>>449208
It is getting a bit silly now. I mean... Playboy? Sex parties? Unless it was some Epstein level shite, then I do not know what these women thought they were signing up to.

I have eligibility to go for an Italian passport (and be dual British-Italian). Not sure I can be arsed with it. What would be some of the benefits? Beyond the obvious EU citizen/freedom of movement.

>>449210
Italian women will like you a little bit more.

>>449210
>>449211

In my experience of having an Italian mate all birds will like you a bit more, especially if you learn a bit of the lingo.

I’m going for a big long walk today, whether I want to or not.

>>36772
I think it belied the notion that those in charge know better. And this is where "meet your MP" can give you an inch of help. If you voted for them, FPTP, do what you must, but hold them accountable. Sure, you don't have the time, but this is a minny election: Someone needs to talk to your representative. Hold them to task!

>>36774
I walked past the office of my work's MP a few days ago, because I was curious what it was like. I didn't go in. Would he have been there? I want to ask things unrelated to the pandemic, but can you just show up? I have also looked up the office of the MP for where I actually live, in case he can help instead, and he appears to work out of a fire station. How do I go about asking him things?

>>36775
He'll very likely have a website and on it they'll say whether they're still using the bad bends going around as an excuse to scale back public surgeries and what alternatives are in place to deliver the same service. There's a good chance you'll need to start by emailing them.

>>36776
He does indeed have a website, but I tried emailing him once before and some assistant replied asking for my address, because apparently there is a parliamentary rule where you're only allowed to speak to your own MP. I wanted to tell him a roundabout in his constituency was a death trap and something needed to be done, but since I live in another constituency, I was prevented from doing so. In the end I emailed a councillor, who was much more helpful. On this occasion, I just want to see if I can move into his constituency by seeing if he'd be willing to sell me any of the wide empty spaces of demolished derelict buildings and let me build a house there.

My actual local MP, I just thought it would be a laugh to wander in off the street and ask the receptionist or assistant or whoever if that Bury South guy's letter of no confidence is still valid. If anyone knows, I'm sure they will. But it's not really worth an email, and when I emailed him with a proper question last year, it took two months to get a reply and I probably won't care by then.

I have nothing coof-related to ask either of them, especially when they are both such dull people.

>>36777

>coof

Aha. I know we had some fresh immigrants making the place smell funny as of late.

>>32786
I know. But other people do and that makes me minorly angry.

>>32785

I resent, truly, the way the concept of a meme has gone mainstream. It was a really weird time to live through and it confused me severely at the time how my accumulated years of 4chan shitposting knowledge was suddenly the very key to getting in 20-something lassie's knickers on dating apps. My annoyance at the way the word meme simply means "picture with funny caption" now is outweighed by the wider implications.

But look at what it has done to internet culture. Chan boards, and their undying committent to contrarianism, oppose the very concept of image macro "memes" on principle now, because they're for normies. They still have memes of course; just not the fun kind you used to have in the old days where you had to bust out photoshop, and you could get quite clever with them sometimes. Those days are dead.

Flustered, I flung my flute into the toilet. I flushed and a flurry of fluid carried it away to some far-flung land.

I wanted to see what investing in Ukraine would be like but it seems that I'm not allowed. Not a single share or fund can be invested in on HL for this purpose - for example in aerospace I'd have to invest in Boeing who have a supply-chain agreement in Antonov.

It's irksome considering how easy it is if you want to put money in Russia like some reverse oligarch.

"Happy birthday" being abbreviated to "hbd". At that point, don't even bother.

>>8528
I want to go to button moon. I've never been there before, but maybe I can make a rocket ship and travel to the stars.

The pandemic fucked me up badly. A litre of vodka a day is becoming too much. I think I am pushing friends and family away with all my madness.

>>8542
That is a lot.

>>8542

You're not the only one struggling, lad. I have sworn off wine and spirits because it's all too easy to drink far, far more than you wanted to and am sticking to 5% beer instead. Which basically means I'm alcoholic and fat as opposed to alcoholic and less fat.

>>8543
It is and it isn't. In terms of units it's basically the range where you have a problem. I've been in states where I would need to drink that much slowly over an entire day just to not go into withdrawals.

I know it's been said before but I really wish we were brought up knowing that alcohol is just a dangerous as "real drugs", whatever they are.

>>8543
>>8544
Thanks lads. I have been doing halves for the last couple of days, but it feels really bad. I want to do cold turkey down to 35cls every two days. I never had withdrawals and this might be it, but I seem better for it... I think. Just so much sweating, shaking, doom, and no focus at all. I think I was happier drunk. I am getting weird thoughts as well (ending it all). This is all new territory to me.

>>24198
Assuming you’re the resident Farscape head, were the writers into A Song of Ice and Fire? Because John and Aeryn seemed like a coincidence but then that Stark fellow turned up and I convinced myself there was something to it.

>>24198
Talking about Farscape, but Fraggle Rock's back. Fuck Yeah!

I figured out what it was Odo's make-up reminded me of.

>>24201

What horrors that poor woman had to endure at the hands of Travis the Chimp.

BBC1 had a documentary earlier called "The Decade The Rich Won", all about how the 2008 credit crunch is directly responsible for the rich getting richer and the poor eating shit as a consequence of government policy. It was undeniably telling me what I wanted to hear, but I definitely learnt from it and I'm sure you will all love it too. Get it watched. It's episode 1 of 2, so there'll be another one next week as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0013xch/the-decade-the-rich-won

No, look, this is bollocks. Attractive people can't all be simultaneously dull because they never had to develop a personality but also scintillating because they had the opportunities to socialise. It's one or the other or you have to find a better hypothesis.

>>449183

Fine. Then let the hypothesis be that both can be observed in the wild. You can be physically attractive and a vapid dimwit, or a beautiful mind in a beautiful body. And both have their own set of determinants.

>>449183

As the original lad who brought up boring lasses, I never said a word about their attractiveness, so it's the otherlads who have a wire crossed somewhere.

What's the old saying though, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Attractive people (and wealthy people, and whatever other kind of privelege you want to talk about) have a leg up, but that doesn't always stop them being a thicko who squanders their advantage.

>>449185

>Attractive people (and wealthy people, and whatever other kind of privelege you want to talk about) have a leg up, but that doesn't always stop them being a thicko who squanders their advantage

I was going to say look at Joey Essex, who is dumber than a bag of bollocks, but on second thought, I'm not sure where he fits into all of that.

>>449203

That's just the natural injustice of some people being very fortunate, like that lad was moaning about in /emo/ the other day. It's easier not to be bothered about it when it's abstract strangers on telly, but it can sometimes really sting when you witness it in front of your face, I suppose.

>>42571

How does her vagina change the way you feel about her overall attractiveness?

>>42572
A charming smile and nice hair are not enough to make me accept a woman with a cock. There, I said it.

>>42573

What about five pints?

>>42573

I mean, fair enough, we all like what we like. Personally I don't get it, if a woman is fit I'll happily suck her off.

Channel 4 was recently advertising a documentary about Louise Woodward, the babysitter who killed that baby 20 years ago or whenever. Phwoarrrr.

>>9150
Seeing as Bitcoin has roughly halved in value from its November peak do you think that could cause issues for crypto staking? I could imagine that a lot of lending is done on the basis that people expect values to continually go up.

>>9150
Is that true or are those rumours actually centred around the likes of Tether? Circle is audited, holds a banking license and has agreed a deal to go public.

>>9153
* applied for a banking license

Not sure inviting every US financial regulator under the sun to verify everything is on the up and up would be the move if you're really just operating a Ponzi.

>>9150
Dan Olson's videos are really good. Although I did disagree with much of his War on Nuggets video, but then the one about The Nostalgia Critic was spectacular (if you're as startled and confused by that man's continued success as I am anyway.

>>9154
They can always keep that application forever on hold. Most people wouldn't have difficulty in believing a federal agency might take years to review such a thing. The nuclear regulator recently rejected an application after almost two years, and other applicants have abandoned or withdrawn their applications after several years of process.

The sort of people crypto types target aren't particularly smart. They're the sort of people that actually bought Trump's line about having his tax returns under audit for well over a decade.

As one of the quotes used multiple times in that video goes, they'll say "if this looks like a Ponzi then surely everything looks like a Ponzi". That line is true, but not in the way the originator meant.

>>95299
I remember thinking about how much of a dystopian nightmare the modern world would look to someone from the Middle Ages at the start of the pandemic. Imagine explaining the entire planet from Antillia to Cathay being under house arrest with Parliaments militia roaming the streets to catch anyone outside without good reason, and even then needing to wear a face cloth with speaking with merchants.

Maybe they'd understand if they had experience with plague outbreaks but I can imagine the ban on Church would be unsettling.

>Police to investigate Downing Street lockdown parties

>The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into parties held in No 10 during the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner Cressida Dick (61) said they were looking into "potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations" in Downing Street and Whitehall since 2020.

>She said the investigation was launched as a "result of the information provided by the Cabinet Office inquiry team", led by civil servant Sue Gray (63). The Cabinet Office said Ms Gray's own inquiry would continue. But the BBC understands the report will not be published while the Met are investigating, and it is not clear how long the force will take.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60123850

Not to be a /boo/lad but a police inquiry might've just saved the PMs skin.

>>95301
So we know he did it, but he won't resign until Sue Gray's report is released, and it was about to be released, but then the police said they'd look again, so Sue Gray won't release her report until the police are finished. When will the police be finished? And why didn't they start earlier if they wanted to investigate it themselves?

Once the police report is finished, I don't think they should publish it until MI5 have also had a look and written their own report, which in turn cannot be released until Interpol finish their own report which shall remain unpublished until the CIA have also investigated. This is not the most brazen corruption I have seen from this government, but that says more about them to be honest.

>>95300

They'd probably be familiar with the idea of quarantine and may well recognise the concept of miasma. What they'd struggle to understand is the miraculous state of medicine in the 21st century. They would certainly know people who had been killed, blinded or disfigured by smallpox, a disease we have now completely eradicated.

If they're weirded out by lockdowns, they'd go fucking mental if you showed them a defibrillator or an MRI scanner. A talking box that can raise the dead? A tunnel that can see inside the body? Witchcraft.

>>95300
Places like Eyam shut themselves off from the outside world to try and stop the spread of the plague, plus many people were boarded up in their houses if someone in their family had it.

>>14250
I have no firm plans to move from my current job but would like to know where my position is in the market, so I'm planning to do some interviews for similar positions. As I'm secure I can go in there with a lot more confidence than usual and ask them exactly those sorts of questions. What's so fucking good about you lot then, eh? Am I supposed to be impressed? Give me your top three reasons to work here or I'm walking out the door right now.

>>14251

I've always wanted to just entirely Robert California an interview, but I think you literally need to be James Spader to do so.

>>14246

>How are you supposed to answer "Why do you want to work for our company?" when the truth is simply that they offer competitive pay?

They all know it's bollocks and that at the end of the day, you are applying for one reason only, and that is that you want or need a new job and they have one going. So they don't really, really expect you to come up with some heartfelt teary-eyed explanation that you've wanted to work there since you were a weelad, and that it seems like just the kind of challenge that you were looking for or that what you bring to the table is such a perfect fit for that company.

It's all about being a good bullshitter. About selling an idea, in the face of it being all too obviously a bunch of rubbish. Because you are going to have to do just that day in, day out at almost every imaginable job where you need people to do any number of inane things for you.

>>14253

It's also a great opportunity to flatter the interviewer(s). If you talk about how their company is uniquely positioned in the market, does everything better than the competition, or is a big clever brain house for clever big brain people, then what you're effectively doing is blowing smoke up their arse about how talented and clever they are for already working there. And naturally, they'll like you that little bit more once you've indirectly complemented them on their life choices.

>>14252

I once had an interview with a company I really wasn't bothered about, but the recruiter was really egging me on to talk to them, so I took the call and handled it very much like this aiming to see how much I could annoy them.

Turned out that was exactly what they wanted, the company was a lot cooler than I expected and I've been working there two years now making loads of dosh. Give it a go.

There was a Playstation called Eagle One : Harrier Jet or something like that, and I discovered that if you pulled back on the stick in flight to perform a loop, your controller would vibrate as heavily as it was capable of doing - do I'd hold the controller at the base of my knob and do and endless loop until completion. I must have been pretty young, though I remember the game well because of that. I reckon I'd get an associative erection if I saw gameplay footage now.

>>41728
On a similar note, I remember a lad giving that vibrating controller that came with Rez (or perhaps it was a default Dualshock) to his missus. They wrote an extensive blog about using the game's rhythm-based shooting and subsequent VIBEZ for stimulation.

>>41729

Where was it published? I have this weird feeling I have read it before.

>>41729

https://www.gamegirladvance.com/2002/10/sex-in-games-rezvibrator.html

I've been enjoying the new season of Being a Dik. The storyline pulls me in, when I'm not dealing with obligatory uni-girl drama, about the lads growing up and fucking the campus drug dealer. It's a bit odd in that sense, there's complete fantasy elements but it does give me some nostalgia at times for university and how I wasted a fuck load of effort on youthful mistakes.

You also get to play dungeons and dragons.

>>9796
After Whinger Spice got his way with race control, so it seems.

Never mind, new regs next year. Haas might not be shit. Gotta fancy Mazepin for a title shot. Probably courtesy of a sniper bought with Daddy's Cash.

>>9797
I adore Lewis and thought he deserved to win today. That bit at the end with lapped people overtaking after a safety car/not was utterly awful rule making.

Very excited for next year, the new cars, and George in a Mercedes.

>>9794
Incompetent or unfair is one thing, but "rigged"? You reckon they forgo the opportunity to penalise Lewis when he overtook off track safe in the knowledge that a Mercedes customer team would later crash?

>>9799
Maybe "rigged" was the wrong word. More "scripted". As if they could see that the race that had been hyped as the most exciting finale in nearly 50 years was going to end with a boring procession behind the safety car, so an executive insisted they remove the safety car and make the race exciting, by hook or by crook, damn the rules.

This looks fun as fuck. And tantalisingly close to (if not quite) affordable as well.

>>5411

If a colony colonises then it's successful as a colony. If your father considers you a failure for not being a scientist or a miner, then you're still his son, but a failure as his scientist or miner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wULw64ZL1Bg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Elizondo

>Luis Elizondo is a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

>Elizondo is the former director[5] of the now defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a $22 million special access program initiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency in order to study unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UFOs.

If this man is to be believed, then aliens are 100% real, the US government has recovered biological material from crashed vessels, and there markers in our DNA which show evidence of tampering from more advanced civilisations (not outright stated but implied).

>>5413
That project sounds less impressive when you consider they spent more trying to figure out if Yuri Geller could perform remote viewing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

>>5382

>would he outright lie just to promote a book?

Breaching national security is a very serious criminal offence. Talking bollocks is broadly legal. Either there are a remarkable number of people who get away with revealing state secrets, or there are an unremarkable number of bullshitters who have seen an opportunity to make a few quid.

>>5415

Was going to say something similar myself. You don't just get away with blabbing state secrets, and it's not like that stops applying because you retired. Even my grandad, who was just an RAF base fireman, had to sign for the OSC, and he basically knew little more classified information than what sort of tyres the planes had.

I suppose there's an argument that arresting him confirms it, but I also think if you're that deep into a secret like this, you know that leaking it all but confirms you'll have a nasty accident in the coming weeks.

>>13507
I don't think it is ridiculous when their stated mission is to help people without degrees - why should you jump the queue when you've already had that opportunity?

>>13507 Yes if you have a degree then you can't do an apprenticeship.

I can't seem to find how much NI I need to pay to qualify for JSA. In the last year I paid NI for 7 months of work, but they are my only contributions. Not sure if that is enough.

>>14057
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-style-jobseekers-allowance

This implies to me that any Class 1 credits at all are sufficient.

>>70096
She so needs a boyfriend.

>>70097
I'm sure that could be arranged.

>>70097

She has a fuckbuddy half her age apparently.

Jacuzzi Vorderman.

>>70350

She's really doubling down on the predatory auntie vibes. Genuinely intimidating levels of post-menopausal alpha female sexual confidence. I feel like she'd give absolutely first rate fellatio, but with the constant undercurrent of threat that she might bite down hard just to assert her dominance.

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

It feels refreshing to hear a cover like this, different to the Jon Brion version to the degree that they both sound better for it.

I realise this is dangerously close to John Lewis Christmas advert territory.


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

A group with almost no YouTube views appeared in my recommended videos recently. They're called National Milk Bar (which, as a name, strikes me as uncomfortably similar to Neutral Milk Hotel and British Sea Power), and their version of New Order's True Faith is really good:

Do I like this? I can't tell.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvt9vcoyipA

>>5374
And thanks to the OJ case, we also ended up with the Kardashian clan.

>>5378

I'm usually very sceptical of the "Great Man" theory of history. But there are some cases where it's striking just how much evil really does come back to one person in the end.

Any of you lads seen 'the Scary of Sixty-first' (2021) yet?

>>5380
>After two mismatched roommates discover that their new Upper East Side apartment once belonged to the late pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the pair find themselves compelled to uncover—and relive—the murky secrets of their domicile
What the fuuuuck

>>5381

>>449123
Did you hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a pencil.

I went to the pet shop earlier to get some bird seed and they asked me if I'd got a store card. No, but I did get a budgie excited once.

>>449142

Jollyes? They must have some serious fucking commission on those cards, as every time I go in there to buy bird seed for my grandma I get cutthroat hard sell on that fucker. They're nearly as vicious as the Boots people trying to get you to get an advantage card.

>>449161

I have seriously misjudged the thread I have just posted in. I could delete in shame, but I'm leaving it here.

>>449161

You feed your grandma bird seed? You 'orrible bastard.

>>36726

>The international community needs to stand firmly in support of Ukraine's right to territorial integrity and self-determination

Would've been nice if the West had applied that same high moral standard to countries like Syria, or indeed Afghanistan or Iraq.


>There was no provocation in 2014

Except there was. The 2013 revolution in Ukraine was bought and paid for by Western shell NGOs. Whose operatives were literally giving protesters in the streets cash money handouts, and the opposition movement as a whole also received generous funding from countries including, but not limited to the United States.

Crimea's problem admittedly was that it has been home to one of (Soviet) Russia's most strategically important military bases on the planet since before the Cold War. A new pro-Western Ukrainian government could have simply evicted the Russians at some point, which would have weakened Russia's military posture as a whole.

Ultimately, just declaring Crimea a part of Russia was without a doubt a rarely before seen violation of international law and multilateral treaties. But what are you going to do. There is no feasible way of returning Crimea to Ukraine, without very literally risking an all-out nuclear war. Eight years of intense political pressure and sanctions have yielded absolutely no results, and the West is still deluding itself that yet anoter round of new sanctions over and over again is somehow at some point going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

>>36733

>You wouldn't go in swinging against a group of chavs who have broken into your home and are looking to beat a woman and her children?

Well, no, because the point of this analogy is that we (The West and Are Jezza) are absolutely just going to sit on our hands and watch Chantal get beaten up.

We can yammer on at length about what Russia has done wrong and how NATO hasn't done anything to provoke them, but at the end of the day what are we going to do? We don't want a fight with Russia, certainly not over a shithole like Ukraine. We don't give a fuck.

We're just acting like bigmen, but if we get called on it, we'll have to back away, and then we're going to look like right dickheads, and the whole estate will know we're not hard like we used to be. Past it. Has been. Next thing you know all these other upstarts are selling baggies down the Lion, and when you confront them, they just laugh. Get out of here, old geezer, you're done with.

That's the greater issue with all this. We've painted ourselves into a corner and we've fucked up. This is a moment of reckoning for the future, and the US is looking absolutely impotent right now.

>>36735

>We're just acting like bigmen, but if we get called on it, we'll have to back away, and then we're going to look like right dickheads, and the whole estate will know we're not hard like we used to be

It's all about how far you want to take a bluff.

As you said, ultimately, despite all the huffing and puffing, the West isn't going to start a nuclear war over a shithole country like Ukraine, and all the territorial pissing that both sides are doing isn't going to change that. Putin knew that the West wasn't going to send troops to pry Russia's most important European naval base from him at gunpoint to return it to Crimea. So he got away with it by successfully gambling on Western governments not being bigger lunatics than him. As far as our governments were concerned, it was better to just accept that Putin had made the West look like complete fools, and not risk global nuclear stability over a speck of land in the Black Sea that ultimately wasn't worth it.

>>36734
>Except there was. The 2013 revolution in Ukraine was bought and paid for by Western shell NGOs. Whose operatives were literally giving protesters in the streets cash money handouts, and the opposition movement as a whole also received generous funding from countries including, but not limited to the United States.

Goodness, it's amazing how much money we must have considering the past 8 years the Ukrainian people have rejected pro-Russian candidates.

>>36735
>but at the end of the day what are we going to do?

Supply weapons, training and the like to Ukraine, you may have seen it on the news. Maybe kick Russia out of Swift and whatever other sanctions are needed to cripple the Russian economy as it was in Russia's last financial crisis. Your entire argument hinges on the assumption that "just let Russia do whatever it wants" is some viable option like it's not equally Russia that is skating on thin ice and isn't likely scrambling to save face.

>>36737

We've been trying to cripple the Russian economy for the best part of the last decade, and by the looks of it, it hasn't done much.

Probably because most of the people who would feel the pinch of those sanctions don't actually have many financial interests in Russia itself, instead they own half the real estate market in London and fund the Tory party.