I always like to see a 3 legged dog. They're always happy.

I keep telling you lads. Hedonic treadmill. It's a real thing and if you get your noggin round it it explains an awful lot about our collective bipolarity.

Evolutionarily speaking, we are a goal oriented social species. We are hard wired to want to always be working on something, we need to make progress to be satisfied. Because throughout our history, that has been the direct and fundamental source of our survival and success.

The work is never done- When you bring home a mammoth you just hunted with the other cave-lads, you know the meat on it isn't going to last forever. You are biologically compelled to start making mental preparation for the next big hunt, start thinking about the change of the seasons might affect your prospects, and whether Big Ug and the Boyz from the other side of the river is going to try squaring up after he saw your lads dragging home the big kill. Maybe you and the lads should arrange a pre-emptive clubbing for him just to be safe. That kind of thing.

We are at our happiest in the short term when we have a full belly and our feet up on the settee, and the missus next to us, because that means we have successfully fulfilled all of our primary goals. We have food in our belly and there's a good chance we're about to procreate. Abstracting it out, this also goes for having money in the bank, having a nice house, having a new car, whatever- Fundamentally they are all signifiers of security and comfort.

But it never lasts long. We always need to be looking for the next thing, in order to ensure the ability to put our feet up on the telly with a full belly and a missus to spaff up [i]stays[/] secure. We need goals, and a plan to get there.

TL;DR Get a hobby.

>>450758
Hobbies would delay and obstruct my progress towards the fundamental goals that everyone should achieve as a bare minimum. My misery is noble and austere and, best of all, free.

>>450762

I've gone through periods of thinking like this in my life, and the tongue-in-cheek tone of your post suggests you already know this isn't an ideal approach.

I understand that there are times you just have to gut things through and do long periods of tough work, just make sure you have a plan to ensure that it's temporary. Otherwise something will break, physically or mentally. It is not possible to live in an unbalanced way for very long. I'm just about psychologically recovering after a year of spending virtually no money and dedicating all my waking hours to work.

When you do have the space to recover, it helped me a lot to change my environment for a bit. It wasn't quite a holiday, but I just spontaneously booked a few weeks out in the country by myself. Can't put in words how much it helped.

>>450757

What I find lovely is not only that it doesn't inhibit their happiness, but that they don't even notice. Dogs are brilliant.

>>450758

>Evolutionarily speaking, we are a goal oriented social species. We are hard wired to want to always be working on something, we need to make progress to be satisfied. Because throughout our history, that has been the direct and fundamental source of our survival and success.

Every organism will at some point try to spread to new habitats. From bacteria to plants and indeed humans. Even feral cats are forced to claim new habitats all the time because in some ways they're just as territorial as us humans and will not be tolerated in another cat's territory that was there first.

That said, of course no species makes as much of a big deal of it as we do. Our instinct to explore new habitats and constantly better ourselves and find out new things about the world around us has not only helped us propagate profusely, but has also given rise to things like science and technology. And thus, social evolution has long superseded biological evolution. As a species, we've made leaps and bounds in the last 300 years that are far from explainable through genetic mutation.

What's interesting is that following the "Out of Africa" hypothesis, almost all humans outside Western sub-Saharan Africa who are alive today are descended from a line of homo sapiens sapiens who left East Africa around 70,000 years ago, probably as a result of climate change, that being the beginning of the last Ice Age which saw much drier conditions in Africa and therefore diminishing natural resources. It could be that some of those human traits were honed as a result of having to cope with adverse conditions and scarce resources. While it is assumed by some that human populations in western Africa were under no pressure to leave their surroundings and spread to other habitats because their natural environment was much more plentiful.

>>450274
I have a feeling by then she will require a complex system of ropes & pulleys to make a public appearance.

https://deathlist.net/

12th place on the current 2022 death list. Not really a hot contender, going by that, but far from safe. She did move up 13 places from last year.

>>450520
They'll be pulling out all the stops to keep her alive until at least June, so we can celebrate the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday.

Though quite frankly I think the government is selling us out cheaply if we're only getting one extra day for it.

>>450521
We're getting two, aren't we?

>>450527
We're getting two consecutive days but one of them is just the usual Spring Bank Holiday pushed back a few days.

Recently I've been wondering about that shared house I lived in where the landlords mysteriously knew where I'd left my drugs, coming over for a surprise inspection on a day I happened to be out. Housemates let them in, not knowing their rights and they were very angry to find I'd happened to lock my bedroom door so they couldn't get in there. They stopped trying to find excuses to kick us out after I started regularly bringing attractive women back for athletic, drug-fuelled sex. This could be paranoia but I suspect there's some grainy footage floating about somewhere of my exploits.

>>450430

Yeah wanklad and BDSMlad both shared their stories in threads over 4 years ago.

>>450426
I remember this story. Your dad became a hero to us.

>>450426
That story is part of .gs lore, like Moaty & ARE SI.

>>450511
>>450512
Thanks, lads, I'll buy the auld man a beer when I see him again but I probably won't bring up the story.

>>450451
Not sure who's more of a coward; the person who decided not to be around the police while holding stolen goods or the one who's too afraid to go outside during light rioting.

>>450450
This. Professional stuff lost it's splendour years ago.

>>450452
You'll notice I didn't call him a coward.

>>450451
I'm not built like a brick shithouse but I've been in enough fights to know how to handle myself. That wasn't really my concern though, riots aren't that dangerous for a bystander - those involved are too busy smashing and looting things to be provoking fights with random strangers. I was more worried about landing a criminal record just because some overzealous copper noticed a lone, unmasked individual holding a bottle of stolen booze and saw an opportunity to make an arrest.

>>450455
That's true, you didn't use the word "coward".
>you pissed your pants

>>450292
Supply chain, isn't it

I went to a second screening on flu-camp today and had to tell an attractive Spanish nurse that I'm not sexually active at the moment. She gave me a talk about contraceptives and where to get spermicidal lube 'if I do become sexually active'.

Didn't really set out to be reminded of what it feels like to be a younglad today.

Anyone else adding a few to their electricity meter readings to get some electricity tomorrow at today's prices? Those poor people with smart meters won't be able to do this.

>>450295
I got a nice email from my energy supplier saying they weren't going to raise it for another 15 days and if I was worried, encouraging me to change to a cheaper supplier.

I can’t sleep so I watched the film Legend. They really put some vile sentiments into the mouth of Frances Kray, so much so I’m convinced I’m misinterpreting the film or else it’s one of the repellent things I’ve ever watched. Maybe I’m wrong, I hope so.

>>450250
I'd suggest separating them into airtight containers with a month or two's worth in each, that way you're not exposing the whole lot to the humidity in the air every time you take one out.
It's not just the pennies being saved but also your time and energy thinking about whether or not you need more of the things.

>>450247
They will likely outlast your Dishwasher.

Just seen what I can only describe as a Mythical Arse lads.

>>450256
An arse so good you forgot what day it is, remarkable.

>>450256
You keep away from that Unicorn, Furrylad. I won't warn you again.

>>450203
Oh come off, she's hot but no need to be so obsessive.

>>450204
You clearly misunderstand what's happening here.

>>450204

Meme forcing is a proud tradition here lad.

>>450209
I wouldn't call it forcing. More a healthy appreciation of Vorderman.

>>450204
That comment was out of Vorder.

>>450042
I had no idea that the alt-right had the same ideas as someone astrally traversing the noosphere.

>>450045
There's a massive overlap. All the hippy people I know are massively anti-establishment and against anything stopping them from being a free spirit, so they've all been very vocal anti-vaxxers and gone well and truly down the "do your own research" rabbit hole. I know someone who gets all of her information from Russell Brand's YouTube channel because she doesn't trust anyone else, particularly the mainstream media.

It's different cheeks of the same arse.

Worlds oldest profession mate. This is hardly new.

>>450039
Mathew Horne's let himself go.

>>450039
Elijah Wood's let himself go.

>Human beings are becoming more intelligent, but it is intelligence defined by the interent's own terms

The kind of man-machine transition you're alluding to has been going on long before the internet. It's not ground-breaking to recognise that the domestication of man has predated civilization but will continue on until our technology subsumes the man. A clock tells you when you're hungry, most of your working day is spent doing bullshit repetitive tasks like sending emails, we suppress our own nature and act out roles that attach value to your ability to think and act like a machine.

>Are we strapped in for the ride and beholden to our creations, or is there a way to implement change or conscious restraint on a wider scale?

You avoid the cheap dopamine hits offered by the internet, reading a book but also some websites are still good enough if they require an attention span rather than instant gratification.

8VApZHVH6iw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VApZHVH6iw

>>450031

>>450006
yeah I remember watching some parts of some neuroscientist's interview, and the gist I got from what he was saying is that modern technology made it worse for our brains, that neuron pathways created in our brains in a way that is tantamount to that of an addict, it always craves instant gratification.
One good way to set your mind in order is digital detox, that is, if you can afford it. Get a hobby, enroll in a local ping pong club, or some other interest based clubs.

Also, give this a read, lad
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

gentle sage

Fascinating.

>>449763
I saw someone post this on Facebook maybe a week ago. I knew every male word except thermistor, while for the female words, I only know a handful and my definition of each one is, "I think that's what curtains are made of".

I sent the list to my mum as well and apparently a pessary is "like a suppository", so I rapidly changed the subject after that.

I knew all of the words on both lists except "whipstitch". I'd like to say that I'm some kind of sensitive new man, but the truth is that I just watched a shitload of Countdown in my dole scum days.

Woah, that's mad.

Trannos, nowhere to hide.

>>449764
Er, it's not clear what the methodology is on this one.

>>449746

It went too far, all the way over the top and back down again.

>>449745

Did she enjoy it a bit too much and you ended up sobbing in the corner? Did you get hit with friendly fire? Did something get stuck up something?

>>449719

I used to have that anxiety a lot, particularly when I was doing the local band scene in my early 20s.

I never thought I'd get famous enough for it to matter, but when we started being well known enough in the local scene that strangers knew who I was (not that I'm saying it happened often) I used to lay awake at night worrying in case some really cringeworthy shite I'd said to try and get a lass to flash her tits on webcam came out.

Then all the old pop stars started getting done for historical paedophilia and I thought that's it, I absolutely can't afford to become a successful musician, when I'm in my 40s some tart is going to come out of nowhere and get me sent to jail for having pictures of her pussy when we were both 15.

The internet has not done the world any favours, in my opinion.

>>449749
A mate of mine's younger brother got caught exchanging mucky snaps with a girl at school, and the police got involved as the case was considered collecting child porn. The poor lad was just a year 10 trying to get some year 10 fanny.

>>449749

>Then all the old pop stars started getting done for historical paedophilia and I thought that's it

It's not really fair to assume that that sort of thing categorically didn't actually happen. And if somebody was abused, they have every right to confront their abuser. But a lot of the allegations nowadays are muddying the waters of what was socially accepted back then and what isn't today and may even be illegal, which it wasn't back then.

For example, the Sexual Offences Act in 2003 made nude pictures of 16 year olds illegal for the first time. Which is the essential reason why there were suddenly no more 16 year old Page Three girls. If you had naked pictures of your 17 year old sweetheart in your possession before 2003, you were doing nothing wrong. But suddenly, it was a sexual offence and now counts as child porn and can carry high penalties.

Fundamentally, there is often some slight degree of dodginess to me about somebody coming forward after several decades and accusing a celebrity of fondling them against their will that one night in 1992. I'm not always sure that all the benefit of doubt should be with the alleged victim. Even if somebody did have their hands down your knickers, maybe you are just trying to cash out, now that that person is famous and you could get a substantial settlement out of it.

>>449573

My mum is having 'beans on toast pizza' for her tea, which is where my dad cuts her toast into centimetre squares before pouring beans on top so it 'looks like a pizza'. This is the most council thing I've heard in quite some time.

>>449703
That's not "council" that's DDLG RP.

>>449704
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever of my dad being a dom.

>>449645

>I think I remember reading though that it's not primarily junkies.

The data isn't great, but burglary is very strongly correlated with prevalence of crack and heroin addiction and barely correlated at all with factors like unemployment.

Anecdotally, there seems to be a strong split in MOs between addicted and non-addicted burglars, with the former mainly being opportunistic and the latter mainly being premeditated. A junkie might put a brick through your window because they saw your Xbox and take it straight to Cash Converters. They don't really care about being caught, they're only thinking about their next fix. For a professional, that isn't worth the risk; they're much more likely to specialise in something like motorbikes or farm machinery, or to target wealthy households in carefully planned operations.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332963/horr79tr.pdf

>>449645

It's more of a reverse correlation I think. 'Ard nuts who have been robbing houses for fifteen years and are still doing it after a stint or two inside are, unsurprisingly, likely to be into hard drugs. Not just doing it because they're a druggie.

>>449646

A friend had his nearside window smashed in with a rock in a car park just because he had a briefcase in the passenger seat, which contained nothing besides a book from a library and a stack of work related xerox copies. And a pen or two. He was told by police that junkies will nick anything for their next fix. They'll see a briefcase and they'll think that when they pry it open, there'll at least be a scientific calculator inside that they can flip for a gram of heroin.

At another time, another friend with a VW Polo had some mid-range, not cheap, not outlandishly expensive brand name 10'' speakers in his rear deck, and somebody smashed the rear window in over night and ripped out the speakers.

So in essence, don't leave anything on display in your car that could give even the slightest suggestion to a junkie on withdrawal that they could make a few quid off it.

>>449648

Back when sat navs were still a thing, a mate of mine had his passenger window smashed and his sat nav stolen out of the glove box. When he reported it to the police, the officer said that it was quite common - thieves would look for the mark left by the suction cup on your windscreen.

>>449651

Not completely related, but I retrofitted a double-DIN Audi Navigation Plus sat nav to my A4 a few years ago. I bought it fair and square legally off eBay, from somebody who had believably removed his from his own car, but there were loads of them "new/never installed" but still for less than 800 quid. Listed retail price at Audi was in the region of £2,000. The thing was that Audi sat navs were stolen in the hundreds by employees from Audi factories especially in Eastern Europe and then either laundered by being brought to Germany, France or the UK and then advertised on their local eBay sites, or you could get them straight from a seller in Hungary, Slovakia or Russia.

The problem with retrofitting an Audi sat nav is that if it isn't installed in the car that it got electronically paired with at the factory, you will need a four-digit PIN code that you have to enter everytime you reconnect the battery. Only Audi has those unit-specific codes, and they are stored in an online database at Audi headquarters in Germany, so I had to go to an Audi UK dealership, give them my sat nav's serial number, and for a fee of £20, they retrieved my four-digit code. They also told me that if somebody came to them with a unit that was reported stolen from the factory as per its serial number, they would call the police on the spot on suspicion of handling stolen property. So you would have been both out your money and your sat nav would have been confiscated, and you would have faced criminal charges.

>>449355
The suggestion I forgot to add was that you can do medical research. You can even get paid large sums for it while helping medical research such as "how many women can one man shag in a day?", I think flu camp alone is £100 a day.

>>449356
>I think flu camp alone is £100 a day
Is that where they conduct covid research?

>>449357
Why would they need to conduct research if they have a waiver?

>>449351
Sound like social credit scores done right, at first glance. Opt-in national nepotism, so to speak (I'm sure there'll be a better term for it). Maybe even bring socialism into it.

They told me I couldn't give blood because my veins were too thing.