>>8845
>@96wasnotenough

>>8845
Didn't everyone learn this sort of thing was an awful idea about five years ago?

>>8847
You'd have thought so.

>>8846

What does it refer to? Hillsborough?

>>8849
Yep.

I've been in on a meeting with members of Woodford's team. They've confirmed that:-

• The fund is unlikely to open for two to three months at least. It'll take that long to raise the amount required fairly and when they do re-open chances are there will be a dilution levy, i.e. an exit charge for people taking their money out.

• The stocks they've sold so far have been at a profit to the price they bought it for. They're very hopeful that one of the unquoted stocks now held in Patient Capital Trust is going to earn them a handsome profit in the near future.

• They are not going to waive their management fees. They're going to have further internal meetings on this but it's highly unlikely as they don't generate enough income from elsewhere (Patient Capital Trust charges a performance fee rather than a management fee so they've been running it at a loss for a while due to underperformance) and they're already in the middle of cost cutting measures. If they cut off their primary source of revenue for c. three months they'd probably go under.

• When the fund re-opens they're going to hold more FTSE 100 stocks. They doubled down that their view is right to focus on undervalued stocks such as domestic facing housebuilders rather than global facing stocks such as Unilever with ridiculous price-earnings ratios. They're contrarian investors so periods of underperformance should be expected.

• They believe they're the victims of an orchestrated negative media campaign, with negative coverage of them for well over a year. They repeatedly mentioned this largely being the fault of the media - overblowing the issue so that investors would panic and applying pressure so that backers like St James's Place would drop them. They even went a bit tinfoil and said there seems to be a coincidental number of occurrences between negative coverage of Woodford and the stocks they've picked being shorted. They seemed more convinced that Woodford have ran a poor PR campaign rather than running the fund poorly.

>>7601
Cracking work!

Financial Conduct Authority boss Andrew Bailey said fund rules may need amending in the wake of the Woodford fund suspension. In a letter penned for the Financial Times, Bailey said the suspension of the £3.7 billion fund last Monday had raised important questions about the UK’s regulatory approach towards investment in illiquid assets.

Bailey stressed financial markets should support investment in firms that contribute to economic growth and create jobs, which in turn foster innovation. However, he noted that these businesses can often be illiquid and not all will succeed.

‘We need appropriate rules around investments in illiquid securities to protect investors,’ Bailey wrote. ‘I believe there should be limits on the share of illiquid investments held in collective investment schemes whose shares are typically bought and sold freely and frequently.’

https://citywire.co.uk/new-model-adviser/news/fca-indicates-woodford-could-trigger-overhaul-of-fund-rules/a1237891

There already are limits on the number of illiquid assets collective investments can hold. It's reassuring to see the FCA are on the ball, as usual.

>>7602
He's said this week:-

• The fund is highly unlikely to re-open before the October Brexit deadline. This is a) in case everything goes to shit with Brexit and b) he's still convinced his stocks will come good and he sees a Brexit resolution as the inflection point, so he doesn't want to sell stocks right before they shoot up.

• When it re-opens he will never handle institutional money again after being burned by the likes of Kent County Council. His main ire was directed at St James's Place, as they released a research paper saying his hit rate is actually better than ever before phoning him a few days later to say they were dropping him due to negative media coverage.

He also had a little cry and said this is the toughest time of his life.

As expected...

Neil Woodford's flagship equity income fund to stay locked

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48790585

I like Last Year at Marienbad and The Seventh Seal but I probably wouldn't recommend them to other people unless they had a just-above-threshold dose of something psychedelic (including sleep deprivation) to watch them on.

>>22976
Citizen Kane is a boring load of old wank, I don't care if it had groundbreaking camerawork or whatever.

>>22978
Shh child.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say Half Life never aged all that well.

It was remarkably influential game that led us into more "cinematic" storytelling, but I am often forced to wonder if that was even a good thing. Look where that influence led us over the next decade. From a gameplay perspective, it was also one of the games that pushed us towards "realism" where there is an overabundance of hitscan enemies and no real way of mitigating damage. This is what pushed us towards the Halo style model of regenerating shield/health, and ultimately, to boring cover shooters.

The older I get the more I can't escape the idea that Doom was not only one of the first but arguably always one of the best first person shooters. Its gameplay is so incredibly well balanced in all sorts of ways, that were certainly happy accidents rather than intentional, but I think all shooters should learn their lessons from it.

Where Half Life was great was in level design, atmosphere and environmental storytelling, but I think Half Life 2 surpasses it. Black Mesa infuriates me because they have messed with the formula to make it even more unforgiving- You have lower ammo caps and seem to take far more damage than the original; which only exacerbates what I think are already weaknesses in the first game.

>>22978

Yes imagine the idea that the films on the top of the poll that didn't just come out and get the hollywood hype train behind them might actually be good.

>>22980
>Citizen Kane is a boring load of old wank, I don't care if it had groundbreaking camerawork

It is the film I mentioned that tends to get the most heat firstly because people feel it is over praised, and also the subject matter and tone, the others I mentioned (even Seven Samurai) have comic relief moments Citizen Kane is dry as bone. I love it as a character piece though. I think you are supposed to come away sincerely saying 'the tragedy of the man' and I do.

>>22983>>22984
You can say that again.

>>428022
Like some kind of weaponised cloak sweat?

>>428028 In all this rain, what with constantly going in & out, I've been seriously considering a cloak or poncho or something. I'm sure I spend more than 10 minutes a day wrestling my arms in & out of coats.
Problem is, it's a fucking cloak. Surely there's some alternative. At the moment, I'm tending to just wear a big hat, but that's not ideal either.

>>428041
How is it you find putting a coat on so difficult?

>>428041

There's nothing wrong with a cloak. Pitch yourself into the cup of tea!

>>427978
What about the health benefits of Kefir? Or is that bunk too?

bet his postman loves him

>>63579

How could Pat have been in the US army? He's from the lake district

>>63580

Exactly. Fucking Seppos.

>>63580

I thought it was referencing jacob's ladder until the end

I've seen this thread three or four times, and only now I realise I misread it as "man posts dog poo in his letterbox for two years".

I thought they might have just let him get away with it due to his advanced years.

>JS

Disgusting language.

>>27164
>the market for JS frameworks has exploded in the last few years as front-end development has become a respectable engineering art; they are two a penny now and the source of much geek arguments.
One of the reasons I've tried to stay focused on back-end development is that it takes more than just the passing of a weekend to render my knowledge out of date.

Rule of thumb: go with whatever's newer / flashier. They'll just get you to refactor the code for the next framework of the week a few versions down the line anyway.

t. disgruntled dev

Depending on the use-case, it might make more sense to develop a Progressive Web App rather than a native app. With modern web APIs, you can provide an icon on the home screen, offline functionality and push notifications with a web app. You can fully leverage your existing web development skills and tooling, you don't really have to worry about cross-platform issues and you can deliver a more streamlined onboarding process.

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

>>27168
I think I just knocked off two lines on Tech Buzzword Bingo. Just need "cloud-native" for a full house.

These have tempo shifts if it counts

MF DOOM ft. MF Grimm - Tick, Tick..

King Geedorah - No Snakes Alive (Music Video)

Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel

>>63556
Out of interest, is she bottle fed or do you manually pump her?

>>63553
Biathlon sounds like a neat way of encouraging cold-climate combat training under the guise of a sport and I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that's how it came about.

It looks like cracking fun too.

>>63575

Yup, it's military training turned sport.

I've always wanted to see urban biathlon - a combination of moped racing and 25m rapid fire pistol. If we're going to be plagued with gang violence, we might as well get an Olympic medal out of it.

>>63557 bottle m8 once tried filling a s16 got a hernia

>>63577
Ghetto Olympics huh?

>>86294
Is there any reason why Scots seem to hate Bojo more than the other candidates? Apart from the Old Etonian thing, I mean.

>>86297
Because he's obviously going to win making the others at least doubly irrelevant.

>>86297
It's just the standard Sweaty chip on shoulder mentality.

Sweet fucking Jesus one of these cunts will be PM.

>>86316 not for long. I think the only way Boris will be able to not deliver Brexit will be to force a losing GE.

Leave Kanye alone

>>63559

That particular cat has "British" in its pedigree name, so yes, it is automatically racist

>>63562
You ever notice that when a cat has short hair its British but when it has long hair they call it Scottish?

>>63562
At least it's not a Maine Coon.

Short people aren't a race. Why, they aren't even human.

>>22899
Also this is shockingly far ahead for pre order, it's close enough to a year to not matter.
It looks like it has excellent single player and no multiplayer, and therefore, expect to see it in CEX for under a tenner on the playstation 4 a few years and 75p a few years after that.


I don't think you and I are typical consumers though, I just started playing the uncharted games because I could get the first 3 for under a fiver. but I am honestly disconnected enough from the hype to not care about the differance between a game that came out now and 10 years ago.

>>22922
RPS are being rather bitchy about it too:

I’ve got some exciting news for everyone who’s paying £50 for a game that doesn’t exist yet, over a year before it will be finished! Banks!

This is a pretty big deal, and an RPS exclusive, but we’ve discovered that instead of spending money on things you can’t have for literally no reason, you can instead put your money into something called a “bank”. These are big shops that look after money for you, and as a special treat for letting them do so, they add a little bit of extra money when you ask for it back! Not as much as they used to in the olden days, admittedly, but still.

It gets better! Because of banks there’s something called “inflation”. This has nothing to do with balloons, but everything to do with money being worth less as time goes on. So in a year’s time, £50 won’t be as much money as it is today! Not only can you make your money get bigger in a bank, but you can also buy the game for what’s essentially a cheaper price by buying it after the game is finished!

Expect to see this story ripped off across the gaming media, but you’ll know where you saw it first.

>>22944
Entertainment journalist in impulse purchase discovery SHOCKER.

What a navel-gazing twat. It's not as if the same gaming media hyping up disappointing triple-AAA titles in the first place played a part in the recent thirst for competently developed games, surely.

>>22944

RPS have long since jumped the shark. It used to be a place of witty and somewhat cynical independent journalism, but it sold out and succumbed to clickbait and controversy courting several years ago. The closest it gets to its old self are trash articles like this one, that try to sound pithy and clever, but instead just sound like a 22 year old media studies graduate wrote them.

What happened is all their good writers left, except for John Walker, who was always by far the worst one. When he had more influence he wanted to hire more women, which is fair enough; the problem is all the women who applied were clearly shit. So now half the writers are shit, because it's more important that they have a vagina than be able to write entertainingly.

I've been playing CKII tonight, and I was beginning to get irritated that half my vassals were angling for a civil war just because I was an emperor with absolute power, but then I realised they really had no reason to care about my imperial ambitions hundreds of miles away from their lands, and that Roman emperors, depending on the era, spent half their time fighting people within their borders.

Still wish the entire northern half of my empire would die and I could completely restructure it stop them kicking off ever again.

https://fairytale.ink/book/grimms-fairy-tales

>>6961
>Parents spend more on outfits than they do on novels
That's not really surprising. Clothes are expensive, books are not.

A quarter of parents are using digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to read bedtime stories to their children, a survey suggests. Two thirds said that they gave their children time on smartphones, tablets or television before they went sleep instead of a bedtime story

Some parenting websites extol the use of Alexa at bedtime. They say that, as well as allowing it to read a story to your child, you can ask it to sing to them, dim the lights, create white noise and respond to them from another room if they wake.

The survey showed that half of parents aimed to share a story with their child every night but barely more than a quarter did. Nearly a third said that work or commuting stopped them getting home in time and a fifth said they were too busy. For parents who did read stories with their child at night more than half said that they would choose to use an app or YouTube for the task. More than two fifths of children younger than 11 own a tablet and one in eight owns a tablet and a smartphone.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/busy-parents-rely-on-alexa-for-bedtime-stories-dtrm2xmhp

Are there any decent British comics these days? I'm going to trial The Phoenix for my daughter, but I can't think of any others. The Beano seems to have gone to shit and almost everything else is magazines for about a fiver with a load of tat attached to it.

>>7017
Get down the jumble sale and get some old annuals.

I found this

https://kindlecoverdisasters.tumblr.com/

>>7010
Why's this one on there? This the most beautiful imagery the Western World has produced, from cave paintings to baroque cathedrals it was all leading to this one vision of absolute purity and satisfaction.

>>7010
Posting Chuck Tingle is cheating.

>>7015
Pounded In The Butt By A Britfags Poster's Contention That Including My Books About Being Pounded In The Butt In A List Of Humorous Book Titles Is Cheating.

>>14971

Excellent idea.

>>14972

Actually, I don't know that I needed to delete that post after screenshotting it.

http://vimeo.com/24191501

Got myself a new 4k screen. Might have to make the images bigger again lads.

>>14999

Have we finally reached a point where we can fit Narkiss's fanny on a screen without zooming out?

>>15000
Let's hope so.

Olaf Stapledon tries to imagine the history of humanity over the next two billion years but many reviews recommend you skip the first four chapters or so because of how laughably inaccurate his account of the near future is; the book was published in 1930.

France and Britain end up in a catastrophic war, with Germany seen as the main peacebroker of Europe. Nuclear power is discovered but it is then all the research is promptly destroyed so it can never be used as a weapon of war, so First Man ends up building a religion and rituals around coal powered aeroplanes until everything goes to shit when they run out of sources of energy.

>>7012
>First Man ends up building a religion and rituals around coal powered aeroplanes until everything goes to shit when they run out of sources of energy.
>laughably inaccurate

He's not being quite as entertaining as this now is he?

>>19569

or this

https://news.sky.com/story/gay-porn-star-fined-for-threesome-on-tube-after-footage-posted-on-twitter-11624814

>>19560

This picture just puts in a nutshell so many things about modern-day life that I deeply despise with all my heart.

>>19560
>What moment? The moment you're stuck on a crowded Tube carriage with some wanker acting weird? If ever there's a moment to stare at your phone, it's then.

As was pointed out on the place I took this from, 'they said after taking a picture with an iPhoneX they bought with the money his mum had to work a second job to earn'

>>19569

That is wonderfully charming. That would totally make my day.

Imagine getting bummed to death.

>>19571

I seem to remember Barrymore implying the bumming might have been post-mortem by a pathologist but my grandma happened to be friends with the mother of that pathologist and he reckons he didn't do any bum-raping.

>>19573
POTY.

>Most families do not choose to send their children to their nearest school, shows the biggest ever study of state secondary school choices in England. More than 60% opt for a school that is further away - usually because it is higher achieving.

>"Contrary to a widely-held belief, only a minority of parents choose their local school as their first option," say researchers.

>It also debunks the idea that richer families are more engaged with choices. Despite any assumptions about the "sharp elbows" of middle-class families, there was no significant difference in behaviour between wealthier and more disadvantaged parents.

>Both were similarly engaged in using choices to seek more desirable school places for their children. Parents in poorer areas were more likely to opt for schools further away - with researchers suggesting this was because richer families were more likely to live close to high-performing schools.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48365204

This is more a personal observation than anything, but a few months ago when I watched that 'They Will Not Grow Old' documentary by Peter Jackson, I couldn't help but notice just how articulate all the old WWI vets were. They certainly didn't sound as though they were upper-crust or anything, they just sounded like regular blokes from across England and Scotland; only one or two of them sounded like officers.

Now, these were old men, so they've had a lifetime of experience to become more nuanced in their speech, but for me, it put to bed this silly notion that we're 'more' educated nowadays than we used to be because of technology. You'd think with all the text people read on a daily basis because of their phones, they'd be more literate, but it's the opposite.

>>86300
There are a lot of things that could have effected why the Tommies in those interviews sounded the way they did though. It's possible the researchers at the time thought the working class ones with inpenetrable regional accents weren't telly material, or that all of them died at the age of 40 from being so poor and smelly. I haven't seen the film though I might be way off on both ideas.

I definitely think literacy is taking a hit though, or at least the levels of quality literacy. Undoubtably more people can read and write than ever before, but not everyone's secretly a *NAME OF FAMOUS AUTHOR*. Sorry, I don't know many books.

Oh, Sara Pascoe, she did a book.

>>86300

I think it's sort of more that the way people spoke back then was more polite and proper; or at least, it bloody well was if you were going to be on the film. That will have been a big deal for gentlemen of their generation, and I imagine they'd have asked for their Sunday best and treated it like a formal occasion.

I don't think it necessarily has to do with education in terms of intellect, but certainly education in terms of how to conduct and present oneself. We've almost entirely retired that concept these days. Nowadays people might read and write more than ever before, technically, but most of them don't spend their time on a board like this for anoraks and shed enthusiasts. The quality of their reading material counts for far more than the quantity, because 90% of online communication is utter dreck.

I will type more words now because I have just obtained a mechanical keyboard and I am enjoying the noises it makes. They are pleasant, but I feel the trend towards them recently is a bit overrated. If my old one hadn't have broken I don't think I would have consciously "upgraded" to a mechanical one at any point soon.

>>86302
>I don't think it necessarily has to do with education in terms of intellect, but certainly education in terms of how to conduct and present oneself.

This. Back then people seemed to have a greater sense of pride or, more accurately, a greater sense of shame. I'm not entirely sure when picking up your children from school wearing pyjamas, slippers and a dressing gown became a thing but I'd wager it coincided with an increase in people having no sense of shame.

Good riddance. KC became an unbearable place to browse before it died.

ERNSTCHAN DOOD

WAT NOU?

>>24125
As an /A/ poster, KC was a refuge for some of the more niche troubles like the over-the-counter options in DE (particularly DPH and DXM). The rest of that place, though... good riddance.

>>24127

I'll really miss it. It kind of felt like an international version of this place. Just cosy discussions without any boring shitposts and memes.

Kohlchan has now emerged as the successor but it's just KC 2.0 with all of the same problems.

I guess I should find better things to do than waste time on imageboards.

>>24125
>>24129
I know I'm replying to fucking old posts, but I think this really presents just what a plague 4chan and /pol/ are. People have been going to Krautchan for years, but in the last few years or so it's become truly unbearable, like so many other places.

>>24216

Yes lad, well done. You really trolled us good and proper.

>>24217
Ah yes, the sarcasm. I expected this.

>>24218
Nanny Gub'mint won't let us buy guns, we have to have our fun somehow.

>>24218
The penis is mightier than the sword, and all that.

>>24216
>>24218
To be honest, on other imageboards, this sort of sentiment is now far more common than it was five years ago; so I usually just expect people to be genuine when they complain about us (though I've found the manner in which they do it laced with a lot of cognitive dissonance).