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

Auto electric windows. My shitty Rover from 2005 has them, and unlike better cars, it doesn't have the 'double click' in the window switch, so unless you want the window all the way down, you have to press the window switch down, then pull it back up when it gets to where you want it to be. It'd be much less hassle to just either have a winder or non-'auto'.
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>> No. 23247 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>23246
Instead, why don't we just delete every single board and have a few huge threads instead. Weekend, anger, work, Left politics, nonce politics, race hate politics and international politics.
>> No. 23249 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 4:27 pm
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>>23247
Because huge threads break the site.
>> No. 23250 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 4:30 pm
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I was really craving some sweets earlier but as I walked to my local cornershop I realised the schools are still not out for the summer. My local shop is opposite a primary school you see so come 1530 its packed with children and mothers.

Fuck sake I just want to buy many times my recommended allowance of sugar in peace without being judged. When do the schools break-up lads?
>> No. 23251 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 5:46 pm
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I AM FUCKING DYING, MAKE IT STOP.
>> No. 23253 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 6:03 pm
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I've downloaded Spore for my kids, although I've decided to have a crack at it myself, but fucked if I can understand the paint system on the character creator.
>> No. 23254 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 6:07 pm
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I'm not sure if I hate my job or I just hate working.
>> No. 23255 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 6:21 pm
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>>23254
Why not both?
>> No. 23256 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 6:21 pm
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>>23254


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPhzgxe3L0
>> No. 23257 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 7:24 pm
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>>23251

Yesterday my mum roped me into weeding her fucking horses fields; plural. I dressed for how the weather's been for the last 4 months so predictably ended up hobbled with heatstroke.

Also I keep eating crap food and I can't stop.
>> No. 23258 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 7:57 pm
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>>23254
I had a massive realisation the other day. I found out what my dream is. I want to wake up everyday with absolutely nothing to do. No responsibilities what so ever. Absolutely nothing to do.
>> No. 23259 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:03 pm
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>>23258
Did you happen to see your couple's counsellor die of a heart attack during a session?
>> No. 23260 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:06 pm
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>>23258

Is it bad that sometimes I think about quitting my job and just doing hobbies I enjoy at home?

A computer,a watch, some pens and a notepad are all I need. I like learning languages, learning skills (it's great to code) and read.

My parents have practically paid off the mortgage and my baby boomer dad has tens of thousands tucked away somewhere.

I sometimes wonder what the worst that could happen is. I live at home? Enjoy my time on earth? They'd never kicked me out.

My only fear is that one day they'll die and the house will be split between me and two other siblings and I want to have enough money to buy it outright.

If I owned a house outright, how much income would I need anyway? Surely within the next 20 yrs we'll see some form of UBI and I'll literally be freed.
>> No. 23261 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>23258

Don't worry lad. When the robots take our jobs, we can finally abandon the shackles of capitalism and live in a post-scarcity socialist utopia. The only remaining fields of human endeavour will be increasingly pretentious art; and porn of the most utterly depraved, hedonistic kind.

Until then, you can always go on the dole.
>> No. 23262 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:16 pm
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>>23261

How fucked would I be as a single male in regards to accommodation if I was theoretically dole scum? Would I eventually get some sort of roof over my head and a door I could lock?
>> No. 23263 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:23 pm
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Bertrand Russell's essay on this subject is a long read, but it's well worth it:

http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
>> No. 23265 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>23261
>>23262
Being dolescum in itself is a full time job. I have been on it, and for the amount of stress I was put through for that shitty pay, it is ridiculous.

>>23261
People have been saying that for ages now. There will always be work for the workers. The queen bee won't be a queen if the worker bees aren't workers any more.

>>23260
I think about it a lot, but my situation is a bit worse than yours, so I don't know what to do.
>> No. 23266 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:26 pm
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>>23259
I don't understand.
>> No. 23267 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:29 pm
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I want to enjoy this evening outside but some cunt's house alarm in the next street has been going off for fucking hours now.
>> No. 23268 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>23265
>People have been saying that for ages now. There will always be work for the workers. The queen bee won't be a queen if the worker bees aren't workers any more.
Who do you think the robots will be working for?

The working classes being liberated from the drudgery of work to live in a post-scarcity leisure society is an optimistic scenario, though. They could just be left to rot and die in exurban slums.
>> No. 23269 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:36 pm
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Give it to me straight lads. I'm early 20s. Am I gonna get to nob around with free money whilst robots do the shit in a world where only the hardest jobs require people who will earn lots, or am I gonna be dealing with Janet from HR telling me my email footer doesn't comply with the business accepted standard because I refuse to put a number on it.

You'd be amazed how much more work I get done now by simply removing my number off the footer. If people want to speak to me about something important, they'll email and ask for my number. The amount of cunts ringing for the sake of wasting time has drastically cut down. It's amazing.
>> No. 23270 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:39 pm
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>>23269
You and Janet will be fighting over a tin of beans in the ruins of an ASDA once are Theresa uses the bombs.
>> No. 23271 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:39 pm
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>>23265
I'd be the first to demand that the only condition for claiming unemployment benefit should be that you are unemployed, but the basics really aren't that difficult. You apply for jobs, you record that you applied for jobs, and then you show that record to your advisor when you sign on. Given the amount of free time we have as dolescum it's a piece of piss to satisfy those requirements. I know I found it difficult but then I am a fuckup in general and Tory Britain makes no concessions for people like me, but the average person shouldn't be struggling.

Unless of course you're referring to all that extra bullshit they have nowadays under the Work Programme, because that's just a whole other kettle of fuckery.
>> No. 23272 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>23271
>the basics really aren't that difficult
>I know I found it difficult
Hmm...
>> No. 23273 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>23268

Yeah, it's basically a coin toss as to which way it will go. As the working classes are made obsolete by robots, the rich will no doubt try and protect their position and the current Order Of Things.

The problem is they'll soon realise that robots don't buy very many flat screens, or Will Smith DVDs, or novelty cat mugs, or generally make a good foundation for an economy based on vapid consumerism. Then it'll all start to fall apart and they will wonder what the fuck went wrong.

That's when the forgotten, hungry masses of the sub-proletariat will strike, sensing the weakness at the heart of an establishment that by then, can no longer be sold in propaganda as "on their side" like it is in today's era. Hopefully they will have the sheer strength of numbers to achieve a revolution, and restore humanity to a path of egalitarianism and progress.

It's more likely to be a hybrid of the two. They'll let the proletariat masses starve and reduce the population of the earth to about a hundredth of what it is at present. Then it'll just as inevitably all fall apart and there will be a revolution amongst the elites themselves, humanity will achieve its goal of utopian space-faring egalitarianism, but the downside is that every human alive to see this golden age is the descendant of 21st century bourgeoisie scum.
>> No. 23274 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 9:41 pm
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>>23272
Boy it sure is easy to take things out of context eh.
>> No. 23275 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>23273
Oh Seamus.
>> No. 23276 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 9:55 pm
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>>23275
Is this a reference to something?
>> No. 23277 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:12 pm
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Speaking of queen bees, there's been a spider building wispy fucking cobwebs in the corner of my living room for months and I can only assume it's a she because she moves so fucking fast and I haven't seen any other spiders around in the house since she moved in. She's clearly established a pecking order and she's not letting go for love nor money. For the past 3 hours since I got home from work she's been hanging out in the corner between her skirting board when her lair is and the entrance to the kitchen, just far enough out that I feel worried she'll scuttle over my feet whenever I want to make a cuppa. She's gone back a few times when I've moved the door or stamped on the ground but she kept coming back out so now I'm not messing. I've already evicted her a few months ago out the back door but somehow she's come back in and now she's just there, not fucking moving, on my carpet. Taunting me with the fact she doesn't pay rent and my arachnophobia makes me unwilling to go near the hole in the skirting board that's her digs.

I've named her Felicia. Fuck you, Felicia.
>> No. 23278 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:25 pm
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>>23258
>>23260
Well what would you do if you had a million pounds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lmW2tZP2kU

Figure out what gives your life meaning and do that. You can just about support yourself by working part-time so maybe you could do some OU courses, write Haikus or just read and read.

I turned down a lucrative career a few years back and stayed in academia to do research. While I worry about money and things I can honestly say that I'm happy which is allot better than when I was 20 considering suicide because it all seemed so pointless to go on.

>>23265
>The queen bee won't be a queen if the worker bees aren't workers any more.

This analogy always upsets me. Bees do not work that way.

I get that this is beside the point and largely I agree with your post but this is /101/. Humans are not eusocial insects and ultimately our understanding of bee society tells us more about ourselves than it does explain them.
>> No. 23279 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:30 pm
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>>23278

>You can just about support yourself by working part-time

I'm sorry lad, but although you think you are writing a helpful and upbeat post, you are sadly working almost entirely within the realms of fantasy.
>> No. 23280 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:33 pm
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Not even 50 posts and we have a cunt off.
>> No. 23281 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:39 pm
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>>23273
What if instead things largely just follow the pattern set by the industrial revolution and every other technological revolution before.

We'll retrain the hunters to farm crops and make primitive pornography. Redundant farmers and sabot makers will be retrained to forge steel and make pornographic photographs etc. etc.
>> No. 23282 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>23279
I manage it. Its a bit shit not being able to go down the pub but plenty of jobs use the label 'part-time' if you find you need to work 30-35 hour weeks.

Your mileage may vary I guess.
>> No. 23283 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:00 pm
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>>23282
Then they're labelling them wrong. Anything over 30 hours is classified as full-time.
>> No. 23284 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>23281

But it can't be turtles all the way down. Problem is there are really a shockingly small amount of actual jobs out there, and once a big one gets taken out, you are dealing with an influx of people who used to work in one industry flooding every other.

When I say there's a shockingly small amount of jobs, that's the crux of the matter. Of course there's millions of people employed in a myriad of roles, but huge numbers of them basically do the same thing. Imagine how many truck drivers there are in the world, taxi drivers, pilots, etc- As soon as we have workable self-driving vehicles, those vast swathes of people are permanently out of work, and the job of "move stuff/people from point A to point B", no matter what fancy flavour of that job, is made obsolete. Those people have to retrain, but the pool of available things that need to be done just gets smaller and smaller as more of those things get automated.

We're already well on the way there. Look what has happened to the economy thanks to China, India etc replacing all our previous low-skill jobs. Just imagine how fucked we are when they figure out how to automate "sit at a desk and look busy".
>> No. 23285 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:24 pm
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>>23278
"I dunno, I'll probably just invest it."
"Ooh, calm down."
"Oh I'm sorry, did I say invest it? I meant 'be cool and piss it all away'."
>> No. 23286 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:27 pm
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>>23281

If we continue to find new jobs, no problem. If the jobs start drying up, then we need to completely reinvent the economy or risk a collapse of society. We can't just assume that the status quo will continue and hope for the best, we need to start planning now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment#21st_century
>> No. 23287 Anonymous
18th July 2016
Monday 11:35 pm
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>>23281
>What if instead things largely just follow the pattern set by the industrial revolution and every other technological revolution before.

Martin Ford's Rise of The Robots has a good section on this. To summarise, there are in fact very solid indications that "the pattern" has broken down. Technological revolutions have ceased to bring the benefits that they used to: the link between productivity and median wages has collapsed, long term economic inactivity is on the rise, after every recession it is taking longer and longer for the jobs wiped out to return (and when they do they're worse jobs, and we see an increase in the share of part time workers, contributing to the polarisation of incomes).

Education and training was the answer to "where do the displaced workers go?" in the past. But recent innovations in technology, however, have brought machine intelligence on in leaps and bounds, meaning that that's an approach that's running out of usefulness. There is no special rule that means that computers made of flesh will always have a privileged place in the economy over those made of silicon.
>> No. 23288 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 12:24 am
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>>23287

Unless the computers made of silicon develop AI complex enough to develop consumerism, the ones made of flesh will always be necessary. There is no economy if nobody's there (or more to the point, nobody can afford) to exchange money for goods and services. That's where the turning point will happen.

The "economy" itself is just a rational system of self organisation, it's a haphazard way for us humans, crippled by ideas like free will and lacking the ability to communicate as a telepathic hivemind, to roughly co-ordinate our actions. This wouldn't be a problem if the robots replaced us entirely, robots have wi-fi and cold logic.

Anyway I'm rambling. The economy can keep on spiralling upwards for a while, with an ever shrinking pool of rich people using their ever more advanced technology to make, buy and sell each other ever fancier holographic speedboats and diamond-encrusted cybernetic limbs or whatever it is; but capitalism is nonetheless destined to eat itself.

The accumulation of wealth will always eventually reach a critical mass where the system itself stops working.

Was I indoctrinated as some kind of proper hardcore Marxist as a kid without realising?
>> No. 23289 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 12:32 am
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>>23288

And even if the robots DO develop the AI in order to simulate economic activity, how long until THEY start building robots to automate things again because they realised how bullshit it is having to spend their days working for the man, thereby inadvertently bringing about the collapse of their artificially intelligent economy?

Fucking make it stop lads, how far down does it go
>> No. 23290 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 12:38 am
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>>23288
>Unless the computers made of silicon develop AI complex enough to develop consumerism, the ones made of flesh will always be necessary. There is no economy if nobody's there (or more to the point, nobody can afford) to exchange money for goods and services.
Yeah, that's reminiscent of the old story about the American union boss Walter Reuther being shown around a new automated factory by Henry Ford II:

>“Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”

The thing is, what you actually need is demand. You don't necessarily need it to come from workers spending their wages.
>> No. 23291 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 12:41 am
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>>23288
And no, you're not a hardcore Marxist. The argument you present has come up in the pages of the FT, the Economist, and other decidely non-Marxist publications, and has been brought up by the likes of the right wing economist Laurence Kotlikoff, the venture capitalist Albert Wenger, etc. etc.
>> No. 23292 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 12:43 am
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>>23288

"The system" doesn't have a purpose, so it can't be said to fail. As you say, it's an emergent product of market forces. If the market determines that there should be a gratuitously wealthy tech elite and a vast underclass, that's what we're stuck with unless there's a revolution. I'm sure that the robots who take all our jobs will efficiently suppress any uprising. In a war between guerrilla fighters and self-aware Predator drones, I'm betting on the drones.

I'm not optimistic about the future.
>> No. 23293 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 5:07 am
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/power-toothpaste-the-first-caffeinated-toothpaste/#/

This exists.
>> No. 23294 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 4:22 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ok8UOJ7fY
>> No. 23295 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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Here I am, sat in thirty degree heat, and I don't even have a 9/10 Asian bird that does anal to comfort me. I would just bed in for a siesta but I'm supposed to be on a conference call which nobody appears to have set up.
>> No. 23296 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 5:10 pm
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>>23295
I agree about it being too hot to be working. If I was outdoors it wouldn't be too bad but instead I'm stuck at a desk trying to even start focusing when humidity has turned me into a clammy monster. I've done NOTHING today so why did I even try.

The Asian lass can piss off, far too hot for that. Let me at least have a nice dip in a swimming pool and maybe a cold beer.
>> No. 23297 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 5:17 pm
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>>23296

>The Asian lass can piss off

It's not about actually doing the bumsex, it's that she's there for you even for bumsex.
>> No. 23298 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 5:22 pm
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I just had an argument with the missus for going in a hot bath on a day like this. Is it just me that thinks that is fucking mental and a one way ticket to brain damage?
>> No. 23300 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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Today's word of the day is "immolation".
>> No. 23301 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 6:04 pm
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>>23298
I had one. Don't see the issue relly, feels exactly the same as a hot bath any other day of the week.
>> No. 23302 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 6:07 pm
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>>23300

We used to do portmanteau of the week.

I can't think of a good one based on your post though. This annoys me.
>> No. 23303 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>23302
Immogration, the BNP's new policy.
>> No. 23304 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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I cut some skinny jeans in half yesterday because the only other shorts I own are from when I was a fatty-fatty-fat-fat. Anyway, I fell asleep for about an hour earlier and the button fell off them.

Also they make me look a bit like a Bavarian rent boy.
>> No. 23305 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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Alex Turner and Miles Kane have become an unbearable parody of everything they were against.

It's hard to believe that the lad who penned 'Fake tales of San Francisco' is dancing around with fake tan on in throw back 70s America 'rock n roll' videos trying to be as edgy and as 'look at me I take drugs and do rock music' as possible alongside miles Kane, also the lad who penned 'don't forget who you are' about his beloved home of Liverpool and working clubs.

The Last Shadow Puppets were fantastic, what they've just released is absolute, cringe inducing garbage.

It annoys me how hard these two are trying to be something their not and it annoys me how shit two insanely talented gents are being because they're aiming for a certain image, that will never work for them.
>> No. 23306 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 9:16 pm
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>>23305

Meant to attach this image too, which even if the music video were to be a parody, would still be unbearable. I feel like they're attempting to paint their attempt for a new image as a bit of an overdone joke whilst secretly being a bit serious. Like when somebody is nervous about changing their hairstyle or your mate turns up at the pub wearing a pink blazer jacket hoping it sinks into part of his style unnoticed, but just incase he gets called out he always has his 'it's just a bit of a laugh I'm obviously not serious' excuse to hand.
>> No. 23307 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 10:02 pm
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>>23306
>Like when somebody is nervous about changing their hairstyle
I've been meaning to ask. Do people maintain their hair styles? As in, go to the barbers and ask for the same cut as they had last time?
I've always had varying haircuts because I don't pay attention to what the last one I had was called and just give the barber either vague directions or tell them to do whatever they think would work best.
>> No. 23308 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 10:13 pm
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>>23307

I've been thinking about having a major shake up of my hair for a while but

a) what if it looks shit?
b) How do I know what to ask for? I don't know what to ask for as it is as the same lady has cut my hair for over 20 years, I just sit down and it happens.
>> No. 23309 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 11:20 pm
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This is the only place it's comfortable. Sat on a camping chair, outside, at 23:20. Fuck me. It also appears my phone has adaptive ISO on the rolling shutter. Interesting.
>> No. 23310 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 11:26 pm
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>>23309
There's a screenshot button on your computer; you don't need to take a photograph of it.
>> No. 23311 Anonymous
19th July 2016
Tuesday 11:50 pm
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>>23310
The picture wasn't just of the laptop.
>> No. 23312 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 12:21 am
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>>23310
He wanted to include his pussy.
>> No. 23314 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 2:23 am
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>>23309
I see OkCupid.
>> No. 23317 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 10:46 am
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>>23314
I am chronically lonely.
>> No. 23319 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 12:01 pm
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>>23317
OkCupid is rife with weirdos with daddy issues, "full-time mums" and other undesirables. Anyone worth your time is on Tinder or something similar. Do yourself a favour and leave it.
>> No. 23320 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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>>23319
My experience with tinder has hardly been dissimilar although I admit OKCupid is far worse for it. The only difference seems to be the volume of students but they all tend to be of a sort you'd do well to avoid.

You find keepers by leaving the house. Take all this electronic dating shite and bin it.
>> No. 23324 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 1:25 pm
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>>23320
To be fair, tinder was what allowed me to meet my current missus, we've been together for a solid year.

The premise is very simple; you match with the clear agreement you both find each other attractive (or not physically repugnant), and you can quickly organise a date. My rule was this; I started a conversation with "Hello!", always the same - if she was too good to respond to such an innocuous opener within a few day - fuck it, dropped. I never ever messaged twice, meaning, if I asked a question, and I was left hanging, and for a day or more, then I moved on.
There was nothing more desperate than trying to be an angsty shit - my gf also corroborated this and confirmed she found lads being belligerent extremely unattractive when she was on it.

OkCupid is another game altogether - you have to invest time in building a profile which is a complete waste of time. There is a false notion that this will create conversation material, but it always has and will boil down to attractiveness. I've met lasses on their with terrible pictures but great profiles. Pictures that looked as if they smeared Vaseline over a web-cam from 2001 - I gave them the benefit of the doubt and still agreed for a date. It comes to no surprise then that upon meeting them, they made my stomach drop. To be fair, I'm no model but this was taking the piss. I never did bail, and we had a semi-enjoyable evening, but as soon as they got back on the bus I hastily deleted their numbers and never responded to their messages.
>> No. 23325 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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>>23324
there not their...

It's this heat I swear...
>> No. 23326 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 2:12 pm
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>>23324
>I hastily deleted their numbers and never responded to their messages.
That's cold. Why couldn't you just text them something along the lines of "I had a really nice time with you but I'm afraid I didn't feel a spark, sorry".
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20th July 2016
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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>>23326
Ok I lied, I did reply to a few along those lines, but the fact of the matter of was that the date was it - no more fannying about.
>> No. 23332 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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>>23324
>My rule was this; I started a conversation with "Hello!", always the same

I detest people who try to open a conversation with a lazy line like this. Okay, I reply with 'hello'. Your move master conversationalist.

Either make an observation/relevant question or hoof off. Women are the worst for this and it carries with it an expectation that its all my job which is not what I look for in a partner.
>> No. 23335 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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>>23319

My dream woman is a BBW with weird hair, a dry wit and utterly depraved sexual appetites. I have a fantastic time on OkCupid.
>> No. 23336 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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>>23332
It's clear you've never bothered to use Tinder or how to carry a conversation m90.

Hello is simple, hello is not presumptuous, hello can be followed by a simple "Hi, how are you?" which leads to a conversation.

How the fuck am I supposed to tailor every greeting to everyone I meet? Are you that desperate and unconfident in your looks/personality that you need to make some hilarious quips about nothing to seem "quirky" and interesting? Get over yourself, Hello is what you get, and if you're above that, then kindly fuck off.
>> No. 23337 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>23336
Your supposed to look over their profile at least once before you decide to message. Expressing an interest in other people is a must even if its just making chit-chat about the dogs.
>> No. 23338 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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Fucking kids playing on the street because their parents are too lazy to take them to a park or let them go play on the MASSIVE FUCKING FIELD that's just around the corner, because they'd rather be able to still sit out in their shorts drinking Stella. Why do we even have such an infestation of children on this street? There's one big family who seem to operate like a hive where there are three generations and several cousins present all day long; and there's another family whose mum seems to be a child minder of sorts bringing yet more mewling brats hereto disturb my peace. The thing is I know it makes me a bit of a misery guts to hate the sound of kids playing outside and getting exercise, but surely it's some sort of anti-social behaviour if it's fucking constant from the moment I get home from work, until about 9pm, and the parents don't even tell them to be quiet when they're sat screaming at each other over who gets to use which fucking ball or whatever.

Great, now one of them is fucking starting with a fucking tantrum. The heat is making me grumpy enough without this bullshit.
>> No. 23339 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 6:54 pm
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People who routinely whine and do so incessantly about the two days of nice weather we get each year.

Get a fucking grip and grow up.
>> No. 23340 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>23339

I second that.

It seems to me that people who get unhappy about the weather, will get unhappy about anything and everything.
>> No. 23341 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:22 pm
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>>23339

Are you sure you're not lost? You do know what country you are in right? Moaning about inane shit is our biggest national pastime.
>> No. 23342 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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>>23305

> It's hard to believe that the lad who penned 'Fake tales of San Francisco' is dancing around with fake tan on in throw back 70s America 'rock n roll' videos trying to be as edgy and as 'look at me I take drugs and do rock music'

As much as I used to like QOTSA, it all went pete tong for AM when they met Josh Homme imo.
>> No. 23343 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:29 pm
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>>23341

I also hate people that justify things by pretending that they're some sort of quirky brit who can't enjoy nice weather.

Of course we can, otherwise we wouldn't go on holiday.
>> No. 23344 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:34 pm
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>>23343

Boiling hot weather is nice when you start drinking at 10am and lounge around a pool all day. It's shit if you've got to stand on the train with a load of sweaty bastards pressed up against you.
>> No. 23345 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:35 pm
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>>23343
What's nice about covering yourself in sweat without going anywhere, spending days in pain because you're burnt to a crisp, being unable to sleep for hours, having flies all over the fucking place, sitting there drenched because its so humid and uncomfortable nothing will evaporate?

It's fucking horrible, it's not bloody nice in the slightest.
>> No. 23346 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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>>23345

Things might not be so bad if slightly warmer weather upsets you this much.

Moan about how the rain and wind makes things shit, or perpetual grey skies are depressing, or cold wintery ice makes everything twice as difficult.

You just all moan about it because you think it's some sort of British right of way and you're really working into the stereotype by spewing such shit.

It's a bit of sun, get over it. If you're spending 'days in pain because you're burnt to a crisp' you're either in need of a medical diagnosis for a skin condition or walking around naked and not applying suncream.
>> No. 23347 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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>>23339 nice weather

It's not nice for us, you cretinous fucker. That's why we whine. Or suck it up and pray for it to end soon.
Either way, it's 'nice' like being kicked in the balls repeatedly is 'nice'. Brain shuts down, cycling around gets me sweaty, every fucking thing is hot to the touch. Just foul. Tolerable on holiday when I'm not trying to get things done, but I'd still rather not.
I love winter. Can't get enough of snow, bright cold days, driving rain, wind, all of it. But people whine about that.
>> No. 23348 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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>>23343

I hate people meta-complaining about people complaining because they think they are so much more free-thinking and rational for not sharing opinions with other groups of people.
>> No. 23349 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:49 pm
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>>23348

Cool input.

>>23347
You're all acting like we've just inhabited the weather of Saudi Arabia on a permanent basis and we're not having a bit of sun for two days.

Honest to god, you don't have to like it, but this over dramatisation of how bad it is is fucking pathetic.

As I said, you all need to get a grip.
>> No. 23350 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>23349
Maybe it affects different people to a different extent?
Maybe it really is fucking horrible for some people?
Sure, whining's not going to fix it, but can't you just live with a bit of whining for a few days?
>> No. 23351 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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>>23350

Yes, obviously it will, but I strongly doubt that most people aren't being burnt to a crisp and being in agony for days.

I don't like the rain, I don't act like a second biblical flood is about to come and wash away my house, because I'm not pathetic.

Do a whinge, by all means, but at least stop this yank extremism where everything has to be the absolute best or worst.
>> No. 23352 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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>>23320
>>23324
I tried Tinder, swiped right on every bird I found even vaguely attractive (so 85%, I heard that if you make it 100 you don't get shown to anyone) for about 3 weeks, so that's 2100 people.
Zero matches.
>> No. 23353 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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Is it too much to ask for this heat to be spread over several decent days instead of one or two unbearably hot and humid ones?
>> No. 23354 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>23353
I think that's the thing too -- 30ºC in Maga with the lads is different to 30ºC here.

The houses in those countries are built to make it bearable, whereas houses in this country are built to trap heat in. It's incredibly humid, moreso than you would get even at the coast in the Med, and unlike the Yanks we don't have any aircon.
>> No. 23355 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:49 pm
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I looked down at my foot and it's been bleeding, it must have been for quite a while judging by the amount of blood. Anyway, I was blissfully unaware of this and now I've looked at it it won't stop stinging.
>> No. 23356 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:50 pm
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>>23346
>Moan about how the rain and wind makes things shit, or perpetual grey skies are depressing, or cold wintery ice makes everything twice as difficult.
Not the lad you're responding to, but - I don't moan in those cases. I'm fine with rain, snow, or just cloudy grey days. It's this heat I can't fucking cope with. Other cunts go on about how "miserable" the weather is at all other times of the year, I reckon I get to complain during the few roasting bastards we get during summer.

"Moan" fucking ticked.
>> No. 23357 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>23354
I'm working from home most of the time at the moment. I was in the air-conditioned office today when the outside temperature was only 25, whereas yesterday I had to ask my manager's permission for a siesta because the temperature in my living room was 31 degrees on account of there being no wind whatsoever. (To be fair, I was taking it anyway, and had he said no I'd have told him to go swivel.)
>> No. 23358 Anonymous
20th July 2016
Wednesday 11:00 pm
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>>23356
Entirely.

There's a lot in Watching the English about the use of the weather as a conversational device which is a fascinating reflection but for me it simply has no place here.

Today it was fucking horrible. The day before it was fucking horrible. The day before it was fucking horrible and I'm moaning because it hasn't been fucking horrible as far as I'm concerned for a lovely long time.
>> No. 23360 Anonymous
21st July 2016
Thursday 12:02 am
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Another thing to consider is the THSW index -- Temperature, Humidity, Solar (Radiation), Wind. It's basically a 'feels like' as compared to some standard conditions. Because it's so humid here, and there wasn't a lot of wind, and we get a fair amount of solar radiation (~1000Wm^-2 on a good day), it 'feels' a lot higher than it is. The attached graph shows yesterday it was brushing 40.

This historical data is on a few hours' lag, but you can see what it was like.

[x] autism because this really is
>> No. 23361 Anonymous
21st July 2016
Thursday 12:11 am
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>>23360
To continue, the reason why it's not as bad in the evenings even when the temperature hasn't dropped as much is because it's starting to dry out.
Relative humidity is a weird fucking unit though.
>> No. 23363 Anonymous
21st July 2016
Thursday 12:44 am
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>>23361
>Relative humidity is a weird fucking unit though.

Is it? My understanding is that it's just a percentage of water vapour with the saturation amount being 100%. Seems simple enough to me?

Few weeks ago my phone was telling me the humidity was in the 95-100% range. I can deal with anything up to about 90% but anything above that can fuck right off, the air seems too thick to breathe at that point. The excellent news is that climate change will apparently lead to greater humidity in future as the oceans warm up, I'm definitely going to have to invest in decent A/C if that happens.
>> No. 23364 Anonymous
21st July 2016
Thursday 1:01 am
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>>23363
>I'm definitely going to have to invest in decent A/C if that happens.
Thus accelerating climate change.


And yes, but the way it must be calculated (as a function of temperature and pressure) means you can't compare, say, the RH at this point last year accurately because, well, it's relative. I suppose, like Fahrenheit, it's an easily relatable unit, since giving it in gm^-3 as an absolute value wouldn't mean shit to people.

The 'ideal' is 60%, apparently.
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