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He's a knee-jerk guid Rangers man - the clumpany must always be defended, no matter how stupid it makes him look. I don't remember seeing any evidence of him personally being a bigot, but by God he'll fight to the death* to defend the rights of The Rangers fans who are and, I suspect, ONLY The Rangers fans. He'd likely be displeased if he saw other groups engaging in bigotry, and would see no dissonance in that. * moan in the press and nothing else

Anyone have any documentaries about why people decide to believe a small handful of contrarian voices, often speaking on topics outside of their field of expertise, at the expense of the overwhelming majority of people who know the most about the subject? Presumably it's some form of mental illness, but that's surely the most interesting aspect of most topics on this subforum. I mean, there are still millions who contribute to the lifestyle of exposed con man Andrew Wakefield and insist he's the top boi on matters related to vaccines and/or autism. It's fascinating, if not terrifying.

Oh shit, son.

I haven't drank much in years as even a small amount of alcohol had started bringing on a migraine within an hour of consumption. Recently I started dabbling again and discovered that issue seems to have pretty much cleared up. Now a pint leaves my stomach feeling like it's trying to eat its way out of my body so it can reach up and strangle me. Isn't middle-age great?

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (BBC iPlayer) - Egon's estranged family, ignorant of his ghostbusting history, travel to his remote farm after he dies and discover all sorts of peculiarities. Are there Twinkies? Will we see Mr Stay Puft? Will bustin' make a new generation feel good? (yes) This was OK, but ruined for me by the tired nostalgia farming that seems to inhabit any modern addition to an established franchise, which seemed to step into overdrive after The Force Awakens came out. It's absolutely littered with pointless references to the original, existing only to remind the viewer that they're watching a Ghostbusters film (which this doesn't often feel like it is, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but someone clearly thought it was). We get the original score used constantly, despite not fitting the film at all, dialogue is constantly reused, all the villains return...it's tiring. A more localised problem is that everything feels rushed - we're back to nobody believing in ghosts again, but every new development is taken in stride and the characters rarely seem surprised by anything that occurs, mainly because there'll be something else coming along that needs to be dealt with. Compare to the original where, despite Egon and Ray being true believers, they're shocked when they actually encounter a spirit. The odd thing is that the first act is very slow - again, not a bad thing in itself, but it jars when we end up rushing through characters finding ghosts and using equipment they've just discovered like old pros. There's a bit of plot contrivance too - ghosts suddenly being unable to pass through walls and suchlike - which should have been sorted out at the scripting stage. There's a school of thought that society has exhausted its ideas and we're now left with pale facsimiles of the same franchises, over and over again. I don't agree, but it's definitely true that the people holding the purse strings in Hollywood are more risk-averse than ever, and that's saying a lot. Thankfully, it's starting to bite, and it's becoming harder to make big money just by slapping a familiar name on it and saying "remember this? Here it is again!" for two hours. This wasn't necessarily a bad idea, and it's OK taken on its own, but it could have been so much better without the lazy, slavish, thoughtless idolatry of the source material by people who didn't really seem to understand why it was popular in the first place.

Some folk just won't see reason until it affects the Sasquatches. Sad.

I got it from booitsme7, honest.

The Conservative standard used to be "a majority of Scottish MPs", so I wouldn't bother with the notion that any percentage of support would be necessary to trigger another referendum. The answer is that there won't be another until Westminister is even more convinced of a No vote than last time, we become unprofitable for UK plc (which, between energy and nuclear bases, likely won't be for hundreds of years), or somehow the issue is forced. Nobody, absolutely nobody, has any idea how the last of those possibilities occurs without everyone involved ending up in jail for treason or worse. If they did, they'd be posting about it on here instead of complaining about the SNP wasting unspecified opportunities.

Oh please. P&B is the first to know about my horrifying adventures.

No time to watch that, but presumably it's about stubborn boomers grasping at straws to avoid changing anything about their habits, and leaving it up to their suffering kids to deal with the disastrous consequences.

I was trying not to slip into grindcore, as Discharge were the gateway into that genre and what little survives of pre-Scum Napalm Death's work was pure punk rock. I dunno if people would still class Napalm Death as punk, but the energy and politics are very much on-point.

Some of my ex-wife's cousins had a wall of jerky in their bathroom when they were at college. Apparently it was like a Jackson Pollock when you brought in a blacklight.

Discharge: Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters Poison Idea: Feel the Darkness Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks

I wonder what the Tories (claim to) believe would breach international law. Brown people getting in boats on the English Channel, and that's about it. Everything else is fair game if it suits HM's Government.

Nice. I'm assuming it looks similar to this:

Wasn't it Israel that Patel went off to talk to behind the government's back? Clearly not a big deal, considering she suffered no consequences.

The paracetamol limitation has been around for 10-15 years IIRC, and was brought in because people were overdosing on it both accidentally and deliberately. The problem is that a double dose can be fatal to certain people in the right circumstances, as it's a lot more dangerous than people realise. I've no idea where they came up with the figure of 32 tablets from, considering that far fewer than that can pop you off. Besides, all you really need is a 9V battery and a couple of bits of wire anyway.

Getting tips on murdering Muslims? Not even kidding TBH.

XCOM dissent shall not be tolerated. Mods! War of the Chosen is probably one of the greatest DLCs of all time. Maybe play the base game through on a low difficulty to get the hang of the base-building and stuff, then play it on increasingly harder difficulties until your mind breaks. Then play WotC and keep playing, forever. Chimera Squad is a budget story-based XCOM lite with scripted characters; a more laidback diversion. It's also good, and you might like it more if the base-building/research stuff of XCOM 2 seems like too much of an arseache. There's also Midnight Suns, your enjoyment of which will depend on how much you enjoy the Marvel films/characters, and if you fancy almost-but-not-quite romancing them and having them tell you you're just swell. I've enjoyed it quite a bit too, even if the superhero chat is very cringe (as I believe the young people say). Basically, Firaxis can do no wrong and I will fight you.

^^^ Phoebe Buffay

"Hey, I've never heard of Buc-ees before. What do you do?" "That doesn't matter - the important thing is that our toilets don't have skidmarks."

Are we thinking this might be the most number of seats lost at a UK general election? Apparently the current highest is 235. They've lost a few, but BawJaws won 365 last time out, so 130 in the threshold past which (should) lie total humiliation. Embarrassingly, they'd likely still be winning this election with him in charge, despite the criminality and flagrant lack of accountability.

This was literally one of the Brexit benefits that looser-lipped Conservatives discussed - an impoverished electorate that would have to work for less and let the UK undercut the EU. It's what they've wanted for a long time. A number of middle-class eejits just decided to believe it wouldn't be them having their faces eaten.

Just made a post about Legal Eagle - will be looking forward to seeing him excoriate Trump's latest bottom-of-the-barrel legal representatives Meanwhile, in "I didn't expect the leopard to eat MY face" news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68725771

I'll click on it eventually because it's Legal Eagle and he's great. If you didn't click on YouTube videos because of the thumbnail, you'd never click on any of them TBH. (unless you want to be disappointed by a lack of diddies, ironically)