Weekend Chatterbox

Morning.

Up too late with gaming hour.
Then rudely awoken at 6.30 by the child.

BF1 last night. Mostly playing the russian front campaign maps I'd never played before. Stuck myself in support for the most part.

Nobody chats. There's chat in your squad but nobody was using it.

Watched a wee bit of the Olympics opening. The drones were most impressive.
Hoping to catch some of last night's slopestyle today.

Morning all!

I'm off into Brighton to pick up some new specs. Hoping for a quick-in-quick-out situation. #Pray4amipal

Watched 99% of The Red Turtle last night, then an episode of Enterprise. Also reading through Blueprints for a Battlestar.

The inexplicable acceptance and popularity of the Olympics induces within me a profound sense of alienation. I feel estranged from the very people among whom I daily walk and interact. I am made the object of a radical and hostile alterity. Capgras, Body Snatchers, and Prufrock, all rolled into one.

I wish I were blessed with the sort of ovine stupidity that allows people to like the Olympics, so I could fit in with everyone else.

Good luck with the quick in and out Amipal.

You rotten shit.

I do not like the Olympics. The men's 100m final is usually just about able to hold my attention. The rest is dull.

If you want to fit in you should probably develop an interest in the round ball game. There is a local exhibition match between two not very good sides I am going to tomorrow. I think it is on TV as well.

Thanks shenguin. I did manage it relatively quickly, but the drive home was one of incredible frustration.

Why can't people just leave the road, at speed, and explode in a firey ball of twisted metal?

My new glasses feel very wrong. My phone does not look rectangular in my hands.

Morning, I’m now on my 5th pasteis de nata, have been offered both hash and mdma, and nearly been mugged.

4 stars.

Oh, don't take it personally Crank. It's not just the people who watch it, it's also everyone else who doesn't share my perfectly rational desire to sabotage, attack and destroy it.

It was the £11bn taxpayer money for 2012 spent effectively providing a platform for multi-national companies to advertise, whilst at the same time socially cleansing swathes of poorer neighbourhoods and making tissue-thin promises about legacy and regeneration. The sporting events themselves, I'm not fussed about but they seem reasonable. Tory-voters, Brexiters, Daily Mail readers, people who don't hate the Olympics, pod-people . . . they're all around and I don't know who is a real human being and who is an evil impostor.

There's quite a few posts on here I haven't replied to. That's not because I'm ignoring them, it would just be weird to reply to every post.

The exception is Sheep's post; I want to make it clear that I am actively ignoring that, and I probably haven't even read it, the rotten shit.

Now that you mention it, if you are talking about 2012 in particular, totally agree about the taxpayer money. Like other non Londoners, I never tire of hearing about how London keeps the rest of us afloat, while we all pump cash into local projects like the Olympics, Crossrail, etc etc..

Also, Sebastian Coe. What a twat.

Burger King man, eh? Fair enough.

Hello.

Last night I made a lamb Rogan Josh. Tasty, no leftovers for a bunny chow.

Watched more "Mindhunter", jumped when a car crashed into Bill and Holden's. At every scene before showing them talking whilst driving I had been shouting at the screen that they better watch the road, so it felt kind of satisfying that the writers acknowledged that. Also satisfied that some of the action takes place in Altoona, PA, which I'm pretty certain is named after Altona, a part of Hamburg I know only too well since the train home leaves from there. Too obvious who the murderer is, though. If I'm wrong I'll eat my non-existent hat.

Played a bit of Zelda, making my way to the next objective. Missed a star fragment by a second and am still stuck at a "giant golf course" Korok puzzles. Three giant bolders, every single one missed the hole, and they don't respawn easily. There's a reason why I'm not on the Olympic team this year either.

Winter Olympics: not seen any yet, but I would always like to invite the curling team and their brooms to give my driveway a good scrub, and nothing beats watching little men flying through the air at the ski jump when one is hungover.

4 stars.

Played some GT sport last night. Its very good. The replays look very realistic.

Set up the kids carrera slot car sets. If its one thing F1 is missing its sections of track that mean the cars are 90 degrees to the ground.