>>30840
addendum: but, gym cycling and x-training is so painfully boring, and as I live in a hotspot I don't really fancy going into a room full of people electing bodily juices in both liquid and aerosol form everywhere. I do have a bike, which I use, but winter is coming.

>>30840
>being fat doesn't help that situation, and I know it's 80% diet

You can't exercise away a bad diet.

>>30842
That's, uh, literally what I said m8.

>>30840

I'm not sure what the situation is regarding COVID, but swimming is an excellent option if you've got dodgy joints.

>>30844
At my local gym the pool is under a strict booking system, and I'd still not be comfortable really. I do (or at least did) swim from time to time, once every couple of weeks, but the lack of entertainment makes the seconds feel like hours.

Still, nothing beats getting into the pool after a sauna.

>>30601

And you can keep your bra and your paranoia; they've always been called pants in my region.

Also: don't go anywhere near the west country in earshot of a child addressing their mother, lest ye have yerself an aneurysm.

>i could careless
They're taking it to the next level.

>>30650

Americans often take the subtleties of the British language for granite.

The worst one is when they say "intergal".

Coronovirus.

I'm a new driver, and in the short time I've been driving I have noticed a particular class of other drivers who confuse me deeply, because they go 40mph in a 30 zone, but maintain that same 40mph once we're on a 60 road.

I can understand going slowly on a 60 road if you're scared of hitting something, but then why are they speeding in school zones? It's as though they think cars can only go one speed. I just can't make any sense of it, and it's not like I can pull them over and ask what the hell they're playing at.

THERE'S LOADS OF SURFACE WATER ON THE MOTORWAY? AS SOON AS I'VE OVERTAKEN I'LL PULL RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU SO ALL YOU CAN SEE IS SPRAY!

>>30561 I had it suggested to me that they're simply oblivious to speed limits, and are driving as fast as they're comfortable with at all times. Vision and reaction times affect even the most devil-may-care eventually.

Is it just me or do a lot of ordinary people struggle to drive in rain? I've always thought of it as just rain, the most harmless of driving conditions, beyond putting your lights on and braking a bit sooner. But people honestly seem to lose their minds when it's anything more than a drizzle.

The absolute shower of retards I had to endure on my way home from work today was something to behold. I had to swerve into another lane on the motorway because some dozy cow decided to full on pull out of the hard shoulder right in front of me. I had a bloke coming down one of the A roads fully veer over onto the other side and force me to slam on and blare my horn. I had some tosser parked up facing the wrong way on the one way road leading to my street, blocking the whole thing off.

I am beginning to suspect it''s some sort of omen that I shouldn't go out in the car for a few days, like Final Destination or something.

>>30732
If you think it's bad in this country, see dashcam videos from Australia.

>>30588

Don't you dare compare rats to vermin like estate agents lad. That's just below the belt.

>>30590

I apologise to you and to the rest of the rat community.

The one I'm dealing with right now literally does not read my emails.

"Hi, I've sent the deposit, please confirm you have this. I also have filled in the form you wanted, please find it attached as well as the utility bill you requested."

>"Hi,

>Please send the deposit to this bank account <>. Please also >complete the form and return it along with a utility bill."

"Hi, I have already sent the deposit, utility bill and forms, please confirm you received them"

>"Hi,

>I've received the deposit. Please send the first month's rent."

"Hi, I have now sent the first month's rent. Please confirm."

Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is it legal for my letting agent to release my phone number and email address to third party maintenance companies?

>>30721
Depends - a specific third-party maintenance company who is involved in the maintenance of the building you're in - yes it is. Under GDPR this would qualify as "performance of a contract".

To a bunch of non-specific third-parties who then sell/market to you, no it is not.

>>30644
>>30643
Prices are given in dollars - seems to be a blatant copy-paste from an American source to me.

>>30645
Also "clerk" rather than "cashier", "authorization", etc.

>>30645
That's probably why he prefaced it with "A quick google..."

>>30644
>Christ, I'm actually old enough to have used one of those machines.

I had to use one in a Little Chef about six or seven years ago.

>>30647
Yes, but the otherlad(s) were complaining about the Americanisms.

I actually think they can be pretty handy to convey the tone in which I want some lass to read my awkward messages.

>>30435

Yeah, they're essential for talking to birds so they know when you're joking, or else they will genuinely just assume you're some kind of serial killer. The British sense of humour doesn't translate well to text unless the person reading it is quite sharp.

>>30432
> If only they knew emoji originated in Japan...
What difference would that make? Many of them see Japan as an example of a model society.

>>30430
Genuinely upsetting.

MSN Messenger winks were really just as egregious. To remember using these after school with mates.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGJUKaaLU4

been sweating my ass off all week welding in this heat. but 3 hours before i leave the fucking weekend rain starts again FML.

My nemesis hath returned once more and with him always seems to follow the sweary season on britfa.gs

Let us remember to repeat this mantra "is this person actually an insufferable cunt or is it simply too fucking hot"?

I want it to be winter again

>>30078
Give it a couple of months.

>>30078
Days start getting shorter in less then 4 weeks. ITZ COMING.

>>29457

My ex still calls emergency vehicles "nee naws" as in, oh, pull over, here come the nee naws.

It was sort of funny but mostly very odd.

>>29458

I was just thinking their cultural literacy must be as impressive as whoever thought [word redacted because I just got banned for an hour for posting it] was a good name for Woolworths kids beds. It's not like when you used to see accidentally goatse-looking logos and think oh well, the designer's just oblivious to memes. That was a bit enviable.

>>29460

Maybe someone at Cummings just thought it was finally time to address the company name with a little nod.

>>29456

>>27716
I used to read a trade mag called Computing. They had a long-running gag about "black women with routers". And it was true, almost without fail every advert for a router used to have a very happy-looking black woman holding it.

It's called a quarterly.

No, it's definitely monthly.

It's four weekly.

https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/store/back-issues/practical-fishkeeping

It's mainly for the benefit of WH Smith. Nobody likes buying old magazines, so releasing the "November" issue in September extends the shelf life. Also, international subscribers feel like they're getting the latest issue even if it takes six weeks to arrive by surface mail.

The cover date is for the newsagent, not you. It's the date when they're supposed to withdraw the issue from sale. Typically a monthly magazine will publish either 12 or 13 issues per year (the latter usually includes a Christmas issue). In this case, the November issue goes on sale from 25/09, and will be removed from the shelves around 01/11, by which time the December issue should have turned up.

Tip the police off that the house is being used to sell drugs. Scum like that always have drugs anyway so the rozzers are bound to find something nickable.

Bear in mind that snitches get stitches and now you've screamed at them they'll probably blame you for anything like that. I know it's obvious advice but keep your head down, save what you can and fight tooth and nail for a better job that lets you move far, far away.

Is this the first time you've actually had to encounter the great unwashed? Your options are either to join in with them or do what everyone else in the country does by getting as far away from them as possible. You will not change their behaviour.

I find I'm okay with it if I just think of it as an ongoing drama that I catch snippets of.

Just plug stuff in, lol.

I've seen far, far more "moral imperative etc." about I, Daniel Blake than anything Hollywood has ever made.

>>28817

The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 as an example is that it's pretty difficult to argue that the political agenda didn't get in the way of it being a good film. That film was fucking shit, and it wasn't shit because it had women instead of men. It was fucking shit because they were clearly more bothered about subverting expectations and forecasting shipping than they were about writing a good script or hiring actresses who could actually carry a joke.

At best it made no impact at all and everyone has just forgotten about it, but at worst it's had a negative impact for the people it was trying to help.

If I wanted to watch Ghostbusters but not Ghostbusters then I'd watch Evolution. It's a very underrated film.

>>28784
>I'm posting this pre-emptively to moan about all the moaning. It's coming, you can tell.
And come it did. Well done, OP.

>>28820
I wasn't addressing why it was shit, but I still think you're wrong in your reasoning on that matter. I can't be arsed going through it though, you'll just have to imagine me being all smart and long-winded.

Too hot to talk about Ghostbusters 2016. Too bloody hot.

I need to stop doing deep-dives into bigoted teen eskimo Tweeter. Shit's too retarded.

>>28565

I'm learning to be obsequious in Mandarin. It probably won't save me from the forced labour camps, but it might earn me an extra bowl of rice while I'm there.

>他做到了！ 杀死叛徒！

>>28567
You turncoat bastard, I'll have your hide before I take their rice!

>>28567
我的气垫船装满了鳗鱼

The cyclist today who saw an older lady crossing the road at a t-junction and approached it at near full speed, purposefully moving so his path was aligned with hers so he could go 'Watch it!' before cycling straight out of the junction and nearly being sidelined by a taxi with right of way.

I am a huge, huge fan of getting more people to cycle but some London cyclists can be a little bellicose at times and misunderstand their commute to work for the first stage of the Tour De France.

I feel like that ought to have some consequences like forgetting to close a bold tag, but I can't think how. Everything is now a quotation forever.