Rayvin

Nothing would surprise me about these guys.

It's nice to be rewarded in some manner of another for good performance. Public sector does seem to have a lot of perks - and pensions that might actually be worthwhile...

So, because it was a 'gift', they notice it and compliment me on my 'taste in watches'. Our board meeting humour really is that bad. I'm sure it's not over a grand though.

Because in my late teens, early 20s, I actually did want to live in China. I've not actively studied it since then. Yep, it's crazy expensive.

At the risk of revealing my ignorance, I don't really know if it's worth very much. Plus I do need to wear it for board meetings...

China sucks I probably would if I could get into Hong Kong. Or I would have, but with the Chinese government cracking down on it, I'm becoming less keen. If the opportunity had come up in my 20s I would have, but quality of life is more important now. And China has very little of that.

We had a good year - although to be honest, I think it was part of a strategy to emotionally compromise me into not asking for more money

I don't really wear watches but I have a Longines that I was gifted from work. Which I don't wear because watches are uncomfortable. It comes out for the quarterly board meeting but that's it

I'm pretty good with language learning - with 5 years, I'm actually factoring in twice as much time as it took for me to become fluent in Chinese Hopefully it's enough! Agreed on the beer - genuinely think I'd enjoy living out there. The publishing scene there is fairly strong too.

Fucking everywhere is full of SJWs man. But yeah, not expecting to be easy. I can learn the language to fluency in 5 years mind + 6 months living there mind.

Good point. I'll have to start giving it some serious thought. My boss has just relocated himself to Spain in order to ensure that he has an escape route. Apparently if you spend £500k on a property out there, they can fast track your citizenship.

If I stay with the company I work for, probably Spain or Germany. If I leave, Germany or the Netherlands. I need 5 years because I'm not prepared to leave my job yet and the company itself isn't quite at the point of establishing itself on the continent. The missus speaks fluent French so France would be an option, but... dunno, never really fancied it. What I'm fairly certain of is that I don't want to be in the UK while it works out how to be a functional state in a post-Brexit landscape.

Guilty. Have been listening all morning. Am not cheering up.

There are elements of the way he works that you genuinely have to admire.

Suits me - I can definitely get myself out of the country in 5 years. 2 would have been a stretch.

Based on my experience of football manager, I'd say that they sit in the reserves and bitch and moan about playing time.

We're they good? I never saw them live.

Absolutely gutted by that one... RIP Chester.

I know that nobody cares, but Vince Cable is the new leader of the Lib Dems. I had a lot of time for him once, but it turns out there are indeed unforgivable sins.

Kind of a bizarre thing to say actually. What did Darlow ever do wrong? He was fine last season.

That's encouraging if moralising is the reason this is happening, but May certainly appears to be more generally cracking down on the internet...

The problem is, I could actually see Labour doing something similar to this - their ideological position would be broadly in line with it if you took 'protecting children' and replaced/appended it with 'protecting women'. We need to kill off ideologies - why we can't just have a rational decision making apparatus with a fact based approach to policy is absolutely beyond me.

I don't (believe it or not) watch porn all that often myself. I'm just repulsed by the idea of the government interfering in people's lives under the guise of 'save the children'. If it lessens the need to procreate, it's a net positive IMO, though. Aye, fair enough.

And the prevailing wisdom is that the kids smart enough to 'get around' parental controls won't be able to bypass this nonsense? I get what you're saying, but this is coming from a government that is also now advocating for cracking down on 'extremist' thought on the internet, and has already banned, pointlessly, the depiction of certain sexual activities between consenting adults. This whole policy is a shambles IMO. I'm genuinely going to be fascinated to see if they're going to kick 2 million kids off Tumblr and probably more from Reddit, when this goes through.

I'm very libertardian Why is porn a net negative for society in your view?