>>3584
I'd go out West from London, depending on how far you want to be from it. You'll end up at Bristol, which isn't a bad place at all, but you have Gloucester, Oxford, Reading to choose from, all sort of on the way.

Inverness sounds absolutely lovely, but it's truly at the arse end of the country. You had better like a) being on your own and b) paying for a lot of flights.

Edinburgh is a really great city but has many of the same problems as London.

>>3585
I live in Reading. It's a nice place but rather devoid of character and history, and I couldn't imagine spending my whole life here. As you say it gets better the further West you go and Gloucestershire (which I greatly miss) is gorgeous and full of friendly people. Although I'd add the caveat that Bristol may well not be your thing - rents are high and the town's full of druggies.

Liverpool is rammed with investment flats on dodgy leaseholds as you've probably seen, but a terraced house in a reasonable area or possibly a flat in one of the old Georgian terraces is likely within your budget.

If you're willing to compromise a bit on location, Warrington might be worth thinking about - it's a fairly dull commuter town, but you've got direct trains to Liverpool, Manchester and London.

>>67125
I bet that's the same shirt as in the OP picture but he doesn't separate his whites so colours have run into it in the wash over time.

>>67128
>he doesn't separate his whites so colours have run into it
He's anti-racist, remember.

>>67121

FRAME WIDTH LOOKS adequate. Length to bend looks ok. Judging by the image size of his lenses he doesn't have a particularly large prescription. By Prentice's rule, the unwanted prism would be low. Even so over time he would adapt to the unwanted prism from decentration and no longer have asthenopic headaches. Based on your analysis of Corbyn's choice of eyewear, I can deduce that you're a highly promiscuous butch homosexual tory-voter. I mean, presumably the response you're hoping for is "my arse, you stud please ride me".

>>67132

10/10 for this extraordinarily specific combination of ophthalmology and shitposting.

I should probably ask your opinion on the fresnel/stroke debate.

can i get free stuff or is it because i can't get free stuff because the joos

jessica, new forest

>>8468
See the weird thing is I have had a strain of weed that did that before, I realised and stopped smoking it, so I don't know if it's an indica vs sativa thing or some bollocks, I'm not one of these hipster weed apothecary types.

It mostly just makes my brain go from 200/mph to some kind of normal person speed, which is very nice. Maybe there is some residual anxiety, but it's certainly not as bad as the epic fucking shit fits I have off it. Is there not some kind of option to trade in my drugs budget for just a nice functioning brain that does the emotions thing properly?

Anyway, while I have ordered my poison, it won't be here for a few days, so here's hoping a brief patch of cold turkey will help me to start fresh with better habits. Like not smoking during the work day. Fucking WFH, it's a curse for potheads I tell you.

>>8466

>I hallucinate etc under high stress

Have you told your GP about this? Those symptoms should result in an immediate referral to the Early Intervention in Psychosis team.

>>8472
I told the mental health assessment team that, it's very infrequent and I've always had it so they didn't seem too fussed. Just wasn't quite anchored properly to the planet at birth somehow. Is it that unusual?

Counting back the years, I've always loved being off my tits. At times it wasn't alcohol but that has been the drug of choice to make the voices shut the fuck up and let my mind get some rest since I was 14. That's more than 25 years back, so no doubt my brain and body adapted. "Plan 50" seems tempting. Just spend what I earned until I turn approximately 50 and then end it. Exit bag sounds good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3u3xncDWPU

>>5073
>They tied together two of my company accounts and a personal one

They're totally allowed to do that, unless those company accounts are Limited Company accounts. You just didn't read the T&Cs. In the context of an individual person, account means nothing. A limited company is like a person in its own right, separate from you.

Don't keep your nazi contributions in any bank account, or any financial institution or electronic money company that talks to CIFAS (protip: everyone does). That includes PayPal. I bet in this Laura Towler case it was PayPal donations that did her.

>>5076
And you lot say crypto has no valid use cases.

Bitcoin, the Nazi bank.

>>5079
Should opt to be paid in gay wedding cakes and sell those on. Let's see bankers put that in their pipe and smoke it.

>>5076 They are indeed limited companies. They apologised. I didn't ask for the accounts to be linked in any way - the second company's account details suddenly became accessed from the first company's login page, along with my personal account. And then they did the cross-payment thing.
The same two people had login rights for both accounts, but combining companies did seem like a dodgy optimisation.

>>5081
If that's the case, then you should complain to the Financial Ombudsman - again, banks don't want the grief of dealing with regulators, so a complaint to them will almost always find in your favour if you have an actual case. It takes about 90 days, but if they've genuinely fucked up and cost you money, you will get it back.

>>28624
Was it covid wot done it, or just old age?

>>28625
Yes.

The only Bond ever worthy of that name.


RIP.

>>28581
If you ever post this shite again I'll kill and eat you.

>>28583
He's just saying it as it is. The voice of reason.

>>28583

I watch this when I need cheering up.

>>28585
I use this one for the same purpose.

>>28583
Have some fresh hot Davidson.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IPMVu4wzZE

>>2633

The symbiotic life cycle is weird, makes you understand better the weird thoughts the Greeks had about where animals came from when you consider how obsessed they were with figs.

I'm personally more fascinated by the variants of parasitic wasp. Particularly the ones that subvert the natural cycle of plants by excreating chemicals turning the seeds and fruit into an armoured shell for them to live in. (If you've ever seen an oak tree drop those spikey wooden balls with their acorns. That is what those are).

>>2634

I think we can all agree that wasps are proper wrong'uns.

>>2635

racist.

My pear tree has the same. I worked out it's some kind of fungus. The spores are released in autumn and colonise fir trees nearby where the survive the winter, and then re-infect your pear tree when new leaves grow in spring. The thing to do is to break the cycle by pulling off the spores now before they can blow back into the fir trees.

>>2880
It's Gymnosporangium sabinae, "pear rust". >>2629 was fairly close.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=236

>>24516

>The PS1 was a plasticky piece of shit, I still have one.

It can't be that plasticky then. Apart from the dodgy laser pick-ups in the early units, it was a fantastically solid and reliable machine.

>>24516
I do. White plastic has a habit of yellowing extremely quickly over time and nothing is really able to prevent it that is practical for a sitting room.

I probably wont buy one for that reason alone, I don't particularly want a giant manky beige box under my TV a few years from now.

They can give me a shout when they release a black model, It'll probably have some games by then too I can sink my teeth into.

>>24521
>White plastic has a habit of yellowing extremely quickly over time
That's mainly an ABS thing. I'm not sure what they're making these things out of, but I'd be surprised if they used something that yellows that quickly.

>>24523 Painting works OK at a tolerable manufacturing cost, but since all gamers live in dingy hovels with no sunlight, UV yellowing isn't really anything the manufacturers worry about.

Plastics have improved hugely over the past few decades. White plastics still have a tendency to yellow a bit over time but it's barely a problem now compared to how it was in the 80s and 90s.
Yellow PS5s might be something that vintage tech collectors 50 years from now will be worrying about, but it's not really a concern for the usual lifespan of a console.

Wish I could delete posts again so I don't have look at how I said "right this minute" twice in one post like a mook.

>>24526
>All this is to say in a few months a new card in your price bracket might be out and well worth the cost.

Do you mean to say from the new generation, the RTX 30 and Big Navi? OK, but aren't the decent mid-range cards from the new gen supposed to be the RTX 3070 and the RX 6800 which have already been announced and are retailing at £500-600?

>>24528

There will definitely be an RTX 3060 and an RX 6600, they'll both be competing around the £300 mark, but don't expect to see them before Christmas.

The 5600XT and the RTX 2060 are both perfectly decent cards, they'll perform very well at 1080p for the foreseeable future, but you'll get a lot more for your money if you can wait a couple of months.

>>24528
It's more or less certain that Nvidia will be selling a 3060 at some point in the near future and Big Navi will likely be getting lower end cards too, though the timing on that could be some way off as the 5700s came out in July of last year and it wasn't until December of that year and January of this year that the 5500 and 5600 came out respectively. Nvidia had a similar lag between its 2080 launch and the 2060.

If you get yourself a new card though, it plays everything you want it to play and you can start doing that ASAP rather than in three months, then who cares about the extra 25FPS you probably won't even be able to see on whatever monitor you have. I feel like I gave poor advice earlier because ultimately you could end up waiting for newer, better gear forever.

>Okay, so you likely can't even find the new GPUs or the soon-to-launch GPUs in stock. Why not just pick up a previous generation card on sale? It's a nice thought, but the problem is that most previous generation GPUs are overpriced now. Again, blame COVID-19, but just about every mid-range or higher GPU has seen prices increase over the past few months.

I was right. Oh well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/terrible-time-to-buy-gpu-late-2020

>>8015
>My HSBC FTSE 250 tracker is the worst

Gave me a chuckle as I'm in that too. Oh what I silly time for me to invest some more money last month just before the FTSE shit the bed - how I laughed heartily as I slipped into the red.

Are you also the lad who mentioned FB WHEB Sustainability? I saw it while poking around and gave it a punt. Been fairly stable that one.

>>8017
>Are you also the lad who mentioned FB WHEB Sustainability?

Think that must be otherlad. My only fairly stable ones over the past year, that have done well, are Fundsmith.

I just stuff all of my money into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and gold. I own a little bit of land, and I'm still paying of some property. Perhaps I'll but more land in a decade. Fuck getting rich in the short term, preserving wealth in the long term is the safest way to go considering all of the shit that has happened recently. I don't trust central banks with how much money they've just miraculously printed into the economy. The only thing keeping stocks up right now are pension funds I reckon. It's a zombie economy, and It's going to collapse. Pack rice. And tea.

>>8019
>The only thing keeping stocks up right now are pension funds I reckon. It's a zombie economy, and It's going to collapse.

People have been saying this just about every time investing has been brought up over the past 10 years on here.

>>8020
Every investment forum in the past 100 years has people like him. You can afford that worldview if you already have property and gold.

>Could it be that by going far enough back we can find a language that simply exists as a single limitless expression, conveying every possible meaning at once but solely applicable to exactly both the hearer and speakers intentions?

This got me thinking. Is nigger/nigga the only word in the English language that can mean a multitude of things depending on who's saying it and what kind of tone and pronunciation they employ?

>>439892
No.

>>439891

Americans are really a different breed. Regular people there are often just as nice or annoying as people back home, if a bit easily excited. But you will experience that American customer service is about as revolting as "American nice" gets. That kind of poorly masked, insincere, exuberant and at the same time emotionally vapid frozen smile with which Murrikins will sell you anything from a hire car to a burger menu just makes you feel strangely violated. I prefer an awkward chat with the disinterested girl at the till in my local shop who can't be arsed to keep eye contact to that kind of Barbie-doll, push-button friendliness any day.

>>439894
Isn't this why Walmart failed in German? Or am I thinking of something else? It isn't just customer service too. When I went driving around some of the states, the weird empty smile I would get genuinely scared me. It was like being in a horror film.

>>439895

I think they failed in Germany because of labour laws mainly. Wal-Mart is one of those American companies that set up shop in a country first, and ask questions later, and hope that their lawyers will sort things out (Uber is another one). They have actively contributed to the erosion of worker's rights in over a dozen countries that way, by winning court cases and lobbying legislation. Germany traditionally has very tight labour laws and strong unions, and Wal-Mart failed with its usual approach. At some point they just decided to cut their losses and retreat, because as a company basically founded by a family of Arkansas hillbillies, it did not compute to them that they had to follow a host country's rules and couldn't push their own rules on them.

>>23319
They were obviously shown pictures you dumbo. You can't identify someone from their name alone, do you not know what identify means?

>>23321
The appearance of "Borat" is far more recognisable than that of "Sacha Baron Cohen" so it's hardly an effective test.

>>23322
You do know that Borat is Sacha Baron Cohen wearing a wig and moustache? They are the same person?

>>23323
Point stands.

>>23321
>>23323
Cohen is barely recognisable as the same dude as Borat without the moustache, hair, and silly expression.

>>12361

>Papa Roach has a cult following in Latin America or something

They're still massive in Germany.

Probably the highlight of the last series of Black Mirror, which I realise is damning it with faint praise.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvLceBjnG3w

>>12288
They've now uploaded a non-live version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcI8sfwxvIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdbSt5mnRs
Sounds a little too airy and the bridge is a little weird, but i'm glad to hear it covered.
I'm waiting for a dark EDM mix with some tasteful bass drops.

It's like capitalism is intentionally recruiting for ISIS.

>>439847

The targets of these compilation roasts appear to be administering a more subtle take on what HowToBasic is doing - or at least I hope they are.

>>67099
At 15.4M subscribers, I doubt they care and are laughing all the way to the bank.

Also, they do cast themselves as a comedy channel, so.

>>67100

The point is, the attention these Life Hacks channels are getting from the people taking the piss out of them is simutaneously driving traffic towards them and potentially getting some of that traffic to consider the content through the lens of Poe's Law.

>>67099

>>41267
I think he's just in the middle of shouting something, probably "FUCK OFF PAPS LIVE ROUNDS!", which is fair enough all things considered.

>>41268
Where is he now, do you think?

>>41266

What on earth is that chap with the G36 up top doing? That's definitely not how you're meant to hold a weapon you're intending to use unless you want to hurt yourself.

>>41270

he's looking 'hard' for the camera obviously

>>41580

reported

>>41592
For what?

>>41593

fat + jailbait

>>41594

This is the fat thread. As for the other, I'll have to take your word for it.

>>67052
Don't let him find out about the Mesoamerican flood myths. He might just think Jesus teleported and warned the Tlapanec people about it.

>>66992

I read it as "Blenders" at first and wondered what they hell you two were on about.

>>67059 >>67052

I'm well aware of the existence of stories existing before and after the composition of the Jewish bible. You're assuming things so that you can gloat, you shallow fuckers.

>>67088
>>67052 doens't say you weren't aware of them.

>>67088
I don't read those posts as gloating - they're simply showing how intellectually shallow your belief is, like most TradCats.

>>28526

>In so many countries the revolutions, as most revolutions tend to, were either crushed or became the oppressors

Revolutions devour their children, as an old saying goes. Many revolutions in history were followed by oppressive or totalitarian regimes because they seized the opportunity of filling the power vacuum after the old elites were deposed. It was that way in the French revolution, in Russia, and places like Cuba or indeed even the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Almost all of those revolutions began with the highest aspirations of liberty and equality, but they just ended up swapping out one corrupt elite for another corrupt elite. Because what you need to run a country isn't idealists who don't know much else besides the fact that they want the old regime gone. You need realists with power instincts and the will to usurp that power. Who then tend to be just as corrupt and oppressive as the old regime.

Obama / Clinton / Blair fucked up North Africa. Gaddafi always used the threat of being able to hold back the influx of North African Islamic mentalists rather than the ability to gain weapons. Bombama thought he could liberate the people, in the same way that the left could liberate Iran from the Shah. It all fucked up leading to a power vacuum and a militant brigade of ISIS moving from Syria, moving in to dominate North Africa and co-ordinating efforts with people smugglers to infiltrate Europe via Italy (Lampedusa) or wait for countries to accept them as ' refugees'.

>>28542
What's going on in this photo, white middle class kids plus some boomers LARPing as refugees??

>>28543
It's an invasion m8. Send them all back to Oxford-bongo-land.

>>28543
It's an Amsterdam canal cruise.

>>67056
No u

Milk snatcher is already taken. What will Boris be called?

>>67054
>>67056
Looks, lads, it's a shitty format, but you lot seem too uptight for a Friday. Is the lockdown circuit breaker getting to you?

>>67058
'54, I just set myself up for a brilliant joke, you daftie.

>>67058

>What will Boris be called?

Johnson

Not to get too serious in the designated silly zone, but I think MPs like Ben Bradley are a portent of doom in one way or another. He's openly talking about "cultural marxism" and "crack dens" in a way that reminds me of one of those blokes who works in the same office as you or is mates with your dad or whatever, who just starts talking complete shit and you ignore it for a while until you look at him and say "what the fuck are you talking about" and he never really has an answer but you just wanted him to stop talking so it doesn't matter. Only he's an MP now, so no one is ever going to do that to him ever again. In fact he's got researchers to feed him more nonsense whenever he likes, he can do softball interviews with toady journos who'll be bowled over by his tell it like it is attitude and still he'll cry fowl whenever he's pulled up on anything he says.

Back to the portent of doom thing; he's either the going to hasten the end times for the nation at large or be voter repellent for anyone with a nerve system that extends north of their brainstem, constantly making the Tories look half-mad and repeatedly undermining them. I'm not confident of either outcome, but I look at America and I think "fuck" which about sums up my feelings on the matter.

There are plenty of other Tory MPs like this, but Bradley's the one hitting the headlines right now.