>>459582
Not dead, but much much larger than it was during the arguable golden age. Chatrooms don't really exist as they once did, neither do newsgroups.

I've found Facebook is alright for chatting to new people as long as you join the right groups about niche interests. Though the bigger a group gets the more full of bellwhiffs it is.

At least .gs will never leave, apart from that Scary few days where purple forgot to pay the bill.

>>459615
nah, this is a real ass problem with autism for both genders
the eye contact is one thing, but some autistic people also have really dry and expressionless voices - in general if you have autism, you need all the support you can get to do well socially

>>459645
A lot of autistics wear their arseholeness as a badge of honour. I am an autistic, and in a previous job worked exclusively with autistics. The ones who had learned to "mask" were generally fine. The ones that never bought into that and just act without social inhibitions are horrible. Needlessly nasty or overly blunt, but they can pull the "oh I didn't realise telling someone their project is a "garbage fire" is rude, because of the 'tism".

Whereas because I've had to mask for so long I come across as overly polite and compliant.

>>459646

I guess when you get marginalised by society for being a sperg, which still happens, at some point you no longer give a toss and just give up attempting to fit in. One of my friends has a brother who has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and his opinion is, why bother. He'll never "crack the code" of neurotypical human interaction, so what's the point in trying. He's got a job doing inhouse tech support for a major company, and he seems to be doing fine. Like many spergs, he's very into computers and has encyclopaedic knowledge, although I had to stop him once when I asked him about the pros and cons of buying a particular kind of notebook, because he was just. fucking. rambling. on. about it. But I can see him in charge of a company's computer infrastructure. He's probably good at that, but don't expect a lot of politeness from him.

>>459646

Just from interest, how would they react if someone referred to their project as a "garbage fire"?

I can't wait until autism, Asperger's, on the spectrum, and all this other misused nonsense disappears from pop cultural memory.

>>459525

He didn't say anything about performative male fisherpersons, that was me. I think you are getting his and my points mixed up.

cor blimey, lotta chronic masturbators in this thread.

>>459522
>My post was made in criticism of male fisherpersons, who outwardly say they are progressive and believe in equality, but their true motives are really rooted in more or less pure egotism.
The argument has persisted for centuries that maybe all acts of kindness, or altruism, or charity, are actually done for secretly selfish reasons. It's cynical, but it's impossible to disprove and we've all done it ourselves, even if only for the benefit that it feels nice to be nice. So: why would you single out the wimminzlibbers when they do it?

>>459537

>even if only for the benefit that it feels nice to be nice.

Acts that help our species survive often feel nice doing. Like shagging. From an evolutionary lizard brain standpoint, this makes sense. It gives you positive reinforcement that it's good to help others. And when you help people, it helps them and our species survive.

So essentially while you may think that being nice and helping others is a selfish act so we can feel good about ourselves, it's the other way round and evolution is just fucking around with us.

Probably not so obvious in our modern society where governments look after people that aren't helped otherwise, but just imagine giving a fellow caveman from the next valley over a few of your arrows and a set of flintstones so he can shoot a gazelle and eat that week with his family.

>>459537

I'm not uniquely singling them out.

If I were, though, I would say it's the hypocrisy of it, and the fact I think it is ultimately detrimental to society in a very real way.

Like a child I immediately go to the window whenever I hear an aerocraft engine overhead and once again it paid off because a sodding Lancaster bomber just flew over. Rather low too, so that was a nice treat.

>>459206

You say A Lancaster bomber, but by now isn't it THE Lancaster bomber? Pretty sure there's only one airworthy one left.

I saw one of them when I was a kid at an air show, and I'm pretty sure there's one at the Imperial War Museum you can go in and look around the cockpit and everything. I had an Airfix one too obviously.

Magnificent machines.

>>456005
I just turned 40 and I am dust. I am held together by a mix of spite, alcohol, and prescription medication.

>>456155
That psychoactive substances law was the worst injustice done to the British public probably ever.

>>459262
I think it's probably the reason our nation isn't facing a gender crisis on par with the USA. Turning the frogs gay and all that.

I still don't understand this joke.

>>459019
It's a Father Ted reference.

>>445073
Glimmer gets banned from Twitter?

>>459045
Separating the art from the artist is never fun when it affects something you care for. GL wrote some (or was involved in) some seminal works, but he wouldn't be the first one to go a bit "funny" as he ages. Vicar of Dibley is still safe, I think.

>>459046
>Vicar of Dibley is still safe, I think.

>>458958
Same trend here, most new renovations are grey, white and black.
A decade ago it used to be all brown houses. Brown bricks, brown windows and if the home owner was tacky enough, some of thise shitty plastic pillars in brown.

>>458920

I think a longer and more roundabout explanation goes back to the boomer generation. Everything that came from their parents was dreary and dull because there was little choice back then, but then as they come of age into the new industrial era suddenly the choice of consumer goods and the availability of colours explodes and this goes hand in hand with the rise of hippie culture, and this carries on into the 70s and 80s.
But then as millenials have came on to the scene, they see their parents, and their grandparents things, and the decades of accumulated Stuff is such a horrible mis-matched mess (as well as the newest generations being unbelievably spoilt for choice) that there had been a desire to wipe the slate clean of all that and start fresh with a sterile minimalist look.
I think give it another decade and we'll see colours start to come back

I personally think that building materials count just as much, possibly more. Buildings assembled from rendered breeze blocks or premade panels over a steel frame, windows which just have one panel and metal or plastic frames, those kind of things are so lifeless and dreary. They age worse than wood, or brick, or masonry in that they either get covered with gunk really quickly when their only appeal was that they looked all pristine when new, or they don't change appearance at all and have this bloodless, computer-generated look.

When they do add colour to these things they either go for purple or teal, which is the colour of corporate logos, or they go for 'tasteful' restrained colours, which only look good when they naturally occur, and otherwise look incongruous or just dull.

So yeah we've fucked it basically, fat chance of stone or brick blockwork coming back.

>>458922

Where is this photo from? Because there's an awful lot of places around where I live where you could have taken that photo yesterday and the only real difference would be the models of the cars.

I suspect the same can be said of almost everywhere in Britain, and the only places you can really call nice are either a handful of really old posh towns like Edinburgh, York or Colchester or whatever, or extensively regenerated chunks of city centres, which are inevitably still surrounded by places just like that photo if you walk ten minutes down the road.

The essay “Refinement Culture” is a good read on this. While every car is grey, sports have done similar- less variation, for more wow. The same with films and music.

>>458746

Nah, I just wipe it on my chair.

>>458747
Surprised you don't use your Fruit of the Loom shirts for that.

>>458746
You don't use soap on your bellend, interior of your arsehole or your eyes. It still amazes me that in 2023 people are walking around convinced that the most sensitive area of their cock needs some antibacterial love when your greatest threat is fungus or your biome going off kilter.

Look it up. This isn't up for debate.

>>458754
Sounds like someone's never heard of eyedrops or arsedrops.

>>458754

Your knob smells like Quavers m8.

>>457848
No scantily clad women unless they're Carol Vorderman. I don't make the rules.

>>457843
What's the moderation position on AI generated imagery anyway. Celebrity fakes have been an industry for a long time and parody has been broadly interpreted as part of that.

I was going to post the 'Oops I farted again' Britney video as an example but despite it being the very height of early 00s internet comedy I feel that I'd have to unplug my router for a week to think about what I did.

>>457851
I assume fully AI images are fine but anything intended to look like a real person is a potential hassle.

>>457849
Not really what I had taken issue with.

>>457848
>You freaks left up the antisemitism website link
Mate I made a mistake of judgement with that link while under the influence of fatigue and boredom. It was probably left up to signal a raised eyebrow or possibly due to the neutral comment.

There's also the arguement that talking about Jews Jewish people Israel uh .. interest groups that happen to include a measure of extremism regardless of racial, political or religious inferences doesn't necessitate antisemitism any more than talking about Are England necessitates bald headed racist thugs - but we'll leave that discussion to the secret courts, sharn't we (or a different thread at the very least)?

>>457842
It was pretty special, huh? Like a haute cuisine Quality Street. I felt bad about my attraction considering the context. Now that it's gone I'd have liked to have saved it but .. well, we've got to allow ourselves modesty.

Christ, this is getting sad. Also Laura Kuenssberg's really annoying.

When you were a kid if someone said "pack it in" would someone reply with "Paķi's don't come in tins, they come in boxes/banana boats/something else" or is that just a northern thing?

>>457767
She's definitely changed over the past year or so into an entirely different person. Almost like she's slowly morphing into Andrew Neil.

>>457769
How has she changed? I haven't noticed anything. She was the main presenter for last night's coverage, which I acknowledge she never used to be, but as a journalist she's still the "ask tough questions, accept worthless softball answers" epitome of BBC reporting that she has always been.

>>457769
If you must insist on posting that photo, at least get his name wrong too.

Don't imagine Dame Edna will be far behind though they've got a good couple of decades on Paul O'Grady.

Rest in panto.

>>457211
67 is no age to die. All the best to his husband who i understanably asking for some privacy. May he rest in doggy heaven.

I watched 'An Evening with Lily Savage' as suggested by the youtube search algorithm. Not my cup of tea - Lilly Savage being a bit of a bitch during a question and answers show. I would hazard to call personality insult comedy. Many of her manerisms are very recognisable however, which i guess is part of the joke being a man and all - I suppose that's the art of performing drag (and arguable why some people find it offensive).

It's sad to see another recognisable face fall off the TV moist dicks in my face

>>457218
Well that's a lovely wordfilter. Trying to guess what it might be replacing.

>>457219

I can't help, and I wish you luck finding it, but I have to ask - why the fuck do you want a novelty 'clock' like that? Telling the time in abstract ways makes it less functional that a normal clock. So it's just pretentious, isn't it? You want to feel like a cleverclogs?

>>457039
On the contrary, there's nothing abstract about it. As the squares dissapear it makes time feel so much more real, to me, anyway. It's not pretentious, it's just a different way of reading the time. I don't understand how knwoing there were x number of sqaures and then there being y number of squares is especially cerebral either, I suspect most dogs would be capable of it.

Anyway, no one has any idea what I'm on about, clearly, so it's all academic now.

>>456678

There are loads of mobile home parks in this country, but they tend to be over-55s only or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

>>456677
Be aware planning departments take a dim view of such activities and your one complaint away from coming to their attention.
A story I've heard from multiple sources has someone buying land, gaining planning permission to construct a lake or pond, when signed off as completed by the local planning dept promptly craning in a narrow boat to live in and sticking two fingers up at the local council - not particularly practical advice to most but I admire his chutzpah

>>456687
> or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

This. Plenty of static caravans go for about 20 grand, with a sea view, on the South coast - I'm sure they are cheaper elsewhere too; but they all have restrictions on how many months per year you can stay in them, and hardly any allow year-round living.

>>456707
What if you bought two or three caravans in different parks and split your time between them?

>>456707
There was a case in East Yorkshire where someone built a holiday lodge park on the edge of Beverley and misled people into thinking they could live there all year round. Retrospective planning permission was denied so the council ended up having to evict the owners, about 200 pensioners. It was on Look North all the time for what felt like a decade or so and I'm sure he got away with it in the end.

>>456508
You can meet women anywhere.

>>456508
Yes but most people stick with volunteering regularly at the one place so if you don't get on with the handful of available women at one, there's rarely a fast turnaround. You'd have to volunteer at a range of different places to increase your chances. Luckily for you there's no notice period when you want to quit.

>>456510
Not him but wouldn't it make sense to find the right kind of charities for all that. Does Weight Watchers do charity?

>>456511
Definitely a factor. In terms of time investment to available women met, he'd be better off doing something else entirely.

>>456498
Spent some time at a Barnardos charity shop back in 2003, it was a laugh with a few of the older folk there to have somthing to do, and the college kids getting sent in for community experience. We also got first dibs on anything that came in before it even went on the floor, had a load of CD's and PS2 games etc for pennies.

Nowadays it's not like that, I still pop in once in a while and chat to the manager who is still doing the same job. Everything has to be properly catalogued, value checked and so on. Ebay gets a go on anything that looks worth a few quid, but apparently it's more hassle than it worth as nobody actually wants to pay the average price.

>>456442
I actually really like a lot of drill. You're right that a lot of it is better than airplay.

>>456443

>Whenever one of these murderers turns out to also be a drill rapper, he was always, invariably, a shit drill rapper who couldn't rap
Which rappers do you like?

>>456445
It's a weird one, because I don't actually like a lot of the acts I named there. Nevertheless, I can tell that other people would like them. They are professionals, even if they are painful to my ears. If you're just looking for UK rap recommendations, the song Black by Dave is the best one that springs to mind in recent years. If you're curious about my rap tastes in general, Americans like Tech N9ne and Jedi Mind Tricks are my go-to acts.

If you're trying to catch me out by getting me to name grime acts who are not drill music at all, then I assume you have succeeded.

>>456446
>If you're trying to catch me out by getting me to name grime acts who are not drill music at all, then I assume you have succeeded.

I wanted to catch you out by pointing out that they were involved in gang life. I can do 67 at least.

https://www.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/ukdrill/comments/p91e0u/a_brief_background_into_67674/

>>456438
I do. Makes pennies, really, but I won't say no to it.

>>456304
Almost certainly air. Very common. You can hear others too.

Also, I recommend KiwiSDR.

http://kiwisdr.com/public/
http://rx.linkfanel.net

>>456305 Thank you mate

>>456304
Also suggest you search for HFGCS on YouTube to see/hear lots of examples of people listening to US Air Force traffic on HF.