Rayvin

I didn't want it to seem like the ONLY reason I was out walking was for pokemon.

I do enjoy walking though, tbf.

Probably both, but I've walked about 40km since last Friday.

While you were on holiday in the lakes, Pokemon Go came out and became the fastest downloaded app of all time. It allows people to walk around in the real world, using GPS and actual maps of surrounding areas, and locate and catch pokemon. Then you train them up and take over gyms. There's not actually that much more to it though, I'm hoping they expand the content somewhat to include battling with other trainers properly.

Have to admit to being impressed by Ant there actually... I'm level 18 and have actually been walking to hatch eggs and so on. I think I've lost half a stone in the past week, so it's not all bad even if you're doing it properly.

Surely that's where their youth players would come into it though?

That's actually pretty bizarre. On the electability thing - they've disenfranchised huge swathes of their membership though. If they move to the centre with the Tories then great, maybe more people vote for them again - probably not many of their 500,000 membership though - and while that isn't an election winning number it's also not that small. I also expect they'll lose more working class to UKIP though. It's not like the working class are after centralist policies to protect the middle income earners, which is effectively what the centreground used to be under Labour (it's now high income earners under the Tories). Honestly, I think they're imploding - it's going to be a slow motion car crash, but the death knell was actually the balls up in Scotland. The source was not combating Tory nonsense about austerity. And the more I think about that, the more convinced I am that this is actually Ed Miliband's fault. Corbyn is in power because Miliband utterly failed to challenge austerity and sidled up to the Tories on the issue, and because he changed the voting rules for membership elections. Either way though, had it not been Miliband it would have been someone else. New Labour failed.

I think now, it's just 'vote Tory'. I don't know where this idea that Labour is suddenly going to be viable again post-Corbyn comes from, but I can't say that I subscribe to it. They've been a shambles on all sides for fucking ages now. Even I think they look less competent than the Tories, and I think the Tories are utter muppets.

Dare I ask what level we all are...?

It's quite addictive but not sure how lasting it'll be... I'm sure there's more than just me and Andrew playing it from here as well...

I wondered who would be first to admit to Pokemon Go on here... loser! Yes, I have it too.

If they get 110m for Pogba, they could still get Sissoko...

We destabilized Europe - and the coup looks like something erdogan set up himself. I just think he saw the opportunity while Europe was weak and took it.

This is all very interesting but Corbyn is going to win and we'll be a one party state. #Brexit

Final score 2-0?

Very probably true. Putin will be about to capitalise on the chaos we've inflicted.

Bet he gets booked early doors...

I defer to Isegrim on this really given he's much closer to it, but I had thought there was a big issue in terms of people from Syria coming over with different views of boundaries and sexual acceptability. I also gather a German politician, who was raped, made out that her attackers weren't Syrian to avoid a populist backlash against immigrants...? I could be miles wide of the mark here and apologise if so, but parts of this sound grim.

We did get Gayle though, he looks alright to me. And Mitro and Perez are still good strikers.

I wonder what the chances of Fish trotting on are...

Well I feel I learned a lot in this discussion.

Fair enough, I'll try that.

:lol: That's totally what I should do. No on the neighbourhood cats though, not that I've seen. It's a bit big for a cat anyway, I'd have said.

The spade is beyond me I'm afraid, at least not while I think it might stand a chance. One of my co-workers kindly offered to run it over though, so there's that option...