Fierce_LiNk

I've been pestering @Eenuh to watch Whiplash for a while and we finally watched it yesterday. Yup, it pretty much lived up to my expectations and I can safely say that I loved every single second of it. Great finale, too. Can see why J.K. Simmons won an Oscar for his performance in this. Very intimidating during every scene! Would have hated that guy in real life.

Fucking typical with the Luke Shaw injury. Great idea to play internationals in the first full week of September.

I think you'll be hard pressed to find a film in that genre where the characters don't make bad or irrational decisions. Although, when watching the film in the cinema (only time I've seen it), I didn't think that there were that many bad decisions made. I bought into the world that they were aiming to create, and thought the atmosphere throughout was fantastic. When a film does a particular element so well, I can usually forgive some of the other stuff, but there wasn't really an awful lot there that I didn't like. Loved the usage of sign language, really liked the casting (as well as casting Millicent Simmonds - a deaf actress for that role, which she played perfectly) and thought it was well paced. There was never really a moment in the film where I stopped and thought "oh this film would be great if they didn't do this bit or that part".

I hope you put money on that... I've never put a bet on anything in my life. Maybe I should have this time around. Burnley were awwwwwwfuuuul today. They made us look good! United should have scored about 7 or 8 and Lukaku will be kicking himself for not getting his hat-trick today. Referee was useless for both sides. Gave Burnley nothing in the first half when our defenders basically manhandled Chris Wood. In the second half, he sent off Rashford for a headbutt, which was fine, but he didn't send off Bardsley for hacking Rashford down and for his part in the incident. Should have been a red for both. Theeeen, Ben Mee should have been sent off twice. The second one was hilarious. Lukaku is going through on goal, edge of the box, then Mee launches himself to the ground and handles the ball. Clearly knocked it away so that Lukaku couldn't go through! What did the referee give? A throw-in! Didn't even get a free kick for that. Pogba's penalty run up is awful. He had a pretty good game, but that run up was cringeworthy. Yuck.

Speaking of deadlifts, I squatted and deadlifted today for the first time since coming back from holiday. It went great, but it takes a lot out of you when you have to start up again. Wiped out now.

I know that United have been a bit shit (I use "a bit" lightly), but Luke Shaw has made a very good start to this season. I like what I see of him. Hope it comes off for him.

We've got a storage room at school which we just refer to as "the cupboard". Since I've been there, it's always been a mess. You could hardly walk in there, you could barely making it to the back without tripping over stuff and it was always a pain trying to find the thing that you were looking for, like the right types of books, or gluesticks. We've had a few people try to give it a tidy up over the years, but it would always get messy again. The tidying up referred to mainly "picking up on the floor and putting it on the shelf" or "organising the books neatly". Not really about getting rid of the old junk. I visited the cupboard a few weeks ago to put something away and could barely get through the door. There were books just left all over the place, boxes of shit in the way, objects all over the floor from where they had slid off the shelves, etc. I knew it needed sorting out. On Thursday, I borrowed the key for that room and announced to a few friends there who work on the front desk that I was going in there - to reeeeeeeeally tidy it up. I spent around 6 hours on Thursday and about 6 or 7 on Friday. We have a row of biiig rubbish bins which is on the other side of the building and I've already filled two of these bins up with junk from the cupboard. I've used at least 15 rubbish bags. The highlight was finding unused test papers and resources from 1997. It looks A LOT better now, but it's still not quite sorted. Going to go in again on Monday to do a final whip around, maybe vacuum it as I don't think it's ever been cleaned. Yuck. I was ruthless yesterday and binned so many things that we just didn't need anymore. Felt really good! I made so many trips to the bins yesterday and Thursday that my arms and shoulders ached afterwards. Due to the layout of the building, you have to go through a series of corridors, open the doors and it's quite a walking distance away. Also, for some reason, I now have a swollen left eyelid. It started hurting yesterday afternoon and it's annoying me today. Noticeably swollen. On top of that, my body aches, so I'm just going to do some computer work today and chill the fuck out.

I remember drawing something on paper, but I can't remember why we were doing it, haha!

I'm following the Leicester/Liverpool game, mainly because I've got 3 Liverpool players in my Fantasy team. Annoyed that Keita is benched! @Eenuh has Vardy in her squad and she was pissed when he got red carded the other week. Think Leicester will miss him big time today and I can't see them scoring without him, bar a set piece or something.

A sequel to A Quiet Place has been announced, with a May 2020 attached to it. Really enjoyed the film and rate it quite highly. I hope that they don't plan to do a direct sequel and instead look at a new set of characters in a different location. We'll see!

Dankjewel! Cheers for the explanation! I was, indeed, too lazy click on that link.

A bit disappointed with the direction that they've gone in with this game. I really enjoyed NMH and Desperate Struggle. It was quite exciting to see what the next game could look like with better hardware, so it's disappointing that this is the route that is chosen instead. The video shown above did nothing for me.

Tasty Champions League groups. Think United will get through theirs, but maybe not as group winners. We'll see! Hoping for a better result this weekend. Think we'll get a 2-0 with Lukaku getting both goals.

I've been using a rucksack to carry my work stuff over the last few years, including bottles of water, my wallet, stationary (dat skool lyf) and my bag has slowly been dying. I needed something a bit more professional looking or at least a bit more attractive than a rucksack, so I scoured the net looking for some kind of satchel/messenger bag/briefcase that would suit my working environment, yet also contained enough storage to carry water bottles, folders and potentially a laptop. Not as easy as I thought, as many of the items were quite thin in width. So, the height would be great, length would be fine, but there just wasn't enough width for many of them. In the end, I ended up looking on Amazon and came across this: This, I think, will do just fine. The downside is that it's pretty big! It's about 48cm long and 38 high, with 15cm in depth. Hope it's fine!

Available now, is Destiny 2.

I've had "Evil" by Interpol in my head for a week. Video is amazing, too.

I'm going to admit that I remember seeing loads of those Forum Telephone threads, but I never actually knew what they were. I still don't know. Tell me!

I hear that Destiny 2 is available. Right now.

Jammy! What are you planning to watch next?

I own none of those.

I still need to play that Horizon DLC. It looks awesome. Unfortunately, I guess this is a by-product of season passes and the like. I know that I mention this game allllll the tiiiiime, but I really, really love how CD Projekt Red handled The Witcher 3's DLC and expansions. They added a few light bits of DLC into the game for free via an update, like alternative costumes for certain characters and I think there were a few sidequests, too. There were 16 pieces of DLC altogether. But, the expansions themselves were "meaty" and it was clear that they had spent months working on this after release. Hearts of Stone came I think 4 or 5 months after release and Blood and Wine came about 6 months after that. Both came with toooons of story stuff, new locations, new gear and armour. B&W's expansion came with a huuuuuge new area and contained a new mutation system. Both expansions had tons of new sidequests along with a main mission quest. I happily bought both physical sets for the expansion because they came with the Gwent cards. My point is that there are great ways of doing DLC and ways of handling it. We'll see how it's handled in this case and if the content is significant or not. It was clear in The Witcher's case that the developers had been working hard on this for a long time and it simply wasn't stuff that was taken out of the game last minute and charged for afterwards. Maybe we should be saying no to DLC and yes to expansions?

I've quoted @Space's original post below. I've been enjoying it, so far. There's an app that you can download for it too, which is pretty great and makes it really simply to see how your players have done, where you are in the league, as well as switching out players and making transfers. Would recommend.

I've had two weeks away from my music stuff and I've really missed it! Played drums for about two hours yesterday and one hour today. Loved every second of it! For some reason, I was browsing YouTube and came across an isolated drum only video of "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder. I now appreciate that song waaaay more than I already did beforehand, and it turns out that Stevie himself plays the drums on that tune. Couldn't believe it. It doesn't seem to follow a set pattern, more like a feeling...if that makes sense. There's a lot of funky hi-hat work going on. So, I sat on the kit yesterday and have tried to do the song justice. Here's the video of the drum only track below: God bless you, Stevie! Truly one of a kind.

Looks fantastic. I'm in love! Just hook it to my veins! I'm interested to see just they approach the open world in comparison with The Witcher 3 and how the quests change that world. They've been saying that they want to continue going down this route and expand it even more, which is very exciting for me. Just in that video alone, there seemed to be multiple ways of approaching that mission. As for release date, I would be delighted if we somehow had this for next year, but who knows? I imagine it's a really complex game to make, so it'll take time.

True, he is accountable for those two signings. At the time, Bailly looked to be a good signing, but injuries and dips in form have made him to look worse than I think he is. Lindelöf has looked, by some distance, one of his weakest signings. But, is that down to the player's quality, or is that down to chop and changing in defence, the lack of consistency and maybe not being partnered up with a more experienced and commanding defender? I think Mourinho is within his rights to ask for a new centreback. Who else is there at the club? Smalling, Jones and Rojo. Smalling - Has had a good career at the club. 28 years old and isn't going to improve. Is he going to be starting every game and is he good enough to be? If the answer to these questions is no, then we either keep as a third/fourth choice or move on. Jones - Too many injury problems and is too reckless to be starting every game, including the bigger games. Was poor yesterday. Imo, we should be moving him on. I don't think he's developed as it had been hoped when he signed. Rojo - utility player, maybe? Isn't going to be a starting player, so should be moved on. Need to be ruthless here. So, looking at that, we've got 5 defenders who aren't guaranteed to be starting every game. How can there be a tight defensive partnership if there is so much chopping and changing? We've been bailed out for the last few seasons by the brilliance of De Gea, but we really need to address this issue and it should have been sorted in the Summer.