>>25832
Similarly some bloke let his hand drag over my leg as they were getting off the bus yesterday, and then grinned at me through the window as it pulled away. Dunno what the fuck he was playing at.

What pisses me off more than that though is being unable to find the Smokester in your image.

> What pisses me off more than that though is being unable to find the Smokester in your image.

But Green: The Forced Meme slap-bang in the centre. For shame, OP.

Police helicopters or maybe I should hate the cunts that cause them to be used.

No idea what's happened as of late but the neighbouring areas seem to draw out a police helicopter which then circles for around 10-20 minutes, atleast once a week and it's always when I'm trying to watch a show. It's not cold enough to shut my windows but fuck this fucking noise interrupting my watching comfort and enjoyment.
Cunts.

>>25832
Got on the phone to Virgin retentions, with a few days left before the cut-off. Before giving the go-ahead, I confirmed no fewer than three times the package and the price that we'd agreed. Now the receipt has come through and the price is higher than the one agreed.

I installed Settlers 3 at twenty past four and got totally sucked into playing. I thought it was only 1am or so. Twenty past fucking five in the morning.

My Brain: "Mate, why are you nice to people you don't even like?"
Me: "Because I wouldn't be nice to almost anyone otherwise."

God, I'm a miserable bastard.

>>25840
I think I'm mainly nice to people out of pure anger and spite at existence.

It's easy to be a cunt but to really try and be a decent human being in the face of an uncaring universe and planet full of suffering and arseholes I think is the only truly rebellious thing you can do.

Plus it generally makes life a little bit easier I think.

>>25837
The mistake you made there was choosing Virgin.

>>25843
No, the mistake I made was living in a country without a functioning telecom market.

>>25844

Wales?

>>25845
I hear they still live in black and white in Fishguard even now.

I'm unbearably horny. I wish there was an on/off switch on my stupid libido.

>>25847
Watch Threads or something.

>>25848
Does it have girls in it?

>>25849

It does have a teenage sex scene in it

>>/v/20855

>>25852

Great, so then I'll have to go the police station after I've visited the Doctor. Just set me on fire while you're at it and I'll do all three.

I spent all of yesterday thinking it was Thursday. I hate being a day ahead mentally, especially when it feels like it should be the weekend tomorrow.

>>25855
Days and therefore the concept of "weekends" are a social construct, mate. Grasp the nettle — make every day your weekend!

People who update Facebook when they're on holiday.

>>25857
What if it's to the Skegness Butlins and there's fuck all else to do?

>>25858
They can watch people having a scrap. There's always people having a scrap at Butlins.

It's cheaper for me to buy peppers in a multi-pack, but that means I'm left with a green one and I don't like green peppers.

If I left it on the windowsill would it ripen and change colour?

>>25862
They're all the same.

>Hey, Anon, you trying to get some kip?
>Aye... why? Who is this?
>It's your tinnitus, lad!
>Oh, for fuc-
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ZdTKM9gvQ

>>25863

The green ones aren't ripe, so they are different. No natural sugars, bland and not sweet at all.

>>25862

It takes like 2 or 3 weeks via that method, by which time it is likely to have begun to decompose. I'm sure there will be a quicker way. Heat is the key.

>>25862

Put it in a paper bag with a ripe tomato or banana. Keep it in a cupboard, not the fridge. The ethylene produced by the ripe fruit will accelerate the ripening of the pepper.

I sent a the form away to get my NI number a week and a half ago and haven't heard anything back yet.

For weeks now my phone has been pissing me off when I exercise it will either
a) Stop playing music inexplicitly
b) Randomly the speak and search function will fire up and interrupt my music
c) The music will inexplicitly turn down to silent
d) The track will inexplicitly skip to the next one
e) It will fall out of my pocket
f) The head phone wire will get caught in the cardio machine

At least one of these events happens every 4 mins or so. Finally today I got so pissed off with it I ended up bending it and cracking the screen beyond use. Now I'm even more pissed off with it and I have no money for a new one. I fucking hate it when technology doesn't do the task it is supposed to do. It angers me to a evidently violent level.

>>25868
I think the /101/ here really is your anger management issues.

>>25869

You probably aren't wrong but it is localized to the very narrow band of malfunctioning technology, I'm not sure it would be worth the time and effort required to solve.

In some ways I feel it is liberating, I no longer feel obligated to use a machine that brings me such frustration. Burning bridges can be cathartic.

I've been designing tech stuff - sometimes part of it, sometimes the whole thing, for ages. I, too, become unreasonably angry when motherfuckers release something that just doesn't fucking work.
Yes, I understand the commercial pressures. Yes, I understand that mistakes happen. But, fuck's sake. stop making shit.

>>25871

I treat it more cynically then that, things only need to work well enough for people to feel they work. Portable CD players for example were in practical application worse than tape players. But they they seems to work for long enough that no one cried afoul of the second you try use them for, say a jog they they were useless and a step backwards. As long as they worked in 'common usage' none of the manufactures seemed to care that they failed. I'd imagine if you took the thing back to the shop and said 'this piece of shit doesn't work when you go for a jog', they would have just shrug their shoulders and say 'well what do you expect', somehow we have come to accept holding technology to a lower expectation than we should. Convenience devices at their best should feel near invisible.

>>25873

This is a Sound Devices 664 field mixer. It's pretty much the gold standard device for location sound recording in the film and TV industry. It'll survive a drop from a second-floor window and keep recording on the way down. It costs £5,328.

You can buy something more-or-less functionally equivalent from Zoom or Tascam for about £300. It'll be a plasticky bit of tat, it'll be fiddly to use, it won't sound quite as good, but it'll get the job done 90% of the time. If you need to get the job done 100% of the time, then you'll need to spend five grand more.

It's easy to forget that the first Walkman cost £600 in today's money, that a Betamax video recorder in the early 80s would cost you the equivalent of £2,000. Those 70s and 80s Sony machines were beautifully built, but they cost a cock and a bollock. The market has consistently offered us the choice between higher quality or lower prices; we've chosen lower prices every time.

>>25874

I get your point lad, but if the only thing the 664 offered over a Zoom was reliability, we'd all still be using Nagra decks.

The neighbour opposite my window doesn't seem to believe in curtains or blinds. You pair of dirty bastards might think of that as a selling point but I'm sick of seeing a middle aged man shower.

You can't pick out details because he has that patterned glass in the bathroom but it doesn't stop me being irritated by the vague image of a naked man. Surely there are laws against this sort of thing.

>>25874 Manufacturing (and designing) stuff was a lot harder back then. Well, maybe not harder, but certainly more time intensive, and I suspect it's those man hours you're partly seeing reflected in the cost. Design tools now mean that I can knock out something of the electronic complexity of a walkman in a week and expect it to work. Mechanical design has had a similar boost in design tools.
Maybe I'm just cranky about shit user interfaces.

>>25877

A lot of complexity has shifted from hardware to software. What used to require a board full of discrete logic or some clever electromechanical gubbins can now be done with a cheap microcontroller.

That transition is great for cost, but generally bad for reliability and usability - we've moved hard problems from the very well-understood domain of mechanical engineering to the very poorly-understood domain of software. My washing machine occasionally crashes and needs to be rebooted, which is a bit bonkers.

With that said, there's just been a raft of cost-cutting in consumer products. It really is true that they don't make 'em like they used to. Before CAD/CAM came in, a lot of stuff was substantially over-engineered, because it was really difficult to predict its working lifespan. FEA and other analytical tools allows engineers to use the absolute minimum amount of material and the cheapest possible construction techniques, which is why stuff tends to break two weeks after the warranty expires. Colin Chapman was fond of saying that the ideal racing car would completely disintegrate the moment it crossed the finish line; engineers of consumer hardware have got very close to that ideal.

>>25878

>t really is true that they don't make 'em like they used to. Before CAD/CAM came in, a lot of stuff was substantially over-engineered, because it was really difficult to predict its working lifespan. FEA and other analytical tools allows engineers to use the absolute minimum amount of material and the cheapest possible construction techniques, which is why stuff tends to break two weeks after the warranty expires.


It actually goes much deeper than that. Our economy is built on the need for things to be replaced. The great depresion was caused fundementally by the fact no one was buying anything new because why would you when the thing you have works perfectly fine, so there wasn't enough demand so factories would shut down.

So after world war 2 it was quite deliberately agreed that products would be built with shelf lifes and to fashions (read; percived obsoletion), not as a company branding but as a deliberate political economic decision to make sure people bought new things to keep everyone working, our economy is built on busy time. As a really obvious example Lightbulbs used to be built in a way that they would and have lasted over 100 years, now you'll be lucky if they last a 1000 hours.

>>25879 Lightbulbs used to be built in a way that they would and have lasted over 100 years, now you'll be lucky if they last a 1000 hours.

Sigh. Tradeoff of light output against lifetime. That 'century lamp' is both unusual and unusably dim.
This cabal of all manufacturers, are you really sure? Every last one? I never got the letter.
Decent LED bulbs should go pretty much forever (or until a serious mains spike comes along). The filament-looking ones have no over-stressed hot-running silicon. I like them.

>>25880

There was a cartel of lightbulb manufacturers, but their agreement reduced the lifespan of bulbs from 2000 hours to 1000 hours. It incorporated all of the world's significant light bulb manufacturers, but collapsed in 1939.

LED bulbs should have a lifespan of ~25,000 hours, but that lifespan only really applies to bulbs from top-tier manufacturers like Philips and Osram. The cheap off-brand bulbs you find in most supermarkets and DIY shops are shoddily built with substandard components and will have a fraction of that lifespan, especially in an enclosed luminaire. The cheap bulbs are a ludicrous false economy, but most consumers don't know any better.

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

Tertiary education is not what I expected. I should have gone to a proper uni.

>>25882

Where did you go?

>>25883

I'm doing my degree at a college, I'd say which, but with fewer than half a dozen of us on the course and future whinging incoming I don't want identify myself. Maybe I'll do better not chasing girls and getting pissed, but the course requires group work and the pickings for that are subpar at best, which means I could be a bit knackered anyway. Two, possibly three, people have already dropped out too.

The new version of Porridge. Fucking hell.

>>25885

Has anyone been happy slapped over a Spice debt yet?

>>25885

I was outraged when I saw it on the iPlayer, and when I saw it was that annoying bloke playing Fletch, but honestly it wasn't that terrible. He plays it quite well. I'm still not going to watch it, mind, but the half an episode I watched didn't make me feel sick, so that's pretty high praise.

I've bruised a rib and it's a right pain. Can't do bloody anything, hate downtime, I'm supposed to be on holiday damn it.

>I've bruised a rib

Bruises don't affect bones and even then they're nowt but a funny colouring. Get a grip whingelad.

>>25889
You wot m8, I hope you're not serious.

>>25889

Bruised bones means they are internally fractured. Bet you feel like a right knob.

Stepped on a plug, going over onto a toe and launching my tea all over the floor, and I've no-one to blame but my cunting self.

>>25891

>Bruised bones means they are internally fractured.

What a fucking nugget. Bruised bones. Like bruised teeth.

Why does Windows make it such a sodding effort to eject external hard drives? I'VE CLOSED EVERYTHING, YOU DAFT PC!

>>25892
Update: My toe still hurts. Fuck.

I have a recurring dream about being married to Stacey Solomon. In the dream I'm really happy, but when I wake up I feel like some kind of nonce.

>>25896
Why? She's nearly thirty. I looked her up and the first results was a feet wiki. https://www.wikifeet.com/Stacey_Solomon

I hope this train derails so I don't have to hear this sodding couple discuss more restaurants they don't want to eat at.

>>25897

She's a lovely girl, but she doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer.

This reminded me of a cunt-off we had last year involving public transport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQLQKLV26o

>>25905
So it's okay to destroy people's property because they're being inconsiderate?

>>25908
Yes, you fucking cunt, yes.

I considered slashing the tires of a Range Rover that was parked over some tactile paving recently.

>>25905
Why do you watch this bullshit?

Somehow Amazon knows I'm a student now, and here's some small print from their "offer".

>By signing up, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Prime Student and Amazon Prime Terms and Conditions.At the end of your six-month trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to an annual Amazon Prime membership and we will charge your card Visa/Delta/Electron ****-1815 or another available card on file £39/year.

Who the fuck even told Amazon I was starting a degree? Just utter fucking shit. My personal details being sold by an institution I'm already giving almost ten grand a fucking year to, it makes me want to push anyone in a suit down some stairs.

>>25931
Amazon Student was aggressively marketed to me and I'm not a student.

>>25931
Amazon keeps trying to get me to sign up for the student membership despite me not being a student any more, their records aren't great. I tried to take advantage of it at some point but can't remember my university login.

>>25921
Because it's fun.

>>25933
You can just pay £4 for an ecareers course and get an NUS extra card.

Jesus christ.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Dash-Button/b?ie=UTF8&node=10833773031

>>25931
Six months free and 50% off thereafter is a pretty damn good student discount. Not sure what those mock quotes are about.

People who refer to their pets as if they were children. Especially those who go a step further and refer to them as blood relatives. Someone I know talks about her three boys (dogs), the girl they recently lost (also a dog), their cousin/her nephew (her sister's dog), and her little sister (her late mother's dog).

>>25939
Is she too old to have kids? Let her live, you cunt.

>>25941
>Is she too old to have kids?
Nobody stopped her having them earlier.

>>25942
Sexist. Misogynist.

>>25944
Typist. Oncologist.

>>25945
Frontier. Psychiatrist.

Beetham Tower being the only building in Manchester big enough to disappear into the clouds makes it look like the Citidel from Half-Life 2.

What is it with thick bastards and using fucking speaker phone?

Yorkshire Bank have sent the Missus and me separate letters about changes to the terms and conditions of our joint current account. You'd have thought they'd have had something on their systems for only sending out one letter if the joint account holders live at the same address.

This is a petty thing to get annoyed about, but my gay friends still dress like they're teenagers despite the fact they're in their early thirties. Their faces have aged too much to be able to pull off hair like this.

>>25953
I'm not trying to attack you and your right to your opinion, but I wonder why it bothers you.

>>25954
I'm not entirely sure. It's not to do with their sexuality.

At a guess, I'm being overly judgemental and think they need to "grow up" a bit. Their faces have too much age in them to pull off the look they're aiming for but I'm not sure how far I'm judging them; they're still quite immature and directionless so I don't know if the shitty emo-kid hair is what I see as a manifestation and reminder of this.

Why can't they at least let them all off at once or in quick succession so other people don't have to suffer the idiotic bangs every now and again?

I mean for fucks sake. It's not even November yet and even if it were fireworks are such an underwhelming toy after 5 minutes.

>>25958
>It's not even November yet
You might as well say we're nowhere close to 4th July. Yesterday was the start of Diwali, you dribbling cunt.

>>25959
>you dribbling cunt.
You don't seem very at peace with the cosmos lad.

>>25959
Impressive. I didn't even know although I work with a lot of dot dots.

>>25959
What the fucks a diwali.

>>25962

Hindu Christmas.

>>25962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsVMhIbjYB4

>>25959
The fuck is your malfunction m8. Have the toxic fumes gotten to your head already?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/delhi-covered-in-toxic-haze-after-night-of-diwali-fireworks

Anyway, festival of lights my arse, they should call it a festival of dickheads.

>>25965

>Anyway, festival of lights my arse, they should call it a festival of dickheads.

Yeah m/nine just like when I was at work and they all wanted me to get in with the Eid ul Adhr shit. Told them that I don't celebrate child murder spooky sky wizard bollocks.

>>25966
How was school this week?

>>25966

I can't wait until that trite prick's brother kicks it too. An entire family of tedious wankers, imagine Christmas Christmas at their house.

>>25966

I bet you're a hoot at Christmas dinner.

Can we all at least agree that "Jewish Christmas" is the best Christmas?

>>25970

Chinese for dinner is the loner singleton/anti-social couple meal of choice, and a goody no one will argue with you there, but if you are going round someone else's gaff then you can't beat a massive plate so soaked in Bisto that it's all you can taste.

>>25971
Growing up, it was a thing in our house for a while. Chinese on Christmas Eve, from one of the two takeaways in the town, after which my mum would put the turkey in to slow roast overnight.

>>25971
Why not have both? We can start by throwing in a few spring rolls and see where things go from there.

While we're here how about putting together some festive samosas with a bit of cranberry. It'll be like having Christmas in the future.

>>25973
That's a bloody good idea.

http://www.saffronandspice.co.uk/open-faced-chilli-turkey-and-maple-samosas/

>>25973

I like your style.

>>25972
I've also done the Chinese on Christmas Eve thing. Feels like a good thing to do man.

I went to a shopping center today for the first time in about 2/3 years. I suddenly remembered why I order everything online; it was awful.

First they came for 'literally'.
I keep seeing (what are almost certainly septics) misusing the word 'fictional'. As in:
>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a fictional book.
No. No it is not. It is a work of fiction, it is not fictional as it demonstrably exists. For it to be fictional it would have to not exist. The Encyclopaedia Galactica is a fictional book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not fictional but fiction. The latter is fiction, the former a fiction.

>>25978
Semantic drift, language is defined by collective usage, "nice" used to mean the opposite, etc.

I agree with you completely. I will never get used to "I could care less"; we let them get on with it for a couple of hundred years and look what they go and start doing.

>>25978
>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not fictional but fiction.
It is both.

>>25979
The confusion this one may cause helps a lot with the whole 'Fake news' narrative. Things that were once mere fictional cease to have existed and things that were fiction begin to.

>>25980
As is The Garden of Forking Paths and If on a winters night a traveller, I realise that thank you.

I just noticed I've had a tab pinned for the Open University for so long I can't remember why I opened it.

>>25982
If you didn't it'd be the closed university

>>25983
8/10

Twatting utilities company ringing me up at 7am to remind me that I paid my bill last night.
Yeah thanks.

Binmen won't empty my food bin because it has liquid in it. It has liquid in it because they won't empty it and it's rotting. We don't make much waste and it's the normal shite of onion skins, bits of carrot/pepper, egg shells, nothing weird. This is the second time this has happened, last time they would rather chuck our whole food bin into general waste and give us a new one. Going to have to just empty it into the nearby woods or something

>>25986
Just dump it at the park at night. There is no point playing a game you can't win.

Stir newspapers into it so it's just a heavy mush, but won't slosh? The instructions here say to wrap kitchen waste in newsaper.
The kid who used to cut my grass had a habit of sitting on my bin lid, so it went <spoing> and turned inside out, letting rain into the bin. They still collected my sloshing bin, bless'em.

Arbitrary recycling instructions are 101-worthy. Moved to a new house, green bins had labels on saying no glass, very little plastic, and the usual doom-laden warnings about refusing to collect if we got it wrong. A few weeks later, got a letter saying glass and most plastics were fine, and the same doom-laden warnings if we got it wrong. Fuck'em.

The solution is to throw everything in general waste black bags, that isnt a food container or a box, which you can recycle if it makes you feel good. Your mistake is playing along with their stupid fucking game at all.

>>25989

My bin only gets collected once a fortnight. If I didn't use the recycling bins, I'd have to do a run to the tip every other week.

>>25990
It's almost as if that was the desired result all along...

>>25988
> The kid who used to cut my grass had a habit of sitting on my bin lid, so it went <spoing> and turned inside out

IKWYM, our Jimmy.

>>25986
Nobody uses the food bin for its intended purpose m8. Not in this country. Mine is sitting in the pantry filled with dog biscuit because it is quite convenient to just scoop the stuff into his bowl from it.

Simply put food in with general waste and nobody kicks up a fuss. I think that is what your binmen are telling you to start doing because they can't be arsed with it either.

Carol Vorderman has completely fucked her face up.

>>25994
Good grief. Why do people do that??

My brain is fucking mush.

>>25994>>25995

It's probably very difficult to deal with becoming the media's favourite MILF apropos of nothing, in your mid-forties.

>>25996

Lorraine Kelly is still the queen of daytime wanking.

>>25997

That's enough from you, Mr Kelly.

The only places to sit near a socket, for my laptop, in my local library is right near a ventilation fan or some shit, which is more or less directly above a sodding A road, so I may as well be sat right on the little pedestrian island or all the good it does my concentration.

>>25999
Have you tried earplugs or an extension cable?

>>25998


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLx647VosQ

Getting just plain old miserable at the level of casual Jew, woman ans "leftist" hating I see online. It's fucking everywhere and it makes every other interaction, passive or otherwise, a chore.

I'd definitely consider Tracer Tong's offer at this moment.

>>26002
Fuck off, lad.

>>26003

You appear to have mistake the /101/ thread for the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section, or whatever it's called.

>>26002
Women are shit though.

>>26005
So are some posters.

Sites that entwine their analytics/tracking/adverts/general shitware so deeply that when you disable them the entire fucking site breaks.

>>26006
This poster is particularly shitty.

>>26007
This has been getting on my nerves lately. What really irks me is that it's likely to become standard for commercial sites of any significance, and I'm not sure there's anything much I can do about it once that happens.

People who stand right in front of the doors of a lift and are then surprised that they're blocking the way of people trying to get out of it.

>>26010

Seconded, but with trains.

>>26010
This generally obliviously cuntish behaviour in any public space is inexcusable. Happens in pubs with pissheads blocking access to bogs or for staff at end of the bar, and is generally met with bemusement at how they're actually being annoying.

"It's not a game, it's a simulator."

>>25832
The Amazon app on my phone generates notifications but they don't trigger a sound or vibration.

The "radio" in the restaurant playing what I assume was an '80s playlist. I don't mind being passively rickrolled but You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) is not appropriate for listening to while eating.

>>26015
What, because of meatspin? That's not the restaurant's fault, it's your own dirty mind.

>>26016
It's pavlovian, it's not my fault.

Supermarket substitutions can be odd, but I've just had a crazy one from Amazon. I've just taken delivery of a package that should have contained, among other things, a USB power supply, but apparently they didn't have any so they've sent some "Natural Liquid Serum" instead.

>>26018
Possibly their way of telling you to go outside more?

>>26019
Going outside only made me cry when Icame back inside.

>>26018
Asda keep giving me free samples with my online supermarket orders.

Today's was rice pudding. I don't like rice pudding.

>>26021
Can I have your rice pudding?

Free rice pudding sounds pretty good.

I woke up not long ago and thought "you know what, I'm just going for a run, I don't care if the sun isn't even up". Of course by the time I'd got my trackies on the heavens haven't so much opened as collapsed into a watery heap. What a load of balls.

>>26022
It's got blueberries on it.

>Modern fast personal computation had arrived.

I just read that sentence, and I am missing something or is the writer; two commas? He's listing things about computation, surely?

>>26025
I suspect in their head it was hyphened "fast-personal-computation".

I've just watched one of those landlord programmes on BBC One.

The wife of someone who had built up a property empire pissed me off no end. Unbearably smug. Made her own hummus. Believes other people aren't successful because they haven't tried hard enough, despite the fact she is freeloading off her husband and their success is down to benefitting from rising property prices and leeching money off people rather than actually adding value. Is a firm believer in vision boards. Spouts bollocks about if you can conceive you can believe and you can achieve.

>>26027
>if you can conceive you can believe and you can achieve.
She's not entirely wrong. I can certainly get on board with the CBA principle, and regularly apply it at work.

>>26028

That's probably because you're a wanker.

>>26029

Whooo ... oooosh!

Overly friendly shopkeepers. You' know the situations where you just want to complete the transaction and leave but as this is their hobby (I decided to start vaping on my road to quitting) they have to talk your ear off and do that little laugh after every sentence.

I mean fair play for the enthusiasm, I could never do sales, but fuck me I was already struggling to maintain my facade of normality after bumping into my ex and her new girlfriend. Then there was the fact that the place was full of fruity smoke but some samples of the working class were sitting in there chatting away with a baby in the pram to agitate me.

>>26027
Eh, she is playing to the target audience of people who watch daytime television. Horny housewives, retirees, and the people too incompetent to be allowed out the house on weekdays won't take to such aggressive judgements on being productive.

>>26031
Probably one for the vape thread wherever that is, but what is this trend for higher and higher wattages on vapes these days? It's been a few years since I had one of my own but back then the coils were >1ohm in most cases and you were looking at 30-50W max for most. These days people are pushing 0.1ohm and 200W on their ULTRA CLOUD BEAST MASTER KING. Is it just a MORE WATTS = BETTER BECAUSE BIGGER NUMBER mentality or is there another reason behind it? It can't be good to push the batteries that hard, even with voltage regulators.

>>26031
> ex and her new girlfriend
Cor blimey, did you turn her ?

>>26032

I think a lot of people just like clouds. I admit it's quite fun, but 65W subohm is enough for me.

>>26034
I had a go on my mate's 150W monstrosity and I do have to admit that puffing massive clouds is fun but it's not fun when you're in the smoking area and some cunt is making it feel like there's a malfunctioning smoke machine out there. I've found it you puff directly up then it's not too bad, but if you puff at mouth-level and the wind catches it you end up making everyone near you feel like they're playing Silent Hill.

>>26032
Judging by the fact that I was sold an 'S' model of what I wanted I'd wager it is smartphones all over again.

Also, you can't just buy a plain flavour liquid which I remember existing from the last time I tried. Now I have to live smelling of vanilla like a posh shitter or the linen at mums house.

>>26033
More that I turned her the other way for a bit. I seem to be a lesbian trapped in a mans body which has its pluses even if I end up looking like a bit of a wrong'un.

That said I was doing my best not to ask "hey love, do you still take cock?" so who knows.

>>26036
The bloke that I used back in the day was https://www.cloudatlasvaping.com/collections/nicotine-concentrates-pg-and-vg

Where you can buy the components of vape liquid and mix your own. If you just buy PG/VG and nicotine then you can create flavourless liquid to your own throatfeel/cloud taste.

>>26032
>It can't be good to push the batteries that hard, even with voltage regulators.
Batteries have an amperage limit and exceeding this will, at best, drain them more quickly and decrease the number of charge cycles before they need replacing. At worst they'll explode, though anyone with any sense is running a box mod with a specially designed protection circuit to mitigate against overloading. Modern 18650 batteries recommended for vaping can provide sustained ~20-30A at ~3-4V; put two of those in series and you're still pushing your luck to hit 200W. Additionally, you're going to be 1/ ripping through juice, and 2/ draining the batteries in no time. Honestly I doubt many people vape 200W all day long, it's just for bragging rights and showing off. Predictably, the Yanks have a crass "scene" around it with competitions and similar embarrassing shite.

Not that we're much better, apparently, given that there are evidently daft cunts here who decide to come into the (in my experience, steadily decreasing) number of pubs that allow vaping and decide to chase up a fucking storm. Half the time when I go into a pub and ask if vaping is permitted, if it's a "yes" it's provisional on me not producing huge billows of vape, presumably because some inconsiderate twat has gone in previously and gassed everyone else out. I have no issue with people messing around chasing 200W in their front room, but I do wish they'd show a bit of restraint when out in public, or it'll get banned everywhere.

>>26037

It's cheaper at LubriSolve.

http://www.lubrisolve.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=20

>>26039
Is this where we play "vape shop or sex shop" again?

>>26040
You've hit the nail on the fucking head actually about vape shoes, that is a very sound observation. There is always something I find unsettling about them compared to normal shops and I don't know why.

>>26040
>>26041
I think they are more like mobile phone outlets. Cheap, gaudy, downmarket wastes of a commercial letting.

>>26041
I think they meant the joke someone made about picking out the names of vape juices vs sex toys/lubes in the vape thread on /g/ a while back. Vape shops have a sort of Games Workshop clique-ness to them, though, I agree.

I hate visiting my mum. She's fine, but Saturday night TV is too shit to be real. Sage for making this exact post every time I visit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2OUQL6_yQ&t=58s

People who try to start conversation with me at the bus stop. I don't mind getting asked if a bus has went past but I don't want to know about your siblings and your plan for the day.

I know that some people, especially old people might just be lonely and want to have a small chat with someone but doesn't the thought ever occur to them that they the reciplicant might not want the conversation? I'm hardly an Introvert but I prefer to wait in silence rather than pass the time talking to strangers. Worst still, I then have to fake an interest in what they're saying since I don't want to come off as a straight up cunt.

>>26047

Loneliness is painful and a little bit of selfishness smalltalk helps ease the pain once in a while.

Older extroverts in particular get their happiness in life by engaging with others, and any stranger will do. I'm pretty introverted but I'll make small talk with an older gent or lady if they are obviously making the effort. If it brightens their day then it's worth it, even if it's dull and tedious.

>>26047
You don't have to fake any interest, and it's a mischaracterisation to say that most people who start conversations with strangers at bus stops talk about their grandchildren. More annoying are those people too dim to find an interesting middleground who dislike being forced to acknowledge their dimness so describe themselves as introverted. You're chat isn't shit, you're just ***introverted***. We get it.

>>26050

I can't be arsed finding the link but there was definitely a study or some shit proving people who are less intelligent are more likely to find the need to fill silence with small-talk.

It's not that their chat is shit, it's that people who insist on rambling on about the weather or the sports are tiresome cunts.

>>26051

People who are less intelligent live life on easy mode. They aren't afflicted by depression nearly as much, they are more social because of exactly what you just mentioned and are happier in general because they don't think about the world as much. They can also go and watch a comic book film and not feel like they've just been raped in front of their comic book collection (because they can't read).

>>26052

I feel like if this is true, then I'm intelligent enough to suffer the pitfalls, but not intelligent enough to be useful.

>>26053

That's a self-esteem issue, another pitfall of thinking too much. I'm sure you would be useful in many ways, but I suspect unless someone galvanises your confidence with praise then you'll always feel inferior because I'm that way too. If I don't get praise for my efforts I just stop trying as hard, because the quality of my work appears irrelevant. It's about perspective and focus. If I'm motivated it's because I feel my time is rewarded.

Less intelligent people don't need positive reinforcement as much, but I'm generalising obviously. Recognising that someone is probably better leading than you and being a good team player is a "social" intelligence higher IQ individuals sometimes lack, which breeds resentment and depression. it's the difference between being happy to contribute vs having your contribution praised and validated. That is why you don't feel useful.

With everything, it's tackled by using mindfulness. If you're depressed though, I understand that might just seem like fucking bollocks.

Firefox updated, none of my add-ons work, and the documented method to enable them again doesn't work.

>>26055

Which addons? I'm curious as to what you might need other than Smart HTTPS and Adblock, which btw are both working fine.

>>26056

People that aren't you have different needs shocker.

>>26056
NoScript, FlashGot, Tab Counter, Tab Groups, User Agent Switcher. I had my tabs separated into four groups and my session has restored to be only the group I happened to be looking at last.

>>26058
I've no problem paying volunteers the going rate for voluntary work

>>26059

Ah, OK. I wasn't being a dick, I was just genuinely curious what other people might be up to with Firefox. Why do you have so many tabs open? Firefox has pretty infamous memory leakage, how did you avoid that or was it something you just had to live with?

>>26060
Or complaining about volunteers deciding to move on?

>>26050
Feel better?

>>26055
I bet you tried searching for updates and called it a day. You can have your extensions back for another seven months if you install Firefox ESR 52.

>>26061
Not him but I use Firefox and it has been annoying for all my extensions to stop working but I can understand why they have had to do this - by switching to an API, in the long run they will virtually never become incompatible because of an update again.

As for the memory issues, yes, but Quantum really is blazing fast and light on the RAM now.

Perhaps I'm in too many local community groups online, but fat middle-aged women people peddling absolute tat.

Putting four tablespoons of hot chocolate and some marshmallows in cellophane, calling it a drink for Father Christmas to have when he visits and asking £4 for it. Asking a fiver for a small box of Maltesers with a couple of candy canes underneath it so it looks like a sled. Putting Lego figurines or Scrabble letters in picture frames. Oh, and book folding. Don't get me fucking started on book folding.

>>26066
It's a tradition for bored housewives to do that sort of thing. It used to not happen until they were starting to get fairly old but I suppose the internet accelerates it. The ones who make their own herbal remedies, deodorant sticks and stuff are my favourite.

>>26066
Given how every cunt on here is from Ossett I'd like to talk about the "You know you have lived in Ossett when..." group. It's a fucking goldmine of this sort of shite. That, and because 85% of the population of Ossett is fat middle aged people, with another 10% being ANTISOCIAL YOOFS, it makes for brilliant reading. Sometimes some of Ossett's finest right-wing political theorists will make posts.

There's this whole very middle-aged "no swearing because won't somebody think of the children" vibe running through it, but you know once Pam and Angie and Diedre get their second glass of shitty Lidl "peeenoh nwaaaarrr" down them they'll be swearing like fucking sailors.

Nobody can spell cheque any more. I believe it's because autocorrect doesn't complain about 'check'.

>>26068
>I'd like to talk about the "You know you have lived in Ossett when..."

I joined the group shortly after moving to Ossett just over two years ago. After people started sincerely posting that drug dealers were letting off fireworks to let their clientele know they'd got some fresh gear in I did start to wonder what exactly I was letting myself in for if the locals were genuinely thick enough to believe that.

I used to live in Mirfield before moving to Ossett and the "Mirfield Matters" group wasn't much better. One of the town councillors, who got the role through nepotism, used the group as an ego trip. My personal highlight for being in that group was when a woman posted pictures of a gang of teenagers throwing bottles and stones at a field of horses; their [proper council estate scum] parents came on and, instead of saying they were going to discipline their kids, they turned on the woman and said they were going to get the police on her for uploading pictures of kiddiewinks without permission. It was a pure drama-fest, that one. The Mirfield group went from public to private after it turned out a Dewsbury group were sharing and taking the piss out a post by the aforementioned councillor where he was boasting about ringing the police because he wanted the roads gritting.

>>26070
>After people started sincerely posting that drug dealers were letting off fireworks

For some reason that myth refuses to die.

With regards to the ego trip, there are this group of middle aged people who insist on organising loads of bullshit events in the name of 'community' or whatever, but it's just an ego massage. There's fuck all to do in Ossett, so I see why, but it's just soul crushing and I cannot wait to leave.

>>26071
>With regards to the ego trip, there are this group of middle aged people who insist on organising loads of bullshit events in the name of 'community' or whatever, but it's just an ego massage. There's fuck all to do in Ossett, so I see why, but it's just soul crushing and I cannot wait to leave.

Lad. You don't want to get caught up in the crossfire from the turf war between BOB Ossett, Love Ossett and I'm sure there's a third one, Town Centre Partnership or something like that, you'll get fucked up. I think the only thing of value I've got from that Facebook group is someone pointing out the top of the town hall clock looks like the end of a penis.

Literally the only reasons I moved to Ossett are because it's next to the motorway to commute to Leeds and the schools are apparently good. Nothing in the past two years of living here has made me warm to it.

>>26072
Crossfire? Do enlighten me.

It's weird seeing a photo I took being used so often locally. I took it because the previous photo on Wikipedia was atrocious.

>>26072
>someone pointing out the top of the town hall clock looks like the end of a penis.
You mean it looks like a bell-end?

>>26070
>>26071

> After people started sincerely posting that drug dealers were letting off fireworks to let their clientele know they'd got some fresh gear in

Sounds bizarre, but in Brazil there is an actual position within the drug gang hierarchy called "fogueteiro" (rocket man), whose job it is to release rockets into the sky to signify that the police are invading the favela and that all concerned with the firm should take cover in the nearest domicile.

This trivialising bollocks.

Some cunt nicked my cab. The cabbie was apparently daft enough to ask for me rather asking him for his name.

>>26077
Call the police and report the cab driver missing.

>>26076
Everything ever posted about mental illness on social media is trivializing bollocks. Most of the time I see the same recycled crap some irrationally angry blogger wrote telling you how they know about depression better than medical experts so don't ever try be constructive about it in a holier than thou tone.

>>26073
>Crossfire? Do enlighten me.

I am exaggerating a bit, but there is a bit of a power struggle. I know someone involved in BOB Ossett and they feel like Love Ossett have stolen some of their thunder, particularly when they launched the Ossett loyalty card.

They're all largely ineffectual. I went to town when the Halloween event was on. There were about 8 or 9 entries into the pumpkin contest, bearing in mind the town's population is c. 22,000, and the market stalls were sparse and selling shite.

My phone pocket dialled an Uber and when I cancelled, it explained that because the cancellation was over two minutes since confirmation, I'd be charged £4.50. Thing is, the times shown in app were less than two minutes apart. Robbing bastards. Support no help.

>>26081
Your fault really. Some guy wastes petrol and time to try to come around your area and you want to call it an "accident." Hmm.

>>26081

I don't understand how people are still pocket dialling. Do you not use a PIN or a fingerprint? Do you not lock your screen after you've finished using your phone?

>>26082
There's barely a handful of Uber drivers here. It's highly doubtful my actions changed his resource usage in any way. And how do you arrive at £4.50 as fair compensation for 90 seconds? But all that's a moot point because it seemed their rules stipulated I shouldn't be charged.

>>26083
Yes and usually. It may not have happened in my pocket. I obviously can't be sure of the precise sequence of events that caused this.

You wouldn't think the app could get something like this wrong. I should have taken a screenshot.

>>26081
Dispute the charge with your card issuer. To the best of your knowledge, you did not order a taxi. If Uber made the mistake of sending you one, then that's their problem.

>>26084

It's probably worth contacting uber support and explain what's happened. They might just think you're trying it on, but if you've asked for pick up in the middle of a lake or something they might realise it was a mistake.

Or they'll just give you the refund anyway because customer service wonks often will.

Why are toilet seats the bench mark for filth? I understand the that anus itself is dirty, but the bum cheek area is no more dirty than my lower leg.

>>26087
People who miss the bowl with the seat down.

>>26087
I can understand why people worry about toilet seats being clean. But what does my head in is P&G, Unilever et. al. constantly bombarding everyone with advertising telling us that their products kill the germs in the fucking bowl itself.

>>26089
What, did you think you were supposed to shit in the cistern or something?

>>26089

What's worse is that they're contributing to the anti-microbial resistance crisis which will almost certainly doom our species at some point this century or next, whilst simultaneously encouraging paranoid overprotective mums to raise kids with shit immune systems.

Fucking corporations m8.

>>26091
>What's worse is that they're contributing to the anti-microbial resistance crisis
That's not how it works. Bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics is like you developing a tolerance for alcohol or capsaicin. Bacteria developing significant resistance to bleach is like you developing resistance to seppuku.

>>26092
Given that probably trillions of bacteria live in toilet bowls, they will eventually develop a tolerance to seppuku.

>>26093
>That's not how it works.

>>26094
Drink bleach a trillion times then tell me I'm wrong.

>>26095
You drink bleach a trillion times then tell us you're right.

This cunt that lives in my student flat lives about 8 hours behind anyone else and goes to bed about 7-8am most days. This would be grand if he were a normal nocturnal shut in, but he's got a large group of friends that he regularly invites around at 4-5am in the morning, and I can hear them making loads of noise. He's some business studies cunt.
He's also asian, which I wouldn't mind, but he never flushes his heinous curry shits, he's constantly got a hacking stoner/smoker combo cough and leaves phlegm gobs in the bathroom sink and he smells....bad. This combined with everything else just makes the whole package a really shitty flatmate.

I've also got lectures at 9am most mornings in subjects that I really do appreciate going to lectures for so being awoken disgustingly early semi regularly is pissing me off to no end. Can't study properly when I'm tired.

>>26097

Have a word with yourself then, lad.