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5 hours ago, AVB said:

How does one accomplish that if they never get a gig to gauge their great/shite-ness?

Perhaps the bands should contend in some form of battle to earn a spot?

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49 minutes ago, James Broonbreed said:

Any Berlin recommendations?

Not too interested in mega touristy things like the Reichstag & Checkpoint Charlie. Also not interested in nightclubs really so not aiming to queue outside Berghain for 3 hours to be told to fuck off by that mental bouncer chap.

Cheers folks

East side gallery and the Ramones museum were highlights for me.

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I never watched Green Wing when it was current. Wife made me watch it while she re-watched it a year or two ago and it is fucking spectacular.

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Holy fuck, it's like watching Basil Fawlty, but sadder.

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12 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

Watched the documentary about Fat Wreck Chords on that Youtube thing.

Love a good punk doc. It was fun. You don't learn anything you probably didn't already know if you were into that era of punk. It was cool how everyone was waxing lyrical about how amazing that era was, and then Propagandhi really reel it in, and even have a bit of a dig at it all. Cool that they left that in too. There was lots of snippets of HD multi angle live footage that you only see in small doses. Would like to see more of that. They could have padded it out for another half hour if they put some of that in.

6 outta 10. Not as good as the Descendents film.

Ooooh, gotta link?

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Ooft. These G&L basses are MONSTERS. If I were in a position to buy, I'd back this in a heartbeat.

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1 hour ago, Soda Jerk said:

Do they have kettles yet?

When I was there when I was a kid, a long long time ago, the friends we stayed with didn't have a kettle or know what a kettle was. They boiled water in a pan, like Victorian times.

The twitter thread/rant I read on the subject says they DO NOT use electric kettles?! Either pan-boiling water or stove top kettles like fucking cavemen.

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Americans also don't have egg cups. Fucking madness.

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17 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

Two different courier experiences this week, first the good.

Wednesday morning I get a text from DPD, "Your DPD driver Glenn will be delivering your parcel today between 10am - 11am. If this is inconvenient please go to our website to manage your delivery". Go to website, for no extra cost they can drop off your parcel at any Londis store, of which there are many, including one right next to my house. Select that, straight away get text confirmation "Your DPD driver Glenn will be delivering your parcel to Londis Fassaugh Avenue today between 10am - 11am" followed by at 11.05 (5 minutes late Glenn!) "Your parcel is ready for collection at your preferred Pickup Point - Your Pickup pin is 5576. You'll need this to collect your parcel". Drive round after work, here's my pin, boom, parcel. Cheers DPD! 

 

On the other side, my wife gets a text on Saturday, (hers was with An Post) "We just tried to deliver your parcel, sorry you weren't home, we will return it to the An Post parcel centre blah blah", no option to have it delivered somewhere else.  Bear in mind, the delivery address on the parcel was the shop she works in, in Dublin city centre that was definitely open at 1pm on a Saturday when she got the text. So that was an obvious lie, also she rang the shop and asked and no one had been in. Then she gets another text at 7.30 this morning, "your parcel was just delivered". An hour and half before the shop opens when there's no one there and the shopping centre is locked up. Unsurprisingly she got there today at 9 and there's no parcel. So its a fucking mystery where that's ended up. 

DPD are fucking excellent. A perfect 5/7 from me.

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I got this from CeX online for like £30 - figured if I hated it I'd flog it on and if I liked the idea but not this model specifically I'd part exchange against an orbweaver or something. It's definitely worth trying IMO. Saves keyboard space and the GOOD keys are amazingly ergonomic. The keypad on this one specifically is pretty big, so the keys at the edge aren't useful for fast, reactive commands but are ideal for more cosmetic stuff. I thought it'd take ages to get used to but after a few hours I'm loving it already and not feeling any major impingement.

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13 minutes ago, James Broonbreed said:

Where's Mac

In the bin, with no bookmarks.

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Yeah, I feel a lot better about my buying habits now.

Also I just bought one of these and I fucking love it!

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On 01/07/2017 at 6:34 PM, Moon Moon said:

Guys can we just back to the point of the thread? Motorbykes. 

Guy's*

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There was an Overwatch pro player who got sacked from his team and banned for a similar (but objectively worse) outburst. The guy basically accepted his lumps but tried to make excuses about how he just wanted to say the nastiest thing he could - "I was extremely upset and I was trying to make the person I was angry with upset as well". Now, in a twisted kinda way, that makes sense. A conscious effort to say something you KNOW will upset and anger someone - you deliberately choose the "worst" word you can think of. But I very much doubt that's what Chevy was trying to pull.

(Video below doesn't show the guy screaming the n-word btw, just talks about the incident and shows the context, apology etc.)

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I get what you're saying and I don't think you're an apologist for him or anything like that - but while I could theoretically see a number of different scenarios/reasons why he'd shout that instead of saying "ah fuck", NONE of those scenarios are excusable under any circumstances. I mean, it's not like he was acting in Django where that was every second line of dialogue.

What's interesting to me about it is that when I shout something in frustration, it's usually fairly instinctual. Sometimes it'll be fuck, sometimes shite or pish. If I want to shout something "quirky" or off-kilter, it takes a second's thought to decide to shout "cockwomble" or something equally loathsome. So if he shouted a racial slur in frustration, it's either because it was just under the surface waiting to be said or because he stopped and thought "hmmm, think I'll play the N-card here!" and either way, what a cunt.

And after that, asking the rest of the cast, especially the non-white actors and double-especially Yvette Brown and Donald Glover, to continue working with him so closely would be a pretty bad move from a director. A schism in the cast like that would be way worse for the show than losing a key cast member.

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5 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

I think this is a discussion that merits it's own thread. What comedian's can and can't say. Although people don't like it, there's a lot to be said about "shock" comedy. The "its funny because you can't say that but he did" aspect. Sometimes it's done incredibly well (Louis CK has a whole bit about how he used the N word but not in a racial way when a white barista made him a coffee and he thought "N***a made the shit out of this coffee!") and some do it and crash and fail (Kramer for example). I'm always unsure, as it's a tough topic (especially for me, a white person) to try and find the perfect place. But I always say art should never be censored. And I agree with a lot of comedians that comedians and comedy actors do and should get more leeway than say Joe Bloggs on the street. I wasn't there, but to me it sounds like he said the most offensive language he could which shows how frustrated he was. It's using bad/offensive language almost as a metaphor. But, like I said, the time and place was inappropriate. Not just because of the other cast members, but that's definitely adds to the inappropriateness of it. 

Not "can and can't". What is and isn't appropriate. Chevy was at work. It's not a "free speech" issue is a racial abuse in the workplace issue. And even when it comes to artistic boundaries, it's still all about what the audience will and will not accept and listen to, rather than what he comedian CAN'T say. You can say anything you want, but if you say that you think Ian Watkins is a hero for what he did to kids then you just won't have much of an audience.

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1 hour ago, TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH said:

I don't know if you mean that it is good or bad.

It means good. But I'm still only about half way through, so if it ends up being shite overall then I'll change that answer. The overall theme/concept for it is fantastic though!

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New series of Archer is on Netflix and it's some fucking bomb-ass shit.

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Steam Sale. Fuck.

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Secretly? I think it's fucking awesome!

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I tried to rewatch Family Guy and just thought it was fucking garbage. I used to absolutely love it, too. F is for Family I didn't rate - I like Bill Burr's standup but nothing in Family season 1 made me laugh so I'm not gonna bother with season 2.

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4 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

That's gone full circle as well. Stripped back fast food-like burgers at boutique prices are totally IN. Like Five Guys, where you're looking at about £17 for a burger, fries and drink, served to you in a paper bag by someone who screams your order number at you. They don't even portion the fries up in anything. They just pour them into the bag on top of the burger. The bag becomes the plate. A plate that the food exploded on.

There's a new one around here called Smash Burger, which is the same sort of deal, and the same sort of prices.

As opposed to the restaurant burgers, stacked far too big to eat so you have to dismantle it, served to you on a slab of wood or the end of a shovel, with a rum and coke in an old bean can, and a handful of fries in what looks like a little frying basket. That's so 2015.

Taking your OH and a hypothetical couple of kids to Five Guys would probably set you back near £80 for a burger some spotty teen probably spat on, and then kicked at you in a bag.

Gourmet Hot Dogs will be next. They're already creeping in around here a little bit.

I'd forgive the shops selling that shit to idiots if it weren't for the fact that so many fucking morons that I know harp on about how GREAT it is to spend £20 on a burger. Fucking chumps.

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4 hours ago, ca_gere said:

Is this for real?! fuck me that's sad.

People still go into town to mill about and spend money, it's not like everyone sits in front of their computers and orders EVERYTHING online these days - there must be money-making opportunities beyond lowest common denominator shit surely?

It's not for real at all.

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I'm just excited at the prospect of these boutique burger joints fucking off again. HAVE A CHEESE BURGER WITH LUCKY CHARMS ON IT! Cunts.

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