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2 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

Here's the first announcement for Reading/Leeds 2022:

Who the hell is Dave?

https://www.readingfestival.com/live-blog/dave-marks-himself-as-one-to-watch

Dave apparently.. 

Barry Venison T Shirts

https://www.retroclasico.co.uk/product/barry-venison-t-shirt-random-90s-footballers-retro-football-t-shirt/

34 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Really? It’s so boring and dull, it just drones on and on and on forever without going anywhere and bores everyone to tears and

Oh, oh I see. 

You're too kind😘

Champagne Supernova is a nostalgia hit from college, much in the way that Guiding Star by Cast was from one of my first jobs. 

8 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

 

Here's something I've always wondered. Was garage music popular up north (around the turn of the century)? I always presumed it was massive around London and the South East, but not so much in the north where Trance was much bigger and dominated the clubs.

Garage did make it up North, and Trance despite the clubs was never as big as its made it up here.  Lots of house and garage nights at the moment whereas trance is stuck with the big orchestral sets. And that's it really 

2 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

They made about 3 or 4 really, really great songs that I absolutely love but I absolutely despise everything else they've done. There general sound is fucking grating on the ears. A whole album is torture.

This is about where I am at

Champagne Supernova 

Masterplan

Acquiesce 

And errr

Columbia

The rest can feck off 

Finally got round to No Country For Old Men. Simply phenomenonal from start to finish. Is it meant to link to Fargo in some kind of loose connection? As some of the beautiful shots of the west seemed to be framed as a counterpart to the Snow in Fargo. 

Stunning. 

Ava (Netflix) Good premise ruined by it effectively being a video game movie including Bear McCreary's Soundtrack and a series of boss battles. Sequel set up was piss poor too. Very disappointed with it. 

Red Notice (Netflix) , tried to hard to be Indiana Jones Tomb and the Furious Pool Woman. Had some good set bits and passed the time, not sure I'd watch it again though. 

Got Martin Roberts for my folks as they love homes under the hammer and then Dee from Battlestar Galactica 

Both went above and beyond, an were happy to talk more 

Brilliant news @Kookoocachu, congratulations 

5 hours ago, DEF said:

Thanks to The Basics this week I learnt what Kiss Players was. What the fuck were they thinking?!! I highly recommend not looking it up. The crib notes version is that it's a manga/radio play set from the moment Galvatron is thrown out of Unicron's eye in TFM until season 3 and involves creepy hentai involving very young looking characters. 

Anyhow how's it going with Earth Wars? I finally upgraded my hq to level 17 so I can start the Titans campaign. Going to be a while before I get through it mind you. My best team just isn’t leveled up enough yet. I've only got four 5*'s and it takes bloody ages to get them up to level 60.

Don't know if I mentioned this before but I got my first Masterpiece toy a little while back. Bumblebee v2. Are MP's all a nightmare to transform? It literally took me an hour to get him from VW to bot mode. Really like the little guy but I won't be transforming him back.

Cool Bee! 

I've a Smokescreen MP Ko, took 57 days to transform, gawd knows what the Bayverse MP ones are like. My dad picked up a Bayverse Optimus for my nephew from somewhere and it took forever to transform and that wasnt even a MP. 

59 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Wait. So it’s ok to have Pound Bakery again? This day couldn’t get better if the queen dies. 

Yip, Poundbakery is fine. 

5 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Poundbakery was a subsidiary of Warburton's.

When? 

Sayers who own Poundbakery were sold to Lyndale foods in 1996. The brought out in 2007 and 2011 and most recently as per my previous link.

Poundbakery was launched in 2010/11

Sayers own Website confirms the Warburtons stuff

http://www.sayersthebakers.co.uk/About-Us/The-History-Of-Sayers/3/78/

Poundbakery has never been a Warburtons subsidiary 

https://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/sayers-quietly-expands-new-bakery-concept/614676.article

Mandela effect going on here, maybe?  

TIL I know way more about bakeries than I ever planned too

10 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Poundbakery is a subsidiary of Warburton's.

Sayers (parent company of Pound bakery has been independent for ages)  Warburtons sold all their bakeries in the mid 1990s 

Poundbakery nearly went bust in 2019 https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/1400-jobs-saved-pound-bakery-17445481

Do what I can, have done since school 30 odd years ago. 

Recycle, stay away from single use plastics where I can (transformers aside) don't by a lot of new new clothes, free cycle and recycle where possible for things

Try to stick to responsibly sourced, and low carbon emission food, cleaning cleaning products etc. Amount of recycled packaging also effects choice

Haven't had a car since my last one died two years ago and no plans for another, walk or bus or train where I can. 

The only thing I cant give up entirely is meat and sadly I don't think I can commit to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle wholly, though will go through periods of both, but end up missing meat too much. 

Massive fan of renewables and have lived where waste/rain waters recycled etc. 

Wish that Severn Tidal Power would become a thing as would power most of the Southwest etc and hope that Britain goes more green. 

Not sure entirely what else I can do right now, but do worry about things for future generations and have done for donkeys. 

1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said:

Anyone got any recommendations for masks? I'll likely need to go back to the office over the next few weeks and wouldn't mind getting a few new ones.

Bog standard Stepahead on 2 quid from most places ranks highly, let down by lack of instructions https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/face-masks/article/best-reusable-face-masks-awLeA3A6XoZD

Sad about Dean Stockwell, had a fascinating life dropping out of entertainment to join a hippy commune and accomplished artist too https://taos.org/dean-stockwell/ amongst other things. 

Absolutely glorious as a bad guy or unhinged character, great in Married to the Mob, and delicious as Brother Cavil in the Battlestar Reboot aside from the roles mentioned. Turns up in all sorts of stuff and was always a pleasure to watch. 

15 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Currently on are Ward 16 who are mincing about dressed like humbug mints with faces painted like mimes trying to be all quirky. I googled them but just found pages NHS helpsites listing ward 16s around the country.

Right bunch of shite.

Ward XVI https://wardxvi.com/

Hope that helps 

This could be fun

8-Bit Christmas 

5 hours ago, BomberPat said:

apparently the people running it were involved with BWR (British Wrestling Revolution) - I don't know them, but I've heard good things about them, and they're handling of Speaking Out, in terms of safeguarding policies and working with outside agencies.

 

Brilliant thanks for the update, will see about checking it out. 

David Seal scored a plethora during the 1995/6 season including this one on the opening day vs Blackpool (2m 50ish)

Aside from that Mark Hughes scoring a beast of a goal vs Barcelona for Blackburn in a pre season friendly was magic http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/1487681.stm#:~:text=Blackburn 3-2 Barcelona,volleyed home the decisive goal.

Most Comical Best Goal was vs Chesterfield at home in the mid 1990s. One of the Chesterfield defenders spliced a clearance into the air on the edge of their area. It skyrocketed into the air and stayed there for what seemed like forever before looping over Billy Mercer in the Chesterfield goal. Might even be on the season review linked above. 

8 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Neil Warnock then next season. 

They can have Nigel Pearson. Please, take him. 

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Not defending Labour, because they're shit and Starmer is the biggest disappointment since the last one, but you only have to look at the fury over 28 Labour MPs abstaining from yesterday's vote to see why they haven't got a chance. They didn't abstain, they were paired against 28 Tory MPs who also weren't present. Woke this morning to as much chatter about that as cunts who have broken the rules and then voted to change them rather than face punishment. Party needs a huge reset. Again.

It's just so bizarre, some in Labour just want to oppose everything and dont understand how their own party works. They're are lead on by Sqawkbox, twitter and other, crappy news sources to hate their own. 

Labour may not be every one's cuppa at the moment, but ffs stop doing the Tories job for them. It is the most maddening thing to keep seeing. 

How are you ever going to attract new voters if all the current members do is repeat that Labour is shit?? 

Does anyone know much about this? 

https://www.facebook.com/PrideProUK/

Who's behind it? any #metoo involvement to avoid etc. 

Wondering if it's worth a trip?? 

10 hours ago, RancidPunx said:

In a previous job i was a FTE at a managed service provider and was based fully at the client’s office. 
I had to travel frequently and i queried if i should be getting paid for time that i spent travelling to/from places that were often 10 * hours flights away.

My manager dismissed it saying that because the client was US based and that my US colleagues dont get it then we dont get either. And that we’re bound by the US terms. Sorry !!

 

At i time i bought it but thinking back it that was complete bollocks , i was based in Ireland so surely Irish law applied in that sense  ?  

Anway separately I ended up moving to a new job soon after but it always bugged me that i’d potentially been done out of cash essentially …

 

Anybody have any experience about getting paid to travel for work ?

Depending on the sector its been different. 

For the NHS got milage and train tickets back through expenses once in a blue moon as the expenses system was always down, so ended up massively out of pocket locally. Working in Leeds though would always get travel and a night over as that was 'home base' despite living the other side of the country. Work there but not on my own patch started the minute I left the house. Locally though it was when I got to a destination. 

It ended up with a weird situation where some times I'd do 16 hour days and get paid for it all but others where Id work the same but get paid for only 6 hours as the travelling wasn't included and I'd end up skint waiting on expenses that never/hardly ever came. 

On 10/27/2021 at 10:10 PM, Nick James said:

ROH 2.0

ROH 2.0's bed time is 4am.

9 minutes ago, seph said:

This isn't related to any film in particular, but I'd like some input - I've quit Sky after many years, and with neither the funds nor the space to buy physical copies of most films available, what's an acceptable ratio in your views of physical & digital purchases?

I tend to wait, grab them for a quid or so at Poundland, charity shops, watch them, donate to charity if dont want to keep. 

Not that expensive and solves the storage issue too

Being off work at the mo, Ive binged Brooklyn Nine Nine and just finished Season 1 of The Good Place 

In between that, I've been watching some incredibly shitty disaster movies/mini series. 

Earthquake: Fall of Los Angeles has a strong cast including:- Skeletor, Barbara Eve Harris, Beau Bridges and the ubiquitous Dean Cain.

It's well shot and despite really cheap CGI and  actually has some good set pieces. The acting though is abysmal, but at least not everyone is safe, from 'Murica saving the world' , and has a bleak ending too. 

Los Angeles is destroyed in the first five seconds, so the name is a bit of a misnomer and the whole thing pays homage to other disaster movies including Dantes Peak, Posiedon and Independence Day. 

Went on forever, but had laughs value because of the piss poor acting and awful cgi. 

Apocalypse Tomorrow takes the worst out of disaster movies, sprinkles some Indiana Jones and signs of the zodiac Dan Brown style fuckwittery. 

The star of this is those black federal SUVs which must be cheap to rent, and reverse over the shoulder shots which the director seemed obsessed with.

The whole thing is 'cleverly' shot around a Canadian University Campus. Aaron Douglas, chief from Battlestar Galactica is the 'big bad' and has a cameo from Christopher Lloyd as well. 

It's exactly as awful as you'd expect. 

Impact, is another mini series style thing from Canada. This time the moon gets struck/destoyed by an imploded Brown Star Meteorite, causing the moon to crack into many peices after its orbit has been destabilised due to the density of the Brown Star debris. 

One of the main protagonists is unbearable and his death was met with cheers. A hero he is not. Borrowing liberally from Armageddon and Deep Impact as well as containing surprise James Cromwell and assorted BSG alumni, it is not a complete waste and has the best effects of the three, but also adheres to the shot on a University Campus rule somewhere to save money. 

Having worked through many of the Asylum disaster movies and those on Pluto TV, I've had to go to 2nd hand DVD market for dodgy disaster movies. 

If anyone has any recommendations then I'm definitely all ears.