SpursRiot2012

I've never seen the video to Jump Around. Does this mean I can't get my passport?

1 minute ago, gmoney said:

Has anyone else had someone contact them via Facebook under the guise of catching up, only for them to try and flog them a pyramid scheme? I had a message from a girl I went to primary and secondary school with, asking how'd I'd been etc, we had about 3 messages back and forth and the next thing I know she is banging on about that Herbalife muck. Insidious! 

No, but one old schoolmate called me randomly out of the blue last year, starting going on about a "business opportunity" that he wanted people to invest in. He's always posting pictures of himself suited and booted, surrounded mainly by businessmen-like Asian dudes at conferences of some sort. I'm pretty sure he's involved in some sort of multi-level marketing scheme or worse.

Is there a trick to watching the G1? Because otherwise how can anyone find the time to watch so many shows?

Which are the "must watch" G1 days this year?

4 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said:

I’ll be honest @SpursRiot2012 i’d Suggest it’s your bodies intolerance rather than it being the beer itself. Nanny State is fucking aweful in fairness, but our law is pretty clear in that it can be called alcohol free if it’s up to 0.5%.

Best to just check the label mate, they all state the ABV.

Fair enough. My experience with non-alcoholic beers extends only as far as Beck's Blue, which I don't really like, and a Polish one that I cant remember the name of that I really like. I was under the (I see now, false) impression that all non-alcoholic beers were 0.05% ABV.

Oh, and yeah, Nanny State was not nice.

2 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

You are an angry young man, aren't you! Every little annoyance seems to get you wound right up...

Yeah, it's another area I'm working on in therapy.

Somehow I'm both full of ambivalence and anger at the same time. My therapist reckons I'm "fascinating." I felt weirdly proud when he said that.

Although I don't think I'm an angry person in general. Certain things might make me irrationally angry sometimes but most of my anger is directed at shit everybody should be angry at like Brexit and for-profit prisons. Day to day, unless I happen to be having a discussion about an ISSUE that makes me angry, I'm actually quite laid back. Laid back isn't even the word for it. I'm almost completely disengaged from the world around me, day to day, to the point where it's most likely a psychological issue.

Not sure this is quite the thread for this but as many of you know, I don't drink anymore. Maybe once a year, when my partner is away, I will get together with a mate and have a bit of a session, but that's it and I usually need several days recovery time following that. Other than that, my alcohol intake is zero.

We went to a vegan pizza place in Camden on Friday for my friend's fiance's birthday. I fancied a non-alcoholic beer, checked the menu and saw a BrewDog beer called Nanny State being advertised as alcohol-free (they only sold BrewDog - this is Camden, after all). So, I drink my non-alcoholic beer and for some reason feel a little tipsy. How could that be? Non-alcoholic beers have 0.05% ABV. You'd have to drink 40 of the fuckers just to get a mild buzz going. So I check the bottle, it's 0.5% alcohol. OK, still not very alcoholic, but still alcoholic! 

I didn't think to complain that their menu was advertising this beer as non-alcoholic, but imagine if someone who had had a serious, physical dependency on alcohol went in there and ordered their "non-alcoholic" beer? Could throw them right off the wagon. Fuckers. Fuck you, vegan pizza place and fuck you, too, BrewDog.

Martial is wasted on Mourinho. I wish we'd been able to do a deal with United for Toby + cash for Martial. Now, Mourinho is going to leave United and a manager that actually realises how fucking good Martial is and is going to be is going to come in and never let him go.

I'm not sure what to make of Arsenal under Unai just yet. They were outclassed by a City side that barely looked to get out of first gear, but that's City. City are this league's best team by a long shot. Then for most of the first half today, I thought Arsenal looked like a team who'd never played football together before. All over the place and Cech and his defense clearly aren't yet well drilled in playing out from the back. When they went two down, I thought that they'd go on to a battering. But to be fair, while they still lost, it didn't end up as embarrassing as it could have been.

I really want to see them against a non top six side. I think that'll be a better barometer of how much Emery had been able to instill his philosophy and tactics into the team.

 Kane scores in August now so you best prepare your anuses.

Hogan should just really keep his mouth shut at this point on this particular issue. Does he even need wrestling anymore after putting Gawker out of business? Isn't he loaded again?

If it were true, there would be a million links to the video all over the web by now. It's not true.

No! Please, God, no. I don't want Kelvin-Picard. The Trek movies and TV rights are owned by two different companies, there is no reason why CBS should have to or try to tie in with a series of movies that have, sine Star Trek 2009, done progressively worse and worse at the box office, not to mention how each movie got worse and worse as well.

There is no reason at all they can't do this in the Prime timeline.

Discovery looks like it'll be less dark for its second season with a little more fun moments thrown in. From the little we've seenz the actor playing Pike seems to play it well. I'm just frustrated with the link between Burnham and Spock that they've teased they're going to explore further because Spock never once, over several TV series and an entire movie franchise,.mentioned even once having a human half sister. Neither did his dad. It's dumb.

That's not a klingon, THIS is a Klingon:

You can get your required by law Christmas jumper/t-shirt for all the Christmas parties this year right now at a discount...

 https://shop.wwe.com/stone-cold-steve-austin-north-pole-316-holiday-t-shirt/13584.html?dwvar_13584_color=Black

Edit: some of the clearance stuff is funny as fuck. A "Big Cass Pillow Pal" only £9.85 plus shipping.

With the shipping, it's a little rich for my blood just now as we've this month had to outlay a big chunk of change on some home repairs. If it was a tenner or £12 all in, I'd do it, but basically, £17...I'm sure the missus would be annoyed.

6 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

The EuroShop has a bunch of shirts half price including most of the "Neon Collection"

I may need to buy this. I actually bought a Razor Ramon Funko Pop Vinyl the other day because it was a fiver. It will be the only Funko Pop I ever own. How much is that shirt?

Edit: £12,50?! I can't not! Even if I'll likely never wear it outside the house

I got a new Samsung S9 Plus from EE, upgrading from my S7 Edge. Because of delivery issues, they refunded me the £209 early upgrade fee and the £70 upfront cost for the handset and threw in a Samsung Gear S3 Sport smart watch for free. I only had to wait an extra week for the phone and they did all this as a "goodwill gesture"

S9 Plus is lovely by the way. Smooth as butter. I loved my S7 Edge, too, so it looks like I've left iPhones behind forever. I will not be rooting my S9 as I did with my S7 as you're not able to use Google or Samsung Pay if your phone is rooted. Samsung Pay is so convenient. I don't need to bring my Oyster or debit cards anywhere anymore and I don't even have to take my phone out of my pocket as Samsung Pay works from my watch.

1 minute ago, David said:

You'll want to avoid Spain as well then, because the racism in Spain is off the fucking scale, especially out in "proper Spanish" areas away from the shiny, fake tourist areas.

Interesting. Me and her have been all over Spain (away from the shiny, fake tourist areas) and have never experienced any outwardly obvious racism towards her - could be bubbling under the surface or something. Is there a particular race they have an issue with or just anyone that doesn't look Spanish?

All right. That's fine. You're perfectly entitled to view my claiming my entitlement to Irish citizenship as selfish because it only benefits me (and my future children). I got three hours sleep last night, am at work with a banging headache, and have just lost the will to argue about it. You win.

To answer your question Keith: yes, we do indeed still plan to move to Europe once me and her both get our citizenship issues sorted. It's unlikely to be Ireland: the opportunities in both our fields are not there in abundance and I really don't want to subject my partner to almost guaranteed daily racist abuse.)

Out of interest, Keith, how much time did you spend living and working in Ireland?

1 minute ago, Keith Houchen said:

How very Tory of you

Sorry, Keith, but you can fuck right off with that.

I pay my fair share in my country of residence. I do more than my fair share, even, if you consider raising money for charity at a loss to myself, for example, as doing more than ones fair share. But, frankly, successive governments have done basically fuck all for me and people like me, at my level in society. What "my country has done for me" is the bare fucking minimum they could get away with. Yet I'm expected to do, what? Go off and fight for in their wars? Work for their shitty opinion of what a "living wage" is? Please, tell me more about how much I owe this great nation of ours that has, in both Brexit and politics in general, shown that it doesn't care one iota about me or people like me.

2 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Seems really odd that you'd want citizenship of a place that is like that. It's a case of asking what your country can do for you, not what you can do for your country.  Quite frankly, I can see why you'd not ever be considered Irish and be resented by them.  The racist stuff can fuck right off though.

I still don't understand what you meant by "certain sectors", can you explain that?

I don't really care if Irish people born and living in Ireland consider me Irish or not. I've spent a lot of time in Ireland and my Irish roots go back an incredibly long way. I'm comfortable and confident in my level of Irishness and if anybody on seeing me with an Irish passport would like to question that, I'll be happy to have that conversation.

But, yes, absolutely, I want citizenship because of the benefits it gives me. I have no problem admitting that. I don't owe any country anything - that includes the UK, as well. I'm a proud citizen of nowhere, even if being a citizen of nowhere requires me to actually be a citizen of two nations.

Just now, gmoney said:

Fair enough, though "going to go ahead" implies some action, I hope your eventual article is a bit clearer. You're heading for low 2:1 territory at the moment. 

If you say so.

Just now, gmoney said:

@SpursRiot2012 This seems a bit contradictory to me? 

I'm making the assumption, but that doesn't mean I'm not waiting for a response - I haven't published anything yet and, in any event, the Orton thing is being reported all over and the WWE "is investigating it" so the whole issue might be moot for my purposes anyway.

My roots are in rural Ireland. My partner's sister went with her fiance to Mayo (where all my family on my dad's side come from) and, with her having Asian features, was treated like shit the entire time she was there. The idea that I'd subject my partner to that sort of shit just because someone wants to label me or her "plastic" Irish who just want the passport for the EU benefits, they can fuck off. If I took my partner to Mayo, I'd end up locked up because I'd hit the first prick who made a comment about her "chinky eyes" or whatever right in the fucking mouth.

24 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

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Carry on from @SpursRiot2012 clogging up the wrong thread, this might be of interest to you.  I take it your partner is D?  I have an Irish passport, be prepared for hostility from some sectors who dislike Irish passport holders who don't live there or even went abroad to work.  Maybe it's just small town mentality or whatnot but the resentment is there.

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Hostility from "some sectors"? What do you mean? I don't understand what you mean by that. I'm not sure why anyone would resent mine or my partner's legitimate right to Irish citizenship, especially mine - every member of my family bar one is Irish or of Irish descent. And anyone who would like to give me shit about it, or my partner, will find out fairly quickly how low a threshold I have for that sort of bullshit.