>>442560
There are vimeo codes you can use similar to youtube but they mysteriously stopped working a year ago when I started posted rats girls in erotic music videos.

Less than a mile before brand new inner tube and tyre grenaded themselves. Serves me right for buying eBay's cheapest, but I've never had a problem before.

>>442564

How can you be too stingy to spend five quid more on a brand-name tube.

I've had ContiTube tubes in my tyres for many years now, and never had problems. Gerry knows what he's doing.


https://conti-tyres.co.uk/tubes-accessories/tubes

(don't buy directly from Continental's web shop, you'll find them a few quid cheaper through third-party online retailers)

>>442564

Did you see what caused the puncture? Either you've got terrible luck or there's something wrong with the rim or rim tape. It's no good mending a puncture if the cause of the puncture is still there. A sharp edge on the valve hole, a spoke poking through the rim tape or a sliver of glass stuck deep in the tread will cause repeated punctures.

>>442566

Likewise, buy a Rema Tip Top puncture repair kit - they're hardly more expensive than the off-brand ones, but vastly better quality. If you bother to read the instructions, the repair will be stronger than the undamaged tube. I always carry a spare tube and a repair kit, because sod's law says that you'll get no punctures for ages and then three on the same ride. "Glueless" patches are uniformly shite.

>>442566
When I put nice things on my bike, it gets stolen. I've had D-locks ground through before for £30 rusty ebay bikes, so I generally don't like investing money into these things. The road bike I keep in my parents' garage gets Schwalbe Marathons and decent contitubes, this is just a shitty heavy 'hybrid' bike that a couple of days ago was rotting in a neighbour's garden, and I fixed up enough to get it going with cheap parts.

>>442567
No idea, it went with a deafening high pitched pop (not unlike champagne decorking). There was an inch-long gash in the inner tube and the tyre separated from its metal frame. It was only inflated to 50PSI, and the tyre and inner tube were apparently rated for 75.

I don't think I've ever had a catastrophic puncture before in years of biking. I've had small cuts but never been stranded by an exploded tyre. Thankfully this was only about a three-quarters of a mile from home so the walk back wasn't too painful.

>>13742
You say you haven't taken any. If they ask your GP for medical records they will promptly be told to fuck off.

>>13743
Wait, why are they even asking for your GP? That's highly irregular.

>>13742

>They've asked for my GP details, so presumably they'll be contacting them to verify official sick days

Sharing your medical data without your explicit consent is very illegal.

>>13742
>They've asked for my GP details

Does this job require a security clearance?

>>13746

Even if it did, they still shouldn't need medical details, at least not for anything I've ever seen. If they need to verify you're fit to work it should be through a third party medical exam, rather then your entire history.

These were a disappointment. The 'ruby' chocolate is essentially softer white chocolate, so it didn't have that satisfying crunch when you bite into it. There also wasn't enough raspberry sauce in the ice cream.

It also didn't help that these were four for a quid in Farmfoods but it scanned in as a chocolate cream tart and I was charged £1.99 for them.

I had some bacon cheese toasted sandwiches for lunch. Very good they were. I'm sure any half-decent bacon, cheddar and bread will do. Later I'll be going out for a walk to try and move some of all that fat out of my arteries.

>>14226
I tried that before and on paper it seemed like genius, but I couldn't enjoy it in the end because it was just too salty. Did you add any tomato or greens?

Bell peppers, grand.

Beetroot, get rid.

>>14228

Never trust a vegetable that occasionally tricks you into thinking that you've got bowel cancer.

>>442536

That's happened to me a couple of times. The screen is damaged, just not the e-ink portion of it. It's a little crack that lets too much of the backlight through, essentially.

My solution has been to ignore it. I doubt it's worth replacing the screen for. If it helps, my spot is right in the middle of the page.

>>442536
Amazon will replace it for free - just contact customer service and be really nice. Even if out of warranty. Just be nice to them on the line and they will.

I've eaten an entire cantaloupe in little over a day. I can't get enough of them at the moment.

Does it matter how quickly after making an Amazon order you cancel the subscribe and save? It's a few quid cheaper ordering that way, but I've no need for a regular delivery of them.

>>442565

>Does it matter how quickly after making an Amazon order you cancel the subscribe and save?

No, assuming you wait long enough for them to actually dispatch the item.

>>8553
>principles of economics

This is like teaching the architectural styles of ancient civilisations in CDT. Just send their parents a letter explaining that their kid will be doing the weekly shop just the once, and let the inevitable shitkicking learn 'em. You can't teach fiscal responsibility in school.

Wait, does this mean we can post images on this board again?

Well right now it's just sitting in my current account, because my ISA only lets me put £200 a month in, but I figure it'll be nice to have some money set aside to do a bit of improvement work on the house I fantasise about one day being able to buy.

Call me cynical, but I've got a bad feeling there will be some bankster politico lobbyist cunt who comes along and goes "Oh, sorry, there's been a mistake. You weren't supposed to have all this extra money, it's awfully bad for the economy having all this money taken out of circulation. It would be irresponsible not to take action to correct this error" and then we all get it stolen by the taxman to prop up failing arms manufacturers.

>>8556
Dishy Rishi has me worried as well, he's apparently ruled out a proper tax raid on Wednesday with band freezes and a delivery tax instead but maybe he would say that. At a minimum Autumn will be a bloodbath to put up upstart aspirational types in our place.

There's other places you can put that money even if you've eaten the ISA. Green bond being announced this week.

I hate each and every one of them.

Maybe this would be sorted quickly enough for the complainant's satisfaction if more Wimmin were bothered enough to do those sort of jobs in the first place. Since they're desperate to get away from working in the Kitchen.

Women complaining about men not finding the clit is the most ridiculous thing - it's entirely their fault. If a woman's fingering my bumhole and she's not hitting my prostate, I'm sure as fuck going to direct her to it, rather than go through life complaining that she couldn't find it. Women just need to take some fucking control over their lives for fucks sake. and they wonder why they get subjugated - it's because you can't do anything for yourself, love. I've met countless women who can't even decide where they want to eat, literally ever, yet complain men tell them what to do. It's because you're incapable of making decisions.

>>31529
I used to be on your side of the fence on this but realised that 4 is really too much while 2 is for children. Three is a happy medium with the true mark of the gentleman-connoisseur being to only add half the milk you would for any other cereal to maintain the crunchy texture.

Or more likely fuck breakfast off and get up at lunchtime.

>>31531
They also come in a multiples of 12 but you'll never fit all that in your bowl will ya, Carol.

>>31532

She could squeeze my genitals until they bleed IYKWIM.

>>31532

This is unironically my fetish. I've never found a lass with either the strength or the courage to squeeze my plums hard enough to do any damage. Which is probably for the best, but it does spoil that risky thrill which, when you're being honest with yourself, is half the fun for a kink like that.

>>31534

I'm a scumbag Northerner with a washing-up bowl, just watch me fit 48 banana-flavoured ones in the fucker.

>>31533
>>31535
>>31536

Knew you sordid lot would appreciate that image.

>>30488
Shouldn't have pressed post so early - last bit I should add. Triggering thoughts:

-Fear of unknown
-Fear of letting down old team who liked me and made space for me and went out of their way
-Fear of wishing I'd not chased money and stuck with a place I'd liked
-Fear of going back to the place I'd liked and wishing I took a higher salary and promotion
-Fear of making a bad choice between the two and regretting it
-Fear of significant upheaval in my life and not handling it
-Fear of returning to a dark place where I hated my job, my life and everything surrounding it.

>>30488

Happiness is always more important than money, and you have the luxury of being in a position where you wouldn't be poor in either case. If you have even the slightest reason to believe that the grass isn't actually greener, don't do it.

Most people will give you the same old "you'll never get anywhere if you don't take risks!" bullshit, but that only applies if you're not already in a job you like. If you are, I think you should always think very, very carefully about leaving.

Bit like my mate who divorced his wife last year and now wants her back- You'll be very lucky to get a second chance.

>>30491
Thank you anon. I've spent months agonising and your post has helped me to relax somewhat.

I really need to get better at decisions that have both downsides and upsides.

Everybody tells you to always push yourself but at what point does it end?

I know a girl who quit her inner city London law job to become a photographer and wish I was that brave. I asked her why and she said when you're 15 you kind of start making choices about your career and your life and I studied and studied for years and worked for years without ever asking do I still want to do law? She said when she took two weeks off she realised the resounding answer was no and she's delayed quitting because being the successful lawyer had become her identity and that was it.

>>30492

Whatever you choose to do, it's good to remember that very few choices in our life are binary or permanent. There are usually more options than you think and the cost of making a bad choice is rarely as bad as you think. The fear of failure usually has far worse consequences than failure itself.

>>30492

You're welcome ladm9.

I've had my fair share of shit jobs, and thanks to that I developed a different sense of perspective than that which most people seem to have. From where I'm sitting, a job you don't actively loathe is something precious worth holding onto, because you can't say the same for the great majority of jobs.

I'm the type of person who's never been able to stick with anything I don't enjoy, and that's a big reason my life was going absolutely nowhere until my mid 20s. But on the flipside the perspective of the law lass you mention feels completely alien to me. I find it difficult to understand how people get that far in life as though they're just on rails, without ever questioning the fact they're utterly disinterested in what they're doing. I think the common wisdom regarding "pushing yourself" and all that is actively unhealthy for us in a great many cases.

Money is the obvious answer, I know. I suppose it's because I never had money to begin with that I never felt I was missing out on much. I've walked out of jobs at lunch time and been back on the dole by that afternoon, because at the end of the day, if your days will be miserable regardless, what's the point?

But yeah. Don't beat yourself up about what could have been or if you're letting yourself down somehow. Go with your gut.

>>31460
You can buy prints of his big Art Attacks.

https://www.neilbuchanan.co.uk/big-art.html

I wonder how much it'd cost for Neil to make one of these that I can look at from my bedroom window.

>>31460

He's also in a metal band. Or at least he was a decade ago.

There were unfounded rumours that the lorry carrying fruit had collided with a transit van overloaded with nuts.

>>31463

>>31543
I'm very tired and read that as MI6. I was rather alarmed for a second.

>>41999

I didn't get it until she said we have to pray for all government authorities, and then I got rock hard.

>>42000

The internet has given me some weird kinks, but I didn't expect softly-spoken Catholic fascists to join the list.

The individual things going on here wouldn't normally work for me, but here, in the same woman, they all do. I really hope she snorts when she laughs, because that would make her so complete.

Now that's some shewable mutton right there

>>41999
I find it ironic that the video's title contains the word "innocent" even though she's selling overpriced bits of tat.

>>31518
I don't think he said that. But I guess the implication of his post that people need to turn back toward the centre so sensible discussions could take place.

>>31528
Why? If the problem is that media/algorithms are just amplifying the extremes then "we all need to turn back toward the centre" is a useless thing to say because it's addressing the symptom and not the cause. Further to that, if it was possible for us "all" to make a unified political shift like that then it would be just as much a solution to all move left, or right. All he's doing is jerking himself off for being a "fence sitting wimp", as he puts it. As though centrists haven't always felt justified in being centrists as much as anyone of any political stance feels justified in that.

>>31518
>>31528

I would suggest it's not about coming back to the centre. It's not even about being far left or far right. There are rational and sensible people on both extremes, they're just outnumbered by the nutters the extremes tend to attract.

What it's about is keeping a healthy scepticism of alarmist, sensationalised viewpoints. These are the hallmarks of our time. For every fake outrage about Xr. Potato Head, there's some Yank college professor being sacked for doxxing all their students as racists, and then being outed as a "race faker". The kulturkampf has destroyed all capability of nuance and discussion on some subjects, because it all becomes drowned out in nonsense.

I know there's one or two of you here who like to bury your head in the sand and pretend it's nothing, but I'd suggest there's a very real reason we all post here instead of mixing with the normals on facebook or Twitter. It's because they're always on about this brain rot. Anit-vaxxing one week, hate crime the next, vegan pasties the one after. In the past this stuff was contained to tabloids you really could dismiss because most of the people reading those were only interested in the footy results and the telly planner, but now it's all different. It's ubiquitous.

There's four positions here. You're either a mentalist with a chip on your shoulder, you're an anti-mentalist with an bag of spuds, you're "well, both sides, I am smart", or you're the fourth and most intolerable; which is "I am so very smart that I shall post that one XKCD comic. None can touch me from this position of ultimate superiority."

>>31554
>You're either a mentalist with a chip on your shoulder, you're an anti-mentalist with an bag of spuds
The "bag of spuds" wordfilter was only ever meant as a placeholder until we thought of something better but it's worked surprisingly well here.

>>31554
>I know there's one or two of you here who like to bury your head in the sand and pretend it's nothing, but I'd suggest there's a very real reason we all post here instead of mixing with the normals on facebook or Twitter.

I mostly just post here because Otherplace has awful taste but the other imageboard alternatives I'd consider don't have enough British posters to have a good conversation on some topics. You're spending too much time here if you think the views of the board are worth the price of reading them.

>>31553
That is good news.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/california-covid-variant-11-times-23568823

>California Covid variant 11 times more deadly than South Africa strain, study suggests

>A new study from the University of California, San Francisco, suggests those who survive the California variant of coronavirus are left with two-fold less antibodies than other strains

>>31558

Imagine what the world might have been like now if we had shut international borders like a not doomed species would have.

>>31558
>The statistics suggesting that patients carrying B.1.427/B.1.429 variants were more likely to die was based on the charts of 69 patients who were admitted to the hospital in the first place because they had very severe Covid-19.

>“If you only look at the sickest people you’re gonna see something different than if you look at the population as a whole,” said DeRisi, who was not involved in his colleagues’ study. Neither study tells us exactly why transmission rates are higher. The virus could be becoming more common by some fluke, or because it is slightly more transmissible.

>“I don’t think there’s any question that this lineage is becoming more common in California,” said William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. “But I think the amount of sampling in California is not sufficient to fully define why. And I think that we should be wary, before we categorize every locally emerging hopeful monster as a ‘variant of concern’.” He noted that although the California variant has now become more common in the state, researchers think it has most likely been around since at least May. “You’ve got to ask yourself why it’s been around for so long and hasn’t taken the world by storm,” he said.

>“I am not panicked, and you shouldn’t be either,” said Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at UCSF. “It’s not unexpected that we’re seeing more variants,” she continued. “Viruses mutate, and often, these mutations will allow them to become more transmissible.” That’s the modus operandi of a pandemic-causing virus. And it’s scientists’ job to keep track of them, and test whether new variants can better evade our immune systems and vaccines.

>But for now, Gandhi said she was not particularly worried about B.1.427/B.1.429, or the variant that researchers this week flagged in New York. In both states daily deaths and hospitalizations are going down despite these new variants being in circulation, she noted. “So far, none of these variants have evolved to the point where they can completely get through masks, or they can overcome social distancing, or any of the other public health measures we’ve implemented.”

>“These emerging variants tell us we need to be vigilant, that maybe we shouldn’t be making summer vacation plans today,” said Waleed Javaid, an epidemiologist and the director of infection prevention and control at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. “But let’s wait and see before we worry too much.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/25/california-coronavirus-variant-covid-vaccine

We'll be able to get our haircut soon, lad.

>>30467
I never said the dirty fucking hippies would win, I just said that they were right.

I recognise that this is just a load of buts and the answer is simply to go sit outside and get used to it, but i'm really anxious about going out at the moment because the weather is nice there are a lot of attractive people about wearing pretty clothes.

Being fat adds an element of shame but it's like this every fucking year regardless.

Do you ever come across people that are so sweet and kindhearted that it makes you feel bad? As in they're just so absolutely unprotected by their very core being from all the horrible shite in the world that it pains you that they have to experience it anyway?

>>30474
I wonder how they manage it.

I've been pretty emotionally vulnerable lately, I can't decide if this is me losing my mind from isolation or if this is me healing enough that I can feel my emotional pain again.

>Do I just throw some grass seeds down and risk ecolads wrath?
Not if you're after zero maintenance. Grass needs cutting multiple times a year. Putting down a sheet for a month or two to kill off any grass then just chucking down wildflower seeds would reduce the maintenance to maybe strimming it a bit in Autumn.

Really though you'd have to be in a fairly posh place for the neighbours to actively object.

My local council has recently discovered that a badly overgrown verge is socially acceptable if you rebrand it as a "wildflower meadow". The seeds are cheap as chips, wildflowers actively prefer poor soil and it only needs mowing a couple of times a year in late summer and autumn.

Mix in a bit of paving and you're sorted.

>>2886
That would be a question for when I settle on a place. At the moment I'm just trying to understand feasibility and the kind of garden I'd be looking to either buy, make or avoid.

The opposite end of the spectrum is gardens where someone has paved over the whole thing. That feels like a design that would kill me in the summer so would ripping that up be a simple job or do I need to fart about with the topsoil?

>>2890
>>2891
Interesting, if I wanted to have a barbeque at some point or just catch some rays would I merely need to mow it or do I need to keep a bit of grass?

>>2892
I'd suggest keeping a small patio to put your barbecue/sun lounger on and turning the rest over to wildflowers. Reduced heat and maintenance but still some stability. The added bonus of wildflowers is that they don't particularly like rich soil, you can throw down some of the cheapest and they'll thrive.

>>2891
There have been quite a few initiatives the last five or six years to spread wildflower seeds on verges and the like.

>>8545
I think this is the thing that gets lost on people. With the irregular activity, Robinhood's clearing broker upped their capital requirement from something like 2% of volume to 100%, meaning they had to front up the entire purchase price of any orders their customers placed before settlement, and deposit enough cash to cover the entire position.

>>8545
>What was the restraint of trade?
>decided to restrict sell orders
It is a mystery you have evidently answered.

> Because they didn't have enough capital on hand to cover their NSCC deposit requirements
That is up for debate. Apparently US congress consider it worthy of enquiry but you consider the whole thing solved already.

>>8547

>It is a mystery you have evidently answered.

That's not a restraint of trade; Robinhood's decision didn't prevent their customers from placing buy orders through any number of other brokerages. "Restraint of trade" has a specific legal meaning.

>US congress consider it worthy of enquiry

Congressional investigations have been little more than political showboating for many years.

If Robinhood were unable to facilitate trades because it was economically unviable for them to do so, they would have said that. Instead they press released some bullshit about protecting their users.

>>8549
They didn't, huh?
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/29/what-happened-this-week

>>5668
Just because you might have a better diet than a serf in the dark ages doesn't mean it's not bad. We all probably don't get the same amount of greens as back then - when's the last time you had a hearty pottage or made horse bread?

>>5676

My point is human diets were 'never good' they were always a ham fisted 'good enough' our current health looks like it well on the way to powering quite probably millions of under 30s in the uk over the age of 100. Unless the implication is that we would live to be 200 if only we ate a bit more kale I fail to see what meaningful implications bad diet could mean that can't be patched with a few multivitamins.

If anything the biggest threat diet wise is that we eat too much not that we are eating the wrong things.

If anything thinks we've never had it so good they need to compare a bar of Cadburys now with what it was like before the takeover.

>>5678
Galaxy has always been better anyway.

>>5677
>I fail to see what meaningful implications bad diet could mean that can't be patched with a few multivitamins.

My original point was exactly that we need multivitamins. And no, on your broader point life expectancy evidently does vary wildly across the country demonstrating the continued importance of diet - this saying nothing of the years of good health.

>If anything the biggest threat diet wise is that we eat too much not that we are eating the wrong things.

People in this country have dry flaky lips and kidney stones because they don't drink enough water. This clear liquid being something that is piped into peoples homes.
74% of people have suboptimum amounts of Vitamin D with 24% outright deficient - symptoms include depression, hair loss and poor immune health. We have rising levels of rickets ffs.

>>92446

I hate this shit. Deposit is not the issue. I have just under £30k saved but 4.5x my salary gets me nothing.

>>92446

It's almost as if the government are propping up the property market for the benefit of boomer BtL scum.

>>92447
I'm not sure having banks lend more, with the resulting rise in interest, would be a good idea. The 5% mortgage and Help to Buy are mental enough and will no doubt cause problems in a rising interest rate scenario while bumping house prices.

I'm in a similar situation living in London but have found that if you go outside of the South-East it's not so bad. If the government had instead stumped up on making these places viable by encouraging employers to offer a guaranteed option of living in the provinces then it would be much more sustainable.

>>92448
I don't see how this would help BtL. These programmes are for first-time buyers.

>>92449
>It is not restricted to first-time buyers or new-build homes, but there will be a £600,000 limit.

>>92448
Why wouldn't they? Many politicians are landlords, the Tories get a substantial amount of donations from property developers and the higher property prices go up, the more the government will be paid back by people who took out Help to Buy mortgages.

>>31512
That doesn't really track in my opinion. Statelessness is defined in law, skint is just being skint. Also you don't have a legal guaruntee to employment, as far as I know, and the government have to give you UC unless you've got savings, again, as far as I know, so I'm not sure this metaphor covers remotely the same kind of ground as Begum's case.

>>31513
Ah, fuck, *guarantee.

>>31502
>The SIAC says otherwise.
Then they are wrong. This is a long-settled provision of international law. It doesn't matter how many citizenships you're entitled to claim, if you only hold one and that government removes it, it has rendered you stateless. It doesn't matter whether or not you can fix it. The prohibition on statelessness has no provision for someone to go anywhere else. It is plain a simple - a government cannot render someone stateless, even temporarily. We also have case law that says that a government cannot unilaterally determine your citizenship on your behalf, without having to consider that it's for the government of Bangladesh to decide who has citizenship there.

>>31515

At the point that Begum's British citizenship was revoked, Bangladeshi law automatically granted her Bangladeshi citizenship. If the Bangladeshi government fail to uphold their obligations under the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and arbitrarily failed to recognise Begum's status, that's their problem; the UK has no obligation under international law to pre-empt the lawless actions of other states. The matter is long-settled, but not in the way that you think.

https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2013-0150-judgment.pdf

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/2020.html

>>31519
>At the point that Begum's British citizenship was revoked, Bangladeshi law automatically granted her Bangladeshi citizenship.
That doesn't matter. The British government simply doesn't get to make that determination. That's between her and Bangladesh.

Vordermask.

Vordermask with stains on her chest.

Vorderman on the way to get her vaccine.

Vorderman mid-jab.

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>>31493
Use the report function then.

>>31494
Sometimes when you report people the mods ban you, with the message that you should be calling people out for shitposting/poor spelling and grammar rather than solely relying on them.

>>31495
The report function isn't for reporting posts you disagree with.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>31496
We'll see about that...

>>31495

>Sometimes when you report people the mods ban you, with the message that you should be calling people out for shitposting/poor spelling and grammar rather than solely relying on them.

Good idea, we shoud have a role on this website to performs this task.