>>7264

>borderlinesleeve

Thanks for the warning, pet.

I just read Infinite Jest.

>>7269
What did you think of it lad?

I read it years ago and thought it was a decent book.

>>7270
Yeah, I liked it. Really liked it in fact, the more I think about it the more I like it. There are some passages that are an absolite slog and I think it could have been trimmed down by about 100 pages but it's probably one of the best books I've ever read or will read.

>>7224
> Seppos are just weird when it comes to dating, like it being fine to see other people at the same time until you become 'exclusive'.

I've never gone out with a yank to compare, but I've found that concept to be fairly widespread everywhere I've been around western Europe and South America. I think it's also fairly common in the UK but we're either old or just a bit sad. Or both.

>>8721

You need to think long term, that's what tracker funds are all about. Will you lose money tomorrow, next week, next month? Probably, maybe. Will you lose money over the next ten or fifteen years? Probably not, and you'll be slightly to mostly better off as compared to it sitting in an savings ISA.

>>8721
Time to produce a crash, politic fight now!

>>8722
Inflation...

>>8774
What do you mean?

>>8773
>>8774
That was last week. But thanks for letting me know the bonus has gone in today.

The rozzers have dropped the rape case against francois.

https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1337874312762707969

>>67691
I am genuinely disappointed - would have been an excellent end to the year.

Fuckin l

>>68973
If someone's parents call them "Robert Roberts" what else could you expect of them.

>>68973
Imagine being a gay twentysomething Conservative activist, and being told, "Nope; you're still too alluring." It would be like Bruce Willis winning Hair of the Year.

>>33638
Sponge Bob?

He's clearly going to silence bumb them. It's the most insidious form of bumming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkQEq75y18

If history teaches us anything is that history teaches us nothing.

>>33660

Never cared much for Hegel.

>>68839

This sounds like a repetition of the thesis of a book called 'From Time Immemorial' by Joan Peters, which was popular on its release in part because it worked in service to justify what's happening in Palestine.

This was back in the 1980s, so the book was basically discredited by the time it reached UK reviewers and scholars. Then Defence Secretary Ian Gilmour pointed out that it essentially ignores Arab sources in his London Review of Books article. It was even dismissed by an Israeli historian as a "forgery".

A lot of the actual work in exposing the fraud was done by Norman Finkelstein, and this is just one of the reasons he's now unpopular in American intellectual circles (which are often quite firmly pro-Israel).

I personally haven't read the book nor the ample criticism, and have only heard of the argument through my study of Chomsky. He talks about it here in an excerpt from his book, 'Understanding Power': https://chomsky.info/power01/

>>68839
Whereas I suppose every Israeli is indigenous.

>>68841
Seppos innit, to be taken with a pinch of salt. People who claim to be Irish because their great-great-grandad once drunk a pint of Guinness.

>>68816
Forged any new marriage certificates, George?

>>68825
>ISRAELIS HAVE NO GOOD REASON TO BE THERE IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE

Well, surely most of them were born there these days and those before migrated under British law.

We need to trick them into getting killed.

I downloaded the Borrowbox app and signed up to my local library services that use it. Have ebooks and audiobooks

Tried audiobookbay?

>>7185
Buy stolen credit card info from the dark web and use it to pay for Audible. It's as good as free.

>>7199
You can get a Quickbooks accounts for free if you enter 0's in the direct debit information area, at least you could when I worked there a year back. Or you can just say you're an accountant and get the full package free.

I wonder how often these cracks are available, but simply just not attempted because of how stupid it would be for it to work.

>>7233

"China lighting a fire vs. India lighting a fire."

Shots fired.

>>33495
Fuck off, you screencapping twat.

>>33496
Here you go, sensitivelad.

>A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese Communist Party has sparked controversy for appearing to mock India over its coronavirus crisis. The post on Chinese site Weibo showed an image of a rocket launch in China alongside a photo of the bodies of Covid victims being cremated in India. Text with it read: "Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India."

>The post, which appeared on Saturday afternoon, has since been deleted. It was reportedly published by an account belonging to an official Chinese law enforcement agency - the Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - which has millions of followers on Weibo, a popular microblogging site in the country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56963996

>>33495
>The west lighting a fire and then being asked about said fire

>>33497
This does bring up the broader point for me on the Indo-Pacific tilt that you still get that assumption that India will somehow counter-balance China if we pump it up. In reality the country is a mess more in need of basic developmental assistance and when it does have any strength it uses it to advance causes like Hindu-nationalism rather than supporting international stability.

The whole mode of thinking seems broken, China is a monster because we made it a monster with globalisation and our idea of counter-balancing the USSR made that okay.

It is probably practice play fighting, like gang fights. Some people are simply violent.

They're good. They're solid cars and there's so many of them you can get parts easily.

Most kei cars are a bit annoying on a motorway, but still capable of doing 70+ so are usable. The Wagon R's in this country are all 1.3's, I think, which is a vast improvement on most kei csrs with 660cc motors, for highway driving.

I'd say get one. There's a reason they're always driven by sensible pensioners. Your only alternatives for affordable microcampers are really kangoos or berlingos, but I would struggle to reccomended either, I simply have had too many problems with french cars in the past.

I'm probably going to do a similar thing with a Nissan Elgrand or Totota Alphard, but they are mich more costly to run and buy.

>>4556

Forgot to say that the only way you'll really know how they are on a motorway is trying it. We all have different tolerances; I can quite happily sit at 75mph in a rag top sports car for hours, while others would see that as a form of hell.

My grandads kangoo did seem quite unstable at motorway speeds, but if you drove it like a van rather than a car it was fine.

>>4556
I've had a Citroën for about four years and have had no issues other than having to replace the battery, which I think was in part due to barely driving last year. That said, the new Berlingo is incredibly garish.

It might be above budget but I'd probably go for a Ford Transit Courier. A Skoda Roomster may fit the bill.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104161453618

Most campers, except the very modern or high end, are rubbish on the motorway due to a realistic crusing speed of 50/60mph leaving you dicing with HGV's in the inside lane.
Most are essentially large commercial vans with the camper interior being pretty much gross vehicle weight.

As for the Wagon R, its pretty much a rebodied Suzuki Swift which is a good reliable if un remarkable car.

>>2928
Depending on what condition the teeth are in, you could probably polish the rust off and it'll cut soft wood, but I doubt it's worth it. A £10 saw from B&Q will be way better.

>>2928
It should come up a treat if you replace the blade and handle.

If the teeth are sharp and straight then absolutely. If they're not then still probably.

There's loads of lads on youtube who restore tools, they're a lovely watch, but it's definitely more of a passion project than an objectively good idea when it comes to replacable tools with no sentimental value.

It's too rusted for the teeth to be sharp. Saws are sharpenable, but it's not something I'd suggest tackling unless you've got a reasonable amount of experience with sharpening chisels and plane blades. Probably not worth the effort TBH. The rest should come up fine with a bit of elbow grease.

>>2928
White vinegar and some scrubbing - maybe oil/replace some handles. Nice little haul.

>>93686
>Most of the money went into large companies suffering financial difficulties in an attempt to save jobs, rather than going into new companies that might create new jobs.
I will go to my grave quite angry that I can't remember the source of a wonderful quote to the extent of "The National Enterprise Board was imagined as a socialist maternity unit, unfortunately it was quickly turned into a capitalist nursing ward" which perfectly summed up how it was messed up: If I remember correctly the vast bulk of their budget went to British Leyland.
Which makes me wonder if the NEB can really be given the blame, except perhaps for failing at what it set out to do by blowing all its money on boring not-all-that-high-tech companies. If you instead imagine that the government just bailed out Rolls Royce and British Leyland as before while leaving the tech sector to the free market without any interference from the NEB or MinTech or any of that, is it really likely Britain would be in a much more impressive place today?
Japan and the US both had much larger domestic markets than Britain, and even then a British company created the ARM architecture that powers most smartphones nowadays, though we don't seem to make much a fuss about that.

But I'm thinking aloud there instead than making a direct argument in defense of the NEB - I'm not familiar with the specifics of its involvement in technology, and while I know that ARM is ultimately derived from Acorn of BBC Micro fame (leaving open some kind of "We coddled them, now they're soft" case for why they seem quite overlooked.) I can't say I'm familiar enough with their corporate history to comment either. It's just that it seems quite possible that the big problem with the NEB (as with the Wilson-Callaghan government as a whole in my view) is not that it was "too left wing" or too willing to interfere in the market, but that it was too orthodox, too small-c conservative, too "common sense", and that we'd have gotten better results if it had been throwing money around more freely, with less conditions and oversight while leaving failing old names to fend for themselves. Something that would sit ill at ease with both Callaghan (who couldn't bare to be so irresponsible) and with Thatcher (who'd quite like the state to get the hell out of the way of the market, thank you very much.), and which would still be a controversial proposal today.

>>93692

I don't particularly disagree with your line of reasoning. What the Yanks did was barely rational, certainly very difficult to justify in narrow economic terms, but it ultimately worked miraculously well.

A Conservative government would probably have bollocksed it up in a slightly different fashion, but the Wilson government still deserves plenty of scorn for their awful industrial policy. It's all counterfactual speculation, but the problems with the tech sector weren't just neglect - the NEB (and the wider government) exerted a huge amount of control and steered a lot of companies down blind alleys. While I can't say that we would have been a tech superpower, we certainly squandered what advantages we had.

ARM is a perfectly British success story - their technology was incredibly innovative, it became ubiquitous but ARM never actually made much money. IIRC they had an operating income of ~£150m before Softbank bought them, which is basically pocket change in tech terms.

I'm told we're a global leader in biotech, but I don't know enough about the industry to speculate about the reasons or even say if that's an accurate assessment.

>>93689
Do you think innovation isn't real or something?

>>93693
Massive inequality feeds into this surely. The rich Americans today throw money at anything, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, they will spooge cash at anybody. Its not simply state driven.

>>93698

See >>93686

>>2947
There isn't but you could make one, or this could be it.

>>2935
Aphids fucked my two kalenchoes despite me using everything advised, they're like little terminators and just keep coming back somehow out of thin air. Months on and I still have to check them daily and I'm still finding 3-5 a week on one of them. Nothing seems to have worked and I've given up at this point. I tried a chemical bug spray specifically for aphids on one, and while it's been the most aphid free, it's stopped growing and looks like it's dying. Can't seem to bloody win.

>>2947
>are you all just more interested in pissing in compost?

You say that like its a bad thing?

Why are the tips of my Alocasia turning yellow?

I really don't want to kill this one...

>>2951
It could be because you're over-watering it, or under watering it, over-feeding it or under-feeding it. Does it get enough light? It's quite pale.

>>68959
We need our top men looking into this.

That's what happens when you don't hire De La Rue.

>>68958
They're made in France, what did you expect?

The new passports are made with special colour-changing covers. The more patriotic you are, the bluer the cover is. I'd explain more but I refuse to speak to traitors.

They'll shaft you every time.

>>33634
Presumably it's the only chance a village in Berkshire gets to participate in BLM.

>>33634
It was quite mooving.

>>33646

>>33646
Welsh Black lives matter.

>>33649
I thought he meant Bovine.

>>68951

Shouldn't film students be better at making films? I suppose it depends how far into the course they are.

>>68952
I suppose so, but then would you let a student dentist in your mouth?

>>68953
Depends how fit they are.

Hold on a minute. Isn't one of these lesbians the same lesbian from this old /x/ thread?

>>>/x/33433

>>68953
isn't that one of the only ways to get reasonably priced dentistry in this country?

>>68942
>There’s a white car and a black car who are best friends and love to race. Chase, the black car, is a better car racer than his best friend, white car Ace.

Come on, this has to be satire.

>>68948
Try this.


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

>>68931
>I'M MORE INTELLIGENT THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON

Fucking hell.

>>68955
Rmemebr where you are.

>>68956
That's what makes it so unlikely!

>>68901
Always wondered about 'The Dark Destroyer'. Is there a Guardian opinion article on this?

>>68907
He's called that because he's black. Black people have dark skin, hence 'Dark Destroyer'.

>>68908
He's called that because he's got a large knob. Black people have large knobs. Hence 'Dark Destroyer'.

>>68914
I bet being black and having a small knob is worse than being white and having a small knob.

>>68914
>>68915

Don't make me post the penis size study again lads. the bbc is a racialist myth.

Did they at least tell you if they're supposed to be ornamental or food crops?

>>2942
Nope, there was just a sign on the ground saying FREE PLANTS TAKE ONE.

>>2941
Will give it a go, cheers.

>>2943

>Nope, there was just a sign on the ground saying FREE PLANTS TAKE ONE.

Sounds like a Triffid plot to me.

Did you identify this, OP? My guess would be a strawberry plant.

>>2945
I haven't, yet. The best I got back for the plant on the left is a daisy. This is what they look like now.

>>41993

Smart's Kirsten O'Brien

Miranda Richardson is 63 today and still proper bang tidy. She sort of looks like that Rose person one of you used to keep posting, but actually attractive.

That Joanna Gosling who does the news is lovely for a 50 y/o.