OV9

I know it's not viewed as proper chocolate, but I do like a Terry's chocolate orange

In the same way that I like a good quality burger, but on occasion I also like a dirty burger from a van or a McDonald's

Alien Romulus

Hey guys! I've had a great idea:

Why don't we remake the first Alien film, but with teenagers instead of proper people?

It would be great if we could get Millie Bobbie Brown to star in it, but if she's too expensive, just find someone who looks a bit like her

That'd be great ...

Jobbo wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:16 am Oh surprise, Mandy is gone.

Again

Apparently the shooter is still at large.. what were all those good guys with guns doing!??


This was my first thought too

If all these open carry, 2nd amendment, assault rifle owning, MAGA loons can't protect one of their own, then it rather makes a mockery oh the whole "good guy with a gun ...

Insane

Just watching The Rest is Politics podcast discussing this

The KinGrinder always seems to be continually sold out everywhere

Funnily enough, I tend to drive relatively slowly on French motorways, tending to cruise at about 70mph

After a long stretch and a fill up, the car indicated an expected range of 515 miles!

And that was after about 60 miles of driving

Not bad for an 11 year old, 3.4 litre flat six

Just back from a lovely two weeks in France, and thought it might be worth sharing the experience

Basically, we had two weeks, one week with my family in a lovely house that we've stayed in a few times before in a little place called St Geniez d'Olt, then a second week just Helen and me, doing a ...

dinny_g wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:05 pm Trump decides on a whim he’d like to go to the Tennis final.

Causes chaos - extra security for fans. Final delayed will probably start with half full arena. People missing it etc.

Utter twat

Apparently TV companies have been told to not broadcast any booing that may happen...

There are just some 'suspension of disbelief' things I find harder to swallow

And a train that continually navigates a totally frozen earth, on which there are haves and have-nots (for some reason the haves decided to include the latter) is just daft IMO

One of those films where I kind of hoped ...

RobYob wrote: Sat Sep 06, 2025 4:46 am

DaveE wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:40 pm Snowpiercer

To clarify, the movie not the TV series

In a nut shell, who green-lights this kind of utter bollocks?!

The Chris Evans one? I quite enjoyed it. The carriage assault in the dark sequence was very well done.

That's the one, thought it was absolute twaddle

Snowpiercer

To clarify, the movie not the TV series

In a nut shell, who green-lights this kind of utter bollocks?!

I had a pair of the Sennheiser HD25s that were the in-flight headphones on Concorde (they came with a letter of authenticity as well)

They're not all that rare and still come up for auction on eBay etc

I gave them to my nephew who's obsessed with flying though

A bit worrying that someone who's about to go out on track can't tell the difference between two pedals

We're in SW France for the next two weeks, an inconsequential little village that we've visited twice before

Stayed overnight on Orleans to break the drive (really lovely place, not visited before)

Then a 5 hour drive today (an easy 4 hours on the motorway) then an hour blasting across country on ...

The Gold

Drama on iPlayer about the Brinks Mat robbery in the early 80s (which I vividly remember)

Really good

The Assassin

Just finished this and enjoyed it, in a kind of brain out way

"The biggest asset for Tesla is Musk, the board need to do this, and I believe it's a huge step forward."

He added that during the "AI arms race", the firm could not afford to have Musk only "semi-committed".

Rinse and repeat for each of his businesses?

"The biggest asset for [SpaceX, X AI ...

We've got decent fibre from Virgin, my issue is getting decent speeds throughout the house WiFi

We have the original Google Nest mesh system with a few access points spread throughout the house

I never get close to my broadband speeds though

I've tried several different mesh systems and none of ...

My first thought when I saw that golf video was "Why the fuck did they cut it there?"

There's no evidence of cheating in that video

A caddy drops a ball (don't know if it was his caddy, or what happened to the ball)

The clip needed to show Trump playing that ball

Why are people so dumb? :)