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2 hours ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Amazon. Their demigod customer service has dropped several levels of late. Mainly because they have managed to create their own courier service that is somehow infinitely worse than Yodel ever was, Amazon Logistics. I made a big order over a week ago. They split it up into 5 shipments. They have lost all of them. That is no exaggeration. all 5 packages, lost. Normally they'd give you a refund on the spot, or offer to re-send immediately. Now they won't do that until the investigate it with Amazon Logistics. They seem to be tightening their belts. Did someone make them pay a bit of Tax or something?

A couple of weeks ago, another order was delivered and "left in a safe place". I got home from work, the parcel was on my door step, just off the main road. if it rained, it would have soaked through, as it was just books in a cardboard box. Thankfully it didn't. But still, could have been swiped. Not very safe at all.

About a month ago, I ordered a few things which ended up being delivered to wrong house on a different street about a mile away. I know this because the person actually drove to my house to give it me. The street names are similar, but not identical. Same name of saint, different name of road.

 

I might have to do Christmas shopping in, like, actual shops, surrounded by people and stuff. Grim.

It sounds like a saint does live on the other street. What a hero!

Freaks and Geeks is the best. So many familar people popping up and Lindsay's dad and the also the guidance counsellor are amazing as is Biff from Back to the Future.

7 hours ago, MerryChristmas said:

I think people are pretty fed up with being called bigots and racists merely for saying that immigration to their countries should be cut and other "traditionally" non-racist ideas as well as voting for something seen as "right wing" - a lot of which are not even close to the "Nazi" ideals the media portrays.

 

In the UK it is considered racist to say that you want to cut immigration because the NHS is failing to cope, non UK taxpayers should have to more for education and healthcare , immigrants shouldn't get benefits until they've worked and paid taxes for 5 years, immigrants shouldn't be allowed to claim benefits for children abroad, people who cant speak the language shouldn't be allowed to work in the UK and that religious schools shouldn't exist.

It's getting ridiculous

 

This is one of the reasons Trump got elected, the other being that the democrats fixed it so that their only candidate who stood a chance against Trump had no chance whatsoever.

 

I'm glad it's Trump and not Clinton, it wasn't so much a vote for Trump as a vote for discontent with the establishment.

How do you feel about Catholic schools? How do you feel about people who move to the likes of Dubai without speaking a work of Arabic? "In the UK it is considered racist to say that you want to cut immigration" no it isn't. Who said that?

19 hours ago, Hakuba Mountain Wizards said:

I think is really going to have an adverse knock on effect in mainstream western politics. With the large number of career politicians that will go with whatever way the wind is blowing, I think that the success of Trump (and UKIP) will see shifts towards the nastier side of right wing politics. I think this is being evidenced by the current attitudes of the Tories. God help us all.

Rat Queens

Paper Girls

Saga

1 hour ago, Hakuba Mountain Wizards said:

£900 seems very expensive! Anyone know what the UK equivalent is?

About the same, my mate has been living here for way more than five years and married to a lcoal lad (Korpse drummer) and she is eligable for a passport but doesnt have the money for it, she said it was about a grand.

Anyone preordered this yet? Just a reminder that if you get it via steam you get 5% off the price for every previous FM game in your steam library up to 20%

Brexit could make Big Bastard and his pals job a lot harder http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/10/18/brexit-is-simulated-in-football-manager-2017-and-its-going-to-ma/

Reckon big bastard prefers proppa players anyway.

9 hours ago, Lemonade said:

I'm all for adopting a cat rather than buying (may actually be getting one soon). They don't half make it hard tho. Spoke to a couple of cat adoption centres in Poland, where the list of steps involved in getting a cat involves filling in applications forms (your application will be kept on file for 6 months), meeting with an adoption consultant, getting written permission from my landlord to say I'm allowed to have a cat, get a written reference from a vet, and have a home visit from the cat adoption people so they can speak to all the members of the household, assess the house and whether it meets the needs of a cat, how my new cat may need to interact with other pets and children etc, whether there is safe access to outdoors. 

Way to make cats in the need the least accessible cats. I can ring an advertiser in the newspaper and have a cat tomorrow without all this bollocks. 

What Jan said. Also well meaning people taking cats home then realising their partner says no/landlord finds out/they are allergic.

11 hours ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Search For The Wilderpeople

A New Zealand film about a young lad and his foster father who go on the fun from the law through the woods. I don't know if it's getting a worldwide release but is available via most LEGITIMATE DVD SHOPS. Give it a watch, because it's both funny and good. 

Believe it is still on at the Belmont. Fantastic film.

1 hour ago, Soda van Jerk said:

My top 5 is nothing but Leeds. The motherland and punk rock capital of the UK. 

 

Oh I've also been to Memphis and Detroit (pre bankruptcy). Went to Elvis' house. They're both good. But they're no Leeds. Memphis doesn't have a Pitza Cano, where you can get a Calzone the size of a shed. 

Sicily's chicken kebab on a big mother flipping naan bread for 3.50 will be sorely missed in my life like an old family friend.

Leeds was close on my list. Lived there for 3 years. Great city. One of the few places I would live in the UK.

1. Bangkok

2. Galway

3. Pai

4. Newcastle

5. Liverpool

Would love to travel somemore and update this!

Some excellent games tonight! Newcastle don't do it the easy way.

On ‎26‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 0:44 PM, Lemonade said:

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Looks like Clint Eastwood is curling one off on a golf course. I'd buy that game.

2 minutes ago, HeinzHines said:

A fairly shite piece of satire made utterly amazing by the needless to say, I had the last laugh quote. 

Don't be blue, Peter.

1 hour ago, James Broonbreed said:

How much vetting can you actually do? Do people actually visit a prospective buyers house and all that, or is it just a case of this person has a scar on their face and a needle hanging out their ballsack, no kitten for them?

I know the likes of cat's protection do it, visit peoples properties etc. Don't know the specifics but again maybe something to keep in mind.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aberdeen-fans-planning-minutes-applause-8890337

That would be awesome and would imagine they would go quick especially if they are maine coons. Would you vet potential owners?

8 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

Has anyone ever bred their cat? Like on purpose, not just your cat knocking over the bins and traipsing home up the duff.

We're thinking about finding a man cat to impregnate our woman cat but fuck know how you go about doing this. It all seems quite sordid.

Any suggestions would be grand.

Is there a reson you are thinking about doing it? Would imagine you will manage to get rid of all the kittens as soon as they are ready. As this is what happens on the likes of Mrs murray's or SSPCA but there's loads of animals already needing rehomed. Not trying bring down the dream of all the kittenz because i can see the appeal just a thought.

23 minutes ago, Soda van Jerk said:

I gave The Detectorists a go on Netflix. Written, directed and starring the lad who plays Gareth in The Office, about metal detectorists out in the countryside. It's a little slow to get going but it's good. Low-key black comedy. Well written, good characters. It's British, so there's only about 6 episodes. You can have it in an afternoon.

I'd never heard of it, but it's won awards and stuff. Was it on telly originally?

I'd never heard of it before but found it on a plane entertainment system and loved it. Toby Jones is ace.

1 hour ago, Lemonade said:

Both just newly out in the cinema here so probably be a while for DVD.  If you want a good Polish film check out The Guard with Brendan Gleeson. Superb film. It's about an unconventional cop in a sleepy town in a really remote part of Ireland who stumbles across an international drug smuggling operation. Don Cheadle is a tough FBI agent who is assigned to come to Ireland and help crack the case, has to deal with Gleeson's vulgarity (including a love for prostitutes) and cope with life in rural Ireland. It's essentially a buddy cop / odd couple type movie, like if Lethal Weapon was set in a field in Co Clare and surrounded by sheep. 

 

 

Aye seen that and the other McDonagh brother films and a play, big fan;.

14 hours ago, Lemonade said:

The Young Offenders - Very funny Irish comedy that's part crime caper, part road movie. Two dim-witted teenage chavs in Cork fantasise about the lives they could live if they were millionaires. When one of them sees a news report of millions of Euros worth of cocaine washing up on a remote bay they steal bicycles and cycle across the south coast of Ireland in the hope of finding some of it. They get mixed up with a dangerous drug dealer, a local nutjob and a overzealous copper, and much wackiness ensues. It really is very funny, a tiny bit mawkish in places but the humour makes up for it.  Really good fun movie. 8/10. Cork accents are weird though.

 

 

Is this or the other Polish film you mentioned still on at the cinema or is it on DVD? Had a quick google of the other one and couldnt see a uk release date or dvd