Chatterbox Monday

Multiple run throughs, even after a gap do make things easier. You remember the bits you had difficulty with and how to beat them.

I played Dead Space back in 2008. The only thing I can remember is to turn the Plasma cutter 90 degrees to slice limbs more easily.
Apart from that it is like a new game to me..


Other games:
Bit of Fortnite. I won a couple of solo games and a duos match while Shenguin was examining the ground for clues as to what had just killed him.
He provided an excellent bit of distraction while I won the game.

I was at Brighton a few years ago when they beat us comprehensively to go top of the Championship. 
It was the first time they had been there in about 35 years I think.
Despite being less than 10% of the crowd we were able to to stop any celebrations on the train back to Brighton.
Every time they started any noise there was a mass booing and a rendition of SOTV or other Blues songs and they went very quiet.
I can't imagine that happening at any other club who had just gone top for the first time in decades.

That England team are a disgrace. I worry now Italy might beat us after running France close.

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you, the Great British football fan.

Football fans are the British male at his best. No doubt.
Hooting and chest beating.
To he fair it is great fun. A licensed revelry.


It has been cruelly tamed over the last 35+  years. No longer can we congregate in great cages  And much of the ritual chest beating of others is now frowned upon. When I was young going to the wilder areas of the terraces was a great rite of passage. Once the local wildings had landed on you once or twice you were accepted as one if their own, to be cherished, hugged, and in the rare event we scored crushed and elbowed. You also gained the right to hug, elbow and crush back. Much like a rugby maul on concrete steps.

I do think we lost something with the terraces. Though it is nice to be able to sit down, and not come home with bruises.

I would love to go back on an old packed terrace, back when they were safe.
By which I mean i'd like to be 16 again.

They don't even let you run on the pitch now, I used to love doing that on the final home game of the season at Lincoln.

I'd make some different choices. Maybe. Maybe not.
I mostly enjoyed my teens and twenties.

Political correctness. The wokies won't even let you carry a Stanley knife to the football any more. Or sing songs either for or against the IRA

That's only in Scotland.
It's fine to sing appalling sectarian songs in England. Though you don't hear them often.
So long as they aren't racist or homophobic.

I'm not sure stanley blades were ever really ok.