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We've already got Turkey and Saffrica booked for this year, plus all the little impromptu getaways we do, so that's covered. The one thing she's always said is that when she graduates, she wants to crack open a bottle of JC Leroux which is a Saffrican champagne, so I might book a table at the Bluebird in Chelsea and ask them to open a bottle at the table. Basically I'm proud as fuck of her and want this to be a memory she cherishes forever. Cheers for the suggestions, keep 'em coming ❤️

Unpinned, hopefully never to be needed again 🙂

My company's dropping hints at job prospects around Leeds. Chatted to Kyla a bit about it and she's open to it too. Looked at houses around Leeds on Zoopla and whatnot, we can basically get a massive house with garden, garage, etc for the price of a 1 bed flat here in London. Dunno where to look though, any places in particular we should look at / avoid? We'll prolly book a few days off soon and drive up for a long weekend to have a mooch, I'll light the batsignal at the time in case anyone's up for a beer 🙂

Kyla's wrapping up her degree soon, it took her 6 years to get to this point so I want to do something truly special for her. Any ideas? Cheers 🙂

Destiny has many reasons for me stopping playing it, the blatant cash grabs, the incessant content recycling, the bullshit metas, the fact they killed PVP, etc. None of these are reason enough for me to quit, but when added together it just ruins the game for me. That being said, when the game lies to my face about not having enough console players abd forcing me to be cannon fodder to pc players, it's shooting itself in the head. It actually irritates me no end, there are two possible outcomes here: one is that there genuinely aren't enough console players, which is a problem that very coincidentally came in to existence a week or so after cross play was enabled, or they're forcing us to play with the PC crowd because it's another income stream for them. Destiny has always been one of those games which lives permanently on the line of how-far-can-we-push-before-they-fuck-us-off, but the crossplay thing was the nail in the coffin for me. Don't lie to your customers, they'd have a lot more respect if they just said "look, we want that sweet sweet dolla from the PC players but it's not really taking off that well because on PC, Destiny is a substandard game. So we're gonna add in 10 min waiting times when playing on console, these can be skipped by turning on cross play. Oh and the new DLC is £60 pls, and have you seen the latest stuff for sale for silver?".

5/5, would do again.

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Hmmmm, all I'm seeing here is Bots'R'Us. Prove me wrong.

Happy Birthday Sarah, I hope you and Batman hae an awesome day together ❤️

Your OCD is about as mild as my tree felling addiction.

People spent money on a chick's bathwater for fuck sakes.

Oh wow, is it La's birthday today? Epic, has her voice broken yet? Happy Birthday La, hope Carl's treating you like the princess you are ❤️

I just completed this quiz. My Score 56/100 My Time 139 seconds  

Fuck me that film irritated me so much that I'm still thinking about it. Naturally I need to confirm my opinion by finding other people with similar opinions, which are all on IMDB. I thought I'd give twitter a go, and it's full of praise for the film confirming even more that Twitter is full of people who probably shouldn't be allowed shoelaces.

I've no idea what possessed me to watch a Michael Bay film, perhaps a bit of hope and a trailer that made it look pretty decent and it's got Jake Gyllenhaal in it. What I got in return was a set of action pieces which were clearly made beforehand and then the rest of the film scribbled around them to try and make it work. The camera tricks were absolutely fucking pathetic and seemed like more of a look-what-we-can-do thing than a let's-make-a-good-film thing, it had scenes in it which went beyond making no sense and full speed in to intelligence insulting territory, many of which were completely and utterly pointless and served zero purpose for the story, the characters or anything. There are little camera angles throughout the 30 minutes we lasted that were clearly trying to create drama but just fell flat on their arse, the characters may as well have been cardboard cutouts and whilst I appreciate a good car as much as the next guy, not every single character in the film needs to drive a GTR or a Mustang or a classic Bronco. I have to hand it to him, if he wanted to create quite possibly one of the worst films ever, he's achieved that with alarming success. It's so shit that even a 0/10 wouldn't do it justice. It actually irritated me, that's how stupid it must think its viewers are. On the other hand we watched Moonfall. On paper a ridiculous premise, in practice it was actually quite good, but ho-lee-fuck do they drag it out. The film could've been half the length and been great, but they dragged it on and on and on so that when we got to the they-all-live-happily-ever-after phase of the film, I just turned it off for fear of having to watch another 30 minutes of it. Such a shame as it had some serious potential early on. Still, it didn't treat us like idiots and that alone scores it a 6/10.

I'll never touch another From Software game again. I played Bloodborne for a bit and hated it. I sucked absolute donkeyballs at it which of course is no indication of my skill but rather that it's a shit game. I'm far too stupid for these things 😞 The Let Me Solo Her story was absolutely fantastic though.

Nobody would've even entertained this idea. It's a very niche market, their company was worth fuck all and their total employees was 50. This will be a massaged number and will likely include people they employed on Fiverr.com at some point to create a logo. Anyone with a bit of cash could start up a company better than them with the cash in their sofa, so the risk of spending a million quid or whatever to purchase a company which has committed suicide on social media is such a high risk that not even the highest risk merger broker would consider it.

Once these people get that lifestyle and hang with others who have the same lifestyle, there's no going back. Too much pride on the line, they'll go bankrupt before they go to Aldi. My boss was absolutely dripping in money, he wasn't a showy guy but he wore Tom Ford shoes and bought a new pair every two months almost to the day. It was one of his things. I googled them - £1500 a pop. We moved him in to his new country house, he bought a new mattress, never heard of the brand before. Googled it - £16k. For a mattress. His mum was based in Lucern but came to London now and then to see the grankids. He bought her a little London pad, one bedroom place in Chelsea, £5m. His coffee machine at home? £12k. I can go on, but you get the idea. It was absolutely mental. I always used to think I wanted that kind of money but these people have no appreciation for anything. Nothing at all. I bought myself a scooter recently and I absolutely love the thing, it's my baby. To these people it's just another purchase. His second private jet was just another purchase too, I think he picked the colour and interior options and his PA bought it for him. To him it was like buying a washing machine. Oh he also had a 1956 Porsche 356 sitting under a tarp at work. It was his dad's car so had some sentimental value, but it was just sitting there rotting away. Here's a rough idea of what they're worth. Being loaded isn't what people think, yes they can have whatever they want but they have massive problems too, albeit very different to ours.

Yay, another CoD. I can barely contain my excitement.

It's Gary, when he posts and opinion of a movie / TV show, the complete opposite is true 😂

Very, very easily. I could spend $50m in a day, once you see how rich people spend money it changes your outlook on life. Apart from the usual yachts / private jets / all that nonsense there's the daily stuff. When income increases, so does the cost of outgoings. We spend a couple of quid on bread and milk, they spend £15 on the same because it's all organic fresh fairtrade blablabla that's bought in by the staff, not them. I spent two years working directly for a chap worth £5b. Yes, billion with a B. The stories I could tell you would blow your mind. Here's one - I was chatting to his PA one day who was flapping around the office as if the world was collapsing. I asked her what was up and she told me he missed his flight. I didn't understand how this could be such a drama so simply asked if she couldn't book him a new flight, just ring BA or whatever. How wrong was I. He had a slot booked for his own private jet at the airport. The jet was on the tarmac ready to go, fully fuelled, pilot and crew on board, food and drink, the lot. The slot cost £15k and it was a 15 minute slot. This means that ATC is on standby for 15 minutes and he owns the runway for that duration. He missed his slot which meant he had to pay another £15k to the airport for a new one, which wasn't available, so he had to buy a slot from someone else for £50k. Yes, there are people out there who book slots with no intention of flying just so they can profit off this kind of thing. He shrugged this off as I would putting out half a fag. It was absolutely nothing to him, pocket change. That's how these people work, money is absolutely not on their radar at all.

Tonight then. I've got it installed and ready to go. Need to drag @techno in to it too.