Armchair General

Can't find you on Steam... I'm Armchair General, you could look for me instead. You don't like skyping monkey? I've had some good laughs with it.

A friend of mine once stapled another friend of mines' Road Traffic Accident jacket sleeves together so when he jumped out of the ambulance to put his jacket on at a collision, with the police, fire brigade and members of the public watching him, he epically struggled to get his hands out through the ends of his sleeves. He felt he had to persevere, as he just thought he couldn't get it on properly, but ended up with just a few fingers poking through the end. Picture the scene, mashed up cars, people in pain, and a six foot five giant with the majority of his arms trapped inside small sleeves, working with just a few fingers poking out. Much mirth was had by all He did take it off shortly after, but not before everybody had a good laugh. P.S. The ambulance service has the darkest humour of all the medical professions I have never worked in an office so only have outside pranks to tell.

WE WILL CLAMP DOWN ON ANY DRINKING IF WE SEE FIT! Try and get TF2 up and running, I have played that ONCE so I am a total noobette. Post your Steam id so we can get hold of you for impromptu games and do the Skype thang also.

It's the military way. They break you down and rebuild you the way they want you. Man up soldier!

Can you play Left for Dead? Do you have it? We could arrange a game or two of that, or Team Fortress 2 (a total noob speaks). Perhaps the console route is the way to go then. Seriously, don't worry about looking/sounding a fool. We are all fools, that's why we have gravitated toward each other on here. I for one, have embraced my inner geek. I no longer see it as an illness

EDIT: ^^ Alcoholism can cause psychosis and a whole host of related mental disorders and absolutely devastating physical illness. I'm not going to make you feel bad for your drinking (and I am certainly NOT judging you AT ALL), just raising awareness. EDIT EDIT: This post was clearly no edit, t'was infact a multiquote thingy. I hang my head in shame for my forum faux pas

Hell yeah! Get in on some Battlefield or Left for Dead 2 action fo' shizzle! There's DoW2 also, less of us play that, but still good though. Post your Steam ID and let us know your Skype name and you can join in. Don't worry about being shy or whatever, we don't bite! If you haven't got any of these games but want to, I would probably suggest getting Battlefield, as right now, this is what we are mostly playing. However, any of those will get you some Thumbs action on PC. Someone will apprise you of the console gaming that goes on if you are a console gamer. I have a proper gaming platform and thus have no knowledge of grey boxes etc Don't delay, sign up today!

+1 (2 months til qualification YIKES! but that's another story!)

Hey Groucho, being the forum Bones McCoy, I feel I should post and give you some support/advice (in a non patronising way). Ask yourself these questions, they are called the CAGE questions but don't google them before you answer them. Just jot down whether your answer is yes or no, it's quite simple. Ready? Here goes: Have you ever felt that you should cut down on your drinking? Have you ever felt angry or annoyed if people are critical of your drinking? Have you ever felt guilty about your drinking? Do you need a drink first thing in the morning; an eye opener so to speak? Check your answers here: http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.cfm?ID=-1389035520&linkID=962&cook=no You don't have to tell anyone your answers (feel free to PM me though if you need to talk about it). The questionnaire is designed to identify if a person has a problem and act as a prompt to seek help. I don't know how old you are or the amount of units you are consuming, but I have seen many, many patients who have drank heavily and trust me, you do not want to go there. The first step is identifying a problem, you may have just made it.

Well yeah, he was obviously a bit dim in the first place. Perhaps he survived because the chance of actually hitting his brain was a statistical impossibility..

It is people like the idiots who done did the stabbing that give dozy twonks the ammunition to claim video games are the sole source of all violence in the world. It is incumbent upon responsible gamers imho, to educate the lower orders who cannot control their emotions during gaming. People like this... http://www.epicfail.com/index.php?s=modern+warfare+fail&search.x=0&search.y=0 ...give us all a bad name. We should condemn them. Loudly. P.S. reading that back I feel i should say that I am NOT a Nazi, just mildly tumescent.

Bristol I say, BRISTOL!!

For a second or two, I thought you were implying you had shit covered hash browns. They would plainly not be worthy of praise.

Sorry that was annoying for you Wokkels. From now on, I won't call you, I will leave it to you to ask at a time that's suitable for you. Although it's annoying when you have to minimise the game to add folk to Skype only to find that the game is borked when you try to get back in. I appreciate this probably isn't as annoying as hearing the Skype ringtone for 30 seconds before ignoring it .

Yeah, lame night. Brikkle? Burkle? BERKELY? I did get to play BF2 in the end with a few thumbs so it wasn't totally goofed.

Done and done. You playing tonight? It's Battlethumbs turn this week. Even if you don't have a mic, you can listen in to the chat which I still find fun when I can't talk for whatever reason.

Hey Brkl, what's your steam id? Patters, Monkey and I were in steam chat during today's game but we couldn't add you If you have Skype, you can join in the fun that way too but we need your details natch. Good games anyway, they were a good team.

Blimey! Hi Dan. ABOUT TIME

I think it'll be Bill and his death will be due to tertiary syphilis he picked up in '52 in Korea. Love you loooong time soldyaah. I be your Lovaaah.

^^ Who is it? Pirate mentioned this and I forgot about it. I have to say that I am not that sad. Sort of.

Too much Meow Meow?!

Nonsense! I am always interested in what others have to say about their country and it's politics, health service, culture, whatever really. Better to have some kind of opinion than be a total dullard. More I say, more!

We should only trade in gold coins and goats.

Having a higher level makes little in game difference and only serves as an indication of one's lack of social/any life. Indeed, by being a lower level, one should feel able to claim a loftier moral ground. On the other hand...... I iz gonna ownz u bitches.

I second that; recommended PSU for single 4850 is 450w (see link). No room for overclocking with that either. http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4850/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4850-system-requirements.aspx Could try this instead: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-037-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098 Edit Or stick with that PSU and go for this card which gives comparable performance: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-117-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1434