All it tells me is that I should be a shoe-in as a Councillor for Bromley if I just turn up with a 'I'm certainly not him' emblazoned on it with a picture of Dean.

These people are just dumb psycho's - I just can't fathom how people really don't think through the consequences.

Honestly, I think anarchy would be better than having these people responsible for us

I'd go the opposite way, I'd play out an intricate strategy based on the first few boxes, then use probability and high level maths to work out where I'd choose the next box.

....or that's what I'd tell 'em. I'd have a box in my head based on a completely random fact like, how many audience members are wearing red sweaters, or something else utterly stupid, and I wouldn't stop until I'd got a good offer or got to the end - I'd just keep feeding them absolute bollox until the second to last box and when they film the whole pause to open the last box, I'd tell them I made the whole theory up and open it so they couldn't cut it from the show.

I wouldn't even bother with the hard delete. It seems to do a damn fine job of wiping everything without needing to tell it, by all accounts.

Michael Palin.

The man's been everywhere and can still be incredibly intelligent & engaging while there's always a disarming aura - and if that don't work, his sense of humour will get you every time.

I'm a Monster....

after that I'm putting on "Crazy Frog" for 300 plays.

Exactly this.

Cant' touch it for fear of exposing white phosphorous to water and causing an explosion.

There was a plan to put a concrete bund over it but that's been kicked down the road for what now, at least 40 years and they probably don't want to do that for fear of giving first time buyers hope that they've started building projects. 🤣

The blast wave alone would blow out windows for around a mile and the tidal wave caused by said explosion could do millions of pounds of improvements to the surrounding area. /s

Thanks for all the info.

Can I just check, do I need an EA account to play?

Cos if it does, I'm out.

Why?

Just have a public jukebox and people can pick songs that are played out into headphones around the offender.

[Cues up Cotton Eye Joe 300 times]

I was looking for a good skate game and I thought this might be a good.

....then I read the reviews. There seems to be some real mixed reviews of this game.

The reason I didn't download was because it's choc full of Microtransactions.

Is this sarcasm?

How does this make things better?

It hands a vital service over to an American company that can then strong-arm the UK/EU into other dubious decisions. This would absolutely be the worst solution due the US now controlling the EU satellite architecture.

It's what currently got us here in the first place - the over reliance on the US.

You realise Bezos is just as equally culpable as Musk in Trump's reign? He's on his kneels and sucked that mushroom just as much as Elon.

It needs to if we're going to have water. Unless we have a month of torrential downpours where some other villages in the Devon wash away, we're going to be so low on water.

The summer was absolutely brutal, but what I don't get is why they didn't sound the alarm loudly at the start of the summer?

I didn't hear anything about water shortages until about mid August and I swear that we've have less hot summers where we've had warning far in advance.

The solution to problems with the internet is not a fucking surveillance state.

That ship, has sailed.

Set aside the complete obliteration of any online privacy, and the fact that these bans are completely ineffective (piracy streaming websites are already illegal in basically every western country. Still watched a movie on one yesterday), the internet is also a valuable and important resource for many things, including studying and finding support encouragement, nformation and safe spaces on issues particularly for children and teens growing up queer.

Nothing I disagree with there but I never said it would take it away from children. I suggest it would ringfence to acceptable sites so children can now find out about Homosexuality and Gender fluidity without being linked to a video on how to shoot up fentanyl with a knitting needle and a Maccie D's straw (other straws are available and other restaurants).

You’re throwing out the baby entire god damn family with the bathwater.

I feel that ship has sailed. The government hasn't listened yet, only to extremely old and sanctimonious other politicians.

All these bans do is push teens and children into LESS safe spaces on the deep web that don’t care about enforcing UK regulations, and banning those sites is literally just playing an infinite game of whack a mole.

That's why it would be ringfenced.

Banning children and teens from everyday life activities has never worked and never been a solution, just how “abstinence only” doesn’t work to prevent teen pregnancy. The solution is to teach children early and comprehensively how to engage with these systems safely and responsibly, how to recognise warning signs of unsafe situations or fake information, and how to react appropriately to those.

100% completely agree with not banning teens and working with them, but the Internet is an actively and pervasively hostile place towards children. They are being groomed (not always sexually), and most social media is just predatory grooming. If they're not being told what to think, they're being told what to buy. It's pretty disgusting.

Parents have their place in all of this too. Perhaps if more of them actually engaged with their children we wouldn't be in this sorry state of affairs, but then the way things are now, Parents don't even have the time because they're working just to pay bills.

The big Kaiju of the internet likes it this way (FAANG), they have the control. How do you stop that? It doesn't seem legislation against them is working.

We are currently now at the state where ID is required for certain access. It's absolutely shitty, it's terrible and shameful, but it seems the government and the zealots have built a brick wall around this issue about as much as talking honestly about the Israel / Palestine situation. They have shut down almost all dialogue with ordinary citizens - most likely because it serves more of a purpose of shutting out foreign actors and helps to combat terrorism.

It's not an excuse, it's just the way it is...and it's all one big mess where you're damned no matter what you do.