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>> No. 441558 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 8:46 pm
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New midweek thread: chip butty edition.

Is it even midweek? The days have all blurred into one and lost all sense of meaning.
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>> No. 441559 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 8:47 pm
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My girlfriend is seriously considering entering one of those house raffle competitions. The location isn't actually listed on the entry page, but I'm fairly certain it's one of those new builds next to Dewsbury Rams stadium. For actual fuck's sake.
>> No. 441560 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 8:50 pm
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Perhaps a controversial opinion, but oven chips in a butty I feel are far superior to even the best chippy equivalent - I haven't had one for years (haven't had oven chips for years, actually) but I really, really want one now.

I also have no fucking idea what day it is. I think it might be tuesday?
>> No. 441561 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:07 pm
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>>441560
I'd say the issue with a chip butty from a chippy is the bread they use. Chippy chips on bread from my bread bin would be optimal for me.
>> No. 441562 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:24 pm
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It's Monday and 'editions' is an otherplace thing. This is madness.
>> No. 441563 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:26 pm
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>>441562

Welcome to the "new normal". It's all downhill from here.
>> No. 441564 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:39 pm
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>>441562
>'editions' is an otherplace thing

We've been doing it for years. From a quick look in the catalogue:

>>423374
>New weekend thread. First weekend of the year edition.

>>424669
>Weekend thread: bangers and mash edition.

>>428949
>New weekend thread: Highland Toffee edition

>>431786
>New midweek thread: Let's enter Robot Wars edition.

There's no need to be a poseur and hint we should stop using one of the commonly accepted formats for this kind of thread, that has been used for years, because you've suddenly decided if other places now use it we should stop.
>> No. 441565 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:42 pm
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>>441558
That is a tremendous looking chip butty. You've made me hungry and I'm supposed to be avoiding carbs. DAMN YOU.
>> No. 441566 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>441564

I propose that we merge all of the threads quoted in this post into one thread.
>> No. 441567 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:53 pm
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>>441564
I like how they're all over a period of several months in 2019 for slightly different topics.
>> No. 441568 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>441564

To be fair, all of the examples you've cited were from 2019. I do seem to remember it going back a bit longer than that but it was almost definitely an import from the other place that was just allowed to slide. Regardless, it's hardly the most offensive thing that could leak over from there.

On the other hand there are plenty of lads on here who would happily get rid of all the "mega-threads" altogether, not just the ones that are posted on the wrong day of the week or whatever.

Personally I think the board is slow enough to warrant their use - I mean I'd rather post about Disenchantment part three in a more recent "what are you watching now" mega-thread than dig up the long dead thread from 2018 when the first part was released.
>> No. 441570 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>441568

>it was almost definitely an import from the other place

You'd only know that if you went to the other place, and none of the rest of us do, so you're definitely imagining it, outlander.
>> No. 441571 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:08 pm
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>>441568
Last time we went properly meta (>>420448) the consensus seemed to be that general threads are a bit shit, but the major issue is that people don't tend to create new threads otherwise so there isn't much of an alternative; they're a necessary evil to keep activity going.
>> No. 441572 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:20 pm
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>>441570

Considering the fact that this place was originally built by britchan refugees I would wager that a fairly high percentage of the original users of this site have had exposure to the other place at some point or other.

I'd wager even higher than the majority of newer users (I do believe we get some, even if it's only very occasionally) would have found this place from there. There are the people who turn up from there other place and make a big song and dance about it but I suspect there is a small but non-zero number who find us through there, lurk for a bit, and decide they like it here and eventually more or less blend in, bringing with them things like "XYZ Edition" that eventually merge harmlessly enough with our existing board culture.

The primary crossover boards here used to be krautchan and ylilauta but I'm pretty sure we have more funchan users than you'd imagine. Do you really expect me to believe that all those Warhammerlads never ever take even a peek at /tg/?
>> No. 441575 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:31 pm
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>>441571
>the major issue is that people don't tend to create new threads otherwise so there isn't much of an alternative; they're a necessary evil to keep activity going

I've long suspected that the common denominator on here was a shyness.
>> No. 441576 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:37 pm
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>>441575

I think I lurked the board for about a year before I first posted because, due to the massive number of bans I saw handed out for things like minor spelling or grammar mistakes, I was convinced that I'd be permamegabanned if I ever tried to post here.

I probably didn't realise at the time that the majority were comedy or relatively short-term bans.
>> No. 441577 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:40 pm
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>>441572

I was only joking.

If you want to really despair, search for mentions of britfa.gs on twitter and/or redit.
>> No. 441578 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:42 pm
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>>441577
> If you want to really despair, search for mentions of britfa.gs on twitter and/or redit.

Thanks for the nightmare fuel. I'll save that for one of those days where you sit around listening to the Smiths and Leonard Cohen while stubbing out fags on your legs.
>> No. 441579 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:44 pm
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>>441575
I think you're right. A lot of the time there's quite a few of us lurking but waiting for someone else to make a post that we can then reply to. New general threads lead to an uptick in posts that, for whatever reason, people wouldn't have made to the previous general thread.

I've just heard that there's going to be another fucking hairdressers in the middle of Beeston so I'll cheer myself up by seeing what has been posted about here on Twatter.
>> No. 441580 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:47 pm
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First result is from a furry. That's enough of that.
>> No. 441581 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>441575

It might be just me, but there's a weird thing here where it's anonymous, which is why I like it, but it's also small and niche enough that people start picking things up about you, and there's no sense of blending into a heaving mass like you have on 4chan.

It's both good and bad, in that there's actually a sense of community, but it makes me a bit paranoid at times. If someone was so inclined to they could probably quite easily dox any one of the three of us from the breadcrumbs here.
>> No. 441582 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>441580
That is distressing.
>> No. 441583 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:56 pm
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YOU'RE ALL FUCKING WOMEN. I FEEL LIKE YOU'VE ALL BEEN PLAYING AN ELABORATE RUSE ON ME.
>> No. 441584 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 10:58 pm
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>>441581

>If someone was so inclined to they could probably quite easily dox any one of the three of us from the breadcrumbs here.

The trick is to make stuff up from time to time.
>> No. 441585 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>441584
True. Must go to bed now though, need to be up early to do my hair and talk to my workchums Matt and Chris about this jolly bad virus.
>> No. 441587 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 11:05 pm
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>>441580
>>441582

Well there's at least two furrylads here so you're outnumbered two to one ladm8.
>> No. 441589 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 12:47 am
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>>441581
I'll give them a head start. I'm in a lodge just off the A167 south of Durham.
>> No. 441590 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:08 am
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>>441589

>A167

I don't like it when people on here mention things like the road I take to work. Makes it all too real, like those tweets up there.
>> No. 441591 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:12 am
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>>441590

How do you think I feel when all three of you live in Beeston.
>> No. 441592 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 8:17 am
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>>441591
What's your view on the controversial 20mph zone from Flushdyke?
>> No. 441593 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 9:46 am
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>>441592
Bonkers. They should widen it to a 4-lane dual carriageway and make it at least 50mph.
>> No. 441594 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 10:32 am
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>>441591
How many time do I have to say there's more than one Beeston.
>> No. 441595 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:33 am
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>>441577
RIP
>> No. 441596 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:51 am
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Some of these are great.
>> No. 441597 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:52 am
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>>441595
It's a shame kc died, it was an interesting space. I quite like ernstchan but it's even more autistic and geeky than here, kohlchan or whatever is just a shitshow.
>> No. 441598 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:54 am
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>> No. 441599 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:59 am
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>>441598
This is anti-bald discrimination.
>> No. 441600 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 12:18 pm
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We're namechecked by Guru Larry in a reply to Ashens, but the original tweet they were replying to is gone. Something about stealing a plate?
>> No. 441601 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:22 pm
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>>441597

>It's a shame kc died

Didn't some lad who Columbined his local school get his inspiration from krautchan?

And then there was that other Germanlad on 4chan who knifed his roommate to death or something.



One can only hope that .gs will never have that kind of effect on any of you lot.
>> No. 441602 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:32 pm
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>>441601
I think there's a lad here that wants Angela Eagle to bring us up in Parliament. I don't think his nefarious schemes have amounted to much as of yet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-C0UQDXb0
>> No. 441603 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>441572
Britfa.gs and britchan existed, albeit briefly, simultaneously and wasn't founded or built by britchan refugees. The reason /IQ/ exists was to give said refugees a place to post yubyub memes.
>> No. 441604 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>441601

I always assumed the Mail would be knocking on purps shed for a quote eventually. I think the embarrassing site name has prevented people becoming card-carrying members like the other places get. I bet we've had a few murderers and war criminals on here, they just never implicated us.
>> No. 441605 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:47 pm
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>>441602

>unregulated spaces

She has obviously never met the .gs mods.


On the subject itself, I'm not sure it's fair to lump 4chan together with ISIS. When was the last time chronic masturbators, or even just the average apathetic 4chan lurker took hostages or bombed public buildings.
>> No. 441606 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:52 pm
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>>441604
I think it's more the iron-fisted moderation that has prevented this place becoming another far-right outpost of madness, rather than the daft name. Eagle wasn't bringing up 4chan and 8chan because she thought You Laugh You Lose threads were played out or to complain about bait being posted on /mu/.
>> No. 441607 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:57 pm
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>>441606
Do we need iron-fisted moderation? It makes it seem a bit patronising, as if the rest of us cannot be trusted to deal with it. I mean, I know we cannot ignore the most obvious of bait as someone always bites but we can still call it out.
>> No. 441608 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:08 pm
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>>441607
Most bans still come from reports, so our response is almost entirely community led.

I also clear a lot of reports as not needing any action, so if anything you are the ones who are iron-fisted.
>> No. 441610 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>441607
Look, it's all well and good saying "ignore it" or "tell them to sod off" when some freak turns up touting some psychopathic neo-Nazi bollocks. But eventually another one turns up, and another, and so on and so on, until the freaks outnumber us three by a factor of 200% and the whole site's knackered. Not only that but as the amount of users on an imageboard gets more and more extreme some of them might end up on the moderation team and as the more extreme faction they're more than happy to sideline and undermine what used to be the norm in favour of batshit irrationality. You can have a neutral "anything goes so long as it's legal" style of imageboard moderation, but eventually those who shout loudest win the day, because unless you ban them for being so annoying and loud to begin with "anything goes" becomes "let's discuss the Jewish question".
>> No. 441611 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:15 pm
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>>441610
I should add that I'm not saying this as some kind of thought experiment, but as someone who has watched individual imageboards change in real time in this way, a way in which .gs has thankfully avoided changing.
>> No. 441612 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:17 pm
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>>441604
On that note, I think if I told any of my gay friends I browsed a site called britfags they'd probably stop speaking to me.

That or, out of context, assume I was closeted...
>> No. 441613 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:20 pm
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>>441610
>Not only that but as the amount of users on an imageboard gets more and more extreme some of them might end up on the moderation team

...you lot got asked if you wanted to be mods at some point?
>> No. 441614 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:23 pm
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>>441613
I was speaking more broadly about imageboards in general at that point, but I didn't make that explicitly clear. However, it was heavily implied.
>> No. 441616 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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>>441613
He can see you when you're wanking
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

You better watch out
You better not have a teary
You better not shitpost, I'll handle this query
Santa purps is hiring mods
>> No. 441617 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:32 pm
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>>441607
I reckon it's the grammar policing that does it combined with the lack of modern features.

Since the site was founded the rest of the internet has undergone a sustained decline in grammar which used to to quite rigidly enforced by communities. KC had specific bans to catch otherplacers such as using '>TFW' which seems like a shorthand only mobile posters would popularise. In recent years I've seen mobile posting manifest in gradually more heinous forms including a lack of capitalisation.

This isn't to say that posting from a phone is in itself the problem but people who have only used late Web 2.0 and don't lurk will have certain lazy habits. They will also universally have shit opinions but we were probably the same at their age. rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk I'm not too sure on but presume that the lack of ability to ban/doxx anyone who disagrees with you must be an unbearable loss of power.
>> No. 441618 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:33 pm
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Not sure if I'm only speaking for myself, but I think .gs is also a slightly older crowd, and that seems to have an effect on how crazy things can get on here.
>> No. 441619 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:50 pm
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>>441610
Just sounds like you're having a teary again m8. dolphin rape has never been explicitly controlled here but quality has which keeps out the foamy types.

>might end up on the moderation team

Outside of a few specific examples moderators seems to me more left-leaning than the userbase. In fact it's an accusation as old as the internet that moderation anywhere will be accused of a left-wing bias.

>>441618
I did a poll on this a number of years back. The average age is overwhelmingly around 21 so it's still safe to assume that any opinions you read here are worthless.
>> No. 441620 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 2:54 pm
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>>441618
That's not necessarily the case as seemingly every other over-40 in America went insane on contact with 4chan a few years ago.
>> No. 441621 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 3:28 pm
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>>441619

>The average age is overwhelmingly around 21

That should still be older than 4chan by a number of years.
>> No. 441622 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>>441619
>The average age is overwhelmingly around 21

Sounds like bollocks.
>> No. 441623 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 4:34 pm
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>>441619
I've done a new poll so we can see if there's some demographic shift. Everyone please give up your age to the Big Data consortium of EasyPolls.net.

https://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5ffdcf25e4b01140b9f99683
>> No. 441624 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 5:02 pm
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>>441622
It is. It's the slippery slope into carpet-bagger-enabling.
>> No. 441625 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 5:06 pm
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>>441623
Currently the youngest non-illegal on there and I arrived in 2012; concerning. Hopefully the dadlads will let their kids take over their accounts when they pass on.
>> No. 441627 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 6:03 pm
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>>441603

You mean that britfa wasn't built because britchan was dying a slow and obvious death? Didn't we also used to have an /i/ board back in 2009 when the whole mask of shame thing was still going on? Britchan and, to a an admittedly slightly lesser extent, britfa were still a part of that general "anonymous" scene that was kicking about after 4chan/chanology got popular.
>> No. 441628 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 7:04 pm
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>>441605
>She has obviously never met the .gs mods.
Reckon she's just mad about getting a comedy grammar ban.

>>441623
Something's wrong here. If the results of this poll are to be believed it would mean that more people post here than me, you and otherlad.
>> No. 441629 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 8:07 pm
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>>441628

> If the results of this poll are to be believed

I've just taken a closer look and it appears that the poll page is protected against poll spamming by means of cookies. Which is somewhat easy to circumvent, and then you can mark it any number of times.
>> No. 441630 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 8:27 pm
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>>441629
>you can mark it any number of times
It's not meant to be scientific, that's obviously impossible.
>> No. 441631 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:20 pm
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Turns out I actually quite like working nights. It seems my main issue with work is tolerating every other cunt, when it's just me and I can crack on at my own pace without anyone interfering I'm happy as the proverbial Larry.

We'll see if I think the same by the time the sun's coming up and I've still got another hour left, but there we are.
>> No. 441632 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:32 pm
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>>441631
What are you doing at this hour? If you're a hitman and you need a partner to get into a horror situation for a bad student film drop me line. I'm always getting attacked by vampires me.
>> No. 441633 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>441631
The trouble with staying awake through the night is the next morning takes on a strange colour; somehow dull but simultaneously brilliant. It must be the foggy brain.
>> No. 441634 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 1:21 am
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>>441631
I worked nights every summer and christmas holiday of uni.
I liked the fact there were no customers in the shop and we were generally left to do our own thing. I liked the extra pay as well. I'm a night owl as it is, but there's something different about actually working through the night rather than being up playing games or watching YouTube.

It fucking gets to you after a while. Not just the fact that if you want to do anything administrative with your life you've either got to stay up or get up early, it's been shown that working nights decreases cognition and general health. I am generally a terrible sleeper, but my sleep problems got worse (and, coincidentally, my caffeine withdrawal symptoms were ten times worse for whatever reason whilst I was on nights). Everyone there on permanent nights chainsmoked, and I can sort of understand why.

In winter you never see the sun (though to be honest this winter who has?), and in summer it's a circadian mindfuck as you try and get to sleep in blazing morning sunshine. I'd highly recommend the thickest blackout curtains you can manage for those days. Also, if your neighbours decide to do a bit of DIY or have a domestic and it's keeping you awake, there's little recourse as it's 'normal' time for everyone else.
>> No. 441635 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:24 am
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I have to go to live, in person training at work tomorrow, to be trained for something nobody on our team will ever have to do (and in fact will not be allowed to do, because of union rules involving a third party provider that are not going anywhere). It doesn't really feel very 'essential'. The trainer on site is fucking awful, and has demonstrated effectively over the last year that he knows less than even our most junior staff in operations, and his teaching method is to read verbatim off a powerpoint.

Anyway, I made a particularly beany chilli for dinner and I've had it quite late, and am planning a (hopefully gaseous only) dirty protest tomorrow. That room will be thick with the stench of five types of bean.
>> No. 441636 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:28 am
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>>441634

>Also, if your neighbours decide to do a bit of DIY or have a domestic and it's keeping you awake, there's little recourse as it's 'normal' time for everyone else

This is the worst part, I think. You end up furious at someone for daring to drill holes at 11am on a Tuesday, but know deep down you're powerless to do anything about it and they're not actually doing anything wrong. My direct neighbours were very nice and would actually postpone DIY if they knew I had been on shift the night before, but the sound of construction travels so the bloke a street over getting his driveway done would still keep me up, and so on.

Earplugs and blackout curtains help, but I also don't think anyone should really do permanent nights, at least not for more than six months at a time.
>> No. 441637 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:46 am
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>>441633

I've watched the sun come up many a time through all night sessions and psychedelic drug trips, so I'm used to the surreal state of a new day dawning when you have watched the transition in real time. I think it'll feel rather different driving down the motorway knowing I'd normally be one of the people heading the other way, though.

>>441634

Luckily it isn't permanent, it's a rotation between days and nights, and in theory it's only for three to six months anyway; but that's all up in the air with the current situation.

12 hour shifts though, so I'm living the 3-day week dream technically. Shame the woman in charge of the rotas is an incompetent alcoholic who couldn't make a sensible shift pattern even if you promised her a free bottle of Bombay Sapphire but you can't have everything can you.
>> No. 441638 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 12:41 pm
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>>441637

I think anything with variable shifts is just bound by some higher power to be shit. I worked in a reputable fast food establishment for some time but that didn't stop multiple managers timetabling people on overnight shifts, 1 day off then breakfast shifts where you come in at 6am. Wankers.
>> No. 441639 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 1:32 pm
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You pair are going to be green with envy, I just found a couple of loose Mint Imperials in my draw.
>> No. 441640 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:21 pm
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>>441639

Keep it in the food review thread lad.
>> No. 441641 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:46 pm
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>>441639
>draw
U wot? Back2Berwick. It's drawer, you fucking trog.
>> No. 441642 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 2:57 pm
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>>441641
Is that like a chester draws?
>> No. 441643 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 3:01 pm
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>>441641
You can cry foul at my typo all you want, I can feel the jealousy coming off your post.
>> No. 441644 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 3:10 pm
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>>441643
It's not a typo though, is it? You actually call it a draw. The mask had slipped, Northumberlad. I, for one, don't even like peppermints.
>> No. 441646 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>441644
That mask didn't slip, I left it in my trouser pocket when I put the washing on and now I can't go to the shops, idiot.
>> No. 441648 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 3:32 pm
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>>441646
Still banned from the chipshop?
>> No. 441662 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 12:02 pm
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Bit snowy out.
>> No. 441667 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 4:26 pm
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>>441662
Snowmageddon in Scotland, luckily I packed_my_neeps months ago.
>> No. 441670 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 10:50 pm
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Slippery out.

https://twitter.com/P_Andy_Lucas/status/1349688962579914753
>> No. 441671 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 11:58 pm
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It's been getting pretty warm in the south. I've barely had to use an extra blanket.
>> No. 441672 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 1:12 am
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>>441670
My ABS kicked in when slowing to turn into my drive earlier, I fucking shit myself.
>> No. 441673 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 1:39 am
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Not even any rain here today in central Manchester, though I hear from family it's fairly thick snow in the 01924 2 region. I love walking in the snow, so I hope it does fall.
>> No. 441677 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 9:07 pm
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My friend's dad has offered to pay her university tuition fees, going as a mature student. This would wipe out his life savings and he'll never have that kind of money again. Is this a poor person thing? I've seen it quite a few times now where people who've barely got a pot to piss in want to pay their child's uni fees, doing something daft like cashing in their pension or equity release, because they don't want them to be in debt and don't really understand how student loans work.
>> No. 441678 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 9:21 pm
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>>441677

How dare the paupers try to give their offspring the kind of leg up in life wealthy kids had access to? They should know their place.
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15th January 2021
Friday 9:27 pm
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>>441678
It's pissing their money away. The student loan won't ever be fully repaid and if her dad really wanted to give her a leg up he'd give her the money for a house deposit.
>> No. 441680 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 9:29 pm
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>>441679
That might be something worth suggesting to her.
>> No. 441681 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 9:41 pm
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>>441678

It's not a leg up. Student loan is there for the taking, and it's the best loan she'll ever have, and there's multiple ways to avoid paying it, not least dumping future earnings over the payback threshold into her pension, while her dad makes up for that shortfall in salary by way of either an allowance, a trust fund, or a deposit on a house.
>> No. 441682 Anonymous
16th January 2021
Saturday 11:23 am
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>>441681
>not least dumping future earnings over the payback threshold into her pension,

Care to elaborate on that a bit mate? How do you do that if you're on PAYE and the money is just getting taken out automatically?

I'm a thicko with this stuff so please explain like I'm a simpleton (which I am).
>> No. 441683 Anonymous
16th January 2021
Saturday 11:27 am
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>>441682
Not him, but it's only really an option if your employer's pension scheme uses salary sacrifice.
>> No. 441684 Anonymous
16th January 2021
Saturday 12:06 pm
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>>441677

>Is this a poor person thing?

Not exclusively - for the genuinely wealthy, £27k is a sufficiently piffling sum that it's easier to just pay up front than piss about with the Student Loans Company.

>>441682

Most companies offer a salary sacrifice pension scheme. Rather than you paying into a pension out of your salary, they reduce your salary and pay the difference into a pension on your behalf. Doing it this way means you don't have to pay national insurance on your pension contributions.

The Student Loans Company calculate your repayments based on your income, but salary sacrifice pension contributions are classed as "unearned income" and are only counted if they're more than £2000 per year.
>> No. 441690 Anonymous
16th January 2021
Saturday 10:45 pm
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>>441681

In what universe can you possibly say giving someone near thirty grand is not a leg up, you bloody carpet-bagger. I don't care how good of a loan the student loan is, not having to bother with it is an advantage.
>> No. 441693 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 6:21 am
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>>441690

>In what universe can you possibly say giving someone near thirty grand is not a leg up

It's a meaningless waste of money. A student loan isn't really a loan in the conventional sense, it's effectively a graduate tax. You only have to make repayments if you're earning over £25k and the repayments are automatically taken from your salary via PAYE. The repayments are piffling and the loan is automatically forgiven after 30 years, so most people never have to repay the full amount.

If you've got £27k to give to your kids, you'd have to be absolutely mental to pay their tuition fees. Give them fifty quid a week for housekeeping so they don't have to top up their maintenance loan with a part-time job and put the rest in a Lifetime ISA for a deposit on their first house. That is a real leg up.
>> No. 441694 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 6:55 am
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>>441690

You're not giving them 30 grand, you're giving the university 30 grand to avoid the softest loan you'll ever find. 10k in an ISA would be so much more of a leg up than paying three times that for tuition fees.
>> No. 441695 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 8:18 am
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>>441693

Why call it a loan at all, or set it up as such, rather than a graduate tax? It seems almost designed to be misunderstood, or maybe to open the idea of student loans up to a public for whom university education was tuition free until a generation or two ago.

I also wonder if it's also American influence adding to that misunderstanding, where their student debts are truly punitive.
>> No. 441696 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 8:46 am
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>>441695

>It seems almost designed to be misunderstood, or maybe to open the idea of student loans up to a public for whom university education was tuition free until a generation or two ago

Literally yes. "loan" sounds a lot better than "tax", and that's all that's needed. I'm honestly surprised they didn't call it an Educational Advance to further obfuscate.

It is literally a loan though, the way it's set up. The SLC is a company that exists and is the debtee.
>> No. 441698 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 1:22 pm
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>>441696

>"loan" sounds a lot better than "tax"

This.

In the minds of most people, "loan" means you get money, "tax" means money is taken from you.

The fact that they're given money with a loan which will never be theirs is something they conveniently tend to forget.

It's the same with your mortgage. Your house isn*t really your house until the day that you've fully paid it back.
>> No. 441701 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 2:28 pm
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>>441693

>it's effectively a graduate tax

A tax she'll never have to pay,.

I'm not saying he wouldn't be better off putting it into am ISA for her, he would, but it's absurd to say it's not an advantage all the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if she suggested something better to him and he, being old and afflicted with daft backward old people ideals, went "No, bugger off, I'll pay your tuition but I'm not just giving you a hand out, that'd be spoiling you."
>> No. 441705 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 4:15 pm
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>>441696>>441698
This sort of branding why they came up with the name Lifetime ISA. One of the main uses for it is for your retirement, but if they put pension in the name it carries a lot of stigma with it that they were worried would switch people off it.
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17th January 2021
Sunday 5:24 pm
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I think you lads are missing the point - yes it is in practice a graduate tax, but it's technically not a graduate tax, and as long as it is considered debt rather than tax, the government can do bad stuff like sell it off to private interests.

https://weownit.org.uk/public-ownership/student-loans
>> No. 441707 Anonymous
17th January 2021
Sunday 6:13 pm
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>>441705
In fairness it would be misleading to call it a pension ISA because they're also intended to be used for first home purchases. Help to Buy having had the opposite problem. I'd argue it should go further for 'lifetime' so you can withdraw X amount when you have a child or for upskilling but that would probably be too complicated.

I suppose telling the truth with a 'put yer tokens in this bastard and we'll 'ave ya propping up the UK housing market and (maybe) let you work part-time at 60' ISA would be less appealing. People might look at the price of homes before they open one for instance and instead simply decide to set fire to a landlord.
>> No. 441712 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 3:49 pm
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Cabin fever is definitely setting in. I've just had a Teams call with someone I work with, who is unattractive by just about every objective metric there is but because she's obese she also has massive tits. I think it must have been the camera angle accentuating them, but I could feel a stirring in my loins. I don't think I've ever even checked out her tits before because she's a gargoyle.
>> No. 441713 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 6:54 pm
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>>441712

Our Teams calls are usually with about six other people, and one of them also has pretty big boobs, but she's really fit too. I sometimes just catch myself staring at her for minutes, safe in the knowledge that she'll have no idea that I am, but hoping that I won't be doing it when all this corona nonsense is over and we go back to our usual day to day office jobs.
>> No. 441714 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 7:01 pm
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>>441712
Ah mate, Teams has a new set-up screen where you can see yourself and check sound when you click join. You have to click join again to get into the call.
>> No. 441715 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 10:02 pm
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I just had a fuck off greasy chowmein with oovercooked crispy chicken balls. Full of salt, fuckers forgot the sweet and sour sauce, now i feel sick as a pig. My pores seep oil.
>> No. 441716 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 7:02 pm
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>>441715
You're making me hungry.
>> No. 441717 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 7:24 pm
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I've decided to start dieting from today.

Did my weekly shop this afternoon and avoided all sweets, sugary snacks, and processed foods. Just chicken, fish, lean meat, and plenty of veg. Okay, also some cheese and salami.

I'm edging ever closer to 2 st. gained since the March lockdown, and if (!) there is going to be a summer holiday season this year, then I want to be at least a little bit in shape for it.
>> No. 441718 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 8:29 pm
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>>441716

Same, but if I ate it I'd also take a shower shortly afterwards.
>> No. 441719 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 9:22 pm
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>>441717
It would be nice if there was an Air Show this year, as last years was cancelled.
>> No. 441720 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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Do you lads reckon there's fewer woodlice about?
>> No. 441721 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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>>441720
Yes all the insects are dying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
>> No. 441722 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 12:16 am
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>>441721
Woodlice aren't insects.
>> No. 441723 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 8:54 am
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>>441722
Well we're eating the crustaceans to death too but if the woodlice are dying off it's probably more to do with the former than the latter.
>> No. 441724 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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I just shat myself a bit on the way to drop my bike off at the shop. This is one reason to wear briefs instead of boxers. This happened once at uni but I'm a fully sober 30 year old now. I think it was down to gorging on fruit pastilles and mini rolls last night.

Simply feeling a bit squiffy, meandering down the road, and I step onto the pavement and suddenly it's there, in my underwear, from the simple swing of a leg about 15 minutes out the door. I don't want to be late, so I can't go back. After 10 minutes I felt I was adjusting to the sensation, and could no longer feel the 'shape'. I took a chance and hopped back on my bike to glide me downhill, but came down slightly on the seat and the shape felt like it squashed a bit inside my cheeks.

Thankfully the gent just took my bike at the shop door and I got to leave quickly. I told him I'd fitted the new derailleur but couldn't figure out the gears, and he said "Yes, because you've done it all wrong". Another few minutes and it began to sting, but I still had about a half hour walk left to get home. I happen to have quite a thin stride, so I assume my waddle made me look simply somewhat frail, rather than betraying the presence of my watery brown passenger.

I just got out of the shower. Somehow it didn't even get any on my jeans, it looked like it was just a bit of sludge but felt like a lot more. I should be ashamed for even considering not washing them, and I've just sniffed and the perineum smelled like creamed shit.

Would you guys have taken the bus or been worried you would have smelled like shit? Would you have persisted with finding a public building? Tried the YMCA but the toilets were 'closed'. I'm well spoken but you could be forgiven for thinking I look like a smackhead. I was going to pop in Tesco and get wipes and soap then find somewhere to surreptitiously cleanse, but it seemed like I was so close to the bike shop by then. Do you think the bike man appreciated my efforts or did it make me look more of a twat? He's just rang back and said he's replaced the rear cassette and fixed the rear derailleur for £40. Is that a fair price? I feel like that's actually decent for including a new part.
>> No. 441725 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 12:05 pm
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>>441724
I was told that churches are always open and a good place to go if you get caught short.
>> No. 441726 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>441724

A cheap cassette is about £20 retail, so £40 for the whole job is very fair.

>Do you think the bike man appreciated my efforts or did it make me look more of a twat?

You looked like a twat, but everyone looks like a twat in those circumstances. Bike shop staff are usually grumpy pricks, so don't take it to heart. You can't learn without making mistakes.

>>441725

My local churches are only open for services - there just aren't enough churchgoers to justify full-time staffing. IIRC the local Catholic priest does five masses every Sunday, like some kind of peripatetic carpet-bagger.
>> No. 441728 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 1:58 pm
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>>441724

It took me a remarkably long time to figure out that you weren't being figurative in that first sentence. I kept waiting for the moment something would scare you during your story.

My condolences to your pants, anyway. I hope you're feeling better ladm8.
>> No. 441729 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 2:13 pm
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>>441724
>I don't want to be late, so I can't go back

Why? Sharting is 'taking a personal day' material.
>> No. 441731 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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I keep expecting I'm going to die. I'm not suicidal so I'm not going to off myself. I don't have hypochondria so I'm not convinced I have a brain tumour. I've just got a weary acceptance that I'm not going to be on this planet for much longer.
>> No. 441732 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 4:55 pm
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>>441731
Least you didn't shit yourself today lad, chin up. Go watch some Final Destination and maybe look to a head doctor. Are you in generally good health?

>>441725
>>441726
The only comparable structure on the walk is this little colourful eastern temple, not sure if it's Sri Lankan or Vietcong or some such. I don't think I'd have the stones to ask to use their toilet, and I don't like God watching me do business.

The grumpy Eastern European man there sounded authoritative, said Shimano chains were 'cheap shit' and referred to the gent behind mes bike as a 'custom piece of crap' when greeting him. MOT bikes in Walthamstow, 2 thumbs up.

>>441728
Thanks, it still burns a bit but I feel clean now.

>>441729
I figured he might be inclined to charge me extra if I wasn't amenable, and since I was 'just around the corner' I thought it would be fine.
>> No. 441733 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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>>441732

>Shimano chains were 'cheap shit'

That's mental talk and I assume he got his hands on a wholesale box of KMC or something. I'm not convinced a 'bad' bike chain exists today.
>> No. 441734 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 5:44 pm
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>>441731
Seems like as good an excuse as any to live everyday like it's your last.
>> No. 441735 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 5:56 pm
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>>441732
So do we call you Shitmanolad now?
>> No. 441737 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 7:24 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2JbRLG1gc

why wont they put Dotcomedy on 4od? And other assorted 4later programming.
>> No. 441740 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 8:28 pm
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I've got to come up with a bio to go on the company website this week. I don't think I have anything socially acceptable to put as a hobby or interest, but I need to put something about myself.
>> No. 441743 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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It's been raining all day here, now it's gone absolutely ape with snow. There wasn't any forecast around here so it's quite the suprise. I'd say there's a good 6cm amassed atop the wheelie bin alreadt and it doesn't look like stopping any time soon.
>> No. 441747 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:04 am
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>>441740
Mention that you enjoys cunt-offslively discussions on obscure internet forums.
>> No. 441748 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:17 am
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Today I spent 40 quid to order some Japanese Pot Noodles because a VTuber did an ad for the company.

I need to have a word with myself.
>> No. 441749 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:20 am
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>>441748
I don't respect you.
>> No. 441750 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:27 am
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>>441748
I was feeling a bit down today but thank you it could be worse.
>> No. 441751 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>441749
That's okay. I also don't respect myself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXwtHDze88
>> No. 441752 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 12:57 am
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>>441751
It's not even funk, man, what are you doing?
>> No. 441755 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 2:39 am
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My sphincter is on fire, but I can't say if it's because I've cooked and eaten very spicy and salty dishes two dinners in a row, or because when I was preparing the salt and chili chicken on the 19th I mistakenly used the knife I had cut the previously raw chicken with to taste the cooked chicken. I think a few years ago I would have had a meltdown at that and assumed my death was imminent, but Patrice Evra licked a whole chicken like it was the most beauitful woman he'd ever made love to and as far as I know he's still alive, so I took solace in that.
>> No. 441760 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 2:09 pm
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>>441748
Right, I've seen the Hololive cult on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk. It wouldn't be obnoxious if it wasn't for the community desperately trying to pretend that it's normal, do you find that? I got slammed simply for calling it niche. Had people come back with "It's super popular in Japan!" and "1 million subs on YT so it's obviously not niche". Like is the community that filled with otakus who find love and warmth in high-pitched broken English, spoken by animated avatars of women who will never, ever care about you in any significant way
>> No. 441761 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 2:14 pm
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It's not that it's anime based or what have you that makes me dislike it, although I do hate anime, it's more how manufactured and phony it is. I suppose you could say that of any podcast or stream, but the vTuber phenominon seems especially egregious in this regard.
>> No. 441762 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 2:32 pm
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I don't even know what a vTuber is.
>> No. 441763 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 3:04 pm
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>>441760

>>441760
>rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk
Is that a wordfilter? because it's a good one if it is.

I got sucked into it pretty gradually and can't really defend it's appeal. I used to think it was weird that people watched twitch streams at all, this is like a mix between that, Idol fandom, and anime.

I also quite like Pikamee

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

There's something comforting in watching hours of a person play old video games. I guess it's especially comforting given the effects of this year's lockdown on socializing. Even before COVID though, there has been increasing popularity of these mediums which foster parasocial relationships like podcasts and vloggers.
https://wilwilliams.reviews/2019/01/04/podcasters-are-people-the-intimacy-of-medium-vs-parasocial-relationships/
The causes for the increase in the presence of these online parasocial relationships also line up pretty well with what that 'Shutting out the Sun' book said about Hikkikomori.

Millenials are becoming increasingly alienated from society due to the casualization of labour, increasing cost of living, increasing precarity, and the result is a kind of arrested development.

People are more and more retreating into an imaginal entertainment matrix to escape the banality of the real world.

Weeaboos are no worse than Star Wars/Marvel fandom, people who buy funko pops, women that still like Disney movies, or dudes that get super into history books.

Anime is the opiate of the masses.
>> No. 441764 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 3:19 pm
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>>441763

I struggle to sympathise with these various people complaining that their fans are over-familiar. What exactly do they think is the appeal of what they're doing? Do they not realise what they're selling? It's predictably what happens to all public figures on the internet. This is the definition of doing something over and over expecting a different result.
>> No. 441765 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 4:07 pm
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>>441764

I agree, and believe this extends to most kinds of "fame". Actors and comedians are performing in public as emotionally compelling or friendly figures. It would be naïve to expect everyone you reach to understand the artifice of what they're watching, and show appropriate restraint in light of this at all times (especially when the very construction of a film, piece of theatre, or act is designed to foster a sense of intimacy).

I'm a fairly private person and understand the "meta" aspect of fiction. I'm acutely aware than when I watch a television series that a team of writers, editors, actors, etc. have worked toward creating a certain atmosphere. The rational bit of my brain is aware I'm not really having social interactions, but I'd be lying if I said I never felt like I was living among the crew of the Enterprise D or that I didn't relate to Tim's despair in The Office.

Maybe the new aspect here is in sheer exposure. Television series can certainly last a long time, but a YouTuber can stream multiple hours, every single day, for many years. That would unavoidably create a sense of familiarity, no matter how false.

This post also made me realise I have a similar thing going with RedLetterMedia. They spend hours chatting with eachother, watching bad films, making jokes. The videos are meant to simulate being with a group of friends. Maybe their audience is a bit more self-aware, as a recurring comment/joke on their videos is "I watch this to pretend I have friends".

If you're deliberately aiming at a younger audience, though, using cartoon avatars, playing Super Mario, etc., then you have to expect this kind of thing.

Sage because I have gone off on a proper drunken ramble.
>> No. 441766 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 4:12 pm
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>>441764

The trouble with Youtubers/streamers/content creators etc is that the successful ones invariably reach levels of fame that end up going to their heads and turning them into insufferable egotists. For example I used to like watching NerdCubed's content until he ended up changing his focus to streaming, which really didn't suit his narration style.

His fans' criticism of his streaming content caused him to throw a massive teary and abandon rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk and retreat into his Twitter echo-chamber with his missus ( a far-left "gender non-binary" nutcase who once told a critical fan to "fuck off") and inner-circle clique of mates who produced the videos with him, while completely ignoring the fans who had enjoyed his older stuff and were abandoning him in droves. It's been a shame to see his decline, as unlike Youtubers like PewDiePie who were always insufferable wankers to begin with, in his early days he genuinely seemed like a nice bloke, until Youtube fame went to his head.
>> No. 441769 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 5:02 pm
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Even A-list celebrities complain about being harassed by Paparazzi.

I guess the social wiring of the human brain didn't evolve to deal with the level of recognition and fame that celebs have. ecelebs don't have the same support infrastructure and entourage around them to insulate them from the more insidious aspects of celebrity. Also, the eceleb fame is a lot more capricious and prone to dissapate.

Fredrik Knudsen has some good videos about the early streamers who became victims of their own success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7wLuuDiHA
Unrelated, but the video about the Final Fantasy House is so good

Chris-Chan is maybe the most horrifying tale of what can go wrong if you blow up online.

An advantage of having the Vtuber avatar gives the performer an extra layer of privacy. Some of the girls have spoken about almost getting busted in public by people who recognized their voice.
>> No. 441770 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 6:01 pm
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>>441765
>but a YouTuber can stream multiple hours, every single day, for many years. That would unavoidably create a sense of familiarity, no matter how false.

Online it's also much easier to contact celebs than ever before. It used to be the case that the most interaction anyone could every expect to have with your idol is getting their autograph and a "Hi nice to meet you fuck off bye"
Now with twitter/youtube and everything a celeb can now interact much more personally with a huge number of people and it goes two ways, you end up with thousands of people clamouring for attention trying to get a like or comment off someone, and people who do get spoke to suddenly think they're best mates with them
>> No. 441771 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 6:02 pm
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>>441763
I find that video horrifying, it makes me feel dread and I don't think I can articulate quite why.

We're completely fucked as a species aren't we?
>> No. 441772 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 6:05 pm
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>>441766

>The trouble with Youtubers/streamers/content creators etc is that the successful ones invariably reach levels of fame that end up going to their heads and turning them into insufferable egotists.


I still quite enjoy Colin Furze. He's got a huge following by now, but he's still the same guy.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqm4RQ_1P4
>> No. 441773 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 6:10 pm
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>>441771
>We're completely fucked as a species aren't we?

If you didn't realize that before watching this video you've not been paying attention ladmate.
>> No. 441774 Anonymous
21st January 2021
Thursday 6:42 pm
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>>441773
Fair point. Sometimes it still smacks you in the chops though. Humans are fucking demented.
>> No. 441790 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 12:04 am
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>>441769

>Chris-Chan is maybe the most horrifying tale of what can go wrong if you blow up online.

I find Chris Chan interesting not for them but for the complete and deeply uncomfortable obsession of those interested in him. They are profoundly fucked in the head and have driven an already troubled person to the edge (to the point I don't blame them if they never trust another stranger again), I wonder why they are so obsessed.

It seems like a freak show thing but also significantly move invasive to the level they robbed them of any dignity, maybe they don’t consider them human enough to be worthy of it. Maybe it is a deflection from their own flaws, maybe they remind them of their own worse qualities and they hate them for that. Maybe all of the above

I had a friend developed that level of obsession with someone who they considered a celebrity and worthy of exposure for what they had done and was sharing it all over social media, I stopped talking to them because I didn't want anything to do with that kind of shit or people who do, it is only one level above fevered mobs burning witches in my mind.
>> No. 441795 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 11:25 am
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>>441790

From what I've seen of them on sites like Kiwifarms, the type of people who obsess over Chris-Chan are mostly shut-ins who are on the spectrum themselves, they mock them because it gives them a tiny ego-boost of "At least I'm not THAT bad!" while they obsessively catalogue every single thing they have ever done or said, laughing at "autists" without the slightest hint of irony or self-awareness. It's classic projection, similar to the way the alcoholic who drinks ten pints of cider a day will rationalise it by thinking "At least I don't drink spirits like those ALCOHOLICS".
>> No. 441796 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 11:45 am
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>>441795

Not necessarily on the spectrum, there are a wide variety of severely mentally ill people involved. Anyone with such chronically low self-worth they can only feel better by "punching down". The rest of what you said still applies.
>> No. 441797 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 11:51 am
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>>441790

What exactly did the mob do, in this case?
>> No. 441805 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 6:14 pm
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>>441797

It is far too detailed and numerous for me to list off, but essentially think of every dick move someone could do to betray your trust and repeat it ad nausea, and you basically get an idea of it. Essentially imagine if gang stalking was real and focused on him, but also much more proactively cruel, it is that kind of level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPtLvxO8hs
>> No. 441808 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 8:35 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxj_0xPleg

There's an 80 part long documentary about him which is an interesting anthropological study of how the internet will inevitably lead to the downfall of humanity
>> No. 441813 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 9:01 pm
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>> No. 441814 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 9:02 pm
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>>441813
Well done lad.
>> No. 441815 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 9:13 pm
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>>441813

Today has been a bit mental at the markets.
>> No. 441824 Anonymous
23rd January 2021
Saturday 8:37 am
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I live in a particularly grim part of the North, but you know, coming down the M62 this morning with the sun just coming up, frost on the hills and a pale pink mist towards the horizon, the scenery had a serene kind of beauty to it. It was as though the cooling towers at Ferrybridge had been lifted right off the canvas of a Bob Ross painting.
>> No. 441833 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 2:33 pm
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>>441824

> a Bob Ross painting.

"Painting" is a strong word when it comes to Bob Ross. All he did was develop a handful of techniques and clichéd depictions of mountains, rivers and trees that he recycled over and over in his 30-minute paintings.

In that sense, he was kind of a one-trick pony, because by and large, nearly every picture he created on-screen looked about the same. He democratised a very specific niche of painting and gave people the impression that anybody could do it, but he probably would have been out of his depth painting anything else besides the Alaskan countryside. And if you actually followed his approach, that did not make you an artist. Just somebody dabbling in some cookie-cutter everyman art.
>> No. 441834 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 2:59 pm
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>>441833

Go for a walk.
>> No. 441835 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:26 pm
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>>441833

Why does Bob Ross threaten you? Did you fail to get recognition in your dream of being an artist and he makes a mockery of that? Is he Mozart to your Salieri. Does the impression of his method violate your perfectionism and the hours you have spent on your craft.

I've painted along with him a few times. And one of the most facilitating parts to me is how much it is like a magic trick. If the wrong thickness of paint goes on to the wrong part you've fucked it. If you attempt to pallet scrape a mountain differently you've fucked it. It might have changed painting from something that takes weeks to something you can crack out in an afternoon but don't make the mistake of devaluing that. Not having to have perfection in vision to be happy with what you have done and trusting your judgement first time round is a life skill many could do with learning. Including yourself. If your expectation is to be as good as an expert first time out and nothing else will do, you've failed yourself before you have started any task and Bob Ross can teach you that.
>> No. 441836 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:28 pm
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>>441835
Impression = imperfection. Auto correct got me.
>> No. 441837 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:30 pm
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>>441835

Facilitating and fascinating too. Please fix the mobile interface lad mates in a way I can read what I have written.
>> No. 441838 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:35 pm
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>>441837

No. It gives me plausible deniability when I make mistakes to claim it's the website interface that's at fault and not my brain.
>> No. 441839 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:35 pm
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At least he doesn't paint by spraypainting space-scapes then selling them for far more than they're worth on the street.
>> No. 441840 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 3:39 pm
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>>441837
Just use Luddite mode?
>> No. 441841 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 4:31 pm
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>>441835

>If your expectation is to be as good as an expert first time out and nothing else will do


No, it isn't. You can have fun expressing yourself artistically without ever having to have the ambition to become an actual artist. And whatever painting you create doesn't have to rival a Monet.

And I'm not saying you can't enjoy painting along with Bob Ross on TV. If you get something out of it, more power to you. I just think that for what he does did, he is overrated.
>> No. 441842 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 4:35 pm
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>>441841
What are your views on Tony Hart and Morph?
>> No. 441843 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 4:41 pm
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>>441840

I am in luddite mode. That isn't designed for purpose though.
>> No. 441844 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 4:48 pm
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>>441841

And I am saying I wonder why you think he is overrated and why that matters.

Americans meme about him being perfect too much because they all have a Madonna Whore complex. But I don't think you can blame him for that. And otherwise over rated would imply he is somehow over represented in the art world, and he isn't represented at all.
>> No. 441845 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 5:20 pm
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>>441842
I am almost certain that they were shagging.
>> No. 441846 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 5:38 pm
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Of all the jars I could drop on the floor, it has to be fucking Marmite.
>> No. 441847 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 6:00 pm
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>>441846

I just burned my hand on a hot oven tray while getting my pizza out. Got some painful blisters on my right index and middle finger now. Should I pop them?
>> No. 441848 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 6:35 pm
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>>441847
No. You would risk infection and in truth the satisfaction of watching them swell and recede over time as they heal is way better than the momentary pleasure of popping them.
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24th January 2021
Sunday 7:53 pm
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>>441847

No. The blister is there to protect your damaged skin while it heals. A thin layer of vaseline and covering it with a non-sticky gauze bandage is what you're supposed to do, even if it's just to protect it from popping if you hit it on something. If you only briefly touched the tray, I would assume the blisters will be gone in a day or two, and they probably won't remain painful for more than a couple of hours. If you had prolonged contact with the tray it may be longer, and beware any signs of shock.
>> No. 441850 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 8:24 pm
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>>441849

I kind of just grazed the tray with my fingers near my knuckles, but it was hot enough to really hurt. The blisters appear to be somewhat superficial.
>> No. 441851 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 9:59 pm
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>>441850

They may look superficial, but if you've got blisters then you've got second degree burns, so you still don't want to pop them. They'll probably clear up overnight if they're small.

I've had a lot of burns, any amount of infection on one is awful and turns a two day ordeal into a week or even month long one.
>> No. 441852 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 10:35 pm
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>>441851

>any amount of infection on one is awful and turns a two day ordeal into a week or even month long one.

I always use IPA to prevent or treat skin infections. It even once cleared up a stubborn nailbed infection on my big toe in less than 48 hours, after unsuccessfully applying a topical cream specifically made for that purpose for almost a week.

My GP has told me that ethanol is generally better for the skin and less irritant, but that IPA is a more or less acceptable second choice whenever you don't have any ethanol handy.
>> No. 441853 Anonymous
24th January 2021
Sunday 11:41 pm
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>>441852
U wot m8?
>> No. 441854 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 12:31 am
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>>441853

Isopropyl alcohol, the second most useful solvent.
>> No. 441855 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 8:28 am
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>>441854
I thought you used that to clean circuit boards.
>> No. 441856 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 9:39 am
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>>441855
Some things have more than one use.
>> No. 441857 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 9:54 am
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>>441855

99% IPA is suitable for cleaning technical equipment.

Concentrations of around 70-75% are a very good disinfectant. It's mostly used for surface disinfection, but you can use it to disinfect skin as well. Ethanol, which is found in most hand sanitisers, is just more gentle on your skin.
>> No. 441858 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 10:14 am
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>>441856
Very true. For instance, your mouth has threefold uses of eating, breathing, and keeping it otherwise shut.
>> No. 441859 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 10:16 am
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>>441858
Yours has four.
>> No. 441860 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 10:21 am
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>>441859
>> No. 441861 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 10:23 am
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>> No. 441862 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 10:27 am
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>>441858
> breathing
That's what the nose is for.
>> No. 441863 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 11:00 am
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>>441858

You can still type on here with your mouth closed.
>> No. 441864 Anonymous
25th January 2021
Monday 11:19 am
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>>441863
That's uncanny. You should post this in /boo/.
>> No. 441869 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:04 pm
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For the second bin day in a row I've had to take in someone else's bin because someone else has taken mine. I'd have thought the giant number of the front was a clue but apparently not.
>> No. 441870 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:15 pm
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I washed every pair of trousers I owned at once so now I can't leave the house.

>>441869
Genuinely WITH NOTHING TO SAY BECAUSE I AM A CUNT by people who care about this, it's a bin. A bin!
>> No. 441871 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:22 pm
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>>441870
Yes but it's MY Bin.
>> No. 441872 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:36 pm
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>>441871
Not it isn't, it's the council's.
>> No. 441873 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:45 pm
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>>441872
They're yours. That's why most people take their wheelie bins with them then they move house.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5588949/wheelie-bins-council-or-house-property
>> No. 441874 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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>>441873

You didn't read past the first reply, did you?
>> No. 441875 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 3:52 pm
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>>441874
Most people saying they own their bins but it depends on the council?
>> No. 441876 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 4:00 pm
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>>441875
Yes, "it depends on the council" being a contradiction to "They're yours".
>> No. 441877 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 4:06 pm
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>>441872>>441873

Different councils have different ways of doing things. My bin says property of <local council> right on the lid.
>> No. 441878 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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Did you buy you bin? Y/N

if Yes:
Then of course it is yours, don't be thick.

if No:
Then of course it isn't yours, don't be thick.

/thread
>> No. 441879 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 6:54 pm
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>> No. 441880 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 7:03 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 441881 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 7:37 pm
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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.
>> No. 441882 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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>>441879
Balls of Steel was shit. I never really understood why Alex Zane had a TV career.
>> No. 441883 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 7:56 pm
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>>441882
Yeah it was dire, though Zane's bits always tended to be the best of the worst. He was basically copying Quizzlestick.
>> No. 441884 Anonymous
26th January 2021
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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>>441882
He's actually really, really good at hosting naff TV shows that go out at or after 11pm.
>> No. 441885 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 9:13 am
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>>441878

I pay council tax, ergo I bought and can therefore jump in that WDH van outside and take it for a drive if I bloody well like.
>> No. 441900 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 5:19 pm
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>>441881

Do you not own a flannel m8?
>> No. 441901 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>441881
You can get yourself one of these electronic camping showers for 25 squid and combine it with a 25 litre brewing bucket for a decent 10 minute shower.

I got one when my boiler was on the fritz and I'd happily use it long-term if ITZ hit the fan and I had to live off-grid.
>> No. 441902 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 8:24 pm
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Is this place getting busier or is it just me?
>> No. 441903 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 8:29 pm
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>>441902

It's just you, me and the other lad.
>> No. 441904 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 9:19 pm
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>>441902

I'm basically blogging in a couple threads at this point lol.
>> No. 441905 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 9:34 pm
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My ear's doing the thing where I can hear wax or some other detritus being moved slightly by my pulse. It's really annoying, but it's been about six years now and I still haven't gone to the doctor about it. Not that I could do that right now, but moreover they weren't that arsed when I said I wanted to top myself.

>>441902
It's been kind of busy, but mostly it seems like the same few lads going at in the Capitol thread. Not complaining, merely noticing, before anyone has a go.
>> No. 441906 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 9:38 pm
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>>441905
>it seems like the same few lads going at in the Capitol thread

Feels like it's been a while since there's been a proper cunt-off here.
>> No. 441909 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 12:49 am
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>>441905
When I was living in a less civilized country I needed my ears syringed, but it wasnt so easy to get it done as it is on the NHS. I went to the Dr. and that but they just shrugged at me.

I put olive oil in my affected ear daily for a week to soften up the plug, then made an improvised water pick by poking a hole in the top of an empty coke bottle with a screwdriver and feeding the tube of a biro pen through the hole.

I filled the bottle with tepid water and salt (not water will damage the ear, make sure it is tepid) and proceeded to gently squirt the water in my ear (gently mind as you dont want to rupture the eardrum).

After proceeding with caution and refilling the bottle multiple times I managed to dislodge the plug much to my satisfaction.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQu8nY3CXIw
This is the youtube video I watched about it.

This is not medical advice.
>> No. 441910 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 12:52 am
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>>441909

Should say 'hot water will damage the ear'
>> No. 441914 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 12:44 pm
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>>441909

Alternatively, if you happen to wear contact lenses like me, you can take one of your empty bottles of saline solution and fill it with warm soap water and then squeeze it. The resulting jet of water is thinner and more powerful, but doesn't normally do any harm. It's a good way to loosen stubborn plugs.

My ENT specialist once prescribed me diluted peroxide which I was supposed to drip into my ears to soften the ear wax, but it had almost no effect at all. My ear had become infected and it was too painful to extract it in the conventional way, so he thought it would be more gentle.
>> No. 441915 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 12:57 pm
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Last night my girlfriend made the worst curry I've ever eaten. She used curry paste but she didn't actually add it to the pan until a few minutes before serving, so it was horrible.
>> No. 441916 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 1:03 pm
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It's not a big lump of wax, but thank you.
>> No. 441929 Anonymous
30th January 2021
Saturday 10:08 am
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Everywhere I go I seem to be followed by adverts for jobs to do with the census. I'd have thought with loads of people being made redundant in the past year they wouldn't have much difficulty in filling vacancies but they seem quite desperate.
>> No. 441951 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 11:32 am
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I propose we put a salted caramel flavour one in Revels.
>> No. 441952 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 12:11 pm
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>>441951
All those in favour...
>> No. 441953 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 12:14 pm
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>>441951

I propose we remove the orange and coffee ones, because nobody likes those. The raisin ones are also a bit suspect, because they're almost healthy. We should also get rid of the Maltesers, because you can just buy a bag of Maltesers; by the same logic, the Minstrels can go as well.

Hang on, I think I've just invented Toffee Poppets.
>> No. 441956 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 1:26 pm
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>>441951

We should campaign for the return of the Peanut ones, so that Comedian whose only joke was about Russian Roulette with allergy sufferers can pay his bills.
>> No. 441958 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 1:28 pm
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>>441953
>I propose we remove the orange and coffee ones

Fuck off, these have steadily been getting erased from history by Big Chocolate and the coffee ones in particular are always the best.
>> No. 441959 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 1:33 pm
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>>441953
You people make me sick, can't you just go suck on a bag of Werther's originals?

Coffee Revels are delicious and it's a sign of the sickness in our society that we don't have coffee in more chocolate - coffee flavoured Mars and Marathon bars for instance.
>> No. 441965 Anonymous
31st January 2021
Sunday 2:25 pm
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>>441959
I love coffee flavoured chocolate, but it's very unfortunate that the coffee Revels taste nothing at all like coffee.
>> No. 441983 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 2:10 am
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This seems as good a thead as any to mention that I've noticed that both my eyebrows have started getting rogue long hairs. All my life I've had neat and tidy and completely maintenance-free eyebrows, so this has come as quite a shock to me. I think I'm getting old.
>> No. 441986 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 5:49 am
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Now now lads, nobody's talking about removing any Revels. Why does everything nice have to come at the expense of someone else's suffering with you lot? Is this what the internalisation of systemic exploitation does to a civil society?

I vote all all the existing Revels stay as they are, with an extra salted caramel as well. I just love getting a handful of the cunts and letting all the flavours mash together. Salted caramel would go great with that frankly.
>> No. 441988 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 8:43 am
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Snowy out.
>> No. 441991 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 10:03 am
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>>441983
Mine have been getting steadily wilder as the years roll by, get some growing off at mad angles. Gonna have mad old man brows.
>> No. 441992 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 10:15 am
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>>441988

Can confirm. Had to abandon the car. It was a great disappointment after making it so close to home, but I live up a bloody great hill and there's no way around it.
>> No. 442018 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 3:07 pm
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The light's changed. You don't get this kind of daylight in the winter, well, the earlier bit of the winter.
>> No. 442019 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 3:22 pm
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>>442018
Global illuminaton m8.
>> No. 442021 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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>>442019

It was bad enough when it was just Blackpool.
>> No. 442028 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>442018 There was a big.BIG double flash like massive green lightning that illuminated the clouds just after 7 this evening. Thought someone had nuked the fens, especially as there was a fast jet circling for half an hour later. Probably just our local substation exploding again, though, rather than WW3 kicking off.
It's been a long, and annoying, day, and WW3 would just about top it off nicely.
>> No. 442029 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 10:47 pm
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>>442028
That can happen at sunrise and sunset, but if it was dark it was almost 100% aliens. Should have had a look, maybe they're leggy vampire aliens with 3 knockers for whom spunk is a delicacy.
>> No. 442030 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 10:56 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
>> No. 442031 Anonymous
2nd February 2021
Tuesday 11:01 pm
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>>442029

This reminds me of a horny dream I had once where we were inter-planetary explorers, and we stumbled across an inhabited planet. They arrested us because thought we were space illegal immigrants, and when we tried to explain that we weren't and this was first contact they didn't believe us because that's what they always say. Then they sent in a hot femme alien who's job was to collect our spunk for genetic study.
>> No. 442051 Anonymous
5th February 2021
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n7mB-P2_M4

Sure you lads have seen this already, but it is cracking.
>> No. 442052 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 11:55 am
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>>442051
"Read the standing orders!" got me.

There's been a bit of drama at Beeston Academy this week as one of the teachers forgot to mute her mic on Teams whilst calling one of her pupils a fucking idiot. As the lessons are recorded one of the kids has filmed that part of it and spread it around.
>> No. 442053 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:03 pm
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>>442052

Mortifying. What was the school's reaction?

As a teacher I felt pretty comfortable joking with students about saying dumb things if the rapport was there and I thought the student would receive it well, but if everything is being recorded in perpetuity I imagine the student-teacher rapport becomes much more formal and stultified.
>> No. 442054 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:04 pm
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>>442053

I'm not saying I would have called a student a 'fucking idot'.
>> No. 442055 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:16 pm
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>>442053
The rumour is that she's been sacked, but I think that's just bored mums gossiping. It only happened on Wednesday and I don't think there's been an official response yet.

It sounded like she was having a quick word with her husband about some basic word she'd set a pupil, even helping him out with it, but he'd messed it up and she couldn't believe how stupid he was. I bet it would be a nightmare if every single thing you say is recorded and one misstep will spread around like wildfire.
>> No. 442057 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:34 pm
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>>442055


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6YmErqOYw
>> No. 442059 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:36 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9Zy2-C_lY
Things could always be worse
>> No. 442060 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 12:50 pm
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>>442051
Personal favourite was John Smith appearing simply to laugh at everyone for several seconds.

That Jackie Weaver lass though, she needs a right smack. I hate that kind of person. "Appalling behaviour" quite, you're a right cunt and I hope you get told that regularly.
>> No. 442062 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 1:49 pm
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>>442060

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/02/did-jackie-weaver-have-the-authority-the-law-and-policy-of-that-handforth-parish-council-meeting/

I don't know, looking into the matter further I think I'm team Jackie.

The bit when 'Aled's iPad' descended into an angry Donald Duck impression wasn't really very professional behaviour, and it certainly wasn't a manner of deportment and conduct befitting a Councillor.

The prequel offers a bit more context, but it seems like Jackie was brought in to sort out a difficult situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6Vq67n5hs

It's mad that this is how the country is run. Procedure and Bureaucracy should exist to facilitate the good order of Society, but here we see it existing only to obstruct, absorb money, and stoke the egos of ugly narcissists. It's even more mad when you consider that this is probably pretty much what goes on behind closed doors at no. 10, but it does make the utter shambles of the government more understandable.
>> No. 442063 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 2:46 pm
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>>442052

Madness. When I was at school the teachers would call us worse than "fucking idiot" quite regularly and they were right more often than not.

No wonder Britain is crashing and burning.
>> No. 442064 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 3:03 pm
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>>442063

We're living with the consequences of a society where it's no longer acceptable to tell thick kids that they're thick.

It's not their fault, they were just born that way, but they need to know that they're thick. If you don't realise that you're thick, life is a bewildering and frustrating ordeal. Everything seems arbitrary and over-complicated, everyone you interact with seems like a complete arsehole who is just trying to fuck you about. Some thick people eventually figure it out for themselves, but most don't, because they're thick.

We shouldn't be surprised that so many people are so angry these days.
>> No. 442065 Anonymous
5th February 2021
Friday 3:12 pm
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'How the country is run'? Mate it's a parish council, they do fuck all. It's like a residents' association with slightly more budget and status. Of course it's going to be full of elderly, arrogant nutters.
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5th February 2021
Friday 3:14 pm
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In the before times you'd make a comment, move on and that'd be the end of it. Make that comment on a medium that is being recorded and it can leave that environment and you'll never hear the end of it because it's always there.

The problem is bored mums who whip one another into an outrage in order to fill their time. DISCUSTAN.
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5th February 2021
Friday 3:21 pm
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>We're living with the consequences of a society where
Doesn't seem to be any worse than the consequences of the one when that Parish Council were growing up.
>> No. 442087 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 10:32 am
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>where it's no longer acceptable to tell thick kids that they're thick.

I think that's true. In an age of overparenting and parents believing that they have every right to expect their kids to be academic geniuses, it gets overlooked that there is natural variance in children's intelligence. Your child may simply not have what it takes to go to uni, and will be better off doing a pipefitter apprenticeship.
>> No. 442088 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 10:59 am
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A big part of the reason why we've ended up not wanting to tell kids they're thick is that for generations of schooling with the target of "grades grades grades" as a country we've internalised the idea that you're either booksmart or you're thick.
It shouldn't be like that at all. In reality only a tiny minority of people are so far to the end of the IQ bell-curve that they're good for nothing other than manual labour, but unfortunately kids are being brought up to believe in the idea that if they can't get an office job they're a failure so they just don't aspire to anything else.

That's part of the reason why the recent push to restart apprentice schemes has failed (besides companies who use it as a cash cow), it's just impossible to get school-leavers interested in these roles.
Instead what is happening now is that most skilled-labour and technical roles are being filled by companies taking people on in their late 20s and early 30s and retraining them.
We see it at my company, we need skilled people like CNC operators and quality inspectors and are willing to train people, but the only way we've been able to do that is by taking on labourers in the warehouse and slowly coaxing the smarter ones into having a go at more challenging things.

My last company had things arse backwards, for manual labour they'd only take on old guys who they thought would be dependable to turn up and not cock things up by rushing, for the technical jobs half the time they took on young kids who never seemed to last more than a few weeks, and the rest of the time they just kept trying to poach experienced people from other companies.
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6th February 2021
Saturday 11:09 am
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>That's part of the reason why the recent push to restart apprentice schemes has failed (besides companies who use it as a cash cow)

Have you seen who has recently made millions out of this?

An education start-up co-founded by Euan Blair, son of the former British prime minister Tonty Blair, has raised $44m from investors, valuing the business at about $200m including the new money.

Multiverse, previously known as White Hat, said it provides young people with an alternative to university by matchmaking them with apprenticeships at companies and providing coaching and training.


https://ft.com/content/2d396375-41bd-4793-9148-8696498c95a0

The former prime minister’s son should be congratulated for spotting the potential of apprenticeships

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-euan-blairs-apprenticeship-innovation-mind-the-gap-62rq33qcb
>> No. 442090 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 12:13 pm
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>Euan Blair, son of the former British prime minister Tonty Blair

The apple still doesn't fall far from the horse.


I think apprenticeships are a good thing. Why not have somebody who is a trained and skilled carpenter, builder, or car mechanic? Nowadays, because nobody wants to do these jobs in Britain anymore, they're often done by Eastern European immigrants with sketchy formal qualifications and shaky English skills, and their quality of workmanship can be very questionable.

And it isn't true that in order to be financially stable as an adult, everybody has to go to uni. For one thing, there are many people with liberal arts degrees making no more than £25K a year, and also, as a car mechanic for example, you could go on to start your own business and have your own garage, which, if you are smart, is a licence to print money.

One of my childhood friends is a trained car mechanic, and he has his own garage and his main income is from buying up wrecked luxury cars from all over Britain and fixing them up. They then usually sell like hot cakes, because loads of people are attracted by a £10K-20K discount on a Porsche or Land Rover that looks good as new, even if the bootlid is a millimetre out of alignment. He's been doing it for ten years and he's absolutely minted now.

And that's what I mean. There's very decent money to be made from a manual trade you have learned, if you play your cards right. While somebody with a degree in sociology will be stuck with a meagre income most of their life, unless they retrain or get additional qualifications.
>> No. 442091 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 1:17 pm
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Absolutely.

In my opinion, go to University if you are interested in a specific career that requires specific qualifications, or, if you have a genuine interest in a subject (whatever it is) and whatbto learn for learnings sake. If ypu simply want to earn some money and settle for 9-5, get a house and a family going etc, get a trade. Also means you wont be stuck at a desk wearing a shirt and tie every day which is a bonus.
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6th February 2021
Saturday 1:53 pm
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>>442091

On the other hand, a lot of the ones that are bright enough to go to uni for more than a Mickey Mouse degree often don't have much of an idea either what they actually want to do after uni. You get that a lot with people who are going for a law or business degree. They will have started uni thinking, oh well, no idea what I want to do, ask me again in three or four years. I'm not saying you shouldn't go to uni if you have no clear-cut idea in the beginning where to eventually go with your degree, because sometimes you only discover while you are studying for a degree what your real areas of interest are within that field, but there are a lot of law or business school graduates with nothing interesting or noteworthy on their CV to set them apart from hundreds of other candidates for a job opening, and it's then often a rough landing for them into the entry-level job market.
>> No. 442093 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 2:54 pm
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>>442092

I think the general cluelessness of teachers has a lot to answer for here. Teacher are largely underacheivers who did a degree in teaching because it was dull and practical, and as such have never experienced any other facet of working life than the education system itself, and maybe the Curry's they worked at while they were at Uni.

These people are of course hopelessly ill equipped to guide kids into worthwhile career decisions. We can't seriously expect 16-18 year old kids to make valuable long term decisions about their future on their own- This is the biggest reason why middle class kids have it so much better than the working class ones, at the end of the day. Having a mum and dad who can give you good advice at that age, instead of a mum and dad who, even with the best of intentions, have no idea what they're talking about beyond "Oooh he's doing an -ology!" goes a hell of a long way to shaping your outcome in life.

We all like to believe we're successful based on our own merits but with real, honest self reflection, it should be apparent to most normal people that you really had no fucking clue what you were doing until you were at least 25. It's pure luck and happenstance if the decisions you did make back then happened to be good ones. If you were a smart kid but had a poor background, it's every bit as likely you ended up doing the Mickey Mouse degree as you did something useful like drugs; but you can be sure that even the dullest of well-off Tarquins will have had people around to steer them in to a good reliable accountancy course.

I think it's generally true by now though, that we've had the cart before the horse long enough that the job market has started treating a degree as a gatekeeping method. So it's a double slap in the face for people who either don't have a degree, or have the wrong sort of degree, who are unable to get jobs they might be perfectly capable of with a bit of training.
>> No. 442099 Anonymous
6th February 2021
Saturday 6:15 pm
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>>442093

>and as such have never experienced any other facet of working life than the education system itself

This isn't strictly true anymore nowadays, as there have been various campaigns to get people working in the professional job world to become school teachers.

But yeah, probably the now-older generation of teachers from about age 50 upwards still don't always have much of a clue about the world out there.

I went to school in the 90s, and most of our teachers, even the late-20s to 30ish ones, had been teaching since they left uni and had never done much else, except the odd student job. We did have one teacher who was our career adviser, and I think he worked in an office for a few years before he decided to still go to uni, but that was pretty much the closest thing we had to somebody who could actually teach us the hard facts of choosing a career after school. And then we had that one English teacher whose husband had his own successful company, and he would come in once or twice a year as a guest speaker for a few hours to tell us what employers expected from us. I'm not saying what he had to tell us wasn't interesting, it was actually quite useful, but we probably would have needed somebody like him to be there for us full time.


> It's pure luck and happenstance if the decisions you did make back then happened to be good ones. If you were a smart kid but had a poor background, it's every bit as likely you ended up doing the Mickey Mouse degree as you did something useful like drugs

I think I saw both in my days at uni. There were the ones who were driven by the desire to escape their family's poverty and get a degree that was going to pay some actual serious money so they would be able to rise up the social ladder, but there were also the ones studying politics or geography who were from poor families and in a way only ended up doing those Mickey Mouse degrees because nobody had ever sat them down and told them what kind of jobs are open to you with which degrees. I guess it's often that thing about lawyers, doctors or business entrepreneurs being able to steer their offspring into the right direction, because they had first-hand experience studying the same thing. Somebody who makes their living as a factory worker won't be much help in advising his kids which degree to go for.

Also, there were the toffs whose parents were so loaded that it really didn't matter one way or the other for them what kind of degree they were doing, but you only had a handful of them.
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6th February 2021
Saturday 8:20 pm
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It's a bloody disgrace.

Not a single mask being worn.

Shareing a communal beverage isn't very covidsafe is it wee nippy?
>> No. 442113 Anonymous
7th February 2021
Sunday 12:21 am
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>>442106
The alcohol will kill the virus, innit.
>> No. 442121 Anonymous
7th February 2021
Sunday 2:29 pm
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>>442106
There is a mask exemption for elite sport dressing rooms as they get tested every day, as I imagine probably do politicians who still have to mingle with the proles.

Still a bit odd mind you.
>> No. 442124 Anonymous
7th February 2021
Sunday 2:41 pm
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>>442106
Be nice, there's a 60% chance she gets her P45 before the end of April.
>> No. 442140 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 2:26 pm
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Isn't there a legal, non-psychoactive, form of cannabis that's legal to grow in the UK?
>> No. 442142 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 3:58 pm
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>> No. 442143 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 4:12 pm
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>>442140
I suspect if you go to the effort of doing one of those they'll probably let you off.
>> No. 442144 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 4:38 pm
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>>442140
Not as far as I'm aware because this country is backwards as fuck when it comes to policing drugs.
>> No. 442145 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 6:18 pm
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>> No. 442146 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 6:41 pm
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>>442142
ITS. NOT. FAIR!
>> No. 442151 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 1:06 am
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I'm much too old to be crushing on Emperor Julian, but it's happened so I'll just have to live with it.
>> No. 442152 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 11:46 am
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>>442146

Bit much.
>> No. 442153 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 12:34 pm
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>>442152
There's no need to get catty, Meghan.
>> No. 442154 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 2:22 pm
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>>442152

For fuck's sake lad, she doesn't even have a third tit.
>> No. 442160 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 12:36 am
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I don't know what I've eaten or inhaled, but I would not bet against myself literally shitting the bed tonight. Farewell, friends.
>> No. 442165 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 9:20 am
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Good morning, did you end up with wet legs?
>> No. 442166 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 10:46 am
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No, I made it through. Well done, my anus.
>> No. 442169 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 5:01 pm
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Got my new cycling glasses in the post today. As soon as the weather stops being a cunt, I want to get back on my bicycle and lose a few of the pounds I've gained during this whole corona nonsense. At least you're still allowed to exercise outdoors by yourself, so it should be a good way to get back in shape.

They were cheap as chips at 13 quid off eBay, considering what you get, i.e. five UV 400-protected lenses and a carrying case. The brand name is Rockbros, which is some sort of pretend Chinese brand. But I have to say I can't really tell much of a difference between these and my almost identical Uvex glasses where the frame snapped in half last summer, and which cost close to £90.

I was a bit skeptical about the UV400 rating, but google says that if the lenses have UV400 stickers and there is a CE mark on the frame, a low retail price doesn't have to mean less protection. Well, unless the Chinese are really playing silly buggers with industry regulations. But even then, it'll probably only be an issue on a bright sunny day. For normal allweather cycling, i.e. 80 percent of the time, I always use clear lenses.
>> No. 442170 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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I've long used a brand called tifosi, which probably rolls off the same production line as those but for not much more you get UK sellers and a bit of reliability.

Actually it must be about 10 years since I bought my last pair for about £30, the same ones are on sale now for nearly £50, but I think I'd probably still say they're worth that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tifosi-Tyrant-1120800187-Neutral-060544/dp/B00EKEQ5A6/ref=sr_1_34?dchild=1&qid=1612981719&refinements=p_89%3ATifosi&s=clothing&sr=1-34
>> No. 442179 Anonymous
11th February 2021
Thursday 11:11 am
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No update on your chilli plants? I've got about a dozen now, some surprisingly vigorous.
>> No. 442233 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 4:58 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEEMzMDELY
>> No. 442234 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 3:21 pm
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VR fitness game had be doing 100 squats before I'd even realise it. I can barely stand today.
>> No. 442237 Anonymous
16th February 2021
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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All together, more than 800 trolleybus systems have existed, but not more than about 400 concurrently.
>> No. 442245 Anonymous
16th February 2021
Tuesday 10:45 pm
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Bumping to get fat lass further down the page.
>> No. 442251 Anonymous
17th February 2021
Wednesday 1:09 am
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>>442245
Don't bump too much or we'll lose Tiffy.
>> No. 442298 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:17 pm
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When I do stop losing money?

Also, I don't think I've had a solid shit in about a week; it's just been mush.
>> No. 442299 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:22 pm
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Invest in sand.
>> No. 442300 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:30 pm
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Few red days in a row. No idea why. Everything is going up at the moment though. Don't fret. Maybe short JFU to make yourself feel better.
>> No. 442301 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:41 pm
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>>442298
What platform is that?
>> No. 442302 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:51 pm
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>>442300
I know Palantir was down this week after posting its quarterly figures and also because restrictions were lifted on some of their shares. Decided to take a punt and invest a further £50 when it was at just over $25 per share yesterday and they're up to almost $29 at the moment.

My main problem is I keep doubling down on BlackBerry.

>>442301
Trading212.
>> No. 442303 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:54 pm
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>>442298
When you stop investing in memes after they become popular.

But broadly there's been a few rather bad days across the market the past couple months. Mostly it's just rational corrections but there's a looming problem underlined by recent analysis by Bank of America that tech price-value is at silliness mirroring the dotcom bubble.
>> No. 442305 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 4:58 pm
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I feel like proper stock trading is something with such slow turnabout* that doing it on a phone app is doing it wrong. You're supposed to wait literally years for your stocks to mature, you'll have got a new phone and forgotten to reinstall the app by then. Making it so immediately accessible is just a recipe to overthink it and give any profit you do make away in trading fees.


*as opposed to crypto, which is just mental
>> No. 442306 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 5:01 pm
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>>442305
This is my fun money. I've got my proper money in collective funds that I generally buy and hold, unless I see the opportunity to temporarily move into gold.
>> No. 442307 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 5:05 pm
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>>442305
>you'll have got a new phone and forgotten to reinstall the app by then
Sounds like you're doing phones wrong.
>> No. 442308 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 5:09 pm
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ARE PHILLIP is apparently on his way out.
>> No. 442309 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 5:59 pm
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>>442305

I think these very accessible apps are designed to encourage day trading, or at least frequent trading, because they get to make more money on the spread and more trading data to sell.

The market has been so volatile and so bullish recently that I've been able to make some silly money just jumping on stocks and selling for 10-15% returns, over and over. I couldn't do that with my real broker (plus he'd shout at me) But that's just gambling with a fancy hat on, I wouldn't recommend it.
>> No. 442313 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 10:03 pm
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Spent all day clearing branches and overgrowth from my garden with a kukri. They really might be the most versatile and useful knife/sharp implement you can get. Plus it's a lot more satisfying to use than secateurs.
>> No. 442315 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 10:22 pm
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>>442308
Schofield?
>> No. 442318 Anonymous
19th February 2021
Friday 11:05 pm
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>>442308

Looks like the KFC bargain bucket sweepstakes is back on. Rollover since nobody got to claim it when he was in hospital last year.
>> No. 442321 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 12:55 am
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>>442308
Thankfully, he's immortal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
>> No. 442322 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 1:45 am
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Bottle of sesame oil got knocked over and spilt all over my kitchen top.

Cons: took forever to clean up and sesame oil is sort of expensive.

Pros: kitchen smells fucking fantastic.
>> No. 442349 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 2:07 pm
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>Pros: kitchen smells fucking fantastic.

if by "fantastic" you mean it probably smells like an unkept Asian stir fry take away place, then by all means.


I unknowingly knocked over a small bottle of the stuff in my refrigerator a while ago, and the smell and taste got into the butter, cheese and cold cuts. It was disgusting, and I took the opportunity to clean the fridge inside and out with Dettol bleach.
>> No. 442350 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 2:10 pm
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>>442349
Pussy.
>> No. 442351 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 3:37 pm
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>>442349

Nothing better than a bit of Bertie Bear ham with a hint of bleach in the nose. Gourmet af.
>> No. 442352 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 4:01 pm
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>>442351

Well you do have to get the bleach back out with loads of warm water and a sponge, that's a given. If you do it right, your fridge ends up smelling very neutral when you're done.

I deep clean my fridge and all the shelves in it once or twice a year with chlorine bleach, and I've never had any problems with foods I then put back in it. I've found it's much more effective against odours that build up over time than various other tricks like baking soda or coffee grounds.
>> No. 442353 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 4:38 pm
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>>442349

>if by "fantastic" you mean it probably smells like an unkept Asian stir fry take away place

Not him, but yes.
>> No. 442365 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:32 pm
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Had a chip spice omelette, not bad.
>> No. 442366 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 9:31 pm
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>>442349
At least it wasn't fish sauce. That's never happened to me but I fear the day.
>> No. 442367 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 9:53 pm
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I've got some suspiciously rubbery cheddar in the fridge. It doesn't feel at all like cheese should and it's shiny, as though it's been moulded in to shape. I have just tried making a cheesy pasta sauce, and instead of melting in nicely, it's congealed into weird lumps with a separate yellow oil, and ruined the whole bloody dish. Quite miffed about that, but anyway.

They can't make fake cheddar, can they? I thought it was a protected location or whatever that was called. I feel like this was some weird reconstituted artificial cheese product I've been conned into.
>> No. 442371 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 10:10 pm
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Was it Cathedral City? That's the rubberiest cheddar I've had.
>> No. 442372 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 10:10 pm
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>They can't make fake cheddar, can they? I thought it was a protected location or whatever that was called.
Now that the meddling Brussels bureaucrats have been seen off, the British public has reclaimed its God-given right to consume misleadingly labelled dairy products.

Actually I don't think cheddar ever had protected origin status.
>> No. 442373 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 10:23 pm
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>>442366

I use that exact brand of fish sauce when I go fishing. A few drops of it on a dough ball, and you'll attract fish from trout to carp.
>> No. 442381 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:22 pm
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>>442373
Sick little man.
>> No. 442383 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 12:15 am
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Sounds like vegan/vegetarian cheese. It's alright on crackers but you have to be careful with the brand for anything else and assure that it has the right properties for what you're doing because they can't use rennet. I think our resident veggie will be able to elucidate more when she gets back from raiding the frozen food aisle if this is the case.

Clearly I think we can at least rule that this isn't British cheese.

>>442372
Actually Britain still recognises PDO and PGI labels. Cheddar in itself is not recognised but two are that have regional qualifiers in the name.
>> No. 442387 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 8:39 am
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>>442383

Modern microbial vegetarian rennets work just as well as traditional calf rennet. Vegan cheese is a crime against god and nature though.
>> No. 442388 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:18 am
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>>442387

Almost all mass-produced cheese nowadays is made with artificial rennet. Simply because you couldn't feasibly slaughter enough calves in order to have the quantities of rennet that the cheese industry needs. Even artisan cheese you buy straight from a dairy farm now usually contains the artificial rennet.
>> No. 442399 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 2:17 pm
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22nd February 2021
Monday 2:28 pm
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>> No. 442405 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 3:21 pm
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mirth
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22nd February 2021
Monday 3:24 pm
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>>442405

Girth.
>> No. 442416 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 7:21 pm
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>>442400
Lightweight. Splorch or nothing.
>> No. 442420 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 9:32 pm
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Lindsay Ellis is dressing like a Goth again and not the late-antiquity kind. I've not even seen a woman for twelve months, I can't handle this.
>> No. 442421 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 9:42 pm
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I'm concerned that the lockdown ending means I'll have to stop eating so much raw garlic.
>> No. 442422 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>442421
Please don't - garlic is the food of the gods. You will find your people, come lockdown is over; and they will smell delicious too.
>> No. 442424 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:06 pm
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I don't understand why you fannies are scared of eating garlic. Do you think it'll put people off you? I say that cowardice is a far greater turn off than smelling like a day old garlic naan.
>> No. 442425 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:09 pm
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>>442422

> You will find your people, come lockdown is over; and they will smell delicious too.

Can't wait for some garlic smelling sweaty lad at my gym stinking up the seat of the butterfly machine again right before it's my turn.
>> No. 442426 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:12 pm
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>>442425

You probably shouldn't be sniffing the seats in the gym.
>> No. 442427 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:14 pm
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>>442426

And you probably haven't spent much time in gyms.
>> No. 442428 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:15 pm
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Not the kind where that sort of behaviour's encouraged, no.
>> No. 442430 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:32 pm
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>>442428

It doesn't have to be. All it takes is one guy getting really worked up and sweaty who had a big kebab the day before, and he will be spreading the smell around the gym floor like a plug-in Airwick.
>> No. 442432 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:34 pm
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>>442430

Your lucky day!
>> No. 442433 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 10:38 pm
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That's why I go to gyms, for the nice smell. Don't ruin this, Garlic Boy.
>> No. 442440 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 10:20 am
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People blowing themselves up with gender reveal cannons has got to be the most outrageous example of psychotic suburban oneupmanship.
>> No. 442450 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:07 pm
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>>442440
What happened to just texting people, Jesus Christ
>> No. 442452 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:11 pm
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>>442440

>the most outrageous example of psychotic suburban oneupmanship.

I think the Polynesians completely deforested Easter island whilst building giant stone faces and they had several famines driven by having too generous feasts for the neighbouring villages so there is that.
>> No. 442454 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:21 pm
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>>442452

lad did you actually just one-up my example of oneupmanship?
>> No. 442456 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:34 pm
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>>442454

I am asserting dominance.
>> No. 442458 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:41 pm
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>>442440
But how else are you going to let your mate know whether or not he'll have somewhere to put his iPhone when the baby arrives?
>> No. 442461 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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>>442440
'your daddy was an incompetent imbecile'

Shouldn't it be cannon rather than canon and expecting really the right word for the father?

But still, in the name of all that's Belgian, how is a theatrical gender reveal even a thing, except to piss off the pronoun crowd?
>> No. 442462 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:46 pm
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>>442458
Oh fuck. Mirth, on a Tuesday. That's unusual. Thanks.
>> No. 442463 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:47 pm
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>>442461
It's part following the fad of the day, part narcissism and part an excuse for a party.
>> No. 442465 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 12:51 pm
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>>442458
BRB, designing a fantastically inappropriate iphone stand for my desk at work... And a cherub / keyring holder combo. Eww.
>> No. 442473 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 2:48 pm
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>>442440

I think for the one in Michigan it was the Grandad that was killed by the gender cannon. I'm imagining the tragedy of a potential military veteran having 'cause of death: pink confetti shrapnel wounds' listed on his death certificate.
>> No. 442478 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 6:06 pm
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I don't really know what a gender cannon even is, I'm hoping to remain in ignorant bliss tbh.
>> No. 442479 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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This is strange.

https://www.levi.com/GB/en_GB/levis-x-pokemon/c/levi_collections_pokemon
>> No. 442480 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 6:15 pm
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>>442461
>how is a theatrical gender reveal even a thing
It's just people having a party because they're overexcited about having a baby you miserable tosser, it's not difficult to understand at all
>> No. 442481 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 6:19 pm
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>>442480
Did your baby piss on your conflakes, breederlad?
>> No. 442484 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 6:55 pm
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>>442479

It's not weird, you're just old. We're at the point in the nostalgia curve where people who grew up with Pokemon are buying Pokemon merch for their kids in an attempt to recapture their youth, like our dads buying Scalextric and Subbuteo because they really just wanted to play with it themselves.
>> No. 442490 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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Have a baby party, sure. Makes sense to have the party before it turns up and the parents get preoccupied. It's the whole 'placing a huge value on the sex of the baby' that I find weird.
>> No. 442491 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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Righted the wrongs of that manky pasta sauce the other night with the fake cheese by making a beautiful one tonight with proper, not even vegetarian, nevermind vegan cheese from the deli counter.

What would the Italians call a creamy, cheesy pasta dish? It's penne pasta if that helps.
>> No. 442498 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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The power lead for my laptop had a tear on the outer casing so I bought a new cable. I can't work out whether I've been wasteful or if I'm actually being clever in not risking my flat burning down.

My internal debate was that I could just use electrical tape but then I got to thinking that it's probably damaged more beyond the casing.

>>442491
Penne al formaggio. Assuming you're just using one cheese and in which case you might as well call it Mac 'n' Cheese you filthy heathen.

People have an entirely misguided approach to Italian cuisine (and coffee), it's all quite industrial.
>> No. 442499 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 8:03 pm
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>>442498

If the inner wires were intact, a bit of tape would surely have served the same purpose.

I'm just glad I can charge my laptop with a USB C cable now. For all USB's issues, at least I no longer have to worry about fucking about with very specific power bricks.
>> No. 442503 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>>442484

Pokemon is about on scale of Star Wars for cultural impact, It is almost weird it hasn't been milked more, when you think of the absurd level of saturisation Star Wars has for merch. If you walk down any high street in the country in the before time you would see somebody wearing a Star Wars T-shirt.
>> No. 442522 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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Just discovered Jim Browning's youtube channel.

He is somebody who gives online scammers a hard time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCjz7gdePw

The reaction is always priceless when some scamlad on the phone from India realises somebody is on to him.
>> No. 442536 Anonymous
25th February 2021
Thursday 1:12 am
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This happened to my Kindle at some point I'm the last day. The screen isn't damaged (it still displays fine in that area), nor is the digitiser as touch works fine also. Annoying and slightly distracting, but oh well.
>> No. 442537 Anonymous
25th February 2021
Thursday 2:25 am
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>>442536

That's happened to me a couple of times. The screen is damaged, just not the e-ink portion of it. It's a little crack that lets too much of the backlight through, essentially.

My solution has been to ignore it. I doubt it's worth replacing the screen for. If it helps, my spot is right in the middle of the page.
>> No. 442538 Anonymous
25th February 2021
Thursday 7:40 am
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Amazon will replace it for free - just contact customer service and be really nice. Even if out of warranty. Just be nice to them on the line and they will.
>> No. 442544 Anonymous
26th February 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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I've eaten an entire cantaloupe in little over a day. I can't get enough of them at the moment.
>> No. 442565 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 9:12 pm
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Does it matter how quickly after making an Amazon order you cancel the subscribe and save? It's a few quid cheaper ordering that way, but I've no need for a regular delivery of them.
>> No. 442568 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 12:07 am
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>>442565

>Does it matter how quickly after making an Amazon order you cancel the subscribe and save?

No, assuming you wait long enough for them to actually dispatch the item.
>> No. 442583 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 9:12 pm
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It's kicking off on the local Facebook group because someone booted a dog.
>> No. 442584 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:17 am
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>>442583
discustin they shud be locked up!"!!
>> No. 442587 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 12:46 pm
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>>442584
It was 50:50 between saying the dog should have been on a lead and saying they would have kicked the person's teeth in if they tried it with their dog.

Today's drama is that newly planted flowers in one of the parks have been kicked up. Lots of disgustings, calls for them to be named and shamed, blaming the parents and the lack of discipline, saying they have no respect and saying nothing is sacred these days.
>> No. 442593 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 9:42 pm
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They're fucking flowers, they grow, that's what they do - no one minds us smashing them up.
>> No. 442594 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>>442593
The Inbetweeners was first broadcast in 2008.

Feel old yet?
>> No. 442595 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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>>442594

I was feeling old in 2008. By the time we had that thread on the US version I was feeling fucking ancient.

Still not feeling as old as a 30 year old Simon Bird playing a 16yo though.
>> No. 442596 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:10 pm
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I fell into a food coma shortly after work and now it's 10. I don't know whether I should stay up late so I can have some fun or try not to but end up staying up late anyway.
>> No. 442597 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:16 pm
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>>442594

I was 18 then. I felt pretty old. Now today, this morning, I stood on a step ladder for about three minutes, and it hurt my knee and I've been limping all day. I can't wait for you to remind us in 2031 about the inbetweeners again and I can tell you about my, I assume, multiple heart attacks.
>> No. 442598 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:37 pm
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>>442594
No, I never watched it.
>> No. 442599 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:45 pm
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>>442598

Are you a septic or just a bumder?
>> No. 442600 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 10:45 pm
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>>442597

You definitely see that we're in different times now by the fact that some gags would be considered massively offensive today.

Maybe the show was possible because it ended right before twitter became widely used. I feel like there is a connection there.
>> No. 442601 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:09 pm
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>>442600

I remember at the time thinking some of the jokes were really pushing it, that was, I think, part of the charm, and sort of the point - you do say some quite heinous shit when you're young and trying to impress or shock your peers.

Anything written well enough I think will survive these sorts of criticisms - it's a lot easier to dismiss an off colour joke when it's made by a strong character that's very clearly supposed to be a bit of a tit.

Saying that, Friends is a dogshit show but nobody seems to care that entire episodes or series arcs were written around the bizarre hilarity of, say, a male nanny, or your ex wife being with a woman now.
>> No. 442602 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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>>442601

>Friends is a dogshit show

Thank you.

Few people will openly admit that its premise was even weaker than Seinfeld.
>> No. 442603 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:27 pm
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Friends is set in New York so I like it. God, why couldn't I have been born there instead of in this shitehole? I used to think this when I was a teenager, then I convinced myself that there are actually far worse places to be born, but I was wrong.
>> No. 442604 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:37 pm
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>>442602

It's like the mashed banana of TV. I watched when I was younger, and I'd probably watch it again now and not feel abject disgust, but I probably wouldn't have a great time. It's crap but it's very diluted crap. Something like the Big Bang Theory feels so much worse - I think at least some jokes land in Friends and some of the the actors have some charisma.

Ross as a character did not age well. He's a rapey psychopath.
>> No. 442605 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:39 pm
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>>442603

Have you ever been to New York? It's big and some bits are nice, but on average it's like Croydon but with Americans. Awful.
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2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:39 pm
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>>442603

I've been to New York City and I couldn't imagine ever living in a place like it. It was interesting to visit for a few days, but it really felt like it was just all a bit too much.
>> No. 442607 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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I was thinking about how long ago it aired quite recently, I saw the guy who played Jay streaming on twitch under the subtitle "star of the Inbetweeners plays games". There's a lot to unravel there.
>> No. 442608 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:47 pm
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No, I've never even been to Croydon. I'm basically Tubbs from The League of Gentlemen. I'm just watching some horrible, grim film and its depiction of the rural north has filled me with existential terror. The script isn't exactly a hoot either.

Film's called Dark River if you want to feel vile.
>> No. 442609 Anonymous
2nd March 2021
Tuesday 11:49 pm
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>>442607

I've seen him in a couple of videos, he's self effacing so that title will be sarcastic I think.

Still though.
>> No. 442610 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 5:41 am
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>>442607

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/27/the-inbetweeners-james-buckley-becomes-the-unlikely-king-of-cameo
>> No. 442611 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 8:16 am
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Think he's actually doing alright for himself, he's a reasonably funny self effacing lad. Also does youtube vids with his missus and >>442610 that shit as well. It's all pretty inoffensive stuff imo, he's managing to get by innit. Fair fucks to him.
>> No. 442619 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 3:13 pm
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>Contains sexual violence and disturbing scenes.
I wish I'd read that before I watched it.
>> No. 442620 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 4:12 pm
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>>442619
To have a box of Kleenex ready?
>> No. 442621 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 4:15 pm
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You're bunch of sick fucks. I'm going to get some fresh air.
>> No. 442622 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 5:12 pm
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Do you use your left hand or your right hand to get that 'fresh air'?
>> No. 442640 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 11:31 am
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I wanted to try making smoked salt on Monday but it seemed wasteful to run the smoker with just a little bit of something in, so I put about a kilogram of Himalayan Rose Salt in there. That was fine it seemed to work, I was left with about a kilogram of smoked salt. I wasn't really sure what to do with a kilogram of smoked salt so I've blended half of it with garlic and that's drying out in the oven, the other half with garlic, lime and coriander, which is doing the same.

I don't have any particular idea what I'm going to do with half a kilo of smoked garlic salt and half a kilo of whatever pseudo-Mexican salt either.
>> No. 442641 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 11:51 am
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If I'm making a stir fry do I really need to do anything over than cook ginger paste and soy sauce together? It seems to be the optimum balance between effort and flavour.
>> No. 442642 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 11:51 am
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And, of course, I can't correct typing over instead of other.
>> No. 442821 Anonymous
15th March 2021
Monday 1:00 pm
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Smelt gas whilst the pipes outside were being worked on. Doesn't seem like there was a leak after all, but that was the most social interaction I've had in ages! Might develop Munchausen Syndrome or something if lockdown's on much longer.
>> No. 442864 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 7:28 pm
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My friend dropped off a homemade curry this evening. It was like a cross between curry and chilli con carne. I'll have to get the recipe off him.
>> No. 442865 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 7:49 pm
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>>442864

½x tin of Prince's Hot Chicken Curry
½x tin of Stagg Dynamite Chili

Use whole tins if "cooking" for yourself and life partner of course

Add Garam Masala and ooze Chili paste (https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cooking-from-scratch-/gia-chilli-puree-80g) depending on what your bum can handle, serve with tricolore pilau

ALSO: parmesan or grana padano are proper good on dishes like this where you want a tang but don't want stringy cheese nonsense
>> No. 442891 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 1:45 pm
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>>442865
He did say homemade, dunno if mixing loads of tins together counts.
>> No. 442893 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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>"cooking"

You need more vitamins in your diet.
>> No. 442894 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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I went to see my dentist today for the first time in four years. I was going to go last year, but with all the corona what-have-you, I wasn't sure if I wanted to take the risk of going to a doctor and getting corona from somebody there.

My teeth have apparently held up quite well, after four years without maintenance besides brushing twice a day and flossing every so often. The doctor said it could be down to rigorous hygiene, but also probably the fact that I make a point not to have too much sugar in my diet. I will eat a chocolate bar now and then, but for the most part, I really don't consume a lot of fizzy drinks or sweets or cake.

We're going to have to do a professional teeth cleaning and he wants to do a round of new x-rays before he can say with certainty if certain spots are cavities or just calculus buildup, but he assured me there were "no obvious major issues" with my teeth. Which is reassuring, I guess.
>> No. 442912 Anonymous
29th March 2021
Monday 5:37 pm
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A lass has just walked past the house in a jumpsuit due to the warm weather and her arse looked absolutely fantastic. I don't think I'm going to be able to cope, lads. All these women after so long.
>> No. 442913 Anonymous
29th March 2021
Monday 6:16 pm
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>>441558

Fuck it OP picture, I'll have a fish supper tonight then, you happy?
>> No. 442914 Anonymous
29th March 2021
Monday 11:11 pm
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It is mental isn't it? A baby boom during lockdown and I predict an even bigger baby boom afterwards.
>> No. 442915 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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Living in the countryside is turning me into a Bolshevik.
>> No. 442916 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 3:14 pm
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>>442915

Sort of makes sense.

Living in the city did the opposite to me.
>> No. 442917 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:08 pm
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I read an article that said the boom had been nullified by a higher rate of abortions [1]. As pointed out in the article, I think the lockdown must have been particularly hard for single women in their thirties.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-56415248
>> No. 442918 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:12 pm
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It's mainly been poor people who've been getting abortions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/women-from-poorer-backgrounds-three-times-more-likely-to-have-abortions

Couple this with saving billions in State Pension payments from people dying early and we may get those sunlit uplands after all.
>> No. 442919 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:15 pm
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I found this video to be powerfully erotic. I really should leave the house and gawp at all the pretty ladies in their summer clothes, but I'm genuinely a bit worried that I might jizz my pants.


>> No. 442920 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:24 pm
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>>442919

God she's annoying.

I'm rock hard.
>> No. 442921 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:35 pm
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>>442919

This reminds me of when I discovered the youtube niche of very posh women talking about their very posh lives.


>> No. 442922 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>442919>>442921

Every day I come here I swear I come across something you lads post that makes my life worse.
>> No. 442923 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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>>442919
Rather than having me sit through 10 more minutes of this moron, what's the best Easter egg to get myself this year? Before I pig out on the sale that is.

Last year the Yorkie was good but I haven't seen them.
>> No. 442924 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:56 pm
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>>442920

Something about her reminds me of those girls in school who always carried a Jane Norman bag and smelled of Impulse and menthol fags and seemed impossibly grown-up.
>> No. 442925 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 6:02 pm
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Dunno m8, I was too busy wanking to notice.
>> No. 442926 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 6:28 pm
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>>442919

She has a very large head
>> No. 442929 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 7:10 pm
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A lot of my clothes seem to have shrunk in the wash.
>> No. 442930 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 8:51 pm
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Lads, what's that song where a woman goes "hmmmhmmhmmm" at the start?
>> No. 442931 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 8:53 pm
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>>442919

I am debating whether I want to have a great time with her eggs.
>> No. 442933 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 9:47 pm
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>>442930
That seems like quite an expansive question.
>> No. 442934 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 11:38 pm
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I am going rollerblading tomorrow. I need to get in shape for when Bozza lifts the travel ban. Went out on my bicycle yesterday. Trying to make it a regular thing again where I'll be doing some sort of extensive workout three times a week.

I really need to fight the flab, I've gained around 2 stone in the last 12 months. My bathroom scale broke in January, not because of my weight but because it was 20 years old, so it could be even more than that.
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30th March 2021
Tuesday 11:45 pm
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I did the same today. Putting on summer clothes was not an enjoyable experience as like what happened to >442929 they appear to have shrunk in the wash. An epidemic of microscopic moths I suspect.

Apparently on Monday there's a chance of snow though so maybe we'll skip the summer and go right to Christmas again.
>> No. 442936 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:37 am
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I'm 32 today, lads.

So far I've celebrated by treating myself to a new combustion fan for my land rover's auxiliary heater, and I've been shed shopping too as I've been spending far too many hours in the cold, unwelcoming garage.

People around me have been whinging about having their own birthday during lockdown, but I couldn't ask for anything better, frankly.
>> No. 442937 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 8:00 am
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Happy birthday, ladmate.
>> No. 442938 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 12:48 pm
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Nice. MHR.
Is it one of the night heaters you see on ebay? If so, is it tolerable? I've often fancied one, but don't want to die of carbon monoxide...
>> No. 442939 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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>>442933
It was obviously Enya's Boadicea, but I figured it out in the end.
>> No. 442940 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:31 pm
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>>442938

>Is it one of the night heaters you see on ebay?

This one is just the factory auxiliary heater that I've needed to fix for a while. However, I've had night heaters in various landys and campers before - they're definitely worth it, though I can't say I've had much experience with the newer selection of chinese copies, I'm sure they're fine, because diesel heaters are ludicrously simple. They're also very safe, all exhaust gases are piped out of the cabin and entirely separate to the heated air, unlike a propane heater, for example.

The Erberspacher I had would shut itself off if it detected an excess amount of CO, and I'm sure many of the chinese ones have the same feature - however, it's diesel fumes - I guarantee you'd notice exhaust leaking into your cabin long, long before it was built up to dangerous levels, but you don't need to even take that gamble, as it's trivial to buy and install a carbon monoxide alarm anyway.

They're really bloody good. Their heat output is phenomenal and they're efficient enough that the idea of running them through the night is realistic. I highly recommend you get one, though I can't vouch specifically for ebay ones, they look like direct copies of the popular Webasto and Erberspacher ones, and basically they're all just very basic oil burners that plug into a 12 or 24v, so there's not much to go wrong in the design or manufacture of one. Treat yourself.
>> No. 442942 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:36 pm
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>>442936

Congrats also on well and truly having arrived in your 30s.

Owning a shed and a Land Rover are the true signs of full adulthood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B0A4sFRo4
>> No. 442943 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:42 pm
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I've only been back in the country the past year, but I've since noticed a good 80% of adverts features black people or mixed race couples. Interesting change. This a post BLM thing, or has it happened over the past 10yr?

(If I could sage twice I would, just curious).

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 442944 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:45 pm
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>>442943
where was you?

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 442945 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:56 pm
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>>442943
You're not very subtle.

>>442944
And you're not very literate.
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31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:57 pm
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>>442944
I've been in Madrid for the most part, but also Singapore.

I genuinely am not trying to start a shitstorm, it's just incredibly noticeable.

Another thing; littering. Has it always been this bad? People are pigs.
>> No. 442947 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 2:06 pm
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>> No. 442948 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 2:51 pm
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>>442946

>Another thing; littering.

Doesn't Singapore slap you with hefty fines if you spit chewing gum out on the pavement?

I've never been there, but you hear that it is incredibly tidy, pretty much because they don't muck about with litterers.
>> No. 442951 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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>>442943
Started in 2012 and became a big deal in 2015. It's probably more noticeable now because we've gone from ethnics being underrepresented to having them in every ad with couples now mixed because it's easier to shoehorn. And because advertising executives are weird perverts chasing diversity awards.

The reason for it is that middle class white people care. Money. There was a report on this delivered a few years back that found that advertising was closer to reality these days but you're not going crazy if you think blacks are overrepresented and Asians under.

>>442946
Littering on the whole has gone up I reckon but you never see plastic bags these days what with the charge. For some fucking reason there's a lot more broken glass bottles than I remember on the pavement.
>> No. 442952 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 4:51 pm
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>>442951
Before anyone calls me a crustacean: I'll add that advertising has never and will never reflect reality, a woman's period doesn't involve blue water and salsa dancing. Unless that's what they get up to in those ladies bathrooms.
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31st March 2021
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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>>442951
It probably seems a bit strange if you live in a 99% white coastal village, but you actually see black people all the time in cities, which is where people who aren't nutters live.
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31st March 2021
Wednesday 7:28 pm
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>>442953

I live near a small town and can't remember the last time I saw anyone who wasnt white. It's not just villages.
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31st March 2021
Wednesday 7:31 pm
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>>442952

>Unless that's what they get up to in those ladies bathrooms.

Slightly OT, but I've found that the amount of privacy women need when they are changing tampons varies greatly. One of my exes, for example, had no problem doing it right in front of me in the bathroom, to her it was about as intimate a moment as blowing your nose. While another one really needed to be alone for it and always tried to make sure I wasn't in the bathroom to see it.

Not sure if that's just my observation, or if that's actually a "thing".

Also though, you're not missing anything if you never get to see it. It frankly looks somewhat disgusting, and you briefly question if you really want to put your knob in there again the next chance you get.
>> No. 442956 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 12:40 am
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>>442953
You have a pretty warped idea of the racial makeup of this country.
>> No. 442958 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 12:58 am
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>>442951

>you never see plastic bags these days what with the charge

Thanks for reminding me about this one. I've been meaning to rant for the last couple of days.

Remember how when the carrier bag charge came in, it was 5p for a standard bag? Remember how we complained about it and the goody-goody environmentally concerned sorts told us "Oh but it's only 5p"? Remember we said it's a regressive tax on the poorest in society and they said "Yeah but come on, it's still only 5p"?

Well, I was in Morrisson's the other day and they're 50P A FUCKING TIME now. FIFTY. FUCKING. PENCE. That's ten times the initial rate. That's carrier bag inflation of a thousand fucking percent. And you can't say 50p a time doesn't add up. And have you ever tried actually finding a member of staff at the tills to say "I need a replacement for my old knackered bag for life"? Course you haven't, it takes them half an hour to come and approve your tinnies.

Of course, I don't usually notice because I steal them, out of the principle of the matter. But you'll probably tell me I'm a bad person for that andall. This is the hill I will die on, lads- The carrier bag charge is when we let the corporations win.
>> No. 442959 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 1:53 am
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>>442958
I don't resent you. I agree entirely that the price inflation takes the absolute piss and I'm suspicious of where all that money is going considering they've stopped advertising it. In fact I find nudge theory in general to be a highly cynical ploy to rob us of our agency.

But what can one man do? I gave up and started using a spare backpack (with an XL fabric bag inside for bigger shops) and bought some biodegradable bags off Amazon for general home stuff. I'm a good middle class citizen who loves big supermarket and now finds poor people morally inferior for not opting for my more expensive lifestyle. Perhaps one day I might have the chance to ascend into home delivery.
>> No. 442965 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 4:37 pm
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Lads can I just vent about my house? Live-in landlady, I signed a standard tenancy agreement which I've just tracked down and am scanning over. I'm livid that I've put so much effort into compromising my behaviour for her and she seems to be coming after me.

Over time I've been shouted at for/told not to use the taps over 11 (because she can hear them in her room), the other night I got back at 10pm and the door was on the latch. I was locked out of my own property for no reason, she eventually came down and told me off for making noise (she said she hadn't heard me and assumed I would be out all night). I emailed the estate agents about everything (saying three times "Please keep this between us, I'm just looking to find out where I stand", got a reply saying "My colleague will email you next week", and then I get nothing back - only the next day, the landlady calls me down and asks "Are you happy here", implying they got in touch with her anyway.

I was fine with this bollocks because it was only a few months left of tenancy at this point, and I appreciate she has sleep issues which are crap, but now I've just seen the notice she's given me for moving out and it's quite frustrating. I've checked the agreement and under 'Landlord obligations' it doesn't even mention guaranteed access, which is shit. The closest thing I can find is the 'Quiet Enjoyment' clause which would relate to the taps. I literally got shouted at for using them at 11, which is surely taking the piss.

She's saying that because my room was messy (absolutely was, because I've got a house worth of stuff in a room. Wasn't dirty though) that she "would like me to get professional deep cleaning services", which seems code for "If I don't see a cleaner then I'm going to contest your deposit".

I was also told I have to shampoo the carpets (which has not been done by any previous tenant), and that there cannot be any stains on the mattress. Which is ridiculous because I'm not cleaning up 3 years worth of carpet accumulation, and the mattress has fake tan stains from a previous tenant.

I've lost my fucking phone with the photos of the room when I moved in, which show the fake tan on the bed, but surely this would be under regular wear and tear anyway. It's with the DPS so she can't kick up much of a fuss can she?

Sage because I'm sure there's fuck all I can do apart from piss in the wind.
>> No. 442966 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 5:07 pm
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>>442965

>Live-in landlady

Jesus I can't think of anything worse. Get out of there mate, there's no way it can end well. Landlords are entitled cunts at the best of times, nevermind when you live under their own personal roof and they think they have the right to start acting like some sort of parent figure.

Fuck the deposit, just get out. But before you do, leave a prawn cocktail sandwhich behind one of the radiators. It's not the mature or civilised thing to do, but in situations like this, petty revenge is the best you'll ever get.
>> No. 442967 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 5:29 pm
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>>442966
I mean it was basically fine until the other tenant moved out a couple of months ago. Obviously I'd rather be living alone but she's generally been fine, just pushes it and I'm a 'nice person' so I've allowed her.

I don't really like being petty, but I know I could piss her off endlessly by simply running the taps at night.
>> No. 442968 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 6:32 pm
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Sue Perkins, Sara Pascoe and Sindhu Vee are all on the latest episode of Hypothetical. In unrelated news, I have friction burns on my cock.
>> No. 442969 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>442968

Also, why did nobody tell me that James Acaster got cuckolded by Mr Bean? It's literally the funniest thing that has ever happened.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/03/james-acaster-laughs-off-getting-dumped-rowan-atkinson-opens-louise-ford-split-8796063/
>> No. 442983 Anonymous
2nd April 2021
Friday 2:23 am
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>>442965
The estate agents will have photographs from before you moved in, or at least should, for the opposite reason. If you move out and the place is as clean you started (sans ordinary wear and tear) then you can dispute it and ask them to prove it - although obviously don't tell them that you don't have pictures yourself. I'm not sure how much I'd value it over just getting the fuck out but I guess you can see once you've moved out and they try tapping your deposit for the giraffe you left in the bathroom.

Also you're a lodger not a tenant, people treat them as the same thing but they're not, you're in quite a niche situation regarding your rights. You' know that but I thought I should still call you an idiot and hit you with a newspaper so you don't do it again.

>I've checked the agreement and under 'Landlord obligations' it doesn't even mention guaranteed access, which is shit

I'm pretty fucking sure 'access to the property' is covered as rather fundamental. Unless there's a rule stating time of access. But that doesn't seem to be much of an issue here, she's already covered her arse on what looks like a one-time thing.

>I literally got shouted at for using them at 11, which is surely taking the piss

Standard quiet hours are 23-7. I mean it's bollocks but yeah.
>> No. 443060 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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Every couple of months or so I get an email and letter from Very with a code to get 20% off my next order. The catch is you're meant to buy it on credit, with a 40% interest rate, but I always pay it off in full immediately. Is debt really that profitable for them they're able to offer 20% off and still be better off?
>> No. 443061 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>443060

Yes.
>> No. 443062 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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Stupid fucking country, it's fucking snowing. God, I hate it here.
>> No. 443063 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 1:54 pm
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>>443062
It's stopped now, you drama queen.
>> No. 443064 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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Love the snow.

I had a walk out into town yesterday morning, it was bank holiday so I didn't see another person, it was chilly and then it started to snow. That brief moment was the happiest I have felt in months.

I'm dreading summer. It was only about 18 degrees over the weekend and I had to have all the curtains closed.

I really need to move to warmer climates. Preferably somewhere where few people live.
>> No. 443066 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 2:05 pm
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Just bought a new set of O rings for my espresso machine. The big boiler seal failed again, it's possible the one I put in three years ago was too thin. Normal lifespan for near-daily use should be upwards of five years.

I've stripped down the innards of the machine completely because it also had one or two electrical faults, i.e. a bad thermal fuse and a maybe-dodgy temperature switch, which was probably the reason the thermal fuse failed in the first place. And there was some other leakage as well, which the new O rings are hopefully going to fix.

My overall investment is going to be £20 or thereabouts for this complete revision, but it's a reasonable expense for a machine that would cost up to £250 new for a similar model. Also, what else are you going to do with your free time during lockdown. Might as well hone your mechanical skills.
>> No. 443067 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 6:29 pm
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Some people love to be hard work and unfortunately my parents are some people.
>> No. 443073 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 10:34 am
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Just got very nervous as the thought "Skins Reunion" flashed through my brain. Ill tidings.
>> No. 443074 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 11:02 am
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I've picked up a 3DS off eBay because there's fuck all new games coming out and even if there were I couldn't play them because graphics cards have gone extinct.

I'm waiting for my SD card to arrive, and then I'll be hacking it and filling it with every emulator and all the roms under the sun as a little weekend project. I'm reliably informed that even PS1 emulation is pretty solid on it now, thanks to some recent breakthroughs. First stop will probably be the newer Pokemon games though, because I haven't played one of the main titles in about ten years, the last one I played was Black.

Anyone have any recommendations? I mostly skipped the DS because by and large it didn't have any real games, just piles of shovelware, but I seem to recall the 3DS having a few decent releases over the years.
>> No. 443075 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 11:04 am
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The frost has completely fucked a lot of my garden plants for this year. It's not too late to start again but it is quite frustrating. The cold was forecast quite late and beyond the "last frost" date for my area so I had already put a few things out.
>> No. 443076 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 11:26 am
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>>443074
Who needs games? Face Raiders is all the entertainment one needs.
>> No. 443085 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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Can I register a company in my name just to use to get trade discounts and access to bookers, etc? Or do I have to demonstrate some sort of activity within the company year on year?

It'd be a fake garage so I can stamp my own service books, too.
>> No. 443086 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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>>443085

You can, but it's a bit of a faff. Forming a company is piss easy (there are loads of agents who'll do all the paperwork for you for about a tenner), but you'll need to file a corporation tax return and a Companies House return every year.

A sole trader can do business under a trading name (e.g. "Joe Bloggs t/a Bloggs Auto Services") without forming a company, so you can often sign up for trade accounts with just a letterhead or similar.
>> No. 443087 Anonymous
7th April 2021
Wednesday 7:29 pm
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>>443086
Could also make your company dormant, after formation, if it's a long one. I'm not sure if that would affect trade discounts though.
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7th April 2021
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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>>443086

>just to use to get trade discounts and access to bookers

You could theoretically, but as >>443086 lad indicates, you'll be putting yourself through a lot of constant recurring paperwork that isn't necessarily worth the few quid of discount you get from having a - pretend - business. And even as a sole trader, the tax and record keeping responsibilities are really considerable.

The only way to get around this is by making less than £1,000 a year from being a sole trader, but it's almost certainly going to arouse HMRC's suspicion in the long run, and can result in a compliance check down the line.


>It'd be a fake garage so I can stamp my own service books, too.

Nobody will believe that you'll keep making less than 1,000 quid of profit a year running a one-man garage. And it could even constitute fraud if you stamp your own service books without doing an actual service, if you then at some point pass a car off to a buyer as having a complete service history.


tl;dr: bad idea altogether.
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8th April 2021
Thursday 12:17 am
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I've only just realised today how many watches I've collected over the last few years and how much money is just sat there on my nightstand. I think I need to sell some stuff off, but almost all of them are associated with an event, a milestone, a promotion, or suchlike. But despite having fancy stuff in there I really gravitate towards Seiko, I think the flightmaster is my favourite, I wear it all the time, I even genuinely use the slide rule sometimes at work to convert miles to knots. I even once did a fuel weight conversion which I'm sure impressed the ladies present.

I'm not sure what my point is, I'm a little drunk and not really comfortable with just now realising how materialistic a watch collection is.
>> No. 443090 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 7:55 am
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Ah listen, it's the little things in life sometimes lads.
>> No. 443091 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 8:04 am
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>>443089

You did just point out yourself that you collect them as they're associated with memories and achievements. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that, in fact I collect things on the same basis. I have books on my shelf I'll likely never fully read through again, but they serve as a visual reminder of what I learned from them and the period of my life in which I first read them.

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
>> No. 443092 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 6:18 pm
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>>443089

I'm in the market for a chronograph right now, but I really don't know much about watches as such. My price target would be the £200 to £350 range. I've looked at some fashion watches by Boss or Maserati, knowing that they're private-label, but they all seem a bit pretentious. I guess what I want is a "watch guy's watch", without actually being a "watch guy".

What do you lot think of brands like Citizen?
>> No. 443093 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 7:30 pm
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>>443092
>What do you lot think of brands like Citizen?

Seiko is a bit more classic and cooler. But each to their own, there are plenty of nice watches out there.
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8th April 2021
Thursday 8:32 pm
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>>443092

For that price point, you're only going to be able to get a quartz chronograph - not a bad thing, if you ask me, the flightmaster is quartz - so that narrows your options for models down quite significantly, most chronographs are in the £1000+ mechanical price range.

Citizen are excellent watchmakers, and their ecodrive technology is, to me, a lot more fun and exciting than just bog standard quartz. They 'shouldn't' ever need a battery changed as they charge under any light source, and they need very little in the way of maintenance, though it's worth noting you do need a specialised citizen service if and when you ever do, but that's not a difficult thing to find, and it'll last decades without one.

At the higher end of that bracket there's not really much out there, honesty - The Bulova Marine Star is one I really think is very tasty and Bulova are likely described as a 'watch guys' brand. There's also a few Tissot watches in that price range, the Tissot V8 is my personal favourite, though honestly I don't know too much about Tissot - but they're swiss so definitely Watch Guy Approved.

Casio, under their Edifice brand, do some fantastic looking chronos, but they're much cheaper than your target. The EFR-526L for example looks the business and does it for £80. They have a few for £150 too, plenty to suit any taste really, and I trust Casio/Edifice implicitly.

I'm a Seiko fan, and Seiko make a LOT of chronos based on the same movement in that price range - due to them having a shit naming system I'm not going to bother reeling off a number of product codes, "seiko chronograph" is enough to find most of them - just have a look and pick one you like, you CANNOT go wrong with Seiko.

If it was me, I'd be looking at a Seiko Prospex PADI chrono, or trying to nab a second hand version of the PADI Sumo, or a Seiko Arnie. But that's me and they're very specific, bold watches.
>> No. 443095 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 8:40 pm
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>>443093

Forgot to mention, you have correctly identified that fashion watches are pretentious and shite. You really are just paying for the name with a Boss or anything like that. Avoid like the plague.
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8th April 2021
Thursday 10:00 pm
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>>443094

>fashion watches are pretentious and shite

Right, something about a Boss gold watch just screamed rookie Croydon drug dealer to me.

>>443094

>For that price point, you're only going to be able to get a quartz chronograph

A quartz watch is what I am actually going for. It may not be seen by everybody as the high mark of watchmaking, but they are accurate in a way that a mechanical watch never will be, and that's what counts to me.

>>443093

>Seiko is a bit more classic and cooler

I'm open to whatever brand is good value for money and has a stylish looking watch I will like. Another brand that has caught my eye is Swiss Military, which are apparently considered good affordable Swiss-made quality.
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8th April 2021
Thursday 10:05 pm
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>>443096

>It may not be seen by everybody as the high mark of watchmaking, but they are accurate in a way that a mechanical watch never will be, and that's what counts to me.

I had included a very long rant about exactly this in my previous post, but cut it out as it was the ramblings of a mad man, but yes, I agree, it's almost silly to buy a mechanical chronograph if you actually plan to use it as a chronograph.

Do you need a tachymeter bezel or are you open to others?
>> No. 443098 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 10:07 pm
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>>443096

>Right, something about a Boss gold watch just screamed rookie Croydon drug dealer to me.

Exactly, and they're just a bit boring, from a watch nerd perspective. I'd honestly rather spend a similar amount of money on a high quality fake Rolex, at least that's the sort of fashion statement/lie that can get you some fanny.
>> No. 443099 Anonymous
8th April 2021
Thursday 10:26 pm
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>>443097

>Do you need a tachymeter bezel or are you open to others?

A tachymeter is a nice thing to have, although you will probably not get to use it in a meaningful way on public roads. Which brings us back to pretentiousness.

The much more important point to me is diameter size. I tried on a few chrono watches in shops last summer, and although my wrist size is the absolute average for a male adult wrist, 44 millimetres looked far too clunky to me on my wrist. 42 was already pushing it compared to what I am used to, so I guess 42 is the biggest I'll want to go. It's bewildering how much of a difference two or three millimetres of diameter difference make to a watch's appearance.

I guess that also rules out most diving watches, but I'm also not a fan of typical diving bezels, because again they make a watch look clunkier, and for the ten days or so out of every year that I actually go swimming, let alone snorkelling, it's really not something I need.

What I would really appreciate is luminous hands and dial. That really comes in handy when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't be arsed to reach over to your smartphone on the nightstand.
>> No. 443100 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 10:13 am
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I've got this "All Search Engines" button which is handy for quickly looking up the source of an image but my favourite thing about it is the Baidu tab it opens. If you do a google reverse search for a photo of a person, a lot of the time the results will be photos of people in similar locations with similar poses, lighting and clothes. Baidu does the same thing, except they'll all be Asian.
>> No. 443101 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 10:24 am
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To add to >>443100 the Yandex search does the same thing, but with Russians. It's just less striking. Still, it's fun to have an "Asian/Russian Doppelgänger" button.
>> No. 443138 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 7:40 pm
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My girlfriend hasn't seen a single one out of Fern Gully, The Brave Little Toaster, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Space Jam, any of the Fieval films, Short Circuit, The Mighty Ducks, Flight of the Navigator, the Iron Giant, Karate Kid, Three Ninjas, Police Academy, The Road to El Dorado or Watership Down. I could probably go on, but she's pretty much only watched The Land Before Time and The NeverEnding Story out of everything I could think of. I don't know if that means I had a wasted childhood or she did.
>> No. 443145 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 8:44 pm
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>>443138

Sounds more like she's just a bit younger than you. I'm going to guess your birth year was 1987-88, and hers is 92-93?

My girlfriend wasn't into pokemon as a kid and I always tell her she must be a robot with implanted memories because of it. I refuse to believe someone who grew up in the 90s could have possibly missed out on that craze.
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9th April 2021
Friday 9:24 pm
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>>443138>>443145

I'm 1989 and I've only seen Fern Gully and Space Jam on that list, that I can remember. It's not for lack of trying either, I don't think - I remember renting tapes from the newsagents near my grandparents quite frequently - but either because we never had Sky or because I was usually playing out or on my Playstation, I just think I avoided them.

Not otherlad's girlfriend, by the way. He should be so lucky.
>> No. 443147 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 9:27 pm
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I'm about 80% sure either you lot made up Fern Gully just now and are gaslighting my internet with it or it's been Mandela-effected in from an alternate past.
>> No. 443149 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 9:29 pm
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>>443145
She's six months younger than me; she was born in 1989.

The only kids movies I can recall her ever bringing up unprompted are The Rescuers and Aristocats.
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9th April 2021
Friday 9:44 pm
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>>443146

Also, my ex (roughtly the same age as me) was completely floored I'd never heard of Fraggle Rock, where she was completely obsessed with it. I thought it would be some weird obscure soviet thing she'd accidentally seen, but no, it seemed like I probably should have seen it at least once.

But I suppose we have to remember how different telly worked back then - You saw what happened to be on when you happened to be able to watch it. If my school got out half an hour after yours, we likely had an entirely different TV childhood.
>> No. 443153 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 9:54 pm
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>>443150
Down and fraggle rock, <clap> <clap> (?)
>> No. 443159 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 10:54 pm
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>>443150

Also the CITV vs CBBC thing - in this country, even kids TV is a class signifier.
>> No. 443160 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:07 pm
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>>443159

Lad we had four channels, class didn't come into it, I watched whatever I wanted to watch that was available.
>> No. 443161 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:20 pm
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>>443160

I'm afraid that makes you a pleb. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
>> No. 443162 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:22 pm
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>>443160

I think the real class signifier was when Channel 5 started.
>> No. 443164 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:26 pm
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>>443161

Obviously I'm a pleb, we couldn't afford Sky or cable or anything. But I don't see how that has anything to do with watching channel 1 vs channel 3.

For what it's worth I think I watched more CBBC than anything else. I remember watching newsround.
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9th April 2021
Friday 11:36 pm
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>>443164

Sky and cable were for monied plebs. Poor plebs made do with CITV. Lower-middle-class kids watched both but preferred CBBC, upper-middle-class kids exclusively watched CBBC and the truly posh had a tiny television that they kept in a cupboard and occasionally dragged out for Wimbledon or the Queen's Speech.

Fuck knows what the rules are now.
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9th April 2021
Friday 11:42 pm
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>>443166

I don't think I could tell you which shows were CITV and which were CBBC, aside from the obvious like Blue Peter. I reckon anyone with a BP badge is a posho, growing sunflowers and that, fucking toffs.

I think the rule now is that if you have a TV in your bedroom, you're working class, unless it's built into a cabinet at the foot of your bed and it comes up on a motor - in which case, if you installed it yourself you're ultra working class, but if you bought it as is or a man installed it while you were away, you're incredibly posh.
>> No. 443168 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:52 pm
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>>443160
FOUR?

I remember getting up really early on a Saturday morning and there only being three channels and absolutely nothing on except this weird Open University thing.
>> No. 443169 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 11:57 pm
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>>443168

Channel 4 launched in 1982. Either your telly was fucked, or you're the oldest person on .gs.
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10th April 2021
Saturday 12:27 am
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>>443169

You'd only have to be 45ish to be old enough to remember that.
>> No. 443173 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 1:26 am
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Very early weekend mornings were for Teletext and whatever Channel 4 were showing before proper telly started.

I've spent most of the past week falling asleep on the sofa and when I've tried actually going to bed tonight I got a load of motion sickness. I'm back in the living room now and I can hear my neighbour blasting out UB40.
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10th April 2021
Saturday 11:29 am
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>>443138

Did you have cabal/satellite and she didn't? If I didn't have cable I couldn't imagine having seem most of them it's not like my parents deliberately exposed me to any of them.
>> No. 443226 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 5:42 pm
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I think a lot of it is also down to hoe likely were your parents to let you get video out from the rental shop. I grew up watching my whatever my dad rented, so before the age of 10 I had seen pretty much everything that starred Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Arnie or Sylvester Stallone. As well as me getting one video on a Saturday, which was often the latest children's Action Adventure or a cartoon film.

I remember getting up really early over the weekend so I could use the TV in the living room so I could play on my Spectrum for a couple of hours before my parents woke up. BBC2 would have the Open University programmes hosted by bearded mean in brown cardigans and Channel 4 would have Teletext.
>> No. 443248 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 9:53 am
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What was the anime that Channel 4 used to show super early in the morning in the 90s?
>> No. 443251 Anonymous
11th April 2021
Sunday 11:25 am
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>>443248
Medabots?
>> No. 443271 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 1:30 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_bIaF7P9WA
>> No. 443272 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 1:36 pm
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>>443271
I know they're quite shit, but I miss proper gameshows.
>> No. 443273 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 1:36 pm
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>>443271

I think we've solved a mystery here - that lad wasn't murdered, he just heard Barrymore doing karaoke and fucked himself to death.
>> No. 443274 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 2:33 pm
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>> No. 443276 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 4:53 pm
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>>443274
cripes
>> No. 443277 Anonymous
12th April 2021
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>443274

It's like James Hetfield and Kurt Cobain had an illegitimate child together.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LiPuVRyU8
>> No. 443304 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 8:46 am
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Relevant because this is the chip butty edition- I've been constipated for a couple of days after overdoing it with carbs and blocking myself up a bit.

I've just had my morning coffee and cig and taken the dump of the year, holy shit, is there a better feeling on this earth. I feel like a king.
>> No. 443342 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 11:42 pm
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>Whisper it, but there are some in the British Conservative Party who believe they’ve finally found their modern-day Margaret Thatcher.

>This potential heir to Maggie is Liz Truss, Britain’s trade secretary. She’s a Northern, state-educated free-marketeer with a passion for dirty burgers (her takeaway of choice is the British fast-food chain Bleecker, from which she orders most Thursday nights) and a hatred of mayonnaise.

>If she reads this piece, she’ll likely strike out unnecessary adverbs and send a late-night email asking for a better-written, shorter version — “It could come back marked TL;DR with dead-eyed emojis,” officials said. She might do so with a cold glass of white wine in hand, and occasionally a Scotch, but only the one: Her addiction is politics, not booze.

>“She’s ferociously, ferociously driven and she’s obsessed by politics,” said a person familiar with her political strategy.

Ye gods, she's going to be PM one day, isn't she?
>> No. 443343 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 11:58 pm
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>>443342


>> No. 443344 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 12:28 am
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>>443342
You make it sound like Johnson is going anywhere.

>If she reads this piece, she’ll likely strike out unnecessary adverbs and send a late-night email asking for a better-written, shorter version — “It could come back marked TL;DR with dead-eyed emojis,” officials said.

We need to get people reading books again.
>> No. 443346 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 12:47 am
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>>443343

I'd open up her pork markets IYKWIM.
>> No. 443347 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 12:47 am
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Who's looking forward to World War Three?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56720589
>> No. 443350 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 1:15 am
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>>443347
>So is this an invasion force? It could be, but analysts say a big invasion is unlikely

This.

Russian doctrine since Chechnya has become small and smart that emphasises speed and overwhelmingly firepower (and electronics) for limited operations. There's not much in the way of modern equipment to go around so a massive push into Ukraine will be a disorganised bloodbath against dug-in defenders while conversely there's no need to beef up security for a Ukrainian attack anytime soon.

The real reason I suspect is sabre rattling for concessions because Russia's occupation is pulling the country deeper and deeper into crisis. Including in access to water for Crimea:

>> No. 443356 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 5:06 pm
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Finished fixing my espresso machine today, after a complete strip down and descaling and seal replace. Chuffed to bits with myself.

Note to self: there should be no smoke coming from your espresso machine instead of steam.

I got the wires to the machine's buttons confused while reconnecting them at first, and that got some wires smoldering a bit, at 230 volts. But I cut the power before there was any permanent damage. Should be fine now.
>> No. 443357 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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Some days are good, Some days you eat 8 Kit Kats.
>> No. 443358 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 1:38 am
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>>443357
Chunkys? 2-fingers? 4-fingers (are they still a thing?)
>> No. 443360 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 11:49 am
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I've had my post lockdown haircut. I could feel my body was really tense when I was sat in the chair, not entirely sure why.

On another note, I've just had a pasta sauce sandwich and it was delicious.
>> No. 443365 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 10:36 pm
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>>443357

I can easily do about ten if you leave them unguarded. I can't put my finger on what it is but the KitKat is honestly the undisputed king of workhorse everyday biscuit snacks.

>>443358

Four fingers haven't gone anywhere, I have one every time I'm in work out of the vendy.
>> No. 443387 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 6:03 pm
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>>443360
Just had mine and could barely remember what I ask for. Now I don't like it, going from a shaggy mullet to a bloke's cut messes with your self-image and unlike in my teenage years I was doing a reasonable job looking after my hair. Not missing my fucking hair going in my eyes though.

I think if we go into lockdown again I might leave it long but I have no idea on what you're supposed to ask for at the hairdressers to tidy it.
>> No. 443388 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 6:18 pm
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>>443387
I usually just say short back and sides, usually a number two or three, and a little bit longer on the top.
>> No. 443393 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 7:09 pm
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God I hope it's a quiet night at work tonight. I'd rather like to sit on my arse and do nothing for twelve hours. Saturday night into Sunday morning gives the most lucrative pay enhancement so it always feels nice to do very little for it.
>> No. 443396 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 7:32 pm
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>>443388
I usually get a skinfade with 1/2-1/3 off the top and finish by thinning it out. Then I spend a week looking like a pineapple but it means I only need to get it cut every other month at most.
>> No. 443407 Anonymous
20th April 2021
Tuesday 8:48 pm
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I'm slightly puzzled by the slogan of this takeaway. It's "The only branch in [town]".
It's not the only restaurant in town, and there are no other branches of the same restaurant anywhere. So what's it trying to say?

I've now noticed that the URL and email address printed on the takeaway bag are wrong, they point at a sports news website.
>> No. 443408 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 12:15 am
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I may finally have figured out which chrono I want to buy.

The Citizen Promaster line ticks all the boxes, although £400-500 is really considerably more than I was looking to spend. I am going to have to come up with a way to rationalise that kind of frivolous purchase.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bGEaL15SvM
>> No. 443409 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 1:23 am
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>>443408

>I am going to have to come up with a way to rationalise that kind of frivolous purchase.

It will last you an entire lifetime, and probably be ticking long after you peg it. Also, the watch market is often fickle, but you never really see anything from a well known brand like Citizen plummet in value, so if you ever change your mind you will be able to sell it for close to what you pay for it, and perhaps even more, especially since they don't seem to be on proper release anywhere but Japan.

It's a fair chunk of change but in watch terms, you're getting a lot for your money - titanium case and strap, radio controlled, world time, sapphire crystal, these are features you often pay twice this price for. Even the more expensive Skyhawk AT doesn't have a sapphire crystal or titanium, this is a fantastic buy.

I really like this one, I've never seen it before. I've always wanted an atomic wristwatch, and I love the slide rule bezel, it's very aviationy. Maybe more so than my flightmaster. I'm not into blue dials, which is the only reason I'm not going to buy one, I think.

You can get one direct from Japan for £380 on ebay by the looks of it.
>> No. 443410 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 7:44 am
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>>443408

Are you actually going to use it, or will it just be sat taking up space on a shelf? If you're going to wear it at least semi regularly, don't think twice. You earned that money and you can't take it with you, so if there's nothing more important for you to put £500 towards, just do it.

From a philosophical standpoint, I might be an "eat the rich" lefty by most people's standards, but if you have money to burn (as in, the purchase won't negatively affect your finances in the long term) I think it's far better to burn it than to covet the accumulation of currency entirely for it's own sake.

I have this little conversation every time I want to buy myself something nice. I've never fully adjusted to the way as an adult, I can just buy the sort of things on a whim that would have only been big Christmas treats when I was a lad, and I always feel a bit guilty and spoiled when I do.
>> No. 443412 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 11:29 am
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Do you know what I'd do with £500 to burn, take a short holiday to the coast where there's a cool breeze. Bring along a pile of books I pick up in a charity shop so I can escape and just not have to deal with life for a few days. Bracing walks and M.R. James.

Or maybe I'd do my own supermarket sweep. I can feel part of me getting pissed off sometimes when thinking about how much something should cost and limiting my selection for that so that money can be put to other things. I've no reason to worry about an extravagant shop at Sainsburys but still I'll maybe have steak once a year.
>> No. 443413 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 11:56 am
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>>443410

>Are you actually going to use it, or will it just be sat taking up space on a shelf?

That's the thing, I want a watch that I'll be wearing every day as my only wristwatch. So there's me thinking that maybe wearing £400-500 around your wrist to have an everyday timepiece which will be subject to wear and tear is a bit much, when that functionality can be had in much the same way from a £250 watch or less.

I have 500 quid in my bank account that I don't need right now. So that isn't the issue.

I've read up on Citizen's Eco Drive today. It seems a pretty nifty technology, but simply put, does it mean that I have to take my watch off and put it under a lamp every few days?
>> No. 443414 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 1:46 pm
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>>443413

Also though, the stainless steel variants of the Promaster seem to be around 100 quid cheaper than the titanium one, give or take. I personally like stainless steel, I've had stainless steel watches in the past, even if it's going to mean that a big watch like that will weigh noticeably more than with a titanium case.

I've got my birthday coming up in just over a month, so maybe that'll be a good excuse to treat myself.
>> No. 443415 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 2:03 pm
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The man opposite washed his car on Monday and Tuesday. I wonder if he'll do it for a third day in a row.
>> No. 443417 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 2:51 pm
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>>443413

>but simply put, does it mean that I have to take my watch off and put it under a lamp every few days?

No. They have a power reserve of about a year, and if it's sat in darkness it will go into a further power saving mode and will last for three times that. If you wear it outside once every six months it'll never run out of power.

>>443414

Titanium is a weird one. It's objectively a better material for something you're wearing all day, but I weirdly quite like a heavier watch. For me at least my brain thinks light = cheap, despite me knowing that's not the case.
>> No. 443418 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 3:02 pm
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>>443413

It's all about perspective, but in the grand scheme, £500 is still a bargain for a watch. Yes, you could just buy a casio f91w for a fiver and have a perfectly functional and quite nice looking watch, but we're long past a watch being just a functional tool, we live in a world where your phone does everything a watch can do plus a billion more things, a great many rooms you can just speak the time into existence by asking an Alexa or so on, even in jobs where you actually need to reference the time often, like mine, it's not like I can't look at a phone or computer or ipad for it.

A watch is jewelery as much as it's a time reference, so you might as well get a one that you like or that makes you feel good when you look at it.

And remember there's plenty of people wandering around with Omegas and Rolexes worth £2000, £5000, £10000 and beyond. More people than you'd probably realise unless you're a watch weirdo like me. £500's a bargain.
>> No. 443419 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 3:08 pm
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>>443417

>For me at least my brain thinks light = cheap, despite me knowing that's not the case.

That's sort of my way of thinking. Haptics is a big part of the perceived value of something.

For example, when Swatch launched aluminium watches as part of their Irony range over 20 years ago, they cost up to 20 quid more than a stainless steel Irony. And Swatch self-touted them as a watchmaking technology milestone. But apart from the noticeable heat conductivity of the aluminium alloy they used, they could have fooled you into thinking it was painted plastic, because it was just so lightweight.
>> No. 443442 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 6:07 am
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Can your penis shrink? Admittedly I have put on a little weight, but not really enough to explain my knob going from ~6.5" to just under 6". That's about a 10% reduction.
>> No. 443443 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 6:10 am
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>>443442

That could easily be hidden by a fatty gunt. Try measuring from the underside of the knob.
>> No. 443444 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 8:12 am
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>>443442

Adding to otherlad, if you've not been exercising as much or being too rough with it during sex/masturbation, poor bloodflow could also mean your erections aren't as full.
>> No. 443445 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 8:53 am
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>>443444
I guess they haven't been as hard as they used to be.
>> No. 443446 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 11:15 am
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This chip butty image is single-handedly destroying my diet.
>> No. 443447 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 11:31 am
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>>443446
Time for a new midweek thread: salad edition.
>> No. 443448 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 11:38 am
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>>443447
I think we should have a salad dodger edition and have a picture of fat people in the OP. You know, the sort they have on the BBC News where they show you fat bellies rather than their faces.
>> No. 443449 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 11:49 am
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>>443448
Nice try, third-tit-lad. Nice try.
>> No. 443450 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:29 pm
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For some reason I've put an episode of The Bill on whilst I'm having my dinner. It's really, really, really bad.
>> No. 443454 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 6:24 pm
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Three times this week I've imagined Justin Lee Colins and started laughing to myself.
>> No. 443456 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 12:36 am
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>>443454
Why? Because of his act, or because of his career?
>> No. 443457 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 12:55 am
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>>443456
Did he have an act? I just think "what a cunt" and imagine his face and start laughing, nothing more to it.
>> No. 443458 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 12:37 pm
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Bombay potatoes mixed with spaghetti and cheese is surprisingly nice.
>> No. 443459 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>443454
I quite enjoyed his stuff, shame about the domestic violence.
>> No. 443460 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 7:38 pm
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>>443459
Didn't he walk away from those charges without getting into trouble?
>> No. 443461 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 7:48 pm
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>>443460

140 hours of community service, £3,500 costs and the end of his career.

BAD TIMES!
>> No. 443462 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 9:56 pm
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>>443460
No. He was banged to rights, you just hate women.
>> No. 443463 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 11:07 pm
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Didn't realise it was St Georges today. They should make some nice food to be associated with the date so that people would remember it even happens.
>> No. 443464 Anonymous
23rd April 2021
Friday 11:22 pm
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>>443463
How about gammon steaks?
>> No. 443466 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 4:30 am
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Fanta's "what flavour is this" promotion is utterly mental and I don't understand why anyone would buy a mystery flavour, but the most recent version of it is a blue coloured fanta which looks exactly like the amazing and delicious Shokota fanta that I find very hard to source, so every time I see it in the shops I get a twinge of elation before remembering.
>> No. 443468 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 1:51 pm
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>>443462
U wot? 140hrs of community service doesn't sound like much in the way of punishment. I distinctly remember pictures of him in the papers laughing and having a pint with his friends right after the sentencing, same day.
>> No. 443498 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 3:55 pm
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Just got back from a bit of rollerblading.

I somehow feel like I can go faster and maintain a speed longer than last year, with the exact same pair of skates. It's probably to do with the fact that I have gained two stone since about March of 2020, which in my case is an increase in body mass of just over 15 percent. This could give me a little bit more inertia, which then more easily overcomes the rolling friction of the wheels.

I'm still hoping I'll shed much of the weight I've gained, at least by about late summer. I don't want to go on holiday looking like this.
>> No. 443499 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 4:58 pm
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>>443466
Look on the back, they legally have to tell you what the flavour is.

But yes, agreed. The shoklata one is great.
>> No. 443500 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>443499

No they don't.
>> No. 443501 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 8:42 pm
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>>443500

With a few specific exceptions, approved flavouring ingredients can be listed simply as "flavourings" on the product label.

https://www.fooddrinkeurope.eu/uploads/publications_documents/FoodDrinkEurope_Guidelines_on_Flavourings1.pdf
>> No. 443502 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 8:42 pm
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>>443500

I'm wondering how you'd enforce that. Taste being subjective and the ingredients having basically nothing to do with what they're supposed to taste like.
>> No. 443503 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 8:52 pm
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>>443501
>>443502
Someone at work bought some, and I have now tasted it. It smells of mango, peach and watermelon. It tastes....not like that.
>> No. 443616 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 8:06 am
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I'm aware I'm being judgemental, but someone I went to school with is constantly making Tiktok videos of her miming along to songs or streaming playing Fortnite on Twitch. She's a 33 year old single mum. I watched one of her streams, from what I can tell she rarely gets more than a single viewer, and it was largely her telling her kids off whilst they were screaming and shouting in the background.
>> No. 443619 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 8:29 am
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>>443616

I know a few people my age (early thirties) that do this, and I just feel sad for most of them, as you can tell they think they're going to be making good money off it in a few months. There's no real harm in having a go, but I think anyone setting out to stream with the expectation of success is doomed from the start. I see mates who just stream because, why not, I'm already playing, and they end up being entertaining to watch simply because they're not trying to 'be a streamer', they're just streaming.

I don't really get it in general, though. I'm sure there's hidden gems, but every stream I've watched has either been a boring cunt who's good at the game, a weirdo with fifteen million in jokes (look who's talking, I suppose) or someone big enough to have to spend their entire fucking stream just reading or responding donations. I don't get the appeal of any of that.
>> No. 443624 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 1:19 pm
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I think the woman at the supermarket was judging my purchases. I was buying a can of Monster and a pack of beer, and as she approved my age she said "enjoy your energy drink and your Carling haha" which made me think she's looking down on me for daytime drinking.
>> No. 443625 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 1:31 pm
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>>443624
Are you remotely surprised if you're buying Monster and Carling? Were you at least wearing a suit?
>> No. 443626 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 1:45 pm
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I don't know if it's that I'm not a fan of lager in general but I was at a pub during a local festival a few years back and they'd ran out of everything but Carling, so I had to order that. I think it's the only time in my life I've been unable to finish a pint on account of how awful and undrinkable it was.
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6th May 2021
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>443626
I don't know what it is with lager. Blind tasting would yield fuck all results for me, but I'm sure I can taste comparitively.

Carling and Fosters seem to have the same piss taste. Bud has a hint of bananas but then a lot of beer does to me, Tiger tastes kind of sweet, but that's about it. San Miguel and Heineken and all that taste pretty similar, no idea about Asahi or Singha or Kingfisher or Cobra...they're nice but I can't set them apart. I wonder if I'd notice the proper pisswater ones in a lineup...

Speaking of %, anyone noticed Stella generally being sold at 4.6% now? Livid.
>> No. 443628 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 2:10 pm
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>>443626

I personally am not willing to maintain an pretense of liking the taste of larger, but I always find Carling particularly bad.

I have a tendency to generalize on bad decision making I assume one bad choice somewhere is indicative of bad decisions elsewhere, and I wouldn't trust the judgement of a person who deliberately drank Carling on anything.
>> No. 443629 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 2:11 pm
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>>443626

There is a reason they ran out of everything else first...
>> No. 443630 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 2:11 pm
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Fosters is worse but I have turned down free pints for being Carling on more than one occasion.
>> No. 443631 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 2:41 pm
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Can one of you lads host a web seminar about being normal or something? I can't figure it out. I should probably start by brushing my teeth, but beyond that I'm lost.

Is "seminar" an Americanism? Sorry if it is.
>> No. 443632 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 3:04 pm
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>>443631

You have already mastered making a joke by hyperbole, and being self-deprecating. I don't think you're far off being normal socially.

Unless you mean the activities you do each day, in which case .gs will be no help. We have people that spend God knows how many hours of their day arguing with strangers and spamming minor celebrities they fancy.
>> No. 443633 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>443631
Watch people, figure out the ones who are doing well or seem happy, copy their manner, build your filter up a little bit so you're not alienating people.

Really depends on what your problem is, I suggest popping to /emo/ for a more indepth discussion.
>> No. 443637 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 7:12 pm
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>>443631

A great deal of it is just pretending. Acting less clever and more boring than you really are.

Whenever you're saying something based on obscure trivia that only a complete nerd would know, use vague terms like "I think I read this thing once that said..." or "I think somebody once told me..." even though you actually know with 100% certainty about whatever it is you're saying because you're a spod. Generally just give the impression that you spend your evenings watching Line of Duty like everyone else, not reading about 19th century naval warfare.

If you get stuck, I've noticed that asking people what they're having for dinner always seems to be a conversational get out of jail free card.
>> No. 443638 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 8:08 pm
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>>443631
There's a lot you can say on this.

1. Like others have said, you think about the people around and what they do that is successful in a given environment. As an example, I copied some of the mannerisms of an arty girl I used to work with who had extremely good social skills and it's worked a charm since in professional (and even some non-professional) settings.

2. You can also think about what you do as well that works and what doesn't, it's why we're all plagued by regrets over faux pas nobody else remembers after all. You're going to make mistakes and will learn from them so you get yourself out there.

3. Go for a change of scenery, move and get a new circle of friends. I'm always going to be a campy autist but it's surprising how much of that has changed based on my surroundings and peers, yet if I catch up with some old mates for uni we all immediately fall back into who we were 10 years ago.
>> No. 443639 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 8:23 pm
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Is it possible for smell to transmit through walls?

My missus is cooking a bolognese and the stench of onion is so overpowering from two rooms away, with both doors shut, that I feel like I'm being teabagged by a sweaty French bloke.
>> No. 443640 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 8:29 pm
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>>443639

Unless your doors are literally airtight, it's probably not the walls it's coming through.
>> No. 443644 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 11:33 pm
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>>443639

Gases will pass through walls given enough time. But Unless she has been cooking it for a week in an enclosed space I would rule it out.
>> No. 443648 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 11:56 pm
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Did a lateral flow this morning, put the stick in the back of my throat and threw up part of my breakfast.

I'd be a shit bumder.
>> No. 443649 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 8:09 am
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>>443648
Don't worry lad, you get used to it.
>> No. 443653 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 5:03 pm
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I finally got the kit such that I am able to reliably make high-quality THC oil.

This is a good weekend.
>> No. 443654 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 5:05 pm
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>>443653
You already can't read. Is dope such a good idea?
>> No. 443657 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 7:57 pm
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>>443654
You're right, I'm so sorry. I'm taking that as a measure of its potency.
>> No. 443666 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 9:02 pm
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Radio 1xtra just asked me to think about "three great things in your life". Pisstakers.
>> No. 443667 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 9:12 am
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>>443666

Three? Fucking hell. What kind of pampered life do the other half live.
>> No. 443668 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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I saw a woman earlier with a square arse. It was like she'd shoved a couple of boxes of tissues down the back of her leggings. It was bizarre.
>> No. 443669 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 5:30 pm
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>>443668
>square arse

I can't think of anything worse. Commiserations.
>> No. 443670 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 7:20 pm
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I think my mum's an AnCap. Prince Andrew came up, so Epstein did too, and she argued he "wasn't a paedophile because they (the victims) weren't prepubescent." Worrying times.
>> No. 443671 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>>443670

It's a bold conversational gambit, but she's technically correct.
>> No. 443672 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 10:14 pm
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My mum got a Tramadol injection yesterday in A&E because she had acute leg pain from bilateral lymphoedema. Which has been going on for some time, but yesterday was really bad. Anyway, one of the possible side effects of a significant single dose of Tramadol to kill strong acute pain is mental confusion, and it manifested itself in my mum with absolute batshit paranoia.

When I took her home, she told me they had cameras on the ceiling and that they probably use them to stream video of nude patients over the Internet, and that the doctor who treated her was probably behind the sextortion e-mail she got last week. She even doubted that the A&E area at the hospital was real, apparently it was all just for show because they really wanted her to sign a form that said she had to pay the visit to A&E out of her own pocket, which they told her was going to be 800 quid. Oh, and that doctor doesn't really work there, he had stains on his whitecoat, so his real job was probably "selling meat in Asda".

So yeah, my mum was really tripping her arse off. I had to physically keep her from calling the police to "report a fake hospital scam".

She seems better today, I guess she slept it off over night and now she almost can't remember most of it. She still thinks that maybe they injected her with covid when they took her blood samples, but oh well.
>> No. 443673 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 11:10 pm
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Imagine you work nights by yourself in a hospital laboratory. There's a mental thunderstorm going on outside. Coincidentally, it's the same night as they test the backup generators, which means everything without a UPS goes off for about ten minutes, including the lights.
>> No. 443674 Anonymous
11th May 2021
Tuesday 11:59 pm
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>>443673
The backup generators hardly ever work - you're lucky they didn't catch fire.
>> No. 443675 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 12:03 am
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>>443673
Frankly, I'm disgusted and ashamed this opporunity wasn't seized upon to try to reanimate the dead after months of experiments and planning.
>> No. 443676 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 10:13 am
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I hope mask wearing stays around for a while yet. I've got some terrible dry skin below my bottom lip and around my chin and without a mask I don't think I'd be going outside at all.
>> No. 443677 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 11:17 am
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>>443676

Have you tried moisturiser?
>> No. 443678 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 12:40 pm
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Is the lad who was asking if there were any more interesting masks about? This one is currently discounted by $60 down to $90 total (not including shipping).
http://www.lumencouture.com/buy-led-light-up-dresses/shop-full-led-face-changing-mask/
They've got some more basic masks with programmable LEDs in too.
>> No. 443679 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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My fucking rowing machine broke.
>> No. 443680 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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>>443679

You'll have to find some people to argue with instead.
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12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:08 pm
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>>443679
Should I get one of these or a bike? Seen them around for £150 ish foldable, and it'd just be for exercise while watching telly. Would you say it's worth it?
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12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:37 pm
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>>443681
A bike would be more ideal if you want to watch the telly due to the range of movements. With rowing you'd be craning your neck to look up. A rowing machine would give you a better work out though.
The rowing machine I had lasted me just under a year and while I could probably fix it I've decided to just buy another one due to the wear and tear it's endured. It started off quiet enough but soon started creaking. The pull strap snapped (it started fraying soon after I started using it) and the fly wheel seems to have packed up with it.

I bought it due to the weight limit it had. At the time I bought it I was 130kg and now I'm 96kg thanks to it so I can go for a model which has a lower weight limit and continue to burn more fat.
>> No. 443683 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:42 pm
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>>443681
If you get a bike then you can use it as transport while also rowing with car drivers.
>> No. 443684 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 1:50 pm
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>>443683
Can you get rowing machines that act as transport on road? Like those bikes you lay down in, but for rowing and not cycling.
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12th May 2021
Wednesday 2:26 pm
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>>443684

Yes you can, there are actually rowing bicycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing_cycle


>Eli_looking_cool_on_rowing_bike_17022008.jpg

I'd let Eli row my bike anytime IYKWIM.

>> No. 443686 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 10:26 pm
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Just got a new wi-fi router and I'm trying to think of a clever wi-fi network name.

Right now, I've got it set to "None shall pass", but looking at it now, it seems much less clever than it originally sounded in my head. I would like it to be mildly funny, but not make me look like a Monty Python-quoting virgin.

I'm open to suggestions that go beyond "I can hear you having sex".
>> No. 443687 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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>>443685

Scrolling past this I thought it was a House of Gord contraption.
>> No. 443688 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 10:52 pm
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>>443686

A lot of newer routers support unicode SSIDs, so you could have a string of vulgar emojis. Failing that, how about "PRINCE ANDREW'S CUM DUNGEON"?
>> No. 443689 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 12:04 am
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>>443688

Careful, you'll never know who's going to not get a joke like that.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/isis-wifi-name-teenager-france-17058237

>The 18-year-old decided to give his home internet network the name Daesh21 after the infamous gang of murderous The Great Whale Huntis.

>But it seriously backfired when shocked neighbours spotted the name and quickly called the cops.

>The French teen's lawyer said denied claims the youngster was supporting ISIS with his dumb choice of name.
>> No. 443690 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 12:19 am
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>>443686
Tell My WiFi Love Her.

West Yorkshire Police Mobile Surveillance Unit #4790.
>> No. 443691 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 2:24 am
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>>443686

For a good time call 867 5309
>> No. 443692 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 2:41 am
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>>443691
FIFTY
FIFTY
FIFTY
>> No. 443693 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 12:58 pm
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>>443686
My go to for years has been Lord Mountbatten's Rape Dungeon, but before that it was Fortress of Solitude.

Look out the window, find the most expensive looking car and then change it to "Audi A4 Wifi" or whatever so if the owner sees it they get confused. The longer it takes them to figure out it's only on when parked up at home the more points you win.
>> No. 443695 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 12:55 am
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Does the person who posted The Chair back in the day still post here/still have the artefact in question? I have a friend who wants to buy it. No, really.
>> No. 443696 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 3:40 am
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##GazzaUnderAttack is trending on Twitter.
>> No. 443697 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 10:18 am
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Last night I had a dream about britfa.gs where it was on BBC News because it had recently released a new crypto called Shedcoin, which had blown up to become the number one coin in the world. It had a screenshot of a post that went like this:

"LET'S DO THIS FAGGOTS! SHED NUMBER ONE!

(A good day to you, sir!)"

which was followed up on the news by an explanation that meant that the word "faggot" isn't allowed on the website because it is a bad word.
>> No. 443698 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 10:27 am
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>>443697
Is revengelad still trying to get us in the news somehow?
>> No. 443699 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 10:42 am
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>>443698
Does anyone remember what he was trying to get revenge for in the first place?
>> No. 443700 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 11:06 am
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>>443695
I think it was reposted from 4chan.
>> No. 443701 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 11:19 am
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>>443699
I don't know if revengelad was also ambulancelad. I believe he was trolled to tears, over something and swore revenge.
>> No. 443702 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 11:19 am
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>>443697

A NEW PROPHET IS ARISEN
>> No. 443703 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 11:37 am
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>>443697

>Shedcoin

Brilliant idea. Why has nobody thought of this until now.
>> No. 443705 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 12:14 pm
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>>443701
No.
>> No. 443756 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 10:33 am
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Fucking Sainsburies giving me the runaround on this morning's delivery, more than half an hour on the phone back and forth between them and the bank. On the sixth try on my card it turns out their system does/doesn't put a space in the postcode where there should be one which is why it was being rejected. But they're not allowed to try taking the payment more than three times on one card, so I have to recreate the entire order and have it delivered tomorrow.

Then the delivery driver turned up blissfully unaware, didn't give a fuck when I explained ("Nobody told me, not my responsibility mate"), gave me it all anyway.
>> No. 443758 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 10:51 am
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>>443756

Free food, m7.
>> No. 443759 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:11 am
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>>443756

We're two very different people, I'd have taken the food without question, there's no way I'd have dobbed myself in with the delivery driver.
>> No. 443760 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:24 am
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>>443759

Not worth getting the driver potentially fired over. Maybe that wouldn't happen but I have no way to know.
>> No. 443761 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:55 am
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>>443760

If his computer's telling him to deliver to you, it's certainly not his mistake.
>> No. 443762 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:58 am
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>>443761

Maybe he forgot to check it, I don't know. Snap decision. Doesn't matter, I've got it all now.
>> No. 443764 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 6:54 pm
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Is there some reason why everything needs to be fucking wireless these days? I just want a new 2.1 wired sound system to replace the one that blew up a few days ago.
>> No. 443765 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 7:20 pm
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>>443764

There are loads of wired 2.1 speaker setups available, the vast majority of Bluetooth speakers also have a 3.5mm input and unless you're on a very tight budget you're better off with a pair of bookshelf hifi speakers or entry-level studio monitors.
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17th May 2021
Monday 7:40 pm
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Take a look at this monstrosity. I really hope this isn't affective advertising indicitive of todays youth.

>>443765
>You're better off with a pair of bookshelf hifi speakers or entry-level studio monitors
Why? I haven't got a clue what i'm doing, if that's not already apparant. A brief overview of wikipedia reveals something about 'flat' or 'colourless' sound, but they appear to have the same connections as my old system. Besides, some of these minitors appear to lack volume controls, which i assume necessates an amplifier. My fucking autism is doing one.
>> No. 443768 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 9:55 pm
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>>443765

I wouldn't recommend studio monitors at all for general purpose listening, especially not low end ones. Unless you mean the little 3-inch USB ones that can scarcely be called monitors at all, they're just a set of Creative speakers with delusions of grandeur. Those would probably do nicely.

Proper monitors though, are only really nice to listen to in a proper room with the right treatment; if not they're either overbearing or too harsh, and very fatiguing on the ear. Plus they tend to be quite noisy, I've never heard a pair of active monitors that don't emit a faint hiss at idle. I've been an audio geek for years and these days I only even turn my monitors on when I'm specifically using them. The rest of the time I'd rather use the crappy built in speakers on my display.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 1:09 am
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Not the lad replying to, but my ADM-5s which are entry level "DJ" monitors have served me very well indeed. I don't find them harsh or difficult to listen to in any way.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 2:08 am
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>>443768

Studio monitors used to have a reputation for being harsh and horrible (I'm old enough to remember the industry-standard NS10s with the industry-standard bog roll stuck over the tweeters), but they've become far more refined over the past decade or so - even the dinky little 3-inchers. The Mackie CR-3 and Presonus Eris ER3.5 are cheap as chips and perfectly pleasant to listen to.
>> No. 443771 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 1:35 pm
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It's gone dark at half one, did someone summon Malakith or one of the other evil blokes who's name begins with "Mal"?
>> No. 443772 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 1:53 pm
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>>443770
Why would you want them though?
>> No. 443773 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 2:39 pm
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>>443770
Can you recommend some monitors that are enjoyable to listen to? Preferably around £150 used and something with at least a 5" speaker to pull double duty as guitar and bass speakers when using amp sims.

I have pair of Behringer 2030a Truths and I've been looking to replace them for a while. Didn't know ear fatigue was a thing until now, but it perfectly describes why I don't like them.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 3:22 pm
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>>443773

The Behringer 2030a is a clone of the Genelec 1030a, which was very popular in the late 90s but is a bit rough by modern standards. Before you go out and buy new monitors, have a rummage about on the back for the tuning switches - you can reduce the tweeter level by 2db or 4db, which will considerably tame the shrill high frequencies.

Unfortunately the Covid/Brexit shitstorm has pushed up the price of studio gear, so I'm not sure what I could recommend at that price point that would be a meaningful upgrade from your current monitors. If it were my money, I'd probably go for an old pair of KEF Coda 7 or 8 speakers and whatever cheap amp I could scrounge up - they're ostensibly Hi-Fi speakers and they're very pleasantly voiced, but they're also neutral enough to mix on.
>> No. 443775 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 3:29 pm
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>>443773
KRK Rokit 5/6/7.
>> No. 443776 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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>>443773

You'll struggle to get something I'd really call pleasant for that money. I had some Presonus Eris 4.5 (I think) which were square in your price bracket a couple of years ago. Unfortunately they did have the hiss and eventually developed the sort of buzzing that indicates the transformer is on its way out. I have a pair of BX-8 right now and they're very nice to listen to, feel more solidly built, but honestly they're wasted in my current room, which is about two metres wide so the acoustics are beyond shit to start with.

This brings me to another point actually. Does anyone here know if "mains conditioners" actually do anything, or are they snake oil? I'm noticing a lot more mains hum/interference in all my gear than I did in my old flat, and I really don't know if "dirty power" is a real thing or if I just never noticed it before. I never used to need balanced cables, but I had to buy a load when I moved in here. It's been driving me a bit mad.
>> No. 443777 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ultimate-spaghetti-carbonara-recipe this recipe doesn't really work, the sauce isn't a sauce it's just lumps of cheesy egg. Pretty sure the 50g of butter the pancetta's fried in didn't help, it was already swimming in its own fat melt. Still delicious even if went 95% wrong, hard to miss the turning to Flavourtown when you're running on bacon, butter, cheese and carbs.
>> No. 443778 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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>>443777

Listen here lad, I already put my ultimate carbonara-thats-not-really-carbonara recipe in the /nom/ thread. And you went above me right to the BBC?

I'm offended.
>> No. 443779 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 7:48 pm
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>>443778
The "Alfredo"? I forgot it was there. I'll give it a try next time.
>> No. 443780 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:04 pm
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>>443776

The power supply in any half decent audio equipment should already filter out any noise coming in via the mains.
It's more likely to be picking up electric fields or RFI either via poorly shielded cables or internally (although again decent audio equipment should have internal shielding around any bits prone to picking up interference). If using balanced cables helps then there's probably just more EMI in the new location or possibly some kind of grounding issue.
Power conditioning is mostly for avoiding damage to equipment on super shitty mains power where spikes and surges are a problem (like in industrial environments with a lot of heavy machinery or developing countries with dubious power distribution infrastructure).
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:05 pm
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>>443777

It does work but perhaps requires more skill than they let on. Try adding the egg and cheese more slowly next time.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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>>443781

They also understate the importance of the pasta water. That's crucial.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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>Now quickly pour in the eggs and cheese.
Lying bastids.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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>>443776

Power conditioners are basically bollocks, but ferrite chokes are cheap and hugely effective in controlling RFI.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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>>443783

That's how I would do it, but you need to be able to shake the pan very quickly too.
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18th May 2021
Tuesday 8:17 pm
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>>443785

Honestly the pan was completely over-full, I'll use a larger one next time.
>> No. 443787 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 9:19 pm
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>>443784

I suspected as much. It's probably more of an issue that everything is cramped into a shoebox of a room with two computers in it, amp behind me, speakers in front of me, so all the electrical fields overlap and interfere.

Doesn't help that everyfucking thing has LEDs in it nowadays, by some witchcraft I don't understand guitar pickups can detect them and make a noise like a V-1 bomber when pointed at them.
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19th May 2021
Wednesday 12:42 am
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> LEDs in it nowadays, by some witchcraft I don't understand guitar pickups
It's all part of the electromagnetic mind-control agenda. That's why they're pushing LEDs and banning filaments.!
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19th May 2021
Wednesday 1:15 am
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>>443787

>some witchcraft I don't understand

Switched-mode power supplies. The power supply in most modern electronics works by rapidly switching the current on and off to charge an inductor or capacitor. This is incredibly efficient, but that rapid switching generates a substantial amount of radio frequency energy. Good power supplies have appropriate filtering and shielding to prevent this from being radiated, but cheapo power supplies (like those in off-brand LED light bulbs or phone chargers) don't bother with those extra components. A guitar pickup is a long unshielded wire connected to a high-gain amplifier, so it acts as a highly effective radio receiver, albeit one without a tuner.

Power conditioners don't really help, because decent audio gear usually has good filtering for the incoming power - the interference is being picked up by the audio cables rather than through the power line. Ferrite chokes are so useful because they absorb radio frequency energy, preventing a cable from acting as an antenna - either as a transmitter or receiver.
>> No. 443790 Anonymous
19th May 2021
Wednesday 7:56 pm
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I did this bolognaise https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/best-spaghetti-bolognese-recipe today and despite my forgetting to get any basil at all it worked a lot better than the carbonara. Although my flatmate seemed to prefer the latter.

I put a ladle and a half of the starch water into the sauce, more wine than strictly necessary and some powdered chipotle in place of the chilli.
>> No. 443791 Anonymous
19th May 2021
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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Keir Starmer and Adam Curtis have the same voice and it has ruined docimentaries for me.
>> No. 443792 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 12:02 am
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I was listening to Radio 1 Dance, still am in fact, and a lot of some guy's "mix" was that he'd taken good songs and sped them up ever so slightly.
>> No. 443793 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 1:03 am
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My mood was improving and then I thought about myself, my life and my future and it's gone downhill fast.
>> No. 443795 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 10:27 am
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>>443792
You're new to this concept of a "DJ"?
>> No. 443796 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 1:06 pm
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Did the Tories just nationalise the trains?
>> No. 443797 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>443796
I have seen conflicting reports. They are taking them back under public ownership but they will still be owned by private companies, from what I have seen. Obviously this is impossible.
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20th May 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>443796
I have seen conflicting reports. They are taking them back under public ownership but they will still be owned by private companies, from what I have seen. Obviously this is impossible.
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20th May 2021
Thursday 3:16 pm
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>>443798
>They are taking them back under public ownership but they will still be owned by private companies, from what I have seen.

Hang on, how's that ev-

>Obviously this is impossible.

Ah well alright then.
>> No. 443800 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 4:17 pm
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>>443799

I must say it is all getting a bit 2 + 2 = 5 in here.
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20th May 2021
Thursday 4:56 pm
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Most descriptions seem to run with "The organisation will own and manage rail infrastructure, issue contracts to private firms to run trains, set most fares and timetables, and sell tickets."
Which I'm unable to parse clearly: Will the organisation set most fares and timetables and sell tickets, or will the organisation give contracts to private firms who will set the fares and timetables and sell tickets?

They sadly seem to be avoiding the most visibly interesting change though: Creating nationally consistent brand for the railways, in the style that many cities have. (Where buses are run by several private companies and trains are owned by the city but run by Serco, yet they're all "[City] Transport") We're getting a new entity named "Great British Railways" but it seems like it's going to be a more arrogant version of "Network Rail" + "Strategic Rail Authority" rather than a more pompous "British Railways".
If at the end of the day when the train pulls up to the station it's still going to have Southern or Virgin branding on it, I'm not sure the government will get all that much capital out of this even if it's still an improvement.
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20th May 2021
Thursday 5:10 pm
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I don't like that my PC just made "hard drive sounds" despite not having a hard drive in it.
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20th May 2021
Thursday 5:30 pm
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>>443801

So it's basically nationalised rail, but the trains themselves and the people who operate them are outsourced?
>> No. 443804 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 6:46 pm
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>>443801

The current system works like this:

The track and other fixed infrastructure is owned by Network Rail, a private company owned by the Government.

Ticketing and fares are co-ordinated by the Rail Delivery Group, a membership organisation owned and operated by the Train Operating Companies. The TOCs can set their own fares, but the RDG manages tickets and fares that could span multiple TOCs.

Train Operating Companies bid for franchises from the Department of Transport. Franchise agreements are time-limited (usually seven years) and give the TOC a set of rights and responsibilities to operate a particular route; franchisees have considerable flexibility in how they operate their routes and bear much of the financial risk. The franchise system has been temporarily suspended due to the pandemic-related collapse in passenger numbers.

The Williams-Shapps plan proposes combining the functions of Network Rail, the RDG and the rail functions of the DfT into one organisation, Great British Rail. Many of the practical activities will be outsourced, but fares and timetables will be set by GBR, who will directly collect revenue and wholly bear the revenue risks. Train operators will simply run a specified service for a specified fee under contract with GBR, with the franchise system being abolished.

The plan does include the creation of a single national brand.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987752/gbr-williams-shapps-plan-for-rail.pdf
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20th May 2021
Thursday 8:05 pm
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>>443804
Are we still buggering around with ROSCOs or did they get shelved?

Also while there is indeed a promise to have a national brand in the report, it's not exactly the sort of unequivocal "We will paint Great British Railways on the trains in bigger letters than "Operated by SNCF" so that the system feels cohesive and so that the trains don't have to be re-painted when the operators swap. It worked for ScotRail..." which would give me peace of mind. It's quite probably just that I am too used to reading through the lines in government reports, but all of the promises here could be met (by a politician's standards) without repainting the trains. Slap the BR arrow and some Railway Alphabet 2 "Great British Railways" on the backs of carriages in a far less prominent position than the train operator's branding, then do up the stations and websites all nice and hey, you've technically got a nationally branded "Great British Railways." with about the same brand prominence as Virgin Trains... which hasn't existed since 2019.
But I am entirely willing to concede that the government has simply left me paranoid about something quite inconsequential.
>> No. 443807 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>443806

>Are we still buggering around with ROSCOs or did they get shelved?

The future of ROSCOs isn't clear from the white paper, but the daftest parts of the system were fixed after the Competition Commission investigation in 2008/9. Under the current rules a TOC can operate with a jointly owned ROSCO as part of the same group, but it's not a popular option. Grand Central were the only TOC to run their own ROSCO, but they eventually sold their rolling stock to Angel as part of a financing deal to fund refurbishments. Leasing is the norm in aviation and I'd expect it to continue in the rail industry, if for no other reason than the great uncertainty over the level of demand for rail travel over the coming years.

On rebranding:

"It will.. increasingly appear on trains, uniforms and publicity material too as and when these are upgraded or replaced" suggests that they are going to repaint the trains, but only when they need repainting anyway.

The nature of the new contracts with TOCs means that there's not a lot of incentive for TOCs to promote their own brand - they have no financial interest in how many tickets get sold.
>> No. 443808 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>Great British Railways
I cannot imagine a more cringeworthy and patronising name. Like, hurr durr it's called GREAT because the country is called GREAT but also PATRIOTISM for ARE LADS. This isn't The Great British Bake-Off, this is an actual bloody national infrastructure project controlled by the actual bloody government. For fuck's sake. Now Deutsche Bahn and Trenitalia are going to laugh at us.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 443809 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 9:16 pm
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>>443808

Why is it so odd to name a national railway after the nation?
>> No. 443810 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 9:27 pm
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>>443808
It's the name of the island we live on m7.

Also:

>This publication is the first to use the new typeface,
Rail Alphabet 2. This is a continuation and evolution
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Love that they started with that.
>> No. 443811 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 9:52 pm
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>>443809
Because before Boris was put in charge the only place you'd ever hear the phrase "Great British" was on smarmy TV adverts telling you to have a BBQ even though it's raining.
Also remember Great Britain is just the name of the biggest island, it's not the name of the nation.
>> No. 443812 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 9:56 pm
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>>443811

Is is the name of all the places the train will go?
>> No. 443813 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 10:36 pm
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>>443811
Northern Ireland has a totally different rail network with its own operating rules. It even shares the Irish gauge. Are you sure we want to go down this road?

>Because before Boris was put in charge the only place you'd ever hear the phrase "Great British" was on smarmy TV adverts telling you to have a BBQ even though it's raining.

Team GB.
>> No. 443814 Anonymous
20th May 2021
Thursday 10:51 pm
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>>443813

>Team GB

Plus the Great British Bake off and Great British Menu predate Boris by many years. And Great British Racing long before that.
>> No. 443815 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 4:55 am
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>>443809
We had a way to name the railway after the nation, it was called British Rail. In light of that, prepending "Great" comes across as a slightly embarassing attempt at making Britain feel good about itself. Imagine if BA decided to call itself Great British Airways.

That said, since their new branding will probably not be as good as British Rail's I'm glad they went with a new name. I might've been more partial to the utterly anodyne "GB Rail" though.
>> No. 443816 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 5:07 am
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>>443815

I'd opt for painting all the trains white with the word "TRAIN" in Comic Sans on the side, purely to annoy future generations of model rail enthusiasts.
>> No. 443817 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 8:55 am
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>>443815
It's a bit weird out of context. I get 'greater' and 'lesser' and 'upper' and 'lower', but 'Great' as it stands is a very bold statement to make.

It's only through repeated exposure to the term that it doesn't sound weird, but if you were popped into an alternate universe and it was Great France instead, it would be bloody odd.
>> No. 443818 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 9:07 am
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>>443817
Look, it's obviously an obsolete term from when Ireland was referred to as 'Little Britain'. That's it. I agree the Tories putting it in their railway name is probably more flag-shagging but that doesn't mean the actual name of the island means we're all up ourselves.
>> No. 443819 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 9:10 am
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>>443818
A surprisingly impassioned reaction there. I wasn't commenting on the origin or etymology, just that it sounds funny out of context, u get me lad?

>that doesn't mean the actual name of the island means we're all up ourselves.
Oh gosh, oh really!? I wasn't making that link and didn't imply that in my post.

But we are.
>> No. 443820 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 10:19 am
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>>443819
Well OK then. I didn't think I sounded 'impassioned'.
>> No. 443821 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 11:34 am
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>>443819
I bet you giggle at the respective trans- and cis- alpine Gaul. Why don't you go back across the Rhine, barbarian.
>> No. 443822 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 11:35 am
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>>443820
Nah you didn't, it was a bit of hyperbole to account for your taking it slightly more seriously than I anticipated.
>> No. 443823 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 12:24 pm
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>>443815

There used to be an airline called Brittania.
>> No. 443824 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 12:25 pm
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Wish we could just kill everyone.
>> No. 443825 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 12:39 pm
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>>443824
You first then.
>> No. 443826 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 1:26 pm
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>>443825
Not "everyone" everyone, but anyone in a motorcycle gang, Eton alumni, everyone involved in crypto currencies, and so on.
>> No. 443827 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 1:54 pm
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>>443824

I'm so embarrassed, I wish everyone else was dead.
>> No. 443828 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 2:30 pm
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>>443824
The problem with killing everyone is that you have to go further and ensure that nothing ever grows again. Otherwise it's extremely futile, even counterproductive as I don't see rabbits working on this conundrum.

That creates a problem I think about sometimes, to prevent life from ever forming again anywhere in the universe would likely require some alteration to the fundamental laws of physics that in itself requires something reasonably reality breaking. For example, presumably life would be impossible if we convert all matter into the theoretical strange matter (with assistance from us in dispersal) or if the Higgs Field decays (assuming the effective new universe can't support life) but for both of those cosmic inflation is at such a rate they will never reach the entire universe due to the limits of the speed of light.

The only conciliation is that life is extremely good at increasing entropy and the more complex life becomes the more it does so. In fact if you want a reason for life then increasing entropy is a good one as the more entropy you cause the more you are quite literally alive until your environment reaches perfect stability and life becomes impossible.
>> No. 443829 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 3:07 pm
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>>443828

Aggressive hegemonising swarm innit
>> No. 443830 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 4:24 pm
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What's the script with this riot in Swansea then?
>> No. 443831 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 4:48 pm
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>>443830
I don't know about riot. I'd say you need at least one tightly packed crowd for a riot, though I'm not sure what you'd call the level below a riot and "sub-riot" is a bit naff.
>> No. 443832 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 4:52 pm
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Ah, go on then, I'll call this a riot. Unless this image is actually from a Botswanan music festival in 2003 and nothing to do with Swansea like so many images you find online claiming to relate to current events.
>> No. 443833 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:14 pm
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It's been pissing it down all day.
I can see one of the neighbours has got a barbeque going under their parasol, and they're quite clearly miserably walking back and forth between it and their conservatory.
>> No. 443834 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:22 pm
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>>443832

We did try to warn them about putting the electric railway pylons back up. Nobody ever listens to us do they.
>> No. 443835 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:30 pm
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>>443833
I could never be miserable while barbequing. A few days ago I attached a cheap beach umbrella to my grill and I had a big smile on my face because I had finally figured out a way to cheat the weather gods without shelling out for a fancy parasol.

I can't remember a shittier May. Feels like it's been pissing down for weeks.
>> No. 443836 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:33 pm
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>>443835

It's on track to be the wettest May on record. Last year's was the driest. Incidentally, this April was the frostiest on record.
>> No. 443837 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:40 pm
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>>443833
Yeah, I had a dog walk red flagged earlier. I kind of like it honestly, but I don't have the clothing to be outside for more than ten seconds.
>> No. 443838 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:42 pm
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>>443835
I remember there was no spring a few years ago. It was probably 2013 or 2014 where it was freezing cold until May. That was awful. This year, we had a very dry and sunny April and now May is catching up with all the rain we should have had then. So hopefully everything will sort itself out. If not, well, I guess April was our summer and it's autumn now. Better put up your Christmas tree.
>> No. 443839 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:49 pm
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>>443838

I think you may be misremembering.
https://watchers.news/2021/04/28/uk-hit-by-frostiest-april-on-record-farmers-and-growers-reporting-considerable-damage/
>> No. 443840 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>443838
April was sunny but pretty cold. What we've got now is more like April showers coming a month late with a serious grudge.

Mid-range forecasts are suggesting good chance of a decent late may bank holiday, but threat of thunderstorms is going to be coming and going for the rest of the month. Second half of June there's a decent chance that things will improve a lot and give us some proper warm weather, but too far off for much certainty.
>> No. 443841 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:58 pm
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>>443840
Almost everything in the garden is a month or more behind where it was this time last year. This year's growing season is going to be pathetic.
>> No. 443863 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>>443841

Glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this.

Any sweet fruit are likely going to be quite sour, and be less developed and contain less sugar than in about the last three years.

I think it has to do with the El Nino phenomenon, which affects weather as far away as Britain and the rest of Europe. It happens in four- to five-year cycles, which rings true when you think that the summers of 2012 an 2017 were remarkably cold and wet.
>> No. 443864 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 12:18 am
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When I was 15 I would pompously lament that I was born in Nowhereford-upon-Nothing, but the latest news of an emerging "black fungus" epidemic in India has me much more appreciative that I wasn't born there instead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57217246

Poor bastards. At least we here in the UK were fortunate enough to wring some standards out of the state before the scum took complete control.
>> No. 443865 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 12:31 am
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>>443864

Yeah it's fucking brutal. Fungal infections are unpleasant on the outside of your body, but downright chilling when they get inside. India is a perfect storm for it though; it's always either polluted or dusty, and always hot and humidity. Combine that with a healthcare system where patient's families frequently have to assist in care in place of nursing staff, completely lacking in awareness of aseptic technique (apparently the improper cleaning of ventilation tubes between patients is a big culprit) and patients of lowered immune response due to the virus and, well...

If you want some black humour to wash it down with though, I was reading about this on another site and the Americans commenting expressed surprise that the Indian healthcare system was struggling with this. As it turns out, their perceptions were out because to Americans, India is a popular destination for medical tourism.
>> No. 443866 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 1:19 am
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You just had to bloody do it didn't ya, lads. Same thing happened last year where you whinged about the weather before someone turned the bloody dimmer switch up on the Sun and we had months of unbearable heat. Remember how hard we all slept last year when the heatwave finally broke.

All this rain is no doubt going to cause another mosquito bloom as well and I'm still not prepared to survive them biting me all summer again. May God have mercy upon us all.

>>443864
I'm sure some of you scoffed at my sugar thread while munching your Parma Violets and Double Dip. Well look at us now.
>> No. 443868 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 2:41 am
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Starred Up is a film about how fighting can solve all your problems. Also I'd do great in prison; they had the white lad, black lad and the gay fella', but they didn't have to funny dude, I'd fit right in.
>> No. 443869 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 8:11 am
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>>443866
Why is ET in the news?
>> No. 443870 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 11:10 am
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For the lads and lasses that have young kids here, what sort of event would an event have to be in order for you to contemplate getting a babysitter?
>> No. 443871 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 1:06 pm
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>>443869
Probably some bullshit about aliens messages. Now for the REAL news:

>Paedo 'alien abductee' who says he has 9 hybrid kids - with pics and audio to prove it
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/paedo-alien-abductee-who-says-24136919

Reading on the man is also finding women in the same alien breeding programme at UFO conventions and promptly taking her back to his home to meet his wife and bang. The lives some people live really are something.
>> No. 443872 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:20 am
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Remember to remembrance, lads.
>> No. 443873 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:30 am
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So apprently losing weight and getting fitter means I can't eat a feta cheese and bell pepper sandwich on a whim at half-one in the morning now? And I have to keep doing exercise? I really don't begrudge the obese in our society at all.

>>443872
Is there a war on up there or something?
>> No. 443875 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 6:50 am
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>>443872
The drama about the war memorial committee the other week was strange.
>> No. 443876 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 11:13 am
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>>443875
I'm a pathetic, fat, waste of space who probably should remove himself from the planet sooner rather than later but even I can't help but feel that my life is slightly more interesting than that of people who are so utterly obsessed with a fucking statue.

Can you imagine just how dull your life must be when you feel the need to performatively talk about how much remembrance you're doing on a shit local group? Or get angry because you didn't get invited to a committee about said statue?

I hope I've eaten/drunk myself to death by the time I turn 40 since apparently it seems every person in this country wakes up on their 40th birthday believing they actually fought in the second world war, and that they need to remembrance every day and tell everyone they are remembrancing, and constantly REPSECT ARE LADS.
>> No. 443877 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 11:27 am
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>>443876
Tbh mate I'd be on the fence as to who's better off. Stop being pathetic and sad. What's keeping you there?
>> No. 443878 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 11:29 am
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>>443876
If you look at the profile pictures of the man who uploaded that image you'll see that half of them are him crudely photoshopping his face onto Heston Blumenthal. People are weird.

If it wasn't for OTTA remembering so hard we wouldn't have the new chain around the memorial to stop little kiddies from playing in the sand and making a mess. That gives them a free pass to make shit up about the new committee being fascists.

You may have also missed the drama the other day about someone asking what the gym is like at Cedar Court. Apparently they house lots of asylum seekers in the hotel and a couple of them tried snatching a girl from either Trinity Walk or the Ridings and the police just let them go because they're immigrants.
>> No. 443879 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 12:12 pm
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>>443878
Couldn't a gust of wind have done this? This one completely fucking got me, it's so obviously just such a little bit of sand that's come out. But no, it's clearly a targeted attack on ARE LADS who BRAVELY gave their LIVES. If you were going to do mess with the WAR memorial about the WAR and ARE LADS, surely you'd do more than move a bit of sand out of the sand area.

>>443877
>What's keeping you there?
I no longer live in Beeston but much of my family still do, so I'm back there fairly regularly, and I stay in the group because it makes me feel slightly better about my life.
>> No. 443880 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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>>443879
IIRC, there were people who saw kids playing in the sand of the memorial whilst their parents drank on the benches outside Cock & Bottle. Broken Britain.
>> No. 443881 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:09 pm
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>>443880
Hanging would be too good for them.
>> No. 443882 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:50 pm
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>>443879
Yeah that lad sounds like a nutter. I'm sure the majority of Are Lads would have liked the idea of kids playing in the sand on their memorial.

I was walking in Surrey hills the other month, came across one of the those pillbox/bunker things on the side of a hill. We all had a beer on top, and when it came time to go I really wanted to piss off the top, but I just couldn't summon the confidence.

I'm certain that the lads there would have done the exact same thing, so I don't really understand how it would be disrespectful, but I'm sure I would have gotten disapproval from anyone who saw.
>> No. 443883 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>443882
I think it's a combination of something to fill your days, and, as much as I dislike the term, 'the shipping forecast'. Look how much I respect are lads, war is good and remembering war/respecting are lads is good so that means I am good.

Obviously I don't know what is going on inside these peoples' heads, but my guess is they probably don't care that much about the wishes of people who died. It's the statue as a signifier of their goodness.
>> No. 443884 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 2:36 pm
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>>443883
Fuck's sake, completely forgot about that word filter. Let's call it goodness semaphore.
>> No. 443885 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 2:39 pm
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>>443883

>as much as I dislike the term, 'the shipping forecast'

Why? That's exactly what it is in this case and I can think of no more apt a description.

I feel like shipping forecast has become a loaded term, but unlike most phrases that applies to, the people who used it in the first place were usually right. Its present reputation exists because of people who took objection to being called out on precisely what they were actually doing, which was forecasting their shipping.
>> No. 443886 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 2:46 pm
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>>443885
>unlike most phrases that applies to, the people who used it in the first place were usually right
I wasn't there to see that and I don't believe you were either. The "first place" may as well be mythical, it's exclusively used by people who're doing something wrong to try and shame others who're asking them to stop. Same as Patel complaining about "do-gooder" lawyers.
>> No. 443887 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 3:12 pm
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>>443886

>I wasn't there to see that and I don't believe you were either.

Well no, but I remember at least before it was a loaded and stigmatised term, and that's as far back as is really needed to form an opinion in this case.

>it's exclusively used by people who're doing something wrong to try and shame others who're asking them to stop

Going to have to show your working here mate. I'm pretty sure there's a perfectly legitimate criticism to be made of empty words-over-action moralising whether it's coming from the left or the right.
>> No. 443888 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 3:23 pm
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It's one of those like SJW. I assume everyone agrees that such a thing exists, and that they are awful, but the definition is so nebulous that the term is also used by twats who don't like being told they are twats. In the end, my own personal definition is that it's anyone who cares about these things more than I do.
>> No. 443889 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>443887

>Going to have to show your working here mate.
I also don't believe you've not seen it happen with regularity.

>I'm pretty sure there's a perfectly legitimate criticism to be made of empty words-over-action moralising
There is, but it's not typically being made with that phrase.
>> No. 443890 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 6:37 pm
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In China we call 'em 圣母 (baizuo).
>> No. 443891 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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>>443890
Good to know there are frothing-at-the-mouth Mail readers who get upset about nothing all over the planet!
>> No. 443892 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 7:02 pm
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>>443891
Isn't the Mail the most read news site in the world?
>> No. 443893 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 9:49 pm
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>>443892
Very likely. No other news service provides such quality.
>> No. 443894 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 10:09 pm
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I've got an almost brand new Lenovo laptop which I bought a month ago, but I buggered the screen last night. It was sitting open on the kitchen counter and I dropped an empty coffee mug right next to it from the top of a cabinet, and fragments of the shattered mug, no bigger than a few millimetres, landed on the keyboard, which I didn't notice while cleaning up. So at some point I closed the laptop, and one of the coffee mug fragments punched a tiny hole in the screen, which led to a nasty nick that's visible especially against white backgrounds, and two or three dead pixels in that spot, right in the middle of the screen, which are very visible on dark backgrounds.

I've called Curry's and they said I could bring it in to have it repaired. They naturally can't do it on warranty because it doesn't conceivably cover coffee mug shrapnel damage. They told me that excluding the new screen module itself, it would cost between £80 and £150 to swap out. Bit much, because the laptop itself was only £350. I also didn't feel like telling them that it's a fault that was somehow already there when I bought it, after a whole month of owning it.

So now I've found a place online that has my display at a discount for around £90 plus p&p, so I guess I will just replace it myself. Might void the warranty, but maybe not. If done carefully, I doubt somebody at the Curry's repair shop would be able to tell the difference.
>> No. 443895 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 10:26 pm
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>>443891
Baizou corresponds (roughly) to what we would term an SJW. Of course you immediately think of the Mail readers who live rent-free in your head. And who, unlike every other paper, are mostly women. You sexist.
>> No. 443896 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 10:33 pm
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>>443895
>rent-free
>SJW
Jog on. And I know what fucking "baizou" is and it's clearly the kind of thing a Chinese misery bollocks moans about. The same kind of misery bollocks who, were he English, would be on the Mail wanting to ban smiling within 500 yards of war memorials or fire a Blackstone missile at Eurovision.
>> No. 443897 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 11:19 pm
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Fuck sake, lads. Baizuo is an artificial meme pushed by the Chinese communist party to conveniently label humanist critiques of the regime and it wasn't even particularly successful. A similar term was used in Hong Kong with the same intent on discrediting western influence.

Americans got hold of it in 2016 and did their usual fetishization of the opponent with a perfect term to attack what they feel as internal weakness.

>>443896
There's nothing wrong with being against affirmative action, patronising dolphin rape and those who insult the Chinese people. There is bollocks and it exists, we all make our peace with the great river of bollocks up until it rises above our noses and we start to drown - some are shorter than others, we call them the blackboard people, but lately the river has risen awful high and as a result social democrats are on the road to extinction.

Anyway it has a grain of truth and that's why it works.
>> No. 443898 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 11:57 pm
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>>443894

>I doubt somebody at the Curry's repair shop would be able to tell the difference.

You'd be surprised. They typically send warranty returns off to the "repair centre" to be examined by engineers whose entire job is more or less just to find an excuse not to pay out on the policy.

You're actually better off under manufacturer's warranty than any of the extended warranty plans they offer, because when it's manufacturer warranty they can write it off no questions asked; but when it comes to the paid warranty plans, their motives are to avoid paying out at all costs.

What you should have said is that you bought it for a gift and it had only just been opened today, at which point to you (and your fictional daughter's) immense disappointment you discovered the laptop was already damaged. You'd have had a new one already.

Source: Worked for the cunts in a past life.
>> No. 443899 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:17 am
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Lads, please. I want to at least have a rocket on the fourth plinth because it's the only fun one and the only one a big kid wouldn't mind seeing.

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-square/fourth-plinth-commission-2022-and-2024-artist-shortlist/fourth-plinth-commission
>> No. 443900 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:23 am
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>>443899
God they're all utter wank.
>> No. 443901 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:33 am
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>>443898

>What you should have said is that you bought it for a gift and it had only just been opened today, at which point to you (and your fictional daughter's) immense disappointment you discovered the laptop was already damaged.

If they're that much on the ball at the repair centre, then they'd probably spot all the system mods that would establish that I've made extensive changes to the out of the box configuration in the past month.

I was going to upgrade the SSD at some point anyway. It only has 128 GB, which is probably fine if you keep Windows 10 in S mode, but with all my stuff I've got on it now already, it's starting to push it. An SSD upgrade during the warranty is possible, but would have to be carried out either by Curry's or an authorised third party. Which is again money wasted if you can do it yourself.
>> No. 443902 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:56 am
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>>443901

My point was more that under that pretence, you could make a bit of a sob story and they'd just hand you a new one there and then in the shop without having to send it off. Probably too late now you already spoke to them on the phone mind.

It's one of those weird things with customer service, they'd know you're probably bullshitting, but as long as you're not an arsehole about it and it's not a stubborn jobsworth behind the desk, they will know it's not really worth the hassle of outright calling you a liar and go the path of least resistance. The mistake people make is thinking you can get what you want by kicking off and threatening to complain etc, but really that's what makes them dig their heels in.
>> No. 443903 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 1:05 am
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I voted for the rocket, just for you. Also because the sculptor is called Goshka Mecuga and I have just rewatched inferior anime sequel, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion, and spent most of it thinking of the famous YouTube "meduca become meguca" video, so that name really jumped out at me. Obviously I gave a different reason on the form.
>> No. 443904 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 11:46 am
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I've just got a new atomiser for my ridiculous vape flute (Vandy Vape Berserker v2 for those who might possibly give a toss) and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. I'd been putting up with a clapped-out old atomiser because it still worked OK, but the new one is just so much better. It was only £20, but it feels like a real treat. Life lesson learned.
>> No. 443905 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:25 pm
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>> No. 443906 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:32 pm
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I've had my first jab this morning. The woman in front of me in the queue was taking selfies in front of the NHS banners. People are weird.
>> No. 443907 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:35 pm
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>>443906
Some people live boring lives and require constant validation from others to function. Just think of all the likes she'll get.
>> No. 443908 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>443904
I'm a bit confused by your logic here. If the coils are kept refreshed and you clean your tank, what could be different?
>> No. 443909 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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It's nice when there's not much going on at work after a week of being rushed off my feet. There's things I need to do I'm sure, but they don't need to be done today.

>>443906
What flavour did you get? I'm still waiting on mine and it's been nearly 2 weeks since the warm-up text from my GP.

>The woman in front of me in the queue was taking selfies in front of the NHS banners. People are weird.

The media campaign has worked really well, getting the jab is now the coolest thing you can do in 2021. It's similar to the 'taking a selfie at the polling station' stories you get in the news on election day.
>> No. 443910 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 1:18 pm
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>>443909
Pfizer. You should book it yourself online rather than waiting for an invite.

I think I was there about 45 minutes. I had to queue for the receptionist, then I had to queue to speak with a nurse and after that it's queuing for the vaccine itself. After the vaccination you have to sit around for 15 minutes so they can keep an eye on you.
>> No. 443911 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 2:06 pm
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Tah, I look forward to browsing on the internet in the waiting room and being asked to leave when someone catches sight of the guilty would thread on /*/.

>Pfizer

Be sure to do an autism before test now and in a week to see how you've shifted on the spectrum.
>> No. 443912 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 2:26 pm
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>>443910
>You should book it yourself online rather than waiting for an invite.

Turning up also works. I haven't been registered with a GP for over thirty years - I tagged along with my wife, who is, and they gave me the jab anyway as she was having her second one. God knows if I'll get a second, but at least it's something.
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26th May 2021
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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I ordered a pair of cheap prescription sunglasses in a purple gradient tint because I thought it'd look cool, but the cool factor is rendered pointless because they make a cheerful sunny day look like a mix between a depressing overcast day on Earth and a regular day on the psychlo planet in Battlefield Earth.
>> No. 443915 Anonymous
26th May 2021
Wednesday 4:30 pm
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>>443914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xACbVe7o9Rs

And is there also a downside to the purple tint shades you haven't referred to in your original post?
>> No. 443916 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 11:24 am
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FUCKING HELL, LADS. DEBBIE SQUIRES ISN'T GOING TO ORGANISE THINGS IN Beeston ANYMORE.
>> No. 443917 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 11:35 am
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It's all kicking off in Beeston. First the war memorial, now this? Fummin xx
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27th May 2021
Thursday 11:38 am
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Also did you notice how she had to get a comment about ARE LADS in there? They really can't go for a minute without thinking of WW2, can they?
>> No. 443919 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 1:06 pm
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>>443918
>in our little town

She lives near Barnsley. I get that she owns a business in Beeston but her obsession with the place is a little weird.
>> No. 443920 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 1:16 pm
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>>443919
>her obsession with the place is a little weird.
That's a touch rich coming from you lot.
>> No. 443921 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 1:24 pm
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>>443920
You mean us lot who are posting about this on twitter instead of chatting shit on .gs?
>> No. 443922 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 1:35 pm
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>>443920
At least 66.67% of Britfa has ties to Beeston.
>> No. 443923 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 5:19 pm
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>>443919

Wakefield is a newly gentrified commuter town for Leeds, and Barnsley is the newly gentrified commuter town for Wakefield. Trickle down economics innit.
>> No. 443924 Anonymous
27th May 2021
Thursday 9:05 pm
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I've come down with one of the worst colds in years. Corona test came back negative when I did a home test after feeling a bit of irritation in the back of my throat earlier this week, but I'm still feeling fucking horrible.

I probably caught it Monday evening while doing some extensive gardening in a T shirt in 13 degree weather.

On the upside, all that undergrowth under the maple tree in the back garden is now gone and it looks tidy again from my couch. So it wasn't all in vain.
>> No. 443925 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 12:17 am
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>>443924

M7 had shingles 3 months, got covid piece of piss 6 days aches.
>> No. 443926 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 12:29 am
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LADS. All the members of the Beeston Civic Society have resigned. There's still a few war-related things they'll be doing but it's wraps after that. All kicking off it is.
>> No. 443927 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 12:33 am
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>>443924
Lateral flows aren't great. Get yourself a PCR.

>>443925
I had shingles almost a year ago now and I still have scars. It was fucking shit and at the peak of it I had a brutally high fever for a couple of days. Not the one for me.
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28th May 2021
Friday 12:50 am
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What can two men get up to these days? I have an old mate who lives on the otherend of the country from school days and while we've talked about meeting up once the virus blows over I don't actually know what we should do.

We could just get stoned on the couch like we used to I suppose. Can't chase women because he's loved-up with some bird.

>>443926
It almost reads like Revengelad has decided to hit us where we live by tearing apart Beeston. He even has an ally on the facey - who is perhaps sharing news of the societies work on some Weightwatchers website.
>> No. 443939 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 9:30 am
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Some uni mates recently invited me on a hike, we used to live together about 10 years ago and just the three of us going for a walk has been fantastic, never run out of things to say, we're all there for the same environment so it's just a lot of enjoying the scenery and climbing trees to have a beer and a joint.

Even if you're in shit shape, just don't push yourself too much. Weather's perfect for it. Where's your nearest AONB?
>> No. 443940 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 9:30 am
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Amazon are having a massive clear out on alcohol. If you like gin, vodka or whisky you're in luck.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081NMQ886

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001GLPJ8A
>> No. 443942 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 10:23 am
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>>443940

Bulldog for a tenner: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009H2YT8G/ref=crt_ewc_title_dp_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

There are a few other absoluts for that price, found Mango and Raspberry.

Larios 12 for 15 quid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Larios-12-Premium-Gin-70/dp/B005UXK2ZA/

I'm going to be spending some money today.

If anyone finds any liqueurs, let me know. I'm fairly sorted for whiskey but might as well take this chance to get equipped.
>> No. 443943 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 10:45 am
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Your best bet is to keep checking HUKD as many have been listed on there.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/new

I've got the Auchentoshan single malt American Oak for £10.19 (£32 in Tesco and Sainsbury's atm) that I'll give to my brother for Christmas and for my mum and sister-in-law I've got the Whitley Neill raspberry gin and glass gift sets for £11.91 each (about £26 apiece elsewhere). For myself I've ordered this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delirium-Tremens-Belgium-Melle-8-5/dp/B003R6NQDW
>> No. 443944 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 1:21 pm
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I shan't be spending money with Bezos, but if you like sweetness in your flavours, look for Kwai Feh lychee liqueur. It is the tastiest beverage on the planet, if you like that sort of taste.
>> No. 443953 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 4:10 pm
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>>443944
Mix it with Midori and slobber a bit of grenadine on top if you want to be a proper slut.
>> No. 443954 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 4:41 pm
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The stress and anxiety I feel over ordering a new brand of tyre I've not used before is almost certainly unreasonably excessive.

The real killer is that you sometimes don't even know if you've made a poor purchase until you're about 600 miles in, when they're properly scrubbed in.
>> No. 443955 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 4:42 pm
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>Midori

You are Bob Servant and I claim my five pounds.
>> No. 443960 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 6:05 pm
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The cacti sown 2019-2020 got very dehydrated over Winter but are recovered now. Problem is that I used generic substrate from the shop which stays moist for far too long, causing root-rot. So I under-watered them out of fear. I gave them a soak-watering last week and while they've plumped up nicely, the soil is still sodden, clearly not ideal.

I was going to pot-up the first batch from late 2020 today so as I was making a more appropriate substrate, I've re-potted all the older plants in it too. Unless everything gets fucked for some reason I've not predicted, this should mean I can water them regularly without worrying.
>> No. 444057 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 10:22 pm
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Today I was drafted into help my mother-in-law clear the flat of her recently deceased friend, i.e. doing most of the donkey work. It's made me wonder what people will think of my life when I die; her flat had the thickest dust I've ever seen and stunk of stale musty air, fags and a little bit of piss. I think she must have been a borderline hoarder because there were several thousand books in there, boxes of them on every bit of space going and pathways between them in most of the rooms. Apparently I missed the discovery of her sex toys and pictures of her having sex with her ex earlier in the week.
>> No. 444058 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 11:02 pm
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>>444057
>her flat had the thickest dust I've ever seen and stunk of stale musty air, fags and a little bit of piss

Aside from maybe the fags, I think that's how everyone is going to end up. The great equaliser, no matter who you are you'll still end up stinking of piss. I fully expect my crypt to reek of weed and the boxes being full of old computer games I never got to play.

Did your mum remember to wipe her hard drive?
>> No. 444063 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 6:06 am
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The computer is one of many things being left for the landlord to dispose of because there's just so much stuff; it was in a corner of the room with all sorts of shite on top of the desk. If it was up to me I'd have left the entire lot for the the landlord to sort out, but my mother-in-law was determined to take as much to charity shops as possible. At least I managed to get three large bags of books for my efforts.
>> No. 444066 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 10:27 am
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I put the bins out and applied sunscreen to a horse. This has been my most productive morning since August.

>>444063
>At least I managed to get three large bags of books for my efforts.
Now all you need is the faint perfume of piss and you're good to kick the bucket.
>> No. 444067 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 10:36 am
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I think I'm going to have to vacuum the books. Not because of the whiff of piss, just the sheer amount of dust on them. I've picked up her copy of The Illuminatus! Trilogy and the dust is so deeply embedded in it I might have to individually vacuum it page by page.
>> No. 444068 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 10:49 am
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Something (a fox, maybe?) has pissed all over my back wheel. Grim.
>> No. 444069 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 11:05 am
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>>444068
I saw a dead fawn on a slip road the other day, it really bummed me out.
>> No. 444070 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 11:26 am
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I think eating some piri piri smoked maceral a week ago has done irreversible damage to my stomach. It wasn't even spicy it's just a low level poison as best as I can tell.
>> No. 444071 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 12:29 pm
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Mackerel even.
>> No. 444073 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 8:24 pm
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>>444068

Weren't me guv. Probably a cat. Awful creatures.
>> No. 444074 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 11:20 pm
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Fuck me it's hot.
>> No. 444075 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 11:24 pm
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>>444074
It's mad you just said that because I'm listening to Hot Chip right now. Mental how these things work.
>> No. 444076 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 11:43 pm
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>>444074
I agree, we all laughed this afternoon but now it has just become unnatural.
>> No. 444077 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 8:06 am
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I had a shit night's sleep due to the heat and now I have to contend with MAD BEES.
>> No. 444080 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 11:14 am
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>Proud to love animals

Isn't there a law against this sort of thing?
>> No. 444082 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 3:53 pm
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I need a new laptop, but I don't even want to look at the prices even in the used and refurbished market. Also Firefox is round now, thanks, fella's, it's revolutionary.
>> No. 444083 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 4:19 pm
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>>444082
Depends on your requirements really. What's the worst that could happen from just having a nosy? You'll be able to get something competent for a couple of hundred quid.

Also what's with this new firefox? I don't like it.
>> No. 444084 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>444082

Laptop prices are mostly returning to normal. Desktop component prices are a different matter, but you can get a decent new laptop for £500ish and refurb Thinkpads are creeping back below the £200 mark.
>> No. 444085 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 9:07 pm
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I actually feel like it's getting hotter as we approach bedtime. Thankfully we get the rain tomorrow. I hope it's not going to be like that fake rain last year that never arrives.
>> No. 444088 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 9:59 pm
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God, my life's so fucking depressing.
>> No. 444089 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 10:00 pm
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Reminder to order a fan now, rather than waiting until it's absolutely fucking sweltering and they're all either sold out or massively marked up.
>> No. 444090 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 10:03 pm
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>>444089
What happened to the one you bought last year?
>> No. 444091 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 10:39 pm
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>>444089
Blimey, I completely forgot there's one about 2 meters above my head in the loft just sitting there, silly me. Thanks for the reminder, no matter how accidental.
>> No. 444096 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 1:10 am
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>>444091
Meters? Ammeters? Voltmeters?
Metres, we aren't septic here.
>> No. 444101 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 11:31 am
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>>444096

What's a metre? That sounds like some filthy EU-mandated unit of measurement. Round these parts we measure distances in feet or yards like proper patriots.
>> No. 444102 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 3:25 pm
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I fed the ducks and geese earlier, which attracted the attention of a swan. He decided to be an aggressive bastard to all of the old people trying to walk past him on the path, felt a little bit bad about that. There was also a Canada goose with a damaged wing and this bastard graylag goose kept biting him hard on the neck every time he tried getting some of the food.
>> No. 444104 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 4:38 pm
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>>444102

They're clearly trying to demonstrate to you the brutal struggle of the strivers (them) fighting for the meagre unhealthy crumbs tossed to them by the Elite (you, with your stale Warburtons Toastie / Aldi Digestives). Innit.
>> No. 444106 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 4:55 pm
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>>444096
Yeah, whatever.
>> No. 444107 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 4:59 pm
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Poundland hasn't had bird seed in for ages - is there a shortage or sumit?
>> No. 444108 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 5:18 pm
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>>444104
The red-crested pochard was positively hoggish for my Hovis.
>> No. 444135 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 1:43 am
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>>The red-crested pochard was positively hoggish for my Hovis.

That's what your head says when you have been punched hard.
>> No. 444142 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 10:42 am
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>>444107

Home Bargains is pretty well stocked.
>> No. 444176 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 8:10 am
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I've cut down on social media a lot but on the infrequent occasions I use it, it bothers me. One of my friends has recently moved from one rental property to another but she's made a series of posts that give the impression to anyone unaware of this that she's just bought her first home. A couple of other friends are constantly posting about their mental health because they think it's trendy, with one making a big announcement about taking a break from Facebook for her wellbeing before rejoining less than 48 hours later. I guess it's built into modern phones, but just about every picture I see is filtered to fuck and one of my best friends looks unrecognisable in just about every picture she uploads of herself.
>> No. 444181 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 10:57 am
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>>444176

>and one of my best friends looks unrecognisable in just about every picture she uploads of herself.

There's a lass at work who does the same thing. She's very pretty in real life but in all her selfies she's got a filter on that makes her look lkke she's had botched plastic surgery. I'm sure it's a damning indictment of the way society makes women feel they have to act, but more importantly it's ruining my wanks.
>> No. 444184 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 11:10 am
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My friend's isn't drastic, but she's got a bit of a moonface IRL and has shaved off some of her cheeks and jawline. When I looked on Facebook to remind myself what I meant I saw someone else has used a filter on a picture of their children so smooth out almost all skin texture so they look like the Jigsaw puppet from the Saw films.
>> No. 444211 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 5:09 pm
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Beestonlads, why didn't you warn me that around here ice cream men refer to sauce as "juice"? It's fucking odd.
>> No. 444215 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>444211

Could be worse, they call it monkey's blood round here.
>> No. 444216 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:14 pm
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Through a strange series of events I was told John's full name.
>> No. 444217 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:15 pm
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The cheese separated from the pizza I was just eating, sliding down my lip and giving me second degree burns. This is absolute fucking agony.
>> No. 444220 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:42 pm
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Am I right in thinking that a Britfa.gs user watched a homeless woman play the piano in a train station before paying her for a blowjob?
>> No. 444234 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 9:37 pm
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>>444220
If you did I don't remember you telling us.
>> No. 444235 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 9:43 pm
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>>444220

I have a vague recollection of it, but either it was the best part of a decade ago or we've both got the same false memory.
>> No. 444240 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 10:23 am
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I don't know what Victoria Derbyshire is doing on the BBC News channel right now but it's so tedious I've resolved to kill myself. Farewell, lads!
>> No. 444248 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 12:09 pm
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>>444240
That's the feeling I get just from watching one second of her under any circumstance.
>> No. 444252 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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I don't know if the simultaneous existence of 1.8m wide and 1.83m wide fence panels is /101/ worthy, or even that companies call both widths "6 foot" is /101/ worthy, but it's certainly close.

I suppose it's fine if you haven't already got set in fence posts at 1.83m distances. There also seems to be a lot less of a selection at true 6ft, but I suppose it will stop me overspending on fancy fences.
>> No. 444253 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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>>444252
Given the amount of swelling and shrinking that fences undergo in the normal course of weather, does 0.03m make that much difference?
>> No. 444254 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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>>444252
Just pad them with lolly sticks.
>> No. 444257 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 1:28 pm
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>>444253

I'd say 30mm is a pretty noticeable panel gap, but even if I was okay with that, I'd have to add a shim like >>444254 says to even be able to fit them to the existing fence posts. I could always replace my posts with fresh new ones that are thicker, but there's nothing wrong with the current ones other than their spacing.

Though I think I might just go with straight boring shiplap panels. They're cheaper and more readily replaceable/repairable. Saying that though the current woven ones looked pretty good when they weren't all fucked up and knackered.
>> No. 444258 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 1:35 pm
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>I'd say 30mm is a pretty noticeable panel gap
Really that depends on the length of the fence and how absorbent/treated the wood is. Not ideal for just one side of the garden though, you're right.
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8th June 2021
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>444258

I'd be less precious about the back fences which are just functional, but the front I'd like to at least look well fitted, if nothing else.

I'm starting to have dark, dark thoughts about building a stone wall instead, so I think I'll just go with cheap traditional panels for now to tide me over. It's really the least of my worries with this fucking house, the moss growing out of the driveway, the blocked up stream and the wasp nest in the eaves are more pressing.
>> No. 444268 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 3:40 pm
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>>444240
She had a ghastly daytime human-interest show which got cancelled, leading to outrage from its housewife fans, so now she works as a newsreader at the same time. You think you're watching the news, but in reality she just does the same human-interest guff she did before and everyone pretends it's news. She's popular among women, apparently, who like news where people talk about themselves and their feelings instead of events and Mossad conspiracies like I like.

I'm posting this, but obviously you are dead now. RIP another martyr to interesting news reports.
>> No. 444269 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 3:50 pm
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>>444252

Wood doesn't significantly shrink and expand along the length of the grain, only across the width. It's why shiplap panels look the way they do - the overlap provides an expansion gap between the planks, but you don't need an expansion gap along the short edges.
>> No. 444275 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 4:31 pm
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I'm going out of my mind seeing all the women out and about in their summer outfits. The female form isn't fair at all to us lads trying to go about our day without drooling. Not complaining, but I wouldn't mind taking a few of them to the pub at the very least without being labelled a sex-pest for approaching women in the street.
>> No. 444326 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 9:55 pm
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>> No. 444329 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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A mate of mine, mid-20s, has lost both of his parents to covid.
>> No. 444331 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 10:41 pm
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>>444326
Why do you need to turn it into an ISO? Back when I last played with emulators, they accepted .cue files.
>> No. 444333 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 11:07 pm
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>>444329
Is he going to keep looking for them?
>> No. 444334 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 11:28 pm
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>>444329
Fucking hell that sounds shit. Is he at least living independently? Be sure to go for a pint/spliff soon.

Not to make this all about me but it has sent me on a bit of a mindfuck. If my brother and his wife die then I have no idea on what happens to their teenage children, grandparents are all retired on the wrong side of 60 and I'm probably most capable of raising them in the next generation, do I kick them off to boarding school for a couple years until I can get them into the army or do I buy a house in their local area and raise them?
>> No. 444335 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 12:35 am
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>>444334
Yeah, he's independent of his parents, has a good circle around him, and fantastic in-laws.

Are you legally the godparent for your nieces/newphews? Do people still do godparents? I couldn't tell you who mine are.
>> No. 444336 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 12:39 am
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>>444329
A very dear friend of mine, at one point my only friend in the whole world, lost both her sisters (both nurses, in their 30s) to coronavirus within a couple of days of each other. It was such a sad story they put it on the news, and so I heard it on the radio at work. I was pretty shaken up. You find yourself thinking, "I must help my friend at all costs", and there's absolutely nothing you can do so you just sit there numbly wondering what to put into the text message.

>>444334
There's an anime series called Usagi Drop with almost that exact plot. A 30-ish bachelor finds himself suddenly handed a four-year-old girl he has to raise, and it's a wholesome and heartwarming tale about learning responsibility. It's based on a manga which was more controversial, because that too was a wholesome and heartwarming tale for many years, until the girl is 16, and then he fucks her. Many people were unhappy with this awful ending.
>> No. 444338 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 1:30 am
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>>444336
>numbly wondering what to put into the text message
That's where I'm currently at, yeah. There's little I can do over the miles, either, besides reassure him that he's in my thoughts, and that in principle would do anything he feels he might need.

Also that manga sounds like one massive drawn-out joke by the artist/writer.
>> No. 444341 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 6:29 am
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>>444336
> until the girl is 16, and then he fucks her

Just be grateful that the fictional character waited that long. The deviancy of the Japanese Mangaka can never be underestimated.
>> No. 444344 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 9:00 am
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It's too fucking hot and my shorts have disappeared. I'll have to get the fan out.
>> No. 444345 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 9:24 am
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Got around to having a look at the new MS Flight Sim. I know it's probably a relatively basic thing to do these days, but them having accurate models of airports I know very well is pretty spooky. A bit like finding a DOOM map of your school.
>> No. 444346 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 9:27 am
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>>444345

The 3D view on Google Maps has made 3D versions of various crap I have in my garden. It's a bit creepy. Weirdly the shed is still counted as not being a building but the far less substantial "buildings" are.
>> No. 444359 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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My son (a bearded history teacher) absolutely loved the shirt!
>> No. 444371 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 10:20 pm
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The water coming out of my cold tap has been slightly too warm to enjoy. I'll need to get a fridge jug.
>> No. 444372 Anonymous
9th June 2021
Wednesday 10:32 pm
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>>444371
Get yourself a water bottle and stick it in the freezer for a bit so it gets a little slushy. If you really want to be adventurous then add some cordial to make a low sugar treat.
>> No. 444379 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 12:17 pm
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>>444329
That's statistically ridiculous.
>> No. 444390 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 3:11 pm
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I cleaned a stain from my carpet, but it seems that patch was simply more stained than the rest and now glistens like a diamond in the Sun compared to the rest of the sorry thing.

>>444379
Maybe someone can put that in their speech at the funeral, cheer him up a bit, yeah.
>> No. 444391 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 3:16 pm
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>>444390
What, it is statistically ridiculous on the surface of it, considering how low fatality rates are. I don't think they intended it to be a dig.
>> No. 444394 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 4:09 pm
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Was back in work for training stuff and saw a few of my colleagues for the first time since last lockdown. One of the duty managers has put on a little weight, not like chubbychaserlads level - it wouldn't be noticeable at all, were it not for her work dress now being slightly too tight. Her larger tits and arse are a definite improvement have been absolutely driving me mental. It's probably just because I haven't been in the same room as a woman for more than about ten minutes since January, but still.

Alarmingly my first thought was to think about the org chart to check whether we'd be in trouble for shagging.
>> No. 444399 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>444394
Is it not the sort of environment where you can take her for a pint after work and then finger her in a bus stop?
>> No. 444402 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 5:12 pm
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>>444394
Piss in her arse.
>> No. 444403 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 5:34 pm
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>>444394

>chubbychaserlads

ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

There's no point resisting, you're in the chub club now. You can collect your membership pack from the club secretary, it includes a Toby Carvery discount card, a sample tube of anti-chafing gel and a booklet on how to reinforce your bedframe.
>> No. 444415 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 11:53 pm
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>>444399

Our work nights out all but guarantee a bus stop fingering, so I'm sure that'll be the plan whenever we can do those again. In the meantime I just have to hope for a fateful late evening where we both have stayed late to do something and then I roger her in the small windowless room where we keep the regulatory compliance paperwork.
>> No. 444416 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 11:56 pm
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>>444403

There is also a lass I went to college with who I get on rather well with and I think she fancies me, who would definitely get me into the club no questions asked. She mentioned a couple of months ago that her BMI means she's eligible for the covid jab, so she's definitely up there. She's not unattractive, maybe it's time. I think I'll wean myself in with the other one first, though, surely there's pitfalls in going straight for the 18 stone ones.
>> No. 444419 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 5:46 am
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>>444416
>surely there's pitfalls in going straight for the 18 stone ones.

That depends entirely on how the weight is distributed.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/obese-woman-who-gave-up-23457498
>> No. 444429 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 10:09 am
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>>444419

The only time I've ever slept with a really big girl... I can just say for certain it wasn't my thing.

It was like having sex with a pile of pillows. Formless and strange. Any part of her body I touched would feel exactly the same as any other part.
>> No. 444431 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 10:42 am
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>>444429

More cushion for the pushin' m8.
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11th June 2021
Friday 11:24 am
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>>444429
A lot of it depends on how they can carry the extra weight. Some lasses fill out quite nicely but others end up as monstrous blobs where their belly sticks out farther than their tits.
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11th June 2021
Friday 11:41 am
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>>444419
I'd give it a try as a curiousity, but christ. It's certainly more cushion, but as the otherlad said, it all feels the same. Personally I'm more of a fan of tight bodies with a jiggly arse.
>> No. 444435 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 12:09 pm
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>>444419

This is certainly the acceptable face (or thighs) of fat lasses. She's woman shaped, just with the sliders turned up.

It's a bit like when blokes are both fat and very tall, they end up looking more like World's Strongest Man rejects than shorter lads like me, at 5 foot 8 I just looked pregnant when I was fat.
>> No. 444436 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 12:27 pm
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>>444435
>This is certainly the acceptable face (or thighs) of fat lasses. She's woman shaped, just with the sliders turned up.
But then the shape of everything looks weird, it's like a half arsed Oblivion mod. Thighs shouldn't do that, it looks bizarre. Plus you'd have to be a belter to be able to lift them up, and there's a great sense of pleasure in picking up your lass and carrying her to the bed.
>> No. 444453 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 3:16 pm
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Not to distract from the topic at hand, but I've noticed some strange numbers calling me recently. 4 over the past two days, none repeating.

All of them are 07999 440 and then 3 random digits, and my number coincidentally stars with the exact same 07999 440, just the last three are different. Not sure if I'm doxxing myself here, if any of you ring me I'll just deny it (whatever it is).

Anyone got any idea what's going on? Am I in some special club now? Not tried ringing any back but I did text two of them a polite enquiry text as to the reason behind their contact, nothing back. Will probably try and answer the next one tbh, not a fan of random calls but this is bizarre.
>> No. 444454 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 3:31 pm
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>>444453

Massive increase in spam/robo-vishing calls since the pandemic began. They're not real numbers, if you call back it'll say so. If you answer, a robot tells you that HMRC has a warrant out for your arrest or some nonsense.
>> No. 444455 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 3:36 pm
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>>444454
Ahh, okay, cheers. Do they tend to mirror the number they're calling? That seems somewhat threatening in a way.

As it stands, I was mainly using the 07999 440 as a temporary number, but it's quite fetching. Would you keep it?
>> No. 444456 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 3:39 pm
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>>444455
Not that I've noticed, that seems weird.
>> No. 444457 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 3:48 pm
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>>444455
Not just you mate, I've also received a phone call along those lines that appeared to come from my number neighbour. Was fucking weird.
>> No. 444461 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 5:52 pm
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I've been getting texts claiming to be Hermes or Royal Mail saying I need to pay postage and linking me to a site. I did hear of one of my colleagues frantically phoning the accounts department, because he had HMRC on the phone claiming he owed £1500 in unpaid tax.

>>444432
After the Mrs gave birth to my daughter my daughter she's definitely kept on some of the weight, but it is all in her tits and the slightest bit of a pooch. She still looks really good, just she has Double Ds rather than the C cups she had.
>> No. 444464 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 6:45 pm
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>>444461
Aye, same there. Never had this level of stuff on my old number, which I lost just before Christmas. Maybe the number I'd been recycled from was a fucking div who got scammed a lot?
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11th June 2021
Friday 7:04 pm
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>>444455>>444461
I've had loads more than usual over the past couple of weeks - weirdly, all the caller-id numbers have the same first 5/7 digits as my number, which is new.
>> No. 444466 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 7:54 pm
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Is it normal for your mum to pinch your bottom? My mum does it all the time to me. For example, I went to visit my parents last weekend and my mum squeezed my bum twice whilst I was hugging her goodbye. When I'm giving my own children a hug I have to fight the automatic reaction to squeeze their bum because it is that ingrained in me.
>> No. 444467 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 7:59 pm
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>>444466

It's certainly not normal in my family, though my grandma does call me 'gorgeous' a lot so I can't really judge.
>> No. 444468 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 8:05 pm
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>>444466
Bloody hell.
>> No. 444473 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 9:53 pm
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>>444466
The Mrs has taken to trying to poke a finger up my arse, whenever I am bent over doing something around the house. Not quite the same thing, but she's being a bloody menace.
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11th June 2021
Friday 11:18 pm
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>>444466
Doesn't seem as bad as my mum. She punches me on my bollocks if we ever pass each other in the house. I instinctively cover my balls whenever someone comes close to me now.
>> No. 444484 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 5:06 pm
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>>444475
That's concerning.
>> No. 444485 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 5:24 pm
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>>444484
In multiple ways: a) Why is she doing it? and b) How has he let that become a thing?
>> No. 444528 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 10:11 pm
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I know a lad with only one eyelid. When he was born the doctors decided to circumcise him and use the foreskin as a skin graft. He's fine now, but a little cock-eyed.
>> No. 444540 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 1:59 pm
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I have purchased a second monitor, so you better up your posting game because there's nowhere to hide now.
>> No. 444552 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 10:22 pm
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The problem with working from home is that I sometimes can't remember whether I've brushed my teeth in the morning. I usually do it at lunchtime so I can enjoy a cup of tea and then a coffee in the morning but there's nothing to remind me of whether I've done it or gotten distracted with something.

Maybe I could get up earlier but that sounds daft and, anyway, you're not really supposed to eat or drink for half hour after you brush or use mouthwash as it's diluting the fluoride.
>> No. 444553 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 11:58 pm
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Finally got my front wheels balanced. Pro: steering wheel no longer shaking at motorway speeds. Con: can no longer use steering wheel as muscle toner.
>> No. 444555 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 10:33 am
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I just did the biggest shit I've ever done. I don't know how, it felt normal, but I pushed it out and glimpsed a log in my periphery.

Stood up to inspect it, and I'd bet my days wage it was 1 foot in length. I've got a photo but I'm not sure if I should share it. One solid piece, about 8 inches before it even hit the water. Slightly hungover in texture, I'm not sure I could have picked it up without it losing form, but it was beautiful.

I've never felt bad about flushing before. I was on the verge of getting my girlfriend to come in and look at it. I'm 30...
>> No. 444556 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 10:39 am
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>>444555
I'm 34 and I still shout the missus in if I stillbirth a dead otter. Failing that, if she is out I'll leave it as a surprise for her.
>> No. 444557 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 3:33 pm
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>>444555
My personal record has happened a few times, and it simultaneously disappeared round the U-bend and also rose up out of the water onto dry porcelain. Sadly, I never took a picture of any of them. Recently, I saw two separate photos in two separate places, unrelated, of giant poos, and in both cases the truly horrifying thing was the thickness, not the length. Imagine your arm, from shoulder to elbow but no further. That's a real horror dump.
>> No. 444558 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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>>444556>>444557
So it's blurry as fuck, my camera is broken, but you can clearly see it go under the water and then bend under its own weight, so I think 1 foot is quite generous.

It's not quite got notable girth, but it can't be thicker than the wrist of a slender girl, which we all know fits comfortably.

If anyone is looking for tips on technique, wait until you're at that point where you feel like it's just going to come straight out. Then sit down, tease it a bit, some very gentle pulsating of the sphinct, then once you feel ready, push it all out in one go.

Sage for shitposting.
>> No. 444559 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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Jesus fucking Christ.
>> No. 444560 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 4:46 pm
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I feel violated.
>> No. 444561 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>444558
Yeah, that had to go. Send it to Guiness.
>> No. 444562 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 5:10 pm
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>>444561
I'm sorry, thanks for removing it. I felt real pride, but it was after all a blurry shit. I'll refrain from reposting it in /y/.
>> No. 444563 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 12:11 pm
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I've buggered the keyboard of my recently bought Lenovo laptop. Spilled some water on it and now some keys trigger additional characters when I press them, e.g. when I press the letter "t", it gives out "5t", and "km" when I press "m". Letting the laptop dry out thoroughly for a couple of days made no difference.

Curry's have said they can fix it for me for around £120-140. I guess there's no point trying to tell them that the keyboard started acting erratically on its own. From what I've read online, water damage would be pretty easy to spot for any technician investigating a warranty claim.

The keyboard is not available separately online, and on my model, it's fused to the top case with plastic welds, and the top case again is not available anywhere. If you manage to track down a top case for a laptop like mine, it's usually in the range of £60 to £80, so I guess the best option really is to pay 50 quid more to have Curry's fix it.
>> No. 444564 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 12:22 pm
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>>444563
Presumably no warranty or insurance?

The laptop will lightly have moisture sensors inside it, so even if the water damage wasn't evident, they'll probably have gone off. If you're not confident enough to try it yourself, then you probably shouldn't, and might just have to swallow the cost. What's the model?
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16th June 2021
Wednesday 12:47 pm
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>>444564

It's a 14'' Lenovo IdeaPad 3i.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-3-14-laptop-amd-athlon-gold-128-gb-ssd-grey-10207999-pdt.html

It was £349 when I bought it, they must have adjusted the price a little.

I've got standard warranty, which naturally doesn't cover accidental damage caused by the user. And no insurance.

Curry's say on their web site that labour is £60 for computer repairs, and for that kind of money, I don't think it's worth doing it myself, with an uncertain outcome.
>> No. 444566 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 12:54 pm
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>>444565

Sorry, wrong link. The one above has an AMD CPU, mine has an Intel CPU, hence the model designation "3i".

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-3i-14-laptop-intel-pentium-gold-128-gb-ssd-blue-10212838-pdt.html

(Firefox still doesn't let you delete posts)
>> No. 444567 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 1:44 pm
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I'm well into the latter half of my twenties and I've only just realised the reason I stumble over my words so often is not just that I have a fish fillet for a tongue, but also that I try to speak at a hundred miles an hour, especially if I'm reading something out loud.

>>444566
>(Firefox still doesn't let you delete posts)
Just do what I do and never be wrong ever. It's easy once you know how.
>> No. 444568 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 2:05 pm
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>>444563

That's totally fixable as a DIY job. Pure water isn't really conductive - it's the dissolved minerals that make it conduct electricity. When the water evaporates the minerals are left behind on the PCB, which can cause the kind of erratic behaviour you describe.

Remove the keyboard and wash the PCB thoroughly with a toothbrush and a generous amount of isopropanol. Take care when removing the keyboard to avoid snagging the flat-flex cables connecting it to the motherboard. Pay particular attention to any areas on the board with lots of closely-spaced solder joints (the controller chip, the flat-flex connector) and don't forget to clean the tip of the flat-flex.
>> No. 444569 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 2:21 pm
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>>444568

From what I've been able to gather online, it'd really be a bit of a do, in that you have to melt off dozens of plastic weld spots in order to get the actual keyboard out.

https://www.insidemylaptop.com/replacing-only-keyboard-without-full-top-case/

As I understand it, too many things can go wrong for the hobbying layperson. Also, the finished job will probably look like kind of a hackjob, which isn't great if I ever have to send the laptop back in for other faults which might be covered by the warranty. If I let Curry's fix it, then it will not affect the warranty in any way.
>> No. 444570 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 4:43 pm
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Someone I know is telling people rubbing crystals on their tits reduces the risk of breast cancer. How do you gently break it to this sort of people that what they are doing is fucking dangerous?
>> No. 444571 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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>>444570
It is? How? The more time they spend rubbing their breasts with crystals the more likely they are to spot a lump.
>> No. 444572 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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New neighbours have moved in on my street and they look a little too common for my liking.
>> No. 444573 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 8:22 pm
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>>444572
I'm sure they will put away their hundreds of England flags in a couple of weeks, just like everyone else will.
>> No. 444574 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 8:31 pm
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>>444573
The dad was wearing a tracksuit, they have two white 69 plate cars (a Land Rover and an Audi) and it looks like they have four kids. There's no way they aren't going to lower the tone.

There'll be a trampoline and hot tub in their garden in no time.
>> No. 444575 Anonymous
16th June 2021
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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Whom amongst us hasn't travelled to Levant in our teens to set up a Genocidal Ethnostate? All a bit of a lark.
>> No. 444576 Anonymous
17th June 2021
Thursday 10:22 am
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Ah, my old friend Mr Cloud is back. Take that, Sun, you sweltering bastard.
>> No. 444577 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 12:16 am
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My landlord bought a new bed at the start of the year. The old one was a few years (and tenants) old and just completely fucked. He said he'd spent a few bob on the new one.

Well, now the new one's broken, sheared on a corner and it's one of those ones with removable slats so they keep falling out and I can't find some way to hold it together until I move out. Do I just buy a new one and hope the landlord doesn't notice? I feel like saying I've broken the new one so soon after it was replaced is going to cause some grief.
>> No. 444578 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 12:21 am
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>>444577

If it's a fully wooden bed you could probably fix it with wood glue and some offcuts, and nobody would notice/care. If it was made by a proper company (probably was if it cost a packet) you will likely be able to buy just the piece you need to fix it from them. Or measure and pop off to B&Q.

Or just offer to pay for the repair when you confess your crime to him, I suppose, if you're willing to replace the whole bed anyway.
>> No. 444579 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 12:41 am
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>>444578
>If it was made by a proper company (probably was if it cost a packet) you will likely be able to buy just the piece you need to fix it from them

Just looked it up because I remembered they sent a text from the company:
https://davidphillips.com/bed-frames/elementa-3-bed-frame-5ft-navy/10032393-IN-29292D
>£322.80 inc VAT

That cheeky fucker - probably can't be saved as it's a metal frame where one side has cracked and ripped all the surrounding fabric. Curiously if I pay £100 more I can get an oak one from BigBed, a company that specialises in sturdy frames for larger people.
https://www.bigbrandbeds.co.uk/wholesale-beds/wooden-bed-frames/ashbourne-oak-f/
>> No. 444580 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 8:13 am
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>>444579
>said he'd spent a few bob
£322.80? That's just one tier above the bare minimum for a bed frame.
>> No. 444585 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 5:26 pm
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>>444579
Take a pic of the damage? There's no reason for you to have to pay anything if its broke due to poor quality, your landlord could try and get it replaced on warranty.
looked at their website and the warranty is 6 months which is a bit shite and shows how much confidence they have in their products.
>> No. 444586 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 7:07 pm
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>>444580

I mean he is a landlord. I can imagine him putting "bedframe" in google and then cursing indignantly when he discovers you can't get one for fifty quid.
>> No. 444589 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 8:13 am
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>>444586
>can't get one for fifty quid
Of course you can, if you're buying used:

https://www.gumtree.com/p/double-beds/king-size-bed-and-mattress-for-quick-sale/1404232861
>> No. 444595 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 10:19 am
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>>444589
Enjoy your bed bugs.
>> No. 444596 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 11:26 am
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Used bedframe, 10 quid or so on that stuff wot kills bedbugs, profit? Or if it's metal you can leave it in a black car in the sun for a few days and I think that'll do the job.
>> No. 444597 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 12:42 pm
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>>444596
Frame sure, but the mattress?
>> No. 444603 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 2:53 pm
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I've managed to track down a seller on AliExpress in China who sells laptop keyboards separately, and who might also have my keyboard in stock for my water damaged Lenovo laptop. Curry's have told me that the turnaround time for somewhat more complicated repairs like a keyboard/topcase swap can be upwards of three weeks, as they send those off to specialised partners. So I'd be without my laptop for three weeks, and it'd cost me around 120 quid.

The seller on AliExpress could get it to me for something like £25 plus p&p and import duty. It'd also take about three weeks, but at least I'd be able to keep working with my laptop. The only catch is that I am going to have to take apart my laptop to get to the actual part number of my keyboard, which they told me should be located somewhere on the connector. And only then will they be able to look it up in their inventory and tell me if they even have it.
>> No. 444604 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 3:50 pm
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17 really puts Give it To Me Baby in a much worse light.
>> No. 444605 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 4:16 pm
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I usually have at least two cantaloupes a week when the weather is warm or stuffy but I haven't seen them in the shops in weeks.

Is this that ruddy Brexit business or that ship that got stuck in the Suez? I need my cantaloupe.
>> No. 444608 Anonymous
22nd June 2021
Tuesday 12:18 pm
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I'm chilly.
>> No. 444609 Anonymous
22nd June 2021
Tuesday 12:48 pm
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>>444605
>Is this that ruddy Brexit business or that ship that got stuck in the Suez?
Yes.
>> No. 444612 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:05 pm
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I'm pretty sure a woman with the username "Satan's Slave" bought my motherboard on eBay and I'm so horny I'm thinking of writing my number on a note and leaving it in the packaging.
>> No. 444613 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>444612
How sure are you that she's a woman, and how sure are you that a woman who buys motherboards on ebay is going to be well kempt?
>> No. 444615 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>444613
Perhaps the wisest advice I've seen here for a long time.
>> No. 444618 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>444613
>>444615
She looks like a Suicide Girl and we're going to get married.
>> No. 444619 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>444613
You can kemp anyone if you're charming enough. Failing that, just how kempt does she need to be?
>> No. 444623 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 11:54 pm
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>>444612
There's a motorbike gang called Satan's Slaves. They rented a warehouse in Hull at one point to use as a little hangout spot, put a bar in it and all that. The daughter of one of them used to put on punk shows in the space, which led to a curious mix of late-2000s scenester punk kids and old-school biker blokes. One of them had a big chunk of his head all fucked up, allegedly from getting shot with a shotgun. He did a few donuts on his bike inside the warehouse one time between bands, nobody was quite sure how to react.
>> No. 444627 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 12:51 am
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>>444618

We both know that she'll ruin your life, but you don't care and I don't blame you.
>> No. 444628 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 1:54 am
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>>444623

I knew a lass from Wakey (by "knew" I mean sexted and sent a lot of pictures of my cock to over the course of a few months in 2016) who used to say she was "in" with them and that they were protective over her and everything. I was never close enough to her to find out if it was true or not, but she had the conspicuous air of one of those lasses who compulsively bullshits about absolutely fucking everything, so I didn't get much closer than that. Prior to that I had heard about them from a few of the heads who used to hang about the Corn Ex back in the days.

The mental image I've always had of a "biker gang" in the post industrial North of England is bunch of neds on CBR-125s who peddle a bit of coke when they can get their hands on it. I always imagined half of them turning up to a cruise with L plates on.
>> No. 444629 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:34 am
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>>444628
Was she, by any chance, *from* Wakefield, but living in Rugby? Asking for a friend (that friend could be you, we might be the sext equivalent of tunnel buddies)
>> No. 444632 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 10:16 am
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>>444628
> The mental image I've always had of a "biker gang" in the post industrial North of England is bunch of neds on CBR-125s who peddle a bit of coke when they can get their hands on it.


>> No. 444634 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 12:35 pm
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>>444632
Wonder what he's up to these days.
>> No. 444635 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 1:37 pm
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>>444629

Nah. When I say from Wakefield I mean still lived with her mum and dad in Tingley. Went to the sane high school as me a few years apart. I was only keeping it up for so long because if I was going to shag her, it'd be wearing her old school uniform.

Never panned out though, she was too much of a gobshite so every time the opportunity cane up I thought better of it. Looking back now I should have just done it and then dropped all contact, but my eternal problem in life is I'm just too nice.
>> No. 444636 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 2:57 pm
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>>444635
Her uniform probably wouldn't fit you either.
>> No. 444637 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:17 pm
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>>444632

banger.
>> No. 444638 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:19 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqRqwaPBWw

Don't call it a comeback.
>> No. 444639 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 4:27 pm
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>>444638
Miliband has become considerably more likeable since being leader. Who knows, maybe Starmer will stop being such a flaccid cock in about a decade or so.
>> No. 444640 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 4:45 pm
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>>444639

Public perception is largely shaped by media presentation rather than by the actual character of the individuals presented. If he were still leader and being attacked for his public image every day in the news, this video would come across as forced.
>> No. 444641 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 5:06 pm
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>>444639
No one cares if he eats a bacon sandwich funny now, but back then people wanted to vote for someone who could eat one normally.
Maybe, I don't know.
>> No. 444642 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>444640
It's being involved in politics. It makes you poisonous. Theresa May went from Darth Vader (as Home Secretary), to hopelessly inept (as Prime Minister), to a competent activist against the excesses of the current government (as a backbench MP for the current government). It's the upward trajectory that sickens all normal people. Theresa May has probably done far more horrific things than that housing guy, but who seems more repulsive right now?
>> No. 444643 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 9:55 pm
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>>444638
I've always felt that Labour figures have missed a trick by not doing a collection of essays together. A kind of summary of what Labour factions think and what they suggest we do next that would probably sell far better if only on grounds of being comprehensive.

Also the book could start on the far left and end on the right of the party as you read through.

>>444640
>>444641
I still think he's daft and marked the moment Labour stopped being a viable political force. Checkmate.

>>444642
You forget that May was briefly stylish up until she tried to get money from old people. And made a complete hash of Brexit by trying to do it by committee.

>Theresa May has probably done far more horrific things than that housing guy

I don't want to sound like a Mayist but honestly her work against modern slavery was pretty remarkable and especially as it had no political gain for her. There's a reason she managed to stay Home Secretary for so long.
>> No. 444644 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 10:28 pm
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>>444640
Come on, let's not pretend 'These strikes are wrong' was the result of media conniving.
>> No. 444645 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 11:03 pm
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>>444644
That was Labour's own fuck-up, but in a situation like that you have to ask why Cameron was never properly pulled on the insufferable repetition of "Long Term Economic Plan" despite it being an equally inhuman pattern of speech.

The partially correct answer is because he didn't do it 30 times in a row like Miliband, but it's obvious (and was even highlighted by the Camera man) that Miliband was just trying to use the news report to get his soundbyte out. Which is exactly what Cameron was doing in a more protracted fashion. So the net effect is the video version of publishing a verbatim transcript of Miliband speaking with all the pauses, ums, ahs, etc that make him look like an idiot, while allowing a Hansard-style tidy up on Cameron's version.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not ascribing a motive here: The video was atrocious and I don't think it was put out to hurt Labour, nor do I think the Tories were given an easy time for favour. Instead, I think of it as the press getting insulted at being misused to republish the party line by Labour while missing that a more competent Tory operation is doing the same thing.
>> No. 444646 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 1:19 am
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>>444642

Have you ever had a colleague who was brilliant at their job, got promoted and immediately started to flounder? That.

Being a party leader is a fundamentally different job to being an MP. Factionalism inevitably trumps competence in the selection process of both parties. Many of the most talented people are far too sensible to go near the job.
>> No. 444648 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 9:52 am
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>>444644

That's actually an excellent example of the power of editing. It would have been very possible to trim that down to allow Miliband to get out his soundbyte, as is done routinely with politicians and public figures who are currently in favour.

News media will only really run a "gotcha" or make someone look silly when they know someone can get away with it. Figures like Johnson have a bizarre act based on buffoonery to make it appear as though he's fairly criticised, but he is rarely attacked based on anything of substance. The reason for this is that there would be repercussions for the media if they did.

>>444645
>I don't think it was put out to hurt Labour, nor do I think the Tories were given an easy time for favour.

I completely disagree, especially in the case of the BBC. I wouldn't normally draw this along party lines, as I think generally anyone who tows the neoliberal economic and foreign-intervention policy lines will get a relatively favourable treatment. That said, the Tories have been excellent at consolidating power, and media has been no exception; the current Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, was a banker at Goldman Sachs for over twenty years and has donated more than 400,000 GBP to the Conservative Party over his career. Before it was made defunct, Chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten was a Chairman of the Conservative Party.

Again, I do not believe that senior staff will swoop down and spike every story they don't like or watch over the shoulder of editors, but the institutional bias is very apparent.
>> No. 444749 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 2:20 pm
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I keep thinking I'm seeing snow flying past my window, but it's catkins blowing in the wind off the trees on Church Street.
>> No. 444758 Anonymous
29th June 2021
Tuesday 12:10 am
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>>444749
Again, scarily close to my ancestral home.
>> No. 444759 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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It's just come to my attention there's no such thing as Staples any more.

Where the fuck do I get the sort of shit they used to sell now? I need some bubblewrap and stuff like that to package things in.
>> No. 444760 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 1:25 pm
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>>444759
Get down to Boyes.
>> No. 444761 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 1:26 pm
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>>444759
Rymans, they're the new lads in town.
>> No. 444762 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 3:10 pm
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>>444759>>444760
Kids today just don't understand the visceral thrill of a proper decent stationery store. The large Paperchase store on Tottenham Court Road is about the only thing similar in recent times, but thats closed down for good now. There is another good place in the East End called Atlantis Art Supplies, that sells much of the same stuff (but obviously with a more artistic/painting vibe).
>> No. 444763 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>444761
Ryman is old-skool and legendary. My parents had a dot matrix printer from the early 1980s which needed a new printer ribbon around 1998, and that's where we got one. The Ryman in Yeovil is still there now. It cannot be stopped.
>> No. 444769 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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I've been receiving spam calls from India every half hour for weeks now. Today I snapped and shouted 'FUCK YOU' down the phone then hung up.

Anyway ten minutes later an Indian chap shows up at my door with a delivery for me, and asks why I was so rude on the phone.

So now I'm sitting here wondering how best to kill myself because I'm a terrible person and don't deserve to live.
>> No. 444770 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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I really can't be arsed this week, more so than usual.
>> No. 444771 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 10:42 pm
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Bloody hell, Rumsfeld's dead. Nice one.
>> No. 444772 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 11:23 pm
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>>444771

He was already 88.

https://www.theonion.com/weapon-of-mass-destruction-found-dead-at-88-1847205911?utm_campaign=TheOnion&utm_content=1625084582&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter
>> No. 444773 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 11:33 pm
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>>444772
I'd not realised he was so elderly until I saw the headlines. Positively presidential, in fact. Another one slips the noose, a great shame.
>> No. 444774 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 12:25 am
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>>444770

I've got the week off and it's still been a struggle. Must be summat in the air.
>> No. 444777 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 1:23 am
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My joints have been making even more horrible crunching noises than usual. I think this is the start of joint fuckery that comes from getting older, now in tandem with the Unspecified Joints Syndrome That Fucks Up Joints I've had for years.
>> No. 444781 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 12:39 pm
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>>444777

Like they say, when you're 50 and you get up in the morning and nothing hurts, you're dead.
>> No. 444782 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 12:47 pm
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>>444781
Everything hurts when I get up in the morning since I've been 12 or 13. I look forward to the sweet embrace.
>> No. 444783 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 2:46 pm
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>>444782

Not really anybody's fault if you got your genes from nature's sale bin.
>> No. 444784 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 2:56 pm
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The future of this site is three old men moaning about how our bodies are failing us. Just like being on 160m band to be honest.
>> No. 444785 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 3:19 pm
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>>444784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDl4W3_6dqA
>> No. 444787 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>444784

I remember reading more than five years ago that teens were beginning to avoid facebook, because it was "full of parents and paedos".

There will be a time when old people in care homes will spend their twilight years lurking on 4chan all day.
>> No. 444788 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 3:55 pm
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>>444787
My girlfriend worked in a school 6/7 years ago and said it tended to be the lower intelligence ones actually bothering with Facebook.
>> No. 444789 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 3:59 pm
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>>444788
I'm not sure that's specific to that age group.
>> No. 444790 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 4:09 pm
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>>444787

I have a Facebook account that I only use these days as a photo album/address book, I only log onto it sporadically and each time I do it reminds me of visiting my hometown pub that was once bustling with young, trendy, attractive people, but is now empty save for a few geriatric alkie weirdos propped up at the bar having incoherent arguments about politics.
>> No. 444791 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 4:15 pm
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>>444790
Every hometown is like that lad.
>> No. 444792 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 4:51 pm
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>>444787
>There will be a time when old people in care homes will spend their twilight years lurking on 4chan all day.

Just imagine it; our dementia would have us arguing about the same topics over and over again in a complete vacuum to how the rest of the world really thinks.
>> No. 444793 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 5:01 pm
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>>444792
>Just imagine it; our dementia would have us arguing about the same topics over and over again in a complete vacuum to how the rest of the world really thinks.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
>> No. 444795 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 5:47 pm
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>>444793
Not everyone wants to see the same cunt-off over XR week after week.
>> No. 444796 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 6:19 pm
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>>444792

> our dementia would have us arguing about the same topics over and over again in a complete vacuum to how the rest of the world really thinks.

We evidently don't need to wait for dementia to set in for that.
>> No. 444797 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 6:36 pm
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The idea of being old kind of terrifies me honestly.

I've never stayed particularly up to date, even now in my early 30s I regularly find myself shouting at the computer screen because of some newfangled fuckery that doesn't make sense like how it did in the days of Windows XP. How software has to hide all its options nowadays just fucking winds me up to no end, how companies just make the descisions for you and you have to jump through hoops to rectify something that isn't right.

How bad is it going to be in my 60s? At least when my parents were my age, all this computer stuff was totally new and novel to them. Getting to grips with it was starting from the ground up for them. But for me every new thing that works differently is just a pain in my arse, because it was usually something that already worked fine the way it was, until they had to go and start fucking around with it.

My social life is already dead so you know, that bit hardly matters, it's just kind of existentially terrifying to imagine sitting in a care home and barring the door so the nurses don't come in to try force me to socialise when I just want to play obscure Stalker mods on my antique computer.
>> No. 444798 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>444797
By the time you're in your sixties Windows will just fire a large, pointed, mechanical tube out of what you thought was a monitor, piercing into your brain and turning you into a cyber zombie so they can sell ads for your favourite biscuit brand on the start menu. So don't worry about it, yeah?

I don't think it's an older person thing either. I'd wager there are lots of sixteen year olds getting irritated by the many hoops they're having to jump through to play STALKER mods or get rid of the bloatware from the gaming PC their parents bought them. No doubt there are plenty who don't give a crap about any of that, but it's probably about the same ratio of people who used to have junk like BonziBuddy or whatever littering their desktop. I don't know, I've wandered away from the jist of what you were saying so I'll shut up.
>> No. 444799 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 8:14 pm
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>>444797

> I regularly find myself shouting at the computer screen because of some newfangled fuckery that doesn't make sense like how it did in the days of Windows XP. How software has to hide all its options nowadays just fucking winds me up to no end, how companies just make the descisions for you and you have to jump through hoops to rectify something that isn't right.


True. Windows 9x was still designed more with the computer-savvy tinkerer in mind. Nowadays, it's all sleek, minimalist UIs. Which is good for making your software mass compatible so that even the biggest idiot can operate your computer or software, but it can boil your piss when getting to the advanced settings is a real struggle.
>> No. 444800 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 9:26 pm
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Lads, is there any way to find out what was flying above my house at 4am yesterday? For a good hour, it sound like a bloody helicopter going away and coming back. Is there a website that shows that sort of thing?
>> No. 444801 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 9:39 pm
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>>444800
Yes there is.
>> No. 444802 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 9:48 pm
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>>444800

Probably a police helicopter. They were looking for some wronguns in your neighbourhood. Could have been anything from escaped prisoners to joyriding kids or burglars.
>> No. 444803 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 9:55 pm
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>>444802
Yes, but a whole hour, in one area? Seems a bit odd.

>>444801
Would you like to share?
>> No. 444804 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 10:00 pm
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>>444800
Front page of the Standard tonight was a stabbing in Croydon at 1am, presumably last night. Might have been that.
>> No. 444805 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 10:12 pm
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>>444804
Although not far from me, I live in Caterham. Can helicopters be heard that far away? It is like 30 minutes away by train.
>> No. 444806 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>444800
Next time it happens, this is the best real-time display of aircraft around - it includes all the military and restricted aircraft too.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com

Some of the other ADSB sites do have histories; as >>444802 correctly points out, highly likely to be a Police chopper looking for burglars.
>> No. 444807 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 10:32 pm
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>>444804

>a stabbing in Croydon

Would they even bother?
>> No. 444810 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 11:45 pm
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>>444805

Yes, they make a fair bit of noise and it carries since it's in the air, there's nothing to absorb the sounds.

Not really relevant, but I like to complain about it every chance I get - wherever I am, within about 20 miles of my local airport, I can hear whenever there's an ATR 72 in, something about their engines, aside from them being loud as fuck, seems to carry. I can always, always hear when one is taxiing or taking off. There are definitely louder turbines operating at that airfield, including heavy miljets, and NEOs, but something about that ATR drone just cuts through.

I can also hear when the Big Ships honk their horns, despite being several miles from the docks, too.
>> No. 444812 Anonymous
1st July 2021
Thursday 11:56 pm
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Every fortnight I seem to get another novelty song totally stuck in my head. I swear this only started happening in the past year or so.
>> No. 444816 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 7:01 am
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>>444812
I LOVE MY LIFE AS A DICKHEAD
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DICKHEADS TOO
>> No. 444817 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 7:28 am
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>>444816

What's your favourite? My favourite bit is "I play synth... (do do do doo doo) We all play synth..."
>> No. 444818 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 7:39 am
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When I grow up, I want to design the user interface for VST plugins.

They really are getting quite sharp and classy these days. They don't even have pretend knobs anymore, it's just little coloured circles.
>> No. 444820 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 10:14 am
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>>444818

I'm of such an age that if a VST doesn't look like either a poorly designed analogue tape player, or a particularly neon winamp skin, I simply assume it is terrible.
>> No. 444824 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 12:56 pm
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>>444820

It seems like flat colours and illuminating dials are the mock-VU meter of our today. No doubt the kids using this stuff nowadays don't even know the stuff it used to be emulating, so the need to make it look like an old piece of rack hardware is diminishing.

You still get the charmingly naff ones where clearly all they knew how to do was write the name and then use bevel/emboss in photoshop, a least.
>> No. 444825 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 1:24 pm
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>>444824
I think it's partly because in 2008 Steve Jobs and Jonny Ive declared the skeuomorphic interface dead - if they had carried on doing it on the iPhone, they would be everywhere now.

I used to love skeuomorphism when I first built websites - completely went off it though.
>> No. 444827 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 3:43 pm
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>>444825

To be fair it always pisses me off fiddling with little dials using a mouse, that are always either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, and never have the double-click to zero that should be mandatory. Give me a simple slider any day, or better still, just let me type a fucking number.

Trouble is I've reached an age where I can admit I'm stuck with what I know, even if there are a lot of things about it I dislike. Spent the last year trying to suss out Reaper because everyone says it's the best for your money, but frankly I thought it was shite, so I've just pirated a copy of ProTools 12 (it's old, but still four versions ahead of what I had) and all the Waves gear, and it's like slipping on an old pair of shoes.
>> No. 444833 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 5:54 pm
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>>444825

Skeuomorphism was still present on early iPhones. It was really only abandoned in late 2013 when iOS 7 was introduced.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/jun/12/skeuomorphism-apple-ditched-ios7

Skeuomorphism was right for its time in the late 90s to early 2000s, when many new computer and Internet users had as their only frame of reference physical objects in the real world. A button to click on needed to look something like a button you would have pressed in the real world. Most users probably simply would have overlooked the minimalistic icons many web pages and software have today. They would not have been recognised as a navigation element.

I think flat design especially for buttons and other navigation elements makes sense nowadays, now that everybody is used to them. And if done right, you can't really not like the sleekness that comes with it.

The downside is that the trend of flat design then spread to branding, where it led to many bland looking corporate logo redesigns.

There's now a backlash against flat design where it's too stringent, in that you see subtle colour gradients and drop shadows again. Which can go a long way to liven up the blandness of thoughtless flat design. But things probably won't revert to old-style skeuomorphism.
>> No. 444871 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 11:46 am
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Feel bereft.
>> No. 444872 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 10:51 pm
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The policing bill passed.
>> No. 444873 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 10:59 pm
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>>444872
Shocker.
>> No. 444874 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>444873
Yes, and?
>> No. 444875 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 11:12 pm
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>>444871
If this is just an ambient feeling then I feel the same today. It probably doesn't help that it's going to piss it down all week and I don't really have anything to look forward to for the next few weeks. I hope I haven't got that summertime sadness we've been warned about.
>> No. 444876 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:29 am
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>>444874

That's precisely the attitude they wanted us to have about it.
>> No. 444877 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:48 am
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>>444875
I cut my own hair and perked up a bit. Not enough to leave the house, but it was something. Hoovered too come to think of it; by Jove I'll be conquering Gaul by Friday if I keep this up.
>> No. 444878 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 2:34 am
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I have begun flossing on the advice of that one lad here and an offhand comment from someone in real life, but all that happens is my gums bleed and my spittle starts looking like I called Mike Tyson a racial slur to his face, so I fear it's too late for me.
>> No. 444879 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 8:53 am
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>>444878

Personally, I've found there's no need to rub laterally, just to push in the floss and gently rock it, then pop it out again. You might also benefit from a brand that's more like a strip, rather than a piece of string, like the pictured. Some mouthwash afterwards may help to heal things up.

Your gums are likely bleeding because of the infrequency of flossing and muck getting stuck in there. If you're consistent you should notice the bleeding stops within a couple of weeks.
>> No. 444880 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 9:43 am
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>>444876
This article on it is quite interesting
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2021/jul/06/priti-patel-tories-law-and-order-justice-court-delays
if only for the data on court overfilling and the delays.
>Figures for late May show more than 57,000 cases waiting for crown court hearings, and more than 450,000 waiting for magistrates courts. The pandemic worsened an existing crisis: there was a 37,000 crown court backlog in 2019.

>“Your letter made a mistake,” complained one client to Richard Atkinson, a solicitor in Maidstone, Kent, last week. “You put my trial date as October 2022. You meant 2021?” No, replied Atkinson, ... They’re already listing cases for 2023,” ... adding that many cases received no date “because if they were listed, it would be 2024”.

>“Every part of the system suffered cuts, with a massive rise in domestic abuse.” Three in four domestic abuse cases in England and Wales are dropped before coming to trial. ... “I can’t get a hearing listed, and waiting makes emotions rougher.”

>with about 80,000 inmates in England and Wales now, the astonishing official projection is a rise to 98,700 over the next five years
>> No. 444881 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 11:37 am
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>>444878
The blood is your body responding to infection by expanding the capillaries in the gum. You wouldn't think it but by rupturing you are actually helping the blood clean out all the shit on the surface of your gum. You've got gingivitis which will turn into gum disease unless the gum is pulling back (triangles emerging in between teeth) go see a dental hygienist now. Also if there was any doubt, this means that your breath smells.

Oddly my dental hygienist told me after my last deep-clean that as long as I now keep on top of it my gums should start returning although the damage under the gum to my teeth is permanent. Although I now need to come in 4 times a year and cannot afford to fuck around.

>>444879
With floss you make a C around the tooth but it's not actually what's recommended these days for the gums, you want an interdental brush of the smallest size possible. Floss you use for getting the bits where your teeth are close together or touching.

>Some mouthwash afterwards may help to heal things up.

I find the best thing is to brush after flossing as you will have hopefully moved particles out of the way or loosened them.
>> No. 444882 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:11 pm
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The chicken wings I made yesterday were too spicy and I've had to pay for my mistake multiple times in the past few hours.

I used to be able to handle spicy food but it seems my digestive system is getting hwhiter as I'm getting older.
>> No. 444883 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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>>444882

I hear you saying that poo is a sort of currency of absolution. I shall take this information to my next confession.
>> No. 444884 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:44 pm
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>>444881
For clarity; your hygienist does cleaning which has two options:

1. Cleaning with a manual pick, this is uncomfortable but digs in between the tooth and your gum that brushing doesn't reach. This takes about half hour but you'll well and truly know by bleeding where the problem is focused.

2. Cleaning with sonic thingy, more comfortable and effective on hardened plaque but twice the price and you probably won't get an appointment without seeing a hygienist beforehand because they need to clear the whole floor while it's going on due to covid. Something to do with the use of ozone.
>> No. 444885 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:04 pm
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My attempt at making "jollof rice" in my rice cooker turned out far better than I could have hoped for.

Blended up quarter of a tin of tomatoes, the same amount of water, and just about every spice I had in my cupboard, along with some chipped bird's eye chilis and an oxo cube.

Rice cooker kept clicking off so eventually I left the top off, stirred a bit more water in (I know you're not supposed to stir rice whilst it's cooking but I had to), and let it reduce down for a few minutes. It was fucking delicious.
>> No. 444887 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 4:06 pm
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I've just been to Fultons Foods and bought a massive tub of Thornton ice cream, probably for less than they'd have charged for just a couple of scoops. I was worried it wouldn't fit it my freezer but it did, just. I guess that's one advantage of them closing all of their cafés.
>> No. 444888 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:21 pm
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The account I follow for various updates on the phishing industry, as it's reliably been doing for the past seven years, briefly went mildly berserk to rant about how all religions are a trap to trick you into various beliefs about what happens when you die, when in actual fact you will go to whatever afterlife you believe you're destined for.
>> No. 444889 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 8:47 pm
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>>444888
Odd to think that religion is a trap to trick you into believing in the afterlife, when really it's the complete opposite way round, the afterlife is a trap to trick you into obeying the religion.
The whole idea of hell and eternal punishment in Christianity was basically completely fabricated by the Roman Catholic church and hadn't existed before then.
>> No. 444890 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 10:14 pm
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>>444889

>Odd to think that religion is a trap to trick you into believing in the afterlife, when really it's the complete opposite way round, the afterlife is a trap to trick you into obeying the religion.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem maybe.

Ultimately, I guess it's our inability as humans to comprehend that much more probably, dying means lights out, you're done, and no part of you goes on.

You don't see bonobos pondering the Afterlife, and they are our closest extant relatives. No other species is capable of complex thought like us, but we can get ahead of ourselves and still not grasp quite basic concepts. Just take the notion of a multidimensional Universe. The physics shows that four or more dimensions are entirely possible, but even if you're by all accounts a highly intelligent person, you will struggle to really get your head around it, because it's so counterintuitive to evrything we perceive around us with our senses.
>> No. 444891 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>>444890
>No other species is capable of complex thought like us
There's mounting evidence that elephants are capable of legitimate empathy, and even that they have some semblance of organised worship of the sun. Not disputing what you're saying about bonobos being thick, or anything, I just find it interesting.
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8th July 2021
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>444891

True, the empathy thing with elephants is well documented.

You also find a lot of quite similar behaviour in cetaceans, like blue or killer whales. They invest an incredible amount of time in the rearing of their young, they stick together in tight family groups, and females have been seen dragging along a dead calf for days after it has died, which indicates that they mourn their dead, in a way we normally only see in primates.
>> No. 444893 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 10:54 pm
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>>444892
I saw something a good deal of time ago about how some US-based scientists were attempting to communicate with dolphins via an iPad, which I thought was an interesting idea at the time.

I just had a quick look again for it, and all of the significant media coverage was 2010/2011 surrounding a bloke called Jack Kassewitz. Further investigation has shown him to be just a dolphin nutter.
>> No. 444894 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 11:09 pm
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>>444893

Let's hope they didn't wank those dolphins off, like that woman in the 60s.

A NASA scientist, no less.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
>> No. 444895 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 12:11 am
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>>444890
>You don't see bonobos pondering the Afterlife, and they are our closest extant relatives.

This whole discussion reminds me of that hunter gatherer video the youtube algorithm spat out a few weeks back. The gist is the meaning of life is meat, honey and porridge. When you die they say they go to sun, "but whatever we don't really know". I think it shows religion as largely a software feature that morphs based on society which our history certainly shows from local cults to whatever we have now.


How much meat, honey and porridge do you have? Bet it's not nearly as much as you'd like.
>> No. 444896 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 12:29 am
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>>444895

>How much meat, honey and porridge do you have? Bet it's not nearly as much as you'd like.

If anything, too much. The honey usually crystalises before I've finished it, which isn't the end of the world, but is inconvenient. I definitely have too much meat as I keep buying pork loins and chicken thighs on bulk sale and end up freezing a lot of them. I have just about the right amount of porridge, I eat it most mornings.

I haven't watched the video.
>> No. 444897 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 12:31 am
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During the pandemic, I've felt quite content with my own company. Now that things are starting to open up and I'm spending more time around other people, I'm feeling much more lonely. I dunno what's going on there.
>> No. 444898 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 12:37 am
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>>444894

Fun fact: The Ecco the Dolphin games were loosely inspired by the works of the scientist behind that.

He was a bit of a fruitcake. Clearly overdid it with the lucy and thought dolphins were the key to unlocking messages from the interstellar communication network.
>> No. 444904 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 10:31 pm
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>>444895

>I think it shows religion as largely a software feature that morphs based on society which our history certainly shows from local cults to whatever we have now

And it seems to be a persistent feature of the Homo genus. The Neanderthals already buried their dead with certain artefacts, which are considered proof that they observed religion-like cults.

Technically, the Neanderthals weren't a separate species from us, they were more an archaic homo sapien subspecies, but it does point to the fact that religion, or some form of proto-religion, predates our modern concepts of religion by tens of thousands of years.
>> No. 444905 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 11:02 pm
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>>444904

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_behavior_in_animals

"Art does not wait for humans to begin", as they say.
>> No. 444906 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 11:34 pm
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>>444905

I wonder if nature drooled in anticipation of Animal Husbandry as did Pavlov's Dog.
>> No. 444907 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:00 am
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>>444906

That is certainly a sentence.
>> No. 444911 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:54 am
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I find myself really attracted to high functioning autistic women. The awkward ones, furries and anime fans and the like. I'm autistic myself so it's not predatory, I just think they're great.
>> No. 444913 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 1:53 am
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>>444911
Oh dollchap.
>> No. 444914 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 1:55 am
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>>444911

Next time you come accross an authentic furry one, you can forward her on to me if you like.

I've only shagged two legitimately female furries, and I think that was all of them.
>> No. 444916 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:20 pm
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>>444914
Hey not fair, I haven't shagged either of them yet.
>> No. 444917 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:46 pm
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>>444916
*knotted
>> No. 444921 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 10:03 pm
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>>444917
Very rude of you to assume I don't wield a tentacle cock
>> No. 444934 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 11:01 am
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Legally speaking, where do I stand if I signed a contract earlier in the year to work for a company on a self-employed basis, which is then meant to be signed by the director of the company and a copy given to me and I still haven't received this copy about four months down the line? From what I can recall the contract said I'm meant to give them three month's notice if I want to stop working for them, but is that even enforceable if I've never received a copy of the final contract signed by both parties?
>> No. 444935 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 1:34 pm
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>>444921

Well you didn't post a character reference sheet so how were we to know.
>> No. 444936 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 3:34 pm
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>>444934
Yes. You're legally supposed to receive a copy but you specifically signed this document saying you understood and agree to the terms. I assume you've been paid so you're sounding like a bit of a chancer here.
>> No. 444937 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 3:46 pm
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>>444936
Assent by conduct is a thing. If >>444934 has done the work and the company have paid, you can assume that the company have agreed to the contract even without sight of a signature.

If you want to leave earlier, they may well agree payment in lieu, though if you're down to work on a self-employed basis it's difficult to see exactly what they'd be paying you.
>> No. 444938 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 3:51 pm
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>>444937
It's basically one of those self-employed but would probably be classed as employed if HMRC ever looked into it gigs. In essence, they pay me each month to manage a client bank.
>> No. 444939 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 6:24 pm
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>>444938
Ah, good old serf-employment. In which case, the contract you have is binding, but without any specific terms about what responsibilities you have (because you aren't an employee, nudge-nudge-wink-wink) it's difficult to see how they'd hold you to it. They can't not pay you for work you've already done, and if you're technically self-employed they can't exactly force you to work either.
>> No. 444940 Anonymous
13th July 2021
Tuesday 5:21 pm
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It's not actually that hot today but it's hitting me worse now than when I was ten degrees warmer. Think I'm dying.
>> No. 444941 Anonymous
13th July 2021
Tuesday 5:22 pm
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Decided to try fruit and veg as it was on reduced. Tastes like melted ice cream with flour stirred into it.
>> No. 444945 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 1:02 am
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Is there any conceivable reason, besides a shameless money grab, why there are actually colognes out there that are £800 or more per ounce?

I'm shopping around for a new bottle of Lanvin L'homme at the moment, and I am already feeling frivolous for wanting to spend in the region of 50 quid on 100 ml (£25 if you want to take chances on it being coun evangelist christian korean youtubereit).
>> No. 444946 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 1:04 am
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>>444945

>coun evangelist christian korean youtubereit

What a mess, that word filter.
>> No. 444947 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 2:46 am
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I think my soul is full of toxic gas, please help me.
>> No. 444948 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 7:41 am
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>>444947
Go and see your local coun evangelist christian korean youtubereit, they'll sort you out.
>> No. 444949 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 8:08 am
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Britfa in poorly thought through wordfilter shocker.

>>444945
In my experience the expensive stuff lasts longer, a lot longer.
>> No. 444950 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 9:28 am
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>>444949

Not at all, it was obvious there would be issues with the new filters.
>> No. 444951 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 9:29 am
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>>444950
Couldn't it be set as summat like " t-e-r-f" or "t-e-r-f-." instead?
>> No. 444952 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 9:33 am
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>>444951

No, Brian ignores the space. There should be a ticket asking for that to be changed but you know how it is.
>> No. 444954 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 10:14 am
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>>444951
Yes, of course it could.

evangelist christian korean youtuber
astroterf
>> No. 444955 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 10:40 am
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>>444954

That never worked before.
>> No. 444956 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>444955
It surely must have. You know how it is.
>> No. 444957 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 11:06 am
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It's a shit filter anyway, that shed thread wanted a filter for evangelist christian korean youtubers.
>> No. 444958 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 11:06 am
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Oh so they filter to the same thing.
>> No. 444959 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 11:31 am
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>>444956
Having looked at the change made to the filter I'm not sure what's going on.
>> No. 444960 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 12:21 pm
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Do you ever get the impression that there are entire musical genres which are basically a fraud?

I've just come accross "dungeon synth", which is ostensibly an offshoot of dark ambient with nerdy, medieval vibes. It's basically the music you'd pur on in the background of a DnD session.

But the comments on YouTube are full of people talking about how X or Y album is the "best release of the yesr" or "has a really old school vibe" or "has really deep atmosphere", when in actual fact 90% of the stuff I've listened to so far just sounds like a kid dicking around on a Casio keyboard. I'm not exagerrating.

I suppose taste is subjective and all that but... Christ get a grip people. This is music people are churning out with barely half an arse because they know it's only ever going to be on in the background, and as best I can tell it started as a meme anyway.
>> No. 444961 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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>>444960

IMO, much of electronic music stopped being an art when every twelve year old with even the slimmest grasp was able to throw together some notes and soundscapes using a pirated copy of Magix.

There are some very talented unknown electronic musicians on Soundcloud, but most of them do still sound like a kid with a budget Curry's keyboard.
>> No. 444962 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 4:43 pm
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My girlfriend thinks having butter with pasta is weird. I disagree.
>> No. 444963 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 4:53 pm
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>>444962

If she's ever eaten pasta in a restaurant it's had butter in it.

My favorite lazy fat cunt meal is to just chuck some garlic and maybe some chilli flakes in a pan with loads of butter, brown that, then throw your just-cooked pasta on that and toss it about, then call it 'basically aglio e olio but better' to annoy the italians currently reading this.
>> No. 444964 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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>>444962

For a long time my poverty staple was a bowl of fusilli with some lurpak melted over.

Absolutely nowt wrong with it. If you'd made it out of all fresh ingredients you could fool people into thinking it's something far more posh, where the simplicity is the beauty of it.
>> No. 444965 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 7:30 pm
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>>444964

My go-to when my fridge and freezer are almost empty is often what I call poor man's carbonara, i.e. pasta with some cream cheese and milk, possibly a dash of dried herbs, and one or two cooked ham slices cut into little squares. And if I've still got some sliced cheese, I'll dice it very finely and sprinkle it on top.

It's a meal.
>> No. 444966 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 8:06 pm
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I saw a breast on the news.
>> No. 444967 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 8:44 pm
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>>444966
Does that look like a good day out to anyone? I can't imagine having the desire to go and lay on a towel about 8 feet from a total stranger on each side.
>> No. 444968 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 10:51 pm
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I'm booked for speed dating at the weekend. In a park because I don't much fancy going into some dingy basement in a bar at the moment.

Turns out this was a mistake, looking at the weather I'm pretty sure I'm going to melt, 3 hours in the afternoon sun drinking hard. And it's not like I've been getting much practice drinking either. What would you wear? What would you bring for the half-hour BYOB session?

>>444966
Doing God's work, lad.

I was just thinking the other day of the Asian woman on Thin Blue Line and how even as a young lad it gave me some rather, progressive ideas for the 90s.

>>444967
I'm no fan of the beach but they're not spending all day in the sun. They soak up some rays for the tan and then go have some fish and chips.
>> No. 444970 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 6:08 am
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>>444967

Lying on a beach in the sun is pretty pleasant, even if it's busy. I couldn't do it longer than about an hour, mind, so I reserve my beach relaxing for this country.

I must admit, my mate posted some pictures of his views of mallorca the other day, and the clear skies and crystal waters did make me feel like I wanted to be there. I don't think I'd enjoy it for more than a day or two, though. It's too hot and I imagine at the minute you can't do anything too adventurous without major hassle.

I don't really give a shit about going abroad, though, especially to a single destination. Despite working for an airline and getting free flights, I still won't do it. My idea of a fun holiday is driving across Europe.
>> No. 444973 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 1:14 pm
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Slightly off-topic but have any of you ever cured a fear of flying? I'm fucking terrified of it, and I'm soon to go on a 12 hour flight.
>> No. 444974 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 1:20 pm
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>>444973
Take a pack of Werther's Original to suck.
>> No. 444975 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 1:30 pm
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>>444973
Have you tried Xanax? I gather that's what (rich?) Americans do.
>> No. 444976 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 1:38 pm
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>>444973

It really depends how your brain works - if you're analytical, reading about just how rare plane crashes are, about how the entire industry is set up to reduce risk to an absolute minimum, and so on, should help.

If you're more emotionally driven, it might be best just to concentrate on relaxing as much as possible and remembering that the hundreds of other people around you are at least okay with flying otherwise they'd not be there either. The take off is likely the worst bit in terms of noise and sensation, after that you can just close your little window shade and pretend you're on a train.

Most airlines will be happy to accommodate you if you make yourself known as a nervous flyer - either boarding you first, or last, or whatever makes you feel more comfortable, taking you to the flight deck to chat with the pilots (that seems to help quite often), or just generally check in on you if that's the sort of thing you'd like during a flight. Crews are more than happy to do this, they deal with nervous flyers often, it's not an inconvenience for them (certainly not compared with you either refusing to travel or freaking out mid air etc).

It's too short notice and too covidy for this to help you right now, but airlines have been known to do acclimatisation flights where they take you up in a plane for twenty minutes or so and teach you coping techniques and so on. It's surprisingly effective, and might be worth seeking out in the long term.
>> No. 444977 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>>444976

Or, yeah, drugs would work too.
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15th July 2021
Thursday 1:51 pm
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>>444975
Last time I was on this 12 hour flight I took lorazepam/diazepam and it didn't seem to do much. I felt very nervous but also a bit strange.
Not tried Xanax.

The bit I really hate is take off. What with the being vertical at hundreds of miles an hour as my stomach plays up and my brain tells me engine failure is imminent. I couldn't care less about landing, even though it may well be the most dangerous part, my head is thinking 'well at least I can die quite soon', rather than some terrifying descent into the sea. I'm also just buzzing the flight is over.

>>444976
I think I may have to try one of those courses in future. I've never had a proper wobbly on the plane but I can get very visibly anxious.
>> No. 444979 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 2:48 pm
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Today I've discovered the pair of trousers I'm wearing right now are much more comfortable when commando.
>> No. 444980 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 2:57 pm
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>>444978

Both (or all) engines failing would be ludicrously unlucky, but even then your plane is pretty capable of gliding. I know it doesn't really help to try and rationalise your fear like this, you're in a metal tube going 500mph in the middle of the air, I get it.

The courses do get good feedback. The one I'm familiar with is EasyJets "fearless flyer" course, they used to do them quite often pre covid.
>> No. 444981 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:10 pm
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>> No. 444982 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>444981
So what, it's a choice. Katie Hopkins proved it didn't she.
>> No. 444983 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>444981
I miss the regular threads taking the piss out of Jizz Loans, even if it's frowned upon these days.
>> No. 444984 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>444981
Of course that's a load of incendiary guff, but it's the Derpy Mule so I don't care. Am I going to see it all over social media? If so, thank you for the warning. Or is this a sneaky thing for the fetishists?
>> No. 444985 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 4:35 pm
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>>444981
The printing press was a mistake.
>> No. 444986 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 5:15 pm
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Remember when the BBC were told to stop giving climate deniers the benefit of the doubt in the interest of "balance", they're doing the exact same thing with the food industry over sugar in foods.
>> No. 444987 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 5:27 pm
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>>444984

>is this a sneaky thing for the fetishists?

a) it's a preference, not a fetish
b) her gaunt, sneering face is a total boner-killer.
>> No. 444988 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 5:50 pm
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>>444986
I don't see anything to controversial in the lead story at the moment - £3 tax on a kilogram of sugar will effect prices on foods and is eye-watering. What it even misses that reformulation can't work for certain products (cake recipes call for specific sugar for example, already a headache) and that what they're talking about is free sugars.

For the record I'm saying this as the lad that cut sugar and found shopping became much harder. Yes I'm sure we all want to rip up our food culture and agriculture but you have to be practical on how much stress the system can take and how much damage you could do.
>> No. 444992 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 8:46 pm
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>>444986

I don't see why I should have to pay more for Haribo just because other people are fat cunts. Taxing sugar-sweetened soft drinks was perfectly sensible because of how easy reformulation is, but sugar-free Haribos give you violent diarrhoea.
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15th July 2021
Thursday 9:27 pm
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>>444992

>I don't see why I should have to pay more for Haribo just because other people are fat cunts.

Presumably, if you are a fat cunt, you eat more Haribos, so you are going to pay more tax on them. Whereas you as somebody who only eats them occasionally will in the end pay less.

Bit like owning a gas guzzler.
>> No. 444995 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 9:48 pm
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>>444992
Why should you be paying the price you're paying now? Why not less or more? It's all a bit arbitrary.
>> No. 444996 Anonymous
15th July 2021
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It's nothing to do with health, it's an opportunist tax where health gives an easy excuse.

Look how high the taxes are on fags and booze. It's not stopping anybody.
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16th July 2021
Friday 1:52 am
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>>444996

>Look how high the taxes are on fags and booze. It's not stopping anybody.

What else are you going to do when you're on bennies and your 40'' TV is on all day.
>> No. 444998 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 3:15 am
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>>444994
This justification for consumption-based taxes has always annoyed me. Strictly speaking it's true you'll pay more in absolute terms, but that completely ignores your income. Since poor people consume a higher proportion of their income, such taxes hit the poor hard while barely denting the the rich.
>> No. 445004 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 3:17 pm
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>>444998

> Since poor people consume a higher proportion of their income, such taxes hit the poor hard

Poor people are very generally hit harder by consumer goods prices. A frozen pizza or a pound of bananas at Asda costs the same whether you're posh or a pauper. Taxing unhealthy goods only marginally makes it worse for the average dolescum poor person.

I'm in favour of taxing unhealthy goods, because it's often poor uneducated people who smoke and drink excessively and overeat sugary or fatty foods. Not saying there aren't posh fat chain-smoking alcoholics, but that percentage is very probably much lower. Statistics are pretty clear in that fewer members of the middle and upper classes are smokers nowadays than there are among the working and lower classes.

It tends to be more difficult to educate poor lower-class people about healthy eating and healthy life choices, not saying all of them are thick, but by and large it's easier to get them to stop doing something by making unhealthy things more expensive.

It may sound a bit paternalistic, and it probably is, but it's really more about helping people who can't help themselves.
>> No. 445005 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 4:25 pm
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Would a bottle of rosé survive a couple hours in 27°c and be drinkable? I suppose the obvious solution is whisky but want to impress a pretty woman. Perhaps a zinfandel?
>> No. 445006 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 4:35 pm
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>>445005
Depends on your definition of drinkable. Get some rum and some ice cubes, bit of lime and/or some cola. Sorted.
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16th July 2021
Friday 4:37 pm
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>>445005
Invest in a wine sleeve.
>> No. 445009 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 7:25 pm
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>>445004

This is somewhat dated thinking. You're absolutely right that more educated people rarely smoke anymore in the UK (the rest of the world, including mainland Europe, is culturally different in this respect and plenty of educated people still smoke). You're also right that taxing unhealthy foods both has benefits at a population level, but is also deeply regressive in that it inevitably forces the poor to pay more.

The problem hasn't been solved, but it's worth pointing out that more expensive and healthier options are quite literally unaffordable over the long-term to many people when you take into account other costs. The Food Foundation conducted a study that found in order to eat according to the NHS guidelines, the poorest two deciles would have to spend around 42% of their disposable income on food, even when using the lowest estimates of costs. Real world costs would of course vary hugely depending on geography, with many regions skewing higher. Factor in housing costs and it becomes pretty clear why people choose to forego the best nutritional options.

I wish it really were a straightforward case of just getting people to make better choices, then the paternalism would work, but we often miss the wider context of what's happening. If you need to pay even subsidised rent, or if you have kids, or if you want to have any sort of life outside having a roof to sleep under and cooking, it is plainly unfeasible to have a good diet for a non-negligible number of people.

In addition to the economic factors above, I also think people underestimate the necessity of psychologically tolerable food. People living in extreme poverty around the world don't follow the patterns of behaviour you'd expect regarding food; in theory, some could meet their caloric demands by bingeing on bananas and eggs, and even meet their macronutrient and (most) micronutrient requirements, but humans simply don't eat that robotically. Even when people begin earning a little more money, instead of eating the same staples as before (rice, lentils) in greater quantity, they'll opt for a caloric deficit, but tastier calories -- say, the occasional piece of meat.

My two pennies on this is that these regressive taxes are an unfair fix for an economy obsessed with neoliberalism, one of the few public health tools permitted under the current doctrine. If we're talking about population level statistics, obesity is a symptom of inequality, not the pricing of food.
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16th July 2021
Friday 11:12 pm
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>>445004

The bit you're missing, perhaps deliberately I have to speculate, is that it simply doesn't do anything.

Smoking has gone down because of relentless education and curtailing the number of places it's acceptable to do it. But we drink as much as ever and we eat as much shite as ever. It does not work. That justification is entirely specious.

With that in mind, you're left basically taxing poor people more because fuck 'em, poor people don't deserve nice things.
>> No. 445011 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 9:36 am
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>>445010
>But we drink as much as ever and we eat as much shite as ever. It does not work.

This isn't quite true, alcohol consumption has gone down quite a bit since the mid-2000s, especially among young people. Again, there's geographical variation and trends are shifting around, but one interesting thing that's happening in the UK is that increasingly it's a small section of the heaviest drinkers (4% of the population) buying a considerable amount of the alcohol sold (30% of annual sales).

Taxes do have a measurable effect, but in the big picture sense I agree with you that there are better ways to control these things other than regressive taxation.
>> No. 445012 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 9:44 am
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>>445011

I really doubt that's because it's expensive though, at least, not directly.

There's a lot of different factors contributing, but amongst the young I think a big part of it is that today's yoof just don't have the luxury of spending their formative years permanently on the piss like we did and just leisurely sail into a decent enough career without really trying.

I get the feeling society over the past twenty years has mirrored to mother-daughter relationship depicted in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
>> No. 445017 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 1:07 pm
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>>445009

>If you need to pay even subsidised rent, or if you have kids, or if you want to have any sort of life outside having a roof to sleep under and cooking, it is plainly unfeasible to have a good diet for a non-negligible number of people.

So take the money from the unhealthy foods you've taxed and subsidise healthy foods with it.

Then again, it's not just that people at the bottom of society would rather buy a frozen meal from Iceland than whip up a freshly cooked dinner. A lot of them have such poor life skills that they don't even know how to cook simple meals. So I guess you'd have to educate them and teach them basic cooking with fresh ingredients as well.


>>445010

>Smoking has gone down because of relentless education and curtailing the number of places it's acceptable to do it.

True, but there's still a demographic of poor long-term unemployed people that you aren't going to reach, because they will spend most of their day at home, where they are free to smoke all they want.

Also, when you're at the bottom of society like that, you don't have many of life's pleasures, and having a fag every half hour is one of the few things that are attainable for you. And increasing your longevity by quitting smoking may make sense to middle and upper class members, who have retirement to look forward to, but prolonging your bleak, dreary existence by another five or ten years when you're lower class doesn't seem all that appealing.

The only way you are going to get them to quit smoking is to make tobacco itself unattainable for them, by increasing the tobacco tax in such a way that they simply cannot afford it any longer.
>> No. 445018 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 1:47 pm
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>>445017
>So take the money from the unhealthy foods you've taxed and subsidise healthy foods with it.

A nice thought, and I think it is done to some degree with basics like bread and milk, but it's simply not done to the degree that's needed to address everything else I discussed in that post.

>Then again, it's not just that people at the bottom of society would rather buy a frozen meal from Iceland than whip up a freshly cooked dinner. A lot of them have such poor life skills that they don't even know how to cook simple meals. So I guess you'd have to educate them and teach them basic cooking with fresh ingredients as well.

This is just falling back on stereotype. Again, I'd really urge you to look at the bigger picture, and if possible relate it to your own life experiences if you can.

Let me put it to you this way: we've probably all had points in our lives where we've had less than ideal dietary habits. What was it about those times that pushed you into gaining a few kilograms? Lack of motivation, perhaps even a struggle with mental health, financial constraints, time constraints, a period of adjustment to a new routine, uncertain housing or employment?

Now imagine: what if your life had the constant presence of any (or all) of these problems and were largely out of your control, or very difficult to find help for?

I think that's probably closer to the picture we get across the population that's more inclined to 'unhealthy' food.
>> No. 445028 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 8:56 pm
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I mean when I come in from a 12 hour shift and I've only got 12 hours to eat, shower, shit, shave and sleep before I'm in again for the next one, it doesn't matter how easy or simple your Jamie Oliver Five Minute Meal is. I'm not making it. I'm either calling at Maccies on the way acknowledge, ordering take-out, or at best putting a ready meal in the microwave.

That's an extreme example sure but that's basically the gist of why most people don't cook. They know how, I know how, I'm a bloody good cook actually if I do say so myself. But it's always going to be something people sacrifice when other pressures push against their time. Always. It doesn't matter how easy it is, how bish bash bosh dead simple mate, phwoar look at that, quality, and dead easy! you make it. The fact is people will say "fuck that, I can't be arsed doing the dishes afterwards" and turn to other options.

I'm 90% certain a 4 day work week would do more for improving our eating habits than any directly diet oriented policy could ever hope to. If people had more time they'd eat better.
>> No. 445031 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 10:05 pm
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>>445028
>I'm 90% certain a 4 day work week would do more for improving our eating habits than any directly diet oriented policy could ever hope to. If people had more time they'd eat better.

Shouldn't we have seen some sharp turnarounds in peoples diets over the past year? I assume most of the population was either furloughed or working from home at one point.
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17th July 2021
Saturday 10:28 pm
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>>445031

Do we have data on that yet? It might have done for all we know. But then again, we'd probably have to take that with a pinch of salt too, because lockdown and furlough can hardly be called normal conditions, a lot of people will just have been eating shite out of boredom and depression.
>> No. 445034 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 11:35 pm
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>>445032
>a lot of people will just have been eating shite out of boredom and depression

We laughed at moderation's pizza habit. Little did we know it was a cry for help.
>> No. 445050 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 3:50 pm
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>>445031

>Shouldn't we have seen some sharp turnarounds in peoples diets over the past year?

I think a lot of people did plenty more home cooking, but judging by my friends, those who work full time never had the time to hone good cooking skills in the Before times. So that even if you suddenly had loads more free time during lockdown to experiment in the kitchen, it doesn't mean people were eating significantly more healthy.
>> No. 445052 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 4:19 pm
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>>445050
Fuck this healthy-food feature creep. It's never good enough for you people, is it? "Oh, they're eating home-cooked food, but it includes potatoes so it's still not healthy enough." I hate everyone in this thread.

My own personal experience was that I went from eating out every day, presumably fairly unhealthily, to eating the exact same chicken, vegetables and noodles five days a week for about six months. That was undeniably healthier, and I swear I lost at least some weight in the first few weeks, but I think that has been undone now due to additional snack foods filling the gaps. Maybe other people were the same, or maybe not. I do eat more snack foods than most people.
>> No. 445054 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 4:51 pm
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>>445052

In my posts I've tried to add quotation marks around "healthy" and "unhealthy". As with all things to do with health, one of the biggest problems is that biology is complex but that health-promoting habits are (perceived to be) best communicated in simple slogans.

The dichotomy between healthy and unhealthy foods is usually unhelpful. As you allude to in your post, if you're talking about weight loss or gain, it's ultimately down to caloric intake -- you could eat a perfectly nutritionally balanced diet, hit every micronutrient target, but if you eat too much of it you will gain weight.

Where the dichotomy might be somewhat helpful is pointing out which foods that are calorically dense, low in micronutrients, and/or easy to overeat. It's plainly more difficult to overeat fibrous vegetables, lean meat, eggs, etc. than it is to overeat chips or sweets.

I think a part of the problem is that we tend to focus on nutrition along one specific axis according to our experiences; "healthy" homecooked meals in big enough portions will put you into a caloric surplus and you will gain weight. Eating "clean" chicken, brocolli, and brown rice every meal will probably leave you with micronutrient deficiencies in the long term.

When you also factor in the issues brought up earlier in the thread, it's understandable why it's so hard to give general nutritional advice across the whole population, and why public health messaging is so blindingly generic.

The overall makeup of someone's diet comes down to a complicated picture where micronutrients, macronutrients, overall caloric intake, affordability, availability, meal planning, cooking and ordering habits, psychological factors, and physiological factors all play a role.

For example, in your case, it sounds like you'd just need to think about why you're snacking. Are the meals not satiating? You could switch to more satiating foods in your meals to curb snacking (ironically, potatoes are affordable and highly satiating). Protein is also highly satiating in any form and quite difficult to overeat if it's not fatty.
>> No. 445065 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 10:28 pm
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>>445052

>"Oh, they're eating home-cooked food, but it includes potatoes so it's still not healthy enough." I hate everyone in this thread.

Lad.

Boiled potatoes are one of the healthiest foods you can eat. No chef or cooking hobbyist worth their salt will tell you that potatoes are fundamentally bad for you. They're chock full of minerals, and even vitamin C to a lesser degree (raw potatoes apparently contain loads of the stuff, but you really shouldn't eat potatoes raw). Also, they contain slow-release carbs, which, in that respect, makes them superior to white bread and many fast foods.

There are more ways to prepare spuds than deep-fried chips, you know.

>>445054 lad is generally right, in that it's the dosage that makes the poison. You will very likely suffer no adverse health effects if you occasionally chow down a whole dish of fish and chips with all the trimmings. You shouldn't make it a daily thing, but then again, that goes for every dish. Humans generally like variety in their food and can get their calories and nutrients from a wide range of sources, which was probably also a decisive evolutionary advantage for us. So it's probably a good idea to keep that up. But we can also survive on the poorest of diets, and for longer periods of time if we have to. Although that, again, doesn't mean we should.
>> No. 445066 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 10:55 pm
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That brings me to something I have often wondered as a sort of abstract thought experiment.

If there was one single dish you were going to eat as your only meal forever, what would be the most healthy one? What could you make that contains all the right micro and macronutrients?

I ask because I've often tried batch cooking, to both save money and try be a bit healthier by eating "real" food instead of relying on takeaways when I know I won't have much free time. But the stuff it feels most natural to batch cook is stuff like spag bol or lasagne, that I can't imagine is very healthy in the long run if you're eating it several times a week as the mainstay of your diet.

(Also, I've tried the fruit and veg solid food recently, and it's actually not bad at all. Far more palatable than the weird gruel shit they were selling before.)
>> No. 445067 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 11:12 pm
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>>445066

>fruit and veg

Oh come on modlads. Why would you filter Sarah Milican's fanny custard to something as disgusting as this?
>> No. 445072 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 9:42 am
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>>445066

It's hard to do this in a single meal without some weird combinations. Another issue to keep in mind is that some micronutrients "compete" in the body, i.e. you can't take in everything at a single meal. For these reasons it's much easier to think of getting all your micros in on a weekly scale. Aim for a couple of servings of salmon, mackerel, or some other oily fish per week; get some b-vitamins from red meat or other sources every one or two days, etc.

If you really had to try and get everything in a single meal, eggs are about as close to a multivitamin as you can get from "natural" sources. Dietary cholesterol does not directly translate to blood serum cholesterol, so there's no need to worry about that.

All that said, I batch cook staple foods a lot, with my go to being a kind of chilli con carne (with mixed vegetables, chopped spinach, beef, etc.) and potatoes.

I also eat a very set, timesaving diet every day that's more or less designed to cover all my micro and macro bases (while also being very high protein). It's essentially:

Breakfast: Oats and yoghurt mixed with fruit and nuts
Lunch: Eggs and leafy greens (fresh or from frozen), with some sort of fish on the side if I'm very hungry
Dinner: Some kind of red meat, usually beef mince or steak, mixed vegetables, and potatoes

This template has served me really well. I can get into specifics for all these meals, but I'm a tedious nerd when it comes to this stuff. Generally, though, you're doing better than much of the population even if you loosely follow that template, and you're unlikely to ever see a serious micronutrient deficiency. In case there is a gap, though, I also take a cheap multivitamin and mineral tablet every day as an insurance policy.
>> No. 445077 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 3:05 pm
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I really need to see some of this planet that, and meaning no offence to the "don't do England down" freaks, isn't this shitey little country. Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to give myself that chance.
>> No. 445078 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>445077
There are holidays that will take you to places you'd never normally go. Next time you plan a holiday just for a holiday's sake, try one of them, and sure, it'll be in English because that's what you're paying for, but I'm sure you can spot the differences and then if the differences are your favourite bit, you can go back another time and not be so WITH NOTHING TO SAY BECAUSE I AM A CUNT by the statues of Lenin or mud huts in the jungle or whatever. Otherwise, try somewhere else. If you tend not to book holidays, just do it; fuck whatever job you have. They owe you.
>> No. 445079 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>445078
That's a new filter to me. Pretend I said "confused" instead.
>> No. 445080 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 4:19 pm
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>>445079
Baffling, isn't it?
>> No. 445081 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 4:23 pm
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I feel gutted, I've weighed myself for the first time during the pandemic and I'm shocked. I've put on 2st, I'm at 13st, which for a 5'9 short arse is quite a bit. I've never put weight on in my life before this. 29 years old but had the same weight since I was a teenager. Thinking about it, starting Citalopram in January 2020 was maybe not the best idea, but mentally it has saved me.

Oh well time to start counting calories and running again. I guess 2 stone isn't *that* hard to lose...?
>> No. 445082 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 4:39 pm
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>>445081

It just happens as you approach this age. I've been a skeleton all my life no matter what I eat, but this nasty beer gut has snuck up on me since I was about 28, and it's proving hard to shift. I can lose weight, but I'm just slightly slimmer overall with the same size gut.
>> No. 445083 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 5:34 pm
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Society looks down on assistants and other jobs of that nature but honestly I'm useless when I have to perform so-called 'simple tasks'. It took me ages today because I get lost in details and mess up when I have to do prolonged data-entry. Plus I can't follow instructions.

Senior leadership may claim they need someone to manage their diary because it's so busy but the real reason is specific incompetence.

>>445077
>I really need to see some of this planet

Eh, it's mostly shit.

>>445081
It is and will get harder to lose it and keep it off the longer you leave it. You were warned about getting old.
>> No. 445084 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 6:18 pm
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>>445081
> I guess 2 stone isn't *that* hard to lose...?

I started in January, mostly just eating less and I'm almost down that much now, seven months later; it is tough but can be done.
>> No. 445087 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 6:59 pm
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My room and this weather are combining to create conditions that mean my CPU is idling at 43 Celsius and that's still cooler than Ice Town was earlier today.

>>445078
You see, entirely without meaning too you've touched upon the many ways in which I'm preventing myself from reaching my own goals.

That same word filter caught me out last year too, I think it's so old it remembers the last time Labour were in government.
>> No. 445090 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 8:19 pm
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It's not like I care or anything but the hosts marked me as a no show for speed-dating so I never got a ticket to input matches.

I put on my best cape and fedora and sat in a park on burning Saturday for nothing. Do I charge them at overtime rate or something? I know what they're going to do the usual corporate thing and offer another event and maybe the chance to look like a twat messaging people days after the event.
>> No. 445091 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 8:28 pm
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>>445087
The most irony laden post I'll ever make, for sure.
>> No. 445094 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 10:56 am
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Oh, blimey, I just realised it. They can't end homelessness because then you'd have no motivation to work a horrible job for hardly any money. I see, I see...
>> No. 445095 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 11:13 am
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>>445094

I don't know if you're being sarcastic, .gs has become a bit hard for me to interpret for me recently. But overall there's truth to what you're saying, though the more easily observable link is between tolerance for unemployment/underemployment. By ensuring that there is a rung below to fall to, this puts far less incentive on employers to improve conditions for minimum wage or temporary workers. This is openly discussed in economics literature.

There is absolutely nothing stopping legislation being put in place which guarantees people some form of work, and it's not necessarily a Soviet invention; Sweden pursued this policy with great success into the 1970s until it began getting towed along by EU policy and forced into line by international power politics.
>> No. 445096 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 11:25 am
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>>445084

This is great work, well done lad. As someone currently "cutting" and trying to look a bit more presentable for the summer, I appreciate what it means to put in consistent thought/effort like that.

Some quick maffs suggests you were losing 0.26kg (0.57lbs) per week consistently over 49 weeks, which is bang on target for good, sustainable weight loss. I've also been hitting roughly that number, now down 3.6kg (7.9lbs) from the beginning of May, averaging about 0.33kg (0.72lbs) for 11 weeks. If all goes as planned, I'll shift the stubborn mid-section fat for the first time since maybe my teens.
>> No. 445097 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 11:26 am
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>>445095
I was being absolutely earnest, I just come across like that more often than not.
>> No. 445098 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 12:21 pm
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>> No. 445099 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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It's why we're living this week in an absurd world where Europe is underwater and we have to suffer scorchio. Me, I'm waiting for an old friend to return just as people board their flights to whatever country will still have us.
>> No. 445100 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 1:18 pm
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>>445098
I warned you bro, I told you about the Jetstream.
>> No. 445101 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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This weekend is going to be glorious.
>> No. 445102 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 5:35 pm
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>>445101
Fuckers keep pushing it back, I'm getting nervious we'll be stuck in this heatwave forever.
>> No. 445103 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 5:55 pm
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Are the transport pigs real pigs? Like can they arrest you and that?

I just had one tell me it's unlawful to put my foot on a chair, and while I don't intend to argue with him, I find that a little bit doubtful. It's a very petty law if it's true.

What will my sentence be if today's act of civil disobedience is putting my foot back on the chair?
>> No. 445104 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 5:59 pm
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>>445103
British Transport Police are actual coppers. Anyone else is a glorified traffic warden.

The Railway Bylaws are a funny beast. They include rules about things like parking on railway land and who has priority when there are passengers both boarding and alighting from a train.
>> No. 445105 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 6:18 pm
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>>445103
They definitely are 100% pork and nothing but. They were walking about Manchester Piccadilly with G36 assault rifles after the arena bombing, and if oiks like you are going to put your dirty shoes on on the places others sit they ought to be standard issue. Let's see how comfortable you can get with a hollow point 5.56 NATO round through the ankle.
>> No. 445109 Anonymous
20th July 2021
Tuesday 11:10 pm
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Just had a BLT sandwich with the first of this year's homegrown chili peppers. Absolutely delicious. Very spicy too, I had to limit it to thinly chopped bits that I then sprinkled over the tomatoes and pickles.

I could go with some spicy chili con carne tomorrow. Still got some mince in the freezer.
>> No. 445110 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 1:46 am
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>>445103

Yeah they're actually coppers, they swan about the airports too, pretending to look for militant daft woggery, but their only actual job is to fail to arrest drunk, violent passengers.
>> No. 445111 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 1:57 am
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>>445110
IIRC airports are covered by the local territorial force. For example, if you see pigs packing in Heathrow, they'll be from the Met sty.
>> No. 445112 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 3:54 am
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>>445111
I've only done Heathrow the once, and I got a bit tipsy before realising that I was quite far away from my gate. It was fucking rammed, it being first thing in the morning, but a worker told me if I took the lift down to the basement level there was a walkway across the entire terminal that I could use to get to my gate. I had the entire tunnel to myself for the 15ish minute walk, it was absolutely blissful compared to the bedlam above. Highly recommend if either of you fly from there.
>> No. 445113 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 9:53 am
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>>445111

That may well be how Heathrow works, but every regional airport I work at has BTP pigs. I don't know how it works, but I assumed the transport coppers were just an offshoot of the local force but in a different vest. All I know is their vans say transport police. I'm looking at one right now.

>>445112

I love stuff like that. There's a secret staff tunnel at my local airport that is similar. Allegedly, when they build the new satellite terminal, they will also run the tunnel under the airfield and connect it there, so staff can get between the two without needing an airside driving pass. I hardly believe their plans to build a bigger car park, so I doubt it'll ever happen, but if it does I'm petitioning to have an office down there with a little hatch that pops up into the Boots so I'm never more than a ladder climb away from a meal deal.
>> No. 445114 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 10:01 am
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This incessant heat has melted my last few remaining brain cells.
>> No. 445115 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 11:08 am
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>>445114
I'm in full sleep deprivation mode too, now.

Someone please make it stop. Surely Boris can pass a law against it?
>> No. 445116 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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Come on, lads, we're not exactly heading up the Congo River with a woolly jumper on.
>> No. 445117 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 2:24 pm
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You were warned about the sunlit uplands.

>>445116
Where is your god now?!
>> No. 445118 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 2:45 pm
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>>445117
Isn't it Winter there?
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21st July 2021
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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>>445118
Does Doctor Congo even have seasons?
>> No. 445120 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 3:05 pm
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>>445119
His food will be rather bland without any.
>> No. 445121 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 3:16 pm
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>>445120
Maybe this is why I've never seen a Congolese restaurant. You even get Ethiopian restaurants, which I've always wondered about, but I've never once encountered a Congolese restaurant.
>> No. 445122 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 3:39 pm
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>>445121
I don't know why they'd use the word "Congolese", "Congolian" is much more natural sounding.
>> No. 445123 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 4:23 pm
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>>445122
But Congolia isn't a place.
>> No. 445124 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 4:29 pm
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>>445123
Nor is Congoles.
>> No. 445125 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 4:30 pm
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I don't know about you lads, but all this talk is making me seriously crave some Um Bongo. Do they still drink it, in the Congo?
>> No. 445126 Anonymous
21st July 2021
Wednesday 4:36 pm
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>>445117
>Where is your god now?!
Floating in the sky, smiting the unworthy one by one. Really have to plan my similes better from now on.

>>445121
Ethiopian food is really good, give it a try.
>> No. 445139 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:57 am
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I think I'm adapting lads. The temperature in my office has stayed the exact same all week (31C), yet every day it feels more manageable. I'm basically one of those African deliveroo drivers in a hat and coat at this point.
>> No. 445140 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 12:22 pm
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It's okay to have totally lost one's sense of self and be pychologically unable to leave the house.
>> No. 445141 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 12:52 pm
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I'm aware of the irony but I really wish people would stop banging on about how unbearable the weather is at every fucking opportunity. Especially in work. I can't have one meeting without someone being overly dramatic about "melting" or how they "can't get anything done in this heat". Leslie it's 28 degrees you utter fanny. This country is pathetic.
>> No. 445142 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 12:57 pm
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Twitter's vid.me domain name expired and was bought by a porn site so now all the news websites hotlinked videos from it are showing porn.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/04/the-dab-makes-an-awkward-comeback-and-paul-ryan-learns-its-not-a-sneeze/
>> No. 445143 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 1:07 pm
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>>445141

You're not wrong, but also our buildings aren't really set up to deal with the heat. In Asia you'd crank the AC to 18 degrees on a 30 degree day. Also the heat with high humidity is murder.

I'd rather ride the metro in Shanghai on a 40 degree day than take the London tube on a 28 degree day for example.
>> No. 445144 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 1:21 pm
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>>445142
Where do you get the idea Twitter ever owned it? That article was written when vid.me still operated its video hosting platform as an independent company. Around the time of their closure they announced Giphy acquired the company which in turn is now owned by Facebook.
>> No. 445145 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 1:34 pm
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>>445144

Don't care, there's porn on the news.
>> No. 445147 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 3:17 pm
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>>445141
I boasted a couple of days ago about how my grisly ground-floor flat means it is never, ever too hot to sleep. Last night, I slept for about two hours. I agree with you completely, but I'm starting to feel reluctant to speak up in case I wind up suffering even more.
>> No. 445148 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 3:25 pm
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>>445145

Good stuff. I've always said there's not enough porn on the news these days.
>> No. 445151 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 4:07 pm
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>>445148
Would definitely be an interesting way to keep people informed on current events. For international events it could be like a model UN format with girls representing different countries.
>> No. 445152 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 4:26 pm
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>>445151
That's very heteronormative of you.
>> No. 445156 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 6:49 pm
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>>445152
Lesbian erasure in action.
>> No. 445157 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 7:23 pm
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>>445152
>That's very heteronormative of you.
It's borderline heteroinformative!
>> No. 445158 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 7:39 pm
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>>445157
I bet there's an awful podcast by that name out there somewhere. Three episodes, November 2016 to August 2017.
>> No. 445160 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:37 pm
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I've got The Hundred on in the background. The graphics on the screen are absolutely atrocious.
>> No. 445161 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:49 pm
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I wonder how much heat my house would cease absorbing if it were painted totally white? The roof especially, owing to its even darker shade of brown and larger surface area. The loft gets extraordinarily hot during weather like we've had and it clearly effects the rest of the house. Some manner of canopy fixed to the front would help massively too, I think, so the windows beamed less heat directly into the building. I'm saying this because I've a suspiscion we're only going to be getting more weeks like this one in the future and I suspect the square Lego homes much of this country has lived in since the 1970s aren't going to be getting any cooler on their own. Sol Invictus? Not if I can help it.
>> No. 445162 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:50 pm
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>>445160
Forgive me if this is a silly question, as I don't follow cricket at all, but are those at least the respective team's colours?
>> No. 445163 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:57 pm
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>>445162
At the minute the bowling team are in lime green and the batting team are in black.

I think they've gone for brash neon colours because they think that's how to make cricket to appeal to a modern audience. The graphics on the side are gradually going down as the number of balls/runs needed decreases.
>> No. 445164 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:58 pm
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Someone just hit a six and it kept flashing 'OH YEAH' at the bottom.
>> No. 445166 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 9:16 pm
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>>445164
I'm terribly sorry this happened to you.
>> No. 445167 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 9:32 pm
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>I wonder how much heat my house would cease absorbing if it were painted totally white?
About 85% of the heat* unless you shell out for really fancy stuff that's 98%

*from the sun light of course, there'll still be hot air
>> No. 445168 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:04 pm
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Make it anti-flash white. Just to be sure.
>> No. 445169 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:33 pm
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>>445161
Igloos are totally white, and they're not very warm at all. I think you could be onto something here.
>> No. 445170 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:42 pm
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>>445169
Pitch black caves are usually pleasantly cool. I think he should move his house underground instead.
>> No. 445171 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 12:13 am
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>>445161
What are you going to do for the other 8 months of the year? I get what you mean about the temperature rise being something to think about but are you just going to end up spending more on heating than fans.

Now that I think about it that big government drive to get homes insulated is probably going to bite us in the arse in 10 years. Cavity and loft insulation might end up a liability.

>>445170
A mate's auntie did that once, bought a full on goblin home that kept a consistent temperature. Then the spiders and slugs came.
>> No. 445172 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 12:28 am
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>>445171
Ah fuck you've got me thinking. Spider season this year will surely be monsterous.
>> No. 445173 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 1:02 am
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>>445171
My parents went one step further than cavities and the loft, and put a whole insulating layer on the outside of their house. Several inches thick of foam stuff with some fake cement pasted to look like brickwork on the outside. It doesn't look bad, you wouldn't know it's not actual brick until you get up close, but they're on the end of a terrace and their house has sort of become the girthy bell end. They're also now chuntering that it's too hot.
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23rd July 2021
Friday 1:09 am
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I thought insulation should keep heat out in summer as well as in in winter? Unless you've been a silly cunt and left the windows/doors wide open during the hottest parts of the day, but that's on you.

In theory that's how it should work anyway. If you've got good insulation you can sit out the heat by shutting the windows and blinds on the side facing the sun and not letting it in, then throw everything wide open overnight.
>> No. 445175 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 3:54 am
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>>445171
>A mate's auntie did that once
Oh, aye? Visit her often did you?
>> No. 445178 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 11:31 am
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>>445171

That's lucky, I don't know how else you'd feed a goblin.
>> No. 445258 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 6:25 am
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It would seem that going to sleep before 4am is the secret to waking up at a sensible time and having a day to look forward to. “Look forward to” may be a bit overconfident, but it’s better than waking up embarrassed whatever it is.
>> No. 445262 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 2:56 pm
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What's an acceptable length of time to visit parents who live far away? I've got a week off but from past experience I will be bored out of my mind as they decided to retire to the middle of nowhere.
>> No. 445263 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 3:46 pm
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>>445262

I wouldn't visit anyone, even family, for longer than a long weekend.

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
>> No. 445264 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 4:27 pm
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>>445262
Arrive in the evening, one full day, off in the morning? That seems sensible to me, though I'm a deeply unsensible person so perhaps I'm wrong.
>> No. 445265 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 4:35 pm
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>>445262
Book a holiday somewhere else that will mean you can only stay for a couple of days?
>> No. 445266 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 8:45 pm
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It's my birthday tomorrow. It looks like I'll only receive three birthday cards.
>> No. 445267 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 1:37 am
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>>445266
That's how many I get. Three surviving relatives, and I can't imagine getting cards from friends; it would be weird. Happy birthday.
>> No. 445268 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 1:53 am
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The lesbian couple next door are moving to Worthing this weekend. They gave me one of their ficus plants. Who knows what that ficus has seen.
>> No. 445269 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 2:04 am
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>>445268
Pure loads of Cate Blanchett films?
>> No. 445270 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 2:23 am
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God knows what I've eaten but I've been letting off positively molten farts for the last few hours. Pic related, they're that noxious.

Wasn't even that fast food chicken sandwich you all fell straight for the marketing on.
>> No. 445271 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 6:38 am
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Is it just me or is it a lot harder to find decent porn these days? There seems to be far more filler to wade through.
>> No. 445272 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 10:20 am
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>>445271

A lot of girls have gone indie and sell direct to end users. Take Belle Delphine, or Arizona Sky for example.
>> No. 445273 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 10:26 am
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>>445271

What's your definition of "decent"?
>> No. 445274 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 10:29 am
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>>445273
Something I am prepared to wank over.
>> No. 445275 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 10:42 am
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Convinced some people that if you show yourself holding a fish in your dating profile picture it's a secret kink signal that you have a thing for women who don't wash.
>> No. 445276 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 11:39 am
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>>445275

I do wish there was a secret kink signal for "I just want you to spit in my mouth, sit on my face and slap my cock". It'd save so much time.
>> No. 445277 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 12:00 pm
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>>445276
A Lib Dem rosette.
>> No. 445278 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 1:07 pm
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>>445271
I think it depends on what you're looking for. The problem I feel is we've been inundated with webcams and the strange kinks of the people who pay for porn. I usually prefix my searches with things like 'art' or 'erotic' to find something with a proper production value.

>>445275
Missed opportunity. You could've at last solved the Harry Potter menace by spreading a rumour that it's a coprophilia scene.
>> No. 445279 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 1:29 pm
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>>445278

>You could've at last solved the Harry Potter menace by spreading a rumour that it's a coprophilia scene.

What?
>> No. 445280 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 2:09 pm
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>>445279
Harry Potter wordfilters relate to the giving and receiving of gifts. Hot beefy gifts.
>> No. 445281 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 3:38 pm
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>>445271
All the top sites are owned by the same company (Mindgeek). They have gone through a few very distressing steps where they deleted any videos from users who hadn't signed up to something or other, because those videos can't be confirmed as consensual without the uploader providing all their personal details to a pornography monopoly. This means that, for example, XTube (also owned by Mindgeek) lost probably 90% of its videos overnight, because it specialised in the homemade obscure fetish scene.

Oddly, this requirement for obvious definite consent is a total sham. I have one fetish, and that's all I watch, and all the women crying about desperate for a wee they are got removed, but all the voyeur hidden cameras in public toilets (not consensual, technically, since they don't know they're being filmed) are still available to view. So it really is just a front for trying to monetise all the videos they hosted.

I actually simped a woman on Pornhub, because during lockdown, she made a video where instead of pandering to my desires, she explained what it's like to make these videos, like a behind-the-scenes blog. She mentioned that she was one of the top people on Pornhub making that sort of videos, with millions of views, and she had made in the hundreds of dollars and had lost her real-life day job and was really struggling, in spite of the popularity of her videos. I sent her £100 along with a message to not give up, because her videos really were top-rate. She gave up a few weeks later and now her videos are gone too. I made a point not to send her the money through Pornhub, because there's no way I will give those thieving monopolists a sodding penny after how they upset sexylilb17 like that, and I know they'd take a cut.

Maybe everything will sort itself out in a few months. But it's been a few months since this happened, and it isn't fixed yet.
>> No. 445282 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 5:57 pm
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I just wish to go back to a time when "MILF" was not inherently incestuous. It's a sick, sick world, lads.
>> No. 445283 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 6:22 pm
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>>445282
Nothing ruins a wank quite like an attractive older woman turning to the camera and insisting she is related to me.
>> No. 445284 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 6:24 pm
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>>445283
Is there a genre of porn where this happens mid-coitus? Like, ten minutes in, she turns to the lad and goes "Hang on, aren't you our Tina's lad?"
>> No. 445285 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 6:47 pm
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>>445281
>All the top sites are owned by the same company (Mindgeek)
Nope.
>> No. 445286 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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>>445285
Which one's don't they own? All I can think of is XNXX and Xhamster.
>> No. 445287 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 9:09 pm
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>>445286
Which don't they own that belongs to one?
>> No. 445288 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 11:25 pm
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>>445287
I feel this sentence makes sense, but my brain can't accept it.
>> No. 445289 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 1:18 am
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>>445288
>Which one's don't they own?
>one's
>Belonging to one
>> No. 445309 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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I spent quite a lot of money on an office chair from autonomous.ai, and I think it's quite shit.
>> No. 445310 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 4:28 pm
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/27/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-hands-staff-5000-bonus-after-lockdown-sales-surge

Can't remember where the Warhammer thread was, but Orklad might be interested in this.

>Warhammer retailer Games Workshop is handing its shop workers, model makers, designers and support staff a £5,000 bonus each after sales and profits benefited from tabletop gamers escaping lockdown by fighting bloodthirsty battles with orcs, elves and alien hordes.
>> No. 445314 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 5:06 pm
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>>445309

We are a Herman Miller Aeron website, and will not entertain anything else unless it's blue and covered in shit and cum stains
>> No. 445316 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>445314
>We are a Herman Miller Aeron website

Most certainly. I regret to inform you all that I have become one of the standing desk wankers too, though.
>> No. 445318 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 5:25 pm
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>>445316

I thought about it, but then I remembered I'm usually standing or walking about at work anyway, so I refuse to do it at home. Plus it'd mean having to really truly face my cable management issues and I'm just not ready for that.
>> No. 445333 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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I'm a bit nervous. The BBC are giving me weather warnings even though it's "sunny with a moderate breeze".
>> No. 445334 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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>>445333

We keep getting storm warnings but the sky has not yet capitulated. I'm going to be standing in the open next to some metal structures tomorrow morning though so expect it then.
>> No. 445335 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 9:08 am
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29th July 2021
Thursday 1:27 pm
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>>445335
If you were going to smash up a war memorial, it may as well be one dedicated to the fundementally immoral and inhumane strategic bombing campaign. Though I suppose it's there to remember the men not the bombing.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 1:48 pm
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What is it with chavs and wheelies? I'm not even talking exclusively children either, but grown men. Has this always been a thing?
>> No. 445339 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 1:51 pm
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>>445337

One of those age-old moral dilemmas. Most historians will agree that carpet-bombing German cities was instrumental in shortening the war, breaking the German people's morale, and keeping Hitler from a continued pursuit of world domination and Jewish genocide. But the campaign did cost the lives of about 500,000 civilians. Men, women and children who had no part in Germany's military campaign. Compare that to about 40,000 civilian deaths during the Blitz.

But what nobody needs is some woke cry-baby Millennials and generation-Zers taking out their cancel culture on war memorials that celebrate the bravery of our forefathers in fighting one of the biggest threats to the free world in human history.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 2:02 pm
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>>445339

As a military history nerd, my gripe with the modern concept of "remembrance" is that it's really a collective forgetting. Every annual festival of poppywashing, every solemn pronouncement about "the glorious dead" takes us a little bit further from actually thinking about young men doing barbaric things to each other in our name.

If I had the choice, there would be no war memorials and no remembrance ceremonies - we'd just dump a huge pile of mud and shit and dead horses in every town centre once a year.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 2:02 pm
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>But what nobody needs is some woke cry-baby Millennials and generation-Zers taking out their cancel culture on war memorials that celebrate the bravery of our forefathers in fighting one of the biggest threats to the free world in human history.

I don't think it was that. There's been a vendetta between two local history groups and I reckon it is related to that. The naff little planes on the war memorial have been targeted before.
>> No. 445342 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>445338
It's the flipside of modern society's curse of perpetual childhood, innit? Kids have been doing wheelies for decades; it's just that some of them are now 40 but never got any of the things that make you a grown-up, so they never stopped wheelying.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>445339
>But what nobody needs is some woke cry-baby Millennials and generation-Zers taking out their cancel culture on war memorials that celebrate the bravery of our forefathers in fighting one of the biggest threats to the free world in human history.
I wasn't implying that the vandalism had anything to do with a moral objection to strategic bombing and I think it's silly you assumed it could be the motive. The fact that it might be what >>445341 said is very funny though, I hope he's correct.

>>445340
Completely agree with everything here until we get to the pile of dead horses. Even then I respect the intent. Remembrance Sunday is now about what a bastard the Labour leader is, which village has made the most jingoistic cake and then a bit of b-roll of some Chelsea pensioners, in that order. Anyway, we've an entire month to rake over this issue.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 3:47 pm
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>>445340

Is that club really a good weapon? It looks nasty and it's going to cause some flesh wounds but they won't be deep and the wire against flesh will absorb a lot of the bone-breaking impact of naked wood. Your opponent is going to die slowly of infections but might well kill you first.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 4:26 pm
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It's the sort of weapon you hope not to have to use, the value of which is more psychological than anything. They made all sorts of improvised armour too, none of which could have been terribly effective, but I'd damn well rather have it.

In the first world war in particular, the moment-to-moment realities of actual combat are hard to imagine, just beyond what our minds can grapple with. I'm obsessed with it for that reason, I think. You ask most people what they'd do with a time machine and they say "Oh I'd go watch Shakespeare" or "I'd visit Plato" or some shit, fuck that. I want to see the first day of the Somme. I want to see Verdun, Paschendale... I have to know what it was like. What it was really like. How men dealt with it, what they actually did when the push came to shove.

The impression I've come away with, based on substantial reading and research, is that even professional soldiers will try to avoid killing unless they absolutely have to, more often than not; never mind terrified conscript 16 years olds who were thrown in with a Lee-Enfield and six week's training. If you look really deeply into it, this is arguably the reason warfare has progressed in the direction it has done, the reason command and strategy has become what it is- It's far easier to get a man to pull the trigger on a gun from 300 yards, or pull the cord on a howitzer, or push the button on an ICMB, than it is to get him to put a shovel in somebody's collarbone, face to face, knee deep in mud.

I have a feeling that the only reason they were able to make any successful attacks at all were the times they had their men so hyped up on that shit hot early 20th century meth that they went berserk. At most other times I reckon one side or the other would either retreat or surrender as soon as fighting got into close quarters. Most people simply don't have it in them. You'd see the bloke running at you with that big barbed wire club and throw your hands up, and hope he didn't kill you anyway; and if you were the bloke with the club, you'd see the other guy has too many mates with him and you'd bottle it.

If you look into the numbers of wounded versus dead on the Western front, and where/how the injuries and deaths were caused, it paints a different picture than what you'd normally think of. Most of it was artillery, by far, and while the big battles caused massive casualties, it seems like only a relatively slim proportion of the numbers came from direct fighting.

Sage for rambling now, but this is a subject that is actually remarkably hard to look into.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 4:37 pm
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>>445344

It was bodged together in the trenches out of whatever was available, probably by a lad barely out of his teens. A huge variety of medieval-looking clubs were made in the field, often with an empty hand grenade casing or a scattering of hobnails at the business end. The barbed wire would have at least added some weight and concentrated the force of the blow on a smaller area, increasing the chances of a skull fracture. The most effective field-improvised weapons were undoubtedly the French Nail style of raiding knife, which heavily influenced the design of formally-issued bayonets and daggers from the latter part of the first world war into the second world war.

I see improvised trench weapons as being such a powerful artefact because they were clearly used and useful. The sheer quantity of them produced and the number of accounts of their use refute the notion that they were merely menacing ornaments. Whatever the officers behind the lines might have believed, the men at the front saw a clear need for weapons suitable for the most primitive kind of violence. The impasse on the western front was broken in part by strategic decisions and technological advances, but equally by the willingness of a minority of men to creep across no man's land under cover of night and bludgeon other men in cold blood.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 4:42 pm
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>>445346

It's interesting at least that you two seem to be contradicting each other. A Hobbesian view of trench warfare vs Rutger Bregman's.

>You ask most people what they'd do with a time machine and they say "Oh I'd go watch Shakespeare" or "I'd visit Plato" or some shit, fuck that. I want to see the first day of the Somme.
I'm fairly sure that most people with a time machine would be just executed as a supposed spy for whoever happened to be the bogeyman culture of the time.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 4:44 pm
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I would imagine you don't need to kill the bloke, just wack him until he starts going "nein, nein!" and I reckon barbed wire would help with that. I mean, I know I don't want to be clubbed with a barbed wire wrapped rounders bat, the humanist in me says a German would feel much the same.
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29th July 2021
Thursday 4:47 pm
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>>445345
Why are you reading this backwards? Artillery played a major role even before the war started, it was forgotten but the progression was well established even by the Napoleonic era. Hitting people from far away werks.

Men charging into men with pointy sticks is a problem as old as history and getting your enemy to route is when their deaths happen. For all the Vietnam-era research into shot accuracy or American Civil War bayonetting we still know that a losing enemy is fucked and that soldiers rapidly become grizzled in wartime.
>> No. 445350 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 4:49 pm
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>>445348
I just don't think I'd run any faster away from someone trying to kill me with a barbed-wire bat than just with a bat. Fight-or-flight is going to happen either way.

I suspect it may be psychological but for the person wielding it. It's no longer just sports equipment, you've done something to it, it feels more like a purposeful weapon.
>> No. 445351 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>445345

>I have a feeling that the only reason they were able to make any successful attacks at all were the times they had their men so hyped up on that shit hot early 20th century meth that they went berserk.

The sources I've seen suggest a mix of factors - partly a sustained hatred of the bastards that have been shelling you every day for the last six months, partly a fear of being shot for cowardice, partly a reliance on a small core of men with a natural inclination towards violence. The Germans in particular seemed to rely on using carefully chosen hard bastards in Stoßtrupp and Eingreif divisions as the tip of the spear, with less hardened men bringing up the rear to reinforce the attack.

https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/etd/c5406e66-1327-45d3-9f8c-0e9745a65a6a/etd_pdf/2d25ffa7a8309029dc763673fba8635f/garnett-butcherandboltcanadiantrenchraidingduring.pdf

http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/csipubs/lupfer.pdf
>> No. 445352 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 5:03 pm
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>>445350

>I suspect it may be psychological but for the person wielding it.

And psychological for the poor bugger at the other end. Trench raids were in large part terror attacks, to motivate your own side to believe that a breakthrough is possible and to convince the other side that they aren't safe in their dugouts. If you woke up in the middle of the night to see your mate having his brains smashed out by a bloke wielding a spiked club, you're probably less inclined to fight back and (if you survive the raid) you'll tell a more gruesome story.
>> No. 445353 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 5:17 pm
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>>445352
>If you woke up in the middle of the night to see your mate having his brains smashed out by a bloke wielding a spiked club, you're probably less inclined to fight back
I feel like you're not reading my post thoroughly. Maybe, like you, the bloke wielding the bat thinks it makes a difference but in my experience of fight or flight situations, waking in the middle of the night to see a mate having his brains smashed out is the bit I'm going to be aware of, focus on and remember. I'm not going to notice what brand of shoes he's wearing, if he's got a hat on, if the bat is made from aluminium or wood, or if there's wire wrapped around it. None of that is important because none of it contributes significantly to the imminent danger.
>> No. 445354 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>445350

>I suspect it may be psychological but for the person wielding it. It's no longer just sports equipment, you've done something to it, it feels more like a purposeful weapon.

That's what I was getting at with:

>They made all sorts of improvised armour too, none of which could have been terribly effective, but I'd damn well rather have it

When you're spending days at a time say in a hole essentially just hoping you don't randomly die out of nowhere with nothing you could do to prevent it, you're going to cling to whatever you CAN influence. Wrapping a bat in wire or putting some extra metal on your jacket or what have you is something, at least.

>>445346

>The impasse on the western front was broken in part by strategic decisions and technological advances, but equally by the willingness of a minority of men to creep across no man's land under cover of night and bludgeon other men in cold blood.

No doubt about it, but those men were very much a minority. Either veterans who had been broken by the ordeal and experiencing what we would today recognise as a form of psychosis, or just bloodthirsty bastards in the first place- But by the latter years of the war those were surely in short supply.

The sheer numbers of men serving in that conflict means your average soldier really was just an average bloke- It'd be you or me. The British army numbered ~200,000 at the start of the war, and by the end, it was nearly ten million men strong. If we had been born exactly one hundred years earlier, every single poster here would likely have been there. That's what's so important and so chilling about it, and why we should pay it special attention. These people weren't rigorously prepared, they weren't psychologically prepared in any way other than the fact society itself was a lot tougher in general back then.

Like otherlad said German commanders would specially select the hard cunts as their storm troops, but doing that is a double edged sword- When you commit those troops and they all get killed, you're left with nothing but schoolkids who are utterly shitting their pants.
>> No. 445355 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>445354

*Four million, correction.
>> No. 445359 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 10:25 am
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>>445354
I stumbled across this - looking forward to the corporate world war(s).

Yeah, I know this isn't that, but it's not hard to imagine Google vs Amazon vs Ali* in a Heinleinesque corporate kickoff.
>> No. 445360 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 10:33 am
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>>445359
SF writers have been describing explicitly that for donkey's years.
>> No. 445361 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 10:54 am
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>>445360
Indeed, and I feel it's getting closer. Trench warfare will hopefully be contained to chans & SM. When Amazon, Google & Apple start funding gangs things should get interesting. This is a Google hood, mofo. And then a decent 'Red Friday' corporate sabotage and assassination campaign. Yay.
>> No. 445364 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 1:01 pm
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>>445361

I've always thought that it'll be more like Weyland-Yutani from the Alien franchise, i.e. a mega-corporation conglomerate that is intensely intertwined with the interstellar military, which does the corporation's bidding.
>> No. 445365 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 1:06 pm
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>>445364

You can have that and both and <s>mercenaries</s> independent contractors all infighting or working together for various reasons in different circumstances.
>> No. 445366 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 1:20 pm
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>>445359
That was a disappointing video.

>>445360
>>445361
We're already living in this world, turns out you can use Syrians as cannon fodder and nobody cares. Nice little caste system emerging of westerners for special forces, third worlders as disorganised militia and slavs to get drunk and randomly shoot up the place:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55238803

I doubt we'd see megacorps directly going into the business because it defeats the point but obviously there's a long history of purchasing security services either by BP in Nigeria or in Sierra Leone:

>> No. 445367 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 1:23 pm
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>>445366
I should add that I look forward to the coming bonanza in Svalbard as the government in Kabul realises you need to spend all that aid money on a military to fight a war.
>> No. 445375 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 6:39 pm
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>>445367
> Svalbard

I really want to visit Svalbard - seems like the kind of bleak place I would love.
>> No. 445376 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 7:14 pm
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>>445366

How on earth does being a mercenary work, and how do you get into it? It's not like you see vacancies for mercenaries up on indeed. How do you start up a business as a PMC? Is there a military Costco where you can just go and load up on tanks and service rifles?

I know stuff like this is, by design, kept hush and hidden away from plebs like us, but even so. Is it a bit like buying drugs, where you hang out in the pub and talk to the right people?

(Side not but, where would society be without the vital infrastructure of the pub. Imagine the difference it would have made to history if nobody had ever invented the boozer.)
>> No. 445377 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 7:35 pm
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>>445376
>It's not like you see vacancies for mercenaries up on indeed

https://silentprofessionals.org

>Is there a military Costco where you can just go and load up on tanks and service rifles?

Pretty much. They go to military hardware suppliers and buy what they need.

>(Side not but, where would society be without the vital infrastructure of the pub. Imagine the difference it would have made to history if nobody had ever invented the boozer.)

We'd be going to shisha bars and cafés/salons. There's a whole religion that does this.
>> No. 445378 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 7:36 pm
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>>445376

Don't they just hire their (ex-military) mates, same as any industry?

And, without boozers, people have always found places to congregate and talk shit. Churches, coffee shops, down the blacksmiths or livery yard, that big tree in the village square, crusades. Alcohol helps, of course, but its absence isn't going to stop people doing this most necessary thing (hiding from the womenfolk and sorting things out)
>> No. 445379 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 9:24 pm
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>>445377
>cafés/salons. There's a whole religion that does this.
French is a religion?
>> No. 445429 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 7:55 am
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You wouldn't think it possible, but Oliver Wrainright has gone a straight month of articles that give me the same feeling as watching Videodrome. Quite impressive for a architectural critic, although in complete fairness the hellscape of our modern world has been of considerable aid.
>> No. 445430 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 8:53 am
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>>445429

Not sure I know what you're getting at, here. Last few of his articles seem quite bland, and Videodrome is a body horror. Do you mean things look dystopian?
>> No. 445431 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 9:12 am
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>>445430
Right, I didn't say "Wrainright is writing body horror", did I? I said the content of his articles and Videodrome gave me the same feeling. So think about how Videodrome makes you feel, not what genre it is, and carry on from there.
>> No. 445432 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 10:36 am
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>>445431

Right, so you're horrified or disgusted. To understand what you mean, I actually read through his most recent article about the giant advertisement orb you've attached to your post.

I now understand. But I wish I could go back to my state of ignorance.
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2nd August 2021
Monday 12:00 pm
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>>445432
My apologies.
>> No. 445434 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 6:51 pm
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Speaking of Cronenberg, me and the missus have been on a mission over the last few weeks to watch all his movies. The earlier on ones are just really... They're not great, honestly, you can see his style emerging but it's still nascent, and they are mostly just stock standard b-movies with a weird plot.

Scanners isn't anywhere as weird as I remember it being from the last time I watched it as a teenage stonerlad, it's just a very subtle kid of... Off. It's like it superficially feels like it's set in the same world we live in, but you can tell something isn't quite right about it. It's a bit like when you're having a dream and something perplexing happens out of nowhere, that seems really strange when you wake up, but inside the dream seemed totally normal and coherent.

Videodrome has the exact same vibe, I'd almost consider it a direct sequel to Scanners, set in the same realm. Obviously there a lot more overt weirdness in that film, and the plot itself is much more fleshed out, but the bits of it set in "normal" everyday life have the same subtly surreal quality.

Then there's Crash, which is... Well, that film is a fucking masterpiece honestly. Crash is where that very subtle kind of surrealism was at its peak. It manages to be properly bonkers, without ever straying from the form of what you might mistake for a slow, dull, made for TV afternoon drama on ITV. If you walked into the room and only saw one scene in the background before leaving you'd have no idea of the bizarreness you were witnessing. When I first saw it I was simply confused, I didn't know quite what to make of it, but over the years I've found it the most interesting- Much like the proverbial car crash you can't look away from. If that was intentional then bravo.

Existenz has to be his most underrated movie, but happened to perhaps be my favourite. The dreamlike qualities of the world he portrays are most obvious here considering the whole film revolves around the very idea of what is reality and what isn't- Which is in itself a pretty typical stoner/trip head "woah, deep duuuude" kind of subject, but I can't think of many other films that have pulled it off better. If memory serves it was almost a year ahead of the Matrix doing near enough the same thing too, which is interesting.

The ones I haven't seen yet are Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, but I have heard good things about the latter, and the book it's based on. We'll have to see if the theme holds up.

Of course, the thought has occurred to me that it's really not as deep and clever as all that. A thought occurred to me that would explain why The Fly, ironically, feels so much more grounded in reality- It's not set in Canada.
>> No. 445435 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 7:25 pm
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I haven't been happy since the mass panic days of the pandemic last year, where life was extremely simple. I go to work and back every day now, and can barely be fucked to look after my home or myself.
>> No. 445436 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>445434
>Which is in itself a pretty typical stoner/trip head "woah, deep duuuude" kind of subject, but I can't think of many other films that have pulled it off better. If memory serves it was almost a year ahead of the Matrix doing near enough the same thing too, which is interesting.

Same year, one year after Dark City and Truman Show amongst others films that had been a growing genre. I once read a theory that movies that question reality dropped off in frequency after 9/11 as we became more concerned with real threats.
>> No. 445441 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 9:50 pm
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Spent a hundred quid on a square G-shock because I thought it'd be fun to have the atomic clock function so I can be even more of an annoying cunt at work by measuring stuff to the second, but the watch doesn't pick up a signal when the main time is set to UTC, which is sort of the whole reason I even wanted it. It also feels cheaper than it is, more like a £30 casio offering than a £95 one.

This might be the first ever watch I send back. First world problems and everything, but I am constantly frustrated that nobody makes a watch that caters to my extremely specific needs that I've decided I must have, even though I don't actually need them at all, and have two phones in my pocket all day long both with perfectly good clocks on them.
>> No. 445442 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 9:53 pm
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>>445441
Smartwatch, lad. Your phone will sync to network time signal which is generated by atomic clocks.
>> No. 445443 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 10:01 pm
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>>445442

Smartwatches aren't very good, though.
>> No. 445453 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 11:02 am
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>>445443
How's that?
>> No. 445454 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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Our dog suddenly passed away yesterday afternoon. My partner got him when he was a pup, and had him through pretty much all of her adult life. She's distraught. The poor chap had a tumour on his spleen which ruptured, and he died of internal bleeding right in front of our eyes. At the minute, it's hard not to keep replaying the frantic driving, and having to carry his lifeless body into an emergency vet to arrange a cremation.
>> No. 445455 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 5:23 pm
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>>445454

That's heartbreaking, mate. Worst nightmare for someone that loves their dog. Sometimes you just wish they could tell you what was wrong.

For what it's worth, it sounds like you did everything you could, and it wouldn't have been preventable even if you had got to the vet sooner. In fact, there's no guarantee that it would have been preventable even if you'd been routinely taking him in for scans out of paranoia-level caution.

A small comfort but it's probably the best thing for a dog to be with his people when he goes.

I know I'm running through clichés, it's just shit, and I wish it were different.
>> No. 445456 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 6:17 pm
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>>445454
The only success I've had at helping a bird process emotions on this is to talk about doggy heaven and the chap getting up to his usual antics. Your mileage may vary.
>> No. 445460 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 9:55 pm
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>>445454
Ah, fuck no. Nothing but sympathy.
Think back to the good times.
>> No. 445469 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 12:21 am
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Kangaroos look so damned friendly. At least the little ones, not those big muscle bastards.

Also I had fish and chips earlier today, but it was much greasier than the usual fare from my local chip shop. Frankly it's so bad I feel as though I've eaten a live eel and it's yet to give up the ghost. I knew I should have had a pizza, it's in slices, you don't even have to eat the whole thing.
>> No. 445470 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 1:05 am
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>>445456
>>445460
Thanks lads. We're both lucky enough to be able to call off work at short notice and with no repercussions, so we've done so for the remainder of this week. Her method so far has been keeping busy, which is good enough for now, and I'm obviously happy to do whatever she wants to keep her mind off things.

The pair of us have many years of happy memories with the pooch, I think it'll just take a little while before we can get over the few hours of memories of watching him suffer, but we'll get there.
>> No. 445473 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 1:00 pm
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>>445469
Wallaby innit.

You can find them in off the coast of Scotland and Ireland if you wanted to see some in the wild. I'd be fine with introducing them to GB. Something to keep the swans on their toes.
>> No. 445475 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 1:31 pm
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I drove past the Sainsbury's near where I used to work and got a craving for one of their salad bars, but when I went in they've replaced it with a fucking Argos. I guess this is what they call progress.
>> No. 445476 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 1:52 pm
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>>445475
Morrison's salad bars are 3.75 and absolutely banging provided you get there when there's stock in. Get a 400g bloomer, hollow it out, shove the salad inside, bam, 'healthy' all day sandwich.
>> No. 445477 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 2:05 pm
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>>445473

>Wallaby

Thanks mate. Mine's a pint and a pack of crisps.
>> No. 445478 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 2:07 pm
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>>445476
I prefer the Sainsbury's ones as they had edamame beans and lots of feta cheese, but Morrisons has the advantage you can use their salad bars in their meal deal.
>> No. 445479 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 3:23 pm
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>>445473
It's a western grey kangaroo, don't undermine me in front of the others.
>> No. 445480 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 4:15 pm
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Would I be over dressing an "informal" interview for a warehouse role if I turn up in a shirt and a tie?
>> No. 445481 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 5:11 pm
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>>445480
When I went for a Christmas job at Toys R Us about 15 years ago I felt overdressed wearing a casual shirt, trousers and black shoes. Another lad wore a suit. We were the only ones from our group interview to be offered a job.
>> No. 445482 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>445480

Generally doesn't hurt to be overdressed, it just shows you've taken things seriously. If you get really self-conscious or you're asked to do something physical at the interview, you can always take off your tie and roll up your sleeves.

"Informal" interview will generally mean unstructured or just to talk and ask you a few questions, not "informal" in dress sense.
>> No. 445483 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 5:40 pm
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>>445480
Don't forget trousers.
>> No. 445484 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>445480
Wear a V-neck jumper over the shirt and tie. They'll see that you're wearing a tie, but also that you've paid attention to their instructions.
>> No. 445486 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 8:32 pm
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I'll be getting £6,000 in two years but I could do with a new bathroom now. Should I try and get an interest free credit card to bridge the gap?
>> No. 445487 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 8:51 pm
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>>445486
You might be in more desperate need of something more important between now and then. "Could do with" doesn't sound worth the risk.
>> No. 445489 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 9:21 pm
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>>445487
The bathroom definitely needs replacing and I'd rather not wait two years to get it done. I can't there there being any emergencies that would require such a lump sum.
>> No. 445495 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 10:06 pm
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>>445486
Can't you just save money up like a responsible person?

>in two years

How did this come about, you're being robbed by the inflation alone.

>>445489
Major roof damage? Housefire? Demonic possession?
>> No. 445497 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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>>445489

If it needs doing as preventative measures to stop escalating costs from deterioration then yes go ahead. If the pipes are fucked and you have to flush and shower with the same bucket, go ahead. If it's just so last season's colour, the tub's stained or the mirror's cracked then don't.
I'd not wait around for the six grand in the bush to materialise though, it may never do. Start paying it off as soon as you can.
>> No. 445504 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 10:43 am
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Would it be a good idea to work as a marshall at Leeds Festival? You get free meals and a crew wristband for access when off duty. I wouldn't mind seeing RATM and Gerry Cinnamon but I'm not forking out £300 or whatever for a weekend ticket.

https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/6484820
>> No. 445505 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 10:54 am
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>>445504
Heard good experiences from people I knew who marshalled during uni, might be a bit messier this year what with all the pent up energy. I'd go for it personally. I did bartending at Bestival a few years back and it was absolutely class, loads of interesting people and you felt like a bit of an insider.
>> No. 445506 Anonymous
6th August 2021
Friday 12:04 pm
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>>445504

Nah Leeds Fest is full of wankers. The worst sort of wankers- Cunts who wouldn't think twice about going to a music festival if it wasn't Leeds/Reading/Glasto and they need photos to put on their Tinder bio so they look like the sort of person who goes to festivals even though they don't really like festivals and they only brought a 24 crate of fosters instead of two litres of voddy in coke bottles and a bag full of Es.

Fucking bellends.
>> No. 445527 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 4:16 am
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I thought I knew what the word 'foodie' meant but I keep seeing overweight women use it to describe themselves when I know they only eat a very limited range of food (in excessive quantities). Is it going to be like 'snowflake' where the word loses all meaning because everyone has their own interpretation of what it means?
>> No. 445532 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 1:55 pm
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I've had Anyone Of Us by Gareth Gates stuck in my head all morning. Fucking Paul Gambaccini.
>> No. 445535 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 2:56 pm
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I showed my dog my iPhone 5 and she said "this is as large as a phone ever needed to be, your kind's waste is intolerable and you have turned our paradise amongst the stars into a tomb".
>> No. 445537 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 3:31 pm
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>>445535
Dog waste is pretty intolerable too.

>>445532
What a banger. You could do a lot worse.
>> No. 445542 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 6:15 pm
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How long does poo take to biodegrade and un-poo? That bastard cat of mine was caught short and decided to shit under the trampoline and mix it in with the bark and wood chippings instead of fertilising the flowerbeds.
>> No. 445543 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 6:21 pm
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>>445542
Just use the water in your hot tub to wash it away.
>> No. 445544 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 7:07 pm
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Imagine getting paid almost £100k a year just to slice people's bollocks open. I think I've made a wrong career choice somewhere.

https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916665897
>> No. 445545 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 7:33 pm
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>>445544
Surely there's no slicing and it's keyhole stuff, just inflate-a-scrote and poke around with sticks?
You could have been an NHS hero, clapped by all who met you.

In fairness, an endless conveyor belt of bollocks, day in, day out, and inclusivity paperwork would sap my soul pretty quickly, £100k or no. I'll stick, thanks.
>> No. 445546 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 7:42 pm
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>>445545
When I got the snip a few years back they definitely sliced my ballsack open, I know because the anaesthetic hadn't worked when they made the initial incision.
>> No. 445547 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 8:41 pm
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I think all dating apps share information with one-another because the moment I get somewhere on one I become Mr. Popular everywhere else as well. I'm not boasting, it's doing that thing where you don't get a nibble for weeks and then it swamps you.

>>445544
There's a lot of caveats in that advert to do with travelling across the country and undertaking research on top of the basic needs in maintaining your medical licence. I've dated a few doctors in my time because I'm a gold digging whore and they all had similar complaints about having to pay for a certain amount of hours training/lectures just to tick the box which they inevitably ended up doing last minute because of workload.

Part-time is a myth in the NHS. If you want to play with cocks all day there are easier ways to go about it.
>> No. 445548 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 8:49 pm
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I'm stuck on the Viz comic cryptic crossword. Normally I get them all except three or four, which I look up in an online crossword solver and then enter the competition. But this one is two words so the solver doesn't work for it, and I really can't figure it out.

Lady toying with prick way back in China (3,4)
_E_ S_T_

The only thing suggested online is "Web Site", but I don't see how that works and I would have thought it was one word anyway. "Prick way back" could be the word test, like a prick test, backwards, so it would be xET SETx. Jet sets? How does that work, though?
>> No. 445549 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 9:12 pm
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>>445548

If I know anything about crosswords, and I don't, it's that sometimes they use bullshit like "way back" to mean "the clue is backwards" so it could be _T_S _E_. Having said that, it looks even less likely.
>> No. 445550 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>445548
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1760877.html

Well someone else asked here and they've suggested tea sets.
>> No. 445551 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 12:29 am
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>>445549
Unfortunately, those letters have already been written into the crossword because they are parts of answers to other clues. I thought it might have included the word "East", because China is in the Far East, and maybe that would be reversed, but "Tsae" isn't a word as far as I know and doesn't fit either.

>>445550
Hot diggety! Someone even explains it! A lady can be a tease, and then ST means prick for some reason, and you reverse that and you get TEASETS, and tea sets are made of china so there you go. I love cryptic crosswords when I can do them, but when I can't they are clearly a mountain of shit and I hate them. But thank you so much anyway.
>> No. 445552 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 12:46 am
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>>445551
"ST" isn't "prick", it's "way".
>> No. 445553 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 12:59 am
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>>445552
Ohhhhhhh. For fuck's sake. No wonder I've been doing this for years and never once won the Viz travel mug.
>> No. 445554 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 3:41 pm
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It's my birthday tomorrow. I'm a vegetarian, but have recently taken up eating meat every other month a little treat, so I'm a shit vegetarian. The missus is taking me out for a lovely steak.
>> No. 445555 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 3:45 pm
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>>445554
I've taken flak for this before, but I think steak's overrated so I'd ask you to reconsider your monthly-meat. There's lobster, fried chicken, all manner of flesh I'd rate over and above steak.
>> No. 445556 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 3:59 pm
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>>445555
I'll one up that by saying I think steak is best served crispy, even slightly charred.
>> No. 445557 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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>>445555

Lobster's just bad crab. It's more expensive, but it's worse. Less meat, less flavour, less accessible. Pointless.
>> No. 445558 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:34 pm
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>>445557

I also prefer crab but I would say good lobster can also be really, really good. I think you have to prepare and cook it right, and also the cheap transatlantic lobsters we typically get aren't the best most of the year. It can be a bit like steak where you end up just chucking a load of butter on it and then you just have butter with a meat texture, instead of actually attempting to bring out the flavour of the meat itself.
>> No. 445559 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:11 pm
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>>445555
I appreciate your concern, lad, but I'm dead set on getting a very expensive sirloin. I'm in the US, and steak is pretty big deal over here, there's no six quid "mixed grill" with some pitiful scraps, your steak choices are $50+ at a steak restaurant, or not having steak. It's good.

I've done fried chicken, I could easily do that every month, but moving to the US and eating so much fried chicken is what drove me to give up meat in the first place.

>>445557
>>445558
Lobster is pretty good when done right. The re-branding of lobster from being only fit for servants to being considered a luxury food is quite a fascinating piece of American history, if there were such a thing.
>> No. 445560 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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I think balsamic vinegar has entered my top three pizza toppings. Fucking lush.
>> No. 445561 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:21 pm
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>>445560

Get some of that fancy focaccia from Sainsbury's and eat it dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
>> No. 445562 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:22 pm
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>>445560
Turning the pizza sauce into a gastrique. Add a bit of sugar as well and you're laughing.

If we're doing controversial food stances, I think any more than two toppings on a pizza makes you a wrong'un.
>> No. 445563 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:27 pm
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>>445562
>If we're doing controversial food stances, I think any more than two toppings on a pizza makes you a wrong'un.
Pepperoni, onions, and peppers make a fine combination, thereby disproving this take objectively.
>> No. 445564 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:29 pm
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>>445563
It'd be better without the onions. Onions are a shit pizza topping.
>> No. 445565 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 10:08 pm
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>>445564

>Onions are a shit pizza topping

It depends. They burn easily and are sensitive to high oven temperatures, but if you cut your onions thick enough, at least about a quarter inch, then normally they will be fine.
>> No. 445566 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 10:36 pm
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>>445565
In the high temperature cooking style where the entire thing cooks in a few minutes you are right. That doesn't even touch the sides of the "modern" pizza style which is basically pre-baked or fast baking flat bread with some kind of sauce and cheese which is then covered in pre-cooked ingredients baked long enough to melt the cheese. Your basic take-away pizza, where if we're talking onions you're getting fried onions on a circular cheese toasty.
>> No. 445567 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 11:05 pm
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>>445566
The pandemic got me into the habit of making a pizza from scratch every week. I've found a great flour brand that really develops a strong taste when I leave it fermenting in the fridge for three days. It's a habit I'll definitely be hoping to keep up ad infinitum. I'm even tempted to knock up a little brick pizza oven.
>> No. 445568 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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>>445567
That's great, high temperature, low temperature. The former gives you great results, the latter is for loading it with other fine pre-preared ingredients.
>> No. 445569 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 9:36 am
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I'm getting that wonky wisdom tooth ripped out of my head whatever I have to do. It's so far back and at such an awkward angle that a bit of oat from a flapjack I made was back there for days and good Lord does it ache this morning. I've brushed half-a-dozen times since ate that damned thing and I can't floss there without considerable difficulty. I'll take it out myself if I have to, I don't care how deep it goes, it's my skull I'll do what I want to it.
>> No. 445570 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 9:48 am
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>>445569
I'm wondering if the local dentist might be a better option. I think a wisdom tooth pull is a fixed cost, I think I paid about £45 though that was ~8 years ago.
>> No. 445571 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 10:22 am
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>>445570
I did say, "if I have to". I've just told dentists in the past that "this thing is hard to clean and gets caked in food throughout the day very easily, could you take it out?" and the response always boiled down to "only when it's a more serious problem". They know it's going to be an issue, it's a single wisdom tooth facing a 45 degree angle towards my cheek, but instead of taking it out five years ago I had to wait. Maybe I should have made a slightly overbaked flapjack back then instead, but that's easy to say in hindsight.
>> No. 445572 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 11:34 am
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My laptop has decided it doesn't like connecting to the wifi and will drop out suddenly then refuse to connect. Windows diagnostics says it's an association failure. I wonder how and why. It'll connect to any other source just fine, and no other devices are having trouble with the router. Indeed the absurd situation I am in currently is connecting to my phone's hotspot which is connected to the router. There's nothing in the router's logs to suggest anything is wrong, either.

Anyway, this isn't really /101/ worth but it's close. Maybe trying to google about wifi issues and only really getting stuff like "maybe the router is too far away" might be.
>> No. 445573 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>445571
I was at the dentist yesterday and asked about wisdom tooth extraction and Christ did he do a good job of talking me out of it. 'It's close to the nerve in your jaw so if damaged you could lose all the feeling on this side of your mouth, the top tooth will have nothing to bite against so that might cause damage, etc. etc.'
>> No. 445574 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 2:41 pm
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>>445572
Life is too short. Either replace the built-in card if that's possible, or disable it and plug in a USB wifi adapter.
Or plug it into a cable, if that's at all possible, since copper is good and wireless is witchcraft.
>> No. 445575 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 2:49 pm
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>>445574

>Either replace the built-in card if that's possible, or disable it and plug in a USB wifi adapter.

It's possible, but why?! The card works fine on any other router.
>> No. 445576 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 3:20 pm
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Why the fuck did no one tell me the back of my head looked like that?
>> No. 445578 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 3:51 pm
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>>445575
Did I mention life's too short?
That.
Weird-arse wifi woes just aren't worth the effort. You'll not learn anything worth learning, except not to bother next time. You'll also not fix it. It may get fixed as a side effect of replacing all the drivers fixing whatever firmware download bit-rot you've tripped over, but it may not. It may also fix itself at some point in the future as updates / windows fuckery do the job for you. Fuck it, move on.
If you really must, reduce packet size, or lock your card to either 2.5 or 5GHz if it currently has a free choice.
Or nuke it from orbit.
I have worked on wifi chipsets. Run.
>> No. 445580 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 4:16 pm
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>>445578

Seems like disabling ipv6 in the card fixed it.

I hear what you're saying and don't disagree, but I still have enough life left in me (probably from never working in tech) to at least try a couple of things.

I'll see you in a few hours when I discover it didn't actually work.
>> No. 445581 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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>>445580
Good lad, nice to see someone less defeatist than me.
I'll bang my head on other things for weeks or months, or years for really tricky projects, but I just have no tolerance for PC woes any more. My advice is worth what you paid me. Possibly less.
>> No. 445582 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 4:34 pm
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>>445576
You should see your arse!
>> No. 445583 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 5:43 pm
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>>445573
My dentist pulled my top ones out for free, just wapped out a pair of pliers and went at it.
>> No. 445584 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 9:51 pm
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Cunt of a UPS driver has just left a "Sorry we missed you, we'll try again tomorrow" without even ringing the fucking doorbell, after I took the day off work to receive this parcel. It's my dog's ashes, for fuck's sake.
>> No. 445585 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 9:52 pm
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>>445582
I wish that's where the hair loss was worst, I wish...
>> No. 445586 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 1:48 am
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>The large piece of cake icing and marzipan base features a detailed, sugared design of the royal coat of arms in gold, red, blue and silver. It was given to Moya Smith, a member of the Queen Mother’s staff, who preserved it with cling film and dated it 29 July 1981.

I hope it was Ashens.
>> No. 445587 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 9:10 am
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>>445586
If you eat it, and then you do a poo, is the poo then royal?
>> No. 445588 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 11:33 am
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Clearing out an abandoned storage unit recently, it contained a lot of royal memorabilia, bus-spotting stuff, and a vast amount of 'Tom of Finland' specialist literature.
Was is one of you lot?
>> No. 445589 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 9:18 pm
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Road rage fuelled shootings in Plymouth?
>> No. 445592 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>>445588

I have no interest in the other stuff, but I'll have the gentleman's literature if you don't want it.
>> No. 445594 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 10:38 pm
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>>445589
Doubt you'd shoot your own family over road rage.
>> No. 445595 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 11:48 pm
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>>445594
My mistake, in Googling to find out what's going on, I caught a headline referencing a road-rage killing at Plymouth somewhere in the US that also happened this week, because of course it did.
>> No. 445596 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 10:00 am
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>you guys should really read up on there lore and watch some videos about them there history is incredibly sad and unfair

>In the games and there overall appearance there presented as the bad guys but once you read and learn about there history and lore you realise they never were they were given the shit end of the stick were outcasted forgotten forced to endure a life of hardship due to UCN/earths greed they were hampered as to ensure UCN's dominance and finally decided after centuries of oppression ''no more we deserve a place in this universe we deserve are chance at life''

>it reminds me a lot of what a lot of blackpillers/doomers/outcasts/chronic masturbators on here properly can sympathise in many ways

Description on shooter's most recent video on what is supposedly his YouTube channel.
>> No. 445597 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 10:13 am
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>>445596
I blame absent fathers. Lads need an older, uglier, far more miserable version of themselves to look to and think “if he can get his leg over then I definitely can.
>> No. 445598 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 11:50 am
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If I was rich enough I’d have so many pet civets.
>> No. 445599 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 1:17 pm
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>>445596
This might be too offensive to say in a post with my name attached, but when I heard a guy did a mass shooting that isn't being classed as militant daft woggery, and then I saw a picture of him, I just knew he was one of them. He had a proper neckbeard and everything.

I blame society's sex-positive righteousness. It certainly makes things worse when all the hippies argue that getting laid isn't special at all because absolutely everyone, everywhere, is constantly at it every single day all the time and even a fool could do it with literally zero effort. I mean, if this guy was a 23-year-old virgin, that's not even that shocking. I lost my own virginity at 22. It happens.
>> No. 445600 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 1:41 pm
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Is dying your hair a personality trait? I see to know a small number of lasses who think it is, particularly with bold red, pink or purple hair.
>> No. 445601 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 2:55 pm
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>>445600
It certainly signifies certain in-group statuses depending on if you're a lass dying your pixie cut pink or your chest-length hair platinum blonde. Or just dying your roots.
>> No. 445602 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:06 pm
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>>445600>>445601
I was thinking of bleaching my hair, just because. I think this might be the same level of thought a lot of lasses give it, honestly, chaps.
>> No. 445603 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:10 pm
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>>445602
I agree, I just wanted to equate the colourful haired lot to the platinum blondes who people don't give a second thought to despite it being not all that different.
>> No. 445604 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>445600
Yes, a bad one. I don't think I've ever seen it look particularly good irl, it damages the hair and frankly who can be arsed with it.

>>445603
You were right to do it. Brunette > Blonde.
>> No. 445605 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:34 pm
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>>445596
It is also fairly mental to be able to read his Rudgewick Steam Show history and postings. Sounds like the typical entitled chronic masturbator.
>> No. 445606 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 4:24 pm
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>>445605

Well he had a pretty valid point there wouldn't you say? Underneath an obvious failure of education. Then he went on to prove it.

Sounds to me like he's an absolutely classic case study in the alienation of young men in modern society and the negative impacts it can have, so of course it's great we can hardwave all that away and make fun of him because lol what an chronic masturbator.

Honestly it feels to me at times like these kinds of label exist solely to stop us empathising with people whom society has failed, and instead focus on their individual actions in isolation as inherently immoral beings; which is really a deeply regressive, conservative way of viewing the world.

I don't know how many times it has to happens before the penny drops, but no matter how unlikeable these cunts are, the only thing that will slow the rot is compassion.
>> No. 445607 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 5:55 pm
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>>445605
Fucking hell. Some kid arguing he should be allowed to have a gun because gun ownership doesn't correlate to mass shootings, goes on to commit a mass shooting?
>> No. 445608 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 6:02 pm
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>>445600
I think for some people, coloured hair is a substitute for an interesting personality. Kind of like hats. I've met several people who were most well known for always wearing a specific type of hat, no matter the weather or setting. I am possibly just bitter because I can't pull off a hat, but I knew a guy who got a personalised hoodie with "Hatmaster" sewn on it to show how much he loves hats.
>> No. 445609 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 6:25 pm
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>>445608
People like hatmaster ruin them for the rest of us. I've long wanted to go and get fitted for a proper brimmed hat, but neckbeards and the 2000s in general completely killed them off.
>> No. 445610 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 6:42 pm
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>>445608
I knew someone who used to call himself Bam, after Bam Margera, and he'd always wear a HIM beanie hat, eyeliner and do shit like eating a creme egg with the foil on to show how ker-azy he was.
>> No. 445611 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 7:04 pm
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>>445606
>the only thing that will slow the rot is compassion.
One thing that really fascinates me about how despised these (admittedly despicable) people are, is that we've all been there. This isn't like Shamanismic fundamentalism where most people would never think of it. The wordfiltered word is an abbreviation for "voluntarily misogynist", in other words, not having sex and wanting to. It's loneliness, really, and nothing more. I doubt there's a person alive, male or female, who has never once wanted some opposite-sex companionship and not got it. Hell, I'm sad and lonely right now. And yet the tiny subset of people who take this universal misfortune and turn it into their entire personality are seen as alien freaks, believing something that no normal person would countenance. Why? Are we all just afraid of being lumped in with them so we distance ourselves as much as possible? Do the lucky ones who find love immediately forget what >tfwnogf actually feels like? Do a lot of people secretly agree with him somehow? (I bloody hope not).

In any event, chronic masturbators are like the Twitter righteous brigade. No matter how fundamentally not awful they might be, they are so comically unlikable and hideously obnoxious that they really aren't doing themselves any favours at all and I refuse to support them.
>> No. 445612 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 7:12 pm
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>>445611
I can understand religious extremism more than chronic masturbators. If you blow up a bus you're doing it to prove how great and powerful your chosen religion is. If you're an chronic masturbator and go on a mass shooting, you're doing it to prove how insignificant and inferior you are. It's admitting defeat. I have a lot more respect for Shamima Begum than I do the Plymouth shooter man.
>> No. 445613 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>445612
When it comes down to it they're not that different.
Religious extremists are targeting the exact same types of isolated lonely people.
Both groups are playing off peoples unhappiness and directing it against scapegoats. The only important belief to both groups is that they're perfect and everyone else is holding them back and making their lives bad.
>> No. 445614 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 8:11 pm
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>>445603
You are an agent of chaos, you must be stopped.

>>445605
Yeah, see, I really don't know what to do with someone like this. He's clearly compos mentis enough to receit statistics and lift large objects over his head and not drop them, but then he won't get a haircut and kills five people including a child because girls are scary. I don't mean to stereotype, but is this an autism thing? Or half-a-dozen things all going on at once? I feel like the only way to pull people back from this sort of thing is a massive healthcare, education and social intervention that breaks basically all of their insane habits and shows them another way. It's fantasy of course, but how else do you get through to someone who's talking about how silly gun laws are three weeks before going on a killing spree? I was stuck watching a lot of rolling news today and they were calling him an "In-Cel" and didn't appear to be sure how to use the word in a sentence. I'm sure he was, but he was also built like a brick shit house so how he convinced himself no one would ever want to fuck him seems odd. This is one big thought-sneeze so apologies if it makes no sense.

He's still not as frightening as Hatmaster, mind you.
>> No. 445615 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 9:32 pm
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>>445614
They don't need Clockwork Orange style medical treatments, they need to learn basic social skills and be integrated into society. Unfortunately we have a subsection of men lost between the cracks with a minority of those lashing out murderously. I remember what being a young loser is like with no prospects, it's not very good. I can't imagine it's any better these days with online cultures made up of bitter conspiracy theorists and people telling you to hate yourself. I'm sure it's easy to fall down a rabbit hole.

What we'll probably see soon is a parade of the cheapest and most hairbrained solutions suggested by the social sciences faculty that do nothing to address real causes of social isolation like poor employment. Meanwhile who does seem to have success is Jordan Peterson with his old timey wisdom which is mysteriously all new to them. That probably means he's going to shape the next generation as the young men he gets out the hole grow up. Which seems to be the future we chose.

>he was also built like a brick shit house so how he convinced himself no one would ever want to fuck him seems odd.

I'm pretty sure weightlifting and being a bit on the spectrum are strongly correlated.
>> No. 445616 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 9:51 pm
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>>445605
There but for the grace of God, go I.
>> No. 445617 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 9:52 pm
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>>445615

Absolutely, I'm no fan of Peterson by any means, but when he's one of the few people legitimately offering an olive branch (is that the right idiom? I don't quite remember) he's going to be the one who influences them.

It's like how with the alt right and neo-nazis and what have you. They're frequently the only one who will take social rejects like this under their wing, and yet we somehow seem surprised that they have such an easy time recruiting. It never crosses our minds that we enlightened liberal sorts offered them nothing but spite.

I'm not sure why this blind spot is so pronounced because it seems so obvious to me. I can only rationalise that it's sone inherent monkey brain tribalism thing.
>> No. 445618 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:04 am
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Am I mad to think a big part of the chronic masturbator thing is less the dating habits of our society, and more how we propagandise them? That is, if we had a bunch of blockbuster movies about how being a virgin is actually cool and how you don't need a girlfriend if you've got a hobby, you'd have far fewer chronic masturbators than in the present society where the official line from the movies and shit TV shows is that the nerd always gets the girl at the end, that everyone has sex before they're 20, and so on. It doesn't seem implausible that people wind up comparing themselves against that sort of thing as though it's real life, and more insidiously, people who haven't even been watching the things picking up as second and third hand received wisdom from those who have, vaguely remembering half-parodies and the like. In a broadly similar way to how women wind up comparing themselves to airbrushed models, I wouldn't be surprised if men are comparing themselves to men who don't actually exist rather than to the average man.

This is of course specifically about the chronic masturbator part. If you take that away, we'd still have an underlying problem of social isolation that would have to be tackled. But I suppose my line of thought is that it's very common to ask "how can we get these lads the girlfriends they want?" while I've got a bit of the 1970s social engineer mindset and wonder: "could we implant another desire instead with the scientific, faintly dystopian application of modern media?" instead.
>> No. 445619 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:14 am
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>>445618
I don't think that's mad at all. People self-curating their online image through social media is much the same. When said permavirgin goes online, he's going to see the fit girl from his geography class posting the keys to her new BMW and the fact she's getting railed by a lad from his gym who skips leg day and has a shit tattoo sleeve.
>> No. 445620 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:37 am
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>>445617

Okay, so how do we reach out to them?
>> No. 445621 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:53 am
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>>445620
Hear me out: we legalise prostitution.
>> No. 445622 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:53 am
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>>445618
>a bunch of blockbuster movies about how being a virgin is actually cool and how you don't need a girlfriend if you've got a hobby

I'd watch it. I'm not sure if it work would work given being lonely is physically painful and you generally want the population to hook up but I'm always down for that kind of sitcom. People would moan about female representation and then it becomes another tired 'will they or won't they'.

Maybe we should make a trip to the pub mandatory to get people mixing together, discussing their problems and finding role models. A few pints paid for by the state of course to make sure everyone's a bit pissed. If it doesn't work we'll put ecstasy in the water supply.
>> No. 445623 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:55 am
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>>445621

I'm all for that but I don't think it's the solution to this.
>> No. 445624 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:59 am
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>>445623
If it got to the level of Germany, where a decent encounter with a prostitute is very much affordable, I think we'd see a lot of these problems dissolve.
>> No. 445626 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:59 am
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>>445621
Prostitution is legal in this country. I don't think that's what chronic masturbators really want though, hence why all that talk of 'that feel when no girlfriend' got so popular 10 years ago.

Actually pretty normal when you think about it. Becoming a man in many cultures is seem as losing your virginity but I think everyone knows it's more symbolic and probably more akin to becoming someone who can meet a girl and build a relationship.
>> No. 445627 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 1:05 am
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>>445624

I don't know how much a shotgun plus license costs, or what the time-value of doing the anger management course he needed to get his license back was but I'm certain it's less than a decent escort for an hour.
It's not a question of being able to empty your balls into someone, it's about not being alienated and devalued by - not only society - but yourself, too. That and the basic need for human companionship.
>> No. 445628 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 1:18 am
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>>445627
Just for reference purposes, I was quoted 60 EUR for a threesome in Hamburg.
>> No. 445632 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 3:05 am
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>>445618

I'm not so sure, because I've always been skeptical of the idea that the media we consume truly influences our values or our perceptions of ourselves. That's using the same logic as how increasing the representation of black people or women as leading roles in films benefits those respective groups- There's simply no strong evidence that it actually acheives any meaningful real life impact. That isn't to say it's a bad thing to do, of course, but the material circumstances of people's real life situation is an overriding factor in the vast majority of cases, and having more representation in media does fuck all for them in real terms.

In general I just think it's extremely hit and miss wether mediums like film or TV are able to significantly influence the beliefs of their audience, in practice I think it's more the case that people gravitate towards media containing messaging that already supports their worldview. I mean a lot of people fucking hated the movie Joker because it dared to try and show, even in a comically exaggerated manner, how society can create villains out of otherwise good natured people. They utterly rejected that message because they prefer othering and persecution, and didn't like having to confront a more sympathetic view- And I certainly don't think that film influenced any psychopaths to take action.

I think our social attitudes have to legitimately change from the ground up. The sort of thing people mean when they talk about toxic masculinity, except you know, they need to actually put it into practice instead of just being a buzzword for a hypocritical double standard like that one is.
>> No. 445633 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 4:58 am
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Looking back at Hungerford and Dunblane, I think it's fairly clear that "angry young men with unpleasant personalities and access to firearms" are not a new problem. Like so many other groups, they have found a label and a community online, but I'm not sure we should be panicking about something that happens about once per decade.

I think there's a real risk in giving too much weight to the rhetoric of people who do awful things, rather than recognising the more universal psychological underpinnings. I don't think the psychology of chronic masturbators is meaningfully different to the sorts of characters described in Taxi Driver or Catcher in the Rye.
>> No. 445634 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 8:48 am
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One thing's for sure, I won't be able to listen to the radio for about a week, with Radio 4 going on about chronic masturbators as if they're the new biggest threat to national security since Al Quaeda, only worse because they hate women in particular. Won't somebody think of the women?

It's all so tiresome. I used to be cynical enough to think the media was intentionally talking about the wrong issues and focussing on the wrong things when something like this happened, but these days it feels more like they're just a set of poshos who are completely disconnected from reality in the first place, so no wonder they haven't got a clue about anything.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 9:21 am
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>>445634

>it feels more like they're just a set of poshos who are completely disconnected from reality in the first place, so no wonder they haven't got a clue about anything

That. I think the over-arching issue of the last 20 years isn't the disconnect between politicians and the electorate, but the disconnect between the intelligentsia and reality. The ultra-posh at least recognise that they're not like everyone else; I think the real problem lies with the cohort of upper-middle-class people who are totally oblivious to the world outside their bubble, but imagine themselves some working-class credentials because their granddad had a proper job.

My pet hate is the penchant London-based journalists have for doing vox-pops with "ordinary people from the North" in an indoor market at 2pm on a weekday. Of course you're going to get a bunch of bigoted pensioners and toothless dole scum, because who else do you think will be in an indoor market at 2pm on a weekday? Once, just once, I'd like to see them interviewing people outside Manchester Piccadilly or Birmingham New Street at rush hour.

Don't even get me started on the contempt Labour loyalists have for Tories in hi-vis jackets. Yes, they're Etonians playing dress-up, but does it not occur to them that taking an interest in the working lives of people who work in hi-vis might actually mean something? It might just be lip-service, but that has to be better than total contempt. Champagne socialists love to accuse Thatcher of destroying our manufacturing industry, which must come as quite a shock to the 2.9 million people who work in manufacturing and the manufacturing employers who are desperate for skilled workers.
>> No. 445637 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 10:35 am
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Okay but this BBC article on chronic masturbators has an explanation of the "Chad vs virgin" meme.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 10:58 am
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>>445637
They're just rehashing old ground at this point (>>/news/15132) as are we.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 11:19 am
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>>445637
This one gave me a good laugh
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>> No. 445641 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 3:49 pm
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>Honestly it feels to me at times like these kinds of label exist solely to stop us empathising with people whom society has failed, and instead focus on their individual actions in isolation as inherently immoral beings; which is really a deeply regressive, conservative way of viewing the world.

I meant to reply to this yesterday, but I think you're absolutely correct. At the same time, you probably know that you're fighting an uphill battle in trying to bring this to people's attention.

It's hard to express just how deeply unfashionable it is right now to express that kind of understanding for men, and it's impossible not to speak about it in a gendered way because that's the discourse that's been forced upon us by relentless (and convenient) identity politics. Note that I say understanding in this case -- empathy might come later, but if we even got to the rudimentary stage of recognising that there are external factors involved at all, I think we would make a lot more progress in improving the lives of people and prevent this kind of thing.

What's often missed is that male violence among the public is more often turned inwards than outwards; men kill themselves at a rate of around 5,000 every year in the UK, homicides typically come to around 600 per year in England and Wales (ONS splits up countries for homicides but not for suicides for some reason), and the majority of those victims are men. Concerning age, this is directly from the ONS: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2018registrations#suicide-patterns-by-age

>Compared with the previous year, males aged 20 to 24 years saw a significant increase of 31% from 12.9 deaths per 100,000 males in 2017 (279 deaths) to 16.9 in 2018 (363 deaths)

If you compare the narrative to the numbers, I get the distinct impression that we're 'sexualising' spree violence among a group of socially disenfranchised people in the same way that we 'racialise' gang-related violence among economically disenfranchised people -- even though it would have been white Irish lads committing most of the stabbings not a few generations ago.

My overarching point here is that there are societal factors in your propensity to violence that are evidently more important (and changeable) than the personal views of the individual involved.

>>445634

Also strongly agree. Turning this into a gender issue and forensically examining every aspect of this person's life will take the place of any serious analysis of why violence happens on a broader scale and what we can do about it. Ironically, there's evidence that turning such people into hate figures and notorious celebrities is one of the factors in making further events like this more likely.
>> No. 445643 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 5:40 pm
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What's the female equivalent of the murderous chronic masturbator?

I tried to look it up but instead found a BBC report and follow-up where virgins came to talk about their experiences. It's pretty sobering and of course nothing will be done about it:
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>There is a large community out there that is profoundly hurting and believes that society views them as nothing more than a freakish joke. I have experienced first-hand that stigma and there is no-one to stick up for this community. Most people are too shy and awkward to come forward with their stories and share their experiences with one another. The other extreme, in the shape of the chronic masturbator movement, wants others to experience their suffering. The news focuses on the violence and anger because it is easy to sensationalise, but all that does is drive people's opinion against the whole of the community. Maybe if they could share more positive stories of people who have overcome this lack of intimacy, that is vital to the human experience, they could help to give people the strength to either find help or better themselves.

Then of course the BBC stuck on the end of the latter story a blurb about asexuality having entirely ignored what the men sharing their stories were actually talking about.
>> No. 445644 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 5:54 pm
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>>445641

While I broadly share your distaste for identity politics and don't think framing things that way is really productive or helpful to anyone, I think it is pretty hard to escape in this case, because like you say, it is so clearly a male thing. That's hard to ignore.

I have some vaguely formed thoughts on it, and I don't want to turn the thread into the same tired old cunt off about fisherpersonry and what have you, but it more or less goes like this: The fisherperson movement and subsequent liberation of women was a good thing, the problem is we never finished the job. The kind of social changes it brought about required adjustments to be made in both directions, but we only ever made them in one direction, we made a whole host of new social values that give women more freedom, but largely left the same old expectations and caveats in place for men. The reason we never got that far was because if we did, it would be getting too close to proper actual socialism, and begin to conflict with the established liberal capitalist order of the world.

It would get messy if I was to go into much more depth because my thoughts aren't quite organised enough to state clearly, but the TL;DR is that until we have a true enough state of gender equality that it becomes plausible to imagine a male Belle Delphine we are always going to have some degree of chronic masturbatorism. But of course, the rub there is that if we did reach such a state of equality, there would be no Belle Delphines full stop, male or female (or in-between), and there are a multitude of social and economic interests that oppose such an outcome.

Men don't get as much sexual attention as they want, and women get more sexual attention than they want. The roots of that dynamic go deeper into more aspects of society than we'd ever like to admit, but there is no incentive to fix that imbalance under the capitalist mode of production, because it actually works quite nicely in the interests of the ruling class. After all, what motivates men more than the eternal quest to attain pussy?
>> No. 445645 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 5:55 pm
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I'm going to do Terminator 2 but with Christopher Poole instead of the bloke who invents Skynet. It's the only way.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 6:02 pm
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>>445644
>After all, what motivates men more than the eternal quest to attain pussy?
Respiration.
>> No. 445647 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 6:06 pm
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We're all getting very close to this potentially obvious insight, but nobody has said it yet so I'm going to claim it as my own and declare myself the greatest genius in the thread for saying it:

Isn't it funny how the more progressive and tolerant you are, the more ignorant, hate-filled and eager to string 'em up you become towards the virgin loser community? I wonder why.
>> No. 445648 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 6:09 pm
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>>445647

From this thread alone that's very clearly not true.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 6:10 pm
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>>445634
>One thing's for sure, I won't be able to listen to the radio for about a week, with Radio 4 going on about chronic masturbators as if they're the new biggest threat to national security since Al Quaeda, only worse because they hate women in particular. Won't somebody think of the women?

I look forward to seeing the coming anti-terror solutions to the chronic masturbator pandemic. Perhaps we could put people whose location data doesn't have them outside enough in hi-vis jackets or make Instagram compulsory.

There I was about to luridly comment on how Priti Patel would 'take matters into her own hands' only to discover she's lost the brief! Bojo must be reading our posts and got nervous.
>> No. 445650 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 6:19 pm
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>>445644
>I think it is pretty hard to escape in this case, because like you say, it is so clearly a male thing. That's hard to ignore.

Yes, but I would consider it a "male thing" in the same way I would consider workplace deaths a "male thing". What I mean is that I think this is largely a function of societal structures and expectations that could be changed. The current iteration of identity politics seems totally ill-equipped to address these kinds of questions.

I also broadly agree with your assessment. Changing social expectations for men to the same degree that fishing has for women would essentially require a restructuring of the workplace and means of production. This is why corporate and celebrity 'fishing' often comes across as so embarrassingly hamfisted; I don't think the values of fishing don't actually square that well with neoliberal state capitalism, but sometimes people accept it or adapt to it because it might be something that works in their favour and they want to survive in the world.
>> No. 445651 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 6:19 pm
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>>445646
Then why is breath-play so popular? We'd stop breathing if we could.

>>445648
Oh I wouldn't call us tolerant.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 6:31 pm
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>>445651
Same reason some men like to be dommed by women who won't sleep with them I suppose. The chase is better than the catch?
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14th August 2021
Saturday 6:40 pm
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>>445618

>Am I mad to think a big part of the chronic masturbator thing is less the dating habits of our society, and more how we propagandise them?

Funny you should mention this, because I've been running a multi-year experiment on obscure imageboards to promote shagging fat birds. The majority of the population are overweight or obese, so simple utilitarian principles suggest that influencing people to desire what is available to them would result in a net increase in happiness.
>> No. 445654 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 6:49 pm
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>>445653

Doing god's work.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 7:11 pm
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>>445648
The posters in this thread are much less progressive and tolerant than the ghastly Twitterati who make third-wave fishing and Black Lives Matter their personal life mission.
>> No. 445657 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 8:00 pm
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>>445655

Yes, the people who are less tolerant are more tolerant and vice versa. Words don't have meaning! Everything is chaos! Blood! Blood rain!
>> No. 445658 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 8:31 pm
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>>445654
This has to be the truth Free Masonlad refused to reveal all those years ago.
>> No. 445660 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 10:16 pm
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>>445655

I assume Ash Sarkar is one of the types you're talking about?
>> No. 445661 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 10:34 pm
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>>445654

Phase 2 is buying thousands of copies of Voluptuous XL and Thick 'n' Curvy to deposit in the nation's hedgerows.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 11:36 pm
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Yes I'm sure her position in retweeting that has nothing to do with it advertising the left-wing media company she is involved with. You can also see such gems of wisdom in this topic such as 'women do not rate potential partners' and her claim that many men wouldn't sleep with her when every political active millennial has probably rubbed one out to her at some point.
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14th August 2021
Saturday 11:40 pm
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>>445662

So everything she said is invalidated because she's a manipulative tease that's a really convincing point you're making there.
>> No. 445664 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 12:01 am
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>>445663

She's a professional controversialist, the left-wing equivalent of Katie Hopkins. Her career is built on the fact that she can reliably make Piers Morgan apoplectic with rage on any conceivable topic. If the mainstream media were being sympathetic towards chronic masturbators, I'm absolutely confident that she'd have a hot take on why they should be rounded up and gassed.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 12:44 am
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>>445664
That's not actually the first time she has come out and spoken about chronic masturbators, and terfs actually, in a compassionate way. Helping people to live happy lives is something she seems to genuinely care about, even if they hate her.

Unfortunately, she also thinks the overarching solution to society's is communism.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>445663
I'm saying she's a dishonest media columnist like the rest of them, her retweet literally a man citing her workplace as a cure. For context this would be like Jeremy Clarkson retweeting someone whose recommending the Sun as the solution for how they escaped the cruel tentacles of chronic masturbatordom. And Clarkson then claiming the government should listen to this man.

>If you need to want my advice on how you can pull a woman and escape a dingy existence in your mother's basement.
>What you'll need...is a Jag [vroom vroom vrooooom]

And so on. She's talking bollocks.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 4:49 am
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>>445665

>Unfortunately, she also thinks the overarching solution to society's is communism.

Well, whatever else you might think about her, she's correct about that. All the rational lads in this thread appear to agree that the issues with chronic mastrubatorism and its potential to lead lads to violence are directly tied to the failures of the capitalist system.

You don't get many educated, socially middle class lads with their foot in the door at a good job who go on to become mass shooters, do you. It's always young men with no prospects, and usually a dose of mental illness to compound their disadvantage. The root of the issue is that society no longer needs them in the way it used to, and doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about them. Chronic masturbatorism only comes in as an expression of their frustration, it's a rabbit hole a great deal of these men happen to fall down because they share similar issues. It's a symptom, not the underlying cause.

The same problems affect a great deal of women too, but critically, women can always fall back on the role of motherhood to find purpose and give their life meaning, even if they are resigned to spend the rest of their lives stacking shelves at Tesco. Any woman can always take on the Most Important Job in the World, and she only has to find a lad willing to spunk up her to get it. I'm seeing this first hand as I enter my 30s- All the lasses I hung out with as a younger lad are having kids, and it's remarkable how they suddenly change their outlook. By having a kid, they have instantly fulfilled all the criteria society impresses on a woman as having a purpose in life, and everyone praises and supports them unconditionally.

Now, it should be obvious that popping out a sprog doesn't solve all your problems in life, but in the broad strokes it is the ultimate quick-fix for existential angst in women. They might remain poor and downtrodden, but they have something to care about. I believe that is the key difference in the genders here. For the modern down-and-out young lad, there is no such equivalent. He can't get a good job that values his contribution to society, he's all but disposable, and if he can't even get a girlfriend, what hope does he have of looking forward to starting a family? They have nothing to live for, and that's why they are so easily drawn to these fringe groups, whether it's chronic masturbatorism, political extremism, or religious fundamentalism.

These men's problems are only compounded by the fact that society still places all the same expectations on a man as it did in the 50s, while having destroyed the framework of social structures that made those expectations at least reasonably sustainable (to be clear, they still weren't healthy or good) seventy years ago. The side-effect of liberating women is that the bar has been pushed higher for men in order to consider themselves a success. Women are able to take on better jobs and told they can pursue a career, but the same expectation for a man to be "the provider" remains in place, and the majority of women still want a lad who brings in more money than her.

Even anecdotally I've seen this first hand enough times, uni-educated middle class lasses have been happy to sleep with me for a bit of rough working class action, but I've simply never been relationship material for one of them. For all the talk of equality and fishmongery amongst educated lasses, they still want a man in the traditional role. It's rare for a woman to be the main breadwinner, and rarer still to see a male as the primary caregiver- Even when it does occur, there's a stigma to it the man has to overcome and justify himself. When you take all this stuff together and look at the big picture it's easy to see why things are an uphill battle for these young lads.

None of this is to excuse the actions of Plymouthlad, but what it does is illustrate why the issues here are deep rooted and structural. If we want to solve the problems at hand we can't come at it from a single direction. It's not as easy as just making sure these lads get laid, because their underlying economic precariousness still exists, and it is linked to the reasons they can't find a fulfilling, longer term relationship. Giving them the means to achieve greater economic success in the typical liberal, meritocratic fashion won't work alone, because it still allows them to fall through the cracks, and it doesn't address the social concerns that still lead them down this dark path if/when they do.

I'm afraid it really does just have to be communism. The very notion of equality is paradoxical under a liberal, capitalist system that necessarily involves winners and losers.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 5:30 am
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>>445668

>You don't get many educated, socially middle class lads with their foot in the door at a good job who go on to become mass shooters, do you.

Elliot Rodger, arguably the best known chronic masturbator mass shooter, was from a wealthy Hollywood family. Osama bin Laden was a multi-millionaire and part of one of the wealthiest families in the Middle East. Some of the September the 11th hijackers were from troubled and impoverished backgrounds, but others were highly educated professionals from respectable middle-class families.

>I'm afraid it really does just have to be communism. The very notion of equality is paradoxical under a liberal, capitalist system that necessarily involves winners and losers.

Every communist society in history had a privileged elite of some sort, be they wealthy black-marketeers, well-connected apparatchiks, political loyalists or simply the family members of the Dear Leader. Even in a perfectly planned regime with no corruption and no opportunity for subversion or personal autonomy, you'd still have people who were tall and beautiful, people who were gifted athletes or artists, people with charm and charisma. Unless you sterilise everyone and continue the species exclusively through cloning, equality is a pipe dream because people aren't born equal and stubbornly refuse to regress to the mean.

Mass shootings are relatively rare and mostly a social contagion, perpetuated by the media who give angry and narcissistic men the opportunity to win fifteen minutes of fame. Young men as a whole are much less violent than they were during my childhood, when it was normal to encounter roving gangs of skinheads or football hooligans intent on taking out their frustrations on whoever was unlucky enough to attract their attention.

People are complicated, their problems are complicated and the solutions are complicated.
>> No. 445670 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 6:13 am
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>>445669

>you don't get many

You appear to have misread as

>you don't get any
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15th August 2021
Sunday 6:17 am
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>>445670

(And to be clear I never said it was directly related to wealth either, more broadly the way wealth acts as one of the markers of status, respect, and self-esteem. That's the trouble with capitalism in this context.)
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15th August 2021
Sunday 7:16 am
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>>445671

My broader point stands - even the most totalitarian communist regimes still have marked differences in status and respect. You might be able to achieve economic equality by diktat, but you can't erase social hierarchies through sheer force of will.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 7:53 am
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>>445672

That's not even a counterargument, which is why I didn't touch it. Of course every system has its flaws, and there's no such thing as perfection, but you're failing to articulate any reason at all why that means the status quo is better. That's not a one plus one that equals two, it's just two ones stood next to each other, without interacting.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 8:44 am
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>>445673

People risk their lives in inflatable dinghies every day to get into Britain. Most communist countries had armed guards and minefields on the borders to stop people from getting out. The case against communism as an economic system is pretty much prima facie. The fact that all of the richest and healthiest countries in the world are some shade of capitalist is a prima facie case for it having at least some merit.

Given that all the available evidence points to communism being a failed experiment, you'll need some pretty compelling evidence to plausibly argue that this time will be different.

I'm wholly open to the social democracy of Scandinavia or the state-led capitalism of modern China, I think that unbridled capitalism is generally a bad idea, but I think you'd have to be completely nuts to cast your eye over all the systems of government tried by humanity and pick out communism as the obvious choice.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 9:07 am
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>>445676

This view only makes sense if you ignore global power politics. Since the end of the Second World War, the U.S. has been the world's dominant power and it has exerted that power militarily and economically across the world.

Look up the list of countries under sanction right now, for example, and you'll see many of the countries you would point to as "failed experiments" are or were under heavy sanctions in order to deliberately isolate them and force their governments back into line with a set of norms fixed largely by the U.S. and its 'allies'.

I wouldn't disagree that somewhere like the U.S.S.R. was a miserable fascist state, albeit with a decent welfare system, but we rightly don't recognise that as a fair representation of communism or socialism due to the counter-revolution that happened shortly after the state was created, and the defensive position that Eastern Bloc countries were forced into. East Germany was the border of an international superpower conflict, and did kill people attempting to cross that border, but considering the scale of the stakes involved and the lopsided power balance, it's remarkable that more violence did not occur in Berlin.

However ugly we mind find their histories (ours aren't pretty either, bare in mind), China's successes can't be attributed only to the state capitalist system. Both Russia and China saw more progress in the span of a few generations than perhaps any other countries in history. Compare countries of a similar position at the start of the 20th century to the present. China has also lifted more people out of poverty in absolute numbers than any other country -- whether that's down to communism or state capitalism depends on how you gauge that transition.

Another good counterexample is Cuba, a remarkable country that achieves comparable health outcomes (life expectancy etc.) to the U.S., despite having a fraction of its per capita GDP. Again, in the face of decades of ongoing U.S. sanctions, meaning effective isolation from much of the international market, it has developed a biotech industry, trains a huge number of doctors, but we rarely hear of its achievements such as producing another COVID-19 vaccines (Abdala and Soberana 2) or sending doctors to the EU to help during the early days of the outbreak in Italy.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 9:25 am
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>>445677

>Both Russia and China saw more progress in the span of a few generations than perhaps any other countries in history.
I don't know if this helps because there was a lot of contextual stuff going on, in particular aid/trade from/with the USSR, but the DPRK massively out-performed South until the Korean war, that the US used to install themselves in SK.

The more I read about it, the more suspicious I find the whole thing. Every text on Korea I've read makes a huge deal about how the DPRK drew first blood in that war and that DPRK propaganda lies to its people in saying actually it was the other way around. I believed it, no reason not to but they keep saying it over and over and it starts to feel like they're so eager for it to be the truth that I'm not sure I do believe it any more.The use of repetition just has that propaganda vibe to it.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 10:02 am
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>>445677

>China's successes can't be attributed only to the state capitalist system.

They definitely can. China experienced negligible GDP growth over Mao's tenure, including a catastrophic famine that killed at least 30 million people due solely to mismanagement. The insane growth of the Chinese economy didn't start until the death of Mao and the Four Modernisations of Deng Xiaoping.

The USSR's economic growth was slightly ahead of the global average, but well behind most similarly developed economies. Even by their own data they never exceeded GDP growth of 8% and more realistic estimates put average GDP growth at closer to 2%.
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15th August 2021
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>>445678

Nope.
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15th August 2021
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My mistake, I guess the memoirs of the North Koreans who escaped the country after escaping the concentration camps were lying about it for no apparent reason. Either that or the GDP is irrelevant.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 10:13 am
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>North Korea, even more devastated than the South and suffering as well from a labor shortage caused by the population hemorrhage of the war, had far fewer resources with which to rebuild itself. Yet through a combination of tremendous work and sacrifice on the part of the North Korean people, generous economic and technical assistance from the “fraternal” socialist countries, and the advantage of a pre-war industrial infrastructure more developed than that of South Korea, the DPRK soon achieved economic growth rates that far surpassed South Korea’s into the 1970s. In the late 1950s North Korea’s growth rate of total industrial output (averaging 39% between 1953 and 1960) was probably the highest in the world.

Ref: John Yoon Tai Kuark, “A Comparative Study of Economic Development in North and South Korea during the Post-Korean War Period,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1966, p. 32; Joseph S. Chung, The North Korean Economy: Structure and Development (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1974), pp. 146-47.

https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html
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15th August 2021
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GDP and poverty eradication are very different metrics, and I think there's also an argument to be made that China would have an entirely different level of autonomy and ability to control its economy had it taken on state capitalist reforms and been reintroduced to the world economy at an earlier stage.

Additionally, if you want to talk about the famine, Amartya Sen pointed out quite rightly that another comparable country, India, the government of which whole-heartedly embraced capitalist reform, was killing more of its own population through chronic nutrition issues every eight years, compared to China's famine period of four: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198283652.001.0001/acprof-9780198283652-chapter-11

>Comparing actual mortality with pre‐famine mortality yield remarkably high figures of extra deaths in this famine. Estimates of extra mortality vary from 16.5 million to 29.5 million.23 These figures are extraordinarily large. For example, the excess mortality in the last Indian famine, viz. the so‐called Great Bengal famine of 1943 (occurring four years before independence), is estimated to be about 3 million.24 In the scale of ‘extra deaths’ the Chinese famine was, thus, about five to ten times as large as the largest famine in India in this century.

>Aside from the government's informational inadequacy, which made its own assessment of the situation disastrously wrong, the absence of an adversarial system of politics and journalism also meant that there was little political pressure on the government from any opposition group and from informed public opinion to take adequate anti‐famine measures rapidly. [...] India's experience shows, open journalism and adversarial politics provide much less protection against endemic undernutrition than they do against a dramatic famine. Starvation deaths and extreme deprivation are newsworthy in a way the quite persistence of regular hunger and non‐extreme deprivation are not. Endemic hunger may increase the morbidity rate and add to the mortality rate (in these respects India's performance continues to be quite awful), but that is primarily a statistical picture rather than being immediately palpable and—no less importantly—being ‘big news’. To bring endemic deprivation into the fold of news reporting and to make it a major focus of political confrontation are inherently more difficult tasks, and seem to have been largely beyond the normal activities of journalists and politicians in India.36

>Finally, it is important to note that despite the gigantic size of excess mortality in the Chinese famine, the extra mortality in India from regular deprivation in normal times vastly overshadows the former. Comparing India's death rate of 12 per thousand with China's of 7 per thousand, and applying that difference to the Indian population of 781 million in 1986, we get an estimate of excess normal mortality in India of 3.9 million per year. This implies that every eight years or so more people die in India because of its higher regular death rate than died in China in the gigantic famine of (p.215) 1958–61. India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame.
>> No. 445684 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 11:07 am
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>thread turns into another tediously predictable cunt off about if capitalism/communism works better

You utter fucking cretins, could you miss the point any harder.
>> No. 445685 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 11:14 am
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>>445676

Does it ever occur to you that when somebody says "communism" they don't literally mean "exactly the same economic system as North Korea or the Soviet Union"? Does it occur to you that even the moderate kind of Scandinavian social democracy is still communism in the eyes of a southern conservative Yank?

All of it means nothing if you want to start chasing our tails over semantics, but what we do need is a drastic shift in the mode of production and distribution of wealth, and preferably along more or less socialist lines, i.e "to each according to his need" and all that. The spirit of the matter is more important than the particulars.

We need to dramatically compress the gap between the haves and have nots, the quality of life they have, and the social tensions that inequality causes, whether directly or indirectly.
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15th August 2021
Sunday 11:47 am
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>>445684

Just a discussion about history and politics here, m7. I'm not interested in cunting off with anyone, otherwise I'd probably just be slinging insults around rather than putting in effort and dredging up sources.

That said, it might help to articulate your original point that we've missed.
>> No. 445693 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 1:45 pm
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>>445678
Communism really seems to work wonderfully for about 20 years, after which everything falls apart and the countries become hellholes. If there was some way to impose 15-20 years of communism, then revert back to capitalism, I'd be very much in favour of that. Of course, it's possible that North Korea, and Russia, and other communist places that did well at first, were all just starting out as hellholes and so didn't really need to do as much to improve tremendously.
>> No. 445694 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 2:09 pm
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>>445693
>Communism really seems to work wonderfully for about 20 years,
You could say that.

What really happens (in countries that become communist by revolution, and which don't benefit from significant external support) is that following the change to communism there are severe famines until the government gets production of food and basic goods going again via a switch to a decree economy. Following that there are 20 years of booming growth driven by rebuilding and supported by the shift in the population demographics thanks to the deaths during the revolution and famine.
After 20 years the economy returns to pre-communism levels, the population is ageing again, and the decree-economy leads to stagnation, corruption, and wastage.
>> No. 445695 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 2:48 pm
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>>445694

You present a pretty interesting idea, but I think I'd need some evidence that this happens independently of other major factors. What do you make of external interference in the development of those countries, for instance? For me it seems just as clear that military force and sanctions can cripple a country before any of its ideological goals are met. You can see this scenario playing out repeatedly across Latin America.
>> No. 445697 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 3:28 pm
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I have always hated the fact that the structure of the English language allows for no distinction between "Communism", an end stage of history proposed by Marx and all that, and "Communism", the practices of parties who've tried to organise and bring about that end stage, none of which have ever claimed to have achieved communism.

Not only does it totally bog down the possibility of casual discussion of the first case (they say there won't be money under communism, they had money in every country run by communists), it also allows for some level of confusion and some level of disingenuousness. The Soviet Union can be treated as actually existing communism (even in the late stage where it has some private enterprise), but China isn't communist because it's so obviously capitalist. We know this because it's not structured like the Soviet Union, despite being governed by a communist party. You don't have to be hugely familiar with Marx to think that if the man says "Okay, history goes feudalism > capitalism > socialism? > communism" then a few communists who took over a feudal backwater and tried to jump directly to socialism with limited success might just think "oh right, we've got to go via capitalism" while sticking to the same end goal and remaining in power. So "communism" winds up not even being a particularly good term for discussing the practices of communist parties because the biggest communist party in the world is treated either as a capialist party with red paint, or a sort of Schrödinger's communist where they're communist for having the social credit system and censoring the internet but obviously not communist when throwing state investment at private companies as part of national development.
It would be much better to have clearer terminology for something like "an east-asian developmental state with a capitalist economy run by a communist party, who believe they are presently going through the a capitalist stage of development but maintain the end goal of communism."
>> No. 445699 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 4:03 pm
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These word filters are getting too much. It is ruining a good afternoon read for me. Is Chronic masturbator a filter for chronic masturbator? I guess I will find out after I post this. And how is that one lad calling Osama an chronic masturbator? He had kids and multiple wives I believe.
>> No. 445700 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 4:07 pm
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>>445684
You can't expect people to not get on their ideological soapbox whenever there's a tragedy. You make hay when the sun shines.
>> No. 445703 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 4:28 pm
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>>445699
I have considered THE GREAT RESET on the filters. Don't know. Keep changing my mind on it.
>> No. 445708 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 5:05 pm
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>>445703

I submit a request to just change all of the filtered words to the chair one. It'd be much funnier for about ten minutes
>> No. 445709 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 5:22 pm
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>>445699
Yeah i wondered too. Let's check;
Nazi
Nigger
Gay
Faggot
fisherperson
chronic masturbator
Elephant

Would you believe i felt bad typing these?
>> No. 445711 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 7:10 pm
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I listened to a song on 6Music but I didn't catch the name. I've tried tracking it down, it was after Nautilus by Anna Meredith, but none of them sound like how I remembered it in my head.
>> No. 445712 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 9:52 pm
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>>445699
"chronic masturbator" is an anagram of "celin". Frustratingly, the words that mean "not willing unattached" are also wordfiltered into something which I can't remember but I can just type "voluntarily misogynist" and it'll get filtered again, which is a point in favour of the filters.

It also makes discussion of this topic much more difficult, which means everyone gives up on the conversation faster. In most cases, that would be a good thing, although now the lady-killing non-ladykillers are in the news, they're worth discussing for once. This is a temporary situation, I'm sure.

>>445703
I don't like the wordfilter for "evangelist christian korean youtuber", because that's the real word so it shouldn't be lumped in with "evangelist christian korean youtuber", which is considered a slur. You should filter the abbreviation if you're open to suggestions.
>> No. 445714 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 10:47 pm
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Almost all filters are shit and unfunny, but we all knew this anyway.
>> No. 445715 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 1:30 am
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>>445712
>I don't like the wordfilter for "evangelist christian korean youtuber", because that's the real word so it shouldn't be lumped in with "evangelist christian korean youtuber"
I like it precisely because I spent a moment there trying to work out whether you're on about filtering the word the people I agree with correctly use, or the one people I disagree with would wrongly insist upon. That it completely buggers up something like that (which is, to an extent, just us throwing gang signs at each other to say who we support) in a topic where not much is ever really gained from discussion is fun.
>> No. 445716 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 2:32 am
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>>445709
What happened to reconstituted pork product in gravy?
>> No. 445717 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 3:27 am
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>>445716
Your mum ate it.
>> No. 445725 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 5:17 pm
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I'm the Chicken King of .gs. None of you can handle a bird like I can.
>> No. 445726 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 5:18 pm
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>>445725
You'll need to back that up with evidence.
>> No. 445728 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 7:21 pm
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>>4457260
Well I've eaten it now, so I can't. But let it be known, from Lombardy to Cathay I have moulded poultry to my will and never once faltered.
>> No. 445729 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 8:20 pm
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>>445725
>Chicken King

A cock?
>> No. 445730 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 11:01 pm
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Have any of you ever had an enema? I'm curious about the experience, and if there's a kilo or more of waste lodged in my colon then it only makes sense to do away with it.
>> No. 445731 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 11:23 pm
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>>445730
Yes, it's necessary to keep some activities at least vaguely hygienic. It's pretty straight forward, the tricky part is to let it percolate instead of immediately purging after you introduced the water. I assume it's because it's "soup" rather than solids, but be prepared for your effluent post-enema to be a lot smellier than you might be used to.

I should stress that under normal circumstances an enema is neither needed or helpful. Unless your diet is supremely fucked up or you have a condition you really should see a GP about you're just removing feces from your colon before it was able to do it's job properly. You're not removing "waste lodged in your colon", you're removing feces that your colon was not done processing.
>> No. 445732 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:46 am
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>>445730
>if there's a kilo or more of waste lodged in my colon

There is far more than a kilo inside you, and as >>445731 knowledgably says, it's there for a reason. An easier way to "release" it, is just to water-fast for three days; much of the early weight-loss on a diet is described as "water weight", but its actually the contents of our stomach/bowels/etc.
>> No. 445733 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 5:42 am
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>>445732
>There is far more than a kilo inside you
In other words, he's full of shit.
>> No. 445734 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 10:42 am
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>>445733
We all are. It's a bit weird to think most of us are carrying a load of rotting food/feces around.
>> No. 445735 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 11:17 am
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>>445730
Unless you particularly want to shove water up your arse, you could try Senna (such as pictured) which stimulates your intestine to push its contents through the bowel. I use it occasionally, each time marvelling at how the shit comes out green.
>> No. 445736 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:30 pm
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>>445735
>shit comes out green

Goodness me, I had no idea.

Also, how long does it take? Can you um, control it? Thinking back now, I don't think I have ever knowingly taken a laxative, unless you count a marlboro light/black coffee first thing in the morning.
>> No. 445737 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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>>445731
>>445732
>>445735
I'm not gonna lie, lads, I want to put water up my arse, I just want to justify it.
>> No. 445738 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:05 pm
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>>445737
Get a plastic bottle with a small opening, like a standard 500ml coke bottle. Fill it with warm water, spread, and you can get it to fit the spinct and then squeeze it.

If water sprays all over your floor, or seeps down your thighs, you've done it wrong. It's quite a satisfying sensation, gets it all out. I wouldn't recommend it too often or becoming reliant on it, but it can be a way to shake the old routine up. Or prep for getting pegged. One of the two.
>> No. 445739 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:10 pm
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>>445738
I once had a brief fling with a pornstar. The old-fashioned kind that worked with studios and that, not the OnlyFans tit pics in the bedroom mirror kind. She was even nominated for an AVN award. Anyway, she would always starve herself for 24 hours before she was getting done in the bum (which was her thing) to have a proper good clear-out.
>> No. 445740 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:14 pm
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>>445739

The more I think about the physical demands of the adult entertainment industry, especially of the more professional kind where guys take all sorts of things and girls have to be pristine, the more it strikes me almost a kind of athletic pursuit. It's like dropping water to remain in your weight class or something.
>> No. 445741 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:18 pm
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>>445740
She was in the twilight of her career, but if you look her up in her prime she was a good stone or maybe even two slimmer than when I was with her, and she was conscious of the fact that she'd put herself through hell for a career she convinced herself she wanted as a teenager. It was definitely educational for me.
>> No. 445742 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 8:22 pm
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Listen I don't know what you cunts diets are like that you need to have a bloody enema before you can put something up your arse, but you might want to simply consider adding more fibre to your diet before you resort to sticking the karcherup there. Good grief.
>> No. 445743 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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>>445742
I shit just fine, I'm just bored and want to put things up my bum.
>> No. 445744 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 10:58 pm
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>>445742
If I'm asking the missus to get involved, it's only courteous to get as clean as one can.
>> No. 445745 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 11:09 pm
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>>445744

The point being, chaps, that something is wrong if you need to at all. A shower and a thorough rinse of the ringpeice should be sufficient. How do you think gaylads maintain any sexual regularity at all if you think it works like that?

Sort your diet out, don't give me excuses.
>> No. 445746 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 12:38 am
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>>445745
>Sort your diet out, don't give me excuses.

I've never met a gaylad who didn't drink coffee. What's their secret?
>> No. 445747 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 2:48 am
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>>445745
You're misunderstanding me. I don't want to shoot water up there to clear my rectum out so I can start shoving who knows what up there for my enjoyment. I want to shoot water up there for my own enjoyment. Any removal of waste and excrement is just a bonus.
>> No. 445748 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 6:00 am
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>>445745

>How do you think gaylads maintain any sexual regularity at all if you think it works like that?
>> No. 445749 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 9:31 am
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>>445736
It takes around a day to take effect and lasts maybe 2 days - the most effect i've found is back pain, stiffness and heat (come from the intestine).
Senna causes 'peristaltic contractions' in the intestine, which basically kneeds and pushes the contents toward the exit. Unless you've a weak sphincter you're unlikely to leak.

>>445747
You've been watching those sissy hypno's again, haven't you?
>> No. 445752 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 10:56 am
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>>445749

The again that belongs to sissy hypno?
>> No. 445753 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 11:17 am
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>>445748
I don't know whether to be impressed or upset with this image and concept.
>> No. 445757 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 1:47 pm
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>>445753
I'd want a bloody good thermostat on the shower, if nothing else.
>> No. 445758 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 3:19 pm
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>>445757
Not sure power shower is going to help, at all, either.
>> No. 445761 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 5:37 pm
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Chillingly I've gotten a blister from doing work.
>> No. 445762 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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A lad I know is an actor. I recently found him in a video on a Facebook page which was set up as if it were a phone video of a bailiff coming by his house to demand £300 or they'd take his car, with a load of back and forth between them which culminated in his neighbour coming over and giving the money and saying he can just pay her back when he can.

The whole thing was acted out so that it could be shared around Facebook with a caption like "This lady restored my faith in humanity!". There are entire production companies nowadays who exist solely to plan and create viral videos. It's a really weird time to be alive, and I miss when the internet was just this frog in a blender >>/IQ/69367
>> No. 445763 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 6:57 pm
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>>445761
We really need context to know whether it's chilling or not.
If you're a postman and you've got a blister on your heel that's fine.
If you work in Greggs and you've got a blister on your knob you should have a word with yourself.
>> No. 445764 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 10:15 pm
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>>445762

I truly hate every new development since about 2012ish, honestly.

Not even just in a grouchy, it was better in my day kind of way, but because truly nothing good has come out of technology since the big companies figured the net out. The modern world was briefly wonderful in the pre-corporate Internet era, but ever since then it's just become steadily and predictably worse year after year.
>> No. 445766 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 10:51 pm
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>>445763
What if you work in Greggs and you've got a blister on your heel? Or if you're a postman and you've got a blister on your knob?

Inquiring minds need to know.
>> No. 445774 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 11:59 am
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Either of you two ever sold your blood? I was looking up whether our civilisation is now at the point where we can donate on weekends but got ads to sell my blood for medical research at £45-60 a pop.

Although I bet they still expect you to work around their schedule and it will be awkward if you suddenly disappear for a few months after a binge.
>> No. 445782 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 5:30 pm
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The lofi girl turns a page on her notebook every 20 seconds and the current iteration has done since 22/02/2020. I estimate that to be 1,278,443,520 pages so far (544 days at 86,400 seconds/day). An average page is apparently 0.1mm thick so unless I've made a silly error the turned-page side of the book should be 127,844 metres thick.
>> No. 445783 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 5:32 pm
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Maybe it's because I'm in that "not eating, drinking, just killing myself" headspace right now, but it just sank in how fucked the climate is and it's only going to get worse.
>> No. 445784 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 5:53 pm
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>>445783
Incredible isn't it. All the more reason to enjoy your life now as much as is possible, before things become too hard.
>> No. 445785 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 5:57 pm
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>>445784

That's just an argument to accelerate it and makes you culpable.
>> No. 445786 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>445785
You're culpable anyway. Stop caring so much about what others think about you, we're all dust in the wind.
>> No. 445787 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:12 pm
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>>445786
Grow up.
>> No. 445788 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:32 pm
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>>445787
Learning to accept yourself and to stop being paralysed by the fear of what you believe other people may think of you is the peak of maturity.

Inhibiting yourself because you're shit scared of how you think future generations will judge you as an individual is incredibly egocentric and childish.
>> No. 445789 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:39 pm
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>>445788

That's great but nobody's talking about other people's perceptions except you. You're the only one in this conversation who's worried about it as a factor.
>> No. 445790 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:44 pm
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>>445789
Who decides culpability then?
>> No. 445791 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:48 pm
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>>445790

Nobody "decides" causality you BRILLIANT numpty. I can see how this might be lost on someone who's desperately trying to persuade us that he's very grown up because he doesn't care what anyone else thinks of him.
>> No. 445793 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:53 pm
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>>445791
So why does it matter then?
>> No. 445794 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:55 pm
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>>445783

Remember the total panic in the early stages of the COVID pandemic? People buying job-lots of bog roll and hand sanitiser? The pandemic turned out far worse than most people could have imagined, but 18 months later and we're just bored of it.

Climate change is like that. It's a massive shit-show, we'll freak out for a bit, but we'll get used to it remarkably quickly. A lot of people will die, a lot of stuff will burn or be reclaimed by the sea, but it won't take long for it to become non-news.

I for one look forward to getting the ferry from Cambridge to York.
>> No. 445795 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:56 pm
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>>445784
I'm afraid I'm a bit beyond that sort of thing now.
>> No. 445796 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 6:57 pm
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>>445793

Is this logic where people who rail against "the shipping forecast" are coming from? The assumption that everything must be motivated by other people's perceptions of you, rather than intrinsically caring about other people's suffering, or doing the right thing for its own sake? You genuinely can't conceive of it? Is the phrase "I couldn't live with myself if..." totally alien to you?
>> No. 445797 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>445796
What if you don't really like other people?
>> No. 445798 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 7:06 pm
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>>445797

You don't deserve any of the answers to that question.
>> No. 445799 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 7:21 pm
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>>445794
The difference is our quality of life will change greatly, the luxuries and resources we enjoy will become much more limited. It's a much bigger change than covid, and not something you can just decide isn't happening anymore.
>> No. 445800 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 7:25 pm
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>>445794

It's not something you can "get used to". It's going to keep getting worse until either we do something to stop it (and even then it may take decades to improve) or until we're all gone.
>> No. 445801 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 7:26 pm
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>>445799
Will the telly still be on?
>> No. 445803 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 9:32 pm
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>>445801
Sky News has a Daily Climate Show which reports news stories about climate change, and nothing else, and it's on every single day. The telly will still be on and it will all be exactly that. If nothing else, we need to save the environment so we can still have sports news and our favourite sexy weather lady.
>> No. 445804 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 9:52 pm
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>>445799

I'm a deep green ecomentalist who hasn't been on a plane in 20 years and doesn't own a car, but I have no doubt that we'll get used to it, even if what we're getting used to is "everything getting gradually worse for several centuries".

Humans have become the dominant species on earth mostly because of our adaptability. We can survive anywhere from the Sahara to the arctic circle. Climate change is a massive shitter, we should do everything in our power to limit it, but it's not the end of the world and it won't threaten us with extinction.

The majority of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived. That's the horrible, awful truth that we need to face up to - not that we're all going to die, but that most of us will have to deal with the aftermath.
>> No. 445807 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 10:16 pm
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>>445804
>it's not the end of the world
It is quite literally the end of the world. As in, extinction level event. Some have suggested that the mass extinctions are already under way.
>> No. 445809 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>445807

But that's simply not true.
>> No. 445814 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>445809

The incredibly pedantic people at Wikipedia disagree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
>> No. 445815 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 11:06 pm
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>>445814
Not him but there's no risk of humanity going extinct from climate change. We're talking about humanity under stress but the next hundred years plausibly involve us having off world colonies in conditions much more extreme than sweaty Earth.

To add to that, 75% of species have to go for it to be a mass extinction.
>> No. 445816 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 11:12 pm
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>>445815
We have no chance of humans on off-world colonies as is to actually make a human colony (unless planned as such). Humans won't die out, but political and social upheaveal... that's quite another question.
>> No. 445817 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 11:28 pm
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>>445815
>To add to that, 75% of species have to go for it to be a mass extinction.
I'm not sure if that arbitrary piece of pedanticism really matters. Look:
>The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates.
That's a shitload, an atrocity and if it specifically fits your definition or not shouldn't be relevant.
>> No. 445819 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 12:06 am
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>>445817
You just linked to a wikipedia article as evidence that itself admits that 75% is the commonly accepted threshold.

Is everyone angry today because the stock market is shitting the bed this week like it seems to do once a month these days to erase any of my gains.
>> No. 445821 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 6:32 am
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>>445819
I think people are just fed up with having the same tiresome climate debate on a weekly basis, particularly when it's often used to derail threads which aren't specifically about climate change.
>> No. 445823 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 6:42 am
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>>445817

You can call it an atrocity, call it a disaster, call it a catastrophe, call it an absolute disgrace, because it is all those things. But what it isn't is the end of the world. The world will carry on and new species will evolve, with or without us.

Frankly I think it might be for the best if we did buy it. Even if we do make it through (and even in the worst case scenario, it seems quite likely we will), I don't see us ever developing the collective conscience or responsibility to limit our impact on biodiversity and other habitats. Our only concern is lowering carbon emissions enough that the oceans don't boil, but beyond that we couldn't give a fuck.

Call me a bitter misanthrope if you will but frankly I don't see it as a much more desirable future that humanity survives climate change, only to go on to pave over every last bit of forest and field on the surface of the planet, and end up with wild animals being something you only see in zoos.
>> No. 445824 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:10 am
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>>445823
>But what it isn't is the end of the world. The world will carry on and new species will evolve, with or without us.
As far as we're concerned that's the same thing. This constant "Well actually the planet won't cease to exist and there'll still be microbial life at least, so you're wrong!" is just tedious. You're not the first person to point it out, it's been said a million times before, it's irrelevant.

>Frankly I think it might be for the best if we did buy it.
Great, you go first. That'll reduce the carbon for the rest of us.
>> No. 445825 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:21 am
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>>445819
Great who gives a shit about that?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33450398
>> No. 445826 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:27 am
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>>445824

No, you first, you're clearly the bigger cunt.
>> No. 445827 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:34 am
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>>445823
>But what it isn't is the end of the world. The world will carry on and new species will evolve, with or without us.

It's weird how hung up people get on this point. Perhaps it's because the idea of apocalypse or rapture or the end of everything is so embedded in so many parts of human culture, but if we have to be absolutely literal, what climate activists mean when they say "the end" is "the end of human civilisation as we know it", which is still powerful and terrifying.

Even as a misanthrope you still presumably rely heavily on infrastructure provided to you by our current infrastructure and system of living. Even something as simple as having a reliable food supply is very much under threat given enough inaction.

>>445824
>As far as we're concerned that's the same thing. This constant "Well actually the planet won't cease to exist and there'll still be microbial life at least, so you're wrong!" is just tedious. You're not the first person to point it out, it's been said a million times before, it's irrelevant.

It comes up in every climate change discussion I've ever had, to the point where I reflexively say it's a threat to organised human life, and not to "the planet".

As much as I love George Carlin, his bit about "the planet will be fine but we're fucked" seems to have seeped into public consciousness as a kind of cynical, witty, but defeatist refrain.
>> No. 445828 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:41 am
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>>445827

It probably has something to do with the increasing awareness that "civilisation as we know it" is, really, rather the problem. (Emphasis on "as we know it".)

The problems it causes are not problems that are unsurmountable, that cannot be solved, of course they could, plausibly. It's just that given our track record, and current political trajectory, it hardly seems hopeful. I don't think you can really blame people for defeatism on this matter, some would just call it realism.

For instance, I found it funny how a lad earlier on in the thread thought buying a boat was a daft, unrealistic waste of time, but his suggestion instead was to "pressure the government into taking action". I mean, I don't have to explain the joke, there, do I.
>> No. 445829 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:42 am
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>>445826

I'm not the one who thinks it's a good idea. Shit or get off the pot mate.

>>445827

It's just lazy cunts looking for an excuse not to think about it. Pedantry as a distraction.
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20th August 2021
Friday 9:45 am
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>>445828

Right, the very realist, plausible idea that you can live indefinitely on a boat, or use it to travel somewhere that doesn't share the same climate system.
>> No. 445831 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:53 am
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>>445828
>For instance, I found it funny how a lad earlier on in the thread thought buying a boat was a daft, unrealistic waste of time, but his suggestion instead was to "pressure the government into taking action". I mean, I don't have to explain the joke, there, do I.

I take a different view. The history of public protest and activism is quite rich, we're just not taught it. The reason that it's illegal for children to work in this country, or that we don't have chattel slavery, owes a lot to public pressure on government. I also believe that the reason that corporate and state media is so universally pro-"foreign intervention" at this time is very much a reaction to the success of the anti-war movement, and the public may well see new victories there, too.

Government is powerful, and it's one of the few means we have to pressure any large organisation, even if the level of really representative democracy has been ebbing and flowing for generations. A private company has absolutely no incentive to listen to the public, the government has at least a tiny incentive.

Contrast that with the idea of buying a boat -- if it's to escape climate change, then it's basically fantasy. The gradual, ugly collapse of a society brings about problems that don't involve flooding. Agriculture and food supply chains strike me as the most obvious.
>> No. 445832 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:55 am
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>>445831
>or that we don't have chattel slavery

I suppose I should say "opposed chattel slavery", since the UK's interests in the global slave trade were mainly off-island, but the overall point stands.
>> No. 445833 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:56 am
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>>445830

Seems I did have explain the joke then.
>> No. 445834 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 10:08 am
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>>445829

>Shit or get off the pot mate.

What's the rush? Clearly mother nature is going to take care of it without me needing to lift a finger, according to you. That was rather the whole point, was it not?

Actually no, you've given me pause for thought. If you'll excuse me I'm just off to start a tyre fire. Every little helps.
>> No. 445835 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 11:38 am
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>>445828
I don't get why humanity ends up getting so much shit for not doing enough. We've actually made a tremendous amount of progress in an extremely short span of time in completely rethinking our relationship to the Earth and many of the arguments against doing this or that stem from the real need to keep the lights on and lift people out of poverty.

It seems like small-minded extremism that's more about being a cycle of depression. To go back to the original point of this whole discussion, I might as well ask why you don't cry about any other bad thing that has ever happened.

>>445827
>the idea of apocalypse or rapture or the end of everything is so embedded in so many parts of human culture

Careful lad, you might stumble upon something here.
>> No. 445836 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 11:59 am
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I broke off my love affair with fried chicken last night by ordering three pieces instead of two. It ruined the entire experience by being slightly too much to where it left me feeling slightly ill. I look forward to doing the same thing with pizza for the rest of the year.
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20th August 2021
Friday 7:57 pm
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>>445834

The rush? If something's worth doing it's worth doing now. Go on, you're so dark and cool for suggesting that the entire human race should die out, lead the way.

>If you'll excuse me I'm just off to start a tyre fire.
Amazing, you managed to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list of anti-environmentalist jokes, past both "I'm going to leave my car running" and "I'm going to eat a big steak". Well done, you're truly witty.
>> No. 445848 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:09 pm
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There's shitloads of fireworks going off. B
The dealers must have had a bumper haul.

In all seriousness, have Brexit and coronavirus caused a shortage in drugs reaching this country?
>> No. 445849 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 9:49 pm
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>>445848
I bet covid has increased the demand for psychedelics, you know.
>> No. 445854 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:05 am
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>>445835
>Careful lad, you might stumble upon something here.

If you have a good point to make, you could directly state it rather than vaguely allude to it, otherwise I'm just going to assume you've no idea what you're on about.
>> No. 445855 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:16 am
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Just give it a fucking rest.
>> No. 445856 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:22 am
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>>445849
Interest in psychedelics has been building lately even without that.
>> No. 445882 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 12:58 pm
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I woke up at 1130 today. Thankfully I seem to have gotten away with it with only one person who will have noticed.

How can I make sure I get up in the morning? This has happened before last year and this time it was my belief that I was still waiting for my alarm to go off.
>> No. 445883 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 2:57 pm
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>>445882
I have one of the Lumie alarm clocks that wakes you up with a light - found it works really well for me.
>> No. 445884 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 3:10 pm
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>>445882

On the day I realise my sleeping pattern is slipping a bit, I usually try to do the following:

- Spend my lunch hour outside taking in some midday sun. Regardless of weather, the lux of sunlight is huge compared to indoor lighting. Just seeing a bit of it helps me a lot.
- No caffeine after 14.00.
- Getting some hard exercise in any time before 18.00 to ensure I'm physically tired before my target bedtime of 22.00.
- Taking in all the food I'm going to eat that day before 19.30, giving myself a nice long "fasting" period. Digestion (and particularly elevated blood glucose) will keep you awake and keep your body temperature higher.
- Stop any and all forms of work and mentally taxing stuff by 20.00. This includes study, computer games, phone games, etc.. If I have any big projects on I write down what I need to do tomorrow and leave it on my desk.
- Take in my last fluids before 20.00, so I'm not interrupted by a need to go to the toilet during the night.
- Make sure I'm cooling down and away from bright screens by 20.00 - 21.00. This normally involves watching something on a blue-light filtered TV (so the colour appears more red) in a cool room.
- This all sets me up to feel tired, have a cool or even cold body temperature, and ready for my bedsheets by 22.00.

If all has gone well I'll wake up even without an alarm by about 7.00. To make sure the sleeping pattern holds the next day, I'll then:

- Get out of bed and move around ASAP.
- Get in as much food as I can for breakfast. I find this really helps to reset my clock, as breakfast hunger can be one of the nicer, more gentle ways to wake up.
- Take in whatever caffeine I'm going to have that day in the morning, ideally with the bulk of it coming before 10.00.

It's shocking how much better my mood and outlook is when I've properly slept, hence all the stuff I do to make sure I sleep well. As a couple of additional points I also use a sleep mask and soft ear plugs, because they're cheap and easy ways to ensure I'm not woken up by anything.
>> No. 445885 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 3:59 pm
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I'm so unfit. I'm at the level where I should probably be doing basic physiotherapy rather than actual exercise, it's tiring hanging washing for fuck sake. Pathetic.
>> No. 445886 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 5:54 pm
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>>445884

What the fuck do you do between nine and ten, stare at the wall?

I prefer just having a nice mug of coco and making sure I've done my exercises. I've also found that if anything keeps me awake it's hunger, I couldn't figure it out for years, but I'd always be hungry at night and not realise I was hungry because night time isn't traditional eating time. So making sure I have a hearty enough evening meal is the biggest thing that went towards curing my insomnia.

Working your entire schedule around not being late for work is no way to live.
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23rd August 2021
Monday 5:57 pm
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>>445886
>but I'd always be hungry at night and not realise I was hungry because night time isn't traditional eating time. So making sure I have a hearty enough evening meal is the biggest thing that went towards curing my insomnia.
It really is the opposite for me, as I dabble sometimes in intermittent fasting, if I've ate lunch around midday then nothing else, I sleep better than any other time and feel perfect when I wake up.
>> No. 445888 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 6:10 pm
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>>445886

Note I say by 22.00, not 22.00 on the dot. So I'm usually brushing my teeth, loading the dishwasher, locking up, turning off the lights, etc.. On really hot days I'll also take a cool shower around this time. It also generally takes me about 15 - 30 minutes to relax and fall asleep, so even though I make a mental note that I should be going to bed soon at 21.00, but by the time I'm actually there, I'll notice it's almost always coming up to 21:45 to 22.00.

Not sure why you'd assume I'm not doing anything else based on the lose structure of "make sure I do x by x time" in my post.

I've also heard people say that a big heavy meal before bed helps them sleep, and anecdotally I've known very carbohydrate rich meals can help people feel more relaxed (or even drowsy), but my body has never quite worked like this. For me, a big meal always makes me feel like I'm warmer, more energetic and restless.

I agree with you about not structuring your life around being late, but I'm very rarely late for anything. What I dislike is having to structure my life around work generally. If I were left entirely up to my own devices, I'd still get up early, because I genuinely seem to get a lot more done when I have those quiet few hours in the morning to eat properly, exercise, get my mind right at the start of the day. For me, there's nothing worse than rolling out of bed and barely making it to the work routine, where what you're doing is largely out of your control anyway.
>> No. 445889 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 7:54 pm
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I went to Whitby today. Fuck me it was absolutely rammed and there's signs saying to keep left at the busiest areas but the throngs of gormless twats are too thick to be able to follow this and block up the entire road. The fairground rides near the pier were so loud they were giving me a headache all the way up at the abbey. I'm not going there again in a hurry, particularly as the A64 was also a massive ball ache.
>> No. 445891 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 8:46 pm
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>>445889
>Fuck me it was absolutely rammed .. [by] throngs of gormless twats
You among them, surely?
>> No. 445892 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>445889
Whitby is definitely one of the more disappointing seaside towns, it being absolutely beautiful and rich in history, but seemingly always inundated with holidaymakers coming from both the northeast and Yorkshire. Should've jumped on a bus to Robin Hood's Bay.
>> No. 445894 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 9:09 pm
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>>445892
Yeah, I'm not a fan of going unless it's a much quieter time of year but my daughter had been nagging to go for weeks. I'd rather go to Filey or Flamborough. At least the waterfalls nearby were reasonably quiet.
>> No. 445895 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 9:21 pm
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>>445889

Whitby has always been fairly reasonable whenever I've been, and just out of common sense I've always avoided going on bank holidays or basically any point in June/July.

But that was in The Before Times. As best I can tell it's been rammed non-stop the last year and a half. But in a way it's great to see, the economy in places like Whitby, Scarborough and Brid must be absolutely booming. Even fucking shitholes like Hornsea and Withernsea have been busy. It gives me hope that with a new influx of cash, our seaside towns could regenerate a bit and stop being so god-awfully grim.

Most of these places have just been on a gradual slide into total destitution ever since European package holidays became a thing in the 70s. For three months a year they sell fish and chips to pensioners and people who are too poor to go to Benidorm, and for the other nine they are effectively just big coastal council estates.

There are winners and losers out of covid and Brexit, but it'd be nice if these places were amongst the winners, is all I'm saying.
>> No. 445897 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>445895
Not sure Aquaman can sustain them all on his own.
>> No. 445898 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 9:59 pm
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>>445895
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>> No. 445899 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 10:16 pm
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>>445895
Ever since I moved to West Yorkshire about eight years ago I've always found it strange how people around here romanticise going to shitholes on the coast like Withernsea, as if spending a week in a caravan there is something that shouldn't be met with abject horror.

Then again, I went to Hornsea a few months back and made an absolute killing on the 2p machines so I can't complain.
>> No. 445905 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 11:10 pm
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>>445899

I'm a propper Wessie lad, so naturally we did have a static on a shite holiday park somewhere over the dark side of Hull when I were a young 'un.

I think it's partly nostalgia, and part a sort of built in hipsterism. I think part of the appeal is earnestly finding enjoyment in it despite how self-evidently shit it is. There's always a pub nearby and it's usually dead cheap, so even if you're the most woefully unprepared Withnail and I type holidaymakers, you can usually salvage a good time out of it.

But of course, you've also got to consider the fact that if you live in a place like Beeston, the barren Humberside coastline actually makes a welcome change of scenery.
>> No. 445912 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 12:25 am
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>>445899
>>445905
The problem I have with the coast is that I'm twitchy and there's just not much to do. Partly that's a vicious cycle of economic decline and what the usual visitors are into but I've always felt a bit bored even with the more upmarket coastal towns with rock climbing or the polared ones in Wales where you have space.

So you go run along the beach in the morning, you go to the arcade and maybe the sea life centre to poke a starfish before sitting in the pub. That's a nice Saturday but what about the rest of time? You'd better bring a Mrs as well unless you want to chance it with one of those big women smoking outside the local nightclub whose looking at you like a discount baked bean pasty.
>> No. 445914 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 1:08 am
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>>445912
>unless you want to chance it with one of those big women
Welcome to britfa.gs.
>> No. 445917 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 7:49 am
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>>445912
The whole point of going to the seaside is to spend a day on the beach. Bring a spade and dig a really big hole or a castle with a moat around it and then dig a channel to the sea so you can watch it fill up as the tide comes in. If you're feeling that way inclined you can start to dam them up to battle against the tide for the hell of it. Bring a windbreaker to enclose yourself off from the riff-raff, a few towels to sit on and a cool box with a picnic. Don't forget to go look in the rock pools to see if you can spot the occasional crab.

By all means venture slightly off the beach to get an ice cream, chippy or play on the amusements but you're not really meant to go any further than that unless you're a poverty tourist.
>> No. 445918 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 10:14 am
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Hit my 1 stone weight loss mark today. Honestly it was a piece of piss. I just cut out having something sweet after every meal and took log of my calorie intake. But I'm pretty proud of myself I must day. I'll celebrate with a KFC (and big run). Sage for blogpost.
>> No. 445919 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 10:27 am
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>>445918
Good work lad.
>> No. 445922 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 11:17 am
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I ordered a couple of suits from Suit Direct. They forgot to send the trousers for one of them; I'm going to return that one anyway but I'm hoping they don't decide to start playing silly buggers about only having the jacket returned to them.

>>445918
>Sage for blogpost

Keep them coming, ladmate.
>> No. 445924 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 5:36 pm
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Had a behind-the-eyes headache last night and must have forgotten to close the freezer door fully. I don't mind letting beef and veg re-freeze but all the chicken and turkey that was at the front of the drawers needs cooking. Fuck's sake.
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24th August 2021
Tuesday 8:00 pm
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Today for my lunch I pulled the remains of some bread I made yesterday out of the bin and ate it with some nice pesto. There was nothing else in the bin, and it was wrapped in parchment paper, but I still ate bin bread.
>> No. 445926 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 11:33 pm
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>>445925
wot are them things wot you pressed into the middle of the bread?
>> No. 445927 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 12:08 am
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>>445926
It's not my picture, but those are chekich - Uzbek bread stamps. I took up baking last year like every other cunt, and my in-laws got me one for Christmas. I liked it, so now they're probably getting me one for every occasion for the rest of my life.
>> No. 445928 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 6:41 pm
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I know coronavirus is bad and everything but I've picked up 4kg of bronze die pasta for just under £4 so it's swings and roundabouts.
>> No. 445929 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 9:46 pm
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Sanity check: You started talking to a lass on a dating app last Friday and now she's dodged your idea to meet in person this weekend. On two different days. That's a time waster, right?

I feel like I'm getting a lot of these at the moment. Two different women have dodged actually meeting up this week. It's very strange, maybe I write good but also come across as unhinged.
>> No. 445930 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 10:28 pm
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I complaine dabout being weak the other day, but I scratched a horse earlier and my arm shook when I held a fork an hour or two later.
>> No. 445931 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 10:37 pm
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I am Mr Complaine Da'bout and I had nothing to do with that horse.
>> No. 445932 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 7:35 am
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I've watched a bit of the Paralympic cycling this morning. They're lumping people with various levels of disability into the same race but are then reducing the times of the most disabled riders, for example someone classed as C3 would have their actual time recorded whereas their C1 rival would have their time reduced to around 93%. The end result, at least in what I watched, is that those in the least able bodied categories aren't recording the fastest times but end up winning gold once the factoring has been applied.

It doesn't make sense to me for each category not to have their own separate contest. I can see why some competitors try to get classified as more disabled than they actually are for a greater medal chance.
>> No. 445933 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 8:11 am
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>>445929

Short answer: yeah, timewaster. Long answer: I'll be honest, mate, it's extremely low risk and low investment for a girl to create a dating profile and just chat with whomever. There's no barrier to entry, she doesn't even need to write anything on it if she doesn't want to. Within 5 minutes of installing and uploading a few pictures she has an instant distraction from whatever's going on in her life.

I wouldn't take it personally if they're not willing to meet up- It's just as likely they're not really doing it to meet up with anyone at all. I've heard people refer to it as "playing on Tinder" like it's Candy Crush or whatever.

With those types you just need to accept that you had a pleasant conversation, but it's not likely to be any more than that, and move on.
>> No. 445934 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 11:30 am
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>>445933
Well yeah, women are shitty people. it seems to be getting absurd how common it is though, do women not want to get laid anymore?
>> No. 445935 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 11:31 am
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>>445929
To be expected. I'd suggest meeting up for a drink sooner rather than later. It's not a big ask if you're both actually interested.
>> No. 445936 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 3:41 pm
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>>445932
There might not be enough disabled athletes for each category, so the more obscure ones go together. I'm pretty sure that's why it happens.
>> No. 445937 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 4:43 pm
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I bought clothing for myself from a charity shop today. I don't think I've ever done that before.
>> No. 445952 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:25 am
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>Even fucking shitholes like Hornsea and Withernsea have been busy.

A man has posted a scathing online review of a popular East Yorkshire seaside town, claiming "locals are looking for a fight" and a café had "ran out of breadcakes".

Despite Hornsea being one of the most popular spots to holiday, the dad-of-two rated it one star on his Tripadvisor review and insisted he shall not be returning. The man visited the area with his wife and children hoping for a fun day out - but he claims it quickly took a turn for the worse.

He wrote: "Don't go to Hornsea! Went to Hornsea today with my wife and young children. Nice beach, decided to visit a café on the sea front. They ran out of bread cakes but said they had some."

He continued: "They were rude and abusive to both me and my wife. When I questioned there customer service they told me to 'get my tribe and fuck off'. Wouldn't recommend this establishment as a family friendly environment. It was clear that the men working behind the counter were looking for a fight."


https://www.hullPlease don't ban me.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/mans-scathing-tripadvisor-review-hornsea-5844387
>> No. 445953 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:52 am
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>>445937
From my experience, charity shop clothing offers very good value for money. You can pick up some quality items very cheap, especially when you shop around affluent towns.
>> No. 445954 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 11:31 am
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I've lost a good half stone in the past week from this protesting lark. A combination of being on my feet so much, being too distracted to eat and the most available food being piles of vegan mush. Almost down to my pre-lockdown weight.
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30th August 2021
Monday 2:22 pm
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>>445954

I must have lost a couple of pounds wanking over boobzilla.
>> No. 445956 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 3:45 pm
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For a grand total of £18 I've picked up a Jasper Conran woollen overcoat, a Ralph Lauren Oxford shirt and H&M cargo shorts. Not bad going really, especially as the first two in particular don't look as if they've been worn.

>>445955
Fake tits don't appeal to me.
>> No. 445957 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 4:05 pm
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>>445956
>Fake tits don't appeal to me.


>> No. 445960 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 8:26 pm
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>>445954
Spread the word with your pals about the police using that helicopter. I'm sick of hearing it and it's probably wasteful compared to a drone when it's just hovering (over my flat).

See if you can also get them to destroy the "national covid memorial". Don't worry people have already added political bollocks to the memorial and the organisers have been keen to weaponize it for their own ends.

>>445956
>Fake tits don't appeal to me.

Fucking THIS. There's something off about them as well even for fake tits.
>> No. 445963 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 9:41 pm
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Sorry lads, but you simply cannot determine the veracity of her perspicacity from the majority of angles, in still motion. Sure, as soon as you see the lower angle or the lack of jiggle in motion, it's clear and you wonder how you ever thought otherwise, but from the majority of angles posted it's very much adjacent to a perfect pair of knorks.
>> No. 445964 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>445960

There are two, they take shifts but sometimes they're both up. Not sure what you want me to say, we're not keen on them either. We reckon it's mostly a psychological thing, intimidating and drowning out the noise of our speakers or music. Creating a hostile environment. Not sure why we'd do anything to the memorial though?

>>445963

She dances a lot and they don't jiggle or swing like ones that size should. I might ask her for a photo if she's nearby at a quiet moment.
>> No. 445966 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:12 pm
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>>445964
Do it, post it here and make sure you're doing a .gs sign in the picture.
>> No. 445967 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>445964
>Not sure what you want me to say, we're not keen on them either

You should complain to the media about C02 emissions or something along those lines. It's not for me to say, the seeds of revolution come from within.

And stop fucking about outside government offices. It's bad enough going into work without the risk of getting locked inside or having to go home when you notice the doors blocked. You're not even disrupting projects so much as making life difficult for people with enough going on at the moment.
>> No. 445968 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:24 pm
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>>445966
Show her the thread mate. Let her know how many sheds she's rocked.
>> No. 445969 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:44 pm
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>>445963
There's video in the other thread but even in still-life you can spot that's not how tit physics works. They're too high and firm for her body type.

There are reasons a lass will want a boobjob of course and more power to her (or him!) but it wouldn't be as noticeable if only she didn't go nuts on the size. Large breasts have a certain look and feel, like soft pillows without a tight fit on the cover and with an end you can't help but put in your mouth or give a good long lick. Small-average tits have a better natural firmness to them that responds better to your breath and a suckle and a tongue swirl - much better if you want a boob-job.

I forget where I'm going with this but there is no perfect tit because all tits are wonderful. I can only judge you to be a heretic.
>> No. 445970 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:44 pm
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>>445967

It's not disruptive it's just making life difficult? Okay mate.

>>445966

Please demonstrate how to do a gs sign.
>> No. 445971 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:54 pm
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>>445970
Yeah, you can work from home these days if someone's throwing a tantrum outside. Or catch-up on other work if you're trapped inside.
>> No. 445972 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 11:17 pm
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Can we pack it in with titzilla for the week, please? I'm going to a sex hotel with the missus on Sunday and have decided to go spunk-free until then, and her masterpiece mammaries will make a hard task even harder.
>> No. 445973 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 11:33 pm
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>>445972
Be a shame for you if she kept sneaking into each and every image.
>> No. 445974 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 12:02 am
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>>445973
Sneaky boobster, grade A ruse-ster
>> No. 445975 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 8:12 am
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>>445970
>Please demonstrate how to do a gs sign

It sort of looks like a shed.
>> No. 445979 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 1:19 pm
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>>445971
Alright lad.

>>445975
No promises but I'll see what I can do.
>> No. 445980 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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I had the radio on earlier and they were playing Klaxons, which sounded incredibly dated. It may be because they were a bit of a gimmick, but why is it that some music from a certain time period quickly goes stale whereas other songs are still worth listening to later down the line? Is it simply that Klaxons were shit all along?
>> No. 445981 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 9:25 pm
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>>445980
They weren't great. They were riding that horrible wave of neon colours that the first series of Skins brought about.

Anyone bothered listening to the new Kanye album?
>> No. 445982 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 9:28 pm
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>>445980

They were shit all along, but I think it's more that any song that was played prodigiously for a very short timeframe will always just remind you of that time, regardless of how gimmicky or of-the-time it actually was. I feel the same way about something like Helicopter from Bloc Party. It sounds ancient to me, listening now, but from a production and composition standpoint it could easily have been released yesterday.
>> No. 445983 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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>>445981

New Rave was a ploy by the record industry to continue making money from indie landfill bands as the cultural zeitgeist started making the shift towards a preference for masked EDM producers. The thing was heavily pushed by the NME at the time.

Pic related was a cracking CD.
>> No. 445986 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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>>445983

Should read 'landfill indie'. See me after class.
>> No. 445987 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>445981
I can only get four tracks into the new Kanye album, I really hate it. Totally joyless. It's the first album of his I couldn't make it through.
>> No. 445989 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 3:27 pm
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I think the Klaxons had a lot going for them. I seem to remember enjoying their second album, but most people hating it because it was very different to their first.

Now, if you want a truly dire new rave sound check out Hadouken. I'd sooner listen to chiptune covers of deep sea ska tracks before I listened to them again.
>> No. 445990 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 3:30 pm
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Oo ee oo ee oo ee oo ee oo
Aaaaah
>> No. 445992 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 3:35 pm
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>>445990
Ting tang walla walla bing bang?
>> No. 445993 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 3:52 pm
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I just got my HackRF working with a Portapack H2. How the fuck do Banggood ship from China in four days??



My life of crime begins today!
>> No. 445994 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>445989


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4NLuLNfDZs

I went to see Trash Fashion live in Dundee in 2007
>> No. 445995 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 9:20 pm
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>>445993
Okay I just managed to spoof GPS with it.

Lads, I'm going down. This thing is going to get me into trouble.
>> No. 445996 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 5:22 am
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Currently trying very hard to somehow justify buying myself one of the fancy new Omega Seamasters. I love a good watch, I have loads of them, but I don't think I've ever spent more than £500 on one, this is over four grand.

I worry that such a jump up in price will leave me disappointed, because really, how much better can it really be, or that I do end up being enthralled and either abandon watch collecting entirely because it's perfect for me, which would be a bit boring, or that I love it but it doesn't scratch the itch entirely, which is the point at which I start unloading silly money into a collection of watches, and I really don't want to end up there either.

There's also the option of a middle ground like an Oris Aquis which is "only" a couple of grand, but then I don't want to buy something that expensive and still look at it and wish I'd just got the Omega.

The seamaster has been "the" watch for me as long as I can remember, so being in a position to wander into a shop and walk out with one is something I never thought I'd be able to do. And perhaps doing so would knock the shine off it - never meet your heroes etc.
>> No. 445997 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 6:53 am
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>>445996
Pretty much all dive watches look the same to me.
>> No. 445998 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 6:59 am
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>>445996

A £10 Casio will keep time better than any mechanical watch. Beyond that, you're paying for aesthetics - wearable art, jewellery, whatever you want to call it.

A decent used watch won't depreciate by much if it's properly serviced and might even increase in value; as long as the watch is insured, you're not really taking a big financial risk. A nice watch is fundamentally a silly purchase, but there are much sillier purchases you could make. Plenty of people spend three or four grand on a holiday, but you can't re-sell your holiday if it turns out to be a disappointment.
>> No. 445999 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 10:49 am
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>>445996
Any chance you could dox yourself at some point? I assume those are all covered by home insurance.
>> No. 446000 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 11:22 am
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>>445996
>I worry that such a jump up in price will leave me disappointed

I know this feeling quite well, and have had it recently with a hobby of my own. It's a weird feeling not wanting to buy something in case it "ruins" my hobby - and most unlike me.
>> No. 446001 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 11:31 am
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>>445999

I will once I buy the more expensive stuff. You're not going to get much for a scratched up Seiko down the pub. Though I'd rather point you in the direction of some of the pilots I work with who have proper daft money watches like Audemars Pigets and stuff like that. Plus they're all posh boys so they won't fight back - I'd go for the eyes.

>>445998

This is true, and I have skipped a few holidays recently for obvious reasons. Most jewellers do 0% finance these days too, so I wouldn't even take the psychic hit of 4 grand suddenly disappearing from my account, either.
>> No. 446002 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 11:49 am
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>>446000

It's not like me either - I think in this case, it's because as otherlad pointed out, watches, beyond them existing as a mechanical object you can appreciate, are pure jewellery, and I'm a practical man. So owning a 4 grand 'tool watch' makes sense, but only if you use it for everything. I suppose buying watches and wearing them is the least 'hobbyish' hobby I have, though - so if I lose interest it's not like I don't have other stuff to be doing.

I had a similar feeling in photography when I bought my Fuji X100 - finally I had a camera that did everything I wanted, in the right format, in digital, so the gear acquisition side of that hobby almost completely disappeared - and part of the joy is buying new toys, at least to me. But even then, there's still the Leica M models screaming at me from the void, and the wanky desire to build a darkroom in the shed.
>> No. 446003 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 12:55 pm
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>>446002
> the Leica M models screaming at me from the void

I have a black M6 and a handful of lenses to go with it. Some day I will buy one of the digital versions. The minute you start down the Leica road, you need to budget being quite poor for at least five years.
>> No. 446004 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 2:46 pm
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>>446003

>handful of lenses

That's the part that made my wallet clench. I'm very, very afraid of the noctilux/summilux rabbit hole. That f/0.95 glass exists is just Very Cool.

I think if I was going to spend stupid money on digital, it'd be a medium format. Or at least one of those sensors you can put on an old hasselblad, for extreme amounts of money. Leica has put me off their modern stuff by charging a grand for basically a nikon coolpix etc. I'm sure the digital M's are incredible, mind.
>> No. 446005 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 2:48 pm
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Just wanted to say that my girlfriends arse is getting bigger and I couldn't be happier.
>> No. 446006 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 2:48 pm
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Also I wore my Seiko SKX to town today to antagonise over watches again, and it got two seperate compliments, something much more expensive pieces usually don't. Admittedly one was a watch nerd but the other was a woman.
>> No. 446007 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 2:51 pm
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>>446004
The noctilux is the only one I don't own, that I should.

The summilux 24mm ASPH I have is simply the best lense I have ever looked through, including some of my fancier telescopes. I cannot believe the prices they go for now - starting to think I should perhaps not leave them in a Peli-case under the bed.
>> No. 446008 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 2:58 pm
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>>446005

ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
>> No. 446009 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 3:46 pm
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>>446007

They go for silly money now, I do regret not getting in the game earlier. Though I can't see them ever going down in price.

My net worth would have been significantly more than it is now had I been able to afford all the stuff I wanted when I was in my early twenties - Rolexes, Land Rovers, Leicas, 90s Japanese sports cars, they've all skyrocketed in the last decade.
>> No. 446010 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 5:24 pm
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I'm getting cravings for bombay potatoes mixed with cheese and spaghetti.
>> No. 446011 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 5:26 pm
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>>446005
Piss in it.
>> No. 446012 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 5:49 pm
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>>446010
I am craving sag aloo very badly, so it must be something in the weather.
>> No. 446013 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 6:33 pm
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>>446009
>I'd have more money now if I'd had more money when I was younger
How'd you work that one out?
>> No. 446014 Anonymous
2nd September 2021
Thursday 8:52 pm
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>>446013

I mean I'd have accidentally had a lot more money. I spend all my money on stuff that isn't worth anything now, but if I'd had a few hundred extra a month I'd have ended up with accidental investments.

Secondly, fuck off.
>> No. 446015 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 12:49 am
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The MP3 player on my Samsung phone kept playing Praise You by Fatboy Slim today repeatedly, although I've got it on shuffle and there are a good 2,500 different songs on it.

I thought media player software nowadays came with a "fake randomiser" which keeps an eye on not playing the same song too often while on shuffle. I vaguely remember reading something to that effect. In short, you don't perceive it as random when the same song gets played repeatedly, maybe even four times directly in a row. Although it's entirely possible from a stochastic standpoint, your impression as the listener would be that it isn't random. And so, music player software keeps data in the background about which song was last played when. But apparently, it's not always reliable.
>> No. 446039 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 4:29 pm
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Can Summer fuck off already?
I was finally able to sleep with my windows closed and a week later along came this fucking hot weather.
>> No. 446040 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 5:20 pm
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I just fluffed the interview promotion to my bosses old job after working here for years because I had to fuck about beforehand dealing with some urgent work. I'll have to go work somewhere else now rather than suffer the indignation of someone else becoming my boss.

Why is life like this, it's just shit.

>>446015
Given the odds, surely you need to head down the casino and praise your fortune like you should?
>> No. 446046 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 12:10 pm
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My working from home tax refund for last year came today. What shall I blow my £65 on?
>> No. 446047 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 1:09 pm
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Nothing makes me feel less manly than going to the builders' merchant. I'm a reasonably competent DIYer, but my soft hands and lack of a company-branded polo shirt are a dead giveaway that I'm not One Of Them.
>> No. 446048 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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>>446046
A new suit?
>> No. 446049 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 5:33 pm
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>>446047
I was picking up a load of ballast from counter service, I'd taken 5 loads of 2 25kg bags to the car with only moderate grunting. The last 3 bags said to me 'yeah, you can lift us, it'll be cool'.
Nah. Nonchalantly turn round and put them back on the counter, eyes bulging. Take 2 bags, avoid eye contact, come back, take final bag and receipt. Nod of acknowledgement.
Not my manliest moment.
>> No. 446050 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 5:58 pm
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>>446049
I read somewhere that the typical limit for a weighted march, for a soldier in peak condition, is 40% of their body weight. So if you're managing 50kg at a time even for a short distance, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Assuming you don't weigh over 125kg.
>> No. 446051 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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What an absolutely stunning party of the country West Wales is. And under appreciated?
>> No. 446052 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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>>446051
Lots of Wales is.
>> No. 446053 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 1:50 pm
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I've seen "Favourite chicken", "Favorite chicken", "Favourable chicken" fried chicken places but I just saw an opening soon sign for "Faborable chicken".
>> No. 446054 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 3:32 pm
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I had to drive through Barnsley earlier. I don't think I saw a single person I'd class as a normal looking human being, they were all gangly and malformed in one way or another. Goblins.
>> No. 446055 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 4:25 pm
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>>446053
It's interesting how many fried chicken places spring up and promptly put leaflets in my letterbox. I get that it's simple and low cost but competition must be insane.

>>446054
Must be a good place to go on the pull.
>> No. 446056 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 4:42 pm
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>>446055
>Must be a good place to go on the pull

I think you're out of luck unless you're related to them.
>> No. 446058 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 3:59 pm
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My hair recedes by about 2 inches more on my right than my left. It's like I've got a bald triangle in the corner.
>> No. 446084 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 2:34 pm
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I've got daytime TV on whilst I have my dinner. Fucking hell, there's a lot of life insurance adverts.
>> No. 446085 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:20 pm
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>>446084
Are they still offering you a Parker pen if you sign up?
>> No. 446086 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:22 pm
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>>446085
One of them was a £100 M&S voucher if you paid the premiums for six months, another mentioned some convoluted cashback system. I think Parker pens are from the chairlift people.
>> No. 446087 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>446084
How's equity release coming along? All the adverts are criminal scams to rob the elderly, but those made me the angriest. It therefore logically follows that the entire industry will have been banned to protect society from my incandescent fury. And indeed, I haven't seen one of those adverts for a while. Have they vanished?
>> No. 446088 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:37 pm
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>>446087
I didn't see any equity release adverts but I only saw a couple of ad breaks during Supermarket Sweep, which is my own fault for having dinner late and missing Bargain Hunt.

IIRC, at least one of Theresa May's close advisers had links to equity release firms so it did seem a bit more prominent when she was in power.
>> No. 446090 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 4:36 pm
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>>446087


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZvOO4CNkI

This ad used to be on all the time, and I'd get their shitty song stuck in my head. Taking advantage of the elderly with a song and dance. They retired this advert, and the new one is a more low key animated affair, so less offensive.
>> No. 446091 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 4:51 pm
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I'm on my third shit in three hours. I don't get hangovers after a bender any more, I just shit for two days straight.
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13th September 2021
Monday 8:43 pm
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>>446091
I don't want to get too scatalogical, but a great big poo is the beginning of the recovery from any hangover.
>> No. 446093 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 10:08 pm
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>>446091

I had a shit behind some bins and slept in a car park in Wakefield last night because I was too drunk to go home.

Ten years ago that would be the sign of a good night, now that I'm in my 30s I just feel a bit ashamed.
>> No. 446094 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 10:17 pm
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>>446093
Do you at least live in Wakefield?
>> No. 446096 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 10:20 pm
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>>446094

It is my hometown, but I no longer endure living there.
>> No. 446097 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 10:36 pm
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>>446096
You just visit every now and then to shit and sleep on their streets.
>> No. 446099 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 10:45 pm
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>>446093

>Ten years ago that would be the sign of a good night, now that I'm in my 30s I just feel a bit ashamed.


Very true. I'm in my 40s, and antics like that would be a sign of a kind of dysfunction that's just too far gone. Where you should have had a word with yourself a long time ago, but evidently didn't.
>> No. 446100 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 10:39 am
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There is a hole in my soul and I'm not sure playing STALKER all day will fill it, but by Jove I'll try.
>> No. 446101 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 12:33 pm
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I have made an important decision - Greggs for lunch.

I feel like the only trick they miss is a decent chip butty, as per OP.
>> No. 446102 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 12:42 pm
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Walkers are advertising "fish and chips" flavour crisps which I can only imagine taste like they're fried in used chip-shop oil and the idea is fairly disgusting.
>> No. 446103 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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>>446101
I've posted about it before, but if Greggs sold chips they could easily rival McDonald's.
>> No. 446105 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>446103
I wish there was a high street place to get chips and gravy outside of North England.
>> No. 446117 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 5:18 pm
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>>446102
I was going to make a point that our patriotic duty should be to support manky British crisps but imagine my shock to discover they're now owned by the Italians.

>>446101
>>446103
Problem with Greggs is their donuts are much too leaky. And Pound Bakery is the true working man's franchise.
>> No. 446120 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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I just took some nice bread to the oil and paprika mix that was left in the roasting dish from the pork I did earlier and I came in my pants it tasted so good. They won't sell that on the highstreet!
>> No. 446121 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 8:57 pm
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>>446120
Fried bread is a severely underrated delicacy. I hate when you get in a bought fry-up and it's clearly been deep-fried in veggie oil.
>> No. 446122 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>446121
No, no, I didn't fry it. It was just bread in oil, somehow I don't think trying to fry an entire bread roll would have worked. I suppose you could try deep frying a bread roll, but at that point you have as well just start shooting up.
>> No. 446125 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 10:46 pm
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I'm deeply concerned that many of America's funniest alternative comedians are dying or nearly dying. David Cross and Doug Stanhope better be safe when I wake up tomorrow or I'm going to make Greenham Common look like Redham Common, if you follow my meaning.
>> No. 446132 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 12:24 am
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>>446125
Come to think of it, I haven't heard from Sam Kinison, Mitch Hedberg, George Carlin, Bill Hicks or Andy Kaufman for a while either.
>> No. 446147 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 1:54 am
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>>446125

>America
>Comedians

Yeah, good one Aon, I lol'd.

>>446132

is right, all the funny ones already died.
>> No. 446153 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 1:46 pm
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>>446125
Corey R Forrester is really good and one of the new crop.
>> No. 446154 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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The missus and I are going to get microdermabrasion facials at the weekend. I have secretly always wanted to do a chemical skin peel as I have scars and discolouration from teenage acne that haven't quite faded yet. I mentioned this to her and she immediately found a place and booked us each appointments.
>> No. 446155 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 5:23 pm
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I'm supposed to leave the house tomorrow, but I have a sore throat. However, I know for a fact that it was the biscuit I choked on earlier that did so I'm unsure what to do.
>> No. 446156 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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>>446155
I'm confused. Why wouldn't you go out?
>> No. 446157 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 6:16 pm
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>>446147

>is right, all the funny ones already died.

Eddie Murphy is still around. Although some of his older stuff would probably have wokeness warriors today frothing at the mouth. Just watch excerpts from "Delirious" on youtube.

We should also include Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy's big idol when he was coming up. He was even more raw than Murphy, but kind of in a more palatable, less offensive way that still holds up today.
>> No. 446158 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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>>446157

Eddie Murphy used to be funny. Chris Rock is still top rate.
>> No. 446159 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 9:16 pm
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>>446158

>Chris Rock is still top rate

Not really. He really lost his edge somewhere around the mid-2000s. There is a very noticeable drop in sharpness, wit and originality between his work from the late 90s and that one HBO special he did in 2008.

He's gotten better again, now that he has had to come out of retirement to recover financially from an expensive divorce.

Most creative people, stand-up comedians same as musicians, have their creative and intellectual peak in their mid to late 20s and it's all downhill from there. There are few exceptions. George Carlin was one. He was as bitingly funny in his 50s and 60s as he was in his 30s.
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15th September 2021
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>446159

>Most creative people... have their creative and intellectual peak in their mid to late 20s and it's all downhill from there.

I don't think this is true of artists and it's definitely not true of writers.

On reflection, I think you're wrong. Comedians and performance musicians have to capture a sort of zeitgeist and musicians certainly may lose some of their dexterity, burn out for various reasons or become irrelevant but "creative" as a broad category includes a lot of things you could describe as craft. Sculpture, woodworking, literature, musical composition. Craftspeople and artisans typically improve with age.
>> No. 446161 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>446159

>Most creative people, stand-up comedians same as musicians, have their creative and intellectual peak in their mid to late 20s and it's all downhill from there.

Only mainstream ones.

I know it might sounds like a hipster sort of thing to say, but I think it's true, and I think it points to the root of the problem in the commercialisation of art in general. When you're doing it for a living, you're dependent on the widest possible audience enjoying your art. That invariably means you water down or otherwise compromise some aspect of it over the years.

Call it "selling out" or whatever you will, the fact is if you're a mid-40s comedian (or musician, or whatever), you have kids to feed and bills to pay, you're occasionally going to find yourself taking the safe road. You're going to think twice about a racy, BRILLIANT joke that you wouldn't have ever compromised on in your mid 20s, because you had nothing to lose. But now you do.

It depends what you value in art I suppose, but for me it always feels obvious when somebody has taken that safe pay-cheque over artistic integrity. From then on it is no longer truly art to me. It's "content".

t. ex-musiclad
>> No. 446164 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 11:17 pm
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>>446161

Also, few young musicians in their late teens to early 20s form a band as a calculated career move to start a profitable commercial business. I think it was Ozzy Osborne who famously said he didn't care about fame or money when he started out, and that all he wanted to do was take drugs and get laid, and music was the way to make that happen.

Most bands only go corporate in their 30s when they realise that the key to longevity and prolonged wealth as a musician is to be a good business person. With few exceptions, your album releases and concert tours will become smaller affairs as you lose the teen and twen market and can't rely on mums and dads wanting to feel young again. And even if you were wildly successful as a young performer, royalties alone from songs you recorded fifteen years ago probably won't be enough to support your ever-expanding lifestyle.

Metallica have just released a remaster of their Black Album. In other words, they want to cash in all over again on an album which was widely seen as the point where they started selling out and eroded their own credibility as musicians. Which is kind of what I am talking about.
>> No. 446165 Anonymous
15th September 2021
Wednesday 11:50 pm
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>>446161

Also a lot of our pop culture is youth-obsessed, leading older artists to become sad parodies of their younger selves. Angry young men hopefully grow into philosophical old men, but there isn't necessarily room in the culture to express that. There's a framework for a standup to do a routine that's a sincere representation of the life experience of an older person, but that isn't the case in, say, rock or rap music. Grinding out the greatest hits is an easier option than reinventing your artistic self to reflect the changes to your actual self.

Bowie managed it, but his career was built on the idea of constant reinvention. It's hard to imagine how a mainstream artist could do the same in the era of Spotify.
>> No. 446167 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 12:09 am
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>>446165

Some older rockers stay relevant and entertaining, though.

I can highly recommend an Alice Cooper concert to illustrate what I mean. There's a guy whose whole life the last 40 years has been a tongue in cheek self parody of that time in the 70s when he was in his actual heyday. He's in on it, and he wears it in a kind of way that just makes him loads of fun to watch.
>> No. 446168 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 12:19 am
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>>446167
You've made a case for entertainment there, but actually made a case against relevance.
>> No. 446169 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 1:30 am
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I am very disappointed in all of you for not mentioning Dave Chappelle as a good American comedian who's still alive. His recent material came under fire for culture-war reasons, and I watched it and it felt uncomfortable in parts because he was doing the "I'm black therefore nobody is as oppressed as me and I can say what I want" angle, but nevertheless, he remains one of the finest comedians around in spite of this.

Plenty of pop stars make what I assume is a decent living from the washed-up circuit. S Club 7 are probably still touring village fetes and car boot sales somewhere. Meanwhile, I have tremendous respect for pop artists who go completely off the deep end and turn into experimental maniacs after a decent mainstream pop career. Brian Eno is the most famous of these, but the guy from Talk Talk did it too, and so did Scott Walker. In every case, I've listened to their arty music and I found it frankly awful, but that's fine because I respected it just so much. I don't know how expensive their mortgages were, but I don't recall ever seeing them opening for 2 Unlimited at the OMG So Retro Pretend You're Still Young Show at the Milton Keynes Arena.
>> No. 446170 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 1:38 am
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>>446169
>S Club 7 are probably still touring village fetes and car boot sales somewhere.
They're at that sort of level, yes. And they've dropped the "7" because it's usually only two or three of them.
>> No. 446171 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 2:22 am
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It's 02:20, I can't sleep because I have horrible neck pain in what could be the beginnings of the arthritis they thought I had when I was a kid, and thanks to an incredibly poorly timed set of unforseen expenses combined with my MOT on Friday I'm going to be fucking skint this month. Brilliant.
>> No. 446172 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 4:34 am
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>>446171
It's 4:30 and I'm supposed to be practising getting up in the morning and commuting to work. Fail.
>> No. 446173 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 7:07 am
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>>446165

>a lot of our pop culture is youth-obsessed, leading older artists to become sad parodies of their younger selves. Angry young men hopefully grow into philosophical old men, but there isn't necessarily room in the culture to express that. There's a framework for a standup to do a routine that's a sincere representation of the life experience of an older person, but that isn't the case in, say, rock or rap music.

That depends, I think, and goes back to the original assertion that it's only really a true statement of the mainstream. It depends what your music was about in the first place, but there's always been a place in the more progressive types of rock and metal for more intellectual, introspective, philosophical material. It's just never been in the "popular" spectrum of the genre, because that is pretty much exclusively marketed at and intended for consumption by teenagers who don't know any better. I don't know much about rap, but I would suspect the same.

When I was a younger lad I wrote stuff that was more or less all about referencing cultural touchstones to stuff I thought was cool (but of course in an ironic, tongue in cheek way); because when I was young I wasn't confident enough to do anything personal, and truthfully, I hadn't experienced anything meaningful yet to be able to write about it. I went through a bit of a pretentious philosophical and slightly angsty direction in my mid-late 20s because I'd found out about all the drugs and what have you, and thought I was very deep. If anything I think that stuff will age worse than the early stuff. Now that I'm older, I have less personal angst, but it's more a sense of frustration at the state of the world that drives my writing.

If I had ever become "professional", I imagine I would still be writing songs that take a sound clip from an Arnie movie and go exactly as you'd expect from there.

All the decent musicians I still know today had a rough time bouncing between jobs in their youths but at some point they settled into a "real job", and they kept on using their past career portfolio in music as a license to muscle in on guest slots, join in on new projects and go for one off tours, that sort of thing. Anyone who's managing to do it full time is invariably playing rubbish that they will admit themselves they're not really keen on, or courting some specific and incredibly restrictive niche. Either that or they're a teacher, I don't know any jazz/classical musicians who aren't teachers. It's a style of music FOR teachers.
>> No. 446174 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 11:07 am
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>>446156
It wasn't something I was especially looking forward too. However, that didn't matter because the train I needed was cancelled, presumably on account of this week's frightful weather. I honestly don't know why I'm not particullarly bothered; if I'm too far gone to render much of any emotion or if I'm actually mentally healthier than I was a year ago? Beats me.
>> No. 446175 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 1:06 pm
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This is not satire.
>> No. 446176 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 1:34 pm
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>>446175
I really don't understand the kind of person this branding appeals to. I checked the comments assuming they'd be full of derision and mockery, but no, they're into it. Also that cushion looks like it exists solely to give you lower back pain in as little time as possible; the nerve spasms to GP appointment speedrun, the latest gamer craze.
>> No. 446177 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 3:12 pm
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>>446176

People who take playing computer games to be some sort of extreme sport, I suppose.
>> No. 446178 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 3:15 pm
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>>446176
The branding is ridiculous but the part I enjoyed about it the most was the "By gamers. For gamers." tagline accompanying all the text about how the chair can hold even the fattest people.
>> No. 446179 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 3:20 pm
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>>446173
>It's just never been in the "popular" spectrum of the genre, because that is pretty much exclusively marketed at and intended for consumption by teenagers who don't know any better. I don't know much about rap, but I would suspect the same.

Rap is a bit of an anomaly, as there was a point where the mainstream stuff was the intellectual stuff. Wu Tang topped the UK charts but addressed social issues and had maybe the most diverse vocabulary of any musical act ever. Public Enemy were staunchly and intelligently political before that.

It was eventually overrun by gangsta rap and eventually lighter party type hip hop, though, and marketed as such.
>> No. 446180 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 5:03 pm
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Is it normal to pick up lots of tiny nicks and cuts on one's fingers when you regularly prepare and cook meals or am I an especially clumsy freak almost certain to be diagnosed with Alzheimers or MS or some other horrid illness before my due?
>> No. 446181 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 5:18 pm
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>>446180
I'm going to try and channel cheflad:

No it's not. You're a clumsy cackhanded nincompoop. I can cut all manner of vegetables without looking, and I do regularly to impress all the waitresses.
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16th September 2021
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>446180
If you get more cuts than burns, I'd say you're chopping too carelessly. Maybe one cut every five meals is the upper limit. I'm no good at cooking, but I'm clumsy as balls and haven't sliced my hand open for a while.
>> No. 446183 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 5:45 pm
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>>446180

Absolutely not. There is a correct way to use a knife and you are not doing that. Please look up Jaques Pepins guide on such matters.
>> No. 446184 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 7:53 pm
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>>446180

I don't remember the last time I cut myself on a knife. I'll somehow give myself papercuts all the time, but if you're not doing something wrong, knives are really very safe for the user.
>> No. 446185 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 8:32 pm
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>>446181
Everyone knows the dishwashers do all the chopping.

>>446182>>446183>>446184
There's not really any blood being drawn, it's just a layer of flayed skin. I wouldn't have thought about it if it weren't for my handling of onions earlier tonight which stung the two scrapes on my left hand for about half-an-hour. Upon reflection I need to stop picking stuff up and giving it a minor knifing and sharpen my knives, as I have a hunch there's some slippage being caused by their bluntness. Or I'll lose a whole finger after making the blades far deadlier.
>> No. 446186 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 8:52 pm
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>>446179
I can be fairly reluctant when people talk about socially conscious rap music, because a lot of it can be pretty awful and just replace "yo homie, I'm a drug dealer" with "yo homie, I'm a drug dealer because my Gs is poor, yo" and suddenly be inexplicably acclaimed. But I have recently found some social-issues rap that I've really liked, and I always wind up wondering why it's not more popular. I think there is a conspiracy theory, and if not then I'm theorising it right now, that the suits behind the music industry don't want original-woke black people and would rather just have them all obsessing about guns and grills and weed.

When Mos Def and Talib Kweli teamed up to form Blackstar, why did I never hear their music on the radio?


I had vaguely heard of Dead Prez, but I wish I'd heard about them more:


But they're obviously not silencing it completely, because while Dave's first hit on the radio was all about being a drug dealer, his second one is probably my all-time favourite socially conscious rap and that was all over the radio for a bit:


So I guess my belief that socially conscious urban music is overrated just boils down to the usual adage that 90% of everything is always shit.
>> No. 446189 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 9:01 pm
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They're back, bitches.
>> No. 446329 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 9:11 pm
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This evening I have been bramble picking. I don't know if I've left it too late this year or it's been a fairly poor yield this year, but I've ended up with far less than I usually do.

On the way home I saw padamedics administering CPR to someone by the side of the road, which can't be good.
>> No. 446330 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 9:15 pm
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>>446329
It's been a fucking great year for blackberries it's just late for them now.
>> No. 446331 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 9:22 pm
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>>446329
Fruit's been generally crappy here (fens) this year. Just not enough sunshine to finish things off. I've got loads of unripe figs that will never make it, apples that are small and a bit sparse. Pears are good, though. Peaches were small. Brambles are tasty but small and sparse. The ones I had yesterday had few bobbles, but each bobble was big. Dunno what causes that. All a complete opposite to last year, but that was exceptional.
Cereals and hay were all much better than last year. Dunno about potatoes. Pumpkin harvest looks good, if inedible disposable shite floats your goat.
>> No. 446332 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 9:34 pm
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>>446331

Potatoes have been okay, leafy greens were proper fucked by the mollusc explosion, tomato blight has been rampant.
>> No. 446333 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 11:41 pm
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>>446332

I've been growing tomatoes in big felt bags and they're looking pretty happy, but no ripe tomatoes yet (big brandy grown outside, no greenhouse, south east)

All my squash and pumkins got sick as fuck though and I've had a super pitiful yield.

Oh well. Next year will be better.
>> No. 446334 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 12:56 am
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The potatoes and carrots I buy from the supermarket have recently been a lot smaller and flimsier than usual.
>> No. 446336 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 12:39 pm
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>>446334

It's happening.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-warns-supermarket-shelves-25023483
>> No. 446338 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 12:51 pm
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>>446336
I'm starting to wonder how much I should shit myself about all this. My landlord has already raised the rent as it's leccy inclusive and I didn't much enjoy having to pick over the scraps leftover in the supermarket when I got off work last year.

Is it a couple bags of fanny custard type worry or should I start hoarding in a controlled way before ITZ?
>> No. 446339 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 12:55 pm
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There's a predominantly black 6form college near me in Cardiff and I've noticed that for some reason they all sound like they are from London. Is this a thing now, where MLE has spread across the country?
>> No. 446340 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>446339
Londonese is a patois of immigrant accents with some nuances based on background. It's not from London, it's like a underclass cosmopolitan English.

>predominantly black 6form college near me in Cardiff

How does that work?
>> No. 446341 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:02 pm
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>>446340
What do you mean? It's a 6form college with mostly black/minority students.
>> No. 446342 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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>>446339

Why are there that many black people in Cardiff?
>> No. 446343 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:30 pm
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>>446342

All the coal miners.
>> No. 446344 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:49 pm
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I found out today that the school mums have been spreading a rumour that someone had their baby taken off them by social services. The reason for this is because their baby has been at nursery when they've gone to pick their daughter up from school and both parents going to pick her up evidently means that the baby must have gone into care.

Fuck me, I hate everything to do with the school run.
>> No. 446345 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>446344

When I were a lad, they just made us walk (or cycle) to school once we were about ten. It was even earlier for me as our first school was literally at the bottom of our street, but from middle school onwards it was the majority of us. I remember thinking the few kids who did get picked up by parents, especially in cars, must have some sort of special needs.

I know things have changed, but how and why did they change so drastically in about fifteen years? Why was it collectively decided that children could no longer walk to school?
>> No. 446346 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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>>446342
Cardiff like any other UK city is a diverse place, and to a certain degree always has been. It has some of the oldest black communities in the UK.
>> No. 446347 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>446346

Oldest? I thought you said they were in school.
>> No. 446348 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 2:18 pm
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>>446345
I'd say the main reason parents don't feel safe letting their kids walk to school is because other parents park and drive so dangerously, making a vicious circle. That and paedos.
>> No. 446349 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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>>446342
Port cities have some of the oldest black communities (London, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, etc). For instance, Somalis who worked as sailors for the empire started settling in South Wales as far back as 1870s.
>> No. 446350 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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When did you last see a Hare Krishna? In fact, when did you last see anyone recruiting in the street for a wacky religion? You see the occasional Jehovah's Witness still, but where are the nutters? I miss them; they were my favourite type of street-harasser. Now it's just twats from TalkTalk and Scottish Power and maybe a charity mugger if you're lucky. Nobody ever preaches about the apocalypse any more.
>> No. 446351 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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>>446350
Last time I got stopped by a religious nutter was years ago, when two beautiful mormons invited me to their church. I said I'd go but didn't as it was a hassle to get to. Had a few Jehovah's round my house, I listen to them for 10 minutes and tell them I'm Catholic when I'm bored of them. I did see a fire and brimstone preacher in my town centre, talking about how we're all going to hell, but I think I was the only person who stopped to listen.
>> No. 446352 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:03 pm
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>>446351
>mormons
Absolute fucking wackadoos, these lot. Every time I learn something new about the LDS community, it baffles me even more. My partner is a therapist, and her past position was in a practice which was recommended by the local Mormon bishop, so the majority of her clientele were blokes in their 30s and 40s who had either glanced at porn and been diagnosed with a sex addiction, or who were having a complete identity crisis about having made it to adulthood following all of the mental rules but had still not been rewarded by white Jesus.
>beautiful mormons
Disregard if you're a gaylad. If Mormon women have reached the age where they're out on mission, this means they haven't yet been scooped up for marriage, i.e. they're not attractive enough by Mormon standards. There's a whole American-high-school-type subculture about who even gets to sit where at church, with the uggos and chubsters being pushed to the back. Our lass has talked more than one teenage lass off the edge purely because they're brunette and that simply won't do.
>> No. 446353 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:42 pm
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A mosquito bit me when I was out bramble picking yesterday and now my left index finger is almost twice the size of my right one. The skin is ridiculously tight on my knuckle when I bend my finger.

Also forgot to mention, when I was in the woods I saw a man dressed all in orange riding some form of electric unicycle, something you stand up using, blasting out Tom Waits.

>>446350
Were they the Gouranga people?
>> No. 446354 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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>>446348
Can confirm: My teenage nephews still get picked up by my brother from school. I've tried all the tricks including calling him a carpet-bagger and suggesting he will come home one day and find them wearing his wife's clothes.

It's sad to think about, most of my experiences with young love involved walking with girls.

>>446346
>>446349
Come off it, lads. It's a school with majority black kids. In Wales. Fucking mental.
>> No. 446355 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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>>446352
That sounds like some sort of KKK cult. I didn't know their religion had racist undertones.
>> No. 446356 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:11 pm
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>>446355

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21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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>>446355

>I didn't know their religion had racist undertones

They're American, everything does.
>> No. 446358 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:36 pm
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>>446356
So that's how they managed to make this legendary masterpiece:


>> No. 446359 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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It's been a considerable amount of time since I've done anything just for the fun of it. Between tying up projects at work, keeping myself fed and clean, keeping my house running, and spending time with the missus, I haven't had a minute to myself to just do whatever I feel like. Throwing on top of that the bit of podge on my stomach that desperately needs sorting, I don't think I'm ever going to have fun again.
>> No. 446360 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>446338
My local supermarket has been cleared out in an odd way. Plenty of sage but not a trace of basil, loads of diced chicken but no breast, plenty of people not wearing a mask and me.
>> No. 446361 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 9:36 pm
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>>446360

The ASDA round the corner here has had a spotty supply of packaged sweets and biscuits lately. And they've been out of regular Jammie Dodgers since at least Saturday and only have the Minis.

Not sure how that factors into the situation at large, and if I should be worried.
>> No. 446362 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 9:50 pm
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>>446360
My local Co-op has no meat, no sandwiches/pastas/salads, and no sparkling water. It might be lacking other things but they're the things I buy most. Don't think supply issues are solely to blame; students have returned to the city, and the biggest halls of residence is across the road from Co-op. When I go I frequently have to queue, which is stressful because it says only enter when the light is green, but people push in front of me and enter at red lights, and I'm scared they'll attack me if I confront them. It is truly the end of days.
>> No. 446363 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>>446361
>And they've been out of regular Jammie Dodgers since at least Saturday and only have the Minis

Mine has got the Christmas tins out but they're running low on normal chocolate. My t-shirts seem to have shrunk a bit as well. Either it's shrinkflation or the vaccine is turning us into giants.
>> No. 446364 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 11:22 pm
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>>446363

>Mine has got the Christmas tins out

That always annoys the fuck out of me this time of year. Christmas is still over three months away, and shops act as if it's happening next week.

Why do we need almost four months of run-up to a holiday that's in the end always going to be lukewarm and disappointing for most people. It's like having a four-hour wank and then blowing your load to a picture of
Sarah Millican.
>> No. 446365 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 11:24 pm
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>>446364
Money.
>> No. 446366 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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>>446362

I had to buy whole organic milk the other day, because my only other options were oat milk or strawberry Frijj.
>> No. 446367 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 1:47 am
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>>446366
Should've went with the oat milk, far and away the best of milks.
>> No. 446368 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 4:02 am
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Following what I can only assume to be an act of mutiny by my brain, I've just put Bepanthen on my toothbrush.
>> No. 446369 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 4:07 am
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>>446367
I wish the same could be said about Oat yoghurts. It's legit something I would recommend everyone who likes yoghurt to try once, because it is the anti-yoghurt. Everything good and nice, even the colour, is corrupted in an oat yoghurt.

It's like eating tile grout.
>> No. 446370 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 4:35 am
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>>446369
Is it not just porridge?
>> No. 446371 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 7:01 am
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>>446364
There's been stories for well over a month that people need to start shopping for Christmas now because there's going to be shortages of toys and meat.
>> No. 446372 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 10:49 am
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>>446367

I'm not paying a quid for a litre of thin gruel.
>> No. 446373 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 11:04 am
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The only thing oat milk is good for is porridge. It's double porridge.
>> No. 446386 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 4:11 pm
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I realise I'm turning this place into Mumsnet, but my daughter has come home with three birthday party invites this week so far. I've looked up the prices for one of them and they start "from £300". I am not getting drawn into this pissing contest.
>> No. 446387 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>446386
To attend?
>> No. 446388 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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>>446386
What on earth does a 300 quid birthday party even look like?

The best thing we did was convince our two that birthday parties were generally a bad idea.
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22nd September 2021
Wednesday 5:25 pm
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>>446388
I assume that's to hire a venue and have it catered and perhaps an entertainer. It doesn't seem too unreasonable rather than having 20 screaming children destorying your house for an afternoon.
>> No. 446390 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 5:59 pm
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>>446388
From what I can tell, it's a bit of woodland where they do things like corporate events, birthday parties and forest schools. £300 gets 15 kids in the woodland for two hours where they'll do a treasure hunt, a bit of den building and some other foresty activities.
>> No. 446391 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>446390 £300 gets 15 kids in the woodland for two hours

inb4 saville

Get them dowsing for the treasure, that should rile some parents up.
>> No. 446397 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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Speaking of obnoxious parties, I'm off to a wedding in a few weeks that's got over 300 confirmed attendees. Our lass is a bridesmaid, I doubt I'll see her all day.
>> No. 446398 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 8:21 pm
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>>446397
>Our lass is a bridesmaid, I doubt I'll see her all day.

Too busy getting knobbed by the best man?
>> No. 446399 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 8:26 pm
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>>446398

Yes, but what does that have to do with her?
>> No. 446430 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 6:00 pm
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BP and Tesco have been forced to temporarily close some of their petrol stations across the UK due to a lack of fuel supplies caused by the ongoing HGV driver shortage crisis.

The oil giant will restrict deliveries of petrol and diesel to its forecourts to ensure supplies do not run out.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bp-petrol-stations-closed-uk-b1925612.html

ITZ
>> No. 446431 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 6:29 pm
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>>446430

Not ideal. I remember the last time there were fuel shortages, just a load of twunts queuing up at the pumps for hours.

There have been issues with aviation fuel deliveries recently, that the industry has kept quite quiet. But also it's a lot easier to just buy it from alternate sources (or just stock up when your plane lands abroad) because it's so cheap and singular in use.
>> No. 446433 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 7:36 pm
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>> No. 446434 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 7:58 pm
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>>446433

https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/category/office-furniture/
>> No. 446435 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 11:16 pm
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>>446434
I don't think that's the one i remembered but it'll do - thanks a lot.
Incidentally wasn't one of the mods in the OakFurnitureLand tv adverts?
>> No. 446436 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 12:58 am
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Vicky Coren is on Taskmaster, so that's my wank fodder sorted for the next ten weeks.
>> No. 446438 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 6:17 am
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>>446436
Aren't the contestants on Taskmaster meant to be funny or are they just scraping the barrel by now? That Morgana is awful.
>> No. 446439 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 6:26 am
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>>446438

Definitely scraping the barrel.

I feel like the British comedy circuit has been for a while now though. Shows like these are always carried on the shoulders of one or two old hands like Johnny Vegas or Bob Mortimer, while the rest of them are these bland free-range factory comedians, packaged and sold straight to the comedy panel show market.

I can't wait for it to come full circle, and a low-brow alternative to alternative comedy comes roaring in, where it's all about telling blue jokes in working men's clubs.
>> No. 446440 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 8:43 am
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>>446435
That was a case of mistaken identity, the one in the ads was Professor Green, rather than the mod green.
>> No. 446444 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 1:25 pm
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>>446438
I don't watch Taskmaster because it looks terrible, but are you talking about Morgana Robinson? She had a sketch show years ago where she did impressions, and I thought she was amazing. Criminally underrated, like Alex whatever from those bank adverts who also had a brilliant sketch show that nobody watched. He really was fantastic. Sometimes I wonder if there is some Weinsteinian other way of picking guests for these shows, because it's always the same people, regardless of comedy ability, with a job for life like they've been handpicked for it, and plenty of other comedians just vanish after refusing to be bummed by Jimmy Carr.
>> No. 446447 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 1:36 pm
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>>446444
> Alex whatever
I have tracked down the man I meant. His name is Kevin Bishop.
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24th September 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>446439
I think its due to the diversity guests they have on. Most people in general aren't funny, it's difficult to fill the room with funny people even if the only requirement is 'be funny', let alone if the room must also look like the UN.
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24th September 2021
Friday 2:10 pm
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>>446444
That's the one. Her sketch show was dire, but all I can really remember about it was that she kept doing impressions of Sonia from Eastenders about five years after she'd left the show and another one were she pretended to have learning difficulties.


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

It was painfully unfunny.
>> No. 446454 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 2:29 pm
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>>446444
>Weinsteinian
They're definitely all fucking each other. I'm friends with a few circuit comedians, and being willing to put a cock in your mouth certainly seems to help when it comes to getting good gigs. There was a load of scandal about the circuit a while back surrounding a "Mr X" that had been a serial offender with other comedians, especially younger lads trying to climb the ladder. It was Stephen K Amos
>> No. 446456 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 4:15 pm
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Passed MOT with no advisories.
Get in.
>> No. 446457 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>446444

>Sometimes I wonder if there is some Weinsteinian other way of picking guests for these shows, because it's always the same people

Two big agencies dominate the industry, Avalon and Off The Kerb. They have pursued a deliberate and very effective strategy of using the TV shows that they produce to promote the artists that they represent. For shows that they don't produce, there's an element of bundling, as in "you can have Kevin Bridges if you also book Judi Love" - they represent the big names, which gives them a lot of leverage to push new acts.
>> No. 446458 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>446454
https://avalonuk.com/shows/taskmaster/
https://avalonuk.com/x_management/comedians/
A lot of names in here that crop up on the panel show type things, many of which are produced by Avalon. There obviously is some dodgy dealing/cronyism to get talentless charisma vacuum cunts like Iain Stirling reliable work.
>> No. 446459 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 4:23 pm
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>>446451

Morgana's Natalie Cassidy sketches are some of my absolute favourites. They're so warm and affectionate and brilliantly observed. No accounting for taste, I suppose.


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24th September 2021
Friday 4:25 pm
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>>446451
She was unfunny in House Of Fools, playing a sex mad MILF type woman if I recall correctly. Very attractive, but no laughs. I quite liked her on Travel Man, she just seems like a posh bitch up for a laugh (albeit at the expense of the disabled and Natalie Cassidy).
>> No. 446461 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 5:08 pm
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>>446456
That's always very satisfying.
>> No. 446465 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>446439
>carried on the shoulders of one or two old hands like Johnny Vegas or Bob Mortimer
I disagree passionately. The '90s luvvies are the least funny of all. Vic Reeves, Paul Whitehouse, Bob Mortimer, Hugh Dennis, they're terrible and trading purely on their names. Richard Herring is bearable but he doesn't do it as often, and Johnny Vegas wasn't around in the '90s so he gets a pass, however far he may have fallen from the unique style that only he had. Also, you wouldn't want Johnny Vegas sucking your cock for a job even if he offered, so it's no wonder he has enough talent, just about, to still be on TV.
>> No. 446466 Anonymous
24th September 2021
Friday 7:42 pm
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>>446459
Explain what's funny about these scenes. All I see is a naughty man gets caked and spectrum-woman gets ready to go out. I know the bar is set low for entertainment centred around impersonating celebrities but still.

Not otherlad, I just really hate how impressionists manage to get tv shows in this country.
>> No. 446478 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 5:47 pm
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If someone wears a leather cowboy hat, alongside steampunk goggles, everyday, is it safe to assume that they are a cunt?
>> No. 446479 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 6:12 pm
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Thank you to the lad here who said it would be near impossible to lose weight at 29 years old for spurring me on.
>> No. 446480 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 6:48 pm
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>>446479
What app is that?
>> No. 446489 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 8:48 pm
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>>446479
Good attitude.
>> No. 446493 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 6:26 pm
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>>446479
How are you doing it lad?
I get so far then end up slipping up and down.
>> No. 446496 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 6:58 pm
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>>446480
https://www.nutracheck.co.uk/Home

It's a British app and I've found it to be better at finding foods to log than fitnesspal, but I did sign up to the premium feature.

>>446493
I just put in my details and it gave me a calorie limit of 1500 per day and I've stuck to it, give or take a few days a week where I might go over a bit. I haven't even really exercised. Cutting out sweet things after dinner was the best choice I think.
I cut out
>> No. 446498 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>> No. 446502 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 9:06 pm
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I lost 7kg and seem to have stalled. Still eating 1500 cals according to the food app, must be the exercise apps overestimating how many I burn.
Unless the water retention caused by the creatine course I started is doing it.
>> No. 446503 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 9:15 pm
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>>446502

Just make sure you don't go much lower than 1500 calories, as you will be entering crash diet territory, especially if it's accompanied by rigorous exercise.
>> No. 446504 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 9:22 pm
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>>446503
That's a bunch of bollocks from women's magazines. Dreadful.
>> No. 446505 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>446503
Realistically it's more like 2-3,000 calories most days but that's adjusting for the exercise. Net 1,500 you might call it.
>> No. 446506 Anonymous
27th September 2021
Monday 8:34 am
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>>446505

1500 calories is a huge amount in terms of exercise. Even intensive exercise bouts often only amount to a few hundred calories. For example, I used to go out and do a 7 minute mile run at a bodyweight of 80kg, which is a fairly high pace for a chunker, but most calculators put this at around less than 150 calories.

It's probably possible to burn more at a more moderate pace for greater time, but I'd definitely urge caution about taking calorie deficits from exercise at face value.
>> No. 446507 Anonymous
27th September 2021
Monday 9:37 am
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>>446506
Yes this.
The app I've got for cycling estimates my 20 mile ride with heart rate averaging around 160bpm as around 1300 calories.
I typically do that around once a week on an empty stomach and just having a meal replacement shake when I get home, but even that's not enough to lose any weight without really restricting calories the 5 days a week I'm sat on my arse at work.
>> No. 446508 Anonymous
27th September 2021
Monday 9:37 am
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>>446506
It's up to an hour and a half of weights plus either 30-45 minutes running intervals or an hour's weighted march.
>> No. 446511 Anonymous
27th September 2021
Monday 10:10 am
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>>446508

Sounds really highly intensive, for sure, but I'd still be cautious about estimates of your calories burned during those activities. The ranges are really wide depending on your bodyweight, the weights you're using, how much volume you perform in that time period, etc..

As a general rule it's so much easier to eat a couple of hundred calories less than it is to burn them off -- but maybe you've got a good idea of what you're burning, at this stage.
>> No. 446512 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 2:14 am
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I keep seeing a fox around the hospital grounds at night. I keep seeing him dash off when I go out for a smoke. He looks quite healthy too, not a scrawny mangy thing like you expect. Brings a smile to my face for some reason.
>> No. 446513 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 2:31 am
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>>446512

>He looks quite healthy too

Probably getting a good feed from the red bins.
>> No. 446516 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 8:41 am
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>>446513

He does right. Waste not want not.
>> No. 446522 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 5:22 pm
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Has the font changed on this site?
>> No. 446523 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 5:41 pm
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>>446522
No.
>> No. 446524 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 5:55 pm
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>>446522
Your browser might have changed font. DuckDuckGo has a different font for me now, and I doubt they would have changed it on their end.
>> No. 446525 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 8:07 pm
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Vegetarianlads, how does your body respond to eating meat? I'll have meat once a month nowadays as a little treat, and in those cases it's like I never stopped eating meat at all. Actually, more often than not it's completely underwhelming. However, my vegetable biryani I bought for my dinner was mixed up, and I ended up with a chicken one instead. It's been about two hours since I accidentally ate it, but I still feel a bit queasy. This is just 24 hours after I was talking about having fried chicken as my October meat meal.
>> No. 446526 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 8:52 pm
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>>446525
You'll have terrible stinky wind if you switch a lot like that.
>> No. 446527 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>446524

Was going to say this. Firefox uses an altogether worse font for this site than chromium. One of the browsers, I forget which, also makes /IQ/ a nice cursive fancy font instead of comic sans.
>> No. 446528 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 9:02 pm
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>>446526
It's just the one meal a month, and only if I'm particularly enthusiastic about it. Apart from fried chicken and steak, I don't miss meat at all.
>> No. 446529 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 9:07 pm
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>>446528

I still eat meat but agree it's not all that special. The thing I would miss more than anything would be how much easier it is to fill a meal with deep flavour AND protein when you can just throw a load of chicken thigh or pork in a thing. Or how nice it is to eat a peperami. Actually I'd definitely miss peperami most.

Before a cunt off starts about how it's just as easy to use shitaake and quorn, don't bother, I won't respond.
>> No. 446530 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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>>446529
A friend of mine recently fell off the veggie wagon and was telling me how much he felt better overall now that he eats meat again. More energy and all that. I don't necessarily buy it, I haven't ever felt a lack of energy since cutting out meat. I have, however, been trying to research whether or not my veggie diet is causing me more depression flare-ups, since he mentioned his mood got better after he started eating meat. I'm a mopey fucker, but I think that's irrespective of diet.
>> No. 446531 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 9:28 pm
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>>446530
Yeah you can be quite healthy on a vegan diet, but you need to be super super anal about vitamins and minerals and other micronutrients, and a lot of the problems tend to show gradually after months or years, most people who go vegan have that honeymoon phase where they feel great for a while but then the lethargy sets in much later.

We still eat way way much more meat than we really need to for being at our best anyway.
>> No. 446534 Anonymous
28th September 2021
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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Just started taking Citalopram. I'm currently going through an existential crisis of sorts. Doom. I feel horrendously sick, nauseas, and a bit surreal. Trying to not have a panic attack. Anyone got any advice please, in how to feel less fucking awful right now?
>> No. 446535 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 12:22 am
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>>446534
>I'm currently going through an existential crisis of sorts. Doom. I feel horrendously sick, nauseas, and a bit surreal.
Totally normal for the first couple of days. In case you haven't been told yet, take it in the evening because it can and will absolutely knock you out.
>> No. 446536 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:25 am
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>>446531
>but you need to be super super anal about vitamins and minerals and other micronutrients

You just don't. Been doing it for twenty years. Everyone needs a balanced diet, regardless of preferences.
>> No. 446537 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:53 am
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>>446536

There are no natural plant-based sources of vitamin B12. If you don't eat processed foods like breakfast cereal that are fortified with B12 (or take a supplement), you'll slowly go mad. Severe B12 deficiency is endemic amongst vegans, particularly those eating raw or wholefood diets.
>> No. 446538 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:57 am
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>>446537
>Severe B12 deficiency is endemic amongst vegans
That would certainly explain a few things.
>> No. 446540 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 5:52 am
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>>446537
If only there was some readily available source of B12.

B12 deficiency is only endemic among the small population of people who are fruitarians. A lack of B12 makes you randomly faint. That's literally it - the rest of us are existing perfectly well and healthily.
>> No. 446542 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:47 am
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>>446540

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23356638/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20648045/

>In all, 52% of vegans, 7% of vegetarians and one omnivore were classified as vitamin B12 deficient
>> No. 446543 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:49 am
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>>446540

>A lack of B12 makes you randomly faint. That's literally it

deficiency in either of these vitamins can cause a wide range of problems, including:

extreme tiredness
a lack of energy
pins and needles (paraesthesia)
a sore and red tongue
mouth ulcers
muscle weakness
disturbed vision
psychological problems, which may include depression and confusion
problems with memory, understanding and judgement


https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamin-b12-or-folate-deficiency-anaemia/
>> No. 446544 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:53 am
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>>446540

Eight grams of Marmite - an extremely generous portion - contains 76% of your RDA of B12. Unless you're getting through a jar every three weeks, Marmite will not cover your B12 needs.

https://www.marmite.co.uk/nutrition-information.html
>> No. 446545 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:05 am
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Do we need to add 'not eating meat' to the list of things you lot want to go in circles about all the fucking time?
>> No. 446546 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:44 am
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>>446545

Nobody is going in circles here, there's solid posts with substantiative evidence regarding nutritional deficiency, and one vegan in denial.
>> No. 446547 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:52 am
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>>446546
By circles I mean retreading the exact same discussion that has been had many times before.

See also: climate change, transfolk, casual actual maritime issues.
>> No. 446548 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:57 am
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>>446537
Creatine is underrated as well though not technically essential. Not getting any extra in your diet from meat can lead to a loss of strength.
>> No. 446549 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 9:40 am
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>>446548

You can get vegan, synthesised creatine.
There are a number of vegan weightlifters in the Olympics which indicates it can't be all that much of a set-back. All this "you need to eat meat to be strong!" rhetoric starts to sound a bit like Maddox insisting you also need to drink whiskey and grow a moustache to be strong.
>> No. 446550 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 9:53 am
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>>446549
Maddox of the he best page on the internet or whatever it was. I remember browsing that twenty years ago :S
>> No. 446551 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 9:57 am
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>>446550

I thought that shit was the funniest thing back in school. Did you ever watch him try to transition to youtube? Hella cringe.

video related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4jZ_BV4MQ4
>> No. 446552 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 10:21 am
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>>446549

I've been a vegetarian for decades, I'm one of the "we need to stop eating meat or the planet will catch fire" brigade, but I posted the stuff about B12.

A lot of people go into veganism in quite a faddy sort of way, based on suppositions rather than science on what constitutes a "balanced diet". Eating a diet that solely consists of fresh vegetables, nuts and fruits might look incredibly healthy, but if you do it for long enough you'll slowly lose your mind. A healthy vegan diet requires some level of artificial supplementation, whether through pills or enriched processed foods.

At the extreme end of the spectrum, you've got the raw vegan crackpots who believe that their lack of menstruation, lightheadedness and hallucinations are signs of "cleanliness" rather than symptoms of severe malnutrition.

https://www.kansascity.com/living/article153613609.html
>> No. 446553 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 10:26 am
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>>446549

>All this "you need to eat meat to be strong!" rhetoric

Everyone is literally saying you can be perfectly healthy on a vegan diet, you just need to pay more attention to nutrition.
>> No. 446554 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 10:38 am
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>>446553

>Everyone is literally saying you can be perfectly healthy on a vegan diet
I don't think >>446552 is. I suppose it depends on if you interpret "a vegan diet", as a casual term, as including artificial supplements or not.
>> No. 446555 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 10:52 am
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>>446554

>I suppose it depends on if you interpret "a vegan diet", as a casual term, as including artificial supplements or not.

This is exactly what I meant when I said " you just need to pay more attention to nutrition", to be fair.
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29th September 2021
Wednesday 11:06 am
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>>446555

To continue to be fair, you must see that isn't explicit or reasonably implicit in that statement -- even if it is what you were thinking.
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29th September 2021
Wednesday 11:11 am
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>>446556

That's why I said "to be fair" rather than "you fucking idiot" or anything like that. I'm not about to have an argument about the semantics of the word 'nutrition'.

Please return to the far less tedious circle of cuntoff that preceded this diversion.
>> No. 446558 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 11:19 am
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>>446551

He really needed to develop in a different direction. I feel like he's misunderstood his own appeal, or at least didn't try to expand on it for an audience that grew up.

I didn't think the joke was ever the faux-macho silliness or deliberately defending absurd positions, it was the pettiness and instability of the author. The same way Stewart Lee's character is a pretentious arse, and that is to some degree an exaggerated part of the real Stew, Maddox was a shock-humour comedian taken to its logical end. To me, at least, it was a cover for the nihilistic and sometimes surreal humour. I still occasionally think about his more weird pieces:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sanity
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=uglytv

He wrote an entire book criticising children's drawings. I never purchased the book, but the idea is itself is quite funny -- the joke is really on the author, who thinks he's performing some sort of worthwhile critique. It still gives you ammunition to put in a funny turn of phrase or two, but it only works with a high level of irony and self-awareness.

These videos come across like he really is trying to be his character. I don't know, maybe it's hard to satisfy higher brow aspirations while also keeping BRILLIANT teenagers entertained.
>> No. 446559 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 12:57 pm
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It's like the Wizard of Oz. On his website he projects an iconoclastic, "badass", controversial image with the Che Guevara with an eyepatch styled avatar. In the videos, we see he's actually a weedy balding man with no real charisma. He shouldn't have stepped out from behind the curtain. I did buy his Alphabet Of Manliness when it came out, and loved it as a 13 year old. Revisiting it in my late 20s, it's not very funny at all, made even less so now I know Maddox is just a dweeb.
>> No. 446560 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 1:39 pm
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>>446559

That's the thing, I don't mind that he's a bit of a dweeb in reality, but I think he has more self-awareness than he lets on in these videos. It's a shame he's playing this character so straight, because it is literally just him nasally talking at the camera.

He had loads of other options. Animate a muscle-bound pirate avatar. Or do it like RedLetterMedia does with the Mr. Plinkett character, remain as a voiceover and leave it to viewer imagination. If he does want to appear in person, then he could play up the contrast between his projected image and his real self, making it a part of the comedy.

Instead he went with the lazy option of just flatly reading his posts, probably because he just wanted an easy transfer between mediums and to cash in on a little prior internet stardom.
>> No. 446561 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:02 pm
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My energy suppler is about to titsup so they've cancelled my smart meter installation for this Friday.
>> No. 446562 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:03 pm
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>>446561

Is there a list of which suppliers are going to die soon?
>> No. 446563 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:26 pm
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>>446562
OFGEM shows them at the top of their website. They've just added three new names to the list.
>> No. 446564 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:26 pm
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>>446561
Smart meters are shady shit anyway. There is clearly something we aren't being told about them. They never advertise that they'll save you money, and indeed, someone I work with wound up paying far more with a smart meter. They also have the power to just switch off your electricity at will if you don't pay your bills, which is similarly shady. I can't get one because they're massive and my rented flat doesn't have room, but Eon won't hear of it and keep ordering me that I must get one, no reasons, just do it, you traitor. Never do anything that a corporation is that desperate to make you do.
>> No. 446565 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:29 pm
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... and like a muppet I failed to attach the screenshot. As penance I'll list them here.

Green
Avro Energy
Utility Point
People's Energy
PFP Energy
MoneyPlus Energy
ENSTROGA
Igloo Energy
Symbio Energy

9 failures is the most we've seen in a single year, and has happened once before. Of course, that time they didn't all fail in a single month.
>> No. 446566 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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The main reason I'd wanted to get one was to switch over to a ridiculously cheap tariff. Unfortunately, at some point between booking the installation and today, that provider noticed how cheap it was and hiked it by over 50%.
>> No. 446567 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 5:30 pm
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I don't think that the average smart meter has disconnect (yet). Nor smart load shedding, nor any of the features that make them anything other than a way to not need meter reading vans any more. Fucking shambles.
>> No. 446568 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:34 pm
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They can also use smart meters to detect if you are growing pot.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/cops-use-smart-meter-technology-to-bust.557758/
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29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:01 pm
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>>446567

Octopus offer demand-responsive pricing for customers with a SMETS2 meter. Your unit price changes every half hour and they have IFTTT integration, so you can use your smarthome gubbins to do your own smart load shedding.

https://octopus.energy/agile/
>> No. 446570 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:09 pm
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I bought a new sex toy and it's really good.
>> No. 446571 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:16 pm
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>>446570
You'll have to review it in >>/x/41065.
>> No. 446572 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:25 pm
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>>446567
They definitely have disconnect and have for some time - bigclive did a teardown of one of them:


>> No. 446573 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>446571
I just wrote a full review of it there to be hit with a 403 error because I'm an immigrant in the US.
>> No. 446574 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>446573
You mean you're an expat?
>> No. 446575 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>446569
If you notice the price starting to spike can you get the fuck off the tariff and onto one of their others (e.g. Go) before it bankrupts you?
>> No. 446576 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>446573
If you're posting from a board, and not from /*/, then press back and your post should be cached.

When I was a yout I posted some monster of a teen creative writing post, but when I pressed submit it turned out the board had been deleted for inactivity. Only took me an hour.
>> No. 446591 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 5:13 pm
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I was typing 'bugger' in reply to my manager, only my right hand was one key over. If it hadn't been part of a longer thought and given me time to notice, how fucked do you think I would have been? They're Jewish, for context.
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30th September 2021
Thursday 8:14 pm
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>>446591
Your manager probably knows you quite well, and would factor your personality into how much trouble you'd get in. If you're a notorious white supremacist already, it might be harder for you to convince him it was an accident. Personally, I wouldn't type the word "bugger" at my boss, although I do swear extensively through my mouth, as we all do. My boss has also said the naughty no-no word you're referring to a couple of times, in the context of, "I can't believe this white guy got cancelled for singing along to Forgot About Dre"-type stories.
>> No. 446605 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 1:16 am
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>>446530
Scratch that, it's definitely the on-off relationship with cannabis that's behind the depression.
>> No. 446607 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 2:27 am
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>>446591

I suppose it depends if you were typing something like "you absolute bloody bugger" or "oh no, oh bugger". Either way though if I said that to my boss and then immediately said "that was an unfortunate typo, I'm sorry" I know I'd be fine, though he might screenshot it to get rid of me later when I keep asking him about increasing my budget.

Having said that apparently someone got fired at our company for saying "cheers lad" at the end of an email, as it was deemed unprofessional. I can only imagine they really, really wanted to get rid of him anyway, but still.
>> No. 446609 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 8:56 am
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>>446605

Do you mean to say cutting out the weed has helped, or that making it into an always on relationship has helped?

I always feel a sense of betrayal to my past self now because I used to be a massive stoner, but these days I'm always warning younglads on Rudgwick and such about the side effects that creep up on you over the years.

Obviously they never believe me because weed is the cure for cancer isn't it, but it's really not the miracle drug everyone seems to think it is these days.
>> No. 446619 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 11:30 am
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It's cold enough at night to put the heavy sheets back on the foot of the bed to keep my extremities warm and I slept amazingly well. I don't know if I've had a decent night's sleep since I last had them on.
>> No. 446621 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 11:44 am
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>>446619
I think it's getting cool enough that I'll have to start wearing socks again.
>> No. 446637 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>446609
I go through extended periods where I don't smoke at all, but then short bursts where I smoke pretty much every day. It isn't a lot at a time, but it's every day for a few weeks. The thing is, I know that smoking is going to make me feel down in the dumps the next day, but I still do it because I sometimes quite enjoy sitting on the settee with the missus and just switching off - we both have terribly demanding jobs.

Early pandemic was great, I smoked once on 4/20 and once again on my birthday, but was otherwise getting things done and actively indulging in hobbies. Now that I'm able to go back to work every day, though, my free time is basically consumed by making sure my house is in presentable, working order. Capping off the night with a bowl in the back garden is just the easiest way to go from mega-stressed to somewhat-relaxed.
>> No. 446638 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 4:33 pm
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>>446637

I'm probably going to get shit for saying so considering our resident resting actors, but in this regard I think booze is actually better for me.

Having a couple of beers or a glasses of wine on an evening eases the stresses of the day out and loosens me up, and it's the diametric opposite of weed in that it makes me want to talk to my mates instead of lock my phone in another room and pretend it doesn't exist.

Everyone's got their vice I suppose but it's all about finding one that really works for you, and then making sure you don't get carried away with it.
>> No. 446639 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 4:47 pm
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I feel a bit bad for this person. She's trying very hard to be interesting, intellectual and sexy but isn't really able to engage on any level of those. Right now she's clearly laid out Gaugin and Caravaggio art books for the viewers to see but has nothing to say about them beyond "I like them".
Also she treats her dog pretty meanly, over-babying it when it's clearly uncomfortable. Not cruelty, just seeing it as an object.
Maybe one of you can help her learn to be her authentic self in return for a go on her rack.
>> No. 446640 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 5:32 pm
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>>446639
I realise it makes me a grumpy old cunt, but I really don't think it's funny or endearing when gen Z do this.
>> No. 446642 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 7:12 pm
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Made some apple pie tonight with some of the apples that are now beginning to fall off the tree in the back garden. They're sort of a tart variety, which tend to become a bit sour when you bake them, so I had to put loads of sugar on them. As well as bourbon vanilla, cloves and cinnamon. And some diluted honey. Bit chuffed with myself, the pie tastes almost as good as shop bought.

Maybe I'll make some apple cider with the rest of the apples. There are still loads left on the tree. Been wanting to do that for years, because from what I have read, cider also needs tart apples.
>> No. 446644 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 8:39 pm
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>>446639
She's cute but damaged. Maybe I could heal her PTSD with my love.
>> No. 446646 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 9:08 am
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>>446639
Perhaps I’m overly sensitive but her biography almost reduced me to tears.
>> No. 446668 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 6:49 pm
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Northernlads,

Do the women in your family, especially the older women, do this thing where they'll keep talking to finish their sentence even though they clearly need to take a breath? The end result being similar to that voice people make where they've taken a drag of a cig but not exhaled yet.

My grandmas always did it growing up, and now my mam has started doing it. I'm curious whether it's a widespread thing, or just a localised thing to my family. Blindboy did a podcast recently on ingressive speech, which turned out to be inherited from the Nordics, and I'm thinking this could be a similar thing.
>> No. 446669 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 7:21 pm
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Which one of you fucking psychos is writing for Spitting Image? Show thyself.
>> No. 446673 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 8:36 pm
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>>446669
I'm WITH NOTHING TO SAY BECAUSE I AM A CUNT by the entire sketch. Why is Keir a fox based superhero? Why is Jess inviting Keir to suck on her big Labour tits? What differentiates "Labour tits" from "non-Labour tits". It's like it was written by an BRILLIANT A-level politics student.
>> No. 446676 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 10:05 pm
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Cain Vincent Dyer has a pretty remarkable life story to tell. Prolific bank robber who turned himself in, and after his release from prison is now a motivational coach, and also works in crime prevention and victim counseling.

I guess you have to keep busy if you want to repay the shedloads of money you still owe those banks.
>> No. 446677 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 10:27 pm
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So looks like they've taken down fb to delete all their mooky research data in the wake of whistleblower revelations.

What'll people do?
>> No. 446679 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 10:34 pm
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>>446677
I've already learned two languages and painted a photorealistic sunset.
>> No. 446681 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>446677

>> No. 446683 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 11:40 pm
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Sometimes it genuinely saddens me that I'll never be a horseback riding traveller, seeking respite from the rain in a warm inn.
>> No. 446684 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 12:03 am
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>>446683
Can you horse-back ride? You can get much of the same experience on an A liscence if you want. Dismount your bike with your tow-bag and turn in on a B&B, soem definitely cater for that. If you genuinly want to horse-rise through the country, that's a dream and fuck you. Horses are cunts. If you ever rambled you'd know that.
>> No. 446686 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 12:08 am
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>>446677
Personally, I attempted to tell my friends about it via WhatsApp, failed, then spent several hours looking online about the cause. Amusingly, news reports about the issue have been almost certainly wrong; they blame DNS, since that's what the error message said, but if it was just DNS that was broken then you'd still have been able to visit Facebook by going to the IP address, and you couldn't. One explanation said it was a problem with BGP peering (so Facebook's network stopped telling the rest of the Internet that it existed, effectively turning it invisible) while another tweet implied Facebook had basically DDoSed itself when its network started a broadcast storm by forwarding traffic to itself and causing a feedback loop that crashed everything.

Allegedly, it's back up now, but I haven't checked yet because I'm not an addict and I could stop going there at any time and I'm fine and maybe you need to shut up.
>> No. 446687 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 12:40 am
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Not to get all /boo/ but leaks come out about Facebook and then they "go offline" for a bit. Shredding the evidence?
>> No. 446688 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 12:54 am
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>>446687
Even if not shredding the evidence, it could be a timely stunt to demonstrate that they're fallible and not some all-powerful agency.
>> No. 446689 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 8:00 am
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What leaks about Facebook?
>> No. 446691 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 9:54 am
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>>446689


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI
>> No. 446702 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 4:06 pm
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Daisy-May Cooper was on Buzzcocks last night looking quite slaggy and I can't stop daydreaming about banging her by the bins behind a Wetherspoons. Absolutely rattling her from behind, tits flapping about from under her top, kebab meat and chips all over the place.

I suppose I should be ashamed, but I'm honestly not.
>> No. 446703 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 4:08 pm
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>>446702

I just searched for a picture of this lady and am now convinced we have several people posting from inside Her Majesty's Prison Service.
>> No. 446706 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 4:20 pm
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>>446703

Your wank fantasies get more down-to-earth with age. It'll happen to you, just wait and see. Cellulite and stretch marks start creeping into your erotic imagination. Dirty weekends in a caravan in Whitby. Dogging in a layby off the A61. Getting wanked off in a store cupboard by a woman in a tabard. Sex noises that sound like someone with sciatica trying to move a Welsh dresser full of tinned spaghetti. Filth. Proper filth.
>> No. 446707 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>446703
You're right, she's a step too far and I've certainly advocated for chubsters on here on several occasions. I didn't realise Buzzcocks was still going.
>> No. 446710 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 5:29 pm
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>>446707
It's back, but on Sky, so I'm not surprised it is less classy than it was.
>> No. 446711 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 5:30 pm
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I'm curious how often, if ever, it occurs to certain politicians that people are going to regularly piss on their graves, and if this fact bothers them.
>> No. 446712 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 6:00 pm
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>>446711
No one ever kicks a dead dog m8.
>> No. 446727 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:07 am
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>>446712

What?
>> No. 446746 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 11:41 am
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I had to drive someone else's car this morning. It felt weird having to do things like turning the key in the ignition, having to manually do the handbrake and not having a reversing camera.
>> No. 446748 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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I can't stand the poncy modern cars where those things have become abstracted away to daft little buttons on the dashboard. It's far too hands off, I feel like I'm just suggesting what the car should do rather than being in direct control.

I helped a little old lady park her ludicrously flashy Audi in Tesco once though. No idea what she was doing behind the wheel of the thing, or why she trusted a random stranger, let alone one that looks like me, to get in it without just taking off, but it was exceptionally odd to just just sit down in a stranger's car and start driving it.
>> No. 446749 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 12:19 pm
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I prefer them, apart from the satnav, fans, radio, etc., all being in the same touchscreen meaning it's more of a faff to put the heating on compared to just turning a couple of knobs.
>> No. 446750 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 12:58 pm
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It's an outdated saying meaning that people don't criticise you when you're a nobody - 'nobody kicks a dead dog' because what would be the point.

If your new work earns you ire then you can see the joy that it means you're making an impact. If you saved the Earth then some contrarian would still find a way to piss and moan about you. And they're probably jealous bitches anyway who can go fuck a cactus.
>> No. 446753 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 1:18 pm
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>>446750

Thanks for clarifying.
>> No. 446757 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>446750

>It's an outdated saying meaning that people don't criticise you when you're a nobody


I think it's more along the lines that you don't kick somebody who is already down, or when enough time has passed that you should move on and stop criticising them.


It's easy to keep blaming the party's crushing defeat in last month's election on the countless corruption scandals it had been involved in, but there's no point still kicking a dead dog.
>> No. 446763 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 5:32 pm
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>>446757
Nah, it's from Carnegie on how you deal with negative criticism.
>> No. 446764 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 5:36 pm
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>>446763

That says "log" rather than dog.
Still, I don't think anyone can credibly make the argument that anger at Dominic Raab for wanting to remove everyone's human rights is either jealousy or envy.
>> No. 446767 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>446764
Odd. Maybe they altered it so the quote sells better.

>Still, I don't think anyone can credibly make the argument that anger at Dominic Raab for wanting to remove everyone's human rights is either jealousy or envy.

Don't be so tsundere, baka.
>> No. 446777 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 11:46 am
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The four channel version of the two channel Marshall JVM I bought out of boredom in the middle of the last lockdown is now about two hundred quid cheaper than the two channel was when I bought it. I knew they were gouging cunts.

Question is if I buy it and then put mine up on Reverb, where I could reasonably make most of the price back, or is this the beginning of me being one of those middle aged blokes with a big pile of redundant guitar gear they rarely actually use. I always used to wonder about those guys when I was younger, posting on guitar forums and such. How do you justify having nearly twenty grand's worth of shit just sat around?

Well, now I get it. You buy it and say you'll sell the old stuff, then you don't sell the old stuff.

I think I'm buying it. Yep, it's in my cart. I'm checking out.
>> No. 446778 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 1:31 pm
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I've got to the point in my life where I'd be happier getting the housework done while kiddo is at school instead of shagging all day.
>> No. 446780 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 2:05 am
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That Andy Murray story about his shoes being nicked is complete bullshit. I’m convinced this is a plan for retirement if you will, where his publicist or whoever pivot from his defining personality trait being not having one. Because, frankly, his story is less believable than my mate in year 9 attending parties so raucous they’d make Caligula blush, despite no one else knowing they happened or who attended.
>> No. 446781 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 3:48 am
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Wondering if waking up to a fairly bad leg cramp is reason enough to not go to work today.
>> No. 446782 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 3:49 am
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>>446780

I didn't really know why you'd say this until I looked at his actual post. That's the work of a professional for sure.
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8th October 2021
Friday 12:55 pm
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>“A little update for everyone: Would you believe it? The shoes are back, the wedding ring is back and I’m back in the good books. Let’s go!”

What's this "let's go!" crap we've imported from the yanks? I thought that was exclusively the talk of American twitch streamers and teenagers?
>> No. 446786 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 12:57 pm
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>A police officer is to face a misconduct hearing after being accused of taking Jaffa Cakes from a charity tuck shop without paying.

I couldn't decide whether to post this in the Shop Shutter thread or the Sarah Everard thread, so I'm posting it here to be awkward.

Fuck you.
>> No. 446787 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 1:03 pm
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>>446786
I suppose its time to confess.

I never paid for a single item from my call centre tuck shop. Don't worry, it wasn't for charity.
>> No. 446788 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 1:08 pm
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>>446787

Did you work at The Beano?
>> No. 446789 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 1:11 pm
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>>446788
No I worked at BT, and the tuck shop funds were supposedly for us to afford better equipment.
>> No. 446798 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 12:20 pm
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>>446789

So you're personally to blame for my internet connection being so slow today?
>> No. 446892 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 5:28 pm
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My mother-in-law rang up the council today to see if she could scatter her mum's ashes and was distraught to find out they'd been disposed of. Her mum died in 1983. I've no idea what the fuck she was expecting.
>> No. 446894 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 5:50 pm
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Just went in the dentist and he wants to charge me £1,500 for 4 fillings and an extraction. He was a charismatic, friendly chap, and I feel slightly bad that I'm going to use the information he gleaned to shop around to have it done cheaper. He's already charged me £150 for the x rays and diagnosis.

Are teeth just for the wealthy?
>> No. 446895 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 5:58 pm
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>>446894
I think those prices are ok for UK dentists. But yes, good teeth are only for the rich.
>> No. 446897 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 6:15 pm
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Clothes, you know? What are you actually attracted to? Haircuts, too. I can't help but imagine people bald - that's what you are, not all these badges, branded shoes and highcut jeans. Be it for the summer dress I don't think I'd be interested in people.
>> No. 446898 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 6:31 pm
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>4 fillings and an extraction

What have you been doing, sucking off jelly babies?

£150 is normal consultation fee but he's charging you nearly £500 more than my dentist in Central London and that's using the maximum price ranges. Then again it could just be that your teeth are that bad, extractions for example are charged on time taken.

In the beforetime you would go to the Baltics or Greece to have the work done for an absolute fraction of what dentists charge here even with flights. Don't know how it works now that we're out of the EU and with the whole virus business.

>Are teeth just for the wealthy?

Yes. If you went NHS the price would be capped but you'd be on a waiting list until next year and get that silver filling that eventually cracks your teeth so they need to be extracted.

It's a shite state of affairs to say the least, wouldn't surprise me if things really start escalating over the next decade or two toward how it was in 1948 where more than three quarters of the population had complete dentures. Complete with the American problem solving of ripping teeth out yourself and taking some fish antibiotics.
>> No. 446899 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 6:49 pm
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Failed MOT today because of an iffy brake light switch.

We were able to establish that eight or nine times out of ten, the brake lights come on as they should when you depress the brake pedal, but one or two times out of those ten, they don't. It was classed as a Dangerous defect because they said those two times they don't work can make all the difference in a sudden braking manoeuvre and cause a collision. I had to leave the car there today.

First time this has happened to me, and I'm kicking myself for not spotting it before going there, because a brand new brake light switch for my car is about £10 on eBay, and I still had about a week left on my old MOT.
>> No. 446909 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 12:49 am
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Watching Arnie really try to act is very endearing.
>> No. 446910 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 12:35 pm
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PIP renewal came though. Have to prove that I've not stopped being autistic.
>> No. 446911 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 5:07 pm
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I don't envy you, mate. I'm somehow still on EESA/DLA, dread the day I have to apply for PIP.
>> No. 446912 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 6:02 pm
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I'm not a perv right, but this new Heinz soup advert starts with some kids rowing, voiceover goes into "The young cox thought "Warm, creamy, tasty (Heinz Tomato Soup). Yum" then he gets splashed in the face. I'm sorry but that combination has to be someone thinking they're funny, though I don't suppose the voiceover script was made by the same person who storyboarded it. Is this a test? Have I failed?
>> No. 446913 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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>I'm not a perv right

Least convincing statement ever posted on this site.
>> No. 446914 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 6:17 pm
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Advertising and product marketing can miss the mark, and sometimes with an almost comical lack of awareness.
>> No. 446919 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 7:52 pm
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What did Courtney Cox do her face? It's like her cheeks are stuffed with cotton wool balls.
>> No. 446924 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 5:11 pm
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I was in Aldi last night and one of the female members of staff was like 5 foot tall, but each of her arse cheeks were bigger than my torso. The ideal woman. She was almost as wide as she was tall.
>> No. 446926 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 6:53 pm
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Just saw a copy of Jimmy Slater's "Appetite" on the bookshelf in a porn video and it completely took me out of it.
>> No. 446927 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 6:54 pm
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>>446926
What a the new wordfilters coming to? What if I want to start a lively discussion about Jimmy Mansell?
>> No. 446929 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 10:10 pm
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Do Australians have noticeably different accents? They all sound the same to me, but you'd have thought with the distances between Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Alice Springs, etc., there's be variations in this.
>> No. 446930 Anonymous
14th October 2021
Thursday 11:13 pm
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I'm sure there would be some rural types that have spent way too long in the sun.

Wake in Fright is well worth a watch.
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15th October 2021
Friday 12:27 am
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I have been up for more than 38 hours straight now. Had some pretty distressing family stuff to deal with. Just getting ready to sleep, i.e. checking messages one final time before putting the phone down and turning off the lights. I have no fucking clue how I managed to stay up this long. It is a lifetime record for me. The last few hours have just felt like one coffee fuelled haze of nothingness that dragged on forever as if time itself was almost standing still.
>> No. 446933 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 1:07 am
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>>446932
Should have done cocaine.
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15th October 2021
Friday 3:02 am
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I currently work at a science user facility, where prior to being employed here I was a frequent user. With the types of experiments people do, and how valuable the awarded time is, back-to-back all-nighters isn't an uncommon thing. I always internally describe it as feeling like my brain is in a bath of warm water.

Hope your family troubles are resolved without too much hassle.
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15th October 2021
Friday 10:08 am
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>> No. 446936 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 10:09 am
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>>446934
Sounds interesting. Is it like a supercomputer, or some other type of facilities?
>> No. 446937 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 10:15 am
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>>446935
Is it too obvious?
>> No. 446938 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 12:29 pm
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>>446935
Spicy Yorkshire puddings sound shit. Then again, I know someone who recently had mashed potato mixed with onion bhajis at a pub and said it was brilliant.
>> No. 446939 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 12:36 pm
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>>446938
I put a load of dried carolina reaper powder into toad in the hole once and it was awful.
>> No. 446992 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 3:55 am
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>>446936
A synchrotron, in my case.
>> No. 447002 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 11:43 am
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>>446938
I've added fried onions to mash before, and it came out excellent, so I can see how that one might work.
>> No. 447003 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 11:46 am
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>>447002
Isn't that just undercooked hash browns?
>> No. 447007 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 1:51 pm
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>>447003
Never thought of it that way, and have never tried to make hash browns myself, but that's a good idea. I did once make potato latkes, which are sort of close too.
>> No. 447087 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 9:11 pm
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I got called racist for saying I didn't know which member of BTS was which, as I only saw them for the first time a few days ago. They have different haircuts and clothes in each video so my face blindness comes into play. I also got called racist for saying one was more masculine than the others, as this is white people dolphin rape which feminises East Asian men. But I'm pretty sure they lean into the femininity as pretty boys sell lots of chicken nuggets.
>> No. 447088 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 9:29 pm
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>>447087
That's stupid of whoever called you that.
>> No. 447089 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 9:56 pm
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>>447088
Agreed. How are you supposed to know which member of some random popular beat combo is which?

Which one of these dapper lads is John? No, I don't know either.
>> No. 447091 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 11:28 pm
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>>447087
>I got called racist for saying I didn't know which member of BTS was which
If in doubt, Ant is the one on the left.
>> No. 447092 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 11:41 pm
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>>447091
>Ant is the one on the left
On an unrelated note, I learnt yesterday that my mum thinks Ant & Dec are called Dick & Dom.
>> No. 447116 Anonymous
19th October 2021
Tuesday 10:29 am
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This week I've decided to have a horrible cold or something which feels like someone's grouted by entire head.
>> No. 447144 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 1:11 am
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I'm very depressed, lads. I came home from work early today to focus on myself for a while, but instead I've been mindlessly scrolling the internet all night.

Any tips for getting out of an unproductive and unenjoyable funk?
>> No. 447146 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 1:47 am
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>>447144

Might be a bit predictable for this place, but a new hobby, or rediscovering an old one, will always work for me. That and changing my routine up - wandering about the countryside, or even just a nice bit of your town, will likely clear the mind.
>> No. 447148 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 3:37 am
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>>447144

If you're depressed depressed, then I'd suggest seeing your GP, maybe checking out some self-help resources online.

If you're just feeling a bit listless, I'd suggest making a plan to do something enjoyable today, this week, this month and this year. It might sound a bit daft, but the subconscious mind is much better at imagining negative things in the future than positive things. If you don't have concrete things to look forward to (especially when we're headed into winter), it's easy to drift into an aimless sort of pessimism. Your subconscious pushes you towards the quickest and lowest-effort sources of dopamine, because you're in a kind of evolutionary survival mode.

Potter down to the shops tomorrow for a can of pop and a chocolate bar, make plans to meet a mate, buy some tickets for a gig or an event, book a holiday. It's small stuff, but if you prime your brain to expect positive outcomes you'll feel increasingly more energised to pursue more difficult and uncertain goals.
>> No. 447149 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 3:41 am
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I'm not sure who this Aitch chap is, but he appears to be a paid-up member of the Chub Club. Good lad.


>> No. 447154 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 8:50 am
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>>447144
Shake up your routine a bit. Make a country walk regular, read, cook something different (or go for a meal), etc. Depression on my part is usually severe boredom.
>> No. 447169 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 1:49 pm
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Is there any real benefit to Amazon Prime? I ordered something from them yesterday evening and it's arriving tomorrow so I don't really see the benefit of paying extra to have received it one day sooner.
>> No. 447171 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 2:14 pm
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>>447169
Most of the time it is next day, not all - and you don't pay any delivery charges. If you're buying mostly from Amazon themselves, and not other Marketplace customers, it's a great deal, particularly if you're buying things monthly.

If you're not spending money with them that often, or are using Marketplace companies that aren't using Amazon Fulfilment, then it isn't as great a deal.
>> No. 447172 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 2:19 pm
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>>447144
Take some holiday. I know there's other things you can do, getting out the house right away and making step-by-step plans for after work but I'd be a complete hypocrite if I said that's something you should do when you're knackered from work.

Although I also say this as someone with 30 days holiday that I need to spend before January. Life's a load of bollocks innit.
>> No. 447173 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 2:31 pm
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>>447149
Despise the cunt. On povvo free Spotify his Lucozade advert comes on every 15 minutes. "'Ow are ya meant to get yours with that sort of enerjeh?". Fucking Manc twat.
>> No. 447175 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 5:32 pm
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>>447169

In my opinion they have the best selection of films of any streaming platform, both new and old. Netflix have a decent interface but their library is rubbish nowadays. They focus too much on making their own stuff which is never any good instead of just offering catalouge titles, making it essentially a rental service.
>> No. 447177 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 5:35 pm
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>>447175

I'm disgusted with the lot of you for paying for streaming services instead of just pirating things.
>> No. 447178 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 5:57 pm
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About half an hour ago I ran over a kid's skateboard. Was approaching a T-junction and he was coming from the left, staring at me and slowing down so I assumed he'd stopped; next thing I know I hear a crunch and he's on the floor on the pavement so I think he panicked, lost his balance and fell. There was a charity mugger on the scene who pulled the skateboard out, which was snapped in two, and checking on the boy to make sure he was alright. I could have handled the next part better but I wound my window down to make sure he was okay, said some vaguely soothing platitudes and drove off because his mates and the chuggers were there.

When I got back my girlfriend said his dad had been round and she felt really intimidated by him. He'd left his number so I rang it; according to his son I'd nodded to say he could cross, which isn't true because if I'm going to gesture someone can cross I'll use my hands, accused me of dangerous driving because I could have knocked him down and strongly hinted that I should pay for a new skateboard because it was a present. I didn't say much when that became obvious because I'm not paying a penny, but my girlfriend is convinced he's going to come round again and this will escalate.
>> No. 447179 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 7:01 pm
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>>447178

I apologise for a deeply unhelpful reply, but this just reminded me...



In all seriousness, sounds like an honest accident. How fast were you going at the time? Best get the facts straight in your head and stick to it. Outside of harassing you or actually calling the police, though, I can't imagine there's not much they can do.
>> No. 447180 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 7:18 pm
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>>447179
>How fast were you going at the time? Best get the facts straight in your head and stick to it.

About 5mph as it was coming from a cul-de-sac with lots of cars parked on alternating sides of the road to a junction I had to give way at. His dad was laying it on pretty thick that I should pay for a new skateboard without saying it outright and said some other things that weren't true; I guess if I apparently signalled for his son to cross the road and kept going he thinks I deliberately tried to knock him down.

I don't think anything else will come of it but my girlfriend gets anxious so she's going to keep fretting over it. It doesn't help that I think one of the kid's mates lives next-door, which is probably how they knew where I live.
>> No. 447182 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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>>447180

I think you're just going to have to accept that you're going to have to fight the dad. Take some quick Krav Maga lessons, maybe.
>> No. 447184 Anonymous
20th October 2021
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>>447180
>It doesn't help that I think one of the kid's mates lives next-door, which is probably how they knew where I live.

Sounds like there's another skateboard you ought to runover. To send a message.

But yeah I reckon the kid has made you into a bit of an ogre because he wants a new skateboard. Maybe the dad is going to calm down long enough to smell the bullshit but you can expect some teenage aggro on the horizon like knocking your bins over.
>> No. 447185 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 12:32 am
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I got water on my PC. I think I might kms if it’s dead. I can’t stop shaking, I fucking hate myself. Before I could turn it off the mouse was lagging. What do I do? PC wise, killing myself is easy.
>> No. 447186 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 12:56 am
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>>447185
Disconnect it from the power, inspect for water damage, leave 24-48 hours off power to dry out, try again. A small spill is unlikely to kill it.
>> No. 447187 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 1:09 am
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I just bought Krispy Kreme from the petrol station at 1 in the morning, and I'm sipping a McDonald's coffee with it. There's now even a drive through Cinnabon there too, which we've never had before as far as I know.

I messaged one of my Yank friends to banter about it but they couldn't understand why this was noteworthy at all. If there's one thing that really winds me up about them lot it's their completely oblivious level of cultural ignorance. It's as though they think the rest of the world is exactly the same as their country, but with a few red phone boxes and An Eiffel Tower here and there.

Anyway I'm not annoyed about it, if they bring all their junk food over here and it's available 24 hours a day I'll never need to visit the place ever again.
>> No. 447188 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 1:27 am
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Yeah, done and done. There was liquid in the PCIe slot so I think the GPU is dead/damaged.

I just really don’t like having every negative thing you’ve avoided within yourself being confirmed in a brief moment of carelessness. I would need a dozen lifetimes to become even halfway useful. It doesn’t even make me upset anymore.
>> No. 447189 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 2:24 am
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>>447188

It'll probably be alright to be honest mate. My old iPhone survived a swim in the toilet, I think a modern computer has enough failsafe stuff built into the design that a minor spill isn't a big deal. Bit like the whole faff about static, we act like computers are made of... I can't remember the idiom, something very fragile, but in reality they're pretty sturdy.
>> No. 447190 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 3:10 am
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>>447187
>If there's one thing that really winds me up about them lot it's their completely oblivious level of cultural ignorance
I've been living out here almost 6 years and this still winds me up. If I mention I've never experienced something that, culturally, I would *only* have experienced if I had been here as a child, the immediate response is "that's so weird!". Anything I bring up about England that isn't the exact same as what they'd expect from the US, "that's so weird!". Sometimes they even go as far as questioning why other places don't "just" do it the same way they do.
>> No. 447191 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 4:40 am
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>>447190

>that's so weird!

Jesus I can hear it. My sympathies mate.
>> No. 447192 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 6:10 am
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My bed broke. The wood beam thing that the slata rest on just snapped, juat as I was going to bed after an all nighter. It was the most panicked 2 seconds I've ever experienced. And now I'm going to have to go to B&Q at 7am when it opens, so I can fix it and get some sleep. If I was still living next to my workshop I'd have the wood glue and clamps out and it'd be repaired in half an hour. Fucks sake.

I'm not even that fat.
>> No. 447193 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 9:24 am
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>>447192

Just out of curiosity, how would you go about that fix? I had a similar issue here a few months back and ended up using wood glue, but also putting a block of wood cut to measure just the right height under the crack as a support, screwed in place with some plates.

Did I go overkill? Is wood glue really that strong that it could hold it by itself?
>> No. 447194 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 3:34 pm
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My friend has moved in with his girlfriend and now he's renting his old house out. I don't know if I'm just more aware of it, but I have noticed a lot of people seem to be renting out their properties when they do this rather than selling them on and letting someone else buy a house.
>> No. 447195 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 3:39 pm
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>>447194
Wouldn't it be a bit silly to sell it for no reason?
>> No. 447196 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 3:41 pm
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If he doesn't live there any more I don't see the point in holding onto it. I'd rather sell it and release the capital rather than have the hassle of being a landlord
>> No. 447197 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 3:51 pm
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I made paella from memory and assumptions about Spanish cuisine and it’s not bad. Probably about as accurate as an Arab militiaman and definitely lacking in vegetables, but it’s almost as nice as the one I had at a Christmas market in Manchester eight years ago. God, I’m bored.

>>447190
Each time you post about that lot over there I realise more and more how you must really love that woman.
>> No. 447199 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 4:33 pm
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>>447196
It would be better to hold on to an asset that outpaces any other investment, rather than just have a pile of cash getting eaten by inflation.
>> No. 447200 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 4:35 pm
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>>447193

My grandad always used to say that wood glue is far stronger than the wood it's holding together, I do believe glue on its own would be enough, but nonetheless I've done almost exactly what you did, lots of screws and a bit of scrap wood to reinforce the cracked area. When it comes to fixing something that is out of sight and has already shown itself to fail under stress, I'm not sure there is such a thing as overkill. I used about ten screws, and quite a lot of glue.

Obviously the "proper" way to do it would have been to replace the entire damaged rail with a fresh new piece of wood, and I think you'd use glue and dowels rather than screws, but I couldn't be arsed to pull apart the frame to do that, and also the B&Q man who cuts wood planks to size for you wasn't in until 9am.
>> No. 447201 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 4:39 pm
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>>447200

In retrospect, I should have considered getting a piece of wood cut to the right size to replace the rail rather than just a support underneath, but mine's an Ikea nightmare that would be easier to replace than to disassemble.

I've slept on it since without issues, but I am often stubbing my toe when getting the bedsheets on. Maybe I'll take away the support at some point and see if it falls apart.
>> No. 447202 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 4:41 pm
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>>447200 I'm not sure there is such a thing as overkill.
if you make the repaired bit much stiffer than the surrounding stuff, you'll get a stress raiser where the repair meets the original and that will fail next. Better to taper the strength a bit if you can, spread that stress zone out a bit.
>> No. 447208 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 12:39 am
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Oh, to be a redneck in Buttfuck, North Alabamansas rescuing and reviving muscle cars.
>> No. 447209 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 9:44 am
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The wet computer works. I seem to have lost a thumb screw in the panic and I haven't screwed in the wifi antenna so it turns out that's unnecessary. I daren't ask more of the GPU than displaying the desktop, it would likely be more than I deserve too. I feel horrible, but this post is getting a bit string of consciousness as is.
>> No. 447215 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 12:24 pm
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I am going to see Dune by myself at the cinema. It will be the first film I've seen at the cinema since Cats in 2019. I am very anxious about it, but I know if I brought my girlfriend along she'd hate it.
>> No. 447218 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 1:33 pm
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>>447215
Did she enjoy Cats?
>> No. 447224 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 3:36 pm
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>>447215

Can't even tempt her with with a nice meal and one of those Ben and Jerry's things where they pout the hot chocolate sauce in?

I dragged my missus with me to see Blade Runner a few years ago, and when she fell asleep half way through, I wasn't bothered. Didn't have to answer her questions about what's happening at least. She was a bit wappy that one.
>> No. 447230 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 5:21 pm
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>>447218
I went to see Cats with my brother, who enjoyed the body horror spectacle of it all.
>>447224
I just know she'd be bored.

I was bored by a bit of it. Lots of exposition, not a great deal of action (which I didn't mind so much), quite a dry film. Ended at the middle of the first book, so there wasn't a satisfying climax, but I will certainly see the next part if it gets made. Theatre was nearly empty, but there were a few 7-10 year old kids dotted about, doubt they had a good time.
>> No. 447231 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 5:28 pm
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>>447230
I don't have tickets until Sunday evening, so I've been trying to avoid the early reviews, but the one that I did see mentioned that the film was ruined a bit by an ending which just sets up for the sequel.

It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when things are so blatantly set up to franchise, I feel like most media nowadays - especially TV - has lost the ability to appreciate well-contained story. It's a pet peeve of my missus' that once I get a whiff of a show dragging itself out for more seasons, I just stop wanting to watch it.

Not to say that this is what Dune is doing, they've been fairly transparent from the start that it will be a diptych.
>> No. 447233 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 6:54 pm
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>>447231
Wouldn't it be a duology?
>> No. 447235 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 7:45 pm
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>>447233
I just like word diptych.
>> No. 447240 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 10:41 pm
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>>447235
Posho.
>> No. 447241 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 10:46 pm
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>>447240
Dipstick.
>> No. 447242 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 11:13 pm
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>>447241
Twatcloth.
>> No. 447243 Anonymous
22nd October 2021
Friday 11:28 pm
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Dune is a bloody big book so it's fair that they'd split it in half. I'm surprised they wouldn't go for a trilogy though, make it the Lord of the Rings IN SPAAAACE that the Star Wars sequels utterly failed to be.

Having said that though, no matter how you go about it, it's always going to be boring. The main reason for that is because Dune is fucking boring. You can't fix the fact the source material is a bloated, drawn out mess from somebody who, much like Tolkein, was a shite writer, but a fantastic world-builder.

Dune is important as an influential setting, not because it's actually any good as a story. When you combine that with the type of director Denis Villeneuve is (a boring one, who "critics" adore because they can't tell the difference between boring and clever. Arrival was tedious predictable shite, fight me.) you're going to get a hell of a boring movie.

Still want to go see it though for some reason.
>> No. 447246 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 12:12 am
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>>447243

You could easily lose all the Bene Gesserit bollocks from Dune, it'd be a shorter book and nothing of value would be lost.
>> No. 447277 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:43 pm
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>>447246

You could do a story with the same broad strokes but a core part of Dune is how the Bene Gesserit's meddling ended up with some minor consequences.

>>447243

I think Dune is a good story, and I like the themes it explores past it just being a 600 odd page mood/setting piece. Maybe the execution of the story is dry and boring for some but I enjoy the most of it and the huge, developed setting just makes it more compelling.
>> No. 447279 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:58 pm
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Could a Dune extended universe work? I want to learn more about the great houses and the empire.
Also Timothy Chalamet is disgustingly handsome. Youthful yet masculine. I would kill for a jawline like his.
>> No. 447287 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 8:01 pm
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>>447279
And genuinely charming, the lad's the total package.

Re: a Dune extended universe, there's a tabletop RPG that gets good reviews.
>> No. 447297 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 10:14 pm
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>>447279
I'm pretty sure there're multiple books which extend the setting and explore various timelines and scenarios.
>> No. 447325 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 9:37 pm
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>>447246
The Bene Gesserit bollocks is why the Fremen take Paul on as the Messiah (and why he lives up to it).
>> No. 447326 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 1:17 am
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>>447246
I have always assumed that the irrelevant padding all became vitally important in the sequels. I never read the sequels, though, having read the first one and been disappointed.
>> No. 447352 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 7:39 pm
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I went for a piss in Tesco earlier and, as I was washing my hands, this man came in mumbling to himself and then he started stroking the urinal mats. I didn't hang around to see what he did next.
>> No. 447370 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 6:10 pm
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My mum's washing machine (older Bosch model) has started to leak. The symptoms are a bit odd, in that it does its job well at up to 50 degrees water temperature, but then it starts to leak, and especially when I've got a full load of towels or other heavy fabric at 60 degrees or more.

My hypothesis right now is that something inside the machine expands as hot water flows through it, and that somehow then a seal or gasket starts to leak.

Probably best to just buy a new machine. It looks like this one is from around 2002.
>> No. 447371 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 6:14 pm
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>>447370
Are you also from 2002? Who washes anything at 60 degrees?
>> No. 447372 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 6:47 pm
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>>447371
My laundry basket isn't so much a 'worn for a day, better wash it' receptical, but a cum catcher that can go for weeks on end before being sorted through. It needs a 60 degree wash.
>> No. 447373 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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>>447372

It's a good idea to wash towels and bedsheets at 60 degrees at least now and then, because they tend to get pongy from all the sweat, dead skin cells and other things that are a great breeding ground for bacteria.

I used Dettol laundry disinfectant at 30 and 40 degrees for a while, but IMO it can't beat a good 60 or 70 degree wash.

What also can't hurt is to give your washing machine a good clean now and then. You can use sodium bicarbonate or sodium hypochlorite in an empty wash cycle at high temperature to get rid of odours that build up inside the machine over time.
>> No. 447376 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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>>447371
My washing machine has an option on it for 90 degrees. I use that for bedsheets and towels, as would you if you only washed them every 3-4 months.
>> No. 447379 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 10:14 pm
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My friend keeps trying to get her daughter diagnosed as autistic, even though no medical professional or anyone who actually knows the child believes that she is. I think she sees it as a fashion statement.
>> No. 447380 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>447379

>I think she sees it as a fashion statement

Maybe she should just get her daughter a speaking appearance at Fridays for Future instead.
>> No. 447383 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 2:28 am
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I don't remember what thread I posted about accidentally buying a little GPD Pocket 2, but I did remember someone asked for a review.

It's...fine. It's great as a little mobile PDA (with an actually decent amount of power) for doing stuff when I'm out and about, but the keyboard is a weird layout and the mouse is a little touch sensor thing, so it's a bit clunky. The touchscreen helps.

As a concept, though, it's everything I dreamed of when palm pilots were the best we could get.
>> No. 447385 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 8:58 am
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>>447380

Or let her loose on .gs for a few years. By the end her behaviours will be indistinguishable from the rest of us robot moon ovens.
>> No. 447386 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 9:26 am
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>>447379

It's probably so she can use it as a defence whenever her kid is a little shit at school, or to try and get her some more attention than the other kids.

I know a couple exactly like that. It's purely mercenary, she knows the hid isn't really autistic but as with any good lie, you can never lose face.
>> No. 447388 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 11:06 am
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I put some single cream in my coffee instead of milk and I feel like I've drank a multi-pack of Mars bars. Big mistake.
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27th October 2021
Wednesday 11:15 am
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>> No. 447392 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>447386

It looks like having a sperg kid is the new shorthand for treating your child as a luxury lifestyle accessory. With all the good that the likes of Greta have done for the perception of (young) people on the spectrum, it is probably going to turn many parents into even more insufferable self-important cunts than they are already.
>> No. 447394 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 3:09 pm
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>>447379

The great thing about having your kid diagnosed with an incurable developmental disorder is that it absolves you of all blame. Autism spectrum disorders are being massively over-diagnosed, in large part because of how many middle-class children are now terribly under-socialised.

>>447383

Alright airport lad. I've got a few of those Digi-Key rulers.
>> No. 447396 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 4:02 pm
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>>447394

>Autism spectrum disorders are being massively over-diagnosed, in large part because of how many middle-class children are now terribly under-socialised

I think it's also that middle class people are desperate for distinction. Anything that sets their sprog apart from the rest can serve as proof that you and your kid aren't like everybody else. And what better way to set yourself apart than a trendy, low-impact developmental disorder, where your child has special needs and higher maintenance than a neurotypical kid, without your kid being a complete tard.

And in that sense, Asperger autism, or any kind of spectrum condition, is the keto or low-carb of child rearing.
>> No. 447397 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 4:04 pm
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>>447379
To play devil's advocate, as someone who works with autistic people, it tends to present very differently in girls compared to the typical autistic boy who lines up his toys and memorises trains and shit. It's very common for autistic girls to be initially diagnosed with a personality disorder, because doctor's view autism purely from a male brained perspective. Not saying your friend is in the right, but it's possible the doctors have a skewed view of things.
>> No. 447398 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 4:29 pm
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>>447397
Her 'proof' that her daughter has autism is along the lines that she took her to a funfair and she got overwhelmed after being there several hours and began crying. It cannot be that a small child simply felt tired and emotional after a busy day in a noisy environment, the only explanation is autism.

Part of me thinks she's doing it to try and get more benefits, but the main reason seems to be that it's kind of trendy in a way. She's very into the whole 'scummy mummy' thing and it being cool to overshare how you're struggling as a parent and also she's always banging on about mental health and mindfulness; nothing would show how attuned she is to this than having a neurodiverse child so she can show off that label with pride. That and she seems to have Munchausen's so it was kind of inevitable she would diagnose her daughter with all sorts.
>> No. 447399 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 4:31 pm
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>> No. 447401 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:09 pm
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>>447398

>Her 'proof' that her daughter has autism is along the lines that she took her to a funfair and she got overwhelmed after being there several hours and began crying

As somebody who dabbles in self diagnosis, it might be worth finding out if she's an HSP. Higly Sensitive Persons appear non-neurotypical in a similar way to Asperger's, and certain symptoms can be very difficult to discern between one or the other, especially a tendendy to be easily overstimulated or overwhelmed.
>> No. 447403 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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>>447399

It's fallen behind that one cabinet, you know the one.
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27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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>>447394

>Alright airport lad. I've got a few of those Digi-Key rulers.

It's really cool innit. I don't know why I have it or where it came from, or why anyone would have it here in the first place, but maybe it came free in a crate of disgustingly overpriced Boeing spec panel LEDs or something.
>> No. 447406 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:33 pm
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>>447392>>447394>>447397

I've noticed a trend of people 'diagnosing' anyone a bit weird or other with autism, just the other day a colleague quite earnestly pondered whether another colleague might be on the spectrum because he likes to take himself off somewhere quiet during his downtime, and "sometimes he's happy, but sometimes he's moody". I mean I'm also not a doctor but it's probably more to do with him currently being in the middle of doing a very difficult and stressful set of exams, but no, autism.
>> No. 447407 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>447397
A friend of mine from university is a female autistic person, and she's got the proper official diagnosis plus I believe it because she really does sometimes completely cock up basic communication in a way that suggests she had only been playing along with the conversation you were having and never understood what was going on at any point. She really struggled to get diagnosed, and after multiple suicide attempts she had a doctor tell her that she can't be autistic because girls don't get autism. Doctors are fucking mugs.

>>447406
Autism is more or less defined as "being a bit weird and less than 100% chatty and sociable". That defines near enough everyone in the world (although I guess if it's a spectrum, then of course everyone's on it somewhere) to the point where it's harder to find someone who couldn't be described as "slightly autistic". Again, I have known proper medical autists who are quite evidently mad as a one-inch hospital, so I'm not going to say autism doesn't exist, but I do sometimes wonder if it's such a broad term that it's almost meaningless.
>> No. 447408 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 5:53 pm
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>>447407
You're right, it's such a broad spectrum. Also muddied by comorbidities, autists are more likely to have mental health conditions. I'm autistic myself, and can hold down a relationship, a house, a job. But the people I work with, some need daily support just to steer them through washing the pots, having a shower, brushing their teeth, ringing the doctor's to book an appointment. But some run successful businesses, have multiple degrees, have busy social lives. It is fascinating how variable capability is across the autistic spectrum. That's why I tend to be more lenient with accepting people's diagnoses, the spectrum is just so broad and complex.
>> No. 447410 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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>>447408

I often wonder along similar lines, when I reflect upon myself, my partner's and my mate's personalities. I'm certainly weirdo and I only keep the company of other weirdos, just because I only really seem to resonate with people who are in some way "outsiders", but despite the absolute clusterfuck of a state most of us are I don't think I'd call any of us autistic.

You definitely could, probably my girlfriend most of all, but as otherlads are saying I think it's just so broad of a term it's effectively meaningless.

For instance with myself, I can hold down a job, I fulfil the basic adult obligations like sorting bills and what have you, I have a car and I just about manage to keep it serviced and MOT'd and all that. I've never had any trouble talking people into having sex with me. But at the same time I'm completely avoidant of some aspects of life out of an awkward anxiety that I can only call spergy. I hate going to the doctors, dentists, or even into new restaurants/shops/etc that I'm unfamiliar with- If I don't know the "script" I don't want to do it. It's probably this reason alone I haven't been to a proper hairdressers in more than a decade, it's just intolerably awkward and I've forgotten what you even say or do when you go there.

Who knows.
>> No. 447411 Anonymous
27th October 2021
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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I absentmindedly used Bumble a few hours back when I thought a girl wasn't going to get back to me. You' know when you swipe nearly every profile.

Anyway I matched with a girl in my office that I've never seen before, she's asked if we work together and looking her name up on my work laptop she's actually been cc'd into a few emails before. What the fuck do I do here?
>> No. 447412 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 12:03 am
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Andrew Ridgeley was a handsome chap wasn't he?
>> No. 447413 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 12:53 am
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>>447411
Are you a Jedi? I'm quite sure it's fine otherwise. Star War's is naff too so it doesn't matter even if you are a Jedi.
>> No. 447414 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 12:54 am
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Sorry about the apostrophe in "Star Wars", I've got slippery fingers.
>> No. 447417 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 4:07 am
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>>447411

Express surprise that you work together, and either enter into exciting workplace based flirting, or if you're not interested, just talk to her about fantasy football until she ghosts you, it won't take long.
>> No. 447418 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 3:27 pm
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The Iceland near my work has an Orthodox Jewish security guard. Ringlets, yarmulke, the lot. Perhaps antisemitism is not the based red pill I thought it was.
>> No. 447421 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 4:04 pm
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>>447418
They must get loads of shoplifters on a Saturday.
>> No. 447422 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 4:43 pm
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Londoners, tell me about Hammersmith. I'm not from London but I have an opportunity to live there in a seemingly nice place for free. I'm 29 and not a cunt, will I fit in?
>> No. 447423 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 5:05 pm
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>>447422
>> No. 447425 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 11:30 pm
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Trigger warning - soppy relationship feelings: I went on date number 2 with the girl who took me to karaoke. We we're talking about love and relationships and I confessed that she has me feeling like an anxious teenager again - she said that she's enjoyed our dates as well and we've set up date number 3.

I'm over the Moon, I've not felt this way about a woman in nearly a decade. I didn't think I could. I thought my relationships were now just about finding someone who feels 'good enough' at this stage in my life. She said that when you start dating someone you should know immediately whether you see it as something that leads to marriage, I smiled like a goofy idiot. I barely know her. I'd better put a filter on this as best I can so I don't scare her away. I asked her when we parted to not break my heart dammit.

It'll probably end in tears or my infatuation will just run out shortly after Valentines but if it doesn't then I'll be that soppy old git sharing his story to people increasingly disinterested in talking to me.

Sorry lads, I know this isn't very interesting to read.

>>447422
>not a cunt
>will I fit in?

How Northern are you?
>> No. 447426 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 12:30 am
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A local toerag had died after being arrested and becoming "unwell". Of course the usual lot are yelling the cops murdered him etc.
>> No. 447427 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 12:52 am
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>>447426

Dunno if you've ever been arrested for anything coppers don't like mate but that's sort of the logical conclusion if you have.
>> No. 447428 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:53 am
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>>447426
There's been a fairly prominent story this week about a couple of lads getting stabbed to death in Essex. You just need to look at them to know they were massive scrotes.
>> No. 447429 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 9:56 am
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>>447428
The one on the right looks black, white, 12 years old and 42 all at the same time.
>> No. 447430 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 10:07 am
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>>447429
A lot of chavs have poor genetics and the drink and drugs doesn't help either. There were people I went to school with who looked like they were pushing 50 when they were in their mid-twenties.
>> No. 447432 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 2:14 pm
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Was talking about my previous life as a cheflad at work today, and remembered how painful it was to work with/listen to Italian chefs tell me I was ruining a sauce by stirring the pancetta anti clockwise and so on. So when I got home I made a carbonara but put garlic and some cream in it. Fuck you all.
>> No. 447434 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:33 pm
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I'm gonna go for a Christmas Day death.
>> No. 447435 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:39 pm
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>>447434

Remembrance Sunday. Mark your calendar.
>> No. 447436 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:51 pm
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>>447434
She's not dying before the platinum jubilee. And if she does, we're going to have another Weekend at Bernie's until the celebrations are over. I fully support this. Prince Charles won't want his first announcement as king to be a TV message telling everyone their four-day bank holiday is cancelled.

Besides, she's the Queen. If she wants to watch Countdown for six months, who's going to stop her? Maybe these instructions are just to stop her going on the lam with Prince Andrew.
>> No. 447437 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 6:58 pm
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>>447430
>A lot of chavs have poor genetics
This is your brain on Tory.
>> No. 447438 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 7:06 pm
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>>447437
All that Benson & Hedges can't be good for you.
>> No. 447439 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 7:28 pm
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>>447437
Paupers are more likely to be a bit funny looking, I didn't realise this was such a controversial statement unless people refuse to believe what they see with their own eyes.
>> No. 447440 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 7:34 pm
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>>447437

This is your brain on The Guardian.

A lot of chavs do have poor genetics. It's not their fault, they've just lost the DNA lottery. Drug and alcohol addiction is substantially determined by genetics, as is obesity. Intelligence is about as heritable as height.

We aren't born equal. Pretending that we are dooms millions of people to misery. A society that offered perfect equality of opportunity would still rapidly descend into inequality, because people are unequal from the moment of conception.

Meritocracy is the lie that both sides of the political spectrum use to maintain the status quo. The right are more overt about it, but the left are equally cynical. Being clever and conformist isn't a moral virtue, it isn't the result of hard work and it shouldn't entitle you to a privileged position in society. Conversely, people who lack the cognitive ability or the emotional stability to function well in our society aren't morally defective, they aren't lazy and they deserve better than vague pipe dreams about social mobility.
>> No. 447441 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:01 pm
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>>447440

True poshos have notoriously poor genetics too.
>> No. 447442 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:05 pm
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Because of course royalty are well known for their superior and flawless genetic lineages.
>> No. 447443 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:08 pm
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>>447442
A knock-off Burberry cap away from being on the Daily Mail crossed-arms in front of a settee that was delivered a week late by DFS.
>> No. 447444 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 8:32 pm
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>>447442
There's absolutely no middle ground between royalty and chavs, none whatsoever.
>> No. 447445 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>447444
In terms of the "quality" of genetic distribution no. The differences between royalty, the middle classes and the working classes are basically nil.
>> No. 447446 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>447444
In terms of the "quality" of genetic distribution no. The differences between royalty, the middle classes and the working classes are basically nil.
>> No. 447447 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 9:52 pm
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"Quality" is entirely arbitrary in this conversation. But I think it's pretty undeniable that there are certain... Phenotypes? Is that the word? Certain genetic traits that you definitely see evidence of in chavs, as a group. Things like that typical heavy set charver "Wanna fite?" eyebrow, that piggy nose and recessed eyes.

I'm no geneticist but I always think of it like the presets in a character creator for a cheap F2P MMORPG. There's plenty of variation and overlap, we don't have to go full on head measuring here, but you do notice things like that in people of different nationalities and ethnicities and so on. Same goes for social background. I mean it stands to reason that chavs will mostly breed with other chavs, right?
>> No. 447450 Anonymous
29th October 2021
Friday 11:45 pm
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>>447426
Turns out he was a drug dealer, and possibly a carpet-bagger.
Of course he's a brilliant lad who never did anything wrong.
The locals have grafittied a substation in his honor and are having a rave.
>> No. 447451 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 12:02 am
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>>447450
>The locals have grafittied a substation in his honor and are having a rave.

I'm team Toerag now. Where exactly has your humdrum life gotten you aside from a shitty bungalow that you'll have paid twice the asking price for by the time the mortgage runs out?
>> No. 447452 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 12:50 am
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So my girlfriend offered to buy me a happy ending massage for my birthday and I have no idea how to react to that.
>> No. 447453 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 12:57 am
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>>447452
Ah you bastard. I posted months ago about how I can't stop fantasising about the dodgy massage place down the road.

I say double and triple check with her that she's actually comfortable with it, and then go spunk in a stranger's hand.
>> No. 447455 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 1:22 am
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>>447452
Unless your Mrs is the type I'd ask whether it's worth the risk of grief for an unenthusiastic wank from a Thai without many options. If she's offering money then take it and come back with a bucket of chicken and a story of how you couldn't do it, piss up her arse and cuddle watching Midsomer Murders. Job done.

I know you lot are sexmen now but getting wanked off in a massage parlour is shit in my experience.
>> No. 447456 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 8:31 am
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>>447452

Might as well make the most of the offer...

https://saharaknite.co.uk/pages/massages.html
>> No. 447457 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 8:39 am
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>>447456
> Come and give yourself a cheeky treat!

No. Just no.
>> No. 447458 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 10:48 am
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Well the thing is, as much as I've wanted to take her up on that offer, I've never even been able to cum when *she* wanks me off, let alone with an unenthusiastic stranger. Then again wanking off men isn't her choice of profession. Probably.

I did double, triple check with her and she said "no it's fine! its a bit of fun on a special occasion".

I've only had one massage in my life full stop and it was in a high end hotel with a young french girl. I popped a massive boner and my girlfriend rolled her eyes and laughed at me.
>> No. 447460 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 3:10 pm
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>>447425
Oh she just turned around and binned me. That's that out of the way then. Fucking bullshit.
>> No. 447461 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 3:17 pm
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>>447460

Ahhh that is bollocks, sounds like she disarmed you and forced you into showing your hand a bit too soon. I've been there many a time, it's always a knife in the gut.

Still, better to find out this early than to have her string you on. Better luck next time m8.

Here, I bought you a pint.
>> No. 447462 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 4:18 pm
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>>447461
Cheers lad. The feeling of being a teenager continues as many women didn't see me as romantic option back then either.
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30th October 2021
Saturday 4:21 pm
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I saw someone climbing into a window to enter a house, but because they were female I assumed there was nothing to worry about. But then thinking back, it's not silly to think there are female robbers. I just assumed she lost her keys.
>> No. 447467 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 5:59 pm
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>>447458

>"no it's fine! its a bit of fun on a special occasion"

Sounds like a trap. Are you sure you can't imagine her, in five years time, in a heated argument, shouting "well yeah but YOU got wanked off by that thai woman that one time, didn't you, you bastard?!"
>> No. 447496 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 10:58 pm
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My headphone charging case disappeared on a walk through town, and then I got fully drenched by a passing taxi.

Fuck's sake. You can't even buy replacement charging cases so despite the headphones being fully functional they are now e-waste.
>> No. 447497 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 11:00 pm
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>>447496
Reach out to the manufacturer and see if you can buy a replacement direct? I've lost camera bits in the past that aren't on general sale, but have been replaced nonetheless.
>> No. 447498 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 11:27 pm
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How the fuck do you make friends as a 30 year old? I don't want to join a fucking football club. I just want to organically make friends like I used to. All I do is work and wank off. I have about 4 friends and they're all fucking losers like myself who sit indoors playing 40k. I work entirely online and all my colleagues are boomers the other side of the country. My uni mates disappeared, my actual best friend died, my school friends just faded.

I want to just go out for once, get a bit fucked up, do something spontaneous, do something exciting. But it gets dark at 4pm, it rains all day and everything closes at 5.

Yeah yeah, I don't really have much to complain about, I have my health, a good family, partner and stability. But fuck me is this it? I'm so God damn bored I could scream. What is this point of all this? Seriously WHY am I here? My paycheque sustains my ability to earn a paycheque. Is that the fucking point? I might start a drug habit, at least it would be interesting for a while. Maybe I'll do some crime.
>> No. 447499 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:15 am
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>>447498
>I might start a drug habit, at least it would be interesting for a while. Maybe I'll do some crime.

It is but trust me it gets boring too. I'm not sure though, everybody seems so fucking dull/painfully normal, and the ongoing pandemic eliminates a lot of options. It was a lot easier making friends when travelling around, getting into all sorts of interesting adventures. Life's come to a bit of a standstill now though and I've mostly just been focusing on being happy with myself and enjoying the small things. Sage because I'm a bit pissed and have nothing to add really, just somewhat in the same boat now while I can't go far abroad to visit old friends.
>> No. 447500 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:55 am
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>>447499
>the ongoing pandemic

Good god have you not been outside for months? Nobody gives a crap.
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2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:07 am
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>>447498
I know the feeling, I was nearly in tears at the weekend wondering what the fuck has happened to my life. I have an exciting and rage-inducing career but beyond that I spend 90% of my time indoors and the other 10% between going to the supermarket and taking a walk.

It's fucking bollocks is what it is. I mention rage-inducing because the only way I can feel alive these days is when some imbecile ruins my day. There's plenty to do where I am in London but it's all too expensive and the real problem is always that I'm doing it alone, my mates are all on the other end of the country where spending 5 hours on a train followed by bussing is a joke.

>>447499
>It is but trust me it gets boring too

Fucking this. The worst problem with drugs is the people.
>> No. 447502 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:11 am
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>>447500

The thing I find really depressing is that despite people having decided to "just get on with things" and deciding it's over - is that life has not returned to normal in any meaningful way. It feels like everyone has forgot what life was like beforehand, or nobody wants to just say 'well actually this is still a bit shit isn't it?'. I mean it's not like we can do anything. And the footballs back on, and the pubs are open aren't they? But there is something missing still. Sage for drunk also
>> No. 447505 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 8:03 am
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I just pulled my shoulder wanking. I'm not getting that old am I?
>> No. 447506 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 8:51 am
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>>447498

Join a band. I don't know what else is left that actually involves going out and doing something, that isn't just looking at things or eating things in different locations. But joining a band has always been a reliable one if you can play an instrument.

We seem to be in similar situations. I might be one of your boring 40k mates, but my trouble is I have a shitload of exquisitely painted Warhammer and nobody to play it with. I even have a dead best mate too, only I've got a feeling he went around bad-mouthing me before he offed himself, because everyone else in the circle we used to share has been oddly distant ever since. So he's not in my good books these days, the little dead prick.

I think part of the trouble is our lives become really tedious once we're established in the work/life routine. I rarely have much to offer in conversation nowadays beyond the shite I read on the internet, so even a night at the pub can feel a bit forced and awkward. I feel like it'd probably a bit narcissistic and self pitying to assume it's all just me being a boring cunt nobody wants to hang out with, and that probably everyone else has a similar sort of neurosis, and it just becomes a vicious cycle.

(But equally it could be just me.)
>> No. 447507 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 9:40 am
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>>447498

Men are a bit rubbish at making friends and we get worse at it as we get older. "Get a hobby" sounds like terribly trite advice, but it's the best way for adult men to bond. Blokes in their thirties have got jobs and wives and kids that preclude the kind of aimless leisure that they enjoyed in their twenties. We need a nexus of activity, we need a plausible excuse to go and hang out with the lads.

It doesn't matter what your thing is, but you need a thing. Take up rock climbing, buy a motorbike, get really into Happy Hardcore, become a Special Constable, take the missus out dogging, just have something to do at the weekend to stop the weeks and months from blurring into a monotonous whole.
>> No. 447508 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 10:20 am
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>>447502

I think a lot of people just learne that actually, they don't mind a bit of space to themselves, a lot of people who have been default extraverts and spent all their weekends down the pub or what have you discovered that actually there are books and things too. But combined with that people's social networks have invariably atrophied, and along with it their willingness to be the one who reaches out first to reconnect. So it's taking a while to come back to equilibrium.

Besides that there is still a bit of lingering hesitancy and fear of the virus, I reckon a lot of people are just putting on a brave face when they go to work or whatever but really they think the government is being irresponsible, the news is trying to sweep it under the rug, and they are frankly scared to go out more than they have to. From their perspective, they know it's still out there, but everyone else's gone mad.
>> No. 447509 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 11:43 am
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>>447500
Yeah fuck all the immunocompromised and vulnerable people.
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2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:03 pm
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>>447509
Pretty much, what's an alternative? Not socialise at all? Get off it mate, people need to enjoy life instead of just survive. If we really care about the immunocompromised, we'd ship them all off to a warm island where they can avoid the plague.
>> No. 447514 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:14 pm
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>>447508
>Besides that there is still a bit of lingering hesitancy and fear of the virus, I reckon a lot of people are just putting on a brave face when they go to work or whatever but really they think the government is being irresponsible, the news is trying to sweep it under the rug, and they are frankly scared to go out more than they have to

I think you're right and the government has completely shit the bed on this one, and as >>447509 has noted, there are vulnerable people whose lives are unable to return to normal, and I live with such people so I have to protect them as well. I can't just up and travel like I used to now either, I can't pick up work in the EU like I used to, so between the pandemic and Brexit my way of life has come to a bit of a standstill. Oh and there's this bastard cold going around that is apparently brutal that I don't want to have over Christmas, or pass on to the vulnerable people in my household. This winter is also going to be particularly bad, but who cares about those that work in the NHS? It seems like wilful ignorance and selfishness are the new norm now, in a country without leadership. It's quite a depressing state of affairs.

>>447513
>people need to enjoy life instead of just survive.

Both are possible, or at least would have been. Anyway this is exactly the attitude I'm talking about and I don't even know where to begin, it's been discussed here at length in the past by me and at least one of the other science lads on this board, but it's fruitless. There's alternatives that have been talked about since the beginning of the pandemic, and there's a much bigger picture to think about too in terms of hospital overflow, ADE, economy etc etc..But I've realised you people just don't care, you're too short sighted and selfish, or too thick to understand.
>> No. 447515 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:26 pm
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>>447514
>there are vulnerable people whose lives are unable to return to normal
How would they do so in the current circumstance? How could I have done anything beyond taking personal precautions to impact the national situation enough to help them outside?

>Both are possible, or at least would have been.
And I could have had an impact on that how, short of running for parliament 10 years ago?

>and there's a much bigger picture to think about too in terms of hospital overflow, ADE, economy
Yeah, these are all again things over which I have significant control and a say.

>There's alternatives that have been talked about since the beginning of the pandemic
I've not really been following this thread too much, what are they? Only respond if they're things which I could have actually had any impact on within reason. If it's government action you're referring to, then just assume that I agree and stop being such a mopey twat.

>But I've realised you people just don't care, you're too short sighted and selfish, or too thick to understand.
In the same way I don't care about solar activity despite it having the potential to end my existence in an instant, no. I don't care about this because I can do approximately fuck all to make things better beyond getting vaccinated, wearing a mask, and trying to distance. What are you asking beyond that?

You seem to be conflating the government, and .gs posters. I have no power here, I either go out or I don't go out. I have to work in the office because if I work from home, I do about half the work I need to. I go out and meet mates for walks or the pub because if stay in my house, I get depressed. When I get depressed, I can be prone to bouts of suicidal ideation. I'm not alone in this either. If your response to that is anywhere along the lines of 'suck it up for the greater good', then you can understand how that might get a frigid reception.
>> No. 447516 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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>>447514
>this bastard cold going around that is apparently brutal

My 27 year old girlfriend has been struck down by this thing for the past 8 days, I've never seen anyone so sick with a cold for so long... Fortunately I'm fine, even after a crazy evening of eating pussy. Although I'm not sure you can get a cold from eating pussy. Sage for teenlad post.
>> No. 447517 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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>>447515
>You seem to be conflating the government, and .gs posters.

Sorry mate you're right I'm more mad at government response and people don't have general control over the things I've mentioned, if you're vaccinated and wearing a mask and still being concious of covid then you're doing as much as you can and I appreciate you for it, my response was more to the attitudes of >>447500 and >>447513 that suggest I should return to life as normal even though it could cause severe illness, hospitalisation or even death to my loved ones. I'm consistently disappointed in the state of affairs every day and tired of selfish people trying to force normality. I wake up, depressed and burned out to fuck, forgive me. Going to get back to drinking now.
>> No. 447518 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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I don't really care about vulnerable groups. I don't care about any one who isn't in my family or my circle of friends.

I'm not trying to be a cunt or BRILLIANT, I just find it so overwhelming that I'm mean to care about endless, nameless, faceless entities I will never meet or know of. Especially when the caring of them is perceived at least, to be in conflict with my idea of living a fun and free life.

I'd be genuinely curious if people in general really *do* care, of its something they say to not look a bit mental, because it truly baffles me that anyone has the capacity to care about all this stuff, all the time.

Because I don't just mean this, I mean the climate, dolphin rape, poverty, inequality. It's just another thing where supposedly little 'ol me - the same me struggling to make sense of my own life, struggling to make peace with what I have and what will be - has this shackle of guilt attributed to them.

I think people like me are why we won't survive a collective threat. Because we simply aren't designed with the emotional capacity to deal with such large problems or sets of people to care about.
>> No. 447519 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:08 pm
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>>447517
We're not trying, we've succeeded.

By the way, alcohol reduces the effectiveness of your immune system.
>> No. 447521 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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>>447518
There are different levels of caring. You're meant to care a bit, but not too much. You know what the people who care too much about fishing are like. They're awful. If you find it too hard to care about your fellow human beings, with lives just as valid and interesting as yours, then you're trying too hard and it's okay to care less. But don't stop caring completely.
>> No. 447522 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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>>447518
The problem isn't people like you. Most people act like that, even if they don't think they're like that. The structural problem is that one of our highest ideals as a society is that of consumer choice, while the most effective solutions to most of our problems require constraining people's range of choices because the free market doesn't price their long term consequences correctly. So you get this situation where blame is piled on the individual for not making the right choices, rather than on governments for not structuring things in a way which makes the right choice the default option.
So you wind up where we are now, where it's easier for us to conceive of just giving up and letting climate change happen (blaming selfish individuals for not voluntarily reducing their fuel consumption in a transport network designed almost entirely around them not doing that) than it is to conceive of fuel rationing.
(I'm not saying fuel rationing is what we need, mind you. Rationing has all sorts of problems. It's just interesting that individual carbon footprint bollocks that demonstrably hasn't worked is infinitely more common than "cap the amount consumed, simple as.")
>> No. 447523 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 2:56 pm
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>>447521
The thing is that people mostly aren't as extreme as their online opinions may suggest, for example in speaking frankly they may be overcompensating (not with the intention of edginess, just through inexperience voicing these opinions). If that lad would choose to cough away from someone rather than in their face, they still care. It's just the level of care is below the 'expected' threshold, so 'I don't care' is really 'I don't care as much'. At least that how it comes off in practice.

>>447517
I was also >>447513, so if I'm both selfish and doing as much as I can, there's some discombobulation there. Despite doing "all I can", as you agree, that is my outlook as described in >>447513. I'm doing what I can, and other than that I'm going to go out, go to festivals, go to parties, go on secluded walks, and do the stuff I used to do.

>I wake up, depressed and burned out to fuck, forgive me. Going to get back to drinking now.
And you wonder why people want to get out of the house!? You're suffering mate. Are you able to move out?

Do you think on some level you're frustrated that those who aren't with someone in shielding have much more freedom than you?
>> No. 447528 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 3:24 pm
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I've just been invited by a client's PA for drinks with the PA, but not the client. He's an important client and I get along with his PA, and I got told I was doing a much better job than my predecessor despite being worse at the job in every quantifiable way. I think it's because I'm a posh man and she was quite curt, and both client and PA are the types my dad would hang around with at the Reform Club so I know how to talk to these people, despite the damage done by living with Geordies for 10 years. Though I suppose that's made me rather a man of the people.

This is just out of nowhere. Is this what business people in their 30's do? Just invite each other for drinks despite only exchanging business related emails? Is this how I network? Admittedly I'm the type who has sent several clients emails saying "I hope you had a ghoulish weekend", so maybe they think I'm amiable and would like my company.

On top of that I know fuck all about my industry, I only got into accounting through excel skills and accounting software knowledge, I have no qualifications. I think they may be aware of that so it's becoming more and more likely that this is some...'friendly' type of thing, as I can hardly provide much advice. I just can't see what the PA has to gain from inviting me for drinks. Does that mean he's a saddo too? Is that why we get on?
>> No. 447530 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 3:41 pm
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>>447521
For me, I wear my mask to be better than other people. Living safe in the knowledge that I do things as one should, properly.

I'd still violate every covid restriction going if a shag was at the end of it mind you. Also worried that our relationship with government has fundamentally changed to something more akin to a virtual reality server with feature that can be turned off with little in the way of oversight but, if beautiful woman is smiling at me then frankly I don't give a fuck about high-minded politics either way.
>> No. 447531 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 3:51 pm
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>>447528

You're advancing due to the fact they like you. It's probably the nature of the business you're in, or maybe they want to butter you up a bit. As someone with no connection to this particular world, I can't say I don't have a chip on my shoulder about this sort of thing. Indeed, I have no idea what the Reform Club is.

At the same time, I can't be too hard on you, because so much work nowadays is designed to require no actual thought whatsoever, just basic familiarity with the relevant software.
>> No. 447533 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 4:06 pm
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>>447528
Nah it's a 'getting-to-know-you' session like what you do with work. The PA is in charge of diaries, to support conversation/notes, and to avoid accusation of impropriety. They want to get a better handle on you.

I'd let your boss know anyway.
>> No. 447543 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 6:06 pm
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>>447531
I was accused of being "extremely likeable" in my probationary meeting, which is probably because I'm very agreeable and frankly not a good thing.
>I have no idea what the Reform Club is.
Me neither, but my dad is a member and it sounds posh. If you want to put no thought into your accounting advice, be my guest. Whilst bookkeeping is incredibly easy and an absolute racket, the advisory element requires a bit of knowledge and somewhat sound judgement. People will notice if you keep telling them to jump off a cliff.

>>447533
Thanks for the advice. In the aims of getting a better handle on them, I checked and the guy isn't a PA, he's a department head. I'll let the relevant partner know, he'll be chuffed.
>> No. 447550 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 11:12 pm
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Are rebound relationships a good idea? Say you meet a woman who you don't find as attractive as the ex but on the whole you might be more compatible on a personal level. I'm getting mixed messages from google.
>> No. 447557 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 8:55 am
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>>447550

I've reached a point in life that I've finally realised the truth of the matter: Every new relationship is a gamble. You won't really know them until a year or two in. There's no way of avoiding it, you're not psychic, we just have a lot of daft retroactive justifications when we look back at our past relationships.

The course of your love life is exactly like a hand of blackjack. You'd absolutely know about it if you had a hand worth sticking with, but otherwise you're always going to have the temptation to risk it on taking another card- The longer you gamble, the fewer cards are left in the deck, and the higher your chances are of going bust.

Every single new relationship I have my mind has found some way or other to pine over the most recent ex. It's just the way of things. Swings and roundabouts in the end I reckon.
>> No. 447561 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 2:29 pm
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>> No. 447562 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 3:17 pm
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>>447561
I grew up in Belgium. It annoys me because I swear they started out being eurocents, and that's even what it says on the coins. But a lot of people just say cents, like the Americans, but I class this as a moronic Americanism and therefore wrong. The French, I think, even call them centimes, in reference to what 1/100 of a French franc was called, but they might have stopped doing that now. So I can give you lots of information, but not an answer.
>> No. 447563 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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>>447561
centieuros?
>> No. 447566 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 5:17 pm
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A new family has moved to my mum's neighbourhood and they have an all black cat. And my mum's cat keeps attacking that new cat viciously everytime they meet. My mum now says her cat is racist.

My mum's words, not mine.
>> No. 447570 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 11:32 pm
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>> No. 447571 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 12:26 am
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There's a bit of exposed pipework in my bedroom from the central heating system. I like to prop my shoes on it before I go out. Having toasty warm shoes is genuinely one of the highlights of my day.
>> No. 447573 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 7:17 am
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>>447571
Wait until you discover putting socks and pants on the radiator.
>> No. 447601 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 1:59 pm
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>>447571>>447573
Don't do it with eyeglasses. The lenses explode and you, too late, realise the brige of your nose had never felt expecially cold anyway.
>> No. 447604 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 2:18 pm
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>>447601
My car has one of those sunglasses holsters up top near the sun-roof, which I thought was really cool until I tried it once and burnt the bridge of my nose and my temples with white hot Wayfarers.
>> No. 447612 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>447573

Warm pants just make me subconsciously worry that I've pissed myself.
>> No. 447613 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 3:42 pm
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>>447612
Heated seats in cars are a nightmare for this.
>> No. 447614 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 5:28 pm
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>>447613

My friends and I play a fun game called "piss seats" which is exactly this, just trying to sneakily turn on the heated seats when they're not looking. Some of our cars have cooled seats too, which feels like you pissed yourself several hours ago, which is somehow more convincing a sensation than the heat. It's very unpleasant.
>> No. 447617 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 9:43 pm
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I went through an old stash of DVDs with downloaded pirated movies and TV shows yesterday, and found two DVDs with the complete TV series The Persuaders from the early 70s. I apparently downloaded all the episodes in early 2006.

I've started binge watching them now, the TV series is really a fun bit of 70s nostalgia. I have to transcode every single episode into something my Samsung smart TV can play, I guess the video files use some sort of weird mid-2000s AVI codec variation that my TV can't read.

I'm really amazed that the DVD-Rs are still readable though, fifteen years is somewhat of a long time. I have CD-Roms from the same time that have started disintegrating around the edges and are conpletely unreadable.
>> No. 447618 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 9:48 pm
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I've just had 3 bluescreens in a week after having 0 for five years. I've forgotten how to prepare for a reformat and backup. Is there like a guide of what I should be backing up? It's basically everything outside of Program Files that I might want really, isn't it? Appdata, obviously all the 'My x' stuff on all profiles. I recall the Windows 10 installer offering to backup your stuff and put it in a folder somewhere but I checked it out and was worried I was going to miss it, so I stopped. What should a fogey do in this situation?
>> No. 447619 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 10:33 pm
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>>447618

Go into control panel, search "backup". There's a wizard to backup your files to an external drive or restore your system from a backup.
>> No. 447648 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 4:10 pm
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>>446386 here again.

The "from £300" birthday party was today. With the number of kids that attended and the extras they paid for, they couldn't have had much change left from £500. All that money for two hours in the woods gathering sticks to build dens, going on a treasure hunt with a map to find potatoes and sitting around a campfire toasting marshmallows.
>> No. 447652 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 7:58 pm
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>>447618 Not Win7 by any chance? Mine has gone from years of rock solid to completely screeching to a halt occasionally (so far, both times firing up a bit of software I use all the time). Complete mouse stops, capslock stops, next boot fails stuff. WTF? Is this MS trying hard to force me off it?
Do you have space to back up everything? If so, why wouldn't you?
>> No. 447667 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 5:48 pm
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My dementia stricken, paranoid grandad just got sectioned and is in a psychiatric hospital at the moment under involuntary admission, for shoving a bin man and behaving in what was described as "a very hostile way" towards him. The bin man failed to put the bin back in the exact spot, so my grandad came after him and attacked him.

So far we still thought he could stay living in his house despite his onset dementia, at least for the time being, but we may really have to put him in a home soon and sell the house. We can't have him shoving bin men.
>> No. 447668 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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>>447667

As harsh as it sounds, at this stage it sounds like being in care might be best for him. The way you describe it he sounds like he's still reasonably independent despite going a bit mad, but it probably isn't long from now that he'll start becoming a danger to himself if nobody is there to keep an eye on him.

Really sorry to hear all this though mate. I remember my gran on my mum's side going a similar way, but I was really young and didn't understand properly at the time. One of my biggest fears is if it's hereditary and my mum will eventually start going loopy (her lifelong drinking probably won't help), and so will I.
>> No. 447674 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 12:37 pm
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Apparently Lowtax killed himself.
>> No. 447675 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 3:20 pm
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>>447674
He's certainly dead and it seems probable suicide but I'm not sure if there's a confirmation of that.
>> No. 447676 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>447674
I just did a DuckDuckGo search (I DuckDuckGoed him? I DuckDuckWent him?) and the first two search results were sponsored results for funerals. I'm willing to believe it was suicide, certainly. Why are Internet forum celebrities so consistently mentally or physically unwell? I guess the only other suicide I can think of is the R-ddit man, but two still seems like a lot when I can only name five or six in total. Is our benevolent purple overlord okay? I'd hate to post here with only one other poster.
>> No. 447680 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 5:15 pm
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>>447676
https://www.newsweek.com/richard-lowtax-kyanka-something-awful-found-dies-45-1648348
>In a post shared on Wednesday, Bowen said: "I guess I should preface this by saying this isn't a joke especially since I'm posting for like the first time in 10 years or something, but I got the bad news today directly from Rich's family.

>"Lowtax has passed away. I didn't ask for details. I don't know details. I don't know what the current opinion of Rich here is. Not here to answer questions, I'm sharing the news. I really hate to share this news. But there you go."
>According to video game blog Kotaku, Kyanka's second wife posted a message on Something Awful under the name LadyAmbien, which confirmed his death.
>In the post, LadyAmbien said Kyanka had died by suicide. This has not been confirmed.
>> No. 447681 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 6:29 pm
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I just had to violently vacate my bowels in the customer restroom at Tesco's after eating a kebab from the shop round the corner. It was the only thing I'd eaten since breakfast, so it's a safe bet that that kebab made me sick about 45 minutes later.

What do I do now, tell the kebab shop that their food gave me the shits, or go straight to the council's food safety division?
>> No. 447685 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:35 pm
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>>447681
Neither. Fill up on bread, make sure you've plenty of fluids, and move on with your life.
>> No. 447694 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:16 pm
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>>447680
His ex wife commented on the post, he shot himself after she was granted divorce after years of trying.
>> No. 447696 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>447680
Here's the wife's post. She sounds like a bit of a cow, to be honest, but he was definitely an absolute clunge. From reading that post, their relationship sounds like if Meghan Markle married Charlie Sheen. Two utterly horrendous people, somehow brought together by fate to annoy each other.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3984488&pagenumber=120&perpage=40#post519160186
>> No. 447705 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:58 pm
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>>447681

>What do I do now, tell the kebab shop that their food gave me the shits, or go straight to the council's food safety division?

The latter, but nothing will happen, unless multiple other people have reported similar - which is unlikely. There's not really and food borne illnesses with an onset time of 45 minutes, it's typically at least a few hours or more commonly for meat related ones a day or two, so there's every chance it'll be ignored out of hand.

What were your symptoms? Just liquid shits or anything else?
>> No. 447718 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 10:30 am
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>>447696

Sounds like she had "let it go" before she typed up the post, frankly. She only received the news a day or two ago and she's posting online about how he should have left a note and given her more money before he literally ended his own life.

Americans are deranged.
>> No. 447722 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 12:24 pm
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>>447668

I guess the problem with my grandad isn't so much that he is a danger to himself in his state. The NHS did a risk assessment with him and found no grounds to assume that he would be a risk to himself or others, so this episode with my grandad kind of caught them off guard same as us, especially because despite his stature, he never had a violent disposition in his whole life.

My grandad was a strong, burly fellow all his life, he spent most of his working life as a shipyard mechanic, back when you had to haul a lot of heavy gear and parts by hand every day, and even in old age, he has a good bit of body mass to throw around. So when he decides to push and shove you, he could really hurt you. I guess that bin man was able to run from my grandad and then called the police, who were apparently going to nick him but then luckily a neighbour told them that my grandad is suffering from dementia, and that then set in motion a whole different way of dealing with the situation.
>> No. 447744 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 5:13 pm
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>>447718

I agree, that is shockingly bereft of self-awareness. A lot of Yank women are like that though I've noticed, in American society it really does seem to be just normal and expected for a woman to act like she's the centre of the universe and her feelings are the only thing that ever matters.

Probably explains why they have such a mental fisherperson brigade, and the strong contingent of sissifiers and chronics to go along with it. Similar dynamic with the racial stuff too.

What exactly is it about the Yanks that has led them to become such an arse backwards disaster of a society?
>> No. 447841 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 2:25 pm
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What am I supposed to say when I'm having a meeting with clients and they start ranting about illegal immigrants crossing the channel and how we need to look after our own? This is at least the second client it has happened with.
>> No. 447842 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 2:41 pm
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>>447841
Nothing, just take their money.
>> No. 447843 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 2:47 pm
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>>447842
I do, but I feel like I should have some stock answers for this.
>> No. 447844 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 3:08 pm
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>>447843
Also, charge them a higher rate for being cunts.
>> No. 447845 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 3:16 pm
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Do you think 27 too late to become a Tuvan throat singer?
>> No. 447846 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>447845
How deep can you throat sing now?
>> No. 447847 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 3:30 pm
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>>447845
It's never too late to take up a new hobby. People who say it is are just making excuses for themselves not doing it.

>>447841
"Can any of them drive a lorry? Ha ha ha."
"The culture wars are staged by the 1% and the only reason people are concerned about immigration is because their own lives are flawed due to betrayal by the existing capitalist system . We all need to unite against the system. We can sort out the details later. Will you join me, or are you a traitor to the people?"

Say one of those. It depends on who you're talking to as to which one you say.
>> No. 447848 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 4:57 pm
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>>447847
>"The culture wars are staged by the 1% and the only reason people are concerned about immigration is because their own lives are flawed due to betrayal by the existing capitalist system . We all need to unite against the system. We can sort out the details later. Will you join me, or are you a traitor to the people?"

I can't imagine that going down well with anyone. IIRC, there was a poll not too long ago which found Tory voters think that stopping illegal immigrants crossing The Channel is the most important issue facing the country, more than Brexit, the economy and coronavirus.
>> No. 447849 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 5:04 pm
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>>447848
Poll finds Tory voters are stupid, more on that story later.
>> No. 447851 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 5:05 pm
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>>447841
Hire a BME secretary/assistant and let them join your meetings.
>> No. 447852 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 5:10 pm
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>>447851
Or hire an Indian woman for an hour photoshoot so it looks like a wedding day, then have a framed photograph of the happy couple on your desk.
>> No. 447853 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 5:33 pm
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>>447841
Just start saying, repeatedly, in a tone that's assertive without being pointedly threatening "I have a fucking gun, I have a fucking gun...".

>>447846>>447847
Not very deep, probably. Also I assume Tuvan throat singers are actually saying stuff, but I only speak English.
>> No. 447856 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 10:25 pm
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Listening to some 80s Mike Oldfield. Bit of a guilty pleasure, after all he was the master of bland, forgettable, oversweetened, throwaway pop.
>> No. 447857 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 11:22 pm
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>>447856
That was mostly the stuff he did to satisfy his contract with Virgin. He signed on for a 10 album deal because neither he nor Branson knew any better, then later discovered that compilations and live recordings didn't count. His last three albums for Virgin were two mediocre selections of mediocre songs and an hour-long "fuck you" designed to be as difficult to market as possible.
>> No. 447858 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 11:32 pm
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>>447856
I've recently started to wonder if Mike Oldfield has ever made a bad song. Twice, I have discovered amazing-sounding songs which sound just like Moonlight Shadow, and they turned out to both be by Mike Oldfield too (Man in the Rain, from 1998, and Innocent). He also did Crime of Passion, which was enough to start me wondering. Clicking the random "Related Videos" on YouTube has given me a couple of slightly underwhelming ones, but he still seems to be a hell of a pop star.

Nevertheless, there is still only one famous pop star who has literally never made a shit song, and that is Belinda Carlisle.
>> No. 447863 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:00 am
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>>447858

>Innocent

This was not much more than a vehicle for his then-girlfriend Anita Hegerland. And not a good one. (she was fit though)

Off the album "Earth Moving", I really like the eponymous title track as well as "Bridge to Paradise".
>> No. 447872 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:01 pm
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How often should a rented property have electrical inspections? Had one today due to a new letting agent taking over management of the house, not had one in the 3.5 years I've been living here. Apparently the fire alarms are useless and the lighting is a fire hazard, really shows how slack the last letting agents were to let us live in a danger house.
>> No. 447873 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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>>447872
Once a year if they're decent. But we can't make law for shit in this country so the actual regulation is just vague references about things being kept in a safe state. Don't worry we'll hang all the landlords one day.
>> No. 447874 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:17 pm
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I have an opportunity to be a dual British-Italian citizen.

Beyond the obvious EU - 'you can work and live anywhere in the EU somewhat easier', is there any real advantage to holding another (specifically Italian) passport?
>> No. 447875 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:20 pm
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>>447872

Since 2020 all rented properties have required an electrical inspection, renewed every 5 years. Your landlord/agent was obligated by law to carry one out for you (as an existing tenant) by the 1st of April 2021.

I'd imagine that previous agent is still liable.
>> No. 447876 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:22 pm
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>>447874

Not really, and sometimes it can bite you in the bum (or at least be mildly inconvenient) if you work in any sector with security clearances.

I reckon the EU thing is worth it though. I think I can get an Irish one, though I can't quite be arsed to try.
>> No. 447877 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 8:25 pm
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>>447875
Trouble is landlords are legally obliged to have an inspection done, but there is no requirement to actually fix anything.
Had mine done a year ago, they found the earth resistance is too high, and some previous cowboys have bodged in some extra sockets so it's not a compliant ring circuit anymore. So the landlord has a certificate that notes faults and that's all they need, it's not getting fixed and I doubt they'll fix it when I leave.
>> No. 447883 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 11:50 pm
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Is there any way I can lie my way into getting an Irish passport? Would be nice to drive around Europe again.
>> No. 447884 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 12:59 am
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>>447883
Yeah, yeah, you just need to rock up outside their embassy in London riding a horse and too drunk to speak, which is very tricky to do, but if you pull it off they'll staple a passport to your chest and send you on your way under the assumption you're one of theirs.
>> No. 447885 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 10:15 am
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>>447876

The effects of dual nationality there really depend on the country. Friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend who held French citizenship breezed through DV, partly because they're a military ally and partly because their record-keeping is good. Italy shouldn't raise complications and it likely raises fewer eyebrows than gaining Irish citizenship.
>> No. 447886 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 10:20 am
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>>447883
I'm confused. What's preventing you from doing so currently?
>> No. 447887 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 10:47 am
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>>447886
Presumably what's stopping him getting an Irish passport is not being eligible for an Irish passport.
>> No. 447895 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 12:23 pm
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I've finally bought a new chrono watch today. I settled for the Citizen Promaster Sky CB5000-50L like I said I was going to a few months ago. I tried it on at a jeweller's the other day, and it does tick all the boxes of what I am looking for in a good chrono watch. I got it online for £300, which seems like a very good price to me, given what I get for my money. It's a handsome, heavy stainless steel watch, loaded with features that will probably take weeks to fully explore and appreciate.
>> No. 447896 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 12:26 pm
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>>447895
For that budget I think I'd have gone for a Dan Henry 1962 or 1964.

https://danhenrywatches.com/collections/vintage-watches/products/1962-racing-chronograph

https://danhenrywatches.com/collections/vintage-watches/products/1964-gran-turismo-chronograph

Sage because /poof/.
>> No. 447898 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 12:50 pm
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>>447896

I don't like leather straps. They look classy when they are new, but IMO if you are really looking for a watch to wear every day, leather straps get pongy pretty quickly, and they just don't last long.

You get gunk in the links of steel straps as well over time, but I've always been able to get it off with a soft toothbrush and soap water.
>> No. 447901 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>447898
You can change straps easily enough.
>> No. 447905 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 1:51 pm
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I've ordered some disposable cups so I can leave the house with a coffee. I don't drive so I'm allowed to do this.
>> No. 447906 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 1:56 pm
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>>447905
What's wrong with a drinking flask?
>> No. 447911 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 3:27 pm
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>>447906
That’s fine if I’m off for an hours long walk, but I’m thinking of the times I’m catching a train or something. Honestly I’d be amazed if I’ve used all thirty a year from now.
>> No. 447913 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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Sometimes, when I feel that life hasn't worked out for me, I think about Emmanuel Frimpong and then I feel a bit better.
>> No. 447914 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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Is it weird to name your daughters Holly and Jessica? There's a pair of sisters at my daughter's school named that and my girlfriend doesn't think there's anything off about it. Granted it will have been about 10 years between the Soham murders and the eldest being born, but it seems like a peculiar choice to me.
>> No. 447915 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 6:47 pm
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>>447913
Did you know he is Lethal Bizzle's cousin?

>>447914
That is very odd to be honest.
>> No. 447916 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 7:17 pm
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>>447914

I wouldn't have made the connection if I didn't google it. If you hadn't said what you were referring to I'd have just been scratching my head thinking "What the fuck is your problem with those names?"

I mean, I obviously recall it being in the news back when, that photo of them in their manyou shirts was all over the shop for weeks; but it certainly wouldn't have come to mind if I were naming my own children. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there worse at remembering the names of murdered little girls than me.
>> No. 447917 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>447914
It's only weird if they're named after the murdered ones.
>> No. 447918 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 8:06 pm
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>>447917

What could go wrong.
>> No. 447920 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 8:17 pm
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>>447915

>Did you know he is Lethal Bizzle's cousin?

DENCH.
>> No. 447921 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 8:35 pm
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>>447914
Which one is older? I recognised "Holly and Jessica" immediately, but if they were introduced to me as Jessica and Holly, I would never have noticed anything. So I would say that if Jessica came first, it probably never occurred to the parents that they were naming both kids after celebrity murderees.
>> No. 447922 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>447896

From a horology perspective, a radio controlled eco drive movement is far preferable to a seiko mechaquartz stuffed into a new watch somehow branded as vintage.
>> No. 447923 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 9:12 pm
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>>447921
Holly is the oldest, so it's always Holly and Jessica.
>> No. 447925 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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My sister is visiting and I opened a package in front of her. I have not yet been successful in convincing her that a "wowstick" is not, in fact, a futuristic sex toy. The long tubes of accessory bits have not helped.
>> No. 447926 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 10:15 pm
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>>447925

To be fair I'm not entirely convinced either. It does look like some kind of extremely high class German BDSM gear that's meant for going down your jap's eye or something.
>> No. 447927 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 11:10 pm
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>>447923

Maybe if they decide to have a third one, they'll name her Maddie.
>> No. 447928 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 12:22 am
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>>447923
Yeah; that just smacks of not really putting in as much thought as I'd expect for naming a child. It's like if Mr and Mrs Aedo called their kid Paul or Philip or Peter. Sounds innocuous at first, but this is something you really can't afford to get wrong.
>> No. 447929 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 4:09 am
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Spoke with the missus tonight about my fantasy of having a mucky massage. She was unsurprisingly receptive of it, but even went as far as saying she'd be excited for me ticking it off as long as it's a one-time thing. We spoke a bit more about it and consolidated that she'd only be comfortable with it if we were able to find a place where we could be sure the girl wasn't being trafficked into sex work. Looks like I've got some googling to do.
>> No. 447933 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 10:05 am
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>>447929

>if we were able to find a place where we could be sure the girl wasn't being trafficked into sex work.

Responsible sourcing, taken to the next level.
>> No. 447937 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 2:27 pm
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How much do I need to pay for a decent tablet stylus? It's for an iPad but I'm not paying Apple prices for it. I'm not going to be doing anything especially intricate with it.
>> No. 447938 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 2:28 pm
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How is it half-past two? I haven't even wasted time on computer games today. I had an emotional dream and ate a pie; nothing happened.
>> No. 447939 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 2:44 pm
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>> No. 447940 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 2:53 pm
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>>447938
I decided to join my girlfriend on a trip to IKEA this morning. About three hours away from my computer and no missed calls or emails I should have dealt with, I think I've got away with it.
>> No. 447941 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 3:04 pm
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>>447937

The very cheap styluses are effectively just an artificial finger. They don't offer any advantage in terms of precision over just using your finger, unless you've got some kind of problem with your hands. They're only about a quid on eBay, but I just don't think they're particularly useful.

There are a variety of cheap (£20-£30) Chinese styli that are compatible with the proper Apple Pencil gubbins, but I can't vouch for any particular model. They'll be fine for writing or annotating text, but they don't have pressure sensitivity and so would be pretty poor for drawing.
>> No. 447949 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 9:27 pm
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>>447939
How unsavoury would it be to start a thread documenting old .gs memes?
>> No. 447950 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 9:29 pm
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>>447949
I imagine The Shadow knows.
>> No. 447951 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 9:47 pm
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>>447949
Doesn't half past two predate this place?
>> No. 447952 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 10:51 pm
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>>447951
By about 3500 years, yeah.
>> No. 448020 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 12:33 pm
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Well pleased with my new Citizen Promaster Sky chrono watch which came the other day in the post. This is a proper full-sized watch, and just feels finely crafted in every way, especially if like me you were used to Swatch Irony watches for most of your life. This is easily the best watch I've ever owned, and it's loaded with useful features, as you can see by the thickness of the instruction manual, although I'm not sure I'll ever use the bezel for the intended jet fuel consumption calculations.
>> No. 448021 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 1:47 pm
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Amy Dowden is a fucking cutie. Everything about her, that accent, her smile, her attitude. FUCK
>> No. 448022 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 3:55 pm
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>>448021

I'd rather have the deaf one.
>> No. 448023 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 6:05 pm
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Three-day work week here in the US, can't complain at that.

I didn't embrace Thanksgiving when I first came over here, beyond it being a few bonus days off, but I've come to enjoy it. A lot of the makeup of Thanksgiving Day is really the next best thing to Christmas Day in the UK, in the ways that they celebrate and all that. I'm looking forward to it, gonna get pissed on a Thursday and eat a load of food.

Sage for stuffing.
>> No. 448024 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>447952
>Doesn't half past two predate this place?
>By about 3500 years, yeah.

I looked it up and apparently that's not true, days weren't divided into twenty-four hours until around the first century BCE. According to Wikipedia the Ancient Greeks had a system of twelve hours during the day and four night watches, vigils.
Other ancient civilisations did it differently, unsurprisingly, but that's where ours came from.
>> No. 448025 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 6:51 pm
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nb I had it in my head that the half-past two meme just relates to in the morning, not past midday.
>> No. 448026 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 8:28 pm
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Have any of you been to Peppa Pig World?
>> No. 448031 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 12:24 pm
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>>448026
I'm here for the "It's just a distraction" vs "It's not a distraction, it would take a high-level genius to do that" dialogue.
>> No. 448032 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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>>448024
The Wikipedia articles on this are poorly written.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/161-our-solar-system/the-earth/day-night-cycle/761-why-is-a-day-divided-into-24-hours-intermediate
>> No. 448033 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 2:18 pm
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I've been incredibly thirsty all day. I usually drink loads of water anyway, but today I've felt like I was about to die of dehydration two or three times, despite being on to my usual 2 or 3 litres of water by lunch.

I assume I'm dying of something. A stealthy flu? Sudden onset diabetes? Whatever it is I'm glad I have a water cooler to hand.
>> No. 448034 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 2:27 pm
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>>448033

Eaten something with a lot of salt in it lately?
>> No. 448035 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 2:48 pm
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>>448034

Yes, but no more than usual.
>> No. 448036 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 3:15 pm
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>>448031
Boris was drunk. Same as he often is. His alcoholism is more or less an open secret now. That, or he has some depressing health issue that results in the talking of shite. I have become entirely incoherent several times in my life, due to either diabetic hypoglycaemia or migraine, and it made much less sense than talking about Peppa Pig.
>> No. 448039 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 7:49 pm
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Serj Tankian (lead singer of System of a down) announced he's doing an art exhibition using NFTs. The Internet's responded predictably to that, but he's repeatedly doubling down and defending continuing.

I can understand him being a bit out of touch and being taken in by some scammer, or wavering if there were mixed responses arguing about it but the sheer bloody-mindedness of continuing despite absolutely everyone on social media telling him not to is really disappointing.
>> No. 448041 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 9:21 pm
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Just heard the words "street drinking community" in a documentary about the Lorraine Thorpe murders in Ipswitch.

What a euphemism. Sounds more like a carefree pastime shared with other enthusiasts than the quite serious issue you are really having. Nothing good ever came from meeting in the park with your fellow neighbourhood alcoholics and blowing your benefits on cheap beer together all day long.
>> No. 448042 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>448041

Don't be so harsh on yourself.
>> No. 448043 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 9:57 pm
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>>448041

Unlike most uses of the word "community", it's actually correct. The street drinkers in any given town or city all know each other and all know what's going on (to the best of their drink-addled ability). They're the gossipy eyes and ears of the dregs of society, like a piss-stained neighbourhood watch.

For obvious reasons they aren't particularly keen on talking to the police, so a surprisingly large number of murder cases hinge on getting one of them to talk.
>> No. 448049 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 9:10 am
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>>448043

It's a shame so few detective shows (Miss Marple for example) ever explored that.
>> No. 448052 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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Saw someone I know post this on Facebook. Absolutely bizarre take on Jeremy Kyle.
>> No. 448053 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 12:48 pm
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So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.
>> No. 448054 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 12:59 pm
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Why are the Royal Mail so fucking dreadful? Numerous times I have paid for "guaranteed" next day delivery for it to fail. I used to live in Japan and I cannot possibly imagine this happening. I fucking hate this shit country.
>> No. 448057 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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My 25 year old blonde sister wants to travel south america on her own, on a scale of murdered to murdered and raped, how murdered will she be? She does speak Spanish.
>> No. 448058 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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>>448057
Depends where in South America. At least it isn't Egypt or India.
>> No. 448059 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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>>448058
I'd pick Egypt or India over South America any day. Rather be blown up by a suicide bomber or gunned down by Shamanismists, than be disembowled and beheaded by narcos in a favela.
>> No. 448060 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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>>448057
Better off going to Skegness tbh.
>> No. 448061 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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>>448059

It's a rather different picture if you're a woman. I'd take my chances in South America over getting molested to death by gang of horny pajeets.
>> No. 448062 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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>>448061
You don't really hear about it these days. I'm not saying it doesn't happen anymore, but about five years ago it seemed to be in the news every week about Indians gang raping tourists or gang raping some village girl before burning her alive.
>> No. 448063 Anonymous
24th November 2021
Wednesday 11:53 pm
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>>448062
I think there was one last year where a woman who got raped was on her way to testify at her rapist's trial, when a gang of locals dragged her into a field and set her on fire. However, I have a female friend who went to India and said it was okay really. I don't think I know anyone who has been to South America. Nevertheless, I'd pick South America over India any day of the week. Maybe Mexico is 50/50, but that's more Central America. South America is better than Central America, I suspect.
>> No. 448064 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 1:29 am
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My mate went to South America for a bit. He's an Israeli lad. Apparently it's a popular thing for young Israelis to go to South America after they get out of their IDF term, and get a part time job pulling pints and fuck your way around the continent wired off your bonce. Can't say I blame them.
>> No. 448065 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 1:42 am
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I've thought about Pete Waterman's bumming machine at least once a week for the last decade.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/09/05/pete-waterman-me-and-my-bumming-machine/
>> No. 448074 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 8:47 pm
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Does it say the size of these socks anywhere? My mum wants walking socks for Christmas, but I don't want to get ones that won't fit properly. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324727175592
>> No. 448075 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 9:00 pm
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>>448074

It says Size: 4-7 in the item specifics box.
>> No. 448076 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>>448074

It doesn't, but the manufacturer's website says size 4-7.

https://www.mountainwarehouse.com/womens-double-layer-walking-socks-2-pack-p33335.aspx/
>> No. 448078 Anonymous
25th November 2021
Thursday 11:09 pm
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Some bloke at work told me I looked like Jack Black today "as a compliment" which was quite confusing. Turned out he meant Johnny Depp.
>> No. 448095 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 5:12 pm
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>>448078
Christ, I would have preferred Jack Black. Imagine looking like that emaciated creep.
>> No. 448140 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 11:57 am
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HOW THE FUCK DO I GET RID OF TURMERIC STAINS? FUCK.
>> No. 448141 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 12:58 pm
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>>448140
Burn down the entire house.
>> No. 448142 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 1:07 pm
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>>448141
The turmeric infused smoke will probably stain the entire street yellow.
>> No. 448143 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 1:18 pm
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>>448140
Mirth. You fool, as everyone knows turmeric should be handled only under controlled conditions while wearing a hazmat suit.
>> No. 448144 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 1:26 pm
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>> No. 448145 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 4:09 am
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I've taken to sleeping in my office, I'll stay late until 9 or 10 engrossed in a project and then I'll just think...fuck it, I'll sleep here. I can't tell if I'm just too lazy to drive home, or if my identity is so wrapped up in work I can't comprehend spending time anywhere else. I don't think it's the latter, I have plenty of hobbies.

Maybe it's just nice to finally have a job where I can choose to work like this, rather than it just being expected of me.
>> No. 448146 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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>>448145
The latter is true if you are spending time in the office until 10pm.
>> No. 448147 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 1:18 pm
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>>448146

I make my own hours, so it's not really as mental as it sounds, I probably only got in at 2pm, and it means I don't really have anything to do but reply to emails for the rest of the week.
>> No. 448148 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 1:50 pm
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>>448147

So what about when you sleep there and, presumably, are therefore already there the next morning when everyone else starts to arrive?

This isn't healthy lad, get a grip.
>> No. 448149 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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>>448148

Then I usually just stick around for the first couple of hours of operation then go home at 7ish. It suits me, think what you like but I enjoy it.
>> No. 448150 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 8:20 pm
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Holby’s made me think that if Slimming World is a great place to meet women then eating disorder group therapy would be next level. Something to keep in your back pocket.
>> No. 448151 Anonymous
30th November 2021
Tuesday 8:25 pm
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>>448150
I imagine if you did a Venn diagram between 'eating disorder' and 'mental slags' there would be a considerable overlap.
>> No. 448164 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 12:50 am
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Curry stains are absolute cunts to get out of a white T shirt. I had to use straight up bathroom bleach. Not even soaking the stains in Vanish made any kind of difference the first time I washed it.
>> No. 448165 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 4:21 am
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I took too much speed in a hungover and poorly rested state and I spent five hours wanking to Asian sissy bois instead of practicing the drums like I planned to. Amphetamine is a cruel mistress.
>> No. 448166 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 6:58 am
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>>448165

I reckon I'd get right into speed if I ever tried it, sounds like exactly my kind of drug. I don't need an excuse to spend the whole night wanking to femboy furries instead of doing what I said I would, but maybe with a bit of chemical stimulation I could multitask.
>> No. 448167 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 9:55 am
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>>448150

Anorexic birds have got hairy arms and dry fannies. Would not recommend.
>> No. 448168 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 11:54 am
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>>448167
From what I recall the featured eating disorder was bulimia so no need to worry.
>> No. 448169 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 12:50 pm
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I have Thursday ennui.

Weekend can't come soon enough.
>> No. 448170 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 1:06 pm
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>>448168
IIRC, if a lass is underweight during puberty she's more likely to have an outtie because she doesn't have the weight pushing down on her pubic mound to tuck her lips in.
>> No. 448171 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 3:25 pm
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>>448170
What? Bullshit.
>> No. 448172 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 3:43 pm
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>>448171
Mons pubis affects the labia. Fact.
>> No. 448180 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 8:01 pm
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My missus was verging on anorexic as a teenager (and is a quite healthy, shapely figure these days, from approximately her mid 20s onwards) and she has the most perfect porno cunt you've ever seen. It looks like an artist's rendition of a vagina, it's incredible. Anyway I don't intend to brag but I think it puts this theory to rest.

Personally I think it has to do with how much of a slag they were as a teenager. Lasses like to cling to the idea that a vagina doesn't stretch or bag out from being used, but I don't buy it, it's not made of silicone. It's not so much an issue once entering adulthood, but I think birds who've been riding cocks since they were 14 are more likely to have loose flappy lips than ones who were late bloomers. And having kids definitely wrecks the thing after the first couple of goes.
>> No. 448181 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 8:09 pm
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>>448180

I dunno, there's a lass I went to school with who is/was a slag and she's got an excellent fanny too.

Of course, 'excellent' is subjective, I don't know if a 'perfect' innie is actually what I want all of the time. Heterogeneity makes for a more interesting fadge, perhaps.

This is also the longest I've ever spent thinking about what sort of fanny I like. It really doesn't matter to me all that much. I could, however, write a thesis on the optimal size, slope angle, mass, sag factor, and camber of a set of tits.
>> No. 448182 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 8:17 pm
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>she has the most perfect porno cunt you've ever seen. It looks like an artist's rendition of a vagina
>Lasses like to cling to the idea that a vagina doesn't stretch or bag out from being used, but I don't buy it, it's not made of silicone
>I think birds who've been riding cocks since they were 14 are more likely to have loose flappy lips than ones who were late bloomers
>> No. 448183 Anonymous
2nd December 2021
Thursday 8:30 pm
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>>448180
There's another theory that says lasses with bigger labia have more/better orgasms because of all the extra nerve endings and friction. So might just be that ladies with big meaty flaps are just slags because it makes them enjoy sex way more.
>> No. 448190 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 12:25 am
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>>448183

I'd theorise they have the same amount of nerve endings, they're just spread out more, and that makes the sensation somehow more pleasant.

I've noticed in my time that the girls with a bit more meat in their buns, so to speak, have been far easier to work with, in terms of how delicate/precise you have to be with your movements in order to properly stimulate them. It seems as though it's much more comfortable to them so they have an easier time getting off from a pretty mild, casual kind of stimulation.

The girls with tiny tucked away clits and petite little inniy fannies have all been that type that finds it difficult to get themselves off, let alone for someone else to do it, and resort to vibrators so powerful next door's crockery starts rattling in the cupboards.

This is all purely anecdotal of course, but I've slept with as many as 10 (ten) women in my life so I think I'm pretty qualified by .gs standards.
>> No. 448191 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 12:30 am
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Can’t you all talk about something relatable like being alone on a hill or alone in a shop?
>> No. 448192 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 12:49 am
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Lolly Badcock has huge flaps and potentially has the most concentrated slag energy of any one woman in britain. Case closed.
>> No. 448193 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 6:45 am
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>>448190
>I'd theorise they have the same amount of nerve endings, they're just spread out more, and that makes the sensation somehow more pleasant.

The opposite is true with tits. Smaller breasted women tend to feel more sensation from them being played with than larger breasted women due to the nerve endings. They said this on Naked Attraction so treat it as gospel.
>> No. 448194 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 8:33 am
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I can't specifically picture the genitals of any of the women I've been with.
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3rd December 2021
Friday 9:18 am
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>>448194
None of them must have had perfect porno cunts then.
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3rd December 2021
Friday 9:33 am
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>>448195
Possible but unlikely given the sample size.
>> No. 448210 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 2:07 pm
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>>448194

Youse clearly a bumder then honestly m8.

I've got a shit memory in just about every respect, but when it comes to the ladygardens of the several women I have been sexually acquainted with, it's near enough photographic.
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5th December 2021
Sunday 2:58 pm
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>>448210
It's a few more than several. I can remember the smells of some, the tastes of others and the texture of some's pubic hair (or lack of it) but not what they looked like.
>> No. 448212 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 3:00 pm
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>>448211
Maybe this is a very niche manifestation of "face blindness".
>> No. 448213 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 4:27 pm
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>>448212

Or people who would be better off visiting Wizchan?
>> No. 448217 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 5:13 pm
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>>448213

I'm curious about your reasoning for that.
>> No. 448229 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 9:43 am
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When do I start winning money on premium bonds? I've had about £6,500 saved since August and I've won fuck all.
>> No. 448230 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 10:19 am
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>>448229

The current odds for premium bonds are 34,500 to 1 in each monthly draw. With £6,500 invested, you should expect on average to win about two prizes per year.
>> No. 448231 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 10:58 am
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>>448230
I used to win loads when I was a kid and my mum had invested bonds in my name. Made me feel right special it did.
>> No. 448232 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 11:32 am
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>>448231
Once when I was younger I won £1 on a scratchcard my dad bought me as a treat, but the shop said they didn't have any change so they gave him another scratchie instead. Won fuck all on that one.
>> No. 448233 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 11:32 am
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Wait, is it normal to buy your children scratchcards?
>> No. 448234 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 12:54 pm
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>>448233
It's a tradition at our family Christmas dinner - or is it New Year's Day? - to give each person at the table a scratchcard.
>> No. 448236 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 2:56 pm
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I've been offered a job but also interviewed for a slightly better, but much better paid job.

The first job is pressuring me to confirm I'll accept but I've not heard back from the other.

I tried to be proactive and ask if there was any chance they could let me know sooner than they'd originally planned (two weeks away) and they've just ignored me.

Feel like a bit of a twat for some reason, like I shouldn't have sent the email
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6th December 2021
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>448236
You can accept the job and still hold out for the other one.

If they're sending the contract out in the post you can say it hasn't arrived due to delays with Christmas fucking up the mail.
>> No. 448238 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 6:01 pm
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>>448237
It's all digital and they want to contact my current employer asap so I can't drag it out

Was the email cringe?
>> No. 448239 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 6:25 pm
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>>448238
It depends on how you phrased it. There's nothing cringe about asking how you're doing.
>> No. 448240 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>448239
I just said I'd received antoher offer I needed to make a decision on but my strong preference was to work for them and if it was possible to hear back sooner.

I made it very non-pressured but they just ignored it.
>> No. 448241 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 7:07 pm
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>>448240
Maybe the job that's already made the offer would be willing to increase their offer to definitely secure your services?
>> No. 448242 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 11:28 pm
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I shouldn't message an Australian girl I dumped nearly two years back by ghosting her after an argument should I? She was genuinely being a cunt who was trying to manipulate me into going to Oz with her but in a way I did love her and I was a selfish child in how I went about it when she did care about me enough to apologise a few months afterwards.

All I'd do is explain myself, let her know that while we could've never worked I won't forget her and all the good times we had. We did spend Christmas together and moving house has made me reflective. Then again I might just be picking at an old wound to amuse myself or get some venom spat in my face.
>> No. 448243 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 6:00 am
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>>448242
I'd leave it. The worst thing you can do to a woman is give them closure.
>> No. 448244 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 7:49 am
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I can't find my phone anywhere, can one of you pair give it a ring? If I find it I might talk to you because I am very lonely also.

>>448242
I'd say do it, but only if you don't think you're being massively selfish by doing so. So long as you're not making her upset because you're especially bored, why wouldn't you do it?
>> No. 448245 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 8:24 am
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>>448242

I don't see exactly what you hope to get out of it. Sounds like it ended messily and you'll only slip right into the same old confrontations.

I've got an ex like that I've been dying to message and try to talk into an affair, because my current missus still isn't pulling her weight in the bedroom and obviously I'm having a lot of "grass is greener" thoughts. But for once I actually can't bring myself to do it. The dynamic when we split was one where I know she'll almost certainly just hate me nowadays; not that of having been upset to lose me like the others.
>> No. 448246 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 2:55 pm
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I started in a (temporary) IT role for the council in the summer. So far it's been half a year of me doing about an hour of work every day, max. I want to do more, I have asked to do more, but I genuinely have nothing to do most of the time.

I've spent my time reading, learning new languages, technologies, painting 40k miniatures and recently, starting an Etsy business. I've enjoyed hobbies and expanded my 'employable' skillset in terms of tech/tools etc. I'm well happy.

Although it's going to be fucking shit when I get back into the private sector I'm sure, but at least my pay won't be as dreadful.
>> No. 448247 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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>>448246
You're supposed to get a second job. Apparently it's a piece of piss if you've got a tech role and and have loads of downtime.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/16/its-the-biggest-open-secret-out-there-the-double-lives-of-white-collar-workers-with-two-jobs
>> No. 448248 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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>>448242

>She was genuinely being a cunt who was trying to manipulate me

Sounds worth your time again, sure.
>> No. 448249 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 3:06 pm
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>>448247
I have considered this, and I could easily get one, but I am genuinely enjoying the time I have to work on hobbies or things I wish to pursue professionally in the future.

I worked in a much better paying, more intense role for years beforehand and I enjoy my life far more now.
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7th December 2021
Tuesday 3:32 pm
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>>448246
I have a similar job in the private sector. Yesterday I worked all day and it was horrible. Today, we're back to normal and I'm about as busy as you are. We have a pool table in the office. I haven't done too well with the new professional skills, but I am bloody sick at pool now.
>> No. 448275 Anonymous
8th December 2021
Wednesday 11:37 pm
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Aw lads, I just moved into a rental property that's on PAYG electric and gas. If that wasn't bad enough the gas card appears to be broken so I'm on emergency credit.

I've tried getting a card sent out from the British Gas website but it's taken me to Whatsapp chat yesterday. I left a message but was warned that due to current issues it would be a few hours, that was yesterday and still I've had nothing nothing back. I also can't seem to switch provider, or at least nothing on comparison sites shows deals.

What do I do in this situation, burn the place down?
>> No. 448276 Anonymous
9th December 2021
Thursday 12:32 am
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>>448275

You can pick up a replacement card from any PayZone "SuperAgent" outlet. Take the card home, stick it in your meter and you should be able to top up.

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/aem6/content/britishgas/help/meters/getting-a-new-card-or-key-for-your-meter.html

https://storelocator.payzone.co.uk/
>> No. 448280 Anonymous
9th December 2021
Thursday 3:38 pm
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Today I've found out that my daughter's teacher is a lot more attractive when you're stood a few metres away from her than stood next to her having a conversation.
>> No. 448292 Anonymous
10th December 2021
Friday 1:32 pm
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After 6 years of driving I've finally hit a Squirrel. Avoided so many birds and rabbits over time but today the poor sod was sat right in the middle of the road on a blind bend, I tried to adjust to go around but it went the same way. Feel like shit tbh m8s.
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10th December 2021
Friday 1:56 pm
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>> No. 448301 Anonymous
10th December 2021
Friday 7:31 pm
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Another day, another job rejection I take personally
>> No. 448305 Anonymous
10th December 2021
Friday 7:41 pm
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>>448301
If they got back to you, that's already a decent achievement. I once had an actual interview, where I met everyone and everything, and then they just blanked me like normally happens when they don't even read your CV. The interview didn't even go that badly, although I assume they must all go a bit badly given how terrible I am at actually being hired for anything ever.
>> No. 448352 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 1:24 pm
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I really fancy a waffle sandwich.
>> No. 448357 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 6:59 pm
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>>448301
I just got to my third "final interview" of the year, and expecting feedback tomorrow. Will be slightly heartbroken if it doesn't come as I thought it went well.
>> No. 448363 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 11:46 pm
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Apparently people aren't wearing their masks because Johnson doesn't, or because he's flouting the rules so they do too etc. I would assume this is bullshit but I've seen interviews where random members of the public explicitly state that's why they don't. Is that right? Do people really take their cues from the government like that?
It seems bizarre to me, not remotely something I take into account when deciding whether or not to wear one.
>> No. 448364 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 12:07 am
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>>448363
If you weren't going to anyway, and then get challenged to explain why not, I can imagine that would work as a spontaneous excuse. Although I don't think anyone really supports face coverings in public places but then feels like they're not allowed to wear one because of the brave leadership of Boris Johnson.
>> No. 448365 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 12:27 am
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>>448363
It's a type of cynicism that you can take too far, but it's worth remembering that when they interview people they're looking to make good television, internet content, etc, rather than to get a balanced sample of the truth. "I don't know why i'm not wearing a mask, guess i just didn't feel like it just now to be honest.." doesn't tell a story. It's an awkward situation of a man being unaggressively questioned on an unconscious decision. "It's the Prime Minister's fault! If he jumped off a cliff, I'd do it too!", however, is great if you want to slot something into a narrative that's already gathering steam about the Prime Minister's irresponsible decisions etc. You can pop that into a bulletin or a tweet and it'll do numbers. With that in mind you might as well send a bloke out with a microphone and a cameraman and have him accost members of the public until he finds one who'll say the necessary line.
>> No. 448366 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 1:40 am
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>>448365

Also some people will say any old shit if you stick a microphone in their face.


>> No. 448368 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 1:48 am
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I do not want to feel unwell anymore.
>> No. 448369 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 11:48 am
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>>448365

I think you're all overthinking it a bit, and it's more just a kind of petty rebellion like parking somewhere you know you're not supposed to, or stealing a carrier bag from the self service instead of paying the Bag Tax.

People don't make an ideological decision about wearing a mask or not, it's more just if they see Bozzer not wearing one, it stirs a primitive gut instinct in the average Brit that says "Well fuck that, if they get away with it why should I have to."

Setting an example isn't about people copying your behaviour, it's about keeping them on side so they don't feel tempted to rebel. All of this demonstrates how the current crop of Tories fundamentally misunderstand the concept of leadership, Johnson himself worst of all.
>> No. 448371 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 1:32 pm
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Is Yoda racist? I was told that his sentence structure was similar to Korean grammar, and he's a wrinkly green wise little fellow, which means he's coded as Asian and exists to mock Asian people. I just sort of nodded my head, but it's been weighing on my conscience all day.
>> No. 448372 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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>>448371
Well every plot and trope in the first star wars films was basically yoinked straight from old martial arts films and westerns, you can see where that idea comes from.
>> No. 448375 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 3:01 pm
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>>448371
Is the observer racist in drawing a comparison between swamp dwelling, bug-eyes goblin creatures to Yoda?
badumtish I'll get my coat.
>> No. 448378 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 5:22 pm
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I see a few local punks around where I live trying to fight the system in their infantile ways. One local punk I see wanders the streets thinking he's hot-shit, picking up cigarettes butts and looking for open doors which provide an opening to rob shit, others stick 'antifascist area' warning signs on bus stops in housing estates where a white man hasn't lived since the 1970s. And some, I am told, try to moderate arsepissing forums so they don't become hotbeds of conservative thinking.

But I'm an expert, I got a flyer through the door yesterday offering 50% off my first delivery with gopuff and used it to buy all my supermarket shopping. I will never use the service again and tipped the rider £5 because I hear they're exploited by the company. The cheeky cunts have tried to bill me the difference as a desperate order on arrival as well so they can be damn sure I won't be using the service again.

>>448371
Since when are Koreans stereotyped as intelligent? You might think that is a daft consideration but I fully expect George Lucas of all people to be informed about his casual dolphin rape. Jar Jar Binks was a ganja farmer not a
>> No. 448381 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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>>448378
I think East Asians are generally stereotyped as wise sage figures like Mr Miyagi, or very academically focused overachievers. There are certainly more overt racist stereotypes in the Star Wars films (Watto is Jewish maybe, Jar Jar is wacky silly black man, Nute Gunray speaks in Engrish etc), and I don't consider Yoda to be one of the offensive stereotypes.
>> No. 448384 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 9:00 pm
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>>448381
I don't how what happened to the other half of that sentence and it ruined the point I was making; Jar Jar is a racist stereotype of a black Caribbean and tends to be oddly specific in that sense.

That said I don't think George Lucas is a racist, merely autistic and using classic tropes as the tools of a storyteller. They're not even really specific when it comes down to it, when Hungarians decided to stop being anti-Semitic after the war they just changed all their jokes to being about Scots and the Nigerian igbo stereotype matches just as well. Obviously you can't point this stuff out these days but at the same time anyone calling Yoda racist is obviously just a contrarian trying to find something to get mad about.
>> No. 448386 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 1:24 am
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How long will it be before maintstream sexuality starts to resemble contemporary internet sexuality?

The missus and I have tickets to a burlesque show next month (a very high production one, not just a yummy mummy waving feathers in a pub function room to feel better about her body), and it seems to adhere to what I'd call fairly outdated ideas of what is sexy, i.e. it's all tall skinny model-looking types wearing posh lingerie and red mood lighting.

How long before these sorts of shows are all curvy e-girls with blush on their nose dressed up as hucows and just kneeling on the ground drooling on themselves? Am I just a wrong un?
>> No. 448390 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 8:00 am
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I have been to a few burlesque shows with the Mrs and you get a lot of diversity in the body shapes you see. Sure the majority of the lasses are curvy alt/rockabilly types, but you will also get a bigger bird for the third tit fellas.

I don't see the e-girl types doing burlesque though. They're more than happy posing in front of a camera in their bedrooms, but are timid IRL. I don't see them stripping down to their knickers in a room with a hundred people. I also don't think you could do a burlesque routine that's just Tiktok dances.
>> No. 448391 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 10:10 am
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Oof fuck lads, never try and eat a whole Christmas pudding for breakfast by yourself. I'm not even close to finishing and I think I'm already half cut.
>> No. 448392 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 2:35 pm
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As a smoker, I enjoy the idea of lapsang souchong, it's a nice aroma.

As a human being, I'm not convinced I actually enjoy drinking an ashtray.
>> No. 448393 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 2:44 pm
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>>448386

I think you misunderstand; in the case of things like burlesque, it's come full circle, it's about being empowering, body positivity, and taking ownership of their sexuality or whatever. It's all very modern already.

I don't want to kick off one of those arguments, but I find a lot of the discourse and concepts around modern feminine sexuality to be quite narcissistic, truth be told.
>> No. 448395 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 3:15 pm
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>>448393
Everyone I know who likes it is female. I know lots of women who love it, and precisely zero men who would go there on their own. Maybe you all know this and I'm miles behind you, but yes, the empowerment message seems much more central than the entertainment message.
>> No. 448397 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 3:50 pm
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>> No. 448398 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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>>448393
That's more often the people discussing it than the actual things they're saying. I'm down with it. Just got to deal with weirdoes like in anything artistic.
>> No. 448399 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 4:08 pm
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>>448392
>No I just put my underpants on the wrong way round this morning.

I have never gotten that line from Guest House Paradiso. Do you have any idea what the joke is at all?
>> No. 448404 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:40 pm
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>>448390
Not disagreeing with you there, but I'm not proposing that bedroom e-girls will take to the stage, rather that erotic stage performances will start to mirror the bedroom e-girls.

>>448393
>not just a yummy mummy waving feathers in a pub function room to feel better about her body
I don't misunderstand.

Probably burlesque was the wrong word to use since it's been co-opted by exactly what you and >>448395 are describing (and, to be fair, more power to them), but that was the word being used on the website. It's probably more accurate to call it a cabaret show in the vein of the Moulin Rouge. The show is called Rated Red, it's in a new theatre in Las Vegas in which all of the walls are screens or something like that.

>>448399
You might be slightly overestimating the comedy writing of Rik and Ade by assuming it's not just an excuse to be crude.
>> No. 448405 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:56 pm
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>>448404
>You might be slightly overestimating the comedy writing of Rik and Ade by assuming it's not just an excuse to be crude.

Bottom was a modern interpretation of Waiting for Godot.
>> No. 448411 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 3:06 am
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I can't sleep. My brain just isn't having it tonight.
>> No. 448412 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 10:48 am
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>>448405

While that may be true, it was still mainly jokes about lighting farts on fire.
>> No. 448419 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 2:14 am
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>>448412

Beckett could only dream of such lurid scenarios as having limbs broken / sawn off and stitched back on, alongside subtle references to Russian playwrights' plot devices.



God Bless Rik Mayall. On a tengental note, Alan B'Stard has never been so relevant.
>> No. 448420 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 2:15 am
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>>448419
>tengental

Tangental. Shit, I need to lay off the Absinthe.
>> No. 448421 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 9:45 am
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>>448420
>> Absinthe
I see what you did there.
>> No. 448445 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 7:05 pm
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I put a few dollops of pesto on my crustless quiche and it tasted top bollocks.
>> No. 448449 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 1:07 am
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I've probably spent the majority of my waking life on the internet so I like to think that I'm an entertaining texter. I'm silly anyway. Thanks to Whatsapp and Zoom I'm even better because I can post images.

The problem is that the internet has also conditioned me to get bored and wander off. Not because I don't like the person but just because I can't be bothered and don't feel engaged if I'm doing all the work. Especially with women who probably want to be entertained. What are some tips and tricks to get out of this?
>> No. 448450 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 9:08 am
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>>448449

Find someone who wants to entertain you as much as you're trying to entertain them.
>> No. 448453 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:56 pm
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On Pointless this week, there has been a team of two people who definitely post here. There's a zoomer guy from Wakefield with a topknot, and he sounds like a mong because he's from Wakefield but he's uncomfortably knowledgeable about politics, and he has a crippled mushroom man as a friend. There's no way neither of them post here. Hello, at least one of you. I saw you on Pointless.
>> No. 448456 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 8:51 am
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I never tell people about my dreams because who cares but I can't get over just how insane an experience I had last night.

I was forced to join some goodfellas mafia type gang. But the dream had a linear plot, there were main characters, sub characters, character relationships, a consistent world and themes. It was the most vivid and realistic dream I've ever had, I've woke up actually sad that it isn't real. Never experienced anything like that in my life. I believe it's because of a new SSRI I took yesterday. But that was incredible.
>> No. 448460 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 1:30 pm
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>>448453

I don't think they were real Wakey lads. I'd never seen either of them drinking at Inns, the Six Chimneys, The Pub Formerly Known As The Gate, Hogarths, The Black Rock or Henry Boon's.
>> No. 448467 Anonymous
23rd December 2021
Thursday 12:45 am
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I think my optician was into me. When I told her I thought I might be seriously ill I got a positive vibe, but when I explained my eyesight was probably so much worse because I'd spent the last year inside playing Total Warhammer I should have asked for her number then and there.
>> No. 448472 Anonymous
23rd December 2021
Thursday 12:51 pm
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I remember one time my regular GP was off and it was this fit asian lass whose beauty was amplified for her competency. It was 5 years ago and I'm still kicking myself for not mentioning my prostate.
>> No. 448480 Anonymous
23rd December 2021
Thursday 5:54 pm
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I've just caught a ball of fluff from all the hair on the back of my neck and shoulders. I didn't realise that happened anywhere else on my body apart from my belly button.
>> No. 448512 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 4:46 pm
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Viz Top Tip: save toilet paper when you have a runny nose and are self-isolating, by blowing your nose on your dirty washing. Another genius move from me, the brilliant pioneer who will be spending Christmas alone, blowing snot into a pair of boxer shorts. I'm so clever.
>> No. 448513 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 5:03 pm
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>>448512
I've blown so much cock chedar into my washing pile it's unreal. Hot wash every time, none of this cool eco nonsense!
>> No. 448581 Anonymous
27th December 2021
Monday 8:05 pm
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It's my girlfriend's birthday in a couple of weeks. Would a milk frother as a hot chocolate maker be a good idea or is it pissing money away?

https://www.dualit.com/products/new-milk-frother
>> No. 448585 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 12:57 am
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>>448581
If it's anything like the frothers you get on coffee machines then I'm not all that impressed honestly. I wouldn't say it's for making ideal hot chocolate, cappuccinos and lattes maybe.

Are you trying to embiggen her arse?
>> No. 448586 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 1:41 am
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Rose Matafeo is constantly on my mind. I don't know why, I haven't seen in her anything recently, I just woke up the other day and thought "Rose Matafeo is nice" and now I am depressed I will never have sex with Rose Matafeo.
>> No. 448587 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 2:33 am
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>>448586
You don't know that, mate. You could totally shag Rose Matafeo, it's not like becoming a billionaire or experiencing a sustained period of contentment. You might even date for a couple of months, it won't last, obviously, but nothing ever does.
>> No. 448588 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 3:32 am
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>>448586
By the sounds of things of she's painfully single and looking for an Englishman:
https://www.nme.com/features/film-interviews/rose-matafeo-interview-baby-done-2864452

I've always wondered what would happen if you messaged one of them celebrities. Maybe you could find out for me.
>> No. 448596 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 7:03 pm
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I told my gf that I masturbated to Rose Matafeo this morning. She took it really badly.
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28th December 2021
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>448596
Why did you think it would go well? Please, explain your thought process here.
>> No. 448599 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 10:15 pm
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>>448597
Perhaps his girlfriend is Rose Matafeo.
>> No. 448604 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 9:00 am
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>>448597
She asked if I had masturbated that morning and I said yes, and she asked what to, and I told her it was Rose Matafeo. She asked who that was and I explained, then she was upset that 1) I masturbated to someone who isn't her, and 2) that someone has curly hair when 20 minutes prior to this conversation i laughed at my girlfriend for having curled her hair.
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29th December 2021
Wednesday 9:45 am
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>>448604
You thought it would be a good idea to tell her the truth?
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29th December 2021
Wednesday 9:46 am
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>>448604
I masturbated to someone who isn't her,

This always gets me, like of course I didn't have a wank thinking about you, I put my willy in you regularly, what would be the point?
Having said that you walked straight into her trap, should have been super vague or just outright lied. You won't be able to watch anything with Rose Matafeo in now.
>> No. 448607 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 1:44 pm
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>>448596
What's the point of having a girlfriend if you still need to masturbate?
>> No. 448608 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 1:59 pm
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>>448607
Sometimes you just can't beat a good tug.
>> No. 448609 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 3:11 pm
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>>448604

Ahh. The confident hypocrisy of normal women.

She's annoyed at you for rubbing one out over a youtuber but she can't pretend she doesn't have a drawer full of gear from Love Honey, and that she doesn't get a fanny flutter over Jason Momoamamoaoa.

Don't stand for it lad, and certainly don't listen to the henpecked browbeaten lads in this thread who seem to be de-facto taking her side. There's no faster way to wind up as a whale poacher than staying in a prolonged relationship with an average woman, and not standing up to her bullshit.

Godspeed to you, lad. Let no bint decide when or how you shall spill your seed, unless it is part of a consensual kinky game where she makes you hold it in so you can give her a big sticky mouthful at the end of the week.
>> No. 448611 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 3:43 pm
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>>448609

They're not taking her side, they're just doing a different sort of trout farming to yours.
>> No. 448613 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 5:25 pm
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>>448609

>don't listen to the henpecked browbeaten lads in this thread who seem to be de-facto taking her side

Where the fuck did you pluck that one from? Genuinely, which post here do you think is siding with her? The replies boil down to "you should have lied to her", which is hardly taking his lasses side, is it?
>> No. 448616 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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>>448613

Do you know what the term de facto means? Suggesting the lad lies to her, downplaying the matter in an "it's not wurf it m8" type manner, is indirectly condoning it. It's letting her off the hook with a disrespectful double standard, and if you let someone treat you disrespectfully then you disrespect yourself.

It's more sexist to let things like that slide and then just passively blame the woman, than it is to stand up for yourself and set boundaries. Take responsibility for yourself and the relationship, instead of moaning "well that's just women innit".
>> No. 448617 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 7:22 pm
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>>448616

>downplaying the matter in an "it's not wurf it m8" type manner

Point this post out, seriously.

"why didn't you just deceive your girlfriend" is hardly a progressive frame of mind. You're reading so much into the couple of responses that were made.
>> No. 448618 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 7:45 pm
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"If you don't tell your girlfriend when you wank over someone else you're henpecked and have no self respective" is another brilliant take from the relationship gurus at .gs.
>> No. 448619 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 9:38 pm
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>>448618
At this rate, I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't get a hobby.
>> No. 448640 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 2:41 pm
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>>448618

That's unfair, because it was apparently the girlfriend that brought up the topic and then asked what he masturbated to. His only options were to tell her, lie, or evade/refuse to answer the question.

>>448616

I actually agree with this, there's nothing innately wrong with otherlad's sexuality. He just answered his girlfriend's questions honestly, and posters are implying he shouldn't have. Why?

Okay, so maybe most relationships can't stand up to 100% transparency all the time, and some things should be kept private -- but in this case, the girlfriend asked.
>> No. 448646 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:08 am
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I've got a couple of questions. Firstly, do we think Rose Matafeo upset otherlad's gf so much because, as I said at the genesis of this whole thing, it doesn't feel absurd that a man pretending to be normal could cop off with her? And secondly, for otherlad specifically, did you have a wank thinking about Rose Matafeo just because we were talking about her on here? If so do you worry you might be too easily influenced?
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31st December 2021
Friday 12:20 am
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>>448646
Look at her, she's quite clearly a munter. How would you feel if your lass was rubbing one out over complete trogmonsters? The implication is that you're, at best, on par with someone that hideous. Would you question your girlfriend's taste if she was attracted to, say, Gregg Wallace? What would that say about you?
>> No. 448648 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:33 am
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>>448647
>Would you question your girlfriend's taste if she was attracted to, say, Gregg Wallace?

He seems to do quite well for himself. You might want to reassess what it is that women want.
>> No. 448649 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:33 am
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>>448647
She is so not a munter.

Also, who tells anyone else about what you've been wanking over, particularly a partner.
>> No. 448650 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:40 am
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>>448649
> Also, who tells anyone else about what you've been wanking over, particularly a partner.
Some things go to the grave.
>> No. 448651 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:47 am
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>>448647

Greg Wallace is quite handsome, I think.

Shockingly, attractiveness is subjective - surely this site more than any should have taught us that.

Sarah Millican is an 8/10, minimum.
>> No. 448652 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:50 am
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>>448647
That's not a "munter", not by a long shot. A munter needs grime patches to be forming on her neckline and have a face like a single man's grease trap. I think Matafeo's really rather pretty; lovely hair, funny, great body and a wonderful smile.

If my, presently non-existent, other half was getting moist and moany over Greg Wallace I'd be chuffed. I could stop feeling bad about my hairline and I know she appriciates cooking ability in a partner.
>> No. 448653 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:29 am
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>>448646
I was the original poster bemoaning my inability to have sex with Rose Matafeo. I have developed an unhealthy fixation with her. I do this a lot, I fixate on a particular woman and get incredibly depressed that I will never be their boyfriend. Happened before with Piper Niven, happened before with Bailey Jay, etc.
>> No. 448654 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:16 am
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>>448648
Gregg Wallace is the bounce by the ounce guy, but with money.

>>448649
Rose Whatsherface is definitely a munter. She's that generic "commercially acceptable light brown woman with curly hair" but with a much plainer face and 300% more chin. It wouldn't surprise me if you lot were bulbous head fetishists.

>Also, who tells anyone else about what you've been wanking over, particularly a partner.

Might want to scroll up a bit. Nobody thought it was a bright idea other than the lad who wanted to whine about women being hypocrites, so you need to assert your dominance by jizzing on their face and telling them you were thinking of someone else to climax.

>>448651
>Sarah Millican is an 8/10, minimum.

Careful, lad. The mods have made it clear they don't approve of "horny posting", but I think they only crack down on posting about right-wing women.

>>448653
>Piper Niven

So that's what happened to that fat lass who punched her mate in the face on X Factor and then got her wabs out in the Sunday Sport.

How large is your girlfriend's chin?
>> No. 448656 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:24 am
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>>448654
My girlfriend has a fairly big chin. Not Jimmy Hill tier, but certainly noticeably large.
>> No. 448657 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:31 am
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>>448656

Does she ever... you know?
>> No. 448658 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:31 am
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>>448654
You’re weird and not fun at all.
>> No. 448659 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:49 am
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>>448658
I'm saying it as I see it.

Sarah Millican - big head.
Rose Matafeo - big head, big chin.
That wrestling lass - big head, big chin.

You lot have a thing for large headed women, particularly if they've got a huge jaw. The ideal Britfa woman is probably Desperate Dan in a wig.
>> No. 448660 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:19 am
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>>448659

If the Prime Minister can stick himself in a fridge why shouldn't we?
>> No. 448661 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:19 am
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>>448659
I just prefer a hardy, robust woman.
>> No. 448662 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:28 am
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>>448659
You're judging purely by appearances. Have you never seen a woman and thought 'eh she's not that attractive' but then heard her voice and experienced your entire perception change in that one moment?
What about character - don't these people seem interesting to be around? I don't know of the others listed but Sarah Millican definitely seems like the kind of person who'd legitimately increase my enjoyment from watching a tramps rendition of Eastenders.

I guess it's 'okay' to value women solely by the way they look to you, but it's very shallow and speaks more of your personality and ego than any greater truth regarding women. That's not to say that there aren't patterns, but running your life in strict coherance with them must be fucking dull. Do you not want to know somone intimately and share your life with them?
>> No. 448663 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:40 am
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>>448662
>You're judging purely by appearances

These are famous women. You know fuck all about their personality other than what you project on to them.

>Have you never seen a woman and thought 'eh she's not that attractive' but then heard her voice and experienced your entire perception change in that one moment?

You're using voice when talking about making the likes of Sarah Millican more attractive? Her shrill voice is the most off-putting thing about her.

>I guess it's 'okay' to value women solely by the way they look to you, but it's very shallow and speaks more of your personality and ego than any greater truth regarding women. That's not to say that there aren't patterns, but running your life in strict coherance with them must be fucking dull. Do you not want to know somone intimately and share your life with them?

You think otherlad is thinking about Rose Matafeo's personality when he's bashing one out over her or he's fantasising about covering her huge chin in his spunk?

You've got awfully defensive about the fact you lot have a tendency to be attracted to women with large jawlines.
>> No. 448664 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:47 am
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>>448663

It's hardly our fault you're satisfied by women with small mouths.
>> No. 448665 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:54 am
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>>448664
The most plausible explanation I have is that you're a bunch of chinless wonders and you're convinced on some level if you breed with a large chinned woman you may have normal looking offspring.
>> No. 448666 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:00 pm
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>>448665

That's a bit of a stretch, something your partners are clearly unfamiliar with.
>> No. 448667 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 12:14 pm
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>>448657
> Does she ever... you know?
Peg him with it?
>> No. 448668 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 2:38 pm
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>>448667
No... does she ever take it on the chin?
>> No. 448669 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 5:18 pm
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>>448666
I appreciate what you did there.
>> No. 448670 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 5:20 pm
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>>448666
You're... making your girlfriend stretch her jawline even further to try and make her already massive chin even bigger?
>> No. 448671 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 5:39 pm
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>>448670
You've got the what but not the why.
>> No. 448672 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 6:37 pm
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Another year on .gs passes by.

Did we do anything memorable?
>> No. 448674 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>448672
Early in the year someone commended me for suprising .PNG cutting skill, but I didn't do anything with it .. nothing else comes to mind.
>> No. 448675 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 7:20 pm
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>>448672
Wasted the summer, didn't talk to my dad until the 27th of December and my lung went to shit. Not exactly a winner.
>> No. 448677 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>448672
Alcohol seems to have cured my depression, but it has had an impact on all my relationships. Needs a bit of tweaking I think. Is micro dosing possible?
>> No. 448678 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 7:29 pm
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>>448672
I got banned from 4chan in probably February or March and started coming here. Since then, a lot of other posters have been noticing that everything here has got a lot worse.
>> No. 448679 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:01 pm
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>>448678
I KNEW IT
>> No. 448680 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:29 pm
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>>448678
It's been a downhill spiral since Moaty died tbh.
>> No. 448681 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:36 pm
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>>448680
We've been chasing that high ever since.
>> No. 448682 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:42 pm
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How the fuck do you get banned from 4chan? It's like getting kicked off death row.
>> No. 448683 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:43 pm
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>>448681

I think that describes my life pretty aptly.

I don't think I've ever felt as much part of a community as I did back when we had that thread taking the piss out of the London Olympics opening ceremony.
>> No. 448684 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 8:55 pm
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If a Star Trek transporter can both bring someone to it and send someone from it, why can't it just move people from any one place to another?

I can see the transporter room being useful as a holding area when bringing people you're not sure about on board but they don't use it like that. They'll even port in people wounded so badly they shouldn't be moved in to it, then move them manually to sick bay.
>> No. 448685 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:03 pm
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>>448684
I must admit, I love DS9 and TNG but I've had the same thought myself. It's not especially important, but it's a valid point.

Fucking hell, this is my NYE, is it?
>> No. 448686 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:09 pm
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>>448685

I'm enjoying Discovery, in the bits that don't involve Klingons.
>> No. 448687 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>448682
I got banned for a week from 4chan for posting about how I'd tongue fuck ObscurusLupa's farting arsehole. As I was in a shared house with other 4chan users, they saw my post when they got the message alerting them to the ban. Didn't do good for my house cred.
>> No. 448688 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>448687

As other 4chan users, I'm not exactly sure they'd be in much of a position to give you any stick.

That said I can't imagine living with other 4chan... Oh wait I do, my missus was a /cgl/ girl once upon a time and used to draw hentai for a living. All of which explains why she's a complete damage case, but I digress
>> No. 448689 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:47 pm
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Apparently Betty White is dead, lots of basic white girls I know appear to be upset by this.

Gutted for anyone who had her on next year's bingo.
>> No. 448690 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:52 pm
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>>448689
What's a basic white girl?
>> No. 448691 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 9:54 pm
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>>448690

A white girl who follows and encapsulates modern popular western culture.
>> No. 448692 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:04 pm
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>>448691
Is that a bad thing?
>> No. 448693 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:07 pm
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>>448692

It's... Tedious. In the case of someone like Betty White I can't see how you'd be overly attached to her as a non-American so it's a bit perplexing; but then we do all live in America nowadays and this sort of thing always just gives me a very "urgh" kind of reminder of that.
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31st December 2021
Friday 10:15 pm
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>>448692

It's just a bit bland and boring. Like dead twigs in vases, eggshell paint or vanilla lattes. Not inherently bad, just not that fun either.
>> No. 448695 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:15 pm
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>>448693
So you're annoyed at a group of "white girls" because they're more familiar with an American celebrity than you are?
>> No. 448696 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:17 pm
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Betty White snuffed it. Pretty sure that's the first of the Seven Trumpets spoken of in Revelations.

I am sad. She was my favourite.
>> No. 448697 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>448695

Give it a rest lad, this is one topic that it's just not worth being a contrarian over. You know at least a couple of pumpkin spice latte ugg boot Beckies, and you find them just as eye-rolling as us. Bloody hell.

Stop pretending everything is fine and nothing ever annoys you, you big bloody bellend.
>> No. 448698 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:40 pm
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>>448695

The "basic white girl" is a concept that is not unique to this conversation, it has been in common use for a number of years. It's not our job to defend it or educate you on it, if you wish to debate the concept please first do some research. ya basic
>> No. 448699 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 10:50 pm
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>>448697
I'm not being contrarian, it's just that a sign of autism is not really understanding that other people experience things differently to you. If your response to someone being upset over the death of Betty White is "they must be a basic white girl because I am unaffected by her passing" then that's a surefire sign of autism.

>>448698
I'm not defending them. Pointing out otherlad needs testing for autism doesn't mean I'm defending "basic white girls" unless we're heading into /pol/ logic of "if you don't agree with x that must mean you support y."
>> No. 448700 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 11:00 pm
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If you're feeling bad then consider that I have to work tonight. Not because I work in a bar or something but because my boss is an absolute bell-end who gave me a fuck-ton of work to-do over Christmas like I was going to just work normally at this time of year.

>>448687
So are you all just waiting around for one of you to wear socks that are a little too high and then it's go time?

>>448697
Not him but I eye-roll exclusively over pretentious 'alternative' girls. It reminds me of when I first met a cheerleader and contrary to the stereotype she was sound, even a little fucked up.

The whole basic bitch thing is an in-joke. What you're really complaining about is the insincerity of it, like when David Bowie or Michael Jackson died. Or those people who got apoplectic when that youtuber fucked about in a Japanese suicide forest when they certainly didn't care about the salarymen when they were alive. Pumpkin spice is a great seasonal flavour and Britney has put out some legit bangers.
>> No. 448703 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:00 am
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Last post of the year, lads.
>> No. 448704 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:02 am
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First post of the year, lads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJXm7Tquk0
>> No. 448705 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:16 am
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>>448704
You had one job each, lads.
>> No. 448706 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:19 am
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I feel like I accomplished nothing in 2021. And the fact that I am on .gs at 12:17 am on New Year's Day is both testament to it and a depressing indication that things won't get better anytime soon.
>> No. 448707 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:19 am
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Merry Christmas Steve
>> No. 448708 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:23 am
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>>448706
Pretty much the same.
Though tbf I've been here forever. It's a place I visit every day, so it feels right to be here on the verge of a new year.

Happy 2022 you wonderful bastards. May it be wonderful or at the very least not awful.
>> No. 448709 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 12:33 am
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>>448708

It'd be an overstatement to say .gs has been my lifeline for years, but it's always a place to come to. Where else do you get this kind of banter, as well as sometimes genuinely interesting things people tell you, and passionate (or just lazy passive aggressive) cunt offs that are fought to the death ban.
>> No. 448710 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 1:25 am
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Well happy new year lads. I slept through all the fireworks and bullshit, which I want to say I'm annoyed about, but it's actually worked out quite well considering.

Trouble is I just can't get drunk nowadays. I would love to get drunk, it's nice feeling that nice tipsy sensation where your worries and anxieties melt away. But I can't get there anymore. I just go straight from sober to sleepy.

Does age ruin everything you love?
>> No. 448711 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 2:26 am
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>>448710

Some antidepressants can help you out with that.

>Does age ruin everything you love?

Pretty much.
>> No. 448712 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 3:08 pm
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>>448682
I've had a lot of short bans for off-topic posting; they will occasionally and arbitrarily boot you off if your conversation deviates too far from the purpose of the board. But on this occasion, a real life friend of mine had received some unfriendly abuse from a wanker stranger and was asking around on Facebook if anyone knew him. I was blogposting on 4chan and mentioned how hard it is to find someone with a really common name (I forget this guy's name, but it was something like Steve Jones or James Smith, a truly untraceable name) and I got a full 30-day ban for doxxing. I was furious. It turned out I was unwilling to spend a full month without the magic of online imageboards, so here I am.
>> No. 448713 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 3:17 pm
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>>448706
I keep telling myself that once I can fix the big problems, I will then be able to learn new hobbies and other things that I'm postponing. So I spent 2021 seeing if I could buy a house. I could not. Therefore, I still don't have a record player, because I have nowhere to put it. Therefore, I don't have an extensive collection of obscure vinyl records to listen to. I don't have a piano that I'm learning to play. I don't have a home gym, and I do not have a garden to grow vegetables in. I don't spend lots of money on holidays to far-off places, because what if I need that money when a house becomes available to buy? I have been in this position for several years now. It feels like the right way to be living, but it isn't really living. My whole existence is just perpetual limbo.

But on a brighter note, isn't the weather lovely today? I've got all my windows open to blow away the Chinese viruses and 5G microchips, and it could be April rather than New Year's Day. It would be nice if I had someone to spend it with, but then she'd probably have complained about me staying out till 4am at a mate's house and refusing to get out of bed till 12:30 today.
>> No. 448714 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 3:22 pm
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>>448712
I got banned from a board I regularly used there because I went on a spree of copying people's replies and posting them as responses to the wrong posts, in the wrong threads, sometimes making the >> numbers point to other, different posts. I only kept it up for about 45 minutes but it made the whole board totally unusable, took them 12 hours for it to get back to normal and longer for the mods to figure it out and ban me.
This was before they brought in the in-thread poster-ID thing so a while back now.
>> No. 448715 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>448713

I'm in a similar position to yourself, and the solution I've come to is a simple compromise. I've got a set amount of money transferring into the ISA every month that I'll eventually use for a house, but anything left over is fair game to spend. Anything left over that gets chucked in the savings.

In pragmatic real life terms, I have to accept that in today's market I might well not be in that position for at least another two or three years. And by then the market will be even worse, and the cycle repeats. So in the end it does me no good to live a life of meagre modesty, on the expectation that one day I'll be able to achieve what I want and after that I can have the nice things- Because for all I know that's just going to keep moving further and further out of reach.

So what I've been doing is letting myself have the nice things and giving myself a stern talking to if I ever find myself beating myself up about it. I've earned that money, fair and square, and if I want a pair of speakers or a new guitar that's way more expensive than I ever realistically need it to be? I'm allowed. I'm a grown up and I've earned it. Growing up relatively poor and never being able to have anything expensive makes it more difficult, but if anything I think that makes me more deserving. I certainly appreciate what I have more than the spoilt bint from work who has a rich mummy and daddy to give her things like a new car and a house deposit for free.

As long as the amount of money in my account is going up, I'd say I'm doing alright.

I'm looking forward to seeing pandemic-response induced hyperinflation wipe it all out though. I'm doing alright but I'm not rich enough to risk put it in stocks and such, so I think that'll be the moment I go full Joker and petrol bomb a branch of HSBC or something.
>> No. 448716 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:29 pm
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>>448713>>448715

I know it varies depending on the place, but have you lads ever properly crunched the numbers on how long you'd have to live a particular way in order to afford a house? Especially taking into account house prices rising and so on?

I'd be interested to know because I've honestly just never done it, myself. My philosophy of life has been geared more or less 100% toward maximising my income, then spending enough on things to keep me sane and happy. Luckily I don't have many expensive hobbies.
>> No. 448717 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:44 pm
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>>448716
I could buy a house today if one was available. Banks will lend you up to 4.5x your annual income, which for me is ~£28,000, meaning I can borrow just under £130,000. Houses near my work start at £165,000 now, having been £130,000-£150,000 for the cheapest ones a couple of years ago, and there are very few houses for £165,000, There are a couple for £170,000, but most cost £180,000, with many now extortionately overpriced at £210,000. But I have a little over 40 grand saved up, because I've been doing this for years, which means I can buy a £170,000 house. But so can lots of other people, and there aren't that many available, so my ability to pay means nothing unless I get lucky, which so far I have not.

I usually save up maybe £600-£700 a month, up to £1000 in months with no bills at all, and I've been doing this for nearly five years, so if you would like to buy a house, that's what you're going to have to do. Plus a bit more because obviously I don't actually have a house yet.
>> No. 448718 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:45 pm
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Is this the sort of thing the so called "basic white girls" post?
>> No. 448719 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:47 pm
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>>448716

I think that would be too depressing honestly. I'm up north so that's a double edged sword- Property is supposedly more affordable, but the opportunities to earn more are fewer and further between. I'm only making roughly the average income (~25k I think) but I'm doing well because I cohabit and thus have very low expenses.

My strategy is just to focus on maximising the Help to Buy ISA so I get the most possible extra from it, which will take another two years-ish (plus whatever is leftover in the savings account, which right now is about the same value as the ISA itself). If that's still not enough to buy by the time I get there, it's burning things down time.
>> No. 448720 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:57 pm
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>>448718

I think the take-away from this is just that all sorts of annoying people have been posting too much guff about a dead celebrity.
>> No. 448721 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:59 pm
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Are Sainsbury's in decline? They seem to be getting progressively worse whenever I shop there; stores looking shabby, not even staff working and poor customer service.

>>448716
I've posted about this before, but it's noticeable amongst people I'm still in touch with from school that the only ones who don't own a house yet either moved to London or bought into the mindset that property ownership was a pipe dream so there was no point in trying; for everyone in the latter category they'd have been able to buy a house buy now if they'd saved some of their money rather than pissing it away. Bear in mind that this is Northern England and we left school in 2004.

That said, the house I bought in Beeston has risen in value by about 40% in six years, based on what similar properties on my street went for last year.
>> No. 448722 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:04 pm
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>>448721
Think they went through a massive cost cutting thing, eliminating a lot of the in-store middle management roles. The one in my town has completely removed the meat/fish/deli counters. The big supermarkets are struggling to compete with Lidl and Aldi, so they're having to make a lot of changes to survive.
>> No. 448723 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:07 pm
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>>448722
>The one in my town has completely removed the meat/fish/deli counters
I thought that was a covid thing? Mine removed theirs right when people started taking measures back in... whatever year this started.
>> No. 448724 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:16 pm
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>>448723
A lot of Sainsbury's have been remodelled in the last couple of years to give more floor space to the likes of their clothing range and cut back on things like the deli counter. They've removed all salad bars that I'm aware of.


Morrisons and Asda haven't made similar cuts.
>> No. 448725 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:21 pm
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>>448723
Covid coming along was probably good for them. Shut down the counters due to the pandemic, then never reopen them. Better optics than getting rid of them because profits are taking a hit. When I worked at Tesco five or so years ago, they were already drawing up the plans to axe the fresh counters so their intentions were set out long before COVID.
>> No. 448726 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:39 pm
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>>448725

The bakery is the only reason I go to Tesco nowadays. Better not shut that down. Their chocolate croissants are the best bar none.
>> No. 448727 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 6:41 pm
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>>448721
I think Sainsburys are in decline; we oscillate between Tesco and Sainsbury because we have two large ones nearby, but their stores look a lot more tatty now - parts of mine feel a bit like a Woolworth now. They've clearly added a lot more product lines, but I don't think it works.
>> No. 448728 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 7:20 pm
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>>448726
It's been almost 15 years since I worked for Tesco, but back then there used to be one big Tesco with a proper bakery that would supply their other supermarkets in the area with part-baked items which they'd freeze and reheat as and when needed. The store I worked at was doing the baking for Tesco supermarkets over 30 miles away and I do remember hearing about complaints from customers in some of the other stores that they weren't thawing bread out properly so it was still frozen in the middle.
>> No. 448729 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 8:53 pm
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>>448726
I have a friend who worked at the Tesco bakery, and management wanted to scale back the department, meaning significantly fewer items stocked, and the stuff that would be stocked would solely be defrosted stuff. This way the bakery team duties would go from semi-skilled to unskilled, resulting in lower pay. I think a lot of them fucked off before that change could happen.
>> No. 448757 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:05 pm
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I can't work out how many evangelist christian korean youtubers are in this episode of Only Connect.
>> No. 448758 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:18 pm
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>>448757
Pretty sure it's just the obvious one. My boss's girlfriend looked the team up on Facebook, and there are pictures of the obviously-not-a-woman-for-long contestant as a man from a few years ago.

None of the zoomer girls will be that way, because they are beautiful and my waifus.
>> No. 448759 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:23 pm
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>>448758
The captain of the other team could have given her hair a wash before going on TV at least. The one with glasses has definite man hands and man ears.
>> No. 448760 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:31 pm
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>>448759
Unkempt women are my soulmates, because I'm unkempt too. I'm in love. They also did fucking awfully in that episode, and so did I. We're made for each other. They just don't know it yet.
>> No. 448761 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:35 pm
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>>448760
Which one?
>> No. 448762 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:49 pm
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>>448761
Emily Wolfenden is the captain, and my goddess. The other two are also fairly charming.
>> No. 448763 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:56 pm
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>>448761
The evangelist christian korean youtuber one who started this is on the other team; her name is Frances something and her team is the Golfers. She's unkempt too, but my heart still desires the other team more.
>> No. 448764 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 8:58 pm
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Anyone watch the NYE celebration display? Maybe I'm just a miserable sod, but it was pretty shit. That one from Japan was incredible, but this is just a mess.


>> No. 448765 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>448764
I watch them every year, and this is probably the first one I've missed in nearly 20 years, because I went out for the first New Year's Eve ever. So your video is the first I've seen of them; thank you for posting that.

Anyway, the talking bits were horrible and the Globe Theatre felt unnecessary. I also prefer old-skool fireworks to drones with lights on. It's probably the worst one I can remember, but the big classic firework explosion around 11:25 in your video was really excellent. But in the world we live in now, everything feels political, and the New Year's Eve fireworks really shouldn't, but they did anyway. I can see why you didn't like them.
>> No. 448766 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 1:45 am
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>>448765
I was in Krakow being an ignorant tourist at the time, but watching this feels grim. We're so up ourselves, it's like we're turning into America. Why do we need a man walking down the bridge talking about the challenges of the year? Are we a bunch of massive fannies? And I'm not sure why we're waiting for the women to go one better than the Men's Euro performance when we've got the world cup coming up.
>> No. 448767 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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I've just spent the best part of seven hours or so watching the YouTuber/game industry burnout "Action Button" talk about Cyberpunk 2077.

Despite the sheer length, he had very little of note to say about Cyberpunk 2077, but an awful lot to say about himself, and what sounds like a really very depressing life. I'm not sure how much of it was just shtick, an elaborate act as part of the "the character"; and how much of it was an authentic glimpse at a middle aged man being given a dose of uncomfortable self reflection, and slowly coming to terms with the fact he's a bit of a sad, neurotic, arsehole. I suspect it was more of the latter than he'd like us to believe, but it was fascinating somehow.

It actually made me feel better about myself- I might not be the biggest success, I might have the most friends, but fuck. At least I'm not this poor bastard, having a mid-life crisis and broadcasting it to the world for patreon money. Internet, eh.
>> No. 448768 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 2:33 pm
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>>448766
The man was there because they had to hide the fireworks somewhere else so people wouldn't go and coof on each other while watching them.

What languages do they say "Welcome" in at 3:15? I guess it's nice to step outside of the usual Wilkommen/Bienvenue/Benvenido/Welkom/Bienvenuto languages, but I didn't recognise a single one and I think that's very suspicious. It's like they actively avoided European languages because Brexit means Brexit and we're GLOBAL BRITAIN now. They didn't even say "Hirasshai", which is Japanese, but one of them definitely sounded Chinese.
>> No. 448769 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 2:54 pm
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Had the my first shower of the year. Feeling clean as a whistle.
>> No. 448774 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 3:56 pm
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>>448768
>What languages do they say "Welcome" in at 3:15?
Urdu, Slovak, Somali, Hindi, Cantonese.

Last one might be Vietnamese, but commenters call it out as Cantonese so I'm going with that.
>> No. 448775 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 9:00 pm
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>>448774
Cool; thank you very much. But it does feel like a political statement to have had three non-EU immigrant languages, Chinese, and a token EU language I'd never have thought of buried in the middle.
>> No. 448776 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 9:28 pm
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>>448769
Aye's nice, right? I'd been sleeping in a bare duvet and pillow for about 2 weeks - stained yellow, obviously. Had a deep scrub last night and managed to wash & dry some sheets.. it's the best sleep I've had in a while. So soft and odor free, plus i'm not constantly itching.
>> No. 448777 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 9:37 pm
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>>448764
Yeah it was shit. I recognised the bloke at first glance because I've seen him on stage, he played Burr in Hamilton (unfortunately with an annoying lisp so you couldn't understand a word). I could just about tolerate his little performance because I knew the fireworks were coming up. But it seems the boring drone displays are now a permanent fixture, and when it kept cutting away to a fucking choir, I was about ready to throw something at the screen.
>> No. 448778 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>448777
Bill Burr is in Hamilton? That doesn't sound right.
>> No. 448779 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 10:22 pm
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>>448776
You'll want to replace your pillow fillers. That can be all many of fibres or "downs" (bird feathers) but spending on the innards once they turn dark tea... do it. The covers cover a multidude of sins, no matter if you pick a Tesco 2-pack or 200 Egyptian TC in MS. Or Go better ;).

Pick a comfy pillow for you, I prefer two. The covers you can vary wildy. I dislike the Brish unbuttoned style (I sow one my own, but you don't want to) but if you get the unbuttoned ones treat them like a daily towel, change as appropriate. But I toss and turn, so making them buttoned to not expore the core is worth it.
>> No. 448780 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 10:30 pm
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>>448779

My pillows are probably fifteen years old, mate.
>> No. 448781 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 11:15 pm
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>>448777
The choir felt like an advert. "Look at what London has! A choir in a replica of a theatre where Shakespeare's plays were shown, but where he isn't actually from!"

I think constantly second-guessing everyone's motives in government and the media has given my entire life a weird uncanny-valley feeling. Everything I see all around me always feels insincere, like it's not genuine but just someone doing an impression of what they think I want to see. That choir wasn't there by chance. I didn't just bump into them. Someone put them there; why? And more importantly, why didn't they just not bother and have fireworks instead?
>> No. 448782 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 11:28 pm
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>>448780
He's suggesting you change them, not fuck them.
>> No. 448783 Anonymous
4th January 2022
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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>>448779
I had a long conversation with my partner about the merits of Egyptian cotton and thread counts; I'm glad I'm not the only one.
>> No. 448784 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 8:28 am
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They're talking about the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War on the BBC and the woman from the islands they're speaking to is called "Phyl" and lives on "Bleaker Island". Given this I no longer believe the Falklands Islands to be a real place.
>> No. 448790 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 9:31 am
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>>448784

It's not, Los Malvinas are.
>> No. 448793 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 10:24 am
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>>448790
Don't fucking start that.
>> No. 448795 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 11:01 am
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I know I post about this most years, but it's my girlfriend's birthday tomorrow and I'm already dreading it because she has a habit of turning into a monster for the day. We're already off to a good start before it's even started because the card from her estranged father arrived today and he's addressed her by his surname, despite the fact she changed her name to her mother's surname over 20 years ago and he's never done this before.
>> No. 448797 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 11:33 am
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>>448784

Between 2009 and 2020, a group of Zimbabweans were resident on the Falklands to remove the land mines left over from the war. Everything about those islands is hallucinogenically weird.
>> No. 448800 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 2:07 pm
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>>448784
> Given this I no longer believe the Falklands Islands to be a real place.
Take your Falklands-denier bullshit to /boo !
>> No. 448801 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 5:30 pm
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Clem Fandango fucked a Klingon.
>> No. 448817 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 4:23 pm
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Light outside looks positively apocalyptic. One of you lads not been doing your sacrifices?
>> No. 448822 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 5:49 pm
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>>448817
THUNDERSNOW

ITZ COMING
>> No. 448823 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 7:06 pm
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>>448822
Jesus fuck it's freezing cold now.
>> No. 448824 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 7:41 pm
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>>448823
It's winter. It's supposed to be like this.
>> No. 448825 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 11:48 pm
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>>448824>>448822
I wish we still got proper deep snow that lasted more than a day.
>> No. 448826 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:04 am
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>>448825
Was the last lot we had, beginning 2010?

It's warmed up a lot here tonight. Was expecting a lot more snow/cold given the forecast. I think the Met Office have just given up trying to be accurate and are takingf the SAGE approach of always publishing the worst case scenario.
>> No. 448827 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:27 am
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>>448826
I think so, hung around at least a week.
>> No. 448828 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:37 am
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>>448586
Looks like this is the post that kicked off the Rose Matafeo debate. I barely knew anything about her before, but now I've watched her stand-up comedy show, Horndog, on BBC iPlayer so I'm an expert.

Pros:
-She has nice hair
-She is extremely hilarious in places
-She has a good level of awareness that places her a cut above the average "woke statement" comedian

Cons:
-She's from New Zealand. I thought she was American. She sounds like all the Australians in that Simpsons episode where Bart phones Australia. It's awful
-She is undeniably more interested in social-media wokeness than at least a couple of us here, which doesn't bode well for you two if this place only has three posters and I'm the third one
-She loves to mention her age, which is appalling and offensive to anyone older than her
-She sets off all manner of alarms for severe mentalness, although only slightly more mental than the unstable freaks who post here

>>448588
I saw a female comedian at university close to 15 years ago, and loved her so much that I tracked her down on Facebook and told her what a genius she was. Her name was Nat Luurtsema; I think she went into the fringes of Radio 4 comedy but never any further. She did reply, which was nice. In terms of other celebrities I have reached out to on Facebook, the BBC's special disinformation correspondent, Marianna Spring, who reports on fake news, never got back to me about a thing I saw online where it was really easy to vote on behalf of other people in the 2020 US election, and also, a foreign pop star from the '90s never thanked me for telling her that her website's domain had expired.
>> No. 448829 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:48 am
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>>448828
It always throws me off that there's no official adjective-form denonym for people from New Zealand. Whenever I look someone from there up, it just says "so-and-so is a New Zealand actor", which reads so awkwardly. Can't we just adopt kiwi in an official capacity?
>> No. 448830 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 1:01 am
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>>448829
I always hate places where the adjective is also the noun. "Jose Mourinho is a Portuguese." A Portuguese what?
>> No. 448831 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 1:31 am
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This thread is getting large and we should retire it in four days time. The challenge is going to be finding an image as good as the OP.
>> No. 448832 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 1:39 am
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>>448831
I've had this saved on my desktop for months, but I can't promise I haven't tried to shoehorn it in somewhere else.
>> No. 448833 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 2:41 am
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Leave it to me lads. I know exactly what the new edition will be.

(You might have to remind me come Monday.)
>> No. 448834 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 9:27 am
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Can I make it with an anime girl with huge tits?
>> No. 448835 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 9:52 am
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>>448834
Based on historic Britfa trends, my algorithm predicts that it will be one of the following:-

- A picture from Scrapheap Challenge.
- A plate of bangers and mash.
- A seasonal picture, like snowdrops or leafless trees.
- A hedgehog, vole or badger.
>> No. 448837 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:43 pm
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>>448832
Looking at this now, the portrait mode, caption, and general image proportions mean it would make a terrible OP image. I have therefore cropped it, to make it more palletable.
>> No. 448839 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 1:00 pm
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>>448837
I'm torn between it being about a predator about to pounce on its prey; or in fact its a longing affection, with the truck behind following sweetly.
>> No. 448843 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 3:30 pm
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>>448834
Please do.
>> No. 448844 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 3:40 pm
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I was thinking something like a dead fox at the edge of damp verge, on a drizzly January morning.
>> No. 448845 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 4:02 pm
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What if we made several threads a year and used a new image each time?
>> No. 448846 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 4:34 pm
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>>448845
That's what we're supposed to do, but you're a bunch of lazy fuckers.
>> No. 448848 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 4:39 pm
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>>448846

Don't look at me, I invented the idea of calling threads Mk II, Mk III, etc.

I don't have to bother any more, I can kick back and live on the royalties.
>> No. 448850 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 6:21 pm
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Can't wait for both of us to simultaneously post the new thread on Monday, and the ensuing thread war.
>> No. 448851 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 6:23 pm
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>>448850
I imagine it'll go down as well as the last post of 2021/first post of 2022 did.
>> No. 448854 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 6:52 pm
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Monday isn't really "mid"week, now, is it?

Perhaps we should have a Monday thread, a Tuesday thread, a Wednesday thread, and so on. Ban anyone who posts on the wrong day. Arguments about the true definitions of the social classes, whether or not it's acceptable to fancy Priti Patel, and the Protestant work ethic will all be limited to just a few hours each, and then we can talk about something else the following day.

This is the worst idea I've ever had but I can't be bothered to hold down Backspace to get rid of it, so now I fully endorse it.
>> No. 448857 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 8:36 pm
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Why not just a general thread for whatever day? Nobody explicitly sticks to the timelines.
>> No. 448930 Anonymous
10th January 2022
Monday 12:46 pm
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>>448857
Yeah I don't know why we bother with this weekend/midweek nonsense. A thread for each month would be fine, probably.
>> No. 448940 Anonymous
10th January 2022
Monday 9:44 pm
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How do people find remote working jobs? When I go on job sites I can see the option to filter it by location but not to filter it to fully working from home where it won't matter where your employer is based.
>> No. 448941 Anonymous
10th January 2022
Monday 10:17 pm
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Explain a woman thing to me: I'm a bloke over 30 and I want to settle down and have kids. I make this clear in the bit on my dating profile, 'want children' it says, and I don't message women who mark that they don't want kids.

And yet exactly half the women I meet make clear on the first date that they don't want kids. This sounds like a /101/ about women but I'm just confused. Tonight I went out and had chicken feet and trotters for dinner with a woman and I don't know why. Is she just wasting my time or is some this 4d mind game?

>>448930
Weekend-Midweek allows for parallel discussions as the threads evolve.
>> No. 448942 Anonymous
10th January 2022
Monday 10:50 pm
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>>448941

Can you send some of them my way? Because I want to settle down and live a life of child-free hedonism. And make up for lost time in my earlier years before I hit 40.
>> No. 448944 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 12:34 am
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>>448941
>chicken feet and trotters for dinner
Do you .. eat the whole thing? I'd imagine trotters would be quite difficult, but picking anything off of a chicken foot must be pointless. What kind of restraunt sells that - Chinese? Soul food?

I'll be honest though, the pictured meal does look alright. I'd try it if sweet and spicey. There's definitely some animalistic pleasure in eating gristle - like you're at a kings longtable smashing in a whole chicken leg.
>> No. 448945 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 6:09 am
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>>448944
Chicken feet are typically eaten whole, and they're pretty good. I had them at a bar in Beijing, along with duck feet. Duck feet are booked until the bones gelatinise a bit, then served cold in a sort of vinegar. They're almost entirely tasteless, and are eaten more for the texture and mouthfeel, which is like a load of worms trying to escape a scrotum inside your mouth.
>> No. 448946 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 6:10 am
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>>448945
*boiled, not booked
>> No. 448947 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 7:26 am
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>>448942
I would but then they'd probably turn around and say they want kids just to waste your time as well. It's rather frustrating to have to dump yet another woman and to likely continue my tradition of never having a valentine.

>>448944
This was a Korean place but it's more of a Chinese thing. Can't say I took to them, it's like an extreme form of ribs where there's very little meat to justify the hassle and in the case of feet you're spitting out bones.

If you're curious about the trotters then it's salty rubber.
>> No. 448948 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 11:02 am
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>>448944

Trotters used to be a common British and Irish pub snack. You'd nibble at them like a meaty corn-on-the-cob.
>> No. 448962 Anonymous
12th January 2022
Wednesday 2:56 pm
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Growing season is starting again.

I've got twelve chili pepper seedlings in my heated propagator right now. They are almost literally growing by the hour at the moment.

Chili peppers as well as other nightshades need a long growing period in our climate, so I always start mine right after the winter solstice. Which means that I then get to harvest the first two or three fully ripe cayenne peppers off my plants as early as mid-June.
>> No. 448963 Anonymous
12th January 2022
Wednesday 3:15 pm
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Don't bump this thread any more lads, we have a new one.

/wdg/ - Weekday General

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