Most of these are just slow by modern standards, MTV changed film editing for good

Into the Wild is pretty minimal once he moved to Alaska

The Master is very minimal of plot but the opposite of relaxing

Doesnt that only apply if it when to court as a criminal case? At the moment this is people talking to the press and it hasnt gone to criminal court.

Last year City did about £715m, and Barca €763 million so yeah it looks problematic but then for the season just gone that will be reported soon they predicting a jump to €950 million, with a further jump to a billion for next year. If those numbers stick, I would guess that’s how if they spending all of that increase on a couple of new signings.

What I do not get is how City are funding their massive spending when you include the significant player wages offered to their new players. Really seems like that they are laughing at the FA and the charges the FA brought against City.

Yeah its a deliberate strategy by Gaiman, while in the background he goes after his victims that settled previously for breaching NDAs. Even if he doesn’t win its money well spent to stop more accusations from coming out. He’s going to wait this out and try to rehabilitate himself in a few years.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neil-gaiman-claim-accuser-caroline-wallner-nda-1235321848/

Never! Unless they gave me too many…

But seriously I don’t use the self tappers or nails they give you as they awful, made of soft cheese.

It’s surely being done to appease the orange toddler as he wants Biden dragged through the courts as he was. Small problem is that either Bidens a much smarter criminal than Trump and didn’t leave any evidence, or he just wasn’t criminal enough to warrant charging.

I can build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.

Oh for sure, and for a Villa fan its conflicting as I know the club needs more money to push on from the fantastic strides we made from where we were, but I wish it wasn’t the case. If I was a United fan I would be furious as the club has wasted so much money on shit and the Glazers have just plain stolen even more.

PSR doesn’t just fuck the clubs who are trying to move up it also fucks the fans as you have to increase revenue to compete. I would much rather we replaced PSR with budget caps and fixed price home game tickets as we have had with away game prices.

In the main the big clubs do not care about the average fan, they are only interested in rich fans who can pay a significant premium to go every week and “casuals” who go to one or two games a season. The latter group spend more than they would normally as they do not go often and as its a treat more likely to buy tat from the club shop, consume overpriced food and beer, etc.

More and more people are being pushed into that casuals group and, at least at Villa Park, being forced to buy overpriced for shit location, premium GA+ tickets as the only way to get a ticket for a category A game as the few non season ticket normal tickets go to people with significant booking history in minutes.

During the O’Neil era I switched my season ticket from the Holte to the North Stand when they issued the £200 adult/£50 U12 season ticket. I can spend that £200 now on one GA+ ticket. Even a normal ticket for a category a game in the Holte is like £90 now.

It has gotten to the point that I only go to a few games a season now, and then only because it means a lot to my now adult son as father son time. I am at the point I would rather cut my losses and just go see a local National League side instead. At least it would be affordable, and the games not moved all over the week making it impossible to commit.

I love my pocketbook colour three. The extra screensize is very much appreciated for comics

Ever more restrictive crash regs from the EU have reduced the size of the glass house on modern cars and required that the bonnet is higher to protect both the cars occupants but also pedestrians. There is actual science behind it. It’s not the same as the pretty much unregulated American monster trucks.

I do however agree that this should have stayed a small hatch back and not morphed into a SUV.

Yeah Japan is awful for that and the tourists have only gotten worse with their behaviour over time. I did the main spots of Kyoto once, biggest mistake of my trip.

If you avoid the popular spots entirely then its usually pretty easy to find places that are more authentic. But its been a few years since I last went, its a very tough holiday for me as I am coeliac and the Japanese just do not take gluten allergies seriously (they had something like three people in five years diagnosed in total) so I have to self cater the entire trip.

Toss up between saying BVI a year after Irma, it was so quiet and empty. We spent the day on the beach at Bitter End (its absolutely amazing now its reopened) and if you know that beach its never empty except we had it to ourselves. Went to a bar in Little Bay and just spent the day hanging out with the owner, only ones there, told to help ourselves to beer from the fridge and had dinner with them. BVI is never that quiet during main season, its usually busy to packed.

Other one is Antigua during COVID, quiet beyond belief. Restaurants only allowed to do take out, so they would bring you the meals to your boat. Had a BBQ of the best steak and lobster on the main beach at Barbuda cooked just for us. Last night they opened up restaurants for dine in, only customers at this fancy Mexican fusion restaurant on the beach. They were so happy to have people back, ended up sharing the head chefs bottle of (very expensive) wine as we chatted at the end of the meal.

Most of my favorite holiday stories are when we have gone somewhere and its empty of tourists and just pretty quiet overall.

What type of dog is that? Looks like a boxer?

UK based. I did get all my beans from Outpost Coffee as they my local specialty roaster but they got too expensive for me when they went from about £40 a kg to about £55 a kg. I mostly buy from Rave Coffee, they aren’t as good as Outpost but two thirds of the current price before their regular offers, and good enough. When you buy nearly 2kg a month its a lot of extra cash to spend over a year.

I do buy from local specialty shops when I travel, picked up some beans from Island Roasted when I was in the Isle of Wight last week.

I keep meaning to try some of the more interesting beans from Sigma Coffee, they seem to have a great selection but they are even more expensive the Outpost.

Appreciate the offer, will come back to you if I dont like these hall effect switches I picked up for my new board thats coming next week

Just make that ergo hotswap and its a lot easier to play around with different switch builds.

Switch collecting/modding does pander towards hording tendencies, I have thousands of switches that are in jars so I stopped buying new ones till I cleared out some of my back log.

They have had several different scripts for this already including one that had Blade as a Splinter style mentor to a wacky cast of late teenagers. It’s worth tracking down the summaries of the different scripts as some of them are just nuts.

They very much want to pitch this at as many quadrants as possible with a low a rating as possible and don’t give a shit about the source material.

I normally order extra with whatever GB I picked up the board from. I only use 40% keyboards, so it tends to be rare that they are freely available in a keyboard shop, least of all the UK. Last one I remember was monorail, I purchased three of v1 (direct) and v2 (mechboards) each.

Sometimes you get third parties making new versions that are often re-imagined layouts for the same board or a continuation of an out of print board, for both see monorail for both. Some of the fun ones convert an existing layout into something else, like the wolfjaw xl for the equinox xl. They tend to be advertised by the 40% discord.

If you like a common layout like 60% they tend to be a lot easier to find, as long as its not been heavily customized. Mechboards have a bunch in stock right now

Germany was miles off, they lost the war before the first bomb was dropped, 7th May vs. 6th August. Its impossible for them to be both behind the Allied effort to make a nuclear bomb (so would have not been read to drop one until after 6th August) and still make one after they surrendered.

The Allies very much lied to the scientists about how far along the Germans were to guilt them into making one against objections raised at the time.

Now if those defecting Nazis who joined NASA and the like post war would have instead been used to replace objecting Allied scientists in the nuclear program, thats a real possibility.