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>> No. 452420 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 8:02 am
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New weekend thread.

It's going to reach about 30° tomorrow. Godspeed, lads.
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>> No. 452421 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 8:35 am
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If you didn't like the tie you could have just said. No need to be this passive aggressive about it.
>> No. 452422 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 2:06 pm
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Are you guys excited to start CoTweeting with your friends?
>> No. 452423 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 2:40 pm
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My flat mate is moving out next month but he's chosen the worst season to do it as he's in a mezzanine over the kitchen and lounge so all the hot air gets trapped up there. The central London rental market isn't too terrible but it does pose some challenges if I can only bring in nutters or people who really can't afford to live in London. Obviously as it's a mezzanine with those screen dividers that immediately cuts the potential roommates in half.

Currently thinking about how I can easily improve airflow by sticking an industrial fan in the deepest corner - essentially to get the hot stuffy air circulating down and out. It helps that he's taking his plants with him so I can I put the blinds down in the kitchen during the day. Of course google is proving absolutely useless for how to go about this as it's all property developers, industrial AC units etc.

Property developers can fucking hang if you ask me. It doesn't matter if it's a small flat or a brand new home, the cunts will cut corners at every opportunity and these little things ruin the quality of life of the occupants. Like how starter homes have steps on the porch that come into a thin hallway that prams can't navigate and shoddy utility connections that will cost a fortune to fix.

>>452422
You'd think Twitter of all places would be looking to create more real accounts rather than merging them.
>> No. 452424 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 7:14 pm
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Hire car prices on holiday are still a piss take.

I would like to go to Andalucía again, which is expensive enough, but a car like a Nissan Juke is now close to 400 quid for eleven days out of Málaga Airport. In the Before times, in 2019, I remember me and my ex spent a little over 250 quid for the same kind of car for the same duration in Málaga.

Of course, a lot of people will only get a hire car for a few days during their stay, but I've always been the kind of person who feels like going places in the hinterland after you've spent the day on the beach. Or really just to be able to go to other beaches or a big supermarket quickly and conveniently and whenever I feel like it. Public transportation in countries like Spain or Greece can be a fucking laugh, so I'd rather have a car the whole time even if I'm not going to use it for one or two whole days and it's just sitting in the car park in front of the hotel. This has been contentious in the past, to the point that when I went on holiday with another ex, I just said, fine, you know what, you don't have to pay anything for the car. I'll put up the money for the entire week, and that's that. She later admitted that I was right about the convenience.


Self sage for rambling.
>> No. 452425 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 7:36 pm
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>>452424

Are mopeds any cheaper? It's been ages since I went on That Kind Of Holiday, but they're usually the sorts of place everyone just nips around on a scooter rather than a car anyway, nothing is that far away and it's warm enough you can comfortably ride about in shirts and a t-shirt. Yeah it's less safe but you're on holiday, fuck it.
>> No. 452426 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 8:36 pm
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>>452425

When we were in Corfu one time, a young couple from our hotel got a scooter from a slightly dodgy looking place just down the road. A few days later, with our Suzuki Jimmy from the car hire right next to it, we spotted them stranded out in the wilderness on a back road. They had plenty of petrol left, but the scooter just wouldn't start. So we gave them a lift back to the hotel.

I guess my point is, your mileage with local scooter or moped hires may literally vary. The vehicles at a lot of them seem to be in pretty poor condition.

Coincidentally, our Suzuki also broke down a few days later. Not saying it can't happen with an internationally operating premium-level car hire company like Hertz or Avis (it did one time when we had an oil leak on a brand new Renault Megane from Hertz and needed to be towed). But the way those places handle a vehicle breakdown is far better. Our car hire in Corfu tried to make us pay for the repairs up front in cash.
>> No. 452427 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 9:01 pm
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I can hear the bloke next door pumping up what must be a fucking olympic sized paddling pool with a shite squeaky foot pump. He's been at it for over twenty minutes.

I want to look out and see why it's taking so long but I'd have to crane my neck out the window and it'd be far too obvious.
>> No. 452428 Anonymous
9th July 2022
Saturday 9:25 pm
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>>452427

I looked, because he's still going. It's a normal sized kid's pool. It's going to be fucking dark before he's finished. Pretty sure it's got a hole in it and he's literally too Homer Simpson stupid to notice.

Sage for double post.
>> No. 452429 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 4:18 am
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>>452428

I once made the opposite mistake by inflating a football from an industrial compressor. Most of my hearing came back within a week.
>> No. 452430 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 1:12 pm
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I saw a 4chan thread about the Voynich Manuscript earlier, with lots of uncharacteristically intelligent posts. I read through the thread, then I went and read the entire Wikipedia page so I could offer some insights of my own. By the time I'd done that, the thread had archived. This is an outrage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

It's clearly written in a language that people no longer speak. There are other writings in dead languages, such as Etruscan and Minoan, and we can't decipher them either. And all the codebreaking experts say that it really does appear to be a genuine language, but not any language that they can identify. Seems obvious to me.
>> No. 452431 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 4:19 pm
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>>452430

My money is on schizophrenia.
>> No. 452432 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 6:06 pm
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I'm aware Shinzo Abe was a very unpleasant man. However, I don't think shooting him to death is an especially good thing. I'm saying this just so there's some context around the real reason I'm making this post.

I'm very sad the gunman only used his double barrelled Fallout gun and not his nona-barralled blunderbuss 9000.
>> No. 452433 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 9:15 pm
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Evidently it's still topless chav o'clock.
>> No. 452435 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 10:11 pm
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>>452433
I don't know what's worse, the blokes who look like marmite poured into a woolly hat or the one who's bodies remind me I look like a hat full of marmite.
>> No. 452439 Anonymous
10th July 2022
Sunday 11:05 pm
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I thought I'd book tomorrow off to relax but so far I'm getting my haircut, seeing the dentist and right after that I'm rushing off to see a lass in an area I don't know all that well.

There I was thinking that at least I could shake my cough with a weekend of rest.

>>452433
>>452435
Is it just me or do you see a lot less of them than you used to?
>> No. 452469 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 5:50 am
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Yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, I walked past a woman walking her guide dog. It was far too hot to be walking a dog. I should have said something, but I didn't want to be accused of a hate crime or whatever.
>> No. 452470 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 1:38 pm
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>>452469

It looks like the CPS officially counts offences against the disabled as a hate crime. As well they should, I guess. But it just seems odd that you would hate a blind person. For what.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/hate-crime

While the intention behind punishing hate crimes is pretty solid and you can't really argue with it, I've always kind of thought that "hate crime" is a misnomer. I know that "criminal discrimination" doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely, but it's probably a better way to describe it.
>> No. 452471 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 2:18 pm
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>>452469
Where's this idea come from that dogs just die the moment it's hotter than 25C? I'm sure it was fine.
>> No. 452472 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 2:43 pm
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>>452471
You shouldn't walk dogs when it's shit hot because it'll hurt their paws. They can also overheat.
>> No. 452473 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 2:49 pm
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>>452472
>hurt their paws
I doubt that.
>> No. 452474 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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>>452473
Tarmac test. If the ground is too hot for you to comfortably keep your hand on it for five seconds then it's too hot to walk a dog.
>> No. 452475 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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>> No. 452477 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 3:52 pm
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>>452473
Doubt away but I'm paws-itive it's true.
>> No. 452478 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 5:56 pm
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>>452475

>Flat-faced, overweight, unwell and older

Are they still talking about dogs?

Asking for a friend.
>> No. 452480 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 7:07 pm
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>Where's this idea come from that dogs just die the moment it's hotter than 25C?

Brits are odd about dogs. I took mine out in what was maybe 22C for a quick walk and I had numerous funny looks. I also saw a tik-tok of a man screaming down his camera about how dangerous it is to take a dog out "when its 23 degrees outside".

Brits are odd about dogs. I'm not sure dogs would have lasted if they were spontaneously combusting in t-shirt weather.
>> No. 452481 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>452480

I think it's the combination of the known stigma of leaving dogs in hot cars (Brits drive everywhere) and the increasing popularity of breeds with undercoats like huskies, where they actually can have trouble in hot weather.
>> No. 452484 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 7:38 pm
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>>452480
No people who use tiktok are odd fucktards who will do anything for attention, I dont think that had anything to do with them being british.

>>452481
Leaving dogs in hot cars isn't "stigma" it will actually kill them.
>> No. 452485 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 7:43 pm
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>>452484
Stigmatised and deadly aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
>> No. 452486 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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>>452485

Exactly, this is what I was trying to communicate with "known stigma", but maybe there's a better way of phrasing it.

"The known hazard of leaving dogs in hot cars and the resulting stigma" would have been more appropriate.
>> No. 452489 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 8:43 pm
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I have a fan. How do I utilise it to achieve maximum coolness?
>> No. 452490 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>452489
Best use I've found is just pointing it out the window at night. Blows the warm air out in a matter of minutes. Trying to blow the cool air in doesn't work as well.
>> No. 452491 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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eBay have a code for 20% off any "summer" item, including fans and air con units. Might be worth a punt, I've finally given in and bought one of the latter, after many summers of hesitating.
>> No. 452492 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 10:38 pm
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>>452490

As Steve has always tried to teach us, adding an exhaust fan is always more efficient than more intake fans. I'm glad this kind of knowledge is seeing practical use.

I got the soldering iron out today and soldered some fancy new cork-sniffer hand-wound free range organic pickups in my overpriced American guitar built by Mexicans (but in America), making it now the most valuable thing I own other than my car. Feel like a right man doing it though, I keep telling my guitar mates to get new pickups so I can install them for them.

It's not even the weekend, or does the heat make it a technical weekend?
>> No. 452495 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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>>452490
Perhaps the most effective, but I doubt it beats the satisfaction of aiming directly at oneself while wearing only boxers on a towel atop an office chair. Keep a small cloth and bowl of cool water nearby and wipe yourself down regularly, the evaporation does wonders to remove body heat. Ice lolly of choice encouraged.
>> No. 452497 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 10:52 pm
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>>452495
>selfquote
I'm in a flat exposed on all southern sides which gets insanely hot in the summer, it's 34℃ inside right now with all windows open and two fans running. Dreading Sunday.
>> No. 452498 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 10:57 pm
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>>452489

• Be sweaty
• Stop wearing clothes
• Get a 3 litre bottle of frozen water on a breakfast tray in front of a decent fan (have at least two more in reserve to rotate)
• Get an air conditioning unit and exacerbate the problem
• If you have Sash Windows, and some stupid cunt hasn't nailed or painted them shut, or otherwise made the top casement immovable, then you should get a top and bottom gap and use air convection to your advantage

>>452492

You should do what he's suggesting in that image.
>> No. 452514 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 8:52 am
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Apparently it'll be close to 40° on Tuesday. What should I stock up on apart from freeze pops and fans?

What's the best kind of fans to buy?
>> No. 452515 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 8:55 am
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>>452514

Buy a fan immediately before they sell out. Don't put it right out the window when you run it at night, just near - Bernoulli's principle makes a huge difference.
If you're not going outdoors much, giving your head a shave might be smart.
>> No. 452516 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 9:09 am
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>>452515
Is it better to have a normal fan or the towers instead?
>> No. 452517 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 9:23 am
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>>452516
Towers are better for moving air around indoors but you might struggle to get it onto your window sill.
>> No. 452530 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 7:06 pm
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>>452515
Don't just buy the standard £15-£30 fans you see at Asda, they're cheap but they're shit.
>> No. 452531 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 8:08 pm
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I have to travel to an industry convention next week where I have to leave the house at 6am to get multiple trains. Initially I thought it would be fine with the heat because the dress code could be relaxed with company t-shirts. Nope, I have to wear a suit because the organisers are twats.

Now that a national emergency has been declared I tried looking at hotels for the good of my health but the one's that still have rooms going are charging nearly £1000. I might try travelling an hour or two early and just wait around at my destination but I'm legitimately worried about train breakdowns and baking on platforms without shade. Any tips on how not to die from employer negligence is welcome.

>>452514
MEACO is alright, I actually find them better than some industrial fans.
>> No. 452533 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 8:23 pm
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>>452531
Catch Covid.
>> No. 452534 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 9:56 pm
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>>452531
"Catch" covid. Do you need an unused test code?
>> No. 452535 Anonymous
15th July 2022
Friday 9:59 pm
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Come to think of it, weren't a couple of you looking for some unused tests? I have an almost full box nobody on Freecycle wanted.
>> No. 452538 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 7:12 am
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I haven't seen a sexy nun in ages. Back in my day, a nun having an erotic awakening was a stock plot for saucy films. I suppose it's all e-girls and twerking these days.
>> No. 452539 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 7:21 am
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>>452538
I think ever since PornHub had to wipe most of their content it's been a lot harder to find decent material across the board.
>> No. 452541 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 8:45 am
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>>452539
Not just pornhub, xhamster as well. Not sure if they're all owned by Mind Geek but someone put the fear of Jesus up them (for good reason).
>> No. 452547 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 9:45 am
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>>452539
There's still Motherless.
>> No. 452549 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 10:00 am
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>>452547
Don't they just do rape and murder scenarios these days?
>> No. 452553 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 12:56 pm
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>>452539
>>452541
They really threw the baby out with the bathwater. Yes, they got rid of revenge porn and underage and non-consensual shit. But they also got rid of hundreds of SSBBW facesitting videos. Nightmare.
>> No. 452554 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 1:56 pm
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>>452549
No. There's a lot of bodily-functions stuff, which is my thing and I don't see why everyone is worried about Motherless when I only ever use it for either legal or dubious-but-victimless voyeur material.

There's also Thisvid, which I discovered recently. That has a lot of quite wild stuff, although videos can be set to either public or private, and the private ones show up in the search results but you can't watch them and that is frankly inhumane.
>> No. 452562 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:57 pm
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>>452541

Some countries even try to ban porn video sites outright.

Germany is now cutting off access to xhamster and pornhub via DNS blocking and URL blacklisting.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks

Which is a bit daft, because xhamster has been able to evade the ban repeatedly simply by registering under new top level domains, to which authorities then had to play catch up, and also, you have the glaring flaw within DNS blocking itself, in that all you need to do is enter an alternate DNS server in your Internet connection settings. Someone I know in Germany has told me that Google's DNS servers work without a problem.
>> No. 452563 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 9:38 pm
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British born Chinese have started describing themselves as BBC. I'm ashamed to admit that I had to stare at that one for a second or two.
>> No. 452564 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:43 pm
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It's my birthday in a fortnight and I've no idea what to tell people to get me for my birthday. My girlfriend's buying me a pair of trainers, but that's squarely because I was going to buy them for myself anyway.
>> No. 452565 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:44 pm
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And I've still got that fucking habit of unnecessarily repeating words in online posts.
>> No. 452566 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:52 pm
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>>452564
What trainers are you getting?
>> No. 452567 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 11:46 pm
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>>452566
I think it was one of these, but I'm not entirely sure; they've been regularly alternating what's on offer in their summer sale.

https://www.adidas.co.uk/daily-3.0-shoes/GY8115.html
https://www.adidas.co.uk/daily-3.0-eco-lifestyle-skateboarding-shoes/GY5486.html
>> No. 452568 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:36 am
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>>452564
A tennis racket. If you like tennis, add it to the collection; if you don't like tennis, happy birthday, someone's actually bought you a whole new passion in life. It'll be a spiritual awakening for you. New friends, improved fitness, longer life expectancy, all in one birthday gift. You'll be a new man. Plus, if you have this same problem for Christmas, someone can buy you a tennis ball.
>> No. 452569 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:44 am
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So my old mates booked a 5 a side football thing. What do I wear? Shorts? What kind of shoes? Is astro turf still a thing? Can I wear astro shoes, basketball shorts and a black tshirt?
>> No. 452585 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:28 am
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>>452569
Just be sure to carefully vet anyone you take with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMd9Mbnrp7w
>> No. 452586 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:59 am
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>>452569
Have you thought about asking your mates instead of some randoms on the internet who only really talk about football when there has been a allegation of sexual assault?
>> No. 452589 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:32 am
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>>452569

>Is astro turf still a thing?

Yes. The newer stuff doesn't give you friction burns, but it does cover you in tiny bits of black rubber.

>Can I wear astro shoes, basketball shorts and a black tshirt?

Should be fine.
>> No. 452590 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 11:07 am
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>>452569
You have to be careful. I've heard of some 5th and 6th generation pitches turning people away with basketball shorts. Football only they say.
>> No. 452591 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 11:18 am
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>>452569

Aren't you overthinking it a bit? Do you want makeup tips as well?

Any trainers with a light-coloured sole will probably be fine in case they have hard floor, although that isn't very common. Most venues still have astroturf. And just bring a pair of shorts and a T shirt.

You're not trying out for the World Cup.
>> No. 452645 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:46 pm
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>>452591
>Do you want makeup tips as well?

Yes please.
>> No. 452725 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 3:40 pm
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The prime minister of Finland is peng AF.
>> No. 452726 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 5:16 pm
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>> No. 452728 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 6:36 pm
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>>452726

Forgive me for not keeping up to date with the leaders of Nordic countries.
>> No. 452729 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 6:48 pm
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Wondering if I have time for a wank before my food gets delivered.
>> No. 452730 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>452729

With one of my exes we always used to order food and then see if we could manage a good shag before it got there. The answer was usually yes, so I think a wank is more than achievable.
>> No. 452731 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 7:44 pm
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Out of touch critics are too obsessed with virtue signaling and idpol to understand what The People really want to watch.
>> No. 452750 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 2:59 pm
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Just paid £2.90 for two 4l bottles of milk. Broken Britain.
>> No. 452755 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 5:28 pm
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>>452750
That seems like a good deal though. But I have no idea, I buy about a litre a week if that, and do so in a fugue state induced by my increasingly all consuming ambivalence to even the simplest of life's tasks.
>> No. 452756 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 5:41 pm
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>>452755
Remember that it's litres, not pints, so the bottle will be slightly smaller than you expect. I've had this experience myself. Although, two lots of four litres is probably about 15 pints of milk, and £2.90 is indeed a good deal if it really was that much.

I used to always pay 2 x £1.50 for 2 x six-pint bottles, but the prices have gone up now. I don't know what they currently are, though. This must be how politicians constantly get caught out when they don't know what bread costs.
>> No. 452757 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>>452756

It's really one of those things you don't look at, because you're going to buy it every week (or however frequently you shop) either way, and it's not like you have the opportunity to switch brands or whatever, because it's just milk. The brand you get is the one the shop you're at sells.

For me it's been outrageous ever since it went over a quid, because when I was 18 and worked in a shop, we used to take a quid out of the petty cash to buy a four pinter at the Aldi next door, and come back with change. So that's the price that's burned into my brain.

Coffee is absurdly expensive these days I feel like. You don't even have to buy the fancy ones, a jar of the mid-tier instants is usually five or six quid.
>> No. 452758 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 5:59 pm
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>>452756
They were actually 4 pints bottles, fuck knows why I said litres. In my head it's still £2 for 2 x 4 pints of milk, although I've looked it up and the average was apparently £1.15 per 4 pint bottle back in April. I know that Danpak butter in Lidl has gone up from £1.69 to £2.09 this year.
>> No. 452761 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 6:39 pm
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How do estate agents decide whether to let someone rent or not? My gf and I have lived in this house for 4 years, never missed a rent payment, never missed a utilities payment. However, we're both in a bit of debt from other sources. Will a debt on, for example, paying something on finance, preclude us from passing the checks?
>> No. 452765 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 8:23 pm
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This Welsh woman on Radio 1 sounds like a parody. I refuse to believe anybody has such a strong Welsh accent in real life. I've been to Wales, a couple of times, and they talked mostly normally. Clearly all the people who sound so Welsh it's like they have a speech impediment have been recruited by BBC Radio to quack incoherently. And this is "Radio 1's Chillest Show", apparently. I must say Sian Eleri does not make me feel especially chill.
>> No. 452766 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 8:35 pm
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>>452761
They're estate agents. Chances are they're funding their lifestyles on finance themselves.
>> No. 453059 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 4:30 pm
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My work persuaded me at the last minute to sign up for fantasy football. I wasn't going to do it because I really don't care enough about football to follow eleven different individual players, but then I remembered that Emile Smith-Rowe is apparently very good and rarely mentioned, so I signed up just to have him in my team. Anyway, it turns out he's injured. This is scandalous.
>> No. 453060 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 5:00 pm
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>>453059
Here you go, mate. Completed football just for you.
>> No. 453061 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 5:27 pm
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>>452761
If you're moving, it may or may not pose a problem, mostly because landlords are greedy cunts, no exceptions.

If you're staying, as your rent is now almost certainly substantially under market, you may end up out anyway, mostly because landlord are greedy cunts, no exceptions.
>> No. 453195 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:52 am
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Is it normal for a lass to grab your dick and rub it up and down on her clit like she would with a finger?
>> No. 453196 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:05 am
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>>453195

If that's what she's into, sure, why not. Personally, I'd take it as a hint.
>> No. 453198 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:11 am
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>>453196
What kind of hint?
>> No. 453211 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 3:57 pm
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>>453198

That her clit needs a bit more attention.
>> No. 453212 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 4:31 pm
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>>453195
Women are just weird and personally I've always found it a bit uncomfortable when they do that, especially when they slide back to put all their weight on your ball arteries. Next time you get your chub and whack it on her clit and see her delight.

>>453211
No I've found they'll do it anyway. Women are always rubbing their fannies on stuff any chance they get, this is the real reason they're banned from being fire-fighters.
>> No. 453213 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 5:18 pm
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>>453212
>this is the real reason they're banned from being fire-fighters

I've never seen a female binman.
>> No. 453214 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 5:47 pm
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>>453213

That you know of.
>> No. 453215 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:17 pm
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>>453214
Have you ever seen one? They don't exist.
>> No. 453216 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:18 pm
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>>453213

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/oswestry/2018/07/30/meet-sophie---oswestrys-first-ever-binwoman/

>Meet Sophie - Oswestry's first ever binwoman


Shropshire is leading the way, as always.
>> No. 453217 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:21 pm
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>>453215

I was joking but yes there was one here once.
>> No. 453218 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:39 pm
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>>453216
Made up places don't count. What happens somewhere fictional like Oswestry, Camberwick Green or Narnia doesn't matter.

>>453217
I'll take your word for it.
>> No. 453219 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 6:48 pm
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>>453216
She's not a real binman. More like a glorified bus driver. A bus for rubbish.
>> No. 453220 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:09 pm
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>>453218

>Made up places don't count. What happens somewhere fictional like Oswestry, Camberwick Green or Narnia doesn't matter.

Google Maps says they do have a tourist information centre in Oswestry.
>> No. 453221 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:16 pm
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>>453220

Who the fuck would choose Comic Sans for their signage though.

Maybe it's a made up place after all.
>> No. 453222 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:22 pm
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>>453220
And Narnia's got a talking lion and unicorns that like to fuck shit up.
>> No. 453223 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:26 pm
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>>453222

And they've got gay guys having adventures.


You know, the kind who are so deep in the closet that they're having adventures in Narnia.





I'll work on my jokes.
>> No. 453224 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:34 pm
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>>453221
That's very obviously not Comic Sans.
>> No. 453225 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:42 pm
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Man United being shit is still going to be funny for like three more years.

>>453221
I seem to remember walking by a school on a hill in the countryside that had Comic Sans signage. Also, as someone has already pointed out, what you posted isn't even close to Comic Sans.
>> No. 453226 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:43 pm
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>>453225
It's very common for primary schools to use Comic Sans. They're everywhere.
>> No. 453227 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 7:50 pm
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Today I am in Southport.

It's not as much of a shithole as I thought it would be.
>> No. 453228 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 8:42 pm
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>>453227
I always get Southport mixed up with Ormskirk. I have no idea why. I've never been to either, the names are completely different, and they might not be that near each other either.
>> No. 453229 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 9:33 pm
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>>453227
Why's that? Just because it's near Blackpool or something else?

My grandmother used to live there so I got to go quite regularly as a child. I don't know if it was Victorian or Edwardian or what, but her flat was absolutely lovely. I can't say I was very happy when she relocated to a bungalow in Runcorn because she wanted a garden. Sod your garden, I want to go to the beach.
>> No. 453230 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 9:50 pm
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>>453228

They're only about 10 miles apart on the A570, with practically nothing in between.

>>453227

The pensioners saved it. Unlike Blackpool and Morecambe, it transitioned fairly gracefully from being a tourist resort to a retirement destination. Southport has always been rather more upmarket, but I suspect that golf has been a big factor in recent decades - the quantity and quality of golf courses on that stretch of coast is frankly absurd.
>> No. 453231 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 9:58 pm
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>>453230

Southport sounds fucking depressing from your description.
>> No. 453234 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 10:29 pm
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>>453231

It's nice if you like that sort of thing. Slightly sleepy, Victorian architecture, lots of tearooms with flowery crockery, parks with model villages and boating lakes. Obviously I prefer Blackpool because it's the European Capital of Fat Slags, but even Blackpool is embarrassed by its reputation for hen nights, swingers hotels and cheap class-A drugs.
>> No. 453239 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 7:13 am
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>>453234
There's only about five lasses in that picture I wouldn't shag.
>> No. 453245 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 3:13 pm
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If someone's going to stab me in the eye do it now. I want to be a young man with an eye patch, that is an ambition I have. Don't wait until I'd super old, people will just assume I'm sick if I'm wearing on then.
>> No. 453246 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 3:25 pm
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>>453245
Have you considered criticising Shamanism?
>> No. 453249 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 4:24 pm
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>>453246
Or just wear an eyepatch? Surely not many people are going to peek under it.
Seems like an odd ambition, but better than trout lips I guess.
See if you can get a screen on the inside of the patch, so you can watch .gs, anime, porn or whatever floats your goat 24/7.
>> No. 453258 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 10:16 pm
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I think I spent too much time in the sun today. I've got a headache, my forehead feels hot and I'm slightly dizzy. Might be a bit of a sunstroke.

Is this something I should go into A&E with?
>> No. 453267 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 10:57 pm
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I've got a foolproof way to make two new friends this Tuesday.

>>453258
Call 111, they'll tell you what to do. This is exactly the kind of issue it's there to resolve.

>>453249
Inauthentic, I couldn't live with myself even if I could lie convincingly. The screen might be a bad idea too, trying to focus on it would probably make me go blind. Hang on a minute...
>> No. 453269 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>453267

I called them and the GP they connected me to suggested taking headache drugs/pain relievers, and taking cool, not cold, showers as well as intermittently putting an ice pack or a cold wet washcloth on my forehead. She told me to make sure I drink enough fluids and to sleep in a cooler part of the house tonight if possible, and if it gets worse over night, I should go to A&E tomorrow morning.

She said it sounded like a mild case of heat stroke, which is a very common complaint right now.
>> No. 453271 Anonymous
14th August 2022
Sunday 11:53 pm
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>>453269

You'll be reyt as long as you keep drinking plenty of water. Get some bacon or summat down you to replace the salts too, much of the issue is the fact you lose so much minerals sweating buckets that the balance of the osmosis and that in your cells gets knocked out of whack. It's essentially like giving yourself a hangover without the beers.

Don't hassle A&E with it because you'll only be taking up a bed where they keep an eye on you and make sure you're drinking water, it's not like there's much else to be done about it. If you start puking blood or something overnight then fair enough, but otherwise try not to be that guy.
>> No. 453272 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 12:02 am
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https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/oxford-street-chaos-shops-looted-24749280

Not saying I approve, but using flash mobs to encourage kids to loot your American Candy store might be the most creative insurance scam yet. It's definitely not so bad for a city as torching a failing restaurant/night club
>> No. 453274 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 1:49 am
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>>453269
Neck some Lucozade.
>> No. 453275 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 6:35 am
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>>453258 Is this something I should go into A&E with?

Do you think that sitting in a ragingly hot waiting room for 6 hours, without anything to drink, before being told to go home, sounds like what you need?
Eat (a bit - omelette and chips is my goto, easy to chuck some salt onto ), drink (a fair amount, several pints). If you're dehydrated from working / sweating too much, there's a chance you'll get cramps tonight. Not much you can do about that - tell yourself they'll pass and you'll probably not die.
>> No. 453276 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 8:37 am
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Is ambulancelad back?
>> No. 453279 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 9:21 am
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I'm feeling better this morning. Got up a few times during the night to take some ibuprofen and drink some water, but I think my heat stroke symptoms are subsiding now. I work from home, so I'll be fine today. Just going to take it easy a bit.
>> No. 453304 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 9:22 pm
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I've been offered a job, which I've already done 8 hours unpaid training for it, with another 10 day training course (unpaid) upcoming. I want to show willing, but that's a lot of time and energy expended with no financial gain.
>> No. 453309 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 10:15 pm
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>>453304
Pre-emptive strike against the inevitable comments about how it's not "with no financial gain" if you've got a paid job at the end of it. They're expecting you to expend two weeks of labour, at which point your bills aren't exactly on hold, and anyone who thinks you should put up with it because It'S aN inVeSTmEnT!1! is a cunt who needs yeeting into the sea.
>> No. 453310 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 10:25 pm
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>>453309
>Pre-emptive strike against the inevitable comments about how it's not "with no financial gain" if you've got a paid job at the end of it.

First time visiting this site?
>> No. 453311 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 11:07 pm
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>>453310

>yeeting into the sea

Certainly sounds like something the younger sorts who use those other internet discussion places might say.
>> No. 453385 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 11:02 am
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I did my bit for anti-fascism this morning by scratching a Nazi sticker off a bus time table with my keys. I realised about halfway through this process I probably could have peeled it off in an instant, but by that point I was committed.
>> No. 453387 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 11:09 am
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>>453385
Not to scaremonger but people have occasionally been injured by razors hidden under stickers, using your key is sensible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58020985
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/vicious-nazi-groups-razor-blade-22876959
>> No. 453395 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 5:03 pm
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Everyone's making fun of Ryan Giggs' poetry, but he's on trial for domestic abuse. I dunno', it just seems a bit jovial considering the circumstances.

>>453387
Well, I can hardly say I was "sensible", but a nice tip, thank you. Those anti-maskers were a laugh. Ostensibly trying to help people because the NWO-Judeo-Nazis were going to eat your liver, but the moment you said "I'm not so sure that's true..." they wanted to set you alight.
>> No. 453396 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 5:20 pm
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>>453395
Alex Ferguson said he had a fantastic temperament.
>> No. 453398 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 6:01 pm
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>>453395
The best wordsmiths tend to be tortured fiery souls. John Lennon was a massive cunt, for example.
>> No. 453402 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 11:54 am
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What's the easiest bank to open a new account with? In terms of asking you for ID and so on, I mean; because the entire reason I need to open an account with a new bank is to obtain a third form of proof of address.

Incidentally- Why are companies so anal about what they will accept as proof of address? Is it, as I have always assumed, just a result of poorly written guidance resulting in jobsworths unwilling to use a bit of common sense? Or is there some legitimate actual reason they will only and exclusively trust utility bills? If the purpose is proof of address, then surely it just has to be anything addressed to you, why are they so autistic about it being a bill or statement?
>> No. 453403 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 12:06 pm
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>>453402

The fact that a lot of places will accept screenshots of your bank statements as proof of anything just goes to show it's 99% bollocks.
>> No. 453404 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 12:58 pm
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>>453403
You understand how easy it is to manipulate screenshots but seem to underestimate how easy it is to print fake paper bank statements.

It's all a charade meant to keep honest people honest.

Like how banks will password protect their downloadable PDFs from editing. The defeat mechanism is print to PDF.
>> No. 453405 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 1:18 pm
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>>453404

>It's all a charade meant to keep honest people honest.

Being more cynical, I've always assumed that to some extent, it's more of a filter intended to stop a certain type of people being able to rise above their station. It's the kind of thing that is, in theory, a minor inconvenience to most of us. On the surface of it there's nothing discriminatory or explicitly discerning. But to someone who's already fallen through the cracks of society, these kind of obstacles are as likely to be pretty much insurmountable.

I once went out with a lass who was basically a NEET and a bit of an autist. She'd never had a passport, so she'd never been abroad. So I talked her into getting her passport so we could go away- But she didn't know anyone who met the requirements to co-sign for it- She hadn't lived here long and nobody had known her long enough to qualify. She basically gave up at that hurdle, and I get it honestly. You come across something like that, and you know it's basically just like a coded message that plebs like you aren't supposed to do real people stuff like this.

It's intended as hoops to jump through, because they know the undesirables are less likely to be able to jump through them.
>> No. 453406 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 1:29 pm
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>>453405
That logic makes sense in the realm of voter suppression, but I'm really not sure anyone benefits from excluding the downtrodden from banking or international travel. She could probably have just submitted a signed declaration herself and attended an identity interview.
>> No. 453407 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 2:12 pm
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>>453406

It's just a small detail amongst many things that make social mobility more of an uphill struggle than it need be, because we need a precariat in order for our economy to function.

Do you still have to go to Wales for the passport interviews?
>> No. 453408 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 2:55 pm
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I'm watching a lot of Bucks Fizz stuff, Cheryl Baker and Joy Aston must be the top tier of pop music hotties.
>> No. 453409 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 4:10 pm
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>>453406
You have to do the same shit getting a student loan, or maybe just applying to uni to begin with. It was a while ago and it was bullshit either way. The assumption I knew a doctor, a lawyer or a chartered accountant when I was a NEET until four weeks ago was such a “fuck you”. That’s all the world is, really: fuck you and die. If you don’t make it, every time you’re asked, it’s misery time for the rest of your shitty life. It’s like a bullet hell only you’re even expected to kill yourself.
>> No. 453410 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 4:38 pm
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>>453409
If you ever have to go to court that applies too; they ask you to provide character witnesses from professionals like that. Doctors, lawyers, other phDs. It's incredibly unfair on people who can't.
>> No. 453411 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 4:55 pm
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>>453402

Under the Money Laundering Regulations, banks are obliged to ask for proof of identity and (crucially) take steps to verify that identity. Banks take this extremely seriously, because several banks have been hit with seven-figure fines for cutting corners on anti money laundering.

They aren't asking for a utility bill because they trust it as proof of your identity, they're asking because it gives them something to check. If they ring up your gas company to check that the details on your bill are correct, they can be reasonably confident that your gas company isn't going to lie to them, which can't be said for a random letter from a company or individual that they know nothing about.

If you're struggling to open a bank account, step one is to ask for a Basic Bank Account. This is a specific type of account designed for people with poor credit history or limited proof of identity who might have difficulty opening a conventional bank account. If that doesn't work, call your local council and ask to speak to someone responsible for financial inclusion. They should be able to advise you on alternative proof of identity - things like a letter from your GP, the DWP or a prison governor.

Failing that, speak to your local homelessness service. They have arrangements in place that will allow you to open a bank account even if you have no fixed abode and absolutely nothing by way of identity documents. The banks do have to verify your identity with someone they trust, but a lot of banks are perfectly happy to trust an outreach worker at Shelter, Crisis or the Sally Army.

>>453409

I don't mean to psychoanalyse you, but I think you're projecting your own feelings onto an inanimate bureaucratic process. There's no malice here, it's just that people who have dropped out of society are much rarer than professional fraudsters. It's a pain in the arse, it feels like a kick when you're down, but think about it from the other side. The person who looks at your application (or the person who designed that online form or whatever) is acutely aware of the fact that 99% of applications that look like yours have been filled out by Nigerian fraudsters. They're quite keen on not being sacked or prosecuted for giving out a load of five-figure loans to people who don't actually exist.

I've been there, I know that it's difficult, but it's infinitely more difficult if you take it personally. There are a lot of people in the world who are more than happy to help, but you have to ask. It all starts with believing that you're worth helping.
>> No. 453412 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 5:16 pm
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>>453402
Depending on why you need it - just create a fake utility bill. The jobsworth cunt with their fake, useless job will just scan and save it.
>> No. 453413 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 5:25 pm
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>>453407
Is that what motivated HSBC to market "No Fixed Address" accounts to the homeless?
>> No. 453414 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 5:26 pm
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>>453410
I did and they didn't.
>> No. 453416 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 5:44 pm
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>>453414
Shouldn't have taken the duty solicitor.
>> No. 453417 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 6:12 pm
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>>453411

>They aren't asking for a utility bill because they trust it as proof of your identity, they're asking because it gives them something to check. If they ring up your gas company to check that the details on your bill are correct, they can be reasonably confident that your gas company isn't going to lie to them, which can't be said for a random letter from a company or individual that they know nothing about.

Ah fair enough, that makes sense. Like the equivalent of when your bank asks you "what was the transaction you made at 2:34am on the 13th" or whatever.

Even still though what stops them just phoning the bank and asking "Hi, does Anon live at this address?" and then the bank go "Yes."
>> No. 453418 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 6:21 pm
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>>453417
I'm really not convinced. I'd be prepared to believe "it gives them something to check if it really came down to it", but I don't see them doing it routinely. And besides, does GDPR even allow the utility company to divulge anything about their customers?

If a bank wants you to prove your address they'll do the sensible thing and send you a one-time password in the post.
>> No. 453419 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 6:24 pm
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I had an ID check this week for an upcoming job. I sent my proof of identity and address documents via scans which I emailed to the HR department. But I still needed to go on webcam on Teams for them and hold my ID up to the camera. You'd think a high quality scan would suffice, without the need for me to show my passport on my shitty low res £20 webcam.
>> No. 453420 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 7:29 pm
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>>453418

Of course they won't actually do it routinely, but I'd imagine like just about everything in our nightmare bureaucracy, it's not about actually following the rules, it's about covering your arse in the case you ever have to prove you're following the rules. Hence why it has to be so obtusely and autistically specific- You can't allow the peons manning the desks to use free thought, it has to be one of four highly specific documents, that way they can't cock it up and put any of the higher ups at risk.

Same as with health and safety or any of the audits and shit I have to do at work. All those COSHH sheets and what have you. It's not because anyone gives a fuck if I'm going to burn my eyes out with industrial bleach, but the paperwork is all there to make sure nobody loses their job if I did.
>> No. 453428 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 1:03 am
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>>453408
I only discovered last year that they'd done more songs than just the Eurovision one and the good one. A friend of mine recommended lots of Bucks Fizz songs and I know there was one I discovered that I really, really liked. I think they were dressed as soldiers in the video, but beyond that I can't tell you which one it was.

I was also watching a shitty talking-heads documentary on Top of the Pops, on Channel 5, earlier, and they had Cheryl Baker one and I thought she was still hot now. It then occurred to me that I fancied her as a child too, and that it is therefore possible that I have fancied Cheryl Baker for my entire life. She would have got it when she was presenting Record Breakers and I was six, and she'd get it now.
>> No. 453431 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 2:22 am
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>>453418

>And besides, does GDPR even allow the utility company to divulge anything about their customers?

Recital 47, overriding legitimate interest. "The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned". The bank isn't asking the utility company to provide any personal data, just to confirm whether or not the bill provided by the customer matches with one printed by the utility company.

Of course they aren't actually asking directly, but going through a third party (invariably a credit reference agency) who, by nature of their business, have very broad leeway under the GDPR to process personal data without consent. It should be pretty obvious that fraud prevention and credit checks only work because companies can legally process data that the data subject doesn't actually want to provide. If it weren't for the overriding legitimate interest clause, you could just tell the credit reference agencies "actually, I'd rather if you didn't tell anyone about my bankruptcy" and they'd be forced to comply.

You would be astonished at how much stuff is happening behind the scenes when you interact with any financial institution. I've worked on a perfectly ordinary fraud prevention system for a credit card processing company that used more than 4,000 data fields for each transaction. They were using some fairly creative interpretations of the GDPR, but you have to get creative when you're wrestling with the contradictory goals of having very easy transactions for legitimate customers while reducing fraud to a minimum. If it weren't for all that data analytics voodoo, we'd go back to the days when you asked your bank manager for a loan and his main criteria were the strength of your handshake and whether your father was the right sort of chap.

I've never been directly involved in AML/KYC for a bank, but I have worked on it for online gambling sites. If you open an account at BetFred to stick a tenner on the Grand National, they're going to check your details against a database at the US Treasury Department to make sure that you aren't a Russian oligarch or a member of Al-Qaeda. I don't know why the US government is so keen to prevent radical Shamanismists from gambling, but I definitely wouldn't want to be the one to find out.
>> No. 453432 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 3:45 am
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>>453431
So... GDPR is just useless. I don't like any of this.
>> No. 453433 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 10:38 am
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I'm able to get an NUS (Totum) card through work, which I've been doing for the best part of a decade. When I renewed in 2016 it was £32 for a three year membership,by 2019 this had gone up to £35 but now they're asking for £50. They can fuck right off.

There's also far fewer places you can use the card these days as well. A lot of websites now use something like Student Beans where you need a valid university email address instead. It was useful for getting 10% off in the Co-op as it brought their prices in line with other supermarkets for the most part, but they have gone up ridiculously since pre-pandemic levels. I think the main use I'd get out of it if I renewed is student pricing for Amazon Prime, but paying £50 to access this for three years feels like I'd be fleecing myself.
>> No. 453434 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 12:47 pm
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>>453432

GDPR is an incredibly effective piece of legislation, it's just sensibly written to allow for data processing that is genuinely essential. The sea change has been in processing activity that used to be accepted, but wasn't entirely above board.

Pre-GDPR, most businesses hoarded data like a mythical dragon sat atop a pile of treasure. They collected everything they could get their hands on and kept it indefinitely. Post-GDPR, they treat it like toxic waste - they collect as little as possible and get rid of it as quickly as possible, in line with the principle of data minimisation. It's a complete reversal in attitudes, because the regulations went from being totally laissez-faire to a minefield of risk for data processing.

A couple of years ago, if a marketing department did a prize giveaway to build up the mailing list, there'd be a mandatory tick box saying something to the effect of "by entering this competition, I agree that my information can be used for marketing purposes and shared with third-parties". Just by entering that competition to win a holiday or whatever, they would assert the right to do anything they liked with your personal data forever, because they had "consent". That consent wasn't freely given, it wasn't specific and it wasn't freely revocable, but nobody gave a shit. Your data would be sold and re-sold to anyone who wanted it and there was basically fuck all you could do about it.

Today, there are two separate check-boxes - one saying "I agree that my data may be used solely for the purposes of administrating the competition" and one saying "I would like to receive marketing information from the competition sponsor". Nobody dares to re-sell lists any more, because the risk is just too great. Virtually all of the pre-GDPR marketing lists have been wiped, because nobody is sure that the consent given would stand up today. If you ask to be taken off the list, they'll wipe it immediately and double-check to see if you're in any other systems, because people now genuinely fear the ICO.

For the first year or so of GDPR, I had a lot of long meetings with increasingly furious executives who simply didn't want to believe how far-reaching the legislation was. Compliance departments spent large parts of their day telling people "your brilliant idea is a flagrant breach of GDPR and it's not going to happen", over and over again. When the regulations came into effect and the fines started going out, the tenor of those conversations changed. They weren't confrontations any more, they were confessions. People weren't angrily demanding to know why compliance were getting in their way, they were begging compliance to help them deal with all of the personal data they'd been hoarding for no particular reason. They saw the in-house newsletters about other companies being fined, realised that they were doing exactly the same things and shat themselves. The fear and embarrassment of that transition hasn't been forgotten and people think very carefully before they start collecting personal data.

Anyone who doesn't have that mindset by now is going to end up in court sooner or later. No-one is above the regulations; in the last 12 months, the ICO has taken enforcement action against the Ministry of Justice and the Cabinet Office for GDPR breaches. If you complain to the ICO about a breach, they will pursue it and they won't stop until it's resolved.
>> No. 453436 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 5:47 pm
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I was watching one of those paedo stings that groups on Facebook do, I watch a lot, but this potentially the worst I've seen. Paedo was a young lad, obviously disabled, he admits he was sent to live in a care home because he threatened to kill his family, definitely a vulnerable adult. And the sting team were vile. Kept laughing at the size of his penis, calling it a chipolata, and making him say stuff on command. Making him say "thank you" to the security team for "protecting" him, then when he said it he's told to say "thank you very much". Then the stinger makes him say "I am a sausage". I know paedos are bad but it really felt wrong that the sting team were toying with him and abusing him. Also the whole time there's a crowd of braying onlookers, jeering him and hurling insults. I am definitely no paedo defender, but seeing them totally humiliate a guy too retarded to stand up for himself, kind of sad.
>> No. 453437 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 5:55 pm
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>>453434
Is ICO really doing things now? Because if that's the case it would be the biggest regulatory turnaround in history.

In the past, ICO have:
- taken controllers' word at face value, even when presented with contradictory evidence;
- declined to pursue cases or seek enforcement action because they deemed it to be inconvenient to do so;
- on occasions where the targets of complaints have failed to comply, told complainants there was nothing they could do and to go take the target to court, despite taking uncooperative targets to court literally being their responsibility as regulator.
>> No. 453438 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 6:20 pm
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I rented a sex lady. It wasn't very good. Not her fault particularly; I just don't think I'm cut out for transactional sex.

And I reaffirmed my belief that condoms are worse than pointless.
>> No. 453439 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 7:28 pm
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>>453438
Only middle class ponces are afraid of STIs.
>> No. 453440 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 7:52 pm
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>>453436
Would you feel bad for him, or the child he would have dicked with his chipolata if the pedo hunters didn't get to him? Suspiciously odd.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 453441 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>453436
Every one of the pedo hunter types on youtube is out for the likes rather than the actual job.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 453442 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 8:17 pm
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>>453441
It's paedo you pair of carpet-baggers.
>> No. 453443 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 8:33 pm
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>>453438

> I just don't think I'm cut out for transactional sex.


In some ways, all sex is transactional though.

Paying a stranger for a shag could even be called one of the most honest forms of consensual sex, because there's going to be very little pretense and all the other shite you have to keep telling a romantic partner.
>> No. 453445 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 9:01 pm
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>>453440
But he didn't carpet-bagger anyone and was never going to because the girl fictional. And most of these paedo hunter types create these, very creepy, sultry, desperate teens who all too often lure in half-wits like otherlad described who are so socially stunted and emotionally maladjusted you'd struggle to imagine them working up the gall to thank the bus driver, let alone groom a vulnerable teenager. It's basically entrapment, and while I'm not comfortable defending these people, what are the odds people like otherlad described were actually going to abuse anyone? Obviously, I'm not saying being dimmer than a zero watt bulb prevents you from being dangerous, some of history's most capable serial killers were only caught after tying their shoe laces together and tripping to the back of a police car. However, apparently around two-thirds of child sexual abuse takes place within families and my understanding is that much of the remaining third is someone else the child already knows. These paedo hunters create a situation in which they conjure their darkest fantasy so they can have the satisfaction of what is usually little more than a morally righteous happy slapping. I don't really see how creating new paedophiles is helping victims or preventing further offenses from taking place. It doesn't put me at ease that most of the people doing this seem like horrible bastards as well, just not being a paedo is a pretty low moral bar to clear, but apparently it's these people's proudest accomplishment; well done, you only pretend to be a child sexual abuser on the internet, how normal, I'm sure you're an entirely rational and well balanced member of society in every other aspect of your life, you complete nutter.

I don't know, it's like a giant centipede eating a tarantula or something. Okay, the spider's gone, that's ace, but I'm still not totally comfortable with what's happening here.

>>453443
You can go out with people you like, too.
>> No. 453447 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 10:29 pm
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>>453443
All relationships are transactional.
>> No. 453448 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 10:37 pm
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>>453440
I would feel worse if he actually managed to diddle a kid, but even if he is a criminal he doesn't deserve to be put in a virtual pillory and humiliated. It should be a police matter, not a matter where a bunch of fuckwits record it all and put it on Facebook for the kudos.
>> No. 453451 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 1:46 am
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>>453448
They do sound like knobs. I wonder how I'd react if an anti-paedo lynch mob got set upon by a gang of paedos. It probably wouldn't be as entertaining as I'm imagining, but I am imagining it being very entertaining indeed. Film it for YouTube, play Rock & Roll Part 2 over the top, and I can't see how it would fail to be amazing.
>> No. 453458 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 10:51 am
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>>453451
Is that you Kunt?
>> No. 453460 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 11:25 am
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>>453436

I think these people really are just bullies who have realised they can indulge their taste for cruelty unchallenged, because the "victim" is somebody who's already morally indefensible. It's kind of like the Sun reader's equivalent of "cancel culture"- They're not in it for the supposed social good, their motivation lies entirely in the rush of wielding power over somebody.

The thing is it's always struck me how remarkably similar the set-ups always look to the times I remember being bullied, or seeing someone being bullied, by a group of older lads at school. It's the exact same dynamic, where you can tell they're getting a real high from making somebody do something humiliating, and that person being entirely at their mercy.

For all intents and purposes it doesn't matter that the paedo is a paedo, because if it wasn't a paedo they'd find someone else to be an acceptable target. I'm willing to bet if you transported these people to a different time and place, they'd be happily taking part in the lynching of blacks in the 1890s or the burning of witches in the 1600s.
>> No. 453461 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 11:53 am
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>>453460

Paedos belong in the hands of the legal system, and not in those of an angry mob with pitchforks. Any court in this country will do a much better job serving justice than people playing on the subconscious visceral fears of the unwashed masses.

I fully expect the justice system to throw paedophiles in prison, if the severity of their offences warrants it. But nothing good ever came from the kind of fearmongering the tabloid media have engaged in in the last 25 years or so.

You're right that it's a kind of sanctioned cruelty. It's something deep within us that when you declare group X of the population as outcasts and undesirables and thus make them fair game, it brings out the worst in people. Again, not trying to defend paedos. What they do is inexcusably wrong. But even if you are somebody who commits the worst crimes imaginable, you still retain certain basic rights as a person. The law says so, even if the lynchmobs don't like it.
>> No. 453468 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 9:39 pm
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>>453460

This. These paedo vigilante groups come across as exactly the same violent sadists who were beating up gays 20 years ago, but since the police actually take that kind of thing seriously now they've had to find more socially acceptable targets.

It's clear they don't actually give a shit about protecting kids otherwise they'd be handing any evidence they collect over to the police (assuming they haven't just faked a bunch of it to justify their actions) and not risking jeopardising a potential prosecution by interfering or posting about it on the internet.

I remember seeing an interview with some senior coppers on a current affairs programme about this a few years ago. Apparently these groups getting involved pretty much guarantees that their targets won't be found guilty of anything since their computers are wiped by the time the police find out and vigilantes publishing stuff on the internet can cause all kinds of problems for the prosecution even if there is enough surviving evidence to charge them.
>> No. 453469 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 3:52 am
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>>453468
I think the way the more prominent groups do these things is to collect the chatlogs/paedo dick pics, arrange a meeting with the target under the pretense of being a 13 year old girl, then when the paedo arrives they put him under citizen's arrest to "legally" manhandle him, then call the police to arrest him. When the police arrive they hand over all the chatlogs, so the paedo doesn't have time between the sting and the arrest to destroy evidence.
>> No. 453470 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 8:10 am
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>>453469

Most of these lads don't understand terms like "entrapment" or "chain of custody". That kind of investigation requires a lot of finesse, because the offence is purely hypothetical. There's no actual victim, so the offence happened purely in the mind of the defendant. The prosecution needs to prove that the defendant genuinely believed that they were talking to a child and genuinely intended to commit an offence against them.

Any competent defence is going to challenge the authenticity and integrity of those chat logs, they're going to argue that crucial messages have been altered, deleted or fabricated. They're going to argue that the defendant thought they were just engaging in a fantasy with an adult, or that they were coerced into their actions by a gang of aggressive and manipulative men who set out to railroad vulnerable people into doing things that they wouldn't do of their own volition.

Unless the investigating team are very careful to pre-empt these concerns, then their "evidence" is going to be riddled with major shortcomings. If these vigilante stings do lead to prosecutions, then it's more by luck and failures of criminal legal aid than anything else.
>> No. 453471 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 9:30 am
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>>453470

There was a pretty toned-down three-part documentary on Channel 4 last year where a camera crew was shadowing a police special unit whose members pose as underage boys or girls on the Internet. The remarkable thing was that the police officers repeatedly checked with their colleagues and superiors for reassurance that their moves were within the confines of the law, and whether or not the evidence gathered so far would be enough to move in on and apprehend the would-be child molester. The focus was on building a reasonable case against an offender that would hold up in court.

It sounded like a very reasonable approach, whose key objective was to turn up paedophiles who, by their behaviour, would pose a real threat to vulnerable children in the immediate future. Those police units aren't doing it for shock value or TV ratings, it's a matter-of-fact kind of work that enforces child protection laws.

All those TV programmes like To Catch a Predator only foster the idea that vigilante justice is the way to go. And they evidently inspire private vigilante groups who may become good at framing and publicly shaming people, but that's about where it ends.

In a very general kind of way, I still believe that law enforcement and crime investigation should always be the job of the proper authorities. Everybody else can only do more harm than good to the cause.
>> No. 453475 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 10:29 am
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>>453471

>The remarkable thing was that the police officers repeatedly checked with their colleagues and superiors for reassurance that their moves were within the confines of the law, and whether or not the evidence gathered so far would be enough to move in on and apprehend the would-be child molester. The focus was on building a reasonable case against an offender that would hold up in court.

For all the mistakes made by our police and all of the wrong'uns in uniform, this mindset really isn't all that remarkable these days. After a decade of austerity, everyone is acutely aware of the scarcity of police and CPS resources. They aren't in a position to go after everyone, so they have to make it count - they consciously target the highest-risk offenders and work hard to present the strongest possible case to the CPS. They know that they won't get a second chance at the case, they know that taking on one case means ignoring something else.

I think one of the most telling things about the state of criminal justice in this country is the last few minutes of a programme like Traffic Cops or Police Interceptors. Five years ago, it was a rundown of who got convicted and what their sentence was. Today, it's mostly a litany of "accepted a caution", "no further action", "released under investigation" and "awaiting trial". It must be incredibly frustrating to feel like you're just holding back the tide, to know that a lot of your effort will be pissed up the wall because the CPS and the courts can't cope, to know that properly nasty people are walking the streets only because there isn't enough manpower to get them in front of a jury.
>> No. 453476 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 1:29 pm
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>>453475

I think the fact that you can be done in for grooming a non-existing child already goes towards that idea of trying to make it count.

Critics have often said that it is a victimless crime when a child that a paedo believes exists but who is really a covert police officer gets groomed online. Because no actual children were harmed. An argument that isn't as easy to dismiss as you would think at first. Because you're going after Internet users who have not (yet) commited a physical offence against an actual child. So you really had to frame it as a public and child safety issue, based on the idea that somebody who gets caught unknowingly grooming a police officer instead of a child can be expected to go on and succeed at abusing an existing child the next time when authorities aren't looking.

Without making the act of grooming as such illegal, police would have very little to go on, it'd be conceivable that they'd have to routinely let people go based on an impossibility defence. And the next time they'd groom somebody, perhaps even bolstered by the fact that police couldn't make anything stick against them, it might just be an actual child who then gets harmed.

Most paedos when they get caught grooming a police officer have their home searched for more incriminating evidence, which then often turns up illegal pornography or indications of previous grooming offences. Unless somebody would reveal in an online chat with a ficticious child that he had illegal child pornography at home, authorities probably wouldn't even obtain probable cause for a search if the grooming itself wasn't illegal.

So yeah, bit dodgy in terms of legal theory that you can be nicked for something you didn't even really do, but in the greater scheme of things, it serves its purpose. Not least because sexually normal people who aren't paedophiles usually don't come within a country mile of entertaining the idea of grooming a child online. In some ways, you can't go wrong going after somebody who does, so the ends justify the means.
>> No. 453477 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 1:59 pm
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>>453470
The entrapment point is particularly important. The police units that do this sort of thing are incredibly careful when it comes to what they say and do. They have to be sure that nothing they do could be seen as inciting someone or leading them on. They have to not only make it happen, but do so such that the target isn't doing anything they wouldn't have otherwise done, otherwise they risk having the case tossed or all their evidence excluded.
>> No. 453480 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 6:45 pm
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>>453477
Wait... I am pretty sure the secret service does the same thing with would-be daft militant wogs.
>> No. 453490 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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How does dental insurance work? After I fix this filling, I want to get one. The NHS can go to hell.

I might as well get health insurance too.
>> No. 453491 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>453480
Again, they're careful not to actually plan acts of daft woggery. They want to present the target with an opening to set about planning and follow along. The way it's usually described in the legal literature is "an unexceptional opportunity to commit a crime".
>> No. 453492 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 9:43 pm
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>>453491

I was going to say, isn't the key difference there that the intelligence services more or less do plan and execute actual acts of turrism, from the ground up, just for the sake of arresting them?

At least the Yank ones do. It's what that Chris Morris film was about.
>> No. 453509 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 10:10 am
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>>453492

The Americans don't really have a good track record in maintaining due process of law when it comes to anti-militant daft woggery measures. Theirs seems to be an approach where to make an omelette, you've got to break some eggs.

Case in point, a significant number of the post-9/11 Guantanamo inmates were just indiscriminately rounded up from all over the Mideast, often on very sketchy tipoffs or dodgy intelligence info. They were then declared neither prisoners nor prisoners of war but enemy combattants, a made-up term and a deliberate move because there was no legal basis or precedent in terms of what rights and recourse such enemy combattants were entitled to. They also had no access to the American judiciary system because Guantanamo is neither on American soil, nor is it a territory or otherwise a place where U.S. penal law applies. Any U.S. citizen convicted of militant daft woggery on U.S. soil enjoyed more legal rights than an inmate in Guantanamo.
>> No. 453511 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 8:26 pm
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>>453476
Everything's fine when Rambo's on the job.
>> No. 453516 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>> No. 453518 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 10:49 pm
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>>453511

Someone needs to check his browser history.

Also, it took me several attempts to read that as anything but "RAMBO PREDATOR: EXPOSURE HEAD SECURITY".
>> No. 453519 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 11:45 pm
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>>453518

>Also, it took me several attempts to read that as anything but "RAMBO PREDATOR: EXPOSURE HEAD SECURITY".

It does sound a bit like they're just jumbled words.

Or like a twelve year old in the 80s trying to come up with a good name for an action movie.
>> No. 453521 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 4:03 am
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>>453519

Or one of those nightmarish pound shop action figures.
>> No. 453522 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:05 am
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>>453521

>SUPERIOR POWERED THUNDERBOLT OVERLORD TOP KING

The Chinese truly have a way with words.
>> No. 453523 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:18 am
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>>453522
It's a truly sad thing that the combination of globalisation and improved machine translation will one day make Engrish a thing of the past.
>> No. 453524 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:31 am
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>>453523

Let's enjoy it while it lasts then.
>> No. 453573 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 7:17 am
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The only site reporting it at the moment is The Mail, but apparently a man in Liverpool slit his throat yesterday whilst being recorded on Facebook live by a gang of paedophile hunters.
>> No. 453576 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 9:57 am
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>>453573
Statement from the hunt team.
>> No. 453579 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 10:56 am
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>>453573
https://www.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/wye3uw/graphic_man_slits_throat_during_paedophile_sting/

Video is on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk, people physically attacking the guy with the slit throat even while his neck is gushing blood. Insane.
>> No. 453583 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:23 am
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>>453579
Shouldn't be a filthy diddler who takes a knife to meet up with kids if you don't want to get beaten up.
>> No. 453584 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:35 am
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>>453583
If you can't be safe meeting a child in the car park of a police station, where can you be safe?
>> No. 453585 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:42 am
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>>453576

This is pretty horrific. Sketchy orthography aside, paedo nor not, they are not taking any responsibility for driving a person into attempting suicide. Which they did.

In a certain way, that makes them even lower than child molesters. Whatever you may think how paedophiles should be treated, this is not the way. Angry lynchmobs are irreconcilable with the rule of law. And the rule of law must be upheld even against those who commit heinous crimes against children.
>> No. 453586 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:56 am
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>>453576
Translation:
>He must have been a wrong'un, he was carrying that massive knife. It's a good thing our people were there to harass him to death so he couldn't hurt anyone else. We deliberately kept shooting to prove he could have turned on us, but we forgot we had deliberately kept shooting so didn't realise what we were doing was being caught on video. We deeply care about the welfare of all our targets, which is why instead of calling an ambulance we just kept on beating him while he was dying."
>> No. 453587 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:58 am
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Does having a knife in your car count as carrying a weapon, legally?
I realise it was in easy reach so probably not relevant in this case but I'm still curious.
>> No. 453590 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 12:31 pm
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>>453587

>Does having a knife in your car count as carrying a weapon, legally?

Yes, if you just keep a substantial knife in your car without good reason, it counts as possession of a knife in a public place without good reason or lawful authority, according to the 1988 Criminal Justice Act.

Just permanently keeping a knife in your car means you have no good reason for it to be there. It can be a punishable offence if police search your car and find it. Or if they just spot it during a traffic stop.

I usually take a big kitchen knife with about an 8'' blade with me when I go catch and keep fishing, and a smaller folding knife when I'm out mushroom foraging, but the law allows both of them as valid reasons to have a knife in my possession in public.
>> No. 453591 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 12:34 pm
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>>453590

What if you keep it in your glove compartment with a Primus stove, fork and a plate?
>> No. 453592 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 12:42 pm
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>>453591

I guess it would depend on the circumstances and you being able to come up with a reasonable explanation to a police officer.

If they stop you on the way back from a camping trip, I'm sure they'll acknowledge that you needed kitchen utensils for it.
>> No. 453593 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 1:08 pm
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>>453591

A lot of hoodlums started keeping a baseball and glove in their boot to justify their baseball bat, but that excuse doesn't really hold up when they've also got twenty wraps of coke.
>> No. 453594 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 1:14 pm
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>>453593

Keeping a baseball and glove in the boot to justify the baseball bat, parked up outside the pub drinking cider with a full carvery dinner.
>> No. 453595 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 1:18 pm
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>>453593

Just don't pour the bat out with concrete.

You can legally keep a baseball bat in your boot, and you can even carry it around with you openly. It is not defined as an offensive weapon as such, but counts as sporting equipment. It only becomes an offensive weapon if you use it to (attempt to) attack a person. The law says you are not allowed to "brandish" it in any way.

A baseball bat in your car is also obviously not your biggest problem if you get caught with cocaine.
>> No. 453596 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 1:28 pm
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I've had a crowbar and little fold out stanley knife in the back of my car for about the last three years (among other things such as gaffer tape, a sleeping bag, and a box of blank casettes). No real reason, just the kinds of items I find to be situationally useful from time to time so I leave them in the car.

Where's that stand, legally? I could probably string an excuse that I do a bit of carpet fitting on the side. I think the knife is legal anyway because it's under a 3" blade or something like that, but are they going to assume I'm going out robbing stuff because of the crowbar?

I feel like the way the law works in this country is more like, you've nowt to worry about if you're not actually doing anything wrong, they're not really going to nick you just because you happen to have something with you. It's just so that if you do seem like a troublemaker they have very strong legal grounds to nick you, regardless of circumstantial evidence.
>> No. 453597 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 1:44 pm
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>>453596
Depending on how specific rozzers feel that day, they might claim you're going equipped.

Though given the other things you've got there, they're probably hiding in plain sight.
>> No. 453598 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 2:35 pm
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I have a selection of giant knives (which turn out to be very hard to photograph), and my understanding has always been that they're legal to own as long as I don't take them outside. I wonder how I got them home? Is that a legally acceptable reason?
>> No. 453599 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 2:44 pm
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>>453598

It's been so long since anyone took a "thing in front of gs onscreen" photo. Wow.
>> No. 453600 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 2:45 pm
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>>453598

Did you brandish them on the way back from the shop while gooning like Liz Truss wearing a Union Jack dress at an international conference? If not, then you're probably not on a list.
>> No. 453601 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 2:54 pm
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>>453598
>I have a selection of giant knives

Now there's a surprise.
>> No. 453602 Anonymous
27th August 2022
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>> No. 453603 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 3:55 pm
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>>453595

>You can legally keep a baseball bat in your boot, and you can even carry it around with you openly. It is not defined as an offensive weapon as such, but counts as sporting equipment. It only becomes an offensive weapon if you use it to (attempt to) attack a person.

Not true. Any object becomes an offensive weapon if it is carried with the intent of being used as a weapon, regardless of whether that object is actually used or brandished as a weapon. The burden of proof lies with the prosecution to demonstrate that intent, but there's a broad spectrum of reasonableness underlying that burden.

If you've got a hammer in the back of a work van at 6pm, the prosecution would need very specific evidence to demonstrate that you did in fact intend to use it as a weapon. If you're on a night bus at 2am with a hammer shoved down the back of your jeans, the prosecution is going to invert the burden of proof by arguing that there is no plausible explanation that doesn't involve violent intent; you're going to have a really hard time contradicting that argument. Nobody is likely to try and nick you for possessing a set of house keys, but if you told a police officer "I put my keys between my knuckles to use as a weapon", they could arrest you and you'd be bang to rights.

Bladed and pointed articles and certain objects manufactured with the intent of being used as a weapon are more heavily restricted, in that they are automatically regarded as offensive weapons regardless of the intent of the possessor. The onus is on you to prove that you had good excuse or lawful purpose to carry that item. Peculiarly, precedent has established that a completely blunt butter knife is a bladed or pointed article within the meaning of s.139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, but a screwdriver isn't.

https://www.lawtonslaw.co.uk/resources/weapons/

>>453598

You can carry almost anything in a public place if it's lawful to own it and you have a "good excuse or lawful purpose" to carry it. "I've just bought it and I'm taking it home" is a lawful excuse, although that excuse applies only to that activity. If you take a detour on the way home, you're on much shakier ground. Most of the time this won't be relevant, but (for instance) you aren't going to get away with taking a meat cleaver to the pub simply because you've got a carrier bag and a receipt for it.

Schedule 1 of the Criminal Justice Act 1998 sets out a fairly long list of prohibited weapons which are illegal simply to possess in most circumstances; you should probably familiarise yourself with it if you're a collector, because there are a few surprises.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2019/schedule
>> No. 453605 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 4:08 pm
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>>453603
>the prosecution is going to invert the burden of proof by arguing that there is no plausible explanation that doesn't involve violent intent
I'll just show 'em this doctor's note I have for my hammeroids.
>> No. 453606 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 5:01 pm
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Thinking about a lot things tonight. Pizza toppings mostly. Also I'm wondering why everyone in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul wears dark, heavy jackets even though I understand New Mexico to be hotter than the sun. I suppose allowances have to be made if you want to hide a gun on your person.
>> No. 453607 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 5:19 pm
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>>453603

>Not true. Any object becomes an offensive weapon if it is carried with the intent of being used as a weapon, regardless of whether that object is actually used or brandished as a weapon. The burden of proof lies with the prosecution to demonstrate that intent, but there's a broad spectrum of reasonableness underlying that burden.


It effectively still means you can walk down the street with a baseball bat in your hand and as long as you mind your own business and don't give anybody a menacing impression or reason to believe you are carrying the bat to harm somebody, there's nothing the police or authorities can do about it.


>arguing that there is no plausible explanation that doesn't involve violent intent

That's pretty much it, in a nutshell. You could be travelling back from a dinner party on a bus with a 12'' meat carving knife in your bag, and it would still be legal, because you are not carrying it openly and there's no reason to believe you're going to threaten somebody with it. And you obviously need a reasonable way to get the knife back home with you after the dinner party.
>> No. 453609 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 5:55 pm
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>>453607

>It effectively still means you can walk down the street with a baseball bat in your hand and as long as you mind your own business and don't give anybody a menacing impression or reason to believe you are carrying the bat to harm somebody, there's nothing the police or authorities can do about it.

Try it, see how far you get.

>>453606

There's a massive range in temperature, as is typical for an arid climate. Winter nights are often well below zero.
>> No. 453612 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 6:35 pm
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Have they replaced Rachel Riley with an impostor, or is she going to the same surgeon as Jimmy Carr?
>> No. 453613 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>453612

She is 36, so she is at the age where things just slightly start to droop here and sag there. Especially after two kids.

Jimmy Carr is still the king of plastic surgery though. You'd think he only dyes his hair and whitens his teeth, which he has admitted to repeatedly, but it's like he's hot on the heels of that human Ken doll Rodrigo Alves.
>> No. 453614 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 7:55 pm
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>>453613

>She is 36, so she is at the age where things just slightly start to droop here and sag there. Especially after two kids.

It's not that. As of the last Cats Does Countdown, she had that frozen and slightly bloated look of someone who's had a load of botox and fillers and that.
>> No. 453615 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 8:30 pm
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>>453614

Well she definitely had the right person to turn to with the show's host then.

Some entertainment news reporter challenged Katie Price in an interview once to put on a frown. And she just for the bloody life of her couldn't.
>> No. 453616 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 9:37 pm
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>>453613

He's definitely had some content-aware scaling done on his forehead
>> No. 453619 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:44 pm
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No great surprise the majority of comments are badly spelled variations on "carpet-bagger deserved it, so sorry for the teams huns."
>> No. 453620 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 9:06 am
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Amazon's own brand kitchen roll is a bit annoying because almost every time you try and tear off a piece it ends up ripping sideways about halfway through.
>> No. 453621 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 10:36 am
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>>453620
Amazon's own brand may be cheaper but it's still a rip-off.
>> No. 453627 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 3:38 pm
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>>453621
It was £6.78 for 12 of their jumbo kitchen rolls, 80 three-ply sheets which are larger than the standard size. They're definitely durable thanks to being three-ply, they're just a bugger to tear off. Based on the number of sheets per roll, it'd have cost about £11.40 to get the same quantity of jumbo kitchen roll from Asda.
>> No. 453628 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 4:38 pm
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I just use blue roll, which I definitely don't steal from work.
>> No. 453629 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 6:22 pm
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Fuck sake, man. Not a massive Arcade Fire fan or anything, but I've always had a soft spot for Neon Bible.
>> No. 453630 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 7:02 pm
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>>453629

I just operate on the assumption that everyone has done something that would get them cancelled. I certainly have. I've never organised a gang rape in a Travelodge or anything, but I've definitely been a bit too persistent, I've definitely chanced my arm with someone who was slightly the wrong side of tipsy, I've definitely taken advantage of someone on the rebound. I'm not proud of it, I'd do things differently in retrospect, but I don't feel right about people being tried in the court of public opinion.

Some of the allegations against Win Butler make him look like a nasty piece of work, but some of the accusers just sound like bitter groupies. I know that's not acceptable to say, but I spent most my twenties working in the general orbit of rock bands and a lot of the fans were genuinely frightening. The whole edifice of idol worship just breeds terrible behaviour on both sides - sexual opportunism by a lot of the artists, but infatuation and stalking by some of the fans.
>> No. 453631 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 10:50 pm
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>>453630

At the risk of kicking off One Of Those Discussions, I think the same can be said about an awful lot of the high profile celebrity sex scandals as of late. I find it hard not to be reflexively skeptical.

Obviously you have your proper, full on Saville cases, and there's no excusing that, obviously. But the way Certain Types Of People talk about it nowadays it makes it seem like anyone even remotely famous has to become celibate or they're a rapist by default, because of the "imbalance of power" or whatever shite. If you spin the logic out far enough, near enough everything men do in order to seduce women is rape, because we're persuading them to like us, which they might not have done if we didn't actively try to charm them. I mean, at some point you've got to acknowledge that you know what's going on when you go back to the hotel room with a member of a rock band- Or in the more modern context, a famous YouTuber at a convention, let's say.

I know there's a lot of genuine victims of sexual assault out there and I'm not trying to imply women are all lying slags or any of that stuff, but the way all the PC discussion about sexual assault and what have you goes nowadays does make it awfully easy to spin a pretty bog standard, if seedy, sexual interaction into a horrible traumatic rape; and it's not as if there haven't already been more than enough cases of people doing just that for their fifteen minutes of infamy.
>> No. 453632 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 12:30 am
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>>453630
I have no intention of becoming well known or getting my face on TV. Similar reasons, a few online chats and overuse of charm to get webcam tits etc. Again not proud of things, but certainly don't want them to suddenly appear again 15+ years after the fact.
>> No. 453640 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 11:19 am
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No mate!
>> No. 453641 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 11:36 am
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>>453640
8 subs, 600 views and you've already found it? Do you have a ladbaby rss set up or what?
>> No. 453643 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 11:50 am
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>>453641
Kunt from Kunt & The Gang flagged it up on Facebook, and the video was posted in the comments. Kunt has beef with LadBaby due to LadBaby slagging of Kunt fans during the race for Christmas number 1.
>> No. 453644 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 12:07 pm
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>>453640
Doesn't seem fair to call him a cheater when that lass just bounces ASAP. There are a lot of men who successfully betray their spouses and LadBaby isn't one of them; stolen valour!
>> No. 453645 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 12:11 pm
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>>453640
What I find weird about this is he's married to a 10/10 and he's wasting his time trying to non-consensually grope a 6/10. Foolish man.
>> No. 453646 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 12:46 pm
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>>453632

Or any number of ill-advised things you did as a younglad that could give someone the idea to accuse you decades later. Not ruling out the possibility that someone's emotional wellbeing was impaired for life that one night 20 years ago that you attempted to fondle them. You can't always fathom what makes people tick. And I'm not trying to defend serial wronguns like Jimmy Saville or other people like him.

But with many ordinary people, and people who used to be ordinary but then became famous, there are bound to be transgressions in their past where they were stretching the legal limits of consent as they were attempting to get with somebody.

Does that make them failed human beings in adulthood or middle age who deserve to be cancelled for all eternity and never find acting or singing work again? Is that fair?
>> No. 453650 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 6:02 pm
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RANDY NEWMAN ISN'T BLACK
>> No. 453675 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 9:05 pm
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>>453650

I'm not sure why anyone would think that he is. He's very Jewish.
>> No. 453676 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 9:24 pm
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>>453650
The Toy Story guy?
>> No. 453686 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 7:21 am
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>>453675
I'd never seen him, only heard his singing. He sounds like a black man and Randy Newman is a very black name.

>>453676
Yarp.
>> No. 453694 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 1:11 pm
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I don't think any of your assumptions about Randy Newman make sense.
>> No. 453696 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 2:10 pm
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He's not short either!
>> No. 453697 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 2:15 pm
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But is he randy?
>> No. 453698 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 7:48 pm
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A lad I knew at School got caught by a gang of carpet-bagger hunters yesterday. He's posting about how it's all a scam using his hacked accounts etc.
>> No. 453699 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 10:25 pm
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>>453698
In fairness, the clout-chasing types aren't exactly known for getting their information straight every time. Or even for being squeaky-clean themselves.
>> No. 453734 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 12:11 am
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I just managed to hold my breath for two and a quarter minutes. And I only took a few deep breaths before trying it, as well, although I had spent the previous 15 minutes or so watching those mad breathing-exercise videos on YouTube. I never knew if they actually did anything, but clearly they do, because bloody hell, two and a quarter minutes. I'm unstoppable. Next time I get out of breath going upstairs, which happens every time, I'm going to feel very confused indeed.
>> No. 453740 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 7:01 am
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>>453734
Careful you don't Archie yourself.
>> No. 453748 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 12:14 pm
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OH NO.


>> No. 453750 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 1:19 pm
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Youtube has loads of these clips. It's kind of a stupid idea to do that in front of any kind of crowd at all. In any case, you're playing high risk. If it works and she says yes, then you can always tell your grandkids about that crazy old time when you proposed to their nan in front of thousands at a sporting event. But if it's a no, then you'll also humiliate yourself publicly in a way that is probably ten times worse than being shot down when it's just you and her in private.

I also kind of think that it's often lads who think their chances are kind of iffy to begin with, so they think that there's no way she can say no in front of all of those people.
>> No. 453751 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 1:47 pm
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>>453748 >>453750
I vote fake and question why the YouTube commentator has a job.
>> No. 453752 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 1:50 pm
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>>453750

It's weird in itself that people even ask when they're not positive the answer would be yes. I mean where's the logic in that? To my mind the proposal is just a tradition and formality to something you basically both already knew was going to happen, and had already most likely been discussed positively.

Why even ask when you're not in that position of certainty? You ask them and they say no, it's basically the end of the relationship, because I mean how do you come back from that. She's outright telling you she doesn't see you as a permanent life partner, so the only logical course of action is cutting your losses and moving on. Like, it's not a question. If you're genuinely ASKING when you get down on one knee, you're already a bloody idiot and shouldn't be getting married.

Lots of people are quite thick though, I suppose. I think a lot of people see marriage as basically a guarantee of permanence, they want to be married because they think that sets the relationship in stone, and in their mind therefore it both eases their personal insecurity and/or means they don't have to worry about putting as much effort in. Both lads and lasses do it, from what I've seen, but it simply doesn't make any sense when divorces are so easy these days.

Marriage is wierd. I don't plan on it myself, but if I did, it wouldn't just be for the sake of it like so many people seem to. It will be so my dubiously legal immigrant girlfriend gets a British passport.
>> No. 453753 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 1:57 pm
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With tins of spaghetti hoops I find that if you microwave them for long enough for the sauce to thicken up and be richer you're at risk of damaging the structural integrity of the hoops, so you're left with the choice between a sauce that is too watery or hoops that have gone a little mushy.
>> No. 453754 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 2:40 pm
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>>453753

Your microwave has different power settings. Maximum is the best option if you just want to make something hot ASAP, but medium allows you to simmer rather than just boil the arse off something.

>>453751

I know that baseball is very much a minority interest in this country, but Jomboy is very well known for his breakdowns of weird and interesting plays. He likes to notice stuff happening in the crowd, which pleases the lower-league ground-hopping 606 listener in me.


>> No. 453755 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 3:11 pm
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>>453752

>Why even ask when you're not in that position of certainty? You ask them and they say no, it's basically the end of the relationship, because I mean how do you come back from that.

Either that, or it's going to be a real downer going forward.

One time, I was together with my then-girlfriend of about two years and some friends and somehow we were talking about marriage. Not about anybody of us getting married, but marriage as a whole. Then at some point I said to my girlfriend, "Who knows, maybe it's in the cards for us, too, in the future". And she said pretty candidly, "No, I don't think I'll want to marry you". I was a bit perplexed, and our friends were too, with a wide look on their faces, but at the time I put it down to marriage just not being on someone's mind when she's 22, 23. I was just barely a few years older, so it wasn't really something I was keen on in the near future either. With her or anybody.

But it left a bad aftertaste, although she tried to deflect and tell me that it really wasn't on her mind at that age. It was only about seven or eight months later when we broke up and talked about it that she confessed that by that time when she said she couldn't see herself marrying me, she had already made up her mind that I just wasn't the one. She wasn't against the idea of getting married, but it just couldn't happen with me.

So yeah, I guess ignorance is bliss. Or if at some point you actually feel you want to marry somebody and propose to her, maybe get a profound reality check first. Try to think if anything in her behaviour recently points towards her feeling the same way. A lot of blokes are piss poor at picking up on cues from women, but from everything I have seen in my life, a woman who really fancies marrying you will leave no doubt. She won't just give you one or two little crumbs to go on. She'll practically give you clues left, right and centre. And if they are absent, then your chances really aren't good that she'll say yes. Even the biggest introvert or someone who always expects the man to do everything for her will drop the occasional hint.
>> No. 453806 Anonymous
4th September 2022
Sunday 10:58 pm
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I charged my phone by connecting it to my Blu-Ray player earlier. What a time to be alive.
>> No. 453807 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 2:04 am
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I thought buying a big overcoat would be a nice idea, something milsurp so it’s cheap, but then I read the item description and I didn’t just go off the idea of buying a coat but possibly life itself:
>How about an east-bloc-chic officer’s greatcoat from the Polish army? Coarse, thick, and frightening just like the good ol' officers. When you enter a bar wearing this, the bouncer will tip you. Also perfect as the dapper gentleman's overcoat.
I suppose I should be thanking whoever wrote that copy, I didn’t know I was about to shell out for a big sign reading “COMPLETE DICKHEAD” to float above my head at all times.
>> No. 453809 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 8:07 am
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>>453807
I got my overcoat from a charity shop. Think it was a fiver for a big Jasper Conran wool coat.
>> No. 453810 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 9:34 am
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>>453807
If you have the right build for it then you'd look okay, provided you're happy for people to assume you're on someone's security detail. Complete the look with one of those transparent wiggly ear pieces.
>> No. 453820 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 2:49 pm
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>>453807

A pea coat offers most of the warmth with a greatly reduced risk of looking like a total plum.
>> No. 453821 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 3:51 pm
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>>453820

Why not get a WWII U-boat jacket.

https://www.epicmilitaria.com/german-black-leather-u-boat-jacket.html

Probably not your price range, but it looks pretty practical. And few people will notice that you're wearing a piece of kit from Hitler's Wehrmacht. Fewer than with your Polish communist overcoat anyway.
>> No. 453822 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 4:20 pm
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>>453821

>Why not get a WWII U-boat jacket.

Because you'd look like a Nazi and/or a 1980s Romanian sex offender.
>> No. 453823 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 4:50 pm
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>>453820
Yeah, I'm going have to try some on in person. Awful news.

>>453821
Because I don't think anyone actually would clock a Cold War era eastern bloc surplus jacket, whereas the kind of person who would pick up on my wearing of ex-Kriegsmarine gear would be someone whom I'd be obliged to kill until they were dead.
>> No. 453829 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:18 pm
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>>453823

>Because I don't think anyone actually would clock a Cold War era eastern bloc surplus jacket

I guess we're just different generations then.

And a U-boat jacket would be just obscure enough to have few people noticing. I didn't say get an all-out SS uniform.
>> No. 453831 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:26 pm
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>>453829

It's a formal leather coat, best case scenario is that you look like a carpet-bagger.
>> No. 453835 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 11:56 pm
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>>453829
This is kind of besides the point because I don't even want a leather jacket, but I equally don't want to dress like the men who were blowing up the merchant navy in the name of the Reich. Just because I'm not wearing the (alarmingly sold out) British Freikorps arm band and pea dot camo, doesn't make it okay for me to dress as a member of the bloodthirstiest regime in European history.
>> No. 453841 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 11:25 am
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>>453835

How about an NVA trenchcoat then.

https://www.epicmilitaria.com/original-east-german-army-ddr-trench-coat.html

Although you'll probably look like a camouflaged exhibitionist.

Probably comes in handy if you plan to target schoolchildren on their way past Hampstead Heath every morning.
>> No. 454071 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 6:37 pm
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I'm using Napolina's 'premium range' chopped tomatoes in the bolognese sauce I'm making and I can't really tell the difference between these and the cheapo ones I usually get.
>> No. 454072 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 6:47 pm
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>>454071

It's just tomatoes, what can possibly be that different? I bet you wouldn't notice the difference using Asda own brand ones either.
>> No. 454073 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 7:01 pm
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>>454072
I dunno, but there's some lads on here who want themselves off over their ability to make a pasta sauce (on the rare occasions it comes up) and they always insist on the fancy chopped tomatoes but fucked if I can notice anything different about it.
>> No. 454074 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 7:03 pm
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>>454073
>want themselves off

FUCK SAKE, WHY IS THE KEYBOARD ON MY NEW SAMSUNG PHONE SO SHIT?
>> No. 454076 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 7:56 pm
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>>454073
It's not that, it's just that I think people who put sugar in it ought to be sent to our remotest Atlantic island holdings and liquidated. Perhaps literally! Sort of an ironic thing, because then they'd be sauce, but like... people sauce.
>> No. 454077 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 8:14 pm
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>>454076
But that sauce would contain the sugar those people had eaten, and then you would have to be liquidated too.
>> No. 454078 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 8:22 pm
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>>454077
Only if they were also made of tomatoes.
>> No. 454079 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 8:23 pm
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>>454071

Italy overproduces tomatoes during the summer season, so even relatively cheap brands of tinned tomatoes tend to be Italian Roma or San Marzano, even if they aren't labelled as such. It's worth paying a slight premium for Italian tomatoes, but otherwise they're much of a muchness IMO. I can't say I've noticed the difference between generic "Italian plum tomatoes" and PDO San Marzano; a lot of the upmarket tinned tomatoes are worse because they use tomatoes that, while more expensive, are too sweet for canning. You could add citric acid to knock back the sweetness, but there's no point when you can get some of the best tomatoes in the world for about 50p a tin.

Non-Italian tinned tomatoes tend to be thin and watery, because they're usually varieties that were bred for shelf life as fresh tomatoes. The whole point of using tinned tomatoes is that you get tomatoes that were picked at the peak of ripeness, rather than hard and watery polytunnel tomatoes that look better than they taste.

I recently saw an advert for Flawsome! a brand of fruit juice that promises to reduce food waste by using wonky fruit. I was hugely impressed by the brazen cheek, because essentially all commercial fruit juice is made from wonky fruit - it's what the industry has always done with product that it can't sell for higher prices as fresh fruit. It's like advertising bottled water as being gluten free or bragging that olive oil has zero carbs.
>> No. 454081 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 8:53 pm
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>>454073

I don't care about jarred vs fresh sauce, some jarred sauces are actually nice enough that the extra ~10% of tastiness isn't a big deal. Nothing wrong with that to save time if you're just cooking for yourself, who cares? I also make creamy "carbonaras" just to annoy the pasta elitists.

That one lad who rinsed his pasta though. That was where I draw the line.
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10th September 2022
Saturday 8:57 pm
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>Non-Italian tinned tomatoes tend to be thin and watery, because they're usually varieties that were bred for shelf life as fresh tomatoes. The whole point of using tinned tomatoes is that you get tomatoes that were picked at the peak of ripeness, rather than hard and watery polytunnel tomatoes that look better than they taste.

A few months back Farmfoods had shitloads of Tunisian chopped tomatoes or crushed tomatoes with garlic for 19p a tin. The latter was so nice I could have gladly eaten it with a spoon directly from the tin.

At the minute they currently have boxes of bronze cut penne pasta for 50p a pop. It reminded me of lockdown when supermarkets, particularly Asda, bought loads of Italian flour and pasta and then had to flog it on the cheap down the line because nobody wanted the foreign muck even though it was actually better quality than the usual fodder.
>> No. 454084 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 9:08 pm
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>>454082

>A few months back Farmfoods had shitloads of Tunisian chopped tomatoes or crushed tomatoes with garlic for 19p a tin. The latter was so nice I could have gladly eaten it with a spoon directly from the tin.

Fair enough, North Africa does produce some excellent tomatoes. I was being a bit unkind - there are plenty of good tomatoes being grown outside of Italy, you're just taking a bit more of a gamble.
>> No. 454087 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 9:58 pm
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>>454082
I try to be good and clever and make sauces fresh by getting a punnet of fresh tomatoes and putting them in my blender. It really is a colossal waste of time, as you say they're just so thin and watery and tasteless compared to a cheap tin of italian tomatoes.
>> No. 454097 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 11:27 am
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>>454087
You have to de-seed them to get a thick sauce.
>> No. 454111 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 5:38 pm
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Is there some form of Ramadan soon? I've finally used up my 5kg bag of basmati rice and it's always cheaper round Ramadan.
>> No. 454113 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 7:00 pm
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>>454111
Best bet is early next year. Asda seem do be doing loads of discounts on ethnic foods. Barring that, you can get it from Turkish shops at around 10 quid for a bag of 5kg basmati rice.
>> No. 454118 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 8:54 pm
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>>454113
>around 10 quid for a bag of 5kg basmati rice.

I'm not made of money. Fuck knows since everything went nuts with inflation, but it should about a quid per kg of basmati rice.
>> No. 454119 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 9:52 pm
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>>454118

A quid per kg is going to be a bit hard to get. More like £1.50 to £2.00 with inflation at the moment.

You can get 4 kg of Tesco-brand basmati for £6.75. Not sure if it's any good, mind. I'm not big on rice as such.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/251442449
>> No. 454125 Anonymous
12th September 2022
Monday 8:54 am
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First day of working from home. Can I maintain Football Manager on my third screen or will the pressure be too much? Will Villarreal finally secure Champions League Glory? Or will I be unemployed in both the real and virtual spaces before the week is out? There's only one place to find out, that's right, I'll see you all at the Job Centre next Tuesday.
>> No. 454126 Anonymous
12th September 2022
Monday 9:10 am
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>>454125
I've been playing my current FM20 save since the start of April this year and I've apparently racked up game time of 11 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes.

Almost all of that will be when I'm supposed to be working, although that will include a fair bit where I've had it on in the background and not touched it. I'm currently in the 2031/32 season and when I'm bored of this save I'll upgrade to FM22 seeing as Amazon gave it away for free to Prime members.
>> No. 454127 Anonymous
12th September 2022
Monday 11:00 am
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>>454125
>I'll see you all next Tuesday
Well fuck you too.
>> No. 454286 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 9:54 am
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I've been thinking about it, and I've reached the conclusion that our calendar system is stupid and needs to change. It just makes no sense.

- September is the ninth month of the year, yet septem means seven.
- October is tenth month of the year, yet octo means eight.
- November is the eleventh month of the year, yet novem means nine.
- December is the twelfth month of the year, yet decem means ten.

In a logical world the seasons would go as follows:

- Spring is the first three months of the year.
- Summer is the second three months of the year.
- Autumn is the third three months of the year.
- Winter is the final three months of the year.

Or possibly having winter at the start o0f the year and ending on autumn, I don't know. Instead we have the arsebackwards system where winter starts in December and ends in February so it overlaps two years, which is daft. If December was still the tenth month then it'd mean winter runs from months ten to twelve, which would be far more aesthetic and practical.

I know this isn't an original thought but the current system is a load of bollocks and there's no real justification for keeping it other than "this is the way we've always done things". I've lost count of the number of times I've come across something completely arsebackwards during my career because of that line of reasoning.
>> No. 454287 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:15 am
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>>454286
seasons are all fucked up and unreliable, your desire to pigeonhole them into three month slots is demented. Fuck off. If you want to call quarters quarters, then fine, although if you'd be kind enough to not invent new offset quarters like FYQ3 that would be kind. Yes, I'm looking at you, employer dearest, I understand that you run to a financial year clock, but the 22nd of October is not a date I otherwise hold in my mind.
Month names are labels. Dirty foreigners even have the gall to call them other things. Relish the madness.
>> No. 454289 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:25 am
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>>454286

Yes, we need to re-optimise all our calendars because of all the native Latin speakers who are confused by the current system. That's definitely a bigger ongoing hassle than it would be to change the system.
>> No. 454290 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:38 am
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>>454287
Get out of here with your pagan nonsense. There are four meteorological seasons and they're each three months long. It works for the Met Office, it works for me.

I care about the weather, not some crusty bloke who goes to Stonehenge convinced he's Merlin.

>>454289
As I've said, "this is the way we've always done things" is poor justification for anything.
>> No. 454291 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:40 am
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>>454290
I didn't say "this is the way we've always done things", I said "That would be a hassle of biblical proportions to correct something that isn't actually a problem".
>> No. 454292 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:52 am
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>>454291
In other words, there's no real merit to the current system; it'd just involve effort to change it.
>> No. 454293 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:55 am
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>>454292
There are as many upsides to the current system as there are downsides.
>> No. 454294 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 11:14 am
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>>454292

Effort from absulutely everyone, and you know any drive to change it will fall flat simply because of people not being arsed.
>> No. 454296 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 12:06 pm
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The software industry would humbly request that nobody makes things more complicated than they already are.

We use the entirely logical system of counting the number of seconds since midnight on the 1st of January 1970, so as I'm writing this the time is 1663412512. Everything else is a horror show of special cases and weird exceptions that almost but doesn't quite line up with some astronomical phenomena.

Everyone knows that the actual date is the 21st of Elul 5782.
>> No. 454298 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 12:12 pm
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I don't know why but I just refered to a pair of my pants as my "male underwear".
>> No. 454299 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 12:22 pm
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>>454296
Bonus trivia: If you actually set your clock to Unix zero, it'll tell you it's 1am.

We did one of our experiments with not changing the clock and stayed on BST over the winter of 1969-70.
>> No. 454305 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 2:12 pm
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Apparently it's international fox day. Should we have got furlad a card or something?
>> No. 454306 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 2:15 pm
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>>454305
That's mother's day, to you.
>> No. 454332 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:40 pm
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Lads I'm drunk. My girlfriend picked me up and I even told her ill marry her if she drops the two dress sizes she's put on since we got together and I think I'm not in the dog house. Fucning yeah.
>> No. 454333 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 10:44 pm
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>>454305

Aw, well it's the thought that counts mate, cheers.
>> No. 454340 Anonymous
18th September 2022
Sunday 11:59 am
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We never had spiders this big when I was a kid, I'm sure. Did they patch them in when I wasn't looking or what?
>> No. 454346 Anonymous
18th September 2022
Sunday 4:28 pm
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I saw Limmy playing this Wordle inspired geography game, Globle, and gave it a go myself. Unfortunately I have to stop playing it immediately because I will obviously never have it this good again. Unless your first time's programmed to be a tap-in or something.

>>454340
People who don't mind spiders are demented. Awful creatures, I say kill 'em all.
>> No. 454347 Anonymous
18th September 2022
Sunday 5:12 pm
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>>454346

Did Limmy ever play GeoGuesser?

That game is a surprisingly good laugh. At the early stages of the pandemic, before everything full shut down, but after the work had dried up, we spent entire days huddled around one computer at work playing it.
>> No. 454348 Anonymous
18th September 2022
Sunday 5:36 pm
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>>454340

That's a so-called giant house spider. Females can be bigger than males, my guess is you've got a female with slightly above average dimensions.

Make sure it doesn't lay eggs in your house; wikipedia says that they can produce up to 60 offspring in one go.
>> No. 454351 Anonymous
18th September 2022
Sunday 11:17 pm
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>>454340

Every year people seem to forget that giant house spiders exist, and have existed forever and have always been creeping into houses at this time of year. They're just a pile of legs really.
>> No. 454352 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 12:25 am
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>>454346
>Unless your first time's programmed to be a tap-in or something.
Nope; I just tried it and it took me 13 guesses to find the country.

>>454347
I used to love GeoGuessr, but I always got annoyed when it dumped you on a featureless motorway with absolutely nothing but empty fields for hundreds of miles in every direction and it was always in Brazil. Also, I think you can't play it unless you create a profile now, and fuck that.
>> No. 454354 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 2:44 am
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>>454340
If it bothers you I hope you caught it in a pint glass and released it to find a new home.
Grew up in an ancient cottage with always some visible spiders in every room, I still don't like them near me but they are harmless and shouldn't be killed.
>> No. 454362 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 6:19 pm
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I find smokers incredibly irritating and judge them badly. Does that make me a bad person?

90% of smokers have no qualms about lighting up in queues or social circumstances you can't easily extricate yourself from and making you suffer. They'll smoke out their windows and carelessly let it drift into your house/flat/place of living. They'll throw their dirty cigarette ends on the floor without a second thought, they often have bad teeth and smell of stale smoke.

I find them to be a hugely selfish group and I should probably not be so judgemental of those who do smoke.
>> No. 454363 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 6:30 pm
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>>454362

When I was a kid, you could smoke pretty much anywhere - offices, buses, trains, hospital wards, you name it. Planes had a smoking section. Happy days.

I'm a vapist now, so I just wander around in a cloud that smells like a branch of Lush. You can complain about my fruity cakey cloud, but it definitely doesn't give you cancer, so #dealwithit.
>> No. 454364 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>454363
When you were a kid people were more unhealthy? Is that supposed to be a rebuttal?

I dunno about "definitely" doesn't give you cancer - I imagine it's some degree more carcinogenic than 100% fresh air would be.
>> No. 454366 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 7:10 pm
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>>454363
Exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. If I walked round spraying alcoholic drinks in the air like perfume as people walked down the street or started forcing something else in a confined space on people they'd ask me, rightly, what I was doing, but some smokers, so unable to control their need to fill their lungs with smoke, think it's my problem as well as theirs.
>> No. 454367 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 7:17 pm
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>>454364

>I imagine it's some degree more carcinogenic than 100% fresh air would be.

Fresh air isn't fresh, it's a fog of invisible poisons, nearly all of which came out of an exhaust pipe or a chimney. The combination of fine particulates, sulphur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, VOCs and ozone is the cause of about one-in-ten deaths globally.

The vapour from my electric fag consists of propylene glycol (not toxic), vegetable glycerine (not toxic) an assortment of non-toxic flavourings and trace amounts of nicotine in non-toxic concentrations. It has already been filtered by my lungs, so it's almost certainly safer than fresh air.
>> No. 454368 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 7:22 pm
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>>454367
>It has already been filtered by my lungs

Nobody wants to catch your bugs, pozlad. It's all in your head.
>> No. 454400 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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>>454354

I kept him detained overnight, because I didn't think it would be fair to release him into the cold when he's clearly come in seeking warmth. Then I chucked him over the neighbour's fence in the morning.

I don't really mind spiders, but when I find one this big I do somewhat object to sharing my home with it. At that size he wants to be paying rent frankly.
>> No. 454416 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 10:58 am
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I've been reading Americans argue about whether the man should pay on a first date, they also seem to like going to restaurants for their first dates. It's melting my brain a bit, they come up with absurd justifications like "it proves the man is serious" or "it proves he's able and willing to provide for his family".
I suppose if we lived in a world where women had to buy me food to date me I'd be spewing absolute bollocks to justify it too.
>> No. 454417 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 11:37 am
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>>454416

American dating is a bit stuck in the 19th century at times. A lot of its customs are formal in a way that would just seem weird to us.

With adults and people in middle age anyway. I think youngsters have a much more casual approach there, as they do here.

Going to a restaurant, especially on a first date, is taking kind of a risk IMO. Nothing's worse than having dinner in dead silence with somebody because after about 15 minutes you've found out you actually have nothing to talk about together. Then again, if you really hit it off, you'll be fine. I took somebody to a café once, and we spent almost four hours there in nonstop lively conversation. And then another two hours just sitting in my car outside before we went home. We ended up shagging two days later.

Generally though. if you take somebody on an activity instead, there'll be loads more conversation starters to fill in the pauses than if you're just sat quietly at a restaurant table. Maybe take her bowling. Or go play billiards together. Anything. Find out what she likes.

Even going to watch a movie together is better in most cases than a restaurant setting.
>> No. 454418 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 12:13 pm
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>>454417
I know you're just firing off ideas, but if a woman saw me trying to play pool her fanny would seal shut.
>> No. 454420 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 12:38 pm
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>>454418

Obviously, pick something you're good at.

I used to play pool a lot as a younglad, so it's something where I can show off my skills.
>> No. 454421 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 12:41 pm
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>>454420

>Obviously, pick something you're good at.

Inviting women over to have a wank probably won't go down that well.
>> No. 454422 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 12:47 pm
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>>454421

Try it. If she's in, she's a keeper.
>> No. 454423 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 1:01 pm
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>>454417
I can't understand going to a cinema. If I want to get to know someone, sitting in silence in a dark room sounds like the worst option. It would be like going to a library or the British Loud Noises You Can't Talk Over Convention.
>> No. 454424 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 1:04 pm
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>>454423

If you go to a cinema then do something else after, you can discuss the film. Obviously an activity is better but cinema then food isn't totally unreasonable.
>> No. 454425 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 3:12 pm
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>>454424

This. And maybe get a drink or a snack at the cinema some time before the film starts.

But yeah, cinema shouldn't be at the top of your list of things to do on a first date.

Another thing would be to go to some kind of event or carnival together. I went to see the Notting Hill Carnival with a lass once, and it was good fun. Crowded, but good fun. And with somebody else, I once went to a medieval fair. Which sort of isn't really my kind of thing, but there was still loads to see and then talk about.
>> No. 454427 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 5:45 pm
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My hometown got a MASSIVE shout out in that new Guardian podcast about a cyber stalker, absolutely chuffed. I love that nothing good ever happens there, it's very funny.
>> No. 454428 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>454427
Beeston is best known in recent years for a black cafe owner accusing the town of being full of racists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-23248503
>> No. 454432 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 12:03 am
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>>454417

It's just because they don't have pubs. Well, not like we do, anyway. You can't meet up for a drink in America, you'd have to go back to someone's house or bring a third wheel designated driver along.

Then again I've heard some people say "Euurhh, going to the pub for a date, that's boring innit?" to which I can only answer sure, if you're a fucking spergaloid who wouldn't be getting any fanny anyway, christ.

To me, the optimal conditions for a date are meeting in town on a Saturday afternoon, having a couple of pints to chat over and break the ice in a low-pressure environment, then you can both decide from there (after the alcohol loosens you up a bit) if you fancy moving on to something like a meal or an activity. The important part is that you can easily just bail out in that situation if it's not going well, there's no need to tough it out; but the fact you both know that also eases the tension and makes you more likely to get along in the first place.

It's a definite red flag if a bird doesn't drink, because you know she's just going to be one of those neurotics who claims she's experimenting with polyamory and insists on a first date doing vegan bouldering or something like a fucking mentalist.
>> No. 454433 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 12:30 am
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>>454432

Vegan bouldering sounds fine to me, it's carnivorous bouldering that scares me.
>> No. 454434 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 1:25 am
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>>454428
>She said it was not her intention to accuse the whole town of being racist.
>> No. 454436 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 5:55 am
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>>452420
https://streamyard.com/brqdzntsfz

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>> No. 454451 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 2:45 pm
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Just put all my chili pepper plants inside for the remainder of the season. They're about two months behind this year because I initially put them in the wrong kind of compost after germination, in which they refused to grow. Normally, I leave them out until October, but the impending cold weather will not be good in order for the peppers to ripen fully.

Always make sure your chili plants get a good head start. I usually start my seeds the day after winter solstice, and it has proved to be ideal for every variety I've tried so far, because at our latitudes here, it means they will get the mid-summer sun right when it matters the most, while the peppers are ripening.
>> No. 454452 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 3:49 pm
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>>454451
I've got maybe three or four chilli plants in a windowbox on top of my tumble dryer (in the living room) and they grow maybe three chillies a year, and this year I had one that was black for weeks. It went from green to black, then stayed black, only turning red about a month later. That was a bit bizarre. I'm no gardener, but I started to get worried that these ancient plants that are tremendously mismanaged might finally be dying.
>> No. 454453 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 3:59 pm
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>>454452

Chili plants can last longer than one season if they are looked after well, but generally, they tend to bear less fruit and are less vigorous the following years.

I always grow all new ones every season, but I'm feeling tempted to keep one plant this year as an experiment to see how it actually does after another year or two.
>> No. 454454 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 4:05 pm
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>>454453

You can cut back this year's stock and create a bonsai chilli that'll take less space, if you're feeling particularly masochistic.
>> No. 454455 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 4:20 pm
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>>454454

I got a bonsai pine tree once for my birthday, but it didn't go all that well. It eventually just died.
>> No. 454458 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 6:27 pm
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>>454455
Every bonsai tree I have ever seen has actually just been a branch from a bush. They're meant to look like fascinating miniature trees, but they're always so disappointing that I can't see the appeal.
>> No. 454459 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 7:27 pm
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This country is a giant fucking shithole, filled with cretins.
>> No. 454460 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 7:35 pm
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>>454459
Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
>> No. 454461 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 7:39 pm
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>>454459
Oh look, the Bonsai Tree Internet Defence Force has arrived, here to shill for Big Bonsai AKA Tree once again.
>> No. 454462 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 7:52 pm
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I miss the days of lockdown when people threw way more parties and enjoyed cheap supermarket booze. My bank balance is dwindling and I'm spending too much even if I engage in a bit of heavy pre-drinking before going out.

Regards,
Master of frugalism
>> No. 454463 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 8:11 pm
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>>454462

I kind of stopped drinking altogether during lockdown. I've always been more a social drinker, never really saw the point of getting drunk at home by myself. Especially not during the pandemic.
>> No. 454464 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 9:05 pm
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>>454459
You're not wrong. You can't say it, but yeah, sometimes I can't escape that feeling either. I often think about this story David Sedaris told on Adam Buxton's podcast about a 12 year old calling him a prick for picking up litter, and the lad's dad not giving a shit. I know it's a weird thing to focus on, but it's stuck with me as a very English (derogatory) incident.
>> No. 454465 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>>454464
David Sedaris is undeniably a prick though.
>> No. 454466 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 10:09 pm
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>>454465
He might well agree. Regardless I don't think that lad was offering literary criticism of his most recent New Yorker piece.
>> No. 454467 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 10:17 pm
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Since when does leek give you gas?

I had some chicken breast with rice and steamed leek tonight (they were 50p per stalk at Asda today, so why not), and I'm here tooting like I had chili con carne.
>> No. 454468 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 10:22 pm
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>>454467
Anything in the onion family can do that thanks to being rich in sulphur.
>> No. 454469 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 11:16 pm
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>>454466
Don't be so classist.
>> No. 454473 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 12:48 pm
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Putting Lemsip in fizzy water doesn't make Lemsipade. It's crunchy like sand and I can taste the chemicals, this is awful.
>> No. 454474 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 1:46 pm
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>>454473
You want effervescents.
>> No. 454475 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 1:57 pm
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>>454474
Not after paying through the nose for lemsip in the first place mate, eff that vescent.
>> No. 454484 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 9:35 pm
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>>454474
Amy Lee is a looker but I don't see how early 2000's nu metal will help.
>> No. 454485 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 9:46 pm
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I called in sick for work. I've heard for years on the internet that a top tip is to hang your head off the end of your bed/sofa so it's upside down which is supposed to make you sound much sicker.

It had the intended effect, in that it caused an actual, legitimate coughing fit while on the phone. My through fucking kills now.

Just so we're clear of how much of an idiot I am - it's not like I was calling my boss or anything, I don't have one. I was just calling to let them know I'd not be in. I had no reason to fake an illness, and definitely no reason to sound convincing while doing so. I just felt like trying it, and felt like lying to someone who really doesn't care why I'm off. I might be becoming bored of my job.
>> No. 454486 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 9:57 pm
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>>454485

You've learned that it works for when it might be useful.
>> No. 454488 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 10:00 pm
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>>454486

Aside from the coughing fit I definitely sounded blocked up and raspy. It's also harder to think when upside down, which is probably conveyed nicely in a conversation with someone who knows you.

Would recommend, just don't cough.
>> No. 454489 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 10:05 pm
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Why is lemsip so expensive?
>> No. 454490 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 10:10 pm
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>>454489

Because if people are anything like my mum, they buy one box and take four years to go through it.
>> No. 454491 Anonymous
25th September 2022
Sunday 10:18 pm
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>>454489
You're paying for the colourful branding and marketing. Look for near identical own brand alternatives.

https://www.drugss.org.uk/emc/product/5661/smpc#gref

https://www.drugss.org.uk/emc/product/617/smpc#gref
>> No. 454496 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:05 pm
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Would I get in trouble with the law if I do not call for emergency services when some random person gets hurt badly?
>> No. 454497 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:05 pm
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>>454496
I have no idea, but why would you not do that regardless of the legal consequences?
>> No. 454498 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:12 pm
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>>454497
I really didn't care to be honest. She got hit by a car badly, and the car drove off. Now I am wondering if I will get in trouble. I am sure someone helped her at some point, but it was quiet and the middle of nowhere.
>> No. 454499 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:14 pm
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>>454498
You seem like a very unpleasant and immoral person. Please do try to do the bare minimum the next time something important is happening around you.
>> No. 454500 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:19 pm
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>>454499
Thanks - will do.
>> No. 454501 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:22 pm
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>>454498
Whose car?
>> No. 454502 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:30 pm
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>>454501
No idea. It mounted the curb and hit her some 15 yards ahead of me.
>> No. 454503 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:44 pm
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>>454502

And where were you? Watching out of your bedroom window? In the car behind?

I'm pretty sure it's in the highway code that you are obligated to stop and assist if you witness a road accident, but I can't imagine how they enforce that. If you were the one involved in the accident you'd definitely be in trouble.

Karma will get you for this though, don't you worry.
>> No. 454504 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 5:27 pm
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>>454503
What is your problem? Similar thing happened to me ages ago while cycling, and everyone just drove around me. I'm sure not everyone stops to help.

It wasn't my car, it was an aggressive moron who took a turn while speeding, mounted the curb and hit a lady. I was on foot behind her 15 or 20 yards back.

I don't care for the ethical nature of the question, I am only wondering if I can get in some legal trouble by not helping and just walking past her.
>> No. 454505 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 6:10 pm
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>>454504

Not him, but it's pretty obvious what his problem is. Ethics aside you're thick as fuck if you don't understand why people might have an issue.
>> No. 454506 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 7:06 pm
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>>454504
You might be a sociopath lad.
>> No. 454507 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>454504

What do yoi mean what is my problem, I wasn't at all rude or judgemental.

Are you assuming I'm the other lad who saod you were a bad person?
>> No. 454509 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 8:26 pm
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>>454507
The threats about karma and all that nonsense. I Googled, and it seems I won't be in trouble. but I wasn't too sure.

Sometimes people just don't want to bother with it all. Stop making it seem like I kill babies.

>>454505
>>454506
I definitely wouldn't help you two if you got stabbed on a night out.
>> No. 454510 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 8:47 pm
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>>454509

I don't think you'd be this invested if you didn't feel some semblance of guilt.
>> No. 454563 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 6:28 pm
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Saw a woman with really big boobs in a wet top because of the rain today. I love women so much.
>> No. 454565 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 9:12 pm
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Wake up babe, new Georg just dropped.
>> No. 454566 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 11:04 pm
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Sarah Millican is on the new series of Taskmaster. I hope there are plenty of tasks that involve bouncing and jiggling.
>> No. 454567 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 11:30 pm
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Fat Stewart Lee, as acknowledged in his new iPlayer show Tornado, looks exactly like fat Jim Davidson. He doesn't acknowledge that but it's true.
>> No. 454571 Anonymous
1st October 2022
Saturday 11:14 pm
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I started crying because I love Rocco Botte so much just now.
>> No. 454572 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 10:37 am
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>>454567

Fuck, now he's going to take twice as long to get to the joke because of his COPD. I can't wait 40 minutes.
>> No. 454626 Anonymous
8th October 2022
Saturday 3:56 pm
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There's a play on Radio 4 which is actually quite funny. Most unexpected.
>> No. 454629 Anonymous
8th October 2022
Saturday 10:36 pm
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>>454567
Stewart Lee and Jim Davidson are the same person.

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