toythatkills
Member
I wouldn't know, I don't read the Telegraph. The talk of their commercial interests clashing with their journalistic ones has made them totally irrelevant.
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BritGAF |OT6| Dark Souls? More like Arse Holes
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I wouldn't know, I don't read the Telegraph. The talk of their commercial interests clashing with their journalistic ones has made them totally irrelevant.
GokaiMarvelous
Banned
Thanks for the info, yeah my cousin says its kinda different, so to speak, but since i'm going to move he will help me for the first months. Then will see.
Never been in England i hope i can adapt myself.
SweetDonuts
Member
Hoping this tube strike happens so I can be a lazy ass and work from home
Musha_Soturi
Member
It really is isn't it? I totally loved it, which surprised me because I really thought I wouldn't. Fassbender is just utterly superb though.
Me too.
They're doing a lot of work to the area which is improving it quite a bit from what I see. It's got some fantastic links (DLR, Tubes to nearby Stratford and central London etc.) too so you'll never be stuck for something to do/somewhere to go. The Excel centre is nearby too, if conventions are your thing.
Is there anything specific you'd like to know? I'm on night shifts for the next 3 nights and some of the lads here know there area better than I do so I could always ask them on your behalf.
GokaiMarvelous
Banned
Humm Excel centre looks like Exponor (also about conventions) in my country so yeah i will enjoy Excel centre
How is the cost of live there? My cousin said somethings but the more info the better.
Also i was searching in the internet i saw some news about the lack of safety and other things, it was a few years ago, don't see anything major in recent search.....
Btw how about videogames?? In time i will take my games with me, but i will probably buy a ps4 there. How's videogame stores, they have anything like amazon Uk (prices) ??
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Yup to all this. To be fair, they are all. Maggie "Don't touch my fucking Theremin" Garglehill took me most by surprise.
Ok, cost of living's probably not as expensive in that area as it will be in the next few years, what with the regeneration project that's currently happening. However, it's still North of the river, and quite close to it too, which may push prices up. Crime's on a decline from last year too, it seems, but it's still a little high compared to other areas of London.
Videogame stores are mainly dominated by the franchise GAME. Their prices are a little higher than Amazon and they were in a spot of bother financially a couple of years ago. Another high street option to shop for games/consoles (especially second-hand games) is CEX. Their stock varies from store-to-store but they've had a good supply every time I've gone into one. Amazon seems to corner the market on prices, though.
I might try it out. I'm gonna try tidal too to see if the higher audio quality actually makes a difference.
Reading a book about the Manson Family at the moment. It's unnerving.
Makes you want to go hitch-hiking across America doesn't it?
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
As it should. They are a total disgrace in terms of integrity and are devolving into buzzfeedian shite (Although buzzfeed does do solid journalism, funded by clickbait).
I was really surprised it didn't get more critical buzz, I saw it on release day and expected it to get that nice bubble of excitement but it never came. I like how it handled the mental illness/artistic expression paradigm. Plus the music was weirdly good.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Dislike how it turns the music app UI into a giant clusterfuck advert for streaming and popular music that you can't disable. It basically destroys the simplicity and flow of the original UI that had Songs Artists Albums and Playlists.
Not worth the headache when music recommendations can be gotten for free and done better elsewhere (spotify, pandora, etc.).
Disagree. Spotify is terrible at recommendations ("oh you like this artists song? heres the entire back catalogue recommended, just for you.") Pandora is pretty good but you have to go through a proxy over here in the UK, making it no use for mobile.
Apple music has suggested some oddly specific playlists which I didnt even realise was a genre (indie falsettos was a great one) that fits my taste .Its like the others though, the more you use it the better it gets at suggestions.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Stopped reading there.
Btw, Does Kerrang Radio ever play anything else apart from Enter Shikari? They had Torn Apart on like 5 times every day.
EDIT: I tell a lie, they also play Royal Blood.
CyclopsRock
Member
I once had Spotify tell me that, because I like the Ben Folds Five, maybe I've like Ben Folds. Yeah, maybe!
As far as I can tell, nothing impresses you
maybe if we were talking about the new FFXIV expansion I'd say how impressed I was but alas. Which makes me even saltier about Apple Music because the soundtrack is on itunes but not Apple Music
((((((((((I guess I'll check out these electronic playlists it's giving me on the bus home.
broadwayrock
Member
The BFI have uploaded a load of old film footage of Britain for free:
http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/
enter your location and watch your town in ye olde times. None of the footage ive watched has any sound though :/.
http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/
enter your location and watch your town in ye olde times. None of the footage ive watched has any sound though :/.
Why is it that the only girls' band t shirts you can get are for 'those kind' of heavy bands.
All I want is a Torche t shirt! Or a kylesa one! Even baroness! Or red fang! But noooooo girls only like fall out boy, asking alexandria and that kind of shite
Thank you.
True. But also google image search doesn't mean purchasable from shop.
I found alternatives. Basically endless Mastodon shirts, a nirvana shirt of that smiley face but a take the piss version that says banana instead, some skinny jeans
and some fancy Yohji Yamamoto x Adidas shoes.
I've lost a stone you see! 😎
Musha_Soturi
Member
Yeeeeesssssssssss she was awesome. I've got a lot of love for Maggie anyway thanks to Secretary but she was so badass.
True story: I've always wanted a theremin. I don't know why I haven't bought myself one yet.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Because they're flicking expensive. I had a handheld one. It was shite.
True Story: I've always wanted a papier-mâché head.
toythatkills
Member
For your mantelpiece, or like, your shoulders?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
dapperbandit
Banned
How to get ahead in advertising
great movie
great movie
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
On it, boss.
I have discovered the joys of playing the same 5 songs from Songs For The Deaf on my guitar over and over and over and over again. I really want to get a better amp and find a band somewhere that just wants to play stoner met. Also rhythm guitar for life. I'm so over lead.
Nintendo made a Super Mario mural in Shoreditch. I guess you could check it out if you're in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDSM3UU62F4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDSM3UU62F4&feature=youtu.be
Musha_Soturi
Member
I could make you one. I'm a whizz with papier-mâché. I made a Jabba the Hutt for my Star Wars birthday party.
I can vouch for the skills, it was an impressive Jabba. The Tony Harrison head from Mighty Boosh was another favourite of your creations.
Some crappy murals have been painted at the end of my road.
It's almost made me consider taking up graffiti.
GokaiMarvelous
Banned
Always thought the the online market was almost the same as the local market in England...
Thanks for the info, i guess now i just in anticipation for when i go there.
In September i will do a update.
I saw Genisysys last night, enjoyed it a lot.
Its dumb and cheesy like the old films and has plenty of nods to them (even duplicating scenes down to the minutia, which was cool). It never felt bloated plot wise and the Terminator fights were awesome.
Its not a masterpiece but I don't understand the bad reviews its getting
Its dumb and cheesy like the old films and has plenty of nods to them (even duplicating scenes down to the minutia, which was cool). It never felt bloated plot wise and the Terminator fights were awesome.
Its not a masterpiece but I don't understand the bad reviews its getting
show me your skeleton
Member
not even the adorablé emilia clarke('s eyebrows) can make me go see that fetid corpse of a film.
You're part of the problem. Haven't even seen it and judging it already. For shame.
CyclopsRock
Member
Ya'll may have talked about this, but does anyone else really get annoyed at that Volvo advert on the radio that talks about the car (V40) being all lovely and that, and then at the end says "Plus we sell it super cheap with loads of finance available, so it's tuned for the British economy too!" Fuck off, man. I know Volvo are Swedish and everything in Sweden is all milk and money and that, but it ain't 2008 any more. We have higher GDP growth and lower unemployment and very comparable household income, so go suck a nut, Volvo.
dapperbandit
Banned
Who knew volvo could inspire such rage?
That's like having a bitter hatred of any and all hot air balloon passengers.
That's like having a bitter hatred of any and all hot air balloon passengers.
JonathanEx
Member
Is that the annoying one about Brits love a double act, like... Dec and Ant? HAHAHA WE'RE SO FUNNY no fuck off it wasn't funny two weeks ago and still isn't
try MixRadio - I used to work there and although you can't stream full tracks, it does recomendation stuff really well - but it is a radio like service, so you can't see what tracks are coming up until they play.
Apple music seems pretty limited in learning what I like, but maybe I haven't given it long enough yet.
CyclopsRock
Member
That's the one. And his almost-British-but-slightly-foreign-Scandanavian-snoot-bag voice is annoying too.
I mean, it's no Selco advert, is it? IT'S WHERE THE TRADE GOES!