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Umineko no Naku Koro ni or Agatha Christie's And Then There Were Boobs: Episodes 1-8 Eighteen characters introduced in the first episode? Eighteen? How am I meant to remember... Oh, that's made things easier, thanks. From the artwork for this show I thought it would take place in the...

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei or Truck-kun visits Hinamizawa: Complete Yeah, I don't remember this at all. The central three episodes of this very short series and the two that bookend them is like reading a treatise on free will and causality hidden inside a Beano comic, but also reading the...

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Complete (rewatch... kind of) "I don't have time to teach you how to operate a Kalashnikov" Edition Okay, so my memory isn't totally shot. I remember Hanyū (she of best character song and horns everyone is remarkably nonplussed by) and I remember that banging...

Alien: Romulus Finally managed to catch this on a decent sized screen at a reasonable hour of the day before it’s gone from cinemas. Overall I thought it did a good job of balancing the tension of Alien and the action of Aliens, I thought it was well paced and the design work was mostly...

Any updates on this issue?

No Dave, while I have no real knowledge of the process that does seem like a ludicrous sum. And now someone in your situation wouldn't even be allowed to have their foreign spouse join them in the UK since they've instituted a minimum income of £29k to obtain a spouse visa. "You must be this...

Frankly, no. The taxation and benefits system is there to fund help for people when they need help. It's not a savings account, you're not supposed to get back what you put in. My household pays £130 in council tax every month but we certainly don't receive £130 worth of services in return, that...

Right, here's the deal, to make things absolutely clear: None of my comments have been directed generally at people on benefits. In fact, none of my comments have been directed at people on benefits at all because those in receipt of pension credit are still eligible for the winter fuel payment...

Today I was in a shop and By the Way by RHCP came on. I don't entirely hate RHCP but I do hate By the Way, it's one of those songs where despite me not liking it, that droning chorus gets stuck in my head annoying me until I can flush it out with an even more powerful but actually good earworm...

First new DVDs I’ve bought for quite some time, but given that I think my blu-ray player can do a better job of upscaling than whoever did the official 1080 upscale I think I’m good. A steal at less than £13 from MVM’s clearance section.

I think there's a perfectly reasonable argument to be made for doing away with means testing completely along with the state pension, universal credit and any other benefits and instituting a UBI, which if memory serves has even been calculated to work out cheaper than the current system anyway...

That’s exactly how I did it, replaced my old address since I haven’t ordered since I moved house. Update: Got back home and tried again from my desktop and the order went through fine. Seems to have been a mobile browser issue.

Uh… Perfectly valid UK address there MVM, I’ve tried moving the city up a line and replacing it with the county but no dice. Anyone else had this issue?

I will warn you @Vashdaman I’m not entirely sure how high your tolerance will be for the more cutesy/moe elements of the show but if you do watch it, please stick it out because I think the (intentional) tonal whiplash is worth it. Also please do post here after each arc, I would very much look...

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Complete (rewatch) Many years ago, a troubled young man with a worryingly regular desire to beat people to death with a baseball bat finds himself in a new, small, tight-knit community where he makes good friends, gets into fights and generally has a laugh, never...

Welp, there goes the long term memory. I searched these very forums to see if it could enlighten me regarding where I got up to with Higurashi to find out I apparently watched both Kai and Rei. I don't recall watching Kai or Rei at all. Back to the beginning it is.

Galaxy Express 999: Episodes 71-78, I will finish this show before I die edition. Nothing new there, then. Even for GE999, the morals of "It's more noble to spend your life literally hacking dirt in a barren wasteland out of a sense of duty to your father and a bunch of dead people than to...

Site seems to be going up and down like a yo-yo right now. It's like a coin flip when I try to open a page whether it'll load or not. Definitely not my connection since other sites are loading fine.

I was certain I saw listings for this at my local Vue (which was good news because £4.99 tickets) but they seem to have disappeared now. Odd, although it would be just my luck if they’ve decided not to bother showing it here.

Thank you, I thought perhaps I was going mad here, I don’t think I have seen anyone in the media point this out, people on pension credit will still get it which is to say, the poorest pensioners who might actually need it. I was within an inch of becoming one of those people who writes letters...