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Boiling my piss that a BBC reporter keeps saying the £ "literally" fell off a cliff. It's worse than the result

Hmmmm, might look at a move north of the border before it happens.

Who'd have thought CT would be happiest on the day of our greatest PM in living memory resigning and the rest of us would be so down.

British banks down 30% this morning

https://mobile.twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/746137920940056578 "Is it possible to die from a hangover"

Entire leave campaign was basically an email scam "Greetings and salutations most incredible and benevolent people of Britain. I, prince Farage of ukip have £350m stuck in a bank account and require your assistance to recover the funds."

Shit. Only now that leave have won do I have stronger feelings on my remain vote. Never ever thought it would actually go this way. The coverage had me thinking the leave campaign was a joke that very few people in their right mind would vote for. As did my family bubble, my work bubble, my Twitter bubble, this thread, the pollsters and the bookies. I hope the remain leaning people that didn't vote wake up to a guilty feeling. Imagine, prime minister Johnson. Fucking hell.

The Brexit campaign, demanding power is handed back to our own government.... of currpot, vote rigging cheats.

Cheers chaps. Worry that it's dry and boring and you switch off when it's just a list of price fluctuations, but do think it's an important point to be made. Usually get told to pipe down when i bang on about it because some season tickets in the heavens are available for a pittance. Agree about legislation Alex. I like how Man U have resisted any match categorisation while all around them have embraced it. Wonder whether that will last if their crowds diminish with a lack of league/European success.

I'd like a third option on the ballot for "this has been a complete waste of time, money and focus that should never have come to the public vote in the first place and pandering to the racists by offering a referendum to win General election votes is a stain on our democracy where leaders are supposed to lead through informed decision making on difficult issues rather than by majority votes from complete dunces" I'll tick "remain" in the absence of that.

Got an article in the summer TF explaining how Ashley raised ticket prices without anyone noticing https://t.co/QLLRd7VsvX

More or less on Radio 4 have done some good shows on debunking the numbers. Recommended. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jczmc http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jl61s It's the most balanced hour I've seen on the pros and cons. Unfortunately it doesn't sway me in any particular direction either. Think I'll vote to stay purely because I don't feel that European membership causes any problems that would be resolved by leaving.

What research into the zig zag run have you performed Ant? My guy says he doesn't "think there is enough evidence in the superiority of running in a zig-zag for wholesale recommendation." http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/dont-run-in-a-straight-line-and-other-bad-advice Better to put more distance between you and the shooter than take twice as long to reach your target and give him twice as many shots.

He was interviewed on Look North last night about it. Looked interesting... probably not interesting enough to get me to go to the Tyneside for it like, but canny enough to hold my attention while I ate my Chicken & Broccoli salad.

Is there not a sun lounger that can handle your girth now?

It's trodding a fine line with the killing characters who come back. Jon Snow, Arya, the big bastard and that lovesick soldier who touched someone and had the disease spreading up his hand have all had 'deaths' that turned out not to be. The good thing previously was how merciless they were in killing people off. I'll forgive it for one series, but they best start dying properly and promptly again soon.

There you go Stevie. A new Pal.

I might be convinced, unless CT has made any points in this thread more cogent than the ones lampooned in the video?

I was right about his shit start. Wrong that he'd do the decent thing. What I like about McClaren is that he only got one thread on here in his entire time, and even this thread wasn't started to respect his appointment in 2015 but in 2008 because he did a shite impression of Harry Enfield's Dutch coppers.

I was surprised snapchat was seeing shorter times along with the others. Thought it would be on the up. Think it was a John Oliver joke last week that the only people using Facebook now are parents who think they'll find out what their kids are up to. Obviously not true with the massive user base which is still growing, but still funny as it pinpoints the struggle they'll have if they're not to become the next MySpace. While you can specify who sees posts on FB or you can block people on Twitter it's much too fiddly to regularly limit the audience for what you post. I can see why people would much prefer an all in one "social broadcast" messaging app that allows them to play to different crowds with text, images, gifs and video, or to go public with them so anyone following can see them. I've tried snapchat and get the impression it will do that, but can't work out how. I've reached the point my dad did with VHS and technology is beyond me I wonder if FB would ever completely overhaul what they do to pursue something like that. Just messing with the "like" button seems to result in a backlash that suggests they will never be able to stray too far from their formula, so they'll have to stick to buying other startups that make such strides.

Facebook. Can't see it

I was a fully fledged Facebook user for years so no intended criticism of anyone using it, but deleting my account off there a few months back has been a great move. Easy spent 30 minutes to an hour a day scrolling through shite from people I wouldn't say hello to in the street. Even after cutting down my friend list to those people I was close to I was wasting time reading conversations which would bore me if I was having them out of politeness in a lift. Being public, people are moderating themselves for the rest of their friends, family and colleagues so it's like an eternal family gathering without the drink. Much prefer the horribly offensive stuff people will share in a private whatsapp Twitter has been harder to cut ties with, I still love that. Mainly in terms of the football news/chat. I occasionally find myself having a scroll through, and starting a reply, but then I realise I'm blue facing myself to death, on an app designed to provide as little context/depth as possible, only to generate clicks for news sites. I try to force myself not to engage in it and read a bit of a book or an article or stop ignoring the person I'm sat with instead. I'm trying to train myself not to give a shit if (for example) Callum Henderson gets a new contract. If he ever gets a game then I'll be interested in what he does and I needn't give a fuck what 5 things Andrew Fowler thinks his new contract might signify. They reckon this is happening broadly too, with people spending less time on social media across the board. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/06/people-are-spending-much-less-time-on-social-media-apps-said-report.html

Zootropolis America. Enjoyed it. Good message. kid started getting bored and playing other stuff half way through. Ponyo Japan. Enjoyed it. Batshit weird. Kid sat through it from start to finish laughing and crying at all the right bits. Song of The Sea Ireland. Enjoyed it. Bit morbid. Kid sat through it all and cried at all the right bits, including the ma dying quicker than Bambi's.