adios

On the face of it, we've been stung by these types before. But I'm glad someone most likely more competent than Charnley is overseeing negotiations (admittedly with a sea of caveats). Could also potentially mean that Penfold is on probation.

If he doesn't have 3/4 in by early July, yes I would start to worry (as that was his plan).

Very good question.

It had better be the fucking end of calling him that. It's a coin flip for me as to whether or not this would be a good thing; positively meh. I'm more interested in why either party has decided to leak this?

Chez's gimmick account tbh.

Would love to know where the fuck he's going then.

Thought that was class too.

I'll likely try to get on some evenings this week and should be around next weekend (defo the weekend after) if yiz fancy it.

Quoted you too just to give you some faint hope.

I'm just listening on very average wireless aptx headphones. I wonder how much that has to do with it. Just did a non-blind test there with Spotify and Tidal next to each other. Still can't notice any difference.

Superb.

What in the holy mother of fuck is that?

Very depressing stuff but at least it reminded me that Paisley is dead.

Very impressive. What's your audio setup? I actually picked the lowest quality one on the first question. Spoiling this for anyone who hasn't done it yet: So I actually did worse than if I'd picked at random. I'm not sure I love their choice of clips though (which may or may not be purposeful on their part). Listening to various stuff like Chopin or Tom Waits is when I most notice it, but I haven't done a blind taste test to see if I'm imagining it.

You would hope that both the career politicians and those with some semblance of a soul left will see what an opportunity this is.

There's an interesting quiz on the bottom of this page to see if you can tell the difference between 180kbps/360kbps & lossless: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15168340/lossless-audio-music-compression-test-spotify-hi-fi-tidal I totally flunked it.

How unfortunate.

Have now tried Apple, Google, Deezer & Tidal; the latter being the only one that comes close to Spotify. Tidal is the only one to have a fully fledged desktop app on par with Spotify (this might be unfair to Apple if you have a Mac for iTunes). I don't think I can really tell the difference between the CD quality on Tidal (I just listen on headphones), so Spotify just pips it with how well it does everything. And they're adding a lossless subscription soon anyway. Stuff like the seamless integration between devices is really appreciated after taking a wander around the alternatives. Like @ewerk said above, Spotify just seems to work better with other hardware/software. For some reason, it is also the only one that recognises my mouse gestures, though that may be down to something I've set up previously. Can't be bothered to figure it out.

What is she like? "Like...whatever. Get over it."

PS4 still sitting here (no shock there) and I'm looking at changing my hours so could be around at more reasonable hours.

Doesn't look good, does it?

Remember the disarray Labour were in and how solid the Tories looked a few months (weeks?!) ago? Might not feel like it now @Rayvin, but this is a massive victory for your lot.