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That is interesting. We still use XP for some important stuff, 9 years since it's last service pack

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/sploid.gizmodo.com/every-superhero-movie-is-the-same-as-every-other-superh-1461210822/amp This one's funny too.

Here it is http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/the-five-key-turning-points-of-all-successful-movie-scripts.html

Didn't someone do the formula for them which showed 95% of top grossing films hit exactly the same beats in the same order just a few minutes apart. Something like.... Open with an exciting spectacle introducing a bad guy. Spend 15 minutes establishing the heroes desire. Have another spectacle where the heroes desire is threatened. Spend 15 minutes with the hero fretting about how to keep their desire safe. Another spectacle where the desire is taken or put in peril Follow quick with another spectacle where the hero is put in an impossible to escape situation. Kill a peripheral goody character. Usually a minority. All is lost. Have the hero despair, recover, dig deep, and overcome adversity. Have the hero defeat the enemy and win back their desire in the massive finale. Preferably with huge buildings coming down. Leave a strand dangling for the follow up. I respect any of them that manage to fit any interesting themes into that framework. It's almost like the dogma school of self constraint.

Facts are impartial. I don't buy that a journalist should just act as stenographer of 2 opposing views. The job is to weigh those views and act as arbiter to ensure the truth is told. Or your genuine view of the truth. Some hacks bend a story to their own angle. A good journalist reports the conclusions they arrive at regardless of ideology. Fact here is that Corbyn leading the country is a worry when he struggled to lead a couple of hundred MPs. But his policies are far more coherent than the conservatives, who have talked about leadership but largely gone into hiding for the campaign.

He's just winding Mackems up. His and TF output seems to be 90% Mackems these days. Publishing reports on their accounts and all that. Seems a bit small time to me, almost mackemesque.

Tories scoff at the left wing policies that they say can't work, they say it'll take us back to the bad old days of 70s. But mail, power, rail, tuition fees etc were all privatised in the 90s and 2000s They are the ones thayt want to go back to the 70s and a time when we weren't part of the common market. Again, bizaro stuff. Tories have shot themselves in the foot with the energy cap. An admission that privatising the energy companies is bad for consumers and government intervention is a must. Goes back on their ideaology completely. EDIT: But aye, as Rayvin says, they'll still win because Corbyn is beardy.

Seems a strange thing for Gayle to say he's looking for a championship club specifically. You'd think he'd be courting other premier league clubs if Rafa told him to find another employer.

I really liked Prometheus and think the trailer for AC looks boringly similar to earlier iterations.

Lib dems have proposed paying for it with a tax on cute gifs of puppies and kittens.

Aye. I get sports bar tickets for £15.

I think Rafa's concern will be more about how money is spent rather than how much. In January he provided targets after a £30m transfer surplus in the summer and Charnley, Carr, Ashley, Moncur between them couldn't bring in anyone. The only statement that would placate me would be that Rafa has full discretion to decide how far we'll lift a bid and he alone will decide when we walk away, as long as he is within the available money. If he decides we need one £60m stiker and that's it in the summer, he should get it. Club can't insist he buy 6 £10m players because the profitability is better. There's little tangible action they can take to assure fans or Rafa that this will be the case. They were telling Keegan that they were bidding more than they really were within minutes of talking to him and the selling club, so their promises on that front aren't worth shit. I think Rafa knows this and wants to constantly keep them on edge, threatening his departure at the end of every season unless they have talks, but I think it'll wear thin for him with Ashley who hasn't actually done anything. hasn't resurrected the training ground improvements. Has blocked any stadium expansion for his own personal gain. Has risked our promotion by not investing in January. Has reiterated his commitment to the years old Transfer policy and Graham Carr. Has not made Sports Direct pay the club despite a 15 month old promise. I'm not as negative as this post ended up sounding. But I'm sticking to single tickets on the assumption it's 50/50 whether it will go tits up.

It's the bizarro world. Proven Keynesian policies are ridiculed and perpetually failing "trickle down" laissez-faire policies are trumpeted as the only serious option... even as debt and deficit spiral. BBC report on the leak unquestioningly quotes Tories calling the policies a shambles, that will cause untold chaos, without justification.

Tough on animal safety, tough on the causes of animal safety.

Yay. I'm the best judge of our defence then.

"David Moyes has demanded a completely new side is signed for Sunderland's Championship campaign if they want him to stay on as boss." Definitely not staying regardless because they can't/won't pay him off.

Thanks to everyone who recommended Always Sunny, AH springs to mind as i think he had the avatar. Just finished season 3 where they dance to win the bar. Pissing myself. Mostly at Rickity Cricket

You wouldn't think so when you hear some of the stick Dummet gets and the appetitie some people have for replacing him.

Aye, i think anyone that's managed more than a dozen games is likely to keep a place unless they attract a good size fee that will allow reinvestment. Krul, Hanley, Lazaar, De Jong, Haidara, Saivet, Gamez, Sels, Riviere, Murphy, Ameobi, Elliot, Mitrovic, Thauvin, Vuckic, Good...Toney? Armstrong? Think that's plenty to be clearing out in one summer.

They're going to have to sell a lot and replace with cheaper (both in terms of fees and wages). Was more of a piss-taking joke at their expense, but he's just played half the games in the squad that won the championship, so regardless of how wank we think he's been, there'll be some demand. Hull, Boro, Villa, Norwich. They all get parachute payments and could be interested in a 3 year deal. On the other hand, with 150+ Premier league appearances anyone in the bottom half could be interested in him for cover too. I think people overestimate the amount of trading we'll do though and think Rafa is more likely to keep him than sell him. Purely because of that experience and he's english and local. Think he'll stick with Dummet for the same reason (whey, not the English, but homegrown). "It would be perfect to have a lot of local players, homegrown players playing in the first-team but it is not easy," the Spaniard said to NUFC TV.

Mackems

It's not 2005. If it's £3m for Lazaar or Murphy, £4m for Hayden, £5m for Sels and £5.5m for Grant Hanley, then £4m for Colback isn't silly.

Both gutted and delighted they don't have size 12s.

Surprised he didn't do "3 nil" with his fingers.