>>67967
Don't know if I've ever had French chocolate.

>>67967

20 years ago it was still nice (one of the nicest IMO) chocolate even if it had less cocoa solids than the elitist european definition.

nowadays is a different matter, it's like eating brown candle wax. we let the yanks take over a british institution and the first move they made was diluting everything with palm oil, so it's far less deserving of the name.

>>67969
Hey, come on now, the first move they made was sacking all those people and shutting the factory even after David Cameron made them pinky swear and everything.

>>67970
it was sold under the new labour government as memory serves

>>67971

Distinction without a difference?

>>30882

I think he was saying, in a roundabout way, "I know we are, but what are you?"

It seems like someone doing a bad impression of how a "slav" would speak, but typing it out. It makes no sense so I'm just gonna assume it's some lad taking the piss.

>>30866
It's some Scottish lad trying to false flag by pretending to be Russian. I don't know what he seeks to gain from LARPing as a pro-indy Ruskie, but it's all rather sad.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-jailed

2 years and 8 month in prison. Will he ever leave?

>>30919

Best for him to avoid getting anywhere near a window on one of the upper floors of that prison.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-doctors-cases-covid-19-a9502876.html

Those Russian windows are dangerous, I tell you.

>>8480
Absolutely seconded. I used to steal valium from my parents (yes, that was not a proud moment by any means) and it's robbing Paul to pay back Peter, except Paul is a really dodger geezer and will come after you. Replacing one drug with another that has a similar effect is really not going to help you. Even if doctor perscribed I'd be very wary unless the doctor is aware of your alcohol history and fully on board with it. A bored overworked GP handing you the vallies is not on your side other than to tide you over.

>>8480
>>8481

While I understand your stance that self medication with addictive pills is stupid (and it is) there is wide and ample medical use of benzodiazepines for alcohol detox.

If you try to come off a really bad drinking habit cold turkey you can quite literally die from the seizures unless you're medicated with something else.

Obviously the trick is medical supervision and keeping the use purely for the detox and under the generally acceptable two weeks limit. What you don't want is to find yourself still on Valium three months later as a crutch for not drinking. As you both pointed out you're just swapping one drug for another although we disagree as to which drug is worse (alcohol will definitely both make you sick and klll you faster, Valium will probably get you hooked faster).

>>8481
>>8482
If you look at >>8480 it's pointing out that >>8468's suggestion of "weed->benzo" is a bad idea. Not booze->benzo, which is a different matter.

>>8483

My bad. As it's the Resting Actors thread I put two and two together and came up with seven. If I could delete my posts I would, but Firefox is acting up of late so my embarrassment will remain on my personal record. That said, I will go on record as saying that I don't see how using Valium is going to help someone stop smoking weed unless they plan to permanently swap one drug for the other (which is a Really Bad Idea).

Sage for basically repeating things that other people have already said but with far less relevance.

>>8482

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1gInB0y-kU

Maybe I was a catastrophising a little, you are off course right that medical supervision is crucial — even diamorphine can be safe and useful under such conditions — but in a resting actors thread I think it's very important to avoid tempting people into trying to self medicate.

>>92148
At least Facebook would have posted this somewhere indexable by Google.

>the current fucked up state of the world

Pandemic aside, there has never been a better time to be alive than now. The past - even the relatively recent past - was shit.

If you want to seriously address the question of where we're going wrong, you need to meaningfully engage with all the ways that we're getting things very right. We're living longer and healthier lives than any generation of humans in history. Global poverty and child mortality have never been lower. The world today is more democratic and has more respect for human rights than ever before.

There's nothing wrong with being idealistic, but it's incredibly dangerous to let that idealism turn into a nihilistic black-and-white view of social progress. There are many ways that the world could be made better, but there are many more ways that the world could be made much worse.

>>92148
He's described as the "Russian Zuckerberg", and that diatribe makes it seem like an apt description. I'll bet he's into buttcoins as well.

>>92153
>He's described as the "Russian Zuckerberg"
*was

He was forced out of his own company and into exile for refusing to hand over personal data on protestors and opposition politicians in Russia and Ukraine.
Say what you like about him, but at least he has good principals and is running his business to them as best as he can.
Meanwhile there seems to be a propaganda campaign against him and telegram, allegedly with money trails leading back to facebook and other companies.

>>92152
>there has never been a better time to be alive than now
I would question this for the western world in recent decades. Depending on your criteria*, it's not very hard to see that a not-insignificant number of people in this country still haven't returned to the quality of life they had in 2007. Everyone calls to technology, to global poverty and to global democratisation as signs of progress because the data there is unambiguous. What winds lost in the wayside is that none of that is any consolation if your own life or your own town has gone to shit, especially if nothing and nobody is credibly going to improve it. We may live in a world with more democracies than ever, but most first world democracies have run into crises of legitimacy. It's worth asking why that is.

*And you can have some fun with this. I was assuming a mixture of actual financial position + perceived quality of life, but you can always factor in the hedonic treadmill for extra fun. I suspect that to the human brain, irrational as it is, it feels better to live in China and see your standard of living raise year on year from a low point to a middling one than it does to live in Britain and see it stagnate or moderately decline, despite staying better off in absolute terms.

>>7185
Back2Cheltingham GCHQ crypto-nonce.

You'll never take me alive!

Also, does it really need to be said not to post links or otherwise provide information to sources of pirated copyrighted content on this website?

If there's something specific you're looking for you could do the audible free trial.

There is also a lot of older content hosted on youtube and the like. Maybe even soundcloud and spotify.

I imagine the reason that there
are less audiobooks online because fewer people listen to audiobooks and the filesize is much larger than that of a humble epub.

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.

>>30872
Is it accelerationist to like this sort thing? I feel like it will get us closer to UBI since there won't be any jobs for lower income people.

>>30874

>Is it accelerationist to like this sort thing?

Yes.

Also:

>>30874
Give it a few years and we'll all be slaves for the early retirees.

Coronavirus will wipe through the elderly, which means that those in their fifties and sixties will inherit the wealth of their parents and it'll have barely been reduced by having to pay for care fees. Care homes up and down the land will close as there's fewer elderly people needing their arses wiping, leading to hundreds of thousands of people suddenly without a career.

The population pyramid means that those in retirement are the ones who have to be appeased to win elections. We'll be at the whim of these very wealthy early retirees. Don't be surprised if sedan chairs make a comeback as getting carried around by a couple of paupers becomes the latest status symbol.

>>30877

>Don't be surprised if sedan chairs make a comeback as getting carried around by a couple of paupers becomes the latest status symbol.

I've had worse jobs TBH.

>>30875

I'd never actually considered it before but Wham! did some good fuckin pop music.

What a banger.

>>/b/441881 here,
I've started using tshirt rags as flannels, but they're very thin and the same ones i wipe my dick with. A torn towel is in order.
Checking the cupboards has revealed years worth of christmas grooming products, some of them suprisingly good quality - I'll be using these over the coming weeks.

>>/b/441901
Thanks for recommending that, i appreciate it.

>>6337

Have you ever stopped and thought about why you are like this?

>>6338
Because the plumbing in his house is fucked, he already said.

>>6339
That doesn't affect flannel-availability does it?

>>6340
Depends what he's using to plug the leaks.

My theory is that she's bought herself a nice new webcam for the BBC interview but hadn't realised how wide angle it is. I suffered a similar fate and had to move my entire desk to hide the embarrassing leopard print wallpaper I haven't gotten round to removing from the spare room.

https://newsthump.com/2021/01/28/boris-johnson-jealous-of-yvette-amos-only-having-one-cck-in-her-cabinet

>>67945
My theory is she got the webcam for onlyfans. She looks the type.

>>67948

If that was true she's missing a trick by not advertising it now.

A very interesting book which takes a look at the things we use to reflect/project identity and what can be infered from them according to the OCEAN personality model.

>>14102

The one added to the other, heavily blended.

>>14103

Simmering the mixture to kill off the bacteria that made the vinegar, and maybe the spores too I don't know/care.

>>14104

That's cooling right now. Here are the dry ingredients: 250g of black mustard seed, some black pepper, grains of paradise, two teaspoons of salt.

All mixed together. Interesting flavour. It needs at least 24 hours and preferably 8 days to really soak in and the flavours to meld. May need topping up with stout at some point too.

>>2858

>I haven't used the Gripit fixings, but they do look reasonably foolproof to be fair.

I would say they are, but I have loads of DIY experience so it's hard to really be sure. The stud is always, always a better option, particularly with a desk. The bigger Gripits (blue) can hold 120kgish per fixing, but I still wouldn't be sure what would happen if you sat on a desk held up by them, there's leverage then. Or shagged on it, I don't know what otherlad does.

The desk weighs 19kg lads, I can barely lift it myself - I'm just not confident of the plasterboard wall taking the weight regardless of the fixing. I'll investigate finding the studs (joists?) with magnets.

>>2860

They definitely would hold, but I do understand your scepticism. The stud is always the first port of call, regardless.

It must be fixed to a sturdy wall (not just screwed into dry wall without anchors) if you want it to be solid, but if can be sure no toddler will try to climb it and you follow above given advice about heavy at the bottom, light at the top you'll be ok. Pretend its Jenga and the damn thing wants to topple over, basically.

Also bear in mind that, when fixed to a wall, there'll be little flex in the structure. When that's absent, it can flex however it wants. Even if you keep your lead bar collection on the bottom shelf, you still can't use the top shelf to store heavy things because the structure is a bit flimsy.

This thread is making me wonder why you don't just buy a cheap flatpack. A steel and plastic combo would likely be more sturdy than what you're looking at, and can be found for a tenner (without delivery): https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/hyllis-shelving-unit-in-outdoor-00278578/

I've got two words for you m8: Winamp Skins.

https://archive.org/details/winampskins

>>24778


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM

I feel like I have to.

I've got a folder that I have transferred off an old USB stick onto any fresh computer build/installation I've made over the last fifteen years or so. It contains portable copies of Doom and Quake with a shitload of wads, and emulators with a full set of roms for every 8 and 16 bit console. Can't have a computer without the basics.

>>24778
WinAmp was a Matryoshka doll of constrained creativity. You highlighted skins, but there were several visualisation plugins which had their own plugin or configuration language (I didn't learn about cartesian v.s. polar coordinates this way, but I first understood how the latter work way back).

I wonder some times if its rose tinted memories (the demo scene is obviously alive and well), but even the ways you get started with modern technology feel like a hand-holding exercise. The step towards "learn to code" is so much easier, but the step towards "actually learn to code" is harder.

I've just put a whole clove of chopped garlic in one portion of fried spaghetti.

I may need help also.

>>441892
Unless you mean 'bulb' rather than 'clove' I don't see the issue.

>>441893

>Unless you mean 'bulb'

I'm not a lunatic.

>>441892

That's really not that much garlic, to be honest, especially for what I assume is a version of aglio e olio.

I don't know why you all thought you shouldn't eat garlic in the before times, who fucking cares if your breath smells, just have some gum. You've been missing out for years. I suggest you all try roasting some heads of garlic in the oven now and spreading the result on crusty bread.

>>441895

>a version of aglio e olio

It was pretty much that, yes. I had a little bit of spaghetti left over from last night, so I fried it up with olive oil, the garlic, and a few herbs. It was absolutely delicious, but I've already got that sharp garlic taste in my mouth that you get a while later and which lingers till the next day.

I wonder if the alleged health properties of garlic already take effect if you occasionally go crazy on fresh garlic, or if it's the same as some other fruit and veg where you'd literally have to eat tons of the stuff to make a measurable difference. Like the way red vegetables are supposed to give your skin a healthy looking hue, but you'd have to eat nothing but tomatoes and carrots for a month for it to actually show.

>>6428
>quite

Ironic

>>6429
It would be if >>6427 was a student at Oxford. You need to get better at reading things, old boy.

I didn't study at Oxford, don't work there and in fact have never even been within forty miles of the place.

I, also, couldn't tell you why the collegiate system is structured how it is.

>>6431

I don't think anybody knows.

I think that even if you got all the college heads and departmental heads together to draw a diagram of how it all worked they wouldn't be able to.

It's probably a veritable labyrinth of bureaucracy and tradition.

>>6433
It's fairly simple. The college's have their own money, some of them lots and lots of it, and so historically they have been powerful enough to either make unilateral decisions, or influence the university body as a whole.

The university departments, and the university administration, are new fangled things of the last 100 years.

Stop looking at it then.

>>67926
How?

>>67926

100 pounds off is a bit of a bargain though like.

I think...

I don't really know what the going rate is for haunted postman pat sex dolls.

>>67924
Why would anyone want a normal Postman Pat lovedoll?

People are weird.

Other people were trying to grab you and stop you. If you were never tackled it's prolly because you smell.

>>67921
This

>>67920
Fuck off stinky.

>>67922

UUUUHHH SMELLLER

>>67914

I'm fairly certain it began when priests starting absolving people of their sins for money and a german posted on a message board (kruatchan?) that that was bullshit.

>>67915

Omnia sunt communia.

>>67916
No need for that language, m74.

>>67915
No it woz 'enry tha eif innit, wanted to divorce his missus woz wot dun it.

>>67918

No it wozzen't.

>>6329

Only suits we're wearing these days are tracksuits lad.

>>6329

That one signals a very specific lifestyle, if you are Wes Anderson or don't mind being mistaken for him by all means.

If your mates don't expect that kind of style from you they will probably take the piss, if they do it will be entirely accepted. Put it another way.. How middle class are you? I mean everyone thinks they are middle class, but are you actually REALLY middle class, the kind who are incapable of reverse snobbery.

>>6329

If you have to ask, you're not stylish enough to pull it off. Sorry, that's just how it is. Ease yourself in gently with a couple of jaunty blazers for your summer wardrobe and see how you go.

>>6329
If you have a darker skin tone I reckon it would work, but you risk looking like your texture's failed to load if you're the same colour as the suit.

>>6333

My sister spent a fiver on a silky face mask in almost the exact same tone of pink of that suit, she seemed very proud of it until I told her that it made her look like the main character from the "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream", she hasn't worn it since.

>>67908
Wasn't C. S. Lewis a paedo? I may be thinking of Lewis Carroll. Then again, they could both be pdfs.

>>67909

You are thinking of Carroll. Lewis's biggest fault was he was a massive Christian apologist of the "god works in mysterious ways" variety.

>>67908
That's all very well and good, but it doesn't help illuminate the discussion, just to shut it down. I'm curious about the criteria of childishness, not whether or not a healthy mind is in denial about their inner child or whatnot.

I am also specifically curious as to why more adults don't climb trees.

Anyway lads, what are the good games for a Switch? I'm to get vouchers soon as part of my bonus and as you'd imagine there's nothing I really need at the moment.

>>67897
Trubbish is the land counterpart to Koffing (air pollution) and Grimer (water). It's not an independent mon, a terrible design and totally unnecessary filler as Grimer never operated that way.

>BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF IS IT ANY MORE RIDICULOUS THAN BLASTOISE HAVING 2 CANNONS IN IT'S BACK OR DID YOU JUST ACCEPT THAT AS FINE BECAUSE YOU WERE A CHILD AT THE TIME.

The difference is that Blastoise was a rad end-of-game evolution for a 10 year old.

>>67912

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/switch/filtered

Shit was meant to be this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhGK1ygtt3s