>>3549

Not Op, but in a similar problem.

I'm from a shit northern town, looking to escape the shit northern life, so I've got myself a job in zone 1 and shouldn't be hurting for money.

Only issue is that I'm moving down in september with the bird, and finding property available then is a nightmare. Is there something about the london market that makes lettings so immediate? Can any of you lads help?

Anon just to add some balance.

I'm from Manchester and moved to London for work (though ironically back in Manchester for a while because of Corona) and living in London changed my feelings about the UK. Sure, you can probably find close to, or most things, that you want in Manchester but London is a completely different ball game. It's expensive to live there because the good jobs are there in abundance and it's a place worth living in. I'm never bored on the weekends, there's always something going on or something to do. In normal times you're a tube ride away from the airport to go on a weekend break somewhere or further afield, the networking is great and there's always weird quirky shit you can do, go to Viktor Wynd's Museum then stroll round Hyde Park on the way home - what a nice Sunday.

There are of course downsides, mainly the standard of living and the cost of it, but to me it makes it worth it, but I'm not over 30 and looking to settle down so that might change things significantly.

Compared to living in Manchester as well it blew my mind how little rain London gets. It might be grey, but that constant unending drizzle doesn't seem to exist in the same way as it does in Manchester and makes me significantly less depressed. London has it's rough areas, but it has also been gentrified (and don't shoot me Corbyn-lads, but I don't think improving areas is a bad thing, we can't stay stagnant for fear of some people being left behind because they like their shitholes shit.) so there are a lot of nice places everywhere. In Manchester you kind of have the city centre bit then outside of it is really just scarred post-industrial towns and villages like Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Bury. None of them are bad places, but none of them will make you look back on your deathbed and feel like you've been living. Again, London has their grim areas, but they still feel significantly less shite than up north.

Finally if you're looking for a partner, London seems to have great choice, there are lots of ambitious, young, driven people from all over the world all crammed into one crazy city with money to spend. What's not to like about that?

My vote goes to London. I could never contemplate living somewhere like Manchester permanently again.

>>3550
I don't know how Corona has impacted it but London lettings move fast, you have to just go with your gut I've found. There's too many people, too much competition and you don't have the days to ponder it like you do elsewhere. It's a bit of a risk but if you sign six months you can always look to be moving out.

>>3551
>go to Viktor Wynd's Museum
I fingered a girl's bum in there. The bar staff gave us funny looks when we left as there's obviously CCTV. She bought me a turkish dinner after.

>>3552
A truly great place.

I am in general happier and more financially secure living up north, but every time I go to London I wish I lived there again. It really is just a lot more interesting. But up here I have a reasonably large house with a private road leading to it and some gardens and land - I could not hope to afford much more than a shoebox in streatham for the same sort of money, and as my main hobby is car fiddling which requires space, I have made my choice to settle up here.

If my career goes the way I intend, I will probably end up back down there in some suburb.

Conditioning

>>65245
A better question would be how well does this stuff improve the skin of your bellend.

>>65249 Oh gawd, what's selfmutilationlad up to during lockdown? Probably just got a little stump left...

>>65246
Nah metatrons were the small bionicles

How is the new moon energy treating you lads?

Just remember to cool your candles with energised water only to avoid throwing them off balance.

>>65511

The archives have been a bit of a reminder that there used to be a lot more shitposting and a lot less "serious discussions in /pol/" around here 8-10 years ago.

I think at some point we all sobered up and now you can't go a thread without some cunt mentioning socialism or the "fucking tories" or what have you.

>>65522
I think it's more that people just got fed up of lengthy bans for making clearly tongue in cheek comments.

>>65523I think purps has loosened up a bit now, you can say words like darkie or poof which would have got you banhammered in the olden days.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>65497

I mean plenty of good things have happened for me personally in those twelve years. i've had literally all the sex i've ever had in my life within that timespan, for example.

but as far as the world around us is concerned it's felt like a slow and constant descent into insanity. maybe i'm just a cynical cunt but I really can't think of one thing that's changed in a positive way since 2008.

the rise of e-cigs instead of fags maybe? that's how far i have to stretch.

>>65524
Certainly seems to >>/iq/65507

>>65507
Lad have a word with yourself

>>65521
Which word in particular?

>>65527
Quim?

>>65527

tit

>>65527

pleat.

>>89737

Oh, for those halcyon days of being bored of Brexit instead of being bored of a global pandemic.

The transition agreement ends at the end of the year, the government say that they won't countenance an extension, but it's all fine. Everything is fine. Remain indoors.

>>89736
I don't yearn for it, everything was bleak as fuck back then and there was looking like no end to the misery. At least the 'rona has shaken everything up. I'm bored of it myself by now, of course, but the future post pandemic is going to have some interesting times.

It's funny, it's a sentiment I've seen posted here before, and I've sometimes echoed myself. What we need is a good plague, clear out the cobwebs and shake up the order. Now we've got it, and it's been both worse than we'd ever have imagined and yet more disappointing.

>>89736
Ah you bastard. Why did you have to remind me how close Bernie came to winning the nomination.

Bored of Brexit now bored of flu hysteria...

>>89741
bored of cranking my hog

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>65512
>Lee’s publicist told Chortle he would not be commenting on the row, other than to accuse Spiked of "pathetic the shipping forecast'.

Hah. Nice.

>>65512
>playground-level dolphin rape
>being offended while claiming the maturity high ground

Pick one.

I feel this is a watershed moment in the accusations of Anti-Semitisim. It must be apparent at this point that the word has evidently lost all meaning.

If everyone and everything is anti-Semitic than nothing is, the word losses all power. I don't think I will be able to take a public accusation of anti-Semitism seriously again, I can’t take it on good faith that they are. And even if I found proof someone was a genuine wrong'un I wouldn't be able to explain to others, because they would assume anti-Semite turned out to mean they insulted someone who happened to be Jewish once.

>>65515

It's been a wierd kind of establishmentarian dog-whistle for years now, and I think just about any sensible person knows there has been a certain amount of crying wolf in recent times.

I have to simply hope that before long, society at large will have learned to filter out the nonsense, in the same way nobody believes the Prince of Nigeria any more. Poor lad's been trying to shift that money for decades. Accusations of aquatic mammal molestation, Cancel culture and the twitter pitchfork mob will burn itself out.

>>65516
It'll just be usurped by the next new thing.

been sweating my ass off all week welding in this heat. but 3 hours before i leave the fucking weekend rain starts again FML.

My nemesis hath returned once more and with him always seems to follow the sweary season on britfa.gs

Let us remember to repeat this mantra "is this person actually an insufferable cunt or is it simply too fucking hot"?

I want it to be winter again

>>30078
Give it a couple of months.

>>30078
Days start getting shorter in less then 4 weeks. ITZ COMING.

>>65498
Or maybe that's just what you think you remember reading?

>>65499
May well be, popular imagination is often a release mechanism for whatever challenges a notion of exceptionalism. Brave lads going over the top is what we're told instead of largely helpless mechanised slaughter and grown men wetting themselves out of absolute terror.

I saw the picture in the OP posted on Twitter by dear dear dear Lord Ashcroft. He's like Alan Sugar but without the chequered background of selling wonky computers.

Me nan's on .gs! Callooh! Callay!

>>65501
And, didst thou slay the nanny?

Comparing the hysterical flu nonsense to WW2 is pretty funny

>>65429

Why is it that they're all so fucking rich? There's this one furry that runs some sort of business with 300+ staff and has a mind boggling car collection, easily into the millions. Also owns a tank.

I don't really care what you're into but seeing his little blank furry face peering out of some of my personal dream cars is an odd experience.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1237797629767098368

>>65430

You only notice the rich ones because a fursuit of any half decent quality costs more than most cars. And even then they usually look shit. You probably wouldn't be surprised to find out a lot of furries are pretty successful coders and what have you, because they're all utterly autistic.

If you see a furry wearing something that looks anywhere near professionally made, they had to be rich to afford it. The high end ones for wearing at a convention all day have cooling systems built in that make the apollo space suit look like it was bodged together on scrapheap challenge.

If you're an artist and comfortable drawing glistening dog dicks, furries are a reliable market that will stay with you through the harshest of recessions and pay you silly money for their niche fetish.

>>65431
Would you say furries are an untapped niche for gold-diggers?

>>65434

Only if said gold digger is a twinky efemminate gay lad, who is also a furry.

''Welcome to the lake of fire, we shall be your guides''

>>23167
How much does the Corporation make from its global wing then? Selling syndication rights to things like Doctor Who and Clarkson-era silly Top Gear must be worth a fair bit and easily cover the cost of cheap quiz shows that have been a thing for 20 odd years. If there's going to be any review of funding, what could reasonably be assumed if the Corporation introduces a digital only license? I can think of a fair few negatives, mostly privacy issues and the associated costs of administrating and maintaining whatever system is decided on.

It's a bit late now, I'll more than likely be back when it isn't dark.

>>23167
I don't need to pay the license fee, but I'd happily pay a tax or pay the license fee every month if that doggy diarrhea stained pile of rancid camel cum compnay "TV Licensing" wasn't involved.

>>23167
The annoying thing is I'd pay the licensce fee every month but "TV Licensing" can die on a doggy diarrhea dappled pile of rancid camel cum. I'd much rather the BBC be funded by an NI style tax.

>>23170

We heard you the first time.

>>23171
I lost the delete password, sorry.

most of those people are probably dead now

Reddit strikes again.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gd5hff/orginal_footage_used_to_animate_the_first_mortal/

>>27454
HEATING

The current "shed" is actually a converted garage. The key is the gas heating which turns it into a lovable/liveable room.

>>27458

The sheer amount of real estate on a big 4k monitor is ludicrous - it's effectively four 1080p monitors in one seamless unit. There are arguments for multi-monitor setups, but a sufficiently large monitor gives you tons of flexibility. You know that window snapping thing that Windows 10 does if you drag a window to the edge or corner of a screen? That's actually useful when you've got enough size and resolution. I have quite a high scaling factor because of my terrible eyesight, but I've still got more desktop space than I know what to do with.

If you're not too bothered by the aesthetic, you might want to use a workbench for a desk. Much more durable than flimsy flat pack crap, and much more affordable than an actual solid, well-constructed desk.

>>27463
If you're going in that direction, a fire door and four legs is incredibly good value. You can build an enormous/solid desk for about 40 quid.

>>27464

I went a similar route with scaffold planks. So very easy to do.

I eagerly await my anteater.

>>437170
>GDPR issues
I was thinking of just using Google maps to pick random streets, and then sticking with lower house numbers (say, 1-20) to reduce the likelihood of failed delivery.

>>437174
If you just want to get in the news you could start by picking towns or cities and sending them to everyone there. If you just send them to all x-numbered homes they're less likely to mention it to each other than if you send them to everyone in a locality.

>>437167
BUT WHY?

>>437177
Also the date of delivery might cause issues with communication between neighbourhoods. I imagine anteater day arriving at once across the whole country would be more likely to make national news.
Could you make such requests of Royal Mail?

Rejoice, lads. The Vanguard SIPP is finally here.

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/what-we-offer/personal-pension/personal-pension-account

>>7833

Finally!

I am moving my pensions from a managed fund with Royal London that had 5% in UK Gilts and had underperformed the benchmark for 5 years (with a 1% expense ratio) into a Vanguard all-world equities index fund (0.37% expense ratio).

>>7833
Might my local government pension be better than this?

>>7834
I've had a quick look but I think I might be better keeping with Aviva for the time being.

>>7835
Yes.

The IFS have suggested that too many low earners might be contributing to a pension scheme, worried that they shouldn't be reducing their earnings.

https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14850

Excuse me while I go and bang my head against a brick wall. I would upload the chart from the link but posting images on /£$€¥/ appears to be fucked at the moment.

>>437112
Early Rome was a hub for mirgrants iirc.

>>437093
> Rob Beckett

Cunt went to the same school as Tom Allen. As my granny used to say, you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.

>>437119

It's not a bad school if it produced two nationally known comedians. Even if one was a pauper and the other one's a poof.

>>24956
>>437142
The poof and the pauper, title of your wedding video?

>>437146

I'm 28, I really fucking hope I get to see some proper sexbots. Ideally ones that look like Jennie Kim.

>>41086
>Won't the sexbot be inhabited by an AI that'll make it all much more credible and fun?

I'm sceptical over how this will play out. With cloud-computing of a sub-human AI you're essentially putting your dick in a facebook algorithm so at any moment it might go "harder senpai awoo~ :3" or morph into the Go Compare bloke. That's without getting into the significant hurdles of bio-mechanics or it's limitations on the theatre of the mind.

At any rate, first thing I'm going to do with a sexbot is send it out to find a job. That's probably what retirement will be like, you'll mentally operate your "sexbot" from your deathbed and after that your brain's neurons will be recycled to keep doing it. Nobody will know why all sexbots eventually start screaming so they'll just remove the audio.

>>41088

This is my best offer:

>>41065

What is going on in that picture exactly it looks like the flesh is burning off a dildo to reveal a mechanical interior with 5 missile pods. Is this what is inside a T-800s pants?

>>41092
We thought penis-lad was merely looking to lose sensitivity to tactile touch. We thought wrong.

>>436554
If Ukrainians are воры газа, are they therefore Israeli?

>>436556
No - I think it was because the names in /zoo/ insults people, and we asked some Russians the best way to insult Ukrainians.

>>436556
I see what you did there.

Все ли хохлы вычурные, как ОП?

Ukrainian language is just a rural, peasant form of speak that is somewhere between Polish and Russian.

>>437123

And nothing of value was missed