>>62182
I dunno, The Last Leg is often funny, whereas Mock The Week has long passed its sell-by.

>>62183
>THE LAST LEG IS OFTEN FUNNY

I dunno, lad. It's always seemed a bit too preaching to the choir and stating the obvious to me. It seems squarely aimed at the type of person who wants to spam "the Tories are bad" ad nauseam in the guardian comments section, never posting anything with any real substance.

>>62170
Meanwhile in Parliament, ambulances called to the Commons, several ministers with severe burns.

>>62184
>IT SEEMS SQUARELY AIMED AT THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WANTS TO SPAM "THE TORIES ARE BAD" AD NAUSEAM IN THE GUARDIAN COMMENTS SECTION, NEVER POSTING ANYTHING WITH ANY REAL SUBSTANCE.

So how come we don't like it then?

>>62184

The Mash Report has made everything else look very old-fashioned. It's still a bit of a lefty circlejerk, but Rachel Parris is sharp as a tack and they give Geoff Norcott a fair hearing.

I was going to post more Crystal Castles but after checking up on their recent history I guess I won't. Fucking love them though, nostalgia and deep synths are a powerful combo.


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

So Lorn works too.

So on nostalgia I found a picture of the first girl I really fell for the other day and the way it made me feel has me seriously questioning my current relationship. I just don't feel that electricity here. Am I just getting old? Is it this dull?

>>11445

>Am I just getting old?

Yep. I don't think anything will ever match the first hit of all of those potent brain chemicals in your formative years. The first time it's a surprise, any time after that you understand it a little bit more and are that much more used to it, much like chasing any other high.

Of course there's more to a relationship to teenage giddiness. I can't imagine my first girlfriend and I making it in the long run, I've learned too much since then that I simply wouldn't have if I was still with my Year 10 girlfriend.

>>11445
His most recent album is mega, fully recommend you dropping the £5 on it off Bandcamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA

Absolutely nuts.

>>11448
I realise I'm going to sound like a massive edgelord complaining about someone selling out and going mainstream, but I haven't taken to anything Grimes has recorded after Visions.

>>27974

>giving off some sort of vibe

I was wondering that, I'm not sure what though or why, I was a bit styled up. If I had the Richard Gere quality of the man 'women love and men hate' I have only mastered the second part so far.

First reply to this thread was someone acting like I had pissed on their cornflakes, so apparently it works not just in person.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzS8Ki-cQ8

I don't hate all people.
Just inconsiderate cunts. Those who litter and waste things from goods to their own or other peoples time. It doesn't help I'm surrounded by mouthbreathers and their ilk in public places.
I find most people are in a different mindset. I have nothing against people who are selfish and for themselves, I myself am. It's those who inconvenience everyone else. Every where I look when I'm out there is cigerette ends and litter on the floor, broken glass, graffiti and other signs of vandalism. I often think what drives a person to willing go around and do stuff like that and wonder if they could ever think any different.
A lot of it comes from a person's upbringing and background. I'm mostly describing poor people but with wealth comes those cunts who think they're the most important person in the world while driving some oversized fuel guzzling car while stuck in traffic creeping a few metres at a time.
Basically I hate cunts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfoBpf1XH4g

>>27976
> I often think what drives a person to willing go around and do stuff like that and wonder if they could ever think any different.

I think it is an alienation from of society essentially they have haven't connected that they are a part of it and they have a responsiblity to it. It is just someone anonymous's problem not theirs.

>>27973

I wasn't talking about the whole book, I was referring to one specific part about altruistic behaviour. It might not even be that book.

>>27960
I hate those people who barge onto the tube at the last minute and make the crush in the carriage even worse than usual. Just fuck off and wait for the next one.

>>16868
I think marrying a cat is creepier than marrying a shed.

Someone marrying their shed is just a bit eccentric and bonkers. Someone marrying their cat is probably a pervert.

>>16868
Be that as it may I still don't think she'd be able to visit you in hospital or inherit your property, but I'm no solicitor.

>>16869
I bet their shed floor is glazed with cum.

I probably am a pervert. Which is why I like my cat, it is the only relationship in my life which is pure and wholesome. I can go out and sleep with whoever I want and the cat doesn't give a shit.

>>16870
>I still don't think she'd be able to visit you in hospital
Well yes it is a cat it doesn't understand that information, someone might bring it to me if I asked though.

>or inherit your property
I'd set up a trust with the cat as the benificary and a guarantor, not that I think the cat would out live me or I'd have anything of worth anyway as long as the cat is feed and happy thats that. The rest of my assets could go to others.

Okay there is piss on my coat, honeymoon's over.

>>16871

>I'd set up a trust with the cat as the benificary and a guarantor

I sometimes think I will do that someday just to piss off my descendants.

I'd have to get a cat first, mind.

Probably a good idea to put in my will then that if somebody thinks they can just kill the cat to get my money, then all of it goes to charity and they don't get a penny.

But then who's going to keep the charity workers from killing my cat.

>>22513

This. You have to frame it in the context that the cheese is ripping on the teen dramas of the 90s like save by the bell and Beverly Hills, 90210, and to juxtapose that all of the adults are horrifically maimed and the society lacks any kind of empathy. It is a deliberate directorial decision.

I still think it's a shame that Denise Richards refused to do a topless scene.

>>22514
There's only one sequel except they numbered it Starship Troopers 3 for some reason.
It's not as good as the first but it's still enjoyable. The focus is slightly different as it's more about religion and entertainment as a medium of control rather than the original purer fascism. You can see this as it missing the point or see it as just trying to do something fresh and more up to date than the original.

>>22519
There are two threads of two sequels each. There are two film sequels, and two animated sequels that disregard the films (understandable given that by almost unanimous agreement ST2 was shit).

I'm working my way through There She Goes on iPlayer. It's created by Shaun Pye, one of the co-creators of Money Dust, and is based on his experiences of raising a daughter with severe learning difficulties. It's good, but not great.

>>422816
What a wonderful Farce this is all turning out to be

>>422816
I got really confused earlier because Politics Live was on at 4PM and I hadn't checked the news since this morning. These MPs are so inconsiderate.

>>422658
>We harbour the sense that "back in a simpler time" we had better survival skills, but you have to go pretty fucking far back for that to be true, and even then only someone on a self sustaining farm is likely to be surviving for very long during the apocalypse.

I reckon the Civil War reenactors will do alright and I doubt many people could deal with them while Mars and Earth align. While you fuckers get to realising the internet has ruined your memory I'd be worrying about the real problem our society now faces. Roundheads.

>>422811
>>422812
>>422813
It's a great comfort to know that our generations retirement will basically be like how we lived before we had to get jobs. I'm even a little excited at the idea of playing Civ II and wanking to thoughts of the carers all day.

Dunno if they'll let us on the internet though.

>>422816
Not a soul predicted she would do that in the thousands of lines of text about this. Pretty impressive when you think about it.

>>422818
If only people realised that taking back control meant giving greater power to the idiots we've got in charge.

Hopefully it's going to cause such a political earthquake that it completely transforms British politics as we know it.

>>422821

>>12784
I hope the answer is "because we need a useful idiot to blame when everything goes tits up".

>>12785
Apparently it's because he talks about things that the mainstream media don't cover enough, something about two boys getting ran over in London that didn't seem overly coherent, and that Syrian refugee kid in Huddersfield didn't deserve to get £150,000 via GoFundMe because he wasn't really waterboarded and there's two sides to every story so he probably deserved it as there's loads of brown people in Huddersfield so it probably wasn't even racist

>>12784
I get Macron and Michelle Obama when those discussions come up because everyone in the office is centre left. Having a Tommy Robinson supporter to throw the cat amongst the pigeons would be dream for me.

Why are work people so strange, lads. They're not at all like people you would meet in your day to day affairs.

>>12787
She moved on to how much she hates feminists because they've got Baby It's Cold Outside banned on the radio in America.

I don't mind people having differing political opinions, it's just when what they're saying is half-baked bollocks based on Chinese whispers.

>>12788
>they've got Baby It's Cold Outside banned on the radio in America.

Sign me up.

I dreamed again that I was repairing an industrial machinery. After taking the panel out I started following the power to find where the connection was broken. Sometimes in my dream I manage to summon some ultra detailed imagines, I have no idea how my fucked up brain does that. I have almost no visual memory when awake. All of a sudden, a pipe broke down and all the factory was under four meters of water. I started swimming to the surface, but I could not draw a breath even if my head was above water. Then my oximeter alarm woke me up, my blood oxygen was around 80%. Fuck my life and that NHS Non Invasive Ventilation machine, it's fucking useless.

There were aliens, but they didn't land on the land. They landed in the sea and lived underwater so they were undetected.

>>422809

>They landed in the sea and lived underwater so they were undetected.

Sneaky bastards.

>>422809
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kraken_Wakes

>>422809
Vigilo confido.

I can't remember the last time I had a 'good' day.

Editing my CV made me so nervous I now feel to sweaty to leave the house, but I lack the 20 pence needed to print it off at the library anyway, so who fucking cares.

>>27832
Me neither.

>>27831
I don't even have a phone though, I'm just knackered from every conceivable angle. From the lies I've told to the out-of-the-blue misfortunes, everything's gone to hell.

>>27832
And they just keep getting worse.

I can't go anywhere, do anything, or tell anyone though. Scared of what will happen if I keep it all bottled up.

All I want to do is run far away, but I can't.

>>23560
Going to kill myself tonight when my partner goes out. Crisis team told me to watch a comedy film and have a bath. Think I'll just OD.

>>27835

This seems like a cry for help otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. whats up?

>>22610
It's pretty obvious that a Discord clique has begun to form and they've decided they should spread disinformation to discredit any alternative from of real-time communication.

>>22611

And it's ran by the mods. So if you try and say anything you get banned.

(A good day to you Sir!)
(A good day to you Sir!)
(A good day to you Sir!)

>>22611
Why do you have a chip on your shoulder about posts on a different board, on a different topic, from possibly more than a month ago?

>>22613

I'm pretty sure he was joking m8

>>422798

Despite the weird, botched way in which we privatised the railways, I think it's entirely reasonable to call the effort a major success.

>>422804
By that metric perhaps; that shouldn't be the only one.

>>422804

More passengers = better service? Come off it, lad.

Clearly you've never had to pay fifty quid to stand in the aisles on the Edinburgh - Kings Cross during peak hours.

>>422804
I always like to pedantically note that the uptick in that graph begins 15 minutes before privatisation.
We cheated the figures a bit by renationalising network rail and then giving railways a level of investment they'd not seen in decades. It's all well and good having passenger numbers spike without major cuts to the train operating companies profits, so long as you've got the government picking up the bill. You can say "oh, the subsidy per passenger mile is dropping off now", but that's the magic of investing in something: that's how it works. The question is "why didn't we do it earlier?" and the answer is, so far as I can tell, because trains hadn't started falling off the tracks and killing people with sufficiently alarming regularity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0155998214000416
an interesting article.

>>422807
Of course, one of the things that was touted, as with previous efforts, was that Joe public could be a part-owner of the company. Or pour their money into something that will leave them bailed out for half what they paid for it, or lose their (pre-tax) savings deductions.

>>26953
It's Virgin Media.

Thanks for the info.

Android's messaging application doesn't know the details of your contract, so I would assume it won't cost you anything.

>>26954
Threaten their customer service with GDPR then if they don't unsubscribe you for free. They'll respond quickly.

Turn off Twilight before taking screenshots lad.

>>26957
He can watch whatever he likes, you judgemental git.

>>8744
I don't know, is it?

>>8744
But you got that picture from the Mail article about how no one cared, so no, it isn't.

Could we not turn .gs into "repost any old from the DM.com", lads?

River Plate fans pelting the Boca Juniors coach with rocks before the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTA0BKoWwI

https://twitter.com/clarincom/status/1066412466039635968/video/1

Apparently there's players with glass in their eyes and the military are having to guard the stadium because of people fighting the staff there to get in without a ticket. You can always rely on the South Americans to go apeshit over football.

Is the man in blue saying "fucking black cunt" or not? I can't tell.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSr_7ExwrPU

>>8756
Looks a lot like it - and in any event, all three look like fucking cunts and behaviour like that should be removed from stadia. You wouldn't get away with behaving like that in the street and I don't see how it is any "part of the game".

>>22593
>The CS:GO twist is a useful map that tells you if an enemy is in a map quadrant (haven't seen another BR that does this)

Darwin Project. This one also has a human "director" for each match that can communicate with all the players, control the battlefield and award powerups.

>>22591

Seconded. It's a very different experience to other BR games, with a lot more action and some really meaty tactical gameplay. The desperate shortage of ammunition makes camping a total waste of time - you have to get out there and chase resources from the off.

Protip: the delivery drones track your tablet, not you. You can set up some hilarious ambushes in the late game by ordering a box of ammo and dropping your tablet.

>>22595

This, plus it's undeniable that the CS/source engine FPS experience is very different to most, mechanics wise. Anyone who has mastered the art of crouch jumping up a set of boxes has an advantage, though not a huge one.

>Protip: the delivery drones track your tablet, not you

That's amazing, I didn't even think about trying to drop the tablet.

I did do the fantastic 'pretend your pistol's a flash grenade' pro strat earlier for my first win.

I just noticed that Total War: Empire, Napoleon and Medieval 2 have just had all their DLC given out for free. I think the only bits I didn't already own were Empire and Napoleon's secondary campaigns, but by Jove I love the smell of black powder in the morning, even if they do seem like the least popular games in the entire series according to everyone else. The naval battles are truly awful, I'll cop to that.

Also, while I'd like to give Counter Strike: Global Offensive: Danger Zone a go, I've never been very good at the twitchier end of the shooter market and many people, even some in this thread, have been playing CS for so long I'm always hopelessly out classed. However, I do like the idea of it and it seems like Valve have tried something slightly different, despite a lot of people dismissing it immediately. I understand Valve haven't done much for their public image over the last few years, and that card game they're working on looks like a bit of a rip off, but it is F2P after all so you can hardly accuse them of being greedy buggers.

>>22597

>I've never been very good at the twitchier end of the shooter market and many people, even some in this thread, have been playing CS for so long I'm always hopelessly out classed.

I'm really rather good at CS and was in the highest rank for a while when I played religiously - the good thing about CS and just about all of it's game types is that it's just as much about being in the right place and remaining undetected as it is about aiming. There's only so much practice any normal human can do on headshot flicks and the like, if you can aim for the head and control recoil even a little bit, you have a fighting chance.

I'm sure I'd be able to reliably beat you on one of the classic maps I've been playing forever, because I'd just know exactly where to go and which corners to shoot at. But I guarantee you have just as much of a chance as I do in an unknown map, or the new one on Danger Zone. If you get the drop on me I'll still die, if I miss the headshot and you don't I'll still die.

I'd also say that CS isn't quite as twitchy as your COD's and such - you don't gain anything by jumping all over the place like a distressed salmon like you see most people do in those games. The nature of how accuracy and spray patterns work in CS means you're more rewarded for controlled bursts while crouching or standing relatively still. I'd recommend trying it, I think you'll enjoy it if you're interested. If I'm wrong then I apologise.

>However, I do like the idea of it and it seems like Valve have tried something slightly different, despite a lot of people dismissing it immediately.

It seems like people who don't play CS:GO are dismissing it because it's Yet Another Battle Royale, though apparently some of the mode's assets have been found in the game files as early as last year, so they haven't rushed it out cynically.

And the existing CS:GO community is angry primarily because Valve has given everyone who previously bought the game a free Prime account, which before now was obtained by playing the game to a certain rank and keeping your 'trust score up', meaning you were a good, honest player by a few metrics - good teamwork, not being a hacker, etc. Everyone with Prime status could choose to match up with only other Prime players, which was an effective way of keeping you playing with good players. The concern is now that everyone has Prime who owned the game, and you can just pay ten quid to get it now, Valve has invited the russian hackers and mic spammers back into everyone's lobbies.

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>>12885
>I certainly am
I'm sorry but you're just wrong. Any linguist will tell you there are reams of evidence showing that different words influence the way we think and act.

>Whens the last time you or anyone else for that matter threw a stone at a bird?
So you genuinely think that PETA's objective in encouraging people not to talk about throwing stones at birds is to stop their perceived epidemic of people literally throwing stones at birds? Maybe that explains why you think it's daft - you've totally misunderstood it?

>>12888

Do you genuinely think people are more likely to hurt birds because of that phrase? You've got to be having me on.

Show me the reams of evidence.

>>12889
Er... no, that's what I just said. It's not specifically about people throwing stones at birds. Are you a bit fick m9?

>>12888
>>12890
Look, lad. Make yourself a cup of tea and have a bit of a think about how you're spending your Sunday. The linguistic evidence relates to grammatical structure (accusation sentences etc.) which impacts upon thinking patterns but that is a damn big difference to acting out given we have free will. If anything the very concept of this should be scary enough if we're outright doing brainwashing by calling a spade a teaspoon.

What goes beyond this i.e. words is a pseudo-science that dehumanises everyone (and in this case everything) and is only pursued by the most feckless HR graduates. People don't throw rocks at birds or go make lemonade when the tequila runs out because there is at the very least a complete divorce going on with what may have once been very practical proverbs.

>>12889

Show me the reams of evidence that language affects people's behaviours.

>>16817

It essentially means a weakening of the presumption of innocence.

Very generally speaking, police and other authorities can't investigate the average innocent person with no hint at all that they might be guilty of a crime, "just because". The presumption of innocence in this case means that authorities are only allowed to become active when there is an indication that something might be up with you.

But if you gather data from pretty much every citizen for the specific purpose of checking if they have done something illegal, then that's already a few steps removed from the idea that generally speaking, an innocent citizen must be left alone.

Also, the effectiveness of this kind of mass data mining is doubtful. Many European countries have had blanket online data gathering and retention programmes in place, quite a few have also abandoned them again after public protest and high court rulings in those respective countries, and when they evaluated the results of all the data gathering, they very typically found that it didn't significantly reduce online crime itself, or even increase the rate of solved crimes, which had been the biggest argument in favour of the measure. Real professional criminals typically knew how to circumvent the data gathering, as they usually do, and the only people who got caught in slightly increasing numbers were a handful of hapless kiddie porn downloaders and filesharers. But even they increasingly began to successfully cover their tracks.

Most national high courts have ruled that all this did not justify putting an entire country's population under suspicion by keeping all their online data.

>>16818

>in the US, for instance, a sentencing advisor used in some states has been recommending harsher sentences for black people because black people get harsher sentences

And these feedback loops of self evidence are what makes the whole idea so dangerous.

And it already occurs the same way with "heat maps" used by local police in some countries to predict at what time of day which areas of a city could see increased street crime. If you are then unlucky enough, especially as a black person, to be in that area at that time, then you are going to look guilty even if all you really veryfiably did was pass along that street out of sheer coincidence.

And then if you throw AI into the mix, the mere fact that you were in that area at a time when street crime was predicted to be most likely can worsen your crime probability score or whatever you want to call it.

>>16819
Did they really abandon it though or just put under a better cover?
Power trips are tough to let go.

>>16846
I imagine some did what they did in this country and basically legislated to overrule the courts. Remember that "emergency bill" to reinstate "necessary" powers? You know, the powers that the courts had ruled they should not have had?

>>16847

I think Austria axed it completely, as well as the Czech Republic. And I think Frau Merkel's government wanted to go back to data collection after Germany's high court struck it down, banking on loopholes both in EU and German high court rulings, but some ISPs in Germany then sued the government on technicalities. And the end result is that they've got a law that says ISPs must store user data, but the ISPs aren't doing it because they won the lawsuit against the German government.

There was a whole story on that on Zdnet a while ago, pretty fascinating, can't find it now.

>>26906

I have a stack of annoyingly small hard drives that I can't quite bring myself to chuck out - probably seven or eight drives of between 160GB and 500GB.

500GB still seems like a useful amount of storage, but then I remember that there's a 4TB mirrored pair in my main machine and a 400GB MicroSD card in my phone.

>>26907

It's still useful if you need to take stuff anywhere or like to have even more redundancy.

I have loads of these clear USB 3.0 enclosures, because I had about 10 old laptop drives I didn't want to destroy.

Even if it's just something like "a back up of the backup of my work laptop's files" it might save my arse one day.

>>26908
I am digging both the clear enclosure and the Dymo labels.

Top marks lad.

>>26907
What do you use that space for?

>>26948
Porn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWivwhi14

https://youtu.be/ZpAYnVJX9CY

you lads are sleeping on BAND-MAID ngl

>>11441

I haven't clicked yet but that sounds like a Babymetal rip off.

>>11442

Oh they're actually good though.

The Japanese have been mixing metal/rock with j-pop for a while though. Maximum the Hormone are a prime example of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9Cr0a5dCs

>>26911

I'm probably thinking of the G4 Play, which definitely can.

Never mind then.

>>26909
Why have you been shitting rice?

>>26909

> I somehow contrived to throw my trusty Moto G4 down the (unflushed) toilet.

Luckily my toilets have always been flushed but I know the feeling of walking into your bathroom to have a nice shit while you flick through bollocks on your phone and as soon as you get within range shoooom the phone slips out of your hand at an unreasonable speed straight into the toilet bowl.

My record was doing this roughly two hours after having bought said phone.

>>26915
His subconscious decided that trolling him with tossing the phone down the loo was a bit over the board and made him eat some rice before.

>>26915
In my poo I have seen chunks of nut, sweetcorn, peas and seeds. It seems plausible to me that you could have solid rice in a Tues; it seems like one of those things your innards wouldn't break down fully.

>>12779
MD5 isn't secure, as people have found ways to modify inputs to give the same output.

>>12780
You're confusing collisions with preimage attacks.

>>12773
>100 meters
20, lad. Tell them you can't walk more than 20. Trust me.

>>12782

No problem, if I stay 2 days without taking 'prol and 'mide I am unable to walk 20 meters without gasping for air.