erik yeah. Thankfully she’s way better in this. Not that I think it was her fault in that, but the writing was just bad.

    Just realised there is a TV series of Sexy Beast covering Don and Gal’s early days. It’s on Paramount.

      Amazon Prime now has ads - so many of the fuckers, it’s almost unwatchable - literally every ten minutes. To avoid, you have to pay an additional £3 a month. The thieving cunts.

        Saw the ads coming and we cancelled amazon. It’s like these companies forgot why streaming became popular in the first place and are creeping the cable model back in place. I’m going the vpn route and back to downloading again. They clearly don’t want or need my money.

          I need to wean the missus off of Amazon delivery and then I’m cancelling. What a crock.

            I suspect the market must be plateauing and they can’t resist going back to the ad revenues. As 303 says, doing the thing that people want to avoid. Get you back to being a good consumer.

            Along_the_Wire
            Noticed this whilst I was in India. I’m also trying to cut down on Amazon but let’s be honest is usually the cheapest and can be delivered the next day.

              303abuser
              I’m inexorably moving toward iptv.

              Fuck em.

              Looks like snidey paul was ahead of the game after all

                  To get way off topic, these giant corporations are a plague on society. We need to get ourselves away from the allure of cheap, disposable goods and back to supporting local businesses. More expensive in the short term, but better for everyone by slowing the wealth transfer to a small number of people.

                    Along_the_Wire 100% this. If it weren’t for the stack of Amazon boxes turning up daily, they’d be in the fucking bin, where they belong.

                      303abuser
                      Agree totally.

                      I’m now using Amazon for ‘shit what is hard to find in shops’ (from a physical goods perspective).

                      What I do order goes to a local collection point to try lower delivery journeys.

                      Probably pissing in the wind, but it seems a more appropriate approach to the mass consumption model.

                      Then I see Deliveroo drivers queuing up outside Starbucks 🤬

                          Mad_Cyril Then I see Deliveroo drivers queuing up outside Starbucks 🤬

                          This sort of shit makes me despair. The world is fucked. The earth’s on fire, the forests are on fire, we’re all on fire.

                              How many businesses have closed down because of Amazon.

                                Mad_Cyril We’re the same with Amazon, it’s only for something we can’t find anywhere else. Does it help? Maybe not, but all we can do is vote with our wallets because our governments are owned by these companies and will never work to solve the problem.

                                I have my treadmill set up by a window that overlooks the street. I’ll see a delivery truck every 5-10 minutes and multiple vehicles from the same service. It’s so inefficient and most of it is shit people don’t even need.

                                I’m going to work on cutting out anything involving a feed where an algorithm determines what I see (and likely what I do), reduce screen time, cut the cord as best I can. Basically live like the 90s again. I feel like we’re all taking in so much information, it’s destroying our brains. I wish I was an actual outdoors person, I’d just move somewhere warmer and get off the grid all together.

                                    So far no ads in Finland. I suspect that will change soon enough.

                                      I’d probably suffer a bank of ads in the middle, but pre-ads and then a load 9 minutes later? Fuck off