The Atari 8-bit was a whole decade old by 1989. And suffered ludicrously long loading time off tape and disk. I doubt many people were actively using them by then, other than out of brand loyalty. Or were lumbered with a XEGS as a present the previous Xmas. Or they were Americans or something.

In my case it’s more been “threaten legal action and hope they don’t call my bluff”, unfortunately.

(Wrote to my MP initially, one of last year’s Labour intake. Worse at responding to letters than the previous Tory incumbent, unfortunately.)

GPs are dreadful. I had to literally threaten my GP surgery with legal action to stop them from continually blocking a Right To Choose referral with no reason given. And when I did get diagnosed, they claimed that my NHS diagnosis was a private diagnosis. Until I (again) threatened legal action.

What, ITV have gone with a film which is over four decades old as its main afternoon ‘feature’? They really have given up on broadcasting.

Don’t know what to say. Dreadful news.

Oh bugger. Hope it’s not as bad as you fear! 😞

The Terf cancer is spreading too far and fast.

That’s an issue I have with my mother: She’s looking at stuff on Facebook on/off most of the day, believes nearly anything, has no idea how to identify obvious AI fakery or bot accounts etc. So she fears going out most of the time (and can’t be reassured that crime in the UK peaked back in 1994).

Yeah, my gf doesn’t send Xmas presents directly to her family any more as parcels which used to cost £8 to send now cost upwards of forty quid. Absolute bloody pain.

Game of the year! IMO.

See, I saw that image and thought “oh, judging from his uniform, Dixon was a Station Sergeant, a rank retired in 1980”.

I swear that I only took at most 4 Criminology modules at university. 🫤

It feels as if UK supermarkets are in a “contraction phase” in terms of range and availability of items… I mean, current supermarkets aren’t as limited and grotty as the Leo’s Co-op my parents used to shop at in the ‘80s, but they certainly aren’t heading in the right direction, IMO.

And that’s not even the most gruesome scene in HA2, which occurs earlier in the film. 😬

I felt chilled out, but it felt an oppressive form of chilled out, if that makes sense; like something was cognitively wrong. Very strange feeling.

Hang on! Memory triggered. 3 years ago I won a Xmas hamper in a local raffle. It had an alcohol-free beer in it – drank it without properly reading the label. It was a CBD beer. Had an intense feeling of “down-ness” for over an hour, like I’d had a tranquilliser. And became ASTONISHINGLY hungry.

Had friends who smoked it for years when we were in our late teens/early twenties. Never pressured me into trying it, but did wonder. I would never, ever touch the street stuff though. Mind’s open to the medicinal variety, however, if legalised (under proper clinical supervision etc).