Cabin fever is definitely setting in. I've just had a Teams call with someone I work with, who is unattractive by just about every objective metric there is but because she's obese she also has massive tits. I think it must have been the camera angle accentuating them, but I could feel a stirring in my loins. I don't think I've ever even checked out her tits before because she's a gargoyle.

>>441712

Our Teams calls are usually with about six other people, and one of them also has pretty big boobs, but she's really fit too. I sometimes just catch myself staring at her for minutes, safe in the knowledge that she'll have no idea that I am, but hoping that I won't be doing it when all this corona nonsense is over and we go back to our usual day to day office jobs.

>>441712
Ah mate, Teams has a new set-up screen where you can see yourself and check sound when you click join. You have to click join again to get into the call.

I just had a fuck off greasy chowmein with oovercooked crispy chicken balls. Full of salt, fuckers forgot the sweet and sour sauce, now i feel sick as a pig. My pores seep oil.

>>441715
You're making me hungry.

>>92009

What's stopping you now? Twitch hasn't hit its peak yet.

>>91945

Swindon closing is more about import tariffs being scrapped on cars built in Asia than Brexit

>>91947

The opt out clause of the “working time directive” made it meaningless to the lower end of the job market, during the initial interview you would be asked 'would you be prepared to sign the opt out ' with the implication quite clear, say no and kablam your 'not suitable' for reasons

>>92012
In most companies I've worked at, I was able to simply not sign the opt-out, but one particularly scummy place wrote the opt-out into the contract and stated that you could opt-in on three months' written notice.

tl;dr capitalists are cunts.

>>92012
>>92013
For me it's paradoxical that back when I was given the opt-out I worked 9-5 and then fucked off. Now that I'm in an established job where it's never in the contract I probably do work in excess of 48 hours some weeks just because the place would fall apart if I didn't.

Managers and specialists of the world, unite! The workers will be lost without their chains!

Agreed. At the high-functioning end, loads of people self-diagnose as autistic just because they're a bit socially awkward. Not knowing what to say at parties is not a medical condition, we've just been conditioned by the media to believe that everyone is extroverted and quick-witted. You're not autistic, you're just a bit of a berk.

At the low-functioning end, a lot of people who would have previously been diagnosed as learning disabled are being diagnosed as autistic, probably out of some impulse towards false hope. There are autistic geniuses, but there are no learning disabled geniuses; pretending that your kid has autism allows you to overlook the fact that they have an IQ of 55. There might one day be a cure for autism, but there's no cure for being terminally thick.

There was a big wave of badly-raised chav kids with a bit of foetal alcohol syndrome being misdiagnosed with autism, but now they're usually misdiagnosed with ADHD, ODD or PDD-NOS.

High-functioning autistic people are a special bunch who can often learn to live with their condition and have successful lives and careers, if they're raised in the right way.

What seems to happen very often now is that instead of being pushed into situations that are difficult and stressful for them, giving them the chance to learn how to cope and thrive, many more kids are being wrapped in cotton wool and so denied the chance to learn.

I'm definitely at least a borderline case myself, I was never diagnosed but very much mothered too much which allowed me to get by for too long without developing better social skills and self reliance, but at 18 I left home and made my own way and that set me back on the right course.

The problem is that if you tell people nowadays that kids with autism just need to be kicked out into the world, you get people screaming "ableist" at you, but that's completely missing the point. High functioning autists aren't disabled they just think differently and arguably better in many ways, but they need to learn how to interact with a world full of normals to reach their potential and you can't book learn those skills.

>>30480

But Junior was around the same age as Livia, and he was certainly not dismissed or mistreated due to his advanced yesrs.

>>30480
>>30483
Stop posting spoilers you bellends, I want to watch that some day.

>>30484

It's twenty years old.

>>30485
And if you'll be a dear and clam up, I can enjoy the anticipation for another twenty.

>>30486

The ducks fly away.

>>31373 All LCD panels have a slight tendency to burn in, especially when cold. It'll clear itself if you haven't left it parked for years, and even then, things like icon bars rarely burn in that hard. Don't poke at it or anything else fuckwitted.

There's a recent tendency for one or more posters to keep fucking up the [i]tags[i/], I don't know whether it's just more visible because post deletion is broken but it's starting to grate.

>>31375
It's probably me being autistic but I'm noticing a lot of incorrectly punctuated or unpunctuated comments recently.

I don't know why it gets me - the vast majority of instant messages I send don't have a trailling full stop but it feels wrong to see a post without a full stop (or other closing punctuation mark) on here.

>>31376
It seems unfair to be as heavy-handed as usual for that while the delete button isn't working for everyone.

>>31376

I sometimes have to post and delete a post 2 or 3 times before it's vaguely up to scratch so yeah not being able to delete is gonna make it difficult.

'Human foot' in Gateshead field turns out to be potato

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-55585065

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28iqchFu_Do

>>30450

If someone had told me that the "image macros" on stupid imageboards in the mid-2000s would be discussed by Piers Morgan on a light entertainment show as though it matters in any sense, I think I would have started planning to take down internet service providers and plotting a Luddite revolution.

>>30451
It's not too late, JC.

>>30450
Apparently one of them is sick to death of the banter and can't take it anymore. Care to guess which one it is?

I'm loving the entertainment nuggets per hour system of grading entertainment.

But what about suspense scenes? They become less suspenseful at speed. And what of action scenes? They move often move too quickly to really appreciate what's happening.

I guess you need to incorporate variable rate x E in your calculations. Maybe we can make a proposal to Netflix about constructing a variable video speed controller that adjusts videos to the optimum speed for a viewer for any given moment based on level of enjoyment from previous videos watched.

I find drama/comedy/entertainment in general just doesn't work sped up for me. (If it's so badly directed or edited that I need to change the speed, it's rubbish that's not worth watching to begin with)

But factual stuff, product reviews, etc. on youtube I'm regularly speeding things up, to around 1.25 to 1.75x depending on what sort of thing is going on and how fast the person is speaking.
I struggle with 2x speed, really just because of the audio quality making it to much effort to listen to.

>>23371
>>23376
OP here, I saw Three Billboards the other day. It's a very good film, but I as I suspected I certainly wouldn't include it in this thread. The protagonist is a woman but all the principal supporting characters are men, as might be expected when it's about a woman's relationship with the police. Rockwell, Harrelson, Dinklage - it's a very male film.

>>23503
What speed did you watch it at though?

>>23436
What an odd conclusion to come to from watching half an episode. It is actually nothing like that.I personally enjoyed it, though it is oddly paced. It's worth a watch imo and better than most stuff I've seen from Netflix.

HOWEVER, if you're going to watch one thing on Netty, then I'd recommend Unabomber. It's a really addictive show about a good-guy obsessive trying to profile the Unabomber from his cryptic letters and actions. Really watchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zRKwonav8

>>30442
Jefferson was quite adamant actually that all revolts are good things and made this clear following the Shay Rebellion. You can broadly summarise his thinking as 'the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.' As American commoners will but he leaves no real illusion:

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/105.html

>The American founding argument that you have misrepresented was "we have no representation" you can't apply it to a free and fair election.

It's no taxation without representation - a carry over from the English Civil War. It's also much more convoluted covering other factors that American propaganda papers over such as geographic sentiments that an island shouldn't rule a continent.

I'm really not sure how deep you want to go on this. The best approach to understand the American psyche is probably the writing of Adam Smith speaking of the detrimental role state monopolies played in the era (in particular the East India Company which caused the whole mess with bailouts etc.) and the idea that Parliament should maybe move to North America.

>>30448
I wonder what they're doing now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/18/politics/riley-june-williams-fbi-investigation/index.html

>The tipster "also claimed to have spoken to friends of Williams, who showed (the tipster) a video of Williams taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi's office," the affidavit says. The tipster "stated that Williams intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service."


The Russians probably already obtained all that information with their recent cyber attacks on the U.S., so I doubt they'd be interested.

Also though, that's treason and/or espionage. Wikipedia says that as a federal offence in the U.S., it can even carry a death sentence.

>>30454

As various infosec types have pointed out, the network in the capitol was never well hardened to begin with, anyone who wants has been in there for a long time.
Doesn't mean the guy knew that.

>>30455

>Doesn't mean the guy knew that.

He did have balls of steel, if that story tracks. Or he was just incredibly dumb, depending on your view point. Breaking into a government building and causing disarray is one thing. But nicking a government official's laptop and attempting to sell its contents to a less-than-friendly foreign country is quite another.

Probably thought he was some sort of poor man's James Bond.

>>4498
That's a fine looking vehicle for the money.

I've lately become a little bit fascinated with really old cars.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZBFR-jxb9U

It's interesting to see sow much has changed and yet how much remains the same, and I always find it a little bit enchanting when pre-WW2 tech and machinery is still serviceable and usable today. It feels like it comes from an altogether different era of history.

I'm afraid my Meriva has sensed my thoughts about its 'spongy' steering and decided to throw one of them EPS failures at me.

Luckily it's only popped up when I was parking at work this morning, and hadn't decided to spontaneously fix itself when it came to going home so I had a very invigorating drive home. Works the muscles.

Now I'm not sure what to do. I know Merivas have EPS problems as a matter of inevitability but I can't say I've had any prior issues with it, and I'm not sure if the previous owners did either. Most people describe it as being intermittent but mine just seems to have fucking given up completely, I start the car and the EPS light is either already illuminated or the steering wheel will have a spasm then turn off the EPS to save itself.

Main problem with this is that it's expensive to fix and I have no money (that I want to spend on a car). I also like my slow, ugly schoolrun car and wasn't planning on ditching it any time soon as I only do a few thousand miles a year.

>>4539

You could stick it up for sale for very slightly cheaper than one with working EPS and hope for the best, people with the inclination to do their own work might see it as a decent investment. It's a long shot but you lose nothing by popping an ad on gumtree really.

Other than that there's not much you can do - pull the EPS fuse and the car will continue to operate without power steering quite happily, though it's probably not the most pleasant ways to drive around.

>>4539

I drove my old car with dead power steering for a full year and a half before I flogged it. I eventually got used to it, and whenever I'd get in someone else's car and eventually my new new car, it felt like driving a light and weightless cloud. I think it was actually giving my arms a bit of a workout too, I had slightly better muscle definition that's gone away since.

>>15668
What a bizarre equivalence. Next you'll be saying all bans are unnecessary and that if you ban someone you're just as bad as the person being banned. Some shitposters simply cannot be reformed.

Capital punishment is the only way to keep us safe from seppos. It's the only language they understand.

>>15669

The amount of times I've been caught in blast of rampant 'everyone who disagrees with me is samefagging' perm bans is shocking so you'll excuse if I am not sold that the ends justify the means.

>>15670

And yet, here you are posting.

>>15668

It's quicker and easier to permaban than work out the ban length you want.

>>15672

I thought all you red names were mods.

Nothing happens at all.

The films are shit, but this is stuck in my head.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-CVYGEsjg

>>12652
Ugh? This version? Even the thumbnail has caught him at 100% prick.

>>12653
I think the guitars make it sound better than the Elsa version.

My new favourite cover version.

Not horrendous, although I wouldn't get it again as a full meal like it claims to be, it feels like something you'd have 3 of 4 bites of as a small garnish.

My house smelt like dirty drain water for hours after, as well.

>>14089
What is it?

>>14089
Cabbage/sauerkraut stew with mushroom. It was a lot cabbagier and less stew-y than I expected.

>>14091
>My house smelt like dirty drain water for hours after, as well.
>>14089
>a lot cabbagier

I bet it smells like a bus full of Geography Teachers now, heh

>>14089

You usually eat that sort of thing with a serving of potato.

Just replaced the microswitches on my mouse with Japanese Omrons. 10/10, would recommend.

>>441699
I unironically enjoyed parts of that. There's a part bout 20mins in that slaps

God, I miss girls. With their dead small hands and all the mad hairstyles they'd have, long, short, curly; it was grand.

>>441699
That is actually hilarious. I could only watch five minutes before jump-skipping ahead and realising there were no women involved; later on when it switches in to shirts/tapps off mode, you realise it's the gayest thing you've ever seen.

>>441703
I also, loved the Mitsubishi reference.

>>441699
DOUBLE-M-KREW DICK ON U

I've never been an addict but found that having a 0mg vape stopped me from buying a pack when drunk or bumming cigs off people outside pubs. It's an excuse to go outside and puff but without the nicky hit. Maybe that'll help by still allowing you to go outside for a bit?

>>5581

That's an interesting hypothetical. If there were a magical alcohol-free scotch that tasted exactly the same, would I drink it?

If it tasted exactly the same, as in, somehow had the alcoholic taste without the other effects like Star Trek synthehol, if anything I would probably drink much more.

I've always liked the idea of having a ritualistic nightcap, but I am an absolute lightweight and would feel awful.

>>5585

You don't want a night cap. It is just a normalisation of alcoholism. Doctors say it actually disrupts the REM cycle, those doctors apparently undervalue what a disruptive fucker acute withdrawal is to sleep.

>>5577

I don't doubt your sincerity in liking it, but the post that provoked my stance was this >>5562 and doubt they were being anything other than pretentious.

>>5583
Two weeks later and I can report that I'm noticeably eating more but also that I've become much more popular on dating apps. The latter is as useful as a chocolate teapot at the moment but it's nice to learn that was the only thing holding me back. Unless Big-Aubergine boosts your profile when you quit.

What's worked for me is keeping score of the days and not wanting to break the streak. Last night I saw a couple smoking cigarettes and calmed the urge to go buy a pack by noting that I was near the two-week mark. Also drumstick squashies taste like shit now that I've stopped smoking.

>>67850
WHAT A LEGEND. I WILL VOTE THE SHIT OUT OF HIS RECLAIM PARTY, UNLESS I VOTE FOR SAVILLE INSTEAD.

>>67850
Careful you don't commit any hatecrimes - he doesn't have to wear one because he has 'anxiety'. All this attention must be hell.

>>66854

The thinking man's racist.

Well, simple answer is, he's a wanker innit

>>67854

I find the way you are trivialising poor laurence's anxiety to be quite ableist. Do better lad.

>>23496
I've never seen a star war so I don't know.

There's a line at the beginning, though:
>"If you're so magic, why can't you fix my leg?"
"Then you'd be able to get a young boyfriend"

Also, the "handsome man" he's revealed to be is still about 30.

>>23496

Amidala was meant to be young teens too in the first one wasn't she?

Mind you I suppose it's tradition after the twincest in the originals.

>>23496
Amidala didn't kidnap Anakin and spend a decade grooming him to become the king of Naboo, in fairness. Indeed from what I recall the two basically seemed incompatible in every way and she was simply the first woman Anakin had seen who wasn't his mum. Why do you think C3PO was so heavily queer coded? Because that robot was literally coded queer. Think about it.

>>23500
I'm intrigued by your theory of the prequal trilogy being the story of Anakin's repressed homosexuality and his lashing out at the world. The dots all join up so well from the monastic anti-sexual repression of the Jedi to Palpatine being a bit of a noncey old man.

As for the Twilight Zone episode I just put it down to being a bad episode. There's different attitudes of the time at work but you can also see reflections of classic fairytale themes involving Prince Charming rescuing the Cinderella - and which young girls probably like (not that I would know of course). It might've been a stronger story if the original draft was in a half-hour format as I suspect what we have is two half-formed ideas stuck together.

>>23500
>kidnap
>spend a decade grooming him
Neither of which is implied in the plot summary, if you read the same one I did. Maybe you just wish there was noncery in it because that's what they were all like back then. Only a matter of time before fuckin' Rod Serling is exposed as worse than Jim'll eh.

Fuck Mini Babybels.

>>67702

Do you really want large daddy bell to peel off his red waxy coat and reveal his smelly cheese to you?

>>67711
Flash me, Daddy. I want that big yellow curd in my mouth.

They've changed babybel recently. It's like they've inflated them. They're larger but a lot less dense.

will o' tha people innit

>>67798
EXCUSE THE EXTRA THE, COFFEE NOT KICKED IN QUITE YET.

>>67799

>>67800

Dhamok and Jilad at Tinagra.

>>67801
Shaka, when the walls fell.

i'd smash that fash, lad
iykwim

>>8216

No judgement, I'm in the dangerous position of knowing a little bit but not a lot. There's no doubt my portfolio would be better off had I just followed the top post on WSB every week. If their polls of holdings are to be believed, they're basically a decentralised hedge fund at this point, and playing their own game. I don't know what the industrylads think about it, but I like it, it feels new.

>>8217

My take is that most of the trading that happens is algorithmic (like in Flash Boys) and conforms to certain specific patterns based on stock movement with little consideration of things that are happening in the real world regarding companies.

Large hedge funds manipulate markets to suit themselves by throwing their weight behind trades. These people usually have boomer mindset and it's most apparent when shorting companies to try and acquire them at less than fair market value.

Trading has become more accessible to poor people via things like RobinHood and although individual behaviour isn't enough to move markets, collective behaviour can be influential.

Young professional traders are frustrated because they understand the flaws in the market and can see how the whales manipulate it, but are unable to do anything about it. see Byron the Bulb from Gravity's Rainbow If they post on the other place they can recruit sufficient numbers of people to achieve the kind of 'Open Source Hedge Fund' phenomenon you mention.

Most of the successful investment of recent decades has operated on a kind of Rentier Capitalism or Capturing Value kind of paradigm, whereas a lot of the tech stocks that have flourished recently are creating new tech and new markets creating a potential future space for growth.

I can't figure out how much of the current sitch is Speculative Bubble and how much is actual New Paradigm, but I will continue to gamble my beer money on markets for as long as Pubs, Restaurants and Cinemas are closed.

>>8152
>I'm going to shock everyone here by admitting I don't have a pension myself (I'm incredibly pessimistic about the mid future and I'm absolutely certain almost no one under 40 is going to live long enough to receive the state pension if it even exists in 45 years time)

...and? What's that got to do with building a personal pension? Surely that's an incentive to do more about it?

>>8215
>, so they'll they have to sell their investment and reinvest it every time it goes up to benefit from compounding

Pardon me?

>>8218
I've been having similar thoughts myself although I keep having a horrible pessimism from the potential for manipulation either deliberate or because of spectacle. That and the story of the senior Kennedy knowing a crash was imminent because a shoeshine boy tried giving him stock tips.

Oh well, may as well enjoy the roaring '20s while they're here. Maybe one day the whales in Forex will get a well deserved kicking.

I have one every other week usually.
I'm going this month without one though.

>>14072
There was (is?) a kebab place in Bucharest of all places, in the base of a commieblock across the road from the commieblock my mate lived in, that was absolutely fucking divine. It had potato chunks in that were just the perfect blend of spicy and savoury. I've not had one come close before or since.

Usually I have one once every six weeks, if you average it out over a year. However, in the past month just gone I've had two, because I'd not had any takeaways at all for a couple of months before exactly a month ago and then on something like the 28th I wanted a Chinese. I had a crab that time! Oh, the novelty. The chippy and the Chinese closest to me are probably the best I've had and COVID has forced the Chinese to start home deliveries rather than only doing customer pick-up, so, that least some good has come from all this.

>>14075
>a kebab place in Bucharest of all places
Well, yeah, it's like 120 years/the thickness of Bulgaria from Turkey.

>>14054

I used to have one every 2 weeks, but since the pandemic i've gone months without them because i've had to do online groceries, which means planning out the week in food (there's always something in), and with no commute i'm rarely too tired to cook.

Once, maybe twice.