>>13588
>All it takes is a divorce from hell
If you're talking about attractive qualities for single people then I don't think anyone who's considering you as a partner is going to be worried about you losing your money in a divorce.

>>13589

Probably not, if they really see you for the person that you are.

But we were talking about what pulls young birds during which respective decade of your life. As a divorced penniless 40something, you may find solace with a fellow 40something or late-30something woman who also has to start her life from zero for whatever reason. But losing whatever wealth you had will rob you of one of the key selling points about yourself to those much coveted "pretty young things".

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/19/major-acid-leak-creates-vapour-cloud-over-hull

RIP Otherlads.

>>13597
"Acid leak in Hull causes £17.5 million improvements."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4899146/Where-s-Dinky-Cat-VANISHES-flight-Dubai-UK.html

>A British pensioner has launched a search appeal after his cat mysteriously vanished while being flown from Dubai to England.

>Dinky has not been seen since she was checked in for the long haul flight ahead of a journey to London Gatwick, her owner Ian Lees said.

>But when he and wife Susan landed in Britain, the cage was handed back to him empty. The plane was thoroughly searched but the cat could not be found. 

>The cage Dinky had been travelling in had a slightly loose hinge and Mr Lees says it is possible his pet escaped before the plane took off.  

Stop talking bollocks lads. I can't wait for nukes to start flying.

>>13587
I should remind you that any attack on China (or NK if it matters) would also be conditional upon Seoul's consent as would even having American forces stationed in the North. While North Korea is undeniably somewhat of an asset for China it is also an incredible strategic liability these days which is why we can see China increasingly assenting to international sanctions that even a few months ago would've been unthinkable.

Without wanting to repeat myself, you have to consider the long-term impacts of North Korean belligerence for instance in Japan's debate over a more forward defence posture or public support in South Korea for nuclear deterrence. These are bad developments for China and it demonstrates that this isn't such an easy strategic calculation. Indeed, the opinion stated the Global Times (the mouthpiece of the regime) is that China will be neutral in the event of a North Korean first strike drawing at least one clear red line.

Anyway, to move back to the topic of the thread we have seen over the past few months the US gaining increasing leverage over the North through international sanctions and flyovers by nuclear bombers. This I think is eventually where this will end with a negotiated climb down, at the moment Kim is demanding an end to all joint-exercises in return for a promise to end nuclear tests, that isn't going to happen but as time goes on the US is gaining more and more leverage to make its own demands.

>They're already facing chronic threats on their borders with Russia, India and laplanderstan

There is literally only one of those that represents a chronic threat. China settled its border with Russia in the 90s and laplanderstan is a long-term ally which while somewhat unstable represents no threat to China itself and is a grateful anchor to it's silk road.

>>13591
You' know we will probably look back on this in a few years time and be amazed that we ever took the POTUS twitter account as a place for serious policy announcements. I guess he is at least helping the American gutterpress industry.

>>13592
Who knows, maybe it will set a precedent. I can certainly understand a desire to bypass the media and speak directly to the people, even if this is the worst possible manifestation of that sentiment.

>>13593
That is probably the only game-changing part of the Trump presidency in my view. He's fucking useless, but in the future, many leaders will feel like they can use social media with no filter whatsoever. That's the cleverest part of what he has done.

>>13594
Let's not pretend it was clever.

>>13453
Because you haven't made reference to any specific 'colonial law' that was repealed in 1948 that governed Britain's relationship with America or any other country.

I mean
>Britain gave up its status as a colonial power in 1948
doesn't mean anything. How did it do this? Did it officially notify the United Nations of its intention to stop pillaging the world? Was there a treaty between Britain and the Commonwealth nations? What, specifically, happened?

>>13452
>That's not a good example, as the Sexual Offences Act mainly consisted of a noticeable tightening of certain laws, and actually made illegal for the first time things that used to be legal.
That doesn't matter. Acts committed before the date it came into effect continued to be prosecuted under the old Act, because that's what was in force at the time. The authorities couldn't retroactively apply the new law because Parliament hadn't made it retroactive (which is possible but rare). Serial offenders whose acts crossed the boundaries were charged under both Acts, depending on when the individual offences were alleged to have occurred.

The reason we don't prosecute gay pensioners isn't because we repealed the law concerned, it's because such a thing is no longer considered acceptable in isolation. Turing isn't a particularly good example because the police had good reason to go after him and his prosecution for gross indecency was an example of that fine police tradition of "ways and means" - it was vindictive rather than discriminatory.

>>13453
>The American revolution was an illegal act under colonial law. But with the legal framework having been repealed, after 1948, it didn't matter anymore.

The lack of recognition for Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (which heavily borrowed from the US) says otherwise. Indeed, the British government had an explicit policy of 'no independence before majority rule' which throws a spanner in the idea that states can just up and leave.

The reason the US is now recognised as a sovereign state by the British government is down to Article 1 of the Treaty of Paris 1783.

I'm kind of forced to conclude that >>13447 / >>13453 doesn't know what he's talking about and nothing, in fact, happened of significance in 1948.

>>13457

My grandad was born

>>13335
A colleague of mine in Charleston, South Carolina, reported to me today that the local media was advising people to look out for "paranormal activity" during the eclipse. Seriously.

>>13400
And yet the sun never manages to set on "Pax" Americana. It's amazing really.

>>13400
>the local media was advising people to look out for "paranormal activity" during the eclipse

I don't know if it's just my general prejudice against Murrikins, but I have no trouble believing that at all.

>>13413
Huge ships are full of them.

>>13421
Wanna know what else is full of seamen?

>>13422

Boats.

>>13422
A submarine.

>>13422
UR MUM M8

>>13068
As long as it's not Stephen Mulhern.

>>13068
Dec & Dyer.

Commission a series immediately.

>>13067
They are the wrong way round. The normally always appear with Ant on the left, Dec on the right.

Cannit hack the sesh man

>>13073
It's quite funny watching the pair interact with Mulhern on Britain's gt Talent. I get the distinct impression they think he's a cunt.

>>13386

They don't have very much history so they elevate to an absurd level the little they have to give them a sense of cultural identity. It is the same reason why Argentina is so obsessed with the Falklands.

>>13387
See also today's "Great American Eclipse". It's almost as if these things don't come around every few years.

>>13384
The subject of Native Americans is an interesting one, with regards the Civil War. Many tribes - particularly the so-called Civilised Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, etc.) - in fact sided with the Confederacy. For one, they owned African slaves (although the relationship was a far more egalitarian one); and two, they feared the North, which they saw quite rightly as dangerously expansive and forceful. (It was the Union that was responsible for the Trail of Tears and Homestead Acts, after all.)

Things, as ever, are complex.

>>13389
I don't think it's that silly though. Taking into account the fact it is a total eclipse, and its path is right through the middle of the continental United States, it makes it a very rare occurrence.

>>13406
Everything is a rare event if you qualify it enough. There's another total eclipse coming their way in 2024, and predictably the town near where the two paths intersect has already declared itself "the Eclipse Crossroads of America".

>>13407
Thank you. I've been meaning to learn the difference and now I've made a little flashcard and attached it to my monitor.

>>13411

A fool, an utter fool, could fathom the point >>13409 was trying to make. But not you.

>>13416
I guess that makes me no fool.

>>13411
Haha! I still read it. I'm so smart me.

Hate, or expression thereof, is not a crime. To assert otherwise is an absurd notion, and our government (which wrongly claims to be conservative) has gone off the deep end.

>>13338
Travel broadens the mind.

>>13334
It isn't called the placebo effect without good reason

>>13338
I don't have to meet any Americans to know they're idiots.

>>13314
I thought he was quite the twat - I then watched a couple of his YouTube articles, the one where he models eBay in Excel is particularly impressive. Completely changed my view of him.

>>13343
A clever twat is still a twat.

>>13121

That is certainly true (I'm >>13119 lad). If you go to places like Cala Rajada or Alcudia, things are much more laid back there. The whole east of the island is frequented more by young couples with or without children. We went there in a hire car for a day. It did make me breathe a sigh of relief that the island of Mallorca wasn't invariably a complete shithole. Also, you've got some of the most stunning beaches of the entire Mediterranean there.

>>13120

>Ergh

Mine was still the most visually pleasing of the lot. Also, she was a proper wrongun in bed. But when I suggested we keep in touch, she said she never did with one night stands, as a rule.

She could have been a bigger germ farm than that monkey in Outbreak. But I had myself tested for various things about a year later, and it came back all clean.

(as a damning indictment of all that is wrong with the NHS, when I got tested for HIV, the nurse at the doctor's office said to me, in front of half a dozen other patients, "Mr Anon, your HIV antibody test kit is ready for you now in room three")

>>13118

Fucking nail on the head lad.

I was a wee teenlad when I went to the Balearics and Canaries, both of those times I was too young to drink and I was with my parents most of the time. But fuck me, anywhere the Brits and the Irish go, they are turned into the most torrid of shitholes one can imagine. All those "apart-hotel" complexes are simply containment camps to separate them from the rest of the Europeans.

My parent's logic to stay at these places was that the accommodation can be cheap so we can spend more money driving around and seeing interesting shit outside of these internment camps, and I must say it makes perfect sense now.

I can't wait for Brexit to happen, Spain should shake those expats and tourists off like fleas off a dogs back.

>>13123

They need our money though. Tourism is one of the few sectors of the Spanish economy that are still doing well. They've still got record unemployment there, with a whole generation of 20somethings who have never held a suitable permanent job after their vocational training or higher education and still live with their parents.

If they actually send British expats, and chav tourists packing, they will really only be cutting their own flesh. Beggars can only be choosers to a certain extent.

>>13118
Christ. I actually find this post offensive. Mallorca is a beautiful island twice the size of London that has a few shite little party towns taken over by stupid teenlads. If you ignore the whole island because of them you're ignoring the Blue Flag beaches, the pirate coves, the northern mountain ranges, the Son Amar acrobatics shows, the historical buildings of Palma, the romantic fishing ports, and so on. It's a great tourist destination. Fuck Magaluf.

>>13204

I went to Mallorca once.

I can't say I was really impressed by it. Yes, you have nice beaches and all that, especially when you venture beyond the obvious tourist trap areas. And don't even get me started about the utter shithole that is Magaluf.

But somehow, Mallorca as a whole didn't do all that much for me. I don't know.

>>13230

Boomers deserve the hatred in all honesty. The self-righteous, smug cunts have left future generations with fuck all.

I was lucky enough to get a 110% mortgage on a detached 3 bedroom house with dining room, large conservatory and a garage from Northern Rock about 15 years ago. This meant I didn't have to put down a deposit and got an extra 10% cash as a loan at the same percentage. Now my house is worth a roughly another 25-40% more than when I bought it.

If I had to buy the same house now I would need to find between 25-35,000 just for a deposit on a mortgage. If you think I got it easy, imagine being someone who bought their council house in the early 80s for like 4k and sold it in the early 2000s for close to 50 times what they paid for it.

>>13240

>If you think I got it easy, imagine being someone who bought their council house in the early 80s for like 4k and sold it in the early 2000s for close to 50 times what they paid for it.

Yeah, like the Boomers.

>“If anything,” Jake went on, getting into his stride, “we’re not spoilt, it’s you that’s spoiled it for us. Your generation.

Sadly, that hits the nail on the head.

Things are fucked up for the young generation, and none of it is their fault.

I am kind of glad I am not in my 20s anymore. Being that age was a piece of piss in my day, compared to today.

>>13216
To be honest I don't know if it would take all that much building.
I get the feeling that (although you'd possibly cause a recession by doing it) if we just built a few hundred thousand council houses*, which is something that was a matter of course until the 70s, you could guide the price of market-rents. (And in turn, how much revenue houses can earn as investments.) Even if it would cause a recession to kill this dragon, this is the recession Great Britain had to have.
And while we're at it, get the right to buy to fuck, both for pragmatic and symbolic reasons.

http://wosland.podgamer.com/we-arent-the-99/ quite like this article from a while ago about the political implications of the housing shortage, even if it's a bit more trendy-lefty (and much less sweary) than I'd be.

>>13104
Of course he would have died anyway. Just probably not right there, right then, shortly after being hit by a van.

>Theresa May has said the Finsbury Park igloo attack justifies her plan to impose a raft of regulations on the internet.
>The Prime Minister was speaking outside 10 Downing Street after a white van ploughed into eskimo worshippers following prayers at the north London igloo, leaving one dead and 10 injured.
>"This Government will act to stamp out extremist and hateful ideology, both across society and on the internet," she said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/finsbury-park-igloo-attack-latest-theresa-may-internet-crackdown-justification-terrorism-web-a7797281.html

For a man with a hammer every problem is a nail I guess. I wonder if Labour will support this or fight it tooth and nail by abstaining on votes or getting mysterious flu-like symptoms that never quite go away.

>>13100
>>13103
Lads we're better than this. It's not about snowdrifts it's about low hanging fruit that everyone is going to repeat ad nauseam like we're living in an Eddie Izzard dystopia.

Before you post think, do you really want to lay awake at night in fear of the midnight knock from beret wearing secret police asking 'have you got flaaaag'?

>>13104
I can't imagine the van helped matters.

>>13110
I think it is better to ban vans.

>>13110
She really has no morals whatsoever. Christ.

>>13110
>getting mysterious flu-like symptoms that never quite go away.

I believe the correct medical term is 'selective diabetes'.

>>13048
If they're that conservative, you have to ask which you think they hate more, the Jews in Israel or the heretic apostates in Iran.

>>13049
Both. I"m not even joking. These people aren't rational. That's why their governments can't just come out as Israeli allies.

>>13044

/boo/

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/21394

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170612-somalia-turns-down-80m-to-cut-ties-with-qatar/#.WT6hCKpOyt4

Why are the Saudis getting so desperate? Something seems off here.

>>13056
I reckon the Sauds are mindful of the accusations flying around about ISIS funding coming from their country, and so they're trying to make Qatar into a scapegoat.

Perhaps there's some connection to OPEC and the oil production cap, but that's straying a little closer to tinfoil hat territory.

>>12814
You sound insufferable to be honest. I hope the Filipina nurse that wipes your arse when you're old and demented abuses you and sticks a nine inch dildo up your prolapsed arsehole. Fucking cunt.

>>12821
Looks like I'm not the only one.

I have a guy from The Telegraph here trying to make a documentary on the attack and how it relates to North Korea, does anyone have any believable nonsense I should feed him? I'd feel a little bad about it as he's a nice bloke but it is his job.

>>13034
>I have a guy from The Telegraph here trying to make a documentary on the attack and how it relates to North Korea
No you don't. But thanks for trying.

>>13034
ARE KIM has his prisoner gremlins coding 24/7 on ancient PC's. Like monkeys on Typewriters, trying to get the best hacks.