Monthly Archives: May 2002

Went to the above at the NEC in Birmingham at the weekend – check out the pictures. For the most part it was just a matter of feeling resentful of all the middle aged dudes in beards driving fantastic looking sports cars.

It was good to get up close to a few personal favourites, though – the GT-40 and the DeLorean were fantastic to see. The guy who owned the DeLorean in the pictures was nice enough to explain how he’d come to own it and the plans he had in future to restore it. Not that it looked like it needed much restoring, but I guess that owning a classic car is an ongoing project.

The only disappointments were the size of the show – it was in a pretty small hall and a walk around didn’t take long at all. The other let down was TOCA Race Driver – being shown for the first time by Codemasters. I had a practice before entering their competition, but the game was so crap that I didn’t even bother entering. Seems I’ll have to look elsewhere for a decent racing game on the PS2.

No, that’s not a typo. This, however, is madness; some teacher has won a grand of compensation after being slagged off on Friends Reunited. Okay, so maybe the pupil was a complete tosser and told a few porkies, but in general there are teachers who are complete bastards who deserve to be outed.

Fifteen years ago it was safe for Mrs Craig (the french teacher at Torpoint Comprehensive) to punch me on either side of the head because I was day dreaming during her class. Safe because she scared the shit out of me and I reckoned I’d get into more trouble if I told my mum what the nasty cow had done. If this happened now, I’d sure as hell be posting it on the internet, letting people know that this woman had struck me. And I’d love every last second of it – I’d cherish the moments as the press called the school, the BBC got wind of it and the bitch suddenly went on “sick leave.”

But I couldn’t do that fifteen years ago. Which meant there was no justice, even if it would have been of the kangaroo court variety. Mrs Craig got away with it – she might have gotten away with hitting other kids too… all because she could. I spent the next year or so at that school feeling sick in the pit of my stomach every time I had to attend her class or walk past her in the corridor.

So to have the whistle blown on teachers like, or worse than Mrs Craig seems perfectly reasonable to me.

As long as you’re being honest you should have twenty other kids who were in the class who can back you up if your tormentor chooses to take you to court. I’d say teachers who behave badly are fair game.

ChipZone kept their word and delivered the replacement Dual Shock to USB converter on Tuesday. I’ll say it again – fantastic customer servce!

I celebrated by playing Grand Prix 3 all night and it was great getting into the swing of things again. Jeez – until Sensible Soccer came out the only thing my Amiga was used for was playing Grand Prix – I know virtually every corner of most of the established circuits on the calendar – and thanks to the the GP fan sites out there I can learn the new ones before GP4 comes out in a couple of months.

Cool – and a darn site more exciting than watching F1 at the moment, I can tell you.