>I recall at least one of you being an NHSlad, though I can't remember what area. Does anyone have any further information on this or insider knowledge of what's going on?

Fuck off Ed Winchester.

>>438848
Wait until we get to the "public inquiry" stage.

"Lessons will be learned".

I'm the NHS lad, in pathology, but I've been trying my best not to pay attention since about July because it's all so horribly depressing. Sorry.

>>13696
We'll have built the .GS nursing home by then - your families will drop you off one day and you'll all actually come and live with me.

Also, I love this Indonesian tribe/culture where once a year they dig up their dead relatives - I can see that being a thing at the home.

Mushy pea curry might be the most disgusting thing I've read in some time.

>>13708 Is that not just a dal, with all the possibilities and horrors that that can entail?
'curry powder' isn't an auspicious start, but might be rescued.
I'm just saying the jury's out, this could go either way, despite how foul it sounds at first.

>>13709
I'd agree it's just a dal - I mean tarka dal is yellow split peas I believe, so it's not too out there.

>>13710
>just a dal
Waking up at twelve with my cloves again
Feel my mouth explode from madras and vin
Another tarka plate

>>2771
Now this one looks a lot gunkier than the OP - so I would suggest white vinegar / descaling all over it for a start; it could just be a bit dirty/sticking somewhere. You can also get the bleaching tablets which will stop that happening, or the ones which make your water blue when you flush, which also help keep it all cleaner.

Is part A push down only, does it rotate? Is all this the only thing in the cistern, or is there another bit in there?

>>2772
Oh and one more thing - is your neighbour an upstairs/downstairs flat-type neighbour, or someone literally next door?

>>2772
I managed to get the white cap off but there's just what looks like an overflow pipe out inside it. Not sure how I'm going to get vinegar to stay anywhere on the thing but I can spray it down with it.
Neighbour is the same building, same water connection.

The main part of the button is to the left of that structure. Oh and part A rotates to adjust the height of the ballcock, which is that white box at the water level of the structure.

Think I improved the bits that came off with a brief vinegar soak, will do a longer one when I'm home alone. Cheers.

>>90495
Of course Biden will concede, all the Democrats do is rollover for Republicans.

>>90480
We don't have a president, though?

>>90497
Our president is the American president, we are their most neglected territory.

>>90495
Concession is a convenience, nothing more. When the electoral votes are counted in the House in January, a final result is declared and stands. If that count doesn't go in Trump's favour, he stops being President on January 20th and there's nothing he can do about it.

>>90499
Yeah that, their law is pretty clear on this - but when Trump loses, he is going to bitch about it for years.

What is it exactly you want from these relationships? Because it sounds like you don't care really about these people you just feel like you are supposed to.

Honestly my best mate nowadays is my girlfriend, which sounds a bit sad, but out of any of my friends she's by far the most reliable. Hasn't turned me down on a pint yet, and she always wants to come and see the same films I want to see.

I was in a similar position for a while I suppose, and it caused me a similar level of distress. The hardest thing was figuring out if it's me who isn't putting in enough effort, or if it's them who are constantly just flaking on me and letting me down. I came to the conclusion that it doesn't effectively matter- Either way you're clearly just not as arsed hanging out with each other as you used to be. What difference does it make.

One the whole covid thing is done with I'm hoping to make a bit of a "fresh start" so to speak. I've actually put a lot of things "right" with my life over the course of the crisis, weirdly enough, and it has lifted a lot of the anxieties from my shoulders knowing that I am indeed capable of change instead of just wallowing in a rut. Making some new friends is probably the only thing I'm missing now. A clean slate with no past baggage and such would only be a good thing I think.

In general I don't think it's worth stressing about trying to rekindle friendships that have grown distant. It might be sad to grow apart from someone you considered yourself close to, but you don't have to burn the bridge entirely. At best, it's just kind of forcing things, and it leaves you feeling twice as bitter if things end up stagnating again.

>>29987

>Honestly my best mate nowadays is my girlfriend, which sounds a bit sad, but out of any of my friends she's by far the most reliable. Hasn't turned me down on a pint yet, and she always wants to come and see the same films I want to see.


This sounds like a great and healthy situation, it honestly sounds sadder that you think this is a problem somehow.

>>29988

I don't think it's a problem, just that it's generally seen as healthier to have a good mix of social acquaintances as well as a romantic partner. Not putting all your eggs in one basket, sort of thing. If I didn't have any other mates and we broke up (not that I foresee that happening), it'd be devastating.

Lamington Cake is the only other thing that Aussies rave about. Looks disgusting, but then I'm really not a fan of dried coconut in any context.

I kind of get the natural resources angle, but then we don't have a bunch of national industries which regularly need access to those raw materials.

The only thing we could do with Australia is sort out freedom of movement between us and them - seems like a pretty good place to retire (or work as a student) and I know there is a healthy amount of them that come here to work in their twenties. But I dunno, it's not going to be game changing to our trade numbers, or replace any of the freedom of movement we're losing.

Also, he does seem like a cock, even by Australian standards.

>>66561
>LAMINGTON CAKE IS THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT AUSSIES RAVE ABOUT

What about the pie floater?

>>66561
Lammos aren't half-bad. The trick is it's all about getting a good vanilla sponge but really you're just making a Victoria spongecake for upside-down people (obviously the lid of our a cake would fly away).

>THE ONLY THING WE COULD DO WITH AUSTRALIA IS SORT OUT FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN US AND THEM

Personally I think there's potential just because we've never really given it a good chance in recent history. We do still have a manufacturing industry after all and Australian mining runs from the cities finance.

And they can grow tea which is a huge plus.

>>66562

fuckin yes make it a sargent

thas only 2 things tha'l survive t'comet comin of doom

yorkshire an straya

>>66550
The man knows his onions.

>>5475

>and you're just taking advantage.

What do you think the 19 year old girl shagging a 40 year old bloke just because he has a nice BMW and some money is doing?

>>5477

Hypergamy ladm7

>>5476

>I am a committed hedonist so my feelings might be alien to you

Not at all. Been there and done it, found it boring.

>>5478

Fuck off out of here with that shite.

>>5480
I knew his lot were around today. You can smell them if you've got the nose for it.

fat

>>66402
I believe they use saline and silicone these days.

Vorderburger

Vordersquats

Vorderman

Another Novichok poisoning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54002880

Heard a lad say earlier the Ruskies have won the cold war by pretending to have given up. A long long game.

>>90475

The mistake evidently is that the west assumed it to be an ideological battle, whereas it is just one of pure dominance of great powers. Russia is by no means in a position to control but that isn't their current goal. Their current goal is to make others positions untenable. It is a zero sum where weakening their opponent gains them strength.

>>90475
I think that former kipper candidate and pompous youtube loser, who I won't name, put a video out recently (that a mate sent to me), which was just loads of clips of that so-called ex-KGB dude going on about some batshit cultural subversion because of Commies. The entire conspiracy is as implausible as they come and basically adds fuel to that stupid Frankfurt School conspiracy theory which seems to think folks like Adorno were issuing instructions to spies within the state itself, rather than being rambling, a bit boring, but nonetheless fairly accurate at how modern capitalism is shaping social and productive relations. It's always handy to divert away from this basic truth and make it seem like a conspiracy to people who have never and will never bother to read Walter Benjamin.

>>90475

The cold war did end, but Putin leveraged the Russian intelligence and security apparatus to establish himself as gangster-in-chief. Putin's Russia has no ideology, it's just a tinpot oligarchy built on strongman populism.

>>438133
> Of the early aviation pioneers, only Blériot had any formal education in engineering

Alberto Santos-Dumont would like a word.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/religion-happy-atheism-psychology-faith-belief-emotion-mental-health-christianity-a8766376.html

>According to the results, religiously active people are typically happier and more “civically engaged” – meaning they are more likely to do things such as vote in elections or join community groups – than adults who either do not practise a religion or do not actively participate in one.

I don't buy it.

>>438117

What interests me is that there were, as far as I'm aware, pre-Christian astronomers who understood perfectly well how the solar system really worked. Civilisations like the Egyptians were mad boffs at stars, and I would have no trouble accepting they knew what was really going on, but we can't really tell what they thought because so much of it is muddled up with the various celestial bodies having fights and eating each other and giving birth what have you.

I like to contemplate what it would be like, if you were a 5th century Byzantine intellectual, and everyone thought you were a nutter conspiracy theorist because you keep banging on about how the ancient societies were actually right about astronomy instead of the up to date Christian model, and how the Church operates a vast cover-up to keep everyone thinking the Earth is the centre of the universe. You'd be fucking seething wouldn't you.

>>438147

A lot of the knowledge that sparked the renaissance and modern age was hidden in libraries in the Arab world during the mediaeval period. Even philosophers like Plato had been completely forgotten in Christian Europe. It was mainly the Spanish reconquista driving the Arabs out of southern Spain which gave Christians access to Arab books and scrolls which were partly original works of Arab natural scientists and partly translations of Greek originals. It reintroduced Europeans to a whole wealth of information and ancient science that had eluded them for centuries.

Falun Gong

>>66508
There were LGBTQIA+ folk on those trains too.

>>66507
Maybe because the problems facing those communities are kind of different. It's about visibility. I think an all-disabled train would work because they similarly face the problems of visiblity and acceptance - for Black and Jewish people, I'd say their cultural struggles are more about overcoming stereotypes. If this makes sense.

Pride
the king of sin
my sin

Here we bloody go. PC gone mad!

Why are they shoving it down our throats?

Where's the straight train?

>>66531
Most trains are straight trains. It's the bent ones that are the problem.

>>66536

There were worse problems than a poorly-placed clock - BL made an entire training film about how their cars were complete deathtraps.

>>66538

Fucking wendy. the moral of this story is clear lads.

>>66539

Women: know your limits.

>>66540
Oh come on, that video is hilarious, and for the later sixties, fairly unsexist.

>>66541

At least they broke up the actual maritime issues with a bit of casual dolphin rape, like an amuse-bouche between courses.

>>438734

The lakes are lovely but will also be ram packed at the minute. Lancashire is very nice, but as you're from The Other Place it's probably too close to home and also your bitter rivalry will ruin the experience.

Scotland is personally my idea of a lovely place with a lovely drive, basically the whole fucking lot of it, but the North Coast 500 route is full of the sorts of locations you describe, and the drive is, of course, spectacular.

I'm not up on how friendly Scottish people are to us dragging our viruses across the border and wandering about small towns at the moment, but if it's all okay, then that's what I'd be doing.

>>438735

My missus lived there for the best part of her childhood so she has a bit of the accent, I could get her to do all the talking to conceal our Englishness.

Any particular recommendations? More seriously, I'll leave it til next year if the Scots are still taking the 'rona a bit more seriously than we are down here, but it'd be good to know.

Would a holiday home be a decent investment? By this I mean buying on a holiday park rather than an actual house where someone could live. It's my last day in Cornwall and these are for sale where I'm staying:-

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/55478651

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/55420741

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/53504242

They're leasehold, with about 960 years left on the lease, and there will be costs like cleaning and site fees but properties similar to the one listed for £40k were being let out for over a grand per week this summer, albeit with refurbished kitchens and bathrooms. I can't imagine there's much potential for the resale value to go up but it seems like a decent investment unless I'm missing a fairly obvious catch.

>>438734
Walking in the Yorkshire Wolds in mid-Spring is an absolute joy. Disused railway tracks, chalk hills, dales and glacial valleys. A properly underrated part of the country.
Please come visit unless you're from West Yorkshire or a Southerner.

>>438777

Too flat, no trees, it's shite. I'd rather walk along the canal in Dewsbury.

Absolute Humberfag cope, jesus.

>>5459
I posted in that thread that my tips had also gone see-through, but I brush at least once a day. I wouldn't consider my mouth a disaster area like that OP's.

>>5454
>I can smell when my breath is a bit "off" way before any other method like licking the back of your hand.

A woman once sucked my finger seductively and when I got it back it smelled like tonsil stones.

>>5460

You shouldn't use mouthwash (or even rinse with water) immediately after brushing: it is better if the toothpaste stays on your teeth for a while.

>>5463
When should you use mouthwash?

>>5464

I use it to rinse the bits of food out of my teeth after a meal. Brushing your teeth after everything you eat is definitely a bit psychopathic, but most tooth decay is meant to start off from the bits of carbohydrate stuck to your teeth, which breaks down into sugar because of your mouth enzymes. Mouthwash feels like a good compromise, or a bit of sugar free chewing gum if you're out.

I've been intending to get a dash cam, particularly as I had a lorry drive into me and claim it was my fault a few years back, but I haven't got round to it it.

Uploading footage online for the sake of it is a bit weird though.

The lycra-clad vigilante who shopped stationary Guy Ritchie texting behind the wheel: Road safety warrior prides himself on having caught 358 drivers breaking the law in one year and being responsible for 574 points and £35,400 in fines

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8552401/Guy-Ritchie-gets-six-month-driving-ban-cyclist-catches-texting-wheel.html

Imagine spending your life being this much of a snitch.

My dash cam's card deliberately only has an hour of storage space, such that I can never become of these twats who uploads shit to UK ROAD RAGE DASHCAM ACCIDENTS FUNNY 2021 COMPILATION #64 UK.

That said, SHITTING PEUGEOT is a quote I use very frequently.

>>4472
Alternately, he might encourage the offenders to not to do it again.

>>4496

Some people try shit on because they think they can get away with it. When it turns out that they didn't, they are less likely to reflect on their incursion as they are apt to find the fucking cunt wot snitched on 'em and make their life hell.

I'm decently well off but it have a presumably atrocious credit rating due to my callousness and/or stupidity in my early 20s. I'm actually kind of scared to even look.

I've always heard that the best way to rebuild your credit is by doing stuff like having a credit card and paying it off every month. But I've also heard it's better to actually be slightly in debt and paying it off, because then you're seen as a desirable (ie profitable) customer. Where's the truth in all that?

Not wanting to hijack the thread but what should I be looking to do if I'm aiming for a mortgage in the next three to four years and I've got a couple of defaults in the past, but haven't touched credit since?

>>7970
I recommend checkmyfile.com as a place, for when you want to look and understand how the ratings work.

Different lenders want different things is the answer - you need some record of lending, but there are lenders who want people who pay everything off and keep no debt, and there are others looking for people who are happy to carry debt (and capable of paying it off) - just depends on their own risk appetite.

>>7969
I started thinking that I could cheat the system by paying any credit card purchases off right away. Then, of course, I found out that if you pay it off too often in a given month you equally look sloppy with money. A more cynical man might think this is all an elaborate scam to get people into debt - thereby making the balance sheets look better than they are while creating social control.

I've spent my whole life ignoring pretences and thumbing my nose at authority but now look at me. And I'm only just starting to learn how mortgages do horrible things to people. The banks will probably have me in a dress by the end of the month. Then when I finally do own a home I'll become a petty neighbourhood tyrant in a myopic quest to protect my 'investment' over all else.

>>7972
>The banks will probably have me in a dress by the end of the month.

Can't say I've ever heard or thought of that, but will definitely suggest it at work tomorrow.

>>7970

As mentioned upthread, you can get a free credit rating and personalised advice on how to improve it at the link below.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/creditclub/

>>13523
Oh don't leave us hanging like that.

WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?

>>13524

I slept with the receptionist's wife (the receptionist was male, extremely popular, and he kept working there for at least five years after I left).

>>13517
Chances are they don't have the details and nobody from the last time still works there.

>>13526
I wouldn't say nobody from 18 years ago is still there. It could be very likely that the middle aged business support type is still there.

>>13527
If they've been there that long, they'll probably see you for the massive ledge you are.

>>2868
Thanks, that's all I really needed to know. The neighbours actively don't give a fuck.

>>2869

Several lads on the uk420 forums who actually were growing cannabis have written about their experience of getting busted. The common description is "the police knocked on the door, they were polite but firm, they took my plants and growlights but didn't trash the place, I got a summons to the Magistrates court and ended up with a £250 fine". It's clearly not a particularly high priority for anyone.

>>2867
No you're right, obviously the way the police work is that after they have inspected a grow site to see a person is growing tomatoes, if the next day their helicopter picks up a heat signature from the same address they'll immediately assume it's cannabis and send a squad to raid it. FFS.

>>2870
My brother got busted many many years ago - similar experience. I was more gutted about the fact he had borrowed all my (high quality) lighting gear and they took it.

>>2870

utopians are big fans of a stupified populace of state dependent serfs

>>438741
How can this be worse than pretending a car driving inside a tunnel is revolutionary?

>>438756
I can forgive him that one - LA traffic (and traffic/road congestion in the US generally) has to be seen to be believed. The clue with that one was that he gave it all away, doesn't really believe in it. This project is just a bit nuts.

>>438758

LA is a properly mental city. It's just miles and miles and miles of perfectly rectangular grid. It's a wonder anybody can get anywhere, but then it's also a wonder people can't just avoid the traffic by taking exactly the same route two or three blocks over and then correcting at the end.

I bet there have been all sorts of interesting studies into how the traffic works.

>>438758
I've driven in LA rush hour traffic and yes, it's slow and of large proportions, but I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. The major problem is that our septic cousins have no idea to drive.

I remember having debates on several occasions with yanks, and they can't seem to understand that if you leave a gap for people to merge in, traffic flows smoother. They always said "but I want to get there first!" without understanding that if everyone wants to get there first, nobody's getting there any faster.

My Yank friend was shouting at me, terrified, when I saw someone wanting to change lanes coming up to a red light, so I stopped leaving 2 car lengths for him to come across. My friend was absolutely convinced someone was going to slam into the back of me, without understanding that the people behind me can't see what's in front, so how is leaving a gap any different to there being cars there? As a result, the fella got into my lane (and actually looked back out of his car in amazement that someone let him in), and he didn't have to force his way across when the lights went green.

>>438764

The telling thing I find is when there is ever a video of a pedestrian getting hit by a car on reedit they lose their minds talking about how they deserve it. Even when the car is driving on the wrong side of the street at high speed they will downvote an idea of sense that the car driver reckless or that being able to cross a road is a basic human right. No concept of anything other than 'car go VROOOM!'