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Mark James

In order to have a meaningful debate you have to define your terms. What is a God? Any definition I've heard from the religious is either provably wrong or so vague as to be meaningless. Compassion and kindness do not require religion so I wouldn't class them as religious beliefs. Also if you're onl...

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Just realised my grammatical error there. You did make 2 + 2 =5 five though. Still, everything in its right place, eh. i might of thought you was getting at me. I don't want to be a paranoid android about it. Although if you do want to fight about it, you and whose army. By the by, I doubt if many ...

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This isn't a dig at you Jim, but threads like this are pretty useless some religious idiot comes on to try and defend their ludicrous beliefs. I'll keep me fingers crossed anyway.

Mark James

People who still have the French flag overlay on their Facebook profile pic.

Mark James

My favourite game soundtracks are: Super Mario World, especially Fortress Dark Souls - Here's a class metal medley of the soundtrack Street Fighter 2 - Don't think you can have a video game music thread without mentioning Smooth McGroove Killer instinct - Struggled to pick an absolute favourite so j...

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Euan Slatter wrote:One Entry! No prizes for guessing who....

Now you're ripping off Guess Who as well as Pointless and there's no prizes for either of them?

Mark James

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/ It seems barter may have been a myth. Either way it's incredibly inefficient. Money is already a physical object that is useful and pretty good way of creating a standard representation of value. It's way more useful to ...

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I don't get it either. Did find an article about debt cancellation in ancient times. http://www.cadtm.org/The-Long-Tradition-of-Debt

Don't know why we don't just do that. (We'll I kind of know why)

Mark James

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1740007

Hope that link works. Anyway seems to be something along the lines of the Mandela effect going on. Some people thought it was emma Watson too. I think where I heard it from was on an episode of have I got news for you.

Mark James

I don't think that's the exact story. What I remember was there was a countdown to when Emma Watson would be of the age of consent and on the opposite page the paedophile stuff. Don't think it involved actual pictures. Also think it was in the Star. As for dodgy songs about kiddie fiddling from the ...

Mark James

What's the one song on your playlist that you would have to quickly skip if it was,randomly selected on speaker mode. Mine would be Young Girl by Gary Puxket I have a lot of comedy on my iPod. Would probably have to skip Doug Stanhope's tit wank joke. Wouldn't be the most appropriate thing to broad...

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Marc Meakin wrote: All the gold ever excavated can fit inside two double decker buses

Never heard of it in relation to buses. The fact I've always heard was Olympic swimming pools and with a little research it seems that all the gold ever mined can fit in about three Olympic sized pools.

Mark James

I have all the episodes on dvd and I have a dvd/vcr combo thing but the dvd tray mechanism is broken and won't open but the vcr is fine. So both of us have the means to watch each others copies but neither of us can watch our own. Coincidence?

Mark James

JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:This was the biggest coincidence ever.
I wonder what the biggest coincidence ever could be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d4wPaBNryA

Mark James

I went to a dream interpreter once. What they do is essentially cold reading. You end up telling them what you think the dream is about but at first it seems like they told you. When I came out of the session I thought it was cool but the more I thought about the more i realised she didn't actually ...

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Was never interested in it personally. Restricting yourself to 140 characters just seemed pointless. Don't see how you could have any worthwhile debate with such a low number to work with.

(wouldn't have been able to post the above for example)

Mark James

My first game was great but mainly because of the tie I was wearing.

Mark James

Here's another of those list things where they try and determine the best games of all time. Definitive lists like this are almost impossible to compile so I've not an awful lot to complain about. I'd certainly agree that Tetris should be no.1. The biggest complaint would be Mortal Kombat getting i...

Mark James

http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/23/quiz-how-many-of-the-100-best-films-of-the-21st-century-have-you-seen-6086105/ Only seen 17 and didn't like a third of them. There's also some I've seen bits of but not the whole film. Loads on the list I have no intention of seeing and some biggies I think should be on...

Mark James

American Football are back it seems. No longer will they be able to be featured on the list of great bands who only had one album (if you heaven't heard said album you should check it out). Their new song is top stuff too https://soundcloud.com/american-football

Mark James

I loved the Berenstein (stain apparently) bears as a kid and still have some of the books to show Indra. I assumed it must be an American thing because I hadn't heard of them, which is quite interesting in itself (in that it shows my appalling cultural bias for a start). Were they a big thing in th...

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And I guessed the doomsday cult one. This is actually one of the ones that I knew instantly, despite (I think) it being one of the ones that the majority of people taking the test get wrong. Maybe it just stuck in my head for being so ridiculous a thing (Branch Davidians) - seemingly unrelated to a...

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I would have got 18 but mixed up the amount of missions with the amount of people who walked on the moon. I also had no idea on the blood type question. Most of the stuff was stuff I knew people tend to get wrong. Only the Berenstain Bears thing freaks me out because it's the clearest memory I have ...

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http://www.doquizzes.com/QRVR3A

This is pretty cool. I got 16/22.

Mark James

The best score I ever got on this was by googling the name of the company that featured on a logo on the side of a truck in the picture that I could just about make out. It was in Portland, Oregon if remember correctly. I don't like to do stuff like that, it doesn't seem in the spirit of the thing,...

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The best score I ever got on this was by googling the name of the company that featured on a logo on the side of a truck in the picture that I could just about make out. It was in Portland, Oregon if remember correctly.

Mark James

JimBentley wrote:The end. If you entered, you'll have received a PM; if not, why are you even reading this?

Your participation has been appreciated.

I was still reading because I was expecting a countdown to 01, not for you to stop at 03. What a gyp!

Mark James

RTE are on fire at the minute.

http://www.rte.ie/can-you-beat-nikitin/

Mark James

The Irish boxer's interview after his dodgy loss has been the best thing about the Olympics so far. There was also a brilliant tweet from RTE who said there was change in the scheduled programming. Instead of the Olympics they'd be switching over to Crimewatch to discuss the fight.

Mark James

Every time I turn my PC off I sing the chorus to the song "Shakedown" by Bob Seger from the Beverly Hills Cop 2 soundtrack but I replace the word shakedown with shut down. There's one I don't do anymore because I injured myself but when I was frustrated playing FIFA I used to punch myself ...

Mark James

The BBC red button coverage is equally bad as it doesn't seem to offer a choice; it's like guesswork what's going to be on there. So I'm just watching on the website now, there's about ten times as much that you can watch live on there and crucially you can actually choose what you want to watch. T...

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Keep remembering films I've watched recently (within the last month or so). I really didn't think I'd actually watched this many. Minions: Way better than I expected. 8/10 Lethal Weapon 2: Buddy coppery at it's best. 9/10 (the scene in the South African embassy is the funniest scene of any movie as ...

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I've flicked on to the channels covering it but none of the events featured so far have made me stay on the channel for too long. Watched about ten minutes of the Irish hockey team. Never been too into the Olympics really.

Mark James

Watched some crackers recently. Some I'd seen before but some I watched for the first time. Unforgiven: Slightly overrated but still quality. 8/10 Django Unchained: Tarantino back to his best. 9/10 Terminator 2: Almost perfect. Cast is amazing. 9/10 Rear Window: I love anything Hitchcock does. 10/10...

Mark James

I was hoping for at last some response, in particular from: A more interesting question would be "what if there was no government for five years?" This would be a lot more significant, as it would involve the dissolution of not just Parliament, but also all the government departments (so ...

Mark James

This is almost not a question and it's not something I've "always" wanted to know because it's kind of a new thing but what is with the whole "woke" concept? Apparently woke is now an adjective in young people's vernacular. Now i've always been one of these people who don't care...

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This is almost not a question and it's not something I've "always" wanted to know because it's kind of a new thing but what is with the whole "woke" concept? Apparently woke is now an adjective in young people's vernacular. Now i've always been one of these people who don't care ...

Mark James

Sicario: Gorgeously shot but average story. 6/10

Mark James

Watched most of the new season of Bojack Horseman. It's pretty cool. Not as funny as other comedies but still funny enough and really well written. Also I'm considering re-watching Narcos. It's amazing.

Mark James

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:Bumped .
Did anyone see Mr Robot this week.
Elliot's rant at the bible group Waa priceless
No. What is it?

It's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQi4gDrqtj8

I'd hardly describe it as priceless. It's nothing that hasn't been said hundreds of times before.

Mark James

Another new series has just started, this time hosted by Alyson Hannigan. Here's the first episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeeY6CsIUt8

Mark James

No doubt other Bookies will be offering better odds than Paddy Power,Jim, but with them, I have had £30 @ 7/2 Payet to score at anytime, £20 France to score a penalty @ 17/2 (will probably get one and miss it!) £20 on Portugal to get a Red Card @ 13/2. The 11/10 France to win in 90 minutes didn't r...

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it was coming and going all night. I kept getting disconnected but was able to reconnect after a while.

Mark James

Jennifer Steadman wrote:We're due a shock winner. Don't know who that will be (Ukraine or Turkey, maybe?), but I'd like to see Iceland win it because they're tiny and it would be such a lovely story.

Iceland are my outside bet too. I liked the look of them in the qualifiers.

Mark James

Marc Meakin wrote:Another thread I think would be interesting, is : Books you would like to see made into a film
Mine would be the Wasp Factory or Dice Man.

Agree with the Dice Man. There's been a film of it in development for years but it doesn't look like going anywhere.

Mark James

Marc Meakin wrote:If you was a darts player/wrestler/boxer , what music would you make your entrance with
I would use Chumbawambas I get knocked down

Great question. I'd go for Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam.

Mark James

There is also a list of the Bottom 100 rated films: http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom I have only seen one - Epic Movie - at it remains the only film where I have walked out of the cinema. I actually haven't seen any of them which I found surprising considering I have a penchant for those terrible c...

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By the way, I think Wolf of Wall Street is overrated. I'm not upset that it's lower down than Snatch. It should be even lower.

Mark James

How Many Have You Seen- 95/250 Favourites- So many to choose from but I'll say Die Hard, The Sting and Usual Suspects as they tend to crop up the most when I discuss favourite films. Least Favourites- Kill Bill, Dark Knight, The Matrix. Overrated- 2001 A Space Odyssey, Snatch was way too high on the...

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For me Co:Lin was kind of a holiday but I'll say Glasgow was my last proper one. I went over to play in a charity football match. It was an Ireland/Germany team vs a Scotland team and we got to play at Celtic's old training ground. My next holiday will be the rematch in Munich with Ireland/Scotland ...

Mark James

Andy Wilson wrote:Come on ye boys in green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvm5bfQJOGU

Nice one. This actually came up as a suggested post on my facebook feed.

Mark James

What do people suspect would actually happen if Trump came to power? There a tiny part of me that would actually like to see how he gets on.

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People who share stuff from the "Humans of New York" facebook page. What the hell is that all about?

Mark James

Yep, it's tough. Only got a pathetic 25.

Mark James

I'll say one thing for Beyonce. She hasn't even died and she's taken all the attention away from Grange Hill's Mark Farmer and Hi-Di-Hi's Barry Howard.

Mark James

Totally in agreement with Mark (D) on all of this. Whatever you think of her music, she's indisputably one of the most influential and innovative figures in pop culture. Even if she is that's still an indictment on the culture. Look, Crazy in Love was a monster tune and I enjoyed it. Single Ladies ...

Mark James

Haven't liked much of Weezer's output in years but the two tracks I've heard from their new album are a return to form, especially King of the World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyBIQjU2Lk

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Mark Deeks wrote:Beyonce's gotta be up there. She is basically this generation's Prince.

She may be, but that's more of a damming indictment on this generation than in anyway praise for Beyonce. I'm seriously disappointed with this generation if she's the best it can do.

Mark James

People who write to Susie Dent to ask about the origin of some word or saying, when they could just Google it. (If these people really exist and aren't made up by the show.) Frak. Apparently, I am officially Not To Be Trusted. Unlucky. OK, I'll allow that such people are to be trusted if they write...

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People who link to click bait articles on facebook. I don't mind the odd Buzzfeed quiz but any article that uses the phrase "you won't believe what happened next" in the headline is an abomination. Also, people who mindlessly share "facts" on Facebook without even stopping to wo...

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