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Shiv had like 500 opportunities to act vaguely like she liked Tom and she couldn't do it. Superb. Kendall's the only one who could topple Logan now. Not a sicko, not completely incompetent and finally admitted he's a killer.

Aye same. I've hesitantly started Spring which promises some more of that good oversharing Karl Ove. One of the adaptations which is far better than the source material. Read The Dispossessed. The Expanse is also a series that starts off alright and gets better and better as it goes. Books 5/6-9 are tremendous. Also second GBH's response @DiegoDiegothat Banffy book sounds class. Gonna start that after the final Expanse book.

Any particular examples of higher calibre MPs you’d like to draw attention to

Not in social work but the department we have that is most closely related to dealing directly with this sort of thing is also staffed with agency workers because again, aye, nobody wants to work there given the high stress and serious consequences if you mess up.

Starmer commanding all the authority of someone who voted blindly with the government without extracting any meaningful concessions Pointless

Constantly testing myself bro and always came back negi. Can’t speak to my mental state after some of them right enough. Since Bicep it’s been a consistent top tier mood though.

My cousin and his gf came down for the Warehouse Project last weekend and caught the Covid and I’m clear despite being in amongst it with them. Obvs a bit of a shanner even though they’ll be fine for Christmas but I’m hooting and hollering at me going to six WHP events this year and an 80,000 capacity festival and waltzing through without a scratch.

One of the reasons the department was heavily criticised was that they were haemorrhaging staff when the case numbers were soaring.

Plenty of folk are saying the same down here. Corbyn is getting flak off some lefties for being opposed to vaccine passports.

Right I don't like the SNP much but this didn't just happen out of nowhere, the SNP were largely responsible for this. The opposition might be shite but the SNP have to a substantial extent caused that collapse in a feasible opposition by being a reasonably competent political party for the last 14+ years. Far and away the most competent in the UK however damning that faint praise is.

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) dir. The Wachowskis Idk if it's months of near Avatar level revisionism or the onslaught of soulless blockbuster monstrosities in the years since the movie was initially released but this fucking rocks man. I can't believe I was ever part of the "the sequels are bad" stuff. The action sometimes feels a bit weightless and nobody ever really feels in any danger but that's sacrificed in favour of making everything and everyone look and sound ultra cool which it succeeds in. The gestures to the world beyond the movie has me wanting to dive right back in to all the extended media. Even the scenes everyone hated, like the rave scene, are class. It's the only time I feel the movies attempt to visually counter Cypher's belief that ignorance is better than taking the red pill. Knowing it was supposed to be Will Smith makes Keanu Reeves more enjoyable as well. His kinda stilted speaking works throughout especially as everyone else (Lawrence Fishbourne in particular) match it. The only real deviations are the Hugo Weaving who's a scene stealing villain every time he appears again and the Merovingian who sounds like he's having a whale of a time. Also anyone that hates this movie when the Freeway scene exists deserves a scheme booting. Lawrence Fishbourne has a sword and a gun.

The games are too long. At the point now where a nice 12 hours is perfect for me. I think I put about 115 hours into Valhalla as pure junk food play.

I don’t think shows like Succession, The Thick if It or Veep are miles off the mark. It wouldn’t surprise me if yer Gordons* etc just hate the public rather than thinking they did anything wrong. *Brown and S

I don’t think Sturgeon, Yousaf and Swinney feel that at all they’ve been vindicated pretty consistently by public opinion, polling numbers, the recent storming election results, their own party’s recent divisions being largely resolved through a voluntary exit of the cranks, and even the opposition broadly falling in line behind them at every turn. Even a media generally hostile to their end goal is currently more deferential when compared to the coverage Johnson is currently getting.

Really enjoying Sega Bodega's new one.

I’ve almost definitely been at the same club event as McTernan in the past and you have to say fair play to having genuine decent cultural tastes and nothing else

It’s obvious Scottish students would broadly rather study where the fees are much cheaper or mostly subsidised. Even at a postgrad level I only paid about 2500 of my own cash as the govt covered the rest.

This poster appreciates every single one of you: the humble lurker, the Juniors squabbling online and offline, every alias that just couldn’t quit, the dearly departed who couldn’t hack it, every poster who dreams of posting their way into the daily top ten, all the boys who gave themselves brain worms on the Covid thread, and everyone else besides. Special shout out to Slippery P and Big Doddy Kane though for all the tunes they’ve shared over the year

Something about Thorongil red dotting this days later has done me in

Ad Lib exhausted himself holding everyone to account who didn’t personally defend the Kabul Palace

I get the impulse and I don’t want clubs closed either but the owners of places like the Sub Club don’t give the slightest shite about their staff who often are the more cautious about reopening. Sacha Lord was the loudest voice down here about the reopenings and he’s did more to damage Manchester’s nightlife than anyone else (Covid included). That’s before you get to how badly his staff are paid and how his venues have a decent chance of giving you dysentery.

He's not Stormzy lads you don't have to be all Reds under the bed over literally every new poster.

Why they never had a grappling hook in Halo until now is beyond me. One of those little additional features that feel like it should've been there since day one.

What's the most obnoxious opinion I can have here? Refusing a booster because I believe it should go to poorer countries seems the most morally righteous but potentially annoying take to have. Adopting that from now on.