Rayvin

Formidable argument I've said as much before tbh, it's not a new position. The guy was grilled over his anti-abortion position and stood by it. He's been grilled over his Brexit position and stood by it. He is far more honest about what he believes in than most politicians, especially on the Tory side. Happy to take evidence to the contrary though. And I should add that my acknowledgement that he appears to stick to his principles is not an endorsement of said principles.

Interesting video - I don't know if NBC cut this section although it seriously wouldn't surprise me - but this is Putin IMO confirming that they did mess up the US elections (while denying it), and stating confidently why we're in no position to say anything about it, really:

We're all united on JRM it seems, but it's worth noting that he appears to be uncompromising on his principles, relatively honest about what they are, and prepared to stand by them. Not unlike Corbyn - and popular with the right wingers for the same reason. Another sign perhaps that if the centre could just get someone who had an actual backbone, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Tbf it sounds like that might be 60% of our overall budget.

I mean I look back at it with amusement now tbh. I made more of an effort with Bloodborne and must have got about 3 or 4 hours in before giving up. I just can't stand having being relegated back to a checkpoint I passed 30 minutes ago and redoing the whole thing. Plus it punished you for not finding your dead remains or dying before you got back to them. Coupled with a lack of patience which meant I would try to speed through the sections I had worked through previously before dying (and inevitably take more damage due to carelessness), it's just not for me. I'm not the kind of person who should play these games

Wait, so you're not meant to be fearful? The game punishes you really hard for dying. I 'fondly' recall the 30 minutes I spent playing Dark Souls. Started in a prison cell with a broken sword. Left cell. No idea about combat. Skeleton with non-broken sword appears, stabs me, I die. Restart game, remember where skeleton is, practice a few sword swings, kill skeleton, move further down passage, another skeleton, I die. Restart, kill both skeletons, enter a bigger room, see a huge ogre demon thing that looks like some kind of boss and has a club the size of a small country, it looks at me, I die. Repeat, get a few swings in, do no damage at all, I die. Try to go around it, go onto a high ledge, try to jump attack down onto it, Succeed, damage it heavily, but die in the fall. Etc. It just wasn't fun

Which is how? I find them incredibly tedious so this information would be useful because i do actually want to enjoy them.

Tbf that sounds worse than Trump.

Aye but we as a nation understand that the UK isn't the be all and end all of the world. Something that seems to be lost on many Americans vis-a-vis their own country. If the US is the sum total of your universe, why would you need to know what it looked like?

He's right though. People voted for an absolute clusterfuck when they voted Brexit, and when they voted for May. It is what it is, and while politicians are responsible for lying to people, voters are responsible for being dumb enough to be lied to.

Even if Labour weren't divided, it's hard to imagine them doing anything of substance. Corbyn genuinely does seem to think that his current approach of simply standing back and leaving the collapse of the Tories to chance, is going to work. And tbf to him it might, but he really doesn't fucking deserve for it to do so.

Signed it mostly just to have an artificial feeling that I've achieved something.

Agreed.

Indeed. Those Labour MPs man, just what the fuck. What the fuck.

He has managed it rarely, but my point is more that usually PMQs is just total farce and entirely irrelevant. This time it really does matter, he really does have a chance to turn the screw at a time when Labour have a 5 point lead in the polls. This time it has to count.

Aye, this has to be it for Corbyn now. He has to land some fucking blows on her this time. Made slightly more difficult by Woodcock and the antisemitism stuff though.

Sinn Fein seem to be coming under fire in Ireland for not attending Parliament and voting against the amendments. I guess that would have done it as well, on at least some of the issues. Annoying.

Absolutely. Forget about fucking Brexit for a second, they had a gold plated opportunity to kick the Tories out of power and chose to prop them up. No coming back from that.

@Christmas Tree Do you agree that Brexit has torn apart any semblance of political stability and competence that this country could have once at least pretended to have? Even you must think this is an utter shambles now, on all sides. We're an international laughing stock.

So Labour has resumed tearing itself apart over anti-semitism then. Margaret Hodge can fuck off, I'm not even going to pay attention to this bullshit anymore. What the fuck happened to this country.

I mean, those Labour MPs just voted to avoid a GE that Labour could feasibly have won.

What's the point anymore, seriously. Incompetence is going to win.

FFS man, can we just agree that no one fucking cares whether the Tories implemented it or Labour did - if the situation is fucking shit it needs to be sorted out! The only party that are currently capable of doing anything about it are the motherfucking Tories. And they've had 8 fucking years CT, to reverse anything they didn't like. Having said that, the stats you're providing look ok to me. I mean it's still pre-Brexit so who knows what'll happen there, but I'm not really in a position to argue with those figures.

Does the public really need convincing anymore though?