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Ah, the snow cover at Jindy is crappy this year, even by our standards.

Are you going to Perisher or Threadbo?

maybe the game just sucks

It's good for the game that Jones finally learnt how to catch. I thought for ages the characteristic England choke would come back in to let them lose from an unloseable position, but they somehow pulled through.

I just had a thought about the mundane seeming fantastic to outsiders. When my girlfriend's parents visited from Japan, they were apparently amazed by the scenery on the train between Sydney and Newcastle, which really surprised me. I guess objectively it's pretty, but having seen it all my life, it's just...what's outside the train. [BTW, I'm not recommending this as a tourist activity unless you were going to do touristy things in the valley, and that's even more mundane to me].

Go to Cabramatta.

Most sydneysiders avoid it, but it's my favourite place in the whole city.

Apart from that it's perhaps bad to get an opinion from people who live in or near a city as to what to do. After all, the unique wonderful things you can't do back home seem completely mundane to them.

If you really want a day trip, catch the Manly ferry is you haven't already.

Then go to Tasmania, since it's the best place for tourists in the country in my opinion.

The video ref gave you a going away present, how kind!

I just wish the government would let the OFLC give games an R classification...like the OFLC has been asking for for the last 15 years.

Yes, and thus found it amusing as the writer intended.


Also, I like the way you can have sex at 16, but can't watch it til 18.

And with the better script and directing nothwithstanding, the child actors didn't suck nearly as much.

LOTR is badly written as well.

And I like it as well. Our conclusion is that enjoyment is not primarily a function of writing quality.

On the films, I think the third was of higher quality because it was less fauthful to the books, insofar that Columbus directed two paint by numbers adaptations, whereas the third was actually made as a film.

So that's why they usually only give the bobbies truncheons...
Poor bloke was just wearing a jacket because of what passes for "Summer" in the UK.

Also, terrorism has reached one end if we're so terrified we do the killing for it.

So we conclude that an authority figure in religion makes no difference?

Remember the mirror thing in book 5, which could have voided the entire end of the novel had he used it, but became a pointless subscript?

It's called bad writing.

Of course everyone listens to the Pope, Italy enjoys a massive birthrate because no-one there uses contraception because he says not to!
And abstinence and fidelity in catholic countries in Africa is stemming AIDS dramatically!

Even if there was an authority figure, if there's the 1% of dickheads, do you think they'd listen to a leader anyway, especially if it's one as disputed as the pope. After all, we've had decades of The Troubles in Ireland in recent history where thousands have died over popery or not [at least on the level that any conflict is about religion]. I don't think the IRA were listening to the pope, nore the UDA to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury.

The Troubles also brings me to CJ's point...does Egypt really have a greater experience of terrorism than Britain? I think it's just plain ethnocentrism. An Australian cyclist died in Germany and got exponentially greater coverage than 150 dying in a train crash in Pakistan.

Unfortunately I can't read any other Discworld's after Nightwatch, the cutesy humour grates too much when you know he's capable of greater subtlety.

I hope Egyptians are considered post worthy.

On various forums - as well as here - I have read through people discussing the ending of the book and combing over evidence to suggest there's something more twisty to it. Has anyone considered that Rowling is just a bad writer?

Yeah, we may as well try to find something twisty and sneaky in the end of Monkey Island 2.

We don't take to kindly to the ole Nyarlaphotep 'roun these parts sonny.

possibly, you could just say "bad seed", which can be used to term a person who corrupts those around them. Possibly.

Usually when talking about friends, music, comic books, situations etc. that you believe have a detrimental effect on, say, your child, you might term them corrupting influences.

It doesn't roll off the tongue though. A single word would be more pleasing in it's unity.

Like the past 3 books, it will be 600 pages of filler then a death.