>>419635

>It's an innate hazard of being a professional irritant.

You mean like Laurie?

The only difference is she's paid to irritate people you don't agree with.

>>419633
I don't really like that shit either. It's a fucking ugly side to human nature dumping on people they don't know who has an opinion different to theirs.

"We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus."

>>419641

I think that Laurie Penny is also a professional irritant.

>>419644

So you empathise with Piers too or not?

>>419645

I don't really give a toss about any of them.

>>419616
It never fails to amaze me how interracial relationships are still considered taboo across the pond.

>>419631
They can still be over here. My friend's son was dumped because her Indian parents didn't want her dating a white boy

>>419634
That's a completely different cultural context.

>>419639
That's alright, then.

>>419639

When white people do it is morally wrong, when others do it, it is just their culture.

>>419612
You don't know anyone's safe, it's all a matter of probability, the only difference is you can put statistics and measurements on self driving cars, which you can't do from your sample size of your mum.

>>419619
>sample size of your mum
So large she's statistically significant.

>>419620
Your mum is so fat she has her own distribution.

>>419623
That's so random.

It's August, why would I need a coat?

>>419624
You're just being mean now.

It depends what you're after - learning basic stuff, watching professionals make elaborate things, or just ideas for an already established home cook?

Also, are you after a bit of personality or would you prefer a more out and out how to video?

Regardless, Cooking with Dog is the best channel on YouTube full stop.

>>12572
>ideas for an already established home cook

This one. I'm not overly fussed about the presentation style as long as they're not an arse.

I'm a fan of this dude.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD9O-L2Xvzo

I really like this guy, the basics series is really useful as well as some of his more dramatic things being really impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6agVkRRUo

>>12538

>at least you've made him aware he's being unsociable.

Like he doesn't know? That's as helpful as saying "don't be shy" and thinking someone can change their whole personality on your request. He doesn't have twelve different witty responses in his head but is choosing not to share them.

>>12553

Have you got an example of how an email was worded and what it was specifically in response to? I can't really gauge how bad they were.

>>12555
I can't remember exactly what it was but it was fairly trivial, just them missing off a minor piece of information we needed from a document.

His email was very blunt and a little bit beyond being matter of fact; it wasn't malicious but it wasn't exactly the kind of thing you'd send to people unless you were trying to rile them up a bit.

>>12553

i gru up wiv MSN n my writin skills r mint

I'm finding it really hard to take a full hour for lunch at the minute. I've spent most of the past four months or so studying for an exam, where I'd spend twenty minutes eating or playing on my phone and the remaining forty reading textbooks.

Now I've got a full hour again it feels like such a long time to fill. At the minute I'm just working through and chalking it up as overtime, but it's starting to make me feel a bit knackered.

Amusing to hear the Chuckle Brothers saying "shoot them, shoot them all!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_6qXsOrK4

>>419332
I wonder where I've seen this before ...

That said, I do like how the decorators with the trunk say "to me, to you" while moving it indoors.

>>419332
What the fuck did I just watch?

>>419341
An advert.

The pictures of Paul carrying his coffin have actually got to me. I can feel that my eyes have welled up.

>>27467
Why are you going out of your way to avoid the new embeds?

>>27468
Because I've been doing youtube embeds this for the past 20 years of my life and I'll be damned if I'm going start doing it the fancy pants way you kids do things now.

Jesus fucking christ

>>27468
The old embeds are better anyway, because they show the video title, which the new ones don’t. Also you can right click and open them in a private window, in case it’s some manner of dreck you don’t want polluting your YT feeds forever more.

>>27481
Crisis over, I did my best Dumb Brit impression.

It wasn't difficult.

They did get the wrong hotel, but it's the same distance from the airport and on the same shuttle anyway. Not fussed.

>>27482

What do you do for ID?

Also I can't think of a better way of increasing the likelihood of a lost wallet being recovered than having a card with my address printed on it in there.

>>27486

I also can't think of a better way of getting my house burgled. The cunts will even know what I look like.

I ordered a spare laptop, a refurbed x230 from ebay. It was listed as Grade A, but there's a massive clump of dead pixels (like, 6mm) and they've sent me a model with a german keyboard that they'd just stuck english stickers on the top of. The screen thing is what it is, it's a shame but not too odd - but the keyboard thing - I can't fathom a company thinking that's a good idea. There's obviously no mention in the listing that this is what they'd done, were they hoping I wouldn't notice? Would someone who isn't a huge keyboard nerd even notice? I'd assume so as the keys feel awful with stickers on them.

Anyway the company seems alright and they've already agreed to replace it but still, what a weird thing to do, especially on a laptop that has a fully replaceable keyboard.

>>27487
>The cunts will even know what I look like.

The perfect crime. Burglars should start dressing up as the person whose they're burgling. That way if anyone gets suspicious they can just say they managed to lock themselves out.

>>15779
He made suicide cool again.

Been thinking about this for a while, even before I got chance to hear the audio - he brings up a similar point.

If your life is in such a shit state that you're doing this, landing it is going to make it so, SO much worse. You're in for a long stretch in American jail (or worse, their positively medieval mental health care system).

>>15781

>If your life is in such a shit state that you're doing this, landing it is going to make it so, SO much worse. You're in for a long stretch in American jail (or worse, their positively medieval mental health care system).

While you're not wrong, nobody snaps the way he did with no prior warning. If he had listened to the signs and talked to someone about it, perhaps he could have got the help he needed, certainly enough to avoid the urge to dive bomb in a turboprop.

Then again, if this is just yet another case of a poor American bastard who couldn't afford even the most rudimentary counseling, then I can't say anything other than what a shit place America is right now. Britain might not be perfect but at least I'll never be in hundred grands worth of debt because I got ran over.

>>15782
> Then again, if this is just yet another case of a poor American bastard who couldn't afford even the most rudimentary counseling, then I can't say anything other than what a shit place America is right now.

I've heard it said that America doesn't have so much a gun crisis as it does a mental health crisis. If you think mental health treatment is rudimentary and hard to access under the NHS then sit and think how grim things are for people in the states with no health insurance.

>>15783

One slightly more wild theory is that America polluted its water systems for decades with lead, and that the incidence of mental illness in the U.S. is higher because of it than in many other developed countries. Apparently, as a broad acting neurotoxin, lead can have a devastating effect on your mental and emotional wellbeing. Exposure in your young years is particularly hazardous. There are even statistics that claim that the rates of release of lead into the environment mainly from leaded petrol from the 1950s to 1970s caused a surge in juvenile crime up to 20 years later, when youngsters who were exposed to lead as infants became teenagers and young adults.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/


More than that though, as somebody who spent two years living and working in the U.S., and being invited into coworkers' homes and spending countless weekends with them, my impression was that society there just tends to be f*cked up. Basically, young people and teenagers are made to suffer at the hands of scared middle aged and elderly people who have nothing but raw hatred for youths. And this system just perpetuates itself, and teenagers who grow up to become parents themselves treat their kids the same way. Parental violence against kids is on the one hand extremely illegal and can cause you to lose custody before you know it, but on the other hand, a "tough on teens" approach is almost par for the course and the path of virtue in U.S.-style parenting.

I think this is the source of about 70 percent of mental health issues that adults then find themselves in. The scars that were caused by sometimes shockingly authoritative parenting.

British parents get a lot of criticism for being too lenient with their offspring. And rightly so, at times. But living under one roof with American parents can be nothing short of gulag.

>>84412
Claiming your missus is mental for being suspicious that you "work late" every second Thursday and that she is just paranoid is, in fact, gaslighting if she isn't just being paranoid and you are sowing your oats.

It's a fairly common thing that people on the FB tier level of vocabulary have discovered the term for and as a result it's getting hammered into the ground. When they figure out hyperbole isn't a substitute for an exclamation mark, I'll have to figure out somewhere else to troll when I'm bored.

My grandma watched the film Gaslight when it came out in the Forties, and she lived with her aunt, and after the film was inspired to do things like put her aunt's purse on top of a high cupboard. Her aunt would be looking for it and my grandma would tell her she saw her put it up there. Her aunt would ask "why the heck would I put it up there?" and my grandma would say "I don't know but there it is." She didn't call it gaslighting though.

I feel a bit awkward repeatedly saying "her aunt" but I don't know her name.

I phoned my mother the other week to check how my dad was doing after he started pissing blood and had to be kept in at the hospital with prostate problems and a potentially fatal bladder infection. The first thing she did was complain that he gave her false hope that they were going on holiday and that that he definately has a nacisistic disorder for canceling at the last minute and 'this isn't the first time he's messed her around'.

She then began telling me how nacisists gaslight to make other people seem like they are the crazy one and turn others against them. So in the event that they try 'take her away' I am to stand up in her corner and say no he's the real crazy one.

She'd be a monster if she wasn't so painfully inept.

>>84423
A name transplant.

>>84425

By all results of such existence, too much of disappointments and of troubles that i have earnt already, no name transplant in help for such, i know no ways without wonders tbh.

Where's lots of love there's lots of fails, where is no love there's fail in all.

>>15773
> Think about it, lad. If you were a massive racist why would you go to Turkey? It's full of Turkish people.

It worked out well enough for Rudyard Kipling in India.

>>15776

Enoch Powell spoke fluent Urdu.

This made it to the front page of the Daily Star, Britain's most well-respected newspaper.

>>15773
She went to Spain and complained about the Spanish, presumably her hotel in Turkey wasn't full of Turks.

>>15784

Correct. Strangely enough, holiday resorts marketed to the British don't tend to attract local people looking to learn more about their own culture.

>>26700
FE90 was their crappy budget brand which was kind of sligtly subpar and had a horrible design but will still be better than most other old brands. TDK were the indisputable kings of the cassette. The SA-X line of theirs were so good you could actually master an album on them for later vinyl release, and many did. Bet they are impossible to find now.

>>26701
I see. Well, for 33p a tape, I can use the cases as spares.

There are loads of tapes advertised on ebay as "blank" but they are just used. Annoying.

>>26701
These have only been used to record "once". That said, I don't know how they have been treated since. Worth a punt?

>>26703
Yes, very much so. A wonderful line, TDK at their greatest. Warm nostalgia chills at the sight of em. Taped over things so many times back then and you only ever got notable bleedthrough or added hiss on really cheapo brands.

>>26704
Done. That'll give me enough to make a few spare copies to give out.

>>12513

Nah, just book your holiday. You don't owe them anything and you're playing by the rules. I doubt anyone will even notice what you've done, particularly if they don't know the timeline of this other offer.

Mind you if all you're doing is essentially transferring to another department, why do you think your manager wouldn't find out about it? And why would you need a notice period to get a different job with the same company?

>>12511

And any of that stops you from just not turning up how, exactly?

Or, if you think they're going to sue you over contract law and you were mug enough to sign a contract specifying a three month notice period, turning up and putting your feet on the desk and farting like a complete cunt every minute or so while playing angry birds on your phone, taking half hour fag breaks every 15 minutes and a three hour lunch every day, from which you come back smelling of cheap whores' perfume and stale Stella? They'll soon ask you to just stop coming in.

>>12517
You still need to work notice periods even transferring between departments. I know this, as that's how I transferred into this job. I also know exactly who will be interviewing me, and how sodding lazy they are about actually pursuing references. Typing it all out made me realise that if I did try to leave them in the lurch it would just be an attempt at cheap revenge, which might not stand me in the best stead for ever going back at a later date. I think I will still book the holiday, but make up some shit about my parents taking me to Italy for a long-overdue summer break (which, actually, they have offered to do) and act like I'm sorry I'm leaving. Y'know, if I get the job. I really need to get the job. I haven't spoken to anyone else about it in an effort to keep it hush so you two are getting all my pent-up mulling over on the situation, sorry. Thanks.

>>12522
An update, for anyone who cares: my current role have just offered me a potential change of contract, offering more hours and more responsibility. Someone has fucking snitched on me, I know it.

Bugger and blast it all.

>>12558
Could be worse.
My last employer let me work my full months notice with barely a word to me, then offered me a raise on my very last day.

>>4645

I was wondering what distinction they were making too, something being built badly in the first place versus something being built adequately then being coated in a flammable substance people thought was somehow safe?

>>4646
Lots of substances are 'flammable' for a given value of flammable.

>>4643
There are parallels.

Both Grenfell and the Morandi bridge have had years of documented complaints about the safety of the structures, which were repeatedly ignored by the authorities, before finally being proved right by tragedy.

>>4644
Did you really need to qualify that with "if he were still alive"?

>>4649

Yes. Perhaps I have a death-wish and think being the dead version of him sounds kind of fun.

>>4621

That's actually a really good track. It's a shame it's about this conspiracy shite.

I think he has spent too many late nights smoking dope and reading conspiracy sites.

>>4623
> I think he has spent too many late nights smoking dope and reading conspiracy sites.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6cngPy6Ws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLdJZLrYw4

>>26517

Petroleum geologists are remarkably optimistic about climate change.

>>26518

Oil companies are the ones spreading the climate change apocalypse hoax so that they can have even more control over the energy supply.

>>26519

>>26517
That's not me. The talk was 2 months ago, from what I remember he may have mentioned kill switches and robots just following code, though I'm not sure. You might be better off emailing him yourself: nickh[at]robots.ox.ac.uk

ai mixed with invisible to digital eye human violence has already ruined my health, wealth, happiness and another lively hopes and opportunities

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>24160

You have my condolences.

>>24160
>>24161

To be fair America is one great big fuck off country and some places are infinitely better than others. There are places where a week seems like a year and even a day feels like too long and there are places where you think "you know, I could settle down here and bring up a kid", and most everything in between.

One of my growing list of regrets is never being able to tick "properly explore new york / manhatten" off my bucket list. Sigh.

>>24162

What's stopping you? Last I checked it was still there.

>>24163

He probably keeps searching for tickets to 'manhatten' and when nothing comes up he just assumes it's disappeared entirely.

>>24163
>>24164

Until my kid's old enough for me to pack him off to the army or at least some kind of boarding school for a few months I'm kind of snookered, sadly.

> He probably keeps searching for tickets to 'manhatten' and when nothing comes up he just assumes it's disappeared entirely.

Touche.

>>7265
>They're maintaining the same level of profit off declining sales, through ripping people off, particularly from their monopoly at places like train stations.

WH Smith has been voted the worst retailer on the UK High Street in a survey of more than 10,000 consumers.

Customers complained the shops were out-of-date, products were expensive and staff were rude in the survey by consumer group Which?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44274654

>A TV advertising campaign to warn the public about pension scams is being launched by UK regulators as new figures show that victims are losing an average of £91,000 each.

>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Pensions Regulator have joined forces on the campaign to raise awareness of the most common tactics used by fraudsters. They said victims of such scams – which typically begin with an unsolicited phone call or email – can end up losing their life savings and people are being urged to be on their guard.

>Pension scams often involve people being persuaded to transfer or cash in their pension pots and put the money into often exotic-sounding investments. They have been around for many years but there has been a surge in activity since April 2015 when the government introduced reforms giving over-55s more freedom in terms of what they can do with their retirement cash.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/aug/14/uk-regulators-launch-ad-campaign-to-warn-against-pension-scams

I might be missing something here, but why doesn't the FCA simply ban you from being able to hold unregulated investments in a pension? If the majority of scams are people being convinced to invest in unregulated investments like storage units or car parking spaces then the blindly obvious answers seems to stop them from being permitted investments.

>>7375
It's almost as if the "pension freedom" was an obviously risky idea from the start.

>>7337
WH Smith's most profitable arm is the expensive one that fucks around in trains stations and airports. They'll leave the high street altogether soon enough.

>>7376
Pension scams were already an issue before the freedoms happened. The FCA's investigation into the freedoms has found that people are actually more likely to be overly cautious and do things such as taking their tax-free cash account for no real reason and stick it in their bank account because they feel compelled that they should be doing something.

https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/multi-firm-reviews/non-advised-drawdown-pension-sales-review.pdf