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>> No. 24866 Anonymous
29th January 2017
Sunday 11:43 am
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Putting Satanists into 101.

Garbage mainstream music (rock is crap, metal is worse).
Black clothes and pentagrams look very silly.
They only think about themselves, 'god complex'.
Neurotic routines and victim mentality.
They fiddle kids and than throw them into the sea.
Very little self control or ambition, destroy culture without replacing it with something of value or substance.
Control most global politics with blackmail and violence.
Pump this shit ideology into our children's heads via schools and multimedia.
Think they are the rebels when they are pretty much the 1%.
Probably controlled by the Pope.
They think they are so clever, they are just ignorant and void of logic or thoughts outside of there feelings, which are pre-programmed by the next satanist up.
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>> No. 24943 Anonymous
2nd February 2017
Thursday 2:04 pm
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>>24942
I'm gay. But I'm not the person you quoted. Hail Eris.
>> No. 24944 Anonymous
2nd February 2017
Thursday 2:17 pm
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>>24943
Is it contagious? I'd hate to catch the gay in this political climate.
>> No. 24945 Anonymous
2nd February 2017
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>24944
By very common law, it's sexually-transmitted.
>> No. 24948 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 1:29 pm
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>>24945

Many studies have been conducted but most researchers believe it is hereditary from an Iron age Irish Tribe.

It spread to Caledonia and Wales during the migration period, followed by a thorough colonising of Brighton, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.
>> No. 24949 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 2:14 pm
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>>24948

>Many studies have been conducted but most researchers believe it is hereditary from an Iron age Irish Tribe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7W0U65gh8

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>> No. 24917 Anonymous
1st February 2017
Wednesday 12:39 pm
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Some cunt's parked their mini, all decked out with Shaun the sheep stickers, in my driveway. I need that driveway. What the fuck can I do beyond leaving a passive aggressive note on their wind-shield?
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>> No. 24928 Anonymous
1st February 2017
Wednesday 7:10 pm
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>>24923
Not entirely unexpected, but at least you asked. Passive aggressive note on the windscreen it is, then. At least make it somewhat funny.
>> No. 24929 Anonymous
1st February 2017
Wednesday 7:25 pm
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>>24928

Replace dickbrain with dickhead.
>> No. 24930 Anonymous
1st February 2017
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>24928
I left a firm note and they've been boxed in overnight by the person who the space is intended for.
>> No. 24931 Anonymous
1st February 2017
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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>>24930
Careful with that. They might not care about someone parked in a drive, but a vehicle blocked in is a very different thing.
>> No. 24932 Anonymous
2nd February 2017
Thursday 12:44 am
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>>24931
It'll be gone by 7.

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>> No. 15432 Anonymous
8th June 2014
Sunday 2:13 am
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This boiled my piss like nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SurveillantCameraMan/videos

Basically, you have this lad, walking around and filming people - up close and in total silence. What is really unnerving and awkward about this all, is that you get the understandable response coming from those that he films, angry, enraged and upset. What is he trying to prove?

Well from bits and pieces, he and his fans (notably reddit twats), believe he is making some teenlad statement of us all being surrounded by surveillance and that he is no different to that aspect, and in some sense RAIZIN AWARENESS of this...

Bollox.

There is a huge difference between invading someone's space and having a camera stuck meters away from you. I don't know if this shitstain would survive in England, but telling from his predictable appearance - he wouldn't. I probably would tell him to piss off, but bloody hell, watch the videos and tell me you wouldn't want to cave his face in with a claw hammer.
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>> No. 15535 Anonymous
12th June 2014
Thursday 12:15 am
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>>15532

>Not true. Using a UAV for commercial purposes requires CAA clearance and a certificate of competence, but using them for private purposes is perfectly legal so long as you remain within visual range and avoid controlled airspace.

Nope. There are a tone of guidelines that you must meet, even as a private individual, to constitute legal operation of a UAV. These are pretty standard things like being a certain distance away from "public space" and the suchlike, but it's the sort of thing that renders them almost completely useless if you intend to use them legally, because I can't think of very many places in the UK (unless you are a very wealthy landowner) that satisfy the requirements.

Source: I work there, they sent a copy of the CAA regulations out via mass e-mail. I can't remember the details brilliantly because it wasa few weeks ago, but it wasn't just because of commercial use, it was because they were in violation of pretty much every other rule regardless of having clearance.
>> No. 15720 Anonymous
8th July 2014
Tuesday 12:10 am
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>>15438
You don't have crystal clear memory of everything that ever happens, but more importantly filming allows anyone to share that exact same moment and analyse it. It really isn't the same
>> No. 24843 Anonymous
21st January 2017
Saturday 2:53 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJNAvyLCTik
>> No. 24844 Anonymous
21st January 2017
Saturday 11:48 pm
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>>24843
That was good. It was quite obvious how he kept having to cut away when they started turning the questioning on him, or something happened that necessitated he stop filming, though.

The reference to an Internet cafe really dates it.
>> No. 24845 Anonymous
22nd January 2017
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>15432

>Basically
The start of all student arguments

I watched the link, the guy walking round with the camera needs multiple shoeing in the cock whilst being filmed.

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>> No. 24447 Anonymous
28th November 2016
Monday 7:34 pm
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Yay another Tony Blair. Hopefully she justifies war on Russia because God told her to.
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>> No. 24766 Anonymous
7th January 2017
Saturday 11:37 pm
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>>24762

>Are you saying that gay marriage is a 'regressive left' issue
No and you're stupid >I don't get it.

>its hypocrisy to come to a different viewpoint after 12 years?
Yes as politician with a political agenda, no as a everyday person

> Perhaps by sharing a video of an American Presidential candidate this is some act of satire
Clinton isn't a candidate, she lost

>the real issue is American cultural imperialism that has turned Anglican sensibilities on religion and politics into a snide shouting match?
Try harder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadilad.
>> No. 24767 Anonymous
7th January 2017
Saturday 11:57 pm
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>>24763

Gay marriage and Clinton? No chance. Maybe this is why Ellen received the Medal of Honor for wait a minute

Oh I see now, THAT'S why Ellen got the badge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3huRVrckY8

Hillary Clinton doesn't support gay marriage you leftards.
>> No. 24768 Anonymous
8th January 2017
Sunday 12:03 am
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>>24764

Well it/ze/zir/mong fucked off quick.
>> No. 24769 Anonymous
8th January 2017
Sunday 12:49 am
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>>24768
Eh?
>> No. 24770 Anonymous
8th January 2017
Sunday 12:56 am
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>>24769

Somestupidcuntsaidsomethingmateyoumustkeepup





>>24769

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>> No. 23246 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 3:15 pm
23246 Minor rants and piss-offs, Mk V
I think we're due a new thread, and this picture idea, especially considering the mark, I couldn't not make.

Auto electric windows. My shitty Rover from 2005 has them, and unlike better cars, it doesn't have the 'double click' in the window switch, so unless you want the window all the way down, you have to press the window switch down, then pull it back up when it gets to where you want it to be. It'd be much less hassle to just either have a winder or non-'auto'.
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>> No. 24309 Anonymous
17th November 2016
Thursday 2:21 am
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I fell asleep at eight, woke up at eleven and can't understand why my body has decided to do me like this.

Might go for a weirdy night walk.
>> No. 24310 Anonymous
17th November 2016
Thursday 2:27 am
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>>24309
When you step out of the door, I will know and eventually find you.
>> No. 24311 Anonymous
17th November 2016
Thursday 4:00 am
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I gave some of my whisky to a homeless lady and she thankrd e then introducede to her son who was out walking his dog talking to her and her partner. I apologised to him saying I'm sorry, if I was in your position of hate me for doing that but in her position I'd be thankful. I don't know how to feel.
>> No. 24312 Anonymous
17th November 2016
Thursday 4:48 am
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>>24310

I'll be sure to wipe you off my boots when I get back in.
>> No. 24336 Anonymous
19th November 2016
Saturday 12:19 am
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>>24311
OK let me get this straight, the son is 'out' therefore has a home, yet the mother is homeless? Why doesn't she live with him?

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>> No. 23313 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 12:36 am
23313 Breaking News - AIBU
I think there should be strict time limits on how often news channels are allowed to display the claim 'breaking news'.

Breaking news should be the start of a new likely-to-be headline story, not a recent update on a pre-existing story, unless it is such a significant development that it is a new likely-to-be a headline in and of itself. Obviously there's a philosophical problem as to what would count as a 'significant development', but with a daily time limit, the news channels would soon figure it out.

I don't even want to be that strict on it, but just to throw a suggestion on the table, a maximum of 4 hours of displaying the words between 8am and 8pm, and a 4 hours overnight would be satisfying for me. Planned national events, like Remembrance Day should be forbidden from claiming 'breaking news' as the Queen lays down her wreath. However, planned national events like a general election could use the 'breaking news' display when announcing the overall winning result, but this would have to come out of the 4 hour allowance and should be planned for in advance.
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>> No. 23410 Anonymous
22nd July 2016
Friday 6:54 pm
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>>23328
Id rather ask a human being.
>> No. 23411 Anonymous
22nd July 2016
Friday 6:59 pm
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>>23410

Send someone an e-mail asking for them to look it up for you then.
>> No. 23429 Anonymous
23rd July 2016
Saturday 4:02 am
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>>23411
What's your email?
>> No. 23685 Anonymous
18th August 2016
Thursday 10:49 am
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>>23429
arsepisser@cock.li
>> No. 24209 Anonymous
2nd November 2016
Wednesday 1:48 am
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!!!!!!!!!!BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!


here's some shit about football

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>> No. 20571 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 3:44 pm
20571 Minor rants and piss-offs MK IV Locked
Taking into account the sentiment in the OP of >>17297, time for a new thread.

My Mother is up to visit my sister and hasn't even offered to make me soup even though I'm ill. A pox on her first born ch-...wait.
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>> No. 23239 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 5:49 am
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>>23234
You don't get to choose your own security question?
>> No. 23240 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 6:03 am
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>>23239
You do and I did exactly that in 2005 or so.
>> No. 23242 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:28 am
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>>23240
I hate that bollocks. I've never had to use the security question for years on any of my accounts, but I recently discovered that Microsoft in particular love locking you out if you sign in from a different country. Did I remember any answers to questions I made 5+ years ago that I never had to use? No. It took me a month to be able to change my security info and get back into my accounts.
>> No. 23243 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:45 am
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I once had to tell someone my 'mother's maiden name' over the phone.
I no longer use quite such rude words when filling in stuff, neither of us needed that level of awkwardness - I was only ever expecting to need to type it.
>> No. 23244 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 2:53 pm
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>>23226
Those dogs sound like they are badly socialised and trained; they shouldn't be picking on other dogs or jumping up once told firmly to stop it. Medium to large dogs, or even small yappy ones, should not be allowed to go mad with jumping on people as dogs are stupid and don't always tell the difference between jumping on a grown adult and a 4 foot child. The fact that they didn't respond to being called back also indicates they're poorly trained. Also, when you have that many dogs being walked how do you even cope without at least a few of them on leads? The fact that you remained fairly polite and calm in the face of being threatened indicates that they were being more cunty than you were.

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>> No. 22699 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 5:35 pm
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So I gave the fingers of thanks to this young woman waiting on the other side of a single lane arch as I drove past.

She looked at me with either total confusion or antipathy, I'm not good at judging women's emotions as they're not my thing. It's left me questioning, did the young today never learn proper driving etiquette or am I a proper ugly cunt.
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>> No. 22715 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 11:11 pm
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>>22714
When I have to cross the road, I stare at the cars headlights (because in my head, that's the cars eyes) and wait for it to alert me to cross. It takes a long time to realise that I should be looking at the driver, and not the car, but by then the driver flashes the lights (the cars eyes tells me to cross), and I cross.
>> No. 22716 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 11:20 pm
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I'm a bit autistic when crossing a zebra crossing, I have to make sure the car has actually stopped before I cross. I've stopped looking at the driver because they are usually pissed that I slowed them down. Sorry mate, you're in a metal box, I'm a bag of flesh - I'd rather take my chances of pissing you off than being a part of the road.
>> No. 22717 Anonymous
13th May 2016
Friday 1:03 am
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>>22712
One presumes something like this.
>> No. 22718 Anonymous
13th May 2016
Friday 2:34 am
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>>22716

That's not even close to autistic, there are plenty of drivers that will kill out of sheer nonchalance if you're not careful.
>> No. 22719 Anonymous
13th May 2016
Friday 3:32 am
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I wish she'd give me the finger.

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>> No. 22494 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 9:01 am
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I DIDN'T FOLLOW TRAVEL REGULATIONS AND I WAS DEALT WITH IN PRECISELY THE MANNER ANYONE WHO HAS TRAVELLED ON PLANE IN THE PAST 15 YEARS SHOULD EXPECT WHEN THEY DON'T FOLLOW RULES IN AN AIRPORT, THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

I KNOW WHAT I'LL DO, I'LL WRITE AN INDIGNANT OPEN LETTER TO MY FACEBOOK PALS TO EXCORIATE AN AIRPORT FOR ENFORCING LAWS IT HAS NO CONTROL OVER, THAT'S A SENSIBLE WAY TO REACT INSTEAD OF, I DUNNO, LEARNING OR SOMETHING
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>> No. 22507 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 5:42 pm
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>>22504
Don't be silly. Everybody knows airport security is ridiculous. Part of the reason why they know it's ridiculous is that they've spent 15 years complying with it in all its absurdity.
>> No. 22508 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 7:28 pm
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>>22494
Being made to throw out precious mammarymilk is a horrible thing. It forms an important part of a childs immune system, it probably took her a while to extract it and the kid will suffer now because he won't get another chance like this to bolster his defences ever again.
>> No. 22509 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 8:20 pm
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>>22508
Yeah, that's why she probably should have checked out the regulations before attempting to export the products of her industrial scale milking.
>> No. 22510 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 9:01 pm
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>>22508
She could always, you know, spend time with her son instead of jetting off to the other side of the world so that she has to dump 15 litres worth to keep him going until the next time she'll be in the vicinity and can top up his milk supply again.
>> No. 22697 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 9:23 am
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Please provide answers for these security questions. All of the questions are pre-defined and do not related to you in the least, which ensures that the answer you give here will have been forgotten the next time you try to log in.

When your attempt to log in fails, your account will be frozen and you will be escorted to the password reset facility. There, you will find that your online access has been revoked and you'll need to phone us instead. Since you live during unsociable hours, you'd better set an alarm so you get up while the phone lines are open.

Ah! You remembered to call! Please listen to this monologue about the identity check procedure, understand that it isn't dangerous at all (it really isn't, I promise) and give your consent. If you don't consent then I guess we'll keep your money. Oh, you consent, do you? Excellent. Just answer a few simple questions and you'll have confirmed your identity. Remember that bank account you opened in 2004? Who was it with, and what was the overdraft limit? Where did you live in 2010 and for how long?

It looks like we haven't been able to confirm your identity. Would you like to come into our office in a town 20 miles away, nowhere near a train station and where buses don't stop, to confirm your identity in person?

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>> No. 22550 Anonymous
1st May 2016
Sunday 3:00 am
22550 Cunt enablers
Some years ago I was on a plane coming back from visting a relative who lived abroad. At the time I was a very heavy smoker and was dying for a cigarette after a 5 hour flight but knew there was no chance of having one for at least another hour while I went through customs and waited for my luggage.

Cue some bloke who just lights up a cigarette whilst walking through the terminal as we come off the plane. He was a big bald bastard with a mean face and wearing a football shirt or something similar and he simply didn't give a shit that he was breaking the law.

Of course I flirted with the idea of following suit, but I didn't dare. I knew the moment I took my first puff some sort of official/staff member would come out of the toilets and issue me with an on-the-spot fine. Or my fellow passengers would suddenly decide to complain instead of just ignoring the smoke.

I didn't even know his name but I hated that man. I have lain awake every night for the past six years thinking about how much I still hate him. He was breaking the rules and getting away with it. He was doing what I wanted to do but could not because of the fact that I care what other people think and he doesn't. And that made me hate the silent majority of people who did and said nothing, including and primarily myself. Because I was jealous.

We all know the sort of person. The kid who experimented more heavily with drugs as a teenager than the rest of your friends but still went on to be healthy and successful in adulthood. People who shaft business partners and yet are still always somehow able to find someone new to invest in their latest scheme. People who cheat on loving and loyal partners and then get another chance when caught out. Etc etc etc.

Fuck those people but a thousand times more fuck the people who allow those people to continue by allowing themselves to be charmed or won round or even intimidated. Letting someone get away with being a cunt is a negative act, it harms society.
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>> No. 22667 Anonymous
9th May 2016
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>22666

I'm baffled by what you're getting at...
>> No. 22668 Anonymous
9th May 2016
Monday 7:20 pm
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>>22666
If we believe in the myth of fairness, collectively, we get a nice society, where you have friendly polite people, like in Japan, for instance.

If we live according to our true cuntish nature we end up with third world shitholes, which are unsafe and uncivilized.

Rulebreaking and uncouth cunts undermine the whole beautiful illusion, and if too many people act like cunts then it all falls apart.
>> No. 22676 Anonymous
10th May 2016
Tuesday 1:22 pm
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>>22668

Yeah man, people don't understand Japan! They're all really deep and have no problems whatsoever! If only third-world countries were more polite and had katanas.
>> No. 22677 Anonymous
10th May 2016
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>22676

And fedoras, don't forget the true mark of a gentle sir is a fedora and a katana.
>> No. 22679 Anonymous
10th May 2016
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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>>22668
>If we live according to our true cuntish nature

If our true "nature" is to be cuntish how is there any form of civilised society at all? Surely it's just as much our "nature" to not be a cunt?

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>> No. 22520 Anonymous
27th April 2016
Wednesday 7:16 pm
22520 Beating around the bush
Just fucking say what you want to say. No need to conjure these elaborate ‘my aunt's dad's grandson’ stories.

☑ Ballot spoilt
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>> No. 22528 Anonymous
27th April 2016
Wednesday 11:25 pm
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Are you, perchance, foreign?
>> No. 22529 Anonymous
27th April 2016
Wednesday 11:26 pm
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>>22528
Mate, if you don't think black people should be allowed to post, just say so.

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>> No. 21479 Anonymous
2nd November 2015
Monday 7:18 pm
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Why is Henry the Hoover ubiquitous? It's a piece of shit designed to appeal to children. What an embarrassment to engineering.

Cons:
*The connections on the hose disconnect too easily
*The shitty smiley face, I want to punch his head in
*It's laborious to carry up stairs

Pros:
*You can have sex with it1 (It gives shitty blowies)
*Relatively compact when you think about it, it actually takes up more room than a dyson

[1] http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article868092.ece[/sub]
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>> No. 22371 Anonymous
3rd April 2016
Sunday 12:22 am
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They almost never break, and when they do they're ridiculously cheap to repair.

They're really not that difficult to carry up stairs, try carrying one of the big Dysons then get back to me on that one.

The face and the fact he has a fucking name, people latch on to that.

They remind me of a shop vac, and there's a reason I've never seen a Dyson or some other bagless upright used in a hotel. It's always Henry.
>> No. 22372 Anonymous
3rd April 2016
Sunday 1:14 am
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>>22370

>It's worth remembering that mobile is the only place where we're really genuinely getting more power.

This. The iPhone 6s is 20 times faster than the iPhone 4. Apple have made vast performance gains by designing their own silicon from scratch, throwing billions of dollars at the problem. The 6s is faster than most laptops.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

Apple aren't actively conspiring to gimp the performance of old devices, but keeping the OS lean isn't a high priority either. Adding features to software invariably degrades performance. It's inescapable - bigger binaries take longer to load from memory, bigger config files take longer to parse. With that said, Apple are clearly working on performance, if only because saving CPU cycles improves battery life. iOS 9.2 has significant performance improvements in many areas.

Devices also unavoidably get slower with age. This is partly because users tend to install more software (meaning more background tasks) but also because of flash ageing. Flash memory performance plays a large role in responsiveness, but flash does wear out with repeated writes. As flash cells start to fail, the memory controller has to work harder to correct errors and reallocate data, reducing performance. It's roughly analogous to a magnetic hard drive becoming fragmented, only permanent.

Discosure of interests: I'm predominantly an Android user, but I do own an iPad.
>> No. 22373 Anonymous
3rd April 2016
Sunday 1:55 am
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>>22372
There's also the dreaded nostalgia filter. People complain about how long their Windows machines take to boot, forgetting that they've always taken that long. It was only when talking to my dad about our old computer that I realised that it wasn't just me being a young child that distorted it - our old 486 on Windows 95 really did take long enough to start that he could boil the kettle for his coffee. (If he wanted tea, he could always use the dial-up.) Last year I moved my desktop from a spinner to solid state, and the increase in speed was very noticeable. We have become so accustomed to things happening near-instantly that waiting even a few seconds for a device to start seems like too long.
>> No. 22374 Anonymous
3rd April 2016
Sunday 12:43 pm
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>>22370
Well, in the server market the focus now is less on hardware and more on virtualisation/cloud computing. Rather than running a traditional HA pair to get your 5 9s reliability you can spawn as many virtual machines as you like in the cloud - this is something Amazon have been doing for a while now, and more companies are looking to copy them.
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3rd April 2016
Sunday 3:07 pm
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>>22374

Server hardware is still hugely important, it's just now the main goal is performance-per-watt rather than raw performance. DCs are using all sorts of clever tricks to deal with their gargantuan power and cooling requirements. Google have been working on high-temperature DCs that run at >40°C ambient. Intel are developing distributed UPS systems with a small battery in each server to reduce distribution losses. Several companies are working on ARM server chips with massive core counts.

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>> No. 22096 Anonymous
19th February 2016
Friday 10:36 am
22096 CV whinge
I was going to tag this onto an existing thread about asking for advice on writing CVs in /job/, but it just spiraled into a rant, so I thought I'd post it here.

I've always hated jobhunting. But, this is the first time in five years that I've been unemployed. I would have probably tried to find another job during the time I had the one I had last, but I hate jobhunting so much that I couldn't bring myself to do it. Now, I'm forced to. I'm hating it even more than I did in the past, probably because I've grown up and gained a more mature perspective on the world of work.

I don't lack confidence in looking for a job or in my expectations of finding one before too long (I took out unemployment insurance years ago, so that I'd be able to keep paying my mortgage, plus I've some money put away, so I don't have the fires of hell under my arse yet) but as regards writing and/or amending my CV, I feel like I've stumbled into a carnival fun house designed by a madman for the explicit purpose of luring others into the depths of insanity.

Firstly, the infrastructure of job acquisition is ludicrous. I've been told that during the sixties and at least early seventies, you could walk out of a job in the morning and be working on the floor of your next job that afternoon. Obviously the low unemployment rate in that period was one factor, but it also meant something else; one person applying for one job, meaning that 0% of applications were rejected for certain job postings. We are told that these days, there are thousands of people applying for single positions. We are forced to accept this, but it's madness.

We now have a situation in which the process of selecting appropriate candidates has been rendered so difficult that automated computer searches through the piles of CVs are used to gut them for snippets of metadata, despite the fact that the results are often completely erroneous, just to select an elite few actually considered worthwhile reading. We are told, however, that our CVs ought to stand out from a crowd. This means that your CV needs first to conform to a general standard of content, formatting and with the correct set of whatever buzzwords happen to be in vogue at the moment, but thereafter somehow stand out. What?! At the very least, it should be apparent that since everyone is expected to make sure their CVs conform to certain standards, that those standards are, in fact, wholly irrelevant and simply exclude those whose skills do not necessarily include the ability to dick around in Word for hours on end. For the vast majority of jobs, this is not an essential skill.

The advice on writing CVs (not from you guys, but “official” sources) seems to completely ignore the realities of what workplaces are actually like. We are told to use 'active' words- achieved this and slashed that, as if we're all captains of industry or something and actually are given the opportunity make any sort of difference or contribute to society at all. The vast majority of us begrudgingly turn up for work every day doing the exact same shit for no other reason than because someone is forced to pay us to do it. What the fuck does a gas metre reader achieve beyond reading the requisite number of gas metres? How does a checkout assistant meaningfully contribute to anything? What does anyone actually get out of doing customer assistance in a bank?

It's pretty disheartening if you've never had a job before, but for those of us who've been in the world of work before- I mean, come on. We've all worked under bosses that had no idea what they were doing and qualified people who are completely incompetent. We've known environments where the one person who's good at their job gets passed up for promotion year after year in favour of a usless kiss-arse. We know privately that anyone could pick up our job after two weeks of faking it, because that's exactly what we did. We know that people keep turning up for a job that they detest because they're afraid of the vague and confusing world of jobhunting, where nothing makes sense and there's no guarantee they're going to match whatever paltry income they're on now.
We're always expected to pretend like we give a shit, like we've achieved anything, like we stand out from the crowd, that we actually want whatever job we're applying for and would be a valuable addition to the team, despite the fact that everybody knows that we're all just going through the motions. No doubt many of us lie to ourselves and tell ourselves otherwise, and many of us perhaps perceive the insanity of it all and, seeing so few others speak up against it, assume that, in fact, there's somehow something wrong with our selves. But, beneath that, we all know

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>> No. 22128 Anonymous
22nd February 2016
Monday 8:32 pm
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>>22127
Sigh. I don't pick people. A computer sifts through the best candidate, then after they get interviewed by the hiring manager, they get hired. HR barely has a hand in it.

Why are you lot being twats for? What have I done?
>> No. 22130 Anonymous
22nd February 2016
Monday 8:46 pm
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>>22128
>A computer sifts through the best candidate

So what, this computer is an omniscient, autonomous machine now?

Clearly at some point somebody has to set the filtering parameters. II.1 degree, n years experience etc etc. It doesn't happen by magic does it?
>> No. 22131 Anonymous
22nd February 2016
Monday 9:06 pm
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Then why are you lot getting angry that you don't fulfil the criteria? How does this make sense? It is not that different than making a spreadsheet with all the relevant details of the candidates, filtering, and then picking the best ones. What is the problem?
>> No. 22132 Anonymous
22nd February 2016
Monday 9:31 pm
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>What is the problem?

That is the problem. It's box-ticking.
>> No. 22133 Anonymous
22nd February 2016
Monday 9:45 pm
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It's blatantly unfair on people who don't know how to play the game. Before I went self-employed, I was working in the IT sector. My CV was gratuitously stuffed with every keyword imaginable to get through first-line filtering. I wasn't writing my CV to usefully communicate my suitability for the job, but simply to trick a bad filtering algorithm. It was like the worst kind of pre-Google SEO. I'm certain that much better candidates than me missed out on good opportunities because they weren't as cynical about the recruitment process.

HR departments frequently insist on all sorts of absurd "requirements", because they're so far removed from the actual work. Particularly for highly technical roles, they have no idea of what the job demands and what makes a good candidate. I can't count the number of times I've seen job ads requiring five years of experience in a technology that has only existed for three years.

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