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When I was a kid, we had a cat who absolutely loved being slid across the kitchen floor. All I had to do was squat and he'd miaow and come running, flopping at my feet so I could give him a push that would slide him across the floor; he'd then immediately run back and demand that I did it again...

I preferred Star Wars as a kid, but in recent years I've got much more into Trek. I guess I just need the positive outlook for the future and the sense that humanity's gonna be okay.

Unlike Johnson, Corbyn didn't unseat any of his MPs who disagreed with him. And the nature of the British electoral system means he would probably have to govern with other parties too. So if he'd won an election, he'd have to govern with the support of right-wing Labour MPs and MPs from other...

I do sometimes miss the feeling of "who are we gonna beat this week?" that I felt during those years in which we were a Championship big beast. But surely the point of that is to play in the Premier League, right? We win fewer games in this division, obviously, but each one feels special. The...

Born in London, but lived in Brighton between the ages of 8 and 18, which are pretty important years. Basically, I lived in Brighton when I got into football, so Brighton will always be my team. Oddly, the old Championship Manager games on the Amiga played a big part in this. I was more into...

Pedants corner: Actually Česko, because Czech is weird like that (the endings of words change a lot, it's a bit of a nightmare to learn)

I remember finding him pretty useful in whichever version of Football Manager/Championship Manager I was playing at the time. I can only presume they based his hidden stats off his pre-season performances.

The problem with that second part is that the US routinely and expressly bans country-of-origin labelling when negotiating trade agreements. So there will be no way to tell if you're eating American chicken.

I'll have to give Fallout 4 another go, I loved 3 and NV but just couldn't get into 4 (and knew that 76 would have nothing for me, for the reasons I mentioned in my too-long post earlier). I really didn't like the base-building stuff at all, and that's what put me off the game, but other people...

I'm intending to get both, because I can (not that I'm especially rich, I'm just single with housing that doesn't cost me anything), and I currently have a PS4 Pro and an Xbox One X. I know both platforms pretty well and have owned every console either company has ever made. From my perspective...

I'd be grateful for a PM, too. I'm using an Nvidia Shield TV Pro, but it runs Android like the Firestick, so I'm sure I'd be able to figure it out.

I've often said that the only way I'd move back to the UK is if I got headhunted for a £70k+ job in Brighton (i.e., it's not gonna happen), mainly because it's the only place I've lived in in the UK that I genuinely love. I certainly wouldn't move back to London (where I lived for most of the...

Either you're getting your dates mixed up or it wasn't a Neo Geo, as those didn't come out til 1990. Rather than SNK's Neo Geo, might it have been NEC's PC Engine?

For me, the most underrated/hard-done-by console of all time is Sega's Dreamcast. Loads of amazing games, great graphics for the time, and way ahead of its time with stuff like online play. Deserved to be a much bigger success than it was.

Honestly, I don't know. If Hughton had been kept on, I'd have fully supported that decision. But given the last half of the season, I can't be completely against his sacking. I guess what it boils down to is that the only person I trust more than Hughton to put the club first is Tony Bloom...

I can't help but laugh at the number of right-wing people who've unthinkingly picked up and run with this "NPC" meme, when their doing so demonstrates their own lack of independent thought (and their inability to recognise irony).

No, it only applies to state bodies, not private or membership-based ones (which is one of many reasons why the constant contracting-out of public services to private companies is a terrible idea, but that's a whole different rant that I'll save for a more appropriate thread).

Apparently all the special advisers and ministerial aides at the Department of International Trade have been called into a meeting in Liam Fox's office. Another rat fleeing the sinking ship, perhaps?

Not gonna be to most people's tastes, I expect, but I've been getting progressively more addicted to Zeal & Ardor's album Stranger Fruits over the past week. They combine metal with slavery-era music, and it works much better than you're probably expecting. The basic premise behind the band's...

Again, that's plain wrong, and the article you posted makes that clear. Why don't you try reading it? Generally, if you're posting an article and hanging an argument on it, it's a good idea to check that the article actually supports your argument. In this case, it doesn't.