BBC: Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within five years Taking over the contracts as they expire is a good start, especially as the privately-held ones are now just on management contracts anyway. I get why they don't want to buy back the rolling stock initially but as the system d...

Civil War Fucking hell. No, seriously, I mean it. Fucking. Hell. An incredible movie, and one that should act as a stark warning. I was on the edge of my seat for pretty much the whole runtime, and there's one scene in particular that just... the tension was off the fucking charts. :this: That was ...

Wow, nice going! What a lucky day to start up again!

1) Long Timber Woods 2) Long Timber Woods 3) Piles Copse 4) Piles Copse [/quote] 5) Piles Copse Hmm, bit of a disaster this one, not the swim mind, the swim was wonderful, if a little cold. I managed 500m, which is probably where the issue lay, my arms were stiff, and I was probably in the water to...

We just received an email from Hive Home ..... Hi Mrs Warhead, Have you seen your savings start to stack up since you started using Hive Heating Plus? By being smarter with your heating, you've not only racked up savings, but also lowered your carbon footprint! Your free trial is coming to an end, ...

We just received an email from Hive Home ..... Hi Mrs Warhead, Have you seen your savings start to stack up since you started using Hive Heating Plus? By being smarter with your heating, you've not only racked up savings, but also lowered your carbon footprint! Your free trial is coming to an end, ...

We just received an email from Hive Home ..... Hi Mrs Warhead, Have you seen your savings start to stack up since you started using Hive Heating Plus? By being smarter with your heating, you've not only racked up savings, but also lowered your carbon footprint! Your free trial is coming to an end, s...

We are trying to finish off Constellation before we start another complicated sci-fi show.

1) Trepang2 (PS) 2) River City Girls 2 (PS) 3) Back 4 Blood (XB) 4) Far Cry 6 (XB) 5) Valheim (early access) (XB) I was fucking loving this. It was like the Dark Souls of crafting, survival, thing that this game is. It was hard as balls, I didn’t understand what I was supposed to be doing, I didn’t...

Hello lovely peoples. It's about the time I start thinking about taking deposits but the attendance list is looking a bit sparse at the moment. Unless I've missed a post, so far we only have: Jem GazChap TheVision Trooper JBR Kern Grim… Cras KovacsC Malc Curiosity Mr Dave Goddess Jasmine (maybe) Bob...

Yes. Jem is right I have privacy settings on. It blurs your start and end.

I think it is to stop folks working out where you live.

No, but part 1 is on Disney+ if you have access to that.

Or I can tell you about it if you like, but it would probably take longer than reading the book or watching the movie.

Does Dune 2 have like a recap of Dune 1 at the start of it or anything like that?

Slightly odd question about your bathroom habits, I will spoiler it as it is about going to the loo, and some people might not want to read about that, but there will be nothing graphic Spoilered because otherwise the subject is obvious. I can't conceive of ever double-flushing. I even roll my ...

Slightly odd question about your bathroom habits, I will spoiler it as it is about going to the loo, and some people might not want to read about that, but there will be nothing graphic Spoilered because otherwise the subject is obvious. I can't conceive of ever double-flushing. I even roll my ...

Negative chimneys, chocolate blocks? You want to pull hot smoke in to melt them? We are trying very hard to reduce the chances of smoke and melting :) So far only one person has nearly electrocuted themselves on that bare-copper trunk cable. Album updated frequently. Stage 1 is very nearly done! Pl...

I watched the second episode, and apart from a Bollywood dance number it was more soap than anything else. It needs to pick up soon, if it wants me to keep watching... Ad wise, two adverts at the start lasting for a total of 40 seconds and 1 advert for 30 seconds about 17 minutes in. Subs and dubs k...

There is a lot of bravado in certain elements of the archery community, particularly around the draw weight of your first bow. It uses very different muscles than most things you ordinarily do or train, so if you tell a gym bro who can bench 300lbs that they should start off with a 20lb bow, they wi...

I did some archery as a kid, and really enjoyed it. But I mean, I was really young (6-8?) and haven’t done any since, apart from one time… I was on a work day out, the sort of enforced jollity I don’t like very much, and there were all these activities we’re supposed to take part in (clay pigeon sho...

6 weeks to start with, and then it builds... I have my 4th bow being delivered today. We should probably start an archery thread. Yeah, I figure that after the 6 weeks beginner sessions on the Tuesdays that they probably move to a more flexible arrangement of having multiple meets per month or some...

Just had an email about the archery course… it starts at the end of February… on Saturday afternoons, or Monday evenings as a catch up. I can’t do it thanks to other commitments, so they’re putting me into May’s course which has the lessons on a Tuesday evening instead. This means I’ll have to skip...

Yeah I agree, not as good a start as Aus Season 1 - we’re up to episode 3

Moved Taekwando clubs. D hated the new one at first (echo-ey hall, not having a clue what was going on) but he’s really settled in now and asked to start attending twice a week instead of just once a week. They’ve moved affiliation from one set of letters to another. Don’t ask me which because I hav...

And therein lies the problem

Only if you get caught!

Turns out driving too fast is bad. I am now aware of this.

Just about to start my Driver Speed Awareness course! Exciting stuff

When does your course start? Good question. They said it was due to start in February and that they'd be back in touch closer to the time, but I've not heard anything yet. Time for a follow-up. I'd completely forgotten about it. Did my first record status competition at the weekend, and just signed...

Good question. They said it was due to start in February and that they'd be back in touch closer to the time, but I've not heard anything yet.

Time for a follow-up. I'd completely forgotten about it.

Gazchap can run the archery session next time

When does your course start?

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig. This book was a bit of a 'thing', certainly in sales, and I followed the author for a while, but it, and his "you are enough" type messages are not for me. Glad I read it, it's an interesting idea - that before death people see a repository (like a librar...

Hi all. Cottage man reached out to me today to warn me that the big cottage has been booked unprecedentedly early for most of October. Our preferred weekend has gone, so I've reserved 04-07 Oct as a back-up as a) it was available and b) was 2nd favourite in the votes. Although I have just noticed I ...

* Rocks up in his DeWalt t-shirt looking to start a fight *

2 episodes in, off to a good start!

Hmm, what to think about 2023? Definitely a mixed bag (for about the 8th year in a row). On the face if it there’s some good stuff, as I paid off my mortgage before I hit 50 with money in the bank to spare, bought a new motorbike and had a couple of foreign holidays. None of that felt as satisfying ...

Hmm, what to think about 2023? Definitely a mixed bag (for about the 8th year in a row). On the face if it there’s some good stuff, as I paid off my mortgage before I hit 50 with money in the bank to spare, bought a new motorbike and had a couple of foreign holidays. None of that felt as satisfying ...

The Crew Or to give it its full (self-claimed) name according to the title screen, The Crew: Calling All Units , with cop sirens and dramatic cop music. Hooray! I didn't buy Calling All Units, I bought Wild Run Edition, but the single use code had been singly used, which, as always, is bullshit. Di...

Any fule kno this.

Sage advice

Remember kids, if your using Power query to extract a YYYYWW from a "W01/2025(30/12/2024)" thing, don't set it up so you get the year from the very end and the week from the start as you're going to spend an hour working out why values in week 1 2024 are far too high

1. Alien, by Alan Dean Foster 2. Aliens, by Alan Dean Foster 3. Alien 3, by (you guessed it) Alan Dean Foster 4. Jack Reacher: One Shot -- I mistakenly thought this was the first Reacher book, probably because it's the one that the first Tom Cruise movie was based on. 5. Jack Reacher: Killing Floor ...

I was in a large marquee with about 20 teams of 5 people. We were being assigned jobs, and each team was choosing the equipment that would be needed for the next job. I was the team leader of one team, and one of the guys I really work with, Ben, came over and said the van we'd been assigned was too...

Really interesting story about the 'start' of 3d on the gameboy

https://gamehistory.org/eclipse-the-dem ... -nintendo/

1. Alien, by Alan Dean Foster 2. Aliens, by Alan Dean Foster 3. Alien 3, by (you guessed it) Alan Dean Foster 4. Jack Reacher: One Shot -- I mistakenly thought this was the first Reacher book, probably because it's the one that the first Tom Cruise movie was based on. 5. Jack Reacher: Killing Floor ...

1. Alien, by Alan Dean Foster 2. Aliens, by Alan Dean Foster 3. Alien 3, by (you guessed it) Alan Dean Foster 4. Jack Reacher: One Shot -- I mistakenly thought this was the first Reacher book, probably because it's the one that the first Tom Cruise movie was based on. 5. Jack Reacher: Killing Floor ...

1. Alien, by Alan Dean Foster 2. Aliens, by Alan Dean Foster 3. Alien 3, by (you guessed it) Alan Dean Foster 4. Jack Reacher: One Shot -- I mistakenly thought this was the first Reacher book, probably because it's the one that the first Tom Cruise movie was based on. 5. Jack Reacher: Killing Floor...

It's a good job Rwanda doesn't know how desperate the UK government is to get a deal with them and will literally do anything. that'd be a terrible place to start negotiating.

I had an idea too. Maybe you could do a rave track featuring the Majula bell thing from Dark Souls 2? Start with the slow bell of majula and then Zardoz it up a bit. I don’t think anyone has done that and people love the Majula track from DS2.

https://youtu.be/SrHk3QkLd60?si=p26n7oN7WkNxJWAL

BBC2: Union with David Olusoga In recent years I've found David Olusoga's work, both on screen and in print, to be some of the most eye-opening histories that really make me rethink my understanding of the world and highlight stuff that usually gets swept under the carpet. I watched the first episo...

So, new Frasier . I was going to stay away until the series was complete then watch the lot if the reviews were ok, but eventually curiosity and idleness got the better of me and I subscribed to yet another streaming service to watch. Four episodes in and here's my general impression: It's ...