>>433953

We don't understand the causality, but we have some data to suggest that who take dietary supplements have a higher risk of premature death. For people who don't have a diagnosed nutritional deficiency, vitamin supplements are probably useless at best.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternaldrugs/fullarticle/1105975

>>433951

Likewise, you can get most of your iron requirements by using cast iron pans.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-277X.2003.00447.x

>>433955

Which one? I mean there have been at least four people who've talked about using crack on here before. At least.

>>433958

The most recent one, probably. I think he made three posts that sort of went like this:

>lads, should I try crack?
>fuck you all I'm trying it anyway
>was pretty good. Off out to get some more

So we can extrapolate from that, probably.

I've probably not posted it here but I tried crack. Made it at home from about 2g of decent coke. It was good, had some excellent sex on it, but ultimately I realised that despite the superior high, regular powder was just a lot more portable and fit into my life a lot better, as it's a lot easier to knock a line out at work than smoke a rock. I also found the process of racking up a line a lot more pleasing than smoking a rock.

That's something not many druggies talk about, the ritual of preparing your high. It can be intoxicating on its own, much like a religious ritual bringing about certain feelings. I think I'd probably just get a head rush from rolling up a note.

>>433959

I've just seen an actual goth outside. An actual goth. Leather trench coat down to his boots and everything. Can't remember the last time I saw a goth before this.

>>433929
I saw at least three at the William Blake exhibition yesterday.

>>433931
This one was in a Tesco Express, using the Costa Coffee machine.

>>433925

It uses some sort of clever chaos technology, apparently. I occasionally get a cold spot and have to shift the dish halfway through cooking, but I had the same problem on my old microwave which had a turntable.

>>433932

> in a Tesco Express, using the Costa Coffee machine

I guess a little bit of conformism is just fine.

HS2's sounding like it's fucked in the South at least. Curious what the lads who've been living on the site are going to do now, I'm pretty sure some of them are technically homeless.

>>433924
Well I read they're more likely to cancel the Northern bit, its higher ROI notwithstanding.

>>433927

I have such a fucking hard-on for the Blue Shite fucking over the North and proving once and for all that the Tories do not give a single fuck about poor people. Maybe next time Labour destroys itself with laplander-loving or mental trannyism the backbone of this country, the working classes will vote for decent alternatives like The Monster Raving Loony Party or Count Binface.

Yes, I see the irony in hoping the poor get fucked to prove a point, but it's irrelevant. Trends are what matter, not people. It just so happens that this trend will help these people in the future. The poor (and the middle class, but they're not relevant here) are too thick to understand this which is why we have a permanent government class.

>>433930

I don't think she's Andrew's type.

I'd take my daughter to Pizza Express, IYKWIM

I was standing at the sinks in a hotel, which were in a room adjacent to their public toilets. A man came in with his two sons and I told them to avoid the shit someone had left protruding upwards on the floor; the eldest son, in his late teens, almost stood in it. I then made small talk with them, something about getting the receptionist to bring a jug of drinking water. The man then started berating his kids for blowing a sales opportunity. It turned out he was a children's author and he had a number of his books strapped to his body underneath his jacket; they looked like very simplistic Biff, Chip & Kipper books but with a massive review on the front claiming the author was better than Roald Dahl. The text underneath was so small that I couldn't see who that quote was attributed to. Then I works up.

Last night I had a dream that I was driving down a motorway and got to a city whose name I somehow couldn't make out on the signs, and then I was in the city centre, and it quite comically had a dual carriageway bridge running right across its town square where all the quaint little shops were. I told some of the locals that it looked peculiar, but they just said, "Oh, don't mind that, it's just what we're known for here". I then started wandering around the city, and then when I eventually wanted to get back to my car, I realised that I had no clue what the name of the street was where I had parked it, so I then kept asking people if they'd seen my car by any chance.

I was in some sort of shakespearian/dickensian village, watching the Cratchit familys joy at inheriting a whole load of money.

The best part was while i was hiding in someones castle, watching a group of people conspire against Nancy, when one of the members began placing gigantic wheels of cheese on top of the wardrobe where i was hiding. I ran when they saw me, shouting "you enjoyed it, well i cum in it!" This absolutely hillarious joke woke me up in a fit of laugher.

Something about a big sweaty, moulding cheese ripe for a dicking.

I had a dream that people were experimenting with VR. Babies would be implanted with VR headsets from birth to see what would happen. Children had one-to-one schooling from a VR teacher; at playtime they were told that they'd go out and interact with other real children at the VR school but they were all actually simulations. Parents could choose 'character building' events to happen each term, such as being confronted by the school bully.

If there wasn't a sci-fi book along these lines, or at least a number that touch upon them so Black Mirror could poorly plagiarise it, I'd be surprised.

The following is likely inspired by doing a 2000 word essay on reddit about Roadside Picnic and watching the No Russian mission video.

Also, quitting daily weed smoking. Last time I did this, in January last year, I got those incredibly vivid, memorable, and consistent dreams every night for a week at least.

This time I've had 3 in a fortnight, rather disappointed.

The Dream

Most enjoyable one was moving into student halls that was a circular tower in the middle of London. My quadrant overlooked Canary Wharf. I was JD from Scrubs and Turk was my roommate. There were 3 beds, a door at each side wall leading to the next quadrant, and a door leading to the centre. I remember enjoying the view, it was lovely. Probably on the 20th floor or something.

Turk and all went out, I stayed in. There was a flash in the sky, and as I looked out, I saw everyone sprinting for the nearest buildings. Only they were also attacking anyone trying to leave their buildings, tackling and piling on them, biting etc. Very 28 Days Later, but there's no reason for that to be in my recent memory, so I think it was incidental.

I locked the central door, but there were no locks on the side doors, or at least I couldn't see them. I heard noises from the left side, and ran to the door, and heard Turk screaming my name. I then noticed there was indeed a lock, but was hesitant.

Turk crashed in, jumped me, and bit me. I blacked out.

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>>433842
She still looks like she was grown in a vat in this photo.

>>433856
If we're playing a lovely girls competition then I submit Lizzy Caplan for consideration. Something I've always been mad about is how the classic Gen X girl was always too old for me growing up and by the time it comes around again I'll be too old.

Where is my Jane Lane, lads? My Louise Wener?

>>433892
She kind of looks like how Alison Brie should look now, rather than morphing into Andy from Cbeebies.

>>433893

I say this in the kindest possible fashion, but you're a fucking idiot. She's specifically styled to look more homely and less attractive in GLOW.

>>433907

Have at look at her Instagram, she doesn't look as good as she used to. Don't get me wrong, she's still fifteen thousand times fitter than I am but I also don't fancy her in quite the same way I used to. I think she's just a bit too skinny now, her face looked better a bit more filled out back in the Community/Mad Men days.

Enthusiastic sage for a post dedicated to judging the attractiveness of a famous woman.

>>433577
Loads of people have them at work, in boxes. I'm going to have to fucking try one now.

>>433581

Thank you for your custom. Have a Hueeeeeeeeeeeeellicious day good sir!

>>433512
Doesn't matter if your hands are pristine after the wash up, you still need to tackle the pull to open door.

>>433875

I wouldn't put my tackle anywhere near a public door handle.

I think the point that >>433543 is trying to make, correct me if I'm wrong, is that, if urine is sterile with the exception of skin flora, then dipping your hand in a bucket of piss is no more dangerous than scratching your armpit or shaking hands with someone sweaty.

>>433758 Just thought I'd post what TI think you need for a thermostat. There are a couple of opamps in there for you, though.

Then I started wondering if there was actually less silicon used in an ATTiny than an opamp.
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/atmel-attiny13a
reckons 1.6x1.6mm for an ATTiny, which does feel big, since you get a decent ARM into 1.9 x 2.00mm (KL02, they're great). No wonder they don't come in SOT23 like some of the PICs.
Single opamps seem to come in at about quarter of the area (for a modern low voltage one)
https://zeptobars.com/en/ - who doesn't love a die shot.

>>433759

That seems a bit like overkill.

I've seen Arduino greenhouse projects that also control light and moisture and even log all their data on a local area web server. Some have even thrown in a webcam and the ability to water your plants remotely via the Internet.

But in the end, it's all just a "because you can" kind of thing. Unless you grow cannabis in a basement, your plants will get more than enough light on your window sill, and unless you're out of the country for two weeks, which isn't the best time to propagate your plants in the first place, surely you will be able to check soil moisture with your thumb every other day.

That said, I like my circuits tidy, unlike many Arduino projects consisting of a Uno board with a breadboard and jumper wires. That always looks a bit amateurish. So I solder the components onto a piece of perfboard just big enough for the intended purpose, and neatly put it in a box.

>>433759

>reckons 1.6x1.6mm for an ATTiny, which does feel big, since you get a decent ARM into 1.9 x 2.00mm

Process node innit - 500nm is absolutely huge by modern standards, but it's also extremely cheap. The ATtiny series is over 20 years old, but it's still selling well with very healthy profit margins because of the massive ecosystem around AVR. There are better, faster and cheaper micros, but none are as well-documented or as easy to prototype with.

Unless you're going for some sort of flip-chip packaging, there's not a lot of point in using modern process nodes on very small chips because most of the die area is used up by wire bonding anyway. It's why you see a lot of modern parts that are only available in QFN or WLCSP - the copper pillars on the die aren't physically large enough to wire-bond, so there's no practical way of attaching them to a conventional leadframe for a larger package.

>>433761

> The ATtiny series is over 20 years old, but it's still selling well with very healthy profit margins because of the massive ecosystem around AVR. There are better, faster and cheaper micros, but none are as well-documented or as easy to prototype with.


As you said, with the Arduino maker scene in particular, these chips are still profitable to produce because pretty much anyone with no previous concept of computer programming can use them to make an LED blink. And for simple purposes like controlling the temperatue inside a propagator, they're still the best bang for your buck.

Within the maker scene, for more ambitious projects, the standard is now more or less the ESP32, because it can do infinitely more than standard 8-bit RISC controllers. You can do anything with it from streaming MP3 music via bluetooth to designing interactive touchscreen menus or running a basic intranet web server, at least when you buy them as part of a developer's board like the ESP32-WROOM. Documentation so far isn't as good as the Attiny/Atmegas, it's still a growing ecosystem with fewer libraries than the latter, but it's still a powerful piece of kit.

I've been tinkering with a WROOM to stream music from my smartphone to my home stereo amplifier, but it's proved too difficult because so far there are no easy to understand A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) libraries that can get the job done the way I want.

I've written up the Arduino code for my propagator heater in one sitting tonight. And I really mean, I almost literally didn't get up from my chair except for a tea break or a sandwich.

I decided to test my circuit on a breadboard after all, which was a good thing, because the Attiny85 kept resetting after a few seconds of powering the heating pad, and it turned out I had forgotten a resistor between the mosfet's gate and the Attiny's pertaining control pin. Which caused too much current draw and made the chip run unstable.

But now I've completed the code and the circuit layout, so the next step, hopefully tomorrow night, will be soldering the parts onto the perfboard.

The Attiny45 proved to have too little memory for this job, so I switched to an Attiny85.

>>433749
>G-PRP_
Is it not in reference to them being turboprops?

>>433750

It could be, that would be less annoying to me. But it's only the purphuel liveried ones that have PRP in the reg.

The most amusing one flybe have is G-ECOK. Because it sounds like cock

>>433751

Not sure I would get on this plane...

>>433751
Not just a cock, but an e-cock.

>>433764

>e-cock

Is that like an e-cig, for when you're trying to wean yourself off real cock?

>>433491
I believe the term is”pusher”.

>>433492

Actually, big huel refer to us as 'hueligans'.

>>433493

Mirth.

>>433493

Hweyligans? I don't get it.

>>433499
Hwey the lads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAJ3lVjeZU

>>432579

https://fakealbumcovers.com/


I've got far too much time today

There was a Tourette lad at the bus stop tonight. He kept shouting things like "Arsecunt!" or "Gay wankers!" and also had a tic where he was intermittently jerking up his left elbow while simultaneously shaking his head. His mate who was with him assured me that this was nothing to be alarmed about. I felt a bit bad for finding it slightly amusing.

>>433388
You shouldn't. I'm an expert in Tourette's because I've watched sweet_anita on Twitch a few times and there's every chance he was just glad you didn't react angrily or aggressively. A bit of laughter never hurt anyone and it's certainly true that lots of sufferers can share with friends and strangers alike the hilarity of what their tics say.

And for anyone who doesn't consider Twitch beneath them, you should give Anita a whirl. Her tics can be amazingly funny and she's super wholesome with the mental heath podcast she does.

>>433428

You kind of wonder how Tourette's was seen before there was all that neurological knowledge about the condition. Were people in the Middle Ages thought of as being possessed by the devil, and burned at the stake if they kept saying things like "Arsecunt, thou art"?

I think I went to bed at about 11. As others have said, it's not a good night for going out.

Everyone on facebook is making big long posts about the last ten years and how they're all so happy. Seems a bit forced but it's probably not, I'm probably just being cynical. I won't make a post like that, so I'll do it here.

I'm feeling unexpectedly positive about the year ahead, despite recently becoming single again, which wasn't nearly as upsetting as I assumed it would be. If anything I feel more free to spend time doing things I've been wanting to do for a while. Might finally dip my toe into getting my PPL, will certainly be working more on cars, and I'll probably claw my way up the ladder at work too, though working is also no longer the desperate priority it has been for me for the last decade.

It's an odd feeling. Not contentment, more just acceptance that whatever happens, I can deal with it, and the quiet realisation that my life has been pretty fucking unpleasant for a few years, without me ever really noticing it until I changed some things.

Anyway, I sincerely hope you lot get something good out of the coming months too. Nothing, and I really mean nothing, has been a constant in my life more than this weird fucking website, and if you're reading this, you're part of that, and probably part of the reason I'm not dead. So cheers everyone.

>>433274

>Seems a bit forced but it's probably not


It is though.

On facebook, everything always tends to be. And on most other forms of social media. There are studies now that watching other people present their lives on social media can make you feel depressed about the seeming insignificance of your own life.

One reason why I've never fully warmed up to social media as a whole.

>>433274

I tried posting here last night, but I couldn't quite get it.

>It's an odd feeling. Not contentment, more just acceptance that whatever happens, I can deal with it, and the quiet realisation that my life has been pretty fucking unpleasant for a few years, without me ever really noticing it until I changed some things.

You hit the nail on the head. I do feel quite sad that things have been so quite unpleasant for so long, but at the same time registering that it's over is giving me a good optimism. You're right about the permanence of this board too, cheers .gs!

Damn I feel rough today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SevyrAWBWtE

>>433151

Can you see theirs?

>>433152

No, but there may be something I'm not aware of.

Assuming you mean no onr can see my preferences, I can't look desperate to anyone. Except anonymous people on .gs.

>>433130
Or that he swiped left on her?

>>433280

She's the only person I've seen wearing that head garment, and I almost always check through all pics before swiping, but yeah this is a possibility too.

>>433283

She's also mysteriously disappeared altogether now. Ah well, no cute eskimo girl for me.

>>433189
If anyone cares to read, I think it's vaguely interesting.
https://www.reddit.com/user/SpontaneousH/submitted/?sort=new

>>433199
It's almost comical how quickly that progressed. Who am i kidding, i laughed.

Would you say Christmas Turkey made into a soup and having spent 40 minutes out of the fridge in transport would still be good to eat? I had some made for me to get rid of the leftovers because I'm sick. Unfortunately I know what Christmas food poisoning is like and don't want to repeat the experience.

>>433188
One of them was an original Narkiss image. I'm going to keep it and post it next year.

>>433217
40 minutes out of the fridge? Fuck's sake, m8, get stuck in. That won't have made a damn of difference.

(I'm rolling the dysentery dice here today - roasting a turkey that had BBE of the 26th. Been in a cold fridge since, and didn't smell too bad. I'd be strongly advising against eating it, if asked on t'internet, but fuck it, I could stand to lose some weight, worst case.)

Just got home from a full house at the parents, think I had about a bottle of port and half a red and enough food for for a week alone. Had a lovely drive home, bit foggy. Evaded a .gs IP ban, now having a few beers and watching YT.

(A good day to you Sir!)

I've got £40 of vouchers to spend in establishments such as Harvester. How large a black pudding tower do you think I could acquire with this?

>>433090
Well, assuming a fixed cost per portion of black pudding, with no discounts for large volume orders, then one can calculate this quite easily.

Saw creme eggs and mini eggs for sale in Sainsburys, with a big display for Easter.

>>433104
only 105 sleeps!