>>9678
>this is the first time there's been a close title race between drivers from two different teams since, what, Vettel and Alonso in 2012?
No? Hamilton and Vettel shared the exact same points difference as Hamilton and Max now after the same number of races in the 2018 season (and only Vettel had suffered a retirement at that point).

>>9682
You still knew that Hamilton would inevitably run away with it.

>>9682
It was actually Hamilton who had a retirement and so Vettel was ahead on points. The 2017 season also saw Vettel ahead at this point with neither driver retiring.

>>9678
I was being irreverent, perhaps my conclusion didn't deviate enough from my analysis to be clear. Though I do agree with your wider point, it's almost always shared and there's almost always factors beyond direct control.

I was more wondering if it's true that Verstappen has that trait/reputation, and how that factors into the tactics of F1. It seems like a general advantage to be known as aggressive and be challenged less often.

>>9685
Verstappen does have a very silly aggressive streak, which is okay if you have nothing to lose. They almost crashed on 3 separate occasions throughout this season, and every time it came close, Hamilton backed out. It is naïve to be that aggressive when you are leading on points.

>>445073
Time for your bath?

Bishop Boris is coming to get his arse licked?

>>445073
Galway was liberated from the Indians?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYk0TqUWMg

Looks like we've moved on from bread, but the absolute best bread is Simit, with clotted cream and honey.

I say this as I've not long been back from a Turkish café where I ate my bodyweight in it, and regretted nothing.

If this is going to be breadthread, then my recent favourite is chThe Great White Whale. Here's one I made earlier.

>>444677
That looks delicious.

I've been thinking about it and I've decided that petit pains, especially the ones you finish baking at home, are a far better receptacle for sausages than hot dog rolls.

>>445085
Full agreement.

Let his fate be a lesson to us all: never lose weight.

A true athlete

I think we did have a man of God posting here once. It takes around 7 years of study from what I remember and any money is merely resting in your account.

>a lot of churchy young women have that strangely alluring oddball vibe to them

Well you won't fit in with the Catholics at all.

Try an evangelical church. My local one takes in men when they're as young as 25 and trains them to be pastors. Not sure what pay is like, but if you're after oddballs then evangelical church is the place for you.

According to this, if you want to be a trainee vicar you should be a regular churchgoer and approach your vicar to see if they think you'd be suitable to join the ministry. If they'll support your application the next step is to be interviewed by a selection panel and if you're successful in that they'll pay for you to study for a degree in theology.

https://www.ridley.cam.ac.uk/ordained-ministry/apply

My BIL is active in a CoE church, possibly on this path. Currently does pastor stuff. The petty politicking and bickering in the congregation at large - well, the engaged ones not the ones dragged in by partners / parents or just depressed and wanting some silent company on a Sunday morning, trumps anything he's ever seen.
'Ooh, the vicar wouldn't like that', fighting for specious duties, currying favour with Jesus. Just madness. Take the office 101 thread, make most of the participants either highly strung or elderly (or both), add a veneer of 'Jesus wants', and start arguing about the photocopier.
Not with a fucking bargepole, m8.
Just call yourself Reverend Anon, move to a new area and build a cult of personality around yourself. Sooner than you know, you'll be surrounded by mad church totty and have the FBI (Met in this country? Who would we use to flatten your compound and burn you out?) at the door.

>>445040
>The petty politicking and bickering in the congregation at large - well, the engaged ones not the ones dragged in by partners / parents or just depressed and wanting some silent company on a Sunday morning, trumps anything he's ever seen.

I knew years of reading tedious cunt-offs on here would eventually pay off somehow.

>>69244
>PERSONALLY I BLAME DOUBLE BARRELED FIRST NAMES
Personally I blame your parents for being too poor to afford two surnames.

>>69244

Why is it always Lily-mai.

I think the double barreled names were something more common about 10 years ago. Nowadays girls all have similar sounding names, ava, Eva, evie, ivy, isla, Aoife, Ella, amelia, Mia, Freya, lilia, Olivia, Sofia, Thea.

That's just a list of names that sound chavvy to people in their late 20s/early 30s.

There are some hideously scrotey names on that list, and I will not miss them.

Surnames as first names are the real enemy, too. "Jackson, leave Hunter alone! Why can't you be like your sister, DuChambeau?"

You'll have to do your best as a freelancer of sorts to get started out in this sort of field. You have to build up a portfolio you can demonstrate to potential employers before they'll even look at you.

My missus has made her living as an artist for most of the last decade, and she'd probably be able to wipe the floor with most of the cunts who actually get the jobs. But when 90% of your paying work was porn they don't seem to think it counts. Nonsense if you ask me, it just shows she knows where the business is.

>>13917
Nice. I do have a decent portfolio, for illustration and animation. Not enough widget-y things for graphic/UI design. Can you ask your missus where she found her work?

>>13918
If you go in Reddit there's quite a few subs for artists open for commissions. It seems Septics have a lot of disposable income to throw at fantasy porn

>>13920
Wipe them out, all of them.

>>42203
That made me note that whenever I can name a female in a game I name them Alyssa. Shit.

>>42203
So, dear soothsayer, how would you dispose of a quite realistic doll of a human? If you don't want to sell it and pass on the responsibility, do you chuck the humanoid body into a bin bag and traumatise/annoy the binmen? Chuck it into a hedge and do the same to dog walkers and joggers? Once you've made the mistake of getting this responsibility, what do you propose is the solution? If you're the canal pusher... CRT or some magnet fisher would have to deal with your bollocks.

>>42206

Not him, but I'd probably butcher it like you would a pig an throw it in an incinerator.

>>42207
I don't have an incinerator available to me, but that sounds like a good option.

>>42208

Even a cheap garden incinerator would do the job, though admittedly you'd probably very quickly get reported if you burned huge hunks of silicone in a built up area.

My second choice would be to hack the flesh off as our lad did, then use my angle grinder or cut off tool to cut the metal into manageable chunks. Then a trip to the local tip with a bag of scrap metal and a much more suspicious bag of plastic meat, and it'd be gone. I might also have considered finding a chemical that would dissolve or melt the silicone. But again, I'm blessed with a big, private garden and shed, so could do this all without looking odd.

>>69221

No technology that was ever invented didn't at some point attract Big Business into the market.

As for facebook and other social media platforms, the old saying still applies -

"If the product is free, then you're the product."

Why do I get the feeling this will only end up applying to a very specific arse-pissing website hosted in the UK. Revengelad will finally have his day.

>>69219
But how can I bash one out over Becky in accounts if you ban identity?

Surely if they can't manage the porn age verification this has no chance.

How is Ahmed, 17, Qatar going to be racist on instagram now? Checkmate racists.

>>69226
I don't think we need to worry about authoritarian regimes implementing a social tracking system and disappearing people who express the wrong views. Might be a nice export opportunity once we get our system running.

>>443582

I can't say I've ever felt this myself. If anything I have less of an appetite after being haunted by a shit.

>>443582
I need to shit after eating so it makes sense to me that shitting would make you hungry, there's only so much space in your digestive system.

COVID-19 clears up rapidly after stool transplant to treat bacterial infection

Researchers suggest that faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) might be worth exploring as a treatment option for coronavirus.

Doctors from Imperial College London and the Medical University of Warsaw have published a letter online in the journal Gut, exploring the use of stool transplants to treat COVID-19 infection, after they used the procedure in two patients for another bacterial infection.

As well as being infected with Clostridioides difficile (a bacterial gut infection), both patients also happened to have COVID-19 infection, the symptoms of which cleared up rapidly after the stool transplant. Furthermore, while SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) may be detectable in stool for prolonged periods after the infection, researchers found that the virus was no longer detectable within stool after an apparently shorter period than is typically found.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/225634/covid-19-clears-rapidly-after-stool-transplant/

Poo transplants clear up coronavirus. Poo science!

>>444942

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>>444942

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I made it anyway using a mixture of internet recipes.

So 1kg beef cheeks, 400g sausage meat and 200g of smoked bacon.

Start a bottle of spiced cab sav simmering to reduce it from 75 to 50 CL. At some point, throw a sprig of rosemary in there.

Good squirt of olive oil in the biggest frying pan. Cut the bacon into pancetta pieces, fried it then the sausage meat to a crisp brown. Put them aside, diced then fried a handful each of carrot, celery and onion in the fat.

Put everything cooked so far in the wine, plus some bay leaves roughly torn in half, two spoonfuls of tomato pureé, a tin of peeled plum tomatoes and a literal mug full of beef stock.

Rolled the beef cheeks in flour, then fried them in the remaining grease.

Everything goes in the slow cooker on low for 6-8 hours. The butcher said the cheeks would need about 40 hours but he was wrong.

Add soy sauce, some fish sauce (or an anchovy) to taste, plus a pack of double cream and a few ladles full of starch water from the pasta. Oh and a handful of parmesan. Stir in well.

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Sorry I forgot: I also put three large garlic bulbs in there, roughly crushed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSif3ALnQ-Y

>>14526

I hope he tries that again and burns his house down.

He survives, but the rest of his family gets incinerated. He can't cope with the shame of having done something so stupid, so he slowly drinks himself to death, shambling around the streets of Stockton bellowing "fuckin' toaster steak, aye?" at no-one in particular.

This really doesn't do justice to that silly business he was doing in the run up.

Time is a flat circle.

>>8918

As a Scot in England with a wallet full of Clydsedale Banknotes I am aghast.

>>8920
A Clydesdale fiver once thwarted my plans to buy a snack at Man Picc without having to deal with people. The automated till spat one out and I had to go to a staffed checkout to change it for real money.

"What do you mean you don't take £50 notes? It's legal tender, you have to!"

>>8922
I hate places that don't take £50s because it drives a vicious circle reducing the number in circulation and making it more likely those one does encounter are counterfeit.

>>8923

It's a shame that the ECB withdrew the 500 euro note, which always struck me as hilariously bonkers.

>>2940
That's the point - If i want to use the computer I have to stand. If I want to sit, i turn off or break from the computer. As i struggled to elucidate previously, this has led to much more productive use of the desktop as I now have to decide if it's worth standing for - evidently 9gag, 4chan and britfa.gs are not.
As i'm currently stood, i could push out an hour of productive work before having a rest on the sofa. This is much preferable in the long term than allowing myself luxourious comfort to simply play videogames and wank into.

>>2941
>I now have to decide if it's worth standing for - evidently [...] and britfa.gs are not.
What is this heresy, lad?

>>2941
Well that's not going to last. That monitor will be back down on the desk before the month's out.

>>2943
Mate my chair broke 4 weeks ago.

>>2944
You've needed a new one for about 8 years since you last posted a pic of it, you mucky bastard.

>>69198
What name?

shit's real

>>69201
I don't think anyone doubted that.

The chap who runs it obviously has sophisticated taste in literature.

this is about 20 miles away from where i live

i might visit them and ask them if they have any girls in the back

>>27944
The only thing I've heard about repairing phones that are wet, that is reliable, is storing them in a bowl of uncooked rice; I guess you could get the same result with a plastic container and loads of silica gel packets.

>>27944

Someone posted before that as water has crap in it, even when it's dried it can cause problems/short circuits, so you have to wipe it down with alcohol to remove that. Though, now you've turned it on it may be too late.

>>27945
Cat litter crystals are supposed to work better than rice. Worked for me when I dropped my phone in the toilet.

>>27947
A bag of silica gel packets will be a lot cheaper than the minimum amount of cat litter crystals you can buy.

Lads, you're being daft. Water isn't magical, it makes a circuit where one shouldn't be - a bag of rice or cat-litter can damage your device far more for the same reason you don't use your laptop in the sandpit at your local playground.

Like >>27946 says, after resisting the urge to turn it on while it's drying you have a problem of mineralisation. A wipe down is needed but it's probably fucked.

Is that the desk from the cup of probably-not-Vorderman's piss picture from earlier on?

>>69180
Based on my mates experience, you'll buy custom nikes and start wearing tight fitting sports wear. Tanning salon once a week and a "man cave" with decks in the garden to practise your DJ sets.

You'll then get kicked out of the big bed when you get caught shagging the 18yo interns at your job by the wife.

OH, and you'll watch a documentary about veganism by a charlatan and become a militant vegan despite not knowing about macros and end up unwell as a result for a few months until someone else teaches you about nutrition.

Or none of that and you'll be fine. If you don't get fit and hit a purple patch with 18yos with Daddy issues though, what the fuck are you even doing mate?

I'm kind of looking forward to being 40. I've been middle aged since about 25, but at least once you hit 40 it's accepted and expected of you.

>>69185

The thing about age is that time compounds problems that don't seem that big now. I thought the same way as you when I was younger, but then I hit 30 and realised I was still so far off many of my goals.

I know that over the past couple of years I have inadvertently ended up dressing kind of "trendy". This is simply down to me regressing back to dressing like I used to as a teen lad in the 90s, but flannel shirts, Vans and loose fit jeans have came back into fashion.

I am a bit pissed off that my favourite restaurant is still going to be closed for eating in, because my 42nd birthday is the wrong side of the 19th.

>>15865
Doesn't that make it one of the most recent threads?

>>15865
Two examples in a month = every other week.

Can't you lads just vary up your cunt-offs a bit more?

>>15867

Then where are the examples from last month, or the month before last, and so on?

>>15868
They'll be around.

>>15865
My post here >>/v/23708 might be an example? I said I enjoy the work of Graham Linehan despite him turning out to be totally unhinged; someone asked what I meant; someone else explained; and then yet another lad showed how little he cares but ranting about how little he cares, and the thread went into a mini cunt-off.

That being said, I don't support wordfiltering and don't recognise the OP's depiction of the boards.

I thought that guy was dead for some reason.

>>69145

You're thinking of a different gimp.

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

>>69146
Nah I also thought he was dead, and clearly other people did too, but evidently just a rumour:

https://old.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/youtube/comments/7qbpgz/anybody_know_the_name_of_this_youtuber_i_believe/

DUNNO IF ANYONE ELSE WATCHES KILL TONY BUT I WON'T BE UNHAPPY WHEN MICHAEL LEHRER IS TOO ILL TO CONTINUE. THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO DECIPHER WHAT IT IS HE'S SAYING IS JUST NOT WORTH THE PAYOFF AND I TURN IT OFF BEFORE THE END NOW. I had hoped they'd use the move to Texas as a good excuse to call time on his segment but it seems they're actually completely happy with a section of the show being barely intelligible.

>>69165
What are they escaping from?

>>69166

Cocks.

>>69166
Being made into pies. I know this because I've seen the trailer and one of the chickens says 'I don't want to be a pie'.

>>69174
Arh durhn't lark grayveh.

>>69176