People are collecting Celebrations tub lids for next year's poppy displays.

>>20804
Do you work for Big Mars?

>>20804
This is not a normal way to behave.

>>20809
Why do you hate Are Brave Boys?

>>20804
Oh that is upsetting.

>>20790

They should have fired him in March then.

>>20790
I mean, it's definitely about the 737 - but this hasn't helped.

>>20792

Exactly all eyes are on them that they aren't potentially lethal fuck wits and they just went and confirmed they are.

>>20791
I read something that said most of the issues with Boeing recently were inherited from the previous CEO and he was slowly starting to get them back on track. Apparently his successor isn't going to try to change the poor managerial culture they have and will instead make the problems worse through cost cutting and laying people off.

If you're interested in the 737 MAX story, this presentation is brilliant - it recreates in the simulator how hard it was to recover from runaway MCAS failure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlaMQBEg-9M

>>23193

Building your own is fine, it's taking a rare cabinet, junking any parts still in it and turning it onto one of those multi game machines that's sacrilege.

I really like checking arcades for the old games, but the owners often have the pricing all wrong. I'd happily sink £2 into a machine at 10p a credit but 50p? what the fuck?

I had this little idea some years ago of running a 'modern' arcade with a global electronic leaderboard to encourage competition and play time. Members would get free credits on selected games, plus leaderboard prizes. Cheap retro games to draw in players, more expensive modern games for the hardcore competetors. Every other week you'd run an event on a the retro machines to drum up interest and draw customers. Once a month run a modern machine tournament to pay the electric bill. You'd sell it as a social club - they say gamers are lonely these days, right?

>>23195
That's a shame, I'd quite like to buy an old cabinet just because they are usually beautifully decorated.

Was also thinking of buying a used bandit to fiddle with the settings (using one of those keys) so it doesn't pay out very often but lets me on the board.

I used to fantasise about owning proper arcade machines when I had my own place as well as the money. Then I worked in a venue with lots of arcade machines and they seem like a total ballache. Always breaking down, one of them even ransomly set on fire. If I was more technically minded I would probably enjoy the challenge, so kudos those willing to put the work in.

>>23196

There are loads of arcade venues opening up these days, usually offering free play machines with a fixed admission fee. If you're anywhere near Manchester, Arcade Club in Bury has a truly exceptional collection of vintage and modern cabinets.

https://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/

>>64523
I refuse to buy it because in the Steam summer sale there was a misprice where they had the game with the bigfoot and pebberley Island dlcs for just over a tenner before realising their error after a day or so and putting it back to £20. Because I missed out I'm not getting it until the bundle price drops that low again.

>>64524

How interesting that you would phrase that as if it was a moral position. If you don't think it is worth what they are charging that's fine, but you phrase it as if it were out of principle and protest rather than being thrifty.

You talk about it like they owe you something like they hurt you personally. Does it upset you that you have to pay that much for entertainment? Or are you upset by the idea that people got a better deal than you?

>>64525
I just think stupidly.

What's that on her tooth?

>>64551
What am I, a dentist?

Fantastic.

I actually wouldn't mind getting the whole thing without the BoJo voiceover.

These two NZ chaps who the Tories hired for their election campaign are really smashing it out of the park.

Nearly half a million views on the kind of channel that gets a few thousand at best.

GOJO

Christmas festivities over, I cannot be fucked to pack to go home, nevermind go back to work.

Absolutely no idea how these politicians who have every hour accounted for for months do it. I would be absolutely knackered.

>>64549

I think they turn their brains off and become rhetoric boxes, just saying what will make whichever group in front of them cheer. The system and the voters themselves operate in a way that weeds out any critical thinking. No one wants politicians that own their mistake, they want ones that don't make them, or at least never admit it.

>>64540
He's good in Britannia and Detectorists.

>>64538
Was it bad?

>>64544


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4182Jfv920

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLv3fnaYCOk

I have decided that Cadbury Heroes are the winner of confectionery box 2019.

>>8543
I absolutely loved those as a kid. I'm tempted to see if I can get them imported.

>>5789

How come none of them have a special projects division, with a (shit, inevitably) webpage where you can choose to have a tin stuffed with your choice and ratio. All it needs is a webform, a decent markup and a couple of Latvian lasses with boxes of the individual sweets.
Fuck it, no real need to interfere with the existing production lines - make them strip and sort regular boxes, and send the unpopular ones that nobody ever chooses to orphans or summat.

>>13160
https://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/pick-n-mix/postal/view/id/2

>>13160

Because the only reason these boxes exist at all is for the companies to shift the shit ones nobody likes by mixing them with the good ones people do like.

Don't fall for Big Chocolate and their schemes lad.

>>22951
I did, because I have! I was suprised to find out there are cameos from a few real news readers in the film. I get a suspicion they didn't see the full script beforehand.

>>22950
I tried watching this last night and realised half way through I'd seen it before but forgotten because of how boring it was. May as well just read the plot summary.

Lads, I'm trying to track down a film I saw one night on Channel 4 years ago.

The gist of it is a guy pretending to be a photographer scams his way across Italy. Is joined by a woman running away from a convent. Then after conning a mafia funeral he ends up jailed.

I know it wasn't a fever dream.

I always want something I've never gotten elsewhere when I watch a film, and Colassal certainly delivers. 100% recommended watch on my part.

>>22995
try tipofmytounge on reddit

Just got home from a full house at the parents, think I had about a bottle of port and half a red and enough food for for a week alone. Had a lovely drive home, bit foggy. Evaded a .gs IP ban, now having a few beers and watching YT.

(A good day to you Sir!)

I've got £40 of vouchers to spend in establishments such as Harvester. How large a black pudding tower do you think I could acquire with this?

>>433090
Well, assuming a fixed cost per portion of black pudding, with no discounts for large volume orders, then one can calculate this quite easily.

Saw creme eggs and mini eggs for sale in Sainsburys, with a big display for Easter.

>>433104
only 105 sleeps!

This is not about climate change is it?

>>433035

Sadly, mate, I think this just means you looked like an unhygienic weirdo before. Any measured improvement is only relative to the starting point.

>>433039

If you want to argue the semantics then sure me not looking like I've just been styled is 'less hygienic' and me having a picture doing a not cool hobby but one I enjoy could be weird. But all that is really saying is that you are just the vain metrosexual I am pretending to be.

When my post becomes /poof

Romans 13 New International Version (NIV)
Submission to Governing Authorities
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

HUMAN DECENCY IS NOT DERIVED FROM RELIGION, IT PRECEDES IT.

>>433035

While I still maintain you need confidence past the initial match, there's nothing better than a good couple of pictures of you at a wedding to bait the fanny in. You in your best suit, preferably standing next to various attractive women. You don't need to wear a fucking boater hat.

>>433067

> there's nothing better than a good couple of pictures of you at a wedding to bait the fanny in.


Alternatively, just go to a wedding in the first place and look for that one friend of the bride who's fit looking but is having a shit day because her friend is getting married and it made her realise that she's all alone and her clock is ticking.

What I hate though is when they assign you a seat next to somebody just because she's single and they think they need to fix her up with you. One time, I was kind of really miffed at the hosts that they had made it so obvious, and just as a matter of principle, I refused to talk to her at all and gradually moved to a free seat at another table. Also, she was a bit of a munter, so there was really no incentive on my part to play along.

>>20745
Seems even more appropriate after the Cybertruck reveal.

>>20746
Looks like Brian got a contact high.

I've only just learned this was actually based on real life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvJzr0zZvk

>>20767

Lots of the boondocks is like that


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHI2bZ-Rbso


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WClv4U5B8

>>20795

>Lock-Up_ RAW Booty Warrior FLEECE JOHNSON

One of Samuel L. Jackson's illegitimate children?

>>7814
When calculating my monthly budget, definitely.

https://www.youneedabudget.com

No, you're supposed to be saving money on-top of your pension because ours won't ever be enough and it's not money you can redirect to other things. I don't see why it would simplify the process unless it's not coming direct out of your payslip.

Good to see the measly 3k I've managed to squirrel away this year still makes me the 1%

>>7815
I second YNAB but would recommend trying to find an old version back when it was just a one-time fee. Paying 15.99 a month to use budget software seems a bit ironic.

>>7816
Yeah - good advice. I have a savings category in YNAB, and in there are my extra pension payments, ISA, kids ISAs, holiday/emergency fund etc.

I pay about $80/year for the subscription for YNAB - it's a little pricier than it used to be, but its just terrific and has really helped me over the past three years.

Thanks for the recommendation lads but I've used Google sheets for the past five years, and it's linked into a lot of other aspects of my future plans.

I've made a note to separate out pensions, though. My next goal, of course, will be to actually create some savings, which will certainly happen in 2020.

>>64532
The Cunk format is great for this kind of thing - that Prince Andrew section is brilliant.

Starting to think we need a LaTeX mode.

f = f(x, y) df = f(x + dx, y + dy) - f(x, y) = f(x + dx, y + dy) - f(x, y + dy) + f(x, y + dy)- f(x, y) = (∂f/∂x)dx + (∂f/∂y)dy

dy goes to zero so it makes no difference, yes.

She can give me a beating whenever she likes, IYKWIM.

Feel a bit sorry for her to be honest - who amongst us hasn't tried to kill their partner with a table lamp when we've inspected their phones and found flirty texts.

>>64529
I think that was a plot on coronation Street once.

>>64529

SOUND LIKE HE WAS ASKING FOR IT WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY. THIS IS PC GONE MAD.

>>88635
Twice. You can use it once, reuse it twice for a total of three uses.

>>88639
Do you not think most people would expect the usage I went with? I had the exact thought you wrote before submitting.

>>88640
Most people are idiots. At least you considered the truth.

>>88613

Hardly a new idea, because loads of people already self-diagnose all the time with the help of Google and the Internet anyway.

>>88613

That exists it is called basic first aid training you probably had some.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>12239
You said it better than I could. There are some gems among their playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG-weRWuLco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U
Embarrassed to admit Weird Al looks pretty cute in this video.

>>12240

Can't tell if this is an example of a gem or a shite one but the arrangement is really rather bad.

>>12241

That cover is dog shit.

It does nothing new to the song creatively. It just sounds like a crapper version.

I feel sad for Weird Al. Weezer can drag themselves through the dirt (in fact I've been lead to believe from their self loathing previous work that they like to) that's fine. But there is no need to take it out on Al, Toto and US, just to try cash in on a meme.

>>12242

Given that Brian Wilson was arguably the greatest pop arranger of all time, the question is whether anyone should bother covering his work. The main artistic justification for recording a cover is to reveal a new perspective on the original composition, but can anyone credibly claim that they listened to God Only Knows and thought aha, I know what Brian Wilson missed when he arranged and recorded that?

I think I've slipped through the cracks of the Universal credit system. Still got the income but I've not had to go in for a meeting in months and no sanctions. Surprising incompetence really. During the time it's been going on I've landed a full time job in a new city, starting in the new year, not sure if I should contact them and tell them about it now or wait until I start. JC+ did nothing to help me look anyway they just kept tabs on me while I did. Are there any pitfalls of telling them? I mean, I broke the contract by not posting 15 job applications on their journal every week, but I landed a job anyway, so surely that evens us out...

>>13324
Man, they don't give a shit, just tell them. They can mark it up as a win on their system.

>>13324
Difficult here. They might demand cash back for breaking your contract. I suppose you could just tell them you want to end the claim for personal reasons without informing them of the job, but.. things might get complicated here.

>>13324
That money is earmarked for the poorest in our society. You have a moral duty not to claim it if you're self-sufficient.