>>450863
My initial reaction is "don't go". To address the points you yourself brought up, firstly my understanding is that the Ukrainian Foreign Legion requires you to sign up until the war's done, which could be a very long time indeed. Though I have also read they let you go if it's obvious you can't hack it for one reason or another. As for your second concern I'd add this; you will (probably) end up on civvy street again anyway, unless you become .gs' very own John Rambo. So whatever the problems you currently have probably won't be made any better by a stint in the Ukraine. However, you also have to consider how shit civilian life could be after you're on the wrong end of a flurry of 20mm autocannon fire, deafened by shelling or with a plain old knackered knee from landing wrong with an NLAW on your back. Being captured doesn't seem like much of a lark either, as Aiden Aslin appears to have had the shite kicked out of him since being made a POW.

>>450968
Don't be a tourist.

>>450974

My apologies, so is /b/ just for people who understand cockney rhyming slang?

>>450975
Not at all, I was just being glib.

>>450976

Fair enough, sorry for taking it like a dick

>>450863
>and said he did it for the rush rather than money.
back before the invention of video games, theirs was the only way to experience playing "the most dangerous game".

>>9227
I have c. 5% in UK smaller companies, c. 4% in gold and c. 4% in infrastructure. There's 20% in Aviva's global tracker fund (which has shat all over the Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap Index). The remaining two-thirds are in the two ethical funds available via Aviva. The gold holding was higher, but I took some of the gains during that September 2020 peak and moved into the infrastructure fund; I know that market timing is nigh on impossible, but gold is so volatile it's not overly hard to buy when it dips and sell when it goes up because the shit is hitting the fan - even if you don't get it spot on with the peaks and troughs you can make good money flipping it.

Most is invested sensibly, but I've been making tactical calls for over a decade and they have been paying off. As I said in my last post, over the past four years the portfolio I've made is well up on what I'd be in a global tracker. I know it's not possible to consistently outperform the market, but I've been able to generate enough additional growth during the periods of outperformance to justify this - I know full well my returns are by being more aggressive rather than any particular skill I have, but I have the investment timeframe for this.

Charges are very important, but only when you're making a like-for-like comparison. If you're not investing in the same thing then it is comparing apples with oranges because the actual asset allocation will have the highest impact on the overall net return. No point reducing costs if the net return goes down, which is why I need to weigh up a similar strategy to now with Aviva vs. doing it on a platform like AJ Bell or iWeb.

Your investment strategy is a classic case of focusing on the charges to the detriment of everything else. The HSBC Global Strategy Adventurous Portfolio outperforms LifeStrategy 100 and their Global Strategy Dynamic Portfolio outperforms LifeStrategy 80. This can be explained by the UK bias of the LifeStrategy funds whereas the HSBC funds are more aligned to global market capitalisation. Vanguard might be marginally cheaper, but the ultimate returns of HSBC's comparable funds would mean you're net better off overall elsewhere. You need to be looking at value vs. cost and asking yourself why you want to be overweight in the UK if you believe in global equity indexes.

Fuck it. I've set up an account with AJ Bell and requested the transfer of my Aviva pensions with them. I just need to hope things go down rather than up over the next 2-4 weeks whilst I'm out of the market.

AJ Bell's interface is absolutely atrocious though.

>>9257
I just transferred an old pension too and now have tons of cash in my SIPP. Thinking of YOLOing the lot into Rolls Royce and Simec Atlantic Energy.

>>9258
>Simec Atlantic Energy.

I thought they'd have gone bust by now.

>>9259
I have doubled my money on them.

>>6066

The aim of this seems to be damaging gym equipment, than anything.

Are there any sort of, well not couch to 5k but that sort of thing but about doing press-ups or other home exercises starting from zero and gradually progressing that you lads would recommend? If that makes sense?

>>6106
Whatever you do, do it every day. I don't have any specific details but that's the most important thing.

>>6107
Aren't you meant to have rest days?

>>6106

An app called Thenics is good, it's built mainly around learning skills (e.g. how to do a planche), but gives you video examples and structured workouts of progressive difficulty. This is probably the closest thing to what you're looking for.

If you just want a load of ready-to-go workouts, I really like the following YouTube channels.

This guy's videos are deceptively hard and are really well-designed follow-along workouts. He gives some indication of the time and intensity in the video titles:

If you like martial arts, there's a good few options for good follow-along workouts. Boxing burns loads of calories, and this one mixes in bodyweight movements. You can start out with the 3 - 6 round workouts just to get into it. As a warning, though, the ones where he throws in burpees at the end of the round are an absolute killer:

>>6108

Sorry if this is a bit obvious, but how long you need to rest scales with how intense and damaging your workouts are. I'm familiar with powerlifting and bodybuilding programmes, and how many rest days are realistic for a certain level of volume is really well recorded there -- no idea about bodyweight stuff, though.

My guess is that bodyweight and calisthenics workouts generally require a bit less rest time unless you're doing something extreme.

I think I've broken it.

>>70850
JUST SAY IT WAS LIKE THAT WHEN YOU GOT HERE

>>70853
it was.

>>451090
In Rayner's 2003 review of McDonald's he said he "quite liked the berry and yogurt crunch. The yogurt was sharp and there was real fruit in the berry mixture."

I wonder if foodies would be fooled if you took a Maccies burger and cut it into really small vertical sections, then presented it on a slate with a smear of ketchup next to it, and called it a "deconstructed American grill" or something like that. I feel like they would almost certainly give it more credit than it deserves in that context.

It's probably a testament to my culturally impoverished upbringing but to me a Maccies or a Burger King or whatever still feels like a bit of a treat. You'd have to ask your mum to take you for one specially as a bribe when she dragged you around doing the big shop after school, instead of being able to go out with your mates; or you'd get to take a couple of the lads to Maccies and then see a film for your birthday. It's a treat I have, in my less proud moments, given myself upwards of three nights a week, as an adult, but nevertheless, it's a treat.

It doesn't really matter that it tastes like shit. There's a decadence about just eating shit.

>>451065

Both McDonald's and shit beer are fine but if it's all you eat and drink then you're fair game for a bit of abuse.

>>451087

That's exactly the kind of thing I was getting at, yes. Sometimes predictability trumps overall quality, and once I twigged that I finally understood why people eat there.

>>451085

Just out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about drinks?

My girlfriend has great taste and I can definitely appreciate her choice of food and wine. At the same time, there are some moments in life when nothing beats a greasy-spoon egg and chips with a strong mug of tea, or a burger and a tall glass of weak-as-piss beer. I could happily polish off a few bottles of Budweiser on a sunny afternoon.

>>451102

>Sometimes predictability trumps overall quality

Service management lad here. The quality of a product or a service is highly subjective and varies in its perception from person to person. A lot of people value predictability of service and products, often preferably at a low price point, because they will reasonably know what they'll get each time. Then again, with other products, the perception of quality lies precisely in the fact of predictability. And then to other consumers/customers, they will see decisive marks of quality in individualised and bespoke service as well as in the variation of meals or products offered. Many people probably won't keep going to a high-end restaurant for long if they never have any specials. Then again, other customers going to the same restaurant will precisely value the consistency of that place's standards, and not so much the fact that they have a new fusion-cooking experimental dish every other week.

In a very general way, the more a customer pays for a product or service, the more they'll expect to get some sort of preferential treatment or (high-quality) variety. In essence though, as with everything, know your customers, so you can tailor your service or product to them.

They didn't mince words in those days, but if they meant big as in overweight, it probably would have been more along the lines of "Fat girls don't cry because they can't get a husband".

Old-timey people knew the score.

I refuse to believe they would be so cruel. They had better things to sing about, like a young man losing his virginity.

>>70839
My dad used to do the hot drink thing for when my mum came home and have dinner on the way. She seemed to appreciate it and it probably saved their marriage, but the thing is I have no idea whether he'd listen to the traffic report ahead of time or if he spent decades of his life tipping tea away whenever there was heavy traffic.

Of course these housewives were wasting their time as everyone knows the look of excitement from the dog is what cheers everyone up.

>>70840
They don't write them like that anymore.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g4ICZs0P8

>>70845

>They don't write them like that anymore.

No, they do not.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6rWamHseRg

>>28098
Some wireless headphones come with a headphone jack e.g. Sony ones.

>>28099
I've no idea, I doubt it.

>>28100
Thanks, lad. Any recommendations for wireless headphones with a jack?

>>28101

>>28101

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/sony-whch710n-wireless-bluetooth-noisecancelling-headphones-black-10206717.html

But don't get from Curry's they're shit.

>>28100
I have MPOW H10 noise cancelling, for work, which are pretty adequate and have both BT and a jack that I've never used. They don't seem to exist any more, but Amazon offered me this, which claims 2 BT connections and a jack. If you don't want to support the evil rootkit empire, then why not support our data harvesting Chinese overlords?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soundcore-Cancelling-Headphones-Playtime-Bluetooth-dp-B092J2RWHR/dp/B092J2RWHR/ref=dp_ob_title_ce?th=1

I like those ones with "BOUDOIR" written on them.

I'm eating some cheese on "Rivercote" rosemary crackers from Lidl. They're pretty good.

>>15096

Not a biscuit m8.

>>15097
They're the same basic principle as Carr's water biscuits, ergo biscuits.

I like Party Rings a lot. I was never allowed them as a kid because they were full of e-numbers and sugar, but since I moved out of home I have them regularly. Also like pink wafers, golden Oreos, pink 'n' whites.

>>25655
Multiple people have animals as their pfps, they may not consider themselves furries but if you want to insist they are that might be interesting.

>>25655

Who cares just join m65

>>25660
I did, it wasn't very active and kind of shit so I left again.

>>25663
Yeah .. There're one or two interesting characters but overall it felt a bit odd, like familiar strangers struggling to converse at a bus stop.
I quite liked the idea of it being a pub you'd virtually pop into every now and then, but to roleplay it would be weird.

>>24446
A thread died for this.

Today's house search annoyance is how many listings I've come across with this "Comitted Buyer Process" shite, where they try and make it sound like they're doing you a favour ("Committed Buyer is a new, innovative and pioneering process for buying and selling property" my fucking arse, jesus motherfucking christ), when they're really just asking for an extra three grand just to reserve the place, on top of the deposit and solicitor's fees and surveyors and shit you're already paying for.

If I didn't know better it just seems like another way to keep ordinary people out of the market and keep it ring-fenced for investors, who can afford to drop an extra few grand for a guaranteed sale, whereas for an ordinary first time buyer that extra three grand might be another six month's saving on top of the deposit they already had to spend years scraping together.

>>9252
WTAF?
https://yopa.gotoproperties.co.uk/content/themes/350/documents/committed-buyer-guide.pdf
you have to pay a substantial lump, non-refundable, before surveys, to have the vendor make a half-hearted promise not to sell to anyone else within a short period? Fucking hell, this is the end game. This level of insanity says nothing but run awaaaaay, with a late 80s vibe.
I really feel sorry for you poor bastards trying to buy somewhere. Stuck between a rock, hard place and a load of larcenous cunts.

>>9253
Thinking more about this, I should advertise my house with one of these, and then just refuse offers that come in. A few £3K payouts a year would be nice. Maybe I should advertise other peoples' houses, too. When you understandably pull out because it's not mine to sell, well, fuck you, I've got your £3k.
This time next year, I'll be a miwwionaire.

>>9252
This situation won't get better until you start kidnapping and liquidating the jefes at companies at Persimmon, Barrat and any estate agent you see.

>>9253

Exactly. It sounds dodgy enough to me I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, the trouble is there's some really nice looking places and they're all using it.

Entire fucking game is a scam for robbing bastards at this point.

>>9254

They only take the fee if you accept the offer, in fairness, so you can't just refuse the offer and get a free three grand. But interestingly, nowhere does it state the seller is obliged to sell to you, even once you've agreed to the contract and paid the fee. It's merely that they agree not to sell to anyone else.

Definitely looks like a scam of some sort to me anyway.

>>23821

Been playing Kingdomino, which is quite fun if you want a quick game that lasts about 10/15 minutes.

What's a decent board game for young teenage children?

I'm buying someone one of the Quacks of Quedlinburg expansions as a present, which will be about £15 when most gaming sites have a minimum of £20 for free delivery, so I might as well look to buy an extra game now for my daughter's birthday in June rather than paying about a fiver for postage but I'm not sure what to go for.

I've been playing Twilight Imperium with a bunch of mates from work and it's fucking brilliant. Although it takes about 9 hours to finish at present, but I'm not bored for a single second of those 9 hours.

>>25384

Catan's a timeless classic and personally I think it's could be easily understood by 12 year olds.

>>23821
I remember reading about it in middle school in the US

It sounds like you're going to regret it if you don't.
The term "chasing the dragon" springs to mind though. There's always the legendary "one who got away".

Goodness me lad, what a yarn. But there are some eerie similarities between your life and mine. I've had a long distance fling with a dream girl who seemed far too good to be true, I've thrown away a girl who loved me to bits because I got restless and I thought the grass looked greener. Some of the bits are in a different order or the other way around but if nothingness, rest assured, I've been where you are and I know how you feel.

You don't have to take my advice, but were I in your shoes right now I'd definitely get rid of the frigid girl you're with now. You know, deep down, that it's just not right, and her reactions when you've tried to bring it up are a big red flag to be honest. Communication and openness is vital in a healthy sexual relationship and she just doesn't sound capable of it. Sure it can be a very sensitive issue but you don't get anywhere with it if you just have a tantrum every time it's brought up.

I said as much in the last thread, but I've just come out of a similar relationship myself. I tried and tried to be as patient and understanding as I could, but ultimately, after three years of it, I had to come to terms with the fact the reason she wasn't putting in more effort for me is that she didn't want to. Whatever she saw in me, whatever part of me she loved and mattered to her, it simply wasn't the kind of love that made her want to nosh on my knob. If I was to stay with her I'd have to come to terms with the fact I would always have to be the one taking the initiative, and getting a response out of her in kind was always going to be like squeezing blood from a stone.

It's like that Meatloaf song. For her, "that" meant "any kind of selfless display of intimacy or affection"; and the fault lies as much on my shoulders for not accepting that about her, as it does on hers for being so sexually one sided in the first place.

Secondly I'd give it a go reconnecting with Too Good To Be True girl. Obviously there's every chance she'll tell you exactly where to shove it, and she'd probably be right to do so, but you never get anything without asking do you?

For me this actually happened the other way around, I'll spare you most of the details but due to some other unfortunate events involving a mutual friend, she popped back up in my Messenger inbox after nearly 6-7 years, and the chemistry hadn't gone anywhere. I'm going to be seeing her next week, and I'd be lying if I didn't say having her come back into the picture wasn't part of the wake up call that prompted me to end the last relationship. The unfortunate part is theres no realistic prospect of us making it into a long term thing; but what the hell. You only live once. I'd be a fool not to take the chance while it's there.

I'm telling you all this because my broader point is that what I realised was something very simple, that deep down I already knew, as you probably do to. But it was just a matter of coming to terms with it. You know you aren't happy, you know what the right thing to do is, the only thing that's stopping you is that where you are now is safe. It's dependable. You have your finances in order, a cozy place to live, you have your routine, and you don't want it disrupted. I'd wager you're the kind of person who likes to carefully plan your moves and not make rash decisions, so you are instinctually averse to something as major as a break up.

In the end though, and again, you don't have to take my advice- In the end I think you know that's what you need to do.

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>>31601

Sounds to me like your current girlfriend is quite toxic, and should probably be chucked if she continues.

The long-distance girl might be a foregone conclusion, but there's no harm in throwing her a message and seeing how she responds. The worst that can happen is that she tells you to get lost, and you're exactly where you are now. But you would have more clarity about your situation and wouldn't be playing what-if in your head for years to come.

>>31616
>>/emo/30452

>>31616
>Essentially I tried to convince him from the room where he was disiplining his child, thinking that the method was sustaining the problem rather than solving it.

You undermined his parenting in front of his son? Even if you were in the right that was never going to go down well.

>>30730

You confronted somebody being a creep at the pool and you're concerned that *you* are you problem? Chill out OP.

>>30737

Where did they go? There's nowhere left.

>>31616

Sounds like you have a good soul but your brother has issues that are too big for you to handle yourself.

>>31670
>you're concerned that *you* are you problem?
Well, yeah. It's abnormal behaviour to confront this sort of thing, and the fact that I appear inclined to see child abuse 'everywhere' could show it's an issue in my perception, not reality (but I don't want to convince myself that because the risk feels too great). Do you see what I mean? Not to mention the inversion of all this stuff going on in my mind.

I have a complex; for one reason or another It was charged considerably when I made this thread.

>>31671

Just because it's abnormal doesn't mean it's wrong per se, so long as you handled it tactfully. From the situation you describe it does seem like he was being a bit of a creep and warranted a bit of "what you doing mate?"

>the fact that I appear inclined to see child abuse 'everywhere' could show it's an issue in my perception, not reality

Yes I think you're right. Absolutely everything we observe is passed through the lens of our perception. Many of us have neuroses that cause us to have funky behaviour in certain situations. Talking this through with a mate or therapist or whatever can be very helpful... I find that I can convince myself of all sorts of bullshit when I don't have the opportunity to talk about it with another human being.

If you're feeling a bit cringy after the fact then in future you could have a quick word with a member of staff, then they can decide what that person's conduct amounts to.

RIchard of York gave blowies in Vegas.

>>450997

And all I got was something contagious

>>70832
Does that happen in his country? They were just sat there, often in hi-viz. Some had paper cups for change, others held barely legible signs written on cardboard. All in places where pedestrians wouldn't walk directly past them but they kept staring forward rather than looking at the cars going past them or attempting to beg.

>>70833

The final sign of the death of the high street - even the beggars have gone drive-thru.

>>70833
This has happened to me in Cardiff.

>>70834
Just wait until they master receiving contactless payments. We'll all be fucked then.

>>70836

>>450732
In the exact same sense that humans are horrible, sure?

>>449995

I started this thread and haven't checked since this reply and find it fucking hilarious how fast you lads got into a row about Limmy cucking

>>450963

Things have changed since the early days of this thread. That was all primitive, reactionary bellyfeel stuff.

I have a much more comprehensive analysis these days about how the rising prevalence of cuckolding (and similarly pathological sexual fixations) relates to worker precarity, loss of agency, and social atomisation in the neo-liberal hegemony.

>>450981

I thought it was just a class thing?

>>450984

I don't quite have the data to add class analysis to my theory, but if I were to blindly make assumptions I would say the lower classes are more likely to conform to something resembling more heteronormative, traditional patriarchal sexual mores; the more deviant tendencies we are focussing on here are likely to be most common amongst the lower middle class.

University graduates who find themselves exposed to a world that doesn't offer the same kind of security and opportunity it used to, at the same time as having been exposed to changing norms on gender and sexuality, people for whom more traditional sexuality is unfashionable. Hipsters, basically, is what I'm saying.

But of course that's all entirely pulled out my arse.

>>13117
That shirt and necklace is ridiculous.

>>13118

Anybody would think he's some kind of one of them non-binary weirdos.

>>13119
At least you knew where you stood with Peter Gabriel.

>>13118
He's dressing like your Nan so people don't mistake him for Theon Greyjoy.

A netlabel called moon musiq just released a compilation of Throbbing Gristle covers this month

https://moonmusiq.bandcamp.com/album/exotic-functions-a-very-friendly-tribute-to-throbbing-gristle

https://moonmusiq.com/#releases

>Britain has agreed to take refugees in from Rwanda under Priti Patel’s landmark deal, it has emerged.

>Those who fled war or persecution and were granted asylum status by Rwanda will be able to come to the UK under a reciprocal scheme signed by the Home Secretary last week. The crucial detail in the agreement’s small print – which could lead critics to reappraise the agreement – emerged only after Miss Patel returned from the East African nation on Friday.

>It states: ‘The participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom, recognising both participants’ commitment towards providing better international protection for refugees.’

>A Home Office source said it would apply to ‘a number in the tens, not hundreds’ of people who have already been granted refugee status in Rwanda. However, the agreement states no limit. The refugees who are brought to this country are likely to be those with the most complex needs, it is understood, such as those with physical or mental health problems.

Let's replace able-bodied migrants from the Middle East with those needing mental health services from Doctor Congo. After all, the NHS and mental health services in particular aren't under strain.

>>95612

It's all going to plan old chap, the trouble is Poles and Lithuanians weren't profitable enough. Our hard working property investors need much more stable assets.

>>95607

Most of those post are made by the same person, Simon Ombongo.

>>95609
The official travel advice is a bit of a roller coaster: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/rwanda/safety-and-security

Petty crime is low outside of Kigali, but beware of occasional grenade attacks.

>>95602 Perhaps you could ask your MP and then let us know? Maybe you could also ask why our Home Secretary is a cross between Indira Modi and Rita Repulsa?