>>421077
Someone screaming that what we're chatting about somehow "doesn't count" whilst contributing absolutely nothing relevant to the topic certainly helps.

>>421079
>For what it's worth, "sensible politicians" lad didn't credibly back up his assertions either.
Exactly which assertions were those?

If you think showing your working is more important than getting the right answer in something as ad-hoc as politics, you can bugger off.

>>421094
How exactly do you propose to know you've got the right answer?

>>421094
It is arguably the single most important thing when it comes to anything not black and white. Showing your working is how you justify yourself and exhibit that you've used reason and logic to reach your conclusion.

This thread is now beyond irredeemable. Congratulations, you cunts. You're exiled to /pol/. Again.

>>6819

I'm not really talking about covers anymore but books which won't stay in one genre bug me. It's why I don't like urban fantasy and magical realism.

Then there are books I think of having Scooby Doo plots, which are billed as gently creepy horror but then everything ends up having a rational explanation. Even if it seems perfectly engrossing while I'm reading it, the ending makes me just not know what to make of it.

>>6820

Jeremy Bates is bad for this.

>>6820
>books which won't stay in one genre bug me. It's why I don't like urban fantasy and magical realism.
Not to just throw around the term "autism" willy-nilly like, but...

I'm really the only one to find steampunk and mash-ups annoying?

>>6823

I've read this and it fully left out the best bit. I'm not trying to do spoilers but you know the bit where they're in the garden?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyMPLotr224

You'll want to turn on the subtitles and note that Sonotone is a French brand of hearing aid. The gist is that getting old sucks.

>>10945

I didn't think MC Solaar was that old, but then I realised Cinquième As was released in 2001...

Guess I'm getting old, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWO5N8Vxsc

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

>>11221
>>11222

It is odd, isn't it?

My first choice is a track that I doubt has ever made anyone else cry in the entire history of earth since it was released, but as someone who eats what they're prescribed just to be ostracised for their little boy who keeps them in the world to beat this, it hurts just right:

And now for something completely different:

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star and I said,

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I have a friend who works in the treasury and described George Osborne as a smug cocky wanker when he was giving a speech to the staff.

>>420974
He wasn't wrong.

>>420974

One of my friends used to work part time for a catering service, and one time, they were hired for a campaign event for Gordon Brown's 2010 election campaign. He got to meet Gordon Brown in person in the VIP area, where Gordon Brown had a quick chat with all the staff. My friend said he quite honestly never met a person who was as dull, boring and wooden as him.

>>420968

I hope this is real because it genuinely made me laugh too.

>>420978

I promise you it's real. I'd be very surprised if I didn't post about it on here back then. I think was two or three years ago.

He does seem to still love the film though, he posts references to it on his social media and likes all the related comments.

>>27041

Calling them 'gentlemen terrorists' is unfair to the people they've harmed and killed. For every fuck-off city centre wrecking bomb they phoned in to warn about there were proper awful acts they performed.
It's a concept that needs to die.

And fwiw I think the Loyalist groups were cunts too. The whole Northern Irish situation was such a barrel of shit.

>>27044

ahem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Adrian_Donohoe

>>27046
Great post, particularly enjoyed the bit where you explained your point.

Drivers who dither about whether to pull out in front of you. Either commit to it or not, don't hesitantly half pull out.

>>27045

Loyalist paramilitaries were extra cunts in my opinion (and I'm from a unionist family), nothing more than a collection of violent goons.
While there were very legitimate concerns about the Irish state until the past few decades, the shambles that it was doesn't really compare to oppressive policies enacted in the north after partition. I'd like to think that had people got past their prejudices and allowed Catholics to properly integrate into NI in the first place that a lot of the subsequent mess would've found nothing to spark it, but of course prejudice is too much of a powerful political tool for that to have ever happened.

I'm not really an IRA sympathiser, but they had something to fight for initially.

These days though the constant whinging from Sinn Fein and trendy republican persecution complex memes are mostly a load of wank. But whinging is the primary political driver on all sides of NI politics so it's not going to end any time soon.

>>22443
Yeah, in a post-cryptocurrency world I don't think I can ever buy a second-hand graphics card again.

>>22443
>>22444
>>22445
>>22446
Cheers lads. My phone's just decided to shit the bed, so I'll put it on hold for now, but that OCUK rx580 looks like a decent deal.

One of my workmates has brought a PS4 to work so the night shifts would be a tad less shite.

I can't get used to a gamepad for shit - it's just too alien for me and I get lost in all those buttons and sticks. But I have to admit that whoever had decided to add that little sensor panel to it was at least partially a genius.

Sage for off-topic.

>>22449
It works like a track pad if you tell your computer it's a Xbox controller too. It's actually a very nice gamepad, even if the triggers are a bit small and lacking travel.

>>22450
Also I really appreciate the trigger buttons or whatever they're called. Makes some GTA V missions easier where you need to maintain a certain speed.

>>15948
IMO the article can be summed up as
>You don't know yer born, lad.
When in fact, I do. I grew up in communist Poland, I know what hunger and actual propaganda look like and this reads like the shit my Primary School teachers used to chat bollocks about. We got told people in Germany were poor and had no food and that, actually, we were quite well off in comparison because we had so much potatoes. My Dad managed to get out to Sweden to work, which was allowed in the 90s to avoid the draft, and he taught us it was bollocks.

Beware the BBC, lads. They're not the bastion of impartiality of old. It's misleading shit like this, I feel, that makes people want us out, as we recognise it for what it is and it gets their backs up. I'm a British citizen now, I have two passports, but if you see us heading back to shitholes like Lublin rather than tough it out, you're less appealing than a post-communist block country with endemic corruption in society.

>>15951
Yeah, reporting that the UK has 8% cheaper food, when expressed as a share of income, than the EU average (which includes the likes of Greece) is of a similar ilk to claiming the third richest country in the world is in famine.

Sure thing, mate.

What do you think are the BBC's propaganda aims when they report our trains are more expensive than European ones and London has the most expensive transport in the world?

>>15954
Slide the bullshit down with a spoonful of truthful sugar, m9. It's indicitive of the kind of thing I used to see a lot of. When prices shoot up, you'll see a lot of "realistic rebalancing of costs" and calls to "tighten our belts" now we're out of the evil EU. Medicines nd food being scarce will be the EU's fault, we're already seeing Jeremy Hunt liken them to Soviet despots. "Actually, a lot of countries support us but big bad Germany wont let them!" when that's catigorical bollocks. The BBC reports this stuff without challenging it already, the amount of limp-wristed soft questions Politicians get on the BBC nowadays is laughable.

You should see the stuff BBC Scotland gets up to as well, Ofcom has had to investiagte them for anti-SNP bias twice after they ruled themselves fair an impartial via internal processes.

That's all hauntingly familiar and what I would expect of the likes of the Daily Mail, not the BBC which is supposed to be a pillar of trust in our society.

>>15951
>I'm a British citizen now, I have two passports, but if you see us heading back to shitholes like Lublin rather than tough it out, you're less appealing than a post-communist block country with endemic corruption in society.

From the get-go I was suspicious of your post, but this sentence outs you.

Lublin is lovely. Put more work into your former sufferer under Communist schtick.

>>15959
To be fair, Poland as a whole is a lot different these days from what it was like in the 90s. Dodging down alleys to hide from the military police to avoid getting drafted was an every day occurrence for a lot of young men. Lublin was especially grim, but it at least had a vibrant underground music scene.

Me calling Lublin shit is the equivalent of Edinburgh natives calling it a shithole, when I think it's lovely.

>>420406

>I think the problem is still that there are many computer illiterates in power and in office in Brussels.
>the problem is still that there are many illiterates in power in office in Brussels.
>Iproblem is Brussels.

>>420331
Let's pretend we were outside the EU. Lobbyists come to ARE SOVRIN parliament with the exact same law.

It still gets passed anyway.

Do keep up, lad.

>>420772
That, and we'd still be subject to the law passed in the EU - any website we used that was based in the EU (Facebook, for example, has servers in Ireland) would be subject to that. We simply are not important enough to get our own stuff. It's like >900W vacuum cleaners -- manufacturers are highly unlikely to make something just for the UK market, so we'll get EU spec ones anyway.

>>420787
This. Note the shitstorm that took place following GDPR. If this gets passed before the implementation sunset (set to be late 2020), we'll likely have to incorporate it into domestic law anyway as part of the requirements of our timely exit from the EU.

I am but humble military intelligence agent on holiday.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skripal-suspect-boshirov-identified-gru-colonel-anatoliy-chepiga/

>>61692
He looks almost identical to a guy I used to work with, except with a beard.
He claimed to be a Lithuanian but no one believed him.

>>61692
Not to inadvertently aid in a Russian disinfo campaign or nowt, but if you told me he was any of these lot I'd probably believe you.

>>61694
Wash your knobs, lad, can't be too careful.

>>61695

This picture isn't really the important part, and it should be noted that the chap who did the research about this lad being an agent is not at all claiming that this is a picture of him, presumably because he knows it's very easy to deny that sort of likeness.

>>60378

Saw this in this morning’s local.

>>61390
I assume it was this:

Lads. I don't want to get all /boo/ on you but the videos in the OP and >>61390 have both been deleted. One was from the official 10 downing Street YouTube channel and the other from the Guardian's channel. It's as if they don't want us analysing her faulty programming.

>>61393

I know. Something's afoot...

>>61394
I think there's something in those leopard print shoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbD8ngbciI

http://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society

You're clearly an intelligent person. You might be socially dysfunctional or mentally ill, but you have the opportunity to earn the respect of others. You can develop skills and talents that people find enjoyable, interesting or useful. You don't have to change the world, you just need to contribute something of some value to someone.

You probably aren't nearly as dysfunctional as you think you are, but I'll take you on your word and assume for the sake of argument that integrating into the mainstream of society just isn't going to happen for you. Even if you can't be normal, you can still be somebody.

You can be the guy at the support group who always welcomes the newcomers. You can be a guy with a really useful database of anime trivia. You can carve intricate wooden figures on a YouTube channel with 800 loyal subscribers. You can be the guy at the open mic night who wears a shower curtain as a cape and reads out surreal poems. These things might be trivial, but they're also the things that make life worth living.

I think it's about finding an internal locus of evaluation rather than relying on the judgements of others. Life is, in the most brutal terms, a futile march towards death. No matter what we achieve in life, we all end up in the same place. No amount of money or fame or admiration can change that destination. If you can find something halfway enjoyable to do with your time on earth, you're doing better than most people.

>>27462

I'd take issue with the idea that social drivers are necessarily the 'traditional' reward mechanism, that's just one of the many types human beings are capable of following if they so choose. The concept of a more fully-rounded idea of 'human flourishing' has been around for a long time. Take the idea of 'eudaimonia' from antiquity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

To be completely honest with you, following just peer recognition and a rich social life and ignoring other important areas of fulfillment strikes me as a disastrous way to live. You'd be far more subject to peer pressure, you'd be brow-beaten into conforming to the most destructive and self-defeating trends, and you'd need to deprioritise or suppress any motivations that jeopardised your social position.

You're certainly not alone in feeling you haven't integrated because you don't accept certain social pressures (or indeed, because you weren't able or willing to meet whatever fluctuating standard was in place at the time). In fact, reading and thinking about philosophy in general may help you to understand your relationship to society. The fact you're intelligent and self-aware enough to step back and consider this relationship rather than dismissing the question out of hand in favour of immediate rewards is something you should celebrate, even if it does make your life a bit more complicated.

>I guess what I'm ultimately getting at is this: people integrated into society have a far easier time getting up for work in the morning, but where does that leave the people who were never able to integrate? Asking for a friend.

You're making quite a few assumptions there: that there is anyone who feels fully integrated into society, that they feel fulfilled because they're integrated, or that society is structured in a way that the integrated find it easier to get up for work in the morning.

You seem to have quite a specific idea of what 'fitting in' means, and I'd encourage you to think about and critique that. For example, fitting in where I live would probably have meant alcoholism and drugs from an early age.

>>61700
Your mum's an emoji.

>>61698
Isn't that what he said?

Everyone in this thread is an idiot and these guys will walk.
I don't even have the energy to tell you cunts why you are wrong because I know I'll need to explain it more than once.

>>61703

"I'm right but you're too stupid to understand why" is another way of saying "I'm to stupid to explain my own thoughts"

good luck with that you septic.

>>61703
You'd be right if the only one who fired was the Father, as he was the one attacked, but the son can't and wont be able to argue he felt his life was in danger and that is the only way shooting to kill in self defence is justified, no matter where you live in the USA.

Also, after the video went viral, they pulled them back in charged them further and increased their bail. Why would they have done that if not because they had enough evidence to prosecute?

There is also the fact the Father discharged his firearm after his son had incapacitated the guy and the fact they then proceeded to force the woman and another bystander to the ground at gunpoint despite them being unarmed.

>>420684

>Assuming the average pigeon weighs 1kg,

That kind of sounds like a morbidly obese pigeon.

Two chicken breasts are usually in the region of 500 grammes put together, which is more body mass than an entire adult pigeon will have.

>>420684
>>420693

https://ovocontrol.com/pigeons/

>Description

>Size: 11-14 inches
>Wingspan: 20-26 inches
>Weight: 9 – 13 ounces

According to this, even a bigger pigeon weighs less than half a kg.

use antifreeze mix it with their seed [yt]fW1QT3gttSE/yt]

I'm fucking well ard so I would just grab them with my bare hands and kill them.

>>420693
>>420694

>>27442

I'm making a bit of an assumption here but I think you drink/drank in slightly less rough pubs than I did (and good for you).

There are certain situations where, if you don't get out at the very first sign of agro, then you are going to be in a fight whether you want to be or not.

Saying "Steady on old chap I really don't want to engage in fisticuffs today" doesn't really cut the mustard when you're about to get a half-full bottle of becks over the bonce.

> Excusing it as "boys will be boys" is unhelpful. It's one step away from "that guy's tall, he must be trying to fight me" or "that bloke wouldn't ask me to leave him alone except to annoy me so I'll give him what he wants". Let me get drunk in peace.

I think you've missed the point. I'm not trying to excuse anything, merely state that younger lads tend to be more pissed up and more testosterone fueled than some older guys who are more likely out for a quiet drink (but, again, not always).

The main problem is, no matter how much you want to be left alone for a quiet drink, there will be a certain percentage of pubs where someone will just not like the look of you from the moment you walk in - and before anyone preaches about flat roofed pubs I've seen someone almost get glassed in the neck in an All Bar One in fucking Chiswick if it weren't for the actions of two incredibly ballsy and no doubt underpaid security lads.

>>27443
Actually it's clear to me that we drank/drink(?) in the same kinds of places. I have a chip on my shoulder about this precisely because I've had to deal with it constantly for as long as I can remember. Posh kids come to shit pubs when they're already drunk expecting an episode of EastEnders or whatever.

> I'm not trying to excuse anything, merely state that younger lads tend to be more pissed up and more testosterone fueled than some older guys

I have been an alcoholic since I was 16. It's not about the situation it's about the lad with something to prove, just like any and all other circumstances where one person wants a fight and decides to make it happen.

>>27427

Exactly. And the thing about it with a lass is that they tend to also have that air about them where they've learned over the years how they can insidiously get away with it. They've experienced and understood the way hitting a bloke is often completely consequence free, where a bloke hitting her would never be.

With a little time and perspective I've come to perceive my previous relationship as abusive (which some of you lads called out close to a year ago when I first found myself complaining on here about her) but at the time I barely even considered the possibility. Of course, nobody will take me seriously if I try and tell them she was, and after the break up she put plenty of work into making me look like the bad guy. So thank fuck she wasn't the type inclined to violence.

I'd say OP is still well advised to think carefully about this bird.

>>27446

> Exactly. And the thing about it with a lass is that they tend to also have that air about them where they've learned over the years how they can insidiously get away with it. They've experienced and understood the way hitting a bloke is often completely consequence free, where a bloke hitting her would never be.

> With a little time and perspective I've come to perceive my previous relationship as abusive

> I'd say OP is still well advised to think carefully about this bird.

It sounds to me like you're taking one possibly bad experience and extrapolating it and projecting it onto other cases. Just because you might have been in an "abusive" relationship (which apparently didn't even involve a slap from a lass?) doesn't mean all girls who give naughty dogs a slap are ticking time bombs. Perspective, please.

>>27459

You did a pretty good job of illustrating my point there, lad.

I'm not saying she definitely is a mentalist, but I definitely think it's something that would cause me to think hard about my assumptions of a person's character.

Which radios did you buy? The mention of repeaters suggests that you might have inadvertently bought an amateur radio transceiver instead of PMR446.

Radioddity GD-77 , so yes, I've been criminal scum in that they'll operate outside the unlicensed bands and at unlicensed powers.
hence me wanting to find a codeplug that'll kick them back down to legal DPMR (although I know that won't make them legal, but I'm OK with that).
It's just that my analogue PMRs are really knackered and I lost the good ones in a house move, so fancied something a bit less crackly now that I'm using them more. 'Real' DPMR sets are ball-achingly expensive still, as there aren't that many.

>>84481
What, select against dim birds with massive tits? They're their greatest hope. Until, of course, it all gets out of hand, as with Diane Abbott, and even thick voters start worrying.

>>84476

GILF.

>>84483

Corbyn has traded her in for a newer model.

>>84476
>>84478

>a bit council

Snide anti-working class prejudice in action.

>>84489
>council
>working

Good one, ladmate.

>>61691
>87 views
Apparently not.

>>61689
Jesus wept.