>>61606
I suppose you're a blind cunt then.

>>61607
Funny cos I managed to find my way to your mum's fanny last night just fine.

Wasn't difficult to be fair, she was advertising it quite widely.

>>61608
That's a bad post by /iq/ standards. Have a word, lad.

>>61611
U a madlad, ladlad?

>>61613

No one nose wot its like to be the badlad,
to be the sadlad,
behind blue eyes.

>>15874
And yet I'm sure there's a bore somewhere who'll point out that the speeds and patience you had to exercise with dialup to access those first pages of BBS interaction and grainy Scooby Doo porn actually played a big role in how much of an impression the internet made on you back then. Like vinyl nerds or vintage bike enthusiasts, the work you have to put in to every experience is an integral part of it, and gives it the lasting emotionality that instant access 500,000 YT videos all broadcast in 1080p just can't. Time is linear and finite for us mortal creatures, so naturally we seem to attach more importance to things which take up more of our rather fleeting lifespans, like marriage or the raising of our children to maturity.

Oh - hang on - it's me. I'm the bore. Oh.

>>15875
Yes, there'll be a bore, and they'll be wrong as usual.

>>15875
You just made me look up YTMND and it's still there!

>>15581

Bumped

Agreed, sleepwalkers wandering into abandonment.

>>15878
>Bumped

What?

>>61573

A joke so good they already printed it!

i have become comfortably bum(med)

>>61601
If I wanted to listen to a live cover version I'd have just put the original on and jammed sponges over my ears.

>>61602

mong

>>420052

I would wager there’s some crap ex-pat burlesque act going by that name somewhere in Valletta.

>>420128

>some crap ex-pat burlesque act

Probably some worn out 40 year old who became unemployable in Blackpool and didn't want to be dolescum again.

>>420233

>worn out 40 year old

Ultra endurance athletes peak in their 40's lad, I know blokes in their 50's that do the Bob Graham Round for a bit of a laugh.

>>420317

Great. I doubt any of these ultra endurance athletes are in a low rent burlesque act in malta though

>>420320

Probably not.

>>61587
>peculiar ebonics

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-43693708

>>61586
Except that isn't true because you could end up with herpes, HIV etc. for life, and thanks to stupid kids like themselves soon antibiotic resistance will mean gonorrhoea and syphilis are permanent conditions again.

Education should always address the unreality of 'common sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQJ2_T24JqY

>>61590

YOU SHOULD USE A CONDOM OR YOUR MATES WON'T RESPECT YOU, INNIT.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VpX4ZWDviM

I remember when I had my baby and the stiletto, lipstick and game console confiscating squad came around.

>Why are people so strange?

Because we accept the behaviour and values of the generation that raised us without questioning. Some of this is really useful that we never challenge, like not eating random mushrooms we find and only crossing the road when the lights are the right colours but other stuff gets absorbed along the way, as long as there is nothing directly harmful about the behaviour we adopt there is no reason to question it.

Traditional and rituals are most interesting not for why they perpetuate, but why they start. Sometimes it is obvious - like in Turkey there is a tradition where men slap the groom on the back and push him towards the bridal suite - this obviously comes from reluctant arranged marriages.

Other times it is clearly magical thinking, 'we didn't do X this time and bad thing happened, or we did Y this one time and good thing happened'; and I can't put enough quotes around this ''''open-mindedness'''.- the Romans had a very simple meta philosophy for over a thousand years 'might makes right' if one side won a battle the gods were obviously in their favour, after all that is why the Romans were on top, so when Constantine a professed Christian in a time where most weren't started winning all his battles against other roman factions, well there must obviously have been something too it. Never mind that there is nothing about that concept in the new testament and Jesus would have probably strongly opposed Constintines actions given the chance, but that was the core of the pre-existing belief so that is how it became the dominate religion.

Not to immediately turn into my granddad upon posting this, but it makes more sense than spending a gorillian pounds and inviting people you've barely spoken too in years to a party.

>>61571
>LIKE IN TURKEY
Our wedding traditions are great. There's the bit where all the guests pin money to the bride's dress so she is covered in notes. And there's the bit where the groom dances with a clay pot filled with sweets, eventually smashing it on the ground for all the children to come and gather up.

>>12276
Have you tried using tamari instead of soy sauce? I have a feeling it'd work well with one of these; more umami.

>>12277

No. I'll have a look for it next time I'm at an Asian supermarket.

>>12202
I just got one to do my glut of figs. They've been going for 30 hours so far, and still have some way to go. Testing them from time to time - Mmm, warm, concentrated figgy goodness. Even if they don't dry out properly (I just quartered them), they're ridiculously nice.
Apples next, once the fig glut is cleared.

>>12740
Figs are pretty big, I hope you sliced them up first.

>>12741 (I just quartered them)

they came out great, very happy with the results. Will be drying out all sorts of things now.As a way of smoothing out peaks of stuff from the garden, it's got a lot going for it - saves ramming the freezer full of stuff that isn't improved by freezing. Still throwing out over 200kg of duff apples a week, it's been a really shitty year for that, with the mad weather.

>>24168
Yo dawg that's loud.

>>15850

Freedom of speech doesn't exist here, in any form. As long as a police officer and/or a judge decides something you've said is hateful, you will be prosecuted for saying it.

>>15851

>As long as a police officer and/or a judge decides something you've said is hateful

And that's going to be the end of it, is it? Judgements don't get overturned?

Also, police have no power to decide something you've said is hateful. All they can ever do is investigate, and in some cases temporarily detain you when there is a suspicion that you could have committed a criminal offence. They can only charge you with that offence. They do not get to decide if you are guilty of it.

>>15852

Also judges don't decide your guilt - magistrates and juries do.

>>15852
>Also, police have no power to decide something you've said is hateful. All they can ever do is investigate, and in some cases temporarily detain you when there is a suspicion that you could have committed a criminal offence. They can only charge you with that offence. They do not get to decide if you are guilty of it.
Semantics, lad. Try arguing that with a copper who's busy arresting you for Section 5 because you swore in front of him.

>>15850
The idea of censorship has grown on me the more I read about old television. I'm not pro-censorship for it's own sake, but forcing creatives to work around it often seems to lead to a much better end product since they've got to think of something creative instead of bluntly having a character saying "fuck off, you cunt." Now that we're increasingly willing to show everything-and-anything on television and there's no limits to what you can find online, there's no subversive joy in thinking "how the hell did they get that one past the censors?"

>>61532
You'd be wrong. I'm a child of "interesting" parents and a resting actor though I do no blame my parents. Just swings and round abouts. Dickhead.

>>61552
What did the swings and roundabouts do to you?

>>61553

they gave him the booze, then they took it away and gave him a hangover

>>61554
Kids today have no fucking patience.

>>61551

If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be allowed to breed either

>>8685

Hear hear!

The front page of today's Herald Sun. Never change, Australia.

>>8687
Look at all the exaggerated red skin on those white people! How disgracefully racist!

>>8684
She is very attractive.

>>8687

IF CAN'T WE DO BIG BLACK LIPS WE CAN'T DRAW A FAT DICTATOR

>>40674

Just hide the thread, you walloper.

>>40669>>40670>>40672>>40673
I’ll fight and defeat all of you bastards.

>>40674

The most upsetting thing about this thread is the date of the first post. Where has all the time gone?

>>40677
Up the swanny?

>>40677
Pissed away into the giant toilet of time

P(A) + P(B) = P(A and B) + P(A or B)

Is this right?

>>4458
P(A) + P(B) = P(A|B) - P(A∩B)

I fucking hope I've still got that right.

Suppose you have a cube of width x. Increase one dimension by dx and the volume will increase by (x^2)dx. Doing this on on all three dimensions will increase the volume by 3(x^2)dx. Integrate and we get x^3 as the formula for volume. Is this right?

More examples.

The surface area of a sphere is 4pi(r^2). An increase in radius by dr will increase the volume by 4pi(r^2)dr. Integrate and we get (4/3)pi(r^3) as the formula for volume.

The circumference of a circle is (2pi)r. Integrate and we get area = pi(r^2).

Am I doing it right?

t. 37yo learning maths

>>4461

The volume of the cross-section of an n-dimensional cone is kw^(n-1), where w is the width and k some constant. Integrate this over the length of the cone to give V = kAl/n where A is the volume of the base and l the length.

The case k=1, A=h, n=2 gives hl/2 as the area of a triangle.

Right?

I've been thinking about it some more, and it may actually be a new disguised form of cunt-off:

*That's a very interesting post*
> You're a cunt.

*Thanks lad*
> You too.

>>6737
Damning with faint praise, I think it's called.

Fleshmarket Close 2004)
The Naming of the Dead (2006)
Exit Music (2007)
Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012)
Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013)
The Complaints (2009) - Malcolm Fox
The Impossible Dead (2011) - Malcolm Fox
Even Dogs in the Wild (2015)
Rather Be the Devil (2016)

I finished the remaining Rebus novels, as well as the two Fox ones which took place in the chronicity. Malcolm Fox seems like a pointless character, Siobhan is more interesting but rarely develops in any particular fashion. Fox is particularly annoying as he supposedly sticks to the rules and does things by the book as all the other characters are keen to remind him in conversation except he really doesn't, every now and then he'll go against his orders in the most pointless way and achieve nothing at all by it.
The Naming of the Dead stuck out in particular as of all the books it had the most life to it, Rankin seemed energised by the G8 protests and how much he hates Bono. Exit Music and Even Dogs in the Wild had some particularly melancholy moments which I enjoyed.
As the stories progress into the later books (16+) it seems like someone was teaching Rankin about actual organised crime, so they begin to be a bit convoluted in a dull way all to do with buying property and banking investments. Once or twice this is done well but the rest of the time I wasn't terribly impressed. One case in particular was a retrospective thing about how all the gangsters invested in the land around the Scottish Parliament in the pre-2000 referendum and the fallout from that, then later there's a book where they're investing again in the land for the more recent referendum, but when that fails the next book ignores it.
Some odd things in the chronology; Rebus seems to forget his father was dead in one book, and the biography of Big Ger written at the end of one book has been totally forgotten by everyone involved a few books later when someone else proposes writing one.
I'm amused that the early cases sometimes take weeks and months with years in between, then the more recent ones all seem to happen in a matter of days, something that Rankin started doing presumably when he realised Rebus was about to reach the age of retirement and is now getting very old, but wanting to keep writing more books.

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While I am usually a fan of the memoirs and autobiographies of the users, the junkies, the alcoholics, life's general riff-raff that end up laid up at the lower stratas of society, this one left me not just unfulfilled but also fairly sad that I'd bothered to read it all.

If we can all agree that there is no point in reading (or writing, for that matter) something that you, or at least someone else, can’t learn anything from then we have no choice but to conclude that this is a useless book written by a useless person.

For there is nothing to learn here at all. No musings on the causes, mechanisms, whys, or wherefores of addiction or the visceral drive towards self destruction; about the deepest this book gets (and I paraphrase) is "and then I spent a few years letting gross men I didn't know bundle me into nightclub toilets and give me cocaine before later pulling me onto their laps in taxis while unzipping their fly, but you know how it is, right girls?!?!?".

Even Sarah Hepola's snooze-fest Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget or Burroughs Junior's ungainly, lurching memoir Speed have a comparative ocean of insight and a lot less "My dad was distant and my mother hated me and Kurt Cobain died, and here's a vague description of how I did a lot of dumb shit despite being born with a silver spoon in my mouth without even an attempt at self-contemplation about why I might have done so" when compared to this.

tl;dr - A pointless book by a pointless person, even her beauty columns had more to say about life than this and I'm a heterosexual male whose idea of looking after myself is trying to remember to get my hair cut more than once a year.

I've just killed an hour reading a short story from Frederick Forsyth about some poor sod who got blackmailed by a prozzie. Money with Menaces it's called, I think.

I smelt something was up when the protagonist of the story talked back to his blackmailers, even more so when he mounted a shopping run for some components too ordinary to be left without attention.

The moment with the photo he'd removed from his flat before he got visited by a copper is still kind of brilliant.

Be honest, he's not some newsreading messiah. He's just the guy from Singapore with an American accent.

>>61558

>>61559
This lad got the reference!

>>61561
Well done to him. It was quite ban obscure one too, one that only a true badass would understand.

>>61561>>61562
I didn't, actually, I just thought he'd done it by mistake.

>>61539

One of the little shits bit me and it wouldn't stop bleeding for half an hour. I was afraid I'd have to go to A&E and tell them I'd been bitten by a hamster.

>>61480

His two brothers died within two weeks of each other. We thought he'd go soon after. That was over a year ago. He's pretty old now though so we think he won't last much longer. Also, we don't want to keep getting guinea pigs to keep other guinea pigs company otherwise we'll always have guinea pigs, and we can't really give them all the attention and space they deserve.

>>61539

Why are chickens mean though? My parents' neighbours had chickens which would just wander about all over the place and never cause problems. They all got wiped out by a virus apart from one which hung out with the grouse thereafter and thought it was one.

>>61541

I SEEM TO REMEMBER HEARING OF CAT OWNERS ARRANGING "PLAYDATE" TYPE SITUATIONS.

>>61542
Pack mentality.

I have a friend who lives on a farm and they said if any of the chickens are injured or ill then they must be separated from the rest or they will kill it. A pigeon managed to get in the chicken coop once; they pecked off all of its feathers and were slowly torturing it.