>>34455
How much compo did the victims of Savile get?

>>34456

>>34456
That was the first thought that popped into my head too, but then wouldn't it come up on google?

>>34455

>a Jimmy Saville impersonator

Those have always been very thin on the ground.

I once saw a Gary Glitter tribute act in Benidorm at an all-inclusive hotel with my parents as a younglad, but I can't imagine he gets a lot of work nowadays.

>>34458
Some of the details will have been confidential, and some of the complainers might have thought twice about literally taking money away from charities.

He doesn't sound very glad at all.

Apparently half 2 is the perfect time for my neighbour to start screaming at the top of his lungs that one of his children is a bastard who is bang out of order.

>>94292
I hope you shouted to him that he's a bastard who is bang out of order for shouting at half two.

>>94293
No, but I've been very noisy this morning. Having the radio on, loudly shutting cupboard doors. That'll tell him.

>>94294

You should spend a half hour at 8am yelling at the top of your voice directly at the shared wall "I can't believe that my neighbour and his son are such bastards. *pause* They are both bang out of order!"

Could probably smell hammers.

>Toxic culture in Britain's kitchens
So, mould then?

>>69149
Maybe he's talking about his own clan?

>>69150

Nominative Determinism strikes again

>>30333

As wonderful as our chemistry is when she's here, she has expressed absolutely zero interest in sexting or phone sex, and even less in sending pictures or anything to keep me occupied.

I kind of understand, it's not my favourite thing, either. I will maybe bring it up with her when she returns.

An unfortunate continuation of this rather controversial /emo/ thread of mine, then.

I haven't done anything, but my girlfriend has gone home again. She'll typically go back for a few weeks each year over Easter, Summer, and/or over Christmas to spend time with her mother (who is otherwise alone). Things were pretty tense before she left, as we were both under quite a bit of stress.

After several weeks by myself, I'm going out of my mind with sexual need. I'm channelling it into work and exercise. I have done very strenuous training every day throughout June, sometimes twice a day.

I swear women must have some sort of sixth sense for this sort of thing, because out of nowhere an old flame in another city just casually text me tonight with an offer to go and visit, offering the spare bed at hers if I ever "need a break".

What a seed to plant in my head. Not that I should need to justify my needs, but I do still think it goes beyond just being horny - feeling attractive and physically wanted seems to be bound up with my sense of security in relationships, maybe even my general confidence. Another significant factor I haven't mentioned is that "taking care of myself" really just doesn't cut it for me. Even extended sessions with lots of stimulation leave me feeling pretty drained and unhappy. It gets the physical need off my back, but the emotional and psychological need persists.

What would make this much easier is if I had any indication at all that my girlfriend still saw me as a sexual being, even when I'm not physically there to express it. I have no idea how she just switches this off or ignores it when we're apart for ages. In her own words, it just doesn't bother her unless she's in that particular stage of her cycle. The result, of course, is that she never initiates and has no reason to think about it unless I bring it up. How do you even bring up such a topic without making it sound like getting me to orgasm is another chore to be handled, even at a distance? Biology is ridiculous.

I'm afraid my conscience still won't let me go through with anything like this, at least not without horrible guilt. At the same time, I don't want to be in this pitiful position of asking my girlfriend for more sexual attention.

>>30884
This is probably bad advice, but you could try withholding sex yourself. Any time she's 'in that stage of her cycle' you can tell her sorry babe I'm not in the mood. Eventually she'll get to a point where she's begging you to do her and complaining about her needs, and then you can acquiesce - and thenceforth throw that in her face any time you ask for sex and she objects. Not that she is currently objecting, from the sounds of it, but having her ask you for sex at least once might soothe your conscience about seeming like a chore to her.

Whereas if you try it and it turns out she never has the desire to have sex with you again, it's an indicator that you might want to consider whether or not to remain in the relationship.

>>30884
Sounds like wanking before you make any decision is a good idea. An ex of mine misunderstood a text of mine and flat out said "I'd be up for a fuck", it took me a week or two to get that out of my head, despite having my prolific needs met. If the offer's there now, it'll be there again, if not her then someone else.

You could potentially split the difference with phone sex on adultwork, but then some people would equate that will sex in terms of cheating, or might have hangups about sex work.

If you think you might be polyamorous and not just horny, then it might be worth trying to gently mention it, but you'd need to educate yourself on the subject first to get an idea of the reality vs the fantasy, but it is worth investigating provided you don't put pressure on it.

>>30884

Unconventional advice, perhaps, but I'd suggest you do it. Go stay with the old flame. See if you cave in, or if the guilt keeps you off it.

Your anxiety probably stems from the guilt, the feeling you're a shit boyfriend. Chances are you're not. I was in a similar situation just before the Rona broke out. Went on a night out with an old flame of mine and we stayed in a hotel, we were pretty obviously supposed to fuck. And you know what, I wanted to. This girl was some of the best sex I've ever had the first time around. But I just couldn't. I couldn't be bothered with that whole dance of chancing the right moment to make my move, figuring out where to slide in the dirty little joke that progresses into flirting and snogging, etc.

I both regret the fact that I didn't, but I also have the peace of mind to know that in reality, I'm too old for the life of secret affairs and flings. My sex life at home might not be everything I want it to be, but much like my vague ambitions of a more in depth exercise routine, or doing more to proactively look after my car, I'm happy enough in life that I'm not going to act on any of them. They're just background niggles that come to the surface when I'm bored and depressed, if they were really big problems I'd do something about it.

I saw a video showing this, and I wonder how good it actually is. I have seen people on social media going wild about it, a few people with clips of the app working, but not very many people saying "I made this with it!"
For example this is the only person I found where they built the thing. They bodged a different window piece to fit the instructions, which is still pretty impressive to be honest.

>>67846

Up the arse.

>>59299
>IT'S A CLICHE, BUT IT'S TRUE - THE BULGMANIANS DO ALL THE JOBS THAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO, AND WE'RE IN DEEP SHIT IF THEY ALL GET BOOTED OUT.

Turns out we can replace them with a load of Filipinos instead.

https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2021/01/14/jersey-potato-farmers-fly-in-workers-from-the-philippines/

>Councils in England are spending five times more on housing homeless people in B&Bs than they were a decade ago, as the numbers of people needing to be put up in temporary accommodation soars, analysis of official figures shows.

>Shortage of suitable housing means councils spent £142m on B&Bs in 2019-20, up from £27m in 2010, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). Over the same period, the numbers of people housed annually in B&Bs rose from 2,310 to 10,510 – a 350% increase.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/03/english-councils-spending-on-homeless-bb-housing-up-500-on-2010

Imagine going to stay in a B&B and it's full of tramps.

>>69103
>We routinely hear from people trapped in B&Bs, where the rooms are so crowded they must share a bed with their children
Amazing. Even in North Korean concentration camps where they send "three generation" prisoners, they give them two rooms per family.

>>69103
Don't have to imagine anything, there's a load of B&Bs on a street near me and they're all packed with druggies. It really started during the pandemic when I assume the owners had to accept them to stay afloat unlike the nearby hotels. I imagine it's no end of fun.

The asylum seekers have their own B&B that's a little further down and off on a side street. I guess because they need to have their own space.

>>69104
The enemies of capitalism must be reformed, lad. We cannot let their crimes against the people stand.

>>69097

Could be worse tbh

>>69097
Which one of them is fucking the sculptor (or wants to)?
It's shit.

I don't know what you're all complaining about. They've captured David bowie's likeness very well.

>>69100
Did they call him a carpetbagger or a carpet-bagger though?

>>69092

>WHAT THE FUCK, THEY LOOK NOTHING LIKE THE CHILDREN IN THE STATUE.
It's not hard to guess which one was hidden round the back out of sight.

>>94233
What exactly is it dogwhistling? I'd think the India-laplanderstan disputes, but that's mentioned directly underneath the image so that can't be the dogwhistle, it's just a whistle.

>>94231

Overall the tone that leaflet gives off, to me, is that it takes the Asian/Muslim vote for gtanted on the basis that the other guys are racist. I'd feel pretty patronised if I were a brown.

It's the same losing strategy that has cost them the white working class vote, funnily enough. Tenner bet the same justifications will come out afterwards too, except instead of xenophobic white van men it'll be anti-semitic imams.

>>94235

But Modi is pretty openly an enemy to Muslims and Johnson genuinely does want to sidle up close to him, the most recent evidence being him delaying putting India on the red list so long because he wanted to visit. Him being shown shaking hands with a brown man doesn't scream "racist" but him shaking hands with someone who's making discriminatory laws against Muslims might be a reminder to Muslims that he wants to get closer to that same person.

Not that I have high hopes for Labour either way. I'm not really sure what the point is here.

>>94231
Ah the Zac Goldsmith playbook. Both parties have really done a shameful thing in playing up Hindu and laplanderstani nationalism for votes and I'm sure it will all end well if we play the 'your surname means you're on our side' politics. Because when has that ever go awry in the entire history of the world.

Plus Islam is a backwards belief system that has no place in a modern society like all religion and India is a fair-weather friend at best with a society too dysfunctional to be a viable focus for British trade.

323 votes in it. The Tories could have won that if they actually bothered campaigning rather than just leaving Galloway and Labour to throw muck at each other.

>>7293

If he has the relevant expertise and can put some nice sample chapters together he may very well get a book deal. Non-fiction at least has the advantage that you don't have to complete the whole thing in advance to sell it.

>>7294

The average advance for a new author is around £6,000. The majority of books don't sell enough copies to recoup that advance. I don't know how long it takes to write a book, but £6,000 undoubtedly works out to a piss-poor hourly rate.

If you want to earn a living from writing, learn to write commercial copy. There's still (just about) some money in advertising.

>>7295

I hope you're not a proof reader.

Just to point out that nowhere in the OP's post did they mention they're trying to pursue a career in writing.

>>7297

OP here. Thanks, yes. In fact I was trying to draw attention to a problem that's sort of the inverse: how do you fit in writing around a normal life? I'm not aiming for writing to be my main career, so I'm thinking about how I can best make the time for writing something publishable as a passion project. I suppose I may well find out through trial and error if I can put together some sample chapters (or adapt previous writing).

The points about the practicalities of getting a book deal are appreciated, though. I welcome any views you all have.

>>34355
Is this why everyone in the Middle East/Eurasia hates the Kurds?

>>34355
Is it a uniquely Hull thing that, for a while in the 2000s, anyone brown was immediately labelled a Kosovan?

>>34359
It was the same in the East Midlands. No idea how it started considering there's not all that many of them.

>>34360
>No idea how it started considering there's not all that many of them

That's pretty much the same as what happened in Hull. At the turn of the century Hull was around 98% white British, with the largest minority being Chinese people at 0.3% (749 people). Over the next five years or so around 3,000 Iraqi Kurd asylum seekers were sent to Hull, generally referred to as "fucking Kosovans".

>"People were not friendly from the beginning," he remembers. "They would shout, 'Hey, Kosovan, why don't you go back to your own country?' I thought there was something wrong with this place.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/23/britishidentity.features116

>>34375

>I thought there was something wrong with this place

He wasn't wrong.

>>69086
His wife, she got out to ask for directions.

I assume the lander had a selfie stick. You'd want to know if the lander sustained damage before you got out.

>>69088
>YOU'D WANT TO KNOW IF THE LANDER SUSTAINED DAMAGE BEFORE YOU GOT OUT.

Buzz aldrin deliberately stopped the door from shutting while they pissed about on the moon, just in case.

>>69089
It's amazing how ignorant we once were of the danger of human spaceflight.

>>69090


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

>>5806
>You're just choking it down and forcing yourself to remain composed, instead of conclusively addressing anything.

To an extent, you're right, but what you're actually doing with the breathing exercises is making sure the sick never reaches your mouth. You might feel sick, but the exercises help you see that it's coming and deal with it, rather than just vomit randomly over the nearest person.

>>5806
Well, I recall watching this many years ago.

Iirc, the gist was about anger being at least partly due to incorrect expectations.

For example, you may have an expectation that your colleagues will have a basic level of competence. But as many people have found out, that's not always the case. And if you can't change that, then one has to learn to accept it to some extent.

So I think my point was that anger isn't necessarily some infallible righteous force, with external causes that must be rectified in order to quell the anger - but something that can be lessened by internal things. And maybe yoga etc could help.

>>5808
What you're describing there is really the backbone of cognitive behavioural therapy. Which works as long as you actually subscribe to it.

>>5805
And as everybody knows, the only devices it's possible to watch YouTube on in 2021 are a phone and a personal computer.

>>5810
Well the weight of a smart TV mounted to your head might be uncomfortable.

>>4604

I think he got away with it because it's a pickup truck - the transmission is overbuilt and there's very little weight over the rear wheels. I doubt you'd be so lucky in a car, particularly FWD.

>>4606

Also the drive shaft acts like a torsion bar to limit the peak torque.

>>4605
What happened is that the wheels lost traction instantly so it's not putting as much torque onto the engine as you'd think. Most of the brunt is taken up by the clutch which would be burning up very quickly while you do this.
If you tried this in a FWD a side effect would be that you would completely lose steering and go into a spin.

To cross this over with homeownership:

Should I learn to drive before I even think about buying a home? At the moment I invest all my savings in funds, I've tried different categories to keep the money split up but in my mind it's all for property and I'm therefore reluctant to take anything out once it goes in. In fact I can't, because I look at the total on my screen and feel proud of myself - I get invested in that number.

I already have about 23k together but probably want to get that to 27k by around January/February to buy a 10% on a 200k home with all the additional bullshit. I mean, it's not that much to learn but it does add up and there's the temptation I'd need to avoid to then buy a car. Perhaps I should instead buy the home so I have more flexibility with savings and live somewhere more car friendly - even if it means a nuisance in moving costs and getting somewhere more central (thereby smaller).

>>4609
I'm aiming for the house first, but that's because I work somewhere where houses are cheap, so I can buy a house right by work and just never see my friends again for several months. Cars have all manner of running costs too, so if you like watching your bank balance go up, it will go up much more slowly once you have to pay for insurance, and petrol, and parking, and an MOT, and so on and so forth.

And if you're looking at buying a house, please remember that banks will only lend you a certain multiple of your annual income. The deposit is pointless if it doesn't make up the rest of the house price. My own numbers are around £28,000pa with about £30,000 in the bank, so I can't buy a £600,000 house with a 5% deposit because banks will only lend me £28,000 x 4.5, or perhaps x 5.5 now. Assuming I can get the x5.5, that's £28,000x5.5 = £154,000, plus the £30,000 I have, so the most expensive house I can buy would cost £184,000. I'm sorry if you know all this already.

Well, that would be patently nonsense because we are in fact the superior race in all respects. It would be most undignified for us to cower behind that victim politics tripe.

What we should do however, is secede from the union immediately, and take control of our borders, before any more bloody offcome'duns get in and take up more of our affordable housing.

>>444747
So the solution is obvious: flood your town with ethnics to secure government investment.

>>444750
What you really need to do is catch rare ethnics like in Pokémon. That's what they do in London. Your local council will be flooded with financially ruinous pet projects in no time that can employ thousands of consultants for decades.

>>444747>>444750
I'm not sure I agree with this. I've been to Dewsbury.

Steve Coogan makes a case in the first episode of The Trip for the north having just as much claim to a national identity as Wales, based on cultural distinction from the south. He's mostly doing it to wind Rob Brydon up, but he makes a half-decent case.

>>444748
This lad gets it.

>>2977
It's here, and it's forked off. They forgot to put the control desk on the truck, so that's coming in a couple of days.

>>2981
That looks very serious indeed - but I have to ask - why do you need it? What will it power?

>>2982
It makes lightning-sized current surges. Lots of power, but only for a short time, few tens of microseconds. It all runs off a standard kettle lead.
It's one of the things I do for a day job when I'm not shitposting - make stuff that handles lightning and other current surges. I've just lost access to one that my customer uses, and this came up at auction for a (relative) song.

>>2983
That's really interesting. I have a 10 metre antenna in my garden at the moment, and have been worrying about lightning provisions - I've had it up for about 3 months and haven't died so far, but I'm about to go to the gym and there is a large thunderstorm due in an hour.

I have one of these on the coax, outside and it is attached to a 5ft copper earthing rod; I believe the idea is that if my antenna is struck, that little barrel on the right of the picture pops out and cuts the cable; do these things actually work? I wish I could borrow your device to test it.

>>2984

The ARRL did a series of articles on lightning protection you might want to check out.

https://www.arrl.org/lightning-protection

I don't really do telly, but there's loads of gentle stuff on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGdc98mQIY
They're building a drum. The auto-generated subtitles are ok, but it's mostly some with passion for their craft doing their thing.

>>34326

Time spent enjoyably is never time wasted.

>>23814

Not sure how that post number got inserted there, but it was meant for >>23811 - fuckin waste of time.

I don't understand why anyone would want to do him in?

>>34252
They didn't - that stuff was all in his head, and a cover for his mad tax-dodging crypto-ramping lifestyle of recent years. He topped himself because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail.

Somewhat satirical interview with John McAfee and Jena Friedman, 2019.

>>34269

OMG Jena Friedman is tremendous.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>34253

Given his track record of literally getting away with murder, I would be only mildly surprised if he turns up in Uzbekistan and the Spanish police exhume the remains of a tramp who bore a striking resemblance to McAfee.

He's a good storyteller in the oral tradition, one of the very few good enough at it to make a living from it. It's not something you see a lot of these days.

>>34255
Thanks for trying, I struggle to articulate this concept despite thinking about it a lot. I need to speak to someone very smart and very patient and then come back. Maybe I should have posted a different image!

In summary, I think people are presenting strawmen for whatever reason (moral, intellectual, trolling), then people are arguing with those strawmen, and in doing so they create real opposition with their arguments, so the strawman becomes a real man and everyone gets a little bit more divided. Whether it's sincere or not doesn't matter, the final product is a divisive argument either way.

>On the topic of authors revising their work once they have read criticism of it, well, that's their prerogative isn't it.

Yeah, it is true. One of the things that concerns me is that prospective authors are seeing this and just sacking off writing. Amateur writers are being written off because they never fail enough, comfortably enough, to keep trying and improve. I also don't like the idea that they'd compromise challenging work to appease people, or rather that they may have to for their work to stand any chance of exposure.

>>34257
>One of the things that concerns me is that prospective authors are seeing this and just sacking off writing
Are they?

>>34258
At least 4. Personally I've only spoken to one person who's said that, a student who wanted to write YA trans oriented literature, so slightly different. In the linked thread there are a few people saying it tho.

Granted it may not be as much of a problem as they/I imagine, but it apparently is for some.

>>34262
I wonder what all the posts that were Comment deleted by user after getting downvoted have to say.

>>34257
I read your whole post and I enjoyed doing so. I didn't get angry at any grammatical errors or word choices, which I almost always do with everything else, including many posts here. You're a damn hero and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

But I don't really have much else to add, sadly. Yes, it's annoying. Everything is political now and everything is polarised. It's the culture war. We know. Everyone can see it, but there's nothing anyone can do. And for all these outspoken militants, there are ten times as many people who absolutely do not care. They could have read this person's book, but if it becomes part of The Culture War, they will shy away instinctively and that will be bad.

If I'm not mistaken those schemes actually don't effect whether or not you receive any benefits. Assuming of course you're looking for work off your own back, and you are, aren't you, Anon?

JETS is voluntary, so unless your claimant commitment specifically mentions going on courses or schemes that are recommended to you, then you just need a plausible reason why you think it's unsuitable for your needs.

It helps if you've got something else that sounds like a plan, whether that's a sector you're trying to get into or a course you'd like to go on. It doesn't have to be a great plan, but having something you can vaguely make progress towards is a useful distraction technique.

The Work and Health Programme is mandatory and can involve you being referred to JETS, but only if you've been claiming benefits for more than 24 months.

If you're serious about scrounging, get intimately familiar with the the Advice for Decision Making documents. They are in effect the rulebook for the benefit system. Quoting a paragraph from them can cut through a massive amount of bullshit if you aren't arsey about it. Get to know the mandatory reconsideration process, because it's your first line of defence if your Work Coach starts making up their own rules.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide

https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration