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Someone born in the early 90s could quite possibly have a dad who is into console games. My daughter was born in 1993. I don't think there's been a console released since then she hasn't had full access to, many of which I still have.

Speaking of TVs, you only got to play any console when parents were not about because unless you had trendy parents a house would only have one TV (and possibly a tiny black and white one in the kitchen and after half an hour squinting at sonic on that you would give up, or your mum would want to put her soaps on.)

I had a tv in my room plugged into various spectrums and megadrives over the years, starting from the late eighties. My parents were in no way trendy or rich!

I had a speccy 48k, a +2 and a +3. From the very first of them we had a tv to go with it, which was in my room. So it may well have been mid eighties, rather than late eighties, I was born in 76
Dad brought home a 12Mhz 286 from work, which was awesome!
Then I had a Megadrive, none of that Nintendo crap in my gaff

My cousin had a BBC, we used to play some sort of top down driving game for hours on end.

I'm sure there are a few who genuinely remember what it is that they are professing a fondness for, however I suspect they are a small in number compared to the number of hipster douchebags who blabber on about it because it's seen as trendy.

Well, Assange is out on bail, subject to handing in his passport, wearing a tag, and obeying a curfew. Not sure when the extradition hearing is.

Someone born in the early 90s could quite possibly have a dad who is into console games.

You couldn’t make this up. (Bronwyn Bishop is MP for the Division of Mackellar, New South Wales, Australia, and is a member of the shadow (opposition) cabinet for the Liberal Party.)

Edit -- Curio has pointed out via Facebook that this is a fake account, albeit a really, really real-looking one. As you were.

I love the Ozzies! I was told a joke at lunch today referring to a an Australian parliament debate which was about something to do with legislation about a group called Country Members or something or other. Yes, it's going to get lost in the retelling, but the response apparently went something like this.

Country Member: Objection! I'm a Country Member!
Parliament: Yes. We remember

A section of Mr Assange’s profile detailing online quizzes he had completed showed he had been ranked strongly Left-wing and atheist, as well as “87 per cent slut".

Mr Assange, 39, is currently being held in Wandsworth prison awaiting potential extradition to Sweden. He is accused of rape and sexual molestation, which he denies.

so not out yet then

His very very creepy online dating profile
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... htung.html

got to give comedy timing props it to whoever wrote that

He ... and added enigmatically: "I am DANGER, ACHTUNG".

Among Mr Assange's listed interests were the "structure of reality" and "chopping up human brains" – although he added the caveat "(neuroscience background)" lest the latter put off potential admirers.

Asked for the "most private thing" he was willing to admit, Mr Assange said he had "Asian teengirl stalkers".

A section of Mr Assange’s profile detailing online quizzes he had completed showed he had been ranked strongly Left-wing and atheist, as well as “87 per cent slut".

Your Face is silly.

Malc



Poor research or simple misleading, there - that "I am [WORD], [WORD], and [WORD]" part is a vestige of a previously obligatory feature where users had to use three words to describe themselves. When it was dropped (presumably because most people found it tedious and put in any old gibberish), the text was dropped from the header and automatically copied into the body text of the profile. They didn't tell people this, so a lot of people still have it there, having presumably never noticed it.



Oh please. If you were that easily put off, you would have left OKCupid after about an hour. Pretty much every profile on there is either ageingly dull ("I LYK POPULAR FILM #11, POPULAR BAND #223, INOFFENSIVE INTEREST #55b LOL") or is deliberately obscure and/or dark.



Again, misleading - loads of people put silly gibberish in there. Mine is "I'm sleeping with your wife". Doesn't mean anything as this is obviously trying to make out.




pfft, half the point of that site is the quizzes, most of which are rubbish about how much of a bummer or serial killer you "are", or WOULD I BONE U!!! quizzesesszesz.

In conclusion, the only story here is that, four years ago, he had a silly profile on a silly site where most people say silly things. Silly.

The initial warrant in the case against Mr. Assange had been issued in August. But it was revoked the next day, due to what the lead prosecutor cited as a lack of evidence. It was only last month – just as WikiLeaks was preparing to release a set of confidential diplomatic cables – that Sweden again issued a warrant to detain him.

After turning himself in to the authorities in London, Mr. Assange was initially denied bail (although he has since been awarded it) — which is particularly unusual given that Swedish authorities have still not formally charged him with a crime, but merely want to bring him in for questioning. Most unusually still, Sweden had issued an Interpol red alert for Mr. Assange’s arrest, something they have done for only one other person this year accused of a sex crime: Jan Christer Wallenkurtz, who is suspected of multiple cases of sexual assault against children.

TIME's Person of the Year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry, Julian Assange, I guess you didn't violate enough people's privacy.

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems. He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.

From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

I rather assume most people do.

Pvt Manning isn't.

It's probably just as well we didn't see these when Sinister was asking for dating advice

Pfft. Amateur. If your stalkey emails don't rhyme, you're doing it wrong.