>>427706
I have almost the same exact question except I'm open to travelling to places by car/motorbike.

>>427708
The bits of Scotland served by good public transport links probably aren't going to fulfill his wish of having as few other people as people, at least that was my experience when I was in the highlands last November. I can't imagine how overcrowded it gets in the warmer months.

>>427706
https://www.surreyhills.org/

>>427706

Maybe the Peak District via Sheffield? There are adequate bus links from Sheffield city centre to most of the national park area.

>>415204
I went to Rendlesham forest about a month ago, it was lovely (no aliens, unfortunately). Gonna hopefully be going up to Thetford forest, soon.

I assume his Russian handlers didn't approve.

So what would be the impact if he went through with it? Please answer as though I'm an ignorant fool. I'm sensing there's that undercurrent where WW3 would be just around the corner if he did but I'm not sure why.

Seems to me Iran are just behind North Korea as global scapegoat baddies who don't have any friends to stand behind them. The Yanks only ever pick on countries that can't stand up for themselves.

I wonder what made them think twice.

Whole thing reeks of a trial balloon. They've decided on having a war, they will have a war. The only ones I can see backing the US doing this would be KSA and Israel so it would be pretty clear who the bad guys were at least.

>>19562
>I wonder what made them think twice

The Donald said it's because he was told the strikes would kill ~150 people, which he felt was disproportionate for downing a drone.

>>19563
Typical Yanks, claiming to go after a "state sponsor of terror" while courting KSA without a hint of irony.

>>40791

I've never dated a girl who wasn't willing to put on ears and a cat tail when we fucked. It's become sort of a deal breaker.

Just putting that out there.

>>40792
Good way to weed out the vanillas tbh.

>>40792

My current partner is at the level of wearing them every day even to work. She has a valuable enough niche skillset in a hipster tech company so these things are just brushed over. Fascinating how the other half live innit.

>>40794

She sounds like incredible fun but I await the inevitable /emo/ thread about how she's ruined your life.

>>40795
I can't argue with that.

I'm going through something very similar. I think the only way you get over that wall is by making yourself vulnerable.

>And to be quite honest, it doesn't seem fair to open up and unleash my "issues" on people, even if they want to know and help.

Your friends are there for you to open up to and it's a little rude to keep people away like that.

>Treating friends and partners like therapists is rarely a good idea.

Asking friends to pick up some milk once in a while is fine, but expecting them to do your grocery shop week in, week out is rude. It's the same with talking about issues, friends do want to help and be helped.

I made the mistake of thinking that any opening up (or vulnerability) was wrong (that I shouldn't put my problems on other people, etc.). But, I greatly underestimated my own emotional intelligence.

I don't think you need therapy and I don't really see what it'd achieve. I think you just need to work on making yourself a bit more vulnerable here and there.

You might want to read up on attachment theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory

>>7330

>My money bloke always says 'if they're talking about it, you're three months late' which seems to hold pretty true.

You could also call it the stock price paradox.

Given enough time, most stocks will almost invariably go up. But when you get in, they will almost never go up. At least not right away, and that's what discourages many investors who then get out as the stock tumbles. But only to see the stock climb again and far beyond their sell point in a few months' time.

In the short term, it's almost impossible to tell, especially for a small retail investor, which way a stock will go. And it's also why short-term traders fail, because those who dictate stock prices have realised it's a magnificently easy way to empty the pockets of more gullible investors who think they can make money betting on short-term ups and downs. It doesn't matter what you do, you have no way of winning this game.

It'd be easy to think all you'd have to do is buy stocks that are down or otherwise cheap, but the problem is that you might well end up buying a stock that either isn't going to do much for the next five years, or if a stock is in a downward trend, you simply have no way of telling if it's going to go down another 20 percent before it really picks up speed to the upside again. Trends tend to perpetuate themselves. Until the day they don't.

What you need in the stock market nowadays more than ever is bulletproof nerves of steel that will allow you to hold on to a stock that you think is promising even if it slides ten percent in one day. And you need infinite patience. Sadly, those two are still no guarantee that you will be earning a noteworthy profit in the long term. But they are pretty much the conditio sine qua non of stock investing.

>>7330

> me and my mates did end up making a couple of grand each just by having what amounted to loose change sat in our Dream Market wallets a few years ago. Pissed it all away on more drugs, like.

At the height of the bitcoin price bubble I worked out what all the btc I'd spent on drugs, just in 2015 alone, would have been worth. Then I cried a bit. Good job I didn't have a way to work it out all the way back to 2012.

>>7334

The way I see it, it was money I never expected to have anyway. I might feel differently if I was struggling for money though, I suppose.

There is this new satoshi dice address for BTC.
Address is bc1quykuahxrjx6d3h6ga4rkyg0hl5e59tcthqyhw6.

I found this while scanning pastebin

Here are the instructions on how to verify the provably fair roll.
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/vRqPMr?editors=0012

You guys remember when the price of tulips recovered?

>>63509
>My first thought was that they should have just added a reset button to the bulb, but that's not great if the bulb is in a high or awkward fitting - the reset sequence won't work unless the bulb is powered on, so you might have people up a ladder trying to find a tiny button on a hot bulb while being blinded by the glare. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

You are making it sound more complex then it is it isn't any more difficult then changing a light bulb.
Also I think 'smart bulbs' are LED and therefore don't generate much heat.
And finally that it doesn't reset every other bulb on the same lighting circuit which might be relevant.

A small switch is the solution but I am willing to believe the people who build the hardware aren't the same people who make the software so largely ignore each others needs and might not even be in the same country and company let alone the same factory and key parts of hard ware might even be for other purposes that they bastardised because it was significantly cheaper than building their own.

>>63529 MORE DIFFICULT THEN CHANGING A LIGHT BULB.

Just because it's easy to change a light bulb where you're using them, doesn't mean that it's always easy.
Although, don't these things present an AP for first configuration? Does that get disabled once configured? Seems daft if so.
A sensible person might campaign for bot a switch and a secret handshake, if you really do need to be able to reauthnticate like this.

>>63532
>DON'T THESE THINGS PRESENT AN AP FOR FIRST CONFIGURATION? DOES THAT GET DISABLED ONCE CONFIGURED? SEEMS DAFT IF SO

Surely you don't want 25 spurious APs in each house clogging up the already busy 2.4/5GHz wavelengths? That sounds like a recipe for interference.

I'D RATHER HAVE THE LIGHTING CIRCUITS REPLACE WITH ETHERNET WITH POWER-OVER-ETHERNET, AND HAVE THE LIGHTS COMMUNICATE OVER ETHERNET TO MY IOT HUB.

>>63538
I'd rather just use a light switch.

>>63515
Looks like it's made out of the fluff you find in the tumble dryer.

>this one can never run away

neither can real ones if you cut their Achilles tendon.

It looks like a hive of bugs in the shoulder.

What's the SCP number for this?

>>63533
Indeed, it's a really menacing juxtaposition from the mostly dead flowers he's jammed into it.

I can't tell if it's more mental to do this in earnest or as a joke. I suppose I'd have to call it about even on the nutty scale.

"Poop".

>>28464
It really bothers me that Americans call shit "duty".

>>28465

I thought it was "doodie" but just sounds like they're saying duty because their accents are fucked.

SAMWIDGE.

I've lost my trail of thought.

Not animated.

>>14995

It's a Magic Eye one.

Sorry for the image dump. It's the first time I ever clicked through to this thread, although I've been here since long before it was created, and it seems I had a small folder of these things. Done now.

Thinking of bringing the GIFs back.

>>427663

Did you? I thought I was the funny one.

>>427739

I was the other extreme for part of my life, especially in adolescence and until about my mid-20s, in that I was skinny bordering on the unhealthy, and being skinny and having no muscle as a lad is or was often still perceived as lacking manliness. One or two lasses that I had sex with at least I got laid occasionally even told me that I was really skinny for a guy and that they normally preferred more blokey looking blokes.

It was only when I started working out regularly that I overcame my self esteem issues in that respect as I saw my muscles gradually grow from a bit of weight lifting. Nowadays, I'd say I am of average build, with an average amount of upper body muscle for a guy in general. Women don't complain. I just don't seem to have the right genes to be ripped like some lads who pretty much just have to think of dumbbells in their head in order to make their biceps grow.

>>427748

I'm still the same, but I've found I just need to play to my strengths. It works a charm for pulling bisexual girls who are up for threesomes, because I have a lot of the traits they find attractive in women anyway except with a gigantic knob.

I don't have any insecurity about being a smaller, feminine, less intimidating bloke, but I think what I have developed instead is a sort of contempt for that concept of rugged, chiselled manliness. I've never wanted to be that, and I can't see the appeal in it. Even when I play games, I don't want to be the bloke built like a brick shithouse, I want to be some form of sneaky bastard who'll stick you in the back.

I just don't really get it, if I'm being honest, and it has always seemed to me that the lads who are really ripped, rugby players or gym addicts, supposedly they want to be hard men so that they can attract ladies, but they're the biggest closet bumders I've ever witnessed. Rugby lads in particular are another breed. "Wheeeey, remember that time I fucked Daz in the arse after he got out the shower? Whaaaay fuckin top bantz m8"

>>427772

>Whaaaay fuckin top bantz m8

That certainly is top bantz.

I did it once and there was this probably-older-than-the-age-group bird who'd obviously had a few too many making an utter spectacle of herself. Topic of conversation for a couple of my dates during the evening.

A few weeks later I did a more casual meet-and-greet event in a nearby but different town.... and she was one of the ones running it. Obviously a plant to get the female numbers up at the speed dating event (as it was there were more men than women, everyone had one date that evening where they sat at their table and did little more than play with their phone for 5 minutes), and maybe help out the organiser at the same time.

I have not done a similar event since.

>>86274
Since you clicked on it, and I haven't, the other five must be him admiring his own work.

>>86274

Hate to disapoint you but it is a mirror of another video that I couldn't find.

>>86272

so you don't care about the proud 1.4k pop of Tokelauans with their thousand year old traditions and incurring the wrath of the great and powerful Tui Tokelau in his tropical paradise. But your heart bleads for the 14 Commercial sealers who are sitting there right now freezing their bollocks off in constant darkness listeing to the BBC world service and planning who to bugger next.

>>86278
Maybe it's different now. A decade or so ago a tk domain was free but the domain didn't actually point by DNS to your server. It used a frameset and loaded your real URL in a frame. This meant the address bar wouldn't change or show your individual page URLs.

>>86278
They're 14 British Commercial sealers who are sitting there right now freezing their bollocks off in constant darkness listeing to the BBC world service and planning who to bugger next, thank you very much.

>>63500
>Do you know how many times I've seen woims on the ground whilst it's raining? Never.
That's because the early birds already got them.

>>63500

So you've been standing around in the rain staring at the ground waiting for worms to surface where you've created a dry patch where everything else is wet. Where as crows have the good sense to simulate rain in a one area so worms have to come to it and they stay dry the whole time. And you think they are the idiots?

>>63503
You've never looked at the ground when it's raining? Have you ever been outside in your life?

>>63504
I don't stand around expectantly waiting for worms to appear, which is what you are really asking.

>>6025

The picture's Nike because that kind of reads like I'm implying that's Vans.

I'm going to go to the beach to see if I can pick up a pair of Nikes for free.

>>6027

I don't get it.

>>6028
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48464664

>>6021
Crocs are apparently great in tropical climes if you're tramping around humid wilderness.

>>86253
>If leaving the EU means parliament becomes more accountable
The delusion is strong in this one.

>>86254
It means the government have lost a major scapegoat and the past three years have shown that our political system is so broken that we may end up with PR sooner than I'd otherwise hoped.

>>86255
>It means the government have lost a major scapegoat
If only it were that simple.

>>86255

I don't share your optimism. If we can no longer blame the EU for all our failings, things could get really ugly for whichever ethnic minority takes their place.

>>86257
The Scots give as good as they get, it'll be fine.

>>19531
Hilarious. Actually hilarious.

It's already been delayed twice. It's stuck in some weird slow-motion race of unworkable policies, glaring at Brexit like a match sprinter on the upper banking.

Absolute fucking waste of time and money to begin with. So yeah I guess also like Brexit.

>>63493

In fairness, I think there's a meaningful difference between political speech and direct incitement to violence. "Dwarves are a threat to the British way of life" is nasty but legal, while "kill all the dwarves before they rape your cat" is criminal. "Hate speech" is a really dodgy category that is open to abuse, but deciding whether someone is encouraging murder is far more clear-cut.

>>63494
Yeah agreed totally - National Action weren't just posting bullshit on the internet.

>>63493

>it angers and frustrates me that people are so willing to ignore those historical lessons.

It comes from an arrogance of the status quo. "The people in the past were wrong though we are right", and it is impossible to convince people the present will be looked back at another time we were wrong in our facts and dogma just as a default, because that isn't really arguing by the rules it is a factual and relativistic nihilism people won't accept even though everything about the past tells us it is the only thing that is consistently true.

>>63493
If we end up under a different status quo, why would they hold themselves to the same rules anyway?
The choice may not be between a liberal world with free speech maintained, and a liberal-turned-censorious-turned nazi world where people go to jail for saying nice things, and more between a liberal world that goes nazi but some annoying people go to jail today versus a liberal world that goes nazi but was at least principled about liberalism while it lasted. I'm not arguing we're inexorably heading that way, just that if we are it's probably of little difference where we stand on censorship - I'd argue culture flows from other factors more than vice-versa. Also, I'd note the case that liberalism could always collapse precisely because we didn't go out and jail popular alt-right type, even if they didn't mean it and were only doing it for the money.

Most historical lessons are false equivalences mind you. The problem about the present is that it's so consistently stupid. People model their dystopia on past negative regimes and Orwell's book about the year Apple released the Macintosh in a futile attempt to prove that the then current year would be nothing like the then current year. The minute you realise that O'Brien's fursona is a Fennec fox and his favourite anime is K-on! is the minute the whole atmosphere of the thing collapses. Rats to the face might be a little scary, but the complete evaporation of seriousness from public life is much scarier and market forces are far more willing-and-able to promote that than they are to promote idle torture. (Though of course, they'll promote fascism if it sells t-shirts and sticks... I guess if I have a point it's that demonetisation beats jail when it comes to the big guys.)

>>63493
>IT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD LOCKING PEOPLE UP FOR HATE SPEECH WHEN YOU'RE UNDER A LARGELY LIBERAL CONSENSUS WHERE THE HATE SPEECH IS DOLPHIN RAPE AND HOMOPHOBIA. IT'S PERFECTLY PEACHY RIGHT NOW TO CONSIDER FREEDOM OF SPEECH A LUXURY THAT CAN BE COMPROMISED FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

Isn't this liberal consensus why we ended up with Brexit?

>>19497

Well normally you don't hear about it because of cold and hot redundancy. "Hot" redundancy means that several power stations run parallel and one can take most of the power load of the other if it shuts down without most people noticing. "Cold" redundancy means that other power stations or reactors can be switched onto the grid momentarily if there is a fault or failure at another point of the grid. So ideally, there is never really a power outage as such, or at least you don't notice it during the few milliseconds that your light bulb at home doesn't have power.

Safety shutdowns are a different problem. Parts of the grid can shut down if a catastrophic fault in one element of the grid is detected that makes it necessary that other parts of it shut down as well to prevent damage. It's one angle of attack to shut down an entire power grid that way. Or alternatively, you can take control of all power stations and shut them down in a controlled fashion. The latter should be a bit more difficult though, because there's naturally a difference between hacking one power station and hacking all of them.

>>19498

Is there anything promising going on in the British nuclear industry at the moment?

>>19499

Not really, no. There are a couple of half-interesting research projects, but development of new power plants is stalled because of Brexit - the whole nuclear sector is fucked if we drop out of Euratom.

>>19500
But that's not going to happen because we're going to get a great deal because we're going to make the European Commission give us one, even though their negotiation team has been officially disbanded, and the Commission will be dissolved until November so there'll be nobody to negotiate with, but we're British so we can do this and anyone that says we can't is an unpatriotic traitor who's just talking the country down.

>>19501

>>63488

The thought of Jeremy Hunt going around the country and personally executing every single pensioner has given me a workable semi.

If this is a dog whistle to prepare for the cull. I am totally on board.

>>63480
u wot m8

>>63487
She's so my type though.