Rayvin

FFS

Gloom is seriously uncomfortable about the bears it has to be said...

Next thing we'll hear about this is a report in the papers. "Newcastle born man mauled by black bear - attempt of escape on hoverboard proved futile but other family members were able to walk to safety at a leisurely pace"

Jonty...?

can't argue with that last bit in fairness.

If anyone has 10 mins going spare I strongly recommend the first ten or so pages of this thread. The ribbing CT gets for his metal detecting and digging up some random old handle is superb, but is topped off by the Fish's infamous frozen grapes moment, introduced seemingly out of nowhere. This forum has to have one of the best communities out there, like. Does CT even still do this metal detecting lark?

I think we've done the hoverboarding thing to death Although it's still your avatar pic which is noteworthy in and of itself. I'm not massively fussed on superhero films although I did enjoy the dark knight. They're all too formulaic for me these days. In the absence of Hollywood coming out with anything better though, what choice do we have? EDIT - not that I'm in a position to judge anyone given that I still enjoy the odd anime

Good post, thanks for that.

So half of the business I work for has been playing it, and I walk past multiple people on the way home, people out for a run, guys in suits, students, all sorts of people - all playing it. I'm not going to go so far as to say this is a 'good sign' for society, but it's widespread.

You're probably not wrong, but who isn't an absolute fucking moron from time to time?

That stuff with Smith today is fucking ridiculous. 'Aggressive language against women' ffs. Although I'm not surprised the Corbyn campaign jumped on it after the great brick throwing crisis of the other week...

I didn't want it to seem like the ONLY reason I was out walking was for pokemon.

I do enjoy walking though, tbf.

Probably both, but I've walked about 40km since last Friday.

While you were on holiday in the lakes, Pokemon Go came out and became the fastest downloaded app of all time. It allows people to walk around in the real world, using GPS and actual maps of surrounding areas, and locate and catch pokemon. Then you train them up and take over gyms. There's not actually that much more to it though, I'm hoping they expand the content somewhat to include battling with other trainers properly.

Have to admit to being impressed by Ant there actually... I'm level 18 and have actually been walking to hatch eggs and so on. I think I've lost half a stone in the past week, so it's not all bad even if you're doing it properly.

Surely that's where their youth players would come into it though?

That's actually pretty bizarre. On the electability thing - they've disenfranchised huge swathes of their membership though. If they move to the centre with the Tories then great, maybe more people vote for them again - probably not many of their 500,000 membership though - and while that isn't an election winning number it's also not that small. I also expect they'll lose more working class to UKIP though. It's not like the working class are after centralist policies to protect the middle income earners, which is effectively what the centreground used to be under Labour (it's now high income earners under the Tories). Honestly, I think they're imploding - it's going to be a slow motion car crash, but the death knell was actually the balls up in Scotland. The source was not combating Tory nonsense about austerity. And the more I think about that, the more convinced I am that this is actually Ed Miliband's fault. Corbyn is in power because Miliband utterly failed to challenge austerity and sidled up to the Tories on the issue, and because he changed the voting rules for membership elections. Either way though, had it not been Miliband it would have been someone else. New Labour failed.

I think now, it's just 'vote Tory'. I don't know where this idea that Labour is suddenly going to be viable again post-Corbyn comes from, but I can't say that I subscribe to it. They've been a shambles on all sides for fucking ages now. Even I think they look less competent than the Tories, and I think the Tories are utter muppets.

Dare I ask what level we all are...?

It's quite addictive but not sure how lasting it'll be... I'm sure there's more than just me and Andrew playing it from here as well...

I wondered who would be first to admit to Pokemon Go on here... loser! Yes, I have it too.