>>6344

Not sure it is quite as bleak as you paint, but I mostly agree we live in an age of people being compelled to quantify their decisions so the best candidate is the one who can be most easily justified on paper rather than the one whose personality suits best.

The more public facing the institution the more true the above statement.

>>6346

I just mean that if he's on the reserve list, that means whatever decisions they do make have already been made.

To give an update, and for the sake of having double-Bugs, I'll bump to say that unfortunately it looks like I wasn't selected.

It also seems like the university is under no obligation to give me a definitive "yes" or "no", as the programme has already started and the admissions website still says I'm number X on the list.

Strange, but I'll have to live with it and continue applying to other universities ready for next year.

Onward and upward, lads.

>>6375

As it turns out, I was offered a place on a very similar programme by the same university. Whether this was down to my persistence, I don't know.

Never give up hope, I guess.

>>6376

Nice one la. Have fun!

>>61677
>ALL THE OTHER BIRDS IN HERE ARE FAT

Ahem.

>>61677
Are you saying it's turned your beard into a big chin?

>>61679

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S JUST HAD TO GUESS WHERE MY CHIN WOULD END AND HAS FABRICATED A CHIN SHAPE ENTIRELY. SAME WITH THE LEFT HAND SIDE PICTURE, IT'S JUST GUESSED WHAT THE TOP OF MY MOUTH LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE OF INTRUDING MOUSTACHE. ALL IN ALL THOUGH IT'S DONE WELL CONSIDERING.

>>61679

EVERYONE KNOWS THE CAMERA ADDS 40 POUNDS

this thread feels like a fat operation yewtree

>>61683

I think you're allowed to shag fat kids, it's good for their self esteem

>>5835

YES THEY DO

>>5836
Does .gs support markdown?

# * **GAS THE LIPTONS TEA WAR NOW** *

>>5837
http://britfa.gs/help/features.html

>>5838
Just thinking out loud really. It's been many moons since I perused the funky gibbon page and somehow I never noticed the size modifiers.

>>5828
Yes, perfectly every time if you hang-dry them properly on a wide-shouldered hanger. Bloomin magical.

It sounds like you are in need of a personal code to me. Like you need to explore forming opinions around ideas rather than events. I'd start by doing some research into critical thinking and then reading up brief summaries of the ideas of great philosophers and see what takes your fancy and explore the ideas deeper.

There is also an element of lack of self confidance, but I'm sure that would come with feeling you are a bit more informed in your beliefs.

>>27431
My problem with personal codes and stuff alike is that I tend to see them as a substitute for real thinking where instead of assessing a situation a person sticks to whatever he thinks is right, without considering the circumstances. Perhaps I'm somewhat extreme here but you get the point.

> There is also an element of lack of self confidance
Quite. I've been improving here over the course of last 3-4 years but it's still not really satisfying. Perhaps it goes even as far as lack of self-respect as I tend to think sometimes when I observe more assertive people. I could do better. I try; at times I think I might come off as a bit crass.
That isn't a skill that's easy and smooth to master though.

>>15907
I heard that one too. Belongs in the realm of taking acid and turning into an orange or glass of orange juice. Wonder what makes certain urban legends stick around and others not.

>>15912

>I think I'd worry more about temperature than oxygen.

That, too. Temperatures inside the uterus should be pretty close to a human body's normal core temperature, and lobsters usually live in temperate waters that don't go much above 20-24 °C. At least not the familiar North Atlantic species that you get to buy in stores most of the time. Maybe some tropical species exist that can handle water temperatures of 30 °C, but again... a lady's private parts just don't seem like a good environment for lobster eggs to develop.

>>15914
They should do it on Mythbusters

>>15915
Chap with awkward silences on /emo/ should use it as a conversation starter.
Note: No, he really shouldn't.

>>15916

That seems like a great idea for the chap to try out.
Note: maybe not.

Beware of IR35. If HMRC think that you're just pretending to be self-employed for tax purposes, they will fuck your shit up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR35

As a contractor, you have no statutory employment rights. You might be paid more, but you have no entitlement to sick pay or holiday pay and your contract can be terminated with no notice. If your client decides to fuck you over, you have no recourse to an employment tribunal.

Becoming a contractor can be advantageous, but there are risks and downsides.

>>12618
A good part of this is to do with budgets. Permanent staff have to pay for themselves, whereas contractors can be considered a capital expense. The two are handled through different channels by different business functions with differing levels of baggage (HR vs purchasing). One of the reasons I left a previous job was that I was underworked and underpaid, and my employers found excuses instead of doing anything about it, but somehow still managed to hire a contractor at a not-insubstantial day rate to do things I could have been doing.

It depends on your industry. In cheffladding, self-employed is the way to go, as there is ALWAYS work for you, multiple extremely established agencies who you know are dependable, and due to the nature of the job you can pretty much wander into a new workplace or environment every other day and still know what you're doing. It would basically be impossible for a semi-skilled chef near a large urban area to run out of work.

Your industry might be very different. As already said, you're looking after yourself from then on out, and it's hard to quantify just how useful holidays and sick pay can end up being. If the extra money you'd be getting as a contractor isn't much more than, say, six weeks extra pay, then a holiday off work and a bit of illness could see that extra money wiped out anyway.

>>8134
> You can clean up your act after being an alcoholic and it's like it's like turning over a new leaf.

Bollocks to that. From me and from every alcoholic in recovery who still goes to meetings day after day because even after ten years they still want a bloody drink.

> But once you've been a pothead, you're a pothead.

Well it's certainly fucked whatever meager intelligence you were born with, anyway.

>>8134
Just because you think it changed you negatively doesn't mean that others feel the same way. I fear your comments about alcoholism give you away as a twat. Also, nobody actually calls it pot.

I've been out of this game for a good few years now, but I'm back. I'm surprised at how much the subculture has changed. I guess this is partly down to growing global legalisation and decriminalization.

Quality has improved and the choice of product has improved massively. It's so nice to be able to choose wether to get a buzzy sativa or more stoney indica.

I really don't like amnesia and silver haze, because they make me very anxious. However I do like some sativa such as JH and tangie but without a wide choice its hard to get one which works for me.

The other thing which has changed in recent times is the rise of portable vaporizers. I tried a volcano once in Amsterdam in 2003 but that was quite an exotic experience and not something I could have ever afforded at the time.
I now have a few of my own, butane and battery powered. My god are they efficient. I used to blow through a Q in a week or two. If I only use my Vapcap M i can make a Q last at least 3 months now.

>>8194
I forgot to mention concentrates.

I've not tried anything like this yet but dabbing and oil pens is a whole new world which didn't exist 10 years ago.

Weed has come a long way since my extended T-break.

>>8194

The mere fact I can buy Sativa CBD pills for my chronic (heh) joint paint nowadays means the amount of opiates I take is minimal, but it's an expensive game. I strongly suspect Phizer might put a stop to medicinal use on a large scale in this country, purely because it would interupt their monopoly on the pain relief market.

>>420566

Piece of piss then.

Why would I rent I chainsaw? I've got plenty...
While I'm pretty gung ho about taking trees down, these are outside my comfort zone. They're big, and will drop onto a road that has real traffic, or wipe out buildings and fences, depending on which way they go.
I'd have to climb them and do them in sections, and I'm not a creature of the air.
For scale, the fence is 6 foot, the green tarp thing is the remains of my woodshed, and the fallen branch managed to hit the building on the left on its way down.

There's only one man you require for all your tree surgery needs.

Was up a mountain once. with a heavy pack having to crawl on the ground to avoid being blown around like a crisp packet, digging fingers into rock trying not to die in 60mph winds.

Was fucking mint.

I once farted in the Sussex countryside and brought down a small copse.

>>420420
Then it's even more interesting.
This piece of land is not in the EU. Probably means that whoever was barmy enough to buy an RX8 here is going to be fucked up royally sooner or later.
But then again, perhaps I am mistaken and because of some bloody miracle there is a place around proficient enough to deal with rotary engines. Anyway I doubt that.

>>420443

>perhaps I am mistaken and because of some bloody miracle there is a place around proficient enough to deal with rotary engines. Anyway I doubt that.

It's certainly possible. If you're in some post-soviet part of the world, it'd not be as surprising, since Lada did make rotary cars for a while - whether or not anyone is still interested in maintaining them, who knows, but a place tooled out to fix those could service an RX8, even if it's the only one they've ever seen, it's still basically the same thing.

If you're anywhere else, fuck knows.

All this talk of Mazda, and I completely forgot that they did showcase an RX9 concept a couple of years ago, and told us it was going to be in full production. I'll probably end up buying one, despite the risks.

>>420447
> If you're in some post-soviet part of the world
Yes.
I've never heard about a rotary engine Lada IRL though. Read about one, right. But that's the only amount of exposure I've had to it.
I don't recall how many of them were made and how good or bad the engine was. My father has a load of old Soviet car magazines in his garage, maybe I'll flick through them for information.
> RX9 concept
I've seen only a few pics and quite unsure if those were even real. Strongly resembled Mazda6 from the front.

Mango season is picking up. The Iranian greengrocer not far from here had good sized Brazilian mangoes today for £1.50 a piece. Fully ripe and fucking delicious.

I honestly don't know how they survive. They sell 40-pound watermelons for 8 quid a piece during the summer months, and now they've got some of the best mangoes I've seen in a long time for a quid and a half. Even my local M&S here rarely has mangoes this good.

Or maybe it is because they are fully ripe. Maybe the big chains don't buy up produce like this because of the limited shelf life. I'm indeed not sure the one I just had would have lasted much longer, because it really was at peak ripeness. Maybe my Iranian greengrocer gets them at a discount that way, from wherever it is that they get their groceries.

>>420251
@7:14 Those keys look like a bowl of cereal.

>>420517
What about if we send objects in a river of baked beans? Nature's bubble wrap.

>>420517

>and they have to explain why they're sticking a second needle in your spinal column.


I got various injections into my spinal column following a severe lumbar disc hernia.

One of the most fucking unpleasant experiences of my life. Not because it would have been painful, which it wasn't in all honesty. The injections felt like a mosquito bite on my skin at the most. But just the fact that somebody was poking around my spinal cord with a needle, plus having been made aware of the possible albeit quite rare consequences of a failed procedure.

So it was really more a psychological thing. Well and one time, the orthopaedic surgeon who was administering the injections actually did slip a little bit and got a little close to the nerve, which made my leg twitch in a very peculiar way and then it felt weird for about three or four hours after the procedure. He apologised but said the effect would only be temporary. Still a fucking unpleasant thing to go through. I think I had four injections in total over the course of about six weeks.

>>420516
The 0.1 percent is to account for user error.

Wait a minute, isn't this just the plot of Eraserhead?

>>420493
Just don't forget to turn off the poison sockets.

>>5820
>if you're not, then getting your dick wet is likely not the remedy

This is such a crucial point. I had a mate who got himself sorted out and finally landed a proper girlfriend at the grand old age of 27 only to immediately destroy the relationship with all the insecurities and misery he had refused to deal with thus far because just hitting the gym for about a year was enough for him to superficially seem more 'normal'.

He wound up dropping out of uni (for the third time) and getting sectioned when it all fell apart because he simply wasn't equipped to deal with it emotionally.

>>5823
Wow, so there is someone in my socio-economic demographic worse off than me.

It's been done to death, but unless you're just looking for a bit of action, the best advice is going to be just be yourself. Exaggerate a little in the profile, and put a half-decent picture on it. If you're not that interesting, work on becoming more interesting, if only because you'll probably enjoy life a bit more in general. If you'rea bit of a cunt, work on being less of a cunt.

If you are just looking for some quick action, it may be easier to just pay a professional.

If you just fancy a laugh, go look up Super Seducer 2 on YouTube for some obvious advice, like don't say you'll cut her family into tiny pieces of she won't sleep with you. If you want to see the fragility of the PUA ego, I can heartily recommend the "call Mahmud" option.

>>5825
> If you want to see the fragility of the PUA ego, I can heartily recommend the "call Mahmud" option.
Can you elaborate on that? I can't even try to figure out what you're onto here.

>>5826

A secret ending of a game series that was widely panned by critics.

I honestly feel like the bloke is a lot more self-aware than anyone's giving him credit for. The game is pure cringe but I think he might know that.

>>420440

It only takes a couple of hours for a touch-typist to adjust to a new keyboard. I use a swanky mechanical keyboard on my desktop, but I'm only a few WPM slower on a moderately crappy laptop keyboard.

Personally, I think it's madness that schools spend so much time teaching handwriting, but touch-typing isn't on the national curriculum. I can't remember the last time I hand-wrote anything longer than a post-it note, but I spend the greater part of my working day typing. It staggers me that there are professional people who hunt-and-peck with two fingers - it seems like an absurd handicap in a modern office.

>>420441
People who work office jobs and "can't type" are willfully ignorant. If you can sit with a keyboard right in front of you for hours and hours every day for years and not know what it looks like then you should be on incapacity benefit.

>>420439

I don't really understand how anyone my age can't touch type. I've been sat at computers since I was about 10. Never had a single typing lesson, I've just done two decades of practice.

I'm not perfect, I don't use all ten digits, but I can touch type, and faster than my mother who was a trained typist.

>>420444

I wrote a 10,000 word graded paper in roughly 12 hours a couple of years go using between 4 and 6 digits, but I don't have to look which speeds up my typing greatly. Not exactly touch typing per se, but defo good enough.

My blind Gran is a trained touched typist, used to do data entry at a bank and uses a Braille keyboard and she is lightning. She can even do it on a laptop keyboard despite never having worked with one.

>>420445
You sure she's blind and she's not just getting a cheeky pension boost?

>>4234
You're a complete mong if you can't afford it. If you can, then go for it. You're asking the question like part exchange and go for something else is an option, so if you think you can upgrade to something in a better state of repair with its attendant lower maintenance costs then go for that.

>>4235
Yes the money isn't a problem really.
I'm just being a bit overly paranoid about finding that dealers will refuse to accept it in part exchange as it is, and other silly things.

The vans owner has agreed that there's no damage and is okay with it going unreported.

>>4236
So you are at fault but no harm done. If the other party is willing to drop it, then that's perfect. Look at the situation, if you are sure you fucked up, then that is what it is and good on the other side to let it go.

>>4236
Depends on the potential resale. If it's scrap anyway then they might take it, but if theres a chance they could make a few quid they might tell you to sod off without repairing it.

Most part-exchange cars end up at auction. The price the dealer offers you is partly based on what they think it'll sell for and partly a discount on the list price of the new car. As long as it's worth something, they'll take it as PX even if it's a bit tatty. They're usually more generous towards the end of the month, because they've got sales targets to meet.

It's also worth pointing out that you'll usually get a better deal by selling privately.

Get on with their life. That is trite, but you probably had a more precise question when you asked the one you did. Can you verbalise it?

I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would

What was Lydon thinking, bringing all that weight on so early?

Thing about his Arsenal bag is, he always tries to walk it in.

WHAT'S MORE PUNK THAN GOING AGAINST EVERYONE'S EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT A PUNK IS SUPPOSED TO BE?

HE'S FIGHTING THE SYSTEM ALSO, BY BEING A CONSIDERABLE DRAIN ON IT WITH ALL HIS MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS

God save the cream
The full fat, i mean!

>>12609

This >>12610
IE, wear a ballgag and leather cuffs at the interview, works every time.

>>12580
Your analogy still essentially likens HR personnel to a U-bend, so ultimately it seems like we agree.

>>12610

I know, Amazon corporate culture is total shit. The job is marginally better because it is in tech support and not one of those slaves in picking/packing. I do not expect to stay long there, just about ten months to improve my CV. At least I am childless and alone, so I can devote myself fully to the workplace. The interviewer is going to appreciate it.

>>12613
Tell them that you've licensed your intellectual property to an offshore company through which you'll have to be paid.

>>12573
It could well be a cop out or template response, but it could be this exactly. You may all be on the spectrum IT nerds, but there are still people with different preferences and roles to play.

For example, having one person obsessed with process can be beneficial in keeping the rest of the team from cutting corners and building tech debt; have too many of those and they start downward spiral of process over progress. When that person quits, they may want another one.

A local councillor saved someone from choking then went on Facebook and made a post starting "I did something remarkable today" then went to the press about it. Way to save someone's life in the most arseholeish way possible. I'd be the one the family would be making public appeals to saying "can you come forward so we can thank you?" and I'd be like "A ha... No."

I wonder if this guy went to the press himself. They might have even paid him for his story.

>>15883

ARE Jim'll probably would have begged to differ.

He should sue the shitty kids for being so bad at swimming.

Scouser acting like a Scouser. More at 11.

When my older brother and I were weelads of 9 and 13 years of age, our parents took us to Sri Lanka. Swimming in the Indian Ocean there is constantly slightly dangerous, and on our beach, they pretty much never took down the red flag. But I guess it must have been relatively quiet that day, as our parents let us go in the water within their line of view. But at one point, my brother got caught in a high wave and lost his footing in the chest high water, and the currents began to take him out to sea. A couple from Leeds from our hotel happened to be near us in the water, and the man, a 50 year old, didn't hesitate for a second and went after my brother to rescue him and get him back to the shore. It really looked dramatic, and I remember I could see that my brother was really beginning to panic, flailing his arms and crying for help.

Anyway, the chap really may have saved my brother's life that day. Only he was so humble about it that he was almost embarrassed at the way my parents, who had seen the whole thing from dry land in complete horror, then came up to him and were overjoyed that he had saved my brother. He never wanted any kind of thanks or praise, he just said he was glad that he was in the right place at the right time at that moment. We kept in touch for many years. Very lovely couple.

>>4471

I think it's more like this, with an immediate drop-off at the age of consent and an "iPhone bump" for infants.

>>4471
They are, incredibly so. It's really lovely to appriciate things for their charming nature and sweet character on a Platonic level.

>>4467
Why ask somebody else to answer a question when the answer is at your fingertips?

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>4465
Eminem used to rap about the top middle graph.

You can get remote flush pneumatic buttons
https://www.idealspec.co.uk/catalogue/bluebook/wcs/cisterns-and-fittings/conceala-2-pneumatic-valve-push-button-cisterns_p1869.html

and floor mounting it doesn't seem an impossibility. If you want a longer tube, you may need a larger swept volume in the button, but I think you can have what you desire.

>>2463

I can't see why you couldn't rig one up to your doorbell if you really wanted the mechanics of them are really quite simple.

Put one under the toilet seat that acts on release so when you stand up it flushes.

>>2466

But not everyone wipes sitting down.

What's with all the tedious shitposts made last night? The Kathmandu lads briefly got internet again and making up for lost time?

>>61600
Thanks for cheering me up on my birthday.

>>61610
DAD?

>>61612
Tarquin?