Dr. Gonzo

Yeah the back of my car is smashed in. I’m surprised my neck isn’t really hurting from the crash - but I think that’s good because I’m getting married on Saturday and I don’t wanna have a stiff fucking neck at my wedding

Some dickhead forgot to use his breaks in traffic and slammed into the back of my car and I am so pissed off

Who do you think our best free transfer ever is? Gary Mac? That was a good one. Milner and Matip are up there though - but I’d probably say Milner’s our best free transfer ever. He’s got to be at least 34 but I still want him to sign an extension like Matip’s just done.

Honestly I’ll never forgive Terry for that slip against Manchester United. Should have been launched into the sun for that.

Nah I appreciate how patient the EU has been with negotiations and I don't assume that the world or EU revolve around us, because it pretty clearly doesn't and that's why a lot of people are worried about No Deal. And I wouldn't expect the EU to be willing to negotiate, even if they did agree to a deadline to allow us to have a General Election. I just think it's more realistic to actually procedurally start over than believe that we will negotiate a better deal than May's poor deal in any limited amount of time.

Sounds fucking great lol

Even if a party tried to hold another referendum without while staying technically neutral... you'd have the same issue. A divided electorate that's firmly divided on the issue and has grown more divisive. The Brexit side is not going to want to have their vote split with "Leave with No Deal" and "Leave with a Deal," so you'll always have accusations of one side flaunting democracy and the will of the people - and it'll just create further divisiveness on the same fucking issue. And what then if that divisiveness keeps growing? Referendums on the UK's membership in the EU for eternity - as public opinion on the EU sways back and forth? A second referendum is something that sounds good to me in theory, but I just think in practice it'll be very difficult. If it's not worded the exact same, I think you'll have leave voters up in arms complaining about how it's not fair that their vote is split. Meanwhile, if you've got the wording the exact same as the first time, then it's not really specific enough - there are probably still voters out there that want to leave the EU but they don't want to leave with no deal. Have their opinions changed now that they've seen how Brexit negotiations have gone? Maybe. But I don't fucking know how these people think. But it's my own personal opinion that the referendum was very reckless in the first place - it asked too broad of a question for the electorate to decide. Especially with disinformation campaigns and flaunted election laws (broken with no real punishment either). And I'm not sure that another referendum can "fix" the reckless decision to have the first referendum. IMO this is Parliament's job to resolve and get the best result for the UK. If Parliament ultimately decides another referendum will decide our EU membership (or lack of it)… I really fucking hope it's come after we've withdrawn Article 50 so we can start the process over again though. As irritating as starting the process over again might be... a new "original" referendum can probably be done in a way that's less deceptive and misleading to the public. If there has to be another referendum on this. Don't ask me how we'd make a new and better referendum because I have no idea. But to be honest, I doubt anyone around Westminster knows what the fuck to do either. Since Article 50 was submitted, we've needed some sort of creative problem solving from the political leadership in all our parties and... well we don't have it. Also we should all throw stones at David Cameron if we ever see that twat.

With how divided everyone is right now, maybe some suffering that we all feel together is what’s needed for a return to political normalcy. Bit fucked though if that’s the case.

Yeah, but sadly I think people view politics as sport rather than where compromise can be made for the greater good. I’d like to be wrong but I doubt it. That’s why there are so many people who once told us we’d never leave with No Deal frothing at the mouth about how we must leave now, deal or no deal

Fuckin told you it probably wouldn’t even get approved because you can’t claim ownership of something that vague

Yeah I have no idea how Gears is even laid out on a keyboard, I just assumed WASD would be movement... but I don't know what you'd be using for switching weapons or that button where you... pretty much do all of the actions you can make your character to - which is defaulted to A on the controller (but I use "tournament mode" so it's on LB... which lets me bounce around from cover to cover while still having my thumbs on the sticks so I can aim and stuff - that's mostly for the wallbouncing in multiplayer though). So I have no idea how you'd even stretch for those buttons haha (like the active reload button, which is pretty critical in any Gears game). But playing these games for the last odd... however the fuck long it's been since the first one... I can't imagine playing them without a controller.

Yeah, I don't think my computer (well maybe my work computer can actually) could handle Gears games or anything. I've also played every Gears game with a controller... so I imagine I'd be playing it on PC with a controller as well. Although I bet aiming is much fucking easier on a PC because aiming is always much easier on a PC.

Yeah I agree about the difficulty. Gears games have never felt very challenging though unless you blast the difficulty way up and then the AI is all of a sudden infallible with it's aiming. I liked the campaign a lot though and I'm also having fun with the multiplayer, which kind of reminds me of being a kid so that's fun.

Tory's should be joining the opposition in demanding he resign, if they at least wanted to pretend they still had any integrity.

I've been playing shitloads of the Escape mode in Gears and I absolutely fucking love it.

Yeah the one in the video sounded especially shit ESP sells a couple models with a piezo and I went to their website... because they're actually pretty good about explaining why they go with certain hardware for certain models and here's what they say about their piezos they've gone with and they say it's "to add more acoustic tones to your electric guitar" - sounds like marketing bollocks to me. It also says the guitars have dual output jacks... so one for the regular pickups and one for the piezo output. So maybe it's just about having "maximum tonal versatility." I don't really understand why you'd ever want one in an electric though.

Similar to Thomas Cook - German airline Condor has asked the German government for an emergency loan to survive

Isn’t Alonso pretty decent at crossing? I thought he was good going forward, just wank at defending

Yeah I’ve seen electrics with piezos but I don’t know why they are a thing

I agree with you but maybe we should keep it to ourselves, because I’m enjoying this.

You ever used an electric with a Piezo? I love Colin's channel. I also loved how that video has all of these people I've watched on YouTube... seeing Glenn Fricker just drop the knowledge bomb made me think "wow! way to go Glenn" and then he admits he Wiki'd it before the interview

Yeah this whole “woe to the people who still used Thomas Cook, even though it was well overpriced and anyone who knows how to use the internet could have booked their own holiday and not had to deal with Thomas Cook” shite is a bit ridiculous. The internet killed off Thomas Cook for a reason, if you were still using it... that’s more money than sense you had and I do not sympathise with you at all. Its shit for the people who lost their jobs though

What was the last Gears you played?

He’s said the endings are going to be substantially similar, so don’t worry your life has meaning. But also maybe don’t tie the meaning of your life to a guy who wanted to be Tolkien but also wanted to get paid before he finished his stories

They could have kept the plot the same and written things the same standard they'd written the first 4 seasons and I'd have enjoyed it. Instead it was a rushed pile of shit. I'll wait til the fucking things are out before I assume they'll be good.