Apparently The Pack (formerly The Packhorse) is in the final of a 'best pizza in England' award.

First episode of Humans creeper me out in a good way. May persist with it altho scifi isn't usually my bag.

Imagine that attacking side with Souness or Pearson or some other hard-nosed prick of a manager. Would score for fun!

Disgusting!

Arsehole driver makes complete arse of himself: NSFW language. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/motorist-takes-a-tumble-while-trying-to-attack-cyclist-video-185352

Many still use steroids but are limited to a doctor's prescription. Think they're allowed a couple a month maximum. But then you have Daniel Bryan who's never touched them, but has recurring injuries to his neck :/ shame as he has the talent to be bigger and better even than the likes of HBK who trained him.

And now 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper :/ cardiac arrest. Fantastic trash-talker. 'I came here to eat bubblegum and kick ass. I'm all out of bubblegum!'

Tell him he's not invited

That 15th... fook me, and I'm not exactly unfit.

3 is a start Theno is also a known golfer on here, hopefully may express interest. Any others I wonder?

Seriously, are we going to try and get some kind of golf day off the ground? Be a great social thing for the mb to do. We need to do more meetups, which will also have the added benefit of stopping some of the bickering on here. You're less likely to argue if you can put the face to the name. It's why I've stopped calling Tom M a shortarse

It's Reading or Leeds with more middle class people called Harriet pretending the 'vibe' is any different from any other festival.

Gratuitous violence and soft porn? Duh!

I'm already sick of hearing about Glastonbury. Every ruddy year fb is full of people calling it 'Glasto' (which sounds almost as outdated as the festival itself). They will then spend days telling me how 'it isn't like it used to be' or 'it's gone too corporate' (then buy a Starbucks before work every morning). They'll complain about how muddy it is (Dude, a field with thousands of people in it for 5 days will not stay grassy) and how expensive it is (you are literally a captive market you daft buggers). Solution: Stop going. Meanwhile I have to put up with pics of flower crowns and (when mum forces me to watch Keane or someone similar) watching Jo Whiley's forced enthusiasm when introducing a jazz poet she's never heard of. Sorry, but had to put it somewhere now there's no RANT thread!

I suspect not tbh. You could maybe look at The Hobbit by way of comparison. Nowhere near the appeal of GoT imo. Now Hobbit is most certainly a series of films that do the book no justice at all imo.

Hardly literary masterpieces, I agree but they're a terrific work. I'd argue in the same league as Tolkien for sure. I've had more enjoyment from the whole ASOIAF canon and TV than I ever got from LOTR and I consider myself a fan of that too.

I love autocorrect haha!

Your post could've been summed up as 'Nah, you're lying'. I more meant to mind the way you word things than what you say (same goes for many on here tbh). I need to get off this bloody high horse. It's all this bloody teaching I've been doing grrrr.

Tbf, a lot of things get cut out of books-to-TV adaptations. It's what makes the books so much better everytime.Personally, I understand the fact that they refuse to cast over 1000 characters for a 10-episode series, 'because muneh'. Plus the CGI budget which they already struggle to juggle. No greater source than GRRM himself has said that the books and TV show are different tellings of the same story with the same major plot points. That'll do for me. I've come across my first proper deviation from the books, reading Clash of Kings last night. It isn't Bronn at all that takes Command of the City Watch from Slynt. But it made TV sense. If both stories make sense and tell the same tale, what does it matter that Santa was raped by Ramsay instead of a non-existent Jeyne (who hardly features at all in the books anyway)?

Dude, that's just asking for it.

I just love how weird and sinister he looks. Wasn't keen on those sodding VictorChandler ads he did though.

Yeah Thoros was the other Red Priest. Paul Kaye (who plays him) is who I wanted to replace Matt Smith as Dr Who. Maybe he'll eventually replace Capaldi.

I think it'd have been good in a way. But if his last word being 'Ghost' leads to him having warged, it'd translate poorly to TV. Far better is a rebirth in the flames or being 'Thoros and Beric'-ed by Melissandre.

Reading ASOIAF and I have to agree they are so much better than the shows (if one has patience). But Martin and the shoes producers have explained quite a number of times that the series is the definition of 'based on' rather than directly replicating the books. The end point and major plot points are apparently the same (I'm only 150 pages into Clash of Kings).

Stannis vs Snow in a rap battle, yo!