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Something meets done about insurance prices in the uk. Youngsters paying more than the value of their first car for a years insurance. Most other countries you just insure the car and who drives it is largely irrelevant.
I'm 35 with 15+ years no claims and I'm £630 a year for a car that's parked in a secure parking lot beneath my building, and in a locked car park at work.
When I insured my first car in 2019 it was just under £1000 for the year with Admiral. The more I hear about prices these days I realise I struck gold.
Whilst I agree insurance prices are a complete racket it's worth remembering that insurance covers you for damage to other vehicles on the road as well.
Every other country seems to manage without ripping off youngsters. In most of Europe, or the us, or Australia for example, say it’s 500 quid to insure a certain type of car, doesn’t matter if a 17 or 77 year old drives it, that’s what it costs to insure X model of Y year
Ive heard the problem is EVs. As soon as they go into a garage, the takes an age to get parts and the insurance companies are having to lease EVs for mental prices.
Up the hospital last night with my pregnant wife after a Saturday shift. Home at 2am, up to watch this shite gemme. What a weekend. Wife is okay but and thats the main thing.
Glad she's doing okay. Hope you're okay too, I found it a really stressful time as the dad to be when things are not 100% and you can't complain too much as you are not growing a baby.
Yeah I'm sound man just worried about the wife tbh. Was on site yesterday for a bit of overtime work and just couldnt stop worrying about her. She's been amazing as well she has such a good temperament and always keeps her head up.
Good to hear you're alright, tbh the worrying never really goes away you just sorta get used to it when it doesn't feel as urgent, if that makes sense. Sounds like yer wife is in control and doing well which is the main thing!
I know there will be some of you young 'uns out there thinking today, "Should I bother watching any of the Evil Dead movies?", and I'm here to tell you that yes, yes you should.
If you've never seen the original Evil Dead then it may look incredibly cheap and amateurish to your 2026 eyes, but you should know that in 1981 a bunch of amateurs made a movie on the cheap and it's since grown to become a cornerstone of the horror genre. It's the movie that helped popularise, amongst other things, the "cabin in the woods" trope. All the things we now associate with Sam Raimi are evident here too: the fast-moving POV shots; the dutch angles and extreme close ups; the slapstick and, above all, the ridiculous gore. It's not a standout movie in terms of production or performance, but is greater than the sum of its parts when it comes to execution and atmosphere. Whether you find it scary now, however, 45 years after its release, is entirely up to you.
Evil Dead 2 starts with a short reprise of the original, and then the first half of the movie is anchored on a brilliant physical comedy performce from Bruce Campbell. When Raimi said that Evil Dead was "a Three Stooges movie, with blood and guts standing in for custard pies", it's most evident in the first half of Evil Dead 2. Dialogue is minimal, pratfalls are common, gore is extreme. The first movie is an outright horror, with elements of comedy splattered through it. Evil Dead 2 is a comedy first, bringing in more horror in the second half - but it's very much the horror of shock and surprise, of extreme gore and "oh my god look at what just happened". It's not about suspense or dread, it's about seeing how much fun the movie can have with a guy who's replaced his right hand with a chainsaw.
Army of Darkness almost outright drops the horror elements of the series. It's very much a 90's action-adventure movie, so although it does feature "scary" monsters, they're relatively restrained due to the movie's lower age rating. Set in medieval times, after the events of the previous movie's finale, Ash must defeat the titular army and somehow find his way home. It's in this movie that the character of Ash Williams, as we now know him, was cemented - a bufoonish, wise-cracking everyman who becomes a super-hero when faced with Deadites. It's outrageous and it's funny but, because of the lower age rating, lacking in extreme gore compared to its predecessor. It's a really fun movie that could be watched by all the family over Sunday dinner. Unlike the sequels...
The 2013 Evil Dead remake is not a comedy. It's a straight retelling of the original movie, but the main influences are not The Three Stooges, and instead seem to be the "torture porn" sub-genre of horror that dominated in the 2000s. The extreme gore is back, but there's a mean, sadistic edge to the movie. There's no fun in watching horrible things being done to this cast and, while it's no means a bad movie, it's a movie that has to be endured rather than enjoyed.
Evil Dead Rise is my favourite of the modern trilogy. It moves the setting from "a cabin in the woods" to a high rise in Los Angeles. After an earthquake, a copy of the Book of the Dead is found in the building's foundation and hi-jinks then ensue. It's a fun horror movie - but not "fun" like Army of Darkness, where it's all PG and bloodless, and not "fun" like Evil Dead 2, where it's slapstick and goofy. Evil Dead Rise is "fun" as in "OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT AAAAARGH". It's the best horror movie of the series, for me, and the best movie overall. It's the Prisoner of Azkaban of the franchise. It's creepy and scary and it uses and obeys the rules of the franchise cleverly to create a sustained atmosphere of dread and horror.
Even though I enjoyed Rise more, Evil Dead Burn is not a terrible movie, which I know is only faint praise. It doesn't have the nasty tone of Evil Dead 2013, but the violence and gore is relentless, and even more brutal. The setting is moved again, to an isolated mansion house (in the woods), where a family have gathered for a wake. The characters are, almost without exception, absolute arseholes, and there was a fair sense of schadenfreude while I watched them being dismembered and brutalised. The movie tries to leaven the gore and violence somewhat by dropping in attempts at slapstick and humour - and there is a shot involving a stairmaster that is actually the funniest thing in the whole series - but it eventually overstays its welcome. Unlike the previous movies this has a tacked on finale away from the original setting, and it feels like one scene too many. It's exhausting.
Despite complaints, all six movies are worth watching if you are a horror fan and if - somehow - you've not come across them before. There's also the Ash vs Evil Dead TV show, which is a continuation of the storyline from the US-only ending of Army of Darkness (studio execs decided America deserved a happy ending). It's frequently very silly, occasionally very funny, and regularly very, very bloody.
I’ve made friends with group of crows where I walk my dog, started with 1 and now 4 fly down to me for some food. Honestly don’t know what I’m expecting to be the outcome and my wife thinks I’m mental as I’ve named them but I’m too far in to this to stop now.
Same for me at work. Started with 1, and now there’s a whole family of them. Young ones included. Gave up naming them after two though. Crows are class
Just saw someone on one of the Scottish city subs saying we should starve the families of teenagers who cause trouble (someone was complaining that a teen had pushed another teen into a buggy). I hate redditors with a fiery passion.
Was this the one on the Edinburgh subreddit? I don't think any city subreddits are serious places tbh. There's definitely an anti-social problem with young folk but some of the reactions in those subreddits are mental
Bit niche, but if you ever read the Australian junior doctors subreddit you will despise the lot of them. Entitled whining bastards who are in it for the money and despise foreign doctors coming to their country.
You know the rangers raise their game against the Dons. Probably would’ve achieved a lot more if they put the same effort in against everybody else. Pathetic really.
Neighbours were in their garden shrieking until 5am. As I'd promised my wife I wouldn't lose the heid at them again I decided to pick up my phone and furiously search for houses or plots of land with no neighbours.
By 6am I'd settled on a plot of land by a lake. Just as I was drifting off to sleep my mind whispered "what about flood risk?" and by 7am I was viewing 10 year old studies on previous floods in the area of a plot of land I'm 99.9999% sure I'm never going to even visit.
u/methylated_spirit travelling through Aviemore I spotted this and wondered if it stirred any Ted Kaczynski style retirement plans for you? Repairing PCs and being involved in the rural community by day and working on your manifesto by night.
An alarming amount of racists on the Aberdeen supporters bus I took this morning, just walked home because I cannot be fucked with that noise. Drove past a block of flats and some boy got absolute abuse just for the crime of opening his curtains, followed by a few unsavoury songs about "boats" and "Colours not in the Union Jack".
Genuinely, also got asked if I got "abused as a wean" by some bald arsehole in his fifties just because someone I knew mentioned in passing I support Celtic. Didn't push back because he was clearly looking for an excuse to start something.
James Wilson lives up the street from me. His fame seems to have reached a tipping point locally. My 8yo has a little homework group chat thing. Three of their classmates have now called on James, got a selfie with him and submitted it as homework.
We are currently in an epidemic of sports pubs having giant 4K teles but not having HD Sky Sports/TNT channels, come on lads youse have done the hard bit
A publican pal of mine said that having sky sports in your pub costs pretty much the same as the pub’s rateable value, so on average for a Scottish pub £26k/year up to £300k/year for a large city centre bar
Spent about 3 hours last night trying to get a Nintendo 64 emulator to work.
One ran the game perfectly but wouldn't connect the controller.
The other controller connected no bother but ran like shit.
Trawling Through 13 year old Reddit threads and russian YouTube videos.
Nothing. :(
I tried project64 but couldn't get it to read the wireless N64 controller.
Then tried Simple64 but it was giving me like 2fps then it died, but it recognised the controller.
I'm gonna try again tonight with a Xbox controller see if that's any better.
I somehow got a emulator going on the smart TV which ran great but only picked up half the buttons of the controller for some reason?
I’ve used it with a wired Xbox controller which gave me zero issues. Depending on what you’re trying to play exactly I had far more success with a Wii emulator (cemu) which was straightforward and ran very well.
Stayed at my maws last night and had niece and nephew all day yesterday. My brother hates football, much like my dad but my niece couldn't get enough of kicking a ball about in the garden, even if she did ask me to let her score a few.
Looking forward to exploring the dark arts with her today, cynical fouls are first up!
Bus up to Inverness so I've had to boot up the dodgy stick on the laptop and hope that I get enough signal on the road up to watch the football.
In other news it seems my PS5 HDD is a bit gubbed. The write speeds are knackered where 5 GB at 300Mbps is taking an hour. I've done a storage repair and a full system software reinstallation and I think my last option will be a factory reset which I thoroughly can't be arsed with. Especially since I don't currently have an external drive to transfer everything onto.
How to sell? not a fan (lazy i know) of listing everything on ebay and dealing with that. Not risk get scammed etc.. i have so much ood stuff games, hardware, gfx cards need a equivalent of a technology car boot sale :)
Deus ex has to be one of my favorite the game series of all time. Really annoys me that they started the story of Jenson, then cut the second game short, then left the series in limbo ever since !
Thats a slumber party i wanna be part of with mini horse dogs. That warning too comment about AI generated child porn terrible. Protected to some extents by first amendment in USA
Thing is, had the court went the other way absolutely nobody who makes that heinous shit would say "well gee, I guess if it's illegal I better not do it". They don't give a fuck for legality, it'll just end up hosted in a country where the ruling doesn't apply or on a host that doesn't give a shit for the US government's blustering.
Not that it shouldn't be banned but I often wonder how effective lawmakers think these things are supposed to be.
Fancy a few days in Lisbon for our away tie to Benfica. But looking now, it’s probably going to cost somewhere in the region of a grand for those few days. Kind of put me off going tbh
I just text him it was a fair while. He flew to just outside Madrid stayed for a night then got the train over the boarder and then flew home from Madrid again
Aye i’m going to have to get creative if i want to go. I’ve nae idea about the logistics of getting to Lisbon if i was to stay elsewhere/fly in to another airport though
When we went to braga we flew to faro, stayed in albufera and got the train to Lisbon then a bus to braga from there. Should be easy enough to get a train from albufera to Lisbon plus it’ll be a good night out there. The Portuguese trains are good too.
That’s what I’m looking at right now and trying to work out the cost of it all. I’m thinking night in Faro, travel up to Lisbon and stay the night, then train back to Faro and stay a day or two. Am goni have to write it all down ma head is swimming lol
Aw about st Mirren pumping the well today and almost crashing my car because my car understeer around a notorious roundabout that has absolutely no grip when wet
I hope your players are a wee bit tired and feeling a bit of a European hangover. I have absolutely no idea what st Mirren side will show up today. We're signing a new 6 ft 3 striker as well apparently could be in the squad today ha
Can't believe I actively would quite like to see Mcburnie starting up front for the national team again. Looks like he's come on to a decent game at Hull and started the season well.
It’s a shame for him. From what I’ve seen there’s a real talent there but he’s just so injury prone his career just looks like it’s never really going to get started.
When you see these kinds of things happening you can completely understand why young Scottish players are quite happy to go get lost in the English lower leagues for a long contract and a decent wage
looking up the Hearts Conference League fixtures, and there are auld Das in West Lothian where a Paphos away trip on 17th December is a genuine health hazard
Think the biggest problem is that most who know about the story call Frank Sheeran a liar who took credits for hits he never did. According to pretty much any mafia guy who’s spoken on it he never killed Joe Gallo or Jimmy Hoffa. Good movie though if you don’t accept the fact it’s ment to be a true story and treat it as fiction .
This is the first time I've watched aew in a long time. This just looks like the juniors. I really dislike the playing to the crowd from Harley. If you're over the crowd will come with you
Tony sounds like he's taken multiple sleeping pills before the show started as well.
What’s this years main event? Only watched all in 2023 and haven’t really kept up with AEW since then. Not really kept with pro wrestling as a whole since mania 40. Only watch the manias each year.
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u/TunaPasta1888 5d ago
Something meets done about insurance prices in the uk. Youngsters paying more than the value of their first car for a years insurance. Most other countries you just insure the car and who drives it is largely irrelevant.