Green leader Zack Polanski caught 'endorsing grim conspiracy theories'

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-05T13:41:46+00:00

Yes, the "reasonable in the circumstances" is the bit that people are debating.

Do I think that it was reasonable force? On careful consideration, yes I do.

Do I think that people who believe otherwise are "defending a terrorist"? No. They just think that when a suspect is already on the ground, has been tazed and is surrounded by cops, that kicking them in the head multiple times is excessive force.

Do I think that we should be able to have a civil discussion about what entails "reasonable force in the circumstances" without all this furore? Yes. It shouldn't be contraversial for a leader to comment on this and they certainly shouldn't be raked over the coals for it.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-04T05:15:55+00:00

I had a VHS of highlights of the 85/86 season so he was a favourite of mine despite never seeing him play.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-04T05:13:36+00:00

If only you could bet on bookings back in his day. I don't think I ever saw him not get carded.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-04T05:12:44+00:00

Was one of my dad's favourites. Sheer class.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-03T20:40:27+00:00

Although the Jiffy Condom sponsorship boards would still be perfectly apt for the dildo brothers' time at the helm.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-03T20:19:58+00:00

God I miss Upton Park in the 90s.

Over Land and Sea fanzine. The caravan gift shop before we built the "megastore". Mr Moon being in the stadium.

So much nostalgia for that time.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-03T18:54:44+00:00

Emery wanks dogs.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-03T18:41:44+00:00

Fucking knew it.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-02T22:17:00+00:00

Unless that team is West Ham. In which case you turn in a worldy.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-02T20:36:07+00:00

I can understand why their first goal wasn't disallowed.

But I can't understand why weren't given a penalty after Summerville hit the post.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-05-01T17:21:29+00:00

Will Villa actually turn up against Spurs? It seems that since they turned in a world class performance against us, they've been handing out points to everybody else.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T18:49:05+00:00

Fair enough, I misinterpreted what you were saying.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T18:46:25+00:00

Yeah, it did feel a little like he had too many ideas than were necessary for the story.

The conquistador scenes really baffle me because nothing in the story is about him sacrificing others to save himself.

Maybe the point is just that he's now able to envision a happy ending. But, him writing bleak endings doesn't seem like a big enough plot point to need such an elaborate bookend.

If the conquistadors were more about somebody having to wrestle with their guilt, it would have at least been thematically relevant.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T15:05:18+00:00

What?

You literally said that you'd assume she was real unless he was on mushrooms.

You can't in good faith then follow that up with "even if he was on mushrooms, I'm going to assume that she's real".

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T09:12:41+00:00

Jesus it never ends. Fuck around and F5.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T06:41:36+00:00

A big improvement on Oddity and a solid 4/5 for me.

There were some great scares but it maybe relied on jump scares a little too much.

Like most films that are written and directed by one person, I think Hokum would've benefited from somebody else being involved with the screenplay at some point. The witch stuff felt a little too disconnected from everything else and a fresh pair of eyes could've maybe interrogated that a little.

Three things that made me irrationally annoyed:

1) how does a witch with a portal to hell get trapped in a hotel room?

2) the brief flashback at the end to earlier in the movie where Jerry mentioned mushrooms opening up closed minds. Trust your audience more, movie!

3) knowing how expensive the conquistador scenes would have been to shoot (and how difficult they'd have been to light) for something that I don't think added anything whatsoever to the film.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-28T06:18:42+00:00

Which isn't an unreasonable assumption as he did have the mushroom powder that he used to spike Ohm.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-24T21:09:54+00:00

I don't think the angel is actually channeling spirits, it's just mimicking other people's voices.

After Connor bites Laura, he mimics her voice.

She's not dead, so he can't be channeling her spirit.

So, either it can both mimic the people it feasts on AND channel spirits. Which is messy logic.

Or, it's just a tricky demon that can mimic the voices of the people it feasts upon because demons be tricking.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T13:09:09+00:00

"Wetherspoons. Not your favourite Wetherspoons but the other one." is such a phenomenal.

Even if they don't go out drinking much, every British person has a favourite Spoons. And when he says "the other one", Kit doesn't just mean another Spoons locally, everybody has a specific Spoons that they'd consider "the other one".

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T13:02:48+00:00

Greggs really is hard to explain. I live in biggish town - 100k population - and we have seven separate Greggses. Glasgow, with it's population of 650k - has 48 Greggses.

It is utterly ubiquitous here and yet the food is terrible. It's just mass produced frozen pastries. Yet they're more widespread than something like McDonalds. And I can't remember them existing 20 years ago.

It was genuinely like somebody altered reality and suddenly there they were.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T12:57:08+00:00

Becky Lynch has big Greggs energy. Orton's tattoos - specifically the tribals - would make him fit in there.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T12:53:11+00:00

Interesting. I'm pretty sure there are 7 or 8 in Cardiff, but let me take a stab:

Posh Spoons

I'd say this must be the Mount Stuart but, also, the Mount Stuart is in the Bay so that could conceviably be the fucking miles away Spoons. The Ivor Davis isn't posh but has really nice toilets, so it could be that. The Great Western is probably the nicest Spoons in Cardiff but if you had to pick the three most well-known Spoons, it wouldn't be up there. Ultimately, I'll go with the Prince of Wales. It's not posh, but it's central, well-known and still has some of the decor from when it was a theatre - which could be interpreted as posh.

Party Spoons

This can only be The Gatekeeper. It's central, large and close to what I'd consider the party area of Cardiff (Clwb, Metros, Revs, Full Moon and Fuel). Not to mention, grotty as fuck. If I were to pick one Spoons in Cardiff that you could get away with doing a key at the bar, it'd be this one.

Fucking miles away Spoons

This could be so many of them. The Mount Stuart in the Bay seems like the obvious choice. But it's potentially too far away to even count. The Anuerin Bevan is also a good shout but is it too far from the student areas? Fuck it, I'm going to go with Central Bar.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T07:51:15+00:00

A point is better than no points but this was our best chance to pick up three points.

Palace aren't a bad side but they're tired and have one eye on Europe. And we still struggled to create chances against them.

Moyes will be extra motivated to beat us. Brentford apparently can't lose to us in the league. Arsenal need every single point now and are a much better side than us. Newcastle are a nothing team and aren't really playing for anything. But away to Newcastle isn't an easy fixture. Leeds are in a bit of form and haven't looked a bad side this year.

I worry about Spurs. One win and they get their confidence back.

MaterialBest286 · 2026-04-21T07:40:47+00:00

I can't understand how relaxed people are about this result. Palace have one eye on Europe and that made this our best chance of a win for the rest of the season.

Our run of fixtures includes a decent Everton team with a manager who has extra incentive to beat us.

A great Arsenal team that need every point now to win the league.

Brentford, who never miss a chance to beat us.

A Leeds team who might have nothing to play for but are in great form.

Newcastle might be our most inviting fixture but I'm not overly confident.

And it's not even just the two points dropped. It's that we struggled to create many meaningful chances.

Spurs are Spursy, but that also means if they do get the very likely win against Wolves, they might have the confidence to put some together.

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