>>4552
I'm starting to get worried that maybe the mods are starting to have lives outside of this place.

>>4552
Yeah, there has been a lot of shite and shite all done about it lately. The vibe of the whole site's getting thrown out of whack.

Stop posting threads on the wrong boards, you scum! How hard is that, for Goodness sake?

>>4553
Fuck's sake. I don't remember agreeing to this.

You cunts were complaining about overmoderation a couple of months ago.

I'm just going to delete every other post and let the chips fall where they may

>>4549
Always /lab/, always geolocates to the same area of Britain, FFS you're an actual kiddy fiddler, please just fuck off.

>>84378

You just can't comprehend his twelve-dimensional chess level swamp draining master plan.

>>84384

I can because autism

We are legion

>>84398
I spent way to long looking for a smokester in this image, only to come to the realisation you're a clown with less wit than an Ed Miliband after-dinner speech.

>>84399

DERP

>>84368

insert anti-Semitic joke here

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>84498
A lower calibre of politician. Even in 1997, The Times was calling Theresa May out on being a Robo-Politician.
Blair, Brown and Prescott were equally a step down from men like Callaghan, Healey and Benn who'd fought in the war, and even they were the B-team to Attlee and Churchill.

The other problems are economics and time. You've already got weaker raw material (political personalities), now you've got to satirise them on a shoestring budget, and you need to have the whole thing written, filmed, edited and on telly by next week because we want it to be topical and even on this timescale, by next week your satire is going to seem dated. Under these circumstances, is it surprising you get so many out-of-touch, received wisdom, this-isn't-very-funny takes on Trump, May and Corbyn from people in the same social circle?

>>84499
I think even apart from alternative news, it's partially the collapse of mass media. Even if you stick to a single news site, the non-linear way you can explore it means we could both come out of a visit to the BBC News site with a completely different impression of the world. Compare with television where you'd got 4 broadly similar channels and you had to pick one of them even if it meant sitting through a documentary about flower arranging.

>>84501
On Trump, I like the line a friend gave me from the Simpsons: The pie gag only works when the sap's got dignity!
The Clinton campaign shooting itself in the foot was quite funny, if you're a bit of a political wonk type of a certain persuasion, but Trump clowning around wasn't funny because he was just an undignified clown. He couldn't lower himself, and Bush had already lowered the office.

>>84505
>You've already got weaker raw material (political personalities), now you've got to satirise them on a shoestring budget, and you need to have the whole thing written, filmed, edited and on telly by next week because we want it to be topical and even on this timescale, by next week your satire is going to seem dated.

HIGNFY gave up long ago and is now largely "here's some things we hastily found on Twitter."

>>84505
> Even in 1997, The Times was calling Theresa May out on being a Robo-Politician. Blair, Brown and Prescott were equally a step down from men like Callaghan, Healey and Benn who'd fought in the war, and even they were the B-team to Attlee and Churchill.

Hear, hear.

>>84498

feral utopianism, where political ideology is transformed into a perverse caricature of faith.

>>84635>>84634>>84637>>84633>>84639
Got a visa, lad?

>>84540
Yeah how dare anyone suggest what happened was her fault.

Brexit aside, I've properly got the horn for Penny Mordaunt.

>>84542

She looks like she's into pegging.

>>84543

Woof.

The worthless childless hag of the worthless Tory party. It really should have been thrown on the scrap heap long ago, sadly tribalist fools keep it alive.

>>84549
>>84551
>>84550
I agree the letters are shite and could use a change in tone.

While they reiterate that watching without a licence is illegal, they should talk about the great BBC programming that your licence fee funds. Like public television does in the US when they do their pledge drives. Or maybe they could provide a breakdown of where your money goes, like the government does for your tax bill. God knows that is sorely needed so they can admit how much they are giving Jonathan Ross and the like.

>>84613
They could frame it as a way to vote for what you want to see on telly. British programming: it's locally sourced, supporting small businesses and not in the hands of EU or US political propaganda. That should appeal to everyone.

>>84614
Hmm. Up to a point, mind. I can't imagine anything worse than giving the British public full control over the broadcast schedule.

>>51150

our worthless utopian comprehensives are to blame, copied from the awful American high school model.

Is it time for the grammars to return?

>>84633

There's no evidence that grammar schools actually provide a better education once you correct for the effects of selection. Of course schools that only select the brightest students get better exam results.

>>27854

Could you talk to Citizens Advice? There may be a way for you to spread the cost over a few months.

You're working for an accountancy firm and studying for the AAT? You should have decent prospects once you've got experience and qualifications under your belt.

>>27854
What was the job?

There are a bunch of jobs (banking, finance and accountancy, sounds like you're in the last group) - where you need reasonably good credit - there is a big difference between missing a couple of payments, which will limit your ability to get a loan or mortgage, and an actual CCJ. How much is the CCJ for? Have you satisfied (ie paid) it? What story did you have around that? Did they specifically ask you about whether you had any judgements against you?

>>27857
This. Certain regulated professions can only admit individuals who are "of good character" or "a fit and proper person". That means no unspent convictions, no undischarged bankrupcies, no defaults, no CCJs, no disqualifications. Your record doesn't have to be totally unblemished, it just needs to have no massive black marks.

>>27856

Regrettably it's not for a firm, it's first line tech support for some accounting software. Since we're talking about it all day a lot of people study for accounting qualifications during downtime. There's a lot of very smart, very unmotivated people there.

>>27857

PPI Claims handling for Santander. I took out a couple of credit cards in uni, paid back one but just tried to pretend the other one didn't exist. I'd kind of forgotten about it, somehow, and applied for jobs in the meantime (this was a few years ago) and actually got through at least 2 interview processes where I was asked if I had a CCJ and I said 'no'. Wasn't until a third interview I got a call and asked if I knew anything about it. In the past couple of years I've just kind of mentioned it if asked directly otherwise not brought it up.

>How much is the CCJ for?

£370 odd last I remembered. I'm currently racking up some council tax fees as well, which wouldn't be a problem if I wasn't on SSP at the moment. Which wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't currently a fuck up in the payroll dept affecting all employees on SSP. Felt like I was so close to scraping by but with an upward trajectory. Now that feels shot.

> Your record doesn't have to be totally unblemished, it just needs to have no massive black marks.

Got no criminal record but presumably my credit rating is disgraceful. Other than the CCJ there's nothing else I can think of that's on paper, other than the lingering feeling that I should have been more responsible with my money and not become a raging depressive alcoholic through my early twenties. But hey I survived so there's that.

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>>40702
>People with a BMI of between 25 and 30 are classified as "overweight", but they in fact have a slightly higher healthy life expectancy than people classified as having a "normal weight".

From what I understand that figure is distored by when people get weighed. The records that get collected are usually from hospitals at time of death and things like cancer, and other wasting illnesses cause people to shed a lot of weight.

>>40703

We find the same thing when we do large-scale population studies with a representative sample of the general public. It's entirely possible that the results are still confounded by ill people losing weight, but the effect size is relatively small - an "overweight" woman would expect about 18 months more healthy life expectancy than a woman of "normal" weight. Based on the available evidence, it just doesn't seem to matter very much as long as your BMI is within the 20-30 range, but matters a great deal if you start creeping outside of it.

If you're within that range, I think it's far more important to concentrate on the stuff we are confident about - eat a sensible diet with plenty of vegetables, stick within the recommended alcohol intake, get at least 30 minutes of exercise five times a week and stay off the fags.

The extremes are much more important than the average. Getting no exercise at all is absolutely terrible for you, but you get nearly all of the health benefits of exercise just by walking the dog. A lot of respectable middle-class drinkers are headed for the liver ward because they're downing two bottles of wine every night. Being a bit tubby is fine, but you need to have a word with yourself if you shop at Jacomo or Simply Be. It's mostly common sense, TBH.

Please don't bring up "large scale population studies" in this kind of thread. Imagine, years from now, someone trying to tug themselves off and they come across, so to speak, these great walls of text. Have you no consideration?

>>40705

If you don't like it, tough. I had my fun, and that's all that matters.

>>40705

I second that

>>28049

>kicks your ass, destroys all that he cannot carry and takes a shit on your favourite carpet

Moving the goalposts a bit from 'poor people commit crimes for economic reasons' m8

>>28051

Almost all poor people that I had the misfortune to meet have a mindset that can be condensed in: "I was born poor and I had a shittier life than yours, so I am justified in behaving in the shittiest way possible."

>>28051
I understand his objection, if not his cuntyness. The majority of poor people don't just go around swindling and burgling, and their personal ethics will be a big part of that. Meanwhile I know very wealthy people who have similarly strict morals and are the sort of people who would never fuck others over given the opportunity.

>>28050

necrocunting

>>28049
>kicks your ass
Go home, Yank.

>>16891

>Who can after-all forget the classic of American indoctrination:

Fuck. no.

>>16891
I think they were just pissing about in most of them.


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

>>16892

Isn't that more the case of Americans of the more paranoid variety mistaking advise = da ebul gubbmamint taking away our freedums

>>16899

I guess you're not really free unless you are free to be fat.

>>16891
> 'nudge theory'
Thanks for reminding me how it's called. I've been trying to recall that bloody title since the morning.
Autism thoroughly checked.

I work with a French guy, often after hanging up on customers he quietly signs off with "off you fuck".

>>421059

I was at a company retreat once where somebody from another office introduced himself as Richard Ryder.

He insisted on being called Richard.

I like the way the Cambridge Dictionary pronunciation people said "meh". They really put their hearts into it.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meh

Does the Collins one sigh into the mic after?

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/meh

>>421149
I prefer the Tucker classic 'Fuckity-bye'.

Any really effective drug is going to come with side effects, so I'd encourage you to think about the underlying causes first.

The biology for hunger and satiety is a bit more complex than most people acknowledge. You might do well to read up on hormonal regulators like leptin and ghrelin, and what affects them. For example, losing sleep can affect how we experience hunger and how we digest food.

The solution to your problem could be something as simple as eating slower, giving you a chance to feel satiated before eating too many calories.

It's well known that people are capable of eating a lot more calories from hyper-palatable foods like chocolate or salted chips/skinny fries. Something as simple as adding highly satiating foods like protein or vegetables, in place of snacks, might help.

Also, are you on any drugs for which increased appetite is a known side effect? Antidepressants, steroids, etc.?

It's also worth asking, are you currently underweight or overweight? Often our perceptions of our bodyweight dont line up with the reality. Have you experienced any kind of disordered eating in the past?

>>4738
I drink quite a lot of water at work. This might sound daft but it feels a bit... thin and hollow is probably the best way to describe it; not filling. Perhaps I just need to add lemon or honey to it.

>>4739
I'm not on any drugs. I'm about 5'11" and I'm not entirely sure on my weight; I think it's somewhere around 12 stone. I'm reaching the point where I'm going to have to go from 32" jeans to 34" ones.

I do eat vegetables with most meals. I think the issue might be that I follow a largely vegetarian diet and it simply doesn't fill you the way that meat does.

>>4740
Did you change to this mostly veg diet recently?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you're consciously registering cravings and mid-morning hunger pangs more because you're naturally climbing a jean size as you get older. 34" is fine and the increase is expected at this time of year with the winter gorging and Christmas treats. Eat and be merry now but get on the old bike come January to burn it off before summer.

>>4740
> I'm going to have to go from 32" jeans to 34" ones
I'm 5'7 and a healthy weight and my waist is about about 32" you sound fine.


From a medical point of view you sound perfecly healthy, my crude math says your BMI is 23.5 and your body fat is under 20% if you want to be slimmer you are probably at the point where exercise would be better then dieting.

>>4740
Get some scales. Healthy BMI was 20-25, but lower bound was taken down to 18. Sorry to say, but it's highly unlikely you have some hormonal leptin secretion defect that's influencing your weight. The answer is the same as it's ever been; and it's as horrible as it ever was -- eat less, exercise more.

>>4739
There's a proven link between increased stress and weight gain, and a link between <N hours of sleep and increased stress. Aside from the other bad side effects, this is one way in which caffeinated beverages might hurt somebody on a diet even though they're 0-calorie. They're also diuretics, which I think is bad for appetite regulation.

Check out -- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/being-overweight-linked-to-poorer-memory

That's another mechanism to link lack of sleep and overeating. Dr. Cheke's other research is interesting. The strength of your memory of how recently you eat, will influence when you eat next. If you eat with distractions (eg. using your phone, in front of the TV), you remember the episode less well, and eat your next meal sooner. She's investigating a hypothesis of a causal link between age-related memory impairment, and weight gain in middle age -- people gain weight in middle age; middle age is when memory begins to decline. Lots of interesting research, lots of academics and medics with lots of explanations as to why everybody's fat now. But there's a consensus on the solution, which is, "eat less, exercise more".

Dusseldorf... nothing bad happens in Dusseldorf, does it? Not since The War, anyway. I think I'll move there at some point.

>>422826

Isn't dussel also German for idiot, or something like it?

There was an elderly couple who lived across the street from my parents', and the wife was German.

You could sometimes hear her say to her husband "Du Bist Ein Dussel".

So ARE Terry just survived the vote of confidence.

>>422828
I think it is.
But then, the place is really called Düsseldorf and with those two points above the 'u' it seems to be a different thing. Not the idiot village.

[x] Autism. About time.

>>422860

The notorious German umlauts then.

>>11413

Love a bit of West Side Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xL2RSGhAQ

https://www.mixcloud.com/Moneyshot/dj-moneyshot-presentsshowtune-dummies/

>OK, ready for something REALLY different? I mean something so different that most hip-hop DJs would rather cut off their own hands than even admit to owning this mix? Then you're looking for DJ Moneyshot's "Showtune Dummies!" mix. Yes, for the first time in musical history, a hip-hop/scratch DJ has turned his hand to an entire mix of musicals tunes. Fear not, though it's not (all) Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Grease. Well, not all. There are funny tracks from Avenue Q, Evil Dead: The Musical and Scrubs. It's not hip-hop, but it's flipping funny. All I can suggest is that you get in touch with your inner homosexual and get involved. I'm comfortable enough with my sexuality to bump "Diet! The Musical" in the whip.

>DJ Yoda, HHC, August '08

If music from films in general also counts then this will always hold a place close to my heart.


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

>>22610
It's pretty obvious that a Discord clique has begun to form and they've decided they should spread disinformation to discredit any alternative from of real-time communication.

>>22611

And it's ran by the mods. So if you try and say anything you get banned.

(A good day to you Sir!)
(A good day to you Sir!)
(A good day to you Sir!)

>>22611
Why do you have a chip on your shoulder about posts on a different board, on a different topic, from possibly more than a month ago?

>>22613

I'm pretty sure he was joking m8

>>26953
It's Virgin Media.

Thanks for the info.

Android's messaging application doesn't know the details of your contract, so I would assume it won't cost you anything.

>>26954
Threaten their customer service with GDPR then if they don't unsubscribe you for free. They'll respond quickly.

Turn off Twilight before taking screenshots lad.

>>26957
He can watch whatever he likes, you judgemental git.

>>16817

It essentially means a weakening of the presumption of innocence.

Very generally speaking, police and other authorities can't investigate the average innocent person with no hint at all that they might be guilty of a crime, "just because". The presumption of innocence in this case means that authorities are only allowed to become active when there is an indication that something might be up with you.

But if you gather data from pretty much every citizen for the specific purpose of checking if they have done something illegal, then that's already a few steps removed from the idea that generally speaking, an innocent citizen must be left alone.

Also, the effectiveness of this kind of mass data mining is doubtful. Many European countries have had blanket online data gathering and retention programmes in place, quite a few have also abandoned them again after public protest and high court rulings in those respective countries, and when they evaluated the results of all the data gathering, they very typically found that it didn't significantly reduce online crime itself, or even increase the rate of solved crimes, which had been the biggest argument in favour of the measure. Real professional criminals typically knew how to circumvent the data gathering, as they usually do, and the only people who got caught in slightly increasing numbers were a handful of hapless kiddie porn downloaders and filesharers. But even they increasingly began to successfully cover their tracks.

Most national high courts have ruled that all this did not justify putting an entire country's population under suspicion by keeping all their online data.

>>16818

>in the US, for instance, a sentencing advisor used in some states has been recommending harsher sentences for black people because black people get harsher sentences

And these feedback loops of self evidence are what makes the whole idea so dangerous.

And it already occurs the same way with "heat maps" used by local police in some countries to predict at what time of day which areas of a city could see increased street crime. If you are then unlucky enough, especially as a black person, to be in that area at that time, then you are going to look guilty even if all you really veryfiably did was pass along that street out of sheer coincidence.

And then if you throw AI into the mix, the mere fact that you were in that area at a time when street crime was predicted to be most likely can worsen your crime probability score or whatever you want to call it.

>>16819
Did they really abandon it though or just put under a better cover?
Power trips are tough to let go.

>>16846
I imagine some did what they did in this country and basically legislated to overrule the courts. Remember that "emergency bill" to reinstate "necessary" powers? You know, the powers that the courts had ruled they should not have had?

>>16847

I think Austria axed it completely, as well as the Czech Republic. And I think Frau Merkel's government wanted to go back to data collection after Germany's high court struck it down, banking on loopholes both in EU and German high court rulings, but some ISPs in Germany then sued the government on technicalities. And the end result is that they've got a law that says ISPs must store user data, but the ISPs aren't doing it because they won the lawsuit against the German government.

There was a whole story on that on Zdnet a while ago, pretty fascinating, can't find it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWivwhi14

https://youtu.be/ZpAYnVJX9CY

you lads are sleeping on BAND-MAID ngl

>>11441

I haven't clicked yet but that sounds like a Babymetal rip off.

>>11442

Oh they're actually good though.

The Japanese have been mixing metal/rock with j-pop for a while though. Maximum the Hormone are a prime example of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9Cr0a5dCs

>>12779
MD5 isn't secure, as people have found ways to modify inputs to give the same output.

>>12780
You're confusing collisions with preimage attacks.

>>12773
>100 meters
20, lad. Tell them you can't walk more than 20. Trust me.

>>12782

No problem, if I stay 2 days without taking 'prol and 'mide I am unable to walk 20 meters without gasping for air.

It's been some many years since I played computer games and visited a CEX store but I was always blown away by their ability to absolutely stink.

>>7440
I seen an alleged employ try and claim, on 4chan, this was because "It's a company for greasy moshers, ran by greasy moshers." I replied implying he was the lad who got arrested for raping a lass at the annual festival they do for staff every year and he said she was a liar. I don't know if I accidentially shitposted myself into outing a rapist, but I digress.

CeX is full of the absolute foulest human beings and foulest smelling men and women I've ever had the misfortune of socialising with, with rare exceptions. Some people will say "It attracts smelly bastards." but poor people are poor, not dirty. It's 100% the staff. If you ever go into one run by someone who isn't a balding millenial wearing a Trivium T-shirt, the staff are all young student age men and women who are clean and smell fine. If it is, it reeks like lynx and stale BO and the staff are all fat with bad breath; even the women.

This is fact and can't be disproved.

>>7441

>This is fact and can't be disproved.

The trump defence.

>>7441
I remember once dropping a CV off there and the guy I waited in the queue to give it to said "Give it to the manager" and started serving other people. Didn't know who the manager was so I just stood there until he repeated "Give it to the manager" and I asked him who was the manager, and he pointed to the guy stood next to him, who up until now had been totally ignoring me.

>>7443
I had an interview at CEX as a teenlad jobseeker but didn't get the job. Probably for the best.

>>5901

Why not just replace the zip?

>>5902
I think I've got my money's worth out of them; they were part of a 2 for £20 set from Burton and I got student discount on top of that.

Just yesterday I put on a t-shirt and realised that I had bought it 15 years ago.

>>422667
I have a 22 year old jumper. Stills gets a run out now and then.

>>5904

I have a load of t-shirts from bands that mostly no longer exist, from about fifteen years ago. Nothing makes me feel older or reminds me more of my faded youth.

Amazingly the bloke from Johnny Foreigner is still going though.