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>> No. 17297 Anonymous
27th November 2014
Thursday 9:57 pm
17297 Minor rants and piss-offs MK III Locked
I hate it when threads get too long to comfortably load in their entirety.
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>> No. 17298 Anonymous
27th November 2014
Thursday 10:05 pm
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I hate it when I'm trying to locate a thread in catalogue mode only to realise its author attached an image that's of no relevance whatsoever.

This picture is a lot prettier though.
>> No. 17299 Anonymous
27th November 2014
Thursday 11:00 pm
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Excellent.

I'm really glad my successful MK II 101 thread came to a close, it was really getting unwieldy.
>> No. 17300 Anonymous
28th November 2014
Friday 12:08 am
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I'll start off with a family thing. Having to speak to people who I dislike at best because reasons. If it was up to me, I wouldn't talk to this person ever again but it has to be done. I just hate trying to think of things to say to someone who I have nothing in common with just because we're related.

/personal blog
>> No. 17301 Anonymous
28th November 2014
Friday 12:24 am
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>>17300
I have this issue at work, there are some pillocks I can't muster the energy to talk to. And they can't seem to get the hint. Fuck off and leave me to my work.
>> No. 17302 Anonymous
29th November 2014
Saturday 8:30 am
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The rise of using the word populist negatively to mean something that is in the interests of most people but you personally disagree with it. Because everyone else is stoopid and I want to show I'm superior to them, amirite?
>> No. 17303 Anonymous
29th November 2014
Saturday 10:43 am
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Just press "last 50 posts", that Mk II thread is a historical document. Alright, whatever.

>>17302

>everyone else is stoopid and I want to show I'm superior to them

That always holds true for me, and I never say "populist".
>> No. 17305 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 5:30 am
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My m8s girlfriend uses tumblr a lot and it leaks into realworld conversations. I'm an art grad so I'm fairly used to people with particular political habits, but it's like I'm walking on a knife-edge here. Well easy to piss her off.
>> No. 17306 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 6:46 am
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>>17305
I'd deliberately wind her up. I do this with any of my mates who think wanting to reduce immigration makes someone a racist and they always fall for it.
>> No. 17307 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 4:53 pm
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People saying anti-social when they mean unsociable.
>> No. 17308 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 5:18 pm
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Jamie Oliver.

Or more specifically, his smarmy face on every fucking thing ever, in every fucking shop everywhere.
>> No. 17309 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 5:33 pm
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>>17305
Who is this woman. She is beautiful.

Please tell me there is porn of her.
>> No. 17310 Anonymous
1st December 2014
Monday 5:37 pm
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>>17309
There's a whole thread of pictures of her here >>/x/21211
>> No. 17323 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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When websites (like, oh I dunno, Digital Spy) can't be bothered to reply when you email their tech support. Lazy bastards.
>> No. 17324 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 6:51 pm
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>>17323
That's nothing next to their policy of deciding for themselves what constitutes a real email address.
>> No. 17325 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 6:55 pm
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>>17324
There are websites with a blanket ban on all hotmail email addresses.
>> No. 17326 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 7:10 pm
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>>17325
A blanket ban on hotmail would be a step down for them. They insist that you must use the address provided by your ISP.
>> No. 17327 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 7:59 pm
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What the hell could Bez tell me about the British economy that I didn't already know?

Hell, I know a man who is Bez. The only difference between the man I know and the actual Bez, is that the man I know wasn't in the Happy Mondays, and Bez was barely in the Happy Mondays himself!

I'm glad I'm not seriously intelligent, or else there's no way I wouldn't be drunk 18 hours a day.
>> No. 17328 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>17325
Why?
>> No. 17329 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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>>17327
>is that the man I know wasn't in the Happy Mondays
To be fair, neither was Oh, I see you already did that one.
>> No. 17330 Anonymous
3rd December 2014
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>17300
You think you have it bad, my mother was a right bitch to me earlier when I traipsed round her house at her invitation to have dinner, when she could clearly see that I'm carrying what appears to be a chest infection, whooping cough and bubonic plague all at once. What happened to the cool flannels on my forehead? What happened to the soft words and "oh sweetums I know your throat is a hurty wurty but we'll go to the zoo on Saturday if you're feeling better"? This woman was meant to have birthed me.

What a cow.
>> No. 17331 Anonymous
4th December 2014
Thursday 8:11 am
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>>17327

Bez followed me on twitter briefly. I don't know why. I never followed him and I have an egg avatar and have never tweeted anything. Then he unfollowed me.

Sage for being germane to nothing.
>> No. 17332 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 12:51 am
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Oh, for fuck's sake. Just as I'm about to go to bed, one of the fucking smoke alarms decides to announce its battery is running low. Naturally it does this VERY FUCKING LOUDLY.
>> No. 17333 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 4:24 pm
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>>17332

It's your own fault for having batteries in your smoke alarm. Just take them out like all us normal people.
>> No. 17334 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 5:25 pm
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>>17333
Enjoy being burnt to a crisp m8
>> No. 17335 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 5:27 pm
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>>17334
Anything except cheese and onion. They're rank m8.
>> No. 17336 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:26 pm
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People who have an issue with breastfeeding.

I just like, totally do not understand what the problem is. I can't even begin to comprehend it. Maybe I'm stirring up a hornets nest, but it's just one of those things that are on another level to my entire consciousness. Thinking about it is akin to trying to understand the dreams of a bee.
>> No. 17337 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:33 pm
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>>17336
I posted this in the previous thread >>17081.

I don't have any issues with breastfeeding whatsoever, but it annoys me that a lot of the women you see complaining in the news that they were asked to be discreet seem to be the 'me! me! me!' types that are completely wrapped up in their own importance and are afflicted with the need to share everything about their lives.
>> No. 17338 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:38 pm
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>>17337

Are they? How on Earth can you tell that from a brief news spot? And how does that matter? If the shittiest, most teeth grindingly annoying woman wants to breastfeed her child, what difference does it make?
>> No. 17339 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:40 pm
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>>17336
>Thinking about it is akin to trying to understand the dreams of a bee.

What a lovely way to put it.
>> No. 17340 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:42 pm
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>>17336

It's a strange issue. On the one hand it's perfectly normal and people shouldn't be offended by it, but on the other hand it's not unreasonable for women to expect some people to be uncomfortable with it. Most of the women who are very vocal about the problem, seem to be the type of people who are going out of their way to annoy people.

A while ago there was that woman who had a photo of her sitting on a kerb on a high-street, eating a gregs sausage roll and breastfeeding, that was posted up on facebook with something like "lol tramp" as the caption. To be fair, she'd have looked like a tramp even if she wasn't breastfeeding a baby. (Although it's still an incredibly shitty thing for anyone to post a photo of a stranger up on facebook with an insult like that in any situation)
>> No. 17341 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>17336 Women who act like it's equivalent to the equal rights movements of the 60s in the deep south of America.
>> No. 17342 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:45 pm
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>>17338
Like I said, I don't really care about breastfeeding. It could be any issue that they're complaining in the news about really, I just don't like the increasingly widespread need to overshare and inflated sense of self worth.
>> No. 17343 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 6:52 pm
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>>17341

It definitely has parallels, you'd have to be being deliberately obtuse not to see them.
>> No. 17344 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 7:03 pm
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>>17343
Parallels, yes. But the same magnitude? no.

Being asked not to leave your tits hanging out in the middle of a restaurant, is not quite as severe an abuse of human rights as that.
>> No. 17345 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 7:12 pm
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>>17340

I for one am outraged at the possibility of seeing a tit. Can't imagine anything worse. Horrible, awful things, absolutely sickening. I once saw a tit in 1992 and I've never been the same since.
>> No. 17346 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 8:01 pm
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>>17345
I know, it's awful. I saw a copy of the Sun in a newsagents once, it messed me up so badly that I need to look at cocks everyday or I start getting nightmares.

Which is another thing, women are asking to ban page 3 in the Sun to protect their children, at the same time they're asking to be allowed to get their tits out in public for their children. Such hypocrisy.
>> No. 17347 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 8:04 pm
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Someone's left a pasty in the kitchen and I don't know whose it is, or why it's there but if it's still there by nine I'm eating it.

Call the rozzers, I don't give a fuck.

>>17344

But he never said that, you spaz. He said parallels, he never said it was the same thing. Stop going on like he did.
>> No. 17348 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 8:14 pm
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>>17346
>Which is another thing, women are asking to ban page 3 in the Sun to protect their children, at the same time they're asking to be allowed to get their tits out in public for their children.

You can guarantee they'll be whipping their tits out in front of their kids when the breastapo arrange their inevitable mass feed-in at Claridges and all the poor siblings get dragged along.
>> No. 17349 Anonymous
5th December 2014
Friday 8:14 pm
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>>17347
>But he never said that, you spaz. He said parallels, he never said it was the same thing. Stop going on like he did.

I didn't say he did. You're the one making a big deal of it, you silly sausage.
>> No. 17350 Anonymous
6th December 2014
Saturday 1:42 am
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>>17345
I saw a whole bunch of them at the office Christmas party earlier. I honestly don't think I'll ever recover.
>> No. 17351 Anonymous
6th December 2014
Saturday 3:01 am
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You know that feeling when you're tanked on Stella and have been doing double nos balloons at a party where you know no one and everyone seems so much younger than you and you're crying on the way home because you just hope your ex is happy after wasting two years of your life on them.

Yeah, fuck that feeling.
>> No. 17352 Anonymous
6th December 2014
Saturday 7:36 pm
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>>17348
Well that was unsurprising:
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>> No. 17353 Anonymous
6th December 2014
Saturday 7:53 pm
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>>17352
I was just about to post that. Right on cue the breastapo are out, protesting for their right to have no sense of decorum and show no consideration for those around them.
>> No. 17354 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 3:22 pm
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>>17352
>Clare Mariscal, 36, carried a banner which read: “That’s what breasts are for, stupid.”
Now personally I don't have any issue with women breastfeeding in restaurants or whatever, but this really is a fucking stupid argument. There are two things that my dick is "for" and if I did either of them in the middle of a restaurant I'm pretty sure Clare would be less than impressed.
>> No. 17355 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 4:07 pm
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>>17354

A restaurant is a place for eating. Breastfeeding in a restaurant is exactly as appropriate as pissing in a toilet.
>> No. 17356 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 4:12 pm
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>>17355
I can't help but feel you're taking the piss.
>> No. 17357 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 4:32 pm
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>>17355
Children should not be in restaurants in the first place, especially not somewhere like Claridges.
>> No. 17358 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 9:14 pm
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Well I'm not allowed to bring other food into a restaurant. Let alone if I was eating it with my dick out.
>> No. 17359 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 9:25 pm
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>>17346
I'm going to assume you're not trolling and are just too obtuse to understand the distinction. Breasts on Page 3 are sexualised and there for titillation. Breasts in the mouths of babies are not sexualised and are there to feed the babies. It's not hypocrisy to decry the first breasts and support the second breasts; it's giving back to women the choice of when where and why they can get their tits out, which they are currently denied as in Claridges etc.
>> No. 17360 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 9:32 pm
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>>17359
I know it's hard to portray sarcasm on the internet, but I thought it was pretty obvious there.
>> No. 17361 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 9:44 pm
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>>17359
So you saw this:
>I saw a copy of the Sun in a newsagents once, it messed me up so badly that I need to look at cocks everyday or I start getting nightmares.
and your response was:
>I'm going to assume you're not trolling
Honest question, are you intoxicated?
>> No. 17362 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 9:49 pm
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>>17361
I wasn't addressing that bit of the post though.
>> No. 17363 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 11:47 pm
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>maybe I'm stirring up a hornets nest

I am rarely so accurate.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 17364 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 1:56 pm
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There's a guy in one of my uni classes who doesn't stop talking during lectures. It's been 3 months and there's never been a lecture without him chatting. Usually about the football too. Doesn't even whisper.

I want to smack him in the face. He's already been shushed once to which he ignored and kept chatting.
>> No. 17366 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 4:00 pm
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>>17364
Tell your lecturer that you're unable to concentrate due to this individual.
>> No. 17367 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 4:31 pm
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>>17364
Send him a threatening letter.
>> No. 17368 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 4:35 pm
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>>17366

This. Or, you could do what a guy in my human structure and function lecture did and turn around and ball them out in such resounding fashion that everyone cheered.
>> No. 17369 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 4:40 pm
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>>17364
There's a guy in my lectures who usually feels the need to shout out some unfunny joke, like he's the class clown in year 7.
>> No. 17370 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 5:39 pm
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>>17368
>ball

Bawl.
>> No. 17371 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 6:47 pm
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>>17370

Umm, where does it say they were playing cricket?

#sillypost
>> No. 17372 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 7:15 pm
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>>17366
I'm a course rep so I could probably tell them there's a disruptive student in the class and the lecturer should intervene at my next meeting. Though the next meeting is in February.
>> No. 17373 Anonymous
8th December 2014
Monday 8:49 pm
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>>17370

That is a shamerfur brindspot, I shall commit seppuku immediatery.
>> No. 17374 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 12:27 pm
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I hate it when people don't stack things in the washing up bowl properly, e.g. from the bottom up: a bowl, big plate, small pan, big plate, bowl with spoon in it, small plate balanced precariously thereon etc.
Grinds my semi-autismal gears it does, even seeing someone wash up without organisinvthe bowl properly gets me going.
>> No. 17375 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 5:54 pm
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The really pretty lady with really big boobs on Pointless isn't going to win, so she's not going to jump up and down with excitement.
>> No. 17376 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 5:56 pm
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>>17374
What's worse is when someone leaves a sharp knife in the bottom.
>> No. 17378 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 6:33 pm
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>>17375
I was going to insult her for her unfamiliarity with Radio 4, but to do so seems silly when most respondents to the Pointless survey failed either to recognise the United States' flag or name its currency. That has to be massively divergent from a representative sample of the general adult population, right?
>> No. 17379 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 6:39 pm
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>>17378

Overestimation of the general populace is all too easy, sadly.
>> No. 17380 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 8:45 pm
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>>17376
Exactly my point, it's a complete pot luck plunging your hands into the warm suds with some people, after they've left something to soak for a while. Yes, I do bother to help with washing up things because a clean cooking space is pretty much vital, usually to no personal benefit because the sadsacks I live with can't be arsed to fucking do it themselves. They whinge about washing up not being done if I don't do it. Alas, this is another story for the shit flatmates thread.

Also, sorry for the typo, I was on my tablet earlier.

>>17379

Sadly, people are stupid. I know people in their mid-20s who don't know what the Winter Solstice or an Equinox is.
>> No. 17381 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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I vaguely understand who Dapper Laughs is, I'm not entirely sure what Lena Dunham does and now I keep reading about this Zoella girl who has written a book or something.

Also, a lesbian moonbat fisherperson I know has just bought a puppy and called her Norman to show how right on and progressive she is.
>> No. 17382 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>17381
Search me. I have no idea on any of those things or people either. Didn't this "Zoella" person supposedly have something ghost-written shocker? Most celeb hardbacks are bloody ghost-written! Stewart Lee is laughing his way into his bedchamber as we speak.

"Right on" people have existed at least since the turn of the C20th afaik, your concern is nothing new.
>> No. 17383 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 10:29 pm
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>>17381>>17382

Nobody's forcing you to visit news sites and not read the articles.
>> No. 17384 Anonymous
9th December 2014
Tuesday 10:38 pm
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>>17383
But why should I care if they've only been made known to me now? Surely, if they were of any importance like the Lord Chancellor or the guys in charge of various local public transport providers I might already know who those people are.

The problem might be that I don't really care, as I am online more than I am watching telly. Even then I don't watch it except for BBC and ITV when sports are on, and when online my path decidedly doesn't cross with a lot of other people I know and these online celebrities simply don't figure in my experience at all. We use fa.gs for a start, that rules most of us out of having a more popular, mainstream appreciation of the web, judging by how a lot of us conduct ourselves and the jokes and references we try to make.
>> No. 17401 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 10:54 am
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People who put sequins and other sparkly shit inside Christmas cards so that when you open them you just end up with a mess on your lap/the carpet.
>> No. 17405 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 4:26 pm
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>>17401
Some people put glitter in them.
>> No. 17406 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 6:11 pm
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>>17401>>17405
That's never happened to me.

From this I will make the logical deduction that people only put glitter in the cards of cunts who deserve it for some reason.
>> No. 17407 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 7:10 pm
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>>17406
Maybe you don't have mates?
>> No. 17410 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 7:54 pm
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I feel somewhat guilty about the following rant, but please don't judge me too harshly lads.

There's this fucking paki bitch who has just started work at my place. I sincerely apologise for using that racial slur, but frankly I can't think of any other way to describe her- She's not just your ordinary annoying asian girl. She's a fucking paki, you know? A fucking paki. Having known her for less than a week, and spoken to her directly fewer than half a dozen times, I already know her entire family history. All about her lovely arranged marriage and baby girl. I know every fucking detail of the birth. Because she does not shut the fuck up, and she talks as though she is speaking to someone on the other side of the window at the opposite end of the bloody office.

And her accent, good fucking lord. Again, I don't usually judge people negatively based on racial traits, and it wouldn't be a problem if she would at least shut her fucking mouth for at least five minutes every so often, but it drives me fucking mad. The worst aspects of Asian accents mixed with the most common of Yorkshire tongues, that are both perfectly fine on their own. But when mixed, it's just the most fucking grating kind of obnoxiously thick tone, that comes across as dense as a ton of lead.

She's like a real life racist caricature of her own race. I don't know how I'm going to put up with her.
>> No. 17411 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 7:59 pm
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>>17410

>I sincerely apologise for using that racial slur, but frankly I can't think of any other way to describe her

Then you are as thick and unpleasant as she is, please go away.
>> No. 17412 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 8:01 pm
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>>17410
I don't understand. Do you hate her because she talks too much, or because she is not white?
>> No. 17413 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 8:06 pm
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>>17412

Just the overall obnoxiousness of her personality in general, which regrettably, her ethnicity plays a part in, because she's the type who will bring it up at every turn ("Oh it's probably an Asian thing, but..." and so on).

You lot are probably southern poofs who've never needed to get your heads around the distinction between a paki and a paki anyway though, so I didn't expect you to understand.
>> No. 17414 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 9:25 pm
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>>17413

Are you also a caricature? Have you phased through from another dimension where everyone is a twat, as opposed to just most people?

You sound like those people who use that shitty Chris Rock bit to call people n*ggers.

Apparently you get banned for an hour if you post the proper word, so this post is late
>> No. 17415 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 9:31 pm
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>>17413
>You lot are probably southern poofs who've never needed to get your heads around the distinction between a paki and a paki anyway though, so I didn't expect you to understand.
It's not as though there are any immigrants down south.
>> No. 17416 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 9:36 pm
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I find myself increasingly incensed by those who continue to wear enamel British Legion poppies year round and simultaneously seem to come to the conclusion that soldiers being killed and maimed physically, mentally and emotionally is not political at all if you talk to them about war. It's not mental gymnastics of any kind I know, but part of this whole ARE BOYS rhetoric that has grown in recent years and shows just how culturally militarised so many of us appear to be. It ignores the fact that the infamous recent War in Iraq was decided politically, Afghanistan out of some sense of political superiority and moral justness.
War is generally political and economic, sod the religion angle, those wars dressed up as such are almost exclusively for the gain of a particular faction or nation-state.

War is ultimately a political decision, enforced through either public support or backhanded dealing that may use the old brocade of religion or ethnic nonsense to shield from view what have been and are currently dynastic wranglings. I don't like the idea of people being sent to kill and maim - and be killed and be maimed on a false sense of protecting ARE COUNTREH and how this is somehow conflated with a sense of acquiescence to the numerous half-blind judgements of any military decision made at the level of government and the military themselves once this mandate has been granted.
>> No. 17417 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 9:47 pm
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>>17414

Please, cease with your middle class word phobia. It's quite pathetic. People in real life use the sort of words you think are blasphemous all the time, and in so doing changed the intrinsic meaning, which has done far more to liberate minorities from prejudice than any of your moralising.
>> No. 17418 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 9:50 pm
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>>17415
Yeah but you get the nice ones. We get the smelly child raping ones.
>> No. 17419 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 10:33 pm
17419 Oh, bloody hell, I got a tad carried away.
>>17417

Ahh, yeah, I must be middle class to not want to call people pakis. I mean, I have no fucking idea how, but I guess I have several grands worth of savings no one's told me about. And I really should ask my uncle for that walk in job I've been promised since I finished secondary school. But which uncle, the alcoholic schizophrenic or the one that makes toilets? Hmm, I just don't fucking know, on account of how dim and middle class I am, no doubt, YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING CUNT BRAINED SHIT MUNCHER!

Just because "real life" cunts, like yourself, think it's fine calling people pakis and faggots and whatever other demeaning slurs you like to slop out of that twathole you call a mouth, doesn't mean I have to. And I'm going to keep having a problem with it until you stop, or I explode that prick from series 1 of Heroes.

Maybe, just fucking maybe, the reason I can't stand this shit is because I've seen people have to put up with this language, and how it's used to make people feel belittled, excluded and abused.

I wish someone had spayed your cunt mother before your turd self dropped out of her, I really do.
>> No. 17421 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 11:31 pm
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>>17417
Racist epithets don't free anyone. It creates a demeaning and hostile environment, where you are not an individual, but part of this bigger group. You are many, and every action you take will reflect on the group. Be brown and rape someone? God help all the other law-abiding brownlads. That is something white people are free from, and will never understand. Is it too much to ask to stop being racist?
>> No. 17423 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 11:55 pm
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>>17421
>>17419

Jesus fucking christ. Fuck off back to tumblr you fucking crybabies.

Both of you have spectacularly missed the point because you are focussed on the traditional definitions of words that you have internalised as nasty, evil hate attacks. The point is that that is not always the context or intention with which they are used.

The reason I poke at you for being middle class is because if either of you had ever actually been exposed to sizable communities of asians, blacks, gays or whatnot, you'd know that they pretty much always reclaim the words that have been used to attack them in the past. As a white person you can't throw the word around as generously, but honestly, they don't get offended if you do once they know that you have been around long enough to understand the group dynamic and social context.

I guarantee you will never hear the word "paki" used more often than if you work in a call centre with a sizeable asian/eskimo employee base. And you will get used to being called a gura/gori/gwilo or whatever.

I mean jesus can you two listen to a song like this without having a heart attack?

https://www.youtube.com/v/fBY38tgQmzs
>> No. 17424 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 2:45 am
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>>17423
Not either of the lads you're arguing with, but you seem to have missed something rather important:
>once they know that you have been around long enough to understand the group dynamic and social context
That's probably true here as well, and since that context is impossible on an anonymous imageboard we don't know you well enough to know you're using 'paki' in whatever way you think makes it ok for you to do so, so you're just coming across as an aggressive racist who doesn't know what 'middle class' means.
>> No. 17425 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 6:56 am
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I hate this obsession with race and racism. You're all getting too septic for my liking.
>> No. 17427 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 9:23 am
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>>17423

Racistlad:

I agree, some words are just words - but let me put it simply - it's all in the context and intent.

The N word gets used a lot in a affectionate way, even amongst skinny white lads meeting up for their League of Legends tournament.

The way you described your pakistani worker, speaks volumes as you attached the worst attributes to the race. As if somehow, the two traits are inseparable. Then you go on about how it's "social" dynamics and it somehow alleviates any offence, but yet saying "fucking paki" no less.
I don't really get how race and being unpleasant can mix into this one identity of a person, but for a low-brow dense cunt like yourself, it's the hallmark of someone that is frustrated with their own shortcomings - and it has to be race.

I worked with this Indian lass once, she thought she was god's gift and she was spoilt and rather dim. It's the cultural upbringing that harbours that sort of thing, not specifically race. There are plenty of examples of white sub-groups that act like loud obnoxious morons.

You sound like a genuine pillock though, so I don't expect this to penetrate your vacuous head.
>> No. 17428 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 9:37 am
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>White people arguing about racism on an imageboard

You could at least be civil to each other, it's a very dense subject that cannot really be discussed on an imageboard.
>> No. 17429 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 9:41 am
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>>17428
But I'd have expected there to be a lot of dense people on image boards. It's the perfect place!
>> No. 17430 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 12:10 pm
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>>17428

I'm sort of sorry, although I maintain telling him his mother ought to have been spayed was rather good.

Honestly it was moreover the umpteenth time I was being called "middle class" that got to me. The frustration of being constantly faced with "real life" working class pricks, intent on proving all over class' assumptions about how thick and unthinking they are true, that is what made me go all ranty-ranty.
>> No. 17431 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 12:14 pm
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>>17427
>I worked with this Indian lass once, she thought she was god's gift and she was spoilt and rather dim. It's the cultural upbringing that harbours that sort of thing

Spoilt rich brats that behave like this are hardly an issue confined to race; I've met plenty of thick white girls, Asian girls, brown girls, pink polka dot spotted girls - who were all treated to the best education money could buy at daddy's purse strings, along with the latest Prada handbag, and then walked into jobs straight after their 2:2 degrees. And they all say "yah" a lot, and were distinct fans of the side-braid-across-the-head trend. And all seem to be called Poppy.
>> No. 17436 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 1:44 am
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General incompetence. Perhaps these guys need a Certified Webmaster to help them out? I know just the man.
>> No. 17437 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 8:56 pm
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"Bake-off". It's people getting emotional about people baking fucking cakes for crying out loud, it appears the terrestrial networks are vying for the Monkey Tennis Award.
>> No. 17438 Anonymous
13th December 2014
Saturday 11:37 pm
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>>17437
Utter lunacy when it comes to this big British wank off carry on. So glad it's over for the meanwhile.
>> No. 17439 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 12:37 am
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>>17438
>big British wank off

Now that I would watch.
>> No. 17441 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 10:38 am
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Heh, I love letting things fester in here for two days.

It's just hilarious how you lot are so incapable of believing that someone finds a person that little bit more annoying because they have a Dewsbury Asian accent, and that you're sure the poster in question is a EDL type neanderthal because they do. You would have no problem if I made the same post about a christian who won't stop going on about it, but because I made a post about getting annoyed with an Eskimaux, I'm obviously a bad person.

It's great because I made pretty much the same observation to one of my colleagues and he was in total agreement, despite his brown skin. You lot are just an over sensitive set of wankers.

>>17430

But you are middle class, aren't you samosalad? What did mummy and daddy do for a living might I ask? If you actually weren't middle class, which is objectively the worst kind of class, then perhaps you wouldn't be getting called it so often. Now fuck off until you've come up with some edgier insults, you Waitrose shopping dick.
>> No. 17442 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 10:46 am
17442 Those goofy faces on Youtube
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WHY??
>> No. 17443 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 11:22 am
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>>17442
I also wondered this, a lot of LPer's do it, and I guess it draws (retarded) 15 year old viewers into examining why they have that expression.
But it's so formulaic, the dubstep intros, the face-cam, the wannabe pewdiepie degeneracy, it's fairly nauseating.

Also fuck calling your child "piper" - this "my special snowflake" mentality is equally putrid.
>> No. 17444 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 11:31 am
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>>17443

The name Piper has been around for a while now mate.
>> No. 17445 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 12:22 pm
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>>17444
but it was always preceded by 'the pied'
>> No. 17446 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:31 pm
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I like videogames and occasionally watch let's plays so Youtube thinks I need to see that irritating poewdiepie fucker's face recommended every time.

Cunt.

Where's the "never show me this thing again" button? Amazon have one.
>> No. 17447 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:34 pm
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>>17446
Youtubes recommendation system deserves it's whole own thread.

Even when it suggests stuff you actually like, it brings up the same old things over and over.
>> No. 17448 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:43 pm
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>>17442

This fucking cunt does it in every single video, he covers some very interesting stuff to me but I can feel a little twinge of anger bubbling in me when I see the thumbnail.
>> No. 17449 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:45 pm
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>>17447
I know, it's baffling. I'm sure it's one of those computer science quandaries where laymen like me think "how fucking hard can it be?" and the answer is "really fucking hard, actually".

I don't see how adding "don't want to watch this" or "seen this already" buttons would be so difficult, though.
>> No. 17450 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:48 pm
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>>17449
Exactly.

I find I get loads of crap building up due to videos I've watched embedded elsewhere, or videos that friends have sent me. You can delete individual videos from your history but it's fucking tedious, or you can just go all the way and delete your entire history, in which case you're back at square one.
>> No. 17451 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:56 pm
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Well fuck me.

I've just took a closer look at youtube.

Hover your mouse just under the time indicator on a video thumbnail, a little menu button appears, you can click that and then click "not interest".

Thanks Youtube. Invisible buttons are a fucking brilliant idea, you twats.
>> No. 17452 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 4:08 pm
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>>17451
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/v/9u6Bfnq3aZk
>> No. 17456 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 1:48 pm
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They had an interview with a Buzzfeed 'journalist' on Radio 2 about what's going on in Australia. All I know is that he brought the wrong jihadi flag and that people have been posing outside the café to take selfies.
>> No. 17457 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>17451
Post a screencap else I declare you're tripping.
>> No. 17458 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 4:28 pm
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>>17457

He's right. If you hover over the exact right spot, three tiny grey dots appear and you can click there.
>> No. 17459 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 5:03 pm
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>>17458
Those dots appear for me if my mouse is anywhere in the general area of this red box.
>> No. 17460 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 5:43 pm
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>>17297
Fuck's sake. Eight mile queue to get on the M4. Where does it think it is, London?
>> No. 17461 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 6:03 pm
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>>17459
Next you'll mention the button in the top right of your image that basically does the same thing and is permanently visible. No, you haven't grasped the enormity of their incompetence at all.
>> No. 17462 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 6:33 pm
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>>17461
That button clears an entire set of recommendations, not individual videos though.

>>17460
I'd queue for eight miles to get out of Cardiff too.
>> No. 17476 Anonymous
17th December 2014
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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>>17425
I think the problem lies partly with the people who feel it necessary to bring up their own ethnicity to highlight a particular character trait that is supposed to be inextricably linked with having Pakistani/English/Italian/whatever heritage etc.
Liking olives and grilled sardines and gesticulating whilst speaking even once a week is fuck all to do with your genes. The fat fishwife semi-closeted EDL supporter who starts a fight for no reason in a takeaway brigade like bringing up how being English means being disappointed in life; I suppose they're half right.

Seppos are irritatingly obsessed with this and trying to cling onto whatever kind of "identity" they can cobble together through buying Irish or Scotch-themed tat as if it means they have a significant connection to some 1/256 relative who got kicked out of the Highlands. You can sell an identity to those people.
>> No. 17483 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 9:27 am
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>> No. 17484 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 9:57 am
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I have an ulcer on my tongue, a vile cough in my throat, and my internet has all but totally crapped out. I just want to watch some XCOMs and pretend like everything's fine, but my pathetic physical state and circa 2003-tier download speeds have made these things impossible.
>> No. 17485 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 2:37 pm
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>> No. 17486 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 2:41 pm
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>>17484
>watch some XCOMs
What does this mean?
>> No. 17487 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 3:21 pm
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>>17476
>Seppos are irritatingly obsessed with this and trying to cling onto whatever kind of "identity" they can cobble together through buying Irish or Scotch-themed tat as if it means they have a significant connection to some 1/256 relative who got kicked out of the Highlands.

Of all the things I dislike about our Septic pals 'across the pond' (sigh), this is in the top 3. If I was Irish and was surrounded by those cunts every St Patrick's Day in the pub when I only wanted an ale or two, I wouldn't be happy.

The other things about Seppos that annoy me are their insistence that USA = #1 for everything and anything that suggests otherwise is a 'lying Europoor' and the way they are obvivious to how much propaganda they've been force fed from birch
>> No. 17490 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 3:28 pm
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>>17476
It's always been an ambition of mine to trace my family tree back far enough that I can have an idea of my heritage, and then to become ostentatiously proud of it. The most exotic place featured in the family tree that I currently have, that my granddad put together, is Sheffield.
>> No. 17494 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 7:03 pm
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>>17490
I don't think you can beat mine; an Ethiopian royal who lost his domain and married an English farmer's daughter.
>> No. 17496 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>17494
My other half did her family tree and found out she's a descendant of Edward III. It's not as impressive when you go back 32 generations (or maybe it was 22) and youve got 4,294,967,296 great^32grandparents.
>> No. 17497 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 10:35 pm
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I'd care more about Sony being blackmailed into dropping their new film if it didn't look so shit. I know it's a silly, post-modern way of looking at things, but I'm so into basically everything else.
>> No. 17498 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 11:41 pm
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>>17497
I'm praying that it gets leaked in HD quality and everyone gets a copy. The only losers then would be those Sony cowards, NK, and those gutless cinemas.
>> No. 17501 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 1:54 am
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>>17486

Why it's XCOMs, of course!

https://www.youtube.com/v/3GBRBBnNJ2A

But who gives a fuck anyway, because Youtube still stutters the video to buggery, and it won't even let me select the format! Oh, and Youtube centre hasn't been updated for 18 months, and doesn't appear to do jack shit! YIPEE!
>> No. 17502 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 1:58 am
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>>17501

I knew it, I bloody knew it! I can select and format I want and it buffers fine in the embedded version.

I hope you people like this one because the next hundred or so being embedded here too.
>> No. 17503 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 2:08 am
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>>17497
The thrice-accursed Sony shall be reduced to a sea of flames! The Imperialist yankee pig shall be forever made to flee our twice blessed brownie force. Gratious leader (I forget the deferential) allows me to watch hentai ^_^
>> No. 17504 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 2:14 am
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>>17497

I fear for Sony's phone division. It is losing millions, I think they'll sell it or axe it and I've stuck with Sony for years. I know Samsung are good, but I'm old and set in my ways.
>> No. 17505 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 2:15 am
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Some cunt stole my mudkip. We had great adventures together that thing and I, now it's just gone. Who does that? What sort of person just steals a mudkip?
>> No. 17506 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 6:50 am
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>>17497
I think it's a really clever and sophisticated marketing ruse. They'll eventually release it and shitloads of people will now see it to make a point of not letting the terrorists win.
>> No. 17507 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 7:11 am
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>>17506

I think releasing the "funny" racist banter about Obama might have been a step too far in that regard.
>> No. 17508 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 11:48 am
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>>17501
That game was alright. A bit short and it got really easy towards the end, as I recall.

Your computer sounds fucked, by the way.

>>17507
The CEO of Snapchat was so upset at the leaks, he needed a hug off his teacher. No, really.
http://www.cnet.com/news/snapchat-ceo-devastated-by-email-leak-in-sony-hack/

There's no chance it's a marketing ruse, anyway. All the dull celeb gossip shit aside there's apparently loads of financial information and personal details. Expect lawsuits.
>> No. 17509 Anonymous
20th December 2014
Saturday 9:28 pm
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I've just seen my first "they're trying to ban saying Merry Christmas" remark of the year. Fortunately, most of the responses have been about how this is brought on by the fear of offending someone than by people actually being offended by it.

It's got me thinking though. A year or two ago there was something on TV with the BBC's head of diversity (actually I think his job title was more grandiose and ridiculous) and he came across as very pompous and up his own arse; he didn't seem like he gave a shiny shite about diversity, but he'd realised he could carve out a very well paid career out of it. Is political correctness and the like made up? Have people effectively made up their own industry to create a raft of lucrative non-jobs?
>> No. 17510 Anonymous
20th December 2014
Saturday 10:08 pm
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>It's got me thinking though. A year or two ago there was something on TV with the BBC's head of diversity (actually I think his job title was more grandiose and ridiculous) and he came across as very pompous and up his own arse; he didn't seem like he gave a shiny shite about diversity, but he'd realised he could carve out a very well paid career out of it. Is political correctness and the like made up? Have people effectively made up their own industry to create a raft of lucrative non-jobs?

Indeed.
>> No. 17511 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 2:39 am
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Cyber Monday. Panic Saturday. Black Friday.

Sigh. When will it end? I just can't deal with this any more. Everyday, every social situation is becoming tedious. I can't deal with it any more. It is like being interviewed for a job. The process of the interview is life itself for me now.
>> No. 17512 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 7:53 am
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When you visit the famille and your conversations seem more like interrogations. You know, the whole 'why haven't you got a job yet? Are you still single? When are you going to uni? Our [insert name of cousin of same age] has just finished her first year, don't you know?'

Just give it a rest. I have this shit on my mind 364 days a year, give me a day off...
>> No. 17513 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 8:03 am
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>>17512
>I have this shit on my mind 364 days a year

Plenty of time to come up with an answer, then.
>> No. 17514 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 8:37 am
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>>17512

Try an honest answer? I mean, I'd have to tell them that I've failed to see the point in living for a some 18 months now, and meeting new people makes me want to scratch my own throat out, but that's just me.
>> No. 17515 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 9:14 am
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>>17514

I'm now displaying just how mentally wronged in the brain I am by posting a /101/ about my previous post. However, I am always adding pointless shit like "I mean" or "Well" to the start of sentences that really don't need it. It's really annoying me lately, but I'm too much of a chump to regularly correct it.
>> No. 17516 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 9:54 am
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>>17512
Sorry frenchlad, we all go through the same bollox.
>> No. 17517 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 10:41 pm
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>After receiving flak from as high up as the president for pulling The Interview, Sony is now saying it will publicly release the film. "Sony only delayed this," said Sony's attorney David Boies on NBC's Meet The Press. He clarified that last week's announcement was only meant to signal a delay on The Interview's planned Christmas Day release. "Sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed. It will be distributed.”

I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL A RUSE.
>> No. 17518 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 10:50 pm
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>>17517
Bear in mind that they didn't choose to pull the release, they were forced. It's a bit difficult to claim your film is going on release if nobody's willing to show it.
>> No. 17519 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 11:10 pm
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>>17518
Forced to by their own elaborate ruse.
>> No. 17520 Anonymous
21st December 2014
Sunday 11:27 pm
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>>17517

They hired a new spin doctor and are trying to walk back their abject lack of spine: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/20/sony-celebrity-spin-doctor-judy-smith-interview-north-korea-scandal-hacking

>>17519

Elaborate enough to fool the Septics' intelligence agencies etc?
>> No. 17521 Anonymous
22nd December 2014
Monday 12:17 am
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>>17519
You might want to try paying attention once in a while. You'd be amazed at the things you'd find out.
>> No. 17522 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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SPE have apparently now un-cancelled the release now that some independent cinemas have stepped up and declared their willingness to screen the film.
>> No. 17523 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 6:21 pm
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>>17297
Back on-topic:

Apparently, for working out whether the costs of complying with FOI requests are excessive, the figure to be used is £25/hour. If the man-hours are really costing that much, either they need to stop putting senior executives on trivial research duty, or they need to cut down on the hookers and blow for the FOI officers. (£25/hour is around £49k, and the non-salary costs are nil because nothing is used which wouldn't be required anyway - the building would still need to be heated and lit, and records management processes are required to support business-as-usual.)
>> No. 17524 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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I want to know which cunt is going around buying up all the turkey basters and which cunt didn't think to stock their shop up with them before xmas.

Also the fact that I forgot they even existed until two days before The Event.
>> No. 17525 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 7:33 pm
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>>17524
Why am I still waiting for something to arrive five days after it was posted first class? It's Christmas, not the end of the world.
>> No. 17526 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 7:36 pm
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Why do biblical rains only ever start about half an hour after I've left the flat without a brolly? FFS
>> No. 17527 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 5:50 am
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I wish the Guardian site would just keep its old design or switch to the new one already. I never know which version I'm going to get from page to page.
>> No. 17528 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 7:55 am
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>>17527
The new one is awful and I don't mean this from a 'I hate any form of change' perspective, it's just shite.
>> No. 17529 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>17527

They're still a/b testing. The web team will be analysing the data to see if the new design works in line with their business objectives, e.g. increased time on site, greater social media engagement etc.
>> No. 17530 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 2:43 pm
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Controversial I know, but I quite like the Guardians redesign - but then I like a lot of site redesigns, I think they should be continuously improving and changing, but there is a good section of the interwebs that doesn't agree.
>> No. 17531 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>17530

The old design was so bloody good though. It was google level simplicity that delivered their content in the simplest, most efficient way possible. I usually do enjoy change and improvement but I really don't see how they could make it any better than it was, save for adding a button that removed all comments and opinion pieces.
>> No. 17532 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 9:51 pm
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The evil Bond in Skyfall is a physically repulsive sex weirdo. It's a bit of a tiring trope that the meanest people are always the ugliest and most handsy. Also as I've been typing this there's like a cool, sexy hacking scene which is never a good thing.

>>17530>>17531

I feel as though the redesign is just a way to get the twin tablet and desktop layouts all on the same page, and that maybe I'd like the redesign if I had a chance to get used to it.
>> No. 17533 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 12:37 pm
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Ego boosting women n facebook. EHRMAHGERD UR SO PRETTY xx, so hot xx, omg u cud b a model.
>> No. 17534 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 12:51 pm
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>> No. 17535 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 12:53 pm
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>>17534

I'm pretty sure it's spelled 'wey aye'.

The way that some of the people on my facebook type "and all" is fantastic. "wey aye I did that anal"
>> No. 17536 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 12:55 pm
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>>17535
m8, it's anorl.
>> No. 17537 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 1:53 pm
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My missus did a cheeky turkey and stuffing buttie for me because she cooks the turkey the night before and it turns out she just mixed the stuffing with hot water in a bowl and slathered it on.

Didn't even cook it.
>> No. 17538 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>17537

That's what you get for being a right shit, Littlefinger.
>> No. 17539 Anonymous
25th December 2014
Thursday 5:39 pm
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>>17537
That's grounds for separation.
>> No. 17540 Anonymous
26th December 2014
Friday 1:49 pm
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I keep swearing at people when I'm playing games online, shooty tactical nerd games, to be precise. I blame The Thick of It.
>> No. 17541 Anonymous
26th December 2014
Friday 5:06 pm
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4oD is now playing me adverts but refusing to show the content itself on the grounds that I have adblock software installed even when I disable all of it. What a twat.
>> No. 17542 Anonymous
26th December 2014
Friday 5:22 pm
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>>17541

The video quality of their on demand service is so shit I can't believe they have the tenacity to put so many ads in. A handful of ads I will tolerate, but not TV level advertising for 1/4 video quality.

At the very least it's bad business, given that on the internet people have so many choices, what exactly is the motivation the use the official means?
>> No. 17543 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 12:08 pm
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I've had to download and sign up for "Uplay" in order to play FarCry 3 Blood Dragon, despite purchasing the game off Steam. I don't think I'd have bothered had I known.
>> No. 17544 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 12:18 pm
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>>17543
Got Dark Souls recently which wants Games for Windows. If I'd paid proper attention to the small printknown I wouldn't have bothered either.
>> No. 17545 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 1:48 pm
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>>17543

Uplay is awful, but I'd say it's the least intrusive version of this cunt's trick. GFWL was/is far worse and more broken, and Origin is just torture. I've never not been able to play a game because Uplay wasn't working properly, so that's something I suppose.

It's one of the only times PC gaming is worse than consoles. No matter what game you stick in an xbox now, it just makes a uplay/origin/whatever account for your gamertag. Sorted.
>> No. 17546 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 3:18 pm
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These bastards and their sub-par infrastructure.
>> No. 17547 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 5:01 pm
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>>17546
krautchan?
>> No. 17548 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 5:11 pm
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Someone had put the toaster up to 9 (out of 9) so I've now got black toast.
>> No. 17549 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 5:36 pm
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>>17548

That's poor form. Cunts.
>> No. 17550 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 7:10 pm
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It's a comedian episode of Pointless Celebrities but it's Alistair McGowan, that Roisin woman they keep foisting onto the screen, that Milton from Mock the Week and that annoying Hal dickhead.
>> No. 17551 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 8:02 pm
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>>17548
My housemate keeps doing this. I could smack her.
>> No. 17552 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 10:03 pm
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>>17550
Ronni Ancona has a nice pair of baps.
>> No. 17553 Anonymous
27th December 2014
Saturday 10:28 pm
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>>17552
Nothing goes with baps like a good sausage.
>> No. 17554 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 6:13 am
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People who talk at you for fucking ages.

I'm facing away from you and grunting instead of giving you any actual response, why can't you be like any other human and pick up on these very obvious cues. Don't make me look at my watch again.

Honestly, at this point in my life I'm just wondering if it's easier to be a complete cunt and just tell them to stop talking, or just walk off without saying anything. Or maybe every single conversation I ever have I just need to preface it with a lie about having to go catch a train.
>> No. 17555 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 7:46 am
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>>17548
>>17549
>>17551

Now now lads, sometimes you need to do this for proper crumpets.
>> No. 17556 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 10:38 am
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>>17555
Bollocks. Crumpets are better at low medium twice than at high once.

Actually, crumpets deserve to go under a proper grill. Toasted crumpets are shite.
>> No. 17557 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 1:27 pm
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>>17556>>17555

Speaking of crumpets, my new metal toaster is far too deep for them, and trying to get them out takes about two minutes and several burnt fingers.

Unrelated, but I just saw something called "The Big Allotment Challenge" being advertised on BBC2.

I don't even know. Wouldn't it take several seasons to film just the one series? How fast does a leek grow? Not fast enough for an episode a week, surely?
>> No. 17558 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 1:46 pm
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>>17556

>Crumpets are better at low medium twice than at high once.

I would seek an injunction on you ever having access to crumpets again for such heresy.
>> No. 17559 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 5:26 pm
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>>17558
No, you daft nonce. A short blast on a high heat is no way to treat a crumpet. If you did that at my place you'd be straight over the balcony and into the canal. Fuck you, Canalpusher. This cunt's mine.
>> No. 17560 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 5:28 pm
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>>17559
You can't vary the heat on a toaster, only the time.
>> No. 17561 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>>17560

For some reason this I read this internally as a very deep, philosophical statement.
>> No. 17562 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 6:06 pm
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>>17561
But are you the toaster, or the crumpet?

And who's the butter?
>> No. 17563 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 6:32 pm
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>>17562
I prefer a smidgen of Marmite on mine.
>> No. 17564 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>> No. 17565 Anonymous
28th December 2014
Sunday 8:13 pm
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>>17564
What do you know? They're right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler_Group
>> No. 17566 Anonymous
29th December 2014
Monday 3:10 am
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>>17565
My dad always used to make the 'Schindler's lift' joke at every opportunity.

I bet escalators and whatnot are a really interesting industry.

I suppose that's this morning's Wikipedia reading lined up.
>> No. 17567 Anonymous
29th December 2014
Monday 11:51 am
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>>17564
Connor is obviously a total bellend.
>> No. 17568 Anonymous
29th December 2014
Monday 5:19 pm
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Google search history. I've disabled it repeatedly in about half a dozen places and it's still suggesting previous searches.
>> No. 17569 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 12:50 am
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People who claim to have insomnia because they stayed awake till 3 playing mobile games on a bright LED screen after sitting on their arse all day.

Come to me when you can't get off to sleep despite sleeping tablets and a whole days exercise. You're in pain, you feel exhausted to the point of delirium and the pills are making you feel floaty, but can you sleep? Can you fuck.

In that moment, I'll console you. We'll chat about tactics and techniques. Until then, you're not an insomniac. You're a cunt.
>> No. 17571 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 6:50 am
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>>17569

Can you sleep OK during the day? If so, I was just wondering if you're aware of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
>> No. 17573 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 6:53 am
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I have spent so long "meaning to get around" to purchasing a certain book, that I have now completely forgotten all but the vaguest details of its title and author. It existence in my psyche is that of myth.

For anyone that can help, it was written by a German, and took place in the deserts of late 19th century America. Or perhaps it didn't and I imagined the whole thing.
>> No. 17574 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 8:07 am
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>>17573
Something by Karl May perhaps?
>> No. 17575 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 8:30 am
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>>17574

Wrong, but thank you anyway because the answer I was looking for was B. Traven, who I found in the "See Also" part of May's wiki page.

Thanks again!
>> No. 17576 Anonymous
30th December 2014
Tuesday 9:01 pm
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>>17569
Right on, mate. You're not an insomniac until you're staring at your bedside table clock crying at your empty bottle of temazepam and hoping the neighbours don't hear you because they already think you're a weirdo for foiling up the windows to keep the light out, wishing you had the energy to go for a walk but being too mentally tired to do so.

"I'm such an insomniac lol". Cunts.
>> No. 17577 Anonymous
31st December 2014
Wednesday 7:23 am
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This cunty puddle of shit will be given an MBE for "services to drama".

I bet ARE MAJ hasn't seen A League Of Their Own.
>> No. 17578 Anonymous
31st December 2014
Wednesday 7:56 am
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>>17577

Jack Whitehall's talk show got moved over to BBC2 as well. I really thought we had him this time too. This must be how the US Special Forces felt after Tora Bora.
>> No. 17579 Anonymous
31st December 2014
Wednesday 8:14 am
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>>17576

I wonder how well "blue blocking" sunglasses work.
>> No. 17580 Anonymous
2nd January 2015
Friday 12:49 pm
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I feel like the Hairy Bikers peaked in Japan, and now in South Korea they're just phoning it in.
>> No. 17581 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 6:35 pm
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I was in Asda earlier today and there was a woman with her daughter, about nine or ten, and her trolley was stacked full of pot noodles (at least 30) and chicken nuggets. It's one thing subjecting yourself to it, but if you have kids you should take it upon yourself to learn to do more than put the kettle on or shove shite in the oven.

While I'm on about shopping, my other half always buys double strength squash and it boils my piss.
>> No. 17582 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 6:39 pm
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>>17581
>it boils my piss
You need to dilute it some more, m8.
>> No. 17583 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 6:48 pm
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>>17581

What's worse is there's these things called "Shin cups" right next to the pot noodles that have both a far lower salt content and much richer flavor. The noodles actually look like noodles too.

And squash is horrid, you should leave that person in a layby in the rain.
>> No. 17584 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 7:38 pm
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>>17583
>squash is horrid

Apart from pressed apple juice, or when I'm at work and go through several litres of water, most of what I drink is Robinsons orange and summer fruits squash.
>> No. 17585 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 8:46 pm
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>>17583
Nong shin ramen are some of the most continuously highly rated ramen available. Bit spicy though. Lovely stuff. Most chinese supermarkets will sell you boxes of 20 packets for a tenner, I try to have a box around as backup for when I run low on real food.
>> No. 17586 Anonymous
3rd January 2015
Saturday 11:54 pm
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>>17585
You don't buy ramen, you buy noodles. Ramen is a dish. You can't buy highly rated ramn, it's the same as saying you got a highly rated Sunday Roast.

Sorry, this always fucks me off.
>> No. 17587 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 12:55 am
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>>17586
>it's the same as saying you got a highly rated Sunday Roast
There are roast dinner ready meals, which is the equivalent. Some of them will be better than others, presumably.

Nong Shin are shit, anyway.
>> No. 17588 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 3:45 pm
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>>17587
What other brand of instant noodle would you recommend then?
>> No. 17589 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 4:31 pm
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>>17586

Elitist weaboo.

Now there is a turn.
>> No. 17590 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:18 pm
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>>17588
Brands aren't that important. In general, Chinese and Korean ramen are cheap and nasty. The Japanese bowl ones are significantly more expensive (in the £1.50-£2.50 range) but are much nicer, if you can find them.
>> No. 17591 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:26 pm
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>>17590
£2.50? I could get a decent sausage and chips or make my own noodle soup from scratch for that much.
>> No. 17592 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:40 pm
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>>17590>>17591

It seems more to do with names than anything else. After a quick google for online shops selling eastern foods, shops that claim to be specialists in Japanese foods are selling the exact same products for a higher price than chinese or general oriental stores.

http://www.japancentre.com/items/nong-shim-hot-spicy-shin-ramen-cup-noodle-soup-small
http://shop.waiyeehong.com/noodles/instant-noodles-bowlpot/shin-cup-noodles-hot-spicy
>> No. 17593 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:43 pm
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>>17592
It's still three times the price of nong shin at one fifty.
>> No. 17594 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>>17592
If you buy Nong Shin noodles from a Japanese food store they'll still taste shit, and yes, probably cost more than if you'd bought them elsewhere. Your point was what, exactly?
>> No. 17595 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 5:51 pm
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>>17588

Not him but try Demae Ramen, beef or spicy is their best
>> No. 17596 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 6:02 pm
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>>17594
My point was I asked what other noodles you'd recommend as being better and as cheap as 50p nong shin, the ones you're recommending are apparently £1.50 at their cheapest. That you can pay £1.50 for nong shin if you want doesn't seem relevant.

>>17595
Thanks, I'll try them.
>> No. 17597 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 6:50 pm
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I can't get this one to go away. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
>> No. 17598 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:04 pm
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>>17596
>My point was I asked what other noodles you'd recommend as being better and as cheap as 50p nong shin
No, you asked "What other brand of instant noodle would you recommend then?" which is an open question. If you'd specified that price I wouldn't have bothered, there's nothing you can get for 50p that isn't plastic and nasty (but FWIW I'd agree that Demae Ramen are the least bad).
>> No. 17599 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:09 pm
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>>17597
PewdiePie? I know what you mean. He's like the Road Runner. He won't go down.
>> No. 17600 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:16 pm
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>>17599

It's more about the idea of him drinking anti-freeze. I'm not going to watch it to find out.
>> No. 17601 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:18 pm
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>>17596

Tesco sell them for 45p.
>> No. 17602 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:43 pm
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>>17600

Looks legit.
>> No. 17603 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:48 pm
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>>17589
I hate weeaboos, actually.
>> No. 17604 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:49 pm
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>>17603
I hate people who use the word 'weeaboo', outside of a PBF context.
>> No. 17605 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 7:54 pm
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>>17603

Are weeaboos still a thing? I thought everyone got bored of Japan and got fascinated with Scandinavia instead.
>> No. 17606 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 8:56 pm
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>>17604
I don't know what portable document filetypes have to do with it.
>> No. 17607 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 9:15 pm
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>>17605
Yes, but nobody likes them.
https://www.youtube.com/v/TBfWKmRFTjM
>> No. 17608 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 9:23 pm
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>>17607

Chris Chan is now Christine Chan (I'm assuming her, I don't actually know) and was arrested recently for vandalising a shop display of the new Sonic game then macing the manager when he tried to intervene citing "It's Sega's fault, they shouldn't have made his arms blue." as the reason why he did it.

What a lad(ette)!
>> No. 17609 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 10:22 pm
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>>17608
Yeah, full story on his wiki.

His court date is Feb 4th I believe. He might well go down this time.
>> No. 17610 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 10:59 pm
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>>17608
I had no idea who this individual was, and have spent a few minutes reading wiki articles about him. Channers can be so obsessed when they've found a disturbed individual to mock and torment.

At least this explains who the figure in 'Nicholas Cage Wants Cake' is.
>> No. 17611 Anonymous
4th January 2015
Sunday 11:07 pm
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>>17610

I think he is autistic. Most of the discussion surrounding him I've ever seen has been veering on pity, rather than outright mockery, but I don't tend to browse and post on 4chan so that is probably why.
>> No. 17612 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 12:06 am
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He is. There are/were a whole series of /cwc/ boards dedicated to fucking with him, and other "lulzcows" on the side when he was unavailable thanks to some other group protecting him somehow. I followed them for a while out of morbid curiosity, unsurprisingly every single active participant was quite badly mentally ill in one way or another. I think the chans hosting those pages are down for good now.
>> No. 17613 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 1:24 am
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I can't sleep. I had a really nice "down early, up early" sleep schedule and then a couple of existential fears meander into my brain space and cock the whole thing up. What a load.
>> No. 17617 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 5:20 pm
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>>17330
>This woman was meant to have birthed me.

That feeling is familiar to me.
>> No. 17627 Anonymous
6th January 2015
Tuesday 4:36 am
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ALL I WANT TO DO IS SLEEP
I'M SO TIRED
KEEPING MY HEAD UP AND EYES OPEN IS A CHALLENGE
BUT ONCE I GET INTO BED
I JUST
FUCKING
LAY THERE
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>> No. 17628 Anonymous
6th January 2015
Tuesday 4:57 am
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>>17627
Have a custard cream, lad. It'll sort you right out.
>> No. 17638 Anonymous
6th January 2015
Tuesday 7:35 pm
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I had some toffee Poppets earlier and now my teeth feel wrong.
>> No. 17642 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 12:10 pm
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There are two male, incredibly palpy spiders crouched on the tiles either side of my loo, and I now feel unable to go for a shit incase they mistake me for a big shitting lady spider and jump on me to inject me with their hairy spider sperm. I'm so backed up. My tummy hurts.
>> No. 17643 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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>>17642
Vacuum them lad.
>> No. 17644 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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>>17642
How do you know they're boy spiders? Can you see their spindly willies?
>> No. 17645 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 12:54 pm
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>>17644
I think being raped by spiders is just his fantasy.
>> No. 17646 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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>>17642
Get your cock out to the beasts, assert your dominance.
>> No. 17647 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 4:53 pm
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>>17638

I'd never eat something like that unless I had a toothbrush to hand.
>> No. 17648 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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>>17647

Then you're a straight up bitch.

Bought a Nestle Crunch bar tonight.

*ticks "autism"
>> No. 17649 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>17644
They have palps. Big palps. Full of spider sperm. Beefy palp loads.
>> No. 17650 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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>>17638
Poppets are awful, they're not coated in chocolate, they're coated in horrible pseudo-chocolate with is an amalgam of cocoa-powder and assorted vegetable oils.
>> No. 17651 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 9:49 pm
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>>17650
I like the mint ones.
>> No. 17652 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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>>17650
>with is an

Oh god what's gone wrong with my typing today?

I'm having one of those weeks where I'm suddenly doing things like forgetting to add my attachment to emails if you know what I mean
>> No. 17653 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>17652
Or full stops to sentences.
>> No. 17654 Anonymous
7th January 2015
Wednesday 10:48 pm
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>>17648

Nice. Did each of your teeth feel like it had its own fur coat after?
>> No. 17655 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 12:33 am
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>>17297

I'm quite miffed at the goings on in France today. Thought I'd at least mention it here.
>> No. 17656 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 5:16 am
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>>17655

I'm quite annoyed at charlie hebdo. It's always struck me as the acceptable face of racism, something the Guardian doesn't mind for some reason. They were deliberately stirring the pot, and pretending it was in the name of progress, and not just because middle class french people hate arabs.

I know freedom of the press should be protected - but I'm legally free to call a 7ft tall skinhead a lanky bald prick, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
>> No. 17657 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 7:00 am
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>>17656

"Well, when the issue came up of the Danish cartoons [of Muhammad] I observed that the test I apply to something to see whether it truly is satire derives from H. L. Mencken's definition of good journalism: It should 'afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.' The trouble with a lot of so-called 'satire' directed against religiously motivated extremists is that it's not clear who it's afflicting, or who it's comforting. This is in no way to condone the shooting of the journalists, which is evil, pure and simple, but our society makes a fetish of 'the right to free speech' without ever questioning what sort of responsibilities are implied by this right."

- Will Self
>> No. 17658 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 7:02 am
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>>17656
Good old victim blaming. They were asking for mad muzzies to storm their offices with Kalashnikov's and call out the names of every journalist or illustrator they don't like before executing them.

Are we being Islamified or whatever it's called? There's all these car killings in France, it's been linked to a rise in antisemitism in Europe and then there's all these protests in Germany about it.
>> No. 17659 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 9:56 am
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>>17656
Really ladm80?

People have the right to offend, and those to be offended. No one has the right to go around murdering people. I mean the cop who got murdered, what did he have anything to do with it?

This is exactly how the screw is turned. First we ban any satire showing muhammed, then any ill talk, then all talk for non-eskimos, then anything critical of Islam. Wake up lad, the point of defending those who offend, is so we can have the same luxuries that are used against us. Being a self-censoring society allows bronze-age cunts to behave anyway they feel fit.
>> No. 17660 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 10:40 am
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>>17656
From an email from Hope Not Hate this morning:

"Charlie Hebdo was well-known for its satirical cartoons and articles, a few of which caused deep offence to some. Yet as one British eskimo tweeted today, those who kill for mere reason of offence have done far more to damage their faith and community relations, than anyone with a pen or cartoonist’s brush."
>> No. 17661 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 11:06 am
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>>17656

I served in the British Army and when I read about students, eskimos and various other miscreants burning poppies and other disrespectful shit it makes me hopping fucking mad, quite literally hopping mad. The thing is I would never ever murder someone for doing something I dislike or offended me, it's never ever entered my mind to grab a gun, run in to a igloo and go fucking tonto simply because some gobshite offended me.

When it comes down to it these attacks have done more to push any progress made and bridges built. They give credence and validity to the likes of the BNP and other far rightists and yes whilst it might be hyperbole and fucking stupid but by victim blaming you're as bad as the shooters and their ilk in my eyes.
>> No. 17662 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 1:31 pm
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>>17661
I'm sure the people you killed, directly or indirectly, thought you were pretty disrespectful towards them too, but that's just my supposition.
>> No. 17663 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 5:58 pm
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The thing that I hate the most about this whole affair, is how the media has responded by showing pictures of the killers and playing CCTV of the attacks on constant loop.

It's that same old story of media hype inspiring copy-cat incidents.
>> No. 17664 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 6:06 pm
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>>17663
Newswipe clip inbound in 5 ... 4 ...
>> No. 17665 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>>17663
To be honest these days the videos would get so many plays on youtube/liveleak etc. that the effect of tv coverage is negligible.
>> No. 17666 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>17665
True, but pretty much everyone who sees a video on youtube etc. will have chosen to watch it. When it's on the TV or in newspapers you're almost certain to see it unless you go out of your way to avoid the news.
>> No. 17667 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 7:20 pm
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>>17664
Found it:
https://www.youtube.com/v/PezlFNTGWv4
>> No. 17668 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>17667
>25/03/09

Nearly six years on and this video is still relevant.
>> No. 17669 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 10:14 pm
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>>17668
Why wouldn't it be?
>> No. 17670 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 6:06 pm
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My phone keeps making strange beeping noises that aren't the normal message alert for no apparent reason. Took me a while to even realise where they were coming from. I'm now only 90% they aren't all in my head, it's driving me nuts.
>> No. 17671 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 7:01 pm
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>>17668
Imagine being that forensic psychologist in the interview and seeing people dying over and over whilst nothing you do can stop it no matter how much you tell people.

I hear from another chan that an attack has been carried out on a French soldier a couple of hours ago with a machete:
http://www.lindependant.fr/2015/01/09/carcassonne-un-para-du-3-agresse-au-cri-d-allah-akbar,1977157.php
>> No. 17672 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>17670

Mine does that when I have no space for new messages but I have a really old phone.
>> No. 17673 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 9:42 pm
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Who the fuck listens to The Script? They make Coldplay look exciting and a broken jaw sound like fun.
>> No. 17674 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 9:47 pm
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>>17673
I like some of their songs, but I am too embarrassed to let others know I do, so I never play it when people are around (like in my car). I play it and sing along... All alone.
>> No. 17675 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 10:50 pm
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>>17673
along these lines, who actually thinks that Ellie Goulding is talented? Her voice has no range or power behind it at all. I guess it's the kind of people who go to Reading & Leeds festival once, smoke a zoot with Tarquin and Poppy and declare it the best weekend of their lives.
>> No. 17676 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 3:16 am
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>>17675

Totally agree.

I mean, her songwriting is just as bad, and yet it's gobbled up.

"Anything could happen, anything could happen, Anything could happen, he hee he hee he he hee hee he."

or

"And we're gonna let it burn, burn, burn, yeah we're gonna let it burn, burn, burn"

It's "Who run the world? Girls"-level total droll. It boils my piss, or it would if I even knew what was going on in Top 40-land. I like that "no place I'd Rather Be" though, that is genuinely good.
>> No. 17677 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 4:21 am
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I just woke up, finding myself in some kind of sweat induced hangover because the missus got up, cranked the heating to full blast and then fell asleep on the sofa, leaving me to entangle myself in the duvet.

Wars have been started over less.
>> No. 17678 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 9:08 am
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Milk price wars. A lot of supermarkets are reducing milk to 22p a pint, so farmers are making a loss on each pint they produce. Do people base where to shop on how low they can lower the price of milk?
>> No. 17679 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 9:27 am
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>>17678
The drop in milk prices recently isn't due to supermarket competition. The sanctions on Russia mean that there is now a huge over-supply in Europe and that's why prices have plummeted.
>> No. 17680 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 9:28 am
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>>17679
The sanctions on Europe*

Russia has blocked it's own food imports.
>> No. 17681 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 9:32 am
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>>17680

Close enough. The point still stands, we have a massive over-supply because European producers can't sell milk to Russia anymore.
>> No. 17682 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 9:36 am
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>>17681
We've had massive oversupply for years, the Russian thing is just compounding it.
>> No. 17683 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 10:07 am
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>>17678

Milk pricing is surrounded by myths.

You can see the actual average prices paid by milk buyers at the link below. The first thing to note is that the two buyers who dominate that list - Arla/MilkLink and First Milk - are co-operatives, wholly owned by dairy farmers. All profits made by these companies are returned directly to the farmers. If the milk market is rigged in any way, it is rigged in favour of farmers.

The second thing to note is that the major supermarkets pay well over the odds for milk. They establish long-term contracts, seek out the best quality milk, and pay above market rates for it. Milk is a loss-leader for the supermarkets; Customers use milk pricing as a psychological anchor for pricing, so you can attract a disproportionate number of customers by knocking 5p/litre off milk than by offering a greater discount on other products. The supermarkets are perfectly happy to make a loss on milk sales, and treat it as a marketing expense.

The fundamental problem in the milk market is massive oversupply. Better breeding and husbandry techniques have hugely increased milk yields, but demand has not increased to keep pace. Prices are low because there's just too much milk being produced, not because the supermarkets are screwing prices down. Smaller farmers are getting hammered because they're just not very good at producing milk - their costs are higher due to poor economies of scale, and their milk is of poorer quality.

Milk quality is a subject that's likely to put you off your cornflakes. The four basic metrics are butterfat%, protein%, somatic cell count and bacterial count. SCC indicates levels of mastitis amongst a herd, and bacterial count indicates the cleanliness of a milking parlour. Large farmers do better on both counts, because they have a more scientific approach to husbandry, better veterinary knowledge and more modern milking parlours.

The reality is that we have too many dairy farmers with too many cattle. Either we need to accept that and let farmers go out of business, or we need to implement CAP-busting subsidies for less efficient farmers as the French do. That's a subjective decision for society to make, but personally I don't want to use tax revenue to subsidise the production of dirty milk from diseased cattle.

http://www.dairyco.org.uk/market-information/milk-prices-contracts/milk-calculator-and-contracts/league-tables/
>> No. 17684 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 10:16 am
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Amazon's not working properly, I keep getting error messages when trying to buy things.

Cough cough.
>> No. 17685 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 10:21 am
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>>17683
That's a really nice insight, cheers.

This may or may nor be a stupid question, but do you have any information on what percentage of milk is imported or exported from Europe? I've always blamed the French for the oversupply.
>> No. 17686 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 10:42 am
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>>17685
Between 76-100% of milk is imported or exported.
>> No. 17687 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 10:49 am
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>>17685

We imported 132 million litres of unprocessed milk in 2013, versus exports of 473 million litres; Our total domestic production was 13,546 million litres, so raw milk imports aren't really significant. We do import substantial quantities of cheese, but those imports are mainly specialty cheeses that we don't produce here. In terms of our balance of trade, the biggest single factor is imports of butter and cheddar from Eire, which totalled around 95,000 tonnes in 2013.

Restricting imports from France would have a negligible effect on the UK dairy market. In my opinion, the single best trade measure to aid British dairy farmers would be the promotion of British specialty cheeses internationally. We import huge quantities of Italian mozzarella and French brie, but they buy very little of our stilton. Those kinds of regional specialties are very lucrative, and immune from international competition thanks to PDO/PGI/TSG rules.

http://www.dairyco.org.uk/market-information/processing-trade/imports-exports/uk-dairy-trade-balance/
>> No. 17688 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:00 am
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>>17687
Are British speciality cheeses popular domestically? At Christmas, apart from the five cheese gift sets, all I recall seeing is brie, baking camembert and then truckles along the lines of cheddar/wensleydale with cranberries/onion.
>> No. 17689 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:32 am
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>>17688

>Are British speciality cheeses popular domestically?

Not especially. We produce (and consume) respectable quantities of regional cheeses like Gloucester and Wensleydale, but they tend to be mass-market products rather than sought-after delicacies. We're generally piss-poor at making the most of our food heritage. It's hard to think of any distinctively British charcuterie; Although we produce a lot of excellent local beer, there's not a great deal of international demand for it.

I would speculate that we lost a lot of our food culture due to the war and the nationalisation of food that followed. The Ministry of Food worked towards efficiency and standardisation, and in doing so suppressed a lot of the regional distinctiveness in British food.

Maybe our food is just awful, but I think we have just done a poor job of marketing and appreciating it. Our seafood is the envy of the world, but we export most of it due to a lack of domestic demand.
>> No. 17690 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:37 am
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>>17688

You can get lots of nice cheese from the Co-op and even Tesco and Morrisons have a speciality cheese section.

Black Crowdie is my favourite of the ones I've tried from Tesco, but Orkney cheddar comes a close second.
>> No. 17691 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:46 am
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Social media has become intolerable in the past few days due to the events in Paris; my news feed is full of both right-ring cunts going on about how 'them Muzzies want to take over the world' and trendy left-wing cunts bleating about how 'it's all the West's fault, maaaan', among other such predictable bollocks. I've noticed from previous similar events how it always seems to be the same sort of characters who stir things up by posting articles with contrarian titles like 'Why Charlie Deserved It', just so they can have a 50-comment cunt-off with people they barely know and prove how fantastically 'edgy' they are.
>> No. 17692 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:57 am
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>>17691
I've forgotten what it's like to be a teenager, please remind me.
>> No. 17693 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 11:58 am
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>>17689
>I would speculate that we lost a lot of our food culture due to the war and the nationalisation of food that followed. The Ministry of Food worked towards efficiency and standardisation, and in doing so suppressed a lot of the regional distinctiveness in British food.
Rationing lasted well past the end of WWII and cheese manufacturing suffered particularly harshly. Pricing controls on milk lasted into the 80s, but even if that wasn't the case, most independent cheese manufacturers had disappeared by the end of the second war.
>> No. 17695 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:02 pm
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>>17691
Well, the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to both.
>> No. 17696 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:07 pm
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It's Randall Munroe, everybody!

Man, I love your comic.
>> No. 17697 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:21 pm
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>>17696

Congratulations, you've both read the same comic.

Now kiss.
>> No. 17698 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:38 pm
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>>17696
Yeah well done I was quoting xkcd, what the hell is your point?
>> No. 17699 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:45 pm
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>>17698

Quoting is stretching it mate.
>> No. 17700 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:52 pm
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>>17698
You weren't quoting, you were passing off someone else's pithy rebuttal as your own. It's a slightly shameful thing to do. That's my point.

(I'm not >>17691, btw.)
>> No. 17701 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 1:58 pm
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>>17698

That he's found a way to feel superior to you. And now I feel superior to you both. Happy Saturday.
>> No. 17702 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 5:40 pm
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>>17701

I AM THE MOST SUPERIOR, I WILL FIGHT YOU BOTH TO THE DEATH.
>> No. 17703 Anonymous
10th January 2015
Saturday 6:03 pm
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>>17702

Suits me mate, I've been choking for a scrap. How does 'spoons in Berwick Upon Tweed sound? I'll buy you a pint first.
>> No. 17711 Anonymous
11th January 2015
Sunday 10:11 am
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Spelling mistakes/grammatical errors are completely inexcusable when they're made on major news websites. These people write for a living, and they employ people who proof-read for a living. Glaring mistakes like this shouldn't get through.

From the BBC today:
>Huge crowds and some 40 world leaders are expected in Paris for a unity march in the French capital after three days of terror left saw 17 people killed.
>> No. 17712 Anonymous
11th January 2015
Sunday 11:08 am
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>>17711
I remember MSN news articles being the worst for this, years ago.
>> No. 17713 Anonymous
11th January 2015
Sunday 11:11 am
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>>17712
Yeah but MSN just existed to collect advertising revenue from hotmail redirecting you there when you signed out. I don't think they ever expected anyone to visit MSN on purpose.
>> No. 17721 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 8:27 pm
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They won't stop playing Uptown Funk on Radio 2.
>> No. 17722 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 8:40 pm
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Some people at my work have this habit of using the words "yourself" and "myself" instead of just "you" or "me" when speaking to customers, presumably because they think it sounds more professional. But it doesn't even make fucking sense.

How does that sound to yourself, sir? It sounds like you can't speak fucking English, mate.
>> No. 17723 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 9:10 pm
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>>17661
>literally hopping mad

No you're not.
I didn't need to go far to find something that rattled my balls (figuratively of course.) Top banana as usual, .gs.
>> No. 17724 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 9:15 pm
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>>17723
I believed him when he said he was literally hopping mad, why don't you?
>> No. 17725 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 1:55 pm
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I've spent the last hour trying to convince myself to go and buy something to eat, but I think I'm just going to have to except I'm not really hungry.
>> No. 17726 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 2:03 pm
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>>17723
Not him, but I was. I even had the neighbours complaining about the noise.
>> No. 17727 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>17725

>except

Lad, the blood pressures are high enough ITT. What are you trying to do, kill someone?
>> No. 17728 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 4:50 pm
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>>17727

Low blood sugar, couldn't be helped.

I've managed to lose an external hard drive in about 30 seconds. I left it on my couch and now it's disappeared. However, the mini USB lead remains.

I need my hat.
>> No. 17729 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 7:23 pm
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A self proclaimed journalist on channel 4 news just blamed a lack of phone signal for no one covering the massacre in Nigeria until now. It wasn't that, you just didn't care, stop lying.
>> No. 17730 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 7:28 pm
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>>17729
I liked it when the Graun ran an article tuther day about the lack of reporting of it. It's not like they could have, you know, gave it extensive coverage or anything.
>> No. 17731 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 7:44 pm
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>>17729

How can you blame them? It's not as if journalists routinely carry satphones and BGAN terminals. Obviously there are no land lines in Nigeria. If you can't get a signal on your iPhone, then you're stuck with carrier pigeons.
>> No. 17732 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 7:51 pm
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If only one of the people killed in those massacres was white, maybe there would be a #JeSuisBaga or what have you.
>> No. 17733 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 8:00 pm
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>>17729
>>17730
It's very tricky to get accurate reports. Everyone who survives an attack like that flee immediately, so then all the witnesses are scattered and you get fragmented reports, if anything, making it impossible to find out how many may actually be dead and how/when the attack happened. Boko Haram also targeted cell phone towers recently, so there's hardly a good signal anywhere for anyone who does have a phone. Combine all that with a lack of man power and security and it makes it very difficult to establish a full chain of events.
>> No. 17734 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 8:20 pm
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>>17733
It doesn't help that the Nigerian government seem unperturbed by the whole thing.
>> No. 17735 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 8:21 pm
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>>17732

I'm getting sick of hearing people pronouncing the name of that magazine in a half arsed French accent by just missing off the H sound, and coming off like they just lapsed into a vague Leeds dialect for a moment.
>> No. 17736 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 9:34 pm
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>>17731
>It's not as if journalists routinely carry satphones and BGAN terminals
It is when they're going to third-world shitholes with almost no phone signal, such as Scotland or Yorkshire.
>> No. 17737 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 12:19 am
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>>17736

Ah, the old sarcasm switcheroo.
>> No. 17739 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 2:56 pm
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Field hockey. I just don't like it.
>> No. 17741 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 6:11 pm
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I've had something in my eye since last night. I think it's a fisherperson plot because the pain of moving my eye means I've been checking out women less.

I was already on your side, God damn it!
>> No. 17742 Anonymous
18th January 2015
Sunday 11:04 pm
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Today for the 3417th time in my life I had a revelation that everything is just utter, utter bollocks.
>> No. 17743 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 12:16 am
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>>17742
Cheer up mate, it's not all bad, it's 2 for 1 at Sainsbury's™!
>> No. 17744 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 12:25 am
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>>17742

https://www.youtube.com/v/R6_irTqtyw4
>> No. 17745 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 9:33 pm
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This recently annoyed me;

So basically at work I'm "friends" with this chap, who is kind of quiet and shy. But I made an attempt, and we've been mates for well over a year.

I found out he has a steam account and loves the ol' game or two, but doesn't sperg on about it. I remember it was his birthday, so I decided to buy him something cheap, under £5 - just a little friendly, quiet present.

I check my Steam account today, and he never redeemed it since then. Even after thanking me later.What the fuck? I guess it was too awkward to say no, but fuck sake, just accept it and make it as if you gave a fuck...

I don't know, I've taken this a bit too personally - but really man? Christ...
>> No. 17746 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 9:47 pm
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>>17745
Did he claim to have played the game to you? Is that what you're upset about, him lying to you?

Otherwise, I don't see the problem. It's a gift, there are no conditions attached to it. You've bought it for him and he can do whatever he likes with it, play it or not play it.

Also give him a break, if he's quiet and shy and socially awkward, maybe he's not aware it might hurt your feelings if he doesn't make an effort to enjoy your gift.
>> No. 17747 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:06 pm
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>>17746
Well he never said, but I remember asking "did you check your steam a/c?" And he was all excited and grateful.
To make me sound like a needy child, I remember asking if wants to play a game or two since it's the whole point is the multiplayer aspect. He said sure, but later claimed he couldn't due to some other obligations... Whatever.

So yeah, there is an element of dishonesty to save face.
>> No. 17748 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:10 pm
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>>17747

Maybe he secretly hates you.
>> No. 17749 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:17 pm
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>>17747
I think maybe you shouldn't take it personally, I mean I'm a Steam enthusiast with just under four hundred games in my library, of which I've probably played about fifty or so, and rarely venture outside of my rut of a few treasured games each evening. If someone gifted me an under-£5 game, unless they made a big deal out of it I'd be like 'thanks, put it with the others'. That's just me though.
>> No. 17750 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:20 pm
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>> No. 17751 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:23 pm
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>>17750
Normally I'd agree, but Cara Delevigne, that mesmerising stare, and a sign that said - for example - "Fuck my whore mouth," I would hae no problem with whatsoever.

Context is everything.

Also I like spunking over hot celebs. Go figure.
>> No. 17752 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:28 pm
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>>17751
The Fappening must have been Christmas come early for you then?
>> No. 17753 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:34 pm
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>>17750
You need to add people changing their avatar on social media for a "cause". Wankers all of them.
>> No. 17754 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:36 pm
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>>17753
I don't use social media (aside from a Facebook account I have for groups only) but I can't keep from seeing these stupid fucking photographs like the Hebdo ones which all the shitrags and the BBC kept publishing.
>> No. 17755 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>17751
>> No. 17756 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:52 pm
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>>17755
Whoever you are, wherever you are, I love you, man.
>> No. 17757 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 10:57 pm
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>>17755
You forgot the #
>> No. 17758 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 11:03 pm
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While we're at it, white boards can fucking do one, too.
>> No. 17759 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 11:07 pm
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>>17758

Here here.
>> No. 17761 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 11:31 pm
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>>17759

>Here here.

Tut tut.
>> No. 17762 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 11:37 pm
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>>17748

Probably, doesn't explain why he always tags along to the pub/cinema/running.

>>17749
Yeah, thats perfectly fine! But at least take the bloody thing, and don't just let it sit there. I don't mind someone not liking a gift or whatever, but it's a bit insulting to ignore it entirely and not accepting the invite/request thing from Steam.

OR

I just had another idea... If you gift someone, does the steam profile of that person show? So if I sent it, and he accepted it, would his avatar/name show? If so, this might be another reason.
>> No. 17763 Anonymous
19th January 2015
Monday 11:44 pm
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>>17750>>17758>>17759

I've a feeling we're reaching, or possibly even reached, peak ineffectual sign holding.

>>17762

What was the game? You didn't buy him Eve Online or something, did you? That'd be just like you.
>> No. 17764 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 12:03 am
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>>17763
Nah, defcon.
>> No. 17765 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 12:55 am
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>>17763
As someone who once held up a whiteboard with 'I need fishing because' on it, I don't consider it ineffectual at all - it demonstrates the breadth of support for it and the different individual experiences that people relate to the movement.

Have to admit I found the combination of his sign and his face in >>17759 pretty funny.
>> No. 17766 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 1:09 am
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>>17765
As someone who once held up a whiteboard with 'I need fishing because' on it, I consider it totally ineffectual - it demonstrates these campaigns are more focused on getting some good photos than actually getting shit done. They need a man's touch to kick them into action.
>> No. 17767 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 1:46 am
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>>17765
>>17766
This makes me feel better about not following through with my idea to turn up at a vigil with a sign reading "Je n'suis pas Charlie, je lui joue à la télé" (or whatever the Froggish equivalent of that idiom actually is) even though I still maintain it's the sort of irreverent gesture they'd have appreciated.
>> No. 17768 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 2:38 am
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>>17744
Thank you for this.
>> No. 17769 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:33 am
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>>17765
Do you realise how many fucking people receive your bullshit as simply 'LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME'?

The worst of it is when these fishmongers corner someone on campus and try to embarrass someone into taking a photo with the whiteboard because if they don't they're intolerant misogynist cis scum.

One of the things I really don't miss from being at uni. None of that wank in the construction industry (yet).
>> No. 17770 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:42 am
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>>17765
I'm sorry but you're pathetic and image obsessed and trying to justify it to yourself.
>> No. 17771 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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>>17769
>>17770
But I'm not pathetic and image obsessed. I noticed some people taking one of these photos a couple of metres away from us (us being my society stall) at the fresher's fair in September, called them over and said 'hey we'll do one', wrote something on the board and had the picture taken, and that was it. It was uploaded to Facebook by the fisherperson society amongst all the others and maybe about three people saw it. No-one knows or cares who I am and that's fine. I'm just one of many who held up the sign.

>Do you realise how many fucking people receive your bullshit as simply 'LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME'?
Just like pic related, I suppose? Everyone demonstrating for a cause is a self-obsessed attention seeker!

Piss off, you've probably never stood up for anything in your life, whether that be simply holding up a sign or otherwise.
>> No. 17772 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:02 pm
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>>17771
>Everyone demonstrating for a cause is a self-obsessed attention seeker!
No, just the ones who see fit to grab a sign and pose with it for the cameras.
>> No. 17773 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>17772
OK well why don't we agree to disagree on that point you cunt
>> No. 17774 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:18 pm
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>you've probably never stood up for anything in your life, whether that be simply holding up a sign or otherwise.

When I was a student I actually volunteered for the campaign the SU were doing in partnership with the local homeless aid group, raised funds and made hampers for the winter, with warm clothes, sleeping bags and food. So you can get fucked, you in instagram-crazed slacktivist spaff sipper. You and your kind make me sick. But oh well, boxing up hats and gloves isn't as trendy and retweet-worthy as posing with your poxy little anguish-made-writ.
>> No. 17775 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:19 pm
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Spousal abusers.

They tell themselves it will be the last time, they even promise, and in their heads I'm sure they believe it. Which makes them so irredeemable in my eyes.

Pathetic wastes of oxygen who aren't even self aware enough to realise they are a pox on humanity.
>> No. 17776 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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>>17774
Ah I see so you're some kind of activism elitist. Holding up a sign just isn't good enough as all the things you've done and therefore it deserves scorn. Would you like me to suck you off for your homeless hampers? Or do you want me to rattle off a list of the things I donate my time and energy to so I can join your elevated ranks.

Can't believe I'm the one being called pathetic.
>> No. 17777 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:34 pm
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>>17776
Not really. You'll notice I never actually mentioned it until you made your moronic, baseless accusation. Holy fuck I hope I wasn't this much of a stupid cunt when I was an undergrad. I wonder what your poxy little message was, 'I need fishmongering because I'll write anything just to fit in with the trendy crowd' or some other vacuous guff.
>> No. 17778 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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>>17777
No, you didn't mention it until I accused you of not having stood up for anything, but it changes little: you're still raging at sign-holders for somehow being attention-seekers rather than real activists - which is a 'moronic, baseless accusation' all on its own.
>> No. 17780 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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>>17778
Come on desperatetofitinlad, spill the fucking beans already and tell us what pearl of wisdom you offered to the echo chamber of neo-fishmonger opinion.
>> No. 17781 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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>>17780
Why?

Also 'desperatetofitinlad'? That's terrible.
>> No. 17782 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:48 pm
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>>17781
Call a spade a spade, and all that.
>> No. 17783 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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>>17781
Well if this is a cause you give half a fuck about surely you wouldn't be reluctant to share it.

Unless you really were just going along with the trendy crowd.

I worked with one of the SU officers who got cornered by the fishmongers with the whiteboards. He acquiesced and pricately explained that if he didn't conform there'd undoubtedly be unending social media butthurt and accusations of cisgendered misogynistic rape culture etc. It's a fucking joke.
>> No. 17784 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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>>17783
So now I'm attention-seeking for not going on about what I did and said as an activist? Whatever lad.

POLITICIAN IS TWO-FACED SHOCKER.
>> No. 17785 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:00 pm
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>>17784
>what I did and said as an activist?
>as an activist
>activist

LAD.
>> No. 17786 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:01 pm
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>>17785
Sorry, 'slacktivist'. Happy?
>> No. 17787 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:09 pm
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Funny how we've gone from

>[whiteboard wankery] demonstrates the breadth of support for [fishmongering] and the different individual experiences that people relate to the movement

To

>Nuh uh, I'm not telling you what I think about fishmongering!

That's some devoted activism against our brutal woman hating rape cultures that is.
>> No. 17788 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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Well the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to each other.
>> No. 17789 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>>17788
More importantly, you've found a way to feel superior to two people. Result!
>> No. 17790 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 8:26 pm
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>>17789
Yeah well I'm doing an economics degree so am objectively superior to you all!
>> No. 17791 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 9:47 pm
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>>17790
I am definitely above all of you. I live on the tenth floor.
>> No. 17792 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:18 pm
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I'm the ghost of Rik Mayall and you're, still, all scum.

>>17775

My biological and paternal grandfather was that sort of man. I was fortunate enough never to meet him and only ever heard about him when my dad was a bit pissed. Anyway, when he died a few years ago my dad's reaction was almost unnervingly cold, though I'm sure thoroughly warranted.*

*Story is obviously fiction because I'm Rik Mayall.
>> No. 17793 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:22 pm
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>>17775

dry your eyes m8
>> No. 17794 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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>>17792
How's the afterlife these days?
>> No. 17795 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:25 pm
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>>17793
Oh, rapistlad.
>> No. 17796 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:29 pm
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>>17793

What a curious response to a sentiment that is, IMHO, the closest thing to a moral absolute I've ever known.

Have you knocked a few partners about in your time, then?
>> No. 17797 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:33 pm
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>>17794

The Chinese is great, but the pizzas are a bit shit.

>>17793

Yeah, domestic abuse, what a non-issue.
>> No. 17799 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:35 pm
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>>17797
Why don't you fucking write something about it on a bit of paper and photo yourself holding it, that's what all the cool kids are doing.
>> No. 17800 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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>>17799

Buddha's already going to be upset I gave a review of the takeaways up here, he'll have a proper go if I start tell you lot anything else.
>> No. 17801 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:44 pm
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>>17799

Now who is having a teary?
>> No. 17802 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:56 pm
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>>17801
What?
>> No. 17803 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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>>17796

It's hardly a black and white issue. A lot of the time women instigate it themselves and then act completely innocent to elicit sympathy.
>> No. 17804 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:19 pm
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>>17803

>women

You're the first one to mention gender, here. Projecting a bit?
>> No. 17805 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:25 pm
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>>17804

I thought it was already assumed that the guilty party would obviously have to be a cis male.
>> No. 17806 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:30 pm
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>>17805

Why would you assume that? Do you perceive women as being weaker or inferior to men?
>> No. 17807 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:32 pm
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>>17806
> Do you perceive women as being weaker or inferior to men?

Are you hoping to compete in the all-genders arm wrestling league in June?
>> No. 17808 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:35 pm
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>>17807

A telling seque.
>> No. 17809 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:37 pm
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>>17808
Oh whiteboardlad, what have the fishmongers done to you? I bet they've got you believing women have 'more lower body strength!' than men. You need an intervention.
>> No. 17810 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:39 pm
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>>17806

Of course not Herr Kommissar. I firmly believe the genders are equal and that women are just as capable as men in all fields, and vice versa.

>>17808

Segue, lad.
>> No. 17811 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:40 pm
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>>17809

Do you genuinely think that everyone who replies to you is the same person?
>> No. 17812 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:43 pm
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>>17810

I could have sworn I spelled that with a g.
>> No. 17814 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:50 pm
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>>17811
Yes, and you have lain me low with your wit, o one steeped in social justice doublethink. I will atone for my disgusting cisgendered misogynist thought crimes if given but a chance.
>> No. 17815 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:53 pm
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>>17814

You're clearly demented.
>> No. 17816 Anonymous
20th January 2015
Tuesday 11:55 pm
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>>17815
Check your sanity priivelege.
>> No. 17817 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 12:40 am
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From now on whenever I get into an argument on .gs I'm going to sarcastically apologise for "my disgusting cisgendered misogynist thought crimes".
>> No. 17818 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 12:41 am
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>>17297

I enter me into this thread. I just messed about a fundamentally nice girl who agreed to host me and take time off work, only to change my mind because I am a cunt.
>> No. 17819 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 8:36 am
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>>17817
Don't ever forget that all you are is a naughty little sexist. I bet you've never even posed with a whiteboard for anything.
>> No. 17820 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 11:25 am
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>>17819
I don't remember calling anyone sexist for not doing the whiteboard thing.
>> No. 17821 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 12:05 pm
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>>17820
I think it's a reference to >>17783­, mate.
>> No. 17822 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 12:15 pm
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>>17821
What, some bloke imagining he'll be called a sexist? Not really the same thing is it?
>> No. 17823 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 3:45 pm
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>>17822
What some woman imagining they might be sexually assaulted? Not really the same thing is it.
>> No. 17824 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>17776
But you haven't done anything.
>> No. 17825 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 4:37 pm
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>>17822
Yeah, not as if fishmongers go batshit over stupid petty rubbish like not wearing a t shirt or something.
>> No. 17826 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 5:41 pm
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Oh my God, shut the fuck up, you thick fuckers. Do you really think either of you are going to convince the other fucking cunt of your cunty fucking opinion? I want to push your fucking eyes into your brain with my fucking thumbs, the both of you.

...

The silly machine in ASDA gave me all my change back in coins so now my wallet looks like a leathery grenade.
>> No. 17827 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>17826
>The machine in Asda

No need to make your opinion so easy to disregard, poorlad.
>> No. 17828 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 6:01 pm
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>>17827

I hope you get crushed to death in front of your mother.
>> No. 17829 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 10:35 pm
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>>17827

I hope that one night, on your way home from buying a kale and chic pea salad from Waitrose, you accidentally stumble upon a couple of Gifters going about God's work. You are startled at first, but then out of nowhere you get an erection. You know what these men are all about and you want their filthy seed.

Using the plastic spork provided with your Waitrose Kale and Chic Pea salad you rough up the inside of your rectum to get it good and bloody, all the better for him to breed your neg hole.

The bigger one grunts an order and points to the ground, where you lie there beside their last lucky customer. Deadly fuck juice oozes from his puffy and oft battered anus and all of sudden you've never been harder. Suddenly and without warning this 20 stone biker is penetrating your tight virgin arse and going at you like a barn door in the wind. You don't think you can handle much more, you feel yourself tear but he keeps going, merciless and without remorse. He grunts again, and you know that it is time. What you knew was coming all this time. You feel the warmth spread as you lie there accepting your fate.

You go home and cry while eating your Waitrose Kale and Chic Pea salad with your bare hands, knowing you'll never feel as free as when you're getting split in two by girthy Gifter cock.
>> No. 17830 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>17829
Get stuffed pøz boy, M+S for life.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 17831 Anonymous
21st January 2015
Wednesday 11:25 pm
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>>17830
>M+S for life

Oh FFS. I'd rather be seen in Lidl.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 17832 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 12:16 am
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>>17829

I'm working class enough to enjoy your horrific story, but I'm also middle class enough to feel the need to let you know that chickpea is one word.
>> No. 17833 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 1:44 am
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>>17832
>I'm working class enough to enjoy your horrific story, but I'm also middle class enough to feel the need to let you know that chickpea is one word.
Britfa.gs
>> No. 17834 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 3:10 am
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I have a got a horrible, creeping, troubling suspicion I just spend 40 minutes playing Death Grips out of my laptop speakers without noticing. Sorry dad.
>> No. 17835 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 3:54 am
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A bird at work I'd grown pretty attached to had a bit of a barney today at work with another manager. The short story is he asked her to do something two or three times, but she was sat on her phone doing something. That's not actually too bad, we're pretty relaxed in general as long as shit gets done, but when he asked the third time she shouted at him and told him to fuck off. This resulted in a rather terse exchange of words between the two.

She later asked if I thought she was being out of order, and, not being the sort of person to lie to appease someone, I said that yeah, she might have overreacted a bit, and didn't have to be so aggressive. The immediate reply to that was "I'll do what I want", and then after that went on to explain that the reason she was on her phone was because her dad is sick and might have lung cancer - as if we should have known that at the time.

Now, lads, I may be a bit off the mark here...but...did she just use her father's illness as a way to win an argument? She's a cunt, right? I need to abort any and all attempts to get in her pants, right?
>> No. 17836 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 4:50 am
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>>17835
Yes.
>> No. 17837 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 12:42 pm
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>>17835
I think being under stress from her dad having a serious illness is a valid excuse for lashing out, but failing to show remorse later once you've calmed down is not on.
>> No. 17838 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 12:56 pm
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>>17837

Agreed. I can understand being taken back and upset but later to take it out on others and use it as a pussypass? Yeah, nah.
>> No. 17839 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 1:02 pm
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>>17838
What's a pussypass?
>> No. 17840 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 1:49 pm
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>>17839
I've never heard of a pussypass.

>the reason she was on her phone was because her dad is sick and might have lung cancer
People respond differently to bad news and grief but the obvious question is "why the fuck didn't you say so, then?".

"I'll do what I want" is also a bit petulant, but we don't know her age.
>> No. 17841 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>17839
When women get excused for being women.
>> No. 17842 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 3:54 pm
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>pussypass

Take it to the LADBIBLE, won't you?
>> No. 17843 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 5:13 pm
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>>17842

OI M8, YOU DROPPED YOUR GAY CARD.
>> No. 17844 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 5:50 pm
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>>17842
Preach it, whiteboardlad.
>> No. 17845 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 5:58 pm
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>>17843

BISLUT TILL I DIE HETEROSCUM!

>>17844

But this (>>17763) was my one and only post on that matter.
>> No. 17846 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 9:37 pm
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I went to Sainsburys to use their salad bar for lunch and they've upped the price of a large bowl from £2.99 to £4. That simply is not on.
>> No. 17847 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 9:42 pm
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>>17846

Hmm, a 33% mark up in our current economic climate seems excessive. Especially considering the current price of fuel. Fuck knows how they are justifying that. Greedy bastards, basically.
>> No. 17848 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 12:51 pm
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>>17846
I'm always gutted by the amount of actual salad available at the Sainsbury's salad bar. There's all manners of croutons and couscous and pasta, but I just want a bowl packed to the brim with leaves smooshed together to fit in more leaves. £1 trays of salad from Asda really are the überlunch.
>> No. 17849 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 1:02 pm
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>>17848

Tesco is usually better + they have olives and fish.
>> No. 17850 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 1:17 pm
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>>17848
Mines usually one half pasta and the other cous cous, chickpeas, butter beans, salad leaves, peas, edamame beans and then shitloads of feta cheese.
>> No. 17851 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 4:59 pm
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Sage because it's brought up a lot

but other people's relationships. Thanks for reminding me that I'm alone and that you're significantly happier than me but somehow get surprised when I'm not exactly chipper about it.
>> No. 17852 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 5:11 pm
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>>17851
actually no it's other people's happiness that goes in my room 101.
>> No. 17853 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 5:17 pm
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>>17851

Being in a relationship doesn't automatically make you happy. You might get into a relationship with someone who decided that they wanted to knock you about one day because you burnt their toast. Learning to love yourself and being happy within yourself is the first step on the road to being happy and another person to share that with can amplify that happiness but they aren't essential to it's existence.

Think about what makes you unhappy in your life and try to do something about it, if it is loneliness then be pro-active about interacting with other people.
>> No. 17855 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 5:24 pm
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>>17851

I tried to stay up to watch some guy's Twitch stream I know! I know what you people think of me! Anyway, I fell asleep quite soon thereafter and I woke up to him and his girlfriend playing LoL together. The ghost at the livestream, so to speak.
>> No. 17856 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 6:32 pm
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>>17853

https://www.youtube.com/v/iT9yf-Qa_1M
>> No. 17857 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 7:54 pm
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>>17840

>the obvious question is "why the fuck didn't you say so, then?"

Exactly. I wanted to say that but obviously it wouldn't have helped. I don't know why I never learn that when people ask your opinion, they actually just want you to reinforce their own view. Every time someone asks me what I think I actually tell them, like some idiot.

Anyways she's 26, a bit too old for that carry-on if you ask me. I'm moving on.
>> No. 17858 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 9:20 pm
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>>17857

Though I just remembered I already spent fifty quid on a non-returnable birthday present for her. Fucks sake.
>> No. 17859 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 9:49 pm
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>>17858

Give it a whirl, if you've never had a prostate orgasm before it's well worth it.
>> No. 17860 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 10:56 pm
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>>17858
Judging her on this one incident alone seems a bit harsh, given that you have spent quite a bit on her I can only assume that she is otherwise decent (and/or you are otherwise desperate) so I'd say let it slide.
>> No. 17861 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 1:50 am
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>>17851
If it makes you feel any better mate, I've been in and out of relationships for the past 7 years and it's never made me anything above middlingly miserable. We're all in the same shit self-loathing boat together, don't worry.
>> No. 17862 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 1:57 am
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>>17861
Surely even the worst abusive etc. relationship has that first few weeks/couple months where everything is right in your world?

Forgive my idealistic ignorance I've never progressed past that level ;_;
>> No. 17863 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 2:01 am
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>>17860

You raise a fair point. I don't know, I can't pinpoint anything else, but I'm getting the sense now she might just be a bit stroppy.

>and/or you are otherwise desperate

Well....
>> No. 17864 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 2:02 am
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>>17862
Hahahaha. Jesus. No. I've heard it's meant to be like this, but no.

I date a lot of alcoholics.
>> No. 17865 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 2:05 am
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>>17863
Given the circumstances though, I think we can give her a bit of leeway to be stroppy. It's not exactly a walk in the park experiencing one of your parents having cancer.

The real question is whether she was like this before all of this dying dad shit went down. If she's just acting like a brat (and she is acting like a brat, we all know it so let's just say it) because her dad is terminal - well, fair enough. But if she's a brat outside of that then I hope you fucking well kept that receipt, lad.
>> No. 17866 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 2:11 am
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>>17833
>> No. 17867 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 2:29 am
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>>17865

I hear that. It definitely felt like the only reason she told me about her dad was to get me on side, but obviously it could just be her being upset.

I've seen glimpses of her acting this way previously, but I've always brushed it off. The "I'll do what I want" sort of attitude has been displayed in smaller doses, in an endearing, feisty way. Not so endearing in that context.

I dunno, if it was me I'd have regretted being a dick almost immediately. But I'm fifty quid down so I might as well aim for a couple of years out of it at least.
>> No. 17868 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 4:33 am
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>>17867
Sometimes it's just worth swallowing the loss, mate. Is £50 really worth it? I suppose the fair thing to say here is give her a few weeks and see if you still notice her being bratty - towards others especially.

You can always judge a person by how they treat their waiter.
>> No. 17869 Anonymous
24th January 2015
Saturday 5:19 am
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>>17868

I'll keep an eye. Might as well give her the present as it's an in-joke that would be quite useless to anyone else.

The waiter thing is usually solid advice, but we both work in the industry so we know that waiters actually deserve everything they get.

It's pretty deeply ingrained in me by now though that if I have to post on /101/ about a bird, it's probably time to cut all ties.
>> No. 17890 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 4:41 am
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On a double-date with some of the girlfriend's friends the other day, they're quite upper-middle-class people. I was hesitant about going for that reason because it would have buzzed my Class Inferiority Complex but I was assured they were down-to-earth people.

At the meal (for which they were 40 minutes late!) we were walking and they wanted to go to some Italian place with us which I shall call "Marios".

M: We go there all the time. He's very nice, is Mr Mario. He's very... Italian. By that I mean he's very passionate about his service, very kind to you. He'll hop in your conversations, for example, and it's not even annoying.

F: Well, he's only nice if you don't work for him. Do you remember when we were there last, and we heard somebody put down a tray of glasses a bit too hard?

M: Yes, I remember. We just heard them clinking and his head shot up towards the kitchen, like he was a robot.

F: Ha ha, somebody got fired!

M: Yes, that's another thing about him. He's very Italian in manners, and he extends that to his workplace. We know of someone who used to work there, and she was fired after she couldn't work a shift because her mum had been rushed to hospital.

F:He just told her over the phone, "Fine. Don't come in again, you're fired." and then put it down!

M: So Italian. Ha ha ha!

F: Ha ha ha!

Needless to say I told the other half when we got home that under no circumstances were we ever going to eat at that restaurant. It doesn't matter how nice he is to a paying customer, you can judge the quality of a man by how he behaves towards those he has power over and Mario had his reputation thoroughly trashed on those standards.

My /101/ is that they were laughing about how funny the girl being fired was. How is that funny? I bet it's because their families are rich, which they are, and they've never had to work a shit minimum wage job before. Someone just being fired from their only source of income, on which they rely... I felt horrified.
>> No. 17892 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 4:45 am
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>>17890

More to the point, how is that "so Italian"? Is Italian a synonym for "awful human being"?
>> No. 17893 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 5:46 am
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>>17890
Wow. You are better than me. I could never stand those kinds of cunts for even a minute. The laws of the land is all that keeps me from curb stomping their ilk. Utter cunts.
>> No. 17894 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 7:29 am
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I'm upset, and I want to go on a bike ride to calm down, but I feel sick so I'd probably end up puking all over myself.
>> No. 17895 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 7:53 am
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>>17894
Why are you upset?

Have a silent wank. It helps.
>> No. 17896 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 8:11 am
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>>17894

I can hear my downstairs neighbour puking noisily right now. He does it every morning. I'm not sure what's wrong with him.

Sage for tangent.
>> No. 17897 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 8:32 am
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>>17896
You should break in a rob his house when he does it tomorrow.
>> No. 17898 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 8:57 am
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>>17897

Is puking so distracting it would make you not notice your house getting robbed? I have doubts.
>> No. 17902 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 9:35 am
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>>17898
Puking is the second most traumatic thing to happen to your body after "giving birth." Don't forget that we all have the capacity to give birth. So yes, rob him, while he is distracted by his apparent bulimia.
>> No. 17903 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 9:53 am
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>>17902

He has such punctual bulimia. Apparently there's a think where passing solids can somehow impact your vagus nerve and it can cause faintness and nausea.
>> No. 17904 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 9:54 am
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>>17896
It's his gf. She has morning sickness.
>> No. 17905 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 9:56 am
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>>17904

That's some baritone retching.
>> No. 17906 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 10:00 am
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>>17903

I found out with google because of late, I've had this thing where if I really need to shit (I mean a log, not diarrhea), it really makes me feel like I need to puke at the same time, to the point I actually sometimes do. It's not the straining, it happens before and the nausea just clears right up after I've had a shit. It gives me crazy nausea in the morning sometimes to the point I now take allergy pills at night instead of the morning so I don't risk losing them.
>> No. 17907 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:46 am
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>>17906
>straining
Am I the only person that doesn't have to do this? I think a shit in entirety takes me about thirty seconds from sitting down on the bog to standing back up again. Should I expect that as I move into my late twenties I can no longer shit like the wind?
>> No. 17909 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 12:58 pm
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>>17907
I rarely need to strain. Straining is for white-bread losers.
>> No. 17912 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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My shitting takes about a minute, but I spend 30 minutes in the bog.
>> No. 17914 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 4:49 pm
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I can't tell if it's my kidneys that hurt or my abdominal muscles. This is worrying, because I could be dying, or just a little achy.
>> No. 17917 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 5:50 pm
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>>17914

Your kidneys would give you back ache, your abdominal muscles wouldn't so there's a hint.
>> No. 17921 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>17907

I don't often need to strain but it's just the articles I googled up said straining is usually the part that affects the vagus nerve.
>> No. 17922 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 8:57 pm
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>>17917

Perhaps it's my bladder then. Regardless, RIP me.
>> No. 17925 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:04 pm
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>>17914

In my experience, kidney pain is right on your side, just below your ribs and it can extend to the side of your back. I think I vaguely remember a nurse poking me in the back there and asking if it hurt.

I'm confused by this picture. Is that a female body with male hands?
>> No. 17926 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:30 pm
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Getting in bed and then needing to shit.
>> No. 17927 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:31 pm
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>>17925
Why do you think they are male hands?
>> No. 17928 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:43 pm
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>>17927

The ultra short nails and width of fingers I suppose.
>> No. 17929 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:44 pm
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>>17928

I'd expect a woman with fingers that wide to have a more stocky build.
>> No. 17935 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 10:31 pm
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All the TV that I actually wanted to watch fell within an hour and a half window, spread across three channels. It's quite irritating.
>> No. 17937 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 10:43 pm
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>>17935
If only there were some way of watching them at another time.
>> No. 17938 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 10:46 pm
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>>17937
It is a shame when you can't just have your TV arrive sequentially though, especially if you don't have the right gear to watch iPlayer or nicked TV on your biggest and best set. No need to be snarky.
>> No. 17939 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 11:50 pm
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>>17938
So acquire the right gear, you dense knob.
>> No. 17941 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 11:59 pm
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People in their late twenties making jokes about Justin Bieber. I can understand edgy teenlads making jokes about him, but I don't see why anyone else should care about him.
>> No. 17943 Anonymous
30th January 2015
Friday 8:50 am
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I recently got a new bed and mattress, and until I've sorted the junk from under my current bed I've just thrown the new mattress atop my old one. Anyway, the new mattress is lovely and springy, evidenced wonderfully by how I just hopped onto my bed and bounced my laptop clear off it and onto the floor. Damnable physics.
>> No. 17953 Anonymous
31st January 2015
Saturday 3:46 am
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>>17892
Ey! Whassa matter you?!
>> No. 17954 Anonymous
31st January 2015
Saturday 4:33 am
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>>17953
Ah, shaddap you face.
>> No. 17955 Anonymous
31st January 2015
Saturday 7:24 am
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I think that not only will I be too old to fight in WW3, but that the UK will be on the wrong side.
>> No. 17956 Anonymous
31st January 2015
Saturday 7:39 am
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>>17955
Which side it that?
>> No. 17957 Anonymous
31st January 2015
Saturday 1:39 pm
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>>17956
The wrong one, obviously.
>> No. 17959 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 7:57 am
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I really want to buy something from a website that makes all these sort of subtle film referencing clothes, but my love of The Thing/Blade Runner just doesn't quite trump how bleh they look.

The site's called Last Exit to Nowhere if anyone else is interested.
>> No. 17961 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 10:30 am
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>>17959
>I want to buy a tee-shirt with a pop-culture reference on
Into Room 101 you go too!
>> No. 17962 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 10:49 am
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>>17961
To be fair, the ones on the site >>17959 mentioned are (to my eyes at least) much less cringeworthy than this sort of thing:
https://www.animecastle.com/p-149125-despicable-me-t-shirt-logical-me-blue.aspx
I don't think I've ever seen a "pop culture" shirt and honestly wanted to wear it, though. Not as an adult anyway. My Sonic the Hedgehog jumper was fucking ace when I was a kid.
>> No. 17964 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 12:23 pm
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>>17961

You are a joyless and hollow human being if you wouldn't happily wear a Weyland Yutani hoodie.
>> No. 17971 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 5:42 pm
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>>17964
I have a mental block that causes me to read and say Weyland Yutani as Weyland Yatuni. It sounds better.
>> No. 17978 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>17961

It's just something small, like a an origami unicorn, so other Blade Runner fans will nod at me in the street. Then again, Blade Runner's a deeply personal movie to me, so maybe I don't actually want that.

I'm still holding out hope they'll bring back the blue Lacuna t-shirts. It's only been 4 years.
>> No. 17979 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 9:48 pm
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A bond villain has killed the Hairy Bikers, and is presently traveling around Egypt pretending to be the one called Dave. Presumably he's to blame for recent events in the Sinai.
>> No. 17984 Anonymous
2nd February 2015
Monday 11:30 pm
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I've drunk too much coffee and smoked too many cigarettes to try and get through the last 45 minutes of my shift and now I feel distinctly squiffy.
>> No. 17985 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 10:44 am
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"Little Fishes nursery and playgroup"
Little Fishes? Little Fishes? No you stupid cunt. He fishes, she fishes, they are not fishes they are fucking fish. Who entrusts the care of their children to these cretins?
>> No. 17986 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 11:02 am
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>>17985
Fish and fishes can both be used as plurals, though.
>> No. 17987 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 1:14 pm
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>>17986
Fish is the plural, I don't give a fuck what your online dictionary says.
>> No. 17988 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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>>17987
Yeah that fucking online dictionary, it must be shite because it's online, who the hell are 'Oxford' anyway.
>> No. 17989 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 3:40 pm
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>>17988
Don't worry, tonight >>17987 will be sleeping with the fishes.
>> No. 17990 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 3:58 pm
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>>17987

I for one love the anguished wails of those discovering they've spent thirty grand on an education that could have been bettered simply by browsing wikipedia for eight hours a day.
>> No. 17991 Anonymous
3rd February 2015
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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>>17990

To be fair if I was at uni I'd probably hate myself less. Plurals be damned.
>> No. 17992 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 11:39 am
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Needing and going for a shit when:
a. You're just about to go out
b. right after a shower

both is bad too.
>> No. 17993 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 11:47 am
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>>17992

I used to be terrible for desperately needing a shit 20 seconds before being due to head out the door. I guess it was nerves and/or IBS but I'm not as bad with either anymore.
>> No. 17996 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>17992
Lads, have you ever done a shit so nasty and smeary that even the emergency baby wipes couldn't offer any chance of hazard control? I think I did that stupid thing earlier where I started wiping before the turtle's head was completely released, thereby smearing it all over my arsecheeks to the point that palm-thick wadges of loo roll simply weren't enough any more. I had no choice but to position my arse over the side of the bath and use the showerhead to cleanse myself of the filthy abomination I'd just created whilst questioning my choices in life. I had a proper shower later in the day and I have to say I don't think my bum crack has ever been so clean or nicely smelling, but still, I'm a grown adult. I should be better at shitting by now.

I think it's worse, somehow, that I'm supposed to be a girl. We're all pigs, lads, dirty little pigs with shit-smeared arses just like the rest of you. Never forget that.
>> No. 17997 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 8:47 pm
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>>17996

https://www.youtube.com/v/8O5YRkjT2Eg
>> No. 17998 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 9:12 pm
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>>17992
I don't understand this. Why can't you hold your shit in? A lot of people seem to have this need to shit uncontrollably. What the fuck is wrong with you? I once held in my shit for 5 days.
>> No. 18001 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 10:02 pm
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>>17998
Too much bread.
>> No. 18002 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 10:09 pm
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>>17997
Top marks for responding with Necro. Have a Mars bar.
>> No. 18003 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 10:12 pm
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>>17998

You're not eating enough fibre, not drinking enough water or both.
>> No. 18004 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>18001
I need to have more bread, or the people who can't stop shitting themselves eat too much bread.

>>18003
How does that explain the fact that I shit 2 or 3 times a week, while everyone else in my family shits daily? We almost all have the same diet, especially on holidays.
>> No. 18005 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 10:21 pm
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There's nothing better than the perfectly clean feeling you get after a poo so abominable that it requires rinsing your bum thoroughly.

nothing
>> No. 18006 Anonymous
5th February 2015
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>18005
You need to get out more.
>> No. 18007 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 4:12 am
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I've realised that the best time of my life was 15 to 16, and I didn't even notice at the time how good I had it. As a result spend a great deal of time listening to albums from 2005, and spending lots of money on Vans and Etnies. And I think I'm having a mid life crisis, meaning I won't live past 50.

I'm off to listen to Arctic Monkey's first album and remember how I heard them on Myspace way before they got on the radio.
>> No. 18008 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 4:20 am
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>>18007
I love Etnies, Vans, and DC. 15/16 were the best years of my life too. I'm 4 years away from 30, and I have never been more lost for some reason.
>> No. 18009 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 4:36 pm
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>>18007>>18008

I wasted those years of my life by being a miserable cunt. I often wish I could take my brain now and stick it back in my 15 year-old body so I could relive those years with the benefit of knowing what I know now.
>> No. 18010 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:08 pm
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>>18009
If I had known what I know now, I would have been a suicidal, horrible cunt.
>> No. 18011 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:14 pm
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>>18007>>18008>>18009>>18010

What's got you so miserable? And how do I not end up like you?
>> No. 18012 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>18011

It's just the classic realisation your life isn't going the way you thought it would. At 16 everything had so much promise. You didn't worry about the future, you just KNEW it would work out. and now it's ten years later and you've spent most of that decade sat on a sofa barely existing.

My advice to you would be to work hard at something you truly want to do, don't settle.
>> No. 18013 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>18011

Die young.
>> No. 18014 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>18011
Basically unrealised dreams and aspirations. Lacking purpose and direction in life, and no real bright future to look forward to. If I were you, I would find something I am good at and pour my heart and soul into it.
>> No. 18015 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>18014

Of course it's not too late for us lad. It might be harder, but it's not too late.

Fuck it, I'm going to buy some converse and look up some ways to switch careers.
>> No. 18016 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:45 pm
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>>18011

You know when sometimes your dad lets out a long sigh, apropos of nothing? That's the sound of a man whose dreams have died, been mourned for, and are now just a faded memory.

In your twenties, you still think you can salvage your dreams, you think that something will happen to make everything come good. Slowly, all those threads of hope wither away, as your hair starts thinning and your face starts to sag. Still, you find some delusion of grandeur to hold on to, some totem that represents hope and possibility.

One day, you wake up in the morning and realise that it's all over, that you will die a mediocrity. Some men turn to drink, others find a younger lover, some buy a car that makes them look ridiculous. Eventually, after your last scrap of hope has gone, there's nothing left to do but make yourself a cup of tea, sit down in your favourite chair and wait for death.

Don't ever get old kids, it's shit.
>> No. 18017 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:48 pm
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>>18012>>18013>>18014

That fucking keyboard better get here soon.

>>18015

Get some dank custom ones, in orange or some shit.
>> No. 18018 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 7:49 pm
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>>18016

That's not really usable advice, but, err, thanks?
>> No. 18019 Anonymous
6th February 2015
Friday 9:19 pm
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>>18016

This might be one of my favourite ever posts on .gs.
>> No. 18020 Anonymous
7th February 2015
Saturday 1:03 am
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>>18008
And making fucking bank at the old betting office while you're at it.
>> No. 18021 Anonymous
7th February 2015
Saturday 2:10 pm
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I am suicidally depressed and there is nothing on TV to distract me, it is most unpleasant.
>> No. 18022 Anonymous
7th February 2015
Saturday 3:29 pm
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>>18021
Try reading. I got through the entirety of A Song Of Ice and Fire n a week when I was last depressed.
>> No. 18023 Anonymous
7th February 2015
Saturday 5:13 pm
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>>18021
Do drugs.
>> No. 18024 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 12:07 am
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I wrote a couple of bad reviews on Steam, and apparently most people who care to check the reviews for these games disagree. However, no one's commented saying why they disagree and it's a little annoying.
>> No. 18025 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 12:08 am
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>>18024

Hmm, I think that should have read "I have written", but so unsure I'm not willing to change it and repost it.
>> No. 18026 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 12:10 am
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>>18025

This is just pathetic, clearly I'm very ill and I will visit my GP first thing Monday.
>> No. 18027 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 6:50 am
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I keep getting kicked out of nightclubs, and I don't understand how my life reached this point. I used to be such a nice kid. I want to go back, just go back to being good and boring and quiet but I keep getting drawn out by drinking and coke. I still hate getting into trouble, I'm still a child.

I think I have a bit of a coke problem now too.

Bleh.
>> No. 18028 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 3:02 pm
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>>18027
I get kicked out most nights I go out and I'm not even on coke. Getting quite tired of waking up with x missing, the door from my room to the garden open and next doors cat chilling in my wardrobe.
>> No. 18029 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 3:10 pm
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>>18027>>18028

Odd, I have never been in trouble with bar staff.

I have this mental switch that turns on at precisely 3am - and I head home like a bee carrying nectar, except, the nectar in this case isn't a bird around my arm, but my regrets and shame.
>> No. 18030 Anonymous
8th February 2015
Sunday 3:57 pm
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>>18028
Well shit, at least you get a cat out of it.
>> No. 18031 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 12:02 am
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>>18027

>I still hate getting into trouble, I'm still a child.

It's this, entirely this, only you don't actually hate it. You subconsciously crave it, because you feel like you have lost the comfort and innocence of being young, and the attention given to you by authoritative figures who would take the stress of decision making off your shoulders. You are essentially acting in the same way as a misbehaving child in the school playground, transplanted into an adult setting.

If you want to stop getting thrown out of nightclubs, go see one of those dominatrix prostitutes who will let you suck on her tits and spank you while calling you a naughty little boy whilst wearing a nappy and stuff.
>> No. 18032 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 3:20 pm
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Homeless people who constantly bother me daily.
Bonus points for people who think giving money to them solves their struggle for the day and think I'm a bastard for not enabling them.
>> No. 18033 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 3:38 pm
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>>18032

Ah, just enable them. They have more fun with their weekend's heroin than you do with your shit coffee.
>> No. 18044 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 7:59 pm
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>>18032

I had one of those 'am I a cunt' moments recently. There's a lad I've seen around claiming to be homeless. The first time I saw him he asked for cash and said he's sleeping rough, followed by "come on it's Christmas mate", I refused. I was running late to work and mentioned I was getting a cab, and he asked if he could get a ride into town with me, and I said yes to that. It was freezing out so I said he should get down to a housing charity I used to work at, and he gave some evasive reply. Thing is, he ends up stopping to talk to a friend and of course I walk on, being late, and jump straight in the taxi without him.

Second time I see him I'm on my way to the gym, he asks for cash again, I say no. Third time on the way to the gym again, he's walking with a friend and clearly gesturing for me to take out my earphones, and I wasn't in the mood that day, so I just brushed straight past and shook my head.

The impression I get of him is that he's mostly harmless. I can tell he's just out for pocket money, but I still felt bad. I don't really like saying no to anyone, and I resent that he's clearly picked up on that.

Now I have to perpetually be a cunt and ignore him, I suppose.
>> No. 18045 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 8:09 pm
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That fucking pink Labour bus, or more to the point, how everyone turned the story into "oh look, how patronising".

Like, I get it, it is embarrassing that Labour would do that, but can every fucking Telegraph reporter and their dog stop pretending they'd give a shit any other day of the week.

Maybe, I'unno, have a discussion on why women don't bother voting, or something? Like, do your fucking job, you media hacks? Maybe?
>> No. 18046 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 8:10 pm
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>>18044
Stop showing weakness, you cunt.
>> No. 18047 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 8:12 pm
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>>18045
I stopped reading or watching any news. It's all so tiring and tedious. I won't even bother vote.
>> No. 18058 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 2:00 pm
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I'm just really fucking ugly, and I'm not convinced that's fair.
>> No. 18059 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 2:53 pm
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>>18047
I shall be voting Communist or spoiling the ballot.
>> No. 18060 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 2:58 pm
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I shall be voting Conservative.
>> No. 18061 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 3:40 pm
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>>18044

I just buy the homeless beer these days, they prefer it to money.
>> No. 18062 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>18058
Post picture for the lot of us to judge.
>> No. 18063 Anonymous
14th February 2015
Saturday 9:20 pm
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A few weeks back someone set the clock on the microwave so it actually tells the right time. My head can't cope with this, I still read it as being 10 minutes fast.
>> No. 18065 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 2:05 am
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Some fucking septic sheep shagging taff has spiked my friend's drink because they were jealous of her having a hot girlfriend, I think they were trying to get her out of the way so they could try it on with her/god knows what fucking else, but she felt ill almost immediately so they left and now she is spewing. I've just talked her histerical, at this stage, GF out phoning an ambulance as I don't think there is much A&E can do and being sick is probably the best solution to whatever they've put in her drink and advised her to call the police/the bar in the Morning.

If it was GBH, then that explains her aggressiveness earlier, but I would have thought that would have knocked her out so she must have only got a small dose.

I really hope I've advised her right here, I'm fucking worried now.
>> No. 18067 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 2:46 am
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I find the phrase "it's not rocket science" bothersome. I think it's because someone who thinks STEM subjects are inconceivably difficult is trying to be patronising towards me.
>> No. 18068 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 2:47 am
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>>18065

The hospital trip would be evidence if it gets to court, in the same way you should get minor domestic violence injuries documented by a hospital even if you don't need medical attention as such. Maybe they could find out what it was with a blood test?
>> No. 18070 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:14 am
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>>18065
Idiot. Now there goes all the evidence that could have been recorded at the hospital.
>> No. 18071 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:20 am
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>>18065

I always thought I'd try to sneak the glass out if that happened to me. Could there be some benefit to saving some of the vomit? I know it's nasty but I wonder if they can analyse that.
>> No. 18072 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:21 am
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>>18070

It'll still be in your system the next morning, surely?
>> No. 18073 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:27 am
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>>18068

I doubt they'll ever find them. They were up for a rugby game or something. I didn't realise I was obstructing evidence gathering though, I assumed that the police would have the equivalent of a rape kit to test hair follicles, etc. Obviously I was wrong.
>> No. 18074 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 1:23 pm
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>>18065

Always, always present at the hospital in a suspected case of poisoning (which is, btw, what having your drink spiked is) - neither GBL nor GHB nor any benzo (rohypnol etc) mix well with alcohol. Whatever happened your friend was having a toxic reaction (vomiting) and there was plenty of reason to believe that they could have passed out and vomited more later - which can obviously be fatal. Rage.
>> No. 18075 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 1:32 pm
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>>18074
This. Also some 'spikes' are popular precisely because if you don't catch on quickly there'll be very little evidence the morning after.
>> No. 18076 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 1:45 pm
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>>18075>>18074
Much better off staying at home and playing video games, really.
>> No. 18077 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:38 pm
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>>18074
Seconding this. All of the GABAnergics can affect mood strangely; most assume that such sedatives will just knock a person out but having paradoxical effects, especially with the benzos, is common. Abnormal aggression and drunken rage is pretty standard.
>> No. 18078 Anonymous
15th February 2015
Sunday 3:43 pm
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I feel like attempted date rape is a touch too serious for this thread.

Anyway, I only ever seem to run into people I sort of know when I haven't showered or shaved for 2 days and I'm dressed like a man who lost a fight with an acid trip.
>> No. 18079 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 10:11 am
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My left thumb is aching really, really badly for no reason whatsoever.
>> No. 18080 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 7:03 pm
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GO FUN YOURSELF!

Words cannot describe how spectacularly this festering skid-mark of an advertising slogan pisses me off.
>> No. 18082 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 9:43 pm
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>>18080

It's like they can't mask their contempt for consumers any more.
>> No. 18083 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>18080

This is why I avoid advertising like the plague.
>> No. 18084 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>18083
You can't "avoid" advertising, teenlad.
>> No. 18085 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 10:10 pm
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>>18084
You can't always avoid the plague, either.
>> No. 18086 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 10:27 pm
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Pretty much the entire News at 10 has been about ISIS, Copenhagen, angry brown people etc. Is this pretty much all we're going to get until they implode and are replaced with another batch of mad mullahs?
>> No. 18101 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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>>18086

We're just being primed for another war.
>> No. 18103 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 5:05 pm
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I masturbated just now, despite the fact I didn't really want to. Have I really gotten so bored that I'll just rape myself and not even fight back?
>> No. 18105 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 6:07 pm
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>>18103
I wanked after reading this, and then went on a long shameful walk.
>> No. 18106 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>18105
I just went on a long shameful wank.
>> No. 18107 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 6:29 pm
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>>18105>>18106

I'm going to have a hard time explaining how this made me feel to my counselor.
>> No. 18108 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 6:36 pm
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>>18106
I was thinking about it until I read your three posts and decided I'd rather not take part in some sort of gs soggy biscuit.
>> No. 18109 Anonymous
17th February 2015
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>18108
It's good to know that at any moment you decide to have a wank, there's another person on here who is doing it.
>> No. 18144 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 9:15 pm
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I just accidentally deleted my Chrome browser profile - bookmarks and history maybe gone forever. Don't do drugs, kids.
>> No. 18146 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>18144
Panic over.
>> No. 18147 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>18109

P.S I am wanking as I write this.
>> No. 18149 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:01 am
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Oh my. What annoys me is that she'll probably get fucking annihilated on social media for this. To be fair, she waffles a bit, but it's still a weighted point. I tried a similarly angry rant and people who I thought were friends turned on me for not siding with them and called me a traitor and a victim blamer.

You've got to toe that fisherperson line as a modern independent women, it seems. I may not need no man, but It seems I need a woman to tell me how to think instead. I don't think they see the irony, but they haven't told me if it's OK to think that yet so I haven't pointed it out to them; whoever "they" are, I digress.
>> No. 18150 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:10 am
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>>18149
Get better mates.
>> No. 18151 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:18 am
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>>18150

No, you don't understand, I'm the problem!

I told them all to fuck off, what is left of my self-respect remains intact so it's fine. I'm a social pariah now, but who needs friends when I have comfort eating?
>> No. 18152 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:21 am
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>>18151
You mean these people actually exist? Fucking hell I just thought they were an Internet thing. None of my mates are like this as far as I'm aware, thank god.
>> No. 18153 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:24 am
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>>18152
I never met anyone like the otherlad's mates too. I wonder where to find them.
>> No. 18154 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:33 am
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>>18152

Anecdotally, yes. It was just two of them, but they were my only Uni friends at the time so I had to make new friends who aren't cunts.

To be honest, I'm glad but also sad. I hated them both, but It was a complicated relationship based on my crippling need for companionship. It was months ago now anyway, I've met some nice homos since then. We do lunch.
>> No. 18155 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:34 am
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>>18149
Wow. Persuaded me to donate. I don't even know these people, but she is hot.
>> No. 18156 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:37 am
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>>18151

You have been freed from a very prevalent contemporary cult. You have shown the will and desire to think independently and critically, which is something that cannot be tolerated as a threat to the group. Above all else, you sought to undermine their pseudo-intellectualism with something that might have even approached genuine philosophy.

Don't worry, you are certainly better off without these people regardless of your beliefs. You can make more of an impact on the real world once you engage with it, and cast off the weird pseudo-religious ideas about patriarchal monsters in every shadow. Think what you deduce to be right.

(Can somebody dig up that article about the similarities between leftist social groups and cults? I think it was on the same page with all the Kaczynski guff, and it totally cracked 3rd wave fishmongery for me)
>> No. 18157 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:40 am
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>>18155

>she is hot.

This triggered me, she needs to check her phenotype privilege.
>> No. 18158 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:43 am
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>>18157
I have a thing for women with dark hair and fringes. I shall trigger them all.
>> No. 18159 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:59 am
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>>18157
She triggered me, and I ended up firing, IYKWIM.
>> No. 18160 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 12:01 pm
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>>18156
Redpill detected.
>> No. 18161 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 12:10 pm
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>>18160

As weird as that lot are, they're not far wrong.
>> No. 18162 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 12:16 pm
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>>18161
It really says something about the state of modern fishing when those yank alpha-worshipping cunts seem like the sane ones.
>> No. 18163 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 12:54 pm
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>>18161 >>18162
They're about as obnoxious as the tumblr fisherperson brigade, in my opinion. Both are prone to ridiculously broad (and consequently inaccurate) generalisations about the opposite sex, and both fucking love bleating on about it in the most tedious manner imaginable.
>> No. 18164 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 1:00 pm
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>>18163
Well, the important thing is that etc.
>> No. 18168 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 9:25 pm
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>>18164

It's not always about feeling superior. I think in this instance it's a valid observation that any group basing their entire world view on gender alone will see things in a rather skewed way. fishing is just one aspect of a load of complex, interrelated human affairs.

Slightly less important note: I think this is why the name 'red pill' sounds so naive, the implication being that once you learn to see the world through this lens you've somehow cracked it.
>> No. 18170 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:01 pm
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>>18168
You're right, which is why modern fisherperson theory is intersectional, in that it takes account of all the various complex intersecting factors that affect people.

Most people who think fishing is nonsense are basing their argument on a strawman, such as a person who claims to be a fisherperson but whose ideas are bollocks. fishing isn't one monolithic idea and the chances are if you think some so-called fisherperson is talking bollocks then it's highly likely a lot of other fisherpersons think it's bollocks too.
>> No. 18172 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>18170

I think we're mostly in agreement. In case it wasn't apparent in my last post, I'm generally more sympathetic to fishing, as it carries the greater political justifications.

With that in mind I'm a bit apprehensive about calling one part of fishing valid while dismissing another. I won't lie, the Tumblr crowd can sometimes be hateful to the point where it makes me uncomfortable, as well as a bit facile, but I do at least think like they're 'punching up'.
>> No. 18173 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:38 pm
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>>18172
>I'm a bit apprehensive about calling one part of fishing valid while dismissing another
Why? I met a self-proclaimed fisherperson at a meeting once who claimed that all sex workers are rape victims because "paying for sex is just a way of getting around consent". That's patent bollocks and I found her views pretty offensive. There's nothing wrong with weighing up the various disparate parts of a movement and making a judgement.
>> No. 18174 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:48 pm
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>>18170
Isn't intersectionality just identity politics but appropriated by both in and out groups to speak for each other?
>> No. 18175 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>18174
Yes.
>> No. 18176 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 10:53 pm
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>>18174
I don't understand.
>> No. 18178 Anonymous
19th February 2015
Thursday 11:51 pm
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>>18176
Which part?
>> No. 18179 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:04 am
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>>18178
Most of it. Could you rephrase?
>> No. 18180 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:05 am
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>>18179
Not in less than about three paragraphs, no.
>> No. 18181 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 1:53 am
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>>18170

I'm the chap who was originally accused of being a "red pill", which is not true. I'm an aluminium headgear enthusiast for sure, but I'm not the type who sees the world according to black vs. white or whatever. The intent of my post was to congratulate the other lass for thinking of her own volition and not buckling to peer pressure, I intentionally tried to leave specifically mentioning crab people out of it.

I should clarify that I do not object to fem-fish person ry in principle. But I rather think it's become somewhat redundant. Myself and people of my generation are already femin... Fisherfolk by default, that's the world we are brought up in.

The intersectionality thing just kind of exposes the redundancy of the entire concept, and that's what makes the particularly vocal groups we hear about nowadays so concerning in my opinion. They realise that their cause is just one among many injustices affecting overall social inequality, yet they insist upon recruiting people in this for us or against us tribal mentality and constantly try to assert their particular problem as the main one that's the problem with everything, which is self evidently barmy. If they came clean and just called themselves good old fashioned Marxists, fighting to make the world an egalitarian utopia where everyone is the same, I still wouldn't agree with them, but I'd get less angry at them for intellectual dishonesty.
>> No. 18182 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 2:06 am
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>>18181
Again, I don't recognise the way you're describing fisherpersons, and it comes across as a strawman even though that's probably not your intention.
>> No. 18183 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 2:34 am
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>>18182

No True Scotsman.

I love logical fallacies. They're like Yu-Gi-Oh.
>> No. 18184 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 2:42 am
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>>18170
I think you conflate what some people call fishing with what the majority call fishing, which is legal and social equality. People can criticise what some people call fishing without dismissing fishing as a whole m8.
>> No. 18185 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 9:03 am
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>>18184
>I think you conflate what some people call fishing with what the majority call fishing, which is legal and social equality.

You are wrong. That is called 'liberalism' and 'egalitarianism'.
>> No. 18186 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 9:08 am
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Angry shitfuckers derailing every thread on the UK's number one homegrown imageboard.
>> No. 18187 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 10:57 am
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>>18186
Relax lad, its Friday.
>> No. 18188 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:31 pm
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>>18186
Has the other place's /pol/ found us?

To the bunkers
>> No. 18189 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:47 pm
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>>18184
I need fishing because it wouldn't be Friday without fish and chips.
>> No. 18190 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 12:56 pm
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>>18189

Nae wean ae mine is eating fuckin' fish oan a Friday!
>> No. 18191 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 1:28 pm
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>>18190

Did you just invent a stereotype about the Scotch?
>> No. 18192 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 1:38 pm
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>>18191

No, it's a stereotype about sectarian protestants. Eating Fish on a Friday is a Catholic tradition, you see.
>> No. 18193 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 1:43 pm
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>>18192

Religious people are weird.
>> No. 18194 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 4:00 pm
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Are "they", by which I mean everyone in world (seemingly), ever going to stop talking about Eastenders? Or should I be planning on migrating to Greenland right now?
>> No. 18195 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 4:56 pm
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>>18194

I saw some thing about people being confused about whether a bloke said "who killed blahblah" or "you killed blahblah". I don't want to cast aspersions on the Eastenders audience, having not seen the line delivered, but it should be pretty fucking obvious from the context which one he was supposed to say.
>> No. 18196 Anonymous
20th February 2015
Friday 5:16 pm
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>>18195
It was Max. He said it to his daughter, and it sounded like he said "She knows you killed..." He always sounds drunk, so whether he said you or who, doesn't really matter.
>> No. 18207 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 11:08 am
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People who don't flush after what looks like it would have been a banging turd.
I have to look after a neighbour's small pack of hounds, and she is surprisingly lax in this respect.
>> No. 18208 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 11:10 am
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>>18207
Unless it's a LAD who doesn't flush his turd for #topbantz then, in my experience, women leave toilets in a worse state than men.
>> No. 18209 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 11:25 am
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>>18208
Having worked on an East Yorks caravan park for a season as an odd job kind of fellow, it wasn't uncommon to find shit and menstruation blood smeared in the walls of the cubicles. Women from West Yorks must threfore be seriously unhinged at some fundamental level.
Despite this, it really doesn't make sense to me to leave shit to stew in the can for any length of time, shit is filthy, makes sense to be s far away as possible from it. (Sorry, on a tablet)
>> No. 18210 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 3:43 pm
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>> No. 18211 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 5:19 pm
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>>18210
Youtoube wont no wot it it lad.
>> No. 18212 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 6:47 pm
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>>18209

Ladies toilets are usually horrific. I think it's the broken window effect - women hover rather than sit so there's piss absolutely everywhere, causing people to be even more careless, until the place is so filthy that throwing your used tampon at the ceiling seems like a reasonable thing to do.
>> No. 18213 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 7:08 pm
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>>18212

There's a rather funny irony in there, that one would hover above the seat for the sake of hygiene and end up with a piss-drenched restroom.
>> No. 18214 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 7:16 pm
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>>18212
Indeed, and women often complain that it's only men that always and without fail, when taking a piss, piss on the seat. If they are concerned with hygiene, why not just sit a bit further back so their fanny doesn't come into contact with the seat or put a tissue down? I am really starting to think a fair proportion of women are actually psychos now.
>> No. 18215 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 8:04 pm
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>>18212
This is reminding me of a conversation on Reddit describing the most horrific things people have witnessed/come across in ladies toilets. It was horrible, but I couldn't stop reading.
>> No. 18216 Anonymous
22nd February 2015
Sunday 8:42 pm
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>>18215
Is this the one in question?
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/vjoa8/ever_been_in_a_womens_bathroom_before/
They are demented, absolutely demented.
>> No. 18217 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 1:46 am
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>>17297
My local bus company's e-ticketing app is complaining because it can't get a network connection. I could understand were it not for the fact that the mobile data is only switched off because the phone is connected to my home wifi instead.
>> No. 18218 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 1:54 am
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>>18216

I've literally never seen anything like that in a women's bathroom. The worst thing was in 1996 I was with my seven year old cousin in Galway and someone had left a big bloody sanitary pad on the floor (in fact it was more like layered toilet roll and/or kitchen roll they'd used as a temporary pad) and my cousin was truly freaking out saying did they have a nosebleed? and I was like um, yes... a nosebleed, then she was saying there was far too much blood. She thought someone had been murdered I think.
>> No. 18219 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 2:08 am
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>>18218
Should have said that's what they do to naughty children around that way.
>> No. 18220 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 7:56 am
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Chili peppers. They don't add any flavour, it's just heat for the sake of adding heat and then you get people having pissing contests over how hot a chili they can eat.
>> No. 18221 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 8:03 am
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>>18220
I believe I mentioned this before with people of a certain generation being strangely reluctant to, you know, add actual flavour to their cooking (bay leaves, rosemary, thyme, parsley, paprika, cumin, mustard powder etc.) yet are transfixed with the notion that just adding a chilli pepper makes their shitty, bland 1970s style cuisine taste in any way better and potentially award-winning.
>> No. 18222 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 8:44 am
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>>18220>>18221

I like spicy food but I knew people would think this so I'm reluctant to eat it around people.

Also I slept for 8 hours and that's made me feel weird.
>> No. 18223 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 9:05 am
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>>18220

Chilli peppers do have flavour, but they're either used incorrectly or, depending on your tolerance, the heat overpowers any taste. Most chillies have a clean, fresh, almost botanical taste, which is fantastic.

The heat, I can understand people not liking that, but it's a flavour, or at least element of a dish itself, not unlike the coolness of mint or the kick of mustard. These things aren't strictly tastes, but they're absolutely a part of the profile of the dish. Something like a seranade or Fresno pepper is just about right for most people, and they're the two most common chillis sold in supermarkets here - the big red ones.

If you ever get a chance to try a Habanero that has been bred to be mild, I highly recommend it - without the heat burning your face off, they taste amazing.

I do hate any sort of competition based on how hot a chilli you can eat, that is strictly the reserve of society's most rotten cunts.
>> No. 18224 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 10:44 am
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>>18223
Seconding everything in this post. Chillies can be used solely to provide heat but the flavour of a milder chilli can really add to a meal.

>I do hate any sort of competition based on how hot a chilli you can eat, that is strictly the reserve of society's most rotten cunts.
I was in an Indian restaurant recently and a TOP LAD on the next table over ordered "the hottest thing on the menu", and then proceeded to talk at room-filling volume about cars and how fast he liked to drive, for the entire duration of the meal. It's been years since I'd encountered this kind of prick so it was almost entertaining.
>> No. 18225 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 10:54 am
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>>18224
You just gave me a flashback to a time I was in a club in Edinburgh. A proper fucking guido in there bought a £400 bottle of champagne (or £70 if he'd got it from a shop) and was swinging the fucking thing around, then after him and his blatantly-a-prostitute date had necked it, he chased it down with a £50 bottle (or about £4 from Asda). The bloke was sitting in a basement club with a low ceiling waving around a 7" Cuban cigar that wasn't even lit, even taking pretend drags from it and leaving it hanging out of his mouth.
>> No. 18226 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 1:13 pm
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I don't mean to sound like the bi-monthly "dear white people" Guardian article, but I'm watching some old cowboy film and seeing all these Native Americans being played by tan painted honkies is really distracting.
>> No. 18227 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 1:40 pm
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>>18220
Chilli powder, salt and a little oil instantly improves any boring chicken breast - serve with some veg for my 'I can't be bothered cooking owt fancy' meal of the week.

I'm a big fan of spicy food (and so are my parents) but it's never about showing off, I'll regularly make myself a steaming curry with plenty of chillis just to eat by myself. Obviously they are far from the only spice you should use though, got to chuck in a bit of turmeric, cumin, ground ginger and ground corriander for flavour. But a curry without chilli is just boring, and for best results you've got to use both powdered and fresh.

I was incredibly dissapointed with a habanero I had recently mind, if anything it had less heat than a jalapeno or bird's eye. Ghost chillis are the shit mind, just use about a third of whatever you usually do...
>> No. 18228 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 1:56 pm
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>>18227
You can do the job fine with okra instead of fresh chillies.
>> No. 18229 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 2:24 pm
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>>18228
nah m8 ghost chillies or nowt
>> No. 18230 Anonymous
23rd February 2015
Monday 8:33 pm
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>>18228

/101/ okra. It's slimy and disgusting.
>> No. 18231 Anonymous
24th February 2015
Tuesday 11:31 am
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I'm looking for a 1 bedroom apartment / studio apt. and the weekly emails I get bring 1 bedroom houses that comprise of 3 additional rooms, but it's listed as a single bedroom place - the cunting agencies do this and it fucks up the search requests.
"The whole property consists of three modern bedrooms and bathroom".
Then it's not a 1 bedroom house you slimey fuckwits. Fucking hell, you need to be a special type of cunt to work in a property agency.
>> No. 18232 Anonymous
24th February 2015
Tuesday 11:40 am
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>>18231
I had a similar problem while looking for somewhere to live. A search for 1-bed properties included 'one room in a shared house' and a search for 2- and 3-bed properties included 'single room in 3-bed house' - both of which were especially annoying as I had specifically marked the 'no shared accommodation' box in the search.
>> No. 18233 Anonymous
24th February 2015
Tuesday 12:06 pm
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>>18232
It's not so much the website's fault, it's the agencies trying to circumvent filters and flog their student hovels, and ultimately waste everyone's time.
>> No. 18234 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 3:49 pm
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I applied for a job yesterday that was explicitly listed as being located in a certain location and required a particular specialism and a bunch of related skills as a pre-requisite for applying to it.

It turns out the recruitment agency were wrong on both counts, the job is about 40 miles away and has fuck all to do with the skill it actually pissing says in the job title and throughout the description numerous times!

Recruitment agencies are absolute fucking shits.
>> No. 18235 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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>>18234
Every now and again their shit backfires. I was once sent for an interview as a graphic designer, despite telling them that I was a techie. About fifteen minutes into the interview one of the panel slipped out to get authority from the big boss to design a new post there and then. I then spent a year as their IT manager.
>> No. 18236 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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>>18235

So they hired you out of an immense sense of politeness?
>> No. 18237 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>18236
That's harsh lad.
>> No. 18238 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 10:58 pm
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>>18235
This post makes no sense.
>> No. 18239 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 11:00 pm
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>>18238
Which part don't you think makes sense?
>> No. 18240 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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>>18237

I didn't mean it like that, I was just imagining a situation in which a group of people were so polite they'd rather make up jobs than disappoint someone.

I'm not mean.
>> No. 18241 Anonymous
25th February 2015
Wednesday 11:34 pm
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>>18239
It's missing a comma.
>> No. 18242 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 12:06 am
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>>18241
Your mum is missing a comma.
>> No. 18243 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 11:45 am
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SU election time again, and once again this chronically unfunny cunt is running for the third year in a row. I can't wait to see yet another LOLSORANDUMXD video, and be bombarded with his twatty face plastered all over campus.

https://www.youtube.com/v/NM2KsNAIMbc
>> No. 18244 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 1:00 pm
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>>18243
My university have a wonderful habit of allowing the candidates to paint shitty signs on old bits of Aldi box declaring things like "Vote Jenga for AAFO!" and hang them all over campus. It looks like we've been hit by a rubbish tornado.

I fucking hate this time of year.
>> No. 18246 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 1:30 pm
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>>18244
York?

I vote re-open nominations to spite the cunts who litter the place with their names and shitty references. "Clark", for example, has spread the logo of the shoe shop "Clarks" around campus.
>> No. 18247 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>18243
37 seconds, couldn't manage more.

I fucking hated all that SU election nonsense when I was at uni.
>> No. 18248 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 1:39 pm
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I went back to my alma mater the other day to pick up some sources a former tutor had printed off for me. I'd forgotten it was election time - it wasn't so horrendous. Interestingly the polls close tomorrow and the only evidence I saw of an election was a few scratty leaflets around and some plonker outside the library asking me if I'd voted yet.
>> No. 18249 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>18246
Sabbatical officers in general should be /101/ed. In all my years at university, all I've ever known them do is mostly fuck all and then pull out some massively outrageous change or stunt to gain face and leave a lasting impression on the SU. They're far too immature to run something with the magnitude of an SU.
>> No. 18250 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 2:00 pm
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>>18249
I used to work at the student paper and had to work with sabbatical officers quite a lot. A few are genuinely ok people. Others are unbearable human beings. One sab who was in charge of financing and overseeing the student paper was a pretty decent guy who knew when to be hands-off and when to help out, but the woman before him tried to grab hold of the whole process, including direct appointment of editors.

She also lied to the editors, claiming that she'd talked to the former editor about the 'idea' (upon being rang, the former editor had no clue what she was on about).

I was pretty glad to see the back of her. I don't think she achieved anything in her time. The chap who I liked put some good reforms in about JCR accountability after a scandal about corruption and embezzlement came into the light.

The president was a complete and utter scumbag. His power block that got him elected was the Tory society (in the hustings he neglected to mention his membership upon being asked 'what are your personal politics?'), who was just a cazzo in all possible regards. I'm glad his career has since come to nothing.
>> No. 18251 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:24 pm
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I saw a 'friend' of mine on campus handing out Green party leaflets.

I cringed internally and resolved to never speak to him again.
>> No. 18252 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 3:39 pm
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>>18251
Yeah I hate it when a so-called friend turns out to not believe the exact same things as I believe. If I wanted to listen to somebody else's perspective, I'd be somebody else.
>> No. 18253 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 4:54 pm
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>>18251
You would have been better going up and talking over the lunatic communism that is the Green party manifesto with him, perhaps you could have made him see sense.
>> No. 18255 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 5:08 pm
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>>18251

My best friend's basically an Objectivist (despite his protests otherwise), who, sadly, I will have to obliterate in the coming revolution. It doesn't mean we can't play Total War games and and talk about Kraftwerk in the mean time.

In short, yr a daft cunt.
>> No. 18256 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 5:29 pm
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>>18253
I don't talk politics with friends, it never ends well.
>> No. 18257 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 5:34 pm
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>>18256
I'm very cautious about talking about politics with friends but I've found it's not a big deal if you stay sensible and don't get emotional about it.

I'm not friends with any right political nutters any more, though.
>> No. 18258 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 6:36 pm
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>>18256
I have one friend who can be quite insufferable in this respect, so I usually wind her up. You can't really have a serious discussion with someone who thinks immigration controls are racist, treats immigrants as a homogeneous blob and has no issue with regularly putting down the indigenous population.

While I'm on /101/, on Radio 2 they've replaced Uptown Funk with Cassy O' by George Ezra as their song to play several times a day, every day.
>> No. 18259 Anonymous
26th February 2015
Thursday 6:51 pm
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>>18257
I only have one mate who I talk politics with, and he considers himself a left winger when really he's a Blairite, and I'm more Thatcherite/Kipper. He likes to think he doesn't agree with me on anything but there's a lot more crossover than he's willing to admit. We have quite reasonable discussions though, we know where stuffs getting silly, whereas I refrain from talking politics with any other mate of mine.
>> No. 18260 Anonymous
27th February 2015
Friday 12:44 pm
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I've just realised that sparkling water basically tastes the same as any flavored soda, only sparkling water is absurdly cheap and doesn't melt your teeth to buggery. I haven't actually drank any flavored sodas for a couple of years now, but I still resent all the times I did.

Also there's people on my TV talking about how good US style political ads are and I have no mouth but I must scream.
>> No. 18261 Anonymous
27th February 2015
Friday 1:09 pm
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>>18258
>treats immigrants as a homogeneous blob
What do you mean by that? Is it by any chance that we should be differentiating between 'good' immigrants and 'bad' immigrants?

>the indigenous population
What do you mean by that?

(I don't mind talking politics with you lads because I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS)

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18262 Anonymous ## Mod ##
27th February 2015
Friday 1:36 pm
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People who try to initiate political discussions on the wrong boards in inappropriate threads.
>> No. 18263 Anonymous
27th February 2015
Friday 2:03 pm
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>>18258But British people are shit anyway! Also racist.
>> No. 18264 Anonymous
27th February 2015
Friday 4:17 pm
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>>18262
Cute.
>> No. 18265 Anonymous
28th February 2015
Saturday 11:37 pm
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Americans being stupid - or, to use the technical term, American. See if you can spot what's wrong with this video. http://new.livestream.com/NYSE/Wales
>> No. 18266 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 1:22 am
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>>18265

They and some supplicants from the UK are applauding one of the most destructive institutions of all time?
>> No. 18267 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 1:24 am
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>>18266
Careful, edges, word, etc.
>> No. 18268 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 1:31 am
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>>18267

I'm not really so much "edgy" as I am entirely correct, am I?
>> No. 18269 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 1:41 am
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>>18268
>entirely correct
You're missing a couple of letters from the middle there.
>> No. 18270 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 1:43 am
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>>18265
What's wrong? I don't see anything wrong there.
>> No. 18271 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 2:51 am
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>>18270
Don't worry, lad. He just doesn't see the truth of your words because the reptiloids have blinded him to it.
>> No. 18272 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 9:07 am
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>>18271

I don't think you replied to who you think you did.
>> No. 18273 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 2:23 pm
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>>18270
Take a look at the flags.
>> No. 18274 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 4:35 pm
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>>18273
What's wrong with them?
>> No. 18275 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 4:45 pm
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>>18274
Really, lad? Really?
>> No. 18276 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:13 pm
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>>18273
Well... wow. That takes a special degree of retardation. If it were the Union Flag I could understand, but not the Welsh flag. The only excuse they might have is if the top ring slipped off the rope.
>> No. 18277 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:32 pm
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>>18275
Oooohhh the colours are swapped. If I didn't catch on, I doubt a foreigner would.
>> No. 18278 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:35 pm
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>>18277
I hope you're joking.
>> No. 18279 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:35 pm
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You don't really hear of Seppos claiming Welsh heritage. You get ones claiming to be Scottish and Irish all the time, but I can't recall hearing it about the sheep shaggers.
>> No. 18280 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:36 pm
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>>18277
Yeah, if only there were something obvious on the Welsh flag that could have told the flag crew which way up it goes.
>> No. 18281 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:38 pm
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>>18279
The Welsh generally ended up in South America, I believe.
>> No. 18282 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 5:39 pm
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>>18278
Come on lad. It can happen.

>>18280
In the video, you can't really see the silly dragon.

>>18279
Abraham Lincoln was welsh.
>> No. 18283 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 6:00 pm
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>>18279
There's a bunch of them in south-eastern Pennsylvania. There are a load of places in that part of the state with Welsh names.
>> No. 18284 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 6:01 pm
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>>18282
>In the video, you can't really see the silly dragon.
Yeah, it's not as if the people who had to put the flag on the pole got to see the whole thing or anything.
>> No. 18285 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 6:24 pm
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>>18284
Come on mate. You can't expect everyone to know how a Welsh flag looks like.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18286 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 6:58 pm
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>>18285
You can if they put flags on poles for a living.
>> No. 18287 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 7:05 pm
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My therapist never asked me if I thought I was a danger to myself or others this week. I should do a murder suicide just to show her.
>> No. 18288 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 7:08 pm
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>>18287
Just make sure you fail. We want you alive to be able to tell us what happens.
>> No. 18289 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 7:21 pm
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>>18287
I wasn't aware that they were meant to ask you every week. Do you not fill out a mood questionnaire where they ask you if you're thinking of harming yourself or others before each session?
>> No. 18290 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>18288

Well, duh, the only reason I'd do it is to act smug afterwards.

>>18289

Ah, perhaps they aren't. And there is a questionnaire, but I don't recall anything about hurting myself or others being on it.
>> No. 18291 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 8:56 pm
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>>18287
I'm afraid of telling my GP that I get intense homicidal thoughts. I don't want to get locked up.
>> No. 18292 Anonymous
1st March 2015
Sunday 9:47 pm
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>>18291

I can quite clearly infer from your post that you don't want to wind up killing someone, so just go tell them. It's 2015, not 1915.

Although, if it were 1915 you could just join the army and spend the next 3 years killing to your hearts content.
>> No. 18293 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 12:27 am
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>>18292
Pretty sure you can do that now it's 2015 too.

>>18291
Intrusive thoughts are common to the anxious and overthinkers. If you fit either of these categories then don't be surprised; as long as you aren't too distressed about them, just tell them to fuck off and go about your day. I often have intrusive thoughts of "you could mug this person standing next to you at the bus stop" or "you could sexually assault that girl" even though I'm not the kind of person to do either of those things. I've been told it's just part of my anxiety/weird brain and that I already deal with it in the right way, so I'm not too fussed.
>> No. 18294 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 2:27 pm
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Nosey bastards who go past and either comment on my bedroom curtains being closed during the day *or* saying that they saw me on my laptop (when I bother to open the curtains at all) which is right next to the window on the days that I am off shift. Thing is, by the time I get up it's often still dark and it's often quite dark by the time I get home.

Why do these fucking things matter to people at all?
>> No. 18295 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 2:36 pm
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>>18293

>Pretty sure you can do that now it's 2015 too.

The army isn't at war right now. It's in a lot of warzones, doing war things, but not actual war, yet.

>>18294

Huh? Where do you live? And surely if you're out having your curtains closed is standard procedure, right?
>> No. 18296 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 2:48 pm
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>>18295
>It's in a lot of warzones, doing war things, but not actual war, yet.
What's the difference? Given that there's such a thing as Total War, doesn't that mean there's such a thing as Partial War?
>> No. 18297 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 2:53 pm
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>>18296
Partial war is the inverse of the opening times on a chippy. War is closed 12-2 so people can nip out for their dinner and then again 5-9 to account for teatime.
>> No. 18298 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 3:16 pm
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>>18295
Thirsk, where apparently having your curtains open apparently shows you have nothing to hide and where you should be able to leave your door unlocked if it weren't for the darkies (who actually don't live anywhere nearby at all).
>> No. 18299 Anonymous
2nd March 2015
Monday 10:06 pm
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>>18298
How do they comment on it? Do they knock on your door and ask you why your curtains are drawn?

I never open the curtains ever, unless it is summer. Those nosey bastards might report me for being suspicious.
>> No. 18300 Anonymous
3rd March 2015
Tuesday 7:56 pm
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Children. Specifically, my own.

Not long ago I was in the process of curling out a turd when the lock in the bathroom door started turning, to reveal my daughter on the other side stood on a stool and with a penny in her hand which she'd used to turn the lock. She then walked into the bathroom with her potty, that she hasn't used in God knows how long, because she wanted to do a spot of simultaneous shitting, along with added commentary such as "it's stuck to my bum, so I'm going to get some toilet roll to help it out."

Oh, and, when you post a link on Facebook and people reply with a comment tagging their friends in despite the fact you've pointed out to them already they won't be able to see it.
>> No. 18301 Anonymous
3rd March 2015
Tuesday 9:23 pm
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>>18300

You have to admire her resourcefulness.
>> No. 18302 Anonymous
3rd March 2015
Tuesday 10:58 pm
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>>18301

When I were a nipper, I managed to lock the bathroom door from the inside, from the outside. My Dad busted a rib ramming it back open.
>> No. 18303 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 12:03 am
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>>18300
At least you can be sure in the knowledge that your daughter is learning the value of a good shitting session from her dad.
>> No. 18304 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 7:47 am
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>>18300
That is oddly quite sweet.
>> No. 18305 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 5:20 pm
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The "word wise" function on my Kindle is useless. If turned on it tells me what all those maddeningly tricksy words like "ambulance" and "farmhouse" mean, but when it comes to "mechanotherapy" and "camions" I just have to look those up myself. Perhaps it's done by the book's publisher or something, but so far having it on has just been slightly distracting.

'lotta quotation marks in that post, huh?
>> No. 18306 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 6:00 pm
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I really dislike lazy fuckers who just sit in one place doing exactly nothing, and just yell at others to go to them to tell them something they are most likely already aware of or to command them to do a stupid errand they could have easily achieved with very little effort.

People who do this:
Managers.
Parents.

There is a lot of cross-over between the two things.
>> No. 18307 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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>>18306
Haven't you got GCSEs to be studying for, teenlad?
>> No. 18308 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 7:31 pm
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>>18307

Haven't you got a pipe to be smoking/long passed sexual conquest to be romanticising/Duran Duran album to be listening to/coffin to be picking/family tree to be researching, oldlad?
>> No. 18309 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>18308
>long passed
Teenlad.
>> No. 18310 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>18307

Drink bleach, unoriginalinsultslad.
>> No. 18311 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 8:31 pm
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>>18307
>>18308
>>18309
>>18310
Have words with yourselves, ladladlads.
>> No. 18312 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:00 pm
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>>18311

Not him but complaining about "parents" in such a generalized manner has to be literally the most teenladdy thing possible?

It's so unfaiiir!
>> No. 18313 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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>>18312

Anyone who has a healthy relationship with their parents are sure to be a most unhealthy person themselves.
>> No. 18314 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>18313
Yeah but once you're 20+ you try to not whinge about your relationship problems on the internet.
>> No. 18315 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:15 pm
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>>18313

Whilst my own relationship with my parents is estranged (primarily because I was regularly beaten and choked).

I can't help but cringe at how teenladdy that statement is. It's like you are on your little marxist soap box.
>> No. 18316 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>18315
>regularly beaten and choked
Sounds so hot. That is the FUCKING DREAM.
>> No. 18317 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:32 pm
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>>18316

Sometimes I wore a school uniform when they did it.
>> No. 18318 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 9:37 pm
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>>18317
Jesus mate. You had the best childhood.

Did they call you naughty and then defile you?

Someone please spit at me.
>> No. 18319 Anonymous
4th March 2015
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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>>18318

open your mouth
>> No. 18320 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 2:40 am
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"Hey chaplad I'm doing the rotas, are you on overtime next week?"

"Yes, on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday you asked me to do."

"Ah okay I'll put you on all week then since Jenny isn't doing the other shifts after she's got that other job now."

Thanks Jenny. You fuckwit.
>> No. 18321 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 8:47 am
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>>18314

Yeah, you're only doing some poor psychiatrist out of a few hundred bob.

SOCIALISED PSYCHIATRY ON T'INTERNET
>> No. 18322 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 5:29 pm
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Has anyone ever seen a "word of the day" anywhere that they could actually use? They all seem preposterously obtuse or extraordinarily specific, or both.
>> No. 18323 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 6:37 pm
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I needed caffeine this afternoon, so I had a strong black coffee. A couple of premature bowel evacuations later and I feel as sick as a dog, very nauseous indeed.

Coffee - never again.
>> No. 18324 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 8:19 pm
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Got ambushed by a chili earlier. The entirety of one edge of my tongue and the back half of a cheek were raw for almost ten minutes. Actual physical pain was felt.
>> No. 18325 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 8:30 pm
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>>18324
Did you cook it yourself, or did some dullard who thinks extreme heat = good food cook it for you?
>> No. 18326 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>18325
Chili the pepper, not chili the dish. It was found in a dish where I wasn't really expecting to find one, and as a result I had failed to steel myself for it, or at least take care of where in my mouth I was putting it.
>> No. 18327 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:06 pm
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>>18322
"wont"
I went through a phase of using it quite a lot, such is my wont when I take a liking to a new word.
>> No. 18328 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:27 pm
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This, her and every other member of the perpetually offended.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/against-meals-breakfast-lunch-dinner
>> No. 18329 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>18328
Absolutely incredible.
>> No. 18330 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:40 pm
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>>18328

The writer doesn't seem offended. A bit contrarian, maybe, and certainly sensationalist.
>> No. 18331 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:42 pm
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>>18328
Thing is, the article itself is pretty OK. It's the headline that does it.

Though really you should have archived that if you're so annoyed by it.

Here you go; https://web.archive.org/web/20150305003939/http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/against-meals-breakfast-lunch-dinner
>> No. 18332 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:49 pm
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>>18330

She thinks a full English is racist and you're splitting hairs? I bet you don't even have a St George's on your living room wall m8. This country...
>> No. 18333 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 9:58 pm
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>>18332
She never actually says the word 'racist' in the article, I think she's the victim of some clickbait-crafting editor who's gone and emptied a tin of worms on her head by cynically promoting the article with incendiary language.
>> No. 18334 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:09 pm
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>>18333
She's still pent up on the silly idea of calories, though, so it's probably best to just ignore the entire article and move along.
>> No. 18335 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:09 pm
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>>18333
I've never written any article for any publication, online or otherwise, but I guess that part of the business model for generating advertising revenues would be to get people onto a non-story under false pretenses, so it wouldn't surprise me if what you say is true. This might go some way in explaining why the online versions of respected broadsheets like the Telegraph and the Graun have both become quite "opinion"-oriented, as if the readers don't have any opinions of their own (comments usually reveal that people just think "stfu you twat"). The press is a total mess, the internet has only accelerated its decline.

Clickbait in general is quite shitty and a cynical way to get money, The Onion normally does a good job of taking the piss out of it:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/10-jokes-childrens-shows-you-didnt-get-kid-1373
>> No. 18336 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>18333
The author might be the guilty party, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. It worked.
>> No. 18337 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>18335
> The press is a total mess, the internet has only accelerated its decline.

You get what you pay for. I pay for a Stratfor and FT subscription and I'm very satisfied.
>> No. 18338 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:18 pm
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>>18337
I get the Non-League Paper, the Morning Star when I can get it and sometimes plump for the FT if I have enough money on me and the desire to strain to read it (seriously, that colour is an obstacle). It's a good paper whose articles often read like a researched news cable. Yorkshire Post is good, Hull Daily (toytown news) I can take or leave.
I used to get the Graun almost daily, but got incredibly annoyed with it for numerous reasons.
>> No. 18339 Anonymous
5th March 2015
Thursday 10:36 pm
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>>18338

The FT is the only decent paper I've read in years. It's almost as if their core readers require to be told the unbiased truth in order to make informed decisions... or something.
>> No. 18340 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 1:46 am
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>>18335

Clickbaity headlines are standard practice these days, because everyone is so desperate for traffic. Rates for online display advertising are absolutely dismal, so paying the bills means either massive amounts of traffic or those horrendous "sponsored" articles. Bad headlines aren't the journalist's fault, because they are almost always written by sub-editors. Whenever you read something in a newspaper that makes you cross, bear in mind that bad subbing can completely change the meaning of a piece.
>> No. 18341 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 3:30 am
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>>18340
Who can forget that masterpiece of writing from the BBC just a couple of weeks ago?
>Nutella jar house fire kills dog
>> No. 18342 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 1:56 pm
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>>18341
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31594956

This is actually horrific. That poor dog.
>> No. 18343 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 3:15 pm
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>>18342
But that six-word slug got you to click, didn't it?
>> No. 18344 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 4:11 pm
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When I post a comment containing a grammar or spelling mistake on The Guardian, because they don't let you delete/edit your posts. I just managed to use "but" as a rather substitute for "and", most embarrassing.
>> No. 18345 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 4:14 pm
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>>18344

I meant to say "inadequate substitute", but I won't delete that because I HAVE TO LEARN TO BE BETTER!
>> No. 18346 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 9:12 pm
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>>18343
I'm not him, and I don't give a fuck about whatever wanky discussion you're having about whether or not clickbait is effective.

I am, however, very upset over that dog. And so should you.
>> No. 18347 Anonymous
6th March 2015
Friday 9:16 pm
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Indeed, I hate it when I burn my dinner.
>> No. 18348 Anonymous
7th March 2015
Saturday 12:03 pm
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>>18347
I take it was your means to procuring quavers.
>> No. 18349 Anonymous
7th March 2015
Saturday 12:25 pm
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>>18348

I don't get it.
>> No. 18350 Anonymous
7th March 2015
Saturday 6:48 pm
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Midday yesterday some blokes from the national grid turned up and set up two huge power generators about 5m from my bedroom window. They're big fuckers - must be kicking out 100s of kW each, not to mention noise and diesel fumes, and they were running constantly all through the night. This constant droning is going to drive me mad.
>> No. 18351 Anonymous
7th March 2015
Saturday 9:23 pm
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It's called The Voice but none of them can sing.
>> No. 18352 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 7:26 am
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People who believe the utterly retarded myth that daylight saving time was introduced for the benefit of farmers.
>> No. 18353 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 7:58 pm
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>>18352
What's the reason then, Dr. Boffin?
>> No. 18354 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>>18353
It was to reduce energy usage by giving people more of their useful day in daylight. It was the Krauts wot dun it first, I think.
>> No. 18355 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 8:15 pm
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>>18354
Chart related. The majority of people are still asleep between 4-5am. Pushing sunset out from 8 to 9pm means domestic lights are switched on an hour later.
>> No. 18356 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 8:20 pm
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>>18355
I have been saying this to my manager for months now. He gets up bizarrely at half 4, gets to work for 6 and starts at 8. He goes on like he deserves a medal or something, more fool him for missing out on a good kip.
>> No. 18357 Anonymous
8th March 2015
Sunday 10:54 pm
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>>18356
Morning people completely and utterly confound me. The only good time to see 5am is when it's still the night before, not the morning after.
>> No. 18358 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 9:36 am
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Overpaid hipster Buzzfeed-type 'internet journalists' who use the phrase breaking the internet to describe any viral bollocks they pulled off Facebook/Reddit.
>> No. 18359 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 9:45 am
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>>18358
With any luck that entire arm of journalism will utterly collapse within the decade.
>> No. 18360 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 9:58 am
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>>18359
Only to be replaced by something even worse.
>> No. 18361 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 11:25 am
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>>18359>>18360
If anything, it seems that subscription free news sites are trying to replicate Buzzfeed in their never ending quest for clicks.
>> No. 18362 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 11:40 am
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>>18361

http://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-daily-mail-online-1689453286/+maxread
>> No. 18363 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 11:58 am
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>>18361
Its damn effective too... I catch myself gawking at a link for longer then I snap out of it and realise it's another massive time sink.
It's impossible to escape as well, at least 4-5 of my friends had to be taken off my wall for this crime.
>> No. 18364 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 2:16 pm
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>>18361
I can see the headlines already.
>You won't believe what ISIL just did to these ruins
>23 things you didn't know about the UKIP manifesto
>15 runs England should have scored but didnt
>8 things Green Party supporters say online
>"I'm strictly a mass debater" says PM
>1 certified webmaster you won't believe really exists
>> No. 18365 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 4:58 pm
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>>18364
I Called Someone A Racist On The Internet. This Was Their Response.
>> No. 18366 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 5:01 pm
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>>18365
>Man sent his mate a disgusting tweet, you won't believe what it was!
>> No. 18367 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 5:03 pm
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>>18366
This guy deletes his Twitter account. When you see why, you'll be flabberghasted!
>> No. 18368 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>18367
A day passed on Earth, you won't believe what happened in it.
>> No. 18369 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 5:33 pm
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You'll Never Guess What I Rammed Up My Urethra.
>> No. 18380 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 11:17 am
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He asks a young man if he can feel his biceps. What happens next will blow you away
>> No. 18385 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 12:26 pm
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His auntie invited him round her house, when you see why you'll be jealous!
>> No. 18386 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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Buying a belt. Apparently buying a simple black leather belt with one prong, a leather loop and a buckle that wasn't designed by someone with serious mental deficiencies is a hard task.
>> No. 18390 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 1:53 pm
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>>18386
Try H&M.
>> No. 18392 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 4:28 pm
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"She can take care of herself but you have to step in to stop anyone if they're making her uncomfortable except it's not up to you to decide how to deal with the situation."
tumblrinas are impossible. None of the shit they come out with is remotely applicable to real life, and will never be unless we all become psychic or start signing consent forms just to hit on each other.
>> No. 18395 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 6:01 pm
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I just saw footage of two helicopters crashing into one another. Why does the news show me these things? ;_;
>> No. 18396 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 6:43 pm
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>>18395

Because "Most People Basically Fine" isn't news.
>> No. 18397 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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>>18396

But is "a few people basically dead" really news either?

Also my local MP is on the news and he's much fatter than in his pictures. Lying Tory animal.
>> No. 18402 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 8:00 pm
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>>18386

M&S mate. They have exactly what you're describing, and they're about 14 quid.
>> No. 18406 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 10:30 pm
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The fact that most modern cars do not include an easily replaceable standard-size head unit.
>> No. 18407 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 10:52 pm
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>>18406
She didn't think my head unit was standard-size IYKWIM
>> No. 18408 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 11:29 pm
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>>18406

99% of modern cars will take a DIN head unit, you just need to use a fascia adaptor kit. Manufacturers like to blend the shape of the radio into the dash, and use control panels that are bigger than the DIN standard.

The real niggle IMO is the use of non-standard wiring harness connectors, which is just a needless ballache.
>> No. 18409 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 11:54 pm
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>>18406

Propriatry cables are a pain in the arse, but you can buy all the relevant adapters on the internet.
>> No. 18410 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 11:55 pm
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>>18406

This is why I stubbornly drive a 90s hatchback. I'm by no means a mechanic or a boy racer, but tinkering and doing stuff to your own car is on of the things I firmly believe a man should be able to do. Sadly that sort of thing is slowly being erased from our culture, everything is pre-packaged and disposable.

I bet most blokes these days don't even have a toolbox under the stairs with loads of loose nails and screws rattling about in it.
>> No. 18411 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 11:55 pm
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The buses on my street pass in one direction. They stop at A, B and C in that order. B and C are at most a couple of minutes' walk apart, and C is almost right outside my home. Sounds simple enough, right? There's a station about ten minutes' walk away via the footpath (grey) off the bottom of the diagram. Traveline's helpful suggestions:

- Getting a bus home: take a bus to A, walk to B then wait ten minutes for a bus to C.
- Getting a train home: walk to B, then wait up to fifteen minutes for a bus to C.
- Getting a bus into town: walk fifteen minutes to A and get on the bus there even though it stops at C anyway.
- Getting a train into town: get bus from C, get off three stops along, walk five minutes to A, wait ten minutes, get on bus to B, walk to station.
>> No. 18412 Anonymous
11th March 2015
Wednesday 7:33 am
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>>18410
>I bet most blokes these days don't even have a toolbox under the stairs with loads of loose nails and screws rattling about in it.

I have one, but it's mainly my girlfriend who uses it. Her dad left when she was 6, so she's ended up rather good at handy work whereas I'm clumsy with poor co-ordination. Sort of makes up for the daddy issues.
>> No. 18413 Anonymous
11th March 2015
Wednesday 9:45 am
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>>18410
>I bet most blokes these days don't even have a toolbox under the stairs with loads of loose nails and screws rattling about in it.

Yes, a "bits box" as I call it. Perhaps it's a measure of manliness, my old man has about 20 old tubs of ice-cream containers in the stair closet to serve this purpose. My collection is growing, but I fear it's a combination of hoarding and being prepared for the future.

How on EARTH will I know when I will need 20 ft of rubber draft excluder, a bit of a PCV pipe and some brass nuts? Better keep these handy.
>> No. 18414 Anonymous
11th March 2015
Wednesday 11:22 am
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>>18413
>draught.

Christ don't ban me, I have a family to feed.
>> No. 18415 Anonymous
11th March 2015
Wednesday 7:02 pm
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Film4 insists on only showing lengthy, subtitled Werner Herzog films in the wee AM hours when only a very specific kind of mad person could possibly watch them.
>> No. 18417 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 1:23 am
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>>18415

Hmm, it must be for me. I've never seen a Werner Herzog film, but he's German, so I'd probably enjoy it, and I'm nocturnal at the moment thanks to packing in that soul destroying office job.
>> No. 18418 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 3:13 am
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>>18320
Furthermore, I don't get paid for this overtime (or last month's overtime) until the next month's payslip. I have a £1000 computer sitting downstairs that I can't test because I can't afford to buy a monitor this month without going into my savings, and the holiday my girlfriend and I are planning to go on in summer needs to be booked this week or the villa will go to someone else. And she can only pay me back for her half at the end of this month. I can either book the holiday, or buy a monitor, but if I want to do both I have to take it out of my savings and I hate doing that because it never goes back.

It's happened, lads. I'm finally an adult worrying about where all the money for all the things I need to is going to come from.
>> No. 18419 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 8:06 am
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>>18418
It's what emergency funds are for, mate. It's entirely up to you whether you top it up again once your overtime money comes in.
>> No. 18420 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 9:12 am
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>>18418

What are you talking about? Plug it into the telly.
>> No. 18421 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 4:05 pm
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There's nothing quite like running into your ex-girlfriend's mother on the way home from a missed by two whole days! psychotherapy appointment to make you feel like utter trash. Ugh, there are just no words.
>> No. 18422 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 9:41 pm
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>>18419 >>18420
Yeah, or I could just sit here wallowing in indecision and watching my unchanging bank balance. Mmm, indecision.
>> No. 18423 Anonymous
13th March 2015
Friday 7:22 pm
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Lenny Henry is on my TV, putting on a Jamaican accent and being unfunny.
>> No. 18424 Anonymous
13th March 2015
Friday 7:44 pm
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>>18423
Charity telethons can go do one. Chronically unfunny sketches based on sketch shows that got pulled off the air 15 years ago only go to show why they were cancelled in the first place. And there are peope in the audience bellowing out dispassionate laughter through bared teeth.

It's what I imagined the Python get together to be like, with a bunch of old bores competing how loudly they can laugh at jokes they heard 40 years ago being recreated infront of them, with those laughing loudest being the biggest fans. This phenomenon also takes place during the numerous and usually bizarre Zizek lectures and is like people boasting about being better supporters of City because they got 16 tattoos over the years off Mangy Steve off of Rerd.
Crowd/herd psychology is a strange one.
>> No. 18425 Anonymous
13th March 2015
Friday 8:52 pm
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>>18424
The Mr Bean sketch at the start was alright, everything else in the past ~2 hours has been simply dreadful.
>> No. 18426 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 10:08 am
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I actually had a proper rant at the telly during Comic relief. It wasn't the "comedy", it was the appeals. Always, money was the solution to problems that couldn't be solved with money. Girl X lost her sister, thanks to your money, we found her sister. What? How? What charity is this? What is the money being spent on?

Comic Relief is such a backward-arsed way of solving world problems. Perhaps "we" should stop selling munitions to Africa?
>> No. 18428 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 10:44 am
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>>18426
The 2013 Panorama investigation into Comic Relief shelved by the BBC allegedly found that the charity had over £260 million invested, including in arms and tobacco companies, of which they'd been sitting on around £150 million for 8 years.
>> No. 18429 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 10:49 am
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>>18426
>Perhaps "we" should stop selling munitions to Africa?

You've cracked it lad. Speaking as someone who has been delving into the world of security studies and international relations for the past few years, you have to be prepared to view 'charity', 'relief', 'humanitarian', etc. work in a whole new way, just as enmeshed in murky politics and organised crime as any other globally significant organisation.

I forget which of the ancient authors it was that said to learn about politics is to forever lose the ability to experience unmitigated happiness.
>> No. 18430 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 10:55 am
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>>18428
They aired it in the end (the episode was entitled "All in a Good Cause"), you can see an excerpt here:

https://www.youtube.com/v/lDs0YP28FE0
>> No. 18431 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 11:33 am
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Those Facebook videos where someone asks strangers for some of their food, who refuse, and then they give a homeless man a pizza and they ask him for a slice and he shares it, as if it's a damning illustration of modern society.
>> No. 18432 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 1:00 pm
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>>18431

Emotionally exploiting the homeless is some kind of meme now?

People are so lucky firearms legislation is so tight in this country.
>> No. 18433 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 1:29 pm
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>>18432
Lucky? I'd prefer it if people weren't sentenced to years in prison for just finding guns lying around.
>> No. 18434 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 1:32 pm
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>>18433
>just finding guns lying around
Is that the excuse criminals are using these days?
>> No. 18435 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 1:58 pm
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>>18434
There are many examples of people finding guns and being charged and sentenced with possession simply because they kept them for too long , or didn't report them in the specifically right way, or were even suffering with amnesia and forgot they'd been given one as a present on leaving the military.
>> No. 18436 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 2:04 pm
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>>18435
>charged and sentenced with possession simply because they kept them for too long , or didn't report them in the specifically right way
Source?
>> No. 18437 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 8:10 pm
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>>18436

I hate when a sudden death is announced on social media and you're dying to know how it happened but can't ask because it's bad etiquette.
>> No. 18438 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 8:25 pm
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>>18437

YOU HAVE A GENETIC MALFUNCTION AND EVOLUTION WILL KILL YOU
>> No. 18439 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 11:22 pm
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>>18437

Poor Toby
>> No. 18441 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 11:29 pm
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>>18436
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Cyclist-jailed-years-hid-gun-ammo-Mapperley-loft/story-26161715-detail/story.html
>A cyclist has been jailed for five years after he "panicked" when he found a gun and ammunition in a sock in a bag in an alleyway and hid them in his loft.
>There was no evidence Gordon did anything with the gun, he had not loaded it or used it, and there was no evidence it was linked to a criminal offence.

http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Ex-soldier-faces-jail-handing-gun/story-12659234-detail/story.html
>A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".
>Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge. The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant."
>> No. 18442 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 11:47 pm
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>>18441
>Nottingham Crown Court heard police turned up at his home with a search warrant, but the reason why was not revealed in court.

Officers recovered the firearm and ammunition after they had been carefully hidden under insulation.

SEEMS LEGIT.

Other guy didn't go to prison.

You've got a bit of a penchant for the dramatic, lad.
>> No. 18443 Anonymous
14th March 2015
Saturday 11:55 pm
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>>18442
The headline from his other piece reads
>UPDATE: Ex-soldier walks free from court
>> No. 18444 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 1:31 am
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I fished the attached out of the U-bend under the bathroom sink after finally getting fed up with how slowly it drains. The hair I can almost understand, it just gets everywhere when you wash and brush and such but fucking Q tips? Who in the sodding smeg thinks it's a good idea to shove those down the sink drain? The big bastard up front was properly wedged in the U bend acting as an anchor, the remaining half dozen or so (most of which had merged with the amorphous mess you see) acted as a nice skeleton for the rest of the shit to latch on to.
>> No. 18445 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 1:37 am
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>>18444
There's some fucking piece of shit in my house who leaves teabags in the sink all the fucking time, as if they're going to biodegrade down the plughole.
>> No. 18446 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 1:51 am
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>>18444

Eugh, I thought that was the body of a long deceased rat. Still fucking grody.

>>18445

What? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Can I move in rent free with someone if I promise not to do any really stupid stuff like leaving half an apple pie under the laundry basket?
>> No. 18447 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 2:01 am
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>>18446
I don't understand how some people, who seemingly have OK jobs and such, can be so fucking dumb.
>> No. 18448 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 3:11 am
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The new Kit Kat chunkies have only two segments not three. I feel 33.3% less satisfied.
>> No. 18449 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 3:31 am
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I have no friends, but I'm a really pretty bloody cool guy so I think I should. Well, alright, maybe I'm a bit boring but that's primarily because I have no friends.

>>18448

The new peanut ones are different to the old peanut ones as well, and as they were the only Kit Kats I ever had any real affection for I agree that the new range is a most bitter of disappointments.

See, pretty bloody cool.
>> No. 18450 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 4:32 am
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>>18444

Maybe they were trying to fish some hair out with it and dropped it. I accidentally did the same thing with the arm of a broken pair of sunglasses once.
>> No. 18451 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 7:23 am
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System updates that continually pop up during the use of your phone, and then when you install them bring about a totally unnecessary bunch of UI changes that fuck up the way you use it.

Case in point: my calendar app no longer has a full screen, monthly view where I can see what kind of events I have to do that day. No option for further customisation. I have a calendar in which I cannot see a visual representation of my tasks in relation to eachother. Which, when I last checked, is the primary function of a FUCKING CALENDAR.
>> No. 18452 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 7:56 am
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>>18451

Side note: God bless CalenMob.
>> No. 18453 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 8:52 am
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>>18448
I thought a Kit Kat chunky was a long finger?
>> No. 18454 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 8:13 pm
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I was going to make a point about how some people seem to feel about Comic Relief, but that's just part of a wider /101/ about morons having indefatigable opinions on subjects they clearly haven't done even the most cursory research on.
>> No. 18455 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 8:22 pm
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>>18454
However you try and spin it, Lenny Henry simply isn't funny and the rest of the show isn't much better.
>> No. 18456 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 8:35 pm
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>>18455
For a game more fun than Comic Relief, keep score of how many times you laugh while watching. Note the time and the strength of each laugh.
>> No. 18457 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 8:40 pm
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>>18455

Oh, that's where I left Exhibit A.

Look, for my own benefit I'm going to assume you're joking. I implore you to leave me to my ignorance well alone if I'm mistaken.
>> No. 18458 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 10:24 pm
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People are actually calling Ed Miliband "Two Kitchens".
>> No. 18459 Anonymous
15th March 2015
Sunday 10:36 pm
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>>18458
He's only a man of the people if his second kitchen was in his garage and had a huge horizontal freezer in it. It's clear he's out of touch. I'm sure the Camerons spent like £80,000 redecorating the kitchen at 10 Downing Street when they moved in and are planning on changing it all again.
>> No. 18460 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 5:04 pm
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I don't like when people say cinderblock instead of breezeblock.
>> No. 18461 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 5:51 pm
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>>18460
It'd be better if it was called a 'cinders and ashes block' and you have to say it like Ringo when he's narrating Thomas.
>> No. 18462 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 6:20 pm
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>>18460>>18461

This is why everyone should call it a concrete masonry unit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_masonry_unit


Breezeblock used to confuse me when I was a child because I thought it meant they were blocks which kept the wind out.
It is interesting how the use of the word breeze to describe ashes has completely died out in modern usage, but breezeblock is still used.
>> No. 18463 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 6:31 pm
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I heard Shaun Keavney talking about a "bird X-Factor" on the radio this morning and assumed it was just a silly joke. However, it is not.
>> No. 18464 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 11:54 pm
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I've got no food and I just woke up after everything in town that could feed me has closed. This sucks too much.
>> No. 18465 Anonymous
16th March 2015
Monday 11:58 pm
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>>18464
I've been living of having no food in the house for weeks, fuck knows what I'm going to have for lunch or dinner tomorrow. At least I have a good excuse in that I work evenings and my bodyclock is centred around that, which makes waking up in time to get to the shops to do a food shop legitimately difficult.
>> No. 18466 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 12:24 am
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>>18465

5 and a half hours until I can buy sparkling water, yoghurt and several pounds of M&Ms.
>> No. 18467 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 2:17 am
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>>18465
Shop online, arrange delivery the next day at a time you'll be in to collect it.
>> No. 18468 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 11:35 am
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I don't know if I rubbed the clementine peel all over my lips without realising, but my mouth has tasted very weird ever since I ate it.
>> No. 18469 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 12:17 pm
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This has boiled my piss to end;

I entered a design competition to design a logo for this scientific organisation - I sent my entry in late December, the deadline was January 1st. The competition stated that the winners will be announced, and that the prize consists of a £100 Amazon gift voucher.
Cool, I thought, I don't care much for the prize, but rather that I can expand my portfolio as I like doing these things in my spare time.

Anyway, January passes... No response. Best email them. A week later, I get a reply from some chap saying they're still "deliberating". OK,fine.

2 months pass, and yesterday I got fed up with waiting and asked what is going on.

>"after a recent Council/Trustees meeting it was decided that the current logos and legends/livery would remain as it is"

>"Many thanks for your ideas which I will keep on file and should a proposal be raised at some point in the future to alter the logos"

Are you fucking joking? They got a bunch of people to waste their time making this shit and then they change their minds without having the decency of letting the contestants know they're not going to use their work!

I would love to write him an email tearing him a new one, but something tells me to leave it.... Fucking fuck fuck.
>> No. 18470 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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>>18469
Ask to know the name and location of the winner. While they don't have to use the resulting work, they are still required to pick a winner and award the prize - failing to do so is likely an unlawful 'unfair commercial practice'.
>> No. 18471 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>18469
That's what you get for dealing with public bodies, they don't care about accountability.
>> No. 18472 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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>>18468
Clementines are weird in general. I expected them to be all segment-y like a tangerine but they're just a really small orange... hardly worth the effort to cut up.

Fortunately, the market in town sells oranges as large as a small melon.
>> No. 18473 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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>>18470
They don't have a winner, as he said, the council decided not to change anything. I don't know why they didn't have this decision before making a fucking competition, but that is beyond me.

I don't want to get into a spat with some office tosser over this, but it seems they need to be reminded of how a competition actually works.
>> No. 18474 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>18473
>I don't know why they didn't have this decision before making a fucking competition, but that is beyond me.
It's impossible to compare the quality and merits of a current logo with a prospective replacement before the replacement is approximately finished. In normal circumstances the client could iterate with the designer and you'd not reverse a decision to rebrand, but when crowdsourcing you're left at the mercy of what's submitted.
>> No. 18475 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 2:13 pm
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>>18472
I don't think I could eat an orange anymore, I've ruined my tastebuds with clementines, tangerines, satsumas and whatever easy peelers are.
>> No. 18477 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 2:32 pm
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>>18473
The competition for the logo and the decision whether or not to use it are two separate things. Even if they decide after the closing date that actually they don't want to change their logo after all, they are still bound to operate the competition as advertised. Press them for details of the winner, and gently suggest that you might have to have a word with the ASA and Trading Standards if they haven't given out the prize. Make no mistake here, if they've staged a prize competition and then not awarded it they have probably broken the law somewhere along the line.
>> No. 18478 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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>>18467
You seem to think I live a life where I can afford buying from one of the Big 5 supermarkets, or pay for home delivery.

When Aldi start doing home delivery, I predict that Sainsbury's will go bust within a year. Unfortunately it'd never be part of their cut-price model. Now, if there was a private business which could deliver you Aldi prices at home, people would likely pay for it - even a £5 delivery would likely still come under the cost of your average Sainsbury's Basics shop.

Someone better versed in business law than I am needs to tell me why no one has exploited this idea yet.
>> No. 18479 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 2:56 pm
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>>18478
Buy reduced food. I can't remember the last time I paid more than 19p for a loaf of bread.
>> No. 18480 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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>>18474
The usual way around this is to state separately that you're looking for a new logo and that you're running a competition for one. That way you don't bind yourself to using the winning design, which you might do if you just said that you're running a contest to design your new logo.
>> No. 18481 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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>>18477
>Press them for details of the winner

I don't understand, like I've said, there is no winner - so what do you mean by asking for details?
>> No. 18482 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 3:38 pm
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>>18481
They have staged a competition open to the public with a prize attached. They have to pick a winner and award the prize. No ifs and no buts. If they've decided partway that they don't want it, then they still have to pick a winner or they are guilty of misleading advertising. If they've made the decision after the closing date specifically after having seen the entries then they have almost certainly broken the law. Find out if they've complied with the obligation they put themselves under, and report them if not. The only reason people get away with wasting people's time like this is that we let them.
>> No. 18483 Anonymous
17th March 2015
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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>>18482
Got that loud and clear, thanks. I've gotten similar opinions from friends and colleagues in similar lines of work.
>> No. 18489 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 8:13 am
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The Daily Mail is making me irrationally angry about Karen Danczuk and Susannah Reid, the self obsessed bints.
>> No. 18490 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 9:17 am
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>>18489

I don't think it's irrational to find Karen Danczuk profoundly irritating. I'm not familiar with that other person.
>> No. 18491 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 9:45 am
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>>18490
She's the latest person ITV have thrown millions at to try and bring viewers to whatever turd they've replaced GMTV with, but she has no discernible talent other than flirting during interviews or flashing a bit of her knickers by wearing a short dress so it hasn't worked as viewing figures are declining.
>> No. 18492 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 10:45 am
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>>18489>>18491

If the Daily Mail is having any affect on your conscious mind, let alone about pap like that, you're a fucking idiot and it ought to be your highest mandate to enter this years Darwin Awards ASAP.
>> No. 18493 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 11:00 am
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>>18492
If you don't know the difference between effect and affect then you're a fucking idiot and it ought to be your highest mandate to enter this years Darwin Awards ASAP.
>> No. 18494 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 11:19 am
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>>18492
Your frothing has made you out to be quite the dunce lad.
>> No. 18495 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 12:33 pm
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>>18493
If you don't know the difference between plurals and possessives then you're a fucking idiot and it ought to be your highest mandate to enter this year's Darwin Awards ASAP. Copy and pasting from >>18492-lad is no excuse!
>> No. 18496 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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>>18493

The last person to know the difference between effect and affect has been dead for at least 80 years and you know it.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18497 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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>>18496
MODS = MODS
>> No. 18498 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 1:19 pm
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>>18496
I hope you gave him an adequate ban, not the life-time ones you've been doling out lately.
>> No. 18499 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 1:22 pm
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>>18498
At least 80 years seems fair and relevant.
>> No. 18500 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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Cutesy pseudocode signatures (in this instance a Reddit flair) with highly dubious semantics.

>if(me === drunk){GET sex;}else{GET drunk;}
>> No. 18501 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 6:26 pm
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>>18500
Similarly, I hate word equations posted by thickos online.
>sunny outside + finishing work early + beer garden + mates = happiness
>> No. 18502 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 6:59 pm
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>>18500
>===
>GET
What the hell kind of crazy language is this? It's like Perl and PHP got together and had a handicapped child.
>> No. 18503 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 10:24 pm
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>>18502

=== is fairly standard in PHP if you want to compare types as well as values. fuck PHP
>> No. 18504 Anonymous
18th March 2015
Wednesday 11:24 pm
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>>18503
>if you want to compare types as well as values
Which you only have to do because PHP somehow has an equality operator that isn't transiive. I mean, it's not as if transitivty is utterly fundamental to equality or anything.
>> No. 18506 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 12:25 am
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>>18500
Pfft, at least do it properly:

> while (me.abv < funtime_threshold)
> {
> consume_thy_beverage(&me);
> }

> sexytime(&me, &you);
>> No. 18507 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:40 am
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Why have I been wide awake since 3am? Is this what happens if I go to bed before 10pm?
>> No. 18509 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 8:28 am
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>>18504

At least PHP can be avoided. Us front-end/full-stack people are stuck with Javascript's batshit insane type coercion.

0 == "0" => true
0 == [] => true
"0" == [] => false
[] + [] => ""
!![] + !![] => 2

https://www.youtube.com/v/axMbZ7eGHoA
>> No. 18510 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 9:26 am
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>>18509

Much mirth. Don't recognise the show..?
>> No. 18511 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 9:31 am
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>>18510
Looks like Burnistoun.
>> No. 18512 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:27 pm
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On Radio 2 they had a member of Joe Public picking the tracks and he kept going on about his eclectic taste. He chose Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Gorillaz, RHCP and Hurt by Johnny Cash.
>> No. 18513 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>18512
Eclectic as fuck, mate.
>> No. 18514 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:47 pm
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>>18512

> Hurt by Johnny Cash

People not knowing which songs are actually covers.
>> No. 18515 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:51 pm
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>>18512

There's little more irritating than someone who's oblivious as to how pretentious they are.
>> No. 18516 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:55 pm
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>>18514

Trent Reznor was so impressed with Cash's version, he no longer considers it a NIN song.
>> No. 18517 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 4:55 pm
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>>18514
Why wouldn't he have known it was a cover? I don't prefer the Gloria Jones version of Tainted Love.
>> No. 18518 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 5:01 pm
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>>18517
I'm fully aware it's a cover, indeed I started the covers thread on /beat/, so I don't know what the other lad is on about either. I only pointed out Hurt by Johnny Cash, rather than just listing the artists like the others, because if a person with 'eclectic taste' says they listen to Johnny Cash they mean they like his version of Hurt.
>> No. 18519 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 6:25 pm
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Traumatically close up footage of gross children brushing their gross teeth on the news. Most unpleasant.
>> No. 18520 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 10:38 pm
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The news media have done everything but declare the entire Tunisian state defunct since those attacks and it's complete nonsense.
>> No. 18521 Anonymous
19th March 2015
Thursday 11:00 pm
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>>18518

> I'm fully aware it's a cover, indeed I started the covers thread on /beat/, so I don't know what the other lad is on about either.

I guess for some reason that factoid wasn't immediately apparent on an anonymous imageboard.
>> No. 18522 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 12:25 am
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>>18521

It's not, but assuming they didn't and then being a snob about it is daft.
>> No. 18523 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 3:06 am
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>>18522

To be fair one would expect someone to say "So and so's cover of X" and not "X by so and so". " By" implies authorship of some kind not merely a performance of an extant work.
>> No. 18524 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 3:19 am
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>>18523
No, you wouldn't expect someone to say that, because it's unnecessarily pedantic.
"I'm going to put on my hat"
"But we both have similar hats! Put on the hat that belongs to you!"
Eat an anime dick.
>> No. 18525 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 9:20 am
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>>18524

People telling you what you do and do not expect.
>> No. 18526 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 10:02 am
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I just had a "dead nice" pork pie that was bought for me by a colleague. The pastry and the meat were fine, but the numpty who baked it in the first place thought it would be a cracking idea to slather a nice thick layer of some stupidly hot and vinegary demon diarrhoea between the meat and crust.
This idiotic obsession with super hot food = dead good food has gone too far, hands off pork pies.
>> No. 18527 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 4:51 pm
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>>18526
I've always found the gelatin (or whatever the weird jelly stuff is between the crust and the meat) really off-putting in pork pies. I usually remove it, and I'd be fine with a bit of chilli sauce there instead, to be honest.

Mind, some places put overpoweringly sweet chutney in there or as a topping and that is a fucking travesty. A sweet pork pie! Absurd.
>> No. 18528 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 4:57 pm
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>>18527
You mean you've never lay a piece of that jelly on your tongue, and felt the joyous sensation and taste of it just melting away?
>> No. 18529 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 5:05 pm
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>>18528
>> No. 18530 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 5:08 pm
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>>18528
No.
>> No. 18531 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 6:23 pm
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All this talk of pork pies gave me a craving so I bought one, first time in years and years. It's a "Pork Farms" pork pie. I would've indulged >>18528 but there's no glycerine, when did that happen?

(It tastes like gristle and I want my money back.)
>> No. 18532 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 6:41 pm
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>>18531
The little ones rarely do have much jelly, there isn't enough meat so the pastry just soaks it all up. The full sized pork farms ones are alright but nothing special, not the best quality meat anyway.

It's hard to find decent pork pies, when I get the chance to get one from proper butchers or farmers markets then some are lovely, some are far too dry (probably because a lot of cretins hate the jelly), and some have far to much pepper in.
>> No. 18533 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 7:07 pm
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Pork pies confuse me. Sometimes I feel like eating one but I never enjoy it.
>> No. 18534 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 7:13 pm
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>>18533
So pork pies are like dick?
>> No. 18536 Anonymous
20th March 2015
Friday 7:28 pm
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There's a woman on the potpourri that is the One Show right now singing "All you need is love" and she keeps putting on those annoying Dido-style inflections on her vowels, I know this has likely already been covered in that /nom/ thread about Nando's, but it really grinds my gears. At least she doesn't sound American.
>> No. 18537 Anonymous
21st March 2015
Saturday 6:26 am
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>>18533

They're oddly filling for something so small. That's the only plus point.
>> No. 18538 Anonymous
21st March 2015
Saturday 8:05 pm
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>>18537
so, like your dick then?
>> No. 18539 Anonymous
21st March 2015
Saturday 10:11 pm
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I had a fat person cut my hair today, I didn't like it.
>> No. 18540 Anonymous
21st March 2015
Saturday 10:46 pm
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>>18539

The only enjoyable part of a haircut is if you get a bird who does it and she keeps pressing her norks into the side of your head as she's working. I can't imagine the pleasure is comparable when it's someones gut. My condolences.
>> No. 18541 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 12:15 am
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>>18539
>>18540

I have a fat cock and went for a haircut today if that helps this thread
>> No. 18542 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 3:32 pm
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I've been watching The Great War on YouTube lately. For some reason when people comment on the videos they feel they have to use an Edwardian era vocabulary and grammar, making the experience of reading YT comments not just annoying, but wholly surreal as well.
>> No. 18543 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 3:34 pm
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>>18542
I get more annoyed when I see that kind of shit on britfa.gs.
>> No. 18544 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 6:07 pm
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Seriously, what is the deal with this Richard III shit? Do people really care about some long dead Plantagenet, or is it just theatrics? I'm probably not going to have much fun when the current monarch dies, am I?
>> No. 18545 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 6:10 pm
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>>18544
I don't understand it either. While it is quite an interesting historical event, stuff like the Daily Mail's "Richard III's noble burial will make you proud to be a monarchist" is totally bizarre.
>> No. 18546 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 6:19 pm
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>>18544
Maybe there are more people who care about it than we think. Sometimes I wonder if our media is driven by what the great unwashed masses want, or if they just do whatever they like.
>> No. 18547 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 8:30 pm
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On The Chase the Chaser, the Dark Destroyer, checked how many questions he had left before answering one of the questions near the end, which he got wrong and the team of celebrities ended up narrowly winning. I might write a strongly worded letter to ITV.
>> No. 18548 Anonymous
22nd March 2015
Sunday 8:33 pm
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>>18544
It's a lot of fuss over sticking a Dick in a hole, I'll grant you.
>> No. 18551 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 4:56 pm
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>>18544

Wasn't there something dead fishy about it all that has been quietly forgotten?

Sure I heard something like the woman who's led it all is a bit of a nutty bar who very conveniently found exactly what she was looking for.
>> No. 18552 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 5:52 pm
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>>18544
He was the King of this country, lad, and an important man.
>> No. 18553 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 7:12 pm
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>>18552

Well, maybe my ever present blood lust for all aristocrats everywhere is making me biased. However, he reigned several hundred years ago, and how do you define "important"? All he did was start a civil war and get himself killed, the dumb bastard lost is all. Lost after most likely ordering the deaths of two children to boot.

He was not a great or good man, not by birth nor action. Frankly anyone not regarding Sunday's ceremony with antipathy is probably too mad to deal with outside of a medical institution.
>> No. 18554 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 7:20 pm
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>>18553
I also wonder at people whose lives are apparently so empty they think it's worth taking day(s) off work and queuing for hours to see some decomposed bones of a monarch from nobody's living memory. People are strange.
>> No. 18555 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>18554
>decomposed bones

You fucking what?
>> No. 18556 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 7:59 pm
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>>18554
We don't all have shit jobs like you, lad. Some of us actually have a decent leave allowance, and can afford to piss the odd day away and still take a fortnight off at Christmas.
>> No. 18557 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 8:12 pm
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>>18553
You couldn't present yourself as being more of a uneducated, thicko edgelad if you tried.
>> No. 18558 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 8:32 pm
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>>18557

Could I not? I suppose I could have. I could have just started throwing out insults for no other reason than... honestly I can't think of a reason, indeed that's why I didn't. Which leads me to ask, why did you?
>> No. 18559 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>18558
Because you're mouthing off about King Richard III as if you have a single clue what you're on about, you tedious fucking idiot.
>> No. 18560 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>18559

Oh, I'm sorry, were you and he close?

He was a king, he died, can you tell me what else he was that means I ought to give a toss about this pompous reburial?
>> No. 18561 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 8:49 pm
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>>18560
>can you tell me what else he was that means I ought to give a toss about this pompous reburial?

Why the fuck would I care what you think? You're a stupid piece of shit who can't think further than some half arsed recollections of Shakespeare play. Why don't you just fuck off and watch some X Factor repeats or whatever the fuck you do to amuse yourself.
>> No. 18562 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:03 pm
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>>18561

I'm not going disclose details of what my actual hobbies and habits are just to appease some nutter on the internet. However, I am impressed how someone so easily enraged as yourself, has managed to avoid eating their monitor out of sheer frustration.
>> No. 18563 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:06 pm
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>>18562
OK fam, let us all know if your favourite makes it to the final, will you?
>> No. 18564 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:09 pm
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>>18544
Barry, is that you?
>> No. 18565 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>18563

It's refreshing, usually the accusation is that I'm a "middle class" ponce.

>>18564

No, I just don't get it. Can someone, I don't know, tell me what the heck I am actually supposed to be getting?

This isn't a contempt for history, I'm just bemused by the mass adulation for someone who shouldn't rightly mean anything to anyone presently living, beyond an academic sense. I'm not sure why this is being treated like some kind of petty reductionist position. But given the only rebuttals I'm getting are insults and TV references I'm left to assume I'm correct and you're all dim. Now I'm being a petty reductionist.
>> No. 18566 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:34 pm
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>>18556
I'm a student so my 'leave' is approximately half the fucking year, yet I still find better things to do with my time than gawping at a box of old bones.
>> No. 18567 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:39 pm
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>>18566
>I'm a student

You didn't really need to say so, it was pretty obvious.
>> No. 18568 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:47 pm
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>>18565
>But given the only rebuttals I'm getting are insults and TV references I'm left to assume I'm correct and you're all dim.
>> No. 18569 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 9:51 pm
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>>18568

What I'm saying clearly isn't that outlandish, so it's not reasonable to expect an answer.

I'll ask again, what is the deal with all these people fawning over a long dead monarch as though he was a prominent feature in their lives?
>> No. 18570 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:00 pm
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>>18569
>as though he was a prominent feature in their lives?

Why would anyone bother talking to you? You're injecting your moronic assumptions into everything you see, which is worse than "outlandish". Just fuck off and watch some Jeremy Kyle or something, you've probably got some golf course maintenance classes to get ready for tomorrow morning anyway.
>> No. 18571 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:06 pm
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>>18570
Not him, but Jesus Christ, you're coming across as incredibly pathetic.

"You don't care about what I care about, so you're probably some thick twat who has a shit job and likes a low brow TV show and also likes a different lowbrow TV show, and... and... has a shit job!"

Fuck off.
>> No. 18572 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:21 pm
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>>18571
Don't know who the fuck you're quoting, but good to see Shitpeas is in company.
>> No. 18573 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:26 pm
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>>18571
He doesn't care about Richard III any more than anyone else here and is probably as bemused as the rest of us about the funeral; he is, however, rather good at trolling people to tears.
>> No. 18574 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:34 pm
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>>18570
>>18572

You're an embarrassment, and if you were half as educated as you seem to think, you'd be behaving with at least an iota of decency and amiability. At this point I can only assume you're drunk and/or taking the piss.

>>18573

I wish that were the case, I really do.
>> No. 18575 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:36 pm
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>>18573
That's King Richard III to you.
>> No. 18576 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:37 pm
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>>18574
>You're an embarrassment, and if you were half as educated as you seem to think, you'd be behaving with at least an iota of decency and amiability

Why would you think this? Aside from being cripplingly stupid, obviously.
>> No. 18577 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 10:56 pm
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>>18576

Do I really need to quote you back at yourself? Have we really being having this debate for that long?

And will you ever be ready to tell me why I ought to bother myself with this King Richard III nonsense?
>> No. 18578 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>18577
>will you ever be ready to tell me why I ought to bother myself with this King Richard III nonsense?

You keep assuming that anyone is interested in anything you think or do. This is typical of a teenlad. The world doesn't revolve around some gormless cunthead who actually buys into a Tudor propaganda effort against a King who instituted legal bail, legal reforms concerning the enforcement of law without fear or favour, and was the last English King to die in battle.

Of course learning any more than this will require actually learning something by yourself, which is something I learned to do as a student, but is clearly not a skill you have picked up.
>> No. 18579 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:08 pm
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>>18578
>Tudor propaganda effort

Yh bruv, Murdoch contains the same vowels as Tudor so ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY CONFIRMED.
>> No. 18580 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:16 pm
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>>18578

Wow, fucking finally. All I did was ask questions and you acted like a surly cunt for no reason whatsoever. As far as I'm aware asking questions is a perfectly acceptable way to learn, and I still don't consider his historical importance reason enough enough for this strange Anglican spectacle.

I'm knowledgeable on numerous things, and when I find other people ignorant of these things rapid contempt isn't my go to reaction. There's nothing stopping you from behaving the same way in the future.

I, and I'm sure the rest of the board, await your well-mannered and entirely rational response.
>> No. 18581 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>18580

*rabid, I meant rabid.
>> No. 18582 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:20 pm
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>>18580
>ME ME ME ME ME

I hope you get the third you deserve. 'Ignorance' has nothing to do with it, but your tedious 'oh ho ho dat's so boring' drawling cuntishness shows you off for the cunt you are.
>> No. 18583 Anonymous
23rd March 2015
Monday 11:55 pm
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>>18582

Not him and I'm sure there are just literally hundreds of history students who do care about it, but I really don't think it warrants as week of "special coverage" on one of the four main channels. BBC4, maybe.
>> No. 18584 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 12:03 am
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>>18582

That's not remotely how I behaved, and I think I've been remarkably restrained given the vitriol you've leveled at me.

I think what's really frustrated you is your inability to turn this into a "cunt off".
>> No. 18585 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 6:04 pm
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When other PhD students post about how seriously fucking hard and stressful their lives are on social media. In particular when it's first years.

Sage for very niche hate.
>> No. 18586 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 6:11 pm
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I had a pomegranate today and I really fail to see the allure of them, the fruity bits have little correlation with the amount of effort in getting them out, to the point that they should be 101'd. They also taste bittersweet and look like something people on Dune would consider a viable source of water.
>> No. 18587 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>18586
The pomegranates we get are shit and that's the cause of the bitterness (I've read it's because they don't ripen properly if picked early, this being necessary for transit, though I don't know how accurate that is). I don't bother with them - they're one of those novelty exotic fruits that are really overpriced here and just aren't good value for money.

A fresh one is lovely but you need to go abroad to find them.
>> No. 18588 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 10:27 pm
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I ate a whole £1 bag of M&M's.
>> No. 18589 Anonymous
24th March 2015
Tuesday 11:12 pm
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>>18588

I'm not allowing myself to buy one of those big bags of mini eggs because I know I'd greedyguts the lot in ten minutes.
>> No. 18590 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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People who use Photoshop on their Facebook pictures, usually given away by curves in the background or them having utterly ridiculous cheeks.
>> No. 18591 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>18586>>18587

Lads, I think they pomegranates you've had were misrepresentation of the actual fruit.

First off, you can just scoop the seeds out, one by one, like some mong, OR, you try what this guy does;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhkYJM_2pQ

It revolutionized pomegranate eating for me as you can just rip it open afterwards and tap the seeds out into a bowl. They contain a lot of fibre and do wonders for clearing shit out of your pipes.
>> No. 18592 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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>>18591
Is that the bloke from System of a Down? I feel so old.
>> No. 18593 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 5:13 pm
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>>18591

>do wonders for clearing shit out of your pipes

They should put that on the label.
>> No. 18594 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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When I was 15 I was walking home from school with a girl. Her mad uncle pulled up really quickly in his car to give her a lift and try to scare me. He didn't, but I was annoyed that a man in his 40's would even try.

Obviously this was a fair while ago, but the /emo/ thread reminded me of it because he was a homophobe who made her stop hanging out with her best friend because he thought she looked gay. As I said, mad.
>> No. 18595 Anonymous
25th March 2015
Wednesday 6:23 pm
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As a single man living not too far, a good 30 miles, from relatives and trying to live my own life as independently as I can, I am agitated to no end by these relatives always calling on me for "favours" that are always never repaid, even in kind. It just gets tedious when it has taken place over years for even really minor and ridiculous things and you really have to wonder whether or not other people really have an ounce of initiative in their heads or not.
>> No. 18596 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 3:21 am
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>>18595
Call them up for favours in return. In any event, family and relatives are important, I don't understand people who run away from theirs.
>> No. 18597 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 4:41 am
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>>18595
Start saying no.
>> No. 18598 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 6:27 am
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>>18596

> I don't understand people who run away from theirs.

You're probably a privileged shitlord with a half-decent family.
>> No. 18600 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 1:12 pm
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>>18596
When it's a case of a 60 mile round trip (largely on public transport) to go and weed somebody's garden because they are too lazy or don't like getting their hands dirty; or chop up some wood, it really does take the biscuit. If ever these "favours" were things like having to help somebody move, that would be okay, but when I pay out of my own pocket to do something that a gullible child should be doing for a fiver at most, that really infuriates me.

I have had a friend who was like this who kept getting me to do stupid little tasks for no reason, then I asked him to return the favour and he had a go at me using the typical "for all the times I've helped you!". I don't mind my family per se except for when they do this, and you can't exactly off them and chop off contact, whereas you can easily do it with a (former) mate.
>> No. 18601 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 1:27 pm
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>>18600
Calling you to weed gardens when you are 30 miles away is pretty insulting. You are being taken advantage of. Don't be a doormat, mate.
>> No. 18602 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 1:43 pm
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>>18600

Ah, thats why years of being a feckless, lazy son has culminated into none of my family ever expecting anything ever from me. Pure joy.

As for friends, they get 3 shots, if they are over stepping boundaries each time consistently, with no real intent of reciprocation, then they are not friends, but parasites and should be avoided.
>> No. 18603 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 2:03 pm
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>>18602
I learned early on that if I didn't want to be called upon to do something, doing a really bad job of it is a great way to ensure nobody asks you again.
>> No. 18604 Anonymous
26th March 2015
Thursday 2:06 pm
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>>18603
Within reason though - Mum wants a hand carrying something. No problem. A bit of help with the washing up, not a bother. A

Asking to fetch a bulb of garlic from Tesco that is 4 miles away because you've forgotten (and the fact you drove and I have nothing other than my 2 feet), nope sorry.
>> No. 18605 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 12:12 am
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My newest tattoo is itching like a fucking bitch today and I accidentally rubbed half the scabs off in my sleep. Arse.
>> No. 18606 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 12:11 pm
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>>18605
What is/was the motivation of getting a tattoo?
>> No. 18607 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 12:33 pm
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The canteen at work are taking the piss. First I ask at the deli bar for a ham and cheese sandwich, they lay on what is obviously a half portion of each, then have the balls to charge me for "cheese sandwich with extra meat". Then they're charging 15p a time for those little sauce sachets or butter portions. Today, my piss literally boiled over.

I pay for my lunch, look around for a napkin, and don't find any. I ask at the till and the cashier reaches under the counter and produces one, and only one. I ask in slightly more polite wording "WTF is this shit?" to be told in these exact words
>We're only allowed to give you one of those.

FFS, lunch break is for winding down, not winding up.
>> No. 18608 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 12:42 pm
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>>18607
Is there another place you could go for lunch? Or better yet, bring your own lunch in? It's cheaper, you control whats in it, and the best part, you can put in how ever much cheese and meat you like.

The canteen near me in Uni, (Uni. of Nottingham, Coates road engineering building canteen/lunch area, if you're curious), has some horrific shite they pass off as "food". Not only that, but they ration out everything as if there was a shortage of brown flavourless sludge. Doesn't matter if you get the curry or chilli, it's the same stuff, maybe a different hue. And they can charge you 3.75, with a straight face.

Boots meal deals m8, if there's one close, use those.
>> No. 18609 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 1:09 pm
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>>18608
Uni of Hull used to have a cracking café that was hidden behind about 2 non-consecutive flights of stairs, a winding corridor and a few hideous bends. It was cracking, £3.00-£3.50 or so for a 9 piece breakfast. The ladies behind the counter were more often than not willing to not count beans or tomatoes as an "item".

I have never been to a canteen at work and never intend on doing so, I think hearing my colleagues whinge about something for 20 minutes after they come back is indicative of it being a bit of a shitshoot. Packups avoid the aggravation of feeling short changed, you're right.
>> No. 18610 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 1:13 pm
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When I worked for the NHS they had a rather nice canteen, plus if you'd flirt with the dinner ladies they'd put an extra rasher of bacon in your butty. That is not a euphemism.
>> No. 18611 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 1:26 pm
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>>18610
Ahh, the staff/patient canteens in the NHS are great, about £3 for a massive jacket potato piled high with tuna mayo and a bit of salad. Love it. A bit of a shame that whenever I came round from an op the bloody anaesthetic always made me appallingly ill for a good day and a half and unable to keep owt down.
If I worked near a hospital, I would consider going there for my dinner.
>> No. 18612 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 2:01 pm
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>>18606
He wanted a tattoo.

>>18609
I miss working there. I was once behind a man in Staff House who ordered just a plate of chips. The new girl working there gave him exactly that, a plate covered generously in chips, only to be collared by one of the old dears who said "WE GIV EM MORE THAN THAT ERE" and piled it four inches high with chips. A quid, it cost him.

I believe you're talking about the Square, as well? That place was massive but always empty. It's sadly no more.
>> No. 18613 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 2:24 pm
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>>18612
It was The Square! Yes! What a brilliant way to drag yourself up to basic functioning after an illness or heavy weekend. Requiescat in pace "The Square". Zucchini's in the Wilberforce Building was a depressing place, that much I can say for sure.

I think that sums up the attitude of some canteens compared with others, and why I think it's always totally random as to whether or not it'll be any good and good value for money. I principally wouldn't mind paying a few quid for a jacket spud with a generous helping of chilli and cheese, tuna mayo or cheesy beans, but that is sometimes impossible to get. I reckon that's often just a problem of how the kitchen itself works, the scale of demand from day to day, the equipment and budget, so a really horrible, fat drenched lasagne is quite common.
>> No. 18614 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 2:44 pm
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>>18613
I spent many a 10:15 period spending under a fiver on enough breakfast foods to feed a household in The Square, RIP indeed.
I remember when they moved the breakfast canteen from The Square to Staff House and then shortly after went from 40p an item to 45p, and that seemed like criminal behaviour to me. At my current university, the breakfast items are 90p a pop.
>> No. 18615 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 2:46 pm
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>>18614
Ahh, Staff House. The Kirk Ella of Hull Uni buildings.

Fancy a pint in Sanctuary? Been dying to go there since I left in 2008 but haven't ventured up there.
>> No. 18616 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 3:18 pm
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>>18615
Staff House with their £4.10 or £3.80 meal options every day, both of which would never leave you wanting. It's actually a really nice hall, as well, if you look up at the ceiling.
I would, mate, but I'm transpennine now myself.
>> No. 18617 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:11 pm
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My minor /101/ moment is seeing people using the Caps Lock key just to capitalise a single letter. It's only a small waste of time compared to using Shift but it just conveys a surprising level of computer incompetency for people who have grown up in the modern world. How can I trust in someone's abilities if basic typing skills are apparently beyond them?

In fact, seeing people misuse Caps Lock has poisoned me against it so much that I'll habitually use Shift to type in ALL CAPS just to avoid it.
>> No. 18618 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:16 pm
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>>18617
I've been bugged recently by people using Microsoft Office incorrectly. I have a mate that makes A0 conference posters in PowerPoint even though he has Publisher installed, and my officemate keeps asking for my help trying to print off pictures to full A4 pages in Word when she too has Publisher installed. Why don't people use Publisher?
>> No. 18619 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:26 pm
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>>18618
Ugh that would bug me to. As for why people do it, I suspect it's to do with people being forced to use Word/Powerpoint/Excel in schools but not Publisher or any other Office programs so much. Either that or these people are Mac users, in which case they get to pay more to have a less expansive office sans Publisher etc.
>> No. 18620 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:33 pm
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>>18619
The latter refuses to install my pirated version of a really comprehensive data analysis suite because she's convinced that since it was downloaded through torrents, it will allow hackers access to her computer. Her evidence for this is that her son also once pirated software, and if he can do it so easily then surely it's spookydangerous.
>> No. 18621 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:39 pm
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>>18618
They aren't aware of it, forgive me for sounding like a luddite - but I used powerpoint to make my A0's and they were fine - except when you wanted to format something and shit hit the fan.
I've learned my errors and do posters solely on Illustrator.
>> No. 18622 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:57 pm
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>>18617
This is worse when people are also gobsmackingly unaware of the QWERTY layout, despite it being around for around a whole century and it has been part of Western culture throughout.
>> No. 18623 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 4:59 pm
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>>18618
>Why don't people use Publisher?
Because it's a massive steaming pile of shit.
>> No. 18624 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 6:50 pm
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>>18620

>since it was downloaded through torrents, it will allow hackers access to her computer

It may well do. A large proportion of torrents for popular software include rootkits.
>> No. 18625 Anonymous
27th March 2015
Friday 7:11 pm
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>>18624
I thought you'd retired, Ballmer.
>> No. 18626 Anonymous
28th March 2015
Saturday 8:03 pm
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Popular science articles starting with "This" or "These".
>> No. 18631 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 3:23 am
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I have a chance to hang out with someone who is e-famous, but I can't because reasons. C'est la vie.

Is that French correct? I'm too tired to check.
>> No. 18632 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 6:46 pm
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Go fuck yourself, Big Painting Challenge judges, no artist ever has had to watch an actual ticking clock as they painted. Your show is silly, and you are pricks.
>> No. 18633 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 6:53 pm
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>>18632
Isn't it a rehash of Watercolour Challenge?
>> No. 18634 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 7:13 pm
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>>18633

I don't know what that is, but perhaps.
>> No. 18635 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 8:55 pm
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My only geographically close family member has left to go on holiday for a month, and my housemate (who I barely talk to anyway) is on a work placement for the next 3 weeks. I haven't spoken to a soul all day, and have no friends in the immediate area who I can see.

I feel incredibly alone.
>> No. 18636 Anonymous
29th March 2015
Sunday 11:10 pm
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>>18635

Bla bla relative privation but that is basically my life for the last year now.
>> No. 18638 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 12:09 am
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>>18617
Related to this, watching people just browse the internet in general. Relying on Google instead of just remembering the URL for Facebook or whatever, ignoring the Tab key and clicking on every single fucking text field, typing slowly and still managing a typo every sentence, being impatient when a page is loading slowly. Fuck right off.

Sorry for quoting a post from last week
>> No. 18639 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 12:30 am
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>>18638
It didn't make me rage so much as mildly confused that a friend of mine asked to use my laptop without specifying a reason, then proceeded to spend about two minutes searching through my apps list for Chrome (which I don't have installed) without spotting the Firefox logo right there on the task bar.

I think watching other people use computers in general is a bit /101/, everyone has their own quirks and habits that seem alien to other people.
>> No. 18640 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 2:12 am
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>>18638

I'm a pretty good typist, but my accuracy with a mouse is that of a drunk on a merry-go-round.
>> No. 18641 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 2:41 am
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>>18640

Mice are horrid. I've always used graphics tablets at home since 2001.
>> No. 18642 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 7:03 am
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The loudest gale I can recall waking me up is quite irritating. However, what's positively infuriating is that there hasn't even been a teacon alert.
>> No. 18643 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 7:06 am
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>>18642
I think I heard it blow my bin over.
>> No. 18644 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 11:52 am
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>>18643

It sounds like someone's throwing shells at my front door, but I'm too scared to go and see what it actually is. And lazy.
>> No. 18645 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 1:43 pm
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>>18643
Can't wait for all the hurricane/megastorm jokes to hit social media, with people posting pictures of their bin on its side and facetiously likening it to extreme weather elsewhere in the world. That's funny every time. Every time.
>> No. 18646 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 4:25 pm
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>>18645

Where would Britain be without our self-deprecating humour? Apart from maybe having more friends.

... Fuck, see, I can't even help it.
>> No. 18647 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>18646
In what way is this self-deprecating?
>> No. 18648 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 5:34 pm
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I came home from work and my bin's lid was blown over but the thing was kept stable by its garbage ballast.
>> No. 18649 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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I went out this morning to bungee-cord my bin lids shut, so that when they inevitably walk off / fall over, two weeks of recycling wouldn't blow everywhere.
The door blew shut and locked me out. Fucksocks. At what time of day is it acceptable to wake up my elderly neighbour to ask for the spare key?
>> No. 18650 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 7:28 pm
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>>18649
In this wind? Any time.
>> No. 18651 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 1:26 pm
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April Fools' Day. It's more or less just people waiting to have a wank over how much of a down-to-earth sense of humour their favourite big businesses have when they pull some boring, repetitive stunt like announcing a new feature or piece of kit that is so obviously a hike, so they can post it on their Facebook walls and all of their equally dull friends can comment with "Ohhhh I love Google, they're so funny!"

Bah bloody humbug.
>> No. 18652 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 2:44 pm
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>>18651
Whats worse is that I got up this morning and a mate of mine posted something like this on my wall. I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
>> No. 18654 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 3:18 pm
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>>18651

You have some really awful friends if that's the case.

A band I like posted an announcement about the release of their debut album this morning (they've been saying they'll do one for about 3 years now), which I found quite endearing. At least, I take the artwork and sample MP3 as an indication that they were serious about it, and just posted it today to lampshade the fact.
>> No. 18655 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>18652
>>18654
I mean, some of them are just fucking stupid.
>> No. 18656 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 5:37 pm
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>>18651
Some guy I knew genuinely thought that Google's Toilet ISP was a real thing and got visibly angry with me when I pointed out to him that it was a load of shit and an April Fool's joke. I still think he holds it to be true to this day.
>> No. 18657 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 6:32 pm
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>>18655
I know, there's no way a black guy could afford decent headphones like that....

I'm truly sorry...
>> No. 18668 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 9:56 am
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I've just had ads on my phone for such classic games as Fruit Cut Ninja and Crazy Birds. FFS
>> No. 18669 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 11:02 am
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>>18657
Nonsense, why do you think so many wear those god-awful Beats headphones that cost less than a tenner to make but cost over £200?
>> No. 18680 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 7:00 pm
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I've got two radio-controlled clocks. One takes its time signal from MSF, the other from DCF. Both of these encode DST into their signals, but neither clock has put itself forward.
>> No. 18729 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 5:51 pm
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I don't know what it is about Morrisons cheese, but it goes off far quicker than any else's.
>> No. 18779 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 11:34 pm
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Do Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield have some serious dirt on someone high up at the BBC? Because that's surely the only way their horrible programs keep getting commissioned.
>> No. 18780 Anonymous
3rd April 2015
Friday 11:37 pm
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>>18779
I like their programs a lot.
>> No. 18819 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:21 pm
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I watched that Louis Theroux documentary about transgendered kids. Knowing my relatively conservative worldview regarding biology, I had adjusted my expectations accordingly, but fucking hell. This is a form of abuse. If your child claimed to be a pirate or a robot, you'd educate them that they weren't accordingly. Why is gender different?

The big denoument resulting in my REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEaction was when the boy who identified as a girl said that he'd probably be a boy again when he was in high school. Then when Louis presented this info to the mum, she was pretty negative about it.

Have there been any cases of transgendered people who have spoken about regretting their transition after the fact?
>> No. 18820 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:32 pm
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>>18819

wow u fkn truscummer let people be what they want to be whether that agender, femqueer, anarchowhalemale or metasexual.

science supports fluid ungender and self determinism.
>> No. 18821 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:32 pm
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>>18819
I'm sure trans people are right chuffed to have you compare their choice of identity to 'claiming to be a pirate or a robot'.
>> No. 18822 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:37 pm
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>>18821
I'm sure those people who believe they're a machine trapped in a human body will appreciate you trivialising their struggle like that.
>> No. 18823 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:41 pm
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>>18822
Is that you, apachelad?
>> No. 18824 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:50 pm
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>>18820
>>18821

I totally get the plight of the transgendered. I'm mates with transgendered individuals for fucks sake. But the kids in the documentary were clearly being influenced by the adults in their lives and that is completely different from an educated adult making the gender reassignment decision.

What's the difference from body dysmorphic disorder and gender dysmorphia from a psychological perspective? Should a person who believes they shouldn't have limbs be allowed to have otherwise healthy limbs amputated courtesy of the NHS?

>>18823
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>> No. 18825 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 10:53 pm
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>>18819

Gender Identity Disorder is a recognised medical condition, for which the best evidence-based treatment is sex reassignment. People with GID experience extreme distress often leading to suicide, and the only way we know to alleviate that distress is to aid that person in living as their identified gender. Treatment of GID in children is more controversial, but non-surgical treatments like puberty blocking hormones are reversible; Recent clinical trials show that early treatment is extremely effective.

Some people do regret transitioning, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Some cancer patients will die prematurely as a result of chemotherapy, but that doesn't mean that we should stop doing it, only that medicine is imperfect.

It doesn't really matter whether you think trans people are deluded or mentally ill. If they're not crazy, then it's none of our business how they chose to live. If they are crazy, then the only effective psychiatric treatment is sex reassignment. Stigma and discrimination aren't going to help anyone.
>> No. 18826 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:01 pm
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>> No. 18827 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:04 pm
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>>18825

Excellent response. Thank you for your insight.

So, If somebody identified as being a wolf do you think that surgical transplantation of their brain into a wolf's body, or surgical body modification to transform the patient's body into a more wolf-like form would be an appropriate treatment? Or do you think that psychiatric treatment would be more effective?

No judgement. I'm just an anon interested in discussion on anonymous forum.
>> No. 18828 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:09 pm
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It's always so charming when anti-trans types pretend to care, all the while heaping derision on the entire idea, and indeed trans people themselves.
>> No. 18829 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:27 pm
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>>18828
I don't pretend to care, because I don't. I find trannies absurd.
>> No. 18831 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:31 pm
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>>18829
We're all entitled to retrograde opinions.
>> No. 18832 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>18827

Being a furry is a sexual fetish, I've never heard of one actually desiring to be another species. It's got nothing to do with gender and if you don't know that then you might benefit from doing some cursory research of your own.
>> No. 18833 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>18832
So what you're saying is that Kellie Maloney's troubles were real whereas Stalking Cat just needed to get over himself?
>> No. 18834 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:38 pm
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>>18827

There is no evidence that furries/otherkin/whatever are experiencing clinically significant distress. There's a huge difference between wanting to be a wolf and feeling suicidal because you aren't a wolf.

If there was evidence of significant distress amongst furries, and there was a safe, straightforward and relatively inexpensive way of allowing someone to assume wolf-like form, and there was strong evidence showing it to be more effective than any other option, then I'd be all for it.

I'm a pragmatist. I'm unconcerned with the philosophical or moral dimensions of anything. Sex reassignment works. It allows us to turn desperately unhappy people into productive members of society. Trans people don't cause any kind of social harm, so stigma and discrimination only serve to diminish their ability to contribute to society.

Alan Turing was the most brilliant mind of his generation, but we squandered decades of work that he might have produced if irrational prejudices about his sexuality hadn't hounded him to suicide. Generations of outsiders have been lost to society because we care more about how they live than what they have to contribute. Discrimination is a kind of societal self-harm; Nobody benefits, and everyone loses out.
>> No. 18835 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:41 pm
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>>18829

But you started all this by being worried about children being corrupted by over zealous parents. Whatever, just die alone before you become a burden on the state.

P.S. not an official spokesperson of the trans community, so please don't attribute my words to them.
>> No. 18836 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:42 pm
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>>18834
>but we squandered decades of work that he might have produced if irrational prejudices about his sexuality hadn't hounded him to suicide
We've been through this before. He wasn't a victim of "irrational prejudices" but good old-fashioned police mistreatment. The circumstances of his arrest and conviction are now reasonably well-known, but tend not to be well-publicised because they're inconvenient to the whole "gay martyr" narrative.
>> No. 18837 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:49 pm
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I was accused of being bigoted or whatever earlier in this thread for objecting to SJW shite, but I fully support anyone's right to identify as whatever they want; man, woman, wolf, helicopter, whatever. What difference does it make? I don't care. Who does? It doesn't matter. Identity is nonsense in any sensible philosophy.
>> No. 18838 Anonymous
5th April 2015
Sunday 11:57 pm
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>>18836

I don't follow. Like hundreds of other gay men, he was arrested, prosecuted, tried, convicted and sentenced for gross indecency. His prosecution may have been vindictive, but I fail to see how police mistreatment had anything to do with his trial or sentencing. He was guilty as charged, there's no dispute about that - the problem was the law of the land.
>> No. 18839 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:20 am
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>>18838
>Like hundreds of other gay men, he was arrested, prosecuted, tried, convicted and sentenced for gross indecency.
Not relevant. The man perjured himself in giving an alibi for a young man he had been associating with - one who was already well-known to the police and had been caught in the very act he stood accused of. The police booked him for an offence that was relatively easy to make out, rather than taking the correct but more difficult course of trying to do him for perjury.
>> No. 18840 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:28 am
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>>18839

Arguably they should have done him for both gross indecency and perjury, but why do you think they shouldn't have charged him for the former? Turing was perfectly forthright and gave a detailed confession. They couldn't have charged him with gross indecency if the law didn't make it an offence, and they would be derelicting their duty to simply overlook an easy prosecution for a relatively serious crime.

I don't really understand what argument you're making, other than clutching at straws to excuse the state.
>> No. 18841 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:40 am
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>>18825

I don't think that particular poster had an issue with transgender individuals that explicitly feel dysphoria, which is what you seem to imply when you mention 'recognised medical condition'.
>> No. 18842 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:42 am
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>>18831
>everything that isn't my opinion is bad.
Ok mate.
>> No. 18844 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:27 am
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That fat ugly woman was poisoning the fucking child. Fucking hell. She shouldn't have the kids anywhere near her.
>> No. 18845 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 11:30 am
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I drew a parallel earlier between transgendered people and otherkin and was labelled transphobic.

Now people are talking about anti-gay laws. Implying that homophobia is the same as transphobia, despite the fact that administration of hormone therapy was used as a barbaric punishment in the case of Turing and it's the desired treatment for trans people.

I wouldn't have a problem with your position, but you still maintain that otherkin isn't a legitimate gender identity which means you've basically drawn an arbitrary line in the sand regarding what is considered to be an appropriate identity.

If one were to visit a doctor with dysphoria due to identifying as an otherkin, they'd be diagnosed as having some sort of mental disorder featuring delusions and prescribed anthi-psychotic drugs. I put it to you that this is as barbaric as what happened to Turing.
>> No. 18847 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 11:44 am
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>>18845
The line >>18834 and >>18825 drew didn't sound very arbitrary to me. The fact that psychological conditions have to sufficiently adversely affect a person to be considered pathological and that doctors need to examine a sufficient number of cases in order to establish that a distinct illness warranting treatment exists seems eminently sensible to me.

Is it possible that medical understanding in this area will grow in future? Surely it's inevitable.
>> No. 18848 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:17 pm
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>>18845

We know now, through prolonged and dedicated research, that Gender Dysphoria is a physiological condition which affects the brain. Psychological treatment doesn't alleviate any of their symptoms. Transition is the only effective treatment.

On the other hand, I know two people who used to be furrys but aren't anymore because they got bored of it. They considered it a sexual fetish and lifestyle choice and a way to meet like minded people for sex. I'm not going to pretend my anecdotal evidence is some kind of empirical fact, but when you do any sort of research into the furry community it revolves around sex. At best, you could argue people identify sexually as animals based on what we currently know about "otherkin".
>> No. 18849 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:41 pm
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>>18847
>that doctors need to examine a sufficient number of cases in order to establish that a distinct illness warranting treatment exists seems eminently sensible to me
Nope. This part is arbitrary. There are recognised conditions out there with fewer than a thousand known sufferers. Researchers believe that there are around 250 people currently living with progeria. I'm pretty certain there are many more people than that who identify as something other than human.

>>18848
So, once again, are you saying that trans people are genuine but Stalking Cat et al. are just crazy perverts?
>> No. 18850 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:41 pm
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I know a trans woman who just plain looks like a bloke and every time I see her I say 'what's up man' or the like and instantly mentally beat myself up for doing so.
>> No. 18851 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:43 pm
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>>18849
>crazy perverts
Your words, not his, lad. You seem to be desperately looking for someone to demonise.
>> No. 18852 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:43 pm
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>>18850
My mate is a bloke and I call him Tina and nobody gives a fuck.
>> No. 18853 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:47 pm
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>>18849

>crazy perverts?

I hope this is hyperbole, otherwise you're an absolute moron. Did you even read my post?
>> No. 18854 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:49 pm
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>>18849

In the same way that gay men, lesbian women and bisexual people "are just crazy perverts", I suppose?

You're a fucking idiot.
>> No. 18855 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:50 pm
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>>18852
Good story, but what's the relevance?
>> No. 18856 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:57 pm
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>>18853
Yes. In it you appeared to be suggesting that people who identify as a different gender have a genuine problem whereas people who identify as a different species are making choices for sexual purposes - which, along with generally being wrong in the head, is one of the two ways we previously used to regard homosexuality.
>> No. 18857 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 12:58 pm
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>>18855

He is maybe spooling up a broader point, give him time Captain Impatient.
>> No. 18858 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:00 pm
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>>18854
>In the same way that gay men, lesbian women and bisexual people "are just crazy perverts", I suppose?
I think you mean "were just crazy perverts", but yes, that is precisely how we previously saw them in less enlightened times. I trust I don't have to quote Santayana at you.
>> No. 18859 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:03 pm
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>>18856

>along with generally being wrong in the head

You're the only one suggesting furries are wrong in the head mate. To equate them to transgender people is a bit insulting, imo.

Being a furry has no implication as to the gender you see yourself as. You can be trans and a furry, they aren't mutualy exclusive concepts.
>> No. 18860 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:07 pm
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>>18859
Not the guy you're replying to but you're overly confrontational and have the reading comprehension of a six year old to boot.
>> No. 18861 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:09 pm
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>>18855
Trannies think they're special.
>> No. 18862 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:22 pm
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>>18858

No, I was quoting his post directly. Furries, as far as I'm aware, aren't treated any differently by society than gay people are by the medical profession or the by the law. They have equal standing as a sexuality.

Furries aren't equatable to trans people, because they don't suffer from dysphoria.
>> No. 18863 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:22 pm
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>>18859
>You're the only one suggesting furries are wrong in the head mate.
No, you're the only one suggesting furries are wrong in the head.

>To equate them to transgender people is a bit insulting, imo.
But apparently equating people who identify as non-human with furries is just fine.
>> No. 18864 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:31 pm
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>>18863

Do you even know what you're angry at? I have seen one person mention other-kin and another use the term in inverted commas. You have displayed no coherent narrative here at all. All I see is someone spoiling for a fight, and I'm sorry to disappoint you but it's not happening.

If you feel like explaining what it is you want to discuss rationally, I'll be here.
>> No. 18865 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:32 pm
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>>18862
>No, I was quoting his post directly.
Then you can fuck off with your dishonest quoting.
>> No. 18866 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 1:39 pm
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>>18864
>Do you even know what you're angry at?
The lens on your projector's a bit askew, lad.
>> No. 18868 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:05 pm
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So transgender is legit, but otherkin isn't because there are more transgendered people than transpecies people? This seems to suggest that recognition of medical conditions like this are based on social consensus. It is mirthably ironic that the pro-trans poster(s) in this thread are using this reasoning to belittle furries/otherkin given that this is exactly the line of thought that has led to oppression of LGBT people by western civilization in ye olden tymes.

On the other hand, if western civilization continues along the SJW permissable road tumblr leads me to believe that we're on, it is only a matter of time til films like Tusk (2014) or the Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) become politically incorrect on grounds of otherkinphobia.
>> No. 18869 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:08 pm
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>>18862

>Furries aren't equatable to trans people, because they don't suffer from dysphoria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_dysphoria

Would you like to reformulate your anti-furry prejudice translad?
>> No. 18870 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>18868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transsexual_people_and_science
When you can find me a furry whose brain looks like a wolf's brain does in an MRI scan, I'll start taking otherkin seriously, as would the scientific community. Nobody is holding their breath on that one.

>it is only a matter of time til films like Tusk (2014) or the Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) become politically incorrect on grounds of otherkinphobia.
No, it isn't.
>> No. 18871 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:36 pm
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>>18870

>fMRI
Google the dead salmon study ladmate. fMRI data isn't worth the bytes it's stored in.
>> No. 18872 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:37 pm
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>>18869

If you can provide me with a relevant study which suggest this is a stand alone condition which require physiological treatment to resolve and not symptomatic/caused by another condition, for example a psychological condition, then that would be an interesting read.

By the looks of things, the only people conflating furries and Otherkin here are the people looking to start a cunt off. As far as I was aware, and based on what I've read from furries themselves (from the horses mouth, so to speak) it's a sexual thing not a gender thing. Otherkin is something else entirely and Otherkin might be furries, but they just easily might not be. Being a furry isn't the same as being trans. I don't understand why they are being discussed together, because as stated by the other lad, they aren't mutually exclusive concepts.

>>18868

>So transgender is legit, but otherkin isn't because there are more transgendered people than transpecies people?

Who said this other than you? There is no precedent from a physiological standpoint for being transspecies, Dragonkin being exhibit A. Incase you were in the dark over this, Dragons aren't real. When you look at that logically and rationally and remove feelings from the debate, are otherkin more or less likely to be mentally ill than someone suffering from gender dysphoria? Gender dysphoria can be caused by an underlying mental illness, but that is why people get referred to the gender clinic for assessment. The harsh truth is that ethereal elfmagekin exist out there in the netverse and those people are either role playing a fantasy they have or are being disingenuous in order to mock a community that just wants to be left alone. If such a person was referred for assessment then how do you resolve this? There is no operation to grant someone translucent skin and give them magic powers and even if there was would be it be a wise? Is this person simply going through a temporary treatable condition that affects their mind and how they perceive themselves and the world?
>> No. 18873 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:42 pm
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>>18871
The dead salmon study indicates that care needs to be taken to ensure that statistical analysis is sufficiently rigorous when using fMRI, not that all research that uses it is invalid.
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6th April 2015
Monday 3:51 pm
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>>18873
Most of the research conducted before the salmon study (2012) wasn't being controlled properly, meaning that fMRI data published pre 2012 (like the citations in that wiki article) are highly suspect. I could go through the other papers listed in the article and illustrate the flaws in their methodology, but don't care too much for a cunt off
>> No. 18875 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:51 pm
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>>18869

You're at it, m8.
>> No. 18876 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:53 pm
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So Lynch has dropped Twin Peaks due to not enough cash. Gutted.

Hopefully Duchovny still gets to go through with the new X-Files.
>> No. 18877 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:54 pm
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It's funny to see bigoted pro-LGBT-rights lads.

Anyway, are we going to say it is acceptable for a fucking 5 year old to decide they aren't a boy any more, and then fill them with hormones to make them a girl? The same fucking 5 year old that says shit like "in the future I will be a boy, I see myself as a man when I'm grown up."

Fuck off.
>> No. 18878 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:57 pm
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>>18877

>It's funny to see bigoted pro-LGBT-rights lads.

Who could be behind this post?
>> No. 18879 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 3:59 pm
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>>18878
A bigot who doesn't try and make it seem like he isn't one.


Come out of the closet BNPlads.
>> No. 18880 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:05 pm
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>>18875

Poor lad, he's clearly confused about his canine identity. He is obviously a wolf-like dog rather than wolf, because wolves don't bark. Maybe he is a Malamute or a Saarloos or something.

This is why we need a proper assessment centre for otherkin because this lad is going to go through his life thinking he's a wolf and he doesn't have anyone there to guide him through this time and help so now he'll never realise his true identity. It's truly heartbreaking.
>> No. 18881 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:07 pm
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>>18878

Things you don't agree with =/= bigoted.
>> No. 18882 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:15 pm
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>>18881
YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YES THEY ARE YOU BIGOT BIGOT BIGGGOOOOTTTT
>> No. 18883 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:16 pm
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>>18877
I FEEL LIKE AN ASTRONAUT.
>> No. 18884 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:21 pm
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>>18883

My brother and I used to fight over which teenage mutant ninja turtle we were (we both wanted to be Michelangelo obvs). I'm glad I didn't grow up in SanFran because I hear shell augmentation is expensive and that artificial green skin pigment wreaks havoc with the upholstery
>> No. 18885 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:28 pm
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>>18872
>Who said this other than you
Whoever it was that posted the following in >>18847:
>that doctors need to examine a sufficient number of cases in order to establish that a distinct illness warranting treatment exists seems eminently sensible to me
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6th April 2015
Monday 4:49 pm
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>>18885

Jesus wept. If being otherkin isn't recognised as a condition that require physiological treatment then that is because either a) not enough of them have came forward for a robust study about it or b) a large percentage of them have, after assessment, been deemed to have a psychological root cause for their feelings and it isn't medically neccesary to provide them the means to transition in animals/dragons/elves.

What is there in that to suggest otherkin don't have legit conditions? There is no evidence to suggest they require physiological treatment so they don't get it, but there is a plethora of evidence to suggest they have an underlying mental health problem. If you have proof to the contrary I'd love to see it.
>> No. 18887 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:51 pm
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>>18884

It's a shame you didn't grow up near a worth a shit school, thicklad. Or just someplace with a much higher infant mortality rate.
>> No. 18888 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>18887

Omnisexual planetkin detected.
>> No. 18889 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 4:56 pm
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>>18886
No need to get upset, tearybumderlad. You asked a question, I answered it.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18890 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:01 pm
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>>18889

There is no harm in admitting you don't have the savvy to formulate a decent counter argument, lad.
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6th April 2015
Monday 5:06 pm
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>>18888

Am I bigot that has been indoctrinated by a patriarchal homo-species society if I just don't find people who identify as planets sexy? Should I seek our diversity training?
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6th April 2015
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>18890

So what is the objective testing used to differentiate legitimate transgendered people from people who have a sexual fetish, or psychotic delusion?

I'm assuming some form of sophisticated medical imaging or molecular testing is implemented and it's not just a case of a psychiatrist asking the client if they identify as the other gender and whether they experience dysphoria. Because otherwise all of your pro-trans arguments can be applied to otherkin, and all of your anti-otherkin arguments can be applied to trans people.
>> No. 18893 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:11 pm
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>>18892
>So what is the objective testing used to differentiate legitimate transgendered people from people who have a sexual fetish, or psychotic delusion?
They start to threaten your todger with a scalpel.
>> No. 18894 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:27 pm
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>>18892

They are treated for all the things that come with gender dysphoria. Depression, anxiety, etc. This is handled by a psychiatrist. Then they get referred to a psychologist who assess them and counsels them through their feelings. If the dysphoria doesn't go away after the depression is managed and the anxiety is managed, they get referred to a gender clinic. Once there, they attend counselling where they are helped to come to terms with what being trans means and in which they are encouraged to interact and discuss their issues with other trans people via group therapy and live in their chosen gender. The gender therapist takes over all treatment of their dysphoria. This is the point where most people with dysphoria are effectively cured of it, because it's pretty clear at that point if you want to go further you need to make changes and people realise the don't want that. If they manage to live in their chosen gender for a year, they'll get given transition meds. If they stay this course of medication, along with living in their chosen gender, for a further 2 years they are able to apply for a gender recognition certificate. This certificate is what they need to get gender reassignment surgery/their birth certificate changed.

It's a long, rigorous process that is designed at each stage to remove people who aren't actually trans and are suffering from another conditions which might cause dysphoria.

Comprehensive enough?
>> No. 18895 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:32 pm
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>>18894

Comprehensive, but not an accurate representation of the children featured in the documentary in question.

And also not accurate in the case of the trans people I know IRL.

There is no harm in admitting that the only legitimate diagnosis in transgenderism is the opinion of a trained psychiatric professional, lad.
>> No. 18896 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:33 pm
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The last hundred or so posts remind me of:

>I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm fucking retarded but I don't care, I'm beautiful. I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me "Apache" and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can't accept me you're a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Where does it end? I accept this is probably going to get me a ban.
>> No. 18897 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:35 pm
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>>18894

It should be said, not everyone with a GRC gets surgery. One of the IRC lads is engaged to a "non-op" tranny and it works because he is a bumder.
>> No. 18898 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:42 pm
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>>18895

Dysphoria doesn't rear it's head until puberty, but that doesn't stop them feeling like the opposite sex as kids. It just doesn't affect them as much. There is no harm in letting them live the way they want to until puberty and seeing if puberty changes how they feel about it. They aren't going to get meds until then anyway. I wanted to be a girl until I hit puberty and used to wear my sisters clothes all the time and demanded I be allowed to wear a dress to school. I was only ever indulged at family events, but when I turned 13 I just stopped wanting to do it. Turns out that is how I was dealing with liking boys as a kid and I was just gay.
>> No. 18900 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>18895

>trained psychiatric professional

What, like a gender therapist? Was that sentence meant to contradict, because it doesn't.
>> No. 18901 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:50 pm
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>>18900

It was meant to contradict the 'physiological basis' claims for transgenderism purported earlier in this thread (specifically reference to MRI data). Which it does.

>>18898
And if your parents had put you on hormonal therapy as an tweener, do you think that would have been beneficial or harmful to your development as an individual?
>> No. 18902 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 5:58 pm
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>>18901

Seeing as I didn't feel like a girl as a "tweener", why the fuck would they have?
>> No. 18903 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 6:03 pm
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>>18901

It doesn't contradict anything. The MRI data provides a strong correlation between the gender identity of the person and the structure of their brains.

There have been other studies done based on grey to white matter ratios and the physical structure of the brain from donors upon death which also show this correlation.

It also has nothing to do with what the lad was saying. You've been warned once already to be coherent.
>> No. 18904 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 6:21 pm
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I'm going to hide this thread because it reminds me there are people who lop of their dicks and go around screaming about privilege to random people, and this annoys me.
>> No. 18905 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 6:41 pm
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>>18903

So those physiological observations have been made previously using potentially questionable methodology, but that methodology isn't used to diagnose people medically?

C'mon lad, just accept that I'm an Apache helicopter and I'll go back to my own thread.
>> No. 18906 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 6:42 pm
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>>18902

11/12 is tweener.
>> No. 18907 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:07 pm
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>>18905

>So those physiological observations have been made previously using potentially questionable methodology, but that methodology isn't used to diagnose people medically?

Correct. It's always the gender therapist who has the last say on whether or not you're ready to take the next step or if it's appropriate. That decision has the enormous weight of empirically gathered, peer reviewed medical evidence behind it.

The studies on peoples brains are like the current search for the gay gene and aren't proven. All we can show is a correlation. At the end of the day, if it were to be proven that the only viable treatment for people with species dysphoria was transition then they would get it. They are all mostly living out fantasies/being special tumbr snowflakes they will grow out of.

I literally thought I was Jesus when I was 15, was I Jesuskin?
>> No. 18908 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:16 pm
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This thread basically shows why transpeople are fucking mental and need to be locked up. They aren't any different than any other nutjob who wants to become a fox and yiff the nights away. Fuck off, you degenerate scum.
>> No. 18909 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:28 pm
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>>18907
>literally thought I was Jesus

I guess not. Sorry for disagreeing with you. I don't know what else I can say. I'm sorry I ever doubted your reasoning.
>> No. 18910 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>18907

If your parents sought surgical interventions (stigmata, spear-wound in ribs etc. etc.), then I would argue that they were irresponsible parents. Likewise if they had allowed you to wear a thorned crown and made you carry a big wooden cross about with you.

And when the parents of a five year old who likes to wear dresses but clearly demonstrates no understanding of gender seek to have him put on drugs to defer puberty, I think that they are being irresponsible parents also.
The child is probably 'mostly living out fantasies/being special tumbr snowflakes they will grow out of'

If you want to identify as transgendered, that's up to you. I don't think that anybody should prevent you from doing so. But it's disingenous to overstate the medical understanding of this particular condition Especially overstating the physiological basis for it given that medical diagnosis is purely psychiatric. And it is unacceptable to expect cisgendered people to be accepting of it, if you are being disparaging of other atypical gender orientations.

Why is this so difficult for you to grasp? I never said there was anything wrong with being transgendered. But I believe that if a child is not educated enough to make decisions about all the things we place age restrictions on, then they definitely are unable to make decisions about their gender.

Did you watch the Louis Theroux documentary, or are you just a teary lad gunning for a cunt off?

CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA CHUKKA
>> No. 18911 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:57 pm
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>>18910

>teary lad

Doth protest too much, me thinks.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 18912 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 7:59 pm
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>>18910

>But I believe that if a child is not educated enough to make decisions about all the things we place age restrictions on, then they definitely are unable to make decisions about their gender.

That's why they're only given drugs to defer puberty until they're old enough to do so. If they decide not to after all, they can go off the drugs and puberty will happen naturally.
>> No. 18913 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:01 pm
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>>18910

Are you out of phase and coming into contact with an alternative .gs where that posts make sense in relation to the one it is intended as a reply for?
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6th April 2015
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>18910

>teary lad
>> No. 18915 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>18912
Do you think these drugs should be given to every child? If not, why not?
>> No. 18916 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>18912

>If they decide not to after all, they can go off the drugs and puberty will happen naturally.

No. Just no. You clearly know very little about medicine and biology.
>> No. 18917 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:13 pm
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Remember, lads. This is what happens if you question their logic. A hundred post cunt-off over what constitutes a legitimate identity or who's allowed to have an opinion on the subject.
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6th April 2015
Monday 8:16 pm
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>>18917

>>/boo/
>> No. 18919 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:19 pm
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>>18918
-3/10 SEE ME
>> No. 18920 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:19 pm
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>>18917

Lad, stop strawmanning people. You're not funny or clever, I know you think you are but you're very transparently trying to cause aggro and no-one has bitten yet so I can see why you might be getting frustrated.
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6th April 2015
Monday 8:27 pm
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>>18920
Where's the strawman there? We have in fact had posts claiming that some people shouldn't have a say in things, and posts claiming that some identities are genuine while others are just choices.
>> No. 18923 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:31 pm
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>>18921

The only way you would think that if you were, deliberately or otherwise, misinterpreting people's posts. The fact that being a furry isn't a gender identity and is instead a sexuality isn't up for debate. That has been explained in this thread twice now. You can be a furry and an otherkin or you can be a furry and cisgendered.

Who mentioned people not having a say in things? You know what, I think I'm done here. I've tried my best and been quite patient but you're disjointed and frankly odd stream of conciousness has finally wore me out.

You win lad, whatever it was you were looking to win. You win it, well done. I feel like I'm repeating myself at this point when I know there are people on here who could explain it better if you were being genuine and the fact they haven't piped probably means I'm being trolled and they knew better than to respond.
>> No. 18924 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:39 pm
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>>18923
Not him, but if you read up the thread you will in fact find both of those exact things said. "Trannies are real, otherkin are not" was said and implied repeatedly, and way back at the start someone had a go justifying exclusion in equality matters. They are both there, and you'll only miss them if you're deliberately ignoring them.
>> No. 18925 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 8:48 pm
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>>18924

Otherkin are fucking mentalists.

"I'm the avatar on earth of the planet Jupiter and I'm in a long distance relationship with a white dwarf star called Mordecai who lives in Alaska. STOP OPPRESSING ME CIS SCUM!"

- Every member of the otherkin community.
>> No. 18926 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:04 pm
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>>18923

The difference between trans people and otherkin (clinically identifiable dysphoria) has been clearly explained, and ignored. There is a wealth of evidence to show that trans people experience extreme psychological distress as a result of gender dysphoria, but no evidence of equivalent distress in otherkin. The debate has now become a strawman about whether otherkin or trans people are "real", rather than whether they have a clinical condition for which there is an evidence-based treatment.

I think it is clear by now that the introduction of otherkin into the debate was not an honest attempt to argue from analogy, but simply an ad hominem tu quoque. A false analogy between trans people and otherkin is established purely to discredit trans people, with the fallacious reasoning that it is hypocritical to recognise trans people as "real" without also recognising otherkin as "real". As previously stated, the argument over "realness" is a straw man.
>> No. 18927 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:07 pm
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What I don't understand exactly is that when trans people 'come out' (not sure if that's even correct terminology as I always assumed coming out to be with regards to sexual orientation) why it is that the usual suspects all fall over themselves in an over the top, celebratory back-slapping.

I mean, I can understand if you've known someone to be suffering from gender dysmorphia for a while, seeing them find the bravery to tell others what they are going through and how they want to change their identity would be a positive thing. However, I'm not sure how given no previous knowledge of their gender issues you can be so happy to find this out. May be an extreme comparison to make but if someone I barely knew told me they were going to start receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer I wouldn't be high-fiving them on the basis of getting treatment, I'd be sympathetic to what's wrong with them. It's almost as if these people are more interested in seeing someone become 'one of them' than they are in feeling genuine empathy...
>> No. 18928 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>18926

>Everybody who doesn't recognize my gender identity is prejudiced. Anybody with a gender identity I don't recognize is wrong. I will keep saying 'dysphoria' until you agree with me.

Zoiks.
>> No. 18929 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>18927

I think that trans people just have a lot of shitty so-called 'allies'. There's a fashionable game of political one-upmanship that doesn't serve the interests of minority groups. The obvious example is the recent NUS Women's Conference, where resolutions were passed condemning drag and "the appropriation of black women by white gay men"; The gay and trans people I know were all outraged by this petty display of divisive points-scoring.

Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of people are conflating the opinions of gay and trans people with the opinions of the SJW trolls who claim to advocate on our behalf. I'm reminded of the old "it's PC gone mad, you're not allowed to say blackboard any more" nonsense - the extreme opinions of a small but vocal minority are being used to discredit those who make a far more reasonable argument. All I want is for my friends to stop getting verbally abused and beaten up in the street, which doesn't seem like too much to ask for.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/03/28/nus-conference-condemns-drag-and-tells-gay-men-to-stop-acting-like-black-women/
>> No. 18930 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:26 pm
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>>18929

I know right? If you say you're English these days, you get arrested and thrown in jail.
>> No. 18931 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:27 pm
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>>18927

As you say, "one of them" implies they do have a certain degree of empathy for what it feels like to not feel comfortable in their own bodies and how difficult it is to come to terms with.

A not insignificant number of trans people commit suicide long before seeking help with transition, it's that distressing to live with, so I can understand a certain amount of back-slapping from the trans community at large (assuming that is who you were referring to by "usual suspects") when someone makes the effort to change their circumstances because they could have just easily ended up killing themselves.

I have a lot time for trannies because I understand, through having it explained to me on here about a million time now (once by an actual child psychologist) that for some of them it's transition or death because it's that distressing to live with. Before that I was of the opinion the were just gays who hadn't come to terms with it.
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6th April 2015
Monday 9:30 pm
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>> No. 18933 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:48 pm
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>>18928

Again with the straw man. Show me the evidence. The only half decent study into the furry fandom (Gerbasi et al) shows no evidence of clinically significant distress. The evidence for significant distress, underlying neurological differences and the efficacy of treatment amongst people with GID is exhaustive.

Here are a few highlights:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24344788
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25296510
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21612827
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22351896
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20727112
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25690443
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028200
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25720349
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24391851
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22455333
>> No. 18934 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>18933
Not him but out of curiosity how is 'clinically significant distress' defined?
>> No. 18935 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 9:59 pm
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>>18934

You can't extrapolate that based on what has already been discussed in this thread?

Based entirely on what I've read here today and in the past as well as elsewhere... depression, anxiety, self harm, emotional instability and suicide attempts. That's just my laymen's interpretation though. Do you need someone to explain to you why all those things cause distress, and how they cause distress, or are you able to form a conclusion without further hand holding?
>> No. 18936 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 10:01 pm
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>>18934

There are established diagnostic protocols regarding mood, self-image and behaviour. People with GID are extremely unhappy and uncomfortable in their body, but a lot of those negative feelings go away with proper treatment.

In blunt terms: Hating yourself, covering up your bathroom mirror so you don't have to see your own body, self harm often extending to mutilating your own genitals out of disgust, suicide attempts. Imagine how you'd feel if one day you woke up and found yourself in a different body, a body that doesn't belong to you, a body that horrifies you, a body you'd do anything to change. That's dysphoria.
>> No. 18937 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>18933
>the furry fandom
No, lad. Furries are people who choose to dress up as animals. Calling people who identify as an animal "furries" is like calling people who identify as a different gender "cross-dressers". That's why you're being called out for being hypocritical, and why people are getting wound up about you crying "strawman" seemingly without even a hint of irony.
>> No. 18938 Anonymous
6th April 2015
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>18937

>people

Oh, dohoho. Who are you trying to kid here?
>> No. 18939 Anonymous
8th April 2015
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So I was putting a bit of volume into my quite long hair this morning, you know, giving it a bit of a back comb and whatnot, when I realised something as delightfully absurd as it was uncomfortably eerie. With my glasses on, fringe down and chin dimple more defined than ever before, I look quite a bit like the girl I dated during the summer of '09. At which time we were 14.

My breasts aren't nearly as large mind, so that's something.
>> No. 18949 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 8:43 am
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I'm officially tapping out of the election coverage. I can't take it anymore, it's like being trapped in a tumbling tumble dryer with nothing but a packet of drawing pins and a really annoying noise for company.
>> No. 18950 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 8:47 am
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>>18949
It's the most boring election campaigning I can remember.
>> No. 18951 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 10:16 am
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>>18950
Even the BBC's titles so far have been uninspiring.
>> No. 18952 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 10:25 am
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One would've thought that with Farage bumbling about, there would have been a few more incidents.

Ads on the internet have become ludicrous again, but they are no longer a sinister plot to get "The Rock" and Emma Watson to do a Pr0n.
>> No. 18953 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 3:13 pm
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>>18937
What, perfectly accurate?
>> No. 18961 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>18953
Maybe we should filter transgender to "extreme cross-dresser".
>> No. 18962 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>18961

What's extreme about wearing skinny jeans and a blouse? I see lads down Camden all the time dressed similarly, they can't all be trannies.
>> No. 18963 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>18962
Extreme in the sense that they go so far as to get their genitals swapped over.
>> No. 18965 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 9:47 pm
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>>18963

Wouldn't it be novel if MTFs and FTMs just swapped bits with compatible donors.
>> No. 18966 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>18965
Why not just swap brains?

The comments on this are an embarrassment to humanity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029376/Russian-volunteer-head-transplant-operation-Valery-Spiridonov-says-no-choice-undergo-7-5million-procedure-controversial-Italian-surgeon-Dr-Sergio-Canavero.html
>> No. 18967 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 10:25 pm
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>>18966

I was flirting with the idea of brains but I thought it seemed silly, so I just wrote bits, but what in the ever loving fuck is that surgeon thinking?! If he dies, surely that is murder?
>> No. 18968 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 11:08 pm
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>>18949
>>18950

What I hate is there's no spontaneity to it yet. I get up about 7am, check the Beeb, and the Lab/Con press teams have already been at it. "Leaders set to clash over X", "Row brewing over Y" before anyone's actually said a word about it. Fucking spin doctors.
>> No. 18969 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 11:29 pm
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>>18968
You might like 'The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America' by Daniel J. Boorstin
>> No. 18970 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 11:33 pm
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>>18968
It's a shame that the way they're running their campaigns means that the most interesting thing to happen today was a backdrop falling at a UKIP women's event chaired by noted UKIP woman Patrick O'Flynn.
>> No. 18973 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 3:06 pm
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Some miserable old fucker is burning wet grass again, and on the first day this week when it has been possible to hang washing out too.
>> No. 18977 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 4:00 pm
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>>18973

How on earth do you burn wet grass? How do you burn wet anything?

Also I've had my hair cut shorter than it's been in years and now I need to do something about my beard because now the overall shape of my head is just All Wrong.
>> No. 18978 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 4:12 pm
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>>18977
>How on earth do you burn wet grass?
You put it on top of a fire.
>> No. 18979 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 4:26 pm
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>>18973
>>18977
If you're burning off your lawn to kill the weeds, you wet the grass you want to keep and it acts as a firebreak. Then you get the "burning wet grass" smell as the fire hits the boundary.
>> No. 18981 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 4:11 am
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Those cunts who ask for 10p outside the local newsagents who harass students.

I was tempted to say fuck off to the lot of them but I was carrying my laptop as I was on my way to the uni library and there were several of the gypsy twats who would love to beat the shit out of me.

What's worse is the naive 19 year old girl I know enables them and gives them money. In my area, the people who ask for change often mug them afterwards because they watch them open their wallet or purse and try to snag the rest. I'm tempted to say I hate homeless people that much that I dress and look homeless because the uni city I'm in there's a fuck load of homeless begging.
>> No. 18982 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 7:37 am
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>>18981

Here in London, I've noticed that the homeless people swear at you if you say anything other than 'yes, take all my money'. I've had some follow me to my door and others yell at me down a street. Thing is they don't remember that they've spoken to you 3-4 times before.

Anyway back home was a different kettle of fish- PLEASE I GOT TO GET BACK TO BRIGHTON MA MUM'S THERE AND MA KID I NEED TO GET BACK. "Alright, we'll let me buy you a ticket" NO I JUST NEED SOME CASH.

It's pretty damn rude to ask for money in the first place, let alone argue with people for that money.
>> No. 18983 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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>>18982
>Anyway back home was a different kettle of fish- PLEASE I GOT TO GET BACK TO BRIGHTON MA MUM'S THERE AND MA KID I NEED TO GET BACK. "Alright, we'll let me buy you a ticket" NO I JUST NEED SOME CASH.
This shit really annoys me. You want food and drink? I'll get you food and drink. I don't mind helping someone in need but I am not going to pay for your booze or drug habit out of my pocket.
>> No. 18984 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 1:24 pm
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>>18983
Why hold tramps to a higher standard than say, journalists and broadcasters?
>> No. 18985 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 1:31 pm
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>>18984
I'm not holding them to a higher standard. If a journalist asks for money and turns down my offer to pay for what they need, I'm not going to bung them any cash either.
>> No. 18986 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 2:57 pm
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>>18981
Hang on, the naive 19 year old girl you know? I don't believe we've been introduced to her.
>> No. 18987 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 4:14 pm
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>>18986
I suppose it was rather redundant to call her naive.

She uses tumblr and gave three tramps a fiver each. Best part is she tried to ask the big issue tramp for change so she could give the other two a fair donation.

Me. Well I just hope for cold winters. I don't care if it sounds teenlad-ish. I have a massive hatred for homeless people who survive by begging for money. Sell big issue, eat out a bin, go to the dozens of charities that help homeless people, don't come up with a disease for sympathy, don't hang around student campuses or cash machines, ask supermarkets for stock that was only going to be binned, ask council workers for someone that could help them, use your tramp dog to catch food, don't immediately take out your mobile so mum can pick you up from the bus stop after gaining a certain amount of 10ps.
>> No. 18988 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>>18987
You missed his meaning.

I'll gradly pretend to give a shit about social justice if I get laid though.
>> No. 18989 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 5:19 pm
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>>18987
My god, you really don't have a clue do you.
>> No. 18990 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 5:23 pm
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Homeless people (who for some reason are fucking Romani Gypsies, almost always) should all be rounded up and imprisoned.
>> No. 18991 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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Didn't realise I was in the daily mail comments section?
>> No. 18992 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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>>18991
Looks like you took a wrong turn then, better never come back here again.
>> No. 18993 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 8:07 pm
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>>18992

Please stop being so hardcore, you're scaring the wee'uns.
>> No. 18994 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 8:09 pm
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>>18993
What?
>> No. 18995 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 8:23 pm
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>>18994

The uns.
>> No. 18996 Anonymous
14th April 2015
Tuesday 9:33 pm
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>>18995
Particularly those that are wee.
>> No. 18997 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 1:10 am
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>>18994
The bairns, bachgen.
>> No. 18999 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 3:06 pm
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/101/ Skype interviews.

Bloody impersonal. And if somebody is going to reject me they should have the common courtesy to do it in person.

It's the employment equivalent of a girlfriend dumping you via text message.

While I'm at it, /101/ those fucking automated robots that sift CVs before HR has a change to look at them. It's called Human recsources, so the first step in the selection process is performed by an artificial intelligence.

Sage for teenladdery.
>> No. 19000 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 4:06 pm
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>>18999
Skype interviews are alright, I did mine without any pants.
>> No. 19001 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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>>18999
I guy I worked with at a student paper, who was a French student, told me about the Skype interviews he kept having to do, since the HR people were always in France.

One of them was at 0700 GMT, and it was three French women all tarted up. One of the questions they (reportedly) asked him was 'are you a sexist peeg?', upon which he hung up on the call because clearly this wasn't going to work. He later emailed to say sorry, his internet cut out and he'd accepted a job elsewhere.
>> No. 19002 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:03 pm
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>>19000

I came here to say that. I gain an enormous amount of confidence by interviewing nude from the waist down.
>> No. 19003 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:04 pm
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>>19001
What? Why? This makes no sense. Why would they do that?
>> No. 19004 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 6:09 pm
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>>19003
Maybe something was lost in translation, or it's a normal question in France. I don't know. This was reportedly a fairly large French company (large enough to recruit from the UK anyway - I can't remember what it was though).

Dippy HR birds are fucking daft wherever you go I suppose.

Chap ended up working at Peugot.
>> No. 19013 Anonymous
17th April 2015
Friday 10:36 am
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>>19002>>19000
Lad I know was doing a skype interview for his placement year. Did it without the pants.

Fire alarm went off in halls. Interview say he should leave, he'll wait as he accepts fire drills are the norm in halls. He spent a couple of minutes stalling until some fire martial went in his room saying he needs to leave as it's a real fire. Supposedly one of his flat mates got worried that he wasn't outside and knew he was in. Decided fuck it and then face the music and showed the interviewer his spiderman boxers.

He didn't get that placement
>> No. 19014 Anonymous
17th April 2015
Friday 11:12 am
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>>19013
That's an amusing anecdote, but did he really not think to shut off the video feed first?
>> No. 19021 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 5:19 pm
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There's a BBQ happening nearby, that's absolutely fine. I love poorly cooked and completely unseasoned meat prepared by an uncle who's been pissed since midday. But over the last hour the kids have gotten screechier and their shit music has gotten louder and I'm starting to have very fond memories of February.
>> No. 19022 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 5:44 pm
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>>19021
Everyone down my street is doing gardening or washing their car and having a gay old time talking to each other. I'm in my room with my headphones on drafting a paper.
>> No. 19024 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 5:54 pm
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>>19021

How do you know they're shit at barbecues, are you curtain twitching? Get some friends round and have your own BBQ and show them the very definition of decorum and civilised entertaining.
>> No. 19026 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 6:08 pm
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>>19024

I never said they were shit at BBQs. I was being entirely earnest about how much I enjoyed that hinted to BBQ experience, which was more or less how the last one I attended played out. It's nice seeing distant family at something that isn't a funeral. As for curtain twitching they're like 15 metres of from my flat's kitchen window, so no, I'm not.
>> No. 19027 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 6:10 pm
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>>19026
Show us some pictures.
>> No. 19028 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 6:22 pm
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>>19027

No, find your own well-meaning but slightly grating neighbours to weird out over.

Here's a picture of a Mi-24 Hind though, in case you were asking in a more general sense.
>> No. 19036 Anonymous
18th April 2015
Saturday 11:49 pm
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>>19028

Phwoar! One day that will be me that will. Choppering about landscapes, setting foliage ablaze.
>> No. 19037 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 12:03 am
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>>19036
You forgot to do your heli-war-cry.
>> No. 19038 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 12:38 am
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>>19037

CHUKKA
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>> No. 19039 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 3:27 am
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>>19036>>19037>>19038

Totes hilar', you dumb fucking animals.
>> No. 19040 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 1:33 pm
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>>19039

heliphobe
>> No. 19041 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 3:55 pm
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I'm famished and just want to exchange my unearned shekels for some food but the nearest takeaway doesn't open for another 70 minutes. I know my current predicament is a result of my own poor planning yet I can't help but blame the Jews Christians for their Sabbath stupidity. Open your fucking shop and take my money. C­hrist.
>> No. 19042 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 4:28 pm
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>>19041

Any takeaway worth it's salt opens at 4, Sunday or not. Maybe I have Scotchland perspective bias though.
>> No. 19043 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 4:36 pm
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>>19041
get thee to a coop lad, takeaways are for plebs.
>> No. 19045 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 4:50 pm
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>>19043
I tried, but they were out of chickens.
>> No. 19046 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 5:01 pm
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>>19042
If this country wasn't poisoned by religion Saturday and Sunday would have identical opening hours. We are shaking free of our shackles, but it's going to take decades. I'll literally die if I have to go hungry for that long.

I discovered today during my earlier foray into the outside that there's a very close-by Indian buffet open from 12. I've never knowingly eaten Indian food, but I think I'll have to give it a try next Sunday time I'm caught short. You can always count on the Indians to put good business sense above Western cultural debt.

>>19043
You're not wrong. I walked past mine without entering. I'm still trying to equip myself with the basic skills necessary to function as a respectable adult and so all I felt comfortable purchasing from a newsagent was Cadbury DOUBLE choc chip Cookies and a banana. The bread and butter in my kitchen and the mueseli on my desk I bought earlier in the week survives without good cause unmolested.

Failing so miserably to employ proper grammar is reserved for the untermensch.
>> No. 19047 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 5:02 pm
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>>19041

I know how you feel, I'm eating a banana to sate myself.

It's not working.

>>19042

Mmm... salt.
>> No. 19048 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>19046

I empathised when I thought you were broke or something. I sort of don't now you're just a bit dippy.

Mmm... dip.
>> No. 19049 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:07 pm
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>>19046

>If this country wasn't poisoned by religion Saturday and Sunday would have identical opening hours.

Yeah, fuck those retail workers on minimum wage getting some definite respite from their inane jobs; you simply can't wait until Monday morning for your Special K.

Consumerist melt.
>> No. 19050 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:15 pm
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>>19049
Calm down, lad.

I know more people that would kill for another shift on a Sunday afternoon/evening than would argue that shops should be shut so the retail staff can have a night off.

Retail jobs don't adhere to the 9-5 Monday-Friday work routine, it's not as though every employee at the shop has been working every shift every day this week and we're asking them to stay at work for yet another day instead of going home and having one day off. They probably had two or three days off in the middle of the week.
>> No. 19051 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:16 pm
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>>19049
They should have tried harder in life.
>> No. 19052 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:19 pm
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>>19049
Right, because the only way we can have shops open 12+/7 is to have individual employees working without any decent breaks. Do you bitch about zero hours contracts as well?
>> No. 19053 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:26 pm
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>>19052
I would say that he has every right to bitch about zero hour contracts, as does anyone.
>> No. 19054 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:42 pm
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>>19051
Yes, because life is that simple.
>> No. 19055 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 6:56 pm
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>>19054
Pretty much. I'm nearly 30 and the only people I know still working shit-tier jobs are, broadly speaking, either thickos or they simply haven't applied themselves hard enough into getting a better job/career prospects.
>> No. 19056 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:00 pm
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>>19054
His phrasing was purposely incendiary I feel and definitely obfuscates the complexities of life. But I ask you this: of the white British people stuck in the gutter, what percentage of them do you estimate couldn't have humanly tried harder?
>> No. 19057 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:03 pm
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>>19055
>shit-tier jobs
Which jobs fall into this category?
>> No. 19058 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:10 pm
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>>19056

Not that lad, but giving the obvious answer to your question implicitly agrees with the assumption that we should all be trying 100% at all times in order to avoid menial jobs with a relatively poor set of working rights and benefits. I do not agree.
>> No. 19059 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:10 pm
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>>19057
Sewer technician.
>> No. 19060 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:17 pm
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>>19058
And if I change the word 'humanly' to 'reasonably'?
>> No. 19061 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:20 pm
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>>19058
>we should all be trying 100% at all times in order to avoid menial jobs with a relatively poor set of working rights and benefits.

I think you're overstating how much effort is necessary in order not to spend your life in a dead-end minimum wage job. It's not hard, at all.
>> No. 19062 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:22 pm
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>>19061
Sure, it's not hard if you strike it lucky.
>> No. 19063 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:28 pm
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>>19060

I would still disagree. The problem is in the nature of the work, not with the employees. Shifting the expectation onto the individual to overcome the lack of opportunities afforded to them by greater economic and educational structures is an unreasonable burden. Some people overcome it through willpower, yes, but in a better society perhaps they wouldn't have had to.

The goal should be to eradicate meaningless or exploitative work, not to continue to punish people who find themselves in poor jobs based on our perceptions of their personal failings.
>> No. 19064 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:28 pm
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>>19062
There's nothing lucky about paying attention in school or having the pragmatism to get a job better than minimum wage. I think you've been reading too much Guardian if you're under the impression the majority of the working population is on minimum wage or zero hour contracts.
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19th April 2015
Sunday 7:29 pm
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>>19061
In terms of dead-end, what's the difference between a minimum wage job in a supermarket or fast food restaurant and a desk job at an accountancy firm or as a back-end web developer? Ultimately, in either cases, you're doing fuck all of any importance, just some are paying you more than others.
>> No. 19066 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:30 pm
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>>19064
>having the pragmatism to get a job better than minimum wage.
For example?
>> No. 19067 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:36 pm
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>>19065
Some back-end web developers are doing little of importance. Others are changing this world in hugely significant ways. Just to trot out the really lazy examples, Facebook and Google don't exist without them.
>> No. 19068 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:37 pm
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>>19067
KFC wouldn't exist without someone frying their chicken, either.
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19th April 2015
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>19061

Regardless of how easy you think it may be to find better work, these jobs still exist and will always catch out people in need. The way people are recruited has adapted to reflect this, organised through agencies, often on a temporary basis. Temp workers have less time and incentive to organise, try to improve working conditions or negotiate better rates of pay, as they view the job as a stop-gap.

My main problem is that jobs like this can exist for people to get stuck in. That's surely a larger and more worthwhile problem to look at than any person who's lacking in ambition, willpower or whatever else for that period of time.
>> No. 19070 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:43 pm
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The last time my dad saw me I was playing computer games, but quite soon after I got bored and did something else. But then about half an hour ago I decided to play games again, then my dad saw me again and I'm worried he thinking I was just playing games for like 6 hours. I might just obnoxiously ask him what he thinks of a TV show I know he hasn't watched, or a tell him how much I'm enjoying the book I was reading just now earlier on today.
>> No. 19071 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 7:48 pm
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>>19066
I know plenty of people who weren't the best in a school environment but have either started their own business, learned a trade or identified jobs with the opportunity for career progression and are doing quite well for themselves.

Fucking hell, lads. This isn't rocket surgery, so I can kind of see why some of you want the state to wipe your arses for you instead of taking any personal responsibility. Are you lot taking the piss, actually? Answer this honestly - I know there may be some outliers but do you genuinely think most people who spend their entire working lives on minimum wage did well at school and have put a reasonable amount of effort into trying to get a better job instead of settling for what they have?
>> No. 19072 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:06 pm
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>>19068
True in the past. Less so now. We could automate that shit in a heartbeat and we will when it's economical to do so.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

So I'll tell you the difference between a backend web developer at Facebook and someone frying chicken in KFC. One is at the peak of their craft, solving problems humanity has yet to tackle, can take satisfaction that they personally are impacting the way in which interconnected society socialises, and is surrounded by similarly-inclined super smart people. The other is frying chicken at KFC. I might be conflating a number of distinct roles at Facebook, but I don't think that matters when I'm trying to illustrate the differences between a fulfilling job and an unfulfilling one. And of course there are plenty of smaller tech companies where all these things are true too.

I'm beginning to wonder if >>19065 was angling for an uppity response like this. He did allude to career progression and personal growth but I won't bother to explain why top-tier web developers inhabit a different world to burger flippers in that regard too.
>> No. 19073 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:22 pm
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>>19072
I am >>19065 and I was just pointing out that everything is basically pointless. Your uppity response is very welcome, as is your video.
>> No. 19074 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:28 pm
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>>19064
>There's nothing lucky about paying attention in school or having the pragmatism to get a job better than minimum wage.
Well I guess that's an easy solution to all our country's problems. Have kids pay attention in school and not take minimum-wage jobs. Now, where did I put that Nobel nomination form?
>> No. 19075 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:30 pm
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>>19065

Neither of those jobs are dead-end. A substantial proportion of senior managers have accountancy backgrounds; Senior and specialist accountants can earn phenomenal sums. Web developers can go into consulting, they can be promoted into management, they can start their own companies.

A shelf stacker has none of those opportunities. Most major retailers have specific management training programmes for graduates, and don't promote from the shop floor. The best you could hope for is an extra quid an hour as shift supervisor. You don't develop transferable skills while scanning barcodes or putting tins of peas on a shelf.

As regards >>19061, that's all well and good if you've had a decent education and have the intelligence to better yourself. The unfortunate reality is that a lot of people just aren't cut out for anything more demanding than making coffee or wiping arses in a nursing home, and many aren't even capable of that. Anyone who has recruited or managed unskilled workers is well aware of the sheer number of people who simply cannot be trusted to satisfactorily complete even the most mundane tasks.

I'm a well-paid technology consultant, but I deserve no credit whatsoever for my achievements. I work no harder than most people earning minimum wage, I just won the genetic lottery in terms of intelligence. I didn't earn that aptitude, any more than a tall person earned their height. If I were born in a different time, I would have been stuffed - I'm a weak, sickly person with no capacity for hard manual work. It's just dumb luck that I was born with traits that happen to have a high market value, and that I have had the opportunities to use those traits.

Mechanisation and globalisation are rapidly eroding the demand for unskilled and semi-skilled labour. The level of intelligence and education needed to earn a comfortable living is constantly increasing. Working to improve the lives of those left behind by the march of technology and capitalism is both a moral and pragmatic necessity. History is abundant with examples of what happens when inequality grows too severe. I don't want to enjoy my good fortune from behind razor wire. We need to be thinking about how to structure a post-work economy now, rather than waiting until society implodes under the weight of hopelessness, frustration and anger.
>> No. 19076 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:41 pm
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>>19075
I'm a well-paid technology consultant
Do you know anything about the software development job market? How skilled do I have to be before someone will employ me?
>> No. 19077 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 8:44 pm
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>>19075
I completely agree, I'm doing fairly well for someone in my age group but I didn't 'work hard' in the vein of Thatcherite, Randroid looney land lad, I just had parents who put me through school and uni to the point where I'm on a decent wage with a job and whatnot.
>> No. 19078 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 9:04 pm
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>>19076
Please forgive my low quality post. I have a headache and my IP has reset, preventing correction.
>> No. 19079 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 9:15 pm
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>>19075
What I was asking in >>19065 was mainly for a definition of "dead-end". I have sat and thoroughly contemplated it during my second-year PhD blues, and I came to the conclusion that I'd be just as unhappy in an elevated position in a bank (something which is quite achievable with my qualifications) as I would stacking shelves around the corner from my house in big Tesco. My own personal definition of dead-end is any job where I'm not providing the world at large with something new.

As you say yourself, and has already been said a few posts prior, most jobs nowadays are plain uncalled for. There are people in offices all over the place just shifting paperwork from one table to another in processes which some boffin somewhere could very, very easily completely replace with an automated system, it's not just laborious jobs like unskilled factory work that are being phased out. It surprises me having read the final paragraph of your post that you still give so much weight to job titles like "senior manager".
>> No. 19080 Anonymous
19th April 2015
Sunday 11:21 pm
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>>19079

A "dead-end" job is one that lacks opportunities for advancement and development. The title "senior manager" doesn't matter very much in itself, but what does matter is taking on new challenges and responsibilities. You don't have to be pushing the boundaries of human knowledge to feel fulfilled in your job, only pushing your own boundaries. Menial work is easier to swallow if you know that your efforts can lead to bigger and better things.

>>19076

I'd say it's about half technical skill and half hustle. There are some great developers who struggle to find work, because they don't know how to present themselves; Conversely, there are a lot of total blaggers who barely know what they're doing but find work because they seem plausible.

With both skills, there's no substitute for practice. Building your own personal projects is an invaluable learning experience, and helps you build a portfolio of work to demonstrate your skills; It's also important to write about those projects to show what you've learned, and to attend meetups and conferences to make contacts in the industry. A little personal website with a few blog posts about development and links to some of your work is often more useful than a CV. Finding small freelance jobs on oDesk or Elance can be a good way of getting some practical experience, as well as contributing to open source projects.

There's no fixed point at which you're 'good enough', just the opinion of individual employers. Some small shops would rather take on a highly motivated novice than someone with plenty of experience who seems to just be punching the clock. Start networking early, even if you think that you're not yet ready; Someone might decide to take a chance on you, and you're more likely to get hired in future if your name rings a bell. Don't be afraid to contact people on spec to ask for advice - it's always flattering to be seen as a mentor or role model, and there's a good chance they'll remember you when an opportunity arises.
>> No. 19081 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 12:02 am
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>>19080
>With both skills, there's no substitute for practice. Building your own personal projects is an invaluable learning experience, and helps you build a portfolio of work to demonstrate your skills; It's also important to write about those projects to show what you've learned, and to attend meetups and conferences to make contacts in the industry. A little personal website with a few blog posts about development and links to some of your work is often more useful than a CV. Finding small freelance jobs on oDesk or Elance can be a good way of getting some practical experience, as well as contributing to open source projects.
That sounds an awful lot like expecting him to work for free. That's not the sort of thing we should be expecting people to do. No other industry anywhere expects it, and there's literally no reason whatsoever that ours should expect it. We seem to have done a very good job of removing the entry level for several lines of work. For instance, there are effectively no entry-level dev roles any more. (No, hiring people based on their spare-time work is not "entry-level".) It's a grotesquely unfair situation we find ourselves in, where seasoned old hands can leave their work at the door when they leave yet we expect new entrants to be constantly excited and enthused and to have their job for a hobby. No wonder people view tech culture as problematic - we simply don't allow normal people in through the door any more.
>> No. 19082 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 1:13 am
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>>19081

The counter-argument is that the tech industry is remarkably free of credentialism. Anyone with a laptop and a bit of spare time can learn the trade. You can't just have a go at being a solicitor or a doctor - you must undergo many years of higher education and borrow tens of thousands of pounds for the privilege. Grads with good degrees in computing, mathematics or physics can walk into good tech jobs, but there's an alternative entry route for autodidacts.

I'm quite proud of the fact that the tech industry is full of weirdos. You don't need an immaculate CV, you don't need to have gone to the right school, you just need a good brain and the motivation to use it. Many of the best developers I know would be totally unemployable in most other industries.
>> No. 19083 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 1:25 am
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>>19082
I was going to prepare a sensible response debunking the entirety of your argument, but then saw this and figured you clearly have no idea what you're talking about:
>you must undergo many years of higher education and borrow tens of thousands of pounds for the privilege
>> No. 19084 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 2:13 am
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>>19081

> No wonder people view tech culture as problematic - we simply don't allow normal people in through the door any more.

No, we don't, and there's a reason for that. I am extremely, extremely, good at what I do and while I could wax and wane about why that is, what it basically boils down to is spending a life in front of the computer and not reading the newspaper. Computer science is a completely fatuous subject and no one of any merit ever took a degree in it*. Anyone who is actually brilliant at tech will be either self taught or have a degree in Physics, Mathematics or Electrical Engineering and have self-taught everything they know about computers. The reason I turn down so many twerps with MScs is because they think that five years of half-arsed study makes up for ten-plus years of living, breathing and dreaming in code. Sorry lad, but until people bring either bring academia kicking and screaming into the real world or work out a way of producing industry-relevant certifications it's simply always going to be that way.

* With the obvious exclusion of e.g. MIT
>> No. 19088 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 1:14 pm
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A woman on the train this morning was holding her paperback book open with the tip of her thumb placed right at the bottom, so that there was a thumb-shaped crease in the corner of the front page and a big bend diagonally across the whole book.
>> No. 19089 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 1:23 pm
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>>19084
Have a word with yourself, lad. Shitbags like you are why the industry has to deal with crazy radfems. It would be less of a problem if anything you just said was actually true.
>> No. 19090 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 1:31 pm
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>>19089
Are you also >>19081?
I'm not the lad you're responding to, but what is your point? It looks like you're saying that the technology industry should be hiring people who do not have any existing skills, I must be misreading you, yes?
>> No. 19091 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 3:12 pm
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>>19090
It's funny how other industries manage to be able to train people who have the right aptitude. In IT we have somehow developed this idea that we can only hire people with experience but provide no means by which they cdb gain it. (No, personal projects and open source are not substitutes or proxies for actual experience.) I'm aware that I got where I am in part because my father had a computer and a full set of manuals, and could afford to both buy me one and dedicate some time and attention to my efforts. I'm conscious that a lot of people who have the necessary mental capacity don't have that advantage, and it's rather unfair that I was born into it. I can live with that - after all, life isn't fair - but people in tech deluding themselves into thinking that this makes the field unreliant on credentials or meritocratic gets to be pretty grating after a while.
>> No. 19092 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 3:27 pm
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>>19091
I like to think their decision panels when hiring new techies have a habit of "just knowing". Like if a clean-looking lad pops in with nice manners and a freshly-bought suit and all of the necessary credentials and experience for the job, they'll dismiss him as soon as he leaves the room and is replaced by a fat cunt with Rickets and an unironed shirt who thinks it's okay to wear his best trousers with a pair of black skateboarding trainers.
>> No. 19093 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 3:53 pm
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>>19091

>It's funny how other industries manage to be able to train people who have the right aptitude. In IT we have somehow developed this idea that we can only hire people with experience but provide no means by which they cdb gain it.

> (No, personal projects and open source are not substitutes or proxies for actual experience.)

Perhaps they shouldn't be but they de-facto are.

The phenomenon you're complaining about is caused by the dire state of computer science education in this country, I'm sure you've read the zillion and one articles online about how graduates turn up to job interviews and can't code a simple fizzbuzz solver. A mate of mine's final year project was writing a data-base driven web application in Java, ffs! That's the kind of thing that should be being taught at GCSE level, not the final year of a BSc.

Tech is a do-or-die industry and if you haven't shown the gumption and initiative to have been doing things in your own time I don't see why I should even offer you an internship, because there are plenty of other graduates out there who've been contributing to open source for years.
>> No. 19094 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 4:32 pm
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>>19092
And as soon as one of your lot is in power it becomes
>why isn't that lad in a freshly-bought suit? Why aren't these weirdos paying the proper respect to the priesthood credentials?
I'm onto you. Form over function and image over reality. You won't be happy every last human is a reduced to fully conforming, HR newspeaking, business-casual dressing (except on casual Friday) lesser corpobot.
>> No. 19095 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 4:51 pm
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>>19094
Case in point.
>> No. 19096 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 4:52 pm
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>>19094
I think you might have gotten the wrong end of the stick there.
>> No. 19097 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>19094
Form is a function in itself mate. Fat cunts in unironed shirts simply don't understand that.
>> No. 19101 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 5:59 pm
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>>19093
>Tech is a do-or-die industry and if you haven't shown the gumption and initiative to have been doing things in your own time I don't see why I should even offer you an internship
This, right here, is everything that's wrong with hiring practices in the industry in one sentence. The idea that all you need is a bit of effort and you're set. It's blatantly not true, and it's blatantly not what your mindset ends up selecting for. What you actually end up selecting for is the intersection of "people who won the family lottery" and "people like me", neither of which speaks to competency or potential, which are the qualities you really want to be selecting for. Several major players out in the Valley are realising that looking for a portfolio is ruling out a lot of potential talent.
>> No. 19102 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 6:30 pm
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>>19091
>I'm aware that I got where I am in part because my father had a computer and a full set of manuals

This may be true 10 or more years ago but these days computers are so cheap and commonplace that very few people don't have access to one. Fair enough if we're talking 3D modelling or something computationally intensive but to learn basic coding and how to find your way around a PC all you'd need is a <£200 celeron laptop and a blank DVD to burn your Linux distro of choice onto, all the documentation is freely available online these days and there are numerate challenges/problems/courses available (e.g https://projecteuler.net/, https://edx.org etc)

Incidentally, would anyone recommend trying to do Linux From Scratch? I've a cheap, oldish laptop I don't care too much for anymore and was thinking of giving it a go to see what I learn.
>> No. 19103 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 6:49 pm
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>>19101

> What you actually end up selecting for is the intersection of "people who won the family lottery" and "people like me",

Patently nonsense. As >>19102 points out a low-end computer is no longer the preserve of the financially privileged. You can get a second hand thinkpad that'll do pretty much everything you need for under a hundred quid on Ebay.

What I'm actually selecting for is "people with initiative" and "people with passion for the subject".
>> No. 19104 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>19102
>to learn basic coding and how to find your way around a PC all you'd need is a <£200 celeron laptop and a blank DVD to burn your Linux distro of choice onto, all the documentation is freely available online these days
I know a fair number of people who would struggle to find £200 spare, and a number who still do not have home broadband. They're conveniently the same sort of families who are unlikely to be able to dedicate the time and attention to their kids' learning. If the new model Pi can keep the £30 with free delivery thing going then that would be a good thing, but this is something that requires time and money, and an awful lot of people are short of both. There are also an awful lot of people who can't show you any code because someone else owns it. So you end up with hipster shops hiring more hipsters and then claiming to invent things which are old concepts dressed up in new clothes. Congratulations to whoever claims to have invented A/B testing - you successfully discovered the technique scientists have been using for over two centuries to figure out if something works.

PS LFS will teach you both about how your operating system fits together and the value of a binary package manager. Worth a go if you have a weekend to spare.
>> No. 19105 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:17 pm
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>>19103
>What I'm actually selecting for is "people with initiative" and "people with passion for the subject".
1. Those probably aren't what you want. Are you hiring an employee or a housemate?
2. Your process probably isn't actually selecting for those anyway. They are in fact selecting for "people like me".
>> No. 19106 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:33 pm
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>>19105

People in the IT industry have to relearn half their skills every couple of years as technology moves on. If someone needs their hand holding just to pick up the basics, they're not going to survive. I see any number of computing grads from middling universities who spend three years just rehashing what they learned on their degree, before getting 'restructured' into a non-technical role or out of the company. Accountants need to be fastidious, undertakers need to be empathetic, hod carriers need to be strong and techies need to be independent learners. It's a fundamental requirement that cannot be taught.
>> No. 19107 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:38 pm
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>>19104
Which industries offer to pay to train people based on aptitude alone?
>> No. 19108 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:39 pm
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>>19106
>If someone needs their hand holding just to pick up the basics, they're not going to survive.
Not him, but what's that got to do with your admitted criterion of "people who have the luxury of being able to work for free"?
>> No. 19109 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>19105
>>19106

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

> Accountants need to be fastidious, undertakers need to be empathetic, hod carriers need to be strong and techies need to be independent learners. It's a fundamental requirement that cannot be taught.

Beautifully put, lad. Hit the nail right on the head.
>> No. 19110 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:53 pm
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>>19107
I'm struggling to think of any industries that don't do on-the-job training. Pretty much the only one that comes to mind is medical practice. Even in accounting and law, you can train on the job.
>> No. 19111 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:55 pm
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>>19110
It's standard in accounting.
>> No. 19112 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 7:58 pm
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>>9110
I wasn't talking about that.
>Which industries offer to pay to train people based on aptitude alone?
>> No. 19113 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>19112
Yes you were. Unless you were being deliberately disingenuous and not considering wages paid to someone who is training rather than working as "paying to train", of course.
>> No. 19114 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 8:06 pm
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>>19113
>Yes you were. Unless you were being deliberately disingenuous and not considering wages paid to someone who is training rather than working
I can be paid a wage to train as a lawyer or an accountant?
>> No. 19117 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:05 pm
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>>19114
If you're decent enough for accounting companies to take you on they'll pa for your chartered accountancy qualifications and tutor you through it.
>> No. 19118 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:08 pm
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>>19114
Yes.

It's not uncommon for people working as legal assistants to train as a legal executive on the firm's dime. You'd be unlikely to reach the bar this way, though once qualified you'd be just as eligible for things such as judicial appointments.

It's even more common for accountants to have gained their qualifications with support from their employer while working as an assistant - if there's only one group of people who would know whether this makes financial sense, it'll be accountants. If you can hack double-entry book-keeping, which is a useful enough skill in everyday life, there are firms that will hire you and put you through training if you commit to stay with them for a number of years - very literally hiring you to train you. (Careful when searching for these, though. "Trainee accountant" also has a specific meaning of a position for a qualified accountant to work up their PQE for chartered status, rather like a barrister's pupillage or a doctor's foundation stage.)
>> No. 19119 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:20 pm
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>>19114
All you really need is an A Level in Accounting and you have enough to apply for firms to help train you up to AAT and possibly even Chartered level.

I know a few people who did this instead of going to university, including ones who've ended up in Big 4 firms, and of at least one local firm who dislikes hiring graduates and would rather take someone up the AAT path first.
>> No. 19120 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:50 pm
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>>19119
>take someone up the AAT path
IKWYM.
>> No. 19121 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>19118
I'm at interview stage for a graduate position whereby they'll train me for the ACA.
>> No. 19122 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>19121
I have no accountancy or business background whatsoever, by the way.
>> No. 19123 Anonymous
20th April 2015
Monday 11:08 pm
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>>19114
For some types of accountants it's even the norm, it seems. Quite a few ACCA schools don't do full time courses and only take people who are in full or at least part time employment. From what a couple of accountant friends told me, the vast majority of those people are working for the same company that pays for their ACCA training; given that they will need a few years experience after graduating to turn from qualified to chartered accountant anyway (I'm sure I'm munging up the proper names for here) it's probably not bad investment for companies.
>> No. 19124 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 6:58 am
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>>19123
The only company/organisation I know that won't pay for their employees in accounting/finance to go through the Chartered qualification is a local authority, but that's because they were offering it out like confetti and too many were failing.

I work in a different industry, but my employer will pay for the first two attempts at each exam plus all the study material, which I think averages out at just over £300 a pop, and then give you a £1,000 bonus for reaching Diploma and then Chartered level respectively, on the proviso that you have to pay any of it back which occurs within 2 years before you leave.
>> No. 19125 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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Trying to obtain a physical copy of my national insurance number (which I obviously have memorized) is turning into a cross between running the gauntlet and a Franz Kafka novella. Fuckssake.
>> No. 19126 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 3:28 pm
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>>19125

They stopped doing NI number cards in 2011 and all you get now is a letter from HMRC with your NI on it. Hopefully solving your problem should be as easy as phoning HMRC up and asking them to send you a letter with your NI on it?
>> No. 19127 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 3:34 pm
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>>19126

I can't get past the phone robot. I've filled out a form online which I have to print off and send down south via snail mail, buttfuck knows how long they'll take to recieve it and respond.
>> No. 19128 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 3:45 pm
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I lost my NI card years ago - if anything asks for my NI now I just recycle it from previous payslips.
>> No. 19129 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 3:49 pm
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>>19125
Remind them that HMRC offer a free service to verify NI numbers, and if they have any doubts they should use it.
>> No. 19131 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 4:05 pm
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>>19129

FML. I'm a PhDlad and I stopped recieving my stipend in September. I've been living on my savings since then and as a result no longer have any. Today I went for induction about a casual job with the Royal Mail and despite my having a British passport, the HR lad wouldn't even begin to process me due to the lack of 'physical evidence' of my right to work in the UK.

I haven't recieved a physical paypacket since 2011 so I can't get it from there. Today has been absurd. I am royally fucked off.

I can't even claim jobseekers until after they eventually decide to viva me. Seriously lads, never do a PhD. If you are fortunate enough to have not pissed away years of undergraduate, don't do it. Be an electrician or a plumber or something. Shit, be a hairdresser and they'll let you into Australia.
>> No. 19132 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 4:13 pm
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>>19131
Mate, PhD life with money deserves a /101/ thread of its own. I get paid once every four months, for a fucking start. It's incredibly difficult to budget four months at a time.

I remember having a meeting with my bank when I wanted to open an ISA to try and save some money, and they were asking me all about what I do and how I get paid, but the only word they heard was "student", so their suggestion was "Well, why not get a job as well for when you're not in university?"
>> No. 19133 Anonymous
21st April 2015
Tuesday 5:43 pm
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>>19121
>>19122
For the record, they rejected me. Nice to get some feedback though, but I don't particularly like it. Maybe 60% was valid but the remainder directly contradicts that which I said in the interview. Oh well.
>> No. 19134 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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>>19131
>>19132

Don't scare me lads... 2nd PhD here, and I get well each month, for the full 4 years - but I'm terrified of being stuck after my 4th year doing corrections after my viva. The old system only paid you for 3 out of the 4 years - and a mate of mine lived off noodles for that last year, horrid.

PhD is semi-worth it, if you're willing to travel after finishing, it should be alright, otherwise it's a trap a lot of post-grads fall into.
>> No. 19135 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 12:24 pm
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>>19084

Jesus, and here's the prime reason I quit the IT field. Too many tossers like this one who got bullied in school, and now live in a permanent revenge fantasy. King of the Swings forever more in their office realm, o the tables hath been turn'd and now you normal cunts shall feel my wrath! Good luck selling your next project without somebody who can actually, you know, interact like a functional human being.
>> No. 19137 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 12:29 pm
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>>19135
Release the anger and disappointment, friend. You don't have the first clue about whether his social skills are lacking or not.
>> No. 19138 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>19137
Not him, but the suggestion that normal people being shut out is a good thing is a pretty good indicator. As is boldly exclaiming how awesome he thinks he is at his job on an anonymous imageboard in an unironic fashion.

This "normals not welcome" thing is becoming a real problem in the industry, and the cancerous attitude of "no github no job" that serves no purpose other than to fuel it needs to stop. Large corporates have figured this out, as have some of the better-known firms in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. It just seems to be the super special snowflake crowd who somehow think that their venture is different from everything that came before them that seem to stick to it rigidly ("Our Web agency is completely different from the other dozen based on the same street, honest!"). Unfortunately they make up a rather large proportion of the industry.
>> No. 19139 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>19137
>spending a life in front of the computer
>I am extremely, extremely, good at what I do
>twerps with MScs
>living, breathing and dreaming in code
Yeah, I think there are definitely some clues.
>> No. 19140 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>19138

You're just not cut out for tech, lad. Give it up. You can probably still be a web designer or something, life's not over yet.

>>19139

Yep, because all those things obviously preclude someone from having social skills.
>> No. 19141 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 1:52 pm
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>>19140
Yeah, obviously all those people who have been working in the business for years "aren't cut out for it". Have a fucking word, lad.
>> No. 19142 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 2:22 pm
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>>19140
>Yep, because all those things obviously preclude someone from having social skills.
I wouldn't go that far. I think the probability of anyone capable of making those comments without a trace of irony or self awareness having particularly good social skills is quite low though.
>> No. 19145 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 6:49 pm
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GCHQlad finally rejected my application. I've been waiting to hear since I passed the aptitude tests in December.

I would have left no dick pic left unturned matey
>> No. 19146 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 7:11 pm
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>>19145
I imagine they were overwhelmed with applications when it was revealed that they were training an army of supertrolls.
>> No. 19147 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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>>19145
You realise he now knows that you've told someone about your application in defiance of the instructions given to you when you applied, right?

Black bags within the hour, m8.
>> No. 19148 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 7:30 pm
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>>19147

Application is over ladmate. Therefore I am not in violation of anything. Hang on one second, somebody is at the door, I'll just go s
>> No. 19149 Anonymous
22nd April 2015
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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Watching "The Quizeum" feels like the intellectual equivalent of watching two gorgeous gym goers make out.
>> No. 19150 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:03 am
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>>19142

I find this amusing because if you switched out the computing references for whatever it is they actually do, these are all things you'd expect to hear from an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or even a world class physicist. No one gets to become exceptionally good at something by being a 9-to-5er.
>> No. 19151 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:30 am
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>>19150
>I find this amusing because if you switched out the computing references for whatever it is they actually do, these are all things you'd expect to hear from an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or even a world class physicist.
Right. But they're not "an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or even a world class physicist". They're a programmer.

>No one gets to become exceptionally good at something by being a 9-to-5er.
So many words, so little meaning.
>> No. 19152 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:37 am
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>>19151

> Right. But they're not "an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or even a world class physicist". They're a programmer.

So if an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or a world class physicist says those things it's perfectly ok, but if a world class programmer says them then you instantly assume that they lack social skills? That's an interesting prejudice you've just exposed there, lad.

> So many words, so little meaning.

I feel very sorry for you if you feel that fifteen words are "many". Books must be a nightmare for you.
>> No. 19153 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 3:02 am
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>>19152
>So if an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or a world class physicist says those things it's perfectly ok, but if a world class programmer says them then you instantly assume that they lack social skills?
>world class programmer
Very audible mirth.

>I feel very sorry for you if you feel that fifteen words are "many". Books must be a nightmare for you.
So you don't dispute the lack of meaning? Good to know.
>> No. 19154 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 9:07 am
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People recycling the same edgy teenlad comments about how scummy the white English population is because it's St. George's Day.
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23rd April 2015
Thursday 9:10 am
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Actually, it's not just the English. It's white people in general - there's someone on Facebook who has a history degree and seems to be under the impression that the only atrocities that have ever been committed were by white people because she studied it at uni so she's an expert on how terrible we are.
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23rd April 2015
Thursday 10:52 am
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>>19152
>So if an olympic athlete, a sucessful artist, or a world class physicist says those things it's perfectly ok, but if a world class programmer says them then you instantly assume that they lack social skills?
Not who you're responding to, but actually, that's pretty universal. Assuming by "world class" you mean that they're literally among best in the world, then it's typically the case that they've made significant sacrifices in almost all other parts of their life - social skills included. Athletes are famously dull in interviews, the "difficult eccentric" artist is the rule rather than the exception, and scientists particularly are stereotyped as being poor communicators. People who have an incredibly deep specialisation tend to gain it at the expense of everything else.

>>19153
>world class programmer
>Very audible mirth.
What exactly are you laughing at? As with any other skill set there's a bell curve of ability, and those at the far edge are as deserving of respect as any other science.
>> No. 19157 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:01 pm
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>>19156
I'm sure they are deserving of respect, but that post carried an unspoken assumption that the above specialsnowflakesperglad was among their number.
>> No. 19158 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:11 pm
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My own personal /101/ for the day is that there's some lovely sunlight coming through the windows, along with the fine smell of what distinctly seems to be lemon haze smoke, but I have a bjj class at six, a kickboxing class at seven and then today is push day at gym - which all mean that I can't also go and sit out on the grass by the river and take drugs and pop open a few cans of Polish lager. And all of that makes me very jealous indeed. So there.
>> No. 19159 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:13 pm
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>>19157

New 101: people who don't know the difference between an assumption and an implication but still get het up about people being smarter than them.
>> No. 19160 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:26 pm
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Seriously what the fuck even is a situational judgement test.
>> No. 19161 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:26 pm
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Seriously what the fuck even is a situational judgement test.
>> No. 19162 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:27 pm
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Seriously what the fuck even is a situational judgement test.
>> No. 19163 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:29 pm
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>>19159
Let us know when you find one.
>> No. 19164 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:36 pm
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>>19162
Means they give you a scenario and you tell them what you'd do next.
>> No. 19165 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>19160
>>19161
>>19162
I know they're really annoying, but they're basically supposed to gauge what you would do. They don't generally have absolutely right or wrong answers, but some will be more right or wrong than others. They typically give better results than non-specific psychometrics.
>> No. 19166 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 1:43 pm
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>>19164
Going back a few years now, I had an interview for a secondary school that was fairly prestigious and historically a nautical school. During the interview they asked what I would do were I on a small boat that had developed a large hole in the bottom and was letting water in. The obvious answer - and the one they wanted - was that I would get someone (preferably hefty) to sit over the hole, but I was far too amused with the idea of a giant comedy cork à la Looney Tunes and gave that as my answer instead.

I ended up at a shit secondary school instead.
>> No. 19167 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>19153
>Very audible mirth.

>>19156
>What exactly are you laughing at? As with any other skill set there's a bell curve of ability, and those at the far edge are as deserving of respect as any other science.

Most people in the industry believe that programmers have an exceptionally broad range of ability, from people with good degrees who can't write even trivial programs to virtuosi who can single-handedly transform a company.

Research in the late 60s and early 70s showed a number of surprising results about developer productivity. The best programmers were found to be orders of magnitude better than the worst. It was found that adding more developers to a team could actually reduce net productivity, as adding developers geometrically increases the burden of intra-team communication but only linearly increases output. Software design and management was found to be very much unlike other engineering disciplines, because of the importance of discovering appropriate abstractions, the disproportionate impact of minor errors on code quality and the difficulty in avoiding errors simply through rigorous management. A merely average performer could have a net-negative impact on an exceptionally good team.

As a result, the industry adopted something of a Stakhanovite ethic, as companies realised that a small team of super-productive developers was vastly more useful than a larger team of mediocre performers. Avoiding bad apples becomes absolutely crucial, hence the emphasis on proven ability via sample code - you can blag good qualifications or a good CV, but you can't fake actually doing the work. Frenetic competition for the best talent pushed up compensation in the Valley, which eventually trickled out to other centres of excellence (NY, London, both Cambridges). Companies aren't charities, they don't exist to dole out jobs to whoever 'deserves' one, they exist to deliver shareholder value. A 24/7 obsessive delivers a lot more value than someone who just fills a chair. Being a well-rounded human being doesn't make you a better developer.
>> No. 19168 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>19166

"Get someone to sit over the hole"? What the fuck? Any arsehole knows that you're supposed to heave-to, start using the bilge pump, send a DSC alert and a Securité message on the VHF and repair your fucking hull.
>> No. 19169 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:23 pm
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We've recently had a reshuffle in the office. Someone thought it would be hilarious to sit two Phils opposite each other and put four Steves around the same bank of desks.
>> No. 19170 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:32 pm
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>>19168
Calm down, dear, it was a dinghy.
>> No. 19171 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:47 pm
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>>19167
>Being a well-rounded human being doesn't make you a better developer
To what end do you think the two are mutually exclusive? As seems to be the case of at least one poster in this thread, who is going further than dismissing formal qualifications and actually deeming them a negative quality in a programmer. I'm all for slagging off Qualification Fever, but I do believe formal schooling is still an important thing.
>> No. 19172 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 2:47 pm
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>>19170

Sitting down in the hole still isn't going to do anything.
>> No. 19173 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>19172
Then the giant ACME cork was right?
>> No. 19174 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 3:48 pm
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>>19167
People keep trotting this out, but it simply isn't true. Certainly not these days, if it ever was. The state of the art is that there is no objective measure of productivity by which anyone can be "orders of magnitude" better than anyone else, and none is likely to come about any time soon. We do know that building software is a strange game, even moreso now than it was half a century ago. The reality is that just as those with capabilities in the extreme are in very small minorities, so are the projects that need them. We now know that on larger projects, decomposition and communication are critical, and someone who regards themselves as a special snowflake, justified or not, will present a net cost to a project by way of the problems caused by communicating with them. Most importantly, the "order of magnitude" thing isn't specific to software. Studies have found that the effect is more or less universal. There will be tax inspectors who are an order of magnitude above their peers, but nobody expects them to do tax inspecting in their spare time.

Have a look at The Leprechauns of Software Engineering for a more thorough analysis of the "10x" thing. Recent studies have suggested that many in apdtware have a wrong-headed view of what productivity even is, observing a disconnect between what people view as productive and the time they describe as productive. That is to say, the things that were claimed to hurt productivity were just as present in time periods that were perceived as productive as those perceived as unproductive.

The long and short of it is that in 2015 it simply isn't valid to insist that anyone that works for you should first work for free, which is what you say when you demand things like open source contribution. Many perfectly capable gainfully employed programmers aren't working for business which pay them to produce open source. I for one couldn't produce a sample of my current work if I wanted to - my contract explicitly forbids it. Whatever my other flaws, I'm not going to start leaking confidential information just to get another job.
>> No. 19175 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 3:56 pm
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Fucking nerds piss me off, dunno' about you guys.
>> No. 19176 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 4:11 pm
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Some bint who happens to be gay, but I wouldn't call her a gay bint obvs on my facebook feed is complaining because, although it is good that Iceman is gay Jean Grey was wrong to telepathically out him.

Some cishet shitlord has said something to the effect of 'his sexuality doesn't effect his superheroism, so what's the big deal. I don't see sexuality/race/helicopter-status.

She replied saying that he's never experienced negativity due to his race/sexuality. I was going to reply, saying that greater representation of bumder superheroes in children's comic books is exactly what's keeping the gay person down, but I didn't want to patriarchally opress her.

At what age does it stop being ok to like comics? Obviously nobody over the age of 15 should be trying to intellectualise comic books.

Ultimate Colossus was gay way before Gay Iceman was, so it's not even that edgy anymore.
>> No. 19177 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 4:24 pm
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>>19176

>Obviously nobody over the age of 15 should be trying to intellectualise comic books.

You say that, but that's exactly what the writers try to do. Everyone thinks they're Alan Moore even when writing Batgirl material aimed at prepubescents.
>> No. 19178 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 4:27 pm
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>>19177

Yeah, but they're writing it. I'll bet the guys that wrote Noddy would try and tell you how it was actually all religious allegory based on the book of Job.

I'm talking more about cunts at parties with bachelors degrees who talk about comic book trivia like it's fine art.
>> No. 19179 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 4:43 pm
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>>19176
>At what age does it stop being ok to like comics?
In all honesty, I don't think there is one. I'd say it's perfectly acceptable to like comic books until you die at a ripe old age of natural causes. What I will say, though, is that the age at which it should stop being okay to wear tee-shirts with comic book references on, publicly finger-bum-wank over the next Marvel film and generally base your life around being a comic book / sci-fi / fantasy fan in as outspoken a way as possible should be somewhere between zero and starting puberty.
>> No. 19180 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 5:16 pm
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>>19179
It's a broad form with lots of scope for high art, but also lots of scope for low art (which leads to an awful lot of it - see the mid-90s).
>> No. 19182 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 6:58 pm
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>>19176

Could you not fill your post with memes, please? It's made it almost unreadable.

Anyway, the ingrown hair/ big white head in my pubes burst and it smells. I thought I posted about it pre-bursting earlier on, but I can't find it anywhere. Perhaps the mods found it distasteful?

P.S. I'm not as disgusting as this repugnant turn of events would suggest, honest.
>> No. 19183 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 7:50 pm
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I have no idea why my local bus company bothers with a timetable, given they can't stick to it for toffee. Earlier today I had a bus reach the turnaround five minutes after it was due to head back, at which point the driver thought that might be a good time to stop for a fag.
>> No. 19184 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 7:54 pm
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>>19179

On the money. Sage for adding nothing of value.
>> No. 19185 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 7:58 pm
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>>19182

Mercy. Go and shower, then disinfect the area.
>> No. 19186 Anonymous
23rd April 2015
Thursday 8:13 pm
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>>19185

Yeah, did that after the bleeding stopped, to the best of my abilities at least.

Assuming there's still a an ingrown hair there, what do I do about it?

Sage for /fat/.
>> No. 19188 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 5:42 pm
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I have a new phone, but can't remember the pseudo-random wifi passphrase (that's what the "remember key" feature is for). I figure I can grab it from my Superhub's config screens, but it seems that Virgin have pushed out an update that requires you to enter the WPS PIN to log in, so now I've got to traipse over to the router to find the fucking number.
>> No. 19189 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 6:02 pm
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Is this what you lads were on about?

>Pictured: Diversity officer who banned whites from her 'anti-racism' event at British university wiping away fake tear in front of 'no white men' sign

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3054067/Pictured-Diversity-officer-banned-whites-anti-racism-event-British-university-wiping-away-fake-tear-no-white-men-sign.html
>> No. 19190 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 6:08 pm
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>>19189

I wish I was an ethnic minority so I kick people who are basically white out of the club.
>> No. 19191 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 6:13 pm
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>>19189
But she's white too. How does this make sense?
>> No. 19192 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 6:33 pm
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>>19191
QUIT MANSPLAINING.
>> No. 19193 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 7:18 pm
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>>19191
From her name, she's Arab, m8.
>> No. 19194 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 7:48 pm
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>>19193
So... She can't be white?
>> No. 19195 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 8:50 pm
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I ordered something called "Balti chips", and it's just chips sprinkled with curry powder. I don't know what I expected. Of course, that was part of the joy to begin with.
>> No. 19196 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 10:08 pm
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>>19194

No, she's a woman.

Only a misogynist prick like you would boil an issue like race down to something as insignificant of the colour of a person's skin.

Being white means you are an oppressor, and that means having a penis that you feel comfortable with and enjoy putting consensually in a partner's vagina. You pig.
>> No. 19197 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 11:05 pm
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>>19196
In his attempt to do some hilARIous trolling, this lad has managed to hit upon some truth:
>boil an issue like race down to something as insignificant of the colour of a person's skin.
Quite right. To approach race in this way is facile.
>> No. 19198 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 11:13 pm
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>>19197
>Quite right. To approach race in this way is facile.
Who does see race as skin deep?
>> No. 19199 Anonymous
24th April 2015
Friday 11:14 pm
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>>19197
If someone who looks white isn't white, then it is just stupid.
>> No. 19200 Anonymous
25th April 2015
Saturday 2:50 pm
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I wasn't able to sleep at all last night, I just stayed up until around 8am flitting in and out of tiny naps and now my heart is going crazy and I feel sick as a dog. I was meant to clean the whole house today before my housemate comes back after a month away and I'm in that strange limbo where my brain is awake but my body is knackered from lack of sleep. The place is a fucking tip too. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.
>> No. 19201 Anonymous
26th April 2015
Sunday 10:21 am
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My right arm feels funny. I'm used to my left arm feeling funny, but my right arm is a new experience.

I'll miss you scum, when I'm gone.
>> No. 19202 Anonymous
26th April 2015
Sunday 10:30 am
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>>19199
There's plenty of paupers who don't look white because they need a really good wash.
>> No. 19205 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 5:41 pm
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I've got a great big tongue ulcer and while, mercifully, it doesn't hurt, its size is such that my tongue feels too large for my mouth.
>> No. 19206 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 6:30 pm
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>>19205
That sounds so hot.
>> No. 19207 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 9:43 pm
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I woke up this morning with a big scratch on my eyeball and I'm in bloody agony.
>> No. 19208 Anonymous
27th April 2015
Monday 11:42 pm
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Yesterday I was yawning on a funny angle and one of my abdominal muscles popped underneath my ribcage. It hurt a little bit and felt weird as fuck. To pop it back out again was strangely soothing, but the majority of the experience was unpleasant.
>> No. 19209 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 2:45 am
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>>19208

Chances are you've torn either the cartilage or an intercostal muscle. If you generally do any kind of strenuous exercise, don't for a while. From my own miserable experience you can quite easily turn a tiny tear into a great big one which makes it impossible to take a shit or even get up off the sofa without your rib painfully popping in and out of position.
>> No. 19210 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 4:43 am
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People who cheat in pub quizzes and don't try to hide it then end up winning.

Cheating in quizzes is fine, just don't have your phone out for the entire quiz with your teammates all huddled around you. At least be subtle like go to the bogs and look up the answer or look at your phone on your lap.
>> No. 19211 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 8:57 am
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>>19210
If they weren't trying to hide it how'd they not get disqualified? Didn't the guvnor spot them?
>> No. 19212 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 11:30 am
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>>19210
On the same note, people who take pub quizzes far too seriously. My local used to run them Tuesdays and there was a morbidly obese woman there every week who would get incredibly, noisily competitive about the whole thing. It was a complete pain in the arse if you were just trying to have a pint and a chat.

She was one of the most irritating people I've ever met, come to think of it.
>> No. 19213 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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Dear Google,

Please stop turning my fucking search history back on after I've repeatedly turned the fucking thing off.

That is all.
>> No. 19214 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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>>19213
Stop using Google.
>> No. 19215 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>19214
As soon as someone does a better job. Which they won't any time soon.
>> No. 19216 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>19214
Fuck off.
>> No. 19217 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:21 pm
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>>19216
What's your problem?
>> No. 19218 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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>>19215
No, but things like Startpage.com exist.
>> No. 19219 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:32 pm
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>>19215

Use Startpage.com. The results are fetched from Google's index, but go through an anonymising proxy that doesn't keep any logs of user activity.
>> No. 19220 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:32 pm
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>>19218

Jinx.
>> No. 19221 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:33 pm
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>>19218
That's an interesting idea of "better" you have there.
>> No. 19222 Anonymous
28th April 2015
Tuesday 9:34 pm
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>>19216

Oh, maplad.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 19224 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 6:20 am
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>>19221
The same quality of results but with added privacy? Sounds better to me. If you want a more conventional kind of 'better at being a search engine', I've found Ixquick.com (the owners of startpage) often gives me more useful results than Google does, because it searches multiple engines, and that also has the bonus of the same privacy.
>> No. 19225 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>19224
>The same quality of results
I'm sure they're happy you believe their sales pitch.
>> No. 19226 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 1:54 pm
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>>19215
I mean... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bing-it-on-microsoft-puts-its-search-engine-to-the-test-as-it-goes-up-against-google--with-surprising-results-8871305.html
>> No. 19227 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:02 pm
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>>19226
Great. Now if they could do the same for every other one of Google's services there'd be a good case for switching.
>> No. 19228 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:25 pm
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>>19225

Startpage.com doesn't give you 'the same quality of results', it gives you the same results, because they use Google's engine via an API. The only difference in results is that Startpage don't track users and don't pass any identifying data on to Google, so you don't get personalised results. Try it for yourself in an Incognito tab - you'll get almost exactly the same results for any given search string.
>> No. 19229 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:26 pm
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>>19227

I can't think of a single other Google service that works without collecting vast amounts of user data. How do you implement Gmail without having access to a user's messages? How do you implement Drive without storing the user's files? It's almost tautological.
>> No. 19230 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:31 pm
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>>19228
>so you don't get personalised results.
Then they're clearly not offering the same quality, are they?
>> No. 19231 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:37 pm
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>>19229
While they've apparently committed to making switching easier, I can't see Google simply handing all of that data over to Microsoft for them to improve their competing products.
>> No. 19232 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:38 pm
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>>19230

So you want results based on your personal data, without the collection of your personal data. Sounds reasonable to me.
>> No. 19233 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 2:52 pm
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>>19232
Erm, no. Who said that?
>> No. 19234 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 3:55 pm
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>>19232

As you can see, the person you're talking to is just being a giant cunt. They want results based on their personal data, with the collection of their personal data, and they also want to tantrum over them doing it without actually doing anything about it.
>> No. 19235 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 4:03 pm
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>>19234
>> No. 19236 Anonymous
29th April 2015
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>19232
Original complainer here. You have the wrong end of the stick entirely. "Search history" has nothing to do with whether or not Google personalise their search results - they continue to do so even with it turned off. "Search history" makes your searches available everywhere else, so that the things you searched for on desktop generate results on your phone in Maps, the Play Store, Now cards, etc.
>> No. 19238 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 3:00 am
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How the fuck is this not child abuse?

It blows my mind how people can justify this shit to themselves.
>> No. 19239 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 3:18 am
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>>19238

I can't possibly see that child growing up as anything but a serial killer. The first comment just about sums it up:

>When did the world become an abusurdist thought experiment?
>> No. 19240 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 8:45 am
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>>19239
That's a strange way to think in a world with so much child abuse and so few serial killers.
>> No. 19241 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 8:51 am
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>>19240
He didn't mean an actual serial.killer mate, he meant 'fucked up' in general.
>> No. 19242 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 8:52 am
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>>19239
All the comments on reddit are positive and supported. Absolute madness.
>> No. 19243 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 10:02 am
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People posting /pol/ threads in the "Minor rants and piss-offs" thread.
>> No. 19244 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 11:53 am
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>>19242
Why do you feel the need to lie or spread trivially falsifiable information? I know, it's because you're a lazy thinker and/or writer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gender_Critical/comments/3447tj/im_planning_to_sterilize_my_seven_year_old_son/
>> No. 19245 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 12:34 pm
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>>19244
http://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/33vzo7/is_it_a_weird_idea_to_freeze_my_eggs_for_my_young/


>[–]flyingmountain 25 points 4 days ago
>It's really sweet and thoughtful that you're considering this.

You fucking cunt.
>> No. 19246 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 12:36 pm
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Save the Children. I don't care how many of the migrants drowning in the Mediterranean were children. I don't care how many of those who died in the Nepal earthquakes were children. People dying is bad, you don't need to embellish it.
>> No. 19247 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 1:44 pm
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Subreddits like these are always full of fucking nutters.

Expecting /r/transgender to be negative about any kind of trans issue is like expecting /r/atheism to concede that god might exist. No matter which end of whatever political or sociological spectrum you sit at, the crazies are always the most vocal. A feedback loop occurs, where any non-radical views are castigated, and before you know it you arrive at >>19245

Is there a term for this, where communities become radicalised by this kind of self-amplifying confirmation bias? It's such a widely observable occurrence and is so frequent these days that I'm surprised I've not heard of one.
>> No. 19248 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>19245
You missed the point entirely. You said "all the comments on [R]eddit", but in reality you were talking about most of the comments in one thread on one sub-reddit. That's like taking one post on gs that everyone disagreed with but nonetheless representing it as the opinion of the entire userbase. It's really not difficult to refer specifically to /r/asktransgender and not the entirety of a millions-strong community platform.
>> No. 19249 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 2:51 pm
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>>19247

Whatever we call it, the upvoting system on Reddit accelerates the process like nothing else.

It's funny how we've self-organised into these discrete communities.
>> No. 19250 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 3:20 pm
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>>19248
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect something to have only been posted once on the same website.
>> No. 19251 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 3:54 pm
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>>19250
Reddit is divided into "subreddits", which cover any topic imaginable and house entirely distinct communities. Consequently, it is, on the contrary, unreasonable to expect that highly politically/socially contentious content will only be posted once on the website.
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30th April 2015
Thursday 9:52 pm
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I never thought I'd be the one to defend this sort of thing, but it doesn't seem quite as deplorable as it is being made out to be. Maybe I am missing something here.

There are valid concerns about the child being able to decide that they actually want to transition, that they are not being influenced by the mother. To transition, the kid would be sterilised as a side effect of the hormone treatments in the transition and undergo an altered puberty. I think the Theroux doc stressed that physically it is better to transition before hitting puberty. The problem with these cases is that amongst genuine cases of kids who will not grow out of wanting to be a different gender, there will be kids who enjoy the attention or are going through a phase or parents who are pushing a 'progressive' narrative harmfully onto their children.

Its not too uncommon for any woman to freeze eggs and have them kept for a duration. There would be a surrogate mother for the egg later down the line and from there the transitioned first child will raise a surrogate sibling as their own child.

I can see the appeal to the mother, as with probably many parents whose progeny either cannot or will not have children, that they, perhaps selfishly, do not want their lineage to die out. This seems to be an albeit bizarre mechanism for that to happen, as opposed to an adoption or similar.
>> No. 19254 Anonymous
30th April 2015
Thursday 11:27 pm
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>>19253

> The problem with these cases is that amongst genuine cases of kids who will not grow out of wanting to be a different gender, there will be kids who enjoy the attention or are going through a phase or parents who are pushing a 'progressive' narrative harmfully onto their children.

Exactly. The mind boggling bit is how people seem to genuinely not get that part. The very first thing I think upon reading about stuff like this is "But the kid's fucking seven. When I was seven I wanted to be a dragon."

No matter how progressive you are, you have to pay attention to the fact that a child is a child, and a child is fundamentally stupid, by definition- That's why they aren't allowed to do things like drive, vote, drink, buy lottery tickets, or countless numbers of other things. They aren't of sound, rational mind, because their minds have not even fully developed yet.

That's why the bit about altering the child's puberty deeply concerns me, it's a point of no return- Fair enough, the kid may be trans. I'm not disputing this on any kind of ideological "hurr bloody poofs and trannies" level. But there is no fucking way on earth you can convince me that a seven year old child fully understands the implications of declaring themselves to be a different gender, and going through the procedures required to make the transition permanent.

Again, it's not that I don't accept a child could be trans, I just think it has got to be incredibly rare and a majority of these cases are more parental influence than anything else, so for that reason alone I can't get behind it. Just imagine the misery it's going to cause if one day as an adult, you come to the painful realisation that mummy was so desperate for another daughter she got your willy cut off, and ever since then you've lived as a fake woman. A child has to do what it's parent tells them, after all, just look at all those fucking child beauty pageant things on TV- It doesn't take cynicism as extreme as mine to imagine similarly vicarious parenting applied to gender politics.
>> No. 19256 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 2:48 am
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>>19254
>Again, it's not that I don't accept a child could be trans
I find it amusing that you keep on reiterating this point.
>> No. 19257 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 3:05 am
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>>19256
I find it heartening.
>> No. 19258 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 3:14 am
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>>19257
You don't find nice people like that on the internet any more.
>> No. 19259 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 9:55 am
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>>19256
I'm assuming he did so because there are crazies out there who can't parse arguments properly and will say that e.g. pointing out that as a nation with an ancient legal system with statutes older than Brucie on the books we should have taken more care to properly review the law on marriage before rushing in changes to it makes you homophobic, as happened to one candidate recently.
>> No. 19260 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 10:14 am
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>>19258
Yes, can't go anywhere without finding child abusers on the Internet.
>> No. 19261 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:15 am
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>>19260
There's a lot of perverts on the Internet, you know.
>> No. 19262 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:21 am
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That mother seems entirely correct to do what she's doing and I imagine a lot of trans women had mothers like her.
>> No. 19263 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:23 am
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>>19262

*wish they had

Sorry, phone posting.
>> No. 19264 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:28 am
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>>19262
>trans women
>7 year old girl/boy/hybrid

No.
>> No. 19265 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:34 am
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>>19264

That must be in the top 20 monosyllabic arguments I've ever heard, well done.
>> No. 19266 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 11:58 am
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>>19265
Feel free to provide a longer justification for mutilating your seven year old child without an evidential basis for doing so.
>> No. 19267 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 12:48 pm
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>>19266

As far as I know no one is being "mutilated", and the treatments for preteen trans kids are entirely reversible.
>> No. 19268 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 12:52 pm
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>>19267
Breaking a kids leg is reversible too.

>But he'll be bullied for his height and he feels he should be taller!
>> No. 19269 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 1:01 pm
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>>19268

I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, you poor unfortunate soul.

There's absolutely no physical harm being done to this child, nor is there psychological damage being inflicted, no matter how much you wish it were. The only real damage inflicted on trans people comes from half-mad loons like you telling them they're mentally ill for feeling how they do.
>> No. 19270 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 1:12 pm
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>>19269
I strongly contest that messing with a child's hormones is not physical harm.

>nor is there psychological damage being inflicted
Tell me that when they've hanged themselves, more than half of all transgender under 20s attempt it at least once.

>The only real damage inflicted on trans people comes from half-mad loons like you telling them they're mentally ill for feeling how they do.
We're not talking about trans people, we're talking about trans children and what their parents do to them.

Fucking enrages me, you've got no fucking humanity at all.

I haven't called anyone mentally ill, by the way.
>> No. 19271 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 1:41 pm
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>>19267
You might want to read the blog post in question.
>> No. 19272 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 5:16 pm
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>>19245
> I found a great transgender-friendly therapist who I've already met with and talked to at length.
>transgender-friendly
This makes me wonder. They do make sure the kid at least sees more than one psychiatrist before allowing this sort of treatment, right?

And if you're in the mood for some deeply unsettling reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
>> No. 19273 Anonymous
1st May 2015
Friday 5:18 pm
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>>19272
I often spring this on cunts who bang on about how great child circumcision is.
>> No. 19281 Anonymous
2nd May 2015
Saturday 3:17 am
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I just rubbed my head and sniffed my fingers and it smells like curry powder.
>> No. 19282 Anonymous
2nd May 2015
Saturday 3:39 am
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>>19269

>nor is there psychological damage being inflicted, no matter how much you wish it were. The only real damage inflicted on trans people comes from half-mad loons like you telling them they're mentally ill for feeling how they do.

So what you're saying is that there is a chance of psychological damage caused by half-mad loons?

That post on Reddit is fucking NUTS mate especially since in the future we will have much better ways of transitioning from male to female or the other way around, heck I remember reading that someone recently got a knob stuck onto them, so why not let the child grow up (at least let it get to its teenage years) before trying to turn them into a girl.

I mean come on lad.

Come on.
>> No. 19283 Anonymous
2nd May 2015
Saturday 4:27 pm
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>>19272
'transgender friendly therapist' means 'someone who says what I wanted to hear.'
>> No. 19285 Anonymous
2nd May 2015
Saturday 5:37 pm
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Make a new thread!

This thread's for when you spill Iron Bru all over yourself or notice you've been overcharged for a pen.
>> No. 19286 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 4:40 am
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I took advantage of the rain and tried to clear my balcony, though by the end it just seemed like I was merely smearing pigeon shit all over it. Why did I choose to live in a tower block again?
>> No. 19287 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 8:18 am
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>>19285
I bought some pineapple juice from Co-op because they said it was half price, but when I looked at the receipt at home they'd charged me full whack. The bastards.
>> No. 19288 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 9:11 am
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>>19287

Are you sure there isn't a bit at the bottom with "Savings" on it? That's the way they normally do it for some fucking reason.
>> No. 19289 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 10:12 am
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>>19288
It didn't, unfortunately. The only reason I shop at Co-op is because they do NUS discount.
>> No. 19290 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 11:30 am
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>>19286

A height induced sense of superiority?
>> No. 19291 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 12:17 pm
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>>19289
What tends to happen at co-op is that when offers end or begin, they change all the labels during the day while they're open.
So either the offer on the juice had just ended or would have started the next day.

/101/ for this entire bank holiday weekend: 24 fucking hour news coverage of a single baby.
>> No. 19292 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 7:52 pm
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Who the heck watches snooker? It's a sport for serial killers and the criminally insane, no doubt.
>> No. 19293 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>19292

It's a nice quiet sport.
>> No. 19294 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 8:00 pm
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>>19292
I was watching it the other day. Quite relaxing at midnight with a beer.

Judd Trump has some moves.
>> No. 19295 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 8:08 pm
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>>19293>>19294

Nutty, the both of you.
>> No. 19296 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 8:11 pm
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>>19295
I also enjoy watching snooker. Or I did back when I watched TV.

(Except for that cunt Hendry, like watching paint dry he was.)
>> No. 19297 Anonymous
3rd May 2015
Sunday 8:35 pm
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>>19293

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvULc4W7jHs
>> No. 19298 Anonymous
4th May 2015
Monday 8:38 am
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Phone alarms should come with a "don't go off at the usual time on a weekday if it's a bank holiday Monday" feature.
>> No. 19299 Anonymous
4th May 2015
Monday 11:46 am
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TV with multiple people invited on to argue about something, and they end up just blathering all over each other
>> No. 19301 Anonymous
4th May 2015
Monday 11:38 pm
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>>19298
Buy a better phone/learn how to use your phone.
>> No. 19302 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 3:12 am
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>>19298
apps that exceed 50MB

Facebook is a cunt for this. Not only that it forces messenger upon you which makes it about 100MB even though for a brief moment it allowed me to use chat without it installed and then decided to stop working. You can't move it over to the SD card either.

Sage because it's my fault for using a phone that only has 200MB of internal storage when I should really upgrade.

On a lesser note, when people say memory and storage is synonymous even though it's only slightly correct though both have different purposes.
>> No. 19303 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 3:19 am
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>>19302
Yeah, you can't really get annoyed by this in 2015. 8GB is really the minimum storage you want these days. Can't you just use the mobile site anyway?
>> No. 19304 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 6:42 am
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>>19302
I don't have messenger installed, I just go on Facebook via Chrome if someone messages me.
>> No. 19305 Anonymous
5th May 2015
Tuesday 5:56 pm
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I wanted to try something with the live election results as they come in, but the Guardian switched their feed of in March and nothing else seems to be available freely. Curse the PA for locking this stuff up.
>> No. 19306 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 10:58 am
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>>19303
Tried the facebook lite app which served me well but much like the mobile browser it does not alert me to notifications and messengers unless I go on the site.

A year ago this wouldn't be an issue but now I need constant and current notifications as my social life has increased. Same reason I need my email to be synced as I kind of need to read my emails ASAP. So back onto the official app. Again it's totally my fault for being too lazy to upgrade to something reasonable and make no excuses. It's just a bit of a ball ache than I can essentially only have three or four apps. For a brief amount of time I had to delete facebook's official app to install tinder and use the lite app.

It was a pleasure to see that Uber (something I have yet to use) is only 50KBs. I do need to research what exactly goes into the size of apps. I have experience creating an android app (was not great having such an old phone which refused to install on it due to size limitations therefore it had only existed on an emulator) for one of my uni classes and it was a simple media player created to meet the requirements of an assignment which amounted to 15MBs. I'm somewhat interested in how Uber (which is as far as I can tell has a bit more packed into it than my app) is such a small size meanwhile facebook with messenger is 100MB. I'll have to guess that a lot of developers don't compress or optimize their apps. Also I have a battery app that amounts to 3MB and solitaire that is roughly 200KB. How exactly do the assets of the app determine the total size?
>> No. 19307 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 11:54 am
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>>19306
>but now I need constant and current notifications as my social life has increased
Really? Did I imagine this lack of perspective or did it really happen?
>> No. 19308 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 4:11 pm
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>>19306

The size is devoted mainly to all the spyware, adware and analytics to leech as much of your precious personal data as possible.

Baffles me too how such a simple concept of an app can be so big and slow, even on top of the line hardware. Inb4 programmerlad comes in to defend himself and his maggot colleagues because "B-but programming is hard and phones are complicated!"
>> No. 19309 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 6:25 pm
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>>19307
What are you on about?
>> No. 19310 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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>>19309
Apparently some people's lives would be a living hell without instant Facebook notifications 24/7.
>> No. 19311 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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One of the women I work with has spent weeks boasting that her little Luka has won a poetry competition and will have his poem published in a book. Now she's complaining that she has to spend over £20 on a copy because she thought she'd get a few free books as the prize.

Fuck you, Debbie, you stupid fat twat.
>> No. 19312 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 6:46 pm
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>>19311
Not so much stupid as out of date. For things like that, getting a copy of the published work used to be standard. I guess these days they're too cheap to do something like that.
>> No. 19313 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 7:35 pm
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>>19312

The poetry "competition" has been a standard ploy for vanity publishers for decades. Anyone who submits a vaguely legible entry "wins" the opportunity to have their poem published in an overpriced anthology.
>> No. 19314 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>19313

One of my best friends is a published poet. It's the last thing you would expect of him if you sat down and had a convo with him. He is truly an enigma.
>> No. 19315 Anonymous
6th May 2015
Wednesday 10:17 pm
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>>19314
What are you getting at? You sound dull.
>> No. 19316 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 12:00 am
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My thumb feels weird.
>> No. 19317 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 12:19 am
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>>19315

Not everything has an angle, sometimes people post tertiary information with no agenda. You sound autistic.
>> No. 19318 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 2:37 am
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>>19317
What's that? Like the tramp at the bus stop talking aloud to nobody?
>> No. 19319 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 2:49 am
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>>19318

Who you talking to, fella? You lost? Do you know where you're going? I can wait with you if you like to make sure you get on the right bus?
>> No. 19320 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 3:00 am
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>>19319
"Please don't touch me there again. I can't poopoo if you touch me there again. :("
>> No. 19321 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 2:57 pm
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"-shaming"
>> No. 19322 Anonymous
7th May 2015
Thursday 4:36 pm
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>>19321
Don't remind me.
>> No. 19323 Anonymous
9th May 2015
Saturday 11:08 am
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I've spent the past two or three weeks on and off organising my subscriptions into lovely channels that I could watch and browse. I'm struggling to understand why this feature would be removed?

Into /101/ because it's not that important, but I've been trying to utilise YouTube more and this is the only way I could keep track of the channels I really wanted to watch. A little annoying.
>> No. 19324 Anonymous
9th May 2015
Saturday 3:20 pm
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Why are marbles called as such when they're made of glass?

Just what kind of anti-logic, psycho-trickery is going on here!?
>> No. 19325 Anonymous
9th May 2015
Saturday 3:32 pm
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>>19324

They are marbled.
>> No. 19326 Anonymous
9th May 2015
Saturday 3:33 pm
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>>19324
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=marbles+etymology

Quite interesting really.
>> No. 19327 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 10:59 am
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>>19323
It'll no doubt be because nobody (in percentage terms) uses them. It looks like Collections were never supported by the API so it seems obvious they never enjoyed first class support. This of course makes it difficult for you to migrate your data away from YouTube itself and onto a supporting service. Have a look at the major YouTube addons/userscripts to see if they offer the missing functionality. It'd be a glaring omission if they don't.

AFAICT people complain there's no My Subscriptions feature anymore because they're too stupid lazy to click the prominent My Subscriptions link.
>> No. 19328 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 11:25 am
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>>19323
I just saw this and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
>> No. 19329 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:07 pm
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I have just watched a grown adult knock a door by lifting the knocker and letting it drop as if it were a Newton's cradle.
>> No. 19330 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:21 pm
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>I hate it when threads get too long to comfortably load in their entirety.
>1450 posts and 73 images omitted
>1450
>> No. 19331 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:28 pm
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>>19329
So you mean that they let go of the knocker having raised it and they then relied on gravity to sufficiently accelerate it towards the contact plate? Rather than providing most of the force themselves?

Well, that's how I'd use a door knocker too. Or rather that's how I'd use a particular knocker for the first time. I'd then evaluate whether I was satisfied the resultant sound was loud enough to summon the inhabitants of the dwelling before me. If I were unsatisfied I'd adjust my technique accordingly for a second knock.

And observing this happen annoyed you, did it?
>> No. 19332 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:46 pm
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Tedious posts like >>19331.
>> No. 19333 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:54 pm
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>>19332
Hah! Because I disagreed with you and could justify the behaviour you found puzzling I'm being tedious? Or am I wrong? Is it just the topic under discussion? Because you raised it, not me.
>> No. 19334 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 3:55 pm
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>>19331
This is the minor annoyances thread.
>> No. 19336 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:05 pm
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>>19334
No fucking shit. I was unaware that people felt so strongly about door-knocking techniques such that they'd post about it on a forum. I was unaware people thought that proper technique existed. I just wasn't aware. I'm interested. I'm asking questions. You guys seem to be suggesting that I'm not supposed to. We're just supposed to accept that some things annoy some people and not question it at all, are we?

/101/ the circlejerk where questions are perceived as dissent and dissent is discouraged. Well I never. Have you ever even seen Room 101?
>> No. 19337 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:07 pm
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>>19335

I am prescribing a wank and a nap for a diagnosis of stick up the butt. Please take both soonest.
>> No. 19338 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:09 pm
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>>19336

That you think this is some sort of Room 101 style forum for debate is precious. There are hundreds of posts in this threads with no replies or simply "Yeah, that annoys me too."

If they wanted to have to debate it, they would have made a separate thread not posted it in a thread which is here to bitch about petty vagaries.

Autism [x]
>> No. 19339 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:11 pm
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>>1Pull handles on doors you need to push.
>> No. 19340 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:13 pm
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>>19336
>Have you ever even seen Room 101?
Said without a hint of irony too.
>> No. 19341 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:27 pm
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>>19338
>That you think this is some sort of Room 101 style forum for debate is precious.
I don't. I know what this thread is for. FWIW I posted it.

>If they wanted to have to debate it, they would have made a separate thread
Or if they weren't really sure whether anyone gave a flying fuck, they'd hedge their bets by posting in this thread and would be satisfied with a reply or two. You cite the countless examples where annoyances have gone unanswered, but ignore the many where that isn't the case. And nobody is suggesting he had to debate it. He could have ignored my post if he wasn't interested. If you'd both done that we'd not be sitting here now having what I agree is a tedious conversation.
>> No. 19342 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:32 pm
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>>19341
>If you'd both done that we'd not be sitting here now having what I agree is a tedious conversation.
It takes two to tango, m8.
>> No. 19343 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:33 pm
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>>19341

You disagreed it was a tedious conversation less than 10 posts ago. Imagine being so self concious about what people on the internet think that you have no conviction in your opinions.
>> No. 19344 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:55 pm
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>>19343
I was interested in discussing the proper way to operate a door knocker - or whether there even is a correct method. That offer's still there. I was not interested in debating acceptable conduct on /101/ or whether door knockers can only be mentioned in passing or in more detail than that. Those are two entirely separate conversations.

Sometimes I'd like to give you guys credit and think you purposely pretend to misunderstand what people say so you can spread confusion and disquiet. I know some people enjoy that kind of thing. The more I consider and observe the phenomenon, the more I think you're just cocksure cretins who can't read nor understand as well as you think you can. I know I'm sometimes guilty of that, but I try to avoid it by asking questions.

>>19342
You're veering dangerously close to repeating my point.
>> No. 19346 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 4:59 pm
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>>19344
>I was interested in discussing the proper way to operate a door knocker - or whether there even is a correct method.
That'll probably be why it was written off as tedious.

>You're veering dangerously close to repeating my point.
I hope not. It would be quite something if you were making that point unironically.
>> No. 19347 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 5:05 pm
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>>19346
>>I was interested in discussing the proper way to operate a door knocker - or whether there even is a correct method.
>That'll probably be why it was written off as tedious.
I repeat: he raised the matter, not me.
>> No. 19348 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 5:18 pm
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I'd almost forgotten that people here can, and will, argue about literally anything.
>> No. 19349 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 5:24 pm
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>>19347
>I repeat
... and it still isn't true.
>> No. 19350 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 6:18 pm
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>>19348
m8, that's just not true. I'm not sure where that's coming from at all.
>> No. 19351 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 6:29 pm
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>>19350
Ubiquitous:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTmBjk-M0c
>> No. 19352 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 6:40 pm
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>>19351
No it isn't, and I don't need a coat either.
>> No. 19353 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 9:01 pm
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What if the door doesn't have a knocker? I use the letterbox as a knocker.
>> No. 19354 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 9:09 pm
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>>19353
No questions (even rhetorical ones) are allowed in /101/ and it's been doubly decided that door knockers are too tedious to talk about. Sorry.
>> No. 19355 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 9:19 pm
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>>19354
Lad.
>> No. 19358 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 11:43 pm
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You have to register to use Favourites on BBC iPlayer Radio but not on BBC iPlayer.
>> No. 19359 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 11:46 pm
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Posts that keep getting deleted when I know I've seen them, making me feel crazy.
>> No. 19360 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 11:47 pm
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>You’ll find more details and a PDF version [here].

I will find more details behind a £120 paywall, will I? Is that supposed to be a joke? Cunt.
>> No. 19361 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:00 am
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>>19360
Nice one lad. I like infographic maps like these.
>> No. 19362 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:07 am
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People who delete their posts. Fucking cowards.
>> No. 19363 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:10 am
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>>19362
>> No. 19364 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:13 am
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>>19363
You think this is funny? You fucking nonce. Grow up lad. This isn't funny. Fucking cunt.
>> No. 19365 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:16 am
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>>19362

Cocking up ones grammar can land you a day long ban, why would you be brave, hardlad?

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 19366 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:18 am
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Anyone who goes on about 'growing up' in the context of a sarcastic imageboard.
>> No. 19367 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:18 am
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>>19365
This isn't even anything to do with grammar any more. It's just cunts deleting their posts for no reason. Don't make excuses for them, you fucking twat. Fuck the lot of you.
>> No. 19369 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:26 am
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>>19367
I delete a lot of my posts. There's a good chance I'm the biggest offender. I could have shared with you why I do it, but you just set alight the land I was going to build a bridge on.
>> No. 19370 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:26 am
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>>19368
I love Kristen Bell. She always cries. She cries when she is sad, she cries when she is happy, she cries when she is surprised. I always get rock hard at the mention of her name. I would sex her and lick the tears off her cheeks. Oh God.

I forgive you cowardlad.
>> No. 19371 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:27 am
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>>19370
Kristen Bell? What?
>> No. 19372 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:28 am
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>>19369
Norman Reedus looks so dirty. Even when he should look clean and fresh, with a good suit, he still looks dirty. I don't know how he does it. Apparently some women like that.

I forgive you cowardlad.
>> No. 19374 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:30 am
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>>19371
Don't start this you twat. I forgave you. Don't be a cunt. Let's hug it out. Cry for me.
>> No. 19375 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 7:49 am
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Wyke Farms cheese is on offer, but how am I supposed to know which is stronger out of extra mature cheddar and vintage cheddar? I got one of each to play it safe, but if one of them is noticeably milder than the other I will be cheesed off not best pleased.
>> No. 19376 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 10:29 am
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>>19375
I think you should open them both and then tell us which is the strongest.
>> No. 19377 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 11:52 am
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>>19376
Two cheeses open at the same time. Are you mental?
>> No. 19379 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:04 pm
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>>19377
That'd be like taking both the blue pill and the red. Just asking for trouble.
>> No. 19380 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 12:26 pm
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>>19377
>mental
No, I don't like the aftertaste.
>> No. 19381 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 3:57 pm
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>>17297

I ordered perfume on Amazon, and it got promptly cancelled because it's a "special pressurized container" and they "don't ship outside mainland UK" - what the fuck? Since when are the Midlands outside the mainland? Cunts.

I can't buy it in the shop as it's twice the price fuck sake...
>> No. 19382 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 4:09 pm
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>>19381
>Since when are the Midlands outside the mainland?
Since about 6am last Friday.
>> No. 19383 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 4:09 pm
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>>19381
Complain to them and they'll sort it out. Sounds like they misread your address somehow.
>> No. 19384 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 4:10 pm
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>>19381
Since when was perfume pressurised?
>> No. 19385 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 4:20 pm
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>>19382
Christ, thought so...

>>19383
Thats exactly it, I tried looking for someone/something to complain to and it's a convoluted mess so - I don't know, need to do more digging.

>>19384
Yeah, I don't know - it's not some pressurized cylinder I'm ordering, it's a 100mL bottle that I've taken on planes before many time without hassle.
>> No. 19386 Anonymous
12th May 2015
Tuesday 10:09 pm
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>>19382
I don't think we ever fully exited the Middle Ages so fuck knows really.
>> No. 19387 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 2:34 pm
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A passenger train crashes near Philadelphia. A former member of Congress is on board, takes some pictures and posts them to Twitter.
https://twitter.com/PatrickMurphyPA/status/598302528447651841/photo/1

The responses:
>Hope your are OK. Can I use this photo?
>can we have permission to use this photo? we will credit, Hope all are okay!
>May [we and our] licensees use your photos without limitation in all media?
>Glad you're OK. Do you mind if [we use] your photos across all platforms with credit?
>Can we use your pictures on-air and online?
>When you have time: Would you be willing to let [us] use this photo? Best wishes.
>> No. 19388 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 4:11 pm
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>>19387
Christ. Part of me isn't surprised, but all of me is disgusted.
>> No. 19389 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 4:55 pm
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>>19388
>>19387

Don't worry. Being a politician, he doesn't have any real friends, only media leeches. If it were a normal person, the situation would be different.
>> No. 19390 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 6:04 pm
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My hand smelt like sick, I washed it and it's fine now though.
>> No. 19391 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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The numpties on The One Show just referred to the upcoming vote in Ireland as "the world's first referendum on gay marriage".
>> No. 19392 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 7:55 pm
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>>19391

What vote is that?
>> No. 19393 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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>>19392
It may not have been obvious from that post, but they're having a referendum on gay marriage.
>> No. 19394 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 9:52 pm
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>>19393
Well played.
>> No. 19395 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 9:59 pm
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There's an article on the Mail about a police officer in Burundi getting attacked by protestors after she opened fire on them. The only time I felt any emotion was when I saw the pictures of the owl. I don't know if this makes me desensitised, racist or a nutter who prefers animals to humans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079461/Terrifying-moment-female-police-officer-shoots-unarmed-protesters-point-blank-range-Kalashnikov-protests-Burundi-president-s-bid-spend-term-power.html
>> No. 19396 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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>>19395
You are racist.
>> No. 19397 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>19396
Look at those savages. You've got to admit that if you saw a boat full of those bongos crossing the Mediterranean to enrich our lives you wouldn't shed a tear if it sank and they all drowned.
>> No. 19398 Anonymous
13th May 2015
Wednesday 10:26 pm
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>>19395
>> No. 19399 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 6:50 pm
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I asked in an email what the portfolio I need for a course I'm hoping to attend should consist of, but the tutor just gave me the definition for portfolio, as in the word itself. I'm marginally insulted, but a more pressing issue is how to ask again without sounding all snarky.
>> No. 19400 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 7:08 pm
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>>19399
>Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, and your clarification of the definition of portfolio. Should I infer from your description that some samples of underwater basket weaving would be acceptable? If not, please advise on the nature of the pieces that should be included, as I am conscious that your time is precious, and would not wish to waste such a valuable commodity by submitting pieces that would not be wanted.
>> No. 19401 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 7:11 pm
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>>19399
Maybe he posts here. Send him an email saying "Lad..."
>> No. 19402 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 2:17 am
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The shop won't open for 8 hours and I need chocolate milk and donuts now.

Why is it only at 2AM that I get desires for food I never think to buy at any other time? And on a Sunday of all days.
>> No. 19403 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 2:35 am
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>>19402
Order a pizza worth £8, and tell them to get you chocolate milk and doughnuts. I once did this, and they did it for me. The delivery lad tried to hide the Tesco plastic bag when he arrived. He wanted to make it seem like they sold it at their shop.
>> No. 19404 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 2:38 am
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>>19403

But no local provider of chocolate milk and donuts is open, not to myself or pizza delivery people. Unless they do a bit of burglary on the side, which I bet they don't, the lazy scum.
>> No. 19405 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 3:12 am
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>>19404
Not even the local 24-hour convenience store? Any respectable town has at least one.
>> No. 19406 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 3:56 am
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>>19405

This is no respectable town we're talking about here.

Just another 6 hours to go.
>> No. 19407 Anonymous
17th May 2015
Sunday 9:11 pm
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>>19406
Did you do it, preggerslass?
>> No. 19408 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 12:45 am
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>>19407

I did it, I did it all.

Half a litre of chocolate milk and 5 donuts. What a day, a wonderful, magical day.
>> No. 19409 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 12:44 pm
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>>19408

I call that breakfast and I'm only eating for one. Up your game lass.
>> No. 19410 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 6:01 pm
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For some reason I decided to have three wanks in relatively quick succession. The final one was a rather angry wank where I had to use both hands to get me over the finish line. I've ended up chafing my knob.
>> No. 19411 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 6:30 pm
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>>19410
>I had to use both hands

Now you're just bragging.
>> No. 19412 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>19407
>>19409
How the fuck did you figure out that she is a lass? How do people do this?
>> No. 19413 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:01 pm
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>>19412

It says so in her profile, don't you have a pro account?
>> No. 19414 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>19412

Says so here, m8.
>> No. 19415 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>19411
You never had to do a two hander? If my right arm gets too tired then I'll grab it with my left hand to keep the momentum going. I guess that's sort of raping my right arm, forcing it to keep going when it's clearly had enough.
>> No. 19416 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:53 pm
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>>19415

You monster!
>> No. 19417 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:55 pm
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>>19415
>If my right arm gets too tired
You might be wanking too much. Try not wanking so much.

Or if that's the only form of exercise your right arm gets, maybe you're wanking too little. Try wanking more often.
>> No. 19418 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 8:51 pm
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>>19415

Good lord, I thought I had a problem because my right arm's a little more muscular than my left.

I never even had to "rape" myself, not even when I was 15 and I did 8 times in one day. There was a bit of blood in my pee that night.
>> No. 19419 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 10:56 pm
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>>19418
That's fuckin' grim m8.
>> No. 19421 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 1:41 am
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>>19419

Oh, I'm sorry, did I ruin the mood, Selfrapelad?
>> No. 19422 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 2:45 am
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I have friction burns on my elbows from rogering a girl silly at the weekend and now all I'm left with is the pain and the realisation that she wasn't nearly fit enough to warrant injuring myself over. They really sting.
>> No. 19423 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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>>19418
Just after I got circumcised and my scar hadn't completely healed up, I thought I'd try a wank and my usual straight-forward expulsion of goo was accompanied by a similar volume of blood shooting out of one of the sides. It looked like an old top-down space shooter game when you got the power-up that gave you diagonal shooting.
>> No. 19424 Anonymous
19th May 2015
Tuesday 7:52 pm
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>>19423
Fucking hell.
>> No. 19425 Anonymous
20th May 2015
Wednesday 7:11 pm
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>Brexit

How the fuck did that happen?

>>19424

Shhh, no tears now, only gooey bloody knob seepage.
>> No. 19426 Anonymous
20th May 2015
Wednesday 7:19 pm
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>>19425
It started from Grexit. For months I actually thought the Greek PM was called Alexis Grexit.
>> No. 19427 Anonymous
20th May 2015
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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>>17297
Five minutes into my commute home and an alky has sat himself right next to me on a bus that it barely a quarter full.
>> No. 19428 Anonymous
20th May 2015
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>19427

You should have politely asked him to move.
>> No. 19429 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 10:39 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vttuonfu2BM
>> No. 19430 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 10:46 am
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>>19429
Who do they think they are, Air New Zealand?
>> No. 19431 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 2:44 pm
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>>19429

Fuck me, Delta Airlines trying to go modern?

Last time I had the misfortune to get on one of their planes it felt like I was stepping back to the early 90s, in a truly claustrophobic and inescapable way that only the Americans can achieve without noticing how utterly tacky and vulgar everything is. I felt like I had actually been transported to a scene from Total Recall or Running Man.

This is too little too late.
>> No. 19432 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 2:54 pm
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Victoria fucking Derbyshire. Get the fuck off the news channel. Keep it on BBC2 where it can compete with Jeremy Kyle in the daytime dross category. After I've finished with Nash Bridges at 10am, I like to flick onto the news, only to find her ugly mug. I have to resort to Sky news.
>> No. 19434 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 8:34 pm
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I was staying at my Dad's last night. When I woke up and made myself a coffee, I purposely never made him a tea because he gets all Masterchef food critic about tea making.

When he woke up 10 minutes later, I was subjected to a 20 minute lecture about how I overfilled the kettle and why this was bad.

I know that you will probably think that I am inept at making tea, and that this warrants a ban, but to give an example: yesterday when I made him a cup of tea, I did it wrong because I had served him it in a coffee mug instead of a tea mug and this reduced the temperature of the beverage.

I'm pretty sure that a tea mug isn't a thing and as to the thermodynamics of the whole tea mug/coffee mug dichotomy, I am quite skeptical and would like to see some peer-reviewed literature on the matter.

I love him. He is a top lad.
>> No. 19435 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 8:35 pm
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>>19434
>I was subjected to a 20 minute lecture about how I overfilled the kettle and why this was bad.

Wasting a shitload of electricity is a pretty good reason not to overfill the kettle.
>> No. 19436 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 11:03 pm
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Question Time.
>> No. 19437 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 11:13 pm
19437 My coat, my coat! A kingdom for my coat!
>>19436
In these times of austerity, could the panel explain how they justify posting in this thread?
>> No. 19438 Anonymous
21st May 2015
Thursday 11:16 pm
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TIM FARRON FOR PM.
>> No. 19439 Anonymous
22nd May 2015
Friday 11:01 am
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This is what it looks like when instead of sounding your alarm as scheduled, Android decides instead to just pop up a dialog notification with no fucking sound whatsoever. My phone has done this twice this week.
>> No. 19440 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 8:03 pm
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The weather report on C4 just insinuated Birmingham was part of " the South ". Fucking insolence. Oym roight pissed off oy am.
>> No. 19441 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 8:25 pm
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>>19440

Well, unfortunately, no matter how angry you get, no one will ever, ever take you and your kin seriously.
>> No. 19442 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 11:14 pm
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>>19440
If you're in the Province of Canterbury, you're a soft southern twat. That's just how it is, lad. God has spoken.
>> No. 19443 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 11:15 pm
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>>19439
The built in clock app is shite, use Timely.
>> No. 19444 Anonymous
23rd May 2015
Saturday 11:25 pm
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>>19443
Several reviews suggest that it won't work if the phone is on silent, and that Lollipop might have broken it.
>> No. 19445 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:07 am
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>>19444

So there we yet again see, the infinite wisdom that is mandatory updates, and how they always work perfectly delivering a brilliant experience for all end-users.

I wish for one fucking minute that I could live under the impression I actually OWN that little black piece of fuck I keep in my pocket all day everyday, but every single move the software and developers take puts it another step out of my hands. Nagging bollocks little ads, reminders, shite that I just don't want. And I pay thirty quid a month for the fucking privilege. When my contract ends I get constant fucking calls from the "upgrade team" asking me to get a new one. Then I get a new one, it does everything I want and that I'm happy with (except the aforementioned bullshit, but I've come to accept it) and just as I've got everything how I want it- Oh. Would you look the fuck at that. It wants me to update! Well you can fuck that for a laugh you set of shitstains. I remember the last time I did that and NOTHING fucking worked afterwards. So now I'm stuck with the notification that won't go the fuck away asking me to update to a new version of android that I don't fucking want and that I know for a fact every cunt says breaks every fucking thing.

I HATE ALL DEVELOPERS OF MOBILE SOFTWARE AND I HOPE THEIR MUMS DIE OF WOMB CANCER
>> No. 19446 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:15 am
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>>19445
Don't update, and turn auto-update off. Whenever you are about update, read what they are adding to the app, and what other "permissions" they might need from you. Unless I have bugs with an app, I never update it. Sometimes I check out what they want to update, and it is usually fixes for "bugs" or adding new flashy bits that I don't care for. Reading what new permissions they need is funny. "In-app purchases," etc.
>> No. 19447 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:18 am
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>>19446
Sound advice. That should be taught in schools.
>> No. 19448 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:19 am
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>>19447
Jesus. Not here please.
>> No. 19449 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 12:35 am
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>>19447
Oh great, the start of an epic new meme. Don't let it stop you from spamming MAPLAD MAPLAD MAPLAD every other minute though.
>> No. 19450 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 1:42 am
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Old Traveline app: countdown if real-time info is available, scheduled time otherwise.
>> No. 19451 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 1:44 am
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>>19450
New Traveline app: countdown if real-time info is available, countdown to scheduled time otherwise, thereby rendering real-time info useless.
>> No. 19452 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 1:46 am
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>>19451
Why did you update it?
>> No. 19453 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 1:51 am
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>>19452
I got a new phone.
>> No. 19454 Anonymous
24th May 2015
Sunday 2:05 am
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>>19451
I had no idea some people even got real-time updates. I'm still standing out in the cold with no bloody clue if the bus is around the corner or in Narnia.
>> No. 19455 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 1:37 am
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I wish I was fucking massive like that Icelandic prick that plays The Mountain.

I'd be King of the fuckin' world.
>> No. 19457 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:13 am
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WOLVERINE.
>> No. 19458 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 8:38 am
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>>19446

That's the most annoying bit, though. I can turn updates for apps off sure, but when it's an actual Android update, it gives you this permanent, nagging notification regardless of if you want it or not. No way to get rid of it, it just sits there saying OI YOU CUNT WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT MORE EFFECTIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES DIRECTLY INTO YOUR TINY RAT BRAIN, TAP ME YOU FUCKING LOBOTOMISED CONSUMER PLEB
>> No. 19459 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 10:23 am
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>>19457
That silly prick. Have they caught him yet?
>> No. 19460 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 10:38 am
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>>19459
He killed himself. At least we're not going to get daily news reports like when THE SKULL CRACKER was on the loose.
>> No. 19461 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 4:47 pm
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Despite having paid my phone bill by Direct Debit for the past two years, they've sent me a text saying they haven't received payment for my last bill. What part of "shut up and take my money" did they have trouble with?
>> No. 19462 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 4:56 pm
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>>19461

Telling people to "shut up" is a touch rude.
>> No. 19463 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 5:00 pm
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>>19462
Shut up, lad.
>> No. 19464 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 5:50 pm
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There's still Labour and Lib Dem election posters stuck on lampposts and the like. Say what you like about the Tories, at least they took theirs down about a day afterwards.
>> No. 19465 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 6:07 pm
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>>19464
I'm keeping my poster up and it's staying there for the next 5 years.
>> No. 19466 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 6:29 pm
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>>19465
Same here. Clearly people need constant reminding not to be a fucking idiot.
>> No. 19467 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 6:52 pm
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>>19464

Electoral Commission rules state that posters must be taken down within two weeks of polling day.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/141788/Part-4-The-campaign-LGEW.pdf
>> No. 19468 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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>>19466
Keep telling the electorate they're dumb for not agreeing with you. That's bound to be a vote winner. Call them scum a few times for good measure.
>> No. 19469 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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>>19468
They are dumb. And worse, cruel. They're happy with the worst off in society getting the shaft for a marginally lower tax bill and the chance of a pensioner bond. What's wrong, are your feelings sore?
>> No. 19470 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:12 pm
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>>19469
>What's wrong, are your feelings sore?

I voted Green. If you want to go through the ins and outs of why people didn't vote Labour then try >>/pol/61588 instead of simplistically dismissing them as fools. You go ahead calling Tory voters scum, but it's counterintuitive outside of your own circlejerk.
>> No. 19471 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:17 pm
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>>19469

They're not dumb, they're just looking after number one.

The elites may consider the middle classes with just the same contempt as working peasants like me, but you have to remember how selfish the baby-boomers and their children have been, as a generation. Come hell or high weather, they'll still vote reliably for the party with the lowest taxes and the best chance of keeping property prices rising. Simple as that.

Everything that's wrong with Britain, as far as they are concerned, is because of immigrants and/or how bloody lazy kids these days are. Not because they genuinely believe these views to be true, you understand, but because the presence of such easy scapegoats keeps political debate even less likely to focus on things that might affect them.
>> No. 19472 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>19467
That is an exemption to planning rules which places political adverts outside "direct control" for the campaign period and 14 days thereafter. It only has to come down if it would otherwise require planning permission, such as those plastic "flags" that people stick in their gardens which overhang the road. There is another general exemption for posters displayed inside a building.
>> No. 19473 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:22 pm
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>>19470
I know why people didn't vote Labour. Very well done and well funded Tory campaign against a poorly done and outmanouvered Labour one. That doesn't excuse the mass shafting of the most vulnerable Britons. Your mewlings that 'that won't get anyone voting how you like!' are truisms gone stale from a thousand repetitions.

>They're not dumb, they're just looking after number one.

We'll see how well looked after they are when their kids are still living at home because they can't get a place to live or afford to support themselves.
>> No. 19474 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:25 pm
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>>19473
>when their kids are still living at home because they can't get a place to live or afford to support themselves.
Who cares? Said home is rising in value, and that's all that matters.
>> No. 19475 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:34 pm
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>>19473
You're a fucking mong if you can't support yourself, even on minimum wage.

Regards, minimum wage worker.
>> No. 19476 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 7:35 pm
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>>19475
n1 m8 dem mongolians wont kno wot it em
>> No. 19477 Anonymous
26th May 2015
Tuesday 8:35 pm
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>>19475
You should present your findings to the Living Wage Foundation, professor.
>> No. 19478 Anonymous
27th May 2015
Wednesday 11:24 pm
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One of the American officials announcing the FIFA arrests today described it as "like the World Cup of fraud" and they were "showing FIFA a red card".
>> No. 19479 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:17 am
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But why?

And then they complain about "piracy."
>> No. 19480 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:21 am
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>>19478
Why do the Americans get to police football? I don't understand it.
>> No. 19481 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:24 am
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>>19480
They might be a bunch of phone tapping scumbags, but there is something undeniably cool about the FBI. Big coats, badges, and being able to swarm on the corridors of the rich and powerful bellowing FBI, THIS IS A RAID is gnarly as shit.
>> No. 19482 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:25 am
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>>19480
They get to police fraud in America.
>> No. 19483 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:37 am
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>>19481
Also, because this is America, hopefully those nasty men will end up in American prisons where they can get a proper bubonic bum blast from Barry the Bumder and his bumder chums.
>> No. 19484 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 12:45 am
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>>19482
It didn't happen in America, and even if it did, shouldn't the badies be locked up by the Swiss police and then extradited? Or are we all now part of the great American Empire?
>> No. 19486 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 10:35 am
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Not really ironic, but everyone knew that FIFA are corrupt as fuck and would make an African dictator blush at the amount of bribes they inhale.

It's already been noted that South Africa paid a $10 million in bribes to host it.

God knows how much Brazil, Russia and Qatar gave, they don't exactly seem like idea locations for any sort of games. I really hope that it all crumbles from within and this organisation collapses.
>> No. 19487 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 11:19 am
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>>19484
They are being extradited. Obviously the Americans can only prosecute what went on in America or involving American accounts, etc. Almost everyone indicted is from the Americas and operates heavily in the US.
>> No. 19488 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 11:22 am
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>>19484
Brazil and Russia are obviously suitable. Brazil didn't need to bribe anyone anyway since it was an uncontested bid.

The only truly questionable one on the face of it is Qatar. But I don't care, I'm glad FIFA is being sorted out by the authorities, funny it would be the Americans to pull the pin. I reckon this is just the start of it.
>> No. 19497 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 3:41 pm
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>>19484
"It" used the American financial system, and most of the people who've been apprehended are linked to CONCACAF.

It would sort of have to be the yanks to do it, anyway, FIFA's grown into too big of a force in Europe for anyone to bring them into line.

Also, this gave me a laugh:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32917364

>UK Prime Minister David Cameron is calling for Mr Blatter to resign but Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed Mr Blatter for a fifth term.

An endorsement from noted anti-corruption crusader Vlad Putin will do wonders for Sepp's perception, no doubt.
>> No. 19498 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 3:51 pm
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>>19497
In Europe and South America football is a religion, and it's a brave one who angers the gods. In the USA, football is something the wife takes the girls to after school, which is subject to the law just like everything else. Except American football, obviously.
>> No. 19504 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 5:33 pm
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>>19488
Racist.
>> No. 19505 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 5:33 pm
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>>19497
Why are talking down at me?
>> No. 19506 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 5:37 pm
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>>19498
Not exactly. I don't think anyone would've complained had the Met bought FIFA to account.

But the Mets corrupt to.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 19509 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 8:47 pm
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The best acts on Britain's Got Talent this year are a squad of Romanian acrobats and a French man with a dog.

It's like an abstract sociopolitical metaphor or something.
>> No. 19510 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 11:31 pm
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Can anyone hazard a guess as to what's missing from Steam's hip new music player?
>> No. 19511 Anonymous
28th May 2015
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>19510
Does it at least provide some means of controlling the tracks in-game?
>> No. 19512 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 1:16 am
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>>19510

Fucking everything?

INNOVASHUN. Unreal Tournament had music player in game 11 years ago, and I fail to see what's wrong with having Winamp or something open in the background.

Bloody hell I'm angry over something pathetic now. Thanks.
>> No. 19513 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 1:28 am
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>>19512

If it makes you feel any better, you triggered a pretty intense nostalgia trip for me, remembering playing Half Life with Fat of the Land playing in the background.
>> No. 19515 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 9:53 am
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The postman's just knocked on the door while I was in the middle of wiping my arse. I had to tuck some toilet roll into my arse and hope that'd prevent it from smearing all over my kecks.
>> No. 19517 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 1:05 pm
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I've had to turn down an invitation to a family event because of fucking One Direction. Advance train tickets sold out for day of travel, not that I could even get to the station with a case anyway because all the roads will be closed and the buses diverted. I can't even go the day before because it'll be business as usual for the RMT.
>> No. 19519 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 3:37 pm
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>>19515
Fucking animal.
>> No. 19520 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 3:40 pm
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>>19519
Don't tell me you've never shoved toilet roll up your arse and pretended you were a bunny rabbit.
>> No. 19527 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 12:11 am
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>This device can perform faster
It says, after I've plugged said device into a USB 3.0 socket.
>> No. 19528 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 12:20 am
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>>19527

If it's a Windows box (that looks like a Windows error) then it's probably driver based. There's a special subsection of Hell reserved for those involved with the USB spec with worsening sub-hells for those involved in every revision between 1.0 and 3.1.
>> No. 19529 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:37 pm
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>>19509
If it's any consolation, that annoying karate lass will probably start crying again.
>> No. 19530 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 8:44 am
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This shit. No, I don't want windows 10 and I don't want to permanently have your little advert for it in on my taskbar.
>> No. 19531 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 11:12 am
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Cake makers. Maybe it's because I have too high a proportion of women added on Facebook. I don't see the big deal about decorating a cake with icing and shit, I'd rather just have one that's really tasty. A nice simple lemon drizzle cake or some black forest gateaux, not a dozen bints being able to make a Minion out of fondant.
>> No. 19532 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 11:26 am
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>>19531
You're getting old.
>> No. 19533 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 11:49 am
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>>19532
I don't think I've cared for the decoration of a cake since I was about 8 and my Mum made me a Wallace & Gromit one.
>> No. 19534 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 12:02 pm
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My call blocker can't hang up on my new phone so now I'm getting voicemail spam from PPI cunts.
>> No. 19535 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 1:13 pm
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>>19530
>permanently
>> No. 19536 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 1:37 pm
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>>19535
I already did that but that doesn't give them the right to put it there in the first place.
>> No. 19537 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 10:36 pm
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Richard Blackwood does not know how to zest a lemon.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qgpjgmB7c
>> No. 19538 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 8:06 am
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For some almost inexplicable reason, last night I agreed to attend a county show with my mum and her fiancé. I think I momentarily forgot I wasn't 15 anymore. Maybe I'll just try to kill myself with cider and artisanal cheese?

Also I really need to move to a place where they have film festivals rather than county shows.
>> No. 19539 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 11:19 am
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>>19535
It reappeared today.
>> No. 19540 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 4:31 pm
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Steve Lamacq is quite annoying.
>> No. 19541 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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I've had a confirmation through for a hotel reservation, saying if I have any questions to "call the number below", and then omits to say what that number actually is.
>> No. 19542 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 7:39 pm
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Andy Coulson's trial for perjury finished today. The judge ruled that his lies weren't relevant to the outcome of the Sheridan trial. He then turned up outside court, the judge having decided that he did in fact lie, and said "I didn't lie".

Cunt.
>> No. 19543 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 7:41 pm
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This morning I brought in 2 litres of fresh milk for making cups of tea/generic substandard, but free instant coffee over the coming week at my work, but some utter spacker who has no fucking idea how to make tea properly ended up doing a round of 5 cups of tea and had amazingly managed to, in this single endeavour, to distribute a fair litre of milk between 5 mugs.

Another lad later stepped up to make the next round of tea, and he had also amazingly only half-filled the pre-teabagged mugs with boiling water before adding a splash of milk, leaving a mug of tea minus about 7 good sips.

How the fuck are these people allowed to continue living? Not only did the tea either taste of nothing at all, equating to a wasted drink, or was just in such a ridiculously small quantity, but now someone else is going to have to get another thing of milk sooner that expected.
>> No. 19544 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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>>19542

Yeah, I saw that. Weren't his lies the only reason for the Sheridan trial happening? How does that not make them relevant?

Forgive me if I'm completely incorrect there, I haven't really followed the case.
>> No. 19545 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 7:49 pm
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>>19544
Tommy Sheridan was tried for perjury because some of the evidence he put forward in his libel case against the Screws was false. The Screws only knew that it was false because they'd had the nous to "DO HIS PHONE" © Andy Coulson. Coulson's only lie in that trial was that he knew nothing of phone hacking.
>> No. 19546 Anonymous
3rd June 2015
Wednesday 11:44 pm
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Reminder that there are bigger cunts on the internet outside .gs

We need to up our game, lads.
>> No. 19547 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>19546

I think if somebody is injured in a roller coaster crash, that would be a legitimate thing to seek compensation for. Twats that sue for slipping on a pavement or something like that should be rangebanned from life.

I'm thinking that Alton Towers would ensure their culpability for freak accidents such as this would be minimized to the greatest possible extent. Is compensation being offered to those theme park guests?
>> No. 19548 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>19547
It highlights how the media and firms like these are circling over accidents like vultures.

See also the replies to this picture.
https://twitter.com/_ben_jamming/status/605723110290145280
>> No. 19549 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 4:42 pm
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>>19548
Cunts. There's no other word for them. Except maybe for compounds formed from "cunt".
>> No. 19550 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 4:42 pm
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>>19548

>It highlights how the media and firms like these are circling over accidents like vultures.

I mean, yes, it certainly feels a bit gaudy, but their business is seeking compensation for accidents. I'd be far more surprised if they just sat in the office waiting for the phones to ring every time they heard about an accident.
>> No. 19553 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 6:06 pm
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>>19550

But why are they sitting on Twitter instead of tailing ambulances in their car like any self-respecting harpie?
>> No. 19554 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 6:54 pm
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People tend to say that the media is disgusting for their vulture like behaviour, but forget that it is what the viewers of said media want.
>> No. 19555 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 7:01 pm
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>>19554
The viewers want hastily shot mobile phone pictures from the scene? That's news to me.
>> No. 19556 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>19555
It's why rubbernecking is so popular.
>> No. 19557 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 7:03 pm
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>>19555
Are you an idiot?
>> No. 19558 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 8:46 pm
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>>19557

Are you so dumb that you would answer a rhetorical question?
>> No. 19559 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 9:08 pm
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>>19558

I don't know, are you?
>> No. 19560 Anonymous
5th June 2015
Friday 1:48 pm
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Considering these sweetclems, or whatever they are, are meant to be 'easy peelers' they're a right bastard to get into.
>> No. 19561 Anonymous
5th June 2015
Friday 3:27 pm
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>>19560

let's hope that none of them are bitter. Ain't nothing worse than a bitter tangerine.
>> No. 19562 Anonymous
5th June 2015
Friday 3:33 pm
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>>19554

It's true, most people comment on the vile media comments on a grisly twitter picture of an accident after seeking out or clicking on said picture themselves
>> No. 19563 Anonymous
5th June 2015
Friday 3:39 pm
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>>19561
They're not, but I'd rather they were sweeter and juicier.
>> No. 19565 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 7:51 am
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This has really, really bummed me out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3114812/Tim-Curry-makes-rare-public-appearance-suffering-stroke-accepts-Lifetime-Achievement-Award-Tony-Awards-party.html
>> No. 19566 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 9:47 am
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There's a load of bains on Victoria Derbyshire on BBC News whinging about how hard it is being a young person.
>> No. 19571 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 9:46 pm
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>>19566
I'm fairly certain that the metrics for employment prospects, housing prices, and overall social mobility give credence to the notion that young people are opening their mouths for the aeroplane as a spoonful of baby boomers' shit heads towards them.
>> No. 19572 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 10:04 pm
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>>19571
It's their fault for being too fucking gormless to defend their own interest in politics. And this is me speaking as a 23 year old. At least the boomers and oldies have the wherewithal to exploit the system, my bunch of useless cunts can't even be fucked to vote.
>> No. 19573 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 10:22 pm
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>>19572
I'm always shocked that I hardly come across anyone in their 20's that actually watches/reads the news and follows current events. Most of them seem to have no idea what's going on.
>> No. 19574 Anonymous
9th June 2015
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>19572
If you believe the societal problems your generation are facing/will face could have been prevented if only the Tories hadn't been in a position to form a government in 2010, or if only Blair and his pals hadn't had a decade in power, you're in no position to call anyone "fucking gormless".
>> No. 19575 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 3:03 am
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>>19573
There's never anything good on, and no paper writes anything without some agenda smothering the facts. It gets tiresome, so I masturbate to ebony BDSM porn instead.
>> No. 19576 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 3:32 am
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>>19575

>so I masturbate to ebony BDSM porn instead.

Seen anything good lately? I wish Jada Fire did more Kink work.
>> No. 19577 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 4:22 am
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>>19576
She really should. I wish Yasmine Loven and Sydnee Capri did more too. Couple of days ago I found a lass called Lolana up on Kink. She didn't go anything major but god was she hot.
>> No. 19578 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 9:02 am
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>>19574
>If

That's the key word,
>> No. 19579 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 11:07 am
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>>19571
>>19572
>>19573
>>19574
Lads, lads, lads, calm your shit, these were schoolkids bitching that it's too hard being a child and schools should stop giving them homework because their parents don't get any. Oh, and GCSEs are real scary.
>> No. 19580 Anonymous
10th June 2015
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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>>19579
Homework is just a lazy way of inflating the amount of education schools 'deliver'.

Being a child in school was fucking shit. I don't reminisce on any of it, 16 years of my life I'll never get back. 6th form was an improvement but still fucking crap.
>> No. 19582 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 8:52 am
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There's some manner of machinery, just within ear shot of my flat, making a very low bass sound. I don't think I'd mind so much, but I've already got a headache it's driving me slightly mental.
>> No. 19585 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 5:24 pm
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I installed updates on my MotoG yesterday and now I don't know how to turn it on silent. Also, the mobile internet wouldn't work properly when I was at work so I had to do more work than usual.
>> No. 19586 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 5:29 pm
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>>19585
I looked up a Moto G and all I found was a sub-reddit full of people posting photos saying "taken with a Moto G!", but they were all terrible photos.
>> No. 19587 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 5:33 pm
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>>19586
On the old version you just pressed the button at the side and it went along noise-vibrate-silent but now it's just noise-vibrate.
>> No. 19588 Anonymous
12th June 2015
Friday 5:36 pm
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I bought one of those OBD 2 scanner things off eBay, and it works with my dad's car (which various sources said it wouldn't), but not with mine (which various sources said it would).

Fucking hell.
>> No. 19593 Anonymous
13th June 2015
Saturday 10:46 pm
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My vapouriser has gone completely to shit and I can't work out why. I've gone through half a dozen wicks and a couple of coils, but it won't stop gurgling and leaking. This atomiser had been working perfectly for months, but now it's being a complete cunt for no reason.
>> No. 19594 Anonymous
13th June 2015
Saturday 11:06 pm
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>>19593
Mine did this a few months ago, only option was to get a new kit. Downside was that I had to blow another £45 on a brand new vape, upside is that I have a fancy brand new vape that I like much more than the old one. I calculate I've still saved a bundle compared to £15-£20 a week on baccy so it's a win in the end.

I still have vaper's chest though. It being the weekend I've been cloudsing away on the thing all day and my lungs definitely don't like it. Grumble.
>> No. 19595 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 12:01 am
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>>19593
>>19594

I have a slowly growing collection of parts that might be broken or just don't work in certain combinations any more. Replacing them is only a question of a couple of quid here and there though, it's still nothing compared to buying actual fags or baccy.
>> No. 19596 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 1:01 am
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>>19593

Never mind, it was just a perished o-ring.
>> No. 19597 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 1:17 am
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>>19596
Are you sure it was perished? Mine keep slipping out but you can poke them back in and they're fine, it's rubber so it stretches out of place.
>> No. 19598 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 1:21 am
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>>19594
>vaper's chest
Didn't know anything about this, and been considering the switch. Pray tell more.
>> No. 19599 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 2:01 am
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>>19598
Inhaling anything into your lungs has the potential to irritate your airways. My personal theory is that I because occasionally smoke tobacco rather than being 100% e-nicotine, the switching between paralysing my cilia with smoke and giving them just enough time to wake up again with my vape gives me a bit of a cough. It's worse the harder and more frequently I vape. I probably just have a weak constitution.
>> No. 19600 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 2:15 am
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>>19598

Some people get a heavy, congested chest from vaping. It usually passes a few weeks after switching. Nobody is really sure why, although it doesn't seem to be particularly harmful - studies show that vapers have much better lung function than smokers. If that heavy chest persists, it's often due to a sensitivity to one of the ingredients in the e-liquid, often propylene glycol or one of the flavourings. It isn't difficult to find propylene glycol free e-liquid, although you need a relatively good atomiser (Kanger Subtank, Aspire Atlantis, a cotton-wicked rebuildable) to use it because these liquids are very thick.
>> No. 19601 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 5:36 pm
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My mum text me about an hour ago, asking if I'd like to watch Jurassic World with her. Now, I text back "no, we can't", assuming she would ask why, and I could text back "because we're being hunted", like what the man in the original film says.

However, she has not done so, and is probably just upset and confused by my ice cold dismissal. I'll give it another half an hour because she might be working. Christ, I hope she's working.
>> No. 19602 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 5:40 pm
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>>19600

Not quite sure how relevant it is (but all vapor is just vapor, right?) but muggy / humid weather tends to trigger my asthma something rotten.
>> No. 19603 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>>19601
Bless you, lad, worrying about upsetting your old lady. As soon as she hears you were trying to make a joke, she'll laugh it off.
>> No. 19604 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 6:09 pm
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>>19601
To be fair, I know the original film inside out and I'm not sure I would've got that reference if a mate of mine made it via SMS.
>> No. 19605 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 6:21 pm
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>>19601
Don't do that to her, you cunt.
>> No. 19606 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 9:08 pm
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Stephen Mulhern's face is proof that there is a God. Nothing so perfectly infuriating and punchable could possibly have happened by chance and genetics alone, there must have been divine design involved.

Also, I hate laminate flooring.
>> No. 19607 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 9:26 pm
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>>19606

>Also, I hate laminate flooring.
It's even worse when it's been laid down by thickos who don't leave a correct expansion gap around the edge.
>> No. 19608 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 9:40 pm
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>>19606
I've got nothing against the Mulhern, why do you hate him? Or is it literally just his face?
>> No. 19609 Anonymous
14th June 2015
Sunday 10:07 pm
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>>19608
It's his face. When he's presenting Britain's Got Talent, he does this thing where he breaks the fourth wall every ten seconds and pulls what he probably thinks is a deadpan expression. The best word I can use to describe his face is smarmy. He's a smarmy cunt.
>> No. 19610 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 1:20 am
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>>19603>>19604>>19605

It's fine, she was working. And don't call me a cunt, prick.

>>19609

Why are you watching Britain's Got Talent? You could be doing literally anything else. Quake is like £2 on Steam right now, or take up self harm. At least people who enjoy the latter over BGT are usually halfway interesting.
>> No. 19611 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 6:47 am
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>>19606
I think its because he's 'safe'. You can guarantee he'll never bring much in the way of entertainment but, on the other hand, you can guarantee he'll be clean and won't say anything even remotely offensive. He should have stayed on CITV, although he was shit on that.
>> No. 19612 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>19609
There's no fourth wall on a non-fiction programme.
>> No. 19613 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 1:58 pm
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>>19612
I'd have said BGT occupies a middle ground between fiction and non-fiction.
>> No. 19614 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 2:00 pm
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>>19610
Did it not occur to you that I'm not always completely in control of what's on a TV that I'm in the vicinity of? That you went from "you could be doing literally anything else" to "you could be playing a video game" so quickly tells me enough about you to know that your idea of "halfway interesting" is people whose list of pseudogeeky TV shows and movies they like matches up closest with yours. I take back my there there comments from when you thought you'd upset your mam, and I hope you realise you're a disappointment to her and she knows it's cum on your sheets and you're not just sucking the corners.

>>19612
You know what I mean.
>> No. 19615 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 2:02 pm
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Spotify has started playing ads from Dan Bull.
I don't really want to be mean, but sorry he's shite and it's getting on my nerves hearing him every hour or two.
>> No. 19616 Anonymous
15th June 2015
Monday 11:00 pm
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Tonight's Dispatches is all about standards in education, yet somehow they managed to put together an on-screen graphic about "plagarism". On that basis I can only assume that's how the reporter got his credentials.
>> No. 19617 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 4:03 pm
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I know I'm 4 and half years behind the curve on this, but the spinny wheel "puzzles" in Skyrim make me want to kill real people with a real battleaxe.
>> No. 19618 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 4:09 pm
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>>19617

They're on the claws! The code's on the claws! I'm such a forgetful dink.
>> No. 19619 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 4:11 pm
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>>19618
Either that or scattered around the room (read: right above the door you're trying to get through, although one of them might have tried to fool you by falling off and being next to the door instead!)
>> No. 19620 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>19617
I always found them quite amusing - the implication being that mounds of glorious treasure had lain, untouched and gleaming, for untold centuries, because no other adventuring wizards and warriors in all that time were smart enough to match three symbols.
>> No. 19621 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>>19620
There's a team of staff who visit the dungeons every 30 in game days to restock them, refuel the torches, reset the traps/locks and get them repopulated.
>> No. 19622 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 5:22 pm
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I've made a worrisome observation in the past couple of days, that I might really, really not like people from Yorkshire.

Their dowdy, uncharismatic attitude gets tiresome and I can't deal with talking about the weather all the fucking time.
>> No. 19623 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 5:35 pm
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Unrelated to my vidya ramblings, do you ever just feel fatigued? Like, not quite tired, not quite ill, but just like you're recovering from a minor surgery that never happened?

>>19619

Are they? I can never find the bloody things. There was another "puzzle" in the same dungeon, where you had to pull a lever to bring down a draw bridge, only the one right in front of you just activates one of those traps that don't even do anything anymore because I'm level 52. So I kept looking around for the block puzzle or whatever, only there wasn't one, there was just another lever directly to the back of where you activate the first one. Just fuck off, that's not a puzzle, that's a ballache. More to the point it's crap design.

/rant

>>19620

Yeah, or the ones that tried got completely overwhelmed by the first group of not-zombies or skelingtons.
>> No. 19624 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>19622
Where in Yorkshire are they from? North and East Yorkshire folk are better than South and West Yorkshire folk.
>> No. 19625 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 6:00 pm
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I don't like when people refer to people as "humans". This is generally done by pet people, who will proudly announce that they prefer cats/dogs/whatevers to "humans". I find it irksome, so I'm putting it in the thread of irks.
>> No. 19626 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 6:52 pm
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>>19625
Pet people are annoying. The relationship between the person and the animal is simple. The person is the owner. Your pet does not own you. You are not its human companion. It is not your child, nor are you its parent. Your children are not its siblings, half-siblings or step-siblings.
>> No. 19627 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 7:33 pm
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>>19625
Yeah, pet people are so annoying. This is exactly why I prefer my cats to humans.
>> No. 19628 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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>>19625
Maybe not what you meant but I dislike the self-congratulating smugness of 'Humans of x' pages. Alas, like Unilad it seems impossible to go on facebook without seeing them.
>> No. 19629 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 7:55 pm
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>>19623

>Unrelated to my vidya ramblings, do you ever just feel fatigued? Like, not quite tired, not quite ill, but just like you're recovering from a minor surgery that never happened?

Eat lots of butter and take high-strength vitamin D supplements for a couple of months and see how you feel after that. Throw in a multi-vitamin including minerals and iron for good luck. Also eat less sugar/starch and more fibre.
>> No. 19630 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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>>19629

Hmm, that sounds like a good idea. What would these things look like? With regards to branding and such I mean.
>> No. 19631 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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>>19630

They say things on the packets like "High-strength Vitamin D" and "Multi-vitamins including minerals and iron".
>> No. 19632 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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>>19630
>vitamins
>branding

Really, la? Are you the type of person who buys Nurofen when it's just as effective as own brand tablets which cost a tenth of the price?
>> No. 19633 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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>>19632
In fairness, if he really believes that Neurofen is more effective then it actually will be.
>> No. 19634 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:26 pm
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>>19631

Hmm, yes. That is logical.

>>19632

I haven't taken vitamins since I was 7. They were orange flavour.
>> No. 19635 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:35 pm
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>>19629
You forgot to tell him to make sure he's drinking at least 2L of water every day. What he's describing sounds to me like basic dehydration. If you find it hard to get 2L of water down you, go for at least 1L and eat a big portion of watery fruits and vegetables (cucumber and melon especially) and 250ml of coconut water. That's my tried and tested remedy for hangovers (which is mostly just dehydration) - I find a coconut water + cucumber + pineapple + some other fruits smoothie (kiwi especially) helps me feel better the morning after almost immediately.
>> No. 19636 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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>>19635
>You forgot to tell him to make sure he's drinking at least 2L of water every day.
That's a widely-believed myth, but a myth nonetheless.
>> No. 19637 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 9:26 pm
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I thought all vitamins weren't created equal because of the ease of absorption and whether they're synthetic or natural.

I remember reading something like the RDAs were worked out 100 years ago to prevent anachronistic diseases like scurvy and some manufacturers of expensive multivitamins have recalculated RDAs to supposedly fight modern diseases like cancer. They might be the same type of quacks who think you can prevent cancer with vitamin C though.
>> No. 19638 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 9:35 pm
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>>19636
Even if the quantities are bollocks, would you agree it's fair to say most people don't drink enough water and should be aiming to get more?
>> No. 19639 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 9:50 pm
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>>19637
They're all a matter of probability, not absolutes, though lines have to be draw somewhere.
>> No. 19640 Anonymous
16th June 2015
Tuesday 10:22 pm
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>>19638
Not without some sound evidence to support it, no.
>> No. 19641 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 3:58 am
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>>19637
Google "charles poliquin" + vitamin D, Omega 3 etc.
>> No. 19642 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 6:52 am
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>>19637

RDAs are still set by health agencies like Americas FDA. Labeling laws restrict manufacturers to stating the official figures only. And in any case most manufacturers are more interested in creating a tablet which says 100% at the lowest cost possible.

It is true that most are thought to be set too low, even though a lot have been changed since long ago.
>> No. 19643 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 11:31 am
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>>19638

No. Any normal diet will contain more than enough water, a substantial proportion of that coming from food. The average person needs about three litres of water a day (varying greatly with physical activity levels and water loss due to perspiration), but the mythical aspect is the idea that only plain water provides hydration. A typical meal provides several hundred millilitres of water, and drinks like tea, coffee and squash are perfectly satisfactory sources of water. Chronic dehydration only usually affects the elderly and the seriously ill, because of fluid loss due to diarrhoea or an inadequate sense of thirst.
>> No. 19644 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 11:48 am
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I hate having a dynamic IP. I don't even understand how they work, or why I've ended up with one some nonce was using 18 months ago.
>> No. 19645 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 11:52 am
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>>19644
My understanding is that ISPs have a pool of IPs allocated to them and they in turn randomly allocate you one when you connect to them. I dunno what's easier about this system, presumably it's more flexible to administrate than static IPs for each customer.
>> No. 19646 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 12:18 pm
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>>19645
It means efficient allocation of limited resources, and wouldn't be a problem if ISPs would hurry the fuck up and roll out motherfucking IPv6 already (2 billion addresses for everyone!).
>> No. 19647 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 4:47 pm
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>>19644
Yeah yeah, blame your noncery on someone else, tut tut.
>> No. 19648 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 5:10 pm
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>>19644

That happened to me once but it said I'd posted in a CP thread and the ban had expired about a year previously. If you switch your router off and on, won't you get a new IP address though?
>> No. 19649 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 5:48 pm
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>>19648
Nah lad. Some will reallocate the same IP based on the router's MAC address. O2 did that. When I got banned for botting on Unreal Tourney servers, I'd have to telnet into the router, generate a new mac, and reboot. I wrote a little bash script to do that for me.
>> No. 19650 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 5:51 pm
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>>19649

Belkin routers have this functionality built in.
>> No. 19652 Anonymous
17th June 2015
Wednesday 7:55 pm
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That ad in the middle of every Channel 4 News about what a wonderful and uplifting place Dubai is. No it's not, it's The Beverly Hillbillies with a less liberal view on women.
>> No. 19655 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 10:07 am
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Our idiot tester raised a ticket which on further discussion appears to be two separate issues, one of which I can fix, the other needs to be referred to another team. After twenty minutes of attempting to drill this through her thick skull and getting her to raise a separate ticket for the one I can't fix, she has now raised a separate ticket for the exact same fucking thing she raised it for in the first place.

The worst part is that she's on ancient and very favourable terms so we can't simply get rid of her.
>> No. 19656 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 10:15 am
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>>19655

Tester? Ticket? Context?
>> No. 19657 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 12:05 pm
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>>19656
I think it might be some sort of electronics repair shop. The one I used had a "ticket" system, and a "tester" to find out something or I don't know.
>> No. 19658 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 12:29 pm
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>>19655

Have you considered the possibility that from the end-user standpoint, the issues are indeterminable?

In my experience, idiots are exactly the sort of people you should get to test stuff. I'm convinced there are some people out there who reach such a level of stupid they cross over some kind of line where it starts going back up again into some black, occult kind of retard-wisdom.
>> No. 19659 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 12:41 pm
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>>19658
>Have you considered the possibility that from the end-user standpoint, the issues are indeterminable?
Do you want to go back and read that post again?
>> No. 19660 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 8:29 pm
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>Jess is back! Kookiness abounds in brand new Series 4.

The state of modern television these days sometimes makes me want to split my fucking eyeballs with a chisel.
>> No. 19661 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 9:06 pm
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>>19660
That would be hard work. Unless you were planning on removing them from your head first and putting them on a hard surface while you hammered a chisel on top of them.
>> No. 19662 Anonymous
19th June 2015
Friday 9:58 pm
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>>19661
I'm sure I could just wait for some tripe like Britain's Got Talent to come on and then direct it straight into my eyesockets before I bang my head into the wall.
>> No. 19663 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 2:57 pm
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Gah, you cheeky Frijj blighters, putting your nutritional info in 100ml values. Why is that allowed? I only fall for it about once a year but it still pisses me off.
>> No. 19664 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 3:17 pm
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>>19663
It's so it's easily comparable.

I fucking love Frijj though.
>> No. 19665 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 3:24 pm
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>>19663

Unrealistic portion sizes on the nutrition label get on my pip. Who eats one-third of a frozen pizza, or half a packet of crisps? Who considers a 500ml bottle of pop to be two portions?
>> No. 19666 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 3:35 pm
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>>19665

Oh Jesus, this gets on my wick something proper.
>> No. 19667 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 4:29 pm
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People who put their chairs back on an aeroplane. So they think everyone behind them, from them to the back of the plane, is going to neatly 'domino'? Someone's going to end up with less room just because you're a selfish and inconsiderate piece of shit. Fuck you.
>> No. 19668 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 4:43 pm
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>>19667
That's what you get for turning right on the plane.
>> No. 19669 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>19667

If you're economy for more than 4 hours, then the seat will go back. It's to be expected. If you're only going to be in the air for a couple of hours, then I don't see the need. I've spent longer on the bus home and plane seats are considerably more comfortable.

If you fly enough for this to bother you, maybe consider business class.
>> No. 19670 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 4:54 pm
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>>19667

Chill out m8. Frequent fliers know that you can stop the seat in front of you from reclining by jamming a water bottle between the tray table and the latch.
>> No. 19671 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 7:59 pm
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>>19668
Sorry I have to agree with >>19667. Anyone who puts the seat back is clearly a selfish wanker who has no consideration for the welfare of others and only cares about their own comfort. What right have you go to invade someone else's fractional amount of cabin space on a flight? It's just not polite.
>> No. 19673 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 8:47 pm
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There's a shite local music "festival" that was going on all day close to my flat, but since that's ended a party full of children and adult's getting drunk because they aren't children has perked up and started playing all manner of garbage music.

I know I shouldn't begrudge others their fun, but I do and I want them killed! Can't they listen to music alone and crying like normal people!?
>> No. 19675 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 8:56 pm
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People who get offended when you recline the seat on an flight. Don't like the lack of personal space on Ryanair? Fuck off and fly BA instead.
>> No. 19679 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 9:18 pm
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>>19675
Yeah, I have to agree. It is my seat, and I am allowed to lean back as far as the seat allows me. People who don't like that should pick it up with the airlines in question, or just fuck off. Your comfort is not my issue.
>> No. 19680 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 9:54 pm
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>>19673
I bet it's FUCKIN BANGIN TUNES too isn't it?

DUFF DUFF DUFF DUFF DUFF DUFF.
>> No. 19681 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 9:59 pm
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>>19673


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXyYuslTfg
>> No. 19682 Anonymous
20th June 2015
Saturday 10:14 pm
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>>19681

Just realised because of me there's now two limmy videos on the front page. I knew what this was going to be before I even opened it. Or I posted this and forgot. Who am I, again?
>> No. 19695 Anonymous
21st June 2015
Sunday 1:44 pm
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Every time I send a text message to my sister the reply comes up in a thread for four people, so if I reply directly they all get it. The group includes my father so I've managed to inadvertently spoil his birthday presents.
>> No. 19696 Anonymous
21st June 2015
Sunday 2:22 pm
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First Great Western have deployed a particularly apposite WiFi service. It'll happily let you associate but good luck trying to get anything to load. Not even their captive portal page comes up.
>> No. 19699 Anonymous
21st June 2015
Sunday 4:51 pm
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A customer told me off because her order was wrong, then my colleague who was the one who got it wrong came over and told me off too. Then they repeatedly send me to other customers with the wrong orders despite me double-checking that it was right. I don't know if she's actually fucking with me or I'm just being paranoid.
>> No. 19715 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 8:41 am
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When the twats at shops give you your change on top of the receipt, instead of putting the receipt in the bag. It makes putting your change in your wallet very awkward.
>> No. 19717 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 10:29 am
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>>19715
I've literally never noticed that. Do you wear woolly mittens all year round, or something?
>> No. 19718 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 11:54 am
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>>19715
I prefer it that way. The change just slides off into your wallet when you tip it up and you don't have to faff around gripping the cash in your palm and the receipt (or notes) with your fingertips so they don't blow away until you can manoeuvre them into the correct places.
>> No. 19719 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 12:30 pm
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>>19715
Still using cash ?
>> No. 19720 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 1:46 pm
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>>19715
That sometimes irritates me too. But when I'm on the other side of the till? I couldn't care less. You are a customer. To me you are a walking irritation. I just want you out of the shop as quickly as possible.
>> No. 19721 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 1:53 pm
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>>19720
What a ray of sunshine you are. I hope they replace you with a self-service machine so that you don't have to deal with any more walking irritations any time soon.
>> No. 19722 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 2:31 pm
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>>19721
Hey kids, it's time to play Spot The Self-Important Dickhead Who's Never Worked In Retail!
>> No. 19723 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 2:43 pm
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Japanese shopkeepers have the good sense and decorum to put your change on a little tray.
>> No. 19724 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 3:31 pm
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>>19722
Wah wah wah, I've worked in retail and it's real hard, it completely justifies hating every person that comes into my shop.
>> No. 19725 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 4:36 pm
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>>19724
Mate, I don't literally hate every single customer. I was exaggerating for comic effect. But many customers make the job miserable so if I can cut some corners to get through the day I think I should have the right.
>> No. 19726 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 5:48 pm
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>>19725
You think you should have the right not to do your job properly?
>> No. 19727 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 5:53 pm
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>>19726
SPOT THE SELF-IMPORTANT DICKHEAD WHO'S NEVER WORKED IN RETAIL
>> No. 19728 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 5:58 pm
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>>19720
Not him but I am >>19715

I had worked in retail on and off for 3 years and I always asked them, if they wanted their receipt in the bag.
>> No. 19729 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 6:01 pm
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>>19727
Uh no that's Eeyore.
>> No. 19730 Anonymous
22nd June 2015
Monday 9:40 pm
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>>19729
Where's Spot? Is he under the stairs? No, he's at the bar. Smoking cigarettes. Suffering.
>> No. 19738 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 5:31 pm
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Today's /101/

Lazy cunts.

What is the appropriate level of work a PhD student is supposed to put in? It seems my department is on a permanent break, or as if the day's schedule has reversed with a 7 hour lunch break and 1 hour actual work time.

I work in a lab with about 16 people, and only 5 are the "regulars", including myself which start usually around 8:30-9:00 and end around 16:30-17:30. The rest saunter in about 10:00 am, take a 30 minute coffee break at 10:30, 1 hour lunch at 12:30, and another afternoon coffee break at 15:30, and leaver around 16:00-16:30. I usually see these PhD students for roughly 1 to 1.5 hours in the lab, and a mate who sits in their office tells me it's not too different there either... Regular fucking about on facebook, a game of hacky-sack or full on football takes place during office hours.

I'm not personally concerned how much chooses to waste their time on tax payers money, but it does boil my piss knowing that most of them will get the same degree in the end, as myself.

It's no surprise that most are Brits, and the foreigners are the ones coming in at 8am.

It's going to be really fun at the end of the degree to see people shitting bricks over the fact they have no results or nothing to actually show.
>> No. 19739 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 5:47 pm
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>>19738
>What is the appropriate level of work a PhD student is supposed to put in?
As much as they want to, as long as cumulatively it's enough work to have provided enough new information to their field that they're awarded the PhD. People working in big science can spend months waiting to be awarded time at a facility, and then spend a week at that facility working 20 hour days and their work during that week will be the foundation of their entire thesis. Everyone's is different, one of these layabouts could come in tomorrow and make a novel and astute observation that gets them a high-impact publication and that publication alone is enough for them to be awarded a doctorate when their funding runs out.

Luckily for the likes of you, the chances of that happening are very fucking slim. When their three years is up, although they'll be awarded the same degree as you (the department will make sure of that, even if it ends up with their supervisor basically writing their thesis for them), that they haven't done any work for the past three years will be blatantly obvious when anyone looks at their lack of contributions to peer-reviewed publications. At this point in academia, your thesis itself is almost trivial enough to be passed off as a mere formality, what's more important is that you come out of your PhD studentship having engaged enough to have your name on as many papers as possible, preferably not shit ones as well.

Stress not, lad, you're working harder than them and that's not going to go unnoticed. The muppets will get their comeuppance when they strut out into the world with their PhD and realise every fucker else has one as well these days.
>> No. 19740 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:01 pm
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>>19739
It makes me glad I didn't go down the PhD route, I'm certain I would have ended up being one of those cunts who pissed those years away. in exactly the same way I didn't put any work into my undergraduate degree
That said, after having a job for a year I feel a different person, I could go back and start a PhD now and putting in the right level of effort would be much easier.
>> No. 19741 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:10 pm
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>>19739
Glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks this.

I am trying my damnedest to get my name on one of these papers, but it's immensely difficult as it's not a group effort any more.

I have a German supervisor who is stellar when it comes to judgement of student's progress. He isn't in charge of the work-shy ones in my lab, but has asked me about them. I'm in no position to snitch, but I have alluded to the lab being "very quiet", and having ample opportunity to use any piece of equipment at any time.

I thought tough exams, internships, lab experience, papers, student exchange programs are used to weed out the light weights.

I cannot fathom why the British PhD system allows undergrads (sometimes those that have only completed 3 years of a BSc) into science PhD programs, be it directly or through some back door method. In the rest of Europe you have to have a MSc at least, and preferably one paper and sit through tedious interviews and screening sessions.
>> No. 19742 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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>>19741
It's that way because the UK wants more people to have skilled qualifications, and the best way to do that is to just give them to people.
>> No. 19743 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:15 pm
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>>19740
I'm glad you didn't either mate, and I don't mean that in a snarky way because I look at these boys and girls and they should have done a MSc instead of wasting everyones time, and tax payer money on their messing about.

The PhD decision should be calculated and precise, do some research into who is doing what, get talking to people, meet with the head honchos of departments and so forth. The more your face is familiar, the better the chances.

But again, as you mentioned, the PhD these days is just another rung of the "everyone else is doing it" educational ladder, which is ludicrous.
>> No. 19744 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:20 pm
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>>19742
But it's a terrible fucking idea for two reasons:

1) It cheapens the degree.

2) Quality over quantity.

No one publishes as a result, and thats what matters - you have a country like German pumping out quality publications nearly comparable to the US. I'm ignoring China as they are rife with plagiarizers and crooked scientific bodies.
>> No. 19745 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:51 pm
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>>19744
That strikes me as one - the same - reason expressed in two different bullet points.
>> No. 19746 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 6:57 pm
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>>19744
It is a terrible idea and it is cheapening not just the credibility of a PhD, but all of the research culture in the UK. We are lucky that we're still held with such esteem internationally so that some of the best researchers from across the globe still want to come and work here, but it wouldn't be surprising to see that change at some point soon, as universities push for higher pass rates and better league standings instead of investing in proper research.

>>19745
It's a numbered list, not bullet points. Although, you are completely correct.
>> No. 19750 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 8:48 pm
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Ultimately the key difference is that having earned a proper PhD, you'll make it through the bullshit filters in academia, whereas the wasters won't. Unfortunately, unless you're in a real niche field where people are literally throwing funds at you and a short path to a senior position lies in wait for you, you'll likely make much fatter stacks out in the real world, where you have no advantage over the wasters. Out here, nobody cares about publications or impact factors or any of that nonsense. All they care about is the letters after your name. "Cor, this bloke's got a PhD, even at the top end of our budget he must be a bargain!"
>> No. 19760 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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>>19750
Speaking as one of the PhDlads, you couldn't pay me a stack fat enough to get a job out in the real world. Let's leave that for the numpties and wasters so that the good researchers can carry on doing good research, eh?
>> No. 19762 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 11:28 pm
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>>19760
>you couldn't pay me a stack fat enough to get a job out in the real world
There are some really fat stacks out there. Like six figures in the finance industry. Granted, that would require working in the finance industry, but still ...
>> No. 19764 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 11:30 pm
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>>19762
Six figures? That's hardly worth italics, mate.
>> No. 19765 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 11:39 pm
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>>19764
Are you going to earn a six figure salary in academia without being a cunt and joining the ranks of the mandarins?
>> No. 19766 Anonymous
23rd June 2015
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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>>19765
I could do if I really wanted. You're missing the very obvious point that money isn't my primary motivator, you big bellend.
>> No. 19767 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:06 am
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>>19766
>I could do if I really wanted.
Average salary for academic staff is around £50-60k, and for a professor around £75-80k. You'll notice those are five digits. Either way, it just sounds like sour grapes.
>> No. 19768 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:20 am
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>>19767
Who said I was an average academic? There are salaried academics on seven digits. I'm not saying I could be one of them. All I said was that six figures is nothing to shout about. Everyone knows there's money in finance. Duh. I'd be surprised if there weren't multiple six-figure earners on this very board. You don't hear them boasting about it like it means much of anything.
>> No. 19769 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:25 am
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>>19768
You're not doing much to dispel the image of the out of touch, ivory tower academic here, mate.
>> No. 19770 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:33 am
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>>19769
It's true. We don't know anything. You'll think I'm being sarcastic but I'm not.
>> No. 19772 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:52 am
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>>19768
>Who said I was an average academic?
Good point. Clearly we've overestimated you.
>> No. 19774 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:07 am
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>>19768

If you're not on six figures in London then you're having a shit time of it. If you're not living in London you might as well just jump off whatever passes for a tall building in your hamlet.
>> No. 19776 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:14 am
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>>19774
Tell me something I don't know.
>> No. 19777 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 4:52 am
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>It cheapens the degree.
This is not an inherently bad thing - perhaps your perception is out of line?
>> No. 19779 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 11:33 am
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>>19745
I'll explain it better then:

1) It cheapens the degree -

More is needed to stand out of the crowd, a poor reason to do a PhD, but it's one of the motivators in doing one. If every Tom, Dick and Harry has one - what exactly makes them so special? Soon the bar is raised when it comes to job requirements, where there were none to begin with.

2) Quality of quantity -

From my observation, you don't need to publish in the UK in order to complete your thesis. All you need is enough shite to fill a ugly, ledger sized book that you waffle about in your viva. And if your examiner is stupid enough, he'll let you have your doctorate. That's it, a new PhD thats made zero contribution in their field, it's no different than completing a course or seminar series.

Meanwhile in Germany or the Netherlands, you are expected to have a number of publications under your belt, otherwise your academic career is sunk.
Compare the quality of these graduates to an employer and the Europeans get a leg up.
>> No. 19780 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 12:24 pm
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>>19779
For academic employers, maybe. In the real world, not so much. People who will be taken in by the PhD will be taken in regardless of the quality, and almost everyone else simply doesn't care because it doesn't speak to your capabilities outside the bubble. The prevailing opinion of recently minted doctors is that they hid out in uni for a few years waiting for the job market to improve.
>> No. 19781 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 1:34 pm
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>>19780
Well in some cases, employers do favour applicants with publications.
>> No. 19782 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:22 pm
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>>19781
Cases such as ...?
>> No. 19783 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:23 pm
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>>19780
>In the real world, not so much. People who will be taken in by the PhD will be taken in regardless of the quality
And that doesn't read like a bad thing for you? That being paid £15-20k to turn up every now and then for three years and then write a 150 page document of waffle is somehow entry fee to a higher tier of employment?
>> No. 19784 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:52 pm
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>>19782
Purely anecdotal. But you can see the reasoning behind it.
>> No. 19785 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:54 pm
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>>19783
Stupid people pay for nothing shocker. Welcome to capitalism, lad.
>> No. 19786 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 2:58 pm
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>>19785
I made it quite clear in >>19760 that I don't want to play your silly slot machine called life, I just want to lock the doors to my lab and play on my own.
>> No. 19787 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 7:47 pm
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I saw a lot of people in mobility scooters who were quite possibly just using them because of their massive fattiness.

When one of the latest group of deeply misguided ISIS ladies told people she did it "because Britain is becoming more like America", I can't help but feel she wasn't that misguided after all.

When is .gs going to evolve into a guerrilla force?
>> No. 19788 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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They've made Don't Tell the Bride shitter in moving it to BBC One.
>> No. 19789 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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>>19788
That must have taken some doing.
>> No. 19790 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>19789
They have Zoe Ball narrating and it looks like they've decided to replace daft twenty-year-olds with thirty/forty-somethings with a sentimental back story. Zoe Ball. It's significantly worse once you take the BBC Three out of it and replace it with diarrhoea.
>> No. 19791 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 8:58 pm
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>>19788>>19790

Maybe they're trying to make people preemptively sorrowful about the loss of BBC3, so then there will be a big uproar and they can call off the firing squad like they did with Radio 6 Music.
>> No. 19792 Anonymous
24th June 2015
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>19791

"Save BBC 3, or all that shit will leak out onto the other channels!"
>> No. 19793 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 9:14 am
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One of you two whooshed me on the Guardian and I want to know which one it was!

I deserved it; opening a vein promptly.
>> No. 19795 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 9:35 pm
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I wish people would stop referring to Uber's minicab operation as a "ride-sharing service". It's blatantly a fucking minicab service.
>> No. 19796 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 9:48 pm
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>>19795
Wait, do they pick up more than one party in a minibus?
>> No. 19797 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 10:01 pm
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>>19796
No. It's a fucking taxi service like any other, it just tries to weasel out of being thought as such by making all its drivers "self-employed" for tax/liability purposes.
>> No. 19798 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 10:18 pm
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>>19796
Only when the driver is fiddling the system.

>>19797
In many taxi operations the drivers are self-employed. This isn't a problem in itself, as long as the drivers themselves are properly licensed and registered. Uber's get-out is that they're not using a meter, even though they provide estimated fares and calculate the final fare based on time and distance travelled, but apparently this doesn't count because feeding a GPS trace into an app to do taximetry is not the same as using an actual taximeter.
>> No. 19799 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>>19798
For those still confused this article explains it very well;

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/fare-trade-breaking-down-londons-taxi-debate/

I genuinely didn't know taxis date to the 17th century.
>> No. 19800 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 10:41 pm
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>>19799
I didn't know that minicabs in London weren't metered. Everywhere else I've been and hired a minicab, they too were metered, typically at the same or a slightly lower rate than hackneys.
>> No. 19801 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 10:59 pm
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>>19799
I should also add that the reason Uber's basis service is cheaper than taxis is the same reason fake fags and booze are cheaper than the real thing - they haven't gone through the regulatory processes that ensure (relative) safety. They're cheaper because they're cheating.
>> No. 19802 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 11:03 pm
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>>19801
I've used Uber multiple times and haven't been raped once. Explain that.
>> No. 19803 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 11:08 pm
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>>19802
You're presumably a bloke under the age of 60. Taxi rapists tend to prefer women and the elderly. Especially the elderly.
>> No. 19804 Anonymous
25th June 2015
Thursday 11:56 pm
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Scary minicab adverts used to be great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfETrIe-MPE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfETrIe-MPE
>> No. 19816 Anonymous
27th June 2015
Saturday 12:33 pm
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The BBC have only uploaded one track each for SBTRKT and Hot Chip on their site. I'm really, really disappointed.

I look forward to undergoing similar experiences in the coming 48 hours.
>> No. 19827 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 6:25 pm
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People who come up with long winded justifications and moralisations about why they illegally download when the reality is they just like free stuff.
>> No. 19829 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 6:31 pm
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People who incorrectly use phrases like "illegally download" to refer to acts which aren't criminal.
>> No. 19832 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 7:16 pm
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>>19829
Illegal actions aren't necessarily criminal, you dribbling spastic.
>> No. 19833 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 7:19 pm
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>>19832
Yes they are. That's what makes them illegal, you dense knob.
>> No. 19834 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 7:20 pm
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>>19833
Actions that run contrary to civil law are illegal but not criminal, hopefullynotlawyerlad.
>> No. 19835 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>>19834

Those generally derive from contract law which in this case would probably apply to the uploader but not the downloader (unless you're forming a contract by e.g. watching a TV show, obviously slightly different with software EULAs etc).
>> No. 19838 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 7:45 pm
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>>19835
Your bullshit game is weak, son.

https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-crime-and-infringement#copyright-infringement
http://www.quora.com/Is-digital-piracy-a-civil-or-criminal-offense
>> No. 19840 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 8:12 pm
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>>19834
No, they're not. If you turned up in court and claimed someone who had breached a contract had done something "illegal" you'd get a very stern talking to from the judge. In a legal context, "illegal" specifically means an act proscribed by statute. An act that violates statutory or contractual rights may be unlawful, but also may not be if a judge so decides. The only circumstances in which you can definitively "illegally download" something are when you have gained unauthorised access to a computer system and are attempting to exfiltrate data from it (illegal under the Computer Misuse Act). There is an argument to be made that for the act of downloading offences relating to stolen goods might come into play, but it's difficult to make because nobody's being permanently deprived of those goods. There's a reason why the speculative invoicers were specifically targeting BitTorrent users, and it's nothing to do with the fact that the protocol discloses everyone's IP.

>>19838
>https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-crime-and-infringement#copyright-infringement
Does not say anywhere, other than in the case of "deliberate" infringement "on a commercial scale", that it would be illegal, neither does it speak to downloading.

>http://www.quora.com/Is-digital-piracy-a-civil-or-criminal-offense
Refers to US law, which does not apply here.
>> No. 19843 Anonymous
28th June 2015
Sunday 8:20 pm
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>>19840
>No, they're not. If you turned up in court and claimed someone who had breached a contract had done something "illegal" you'd get a very stern talking to from the judge. In a legal context, "illegal" specifically means an act proscribed by statute. An act that violates statutory or contractual rights may be unlawful, but also may not be if a judge so decides. The only circumstances in which you can definitively "illegally download" something are when you have gained unauthorised access to a computer system and are attempting to exfiltrate data from it (illegal under the Computer Misuse Act). There is an argument to be made that for the act of downloading offences relating to stolen goods might come into play, but it's difficult to make because nobody's being permanently deprived of those goods. There's a reason why the speculative invoicers were specifically targeting BitTorrent users, and it's nothing to do with the fact that the protocol discloses everyone's IP.
This is just your opinion, which does not apply inside my brain.
>> No. 19852 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 12:13 pm
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John Oliver. His show gets worse every week. It's almost like it's written by Tumblr users.


Also, /101/ people who use 'hands free' kits for their phones, but then hold their phone anyway.
>> No. 19853 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 12:23 pm
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>>19852
>I saw his bit on women on the Internet and it made me maaaaad!
Am I right here? I'm getting that sort of teary vibe from your post.
>> No. 19854 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 12:24 pm
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It's already midday. For heck sake.
>> No. 19866 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 5:40 pm
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>>19853

John Oliver has been doing a lot of LGBT-related stories in the past few weeks. Obviously he's just an SJW shill, because there's nothing happening in the US to make that remotely topical.
>> No. 19870 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>19866
Gay marriage isn't the most important thing that's happened in the US, it's the fact that the Federal government saw fit to overrule the states.
>> No. 19871 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 6:20 pm
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>>19870

Your bitch tears sustain my homolust.
>> No. 19872 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>19871
Pardon me?
>> No. 19873 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 6:49 pm
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>>19870
As it was perfectly entitled to do.
>> No. 19874 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 7:51 pm
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>>19873
Legally yes.
>> No. 19875 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 8:05 pm
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>>19874
Are you one of these idiots who believes the "but we were having a debate" bollocks? The debate wasn't going anywhere. That's why it ended up in court.
>> No. 19877 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>19875
What? No, I just don't think it's an issue for the federal government.
>> No. 19878 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 9:04 pm
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>>19877
Yes, that's the excuse the homophobes are using these days.
>> No. 19879 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 9:26 pm
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>>19878

You aren't worried that this will set a precedent for the federal government to pass other laws?
>> No. 19881 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>19879
>The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Bit fucking late for that, don't you think?
>> No. 19882 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 9:34 pm
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>>19879
There are loads of fucking laws that need the feds to get through the states, like the ones that stipulate 'teaching the controversy' and all that stupid shit.
>> No. 19884 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 9:59 pm
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>>19881

Well I don't know the US constitution do I.
>> No. 19885 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 10:04 pm
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I shouldn't have had the second pie.
>> No. 19886 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>19878
In case you hadn't noticed I'm not talking about homos.
>> No. 19887 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>19884
Don't ask me. You're the expert on all things between the federal government and the states.
>> No. 19888 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 10:09 pm
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>>19886
Sorry, I wasn't aware there was another major Supreme Court case that was being celebrated worldwide.
>> No. 19889 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 11:07 pm
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Shifting your rhetoric from "x shouldn't be allowed" to "it should be up to the states to decide if x should be allowed" as soon as public opinion turns against you is the oldest trick in the US conservative playbook. It's the reason you hear dickheads say their civil war was about states' rights, not slavery.

>>19879
The Federal Government didn't pass a law, the supreme court struck down a law (section 2 of the defense of marriage act) as unconstitutional. The states could organise a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to the US constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, but it would be doomed to fail, and the political party responsible for such an effort would be committing political suicide.
>> No. 19891 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>19889
>defense of marriage act
That one was two years ago. This case was several states defending their refusal to issue marriage certificates.
>> No. 19892 Anonymous
29th June 2015
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>19891
Section 2 of the act remained in place until the ruling on Friday.
>> No. 19895 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 1:00 am
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>>19888
The fact it's being celebrated worldwide is ridiculous enough. Nobody really paid much attention when it happened in their own countries, apparently.

In any case, stop pretending everyone who says something you don't like is a homophobe or whatever. Stop being so goddamn paranoid.

>>19889
But they're absolutely right.
>> No. 19900 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 4:24 am
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>>19895
Who is absolutely right?
>> No. 19902 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 4:28 pm
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>>19889
For some reason I'm surprised at the amount of people who are confused about all of this.
>> No. 19903 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>Wimbledon

Why does this exist? And why has no one made it stop?
>> No. 19904 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 5:14 pm
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>>19895
Nobody's pretending any such thing. It's a fact beyond dispute that the whingers were homophobes. Replace "gay marriage" with "no slavery" and you'd probably get the same crowd turning out in opposition.
>> No. 19905 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 5:21 pm
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>>19903
This is 2 weeks without Doctors on the telly. This makes me sad.
>> No. 19906 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 5:23 pm
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>>19905
Maybe you could treat this is an opportunity to get a job.
>> No. 19908 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 5:54 pm
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My employer has a "location neutral working" policy. Any internal or external vacancies are supposed to consider whether they could be done from any of our half a dozen main offices rather than any one in particular. I enquired about an internal vacancy yesterday and the response today was "yeah, the job's in <shithole> because that's where half the team are" despite the policy explicitly saying this shouldn't come into it. A minor piss-off since things aren't all that bad in my current position.
>> No. 19910 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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>>19904

In related news, anyone who objects to having a cock shoved up their arse are potential ISIS terrorists until proven innocent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33325654
>> No. 19915 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 6:52 pm
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>>19910

How about I just rape and beat you to make sure you're off the hook?

Possible rage sage.
>> No. 19917 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 7:55 pm
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>>19904
>It's a fact beyond dispute that the whingers were homophobes
That's not exactly fair. Some of them were corporate shills eager for a finding that respects states' rights, because that means they can buy favourable legislation without anyone noticing, courtesy of ALEC and friends.
>> No. 19918 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 8:01 pm
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>>19917
Um, yeah, gotta make sure we're fair to those guys.
>> No. 19919 Anonymous
30th June 2015
Tuesday 8:42 pm
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>>19918
We've got to draw a line between those who were genuinely homophobic and those who were merely homophobic for financial reasons. Those are two very different kinds of wrong.
>> No. 19920 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 7:49 am
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People I know on Facebook have started making their own Arron Crascall stylee shitty videos.
>> No. 19921 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 7:54 am
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>>19920
I had a kid from school on Facebook that started posting video diary entries at one point. Not shit attempts at humour on a self-facing camera, but 5ish minute long videos just discussing various things he'd encountered that day and how he felt about them. It was only funny because he's a massive EDL supporter.
>> No. 19922 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 11:37 am
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By the time I'd got home, my ice cream had already melted. :(

>>19920

What's that? Just blabbering into a camera about their dumb brain spaffings?
>> No. 19929 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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>>19922
Videos like when one of the local Chinese restaurants was closed due to hygiene them standing outside it and pretending to cry or splicing dialogue of themselves with film scenes SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE INTERACTING WITH THE CHARACTERS.
>> No. 19932 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 3:55 pm
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Forget that ice cream, now I'm melting. The air is hot!

>>19929

Well that sounds like fun until every unoriginal spaz starts doing it.
>> No. 19933 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 5:37 pm
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I've just sprayed Sudafed up my nose, but I didn't realise that one of my nostrils isn't actually bunged up and it went directly through my left nostril and into my mouth.
>> No. 19934 Anonymous
1st July 2015
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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>>19933
One nostril will compensates for the other so they're never both blocked.
>> No. 19939 Anonymous
2nd July 2015
Thursday 6:00 pm
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WARNING! GRAPHIC MATERIAL: I have been releasing gases all day the likes of which I did not think human beings could produce. It has been truly upsetting.
>> No. 19940 Anonymous
2nd July 2015
Thursday 7:40 pm
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I've just noticed a small, freckle-like, dark pink mark on my arm.

RIP me.
>> No. 19941 Anonymous
2nd July 2015
Thursday 7:55 pm
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>>19939
Upsetting? Why aren't you proud?
>> No. 19942 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 10:58 am
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Is there such a thing as "summer .gs"? It seems we've had a spate of posts recently that contain nothing but cheap ad hominem attacks and de-railings of otherwise OK threads.

Is it because all the studentlads have nothing better to do, or is this terrible heat just making us all grumpy?
>> No. 19943 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:03 am
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>>19942
It's always like that.
>> No. 19944 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:10 am
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>>19943

Oi, don't you start an 'all m8
>> No. 19945 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:12 am
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>>19944
Who are you calling a cunt, you cunt?
>> No. 19946 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:14 am
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>>19944
What's that apostrophe doing there?
>> No. 19947 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:24 am
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>>19942
>It seems we've had a spate of posts recently that contain nothing but cheap ad hominem attacks and de-railings of otherwise OK threads.

Recently? I honestly can't say I've noticed any difference more so than usual.

Any particular instance that has cheesed you off?
>> No. 19948 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:30 am
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>>19946

It was meant to be after "an". I hang my head in shame.
>> No. 19949 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 11:32 am
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>>19947

I'm inclined to agree with him. We've always been a grumpy lot, but the tone seems to have become more overtly aggressive rather than our usual passive aggressive sarcasm. I don't think there's any one particular incident to point to, just a general shortening of tempers and lack of restraint. Cunt-offs are a .gs tradition, but they seem to be breaking out more quickly and in a greater proportion of threads.
>> No. 19950 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 12:09 pm
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>>19949
It's the heat.
>> No. 19953 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 12:20 pm
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We've had our yearly moan about the mods. Now it's time to turn on each other.
>> No. 19954 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 12:23 pm
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>>19953
The otherlad started it.
>> No. 19957 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 1:19 pm
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>>19954
No I didn't. You did.
>> No. 19958 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 1:27 pm
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>>19950
Could be worse. Last time it got this hot London burned.
>> No. 19962 Anonymous
3rd July 2015
Friday 7:14 pm
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If there is a more aggressive tone, It can't be more than a couple of people that are responsible for it and they could always consider just not being cunts.
>> No. 19990 Anonymous
4th July 2015
Saturday 8:49 pm
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My local pub are having a karaoke night and it's so loud you'd be able to hear it from the other side of town.

YOU SAID I MUST EAT SO MANY LEMONS BECAUSE I AM SO BITTAH.

I SAID I'D RATHER BE WITH YOUR FRIENDS, MAAAATE, BECAUSE THEY ARE MUCH FITTAH.
>> No. 20005 Anonymous
5th July 2015
Sunday 7:53 pm
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I can't find any good Zoo Tycoon torrents. I just want to spend my Sunday regressing to the age of 11, stop making it so hard!
>> No. 20008 Anonymous
5th July 2015
Sunday 11:54 pm
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>>20005
I'd argue that Rollercoaster Tycoon is possibly superior, I've been playing a lot of that lately. My parks are beautiful.
>> No. 20009 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 12:18 am
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>>20008

I've been playing that too, but my parks aren't very pretty, and I can't build a custom rollercoaster to save my life. Well, I can, but they're basically air crash simulators.

I want to try daring mixed species enclosures and stuff. Can a ankylosaurus herd and an orca pod coexist? Almost certainly, but I'll never be able to prove it...
>> No. 20010 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 1:44 am
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>>20008
So like, are you going to put that claim to the test in /e/ or what?
>> No. 20013 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 9:48 am
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I've had to put down a deposit on a Christmas party today. How the shit do decent venues get booked out this early?
>> No. 20014 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 9:51 am
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>>20013
Perhaps decent party organisers have figured out that Christmas will again fall in December this year.
>> No. 20016 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 11:06 am
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I spent all last night with a panging for micro chips and micro pizza, which I fully intended to have for lunch today. But when I was sitting up in bed and I looked down at my hideous fucking stomach I just wished I had the gag reflexes to make a bulimic.
>> No. 20017 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 11:25 am
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>>20014
How does that help them? They're arranging parties for the benefit of the guests, not the venue.
>> No. 20019 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 12:22 pm
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>>20017
I think you misunderstand the motive of businesses.
>> No. 20020 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 12:27 pm
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>>20019
Go on.
>> No. 20021 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 12:49 pm
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>>20016
You won't be thinking that the next time a pair of balls are snuggling your lips.
>> No. 20022 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 12:51 pm
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>>20020
A business throws a Christmas party because it thinks it'll bring the teams closer together and foster good business performance. And any mature business knows that buying before the dullards catch up saves money.
>> No. 20023 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 1:21 pm
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>>20022
No point booking a Christmas party when you've no idea whether the intended guests can make it, or even if they're still going to be around.
>> No. 20025 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 1:30 pm
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>>20023
Incorrect. The business will very likely still be there in six months time and so will some or most of its employees. You can deal with the situation of staff leaving as and when it arises. I'd suggest it goes without saying that an employee who left the company before Christmas can, depending on the atmosphere between the two parties, attend anyway or alternatively have their deposit refunded.

If you can't make a space in your diary for your work Christmas party, you evidently don't care much about or enjoy your work. They've given you six fucking months to reschedule everything else and they're going to host it early so it doesn't conflict with family commitments. Grow up, man.
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6th July 2015
Monday 1:46 pm
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>>20023
The other way of looking at it is that the business doesn't much care whether a single individual turns up or not. If you can't organise your diary very well, don't commit, don't turn up and run the risk of your career suffering for it.
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6th July 2015
Monday 1:50 pm
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>>20025
>The business will very likely still be there in six months time and so will some or most of its employees.
And what about anyone joining the business? "Sorry guys, you can't come because we already set the numbers four months ago and we can't add another ten now."

>If you can't make a space in your diary for your work Christmas party, you evidently don't care much about or enjoy your work.
Yeah, it's definitely that, and nothing to do with work presuming they can make plans for my time at Christmas. Maybe I was going to be away with family I hardly ever see. Maybe I was going to go to a customer's party. You have a very warped idea of what caring about your work means.

>They've given you six fucking months to reschedule everything else
Why should I reschedule everything else if the party's in the evening, after they've stopped paying us? Who do they think they are, Greece?

>and they're going to host it early so it doesn't conflict with family commitments.
Define "early". Black Friday evening isn't "early" by any stretch.
>> No. 20028 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 1:58 pm
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>>20027
>work presuming they can make plans for my time at Christmas
You don't have to go, lad.
>> No. 20029 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:05 pm
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>>20026
I don't really see why anyone should suffer or miss out because they haven't firmed up their personal calendar six months in advance. Who plans the finer details of their life that far ahead? Even the last home move I did was only planned a little over a month out because that's all the certainty anyone could give me. FWIW last year's party was booked in early October, by which point most people had their plans in order and (more importantly) the cover requirements were signed off so we had been able to approve leave.

Of course, perhaps the bigger issue is that we have to pay out of pocket for it, rather than the employer paying for it as is the norm.
>> No. 20030 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:12 pm
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>>20027
>And what about anyone joining the business?
The decent party planner already made allowances for that, duh. Have you ever even run a project dependent on many disparate people? It seems like you couldn't project manage yourself out of a chocolate teapot. And how did you get inside such a mixed metaphor anyway?

You're right to suspect that I don't subscribe to the traditional distinction between work and life. Work is something that happens during life. Work is life. I wouldn't dare work a job that didn't make me happy. I wouldn't dare work with people who didn't make me happy. I will visit family at Christmas, but I'll make equally sure to visit my workmates outside of the workplace because both groups are responsible for my emotional well-being.

Enjoy moaning about your work/life balance, friend.
>> No. 20031 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:21 pm
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>> No. 20032 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:22 pm
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>>20030
>You're right to suspect that I don't subscribe to the traditional distinction between work and life.
Thus your opinion on the subject doesn't matter.

Enjoy your life on the dole, while the rest of us deal with reality.
>> No. 20033 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:29 pm
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>>20032
And yet David Allen's adherents and lots of other people who've read how to organise life find it propels them to executive boards. I'll just stay on JSA though. £70/week is enough for me.
>> No. 20034 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:32 pm
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>>20032

Mirth.

Not him but I took Friday off and took two employees on a major piss-up around London while we sent insulting Whatsapp messages and photos to other employees, then on Sunday I was on a sales call that netted the company a cool 80k profit; as a result I will be spending most of the next week in a celebratory drugs coma. Just because you work in a mediocre office job doesn't mean that the rest of us here do too.

Like >>20030 I would never work a job that didn't allow me to be happy or that would force me into traditional 9-5 Mon-Fri misery.
>> No. 20035 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:34 pm
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>>20033
>lots of other people who've read how to organise life find it propels them to executive boards
Meanwhile, back in the real world ...
>> No. 20036 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:37 pm
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>>20035
You think the real world is what happens to most people. I think the real world is what happens to me and people like me. You probably do too, only you've surrendered, doomed to be like most people. I don't mind you doubting my words. You need to tell yourself that I'm full of shit to get up in the morning and be miserable.
>> No. 20038 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:40 pm
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>>20034
>I would never work a job that didn't allow me to be happy or that would force me into traditional 9-5 Mon-Fri misery.
That's fine. Hopefully you get lucky and land yourself such a job. Meanwhile the rest of us deal with the reality that you can't always get the job you want, and unless you're privileged enough to know the people at the top, no amount of fiddling around the fringes will change this fact.
>> No. 20040 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:44 pm
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>>20038

And yet I grew up in a single parent family, in a council house, on benefits, and left school with no GCSEs. How on earth did I get to where I am now? Must have been that darned intangible privilege again; born with a tin spoon in my mouth, I was.
>> No. 20041 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:47 pm
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>>20040
Yes, it's not unusual for people in your circumstances to end up on the dole.
>> No. 20043 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 2:52 pm
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>>20041

Either you're attempting, poorly, to be funny or you failed to read >>20034 at all. Either way, poor show lad.
>> No. 20052 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 4:54 pm
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>>20043

He's saying that not everyone from your situation will have the same life path you have.

Yes, I know that makes you feel even more special and important, but you seem unpleasant when you're so boastful about it. I'm sure you've worked very hard and we're all very impressed, but you of all people should be able to recognise that climbing out of the slums and on to the throne isn't something that can be done without a lot of luck.
>> No. 20053 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>20052

> He's saying that not everyone from your situation will have the same life path you have.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent of his post at all.

> but you of all people should be able to recognise that climbing out of the slums and on to the throne isn't something that can be done without a lot of luck

I'll definitely agree with you as regards luck, but >>20038 specifically said

> unless you're privileged enough to know the people at the top, no amount of fiddling around the fringes will change this fact

which was what I was moaning about. Unless you're going to start telling me to go and check my luck privilege.
>> No. 20054 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 5:25 pm
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>>20053
You're aware that the word "privileged" already had a meaning before the crazies hijacked it, right?
>> No. 20055 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 5:30 pm
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>>20054

Yes; originally it meant "private law" but is more commonly used to describe a special entitlement, usually obtained by birth (such as money, land, titles, etc).

I still don't see what that has to do with hard work and luck, however.
>> No. 20056 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 5:35 pm
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>>20055
No, lad. In between those two times. After the "private law" bit but before the "white penis guilt" bit. As in the phrase "an honour and a privilege".
>> No. 20063 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 7:44 pm
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>>20053

Lad come on, it isn't hard to grasp. The point is that while there are always things you can do to improve your chances in life, and it is a person's responsibility to do so, nobody's disagreeing with that- the fact remains that for some unfortunate sod in some circumstances, all the effort in the world might get them nowhere.

It's not that you've had good fortune getting where you are, but that a lot of people out there simply have bad fortune. A lot of them are also feckless idiots, but that's not part of this discussion.

Imagine if just one event had gone differently in your life. Something could have gone differently in some alternate that had a knock on effect on everything else, leaving you in a totally different situation. I could travel back in time and kill a fly on your window in 1996, and watch as it results in your modern self turning out as a smackhead who sucks off black men for money.

Have some humility. Your current egotism comes off as simple lack of gratitude- You had the good fortune to be born in a country that affords you the opportunities you have had in life. You had a family that whilst not ideal, at least instilled you with a strong work ethic. You have lots to be thankful for.
>> No. 20064 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 7:53 pm
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>>20063
>it isn't hard to grasp.

This moronic, overused cliché needs to stop. It's patronising and boring.
>> No. 20065 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 8:02 pm
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Those pop up messages on website asking you to subscribe to a mailing list. And those survey ones too.
>> No. 20070 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 8:56 pm
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>>20065
I don't know what's worse, the ones that pop up straight away, or the ones that wait 15-30 seconds or try and grab your attention when you hit the bottom of the page.
>> No. 20071 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 10:24 pm
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>>20056

That is the sixth definition in the dictionary and is actually a simile. By using privilege in this way you are saying that the pleasure is so great that you feel privileged to be partaking in e.g. an event. Stop being an idiot.
>> No. 20073 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 10:35 pm
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And here again we see that most resilient of species, the cunt, putting on a display for the crowd in his determination to demonstrate that among those present he, and he alone, is right. While he finds his own display to be a vital defence of his honour, for most around him the open waving of the penis is, as expected, an entirely tedious affair.
>> No. 20074 Anonymous
6th July 2015
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>20021

I checked to see if I got my ego boosting reply. But all I got was a reminder that I don't have a boyfriend.
>> No. 20075 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 1:45 am
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>>20074
Why are you fishing for compliments on an anonymous imageboard, you insufferable, fat, attention-seeking cunt?

Try the gonewild subs on reddit. You utter piece of trash. Fucking pond scum.
>> No. 20077 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 1:59 am
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>>20075

I meant that getting any reply was a boost to my ego, in a sort of knowing "that's silly because this is .gs" way. I'm sorry I gave your tiny mind an embolism, you embarrassing, list writing, dunce.

I'm really aghast at how thick and belligerent you are. You've really put a dampener on my 7/7 tenth anniversary day. I hope you're happy.

And for the record, I don't even know enough about Reddit to get to "gonewild", not because I'm a hip internet dude, unlike you, but because I find the UI confusing.
>> No. 20078 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 2:21 am
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>>20077
My advice still stands. You will get validated and loved for your disgusting fat rolls over at the gonewild subreddits. Be a woman and fish for compliments there.
>> No. 20079 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 2:43 am
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>>20078

That is some hilarious back peddling, you don't even know what you're angry about now. I'm sure you're in far better shape than I am, /r9k/lad.
>> No. 20080 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 2:51 am
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>>20079
Oh, I thought you weren't internet savvy. I gave you good advice on when and where to attention-whore. So fuck off and do it.

Not only does your kind attention-whore and fish for compliments on facebook, twitter, instagram et al. You also have to come to anonymous imageboards and carry on being a cunt, like you were born to be. You fucking fat bitch.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 20081 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 2:57 am
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>>20080

>I meant that getting any reply was a boost to my ego, in a sort of knowing "that's silly because this is .gs" way.

I can't see what I've left for you to misunderstand.
>> No. 20082 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 3:50 am
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>>20080
You really are getting extraordinarily cross over the lad's throwaway comment.
>> No. 20083 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 11:59 am
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>>20080

Is it over? Is /r9k/lad finally gone?

2 threads he has shitted up with misogyny.
>> No. 20084 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 4:09 pm
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>>20083

I'm not even a girl and I incurred his all but flaccid wroth.

More pressingly, liquorice is rubbish. It's like a sweet for people who just don't like sweets.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 20085 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 4:39 pm
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>>20084
Mate, liquorice is fantastic. With some sherbet to dip it into as well, lovely stuff. I just googled "liquorice and dip" and I suggest you all do the same to find lovely images of old-fashioned sweets.
>> No. 20086 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 4:46 pm
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>>20085

>liquorice and dip
Sounds like a euphemism for interracial porn.
>> No. 20087 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 4:55 pm
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>>20085

Scandinavian Liquorice is where it's at, it's salty and your body will think it's some caustic matter than liquorice, but it's amazing when you get used to it.
>> No. 20088 Anonymous
7th July 2015
Tuesday 5:54 pm
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>>20080
2.51 am and his booze had clearly run out and none of the fat bitches online were responding to him anymore, very amusing indeed.
>> No. 20108 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 1:17 pm
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High street clothing with random American city, state, university or sports team names on them. It's fucking cringey. River Island seem to be the worst offenders, having looked it up. The first page of their men's tee-shirts section on their website is mostly vests that say "Miami" or "SAN FRAN" on them, with the most garish one being a floral print that has "HARLEM BRONX" emblazoned right across the chest.

The attached image bothers me the most, because they've obviously "made up" the Chicago Wolves American football team without first checking that there wasn't already a professional ice hockey team by that name.

Are we really that desperate to be America that we would bootleg their lifestyles onto wearable statements? Don't answer that.
>> No. 20109 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>20108

I was walking down the high street in Geneva the other week past all the very expensive designer shops. One of them was called 'Sheffield'. I think hokey football jerseys for the great unwashed, is a lesser sin that reverance of northern mining towns in the name of pretention for the so-called elite.
>> No. 20110 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 4:11 pm
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Why the hell do they seem to absolutely HAVE to fly past you barely 50 cm away when there is a whole road (10 yards wide at least) free of any kind of traffic?

[x] Moan
>> No. 20111 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 4:21 pm
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>>20110
Down my way, cyclists seem to cycle mainly on the pavement, except for the rare example of a decent segregated cycle path, where they insist on using the road and holding up the buses instead.
>> No. 20112 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 5:55 pm
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>>20108
>Are we really that desperate to be America that we would bootleg their lifestyles onto wearable statements?

There must be a good reason most of the world tries to ape American culture. But still... at least our poor attempts at it are vaguely convincing.
>> No. 20113 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 6:31 pm
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>>20112
They're not convincing and they're every bit as embarrassing as that jacket.
>> No. 20114 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 11:44 pm
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>>20113
Does it make me a hipster that I'd quite like a (slightly better designed) one of those jackets?
>> No. 20115 Anonymous
9th July 2015
Thursday 11:59 pm
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>>20114
Mate, go comb your fucking topknot.
>> No. 20116 Anonymous
10th July 2015
Friday 12:06 am
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>>20114
No, but it does make you tasteless.
>> No. 20117 Anonymous
10th July 2015
Friday 12:09 am
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>>20116
I'd pair it with a black t-shirt that just says "IRONIC, SELF-REFERENTIAL STATEMENT" in white Arial Bold across the chest.
>> No. 20118 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 9:00 am
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We've just changed broadband provider and Pornhub is automatically blocked by Sky's broadband shield. My other half set it all up so I don't know the log in details to change it and I don't know how well it'd go down if I ask her for them solely because I may fancy a crafty wank in the future.
>> No. 20119 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 9:40 am
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>>20118

If you voted Tory I am going to piss myself with laughter.
>> No. 20120 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 10:18 am
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>>20118

Explain to her that not only porn sites are blocked but an array of "adult-themed" websites. Dig up the zillion and one old Register et al articles mocking the porn filters for blocking totally innocuous sites for being "adult-themed". We can get you through this lad.
>> No. 20121 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 10:32 am
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>>20118

If your other half would have any objection beyond mild amusement should you walk into the living room one day and loudly exclaim "WIFE, YOU HAVE DONE THE INTERNET WRONG, MY GENTLEMAN'S LEISURE PURSUITS ARE DASHED! HAND OVER THE PASSWORD FORTHWITH", then I think you need to get a new one.
>> No. 20122 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 10:49 am
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>>20120
I think you're on to summat here. If I show her the screen saying the Sky Shield has blocked something along the lines of "ducks wearing silly hats" instead of "women taking it right in the chocolate bon bon factory" and ask her for the details to sort it out then this may work.
>> No. 20123 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 11:04 am
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>>20122
You could also tell her that she needs to remove the block so that you can buy her all those vibrators she wants.
>> No. 20124 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 12:46 pm
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>>20122
Why are you even with this woman if you feel a need to manipulate her so she'll let you use your own internet connection without getting mardy?
>> No. 20125 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 12:50 pm
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why don't you just ask for the login details without saying why you daffy twat? If she demands to know why just say you want to know just in case you need it in future.
>> No. 20126 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 1:16 pm
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>>20125

Just make up something suitably boring about port forwarding or billing.
>> No. 20127 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 1:16 pm
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>>20118
Knock her up, then submit mumsnet and netmums etc to the filter people on the grounds that allowing the under-aged to access them is encouraging them to have sex and get pregnant, so it's mature content. Then, when she squirts out your progeny, she'll have to lift the filter for herself in order to talk about penis-washing cups with all the other mums.
It's foolproof.
>> No. 20128 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 4:38 pm
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>>20121
Audible mirth.
>> No. 20129 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 4:51 pm
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>>20124
A lot of people view their partner partaking in solo masturbation as... Well, not cheating, but like they're not satisfying them or something. Especially if porn is involved. Nutters.
>> No. 20130 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 5:06 pm
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>>20129
I like teasing my missus if I find what she has been having a solitary fumble to on the internet history - lezzers electric shocking each other was one of them. I make sure I delete mine.
>> No. 20131 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 5:19 pm
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>>20129
Yes, stupid people. If I found my partner had been fapping to something I'd fap to it, and the idea of them fapping to it, myself.
>> No. 20132 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 5:47 pm
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>>20129
They aren't nutters. Not fulfilling your partner's sexual needs will play on your insecurities and you will feel unwanted and undesired. it isn't nice.
>> No. 20133 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 5:54 pm
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>>20132

The idea of my missus frigging herself silly whenever she wants honestly doesn't bother me at all, as long as she doesn't do it while I'm lying next to her crying myself to sleep. muffled sob
>> No. 20134 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 5:55 pm
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>>20132
That's all fair enough, but when you bear in mind your average bloke over the age of sixteen can get himself in a hell of a sex tizz just by accidentally thinking about boobs from time to time then it becomes a bit unreasonable to expect any woman to spread her legs and grant entry every time her fella fancies knocking one off
>> No. 20135 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>20134
Isn't that what marriage is for?
>> No. 20136 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 7:04 pm
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>>20134
I'm talking about acting on your desires. Your wife would feel inadequate if you lot were watching the TV and you decided to "right love, I'll just go have a wank," every now and again. You might have a wonderful marriage, and she might understand, and that's good for you. It isn't fair to try and invalidate other people's feelings of insecurity regarding their undesirability just because you are and your wife are so great.
>> No. 20137 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 7:11 pm
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>>20136
This. The solution is to watch something utterly depraved, like whatever boundaries the Japanese are breaking now, so that she can see it isn't her fault she can't satisfy you because you're a sicko it isn't physically possible for her to be able to do so.
>> No. 20138 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 7:31 pm
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>>20137

No because then she will feel guilty that she isn't a tentacle beast and can't satisfy you.
>> No. 20139 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 7:50 pm
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Why would you even start seeing a woman if she can't fill your holes with several dozen egg laying appendages?
>> No. 20140 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 7:52 pm
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>>20139
Because not all of us live in Norfolk.
>> No. 20141 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:01 pm
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>>20140
Poor souls.
>> No. 20142 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:15 pm
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Lads, I'm saved. All I need to do is open an incognito top and it works.

I'm going to have a crafty wank now to celebrate.
>> No. 20143 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:21 pm
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>>20142
You should feel ashamed of yourself that your wife can't satisfy all of your sexual needs.
>> No. 20144 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:33 pm
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>>20143
Sometimes you just need a good old tug.
>> No. 20145 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:46 pm
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>>20142
An incognito top? Wouldn't you prefer an incognito shandy in this weather?
>> No. 20146 Anonymous
11th July 2015
Saturday 8:51 pm
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>>20145
Hand shandy, IYKWIM.

Sorry, in my eagerness to rub one out I didn't notice auto correct changes.
>> No. 20147 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 7:24 pm
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>>20142

That's all t takes? Hilarious.
>> No. 20148 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 7:37 pm
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>>20147
Unfortunately not. Turns out there's a watershed, where you can wank to your heart's content between 8pm and 5:30am. She's given me the password so now Pornhub is on the safe list.
>> No. 20149 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>>20148
>watershed (n.)
>"line separating waters flowing into different rivers," 1803, from water (n.1) + shed in a topographical sense of "ridge of high ground between two valleys or lower ground, a divide," perhaps from shed (v.) in its extended noun sense of "the part of the hair of the head" (14c.). Perhaps a loan-translation of German Wasser-scheide. Figurative sense is attested from 1878. Meaning "ground of a river system" is from 1878.

It's weird how we use that word.
>> No. 20150 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 8:21 pm
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>>20149
You have just reminded my that I'm missing Shed of the Year on 4.
>> No. 20151 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 8:27 pm
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>>20150
When that came on while I was channel surfing the other week I instantly thought this would be .gs's favourite show.
>> No. 20152 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 8:32 pm
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Vice articles aren't that shit, but they do seem average about 200 words.
>> No. 20153 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 10:49 pm
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>>20152

*to average

What is wrong with me!?

/101/ing my own illiteracy.
>> No. 20154 Anonymous
12th July 2015
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>20151

They mostly seem like pretentious twats. Only lifestyle telly could take the simple proletarian pleasure of shed life and turn it into petit-bourgeois one-upmanship. I'd rather see a "real sheds" competition, for people who have a lightly rotted larchlap 8x6 containing a brown velour armchair, a kerosene heater, a couple of yellowing cannabis plants and a stack of old wank mags.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThOOrac-KQ
>> No. 20155 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 1:48 am
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>>20154
Sorry mate, but you're simply being exposed to the reality of shed life adherents. True proles do not have sheds unless, having been forced out of the property market, they are forced by their circumstances to rent one as their primary domicile.
>> No. 20156 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 9:20 am
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I hate it when trailers for movies/video games get the NDA treatment. See the various trailers exhibited at comic con this week being taken down.

It's just a fucking trailer. I mean I get the reason they do this but when it comes down to it, it's hardly the same as an entire movie being uploaded to youtube.
>> No. 20157 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 9:55 am
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Not to get /emo/ so a pre-emptive sage is required but when your mates get in a relationship and will not even give you and others the time of day afterwards. I can't even bring it up as the usual retort is "well you're just jealous that you're single". This shit was common when I was a teenager but now that I'm nearing my 30s it's getting tedious. Am I doing relationships wrong because I always made time for all my friends even during a relationship?
>> No. 20158 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 11:03 am
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>>20157
Sounds like you're just jealous that you're single.
>> No. 20159 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 12:51 pm
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>>20157
My so-called friends don't make time for me even when we're all single :(
>> No. 20160 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 9:26 pm
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The new series of Dragons' Den is shit. It has become some weird X Factor for crap businesses. They have replaced Theo Paphitis with a guy who looks like the bloated corpse of Theo Paphitis.
>> No. 20161 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 9:30 pm
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>>20160
We're leasing the bloated corpse of Theo Paphitis from the Greeks as part of the bailout.
>> No. 20162 Anonymous
13th July 2015
Monday 9:51 pm
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>>20160

Did they actually hire him because he looks a bit like Paphitis? It does seem like their main demographic is so old they might not notice.

Fortunately for me, I've always thought it was shit.
>> No. 20163 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 1:10 am
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Dumb offer.
>> No. 20164 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 2:24 am
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My mate got cheated on and was looking like moving on amicably, but her (ex) missus stole money out her current account so she smashed her PS4 up as retribution. Cue WW3.

I'm just annoyed she didn't tell anyone she was planning on doing it, I'd have offered to "dispose" of it in an eco friendly manner.

I can't really blame her though. If I was in her shoes, I'd be howling at the moon. Still, poor PS4.
>> No. 20165 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 2:49 am
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>>20163
The one next to it's equally dumb, though it's only overcharging by 60p rather than a quid.
>> No. 20166 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 3:31 am
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>>20164

Hell hath no fury.

I suppose my revenge tactic is to shag whichever of their friends they expressed the most jealousy towards so I'm no better.
>> No. 20167 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 8:00 am
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>>20163
The annoying thing about mouthwash, is that the big 1L bottles are rarely any cheaper than the small ones.
>> No. 20168 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 8:02 am
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>>20163 >>20165
You've not provided us enough information for the offer to be unambiguously considered "dumb". For all we can see there are other products in the offer that individually are more expensive.
>> No. 20169 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 9:57 am
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>>20168

Unfortunately it's not a "mix and match" offer like you sometimes see in the fresh meat and poultry aisle but only applies to Listerine mouthwashes that cost £2 each. Even so, I've never seen anything in a "mix and match" offer that costs less on its own than the mean price of the mixed and matched items (e.g. you don't see things that cost less than £3.30 in a 3 for 10 offer, even if other more costly items are available. Supermarkets generally have the common sense to mark up the individual pack prices to make the 3 for 10 or whatever offer seem particularly enticing).

Sage well and truly check for trudging through the Tesco website to find the deal in question, especially because I'm not even the chap who posted it in the first place.

While we're here I'd also like to 101 paltry supermarket discounts of the type regularly seen in the ubiquitous Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn, where the shelves often proudly and loudly display discounts of anywhere between 1 and 5 cents.
>> No. 20170 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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>>20169
I saw a 1p discount in Aldi for cottage cheese.
>> No. 20171 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 9:25 pm
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>>20169
>Even so, I've never seen anything in a "mix and match" offer that costs less on its own than the mean price of the mixed and matched items

I've seen Asda cheesy garlic bread at £1 each or 2 for £4. Usually it's Tesco who do cock ups like this.
>> No. 20172 Anonymous
14th July 2015
Tuesday 11:48 pm
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>>20171
I remember once seeing in a local chain a tag that said "£1.50; 0 for £2.00". I also saw in my local Tesco the same product in different places advertised as 2 for £2 and 2 for £3. (The lower price had expired about a week previously. An innocent mistake, I'm sure.)
>> No. 20173 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 2:50 pm
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Horrendous bruises from attempting front squats today. I'm going to look like a battered wife tomorrow.
>> No. 20174 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 5:31 pm
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>>20173
Get yasen on some Zerchers, lad.
>> No. 20175 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>20174

Is this some kind of lifter's newspeak?
>> No. 20176 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 6:12 pm
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I should have bought Football Manager when it was a tenner on Steam.
>> No. 20177 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 8:20 pm
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I know there's been an emo thread tangent about the exact same thing but this pisses me off so much I'm going to /101/ it.

Basically what they are saying here is "I'm too lazy to hold a conversation, so you should do it for me."

As the other poster said, "hello" is and unviersally accepted way to start a conversation.
>> No. 20178 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 8:25 pm
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>>20177


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3s6TfiA8c8
>> No. 20179 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>20177

Those kinds of lists are really quite funny, seeing them outside of the context of a dating website. It hits home that they're a bit of a last resort for all concerned if it's necessary to put up so many barriers.
>> No. 20180 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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>>20178
>> No. 20181 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>20180

Haha shit I'm an idiot, this WiFi must just be blocking embeds. I'll go now.
>> No. 20182 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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>>20178
Not done like that it isn't. Poor James.
>> No. 20183 Anonymous
15th July 2015
Wednesday 10:02 pm
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>>20177

I dunno', I think it says "I shift through 15 thousand 'eyy bb' messages a day, please bounce if that's all you're here to say".
>> No. 20184 Anonymous
16th July 2015
Thursday 3:25 am
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>>20177
>Basically what they are saying here is "I'm too lazy to hold a conversation, so you should do it for me."
You do realise that they'll continue the conversation if they're interested? Just because you start a conversation with something more than "hello" doesn't mean you're going into a monologue. There's nothing wrong with expecting some effort on the part of the person initiating the conversation. If you're messaging the person, chances are there's something that appeals to you about them, or something you have in common, something that can evoke something a bit more substantial than "hello".

>As the other poster said, "hello" is and unviersally accepted way to start a conversation.
https://youtu.be/lpkiIaFv5As?t=3m10s
Hello is worthless.
>> No. 20199 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 7:47 am
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I've just seen someone rant that they've been discriminated against because of their skin. Their arms and hands are covered in really shitty tattoos and a school hasn't hired them as a teacher because of them. Don't get shitty tattoos on your hands if you want to be a teacher.
>> No. 20200 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 9:07 am
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>>20199

Hipster or criminal?
>> No. 20201 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 10:21 am
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>>20200
That rockabilly pin-up shit. Card symbols, dice, pink leopard spots, writing all over her knuckles and hands, etc.
>> No. 20203 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 11:32 am
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>>20201
Is she sure they didn't just decide not to hire her because she's a shit teacher?
>> No. 20204 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 12:56 pm
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>>20199
Why does having tattoos make you a bad teacher, grandpa?
>> No. 20206 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 1:10 pm
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>>20204

They don't, but it's not exactly a secret that lots of institutions still don't view heavy tattoo coverage as a professional boon.

I'm not saying I agree with that policy, because I don't, but if a person either doesn't realise the rules or just flat out assumes the rules don't apply to them, then they're a fucking idiot and probably shouldn't teach.
>> No. 20208 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 1:45 pm
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>>20206
It's the duty of all good citizens to defy bad rules.
>> No. 20210 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 2:49 pm
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>>20208
Oh, billbob.
>> No. 20211 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 3:40 pm
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>Tattoos
Anyone dumb enough to get one doesn't deserve a job, scrub that floor with pride mate.
>> No. 20212 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 3:53 pm
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>>20211
Well, aren't you a bell-end.
>> No. 20213 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 4:42 pm
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>>20211

Don't skip sociology to smoke weed next time, you learn important stuff about society in there.
>> No. 20214 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 5:59 pm
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>>20204
Getting extremely gaudy tattoos in places which are generally hard to cover up isn't the mark of genius, especially if you want to work in the teaching profession.

You might as well glue a giant phallus to your head or wear a T-shirt which flashes "I make poor life choices" in huge lights.
>> No. 20219 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 6:31 pm
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>>20214

>Yeah, I'm going to cover my body in permanent anti-establishment markings!

>The establishment don't accept me, the prejudiced bastards.
>> No. 20220 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 6:36 pm
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>>20214
No, you see, what you've done there is just re-word slightly the very same thing that was questioned in the first place.
>> No. 20223 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 8:34 pm
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>>20206
>I'm not saying I agree with that policy, because I don't, but if a person either doesn't realise the rules or just flat out assumes the rules don't apply to them, then they're a fucking idiot and probably shouldn't teach.
Have you considered that maybe he understands that the rules exist and are being applied to him, and yet he is positing that the rules themselves are discriminatory?
>> No. 20224 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 8:48 pm
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Lad, they're shit tattoos. It's not that tattoos themselves are bad, it's that she's got really tacky tattoos.
>> No. 20225 Anonymous
17th July 2015
Friday 11:33 pm
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>>20223

If you apply to jobs you're well aware you won't get then complain about it later, you probably shouldn't be allowed to work anywhere.
>> No. 20226 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 2:04 am
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>>20225
But nobody was well aware they weren't going to get the job. They were aware they probably weren't going to get the job if the panel was composed of massive bellends, but ultimately blaming the victim does nothing - 100% of massive bellendery is caused by massive bellends, such as retards who think that a tattoo disqualifies someone from being anything other than a blood donor.
>> No. 20227 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 2:06 am
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>>20226

Fight the power lad! Don't let anyone tell you not to get a face tattoo!
>> No. 20228 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 2:15 am
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>>20227
Yeah, we don't want teachers with tattoos. Or loud clothing. Or dark skin for that matter. Oh, and definitely no vaginas. I mean, these are entirely reasonable restrictions, right? After all, who wants to be taught by a negress? If you haven't got a penis, you've got no business being in a classroom. How are you supposed to ruthlessly nonce the pupils without a cock?
>> No. 20230 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 2:21 am
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>>20228
>>/iq/53169
>> No. 20231 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 3:43 pm
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Maybe some places discriminate against people with visible tattoos. However, in my experience, having quite prominent goat skulls, crosses and generally edgy teen metalhead type shit all over my forearms (and I almost always leave my sleeves rolled up), has never stopped me getting a job.

I would like to posit that people who think they are discriminated upon because of their tattoos or appearance, are actually fucking idiots, and their idiocy was enough to stand on it's own merits. Their choice in bodily decoration was, at most, a secondary confirmation of their status as a moron.

If you are genuinely the best person for a job, and you impress the interviewer and demonstrate your talent, you would get the job regardless of your physical, bodily appearance.
>> No. 20232 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 3:59 pm
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>>20231
>If you are genuinely the best person for a job, and you impress the interviewer and demonstrate your talent, you would get the job regardless of your physical, bodily appearance.
This assumes the interviewer is competent, and unfortunately not all counter-examples can be written off as sour grapes.
>> No. 20233 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:01 pm
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>>20231
>If you are genuinely the best person for a job, and you impress the interviewer and demonstrate your talent, you would get the job regardless of your physical, bodily appearance.

Tattoos are a big black mark against your suitability however. You'd have to be a fucking genius to overcome it. Most jobs involve interaction with clients or customers.
>> No. 20234 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:14 pm
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>>20231
>If you are genuinely the best person for a job, and you impress the interviewer and demonstrate your talent, you would get the job regardless of your physical, bodily appearance.
On what fucking planet?
>> No. 20235 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:18 pm
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>>20234
None, because physical and bodily appearance are part of your suitability to the job in a lot of cases.
>> No. 20236 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:26 pm
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Lads, you've all missed the point.

It's not that she has tattoos, it's that she has shit tattoos. Really shit tattoos. She asked everyone to share a rant she posted on Facebook to try and 'shame' the school. Then, when evidently the school wasn't 'shamed' enough to offer her a job, she started ranting about conformity. In short, she's a dopey bint and one of those ten-a-penny lasses you see going for the pin-up look which is far more common than they make out and it's ridiculous to go on about conformity when they all look the same.
>> No. 20237 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:36 pm
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>>20233
All the more reason I'm happy I don't have or want a shit "real world" job and move in circles filled with nice, logical and mature people who couldn't give two shits about anything other than competence. Science is decent, you should all give it a go.
>> No. 20238 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:43 pm
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>>20237

How many women have you met in science with fake tan and manicured nails? How many men with gym rat physiques and elaborately gelled hair?

Every field is subject to tribalism.
>> No. 20239 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:55 pm
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>>20233
>Tattoos are a big black mark against your suitability however.
On what basis? What particular qualification would this cause you to fail? I'm still thinking the tattoos were nothing to do with it and she was in fact simply not as good as she thought she was.
>> No. 20240 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 5:09 pm
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>>20238

I've personally met loads of lassies like that, they tend to work in biological fields but aren't exclusive to them while all the petro-chemical processing lads I went to University with were pretty boys and most of them had tattoos.

I wouldn't say I was particularly well formed or fashionable, even though I do alright in the dating game, but they definitely exist. Not all STEM graduates look like the archetypal High School geek or tattooed social outcast perpetuated by the Media, or even the majority of them.

What you've just said is essentially discrimination. The only form of tribalism present in STEM is a disdain for religion and anti-science movements like "Anti-vaxxers."

Having tattoos, shit or otherwise, does not negatively impact your chance of getting a good job with a STEM degree.
>> No. 20241 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 5:33 pm
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>>20240
Chucking in my twopence here, but every single lass I've ever met doing Geography has been at least a 6/10. What is it about longshore drift that attracts the fit ones?
>> No. 20242 Anonymous
19th July 2015
Sunday 1:11 am
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>>20238
Quite a lot of both, actually. >>20240 got there before me and hit the nail largely on the head, though at my old institution there are quite a few physics lecturers that are devout Christians and I haven't found a uni yet with a shortage of Islamic research staff, so I wouldn't agree entirely on the disdain towards religion. Worrying about whether or not your appearance is going to stop you getting a job is such a non-thing.
>> No. 20243 Anonymous
19th July 2015
Sunday 1:54 am
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Use of word actually

Gets job in call centre.
>> No. 20245 Anonymous
19th July 2015
Sunday 9:34 am
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Those Sunday Brunch style banter programs. Or is it programmes?
>> No. 20246 Anonymous
19th July 2015
Sunday 2:59 pm
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>>20245
>n. & v. Chiefly British
>programme (ˈprəʊɡræm) or program
>2. (Broadcasting) a performance or series of performances, often presented at a scheduled time, esp on radio or television

Oh, and I agree. For various reasons I've been subjected to the talk show broadcast on Radio 1 between 9 and 10pm this week, and the callers invariably destroy what little faith I had left in humanity.
>> No. 20247 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 10:14 am
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I'm just about to get my hair cut by someone who has just popped out for a cig break.
>> No. 20248 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 10:22 am
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>>20247
Urgh. Talk about enthusiasm and passion for the job.
>> No. 20249 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 10:53 am
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>>20248
Fortunately her fingers didn't smell but I caught her trying to pick her nose with her thumb on the sly. She's actually done a very good job, even if it cost £14.50 for the privilege. P
>> No. 20250 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 11:39 am
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>>20248
Call me a poof but I pay a bit more (£16.50) to get a decent haircut at a decent place and I've had a chat about the whole profession.

Apparently it isn't a pleasant one, and I have no idea why anyone would jump at the idea of cutting hair for a living. As a barber/hairstylist, you don't work at a salon, you rent a space there and how you get and maintain customers is up to you. If you're shit and/or rude, people will obviously chose someone else. That's why a lot of them do the whole chatting / being fake friendly to you, they just want to have some rapport.

Obviously women get much more customers, but that doesn't come with it's hindrances. My barber told me that she gets regularly hit on, from innocent flirting, to borderline harassment. Not to mention you have to touch and handle peoples disgusting, dandruff, grease-ridden hair.

Those barbers you see in shit areas appear to me like fronts for less that savoury people handling dirty money. But that's just my observation.
>> No. 20251 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 11:45 am
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>>20250
My £9 barber's pretty cool apart from the anti-immigration rants. He owns the place himself and seemed to care about giving me a cut that would last and grow out how I wanted it to. Admittedly the cut he gave me last is a bit Hitler-youth but that's quite trendy these days.
>> No. 20252 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 11:54 am
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>>20251
Thats quite funny, as a lot of barbers tend to be immigrants. There is a shop right around the corner with a rather innocuous name "star barbers", and they have their Koran visible on the table. I also noticed subtle references to Kurdistan, so they are alright in my book - still, a £5 haircut looks like a £5 haircut.
>> No. 20253 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 1:34 pm
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>>20252
Do white people get a bit anxious at the sight of a Quran and/or the word Allah?
>> No. 20254 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 2:48 pm
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>>20253
You never know lad...
>> No. 20255 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 2:54 pm
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The best barber in my town is a tenner, and the worst barber is £9.

What a difference a quid makes.
>> No. 20256 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 3:41 pm
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>>20255
24 little tenpences.
>> No. 20257 Anonymous
20th July 2015
Monday 3:47 pm
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>>20256

IT'S NOT 1971 ANY MORE, GRANDDAD.

The whole family is worried about you. Last week you were ranting about Ted Heath. Mum says she saw you trying to open a can of beer with a bottle opener. We need to have a serious talk about your care options.
>> No. 20258 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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Would the cunt in Brazil who keeps signing me up for stuff kindly fuck off and learn how to type their email address properly?
>> No. 20259 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 8:10 pm
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>>20258
Start signing him up for stuff. Worse stuff.
>> No. 20260 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 8:15 pm
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>>20259
I can't, because I don't know what their actual email address is. More importantly, it wouldn't work, because clearly they don't know what their actual email address is either.
>> No. 20261 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>20258

There's some cunt named Luke, and every few months I get a barrage of emails from car insurance sites with £2500 quotes for his car.
>> No. 20262 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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>>20257
>> No. 20263 Anonymous
21st July 2015
Tuesday 9:07 pm
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>>20260
>>20261
I'm a frequent complainer about this on here, having the last name Smith and my own name as an Outlook email address is not conducive to a quiet, peaceful inbox. Most recently, a lad from London signed up for POF with my email address, but I was much too preoccupied to properly fuck with him.
>> No. 20264 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 3:26 pm
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I'm listening to Radio 5live. It's just a bunch of middle aged people talking about things that happened a week ago on social media.

It's making me want give up living. Not die, but just give up living.
>> No. 20265 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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I scrolled past someone on Tinder who was genuinely studying HR.
>> No. 20266 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 3:33 pm
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>>20265

I have a friend who does that as a masters. There's a lot to learn.
>> No. 20267 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 3:36 pm
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>>20266
This is what higher education has become. Training courses for a myriad pointless jobs.
>> No. 20268 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 3:57 pm
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>>20267

Not every piece of education has to be for academic purpose, training our society to perform roles has its virtues. I'll grant you I don't think it should be treated as if it were interchangeable with the arts but that problem exists anyway in terms of the validity of different subjects.
>> No. 20269 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 4:54 pm
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Speaking of masters, are they worth doing? I've got a science degree but I'm thinking about doing a financial mathematics masters because it adds to my mathematical skill, programming skills and sort of helps toward my goal of working in management consultancy or finance.

Is it worth it?
>> No. 20270 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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>>20267

Actually it studies HR in an academic way.
>> No. 20271 Anonymous
22nd July 2015
Wednesday 11:39 pm
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>>20270
>it studies
Does this person also reject the notion of a gender binary?
>> No. 20272 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 12:11 am
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>>20271
I think the 'it' in this case is the subject rather than the student.
>> No. 20273 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 2:12 pm
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It appears that due to my irregular working hours (read: dolescum lifestyle) I'm now the unofficial post office for the entire fucking street. I've taken at least 4 packages for houses this week alone. The latest one is what I can only guess is an entire flatpacked sofa taking up half of my fucking front room, because I'm too nice to say no to the harried looking DPD men. I'd better at least get a bloody Christmas card from these houses this year or I'm going on strike.
>> No. 20274 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 2:29 pm
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>>20273

Start selling greeting cards and pick 'n' mix.
>> No. 20275 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 2:36 pm
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>>20273
You're doing a great service, lad. Are you where all of my Amazon Logistics parcels are ending up?

Amazon Logistics to room /101/.
>> No. 20276 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 3:31 pm
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>>20275
I've not yet dealt with Amazon logistics, only DPD, Royal Mail and (shockingly) Yodel. And obviously I always make sure people get their parcels off me, and become quite irate when they're sat in my front room for longer than a day after taking them. I don't want your shit in my house. Surely if you cared about it enough to order it, you'd want to get it as soon as possible and collect it forthwith? Why are you leaving it with me for days? Come pick your bloody parcels up.
>> No. 20277 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>20276
Based on my experiences with Amazon Logistics, you probably never will deal with them first-hand as the driver will just scan the barcode on your parcel when he picks it up from the depot at 9am and then not bother turning up with it.
>> No. 20278 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 4:55 pm
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I've got this tiny, tiny spot on my lip. I'm aware it would be worse if it was huge, but there's something unnecessary about just how small it is.
>> No. 20279 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 5:03 pm
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>>20277

Be fair, sometimes they chuck it over your fence.
>> No. 20280 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 5:55 pm
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>>20276
A neighbour of mine once had a parcel of mine for a week, because Yodel hadn't bothered to put a card through my door.
>> No. 20281 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 6:02 pm
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>>20280
They'd already delivered the parcel. You can't expect them to expend effort delivering a card as well.
>> No. 20282 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 6:14 pm
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>>20280
If I have one of my neighbour's parcels for over 24 hours I knock on their door on an evening to give it to them.
>> No. 20283 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 6:32 pm
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>>20282
>give it to them
That's a bit much to ask. You're already holding their package.
>> No. 20284 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 8:04 pm
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>>20283
I've always found package-holding to be a fairly natural precursor to giving it to someone.
>> No. 20285 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 8:42 pm
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>>20284
IYKWIM.
>> No. 20286 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 8:59 pm
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>>20282
Postofficelad here, admittedly I do this as well, or at least put a note through their door letting them know that I have it and what times I'll be in so they can come get it. I make a point of doing this for notoriously bad companies like Yodel, as I know full well what they're like. The important thing is that I resent having to do it, and resent that I just wasted precious minutes of my life carting the flatpack sofa package (which is taller than me) to said neighbour to give it to them and they weren't even fucking in, so I'm going to bloody whinge about it. I am actually now doing the job of an unpaid postie, without so much as a box of Celebrations come December.

They also appear to have discontinued Truffles in Celebrations and those were obviously the best ones, so that can go in /101/ while I'm at it too. Bastards.
>> No. 20287 Anonymous
23rd July 2015
Thursday 9:02 pm
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>>20286
>discontinued Truffles in Celebrations
I got a box of them for Easter and when I realised the truffles were missing, it practically ruined the whole holiday for me.
>> No. 20303 Anonymous
25th July 2015
Saturday 6:08 pm
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Fuck's sake Amazon, get your fucking shit together already.
>> No. 20312 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 6:53 pm
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Sex people. Largely because once you get them onto the topic, it's all they ever fucking go on about.
>> No. 20313 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 7:04 pm
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>>20312
I think this gripe can be covered by "anyone with a hobby they go on exclusively about ad nauseam". "Sex people" can be just as easily substituted for "archaeology people" or "gym people".
>> No. 20314 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 7:58 pm
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>>20313
I count myself as both of the latter.
>> No. 20315 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 8:48 pm
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I was just reminded of a person I have on Facebook (and who had his own thread here before, strangely enough, when he tried to make a YouTube channel for videos explaining the week's new memes from around the internet) who had an entire album on his page entitled "My status pwns", which was filled with screenshots he'd taken of other people's statuses that he had made an unfunny comment on.

This was a number of years ago now, which would normally verify the "Well, we were all dickheads when we were younger" argument, but he's one of those strange men who only hangs around with people a few years younger than him, so he would have been mid twenties at the time.
>> No. 20316 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 8:56 pm
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>>20315
I know someone like this. He did a cover of a Fall Out Boy song called 'Thanks For The Memeries" because he pronounces meme wrong.
>> No. 20317 Anonymous
26th July 2015
Sunday 9:28 pm
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>>20316
The vile lad from my post also pronounced it wrong.
>> No. 20318 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 6:34 pm
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The BBC have a reporter covering the death of Whitney Houston's daughter in Atlanta ... in Los Angeles. He spoke over a bunch of stock and agency pictures, and did a piece to camera in front of the hotel where Whitney died. They could have sent someone to the scene, or they could have done the whole thing in VO. Instead, someone obviously insisted that they absolutely must send a camera out somewhere, but not far enough to do anything useful.
>> No. 20319 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>20318

Would the BBC not already have news crews in and around LA?

I really don't know if it's like garrison type thing or they really do just airdrop them in as and when they're needed. Or in this case "needed".
>> No. 20320 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 7:42 pm
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>>20319
>Would the BBC not already have news crews in and around LA?
Not sure what difference that would make. The story was in Atlanta, on the other side of the country.
>> No. 20321 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 7:59 pm
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>>20315>>20316

You should probably take these people for a pint down by the canal.

>>20320

Ah, yeah, I misunderstood the post.

I don't really understand why the BBC is covering that lady's death though.
>> No. 20322 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 8:05 pm
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>>20321
She's Diana Ross'/Whitney Houston's only child and they died in the bath, just like she did.
>> No. 20323 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>20322

I just really hate that news that seems to exist just to make you slightly more sad. Was Whitney Houston's daughter really a big enough deal in the UK to make it a matter of public interest?
>> No. 20324 Anonymous
27th July 2015
Monday 9:37 pm
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>>20323
I don't watch any of the mainstream news output or read their websites any more. You know they all have some kind of agenda somewhere. I only get my news from sickipedia. It usually at least tries to cheer you up.
>> No. 20326 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 6:24 am
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They're only someone in a wheelchair away from ticking every diversity quota box going.
>> No. 20327 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 7:30 am
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>>20326

Huh, yeah, imagine that, if we started treated spastics like people. Where would the madness end?
>> No. 20328 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 7:46 am
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>>20327
If it was a disabled gay single parent then they'd have been guaranteed to get on the new series, especially if they had a sob story to bleat on about.
>> No. 20329 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 8:16 am
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>>20328

Well, one imagines being a single parent with a disability would be quite difficult, yes.
>> No. 20330 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 12:35 pm
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>>20329
Assuming that a disability would necessarily interfere with the ability to raise a child is disablist, disablistm8.
>> No. 20331 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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>>20326
One in the middle and fourth from the left: smash, everything else: pass. Although I might have the one in the headscarf for afters, if she can make a good profiterole.
>> No. 20332 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829266/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

They're doing a predator sequel, apparently.

Please stop, Hollywood.

>>20330

No really, but keep on being an unpleasant contrary dick head, I'm sure it's bound to be amusing to someone, at some point.
>> No. 20333 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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>>20332
They can't do much worse than Predator 2.

I'm sure I read about a possible Expendables - Predator crossover the other day.
>> No. 20334 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 1:56 pm
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Cecil the lion.
>> No. 20335 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 2:55 pm
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>>20334
Also Jack Churchill wannabes.
>> No. 20336 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 3:35 pm
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>>20334
You must be glad he's dead then.
>> No. 20337 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 3:51 pm
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>>20336
It's all the mock outrage and bandwagon jumping. It's like Kony all over again.
>> No. 20338 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 8:57 pm
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>>20337

As an animal biologist, there is nowt mock about my outrage at a man deliberately coaxing a protected species outside a nature reserve where he could kill it.

Or, the fact that this Lion had an endangered phenotype which has a good chance of going extinct as a result of this. I'm not anti-hunting, but there is no justification for hunting an endangered protected species.

I'm still sore about the guy who killed the last Asiatic Lion knowing it was the last one and killing it anyway, and it happened before I was born.

I don't see why the can't be happy hunting game for food, like springbok and zebra. Trophy killings are the mark of a man with a small willy/woman with an oversized clit, imho.
>> No. 20339 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 8:59 pm
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>>20338
Why would a woman with an oversized clit need to compensate for anything? She could just sit at home prodding her oversized clit and feeling fantastic.
>> No. 20340 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>>20339

Too much testosterone, innit.

Undersized dick - Overcompensates
Oversized clit - High test female, needs to prove herself.
>> No. 20341 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 9:10 pm
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>>20340
If I were a woman and had oversized clitoris and the testosterone-induced male-like sex drive to boot, I'd much rather be sat at home finding new ways to tickle my pickle than out shooting animals. Maybe I'd fuck a lion.
>> No. 20342 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 10:11 pm
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>>20341

That's because you're a man, and most men consider the pinnacle of human satisfaction to be rubbing their turgid members against ever more exotic and pleasurable things.
>> No. 20343 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>20342
I'd fuck the brains out of a lion.
>> No. 20344 Anonymous
30th July 2015
Thursday 11:31 pm
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>>20338
>the last Asiatic Lion
Wikipedia tells me Asiatic Lions still exist. Which species are you talking about?
>> No. 20345 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 2:01 am
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The Evening Standard gave me a good chuckle with headlines like "BAN ILLEGAL GAME HUNTERS."
>> No. 20346 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 2:04 am
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It is for the best. When all the hunting-worthy animals all go extinct, then there won't be any need for all the bullshit surrounding animal protection and whathaveyou.

In fact, maybe all the land will be used for farming.
>> No. 20347 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 2:14 am
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>>20345
Maybe they want to ban the hunting of illegal games. No Thrill Kill for you, laddie.
>> No. 20348 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:26 am
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>>20343

Would you have topped or bottomed for Cecil?
>> No. 20349 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:29 am
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>>20338

Yeah, you can hate the PETA nutters as much as you want.

There's just something particularly concerning about the type of person who specifically and knowingly hunts an endangered animal. Hunting is fine, we are only beasts ourselves after all. But protected animals? On a reserve? In somebody else's country? How much of a dick do you have to be?

I reckon it suggests something seriously psychologically wrong with the guy if he can't be satisfied with shooting any old lion, he has to be the guy who puts an entire species at risk. I bet he gets a right stiffy just thinking about it, and he's wanked himself red raw since he did it. Prick.
>> No. 20350 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 12:21 pm
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>>17297
The general attempts by hardware manufacturers to jew more money out of people. New smartphones with new SD card slots. Macbooks with no access panel.

That, and the pathetic excuses they come up with for it, claiming bollocks like "the market doesn't want SD cards" instead of just admitting they want money for nothing.
>> No. 20351 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 12:25 pm
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>>20350
>smartphones with new no
Also, swipe keyboards with stupid suggestions. I mean, O and E are nowhere near each other.
>> No. 20352 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 12:46 pm
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>>20350
>jew more money out of people
No lad.
>> No. 20353 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 1:33 pm
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>>20349
To be the devil's advocate, he "wasn't aware", that it was a celebrity lion and that it was lured out of the park using approved means.

But he is still a massive ego-driven cunt. He can rot in a Zimbabwean prison for all that matters.
>> No. 20354 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 2:04 pm
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>>20349
Panthera leo is not endangered, outside of Asiatic and West African varieties.
>> No. 20355 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 3:17 pm
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>>20349
I say he suffers from White Guy Syndrome, or WGS, as the professionals call it.
>> No. 20356 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 4:33 pm
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>>20355
He can't dance and doesn't "get" hip-hop?
>> No. 20357 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:15 pm
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>>20356
No, he is rude, entitled, self-absorbed, and selfish enough to go around different countries and do whatever the fuck he wants. Like those cunts who posed in the nude in some religious place in Indochina or whatever, and those other cunts who go to Thailand to fuck little boys. You know, white people stuff.
>> No. 20358 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:29 pm
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>>20357
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
>> No. 20359 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:35 pm
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>>20337
This week we've had a roadside shooting, and an attempted tunnel infiltrator killed. I'm glad to see all the outrage about these things. Oh, wait, what am I talking about? There isn't any outrage about that, because everyone's raving about this fucking lion.
>> No. 20360 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:49 pm
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>>20357
>Like those cunts who posed in the nude in some religious place
How the fuck were they supposed to know the mountain was sacred? The offence was clearly unintended.
>> No. 20361 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:53 pm
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>>20359
I couldn't give the slightest shit. In either case it's thought he was crushed by a lorry, and people being hit by cars isn't really worthy of outrage.
>> No. 20362 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 9:59 pm
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>>20361
That's fine, lad. Keep telling yourself that people storming the Channel Tunnel is perfectly fine, and people getting shot by the roadside is no big deal, but killing a furry thing with four legs is beyond the pale.
>> No. 20363 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 10:01 pm
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>>20362
but m8 e desurved it e woz a bongo tryin too nick my taxs
>> No. 20364 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 10:21 pm
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>>20362

This is a false dichotomy, you can be entirely repulsed by all of those things. Being disgusted by this moronic dentist and his pathetic blood lust doesn't change my feelings about what's happening in Calais.

I think the reason why people latch onto a story like the killing of the lion is because it's simple. What went wrong is clear, and what needs to be done is also. Whereas Calais is a shitstorm and no one's really sure how to fix it. It's annoying, but it can't be helped.
>> No. 20365 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 10:27 pm
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>>20364
>What went wrong is clear, and what needs to be done is also.
What went wrong was that some African guides lured a known animal away from its reserve. What "needs to be done" here? An idiot says something about the dentist.
>> No. 20366 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:26 pm
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>>20360
Classic WGS. One way to undo this is to take your head out of your arse. What do you mean "how did they know?" You retard, because you know, the rest of the world is Britain, and we would all just have a laugh about people parading in the nude near important landmarks.

Twat.
>> No. 20367 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:29 pm
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>>20365
Why is nobody blaming the African guides?
>> No. 20368 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:39 pm
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>>20366
Classic Professionally Offended Syndrome. One way to undo this is to take your head out of your arse. What do you mean "What do you mean "how did they know?""? How are they supposed to know that they're not supposed to do that? You retard, because you know, Britain is some towelhead state and we would all just stone homosexuals and women who dressed immodestly.

Twat.
>> No. 20369 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:50 pm
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>>20367
Because of rape culture and victim blaming. Just like how it's the woman's fault for dressing provocatively, as she was entitled to do, as opposed to, say, the bloke who shoved his dick in her, clearly this whole affair was the fault of the guy who thought he was paying for a legal hunt, as he was entitled to do, as opposed to, say, the ones who went and nicked a lion from a reserve.

Alternatively, because they're black and can do no wrong, or something.
>> No. 20370 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:53 pm
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>>20367
They're being charged with poaching. The guy who actually put an arrow in the lion is facing no legal repercussions.
>> No. 20371 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:53 pm
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It is the weekend, so there are more cunts on .gs than usual.
>> No. 20372 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:55 pm
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>>20368
So if some Inuit came over to England as a tourist and took a shit on your front door 3 times a day, he shouldn't be locked up? He does it in his country, how would he know not to take a shit in front of someone's door?
>> No. 20373 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:57 pm
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>>20370
What an outrage. The ones who broke the law are being pursued and the one who didn't isn't. Well, that's not strictly true. Apparently Zimbabwe is trying to have him extradited.
>> No. 20374 Anonymous
31st July 2015
Friday 11:59 pm
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>>20372
How racialist of you to think that muzzies go around shitting on other people's front doors 3 times a day.
>> No. 20375 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:08 am
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>>20369

There was a point where you needed to stop, and you have clearly passed it.
>> No. 20376 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:11 am
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>>20371

"Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many."
>> No. 20377 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:14 am
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>>20371
I'm starting to think that when people on .gs get irritated about a politically-charged cunt-off and start calling the posters involved cunts, it's because they are utterly bland and vacuous cunts themselves who have no strong opinions about anything and just want to HAVE A LAUGH and THE BANTZ and OH MY GOD THIS IS GETTING SO SERIOUS GUYS.
>> No. 20378 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:19 am
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>>20375
You racist twat. I said Inuit. The proper ones from them colder places. Eskimo is a slur.
>> No. 20379 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:20 am
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>>20370
Oh my. Shame the bastard American won't get what's coming to him.
>> No. 20380 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:23 am
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>>20379
Yeah, what a shame that the nasty American who hasn't broken any laws isn't going to get punished.
>> No. 20381 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:24 am
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>>20380
We will know that after he is investigated and faces a judge and jury. You racist bastard.
>> No. 20382 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:22 am
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>>20365

>An idiot says something about the dentist

An idiot takes his side of the story completely unopposed, it was all the guides fault, honest guv, I had no idea that anything was wrong. Seemed a bit cheap compared to the others but I was sure they were running a legit operation, how were I to know, me being just an innocent dentist who don't know nuffing about hunting and that. Swear on me mum I didn't know.
>> No. 20383 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:30 am
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>>20359

>This week we've had a roadside shooting, and an attempted tunnel infiltrator killed.

Were either of those endangered, or were they more like the wild badgers we need a good fucking culling of.

There's a lot of "Everyone's so outraged about this lion, I'm so contrarian and cynical because I'm not that bothered" posturing going on I reckon. Sort of the inverse of that time Jade Goody died and people pretended to actually give half a shit.
>> No. 20384 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 12:18 pm
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>>20383
I think it's because most of the people outraged about the lion haven't expressed any interest in animal rights/opposing hunting beforehand and will forget all about it whenever the next issue it's fashionable to care about starts trending.
>> No. 20385 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 1:32 pm
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>>20383
>Were either of those endangered
No, but then neither was the lion.
>> No. 20386 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 1:44 pm
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>>20383
Cecil only ever had a Wikipedia article after his death. He was martyred and his legacy enshrined, not endangered.
>> No. 20387 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 1:49 pm
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>>20382
Whatever you say, paedocrablad.
>> No. 20388 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 1:55 pm
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I think it's telling that people are getting outraged over the fact that he killed a beautiful celebrity lion, possibly by mistake of identity on an otherwise legal outing, but nobody said anything when he possibly illegally killed a black bear a few years ago. Racists. #blacklivesmatter #yesallbears
>> No. 20390 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:08 pm
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>>20388
Ah yes, I remember that joke.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHxMT39lNM?start=295
>> No. 20391 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>20390
Topical comedy show researches background facts and makes obvious joke shocker.
>> No. 20392 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:16 pm
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>>20391

What made you think you could pass that off as your own joke? Why not just say, "Yeah, that is where I got it from. Congratulations, we watched the same popular TV show."

The guy calling you out is the only cunt here, lad. Stop being so fragile.
>> No. 20393 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:16 pm
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>>20390
PS fuck you for spoiling that. I TiVo'd it and haven't watched it yet.
>> No. 20394 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:17 pm
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>>20391
I was more concerned with how they - a prime time television show - was more edgy in its telling of the the joke than you were here.
>> No. 20395 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:17 pm
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>>20392
See >>20393.
>> No. 20397 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:21 pm
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>>20393 >>20395
Are you guys for real? You spoiled the show you wanted to watch by pressing play, not me, you dribbling morons.
>> No. 20398 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:23 pm
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>>20397
You don't need to press play, you daft cunt.
>> No. 20399 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 2:28 pm
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>>20398
But before you were saying it's an obvious joke that any topical comedy show with half-decent researchers would have made anyway. Now you're saying I spoiled the show because I alluded to the joke's presence in the abstract? Come on: try to have all your arguments remain consistent with one another.
>> No. 20400 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 3:40 pm
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>>20399
>Now you're saying I spoiled the show because I alluded to the joke's presence in the abstract?
That is how spoilers generally work, lad.
>> No. 20401 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 3:41 pm
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>>20400
If you don't stop whining about absolutely nothing I'm going to make a point of watching that show and shoehorning its jokes into my posts here.
>> No. 20402 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 3:51 pm
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/101/ the mods for not banning >>20350

Not because he's a scummy, sad, Jew-hater, but because he used the word "jew" as an adjective.

Also The Last Leg is fucking terrible, so if you're going get teary about a show being "spoiled" (how the hell you can spoil a comedy talk show I don't know), at least do so about a programme worth watching.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 20403 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 4:51 pm
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>>20402
MODERATOREN = GÖTTER
>> No. 20404 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 6:32 pm
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>>20403
What is the connection between .gs and the German language? I keep seeing (seemingly random) usage across the site. Not any other languages, and not on other imageboards. What am I missing?
>> No. 20405 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 6:54 pm
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>>20404
Er, I wasn't trying to be 'random' here.
>> No. 20406 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>20405
That's not what I was implying. I just meant every time I see it, the use of German seems to be unwarranted and unrelated to the topic at hand. Why did you do it here?
>> No. 20407 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 7:06 pm
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>>20406

He literally just explained it was a random compulsion. Jesus wept.

Autism box well and truly checked.
>> No. 20408 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 7:09 pm
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>>20407
What? He said "I wasn't trying to be random". That implies to me that there was some other motive.
>> No. 20409 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 8:52 pm
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>>20406
Well if you really want me to fucking explain my joke, the mods appeared to have banned >>20402 for calling out anti-Semitism, so I wrote "MODS = GODS" in German. I hope I don't have to elaborate further?

Christ.
>> No. 20410 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 8:55 pm
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>>20409
Oh sorry, I didn't actually read that post. That still leaves me none the wiser about the rest of the site though.
>> No. 20411 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 9:18 pm
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>>20373
He did break the law, and even if he hadn't he's done an incredibly pointless, needless shitty thing and deserves to be denounced for it along with the guides. That Zimbabwe is trying to have him extradited doesn't change the fact that he'll face no legal repercussions because that is not actually happening in a million years.
>> No. 20412 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 9:22 pm
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>>20411
>He did break the law
My knowledge of Zimbabwean law is a bit rusty. Exactly what offence do you believe he committed here? Other than doing something you don't like, obviously.
>> No. 20413 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 9:22 pm
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>>20409
I suspect it's more for having a dig at the mods and not knowing the difference between an adjective and a verb.
>> No. 20414 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 10:05 pm
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>>20412
Poaching. Ignorance isn't an excuse. If it were, this lad would not be on the sex offenders register.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3180763/They-make-monster-Debate-rages-man-19-sex-offender-registry-25-YEARS-sleeping-underage-girl-met-dating-app-admitted-police-lied-age.html
>> No. 20415 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 10:51 pm
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>>20414
>Poaching.
Go on.

>Ignorance isn't an excuse.
Oh dear. You were so close with this one too. Do you want to have another go?
>> No. 20416 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 10:58 pm
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>>20415
Do you want me to explain to you how poaching is illegal, and how ignorance of the law isn't an excuse? I fail to see what you are trying to say.
>> No. 20417 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 10:59 pm
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>>20416

He doesn't have the mens rea.
>> No. 20418 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:05 pm
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>>20417
That applies only to some crimes, not this. What he did is a grave evil. He is helping wipe out a species. In any fucking case, negligence is not a fucking excuse. At the very least, he could stand trail if he is so sure that he is innocent.
>> No. 20419 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:17 pm
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>>20418

His guides should stand trial, not him. He paid money to the hunters on the understanding they had been allocated a licence to hunt a lion, when they hadn't. Instead, they stole a protected lion and let him hunt that. How's it his fault?
>> No. 20420 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:20 pm
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>>20416
>Do you want me to explain to you how poaching is illegal
No. I want you to explain how entering a contract to go on a hunt that the supplying party is perfectly entitled to offer would be poaching. That's like saying if someone tries to sell you a car and it turns out to be stolen you're guilty of theft.

>and how ignorance of the law isn't an excuse?
That's better. Ignorance of the law. He's pleading ignorance of the facts, which is a different thing entirely, and in Commonwealth jurisdictions generally is an excuse. Sexual offences are the exception, not the rule. In your example, the matter of the federal nature of the US comes into play - while the age of consent in both states is 16, Indiana provides a defence of reasonable belief of age but Michigan does not.
>> No. 20421 Anonymous
1st August 2015
Saturday 11:25 pm
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>>20418
>What he did is a grave evil.
Which is both your opinion and entirely independent of whether or not it was a crime.

>At the very least, he could stand trail if he is so sure that he is innocent.
"I did not abuse twenty-seven young boys in a care home in Norwich." There's your first stone, lad. Feel free to cast it at any convenient police station. I for one would be happy to see you stand trial for such an offence to be sure of your innocence.
>> No. 20423 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 2:27 am
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>>20420

Yes yes, you're a right smart arse cunt, we get it.

But you can't be that naive, surely. I mean I've never met the guy, I've barely checked up on any of the facts of the matter, and frankly I couldn't have given too much of a shit either way if it wasn't causing such intense bickering in this very thread.

But I already know, I can tell, I have a feeling in my gut, that the fucker knew what he was doing. Hunting lions for trophy sport in sub-Saharan Africa isn't the kind of tourist package your average Yank holidaymaker goes off on on a whim. We're not talking about a fucking 50-euro turtle spotting boat trip here, this is quite a considerable niche. An experienced huntsman would have been able to tell something is up.

None of us have all the facts, but you sound like his fucking defense lawyer. Why are you so keen to argue the semantics of what is clearly a cunt, being a cunt? I mean just look at the guy's face. Why do you care so much about him not rotting in a Zimbabwean prison cell while people call him names on twitter and his family probably have to go into witness protection. They obviously all deserve it.
>> No. 20424 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:22 am
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>>20423
Why haven't you proved you aren't a nonce yet? There are twenty-seven young boys in a care home in Norwich who demand to know that you aren't the one who abused them.
>> No. 20425 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:25 am
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>>20424
This is so absurd. What are you even getting at?
>> No. 20426 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:31 am
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>>20425
>This is so absurd.
So you realise that what you're doing is absurd, but you keep doing it?
>> No. 20427 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:43 am
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>>20423
>But I already know, I can tell, I have a feeling in my gut, that the fucker knew what he was doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng?start=8
>> No. 20428 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:53 am
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>>20426
I'm not the lad you were replying to.
>> No. 20429 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:54 am
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>>20412
>My knowledge of Zimbabwean law is a bit rusty
As is mine. The chaps in Zimbabwe who are seeking to have him extradited probably know more on the subject than either of us, and they appear to believe he should face charges seeing as they're, you know, seeking to have him extradited and all.

>>20420
>He's pleading ignorance of the facts
I don't think he's pleading anything mate, seeing as he isn't going to be within a thousand miles of a Zimbabwean courtroom.
>> No. 20430 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:57 am
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>>20424
This is such a fucking asinine post. You must have felt a twinge of embarrassment even as you fingers hit the keys.
>> No. 20431 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:13 am
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>>20428
>The chaps in Zimbabwe who are seeking to have him extradited probably know more on the subject than either of us, and they appear to believe he should face charges seeing as they're, you know, seeking to have him extradited and all.
Alternatively, being a shit-poor African country, they may simply be responding to the outrage in an attempt to not look so much like a shit-poor African country. Particularly given the minister responsible apparently responded to the incident with words to the effect of "what lion?"

Stop making assumptions, and engage the critical part of your brain. Stop trying him for the offence of "doing something I don't agree with". You're judging a situation involving a guy from another country and some more guys from a another country for things they did in another country by your own standards. In parts of Asia, they look at our paedogeddon and wonder what all the fuss is about, while getting outraged over the fact that we let women out of the kitchen. Judging other people in other cultures by your own standards is an incredibly asinine thing to do.

How about, instead of getting outraged at shit you know nothing about, maybe not passing judgment until we have enough facts to do so?
>> No. 20433 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:27 am
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>>20431
So are you his lawyer, or just a racist?
>> No. 20434 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:27 am
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>>20431

We will never have enough facts though. This is a story that has entirely been presented to us though the shitstorm of new-media outrage. I haven't heard about this in any real news outlet, although in a couple of days the op-ed pieces will come out and try to mulch page views out of a controversy everyone else has already forgotten about, no doubt.

I heard about this because my girlfriend told me in the car, because she read it on Facebook or Twattagram or something. It took her less than the time it took me to find a parking space at the Tesco Express to thoroughly analyse all of the facts and deduce that the dentist should be shot with an arrow and allowed to bleed to death too. She will have forgotten about it by the next time I see her because something more important will have happened like somebody spilling hair dye on her favourite top.

Basically you are fighting a losing battle by thinking too critically about this sort of tripe. It isn't real news, it's prolefeed. Gossip and outrage drip fed through people's touchscreen. The only way to engage with such a story is using your own inherent ignorance, bias and raw emotional bellyfeels, because that's all it's compatible with. There are no facts to be had, because when you painfully extract them all 3 months later after a thorough court hearing investigation, it turns out the lion wasn't really dead, and the guy isn't even a dentist, it was all an overblown misunderstanding based on a new veterinarian drama being made for ITV2- But whatever cunt broke the story got plenty of cash from Google Ads when they first posted it.
>> No. 20435 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:38 am
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>>20431
>Alternatively, being a shit-poor African country, they may simply be responding to the outrage in an attempt to not look so much like a shit-poor African country
So I am supposed to respond to the statement "My knowledge of Zimbabwean law is a bit rusty. Exactly what offence do you believe he committed here?" without any reference to the Zimbabwean justice system because you've decided to write it off? Go fuck yourself.

>How about, instead of getting outraged at shit you know nothing about, maybe not passing judgement until we have enough facts to do so?
The facts we have are: he shot a lion with an arrow, the lion suffered for two days, the lion was then killed, skinned and decapitated. Zimbabwean prosecutors are calling him a criminal, I'm just calling him a cunt.
>> No. 20436 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:44 am
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>>20434

Too right. If we really care about animal welfare, we should be talking about the billions of animals being killed for meat. If we really care about extinction, then we should be talking about climate change and the destruction of habitat. This is just a Facebook-era Two Minutes Hate. If we get angry enough at this cunt, then we don't have to think about the consequences of our own behaviour.
>> No. 20437 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 12:30 pm
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>>20435
>So I am supposed to respond to the statement "My knowledge of Zimbabwean law is a bit rusty. Exactly what offence do you believe he committed here?" without any reference to the Zimbabwean justice system because you've decided to write it off?
No. You were supposed to respond to that statement by admitting your ignorance. Instead you insisted on carrying on with your "he did something I don't like, he should prove he didn't do it" bollocks.

>The facts we have are: he shot a lion with an arrow, the lion suffered for two days, the lion was then killed, skinned and decapitated.
Or, as it's known on the African hunting scene, "a typical weekend".

>Zimbabwean prosecutors are calling him a criminal
They also called the leader of the opposition a criminal, along with several members of their negotiation team on the constitutional convention. Are you endorsing their judgment, or only in the cases of people you don't like?
>> No. 20438 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 2:15 pm
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>>20437
>No. You were supposed to respond to that statement by admitting your ignorance. Instead you insisted on carrying on with your "he did something I don't like, he should prove he didn't do it" bollocks.
In other words, "yes".

>Or, as it's known on the African hunting scene, "a typical weekend".
Your point?

>They also called the leader of the opposition a criminal, along with several members of their negotiation team on the constitutional convention. Are you endorsing their judgment, or only in the cases of people you don't like?
I'm not "endorsing their judgement", mate, I'm simply pointing out that they're seeking to have him extradited on criminal charges, and that there is every chance that he has, in fact, broken the law. I have no idea why this is making you so frustrated.
>> No. 20439 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:13 pm
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>>20438
>Your point?
That this is a normal occurrence. Around a thousand lions are hunted and killed each year in South Africa alone. You're making it sound as if this one guy committed this one horrendous evil. I notice a distinct lack of outrage when several hunters did more or less the same thing the week before, and again the week before that, and I predict a similar lack of outrage about the fact that right at this very minute there are probably half a dozen parties out in the wilds of South Africa stalking lions, or maybe back at the lodge having already made their kill. You, and the millions of other mouth-breathers like you, are judging this by your own personal standards. I bet you even eat meat as well, don't you? Slaughtermen plunge a hunk of metal through thousands of cows' brains and nobody bats an eyelid, but one guy kills a lion and suddenly outrage, outrage everywhere. Have a word with yourself, lad.

>I'm not "endorsing their judgement", mate
Yes, you are.

>I'm simply pointing out
No, lad. You can fuck right off with that nonsense right now, otherwise I'm simply pointing out that there is every chance that you have, in fact, sexually assaulted dozens of boys in a care home.
>> No. 20440 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 3:47 pm
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>>20439
>That this is a normal occurrence.
Protected, collared lions are routinely lured out of their conservation area and killed in an excruciating manner?

>Around a thousand lions are hunted and killed each year in South Africa alone. You're making it sound as if this one guy committed this one horrendous evil. I notice a distinct lack of outrage when several hunters did more or less the same thing the week before, and again the week before that, and I predict a similar lack of outrage about the fact that right at this very minute there are probably half a dozen parties out in the wilds of South Africa stalking lions, or maybe back at the lodge having already made their kill. You, and the millions of other mouth-breathers like you, are judging this by your own personal standards.
They're all cunts too. This cunt just happens to be in the news. I don't actually control the media, mate, like you I'm merely responding to the news. Unlike you, my immediate reaction isn't to suck on a bloodthirsty poacher's cock.

>I bet you even eat meat as well, don't you? Slaughtermen plunge a hunk of metal through thousands of cows' brains and nobody bats an eyelid, but one guy kills a lion and suddenly outrage, outrage everywhere. Have a word with yourself, lad.
I'm vegan, actually, but don't let that get in the way of your weird indignation.

>Yes, you are.
So now you're claiming to know what I actually think better than I do myself? This just gets better and better.

>No, lad. You can fuck right off with that nonsense right now, otherwise I'm simply pointing out that there is every chance that you have, in fact, sexually assaulted dozens of boys in a care home.
Why do you keep bringing this up? Do you seriously think it's a good argument? Do you really think you can discard the facts and pretend like there's an equivalence here? This isn't people pulling things out of thin air. We know that the guy is a convicted poacher and the lion that was killed was protected.

The analogy, taking into account what we do know is someone with a prior conviction for sexual assault of a minor admitting to sexual relations with boys at a care home but claiming he thought it was consensual and they were of legal age. In which case, yeah, there is every chance a criminal act occurred.
>> No. 20441 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 4:36 pm
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The world would be a better place if all big cats, and every creature that gets hunted, were to go extinct.
>> No. 20442 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 5:02 pm
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>>20440
>Protected, collared lions are routinely lured out of their conservation area and killed in an excruciating manner?
I would hazard a guess that yes, protected animals are often lured away when the cunts running these businesses want to cut corners.

>They're all cunts too. This cunt just happens to be in the news.
So you're only going to get outraged about the ones that get in the news? Again, why can't you just admit to your own ignorance?

>Unlike you, my immediate reaction isn't to suck on a bloodthirsty poacher's cock.
The lamp on your projector's gone a bit wonky, lad.

>So now you're claiming to know what I actually think better than I do myself?
No. I'm claiming that you're being dishonest. Saying he's guilty and deserves to be punished when the Zimbabwean authorities (ostensibly) believe he's guilty and deserves to be punished is, in fact, an endorsement of their view that he's guilty and deserves to be punished.

>Why do you keep bringing this up?
Because right now I've got about as much evidence for it as you've got for your assertion that this guy has broken the law. I don't think that anyone could argue that ones running the business are innocent, after all they've very clearly taken a lion out from its reserve for someone to kill. We don't know that he asked for that particular lion, and we don't know that he knew exactly which one he'd killed before killing it. Right now, all we've got is his word that he didn't know and the word of the guides that he didn't know. Until we know any better, none of us are qualified to say for certain that he did or didn't do anything illegal (note the difference between "illegal" and "what I don't approve of").

Your entire argument seems to boil down to "he looks a wrong'un, and he's done something that offends me". I've no particular taste for trophy hunting, but to the people and the government of Zimbabwe, it is evidently a perfectly legal and acceptable way to make a living, and that's their call to make. It's not for white middle-class professionally-offended vegans to decide for them.

>The analogy, taking into account what we do know is someone with a prior conviction for sexual assault of a minor admitting to sexual relations with boys at a care home but claiming he thought it was consensual and they were of legal age.
It was an analogy for how you were deciding the guy was guilty on literally zero evidence. If you want an analogy for the case, consider someone with one previous conviction for handling stolen goods buying a car that turns out to be stolen. On the one hand, he might have figured it out, or the seller might have even told him quite openly that it was stolen. On the other, he might really not have known, and didn't particularly want to get another conviction when his previous one had just become spent. Whether we like it or not, buying and selling air-polluting four-wheeled death cages is legal and acceptable in Britain.

Ultimately, as you correctly point out, he's unlikely to go anywhere, not least because of the rather poor state of Zimbabwean prisons. I suspect that animal welfare isn't in their thoughts at all here. Remember that they see nothing wrong with trophy hunting in itself. It will either be because Cecil as an individual added significant value to the park where he was kept, or a PR move made in the full knowledge that an extradition request won't be fulfilled.
>> No. 20443 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 6:04 pm
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>>20442
>I would hazard a guess that yes, protected animals are often lured away when the cunts running these businesses want to cut corners.
Do you actually have any reason to believe this? Can you cite any other instances of a protected animal being killed as part of an illegal hunt? Can you cite enough instances to justify the notion that it happens "often"?

>So you're only going to get outraged about the ones that get in the news?
... No? I'm talking about this cunt in particular because the conversation is about this cunt in particular.

>No. I'm claiming that you're being dishonest. Saying he's guilty and deserves to be punished
I have not said that he is guilty and deserves to be punished. I have said that Zimbabwe want him extradited, there are reasonable grounds to believe he has committed an offence, and he's a cunt.

>Because right now I've got about as much evidence for it as you've got for your assertion that this guy has broken the law
No. You don't. The circumstances around the hunt warrant investigation. Your absurd invention doesn't. I fail to see how you could possibly believe otherwise.

>It was an analogy for how you were deciding the guy was guilty on literally zero evidence. If you want an analogy
Nah, I don't really, mate, thanks.
>> No. 20444 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 6:12 pm
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>> No. 20445 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 6:36 pm
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>>20443
>Do you actually have any reason to believe this?
First page on Google shows that around 1,000 rhino, of which around 10% were black rhino (critically endangered, some subspecies extinct in the wild) were taken in South Africa in 2014. Of course, these were clearly illegal hunts, and many of them didn't bother getting them out of a protected area.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150122-rhino-poaching-south-africa-conservation-science/
But by all means continue to believe this was an exceptional case.

>I have not said that he is guilty and deserves to be punished.
Again with the dishonesty, lad?

>No. You don't.
Erm, no, lad. I do in fact have as much evidence as you. Namely absolutely none whatsoever. All we have so far is him claiming that he paid for what he was led to believe was a legal hunt, and the guides claiming that they decided to lure a lion off the reserve when delays meant they were unable to source a legal one in time. If you want to say he's a cunt, go ahead. If you want him (to quote your own words) "rotting in a Zimbabwean prison cell", then you'll need to at least demonstrate that he's broken Zimbabwean law.
>> No. 20446 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:08 pm
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See, lads? This is exactly why I hate that lion and all the furore over its death. It's got you all acting like cunts. I wish I hadn't posted >>20334 now.

As an aside, is it time for MK IV of this thread? This one is rather long and unwieldy.
>> No. 20447 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:11 pm
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>>20445
>First page on Google shows that around 1,000 rhino, of which around 10% were black rhino (critically endangered, some subspecies extinct in the wild) were taken in South Africa in 2014. Of course, these were clearly illegal hunts, and many of them didn't bother getting them out of a protected area.
That's great and all, but I didn't say poaching didn't happen. I disputed that this is a normal occurrence and protected, collared lions are routinely lured out of their conservation area and killed in an excruciating manner. Again, if you have any reason to believe otherwise, do share. I doubt that you will, because there are so few animals under a similar degree of observation and protection that if it happened "often" there would be none left.

>All we have so far is him claiming that he paid for what he was led to believe was a legal hunt, and the guides claiming that they decided to lure a lion off the reserve when delays meant they were unable to source a legal one in time
We have a convicted poacher financing an illegal hunt and claiming to have no idea whatsoever that it may not be 100% above board despite his extensive game hunting history until after he had killed the lion, at which point the hunting party attempted to destroy its GPS collar. If you don't see how that warrants investigation, you're either a total moron, or you just don't want to look like an idiot changing your mind this far in. If it's the latter, I can assure you, it's far, far too late to prevent that.

>If you want him (to quote your own words) "rotting in a Zimbabwean prison cell"
>Again with the dishonesty, lad?
Those aren't my words, dickhead, and I have not said that he is guilty and deserves to be punished. Maybe you should familiarise yourself with how an anonymous imageboard works before posting on one.
>> No. 20448 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:24 pm
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>>20446

It is quite funny that it's been some days since anyone else was really discussing this. In fact even as it was breaking news I was getting most of my Cecil updates from this thread.
>> No. 20449 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:24 pm
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>>20447
It's that lad that thinks every comment against his point of view is made by one person.
>> No. 20450 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:27 pm
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>>20448
My news feed had something yesterday about his brother getting killed. Other than that there's still a healthy flow of shared posts of other hunters posing with their kills and whatever Ricky Gervais is saying about animals.

What are the lads even arguing about, exactly? Fucked if I'm going to read 100+ posts of petty bickering.
>> No. 20451 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:43 pm
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>>20447
>I disputed that this is a normal occurrence and protected, collared lions are routinely lured out of their conservation area and killed in an excruciating manner.
I'm sorry you weren't satisfied with your particular unicorn, but if you return it in the original packaging I'm sure we can arrange a refund.

>We have a convicted poacher
Oh, dear. Let me fix that for you:
>We have a hunter financing a hunt that it appears later turned out to be illegal and claiming to have no idea that the guides had found an illegal animal despite his extensive history of legal game hunting until after he had killed the lion, at which point the guides attempted to destroy its GPS collar while he may or may not have been present at the carcass.
You see the problem here? You're not offering facts, you're offering your interpretation of them. I'm merely pointing out that there are other reasonable interpretations possible, and until it's been investigated thoroughly, none of us are in any position to pass judgment. FWIW, if I were arranging to go to Africa to kill an animal I knew was fitted with a tracking collar, I'd go equipped to remove it, but that's just me.

>If you don't see how that warrants investigation
Nobody said it doesn't warrant investigation. I said we're in no position to judge his actions without investigation.
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2nd August 2015
Sunday 7:50 pm
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>>20450
>What are the lads even arguing about, exactly? Fucked if I'm going to read 100+ posts of petty bickering.
Long story short, a couple of people here have decided that because he was involved in doing something they don't like he should be shipped off to an African prison where he can rot and get bummed by a poz, claiming as evidence their gut feelings and that he looks like a wrong'un (pic related).
>> No. 20453 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 8:26 pm
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>>20451
>Nobody said it doesn't warrant investigation.
So when you were comparing the chance that he has broken the law to the chance that another poster has molested boys at a care home or whatever the fuck you were on about, you weren't diminishing the merits of an investigation?

If there's no basis to believe he may have broken the law, why should be investigated?

>we're in no position to judge his actions without investigation.
Actually, I feel perfectly well equipped to judge his actions based on the facts available, thanks.
>> No. 20454 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 8:30 pm
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>>20452
Oh, right.

I can't think of a more tedious cunt off in the 5+ years I've been here.
>> No. 20455 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 8:32 pm
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>>20451
>You're not offering facts
Walter Palmer is a convicted poacher.
Walter Palmer financed an illegal hunt.
Walter Palmer claimed to have noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the hunt, despite his extensive experience with big game hunting.
Walter Palmer's hunting party attempted to destroy, and then hid the GPS collar after killing the animal.
Walter Palmer absconded without reporting his killing of a protected, collared lion to the relevant parties.

Tell me which of these facts you dispute.
>> No. 20456 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:14 pm
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>>20455

>Walter Palmer is a convicted poacher.

Guilt elsewhere does not imply guilt here. This "fact" is misleading.

>Walter Palmer financed an illegal hunt.

As far as he knew, he financed a legal hunt. He was lied to. This "fact" is misleading.

>Walter Palmer claimed to have noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the hunt, despite his extensive experience with big game hunting.

The only thing out of the ordinary is that the lion he hunted was stolen by the people he hired. His experience with big game hunting would actually have told him that everything was normal, since he will likely have hunted a baited animal before. This "fact" is misleading.

>Walter Palmer's hunting party attempted to destroy, and then hid the GPS collar after killing the animal.

Without Mr Palmer's presence, knowledge or permission. Mr Palmer was not in charge of his hunting party, they were professional hunters he hired to guide him to a lion which he was told they had a licence to hunt. Mr Palmer was not present during the beheading and let the company he hired mount the trophy. This "fact" is misleading.

>Walter Palmer absconded without reporting his killing of a protected, collared lion to the relevant parties.

Yes he did. However, he did not kill the lion (instead injured it with an arrow). The company he hired killed the lion with a rifle.
>> No. 20457 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:24 pm
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>>20456
So remind me, who is it that's offering interpretations instead of facts?
>> No. 20458 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:30 pm
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>>20457

Your facts are half-truths designed to make the dentist look culpable. Here they are with context:

Walter Palmer has been convicted of poaching in an unrelated case.

Walter Palmer paid money for a hunting licence in accordance with the law. The company providing the licence failed to deliver, and misled Walter Palmer into thinking he had one.

Walter Palmer claims to have noticed nothing out of ordinary about the hunt based on his extensive experience with big game hunting.

Honest Ndlovu and Theo Bronchorst attempted to destroy, then hid the GPS collar after killing the animal.

Walter Palmer left the country as planned, without reporting a crime that he didn't know had happened.
>> No. 20459 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:31 pm
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>>20457

Also you're a silly fucking bastard, do you know that? You're pretending like they speak for themselves, but your so-called facts aren't objective at all, you twat.
>> No. 20460 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:36 pm
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>>20458
>designed to make the dentist look culpable
Yes.
>half-truths
No.
>misled Walter Palmer into thinking he had one
You have only his word for this.
>based on his extensive experience with big game hunting.
But there was something amiss.
>GPS collar
So paid all this money to hunt and kill a lion, which he did successfully, and he didn't get close enough to the animal, alive or dead, to see the collar at any point?
>he didn't know had happened
Again, you have only his word for this.

I'm not the chap you're arguing with and am not following the case closely enough to have formed an opinion but your argument is holier than a risen again Swiss cheese.
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2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:42 pm
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>>20460

What proof do you have that he paid all that money to go and poach a lion then? Why does that make sense to you? You can poach a lion for free. Do you think it's just a coincidence that the money he paid to poach a lion on purpose --that evil bastard-- is the same as the amount of money he would have paid in order to purchase a legitimate hunting licence for one lion?
>> No. 20462 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:46 pm
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>>20458
>misled Walter Palmer into thinking he had one
>Walter Palmer left the country as planned, without reporting a crime that he didn't know had happened
Hahahahaha

Again: remind me, who is it that's offering interpretations instead of facts?
>> No. 20463 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:49 pm
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>>20461

Like I said, I'm not interested in the case I just didn't think the argument you were making stood up to scrutiny.
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2nd August 2015
Sunday 9:52 pm
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>>20460
>You have only his word for this.
But, more importantly, we have nobody's word to the contrary.
>> No. 20466 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:13 pm
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>>20464
Actually, the guide has claimed Palmer was very much aware that he had killed a collared lion before leaving the country.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/cecil-the-lion-killing-hunter-walter-palmer-wanted-to-kill-a-large-elephant-claims-guide-10429086.html


>“We got there about 9am, and we found it and it was wounded, and the client then shot it, with his bow and arrow, and killed it.”

>They then realised that Cecil was wearing a collar. “I was devastated,” said Mr Bronkhorst. “I could not have seen the collar at night. We would never shoot a collared animal. I was devastated, and so was the client, we were both upset, and I panicked and took it off and put it in a tree.

>“I should have taken it to [the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority], I admit that. So we did what had to be done. We took the head and skin, as the client had paid for the trophy.”
>> No. 20467 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:15 pm
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What is Palmer's lawyer doing on an obscure imageboard?
>> No. 20468 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:27 pm
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>>20462

Please tell me what you think the difference between an interpretation and a fact is?
>> No. 20469 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:31 pm
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>>20468
You've got your work cut out for you in the courtroom if you don't know basic distinctions like that, counsel.
>> No. 20470 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:34 pm
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>>20469

You don't know?
>> No. 20471 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 10:35 pm
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This has been going on for over a day now. Lads...
>> No. 20472 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 11:00 pm
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>>20471
Well at least etc.
>> No. 20473 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 11:03 pm
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>>20472

Why shouldn't he feel superior to the two most tedious people in recent .gs history? I know I do, and I'm basically a tramp.
>> No. 20474 Anonymous
2nd August 2015
Sunday 11:38 pm
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>>20473
>recent
Excuse me, I think you'll find that I've been shitting up this site with tedium and pedantry since '09.
>> No. 20475 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 4:10 am
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ARGH I'M GOING TO UPDATE NGINX AND IN DOING SO OVERWRITE THE INDEX.HTML FILE OF THAT WEBSITE YOU WERE WORKING ON EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE USING APACHE ANYWAY AND THERE WAS NO NEED TO DO IT. HOURS OF WORK ALL FUCKING LOST CUNT CUNT CUNT CUN T CUNT.
Yes, I know I should have backed it up.
>> No. 20476 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 4:57 am
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>>20475

Always use distributed version control. Committing to Git or Mercurial adds just a few seconds to most tasks, but can save you hours of effort later.
>> No. 20477 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 9:43 am
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>>20475
You probably also should have not worked in the default directory where it was going to be overwritten.
>> No. 20478 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 12:52 pm
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>>20476
>>20477
Yes yes, I know.
The annoying thing is I actually have a backup routine, and even a custom backup script that handles everything. I just hadn't used it since the overhaul, which isn't like me at all.
>> No. 20479 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 1:26 pm
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>>20475

Somewhat apropos; I once did 'apt-get install python', in order to update my python install. The system then proceeded to remove and reinstall half my system including wiping out an entire Redmine database and leaving me with no X windowing system. Ubuntu: not even once.
>> No. 20480 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>20479
apt-get upgrade python, lad. No wonder you broke it.
>> No. 20481 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 1:47 pm
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>>20480
In fact, I'm not sure that would need the package name. Either way, it's a synonym for safe-upgrade, which doesn't attempt to upgrade the rest of the system. Still, I blame whichever idiot answered the "is this okay?" prompt with "yes".
>> No. 20482 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:17 pm
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People who think they can take life lessons from the plots of video games.
>> No. 20483 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:20 pm
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>>20482
Some people can, and demonstrably so.
>> No. 20484 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:26 pm
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>>20482
I take a bigger exception with the first few panels. That the author of this image took away more knowledge and understanding of historical events from playing videogames set in them than they did by learning about them in school is almost certainly more to do with the author's lack of interest at school, and not the effectiveness of videogames as a teaching medium.
>> No. 20485 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:34 pm
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>>20484
But the people who express such sentiments aren't usually commenting on the effectiveness of a particular teaching media; they're tacitly admitting precisely the reality you describe.
>> No. 20486 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:40 pm
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>>20485
Nevertheless, had the author taken more engagement in traditional school topics, they might have happened upon a hobby with some actual value, as opposed to the all-out, productless content-consumption that is videogaming.
>> No. 20488 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:44 pm
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>>20486
And just like that, we can see your game. I'm not going to defend video games like it's a concept that needs defending.
>> No. 20489 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>20488
Because without them you would never have learned the values which make you the well-rounded human being that you are now?
>> No. 20490 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:53 pm
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To be fair Assassin's Creed II did gift me, as it did many people, a brief fascination with Renaissance-era Italy.
>> No. 20492 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 6:58 pm
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>>20489
No, because what you are saying is obviously ridiculous to the point where I'm calling into question your sincerity. How do games get made if people only consume them? How are tournaments held? How are media careers in gaming forged? You're a dinosaur with a stupid opinion and technology will leave you behind if you don't willingly come along for the ride. I'm not giving you a full reply because I don't care which you choose.
>> No. 20493 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 7:43 pm
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>>20483
That's idiotic. They're applying the rules that fictional characters abide by to real life. You may as well learn physics from Super Mario.
>> No. 20494 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 7:49 pm
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>>20493

Can you think of a better way to introduce physics to a child than comparing how different Mario and Luigi are to play from each other? They both have different physics which govern how they interact with the environment. Mario is quite grippy and has a low centre of gravity and Luigi is quite slippery and has a high centre of gravity. Luigi is harder to control and is unpredictable, but can jump farther, whereas Mario is stable and more predictable, but can't jump as far.

Remind you of anything?
>> No. 20495 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:00 pm
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>>20494
>Remind you of anything?

Luigi is a black guy wearing makeup?
>> No. 20496 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:04 pm
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>>20494
>Can you think of a better way to introduce physics to a child than comparing how different Mario and Luigi are to play from each other?
Yes, throwing them a ball.
Learning about human interactions and how life works from a computer game is probably more misleading than Disney films and porn. It's not real, the same rules don't apply.
>> No. 20497 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>20493
Wrong. You're strawmanning what's happening so your narrative makes sense. You can learn physics from a physics simulator which may also happen to be a video game.
>> No. 20498 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>20497
A physics simulator would be designed to mimic real physics. Computer games are not designed to recreate real situations or behaviours.
>> No. 20499 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:18 pm
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>>20498
Except for the ones that are, obviously.
>> No. 20500 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:24 pm
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>>20496
Are you aware that children can do both?
>> No. 20501 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:55 pm
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>>20499
Oh yes I forgot about the wildly popular Real Life Simulator that everyone's always playing. Remind me which of the screenshots in >>20482 is from that?
>> No. 20502 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 8:56 pm
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>>20501
A minute ago it was just physics and now it's the entirety of the human condition. Do one.
>> No. 20503 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 9:04 pm
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>>20501

Jog on, you tedious cunt.
>> No. 20504 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 9:06 pm
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>>20502
What the fuck did you think I meant by "life lessons"? Playing Super Mario won't teach you how to catch a ball and playing Fallout won't help you understand how real people behave.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 20505 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 9:37 pm
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How /101/ has changed over the years from a "come have a rant about what you hate" board to a "have your rant, but everyone's still gonna come and tell you how wrong you are" board.

At least on the game show it was only a solitary Paul Merton you had to convince, not a panel of Featured Comment contributors from each of the major news websites, the fucking shaolin monks of contrarian pedantry.
>> No. 20506 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>20505
>not a panel of Featured Comment contributors from each of the major news websites, the fucking shaolin monks of contrarian pedantry.
If Facebook won't give you a Top Commenter badge for language like this, there's clearly something amiss with their algorithms.
>> No. 20507 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>20505

That's what happens when you have a /*/, granddad. If you want unique board cultures don't slap them all together on the same page.
>> No. 20509 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 10:09 pm
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>>20507
Having this conversation every six weeks is better than debating whether a thread is in the appropriate place every six hours. There might be other ways to foster unique board cultures, but removing /*/ is off the table. So why even bitch about it?
>> No. 20510 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 10:15 pm
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>>20509

I'm not suggesting we remove /*/, just saying that it's impossible to maintain unique board cultures because we have it.
>> No. 20511 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 10:26 pm
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>>20510
I'd say it's more a product of the fact that there's only the pair of us and purple.
>> No. 20512 Anonymous
3rd August 2015
Monday 10:28 pm
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>>20507

I'm not bothered about that, it's just that it seems to be getting very vociferous around here lately. But then, I've already made a tedious metapost about it recently, I forgot it's still the summer and all the studentlads have nowt to do all day.

Maybe I am just getting old. I typed the first sentence of this post on my laptop whilst looking at my PC monitor and wondering why nothing was coming up.
>> No. 20513 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 6:43 pm
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Right on cue...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/05/love-wildlife-forget-red-squirrels-biodiversity-developing-countries

It's beyond parody. I wanted to do one of those ironically bigoted posts about "bloody foreign animals coming over here and taking our conservation efforts", but I don't think it's necessary.
>> No. 20514 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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>>20513
I genuinely don't have a clue what you're annoyed about.
>> No. 20515 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>20514
That's a real shame.
>> No. 20516 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 9:31 pm
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>>20514
Did you read the article? I know it is click bait but wow, it made me froth at the mouth.
>> No. 20517 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 9:43 pm
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>>20516
Yeah I did. It argues that, I quote, "We’re likely to get far greater “biodiversity for our buck” on every pound spent abroad, especially if we focus on the world’s poorest developing countries, many of which are in global biodiversity hotspots."

That makes sense to me. Even if you disagreed I still don't understand why the article would make you angry.
>> No. 20518 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 9:45 pm
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>>20517
He is a red squirrel, don't you see?
>> No. 20519 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 9:49 pm
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>>20517
They want to our country's flora and fauna to go to shit just so some Nigerian in Zambia can keep feeding collared lions in Zimbabwe before they are killed by some dentist. Fuck off lad.
>> No. 20520 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>20519
Seeing it in terms of "our country's flora and fauna" is missing the point entirely. Are you seriously getting this emotional about a Guardian editorial about red squirrels?
>> No. 20521 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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>>20517
We should send bennies money to rich people so they don't die out.
>> No. 20522 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 10:32 pm
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>>20521
Sort of like farming subsidies.
>> No. 20523 Anonymous
5th August 2015
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>20518

Little, ginger, bastards wasted a whole day of mine after my mum dragged me off to a forest in Wales to go and look at them. Empire Total War had just been released and everything, so I could have been getting good and let down at home.
>> No. 20524 Anonymous
6th August 2015
Thursday 1:53 pm
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Another fucking season of the Great British Wankoff.

Enough said.
>> No. 20525 Anonymous
6th August 2015
Thursday 1:57 pm
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>>20524
You're just sore about your soggy bottom, lad.
>> No. 20526 Anonymous
6th August 2015
Thursday 3:07 pm
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>>20525

You promised you'd pull out. Never trust an Avon salesman.
>> No. 20530 Anonymous
6th August 2015
Thursday 9:03 pm
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>>20524

I'm now imagining Sue Perkins commentating on a game of Soggy Biscuit.
>> No. 20531 Anonymous
6th August 2015
Thursday 9:10 pm
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>>20530
This should be commissioned.
>> No. 20532 Anonymous
8th August 2015
Saturday 3:33 am
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Many, many cunt-offs ago, I posted on this thread saying that people shouldn't update their apps because developers like to add on annoying stuff. Well, turns out that if you don't update it for a significant amount of time, using the app becomes a battle. The app will open your browser and you have pop up ads everywhere. Some will even make you auto-download some apks or whatever (I don't even know how to turn off this auto-download nonsense). Sigh. So far, this has been the case only for a couple of apps.
>> No. 20533 Anonymous
8th August 2015
Saturday 3:36 am
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>>20532

Seems like a strange bug. Perhaps you should update your app.
>> No. 20534 Anonymous
8th August 2015
Saturday 3:45 pm
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>>20532
Can you name the offenders?
>> No. 20535 Anonymous
12th August 2015
Wednesday 11:16 pm
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There's a really weird show about what it was like to eat and live in the 90's. It seems basically the same, except the computers and phones weren't as interesting.
>> No. 20536 Anonymous
13th August 2015
Thursday 12:51 am
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>>20532

It's not the app, it's the ad network. The app is just filling an iframe with whatever the ad network sends, but unfortunately the network they're using is full of shady shit. Mobile advertising rates are pretty poor, so some developers take the risk of using a smaller ad network rather than the dominant AdMob, especially if the app is dwindling in popularity.

It's mainly an Android issue - sales figures on the Play Store are so poor that ad-supported apps are the most profitable option. Some developers don't even bother with ad-free paid versions.
>> No. 20555 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:29 am
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4OD

Just fuck off. I wanted to watch that programme about British Problems, well not really but I wanted to kill some time. It is a fucking ball ache of a system. First you have to sign up, so I just used facebook sign in to avoid filling out a form but it makes me fill out an account form anyway. I accidentally put my DOB as under 16 because I just pressed random buttons. It then locked me out from using the damn thing until I cleared my cookies.

I sign up and then it tells me to turn off my adblock which is fair I thought. Then it shows me an advert before the actual advert begins. Then shows me a minute advert. Watch the first 15 minutes and get put in an ad break which had another advert before the actual advert break and the actual advert break is four minutes.

Why should I fucking bother? Next time I'll just record the bastard show to avoid this nonsense.
>> No. 20556 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:30 am
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>>20555
Youtube or torrent. What show was it?
>> No. 20557 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:36 am
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>>20555
I usually just grab a login from bugmenot.com for crap like that.
>> No. 20558 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:38 am
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>>20556
Very British Problems
I would do this for the next episode if I forget to record it again.
>>20557
And probably this too
>> No. 20559 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:52 am
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>>20555
Unconfirmed reports that this works:
Disable ad blocker.
Load page.
Wait for first advert to load.
Re-enable ad blocker.
Watch remainder of programme uninterrupted.
>> No. 20561 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:57 am
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>>20559
Done this, seeing what happens during next break

Too bad it keeps fucking buffering too. Just checked other video streaming sites and none of them have an issue with my current connection. What a fucking ball ache.
>> No. 20562 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 2:39 am
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>>20558
>>20561
I don't understand why you won't just torrent it?

BBC iPlayer is the best, and probably the only reason why I don't torrent BBC shows I can watch on there.
>> No. 20563 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 3:06 am
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>>20555

4od is such a terrible service. But then so is your taste in TV so your suffering is only just.
>> No. 20564 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 11:26 am
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>>20563
I can't get 4oD to work no matter what, it tells me I'm using adblock. I suspect I'd have to uninstall rather than simply disabling it to get it running.
>> No. 20565 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 11:41 am
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>>20564

It should just work when you disable it on channel4.com.
>> No. 20566 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:03 pm
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>>20565

You need to disable your adblocker for the whole channel4.com domain, not just the page you're trying to view.
>> No. 20567 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 1:10 pm
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>>20566


Well, yeah. That is what I said, after all.
>> No. 20568 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 2:41 pm
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>>20565
Should. Doesn't .
>> No. 20569 Anonymous
14th August 2015
Friday 3:20 pm
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>>20568
I had this problem, and just ended up watching 4OD and ITV Player in IE which (since I never use it otherwise) has no adblocker.

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