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As we have been playing the Usain Bolt MOD for some time, with soldiers out-running the bullets and moving so quickly one cannot put sights on them, why not a javelin-only MOD with spears? This would preserve the Olympic ethos and perhaps allow us to impersonate Achilles on the COD5 battlefields?

Here's an old personal favourite of mine...

Welcome!

How many you can remember will determine your age...

The great thing about iTunes is that one can import ones CD-based music into it. If one buys CDs, one does not have to tell the sales assistant where one lives. It is often cheaper to buy the CD than to download the same music! Don't forget Amazon - its MP3 downloader will import music bought there into iTunes automatically. I probably use that more than iTunes' store. It is best to shop around before making a purchasing decision.

Just to prove a point about top class American footballers, here's Brad Friedel with the Barclays Merit Award for 300 consecutive appearances, announced today! (Picture: Barclays Football)

Rumour has it he's chopping herbs from time to time - maybe he bought an iPad too?

There are several highly competent American players in our English Premier League. One of them - Brad Friedel - used to play for my team, Liverpool. Footballers are frequently seriously injured on the field. Recently, player Fabrice Muamba was medically dead for 48 minutes and owes his survival to the presence at the game of a consultant heart specialist. Another really gruesome injury suffered on the pitch was a compound dislocation of the ankle - not good to see even at a distance! "Blood injuries" are common. The reason you don't see such injuries on your sports fields is that the players don so much body armour and crash helmets! The correct name of what you call "soccer" is "association football" and, unlike the game you call "football", it is played with the feet, surprisingly! For your country's fixtures, see http://www.ussoccer.com/

The daughter asks if her father has figured out the new iPad she gave him and he says he has, without question...

I thought they'd join and then get auto-balanced to the losing team... That happens to me frequently!

I just read about this prototype electric motorbike, called the "zecOO": Top speed of 75mph on a 4-6 hour charge. What do you think? For me, its appearance is attractive but it seems otherwise impractical and unattractive. The beauty of motorcycles includes the way they sound and smell! I couldn't see myself getting worked up too much about a belt-driven humming thing. Oh, and they want US$70k for it too! Read all about it and view more pictures at BIKEEXIF. I am more a fan of bikes like this (just need the lottery win to finance it!):

Thanks, Beers!

You concern yourselves with filling up with it whereas we like to pass it, preferably noisily...

Clever blog and true. And like is often associated with the Valley Girl type from California, like. ( http://en.wikipedia....iki/Valleyspeak ) Also be careful of the American English use of "fag". People in America may get the wrong idea about you, unless of course if you really were going to get a................. well, you know what I am trying to say. American visitors to these shores should refrain from the use of the word "fanny" for similar reasons. Here it refers only to a certain part of a lady's anatomy (below the belt! ).

I found this blog entry by English Independentjournalist Tom Greaney both amusing and informative. It highlights some differences of language and culture between the two dialects and countries that explain much. It may go some way to explaining why words like "liberal" and "socialist" are spoken and written with contempt by some Americans - briefly, they have been redefined and mean different things to Americans than they do to the rest of the world. Perhaps, if one were speaking of French words, one would call them "faux amis" (false friends) - words that look the same yet have greatly different meanings. And that filler word - "like"! Well, like, that, like, drives me, like, up the, like, wall, too, like! (My son, like, speaks, like this, like!) I would write more but I need another coffee and a fag...

So if following the basis of the lead post comment this means you are protecting the tourists from addiction but allowing your own citizens to become addicted. That's messed up. I would think what is good for one is good for the other. The premise that is disputed by the cafe owners is that the visiting consumers cause public order problems in the city, once they have smoked their joints, whilst the locals do not. Perhaps they'll next restrict alcohol sales to residents? I agree with you, Shamu. It doesn't seem logical. Maybe the city authorities want to alter the profile of the tourists visiting the place?

I thought the stronger varieties were outlawed last October? I think it will take more to change the image of Amsterdam...

"A ruling in the Dutch courts means that foreigners heading to Amsterdam's famous marijuana cafés will soon will be banned from buying cannabis in a bid to end drug tourism to the Netherlands", reports the Daily Telegraph. They're not banning it for residents, however, so it seems a strange decision.

I encountered this footage of Korean-style training demonstrating how to deal with the sniper and gas expert... If you don't speak Korean, the troops start with a range of taunts like "low pinger" and "gas hole" before aiming their weapons and giving the realistic targets some attention with their StG44s and RPGs!

"Mother****ing time vampire"! LMAO! Love it! If you can't get one of these boxes, you can always play with Windows networking - that has much the same effect!

If you have played Star Trek Online or Champions Online MMOs, this article will be of interest, though you should have received an email from Cryptic Studios themselves about this. The data breach occurred in 2010 so the bad guys would have had a long time to abuse any harvested ID and financial information by now, one presumes! Another example of why it really isn't safe to entrust a company with ones sensitive information! Read the article here: http://kotaku.com/5905239/mmo-studio-hacked-in-2010-just-found-out-about-it-now

It's Jafaican there, mate. A local patois. We North Londoners speak differently and the East Londoners (who don't have Bengali as the first language) may use Cockney rhyming slang though that is on the decline. West Londoners are posh and sound like Hugh Grant! LMAO!

Stick around - this place beats psychotherapy...