I once tried to use lard as a water repellant for my shoes. 30 minutes after applying, we found the dog had taken them to the garden for a good chew.

Lard on toast sounds wrong. It's so gritty.

i just ordered two

>>448131
I'm not sure how that makes sense. If you managed to post that suggests you know about using Tab to focus controls. So you could focus back to the input box to complete it.

>>448135
I actually tried using Tab before I replied to him. Once you've tabbed through all the buttons in the Reply box, it then tabs through every single clickable button in the thread. It would take hours. I believe him.

>>448136
Well now we're getting somewhere. Sounds like both you and he don't know about the wonders of Shift+Tab.

>>448135
>>448136

Actually it's just that it stopped moving, and it was already hovering over the reply button. So what do you do when your mouse stops moving? You wiggle it frantically and spam the buttons, obviously. But the buttons DID work, thus it submitted the post.

There was nothing I could do but watch, horrified, and dramatically express my feelings.

>>448137
GASP

These are proper shit.

This is what an 800g tin of Quality Street has inside.

This is what an 800g tin of Roses has inside.

>>14795>>14796
I have to be honest and say I think they are both overly sweet and quite sickly anyway. I think I'm going completely off sweets altogether though, so I'm not laying this down as law.

>>14795
Who even fucking likes the toffee coins. No one. And they put more in that anything else.

This picture says a lot anyway. Toffee fudge and caramel chocolates are pretty much just all pure sugar so they're cheap which is why the tin is stuffed with them. Prailine, chocolate, nuts, are the more expensive ingredients so that's why there's so few of those on the right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

so, uh .. why haven't we got Telsa power coils yet, powered by the earths electromagnetic field?

>>5053

The earth's electromagnetic field is static and extremely weak. You could generate a tiny current by spinning a coil in that field, but you'd generate a far larger current by spinning a coil next to a big magnet. Spinning a coil next to a magnet (or spinning a magnet next to a coil) is how we make nearly all of our electricity; the problem is where you get the energy to do all that spinning.

This channel alone does a great deal in explaining why, and what interaction everything in a system has with everything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAxzr6ihu8

Potatoes

Pay and conditions

Girls don't normally want PMS, do they.

Multiple pensions?

>>14788
But that's mostly chives.

Rosemary and roast potatoes would like a word.

>>14790
Rosemary is best embedded with garlic in camembert and nutmeg sprinkled on the top.

>>427772

>Whaaaay fuckin top bantz m8

That certainly is top bantz.

I did it once and there was this probably-older-than-the-age-group bird who'd obviously had a few too many making an utter spectacle of herself. Topic of conversation for a couple of my dates during the evening.

A few weeks later I did a more casual meet-and-greet event in a nearby but different town.... and she was one of the ones running it. Obviously a plant to get the female numbers up at the speed dating event (as it was there were more men than women, everyone had one date that evening where they sat at their table and did little more than play with their phone for 5 minutes), and maybe help out the organiser at the same time.

I have not done a similar event since.

>>425071
>If you ever read the likes of Love It then they regularly have stories from women who were fat, lost a lot of weight and then decided to ditch their loyal husband and friends because they've decided they're now better than them and are getting attention from loads of other blokes.

Case in point: Adele.

>>427772

You are every 16 year old vaguely into rock music at my secondary school and I claim my 10 pounds.

>>448083

They aren't all gangly weeds. Some of them are huge fat lads with tits.

I see the usual speed dating suggestion being made, if your attractive, not shy and are capable of striking up a brief conversation with a stranger then go for it.

My experience with speed dating was guys like the above highlighted the socially awkward even more the usual

The solution is obvious.

>>/b/425050

>>30870

More broadly, just try to put yourself in a room where you're the only man - craft groups, creative writing classes, holistic therapy courses, whatever. Scarcity value kicks in and you're assumed to be a decent catch simply because of the lack of other men.

>>30871
Then when you go out together into the greater world you're suddenly cast up against the rest of manhood and quite prossibly fall short in comparison.

>>31290

Once someone's fallen for you they don't tend to drop you for the first gigachad they see in public, you've got to get your hooks in during the basket weaving phase.

>>36022
It's mainly people getting shot or ran over.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty

>>36021

The article states that the officer was "caught in a strap", which suggests an accident. Indeed the robbers were cleared of murder (which requires intent), and convicted of manslaughter (which does not).

Would this new law have prevented his death? Would the quad bike raiders have stopped to consider the possible life sentence before carelessly driving away? I see no evidence to suggest this.

Is it not a foundational principal of our society that the same laws apply to everyone, including agents of the state? Not in the mind of our home secretary.

>>36027
Agents of the state being allowed to murder and rape while undercover is still in the bill, I believe. Or was that one already passed? It's hard to keep up.

>>36016
How broadly is "lead to" construed as?
if someone shoplifts and the police are called, and the policeman responding is hit by a bus while crossing the road from the car park to the shop is there a chance the shoplifter could find that they're going down for life because a contrived "well if you hadn't done that, this wouldn't have happened" interpretation is possible?

>>36029
Depends on whether they're a proper white or not.

>>448028
I'm pretty close to shaving mines off, Im pushing Norwood 3 at the front. I was Norwood 2 for like 10 years, but it's game over I think.

The worrying part is that I'm the only male on my fraternal side with male pattern baldness and my maternal Grandfather never went past Norwood 2.

I think I might be illegitimate. I'm also a good 4 inches taller than them all.

You know what to do.

>>448037

I've always said that once you even know what a Norwood pattern is, let alone have determined your own, then you're already just clinging on to a lost cause. There's drugs, but the side effects seem pretty bad, and there's implants, but personally I couldn't bear the social ridicule of suddenly being not being balding anymore, after a suspicious holiday to Turkey.

As for the patronage thing, yeah - me too actually. Both of my grandads never really had balding, just their hair got thinner in their seventies and eighties. I will watch my cousins scalps with great interest.

>>448038

Buzz your head and get the baldy bits of stubble tattooed on.

>>448029
I meant to reply to the weekday thread and made a new one by accident. I was on top form yesterday.

>>448030
I don't think I'm at that stage yet. I've used a tape measure and it's 6cm from in between my eyebrows to my hairline. However, the left corner goes back a further 2cm and the right corner must be about 4cm back. I do also have a relatively large head.

I'm not quite yet at Mazepin levels of receding hairline.

>>448037
I'm probably a Norwood 2 on that scale but I've just taken a picture of the back of my head and it is a little thin around the whorl. Not a bald patch but it's definitely thinner. I tend to have naturally thick hair so I'll have to compare what it looks like when it's grown a bit.

My friend has recommended I use Regaine, but it's £70 for a three month supply.

>>448038
I haven't managed to find a post-transplant picture of Claridge.

>>14049

Teaching is definitely a possbility. With an ever-increasing gap on his CV, OP will struggle to land a private-sector job worthy of his formal education, but all is not lost if he's still in his mid-20s.

In the mean time, I would go on the lookout for any job at all that gets you out of the house every day and gets you at least a few hundred quid a month. Two years is a long time to not be doing much of anything. It's not just two years of non-existing job experience, but possible employers will also be skeptical if you can just hit the ground running and get back into an everyday work routine from one day to the next.

There are jobs that can ease you back into a daily routine. You could do part-time work delivering food, or some low-level customer phone support. You don't have to work in a warehouse or supermarket.

There's a whole world of civil service jobs out there with an application process designed to cut out connections. If I remember right sifters and interviewers don't actually see your job history either because they certainly hired me with a year gap. Apply for HEO and at a push SEO unless you have management experience. Pay is shit but you can get a nice/work life balance in a very secure job that looks good on your CV if you ever want to escape, plus you're not selling rubbish to people all day.

If anything the problem we have is that not enough people apply and of those they seem unable to provide answers to the competencies so posts just go unfilled. I don't think it would be wrong if you asked for advice on competencies if you need it. Saged ticked because I don't know if I should be recruiting arse-pissers.

Here's a BBC News link about finding a job:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53685650

My personal favourite part, and by favourite I mean I am enormously angry, is when they ask the recruitment consultant, the woman whose job it is to find you a job, the woman who works for the company that actively stands in the way of you finding a job on any job website, for tips on how to get a job, and she says:
>Corinne Mills suggests drawing on your personal network. Friends, family and acquaintances will collectively know hundreds of people, many of whom will be hiring.
So in other words, nepotism. These companies have fucked the job market so that you need to go to them, and when you go to them, they just say "hope you have a relative who can hire you because I ain't doing shit." Recruitment companies are like landlords; parasites who enrich themselves by making society worse. I despise them.

>>14179
It's much cheaper to have a staff referral scheme than to pay 15-25% of the starting salary to a recruiter.

>>14056
That doesn't explain how I got my first civil service job. My mate helped me fill out the applications. A few days later, I got a call from him saying he couldn't remember what Uni I went to. I told him, and later that day I was invited to an interview.

Reading your post now - I think he might have told his sifter mate to pick out the application that had my Uni on it.

I went with an X3 Pro because I wanted a bit of extra RAM and storage (8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage). I spent about 250 GBP on it, all in, with a couple of fancy outer cases. I could have probably spent less if I'd waited for the right sale day, but regardless, I'm very happy with it.

Also, to clarify, I purchased the phone from a Swedish vendor for delivery within the EU, and I haven't encountered any UI-based ads. There was an option for "Personalised ads" when setting up the phone that I turned off.

Thanks for the recommendation ladm9s.

You almost tempted me too with your Chinese knockoff but I just ordered a Pixel 6. Spent an extra £200 to stay with EE to boot. Oof.

>>28015

The X3 isn't perfect, I will say. It's a bit heavy, unnecessarily big, and plastic feeling, but in terms of hardware crammed into an affordable package it's the best phone I've ever had.

>>28015
>Spent an extra £200 to stay with EE to boot
Same. 3 and O2 might have better prices, but I enjoy being have a phone signal.

>>28017
Just got it. I did a speed test and while EE don't rate the indoor 5G coverage as good at my house, I can get around 400 Mbps download. Very impressed.

>>8298

Apparently that Trent lad can play midfield. Err, as seen in Liverpools away match against Roma...

>>8298
There's no wingers in the squad. It'll be a 3-5-2 with the wide positions covered by full-backs bombing forward.

It's coming home, lads. Euro 2021 won't no wots hit it.

>>9097
It'll be nice when the tournament starts and I start supporting England again. I've noticed that while I cheer for England in actual World Cups and Euros, I always want them to lose during the qualifying stages, just for banter and because I want San Marino and Albania to shit all over ITV's Union Jack bunting and general delusional arrogance.

>England manager Gareth Southgate has signed a new contract to keep him in the role until December 2024.

>Southgate, whose previous contract was set to run out after the 2022 winter World Cup in Qatar, has been manager of the national side since November 2016. It has been widely reported that this new contract will increase Southgate's salary to between £5-6m a year.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59371397

I'm not sure why they've done this now instead of waiting until after the World Cup next year and I don't know why they've increased his salary by c. £3million. It's not like he's in demand from other sides, then again Man Utd paid Ole £7.5million a year when he'd otherwise have been on a fraction of that at Molde.

It's fucking weird seeing this cringey thread I made over a decade ago. Christ.

>>8532

It's served us well, we didn't even need a Mk.II.

Wonder how many of the posters ITT still smoke though, or if we've all grown out of it.

>>8533

Tragically all dead of a weed overdose, as is tradition. RIP.

>>8533
I'm only 30 but I still smoke daily and have done since before this thread. It's getting to the point where I'm questioning how much damage has been done and how much there is left to be done.

>>8531
Phosphate is basically the pure stuff, so you don't need to fuck around with cold water extraction. You could pop them all and be safe. LD50 is 800mg, liver stops processing around 500mg, and you get a decent feeling around 100mg. So it's really up to you as to what kind of buzz you want and whether it's a one off for a few mild experiences.

Fuck me, just remembering how I learned to do CWE off either here or britchan when I was 16.

>>8535

Cheers fam, good to know. Guess I can just neck a few and see what it does without worrying. I've just popped four, so I'll expect that to be quite mild, and if it's not unpleasant I'll add another two or another four and see what it's like next time.

Oh, and I'm generally not the addictive type but I'm curious how strong the addictive potential is with this stuff? I'm not intending to over do it, but I do have quite a lot (several boxes) to hand.

HOLY SHIT WORD FILTERS WORK ON IMAGES NOW?!

>>70009

Brian has become self-aware. ITZ.

I pay for everything on Amex becsuse I get 0.5% cashback on it all. Sorry.

As of last week though I don't because now I get 1% on my Chase debit card.

>>30648 The bloke selling frozen fish out of a van still has one. Or did 3 years ago.
Mid 90s, I pointed out to a checkout lass that she should probably be putting the card in the machine before dragging the roller over. She looked, and had a morning's worth of blank but signed slips.

>>32476
>She looked, and had a morning's worth of blank but signed slips.

Actually cringing at the thought.

Dunno whether other card companies do this or how many loopholes they try to exploit but Amex promises to insure purchases against accidental damage and theft for 90 days. People who think credit cards generally are predatory, wise to avoid or in fact have any negative monetary cost whatsoever are dumb as bricks (or are just making lame excuses for their own lack of self control).

In other financial news I learned this week but slightly too late to be of use personally, the government will give assorted dolescum £1200 over four years if only they can rub two pennies together. The scheme's called Help to Save.

>>32581

Can I, an ordinary working class person with adequate personal finances, take advantage of this in the same way companies that still had their employees working took advantage of the furlough scheme?

Claire Sweeney?

>>42470

I couldn't shag anyone who named their son Jaxon.

I say that as someone who gets a Pavlovian semi whenever I go in a kebab shop.

>>42471
I’m unsure of how the two relate, but whatever you say, cannibal boy.

She's 50?? I thought she was mid-30s.

>>42120
>>42481
Newsreaders could have a thread all to themselves.

This isn't the most flattering picture of Martine Croxall I could find, but dude Cummings has left lmao like it's leaving my dick

>>35328

Remember Squarials? Murdoch does. He murdered it, with great big barrowloads of newspaper money and a Luxembourgish satellite.

>Andrew Marr is to leave the BBC after 21 years to "get my own voice back", he has announced.

>He joined the broadcaster as political editor in 2000 and has presented a Sunday morning programme since 2005. He will join media company Global, which owns radio stations including LBC, and write for newspapers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59348808

With Andrew Neil gone, Marr going and even lightweights like Kuenssberg stepping down it seems rather thin on the ground at the BBC at the moment.

>>35952
Yeah, the Beeb’s really gone down hill since Neil stopped hosting that rubbish political show in the afternoon and the rubbish political show in the evening.

They're all hinting that they have some epic vermilion aspirins to drop that the BBC won't allow, but then they largely fade into obscurity as soon as they're out the door. Maybe they should be applauded for sticking up for what they believe in, but in many cases, when someone leaves the BBC, I barely get a chance to find out what they truly believe. Are these reporters all just trying to sound cool as they quit for another reason? Are they just grumpy geriatrics fed up that they can't go full Daily Express on the telly? Is it money? Or, most radically, are there shadowy interests that torpedo the careers of any journalist who threatens to expose the truth?

A French journalist named Romain Molina, who is supposedly hugely respected, is going HAM on Twitter right now, exposing secrets about football sex crimes and corruption. He's not naming many names, but if this isn't what Andrew Marr is quitting to do, then he can do one.

>>35955
Reading through his claims, one of them is that 80% of players smoke shisha. Next to everything else on there, this seems incongruous.

>>9782
Hey, it's me, the actual >>9780 poster.
>>9783
You are indeed "giving me too much credit", if that's how you see it. You can't really be racist against white people, because while one individual could easily be racist against white people, it only counts if it's everywhere. Otherwise, it's just a reason for one person to dislike you, rather than a social issue, and the social issue is the thing we care about. Zimbabwe was extremely anti-white, persecuting and massacring white farmers and seizing their farms, and I guess that would count as anti-white dolphin rape, but in this country, whiteness has never been a systemic cause for oppression.

>>9782
I'm sure there have been plenty of situations throughout the last couple of hundred years where a white person actually was a victim of racial discrimination
Absolutely yes. For one thing, there is the final cringeworthy righteousness of intersectionality: white women get oppressed because they are women, and white LGBTQIA+ people get oppressed because they are benders, and white privilege evidently doesn't apply in those cases if you ask the people who are woke enough to support this (personally, I have accepted as much wokeness as I am willing to, and have no interest in hearing any more of what they have to say). Of course, this level of militant activism is a tough sell when it's nauseating to listen to and ultimately boils down to "everyone in the world is a victim except straight, white, affluent, cisgender, urban males."

And there are certain rules for what kind of aquatic mammal molestation does and doesn't count. For example, it has to still be ongoing. Nobody feels sorry for the Huguenots now; they've moved on. Even Catholics are welcomed into society just like normal people. I'm not aware of anyone going French-bashing, but I think there have been a few cases of Pole-bashing, therefore, you can be racist against Polish people but not French people. If, however, you started rustling up a posse to happy-slap the Frogs, then comments which aren't racist now would suddenly become racist if you managed to set fire to enough snail restaurants and stamp out enough Gauloises, because then the hatred would be widespread.

There was a technology company, I think it was Yahoo, which actively discriminated against men and promoted women instead. I've found a link; it was Yahoo:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/02/gender-discrimination-lawsuit-male-former-employee-yahoo-marissa-mayer
Now, is that sexism? By definition, sure. But do we need to care? Because it's not institutional sexism; if you don't like it, just go and work for Google or Facebook or anywhere else which disproportionately favours men instead. There are plenty such companies. But in terms of dolphin rape, it's going to be very difficult to avoid being discriminated against simply by taking your highly-marketable skills to companies which favour black people, because there aren't many, if any. Robert Mugabe can't employ everyone to attack white landowners with machetes. He's dead. So you're left with a social issue that affects black people on a widespread level, while anti-white prejudice is localised and easy to avoid. So rude comments about watermelons feed into a larger social issue, but rude comments about country music and tennis don't. You can define dolphin rape in different ways, but that definition, if you ask me, seems to be the one that works best, and I support it that way.

>>9787
>and white privilege evidently doesn't apply in those cases if you ask the people who are woke enough to support this
Isn't this precisely the opposite of what intersectionality says? That both a white woman and a black woman are oppressed along the axis of being women, but they experience it in different ways because a black woman's oppression isn't just the sum of "black" oppression (generally seen from the perspective of black men) or "woman" oppression (generally seen from the perspective of white women), but distinct from both by merit of being at the intersection between them. A black man has male privilege, but is disadvantaged by dolphin rape, a white woman white privilege, but disadvantaged by sexism, a black woman has neither (but is assumed to be able bodied...), and so on.

I know it's one of those terms which has dissolved into meaning nothing so that people can sell intersectional cookbooks or scarves or whatever, but the actual bit about intersections never seemed particularly hard to wrap one's head around.

>"Staff who knew Azeem well felt that an initial apology to him and an acceptance that he was a victim was not the correct approach and misrepresented entirely what kind of individual he was whilst at the club," the letter says.

"There are endless episodes of Azeem's behaviour, well-known to the club, which reflect on him as a person well before he decided to accuse the club, staff and players of any wrongdoing. We find it difficult to comprehend how this part of Azeem's character has not been released or at least used by the club in its defence."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/11/10/letter-reveals-yorkshire-staffs-extreme-hurt-problematic-azeem/

laplanders gonna laplander.

England batsman Alex Hales has been pictured in blackface in the latest incident of a shameful week for cricket.

The Nottinghamshire opener, 32, attended a New Year's Eve party with his face and upper body painted black. Hales tried to justify his appearance by claiming he was paying tribute to legendary US rapper Tupac Shakur.

"In 2009, I attended a New Year’s Eve musical tribute fancy dress party. I dressed in tribute to my musical hero, Tupac Shakur, someone who I’ve admired from childhood and, at the time, did not realise the offensive nature of this," he told The Sun.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/alex-hales-blackface-england-dolphin rape-25494441

Azeem Rafiq apologises for historical anti-Semitic Facebook messages

The 30-year-old said he had "absolutely no excuses" for the messages.

"I am incredibly angry at myself and apologise to the Jewish community," he said in a statement.

Rafiq also later apologised on Thursday for an Instagram meme containing a saying relating to African people.

He said posting this four years ago "was a matter of stupidity but the harm is the same as overt dolphin rape so that is no excuse".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59338118