But then the EU would demand to check all the imports from Britain so they can pick out what they want and confiscate it.

Don't do it lads. UK or EW.

>>93056
I could've sworn we had a cunt-off on Scotland's budget deficit already. In fact the last year you can reasonably look of deficit was 6% higher than the rest of the UK.
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/14982

It's going to be a fun old shitstorm when we look at paying off the cost of Covid. The SNP will no doubt try some brinkmanship with the UK Government but some mighty difficult choices are going to have to be made all the same.

>>93924
Caring about budget deficits is so David Cameron era, the post-Covid statistic to watch will be the unemployment figures, with every country competing to get them as close to 0% as possible.
I am hoping that if I say this, it might come true.

>>93924

We can kick the can down the road indefinitely if interest rates remain low. The big concern is if the recovery proves to be inflationary, which will create an awful monetary policy dilemma.

>>93927
Right, employment is all that matters who cares if wage growth -inflation makes everyone except the wealthy need a government stipend to subsidize their income after their teensy savings get drained dry causing median value real estate to crash.

The worst possible monetary risk for labor is a post inflation deflation. Unions are going to wake up one day in the distant future acting like they're surprised their pants were stolen.

Scottish Mad Max.

I watched Waiting (2005) this weekend. It has a lot of big seppo comedy types and is a mist see for any of you who have ever worked in hospitality.

Operation: Endgame is fucking fantastic if you're looking for a shit, but entertaining film. Without giving too much away, it's a secret underground base in which the US controls everything that goes on in the world via two teams, one which makes chaos and the other which swoops in to save the day to preserve the idea that America is on top of things. The project gets cut, hilarity ensues.

It also has a few of my all-time favourite movie murders. Highly recommend just for that.

I think Ghosts of Mars is in this category. A deliberately shit film. Ice T, Jason Statham. I don't think they realised it was meant to be shit, Ice T complained about it afterwards, I guess he didn't notice how all the sets looked like they were porn-film quality.

>>23761
Of course, Mr Carpenter, it was supposed to be awful, sure.

>>93903
In terms of economics, I have absolutely observed that if the economy is doing well, that doesn't really mean anything to me because if I get 10% richer and so does everyone else, then I am not any richer at all in real terms. If a rising tide lifts all boats by the exact same amount, there's very little reason for someone who's unhappy now to look forward to that.

Margaret Thatcher said that it's not about equality, it's about equality of opportunity. If she meant the same as I mean above, that getting richer is only good if you're getting richer than everyone around you, then Margaret Thatcher was right about that. It feels weird to say, but Margaret Thatcher was right. Shame about all the stuff she was wrong about.

>>93903
If the man lives in Shenzhen then he's already richer than her and will likely continue to get richer. Albeit his quality of life will suffer from a lack of 'live, laugh, love' ornaments.

>>93904
This reminds me of the problem the extremely wealthy suffer in that they underestimate their own status because the people they hang around with are now also rich. If one is to enjoy one's success therefore you must hang around car boot sales rather than the auction houses. Or just not care, a plate of turkey dinosaurs is going to make you smile no matter your bank balance - unless like me you invested your life savings in a certain island theme park.

Anyway, I think the thing is really about hope in the future and while you can get sociopathic about it you're obviously less happy knowing that things are stagnating and you'll never get that 10%. Especially if that 10% has a genuine impact rather meaning slightly more tat from Amazon.

>>93904

>if the economy is doing well, that doesn't really mean anything to me because if I get 10% richer and so does everyone else, then I am not any richer at all in real terms

Only for zero-sum markets like houses in desirable areas. In every other respect, getting richer just means getting richer. Western economies have seen relatively little economic growth since 2008 and countries with very low productivity (like the UK) have seen severe wage stagnation, but we experienced phenomenal growth for most of the 20th century and with it saw vast improvements in our living standards.

>>93903

I'm not sure what we can do about it though. Nearly all western countries have seen slowing economic growth, in large part because of economies like China catching up with us. Tax-and-spend can reduce inequality on a domestic level, but it can't restore our historical status as an imperial power with hugely advanced technology. British people certainly don't want to work as hard as the Chinese and I don't think they're innately cleverer, so how will we improve the productivity of our labour force to make ourselves more competitive and drive economic growth?

Unless and until there's another technological change as transformative as the industrial revolution, I think we just have to get used to the idea of relatively low growth and living within our means.

>>93904

I think that just means you, like a lot of people, are kind of a narcissist honestly. That may not be exactly the right word but I can't think of a better one. I have often noticed it's true that people will just as readily and happily see other people have their situation made worse, as their own situation improved, because the outcome is the same- You are better off than them, and that's what really matters.

In the most primitive monkey brain way, people just care about being higher up the pile than other people, and will push down every bit as much as they try to raise themselves.

It's one of the parts of human nature we absolutely should try to overcome but obviously nobody is interested in doing so, it's all about being able to flash a bigger car than our neighbours to give ourselves the big social status penis. Or, as the case may be, voting to uphold policies and governments that ensure the housing market remains exclusive and difficult to enter, because it means they keep their status over the rentier class.

I've been getting at least a couple of flyers a week from estate agents asking if I want to sell my house for several months now. I bet they're really worried they'll run out of properties to sell.

>>30805
What's the last thing you enjoyed doing?

>>30805
Have you considered telling a health care professional that you just lie to them and avoid speaking to them?

Being admitted to a psychiatric ward might be the best thing for you, or contacting Social work and telling them exactly what you just said to us, or both. I was in there for just over a Month in the short term stay ward, but they sent me to socialise with the long term stays. Pretty much all of them had issues which prevented them from functioning properly in society, there was a lass who had been raised by her grandparents in a rural hamlet and when they died she had to move South and discovered she had crippling Agoraphobia and a fear of large groups of people, especially people her own age, which is why I think they wanted me to socialise with her. She was a fantastic artist, a skill she had only begun to nurture while staying in the ward. She's been a resident there for 2 years when I met her.

Her art was really good. When I spoke to her last before I got discharged, I told her she should ask someone for help in cataloging her work as people would want to buy it. The thought had never occurred to her before, or the idea she could sustain herself using something she enjoyed.

I'm sure she isn't 100% independent, even though it's been 5 years, but the local council has a store unit in town that is set up as a gallery for local artists to show their work for free and the council sells it for them.

I've seen her work in there multiple different times since then. Even if she isn't living independently, she took that advice. She took a step towards it despite how much I'm sure it terrified her to take it, because her art had gave her something back she had lost or perhaps had never had before.

If you are struggling to cope, there are safety nets.

>>30807
>Being admitted to a psychiatric ward

Given the lack of bed space in psychiatric wards the likely hood of being admitted short of total crisis is slim.

OP - if you, or anyone that cares about you can afford it go private. NHS psychiatric care is beyond shit and sorry if this sounds cynical but yes your GP will no doubt bang you on AD's without a care if they are suitable for you or not and no doubt sign you up for 'talky therapy', waiting list 6 months plus.
Seriously if you can go private

>>30806
Spending time with others, some years ago now. This was helped immensely by not feeling like a massive failure all the time.

>>30807
That's just it though, I do "cope". I just avoid situations and block out any thoughts and that's how I make it through the day, but that's become all that I do. There isn't any room for ambition or concentration when you start feeling like an overboiling pot given half-an-hour with your own thoughts. Then again? What ambition, I think on some level I'm just an idiot, a mumbler and a psycho. A passing interest in history and my overly pompous grammar just misled those around me into thinking otherwise. In fact, it might have misled me also.

>>30808
Whatever that costs, I can't afford it, sadly.

>>30826
Where do you live? Are there any museums near you that you could volunteer at? I bet there are places of some sort which would love an articulate guy who cares about history, especially if such a guy is willing to do it for free. Do you have a job at the moment?

The best Disney soundtrack is The Lion King 2. Perversely, disgracefully underrated. It's one of the great injustices of the modern age.

And the greatest Disney song ever written:

Are driving videos inherently relaxing or is it something we learn? I think they got the right vibe for this anyway with a song that feels like coming home:

>>12856
Seatbelt alarms sure are relaxing.

>>12856
I feel the same way about cockpit-view flying videos. Could watch them all day; I managed to spend a couple of hours yesterday just watching people start up helicopters from scratch. YouTube is doing strange things to us all.

>>12857

"Boy, I sure wish I had a surf-rock cover album of the songs from the Pokémon games"

Frostpunk is this weeks Epic Freebie.

Some game called Control is free on Epic, which is weird because I'm sure it only just came out?

>>24953

It came out in 2019.

Surviving Mars: Deluxe Edition is free on Humble Bundle for the next 21 hours or so.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/surviving-mars-deluxe-edition-free-game

>>24955
I, for one, look forward to being shackled in another Paradox dlc nightmare with their free giveaway of the slightly expanded base game.

>>93241

Isn't there a massive problem in the States where low-rise apartment buildings are made out of wooden frames with cladding, that burn down constantly, only to be rebuilt more or less exactly the same?

We had one big fire in a block of flats and it became a national tragedy, but it happens constantly in the States and it's more or less jut a fact of life.

>>93241 insects can be bastards - at least we don't have termites here, but this was holding up my barn. Looked like a perfectly sound sleeper, but had been completely hollowed out by ants in a mere sixty years. If climate change means the UK gets termites, I'd worry about wooden buildings given our lack of building inspections.

>>93242

Wooden houses in the States are very often built to absolutely awful standards. Americans really don't value longevity as much as we do, and it's much more common that houses get torn down again just 40 or 50 years after they were built to make room for new developments. So there's often no point using materials that will last beyond that, especially if you're a land developer who is knocking up entire streets worth of new units for-profit.

The upside is that, at least until the recent new spike in house prices, you could buy full-size, four-bedroom suburban family homes made out of low-end timber and plasterboard for $200K. But again, you couldn't expect quality for that price.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56821462

Run-down of candidates for Chancellor in September.

Mr. Laschet could face a similar fate as Gordon Brown. They definitely missed an opportunity by not letting him take over during Merkel's final term.

On the other hand, Green Party candidates in Germany seem to have a history of being the political equivalent to vaporware when Germans then actually go and cast their vote. I guess it's that whole thing about a lot of people agreeing that a lot needs to be done to save the environment, but they then can't bring themselves to vote Green because they don't like the idea of higher taxes and petrol prices that directly affect them. Apathetic bloody planet. I've no sympathy at all.

Could end up being a very interesting election though. I was in Germany visiting a friend once while there was some state election going on that weekend, and it was a complete cliffhanger till after midnight, and ended up producing a lowest-common-denominator coalition between very unlikely partners. If you think the 2010 hung parliament in Britain was a cliffhanger, then the knife edge of German elections can be ten times thinner. It's not unheard of that three parties from diametrically opposing ends of the spectrum have to go together and still only have a razor-thin majority.

>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/13/germany-greens-back-annalena-baerbock-chancellorship-despite-dip-in-polls

>The latest poll showed the Greens have dropped 6 points in the polls to 20% and the CDU has risen 5 points to 28%, prompting speculation over whether the Greens will manage to regain their momentum.

>The poll results have also led to calls for Baerbock’s co-leader, Robert Habeck, to take the candidacy from her, although the idea was rejected at the weekend. Their joint leadership was also reconfirmed in a vote on Saturday.

It's not in the bag for them yet.

>>34080
>canal

Well now we've got our thinking caps on. Aren't most of the pusher's victims men?

>>34081

>>34080

It's not difficult to buy a pantsuit from Primark for the express purpose of looking trustworthy to people like yourself.

>>34082

Would.

>>34084
A polished turd is still a turd.

Nice juicy pair of plums you've got there lad.

>>444477
Love a plum me. Gods own fruit.

>>444481

They've been a bit shit this year, at least supermarket ones. Either bitter even when soft and overripe, or never ripening and flavourless.

>>444482 did you see a country of origin? Supply chains are all over the place, you might be getting super early forced britplums, sewage encrusted ones from Morocco, or something that's been in a ripener's cold store for two years and really needed shifting. Not long to this year's glorious crop of Brit. plums though. Assuming we actually have orchards and pickers.

>>34069
I've just seen your post. If nothing I see is the truth, your statement is false, so what now? At least one thing I see if the truth? Everything I see is the truth? Nothing I see is the ..untruth?

>>34070

The principle of excluded middle is a fundamental misconstruction, A is not A.

>>34071
Eh?

>>34072

Ā.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle
A thing needn't be [either true or false], it could be something in-between (or outside/beyond).

>>34073

>A thing needn't be [either true or false], it could be something in-between (or outside/beyond).

U WOT M8

>>69063
>aimed to "stir up a race war", through a Twitter account
Dumbest thing I've ever read.

>>69064

I dunno, Trump nearly managed it.

>>69065

U WOT M7

>>69063
>DYMOCK WAS ALSO FOUND GUILTY OF STIRRING UP RACIAL HATRED AND HATRED BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Can we just ban twitter then?

>>69068
>CAN WE JUST BAN TWITTER THEN?

It's an internet thing run by a man called Jack, he's very left wing and uses his platform to manipulate speech alongside people that run the big computers. His aim like most communist billionaires is to make people stupid then obey. Just give twitter to Elon Musk.

Begone, frag it

>>69052
Wouldn't you put the metal shoes under the spokes, though, rather than between them? Surely that's where the wheels are most likely to get damaged.

>>69054
I don't think they were ever practical.

Very disturbing legs Vorderman.

vorderman fanny

>>69062

sit on my face voderman

Learn an instrument. Learn the drums and you'll have no shortage of bands desperate to have you aboard.

>>444498
Bourbons used to be so different...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFm2rWn41g

Bring Back Bashing

Get yourself into a pole fitness night, you'll be swarming in flexible fanny.

>>30820
Have you mentioned this to her?

>>30820

I actually left one of my girlfriends partially because she'd been on a diet and lost her arse. She was obviously chuffed with herself for losing so much weight and she didn't take it very well that I wanted her to put at least a little bit back on so I didn't feel like I was shagging a ten year old boy.

You've seen that episode of Malcolm in the Middle right?

>>30820

Heisenberg is way ahead of you.

>>30820

Revenge lad here. I've never been prouder of PsyOps on this website than I am right now.

Dammit, I'm mildly depressed and suffering a complete lack of motivation.
I look out of the window to see fantastic summer weather and think of half a dozen things to do but cant find any energy to get off the sofa

>>14200
> Also, MSG is magic and you should buy a big bag of it right now.

MSG is great for sprucing up a dish, but it's one of those ingredients where getting the amount correct is much better than overdoing it. A 250g bag should last you a couple of weeks at least. I find that if a dish calls for salt, using half the amount of salt and about a quarter the amount in MSG works quite reliably. There isn't really a savoury dish that doesn't benefit from a pinch of MSG, even if the ingredients are already rich in it.

>>12767
>If you ever saw the episode of Who's the Boss on the BBC about Brewdog a few years back you'd have seen how the owners are a pair of monumental bellends.

Former BrewDog employees have accused the craft beer company and its co-founder James Watts of fostering a “culture of fear” where workers were regularly bullied, insulted and “treated like objects” by senior staff.

The open letter, signed by 61 former workers, also alleges that senior staff at the fast-growing Scottish brewer pushed workers to cut corners by ignoring health and safety guidelines or on occasion bypassing customs checks when shipping beer overseas.

“Growth, at all costs, has always been perceived as the number one focus for the company,” the letter alleges. “Being treated like a human being was sadly not always a given for those working at BrewDog.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-staff-craft-beer-firm-letter

There's a turn-up for the books.

>>14461

Not surprising at all, their entire "we're cool punks who are your mates" marketing has always been very obviously bullshit, even before I knew the founders were posho cunts. And a quick look on their wikipedia page, the 'controversies' section is pretty fucking lengthy.

>>14462
I'm sure they're no worse than most other companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrewDog

>the Portman Group ruled that the labelling for Pink IPA breached Portman's Code of Conduct, upholding complaints from members of the public that the phrase "Beer for Girls", used on the packaging, was likely to appeal to under-18s.[45]
See? It's a storm in a teac-
>In a statement responding to the ruling, BrewDog dismissed the Portman Group's findings, saying "We’re as bothered about this Portman Group ruling as we are any other – that is, not at all."[46]
God, what utter wankers.

>>14462

If Brewdog were punks wouldn't they be making battery acid high strength cider?

>>444460

>It is classist, since command of language and literacy has always been used as a tool of class rule.

I would say it has been more a tool of class distinction. Whether you like it or not, proper spelling or lack thereof almost unmistakably signifies you as a member of a particular social class. It is rare that somebody from the upper middle class or upper class makes the same kind of spelling mistakes and with similar frequency as somebody who grew up on the rough side of North London.


> And it is ableist, since some people can't maintain as high a standard of literacy as others thanks to some condition

While I don't think your wrong, I believe that seven times out of ten, people are just plain lazy and/or never tried hard to master proper spelling. Expecting somebody who is capable to make an effort isn't necessarily the same as mocking somebody for their innate inability.

>>444470

>your

Tut tut.

>>444471

Well done, you. You've found a spelling mistake.

Now go outside and play with it.

>>444472
Maybe you'd find your sense of humour if you joined them.

>>444470
>Whether you like it or not, proper spelling or lack thereof almost unmistakably signifies you as a member of a particular social class

'Whether you like it or not' is not an argument. Do you have proof, or even indication, beyond your opinion?

>>444476

> Do you have proof, or even indication, beyond your opinion?

You haven't spent much time on .gs, have you.

>>69056

Is it though, or is it a deepfake of a dog?

>>69057

The depth-of-field looks convincingly real.

>>69036
She's not wrong though, BLM as long as it's outside the palace. Harry wearing a nazi outfit would presumably mark him as a hypocrite. Not sure what Meghan's done other than be generally annoying.

It just seems a bit weird. Imagine if a 18 year old Royal got pictured in that dashing regalia today, they'd be absolutely eviscerated. While I do remember the press having a field day with that, it was more of a 'We all know it's not that serious but it looks bad so let's ham it up', whereas now it'd be taken as an admission that one has a Zyklon-B button in the shower. So I'd say she's justified in her assessment.

>>69056>>69057>>69058
I saw it on Twitter. I think the post said the dog was on benzos after an operation. I am not qualified to prove its veracity one way or another.

>>69050
What a magnificent beast! I say, have you knotted it yet?