>>30952

>>30956

>>30957

The ever-decreasing amount of information density and wasted screen space on websites as they become more optimised for fucking touchscreens meaning I have to scroll and scroll and scroll.

>>30959
It's also to increase "time on page" which is a key metric that website owners optimise for.

>>90858

>So why was satisfaction highest during the 90s and 00s?

Maybe because people earning the median wage could reasonably afford to buy a house without having to relocate to Scunthorpe or somewhere similarly grim.

>>90859
Worked for East Germany.

>>90860
I'm saying people were satisfied with the neoliberal consensus during its peak. Suggesting we don't have an alternative right now or that our democracy is somehow now more flawed is a load of bollocks because we have radically different visions at work. Its that confidence in the consensus that has been eroded and replaced by more 'winner takes all' style politics where both sides seek to attack the existing neoliberal system from different tracks.

In terms of the numbers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050929/voter-turnout-in-the-uk/

It's rather symbolic that the lowest voter turnout was mere months before 9/11.

>>90861
>I think confidence in democracy was high in the 90s simply because Westminster was broadly competent and reasonable.

I disagree given the 90s began with the poll tax riots and a government that was eventually thrown out of office due to sleaze. And the following decade that had the Iraq War and a curtailment in civil liberties attached to a general fear of a new trend in terrorism.

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>>90863

>continual challenges to our prosperity [...] and a loss of social cohesion that challenge democracy everywhere

We overdid it on the imgrunts, basically.

>>90864
Funnily enough, Fukuyama has actually been saying something along these lines. That the traditional working class feel betrayed by cosmopolitan social democrats and in general people lack a feeling of dignity in modern society like they don't matter.

Not exactly revolutionary thought but consider where it's coming from.

>>90861
I don't think anyone really wants Major or Blair back. They want back the calmer times of the 1990s because they haven't given enough thought to how the events of the 1990s lead us to the events of the present. 1 month into a Major or Blair re-run they'd realise that neither of them have the midas touch and that everything is still shit, only now it's shit presided over by a grandfather instead of a gigalo.

>>90865
>in general people lack a feeling of dignity in modern society like they don't matter.
I think Michael Young (who coined the word "meritocracy", and not as an ideal) was before his time on this. He did do a book on it, but this comment piece is just as instructive: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
>In the new social environment, the rich and the powerful have been doing mighty well for themselves. They have been freed from the old kinds of criticism from people who had to be listened to. This once helped keep them in check - it has been the opposite under the Blair government.
>The more controversial prediction and the warning followed from the historical analysis. I expected that the poor and the disadvantaged would be done down, and in fact they have been. If branded at school they are more vulnerable for later unemployment.
>They can easily become demoralised by being looked down on so woundingly by people who have done well for themselves.
>It is hard indeed in a society that makes so much of merit to be judged as having none. No underclass has ever been left as morally naked as that.
>They have been deprived by educational selection of many of those who would have been their natural leaders, the able spokesmen and spokeswomen from the working class who continued to identify with the class from which they came.
>Their leaders were a standing opposition to the rich and the powerful in the never-ending competition in parliament and industry between the haves and the have-nots.
>With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote. They no longer have their own people to represent them.
...
>The business meritocracy is in vogue. If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get.

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>>439736

Bloody Puritans.

Good thing they'll keep him over there now.

If ARE Jimmy came back, even he would probably say "Mate, that's a bit much".

How does someone even penetrate a chicken? Asking for a friend.

>>439740
>Good thing they'll keep him over there now.

The OP is an idiot. He is based in the UK and was sentenced in the UK. Kudos to the Daily Record for having the best headline about him.

>>439743

Have you ever seen a close up of a chicken laying an egg? Like that, but in reverse. And the egg is your bell end.

>>439738
Tim Martin broke into your house last night.

There's lots of work to do at the moment after a month of relative ease. When does society collectively decide to fuck it all off for Christmas?

>>439722
I'm just going to comment that funnily enough the professional economists I've spoken with all studied philosophy. Not the sort working in the City mind you but at a guess it comes down to the usual wisdom that ultimately your degree is what you make of it. Plus you can always do a Masters.

I did have a thought of studying philosophy when I was looking into what to study but decided to study a proper degree out of fear for my future. Funnily enough, as it turns out it really didn't matter for my career so long as I had a degree that showed general skills and could point to extra-curriculars. A degree I probably would not have gotten because philosophy looks really hard and I'd be continually told that I'm wasting my time.

>>439738
They're hiding under a tray in the sink. They played that hilarious practical joke on me yesterday.

>>439738
Because I'm a bleeding heart social justice gaylord I first thought you meant spoons as in the metaphor for mental fatigue.

>>439742
>gaylord

I love gaylord as an insult. I wish it would come back into fashion.

>>439742

That spoon thing really is the gayest of all the gay things that especially gay (in a literal sense) community has come up with.

Is there more to it than I realise, or is it really just an especially shit metaphor for the concept of people becoming more easily fatigued than others? What's the spoon metaphor for complete executive dysfunction?

>>66984
Oh, lad. Think it through.

I build one house. That means there is one extra house in the housing supply. It doesn't matter if it's a nice house or an affordable house; the housing stock increases by one either way.

If you build a nice house it may be out of the reach of a first time buyer but, guess what, another house will be sold to fund the purchase of the nice house and that may be affordable to the first time buyers.

You have increased the housing stock by one but instead of building a shitty house you've built a nice house that someone can aspire to trade up to. Put a shitty house on a nice new estate and you're lowering the tone for everyone else plus you'd be treated with disdain as the token poor people. let these people buy the house that's put on the market to fund others further up the ladder moving into the nice house; each neighbourhood should better reflect the social status of the respective buyers.

Aspiration is so much better than envy. Demand better. Build better. Be better. Raise standards for everyone.

>>66986
>Raise standards for everyone.
Which standards? Define nice house?

>>66987
One that's not shit.

>>66986

Have you seen the state of the new-builds they charge £400,000 for these days? They're made of paper mache and half finished. Anyone sensible about property is buying an old house, not one of those piss poor pokey little copy/paste suburb cubes.

What you fail to account for is that like in every aspect of business, there's no need to improve quality if it's a seller's market. you can just rinse people with impunity regardless. someone needs to sell good quality AND affordable houses to bring genuine competition back to the market.

>>66986

>ANOTHER HOUSE WILL BE SOLD TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF THE NICE HOUSE AND THAT MAY BE AFFORDABLE TO THE FIRST TIME BUYERS.

That's a huge fucking "may", lad.

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

Nothing chills me out like this song. It is, as the kids today would say, a "mood".

>>439685
I can definitely see a massive cock in the OP image.

I see and hear a lot when a bloke is punching above his weight "oh he must have a massive knob" - how many women are really going to latch on to an otherwise undesirable man just because he has a big thick cock? I consider myself pretty depraved and shallow, but even I wouldn't start a relationship with an uggo just because she had massive tits (I might shag her once though).

The old "he must be loaded" usually makes more sense, though I think even that is pushing it, especially these days, where a woman can independently use sex to generate money instead of having to shag a boring old millionaire.

Saying that, women do still seem attracted to people in power, or at least with jobs that give the mostly false impression of importance like pilots, head chefs, and lib dem MPs.

>>439710

>how many women are really going to latch on to an otherwise undesirable man just because he has a big thick cock?

Skinny wierdo with a massive cock here: Not many. There are some size queens who'll go for it, but the thing is they have to know you have a massive cock, so of course, you have to warm them up far enough to be receptive to a shag before you can use your endowment as leverage in the first place. It's a catch 22.

My pet theory is that he has a belting sense of humour. My experience has always supported the idea that if you can make a girl laugh, you can probably get in her pants, so combine that with a bit of the "important and powerful" factor and it's no surprise he can pull.

I mean look at Bozza. He's loaded, but he's also some kind of mutant albino ape that was mistakenly sent to Eton.

>>439731

>My pet theory is that he has a belting sense of humour.

As someone who has been unfortunate enough to witness his piss-poor attempt at standup, I think you need a new theory.

>>439732

This is an unfair test, I'm funny enough in normal conversation to trick girls into sleeping with me, but I'd similarly fucking bomb on stage, it's a totally different thing, I'd be awful.

The fact that he's up there at all proves at least a couple of people have said the universally dull line "you should do stand up!". The only difference is because he's got a politicians ego, he actually listened.

>>41604
>For me Blue Peter peaked with Katy Hill.

I don't know how you think it is acceptable to come into /x/ and say this kind of thing.

I don't walk into your church and start proselytizing how Jesus probably isn't the son of god and judaism is the only true abrahamic do I?

And don't act like you didn't know, her face is on the door.

>>41606
We don't post The Huq any more out of respect for ARE Charlie.

>>41606
How I long to Fuq Huq.

>>41608
The q is silent so that just sounds weird.

>>41606

I've got to be honest - in a game of shag/marry/kill, I'm marrying Huq and shagging Hill. Kill Leslie, obviously.

>>13889
Only if its squelchy, I'm not an animal.

>>13886
BirdsEye's Green Cuisine range is mostly, if not all, based on using rehydrated pea protein and pea flour. However, the ones I've tried have been shite.

>>13891
I've been a bit disappointed by them too - they can do better.

These (>>13885) were surprisingly nice. I assumed from the packaging that they came with a bit of sauce but instead it was just chunks in a 'curry marinade' that seemed more-or-less be korma paste. The only grumble I had is that they were rather dense. If I see them again in Farmfoods, particularly for 29p a box, I'll stock up but I have the feeling they're being discontinued.

>>1388
I've tried the Richmond burgers tonight, you can get them in Fulton's Foods two packs of two for £1, they're not bad. Definitely a lot better than their veggie sausages.

>>439720
Oh fuck me. Cheap bastards. I use LibreOffice at home because I'm forced to, not because it's as good as Microsoft's products. It's full of bugs. I pity you.

>>439726
With the exception of Writer, Office is clearly better. Writer doesn't beat Word, but it's nowhere near as clear-cut. Calc isn't bad but it's no Excel. PowerPoint beats the pants off Impress. Base is shit, but then if you willingly use Access it's no less than you deserve.

>>439726

Like I said, it's an experiment. They want to see how it performs under real-world conditions within our company, and what we will think after two weeks of using it side by side with MS Office.

I'm not impressed by Impress, it's not horrible but I am struggling with it so far. And like I said, it throws all my Power Point markups all over the place, which is frustrating. Writer definitely has a flatter learning curve than Impress, and I can't say much about Calc, haven't used it yet.

Where were we talking about rewilding? I can never find the relevant bloody threads when I have something to contribute.
Here's the EU’s latest State of Nature report.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/state-of-nature-in-the-eu-2020/

I picked my daughter up from school yesterday. The teacher told me that she'd get a new reading book every Friday and a new library book every Monday, but she should be bringing them both to school in her book bag every day.

Today my girlfriend, her mum, picked her up. The teacher checked to see if I'd passed on the message. This sort of sexist bollocks really boils my piss. Dads are fucking simpletons incapable of following simple instructions and it's down to the mum to sort everything instead of co-parenting.

>>439729
You want this thread >>/pol/90784.

>>28515
>Nothink like a quick wank break during a Zoom call to clear your mind.

Surely we've all had a wank during a work call now? It's been 7 months.

>>28515
This story has been the source of much hilarity during video calls today. I think its a cautionary tale for the age.

>>28516
That's exactly the question everyone I know has been discussing today. Who decides to knock one out halfway through a meeting?

>>28517

We have an insanely hot young coworker, and I was in one-on-one video chat with her a few times during the middle of summer where she was often just wearing a thin spaghetti strap top with her hair tied up. It seriously crossed my mind a few times to just have a wank under the table during the chat.

I did wank to her, but always only after our chats, and with my laptop closed. It was the decent thing to do.

>>28516
>>28518
>>28519
Look, I didn't realise I was on trial here. There's those boring corporate stand-up meetings that I need to keep my ears pricked on either for my name or something interesting. I turn the laptop away from me because I don't trust them not to record you and watch porn on my personal laptop.

Don't look at me like I'm the wrong'un here. You sound like people who would move somewhere with you partner and not make a point to do it in every room on principle.

>>28520


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_KULzqKuW8

>>30915
We were rigidly taught at school to use just spaces i.e 100 000 and told commas were very old fashioned an no one uses them any more. I go out into the real world and bang, every cunt is using commas and treating me like a simpleton for not doing so. Imagine my resentment at being raised on a lie.

>>30921
>every cunt is using commas

I believe there are filthy Euro types who use full-stops instead! This is why I voted for Brexit.

>>30923
I've always hated that.

Without further adieu.

'Game changer' in the context of selling novelty food products. Normally in the context of some tat you can pick up at some bargain shop - even M&S is getting in on it now which just shows how far we have fallen as a nation.

I'm not trying to piggy back off another virgin's pity, but when you're an older virgin it's not so much that "oh know, I've never cummed inside another person", it's more that there's a lot of interpersonal and social experiences that go along with that that also haven't happened.

Maybe I'm wrong and it is just the never having done the basic, physical, act of sex for the other poster though, but it seems unlikely.

>>30124

You should aim to get your dick wet and obtain a job. Clearly those things are important to you.

What to do: lower your standards and be prepared to experience all kinds of emotional and physical pain. You have to start at the bottom and climb through an avalanche of shit. Literally take any job and any hole, and work your way up.

I'm not sure why, but I just became faintly depressed about backwards time travel being impossible. I can be pretty certain of this because if it were possible human beings would have made such a complete mess of things reality would have broken down in ways that would be halfway between the Fyre Festival and a demonic invasion from another dimension. I think about massive, looming or already upon us problems like fossil fuels, enviromental damage, world hunger and the pandemic, and I'm pretty confident time travel capable humans lay low all of human history with no hessitation or second thoughts. Maybe this is a very 2020 opinion and we'll have TNG'd up in a few hundred years.

Sage because I went from angst to speculative science-fiction.

Don't you feel just a bit sad after spending the day with people, only to find yourself back home alone? I guess it's quite normal, really, i just feel as though something is wrong.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodytPmki5s

>>30132
If you work in customer service, people are work. Personally, I relish coming home and not having to deal with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY1FF6SEggk

I think I have the sauerkraut method down now. Start by making your own sauerkraut from scratch. Or don't, honestly it tastes the same as the jars and they slice it thinner. It'll save you money at the expensive of time/effort but that's about it. You're not eating it raw so I'm guessing the probiotic benefits are neglible.

Sauerkraut comes in 900g jars, I tend to make two at once so if you're doing less, use half the ingredients of everything else:

1800g Sauerkraut
2kg polish meat They sometimes sell a pre-mix of meat made from last week's end cuts at the sklep so get that if you can because it's much, much cheaper. If not, get one big sausage, one fatty ham and one of whatever you prefer with a combined weight of 2kg.
Half an onion
Allspice berries/powder (a small fistful of berries or enough powder to lightly cover an area about the size of a saucer)
Wholegrain mustard One heaped tablespoon.
Garlic bulb
Cup of apple cider vinegar I'm not sure how much a "cup" is, I measured it out by using one of those glass air-wick candle holders. Call it 4-6 shotglasses. Half a mug?
4 cans of Tyskie You can try other Polish lagers but this is the only one that tastes right to me.

It's very simple, aside from peeling the garlic and slicing the onion and dicing the meat, you're just slow-cooking it all in a big pan. The only two things you may not guess to do are to really wring out the cabbage under the cold tap, not just rinse it or use it as is, and to lightly fry the meat (particularly the sausage) before you add it in. Keep it simmering for 2 hours minimum, preferably more (you want the pork fat to really melt and the cabbage to soften), occasionally top up with lager as the liquid reduces.
Serve fresh or microwaved later with your favourite sort of potato, gherkins and probably vodka or more lager. With potatoes this should be enough to feed six hungry people. This much lasts me at least six meals, without any potato.

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>>13895
>I think I have the sauerkraut method down now. Start by making your own sauerkraut from scratch.

(A good day to you Sir!)

What's he already got? Access to his own HDMI TV? Spare keyboard and mouse lying around? Someone to write Micro SD cards?

>>27642
I think all his parents have for him is a very basic laptop for doing homework.

I might suggest a Micro:bit (v2 if you can) or two, instead of a pi?
The hassle of VNC and it stopping working in a million ways make a pi a bit annoying in that setup. Or, if you do go the pi route, make sure you also get him a micro-SD card write so he can get back to a useful system when things stop working.
Micro:bit gets all the 'fun' of programming, with easy to see and comprehend IO devices, and no chance of bricking it. Getting him two lets him play radio games - remote control fart machines etc. (if V2) Who wouldn't like that?
Of course, if he's already deep into it, a pi makes more sense. But I reckon Micro:bit is a far better bet if he's starting form scratch.

>>25181
As someone at the very tail end of that, it was frustrating. The year after I finished my A-Levels they started doing computingat both GCSE and A-Level at my school - meanwhile, I'd done IT GCSE/A-Levels. The A-Level was little more than business with a technical skew.

Then again, a poor teacher can completely ruin your interest in a subject, and realistically may cause kids to get out of programming rather than into it. Thankfully I got taught programming properly and in a way that suited me at uni (assembly up), but the way it was taught was very... autistic. Normal people really didn't get it, and I effectively became a programming teacher for a good number of my course mates as it simply wasn't clicking for them that to understand programming you have to think like a computer. Of course, to the uni lecturers, they already did and so it wasn't really something they even thought of. I honestly think that many of the people I went to uni with who would, if taught well, be very competent programmers have sworn off it as the teaching must have been so confusing to them.

I also notice a lot of people want to "learn coding", but realistically unless you have some goal you want to accomplish then it's like learning how to paint but not actually wanting to paint.

>>27644
Thanks, lad. I'll see if I can get the new one when it's out next month.

>Come winter will they die from the cold?
The first frost will probably kill them.
This map should give you some idea when that is
https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-united-kingdom-first-frost-date-map.php
I doubt a greenhouse will keep them alive, you'll have to bring them indoors, though most people in this country just compost them then start new plants each Spring.

>>2878
I love that site - thanks.

>>2877
Just bring them indoors and make sure they're near a window - might survive..

>>5021

Are you going to stop posting facebook memes or are you going to leave?

>>5023
It's just shit-tier quality trolling, with content and ideas copied from other places. Why are people so thick?

>>5023

Last one, I promise.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>5025
>On 8 January 1936, Reza Shah issued a decree, banning all veils. Many types of traditional men’s clothing was also banned, in order that "westerners shouldn’t laugh." The ban humiliated and alienated many Iranian women. To enforce this decree, police were ordered to physically remove the veil off of any woman who wore it in public. Women were beaten, their headscarves and chadors torn off, and their homes forcibly searched. Until Reza Shah's abdication in 1941, many women simply chose not leave their houses in order to avoid such embarrassing confrontations, and some even committed suicide.

>Official measures were relaxed under Reza Shah's successor, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the wearing of a headscarf or chador was no longer an offence, but was still considered an indicator of backwardness or of membership of the lower class. Discrimination against women wearing the headscarf or chador was still widespread with public institutions actively discouraging their use, and some eating establishments refusing to admit women who wore them.

Sounds to me like Iran has pretty much earnt the right to enforce the hijab.

>>5026

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد‎), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

>>66978
He's just unlucky.