>>4523

>There's a limited natural supply of fresh water

No there isn't. It falls from the fucking sky. There might be a limit in the rate it falls, but effectively the supply is infinite. Also there is the quite obvious detail that the water that is drunk drink is breathed, sweated and pissed out again so it isn't like it is being removed from the system.

>>4527
But you don't expect shitty pisswater to come out of your taps, do you? It takes energy to process it all, something whose price will continue to increase until we crack nuclear fusion.

>>4528
>But you don't expect shitty pisswater to come out of your taps, do you?
Not been to a chain pub lately, I take it?

>>4527

>There might be a limit in the rate it falls

Which is exactly the limiting factor. If you use water faster than it falls from the sky, you've got a drought. We can speed up the water cycle with desalination, but it's a lot more expensive than water conservation.

>>4525

>The UK doesn't have a major water problem

Not yet, but there are some very real concerns about localised drought due to climate change. We've made big gains over recent years in reducing leakage, but we're approaching the point of diminishing returns. Thames Water already operate a desalination plant at Beckton; it's only used intermittently and processes brackish water, but it does indicate the relative insecurity of water supplies in the south east.

>>4528

I don't expect piss water to come out my taps but I expect the natural piss filtering process that has continued unabated
for billions of years to not stop in my lifetime.

>>421458

I've no idea what this is but I'd bet my house that Garth Ennis has something to do with it.

>>421462

Yeah. Crossed "Wish you were there".

Not gore, but I found myself down the rabbit hole of watching "anti-Paul Joseph Watson" videos the other day.

What really fucked me off is that Septics cannot pronounce Nazi. Notzi. Posta. Kozakhstan. Holloween. They cannot properly say words where the second letter is an a.

>>421464
Well, they're saying that /a/ correctly. It just sounds out of place because their other /a/s are all over the place. If your pronunciation of "NAFTA" somehow has an /e/ in it you're doing it wrong.

>>421463
I loved that. Followed it from start to finish. It's a lot more than just gore.

>>27852
I'm not advocating its use, simply showing why I think these people are using it. I don't find it offensive, and maybe I find it a little charming in a way.

BOMBFIRE NIGHT.

"For all intensive purposes."

>>27856
>>5505 >>16496

That is firmly beginner level BoneAppleTea.

>>27857

>>27614

>I'm at the age now where most people can read the cues

An awful lot of people can't, they just kid themselves that they can, hence the epidemic of sexual harassment. The world is full of adult men who genuinely think that "nice tits" is an acceptable chat-up line or that following a stranger in the street is an acceptable seduction technique - if you don't believe me, ask any woman. You might be inexperienced, but you're not a literal monster, which puts you well ahead of a lot of people.

>I just don't know *how* to change, though. Surely you gain confidence through success?

You can also gain confidence through acceptance of failure. You can't just decide not to be scared of something, but you can gradually train yourself out of that fear by willingly exposing yourself to it. You can say to yourself "I'm going to try things, I'm going to make a tit of myself sometimes, it's going to feel bloody awful, but I'm going to keep trying regardless". The fear never disappears completely, but it does get smaller and quieter and less important. Slowly but surely, you retrain your subconscious to recognise that the pain of rejection is much more tolerable than the pain of not even trying.

>>27610
I beat that comfortably, and am now happily deflowered and living with a defacto Mrs. Life's good.

>>27619

What was your final score? Why did you fold in the end? Tell us the story of your game.

>>27628 42. She asked nicely, we were working together.
I'm not an utter freak, just never put any effort in, and had plenty of other things to be getting on with. A tendency towards hard drinking meant that, on ending up in bed with people, was never in a fit state to do anything about it.
I probably regret not saying yes earlier when friends set me up, since sex is quite fun, but other than that, nah, this is me and that's ok. I suspect that I'd have ended up married rather earlier if things had gone another way - and probably done the kids thing, so life would have turned out rather different.
For what it's worth - no particular difference before and after. Maybe a sense of relief that girl-I-like wasn't repulsed and seemed to quite enjoy it too.
I doubt this helps any - but there you go.

Well, here we go.
The odometer of life has ticked over once more. I don't feel quite as down as have been for the past few days; I can probably attribute that to alcohol.

Maybe I'll go out and try something tonight. Maybe.

>>84515
I mean Gladstone got to be 84 and he was living in the age of cholera and pre-anesthetic surgery.

>>84515
Three terms could be easy if you force enough general elections.

>>84516
It's a shame most British people can probably name more 19th Century American presidents than they can prime ministers.

>>84519
I could probably name Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston and Pitt the Younger off the top of my head. The rest, as far as I can recall, are Duke's, Earl's and Viscount's and are largely remembered by their title.

>>84520
Could you learn how plurals work in English?

>>7062
I don't understand this - if the mail is being returned to sender then someone is obviously using the property in order to receive it, so why would they delist it?

>>7415
n1 m8 bailiff won no wot it im

>>7417
Do you have anything to add to the conversation?

>>7418
He's evidently added more than you have. Now piss off trying to start yet another cunt-off.

>>7419
I'll take that as a no then.

>>27579

It does read a bit more sneery than I intended. I think it's just that I don't have any interest in a girl who's clearly already in a bit of a romantic bind as it is. And to be honest open relationships are of no interest to me anyway.

It could also be that I'm expressing the last of the sourness here in the safe greyness of a site for she'd enthusiasts.

>>27578
I think I'm mostly just amazed that you have the tact to know that that's the only appropriate response you can give to someone sharing their "we tried to open up the relationship but it turns out separating sex and love in a culture built on conflation of the two is actually somewhat hard" story. It's the line I use whenever my poly mates are bitching at me about someone not returning their crush on them or some other similarly devastating blow to their wholly self-centred worldview, sometimes I mix it up a bit with "ah, that does sound a bit tricky". At the risk of sounding like an embittered monogamist (which I already was by my first sentence in this post), I've yet to encounter anyone involved in open relationships or poly-ism who doesn't behave like an absolute fucking child when it comes to their romantic entanglements.

>>27582

>I've yet to encounter anyone involved in open relationships or poly-ism who doesn't behave like an absolute fucking child when it comes to their romantic entanglements.

I wish I met more like that, at the very least it isn't borning, my experiance has nearly been largely of people behaving in a clinical detatched and dull manner that robs any thrill from the experiance.

Me and the misses are in a very comfortable open relationship. In theory we have total freedom, in reality we know we love each other and trust the other and are quite open with each other, so there is no insecurity or bullshit between us.

>>27582>>27583
They always strike me as people who are trying a bit too hard to enjoy the experience; definitely concur, I have never met a "happy" poly-type.

>>27612
I'm willing to believe that there are happily ensconced poly types, like those couples who discover a swinger's club well into their 60s and spend their retirements at key parties, but - and here is the crucial thing - they usually have other hobbies like their allotments or geocaching which they will gladly blather on at length about first and keep their sexual escapades to themselves. Whereas the unhappy ones, who are subject to all that jealousy and petty infighting and seem to all be in their 20s, will tell you about that defining aspect of themselves first and foremost.

Fuck it, I've come up with a new rule for my grumpy old man dictatorship that I believe will solve all of this: you're only allowed to be poly-anything if you're drawing your pension and know in detail how to solve a whitefly infestation on your brassicas.

Did I get banned too? I cited the incident where a KOMO news helicopter took off from its rooftop landing pad in Seattle in 2014 and instantly nosedived, and it lead to a Fox affiliate news station accidentally showing a cock photo on air, which gave the story way more coverage. I added a link to the Str8UpGayPorn blog story about it, hit post, and went to look at another website.

When I came back here my post was nowhere to be seen so I don't know if I triggered some sort of spam filter or something.

>>8740

I guess I'm not banned.

>>8741

I might have just cocked up posting somehow.

>>8742

This must have been what happened, as there's no deleted post of yours that I can see.

>>8733
Rich football club owners are in the main a bunch of cunts. Look at Abramovitch, Ashley, Tan, Oyston, etc. This guy was apparently very different. He was an all-round nice guy by all accounts. He genuinely cared for the club and everyone involved, which is why staff, players and fans have been singing his praises.

The scientific consensus is "dunno m8".

>>4515 >>4516
I thought it was the pursuit of teenaged lassies.

Zenit St Petersburg have condemned star striker Alexander Kokorin, who faces criminal prosecution for hitting a government official with a chair in a Moscow café.

Russia international Kokorin, together with Krasnodar midfielder Pavel Mamaev, was captured on security cameras attacking the man as he ate breakfast at a table in the corner of the room. The pair were behaving rowdily and café employees thought they were drunk and had taken drugs, according to a report by Russian daily newspaper Gazeta.

Gazeta also reported that two high-ranking government officials ended up in hospital as a result of the attack, with one losing a tooth, and Moscow police are investigating.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/zenit-st-petersburg-condemn-alexander-kokorin-chair-attack-moscow-cafe-pavel-mamaev-a8575541.html

What the British press haven't covered is that the minister they struck with the chair is ethnically Korean and they were singing Gangnam Style when they attacked him.

>>8700
Replying to myself here, but Crewe Alexandra as well, they harboured a child abuser and are now pretending they didn't, and most of the fans are happy to oblige.

It's faux outrage over kids dressing up as their sporting idols for Halloween time of year already?

>>8744
I don't know, is it?

>>8744
But you got that picture from the Mail article about how no one cared, so no, it isn't.

Could we not turn .gs into "repost any old from the DM.com", lads?

>>16305
What a pleb.

>>16302

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)

>>16307

What does a table top rpgs have to do with great text adventures? They are very different medium of games, It would be like me asking for a desert and you saying ' What about Sheppard's pie?'

>>16308

Stick it up your arse m8.

>>16292
>>16294
>>16297

Not being funny, but if you actually set out to shout through a megaphone how much you want to gas others and imply that it's a promise, the powers that be will take you as seriously as you want. You can fuck about in court insisting "oh it was only roleplay" as much as you want (as those twats have), fact of the matter is there will be a bigger price to pay if a looney does go out and fulfil that promise of killing someone they perceive to be the enemy.

>>22428
There's an app for that.

>>22427
I'm just doing a TNG rewatch at the minute actually. I know every episode back to front but I've not actually seen the blu-ray edits before and I'm totally blown away by how bright and clear everything is.

I'd definitely be up for some kind of discussion (here or elsewhere) about any episode of Trek (except Discovery) whenever really. I have a lot of free time and I ate, slept and breathed my old VHS tapes of TNG in particular from as far back as I can remember.

This is what Jake Sisko looks like now. Bit weird, innit?

>>22476
Not really, but he does look like he's trying to be Avery Brooks Jnr, but I can't think of a good reason not to.

>>22476

Only in that he is immortalised as a teenager in my mind.

At what point does this thread become incitement?

>>16064
>In a post of more than 800 words, it explains how he was in a garden when he spotted a high-viz jacket before vaulting a fence, diving through nettles, wading through a brook and crossing fields to make it from Crewe to Alsager – all while wearing no shoes.
I mean he makes it sounds like he's having to go to great lengths to escape the cops so I'd hardly call them stupid or incompetent.

>They've f****d with the wrong man
Remember lads, REAL hard men do runners and hide.

>>16064
That, or not take a shit for weeks.

>>16066
>REAL hard men do runny shits
couldn't agree more m8

In a similar vein:

>'You lot will never catch us': Taunting fugitive caught
>A wanted man who taunted police that they could not catch him - has been jailed for five months.

>On 23 October North Wales Police issued a social media appeal to locate Jamie Worrall, 29, of Flint, wanted for assaulting his former girlfriend.

>He responded on Facebook saying "you lot will never catch us".

>Within 12 hours of the exchange, police had traced him to Blackpool and arrested him and another wanted man whom Worrall named in his taunts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45995260

>>61708
Truly, we are in the Dark Ages.

jimbo has got to be one of the most mediocre shit comedians man, how is he primetime

>>61852
Just finish your cheeseburger and go to bed, Don.

>>61852
He's better than Jimmy Fallon at least.

>>61854
I really don't understand his appeal. Every clip I've seen of him he's just... Nothing. He's devoid of personality and anything of interest.

>>16268
Potential plot twist: According to one of the complaints, he is.

HE'S NEXT TO WEINSTEIN. HE'S CLEARLY A WRONG 'UN.

IT WAS ALL JUST BANTER.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46006840

>>16270
They have also both always looked like wrong-uns.

>>16287
That's incredibly anti-semitic. They can't help being Jewish.

Can the federation replicate latinum or do the space jews somehow make it un-replicatable?

>>6844
That energy has to come from somewhere, it's probably a net loss to replicate it.

>>6844

In my headcanon replicators can't replicate any elements heavier than iron, since anything heavier than that requires more energy to fuse than is released by its fusion. That's why it's possible to replicate food, but not, say, entire starships. Starships utilise heavier elements.

>>6846

Chakotay replicates Janeway a Pocket Watch for her birthday in the End of Time special and she chastises him for wasting power. It can be done, it's just greedy on the dilithium and at that time they were on rations which I think he saved up and spunked all at once.

What is interesting is that you can recycle replicated items, but I don't know what the loss conversion is. There will be a loss, that much is obvious. The Star Trek Encyclopaedia would probably know.

>>6846

The gold in gold-pressed latinum is frequently referred to as "worthless" in DS9, so replicators are clearly capable of producing heavy elements economically. I assume that there's some kind of quantum handwaving that makes latinum uniquely difficult to replicate.

>>6847

Voyager is a bit of an edge case, because they're stranded light years from Federation territory. Within the Federation (even on the outer edges), it seems that most things are negligibly cheap - in Explorers (DS9 S03E22), Sisko and Jake built a Runabout-sized starship for shits and giggles.

>>61834
BANANA

>>61835

BANANA WHO?

>>61836
Banana you glad that orange hasn't been in yer mum?

>>61839

FUCK OFF.

>>61840
KNOCK KNOCK.

>>4529

It's cos my resting heart rate is about 90.

>>4530

Mate is that a RHR taken when you're sitting in bed after waking up after a good night's kip or a "RHR" taken at fuck knows when after a day of caffeine, commuting, steak fucking bakes and god knows what else?

No one should be waking up with a RHR of 90 unless you're really making waves as a next generation pharmacological power user / using K Cider as your bedtime tipple or have some kind of serious heart issue. (Obviously I fucking hope it's not the second one as you haven't mentioned anything of that kind but Jesus lad, if your RHR is 90 standing up and going to the fridge is basically sending you into tachycardia. Go see a fucking doctor, sharpish).

It's from actual rest.

>Go see a fucking doctor

I've seen plenty of doctors. It's fine, apparently. It's definitely about 90. Blood pressure is great, too. Post surgery a few years ago I was sat at 125 while lying in bed, and also on morphine. (no, really) They were checking my vitals every hour or so and did a couple of EKGs and nobody was particularly concerned. I was pretty fucking concerned, to be honest, but I was told it was high but not unusual, especially considering my normal RHR was already high.

I haven't done drugs in about six years and I don't drink, or have anxiety or a bad heart or anything. I'm 'healthy but a bit odd' according to medical professionals.

>>4534

Well if you've done echos and EKGs and a treadmill stress test and nothing worrying came up who's a random prick on the internets to say otherwise? Cholesterol and blood pressure being good is good news, maybe get your triglycerides and most importantly your homocysteine levels checked (just badger your gp until they sign the damn bloodwork papers).

If those all check out then I guess your ticker just likes to tick a little bit faster than normal.

Apologetic regards, concerned fellow shed enthusiast and amateur PhD in pseudo-drugs from the university of I read it on the internet.

I've been back to eating refined carbs for a few weeks after losing 15kg on four months of keto and it's staggering how hungry I feel all the time now.

I'm going go to back to keto and investigate a cyclic keto diet so I can binge drink on the weekends. I never really missed carby food when I was on the diet but I did miss beer, so maybe I can have my cake and eat it too.

>>8204
My money's on a massive punch-up at or outside Cardiff Central when people who haven't prepared find out that they can't get home.

>>8205
It was a Saturday night in Cardiff, there's always a punch up by Central station and chip alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZtibrPo0g

I don't follow boxing but this Tyson Fury guy seems like a top bloke.

>>8712

I actively support any boxer who punches himself in the face, saves time all around.

>>8712
He is alright, would buy him a pint and a curry, but he is just daft. He gave the mouth foaming mob a stick to beat him with and the other mouth foaming mob a champion of their "values" by equating homosexuality and paedophilia.

He is a great boxer, but any fight that isn't in Las Vegas will be marred by fights in the crowds as other Travellers set up matches of their own for the event.