Kibo …

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I saw this last night.  It was the first live-action 3D film I’ve seen.  It was truly awful.  Don’t bother.  I’m amazed that on IMDB it rates 5.2/10.  The main problems with it are that the producers/directors forgot two things: a story line and actors.

The 3D effects aren’t particularly good (nothing like those in Coraline, Bolt, etc), and if they cut out the premonition scenes the film would last about an hour.

Using the same methods of death as the first film (I haven’t seen the other two) with the same predictable stupidity (who leaves oil cans open on a building site next to oil drums marked “Spontaneously Combustible?), I must surely have the “Sight”.

One saving grace is that, for about 10 seconds, there’s some 3D nudity.  Some very nice nudity, too.

In a nutshell, they’re shit.  The software is quite whizzy, and the upload/ordering process straight-forward, but once you’ve done all that things go bad - very quickly. Continue Reading »

Hi,

Given that regular, plain-old tap water contains zero calories, I wonder if the survey data or research papers to back-up your claims are available?

Regards

Kibo

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On the BBC’s “The Frankincense Trail” she’s ended up in Saudi Arabia.  She still thinks that we should interfere with other cultures.  When talking to an official about the public execution of murderers and rapists:

“Do they get pain-killers?”

Well, duh, you dumb-fucking bitch - once their head has been taken off there’s no pain!

Why is she still on TV?

Guy One: Fuck!  Fuck! Fuck!
Me: What’s up?
Guy One: Fuck and bollocks and arses!
Me: What have you done?
Guy One: Deleted the “Services” table.
Me: From Live?
Guy One: Yes.  Bollocks.  The table isn’t on DEV, either.
Me: For ——-?
Guy One: Yes.  Cock!
Me: See, you should always develop on DEV, then publish to live.
Guy One: Hrmph!
Me: You spaz.

Me: Did you know that no cell in your body is more than 1/200mm away from a blood supply?
Guy One: Really?
Me: Yup.  Guy Two - tell him your fact.
Guy Two: A blue whale’s tongue weighs as much as an elephant.
Me: What’s your interesting fact?
Guy One: I had two shits this morning.

In 1990 came the scare over vCJD from beef. We were warned that thousands of people might die. Tens of thousands of cows were destroyed to stop the spread of BSE - the bovine version of vCJD. The final death toll from vCJD stands at 164.

In 2002 we had a global panic about Sars - a disease described in parts of the media as probably worse than Aids. It caused 774 deaths worldwide.

In the flap over bird flu in 2006 we were told that one in four Britons might die. In fact the global death toll was 257.

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

Police officers across the country are wankers.  That’s plain and simple fact. It’s rare for a day to pass where one doesn’t hear of another incident where a photographer is stopped, search, and even arrested for taking photographs on public land. Continue Reading »

It isn’t that 0.5% of people who’ll require medical attention will die.  Or that 100,000 people a day will get it.  It’s the inaccurate use of language that everyone from Bill down the pub to the BBC is using when talking about it.

For example, what does this really mean?

He’s called the doctor and has been confirmed that he probably has the real thing.

Forgetting that he hasn’t actually been anywhere for a diagnosis, let alone blood work, and that all he’s done is describe the symptoms of a cold, the key word in there is “probably”.  It doesn’t mean anything.

Quick - panic!