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[Frumple]

Eh. Ask yourself which would be easier for a nation to survive without: News or sex?

People being more concerned about the latter isn't exactly odd. Stuff's more important to most people than God, in practice, and porn is like its fancy proselytizing pamphlet or somethin'. People care, y'know?

[Frumple]

Hey, don't blame us when your lot was probably the one inviting them. Threshold does no good if you open the door and welcome the populismpire inside.

[Sirus]

Indeed. Tories have been around long before Trump started making noises about being the President, and Brexit happened years ago. Take responsibility for your own brands of idiocy.

[TD1]

Oh, please. "Tories are the reason the world is falling apart." Pffff.

Actually, may as well edit this in here. I have recently discovered (been told?) that I'm an ignorant populist far right extremist.
An awful lot of words in there for little-old-ignorant me to understand, alas. WTH 4 da thay.

[hector13]

They definitely ain’t keeping it together, anyways.

Heck, they aren’t even all pulling in the same direction.

[TD1]

And the same isn't true of.... everyone else?

[Il Palazzo]

Indeed. Tories have been around long before Trump started making noises about being the President, and Brexit happened years ago. Take responsibility for your own brands of idiocy.

Yeah, but the Tories weren't *this* fucking dumb.

It's like Brexit happened, and they went "Right, close the doors to Europe. Oh hey, America..."

What now? Brexit had already happened?

[Kagus]

Got a bit of that in Norway too. Sylvi Listhaug, the hilarious former Minister of Immigration and Integration (who, within a week of being appointed the job, publicly said "I have to lock my children in at night; it's not safe to be outside with all these immigrants around!") has, after being sacked due to parliament passing a vote of no confidence (when she went full retard on Facebook claiming that Labor was too busy preserving the rights of terrorists to put anything towards protecting Norwegian citizens, coincidentally on the premiere of a film about the victims of the July 22nd attacks in Norway which targeted Labor youths), come out and said "Nothing I have said or posted has been untrue". This was primarily concerning other statements of hers, about how the lefties had "suddenly evacuated and shut down" a nursing home, "leaving its residents shocked and in tears, so that they could repurpose the building to house even more criminal romani beggars".

The move was actually a transferring of the residents to new accommodations, since the old building did not fulfill the requirement of having a private toilet for every resident room.


Listhaug's a funny girl. Like back during the heat of the Syrian refugee crisis; when she took a boat out offshore a bit, suited up in an inflatable water rescue suit, was lowered into the water, sat there for a few minutes, then got hoisted back up into the boat.

Whereupon, she said "I now have a deeper understanding of and empathy for the trials faced by refugees making the water crossing".

[hector13]

And the same isn't true of.... everyone else?

One would hope that after 8 years of being in government they’d have some idea of how to do it

In other WTF news, I saw the new Tomb Raider movie. Thoughts on why it’s awful and spoilers below:

Spoiler: long (click to show/hide)

Wasn’t rightly paying that much attention to the movie, but two major things stand out as bad, among three more minor things.

Early doors Lara gets arrested for... not really doing anything. Long story short, she crashes her bicycle into a police car that pulled up and stopped quite suddenly into the middle of a junction, so it was their fault.

Some woman comes to rescue her, telling her that she has to sign forms for her dad’s inheritance, who has (presumably, since they don’t actually say) been declared dead since he’s been missing for seven years. She somehow figures out a puzzle box while absently messing about with it, distracting her from signing the forms apparently, and revealing the next step in the puzzle, which again she figures out with little thought (artistic license I guess)

This reveals some secret research her dad had been doing on scary Japanese woman, which he tells her in a video recording to burn in order to keep it out the hands of Scary Organisation.

Obviously she goes through the research instead, taking it with her to the place daddy thinks it points. However she needs cash. She takes the necklace her dad gave her, apparently made from Jade or something, to a pawn shop. She gets offered 10k for it, then manages to negotiate herself down to 8k, and accepts this turn of events, because it’s apparently the only pawn shop in London.

She goes to secret island daddy figured out in research and immediately gets captured by Secret Organisation, who tells her she can’t get off the island. Cue her being told that some of the other prisoners on the island were brought there by smugglers.

She escapes from them, purely so she can find daddy living in the island, who she was told was dead by big bad guy. He faked his death or something, to keep the Secret Organisation from finding the scary Japanese woman corpse. Unhappy to find out Lara has brought research to island.

They decide to attack the Secret Organisation camp for the satellite phone, they win but for some bloody stupid reason she doesn’t kill big bad guy when given the opportunity, instead allowing him to threaten daddy in order to open the Japanese lady’s tomb.

They do, what follows is Last Crusade puzzles, her dad dies but tells Lara to keep the bad guy from leaving ‘cause he has a sample of the incredibly potent disease the Japanese lady had.

Big bad guy is on a ladder over a chasm, she jumps out in front of him, kicks him back away from the exit and PROCEEDS TO FOLLOW HIM BACK INSTEAD OF JUMPING BACK TOWARD THE ENTRANCE AND KICKING THE LADDER AWAY. She proceeds to fight a bit, THEN kick the ladder away so neither of them can leave. She gets beat up, baddie has her in a position he should really just kill her from, but for some reason ticks about and gets distracted by a big explosion Lara’s dad causes, and then gets kicked into the chasm because THIS IS SPARTA. Lara escapes the crumbling tomb by leaping across with a convenient climbing hook thing.

She signs the forms at from earlier, now owning her dad’s company. She figures out that one of the company’s she now owns was controlling big bad guy, and it is revealed that the woman who wanted Lara to sign the forms from earlier in the film was the true big bad guy, and oh noes Lara has signed power of attorney to this woman, as though it can’t be revoked or anything like that.

The form needs to be notarized, as well as have two witnesses sign it. Quite the feat when there were only three people on the room, including Lara. Fucking movie man.

[scriver]

How did the actress do? I like her a lot from her work here in Sweden. Hoping she might get established internationally.

[Tack]

All I know is whoever wins a trade war, Australia loses.
But at the same time, killing our mining industry would be a roughshod way to encourage some sustainability.

[smjjames]

HYS?

I've seen a few references to a bunch of rebel Tories pushing for a very soft Brexit or even a no Brexit as thats becoming more of a possibility. So, anything could happen I guess.

[Rose]

So would you describe those flags as being... red?

[Dunamisdeos]

Take your flags and

[Rolan7]

Streamer Slowbeef had a great anecdote about a programmer who heard "don't use magic numbers", so made #define's for the numbers 0-20.
An old C programmer with seniority, even.