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One of the antagonists is a clone of a dark jedi called Jorus C’Baoth. His clone is called … Joruus C’Baoth. There’s also an evil clone of Luke (cloned from his lost hand) called … Luuke. The books had flaws, and some background stuff doesnt fit in well with the later prequel films. Also no authors had a clue what the Jedi were like, so its mostly quoting Yoda. In the trikogy’s favour,Zahn was clearly enthusiastic, and this does show through. Thr books exude ‘holy shit I’m writing Star Wars!’ Re the cloned emperor, this was done in the EU (expanded hniverse ‘) too, in comics! And is referenced in the novels. It sucked even worse than Rise of Skywalker. Luke goes Darkside and beckmes cloned Palpatine’s apprentice

I’m assuming they’re not in it save for whatshername who went off with gandalf

Eh no! It was fone for its time but is massively flawed. Cloned jedi, cloned Luke, ysalamiri (sp), Thrawn commanded too few ships, Zahn basically had his own smuggler and force sensitive to donthe heavy lifting instead of Luke and Han.

Been doing a chronological Trek rewatch (finished a curated Enterprise rewatch), and now onto Discovery season 2. Was amused by the ep where a ‘virus’ fucks up thr universal translator and everyone starts speaking Spanish and other language. Also weird that Starfleet’s response to the arrival of a genocidal despot from another universe was to give her a job. After Disc season 2, I’ll move onto my first-time watch of Strange New Worlds. I’ve not watched seasons 3 and 4 of Discovery yet but I’ll save them until season 5 is on blu-ray

Yes! he also insisted lib-dems have no chance either

Got a leaflet through the door from the local Tory MP candidate who’s gling to great pains to say that Labour have no chance in this area (East Renfrewshire), so it’s either him or SNP. He’s also gone to great pains to not directly mention that he’s a Tory, the leaflet has no Tory logo or colours. I thought he was maybe an independent at first.

Does seem odd that Labour took her. A polite ‘it’s not us, it’s you,’ and let her become an independent. The Tories are bemused, their joke being that there’s thr most right wing person in thr party

Any family members have it? It can be hereditary. Your gp can prescribe Allopurinal which limits the production of uric acid which causes gout. Also apparently rapid changes to your diet can cause it rather than just eating certain things. I had a long, bad attack while in South Africa, living on a game reserve for two months. Was eating no junk (save for a choc ice during the weekly town shop) and barely drank alcohol.

Apparently Count Binface got more votes than the Britain First candidate

Some Tories/Tory media sympathisers will be reporting the narrow win as a catastrophe for Labour. Hell, Andrew Mitchell is already saying that the recount means Street has either won or nearly won, and so it’s a good thing

Isn’t that one of the signs of the apocalypse?

Awaiting the revelation that he’s here on a two-week holiday and has lost his return ticket, and decided to chance it

Edited now. Was on phone and a work call What’s controversial about the actual scheme is that its deporting people whose claims havent been approved or rejected, and it’s forced. This guy’s claim was rejected, he volunteered and he’s getting £3k

Thisnguy apparently isn’t even part of the Rwanda scheme. He apparently from Rwanda, lost his application and asked to go back

The Scottish FM job seems cursed. Donald Dewar died (albeot oversaw the Holyrood construction fiasco). Henry Mcleish had to resign over an expenses scandal (from memory). Jack McConnell lost to the SNP Alex Salmond quit after losing the independence referendum and has been dogged by allegations of sexual improprieties, some of which went tk court (tho exonerated). Nicola Sturgeon quit but soon after was detained by the police and questioned over financial improprieties which has seen her husband charged with embezzlement. Humza Yousaf. Fucked around with the Green Party and Found Out

Esb is slow between Hoth and Vader’s Bespin reveal

Infell asleep at some point during thr battle. I may fast forward to roughly where Inthink I got to and finish it. May.

I’m assuming this is a joke…

Not a suprise. At Orange Walks, there’s always at least one die hard in a Celtic top who just happens to want to cross the road at that particular time. Or if it’s a republican march, someone in a Rangers top.

Did you even think before you typed that?? A tiny minority of kids cone out as trans. I believe something like 7 kids a year in Scotland are prescribed puberty blockers. But this is somehow a bigger childcare issue than all of the stuff I mentioned?? Of course it isn’t. It’s an excuse for people to voice their transphobia while pretending to be motivated by child welfare.

Oh please! It’s a bit suspect that many of the people screaming about protecting the children from puberty blockers are silent about child poverty, malnutrition, cold mouldy homes, no homes at all, rundown schools, lack of teachers etc But mention kids being trans, and all of a sudden we need to protect the children

Apparently they raped him first and kicked him to death? Accoeding to twitter so grain of salt.

Another term of Tory rule, and children working in factories in terrible conditions *will* be contemporary. Anyway … my take on the Menzies fiasco is he got lured back to a flat by a supposed make prostitute where a gang waited, and was told to pay up. He has form.

he’s also wanting to strip GPs of the ability to issue sicknites and instead have “specialist work and health professionals” do it. Ie people untrained in health basically told to not issue any. Contract probably given to some Tory’s mate. And ignoring the reason there sre so many prople off longterm is because thry’ve broken thr NHS so big waiting lists, massive waits for services, and long covid.

The question was how did much of the world’s wealth wind up in Britain, paying for infrastructure that we still enjoy today.