The McCanns are gay.

According to the BBC, and probably some other sources, the McCann family have used some of the “Find Madeleine” fund to pay for their mortgage….. the Bastards.

USSR vs England

17th October 2007.

USSR 2-1 England.

England:

Robinson, Richards, Ferdinand, Campbell, Lescott (Lampard 79), Wright-Phillips (Downing 80), Gerrard, Barry, Cole (Crouch 80), Rooney, Owen.
Subs Not Used: James, Shorey, Luke Young, Neville.

USSR:

Gabulov, Alexei Berezutsky, Ignashevich, Vasili Berezutsky (Torbinsky 46), Aniukov, Zurianov, Semshov, Bilyaletdinov, Zhirkov, Arshavin (Kolodin 90), Kerzhakov (Pavluchenko 58).
Subs Not Used: Malafeev, Pogrebniak, Shirokov, Sychev.

How can a world supposedly “world class” England side lose to the Soviet Union. I don’t know about anyone else but i haven’t heard of any of the players in the Russian squad. Fair enough Rooney did score an excellent goal, but that is not excuse to sit back in the second half. We should be pressing forward trying to score a 2nd, 3rd or 4th goal. A team like England should be beating the Russians 3 or 4-nil.

Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t qualify, and based on that performance we really don’t deserve to be in the competition.

RIAA sue single Mum for £108,000

In a bid to make themselves even less popular the RIAA (Recording industry of America) have just sued an American single Mum for £108,000. They claim that she shared just 24 songs online using Kazaa, making the fine seem rather excessive.

As far as i am concerned the RIAA can go and fuck themselves.

SOURCE

Film Cliches

• In war films the character with the most hopes and dreams always get killed.
• “Little Timmy” always gets killed.
• Steven Segal can’t act.
• You can hack into the CIA/FBI database by simply mashing the keyboard on your PC.
• The stupid/hysterical/screaming woman always manages to escape in horror movies.
• James Bond is always put in an easily escapable situation.
• The bad guy has to perform a long/boring monologue before he is killed by the hero.
• Power cuts happen at the most annoying times.
• Being chased by a killer, the victims will always hide in the darkest possible location.
• Asian men/women always know some form of martial art.
• When someone makes a phone call it is answered at the first ring.
• In war films the sergent always has to do something heroic and get killed/have his legs blown off in the process.
• A computer never has to boot-up, it is always on the right screen.
• When ringing a doorbell the person waits for 3 seconds before thinking something suspitious most be going on.
• The hero is always able to drive a car, ride a bike, fly a plane or helicoptor or sail a boat without any prior training.
• Guns never have to be reloaded.
• Incriminating files are easily found on any villains PC.
• There is always a full moon.
• Whenever the main character is feeling hard done by/depressed it will start to rain.
• When it is raining people shout at each other.
• When a guy asks a girl out he will only ever say “fancy going out for a meal sometime”. They will never discuss arrangements (time, place, date etc…).
• Lifts always break down.
• Aeroplanes never have enough fuel to get to the destination.
• Cars only break down at night, on dark empty roads when it is raining.
• In horror films one of the victims fancys himself a bit of a tough-guy, and so offers to create a distraction for the killer, in the hope that he will get sex from the blonde girl with big tits at a later point in the film. But inevitably he gets cut to pieces with a chainsaw.
• A six-shooter can carry up to 12 rounds.
• Vents are always just the right size to crawl through.
• The police chief always suspends his best detective – who will go on to solve the case regardless of this.

Jack Thompson goes mental… again

For those of you who don’t know who Jack Thompson is he is an “anti-video game’s attorney from the good old U.S of A.

Following the recent decission in America to give Manhunt 2 an “M” (mature) rating, Jack Thompson went mental again with a series of e-mails to Take Two Interactive. I have posted the emails below…

From: Jack Thompson

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:55 PM

Subject: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Dear Mr. Zelnick and Mr. Feder:

Congratulations on receiving a “Mature” rating for Manhunt 2. You’ll live to regret it (trust me), so enjoy it while you can.

I want to bring to your attention the fact that at www.rockstargames.com anyone of any age can order Manhunt 2 and receive it, with no age verification whatsoever. Asking a 14-year-old if he’s 17 is not age verification, now is it?

You also know that the use of a bank card as an age verifier is a violation of all bank card agreements, right?

Govern yourselves accordingly, if you can.

Regards, Jack Thompson

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From: Gena Feist

To: Jack Thompson

Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:47 PM

Subject: FW: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Mr. Thompson,Your statements regarding our practices are false, as you know or should have known.

The Take Two website verifies age in two ways. First, consumers who purchase M or RP rated games certify that they are at least 17 years of age. Numerous websites use the same method for verifying age in connection with sales of movies and games. Second, we verify age through the use of a credit card number in connection with a transaction. Such transaction based verification is acceptable to both credit card companies and the FTC (see, e.g. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.shtm).

We demand that you cease making these false statements about our online sales practices. Your dissemination of knowingly false statements for the purpose of adversely affecting Take-Two’s business is actionable and we reserve all of our rights under the settlement agreement and state and federal law.

Not only are your statements clearly false, but they were made in an email publicly disseminated to both the FTC and the press. Please be assured that I am happy to answer any questions you have concerning our practices in a private communications. It is for this very reason that our settlement agreement designates a legal contact for you at Take Two.

If you continue to make false statements to an audience of press and public officials, however, we will have no choice but to take action against you.

Sincerely,
Gena

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From: Jack Thompson

To: Gena Feist (T2 NY)

Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:39 PM

Subject: Re: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

As you should be aware, credit cards cannot be used to verify the age of buyers. Kids have credit cards, and they use parents’ credit cards. You have then got to be kidding me.

Take-Two is welcome to use age verification software that is available for on-line alcohol, firearm and other purchases of adult material. Stop lying.

Thanks

Jack Thompson, Attorney

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From: “Gena Feist (T2 NY)”
To: “Jack Thompson”
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:30 PM
Subject: RE: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Jack, give it a break. I am happy to answer your questions and correct any misapprehensions that you have but I will not engage in this type of discussion with you. I am not a liar, I didn’t threaten you, and I wont get roped into this type of dialogue. Don’t bother writing back because I will not answer any further communications along these lines.

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From: Jack Thompson
To: Gena Feist
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Surely you are not taking the position that I am not allowed to communicate with the government about Take-Two’s actions, are you? If you are, then please know that that position renders the agreement unenforceable as a matter of public policy, since the law is settled that no agreement that restricts a citizen’s petition rights to the government is enforceable.

Are you seriously suggesting that an agreement that does not restrict me in that fashion does restrict me? Becasue [sic] if you are, then I have a new civil rights claim agains [sic] Take-Two.

Jack Thompson

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From: Gena Feist
To: “Jack Thompson”
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Jack,

I appreciate that you directed this message to me alone. In regards to your comments below, I understand that you disagree with the use of a credit card transaction as age verification but it is accepted by the FTC and the retail industry as verification of age.

You are on notice that we use two industry and government accepted forms of age verification. Please do not repeat your false claims publicly or make claims that I/the company are lying about this matter.

We entered into the settlement agreement because we did not want to engage in unnecessary litigation with you, but I assure you that we will enforce the terms of the agreement if necessary and that any suit will include a claim for our legal fees under paragraph 11.

Sincerely,
Gena

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From: “Jack Thompson”
To: “Gena Feist (T2 NY)”
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

What is wrong with you? You threaten me with enforcement of the agreement, and I ask you how I have violated it. Are you nuts?

Jack Thompson, Attorney

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SOURCES:GamePolitics.com
Destructoid.com

Jonathan Ross to star in Halo 3.

According to an article in the News of the World, Jonathan Ross is due to star in the upcoming Xbox 360 title Halo 3. Here is the source

The article says that Ross, who is a huge fan of the sci-fi shoot ‘em up, will voice an “evil alien” in the game, and will be recieving no fee for lending his voice to Microsofts #1 game.

Although i don’t actually own an Xbox 360, i really hope this news is true just for the pure brilliance of it.

Cake Vs Pie

It’s a question that has troubled man for hundreds of years. Which is better, Cake or Pie?

Now it seems that we might have the answer. A poll of almost 2,000 people has concluded that Cake is better than Pie. The internet never lies people.

Death of the Album?

At last months Isle of Wight festival, Ash announced that there upcoming album, “Twilight of the Innocents” was to be their last. However the band are not splitting up, they just don’t plan on releasing any more albums. Instead they intend to release individual songs available for download from now on.

Ash frontman Tim Wheeler reasoned that “the way people listen to music has changed. With the advent of the downloads, the emphasis has reverted to single tracks”. In a way I can understand his thinking. Downloads now command a major part of the music market, so it will no doubt be of benefit to the band (and the record company).

However, I really hope that this isn’t the way the music industry goes. I don’t know about other people, but I always look forward to new albums. An album is something you can physically buy, something you keep and in some cases something that defines a generation. An album has to be listened to the whole way through. You shouldn’t just think of it as individual songs, but one great piece of music. If we lose albums, we lose everything that goes with them and will no longer be able to have debates about “which is Muse’s best album?” or “why is Smells like Teen Spirit so iconic?”.

This change to downloading shouldn’t be blamed on technology. For advances in technology can surely only be a good thing. If albums do die out, the blame should be attributed to bands like the View, the Caesars and the Fray. These are bands who do one or two good songs which get released as singles. They get a lot of radio play, and everyone thinks “oh thats quite a good songs, i’d better download that”. The band scores highly in the charts and follow up this success by releasing a mediocre album and playing at one of the summers major festivals, where all the fans can sing along to “How to save a live”. This is all very well and good, but in a way its destroying the music industry and undermining bands who really work hard at their albums.

Manhunt 2

As you may have guessed this links in with my previous post regarding the effective banning of Manhunt 2. As things stand the BBFC are still standing by there decision, and Rockstar (the publishers of the game) don’t seem to have made any actions so far.

On the 10 Downing Street Website a petition has been set up in an attempt to fight the ban. Even if you have no interest in the game I would strongly encourage you to sign this petition. The banning of Manhunt 2 is clearly a breach of freedom of speech as well as being hypocritical and in no way democratic.

Thank you if you have taken the time to read this…

I thought we lived in a Liberal society?

I was under the impression that we lived in a Liberal society, but today I was proved wrong by the BBFC [British Board of Film Classifiers], who have taken the decission to ban Manhunt 2 [PS2 and Wii] from sale in the UK. The news was reported both by the BBC and Gamespot UK.

There was little doubt in my mind that this game would get an 18 rating, as no doubt it will contain some pretty graphic images. But people know what this game is about, so if it is going to offend you are not likely to buy it [unless you are an old person, who might buy the game just so they could write a letter of complaint saying how "discusted" they are].

BBFC director David Cooke is quoted as saying “There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed“.

Errrr…. thanks very much Cpt. Fucking Obvious but I do know what the game is about. Anyway, what point is he trying to make? After all you could make the exact same statement about a film like Saw or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but did they get banned… NO THEY DIDN’T! So where the fuck is the consistency here?

You may remember back to 2004, when some kid got murdered in Leicester. The mother of the murdered boy blamed the original Manhunt for her sons death. OK, i’m sorry your son is dead, but get a fucking life, the video game didn’t kill your son, some basket case did. Even the police said that “robbery was the motive” for the attack.

Anyway, back to my original point. The way in which the BBFC opperate is clearly fucked up. How can they possibly be so inconsistant? They need to totally re-think the way in which they opperate and sort out this obvious bias against video games.

Banning this game is only going to cause further problems. Being a Rockstar game, Manhunt 2 had recieved a lot of hype and a lot of people are going to be dissapointed by the ban. Certainly this is going to lead to an increase in illegal copies of the game being sold. And if we are to believe anything we read in the press Piracy funds terrorism.

To conclude…. FUCK YOU BBFC, fuck you and everything you stand for.