Back in the 90s there used to be a site called stump-something that was literally just this bloke who'd had his hand amputated basically forarm-fucking a bunch of birds. It was a proper professional (for the time) paid for site with regular releases of seemingly normal porn lasses getting their insides rearranged. I was crushed, when years later as an adult I found that it had disappeared from the internet entirely and I would never get to see the content.

>>64711
Before I knew about the existence of vaginas I thought that babies came out of womens' arses.

Need I say it's not safe for work?

https://str8upgayporn.com/amputated-leg-gay-porn-maverick-men/

>>64713
Indeed, I also thought girls peed out of their bums.

>>64715

funny really, when as an adult, you learn girl's bums are actually for peeing in.

Use online comparison shopping, be "creative" about your job title, see if adding an older relative as a named driver brings down your quote. Once you've found a cheap quote, take down the quote number, give the insurer a ring and have a go at haggling. If there's anything interesting about your car and/or bike (classic, modified etc) give Adrian Flux a ring.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/car-insurance/

>>20954
Possibly, but I think that we are unlikely to know because of course few of the suspected victims have come forward, and of those who have none would admit to the police that they nearly put him in the hospital after the rape had already taken place or they might be in trouble themselves.

>>20954

GHB/GBL is a) incredibly potent and b) ubiquitous on the gay scene. Anyone who has spent time on the gay scene will be familiar with the sight of someone completely spark out because they've accidentally overdosed on G, so it's obvious where Sinaga got the idea. Someone with no tolerance would be rendered completely helpless by just a few millilitres.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/06/chemsex-ghb-dispatches-buzzfeed-news-patrick-strudwick-terrence-higgins-trust/

>>20957

To give you some kind of idea of how whack the dose-response curve is with GBL especially, when I used to dabble with it my "golden dose" was exactly 1.7ml. At 1.6 I didn't get exactly the kind of giddy rushes I wanted and at 1.8 I'd go over the edge and conk out. One time I recklessly double-dosed and by the time I came back around people were about to call an ambulance.

>>20957
I think you mean obligatory.

>>433758 Just thought I'd post what TI think you need for a thermostat. There are a couple of opamps in there for you, though.

Then I started wondering if there was actually less silicon used in an ATTiny than an opamp.
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/atmel-attiny13a
reckons 1.6x1.6mm for an ATTiny, which does feel big, since you get a decent ARM into 1.9 x 2.00mm (KL02, they're great). No wonder they don't come in SOT23 like some of the PICs.
Single opamps seem to come in at about quarter of the area (for a modern low voltage one)
https://zeptobars.com/en/ - who doesn't love a die shot.

>>433759

That seems a bit like overkill.

I've seen Arduino greenhouse projects that also control light and moisture and even log all their data on a local area web server. Some have even thrown in a webcam and the ability to water your plants remotely via the Internet.

But in the end, it's all just a "because you can" kind of thing. Unless you grow cannabis in a basement, your plants will get more than enough light on your window sill, and unless you're out of the country for two weeks, which isn't the best time to propagate your plants in the first place, surely you will be able to check soil moisture with your thumb every other day.

That said, I like my circuits tidy, unlike many Arduino projects consisting of a Uno board with a breadboard and jumper wires. That always looks a bit amateurish. So I solder the components onto a piece of perfboard just big enough for the intended purpose, and neatly put it in a box.

>>433759

>reckons 1.6x1.6mm for an ATTiny, which does feel big, since you get a decent ARM into 1.9 x 2.00mm

Process node innit - 500nm is absolutely huge by modern standards, but it's also extremely cheap. The ATtiny series is over 20 years old, but it's still selling well with very healthy profit margins because of the massive ecosystem around AVR. There are better, faster and cheaper micros, but none are as well-documented or as easy to prototype with.

Unless you're going for some sort of flip-chip packaging, there's not a lot of point in using modern process nodes on very small chips because most of the die area is used up by wire bonding anyway. It's why you see a lot of modern parts that are only available in QFN or WLCSP - the copper pillars on the die aren't physically large enough to wire-bond, so there's no practical way of attaching them to a conventional leadframe for a larger package.

>>433761

> The ATtiny series is over 20 years old, but it's still selling well with very healthy profit margins because of the massive ecosystem around AVR. There are better, faster and cheaper micros, but none are as well-documented or as easy to prototype with.


As you said, with the Arduino maker scene in particular, these chips are still profitable to produce because pretty much anyone with no previous concept of computer programming can use them to make an LED blink. And for simple purposes like controlling the temperatue inside a propagator, they're still the best bang for your buck.

Within the maker scene, for more ambitious projects, the standard is now more or less the ESP32, because it can do infinitely more than standard 8-bit RISC controllers. You can do anything with it from streaming MP3 music via bluetooth to designing interactive touchscreen menus or running a basic intranet web server, at least when you buy them as part of a developer's board like the ESP32-WROOM. Documentation so far isn't as good as the Attiny/Atmegas, it's still a growing ecosystem with fewer libraries than the latter, but it's still a powerful piece of kit.

I've been tinkering with a WROOM to stream music from my smartphone to my home stereo amplifier, but it's proved too difficult because so far there are no easy to understand A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) libraries that can get the job done the way I want.

I've written up the Arduino code for my propagator heater in one sitting tonight. And I really mean, I almost literally didn't get up from my chair except for a tea break or a sandwich.

I decided to test my circuit on a breadboard after all, which was a good thing, because the Attiny85 kept resetting after a few seconds of powering the heating pad, and it turned out I had forgotten a resistor between the mosfet's gate and the Attiny's pertaining control pin. Which caused too much current draw and made the chip run unstable.

But now I've completed the code and the circuit layout, so the next step, hopefully tomorrow night, will be soldering the parts onto the perfboard.

The Attiny45 proved to have too little memory for this job, so I switched to an Attiny85.

>>29274

Don;t judge my nan, she's been lonely since granddad died.

>>29276

I remember reading that someone makes a dildo that has the ashes of the dead husband inside.

Not marketing but isn't this a bit of an unfortunate photo?

>And here's what I'm going to be killed by.

>>29274

That is rather off.

If your Nan is anything like mine, then just get her some nice flowers. She has everything she needs, although she does occasionally like trying new things. Last Christmas I got her some Huel, of all things, and she loved it. Flowers are a safe option, though.

>>29428
What do buses look like where you're from, fella?

>I understand it's not a direct translation, but I'm hoping it'll help rather than hinder - right?

If you've done a lot of road cycling, you'll probably have a habit of riding well over to the left rather than taking the whole lane. Your CBT instructor will probably pick you up on it, but it's something to be aware of.

>Would you recommend a bike other than the two I've mentioned?

Any CG 125 derivative should be basically bulletproof. They're designed to be ridden into the ground in the worst third-world conditions. I'd advise you against a dirt bike because of the knobbly tyres and the tall seat, but a Suzuki GN/GZ 125 or a Kymco would also be a fine choice. Lexmoto make some startlingly cheap but slightly tinny CG 125 derivatives, but the parts are so cheap that it's no disaster if something goes wrong.

>Have I missed anything?

Get yourself a helmet with a five star SHARP rating. Lazer, Nitro and Caberg all offer top-rated lids for under £100.

https://sharp.dft.gov.uk/

>What should I expect from the CBT and more importantly, the proper test?

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> I am in no rush to jump on a superbike or even anything mid range for a good long while,

If that's the case then you may want to get your A1 first, particularly if you're going to commute/practice on a 125 a lot. That'll take the pressure off to "upgrade" before your CBT expires and lets you take the test on the same bike you intend to practice on.

If you're certain you want to go straight for an A license then block-book a few lessons in the days before your test (any school worth its salt will strongly recommend at least one) to get the hang of the 600cc bike you'll be using. This is particularly true if you spend a lot of time on your 125. Unless you expect to be cool as a cucumber during the test it's really quite easy to fall back on muscle memory and make small mistakes, which add to nervousness which leads to more mistakes That was my experience at least when trying much the same approach you describe.

>>4435


>If you're certain you want to go straight for an A license

I'm not really certain, I just assumed it just made sense to go straight for A since I'm old enough to do so. I don't just plan on jumping into my tests with just my own 125 experience, I will book a proper block of lessons, the most popular/recommended school around here does a 20 hour DAS course, I will be going for that so I can get proper experience and tuition on a 600. Unless that's what you did and still recommend doing the smaller test first.

You don't really need to "earn your stripes" on a 125 to prepare yourself for a DAS course. You can just do the DAS straight away and then get yourself a bike that's almost as light as a 125 but with a bit more oomph, maybe something in the 250-400cc range. Once you get used to the extra weight of a bigger bike, they're actually easier to ride and more confidence-inspiring than a 125.

The Mod 2 should be fairly easy if you already have road sense from driving a car combined with the DAS instruction, and most schools book in practice slots at Mod 1 test pads, so passing is mostly just a matter of good instruction, practicing the manoeuvres, and managing nerves.

>>4433

>>4432 here

Yeah, little light bikes can be great fun. I used to live in rural Wales, and they are a delight to chuck around windy, scenic, country roads. I do miss riding bikes, especially on a warm, sunny day in quiet parts of the country.

The YBR was great. I may have been lucky and got a good one, but the only problem I had, is that the speedo cable went, which I was able to fix myself and I'm pretty hopeless with mechanicing. Must have had it for a year or two. Not so good on the bigger roads though, as it's top speed isn't great. If I was to get another bike in the UK, i'd get a 250 these days. I'd want a bit of extra oomph.

My last riding experience was in SE Asia where everyone rides about 125 max, hence traffic is slower and riding there has a different feel to UK. This will have an impact on my personal opinions of motorbikes.

>>4972

Oxford NHS Trust offer a ketamine treatment service, but it's privately funded and it isn't cheap.

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/ketamine-service/

Before you go taking a load of black-market wobble powder, experiment with your medication options. You might see a significant improvement if you just reduce your dose by 25% or so, because side effects have a non-linear relationship with dose. Conversely, your brain fog might be a symptom of depression rather than a side effect and you could benefit from increasing your dose or switching to a different drug. You could try reboxetine, an NRI which is effective in the treatment of both major depressive disorder and ADHD, or a drug with dopaminergic action like buproprion or buspirone.

I've been trying out skipping on my meds for the past five days or so (prior to making this thread) and I definitely feel more mental clarity. I take them later in the day because of the higher sustained dosage I'm on so I'd rather not risk withdrawal effects but the results of my little experiment have certainly got me thinking.

>>4976
Can I ask which SSRI you're currently taking?

>>4982
Citalopram, 40mg.

Update:
Still going cold turkey on it. Mood swing yesterday evening over something trivial followed by a bit of an existential meltdown and an early night. Could've easily got quite nasty the missus managed to calm me down.

Doctor's appt scheduled for Monday afternoon and a preliminary session with a counselor set for Wednesday.

>>4985

I can't recommend going cold turkey, for reasons you (and your missus) are becoming aware. You'll feel pretty fucking grim for several weeks, because your serotonin system is going absolutely haywire. If you can't bear to go back on the full 40mg, I'd suggest at least splitting them to 20mg until you can see a doctor and sort out a tapering-off regimen.

>>4844

Do you think you could set yourself a challenge of sorts? Like, go veggie for a month, or something like that. Changing your diet, but also deciding to just try to eat differently than you usually do, not necessarily better than you usually do, just different - might be enough to trick yourself into getting into a new habit?

I realise it's hard, but the more you resign yourself to never being able to hack it, you truly never will. You've done it before, you objectively can do it again.

I'm now fat enough that i can't sit comfortably. I should probably just sow my fat fucking mouth shut. I weighed about 30kg less a year ago. Assuming 7000 excess calories per kg, that's a that's a total of 210,000 excess calories or 500 a day. Disgusting. I can barely look at myself. But hating yourself thin doesn't work, so I'm stuck.

>>4881

You ain't stuck lad, you just need to move a bit more and eat better. Note that I said eat better and not less.

Most of the fatties I know eat a lot of processed sugary* stuff (note that rice and white bread count as sugary) which leads to their blood sugar going up and down, creating 'false' hunger. Then you're in the mindset of sacrifice (giving up all those tasty big macs) and having to eat one dry ryvita a day, almost doomed to fail. It's quite similar to the trap that smokers fall into.

The point? 2,500 calories of carrots is very different (particularly in terms of volume) to 2500 calories of big macs; sure- you need to eat a deficit to lose weight, but what you eat makes that process heaven or hell. I don't think there's a person alive that could manage 2,500 calories worth of carrots in day, you'd probably feel sick after about 1,000 calories of them. Additionally, a lot of 'diet' foods tend to be quite bland-yet-sugary carbs.

Things I found easy were: no fizzy drinks or booze. One thing that helped me massively is eating a huge breakfast of oats with whole milk, fruit and nuts. I cook it into two portions and have it once at 6 and again at about 10. Oats don't fuck around, they keep you full and metabolise nice and slowly. I'd live on the damned stuff if I could (I can, I'm just not doing it).

For me, once I understood that the problem was more about things that 'sugar quickly' (i.e. not just cakes but breads and rice too) than about fat, my life got a lot easier and I found my weight easier to control.

*whole fruits are okay because the fibre helps dampen the effect on blood sugar, but fruit juices lack fibre.

Morning, chaps. 5:2ing it here, and it's proving weirdly easy. Obviously don't know if it's being successful yet(but it's hard to see why it wouldn't).
It's a thousand times easier just having fasting days than 'just eat less you fat knacker', as I'm not constantly ravenous.
Considering 4:3ing because why not.
Why not?

>>4983
2:5 rules even better - it’s amazing how quickly you get used to 800 calories.

This is exactly why I don't like tomatoes.

>Lads, I've been having a think.
We've warned you about this kind of thing.

>I'm going to start eating the apple whole, core and all, and then do all of my defecations outside.
See.

I too would be interested in one day fixing my goof-mouth.

I honestly find 'odd' teeth to be one of the most attractive, endearing qualities in women. I find such smiles wonderful - they're real, geninune; absolutely sincere. I don't know if this is a similar self-defence mechanism as 'dating a blind girl', but it's a quality i look for.

>>4980
Are you a weeb?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaeba

>>7690
If it's that kind of categorisation you're after, YNAB is excellent.

>>7685
Monzo is bloody brilliant. Their customer comms is clear and honest, even if it puts them in a difficult light, their app is brilliant, no faffing, customer service is at the other end of a whatsapp style chat box that responds 24/7, no more sat waiting on the phone, it's all done through the app.

Starling is equally as good, but I find the interface a bit dark and gloomy.

So is YNAB what we're picking for budgeting software? I read that YNAB doesn't do direct transaction imports for UK banks but can do file based imports. I'm guessing it can at least accurately categorise spending?

What alternative budgeting software is out there? I see Monzo and Starling mentioned; I'll take a look at them. Anything else?

Please don't mention any brands too often or we'll have the astroturfing police turn up.

What premium would you pay to rent your own place?

I'm looking in London. I have somewhere nice, that's shared. I'd be looking at an extra £200-£300 a month for a nice enough 1 bed flat, that isn't a mouldy little bedsit.

>>7829
I think paying the premium to be on your own is a very good idea - but everyone is different and some people actually like sharing.

The challenge with living in London is the area - too far out and you end up with an hour commute, some areas aren't served with great public transport, there are a bunch of trade-offs. My advice would be pay as much as you can and live right in the centre - it'll be a tiny place compared to what you get outside Zone 3 and higher but you'll be happier.

>>433749
>G-PRP_
Is it not in reference to them being turboprops?

>>433750

It could be, that would be less annoying to me. But it's only the purphuel liveried ones that have PRP in the reg.

The most amusing one flybe have is G-ECOK. Because it sounds like cock

>>433751

Not sure I would get on this plane...

>>433751
Not just a cock, but an e-cock.

>>433764

>e-cock

Is that like an e-cig, for when you're trying to wean yourself off real cock?

>>29273
The absolute most grating example must be 'twat'.

>>29413
I'd say the way they pronounce Bianca is worse.

>>29414
I'd say the way Londoners pronounce Bianca is the worst.

>>29273
Also the way they say 'geem' instead of 'game'. It must be an affectation because occasionally they will slip up and pronounce it correctly.

>>29413

They do the same with cont.

That scene in Kick-Ass was painful.

>>40931
Would.

>>40932

>>40930
Have to admit I find this one very distracting.

>>40934
Quite.

>>40933
Pure filth.

>>29265

Can you try it with Deep Heat and compare the experience?

>>29271

I'll have a look and see if I've got some tomorrow.

>>29272

I've got Tiger Balm and Vick's Rub but no Deep Heat.

>>29274

Try the Tiger Balm.

>>29275

I'll try both, goddamn.

>>29240 Do an SIA Door Supervisor course

Strangely tempting, despite not ever expecting to do doors...

"The SIA are due to launch a new specification on 1st April 2020. As a result this is likely to become a 7 day training course. Further dates and the additional cost will be advertised once they have finalised there position."

7 days? crumbs...

>>29244
I think they’re adding CCTV operation and advanced physical intervention to the course, as It licenses you for frontline close protection of individuals as well as manned guarding, i.e. clubs or factories. Not 100% sure on that, but when I did it it was 5 days.

You get distance learning material before the course starts, I went into it with a lot of notes already at hand. The exams are piss easy.

OP, I hear you. You can drive yourself nuts with what-ifs, especially the ones where you think "was I assertive enough" or where you feel like you didn't defend some line that shouldn't be crossed.

But I'm not sure there is a lesson to be learned from your scenarios, you handled yourself about as well as anyone could hope to in really strange and unexpected circumstances. You literally threw a lad and got away in a car relatively unscathed, and you called the police on an abusive person without anyone getting really hurt.

Maybe you were just listening to your gut instinct? It could be you subconsciously knew that the lanky boy didn't have a knife and was just out for a fight, and the other one didn't actually pose much of a threat to your girlfriend beyond being a cunt.

Honestly, you sound like someone that's probably been in fights before (reading to the end of your post just confirmed this). Over time you do develop some sense of who is genuinely out to cause you harm or if it's just something stupid getting out of hand. Of course getting punched or shoved is harmful, but it could be that you have a thick skin for physical pain and it just doesn't register for you the way you'd expect it to.

I agree with you, though, it's really hard to gauge proportional reactions and you're standing by a sound principle of self-preservation and protecting people you care about, especially when you've had horrible experiences or were in a lot of fights in the past, but there's not necessarily shame in not feeling angry when this happens. Rage is extremely unpleasant, at least for me, something that's also (at least a little bit) based in fear. It might be worth examining why you didn't feel fear? Could it just be there wasn't much to be afraid of? You said yourself, you felt more confused than threatened.

I'd also be really concerned about the fantasy violence elsewhere. Your issues with anger are still certainly there, even if it's a slow burn. It sounds like you've harnessed your anger in such a way that your idea of handling physical situations is to get pretty brutal about it. I honestly can't tell you whether this is right or wrong, it's an ugly grey area you shouldn't have to find yourself navigating. Try to think, though, what was the ideal outcome? It probably doesn't end with soccer kicking an abusive stranger or headbutting a young girl.

Again, I get it, you want to believe you have it in you to get nasty if a situation really called for it -- but it's worth considering that the times you describe, where you very clearly didn't, were the times things de-escalated with minimal harm to everyone.

More broadly, I'd also ask you to think about what kind of life you're leading and what kind of environment you're in where these things happen. Are you into nightclubs or other places where this drama normally takes off? If you know you're prone to either escalate these situations rapidly by throwing punches, or get annoyed with yourself when you don't, then could it be better to just remove yourself entirely from them?

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>>29223
> What would you have done in the first event? If you already had the guy on the ground and he was attacking you for no reason?

The biggest no-no when you've got someone on the ground is to keep hitting them and the worst possible thing you can do is get up and put the boot in.

Essentially, when the lad charged you the second time after you already have taken him down once I would have taken him down harder, as opposed to more gently the way you did. The law is quite specific about someone clonking their bonce after you've punched them in the face, but there is almost no way to prove intent if someone charges you and during the scuffle you both fall to the ground and he cracks his coconut - as long as you haven't been physically aggressive, i.e. punched him in the face.

Sage because all of this is pretty silly and we shouldn't go around with pre-prepared plans to inflict injury onto others in our heads all the time.

Testosterone drops drastically around your late 20s. You're just chilling out.

Yesterday I bought eggs for the first time in ages and i think it's because of this thread.

>>28877
Big Egg shilling on .gs, m8. What a world.

>>28879

Big Egg shelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGix7Lcldo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI

This daily workout should help open up the pelvic area.

>>64682

Bloody hell.

I feel like I have too many hobbies/interests, and I'm constantly torn between them. I can never settle on something productive to do with my time, because it feels like a waste of time I could spend on something else; and in the end I just end up wasting the night on videogames instead.

I miss being unemployed. I was dirt poor but it was no problem if I wanted to spend a week learning how to softmod a PS2, or how to create specific synth sounds in a new DAW, or teaching myself how to draw. None of it was time wasted because let's face it, I wasn't doing much else. I could even afford to be far more social.

The trouble is I've always been very obsessive compulsive. When I get interested in something, that's the only thing I want to do until the interest wears off. I've recorded entire EPs in a week before because it was all I wanted to do. But I don't have the freedom to indulge the way my brain naturally wants to do things. I have to be an adult and put things down to go to work or do the shopping; the trouble is I never pick them back up after that.

I really don't think there's much to be done about it other than just accept adult life is unending misery, or go back on the dole. Why couldn't I have been born into a wealthy family and never need to work, instead of the boring pricks who are.

>>29237
I never made pizza with or watched films with you or the lad I was formally Steam friends with.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>29260
That's a relief.

>>29260
>formally
MODS

>>29263
Oh no.

>>64702
As aviation engineering jokes go, that's pretty good.

>>64702
DESPITE THE POSSIBILITY THIS IS NOT YOUR ORIGINAL CREATION and may have been stolen from elsewhere on the internet, I approve.