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Jul-10   20:00   Portugal  1  vs  2 France

Bravo! I don't know how accurate the voyages were but after I got used to the controls I really enjoyed this game. Leaving the trails from the previous voyages was a masterstroke - the wilder your routes the more cluttered the map became during the latter cruises making it harder to spot the waypoints. Being a non coder I can only imagine how difficult it was to get this to work. And that 5th voyage... DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES HAHAHA!

[Toffee Trouble in Creamville]

Toffee Trouble in Creamville - a sweet little MAGs game with some exceptional graphics, characters and puzzles. It's a travesty that you can't pick your own game when it's such a delightful little number.

Wow, it's like you pulled them directly from my brain!

Heart wanted Wales... head said Portugal. They did Speedo proud.

Start making your semi-final predictions.
Jul-6   20:00   Portugal   2   vs   1   Wales
Jul-7   20:00   Germany   1   vs   1   France

Jun-30   20:00   Poland   1   vs   1   Portugal
Jul-1   20:00   Wales   1   vs   2   Belgium
Jul-2   20:00   Germany   1   vs   1   Italy
Jul-3   20:00   France   1   vs   0   Iceland

It's true it's advisory and not legally binding - but the 'people in charge', which seems to be no one at the moment, keep saying the result is final and must be respected. It all stinks at the moment like something is going on. Either they won't do it and are delaying to find a legitimate reason not to, or Boris is an idiot and really thinks he'll get a great deal from the EU to stay but with his demands, or we really are trying to come up with a plan to successfully obliterate ourselves as a nation. Time will tell.

BBC 'neutrality' is another topic of discussion at present... but we can leave that for another day.

Here's a nice highlights reel of what's happened since the vote.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/26/postrefracism-this-catalogue-of-racist-abuse-following-brexit-is-terrifying-5968180/

Have you seen Boris Johnson's article that will be published in tomorrow's Telegraph? Furious back pedalling in terms of the scale of Brexit and what appears to be a suggestion that we will still be in the EU or the EEA. Clear as mud, a country completely rudderless at the moment.

Not all brexiters voted for this reason - the bureaucratic influence of Brussels was a key factor too. The summary would be, think Trump and his constant attack on the Mexicans.

Essentially you have to live here to understand the racism issue. Parties like UKIP (and the BNP) which reignited the debate to leave the EU have been widely known for holding and communicating racist views and comments - just watch John Oliver's Brexit piece from last Thursday. Over the decades the tabloid press (headed by moral figureheads such as Rupert Murdoch) have run near constant poisonous articles about EU migrants (stealing our jobs, criminals back home, attacking our women etc) - never communicating the benefits. Immigration therefore was a core argument during the Brexit debates, preying on peoples fears, and sadly it will have been the main reason a potentially large number of people voted leave. For example, the leave campaign made a huge point of flagging the (remote) possibility of Turkey joining the EU - their leaflets would show Turkey, but also include and prominently label Syria and Iraq despite them having nothing to do with the EU. We've already seen a number of incidents of racism across the country since the result, "Go back to where you came from etc".

Economics only came into it when the Remain camp tried to highlight the dangers of leaving the EU - that there would be a recession, pound would plummet etc. Pretty much what we've seen. The leave campaign also grossly exaggerated the financial amount leaving the EU would save the UK - the remain camp tried to highlight this lie but it was only admitted to be a 'mistake' on the morning of the result. We've also seen leave campaigners claim they 'made no promises, only listed possibilities' and admit that high levels of migration to and from the EU will continue. 

It's been a horrible debate with a horrible outcome.

I genuinely feel ashamed of the outcome. It was a democratic vote, but what does this result say about my nation especially given the tone of the campaign and the reasons many voters publicly gave for their vote? It certainly does not represent me - but I accept this is a divided society. I was horrified by comments I saw in the days before the vote in my social media feeds. I was worried this might happen but still shocked when it did. Now, after the result, the leave camp is already backtracking on its pledges. Cornwall voted to leave then immediately sent a letter to the government requesting their annual EU funding allowance be preserved... not likely! The biggest loss is that, rather than 'making Great Britain great again', it looks more likely brexit will essentially make Great Britain extinct (brextinct?). Scotland will leave - the SNP have the scent now and the population is livid from their treatment after the previous referendum. They'll likely be followed by NI. Wales, despite the result, won't want to be the last one left under the thumb. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and mine is that this was a sad sad day for Great Britain (and Europe, although I hope the EU survives and makes a mockery of us but I fear other nations will follow our precedent). I really hope I'm proved wrong - as people say, it's possible to survive outside the EU - but it comes at great cost. The immediate financial impact wiped off the equivalent cost of decades of EU membership, was it worth it? And as I outlined above, Great Britain has even more to lose by leaving, it may essentially cease to exist - which will have further economic impacts. Depressing

(Didn't set out to write something long... but it still hurts.)

Edit 1 - reading some of the previous posts I agree that a decision such as this should never have been put in the hands of the electorate - but if there was no choice - then the wording and terms of the referendum should have been much more robust. This was just reckless... but then the majority has spoken

Edit 2 - Also reading the posts above - I could write at length about my views regarding the real political motives behind this vote and who really wins/loses - but the comment about Rupert Murdoch and his publication 'the Sun' supporting the leave campaign is a shrewd one (I saw a great observation about Liverpool voting remain when demographically similar locations voted heavily for leave... the Sun hasn't been sold in Liverpool for 27 years). A great example of someone with scrupulous morals and vested personal interests who, with EU policy protection out of the picture, can now probably influence British politics to a greater extent. Remind me who elected him?

Jun-25   14:00   Switzerland   0   vs   2   Poland
Jun-25   17:00   Wales   3   vs   1   N Ireland
Jun-25   20:00   Croatia   1   vs   1   Portugal
Jun-26   14:00   France   1   vs   0   Rep Ireland
Jun-26   17:00   Germany   3   vs   0   Slovakia
Jun-26   20:00   Hungary   1   vs   2   Belgium
Jun-27   17:00   Italy   1   vs   2   Spain
Jun-27   20:00   England   1   vs   0   Iceland

Going to get you to pick my fantasy football team for next season!

So close to the perfect score that would have seen me right back in amongst it. We go again!

Is this the ending from the little known remake of Maverick?

Correct! Love that movie.

Nope

Ok - another one

Dropbears VIII: The Final Bough

Given where it was filmed I guess it's a possibility! (but no)