Bash

With enough fog, you can run Crysis on that

You're so right, Gus. What a weird, silly, wonderful movie. And as taglines go, there can be only one is hard to beat

There was more than I'd have liked, but we got it out I think. Gonna spray with fungicide, allow to dry, then re-build with more appropriate, breathable materials. Old houses are fun!

A hole in a wall, revealing some vintage cinema seats. The masonry/rock wall that stands to the right was the source of water ingress - and cement render gave the water nowhere else to go except into the stud wall, where plasterboard, gypsum plaster and PIR board kept the water within. The rot was inevitable.

We decided on swift and decisive action. You can't really clean dry rot, you kinda have to remove it in this situation. This is looking in the other direction, once I'd spent the afternoon tearing down the wall.

The white stuff is insulation, the... living stuff... Is mould

A bit of plasterboard peeled back to reveal an expanse of mould, filling the gap in the stud wall. A textbook example of how inappropriate materials in period houses can propogate that most dreaded of things - dry rot

Some days you eat the bar, some days the bar eats you

Turns out the Very Cool People were also queuing to do coke in the loos at the cat and mutton, hindsight is a wonderful thing, right?

Heh, I moved to London Fields/mare st in 2006 and though I moved in circles of cool/party-centric friends, feeling like an extra to the main plot is such a good way of putting it. There were Very Cool People doing Very Cool Things, over there, just out of reach

That makes sense. Also, emotionally, if you don't live in a house I bet you'd be more willing to leverage more debt against it to buy another

Here's a thought. When the companies go bust, they'll be liquidated of course. But the crypto can be offshored immediately, right? So the creditors get what's left of the company assets (effectively, fuck all) and the directors get what remains of the crypto value, away from debt recovery

Was it an Indian call centre? I'm wondering if it's just a little tic that's part of Indian English, I noticed similar the other day. Also some of the younger Indian commentators on tms use perfect more then I'd expect. Love hearing the little differences of such a widely spoken language

It's something only really, really right wing people say too. Generally ones who've had their brains cooked online

Oo I missed that when I last went. Oh well, what a shame, seems I've got to go again

Yeah they're really small though, literally come out of bottles

He's been a maga fanatic for years, I think. Not a very nice man

They're trying really hard to put green tech back in the bottle, if it helps

We're still living through the whispered baby voice era for female artists, and it's driving me slightly insane

There's not enough emphasis on the obvious fact that humanity has always been, at it's heart, deeply, deeply silly

To be fair, I once saw a horse nearly throw its rider because it got surprised by a gap in the hedge

Apocalypse now then, now then (sorry, a million times sorry)

I've got so, so much love for siraj, and as much as it's sad not to win the game and the series I'm properly stoked for him.

Of course not. It's what's unsaid in that sentiment that's pertinent: "I quite like what he did to all the people I also don't like"

Oh god, I've seen that repeated again and again. "Nice Mr H didn't want to invade Britain, we should have stayed neutral, we'd have kept our empire" etc etc.

The class system invented racism when it ran out of poor people to exploit in Britain

Player of the series for me. He's just unstoppable, full of energy and passion. Saying this as an Englishman - siraj deserves the win this morning.

Ahhh you don't see too many open coachways these days, that's lovely

Am I the only one who thought The Creator was really quite rubbish? I keep seeing people speak highly of it, and it really ought to be a film that's right up my street. But it wasn't.

Also, people have always loved to other people. It's just the digital age allows them to do it at scale, which appears to have consequences

Looking at covid and the highly online nature of the time, and how utter nonsense became truth for so many people so quickly - I think people are just really suggestible, especially via mediums that have just evolved fast faster than we can adapt to.

I'm almost as clueless as the rest of you, but I am assured - fervently - that she possesses boobs. The media is very clear on this.