>>27896

>>27895
Fuck off.

>>27896
Please highlight to me where I said that. While of course a great deal of art is created with the aim of making money, these are explicitly for the purpose of making you spend money elsewhere, without any real motivation behind the 'message'.

>>27898
It has as much 'motivation behind the message' as anything else. The main purpose is to make you spend money, and it can do other things as well. People who are looking forward to the John Lewis ad are excited about the story or the aesthetics, and what's wrong with that exactly just because it's also selling stuff at the same time? It can be good at both.

>>27893

There's really not a better word for them. And if you think failing to capitalise a brand name constitutes poor grammar, you're just as much a cog in the machine.

Virgin are using their 36-month headline price for comparison even though other providers don't offer 36-month contracts and no smartphone these days is going to last anywhere near that long anyway.

>>27852
I'm not advocating its use, simply showing why I think these people are using it. I don't find it offensive, and maybe I find it a little charming in a way.

BOMBFIRE NIGHT.

"For all intensive purposes."

>>27856
>>5505 >>16496

That is firmly beginner level BoneAppleTea.

>>27857

>>27717
Needs more Lithuanian to look like any modern building site. Black women and old dudes are the last thing you'll find there.

>>27760

Look at how clean their PPE is, they're obviously management.

>>27763
They fact that they even have their PPE on and so clean means they're probably Management. Cunts.

This advert has come with baffling clip-art every time I've seen it.

>>27819

Although it taught me you oughtn't pelt apples at ice-skaters because that's what happened in the top image from the looks of it.

>>27746
>elitism and snobbery

Welcome to britfa.gs m8

>>27749
I'd be inclined to agree with you but this gets more playtime than it deserves and it's even won an award. The lyrics are what especially piss me off, just droning on and on repeating the same phrase. I listen to the radio daily and whilst there's a lot of contemporary music I don't like, I wouldn't say it's the same level as this song.

>>27780

Repetition and simplicity are two major features of successful modern pop music. I'm not saying that means you have to suddenly like the song, but you shouldn't be so surprised it's a popular song.

The production on it is really good, it's about as gritty, sampled, and hip-hop as you can get away with making a chart hit sound, and as the lad was originally a rapper and cut his teeth in the High Focus stable, that shouldn't come as much of a shock. His unique (in mainstream music at least) voice probably caught some people's attention too.

The song gets on my tits now because, as you say, it's ridiculously overplayed. But I think I thought it was pretty catchy the first two or three times I heard it. Now after the 800th time, it can fuck right off.

Sage for not supporting your hatred entirely.

Reminds me of the Gnarls Barkley song. Fine in it's own right, nods to a genre beyond just "pop", subsequently played to death.

Isn't this thread about a year late?

But yeah he's bollocks, it's just one of those pop songs that comes out occasionally that's just fresh enough to properly blow every chart-listening cunt's head off. You know how normal wankers think a trip to Nandos is a bit of an adventurous treat? That's exactly what a fat tattooed bloke is to the pop market.

You can tell it's an intentional marketing construct by the fact his album had adverts on the telly. Telly adverts for an album. Just let your mind roll over that for a moment.

>>27783

>It's just one of those pop songs that comes out occasionally that's just fresh enough to properly blow every chart-listening cunt's head off. You know how normal wankers think a trip to Nandos is a bit of an adventurous treat? That's exactly what a fat tattooed bloke is to the pop market.

Very, very well put.

>>27041

Calling them 'gentlemen terrorists' is unfair to the people they've harmed and killed. For every fuck-off city centre wrecking bomb they phoned in to warn about there were proper awful acts they performed.
It's a concept that needs to die.

And fwiw I think the Loyalist groups were cunts too. The whole Northern Irish situation was such a barrel of shit.

>>27044

ahem

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

>>27046
Great post, particularly enjoyed the bit where you explained your point.

Drivers who dither about whether to pull out in front of you. Either commit to it or not, don't hesitantly half pull out.

>>27045

Loyalist paramilitaries were extra cunts in my opinion (and I'm from a unionist family), nothing more than a collection of violent goons.
While there were very legitimate concerns about the Irish state until the past few decades, the shambles that it was doesn't really compare to oppressive policies enacted in the north after partition. I'd like to think that had people got past their prejudices and allowed Catholics to properly integrate into NI in the first place that a lot of the subsequent mess would've found nothing to spark it, but of course prejudice is too much of a powerful political tool for that to have ever happened.

I'm not really an IRA sympathiser, but they had something to fight for initially.

These days though the constant whinging from Sinn Fein and trendy republican persecution complex memes are mostly a load of wank. But whinging is the primary political driver on all sides of NI politics so it's not going to end any time soon.

>>27468
Because I've been doing youtube embeds this for the past 20 years of my life and I'll be damned if I'm going start doing it the fancy pants way you kids do things now.

Jesus fucking christ

>>27468
The old embeds are better anyway, because they show the video title, which the new ones don’t. Also you can right click and open them in a private window, in case it’s some manner of dreck you don’t want polluting your YT feeds forever more.

such a creepy video

>>27889
Thank you for your contribution.

>>27442

I'm working on that latter bit.

>>27443

You'll find your standards improve drastically once you've got your dick wet.

Just go shag a prozzie or something.

>>27432
That bloke's got massive hands.

>>27445
Or maybe just a small head.

>>27450
Isn't he Steve Bannon?

It's too hot to do anything today. I am sweating from just sitting in a chair.

>>27259

Edinburgh isn't cheap, though I suppose if you can afford London you can afford it up there.

It's a fantastic city, though. I keep thinking about moving there myself.

>>27265

If I could afford London I wouldn't be so keen on escaping it.

I was thinking a village or town about 10 miles from Edinburgh would be ideal. Close enough to the city but far enough away to be affordable.

Fuck, this was on the telegraph today.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/07/28/bbcs-obsession-balance-driving-wall/

Sounded like it was right off .gs

“That’s right. Freezing. That’s the weather out there in the real world. Not that you’d know it, from listening to the smug group-think of the meteorological establishment. The ordinary working people of this country are sick of being told what to think by the Met Office elite. All this scaremongering about a so-called ‘heatwave’ is just a myth spread by Big Pharma in order to sell sun cream. Which, by the way, is a complete scam, because there’s actually no such thing as either sunburn or skin cancer.”

>>27275
"Register for free to continue reading this article
Register"

Can you just copy it all here, lad? I'm not keen on giving up my details to yet another company.

If we had any sense, we'd turn the country into Ye Olde Englande Theme Parke. The emerging Chinese middle class are eager to spunk all their hard-earned renminbi on Burberry coats and Twinings tea and they outnumber us ten to one. Norfolk can be the gift shop until it's consumed by rising sea levels. The East Coast Mainline is obviously beyond repair, so let's just rip it up and turn it into a sightseeing monorail.

We could really do with a spare Prince Philip - the Chinese love a bit of casual racism. Maybe Wills can have a go?

>>26859
>the Chinese love a bit of casual racism. Maybe Wills can have a go?
Just don't mention Taiwan.

>>26859>>26861

Could the whole breaking news shite about walking her down the aisle just an elaborately staged PR game?

It conveniently adds a bit of tragedy and sympathy to the woman and may help to propel her to the rank of 'The People's Princess' in the eyes of Daz and Janine Regular.

>>26862
A great bunch of lads.

I'm subscribed to a blog called "cabin porn". I understand.

Food porn seems more apt considering how disgustingly slobbery some people are about food, using words like "succulent". It still sounds unpleasant though.

Blame Reddit, they have an entire network of dozens of subreddits called the "SFW Porn Network" https://www.reddit.com/r/sfwpornnetwork/wiki/network , along things like 'Nature Porn' or 'Art Porn' there are some utterly bizarre things like 'Tea Porn', 'Police Porn' , 'Megalith Porn' and 'Things Cut In Half Porn'.

>>26795
>'Things Cut In Half Porn'

Back in the old days we just used to call this shit "snuff" and be done with it. Fucking kids.

>>25824
Why?

I keep seeing ADVENTURE BEFORE DEMENTIA stickers when I'm out and about.

>>25828
Well, at least you remember seeing them.

I've had "Call me Al" stuck in my head all day

>>25830
Let's get it out of your head and into everyone else's.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI

>>25492

How no to virus, man? How no to virus?

>>25493

Windows XP. It's so old nobody makes viruses for it anymore.

>>25494
The NHS disagrees.

>>25474
Next time, don't leave it so late and just pirate the damn thing. I only buy applications from companies that aren't twats.

>>25495
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15712542/windows-xp-wannacry-protect-ransomware-blue-screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSsyEEUswo
Just glad our ISP's aren't this shit.

>>25693
I know what you mean - on the plus side, a lot of stuff is rescued and recycled that would have gotten chucked out. I've always been in two minds about it.

Also, it isn't the chabby chic per se, in my view, its the chabby-chic-with-new-pricetag attached that is the problem.

Maybe it's an attempt to harken back to the childhoods that used hand me down bedroom furniture, falling apart and adorned with past generations stickers.

Looks more gyppo chic than shabby chic.

>>25693

It also bothers me when people call these things "funky" on eBay, e.g., calling a bashed up old coffee table a "funky coffee table".

>>25699

It's the same as estate agents saying that crumbling old shitheaps are "full of character". Yeah, that and fucking woodworm mate.