DISQUS

They should have adapted this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Wolverine-Mass-P...), scene for scene. Fanboys would be stoked, fans of good cinema would be stoked, and they'd have made a lot of money. As it is, they just managed the latter, but may have killed a franchise.

I've heard exactly nothing good about this film. It's got Gambit in it, for fuck's sake. What has Gambit ever had to do with Logan's origins? Same question for Emma Frost, Deadpool, Cyclops, Blob...

Mr. T is a pop-cultural icon, and this is coming from someone who is a few years shy of 25 yet. T has always been positive, and made an effort to help kids value their education and learn self-respect. I'll take him taking the piss out of himself over some expensive looking, over long, and oddly violent rubbish any day of the week.

http://www.punknews.org/article/33197

Published in today's Merc. Win.

There are definitely courses that shouldn't be degree courses. So called 'complementary' medicine is definitely on my hit list too.

I reeled this off to the Merc an hour or so ago:

In Wednesday's First Person Alex Rowley argues that our universities are full of lazy students studying apparently useless subjects for worthless degrees. His argument relies on the following assumptions:

1. That his experience of university life, as a first year Drama and Performing Arts undergraduate, is a reliable indicator of the state of higher education as a whole.

2. The worth of knowledge is to be measured entirely in terms of whether it is economically beneficial, either to the student, or to society at large.

Alex seeks to undermine a particular degree course, offered by the Welsh College of Horticulture, in Equestrian Psychology. The College's own website states that graduates are expected to be pursue a career in the equine industries, which surely has parallels with other courses and industries, like, for example, Drama and the Performing Arts.

The worth of knowledge in and of itself is a matter of individual opinion, and if young people are willing to incur large amounts of debt in the study of subjects which may not advance their position economically, surely it is their choice to do so.

I would argue that future progress, both economic, and cultural, is to be found in a robust and varied education system which arms young people with, not only knowledge, but also the skills of research, analysis, and communication which a solid degree education already provides. I think judging education purely in terms of it's ability to prepare young people for the work force will result in generations unable to think for themselves, and unworthy of their inheritance, a civilisation built on centuries of respect for the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself.

I would agree with Alex that there are flaws in our higher education system, but I don't think singling out hungover rugby players (surely not a recent addition to university life), or specialist courses with clear links to existing industries is the way forward.

This is coming from a Sociology graduate earning minimum wage, by the way, although I have absolutely no cause for complaint in the current climate. I wish Alex the best of luck with his academic endeavours.

A disappointing advert for a disappointing beer. Deeply sexist claptrap.

Incidentally, pink was considered a masculine colour until only a few decades ago.

Shit.

Stoked. When I was in school I read a version of Macbeth about youth football. Toying with existing works is exactly what Shakespeare did when he wrote the thing, so what's the problem? Proud of Hazza for putting the prat in his place. If Cameron wants people to buy into his New Conservatism he'd better tell his backbenchers to play along til after the next election.

Dot Cotton day? Count me in!

@zman If you start your post with a reference to Men Are From Mars I've already discounted everything that follows.

Note: You've called Coffield-Brown an idiot, but I count several basic grammar mistakes in your post. Glass houses. Stones. You know the rest. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/7/7/the-...

They look like the kind of covers that might appeal to adults who are embarrassed to buy a kid's book, and read said kid's book on the train.

Is the implication that he's got two peckers?

What's wrong with being common?

Try addressing the article itself instead of attacking the author, Pete.

This reminds me of my old computer. If something went wrong you could choose to press R, for retry, or A, for... well, you can work that one out for yourselves. Should have pressed A young lady.

This is going to be amazing!

I'll wait for the reviews I think. I've been burned by comics games before. About 15 of them.

I don't mind the bloke. He was pretty funny on Buzzcocks. If he's turning his hand to comics, I wish him the best of luck.

And he definitely wasn't being ironic? Fuck.

I'm still amazed by how crap the building is. Considering rising fuel costs and environmental concerns, is it really sensible to build with so much glass, and incorporate such enormous spaces and high ceilings?

Yuletide greetings.

This should be huge, but it won't be, because this nation is populating by exactly the kinds of morons she's trying to wake up.