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Aye. It's a lot more than that now.

It took you over a minute to clock that an elderly retired couple were in fact a one storey house?

Zombie whales a great idea for a movie fwiw.

Aye, this is my main bone of contention. I dare say if it wasn't their precious Alli he'd stood on, there'd be nowt said.

Renton now having an argument with his phone.

Aye.

It was there a minute ago too.

Was that the end of the Christmas special? If it's the same one I'm thinking of, I loved it too.

This isn't an argument!

All you've done here, Dave, is force a campaign of cat crap on your neighbours, up and down Bramhall. Very selfish.

Still manages to be an utter shite-talking cunt while complimenting one of our lot.

@David Kelly Did you watch Ghost Stories in the cinema or is there a decent copy knocking about? I regularly get scared shitless at horrors but I've never understood how that can happen in a cinema surrounded by people? I'm reticent to ask this btw as you are the king of spoilers, so not plot points please.

Very few places have a sense of humour like us either, which makes your options very limited unless you want to live with a bunch of humourless fucks. But I guess you already live in London.

Well, obviously the OECD measures us against ourselves (which is ultimately what you're saying). And those countries cited are very left-leaning. Centrism has done great things for us (to a point) and maybe now it's time for us to take the next logical step. It's also taken us to the brink of extinction. We have things like AGILE (which has many positive qualities) showing us what businesses really want. And it's all short-termist Consumerism with as little quality as can be gotten away with. It's all about image, an image that can't ever be true/attainable as things stand. I don't want to get bogged down in labels either, because it's easy to mix up Centrism and mixed economies for example, but it's fair to say that in many western countries, the separation of Corporation and State is now more important than Church and State every was. It's quite clearly at odds with the needs of the average person, which is what government is supposed to be looking out for. I guess we really need to get into the nitty-gritty of policy if we're to avoid labels and we'll agree on many of the principles (that Corbyn embodies more than parliamentary Labour, is it fair to say?). What is it that you think stands between his goals and the reality? The poor are not being looked after in the West, and that's going to be almost all of us in 20 years. I'd be very worried if I had kids. And maybe the Scandinavians/Finns are educated enough to take Vitamin D supplements.

Why does it have to be? And again, in those Scandinavian countries, it really doesn't seem to be. Couldn't agree with you more about the US vs Europe btw. Were Clinton (Bill) and Obama not centrists?

I don't think you can just hold up the best examples of Centrism, rather look at it as a whole. Those countries have a far stronger safety net and are about as left as Centrism gets. They're also riding on the coattails of the war-mongering countries. What is the metric the OECD is measuring this happiness against? Ireland has a pretty strong safety net, yet the poorest (anecdotally at least) are very unhappy. They have no hope or aspirations. Maybe it's the middle-classes that are raising the happiness quotient? The people who are so happy that they vote to chuck out foreigners and fuck over the poor. Why are we moving to the wings in many western countries if people are so happy? It seems (to me) that as long as the corporations are served first and people aspire to empty promises, there will not be true happiness. I'm also willing to accept that this is just par for the course with government incompetence, but you've almost made my own point for me in shining a light on the most left-wing examples of Centrism in Europe. Defo up for an argument today.

It's proven itself to be arm-in-arm with Corporatism and Consumerism which are among the greatest poisons known to the West. Does it have to be, is this just the best we can do? I don't know, but in its current guise it's fucking awful for the poor. I'm willing to roll the dice, but I'm probably fine either way. At least until the proles throw me off a cliff for being part of the problem.

Gaia is quite good for movies if you just enable torrent sources and you're using something like Real Debrid with it (or happen to live in a country where they don't give a shite about torrenting). It basically caches the torrent files to RD so you're not doing the torrenting yourself but will stream anything available to torrent for you. That's my understanding anyway until I get some kind of Cease & Desist from Cunts'R'Us.

Cheers. That narrows things down a little bit.

Anyone else having serious problems with Neptune Rising over the last few days? I can't figure out if it's my ISP (prime suspect), my computer, me, the installation, hobgoblins? I've tried tunneling through Switzerland with some success which is why I suspect it's Eir (ISP). I've done a wipe and fresh install, tried Incursion, Death Streams, Gaia - all with mixed results. My paid sports' streams still work perfectly. Might be time to head back to Usenet.

Good match. Was Stephens' challenge any worse than Maguire's there?