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Post by Melvazord on Jan 16, 2021 22:35:43 GMT
Baldur's Gate III looks bloody good; although I cannot play it. Anyone here tried it? Melvazord? Just for the opening sequences I'd buy it... Sorry, I have never played Baldurs Gate 1, 2 or 3 |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 13, 2021 7:55:18 GMT
Oh are we on to existential screams already? Greeeeaaaaarrrrggggghhhh!! |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 20:36:58 GMT
This is an abomination. I feed my two person household perfectly well on 40 quid a week from my local supermarkets. How has this been left to happen? Standard Conservative cruelty. Right wing SOP. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 18:54:18 GMT
Depends. If you happen to be the first cousin of the Mekon, as far as you like. If you're just some common oik though the rozzers will batter you five feet from your door. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 12:24:15 GMT
All of Baby's hard work on those missiles won't go to waste. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 12:14:30 GMT
But wait, there's more! That's right, a half tin of tuna in a filthy money bag. Lovely stuff.  |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 11:33:48 GMT
Shenguin there, the voice of reason.
We're doomed.
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 10:47:14 GMT
I have to apologise,I was wrong. That isn't 5 days of lunches.
Its ten...
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 10:19:57 GMT
It's not £30 of food though. It's £5-6 at an expensive supermarket. You could probably get it for £4 fairly easily. And that is at retail. At wholesale it's probably more like £2. This s profiteering and exploitation. I've seen different pictures of what people are getting, and it all seems very regionally variable, but not one picture shows £30 of food. £10-15 at absolute most depending on the picture. Even, as Scubar said, you add in logistics, its nowhere near costing 30 quid. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 10:12:41 GMT
Is it meant to provide all meals for a week or 5 workday lunches? If it is the latter then it is doable. Not great, but doable. Not that I'm defending the Tories, It certainly looks like a miserable offering. 5 lunches, and I agree its miserable (like your face) but doable (unlike your face). I certainly survived on less as a kid, but thats the key word, survived. It wasn't living. But on no planet other than planet kickback does thay cost 30 pounds. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 12, 2021 9:52:43 GMT
 This is the free school meals Marcus Rashford fought for. This is apparently £30 pounds worth of food meant to last a kid a week. Where the fuck would this cost 30 notes? The Waterstones at Heathrow maybe. Thats 5 quids worth of food, tops. As usual, this government has managed to turn what should have been a opportunity to assist the less well off into a money making exercise for one of their cronies at the taxpayers expense. Is it my imagination, or are the Torys a bunch of bastards? |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 11, 2021 20:31:54 GMT
I work in a non-customer-facing role, where we work isn’t especially time sensitive. No way am I a key worker. And my partner works for a university, and deals with post-grad students. Again, how is that key? Crazy... [shakes head] ...but the company I work for supply important machinery to government, so I am deemed a key worker. Called it, Baby works in an arms factory building missiles to sell to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. What else could it be? The government doesn't give a fuck about building anything else. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 10, 2021 21:20:02 GMT
We're already have to do that for our labs, because of the risk of contamination. Its getting biological scientists to fucking wear masks in the communal areas in the first place we had problems with. I literally sneered at one lass who ripped hers off her face and screeching "I can't breathe in this thing " Did ye, aye? I had a job for 3 years that required wearing a close fitting face mask for up to 4 hours at a time. You can wear yours for 30 seconds to walk down the corridor you stupid twat. Work with biologists in mostly a chemistry based system, I mean lung fulls of hexane and acetonitrile are good for you? The fact that it's coverings in most areas but masks in labs seems an issue, people have trouble hand washing and one person managed to take radiation on their hands home years ago. It's not proper ppe, if it was all done and sent across site that you have to wear one of their covers that's fine but everyone can bring their own so balaclavas all round? Uh...do we work in the same building, because this all sounds very familiar... |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 10, 2021 19:01:51 GMT
Hospital chat, hope everyone is getting better. Grandparents visits didn't usually end well, covid rules were happily out the window for my mum and her sister to say goodbye to their mother, masks etc worn but people limits were relaxed. Work is now saying masks in buildings but disposable in labs, seems a bit odd swapping masks to enter a room. We're already have to do that for our labs, because of the risk of contamination. Its getting biological scientists to fucking wear masks in the communal areas in the first place we had problems with. I literally sneered at one lass who ripped hers off her face and screeching "I can't breathe in this thing " Did ye, aye? I had a job for 3 years that required wearing a close fitting face mask for up to 4 hours at a time. You can wear yours for 30 seconds to walk down the corridor you stupid twat. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 10, 2021 18:10:32 GMT
Im sure the government will do the correct thing and not destabilise our entire ecosystem just so farmers can save £1.20 per annum.
Oh no wait, the opposite of that.
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 10, 2021 12:48:24 GMT
Racing Blog: Interlagos, Group 3, Peugeot RCZ. Started 2nd, raced a steady race with consistent lap times, got the fastest lap, won the race.
End blog.
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 9, 2021 11:22:41 GMT
From the book I've just started: "Kane took little risk. That was the smart way. If you are to remain undetected, you must be cautious." More importantly, what are the pictures like and when does spot turn up? |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 8, 2021 21:00:09 GMT
Did they find life at Dundee university? If you can calling living in Dundee living. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 8, 2021 13:41:22 GMT
The majority of them, yeah they're not terrorists, they're useful morons. Pipe bomb guy and the intended kidnappers are domestic terrorists. Also known as canon fodder or pawns/first wave Ironic that Americans would go full Soviet meat-shield. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 8, 2021 13:15:53 GMT
I think the pipe bombs and the guys loaded to take hostages tips it over the edge Maybe ... It just seems that if you use 'terrorism' to mean anything that attempts political change with violence then you leave it open to be used against any protest that ends in violence, for whatever reason. And lots of protests do turn ugly, at some point. End up brawling with police because you've been 'kettled', then you could be labelled a terrorist. There's a big difference between "brawling" and literally smashing your way into a building with a bunch of industrial cable ties intending to kidnap politicians and take them to the gallows you have set up outside. The majority of them, yeah they're not terrorists, they're useful morons. Pipe bomb guy and the intended kidnappers are domestic terrorists. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 8, 2021 12:40:47 GMT
Well armies don't often overtly target civilians, with the aim of terrorising them. The invasion of Iraq and bombing of Libya had fairly standard military aims - and were directed, ostensibly, at military targets. I suppose you could say the bombing of Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima, and the Blitz of London, were sort of terrorist acts if you use the broad definition ... But I don't think the ransacking of the Capitol Building counts. I don't think it was aimed at terrorising people ... I think the pipe bombs and the guys loaded to take hostages tips it over the edge |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 7, 2021 21:17:13 GMT
It’s not that I hate democracy - it’s the best system we’ve got - but I do enjoy the idea of America declaring war on us (thinking they were better) and have the White House razed to the ground. It was the Capitol we razed to the ground. The White House we merely damaged. If by damaged you mean "left a worse burned out husk than your average Chatterboxer", sure |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 7, 2021 19:12:32 GMT
Who needs apocalypse games or films when we have the news. Because sometimes, with effort and a little luck, we get to win at games. I had another 2 race wins at Gran Turismo this week, I'm sure that will stand me in good stead in post-apoc UK as the driver for Baby's chatterbox doof-mobile. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 7, 2021 16:07:34 GMT
Apparently I'm a key worker now. Locksmith?  |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 7, 2021 10:36:57 GMT
Doesn’t sound like she’s winning. She married Baby for starters. |
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