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>> No. 435367 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:52 pm
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I've suddenly got two weeks off work, fucking class, and I was wondering what you two were doing and how we should celebrate? I'm not leaving the house.

That other fucking thread is miserable, and full of lies. If the virus is going to take us, we might as well go down ranting, happily.

What are you doing with your recently found time off?
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>> No. 435368 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:55 pm
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My office let's me work from home all the time anyway so it's not a biggie for me. I actually miss my workplace, the lads there are fun and I can go to the gym at lunch.
>> No. 435369 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:55 pm
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Gardening, mostly.
>> No. 435370 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:56 pm
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I was thinking about getting to know the missus but I don't want to go through a divorce. Maybe I'll get in to origami instead.
>> No. 435371 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:57 pm
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>>435369
Me too. I can see a lot of planting this year.
>> No. 435372 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 9:16 pm
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I was thinking of playing a lot of computer games.
>> No. 435374 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 9:49 pm
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I'm going into work. Don't see why 0.005% of people having flu merits time off work.
>> No. 435375 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 10:23 pm
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>>435374
What do you do for a living?
>> No. 435381 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 2:46 am
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>>435375
He frowns in a miserly fashion.

>>435372
Pretty much. Might apply for a job just for a laugh. Reckon they're desperate for new staff, or desperate not to bother with all that shite? Could go either way, I reckon.
>> No. 435383 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 3:35 am
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>>435367
>What are you doing with your recently found time off?
Finally the downside of working at home strikes.

I've been self-isolating since last Wednesday, though I didn't realise that until this afternoon.
>> No. 435384 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 7:39 am
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>>435381
Apply for a job? We're heading for a recession m8. Cling to your current job for dear life.
>> No. 435385 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 8:01 am
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>>435384
It's just a pause before normal service is resumed. Besides, it's only going to affect povvo jobs like air stewardesses, waiters and hotel receptionists.
>> No. 435386 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 10:37 am
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>>435384
Amazon are hiring, as are other industries delivering to shut-ins.
(Put a prime order in yesterday, most of it, despite being next-day, will be here in a week. Looks like the Latvian lad who usually delivers my stuff has got the plague.)
>> No. 435387 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 12:18 pm
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>>435385
I admire your optimism, but don't share it. A LOT of peoples jobs will be affected.
>> No. 435388 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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>>435387
Yes but it's going to affect people who don't really matter.
>> No. 435389 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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I'm very unlikely to get any time off, they're happy enough to test hospital staff and get them back in if they're negative.

This is why I'm hoping they step up to the next level soon, and I'll have a fair chance of blagging the 12 weeks compulsory "high risk" isolation for having asthma. Fingers crossed lads.
>> No. 435390 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:04 pm
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>>435388
That is a profoundly cretinous view - a lot of people losing their jobs will affect all of us, as the rest of us will end up picking up the tab for them.
>> No. 435391 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>435389
Have they tested you yet?
>> No. 435393 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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>>435388
This is one of those posts I can't tell whether the poster is genuinely a cunt from a broken home, or trying to talk like a cunt from a broken home for comic effect and failing.
>> No. 435394 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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>>435393

People lash out when they're scared.
>> No. 435395 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:19 pm
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>>435394
You're the ones lashing out and calling him a cunt. He's just blasé.
>> No. 435396 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:29 pm
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>>435395

That's certainly one view of the situation.
>> No. 435401 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 4:03 pm
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My new promotion starts on Monday but by the looks of things I'm going to have a few weeks properly off with pay. Here's hoping they forget about me but I end up staying on the payroll.
>> No. 435406 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 6:21 pm
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I'll be wanking from home, just need make sure that I don't get my own and work laptop mixed up when I do a search for 'arse pissing poz party'.
>> No. 435407 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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I'm still working for now but it won't last. My new job seems to still exist, which is nice, and it's looking like I'll be trained for two weeks from Monday then put on paid leave. I could potentially do some of the work from home but I'm not going to be suggesting that. It's entirely possible my industry will collapse, which is a shame as I've only been in it a year or so. The industry I was in before that is also fucked, so I'm probably just going to cash all my chips in and fuck off to the highlands like that other lad.

While off work I will be finishing projects - I still need to get my new ADS-B antenna on the roof, not that I'll be seeing much with it, and I need to pull my car's engine out to service some bits.

After that I'll probably go annoy my mates in London who will be mostly working from streatham wetherspoons home. I was down at the weekend for the first time in a while, and had forgot how much I enjoy the city.

I've gone off videogames a bit. Struggling to get into them. When is Cyberpunk coming out? I'll probably be into that.
>> No. 435408 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 7:49 pm
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Well my missus is supposed to be starting home working next week, but by the sounds of things the investment firm she works from sounds dangerously, bordering on negligently incompetent. They're hoping to get everyone in the office working on their own personal computers at home by remote access.

I can only imagine it being a matter of hours before some Russian hacker has the bank details of every client on their books thanks to a keylogger or something.
>> No. 435410 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 7:56 pm
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>>435408

This whole working from home thing is going to be an utter clusterfuck in terms of security. Companies that don't already have secure remote access provisioned and are instead retrofitting it in the most haphazard way possible are going to get really shafted, hard.
>> No. 435419 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 9:35 pm
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>>435407
Yeah I am going to re activate my radio and ADS-B projects given the extra time I will have at home. I hope Farnborough Air Show is still on, for all sorts of reasons, not least of which it is visible from my garden. I have also been looking at this ADSB exchange thing which sounds promising.
>> No. 435420 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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>>435419
> Yeah I am going to re activate my radio and ADS-B projects given the extra time I will have at home. I hope Farnborough Air Show is still on

You're moving on from Arduino bombs to radio attacks on aircraft aren't you, terrorlad?
>> No. 435422 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 11:04 pm
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>>435419

I had assumed I would be too busy and antisocial to see the Air Show, but now, like you, I'm hoping it still goes ahead, while I still have free time and nowhere to be. That'd be nice. Have been looking at the exchange thing too, I'm always sad when something military comes over and I can't see it on anything other than my ropey shed antenna. Plus ground coverage at airports is shocking - anything smaller than an E190 disappears from flightradar at about 3000 feet, at least at my airfield.

>>435420

There's not much damage you can do to an aircraft over radio other than annoy the pilots (something I'm not adverse to) or send them rude messages over ACARS (the dream).

I suppose technically you could impersonate air traffic control, but air traffic control would hear you, and even if they didn't it's not like pilots blindly follow unsafe vectors.
>> No. 435423 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 11:54 pm
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>>435422

>There's not much damage you can do to an aircraft over radio other than annoy the pilots

How dangerous is the whole laser pointers thing then, realistically? Besides obviously irritating them and momentarily somewhat blinding them?
>> No. 435424 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 12:00 am
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>>435423

If you can hit a laser pointer on an aeroplane windshield above 4,000 feet (which is landing/takeoff height) then you should let the army know so you can get fast tracked as a sniper. I think the laser pointer thing is more for choppers. To hit an actual plane you would have to be just outside an airport and I imagine they would catch you pretty quickly.
>> No. 435425 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 1:22 am
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>>435424

Planes definitely do get laser struck at that sort of altitude, but you're right that it's hard to hit the plane exactly, and that's sort of the problem - a shaky laser pointer (that is powerful enough) will be a series of bright flashes to the pilot, which is more distracting than painful or blinding, but you can imagine what seeing a bright flashing light out of the corner of your eye could do to your concentration. At the right angle and weather/air conditions, and if the plane is low enough, a laser can absolutely hit the cockpit dead on and light up the entire flight deck, causing temporary blindness. I don't believe there has ever been permanent damage from a laser attack, but certainly emergencies have been declared because of them.

It might be harder to hit at 4000 feet, but don't forget you're landing all the way to 0 feet (well, relative ground level - you know what I mean) pilots have certainly been hit during the critical landing window.

The majority of the time it's a mild annoyance that is reported to the authorities, but certainly the potential for disaster exists.


>> No. 435426 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 1:47 am
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>>435425

As a fellow VASAviation watcher I have to say a Shamrock pilot would have been able to shrug off the offensive laser beam, continue on to JFK and land through a dangerous weather cell while delivering a withering put down questioning the matriarchal lineage of the incompetent JFK controller.

You did repeat what I said though, to hit an actual plane you would have to be just outside an airport (as the perpetrators in that video were) which would allow the authorities to catch you very quickly. It's more a danger to helicopters than planes.
>> No. 435427 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 1:55 am
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>>435425

Also PAN PAN is not an emergency.
>> No. 435428 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 4:37 am
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>>435422

>There's not much damage you can do to an aircraft over radio other than annoy the pilots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
>> No. 435429 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 1:02 pm
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>>435428

You could set up a decoy localiser, sure, but you'd have to have access to the airfield and runway to do so, and in my experience people usually notice that. And the systems are set up to detect reflections and interference, so they'd know. It'd be about as effective as trying to cause a car crash by climbing up on the traffic lights and trying to change the bulb.
>> No. 435430 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 1:59 pm
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It's my first day working from home and I'm eating a cornetto. It's too quiet.
>> No. 435432 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 2:24 pm
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Some of us are still on site at work. It's a ghost town.
>> No. 435433 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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Anyone have any tips on getting the lighting right during a video call? I've realised that what helps is having a light on behind your screen to give yourself a glow.

I've never been this vain before but I've also never had to see my face this often.

>>435420
Do you know who else combined radio and flying? Dronelad. Farnborough Air Show is all that is holding this country together right now and he wants to take it from us.

Give us his address Purps. I bet there's a school nearby.
>> No. 435434 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 3:13 pm
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>>435433

You could buy a ring light? You can get cheap dodgy ones that work just fine.

Diffuse, even light is what you want. Maybe tape a piece of white paper to your lamp.
>> No. 435435 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 3:41 pm
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>>435424

>I think the laser pointer thing is more for choppers

It'd be pretty stupid though to use a laser pointer against a helicopter, at least a police helicopter. Because not only will they easily see where the laser light originated from, but they also usually have FLIR systems on board that can track your movement in the dark and then have you nicked right there and then by a ground unit.

I'm not sure what really besets people to think that's a fun thing to do. I once got hit by a laser pointer while circling the block looking for a parking space. The kid from across the street was toying with it on the balcony and somehow thought that that was funny. It was in broad daylight and I was doing only about 15 mph down the street, so it wasn't as dangerous as it could have been, but I distinctly noticed the flash of red in the corner of my eye, and instantly slammed on the brakes. I then rolled down the window and gave the kid a good talking to, but he seemed unimpressed and even laughed at my reaction. I was going to tell his parents that night, but knowing what kind of people they are, I doubt it would have had any effect. The next time this happens, I'll straight up call the police on my mobile phone. Maybe coppers can get through to a 10 year old chav kid with indifferent parents.
>> No. 435436 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 4:10 pm
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I guess working from home means I can sit and watch my door all day as my 'friendly local' Hermes courier doesn't deliver my parcel.
>> No. 435437 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 7:59 pm
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>>435436

>your friendly local courier

Mirth. Last week when I got something delivered here, it was by a Mideasternlad who complained to me in kind of an abrasive way that I only answered the door on the third ring. Worth noting that one "ring" consisted of him hastily pressing the doorbell button a good three or four times. I do think his violation of doorbell etiquette was far worse than mine. Besides, I was still in bed, and getting up, had trouble finding my tracksuit pants under a pile of clothes.
>> No. 435438 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 8:39 pm
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>>435437
My courier was also Middle Eastern. He turned up about half 5ish and seemed rather confused that I was stood there after he handed me the parcel because I was expecting to have to actually sign for it.
>> No. 435439 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 8:57 pm
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>>435438
If whitey paid them well and didn't treat them like dogs maybe they'd do a good job.
>> No. 435440 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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>>435435
> It'd be pretty stupid though to use a laser pointer against a helicopter, at least a police helicopter. Because not only will they easily see where the laser light originated from, but they also usually have FLIR systems on board that can track your movement in the dark and then have you nicked right there and then by a ground unit.

So what you're saying is that I should be taking out popo-copters using small squadrons of drone-mounted lasers?
>> No. 435441 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:07 pm
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>>435440

>using small squadrons of drone-mounted lasers?


Well, you might as well give it the best of your Arduino skills.
>> No. 435442 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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>>435441
Are you inciting a daft militant wog attack?
>> No. 435443 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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>>435442

Are you not? Bit racist that mate.
>> No. 435444 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:13 pm
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>>435443
Waiting until 9:11 to reply. Clever.
>> No. 435445 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>435439
Not my fault he doesn't have the nous to join his compatriots in the lucrative fields of drug dealing or diddling.

In other news, working from home isn't going to go well...

https://www.monster-shop.co.uk/product/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-xbox-one/
>> No. 435446 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:15 pm
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>>435444

Did something happen on the 9th of November then?
>> No. 435447 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>435446
Not clever.
>> No. 435448 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 10:13 pm
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>>435447
Remember, remember the ninth of November...
>> No. 435449 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 10:36 pm
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>>435442

>Are you inciting a daft militant wog attack?

Ask >>435440 lad that. He's the one who seems hell bent on downing a police helicopter.
>> No. 435450 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 11:12 pm
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>>435449
He's planning, not inciting.
>> No. 435451 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 11:18 pm
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>>435450

Right, so planning is fine?


Not sure I'd ask you for legal advice, lad.
>> No. 435452 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 11:22 pm
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>>435451
Neither is legally fine. Not sure I'd ask you for anything.
>> No. 435453 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 11:24 pm
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>>435452

Not sure we're in disagreement then.
>> No. 435454 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 10:52 am
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I work in events/backstage live music industry and have basically lost work indefinitely and it's pretty scary. Everything from small gigs to bigger festivals canceled. The line-up for Isolationfest 2020 seems ok though. I hear "Sat On The Couch" and "Doing Fuck All" both have a wicked set to play.
>> No. 435455 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 11:11 am
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>>435454
I've seen a few comedians who have plans to livestream their routines whilst having a link up asking for donations.
>> No. 435456 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 1:03 pm
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>>435454

Bandcamp have sent an email out saying they're forfeiting their usual share of sales, so nows the time to buy a few t-shirts if you want to keep artists out of poverty.

My sympathies for your situation though. Here's hoping the UBI rumours come in.
>> No. 435457 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 1:05 pm
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>>435456
Joke's on you; I only listen to financially secure artists.
>> No. 435458 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 1:38 pm
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Is anyone else getting a million emails from random companies giving you their 'Coronavirus updates'?

I have had one parcel delivered to me by Hermes in my entire life. It was around five years ago. And they've emailed me out of the blue, along with a theatre I went to three years ago, my gym, Clearscore, Sky TV and countless others. I'm not inundated with spam every day from these people either (with the exception of Clearscore).

Getting sick of enterprises using all this as an excuse to email me reminders that they exist.
>> No. 435459 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>435458
It's like GDPR and the privacy policy updates all over again.
>> No. 435460 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 2:28 pm
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>>435458
Why don't you have them delete your data then?
>> No. 435461 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 2:50 pm
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>>435460

As an experiment why don't you ask purps to delete all of your data, even the data around posts you sent from you phone and from your mates laptop.

Do let us know how that goes. Then kill your self.
>> No. 435462 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 3:00 pm
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>>435461

yourself*
>> No. 435463 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 3:01 pm
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Lads, how do I have sex now that everything has gone into lockdown? Is this an excuse to get acquainted with the neighbours? I've read that we're being encouraged to video chat in dating apps but that's bad enough with work.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dating/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-around-the-world-dating-finds-a-way-idUKKBN2161U6

Initially I was chuffed that I could spend all day at home like a teenager but I was already on 2 months when this started.
>> No. 435464 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 3:05 pm
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>>435463
Basically if you aren't in a committed relationship forget getting your dick wet until autumn. Remember to short Tinder.
>> No. 435465 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 3:08 pm
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>>435460
Because I already opt out of marketing offers and so on. When I do get an email from these people, it's usually worth reading. Just not now.
>> No. 435466 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 3:50 pm
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>>435463

http://www.adultwork.com
>> No. 435469 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 7:34 pm
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>>435464
ehhh I dunno about that.
It might go that way, or you might get a ton more people start using tinder either out of boredom, or because they can't go peacocking down the clubs like they were.
>> No. 435475 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 8:32 pm
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>>435455

>>435454 here. Was thinking I might set up a live stream of me coiling cables at home, plugging speakers in and testing my lights, see if I can get a patreon going. See if any stage managers will pay me for working from home.
>> No. 435476 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 9:05 pm
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>>435475


>> No. 435480 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 12:11 am
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>>435469

People will use tinder and you might even get some nudes but you won't be getting laid with anyone even half-smart until at least July.
>> No. 435481 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 12:12 am
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>>435480

Looks like my target market remains unaffected then.
>> No. 435485 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 12:38 am
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>>435480
I think the opposite - it will be immediate house-to-house type action.

Let's be honest, this whole three to six months quarantine could be an enormous sexfest if you have access to willing partners. I don't see any reason for people to change in this regard even with bars and restaurants etc closed. WE WILL FIND A WAY.
>> No. 435486 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 9:03 am
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>>435476
I tell you what gentlemen, my cable boxes are going to get even tidier over the next couple of months.
>> No. 435487 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 9:35 am
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What's a good 'talky' radio station? I usually listen to Radio 2 or 6 Music in the car but at home it feels like sensory overload and is just giving me a headache.
>> No. 435488 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 10:19 am
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>>435487
I got stuck in a car with 5 Live for a while - it's not teeth-grindingly awful.
Does it have to be broadcast, or can it be internet?
>> No. 435489 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 10:24 am
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>>435487

TBH you're better off getting into podcasts.
>> No. 435490 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 10:31 am
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I've got a DAB radio but it only seems to have local stations, Absolute, BBC, Capital, Classic FM, Heart, Kiss, LBC, Magic, Smooth and TalkSport. It claims to have a USB port but I'll be fucked if I can find it.

I've had to shift a lot of stuff to make room for my work computer so I'm running low on sources to have something on in the background.
>> No. 435491 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 10:45 am
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It turns out I'm most productive listening to Kisstory and 'old skool cool' music I don't actually want to listen to because then I can zone out and focus on what I'm meant to be doing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8
>> No. 435518 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 8:59 am
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It's going pretty well. I've had enough free time to paint:

24 Necron Warriors
1 Blood Angel Librarian in Terminator armour
1 Blood Angel Dreadnought
1 Lieutenant with power sword
6 Necron Wraith
10 Primaris Intercessors with Auto Bolt Rifles
1 Blood Angel Captain in Terminator armour
10 Primaris Intercessors with Bolt Rifles
10 Necron Immortals with Gauss Blasters
1 Necron Cryptek with Canoptek Cloak
36 Canoptek Scarabs
10 Primaris Hellblasters
1 Chaplain with Jump Pack
10 Death Company with Bolters and power swords (those were a bitch to get)
1 Predator Annihilator
10 Necron Lychguard with Warscythes
10 Assault Terminators with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields
2 Necron Annihilation Barges with Tesla Destructors

And I'm not even in quarantine
>> No. 435519 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 11:48 am
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>>435518

Lucky for you that other people aren't getting laid either at the moment.
>> No. 435520 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 12:18 pm
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>>435518
What've you paid for all that?
>> No. 435521 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 12:38 pm
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>>435520
In money or relationships?
>> No. 435522 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 12:40 pm
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>>435520

Not the guy, I'm going to say over £700. I enjoy the hobby hut don't buy into it much aside from painting a few things for that reason. The new sisters of battle release was both a happy time for me and upsetting because it's so damn expensive.
>> No. 435523 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 12:56 pm
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>>435522
Would it be cheaper in the long run to 3D print your own Warhammer?
>> No. 435524 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 1:04 pm
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>>435523

Most home 3D printers can't yet print at as fine a resolution as needed for the details.
>> No. 435525 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 1:04 pm
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>>435522

Far less than that honestly, most of it was scrounged off eBay as the unwanted halves of those two-arny box sets or otherwise second hand; and has been collected over the course of a couple of years rather than all at once. I've just only been painting it recently because I haven't had much of a social life.

My girlfriend has dark eldar
>> No. 435526 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 1:55 pm
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>>435523

It's fairly cost effective to make your own upgrades and weapon options through scratch building and converting, it always has been, but it's a different skill set and people are boring so not everyone can be bothered.

I think personal resin printers are detailed enough for wargaming minis but it would take fucking forever to print out a large number.

Fair fucks to GW they are the best minis you can buy which is the problem as it's a niche hobby with enough appeal to be highly profitable but not enough breadth to have serious competition emerge.
>> No. 435548 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 12:39 am
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>>435518
I found some unassembled models that I'd forgotten about for 15 years and figured I'd give painting miniatures another go and even with the help of today's youtube tutorials they still look like shit
>> No. 435596 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 7:03 pm
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My neighbour is vacuuming his house even more than he does usually.
>> No. 435608 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 3:56 pm
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I thought there'd be an uptick in posts here now. Are you all out for your daily session of government mandated exercise or are you all painting the spare room that you promised you'd do six months ago?
>> No. 435609 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 3:57 pm
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>>435608

I've just been sniffing shitloads of glue and sleeping on the couch. Dunno where otherlad is.
>> No. 435610 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>>435609
I'm working from home. I'm not really enjoying it, but that may be bevause I've got kids.
>> No. 435611 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 4:03 pm
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>>435608
There was probably three times the normal number of people sitting there refreshing, waiting for someone to speak.
>> No. 435612 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 4:12 pm
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>>435608
Gardening. With this quarantine going on I haven't spent this much time outdoors in years.
>> No. 435613 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>>435612
Same - I mowed the lawn today, which is a fine thing to do on a Tuesday. My garden is going to look fantastic if I can work on it every day like this.
>> No. 435615 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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I've just driven to the shops. I quite liked the slight edge and feeling of lawlessness out there, even if it was all in my head. Cars speeding around corners because the roads were so quiet there'd be nobody at the junction to crash into them. People crossing the roads without even bothering to look. This is a feeling I usually get when I'm driving at 3am; this isn't a driving around during the daytime feeling, particularly at rush hour.
>> No. 435616 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 6:55 pm
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>>435615

How are the shops looking? I anticipated more panic buyers today so have avoided them on the assumption they'd either be rammed or out of food.
>> No. 435617 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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Apache gunships flew low over town earlier, me I'm not worrying until I see this bad boy cruising around
>> No. 435619 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 7:06 pm
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>>435613

Dig up your lawn and plant wildflowers instead.
>> No. 435620 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 7:12 pm
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>>435617

You sure it was Apaches and not Chinooks? I see Chinooks every so often but Apaches flying around would be very odd.
>> No. 435621 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 7:23 pm
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>>435616
I only went to Farmfoods as I planned on getting some veggie mince but all they had left was a mountain of veggie sausage rolls. Oh, and those burgers made from actual vegetables that nobody actually likes.

Plenty of chopped tomatoes, baked beans, cereal and dairy. No eggs or bread. I don't think there was anything else noticeably out of stock but it was about a third bare.
>> No. 435622 Anonymous
24th March 2020
Tuesday 8:30 pm
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>>435617

About time they got serious about that proposed Blue Thunder remake.
>> No. 435624 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 12:26 am
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>>435622

I don't see that working now TBH. Anything that the movie had to say about surveillance technology and things like that that's still relevant is being said in stuff like Black Mirror. Besides, it'd probably be a drone now rather than a helicopter, and who wants to watch a couple of drone operators in a trailer? Eh, mildly entertaining film with some valid points but not really in need of or worth remaking.
>> No. 435627 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 12:36 pm
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>>435624

I think you're right in that films and TV shows about some secret high-tech weapon chock full of state of the art electronics really doesn't get people watching anymore because we live in an age where we have come to expect that that is in principle no longer fiction, and that any bog standard police helicopter nowadays can probably to ten times what Blue Thunder was capable of. Even KITT's capabilities seem lame by today's standards, where two out of three people have Alexa at home.

There was a slew of movies about high-tech government surveillance when the Internet age got into full swing, e.g. films like Enemy of the State, or the Bourne series. They pulled out all the stops, but I doubt it's something that will be perceived as groundbreaking today.

Then again, you could probably still make a decent popcorn cinema flick about a police helicopter squad. Just don't expect peole to still talk about it nearly forty years later, like we do here with Blue Thunder.
>> No. 435635 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 3:23 pm
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>>435627

You say that like Blue Thunder has ever been mentioned before on. gs or will be again
>> No. 435636 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 4:14 pm
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>>435635

It was still an interesting movie for its time. It even sparked an eponymous television series, which ran for all of 11 episodes in 1984.
>> No. 435637 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 7:39 pm
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It'd be pretty cool to have a decently ranged, camera'ed drone right now.
>> No. 435639 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>435637
https://twitter.com/chanian/status/1242897557463773186
>> No. 435640 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 8:05 pm
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>>435637

I've always held off buying one as I'm too close to an aerodrome, but fuck it, I guess that only counts when it's open.
>> No. 435642 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 10:38 pm
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Incredibly the Big Bag Of Rice I have on Amazon subscription every two months is going to show up as usual on Friday.

Amazon is a machine built by madmen and fuelled by suffering but by god if they aren't effective.
>> No. 435645 Anonymous
25th March 2020
Wednesday 11:10 pm
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>>435640

Maybe buy an indoor drone for now?
>> No. 435646 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 12:20 am
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>>435642

Don't count your rice before it's packed, lad.
>> No. 435654 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 7:27 am
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It's quite satisfying to see that my car windscreen has frosted over, safe in the knowledge that I don't have to drive this morning.
>> No. 435657 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 12:19 pm
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>>435642

How lazy do you have to be to buy a bag of rice on Amazon. Even the Indian cornershop down the street here has a 250g bag of rice for £1.50. Not the pest price in the world for a bag of generic, non-brand name rice that size, but it has been a go-to for me a few times when I ran out of rice and couldn't be arsed to drive a mile to my local Tesco's.
>> No. 435658 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 12:25 pm
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What's the best rice to buy? My Asian friend suggested Tilda but as far as I'm aware his wife does all the cooking so I don't know whether to trust his expertise, i.e. he's a currymuncher.
>> No. 435659 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 12:44 pm
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>>435658

I like Nishiki for short grain, Three ladies for jasmine, and Kohinoor for basmati. Bomba for paella or risotto rice.

Basically if it's got foreign writing on it, it's good. Basmati is really, really forgiving though, it's hard to find a bad bag of it.
>> No. 435661 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>435657

I buy 10kg bags of short grain rice, sometimes even the local hypermarket doesn't have small bags of short grain, and when they do it's 'premium sushi rice' for £4/250g.

I could go to my 'local' Asian supermarket for it, but that's a drive into the city and a parking charge etc.
>> No. 435664 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 1:53 pm
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>>435659
Any opinion on Surya? I just got a 5kg bag since it was the last once left in the corner shop (I actually needed rice anyway and got lucky it seems).
>> No. 435666 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 2:01 pm
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Is everyone getting more political about this or is it just my bubble?
>> No. 435667 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 2:08 pm
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>>435666

I've had to mute and restrict more people on my social media this week alone than I've ever had to in my entire history of using it. That might just be my bubble too, but it seems like every dimwit with a borrowed opinion has suddenly had to come out cheering for whatever political football team they favour while casting aspersions on the supporters of the other side. I've seen this from people from multiple countries and it's all very tiresome and, yes, fucking enraging at times.
>> No. 435671 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 2:51 pm
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>>435666>>435667
I don't use Facebook often, but at the minute mine seems to be 90% moaning about people going outside, 6% praising the NHS, 2% coronavirus jokes and 2% criticising the government.

What's interesting is that the ones who regularly post things that are far-left politically have gone full blown totalitarian and want the police to have more powers to be able to check people aren't going outside more than once a day.
>> No. 435672 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 3:32 pm
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>>435671

>the ones who regularly post things that are far-left politically have gone full blown totalitarian

The far-left have always been full blown totalitarian, as evidenced by literally every far-left government in history.
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26th March 2020
Thursday 4:19 pm
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>>435667

Other than lots of people posting that people should now "be nice to Boris" there's not much of that going on in my feeds. Personally I have lots of things to say about the situation and how quickly people change their views when There's A War On, but I just don't think it's the time to say it.
>> No. 435677 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 5:44 pm
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>>435671

This is mostly just because the majority of people with a modicum of sense or intellect don't post on Facebook anymore, and probably haven't in years.

If it makes you feel any better I'm hard left and I'm the one who had a big rant the other day about all the mewling defenceless sheep who needed daddy government to make it mandatory for them to stay indoors because they can't think for themselves.

Everyone's thinking it, but nobody wants to be the first to say it: We should have elected Jezza.
>> No. 435678 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 5:49 pm
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>>435677
>mewling defenceless sheep who needed daddy government to make it mandatory for them to stay indoors because they can't think for themselves
It's not really our choice though is it? Until the big daddy gov had to tell us to stay at home, most work places were forcing people to come into work. My wfh only started this Tuesday. Big daddy corp are not looking out for your interests, cryptofascistlad.
>> No. 435679 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>435657
I can't find rice anywhere really.
>> No. 435680 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>435679

Serves you right for not packing it when you had the chance.
>> No. 435681 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 6:28 pm
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Still at work for now, but managed to find a nice sun-lounger in Sainsburys in case we get knocked up to the next TEACON level.
>> No. 435684 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 7:37 pm
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>>435678

I'm somehow unsure somebody who identifies as hard left is exactly going to be standing up for businesses either, lad.
>> No. 435685 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 9:38 pm
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>>435681

Weather has been absolutely beautiful as of late.
>> No. 435689 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 7:34 am
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A new horse turned up yesterday, and the pony in the next stable is completely smitten with her, It's like prisoner cell block H, but with more pissing, whinnying and squealing.
>> No. 435690 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 7:35 am
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>>435689
Can a pony actually fuck a horse or are they too short?
>> No. 435691 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 7:43 am
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>>435690 They're both girls. It'll be interesting to see what happens when we turn them out this morning.

Yeah, an ambitious pony can sometimes surprise everyone, but it's more usual for a girl pony to get an unwanted dicking.
It's very bad form to let it happen, as a big foal in a little pony doesn't usually end well. Also, nobody wants midget horses.
(Nobody really wants most horses or ponies unless they're special - the running costs are fierce unless you just dump them in a shit field, traveller style.)
>> No. 435692 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 10:42 am
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>>435689

>but with more pissing, whinnying and squealing.

Phwoar.

I'm not proud of it but I think I might be bashing one out to this.

Quarantine has made me utterly randy.
>> No. 435693 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 10:46 am
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>>435692

Fuck's sake furlad.
>> No. 435705 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 9:15 pm
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>>435367

Much like furlad I have noticed an uptick in libido, I reckon mostly because I know I can't shag anyone with this quarantine in place.

I was watching a youtube gaming thing and the mere sight of a reasonably attractive woman in HD on a screen talking about Doom was enough to give me a stonk on. The woman in question I would more accurately describe as 'cute' than 'phwwwwoaaaarr' so it's even more out of the ordinary.
>> No. 435709 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 11:33 pm
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>>435705

Right, with social distancing right now, it's going to be pretty rough going for many a younglad. Anybody who's not in a relationship will pretty much have to just keep knocking a few out every day.

Which is all the more reason to expect that once the coronavirus restrictions have been lifted, people are just going to become lost in a continuous, several months long, booze and drug fuelled countrywide bonk of everybody with everybody.

And that could then actually go a long way giving even the most self-pitying shut ins a shot at getting laid.
>> No. 435710 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 11:34 pm
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>>435709
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-malaysia-karex/condom-shortage-looms-after-coronavirus-lockdown-shuts-worlds-top-producer-idUKKBN21E1PK
>> No. 435711 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 12:33 am
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>>435709

If this goes on for more than a few weeks, I predict an epidemic of incest.
>> No. 435712 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 12:40 am
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>>435711
So we will be Baby Boomers 2.0
>> No. 435713 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 1:14 am
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>>435709
Don't give me hope, lad.
>> No. 435717 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>435709
> Which is all the more reason to expect that once the coronavirus restrictions have been lifted, people are just going to become lost in a continuous, several months long, booze and drug fuelled countrywide bonk of everybody with everybody.

I think this is accurate. Via my virtual "little black book" and tinder I've already got about half a dozen weekend long shagathons pencilled in for whenever this is over. I figure if I can get a leg over they must have a at least a dozen blokes set up each. It'll be fantastically ironic if all the post-corona conga lines of buggery shagging produces some kind of super-AIDS and that's what actually wipes us out.
>> No. 435718 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:59 pm
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>>435711

You say it like a joke but I imagine that sibling incest and internet grooming are already through the roof.
>> No. 435719 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 9:20 pm
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>>435717

I have already had a couple of offers of 'when this settles down' too. I'm the coming weeks I will attempt to turn the individual offers into more of a combined weekend, and if that doesn't kill me I'll be very fucking disappointed.

It's going to be like the Playboy Mansion but for reasonably attractive regional air hostesses.
>> No. 435721 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 10:55 pm
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>>435717
I've been tempted to start planting some seeds myself but I'd only end up with an internet girlfriend I have to video-call (with nothing to talk about). I'm going to hold out until we get close to the end, probably the supermarkets returning to normal.

In the meantime, it's getting close to 3 months now. There's a nice international student who lives above me that I've chatted to a few times, it's shitting where I live and she must be 10 years younger than me but I reckon she'd be up for sharing a bottle. How badly do you think this could go? Do we technically count as the same household?
>> No. 435722 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 11:41 pm
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>>435721
> Do we technically count as the same household?

Only if you're eligible to share the same TV license.
>> No. 435723 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 12:11 am
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>>435722
I knew the BBC was short on cash but I never thought they'd engineer a pandemic virus just to get more household registrations. Have the licence enforcement officers started coughing through our letterboxes?
>> No. 435725 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 12:21 am
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>>435723

They'd only set off the police cough detector vans.
>> No. 435730 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 12:51 pm
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Colin Furze has really taken shed enthusiasm to the next level. Might be too late now to start building a corona bunker, but oh well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy89tZ-mRU
>> No. 435731 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 2:15 pm
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>>435730
>If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't know it was here.
That's great except all your neighbours will know it's there.
>> No. 435732 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 2:26 pm
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>>435730
Christ, mental health services really have collapsed, unfortunately unlike his bunker
>> No. 435733 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:22 pm
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>>435730
It's a bit over engineered, and I have checked myself when saying that.
>> No. 435734 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:24 pm
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>>435731

During the Cold War, it was common wisdom that if you had an underground bunker, you would guard that secret with your life and not tell a single soul outside your immediate household. For obvious reasons. How exactly you were going to keep its construction a secret in the first place was a different matter, mind.

I think this here is just a cross between a schoolboy supervillain fantasy and a manchild mancave. It would not survive a direct hit by a low-yield nuclear bomb, probably not even a Hiroshima-type yield, or even one going off within a five-mile radius. Purpose-built, family-size nuclear bunkers are usually cylindrical or tube shaped, because that is the best way to mitigate shock waves travelling through rock and soil. They are also usually much deeper under ground than the one you see in the video, which probably isn't even three feet.

That said, even Cold War missile silo bunkers with on-duty launch personnel weren't equipped to withstand a dead-on hit, and they were usually some 50 feet under ground. And I think this was also true for whatever bunkers the British Government would have taken shelter in.
>> No. 435735 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:25 pm
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>>435732

DEATH TO THOSE WHO DISRESPECT THE PROPHET FURZE.


>> No. 435736 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:28 pm
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>>435733

I don't think I could recommend an under engineered underground bunker m8.
>> No. 435737 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:37 pm
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>>435736

It still beats doors leaned against a wall.
>> No. 435738 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 4:47 pm
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>>435734

Very fucking little will protect you from a direct hit, of course. But I'll definitely take a buried cargo container over propping the doors up against your sitting room wall, when it comes to surviving the heat and radiation that'd affect people in the survivable radius.
>> No. 435739 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 5:02 pm
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>>435734
We have places for that eventuality. One of them has a Costa Coffee in it, bizarrely.
>> No. 435740 Anonymous
29th March 2020
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>435738

>surviving the heat and radiation that'd affect people in the survivable radius

Most people in nuclear bunkers would indeed survive the initial blast and radiation, unless you are located at or near a strategic target. But at what cost. Eventually, you will run out of food supplies, and also, your air filters will clog up, so you are going to have to reemerge from your bunker. I think the official recommendation back then was a two-week waiting period, but there would have been nothing in the outside world to go back to. Livestock and crops will have died, and any food you would be able to grow (or hunt) would be heavily contaminated. Life for the survivors of a nuclear war would be almost as bleak, if not even more bleak than getting killed right when it happens. In countries like Britain, you would almost certainly die from starvation or from radiation poisoning within weeks, and even if you live in a remote jungle in the Southern Hemisphere and thousands of miles away from the nearest targets, you will be affected by crop failures and nuclear winter.

IMO it's really just better to die right when the bombs hit. Quick and painless. You're not doing yourself a favour by pretending otherwise.
>> No. 435753 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 3:24 pm
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>>435740
I thought this was supposed to be the happy thread.
>> No. 435754 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 3:38 pm
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>>435740
The scenario you describe is a full on nuclear exchange
A limited exchange would be far more survival but still grim beyond imagining
>> No. 435755 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 4:09 pm
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>>435753

You're not wrong.

On to some more Colin Furze madness then:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDvO4clZ6c0
>> No. 435756 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 4:42 pm
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>>435755

The worst thing about Furze is the music he uses - it all sounds like the 'indie' shite that my teenlad bands used to make. Is he a pederast? It's not for me to say.
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30th March 2020
Monday 5:52 pm
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>>435755
The door to his subterranean steel coffin needs welding shut with him in it
>> No. 435766 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 7:38 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaZUQ5FKpI

I'm intrigued by the Excel drum machine.
>> No. 435787 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 10:31 am
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>>435766
That is a shite Mike Boyd video but you're right it did refer to something watchable.


>> No. 435793 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 2:16 pm
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>>435787

It really looks like you need plenty of knowledge about music and sound engineering. This is likely not something you can just whip together to kill lockdown boredom.
>> No. 435795 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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>>435793

You can download his file if you want. There's no practical use for this, the entire point is to kill time programming it.
>> No. 435797 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 4:58 pm
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>>435795

I've been trying to think what mini projects I could do with all the parts in my Arduino bin. I've got various different microcrontrollers from ATtiny85s to ATmega328s, even an ESP32 dev board, one or two miniature TFT displays, plus various sensors and relays and MOSFETs. But I can't think of anything useful to do with all that at the moment.
>> No. 435798 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 5:34 pm
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>>435797 Got anything that can do range detection? Ultrasound, ToF, even a camera? Build something that shouts (or prints in big cheery letters) 'fuck off' at anything that comes within 2m.

Or learn to use a toolchain that isn't the foul beast that is Arduino?
>> No. 435800 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 5:41 pm
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>>435798

Not range detection, but I've got PIR (passive infrared) sensors. Only problem is, they are very sensitive, they will detect movement of an IR heat source from ten feet away, and don't give out a range reading, but simply switch to "HIGH". But I could still use it to make something that shouts "FUCK OFF", I've got a 3W Adafruit breakout mono amplifier, and a 10cm coax speaker from an old car. 3W would be enough to give somebody a good scare if they get too close to my flat's door.

That said, looks like some people have found a really useful Arduino application for the current crisis:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZtMgpxnPI
>> No. 435803 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 6:34 pm
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>>435800
AvE beat him to it with nothing more than a 555 timer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRgISFuE0k
>> No. 435805 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 11:18 pm
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>>435803

That looks a bit too ham handed, in all fairness.

The Arduino design is really dead simple, all you need to do code wise is define a loop that switches the polarity of an air pump in set intervals, so that that pump then either inflates or deflates the bag in the video above. That code should take no longer than half an hour to write from scratch. Adding code and libraries to drive an LCD or TFT to display data, as well as including knobs and buttons to control the machine's parameters will probably take another hour or two.

Here's a 12V air pump that will probably do the job nicely:

https://www.robotshop.com/uk/sfe-air-pump.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIprXuodvF6AIViLHtCh2X0AESEAQYAiABEgKzK_D_BwE

As I understand it, the bag is inside an airtight case and is compressed and inflated by introducing positive and negative pressure into the case with an air pump. You could probably even eliminate the case, and then come up with an actuator that is driven by a stepper motor, which exerts mechanical pressure on the bag to either deflate or inflate it. On the other hand, having a case to hide your raw electronics will probably be needed anyway to ensure reliability, so it's probably the tidiest approach after all to make that case airtight as in the video and have the pump pump air in or out.
>> No. 435806 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 11:31 pm
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>>435805
Two and a half hours of coding? I'd rather fucking die, thanks.
>> No. 435807 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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>>435806

You haven't coded much, have you?

A fairly simple code of maybe no more than 150 lines (yes, that is fairly simple) can often take days to perfect so that it reliably does what it should and not much else. Especially in physical computing, where there is increased complexity from the physical components that you connect to your microcontroller(s).
>> No. 435808 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 12:00 am
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>>435807
I literally quoted the upper bound of his estimate to make a lazy joke. Go back to your computer programs, nerd.
>> No. 435809 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:33 am
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>>435805 Here's a 12V air pump that will probably do the job nicely:

As long as you're fine with one breath every few minutes, sure. Those things have higher pressure and lower volume than you need.
>> No. 435811 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 2:21 pm
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Did a bit of research, with all the free time I've got now, and it appears that your lungs tolerate a positive pressure of around 1.4 psi above your ambient air pressure before they will rupture (which is why people who find themselves close to a blast wave created by heavy artillery or aerial bombs often don't die from shrapnel or flying debris, but their lungs rupture from the overpressure and they then suffocate). The pump in the link has a rating of 0-32 psi, so you'd have to get deeper into the specs and do experiments with it, and then calculate the positive pressure in relation to the ventilation tube's cross section area that the pump delivers as it pumps around 6-8 litres a minute in and out, which is apparently an average adult's breathing volume per minute. 32 psi going through a tube with probably less than a square inch of cross section area is going to be far too much, that's true.

Maybe it is a better idea to use a stepper motor and an actuator to compress and expand the ambu bag, because you will probably be able to do much better fine tuning with it. I think I've seen hospital-grade ventilators that do just that. It introduces an additional level of complexity to a homemade ventilator device, but it's probably safer than using just any old air pump to drive the design in the above video. To really be sure, you'd probably also have to place an air pressure sensor somewhere inside the bag or ventilating tube.
>> No. 435812 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 2:50 pm
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>your lungs tolerate a positive pressure of around 1.4 psi above your ambient air pressure before they will rupture

Unfortunately they'll suffer lasting damage at significantly lower pressures. For patients with ARDS (the main fatal complication of COVID-19) there's a difficult tradeoff between providing sufficient ventilation to provide adequate oxygenation without further damaging their already-damaged lungs. Finding the sweet spot requires constant monitoring and fine-tuning. An effective ventilator needs very precise control of pressure and flow in both directions - you want to maintain a bit of pressure at the peak of exhalation to keep the alveoli open.

https://www.openanesthesia.org/aba_ards_-_ventilator_management/
>> No. 435813 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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>>435812

>Unfortunately they'll suffer lasting damage at significantly lower pressures.

I would guess that 1.4 psi is the maximum rating, as it were, for a one-time sudden burst of air into your lungs. So the "safe" level of positive pressure generated by a ventilator during continuous ventilation is probably going to be much lower than that.

If you know your parameters though, then building an Arduino-based ventilator really isn't too difficult. Like I said, the main thing is going to be to continuously switch the polarity of a pump or motor, and then maybe have buttons and switches that allow you to control the interval lengths between sucking and pumping, and also alter the amount of airflow, e.g. by driving your pump or motor using PWM at variable duty cycles. The readout on your LCD or TFT really depends on how neat you want to make it look. For a basic user interface, a 64-character illuminated monochrome LCD should be enough.
>> No. 435815 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 4:30 pm
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>What are you doing with your recently found time off?

Just trying to keep my spirits up.


>> No. 435817 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 4:41 pm
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>>435815
Phwoar I'd innocently appreciate her talent, artistry and happy energy IYKWIM.
>> No. 435818 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 4:49 pm
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>>435815

Fucking amazing.

She's a bit smug but I could see to that.
>> No. 435819 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 4:51 pm
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>>435815
Oh I had forgotten about her, that has cheered me right up, good work.
>> No. 435830 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 5:54 pm
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>>435819

Seconded. We need more cheering up like that in these tough times. IYKWIM.
>> No. 435832 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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>>435817
She'd snap your knob clean in two in an instant m8.
>> No. 435833 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:06 pm
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>>435832
Two cocks. Win win.
>> No. 435834 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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>>435815
I've just slept for 24 hours straight and this video woke me right up. Even the wee man is standing to attention.

Mad that it has ~100 million views. I would also agree with >>435818 that she looks a bit smug and self-satisfied, but honestly if that was myself I'd feel satisfied too.
>> No. 435835 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:18 pm
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>>435834
Not that mad. It was viral on the Facebooks and on the reddits and it was reposted here at the time too. I'm sure we've clocked a hundred views between the three of us by now.
>> No. 435836 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:52 pm
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>>435815

If I tried to have sex with her my flab would pour into her six-pack like SARAH MILLICAN'S SQUELCHY FANNY CUSTARD into a waffle maker.
>> No. 435838 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 6:58 pm
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>>435836

I'm in the best shape of my life yet I'm still entirely certain shagging her would kill me. It'd be like fucking a fleshlight strapped to a pneumatic drill.
>> No. 435839 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:08 pm
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>>435838

I have a fear bordering on phobia that big bottomed girls will snap off my knob when they are sitting on top of me. The last few women I have been with were more the lean type, but there was one a few years ago that had kind of a big arse, and although she really enjoyed riding me, I could never quite eliminate the thought in the back of my head that one false move by her could have ended in disaster.
>> No. 435840 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:17 pm
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>>435839

I wonder if birds have a similar phobia that the lad's knob will slip out and go right up her chocolate bon bon factory as she sits back down. I've achieved this once or twice with careful hip tilting, but then I'm a total cunt.
>> No. 435845 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:49 pm
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>>435840

Most of the women I have been with didn't care much for the idea of anal (neither do I, for that matter), if we even talked about it, but I wouldn't say they were phobic about it. One lass said that she wasn't against the idea in general, but that she just didn't see the point of anal sex, when it feels so much more exciting to have a knob inside you in the front as a woman. And I kind of agree that I can't imagine anal feeling as good as vaginal sex, as a guy.

I was with one lass though who was kind of a wrongun. Right the first time we were naked in bed together, she started moving her index finger down my sac and towards my back passage. If I hadn't said, "Please don't do that!", she probably would have given me a proper arse fingering. She actually said, "Hm. Some guys like it". She tried a few more times on other occasions, but then eventually gave up.
>> No. 435848 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>435845

It wasn't really the idea of anal I was considering, more the sudden unexpected and barely lubed rear entry.
>> No. 435850 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 7:58 pm
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>>435845
Well I'd rather a dick in my arse than in my dick hole and I feel like I'm more of an authority on the matter than you are to describe how your imaginary vag feels.
>> No. 435853 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:11 pm
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>>435848

Oh, that actually happened to me once. I slipped and was maybe half an inch up her bum, i.e. just barely. She started laughing and said, "Pay attention here, that's the wrong one!". Didn't really seem to startle her though, she thought it was just funny.
>> No. 435857 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:18 pm
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>>435845
>I was with one lass though who was kind of a wrongun. Right the first time we were naked in bed together, she started moving her index finger down my sac and towards my back passage. If I hadn't said, "Please don't do that!", she probably would have given me a proper arse fingering. She actually said, "Hm. Some guys like it". She tried a few more times on other occasions, but then eventually gave up.

I work with a lass and every single guy she's slept with, I think she was up to 86 at the last count, she's tried putting a finger up their bum. It's her thing. I know she's pegged a few.
>> No. 435859 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:25 pm
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>>435857

Maybe I've shagged your coworker then.

The world's a small place, you know.
>> No. 435861 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>435859

Sounds like I have, too, or there's just more like that than we think.
>> No. 435863 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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Honestly I find it shocking how few blokes will let a woman do anything to their arse. Give it a try lads, once you're over the "ooh, it feels like I need a poo" phase it's really very pleasant and intensifies your orgasms a great deal. When they call the prostate the male g-spot they're not joking.

If I was a bird and the bloke I was shagging was afraid of having his arse fingered, or showed that typical macho "Oi, I don't do that!" reaction to it, he'd considerably drop in my estimations. I've had girlfriends who love anal because of just how naughty/degrading/etc it is, not because of physical pleasure and I've had lasses who will full on squirt if you give their arsehole a finger-ramming. It can still be exceptionally pleasurable for a woman, you may not realise it but you can still stimulate their g-spot with an appropriate angle through the vaginal wall. They're barely an inch apart after all.

Life is too short to be a boring shag, lads. The vast majority of women are bigger slags than you think, and they just don't let on if they can tell you're a bland cunt.
>> No. 435865 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 8:40 pm
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>>435863
Most men are mincing faggots. It's kind of sad.
>> No. 435868 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>435863


What is wrong with simply not wanting a finger up your arse. And not because you're conflicted about your sexuality and worry that admitting to getting pleasure from it exposes you as a closet poof who'd really rather have strapping gaylads love and cherishing up his backdoor all day. But because it is just something that you either don't fancy, or simply feels a tad uncomfortable to you.
>> No. 435869 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>435863
A finger up the bum is just weird. I've taken a fair few bummings in my time but there's something a bit bizarre about a finger up there.
>> No. 435870 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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>>435868

>love and cherish

HA. That's a word filter I genuinely didn't know.

Bit tame though. How about "CREAMY WHITE FINISHING SAUCE" or something. And yes, that exists.

https://www.masterfoods.com.au/our-range/sauces-mustards-gravies/finishing-sauces-and-gravy/creamy-white-finishing-sauce/
>> No. 435871 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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>>435869

Nothing wrong with a fingertip to loosen up, unless you've got an arsehole like a broken cat flap.
>> No. 435872 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>435868

There's nothing wrong with not liking it, but I think it's a bit like people who say they don't like spicy food. Most of the time they haven't tried it and don't know what they're missing, but they're usually quite conspicuously defensive about it.

I'm not saying that applies to you, but you know. There's a certain type who would take this post I'm writing right now as a veiled assault on their masculinity and respond by saying I'm the wierdo/poofter for liking the thing they don't.

I do think women tend to like a more sexually adventurous man more, that said.
>> No. 435873 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:33 pm
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I just find it awkward the angle she has to reach around while you're still trying to be doing things and then there's the poop smell and post-coital dirty finger. If she wants to stimulate my prostate she can buy me a buttplug, otherwise it's just too much hassle.
>> No. 435875 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:56 pm
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>>435873

Aneros Progasm Jr. Treat yourself. I accept no responsibility for spunk stains on your ceiling.
>> No. 435876 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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I like it up the arse but in the real world, it's a bit too much of a faff. If you really wanted a protate orgasm out of it you have to plan for it, poo wise. And nothing ruins the spontaneous of a randy finger up the arse than having douched for it 45 minutes earlier, and the alternative (no prep and hoping for the best) is no better. For me it only works in the context of a BDSM relationship where this sort of thing is part of the foreplay, or even the lifestyle in extreme cases.

Like otherlad I do tend not to be sceptical of blokes who say "I just don't like it" because that's like a woman saying she doesn't like clitoral stimulation - undoubtedly true for some, but a vanishing few.

I'M NOT GAY THOUGH HONEST
>> No. 435877 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 9:58 pm
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>>435875
$49.95? Put that much in the bitcoin wallet and I'll find somewhere it's not sold out.
>> No. 435879 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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>>435877

If that's actually a genuine britfa donations wallet and not some kind of April fools joke where I'm dropping btc into the wallet of some ransomware crime gang / cyber pedo then I will. Because you mods deserve a pain in the arse that isn't your user-base.
>> No. 435880 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:14 pm
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>>435879
I said nothing about sharing my ill-gotten donations with the lads and I'm fully stocked on things to shove up my arse. You can buy deleted word filters though. Take your pick.
>> No. 435881 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:17 pm
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>>435879

It's a mod but apparently he's being territorial about it. Frankly I'd spend any money donated on food, myself.
>> No. 435883 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:19 pm
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>>435876

You mean you don't already have a collection of buttplugs with various fluffy tails attached to share with a woman when you get her back to your shed?

Also this is why BDSM people have very good digestive health. Eating a high fibre diet isn't just good for you, it's a matter of good manners when you're with somebody who might want to shove something up your arse at a moments notice.
>> No. 435884 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:26 pm
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>>435883

I tried to buy a Bad Dragon mug once but cancelled it when I realised it was almost $50 for shipping.
>> No. 435885 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:33 pm
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>>435883
Don't mind a bit of anal debauchery but sex people are still disgusting.
>> No. 435886 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 10:41 pm
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>>435876
>it's a bit too much of a faff

This is my thought exactly - I'm much too lazy to be faffing about with bums. It's all about missionary on a Sunday afternoon while a repeat of an inoffensive comedy plays in the background. Followed by a lovely cup of tea.
>> No. 435887 Anonymous
1st April 2020
Wednesday 11:53 pm
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>> No. 435888 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:34 am
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>>435886

>missionary

You fucking sicko, we don't allow that kind of thing around here. Reported.
>> No. 435890 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:18 am
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>>435883

>Eating a high fibre diet isn't just good for you, it's a matter of good manners when you're with somebody who might want to shove something up your arse at a moments notice

I think I happened upon a fetish web site once where they had that kind of detailed information, on what to eat if you were into a bit of poo play.

Just never seemed appealing to me, all that sort of thing.
>> No. 435891 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:59 am
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>>435890
For me there's a switch in my brain, and it's very powerful, the moment there's any shit anywhere near me I'm done with any sex or arousal. I'll never do anal with a burd despite it being a bit of a fantasy, because if you do anal you have to get used to a bit of shit and a smell, even if they've has properly cleaned down there.
>> No. 435892 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 12:15 pm
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>>435890
As someone with bad guts this stuff seems the biggest drawback of being gay for me.

>No coffee for me this morning - I'm getting bummed tonight
>I'd better not have any of that chilli, just changed the sheets

Appreciate that you probably end up only doing the bumming once a week out of obligation but if I ever get confused I'm finding a nice Asian sissy-boy to plough.
>> No. 435893 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 12:45 pm
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>>435892

>No coffee for me this morning - I'm getting bummed tonight


Unlikely things to hear at breakfast.
>> No. 435894 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:13 pm
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>>435891

This is what I meant by the spicy food analogy. If you've never tried anal how do you know there's shit and shit stank involved? I can see why you'd assume that, but it's not actually the case.

The reality is you don't need to douche or anything. Just make sure they'vve had a shower in the past couple of hours and don't immediately need to shit. As long as you've got a good clean shitting habit, poo does not live in your rectum. That's simply not how the body works. That and the fact you want to lube up for anal.

Providing your partner has healthy digestion, your cock will come out clean as a whistle.
>> No. 435895 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:25 pm
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I've been bummed loads of times, never done any special any the the other person has never had shit on their dick.

I've done a fair bit of bumming, never done any special preparation and the only time I've had shit on my dick was when I convinced her to let me visit the chocolate bonbon a few hours after her diarrhea had cleared up; it turns out that a good old spunk up the arse can trigger that off again.
>> No. 435896 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:50 pm
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Wait till you get to jail lads. Your 'prison pocket' will be the best thing you'll ever own in the chokey.
>> No. 435897 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:13 pm
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>>435896
How true is that? I know rape in UK prisons isn't much of a thing, but do flamers enjoy privileges others don't? Like can you use your arse to secure protection from some tough lads?
>> No. 435898 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:15 pm
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>>435896

>Wait till you get to jail lads

I am not sure I've ever considered a criminal career that would put me in that situation.
>> No. 435899 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>435898
You don't have to engage in a criminal career. You can do something once and purposely get caught if you like.
>> No. 435900 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>435897

No m8.

Smuggling.
>> No. 435901 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:32 pm
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>> No. 435902 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:47 pm
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These things facinate me, there's a healthy market for them, and you can find them for searching for things like "HMP phone" on Amazon, even though the sellers aren't allowed to use that phrase anymore. A lot of them have interesting features advertised front and centre, like that they have voice changing software or can be charged via a 9v battery.

Their days are numbered, however, with increasingly sophisticated (or just increasingly invasive) body scanners. I think they just straight up X-ray your torso now.
>> No. 435903 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:57 pm
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That got me looking for small phones on ebay, I didn't realise they were that tiny, could be useful to have one to chuck in a bag as a backup.

Love this mockup.
>> No. 435904 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 4:00 pm
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>>435900
Ah, boring. I have no use for a dumb phone and I'm not interested in selling anything to other inmates.
>> No. 435905 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 4:09 pm
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>>435904

When you're inside, you will suddenly wish you had taken an interest in those things. This kind of thing is what separates the prison peasantry from the prison middle and upper classes.

Contact with the outside is vital to maintain your sanity, and if you're in for any decent length of time you're definitely going to want something to give you bargaining power with other inmates. If you go to prison expecting to just get your head down and do your time, you're going to find it very rough indeed.
>> No. 435906 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 4:49 pm
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>>435904

They do sell tiny smartphones, too. They're a bit bigger but nothing you couldn't get up there with perseverance.
>> No. 435907 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:01 pm
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>>435906
I'd be more worried about getting it back out and the x-ray machine. I think I'm going to stay on the outside if it's alright with you.
>> No. 435911 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:35 pm
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>>435904

There has been a Kickstarter project to design the world's smallest smartphone:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s-smallest-4g-rugged-smartphone?lang=en
>> No. 435915 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 8:25 pm
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I've figured out what to do as an Arduino project from my parts bin to kill lockdown boredom. And that is a coronavirus case counter.

Pretty simple design, I've got an ESP32 dev board that can access the Internet via wi-fi. Retrieve the current number of cases and deaths via https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ , then print those numbers out on a 1.8'' TFT screen. Refresh every ten seconds. Play a sound when the number has increased since the last refresh. Put everything in a stand-alone module case, powered by a Li-Ion battery from an old smartphone.

Not sure this can be done in one weekend though. These things tend to seem like a piece of piss in your head, but once you're coding and then debugging it, it can take a fucking long time. Only really worth it if this crisis persists for a few more weeks.
>> No. 435916 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 8:39 pm
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>>435915
> Only really worth it if this crisis persists for a few more weeks.

Might as well get a head start then lad.
>> No. 435917 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 9:08 pm
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>>435916

Then again, this device could go on to become a budget homemade weather station. All I'd have to do is tell it to parse information from a weather web site, and then slightly modify the output on the display to show the temperature and chance of rain instead of corona cases and deaths.
>> No. 435918 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>435917

Can you make one to flash up to tell me whenever there is specific new niche porn material uploaded to xvideos? Asking for a friend.
>> No. 435919 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 9:36 pm
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>>435918

Sure. And I'll also tell you my bitcoin wallet ID. Just in case I see you knock one out to pissing leather shemales.
>> No. 435920 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 9:40 pm
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>>435915 Seems like you should do the maths and build a PLL that triggers a 'bong' at the death rate, as best you can. That would be quite depressing.
>> No. 435921 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 9:44 pm
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>>435920

The ESP32 can store 8-bit wav files in flash memory. I've got a 15mm subminiature speaker that could output the sound directly from the ESP32. Not so great sound quality wise, but it'd still be identifiable as a "bomg".
>> No. 435922 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 9:57 am
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Today I'm spending my quarantine with a big buttplug up my arse having a drawn out wank over variously depraved furry porn.

I might fire up a deeply modded Stalker game later. I've not been to the zone for a long while. Feels appropriate.
>> No. 435923 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 10:11 am
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>>435922
Do furries wear fluffy gloves when they have a wank so it feels more animalistic?
>> No. 435924 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 10:32 am
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>>435923

If there was the technology to accurately replicate those beans animals have on their paw pads I'm sure furries would be all over it, but otherwise, no.

Maybe some of the fursuit lot do, but they're mental anyway. It's far too fucking warm to do anything seriously sexual in one of those.
>> No. 435925 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 11:12 am
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>>435924

Outside of a fursuiter, furries wouldn't want to fuck a human.
Inside a fursuit, it's too warm to fuck.

The actual joke here is that it's in the shape of a joke about being "inside a dog".
>> No. 435928 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 6:24 pm
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How do I end up spending £40 here to qualify for free delivery? I don't think I could manage over 250 packets of fish and chips.

https://www.starbargains.co.uk/
>> No. 435929 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 7:06 pm
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120 My Little Pony surprise eggs.
>> No. 435931 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:24 pm
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>>435928
Is there anywhere I can buy a bulk lot of garlic? I want maybe 40 bulbs to start with.
>> No. 435932 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:25 pm
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Preferably some nice organic ones.
>> No. 435933 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:39 pm
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>>435928
Just pay for delivery.
>> No. 435934 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 9:49 pm
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>>435928
Most of it looks total shit or equal/more than what I pay at a supermarket in central London.

That said, ask them what country of origin is for the Milo. If it's Singapore then the stuff is decent and you can bulk a lifetime supply of the best chocolate milkshake powder. Don't let them sell you the Ethiopian shite, it's conclusive proof that companies do dump inferior products in different markets.
>> No. 435935 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 9:56 pm
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Tom Allen is really losing it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yijXwihF75o
>> No. 435938 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 10:21 pm
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>>435934
It's the Singaporean one. Is this the one that's marketed as a health drink over there?
>> No. 435971 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 10:29 pm
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Apparently growing your own tomatoes during lockdown is a sign of being a middle ass ponce.
>> No. 435972 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 10:37 pm
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>>435971
One out of six ain't bad.
>> No. 435973 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 10:42 pm
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>>435972
Stop pretending you don't think Rishi is rather dishi.
>> No. 435974 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 10:18 am
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7th April 2020
Tuesday 11:05 am
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>>435974
That's just what they want you to think.
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7th April 2020
Tuesday 11:57 am
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>>435971

My tomatoes have been growing nicely. The plants are all about ten inches tall now.
>> No. 435977 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 12:10 pm
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Now is the time to work on that Jaguar restoration you've been putting off, lads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-odCQsb7Y

Why does this video make me furious at posh cunts.
>> No. 435978 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 12:22 pm
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>>435977

You don't have to be rich to work on cars and especially not bikes, but I know what you're getting at.

I regret not buying the Datsun truck I saw a few months back, I could have been putting an RB20DET into it right now.
>> No. 435982 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 4:40 pm
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I bought Marmite peanut butter on some sort of mad whim and it's fucking amazing with chilli jam.
>> No. 435984 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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I went out on my bike for the first time in a while and now I feel like someone's kicked me in the gooch. Felt much better for stretching the legs, though.

Also, has anyone else noticed how much louder the birds are now? Fucking ridiculous.
>> No. 435985 Anonymous
7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:08 pm
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Will I ever make a packet of chocolate hobnobs last more than two days?

Every time I have them in, I just sit and dunk them in my coffee in lieu of eating real meals.
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7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:42 pm
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>>435985

As someone who can't make a tube of pringles last more than an hour I respect your self control. I basically had to stop buying crap other than as a very rare treat because I inhale it all almost immediately.
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7th April 2020
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>>435984
>Also, has anyone else noticed how much louder the birds are now? Fucking ridiculous.

That lot are having a right laugh at the moment, the fucking flying cunts.
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8th April 2020
Wednesday 12:46 am
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>>435987

There are clips on youtube where people have filmed the lack of traffic noise and the more audible sounds of nature in city centres at the moment.

I'm actually more impressed at videos of the clear water in the canals in Venice. I was there a few years ago and it all looked pretty murky.

You kind of wonder what long-term consequences the lockdown will have on environmental legislation. Essentially, we're proving right now that life can go on with a fraction of the road and air traffic that we've become accustomed to. I'd be personally pissed off a little if somehow I couldn't go on holiday once or twice a year anymore because there'd be no flights, but I think it could be that governments will become much more restrictive with the amount of driving and flying that you'll be able to do. Again, because we're showing right now that we can live without a lot of it.

And no-frills subsidiary airlines as a business model could be going tits up entirely in the next few years, from what it looks like. I read today that German giant Lufthansa is scrapping its budget daughter airline German Wings entirely, because Lufthansa doubts the future viability of budget holiday airlines as such, if I understood correctly. Other big players are expected to follow suit, probably mainly because of the losses those airlines will suffer during the weeks and months of lockdown, but also because it could take years before demand for no-frills air travel will return to pre-Corona levels.
>> No. 435990 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 12:58 am
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>>435989
> scrapping its budget daughter airline German Wings entirely, because Lufthansa doubts the future viability of budget holiday airlines as such

We had a recent thread where we talked about how easy/expensive/dodgy it was that one with the right access, could lease a tip-top brand new 737 (MAX) for about 2million pounds per month. The reason the airline companies are reacting so quickly is that most of them are trying to hand back those planes on lease to their bankers who own them, get rid of their temporary staff and try and survive with zero business. I have no doubt we will return to pre-virus levels of travel, but the companies doing the front-end business will change.

Also, err lads, thanks to a deal at work I might have a couple of 737s second-hand low mileage if you're interested. AIR GS? Think of the uniforms we could make them wear!
>> No. 435991 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:01 am
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>>435990

>low mileage 

Isn't flight hours the more common measure of a plane's service age?
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8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:30 am
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>>435989

>we're proving right now that life can go on with a fraction of the road and air traffic that we've become accustomed to

To an extent, yes. We need massive sweeping changes to the way society operates in order to make something like this sustainable though.

Pic related. We can't keep this up for more than three months at the absolute most, pandemic or no pandemic.
>> No. 435993 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:48 am
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>>435992

I think there is a potential outcome that loads more jobs will be done from home by default in the future, and face to face work meetings will be via Internet. Companies could save massive money by not having to rent office space that way. And employees wouldn't be stuck in traffic every morning. Companies that offer remote conferencing software are already seeing unprecedented spikes in subscriptions.

Keeping up the not-flying will mean the end of the holiday industry though as we know it today. No more £100 stag dos in Estonia, and definitely no more £500 lads holidays in Magaluf.

You'd essentially have to turn the world into a global eco dictatorship. But seeing how readily people are accepting the coronavirus measures now, it's not unlikely that people would accept that as well. Just encourage people to tell on their neighbours.
>> No. 435994 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:00 am
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>>435993

Problem is all the knock on effects. We're seeing a lot of unemployment just as a result of the service industry jobs that are on temporary haitus. Airline staff and suchlike are largely furloughed. But what happens to the millions and millions of people who depend on tourism for a livelihood if their customers simply never come back?

The only answer is universal basic income, of course. But it's debatable if we can actually afford that if we've had such a crippling blow dealt to the economy, and therefore the tax revenue/stock values/interest rates that waters the magic money tree.
>> No. 435995 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:24 am
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>>435990

Pretty much exactly right. Most airlines operate on a knifes edge and don't really own anything, like that ferry company that had no ferries or whatever.

There are certain airlines that will do better out of this, those that are organised and customer focused enough to already be on top of this, and that operate in clever ways (like having the "airline" and the "holidays" parts of your company entirely separate legal entities). They still have everyone's money as they've just called everyone and asked if they want to go on holiday in winter or next summer instead. From where I'm standing, TUI and Easyjet are the most precarious of the UK(ish) airlines. They simply can't afford to maintain a grounded fleet and so are trying as hard as they can to reduce them. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the big leasing giants when they end up with fifteen thousand airframes back and nobody to lease them to. They were already on dicey ground with the MAX stuff.

>I might have a couple of 737s second-hand low mileage if you're interested. AIR GS?

I'm in, I suppose I'll learn to fly one if the company's paying for it. 737-800s? Or are they desperately trying to palm off 200s and 300s to people?
>> No. 435996 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:26 am
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>>435993

I'm not convinced that working from home works for most people, I don't know about you, but anecdotally and within my company, productivity has hit the floor. Obviously there's more than just being at home that's affecting that, but I don't know if you'll get away with every office, or even most offices, running like that forever, even if it's cheaper.
>> No. 435997 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:46 am
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All I have been doing is uni work, masturbating and playing videogames. I'm quite surprised by how unguilty I feel about this really.
>> No. 435998 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 3:03 am
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>>435996

I honestly think it'll be unhealthy on the whole for most people.

I'm a typical introvert nerd type, but there are two big downsides I can see (and have seen in friends who are doing it). For starters, there's the obvious lack of social contact- A lot of people, especially in middle age onwards, only really see their colleagues outside their own family. It's sad but true, the normal work routine is a vital part of socialisation when friendships start to wane later in life.

Secondly it's pretty stressful if you like to maintain a very distinct work and home life. It's pretty insidious, your living room used to be a sanctuary but now work has contaminated it. Your [ersonal phone used to be safe but now your boss fully expects to be allowed to phone you any time. And bosses will get cheekier asking you to pull extra hours, because after all, you don't have to commmute, you're already sat on the sofa in your pants, where else do you need to be?

In short, I fucking hate office drone work to begin with, but I think I'd top myself even quicker if I had to take office drone work home with me.
>> No. 435999 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 4:22 am
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>>435998

I too am an introvert nerd but absolutely hate working from home, I have never really been able to hack working at a desk at all, despite being a hermit at home and days off, I go mental at work if I can't wander around both physically and project wise. Like you say, even the psychopaths who enjoy office life enjoy the "life" part of it over the office part.
>> No. 436001 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 6:43 am
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>>435996 It's not helped by people having kids at home, which you'd imagine wouldn't be the case long-term.
I've been partly w**king from home for years, always with an office / lab I can go in to, but I rarely feel an urge to physically meet the other fleshbags. Possibly because I always can, it's just not necessary. I reckon our team of 6 is running at about 60% with everybody at home, and that's pretty much due to childcare. The actual work and work rate, probably at 90%, which would be sustainable.
>> No. 436002 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 9:54 am
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>> No. 436003 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 11:48 am
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>>435997
Excessive masterbation was the first thing i stopped during lockdown. I guess it was more of a coping mechanism against 'society', whatever that means. I've long known i don't actually enjoy wanking, but i didn't realise why i do it. The thought of a massive wank session seems like a colossal waste of time now, whereas before it was more about biding time.

>>436001
>w**king
Well, you got me.
>> No. 436004 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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Someone has posted about the work's break room coffee machines, and how they miss paying 25p for a shit coffee, and everyone has been posting the order number they like. I'd never have imagined missing that fucking machine, that made every drink taste a bit like bovril, or the banal, daily discussions on which is the best thing to order - 34, coffee with milk and extra sugar, "sort of tastes like a latte", 44, the mocha, but only get it from the left machine because the right hand one makes it too bitter. Someone has commented on how I'm the only person they've ever seen dare try the soup from it.

It's odd what you end up latching on to as part of your work's culture, isn't it.
>> No. 436005 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 12:49 pm
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>>436004
It's quite nice, has the same ring to it as that apocalyptic adtunes trope.
>> No. 436006 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:08 pm
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>>436003

I really wonder how you're supposed to go about meeting a sexual or romantic partner at the moment. You're essentially going to have to break the lockdown rules because you're of course not supposed to get close to another person that doesn't live in your household already.

There was something in the paper the other week about a lad in Spain who was stopped by police on a routine check, and he was arrested for violating the lockdown, because he truthfully told police that he was on his way to have sex with his girlfriend, who doesn't live with him. I think he had to pay something like a £500 fine and was let go.

Spain seems to be taking the piss really right now, there are reports that they stop you on the way back from the grocery store, and it won't be good enough if you can show them a bag full of groceries, no, they want to see your receipt, and if you cannot present it to them, you are again slapped with a fine.
>> No. 436007 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>436006
>Spain seems to be taking the piss really right now

They love a bit of fascism. They get off quite lightly compared with the likes of Germany and Italy.
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8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:24 pm
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Online bookmakers seem to be getting a little desperate due to the lack of sport at the moment, I can't wait for what they're calling one of the BIGGEST DAYS ON THE FOOTBALL CALENDAR, the BELARUSIAN CUP SEMI FINALS. Who will triumph in the clash of the titans between Shakytor Soligorsk and Dynamo Brest? I'm pissing my pants in anticipation, I'm telling you.
>> No. 436009 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:29 pm
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>>436008
I'm more of a Partizan Minsk fan, solely from being able to pick up Vyacheslav Hleb for peanuts on FM2007.
>> No. 436010 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:30 pm
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>>436006 Since (I assume) you're not a bonobo with unusually good typing skills, how about abstaining for a few weeks? It'll probably not kill you.
>> No. 436011 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>436009

Hleb was a good buy, he's still no To Maderia though.
>> No. 436012 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:33 pm
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Bit of a tangent, but on the topic of substitute sporting entertainment, this made me laugh:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/04/nascar-driver-loses-sponsor-after-rage-quitting-an-iracing-event
>> No. 436014 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 3:01 pm
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>>436008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI4FB-QKqI8

Can't wait for PaddyPower to acquire the rights to Marble Racing tbh.
>> No. 436015 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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>>436012

Reminds me of my childhood playing Super Mario Kart on the SNES with my dad when he would throw the controller at the TV in a blind rage yelling "fucking waste of fucking time!" after being hit with consecutive red shells just before the finish line. Ah, memories.
>> No. 436016 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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>>436012
Honestly I've been watching some of these e-sports and IRL pro driver events lately and they're as bad as most Forza public lobby races with how dirty they are. I don't know about his specific race, but you also see some inexplicable moves in oval racing anyway. Like it's calling "turn left" for a reason, just pick a lane and stick to it if your only other option is murder/suiciding half the field. Anyway, Bubba would have been better off joining a pre-existing league race. Or he could get his baps out and play Animal Crossing or whatever the current in-demand streaming title is. He has my sympathies regardless, as if you'd been wrecked in a real-event you wouldn't be expected to rejoin the race with no hope finishing anywhere but dead last.
>> No. 436017 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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>>436015
It's a real shame people play like this with their kids. I found the most fun was when we're neck an neck, fighting to overtake one another so i'd perposefully hit the brakes every so often jsut to keep that moment - an the enjoyment - going.
>> No. 436018 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 5:33 pm
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>>436017
Games aren't about having fun; they're about winning.
>> No. 436023 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:08 pm
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I should have bought weights whilst I had the opportunity to. Now they're all either out of stock or inflated in price.
>> No. 436024 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:16 pm
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>>436023

Same, I had planned a home gym shed for a while, with weights, a rack and a turbo trainer for the bike. Some of that shit I could have got for free on gumtree a few months ago, now it's an impossible dream.

I am just doing bodyweight/prison exercises now.
>> No. 436025 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:20 pm
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>>436024
It's way too late in the year to be buying a turbo trainer. Get outside, lad.
>> No. 436026 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:40 pm
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>>436024

I was thinking of ordering two 20kg bags of cement and using those.
>> No. 436027 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:43 pm
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>>436025

I can only go outside once a day and potentially that may also be cancelled. It would also (normally) be much cheaper to buy a trainer at this time of year.
>> No. 436029 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:47 pm
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>>436027
Complete tosh. It only makes sense to stop going outside on a particular day if you've been stopped by the police.
>> No. 436030 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 2:49 pm
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>>436027
And you might be hard pressed to run into a copper unless you live in that London.
>> No. 436031 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 3:10 pm
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>>436030

Are you kidding? Every other car on the road up here at the moment is a rozzer.
>> No. 436032 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 3:17 pm
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>>436031
All the more reason to get out there and stop hiding indoors like a fanny. We need heroes like you to avoid a police state. Exercise is explicitly allowed and being on a bike is the perfect alibi. Get out and enjoy the weather.
>> No. 436033 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 3:27 pm
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The rozzers are more interested in your shopping trolley anyway.
>> No. 436034 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 3:46 pm
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>>436032

I go out cycling every day, but I'm not about to fucking do zone 5 intervals down the high street am I?
>> No. 436036 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 4:29 pm
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Going without sex? Being completely isolated?

My training is finally paying off. Can't miss bonking if you've never done it and can't miss friends if you've never had them.
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9th April 2020
Thursday 4:33 pm
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/08/how-are-you-celebrating-easter-in-lockdown-coronavirus


Go on .gs, share this year's Easter experiences with Guardian readers.
>> No. 436039 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>436034

a) find a hill
b) sprint up that hill
c) repeat until you vomit
>> No. 436040 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 5:02 pm
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>>436039
>A 12-year-old boy claims to have scaled the equivalent of Mount Everest without leaving his house by going up and down stairs 2,507 times in under 24 hours.

>Seth Charles, from Sheffield, set himself the challenge after the virus outbreak meant he had to rethink a planned climb of Scafell Pike. He was hoping to fundraise outdoors for a boxing training trip in the US. Seth's mum Rachael said he started the stair climb at 05:30 BST on Tuesday and finished at 04:45 the next day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-52227352
>> No. 436041 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 5:26 pm
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>>436040

This is a thing people (used to) do outside and they call it 'everesting'.

I suspect in this case it's like the time I did laps of the pool for my 5000m badge - I doubt I was counting properly and nobody cared enough to challenge me.
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9th April 2020
Thursday 6:43 pm
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>>436040
Just look at the state of that carpet. I'm inclined to believe him.
>> No. 436043 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 9:21 pm
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Fuck it, i'm going swimming tomorrow. It's exercise and i spend the vast majority of my time alone anyway.
>> No. 436044 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 9:28 pm
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>>436043
Pool's closed.
>> No. 436045 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 9:35 pm
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>>436044
Is the ladder blocked? Try and stop me.
>> No. 436046 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>>436041

We did 1000 metres in PE in school once. Year 11 or 12 or something, I can't remember. I was in decent physical shape, but my time over 1000 metres was dismal. I came just about as close to a heart attack as you can get as a younglad at that age, but then when I got out of the pool and asked the teacher what my time was and what kind of a mark I'd get for it, he said, "You're more than three minutes over the maximum allotted time, so that means you've failed, I'm afraid". So essentially, I fucking swam 1000 metres for nothing. Just sitting on the bench refusing to swim at all would have had the same result.
>> No. 436047 Anonymous
9th April 2020
Thursday 11:39 pm
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>>436045
Should have just not replied, newlad.
>> No. 436054 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 10:39 am
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I was planning on working today but they've decided to scrap overtime for the foreseeable future so now I'm just laid in the same pair of pants I've had on since Tuesday trying to muster up the energy to go for a shower.
>> No. 436056 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 11:42 am
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>>436054
Why bother? Lots of people have to ruin their lives for this privilege and it's been handed to you on a plate.
>> No. 436058 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 11:53 am
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>>436056
It's time and a half and it gave me an excuse to spend some time away from my kids.
>> No. 436059 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 4:01 pm
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>>436058
> gave me an excuse to spend some time away from my kids.

If we survive this shit mine's going on a gap year. I don't care if he's only five, it'll make a man of him.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>> No. 436067 Anonymous
10th April 2020
Friday 9:34 pm
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It doesn't feel like Easter.
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10th April 2020
Friday 10:58 pm
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>>436067

Apparently all the chippys have had queues around the block tonight. I didn't even know they were still open, other than for delivery.
>> No. 436094 Anonymous
11th April 2020
Saturday 2:14 pm
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>>436067
Does it ever? What does Easter actually feel like?
>> No. 436096 Anonymous
11th April 2020
Saturday 2:26 pm
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>>436094
Bashing one out to the Caramel Bunny before falling into a chocolate induced coma and eventually waking up to find Indinana Jones on the telly.
>> No. 436097 Anonymous
11th April 2020
Saturday 3:28 pm
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>>436096
By that logic all of lockdown has felt like Easter then.
>> No. 436102 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 2:38 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpfvTdR5-U

I'm not sure it does the early 80s younglad existentialism of the original version justice. Even if that's indeed your very own song you wrote back in the day.
>> No. 436103 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 8:21 am
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Did Jesus commit suicide after he was resurrected? He seemed to nope out of there pretty fast after coming back to life.
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12th April 2020
Sunday 9:44 am
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>>436103
Christians always disappoint me with their poor counting skills. I'm sure his resurrection was the second coming and he just goes and does a Lord Lucan after that, suicide is a sin and contrary to natural law, of course. Is Jesus still fugitive somewhere?
>> No. 436105 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 10:48 am
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>>436103

He went up into the sky to be with his old man. Or something.
>> No. 436107 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 12:18 pm
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Ever since lockdown began I've been farting a lot less and the ones I'm doing are far less pungent.
>> No. 436108 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 1:13 pm
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>>436107
Less junk food perhaps? Are you cooking more for yourself?
>> No. 436109 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 3:31 pm
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>>436103
He is one of only two figures in Biblical cannon to be assumed directly into heaven while still alive. He exists there still, writing his difficult second coming.
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13th April 2020
Monday 1:16 am
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>>436109
I'm curious, is he flesh and blood and muscles and bones and skin and nails and guts and hair up in heaven, or did JC somehow transcend all that? I've been watching too much Vocar od Dibley recently.
>> No. 436114 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 2:47 pm
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I think I have been overwatering some of my chili plants. They have started losing a few leaves at the bottom.
>> No. 436115 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 3:07 pm
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They've just had Fearne Cotton followed by Scott Mills on Radio 2. I'm not sure about this.
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13th April 2020
Monday 3:45 pm
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The great egg harvest is upon us just as I had anticipated. Small Maltesers eggs with a chocolate are 75p, big ones with 3 chocolate bars are around a pound less but I expect the price will tumble as the days go on.

I recommend the giant Yorkie egg which is enough to you wired on sugar for a week. They didn't fuck about on the egg thickness either which is most important.

>>436115
I find it hard to be critical of Fearne Cotton when I know that I'd happily piss up her arse and come back for more. It really undermines any point I'd make.
>> No. 436117 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 5:08 pm
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>>436114
Chillies are native to central America, try to give them a climate like they might have there.
>> No. 436118 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 5:18 pm
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>>436116
Fearne Cotton is a bit too bird-like for my taste. Plus, in about 10 years she'll start looking like Laura Kuenssberg.

I went to Sainsburys earlier and they had shitloads of Easter eggs left. Thinking about it, when I went shopping last week they were already reducing them quite heavily. I'm chalking this up to grandparents and the like not buying them because they wouldn't be seeing their grandkids before Easter. There was also shitloads of people waiting in the separate queue for the Argos collection in-store without realising and nobody telling them they were in the wrong place; they weren't best pleased when they found out.
>> No. 436119 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 6:33 pm
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>>436118
>Plus, in about 10 years she'll start looking like Laura Kuenssberg.

How dare you besmirch the good name of Laura. Green, take this man out and flog him!
>> No. 436120 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 6:42 pm
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>>436119
As long as the stick is made of oak.
>> No. 436121 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 7:18 pm
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They're both very beaky.
>> No. 436122 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 8:23 pm
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>>436118

>Plus, in about 10 years she'll start looking like Laura Kuenssberg.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
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13th April 2020
Monday 9:15 pm
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Please send help. Or more hard drive space. Also tissues.
>> No. 436127 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 10:24 pm
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>>436123

About a fortnight before the lockdown I stocked up on external USB hard drives. I regret nothing.
>> No. 436128 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>436123

I first read that as 290TB, and was about to post something like, mate, you really need help.

2.9TB is fine though. In times when a downloaded ten-minute full HD clip of a lass wanking someone off can be up to 200 MB in size. I still remember when I first bought a 500GB external hard drive because my built-in 250GB drive could no longer handle my rapidly growing collection.


So what are your favourite hiding places for your porn hard drives? Living here on my own, I don't need to hide mine from anybody on a day to day basis, but whenever I leave my flat for a week or two on business or on holiday, I try to get creative, so that if something happens to me on that trip, like a plane crash or just an accident that puts me in a coma, it's not going to be something that will easily be found by someone going through my stuff. Or something that burglars will just grab while they ransack the place. For example, the last time I was gone for a week, it suddenly occurred to me that the canvas on the underside of my livingroom sofa has a zipper, and that that way, you can hide all manner of things inside the sofa. It's not a place many people will probably look, and even if the sofa gets sold off after I've suddenly died in an accident, it could remain in there for many years.
>> No. 436129 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:03 pm
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>>436128

Just use FDE like a normal person paranoid lunatic.
>> No. 436130 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:04 pm
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>>436128

I'm not bothered about who finds my porn when I'm dead. I'll be dead innit, I won't give a shit.
>> No. 436131 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:06 pm
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>>436123
I deleted my few-hundred MB of webm porn about a year ago. Really liberating.
>> No. 436132 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>436129

I've experimented with it, but I haven't quite gotten the hang of it and don't trust it. Yet. I'll have to see if I will look into it again the next time I'll be going away for a while.
>> No. 436133 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>436130

Tell that to Jimmy Saville
>> No. 436134 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:22 pm
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>>436133

I can't, he's dead.
>> No. 436135 Anonymous
13th April 2020
Monday 11:39 pm
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>>436133

Nothing in my porn collection is illegal. I just tend to keep quiet about some of my more niche sexual interests and predilections. Maybe I've just not met the right sexual or romantic partner to live out those fantasies, but I'd rather keep them to myself. And that's why I get creative when it comes to hiding my collection.
>> No. 436144 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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I desperately need to go grocery shopping. Tonight's dinner is fried onions with tomato puree and rice, and a dash of parmesan cheese. My mum always says a good housewife can whip up dinner with the last edible bits from the back of the cupboard, but this is now kind of pushing it.
>> No. 436145 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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I'm guessing it's a pauper thing, but quite a few people I know seem fixated with trying to recreate McDonald's meals at home.
>> No. 436146 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 7:37 pm
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I confess there was a time when I couldn't walk by a McDonalds without popping in for a banana milkshake, but really I think these people have simply never learnt to put thinly sliced lettuce and a gherkin on their own burger. I swear slicing the lettuce properly is the best thing you can do for a burger, but people in this country are just the shittiest cooks alive. I fucking hate them all, at least with regards to their cooking. Alright, I'm getting carried away, but with just a bit of effort the entire nation could stop eating like complete shit in a matter of days.
>> No. 436147 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 8:04 pm
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>>436128
>So what are your favourite hiding places for your porn hard drives?

There's a folder titled 'Radeon ReLive' that was automatically created in My Videos, it's empty but has a sub-folder inside titled 'porn'. It ended up there was because I was watching movies on a long train journey and felt embarrassed having the folder so shamelessly on display.

Less than 1.25GB altogether and just for if the internet isn't cooperating. Mostly nice stuff like that girl who tries to play piano for a bit beforehand or homely girls with pleasant music in the background. Only reason I keep it hidden is because I don't want a bird seeing it one day and reading too much into my porn. And there's a ladyboy video
>> No. 436148 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 8:21 pm
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>>436146
If I get it stuck in my head then so do you.


>in 2006, former band member Martin Rycroft was poached from his bar-tending job to take part in the Channel 4/E4 show Boys Will Be Girls,[5] where three former male popstars (including Russ Spencer from Scooch) tried to convincingly create a new girl band by former Brother Beyond star Nathan Moore.

Good old Channel 4.
>> No. 436149 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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>>436148
The song they did for that series actually wasn't bad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlrPgRNy0qs
>> No. 436151 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 9:40 pm
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Check out how much cum I've saved up. It smells like cider that's gone off.
I think my home-brew went a bit wrong.
>> No. 436152 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 10:46 pm
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>>436151

Sort of takes away from the pleasure of having a wank when you always have to remember to aim your shot into a bottle, I would think.

I usually just knock it out into a wad of toilet paper or paper towel and then just flush it. In the current crisis, I have also used cloth tea towels.
>> No. 436153 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 11:04 pm
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>>436152

Aim? I just leave the bottles open in the room and have at. The bottles fill, the problem is washing away all the rest.
>> No. 436154 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 11:30 pm
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>>436152
I just wank on the toilet.
>> No. 436155 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 11:45 pm
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>>436152

These are the words of a man who's never had a phase of trying to pop it right up their bird's nose.
>> No. 436156 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 1:06 am
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>>436152

I just eat it
>> No. 436160 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 7:42 am
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When lockdown ends they should let me start every day at 8am, take half an hour for lunch and leave at 3:30pm.
>> No. 436170 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 11:53 am
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>>436160

Are we still talking about wanking?
>> No. 436173 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 12:17 pm
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>>436170
When are we ever not? It's safe to assume that just about all posts on here are about onanism.
>> No. 436174 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 1:03 pm
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>>436173

Well we certainly have no shortage of wankers on .gs.
>> No. 436184 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 9:20 pm
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I've been struggling a bit the past couple of days - I think it was Easter that threw me off balance a bit, so that coming back to "work" this week just feels odd.
>> No. 436201 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 1:27 pm
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>>436184
I'm finding it hard to enjoy the weekday evenings and weekends. When your work desk is in the main living room it's hard not to associate that room with work...that's life in a small flat for you. Also both I and my fiancee living in that same small flat is difficult - hard to get me time.
>> No. 436206 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 4:05 pm
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>>436201
Same here on all counts. She also wants to do absolutely everything together whereas I would rather amuse myself/be bored which is a bit of a struggle.
>> No. 436209 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 5:11 pm
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>>436201

I've been working almost entirely "home office" for over a decade now so I'm kind of used to it, but it's the fact that not even my weekends are punctuated in any real way now that's really starting to fuck with my head, I think.

Today was the first day of this whole thing where I've woken up with a real sense of psychological / emotional malaise, I think that while reading those old threads in the archive has given me some great laughs it's also really fucked with my psyche.

My life is basically exactly the same as it was five or six years ago, despite almost everything being completely different. It still doesn't matter who I'm shagging as I'll still be moping and "in love" with whoever I'm no longer shagging, I'm still always depressed, I still hate my life, and to top it all off I'm going to watch a year of my life spin past while I sit indoors and get fatter, balder, and older and there's very little I can do about it.

Tinder has always been a fucking wasteland but with this lockdown it's managed to get even worse. For every girl looking to actually go out or meet up there's now ten or twenty who are just looking for attention while they're stuck indoors, without even counting all the cunts using the "swipe from anywhere" function meaning that half the lasses aren't even from anywhere near here but hundreds or thousands of miles away. If I wanted to chat to a lass from halfway across the world I'd get in a time machine and get on Yahoo! fucking chat.

Sage. I fear I am indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
>> No. 436210 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 5:32 pm
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My girlfriend has suddenly got very clingy and needy over the past day or so. We are getting on better and having more sex but yesterday she wouldn't leave me alone when I was trying to work and I need my own space now and then to unwind.
>> No. 436212 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 7:31 pm
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Looks like we'll be stuck in Blighty this year altogether. I was tentatively beginning to look at hotels in Sardinia because that's a really nice place to go on a summer holiday, I went there with my parents as a weelad.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52328756

>Tui and Jet2 Holidays have cancelled all flights and package holidays until mid-May and mid-June respectively while the likes of BA, Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet have grounded many of their planes and furloughed staff in response to the travel restrictions introduced by countries around the world.

I guess we'll be lucky if we get to go to Blackpool this year and shag a local lass in a pub toilet
>> No. 436213 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 8:12 pm
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>>436212

The plan for (what is left of) the airline/holiday industry is to offer you your summer package but in winter, at attractive rates, they will be offering bargain basement prices on tickets in a desperate attempt to get something that looks like their summer schedule (traditionally the profitable part of the year) in winter.

Most of the canaries are still hot in november, I'd have a go then.
>> No. 436214 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 8:44 pm
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>>436210
I think you should tell her straight, tactfully. You love her, you enjoy spending time with her, but you don't want to fall out with her, and you just need your space, you aren't angry with her and you appreciate the attention, etc. etc.
>> No. 436215 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 12:41 am
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>>436213

Southern Sardinia is also still nice in autumn, at least according to tripadvisor.

It says Cagliari still gets 23 degrees in October.

Might also be loads of African boat people there, but oh well. Unless you go and have a bonk on the beach at 3am, I doubt you will run into any of them.
>> No. 436216 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 1:05 am
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>>436213

>The plan for (what is left of) the airline/holiday industry is to offer you your summer package but in winter

Good luck with that. If the travel industry is operating anything more than a skeleton service before the end of the year, I'll eat my hat.

>>436214

>I think you should tell her straight, tactfully.

Hahahahaha.
>> No. 436219 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 2:38 am
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>Good luck with that.

Ordinarily I'd say you're right, but people are already going fucking mental about being indoors, those lucky enough to still have jobs at the end of this will absolutely be fucking off to Spain as soon as they can.
>> No. 436220 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 3:33 am
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>>436219

I don't expect the government to lift international travel restrictions until we have a vaccine - allowing foreign travel massively increases the risk of a secondary epidemic and just isn't a priority relative to relaxing domestic lockdown restrictions.
>> No. 436221 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 7:49 am
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>>436220
Indeed. As an Island we really should be excelling at this quarentine business.
>> No. 436222 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 9:22 am
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>>436221
We still have incoming flights with the passengers being completely unchecked.
Matt Hancock says this is because we already have high infection rates, so why bother?
I'm just curious; if the government were still pursuing the herd immunity strategy but just pretending not to for public relations sake, what would they be doing differently right now?
>> No. 436227 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 12:52 pm
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>>436222

It's still a difference between having a few flights a week trickling in, or hauling thousands of package tourists to and from Majorca, Tenerife and Santorini every single day during the summer season.

I'll say the lockdown will be with us at least into early July, and by that time, there will be so many people out of work and unable to afford a holiday that the whole season will be more or less cancelled. Add to that the fact that many hotels will be out of business as well.

The tourism industry will be one of the hardest hit by the crisis, because holiday travel is a non-essential good or service. Unlike things like groceries or your family car, going on holiday is something you normally only do when you've got some extra money to spend that isn't needed elsewhere.
>> No. 436228 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 1:33 pm
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>going on holiday is something you normally only do when you've got some extra money to spend that isn't needed elsewhere

Debt is the new normal. Loads of people fund holidays on credit.
>> No. 436229 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 1:43 pm
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>>436228

Yes, but unless you're a complete chav who shouldn't be trusted with money in the first place, if you've got any credit line at all, you will probably use that for other more urgent things at the moment, e.g. if your car needs a brake job or your washing machine is broken.
>> No. 436232 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 2:06 pm
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>>436227

>Unlike things like groceries or your family car, going on holiday is something you normally only do when you've got some extra money to spend that isn't needed elsewhere.

Nah m8. For many working class types, The Holiday is the entire objective of a year's worth of work. Savings are put aside for The Holiday above all else, even above The Big Telly.

It's not that you only go on holiday when the money isn't needed elsewhere. It's that you only don't go on holiday if something truly tragic has befallen your family and you had to spend The Holiday Money on it out of desperation.

Yes plenty of people do it on credit, but when you're poor credit and saving up are effectively the same thing, the only difference is instant vs delayed gratification. You get a loan out for The Holiday and pay it off over the course of the year. Then the next year, you do exactly the same thing.
>> No. 436236 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 4:30 pm
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>>436227

If "infection rates are already so high we needn't bother" then we may as well keep the package holidays going. Fuck it, why do a lock-down at all? It's almost as though they're paying lip service to keep up a pretence of some sort.
>> No. 436242 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 7:54 pm
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>>436236

Sweden seems to be going that route of saying fuck a lockdown. The results are mixed, with plenty of scientists saying that the wisdom of that decision is doubtful.
>> No. 436243 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>The results are mixed
https://www.zmescience.com/science/sweden-coronavirus-16042020/
>> No. 436244 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 10:23 pm
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>>436242

The Nordic countries are much more heavily socialist than us, so they probably see it as an opportunity to lighten the pension bill a bit.

They're big on civic duty, that's why most of them still have a national service, so you can see the oldie taking it on the chin for the rest of the country; unlike here where the old people are selfish ungrateful cunts who never do anything for us.
>> No. 436247 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 10:46 pm
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>>436244

>unlike here where the old people are selfish ungrateful cunts who never do anything for us.

They did wipe your arse and change your nappies when you could still barely locate your own peepee.
>> No. 436249 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 10:50 pm
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>>436247

Yes, because they chose to have children. You don't get kudos just for dealing with the consequences of your actions. Nobody's giving me a medal for feeding my dog.
>> No. 436250 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 11:08 pm
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>>436249

>Nobody's giving me a medal for feeding my dog.


No, but you also don't normally wipe its arse, do you.

Maybe I'm an exception, but I can only say that I am massively grateful to have had the kind of parents that I did growing up. They cared about their children and made their entire lives revolve around mine and my brother's wellbeing.

There are days when my parents drive me up the fucking wall, and I get really tired of some of the arguing we sometimes do, but on balance, I'm there for my parents, and I am prepared to drop what I am doing at a moment's notice to come to their help when they really need me.

When your parents become frail and elderly, I believe it is your moral duty to give back and look out for them. Then again, maybe it's easy for me because I just happened to have parents who were never selfish cunts as such, a bit of occasional boneheadedness notwithstanding.
>> No. 436252 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 1:36 am
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>>436250

I'm the same. I had really nice parents who did everything to make sure my siblings and I grew up happy and had a decent education. I think that shapes your perception of parenting a lot, whenever I see people who are absolutely adamant they don't want kids or who are dismissive of parenting in general, I tend to assume (rightly or wrongly) that they came from an unhappy family. And likewise I could never conscience abandoning my parents in their old age, I understand that sense of duty.
>> No. 436254 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 2:09 am
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>>436252

It's not really that, it's just that plenty of old people are amazing (grand) parents and treat their family well; but they're still more than capable of being the moaning cunt who holds you up at the post office because they don't want to pay for another stamp, or nearly careers straight into you on a roundabout because they stubbornly refuse to admit they're getting on a bit to keep taking the Rover out.

Not passing judgement on either of you, but I'd say I've observed that some people seem to hold a value system wherein loyalty to your family is a virtue above all else, whereas some people grow up and learn that you can have as much, even more, in common with people you don't share a drop of blood with. Water of the womb and all that.
>> No. 436263 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 2:49 pm
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>> No. 436264 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 2:53 pm
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>>436254

>seem to hold a value system wherein loyalty to your family is a virtue above all else, 

It is though, really.
>> No. 436265 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 2:54 pm
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>>436264

What if your family are a shower of cunts?
>> No. 436266 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 3:53 pm
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>>436265

The apple still doesn't fall far from the horse, you know.
>> No. 436267 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 4:36 pm
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>>436266
>The apple still doesn't fall far from the horse

What?
>> No. 436268 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 4:39 pm
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>>436263

Whatever will she do next? Go into a coronavirus ward and shake everyone's hand?!
>> No. 436269 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 5:03 pm
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>>436267

A rolling stone is worth a thousand words, you know.
>> No. 436270 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 6:12 pm
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>>436264

I don't know, maybe it was a hundred years ago. But we have moved on. I fail to see why sharing DNA with somebody makes them inherently more valuable to you.

Families are just the modern tribal unit. Small minded people understand the concept of selflessness, but are only able to apply it to those within their most immediate circle, and unable to conceive of the other humans they share a society with as part of the tribe.

If you're going to be a parent I believe the best way to do so is within the context of the traditional nuclear family. But beyond that I don't see intergenerational family "loyalty" as anything of particularly intrinsic value.

This is how you end up with those "wolf dad" knobheads who wear t-shirts proudly announcing their intent of violence against anyone who touches their daughter, because he wishes above all else that he could knob her, and has unrestrained jealousy of any and all other men.
>> No. 436271 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 11:02 pm
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>>436270
I know this is .gs, but even so, that degree of cynicism is really unpleasant.
>> No. 436272 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 11:13 pm
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>>436270

>because he wishes above all else that he could knob her, and has unrestrained jealousy of any and all other men

Back to reddit with you, adventurer.
>> No. 436275 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 11:30 pm
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>>436272
Reddit won't have him these days. He'll have to make do with 8chan, if it isn't dead.
>> No. 436276 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 12:10 am
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>>436275

Did they finally adopt standards on /r/mensrights?
>> No. 436278 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 12:32 pm
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It's quite nice when it gets to half 12 and you can think "just over two hours and I've finished work for the day." I could get used to this.
>> No. 436279 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:47 pm
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What gets me a little bit about the lockdown is that you're not allowed to go fishing, which is one of my favourite hobbies. It isn't expressly mentioned in the lockdown rules, but apparently people have been fined who went out to fish, and some local councils are really on the ball.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2020/04/17/stay-away-anglers-flouting-lockdown-rules-in-shrewsbury-warned/
>> No. 436280 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:55 pm
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>>436279
Grow a pair and do it anyway.

I mean #StayAtHome #SaveTheNHS.
>> No. 436281 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 2:11 pm
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>>436280
What's cowardly about not wanting to fork out for a fine?
>> No. 436283 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 5:35 pm
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>>436281

Also, you can get banned permanently from a fishing area.
>> No. 436284 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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>>436281
There are more eventualities besides getting fined. If you read your article you'll see some people had the stones to go fishing and the sense not to get caught when a government agent came angling.
>> No. 436285 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 5:50 pm
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>>436278
And by work you mean your school day
>> No. 436288 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 6:26 pm
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Doesn't it rather ruin the tranquility of fishing if you're having to keep one eye open for the river cops?
>> No. 436291 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 6:39 pm
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>>436288
Don't fisher people buy expensive gizmos that do half the fishing for them? I'm sure you can set up a motion sensitive camera.
>> No. 436295 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 7:28 pm
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>>436288

This, pretty much. But I've found that it really depends on the country you're in. I went to visit a friend in the French Rhône Alps once, and we did a good bit of fishing there. Anyway, some of the locals really didn't seem bothered, and they said they didn't have a licence (I paid around 15 quid at a local shop for my tourist licence that would have been valid for eight weeks), and that if you knew which fishing spots to frequent, the chances were quite remote that a flic would come and check you. Which struck me as a pretty nonchalant attitude, if you've ever had anything to do with French police. They're some of the most anally retentive coppers in existence.


>>436291

>Don't fisher people buy expensive gizmos that do half the fishing for them? I'm sure you can set up a motion sensitive camera.

It all depends on how far you want to take your hobby and how deep your pockets are. But in truth, all your fancy expensive equipment will in the end not make a fish bite if luck just isn't on your side that day. The fish doesn't care that you just spent 300 quid on a state of the art graphene rod, with a £150 stainless steel reel with ten bearings, a £20 float, and £15 fluorocarbon line. Most of the time, skintlad ten metres down from you will pull one carp or trout after another out of the water with a £50 rod and reel combo with a cork and a rusty nail* while you get zip. That's how luck works when you go fishing.

You can get a very decent and durable all-purpose saltwater reel for £40-£50, and many different kinds of carbon fibre rod for not much more than that, sometimes much less. You're really only fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

One thing you do notice as an angler who becomes more and more involved in his hobby is that your rod collection just seems to grow all on its own and spread out into all different kinds of fishing techniques, because you just can't resist picking up the latest bargain whenever you go to a fishing supplies shop again. You'll see a £25 trout rod on sale, then the next time maybe an all-purpose spinning rod from last season that's unbelievably only £20, and so on. Or you just want to treat yourself to that £80 surf rod on Amazon that's gotten all those good reviews. And before you know it, your basement is cluttered up with anywhere from ten to fifteen different rods. Which, as you will insist to people that see your collection, all have their very necessary special purpose.


* Don't literally use a rusty nail.
>> No. 436296 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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>>436291
They have sonar devices and little boats that broadcast back to their iPhones a perfect picture of the underwater environment.
>> No. 436297 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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>>436285
Not at all. As long as I do 7 hours from home per day it doesn't matter when. Working from around 7am until around half 2pm, with half an hour for lunch, is so much better than 9 to 5 it's ridiculous.
>> No. 436299 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 8:28 pm
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>>436295

Fishing is much easier with the right gear.


>> No. 436300 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 8:40 pm
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>>436295
You seem to know what you're talking about, so maybe you can answer a long-standing question I've had. A secretary's son used to enter fishing competitions. I always understood that, like you said, beyond a little bit of kit it's basically luck, so how did he keep winning? Was he just entering loads and I'd only hear when he won?
>> No. 436304 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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>>436300

Some of it is tall tales really. Every fisherman worth his salt will tell you about a monster catfish that he once hooked and that got off at the last second, or about that one time he caught four carp in an hour. Nobody wants to admit that a lot of times, you just spend the whole day staring at the water with not even one twitch on your float.

What does go a long way is knowing a bit about your target species. In what part of the water does it live, what does it eat, when does it feed, and how you can fool it into thinking that that worm on your hook is legit lunch. And you do develop a bit of intuition, and some people who are generally good at all things that involve intuition are often also the ones who keep catching a decent amount of fish.

And that intuition just doesn't necessarily come on the back of £600 that you've spent on a high tech rod and reel just because you could.
>> No. 436306 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 11:01 pm
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>>436304
I know he used to actually win these competitions because I sat near her and she'd show the whole office the photos of him holding trophies or whatever, so I don't think it was tall tales.

I guess "intuition over time" is the answer though. Thanks.
>> No. 436307 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 12:10 am
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>>436306

My mate who was into fishing used to bore me to tears spending entire meals talking about nothing but what kind of fish live where and what sort of weather conditions you're likely to catch them, and all the little tricks and adjustments he's made in his bait recipe over time to make his favourite species most likely to bite.

With competition fishing, from what I understand, it's usually just a big watery hole in the ground they dump a shedload of certain types of fish into. The fish are there to be caught, so not catching would be like a professional darts player missing the board completely. In that situation I'd imagine what makes the difference is doing your homework beforehand, so you make sure you've brought the right type of bait and lures etc.

I'd wager it's one of those sports where knowing someone who knows someone, and subsequently greasing the wheels, goes a long way, so you know where exactly the stock are coming from and so on.
>> No. 436314 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 8:06 am
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I think I'm going to give up on the news for a bit. It's all the same thing or bollocks like the Graun having opinion pieces about the lack of females in the University Challenge final. Let me know if I miss anything important, lads.
>> No. 436316 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 9:05 am
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>>436314
>"the news"
>"opinion pieces"

These are not the same thing.
>> No. 436317 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 9:20 am
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>>436316
I know they're not, but that's all there is at the minute. Articles about coronavirus or opinion pieces. There's fuck all else.
>> No. 436319 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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>>436307

> and all the little tricks and adjustments he's made in his bait recipe over time to make his favourite species most likely to bite

That's some of the biggest nonsense you'll ever hear anglers talk about. In theory, yes, certain scents are likely to attract more fish than others. But that's where the science ends and make believe and trial and error starts. And a concoction that will net you many fish on one given day can just as well be a total flop the next time.

One of my fishing friends told me that he swears by plain white bread that he kneads into a dough ball with a few drops of Asian fish sauce. He told me that it attracts predatory fish like perch, pike, or bass in droves. I've tried it a few times though, and the results were slightly disappointing.

You do hear funny stories about people using what you could call alternative baits. I was on a beach in Cornwall once, and there was an angler who told me that he always had good success catching conger eels with strips of raw chicken breast. Which isn't something you'd normally use for most types of fishing. Shark fishing, maybe, as some shark species have been observed snacking on water birds now and then.
>> No. 436353 Anonymous
23rd April 2020
Thursday 11:47 pm
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I'm friends with an entirely insignificant pub singer who scrapes by on the hundred quid he makes a night giving questionable renditions of anything from the Boomtown Rats to Ed Sheeran and Fairground Attraction. He's invited me via zoom to a "special live performance with guests" tomorrow night. I was too polite to turn down his invitation, so now I'll be stuck watching and listening to cover versions that shouldn't be attempted, sung by people with sketchy talent.
>> No. 436356 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 2:16 am
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>>436353

Protip: you can set your Zoom background to be a looping video. Of yourself.
>> No. 436357 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 2:26 am
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>>436353
Turn your camera off. Sit in for a bit at the start, then mute it and do something else. If there are more than a handful of people, just disconnect and if anyone asks your internet died or this week's Windows patch crashed your PC or whatever.
>> No. 436364 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 1:22 pm
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>>436357

>If there are more than a handful of people

I'm not entirely sure how many people he has invited. It would be horribly awkward if I'm the only one who will attend the performance, or if there are maybe just two or three other people, because I'd both feel bad for him, and I'd be put a bit on the spot and would have no real way of excusing myself in the middle of the performance.

I don't think this is a good idea in the first place. I haven't done anything with zoom, but I just recently had a group video chat on skype with a few people, and the sound quality was pretty shit and there were loads of signal dropouts and intermittent audio bandwidth reductions, even on my 10 mbps Internet connection here at home with no other devices drawing data.

I'm just not the kind of person who can say to somebody "Your music sucks and listening to it on a patchy Internet connection isn't the way I want to spend a Friday night, even on lockdown".
>> No. 436365 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 3:18 pm
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>>436364

Zoom truly seems a bizzare way to do this. My mate did a 'gig' on facebook via their live video feature last week. He's actually good though, so had a steady 100 viewers. But at least on that platform you can come and go.
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24th April 2020
Friday 3:26 pm
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>>436364
>there were loads of signal dropouts and intermittent audio bandwidth reductions
That right there is your excuse for hanging up partway through.
>> No. 436367 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 3:46 pm
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>>436353

My sister has roped me and my dad into doing this charity pub quiz thing on Youtube every Thursday, it's a bit of a drag as the host has all the charisma of a wet paper bag and spends as much time begging for donations for "Are brave NHS heroes" as he does asking questions (he even records himself going out to do the clapping thing at 8pm, with the implication that YOU SHOULD BE, TOO), and half the questions are about obscure 90s video games and other shite that my poor old Dad doesn't have a clue about. Honestly, it's made me nostalgic for my local pub and the quiz there with my mates, many of these attempts at lockdown 'entertainment' are painful.
>> No. 436373 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 6:25 pm
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Does this count as the weekend/weekend/day thread? Anyway I've just had pasta with garlic, chilli flakes, rocket and cheese. It was lovely.
>> No. 436374 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 6:32 pm
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>>436373
Every day is a weekday and every day is a weekend now, so I guess so.
>> No. 436375 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 12:25 am
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So the "special live performance" was a bit of a letdown, as expected. There were about 15 of us at the peak, but the sound quality was somewhat mediocre, there were frequent dropouts and stretches where it sounded like your worst mid-2000s feature phone video clip.

Also, zoom terminates a video group chat every 40 minutes in the unlicenced version, so he had to re-send the invites after that time and have everybody log on again.

So in total, he and his "special guest" sang and played guitar for nearly an hour altogether, but then we decided that the sound quality was just too poor, and a remaining group of about four of us decided to just have a bit of a chat about what the coronavirus situation is like at the moment where we are. That bit was actually enjoyavble, and lasted a whole two hours. And I now know about all the latest local developments in Stirling, Maidenhead, and Nunthorpe.
>> No. 436378 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 1:19 am
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>>436375
>And I now know about all the latest local developments in Stirling, Maidenhead, and Nunthorpe.

Knowledge is power.
>> No. 436379 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 9:32 am
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>>436373
It's a good weekday pasta dish - one of my favourites.
>> No. 436395 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 3:38 pm
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Do we have a nationwide surplus of sugar? It seems that loads of shops are trying to sell it very cheaply in multibuy offers at the minute.
>> No. 436397 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 3:58 pm
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>>436395

I think we're having a lopsided supply issue where people have bought all of one thing, so we've got loads spare of another thing that would usually go with it.

All the eggs and flour are gone, because people are picking the shelves clean like locusts, so I'd assume sugar is piling up because the rest of us can't do any baking without eggs or flour. The only other use for it is putting in tea and coffee really.

I do miss eggs. Honestly the whole shopping situation is pissing me off pretty badly. Either there are shortages they're desperately trying to keep covered up, or it's the rest of Johnny Public being selfish pricks.
>> No. 436398 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 5:25 pm
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>>436397

>All the eggs and flour are gone, because people are picking the shelves clean like locusts

Which still isn't addressing the fact that most people's baking skills will be pretty shit, while all the ready-made items like bread, pie and cake are still readily available on supermarket shelves, and bread snobs people who know their way around making a ciabatta from scratch in turn can't get any flour at all.
>> No. 436399 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 5:29 pm
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>>436398

I havent had too much problem finding eggs for the past couple of weeks, but some supermarkets have been switching to putting more of big packs on the shelves, rather than half-dozens.

People are also buying more not because they're stockpiling, but because they're stuck at home so they're cooking their own food instead of getting a maccies or a sandwich from Asda at work, instead of school meals, instead of going out to a restaurant in the evening etc.
>> No. 436400 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 5:37 pm
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Started feeling a bit too cooped up, ordered a load of weed and then ended up getting a fair bit of LSD and some cheeky shrooms. It's great and I'm off my tits but this feels like a massive big slippery slope and I may need therapy when this is all over.
>> No. 436402 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 5:47 pm
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I say all of this shopping thing is the perfect excuse to ditch pre-sized packaging and move, wherever possible, to a pick-and-mix style model.

Just have stacks of empty egg boxes and encourage people to bring their own to refill, for example. Have milk in huge kegs and encourage people to refill their own bottles. If you only want half a pint, fine, just fill your bottle with half a pint.

Things like salt and sugar could come from hoppers (scooping would end badly). Things like bog rolls or whatever don't need bags or packaging at all, just put them in your basket and into your bag.

Obviously wouldn't work for everything, but if even 30% of the stuff we normally get in plastic is reduced, it's better for everyone.
>> No. 436403 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 5:51 pm
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>>436400

I'm starting to understand what Hunter S. Thompson must have felt like. I had a good idea beforehand but having the time, relative freedom and money all at the same time to do a proper binge is new.

I am combating last weeks easter eggs with a bulk order of speed alongside my usual psychoactives.
>> No. 436405 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 7:04 pm
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>>436399
I've had no real issue getting eggs, once the initial panic buying had subsided, until about just over a week ago. Now I'm having no luck with them or pasta again.

>>436402
You've just described scoop and weigh shops. Don't think I've seen one in over 20 years.
>> No. 436407 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 7:26 pm
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>>436400

Are you flying solo and how long are you waiting between trips?
>> No. 436410 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 9:10 pm
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My confidence is shot because I'm too thick to obtain drugs.

>>436402
>>436405

Asda have trialed this kind of thing in a store in Leeds, and Waitrose might have done so in some places. I think it's about 30-40 items, but even my local Sainsbury's has a refill station for that ecover washing up liquid.
>> No. 436411 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 9:28 pm
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>>436402

A global pandemic probably isn't the best time to turn supermarkets into one big salad bar. Packaging isn't pointless waste, it's how we protect products on their journey through the supply chain.
>> No. 436413 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>436411

A huge amount of the plastic packaging we use is unnessecary, it's made from the low-grade oil not good enough to be made into fuel. It's generally not something we used until oil companies used their influence to make it happen so they'd have some way to profit off it.
>> No. 436414 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 9:53 pm
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I got some speed planning to have a really big wank but just ended up doing housework instead. That's fine.
>> No. 436416 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 10:11 pm
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>>436414

This is how you know you're getting a bit too grown up for drugs.

I had that realisation once when I was tripping my balls off on mushrooms, but tidied and cleaned the whole kitchen, and started having thoughts like "Ha, how mad would it be if I went out to B&Q first thing in the morning and got loads of Ronseal, and did the whole garden fence. I'm such a mad lad."

Those are things ordinary people just do, and to me they're the insanity of a psychedelic all nighter. It was a bit of a cold one coming down.
>> No. 436425 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 11:23 pm
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>>436416

>This is how you know you're getting a bit too grown up for drugs.

Good thing though if you notice at all. Some people don't. In a nutshell, that's why you don't see many heavy heroin users make it into their 50s.
>> No. 436435 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 12:55 am
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>>436425

TELL US ABOUT THE ORGONE
>> No. 436436 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 12:58 am
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>>436416

I think I went the other way, at about 25 I realised I was too old for alcohol, or at least for getting drunk. I am far happier and more comfortable winding down of an evening with a couple of lines, the way most people would have a couple of beers. Though it's not like I do it every night, far from it.
>> No. 436441 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 1:22 am
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>>436436
>it's not like I do it every night

Careful there lad.
>> No. 436444 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 1:58 am
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>>436441

What I mean is people often have a couple of beers or half a bottle of wine every single night, which is probably worse than just having half a gram every weekend or so.
>> No. 436445 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 2:24 am
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>>436444

>which is probably worse than just having half a gram every weekend or so

In my opinion anyone who says gram in regards to conversations as such above should be strangled in the woods.
>> No. 436446 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 2:32 am
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On my daily government approved walks I've started noticing loads of people skateboarding, so I decided to order myself a cruiser board and start skateboarding again. I never wanted to faff about with tricks but I always wanted to be able to ollie off some stairs or up a kerb.
>> No. 436448 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 2:48 am
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>>436446

Fucking skateboards cunty fuck get a mountain bike smash cunt chops PUNCH IN THE HELMET cunt.
>> No. 436457 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 12:48 pm
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>>436445

What am I supposed to say? Three lines? Half a bag? that means nothing.
>> No. 436460 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 2:59 pm
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>>436446
Annoyingly they've closed up the local skatepark. I bought this deck to cruise around on, along with some green Slimeball wheels for a really retro 80s board.
>> No. 436461 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 5:05 pm
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Piers and PJW had a bit of a cunt-off this morning and the latter went on an epic teary.

Typical Sunday, I guess.
>> No. 436462 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 5:33 pm
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>> No. 436464 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 7:23 pm
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>>436462
You know someone is mega-flustured when they resort to womanish insults.
>> No. 436465 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 7:30 pm
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>>436464
Shut it you saggy breasted tosspot.
>> No. 436474 Anonymous
26th April 2020
Sunday 10:04 pm
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They're definitely trying to tell us something.
>> No. 436483 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 10:10 am
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I think the novely of being at home all the time is wearing off.
>> No. 436484 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 10:24 am
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>>436483
You can still go out. I had a 4 hour walk yesterday to get some exercise and fresh air.
>> No. 436488 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 2:36 pm
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>>436484
>4 hour walk

How dare you. Does Captain Tom's sacrifice mean nothing? Look at this shit they're making him do:


It'll be the front page of the Mail for you.
>> No. 436489 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 2:52 pm
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>>436488
He's going to be the wildcard entry for the final of Britain's Got Talent this year. He'll get tens of millions of votes as fat middle-aged women up and down the country live stream themselves on Facebook going door to door trying to name and shame anyone who doesn't dial in.
>> No. 436496 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 11:23 pm
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Annie Lennox wasn't much to look at even in her heyday, but who knew she's got an insanely hot daughter.
>> No. 436497 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 12:19 am
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Have been occupying myself with fixing up the car while I don't need it for work, though I'm finding myself wanting to spend more and more money on it. It's a BMW Mini so nothing too insane, but I've spent the last two days wrestling with what wheels to get for it to replace the battered and very heavy stock alloys.

I've narrowed it down to a rim but cannot decide if downsizing to 16" from the current 17" is a good idea or not. It'll allow for a taller tyre so more comfort, and a lighter rotational mass means twitchier handling and a little bit more acceleration as the circumference of the whole package will be slightly smaller. But then 17" look better and the new wheels will be significantly lighter than the old ones so either way the weight reduction is there. I probably won't regret either choice and might well not notice the difference in a blind test but it's still an agonising choice when you're about to drop £900+ on new rims and tyres.

I don't know exactly when I became a tedious car bore, but I'm definitely there. I suppose I miss talking about this stuff with the surprisingly large amount of people I work with who are also into some sort of car scene.

Anyone here give enough of a fuck about them to have an opinion on what size wheels an R53 mini should have?
>> No. 436498 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 12:30 am
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>>436497

If you can make it sound like it's a coding issue then yes someone will be interested.
>> No. 436500 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 5:52 am
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>>436497

Purely on an aesthetic level, I've never been a fan of the massive rims trend, especially on retro-modern cars like the new mini. If you're going to put racy wheels on a modern mini, I feel like they should reflect the rallying heritage of the marque and have a useful amount of sidewall rather than a thin smear of rubber.
>> No. 436501 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 8:33 am
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>>436500

That's exactly what I was thinking, just didn't know how to express it, thank you.

I do think the 17s aren't particularly massive on the gen 1, the arches are so wide they sit on them quite well. But you can see how much road damage these things have sustained over their life, I suspect mostly from the crashy ride and thin tyres. Made the mistake of driving to London in this in February and the M1 potholes really sounded like they were breaking the car.

I am considering pulling the whole engine out for a refurb while I have all this free time. It's not something I've done before but what better time to learn?

Anyway, I'll be glad to get these rims off - they are categorically the heaviest OEM wheel for the bimmer mini.
>> No. 436550 Anonymous
30th April 2020
Thursday 10:30 pm
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I've gained nearly ten pounds since the start of lockdown. I should really start doing that one unit of physical exercise a day.
>> No. 436551 Anonymous
30th April 2020
Thursday 11:39 pm
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>>436550
Do it. There are shitloads of free workouts on YouTube and elsewhere. PureGym have frozen my membership fee and updated their free app with hundreds of workouts and scheduled video classes.
>> No. 436553 Anonymous
1st May 2020
Friday 12:50 am
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>>436550
I've gone the other way. My new exercise bike turned up a couple of weeks ago.
>> No. 436564 Anonymous
1st May 2020
Friday 2:29 pm
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I'm in the middle of three hours of meetings. I've spent the entire time with my camera off and mic muted doing exercises. All meetings should be like this.
>> No. 436565 Anonymous
1st May 2020
Friday 3:45 pm
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I was just typing up my shoes for a nice walk and the sky's gone almost black with clouds practically in an instant, real end of days shit. It's nice to look at, but the dogs can do one now.
>> No. 436566 Anonymous
1st May 2020
Friday 4:35 pm
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I'm tired of being celibate, have people started using dating apps for bonking yet?

>>436564
The issue I see is that eventually you will be asked something when you've got bated breath.
>> No. 436568 Anonymous
1st May 2020
Friday 8:22 pm
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>>436566
>eventually you will be asked something when you've got bated breath.
He should be okay as long as he doesn't get too good at bating his breath.
>> No. 436587 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 11:11 pm
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Spent most of tonight aimlessly watching old Mitchell and Webb bits on youtube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQ-_g8KuHI

Mitchell really nails Dawkins's tedious intellectual cunt mannerisms in this one.
>> No. 436588 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 11:17 pm
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>>436587

I met him once, he was very affable but ordered a poached egg on dry toast, which is incredibly sinister.
>> No. 436589 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 11:35 pm
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>>436588

>a poached egg on dry toast, which is incredibly sinister

Truly a heathen. No man of God would do that.
>> No. 436591 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 7:31 am
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>>436588
Poached eggs on toast are the only non-vegan food I miss. A correctly poached egg is a thing of beauty.
>> No. 436592 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 8:43 am
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I was planning on remortgaging this year, which should save around £100 per month. My existing mortgage is with Nationwide but when I've approached them they'll only let me borrow up to 2.5 times salary, which isn't enough for what I need. I'm assuming this is because of coronavirus potentially fucking the market up because I'm earning more than when I took the mortgage out and this would make it even more affordable.
>> No. 436593 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 11:06 am
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>>436592

Yeah, I can see the banks fucking everybody over in the next few years. Prices are going to take a pretty hard knock and then the banks are going to clamp down on their lending, which will only make things worse.

It's going to be shit because I've only just scraped together enough for a deposit, with no help from loaded parents like most of the people I know, and I'm still going to be stuck renting an overpriced flat. To use a phrase I try my best to avoid, fuck my life.
>> No. 436595 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 1:28 pm
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>>436593

If you're on the buying end in the property market though, you are going to be able to get a house at a bargain price not seen in the last five or six years. You might even get lucky and buy one at a repo auction for a fraction of its market value. A friend of my mom's bought a buy-to-let flat at an auction in the early 2010s at around 65 to 70 percent of its fair value, which was already much lower than what you would have paid at market at least until the beginning of this year. While we're going to have to see just how much prices are going to go down in the aftermath of the corona crisis, that property was cursorily valued by an estate agent earlier this year at nearly three times what my mom's friend paid for it, and it's not even in a prime location.
>> No. 436597 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 1:51 pm
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>>436595
Yeah I think the same - the next year is going to be a very good time to be a first time buyer.
>> No. 436600 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:01 pm
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I've become a sideways computer guy. I can see right inside it; looks ace. I'm disgusted. At least now I can use more of my desk and plug stuff into the back of it.

Exhaust fan blows right onto my fingers too.
>> No. 436601 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:02 pm
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>>436600
Are you seriously suggesting your desktop is actually on your desk?
>> No. 436602 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>436601

Not him but what's wrong with that? It let's less dust in. Do you put yours in that handy little cupboard that came in your desk?
>> No. 436603 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:36 pm
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>>436601
Yeah, it's just over 20cm wide and slightly under 40cm long, so it's not massive. Having it up here means less cable nightmares and if I ever own something with a type C connector then I won't have to lean around the back of the PC or drag it out of its cove when I want to plug or unplug it. Now I can watch all the little thingies inside go spin-spin-spin all day too.
>> No. 436604 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:39 pm
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>>436602 It sits in a soundproof rack in the next room, with (long) cables to my desk.
Who on earth would waste precious desk space on a PC? Even as a monitor stand they're annoying.
>> No. 436605 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>436601

It worked for RM in the nineties, why not for him?
>> No. 436608 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 11:13 pm
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What an everyday solution that's not at all over the top. Also what kind of jet aircraft have you built that it needs a soundproof rack while living in another room. And what's in that room? Is it just your PC? Do you have to go into the other room to power it on? I think you're making this up or you're insane. Maybe both.
>> No. 436609 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 11:27 pm
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I feel like we're back in the 90s.

Please tell me these desktops are a pleasing shade of beige.
>> No. 436610 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 12:17 am
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>>436608

It used to be the standard in recording studios back when noisy 80mm fans and spinning rust were the only options. Before computers came in, you'd keep your multitrack tape recorder in an adjacent room because they were noisy buggers. The problem these days is with cable length limitations; modern high-bandwidth IO standards like USB 3 and DisplayPort really struggle to go more than five metres without expensive and finicky active extenders, so it's usually cheaper and easier to build a quiet (or even fully passive) computer and use a NAS for your bulk storage.
>> No. 436611 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 12:47 am
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>>436610

In my old flat I had the luxury of putting my computer in a little side-cupboard, which meant I could record in near silence despite my relatively beefy gaming machine. I don't think such a practice is over the top at all, you can build a very nice quiet PC nowadays but if you have any reason to value actual silence, it's never quiet enough.

That said, the quieter you manage to get things, the more you notice what noise is left. It can be utterly maddening when you fall down the rabbit hole, and I spent about a month of trial and error getting the fan curves as low as possible on my current build. Ironically, thanks to the PC being so quiet now, the white noise and extremely slight 60hz hum from my monitors seems infuriatingly loud.
>> No. 436612 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 1:37 am
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>>436611

Noise quality is more important than absolute noise levels IMO. Good quality 140mm fans sound quite pleasant even at fairly high RPMs because they make a smooth low-pitched I need a humour transplant, but a tiny amount of coil whine can drive you absolutely berserk. Dead silence is a bit of a fool's errand because transformers, inductors and even ceramic capacitors will make faint but annoyingly high-pitched whines, so I've learned to settle for a consistently low level of pleasant noise.
>> No. 436613 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 1:57 am
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>>436612

Yeah, I definitely agree. The trouble is when you come to record something that needs a decent amount of gain on a nice condenser mic, for instance, you'll suddenly realise your comfortable level of noise actually sounds like you're trying to record with a passenger jet behind you.

Of course this is what recording studios are for and why recording at home will always have its limits, but nevertheless. I often find myself caught in such futile pursuits for the best of both worlds.

What was that word filter again?
>> No. 436614 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 2:29 am
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>>436613

It doesn't necessarily work for podcast/streaming/v.o. stuff, but I just run a multicore to another room. Living room for vocals, wardrobe for totally dry vocals, bathroom for electric guitar, shed for drums. You can use your phone or tablet as a remote DAW controller over wifi, so it isn't nearly as clunky as you might imagine.
>> No. 436615 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 2:43 am
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>>436614

>You can use your phone or tablet as a remote DAW controller over wifi

This is some newfangled wizardry I was completely unaware of. But then I am still using an ancient version of ProTools 8 or 9, which I'm reluctant to upgrade from because I don't want to have to go through the hassle of obtaining all my totally legitimately acquired Waves plugins again.
>> No. 436618 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 7:13 am
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>>436608 Technically, it's in a corridor. Since it's mostly running VMs that I can access from anywhere, there's no real need for it to be next to me, so it isn't. And yes, it's an unreasonable machine - I've mentioned it before, 4U, 40 cores, 512G RAM, etc. It idles at ok-but-noticeable but at full throttle it's unpleasant, and I don't want all that heat in my office.
No I don't have to go into the rack to power it on, it's on an Ethernet connected power switch, as is everything in that rack.
I'll absolutely accept that it's an edge case (but I've had lesser machines shoved outside my office in the past, too. Cables are cheap, and I've never been keen on heat and noise.)
Compared to the pain of making a regular PC silent, routing a few cables through a wall isn't necessarily daft.
>> No. 436619 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 11:57 am
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I spent a lot of money making my first DAW PC silent, and rack mount, it was a nightmare as it was a sealed case with fucking sound padding so the thing was running so hot all the time and you could still hear a whine from the PSU. Now with there being so many gaming focused cases and fans and such, I find that a relatively large tower with massive airflow and big fans that can run at low rpm, I just don't need to worry. I can run my CPU coolers two 140mm fans and maybe one of the eight case fans all at 800rpm and I can't hear them unless I have a high gain mic pointed right at it - and even then since they're identical fans at identical speeds, a very tight notch filter removes the problem with zero impact on the sound.

If I wasn't willing to make that compromise, one of those vocal booths you stick your head in would absolutely be cheaper than chasing silence.
>> No. 436626 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 6:39 pm
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I've found it increasingly common that I won't be arsed to do anything during the day and catch up in the evening when I'm much more productive. Is anyone else having this? I don't mind it so much if only I could actually have the workday off.
>> No. 436627 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>436626

I've always been like this, and any "creative" person I've ever spoken to seems to agree. I don't know what you do for a living but it' probably a similar thing. I need to spend a good portion of the day bumming around the house watching Youtube in my pants and eating cereal, then around 8-9pm I'll start feeling like working on something productive, and once I'm into something I'll be at it til the sun comes up.

Naturally this is fine when I'm not at work, but it's properly shit when you are. Some people are just night owls I think. Our religious adherance to the 9-5 routine is one of the things that pisses me off most about society at large.

We've had to change our hours where I work for the covid, and I only ever hear moaning off the middle aged cunts that have never known differently, because they think getting up at 7 is part of the fundamental laws of the fucking universe somehow. Whereas personally I'm loving the new hours, we do longer shifts but get more days off, and I wish they'd carry on after it's over.
>> No. 436628 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 7:47 pm
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>>436627

One of my mates is a self-employed video editor and almost entirely works from home, except for when there's an international sporting event and ITV or the BBC hire him to work on-location. He's told me that his most productive time of the day is the evening hours, and that he often pulls allnighters and then just sleeps in until three o'clock in the afternoon. He's also worked in live prime-time television, but apparently that was too stressful although the hours were similar, and he now mainly does contract work, i.e. somebody will commission him to edit an episode of a programme and then he'll send it back to them a few days later.
>> No. 436631 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 9:43 pm
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Please stand for the new national anthem:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJg2pkG4BN8?start=60
>> No. 436633 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 9:45 pm
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>>436627
>>436628
Yeah, you've got it to a T. Sadly I'm stuck between being unproductive at home and 9am meetings as my team are a quartet of horrid post-humans who go jogging at 6. No idea how I'm going to handle having kids as I rarely got myself to school on time.
>> No. 436639 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 8:56 am
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After weeks of lockdown lie-ins, I have naturally reverted to getting up at normal time for going to work, without an alarm clock.

Not sure I like this development.
>> No. 436640 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 10:45 am
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>>436639
Your circadian rhythms have been overwritten by the capitalist machine.
>> No. 436641 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 10:48 am
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Just wanted to explore the knowledge and histories of Ancient Eire and I get this filth. Horrible, just horrible.
>> No. 436642 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 10:54 am
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>>436641
I don't think I've ever wanted my nads hot and bothered, nor have I ever desired a steamy clit or a woman with a rock hard body.
>> No. 436646 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 12:06 pm
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>>436642
Sort of intrigued to see what she looks like, but I've never been on pornhub and don't really wish to start now.
>> No. 436648 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 1:07 pm
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>>436646

>but I've never been on pornhub

Why? Is it a moral decision or are you just being contrarian? Do you have other porn sources or are you some luddite weirdo who still uses their imagination?
>> No. 436655 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 8:04 pm
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The neighbour facing my window keeps doing aerobics in her pants with the curtains open. It's a bit weird making a cup of tea when, in the corner of your eye, someone is doing pelvic thrusts at you. Very troublesome indeed.
>> No. 436656 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 8:15 pm
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>>436655

Could you set up a webcam? Asking for a friend.
>> No. 436657 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 8:31 pm
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>>436655

Is she fit, or is she one of those exercising grannies?

Not much point in practicing your pelvic thrusts though if you're 70.
>> No. 436658 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 9:16 pm
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As of today there are roadworks on my road. All day long multiple cars have driven up and have had to do a u-turn. Optimistically, I thought that they must have not made it clear enough. I was wrong, these people have driven around 3 signs telling them that the road ahead is closed.
>> No. 436659 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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>>436655

I used to have a young fit neighbourlass who, every day without fail, used to go into her room fresh out of the shower, dry herself off and then proceed to spend ten minutes brushing her hair in her mirror and going back and forth in her room completely stark naked - all with the curtains completely open.

I never figured out if she thought that window was unobservable, if she was some sort of exhibitionist, or if she simply just that comfortable in her body and didn't give a shit who saw it.

Sage for rambly blogness.
>> No. 436660 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 9:38 pm
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>>436657
Must be in her 20s, decent shape with a nice pair. We're not even talking a small window but a pretty big and clear one.

I'm trying not to be a wrong'un, a woman should be able to exercise in her home, but today I seemed to have had an awful lot of things to do near the window. I can't take much more of this, give it a week and I'll either be peeking through a hole in my blinds or have taken up bird-watching.
>> No. 436661 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 9:40 pm
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>>436659
I used to live opposite someone who would regularly get out of the shower and get dressed without closing the curtains.

I also caught him shagging his girlfriend in their living room. It was dark and they had venetian blinds but the silhouette of her riding him in an armchair was unmistakable.
>> No. 436662 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>436661

A friend had an elderly lady living straight across on the other side of the block who would always watch him through the window. So at some point, he got tired of it and decided to pull the curtains wide open and dance a little jig for her, in the nude with his cock flopping about. I think that was the last time he ever saw her at her window.
>> No. 436663 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 1:09 am
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>>436659

I live in a third floor flat, but the living room window looks out into the courtyard and all the flats face each other. With the lights on and curtains open anybody can see in. I wouldn't say I'm an exhibitionist but I've always just felt that looking in somebody else's window is rude, so if someone on the street looks into my living room and gets a dose of cock shock it's hardly my problem.

That said, as a lass I'd imagine you'd be at least a bit more concerned about pervy old men taking photos through a zoom lens or something. Being comfortable in your body is one thing, I feel like that's more of a deliberate show off.
>> No. 436672 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 9:12 am
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>>436663

>as a lass I'd imagine you'd be at least a bit more concerned about pervy old men taking photos through a zoom lens or something

Then again, how likely is that. Have you ever heard of anybody actually doing that?
>> No. 436673 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 9:35 am
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When I was younger I was walking home from college and I heard a tapping at someone's window. I turned around and it was three lasses, probably about the age of 15, with their tops pulled up pushing their bras against the window and smiling. I'd probably get locked up these days for looking and giving them a thumbs up back.
>> No. 436677 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 12:04 pm
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>>436672

I'm not going to bother but if I was arsed to go look through the sex offenders register I'm sure I could find someone doing something like it pretty sharpish. In fact I wouldn't need to do that, there will be a website out there full of pictures captured this way as someone's fetish.

Even regardless if it happens or not, lasses nowadays are conditioned to be alert to the constant presence of seedy perverts, which all men are. Remember when there was an outrage about upskirt photos after selfie sticks turned out to be a pervert's dream invention?

Come to think of it I'm going to have to go have a look. For research.
>> No. 436678 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 12:36 pm
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>>436677

>lasses nowadays are conditioned to be alert to the constant presence of seedy perverts, which all men are.

I'm a man and I am not a seedy pervert. Thanks for the sweeping generalisation.
>> No. 436679 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 12:39 pm
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>>436678
Mate, everyone who posts here is a seedy pervert. Why do you think that IYKWIM is the most commonly used acronym on the site?
>> No. 436680 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 1:10 pm
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>>436679

Do speak for yourself.
>> No. 436681 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>436678

If you spent less time looking through women's windows you might recognise... Uhm. What's the word for it when you ridicule something by saying it and the other person is just meant to know you're making fun of that idea? I can't think of it because I'm too busy concentrating on voyeur porn.
>> No. 436682 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 1:18 pm
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>>436681

Iran... Iranians... something like that... I have it on the tip of my tongue but can't think of it now.
>> No. 436689 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 2:03 pm
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>>436679
Exactly, we don't even bother with the "AITYD" bit because it's a given.
>> No. 436697 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 3:35 pm
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>>436672

It's almost as if you've never seen a topless celebrity in a red-top newspaper before.
>> No. 436700 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 4:06 pm
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>>436697

A random lass doing pelvic thrusts behind a curtainless window isn't automatically a celebrity, you know.

Boob shots of celebrities mean hard cash if you find a tabloid rag that'll stoop low enough to print them. But nobody is going to pay you money for the same shots of your arguably-fit neighbour Charlotte who works at Asda. You'll probably even get nicked as soon as you distribute them in any way, shape, or form.
>> No. 436701 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 4:12 pm
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>>436700

>You'll probably even get nicked as soon as you distribute them in any way, shape, or form

They're not for distribution they're for wanking, lad.
>> No. 436704 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 4:54 pm
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>>436701

I think there are sites where people upload all that kind of stuff.

A friend told me.
>> No. 436714 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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>>436700
> A random lass doing pelvic thrusts behind a curtainless window isn't automatically a celebrity, you know.

What, exactly, does that have to do with pervy men taking photos of said lass through a telephoto lens? Naked pics of attractive women are always a commodity in their own right. The internet is utterly chock-full of photos of random girls in various states of undress.

Christ, cracking one off to Karen from HR's holiday pics on facebook is practically a national sport; do you really think that there's not a substantial amount of men who'd like a set of high quality full frontals of their fit neighbour to spaff over?
>> No. 436716 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 9:33 pm
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>>436714

>Naked pics of attractive women are always a commodity in their own right. The internet is utterly chock-full of photos of random girls in various states of undress.


Maybe that's because that just isn't my kind of fetish, but why do that, when there's literally exabytes of porn on the Internet of lasses that knowingly and willingly spread for the camera so that you can see all the way up up to their kidneys.

Maybe I'm just different, but I never got the whole voyerism thing. And guys doing secret unsolicited upskirt shots of somebody minding their own business on a bus back from work just really seem incredibly sad to me.


>cracking one off to Karen from HR's holiday pics on facebook is practically a national sport

Not saying I haven't rubbed one out to an attractive coworker, but I would just really feel stupid having a wank to a picture of somebody I know who unsuspectingly had a lie down on a beach in Ibiza and thought the photo was nice enough to post. Abusing somebody's good intentions in posting that photo just seems wrong.

What I have done is wank to photos of exes that I still had on my computer or on prints, but I don't think that's remotely the same. I'm sure every lass who splits up with a guy half expects that he will keep doing that.
>> No. 436724 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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>>436716
>What I have done is wank to photos of exes that I still had on my computer or on prints, but I don't think that's remotely the same. I'm sure every lass who splits up with a guy half expects that he will keep doing that.

Not voyeurism-lad but that feels a bit wrong in my book. Not just because the pictures were given in a very specific context but because wanking off to your ex feels a bit humiliating to me like you've not moved on at all.

Different tastes for different tongues though.
>> No. 436725 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>436724

>because wanking off to your ex feels a bit humiliating to me like you've not moved on at all.

Do you not have a spank bank filled with sexual anecdotes you experienced with your exes in the back of your head? Where's the huge differene between that and rubbing one out to an actual photo of an ex.
>> No. 436731 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 10:32 pm
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>>436724

I'd say that means you're projecting your own sense of attachment, and that it's literally only you I've ever heard express such a sentiment. It's not like having a wank to a porn model means you have feelings for them is it?

I like a nice wank over an ex, but then again statistically speaking I've gone back and shagged two thirds of mine after the break up. You always want what you're not supposed to have and all that.
>> No. 436732 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 10:36 pm
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>>436731
>after the break up

The murderer always revisits the scene of the crime.
>> No. 436736 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 12:10 am
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>>436716
> Maybe that's because that just isn't my kind of fetish, but why do that, when there's literally exabytes of porn on the Internet of lasses that knowingly and willingly spread for the camera so that you can see all the way up up to their kidneys.

I wouldn't call it a fetish exactly but I will say that human sexuality is all kinds of weird and not everyone gets off to the same things.

> Maybe I'm just different, but I never got the whole voyerism thing. And guys doing secret unsolicited upskirt shots of somebody minding their own business on a bus back from work just really seem incredibly sad to me.

Some people like voyeuring, others like exhibitionism. Some people like a nice bit of missionary with the lights off once a week, and others get their rocks off shagging their fetlife girlfriends up the arse in chipshop toilets in Blackpool.

It'd be a strange world if we we're all as straight-laced as you the same.
>> No. 436745 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 10:11 am
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>>436736

>up the arse in chipshop toilets in Blackpool

nothing wrong with that. What else are you going to do in Blackpool these days.
>> No. 436747 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 3:14 pm
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So uh .. I think my neighbour was just peeking through my window while I was wanking. Time to put some pants on and buy a curtain rail, I think.
>> No. 436748 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 4:30 pm
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>>436747
Sorry lad, I could see you from across the road.
>> No. 436753 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 6:52 pm
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A friend just told me that he had a family holiday booked with TUI for early August, and they've just informed him that there is about a 50 percent chance that that holiday will not happen. He was going to go to a four-star hotel on the Turkish Riviera. They said both flight schedules and the hotel's availability this summer are looking sketchy.

I guess Blackpool it is then, this year. Let's hope their chip shop toilets can take a pounding IYKWIM.
>> No. 436754 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>436753
They might have done him a favour. Everyone I know who has gone on a family holiday to Turkey as hated it. If you've got kids with blonde hair, particularly girls, then they'll get regularly approached by local men. It might be alright for little kids but any older than that and you're seriously risking a diddling.
>> No. 436756 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 12:22 pm
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>> No. 436758 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 12:47 pm
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>>436754
Someone told me about this when he went to holiday in Egypt back in the '90s and everyone kept approaching his daughter, who was blonde, he didn't see anything remotely creepy about it at all though. I've heard Italians can be as bad. Basically men from any country where sexual repression is the normal state of being.
>> No. 436759 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:12 pm
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>> No. 436760 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:14 pm
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>>436758 Are you saying that Italian men are particularly sexually repressed?
>> No. 436761 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:15 pm
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>>436759

Can you not go out screaming in the street about the HERO in your spare room? Make sure you emphasise HERO.

The fucking clapping woke me up last night. These pricks really need to sit down and shut the fuck up.
>> No. 436762 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:40 pm
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>>436754
I've heard much the same. In the 00s it seemed like a thing for women my age to go to Turkey and end up with a husband only for it all to end in tears after finding that marrying into a repressive culture is a bad idea.

This isn't some anti-woman post, at the same time we were flooded with Eastern European women and then got mad that the men came over as well to work menial jobs.

>>436758
Apparently an ex-girlfriend was worth 4 Egyptian camels as a child. Picture me on the last day of our holiday nearly in tears because I wasn't going to get my camels.
>> No. 436763 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:44 pm
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>>436761
The clapping woke her up before her shift too. Unsurprisingly she's non-native. I think this irony might just go over their heads.
>> No. 436764 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 2:53 pm
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>>436760
Yes. Eating momma's spaghetti until you're 40 has a serious effect on this sort of thing.
>> No. 436765 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 7:54 pm
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Because it's ARE VE DAY, the idea of "lockdown" and social distancing seems to have buggered right off. Whole family get togethers in the street, kids playing together etc.
>> No. 436766 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:22 pm
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>>436765
I know a police officer. She's been posting pictures of today with her arm around people she doesn't live with. She's also uploaded pictures before of her having friends around for a barbecue during lockdown. It's a shame I'm not the snitching type.
>> No. 436767 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:26 pm
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>>436761
Will we have the clap until the last corona virus has died or will it stop if the lockdown is ever lifted?
>> No. 436768 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:45 pm
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>>436766

Grassing on the police doesn't count as grassing, it's like killing a mass murderer, it's basically fine and definitely justified.
>> No. 436769 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:47 pm
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Socialising with strangers on VE Day would be a lot nicer if after an ninety minutes or so I could say "lovely speaking to you, I'm going now" and not feel like a bastard. Instead it's all or nothing. The people up the road have been out since about ten this morning, just say on their drive; insanity.

Also I think Graham Linehan's about to go Fully Moaty so if you one of you would tell him how good I thought Black Books was I'd appriciate it.
>> No. 436770 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>436765

There was a load of them in my street sat in a circle of camping chairs. They were all sort of half halfheartedly separated into family units but really not by much. They also put bunting up, which makes me uneasy. Reminds me of the unionist towns in NI.
>> No. 436771 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:49 pm
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>>436769

>Also I think Graham Linehan's about to go Fully Moaty

He's really fucking lost it and is a perfect demonstration of how cultivating your own echo chamber on twitter can really melt your brain very quickly.
>> No. 436772 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:43 pm
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>>436771
Ah go on.
>> No. 436773 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 11:31 pm
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>>436771

I don't want to have to visit twitter to find out what you mean, care to fill us in?
>> No. 436774 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:07 am
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Technically I think my street's street party is still going on, but it's just one bloke sat in a deck chair smoking in the pitch black dark now.
>> No. 436775 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:14 am
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>>436773

He's having a teary about blokes wearing dresses and not really grasping why / how transgender and queer are different. It's an "old man yells at clouds" moment except the clouds are delusions of a homosexual agenda and the old man is a has-been comedy writer... and also an old man.
>> No. 436776 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:29 am
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>>436775

That's a big cor blimey. He's been losing the plot for years though, and you can tell he's always been something of a misanthrope. That's probably a big reason he was such an effective comedy writer. When do you think was the last time he interacted with anyone who wasn't either a Twitter user or a media industry twat?

The part I find most puzzling about stuff like this is how lacking in self awareness they often seem to be. Like, let's say for instance I privately harbour some less than wholesome views about women. The last thing I'd do is publicly go saying things that conform to years old stereotypes about MRAs. It just gives your detractors easy ammunition more than anything else.
>> No. 436777 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:33 am
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>>436773

He has spent most of his waking hours for the past few years making anti-trans tweets. I don't mean that as exaggeration - he posts hundreds of tweets a day, every day, exclusively on the topic of trans people being terrible. He has now started randomly calling people carpet-baggers.
>> No. 436781 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:36 am
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>>436777

>making anti-trans tweets. I don't mean that as exaggeration - he posts hundreds of tweets a day, every day, exclusively on the topic of trans people being terrible

it's a reasonable question why you would do that. How can trans people offend you that much that you feel you have to devote a sizeable amount of time each day to telling the world how much you hate them.

Fucking repressed bigots. Wouldn't be surprised if he secretly likes to have wanks while wearing women's clothing.
>> No. 436782 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:51 am
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>>436781

He's a terf, meaning he thinks trans women are incompatible with fishing because they used be men, or something along those lines. It's hard to keep track of but it's coming from a supposedly lefty angle, they're protecting women according to them.
>> No. 436784 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:18 am
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>> No. 436785 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:24 am
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>>436781

Short story: there was a slightly transphobic storyline in series 3 of The IT Crowd. Glinner intermittently got shit for it on Twitter every time the episode was repeated and didn't appreciate being criticised for what he saw as just a harmless joke. Every time that happened, a bunch of TERFs popped up in his mentions saying that he wasn't a bigot, he was really a fisherperson standing up for the rights of biological women.

Faced with the choice between apologising for being a bit of a dick or becoming a figurehead for their crusade, he drifted into the latter. He got dragged into a cycle of radicalisation - with every tweet he alienated more moderate people, but gained more encouragement and admiration from the transphobes. He slowly ruined his life and made himself into a pariah, probably without ever realising it, just because he couldn't back down and a small cadre of nutters convinced him that he was a hero for refusing to back down. He has to believe that he's an underdog fighting for justice, otherwise he has to confront the reality that he has trashed his career, his legacy and most of his friendships for no good reason.
>> No. 436786 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:29 am
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>>436782

Ohh, so that's what it is. He's the one behind that /emo/ thread then I guess.

To be fair to TERFs, while their views might not be reasonable, you can sort of understand where their greivance comes from. They've spent decades fighting for women's rights, and then along come these millenials, picking up the goalposts and carrying them off so just any old man can enjoy the hard-won priveleges of fishing too. Which, if you think about it, sort of undermines some of the central conceits of fishing itself, but I digress.

There's also the "transmedicalist" thing, which is mainly old guard trans folk who have spent years campaigning for transexualism to be medically legitimised, and to be recognised as genuine women. Perhaps understandably they find it a bit of a kick in the teeth how nowadays, you can more or less just ask people to use different pronouns because you feel like it, and the job's a good 'un.

They are unlikely but apparently steadfast allies. They were, after all, the "good guys" back in the day, at the top of the progressive pecking order; and they are struggling to stay relevant. If you want a rabbit hole to fall down, I'd reccommend r/gendercritical and a few tins of Tennent's Super.
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9th May 2020
Saturday 3:55 am
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>>436786
I definitely don't think Linehan is mental because he's a TERF, I find it disagreeable, but sane. He's mental because his posting is as rapid as the three of us bartering about how overweight of a woman we'd be willing to shag, but constantly and it's all he's talked about for years. His tweeting has probably exceeded his last ten years of scripts in terms of word counts by now, and that's not healthy or right.

All this because he wrote a daft punchline about how "Iran" and "a man" sound alike.
>> No. 436788 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 5:02 am
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>>436785

Fucking hell - I did always wonder what this stemmed from, and if it was seriously because of that episode of the IT Crowd, that's amazing.

I don't recall it being even that transphopic, more it was taking the piss out of Matt Berry's character for being so aggressively thick.

Anyway, that's made my day. I wonder if twitter had been about a bit earlier, and people had complained more about the dolphin rape episode of Father Ted, if are glinner would be a skinhead by now.
>> No. 436789 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 7:36 am
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>>436788
The joke is that Douglas (like many men) doesn't really listen to women. The implication in the pay-off is that Douglas wouldn't sleep with a passing trans woman, which I suppose would be in-character for the sort of lecherous executive he's supposed to be stereotyping.
>> No. 436790 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:14 am
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>>436786
I swear the caption in that image has been changed. It used to be "And it'll happen to you, too". More evidence of the campaign against white males boomers!.
>> No. 436791 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:28 am
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>>436790

They have cut the quote short which is even more weird because he is making the 'ou' sound which punctuates the end of the statement in that picture.
>> No. 436792 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:44 am
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I hate the term TERF because I feel like it has evolved in a way that the R is misused. It obviously stands for radical, but radical in this context has nothing to do with being trans exclusionary,that isn't the radical part, it means they belong to radical fishing movement, but we don't use the term radical to refer to radical fisherpersons anymore (RF being fishing that belives in all encoupasing systermatic processes, like the patriachy and intersectionality).
>> No. 436793 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:59 am
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>>436792

That's probably another example of the Internet muddying the waters again I think. TERFS are definitely radical with a capital R, it's just that thanks to the Internet primarily exposing us to, shall we say, over enthusiastic 3rd wave types, we've come to think of all fisherfolk that way. The reality of it is that the majority of real life fisherpersons just don't want to pay tax on their tampons or whatever.

When was the last time we heard about declining salmon populations? There was a brief period where that's all you heard about. It went away more or less by itself, because it was a blatantly and inherently ridiculous concept and the people pushing it were fruitcakes.

Honestly I'm starting to think the Internet was a bad idea. Or at least, the open public forum parts of it like Twitter were.
>> No. 436794 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:28 pm
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>>436793

>Honestly I'm starting to think the Internet was a bad idea

It was a bad idea in that loopy headed shut ins with abrasive radical ideas that nobody used to pay any mind now often enough have centre stage to spout their nonsense and create fake news.

And it creates a false sense of their numbers. In the olden days, you were simply your village's idiot, you were that one person in your environment who wasn't quite right in the head, and your nonsensical tripe did nothing but raise an eyebrow or two and had no consequences. But what the Internet has allowed every idiot in every village on the globe to do is to unite with all the other fellow idiots. And so if you get an Internet shitstorm that's 200 people strong, that might seem like a big number, but that sort of harks back to the days when an angry mob of 200 villagers with torches and pitchforks was a real threat to anybody. In the global village of the Internet, 200 vociferous modern-day village idiots is quite precisely 0.0000000027 percent of the world's population. Whatever opinion two hundred angry shitstormers hold is not even well described by the word insignificant.
>> No. 436796 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 8:00 pm
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I just went to Homebase just to get an O ring for the ballcock mechanism in my toilet's cistern. The water inside it kept running in an audible trickle for the last few nights, which drove me absolutely nuts. The toilet itself has a shutoff valve, but just try and get the energy to get back out of bed at 2am when you realise the fucking thing is running.

Sort of bending the lockdown rules there a little bit, but it needed doing. Was keeping an eye out though for DM photographers.
>> No. 436797 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 8:30 pm
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There's hordes of people out on the streets and in the parks again and it feels like the lockdown is pretty much over. It was nice while it lasted.
>> No. 436798 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 8:39 pm
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>>436796
I wouldn't say that's bending the rules.
The official guidance is that you're allowed to go to a DIY shop to get a fence repaired, but not to buy paint to decorate your kitchen.
Despite the intentional vagueness of the rules, repairing something that's keeping you asleep at night and wasting water seems easy to argue as being more essential than repairing a fence.
>> No. 436799 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>436797
I'm reasonably certain the government are just going to fudge the figures and let everyone go about their daily lives again to make sure the arrow on the FTSE is green. Then they'll blame Labour because in 2007 Gordon Brown's lot removed a law that said hand sanitisers in bakeries could have as little as 60% alcohol content.
>> No. 436801 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:23 pm
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>>436799
>let everyone go about their daily lives again to make sure the arrow on the FTSE is green

The general trend has been for the FTSE to go upwards for the past six weeks now. The stock market and the economy are not the same thing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECqDaPjjV0
>> No. 436803 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 11:22 pm
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>>436801 

Stock markets generally look to the future. As far as they are concerned, the virus is already old news. The make or break is now what will happen in the coming year or so. What is certain is that this has been the biggest economic shock to the system since records began. Even the Great Depression didn't see 14 percent of Americans out of a job. Where we go from there is beyond uncertain. But my guess is the markets are going to take another leg down when the corona shock starts to really percolate down into companies' earnings statements. But that should then already be the gradual end of whatever global economic crisis we are still in for. The way these things have always gone, both the stock market and the economy as such should be at higher levels two years from now than they have been this spring.
>> No. 436804 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 11:49 pm
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>>436803

Not you again speedlad.
>> No. 436808 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 12:54 am
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>>436798
I'm pretty sure the DM photographers would be less forgiving.
>"It's for my ballcock!" Local perv carries new "O ring" on public display outside Homebase on VE Day
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10th May 2020
Sunday 12:10 pm
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>>436808

You could probably get kinky with that ballcock O ring. Stick your knob through it, and all that kind of thing.

You can't really see it in the picture, but the inner edge of the old O ring had become porous, and it was allowing water to seep through, and just enough that the ballcock mechanism didn't shut off the feed valve, and you could hear a constant flow of water into the cistern.
>> No. 436830 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 5:31 pm
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>>436815

It'd make a decent ring gag, bit of surgical tubing to tie it and you're good.
>> No. 436832 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 6:19 pm
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We are at that point in the lockdown where everyone just wants to have a cunt-off. Maybe it's the turn in the weather that has caused it.

I hope Boris announces that he's cured it all this evening and we can all just go back to normal.
>> No. 436833 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>436832
Boz appears. "Hello Britain. Jobs done. Get back at it. God save the Queen." Fade to black
>> No. 436836 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 7:07 pm
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>>436788
>>436789
Douglas being an arsehole is indeed part of the joke, but there are also lines in there which understandably sat more uneasily with the trans community - stuff about how April is so easy to date because she is just as much into football as Douglas and so on, the humour of which is predicated on her actually being a man in disguise.
>> No. 436840 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 8:29 pm
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>>436836

Uncomfortable truths they don't want to acknowledge. They'd do themselves a lot of favours if they just rolled with it. I mean really, nobody is expecting a trans woman to be the same as a biological woman. They have been raised as a boy, after all, so with all the good will in the world you can't pretend that didn't have an impact and give them some personality traits you'd usually expect of a lad.

There's prescisely one (1) female Warhammer youtuber, for instance. And as you've perhaps already guessed, she's trans. Which came first, the toy soldiers or the girldick?

She also does fetish porn. Icy Winters. You're welcome.
>> No. 436852 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>436840
This is not how it works. Sorry to break it to you but women do enjoy football.
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10th May 2020
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>436840

>There's prescisely one (1) female Warhammer youtuber, for instance

I wonder why. It's not like men traditional make it hard for women with interests in male dominated hobbies or anything.

>Which came first, the toy soldiers or the girldick?

Oh.
>> No. 436857 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 12:54 am
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>>436840

I'm way ahead of you.
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11th May 2020
Monday 6:38 am
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>>436857
Nicky Morgan?
>> No. 436860 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 9:34 am
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>>436856

I really can't imagine living in such a fantasy world that you think the reason your average woman isn't interested in Warhammer is that men "make it hard" for them.

I'm with you to a certain extent, how some things are traditionally a boy's club despite having plenty of appeal to lasses. But if there is ever a sensible place to draw the line and stop pointing the finger at phantom actual maritime issues, it's definitely toy space soldiers.
>> No. 436862 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 10:20 am
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Even as an adult man I can't imagine going into a Games Workshop (are they even called that now?). It very much feels like a place for lads between the ages of 13-18 and no one else.
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11th May 2020
Monday 10:40 am
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>>436862
Don't forget the seriously afflicted autismos.
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11th May 2020
Monday 11:31 am
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>>436862

I'm rather genuinely convinced that the resurgence of popularity it's seen recently has a great deal to do with the fact you can just buy it online without having to show your face in their shops.

>>436863

Isn't there a thing about trans and autism being linked? Certainly holds up anecdotally, the trans people I know are all programmers and shit.
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11th May 2020
Monday 12:54 pm
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>>436860

I don't know or frankly care enough to think about it too much, but I do suspect that a lot of hobbies are segregated by gender by tradition or expectations, rather than men or women being more suited to it. I promise you I'm not campaigning here, i just know what happens when a lass shows up to a car meet or a bloke pulls out his knitting needles. It's getting better for sure but it's still a thing.

In my experience women seem less interested in hobbies in general, though, so that certainly accounts for some of the bias, but I reckon not all of it. It's still pretty embarrasing to hear how blokes go on when a lass gets on voice chat in a game, I think that would put me off.

Again, I'm not on a soapbox here, it's just what I've observed.
>> No. 436869 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 3:11 pm
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>>436864

They've always had a good online store (it used to be better, before they optimised it by getting rid of the individual bitz service).
I think a bit of the resurgence is due to their community engagement these days, which is a lot better and more proactive. No more leaks on big internet forums as the sole source of info on releases, a lot more licenced games. Especially big hitters like Total War(hammer), which is both the best warhammer fantasy game and best total war game.
>> No. 436871 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 5:51 pm
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I'm not saying that lockdown is getting to me, but I just had a little cry about the demise of Irish porter.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1259872140712644610

When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night –
A pint of plain is your only man.

>> No. 436872 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 7:19 pm
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>>436871
God, TV used to be incredible.
>> No. 436873 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 7:37 pm
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Working from home is great until you actually have a busy workload. I don't much fancy this if it's the future of work.

>>436860
You'd actually be surprised at how many lasses have at least a passing knowledge of the hobby. And not just the Slaanesh worshipping wrong'uns into BDSM. The problem is always the insane upfront cost and, realistically, having nobody to play with unless they fancy getting gangbanged by neckbeards.
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11th May 2020
Monday 7:39 pm
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>>436873
>gangbanged by neckbeards.
That phrase just ruined my evening, but I think I'll start trying to chat up lasses by telling them I can stream Tabletop Simulator right to their home from now on.
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11th May 2020
Monday 7:53 pm
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>>436872
It really is striking when you watch documentaries and science programmes from the 70s and 80s how much things are dumbed down these days.
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12th May 2020
Tuesday 10:51 am
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>>436867

I completely agree. But my hypothesis is that even in a gender neutral utopia where anyone can do anything, I bet you'd still see things like Warhammer slanting heavily towards young lads. Lasses seem far more into D&D, if I wanted to be an armchair sociologist I'd say that's because it's more directly social and less system focused.
>> No. 436877 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 1:02 pm
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>> No. 436878 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 1:57 pm
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>>436873

>You'd actually be surprised at how many lasses have at least a passing knowledge of the hobby

That's pretty meaningless, it's just like saying "You'd be surprised how many lads have at least a passing knowledge of shopping for twigs to put in Kilner jars."
>> No. 436881 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 11:40 pm
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>>436878

>You'd be surprised how many lads have at least a passing knowledge of shopping for twigs to put in Kilner jars

What is it with women and their need to put dead plant matter on display in jars anyway. It's a dust collector and a waste of space. Also, those Kilner jars were made for a purpose, and that purpose isn't to just be there to decorate a whimsical lass's home.
>> No. 436884 Anonymous
13th May 2020
Wednesday 12:24 am
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Just found out Ian Hislop's not even 60. Christ alive, eat your greens lads.
>> No. 436885 Anonymous
13th May 2020
Wednesday 3:32 am
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>>436884

Jimmyla Lawson is six months older than Hislop.
>> No. 436886 Anonymous
13th May 2020
Wednesday 6:11 am
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>>436885

>Jimmyla Lawson

For fuck's sake.
>> No. 436887 Anonymous
13th May 2020
Wednesday 11:50 am
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>>436884

Dara O Briain has looked 50 for at least the last 15 years.
>> No. 436927 Anonymous
14th May 2020
Thursday 1:31 pm
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>> No. 436928 Anonymous
14th May 2020
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>436927

>The angle of the camera makes me feel like I'm four feet tall.

Giantess fetish?
>> No. 436929 Anonymous
14th May 2020
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>436928

More of an ageplay vibe.
>> No. 436942 Anonymous
14th May 2020
Thursday 8:56 pm
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There's an American politician called "Don John Bacon" and I thought you ought to know.
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14th May 2020
Thursday 9:06 pm
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14th May 2020
Thursday 11:46 pm
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>> No. 436956 Anonymous
14th May 2020
Thursday 11:54 pm
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>>436942

Let's not forget about Randy Baumgartner.
>> No. 436960 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 1:01 am
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>>436956
Richard Nelson "Dick" Swett (born May 1, 1957) is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Hampshire who served as the U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 1995. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1998 to 2001.
>> No. 436974 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 10:28 am
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>> No. 437002 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 6:36 pm
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I seem to have spent most of my lockdown waiting for long-overdue parcels.
>> No. 437004 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 4:56 am
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Glinner and the SURF lot are having a field day after the Lib Dem report on their general election campaign found that Jo Swinson's popularity with women fell significantly as time went on, which they're pinning on her pro-trans comments.
>> No. 437005 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 10:15 am
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>>437004

Ell oh ell. Absolutely nothing to do with the fact she had all the charisma of a dirty dish sponge.

There's a certain type of women who look like they belong on a PTA board, and somehow it's actual maritime issues that the British people don't view them as prime minister material. Nobody's saying it was over-fishing that everyone hated Corbyn for being a doddery old man.
>> No. 437006 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 10:33 am
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>>437005
The key findings of their internal review were that they got lost in the hubris over how many seats they could win, based on polling from when May was still leader, so they spread their resources too thinly and nobody was taking Swinson seriously when she was talking as if she could genuinely become PM. They were also hampered by Swinson's decision for a major internal reshuffle after becoming leader which meant that too many decisions were being made by those who had drunk the Koo-Aid, Labour's decision to back a second referendum and also their campaigning shut them off from the majority of people in this country who aren't fervently Leave or Remain. But, nah, they lost half their seats because of a tranny backlash.
>> No. 437008 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 1:09 pm
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>>437006
Doorstep response from friends who are Labour campaigners said the main issue was the absolute lack of clarity on what Labour's position on Brexit was. It was all up in the air with Starmer's Brexit tests, numerous Shadow Ministers each coming out with an official Brexit policy and Labour Conference Resolutions being proclaimed as official policy by activists.
However much I agreed with Corbyn on some things, he was completely incapable of putting together a coherent raft of policies and keeping his team on message. Throwing enough shit until it sticks, or saying enough things to cover any eventuality and its fallout just doesn't cut it with most people. I spent a lot of time reading nominally Labour friendly outlets like the New Statesman and LabourList, and even the confusion from there was telling - let alone Joe Bloggs who might watch the news and pick up or read a newspaper story once in a while.

On another note, did Linehan have a massive bump to the head a couple of years ago, or was there some other cause for the sudden onset of monomania?
>> No. 437009 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 1:24 pm
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>>437008

>On another note, did Linehan have a massive bump to the head a couple of years ago, or was there some other cause for the sudden onset of monomania?

>>436785
>> No. 437010 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 1:27 pm
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>>437008
>the main issue was the absolute lack of clarity on what Labour's position on Brexit was

The lack of clarity over Labour's Brexit position was the main reason the Lib Dems had a horrific election result?
>> No. 437013 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 2:21 pm
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>>437008

Additionally a second referendum is a terrible platform to adopt. Remainers want to chuck Brexit out the window and stay, Brexiteers want to hurry up and sod off but nobody wants yet another fucking vote. I respected the Lib Dem stance of just saying "elect us and Brexit is cancelled".

Labour could have had a good shout if they'd said the same but couldn't because a) Jezza is of the old-school left that is ambivalent at best about the EU and b) they'd lose their working-class Northern voters. Which they lost anyway. Really just a giant cock-up all round, in such circumstances I'd be tempted to forgo the traditional "What Went Wrong" inquiry and just say "Everything".
>> No. 437015 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 3:36 pm
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I just ordered a reclining chair, for the sole purpose of enjoying VR pornography in optimum comfort.

When did you realise that you'd hit rock bottom?
>> No. 437017 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 3:54 pm
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>>437010
I refer you to the fellow poster who correctly pointed out that Swinson had no charisma, but I'd add that challenging Brexit in any meaningful way would just cause even worse division.
Brexit has cocked up British politics beyond repair, and even contesting taking up the mantle of government is a poisoned chalice, because the vote has seemingly fallen to the side that's offering a quick fix, when in fact there are no quick fixes - you can't do a David Davis and turn up to an official meeting without having been briefed properly, but it's an image that shows the attitude of plucky little Blighty up against bureaucrats with their legal documents.
Swinson or Corbyn having a chance against any of that by even questioning Brexit would be pretty long odds. Besides, whether you like it or not, Boris Johnson has been a media darling for ~20 years, and it's hard to challenge such an entrenched view with his various cockups because are Boris is just Boris!
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16th May 2020
Saturday 6:52 pm
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>>437015
>rock bottom

Obviously not that comfortable lad, I'd get my my money back if I were you.
>> No. 437025 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 7:34 pm
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>>437015

I did once nearly order a £250 'blowjob machine' but then I had a wank and decided against it.

I do want a VR headset, and I'm definitely lying to myself about the ratio of games to porn I'll be using it for if I do.
>> No. 437026 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 7:54 pm
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>>437025
Jokes on you blowjob machines are probably going for three times that in lockdown.
>> No. 437028 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 9:12 pm
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The class divide amongst my friends is firmly delineated by either pictures of sourdough bread or pictures of hot tubs.
>> No. 437029 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 9:21 pm
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>>437028

I've never understood the appeal of having a bath in the garden.
>> No. 437030 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 9:58 pm
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>>437029

Birds LOVE IT
>> No. 437032 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 10:39 pm
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>>437030

AW YISS.
>> No. 437036 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 11:35 pm
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>>437032
If only cardinals were endemic to the UK :-(
>> No. 437043 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:17 am
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Why does everyone own their own lawn mower? Wouldn't it make far more sense if there was, say, one mower per set of houses they clubbed together for and shared. The same goes for other items too.
>> No. 437044 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:20 am
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>>437043

Fuck off Corbyn
>> No. 437045 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:33 am
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>>437044
I think he just wanted a lie in.

I always see this retired fella in the village pushing his lawnmower around in the warmer months. He's always in the pub at 2 sharp with his new beer credits. Not a bad way to spend your autumn years.
>> No. 437046 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:55 am
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>>437043

Tragedy of the commons, if everyone owns something no one takes responsibility for it and first one person abuses it, then other people end up thinking what's the point if they are abusing it anyway and end up abusing it too.
>> No. 437047 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:58 am
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>>437043 You're that cunt who always breaks shared / borrowed things, aren't you.
>> No. 437052 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 10:48 am
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>>437043

And yet, why does everyone pay a window cleaner instead of owning their own ladders and squeegees? People are just slaves to convention.

I've just got banned from another (it's okay, there's loads) Labour subreddit for saying middle class people are vermin. I can't see how that statement is anything but objectively correct.
>> No. 437053 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 10:54 am
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>>437052

But if I paid a gardener, I wouldn't own a lawnmower, either.
>> No. 437058 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 1:09 pm
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>>437052

>I can't see how that statement is anything but objectively correct.

That is probably why they banned you.
>> No. 437065 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 4:26 pm
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>>437052

>why does everyone pay a window cleaner instead of owning their own ladders and squeegees? People are just slaves to convention.

You're not going to be happy when you find out about restaurants.
>> No. 437068 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 4:42 pm
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>>437058

Truth hurts I suppose.
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17th May 2020
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>> No. 437074 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 6:50 pm
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>>437065

I think it is nice to have things done by an artisan. I could probably build a table within a day that is 'usable', but probably shouldn't.

But there really is very little improvement from getting a 'professional' to do your windows. Most window cleaners either don't know how to clean windows or are too lazy and just cut corners. Most skip the rinsing stage, so you are left with soap on your window which when it dries leaves stains, or they lack squeegee control which leaves smears.

It really isn't anything you couldn't master it in an afternoon.

Of course nowadays since the EU working at heights directive came in most professionals use telescopic poles a pump and water that has been reverse osmosised to have less than 10 ppm dissolved solids in it, which turns the water corrosive. Broken Britain if you ask me. How could you make a carry on film about that?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWj3Y3cNEyA
>> No. 437075 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 7:56 pm
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>>437074

Back in the day the window cleaner did get a good eyeful of my girlfriend riding me. We were only 15 or 16 at the time though.
>> No. 437076 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 9:00 pm
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>>437073

I can't believe they're still keeping this up. How long before they're self flagellating and sacrificing children Wicker Man style?

Fucking pricks.
>> No. 437079 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 11:24 pm
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>>437076
Just need that 5G technician.
>> No. 437083 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 12:34 am
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>>437079

Do you want to maybe stop spoiling the ending to the Doctor Who episode "the clap" I started writing in the other Corona thread? K thx.
>> No. 437116 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 3:53 pm
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>>436592 here again.

As Nationwide are playing silly buggers I've remortgaged with Santander. A slight delay in waiting for the verification codes in the post but since Thursday they've reviewed the application, had it approved by their underwriters, valued the property and made an offer.

If coronavirus is making this efficient it can continue for a little while longer.
>> No. 437147 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 1:02 pm
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I've gained about a stone since the lockdown started. Fuck.

I was going to get in shape to buy myself a new suit for a good friend's wedding in July (even though they are now considering postponing it), but now I've moved even further away from the kind of shape I set out to get into a few months ago.

Have you lads noticed any weight gain from the lockdown on yourselves or others?
>> No. 437148 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 1:17 pm
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>>437147
After noticing weight gain I stopped eating breakfast and have been sleeping longer which seems to have kept me in a normal-ish weight. My dad did the same a few years back and the weight fell off him.

Get yourself some redbush for the morning.
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19th May 2020
Tuesday 1:30 pm
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>>437147
On the contrary, by cutting out my commute the lockdown has finally given me the time to exercise. I've lost a kilogram or so (or a few pounds in old money, if you insist), have a noticably thinner face, and where my arms were sticks they are now sticks with slight bumps.
>> No. 437150 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 2:21 pm
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I wish I was a Roman Emperor so I could have cocked up just the once and been stabbed to death, instead of over and over again with no end in sight.
>> No. 437151 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 2:21 pm
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>>437147
Lost about 10 kilos because I'm a contrarian and I used the lockdown as a reason to start going outside more often.
>> No. 437153 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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>>437151
I bet you can't stop touching your face either.
>> No. 437156 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>>437153

And he was probably spotted by the DM buying frowned-upon items.
>> No. 437157 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 4:33 pm
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I've stayed at exactly the same weight but have been doing weights and now fit comfortably into some shirts that were getting decidedly tight. Is this plausible? I have kept up my daily routine of walking for >1 hour and don't otherwise feel that different.
>> No. 437158 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 5:05 pm
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>>437157

Muscle is more dense than fat. If you've gained muscle and lost fat, you'll be thinner without being any lighter.
>> No. 437159 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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>>437158
I've read that it's difficult but not impossible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. Presumably as a beginner this is slightly easier, because there's more fat to burn and more muscle to gain? Or should I just not bother attempting this? I'm trying to eat less in total, but also increasing the proportion of protein.
>> No. 437164 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 7:47 pm
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>>437159

Your body needs to be in pretty high gear to actually burn fat during exercise. We're talking proper cardio workout.

What does happen as your muscles grow and you do more regular exercise is that your basic metabolic rate increases, meaning you will burn more calories even while you are resting.
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19th May 2020
Tuesday 8:21 pm
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>>437159

>I've read that it's difficult but not impossible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time.

That's not quite right. Building muscle is hugely energy-intensive, so your body has evolved to only build enough of it to keep up with the demands of your environment. If your metabolism thinks that you're at risk of starving, it'll avoid growing new muscle to conserve energy. If you're carrying a reasonable amount of body fat and you're eating an adequate diet, your metabolism is absolutely fine with using some of that body fat to build muscle.

It's mainly an issue for people who are already very lean. The chiselled physique of a bodybuilder or fitness model requires a very low level of body fat that your metabolism sees as starvation, so if you want to be big and ripped you need to alternate between cycles of bulking up and cutting down. If you have a more normal body composition, strength training is a highly efficient way of losing fat for reasons stated by >>437164 - going for a jog burns calories while you're jogging, but lifting heavy weights burns calories more while you're recovering.
>> No. 437166 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 10:12 pm
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>>437159
It's very doable with a stable workout regime where you're working intensely enough to build muscle, then either have off days or lesser days where you just do cardio or something low intesnity like yoga. Nutrition is where it will really happen then, cut out all sweets and processed crap, stick to water and eat a high protein diet with plenty of veg, eat more on the days you work harder and less (at a deficit of at least -500 calories) on the days you don't. It will happen slowly, but it will happen, the eating is the hardest part for me, but you'll most likely start seeing results in a month or so especially if you're a beginner. It'll help if you use something like https://tdeecalculator.net/ to calculate your calorie needs, it's not precise because everybody varies but it will give you a guideline to work off.
>> No. 437179 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 11:19 am
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Do you think now, or rather in the near future, would be a good time to go back tertiary education? I'm thinking they'll be even more desperate than usual to let any moron who can hold a pencil get a degree.
>> No. 437180 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 11:41 am
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>>437179
>they'll be even more desperate than usual to let any moron who can hold a pencil get a degree.

Making them even more worthless than they already are.
If you're just doing it for fun you can basically find the lectures and notes for any subject for free online.
If you're doing it for a an extra thing to add to your CV, then consider that taking on tens of thousands of pounds of debt, plus potential lost earnings, plus loss of opportunity (promotions, other job offers you won't be able to take while in uni) you might end up worse off overall.
>> No. 437182 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 1:49 pm
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>>437179
Probably worth waiting another couple of years. Most unis are online only for the foreseeable future, which might not be a problem for you but £9000 a year for subpar virtual lectures is pretty steep. But if you're willing to miss out on most of the uni experience (which I missed out on due to being an autistic shut in so I'm not going to shill it) it's probably easier to get a place as a lot of people are deferring.
>> No. 437183 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 2:05 pm
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I started lifting at the start of lockdown. Was rake thin, very happy with the results so far. My food policy has been eat as much "quality" food as I want. It's basically too loose, and I've gained a bit of "belt" fat (stomach, sides).
>> No. 437184 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 2:21 pm
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>>437182
Depends if they're doing undergrad or postgrad. A 1-year Master's might only set you back about £5k and if you have appropriate professional experience you don't necessarily need a Bachelor's to get in. Alternatively, you can do it part-time over 2-3 years and keep working (or getting paid 80%, as the case may be).
>> No. 437185 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:00 pm
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My chillies are looking healthy but don't seem to be growing much. There'll have to be a sudden growth-spurt if they're to reach 5 ft this year.
Lots of bushy growth near the stalks that looks like it's about to unfurl though.
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20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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A colleague of mine started these chillies much later than mine, they're extremely tall but look to have about the same number of leaves. I hope and suspect that this means mine are doing better. The leaves on mine are a more rich colour too. Anyone know if I'm off the mark here?
>> No. 437187 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 9:09 am
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>>437186
When I grew chillies, they looked like your colleagues, but didn't fruit very much at all. Like the look of yours, but seeing them so compact makes me worry that they don't have anywhere near enough light.
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21st May 2020
Thursday 10:32 am
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>>437187
Isn't it the opposite? Plants short of light get leggy.
>> No. 437189 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 10:41 am
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>>437188
You're right. I shouldn't post before noon.
>> No. 437190 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 1:30 pm
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>A year of working from home: Home Office's post-coronavirus lockdown plan revealed
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/year-working-home-home-offices-post-coronavirus-lockdown-plan-revealed

Probably a worst case scenario but I imagine everyone is going to follow the thinking of the civil service. What are some must-haves for working from home? I fear that I may go bananas if I'm still indoors come next May.
>> No. 437191 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>437190
My mum works for the Land Registry and they only had laptops for around 40% of people in the building to be able to work from home so they had to ration them between departments. I believe it's only in the last week or two they've managed to get their act together by starting to get computers out to everyone.
>> No. 437192 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 3:19 pm
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>>437191

I feel like a lot of people are just using this as an excuse to blag a free computer. It's not as if anyone doesn't already have a laptop laying around somewhere, even complete povvos.

I suppose a lot more people just use tablets and the like nowadays though. I just can't imagine not having some form of computer around, even if you hardly use it. There's so much stuff nowadays you need one for.
>> No. 437193 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>437192
>just using this as an excuse to blag a free computer

My employer offered people the chance to have a proper work chair delivered to their house (gyac: Herman Millers) - loads of people did. I can't see them picking them all up in a few months time.
>> No. 437194 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 4:05 pm
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>>437193

I had to fucking drive across half the country to get a refurbished Aeron and yous cunts are getting them for free?
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21st May 2020
Thursday 4:10 pm
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>>437192

I can think of quite a few of my friends (late twenties early thirties) who don't have laptops at all - you can do everything on your phone or tablet, and if you work at a desk with a computer on it usually, and have not previously needed to take your work home with you, then why?

The only people I can think of who have laptops or desktops at home are into gaming, or have been given a work laptop, and there's the occasional macbook cunt who fancies themselves a photographer, but even that has gone down in last ten years or so.
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21st May 2020
Thursday 4:36 pm
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>>437192
My mum has her own laptop but the Land Registry were insistent that only their hardware can be used. I'm guessing this is a mixture of security concerns and the kind of inertia you get in the public sector when someone raises the question of "can we do x or will we get in trouble?" and nobody wants to risk accountability or knows who they should really be asking this to.

About a fortnight before lockdown was announced everyone at my office started the process of loading their work computers into their car to be set up to work from home. Most people took their chairs and I think one or two even brought their desks with them.
>> No. 437197 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 4:43 pm
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>>437196
>I think one or two even brought their desks with them.

I am dying to steal my desk from work - it's one of those fancy standing-sitting-change-height ones with buttons and motors and everything.
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21st May 2020
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>437197

I work in a lab, so all the benches are standing height and we just have tall chairs if you want to work sitting down. I find something very charmingly daft about putting motors and electronics in a desk to solve the same problem in the most arse backwards way possible.
>> No. 437199 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 5:02 pm
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>very charmingly daft

Oh I'm right with you - but they have a pleasingly over-engineered mechanism for lowering and raising the desk. I hardly ever use it in standing mode, but plenty of my colleagues do. I thought the whole adjustable height desk was silly when I first heard it, but fully sold on them now.
>> No. 437200 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 6:06 pm
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>>437196

>I'm guessing this is a mixture of security concerns and the kind of inertia you get in the public sector

Partly inertia, partly the fact that IT staff in the public sector are grossly under-paid by industry standards so they're mostly morons. Bring-your-own-device is fairly common these days, but it does require more thought and more confidence to deploy securely than just giving everyone locked-down work computers.
>> No. 437201 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 6:56 pm
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>>437192
> I feel like a lot of people are just using this as an excuse to blag a free computer. It's not as if anyone doesn't already have a laptop laying around somewhere, even complete povvos.

The last thing we need right now is a bunch of untrained civil service types VPNing into their internal networks from the years-old laptop running Windows 7 that they use to browse facebook and various unsanitary porn sites.
>> No. 437202 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>437200

Security is the most obvious reason I suppose.

While it's good that the Land Registry is looking after sensitive information, the investment broker my missus works for has had everyone on remote dektop and communicating through some dodgy Android app. I find it hard to be worried because their clients are only rich cunts who deserve to have their bank information stolen by Russians, but I think we have much more to be worried about from the private sector in general.

RyanAir had a data breach earlier in the year, February I think, where 2,000 people had their credit card information stolen, and they've only just gone public about it. In fucking May. So god knows how long it'll take us to find out Amazon has had all our credit cards cloned by China thanks to home working call centre staff.
>> No. 437203 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 12:22 am
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>>437200
It's also partly psychological. Let people use their own device and it's their machine which happens to also do work stuff. Give them a work laptop and it's their work machine they dare not watch porn on, they'd rather not log into facebook, gmail or what have you and they'd rather not have always on because their employer might be spying on them. Only works if they genuinely have a personal laptop/compute though, otherwise that pristine work machine soon turns into the a filthy shit show after the "honey moon" vinegar moon? has worn off.
>> No. 437204 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 12:46 am
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>> No. 437205 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 12:57 am
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I had both.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw4GER-MiE
>> No. 437206 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 8:45 am
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>>437205

Mein Gott!
>> No. 437207 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 1:11 pm
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My sinuses are all awry; wish I could put my head in a centrifuge and then pull out all the wrongness in one go.
>> No. 437209 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 6:19 pm
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I need to go grocery shopping. I've been filling up on jammie dodgers tonight, they're almost literally the last edible thing in my kitchen.
>> No. 437210 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 7:10 pm
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How much do paupers love fizzy drinks? I've been on one of my trips to Farmfoods and I know they've always got mountains of it by the entrance but today was the first time I noticed I was the only person without at least two trays of 24 cans in my trolley; on reflection I think this isn't the only occasion this has happened. There were scenes of jubilation as more Tango was brought out from the back. There were women barely able to walk because they were carrying so many trays of fizzy drinks home with them. They couldn't get enough of it.
>> No. 437211 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 8:00 pm
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>>437210

It's your patriotic duty to drink Tango.


>> No. 437215 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 1:39 pm
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I think what I'm missing most is charity shops and browsing second-hand books.
>> No. 437217 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 8:55 pm
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>>437215
hear, hear!
>> No. 437220 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 12:20 am
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Watching The World Is Not Enough on ITV.

Definitely one of the weaker Bond films.
>> No. 437221 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 1:26 am
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>>437220

Have you tried watching it with more iron?
>> No. 437224 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 3:34 am
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I've said it before, but I'll say it again, but film four in the middle of the night is the best way to experience cinema. Complete shit? Hidden gem? Utter nonsense? Who can say, but no ALGORITHM is going to tell me what to watch and I like that. Not even my own brain algorithms get a say; even better.
>> No. 437226 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 8:36 am
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>>437220
GoldenEye is the only good Brosnan bond film. I like him as Bond but the other ones he did are largely dross.

>>437224
Every time I watch Film4 in the middle of the night they seem to be showing Y tu mamá también.
>> No. 437227 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 11:03 am
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>>437226

The Brosnan Bonds are a bit less cringeworthy than Are Rog's outings as Bond, but they are still just mostly silly. But Brosnan is at least believable as a suave ladies man. Daniel Craig has been a welcome return to the grittier Bond of Sean Connery. But even he isn't as good as Connery.
>> No. 437232 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 2:20 pm
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Timothy Dalton.
>> No. 437233 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 3:05 pm
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>>437232

He's looking a bit Keith Floyd these days, while bravely hanging on to his hair. Simon Skinner will always be his Walther PPKMagnum Opus.
>> No. 437234 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 9:37 pm
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>>437227

>bit less cringeworthy than Are Rog's outings as Bond


How dare you, Roger's versions are the purist form of entertainment I maintain that this is the best James bond opening sequence, everything about it is perfect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucGKzOe6IYU


I imagine you as one of those teenagers that would rather sit in the corner looking grumpy then get up and dance to the Birdie Song with your grandma at a wedding. You have the whole world worked out, except how to have a bit of fun, which is why your gran went home that night with my cum inside her instead of yours, think about that for a moment, sure your mates might laugh at you but it could have been wonderful for you, and lead somewhere even better. Those are the chance connections in life you let yourself miss out on when you would rather sneer at Sir Rog and take things seriously then let him take you on an adventure.
>> No. 437235 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 10:29 pm
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>>437234

Did you just imply he should fuck his gran?
>> No. 437236 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 10:36 pm
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>>437235
Lord knows, it won't be the first time.
>> No. 437237 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 12:34 am
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>>437236

>it won't be the first time


So you admit that you just go around claiming that people fuck their grans?
>> No. 437238 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 3:55 am
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>>437237

Hey babe. Take a walk on the wild side.
>> No. 437239 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 8:45 am
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>>437237
What is going on with this line spacing?
>> No. 437245 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 3:55 pm
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I feel very bemused by the whole thing now. Like, is this it? Is this how we live from now on? I'm not sure I trust enough people to start mixing with society anytime soon.

Would quite like to work from home forever now.
>> No. 437246 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 5:43 pm
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I've been for a walk in the woods today. On the positive side, there were lots of women looking fine in their hot weather attire. On the negative side, there were far too many cyclist twats about.
>> No. 437247 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>437246
Speaking as a keen cyclist, I've grown to hate the general off-road biking culture in this country.

Other than parks with wide footpaths where there's plenty of space for pedestrians and cyclists to share, there are very few off-road spaces in the UK dedicated to mountain biking.
Middle-aged men bombing it around the local 10 acre wood behind Tescos and nearly running over OAP dog walkers is just fucking sad, and it's definitely not the right way that those sorts of community spaces should be used.
>> No. 437249 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 8:44 am
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>>437245
>Is this how we live from now on?

Yeah pretty much. Until we have a vaccine and enough people are inoculated, we are going to conduct our daily business while social distancing.

I just don't know how I'm going to be able to get a haircut or dentist appointment any time soon.
>> No. 437250 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 11:25 am
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Someone is having some fun this morning.
>> No. 437251 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 11:23 pm
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>>437250
Lucky bastards.
>> No. 437252 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 3:56 pm
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GREGGS TO REOPEN 800 SHOPS

WE'RE BACK AS A NATION LADS.
>> No. 437253 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>437252
Greggs has been ruined by middle class folk LARPing as working class people to get rep.
>> No. 437254 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 4:02 pm
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>>437253
Well, as a working class person undoubtedly LARPing as middle class as I get older, this works for me.
>> No. 437255 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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There's a couple of corners of my garden that I just ignore in the hope they'll go away, but I suppose I really should do something about it.
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27th May 2020
Wednesday 5:33 pm
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>>437255
Oh man I love your garden. If those are the neglected bits then you're fine. Throw a bunch of native wildflower/meadow seeds in there and just stand back. Poppies especially.

Happy to come round and help you with it.
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27th May 2020
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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I agree with >>437255 on the wildflowers, I recall a seed company a few years ago giving away bundles of 10 mixed seed packs for free, can't for the life of me remember their name though mate. Anyway, a wild, overgrown bit of a garden like that is excellent for insects, slugs, birds and small mammals like hedgehogs. I'd recommend putting a dish with some water out, you might see some wildlife action of an evening. There are few things as fun as seeing a hedgehog snuffling about and lap water up.
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27th May 2020
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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Thank you. The house has been in the family for a while and I took it over as my grandparents needed liquidity for care etc. Though it's really only as I grow older that I realise just how nice the garden is. Much of the landscaping, such as it is, was done by my grandad and myself. I was young, but I remember lots of digging. My personal favourite part is basically surrounded entirely by trees and hedge, lovely little hideout. The fence isn't even the true boundary of the property, it goes some way back into a little mini forest.

The wild flowers is an excellent idea and one I'd not ever have thought of - I'm truly not green fingered, all I do is cut the lawn and water the plants in the more tended bit, that were planted there by my grandma.

There's plenty of wildlife as it is - certainly some huge hedgehogs, and I believe a beehive, though I haven't found it yet.

The stream however is sadly not much of a stream anymore - they diverted the bulk of its source when building new houses up the road years ago. It used to be a couple of feet deep even at its lowest. I don't suppose there's much I can do about that, though.
>> No. 437259 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 6:36 pm
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>>437255
>>437258
Jelly AF
>> No. 437260 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 7:47 pm
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>>437258
Hedgehogs are going to be more than fine then. What's the wooded area like as far as the flora goes? On to a winner if you're next to some ramsons, edible mushrooms, plums/bullaces/damsons etc.
>> No. 437261 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>437258

The garden's lovely, definitely don't cut back the wilder stuff. Let the rest grow if you can.

It's not really the right time of year to sow wild flowers; wait until late autumn and sow a wild flower mix (with yellow rattle which you may have to buy separately) onto some areas where you've removed the turf. I'd do that with the whole grassed over area rather than the bit that's already gone nicely wild, if it were up to me.
>> No. 437262 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:29 am
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I'm listening to a market update webinar and there's some posho kid talking about "negative intewest wates". Kill me now.
>> No. 437269 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 1:11 pm
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>>437250

I can see the Falcons contrails from here today, maybe 40 miles out. Not my picture but you get the point.
>> No. 437270 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 1:24 pm
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>>437269
Falcons? F-16s? What are they doing here?
>> No. 437271 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 1:34 pm
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>>437269

Dassault Falcon 20 - see discussion further up in thread.
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29th May 2020
Friday 7:43 pm
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>>437270

Funnily enough we also got some F-15s refuelling later today too.
>> No. 437273 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 9:47 pm
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>>437272
Ohhh. I can see the refuelling plane but not the F-15s. That looks lovely.
>> No. 437277 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 4:17 am
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>>437273

The spotters went mad for it.
>> No. 437278 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 7:53 pm
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I swear I just heard a bird mimic the sound my dishwasher makes when it starts up.
>> No. 437279 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 8:09 pm
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>>437278
My parrot mimics the car unlocking sound.
>> No. 437280 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 8:50 pm
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My neighbours are having a massive piss-up in the garden. They've got until 11pm and then they're getting grassed up. Maybe half ten if they keep getting louder.
>> No. 437281 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 9:11 pm
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>>437280
My neighbours have friends and family round. She works for the NHS.
>> No. 437282 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 10:23 pm
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>>437281
> She works for the NHS.

Fuck cops, send in the Mail.
>> No. 437284 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 10:31 pm
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>>437281

>She works for the NHS

Under socialism, tell her to keep working for the furloughed. We're all in this together.
>> No. 437292 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 1:20 am
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>>437284
This probably sounded funnier in your head.
>> No. 437293 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 1:22 am
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It might just be lockdown hysteria, but this comment made me laugh so hard that a little bit of wee came out.
>> No. 437296 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 1:39 am
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>>437292

Not really. It's a fact socialists are mongs though.
>> No. 437300 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 3:03 am
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>>437296
This is untrue.
>> No. 437305 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 12:26 pm
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>>437296

We objectively proved in Corona Thread Mk.II that it is in fact conservative people who lack intelligence.
>> No. 437307 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>437300

Never been a fan of socialism.
>> No. 437309 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 8:55 am
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>>437307
Ok septic.
>> No. 437310 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 10:32 am
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>>437307

Socialism is the reason that people in this country don't starve, you absolute fucking moron.
>> No. 437313 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:51 pm
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>>437310

Or socialism has stifled things so badly that people end up reliant on the state to provide for nearly everything. There are arguments for socialism or elements of it but it's daft that the NHS is always there for you regardless of how shit you choose to live you life.
>> No. 437314 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:54 pm
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>>437313
Because only rich people with the money to pay for private healthcare are allowed to be daft? There should be economic restrictions on what you choose to do with your body?

Also everyone stop referring to the NHS as 'socialism' right this second, you sound like fucking Republicans.
>> No. 437315 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 2:07 pm
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>>437314

The NHS isn't socialism. But it's an acknowledgement that a capitalist market economy performs better when you have healthy workers and consumers, even if they can't afford to keep themselves healthy out of their own pocket.

Both pure unbridled capitalism and uncompromising socialism or communism tend to not perform well in terms of social welfare. But socialism, if taken to extremes, still tends to be more shit than extreme capitalism.
>> No. 437316 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 2:38 pm
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>>437313

If you love the hands off, free market approach so much, why don't you move to Somalia. You'll find it's a paradise of enterprise and innovation, which has been allowed to flourish thanks to a lack of governmental intervention.
>> No. 437317 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 3:07 pm
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>>437315
>But it's an acknowledgement that a capitalist market economy performs better when you have healthy workers and consumers
Which is why those notoriously socialist Tories are defunding and privatising it, and the notoriously socialist United States has a poorly-functioning private insurance-based system, I suppose.

>But socialism, if taken to extremes, still tends to be more shit than extreme capitalism.
You've never actually spoken to anyone who lived in the USSR, have you?
>> No. 437318 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 3:25 pm
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>>437317
>defunding

?
>> No. 437319 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 3:59 pm
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>>437313

>that people end up reliant on the state to provide for nearly everything

Chicken or egg?
>> No. 437320 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 4:27 pm
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>>437318
Despite real term increases in spending, they are not giving NHS trusts as much money as they need to provide decent services. As we all know, in order to make public sector things look like a failure, you have to make them fail.
>> No. 437321 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 4:34 pm
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>>437320
Does the solution to every problem have to be "keep throwing money at it"?
>> No. 437322 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 4:38 pm
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>>437321
If the problem is that it was working well until it stopped getting money, yes.
>> No. 437324 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 4:56 pm
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>>437321

You can't really buy things with claps.
>> No. 437325 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 4:57 pm
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>>437317

>You've never actually spoken to anyone who lived in the USSR, have you?

Have you then, or is this just a rhethorical ploy?

I've talked to numerous people who grew up in Soviet Union socialism, FYI, and none of them want to have it back.
>> No. 437328 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:22 pm
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>>437325
>Soviet Union socialism
That's weasely - are you talking about countries other than the USSR who you think were exactly the same? I only said the USSR.
>> No. 437329 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>437328

Not him, but isn't the USSR the name for the whole thing? Russia did pretty well by many accounts until near the end, but it was hardly the same story for some of the Eastern European satellite nations. I agree it would be entirely dishonest to use some shithole banana republic or Best Korea as a benchmark for "how well socialism works".
>> No. 437331 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>437329

Is Cuba part of the USSR?
>> No. 437336 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 7:32 pm
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The markets are allowed to re-open and I for one am delighted. I've been waiting months for the chance to buy two metres of elasticated bandage, ten gas lighters, some jarg aftershave and a stolen BMX.


>> No. 437337 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 7:49 pm
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>>437328

And I did mean Soviet Union as in, inside the USSR.


>>437329

> Russia did pretty well by many accounts until near the end, but it was hardly the same story for some of the Eastern European satellite nations. I agree it would be entirely dishonest to use some shithole banana republic or Best Korea as a benchmark for "how well socialism works".

Russia did well because it dominated COMECON and got to dictate economic activity in the communist satellite states to its own advantage. But it, too, was beginning to decline by the late 80s. Mainly because COMECON was still focused on heavy industry and aging technology. Soviet (or East German) computer chips as well as circuitry and software, for example, were almost without exception reverse-engineered clones of Western products that had been smuggled past Western export restrictions. The Communist Bloc was increasingly falling behind with new technologies, amd then after the fall of COMECON and communism, they had nothing of value to sell on the global markets.

You don't have to look as far afield as Cuba or North Korea then to see that socialism is a system that's bound to fail. The USSR as the communist motherland was struggling and socialism was going to go tits up one way or another sooner or later there. And China's regime today is only hanging on as communism's last great bastion because its current political system is a truly peculiar mix of one-party, deep-state totalitarianism on the one hand and unbridled gold rush capitalism on the other hand.

In any case, no single country on Earth that has ever tried communism has lasted more than a few decades without either running itself into the ground completely, or without turning into a capitalist market economy again, all the while clinging to vestiges of totalitarian political power that is almost invariably a defining trait of socialist/communist political systems.
>> No. 437338 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 8:05 pm
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>>437336
I'll be going to my local market on Friday in the hope the second-hand book stall is there. Failing that, I'll get something from the cheesemonger.
>> No. 437339 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>437337

>Soviet (or East German) computer chips as well as circuitry and software, for example, were almost without exception reverse-engineered clones of Western products that had been smuggled past Western export restrictions.

Stalin thought that computers were un-Marxist, so disbanded computer science and electrical engineering research. They realised in the 70s that they desperately needed computers to keep up with Western military technology, but it was far too late to catch up.

That's the essential problem with a command economy - no matter how smart your central planners are, they aren't clairvoyant. Nobody in the 1960s could even imagine a modern smartphone, let alone start planning the technological developments that would lead us to it. Capitalism has many faults, but it has the great advantage of creating positive feedback loops around happy accidents.
>> No. 437341 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>437339

I've never seen why it wouldn't be possible to implement exactly that kind of market-led supply/demand feedback loop, within a system where everyone also has the basic essentials given to them as a human right, or even a silly high minimum wage for example. I don't see why there's somehow an inherent conflict between those two things, it just seems to be that ideologues have maintained that status quo throughout history.

In the interest of fairness, your smartphone example can be used to show the failings of market led capitalism too, where that feedback loop spirals horribly out of control and nobody can stop it, well past the point we actually like what it's doing any more. I'm pretty sure we're nearing a smartphone singularity where every manufacture hones in individually on the same completely indistinguishable omni-design that's too big to hold and doesn't have any useful features left because they took them all out to make it thinner and have a better camera.

>>437337

>In any case, no single country on Earth that has ever tried communism has lasted more than a few decades without either running itself into the ground completely, or without turning into a capitalist market economy again, all the while clinging to vestiges of totalitarian political power that is almost invariably a defining trait of socialist/communist political systems.

The problem with this line of arguments is that you're not only ignoring all the capitalist systems that have gone tits up and collapsed throughout history, but you're ignoring that socialism as fully implemented system of government has only really been tried a handful of times, and is, in the context of human history, still a very new idea.

Imagine if we had given up on the idea of aeroplanes just because the early attempts were fucked up spacker bird helicopters, and look where we are now.
>> No. 437342 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>437337
>You don't have to look as far afield as Cuba or North Korea then to see that socialism is a system that's bound to fail.
True, you could look at Scandinavia.
>> No. 437346 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 1:24 am
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>>437342
The Scandinavian countries aren't socialist. They're social democratic, which is basically what we already are in Britain except their taxes and public spending are a bit higher. I'm really getting sick of yank nomenclature ruining discussion for everyone.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 437347 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 3:10 am
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>>437346

Read Killing Hope by William Blum. I expect a full book report in your ban appeal.
>> No. 437348 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 9:22 am
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So is everyone just giving up on this whole lockdown business now?

Not sure who I can visit/have sex with today but I feel like I ought to leave the house as its been a few weeks now.
>> No. 437349 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 9:26 am
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>>437348
We're having our cake and eating it.
>> No. 437350 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 9:57 am
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>>437349

Not cock though, that's not allowed.
>> No. 437352 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 2:06 pm
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I really can't be arsed today. It doesn't help that I'm drudging through admin tasks I've been putting off that have now built up and someone nearby seems to have been mowing the lawn continually for several hours now.
>> No. 437353 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 2:20 pm
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It's too fuckin' hot.
>> No. 437355 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 3:20 pm
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Making zeppoles.
>> No. 437356 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 3:36 pm
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Not bad.
>> No. 437357 Anonymous
2nd June 2020
Tuesday 8:30 pm
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>>437353
Don't worry lad, we're in for cold and rain for the next week or so.
Endure.
>> No. 437358 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:00 am
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>>437357
Not that poster but I'm genuinely looking forward to a lovely bit of grey n rain. Had enough of that shiny cunt on high.
>> No. 437359 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>437347
Wait, can I check why he was banned. There's a good deal on historical tomfoolery that I wanted to correct once I had free-time - especially regarding the narrative around the Russian SFSR and Soviet anti-nationalism which I think people get confused on.

Blum is a load of rubbish who can't grasp America's national schizophrenia because it undermine his identity. Also, Scandinavian countries aren't socialist and whoever tried to claim Somalia is a capitalist paradise is offensively dense.

>>437357
Genuinely glad to read this as my expensive fan broke at the weekend. Any idea what repair shop I'm supposed to take something like that to? I'm torn between a proper appliance repair place and some small laptop repair business.

I would take my Meaco fan to the manufacturer but it broke the morning after I tossed the box and would probably be gone for a couple weeks.
>> No. 437360 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 5:57 am
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>>437359

>proper appliance repair place

That. Unless it's a trivial fix, a laptop repair place won't know where to start. Ideally you'd want an old man in a brown shop coat, but they're literally a dying breed.
>> No. 437361 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 8:15 am
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I guess it's a sign that things are almost back to normal, I've finally been able to order more weights.
>> No. 437362 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 10:15 am
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>>437361

Games consoles are still unobtanium. You could get an Xbox One for less than £120 in the run up to Christmas, but they're going for more than twice that now if you can find one in stock.
>> No. 437363 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 11:18 am
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>>437359
You're not saying Blum is wrong, just that you don't like him. Some wishy-washy Deluzian comment about schizophrenia and identity don't invalidate his research, as you should know as the smug historian you're pretending to be.
>> No. 437364 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 12:54 pm
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Just found my half sister has an onlyfans. A fiver is pretty reasonable.
>> No. 437365 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 12:58 pm
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>>437364

Don't do it, mate. That's a very dark rabbit hole.
>> No. 437367 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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>>437366
>just be paying some bint for probably subpar tit pics.

This seems to be most of onlyfans and I don't get it when there's practically infinite porn for free.
>> No. 437368 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:08 pm
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>>437365


I won't, but mostly because I don't really want to pay anyone for nudes.

We didn't grow up together and have met about five times, so I don't even think the 'thrill' of incest is there. I'd just be paying some bint for probably subpar tit pics.

What is more interesting is that she just straight up posted it on a public social media account which uses her own name - I found it by searching for my dad's wife's business info. Either my family is a lot more progressive than I remember or this is a shitstorm waiting to happen.
>> No. 437369 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:10 pm
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>>437367

I think when I was a teenlad I might have parted with some pocket money to see Popular Fit Girl From College get her baps out, but I don't really think that's the main market for OF - most pornstars who were popular 15 years ago seem to be the ones making the most money on the platform.
>> No. 437370 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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>>437364
Almost every lass seems to be on OnlyFans these days. It must surely have reached the point that the majority of them only earn a few quid unless they've managed to get one particularly sad sap to string along.

>>437369
A lass I went to school with got her tits out for lads mags back in the day. I also knew quite a few goths who used to go on about how they'd pose for Suicide Girls when they were legally old enough but none of them went through with it.
>> No. 437371 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 2:49 pm
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>>437370
Oi. I know we're all wankingworking from home but keep it SFW on /sfw/ would you?
>> No. 437372 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 3:12 pm
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>>437371
It's just a bit of side boob. It doesn't even count.
>> No. 437373 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 4:14 pm
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>>437372

Sideboob and bare arse is not safe for work, bruv.
>> No. 437374 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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>>437373
How is a bum bum NSFW?
>> No. 437375 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 5:36 pm
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>>437374

Go print that picture out and stick it on your desk at work and you'll find out.
>> No. 437376 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>437375
The same could be said of a framed photograph of Kriss Akabusi, doesn't mean it's NSFW.
>> No. 437377 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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>>437376
That doesn't make any sense.
>> No. 437379 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>437363
Actually I am, American foreign policy wildly oscillates between pragmatism and idealism (hence, schizophrenia, Dr Pseud). Imperial narratives don't make sense where it concerns post-1945 America, particularly when it engages in offshore balancing against would-be hegemons or ham-handed attempts to move us beyond a world where states engage in mass butchery.

Blum's "research" therefore becomes a checklist in misunderstanding and oversimplifying international relations which infects others with easy and predictable answers. Something you see when he comes out the woodwork to defend to the likes of Gaddafi as benevolent and secular dictators. How about instead you do a book report on Beyond Responsibility to Protect, I won't post a little meme picture because the site has become toxic enough as it is.
>> No. 437382 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>437361 here again.

It was all kicking off when I went to pick them up from Argos. One of the people working there was refusing to let a man collect his order of weights because he'd apparently been there several times today collecting orders of them and they're limiting the number you can buy. In the end the rozzers were called out.
>> No. 437383 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 8:06 pm
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>>437379
No problem, you just hit me up with the 85 euro and I'll order a copy.
>> No. 437384 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 9:13 pm
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Is it too late in the game to become a serious Covid-19 enthusiast?

https://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/personalised-face-mask

Not sure what I'd put on my masks.
>> No. 437389 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 11:26 pm
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Are you lads going to be tedious bickering cunts all weekend? It'd be nice to have a heads up because it's going to be a bit of a washout.
>> No. 437390 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:13 am
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>>437389
I might go for a walk in the rain tomorrow. Obviously I'll look mad, but they'll be no one else around and to be honest, I like a bit of rain. As long as your trousers don't soak through it's all good fun in my books.
>> No. 437391 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:51 am
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>>437389
It seems to be the same argument spread across multiple threads as well. Can people not keep it in the one or two places. This is meant to be the the what you up to during lockdown one innit?

I guess tedious cunt offs on the internet is actually what a large percentage of the population is doing to fill the time though.
>> No. 437392 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:51 am
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>>437390
I love a bit of rain, was fucking loving the downpours earlier. Do need to be prepared if you're out walking in it though, decent jacket at least.
>> No. 437393 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 11:02 am
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>>437389
No - but I like the idea in >>437384 and think we should design some .gs facewear.
>> No. 437394 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 11:41 am
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>>437393
>> No. 437395 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:02 pm
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>>437392
After weeks of that 'orrible bright stuff falling from the sky I've been quite enjoying just looking up at the clouds of late. Especially now that we've had rain so you can get a full range of colours in the evening.

It really puts things into perspective to notice an enormous and beautiful world overhead. Maybe I've just been cooped up for too long but the sheer scale of it is quite mesmerising.
>> No. 437396 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:05 pm
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Lesbians love Cate Blanchett, but she's actually incredibly heterosexual, which must properly gutting.
>> No. 437397 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:07 pm
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>>437396

She recently had a chainsaw injury, she is at the very least bi-curious.
>> No. 437398 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:43 pm
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>>437395
When I was an admittedly shite goalie in school I remember spending quite a of time staring up at the sky on cold Saturday mornings freezing me nuts off and being overwhelmed by the sky. It's bloody massive mate.

Probably why I never made county.
>> No. 437399 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 4:35 pm
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My moms made me a mask to wear to the shops.
Whatever she's used for the middle layer doesn't let any air through at all.
>> No. 437400 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 6:14 pm
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>>437395

Heard of this, cloudlad?

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
>> No. 437401 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 7:42 pm
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>>437398
I think had similar as a lad. In school I always got stuck in goal on frosty Monday mornings. Mostly because I didn't give a shit and could always chat with the defence.

Not giving a shit went double for hockey in January. It's just not a lads game, the girls half the of course seemed to love it but you couldn't pay me to go back to that shin-pocalypse. The teacher would even get on my case for not throwing myself in-front of a rock hard hockey ball with no protection - like I was going to risk a bruised ankle for a mickey mouse GCSE.

>>437400
Every month of Covid you lads have convinced me to make a silly impulse purchase but now it's just getting a ridiculous.

>We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

I hereby petition for 'blue-sky thinking' to be word-filtered to 'overcasting' in recognition of my political beliefs. A cloudy shed is a happy shed.
>> No. 437402 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 7:55 pm
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>>437401
My son plays hockey and the girl's matches can be frighteningly intense. He doesn't like it when the boys and girls have to train together or play a match against each other because of how dirty they are.
>> No. 437403 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 8:02 pm
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>>437402

Life lesson
>> No. 437404 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 9:36 pm
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>>437402

I found the same with ice hockey when I played that as a lad. And women's cycling crits are so much more aggressive than the men's races. It makes for a better sport to be honest, I'm all for progression if it means more elbows flying during bunch sprints.
>> No. 437405 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 9:38 pm
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>>437404
They have a parent vs. kids tournament at the end of the season. The lads might try to taunt you but the only time I've been body checked was by one of the u14 girls with ridiculously beefy thighs.
>> No. 437406 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 12:38 am
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Are the shops opening earlier on a Sunday or just closing later? I need some milk.
>> No. 437407 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 1:15 am
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>>437406

They're the usual 10-4 around here. You could pop to a garage right now, though.
>> No. 437418 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 4:52 pm
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>>437404

Just look at women's football. I've you've ever watched the women's World Cup, their gameplay is often much more fierce and to-the-death than that of the lads. A male player will much more often be like, "oh forget it, that pass isn't worth going through with", whereas female players will be more like "NO, this is MY pass, and I'll stay on it like my life depends on it!!".

I've found it to be the same in many sports. Women who are committed to jogging won't just "go for a bit of a run" like many lads. They'll have all the gear, from running clothes to Fitbit bracelets, and they eagerly track their statistics and progress. I'm an athletic kind of guy, I cycle, I go to the gym and I do a bit of rollerblading around the neighbourhood now and then, but I would never get into it quite like that.
>> No. 437419 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 8:38 pm
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>>437418

Do you think it's fair to say lasses just seem to get a fair bit more personally invested in things, and place more importance on how those things form part of their identity, than men?

My evidence is completely anecdotal, because apart from my girlfriend and a few exes, most of the women I meet in day to day life are entirely boring individuals who seem to lack any hobbies whatsoever (not being fisherist, I just don't meet a lot of people these days). But what I have noticed, from facebook, Tinder dates and conversations on dating sites and the like is that lasses tend to make a much bigger deal of the things they ARE into.

I know a girl who collects retro vinyls, and she can't just stop at a few of her favourites, she has a small record shop's worth. After my ex decided she was a metalhead, she threw herself in headfirst and got about 8 tattoos in a year and went to gigs every single weekend. There's this one lass one facebook who won't stop posting about plants, she doesn't so much live in a house any more as a garden centre by the looks of it.

Most lads, by contrast, are just quietly interested in whatever they're into and don't really bring it up.

Feel free to prove me wrong lads, I'm just being a Sunday afternoon armchair sociologist.
>> No. 437421 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 9:12 pm
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I don't mean to come over all Sesame Street, but everyone's an individual, yeah.
>> No. 437422 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 9:16 pm
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>>437419

I think you're right when it comes to hobbies and such - I also see 40 instagram stories a day about gardening or kayaking or climbing or whatever from lasses, but I can't remember a single time my male friends have posted similar of them doing their stuff - except the cyclists, but that's not surprising.

I might post a picture of my car now and then but it doesn't even occur to me to post a story of me undoing a fucking bolt like the lasses in the same scene do, they're perfectly free to do so but it seems a bit odd, I'd rather crack on.

When it comes to sport and all that though, aren't men meant to be more competitive?
>> No. 437423 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 9:27 pm
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>>437419

>Do you think it's fair to say lasses just seem to get a fair bit more personally invested in things, and place more importance on how those things form part of their identity, than men?


I think it all depends. Most lasses I have been with were indeed pretty passionate about certain things, the weirdest one was probably a lass who was a reiki master and who was so steeped in all things esoteric that you were forgiven for thinking she was a witch that had been teleported straight from the Middle Ages into our time.

She was a proper nutter although her blowjobs were sensational, but to her credit, she was entirely convinced of it all, like it was the most natural and usual thing for a person to be into. She really lived it.


The biggest exception was probably a lass that I was with when we were both 18. She had NO discernible interests in anything, the best you could hope to get out of her were brief conversations about current boy bands, hair treatments, fashion, or about whatever boys her friends were dating at the moment. Even for an 18 year old, she was a distubingly vapid person, while other girls at my school were into all kinds of things from environmentalism to homeless- or children's charities.
>> No. 437424 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 9:53 pm
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>> No. 437426 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>437424
>Don't think she has any hobbies.

You could always ask her.
>> No. 437427 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 8:12 am
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It has made me get up a lot earlier. Even on Monday mornings.
>> No. 437428 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 8:33 pm
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Well, I'm 30 soon, so I've bought a new guitar. It's a proper American Telecaster and it's quite wonderful.

It's the first time I've owned a proper high-end guitar, and I'm actually shocked, I've always assumed American made instruments are overpriced and you're largely just paying for the first world labour. But there's actually an appreciable feel of quality to the thing, a heftiness and solidity that's just been absent in every mid priced copy I've ever played over the years.

Of course the electronics are much better too, far more responsive and refined, and I know now for certain I need to upgrade the pickups/pots in my Mexican Strat. So I suppose that's Christmas accounted for.
>> No. 437429 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>437428

Mexican luthiers will be just as skilled, if not more, than their american counterparts, but as you say the quality of materials and QC is just much better in the USA ones, but of course they sort of have to be with their pricing.

Fender Japan has always seemed the sweet spot to me, there's a reason the made in japan 2010-ish lines sell for twice their RRP now they don't make them there anymore. Though my MIJ Jag bass has that laquer paint stuff that chips off in chunks rather than weathering nicely - such a shame.

The mexican Baja Tele I had was exceptionally good for the price too, I think they must have lost money on those. I was a fool to sell that one.
>> No. 437430 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 1:24 am
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>>437429

That's always been my line of thinking yeah. I guess with a Fender it works out, because they're really very simply constructed, whereas on the other hand it's the reason Gibson are on death's door. They put out comparatively priced instruments, but there's a hell of a lot more hands on, time intensive labour involved in their proccess. So naturally they have to cut corners somewhere.

MIJs are pretty much a thing of myth to me at this point. I've only ever seen limited edition ones up for sale second hand at similar prices to brand new MIAs, such appears to be their reputation. I'm sure I remember a period a few years back when people swore blind they were even better than the US equivalents.
>> No. 437431 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 2:25 am
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>>437430

>I'm sure I remember a period a few years back when people swore blind they were even better than the US equivalents.

I heard that too, though have never made any direct comparisons, it says a lot that the MIJ (technically CIJ, I don't know if there's a difference) Jaguar Bass I had was about £600 when it launched and yet was used by a lot of touring musicians and session players like Pino Palladino and others with Fender deals that could have easily been sent American basses.

I would never sell it, it was a gift and I made my first music money with it, but it's nice to know it's worth nearly twice now what was paid for it, even in a gigged-with condition.

I don't actually have an American Fender, guitar or bass, I suppose it'd be interesting to compare. I've played plenty though, just never really took the time to inspect them. I doubt I'm discerning enough to notice anyway.

What I will say is the Japan one is the first and only instrument I've bought that's come delivered to me in a box and was set up and in a playable condition.
>> No. 437434 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 6:30 pm
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>>437430>>437431
There are similar things at work in the market for radios - the Japanese companies were churning out items at the absolute high end of analogue ten years ago. People like Yaesu, ICOM, Futaba completely dominate the high end of those devices (in slightly different disciplines) - for a while.

Most of them rapidly replaced with software/digital versions now.
>> No. 437435 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 2:21 pm
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>>437434

Not entirely related, but am I the only one who mourns the disappearance of good cassette tape decks? Never mind the fact that it's a dead obsolete technology, it just seems a bit sad that that part of tech history has died. The only manufacturer of mid-level tape decks today seems to be Tascam, and everything else is just cheap Chinese tat with piss poor sound quality (that said, even Tascam uses Chinese-made mechanisms). And higher-quality tapes pretty much only exist as new old stock.

Techmoan does a lot of videos on tapes on his youtube channel, and it's good to see that somebody still appreciates the humble old compact cassette.
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10th June 2020
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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>>437435
Oh for a Nakamichi Dragon.
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10th June 2020
Wednesday 6:42 pm
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>>437435

Tape decks were very pleasing, and as they were so mechanical, the innovations in them were fascinating to me. Like you say, Techmoan really brings that stuff to light.

I had a 4 track Tascam Portastudio in my late teens, just before home DAWs and inSURFaces were really, properly affordable, but it was dirt cheap on eBay. I wish I still had it.

I had a portable tape player for a while at school, but was lucky enough to have been bought a minidisc player by my grandma. That felt properly futuristic.
>> No. 437438 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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Where can I order a reasonably priced "under counter" freezer? I was looking at this on Argos as it's just £100 but they won't deliver to me and everywhere else starts at more than twice the price.
>> No. 437439 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:07 pm
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I'm also fine with a chest freezer, it's more the dimensions that I care about.
>> No. 437440 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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>>437437

>but was lucky enough to have been bought a minidisc player by my grandma. That felt properly futuristic


Doesn't Minidisc have a mediocre bitrate by today's standards?

That said, I remember that it was popular among garage bands because it was their first opportunity to record their music digitally. My cousin was in a band as a teenlad and he was raving about Minidisc for that reason.


But like I said, I just love the clickety-clack of an old-style tape deck when its parts move, especially when it switches directions. And then to be able to operate that mechanism with a remote control is just still pretty satisfying. I went all digital with my music more than 15 years ago, and I wouldn't want to be without the obvious advantages of sound quality and non-existent wear anymore. I now only use my Yamaha tape deck for nostalgia. But still, it's something that young people today never get to experience.
>> No. 437441 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:40 pm
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>>437435

I can't watch Techmoan because I used to work at Maplin and he strikes me as exactly the type of tedious cunt who would loiter around the shop for an hour and try to start a conversation about potentiometers at the components desk.
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10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:46 pm
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>>437440

>Doesn't Minidisc have a mediocre bitrate by today's standards?

Their ATRAC compression was about 300kbits, but that was optional - you could also record straight 1.4ish meg PCM, as good as a CD. This is why it was popular with bands (and sound engineers for TV and radio and so on)

Most minidisc players had an analog optical in and some did SPDIF right out of the box, plus the standard line level inputs, so you could most likely plug it into the sort of mixing desk you'd find in a rent-by-the-hour band practice room/studio.

I'd like to say the minidisc changed things for bands, but it didn't, really - this was still the era where you'd just have to get an AR man to your gig and he'd give you a terrible contract to sign off the back of that.
>> No. 437443 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:49 pm
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>>437441

I think you've posted this before, and I respect your pain, though I suspect Mr. Moan is too insular and self aware in real life to bore people who couldn't care less about it. He'd absolutely talk to me for hours about potentiometers, because he'd be able to tell I was into it - but I just think he's savvy enough to know a blank stare when he sees one.
>> No. 437444 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 9:48 pm
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>>437438
When I needed a new fridge freezer I got an ex-display model from Ikea fairly cheaply. It had a few marks on it, but it's an integrated unit so you don't see it anyway.

Have you looked at eBay stores for Argos or whoever?
>> No. 437445 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 9:53 pm
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>>437443

He does brilliant puppet sketches though.
>> No. 437446 Anonymous
11th June 2020
Thursday 3:09 am
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>>437444
I have now and there are lots for good prices but all of them are for collection which is no use.
>> No. 437447 Anonymous
11th June 2020
Thursday 3:13 am
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Found one, cheers.
>> No. 437448 Anonymous
12th June 2020
Friday 7:00 pm
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I want us all to be happy and move on from all this. Have something new to talk and think about. How did we end up here?

I am starting to get angry about governments response to this. What the fuck do we do next?
>> No. 437449 Anonymous
12th June 2020
Friday 7:11 pm
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>>437448
The people I ordered the freezer from cancelled so I need a freezer again.
>> No. 437450 Anonymous
12th June 2020
Friday 7:25 pm
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>>437448

>What the fuck do we do next?

Second big wave of infections in autumn, followed by crashing out of the EU without a deal on New Year's Eve. Peter Kay dies in February, in April they find Madeline McCann living as a feral goat-girl in the Pyrenees, Kim Jong Un dies in May and Kim Yo Jong immediately invades the South, WWIII by this time next year.

Oh, and Boris Johnson knocks up Priti Patel and gets assassinated by National Action for being a race traitor.
>> No. 437451 Anonymous
12th June 2020
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>437450
>Oh, and Boris Johnson knocks up Priti Patel and gets assassinated by National Action for being a race traitor.

I was with you until this point. It's obvious that Boris will declare himself Alexandria and we'll have the first TG PM.
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12th June 2020
Friday 10:13 pm
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>>437450

> WWIII by this time next year.


Nothing would shock me anymore after the kind of year we've had so far.

Or maybe an asteroid impact. Would do the same job, if it's big enough, but without all the nasty radiation for decades and centuries.
>> No. 437453 Anonymous
12th June 2020
Friday 11:07 pm
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>>437452

India and China have been banging heads on their border. I don't know enough about Asian politics to say what would happen if that escalates but they are both nuclear powers.
>> No. 437454 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 10:11 am
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>>437452
>Nothing would shock me anymore after the kind of year we've had so far.

I feel like we're in a game of Sim City and someone has mucked up all the physics variables; what comes next will be natural disasters as we haven't seen enough of those lately. My money is on a tornado/earthquake hitting the UK.
>> No. 437455 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 10:36 am
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>>437454

When a volcano somehow erupts and devastates Manchester at the same time as aliens and godzilla rock up, we'll know this was true.
>> No. 437456 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 10:57 am
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>>437450
I don't think that last part would happen. I saw a photo of Patel's husband recently and he's fucking huge, easily could have been fourth in line to play The Mountain from that show no one remembers. I feel like you only fall for Boris Johnson if every other bloke you've shagged was a wet noodle in every sense.
>> No. 437457 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 11:54 am
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>>437454
>I feel like we're in a game of Sim City and someone has mucked up all the physics variables; what comes next will be natural disasters as we haven't seen enough of those lately.
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating
Climate projections worse than expected.
>> No. 437458 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 12:03 pm
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>>437457
Yes, that could well be it - an Autumn of rain and flooding could be just the ticket.
>> No. 437459 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 4:30 pm
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I've just been for a walk into town. An old man approached me, presumably because we were both in shorts, to bemoan the fact it was 26° out and all of the womenfolk were wearing trousers instead of skirts and shorts. I wasn't really sure where to go with that.
>> No. 437460 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 6:31 pm
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>>437456

It's an optical illusion. He's not that big, ARE PRITI is just really tiny.
>> No. 437461 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 6:42 pm
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>>437460
EXCEPT HER HUGE BLIMMIN' ARSE!
>> No. 437462 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 7:57 pm
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>>437461

What Mummy lacks in height, she amply makes up for in THICCness.
>> No. 437463 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 8:00 pm
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>>437462

My weakness for short, large arsed mental lasses is really troubling me here.
>> No. 437464 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 8:48 pm
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>>437462
I know I'm opening myself up to accusations of being "bumder", but that outfit is making her look hideous regardless of her proportions. I can spot this and I've been wearing the same vinegar scented trackies for 36 hours now.

>>437463
Don't do it, man, she'll suck your soul right through your Jap's eye.
>> No. 437465 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 8:56 pm
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>>437464

I'm not saying that I want Priti to smother me to death with her big arse, but I'm not not saying that.
>> No. 437466 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 9:20 pm
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>>4374641
I think pretty much all of her outfits are unflattering like that.
>> No. 437468 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 10:16 pm
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As it turns out there's a Mistress Patel twitter account. No word on if she runs it.
https://twitter.com/pritidompatel

>>437464
What would you suggest as an alternative? I'm thinking booty shorts and a choker might clash with her role as Secretary of State.
>> No. 437469 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 1:23 am
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>>437468
>As it turns out there's a Mistress Patel twitter account. No word on if she runs it. https://twitter.com/pritidompatel
I'm not sure what the opposite of a boner is, but I have that right now. I can feel my cock shrivelling. In disgust.

I think.
>> No. 437470 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 11:41 am
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>>437468

Fuck her. And I certainly don't mean literally.
>> No. 437471 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 6:37 pm
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Picked up a click and collect order from Asda. It turns out if you reject the substitutions they give you them for free because they won't accept them back once they've brought them out to you due to coronavirus.
>> No. 437472 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 7:08 pm
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>>437470

When all this is over, I'm going to scour the country for the escort that looks most like Priti, book her for an overnight and ride the hole off her.
>> No. 437473 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 8:42 pm
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>>437472

I've now and then toyed with the idea of doing the same with a Rachel Riley lookalike.

In general, not just when this crisis is over.
>> No. 437474 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 8:47 pm
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>>437473

I'd never noticed her gammy eye before. Is that a job requirement or something?
>> No. 437475 Anonymous
14th June 2020
Sunday 9:59 pm
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Trying to work out if Mike Jeavon's wife would be a good shag or not. Could go either way, either she just lies there or is full on domme.
>> No. 437476 Anonymous
15th June 2020
Monday 5:27 am
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>>437475

She's married to Mike Jeavons, there has to be something seriously wrong with her.
>> No. 437480 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 11:50 am
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I'm experimenting with replacing butter with hummus. Sandwich seems okay.
>> No. 437484 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 11:19 pm
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But that's pretty much all they ever do anyway. I've been teaching myself music theory, I've been a "musician" for more than ten years and got on fine without it, but when you've got the time on your hands, why not? It's been incredibly gratifying, and the best part is that it's not really learning something new, so I'm not struggling to get my head around anything like I would be if I'd suddenly decided to learn Norwegian or something. I already know a lot of it in my own weird nameless way, because it's the sort of stuff you just suss out over the years but don't know the words to describe- But actually comprehending the rules behind it all and the terminology you hear thrown about a lot is like jumping from 2D to 3D. Suddenly the possibilities look endless before you.

Meanwhile the only conversations at work right now (key worker) are what people are watching on telly, and what they've had for their dinner the night before. These are people who felt lost when they'd run out of episodes of fucking Ozark, but apparently the fact I'm not dying to get down to Primark makes me the boring one.

I don't understand people sometimes.
>> No. 437485 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 11:46 pm
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>>437484

There's a great article that gets linked here sometimes about how the DWP are responsible for a huge amount of iconic british music, since the best way to get good at being a band/artist is to sit at home all day on the dole and just do it.
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18th June 2020
Thursday 8:23 am
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>> No. 437493 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 10:53 am
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>>437485

Absolutely, I've only ever achieved the kind of niche underground success that means I'll probably have hipster teenagers begging my old band to reform and do another tour in 2035, but all our recordings and successful gigging periods happened when we were all unemployed.

Sadly there's kind of a barrier to entry to it these days; you need a fair bit of capital behind you in order to get the essentials of a touring band. Long gone are the days you'd be getting petrol money and free drinks at very minimum; nowadays you're playing up and down the country for fuck all for at least a couple of years until you have "enough of a following" to justify such meagre compensation. There's only so much promotion you can get playing the same venue in your home town every weekend, and competition is extremely steep thanks to the Internet.
>> No. 437495 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:26 am
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>>437493

Worse, a lot of small venues (especially in London) require bands to buy a block of tickets up front before they'll book you. That's a total deal-breaker for struggling bands but no problem at all for trust fund kids, hence the increasingly posh make-up of the UK charts.
>> No. 437496 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:47 am
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https://www.aplaceinthesun.com/property/details/ap2519278/san-siro-ref-4561

Is there a reason it's so cheap to get relatively ok apartments in Italy by a world visited tourist destination site?

Are the fees in Italy in taxes extortionate or something?
>> No. 437497 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:55 am
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>>437496
I wouldn't suggest buying property any nearer the Equator than you really have to.
>> No. 437498 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 12:07 pm
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>>437496
If it's anything like Switzerland then you'll notice there is no washing machine in the apartment. This will be in a communal area, likely inside the garage, and you'll have to pay service charges for this and possibly for an apartment caretaker too.

Also, the San Siro area of Lake Como looks like it's in the middle of nowhere, so I'd expect limited infrastructure and you're probably paying tourist trap prices for the likes of dining out.
>> No. 437504 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 8:26 pm
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>>437496
That looks like a good place. The challenge with these cheap places in Italy is that you need to be properly wealthy to buy one and do it all up - once there, in these locations, there isn't going to be much in the way of work, so you better have a remote job (and good internet) and plenty of funds.
>> No. 437506 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>>437504
I mean the way the world is going I wouldn't be against a 30k salary working remotely and paying a mortgage on that bad boy.
>> No. 437507 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 9:14 pm
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>>437506
Sadly, it's extremely unlikely that you would get a foreign mortgage unless you're over 50% equity/deposit.
>> No. 437515 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:06 am
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The air hostess I'm talking to at the minute looks exactly like Tiffany Trump. Not sure how I feel about that but lockdown fanny is lockdown fanny innit
>> No. 437516 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:28 am
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>>437515
Do either of you live alone? If so, you're not in lockdown.
>> No. 437517 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:36 am
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>>437516
My mother-in-law keeps trying to visit all of the fucking time now, which she says she can because of the bubble thing as she's divorced.
>> No. 437520 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 9:26 am
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>>437496
lots of EYE-tal-YANS in italy
>> No. 437523 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 1:14 pm
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>>437515
Don't count your chickens until they hatch, I keep having women be dead keen only to drop any response the moment I suggest we meet up. Flakes are the norm of the dating scene but it's getting quite hurtful now.
>> No. 437524 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 1:15 pm
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>>437522

You are being used because they want an ego boost. It is profoundly shitty behaviour but people will defend it like it isnt sociopathic.
>> No. 437525 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 1:30 pm
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>>437516

I live alone but I visit my grandmother every few days at the moment, it's already not ideal, risk wise. If she got the rona because I was dipping my knob in a sky waitress I'd feel pretty bad.
>> No. 437527 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 2:36 pm
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Now that I think about it, I definitely need a shag. I watch a lot of youtube, but these days I spend half the video thinking about what it would be like to shag the youtuber if it's a woman, or the youtuber's wife or girlfriend. The plainer the better, too, as if I'm going to bump into them in the queue at Asda.

I think Barry Lewis's missus is probably into the rough stuff, I couldn't live with her though as she whinges a lot. I'm beginning to understand what the rest of you lot see in Vicki Pipe, and don't even get me started on Jane and/or Ellen from Oxbox.
>> No. 437528 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 3:50 pm
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Struggling to find the reset button for the past five years; concern growing.
>> No. 437537 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 7:50 pm
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>>437528

Things would only go the same way again, lad. We can't go over it, we can't go under it, so we'll have to go through it.

Hopefully Western civilisation is collapsing, at least when the Chinese are undisputedly in charge there won't be so much of all this white guilt and self-loathing for being the big baddies of the world all over the place, and we can get on with life sensibly again.
>> No. 437538 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:01 pm
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>>437527

I've developed an unhealthy infatuation with Mae from C&Rsenal.


>> No. 437539 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:07 pm
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>>437496

Rural Italy is experiencing severe depopulation due to demographic shifts - young people are moving to major cities or emigrating to find work, so the rural population is rapidly dying out. You can buy a fixer-upper in the poorer regions of the south for about £10,000.
>> No. 437540 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:10 pm
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>>437538

Absolutely fantastic. I see the appeal.
>> No. 437571 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 10:12 pm
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>>437537
I don't give a shit about politics. I've pissed away the last half a decade, you self-indulgent cunt.
>> No. 437572 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 10:30 pm
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>>437538
Not even a guilty one.
>> No. 437578 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 10:59 pm
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>>437572

Given her taste in guns, I imagine that she has a collection of intimidating dragon dildos.


>> No. 437581 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 11:31 pm
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>>437578
I'm not sure that tracks.
>> No. 437585 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 11:41 pm
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>>437581

Big weird guns, big weird dicks. Seems straightforward to me.
>> No. 437588 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 11:49 pm
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>>437581

She doesn't strike me as the sort of woman who makes much use of the words "too big".
>> No. 437593 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 12:06 am
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>>437527
>The plainer the better, too, as if I'm going to bump into them in the queue at Asda

If this was a category of porn it would be by far my favourite. A girl you know you might a chance with but, all the same, you'd be over the Moon to have a girl that is like her in your life (aside from the porn of course). Don't think about it too hard though or a piece of you will die inside.

Still, there's another angle too it which I think has been said before here, people in general who are just really into their stuff and are out doing things are incredibly fit. I had an electrician pop up on a dating app recently who had spent 4 months in the polar on some electrical design project. Had loads of shot of her riding motorbikes and shooting off guns between working on weird little projects. I'm sure a fair amount of that time was spent sweating her tits off in a makeshift portacabin drinking energy drinks but that just turned me on even more.

Struggled to message anything because I was so intimidated. It reminds me of that line told by Thom Yorke (lead singer of Coldplay) on how, when he appeared on Space Ghost in the same episode as Bjork, he just didn't know what to say to her.
>> No. 437597 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 12:13 am
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>>437593

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>Thom Yorke (lead singer of Coldplay)

If this is a troll it worked really well, I'm very angry now.

Completely agree with everything else you've said, although I must admit I've never been intimidated to talk to interesting women - if anything I'm relieved when I find someone I can talk to about something other than family, pets, and TV.

If I ever meet Bjork I fear I will try too hard. The USB stick I keep on my keys will always contain the generative drum machine I wrote in Max in university, I'm sure she'd want to see it.
>> No. 437602 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 12:22 am
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>>437593

>If this was a category of porn it would be by far my favourite.

http://abbywinters.com

http://girlsoutwest.com

http://desperateamateurs.com

http://yanks.com
>> No. 437606 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 12:36 am
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>>437602

There's also the reality wank, which is having a wank to someone you have slept with or definitely could sleep with. Of course, many porn stars also offer escort services, and even if they don't, if you have a fancy enough looking camera, a couple of box lights and some cash, you can probably still shag most pornstars; so in a way most porn is this sort of porn.
>> No. 437607 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 12:40 am
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>>437606

The reality wank is the thinking man’s wank. Some bird from California I’ll never meet is far more unattractive than some bird from Bolton being railed from behind over the kitchen sink I may bump into at an old fort or a Victorian folly.
>> No. 437616 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 2:51 am
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>>437607

I saw Lexi Belle wandering about in Vauxhall last year, the world is a lot smaller than it used to be. I'm sure I could have charmed her, the yanks love a british accent.
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20th June 2020
Saturday 4:03 am
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>>437616


Oh cool. That totally defeats my point then. You’ve seen a porn star therefore my point is invalid.
>> No. 437621 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 4:13 am
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Sahara Knite off of Game of Thrones will wank you off for fifty quid.
>> No. 437622 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 4:33 am
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>>437616

And this is laughable. I’d expect this from Jay Cartright.
>> No. 437626 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 5:09 am
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>>437620

I can't quite process how to respond to this as it's so stupid and a little bit embarrassing to read.

>>437622

Do you think I'm lying about seeing a random woman in London, or do you think I was giving a serious estimation of my ability to chat up a porno woman I saw on a street? I really shouldn't be having to explain this sort of stuff on .gs.
>> No. 437627 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 9:00 am
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>>437620>>437622
You lads are taking this very seriously, for some reason.
>> No. 437628 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 10:44 am
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>>437627
Wanking is serious business m8.
>> No. 437631 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 1:01 pm
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The part I find unbelievable about it is that personally, I'd never be able to recognise a porn actress from any other random bimbo, without seeing her fanny.
>> No. 437632 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 1:07 pm
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>>437631
I don't think I could recognise a single fanny.
>> No. 437633 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 1:21 pm
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>>437632

Have you ever seen one? They're like female fingerprints. No two are alike.
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20th June 2020
Saturday 2:57 pm
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>>437633

Even just watching porn infrequently now and then should give you an idea.
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20th June 2020
Saturday 3:34 pm
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>>437633
Yeah. I genuinely don't think I could pick my girlfriend's minge out of a lineup.
>> No. 437639 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 6:03 pm
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>>437631

Lexi Belle is someone I could recognise a mile off, being so well acquainted with her work, she has been in porn since she legally could be and is my age, so I have seen a lot of her. I also think unlike many pornstars (unlike many women) she basically looks the same in and out of makeup.

I don't know how to respond to the fanny comment. Like others have said, I doubt I could pick anyone's fanny out of a line up, even the bird who sent me a fanny picture like two days ago, I doubt I could pick that one out of a line up even using the reference image.

Come to think of it, I doubt I'd be able to recognise my own cock.
>> No. 437644 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 8:38 pm
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Longest day, lads. Can't wait for the Sun to fuck off.

>>437639
>Come to think of it, I doubt I'd be able to recognise my own cock.

No homo but I actually think cocks are easier to recognise because there's more you can see. I could pick out Bailey Jay's cock but with the women I've been with I've never stared and have been discouraged from doing so. Could pick out the arsehole though.
>> No. 437648 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 9:50 pm
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>>437644

>Bailey Jay's cock

She does have a very distinctive cock.
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20th June 2020
Saturday 10:44 pm
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>> No. 437658 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 11:01 pm
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>>437648

>She does have a very distinctive cock.

How do you insert the tampon in there, to stop the menses.
>> No. 437659 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 11:34 pm
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>>437658

/iq/ is that way m8 ->
>> No. 437661 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 11:42 pm
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>>437659

No it isn't

How do cocks deal with menstruation, simple question.
>> No. 437668 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 7:58 am
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>>437661

Fuck off, we're not going to indulge you.
>> No. 437694 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 9:24 pm
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Singular "they" not being a thing is so contrived. Only Queens English ponces cared about it before 2017.
>> No. 437695 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 9:25 pm
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Natalie Mars's penis is pretty unique. I used to quite like her but these days I'm not so sure. Daisy Taylor on the other hand is absolutely gorgeous.
Kind of feel silly saying 'her' but whatever. Along with 'They' it feels just a little contrived. It's as though it's more about adoption of the group think than actual respect .. similar to the shipping forecast in a way. What do you think?

>>437668
Not to be a cunt but he could say the same thing about trans community in general.
>> No. 437696 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 9:38 pm
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>>437695

I think Natalie had a botched circumcision or something, her knob is all messed up. Daisy is a cutie, but for my money Ella Hollywood is the queen.

It's definitely she. If you're going to wank over someone, then the least you can do is use their preferred pronouns.
>> No. 437697 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 10:27 pm
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>> No. 437698 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 10:39 pm
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>>437697

Alright granddad, we know you don't like fatties or trannies or pop music or funny foreign food, but there's no need to bang on about it.
>> No. 437699 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 10:49 pm
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>>437695

Not sure I'd want to get it on with a transsexual. I don't particularly like knobs, the thought of touching another person's penis isn't gross or revolting to me, it just doesn't seem like anything I'd ever really fancy. Also, the only thing you can really do is bum them, which is another thing I'm not into. Or be bummed by them, but again, not my cup of tea.

Just out of curiosity, a post-op transsexual would be a different thing. Especially in the younger generation 20-25 nowadays, there are some improbably stunning ones that put some cis women to shame.
>> No. 437700 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 11:00 pm
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>>437699
>Just out of curiosity, a post-op transsexual would be a different thing. Especially in the younger generation 20-25 nowadays, there are some improbably stunning ones that put some cis women to shame.

I think I'd be too scared of knobrot to put my knob in a tranny fanny. I'd much prefer them to still have a cock.
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21st June 2020
Sunday 11:14 pm
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>>437699

I've never really understood people who aren't into bum fun. Arses are brilliant m8, get into it.
>> No. 437702 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 11:19 pm
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>>437700

I've seen some man made vaginas in online porn, it's hit and miss, some are really decent looking, while others look like more of a Patpong back alley hackjob.

I just read that surgery techniques have improved dramatically in the last 20 years or so, and that given proper access to healthcare, i.e. good plastic surgeons, the results can look pretty impressive. Which, again, you probably don't have as a second-rate Thai ladyboy proz who makes barely enough money for a roof over her head.
>> No. 437704 Anonymous
21st June 2020
Sunday 11:30 pm
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>>437697

This might be the most annoying forced meme I've ever seen.
>> No. 437705 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 12:03 am
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>>437702
Tree surgeons are still suffering to this day.
>> No. 437706 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 12:08 am
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>>437701

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/anal-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html

>Receptive anal sex also increases the risk of anal cancer in both men and women. Because of this, men who have sex with men have a high risk of this cancer.
>> No. 437707 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 12:42 am
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>>437706

>Most squamous cell anal cancers are linked to infection with the human papillomavirus

Anal cancer is rare as hen's teeth, you should be using a johnny anyway, but there's an HPV vaccine available if arse cancer is a big worry for you.
>> No. 437708 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 2:21 pm
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I don't understand the point of the 'make an offer' function on eBay. Item listed for £15 so I make an offer of £14 that is automatically rejected, which isn't the first time something like this has happened.
>> No. 437709 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 2:23 pm
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>>437708 it's the default option and sometimes linked to lower listing costs / offers. Don't take it personally.
>> No. 437710 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 6:13 pm
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>>437707

>if arse cancer is a big worry for you

I'm sure a bit of bumhole rot doesn't faze the committed bumming enthusiast.
>> No. 437711 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 8:43 pm
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Joel Schumacher is now the celebrity death that has effected me most because I'm so chuffed about it.
>> No. 437712 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 10:18 pm
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A friend who is an NHS consultant told me he had a patient today who is pregnant again, after a stillbirth earlier this year. She has gone off cigarettes and booze now, "to make sure it doesn't happen again".

My friend couldn't decide if he felt shocked or happy for her.
>> No. 437713 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 10:30 pm
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I know it's been a mind-fuck of a year but how did I not know that the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot film had been released? Fucks sake.
>> No. 437715 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 11:27 pm
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Just made eye contact with the wee boy across the street as we both looked out of our windows at a passing police chopper, weird feeling. I am 25.
>> No. 437716 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 12:01 am
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>>437713

Two middle aged men reprising their early 90s slacker roles.

What can go wrong.
>> No. 437717 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 12:36 am
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>>437716

The good thing about the lockdown is that all the movies this year will be released straight-to-stream so can be pirated at full resolution right away.
>> No. 437718 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 12:41 am
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Fucking hell, I've ended up so far behind at work because I keep opening my personal laptop to listen to music. Shamefully behind and didn't say anything sooner like an adult would. It feels like I'm back at university again.

I hope I don't get fired over this.
>> No. 437719 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 12:42 am
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>>437716

I can't imagine it'll go too badly. Smith has hardly matured in his sense of humour and his fanbase knows what to expect.

I assume I will enjoy it.
>> No. 437720 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 1:08 am
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>>437719
I'm 25 minutes in and I've had a reflexive look of disgust on my face for almost all of it.
>> No. 437721 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 3:24 am
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I think I might get back into shooting. I have to assume at least one of you lads has some current experience with air guns, anything fun in the last six or seven years?

I've had a FAC before and will likely apply again, but for now I'd just like something to get my eye back in with that will last. Maybe shoot some pigeons, but probably not.
>> No. 437722 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 4:39 am
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>>437721

The Air Arms S-series are still the definitive do-it-all PCPs. The big new trend is bullpups and compact carbines, with value-priced options from Kral or Hatsan and premium options from AGT, Edgun and Ataman. The fun gun I'd look at is the Sig Sauer MCX Virtus, which is an AR15 styled PCP with a 30 round pellet magazine system that actually works.
>> No. 437723 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 12:34 pm
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>>437718
i'm the same, it's kind of fortunate i have a micro-manager for a boss so that he keeps checking up on what i'm doing twice a day and i have to keep up with my lies else i wouldn't do a thing.
>> No. 437724 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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How the fuck is the local rag and bone man still in business. Jesus Christ just die already.
>> No. 437725 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 5:56 pm
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>>437724
I quite like the idea of being a rag and bone man, or some kind of scrap collector. I imagine there's a lot of material value in recyclable plastics, metals and the like.
>> No. 437726 Anonymous
23rd June 2020
Tuesday 6:05 pm
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>>437725

Same, it would be like living in scrapheap challenge, but with more copper theft.

I don't really know why you'd want to lose them, it's great to be able to chuck scrap out on the driveway and have it disappear within the day.
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24th June 2020
Wednesday 4:11 am
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>>437722
>Sig Sauer MCX

Never really been a gun nut, and I don't want to be a Walt, at all, but those Sig Sauer air rifles look very good indeed. I've recently had a rodent problem in my garden, and have been actively considering a purchase.
>> No. 437737 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 4:57 am
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>>437735

I was really trying not to do what I always do and spend too much on something I really don't need, and just get a £200ish quid springer, but they really do look fun.

I've stumbled across this absolute gem of a youtuber in my fevered research, though:


>> No. 437739 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 8:46 am
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Crumpets? Best microwaved.
>> No. 437742 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 10:06 am
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I've just found out that horse semen isn't generally frozen, when you call up to say your lady horse is ready, someone nips out, wanks him off into a bucket and couriers it over.
I mean, I'd never really given it much thought, but now I know that across the country, there's a JIT horse wanking industry.
Our operators are standing by for your calls.
>> No. 437744 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 10:23 am
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>>437742

Please enjoy this, the most repulsive article on the whole of WikiHow. Pity the poor bastard who had to illustrate step 6.

https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-the-Sheath-of-a-Horse
>> No. 437745 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 10:32 am
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>>437744
I see you and I raise you >>/news/17551.
>> No. 437747 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 10:43 am
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>>437742

I've always felt a bit put out that a lot of horse cum is worth exponentially more than mine.
>> No. 437757 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 12:56 pm
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>>437739

You might as well make toast in the tumble dryer.

>>437737

In that case, Hatsan and Stoeger make ludicrously cheap springers that are perfectly capable of casual target shooting or ratting. You should be able to get a full outfit with a scope for about £200.
>> No. 437761 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 1:36 pm
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>>437742

One of my fetishes is being dressed up in all latex horse gear and that. Sometimes it involves getting wanked off while the lass croons in my ear about what a prize stud I am and so on.

I hope you enjoy knowing that your bizarre esoteric horse wanking industry is the object of roleplay for some deviants out there.
>> No. 437764 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 3:42 pm
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#LAD.
>> No. 437765 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 3:44 pm
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>>437764
We're never colonising space, are we?
>> No. 437766 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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>>437765

TBH there's very little motivation to do so while you can sit in a spoons with your kindle and the missus stuck at home with the sprog.
>> No. 437767 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 7:31 pm
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Had my first McDonald's since they reopened. It smelled extremely beefy.
>> No. 437768 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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>>437767
That's pozitive
>> No. 437769 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 10:07 pm
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>>437768
Can't order loads due to order limit though.
>> No. 437770 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 2:52 pm
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Leeds have been playing their games with a cardboard cutout of Bin Laden in their ground.
>> No. 437771 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 2:54 pm
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>>437770
It's troubling that no-one on staff spotted this.
>> No. 437773 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 3:01 pm
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>>437771
They probably just saw generic brown person with a beard. At rugby matches in Australia they've had Hitler and Harold Shipman.
>> No. 437774 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 3:03 pm
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>>437771

Honestly not sure I would have without it being pointed out. The way the photo was taken or possibly how it was printed on the card does make him look less distinctive.
>> No. 437775 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 6:47 pm
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>>437771
I'd be willing to bet that the staff had a good chuckle about it, and made sure that they covered their arses so their bosses can't prove who did it.
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25th June 2020
Thursday 7:56 pm
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>>437775

And were also probably eskimoic. A lot of the Asian lads I've known in Leeds have had a pretty irreverent sense of humour about it, what with the Beeston bombers and all.
>> No. 437777 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 1:21 pm
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I thought rewatching Breaking Bad would be a waste of time, but so much has slipped my mind it's actually very enjoyable. One overriding thing I'd forgotten is how bloody horrible it all was, e.g. I'd forgotten or failed to appriciate the first time around that more or less everything Walt says to his entire family is a complete lie, and then all the drug use too. For some reason I remembered it being more of a laugh than it really is.
>> No. 437778 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 1:42 pm
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>>437773
>They probably just saw generic brown person with a beard.

What does this even mean? Is this just something you say idiosyncratically? I'd expect most people to recognise Boris Johnson, but would you describe him to those who don't as a 'generic white person with blond hair'?
>> No. 437779 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 1:50 pm
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>>437778
They're all quite samey looking, particularly in their sand pyjamas.
>> No. 437780 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 1:58 pm
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>>437773>>437770
I wonder if saturation until the figures lose meaning would be a good for society. A image of hitler/binladen amoung countless other faces could mean evil is present in humanity rather than specific human embodiments of evil. It might counter tribalism and black and white thinking - assuming that's a problem. But then again this doesn't sound far removed from censoring history, so maybe i'm full of shit.
>> No. 437781 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:03 pm
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>>437780
People just love to shitpost IRL. It's why one of my friends tends to say things like "does Fred West own a shovel?" instead of answering with "yes".
>> No. 437782 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:04 pm
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>>437777
The first two seasons are a dark comedy, but it turns to straight drama for the most part in the later seasons.
>> No. 437784 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:08 pm
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>>437779
Yes Leeds supporters are usually so diverse by comparison.
>> No. 437785 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>437784
Exactly. That's kind of the point.
>> No. 437786 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:46 pm
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>>437785
Oh sorry, you actually had a point?
>> No. 437787 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 2:56 pm
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>>437786
Where are we even going with this? What are you aiming to get out of this?

Are you okay lad? Is cabin fever setting in?
>> No. 437789 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 3:26 pm
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>>437787
I dunno, someone said "generic brown person with a beard" and I was trying to find out the meaning behind this non-sequitur. If you can't adequately explain it maybe don't post?
>> No. 437790 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 3:29 pm
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>>437789
It sounds kind of nondescript to me.
>> No. 437791 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 3:43 pm
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>>437790
>If you can't adequately explain it maybe don't post?
>> No. 437793 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 6:15 pm
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>>437789

The fuck are you on about? It's a common phenomena that people have trouble distinguishing between people of races they're not that familiar with. It's been the go-to lazy race joke for decades.
>> No. 437794 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 6:48 pm
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>>437784

Of course, Leeds is such a sheet-white city that it's absolutely unthinkable you'd ever see an Asian lad at a Leeds game.

Have you ever been to Harehills? Lincoln Green? Chapeltown? Let alone any of the surrounding conurbation southwest of Morley.

You utter dick.
>> No. 437795 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 7:45 pm
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All that matters is that City will climb from the relegation spots and Leeds are going to bottle it again.
>> No. 437796 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 7:57 pm
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>>437795
Give it a couple of years and the derby with Grimsby will be a regular fixture.
>> No. 437797 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 8:08 pm
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>>437770
Can't say I'd recognise him if it wasn't pointed out. Even if you did, would you have the bottle to point it out given that if you're wrong it's likely a sackable offence?

>>437794
What do the demographics cities have to do with the ethnicity of supporters? I'm pretty sure Manchester isn't in China.
>> No. 437798 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 8:58 pm
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>>437794

You seem to be assuming that the crowd at a football match is a representative slice of the city's demographic - this isn't always the case.
>> No. 437799 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 9:08 pm
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>>437798

Of course I understand that, but it's not an effective argument for Leeds. I'm not going to speculate on the sociology of it but a Leeds crowd isn't typically lacking in brown faces. Maybe the stadium being in one of the most ethnic parts of the city has something to do with it.

As a disclaimer I haven't been since probably 2008 so maybe it's gone a bit Women's Institute since.
>> No. 437800 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 9:21 pm
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>>437799

Last time I went was about 2014 and it was mostly white. If you search for Leeds crowd photos, it's difficult to find a brown face. Though maybe the journos like to point their cameras at the white parts of the crowd.
>> No. 437801 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>437800

Yeah, but only as far as any crowd of anything anywhere in this country is mostly white. Britain is mostly white.
>> No. 437802 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 9:48 pm
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>>437801

Agreed, which seems contrary to >>437799's claim that the crowd wasn't "typically lacking in brown faces", unless the subtext I'm missing is that he already was taking into account the relatively lower percentage of BAME people within any given UK population, but that again seems contrary to >>437794 sarcastically calling Leeds a "sheet white city" and listening all of the predominantly ethnic areas.
>> No. 437803 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 10:22 pm
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>>437802

The point is that a Leeds crowd is probably exactly as ethnically diverse as you'd expect any crowd of Britains to be; set against the original assertion that a Leeds crowd is exceptionally white to the point of being noteworthy. The observations about Leeds' overall diversity were simply to highlight that it'd be doubly preposterous to suggest none of them like football enough to go and see the local team.

I'm sure there's some football team out there you can highlight for a renowned lack of non-white attendance, but I doubt it's Leeds.
>> No. 437804 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 11:33 pm
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Tried to access my online banking tonight but the passcode never came through to my phone. I'm probably fucked, yeah?
>> No. 437806 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 1:08 am
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Leeds is shit and anything to do with the club is shit. I really want my annual dose of Schadenfreude when they seriously lose it again. Who cares about the '70s? BRILLIANT teenlad or 21 y/o, not your period to dip into yet.

The Liver building is on fire, some revellers were aiming fireworks at some blue lights that were on the building.
>> No. 437809 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 5:55 am
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>>437802

Leeds is a very diverse city, but you'll see more brown faces at Headingley than Elland Road.
>> No. 437811 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 2:00 pm
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So apparently the govt. are removing the right to trial by jury? Because of covid causing the backlog of cases to go from 39,000 to 41,000, despite having been over 50,000 in 2014 when we didn't have covid?
I can't see any news about this at all.
>> No. 437812 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 6:11 pm
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We've had three days of hot summer goodness, now for the three+ weeks of shite overcast gloom.

>>437804
Hate this, so unreliable. I never get text codes through. Twitch is the worst for it. Feels like trying to get into Fort Knox if you forget your password.
>> No. 437813 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 8:20 pm
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>>437811
Perhaps there's no news about it because we don't have the right to a jury trial already.

Magistrates courts hear about 95% of all cases and only have juries in very specific civil cases. Crown court does have juries. But even there, if there is evidence of jury tampering, the judge can dismiss them.
>> No. 437814 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 8:35 pm
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I haven't done jury service but my mate has. In what was essentially a 'he said, she said' case, domestic abuse, he sent the guy down primarily because he 'looked like a criminal.'
>> No. 437815 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 8:43 pm
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>>437811
The bill is yet to be introduced and seems like doing away with juries entirely will only be as a temporary and last resort. >>437813 is right that this is a storm in a teacup in actuality, for decades governments have reduced the role of juries which is partly in response to sheer complexity and number of cases.

I wouldn't be for doing them away entirely, mind. Most of the world doesn't have jury trials but they have been brought in for some jurisdictions as a way of opening up the judiciary and being useful in cases where public opinion runs high or the law has ambiguity ('extreme pornography' is the classic example). Judges, after all, don't really live in the real world and will never be in-step with wider society due to their age unless we create a separate judicial profession as in the continent.

That said, it's hard to take a strong position on this. The continent did away with early jury trials because it was felt that the jury could be influenced which, when talking in medieval times, was certainly true. These days it's more questionable but as nobody can talk about what goes on in jury's decision making it's hard to find data either way.
>> No. 437817 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>>437815

If it's not important then why the seemingly duplicitous cover for it? That "secret barrister" chap seems to be quite upset about it and I suspect he's better qualified to speak about it than you.
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27th June 2020
Saturday 9:48 pm
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>>437815

>That said, it's hard to take a strong position on this.

Against the wider background of the English justice system, I think it's very easy to take a strong position. The government has defunded the courts, defunded the police, defunded the CPS and defunded Legal Aid to the extent that human rights abuses are happening on a daily basis. Victims are waiting years for their case to be heard, innocent people are being convicted because of failures in disclosure or a lack of representation, guilty people are walking free because of avoidable blunders in evidence gathering and prosecution.

This government clearly doesn't care about justice. They don't get the benefit of the doubt when they propose abolishing one of the fundamental safeguards of our legal system. They created the backlog in our court system and they could fix it with a relatively trivial amount of money, but instead they want to cut corners and deliver "justice" on the cheap.
>> No. 437819 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 8:33 pm
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>>437817

>That "secret barrister" chap seems to be quite upset about it and I suspect he's better qualified to speak about it than you.

It's arguably duplicitous given >>43781 's comments. Also, the secret barrister, while likely having more expertise in the matter, may also have his own motivations for speaking out. An example on this might be the EC's wonderful remainer bias— but I shouldn't say anything about that because they're all better qualified than me.

>>437818

It's incredibly easy to take a strong position when you think public spending will fix everything. I'm not saying it won't, but given the background of austerity and this current government's leanings, they seem quite happy to reform things to make them more efficient.
>> No. 437820 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 8:37 pm
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As of tomorrow every PC peripheral I own will have some kind of lighting effect. *Johnny Cash voice* ... what have I become...

I also had to pay an extra twenty quid for the less gamerfied keyboard so I'm not best pleased about that.
>> No. 437821 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 9:18 pm
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>>437819

>It's incredibly easy to take a strong position when you think public spending will fix everything.

The justice system used to work pretty well, then Cameron won a general election, slashed everyone's budget and a decade later it's an utter shambles. It's not a huge logical leap to assume that massively reducing the funding of a service without reducing the workload will result in delays and cock-ups.

It's not particularly efficient to have trials delayed because the court has a leaky roof or the heating has broken or the toilets are overflowing or the clerks have run out of printer paper, which now happens on a daily basis up and down the country. It's not particularly efficient to send innocent people to prison because they can't get proper representation.
>> No. 437822 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 9:32 pm
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>>437820

It's pretty difficult to avoid that now, I think. Even good monitors have RGB underglow and shit in them now.

Funnily enough the most expensive keyboard I own doesn't even have a caps lock indicator light, let alone RGB.
>> No. 437823 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 9:35 pm
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>>437820
I was a little annoyed that the PC i ordered had lights inside it. Not RBG shite but glowing orange LEDs. Not sure if there's a way to turn them off either.
>> No. 437824 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 10:14 pm
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>>437823

I started building my PC long enough ago that I just have single colour (red) LED strips in it. It seemed like a fun idea in 2015.
>> No. 437825 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 8:15 am
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>>437820>>437822
Couldn't agree more. I know these multicoloured LED strips are cheap to make and easy to make work, but they're fucking everywhere at the moment. Quite difficult to buy/build a PC that doesn't end up looking a bit Xmas-tree-like.
>> No. 437826 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:13 am
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>>437825
>>437825
I built a PC not three weeks ago and not a single part has RGB.

A lot of things have RGB compatibility, but there are still plenty of parts about that don't light up like an Alfa Romeo dashboard.
>> No. 437827 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:49 am
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>>437826
The fuck is that huge partition at the bottom? Is that a monster PSU?
>> No. 437828 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:53 am
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>>437827

It's a PSU shroud or basement, it hides the standard sized PSU, its wiring, and then just continues for the length of the case because someone decided stopping it short looks bad, so everyone does it this way.
>> No. 437829 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:55 am
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>>437826
Yours doesn't look as smart as mine.
>> No. 437830 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:56 am
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>>437829
Never mind the wiring, what the fuck is all that dust? When did you last clean it?
>> No. 437831 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:57 am
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Oh never mind I just noticed the timestamp.
>> No. 437832 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 10:58 am
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>>437829

I feel like you can tell exactly the amount and how depraved the porn that is stored or viewed on any PC just by looking at it. Yours is mostly dog fucking.
>> No. 437833 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 11:13 am
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>>437825
I'e got everything colour coded inside my case, which is a bit pointless because I have a case with no window on.
The five minutes of enjoyment I might get from a lit up case isn't worth the fact that seeing bright lights out of the corner of my eye is distracting and does my head in. I'm glad I can at least get a case with an orange power and HDD LED, rather than the glaring white and blue LEDs that were popular for a long time.
>> No. 437840 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 4:34 pm
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>>437832
Ooh, do me!
>> No. 437841 Anonymous
29th June 2020
Monday 4:39 pm
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>>437840

Femdom, mostly Mistress T.
>> No. 437851 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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Oh, One Show.
>> No. 437858 Anonymous
1st July 2020
Wednesday 11:16 am
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>>437840

What's with all the foil stuff?
>> No. 437859 Anonymous
1st July 2020
Wednesday 12:04 pm
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>>437858
You can pop a sausage roll in it and keep it warm while you game.
>> No. 437863 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 8:11 am
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I've recently started sprouting long and pale eyebrow hairs. I suppose at some point my ears will follow suit. Is this what will define my thirties; additional body hair?
>> No. 437864 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 3:16 pm
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>>437863
That's been pretty much my experience so far. My mate says I wont start falling to bits until I hit mid 40s so I can handle a bit of hair.
>> No. 437871 Anonymous
8th July 2020
Wednesday 10:35 am
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>>437863
Once you hit 30 all you're really doing from then on is gradually turning into a bush.
>> No. 437882 Anonymous
12th July 2020
Sunday 11:04 am
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I'm eyeing up a new guitar, but I feel like I shouldn't be splurging on an indulgence at a time like this. Intellectually I know it's good for the economy to be spending, but I have an instinctive sense that thrift is a virtue in hard times. I wonder if this mindset will stifle our post-COVID economic recovery, or if everyone will just forget about it and max out their credit cards.
>> No. 437883 Anonymous
12th July 2020
Sunday 11:58 am
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>>437882
If you have money burning a hole in your pocket, spend it on something practical. A brewing kit, an oil press, tools, a shed. It's good to have a hobby but better to have a hobby that might save you money in the future. Music is great but by the sound of it you already have at least one guitar.
>> No. 437885 Anonymous
12th July 2020
Sunday 8:27 pm
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>>437882

I bought myself a new guitar last month, it was pretty worthwhile considering there was nothing else to do but stay at home hobbying.

Of course, as always with music gear, you move on to fancying something else almost immediately after you've got the last one. I've been getting into impulse response loaders, and I want a new amp and load box now.
>> No. 437928 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 8:01 pm
437928 I guess this is the hobbies thread, now.
My back is killing me, but i'm quite pleased with myself for replacing my computers PCU - a power surge fried my old one before flipping all the fuses in my house.
It took about an hour and a half to refit between figuring out that my graphics card is powered by the motherboard rather than a socket and reinserting the RAM in the correct order (because that's a thing, apparently).

Next up i'll be installing more RAM if I can figure out compatibility, then maybe trying to install an OS on an SSD.

Is there some reason why I shouldn't link multiple components on the same power cable?
They put the sockets in series for a reason, right?
>> No. 437929 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 8:24 pm
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>>437928

They're on the same wire but they're not in series, electrically. Usually it's not a problem to do so, only high current drawing stuff like a high end graphics card should be placed on its own power "rail" and usually the cabling nowadays is such that you can't really do it wrong.
>> No. 437930 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 9:22 pm
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First ripe tomatoes and tomatilloes of the year. Pretty tasty.
>> No. 437931 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 9:27 pm
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Think I'm definitely going to do my PPL now. Maybe by next year.
>> No. 437932 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 10:13 pm
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>the cabling nowadays is such that you can't really do it wrong
And here i am patting myself on the back for fitting the right shapes to the corresponding holes.
>> No. 437933 Anonymous
13th July 2020
Monday 10:32 pm
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I finished painting the inside of my parents' garage this weekend. Took me three fucking days to paint over nigh on 40 years worth of scuffs and grime from top to bottom. Some areas needed three or even four layers of white paint, despite scrubbing them with plenty of bleach beforehand. But now it's all in a pristine bright white, and probably looks better than the day my parents moved in.

I also installed two additional wall outlets with all the wiring. I'm not a qualified electrician, but with solid basic knowledge of electricity and a good bit of common sense, it's not necessarily as dangerous as you're always told it is. Don't try this at home, kids.
>> No. 437940 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:14 am
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Do you think if I built a PC in a Tropicana carton anyone would buy it?
>> No. 437941 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:25 am
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>>437940
So, a Raspberry Pi, then?
>> No. 437942 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:35 am
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>>437941
I thought maybe I could bend one of those tiny motherboard in of itself, but maybe on of those, yeah.
>> No. 437945 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 9:06 pm
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>>437933
I've also spent the last couple of days painting the inside of my garage, which is my current "shed". Painting walls white is very satisfying indeed. Have put up some nice curtains and added a couple of lights. DIY is cool when you're in the mood for it.
>> No. 437951 Anonymous
16th July 2020
Thursday 12:44 pm
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>>437945

Well this is part of a larger project of refurbishing the garage. It's got a flat roof and an inside rainwater pipe, which an architect friend has told me is a feat of engineering if you manage to build it properly so that the roof doesn't start leaking after just a few years. He said that 35 years without leakage was still a very good time frame, but the last two years or so, it began leaking profusely, especially this past winter, and there was a big water stain down the adjacent inside wall of about two square metres. It would have been easy to just paint over the water stain and be done with it, but the whole inside of the garage was in a worn state, not just from scrapes and scuffs on the walls and darkened areas from car exhaust emissions. There was rubbish everywhere and boxes of unspecifiable car parts and accessories, so I took to them with two large bin bags and cleared it all out. Some of it, like a new old stock unused Bosch ignition system for a Volkswagen T3, could be worth selling on eBay for a few quid.

Now that the walls are painted, the next step will be sealing the concrete floor with a polymer coating. Which will add to a nice refurbished appearance. And then it's on to the roof itself. I stripped off all the old weatherproofing down to the bare reinforced concrete, and I will have to rebuild it layer by layer.
>> No. 437986 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 8:05 pm
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Antimaskers are weird. Think we need to start doing Venn diagrams to see what else they overlap with.
>> No. 437987 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 8:06 pm
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>>437986
We should arrange it so that all the anti-maskers and the anti-vaxxers have a big party - somewhere indoors.
>> No. 437988 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 8:34 pm
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>>437987
Might I recommend the Ascension Island Civic Hall?
>> No. 437989 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 9:15 pm
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>>437987>>437988

Send them all to Pitcairn. They need some children over there.
>> No. 437990 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 10:05 pm
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>>437986
He looks like someone who needs to take the blue pill instead.

I'm loving the conspiracy theorists at the moment. You know, the ones who are backing Trump when he calls for support for Israel while at the same time saying Jews are a sinister global elite that secretly rule the world.
>> No. 437991 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>437989
Isn't that what got half the island almost thrown in jail last time?
>> No. 437992 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 10:12 pm
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I always find it weird that there's people over the age of 30 who get suckered in by /pol/ and the alt-right mindset.

A lot of the antimaskers remind me of people I used to get stoned with on a local council estate. The type of person who would turn on the computer to discuss with you at length how they'd been researching into flying rods and show you what they'd been reading up on.
>> No. 437993 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 11:06 pm
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>>437992
>I always find it weird that there's people over the age of 30 who get suckered in by /pol/ and the alt-right mindset.

There is no road map for how to advance past school, at a certain point the distinguishing between maturity and lifestyle becomes blurred, no one sits people down and explains what is a good argument or a fallacy or how the world works people choose to absorb that information on their own. Also as we get older we start getting polite about when someone is objectively wrong, suddenly up and down left and right are just opinions. You go on long enough and pay enough attention and you'll see the zeitgeist turn all the values you hold on their head and none of your 'appeals to sensible' will stop it.
>> No. 437996 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 5:54 am
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>>437992
The question mark at the end really irks me.
>> No. 437999 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 3:49 pm
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I've just been to my first charity shop visit since lockdown, which involved queuing to go in and having to use hand sanitiser once inside. I was planning to spend some time perusing the books, hopeful that they'd have a lot in if there's been a deluge of donations over the past few months, but the shelves were at most one-eighth full; the woman working there said someone went in and cleaned them out this morning, which isn't entirely surprising given that they sell books 4 for £1. They'd thoughtfully left six copies of Fifty Shades of Grey on the shelves but there wasn't anything that caught my interest.

On the plus side, Fultons had veggie Rustlers back in stock.
>> No. 438002 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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I've gone up two suit sizes since last autumn. I blame much of it on my physical inactivity since the start of the pandemic.

I am invited to a wedding this August, which will go ahead as planned. Apparently by then, not only will ceremonies with 30 people be allowed, as they already are again, but receptions will be allowed again as well, also with 30 people.

I haven't quite bought a suit yet, but there's probably no point in trying to go down a size in just over three weeks. So I'll continue to keep an eye out for offers on inexpensive suits which don't look inexpensive. Because my goal is to shed a stone or two in the next few months, but obviously I can't ask the bride and groom to postpone their wedding until I've lost enough weight for a smaller suit size.
>> No. 438003 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 5:54 pm
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>>438002
I hear this a lot and somehow I've gone the other way fully. Down from ~85kg to 78, because I stopped eating garbage takeaway every day and started doing 50 or so push-ups every day to compensate for staying at home all day.

Now I feel bad because apparently not spending my teenage years and 20's with a doughy fat physique was not a lot of effort at all but it's not like I can reload from a past save.
>> No. 438004 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 6:00 pm
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>>438002
Tom Percy might be your answer.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tompercymenswear
>> No. 438005 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 6:12 pm
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>>438003

One of my coworkers has told me that the weeks and months working from home enabled him to follow a much more rigorous exercise regime than being cooped up in an office for nine hours a day. And he looks no different now compared to earlier this year.

But yeah, my perception is that plenty of people are complaining right now about putting on the pounds during lockdown.
>> No. 438006 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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>>437999
>someone went in and cleaned them out this morning
They're welcome to them. I have half a book shelf ready to donate, just taking up space across my floor.

I'm glad charity shops are opening back up; they're are where i shop for clothes, CDs/DVDs and the occasional book. I really need a new pair of trousers to accommodate my lockdown girth.
>> No. 438007 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 7:03 pm
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>>438006
The trouble is, the kind of person who will buy dozens of books at 25p a pop is almost certainly listing them on Amazon or eBay for a few quid each.
>> No. 438008 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 9:52 pm
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I am with you. I have lost almost 8kg during lockdown, mostly through not having crap snacks/lunch when commuting or working in the City, and probably drinking less (!) which is slightly surprising.
>> No. 438016 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>438008

A few friends and I replaced our usual regular pub visits with video group chats during lockdown. It was fun, but not as much fun as you'd expect. What we found is that you drink more that way, because you will have bought your beer at the supermarket for a quid a bottle, and of course you don't have to worry about getting home.
>> No. 438017 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 12:48 pm
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>>438007
I once heard of a guy who would do regular rounds of the local charity shops buying out all the vinyl discs, only to destroy half of them to increase the value of his collection.
>> No. 438018 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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>>438017

That sounds a bit silly, given that even the rarest vinyl discs were usually produced in volumes of several thousand.

When my granddad died a few years ago, we found a stamp collection from Nazi Germany, with half a dozen pristine sheets of stamps bearing Hitler's head that looked like they had been printed the day before. Apparently, my great granddad brought them home from the war and then passed them on to my granddad. So I had instant dollar signs in my eyes and looked them up on eBay, but they were going for not even £5 a sheet. It seems that they've gone up a bit in value since, but I'll probably just keep them, in case they will be worth some serious money someday.
>> No. 438044 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 11:53 am
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Why is buttered toast so perfect? It seems that not matter what you add it is never quite as nice as the basic soft toasty bread slathered in melted butter.

And how is Japanese bread by the way? The soft texture designed for a rice-based pallet sounds lovely in my mind.

>>438018
I wonder if Deutsche Post will still accept the stamps? It'll certainly confuse the postman.
>> No. 438048 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 5:31 pm
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>>438044
I was making some cheese on toast this morning. I'd buttered two slices and planning to eat one whilst waiting for another two to toast. Then I'd make three cheese on toasts (in the microwave! - and only three slices will fit). But I ended up eating both my first shipment sans-cheese because it was so good.

PS Yes I am fat.
>> No. 438050 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 6:21 pm
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>>438044

>And how is Japanese bread by the way?

Like everything the Japanese make, it is unimaginably perfect. They also have better toasters than us.




>> No. 438052 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 6:47 pm
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>>438050
And it's tiny. Of course.
>> No. 438053 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 6:51 pm
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You lads have inspired me to have beans on toast for dinner.

Fucking love beans on toast.
>> No. 438054 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 7:11 pm
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>>438053

I've still got a tin of chili con carne, Asda SmartPrice, so you know it's good.

Dinner sorted.
>> No. 438055 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 7:42 pm
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>>438053
My brother-in-law mixes curry paste into his baked beans. Fucking wrong 'un.
>> No. 438059 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 11:10 pm
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>>438050
> Like everything the Japanese make, it is unimaginably perfect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
>> No. 438061 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 1:07 am
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I think being single and furloughed for so long has fundamentally ruined me. I heard something on the radio that reminded me about a pornstar I hadn't thought of in a while and thought to myself in glee "ooh I'll have a good wank to her after tea" as if that was the only thing I had to look forward to in my day.

I'm so fucking glad I'm back to work.
>> No. 438062 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 1:51 am
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>>438059

That's the real fucker - Japanese imperfection is perfect. Don't think about it too hard or your brain will melt.
>> No. 438063 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 8:41 am
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>>438062
I’d like to live there.
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24th July 2020
Friday 8:01 pm
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>>438063

Nobody does derelict beauty like the Japanese.
>> No. 438120 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 6:51 pm
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I've spent most of the past four months barefoot, so now whenever I wear socks my feet feel really restricted and uncomfortable.

Went to Aldi this afternoon. It turns out that people struggle with their queuing system to enter the store. Also, I saw a fair few discarded masks on the floor.
>> No. 438122 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 7:35 pm
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>>438120
No sign is going to control my emotions, I'll wait impatiently if I want to goddamit. Perhaps even letting out an occasional restrained sigh.

>>438050
>>438062
It's concerning how much admiration I have for Japanese aesthetics. I don't want to become a weeb but it seems inevitable with that strange deep sense of satisfaction and comfort that images like these evoke.
>> No. 438125 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 9:59 pm
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>>438122

I sometimes feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with Japan. I love it passionately, I hate it bitterly, but I know that it will never feel anything for me.




>> No. 438127 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 10:19 pm
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>>438125

Japan has always seemed to me like that weird distant cousin who's just a bit off, and who may or may not be a closet carpet-bagger.
>> No. 438135 Anonymous
26th July 2020
Sunday 10:29 am
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>>438125
Can you expand on the 'hate' side? I went for the first time recently and I'm still in a state of infatuation. What is there to hate, from a visitor's perspective?
>> No. 438141 Anonymous
26th July 2020
Sunday 12:18 pm
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>>438135
I've only been once (many years ago) and still dream about it. I found nothing to dislike about it, whatsoever. I can't think of a single other country I have visited that has had that effect on me. Just an awesome place to visit and experience.
>> No. 438142 Anonymous
26th July 2020
Sunday 5:33 pm
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>>438141

Is it maybe because the Japanese tend to keep to themselves and aren't all in your face like all the annoying cunts here at home?

I've heard that it's difficult to get any kind of opinion at all out of Japanese people, because they think it's impolite to speak too freely.
>> No. 438284 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 11:53 am
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Fucking chuggers at the door.
>> No. 438298 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 2:56 pm
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>>438141
>>438125
What about the girls? They any good?
>> No. 438300 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>438298
Japanese women believe Western men have huge penises so are slightly more curious than normal - but the language barrier is enormous and the cultural barrier even greater - unless you're working there (and minted) it is more difficult than you think to pull one.
>> No. 438304 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>438298

White men and particularly British men are often seen as a novelty to them, so you might be able to pull one of the more adventurous ones, or some nerd that lives in a Doctor Who themed apartment or whatever, but even then it'd only be for a night, actually having a relationship with a gaijin would likely not be on their agenda. That's even if you could even manage to avoid putting them off that long. It's hard to describe just how different our two cultures are, it's not easy.

There's a fucking hilarious rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk post about an American anime fan who went to Japan expressly to find a Japanese girlfriend and was angry and confused as to why all the girls were ignoring him just as much as the Americans were.
>> No. 438305 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 6:26 pm
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>>438304
Exactly this - also because of our dairy based diet, they say we all smell of cheese.
>> No. 438306 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 6:51 pm
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>>438305
They're just jelly because they're lactose intolerant.
>> No. 438313 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:09 pm
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>>438306
Would rather be lactose intolerant than people reporting I stink of cheese to be honest.
>> No. 438317 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:21 pm
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>>438306
Niger must be an error, right? The same ethnic groups that make up Niger are found all over the region so why is their level of lactose intolerance so low? This is going to keep me up all night, thanks, m8.
>> No. 438319 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:25 pm
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>>438317
That could be where the allele for lactose consumption int adulthood originates.
>> No. 438320 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:28 pm
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>>438313

Japanese people can smell of fish to those unfamiliar with them, on the other hand.
>> No. 438321 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:38 pm
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>>438319
Unless it comes out of a hole in the ground that makes no sense. Either that or they've been conquered by a Steppe hoard while no one was looking, I know things were getting quite hairy with some Shamanismists down there a few years back, maybe a roving Khagan or a Viking band filled the power vacuum?
>> No. 438324 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 10:41 pm
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>>438317
Lactase-persistence in Africa seems to vary considerably even between local areas depending on tribal history. Those with more of a tradition of farming, particularly nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoral ones, seem to have the most tolerance.

We should test pikeys to see what they're like with milk.
>> No. 438325 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 10:47 pm
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>>438320
>can smell of fish to those unfamiliar with them

Yeah but so do fannys, for those people not familiar with them.
>> No. 438326 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>438325
A gammy fanny can smell like the fish counter at Morrisons.
>> No. 438327 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 10:54 pm
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>>438326
Let's not be sexist about it - if you don't look after your balls/willy they will smell similarly fishy after a couple of days.

I believe we had useful posts recently about ball-deodorant.

Relevant:


>> No. 438328 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 11:22 pm
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>>438324
>We should test pikeys to see what they're like with milk.
.gs' very own Dr Mengle, ladies and gentlemen.
>> No. 438329 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 9:39 am
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>>438328
It stands to reason, given they've given up pastoralism for thieving long ago, that they'd have less tolerance of lactose but have greater resistance to tetanus.
>> No. 438331 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 10:15 am
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>>438327
I'm very upset that, seemingly only as a result of reaching the cusp of thirty, my chap is now fishy by the end of the day, whereas before it would just be a bit stale.

Is there such a thing as age-related cockstink? Does smegma production increase?
>> No. 438364 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 9:24 pm
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>>438331

I'd be more inclined to believe it's that your habits have changed, rather than some inevitable physiological change.
>> No. 438367 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 1:56 am
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>>438364

Why? There are other inevitable physiological changes.
>> No. 438368 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 2:31 am
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>>438327
>I believe we had useful posts recently about ball-deodorant.

Come off it, Big Aerosol. Nobody can smell you through Zoom so this is entirely the wrong time for a roll-out.
>> No. 438369 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 9:03 am
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>>438364
Why would my habits have changed? I still shower once a day, and if anything I masturbate less.
>> No. 438370 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 9:32 am
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>>438331
You can always visit your local synagogue for a quick fix
>> No. 438371 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 9:43 am
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>>438369

Diet? Exercise? Type of gel or soap? Time of day showering? Type of bedsheets (or anything that causes you to sweat.more or less at night)? Do you contract your muscles when you finish peeing, or have you started to just let it drip?

There just seems to be way more behavioural factors that could potentially affect it before thinking certain smells are an inevitability of age.
>> No. 438372 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 1:03 pm
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>>438370


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPkL2EQPYo
>> No. 438385 Anonymous
9th August 2020
Sunday 12:05 am
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Yeah, yeah, this seems about right.

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