just accuse me of being a phobiaphobe?