Thanks

Oh loads!! I passed my first driving assessment today and we got our authorisations for blue lights this afternoon so we're on emergency response driving tomorrow. Hopefully all our driving will be signed off my next Thursday, we have an emergency response driving assessment to pass that day. Sept 19th my clinical training begins so I have 8 weeks of learning, testing, practicals and exams still to come. With luck it will all be signed off and I'll be going on shift on the 13th November!! Busy, busy few months still to go....

There was a trailer earlier for the re-release of Akira... it felt like it went on forever and absolutely nothing from it was in context. It still managed to show you almost every pivotal moment from the film though

It's like they handed the trailer to someone who had never seen anything like it before and they promptly panicked. Plus the dubbing was actually worse than I remember

The original dubbing was also bad, completely re-wrote parts of the story. I've always watched it in Japanese with English subtitles.

Thanks to yesterday's fog, I'm £150 out of pocket

The Brazilian national anthem is a lot more subdued than I was expecting (at least as being played at the Paraolympics opening ceremony).
I mean, I don't know what I was expecting right enough but this is a country famous for Carnival and the vibrancy and diversity of the Amazon rain forest but the anthem seemed very restrained.

For every genuinely brilliant comments section, there's some penis ruining a book, game, or film.

What am I going to have for tea??

The Matrix
It really is a modern classic.

How I always forget to remove the batteries from my camera, but also how I can never just leave the charger somewhere fcuking simple...

How I struggle to lose weight and our youngest daughter's boyfriend has to eat 6,000 to 10,000 calories per day to maintain his skinny as a rake weight!

I sympathise. I've worked out I need to eat around 1700kcals/day to maintain my weight. Any more and it goes up noticeably. OTOH, one of my friends will have a huge breakfast at 7am. The kind that would last me all day. But he's hungry again by 10am and has to eat. He's as skinny as a beanpole too.

I'd forgotten how utterly crap they made Catwoman in Dark Knight Rises. The outfit makes no sense in Nolan's universe, the mask belongs in another decade, the character is so crowbarred in, and Anne Hathaway just seems too nice. And she's not the only one. With hindsight it's now obvious how wrong WB were willing to go then and today.

Whether I'm going to have a third nightmare shift in a row

Nolan's Catwoman wasn't really a "catwoman" in the traditional Batman sense. More of a cat burgler with "cool" mask that makes it look like cat ears and an ability to drive the BatPod.

ION: I finally got round to totting up every cost expended on our recent trip to London. Four nights, ate out for every meal, went and saw sights and bought souvenirs. £2000. And we still didn't get to see all the attractions.

ION 2: We've booked our next holiday in October. Our usual travel agent wasn't able to beat a deal from Thomson for Fuerteventura. So we're going there for seven nights for £1700.

What is going on when it comes to buying the basics?! Tesco no longer sells tablespoons going by their store and website. Almost everything now costs more for less from Kellogg's cornflakes to fcuking finger rolls. If you used to get 6, now you get 5... Used to get 5? Now it's 4. Yet somehow the price steadily goes up. And that's assuming you can still buy what you've bought for decades - we have an incredibly varied favourites list cos there's four of us greedy fcukers, and I just cleaned a lot of it because Tesco no longer sells those products apparently. Magazines in the store? No, can't deliver those any more, even though that's the very store the delivery comes from and it's loaded with magazines.

Asda would like to sell me 4 tablespoons at £2.50, even though you could have got them for £1.25 a few months ago. The pound shop no longer sells them even though they always did... Is this companies seriously over-thinking Brexit? Has there been a crisis that escaped the press? WTF's going on?