https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnCVm0lCdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4fG3TIMdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIi1dett7ok

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9BDLChKzIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Ekc-7hkK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGB7Zuza_U

An old favourite from the days of mislabeled songs on Kazaa and Limewire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_j9xrwUb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yKwYaq5Kf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM

This girl's voice.

>>4718
They are going to railroad this poor man for having the courage to try and stop them.

One of Britain’s top spy chiefs quit after it emerged that he helped a paedophile Catholic priest avoid jail, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Prime Minister Theresa May was last night accused of a cover-up over the scandal as she knew of GCHQ director Robert Hannigan’s connection to the child sex offender when he stood down in 2017. At the time, Mr Hannigan had cited ‘family reasons’, with this crucial link kept secret.

The high-flying civil servant, who was lauded for his role in striking peace in Northern Ireland, stunned Whitehall with his exit after just two years in charge of GCHQ.

This newspaper has learned he stepped down after the National Crime Agency discovered that he helped a close family friend avoid a custodial sentence for possessing 174 child pornography images After Mr Hannigan provided a character reference for Father Edmund Higgins at his 2013 trial, the priest’s eight-month sentence was suspended. The judge said Higgins had ‘struggled with his sexuality’. But Higgins went on to reoffend, and during an NCA probe his links to Mr Hannigan were discovered and No 10 was alerted.

The powerful mandarin gave the reference ‘in good faith’ a year before his appointment as director of the 5,000-strong Government Communications Headquarters, the notoriously secretive eavesdropping agency. After his conviction, Edmund Higgins, who had served at St Elizabeth’s Church in Richmond, South-West London, was defrocked and changed his name to Edmund Black.

With the Prime Minister’s blessing, he was allowed to resign on January 23, 2017, citing family commitments. Anonymous briefings were given to the media that he would be caring for sick relatives. That same year, Mrs May said: ‘The sunlight of transparency acts… as an important check and balance, and helps ensure the highest standards of public life among senior Government representatives.’

Last night Mr Hannigan, who began to train as a priest before joining the civil service, confirmed that Higgins had been a family friend for two decades. But he admitted his ‘judgment was completely wrong’ in providing the character reference. After his conviction, Higgins, who had served at St Elizabeth’s Church in Richmond, South-West London, was defrocked and changed his name to Edmund Black, but continued to offend.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that No 10 was alerted in early 2017 that the NCA was investigating Higgins as part of a major probe into online chatrooms that hosted abuse of babies. His connection to Mr Hannigan was highlighted to figures at the very top of Government, including the Prime Minister.

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>>4727
This was the first thing I read after waking up and I consistently misread it as "spy chef" which was confusing.
>online chatrooms that hosted abuse of babies
christ

>>4727
It's an incredible story, proper /boo/ shit. WTF would anyone take the risk of appearing / writing a character reference for someone accused of kiddie-fiddling.

Exceptionally poor judgement - which is not what you want in the head of GCHQ, so entirely right that he had to go.

>>6901
The Quiet American is a very good film. It's based on a work by Graham Greene, who, incidentally, is a superb British novelist.

>>6911
I've only read his Our Man in Havana. Midly amusing and just had some bits I could relate to.

>>6912

The Travels With My Aunt film was decent. I have the book but didn't get around to it yet.

>>6898
Fair points.

Dickens isn't a great example of prime British literature. IIRC, Orwell said that he (Dickens) was out of touch with real life because he'd done nothing but write for a living. So he needed to fill pages with melodrama and conversation in lieu of description, which is what I, and probably plenty of others, dislike about him.

I personally will look at a book by a British author before anything else. Not that there aren't plenty of stinkers out there, but other writers don't ever reach the same level of proficiency with their language. I'd even argue that they exceed the best writers in non-English languages, although of course I'm biased.

>Why haven't we had a smash hit since good ol' Willy Shakespeare?

That would be Harry Potter, whether you want to admit it or not.

This point and click adventure is free on epic games right now

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/thimbleweed-park/home

>>22734
There are many different clients which have free game incentives. If I didn't know better, I would be inclined towards the assumption that you want people to download the launcher and the free game is irrelevant.

>>22735
Not at all. People have shared games here which I have enjoyed in the past so I thought I'd contribute. I saw this on efreebies and I thought some people might like it. I'm not the same lad who mentioned it earlier.

>>22735

You reckon anyone is doing to bother directly marketing to the three of us?

>>22737
Fortnite must really be getting worried by Apex Legends if they're marketing directly to us.

Go and see a mortgage broker.

You can normally borrow about 4.5x of your salary on top of your deposit. You'll probably need a longer history of income, especially if self-employed. That could take a year or two.

It might be worth getting a credit card and spending a bit each month, making sure it's paid off in full to avoid interest. It's an easy way to demonstrate that you manage money well. Having no evidence of debt management can be a negative thing, I suppose the logic is 'if we can't see you managing small debts, we're unsure about your personality with larger debts'.

I often check both moneysavingexpert and r/ukpersonalfinance because they'll have a lot of info on this sort of thing.

>>7466
Seconded for r/ukpersonalfinance , there's some absolutely stellar advice given there on this sort of thing.

>>7464
Okay - a mortgage broker will definitely help as they will have actual offers from lenders. I can recommend Charles Cameron.

There are three variables to a mortgage - how much you earn (£80k), how much deposit you have (£90k) and how affordable your monthly payments are going to be. On the downside, you're self-employed, which means you have to do a little bit more proving you can still earn that much in the future. Your £90k deposit is a very good upside though. You can generally borrow between 3x and 5x your earnings depending on how dependable they are and the lender/offer.

On the affordability side, the general rule of thumb is you should be spending no more than 28% of your monthly income after tax is paid, which for you is about 1200 quid per month. The last variable is how many years you are taking the mortgage for, this varies between 10 and 30 years. Based on all that I would think you could be getting a mortgage of about £250k which added to your deposit means you can buy a property of £300k-ish.

You should get a mortgage that allows you to overpay - if you're as good a saver as you say, this means that you can overpay it every month, which dramatically shortens the term. There are mortgages (offset mortgages) that also allow you to keep your savings and balance the mortgage against it - again, a broker will help here as they can get actual offers to talk about.

When you speak to a broker, and they talk to lenders, you'll have to do some extra work because of being self-employed and the fact that rules have tightened up around affordability recently, but you have a good deposit and that really helps.

>>28149

It may not be all that useful, but as it's all I have, I'll share my own personal experience with you.

In a situation much like yours, I continued my relationship with my wife long after I knew that, for me, the relationship was over. I like to pretend it's somewhere in my top three regrets, but really I know that it's right up there at number one.

I didn't finish things with her because I didn't want to break her heart or, as pitiful as it sounds, to be the "bad guy" in the story. This because there was no real reason for ending things other than the horrible, inconvenient, fact that I'd met someone who I liked a lot more.

Four years later I finally pulled the plug and we've been living separately for about a year now. I've met someone new but it's not really even in the same ball park as that girl I knew all those years ago. We still email back and forth every now and then and joke "maybe when we're old and stable we'll finally get together" and to be honest it breaks my heart all over again.

"A time for everything, and everything in its own time."

Sage for nothing very much of value at all.

>>28151
>It might be helpful to think about this in terms of where you'll both be in 5 or 10 years or so.

This is a pretty good metric for working out how you feel about someone deep down. Does the thought of staying in this situation in 5 years time fill you with a sense of dread? Or can you actually entertain the idea of things getting better and feeling satisfied? It sounds like even if the second is true, you probably won't get there without communicating these things to her at some point. You shouldn't feel beholden to someone's ability to take care of themselves, as others have said you need to draw a line somewhere between being a crutch for someone and being in a mutual partnership. What may or may not happen to her without you, or even what she does with her life with you, is largely her responsibility. It might help you to try and paint a picture in your mind of what would be a fulfilling relationship for you, and see if you can pin down some specifics for yourself compared with the situation right now that you can then take to her. But yeah, you're not going to get anywhere fast without actually talking to her, mate. Good luck.

>>28149

> I also feel like I can't talk about how I really feel about things with her, and that I 'act' a lot around her just to get by.


Unfortunately, this is a pretty straightforward and critical sign that the two of you aren't a good match and aren't meant for each other.

If this is a persistent thing, then the two of you are better off just breaking it off. You may think that it wouldn't be fair on her to just leave her to bumble about through life without you, but it also isn't fair on you to have to stick with her just because the thought of her being on her own worries you. You're supposed to be her boyfriend, not her social worker.

I'm also not sure that this is something that can really be worked out. You aren't just magically going to become soul mates just because you sit down and have a talk about all these things. You either are, or you aren't. And I've seen couples like you two stick together for many years, but in the end always coming back to the realisation that all this time, they were never able to talk to each other, which then made them feel like their relationship was a big waste of time looking back.

I had a relationship like that once, and right after we broke up, a friend actually asked me why I was sad to no longer be with somebody that I very obviously never had much to talk to about. I got angry at him at the time, but probably more because he had hit a nerve. And the revelation came a few months later when I met another lass, and we spent six hours nonstop, without interruption, just talking to each other in my car in a car park on our first date. And I remember going home that night just feeling dumbstruck that that kind of thing was possible. We didn't end up becoming an actual couple because despite our ability to keep a conversation going together for hours on end, we were just too different. But it was a revelation nonetheless, and it opened my eyes for the first time to the fact that if nobody else, your partner really should be the person you can talk to better than anybody else.

>>28149

I could have very well written this post myself nine months ago.

Other lads have given some insightful advice, and I'm probably going to be clouded in judgement because of how much it feels like it hits home, but what I can tell you is that I got out of there and I'm completely glad that I did.

With distance and separation, it became clear to me that my sense of duty, care, and compassion towards a girl I perceived as naive and helpless were utterly misguided. She may have seemed defenceless and innocent but in reality she was perfectly capable of looking after herself- Better so than me, in fact, and I have to seriously question whether she was purposely exploiting and emotionally blackmailing me. I'm not saying it's the case for you, lad, but it's very easy not to realise when you are being manipulated; and the people who do that kind of thing to you will make it very difficult to judge with clarity.

What really made it apparent for me, is how she spent a couple of hours crying and begging me not to leave her- But after that, it was like a switch had flipped. She dropped the act and I saw I side of her I never imagined, a vengeful and nasty woman who I can only assume never really cared for me as a person, but merely for the status of being a "successful adult" in a relationship and had a flat together etc etc. She had no friends to speak of while we were together, but she didn't have any problem making new ones the moment I broke up with her. It was a revelation.

The most important part of this is, as another lad has said, you don't feel like you can talk to her. I was the same. When I look back on it it was crazy, sometimes I felt genuinely afraid to show my true feelings in case it started an argument, and that's a big indicator something is wrong. The times I did talk to her, nothing changed. If you can't open up to a person, and if that person dismisses it when you do, it simply cannot last.

Obviously I am assuming a lot from an imageboard post but I feel like you could do with hearing this kind of perspective.

>>28188

>you don't feel like you can talk to her. I was the same. When I look back on it it was crazy, sometimes I felt genuinely afraid to show my true feelings in case it started an argument, and that's a big indicator something is wrong.

That is definitely not good. And it is often something that didn't just happen because a relationship took a wrong turn somewhere, something that you can just go back to and undo, but it's been that way from the beginning. Because quite often, when you first meet somebody, you know instinctively that you need to play a certain role in order for that person to really find you attractive and go out with you. And a relationship then unfolds on the false premise that you are a kind of person that you really aren't.

>>8256
>I'm going to try getting shitfaced tonight and hopefully get whatever shit is going on in my head out of my system.
I find it doesn't help do that at all, just puts it off until tomorrow night when you'll want to use it as an excuse to do the same thing again.

>>8256
Well done. You need a hobby, something which eequires focus. You’ll be alright.

Today I woke up at 2pm, dawdled for as long as I could, and went to get booze around 6ish. My attempts to force myself to be sensible have backfired as I bought a "small" amount of booze which is about to run out. The last offy within walking distance closes/stops serving booze at midnight but I won't be rushing out, I'll be suffering through the alkie's worst nightmare, a waking hangover. Because I deliberately sat here and fucked around typing this post when I realised I might just about have enough time to still rush there.

If I hadn't done this I would have bought maybe 6 cans of stella, 6 cans of desperados, probably a bottle of WKD because they've been on special offer for ages and they offer a great deal of sentimental value to me, plus a little bottle of some kind of cleanish tasting vodka that I could nip at my bedside between lapsing in and out of consciousness between now and Sunday morning by which time I'd be back at the off-licence looking for more. This would have cost me a lot of money that I probably need for bills and stuff but would happily spend on booze anyway.

Cheers.

>>8259

12 cans between now and Sunday isn't much of a habit lad. Talk to your GP, get on naltrexone and get clean (if you want to). Naltrexone can take a habit down from 24 cans a day to 6 cans a day in under a week, even in a hardened alkie like me, you just need to want to stop. 6 cans is practically social drinking.

>>8260
I drink cans on Champions league nights almost exclusively these days and feel anxious about if 4 will do me till the footy ends, which does make his habit seem small fry, but he could be a she or just be alcohol intolerant.

On the topic of quitting though, I don't know how I manage to keep it just to 4 once a week as I used to have a 6 a night weekday habit and a two bottle of bourbon weekend one, but I do (for now) and motivation to stop is definitely the key. I didn't get a prescription to help me quit, I never asked for help actually, I just weaned myself down over the course of two years. I get anxious if I don't have alcohol in the house, but don't drink it unless there is football on. I don't know how I conditioned that aversion, but it's powerful.

Sage for rambling.

>>18270

Fair point - a lot of IoT stuff is complete dogshit in terms of security and maintainability.

>>18271
It's like they say, the "S" in IoT stands for "security".

>>18271
>>18272
I swear this seems to be general knowledge now and yet everybody is still buying all this crap.

>>18283

Because it's still convenient. My mum doesn't give a shit if the government listens to her, she's an old woman and just wants to be able to ask Alexa to play her music for her so she doesn't have to learn how Spotify works. Also in her words - "well they say my phone does the same thing don't they? What's the difference?" and she does sort of have a point, doesn't she? ECHELON is still a thing and even us paranoid nerds won't go as far as refusing to carry a GPS linked microphone in our pockets everywhere we go.

>>18245
Didn't someone get burnt once for ordering pressure cookers and something else?
All online purchases and cc transactions are most assuredly monitored by dozens of third parties anyway, for various reasons.

>>2487
Here you go lad I think this will work.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/era-pvcu-locking-window-snaplock-white/9600t

>>2487
or one of these if you really don't give a fuck.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/smith-locke-heavy-duty-hasp-staple-zinc-158mm/7353p

>>2489
That's perfect, thank you.

Nope. Nope. As soon as I heard his voice, I stopped the video. Not watching that.

>>22293

Good for you, it is badly delivered meandering tedious crap.

I thought it was a very well made review of an existential masterpiece of a game.

I've watched a lot of Kim Justice videos in the past and they've always been very good, not seen that one mind.

I'll just leave this here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62K01nSla4

>>27047
Ubiquiti make the best wireless gear around at the moment. It is cheap, the software is extremely high quality - so good that we use it at work, and I believe you could probably have a base station that extends your campus network.

If at all possible, I'd just ask the campus IT team to fix the signal blackspot.

Failing that, option one is to use a wifi repeater, which will connect to the campus network and create a new access point. I wouldn't particularly recommend this, because they tend to be quite flaky. It's also highly likely that the campus IT team will detect and remove your repeater for security reasons - unauthorised wifi access points are a major security issue.

The other option is to use a wifi adapter with a high-gain antenna. Alfa Networks sell a wide range of high-power wifi adapters and high-gain antennas, which are hugely popular among the long-range wifi crowd.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-AWUS036NHA-Adapter-150-Mbps-802-11b/dp/B004Y6MIXS/

>>14887
>odd hill to die on.
This phrase is getting a lot of use lately. Not here, just around.

>>14889
Didn't they even report them for the egregious spelling on display? They went crying to the mods because someone disagreed with them?

Christ, lads. Sort yourselves out.

>>14890

It was for bypassing a wordfilter (saying terroris.t) but I have my doubts that this was what it was really about. Considering the entire discussion was about terrorism I thought it was fair enough.

I realise it could have been though and I read too much into it, which is why I deleted that post and you've RUINED EVERYTHING

>>14891
Bypassing the word filter like that has always been ban worthy here.

>>14892

Oops.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>62649
Exactly.

Nissan and now honda are shutting plants in Britain and moving production to Japan thanks to the fucking EU signing up to a free trade agreement with the fucking Nips so that they can make the cars over there and not have to worry about import tariffs when they bring them over here.

>>62650
Bloody free trade, eh?

>>62645
I think it was a significant factor that Ed kept having awkward photographs taken of him that the press were able to exploit.

>>62652
He was just a second-rate Michael Gove in that respect.

>>62651
I know, right. Moggy is right to push for WTO terms.

>>18123
Naturally the nutters are out in force suggesting a (literal) false flag.
https://twitter.com/ShoebridgeC/status/1097115589846466560

>>18136
Miserable cunt doesn't know about Occams Razor.

Students on a Saturday night - probably a week in the planning.

I bought my S&P stocks in May this year when the index started showing signs of recovering from its slump a few weeks earlier. I was right to do so, as it turned out, hoping that strong corporate gains from Trump's tax cuts would offset QE tightening. but I then kind of missed the boat because obviously the S&P has plummeted since the ATH in early October.

Really didn't think we would go from ATH to bear market in just ten weeks.

Glad I made the right call on the FTSE though. My pertaining portfolio would be worth nearly 15 percent less now, i.e. worse than the index's performance. Sold it all near the market high. With Brexit, it's not where you want your money in the foreseeable future.

>>7447

>chasing / waiting out losses to rebound never, ever works

It depends. In a strong uptrend with the stock of a fundamentally healthy company, against the backdrop of a strong economy and other positive market determinants, an intermittent dip can be waited out. On the other hand, nobody tells you when that strong uptrend will fizzle out and a stock is going significantly lower with no hope of bouncing back to your break even point.

>>7448
>With Brexit, it's not where you want your money in the foreseeable future.

Value stocks are exceedingly cheap, relative to their fundamentals. I'd expect there to be a cyclical change in 2019 from growth stocks, particularly tech ones, to value stocks performing strongly. If you're prepared to hold then there's bargains to be had.

>>7450

>Value stocks are exceedingly cheap, relative to their fundamentals

That's a double edged sword though. There are two reasons why stocks can be cheap relative to fundamentals, for example if you take earnings multiples. One is that the market is genuinely oversold due to a sudden panic that just dragged profitable companies down with all the rest of the stocks. That indeed presents a buying opportunity. We had that in many (European) indexes right after the Brexit vote, where the overall picture for the coming months or year was nowhere near as grim as it seemed on the day of the Brexit sell off.

The other possibility, however, is that stocks are cheap relative to current earnings because they are expensive relative to future earnings. That's a huge pitfall right there. A stock may trade at 12 times 2018 earnings at the moment, and that's a decent price earnings ratio, but if your earnings are feared to go down 40 percent in 2019, as they very well might with some stocks if the economic outlook worsens, then suddenly you have a PER for 2019 (at the current stock price) of exactly 20. And as a value investor, that's no sweet spot to get in on. It's very likely that your stock will not have seen its bottom despite a recent slump. Your stock would have to go down another 40 percent to get you the same kind of PER of 12 for 2019 as it does now for 2018.

Having said that, I think markets are at the moment pricing in that there could be a recession. But as markets often do, they tend to exaggerate the actual big picture. At the point where we are at right now, after almost an entire month of ceaseless panic selling and a whole 4th quarter of sizeable overall down movement, there is a good chance we've undershot even the grimmest worst case scenarios for 2019 and beyond. Stocks are really remarkably oversold right now, going by various technical indicators. There is at least some room for short-term speculation to the upside again.

Did you sell out at the absolute arse end of the market fall and miss out on the subsequent rally, OP?

Personally some of my recent (for me) go-to albums for coding are:

- LTJ Bukem's Logical Progression - drum n bass but quite chilled with it.

- Kruder & Dormeister's K&D Sessions, specifically CD1.

Showing my age, they were from 96 and 98 I think.

Sweet Trip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZlNt05dCX8

>>11597
>- Kruder & Dormeister's K&D Sessions, specifically CD1.

Fantastic album - one of the best mixes I have heard.

>>11600

Their mix of Bug Powder Dust is one of my favourites of all time.

>>11601
Couldn't agree more - it's the standout track of that album and probably one of the most played tracks I have.

That and the Lamb track of the same album, Trans Fatty Acid.

>>62629
How many times have you watched a sunset?

She's a mentalist, makes sense with her being on the remain side and all that.

>>62635
Agreed.

Especially as this guy here is the pinnacle of sanity:

https://my.mixtape.moe/vsxrbd.webm

>>62629
I'd rather see the one on the left with her kit off to be honest.

I'm alright lar

Hidden threads are like buses, it would seem.

>>62631
That is a genuinely distressing image.

That's proper cheap, novelty bondage gear though, all velcro and plastic and cuffs you can undo yourself. He's clearly not really into this sort of thing or he'd have better gear.

>>22720
For me it's comics. When I was a kid a comic was a treat, a small one but a treat nonetheless. You had to at least be good for half an hour first while you went around the supermarket with your mum. Now I can just sit in bed reading years and years of Spider-Man in one go on my tablet whenever I have a couple of days off. There's a part of me that still wants to pinch myself even as a 30 year old man.

>>22723

For me it's online chess. I used to dream of the day when I'd be old enough to get the bus into town and play against good players every week. By the time I was old enough I had very much lost interest in chess, but now I'm a boring old man and I can play blitz against strong players at any hour of the day or night on my phone. If you'd told the nine-year-old me that one day it would be possible to watch lectures by grandmasters or play in chess tournaments on a little glowing slab, he would have been delirious with excitement.

Also YouTube in general - it's now possible to curate your own nerdy TV channel that's full of fascinating weirdos. TV is a lot stupider and more facile than it used to be, but it almost doesn't matter.

>>22724
Have you played Dennis Bell of Torquay?

Not quite the same but I've been spending too much time and money in B&Q lately; it feels like being a kid in Toys R Us.

>>22723
>>22724
>>22726

For me it's Darknet drugs and prostitutes that get delivered in Ubers. Now this is a future I can get behind IYKWIM .