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  1. 4 minutes ago, smpar said:

    I don’t get the “how will the police know if it’s my first, second or third jog of the day?” comments. Why is it that many people’s instant reaction to authoritative measure to be ‘how can I get around this one?’

    It’s staggering to think of the number of people who will genuinely go out for a second walk, for no other reason than to ‘outwit’ the polis.

    We've finally found the most effective way to make folk in this country exercise - make it illegal! 

  2. Joe Rogan gets some great guests on but I only listen to the ones that catch my eye. A lot of it is MMA nonsense which I have no interest in. 

    Been catching up on the open goal interviews recently. The Gordon Smart one was particularly good. He's led an interesting life! Confirming that Edgar Davids is a c**t (which I think most people knew anyway).

  3. Claims not to really have been that good friends with the guy in the first place and not to have seen him in 4 years, but then decides to fly accross the Atlantic and stay in his house to tell him be doesn't want to be friends any more. If I didn't know someone that well, hadn't spoke to them in 4 years, and they were recently outed as a sex offender I would probably just continue with not speaking to them. Like the previous 4 years. How daft does he think we are? 

    Also, that man has never been to Pizza Express in his life. Like David Cameron pretending to support Aston Villa (or was it West Ham?) and Gordon Brown saying he likes the Artic Monkeys. Pick something the "common man" likes, that'll get them onside....

  4. Conversation with the mother in law recently. I live in England. This is a woman who works 50 hours a week in 2 jobs to make ends meet, doesn't own her own home and I suspect has little in the way of pension provision. I didn't get out of her who she will be voting for but she won't be voting for Labour because Corbyn "terrifies" her. When pressed on this she was unable to elaborate. I suspect she will vote for the tories to "get brexit done". People down here are so consumed with getting out of the EU that they haven't stopped for a moment to think how the next government is going to affect their lives in any other way. We live in a fairly safe tory seat so in reality this sort of thing probably won't make too much difference here but I'm sure its replicated across the country. When you ask them why they want out of the EU they can't even give proper reasons apart from the usual sound bites about "being ruled from Brussels" etc

  5. 48 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

    You get a similar response from people when their views about Sturgeon are challenged.

    The "I hate that woman" crowd can never actually tell you why they "hate" her.

    It's tribal pish of the worst kind.

    This sort of stuff is particularly bad living down here in Englandshire. 

    "Jimmy Krankie". "Oh she's just like Hitler, she wants to be a dictator". When challenged it usually transpires these sort of people have barely even watched an interview of her, let alone have any idea of the SNPs policies or what it is actually like living under an SNP government in Scotland. 

  6. 3 hours ago, MixuFixit said:

    I don't get what's so bad about a Corbyn govt for so many folk.

    The media have been constantly parroting how bad it is going to be for the last several years that the general public now seem to accept this as fact. When you actually challenge people about what in particular they dislike about the man they generally can't come up with much of substance apart from nonsense like "he can't even tie his tie properly" but hey if it was on BBC news and the front page of the Daily Mail then it must be right eh?

    The fact the press in this country seem to be so terrified of the man is another reason to vote for him as far as I'm concerned. If he was a power hungry careerist like most of the people who rise to high office in politics in this country then he wouldn't have spent most of his years on the back benches. I actually believe he wants the best for the country and cares about ordinary people. I couldn't say that about Johnson or Swinson.  

    As I live in England now, Labour will be getting my vote for the first time ever in my life. Still hope to see the SNP wipe everyone out in Scotland, mind. 

  7. I've used a few. Private Internet Access, Express VPN & currently using Nord VPN. Can't say I've noticed a massive difference in service/speed levels and my main motivation for jumping around providers has been price. A lot of them do cheap introductory or renewal offers. If you're going to be using Netflix etc then they seem to be cracking down on this. I've found it difficult to get Nord to work with Netflix although admittedly I haven't made a massive effort on this as it is not my primary reason for using a VPN. I've never really had any concerns over data harvesting. Yeah they have all your information but in this day and age so do loads of other people.

  8. 4 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

    Going by the current sympathy towards fascist dictatorship, we'll have done away with daft anachronisms like voting people in to political office by then.

    Not even sure if I'm kidding there TBH.

    At least we will get to hang Boris upside down from a lamppost at the end of it all. That's how fascism works, right? 

  9. Is it that easily hacked though? I don't claim to be any sort of expert on cyber security but surely with the amount of sensitive stuff that is done online these days then surely this is not an insurmountable challenge. Some countries already do it and its bound to come in at some point (I mean, are we still going to be having to trudge down to the local polling station in 50 years? I'd be surprised.) So let's just get on with it. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Stinky Bone said:

    I just checked term dates for 2 universities, Manchester and London school of economics.  Both finish their term on Friday the 13th.  

    Bojo wants the election on the 12th, the day before, during which many students may be travelling home and skiving the last day of school.  They will be too preoccupied with celebrations to vote.  

    Convenient eh? 

    Fair enough. About time we introduced online voting tbh. That's another discussion really but in this day and age I can't see any reason not to. I'd be tempted to make it mandatory as well but have a "none of the above" option on the ballot paper.

  11. Recently started listening to "Behind the b*****ds". As you would gather from the title, it profiles some of the most evil and notorious people in history, and some I hadn't heard of. Some pretty interesting stuff. The Jeffrey Epstein one was particularly good 

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