Worst review ever.

It's also available online

West Wing is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. But I'm stuck on the less-than-brilliant Season 5. I've heard it really picks up, though.

Saw this on Play a while ago and ordered it even though it was out of stock, just got an email to say it's been dispatched:

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/870260/T ... oduct.html

Complete Smell of Reeves and Mortimer for £5.

I bought that complete West Wing, incidentally. Turns out 44 DVDs, even in special slimline 6-DVDs-in-double-width-case, is quite heavy. Also: 112 hours. What have I done?

44 you say? Two discs of extras? Anything worthwhile? The individual series sets are a bit sparse in that respect.

I'd advise against trying to watch it all in one sitting.

Also, be prepared to do a bit of rewinding occasionally (particularly early on) as it can be a bit confusing and fast-moving sometimes, unless you're familiar with the workings of US government departments. (Or maybe I'm just a bit thick - you decide.)

I'd quite like to have a better grasp of American politics, so it's all win for me.

It's worth it for The Jackal alone.

Saw this on Play a while ago and ordered it even though it was out of stock, just got an email to say it's been dispatched:

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/870260/T ... oduct.html

Complete Smell of Reeves and Mortimer for £5.

Free "Tales of Monkey Island chapter 1" - probably PC only

http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate

On this note, is the XBLA Monkey Island game that came out a couple of months back actually FUN, even when you have played the original multiple times in the past, and once again fairly recently? Speaking objectively.

Free "Tales of Monkey Island chapter 1" - probably PC only

http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate

Free "Tales of Monkey Island chapter 1" - probably PC only

http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate

Where did the chunk you split out end up?

If anyone's still interested in the LucasArts adventures on Steam, they've gathered a pack of them together for a good price.

LucasArts Adventure Pack @ £6.99.

Surely it would be best to wait till the pack goes on weekend offer/sale? I don't think I'll ever buy anything off Steam unless it is discounted as everything seems to be offered at a special price eventually.

You could say that about anything, though.

You could say that about anything, though.

Cheap Rock Band Drums goodness

I can't see this mentioned in the last few pages, so apologies if I'm treading on the foot of familiarity here - Tesco are shoving out (non-Beatle) Rock Band Drum Kits for £17.87 each (they're still £69.99 on Play). It's probably a bit of a lottery whether your local will have any left in stock, and whether they'll be flagged up as such on the shelves, but it seems to be nationwide. If you see one on the shelf at your local store, it's worth asking a cashier to check the price.

Here's how suspiciously great a barg it is: I picked up the last one in stock earlier tonight (at Tesco Broughton, living-near-there-slash-disappointment fans), having gone to the Digital Checkout desk to check the price first.

"Ooh, that can't be right. Hang on, let me check again."

"Yeah, that should be right. Someone posted on HotUKDeals saying they were going for that price."

"You're right. £17.87, please."

"Cheers."

Arriving at the 'regular' till after doing the rest of my shopping, I'd asked the cashier if she needed to scan the security tag on the box. "No, I think you're okay with that." "Ah, cool. Well, if not, I'll find out in about ninety seconds, eh?", I jocularly countered. Like a twat. Ninety seconds later, cue me frozen at the entrance as the alarms go off, peering around for the security bod to swoop*.

"Okay, let's just have a look at your receipt... hang on. This can't be right. Have you paid for this? It's never £18 for one of these. Can you follow me please?"

Long story short, I follow Security Lady to the Digital desk LIKE A GREAT BIG CRIMINAL, where the Digital Desk Lady takes one look at me with the Rock Star Drum box and says "no, that is the right price, and he has paid". Tsk. The moral is: get the cashier to deactivate the security tag properly.

(*I'm used to this now, having had the same thing happen to me twice before in the last two sodding weeks, in different supermarkets. I suspect I emit an electromagnetic field that prevents the deactivation of security tags.)

Completely off topic, but when I worked in Sainsbury's I had an entire roll of sticky black security tag things. Looked kinda like a black nicotine patch with some flat copper wire gubbins on it. I stuck one on the inside of my mate's inside-coat-pocket one friday night, and apparently he went to a shopping centre the next day and set off every single security gate going in and out of every single shop

Also, for the interested - if you were to take the whole roll of security tags through the gate, it wouldn't go off. If you've got too many, it confuses the machine (presumably) and it just doesn't react. So, thieves, get yourself a tag-roll.

Really? Because I worked at HMV, and one of the security guards used to wear one of those coats to work that had a zip at the back of the neck where a flimsy hood used to hide, and we stuck one inside there for the lulz. He ended up buying a new coat after a couple of weeks.

So, thieves, get yourself a tag-roll.

When I worked at b&q we used to peel the tags off the roll and randomly scatter them sticky side up on the floor around the checkouts. On oap Wednesday. That taught the annoying piss smelling olds coming in seemingly just to complain about the pot plants.