People who are on the phone in their car via hands free, who don't realise they've got it on so loud that you can hear every word from 30 feet away.

While putting my groceries in the boot in the car park this afternoon, somebody literally 30 feet away was apparently on the phone with his boss and I clearly overheard that he was receiving instructions on what to tell a client about a matter.

Not only are you letting people listen in on potentially sensitive details, but it's also just fucking annoying.

I've owned the Master Chief Collection on Steam for five years now. I've never had any problem running it, and my PC has remained almost unchanged for all that time. But for some reason, on one particular Halo Reach map tonight my FPS was plummeting to around ten, before shooting back up to a locked seventy-five, then back down. Nothing was wrong in the other two matches I played, and the singleplayer games I tested were okay as well. So either the game has had one of those weird updates where a change to one thing has broken a completely different thing, or rendered it broken on my hardware anyway, or my hardware itself is a bit knackered and this is the first I'm hearing of it. However, if it's that the problem then why was it fine when I was playing Total Warhammer 3 a few days ago? A game that is far more demanding than Halo Reach. Skyrim SE and Death Stranding were fine last month as well.

It's like, yeah, I get it, I'm thirty now, I shouldn't be playing Halo anyway. But could I just get a break? Just for tonight? Fucking cunt life.

In fact I'm exactly the age range of people who should be playing Halo, no one younger than twenty-six gives a shit about this franchise.

That fucking prick stopped me in the street, again. I noticed someone ahead was ducking between lampposts, breaking our line of sight, but thought nothing of it. A few minutes later there he was, outstretched hand. Somehow invited myself to walk with him, he panicked into a shop while i waited outside, upon his return he regaled me with the tale of visiting his online BBW queen, at full volume through the park. 10 whole minutes nodding along and following conversation (he let slip another name for himself) before I could escape. Atleast we landed in a neutral zone.

I need to get off of this street.

>>36700
>he regaled me with the tale of visiting his online BBW queen,

Glad to hear you and otherlad are making friends.

Denied a flat viewing. They barely gave me time to explain my frugal lifestyle and impeccable rent history (well, for one late payment 12 years ago) before Computer Say's No; can't afford. Some bollocks about safeguarding. I should have worn a woollen tie.

Afford means what you are willing to pay, not what you're able. That they are deciding what my life should be worth is horrendously offensive, in an age when people live beyond their means for the sake of smartphone toys and Netflix. I haven't gone without that shit so I can't afford a nice place to live. Much of my furniture is wicker, for fuck sake - literally made out of sticks.
I have no fucking debts and considerable savings (according to my situation), and they ignored my thanking for their time on my way out, absolute cunts.

On thought, I was noticably nervous in my verbal pacing and mannerisms. If I had gone in more relaxed with open compliments, the interview may have gone better even with the same result. A much more conversational attitude would have worked well, they may have even appreciated the joke pictured.

I'm wondering if I should email the letting manager with the relevant details of my situation, laying out precicely how I would afford to pay the rent on time. Maybe even find the landlord to make a private offer? I did notice the asking rent had been recently decreased, indicating possible difficulty in finding a tenant - I mentioned this during the interview but they claimed they've a number of interested parties (then why is it still available?).

Well, it's all experience I guess.

>>36702
>I'm wondering if I should email the letting manager
Nah it's his computer that says no. Try the landlord. He might not know they're turning people away (losing rent in the delay) and be keen to avoid paying the middle management their fees.

>>36702

A friend just applied for a flat after he and his partner split up and decided to give up their shared flat. He's a civil engineer in a temp position at the moment, with more than average chances of remaining with his current workplace full time at some point. He was upfront about his entire situation to the letting agent, that he badly needed a new place to stay, and the relatively modest single-bedroom flat in question would have been well within reach in relation to his current income even as a temp. He let them see his bank statements and everything. But the letting agent ultimately said that they "got burned before, letting to tenants in precarious life situations" and that therefore they were going to reject him.

Does somebody like that even know the meaning of "precarious"? How is any of that precarious?

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. When it comes to landlords "kill them all" is a viable solution.

>>36705

It's just that the market has become a complete piss take. It wasn't always like that. As a younglad during and after uni, over 20 years ago, there was never a big problem. If you needed to move for whatever reason, you'd look at five flats, probably talk to the owner one-on-one at each of them, and then you got to pick between at least two out of those five.

With the housing shortage and cost of living crisis, it's just a complete nightmare. It's become like a job interview, with probably as many other candidates for each property. That is something that has definitely changed. There were also no mass viewing queues of 20-plus people in front of a property, all just to see one single flat. Which I find the most revolting thing about today's housing market.

>>36706

To avoid turning this thread too into the same cunt-off we're having in the Labour thread, that's the entire problem in a nutshell. Everything these days is a competition. You compete for houses, for jobs, to get your kids a place in The Good School, to see a GP, to get registered with a dentist, to secure a driving test, to find a parking space... Just competition competition competition.

Everything just has the sense of being over-subscribed and under served. We should have been building more capacity 30-odd years ago but we weren't. So now, it's really no wonder people feel like they do.

>>36706
It's also that landlords have become entitled cunts. My former landlord ran a cleaning business. She understood the necessity of making provision for her employees, paying them properly, providing facilities, giving breaks, the need to invest in her business, and the costs of doing business. But she got indignant about someone missing their rent once and went off about how she would have to pay the bills out of her own pocket if it wasn't forthcoming, and then the council came around and shut the place down because she wasn't compliant with about half the regulations for HMOs. She understood that her cleaning business was a business, but somehow couldn't understand that her letting business was a business.

"Oh no, if I don't make sure someone is making multiple times the rent which I jacked up above inflation five years in a row and get a guarantor I might bear the risk of not getting paid for this flat that I'm getting for free." Entitled fucking cunts, the lot of them.

>>36707

> We should have been building more capacity 30-odd years ago but we weren't.

At least the private sector hasn't been helping out, except for the luxury housing market. An meaningful increase in the supply of housing for the average person would mean demand would go down and their stock of rental properties would see stagnating rents or even decreased valuation. They are doing just fine renting out their limited number of flats to people at a personal finances crushing premium, and save for the mentioned luxury market, with that, there's no real incentive to build new middle or working class flats. And where they are built anyway, they usually come at an equally unaffordable markup.

Went to the cemetery today and stepped in some dog poo that was hidden under some leaves next to a tree.

Who the fuck lets their dog shit in a cemetery. And brings their dog in the first place.

>>36710
Dog owners... in some respects they remind one of landlords, wouldn't you agree... ?

I don't know when it started, but YouTube started adding shit to searches. I'd go looking for "ABC" and the result would be auto-completed to "ABC xyz best version 10h". I was looking for "ABC", ta very much. I was looking for OC ReMix #2202 but for some reason YT thought I was looking for the Red Choir singing Korobeniki. Stop being "clever", please. If I give you garbage input, give me garbage output, you're not helping.

>>36712
>garbage

>>36713
Lady of the house speaking?

>>36713
Patricia Routledge was last seen alive in this post.

What did you do with her, lad?

>>36715
Flattening her into my computer screen can't have done her much good.

Why do some people use the phrase "conventionally attractive"? You're either attractive or you're not. As if there's no general concensus upon what's considered attractive.

>>36720
I've never seen the appeal of Angelina Jolie myself. And some people - closeted gays, all of them - don't like fat women. And that's before you go into the Free Thread here, or start giving yourself the old passion-thrashin' to pensioners and ladyboys.

>>36720

Everyone has their tastes, but there's definitely a stereotypical standard of what is attractive and what isn't. For women it's the blonde, leggy model physique, with big tits. For men it's literally the Chad meme, chiselled jawline "handsome" guy with a six pack and broad shoulders.

One thing I don't understand about the female one is that I am pretty sure a majority of men like a lass who is shorter than them, and vice versa, women like a bloke who is taller. So why is it considered a good thing for a woman to be 6 foot tall? And then wear 4 inch heels too? That means you'd have to be some sort of 7 foot giant to properly match with her.

>>36722
>For men it's literally the Chad meme, chiselled jawline "handsome" guy with a six pack and broad shoulders.

I feel this is a lot more "what men think women find attractive" and "what men think the ideal man looks like" than what women are especially attracted to.

>>36723

Not really. There's a reason it's (an exaggeration of) the type of man of a woman always used in marketing towards women. It's the Diet Coke advert bloke. George Clooney in his younger years very much fit the standard and he's always at the top of women's list of fit actors. You get the idea.

Do you consider the blonde leggy model with big tits to be a lot more "what women think men find attractive" and "what women think the ideal woman looks like" than what men are especially attracted to? No, you're just compulsively driven to give women the benefit of the doubt.

>>36724
Men are far more obsessed with large muscles and six packs than women are.

>>36725

No women are just far more dishonest in their answers. The massive skew in online dating responses that the most attractive men receive Vs the least demonstrates that point quite objectively.

One gender is obsessed with how large the breasts of their partner is, the other is men.

>>36729
>Women are just far more dishonest in their answers.
It's not fair so say dishonest - you wouldn't expect a person to actually lie about something like that, right?

Women like big arms. It's probably not universally true, some of them undoubtably want little twinky men they make lick their high-heels clean. But, on the whole, I'm confident women like it when men have nice arms.

Also you need good core strength to shag properly.

>>36730
NO! He's right. All women are always lying all of the time about everything. If they say zig, you zag, or you'll end up dead!

>>36729
Your long-standing issues are showing.

>>36725
Women just say that because they're gains goblins. Much like actual goblins they jealously envy the magnificent male form from their vantage point among the 10lb weights and would like nothing better than to sabotage us.

The other week a woman scoffed at me for my lunch of Greek yoghurt, blueberries and pumpkin seeds but only one of us was losing weight and shot thick ropes of jizz.

>>36729
Is this from that single OKCupid study that is normally presented alongside stats from interracial dating preferences and willy size?

I'm not saying that women aren't shallow but I'll defend them by saying that they clearly do put up with a lot of shit from the average man when it comes to appearance and won't write someone off entirely for being fat so long as they have a good job, charming personality etc. Attractiveness is largely irrelevant for us anyway now that we're in our 30s and want a long-term partner rather than a trophy to show off to our mates.

>>36733

>Attractiveness is largely irrelevant for us anyway now that we're in our 30s and want a long-term partner rather than a trophy to show off to our mates.

Trouble is I'm in my 30s and I feel like I'm just hitting my personal prime. In my 20s I was an awkward skinny nerd who had trouble negotiating social situations, and understanding my emotions. Now, I'm a rugged but handsome man, just enough wear and tear to give me character, but a greater physical fitness and respect for my health and appearance than I ever had before. I'm much more balanced and at peace with myself.

I'm more of a catch than I've ever been, and I deserve a fitty more than ever. But these mid-30s bints are all just getting fat, bitter, and drinking too much wine in front of their serial killer docs. I've always overlooked "conventional attractiveness" so I've no horse in the race this conversation originally came from. But it pisses me off how all these maungy slags put zero effort into themselves and yet act like they're entitled to a fairytale prince to come sweep them away.

>>36734
Tateshit, on Britfa.gs?

>>36735

Fuck off, retard. A man valuing himself is not Tate shit. Go inflict your self pity on someone else.

>>36736
There's nothing wrong with knowing your self worth, but the moment you start talking about your high value while at the same time denigrating low value mangy slags you start veering off into manosphere territory.

>>36734
>But these mid-30s bints are all just getting fat, bitter, and drinking too much wine in front of their serial killer docs

You're focusing too much on women in all of this when blokes are exactly the same with this shit, perhaps worse because we're allowed to let ourselves go a lot more. Most of the people you meet are troglodytes, it's why when you rarely meet someone you perceive as an equal to you it sends you back to being a teenager and why putting even a little effort in can give disproportionate returns to your life both as a partner and as a person.

But to return to my point, you can outwardly attractive in a conventional sense and still be repulsive just as a lot of women can be unconventionally attractive. With maturity your taste changes and you should have learnt by now what you really want in a partner rather than what a Hollywood producer tells you that you should find attractive.

>>36736
I thought he was jumping to conclusions too, but the manner in which you reacted to his misunderstanding makes me think he was correct after all.

I just reminded myself in my reply of something else that annoys me lately: Selfish cunts on the tube who don't get up for parents and children. The biggest one that annoys me is when there's one seat that the young kid takes while the exhausted parent has to stand up next to them in the aisle.

You don't have this in other countries, for example I hear that in Spain if a woman has a baby in a shopping queue then they'll let her go ahead.

>>36737
I don't think there's anything wrong with complaining about the dire nature of the dating market. I bet you wouldn't have your back up so much if he was talking about some of the disgusting people on his commute or those he has to work with.

>>36740
>I bet you wouldn't have your back up so much if he was talking about some of the disgusting people on his commute or those he has to work with.

You're right. If he was talking about how he shouldn't have to associate with the great unwashed because he has a decent career then nobody here would have said a thing. Fucking hell, seriously you lads and your mental gymnastics when someone mentions women.

You guys paint such an awful picture of the dating scene, I'm starting to think you'll just don't know how to meet or appreciate real women. I'm not yet at it but I refuse to believe the options are limited like this without unwittingly making them so. Get off of fucking bumble, hinge or whatever the shit is warping your minds - that's not how humans have evolved to network, ofcourse the data will be skewed.
I'll report back toward mid-winter but I'm expecting to be drowning in BBW/OAP gash by the time I'm volunteering. All those lonely women? They're gagging for it.

>>36742
I met my current partner off hinge a year ago and I've never been happier with someone.

>>36737
>>36739

Meh.

Honestly, I think it's just become a reactionary kind of impulse nowadays that any time a person, especially a bloke god forbid, starts talking positively about themselves or talks about something like self-improvement or healthy personal development and so on, people take it as though it's inherently right wing, alt-frog, Tate-cel Hitler Youth coded. It's part of the polarisation brain rot. And to be frank, people just hate seeing another person actually show they've got self esteem and self-worth, and immediately jump on the try and tear them down, make them feel embarrassed, ashamed, guilty.

Regardless. Maybe I was nasty about women who do nothing but drink wine in front of Netflix. But are you saying women who do nothing but sit in front of Netflix drinking wine don't exist? I wasn't talking about women in general, I was talking about those women. It just seems that they make up a pretty large percentage of the over-30s dating market from my experience.

>>36730

It has definitely been the troupe that men are the ones who are superficial, and it's worth pointing out the evidence says women are too if not more but don't admit it. Tell me what word would you use when someone doesn't tell the truth? There's no word that addresses the concept that you would perceive as judgement free and isn't so wooly of euthamism as to dodge addressing the concept.

should I have just said women are more polite than men? And obviously it is a woman's right to choose and if they want to choose more attractive men there is no shame in that? Would that appease the foot sniffers here, if we never acknowledge anything that could be perceived as a fault among the fairer sex, even in what was attempted to be a tone neutral observation about behaviour.

>>36743

I wonder whether whether reporting bias is a part of the issue; people who find success don't tend to come back and announce it.

For what it's worth, my relationship of 7 years began with a "meetup"-type app for expats, but then going there in person led me to meet a lovely woman. I don't know whether that counts as online or in-person, though.

>>36746
Based purely on posts and responses up until that point, a users honesty simply has no relevance.
I'm assuming these responses are via a dating app where the proposed 'dishonesty' is in the mere clicking of a profile that users happen to like the look and sound of. Even in conversation, if they lie about .. what, exactly? my understanding of your arguement falls apart here - why would anybody lie about their attraction while dating, unless you mean to suggest people have alterior motives? I don't know what else your angle could be.

We already know that a users view of 'the online dating market' is manipulated to priorotise subscribed accounts. Is it much of a stretch to think that the algorythm might tailor a users experience to what it thinks will keep them 'satisfied with the product'? If it does that, users will be funneled toward a certain type of profile which will obviously skew data.
So we've got a handful of lads like >>36743 who didn't take that bait and by their own behaviour avoided that specific treadmill, while other users don't.
If you don't like hollow women you could always stop clicking them? Or start clicking other types to retrain the algorithm (isn't that why people use multiple accounts, to fish in different pools?).
Ultimately you're asking a tool to find you a subjective condition with inapropriate and misguided inputs. Simples, mate.

>tell me what word would you use when someone doesn't tell the truth?
At best I could imagine a person not knowing what they find attractive, thus follow societies suggestion of what makes a partner desirable. That's nescience, not dishonesty.

What am I missunderstanding?

>>36746
To come back and announce success, I met my wife on OKCupid and we've been together for over 10 years now. I never used Hinge or Tinder or Bumble so maybe they're bad experiences.

>>36748
Congrats! OKCupid was fun for me for the quizzes, but glad to hear two others had different luck. Genuinely, best of luck.

>>36748

They're definitely bad experiences now that the enshittification has gone on for a good 5-10 years.

When they fist came onto the scene it was a revelation. Or, at least it was if you are reasonably good looking (or at least, enough so to pull off a good picture, I'm not saying I'm a Brad Pitt lookalike here) and had a bit of banter. I got my end away with a fair few lasses just by engaging in roughly the same sort of daft meme-culture bullshittery I've been doing on the internet already for most of my younger years.

The point it all changed, I think much like the rest of the internet, was when you had more "normal" folk than nerds on them. People started taking it too seriously. Lasses started to think they've got infinite choice and treating the opportunity to date them like winning a golden ticket. Lads started to think they could be the master shagger playboy they missed out on being as a student and started hounding after women they had no interest in beyond casual sex. Everyone collectively became disillusioned.

They used to work, because people were open to the possibility that they worked., But nowadays it seems like everyone is going in from the word go with the assumption and expectation that dating apps are shit, and you'll never find anyone worthwhile on them. Despite the fact that everybody uses them. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then grows into a disillusionment between the sexes generally.

Can we stop with all the CISMAMBA gender acronyms pls, it's berry upsetting.

>>36751
Is that another one? If you are referring to AMAB, that’s “assigned male at birth”; I actually knew that one so wasn’t worried when I saw it. Enbies are NBs - non-binary people.

I enjoy learning about these things, so unfortunately I disagree with your wish. The people themselves are often quite annoying, and the last few times we’ve had barmy acronyms here, they have been disparaging, so that’s another reason to support not stopping just yet.

>>36751
I quite like upsetting berries, the tears just make them juicier.