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UK/R.O.I GAF - Thread of geopolitical confusion
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What about reading on the move, do you fit a big ass ipad in your jeans pocket ?
Do you walk around carrying a backpack looking like a student ?
wtf?
I don't read on the move. If I did though, I'd probably use my iPhone given the awesome iBooks syncing my bookmarks and everything.
MarkMclovin
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I would rather read a black & white comic on a Kindle, than read it in colour on ANY backlit device, no matter what size.
I wish I could get access to Marvel comics on the Kindle. I'd bite my left arm off for it.
I wish I could get access to Marvel comics on the Kindle. I'd bite my left arm off for it.
Did I see somebody say Beano? Oh man My grandma used to get me that every week for so long. Beano fan club ftw.
"Hey come for a couple of drinks when I've finished at work" turned into "Hey it's quarter to 11 and I'm microwaving my tea because holy crap where did the time go?" yesterday.
"Hey come for a couple of drinks when I've finished at work" turned into "Hey it's quarter to 11 and I'm microwaving my tea because holy crap where did the time go?" yesterday.
JonathanEx
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I'm a lifelong member of the Beano Club. FTW.
I find iphones to be like toys compared to my S3, Each to there own though iPhones aren't to bad.
By on the move i meant wipping out the phone when your on the can to read a quick few pages.
I'l need to cut down on my S3 fanboyism before i get hit with a week ban.
Beano, Dandy, Whizzer, Chips and then later, Whizzer & Chips. My sisters got Look In, Just 17 and Smash Hits.
Just 17 wasn't as hot as it sounds.
The fact is that smartphones, all smartphones, are fucking awesome.
Just 17 wasn't as hot as it sounds.
I'm only playing with ya, use whatever makes you happy!
The fact is that smartphones, all smartphones, are fucking awesome.
Gamesmaster, Nintendo Official Magazine, the Beano and the occasional Archie comic were the magazines/comics of my childhood. I used to steal my sister's copy of Smash Hits from time to time too.
Oh, and you can't beat reading a good Oor Wullie and Broons annual while on the toilet. When I was abroad as a kid, my mum used to work with a guy who travelled to Glasgow every xmas to see his family and he'd always buy and import the annuals for me and my sister.
EDIT: Wullie would easily knock the teeth out of Dennis the Menace any day.
Oh, and you can't beat reading a good Oor Wullie and Broons annual while on the toilet. When I was abroad as a kid, my mum used to work with a guy who travelled to Glasgow every xmas to see his family and he'd always buy and import the annuals for me and my sister.
EDIT: Wullie would easily knock the teeth out of Dennis the Menace any day.
For some reason I never joined the club. Read the comic every week, got the annuals. Even bought older annuals and yet never put my name down for the fan club. A shame.
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ZombieFred
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I'm going to feel like a sad twat for saying this but for me as a kid it was always Sonic the comic. Don't you dare try to knock it, that comic series even looking back had some quality writing for the character and world it had. Luckily I left that kind of love there after Sonic Adventure 2006 and waking up to the reality of how bad that character and Sega become.
Shit, I'd totally forgotten about Oor Wullie. I think it's because I lost the only annual I had when we moved house as a kid and the trauma is too immense to recall.
Did anyone else read the 'Just William' books as a kid? They were twee as fuck but pleasant little adventures. Much like the Famous Five.
JonathanEx
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I signed up when they relaunched the Beano Club at some anniversary (around the time they brought in Bea in to Dennis, I think?), kept renewing and after being there for more years than you probably are target audience of the comic got granted lifelong status. Got the silly gifts, wallet, hat...
Googled to see what it's like now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11212686 and... oh.
What a shame. I don't know how I take advantage of my lifelong membership now.
There's some free Beano VIP membership online, but hey.A few when I was very young. I seem to recall listening to cassette tapes of them as well and also a tv series. I was more of a Secret Seven fan.
Mate, StC was quality. I used to love it so much.
me too. Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl were the "in" books before R.L. Stine came along.
I have caved in, going to see BATMAN tomorrow morning, I am going to see a fucking summer blockbuster, I know i will enjoy the movie but i don't find nolan films rewatchable. So this will be the only time i will enjoy this movie for the rest of my life.
By the comic digitally at comixology or something then convert it in Photoshop. It's easy.
Once I'd tweaked the settings for Akira to my liking on a sample page, I simply created a batch action and it converted the entire 360-page volume in under two minutes.
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ZombieFred
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A good friend of mine is a fan of the wheel of time series. I am just scared looking at the depth of the series though after going through the Dark Tower. That's my favourite story told, you should give that a read.
Sonic the Comic was incredible! Those stories were often really good. I even remember the cheesy "Day in the life of Dr. Robotnik" one they did, which ended with him being caught watching an episode of El Dorado. Awesome stuff!
Me too, man. Me too. I always thought Jack was going to hook up with Janet. I loved the one where the crims hid a horse in a deaf guys house.
WOT is good, books 5-8 are really slow. But the first three are some of the best fantasy written.
Sonic the Comic was awesome. Much better than what the Americans got. I had like every issue ever.
Got shit towards the end though as more and more of the strips were taken up by reprints to save money. There're some fantastic interviews online with ex-STC staff like Nigel Kitching about the life of the comic and what was happening towards the end.
Got shit towards the end though as more and more of the strips were taken up by reprints to save money. There're some fantastic interviews online with ex-STC staff like Nigel Kitching about the life of the comic and what was happening towards the end.
This is really fucking disgusting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18900484
It's sad to see what the police can get away with.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18900484
It's sad to see what the police can get away with.
Little Old Man
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I think I'm on 6 or 7 currently. Definitely agree with what you said. I need to finish the books I've got, and catch up on the rest, since the final installments will be released soon.
It's a bit iffy really. Yes what the PC did is terrible, and he's probably a Jeremy, but a manslaughter charge seems a bit much. I guess there's no other way because he died, but wasn't it the case that be might have died anyway?
Yeah he was pushed to the floor, which is out of order, but that was a 1/1,000,000 thing that happened.
Policeman used excessive force, citizen died. If this had been a regular joe caught on video you can be sure that he wouldn't have got away with it.
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It was a jury trial, and I would argue members of the public are likely to be less forgiving to the police than to regular citizens. So, I'm going to assume that the evidence presented during the trial made manslaughter an unreasonable charge.
Well, he was found guilty of unlawful killing in an inquest. As it was unintentional, that's kind of manslaughter by definition. It's an odd verdict.
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Oh, I'm not denying that it's odd, and this Guardian article certainly doesn't paint a pretty picture of the defendant nor some of the evidence used in his defence. I'm merely saying that the public are unlikely to be sympathetic towards the police ("fuck da police" is an attitude far more widespread than among the nerds of GAF and Reddit), and so there must have been something presented to the jury which convinced them.
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ZombieFred
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Something's afoot.
My boss at work and another one of my colleagues complained about the way a policeman treated someone's girlfriend when they were arresting a youth (long story short, the gf was screaming what are you doing as the police were being extremely rough and one of the policemen turned round and chinned her, no warning). At every stage they've basically been pressured to drop their complaint, have been offered various options to stop it going further etc etc. It's almost impossible to get something to stick.
okay this guy needs to source that claim. I bet the figures have been massaged more heavily than a 55 year old divorcee trying to escape from the reality of his disappointing life in Phuket
blahblah...blah
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In more lighthearted news, one of Yorkshire's finest restaurants is reviewed by one of the world's finest critics
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/19/deaths-police-custody-data?newsfeed=true
The facts are correct, but [edited: I've decided I'm going to stay off this topic.]
1,433 people in England and Wales have died either in police custody or following other police contact since 1990, according to data compiled by Inquest, a charity specialising in the investigation of contentious deaths.
950 deaths took place in custody, 317 following a police pursuit, 112 were the result of a road traffic incident involving a police vehicle and 54 were police shootings.
The highest total was recorded in 2003, when 104 such deaths were recorded. Fourteen of these fell within the operational jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, of which one was a shooting.
It doesn't breakdown the causes of death in custody, unfortunately.
There have been a few high profile deaths in custody that have resulted in no convictions. As I said in my previous post, the figures don't breakdown to give us a truly accurate picture so we're shooting in the dark to a certain extent but you'd be naive to think that the Police had no hand in any of those deaths.
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Fair enough. I'm not saying I agree or disagree, I just don't particularly like discussing this topic online.
People going through Benzo withdrawals, having heart attacks, etc etc are likely the cause of the VAST majority of deaths in custody. If you put hundreds of people in cells over the course of 22 years then a lot are going to die naturally because 22 years is a bloody long time, especially considering the type of people that are getting locked up aren't likely to be the 5-a-day, yoga and jogging types.
Fair enough.
You're right, the police couldn't possibly have ever been involved in any wrongdoing.
I'm sure some of those deaths were caused by the police, but I'm also equally sure that the vast majority had nothing to do with the police.
What are you trying to get at Kavanagh? Any bad experiences with the police?
Some bad, some good, probably the same as most working class men. Not sure why people are eager to paint me as having an axe to grind.
My point is that I find it quite astonishing that a policeman caught on video using excessive force on someone who died a short while later can get away scot free. The fact that a coroner presented with the same evidence can come to a conclusion of unlawful killing is also another reason why this verdict makes me feel a tad uneasy.
Taking his past actions into account too, I think it stinks.
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