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"When the missus says she's having the fillet steak and you see it's £28.99..."

I'll always love you @Pyfish

With EA around, that can easily change unfortunately. Have fun. I got a Switch as part of Black Friday sales in 2017 and am ashamed to say that I've hardly used it much. Nothing to do with the games at all. Just lack of time between work, socialising (though that's practically gone now) and the PS4. If you want a game with a challenge that's very well presented, I'd consider giving Cuphead a shot. True but even so, surely you don't announce your brand spanking new console with a 7 year old game.

Memories, just over 6 years ago I retired from work as a 65-year-old and became officially an 'old git' as our son & daughter call me, went to Ocean Terminal Bar for a meal & drink compliments of our daughter with grandsons in tow, wee Kaiden was just a year old then, how time flys.

Nice. Can't decide who has the better boobs though.

Mondays with my girls.

I suspected it might be from the lyrics but didn't know if it was just that particular song they were singing rather than the band actually being from there... Quality stuff, I enjoyed how he managed to make that horse noise from what I can only describe as a Bass/Rock Violin of some type.. This must be the track you are talking about... Great find it has to be said, do like that sound and mix of instruments

Mongolia! One of their songs was in the Star Wars game

I was not expecting this when I started watching... Don't know where they hail from but a great track found by accident...

Sure have.. Quality episode

"When the missus says she's having the fillet steak and you see it's £28.99..." Then I would smile, order two as the daughter was paying

Or even... "The sheer panic when Grandma asks who dropped one at the dinner table and your both in doubt..."

'when you have to explain to your grandson you can't have the Happy Meal or any lunch because grandma spent all the money on clothes and a big fat-ass steak'

Agreed. Much more clean cut than I was expecting

Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet Scientists have identified a green light in the atmosphere of Mars. A similar glow is sometimes seen by astronauts on the space station when they look to the Earth's limb. The glow comes from oxygen atoms when they're excited by sunlight. The phenomenon has long been predicted to occur on other planets, but the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - a joint European-Russian satellite at Mars - is the first to make the observation beyond Earth. "It's a nice result," said Dr Manish Patel from the UK's Open University. "You'd never plan a mission to go look for this kind of thing. Today, we have to be very clear about the science we're going to do before we get to Mars. But having got there, we thought, 'well, let's have a look'. And it worked." To be clear, this is different from classic aurora like the Northern and Southern Lights. These emissions are the consequence of collisions between atmospheric molecules and charged particles that are racing away from the Sun. On Earth, this type of interaction is heavily influenced by our planet's strong magnetic field, which pulls those particles down on to the poles. Aurora are not focussed in quite the same way on Mars because this world doesn't have a global magnetic field, but such emissions nonetheless exist and have already been observed. The green glow seen by astronauts at the edge of the Earth - and now by the TGO at Mars - has a separate origin. It's sunlight that's doing the work. Oxygen atoms are raised to a higher energy level and when they fall back to their resting state, they produce the tell-tale green emission. Earth has abundant oxygen in its atmosphere. But on Mars it's largely present only as a breakdown product of carbon dioxide. Sunlight will free one of the oxygen atoms in CO2, and it's the transition of this atom that's glowing green on the Red Planet. The TGO detects the excited oxygen not with an imaging camera (hence no pretty pictures) but with its Nomad spectrometer package. This instrument sees the oxygen at very particular altitudes. In a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, these altitudes are at 80km and 120km above the surface. The precise altitudes are dependent on the pressure of CO2. "And by looking at the altitudes of where this emission is, you can actually tell the thickness of the atmosphere and how it's varying," explained Dr Patel. "So, if you were to keep observing this phenomenon, you could see the height of the atmosphere change, something it does for example when it heats up during dust storms. This is an issue we face when we try to land on Mars because we're never quite sure just how thick the atmosphere will be when we plough through it to get to the surface." Theoretically, therefore, you could use observations of the green glow to help inform the models that guide the entry, descent and landing of Mars probes. The glow at Mars was detected by the TGO's Nomad instrument, which is led by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB-BIRA). Dr Patel is the co-principal investigator on Nomad's ultraviolet and visible spectrometer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53057055

'I think I have bragging rights for this' So far up your own arse man

Turns out Animal Crossing is basically video game heroin. It's very relaxing and very addictive... and it sucks up a lot of time without you really knowing how much time it's been or if you've really done anything.

I have been wanting a game like X-Wing v Tie Fighter (a fucking classic) for such a long time. Definitely over a decade. And there was another, much more arcade-style game... Star Wars Rogue Squadron (on the Nintendo 64) and... that game was also fantastic and I've long thought "well if we can't get X-Wing v. Tie Fighter in the modern day, can we at least get Rogue Squadron 2?" So I am excited at the prospect of this game. But it's got to be fucking good to live up to the levels of those other 2 games, because those games were absolutely brilliant. Any news on the developer? I hope it's Respawn, they've yet to disappoint imo - even after EA bought them out. Although it'd be a very different game from the other games they've put out... but Jedi Fallen Order was very different from their other games (the Titanfall games + Apex) and it was a fucking fantastic game as well. Got high hopes!

I see Tommy is your new obsession. Cute.

From the ones I watched, 2017 Macau pile up definitely takes the cake. Only four out of 20 cars were not affected, so a 16 car pile up: In Formula 1, 1998 crash at Spa in the rain is probably the biggest one (13 cars included): From the ones that I don't watch, definitely NASCAR...They even coined a term "Big One" to describe the multi-car crashes that happen quite often, due to the nature of the track. The worst ever there is 37 cars at Daytona: