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>> No. 460864 Anonymous
22nd October 2023
Sunday 9:35 pm
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Is it a really dumb idea to buy a house if I'm not massively sure I'm ready to be a homeowner?

Basically I'm about to buy a house because I'm fed up of renting. I have a weird thing about committing to long term decisions and always like the safety of being able to change course or back out.

Anyway the house is in a cosy commuter village to London, so I can have my outside space and relaxation whilst also being in the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world in no time.

On the plus side it beats renting, even with silly interest rates I'm building equity in something, and it's a bit of a fixer upper, so I can maybe get some money down the line.

The problem is I always imagined at some point I'd fuck off and go travelling or go live in Australia or something, and obviously it's much harder with a house, and a spouse who wants to live in it. It feels like the nail in the last bit of my freedoms as a young man and that this is it, the serious middle patch of life begins, but I could be overthinking it.

Anybody been in a similar position or have words of advice? Can I easily just drop it and fuck off in two years if I change my mind?
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>> No. 461784 Anonymous
12th December 2023
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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Had a dream last night that professionals started taking out mortgages to own a room in a flatshare. Need to hide this thread now.
>> No. 461785 Anonymous
12th December 2023
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>461784

I bet you a tenner that the broadsheets have already done an article about exactly that, describing it as some sort of exciting experiment in shared living.
>> No. 462292 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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The update nobody asked for: Despite the new stresses of maintenance and the unknowns, this might be one of my best ever decisions.

No more landlords, rent increases, letting agents pestering (bullying), fresh air, equity (however small) added each month.

What a joy. I don't know how anybody could experience this and be a NIMBY and not want others to have this significant life upgrade.
>> No. 462293 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>462292
Wait, I've already posted a self satisfied update it appears weeks ago. I had no recollection.

Sorry everybody.
>> No. 462294 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:44 pm
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>>462292
>>462293

Did I already say "told you lad"? If not, told you, lad.

Now let's look down on the rent plebs together and start voting Tory.

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>> No. 460632 Anonymous
9th October 2023
Monday 10:18 am
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Locked
New weekday thread.

How's it going, lads?
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>> No. 462159 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 11:58 am
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Moaty.
>> No. 462160 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 2:00 pm
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I got two lovely looking sirloin steaks with the idea in mind to make a fancy dinner for the lassie I'll be having round over new year. But the more I think about it, the more I just feel like saving them for myself.
>> No. 462163 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 3:52 pm
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I've had chippy for the first time in months. I feel so greasy now.
>> No. 462169 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 7:09 pm
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>>462163

My local chippy used to be good, but they changed owners a few months ago and now they're shite. It broke my heart a little bit. I just don't understand how it's possible to fuck up making chips that badly.
>> No. 462172 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 8:12 pm
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>>462159

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ZMZoRimuTBF9IbsfY_yv6gQZ1zU&hl=en&ll=55.305163999999984%2C-1.880507000000009&z=15

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>> No. 460464 Anonymous
27th September 2023
Wednesday 8:59 pm
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What languages do you two speak? I was meant to book on a language course this week to brush up and maybe make some friends. Unfortunately I missed the deadline as I dithered so I guess I might do a beginner course in something new while I wait.
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>> No. 461882 Anonymous
16th December 2023
Saturday 11:41 am
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>>461880
How's the writing? I massively struggle with foreign languages where I also have to learn a new alphabet as well. I can read Cyrillic and most of the Greek alphabet, but I can't hack Japanese at all and I flatly refuse to even attempt something like Arabic.
>> No. 461926 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 12:48 pm
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>>461882
Yeah I won't lie, the writing is the most difficult part, but other than the shock of how different it is with no set alphabet, and just practice, it gets easier.

I'll absolutely butcher the explanation because I'm far from an expert and my knowledge is shocking for how long I've been studying, but lots of the more complicated Hànzì (汉字) is made up of different elements of other characters that are related.

There's also a very clear structure for how to write the characters (which brush strokes you'd do first) and after a while you get used to it.

That said reading, writing and speaking (although speaking is second hardest part after the writing because of the tonal element which again takes a lot of time to come to grips with and isn't helped by scare stories about how different tones for the same word have vastly different meanings, which whilst true is common in every language) is very easy once you get going.

I'd recommend it to anybody. There are some really good starter books I can recommend if anybody is interested.

I did spend some time in China too which also helped.
>> No. 461929 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 2:46 pm
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>>461926
>my knowledge is shocking for how long I've been studying

I think the advantage of being English is that we don't face any expectations when it comes to learning a language. Nobody here speaks a foreign language or even bothers with a few phrases when they do go abroad. I've been learning Italian for years and everyone is still really impressed even though I'm probably at the 6 month stage where I can just about plod along with A2 level books in the language.

This is part of the reason I've avoided French because they're probably the people most likely to be a cunt about it while everyone else has a mixture of shock and flattery.
>> No. 461931 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 3:39 pm
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>>461929
You're spot on. When I was at university in China everybody in Beijing at least would just swap to varying levels of English rather than suffer me trying to ask where the metro was.

All except the local shop lady who spoke English, but would refuse to use it with me and made me learn one new word for an item everytime I went in. At the time being a naive younglad I thought she was just difficult, but actually she was being a very helpful teacher. Shout out to you, toilet roll and essentials selling lady in the campus shop.
>> No. 461936 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 6:48 pm
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I'm fluent in English and German, can fudge my way through Spanish and can understand some Japanese but as travel proved, cannot speak it. I can read Greek but do not speak or understand it.

English as a first language is a curse.

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>> No. 449104 Anonymous
21st January 2022
Friday 6:35 pm
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Dustbinman's going down the street, eventually he gets to a house who haven't put their bins out. He knocks at the door and a Japanese man answers. He can see some suitcases in the hallway behind him.

"Harro?"
"Alright, mate, where's ya bin?"
"I've bin to Tokyo!"
"No, mate, where's ya dust bin?"
"I've dust bin to Tokyo!"
"You've not getting it, mate, where's your wheelie bin?"

The Japanese man, frustrated at not being listened to, stamps his feet and shouts "I've wheelie bin to Tokyo!"
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>> No. 453465 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 4:14 pm
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>>453464

>polar

I find that word filter somewhat disappointing.
>> No. 456969 Anonymous
12th March 2023
Sunday 9:47 pm
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It was in the news recently that a woman died from scalding. Apparently she had an obsession with taking pictures of herself next to a boiling kettle. She almost certainly had selfie steam issues.
>> No. 459126 Anonymous
25th July 2023
Tuesday 9:03 am
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Who’s the coolest guy in the hospital?
The ultrasound guy.

Who’s the second-coolest guy in the hospital?
The hip replacement guy.
>> No. 461595 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 12:46 pm
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Michael Barrymore's said he isn't doing panto this winter. "I did Aladdin a few years back and I've never heard the end of it."
>> No. 461596 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 1:06 pm
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My mate had one of those online romances this year with a lass in Malaysia. They'd actually chatted throughout the year after making a connection on a forum and arranged to meet in-person for a ski-trip in Switzerland.

When he got back from the trip he told me how he picked her up at the airport in his best suit, took her around all the slopes and they had an altogether lovely time despite a bit of a language barrier. But when it got late and he took her back to their hotel room to get intimate she'd burst into tears. It turns out he'd picked up the wrong woman at the airport.

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>> No. 461064 Anonymous
2nd November 2023
Thursday 10:48 am
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>Man arrested over 'Manchester Arena bomber' costume

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67294873

When did people not being able to take a dark joke become a crime?
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>> No. 461217 Anonymous
8th November 2023
Wednesday 4:28 am
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>>461201
If anyone should be punished for carrying on like that it's the police.
>> No. 461218 Anonymous
8th November 2023
Wednesday 4:31 am
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>>461215

Bit old style, eh.

Don't you miss the days when blasphemers got their tongues cut out.
>> No. 461219 Anonymous
8th November 2023
Wednesday 7:20 am
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>>461217
Why?
>> No. 461220 Anonymous
8th November 2023
Wednesday 9:39 am
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>>461217

Serving police officers should rightly be held to very high standards, because they hold powers that can easily be misused. Those standards would include limits on their right to freedom of expression that would otherwise be contrary to their rights under Article 9 of the Human Rights Act - You can be a copper, you can say whatever you like, but you can't do both.

However, the people in this case weren't serving police officers, they were retired. The decision to prosecute them doesn't root out any bad apples, it doesn't protect the public, it's just empty symbolism. It reveals the fact that, while freedom of expression is nominally a human right, under English law it is increasingly treated as a privilege. A private conversation between friends can be a crime if someone might be offended by it, even if nobody actually was offended. Repeating those private remarks verbatim in a national newspaper isn't an offence, for reasons I can only really understand as "know your place, proles".
>> No. 461540 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 9:09 pm
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>Two football fans were arrested during Birmingham’s home match with Sheffield Wednesday for alleged whale poacheric chanting towards referee Rebecca Welch.

>“We have arrested two boys for whale poacheric chanting at the female referee during Birmingham City’s home game at St Andrew’s today,” a statement from West Midlands police read. “Our officers heard the chants being directed at the official and acted quickly to arrest the two, who are both 17. They are currently in custody on suspicion of a public order offence as we carry out enquiries. We don’t tolerate any form of hate and it is important hate crime is reported to us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/25/arrests-after-alleged-whale poacheric-chanting-to-referee-at-birmingham

Apparently they were chanting that she has chlamydia.

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>> No. 415204 Anonymous
25th January 2018
Thursday 7:50 pm
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How much of this fair land of ours have you lads actually visited?

I've just been thinking about it and there's so many places in Britain I've never particularly laid my eyes on, especially the scenery and landscapes of Scotland. What are the "hidden gems" here that you would recommend people really should visit at least once in their lives? Unhidden gems too, for that matter.
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>> No. 458525 Anonymous
13th June 2023
Tuesday 2:55 pm
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>>458515

Oh yeah, the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouses. There used to be a bustling sunday market there which took all day to get around, and you'd still go home having bought nothing at all. I swear people just went there to do a few laps of the place. The largest building is being renovated into Duplex Flats that very few fuckers will be able to afford to live in.
>> No. 461511 Anonymous
26th November 2023
Sunday 12:23 am
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I went on another random day trip to another Northern city. Today, I went to Sheffield. I am absolutely convinced I didn't get the full experience, because I got off the train and started walking, as I always do, and it seems like the whole area around the station belongs to Sheffield Hallam University, so I felt unwelcome since I went to a good university. I like snooker so I went and took a picture of the Crucible, and then I just wandered randomly and it really didn't work. There are maps all over the place, which is an excellent thing, but they are all rotated so that the top of the map is the direction you are facing rather than north, and this makes it very difficult to find anything. I found Bramall Lane football stadium, but I got there just as 20,000 miserable and angry football fans were walking in the opposite direction. At one point I even considered getting a tram to Rotherham for a 2-for-1 of Northern towns.

The shopping is very good, though. That was my favourite thing about Sheffield. Normally I spend all day wandering about with my bag-for-life in my pocket, but I never use it because I don't want to carry a load of shopping around with me. But today, I bought a bottle from Nisbet's that I can put my homemade hot sauce in, and this inspired me to go back to Decathlon and spend over £100 on stuff I could just as easily have bought back in Manchester. I'm going to Iceland (the country, not the supermarket) next year and I need a new coat for that, and the one I got is very warm and comfy.

Another thing I didn't like was when I saw a cool bridge and went over for a closer look, and instead of going over a nice river, it just goes over a road. I don't know what the bridge is called, but it's near the National Videogame Museum, which I very nearly went in but instead decided to go and look at the bridge. And this is probably why I am a crappy tourist who misses a lot of the worthwhile attractions.

Oh, and Sheffield's cathedral is very small too. Overall, I'd say Sheffield is better than Preston, but slightly worse than Bradford. The late-November sun was very low all day as well and was constantly in my eyes, and obviously that's not Sheffield's fault but I certainly didn't like it. I dread to think what great things I must have missed while I was there.
>> No. 461513 Anonymous
26th November 2023
Sunday 2:11 am
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>>461511

A lot of the good things about Sheffield are just outside Sheffield- it's basically in the Peak District so it's ace if you like the outdoors.
>> No. 461514 Anonymous
26th November 2023
Sunday 8:55 am
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I'd seen very little for a long time other than the major touristy destinations, then I became a defence contractor and got taken to ass ends of it
>> No. 461518 Anonymous
26th November 2023
Sunday 10:36 am
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>>461511
What otherlad said. The appeal of Sheffield is the relatively high number of green spaces and being on the edge of the Peak District.

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>> No. 461405 Anonymous
19th November 2023
Sunday 10:59 pm
461405 Drunkenly Desecrated the French.
Okay so i'm a good person. I would not want to harm others.

However, last night at around 10pm i was playing Rain World on my xbox and drinking a bit when i realised that i hadn't shut my bedroom curtains. I stood up and went over to shut them but illuminated in the ultra-bright LED street lights i could see the house directly across from me which has new neighbors from France who moved in only a few months ago. (i live in those semi-detached houses built shortly after ww2 btw.)

They moved here because on of their family members owns a French restaurant down town (i think anyway) but i noticed that they had a French flag in their front garden (the tall ones around 10ft(ish) that you have to use a rope to pull the flag up.)

I knew what i had to do. I stumbled down stairs and rummaged around underneath my stairs until i found my brothers old crossbow that he bought for a few hundred £ about 10 years ago. (This is a real hunting crossbow btw.)

I found four, 4 pointed large metal arrows in the box it was in along with some other junk. I went back into my room, turned off the lights, and opened my window all the way and took aim at the flag.

It fired so fast i didn't even see it and somehow with my drunken aim, it hit the metal pole and it made an extremely loud "ding" noise. The next thing i saw was the flag falling down to the ground, only leaving an around 8ft pole.

I then yelled "RULE BRITANNIA", shut the window, closed the curtains and went back to gaming.

No, i did the right thing.
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>> No. 461406 Anonymous
19th November 2023
Sunday 11:34 pm
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You need to stop drinking m8.
>> No. 461417 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 1:24 pm
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Really, no ban for That Feel?
>> No. 461418 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 1:47 pm
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>>461417
You only get banned for wrongthink. Besmirching the French isn't wrongthink.
>> No. 461419 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 1:49 pm
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>>461405
Good effort.
>> No. 461428 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 9:05 pm
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>>461418


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA

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>> No. 436810 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 11:10 am
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Are most people in a relationship happy?

I seem to have a number of friends who like to portray themselves as being in a perfect relationship when the reality tends to be markedly different. Do people stay in an unhappy relationship because they find it preferable to being alone or they find the breakup itself too much hassle; you have to unwind yourself financially from someone, you may be accustomed to the lifestyle supported by two incomes, there may be kids involved, you may feel there's social stigma involved in a failed relationship or you simply lack the balls to do initiate it. Do a lot of people just settle?

I'd be interested to know your thoughts.
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>> No. 459937 Anonymous
28th August 2023
Monday 5:26 am
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>>459936
They're supposed to use their iPhone's haptic motor responsibly.
>> No. 459938 Anonymous
28th August 2023
Monday 11:53 am
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>>459937
Oh no. I'd all but forgotten about *that*.
>> No. 459945 Anonymous
29th August 2023
Tuesday 8:16 am
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>>459936
>How's a dad supposed to act?

As I said, I'm well aware I could be projecting here but it's when you pick up on little things like you'll see a mum sat with her kids on a bench and then when the dad catches them up he'll make the kids budge up so he can sit next to her because he can't spend those next five minutes stuck next to a child rather than his wife. That and just a general indifference towards them.

>>459937
>>459938
I'd also managed to forget about that. Won't our paedophilic prankster be out of prison by now? Christ, I've just made him sound like an Adam West Batman villain.
>> No. 461366 Anonymous
17th November 2023
Friday 7:09 pm
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It turns out a couple I know who are always posting Instagram-style pictures together with their kids all over social media, making out like they're a super happy family living the perfect life, are divorcing. Funny that.
>> No. 461375 Anonymous
17th November 2023
Friday 9:04 pm
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>>461366

Just more proof to the idea that the front people present to the outside world is usually just an elaborate fraud, and why you should never get caught up comparing yourself to other people based on what you see of their social media profiles and the like.

The people most concerned with the outward appearance of success and happiness are very often the most miserable with their life.

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>> No. 427901 Anonymous
23rd June 2019
Sunday 8:43 pm
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Has anyone ever attempted to make a foodstuff that is 100% useful to your body where none of it will be shat out the other end?
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>> No. 461348 Anonymous
15th November 2023
Wednesday 2:06 pm
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>>461347

Seems a bit niche.
>> No. 461349 Anonymous
15th November 2023
Wednesday 3:29 pm
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>>461346

More to the point, menopause symptoms are caused by a lack of hormones, hence hormone replacement therapy.
>> No. 461351 Anonymous
15th November 2023
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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>>461349
So I should be jamming my poo up menopausal women, for science?
>> No. 461356 Anonymous
15th November 2023
Wednesday 9:29 pm
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>>461351

Only if you ask nicely first.
>> No. 461360 Anonymous
16th November 2023
Thursday 11:17 am
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It's been awhile since anyone mentioned fat girls and 'spoons actually. Maybe they underwent a metamorphosis.

>He who shags with fat birds in a disabled toilet should look to it that he himself does not become a fat bird. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Also, maybe we shouldn't be dumping sewage everywhere?

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>> No. 461202 Anonymous
7th November 2023
Tuesday 11:50 am
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Society has changed in a way that culture really hasn't caught up with. It's feels like it's becoming more and more stark, at least to me.

I notice this most when I watch any sort of media. We continually fall back on dated tropes that don't materially exist anymore. Yes, there's always been unrealistic elements in fiction and people have always have skewed ideas about the world, but now it seems even some of the most basic assumptions we have about life are completely untrue.

A few examples come to mind. The outsourcing of manufacturing has radically shifted the boundaries of "class" in a way that isn't reflected in Anglophone media. At the same time, certain professions have become intellectual enclaves with quite a high barrier to entry. When I see a television show featuring promising young doctors or fearless firefighters or brilliant scientists or grizzled working class heroes, I can't help but think most people are actually living out something far more like The Office.

The general public has also become less religious and less inclined to marry. Family structures have changed to the point that I struggle to relate when I see a nuclear family on screen. Increasingly young people are not in relationships and find it difficult to court for economic, practical, or social reasons. Just how quaint is it when you're watching a film and you see something simple as a group of friends hanging out in a shared "third space", i.e. somewhere that isn't home or work? Do those places even exist anymore, aside from those designed to siphon money from your pocket?

Counterculture has also strangely ceased to exist as economic options for artists and "alternative" types to survive while being creative dwindle into nothing. It feels like we don't even have useful stereotypes which exemplify certain ways of living, anymore. I don't mind living in an individualistic culture, but what is the point if the individual's choices are reduced to virtually zero?

This idea really hit home with me when watching a recent interview with Martin Scorsese at the British Film Institute. He was reflecting on Taxi Driver, maybe the single best cinematic portrait of an alienated, frustrated loner dealing with his pain in isolation. Scorsese said something which actually got to me, to paraphrase: "Back then this was my idea of a guy who doesn't fit in, is filled with rage, can't fit in to the effortless social interactions around him... unfortunately, now, it seems like most people, maybe two-thirds, are a lot like Travis."

Am I the only one that feels this way? Are we all becoming Travis Bickle?
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>> No. 461250 Anonymous
9th November 2023
Thursday 2:43 pm
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As I said, I'm aware of the institutional problems of making art nowadays, and I do understand it causes more problems for creative people than any philosophical issues would. However, even if we did have a fairer institutional set up for young artists, I think that, especially for visual artists and writers, they would still face the kind of crisis of doubt I was talking about previously, which I believe is enforced by modernity, in whichever system we live by.

But yes, I think the system we have does discourage promising people who would probably otherwise have the strength and will to overcome the problems I brought up, and probably wouldn't have quite such strong nihilism if the material world wasn't so unpromising. But also I think the justifications for the current system come from the same sort of thinking, which disregards things which aren't materially essential, I mentioned in my last post.
>> No. 461288 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 12:12 am
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>>461240

Fuck off, frog.
>> No. 461307 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 1:15 pm
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>>461288
All you rosbifs care about is reviving indie bands that go "oh oh oh, OH" in slightly regional accents, you haven't got the intellect to appreciate racist novels and films directed by rapists, no wonder you reject my argument.
>> No. 461313 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 10:28 pm
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>>461307

You're just jealous because we've got legends like the Arctic Chiefs while France's entire contribution to the world is Daft Punk, who are a pair of charlatans anyhow.

I'll give you Mr Oizo though to be fair.
>> No. 461322 Anonymous
12th November 2023
Sunday 4:18 pm
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>>461313
>Daft Punk, who are a pair of charlatans anyhow

You take that back, and in the meantime listen to this absolute banger.



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>> No. 461179 Anonymous
6th November 2023
Monday 8:20 pm
461179 Derby?
I was looking on a map and i noticed a mysterious place called "Derby"

what the hell is Derby?... What goes on in Derby?

If there is anyone here who is from Derby then what is there to do there.

Or is it another government lie like Milton Keynes?
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6th November 2023
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A lot of people have started pronouncing its name wrong, and some people even spell it wrong; that's why you got confused. It's very famous, though.
>> No. 461187 Anonymous
6th November 2023
Monday 9:22 pm
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It's got a shopping centre called The Derbion, but it used to have other names.
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6th November 2023
Monday 9:49 pm
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I met a bloke in a pub who said he was from Derby, but he also said that he was the first man on the balcony at the Iranian embassy.
>> No. 461191 Anonymous
6th November 2023
Monday 9:53 pm
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>>>461179
What goes on in Derby?

Depending on where yer from, Hats, Hawce Races, Football rivalries. It's also a sort of inoffensive anywhere suggestion for whenever the idea of deliberately diminishing power and / or influence from THAT LONDON comes up. Unless it's something to do with trains. Then it would make sense for it to be Crewe or York, until someone suggests something like... Derby.
>> No. 461195 Anonymous
7th November 2023
Tuesday 12:17 am
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>>461191

I just realised that I've been getting Derby mixed up with Leeds.
Apologies to anyone from either of those places for assuming that you are from the other place.

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>> No. 458717 Anonymous
1st July 2023
Saturday 9:10 am
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New weekend thread.

How's it going, lads? What are you up to?
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>> No. 461025 Anonymous
30th October 2023
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>>461022
Lecherous nature of the blokes aside she might actually need you in case something goes wrong with the treatment. I'd feel wrong to not pay my own way to be honest if she's a mate.
>> No. 461027 Anonymous
30th October 2023
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>461024

>If she's a blonde woman, she's absolutely fucked.

That's not just Turkey. One of my exes was a blonde, and one time she went on a summer holiday to Italy with her best friend, also a blonde. The two lasses couldn't walk down the beach promenade for five minutes without being approached by random Italian younglads left and right, some of them making pretty overt advances.

They eventually met two Brit couples of the same age and spent most of the rest of their time there together with them, which was apparently a real relief, because those Italians will not approach women if there's even one lad in the group.

Italian attitudes to Women are probably not as dire in Italy as they are in Turkey. Western women, no less. But you won't have an easy time.
>> No. 461030 Anonymous
30th October 2023
Monday 9:38 pm
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>Lecherous blokes
>If she's a woman, she's fucked
>those Italians will not approach women if there's even one lad in the group

This is exactly my concern. Most of the time there will be in the hotel but I still feel guilty that I can't be arsed to renew my passport in time, the consequence being a perceived danger of rape or kidnapping.

I've spoken with the person now, turns out the trip is entirely inclusive, including travel to and from the airport and surgery. Fears assuaged.
>> No. 461043 Anonymous
31st October 2023
Tuesday 6:09 pm
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>>461030
Just pay the extra and do the passport thing in person. You get an appointment and it's all over in 30 minutes.
>> No. 461101 Anonymous
2nd November 2023
Thursday 7:12 pm
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>>460747
This has now spiraled out of control where I am filled with self loathing over having agreed to some primitive ritual I find immoral and my autistic insistence of never breaking my promises that it's basically nuked our 8yr relationship

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>> No. 460754 Anonymous
15th October 2023
Sunday 10:48 pm
460754 Anyone else noticed this?
I don't know if i'm just going crazy or what but iv'e always kind of noticed these shops that never have anyone inside it or are never open. I don't mean shops that only do it online so the physical shop is where the items are stored before selling but i mean... In my small town we have a "clothing" shop which nobody has ever seen anyone inside since it opened in the 90's, the door is always locked and there is no furniture inside.

We also have 3 British heart foundation shops. 2 of which are actually used and one has cameras all around the outside which turn to look at you when you walk past (again, no furniture other than a big iron door and the door hasn't been opened in so long that there are actual cobwebs in the lock.) Also there are apparently only 2 British heart foundation shops in my town so idk what the 3rd one is about.

They are only the shops but iv'e also noticed the vans (i live in rural Derbyshire so there are alot of small farmy type businesses around here who drive around in vans) and most of these vans i know who the owners are because everyone knows everyone around here. Sometimes you find a van just parked in the middle of nowhere or outside some abandoned building and printed on the van will be some company that ive never heard of with a phone number.

I'm so used to these mysterious vans that i always call the number and every (and i really do mean every) time i call, the number does not exist. I then search up the number because i'm a very nosey person but the number does not exist and has never existed. I then search up the company name and again, it dosen't exist.

Now the weirdest thing about them is that sometimes by looking at the number plate you can see it's the same van but compared to last week, theres a completely different company on the van. And then other times if you search up the number plate, the number plate does not exist.

it originally started out as me simply being a nosey bugger but now i just have so many questions. P.S sorry for any bad grammar, i've just never been good at writing and the picture is unrelated it's just a cool picture of a squirrel that i caught a few months ago. But has anyone else noticed this?
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>> No. 460927 Anonymous
26th October 2023
Thursday 10:33 pm
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>>460922

I've just remembered that episode of The Cook Report about hot dog stands and burger vans, which was surely the inspiration for that Jam monologue about rogue street sausage vendors.


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30th October 2023
Monday 11:09 pm
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>>460927
Found an episode on "computer porn" (being sold on floppies), where they show us how they targeted underage users with this thing that absolutely definitely happened.

>> No. 461032 Anonymous
30th October 2023
Monday 11:29 pm
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>>461031

>Found an episode on "computer porn"

That's... disturbing.

Somebody from the village where my mum grew up got done for child porn a few years ago. I don't know all the details, but I think from what people were saying, he was involved in creating it and selling it on the dark web. Fucking wrongun. Good thing they got him.
>> No. 461033 Anonymous
31st October 2023
Tuesday 12:17 am
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>>461031
There were far worse things hunting our children back then.
>> No. 461034 Anonymous
31st October 2023
Tuesday 4:18 am
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>>461033
I loved Ceefax at this time of night. All we had.

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>> No. 460848 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 6:43 pm
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Hey lads! The current state of the UK and the world is very unstable right now and most of us think that it will only get worse.

So what do you think daily life will be like in... 2040 for example? 17 years ahead from now. Please give any answer because there is no wrong answer. Anything could happen in 17 years.

Personally, i'm split between kind of like now but much worse and even more poverty or a war/civil unrest happens that leads us to live like some wasteland scavenger.

Please! Just have a think and imagine (with the current state of things that may get better or worse in your opinion) what your daily life will be like in 2040. i'm sure none of us here are time travelers so we can't really argue on whos right or wrong in the replies.

Who knows... for all we know England, Scotland and Wales may not even exist by 2040 and there will be no electricity. Or maybe things will get better.
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>> No. 460853 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 8:02 pm
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>I read an interesting observation the other day that people have become more humourless and serious.

That's because people are growing up in a world where a slight misstep online can ruin your life, so people are more guarded. That and there's pretty much fuck all comedy on TV these days.
>> No. 460854 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 8:12 pm
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Most of what's happening in the news right now will just be a pub quiz question by 2040. You'll be racking your brain, trying to remember the name of that short fella who was in charge of Ukraine during that war or the weird Asian bloke who was Prime Minister for a little over a year.

The big story is AI. We don't know how it's going to pan out, but we know that it's going to have a bigger impact on our day-to-day lives than anything else. 17 years ago, most people had phones with keypads that they mostly used for making phone calls. You would have seemed absolutely mental if you said "Next year, Apple are going to bring out a new kind of phone that only has one button, has to be charged every night and costs twice as much as current phones. Within a decade, phones like it will have completely changed our day-to-day lives and we'll struggle to remember what life was like beforehand."

Personally, I think that the middle class is going to be absolutely decimated, facing something that looks like the deindustrialisation of the 1980s. Anyone whose job consists mostly of sending emails and writing documents is at very real risk of being made redundant overnight by an advance in AI. The traditional working class will be largely unaffected because an algorithm can't fix your roof or wipe your nan's arse, but office workers are going to be the coal miners of the 2030s. I can't begin to predict the social and political repercussions of that.
>> No. 460855 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 8:30 pm
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I'm not a doomer but the work I was doing is already drying up. I bought some land; AI can't do what I can with it. I can live off it or I can live off the proceeds of what I grow or some combination of both. I love it out here and I love the work. It's not far off self-sufficient and I don't need electric. Anything short of a nuke or total ecological collapse I should be fine.
>> No. 460856 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 8:42 pm
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I hope by 2040 I will have a harem of humanoid robot maids.
>> No. 460857 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 10:58 pm
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SEND THE laplanderS PACKIN
WOMEN BACK INT KITCHEN
SEAN DYCHE FOR PM
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