Casey wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:05 pmYeah thinking the same. Annoyingly I can go weeks with zero pain and then I get a few days of crippling pain. Keeping away from bread seems to help strangely enough.

Did you sit on a baguette?

I've barely played anything in the last year and have a backlog of stuff on Steam to one day gave a go on, mostly little indie titles

The last couple of things I played quite a bit were Noita and before that BG3. And I enjoyed Thank Goodness You're Here, that feels like a game everyone on Prestone ...

My post-Prestone life has been, if I do say so myself, fascinating and occasionally ridiculous. I slowly built up a modest audience through social media, mainly Twitter, speaking about a combination of mental health and suicide prevention (following my brother's death in late 2014) and the ...

I've become pretty terrible at keeping up with modern music over the last decade, but this was my favourite song from last year

Lorraine wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 6:57 pmMy sister keeps reminding me that she doesn't want her inheritance being spent on care, and Mum won't accept care either, so it will be diwn to us.

Does she actually mean down to you?

Corbyn had more actual people vote for him in the previous "disastrous" election that Starmer did in his "landslide". Labour only won due to the Tory collapse thanks to Reform

Even if Labour keep all the voters they had last election (which seems unlikely given how horribly unpopular they are), I ...

It is actually demented how bad they are at this

In other political news, that little shit McSweeney resigning is a brief bit of cheer. Though he'll probably just pull the same routine as his paedo-pal mentor and pop back up again in a few years in another Labour role

The left can certainly be guilty of sanctimony and purity tests but I think that stuff is mostly easy to ignore and laugh off in a way that, say, being shot in the face by a masked officer isn't. There's a false equivalency between the extremes of left and right

The second part isn't really about claiming to know America better, because it's a cultural thing in both countries (and we are constantly exposed to American culture)

The right wing complaint of "look what you made me do". The endless parade of people complaining that "you can't say that anymore ...

godonlyknows wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 8:57 pm"alt-right" is a term literally used in the forum rules, honey.

In that case I apologise for my sass

Lorraine wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 4:11 pmHow old are you? I'm 54 now. Everything went downhill since turning 50.

I'm 48 so I guess I have two years left before it all crumbles into the sea

Bloody hell, I was complaining about having to wear reading glasses now, but you lot make me feel like a spring chicken

Gibby wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 9:20 pmand yet he's called Mr. Nice!

I saw him eyeing them up and offered to let him get in there first, he seemed genuinely touched

All I can really say, I suppose, is that I have shifted from centre-left to straightforwardly out-of-the-game, since the broad notion was accepted that it's impossible to be unacceptable when enacting/espousing any left-wing position, but most things my Labour voting dad would have said constitute ...

I think I've become more annoyingly left wing as I've got older, rather than taking the classical centrist to conservative route

I was in front of Howard Marks in the queue to a buffet and let him get the last of the boiled potatoes

I once sat across from LCD Soundsystem on a ferry from Ireland

My niece is related to Stephen Hawking
(I am not)

No not me. I was always a bit miffed I never made it to this.
I like looking at it now, it's like looking at a lovely old family photo. Great bunch o lads. And now the Prestone baby is posting among us! Aww.


I was never in any of the group photos.At the time I think it was a bit of a feeling ...

No idea but I don't think that's Ziv either

I am going to write a list of everyone I can remember off Prestone who is not here. I want to know WHERE ARE THEY NOW? If they don't appear in my list it's because I couldn't remember them or I know the answer.

Feel free to add your own lists.

JONNY RAW
JOHNNY YEN
THE SOUL CREW
PROCOPIUS
Josh ...

It's been one million years since I lived in Manchester but I always liked going to Islington Mill for gigs/music nights

Though the first two acts I saw there that come to mind are Grimes and John Maus so maybe it's not the greatest track record

I read it to the tune of Old Man River

I always read your name as dok-torb, like Voltorb, even when I discovered it was Doktor B