The aliens are coming

[TG]

Pardon?

[Barman]

$60 in the 'States somehow changes to ?40 in the UK...

[TG]

The edition in the link you posted is a different edition, extra disc etc. Think that ones about ?50 over here. Mine is a single disc version in an ordinary DVD case and is thus cheaper.

We pay well over the odds for this sort of thing in the UK. 

[Nick]

Borrow someone else's and copy it. That's what we do.

[TG]

That is illegal you naughty man.

Had your xbox260 'flashed' have you? Even naughtier. 

[Nick]

Is it? We have games for the Boy's PC. I,er, copy them on my PC.

We have a soruce locally who, er, downloads them off the internet. The whole village is full of pirates.

Oh, wrong thread.

[TG]

Is it? We have games for the Boy's PC. I,er, copy them on my PC.

We have a soruce locally who, er, downloads them off the internet. The whole village is full of pirates.

Oh, wrong thread.

Xbox's will not run copied games in supplied form.

You have to (i'm told) send your Xbox off to a man who performs various technofuckery on it and sends it back to you subtley changed. It will then run naughty discs. This is ellegal and I have not done it.

There is also a rumour that if you take your dodgy Xbox online THEY can tell and before you can finish your first online gane THEY are knocking on your door ready to drag you out into the street and kill you.

 

[Nick]

Ah yes, the X men. Very scarey.

[Barman]

Ah yes, the X men. Very scarey.

The Xbox men I should think... 

[Nick]

Dressed up like N Wales police

[Grumpmeister]

There is also a rumour that if you take your dodgy Xbox online THEY can tell and before you can finish your first online gane THEY are knocking on your door ready to drag you out into the street and kill you.

 

Its feasible that Microsoft would be able to tell as they already have software capable (at least in theory) of telling a dodgy copy of windows from a genuine one. Having said that, there is a huge part of the hacking community that go out of their way to work out how to crack anything they can produce.

[Misunderstood]

?40.

$60 = ?40 

No.  $60 = ?30 + bowlful of cream.   What a country!  And what a ffing dumb population that puts up with it.

I REFUSE to buy anything that ignores the exchange rate.  Yes! I'll be on XP for as long as it takes, and  if they don't sort it, I be on Linux.

[Barman]

Ahem...

'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria

Despite doubts expressed by geologists that the crater was actually caused by a meteorite and firm explanations that a meteorite would not even emit fumes and that the "sickness" was likely a case of mass hysteria, numerous onlookers far and wide were fascinated by the idea that this event could be some real-life "Andromeda Strain" (the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton), where a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill.

Source

[Darwins Selection]

Ahem...

'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria

Despite doubts expressed by geologists that the crater was actually caused by a meteorite and firm explanations that a meteorite would not even emit fumes and that the "sickness" was likely a case of mass hysteria, numerous onlookers far and wide were fascinated by the idea that this event could be some real-life "Andromeda Strain" (the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton), where a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill.

Source

Looks like "The Swamp" to me.

Anyone seen Growler today?

[Bar Wench]

He's up a mountain and then sulking in the pub.