Hey can someone enlighten me on the meaning of the V-sign? Seems to me like a harmless gesture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult

Been playing COD waw since Friday.

The single player mode is great and the zombies bonus round is great fun when you are in a group of 4.

Initially I wasn't too keen on the multiplayer side of things, but after a few games I began to love it. I've played COD 4 to death and so this game was easy to get back into the flow of things.

The maps are bigger but I feel that some of them aren't as well thought out as some of the COD4 maps. I also think that there is a lot more camping and that the spawns are terrible.

Also beware when playing roundhouse as there is a glitch that people are using to get under the map near the train tracks.

I'm loving the sub machine guns, especially the Thompson. The rifles are also really effective but take a bit of getting used to.

The dogs are good and give you a fighting chance of surviving against them. Also they flush out the enemy so follow behind them and take out the opposition as they are defending themselves against the dogs.

I'm rank 62 now so 3 more to go until 1st prestige. My KD ratio is 1.74 on my redgengis account and 5.92 on my Clan account.

There is also a stats page that you can link to your psn tag, its on COD.com. Its an interesting feature as you can look back at all your games to see how you did. I'll post mine on here tonight. Its an interesting feature and handy for me as I run a clan on consolegaming. I can check all my teams stats and choose the teams on how well they play on certain maps etc.

I played COD4 multiplayer right up to the gold cross and then some. Awesome game and COD:W@W should consume just as many hours.

I don't see any more camping than there was in COD4 and good aggressive players will always win out in the end, but I agree the spawning is absolutely horrible, especially in headquarters.

Up until recently I was also enjoying the fact I was only getting onto Australia- and New Zealand-based games. They are lag free and were not easy to find on COD4, so there was a lot of going in and out of games, killing off my win-loss ratio (not that it mattered... it was the time wasted which I hated). With the recent update to the game, multiplayer access has expanded to the rest of the world like in COD4. Yesterday it took a good hour before I finally found an Australia-based game. Awful, just awful.

How come when you enter www.youtube.com into the address bar, it re-directs you to http://pl.youtube.com/, which I assume is Polish version with loads of erm, Polish in it? Have the Poles all left Poland now and live in the UK, and brought their own YouTube with them?

I could be wrong, but it probably thinks your IP is from Poland. I used to get http://uk.youtube.com, and from what I was reading, that happened because my ISP recently acquired some new IP addresses (or range) to use and YouTube thought that range was from the UK.

How many five year olds could you take in a fight?

19.

Anyway why do people speak of Liverpool as if they are every footballers shangri -la?

It seems whenever a player goes to a club perceived to be "lower" than the alternative club, people get on the player's back. Bellamy got a lot of flack from supporters of other clubs for picking Rovers over Everton.

The thing is though, in this case Liverpool was supposed to be his boyhood club. That is why he wanted to move originally, as I understood it. Thus his going to West Ham, coupled with what I thought were "smalling the club down" (as opposed to "bigging the club up" ) in the couple of years leading up to the move (especially in the Australian media), annoyed me at the time.

However, the whole deal was done and dusted long ago and it won't change, so it is no use getting riled up about it any longer.

And maybe, just maybe, this is all press speculation, made to create problems inside Rovers and to get him to be transfered.

Surely it's the case that we don't know the full details. I trust Sparky to handle the situation, whatever it is, in whatever way he sees fit. He's no sucker.

Emerton, who has made 61 appearances for his country and skippered Australia’s Olympic Games team in 2000, has never been backward in coming forward.

But he chose to put Blackburn first last month by by-passing the recent friendly with Argentina after picking up a pre-season eye infection, which rubbed him out of unbeaten Rovers’ first two games of the season.

-- Emphasis added. From the article Emerton goes Dutch. I assumed he was being rested in those first two games, rather than being host to an injury.

Did you see the Benni and Maureen love in before the game.

Well, they did win the Champions League together.

I attended a birthday two or three weeks ago and played the Wii for a good portion of the night. It is fairly entertaining and very open to the casual gamer. I still don't know whether it is more of a casual console than a console you buy and then commit a large amount of time to get your money's worth, but it has gone up tremendously in my estimation.

As it was predictably many contributors to the show were of the "He wants to try working down the pit" viewpoint including one lunatic journalist from the Sunday Mirror who predicted DB would never pull on an England shirt again.

Bentley is being eaten alive across the internet at the moment. It's an absolutely disgraceful treatment of a player who has done nothing wrong by acknowledging his human limitations and letting Stuart Pearce (who is a joke of a manager anyway) know of his decision not to play ahead of time. Most people are not acknowledging that Bentley did not leave the squad in the lurch at the moment and/or are blasting him for having the audacity to be honest. The blue and white halves must warp a lot of minds.

The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman - the final instalment of the His Dark Materials trilogy and for my money it was the weakest.

My thoughts exactly. Actually, I thought both the second and third were fairly rushed. The first was definitely the best one. Saying that, it is a brilliant trilogy and I recommend it to any bookworm. I read the trilogy years ago (about six years ago in my estimation) and I no doubt will probably read it once again in years to come.

Even if Pedersen leaves I would expect we would look to replace him. Plus Warnock, Dunn, Bentley can all play on the left if needs be.

And Berner.

Not 100% convinced he's [McCarthy's] good enough for us.

If he's not good enough for us, then we need to get rid of our whole strikeforce. Then you have to wonder who, out of the players we can actually attract, would even be good enough according to this standard.

EDIT: Decided a PM would be more appropriate.

Can anyone verfiy this stat? If it is true, then it is a shocking statistic indeed.

And here is an interesting stat. The number of penalties given to opposing teams at Old Trafford is four. Four penalties. And that is not this year. This is since the Premiership began. In 1992. So four penalties in 16 years. But the referees are not biased or influenced or anything.

Source: http://www.football365.com/mailbox/story/0...2005122,00.html

Im up to question 56 on my own, cant figure out the second vanish one..........

I can't figure out question 66, which is the "end of the world" one.

Was physically at Ewood. Couldn't be arsed as it was wet and windy.

Rubbish. He was working hard and was even covering for the defenders well into defence. There were also a couple of occasions when he would have scored if those two players had bothered picking him out.

Also: 18 goals. Enough said.

This is funny.................

Maureens an aggravating little turd but we all know what he means..........

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2031824,00.html

If the referee is the "son of a whore", then who's his father?

I'll get my coat...

When I was a child I used to get chased by an evil Agent Maxwell Smart, presumably to kill me or something. Mostly around school, and strangely enough the dentist van that came once a year was included. Don't think he ever caught me. It's strange too because I like Get Smart and I am not afraid of dentists.

I once died in a dream. This was not too long ago; last year some time. I went into an underwater building, a university-/TAFE-/high school-/hospital-type institution, and tried to slowly make my way through corridors, to get out at the other side of the building to be able to breathe again. I didn't make it in this dream as I couldn't find my way through the corridors. I eventually had to relieve my lack of oxygen and I drowned, which woke me up in a start (in real life I stumbled on my breath for a second). I do have a fear of not getting as far into unversity as I want to, or rather I am very anxious about it, but I think it might have meant something more. All I get about that as analysis is that it is a common dream, which is none too helpful.

Mokoena is a accident waiting to happen, and will cost us points if Hughes keeps on starting him

What is your analysis of Mokoena's recent performances (since January 28 until Manchester City)? How many points and cup matches has he cost us in that same time?

What question numbers are the Sonic and Snake questions? I am a gamer and would be interested to see if I would know them

46 and 48. You won't find them hard at all. Quite the opposite.

I am not proud to say that I gave in and got a list of the answers :ph34r: To be honest, even with the answers I cannot see how some of them work.

Guess I am either really stupid or am just missing something thats starring me in the face

I liked the Sonic and MGS3 questions.

A lot of the questions are reference questions or puzzles to solve. For example, some of the older generation would understand that question and answer to number two was an old joke. Not in a million years would I know that if I wasn't told. Similarly, non-gamers, and probably even most gamers, would not get the Snake question.

Find someone on the NET via their mobile - pretty cool

This is doing my head in

Best quiz ever!