>>441873
But then you'd need to find a new property with the same number as the one on your existing bin. Pretty foolish to limit your options like that.

My shower and bathroom radiator fucked themselves about 3 months ago. I'm desperate for a hot cleansing shower. My facial skin is almost a sickly yellow green from the buildup of oil under it. Thankfully the blackheads aren't horrific, but if i don't do something about it soon they surely will be.

>>441879
Balls of Steel was shit. I never really understood why Alex Zane had a TV career.

>>441882
Yeah it was dire, though Zane's bits always tended to be the best of the worst. He was basically copying Quizzlestick.

>>441882
He's actually really, really good at hosting naff TV shows that go out at or after 11pm.

>>441730

Police Academy was funny the first two or three movies, but after that, it just became painful to watch. They were milking a franchise for every last drop whose potential was quite limited from the word go and which should have been discontinued after part 3 or thereabouts.

There were plenty of slapstick comedies in the early to mid-80s that were in a similar vein, like Spies Like Us or Stripes. They were all funny in their own way, but thankfully they attempted no sequels. Even Beverly Hills Cop II was pretty tepid, although Eddie Murphy was probably the funniest comedian of his time.

I'm trying not to be a hair-trigger maniac with no self-control, but it does feel like the only other option to allow awful shit-houses to be rude, contemptuous and faintly cruel for seemingly no reason.

I find myself listening to a lot of old Depeche Mode at the moment, sort of from Black Celebration to Ultra.

Not sure what that says about my mental state at the moment. They always were a bit gloomy.

>>441866
Try this

>>441867

Sounds a bit like Psyche.


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


Also, next to 'Mode, I'm rediscovering Clan of Xymox.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47PxC9u6Kc

>>441819
I am right with you. If it's in there, my default option is a few cloves, whatever the amount the recipe says, whether its lockdown, covid or growing older I don't care now. Maybe psychologically the pandemic has turned me scared of vampire bats or something. I love garlic and I'm proud. I think I'm basically up to half a bulb whenever I'm cooking a meal for us. I might need help.

>>441821

>I might need help

Let's start Garlicoholics Anonymous together.

I used to really like garlic so I started putting it in more food. But then I suddenly became aware that it causes my face to inflame and gives me sinus pain. Now I don't ever eat it.

>>441825
Quitter. You need more garlic to build up your tolerance to it.

>>441826

He's still trying to resist Big Garlic.



We all know how it will end for him.

>Is there a better way to meet women without having an IRL social life?
There's Hinge. I don't have to do the account churn thing there.

You lads have confused me again. There's nothing you can do with a lass at the moment but go for a walk in the cold and screw - right? Have all those empty shops been converted in American style speakeasys and I'm simply not cool enough to know about it?

>>441782

No, you're absolutely right. It's the main reason I'm barely putting any effort into tinder at all the moment; basically if I hadn't gotten blind drunk over the "Black Friday" weekend and bought a year of Tinder Gold at a ridiculous discount I would have deleted my account by now.

I happen to be in a relatively comfortable position where I can basically have all the sex I want with someone who I know is taking the same Covid precautions that I am. If I wasn't, and I was in a total sexual drought since the beginning of last year I would probably be risking things a lot more and actually meeting up with the kind of mental slag lass who wants to hook up with a total stranger in the middle of a global pandemic.

Honestly lads, just have a wank and wait. I know someone who had Covid, you don't want this. Blood from the face apparently.

>>441794

>Blood from the face apparently.

For £300, I wouldn't mind a bit of blood from my face.

But you're right, wank and wait. You younglads think the world is going to end if you go a year without shagging. I was once like that, but let me assure you, it won't.

>>441744
This happens once you hit central europe and is also true for some eastern european countries, average attractiveness just shoots up, not just the women either, even the blokes are models. And, have to say OP I've never heard anyone claim the UK has the hottest people.

>>441745

>This happens once you hit central europe
>average attractiveness just shoots up


Yes and no. I've also been to Germany, and their women didn't strike me as broadly attractive as Czech girls.

Also though, German women are a nightmare to talk to when you try to chat with them in a pub. They just do not do small talk. On the plus side, if they have a boyfriend, they'll come right out with it. It can even be the very first thing they tell you.

German efficiency. No time wasted turning you down politely.

>>441746
Just a holiday, or did you live there? And where? What's dating like in Germany?

I doubt it started with this but the shitrag winter tradition of publishing loads of pictures of cold, fat women in skimpy clothing can't help.

>>441757

Just visiting. I have a good friend who lives there, and I got to sample Hamburg's night life on a few occasions.

>>441417
No.

>>441421
I did get a girlfriend in the middle of a war against what I think were aliens later in the dream. However, I think by that point I'd stopped looking exactly like Saddam Hussein. Shout out to my imaginary gf for remaining very professional during a firefight, I think that kind of maturity was what I liked best about her.

I had a dream that I was at a birthday party with loads of people, probably a hundred, and nobody was wearing a mask, and I thought, even if I don't get sick, they're going to trace me and tell me to go into quarantine. So I told people I was going home, and if anybody asked them, I was never there.



>>441423

> which used to mean

And that's the keyword. Used to. Like I said, capitalism at its beginning in the 19th century should not serve as a blueprint for how a modern market economy should function. Capitalism as well as most countries' economic policy has evolved from that, it has largely left its scandalous days behind it, and it shows the world over that you can have capitalism and at the same time the little people can prosper. While socialists still dream of the world revolution that never happened a hundred years ago, all the while rejecting the Soviet Union as a key example of how socialism turns out in practice.

>>441472
You criticise socialists for not embracing the Soviet Union as a shining example of their ideology, but don't do the same for capitalists who may be reluctant to cheer for Pinochet, or Putin, or Trump.

I can only remember fragments of it. We found an old post somewhere online from Charlie Brooker saying Krautchan is better than here. This place was bought out by Indians. You could get a mint and hazelnut flavour Bounty, which came in dark green packaging.

Being driven down a rocky, bumpy path with lots of small jumps between two spatially-incompatible fields by a super cocky land rover driver, culminating in a massive jump off a dirt ramp. I was instantly teleported out of the land rover as it tilted in the air, landed on its roof, and presumably crushed the driver. I woke up before I could find out.

>>441551
I don't know what xis name is

>>441569
We're going to need more clues.

>>441573
The clues are there.

>>441573
the radio station is in the low 90's on FM

>>441586
Well, given that the range of broadcast FM is about 40 miles, it's unlikely we'll have heard that station in the UK.

Ok

>>441512
I do live on my own as it happens but even when I were a kid and lived with my parents I was expected to cook for myself and do my own washing, and usually the rest of the family's laundry and washing up and tea making. I think living on your own can help, but teaching those sort of skills is possible whilst living at home.


Funny story, the day before I moved out for uni, my dad had this 20 minute top of his lungs screaming session at me about how I was an ungrateful little shit and I was deliberately sabotaging his coffee by making it taste like shit. When I pointed out that a) I don't drink coffee so I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like, b) in the previous six years he'd not once pointed out that it didn't taste good so how the fuck was I supposed to know, and c) if he wanted coffee how he liked it he shouldn't scream at me to make it every 30 minutes whilst I'm trying to do school work and make it himself, he reiterated that I was doing it deliberately and should have been more grateful (for what, I'm not sure). I don't have a bad relationship with my parents, and that incident has never been mentioned again, but it was just such a fucking weird thing to happen.

>>441516

I suspect that was your emotionally-constipated dad's way of saying "I love you son and I'm going to miss you".

>>441509
That's what she tells you. It's all part of their full time findom lifestyle.

>>441516

>but it was just such a fucking weird thing to happen.

How do you bugger up coffee though? Contrary to what hipsters will have you believe, it's not sorcery to be able to make a pleasant tasting cup of coffee.


Agree with your general point though, that your parents can already teach you life skills while you are still living with them. I remember my mum teaching me how to use the washing machine and dryer when I was about 15, when she got tired of me always wanting to wear things that she hadn't had the time to put in the wash. Also, my mum is still of the generation where a wife was expected to have good cooking skills, and I learned a lot from her, like how to fry a steak so that it's still juicy inside, or how to cook vegetables just right.

My dad wasn't around long enough to teach me the "lad" stuff like fixing electrical appliances or repainting a garden fence, but I eventually picked those skills up myself in adulthood.

>>441519

Maybe his dad's a hipster?

I've indicated the Clap for Carers period on the graph of UK covid cases in red. As you can see, rate of increase in cases levels off as clap participation rose from March through April. This levelled of April 7 following Clap for Boris and then greatly declined.

Nobody has been clapping during the spear and as you can see, the number of cases are astounding. Nobody has clapped for Boris since April of last year to the detriment of the Public Health of the UK.
We basically have a Reverse Tinkerbell effect here and you all need to clap for Boris on your doorstep at least once a day.

Now, I'm no scientist, but if I were I would probably suggest trying to clap daily instead of just on Thursdays in order to see if it's possible to ramp up the ameliorative effects of clapping on covid spread.

Determining a mechanism is also important. One may speculate that the force of hands slapping together is effectively destroying the virus better than soap and water which is admittedly a lot softer than a good hard British clap.
It remains to be seen whether the latest abominable mutant super skunk UK strain of virus is susceptible to clapping but we can only hope and pray and clap

I didn't hear a single clap. The founder of the clap has deleted her Tweet and distanced herself from the clap after loads of NHS staff responded saying they'd rather have a pay rise instead.

>>441488

>distanced herself from the clap

She'd have been better off seeing a doctor for some antibiotics, ironically enough.

>>441488
Good. I hope she realises how stupid her bollocks was/is.

"There are other channels to protest..." You can fuck off.

>>441490
My favourite part of her statement is saying she doesn't have the authority to cancel it, when she decided she had the authority to bring it back in the first place despite no demand for it whatsoever.

>>441294

> but if it's something soft like MDF

Probably best to use solid hardwood as a backdrop for steel tip darts, if you really want something durable. Some good 18mm pine wood should do.

>>441295

>hardwood
>pine

Sort it out m8.

>>441296

I stand corrected. I somehow thought pine was hardwood.

Go on then. English oak. Or something.

>>441300
Oak's nice.

Going through my Arduino parts bin again here at the moment, looking for something to throw together to kill the boredom of being stuck at home.

I've got several ATtiny microcontrollers and an ESP32 dev board, as well as temperature sensors, a gyroscope/accelerometer, PIR sensors, two miniature TFT colour displays, a whole bag of assorted resistors and capacitors, a few LEDs, and miscellaneous parts like transistors and MOSFETs, and a 1.5'' paper cone speaker with a 3W amplifier.

I could make a burglar alarm with the PIR sensor and the speaker and the amp, the only question would be the whole point of it, when there are days at the moment where I don't leave my flat at all.

>>441346
I'm not saying he's an angel but you're still putting a lot of effort into this.

>>441347
Remember, lad. He's not the angry one.

>>441348

I think it's clear we're all angry, it's just one of us is angry because he's outed himself as a mental hat woman aficionado.

Christ this takes me back, I've not seen a cunt off as caustic (and funny) as this in years.

>>441350
It is the season, after all.

I want to start an album, and get it about half done. I don't care about the musical quality or if anyone else likes it -- as long as what I make amuses me, I'll be satisfied.

I was considering making losing weight my resolution, but fuck it, my mental health's still too iffy (and food is a real crutch). Next year.

Does anyone know what the average dry seed yield of a mustard plant is? I'm tempted to grow one to make my own mustard but I'm not sure how many I'd need for it to be worthwhile.

>>441218
>Does anyone know what the average dry seed yield of a mustard plant is?
African or European?

>>441222

Are you suggestin' mustard plants migrate?

I want to win money in a Kaggle competition. The analytics ones are probably the best shout, but the only one available right now is just a terrible ML challenge in disguise.

>>441208
>Happy New Decade

You'll be needing the "Resting Actors" thread.

I guess I'll tell you about a subject I know about... mountaineering.

Specifically moutaineering coats... North Face summit series. A lot of north face stuff has become just overpriced branded 'streetwear' clothing. But the summit series is one of about 5 brands that makes outdoor clothing you would want to wear whilst facing off death on top of an Alp, and of they are the best value and probably the only one you might find on a normal high street. Arc'teryx is actually the best mountaineering clothing brand but they cost twice as much as anyone of the other real brands and everyone else was already charging way more than you would think these things should cost. The others are Rab, mammut, and the uncreatively named mountain equipment and mountain hardware.

Anyone else selling you clothes that look similar are usually of dubious quality or practicality.

I think brand-name tea is worth the additional cost. I switched to Lidl's generic tea for a while when I was unemployed and proper skint, but if you buy commercial-brand tea in bags or leaf, then the little bit of extra cost is absolutely worth it.

I was a real tea snob though for a while. There was a small Indian tea shop in my old neighbourhood where you could buy loose leaf and where they had about 25 different black and green tea flavours in boxes behind the counter. Always smelled delicious when you walked in. If you didn't mind paying up to £7 for 125g of their finest Earl Grey, it was your kind of place.

>>441214

Echoing this sentiment for motorcycle clothing. Fashion trends will regularly cycle in and out of moto-looking aesthetics, but it should go without saying that their protective value is virtually zero. It sounds obvious, but sometimes even clothing manufacturers will deliberately blur the line between fashion and riding leathers (Barbour, Belstaff, and Schott spring to mind).

There is a growing market for motorcycle gear that looks more like every day clothing and a lot of little leaps forward have been made in achieving decently protective gear that it doesn't feel odd to wear off-bike. Knox is a good place to start. The YouTube channel "FortNine" also has some very good videos on safety ratings and clothing recommendations that meet a decent standard.

>>441214

If I can add to your list Buffalo and Montane - their pile and Pertex smocks and salopettes are phenomenally good in extreme weather. Not cheap, not attractive, but virtually indestructible.

>>441216

Co-op 99 > *.