Bob The Badger

Season 3 of Love/Hate is brilliant, better than the first two. And 4 maintained that. Just started the final one last night. I found some of the moody shots/scenes a bit irritating with Kin too. Especially the ones with Clare Dunne staring off into space. Having said that not enough to taint it, and I still thought it was brilliant.

The same could be said for the Rams other than Stafford. Duck the 9ers though, I've always thought of them like I do Leeds, and the fact that they part own Leeds only cements that. Go Chiefs!

I'm fairly sure that's legit because it's been reported on, in terms of what he said. He's talking from an autocue and staying on message.

Almost certainly not. @DarkFruitsRam7 asked about the music industry, and it would be easy to say people said that about cassette taping and then CD burning. And then they said it about synthesisers and computers in general and also about streaming and illegal file sharing. This is an entirely different animal because it's going to replace the kind of jobs that replaced the ones lost in manufacturing, as well as some left in manufacturing. This is not remotely like anything we have ever seen before. Google released this a couple of years ago. Still brand new, but the potential is obvious if not 100% clear. In my industry (marketing), AI will/is running a sword through designers, photographers, copywriters, branders and web designers.

Yeah, but did you really have the answers you wanted? How can we be sure?

Nidge is one of those characters that you love and hate at the same time (maybe that's why they called it that because nothing else makes sense). H'e very charismatic in an unconventional kinda way. I've never paid for ITVX before, but we started just to watch this and are happy to have done so. I thought, for reasons you will understand, Season 4 would drop off, but it really hasn't.

I've just been to Tesco and will report back. I'm not convinced it will be as good as Love/Hate, but I'm an open-minded badger.

Jeez, the final episode of Season 3 of Love/Hate is mind-blowing! I know @NottsRam is on this, but has anybody else watched this? If not, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is definitely up there with Kin, and I'm so glad I was recommended it by @hales300k

I listened to the podcast he was on when he was Rotherham's manager, and I don't think it's fake at all. I thought he came across as a really genuine person. Could be wrong of course.

I probably didn't pick my words very well tbf, but I didn't necessarily mean abuse at home personally, but being attacked for results.

The weird thing is, I think he's a likeable bloke (maybe I'm wrong), but he gets less leeway because of the style he adopts. The reality is that if you play an ugly style and win, you can get away with it. But if you play one and lose you get less sympathy from fans.

If you look at Warne's record, it's actually not that bad. Last season we came within a kippers dick of making the playoffs after what was possibly the most turbulent time in the club's history. And last night, we could have gone top, and yet half the board would be happy to see the guy fired. Does anybody ever remember that level of vitriol and animosity toward a manager who didn't have us struggling? And struggling badly. Other than possibly Dave Mackay for a short period and entirely other reasons, I cannot remember anything like it. For some while, I just thought it was Derby fans being entitled, but after conversations with @Eatonram, it seems like we're pretty bad every game and winning in spite of ourselves rather than because of ourselves. I have to admit that I rarely get to see Derby play these days, so I base a lot of my opinions either on highlights or on what I read. As such, I accept that 90% of posters on this forum are better informed than me. So, does he deserve all this piling on, or should we be sticking by him?

You'll like it. I think the third season may be the best to date.

I can't be arsed with torrents tbf, as we never run out of anything to watch. After another two seasons of Love/Hate we still have Fargo, True Detective and The Bear to go at just off the top of my head as well as the new season of CYE. I shall save it in IMDB though, so thanks.

Agree with all those other than Oz, which, like @Wolfie20, I've not seen - what's it on? I'd also agree with him that I'd add Spiral. I'm loving Love/Hate. Season 2 dipped a bit, but Season 3 has really picked up the pace. It's very much like Kin, and not just because it's set in Ireland. I'd also add Fauda, utterly brilliant. And also Kaliphate, the Swedish thing.

I use ChatGPT and Claude fairly often, and they've come on leaps and bounds when you consider it's only been readily available for 15 months. The world is changing massively and rapidly. It's not even possible to predict how things will change with AI in 3 years, never mind for future generations. There are few jobs/industries that won't be radically changed or flat-out obliterated this decade. I work with coaches and therapists, helping them with their online marketing, and I think their roles will be wiped out before we get to 2030. I'll have retired by then, so for myself, I'm not that worried. Others don't have that luxury.

Looking forward to this. Consistently brilliant.

So, I watched the first season of The Traitors, and it's utter repetitive nonsense with the tasks boring and pointless. Few of the contestants are likeable, and some are really thick and unlikeable. I loved it. I'm now irritated that I have to wait for the new episodes as we have caught up with season 2. Can't believe nobody has sussed Paul out. Classic conformation bias with some halo effect thrown in for good measure. Don't judge me people. Ok, you can judge me, I'm shallow and vacuous.

Great film!

Ted Lasso fell off a cliff. First series was good, second, mediocre, third just more of the second but not quite as funny. At least the first 4 episodes because that is all I could get through.

As humans, we struggle with imagining how we'll feel about events in the medium to-distant future. We tend to believe we'll be better equipped at some random future date than we are now, hence why so many people are poor at planning for retirement. We also struggle with large concepts and abstract facts because they're not easy to represent in our minds. Then you add in short-term self-interest, and it's no wonder so little has been done for so long. It's entirely predictable and understandable.

100% agree.

Along with John Peel, she provided the soundtrack to my youth. Im amazed she was 83. RIP.