Home Blog Page 168

3 Features to Look For In a Desk Chair

The Editor
-
0
3 Features to Look For In a Desk Chair
3 Features to Look For In a Desk Chair

If you’re looking to take your gaming experience to the next level, then you may be in the market for a new desk chair. Before rushing into things, there are several key features you should really look out for, including things like the dimensions (e.g., height, width, and depth), as well as comfortability and style.

Additionally, you also need to consider how mobile the chair is and whether or not it has sturdy armrests, sufficient cushioning, and plenty of adjustable features, such as lumbar support, a decent backrest, and seat tilt, which you can customise to better suit your position. Don’t forget, you could be spending hours at a time sitting in your desk chair, so you want it to be a good one.

Top gaming chairs to keep an eye out for in 2022

Let’s start by taking a quick look at some of the highest-rated desk chairs/PC gaming chairs that you can buy right now from a number of retailers. Examples of some of the best desk chairs in 2022 are the following:

  • Secretlab Titan Evo 2022
  • X-Chair X2 K-Sport Management chair
  • Mavix M9
  • Corsair T3 Rush
  • Branch Ergonomic Chair
  • Secretlab OMEGA 2022
  • Logitech G x Herman Miller Embody

Other notable mentions include the Secretlab NeueChair, the AndaseaT Kaiser 3, the AndaSeat Jungle Gaming Chair, the Anda Seat T-Pro 2, the Thermaltake Argent E700, and the Razer Iskur. Brand new, these desk chairs can range anywhere in value from as little as £150 (or equivalent currency value) up to around £500. However, if you’re really lucky, you may even be able to pick up one of these second-hand chairs for £100 to £300. In other words, they’re not cheap. However, they are built to last and will give you hundreds of hours of comfort.

How to choose the right desk chair

People are literally spoilt for choice today when it comes to shopping for a new deck chair, and for some people, this can seem a little daunting because there are lots of things to consider. To begin with, the three main features you should consider when you’re in the market for a new desk chair are comfortability, style, and dimensions (e.g., height, width and depth). Some of the other important features you should also bear in mind are cost, system compatibility, and practicality.

Chairs for gaming and casino play

If you’re going to be spending hours at a time playing hit titles, such as Grand Theft Auto 5, League of Legends, Dota 2, Call of Duty, Forza Horizon 5, or Fortnite, then you need a chair that’s both comfortable and practical. You may only be using the chair to play your favourite slots, table & card games at your preferred online casino or watching the latest shows on Netflix or Prime. Whatever you’re using your chair for, it must be the right fit for you. While on that subject, don’t forget that you can enjoy the latest casino bonuses from the comfort of your new chair when signing up to a fully licensed online casino.

Remember to try and choose an ergonomically designed chair that has been specifically made for gaming; otherwise, you could end up with all kinds of issues, such as chronic back and posterior pain or frequent neck aches. The good news is that they come in a variety of styles, but the top-of-the-range desks can be a little costly.

Other features to consider

Some desk chairs are able to support more weight than others, so consider this when purchasing your desk chair. Most come in leather, but other materials may also be available, so remember to make the right choice. Does your chair have adjustable armrests? Does it come with high-density foam cushions? Also, does it have an ergonomic lumbar support system?

Ideally, it would be a good idea to visit a shop and try before you buy. However, even if you buy one of these desk chairs from an online retailer, you can pretty much guarantee that it’s going to do the job. Just make sure that you select a chair that is comfortable, within your price range, and stylish to look at.

You don’t want to buy a chair that’s too expensive, especially if you’re on a budget, and you don’t want to get an ugly or impractical chair that you will soon regret buying. Last of all, before you go ahead and purchase a chair, remember to carry out your own research into that chair by cross-referencing as many reviews as possible.

For example, you don’t want to waste your money on a chair that is rated just one star out of five stars. With the five-star rating scale, anything that is rated at 4 stars or more should be ok.

400 BBC Jobs in danger

The Editor
-
0
400 BBC Jobs in danger
400 BBC Jobs in danger

In a shocking move, designed to make it ‘appear’ less gluttonous. 400 BBC jobs to be ‘slashed’ (not take a piss – trim) from its revered ‘World Service’.

Considering there are only 195 recognized countries in the world, this means two things:-

  1. No other country in the world other than Scotland, now has a BBC overseas correspondent.
  2. Before the slashing, every country in the world had at least two overseas correspondents. Gluttony.

Lavish with its front

Critics of the BBC accuse it of being excessively staffed, wasteful, lavish with its front-of-camera ‘talent’’s salaries, and unrestrained with boss’s pay & conditions.

For example, taking a quick look at the BBC’s published list of senior staff, and picking three individuals at random, this reporter discovered the following about the remuneration packages being funded by BBC license payers:-

Carla-Maria Lawson (Head of Daytime) £160,000-£164,999

Noel Scotford (HR Director, Systems and Management Information) £180,000-£184,999

Kerris Bright (Chief Customer Officer) £360,000-£364,999

BBC Jobs slash & Senior staff

And that’s at random. There are almost certainly more inflated salaries amongst the tens of senior roles clearly not being considered for slashing (this time it does mean taking the piss.)

One word springs to mind….

Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous in fact.

HMRC data shows that the average UK salary at the start of 2022 was £24,600. The average salary for a nurse is £35,000. For a fireman, £34,600. A teacher, with over ten years experience, £37,000. And a troglodyte cleaner? £21,463

Greedy Pigs

Yet, for dining al fresco at a Kensington bistro, working out whether or not to put Peppa Pig ahead of Postman Pat on the telly during the day.

OR for quaffing champagne while calculating out how much of your department’s staggering budget you can spare to buy-in endless re-runs of low-brow tripe ‘Homes under the hammer’.

Could be imbecilic drivel ‘Rip Off Britain’ to broadcast to the unemployed (ensuring you leave enough for salaries of course), Carla-Maria, Noel & Kerris are quite happy to accept over three-quarters of a MILLION of your POUNDS between them.

Rip Off Britain? More like rip-off Britain’s Broadcasting Company.

Singing Irish cat to join ‘Boyzlife’

The Editor
-
0
Singing Irish cat to join ‘Boyzlife’
Singing Irish cat to join ‘Boyzlife’

An Irish cat has caused a storm on social media and in the wider UK press by performing a rousing rendition of the island’s unofficial anthem ‘Danny Boy’.

‘Billy the cat’ (not his real name) was filmed being cajoled by his owner into singing the traditional ballad which can bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened member of the I.R.A.

Disturbing

The disturbing video which some people may find hilarious due to the captured animal being forced to perform whilst wearing a child’s page boy suit, has gone viral after it re-emerged online. 

The clip, which reportedly shows the feline delivering ‘a completely indecipherable meow recognizable as neither Danny Boy, nor a voice with any hint of an Irish accent’.

Felis catuses

Cats or Felis catuses, are popular in Ireland due to their singing and yawning abilities. This is despite the fact that some like to spread their molting hair all over Irish interiors. Another consequence of keeping a wild animal in one’s home is that the hair can sometimes end up in one’s mouth. Cats also smell quite a bit and the presence of a litter tray (cat shit tray) in a home is a real turn-off regardless of how tidy or hygienic the rest of your house is.

Following Billy’s sensational public performance, owner, O’Myles told the Suffolk Gazette that he is hoping to find more work in the entertainment industry for the melodious moggie. “Oim hopin to foind more work in de old entertainment biz for de moggie.”

Luck of the Irish cat

As luck would have it, former members of emerald boybands Boyzone and Westlife, Keith Duffy and Brian McFadden are currently touring the UK with their superboygroup… wait for it… Boyzlife. Billy the cat is allegedly in talks with the band to join as a third ‘member.’

New Xbox game & Gamer lost a leg

The Editor
-
0
New Xbox game & Gamer lost a leg
New Xbox game & Gamer lost a leg
New Xbox game & Gamer lost a leg

Gaming enthusiast, Lorraine Fisher-34, was so excited to own the new Xbox game ‘Tsunami Shark Attack’ that she queued for 8 hours in the rain outside the ‘Game On Tech Store’.

Hours later, the gaming geek was fighting to save a leg, as she was viciously attacked by a REAL SHARK in scenes more horrific and blood curdling than anything seen on a gaming screen.

New Xbox games Day-dreamer

Whilst waiting in line outside the games store, day-dreaming of hunting down and slaying numerous Great Whites, Hammerheads, and Japanese Sawsharks, Lorraine found herself caught in the early stages of storm ‘Veronica’, which later that day devastated the Nasugba Bay area of the Island of Luzon.

The Island is frequently battered by severe storms, typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis but even Luzon-born, Gregorio wasn’t prepared for what lie ahead.

Sharkskin Onesie

After enduring a battering bus ride back to her home in Matakungbay Beach, excited Fisher, pulled up the hood on her anorak as she dashed back to the apparent safety of her home.

Terrifyingly, a lashing force 12 hurricane had by this time, enveloped the bay area and was quickly destroying everything in sight. Unphased, the nerdy techno-weeb, hastily changed into her sharkskin onesie and headed into the lounge to fire up the ‘Girl vs Megalodon’ title that she had been so longing to play.

The thrashing wind and beating rain whipped at the exterior of the girl’s flimsy home as the beeping computer noises and title music began to emit from Fisher’s games console. She sat cross-legged, transfixed even, as her own on-screen avatar battled against the computerized, pixelated array of girl-eating sharks, swirling around her in the depths of the digitized South China Sea.

Problem was, she didn’t notice that a massive, deathly Tsunami – Tsumani Dave – was about to send mega-gallons of the REAL South China sea crashing down on top of her paper-thin dwelling.

Smush & Swivel

And that was it. Foot-long shards of glass and piercing splinters of balsa-thin wood ricocheted in all directions. Bits of Palm trees battered what was left of the disintegrating lounge.

The collapsing ‘house of cards’ which moments earlier, was a gamer’s paradise, was now a torrential aquarium, filled with bubbling, frothing seawater and all its multifarious aquatic contents, including… wait for it… a pissed-off Great White Shark.

Aaaaaaargh!!!!! Chomp!!! Thrash!!! Smush!!! Swivel!!! Screaaaaam!!!!

One leg later, it was all over. The storm passed. The Tsunami settled. The blood oozed. But the game went on. The computer game never ends.

The new Xbox game ‘Tsunami Shark Attack’  – available at all good games retailers NOW!

Ipswich Poundland fined £565,000 over asbestos

The Editor
-
0
Ipswich Poundland fined £565,000 over asbestos
Ipswich Poundland fined
Ipswich Poundland ‘Asbesto Original Porridge Oats’ breakfast cereal

Lower-class retailer Ipswich Poundland has been fined £565,000 for a series of asbestos management failures.

Ipswich Borough Council prosecuted the retailer after finding that it had used the fibrous killer mineral as the main ingredient in some of its ‘CheapoGrub’ range (low-cost shit food) introduced to attract slobby, working-class, stay-at-home mums in the wake of the cost-of-living crisis.

The importation, supply and use of all asbestos have been banned in the UK since 1999 after the discovery that breathing in asbestos dust or fibres could cause fatal diseases, including cancer, but it is thought that the lethal, splintery ingredient has made its way into the country alongside other tasteless foods being imported from the European Union – Boooo!

CheapoGrub – Mmmmm! Tasty!

Inspectors found that the Chrysotile variation of the naturally occurring mineral was found to make up 95% of the ingredients of Poundland’s ‘Asbesto Original Porridge Oats’ breakfast cereal which retails for… £1, and is one of the dirt-cheap supermarket’s best-selling products.

A second product, Poundland ‘Savoury Fibre Crackers’ – a rip-off of Ryvita Crispbreads, was found to be produced from three asbestos minerals Crocidolite, Amosite, and Anthophyllite in a ’deathly blend from hell’.

Ipswich Poundland fined
Ipswich Poundland ‘Savoury Fibre Crackers’ for cheese

All the Cancers

Asbestos exposure still kills around 5,000 workers in the U.K. each year. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer almost exclusively caused by asbestos exposure. The mineral also causes asbestos-related lung cancer, ovarian cancer and laryngeal cancer.

I Predict a Riot near Ipswich Poundland

We asked Ipswich Poundland to comment on the shocking revelations. An unrepentant spokesman speaking to us from Warren Hill Prison in Woodbridge said “Look, the poor people wanted food they could afford and we gave it to them. What do they expect for a pound FFS? Have you any idea how much real wheat costs these days? It’s about £50 a sheaf! You get what you pay for.”

Shouting above the din of what sounded like a riot beginning behind him, the spokesman wanted to be heard “It can’t be any worse than some of the sh*t they are selling at Aldi these days. And Tesco. (W.C. ‘Tescos’) Have you tried their ‘Multigrain Meteors’? ‘Carefully selected grains’. My arse! ‘Enjoy (that’s a strong word) as part of a varied and balanced diet’ it says on the box. I think that refers to the box. It certainly tastes better than what’s inside. Frankly, I’d rather eat a bowl of our Asbesto Porridge.”

W.C. = Working Class

The REAL Mary Rose Tudor Warship Found in Woodbridge!

The Editor
-
0
The REAL Mary Rose Tudor Warship Found in Woodbridge!
The REAL Mary Rose Tudor Warship Found in Woodbridge!
The REAL Mary Rose Tudor Warship Found in Woodbridge!

Anyone in their late 40’s or older will be able to tell you about the day King Henry VIII’s lost warship. The Mary Rose was raised from its centuries-old resting place at the bottom of the Solent.

The date was 11 October 1982, and millions of Britons, young and old huddled around proper, square television sets known as ‘boxes’ to watch the event of the century.

BBC1, BBC2 & Mary Rose

The salvage operation was aired live on all 2 channels that Britain had back then, and the anticipation was almost unbearable, as delay after delay caused excitable children to be late for school for want of seeing history come alive in their own living rooms.

We waited, all of us, for what seemed like hours to see the glorious Tudor warship emerge from the murky, magical, gurgling expanse. We wondered how magnificent would be its main, mizzen, and fore masts.

Its pennants unfurl and bluster in the valiant winds over the English coastline, and its ornate stern castle and balcony rise majestically from the stygian depths of the Solent.

The entire nation was mesmerised as though we all were sharing the same nautical, Tudor dream. Would King Henry himself rise up with his ship, proudly commanding the poop deck, fat hands on hips, glorying in his and his vessel’s heroic resurrection? None of us could be sure. And then… and then… something began to arise! Here it comes! Here it comes!…

The REAL Mary Rose

What the f*ck?

Is that it? That pile of shitty, wet planks of wood that look like they’ve just been fly-tipped by a fat labourer from the back of a stolen transit van? Seriously? F*ck that, let’s go to school.

Vessel Enthusiasts Can Be Forgotten

Today, however, after forty long years of waiting, the massive sense of anticlimax felt that day by millions of fairweather, Carrack-class, marine vessel enthusiasts can be forgotten. For the REAL Mary Rose has been discovered beneath the River Deben at Whisstocks Quay in Woodbridge!

Just as we all suspected, that pile of crap they dragged out of the Solent in 1982 – which is still on display in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard – was not the real Mary Rose. It couldn’t have been. It was just so… disappointing.

Even Better Than The Real Thing

Having been hauled out of the mud at the bottom of the quay by a tractor a week last Thursday, The REAL THING – the real, ACTUAL MARY ROSE was showed-off being sailed successfully around the quay in a way that the fake 1980’s Mary Rose could only dream of.

The ‘Suffolk Schooner VIII’ as she has been dubbed by tipsy locals, is everything the 80s Mary Rose wasn’t – a fully intact hull and main deck, including cross-strut seating. Its main mast still stands proud, secured by some basic, single-rope rigging. There are even a couple of oars on deck.

Local Naval confirmed its Mary Rose

We spoke to the Mayor of Casterbridge who said of the resurrection of the great ship of war “The great seafaring people of Suffolk are rightly proud of this great discovery. Suffolk will now forever be linked with heroic King Henry VIII and his beloved Mary Rose. And that’s not all. Next week we are going to start looking for local naval hero Horatio Nelson’s H.M.S. Victory which we believe is located on the bed, five miles from the coast of Thorpeness.”

Auston Matthews’ Future Should Be The Least Of Toronto Maple Leafs Fans’ Worries

The Editor
-
0
Auston Matthews’ Future Should Be The Least Of Toronto Maple Leafs Fans’ Worries
Auston Matthews’ Future Should Be The Least Of Toronto Maple Leafs Fans’ Worries

Toronto Maple Leafs fans have a few reasons to be nervous over the future of Auston Matthews, and that’s just one of the things they have to worry about.

The team hasn’t won a playoff series in well-nigh 20 years and is still in the NHL’s most difficult division. There’s also the small matter of having a GM without a new contract, while they’ve gone with two options in goal who beg some questions.

Matthews’ contract situation seems to be the biggest concern among Leafs supporters but it’s probably the one least deserving as the player still has two years remaining on his deal. The league’s collective bargaining agreement is currently preventing him from signing an extension. He can’t do so until July 1, 2023.

There’s a no-movement clause in the deal that will activate on the aforementioned date which would leave him free to wait until the end of his deal and head straight into free agency without Toronto having the option to trade him. This is, of course, reason to panic, but the positives definitely outweigh the negatives in Matthews’ case.

The fact that Matthews actually wants to remain in Toronto should be comforting. When training camp kicked off a few weeks ago, the 25-year-old reiterated his desire to remain part of the organization. “I really love playing in the city of Toronto,” he said. “I consider it home now.”

Sure, plenty of sports personalities have made statements along the same tune before moving elsewhere. This is particularly frequent in the NHL, yet Matthews seemed pretty sincere and it’s understood that his motivations lie in comfort and an opportunity to win. Going back home to Arizona, which has been rumored, does not appear to be a priority for the 2016 No.1 draft pick.

The Leafs haven’t quite done him justice on the winning front but they have put a roster together that has been a contender for the last three years. The player also has some very close friends on the team who are locked down to lengthy contracts. There is also lots of hope within the team that they will become a winning franchise in time to come.

Persons outside of the organization and its support likely feel very differently given the manner in which the Leafs have underachieved for the last several years, which should reflect in the activity where Ontario sports betting is concerned. However, the men in the locker room are understood to believe that they will make the breakthrough soon enough.

“It’s still disappointing with the same result,” the player told reporters last month. “But I think there’s a lot of things that you can take – a lot of positives – from it and move forward.

“You can’t live in the past.”

He also pointed to the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche, who found success after several years of mediocrity.

“It took them a really long time to win,” he added. “They had to go through a lot.

“We’re all working towards the same goal.”

The NHL’s salary cap is also set to be raised significantly and will leave the Leafs with plenty of room to extend the center’s deal.

NHL revenues have gone back up following the hit it suffered because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cap could go up to as much as $100 million by the time Toronto will be able to sign Matthews.

According to Elliotte Friedman, the NHL’s upper limit could reach $88 million in 2024 and $92 million in 2025, which would mark the first two seasons of any new deal. Toronto will be able to offer the player a huge raise on his existing $11.64 million cap hit and not have to worry about how they’re going to take care of the rest of the players in the squad.

The Maple Leafs actually have one of the best financial paths in the league, when it comes to the cap. They only have $31 million committed while a number of youngsters are on entry-level contracts and cheap second deals.

They have some enviable flexibility moving forward and, should they re-sign Matthews, will be able to compete with the teams considered to be contenders.

Of course, that wouldn’t be the height of what they’d have to do to romp with the best teams in the NHL. There are several key decisions to be made, especially when the likes of John Tavares and T.J Brodie hit that age decline point. Young players such as Timothy Liljegren, Nick Robertson, and Rasmus Sandin will also need to be developed properly.

Auston Matthews’ Future Should Be The Least Of Toronto Maple Leafs Fans’ Worries

Vengeful European Union crashed Brit Pound

The Editor
-
0
Vengeful European Union crashed Brit Pound
Vengeful European Union crashed Brit Pound

“Remainers are to blame for the run on the Brit Pound” claims hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey.

The arch Brexiteer was quoted in the Telegraph arguing that the rout on the currency in the wake of Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax cuts was triggered by Remainers in the City who “hate” the Government.

“I never felt the kind of hate that Friday stirred up for a long time,” he said.

“Amongst lots of friends of mine who are Remainers, they just decided that they hate this Government. Obviously Kwasi they hate now as well, and they think Liz Truss is useless. They can’t stand poor Jacob Rees-Mogg.”

So was the EU, its fifth and sixth columns in the City of London, and the IMF really behind the vicious currency attack on UK PLC?

You decide…

Funny Figures & Brit Pound

Kristalina Georgieva is the Bulgarian ‘economist’ currently serving as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Who delivered the rebuke to the UK Gov that sent sterling into its recent cataclysmic tailspin.

Who?

Exactly. According to her own organization – the IMF, her native country of Bulgaria was the 11th  poorest country out of 46 in Europe in 2021. Considering this, one wonders if Mrs Georgieva is actually best placed to criticize the UK’s economic policies, which in the same period made it the 14th richest. If Georgieva really knew what she was talking about, surely her time would be better spent imparting her sage advice to her own country-folk, in order to help them improve their own unenviable economic situation.

Or maybe the Bulgarians don’t want it? Perhaps they are aware that Georgieva is not, in reality, as competent with actual numbers as she likes to make out. Could it be that the Bulgarian Government is all too aware of the 2021 independent inquiry which determined that Georgieva had “instructed staff” at the World Bank, where she was in position as the Chief Executive, to “inflate data to make China look better.”

Ahem.

Regardless of the shady Bulgarian’s love of ‘funny figures’, at least she can’t be accused of ‘playing politics’ in her role at the IMF – the organization which claims to ‘work to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries.’ – of which the UK is, of course, one. Surely?

Well actually…no.

Additional A-holes behind Brit Pound fall

Before her role at the World Bank, Georgieva served as… wait for it… Vice-President of the European Commission under President Jean-Claude Juncker. The same Jean-Claude Juncker who was regularly torn additional A-holes by Nigel Farage as the two dueled in the European Parliament. Although not a ‘remainer’ per se, and though she would never admit it, politically Georgieva is, clearly, lock, stock, and barrel, anti a strong and independent UK.

And what was it she said in her recent public castigation of the British Chancellor Kwarteng?

 “Furthermore, the nature of the UK measures will likely increase inequality.”

Likely increase inequality? She should know about that. Her salary at the IMF is believed to be $351,758 and her net worth estimated at $3 Million.

We will probably never know who, or what caused this week’s Brit Pound crash, but one thing is crystal clear. ‘Increased inequality’ is something that Kristalina Georgieva, the EU and the IMF are genuinely experts at.

1...167168169...428Page 168 of 428