Might as well post here seeing as the thread has been bumped. I decided to give my girlfriend the velvetiser for her birthday instead as it's fairly close to Christmas. When she opened it she pulled a face and said "if you're going to spend that much on someone, make sure it's something they actually want." before being a bitch for most of the day; that wasn't because of the present, she always turns into a bit of a monster on her birthday. She used it three times on her birthday and in the evening she apologised and appreciated me getting her such an indulgent treat; she also had a hot chocolate while we were out for the day and said it wasn't as nice as ones made with the velvetiser, so I've probably ruined other hot chocolates for her, and that she was salivating on the way home thinking about using it. I think sometimes knowing what she likes better than she does herself is a bit of a curse, because she may not have a good initial reaction to gifts but will really appreciate them over time.

>>462351

To me that sounds more like she just realised she'd been a cunt and she was over-compensating to make you feel better. At least she has the self awareness to do so though.

Bless you lad. She must know she's got a good 'un deep down.

>>462351
Sounds like she regretted her response. Weirdly I've been like this too before, very quick to dismiss a gift and realise much later it's very good. I'm sure she meant no harm.

How is the hot chocolate in it? Worth buying?

>>462352
She's never been good at apologising. Usually when she knows she's in the wrong she'll start being cuddly and affectionate to make it up, but rarely will she actually say sorry out loud.

Birthdays (and Christmas to a lesser extent) have always been a bit of a nightmare because she behaves as if she expects it to be a special day like when she was a child which never happens in reality, especially as she has a lot of baggage with her family and they'll frequently disappoint her.

>>462358
>How is the hot chocolate in it? Worth buying?

It is very nice, especially compared with what you'd get in a cafe or from instant hot chocolate, but I wouldn't think "holy shit, this was worth paying £70 for the machine and about 50/60p on chocolate flakes and milk per cup."

Had a dream last night that professionals started taking out mortgages to own a room in a flatshare. Need to hide this thread now.

>>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.

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.

>>462292
Wait, I've already posted a self satisfied update it appears weeks ago. I had no recollection.

Sorry everybody.

>>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.

Moaty.

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.

I've had chippy for the first time in months. I feel so greasy now.

>>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.

>>462159

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

>>461201
If anyone should be punished for carrying on like that it's the police.

>>461215

Bit old style, eh.

Don't you miss the days when blasphemers got their tongues cut out.

>>461217
Why?

>>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".

>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.

You need to stop drinking m8.

Really, no ban for That Feel?

>>461417
You only get banned for wrongthink. Besmirching the French isn't wrongthink.

>>461405
Good effort.

>>461418


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

>>459936
They're supposed to use their iPhone's haptic motor responsibly.

>>459937
Oh no. I'd all but forgotten about *that*.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

>>461248
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.

>>461240

Fuck off, frog.

>>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.

>>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.

>>461313
>Daft Punk, who are a pair of charlatans anyhow

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

>>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.

>>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.

>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.

>>461030
Just pay the extra and do the passport thing in person. You get an appointment and it's all over in 30 minutes.

>>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

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>461031
There were far worse things hunting our children back then.

>>461033
I loved Ceefax at this time of night. All we had.

>>460850
>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.

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.

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.

I hope by 2040 I will have a harem of humanoid robot maids.

SEND THE laplanderS PACKIN
WOMEN BACK INT KITCHEN
SEAN DYCHE FOR PM
SIMPLE AS

>>460677
>Talking to these things like they are real and conscious
>animals
Your mum gave birth to a dead tree instead of a human child. You're fucking loopy.

>>460683

How much talking to yourself is too much, you reckon?

I ramble to myself a lot but I have a feeling a lot of it is unhealthy because it will often take the form of imaginary arguments over past slights and injustices I have been ruminating over, re-enacting old arguments with ex-girlfriends, that soft of thing.

>>460683
>Language is more of an externalisation of thought than strictly for communication.

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive but it seems to be fact that even speakers of another language will process information differently. The same I think is true for all of us in the difference between how we think on imageboards to our behaviour elsewhere, so long as we actually aren't terminally online.

I'll stick to my Notepad emacs to write my posts and then paste them. Particularly for longer posts it's better to get your thoughts together, rambling on even if transcribed... well, that's what's /A/ is for.

>>460708
I do the same, only most of the time I talk myself out of actually posting it.

>>460603
>pickled onion is obviously vile

Didn't realise I'd be spending my weekend having a cunt-off about crisps. What's wrong, is it too strong a flavour for you?

>>460601

As an ex-NHSLad, I can confirm that the supposedly "outstanding" rated trust I used to work for did not give a fuck about mental health. Especially if you made the mistake of telling your manager that you're actually autistic (and not the internet flavour of it). Then they can't get rid of you quickly enough, even if you've cleary been smashing it at your job until the bomb dropped. It's like"oh christ, I can' be arsed with a having a retard on my team".

>>460606
I have an aversion to strong smelling crisps, and I find pickled onion's sharp smell penetrates my senses in an unpleasant way. Also certain flavours in crisp form make me feel sick. I like cheese, but cheesy crisps are vile. I like sour cream and chive dip, but again the crisp version is offputting.

How do I become a eskimo? Can I just rock up at a igloo like you can a CofE church? I'm white but I do have a big beard.

>>460615
I imagine they would welcome you, but treat you with suspicion for a while to make absolutely sure you aren't going to become a daft militant wog or join ISIS.

>>459630
It is supposed to be my week off but I haven't done anything of note.

It's a proper rainy day, so applaud the purpose behind this thread.

Left my toolbox out back over night with the lid open. It was half full with rainwater. I've spent tonight WD-40ing the shit out of my pliers, spanners and other tools.

I'm not sure I really need three needle-nose pliers plus an additional angled one as well as two side cutters inside what's meant to be an on-the-go toolbox for all the small jobs. I also don't normally need the torx key set. But I guess you never know.

I didn't realise life had anything to offer besides work.

I hope Lucy Letby is in the news again soon. I just spent over 20 minutes creating this artwork and now I don't have anyone to show it to, nor anywhere to post it. I can't even find the actual Lucy Letby thread now.

I am well aware that someone else has almost definitely had the exact same idea as me, probably several months earlier, but I haven't seen their work so I had to make my own.

>>460342
You're the best poster on this site and it's not even close

>>460145
>which has apparently lasted so stably and securely,
Citation needed. How long has the nuclear family been a thing and how long have other sets of cultural norms lasted?

>>460147
You're overthinking it.

Men didn't have kind of healthy lifespans you might be imagining and they didn't, generally, marry until their 20s (and late 20s at that). And obviously if you go back to Rome it's all tops and bottoms anyway to varying degrees.

>>460148
How long has a family unit centred on a man and his wife lasted. It's socially useful but you weren't looking at a host of concubines as a medieval serf.

I'm not sure we're this discussion is trying to go but cuckolding has extremely negative connotations to do with humiliation, loss of agency and in it's truest sense outright deception. Wife-swapping isn't the same as cuckoldry and I can't possibly see how watching your wife get ploughed by some local black men (as it appears cuckholds are want to do) will ever not be incredibly fucked up and un-British on multiple levels. That's the obsession the internet has with it, it's a humiliating insult to throw at someone in the same way that it's merged with Americans spanning their one-track minds when it come to men of a dark skin-tone. An insult that began being thrown at centrist Republicans that obviously would have the biggest possible impact.

>>460149
>we're
>spanning

Is it White who refuses to implement post deletion? Do any of the old colours still exist or has it fallen to Purps and Green to run the show on top of their furniture business.

>>460148

We're talking about monogamy, not necessarily the nuclear family, which is certainly a much more modern concept and actually very short lived, if you buy the idea that it's starting to break down in the modern world where everyone has to live in a house share with 8 other people and nobody can afford kids.

As for monogamy, in the West it's been around at least as long as Christianity went mainstream, so the better part of a couple of thousand years. Historically speaking it's harder to get a broad picture of what would have been "the norm" before at least the classical era, because cultures were much less uniform, but before then it'd more likely than not you'd have it the other way around where a powerful, high status male would gather as many women as he could, essentially as prisoners, and sow his oats as far and wide as he could; while for the average bloke in the lower ranks of society something resembling our traditional family structure was the norm simply because it was the most economically viable. Which is what it always comes down to, in the end.

The further you go back in history the more biologically deterministic things were, and the strength of a man determined his position in the world and his mating success. In the broad strokes you could say it's all just a sliding scale where the balance of power and value shifts as technology renders biological factors like strength obsolete. The widespread adoption of monogamy was a progressive beneficial change for women, and eventually, even that ceased to be the best thing for women so they did what they do best and nagged men until they got what they wanted. Now they're going to turn the tables fully on us and make society a matriarchal cucktopia.

Is this real life?

https://www.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/CuckoldPregnancy/comments/18arkpz/final_update/