Ireland have always been on the edge of legality in terms of holding on too long after a tackle and interfering at the breakdown. They have been doing it for years but referees have only just started pinging them for it. Berry was all over it last night and it prevented them gaining any momentum.
There’s a theory that the boneless person who is just skin, with a pained expression on his face, in the Sistine Chapel is a self-portrait of Michaelangelo. He painted it under extremely challenging circumstances at one point the Pope beat him with a switch because it was taking too long in his opinion.
I think he’s just good at self-promotion through coming out with these provocative - and completely arbitrary - takes to stay in the media.
I guess a silver lining here is that he must be good at negotiating if he managed to free that monster.
31, assume the same
I’m also from the UK but from what I could tell at least Pete has some personality. Kamala ran as the establishment manifested in human form, clumsily avoiding questions or policy details in media appearances. She was polling at 4% of popularity amongst democrat voters during the 2020 primaries. I think those factors were more influential than her being a woman,
I think Pete Butigeg would have been a stronger candidate.
Kamala’s personality of being a “career politician” combined with her being somewhat clumsy in interviews and public appearances was more of an issue than their policy platform imo. She was like the establishment manifested in an individual.
The Trump phenomena - both times - reminds me of the Brexit vote here in the UK where people didn’t care how crazy or self-damaging the alternative option was due to their visceral hatred of the establishment and elites.
I would be more concerned if he were less stupid. Going by his last presidency he’ll spend half his time golfing and the rest driving through ineffective “red meat” policies to get attention from his base. Ultimately he’s just a pathetic man who craves attention.
What concerns me more is that his destruction of political norms means that someone who is similarly evil - but actually capable - might be able to use him as a template to take power in the future and make America into a dictatorship. Someone like Xi Jinping as opposed to an aging B-list celebrity.
Ironically if she’d chosen Shapiro as a running mate then she’d have had a better chance of holding PA. However reports at the time suggested she didn’t want to risk upsetting the left by choosing a Jewish running mate.
Yeah the Manjaro devs have a long history of gaffes not to mention the infamous one with PGP keys requiring users to reset their system clock
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Persona 3 OST for me
A lot of what makes Hereditary so good is the references to earlier films like Rosemary’s Baby. Horror is a genre that is in a constant dialogue with itself, and often horror films either subvert or adhere to what has come before.
I’m so happy that the franchise is alive and well. We’re even getting both the Western and Japanese takes on the series at the same time.
Back when I was a kid they had all of the VHS movies at the counter of my local video rental and I rented a new one each week. Eventually got a copy of Destroy All Monsters and watched that obsessively too.
The Substance might be the best film according to the critical/audience consensus. Personally did think it was very good but I might have enjoyed Alien Romulus more subjectively as a big fan of that franchise.
Longlegs was style over substance for me. I think it does tell quite an engaging story about childhood trauma but the dialogue in the 2nd half does a lot of undermine all the good build up.
So the official sources say this poor gentleman had passed out in the street, then got decapitated by a passing coach which pulled his head off via the wheel arch.
I was hearing earlier rumours on whatsapp that criminals had thrown the head from a moving car in order to send a warning about drug debts… seemed far fetched even if Dumbiedykes is just down the road.
Uncensored images of both the head and the headless corpse are doing the rounds on snapchat. Also CCTV footage of a group of drunk people who appear to play with the head by picking it up, and then one of their party “teabagging” it. Reminded me of Tropic Thunder when Steve Coogan’s character dies but the other characters all think it’s a prank.
Edit: added missing “the head”; clarification
Still Wakes The Deep was a fun Lovecraftian horror from this year. Unique setting on a North Sea oil rig with an authentic Scottish cast. Also didn’t overstay its welcome at roughly 4 hours length; I believe it’s on GamePass.
Yeah pretty much agree, would just say “drugs” as a catch-all here.
Had to scroll quite far down to find a non-wholesome answer! Everyone else is enjoying being a parent or whatever.