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Death Note - 7/10

Mindhorn - 6/10

It (2017) - 9/10

Jawbone - 8/10

Wonder Woman - 8/10

1 hour ago, David said:

Especially on the larger phones, finger never rests on the scanner naturally, have to twist your finger.

Apples Face ID hasn’t hit the world yet so it’s impossible to claim it’s rubbish. Facial recognition will be the future, not just because of Apple, Samsung took the first steps with iris scanner.

Cash points, the lot will start scanning faces. You can quote me on this. Just don’t ask me about the Burka.

You're thinking of the film Minority Report aren't you 

Personally, I can't wait to pay for stuff with the swipe of the microchip inserted in the back of your hand.  Contactless card payments are great, but not having to fish your card/phone out will be bliss.  No more idle chit-chat with the disgruntled employees of McDonalds or Sports Direct* then...

* Note I don't go to these places regularly, but when I do, the lads & lass' who work there look like they'd rather be performing a sex act on a giraffe than have to work there...

15 hours ago, Joe. said:

They'll put a fingerprint scanner on the back in the next one, facial recognition is rubbish it always is and always will be, there's will be an angle or light condition that it won't work on

Having one on the back is even dumber, don't know why makers even bother...

18 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

Surely the face id thing isn't compulsory is it? 

No it isn't, but if you don't want to enter a passcode, or leave it unlocked, it's tough.

3 hours ago, Wolfie said:

This just looks to me like Apple again trying to solve problems that don't exist just to fulfil their shareholder demands of product launches regardless of progress and increased market value.

Who is going to upgrade to an iPhone 8, when it gets superceded on the very day of it's launch - and isn't even that much cheaper?

Plus the iPhone X no longer looks distinctively "Apple" either.

Me for one.  Currently have a 6s, and due for an upgrade in Jan.  I can't justify a few hundred upfront and a - what's likely to be - £70 a month contract, on a phone I have to shove in front of my face each time I want to use it.  I can see FaceID getting superseded once they figure out how to embed the finger print scanner under the screen...

20 hours ago, Angry Ram said:

Not a biker myself but why do the t**** have to rev the fookers up whilst they are just ticking over. Next door seems to think it is acceptable at 04:00hrs when he is on shift. I might as well go to work with him as I am now fully awake.. 

Little pikey t**ts on mopeds who insist on wringing the tits out of their stupid little two stroke engines, as they amble past you at 30 mph.  Every time they do it, I say to myself "Please fall off!"...

The Fate of the Furious - Even for a F&F film, it was crap... 4/10

18 minutes ago, Ramshankered said:

I take your point - but that doesn't mean you should stop holding companies to account where possible? I personally think it's a case of moderation.

For example: I'm aware of Amazon's very many dubious practises, so I've cut down my orders from say, 10-20 a year, to max 1 or 2 (usually only in emergencies or exceptional circumstances). 

 

 

 

I'm all for big corporations paying they dues, and making working conditions better.  But I wouldn't base my purchase of, for example, a new TV on which firm is the straighter arrow when it comes to business practices.  I base it on which ones the best for what I can afford.  I'd never buy a Samsung phone, cus for one they're ugly and they're Android, so they'll eventually break.  But I'll always buy their TV's because they're well made, brilliantly designed, and have a great picture quality.

I'll go anywhere but Amazon if I can help it.  Not through scruples, just the fact I'm not a fan of their site.  It's never been particularly user friendly.  Plus, since they introduced the market place, you never really no who you're buying your stuff off.  You're better off on eBay...

2 hours ago, McRamFan said:

Because he can't.  Still waiting the justification of buying apple, especially regarding their tax avoidance, workers rights and their tie up with Foxconn.

Any big consumer based business uses cheap labour, and cuts corners to avoid tax.  Nike, Amazon, Sony, Tesco even Primark.  If you stopped buying products based on company's business practices you'd have to live in a tent, live off the land, and make your own clothes out of old potato sacks and frog spawn...

23 hours ago, David said:

Never had one iPhone break, crack, smash, faulty, nothing, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 6+, 6S+, 7+

Glorious phones, absolutely glorious

Had a 4s, 5c & now a 6s.  You only thing I've had go wrong was the screen kept going really dark on the 6s, so you couldn't see the apps unless it was pitch black.  Took it to the Apple Store in Sheffield, they had a look it, figured it was a software issue, and gave me a new one free of charge.  Only occurred to me on the way home that I went running with the phone face-down in a breast pocket and the sweat must've screwed with the light sensor.  No phones perfect, but like you said to @McRamFan I like my phones to work the vast majority of the time.  I got sick of Android apps being full of bugs and having to do a full factory reset every 3 months...

As for the event.  Be nice to know what iOs 11 will look like, but (even though it won't be unveiled til Sept) the 8 isn't getting me excited.  If the home button was in-bedded in the screen yes, but whilst it's on the back, I'll stick with my 6s or go to a 7.  It's stupid having it on the back, just doesn't make it user-friendly and smacks of compromise...

53 minutes ago, admira said:

I believe mine is rather marvellous. I've had it for 40+ years and it's never been used either.

As cool as it is, doesn't it defeat the purpose of a mug it you don't use it??

24 minutes ago, WestKentRam said:

I use photobucket.com - upload the photo to this then 'insert other media' and copy the link here.

I prefer the traditional back 4. Two big lads in the middle. The left-back is getting on a bit and has a long term injury but he still does the job.

I've had the one on the right for 29 years, must've had at least 10378 brews (one per day) in it & still going strong...

Three day weekend, followed by a three day week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 hours ago, Grimbeard said:

The number of parking spaces set aside for the disabled.  Yes, of course there has to be some, and I know that quite often it doesn't matter because there's plenty of other spaces, but I'm sick of driving around half empty car parks looking for a space.

The Tesco in Ilson seems to have about 100 spaces for blue badge holders and another 100 parent and child spaces.

FFS! It's a feckin'  supermarket not bleedin' Lourdes.

 

 

 

 

 

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There's never anywhere near enough parent spaces in supermarket car parks.  In my experience, the ratio is normally 70-30 in favour of disabled spaces.  Surely there's more young families shopping than ode gits nowadays...

1 hour ago, Paul71 said:

now think about what you are saying:

I stand by my original statement...

2 hours ago, Paul71 said:

I understand people who have smoked for years using them to try and quit...but saturday i saw a group of young lads using them...whats that all about? They dont look cool, or maybe they do and im an old dinosaur lol.

 

They don't look cool, no matter the shape & size they look f***ing ridiculous.  I was on a night out in Chesterfield a few years ago, before they became so popular and the mate of a girl I was chatting to, was sucking on one that was about 10 inches long (nobody snigger FFS), and it just looked wrong.  The other day some idiot mother was trying to squeeze into a parking space outside my lad's school with one clamped in her gob.  Mingin!!!

You could put Kelly Brook & Margot Robbie in front of me, in matching lace corsets & stockings, begging me that they wanted to make me the filling in a Br-Obbie sandwich, but if both em started puffing away on one of those things I'd politely decline...

Jim White on this day every year.  With his super excited attitude and his yellow ties, like it's a Christmas tradition...  What a nobber!!!

8 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

DIY generally.

We had a new living room carpet fitted last week, with a deeper pile than the previous one. It took me all of Sunday morning to take a door off, go to Homebase to buy a plane, plane a bit off the bottom and fit it back on again. I've now realised I didn't take enough off and need to do it again.

I hate DIY.

Ditto.  Was tidying up the cupboard under our stairs and decided to rehang one of those plastic containers for plastic bags.  Got my little cordless drill out to make holes for the screws, went through the 50 year old plaster like butter, then hit 50 granite-like brick!!!  Couldn't even get it an inch deep so simply used a shed load of screws and gave up, well aware it'll get ripped off the wall within 2 months, bringing the majority of the plaster with it...  I find it astonishing my Dad made a career out of building, no wonder he was always uptight...

19 minutes ago, StivePesley said:

When your poo-routine goes out of kilter and you end up having to go at work every day instead of the comfort of your own throne

I prefer to go at work.  There's a lovely spacious disabled loo that nobody except me uses, where I can gather my thoughts and not have to listen to blokes who believe the louder the bowel movements, the manlier they are.

With Trumps inauguration just round the corner, waking each day without discovering my house hasn't been incinerated in a nuclear fire ball will put a smile on my face...

#livelifewhilewecan  

Your missus complaining she doesn't know the way home from somewhere despite the fact she's been there a dozen times!!!

58 minutes ago, reveldevil said:

The Three Crown's.

Cheap beer is all its got going for it, Punk IPA around £3 a pint.

I'll make a mental note to steer clear next week, when I'm in enemy territory for Xmas shopping

17 hours ago, reveldevil said:

I was in a Nottingham City centre pub the other day and was noticed the chef, one because it had an open kitchen, and two because he had a tattoo of a snake on his shaved head, which went all the way around the back morphing into a dragon when it reappeared on the opposite side of his face.

We watched him serving up Sunday dinners, by opening the various components from plastic bags and sliding them onto the plate, followed in the same way by the gravy fresh out the microwave, also in a little bag.

If that's what you call cooking, don't make an open kitchen a feature of the pub, I always assume the food will be ***** in such places, but don't confirm it before ive even tasted it.

Sizzling it was not!

 

 

And what is the name of this fine sounding establishment???

19 minutes ago, StivePesley said:

Probably paracetomol when I've got a bad hangover and there is no one else in to go to the shop for me

Or toilet roll in the same situation

I always end up buying a few other things with the bog roll, to disguise the fact i'm about to crap myself if I don't get home sharpish...

1 hour ago, StivePesley said:

Blokes who go out and about wearing soft cotton jogging trousers. In the house? Fine. Nipping to the corner shop? Just about acceptable. Any further? Unacceptable (unless it's to go and appear on Jeremy Kyle)

I was on a training course last week and it was "casual dress". A lad on there spent the whole week in the same pair of jogging bottoms. Have some self respect mate.

No chance.  Many a time has the missus asked me to nip out to the shops after tea when i'm in my trakkies and I've gone upstairs and got changed before going.  If I don't I might as well stick myself in the same bracket as Mum's who take the kids to school in the PJs and dressing gown!!!  That isn't a myth, I've seen them do it, lazy s**ts