SuperBad

Plot

Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and inebriate two girls, Jules and Becca, so they can kick-start their sex lives and go off to college with a summer full of experience and new skills. Their quest is complicated by Fogell’s falling in with two inept cops who both slow and assist the plan.

Evaluation

Amusing film with a somewhat American Pie storyline feel to it. It does have some funny one liners and the cops antics were halarious. Jonah Hill comes out with some very funny girl degrading comments.

Just realised that one of the cops Seth Rogen is also the actor who played Ben Stone in Knocked Up. Also Seth played by Jonah Hill was also in Knocked Up where he played Jonah.

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Simpsons Movie

Plot

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town’s water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons family are declared fugitives.

Evaluation

Good family movie with some adult humour intertwined. Don’t expect more than an extended simpsons episode.

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Knocked Up

Plot

Guy meets girl, guy shags girl, girl falls pregnant, q mayhem

Evaluation

I actually enjoyed this movie, it’s light humoured and ticks along nicely. I found it refreshing and the storyline was different (for a change).

The only thing that bugged me a bit was the fact that it didn’t have the punch line from the trailer in it buy hey we can’t have everything.

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USB 2 GO

While driving around today I felt the need to change the CD. I put one of choice in and guess what? it wouldn’t play as it was scratched. No problem I thought so tried another and that one would only play about 4 tracks. 3rd time lucky I thought but no it just kept skipping. I have loads of CD cases and even more CD’s but never manage to keep one in the other.

This made me think why in this day and age do we still use this medium for music in cars? With usb pen drives why not use it as a suitable alternative? ie

256mb for £4.69
512mb for £6.27
1024mb for £10.52
2048mb for £13.22
4096mb for £19.05

Now 4gb storage for 20 quid can’t be bad and i’m sure you could fit a fair few MP3’s on it.

I will look into a new car stereo with usb compatability.

Off to Tescos now to get some pots! (that’s potatoes by the way).

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V+ Tips And Tricks

Control TV Volume Via V+ Remote

As standard the V+ box has it’s own volume control and it can be a bit harsh as there’s a big jump between each step. So the following will explain how to set it up to only use your tv volume. I will use the code 0678 which is for my TV as an example….

HINT: (Turn the volume down on your tv to 0 then set the volume on your V+ box to max. If you don’t and your V+ is set low you’ll need to really crank up your tv volume to hear anything)

Next

In the Home menu press…

9 Help & info

7Help with your remote

Find the TV make you are looking for

Press and hold Vol + and the Mute button for 3 or 4 seconds until the red light in top right of remote flashes

Enter the four digit code ie 0678 you have to do it within 10 seconds

The light will flash and the volume up and down should then work, if not try the next code.

If you hit a major problem enter the code 0683 to reset your remote to factory default.

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Bio Fuel

Went to fill up with diesel tonight and found my local Tescos shut, alas the hunt began, next up was a Texaco which wanted 111.9p a litre! holy cow talk about take mick. Next was Gulf which wanted 107.9p then some random one which was 109.9p. I finally got some from Shell @ 106.9p.

What the hell is going on? are we soon going to be plumeted into a Mad Max frenzie where you have to drive 200 miles to fill up and all tankers will be armoured plated and have gun turrets on the top.

As I have a diesel i’m going to look into a bio fuel option. I’ll keep you posted with my findings.

PS Apparrently we can’t say “Taking the mickey” as it’s been suggested that “mickey” in this context is an ethnic slur for an Irish person even though the saying derived from cockney rhyming slang “take the mickey bliss”, meaning ‘take the piss’ Alas soon we will not be able to say nothing as there’s an off chance we might offend someone.

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