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Gotta be honest I really like the face discolouration - shows its history. You CAN get things refaced but often it makes a watch lose a lot of its charm.

I reckon a new crystal and a service would go a long way to making it very very wearable - it's probably dry as arseholes, and could at least do with a lubing - and you can always reface later if you want to.

I didn't like the film as much as everyone else seemed to at the time, but natural born killers has an absolute banger of a soundtrack - some real 90s classics. I was also re-listening to the Judgement Night soundtrack - loads of original collabs between rock bands and hiphop emcees. Most of them don't work, but the ones that do are pure magic - Faith no More and Boo Ya Tribe, Onyx and Biohazard, Helmet and House Of Pain - absolute fire one and all.

It's beautifully tasteful and they've really worked at making it look amazing, but it also brings out all my class war instincts.

Streeting, are you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

whether the director has a secret sauce.

I think it's this. The thing about Valhalla Rising is that the whole thing has this atmosphere like the whole shoot was just a relentless fucking slog for all involved, just grim and dirty and cold and stinky and horrible and exhausting. And that'd be horrible for like, a Wes Anderson film, but on this it feels like they just go with it, and it works with the story, and it feels right with the characters. It has such a unique texture to it.

You can either spend a lot on a courier, or spend a lot on packaging - I found buying a guitar box from Amazon was the best approach. Not even parcel force could damage that bad boy.

Agree 100%. I think waiting for the contracts to expire and bringing them back into public ownership is the right thing to do. Not sure it'll make a huge difference, but it's a smart political move imo.

It's possible we're talking at slight cross purposes here. I don't think Thames Water is subject to the worries I had in the same way - I was thinking about the rail companies being owned by foreign governments (i.e. they are nationalised, they're just not nationalised by OUR nation):

"Europe Germany’s Deutsche Bahn owns Arriva, which operates Chiltern, Cross Country, Wales & Borders, London Overground and Grand Central. Italy’s Trenitalia now runs Essex Thameside, and French state firm SNCF owns Keolis, which runs numerous franchises in joint ventures. As part of Govia, with Go-Ahead, it operates Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern, Southeastern and London Midland; with Amey it runs the Docklands Light Railway. Dutch state rail owns Abellio, which runs ScotRail and Greater Anglia, and Merseyrail.
China Hong Kong state owns MTR, which holds the South West Trains franchise with First. MTR will also run Crossrail."

Most of these firms aren't failing like Thames Water, from the perspective of the shareholders - they're turning a profit. It's only from our perspective as consumers that they're failing. But this is what the Tories did when they sold these utilities off. The companies aren't run for our benefit anymore, they're run for the benefit of the shareholders. Same as it ever was.

But appropriating those companies from other countries at under market rates would be a significant step of aggression - it would make Brexit look like a lovetap by comparison.

For failing public services? That’s quite a reach.

They're not publicly owned. They're privately owned companies, many of which are owned not just by individuals but by foreign governments. To us that's a national rail service. To the french government, that's their company and they're entitled to the profits.

If you go around appropriating other people's private property, for under market rates, not only does that lead to legal challenge, it also trashes your reputation. That is some communist dictatorship shit.

I do not think this is right btw. I'm not defending the principle of selling off our national utilities to third parties. But that's what we did, as a country, and now all the profits get syphoned off abroad. It's not right. But it's what we signed up to. And now the wider UK is realising what happens when you sell off your assets - it is expensive to be poor.

Maybe they're expecting what corporate profits there are (there isnt much) will allow for investment or will offset the government subsidy??

What they're hoping is the duplication of effort across multiple and the removal of the blame game (where the TOCs, ROSCOs, and government employ rafts of lawyers at taxpayers expense to argue about whose fault delays are and who needs to pay for them) will result in a decent chunk of change to re-invest in the network and simplify the fare structure etc. I think the shad transport secretary said they estimated something like £700milion on R4 today.

IMO Tarrantinos best film!

Totally agree with you. Jackie Brown is unbelievable, Pam Grier is amazing, Samuel L Jackson is utterly terrifying, and Robert Forster is perfect. The story is exciting and hits all the right noir notes, and I never thought Tarentino could have such a light touch with sweetness. It's his most grown up film imo, while I do love his other stuff I can always feel him nudging me in my ribs like an overexcited teenager.

I loved Poor Things, but do recognise the artifice of all of Jorgos Lanthimos' films. Everything from Dogtooth to Lobster to Killing of a Sacred Deer exists in this kind of weird, unreal place, it has the same sort of quality as a Wes Anderson. Personally I really like that but I get why people wouldn't, and even I found some of the steampunk backgrounds a bit tough to take. But I still loved it.

Rewatched Holiday with Cary Grant and Catherine Hepburn on Sunday. Christ what a film that is. I don't know if it's my favourite Grant/Hepburn but it probably is the best. Hilarious, heartbreaking, beautiful, daft, warm, and incisive. Again very Wes Anderson-y in that it takes these rich characters who could be very unsympathetic and imbeues them with such humanity and history that you can't help but love them. Hepburn is astonishign too, the way her eyes brim with tears at points and you see her mask come down, it's such a sensitive portrayal of a complex character.

and that's why Corbyn's Labour did so well at two general elections.

I've always tried to think that you and I have differences of political opinion, that it's valuable to talk with people with whom you profoundly disagree, and I've never thought you were bad faith or dishonest. But this is coming very close to it imo.

Starmer's Labour is 20 points ahead in the polls. Corbyn's Labour received one of the worst drubbings in our history.

Starmer's Labour is good at selling policy. Corbyn's Labour was terrible at selling policy.

When the sale works, it doesn't matter how it's done. If the sale isn't working, that's when it matters.

They're two different situations.

It doesn't really matter how they sell the policy. What matters is the effect of the policy, and how likely they are to be in a position to enact it. And by both those metrics things are looking better than they have for many years.

There is nothing left wing about letting people smugglers exploit desperate people with impunity.

G-Shock is not a watch, just an indicator of time, like the numbers on a laptop screen.

It has no essence of craftsmanship, no soul, no value outside it's function - as Horolo-gits (sp) we should burn them all. #changemymind

I saw a horological exhibition at the V&A a few years back, all the way from sundials through the age of clockwork, ship's clocks for navigation, the race for longitude and its relation to the British Empire, through pocket watches, moving to the wrist in WW1, then swiss watches, the quartz explosion, the reemergence of swiss watches as luxury horology, right up to now.

The very last exhibit in the timeline was a radio controlled 56xx G shock, one you could pick up in an argos for under a hundred quid. And it made perfect sense to me.

It's arguable that a G Shock has anything to do with horology - I would say it does, but I see why people might argue otherwise - but they absolutely have everything to do with telling the time accurately. And until relatively recently, that was the entire purpose of horology. All the beautiful and imaginative and artisan stuff they invented and built and polished, it was a all a sideline to the purpose of telling the time accurately. Only in our lifetimes has that become an afterthought.

I love my G Shock. It's not my favourite watch I own, but I could make a strong argument for it being the best watch I own.

The gap between the tories and labour may not be as big as we'd like, but millions of people live and die in that gap.

Yeah, nobody actually believes this.

I do accept that On Here the left criticism of Starmer tends to be a little more measured than in other parts of the internet, but all you need to do is head over to the This Fella Starmer thread to see people - who I've no reason to suspect are being dishonest - saying exactly that.

Christ alive, that interview's like an anxiety nightmare made flesh. The panic in his eyes when he was asked to make public his allegations.

I loved Poor Things. Accents were fucking appalling, but it weirdly added to the stuck-together, steampunk charm of the thing. Emma Stone is such a great foil for Yorgos Lanthimos - is there anything more powerful in Hollywood than a deeply weird auteur building a long term working relationship with 100% A Lister film stars?

We were on the Peter Lorre season this weekend, and watched M on Saturday and The Man Who Knew Too Much on Sunday. M is one of the best films I've ever seen and Lorre's performance is haunting. I absolutely loved it.

Found Man Who Knew Too Much oddly disappointing after it. I think I will make a lot of excuses for a film which is made in the 1930s - I can take a lot of sexism, disjointed themes, etc, and it wasn't even super bad for that - but I had to make absolutely no such excuses for M.

I think sometimes watching good films is like upgrading the whiskey you drink. It's great at the time until you get used to it, and any time you can't get the absolutely great stuff, you really resent it.

Isn't this just a 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' but for health?

If you make sure people are healthy and happy then they're less likely to go on long term sick.

Afternoon all, selling my Brompton as I didn't really get along with it, and I'm using the fixed gear for the commute. Less than a hundred miles on it since new. Mid height bars - same as this one:

Collection/rides/test from Walthamstow or I can deliver within the A406 for petrol money. Cheapest I can find it is £1200 so say £900?

I don't think there are sessions but I'd be surprised if Elvers couldn't get a legit show - they've always occupied a very simlilar place in my brain as Embers and not just because of the similar names and the fact that they're both On Here.

Speaking of I didn't realise @owl was in Embers! I know Sam through non-bike muso channels. Unofficial LFGSS meetup on Sun?

Why risk it? Why change it?

Annoyingly for me as a person (because I'd like to see more vision from Starmer too) I think you're right.

I keep coming back to Blair and Brown. For them, making the bank of England independent of government was a week one action - it was clearly something they felt they needed to do and had a very clear vision about it. But they didn't say a thing about it before the election - the manifesto and pledge card stayed completely schtum. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/04/independence-day-why-gordon-brown-gave-the-bank-the-right-to-set-interest-rates

I hope that Starmer is following a similar plan, and that there's a lot of work going on in the background. I get the frustration, but if I were in his shoes I'm not sure I'd risk it at this point.

Come election time we'll need a proper manifesto. Now? I can see it only damaging his electoral chances.

Apparently you can't wear a watch in London anymore:

https://twitter.com/KP24/status/1777611224160588284

The watch in question:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/watches/article/kevin-pietersen-hublot-big-bang-sorai

They'd be doing the lad a favour, nicking that monstrosity.

I am not a former member of ETID

Just what we'd EXPECT a former member of ETID to say!