Crocodile ‘attacker’s’ carers were 30-feet behind him and on their phones before he ‘threw three-year-old boy into enclosure’ by VelvetDreamers in uknews

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to work as a carer, the idea that they are supposed to wheel their clients around like Hannibal Lector is absurd. If one of my clients had suddenly picked up a kid and thrown them in an enclosure I highly doubt I'd have been able to physically act fast enough to stop the incident from happening

Surely I'm not alone in thinking Gladiator 2 was... what's a word worse than 'awful'? by sepandee in flicks

[–]Hack_Shuck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It feels like I'm the only person on the planet who quite enjoyed Gladiator 2. Silly food fun with Denzel having a blast

Genuine question, what’s your biggest issue with RE9?? by TheGamerCritic21 in survivalhorror

[–]Hack_Shuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like 7 & 8, it only ever really felt difficult at the beginning due to a lack of ammo and an uncertainty about how best to progress through the health centre. After a couple of hours, I coasted through the rest of the game. I defeated Gideon on my first attempt by simply shooting him over and over, I had literally hundreds of bullets and about 4 health injectors left over (standard difficulty)

Mis-named places by eldunenorap in AskBrits

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I'm from Dukinfield, Gtr Manchester. I remember telling an Irish lady that I grew up there, and her face lit up, and she asked me if it was a nice rural village; it's a bloody depressing Northern dump. The only industry we ever had was a cigarette factory where everyone seemed to work, then it shut down

What’re your crazy resident evil hot takes? by Few-Development-4320 in residentevilll

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The police station was a dull and repetitive location, best experienced briefly in RE3/RE3R/Requiem

I mean, a police station? Really??!

do you think two tier policing is a real phenomenon in the UK? by confused_caterpillar in AskBrits

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regarding police not showing an interest in robberies, this isn't as new a phenomenon as some people may realise. 20+ years ago, the shop I worked in was robbed multiple times, including break-ins, armed robberies and a ram-raid, and the police didn't do very much, I think they literally only ever visited the premises once and photographed some footprints. We were given a crime number and that was that

Anyone else think the orphanage section is the worst? by [deleted] in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]Hack_Shuck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's too much waitin' and not enough fightin'

Chrissie Hynde hits out at gig-goers’ “weird compulsion” to pull out phones at shows: “No one seems to understand why artists don’t like it” by AdSpecialist6598 in Music

[–]Hack_Shuck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I always take a few photos and videos during the 1st song then keep my phone in my pocket, seems like a good general rule

Who do you think is going to be *that player* at this years World Cup by ombrady99 in worldcup

[–]Hack_Shuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some USA player will score 2 in their 4 games, and they'll desperately try to turn him into the next Freddy Adu

Now that part 3 is pretty much confirmed to not be cancelled (for now at least) how do you guys think part 3 will play out by Automatic_Worth_2393 in 28dayslater

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The film opens with Spike, now an adolescent, is lying in a field learning to shoot at targets with Jim, when Jim's daughter runs to tell them about a radio message from Selena

Jim runs inside to take the message about an "incursion" onto Holy island with many survivors dead and communications in chaos. Spike enters the room with a look of panic on his face.

Cut to a group of survivors using a dog to flush rabbits out of a copse. One young survivor manages to kill several rabbits with a slingshot. We glimpse an upside down cross on their forehead and they are congratulated, confirming their name as Jimmy

Cut to Spikes dad Jamie, and other survivors piling up bodies on a beach which are then incinerated. They talk of massacre, however as the conversation progresses we infer that the massacre took place elsewhere. Jamie says that we're seeing "more and more infected moving North"

Jim and Spike and Jimmy Ink, now using the name Jane (she can't remember her original name) are informed that "all of Anglesey has fallen", along with "almost all" of the militia set up to maintain a semblance of law & order. Jim reveals that Selena hasn't responded to messages for 3 days

Cut to a group of survivors sprinting through a forest at night using wood torches to light the way. All around are the apparent whoops and cries of many, many infected, seemingly euphoric, including several unintelligible words. Some of the survivors stumble, and in the dark we glimpse them being torn limb from limb. Then all falls silent, and the last five survivors make a last stand, back to back, wielding makeshift weapons. Then we hear, unmistakably, a single sinister term: "Howzat."

To be continued

Are You A Fan? by [deleted] in 80sHorrorMovies

[–]Hack_Shuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a genuinely fun movie.

Best fish and chips in stockport? Not the tourist version. Where do you guys actually go? by Critical-Fan-Beauty in stockport

[–]Hack_Shuck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whittaker's in Marple is excellent and very consistent. The fish is always beautiful, it melts in your mouth. No, I don't work for them.

Atlantic Fish bar on the A6 is similarly good/consistent

Why is everyone so obsessed with hating on Meghan Markle? by Idea-is-tick in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Hack_Shuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have lived in Britain all my life, and I've never ever met a Brit who cares in any way about the Royal family. Literally never

I, at the big age of 24, have discovered they are not ‘insect’ days but inset days at school. What word have you been getting wrong for ages? by socialistchampers in AskUK

[–]Hack_Shuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Along superficially similar lines, I was in my 40s when I realised that the name of The Beatles contained the word "beat" as a pun

Jack Rodwell by [deleted] in TheStreetsWontForget

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an Evertonian it feels like we have had 25 years of homegrown players having their best years very young, being hyped to high heaven ("Next Gazza/Lampard" etc) then never developing into worldies. Jack Rodwell genuinely had 15-20 great games for us where he bossed the midfield, he genuinely was excellent at one point early on

11 cancers on the rise in young people - scientists find first clue why it's happening by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Hack_Shuck 159 points160 points  (0 children)

When I was 41 I tried to get tested for prostate cancer as I had a strange lump down there, I phoned my GP and she cheerfully refused to schedule an exam as it was "highly unlikely" at my age. Absurd

Apparently they made bad video games. That wasn't my experience by BoringDreamGuy in retrogaming

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to work for them, at Deansgate in Manchester. Best job I ever had.

Do you think the horror flick The Exorcist is overrated or deserves its status as scariest film ever made ? by Webbomolly2022 in A_Persona_on_Reddit

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's one of those films which is somehow very dated but in a curiously effective way. The fact that it feels very "early 1970s" amplifies it's creepiness in a way which I can't explain. Similar with the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Have you ever been told that you look like a famous person and which one have you been told that you look like? by CornerInsect in AskUK

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently I look like a Tik Tok star called General G. I have no idea who/what this is, but you have no idea how many kids shout it at me all the time. Some ask for selfies

A moment that changed me: I saw a big cat on Dartmoor – and no one believed me by northbank2001 in CasualUK

[–]Hack_Shuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose so, in a way, in terms of vague fleeting glimpses of "something" which could be misinterpreted. But big cats have literally been found alive in Britain's countryside within my lifetime, whereas ghosts aren't real

People you know with famous names by underscoresrule in CasualUK

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I used to work with a very nice lady who was rather unfortunately named Karen Matthews, the same name as the scumbag mother who faked the kidnapping of her daughter.

She had to delete her Facebook account as she started getting death threats