>>27633
>who really know their shit
This was bad and you should feel bad.

I decided to make myself some carbonara, and because I'm an idiot and it was 2am, I dropped the yolks into the pan at the end.

So now it's all curdled, it's like eating a spaghetti omelette. I'm annoyed with myself and a bit ashamed.

>>27636
Aren't you meant to add the eggs into the pan at the end? Obviously whilst it's off the heat so they simply cook through rather than frying.

I've been properly setting up some turntables for someone (calibrating speed, tracking force, anti-skate, balance, etc). I decided to do a little research first into it all, having never really used a turntable past my mum's old Waltham one, and the amount of shite online from vinyl enthusiasts is infuriating. Talking about the "metallic" sound of digital, how vinyl is "warmer", and all this other snake oil shit.

Most albums recorded post-1980 were recorded and/or mastered digitally anyway, so you're just listening to digital sound impressed on an analogue medium, anyway.

On the other hand, people buy into vinyl for the sake of it, buying the cheapest, shittiest turntables (a la Crosley Cruiser), which sound like fucking shit - so what's the point? Just get a decent pair of headphones and download some V0 MP3 and it'll sound ten times better than a ceramic stylus through the cheapest possible speakers.

That, and how fucking expensive it is.

>>27634
>fisherman's breakfast
Name that (hypothetical) wordfilter.

I haven't saved any pictures of this, because I didn't find it that striking, but I've been noticing lately how advertising people often seem to think that mixed race people only marry and produce kids with people the exact same mix/shade as themselves.

For example, there was a video advert, under a captcha, of a white boy and mixed race boy playing with Thomas the Tank Engine, then they grow up and at a wedding or something one gives the other a nostalgic/throwback gift of a Thomas the Tank Engine model (weird) then their sons, who looked like younger versions of themselves, were playing with Thomas the Tank Engine. I understand why the advertisers do it, to make it visually obvious who is the son of whom, but it gets me wondering about the statistics of how many mixed race people marry someone the exact same mix. I have been unable to find this advert on YouTube.

>>26329

I notice a lot of ads have mixed race families too. Which is mostly notable because in every other part of life people seem to mostly stick to similar skintones.

I've noticed that JD Sports' fondness for light-skinned mixed race guys of a few years ago has turned into a fondness for proper black guys now.

and Asos.

>>27467
Why are you going out of your way to avoid the new embeds?

>>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.

>>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?

>>27306
>>27307
It is a French word.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/trebuchet

What is going on with that pronunciation?

>>27308
>awfully French too by the sounds of it

Thanks to football the average male should know that you don't pronounce consonants in French if they're at the very end of the word, e.g. Girou instead of Giroud.

>>27310

Oxford should feel ashamed of themselves, glad I went to Swansea instead.

>>27312
Football fans don't even know anything about football, in the main, nevermind the finer points of French; and in fairness it is a langauge where you just have to remember which third of the letters you don't actually say, it's utter madness in my opinion.

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.

>>27041
>punishment for anything from selling drugs
... or at least doing so in competition with them. For a time in the early 80s most of the weed, coke and horse coming into the British Isles was passing through Shannon.

The 'Ra did some fairly horrific things, but even with funeral shootings or bus massacres, nothing quite compares to the proxy bombings. What do you do if you want to drop off a car bomb but can't get in to park? Why, you tie some poor fucker to the seat and strap their hands to the wheel and get them to deliver it for you, of course.

>>27041
Oh dear. Where to start...

They weren't controlling a population with "a campaign of palpable fear". The reality is that they had support and sympathy from the communities they operated out of. Insurgent groups which don't tend not to last.

As for "relatively disorganised", the British Army themselves called the provos:

>"a professional, dedicated, highly skilled and resilient force", while loyalist paramilitaries and other republican groups are described as "little more than a collection of gangsters".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6276416.stm

The idea that anything like a significant portion of former PIRA volunteers are active in organised crime is false. The reason that PIRA went out with a bank robbery was to provide former volunteers with a pension, precisely so as to avoid them getting involved in criminality.

There is a gang "war" (more a feud, really, this isn't Baltimore) going on in Dublin at the moment, but neither of the two main gangs have anything to do with republicanism, past or present, and the death toll is far from "hundreds" (it's about 20 last I heard).

>>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.

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.

>>25066
What kind of world do you live in?

>>25068

>What kind of world do you live in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytC4QsIiG8

>>25069
Two out of three Berkeley students when asked didn't know which party Abraham Lincoln belonged to, THEREFORE we have full employment.

>>25070
Is that so strange? I don't know what sort of Government The Right Honourable Henry Pelham had, do you?

>>25069
Oh dear.