Baldy I concur...Luncheon Meat Type 'Eleven' *shudders*...

I sometimes play BF2, like about an hour a week on average. I too am fairly crap at it - I get a bit tired of being shot up by people who spend 8 hours a day playing the game.

I can usually be found on the Internode or Gamesarena servers, usually Warlord or Gulf of Oman.

Oh bugger - that link I mentioned has closed down now...still, there is an official website that has some excerpts.

I would also recommend 'World War Z' by the same author - bloody good read.

I've got a link to the whole book online - I'll post it when I find it.

That was Himmler. Stalin to Beria: 'No soup for you!'

I'm actually rereading that book at the moment...

Clinton - only because in the Axis of Time series of books by John Birmingham there is an aircraft carrier called the USS Hillary Clinton named for the 'toughest wartime president ever'!

Threads is on Google video in its entirety - worth a look.

Oh yeah 'Threads' scared the crap out of me when I saw that...now compare that to 'The Day After' which was a load of crap. Nobody does gritty realism like the Brits! Mad Max, Mad Max 2 were great, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was.. less so. Some others: the Quiet Earth Twelve Monkeys The Omega Man A ...

Ok, now I've watched it I can say its hardly hugely informative. I wore the last two outfits in my time, and yeah I guess they were quite comfortable. And I have used all the weapons featured (even the AR SLR - what a piece of crap!) and owned a .303 in the past. Kind of obvious that the reporter wa...

Oooh I'll have to watch this at home...no vids on work computers!