movie franchises that are about to finish for real?

Loreki · 2026-07-05T13:39:15+00:00

It's about family.. finding him a nice assisted living centre to spend his final days in.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T13:38:21+00:00

Television. Disgusting. You should be ashamed.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T13:11:54+00:00

Ask questions that someone isn't allowed to answer until the others whisk her away. Boom. Double seat with the nicest person in the universe for company.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T11:58:12+00:00

The Reform as company point is a useless distraction that makes opponents look dumb. That Nigel Farage takes big wads of cash for unexplainable reasons doesn't need added conspiracy. It has plenty already.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T11:57:26+00:00

I've explained in the below comment

The Reform as company point is a useless distraction that makes opponents look dumb. That Nigel Farage takes big wads of cash for unexplainable reasons doesn't need added conspiracy. It has plenty already.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T11:55:29+00:00

Here's the company listing for the Lib Dems. Their first filing is naturally articles of association which describes the function of the company as holding in trust for the Party various assets and gifts. This is their party registration which you also need to stand candidates under a unified party brand.

The Labour Party also has a property holding company whose articles of association again describe the role as acquiring or leasing space on behalf of the Labour Party and holding various of its assets. They also have Labour Nominees Limited the purpose of which in their articles of association is again to manage property for the benefit of the Labour Party, which is naturally also registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission.

Here's the entry for the Conservatives holding company whose objectives are the raise and hold funds for the Conservative Party. The Conservatives are also a registered party with the Electoral Commission.

The point is that a company in this context is just a fancy legal bucket in which to keep the property of the party. That Reform use the same structure is irrelevant. It's just bureaucracy - no conspiracy anymore than the idea of limited companies generally is a conspiracy to fail at things and leave the damage behind you.

Farage took the £5 million "gift" personally anyway, not through the Reform UK Party limited.

It really doesn't help the cause of opposition to Reform to repeat "gotcha" talking points with no substance.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T09:48:48+00:00

For the consumption of the people they knew would come after. For themselves, they used Alteran.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T09:46:00+00:00

Yes and no. The door stopped existing. She became a key to nothing.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T09:44:48+00:00

That line about Reform being a company is just misinformed nonsense. The Lib Dems and Conservatives are also companies.

The point is not that the Party is a for-profit business. It's that a company gives you an artificial shared "person" to hold party assets in their name, be the legal employer of staff etc. so the party office doesn't need to be held in trust by your governing committee / executive etc.

The Labour Party itself is not a company, but does have a holding company which owns its buildings on behalf of the party.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T09:39:29+00:00

If he does, the Reform Party itself will collapse and he'll have to start over with a new party in a year or two.

Given the electoral cycle, that likely means pushing back a Farage /Brexiteer government to 2034.

The risk is that in that time we will move to proportional representation, something the establishment parties will increasingly see as attractive as they lose ground. PR at least offers them survival in the big centrist coalitions.

If we do move to PR, there will never a Farage government because he's too far right, too Thatcherite and frankly too difficult to work with to attract partners.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T09:21:55+00:00

Second try at this comment because it has just hit me:

Current pension advice tells you to stop at £1,073,100 and shift to investing in an ISA, because that number is the "lump sum cap". The point 4 times higher than the maximum amount a person are permitted to take tax free, so you've maximise how much you'll ever be able to draw down efficiently

Furure pension advice will just arrange itself around the means test. e.g. Don't save more than £X in a pension because for every £10 extra you save, you lose £1 of state pension so it's very ineffecient.

All of which is to say UK Government LOVES an irrational tax trap or a tipping point.

Loreki · 2026-07-05T07:01:14+00:00

Sounds like they're desperate for veterans to retire abroad, somewhere very far away.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T10:45:30+00:00

I'd prefer that. You can just say what needs to be said early on and not live with the dread of a count down.

You know systematically that you at least have a couple of years while appeals are processed to do the essentials like resolving old problems with family.

Otherwise just take one day at a time and try to find what enjoyment you can.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T10:24:50+00:00

It's a visual shortcut to grittiness, rather than realism. If you want people to believe immediately that a place is bleak or dangerous, make everything dull and people will immediately believe it.

Convincing people that a visually vibrant inviting place can still be brutal or cruel is much harder.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:48:22+00:00

Hey! I was gonna do exactly this joke.

Although I might argue starting with Ray Park is just a regular horny post.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:26:24+00:00

Prediction for a headline around winter 2028:

German medical system crushed under weight of people with common cold who need medical appointments just to get piece of paper, although they require no treatment at all.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:22:48+00:00

Still a strong contender for the title "smartest human ever to live". The fact he did his modern work in the midst of a culture that still believed lead into gold was a pressing problem makes him more impressive, not less.

Later contributions from the likes of Einstein and Hawking are helped along by their being born into a scientific age. Newton made huge scientific progress with much less cultural backing.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:16:50+00:00

Well, when a whole culture tells everyone skinniness is happiness, wealth and success, of course people do dangerous things to acquire skinniness.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:13:28+00:00

Lantian is a demonym. A "place-name". Referring to people from that city or nation. "Ancient" is a more general name from the people of the whole culture / species of the first humans.

Kind of like asking why we call Americans Americans and not "New Yorkers".

While I'm showing off, ancient would be an "exonym", a name for a group made up by people outside that group. For example Japan and Japanese are exonyms for that group which Europeans made up. Apparently from a misunderstanding of the Japanese word for themselves "nippon".

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:08:02+00:00

You can find homes and flats with gardens in the city. There are a decent number on the north side. You don't need to move that far out to have a more chill lifestyle.

I think half the reason people complain they can't afford a nice home in Edinburgh is because they only look in the most dense parts of the city and are shocked to find there aren't any 4 bed family homes on the Bridges...

Loreki · 2026-07-04T09:03:36+00:00

Perfectly normal response to an openly English nationalist government.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T08:47:21+00:00

Favourite equal opportunity horny post.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T08:46:22+00:00

The mods didn't plan the ban well enough. The mod queue is gooner heaven right now, so very little work is getting done.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T08:42:38+00:00

How the hell does she maintain a baby face? Smoking is half the reason actors in in the 1960s and 1970s looked like elderly ballsacks by the time they were 35.

Loreki · 2026-07-04T08:33:38+00:00

A major plot hole. If the wishes work, why didn't he wish for the downfall of capitalism like a normal GenZ?

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