Chindie

Every time I see this topic title I think it should be the header on a letter to a local newspaper and signed 'Outraged, of Abingdon' or something.

The difference however would be that there are figures showing a remarkable correlation between Brexit and racist/xenophobic and even homophobic incidents. Correlation does not imply causation of course, but it seems likely the Brexit campaign and result emboldened the words removed who think this utter horse shit to act on it.

Not sure what the aim here is. Is neither funny nor catching.

I think the action problem is all down to the character of Cage and who he's taking on. Daredevil is in essence a ninja with a boxer's mindset and his fight style is interesting because of it. He fights hand to hand with anger and a little grace, and occasionally more elaborate moves. The second series exacerbates that with his new enemies. Cage is just a brawler with super strength fighting gang bangers with pistols. Every fight is him shrugging off bullets, because thats his special thing, and then completely plainly hitting someone or throwing them flying. Theres no drama to way he fights, he doesn't get hurt and he doesn't need any finesse because he's so strong and so invulnerable he doesn't need to be flashy. At first it's fun, almost funny, to see this enormous black fella walk towards a firing machine gun and then nonchalantly smack him across the room, but it quickly becomes pretty dull. It's an odd series. I've still not finished it, and it's bad at all. But it's all too boring. Slow and it doesn't have the engaging elements of the previous series - Daredevil's origin, Kingpin, the intrigue and sheer... skin crawling-ness of Kilgrave, the great performance of the Punisher... Cottonmouth is just another gangster (they try to develop more but they don't have the time and they smash every revelation of his character into 10 minutes of flashback in 1 episode), Mariah is just a corrupt politician, etc etc. Theres not enough to grab you. And then it pulls a move that immediately stinks of the writers going 'we can't do many more episodes like this, we have to do this' and it's all too dumb an answer to a genuine problem the character of Cage has, but theres 40 years of comics to rip better ideas than that from... It's not bad, it's still better than Arrow or Agents of Shield and so on, but it's clearly 4th in the Netflix Marvel run so far.

Former Polish Finance Minister thinks Hard Brexit is the easy political option I think thats a good article. And worrying. May's Great Leap Forward Cheering up your Tuesday evening.

You'd think so. My route home has a couple of areas where a vast breaking down or having an accident will bring everything to a halt miles away. Which has actually happened twice in the last couple of months. Tonight though? Even worse than that. Traffic backed up further than ever, moving slower than ever. And then I crossed a junction and nothing. Usually you'd see something that caused it. Even the traffic across the junction was fine. Checking the usual traffic sites they just call it congestion. It's an open secret the council wants to discourage cars in the city centre and are going to manufacture congestion to do it. Methinks they fiddled with the traffic lights to give it a go. Utter words removed.

40 minutes to drive less than less than a mile out of the city centre tonight. For no **** reason at all.

For an idea of the Tory viewpoint in imports...

The show's in love with its setting. Harlem is thet has going for it so they double down on it. Still not finished the series myself, which is unusual for me with anything Marvel. It's just not as engaging as the other series. There's some intrigue in its villains, but not as much Daredevil series 1 or Jessica Jones, and this Luke is a really fairly boring as a character. There's good stuff in there, but it's fleeting, and otherwise it's a slow jaunt through Harlem. I'd hoped for more.

Hamilton is one of the least likeable people in sport.

Off topic so best not continue here, but I think that's quite a rosy look at things. My job these days gets me updates from very large organisations on the impact of leaving and let's say their outlook is largely set to 'not good'. Only this week a large group of businesses has petitioned the government to not 'hard Brexit'. Anywho... UKIP. Tearing itself apart. Glorious to see.

'White working class males' give as much of a **** about an anti-Semitism inquiry as they do the results of the Woking WI jam making competition.

Sigourney Weaver is the villain in the Defenders. That's a helluva curve ball.

Iron First New York.Comic Con trailer. Only really a hint of what should be an awesome character for action sequences. They haven't done my preferred 'look' for the character there at all seemingly, even down to the look of his power (though there they went with my second choice more or less). I hope we get the Bruce Lee esque Aja style suit, or at the very least the mask/bandana thing.

The Northern Ireland situation is going to be a complete car crash. As for red lines... Great. But the people we're negotiating with do too. And I'm willing to bet those lines will clash. My criticism of a Swiss deal was mostly that it would be a completely ludicrous result. The Swiss deal is more or less the same as being a member, but they have a veneer of distance from being a member. The main treaty they signed pretty much ties them to adhering to all EU law or the agreement ends. Pretty much nothing would have changed for years of negotiating and significant financial uncertainty. However based on going back to WTO standards it would be a **** gift from the gods. The next few years are going to be a **** mess.

I've been following D1s updates with interest as I'm intrigued by this. Never played the series but there's an interest to me in a more realistic dramatic take on a GTA game. But watching some of the footage about... Wow there's something weird about the way this game looks. The lighting often appears excessively stark and seems to leech the detail from the world, not helped by a hazy sepia tone washed over everything. The structure also feels bizarre, to the extent it kinda feels like the open world is an afterthought. Unless it smashes it out of the park on impressions i think this might be a wait for a sale one...

Sorry, it's better for the consumer because... Er... You can make a thin phone marginally thinner. And er... You can use the extra space to remove an actual button and replace it with something that fakes being a real button. Um. And everyone needs to approach audiophile quality sound quality from a portable product that will largely be used in less than ideal circumstances for sound quality. And er... Wires suck you know. I'd much rather rely on inconsistent connection quality over Bluetooth and have to have something else to charge. Utterly, utterly stupid idea.

Diane Abbott is underqualified to be Shadow Minster of Pisspot Nothing. She's got the job for being one of the few loyal to Corbyn, and that's about it. Asides from perhaps their other historical connections. Ahem.

If we walk away from negotiations with a Swiss deal I hope the inevitable photos go down alongside the infamous Chamberlain picture.

They're doing a VR mission for Battlefront I think so that could be a demo for something like a VR Rogue Squadron, essentially. But probably not.

Hunted is always fun. I'm convinced the show has basically just spent 15mins pointedly providing evidence one of the contestants is a slightly autistic loner who somehow happens to have a family. Which makes the fact they failed to catch him so far (admittedly with a very dodgy fudge In the first episode where they effectively let him go IMO) even more damning. On the other hand, the show seems to prove that, if ever you go on the run for whatever reason, it helps if you've got no connections to anything. Friends and kids are what get these guys caught.

Ignoring the rod and line, Judaism =/= Israel.

If they actually did Flashpoint it might be worth watching. Alternative universe caused by Barry trying to alter the timeline by saving his mother, including Batman's dad being a very angry very violent vengeful Batman? Weird WW3 Europe ravaged by conflict between Atlantis and the Amazon's, etc etc. That'd be interesting. Instead they'll just do the same thing they've already done. The Speedsters are a result of the Flash's powers putting writers into a corner. He's too powerful. He can beat every DC character without breaking a sweat. So they do the 'doppelganger' enemy thing. Which every single superhero ever has done and usually they're some of the best villains in their roster. Unfortunately with the Flash, he's got about 6 enemies that are doppelgangers. I don't bother with Agents of Shield. There's absolutely nothing in that show worthwhile.

This series is allegedly based on the Flashpoint storyline from the comics. It won't actually do much from that story because, in essence, it can't. Thankfully the last series of Arrow was so dull I've given up watching any of these shows. There's some things to admire in them but the problems got too much. There's only so many other Speedsters I can take before the Flash becomes an incredibly dull watch. Arrow has descended into shit consistently for too long to bother with, Legends of Tomorrow was shit and Supergirl you couldn't pay me enough to watch.