Got a start date for my new job last week, after being offered it at the end of June. So I now know how much NEETing I have left.

Going to be weird going from near enough infinite free time, to having to really make the most of what I will have.

I was approved for a passport this morning. The interview was a bit weird, because I had to talk about incredibly boring and mundane topics like the local highstreet, my dull job, and what the nearest train station is called. In an actual conversation that's the kind of thing I'd cut myself off from carrying on about by declaring "anyway, who cares?", and changing course.

>>472097
You get used to it eventually but some days you do wish for the neet life again (then you remember having no money and it all balances out)
Good luck lad.

The house opposite have had a full skip on their driveway for about a month now. Almost every other day there'll be someone pull up alongside it in a van before they go skip diving for valuables. As it's the summer holidays there's been a few of them taking their kids along with them.

It can't be that lucrative, can it? All the bloke today took away was an old vertical fan.

Think I've encountered a proper time cube style internet schizo. Go on rudgewick and look for r/lyricaldrugs. It's just one person endlessly posting this incomprehensible shit.

>>472097
What will you be doing?

You will have less free time, but you will have momentum and you will do a lot more with that time. I lost my job around a month ago and I thought of all the things I could do, but I’ve barely touched any of them. I could get a water meter installed in my house, but I haven’t. I was advised to book an annual doctor’s appointment, but I haven’t. I’m doing okay at reading the books on my unread-books shelf, but I haven’t got rid of my old bike yet and there’s no reason why I couldn’t do that today.

>>472107

Procrastination really is the mind killer. It's hard to just kick yourself up the arse and force yourself to do things but it really is the only thing for it. Otherwise you just put it off and put it off, if you can leave it today you can leave it tomorrow and the day after.

>>472106
I'm looking at this and I'm struggling to shake the notion that this is some elaborate clandestine communication. Insane nonsense is a great cover for intelligence service chatter, but then again it really could just be insane nonsense.

Actual viable pictures of Donald have shown up.
He's alive, but looks properly fucked.

Skinny Rock looks like Gregg Wallace.

>>472111

"Skinny" in the Rock's case means still being built like a brick shithouse, but not a bulging brick shithouse.

>>472112
Just like Gregg.

>>472113

Fucking hell. How bizarre.

>>472110
I tried to find them and couldn't. There's too much clickbait and slop. Can you help me?

>>472116
Click on the bit that says "Any Time" and change it to "Past Day".

Spent an hour and a half tonight unbunging the three-port valve on my boiler. It's basically there to switch between heating and hot water. When it gets bunged up, it'll get stuck on one position, and in my case my hot water was really hot, while I had no heat the other night. It's early in the season, if that, and I wanted to give my heat a test run to be aware of any issues before the cold season starts.

Anyway, it's really the kind of job you should leave to your HVAC specialist, but I've done some minor work on this boiler and the heating system in the past, and it's kind of straightforward. The hardest part was shutting off all water valves to the boiler and then draining the boiler itself to remove all the water pressure, so that the valve cartridge could then be safely unscrewed without making a splash. And then with some washing up liquid and chlorine bleach, I was able to remove the gunk from the inside of it so that it now slides up and down again without much resistance.

This kind of job is an easy £250 if you have somebody come in, including whatever silly money they'll charge you in parts for a new cartridge, which is no more than £35 on the Internet. But I definitely recommend eating that cost if you're not good with repairs and don't have a grasp of what you're doing.

This week, I have seen three foxes, one hedgehog, and one particularly brave rat.

One of the foxes even let me take a picture. Usually they can tell when you get your phone out and fuck off.

>>472119
There were two foxes in my garden, and I opened the window and they both turned to look at me. They just stared, and I stared back, for several minutes. It was slightly awkward.

>>472120

Perhaps they wanted you to take a picture?

I know you lads hate clubcards, but Morrisons gave me a £4 off a £25 shop voucher and I'd saved up enough more card points to exchange for a fiver so I've just knocked £9 off my lunchtime shop.

>>472122

That's an expensive lunch. Rest of us are moaning about the meal deal going up and you're buying caviar and champagne.

>>472123
The most extravagant thing I bought was probably vine tomatoes and feta cheese. If I'm going out to the shop on my lunch break it makes sense to me to top up on fruit and fresh bits I'll need at home during the week.

Cut some pears in half, call those singles then get banned from the strip club.

There's a lad at work who is only about 19 but I can tell he's going to be bald before he's 27. He's not thinning yet but he's the exact template of blokes who go bald dead early. Poor bastard.

>>472131
My brother-in-law started balding before he was 20. He wears a baseball cap all the time now, but it makes him look like a massive carpet-bagger.

>>472132

There was a lad at my school who had the same problem. He was markedly losing hair above his temples by age 16 when he left school. I ran into him again at my gym ten years later, and really didn't recognise him at first, but sure enough, he was completely bald, with the rest of his hair on the sides and back trimmed to about three millimetres.

My barber once told me that if you're not bald by 40, it's not likely you still will be. I'm 51 now and there's about a centimetre of hairline missing above my forehead. Which bugs me some days, but on the other hand, I'm lucky enough to still have enough hair that you wouldn't perceive me as bald if you saw me in the street.

Just made vinaigrette for a salad, but an excess amount of oregano has ruined it. Which I am just now realising as it's already in my salad.

Looks like Bran flakes are back on the menu, boys!

>Explicit images of Welsh Reform councillor found on adult websites

https://nation.cymru/news/explicit-images-of-welsh-reform-councillor-found-on-adult-websites/

Shame on otherlad for keeping Princess Spyderlily all to himself.

>>472136

The torn Atari shirt is truly the icing on the cake.

>>472136
>>472137
Russ Meyer might actually come back to life for this woman.

>>472136
None of it actually has her norks out properly though.

I've just grated about 400g of tofu and put it in tub to marinate with a load of soy sauce for a few hours. Hopefully it turns out alright when I stir fry it later.

>>472173

I had tofu bratwurst the other weekend. It was as underwhelming as it sounds.

>>472165

Probably for the best. When I had a lass with enormous tits, the most unflattering thing she could do was take her bra off.

Weird vibe. Monday night and it's my Friday. Fancy playing some videogames online but my mid-30s friends will all have to be early to bed for work tomorrow won't they. Suckers.

I think I'm going to drink energy drinks and find some really nasty porn to have an extended wank to.

There's this weirdo who rides his quiet racing bike around the neighbourhood town during the earliest hours of the morning. I've been seeing him for years but most recently it's becoming obvious how he tracks my movement from street to street, often doubling back in his course. I would have thought he's just curious, as am I, but a number of time's I've felt the need to duck a bush or two to avoid him. I've enjoyed seeing him search left and right as he passes my presumed location, but he's also crept upon me a few times.
This morning I decided to take a long detour home, listening for badgers. Also found a broken mirror while struggling for meditation. Telling.

Anyone who gets their news from a right wing sexy kitsune V-tuber needs to kill themselves NOW.

>>472118
Underr8ed post, well done m8

>>472104
>The house opposite have had a full skip on their driveway for about a month now. Almost every other day there'll be someone pull up alongside it in a van before they go skip diving for valuables.
Nah people throw out valuable stuff all the time, often for convinience. If you know how to repair or repurpose items, you can usually find some value. I'm pretty sure that's what India does with the rubbish it buys from other countries - grade and reuse.

I've got my eye on some wooden fence posts and carpet underlay on my street that're clearly abandoned.
The posts are about £20 each new. Once tidied up could be used in garden furniture or burned.
The carpet underlay and spare sofa fabric could make a padded carpet for my home - not overly valuable for the quantity but I'm not going to pay if it's just laying there in the street.
There was a huge pile of dark wood planks in a neighbours garden recently, haphazardly dumped in a pile, but I was gone before I could make an offer - was in mind to resell it.

There's that show on broadcast television about 'upcycling', it's not a bad start to see what can be done with pre-owned items and just how much people will pay for shit.

>All the bloke today took away was an old vertical fan.
I'd pay up to £15 if it was clean enough and worked.

I've had to unplug my freezer and let it defrost. The massive iceberg on the roof had become too large for the door to seal properly shut, so it was using loads of electricity and getting extremely loud. I've been putting it off by chiselling away bits of the ice for about 6 months, but push has finally come to shove.

I should be able to fit about twice as many Chicago Towns in there after this though. Iceland here I come.

>>472186
Are you sure he's not one of those Strava nutters? I used to work with a keen cyclist and apparently it got extremely competitive to be the fastest person on Strava to have cycled a particular stretch of road, to the point there were accusations that people were getting towed by cars and all sorts.

What do you think Greta smells like?

>>472198

She looks like a middle aged mum before her time in that picture.

There was always something about her that you knew she'd peak before her twenties. And i mean that in a strictly non-carpet-baggery way. Some young women do.

>>472198

BO. The eggy type.

I really can't understand how some people fetishise that kind of thing.

I need to find a good forearm exercise. Besides wanking, anyway. Other than that it's nice how, after just a few week's exercise, I no longer sound like I have boneitis when I move.

>>472201
No one smells of eggs. That's made up. Where do you people live? Are you even people? Am I on a forum for beings from another planet by mistake? In fact I think I've heard that grey aliens smell of eggs and piss, so is that what's going on?

>>472203

Sorry to break it to you lad but they do.

Most of the time you are simply deceived by deodorant products, because it's so ingrained in our culture that I don't think any self respecting person (so yes, that excludes all three of you) who regularly has close contact with other humans goes a day in their adult lives without wearing it, but they do. People fucking stink actually. Their sexy bits especially. Not always in an unpleasant way, but I think that's more conditioning than anything at this point. Some people smell a bit more oniony than eggy, some people smell a bit more like what I can only describe as wet animal. But people definitely do smell.

Actually now that I think of it, I too only noticed this when I stopped smoking. Do you smoke?

>>472203
If your farts smell of eggs, and you fart, then you too will smell of eggs.

Bouldering will give you superhuman forearms. If you don't want to go to a special rock-climbing place, just lift a dumbbell a bunch of times and your forearms will get big too. If you only want giant forearms and nothing else, place your arm on a flat table with your hand hanging over the edge, and lift the weight with just your hand while keeping your arm flat on the table. You'll never be able to roll your sleeves up again.

It someone says that people don't smell like eggs, chances are they smell like eggs and have gone nose blind to it.

If someone says people smell of eggs then the dirty fucker has been eating rotten eggs. Healthy eggs don't smell of farts.

>>472204
> People fucking stink actually. Their sexy bits especially. Not always in an unpleasant way, but I think that's more conditioning than anything at this point.

Agreed, there's a fine line between fresh sweat after someone's done exercise and the pong you get if that person has been wearing the same sweaty clothes hours later even if they themselves had a shower. All deodorant achieves in that scenario is that they smell of stale sweat and deodorant.

Short of smothering it all in deodorant there are a few things that can help. Scrub properly with a brush, loofa, or wash cloth in the shower, this cuts down on the "wet dog" smell. Don't be afraid of a light moisturiser. Make sure your washing machine smells of nothing except detergent otherwise your clothes will have a subtle or not so subtle smell of mildew; run bleach through it if in doubt. If you cook anything fragrant or greasy have cooking clothes or change afterwards.

More than people, though, what fascinates me is the "house smell". Everyone's house or flat seems to have a unique smell, rarely unpleasant but noticeable enough that with practice you could identify where you are by smell alone.

>>472204
I know people can smell, you dafty. I'm saying they don't smell like eggs, not in my experience. Or onions for that matter. Are you friends with a lot of people who work in food production or catering? In my experience body odour doesn't smell like anything besides body odour.

>>472205
Thanks for the advice.

>>472207
Fuck you, pal, I have a Fragrantica profile.

>>472212

I feel like we shouldn't have to explain it's not a literal egg smell we are referring to here, just the closest way you can describe smells. We don't have a defined set of words for fragrances in the way we do colours or sounds, which is pretty interesting in itself when you think about it, but we just compare them to various other things, usually foods.

The eggy smell people associate with that distinct type of BO is the sulphury, ammonia type of smell caused by the metabolic activity of various bacteria. That's why fresh sweat doesn't smell that way, you only get that smell when the sweat has been allowed to soak into the clothes and continue to stew for a number of hours. It's the same odour they put in those stink bombs you may remember from your school days.

Fat birds nearly always get the onion-y smell (again, not literally onions, it's just "sharp" in the same way as freshly chopped onions, and reminds of that) presumably because it's a different kind of bacteria that accumulates in their disgusting ham folds. But I've smelled it on slim healthy women, usually first thing in the morning if you had a particularly physical sweaty shag the night before.

>>472209

>More than people, though, what fascinates me is the "house smell". Everyone's house or flat seems to have a unique smell, rarely unpleasant but noticeable enough that with practice you could identify where you are by smell alone

I'd actually imagine you can recognise people's home by the smell a lot more easily than you think, it'll be something completely subconscious you don't normally pay much attention to, but if you were blindfolded and put in your friend's and family's houses, I bet you could identify them all immediately.

There's also that thing about how smells are also the strongest form of memory, which I've always found interesting. Think about how you can imagine the exact scent of your gran's Sunday roast or what have you, it's often a lot clearer and more vivid than attempting to visually recall the kitchen, or you may even not be able to recall one without the other.

I can always distinctly remember the smell of my dolescum council house cousin's house, because it smelt like my house but ten times more. My dad smoked, both their parents smoked. We had a dog, they had two dogs and let them on the sofas. It was overpowering as soon as you walked in, but I never disliked it. My auntie's house always smelt rank to me, but she had two cats, and didn't smoke; so the main smell was cat. For my entire life I've never found any cat owner's house pleasant to be in, and it's likely because they smell of cat, but I grew up with the smell of dog.

>>472214
My mother-in-law has cats and her house always has the vague whiff of cat piss soaked in wood.

My friend's house has a 'poor person' smell that makes me vaguely nostalgic for when I used to visit one of my childhood friends. It took me ages to realise it's a damp, musty smell because she never property cleans the place.

>>472213
>I feel like we shouldn't have to explain it's not a literal egg smell we are referring to here
Oh, well, I have good news, I'm really not fussed about this minor point of disagreement.

>>472209

>the "house smell". Everyone's house or flat seems to have a unique smell

I don't mean to get classist, but I posit that there is such a thing as a working class house smell. It's a mixture of labourer sweat, stale beer and cigarette smoke, cooked processed food, and cheap laundry detergent. Possibly also a slight whiff of mouldy walls or dogshit.

I used to work for a charity that was looking after people in precarious life situations, which was a euphemistic way of saying skint and long-term jobless or in low paying employment, and every second home we would regularly visit had that sort of smell.

>>472217

What do middle and upper class houses smell of?

>>472218
Lower middle class homes smell like reed diffusers and/or Febreze/plug-in air freshener.

>>472218
Lotion.

>>472218

Properly upper class houses smell like an antiques shop or a second-hand book shop - everything is old and threadbare, there isn't a scrap of synthetic material anywhere and they aren't too fastidious about cleaning.

>>472222

I was going to say middle class homes smell of undue aspiration and disproportionate debt, and upper class homes of 18th century fireplaces and quiet disdain for everybody below them. But your explanation will do.


>everything is old and threadbare, there isn't a scrap of synthetic material anywhere and they aren't too fastidious about cleaning.

I was once invited to somebody's house who was proper old money. Not super rich, but definitely refined in their ways and well heeled. It was the kind of place where their study room had wood panelling, top to bottom windows and 18th century wood furniture casually strewn about. And it did smell of old books. And of furniture wax. Maybe even more furniture wax than books.

>>472223
>I was going to say middle class homes smell of undue aspiration and disproportionate debt

Well I smorked. N1 m8.

>>472224
>smorked

Nah fuck it, I'm leaving that in.

>>472225

How easily do you reckon you could clean the dirt off this watch?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317238325985

>>472219
I disagree, I think they smell of this kind of cooking smell infused into carpet flooring.

>>472227
>dirt
Pleasurably easy. The surfaces should be fine with rubbing alchohol (Isopropl, from my brief experience - ask an independant chemist). Apply and buff with cottonwool buds.
Works on a lot of materials, though I wont be using it on rubber again.

>>472227

An old toothbrush and washing up liquid will get it sorted in under two minutes.

>>472212
>Fuck you, pal, I have a Fragrantica profile.
Bitch, tell me about it. I once wanted to buy a range of common perfumes so I could get an idea for who wears what. Seems like a subtle but important signal!
'So.. Unique' brand is quite nice for its sweetness but it's noticably cheap.
Can you share any lesser known brands, valuable or not?
What do you wear?

You know what Sweep was a fucking little shit actually, wasn't he.

>>472233
I feel that Sweep is ethnically black.

>>472234
It's possible. Dipsy the Teletubby is clearly black, which gets mentioned oddly rarely.

Got some big thunder going on.

>>472232

Not him but if you want a classic, inoffensive everyday fragrance, try Azzaro Chrome. It's kind of a soapy, subtle aquatic scent that can be worn to just about any occasion, from your daily office job to a night out or a day on the beach. And it's still more or less affordable at around £35 for 50 ml from a reputable high street source*.



* I got burned once buying it for £15 online. Never again. It was apparently the genuine article, but it had probably been sitting on a shop shelf or in a warehouse for five to ten years because it pretty much smelled of nothing. You do get what you pay for.

I could sell waffles for dogs, call them wooffles.

>>472234
You can't say enthnically black, it's too broad. I essentially understand you to mean 'not one of us' (presuming you're white, or atleast a britfa.g, rather than say Conganese or Egyptian (I don't even know if the walk likes are considered 'black').
Jesus christ this is like babies first Politico. I don't understand any of this shit. Wept for that lad using all those fuckin'.. alphabet clan acronyms the other week (That shit is nuts, well done for tracking it so closely).

>>472238
You could sell hot, sausage-based cakes for dogs. Hot hot dog dog cakes would sell like hot cakes.

>>472239

You know what he meant lad. We only have three ethnicities in this country. We don't need to overcomplicate it like the Yanks.

>>472240
That's a hot take.

>>472239
You're overthinking things.

Maisie Adam looks increasingly like your mum's mate who gets a bit handsy after two bottles of rosé.

>>472255
I don't think I've seen a single picture of her with a nice hairstyle.

The other lass on Taskmaster is rather shaggable.

Did I ever tell you about the time I saw a crows death ritual? That shit is insane.
A huge great oak, cackling with 50+ crows, huge uproar as one drops dead to the road below. They're all crying with laughter above, hysterics, as the fallen is crushed and ground under the wheels of a passing vehicle.
Carrion, they're fucking brutal.

>>472257
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism#Psychology

>>472258
>Modern psychologists generally characterize anthropomorphism as a cognitive bias.
>Anthropomorphism can also function as a strategy to cope with loneliness
Such a lovely experience, when you allow it of yourself.
Here that recommendation again. 75 year old book - simpler times when people could actually talk with animals.

>>472258

Corvids do actually perform death rituals.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains

>>472261
Fuck me, look at the mask it's horrendous. I would actually shit myself if I saw that while bird watching. Leg it, mate.

>>472261
Do they laugh? Is the understanding of bird laughter a new ornithological break-through I'm unaware of?

Just found out about this place, lads. Alri?

>Press conference announces that the shooter's bullets said:
>Fired bullet:
>"Notices bulges owo whats this?"
>Other unfired cases:
>"hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow"
(Apparently a Helldivers reference)
>"O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"
>"If you read this you are gay lmao"

I'm tired.

>>472257
>>472261

I've seen the local magpies do it. They are fascinating creatures. Far more intelligent than most people give them credit for. Here's a video of one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zg9sGnQf8

The same magpie has come to visit my balcony for nearly two years now because it found food there once. I keep meaning to get a bird feeder, because I'd like to befriend them.

>>472263
Tell us about your childhood pets.

I remember, very young, our hamster had laid all week in the corner of its pissy cage, pulsating. I was too scared to put my hand under to lift it up, instead I gently pinched its fur to pull. The entire back of skin peeled away to reveal black ribs and vascules. It twitched.
I don't know what happened after that but the creature and cage had disappeared.

>>472267

Have you spoken with your therapist about this?

>>472268
Not yet, do you suppose it has any relevance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dy3HiIFPQ

Have any of you three started foraging for mushrooms this season? I'm planning to go this week, after a fair bit of rain here. Probably Wendesday morning.

I've had the same Amazon driver two days in a row. I wonder at what point it'll start getting weird.

>>472297

There were two younglads parked in a DHL van right in front of my house a few weeks ago. Just parked, for ten minutes. So I went outside to look, and it turned out they were on a fag break. They told me they picked the spot under the big tree in my front garden that leans into the road to have a bit of shade. Fair enough, it was 26 degrees that day.

I guess that's why your parcels keep you waiting, but on the other hand, I thought let them younguns have their break. I had jobs like that when I was that age, and you desperately need a break now and then as a delivery driver. I can only imagine that it's more stressful now than 25 years ago.

>>472293

I resisted the urge last night, but the idea was still insidiously rattling around my head. I had an easy day at work today, with enough time between deliveries to go and get myself a double sausage and egg McMuffin and pancakes, which I sat and ate with rain pounding down on the windscreen. It was glorious.

>>472299

Trouble is the software (at least at my company) automatically sends that "your driver is on their way!" notification as soon as you put the address in the sat nav. So if you're planning on a break or need to find a piss location, you will want to do that to see how far away the next address is and make the assessment if it's worth detouring on the way, or waiting until after; but the customer just thinks you're sitting about for no reason.

Why it doesn't occur to customers that the driver is probably just on smoko, so leave him alone, is a bit mystifying.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

Have we been infiltrated by Big Mac? You're going to start posting about McDonald's Monopoly sooner or later.

>>472297

I've had the same Evri driver for so long that we buy each other birthday presents.

>>472305
I think I've only had two Evri drivers in the ten years I've lived in my house. The first was a ginger woman who was always accompanied by her husband, she must have been in her fifties and looked a lot like Rula Lenska. The bloke I've got now is bald with ginger stubble all over his head. All he ever says is "thanksmate" quickly, as one word.

>>472301
I had hot tea in the wind after a quarter pounder - can't beat the onions, the cheese sauce is a bit naff though.
There's something so .. instintive about late night, poor weather service stations. briefly resting roadside watching industry and night owls pass.

>with enough time between deliveries to go and get myself a double sausage and egg McMuffin and pancakes
Would you remember where someone is packing their rice?

>>472304
>You're going to start posting about McDonald's Monopoly sooner or later.
I was literally going to do that. Had a whole conversation with a friend about how much you'd sell Regent Street for. I said £50, they said £2,500. It's 1/3rd of a £5,000 so I guess the 'fair' price would be .. eh, a number.
Supose you have to provide a recipt?

>>472307
>Would you remember where someone is packing their rice?

Come again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOVuern2bEs

I believe every word.

>>472309
I was talking to a couple of friends in the pub last night, about holidays, and one of them suddenly just yelled, "PAEDOPHILIA!" It was a complete carpet-bagger sequitur.

Sometimes I like to think there's an all-female website where one poster keeps posting my comedy too.

It's actually really impressive how incompetent Evri are. When your company only does one thing, and that one thing is beyond your capabilities, it really calls into question how effective this whole free market competition thing is.

It's like if I started a business selling pies, and never made any pies, but still succeeded because I was charging a quid less.

>>472311

The only real solution would be to ban "free" postage. In a market where the seller usually chooses the delivery company and passes the cost on to the consumer through the price of the product, there's an obvious incentive to use the cheapest possible option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

>>472312

Well, that'd be great, except the place I ordered already charged my £4.99 anyway, and you don't get a choice to use anyone other than Evri. Which I doubt is the price Evri charge them, so they're just pocketing extra off the top there anyway, and most businesses would do likewise if free shipping was outlawed.

I actually love eating cherry tomatoes and bran flakes instead of chocolate and pastries. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

>>472311
>>472313
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred "next day delivery" isn't something I care about or even want, even when it's free. So earlier this year, the one time I needed it, you can imagine my chagrin when I got the order confirmation through and only then found out that it would be delivered by Evri.

It took two days to arrive.

I've cracked the camera lens cover on my Sony Xperia 5 II. It mainly affects the wide angle lens, but it's annoying. And I've had this phone for four years now.

I'd like to stick with Sony for a new phone because they've still got a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD card slot. They don't seem to be coming out with a new generation of the Xperia 5 anytime soon, so I've looked at the just-released Xperia 10 VII. It's their mid-range model, and it looks fine but I'm worried it'll be a step down from the Xperia 5. Especially the fact that it only has two instead of three lenses. Most flagship phones still have three lenses.

On the other hand, it will probably still be a quantum leap forward from my Xperia 5 II which came out in late 2020. I just don't feel like spending £1,000 on a phone.

>>472316

>I'm worried it'll be a step down from the Xperia 5
>it will probably still be a quantum leap forward from my Xperia 5 II


Neither. It's a modern smartphone. You could practically just pick one at random, there's so little in it.

I had the Xperia 5, and I "downgraded" to the 10 VI when the screen developed a dead pixel row. I can't tell a difference at all, it's like they are the same phone, just this one costs me £28 a month instead of £46.

>>472316

Replacing the lens cover is a very simple job and the part costs less than a fiver. Take care to avoid leaving bits of broken glass inside the phone - you're unlikely to permanently damage anything if you do, but a little splinter of glass can jam up the auto focus or image stabilisation mechanism. Gently heating the cover with a hair dryer to soften the adhesive can make the job much easier. Make sure to scrape off all of the adhesive residue before applying the new part.

https://www.replacebase.co.uk/for-sony-xperia-5-ii-replacement-camera-lens-frame

https://www.replacebase.co.uk/10-x-3-sided-triangle-blue-pick-pry-tool

>>472317

I was going to buy a phone outright this time, because why pay almost £50 a month when there are far cheaper options. But over £1,000 for the current newest flagship model, the Xperia 1 VII, is a bit much for my budget, and I could just about justify spending £400 on the Xperia 10 VII.

I've had this stuck in my head for about three days now.


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

My Evri parcel eventually showed up. I ordered it on the 9th.

Three twelve inch pizzas for £17 seems too good to be true. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I don't work again until the weekend, so I should be recovered by then.

Also farewell to one of the greats. You should watch Three Days of the Condor NOW!

This feels like one of those issues where there's some traditional old-wives's-tale solution, that I'm just not aware of.

So, when I'm cleaning my bathroom, I have my bucket, bleach and water, a floor-scrubbing brush, and a sponge. And when I clean things with the sponge, obviously they get clean, but the sponge always, invariably has a pube on it that gets stuck to the sink so my bright white sink still looks dirty. Every time. I have to clean it, then clean it two or three more times until there isn't a random pube on there. There must be a trick to stopping hairs from sticking to sponges like this, but I don't know what it is. Do either of you have any tips?

Are driving experiences a bit of a swizz? I'm in charge of the birthday collection for a lad at work and I'm thinking of something like this, depending on how much is raised:

https://www.msvdrivinggifts.com/driving-experience/mudmaster

https://www.msvdrivinggifts.com/driving-experience/rallymaster

I imagine there are better off-road driving experiences available, I haven't looked into it too deeply yet.

>>472322
>Soylent Green, it's people!
>https://archive.org/details/three-days-of-the-condor_202502
The elevator scene rocked. I felt those moments of escaping tension.
I liked The Conversation, too, though it's a different energy. Heavy 70's ending.

I discovered tonight that archive.org has scanned copies of every issue of PC Zone magazine, which I used to read religiously and still have huge stacks of all my old issues. I've been scrolling through, reading the old reviews of all my favourite games that came out before I started reading it, and it was only tonight that I noticed just how many of those there are. It seems like almost every game I loved from my childhood was one I never actually read the review for.

>>472325
>Soylent Green, it's people!
Either this is a super deep cut that's going over my head, or you've mixed up Charlton Heston for Robert Redford, as the latter isn't in Soylent Green.

>>472323
Do you like, not own a broom? Sweep down before mopping, you'll get most of the hairs when they're dry.

>my bright white sink still looks dirty.
I've got some blue stuff for limescale it but it seems so expensive, barely want to touch it. There must be something simpler like vinegar?

>>472327
Perhaps so deep it's relevant to one. I actually thought the main character was James Spader for a while.
Maybe they'll get Stephen Merchant for the remake.

>>472326
Yeah, it's a decent organisation. You can download files, too.

>>472326

By coincidence, I've just downloaded the Open Library app to my tablet. A problem of the internet and technology is that timewasting is designed to be frictionless, whereas more worthwhile resources are often hidden behind clunky UIs.

This app, though, is surprisingly lovely. You can very easily find, borrow, and read books. Works especially well on a tablet with a nice big screen.

It's Macmillan coffee morning at work today, but eating cake and baked goods this early means that I'm now ready for a nap. I'm currently finishing off a slice of chocolate Guinness cake.

I've had a notice of intended prosecution letter from West Yorkshire police for doing 35mph in a 30 zone. The camera is in a 40 zone. Is it going to be a Kafkaesque nightmare to get this overturned?

>>472331

Depends if it actually is a 40 zone. Apparently there's a lot of areas now where the absence of signs mean it's a default 30 zone. But I found that out on the speeding awareness course I had to take because I got clapped doin 36 down Scott Hall Road towards Sheepscar junction which I am fairly sure has been 40 as long as I can remember.

>>472332
It's the speed camera near the new(ish) Aldi in Mirfield. Unless it has changed since last year, it is literally around this bend.

>>472333

40 as owt that innit. I'd phone them up and tell them to suck a dick politely explain there must have been some kind of unfortunate error and you would like to be assisted with appealing.

>>472333
>>472334

(That said I would imagine it's unlikely to be wrong or it'd be catching tons of people. I actually drove down there this very morning coming down from Cleckmondwike but I don't remember how fast I was going. I called at Lidl and got some chocolate croissants. That one is my favourite Lidl.

It definitely switches to 30 some point along that road, by the time you get to the Tesco and turn towards the train station. So it is plausible they've moved it further out.)

>>472334
I've done a bit more digging and it looks like I've dropped the ball and they shortened the 40mph zone but about 200 metres when they opened the Aldi.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/mirfield-speed-limit-reduction-near-28154983

Bollocks.

Readying for my fourth takeaway in nine days.

>>472357
Nooo don't do it, brother. Especially if you're getting little excersise. The salad option is indeed an option you can enjoy eating a lot of without impacting your health as severely.
Really, munch on a raw carrot for the texture and oral stimulation. Go for lots (i mean lots) of green leaves in a sandwhich for bulk filling.

Really, try it. Savoy cabbage, carrot,red onion and some mayonaise, rolled in a flatbread wrap. Large as you like, add spice mixes for flavour. You can fill up on two of those without slugging your arteries.

What you getting, anyway, kebab? I had another maccyD's and won a free coke. Only 1 more property for the 5k praaaaaze


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

Any of you guys know how one might approach the council for leasing of derelict structures? What difference does it make if they're listed?

How would I best estimate the value of such a place, so that an appropriate offer could be made? All I can imagine finding is historic maintainance costs. That sort of information must be available somewhere at the town hall, publicly, right? Can I literally go in and ask for info on this and that?

>>472359

If you know it's council owned, then speak to the council. If you don't know who owns it, then you need to do a Land Registry search for the title register. You can do this online and it costs £7.

https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

>>472357
How much have you spent?

>>472358
It's quite alright. I'm, almost, back on the diet horse and as such all I'd eaten ealier today was two boiled eggs on toast and a pint of smoothied fruit. In between these mad binges I've been eating plenty of salad, I can assure you. The first two were my own choice, the second two have been socially induced fattenings.

I had fried chicken and chips, I'm afraid, nothing exciting. Congratulations on your free Coke.

>>472361
Hmm, I'd rather not have thought about this. Nevertheless, £36 split evenly between the first two, £15 towards the third and tonight's meal was comped.

It's getting worse. I spend half the day wandering back and forth from room to room because I've forgotten what I was going to do. Now I've forgotten what I was going to come on here and post about.

>>472364

Happened to me just yesterday. Wanted to get a hammer from the basement for something I was working on in the back garden, and by the point I was halfway down the stairs, I had completely forgotten what I wanted to go down to the basement for.

>>472364
>>472365
I've lost a belt over the last couple of days. How do you lose a belt? It should either have been on the table where I leave my belts sometimes, or hanging with the other two belts I own. But it isn't.

>>472369
I guarantee it's under your bed.

>>472364
POTY nominee, 100% relatable.

Got to pay £99 for this speed awareness course. Fucking hell.

>>472372
Better than £100 and 3 points. Though probably not as good as £0 and 0 points.

Today I've been paid ten hours, to sit and read for four hours, and do about three hours of driving. Naturally some days can be much more demanding, but these easy ones happen frequently enough to balance it out. I might not be the richest poster on .gs but I'm getting very comfortable in this job.

>>472372

Shop around, I got mine for £80. Do the online one and not in person, obviously. It's a bit of a ballache to give up three hours of your morning you could be doing literally anything else, but all you have to do is sit on a Zoom call and watch a bloke do a powerpoint about the difference between single and dual carriageways and the smart motorway gantry signs and whatnot.

Oh and also you have something like 90 days to complete it, so if money's tight you can kick it down the road a month or two.

Beans on toast for me brekkie today.

>>472376
Did you enhance the beans?

>>472377

I'LL ENHANCE YOUR BEANS YOU CHEEKY CUNT.

Sorry, I don't know what came over me there.

I saw a couple of peculiar specimens on the way home from work.

One has flags on his car, the kind you only usually see during a football tournament, as well as a faded sticker of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell with the word "pricks" underneath.

The other was a balding man in his sixties driving a Ford Mustang convertible. He kept pretending to scratch his head before sticking his middle finger up at the car behind him, like he was a naughty schoolboy or something.

I'm the guy who sometimes puts an actor's list of performances at the top of their Wikipedia page instead of at the bottom. I do it specifically to fuck with [y]you[/y] and nobody else.

Digital ID? For what?

>>472381
You could be worse; you could be the motherfucker who sent me a message once to tell me he'd deleted an edit I made, because I didn't provide a source, and then ended the message with "there's no need to thank me!" Never help Lithuanians by putting a page from Lithuanian Wikipedia into Google Translate and then using it to expand the same page on English Wikipedia. Lithuanians are freaks and they don't deserve anything.

>>472382
Well, you know how the police are always wandering the streets looking bored, because there are far too many of them and no crimes ever get committed? Now the police will be able to find illegal immigrants by using the absence of a digital ID (which could happen for all sorts of reasons) as concrete proof that it's okay to deport someone. The country will be saved, because when you see all those Deliveroo cyclists running red lights, and high streets with 12 different hairdressers but no actual shops, currently there's nothing dodgy about that at all. But once they don't have the digital ID that nobody wants, police will appear and work for free and send them all back.

>>472382

I'm going to make the case for it.

Since the May government, employers and landlords have a legal duty to check whether someone has the right to work or live in the UK.

For legal immigrants, that's incredibly easy. They give you a 9-digit share code and you type it in to the government website. The government website shows you a single page with the person's eVisa details, including a photo and a plain English explanation of what their visa allows them to do. It takes two minutes and it's basically foolproof.

For a British national, things get a lot more complicated. If they have a valid passport, the check is fairly straightforward, but you need to use a third-party digital validation service. If they don't - and a fifth of British nationals don't - then it's a complete mess. The official guidance on how to perform a Right To Work check is 60 pages long.

That creates real problems, particularly for people on the margins of society. The law says that you aren't allowed to discriminate against someone based on the documents they have, but in practice a lot of employers and landlords will automatically choose someone who does have a passport or an eVisa over someone who doesn't. If you're homeless, getting the ID you need to get a job or rent a flat can be a massive hurdle. I've been in that position and it's an absolute nightmare. Our lack of a coherent, straightforward proof of identity was also a key factor in the Windrush scandal.

The devil is in the details, but I think it'd be a huge improvement over the status quo if we just copy-pasted the existing eVisa scheme that we use for legal immigrants and extend it to British nationals. It'd cost practically nothing to implement and massively simplify a lot of bureaucracy. We might want to add on a few bits to make it more useful, but that would mostly be a case of tying it to identity data that already exists like your NHS number, National Insurance number or driving license number.

The government are pretty notorious for fucking up IT contracts, but I have absolute confidence that it'll work brilliantly if they just get the Government Digital Service to do it. They've spent the last fifteen years creating easy-to-use digital interfaces for legacy government IT systems, they're responsible for basically every government system that isn't a complete fucking nuisance and they're studied as a model by governments around the world.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6878ead80263c35f52e4dd76/26_06_25_Guidance_Right_to_work_checks_-_an_employer_s_guide.pdf

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

>>472384

>Our lack of a coherent, straightforward proof of identity was also a key factor in the Windrush scandal.

You will always draw the ire of libertarians who will tell you that a mandatory government-issued ID card is mass surveillance.

In most EU countries, a national ID is mandatory, and you wouldn't really call them dystopian societies. It's usually a credit card sized card you carry in your wallet which conveniently and beyond doubt proves somebody's identity at a quick glance. Both to authorities and for other purposes like housing and commerce.

But yeah. We can't have the nanny state requiring that of its citizens, can we.

>>472382

>>472385

Firstly, this is NOT just a card or document like your Drivers Licence or Passport. Digital ID means exactly that - DIGITAL.

But people don’t know what that actually means. The proposal is that this is an app to store your ID documents. So if it’s an app, what will it access?


1. CAMERA AND PHOTOS
It will ask you to verify with a picture of yourself (like SumSub, Monzo etc does). It will ask you to take a photo of the front and back of documents. So it will access your  CAMERA and PHOTO ALBUMS. That’s potentially all your photos... all the time.


2. LOCAL STORAGE
It will need to store cryptographic keys locally, so it will need access to your internal storage… which your phone shares with WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Any app with sufficient privileges can potentially access any other app or data on your device.


3. LOCATION
Most apps, especially Government ones, will be able to track or deduce your location, EVEN WITH LOCATION SERVICES OFF AND WITHOUT GPS. It can do this by monitoring nearby cell towers, IP addresses, proximity to other devices, WiFi etc.


4. NETWORK
The Digital ID app will be able to connect to and monitor networks. It will be able to find and ping other devices on connected networks, and list all networks around you. It could deliver exploits and move around infra. Any hacker knows; this is a gold mine.


6. BLUETOOTH
Devices, air pods, proximity to digital ads and devices etc. Bluetooth “beacons” can tell a developer (in this case, the Government) a lot about where you are and how you use external devices and accessories.


7. IT’S MALICIOUS
If you took the Digital ID logo off, it would be the most malicious app you could ever build. No need to spy on you. They'll have access to everything, any time.
This is keys to the kingdom for any Government who wants to spy on everything you do, use and own. Most people never read the Terms and Conditions of apps, or what they access - we just click "Agree".

>>472387
B-b-but it's Digital™! Like the young people use! Online! AI! Bitcoin! The future, as defined in 2002, is here at last with this bright and forward-thinking government.

I don't want to live in a society where people can't handle having a separate card in their wallet. It's true that I don't want one, but I'd much rather have that than an app. People are already up in arms that young people are addicted to using their smartphones. I predict that at some point in the future, some people will get rid of their smartphones, or at least leave them at home sometimes when they go out. Making that impossible feels sinister to me.

Everyone is stealing from the council, where I'm at. From the top claiming carpet on their 'home offices' to people literally lifting paving slabs from the floor. Twice now I've seen gert holes in stone walls where the capstones have disapeared. They're not even trying to hide it, blatently taking from the most convinient, car accessible places.

>>472387
Good post, but I don't think the average person cares m8, or even really understands. I feel like those of us in tech have been saying this for years and years ever since they first started talking about banning encryption and porn. Nobody listened then and nobody's listening now so it will probably happen sooner or later. I have fully resigned to idiots making things shitter for all of us.

>>472383
I, for one, am looking forward to having a power-tripping police officer stop me in the street and demand ID because he wants to throw his weight around while also being completely unable to arrest criminals due to the lack of prison space and court capacity.

>>472385
>In most EU countries, a national ID is mandatory, and you wouldn't really call them dystopian societies

I don't like the 'the Europeans do it so it must be alright', most EU countries have an entirely different legal tradition that imposes obligations on their citizens and mysteriously they fall into barbarism. The modern twist is that they now suffer data breaches and every authoritarian state operates some form of ID to control and harass its citizens.

Also, obviously they've also had their own problems with immigration where it's by no means proven that the reason people come to the UK is because of the lack of ID cards (in fact the push for this predates the 2010s). AND even in the 90s, Tony Blair's crusade goes much further than the European attempts by creating a single digital ID to access all services despite there being no rational reason to link my medical data with my local council's bin collection.

It's funny in a way how the world is turning out, my Oyster card is considered to be protected personal data because the journeys can be used to infer someone going to a medical appointment if they exit a tube stop near to a doctor's office. But if we magically transfer my Oyster card to an app then it's alright.

>>472384
>in practice a lot of employers and landlords will automatically choose someone who does have a passport or an eVisa over someone who doesn't.

Do they?

>If you're homeless, getting the ID you need to get a job or rent a flat can be a massive hurdle. I've been in that position and it's an absolute nightmare. Our lack of a coherent, straightforward proof of identity was also a key factor in the Windrush scandal.

Then we should establish some kind of voluntary 'citizens identity card'. Which was what happened and nobody wanted one.

>>472387

I don't know which campaign group you copy-and-pasted that from, but it's complete bollocks. Whoever wrote it clearly had no knowledge whatsoever of the permissions system in Android or iOS. I'll give an explanation for Android, because it's the least strict of the two platforms.

Access to the camera and access to the photo album is a separate permission and has to be requested at time of use. Camera permissions can be granted "this time only", so the app has to ask each time it uses the camera.

Local storage access is sandboxed. App specific files are private to that app and cannot be read by that app. Media such as images and videos is shareable between apps via the MediaStore API, but since Android 11 there are separate permissions to read and write to the MediaStore. An app must be able to function without this permission to be eligible for inclusion on the Play Store.

No, apps cannot ascertain your location without requesting access to the Locations permission. The app has to request this, it has to specify precise or approximate permission and it has to function without access except where location is absolutely essential. You can grant one-time access to location or access only while using the app; if you grant the app permission to access location while running in the background, it has to regularly remind you via a notification.

Again, Bluetooth access is a separate permission. The only way an app can scan for Bluetooth devices is via the BLUETOOTH_SCAN API. There are separate calls for discovering already paired devices (getBondedDevices) and for discovering unknown devices (startDiscovery); the latter goes through a mandatory system prompt. Same if you want to make the device discoverable to other Bluetooth devices.

I feel like the same people who'd sneer about not eating hotdogs because they're made from "pigs lips and anus" would also make a fuss about how wasteful it is not to use the whole animal.
Straw people anyway.

I swapped out the crossover capacitors inside my livingroom hi-fi speakers a while ago, from decades-old electrolyte ones to metallised polypropylene. They were by far not the most expensive option, but it has made a huge difference all around.

I'm just now listening to November Rain by Guns N Roses again for the first time since the swap, and it sounds epic. My speakers do very well with classical music in general, and it turns out that this is a more modern track where they really shine.

Not everybody was a fan of Use Your Illusion I+II when they came out, it was sort of the band's Black Album moment when they went fully commercial and adopted much more of a big-production sound. But with the distance of almost 35 years, those albums are still a must for anybody wanting to get into early 90s rock.

>>472394
>I'm just now listening to November Rain by Guns N Roses
>My speakers do very well with classical music in general

>>472395

Do read, lad.

>>472394

I really can't imagine anyone getting into Guns n Roses for whom it wasn't a kind of foundational, teenage element of their music taste. I've listened to all of their albums, and I used to think they were a good band, one of my favourites, indeed. Slash and Izzy are at least as influential from a guitar perspective, sat learning tabs in my bedroom, as the Metallica or AC/DC lads.

But over the years I've realised they're shite. Only their first album is any good at all, and even then, only 3-4 tracks (those being Sweet Child, Nightrain, Welcome to the Jungle and that one from Terminator.) Spend a few years in a cover band and believe me you will never want to hear Paradise City or Knocking on Heaven's Door again in your life.

>>472397

Oh wait and Mr Brownstone. That's a song about heroin. 5 tracks.

And My Michelle, I suppose. 6. If you've got any others do let me know.

>>472398
I'm so glad to hear someone else doesn't like Guns 'n' Roses. I have never understood the appeal of them. You Could Be Mine is good, and the last couple of minutes of November Rain are good, but everything else of theirs that I know (which is less than you), I hate. I remember feeling very awkward not long after I decided I hated Guns 'n' Roses, because I discovered some random other song of theirs that I really liked, but I'm not sure what that was now. After a brief period of research, I think it's Estranged, but I'm not enjoying it as much this time.

>>472397

>Spend a few years in a cover band and believe me you will never want to hear Paradise City or Knocking on Heaven's Door again in your life.

Paradise City is a bad example. It's a song which entirely runs out of ideas by the second chorus. Legend has it that it came to the band while they were jamming with acoustic guitars in the back of their van right in between gigs. And Heaven's Door is a tepid cover of a song that wasn't even that good when Bob Dylan wrote it.

I quite like songs like November Rain still today, as well as Civil War and Estranged. But the truth is that Guns N Roses peaked with Use Your Illusion. The following album The Spaghetti Incident did well in sales, but I never really got into it.

>>472397
Whereas for me, I prefer UYI 1-2 and Chinese Democracy. The bigger hits from AFD are decent enough, but they're at their best when it's sprawling, overlong and a bit ridiculous.

>>472401

There was a time when Guns N Roses made good music. Seriously. But their trajectory was that of many bands, where they have one huge acclaimed album (or in this case a double album) and are never quite able to match it again with whatever follows from that point on. Use Your Illusion was peak Guns N Roses. They still had respectable sales with subsequent albums, but nothing quite at the same order of magnitude.

Missing brown belt update. It was on the back of the door where it usually is, but I'd laid the wool tie I bought directly over the top of it and obscured it perfect by doing so.

I did put my faith in the folk wisdom of .gs and check under my bed, but as suspected it's too packed with boxes and shoes down there for anything like a belt to go missing down there.

Dairy Milk Buttons still taste like old Dairy Milk. Well, not 100%, but nearer than the bars. Is this just some psychological trick? It wouldn't make sense to use a different chocolate recipe just for the buttons, would it?

>>472414
I was going to suggest you look on your trousers, which I where I usually find misplaced belts. A wollen tie sounds nice, you must have a decent career.

>>472416
That's funny. I'm afraid you're inducing me to over share.

It was two quid from a charity shop. I bought it on the same day I'd had to head into Big Town to visit the Job Centre because my hours have been cut at my very-much-not-a-career kind of job, so much so that I'm technically dolescum again.

The triple constraint for finding decent clothes is made up of time, cost and quality. You can probably guess which two I prioritise.

Matt Gray off of being Tom Scott's mate always gave me egg vibes, but I think the recent series of Reverse Trivia pretty much confirms it. Good for her.

A shop has opened up in Nottingham that sells mostly Funko Pops and Pokemon/MtG cards, many graded. Admittedly it's in a fairly shitty area of the city centre so rents might be low, but it's amazing to me that a business can sustain itself on the sales of terrible pointless shit. Fair play to them for finding success fleecing soyjaks and rudgwicksteamshow.co.ukors.

>>472422
>always gave me egg vibes

I thought we were back to talking about smelly people again.

>>472423
Maybe this is just nostalgia talking, but at least a Pokemon card has a bit of art and style to it. There is, at least, a depiction of a fictional creature rendered in one medium or another. A Funko Pop is some manner of anti-art. It's a void made of solidified fossil fuels, untethered by place or purpose or meaning. They are passively scornful towards earnest feeling, as troubling to me as an unprovoked street attack, a wall of them is almost enough to wind me.

Sorry, I've got a bit carried away, but I really don't like them.

>>472425
Magic: The Gathering used to be incredible. I think it jumped the shark at some point, simply because they've been changing everything every year since the early '90s and nobody bats 1.000, but it was its own original fantasy universe and it had absolutely everything you could ever want. Or maybe it's the exact same nostalgia that you're obviously suffering from, and I'm just older than you. That would certainly explain how it magically got a lot worse in the very same year that I outgrew it.

>>472426

MtG has become intensely depressing.

>>472427
I refuse to believe that's a genuine MtG card.

>>472428

Legal in all formats. God has forsaken us.

My left eyebrow has been involuntarily twitching all day. Wonder what that's about. Stress?

My new shower gel, allegedly, does five things in one. I only trust it as a shower gel.

>>472431


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ARZb3m6Myo

Welp, Imgur has started blocking UK IPs

>>472433
Has that site ever been anything other than a massive waste of time?

>>472434
It hosts images for a lot of websites.

>>472431
Exfoliation isn't even one of the five things! Watch out for the 6-in-1 shower gel, coming next year when they realise they can do this.

>>472433
Imgur is one of those like rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk where if you see an image, and right-click and do "Open image in new tab" so you can see it on its own, that doesn't happen and you just get an identical tab with a load of shit around it. So I'm not a huge fan. But I know I will erupt with fury the second I visit a different website where none of the images work any more.

>>472433
Doesn't seem like it's anything to do with the Online Safety Act. Apparently Imgur were about to be fined for mishandling children's data, so they threw a hissy fit and quit the UK market. Apparently they can still be fined anyway, so they really are just being dickheads.

>472436
>right-click and do "Open image in new tab" so you can see it on its own, that doesn't happen
There is a way to open the image only, but I can't pin down the technique. I use(d) the site to quickly share screenshot URLs.

>>472436

>one of those like rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk where if you see an image, and right-click and do "Open image in new tab" so you can see it on its own, that doesn't happen and you just get an identical tab with a load of shit around it

I really, really fucking hate that.

I've felt like shit for a couple of days now. Mysteriously, this has coincided with my staying up until 3am for no reason and living of scraps of bread and three cups of coffee a day.

I typed this sans spectacles so if there's a typo I literally can't see it.

I reckon I'm after a Kindle. Then I saw that the cheeky fuckers charge you more to not have ads.

Am I right in thinking I can buy the one with ads, then just jailbreak it anyway to get rid of the ads, and then pirate all my books?

>>472441

You are correct, but amazon do like to patch the jailbreaks, so buying one with the latest firmware onboard might mean you have to wait for a new hack to be released.

>>472442

Can't I just tell the jailbroken one to never try update itself and forget about it?

These are the kinds of devices I have always been a bit frustrated with, because ironically, as a tech savvy nerd, I don't want all the interconnectivity and extra features. All I really want is something with next to no frills, no wifi, no storefront, no nonsense. Just a decent e-ink screen and a bit of storage I can fling epubs and pdf files on.

If there's one like that by another manufacturer, I'm open to recommendations.

>>472443
I misread his post the same way, try again.

>>472441
>If there's one like that by another manufacturer, I'm open to recommendations.
I got a Kobo, never went wrong. Still works after a good 15 years or more. Holds a charge well, too. Didn't have to do a thing to it to start uploading .epubs and .pdfs. No ads at all. My only complaint is that an update 6 years ago changed the loading icons from squares to circles.
I don't know what the modern ones are like but you could probably pick up a second hand Kobo Glo for a good price.

Would it be a bad idea to tell my current letting agent that I want to move house? They'd have an incentive to keep me on their books, confident in my reccord, but no incentive to move me from one place to another. Shuffle their finances a bit but they're no better off, possibly even worse in that they've now a lesser property to let.

The Family Guy/Simpsons crossover episodes are on ITV2 now. I wasn't going to commit to two Family Guy episodes tonight, but oh well.

A goose near me has decided to have chicks this late into the year. I say goose because she seems to be raising them on her own every time I walk passed.

I'm distressed by this development as the chicks are going to struggle to forage and stay warm. I know the policy is to I let nature take it's course but I'm certainly tempted to chop up some lettuce and get some maggots/worms from a bait shop for them.

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Geese are a menace.

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Apparently I reported a Facebook account back in March, I just now got a notification saying they'd checked it and taken no action.
I looked the name up to see if 'she' would look familiar, remind me why I'd reported it.
There are hundreds of accounts with the same name, most of which have photos of the same two women, almost all of whom purportedly work for the WHO and live in Lagham/Kabul, Svalbard - or some minor variation on this. Sometimes there's a connection to Reading or Oxford.
In some of the photos, the chubbier of the two women has a lab coat with a name on. Not the account's name, a different one. Searching for that shows hundreds of accounts of the same name, primarily with photos of that same woman, again working for the WHO in Kabul. Sometimes they list the real university she went to in Grenada, but the real woman (an Influencer on Instagram, presumably where the photos are being scraped) has no connection to Reading or Oxford or Kabul. All the accounts I bothered to click on have been active in the past two months.

Clearly this is the result of automated sign-ups ('bots') but why? Why so many of the same? Why the real university but the same few fake locations? Why so many thousands of variations on a theme? I'm guessing some sort of A-B testing for honeypots using the influencer's pictures but it seems excessive.

Is car insurance going back to normal now? Last year it cost me £438, this year I'm getting quotes for £282.

2200 and I'm already fucked. Goodnight.