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>> No. 455363 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 3:23 pm
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That's me in the corner.
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>> No. 455633 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 2:15 pm
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>>455632
Ah looks like one of them has crawled out of the woodwork. Calm down mate there aren't any fisherperson evangelist christian korean youtubers here to hurt you.
>> No. 455634 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>455632

He's not wrong though in that there are certain people in the Atheist movement who are blessed with a similar kind of zealotry as proselytising Christians or eskimos.

The problem is when people feel superior to everybody else because they think they are in possession of the only real truth. It's bad enough that some religious fanatics think that way, but outspoken atheists can be just as much insufferable cunts about it.
>> No. 455635 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 2:23 pm
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You lot need to have words with yourselves.

Am I doing it right?
>> No. 455636 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 3:32 pm
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>>455634

Being insufferable isn't the problem though. The human rights abuses and just general cultural regressiveness religion proselytises is a much greater evil than just being an edgelord who quotes Richard Dawkins. It's like with the environment lot. They're often tossers but that doesn't stop them being unequivocally right.

It annoys me that there's so much apologism for religion now, particularly in liberal and lefty circles, which appears to have come about purely and entirely as a contrarian response to the BRILLIANT fedora atheist stereotype, when it flagrantlyflies in the face of what their values should be. You see some real displays of cognitive dissonance where they're are banging the drum for women and LGBT rights and what have you, until Shamanism comes along and goes "but it's our culture lol, can't criticise us we're brown" and then they just have to shut up and look nervously at the floor.
>> No. 455637 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 6:38 pm
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>>455636

On the one hand you've got ISIS and Boko Haram, on the other you've got people being a bit snotty and arrogant on the internet. Swings and roundabouts innit.

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>> No. 455240 Anonymous
20th November 2022
Sunday 5:54 pm
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Why is it that all modern desks seem to have a height above 70cm? Well, at least based on my research .

Looking into it, this is supposed to be ergonomically comfortable. For me personally, a desk height of around 50-60cm would be ideal but I can't find one like this anywhere.
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>> No. 455241 Anonymous
20th November 2022
Sunday 5:56 pm
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>>455240
If only there was a way to shrink the size of the legs. Or to get one designed with an adjustable height.
>> No. 455242 Anonymous
21st November 2022
Monday 4:10 pm
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>>455240
I have a standing desk - the lowest it goes is 58cm, my normal seating position. Anything sitting down can be difficult ergonomically, but I can totally recommend a height-adjustable/standing desk.
>> No. 455244 Anonymous
21st November 2022
Monday 4:42 pm
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If you lack the mechanical aptitude to cut down a desk, Ikea do adjustable legs for their modular desk system that go down to 60cm. They're available for home delivery if you don't live near a store.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/olov-leg-adjustable-white-10264302/
>> No. 455264 Anonymous
22nd November 2022
Tuesday 6:37 pm
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>>455244
Thanks this is really helpful
>> No. 455417 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 12:10 am
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There is no one-size-fits-all table height. Nor does any chair fit every person, though [i]that[/[i] Hermann Milller model tries. Ikea does some really nice hand crank models to let you adjust yout height and posture, if you work at a desk from home get one. If your employer requries you to work from a desk and doesn't have any accommodation? Oof. Going up, sheafs of A4 under the table legs can help. But if they're hostile to you having a reasonable work environment, you'll have to weigh staying employed v.s. getting this fixed :(

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>> No. 452420 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 8:02 am
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New weekend thread.

It's going to reach about 30° tomorrow. Godspeed, lads.
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>> No. 454567 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 11:30 pm
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Fat Stewart Lee, as acknowledged in his new iPlayer show Tornado, looks exactly like fat Jim Davidson. He doesn't acknowledge that but it's true.
>> No. 454571 Anonymous
1st October 2022
Saturday 11:14 pm
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I started crying because I love Rocco Botte so much just now.
>> No. 454572 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 10:37 am
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>>454567

Fuck, now he's going to take twice as long to get to the joke because of his COPD. I can't wait 40 minutes.
>> No. 454626 Anonymous
8th October 2022
Saturday 3:56 pm
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There's a play on Radio 4 which is actually quite funny. Most unexpected.
>> No. 454629 Anonymous
8th October 2022
Saturday 10:36 pm
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>>454567
Stewart Lee and Jim Davidson are the same person.

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>> No. 452571 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:48 am
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New weekday thread: apocalyptic edition.
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>> No. 454613 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 10:01 am
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Look, I'm not going to do it, but one of us needs to step up and make a new weekday thread, first thing Monday. Unless, I suppose, if Putin does use a nuclear device in Ukraine, then it's bang on point again.
>> No. 454614 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 10:30 am
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>>454613
I'll do it if nobody else does. I'm thinking either hedgehogs, badgers, something else autumnal or Bamber Boozler.
>> No. 454615 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 11:09 am
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>>454614
Might I suggest a photo of an antique radiator? It would look old and unused, but it would also be a radiator. Or you can use a different picture; van Gogh wasn't appreciated in his own time either.
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7th October 2022
Friday 12:05 pm
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>>454615

What if we make all our new thread pictures by AI generation.
>> No. 454620 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 2:30 pm
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>>454617

https://creator.nightcafe.studio

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>> No. 444214 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:05 pm
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Lads, I've just opened my packet of mozzarella sticks and there were 13 in there rather than the 12 there's supposed to be.

I thought I'd share my outrageous good fortune with you in the hope that my good luck rubs off on you. If it does, let me know.
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>> No. 445876 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 6:38 pm
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Today's pack of mozzarella sticks contained 13. Let the good times roll.
>> No. 448673 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 6:49 pm
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McDonald's missed a large fries off, so they re-did the entire order plus the fries they missed first time round. I am stuffed.
>> No. 454573 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 12:51 pm
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I went to Morrisons and someone had left their 5p off a litre of fuel voucher at the till, so thanks to that I've saved £1.05 when filling up my car.
>> No. 454574 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 1:59 pm
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I got two packs of Gruyère for the price of one because one of the labels stuck the packs together, and the packers presumably didn't have the time or the fucks to separate them.
>> No. 454575 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 12:14 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFT2t5frWo

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>> No. 453901 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 2:08 pm
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ARE LIZ thread

Big event, saves clogging the weekdays thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62834633
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>> No. 454405 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 12:53 pm
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>>454404
What I wanna know is why you'd give the corgis to Andrew. Might as well give them to Rolf Harris. I'm going to call the RSPCA.
>> No. 454406 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 1:18 pm
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>>454405
Corgis are small dogs, and they say Andrew has a way with the little 'uns.
>> No. 454407 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 2:47 pm
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>>454406

>and they say Andrew has a way with the little 'uns

Maybe he likes dogging, too.




I'll get my coat.
>> No. 454408 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 2:48 pm
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>>454407

They'll be well groomed, at any rate.
>> No. 454409 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 5:20 pm
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>>454408

Let's just hope he won't screw the pooch then.

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>> No. 453158 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 8:01 pm
453158 postal services?
evening u 3 its been a while but i have a question? what postal services do you recomend as this is how my gun turned up today.
4 days late with parcel force.
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>> No. 453163 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 10:46 pm
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>>453160
That looks like a leaking over-oiled bit, but I don't your particular gun.

>>453161
Your local RFD will not ship you an air gun that way, but private sales you're only limited by what your chosen delivery services ToS are.

The RFD requirements say that it must be done in person, hence you get a rather bespoke service by those who do delivery (it's how I got pic attached) but outside of Scotland at least person to person you can do what you like.
>> No. 453164 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 11:12 pm
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>>453162
As far as I can tell PCPs are "don't ask don't tell". Most carriers have a ban on ammunition, but air gun pellets are tacitly permitted. Lead's heavy, so order in bulk if you can.

For lead free, I've had absolutely rubbish results with the plastic jacket excite pellets (H&N Sport's budget line) Apollo/Prometheus (wild fliers were the norm, more than 2" at 10m), but RWS was decent. YMMV, of course. For everyday plinking I still use exxcite econ :).
>> No. 453176 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 10:41 am
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>>453162 you need to send pcp empty or they wont take and was private sale not rfd. could of been worse.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 454283 Anonymous
16th September 2022
Friday 10:56 pm
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You know what's weird is you can buy a proper air rifle, you can buy a crossbow, you can buy a massive fuck off ninja sword, without any form of real legal barrier. But as soon as you want an airsoft rifle, it has to come in bright orange. Makes no sense.

The requirements to get one in normal colours are that you actually have to go and play 3 games at an airsoft game place for them to verify you. Fuck that, I can't be arsed. Nobody had to verify that I'm shooting rabbits or whatever when I bought my air rifle. Is there any way around it?

I ask because I fancy getting an airsoft replica AS VAL, for no other reason than because it's my favourite gun in Stalker. I'd also like to imagine that one day I'll get arrested for having a henry's of weed on me and the police will search my flat, then post my dangerous collection of offensive weapons on Facebook to make it look like they stopped some kind of super daft militant wog.
>> No. 454365 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>453176
Thank fuck for that, I was about to have an aneurysm reading these atrocious posts.

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>> No. 454213 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 3:36 pm
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Lads, I'd be grateful if you could help me with a question. I genuinely don't know the answer and it's starting to trouble me.

What is the appeal of Fearne Cotton? I'm completely stumped.

Is it her looks? I don't believe it is because of her prominent beak nose. I grew up watching her on kid's TV and never had a crush on her. I doubt you lads did either because she's never brought up when we have our infrequent discussions on childhood TV crushes; that's usually reserved for Blue Peter presenters, Harmony from the Queen's Nose or Cavegirl.

Is it her personality and presenting skills? Again, I doubt it because she's not particularly warm or likeable. I can't ever actually recall being entertained by her. She's just there. When she fills in for someone on Radio 2 she just spouts vapid nonsense so I hope they don't give her a proper show at some point like they have with Scott Mills.

Help me out, lads. I have a vague feeling there's nepotism involved with her career, but even that should only get you so far (unless you're Holly Willoughby) so I must be missing something glaringly obvious. What do you personally like about Fearne Cotton? I'm drawing a blank here.
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>> No. 454231 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 1:58 am
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>>454230

>ITV rarely do anything besides forgettable fluff.

They occasionally commission a competent drama mini-series with some combination of actors you remember from other ITV drama mini-series.
>> No. 454243 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 5:50 pm
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>>454213
Harmony is a Therapist now.

https://www.oxfordhousetherapy.com/our-therapists-in-west-london/victoria-shalet
>> No. 454249 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 8:30 pm
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>>454243

We've definitely discussed this before. I think we came to the conclusion that booking a course of therapy just to gawp at someone you used to have a crush on is unethical.

If I remember rightly, Jet off of Gladiators now does something called "desk analysis", whatever that is.
>> No. 454250 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 9:05 pm
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>>454249
It's at least the fourth time we've discussed what Harmony is up to these days, to the best of my knowledge.
>> No. 454252 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 9:29 pm
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>>454250
It shows the level of attachment from back then I suppose.

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>> No. 453872 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 12:39 am
453872 THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT
>Why young people are detaching from democracy and social norms – and what to do about it

>% support for running the UK with "a strong leader who doesn't have to bother with parliament/elections"
>All: 46%
>18-34s: 61%
>35-54s: 49%
>Over-55s: 29%

https://www.ukonward.com/reports/the-kids-arent-alright-democracy/

How true is this? Doesn't seem that realistic, but then again... An argument could be made that the young have been disenfranchised.
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>> No. 454142 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 3:59 am
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>>454141
Not that lad, but public spending doesn't have to fall for cuts to be made. If it takes - say - a 10% increase each year to maintain the same quality of public services and you're trying to keep public spending within certain limits, so you make a 5% increase, overall public spending increases yet services get cut to meet the budget.
The NHS is a good example of this: It gets piss all funding compared to practically any other first world healthcare system, while an aging population means demand is growing far faster than budgets, so things wind up being cut even though on paper budgets are going up all the time.
(For a fun chart: look at the real terms wages of NHS workers, which were intermittently frozen or given below-inflation increases during the coalition years. The number on the budget stays the same or goes up, yet they got poorer...)

>Does "austerity" just mean "we want potentially unlimited budgets for Good Things"?
No, but this quickly leads into a separate argument about the nature of public spending, the relationship between deficits and growth, and all sorts of other things. It's perfectly possible for a cut in public spending to lead to higher borrowing in the long term, and for higher spending to lead to lower borrowing, and for all sorts of other things to happen. The very short version would be that the government had options and it broke for shrinking the state relative to the economy as a whole.
>> No. 454143 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 6:00 am
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>>454141

>I wonder if you could answer something that has been bugging me for a while, could you please explain what you mean by "austerity"?

Austerity was the name used by David Cameron and George Osborne to describe his economic strategy after the 2008 financial crisis, announced at the 2009 Conservative conference and implemented in the 2010 budget. It's a widely-used economic term to describe reductions in government spending with the intention of reducing government debt and deficit. It has a sound (but disputed) theoretical basis; when a government is heavily indebted, reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio increases the confidence of debtors that they will be repaid and reduces inflation.

This was, from the outset, coupled to an ideological argument that the government had grown too big, undermining personal responsibility. Cameron's 2009 conference speech makes the intent explicit:

If win this election, it is going to be tough. There will have to be cutbacks in public spending, and that will be painful. We will need to confront Britain's culture of irresponsibility and that will be hard to take for many people.

And here is the big argument in British politics today, put plainly and simply. Labour say that to solve the country's problems, we need more government.

Don't they see? It is more government that got us into this mess.

Why is our economy broken? Not just because Labour wrongly thought they'd abolished boom and bust. But because government got too big, spent too much and doubled the national debt.
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>> No. 454144 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>453905

>We need a system in which The Millennial Party can get 20% of the seats in Parliament and force the blue Boomer Party or the red Boomer Party to compromise

Fine with me, just as long as they can agree to form a coalition to keep the Zoomer Party from ever having a say about anything.
>> No. 454145 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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>>454141
In addition to the other points that spending needs to go up by a lot just to stay still, and that there was much more expectation in 2008 that basic services like public toilets and libraries should be provided, lefty Maoist kneeling places also point to examples like Iceland where the government spent money and saw a massively better economic recovery compared to ours. So the claim that we couldn't spend our way out of recession was, with hindsight, never even true. The government policy of refusing to invest money it didn't already have was at least a moderate failure.
>> No. 454146 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 3:36 pm
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>>454145
>So the claim that we couldn't spend our way out of recession was, with hindsight, never even true. The government policy of refusing to invest money it didn't already have was at least a moderate failure.

IIRC the economy was starting to recover under Brown and then the Tories stamped that all out.

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>> No. 453733 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 12:08 am
453733 Congratulations to India
Their cricketing is A+ too
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>> No. 453784 Anonymous
4th September 2022
Sunday 12:17 am
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>>453782
>CCCP
You keep doing this. The government of China is the Chinese Communist Party, which abbreviates to CCP. Personally, I never call them this because I don't think they call themselves that and it's not really an immediately intuitive term to read, at least partly because it does look a bit like CCCP. CCCP, meanwhile, is Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, AKA the USSR in English.
>> No. 453785 Anonymous
4th September 2022
Sunday 12:19 am
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>>453784

Sorry, I'm quite pissed.
>> No. 453787 Anonymous
4th September 2022
Sunday 8:58 am
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>>453780

While we were knobs, the Chinese had their own problems which made things much worse. No one could actually say to the emperor "look, we're fucked and these guys will bum us a lot". They let their own people down because they couldn't lose face. Japan is a similar case, but they were (eventually) humble enough to embrace and learn from it.

Fun fact: I have immense yellow fever
>> No. 453803 Anonymous
4th September 2022
Sunday 8:34 pm
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>"So...Hong Kong. You see that shit Xi's selling, about how they now have a chance for "true" democracy? Why don't you fuckers take that place back? C'mon, he broke the deal...England should just take Hong Kong back! Free the Chinese!"
-geopolitical strategist Axl Rose at a recent lecture in London
>> No. 453812 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 10:27 am
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>>453803

Guns n Roses did put out an album called Chinese Democracy.

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>> No. 425247 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 1:45 pm
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New mid-week thread.

I've got the feeling I was meant to look something up but I can't remember what and it's bugging me.
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>> No. 453424 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 11:24 pm
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>>453421

Either she has seen way too many Insta posts about "natural contraception", or she isn't being entirely truthful about whether she wants kids. Is she in her very late 20s or early 30s, by any chance? A lot of women go a bit weird when their progressive beliefs are increasingly challenged by their biological clock.
>> No. 453425 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 11:41 pm
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>>453423
If I was "having a go" I would have told you to jump in front of the Virgin Pendolino. If being called a "daft sod" gets you that worked up, you can't expect me to cater for your sugar glass-like ego. What should do the next time you do something stupid? Call you a silly sausage? A big baby? Smother you with a pillow?
>> No. 453426 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 12:33 am
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>>453424

The age group is right, but she's definitely not what I'd describe as progressive. Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there, because it would be very out of character.

I want to urge her to get the coil but she's uncomfortable with the idea of having something lodged in there; and despite what they tell you about it, I know from experience with exes that it can cause discomfort, especially during that time of month or if you smash their cervix in during a vigorous coked up rutting. She categorically rules out any of the hormonal contraceptives and doesn't like condoms, so there's really not much choice left.

Weird one really.

>>453425

Oooh, look who's a touchy baldy.
>> No. 453427 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 12:55 am
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>>453426

>Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there

That's essentially what I mean by progressive - she's a young, fun-loving woman who doesn't want to be weighed down by kids and become a boring old mum, but her ovaries might say differently. Next time you're out together, try to look at her eyes whenever you pass a pram. She might genuinely just be feckless, but I suspect there's a bit more going on.

If she can't be tempted by any of the options - and it's worth pointing out that there are a lot more options than there used to be - then you might just have to bite the bullet and get your tubes tied. Unfortunately the perfect contraceptive already exists in the form of RISUG, but we can't have it. Bastards.
>> No. 453435 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 5:39 pm
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Tbf, it's nice to do a bit of time travel to the world before. Look how care free most of this was.

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>> No. 453064 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 10:32 pm
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ok so im 31 year old right now and have a problem

i spent 5 months at manhattan psychiatric hospital and they discharged me into a half way house, its called transitional living. what if i don't go can they call the police or something
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>> No. 453083 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:24 am
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>>453069
It could be a very helpful answer if you read it as a hint that a website almost exclusively used by British people probably isn't the best place to ask about very specific American laws.
>> No. 453095 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 3:44 pm
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>>453075
thanks mate, have a good one
>> No. 453098 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 10:49 pm
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>>453083
How the fuck are subtle hints "very helpful" to someone who's just being discharged from a psychiatric hospital and needs help? Christ mate.
>> No. 453099 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 11:03 pm
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>>453098
Not sure how subtle the name of the website is.
>> No. 453100 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 11:27 pm
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>>453099
Look, I get what you're saying but I don't think this is the thread to make this stand. The fact the mods have let it be should tell you something.

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>> No. 452773 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 12:46 am
452773 Men of the future
How did we as a species manage to fail to raise decent men on such a huge scale for decades, mayne post WW2?

I don’t think we can just blame communism/globalization/fishing or one thing.

(A good day to you Sir!)
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1st August 2022
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>> No. 452936 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 8:53 am
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>>452935
WARNING!
The above poster is a known dog molester.
WARNING!
>> No. 452962 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 3:10 am
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>>452814
Explain the popularity of homeopathy in Germany in the context of their supposedly wonderful and completely successful healthcare system. Why are so many seeking out alternative drugs? Smells funny if you ask me.
>> No. 452963 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 4:30 am
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>Explain the popularity of homeopathy in Germany in the context of their supposedly wonderful and completely successful healthcare system.

A large proportion of medical appointments don't involve anything that could be meaningfully described as a disease or a treatment. People who are worried but not clinically anxious, people who are lonely, people who haven't come to terms with the natural wear-and-tear of ageing, people with chronic conditions who are already receiving the best available treatment, people who just want to feel listened to and nurtured. There's nothing that can be done for them medically, but they have unmet social and emotional needs.

The NHS is pretty dismal at dealing with these patients; they're dismissed as the "worried well" or hypochondriacs and they tend to go on a revolving door of GP appointments with the occasional completely unnecessary referral for tests. Some parts of the country are better than others, some GPs are better at using community nursing and social prescribing, but generally these patients are regarded as an unavoidable nuisance. Plenty of GPs sympathise with these patients, but it's hard to maintain that sympathy when there are so many demands on your time.

The German use of homeopathy is a key part of how they solve this problem. Doctors refer patients to homeopaths, the patient gets a long consultation with someone who is good at sympathetic listening and they go away with a bottle of completely harmless placebo pills. Homeopaths are nominally equal in status to doctors under German law, but they aren't allowed to treat anything that looks like a proper illness. Doctors know that it's bullshit, but it's bullshit that makes people feel better in ways that real drugs can't. Homeopaths don't step out of line and say that they can cure cancer, because they very much like being able to accept payments from health insurance. The insurers are happy, because it keeps their costs down.

The ethics of it all make me cringe, but there's no denying that it works - not in a medical sense, but a psychosocial sense. Homeopathy isn't an effective treatment for any disease, but that's entirely beside the point. It fills a need that people have always had, the need for blessings from the priest, incantations from the shaman, herbs from the drugs man, potions from the witch. In an atomised and secular society, we increasingly turn to doctors when we have problems that can't be diagnosed by any test and can't be treated by any drugs.
>> No. 453049 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 7:32 pm
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In his days even saying bl**dy on recored media was crossing into poor taste category. Poor taste and poor people and poverty are all inevitable companions.

Here’s George Orwell discussing the magic and strangeness of swearing in Down and Out in Paris and London:

>The whole business of swearing, especially English swearing, is mysterious. Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic—indeed, it is a species of magic. But there is also a paradox about it, namely this: Our intention in swearing is to shock and wound, which we do by mentioning something that should be kept secret—usually something to do with the sexual functions. But the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing. For example, – – – -. The Londoners do not now use, or very seldom use, this word in its original meaning; it is on their lips from morning till night, but it is a mere expletive and means nothing.

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>> No. 425684 Anonymous
5th April 2019
Friday 11:36 pm
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So am I the only one who is getting a bit annoyed by this whole Greta Thunberg cult, or am I just too much of a cold hearted cynic that the world would be better off without?

I don't doubt the legitimate concern of her generation over climate change, after all it will fall to them to sort out the utter fucking mess that we have left the planet in, but all the awards that she is now being showered with are IMO just middle aged and old people's guilt over their own failure to save the planet's climate despite having had decades of prior warning, and who lost their way and succumbed to high carbon footprint consumerism somewhere between 1990s road protest villages and today's school runs in a 4x4. None of it feels sincere or genuine, it's more like, yeah, just take all these awards and shut the hell up already.

And parents whose children now protest every Friday or so are now engaging in pissing matches on twitter and Instagram to show off which one of their kids gets the most involved. As one commenter said, nothing good has ever come of a youth protest movement that was applauded by parents.
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>> No. 453040 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 3:10 pm
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God, she really is thick as pork mince.
>> No. 453041 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 3:15 pm
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I have to assume there's a 'get Truss to say the daftest thing' game going on here among her team. First one to get her to reference spacewombles wins.
She just gives the impression that whe was dropped on her hrad a lot as a kid.
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>> No. 453238 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 5:02 am
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In twenty years time, this post will be on display in a museum, juxtaposed with a video of Vladimir Putin saying that the sanctions aren't harming Russia.
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14th August 2022
Sunday 9:55 am
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