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I'd like help with tactics to change the subject in a converation, please. And I'd also like some cake, but the subject-changing advice will suffice nonetheless. Thank you.

"ooh look, a potato"

"sooo, that hitler was a bad man wasn't he"

etc

no, chay, you have to be smoother than that!

"hey, this conversation reminds me - i'm due for my colonic irrigation tomorrow. Have you ever had one?"

OR, this one you should especially like:
"gee... i'm hungry. Do you know where i can get some cake?"

If with a woman:

"I know, we could go shopping at the mall."

If with a man:

"I'm sick of this subject, let's talk about something different."

If with a child:

"How about some cake?"

shameless plagiarism.

Oh the Simpsons are on.

'how about those All Blacks'
the only probelm with this one is that the changed subject is often worse than the original.

Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions.

Surely the reply is always 'Who?'

god, that's worse than the original

How about, 'Which is your favourite Doc Lucid alter-ego?'

Do the elephant impression.

Changing the subject is this easy -

Vic, Rosie, have you had a second date yet?

moving on!!!

moving swiftly on...

fuck this, I am of to the bar.

;o)

has anyone seen iRobot?
can't decide wether or not to go.

su: No.

:S

(he thought I was taking the piss)

(he may have been right)

:(

and are you

No - I didn't mean to piss him off. Its tricky for me to meet up with him.

hey

how about those AllBlacks ;)

:D

From what I've seen of 'I, Robot' is bears no resemblance whatsoever to Asimov's original stories, which were very thought provoking and entertaining. It sounds like they've just used the title and produced a rather bad action flick. Shame.

maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=i_robot

damm the only other movie on that i havn't seen is King Arthur
and well apart from the eye candy, it doesn't sound like much of a go

I, Robot is great.
They have pitched it just right. Mr Smith isn't too over the top. The clips that they show on the trailer put unfair emphasis on his "quips"

The robots are stunning and it's very entertaining.

I went along assuming they would ruin it all and make it all jokey like MIB but they did good.


King Arthur I am reliably informed is SHIIIITE

oh but i agree there was plenty of product placement, on a par with the bond films :)

the thing is the story was written independently of the original books, then the company got rights for the originals so made a story combining them. Still works well as a film though.

At least with King Arthur i won't get product placement

I'll take your word for it until it's on TV. On the strength of what I've heard so far I'm not going to pay to see it.

Go and rent Excalibur instead.

(The film, not the mythical sword)

Or even better, go read Bernard Cornwells excellent Arthurian Trilogy.

So what time you arriving might Vic?

midday ish, hopefully. Although it looks like I may be stuck in Chester.


Lara just went for a duck though, It might not last 'till sunday without rain.

Get another train!!!

Cheers for the update, made me go loo myself!

Good to hear he is on form, you watching it?

I add my vote for "I Robot", it was good, and had certainly some of the implications and moral issues of the book. Although I haven't read the book, just a summary, so i can't comment too much about it.

The product placement was shocking, though. Fact of life these days, though, sadly.

Nah, got the BBC ball-by-ball update thing on.

COME ON HARMIE!!!!!

www.sportinglife.com/

is more up to date!

Yeah, that is better. 112-4

Hey, looks like my rain-dance worked.

oh cricket, what a wonderful, exciting game.

I know what you mean. I like to watch the SPL, The level of skill reminds me of my beloved Bolton when they were struggling in the second division.

lol...touche!

the hard part, and the mark of the master, is flicking peanuts up your arse with your trunk

The original 'I, Robot' was a collection of short stories, as was sequel, 'The Rest Of The Robots.' Both well worth reading.

anyone able to shed light on this?

actually i was going to link to blog post but that's a bit rude
bleah

typeytypey

anyone know why (or if) the lead robot name was changed from Nestor (christian sect, extinct) to Sunni (muslem sect, extant)?

OO_

lol
not sure what's funnier, the first post or the smiley

The robot's name in the film is "Sonny", was my interpretation. I think that the Muslim link is fantasy, and shoehorned in to imply that the USA is trying to suggest that the Muslim world is evil. And being as

PLOT SPOILER!!!111 LOOK AWAY NOW!

the robot turns out to be the good guy/ all round hero, I reckon whomever came up with that is a sensationalist twat. I reckon it was changed to generic name "Sonny" because stupid fat arsed Americans would never be able to relate to "Nestor" as a 'person's' name and so assume it was part of the robot's product name and miss the humanising element of the fact it has a name.

/two pennorth

OH GOD! I didnt look away!!!!111mustrespectanother.

Oh well. I've just saved six quid. Thanks.

brock: not shoehorned, just what it sounds like when you know what the name was in the book.
given the subsequent noise i've seen about the Racist/comeuppance theme, it's possible it's supposed to be Sonny as an UncleTomism -- thanks

SIX quid? try 10-11 in londondondononododnodndondondondndodnodndnbanana

The cinema near me used to be £3. But the bastards knocked it down and put a snooker club there that no one uses. It's very sad. I went there on it's last night instead of going to my prom. How sad am I? :)

is there another robot call Cher?

what the hell has that got to do with a snooker club playing defunct movies???Q!?!?!?!?!? for godsnesss sakes suls, try to stay offtopic

ps i am not at all embarrassed that it took a good 10secs for the penny to drop

Nestor was the robot type NS-2 in some of the short stories that made up the book. There were several robots in that i think. This was originally called something like "Hardwired" then they got the rights to use the 3 laws and what they wanted from the books. So they sort of plugged bits and pieces around this screenplay.

or something.

I wonder if Che will help me submiit my new smiley to colondrill.net

:)
im sure you can manage

What about this crazy weather, eh?

let me guess, it's sunny in the UK?
i hear that's very unusal

;)

No it's been sunny for weeks and weeks

it's the fact that we are having three days of sun, then a massive storm then three days of sun then another massive storm and so on.

Very strange.

tropical some might say

It's not topical at all. We were talking about how to change the subject.

I changed the subject when I introduced the weather topic, you wombat.

I wonder if we're finally beginning to reap the benefits of global warming.

*whooooooosh*

Not at all!!1111 I chose to treat the tropical/topical thing with more contempt than it actually deserved.

/me watches the silver fox backpedal

what would be better for backpedaling
a bicycle
a unicycle
or an exercycle

A Pedalo.

Like Pete Townsend?
"I was eerrr, just looking to see what it was like"
"Errr. It was for a book"

hehehe

if you cycle backwards on an exercycle do you put on weight?

No but you get massive shin muscles.

Backwards or forwards, you get nowhere.

where is nowhere?

Nowhere is now here.

isn't here, somewhere

somewhere is a shop selling outfits for maths students.

Probably Diagon Alley.

Hey, Diagonally, I just got that.


*hangs head in shame*

*head is also hung*

moving on

Sum Wear in Diagon Ally...
Maths outfit shopkeeper by day, Protractor Man by night

As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared.

He has the super Powers of 2

I was scared of Mr Benn!

Anthony Wedgewood, or the other one?

That shopkeeper was fooking spooky!

"massive storm"
jesus
su, the monster huge superfloody carnage day on tuesday, london got 42mm rain.

in a ROW, mind

yeah massive storm was really underselling the scale of the thing.
my parents ended up wading through water a foot deep (a mix of rain water and sewerage) in a branch of New Look because the town they were in was flooded so bad they couldnt swim back to the car.

"A failure to plan on your part...

Does not constitute an emergency on my part."