>>92429

I appreciate that America is a bit of an easy target now with Biden in charge, but I wouldn't wish this much misery on them.

The racism here seems a little less casual than our usual. Are you sure you two are here legally?

>>92431

It's not racism, we hate her because ACAB.

>>442344
People have decided this lockdown is a great opportunity to recycle topics we've gone over again and again.

>>442345
But this was an illusion which served not to set us free, but to make us weird and paranoid like Richard Nixon.

>>442343
>if one simply aggregates vibrancy from tangible factors then the resulting figure will be worthy of suspicion with some ropey assumptions about how to weight those factors.

That's ultimately going to be shaped by policy of the day and the relative levels of oversight (including of course public transparency) but I'm sure you can see why a regional standard would be a broadly good thing. These days you really can't address knotty problems like loneliness or drug use using one or two metrics because effective solutions require coordinated government action across multiple factors and agencies that necessitate an overarching framework.

I suppose ARE ADAM would play some Brian Eno over this post and argue "approaching the world like a man left alone with a tape measure only creates a simulacrum" but I don't see how else you can try to solve complex problems or track returns on investment in public goods. We do have complex problems that have been solved very well in this context, the London Olympics being a good example where from start to finish its was simulacrum'ed to death to ensure the underground didn't break or we end up like Greece after their Olympics with no plan beyond the closing ceremony to deliver benefits.

>did we see a gigantic expansion of the vibrancy of our rural communities under Blair?

I don't know from personal experience as I was 9 when Major left office. It's difficult to find metrics on this because the public sector has only really just started on doing end-of-life policy assessment and over the period there are much more sexy topics for academics to study like militant daft woggery prevention strategies.

If you have nothing better to do on a Sunday there have been tomes written on how we should address complex problems in recent years and something society in general has really only just started to approach:
https://hbr.org/2018/05/what-it-takes-to-think-deeply-about-complex-problems

>>442344

If this is the mandella effect both you and I skipped the same universe. fortunately I've found a portal back >>/v/23506.

>>442355

In my timeline it was spelled Mandela.

>>4851
Sharp calculator is superior.

>>4854
I won't disagree with you. HP stopped making really great calculators about twenty years ago when they moved all the manufacturing to China. On the plus side, they are much cheaper now.

I have an ageing HP20S which is really good, it works fine, but the power button is gone so I have to hold a load of buttons down to get it alive and have to wait for it to time-out to switch off, so it eats batteries more than it did originally. Sad times.

The answer is 1. End of. No discussion allowed.

>>4855

Seeing as this thread has been necro-bumped, I'll mention that a) the HP Prime is damned cool apart from the weird viewing angles on the screen and b) SwissMicros make obsessively perfect re-creations of the classic HP calculators with modern components.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-Prime-G2-Graphing-Calculator/dp/B07HF6RXGG

https://www.swissmicros.com/products

>>4884
> SwissMicros

Goodness me - thank you. I never knew about this.

>>5652
Your reading comprehension needs work, lad.

I'll take it as read that nobody is giving up pedantry for Lent then

>>5659

"You know who thinks suffering builds character? black people who grow up to be criminals."

>>5660
Is English your first language?

>>5661
Fine, whatever.

Specialist pornographers?

>>5608
I wouldn't mind seeing a vaulting horse on ultimate surrender. Maybe have some kind of death match battle on the ropes followed by aerial shagging.

>>5603

Most large scale leisure centre complexes have some sort of acrobatics related cubs that would have this stuff. They are usually really weird if you've never been in one before as you walk passed different rooms where people are training different skills and sports, you half expect to open the wrong door and find Q teaching people to using an umbrella to shoot crash dummies.


> where can i find one?
They are almost always state run so I would recommend checking council websites for leisure centres, if there is a sport stadium nearby and it seems to be more general rather than devoted to a sports team off the telly that is probably the place.

>>5603

ONE THAT'LL FIX IT FOR YOU.

>>5603
Hey it's the gym cupboard at my school. Or perhaps every school.

>>442316

I still have a Charlie White business card from Leeds somewhere. It had a picture of a horse on it.

I worked with a chap who occupied/maintained grow houses as a side gig/place to live, the sheer amount of them was staggering, and that was just one bloke telling me what he knew from one operation.

Yorkshire is definitely a centre for many drugs, I am from Newcastle and I noticed that drugs up here are still more expensive than Leeds despite the scottish connections. So much so that buying a few grams of coke at street price in Leeds/Bradford then taking a trip back home could prove usefully lucrative. It wasn't bad stuff either, it was good fishscale at £60 a gram. If one was inclined one could have made some serious money just selling on to people they knew. Not that I did that.

>>442316

I always enjoyed how charmingly uncreative dealers are with their names. Mine was called Greeny.

Sarf Leeds folk will no doubt know of the big hench back guy who goes by Major, who used to just poach people on Morley high street.

>>442314

Tea isn't grown in Yorkshire though.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-totally-loses-plot-after-11996817

>>442320

My mate Dave grows it hydroponic in his shed in Barnsley. It's proper good.

He's considering using his tabby cat to make some Yorkshire-style Civet Coffee to take advantage of post-brexit pro-business incentives.

>>442336

You wonder how people first got the idea to have a brew from coffee beans shat out by an animal. It must have started as some kind of dare between coffee plantation workers. Or some practical joke.

And it's not even highly regarded in coffee expert circles:

>Within the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item. The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) states that there is a "general consensus within the industry ... it just tastes bad".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak#Taste

>>442218

A bacon sandwich, lots of water, and a bracing walk. Also the acceptance that you're on a comedown and there's not much but rest and time that can solve it.

5-HTP is mentioned a lot too, but in much the same way as regular tryptophan, I can't imagine it actually doing anything until your seratonin has sorted itself out anyway.

>>8488
A solid multi-vitamin also helps. You're a biochemical engine, give it all it needs in all the places you can so it can fix the bits you destabilised.

>>8487
A banana.

As >>8488 says, you've just got to give your brain time to recover. MDMA floods your brain with serotonin (which is the entire point), but your brain sees that as a potentially life-threatening crisis. It can't clear the serotonin out because the MDMA is both inhibiting re-uptake of serotonin and pretending to be serotonin; once your liver starts clearing the MDMA out of your system, your brain's normal mechanisms for regulating serotonin goes into overdrive. It'll eventually return to a normal equilibrium, but there's not really anything you can do to speed up that process.

You can whack a couple of valium up your arse and sleep it off, but that can be a bit of a slippery slope.

>>30422
Why do you need to do all this?

>>30423
Do all what? The venting is under the assumption that it's on /emo/ so there's a bit of leeway for being like that. I'm uncomfortable with several elements of what happened tonight. I've tried to approach some constructively, and the rest of it is just wondering what other people would have thought was enough.

>>30422
It just sounds like you obsessed over it and cried because of the shock. I do think you have some issues that maybe need discussing given how far you say you would go but it might just be the adrenalin rushing in your head and you wouldn't have actually threatened to kill a petty thief.

I think if anything you need to learn to calm down. Why does any of this bother you? Petty criminals are scum but twats are twats, it's a stranger bike and you screaming like a banshee because you can't control your emotions isn't a good luck or helpful.

>>30425
Apologies lads, it was clearly my bedtime long before I wrote that.

>>30422

>I think this indicates that I have some unaddressed anger issues.

I don't think it's anger issues. You seem very emotionally conflicted about these events, which indicates to me you are placing a lot of importance on them.

It's worth asking why you feel this need to be the hard man in order to feel good. Was your dad mean to you about being a skinny lad as a kid? Did you get beaten up at school and want to prove to yourself you're not a wimp? Do you just have a small willy?

I would suggest you find something else to validate you in terms of masculinity. I've never been in a proper fight myself, and if I was I'd probably get my arse kicked, but I've always told myself the fact I haven't must mean I look like someone who isn't worth messing with. Considering some of the places I've lived, I don't think I'm entirely lying to myself either.

You need to work out what insecurity is causing you to feel like this.

I have a AUKEY Bluetooth 5 Receiver

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00O8GASEA

for the car. That allows me to stream bluetooth content from my phone to my car stereo. It has a battery although I just leave it powered from a USB slot in the car.

I don't think it's particularly heavy but slighty bulky. If your headphones have a headband, then you could perhaps attach it somehow although it would be a bit janky and look mental. Else that could go in the pocket and cable up to the headphones.

Yeah you could probably just get a cheap car stereo bluetooth dongle off eBay, then use a female/female coupler to hook your headphones up to it.

>>24813
Cheers fella. Reviews seem to be fairly good, and the unit looks to be of better quality than most of the shite I saw on ebay. Will definitely be factoring this into purchases in the near future.

Listings for the unit you linked on ebay are all just above the £15 mark, which seems to imply that some cheeky bastards are effectively letting you piggyback off their Prime accounts to get delivery. Last two things I ordered off ebay came in Amazon packaging with a gift note and no invoice. Cheeky cunts.

>>24815

>Last two things I ordered off ebay came in Amazon packaging with a gift note and no invoice. Cheeky cunts.

I had that happen recently, I really felt like I'd been had, even though I was only paying about £1 more than if I'd bothered to check amazon first and order it there myself. I'm obviously turning into a grumpy old man though, because I reported them to eBay, as it's against their rules. I can't imagine anything will come of it but it still felt like mild revenge.

>>24816
Disgusting. You, I mean.

I know what you mean but can offer no solution. Everything I've read just says that this is part of being a Proper Adult™.

Like you've noticed, changing circumstances are important for growth and if you try to hang onto things then everyone else will grow up around you whilst you sit in arrested development in your manky lads flat. The good times of being a young adult, like being a child, just pass. If not when you settle into a career then certainly when you have children and just lack the time or otherwise always have a reason to put off socialising when you don't feel it. I suppose this is what neighbours and work colleagues are good for but modern societies atomisation isn't configured to support that much as I think men need that escape of being in a pack of lads to actualise.

I myself have maybe 2 people I consider to be proper mates at this point on the level you describe but we've moved to other ends of the country so we never get to see each other (especially at the moment). The maddening thing is women seem much less prone to this and can't understand how this happens for lads but like I said I'm not sure how to fix that.

>take the piss out of Star Trek: TNG

How dare you.

>>30416

I'm in a similar position. About a fortnight ago, I had the place to myself so I had a Skype call with a mate as we both watched Evil Dead 2 and got drunk. It was the happiest I had felt in years. Take from that what you will, all I'll say ia that having a 'proper' life isn't all that is cracked up to be.

>shoot the shit and eat junk food in a car

Sounds horrible.

For me this actually only happened when I decided to knock smoking weed on the head. Kind of a double whammy of bitterness there, because not only was it drifting away from my friend group, but the fact I was only part of that group at all because I was another body who would reliably have some weed on them. As the otherlad mentioned above, women don't have this problem, something keeps them in touch; stoners have a similar thing, because they need to keep the circle active or else supply might dry up.

I try not to take it too personally mind. Travelling miles to sit in someone's house is more than I can be arsed with most of the time, so I don't blame them for not being arsed. My most reliable mate when it came to actually hanging out playing videogames etc died a couple of years ago, and most of my old mates don't drink so inviting them out to meet in town is a non-starter.

It's a shit hand to be dealt but I think it is something you just have to come to terms with. You can make new friends as an adult but I don't think you ever realistically get to that level of closeness where you'll have them come round and sleep on the sofa every other week so you can get trashed watching Arnie films together. I suppose you just have to be thankful you had that once, whereas a lot of people will have been lonely spergs who missed that boat and will never had it.

Also, take up Warhammer. It blagged my head a bit, but it truly seems as if nothing gives grown men the excuse to socialise without alcohol like playing with toy soldiers.

>>30417
>How dare you.

I only mock it from a place of genuine affection. I not-so-secretly want to live on the Enterprise-D.

I just hit on a quote from Frank Furedi that summarises some of this perfectly:

>Political psychology has often served as a medium for diseasing the demos, and by implication democracy itself. In the nineteenth century, psychologists developed theories of the crowed, which stressed the irrational and destructive behaviour of the urban mobs.
>In the current era, citizens supporting so-called populist parties are diagnosed as possessing toxic authoritarian personalities...Psychologies contribution to the silent war against democracy has been in serving to de-politicise and medicalise the behaviour of its target. Views that inspire and motivate popular movements are dismissed as the outcome of psychological pathologies - narcissism, irrationalism, deluded fantasy - rather than legitimate political responses to public problems.

In a Marxist critique of Adam Curtis on Youtube of all places.
https://youtu.be/76StMC0l7kU

Yeah, I agree. I can sum it up more succinctly: "Populist" is now an establishmentarian dogwhistle that means "thick povvos who can't be trusted to vote how they were meant to".

The problem is, in my opinion, that both left and right wing populism tend to feature some nationalist rhetoric, whether in the form of straight up xenophobia, or just a more vague labour protectionism. As far as the establishment are concerned, that cannot be tolerated. No matter which way you slice it, the interests of the lower classes are at odds with the interests of a globalist ruling class, and a great amount of political discourse is devoted to obscuring and diverting attention away from that fundamental conflict.

>>5592
effect

>>5592
U wot?

>>5593
I don't say effect, I say affect.

If the colouring of the bumper plates is standard, he's lifting a good 140kg there. An impressive squat no matter what way you slice it, especially seeing as they look on the lighter side of bodyweight scale.

>>5596
Retard strength is well documented.

I've been really into Yat-Kha, a Russian band who do Tuvan traditional folk/rock


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= GpQkYxING4I

It has been a week since I found this. I am unable to listen to anything but.

City Pop seems to be really fucking sound. Cheesy, funky, 80's. It's vapid but self aware. I'll stop before I go full Bateman. I will happily write a few paragraphs about exactly why you should enjoy this, if anyone will read.

My particular favourites are:

00:00: Plastic Love - reminds me of the girl who lives in the clubs, has endless energy, and would love you back if you could just keep up with her. But you can't, and she'll always want to stay out and do coke instead of enjoying a mug of horlicks in the bath.
32:41: 告白本人 - Not sure what song she ripped off, but it's got a great chorus.
37:40:​ 真夜中のドア - Sounds like it was made yesterday by a futurefunk band.
42:58​ Oh No, Oh Yes - Think she's channelling Mariah Carey here, but less mental.

Those are a few of the hits. I hope someone finds as much joy in this as I have. I've never danced more.

>>12686

Plastic Love is phenomenal.

>>12686
City pop is the shit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESWmrPmJA8

I've been enjoying this, it very much opens as a beep-boop kind of song but you will end up listening to it on repeat. The lyrics are just:
>You and I in solitude. Same here. Trying to change, trying to forget.

It give me a sad regret though over all the things I didn't do in my 20s before I got a career and that. Travelling as an end in itself seems wasteful but I feel like I missed out on living abroad at some point. Maybe it's just that I haven't been out of the country in nearly 10 years.

>>68128

Honestly it is a farce. The other day someone from the GP phoned me to ask me to give a urine sample to 'test if it contained blood' you wouldn't need to test that, I can see it, I conveyed this information over the phone. But still we had to go through the farce of pretending no one can see the blood floating sample until they waved the little test stick in it.

Had a finger shoved right up my arse the other week by a urologist who seemed to run out of other ideas to draw this out so stepped up their game to humiliation.

Everyone keeps wanting to shove a camera up my dick whilst I am awake which I am directly refusing. I'd rate the first time it happened as one of the worst experiences of my life. I don't want to draw the parallel too close with sexual assault as I was obviously conscenting. But it was a deeply unpleasant and painful violation of the self.

Met a cute irish student doctor in ultrasound the other week though, so there is that. I impressed and confused the shit out of her with my usual organ arrangement.

Apparently no one looks at my medical records because every time I meet a new doctor I have to inform them of what is already known.

>>68130

Usual = unusual. I'd blame autocorrect but that one might be on me.

>>68130

I shove stuff up my dickhole for fun.

>>68132

Good for you. Not really the point though is it.

>>68132

No wonder you you bleed from there.

>>31333
>just paranoid delusion

Sort yourself out mate.

>>31333

>Has he gone off his rocker?


Joe Biden has always been kind of the uncrowned king of legendary gaffes. It's almost odd that he hasn't had any noteworthy ones in the last couple of months.

>>31335
I think the one telling the American people that a 2k cheque is in the mail is still paying dividends.

>>31335

He's not exactly been super visible this past year.

I for one can't wait for his Fireside Chats which will almost certainly be Cassetteboy remixes produced at gunpoint.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/republican-election-commission-voting-bills-2021/index.html

>Though there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Republicans nationally have made election law changes a priority this year.

>Overall, lawmakers in 33 states have proposed more than 165 bills that would restrict voting, according to an updated analysis of election bills by the Brennan Center for Justice. That's more than four times as many bills of this kind that had been introduced at this point last year.

>Meanwhile, Democrats responded on Wednesday by criticizing the commission as a coordinated effort of "voter suppression."

>"Republicans are using the lies they told about election integrity to launch a coordinated effort to roll back voting rights nationwide," said Jessica Post, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, in a news release.


As predictable as this was, the mind still boggles.

>>8529

It's a representative sample - the age, ethnicity, educational background, employment status and geographic distribution of the survey participants match the national averages as closely as possible.

The ONS collect some fairly comprehensive data on wealth.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/wealthingreatbritainwave62016to2018

>>8530

Fucking hell. If as a median salary income earner I am in the top 10% of households, the UK must be a damn sight bleaker and more Dickensian than I previously thought.

>>8531
>If as a median salary income earner I am in the top 10% of households


What?

>>8532

>>8524 said:
>A household income of £59k puts you in the top 10% of households by income.

So me in a houseshare on a median salary with a couple other middle class people puts me in the top 10% of households by income? That doesn't sound right to me.

I'm a bit of a thicko tho innit?

>>8533
seems credible to me. 3 reasonable earners should put you well ahead of most households, why would you think otherwise?

>>68110
For fuck's sake lad, this is /sfw/.

>>5603
There was nothing wrong with that picture, just a nice playful girl (she was sticking her tongue out after all) who had had a PVA glue related accident.

>>68112
Additional: I can understand your concerns about discouraging drinking glue, but this is an over eighteen site and I therefore don't think there is any risk of influencing children and it is clear that drinking it wasn't the intention as most of it wasn't even in her mouth.

>>68114


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DYZzUpQhw

I think we all know what her intentions with that pva glue was IYKWIM

>>68115
It's not really that shocking when you think about it. PVA means polyvinyl. It's a plastic. It will act like plastic.

>>68108
No, I don't like it.

THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE A HOT BUTTERED DAIRY MILK FOR BREAKFAST.

>>40857

I'd rule her with my feelings iykwim

Maggie VandenBerghe

Olivia Utley.

>>41996
Good old nepotism.

>>40857
I like her shoes.

>>442284
I always ask for a hot-buttered lasagne just to be sure.

>>442285

If you're not eating hot buttered Frey Bentos pies in big white hot, buttered, toastedfloury baps is life even really worth bothering with?

>>442281>>442284
It doesn't matter if it's an abnormal way of having toast, it's the better way of having toast. Toast is toast once it's toasted, whether it cools or not.

>>442287
Might as well just eat stale bread to save on energy then.

>>442288
If you're not going to engage seriously with toast discourse then don't even bother.