^ Yes, a terrible thing! 😉 An intriguing idea, that.

Possessed said:

TV’s Frink said:

timdiggerm said:

You know what doesn’t suck about Canto Bight? The music.

Also other stuff.

Such as? I mean I liked the last jedi alot and i even liked Rose and Finn, but I hated the whole Canto sequence except DJ. It takes the whole movie to a grinding halt and the only real purpose it serves the story is to get all the characters into an even worse situation. Granted it is nice to have more of Finn and Rose bonding, and without the sequence there isn’t enough of that, but that doesn’t excuse the (IMHO of course) poor quality of it. But I’m legitimately curious to hear what you like about it, because I love the film as a whole and would love a different perspective to consider while watching it when I get to this scene to excuse it in my mind while watching.

This may be of some interest to you for consideration mate - https://i.redd.it/lrjogkba1c701.jpg

It has been posted before - so apologies if you’ve already seen it. Whilst I think some of the Canto Bight scenes could have been done better… I think it’s an important part of how Finn comes to commit to the Resistance (culminating in his ‘Rebel Scum’ line to Phasma) - where previously in the film he’s really just looking out for his friend.

Just my two penneth on it.

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/8b8cai/what_a_piece_of_junk_luke_skywalker_millennium/

Not really surprising, but worth a mention…

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi Easily Tops DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales Charts’

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-easily-tops-dvd-blu-ray-disc-sales-charts-1202748275/

It also ignores what has been happening in the UK of late - London especially - and over the past 8 years in particular.

Jedit - and also the context of…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/london-murder-rate-new-york-compare-worse-stabbings-knife-crime-teenagers-statistics-figures-a8286866.html

paja said:

oojason said:

^ and as that’s not really a pic…

I will try better then!

We should always try to be better mate 😉 But Possessed was right - I was talking about the first ‘pic’ in my own post 😃

Brazil '82…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3kUORUadk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjzz_r-auuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyDn6dKaxgs

The 2018 World Cup… only 64 days away now 😃

Westworld…

As promised by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on the reddit ama - the complete rundown for the events of season 2 of Westworld…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7oeROkyPgs
 

(It’s really beautiful once you get over the shock - I honestly did not expect to see that in 2018. Westworld keeps reinventing the game)

Roll on the 22nd April 😃

^ and as that’s not really a pic…
 

Tyrphanax said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TM2YC said:

Tyrphanax said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/07/london-stabbings-300-extra-police-deployed-streets-tackle-spike/

Sounds like it’s all under control over there in the nanny state.

“You could be a mum or dad, big brother, big sister, a friend, a girlfriend, a boyfriend who knows somebody carrying a knife, leaving their home with a knife, involved in criminality - there’s no honour in keeping that a secret,” he said.

“You should try and prevent that person carrying a knife, leaving home with a knife.”

Insanity. “Just disarm yourselves, populace, and don’t worry: the government will keep you safe.”

Addendum:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/18/plans-to-make-delivery-of-knives-sold-online-to-private-addresses-illegal-knife-crime

Knives bought online will in future have to be collected in person, with retailers responsible for checking that all buyers are 18 or older. New powers are also proposed for the police to seize banned weapons such as zombie knives, knuckledusters and throwing stars if they are found in someone’s home, and to arrest those involved.

I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that we actually live in a world where things like this are going on. I carry a pocket knife every day because it’s useful in many situations at home or out and about or at work or really anywhere. It’s crazy to think that could be considered a criminal act in some places.

I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that you can’t even wrap your head around that fact.

I’m guessing that he’s saying that they’re obviously not dangerous enough to warrant this action since a butcher knife would be just as easy to get and just as deadly.

More or less, though as I understand it, it’s the kitchen knives that are the bigger issue in England than the pocket knives.

Directed more generally than specifically, a big part of why I’m being dramatically incredulous about it is that it appears that the relative inaccessibility of firearms in England hasn’t really solved their violence problems, and has just lead to more restrictions on less destructive things, with possibly more to come.

You have guns, people use them for bad things, you severely restrict guns, people start using knives for bad, you severely restrict knives, people start using rocks or tire irons for bad… where does that end? And let’s not get into the “slippery slope fallacy” thing because this slope looks fairly slippery to me: we’re talking about a minimum age of 18 to buy a knife, and only being able to buy knives through authorized dealers, so what do we look at next? Background checks and licensing just so you can chop an onion? I mean come on. The knife laws there are looking like the gun laws here, and the violence is apparently still going on, so it stands to reason that on this trajectory, ten, fifteen, twenty years down the road, we’ll be in the same boat. Is it less costly violence? Sure, granted, but if the rallying cry is “not one more,” and children are being stabbed to death, isn’t this still a solid F grade? At what point do we face the hard truth that restricting the implement isn’t rectifying the issue?

You can argue “well clearly it’s a problem, so why shouldn’t they do something about it? Who needs a knife anyway unless they need it in a professional capacity?” like people say about guns here now. Why shouldn’t MFM have a switchblade? Why shouldn’t I own a meat cleaver? What will people be saying that about next? And at what point do people stop sacrificing their rights to be treated like human beings on the alter of a supposed greater good that doesn’t really seem to be serving too many people. And you can say “Silly paranoid Tyr; they’re only repealing this one amendment, they’ll never touch the others,” but can we be sure of that? At what point do we stop and realize we’ve traded all of our rights for “protection”?

And yet they’re having to put hundreds more cops on the street to stop a wave of violent stabbings in London, or the School Resource Officer who is trained and tasked solely with protecting our children decides he’s better off staying outside.

I don’t know. It all feels like the point is being missed here. I admit that this is a bit dystopian and hopefully exaggerated, but it feels like a more and more real possibility as we see more and more articles that give me those creepy 1984 vibes. And I promise I’m not sitting naked in my bath tub with my tin foil hat on, clutching my scary black rifle waiting for the black helicopters to come to take me away, I’m just trying to spark some discussion. Let me know what you all think.

The Guardian article you linked to earlier refers to a series a measures to stop kids buying zombie knives, knuckledusters, throwing stars - including them being bought online by kids, and then used against others. An adult can still buy them online (and then picked up at a local store in person, with an age check) - or can still just pop down the shop and buy them.

People who need one for their work in a public setting (ie, tradesmen) will not be affected - other than the odd overzealous copper - as stated before. At home in the UK you can have a meat cleaver, kitchen knives, or other big knife etc - where does it say anyone can’t?

I’m not sure where you got the ‘authorised dealers’ thing from - you can pick an item up from any store with a online order facility these days. Any adult can still go into any store that sells a knife and buy one.

England is just one part of the UK mate - you’ll likely spark some more discussion with UK’ers on here if you acknowledge that - especially the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish 😉

We’ve had a few acid attacks in the UK of late - horrifying attacks leading to pain and disfigurement of people just going about their everyday lives - by frustrated and likely unbalanced kids and young adults. This has led to some restrictions on the sale of certain acids to the public (as well as companies being reminded to keep any acids or chemicals secure stored) - making it a little more difficult for joe public to get their hands on the stuff. Nanny state, eh? restricting the ‘right’ to buy acid and then walk down the street with it…

It may look a ‘slippery slope’ to you - but stopping kids buying cleavers, zombie knives and other big knives online doesn’t seem a bad idea to me, and if adults have to be slightly inconvenienced in proving their age to buy one in a shop, then so be it - the extra ten seconds to pull out their driving licence or other ID and show it to the shop assistant is quite a small price to pay, no?^

^ - which is something we’ve already been doing for years.

Someone will probably ‘hack’ it into that soon enough 😉

(nice idea, that)

^ from https://imgur.com/gallery/W2QEj

^ 😄

^ from https://imgur.com/gallery/1HgUX

TV’s Frink said:

Oh whoops, I meant office not house.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was both mate.

TM2YC said:

Yeah the Police have got common sense and better things to do.

Aye, it does make me wonder where the Met found the extra bodies they’ve put out on the beat of late (a temporary PR measure?) - in a bid to try and re-assure the public they still exist - meanwhile the Home Secretary still denies rising crime is linked to Police cuts still… (21,000 officers in 7 years)

Amber Rudd says police cuts not to blame for violent crime rise

Amber Rudd denies seeing leaked Home Office violent crime report

Amber Rudd commits a serious crime – of gross incompetence - opinion piece

TV’s Frink said:

Meanwhile, the FBI raided Michael Cohen’s house today…

and his offices too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43706709

‘J.J. Abrams and the “Very Different Plans” for Rey’s Parents - Last Week in Clickbait’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4WJZlHElU

^ from ‘Star Wars Explained’ - https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain

‘Star Wars Tie Fighter - Homemade, Electric, & Driveable’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ9RR416P_U

Anchorhead said:

oojason said:
and am sure they’ll be selling lots of gold dice soon too for hanging on car mirrors…

Man, I’ll hang a pair from my mirror if they make them. I’ve been tempted by some of the sets on Etsy, but figured I’d wait for the licensed version.

Earlier this year, I looked into a personalized license plate (auto) but with only 7 digits, the obvious versions of Stormtrooper were already taken (my car is predominately white with some black areas). I toyed with a few versions that were still available with numbers in place of a letter or two, but decided no.

Nice one - just seen a few on etsy - decently priced (I thought they’d have pushed the prices up a bit more!)
 

A mate has an Renault Twizy electric car - a lot of fun and surprisingly nippy - in white and black. I’m in the midst of trying to persuade him to ‘stormtrooper’ / ‘Star Wars’ it up a little… 😃

‘Transform Your iPhone Into A ‘Game Boy Console’ With This Nostalgia-Filled Case’…

https://fossbytes.com/wanle-gamers-console-game-boy-iphone-case/

https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Livoty-Little-Tetris-iPhone7/dp/B077HPBJXV/ - $12 + delivery.

‘Shell predicted dangers of climate change in 1980s and knew fossil fuel industry was responsible’…

Authors of confidential documents envisage changes to sea level and weather ‘larger than any that have occurred over the past 12,000 years’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/shell-predicted-climate-change-fossil-fuel-industry-1980s-global-warming-oil-a8294636.html

dahmage said:

well nuts, i can’t make this disappearing trick work on the new theme and the old one at the same time.

Different times of the day change it to a light coloured background avatar and back again - fight the power!

dahmage said:

oojason said:

dahmage said:

Oojasons signature is too tall now with the new moderators badge styling.

It has been changed mate - a quick refresh should do the trick 😃

still looks crazy tall on mobile

It does a bit - when we raise funds for poita’s OOT project then I’ll remove that part of the sig 😉

(Honestly - sorry about that mate. Perhaps a request for a ‘No Signature’ option for mobiles could be made to Jay?)

HerekittykittyX is permanently banned - and his socks too.

dahmage said:

Oojasons signature is too tall now with the new moderators badge styling.

It has been changed mate - a quick refresh should do the trick 😃

Begun the Solo merchandising has…

http://www.starwars.com/news/solo-a-star-wars-story-products-revealed

^ it makes ‘sound and movement combinations’ - looks like it’ll be a hit with the kids/collectors

and am sure they’ll be selling lots of gold dice soon too for hanging on car mirrors…

Switchblades (or flick-knives as they are more referred to over here) have been outlawed over here for a long while now - since I was a kid, I think.

And parts of the UK does seem to be undergoing some sort of knife-carrying trend at the moment - especially amongst teenagers.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-crime-murder/london-murder-rate-overtakes-new-york-as-knife-crime-rises-idUKKCN1HA1DD

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/05/how-does-londons-spate-of-killings-compare-with-other-cities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42861064
 

Tradesmen (or women) - or anyone with a good reason to be carrying a knife or blade (butcher, chef, carpenter, fisherman, even an IT engineer - got to cut those cables! etc) will be okay to go about their usual business.

Some overzealous copper may make things a little awkward - though common sense usually prevails on these things - especially when a more experienced officer or Sgt becomes involved.

On occasion when I’ve been asked about what I’m carrying in my IT bag it’s more a case of ‘be careful it doesn’t get nicked’ - or that ‘any blades are hidden away from kids or prying eyes’ or ‘wrap it up so you don’t cut yourself’ etc.
 

Whether these changes will make a difference? I don’t know - likely not for some already on a wrong path. I hope it does make a difference - and at least it seems to be a genuine attempt to curtail it, though it would be welcome if the Govt actually addressed the causes and issues surrounding this.