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Out of interest, do you mean to say that Bond films of late (say, from the 90s onwards) have sucked and you don't watch the Craig films as a result, or that you hated Casino Royale so much that you won't see the current film? Am not calling you right or wrong - just curious to see what you mean. I mean that the Craig film, Casino Royale was badly done from bringing a blonde Bond in to having Judi (y?) Dench still playing M. If they were going to go back to the beginning M should be a man...Brosnan was the best Bond IMHO. The casting of Judi Dench as M in a new Bond continuity is admittedly somewhat counter-productive to casual Bond fans, but in that the film series is notoriously wretched at sticking to much of a continuity, I can pretty much accept it. The points Adham & I made in this episode about Blofeld not recognising Bond is pretty much a perfect example of this. In any case, I certainly disagree that M has to be a man if the film is focusing on the beginnings of the character

I concur - this was utterly hilarious! Sterling work, gentlemen!

Out of interest, do you mean to say that Bond films of late (say, from the 90s onwards) have sucked and you don't watch the Craig films as a result, or that you hated Casino Royale so much that you won't see the current film? Am not calling you right or wrong - just curious to see what you mean.

That last song you played sounded oddly familliar, Des. Was it a more rock-esque cover of a Girls Aloud song? Good show again - the interview made me interested in seeing a horror film, and that's pretty darn good considering that I'm a giant wuss.

Believe me, if I didn't read this site and its Saw reviews, I wouldn't have a clue. Granted, I've heard of New Kids on the Block but I couldn't have named a single one of them, much less known DW was one of them, without coming here. Yeah, I just abbreviated Donnie Wahlberg to DW........Anything you'd like to tell us, Dubs?!?

Our dragons don't wear lipstick. But yeah, go vote, all you Yankee-Doodle-Dandies - I've been following this election for so long that I just want it to end!

No review of Saw V?!?! Will listen on my way to work tomorrow, as per usual.

Which is clearly why they're building up an older Robin character through the sure-to-be hit television show "The Graysons"!! And I don't think any Batman mythos adaptation NEEDS Robin/Batgirl/Nightwing in it to succeed. After all, who's been the primary person to ground Bruce Wayne in reality from the moment he lost his parents? My point exactly.

Ah, that's where me & Adham are going wrong - reviewing all those Bond films that aren't Goldeneye!! We have given our guarded musings on QOS in the show we've just recorded for Diamonds Are Forever and will probably expand upon them for the December show as everyone will have had a month to see the film by then.

Bumpety Bump David Tennant is standing down as the 10th Doctor Discuss.

"Little Booker, do you know what 2 + 2 is?" "Yeah I know what 2 + 2 is; Thomas Jefferson, sucka!!!!" Sorry, I'll drag this back on topic! I'm REALLY looking forward to the review of Shriek because the use of sound in that episode is superb. It's something I remember a full 6 years on from having watched it.

It's been literally 18 months since I was a student radio station's Head of Music, so naturally I've forgotten all genre types. I dread to think what faculties I'll have lost when I'm Toland's age....

Naturally - diction and vocabulary are both heightened when two people in the Commonwealth converse! That or I mightily dress up my language and it rubs off slightly! As for Lordi, my fandom is pretty much solely based off the aforementioned Eurovision Song Contest as heavy/death metal isn't quite my bag. Good tune here, though.

Fixed it. :laugh: Oh snap!

Many happy returns!

Nunsploitation might be the greatest word ever. And whilst I don't know the ins and the outs of the genre, could "nunsploitation" elements be prevalent in "The Monk" by Matthew Lewis? If I ever think of monastic deviance (and it's not as often as you might think), I think of that novel. Good show made a bit greater by the presence of Lordi.

I'm not saying "STFU suavestar", I just think I didn't make these two points clear enough. A) she didn't say I was cutting into her time, I enquired as to whether she was still there after a lengthy pause and said "sorry, I was watching something on iPlayer" B) I don't want to make a song and dance out of anything, but I want to show her that I'm not as emotional about things between us as I was the last time. It's just a loose end that I feel needs tying up before we can simply communicate as friends. And I'm on good terms with her bf btw.

In that this has become a quasi-dating dilemmas thread, I thought I'd chip in here. Me and my ex girlfriend Nicola broke up in January, as I mentioned in my One Bad Day article (heh - articles! I remember them....). She instigated it on the grounds that she had another year and a half at university (I'd graduated the summer before) and she needed to find herself at uni. I was devastated but I knew that her reasoning was sound. We kept up our rapport for the next couple of months and I knew I'd be seeing her in May, as I was going to a university event up there. We didn't really speak in the month leading up to it and when I did finally get up there, she was fairly reticent, and I discovered why pretty quickly as she was dating another guy from our student radio station. In that a guy I trust pretty well told me that it started about two weeks before, I have no reason to think she was lying about our break-up, but either way, I didn't quite know how to take it. Nicola was my first serious gf and we broke up two weeks before our one year anniversary. As such, my manner that weekend was pretty tetchy, although I didn't insult her or anything. The nadir was the Sunday night when I was catching a bus back to my host's house and Nicola was at the same bus stop. But rather than engage me, she spoke to someone else and generally listened to her iPod until her bf and his friend joined her. Luckily, I'd arranged to meet her for a cup of tea a few days later and she came to it, and we chatted generally without hitting anything major. We got interrupted before I could fully ask her about what happened on Sunday, but as she left, she did say that she didn't consider things awkward between us. If I'd not bumped into her again that trip, it'd have been a great note to end on. Sadly, it was the day FYEO #1 was posted and I wanted to give it a listen/use the internet, so I went to radio session, completely forgetting her bf presented a show around then. So she came and sat in the radio station and things became uncomfortable again. I left as she was presenting the new show afterwards and popped my head in whilst she was off-air to say goodbye, she was fairly short in her goodbyes. My birthday was a month later and she wished me happy birthday over facebook, which I thanked her for over MSN and we had a brief convo before she admitted I was cutting into her BBC iPlayer time. So I thought it best to leave alone for a while until this month when I wished her happy birthday and got a facebook thankyou. Fast forward to this weekend, as I prepare to start towards my trip back to our uni time next weekend. I hit her up on Saturday and we had a brief chart about football. I asked a question of whether she was around that weekend and she apologised (with an x) saying that she had to go. No matter, I piped up the courage to ask her again this evening and she said she was pretty much in town that weekend but when I announced I'd be up, she went offline and I texted her to say that I was hoping we could meet up, but would understand if she was busy. As of yet, no response. The thing is, I pretty much got over the end of our relationship a few weeks after I was up there the first time. I still love her as she was my first serious gf, but I'm not carrying a huge torch for her as I know that, even if we wanted to, it'd be very hard to reconcile our relationship as it were until 2011, and naturally a lot can happen between then & now. I did actually experience female touch for the first time since our breakup last night (a drunk girl made out with for 2 minutes to prolong her being thrown out of a club - it's still progress!) and I'm just looking for new women at this point. But I don't know how to amply convey that to Nicola other than through a face-to-face meeting, and if she thinks I'm going to be as awkward as I was last time (when I still wasn't over her), the chance of that happening is going to be on the slim side. The signs are, if she's gone offline twice on me and isn't texting me back (albeit, I did say I was about to go to bed), she's not up for this meeting. So I'm in a bit of a pickle. And before anyone says "forget her" or something detrimental, I can really see her side in all this. sigh.

Duly noted! So.....Lazenby, huh?

By all means! Thanks for the praise and consider it my honour to "roast" my supreme overlord on high and the angriest man in the world on a series-by-series basis! See, Dubs isn't the only one who has other names for the staff here!

Me: So m'dear, what's new with you? Adham: I hit a woman. She had it coming. Me: Yeah, I have something to rant about. And it's called Saw. Adham: Oh no.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111799467...=1&nid=2562 God bless you, Zac Efron. The sentence "Saw 5 got beat by High School Musical 3 at the box office" is a joyous one to look at.

Happy 14th birthday!! I remember being 14 - it was in the year 2000!

FTW. Even if her role hasn't been officially announced.

I don't know whose pain I'm going to enjoy more: Mike & Jenny's, or James 'n' Dubs. Either way, I'm keeping up my record of not giving the cretins behind the series any money.