He'd left Grange Hill by 1988 then disappeared off the radar. Where did he hide for the next 5 years? Is it really a coincidence Mayhem in Monsterland released in 1993? I suggest another scandal of Milli Vanilli sized proportions.

I mean look? He's got computer programmer written all over him.

And where do Creatures 1 & 2 fit into your "theory" ?

Edited by deleted (Tue 21-Jan-14 22:00:31)

Now ranked as Eilte in Red Faction. Apparently, if I want to be the #1 player, I've got to play it another 386 hours...

In reply to a post by MrTAToad2:

I realise you're a bit smarter than, um, some on this forum

So very true!

Google have been getting rather too big for their boots - first the NSA stuff, then we have all the privacy concerns with them (or as Google sees it unconcern). YouTube has adverts in it, and with all the changes that they want to do with comments and email scanning for adverts, it was time to reduce my presence on their systems...

Also lost interest in Android too

Not meaning to disappoint you but the emphasis was on, ahem, 'bit'. And um, 'some'. And also 'this' forum. Yeah. No need to expand. You get the picture.

NSA? Like Trance says, haven't they practically sucked up the entire Universe's data? YouTube's ads were quite clever I thought. The video uploader chooses whether or not to include one or used to since I haven't uploaded anything in ages and you can skip ads or block them too with adblock plus so no problemo?

I'm with you on the email scanning tho. Being a long time Android user my gmail a/c is used solely for that and though I'm a boring git I still wouldn't really be happy with Google trawling through my personal emails regardless. What annoys me is just their tentacles are getting into everything these days and it's hard to see what you're signed up for as there's far too much personal info, contacts and everything on your phone that you kind of owe a duty of care for not to reveal to all and sundry on the smegging interweb.

I'm also losing it with Android but have to say maybe that's ennui talking more than anything else (for my part). Just plain old boredom. Android has to be the best thing that's happened to mobile phones in general really unless you can afford to pay for an iPhone. I was always more in favour for an open platform for the masses and not being sucked into some elitist brand snob platform that sees being commercially ripped off by Apple as a favour and indication of their superior social status.

Anyway...

Yeah. The important issue of Roland Browning! Lol. Bring hm back I say! Didn't recognise him in Blackadder! Not surprising without his trademark Roley glasses tho I suppose. How time's have changed. I bet the Beeb couldn't re-run old episodes of Grange Hill these days for fear of being sued a lot. They'd be fattist, sexist, ageist, homophobic and xenophobic and everything I guess. Ah, the good old days. We haven't really come very far in being truly fair and sensitive to understanding and tolerating societal differences: these days it's all hidden under a veil of political correctness but the exact same sentiment is still there. What a load of [censored] the world is eh?

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I found that both Grange Hill and Blue Peter suffered from what I call the "2001 Effect"

Google recently acquired BostonDynamics who makes these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

Yeah, I read all about that. They won't apparently be renewing BostonDynamic's military contract though. Do no evil eh? Lot of speculation as to what Google actually do wanna do with their AI and robotic cars and suchlike.

Have they not learn't anything from the Terminator movies?!? How long before Googlenet becomes self aware and tries to destroy the human race?

In reply to a post by astateoftrance:

Have they not learn't anything from the Terminator movies?!? How long before Googlenet becomes self aware and tries to destroy the human race?

Have to admit that's what I would do if I was a higher form of intelligence: destroy the human race! would be the first thing on my agenda for inter-galactic supremacy. Doesn't make sense not to eh?

We must stop the machines now! Or else we could end up with a situation like Neo encountered in the Matrix or the one Prof Swanny was on about in his holographic projection thing...

Haha yes we have had enough warnings from movies.