Dr. Gonzo

I'm also not keen on a second referendum for the same reasons. I thought the first referendum was stupid and a bad idea for the electorate to make a decision on - and ultimately if the result goes against the original referendum's results... it only really highlights that referendums are stupid. But like you say, what other choices do we have. The EU's saying they're not going to renegotiate a new deal - so there's the May deal that pretty much nobody likes. We could go with that... but nobody likes it. We can delay Article 50 and postpone Brexit, but if the EU is truly not going to negotiate a new deal... that gives us a choice between no deal or the May deal. So that's putting us back in the same position, but only delaying the chance for this to be finally resolved. The third option is parliament withdrawing Article 50 and just ending Brexit... but it's unlikely MPs will do that, because they don't want to deal with the yOu ArE sUbVeRtInG dEmOcRaCy crowd A second referendum is the best of 4 bad positions our government can take imo.

Tbf, most players have never experienced anything like that. It was a truly bizarre moment. Azpilicueta's statement which was basically "well it's not really my problem, and I didn't even see it" was a shambolic statement from a captain. I definitely agree with @Smiley Culture that the Chelsea players on the pitch share a degree of culpability here, and if not all Chelsea players on the pitch... then definitely the senior players. If it was my club, I'd want Kepa gone along with Azpilicueta and virtually everyone else.

Yeah that sounds fucking shite. Worst that happened like that with my direct family was some fuckers stole my ma's hubcaps, in true Scouse stereotype fashion. They didn't steal my dads , she was so pissed off about that. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE DO WITH STOLEN HUBCAPS, THEY'RE NOT LIKE PARTICULALY USEFUL! Then the police came and put these strange orange replacement hubcaps on her car until she got actual replacements put on. So I thought ours was a bit funny, rather than fucked up like yours.

Two people broke into my uncle's house to burglarise the place... while he, his wife, and his kids were home. They were scared shitless, but the burglars were more scared shitless to see there were people in the home and hightailed it the fuck out of there. I'd be more worried about a murderer or a rapist breaking into the house, but I suppose if you're desperate enough to steal you might be desperate enough to do some very fucked up things to avoid getting caught. And in the North West I think most crimes like that are gangs (especially these famous victims, I suspect) or (for more normal victims and not rich people) a neighborhood junkie or crackhead stealing shit to fence for drugs. Neither of whom you'd want around your family really.

I'd probably just rely on insurance, unless I had some particular one of a kind sentimental type of item. And even then I'd probably still just rely on insurance.

Mental that it’s happened to him twice, wonder if it’s the same group of burglars

I think it'll be a no deal Brexit

that didn't age well

Flying around like Iron Man was really cool, but exactly. Every fight felt pretty much the same.

There is a belief that a lot of people will be hired back and this is a really sloppy reorganisation, with the eSports side of things at least. Idk how true it is and I’m not in the industry I just know 3 people who are. Seems like they all change jobs all the time though - but they’re all developers, not people doing the eSports shite. I don’t know if there’s more in nuance or anything in the different niches in the gaming industry. Axing the cleaning staff, many of whom were around for a very long time though, looks very poor when they’ve made record profits. Taking out the people at the lowest rung when you’re in a position to probably pay the ones who’ve been around forever (and everyone at the company)

I know someone that works at Activision (on the Blizzard side), that’s been sacked from EA (twice!) and Ubisoft. Apparently layoffs and switching jobs suddenly is pretty normal for the gaming industry. This one is kind of interesting because it’s not a lot of developers being laid off. But it’s a lot of the support staff (like the cleaners) and basically 90% of the eSports side of Blizzard has been chopped (I think right after some massive Overwatch tournament too), and a lot of their marketing consultants (if not all of them) have been chopped because they’ll probably go the EA route and hire third party marketing agencies. He’s most surprised about it being layoffs for a developer where it’s not mostly developers getting the sack. He’s honestly most surprised he’s not been sacked

Yeah he’s really been great lately and it’ll be a shame to lose what he gives to our midfield.

So there's some good news and some bad news. Bad news first: Lovren's looking unlikely to be fit by next week's CL clash with Bayern Munich. So we're looking at a CB pairing of Matip and Fabinho with big Virgil suspended. Good news: the Ox had his first training session with the first team. It wasn't a full training session, but still good news.

There’s no solo mode, so you’ll be forced to play with 2 random people. But give it a go still, it surprised me being paired with 2 people that actually played as a team and used the ping system. So far the community has been surprisingly not toxic

Yeah it's free to play like Fortnite. It's kinda like a mix between your average BR game and Overwatch/RS:Siege with the class based teamwork gameplay. The ping system it uses is fantastic though - I've never seen such cohesive team play with randoms that don't have microphones. Highly recommend it, and at the price... there's not a whole lot to lose, you'll either like it or you won't and it didn't cost anything to try.

Has anyone else been playing Apex Legends? I'm thoroughly addicted to it.

Anthem looks shite tbh. Kind of generic Destiny clone - and Destiny is big with people who love Destiny, but most people I know hated the first one and never touched the second one. But then they've also loaded Anthem with microtransactions that are just as expensive as Fortnite microtransactions and even EA's new game Apex Legends (which imo is a great game - I'm a bit annoyed it likely means no Titanfall 3 - but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun with it). I think quite frankly loading a full priced game like that up with microtransactions of the same price as F2P games is outrageous. And then you also have to consider the performance of Anthem in the demo... just right before it's release, so I doubt they fix this anytime soon. But it performed terribly on my Xbox One X - not optimised at all and running at 10 frames per second or less. Honestly with Anthem... I honestly think BioWare have just made a bland game on the heels of the latest Mass Effect, which I didn't play, but sounded like another bland game. How much of that is down to EA's demands on BioWare? I have no idea - they did just twist the production of a game in development into a F2P game that's very different to what the game was intended to be. Honestly though I'm pretty pleased with the new free to play game. But Respawn games have now made 3 games and all of them have been top quality in terms of both gameplay enjoyability and performance... so maybe they're just a good developer that happens to unfortunately be owned by EA.

Apex Legends is not Titanfall at all... but it’s a good game and I like it. It’s refreshing compared to most other BR games out right now imo - the classes work well and the pinging system is good if you’re stuck with randoms. It’s hard as fuck compared to Blackout & PUBG though.

I hope you’re right! I’m not really an optimist in anything in life but it’s nice to be pessimistic and wrong so I hope you’re right

His injury record is terrible though, unfortunately I’m not sure we’ll really be able to rely on him in the long run - both for club and country. Its a shame because he’s been a very excellent defenders this season. Miles better than Lovren and Matip imo. But we’ve got a problem in that all 3 of them are injury prone (and Lovren has the most shite immune system for a professional athlete).

New Titanfall game coming out today that's free to play. I read it doesn't have wall running... or Titans... which are pretty big parts of Titanfall. It's essentially just COD really. I had fun playing the Anthem demo... but I'm probably not going to buy that one because it reminded me a lot of Destiny and I just really wasn't that into Destiny.

Massive loss.

Lol the official scum twitter calls him JLingz , guess they know their market. I’m annoyed United have managed to turn it around; but I must say it’s hilarious that the man who looked so out of his depth at Cardiff can take Mourinho’s super expensive side and completely show up “the special one.” Not that fucking special anymore, I guess

This made my day

Yeah I know it’s not really realistic because we’d be voting for something not negotiated with the EU already. My big issue with Brexit is I think no deal is just an unacceptable option and, in my books, is just something that people who profit off economic collapse want to happen. And those who push for austerity and privitisation of industries (usually the same people though) will be happy. But for most ordinary people living ordinary lives it just makes things unnecessarily complicated. And then the alternative keeps a lot of things substantially the same by keeping us in the single market, but we’d lose our say in EU legislation that would likely still apply to it. And I’m not sure any benefit from not being in the EU would outweigh that loss to our ability to have a say in legislation. But we also had that fuckhead Farage as an MEP not taking his job seriously and just being a twat in the European Parliament, so certain areas of the country didn’t really give a shit about whether we had proper representation in the EU in any case.